8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VBWSPAPSR POR rAB HOUB Ptunitll jtjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telerraph Building, Federal Sqaare. K. J. STACK POLE, Pw/f 6r EJiter-tn-Chirf F. R. OYSTER. Burintss Managtr. GUS M. STEINMI3TZ, Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en title* to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American pi Newspaper Pub ® Ushers' Assocla- Eastern office, _ Chicago, 111. i Sintered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. W ■fflirwy.Q. By carriers, ten cents r week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, JUDY S, 1918 God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed lor in our /ace, A gauntlet with a gift in't. —MBS. BROWNING. Uncle Sam's celebration of our greatest day will extend around the world to-morrow. Australia will honor the Flag and the people will hold meetings and wear the Stars and Stripes. In London a plan is on foot to launch a scheme for an Ameri can memorial, probably In the form of a statue of Washington, to be placed near the Houses of Parlia ment. In Rome a detachment of our troop 3 will take part In the celebra tion there, these troops being sent from France. At Sheffield accommo dations have been prepared for 50,000 persons at the Army-Navy baseball game and the field athletics between British and American units. And everywhere Old Glory files the day will be celebrated because our flag stands for more now than ever before In its history. SUGAR UNDER the new regulations of the Food Administrator each individual, man, woman and < hild is entitled to buy and consume three pounds of sugar a month for I ordinary household purposes. This, however, does not restrict families from buying sugar in twen ty-five pound lots for canning and preserving purposes. But' sugar so purchased must be used in that way only or the purchaser becomes liable to arrest and heavy fine. The Food Administration is ap pealing to the sense of fair play that is a characteristic of the American people. Violations of orders are pos sible without the likelihood of de tection. But the individual or the family which takes an unfair advan tage of the situation is un-American. The sugar order* is necessary to vent a serious shortage later In the year. To over-indulge in sugar now means famine later, and anybody who has knowledge that neighbors are breaking the rule should not hesitate to report them to the Food Administrator. Th sugar ration Is sufficient to meet the needs of the ordinary fam ily at this season, when an abund ance of fruits makes puddings and pies unnecessary as desserts. The man or woman who accepts the or der at its face value and lives up to It In letter and spirit is doing his or her part in the war. The violator is a slacker. PRACTICAL WAR WORK IN the hurry and haste of war work we have heard compara tively little of an organization that during the years has been mod estly at work in many beneflcient ways—The W. C. T. U. Now comes thfe government with a special bul letin saying that since the United States entered the conflict the Na tional Union "has engaged in many lines of service." For educational purposes, through the United Committee on War Tem perance Activities for the Army and Navy, sixteen stereomotorgraphs have been placed In the cantonments at an expense of SIO,OOO. These stereo motorgraphs are passed from one camp to another so that their lessons reach in succession large numbers of men. Nearly SIO,OOO has been expended in the purchase of fourteen field kitchens for the comfort of men In the firing line as they return ex hausted from the trenches. Two hundred and thirty-nine fatherless children of France have been adopted through the Department of Flower Mission and Relief Work. The organization had invested SIOO,- 000 for comfort kits up to last No vember, since which time the amount has been almost doubled. Various States are rendering spe- Vcial service In providing hostess houses, among them Massachusetts, which has purchased an SII,OOO property for this purpose. Kansas WEDNESDAY EVENING, furnished a rest room at the Hostess House Inside Camp Funston, and as sisted in furnishing the Army City Hostess House outside the camp. The State of Washington has opened two homes, one for- the young wives of soldiers and one for girls who need care until they can be returned to their homes. The lowa W. C. T. U. has under taken, as one of Its special aids to the government, the care of the United States Army Reconstruction Hospital to be established at Des Moines, with a capacity of 3,500 beds. Comforts that will add to the welfare and happiness of the soldiers will be provided. About 100 electric fans will be installed, also talking machines, a library, games and other forms of entertalnmenet. Sup plies of fresh fruit, jellies, jams, com fort pillows, service bags, tray cloths, napkins, handkerchiefs, sweaters, socks, etc., will, also, be provided as needed, The plans are indorsed by the commanding officer and meet the approval of the State Division of the Council of National Defense. A motherly woman employed by the W. C. T. U. will be in constant at tendance to write letters or to min ister to the comfort of the men as a mother would do. Those who have thought of the W. C. T. U. as purely a peace organiza tion fighting for national prohibition will have to revise their conclusions. It was in 1836 "that Abraham Lin coln, stumping his district in Illinois, declared for equal suffrage. It will be rather difficult for President Wil son to acquire a reputation as a leader in the movement. [THIRD TERM MOVEMENT ON the same day that the Dem ocrats of Indiana launched the Wilson third-term boom at Indianapolis the Democratic State Committee of Pennsylvania was meeting at Harrisburg. The Key stone Democrats were charged with the duty of selecting a State chair man. Immemorial custom in Penn sylvania gives to the party candi date for governor the right to name this official. But it so happens that the Democratic candidate for gov ernor In Pennsylvania this year is a man who defeated the favorite of the Palmer-McCormlck faction, who are recognized as the president's spokesmen in Pennsylvania and even farther afield. But he does not hap pen to control the State Committee, which is subservient to Palmer and McCormlck, and they refused to name the chairman whom the candi date preferred and voted into the office a man of their own selection. Now it is apparent that the office of Democratic State chairman in Pennsylvania is of no consequence as relating to State politics. No one pretends that the Democratic candi date for governor will be elected in Pennsylvania "this year. But there is another campaign only two years ahead, when a Presi dent will be elected—and It Is of real consequence to the Wilson Idola ters, In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, that they have control of the party machinery in order to use it either to further the third-term movement or to advance the Interests of whom ever the President may designate as the Democratic nominee in 1920. Hence the affront which Palmer and McCormlck have put upon their party candidate in Pennsylvania this year. It means nothing to them that they have rent the party in so doing. They have nothing to gain in Pennsylvania anyway, T)ut they have much to gain if they can ma nipulate the Pennsylvania delega tion in the next Democratic National Convention. There may be, there probably Is, some connection between what hap pened in Indianapolis and what hap pened in Harrisburg on the same day. A PAN-AMERICAN ARMY A PAN-AMERICAN Army to be trained In the United States at the expense of this country would be not only a potent force In the war on the side of the allies, but would be an Invaluable Influence in bringing all the republics of North and South America Into closer re lationship, 'both during and after the conflict. Through our own failure to cul tivate the friendship of our south ern neighbors and the efforts of Ger man in/ts seeds of suspicion against inXthose countries, the people of'<fce yilted States have not enjoyed the of the Cen tral anrt South American countries to degree. The Pan- American union, with headquarters in Washington, and the wise diplo macy of Ellhu Root when he was Secretary of State In recent years have done much to create a better feeling, but there has been always more or less distrust of us and our motives. Our altruistic doctrines have been beyond the comprehension of the money-grabbing, graft-ridden South American governments which only, recently have shown signs of becoming republics in more merely than name. When this war is over we shall be at peace and In full harmony with the French, the English and the Italians. They who go through this fiery ordeal together will come out of It with a brotherly feeling that will hold them together through many generations and our dealings with the governments of these peo ple are very apt to be conducted on a purely friendly basis. How silly It would be to find ourselves under stood and respected In faraway Europe and misunderstood and mis trusted by the people of our own continent and those of South Amer ica. The creation of such an army as has been proposed would bring to our shores the young men of all the natious to the south of us who have taken up arms against the Hun. They would learn about ub first hand, would make friends here and come to a full understanding of our great ness as a nation and our virtues as a people. They would go home with new Ideas of the United States, and if they fought shoulder to shoulder with our men In the great war, the tie would be that much more find ing. By all means let us have this South American legion and let us substitute for the German language which is being dropped by our schools, the Spanish of these south ern neighbors. fcltUctU I L'PfcKitOifCoa.ftZa By the l£x-Committee maa V While Governor Martin G. Brum baugh's appointment of Ex-Judge Harold M. McClure, of Lewisburg, to be a member of the Public Service Commission, gave the state a sur prise, the selection seems to have evoked much commendation, even among those who have been critics of the Governor's course in choosing imen for high station in the state •government. It is even predicted that •the new commissioner may have compa'ratively easy sailing when it comes to confirmation by the Senate of 1919. He is expected to qualify Im mediately and members of the com ■mission will welcome him. Much speculation is being indulg ed in regarding the appointment and how the Governor came to make it, tout Dr. Brumbaugh has maintained ■silence, apparently Continuing the policy he adopted right after the primary. This policy is to follow his own inclinations in making appoint ments, disregarding certain Philadel phia influences and then sit back and listen to the speculation as to his motives. It is even intimated that the Governor has. been enjoying himself considerably lately. —Capitol Hill is telling some in teresting tales about the appoint ment. For some days there have been rumors that the Governor had de cided to name some one in the Sus quehanna Valley, inasmuch as the previous appointment, that of the late Robert K. Young, had been credited in this section of the state. A determined drive was made for Clarence D. Coughlin, of Wilkes- T3arre, one of the ambitious men who had carried the O'Neil flag last month and there were reports that Coughlin was backed by men close to the Governor. He has been report ed as a close friend of William H. Ball, secretary to the Governor. However, Judge McClure is a noted fighter of the liquor interests and his activities In that direction probably attracted the attention of the Gov ernor, while he is also friendly to people In the Union-Snyder district who are close to Dr. Brumbaugh in a personal and not political way. —Then, too, there are some who think because Commissioner McClure is a brother-in-law of Congressman B. K. Focht, that the appointment may cause some discoloration of the waters. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can says this morning: "The appoint ment of Judge McClure came as a complete surprise to the Governor's private secretary, William H. Ball; to the members of the commission. Clarence D. Coughlin, of Wilkes- Barre, was expected here to-day to discuss his chances of landing'a job with the Governor. A half-hour be fore the appointment was made Sec retary Ball announced no appoint ment was to be expected, and that the fact McClure had dropped In to see the Governor, while Coughlin was supposed to be on his way here, was 'just a coincidence.' " —The Philadelphia Press also In timates that Coughlin was being pushed for the place and that he was on his way here when the McClure appointment was made. —The appointment completes the commission for the first time In a year. Commissioners Magee. and Ryan were reappointed and when the new commissioner takes his place the beneh be filled. Among the commissioners there is apparent ly a feeling of relief that the Gov ernor has filled the place and the new member will be greeted warmly. —The fact that Judge McClure was a friend of Ex-Governor Tener and came near being named on the commission by him, is also much commented upon. —Hints of more arrests In the campaign against election frauds conducted by the Committee of Sev enty in Philadelphia are being heard. Some of the men arrested the last two days, most of whom are Vare partisans, have been held for hear ings later in the month, by which time it is expected that additional warrants will have been served. —The Republican Alliance organ izations in Philadelphia are holding dinners and parties and it looks as though there would be some strenu ous contests next year when the mu nicipal primaries are held. The selection of a registration commissioner forScranton is still agi tating men up that way. Mayor Con nell, who Is still registration com missioner as far as the administra tion is concerned, is said to desire to get the matter settled. —lt is said in Philadelphia that the appointment of Ignatius A. Quinn, slated to be named United States Commissioner for Philadel | phia, has ben held up Indefinitely. —The organization committee ot th- Democratic Ctty Committee will ef fect organization of the Fifty-sixth Ward Democratic Executive Com mittee Monday night, and the ward committee thereupon will elect rep resentatives to the city committee. Discussing the contemplated action of the organization committee, Edgar W. Lank, chairman of the Demo cratic City Committee, said yester day: '.'We want harmony in the Fifth-sixth ward, if Buch a thing as harmony is possible among Demo crats." Ex-Magistrate Edwin K. Borie Is chairman of the organiza tion committee, which will endeavor to bring about the harmony which Mr. Lank desires. GUAM HAS GONE DRY [From the Chicago News] Returned to the ark is the dove; For the sole of her foot there is rest— She has found cold water and love Where the east meets the bur geoning west! Wo know not the how or the why, We know but the when and the from; The Island of Guam has gone dry Hooray for tfoe Island of Guam! The Yankeefied dusky Ladrones Have paused on the advertised brink; No more pick they enemy bones, And now they are off'n the drink! The former headhunters have won, Beginning the First of July, A place In the bone-drying sun Xhe Island of Guam has gone dry! HAJRRISBURG TELEGRAPH - MOVIE OF A MAN AND A SERMON BY BRIGGS Se ATED WUU up sEßv\Oi\J BEGiMS FtVE IAINOT6S FraCCJ UP IM FROiJT yavjm SUPPRESSED Om hardly keep becomes hFAI) Plf ,p, recovers AMJ> EYC.S OPCKJ rnrk cvc D FLOPS TAKES om AM FSMESE forward , exaggerated DROWSINESS oTARc cooks Cautiously Gradually lists Suddenly avoare ClostrJG ABoot To see ip To STARBOARD "That sermom is / />-\X HYn\m HE IS OBSERUEJO Oveß AND RE-SUMEo t, (/SUN<b IWTeREST iro LIFE V V QQL UJiTH THE AMERICAN SALOON [Chicago Tribune] Two or three times there have ap peared in the Voice of the People column communications regarding the demon rum over the signature of a gentleman who refers to himself as a saloonkeeper and handles his English with the ease of a retired essayist. In the most recent of these com munications our correspondent said that if the drinking man would ac quire or could be forced to acquire the "Dick Smith habit" the disagree able and pressing questions arising from the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages would ,solve themselves. It was Dick Smith's habit "to flock by himself." and in flocking thus he bought no drinks for any one other thafi Dick Smith. Sobriety is supposed to result if a gentleman drinks as a cat walks— alone. The supposition lacks au thenticity. The worst of all drunk ards is the closet drunkard. When a man begins to drink as the cat walks he has become a little world all by himself, and he can create sunrise or sunset, evolve suns and grow hepaticas, sing as tho wood thrush ana feel as the peacock, all by him self with a quart of liquor. In this stage he is a hopeless evad er of responsibilities, of life and its terms. He takes opiate out of his bottle and tinges all dark clouds with pink. Count him lost to the community. Possibly much intoxi cation results from the fortuitous forgathering of gentlemen who, each intending to take one little snifter before going home, meet and take twenty without going home at all. The trouble with the liquor busi ness is that it is a business. Our saloonkeeper friend is juggling with nonessentials. The American saloon is the American liquor question—the long polished bar, the long brass rail, and the irtirrors in which our I drinking friends can see the reflec tions of themselves in the act of hoisting a few. We should have the closet drunkard, no doubt, without the saloon. No set of men ever drank themselves to death with bet ter will and with more pleasure than did the fox hunting English and Irish squires. But, without the sa loon, the liquor question would be "an individual question. The use of any intoxicating bev erage would be. in an intelligently ordered and disciplined society, an individual question. It ought to be. The habits of the mass ought not to be controlled by the indiscretions of the individuals. The erring ought to pay, and it would be fairer that their dependents should pay than that sumptuary laws should control the license of the discreet to do what they wanted to do. Prohibition is a bad method of correcting the minority by regula tion of the majority, but the Ameri can saloon, inherently evil no matter how well conducted It may be, has, we imagine, made it virtually cer tain that personal habits In respect to drinking will get a law set upon them. We love the talk of light wines and beer. It is a good theory that a people whose infants grow up on light wiifes never are other than temperate. Probably if we had the soil which grew fine wine grapes, varied from one locality to another to produce varieties of splendid wines, w.e might live happily and temperately upon the juice of the grape, but our guess Is that the day of disuse of all forms of alcoholized beverage is approaching In the U. S. A. They'll have a law on us and they'll have it because we are es sentially a moral people and our obligation does run to our brother. The minority will rule us by Its voices. THE PRUSSIAN SWORD ("Answer Wilson With the Sword!" —Koelnische Volks-Zeltung.) What is the Prussian sword? A flaming blade That leaps untarnished from its jeweled sheath And strikes for truth, and honor's laurel wreath — A glorious weapon, strong and un afraid? Ah, no! The Prussian sword Is but a name For tactics foul and agencies ob scene; For poison gas and ruthless submar ine; For cowards' blows and deeds of burning shame; For nurses smitten down at mercy's post; Polluted wells and sunken Red Cross ships, And food snatched out of starving children's lips, And crimes that hell would hesitate to boast! The Prussian sword is treachery and lust; God grant that It be trampled in the dust! —Kenneth L. Roberts, In Oakland Tribune. • J. HORACE McFARLAND ON THE SMO [Sunday Courier.] "What Is your opinion of the smoke nuisance in Harrisburg?" was asked. Mr. McFarland cast a reflective eye over his beautiful lawns and gardens and then directed it at his mansion. "I suppose you think I am too far away to suffer with the smoke," he related. "Well, I'm not. On painting my house recently I had the whole structure thoroughly washed and scrubbed, but could not feet It clean and I called In the painter. Said he 'You never will, fpr It is plastered with cinders and steel filings from the smoke.' But this is a trifle," he went on, "com pared to what others endure in Har risburg. To nfe it has long been past my understanding why the Chamber of Commerce does not take this outrage In hand. What is the object of its committee on civic af fairs? The picture of our new Capitol Park being deluged night and day with filthy, black smoke Is too horrible to contemplate, and tiie necessity of conservation of coal is MY YOUTH Oh, my youth was hot and eager, And my heart was burning, burn ing. And the present joy seemed meager. Dwarfed by that perpetual yearn ing. I was always madly asking Ampler beauty, keener pleasure! Had not wit enough for basking In the sunshine, rich with leisure. Now with, -ripeness of October, I have reasoned and reflected. And I feed my soul, grown sober, With the crumbs that I rejected. —Gamaliel Bradford in Contempor ary Verse. LABOR NOTES The platform recommended for the Australian Labor party's adop tion at the coming convention In cludes proposals for a 40-hour week, Saturday being a universal holiday; an increase of old-age pensions to $5 a week and nationalization of all mines. A resolution calling for the elimi nation of piecework and the substi tution of week-work in the cloak and skirt-making industry of the United States and Canada was adopt ed by a large majority at the annual convention of thy International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. John R. Alphine, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor and president of the United Associa tion of Plumbers .and Steam Fitters, has been named as a member of the War Labor Policies Board. The board is composed of five members. British seamen are determined to boycott Germans to the limit after the war. They are tremendously in earnest when they say they will not transport Teuton goods for five years after the dawn of peace. | Standardization of wages of com | mort and unskilled labor, to halt the enormous labor turnover that is Blowing up war work throughout the country, is under consideration iby the Department of Labor. Toronto (Canada) unions demand that a representative of all building trade unions 'be placed on the Pro vincial Housing Commission. Vice-President It. A. Riggs, of the Trades Congress of Canada, has re signed his office. A regular farm wage scale is pro posed in Colorado, ranging from SSO to S6O for permanent help. The training camp for nurses at Vassar College this summer will have women from thirty-five states enrolled. The sixteenth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Bookbinders convenes in Kansas City July 8 next. Niagara Falls (Ont.) carpentola demand 62% cents per hour, an In crease of 7% cents. Demands of Winnipeg car motor men and conductors have been granted, aggregating over $82,000 a year. It is proposed to uniform train crews in khaki. Journeymen printers In Germany i jet $6.65 to $7.14 a week. so imminent that action should be instantly taken to compel abatement of this unspeakable nuisance. The old answer was: "But our factories and railroads advance community interest." Bosh! This is not true, any more. In Pittsburgh the popu lation of Oakland were being slowly murdered by the fumes from ore dust cast out by Jones & Laughlin, who were finally enjoined by law and each director fined $5,000. In New Zealand recently the employer of a match factory when ordered to make things safe for a thousand girl workers replied: "I will have to go out of business." And the govern ment told him: "It is more import ant that the girls be decent than that you make matches." He obeyed orders and his profits are now in creased. The smoke nuisance Is the most far-reaching thing to be con tended with in civil life. As pointed out py Henderson of Pittsburgh, its soot gas, and acids destroy vegeta tion, enslaves the housewife and de stroys health." CHEERING SOME ONE ON Don't you mind about the triumphs, Don't you worry after fame; Don't you grieve about succeeding, Let tho future guard your name. All the best in life's the simplest, Love will last when wealth is gone; Just be glad that you are living, And keep cheering some one on. Let your neighbors have the blos soms, Let your comrades wear the crown; Never mind the little setbacks Nor the blows that knock you down. You'll be there when they're for gotten, You'll he glad with youth and dawn, If you just forget your troubles And keep cheering some one on. There's a lot of sorrow around you, Lots of lonesomeness and tears; Lots of heartaches and of worry Through the shadows of the years, And the world needs more than tri umphs; More than all tho swords, we've drawn. It Is hungering for the fellow Who keeps cheering others on. Let the wind around you whistle. And the storms around you play; You'll be here with brawn and gristle When the conquerors decay. You'll be here in memories sweet ened In the souls You've saved from pawn, If you put aside the victories And keep cheering some one on. —Baltimore Sun. Intervention in Russia [Christian Science Monitor] A great army of Japanese would no doubt be joined with the troops cf the Allies which, as In the case of the Bolter invasion, would include the flags of all the powers. But the predominant role, if such interven tion conies, must be played by ihe United States. Germany need not deceive herself In any way. The United States Is perfectly equal to the task of sending an army into Siberia, and the question whether she will do so or not tfiay be said by now to have been reduced to the de ciding factor of the length of the war. The Wilhelmstrasse need not be under any delusion. In a very few months the necessary transports can be built, and long before they are built the regiments to fill them wil) be ready. The Pacific coast is already equipped with shipyards which can turn out the necessary tonnage, and the Pacific is a much Fafer route, In the day of the sub marine, than the Atlantic. With Russia assured of the good faith of the Allies, and with Vladivostok con verted Into a huge base, the eastern claw of the pincers would have been welded on again, and the question of the German exploitation of Rus sia would be settled on the battle field, though whether at a confer ence table or on a battle field the result will be precisely the same. What He Needed Walter (to persevering Scot) — "You seem to be having a difficulty In getting all that soup up with your spoon, sir! Shall I bring you a bit of blotting papor?"—From Answers, London. JULY 3, 1918. ' 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ~] It will be found, according to the German foreign minister, that in re sponsibility for the war "England's policy has very dark pages to show."' The darkest ones probably are those revealed by the former German am bassador to London, Prince Llch nowsky, who showed that the Brit ish government was so simple as to believe that Germany was willing to join it in any reasonable move for peace.—Kansas City Star. [ The American Federation of La t bor is evidently convinced that in a (Government for the people there | should be no doubt about the people ■ being for the Government.—Wash ington Star. If the G. O. P. fails to tender a vote of thanks to the North Carolina Congressional district that elected Representative Kitchin, it will be a •flagrant case of ingratitude.—Macon ! Telegraph. By bringing their U-boat war to this side of the Atlantic the Huns i have brought it where we want It. 1 —Dallas News. "Nothing sold here made In Ger many" will be a shopkeeper's sign no treaty can regulate.—Wall Street i Journal. A German military expert says that the Teutons know exactly how many reserves the Allies have. Per haps that is why they slowed up the drive.—St. Louis Star. In all walks of life those young men of military age are greatly missed. But they would be missed more if they were not doing their duty in the Army.—hicago Daily News. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I -3LUOS JO J9[3T![9 v 8 <? ; 6 n tcr s 1 * 'ajtipap 0)} I JtqM-Sna -sraviSirc avnniVN v To u kn< ow what a lot of veget j&Eo M f —• tables we pre; I [*"*"* served. I don't i I intend to have Em jEm I I the tin cutis | BETTER. -yVfjV---- How long is war going make It: How long is it going *° ta^e us t0 MIGHT WORK. They ought to S> put a tax on g_ getting angry. How would V\\ Ml you collect? w couldn't stamp your foot with out using a Go ver n m ent 1 IT " i Abetting (ttJjatl i' 1 - '1 Harrisburg has always been one of the places where the nation's birthday has been given fitting cele bration and while the observance of our latter days have been notable for magnitude and solemnity those of older days were marked by much hilarity. There is no record of the way the news of the Signing of the Declaration was received at Harris Ferry, but as the first men from the Paxton district had fallen in battles with the British it may be Imagined that there was a tightening of bel> ' and a pledging of fealty when t>w news was brought in by,a hard ris ing courier to the ferry magnate. After the long war ended the anni versary became a real occasion for the people of the future State Capi tol and the old reliable Oracle at Dauphin tells in its quaint way on Juiy 6, 1785, of how the folks cele brated two days before. After a preamble in which the eagles that used to frequent the Susquehanna were made to figuratively scream theii freedom the Oracle says: 'About 12 o'clock tho bell rang and as a signal for-the citizens to pro ceed to Federal Spring, (supposed to have been somewhere north of what is now Walnut street and o* the land near Royal Terrace), where and under the boughs of the spread ing arbor, they partook of a public entertainment provided by the com mittee appointed for that purpose; after which General Hanna being unanimously appointed to preside as president, toasts were given under a discharge of cannon nnder Citizen Fenton.' It must have been some day, but the Oracle next year says that the Fourth was observed with "much hilarity and social glee." Captain John Kean's artillery com pany fired a cannon to wake up the town at dawn, ac tho Oracle writer feelingly says. A parade was formed in Market Square where to-morrow, 122 years later, another parade will form in honor of the Fourth. The old town must have been consider able of a military center because the parade was preceded by Lieutenant Elder's light dragoons; Captain Fish er's light infantry and Captain Kean's company of artillery, three companies in a town that was not , much larger than Highspire, if as large. General Hanna again pre i 1 sided and every toast was marked by a discharge of cannon and rifles. In i 1809 the citizens had two celebra tions, one on William Ma clay's Island where Ensign John Brooks' infantry was in charge and the other ,at Laurel Hill where Dr. John , Luther presided. And so on the list goes and every reference to the glorious Fourth is marked by a peep of day firing of cannon, a parade of the military, a feast in the woods and much oratory accompanied by cannon. The cannon seemed to have been part of-the day and from all accounts the public feasts were by no means "dry" any more than they were free from discharge of fire arms. It is interesting that now neither liquor nor gunpowder is con sidered as essential to a proper cele bration of the nation's natal day in the capital of the second state of the Union. • • • There have been some memorable Fourth of July parades in the last fifty years in Harrisburg. Soon after the Civil War Memorial Day had tho call but in 1876 the centennial year there wqs a big parade here several in the eighties, althouglr it was not held until September in our own centennial year of 1885. In the early nineties there was one large parade, but the largest one was in the year before the Spanish War. There were several in the next ten years, with a big one in 1911. This year all records are going to be broken and broken right. * Among visitors to Harrisburg yes terday was John M. Phillips, wealthy Pittsburgh man who was reappointed recently as a member of the Stato Game Commission. Mr. Phillips has given of his time, money and brains as a member of the commission for sixteen years and much of the pro gress made in game protection and conservation in 4 the Keystone State has been due to the efforts of him self and his colleagues. It was a matter of much gratification when he was reappointed as sportsmen all over the state had been in a state of indignation over the attention given in high places on Capitol Hill to the envious chatter emanating from a few pinheads against the Pitts burgher. The wonder was that it received any notice at all, but when the sportsmen were heard from things soon changed. • • Officials of school boards In var ious parts of the state have been sending their congratulations to "Dan" Harhmelbaugh upon his re election as secretary of the Harris burg School district for about a score of times. "Dan" Is now one of the veterans of school Adminis tration in the state, having been con nected with *ho Harrisburg district for more than a quarter of a cen tury, and as full of ginger as in the days when he used to boss the boys around at tho old Y. M. C. A, | WELUCNOWN PEOPLE "" —General Charles S. Kutz, one of the new brigadiers, Is a West Point er and comes from Rending. —Frank M. Hardt, the new vice president of Oie Philadelphia Trust Company, was formerly deputy gov ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank and is a University of Pennsylvania man. —W. A. Glasgow, Jr., is spending this week at White Sulphur. The eminent Philadelphia lawyer has been an aid to the food admlnlstrai tion. —Ex-Judge W. W. Porter, of Philadelphia, will spend the month in the White Mountains. —Mayor Babcock, of Pittsburgh, has Issued a proclamation calling attention to the importance of the National Educational Association convention in Pittsburgh this week. | DO YOU KNOW # —That Harrisburg is sending tons of shoes trt" the army depots? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris was one of the men who sold his grain and other things to the American Army for paper cur rency when other people refused to do so. Looks Sort of Like a Brewery [From the Cleveland Plain Dealor.7 Boston is camouflaging the publia buildings in anticipation of German air raids. Imagino Bunker Hill monument disguised as a sauerkraut t factory!
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