12
fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1
A ffBtVSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Pounded itfl
rr 1 i
Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO,
Telegraph Building, Federal Sqmr.
S. J. STACK POLE, 6r Bditor-tn-Chirf
P. R. OYSTER, Busintss Manager.
OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Member of the Associated Press—The I
Associated Press is exclusively en
titled 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
Newspaper Pub-
Ch^cagoPin^"*'
Entered at the Post Office In Harris- 1
burg, Pa., as second class matter. j
■ """ i
By carriers, ten cents a
week; by mall. >6.00 ]
a year In advance,
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1018 l
I
Make the true use of those a/flic- ]
tions which His hand, mercifully se- ,
vere, hath been pleased to lay upon l
thee. — Attehbury.
c
HE DIED FOR FREEDOM (
AGAIN is the war brought home '
to Harrisburg. With the death j c
of Corporal W. O. Gorner. as j i
the result of a wound on the field of j
battle in France, the city realizes (
more keenly than ever that its young'
men in arms are making sacrifices j 1
beside which the trifling hardships t
of us who remain at home are as j r
nothing. "The supreme price is be- f
ing paid in the front line trencfies,"
said John R. Mott the other day, '
"and our Liberty Bond investments
and our Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. c
contributions count small beside t
them." We who are not under arms j
should be ashamed to complain when I
men *die so gallantly in the great j*
cause we as a people have espoused, j t
' Our all is so little as compared with £
the very 'east of their sacrifices.
There is a patriotic story in this
latest tragedy that should prove a '
lesson to all of us. Corporal Gorner
was of draft age. He had a wife and
he might have asked for deferred j
classification. But like the patriotic j
citizen he was he waived that claim | 1
and with the consent of his young 1
wife, put on the uniform and march- ■
ed away soon after war was declar- ,
' ed, while she who had given him up
went to work in an office as a means 1
of livelihood during his absence.
Who are we—men or women—
that we should stand back while our
neighbors are offering themselves
thus on the altar of the country?
There is something for each of lis
to do. Neither Corporal Gorner nor,
his. devoted young wife had to be
urged. They saw their duty and
they did It. How about yourself?
Hang out a French flag on Bastlle
Day.
REGULATING DOUGHNUTS
THE Canadian government has
forbidden the making of dough
nuts. There was some talk of
such a regulation in America until
It was discovered that fully nine
tenths of all quick lunch fiends would
starve to death if deprived of their
sole diet, the sinker. So tjie food
administrator compromised by order
ing reduction in size. But the bakers
have found that there Is no restric
tion as to the size of the fole and it
is increasing so rapidK' that if
- something is not done is will push
out over the edges the
whole of the doughnut Into the In
visible realm of the Fourth Dimen
sion. A catastrophe of the first mag
nitude Impends.
PRACTICAL RESULTS
SCORE another for the City Plan
ning Commission. It Is con
stantly doing things for the
benefit of the community at large
without brass-band accompaniment,
but with substantial results.
Announcement has just been
made of the fact that, with the co
operation of Col. F. M. Ott, the Im
portant future street now known as
the Linglestown Road, extending
from the Susquehanna river to the
railroad,' will be placed on the map
and dedicated as an eighty-foot
highway. Also, it 1b interesting to
observe in this connection that the
owners of the Heister farm have
dedicated an eighty-foot street on
the line of Second street through
that area, thus assuring a wide Sec
ond street throughout Its entire
length, and that Colonel Ott has
.-idded to this 1,000 feet of eighty
foot street through his property to
the north. •
And yet we occasionally hear
silly people sometimes inquiring
"What's the good of these commis
sions?"
THE GERMAN COLLAPSE
IT may not come this month or
next month er even next year,
but he who runs may read the
;igns of the Inevitable defeat of the
PruMlan autocracy and the Pots
dam scheme to rule the world.
FRIDAY EVENING,
In a discussion of the situation, the
New York Evening Sun. says:
When the final collapse comes.
it will probably be due to eco
nomic rather than to military
weakness. It will result from
the wearing out of railways and
rolling stock, the lack of raw ma
terials and food, the shortage of
the labor supply, the deteriora
tion of machinery in the factories;
in short, the impossibility of keep
ing going the wheels of Industry.
That the German armies are
still capable of striking hard
blows is no indication that the na
tion is not facing disaster In the
near future. Economic weakness
would naturally manifest itself
last of all upon the battlefront. In
our Civil War, at the very time
that Lee was fighting success
fully at Spotsylvania and Cold
Harbor, the Confederates were in
terrible economic straits. A few
weeks later they were forced to
surrender. Events in Europe will
probably take a similar course.
The Germans may struggle on for
months, perhaps for years, but the
final internal breakdown is In
evitable.
There is no doubt anywhere of
the smashing of the carefully-built
machinery and everywhere the
signs are multiplying of the certain
fate of an inhuman oligarchy.
We're not nearly so hungry for beef
now that we may have it once a day.
THE HOSPITAL REPORT
THE annual report of the Harris
burg Hospital, showing that
It has done more work under
the stress of war conditions than In
peace times, indicates the growing
importance of tliat institution. The
hospital Is performing a vital service
in the community. It reaches not
only Harrisburg but the country for
miles around. Its doors are open to
the suffering of all the towns and
the whole countryside roundabout.
It should be and is supported by the
contributions of many benevolent
people throughout Central Pennsyl
vania.
The hospital is nearly always
crowded to capacity. The problem
of room is pressing and grows with
the years. Among the big tasks the
d
city faces at the conclusion of the e
war is the erection of a new hos- J
pital. The'old structure Is delight- t
fully located so far as the river front °
is concerned, but the increasing ac- s
tivity of the railroad which flanks it °
makes the site anything but desirable '<
from the standpoint of calm and
quiet. I
a
It would appear, also, that the s
city and the county should have a j
big hand in the erection of the new a
hospital when the time arrives, and
that it should be a municipal-con- £
trolled institution. Private charity,
assisted to small degree by corporate *
contributions and public appropria- j
tions, has maintained the Harrisburg j
Hospital ever since its inception, and
i hundreds of thousands of dollars J
j have been given by generous people 1
j for the building and maintenance of
the institution. But the time is past '
when sick or Injured should be de- i
pendent upon charity. It is the duty J
of the whole community to bear the 1
burden and an equitable arrange- 1
ment could be worked out to that 1
end by the city, the county and cor- j
poratlons desiring to maintain beds
in a publicly-owned hospital. The
I trend of the times is all 4n tlils di- >
j rection and both city and county of- I
flcials should give the subject am
ple consideration over a period of
the next few years, in order to be
ready when the time for action
comes.
The BolsheViki, like cornered rats,
fight only for their own lives.
A SUGGESTION
OCCASIONALLY in the mail that
comes in such generous quanti
ties to the desk of an editor
there is a suggestion containing the
germ of an idea that might be work
ed out with great practical value
to the community. Of this class is
; the following:
Sitting on a park bench, the
other evening, between band cop
cert numbers I engaged a gen
tleman in conversation, who gave
me an idea of his own which I
believed worthy of consideration
at the hands of the School Board.
We were talking of our war gar
dens and the need of more help on
the farm, and my new-found
friend said he believed the gar
dens could be made much more
productive and the farmers be
greatly assisted during harvest
season, at least, if the city would
teach farming in the public
schools. His plan was for the
purchase of a thirty or forty-acre
farm on the outskirts of the city
for demonstration and study pur
poses. where high school students
so desiring could go for a course
in agricultural training during
the fall, early spring and winter,
acquiring sufficient knowledge of
scientific farming in a practical
way to make them valuable as
war garden advisers in the city,
or take up farm work during va
cation in an Intelligent manner.
He said he is a practical farmer,
and that he knows the right man
on such a farm could make It
earn all the expenses of operat
> ing. taxes and teachers' or su
perintendents' salary. Will you
please give this matter publica
-1 tlon In order that our school au
thorities may have opportunity of
giving It thought?. •
The State school code makes
, provision for agricultural study in
3 high schools, but few of those iri
cities have sel*ed upon the .dfc
, portunlty. There is, however, a
growing Interest in agriculture in
. the cities. "The time has come when
E our young men will turn from the
cities to the farm rather than from
the farms to the cities," said a farm
authority recently, and his view Is
borne out by the statistics of the
agricultural schools, such as State
r College, where many Harrisburg
youths are being educated as sclen
-1 tiflc farmers.
The desire for Independence, the
growing love of out-doora, the con
veniences the farmer now enjoy*
ana the increased profits from farm
ing all are turning the thoughts of
cltybred lads countryward, and the
time may be ripe for the considera
tion of some such plan as suggested.
At all events, the letter shows the
trend of thought and is not without
its practical side.
The end is In sight. Germans have
been notified there Is no more sauer
kraut.
ot
By the Kx-Committeem;
According to tie Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times, Dr. E. J. Flthian, the
Prohibition nominee for Governor,
thinks that he has a chance to win
and is planning a tour by automo
bile, a large white car, "with sleep
ing, cooking and eating quarters and
a rear platform for speech-making
purposes" having been provided. Dr.
Flthian is connected With a motor
vehicle-making concern and intends
to be real active, although if the
proposed federal tax on gasoline
goes into effect he may curtail some
of his tour. The Prohibition candi
date for Governor is the first of the
nominees to say much about his
plans and from all accounts he has
been real active.
The Pittsburgh newspaper In dis
cussing his campaign says: "Mr.
Fithian recently conferred with the
Rev. Dr. John Royal Harris, presi
dent of the "Dry" Federation of
Pennsylvania, In the hope of secur
ing the Indorsement of that body.
Dr. Harris says that no promise was
made, as the federation will pro
ceed slowly in determining where its
indorsement will go. The Anti-
Saloon League will give its support
to Senator William C. Sproul, the
Republican nominee, who has de
clared in favor of the ratification by
the next Legislature of the prohi
bition mendment to the Federal
Constitution. His principal opponent
is Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell. the
Democratic nominee, who stands on
a sloppy 'wet' platform. The in
dorsement of Mr. Fithian by the
'Dry' Federation would mean the
division of the 'dry' forces to some
extent and would be helpful to Mr.
Bonniwell. * * * Another part of
the Fithian program is said to be
the withdrawal of F. E. Whittlesey,
of Corry, the Prohibition nominee
for Lieutenant Governor, and the
substitution of J. Washington Logue,
of Philadelphia, the Democratic
nominee for the office. Mr. Logue is
'dry.' "
—Johnstown city councllmen and
political leaders are In a quandry
about the completion of the sewer
svstem in that municipality. Some
years ago the State Department of
Health ordered a new system and
a three quarter million bond Issue
was voted. The work can not be
completed for that amount and the
government does not look with favor
on more bond issues.
—Erie and other cities seem to
be having the same trouble as Har
risburg and Johnstown in regard to
police force vacancies. The number
of applicants is smaller than ever
known and jobs are going begging.
—Dr. Philip Kamin has been
named as Pittsburgh's police sur
geon. He takes the place of a doc
tor dismissed some time ago.
—Lackawanna county authorities
intend to go right into the charges
of election frauds which have been
made in that county as a result of
the primaries. The court yesterday
granted District Attorney George W.
Maxcy's petition for advancing the
session of the September grand jury
so as to investigate the primary elec
tion frauds. The order fixes August
19 for the jury tb convene. "Within
an hour after the order was issued
the district attorney's office started
its machinery for the special session.
County detectives and constables
were instructed to be ready to serve
subpenas to-morrow. About 1,000
i persons will be called to tell the
grand jury what they know of the
fraud. Included among them will
be election board members in dis
tricts where fraud was committed.
—The Altoona Tribune, which
maintained a neutral position in the
primary contest, says: "Senator
Sproul has won golden opinions
everywhere since his nomination."
—John E. Jenkins, attorney well
known in eastern Pennsylvania, has
taken charge of the Supreme Court
campaign of Charles B. Lenahin,
of Luzerne county. A committee of
fifty has been formed.
—A Scranton dispatch indicates
an intention to contest the Lacka
wanna senatorial nomination as
counsel for Phillips, who lost, is
quoted as saying an appeal would be
taken to the Supreme Court, and
he will seek to have the appeal act
as a supersedeas. He said that Mr,
Phillips is not through fighting. Dur
ing the primaries Mr. Phillips re
ceived one vote on the Washngton
party. This vote was cast In Dun
more and entitled Phillips to a plase
on the ballot at the election next
fall as the Washington party candi
date. Mr. Phillips went to the office
of the county commissioners and had
himself certified as a candidate on
the Washington party. In case .the
Supreme Court upholds the local
court and decides that Mr. Phillips
is the nominee of the Republican
party Phillips will run for the office
on the Washington party ticket.
—The Wilkes-Barre Record does
not like the way things are being
handled In the Chamber of Com
merce expose of police conditions as
it says: "The 'request' of the Civic
Bureau that the citizens get behind
the cleanup movement should have
been made in the form of a demand.
If the people content themselves
merely with expressing surprise and
some show of indignation, the mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
would be justified in throwing up
their hands in disgust."
Origin of a Name
[From the Kansas City Star.]
The familiar wash tie seems to
have derived Its name from the fact
that It always needs washing.
Constructive Criticism Note
[From the Albany Journal.]
There are always many who pro
claim that a certain thing ought to
be done, to one who goes ahead and
does It *
Faint Cheer From Serbia
[From the Marlon Star.]
It must not be Imagined that the
Italians have a monopoly of the re
joicing over the Austrian defeat
There aro the surviving Serbians, t
Last Strokes Delivered
[From the Grand Rapids Press.]
It was to be expected, perhaps,
that having done everything else to
Russia the Hohenzollerns should
now make it the goat.
HARRISBURG Ji TELEGRAPH
WONDER WHAT A WAITER THINKS ABOVT ...
I " ' ' i' 1 '| 1
ALL R'SHT - MAYee BUT f* we ha D d * <3e.iv>eß*u_Y coive ACROSS TE LUCKY STIFF-/
HE'LL COMS ACROSS TAKBK A 3T£ A K . L ,KC. OMR \JUrtO GAT 3
lAjfTM A FOUR B<T TIP IK/STRATJ OF PiGS KNUCKLE a 4T£AK "
AMYWAY3 -
#1"
I I HAO MY • \l/ HA -r A i ipe | "HE GOT THROUGH AT TvsiO 0Ts! WET-L
BACK • NICE |V6 A notion Tb LAST— t /v\ifiHTA HA 0 yr. _ .D iOt i* •" —' !
customers- Mtce n q 0 (jut TONISHT TWO MORE CUSTOMERS ; , , . • <■> ...
Silver - Mice, .tips- mivJo 3ee A uTTi_e iw The Tir*E he took- •
AC-riOlO- IT4 Goo O BUT IP He 3LIPS ME A WHATTVa KNOW 'BOuT
F&ra. . AJGUY To HALF - I AIM' T GOT A GuY UKC THAT!.',?
wo Kick Co/*iij'
No Reasons for Wire Control
[From Pittsburgh Gazette-Tin>es]
Every day's delay by the Senate
in acting on the resolution authoriz
ing President Wilson to seize the
telegraph and telephone systems of
the country confirms public opinion
against the proposition. The extra
ordinary demand of the president
and discussion of it, in and out of
Congress, should have developed
some evidence of necessity for such
a ladical course. But none has been
advanced, palpably because none ex
ists. The case rests now where it
did after President Wilson had writ
ten his request. He wants the reso
lution adopted because he wants it.
And that is no reason at all worthy
of consideration by Congress.
Wire service goes on as it did be
fore, with a degree of satisfaction
to the public equal to anything we
have ever experienced with a public
utility. No atom of testimony has j
been forthcoming tending to support
the intimation that security of mili
tary secrets has been or is endan
gered by continued private manage
ment of the country's systems of
wire communication. Nor has any
one ventured the suggestion that
improvement of service is possible
through bureaucratic control of tele
graphs and telephones. A Senate
committee has held a secret session
to take testiVnony. Since the com,
mittee chairman has made an apolo
getic statement to the effect that it
was not intended that newspaper
men should be excluded from its
I meeting, it is to be assumed the re-
I port made of what was developed
I tjiere includes everything relevant
[to the issue. And that was nothing,
beyond the statement of the presi
dent of the Western Union Tele
graph Company that he did not
think there was necessity for the
government to take over the tele-
I graph wires, but that he would not
I oppose it unless the design was to
unionize the employes.
STOP DRAFTING MINERS
One would suppose it needed no
argument to show the folly of draft
ing men from the Pennsylvania coal
mines. They are already doing the
most essential of war work and ihey
cannot be replaced from any existing
source of labor supply. Yet the
Miner's Bank, of Wilkes-Barre re
ports that 1,000 miners have recent
ly been taken from the anthracite
region and that "it is probable that
30 or 35 per cent, of the men have
been taken from the Wyoming Val
ley."
What kind of efficiency is this? Is
that a wise foundation for "conserv
ing" fuel? It ought not to takej
many minutes to stop it —there is
power to do so in the executive au
thority—if It is still going on. Toi
continue it will spell disaster.
Cannot the various branches of I
the Administration pull together?!
Would cross purposes be possible ifj
we had a War Cabinet? —New York
Evening Sun.
The Y. M. C. A.'s Call For Men
The Y. M. C. A. is doing a splen
did work for our troops in France.
It is doing Its share —and a noble
share —to surround our men with
the atmosphere of home.—New York
Mail.
LABOR NOTES
Government war workers at
Washington, D. C., num'ber 150,000.
Toronto (Canada) Builders' La
borers' Union has 800 members at
the front.
Pascagorel (Miss.) Carpenters'
Union has over 1600 members.
There are now five local unions of
railway clerks in New Orleans.
On August 1, Rochester (N. Y.)
plumbers will be increased to $6 a
day.
Union bartenders at Boston,
Mass., are now paid $2 3 a week.
• Mine workers at Nome, Alaska,
demand union recognition.
A national labor congress will, be
held* shortly at Milan, Italy.
Job printers at Eureka, Cal., will
get S3O a week January 1, 1919.
Iron and brass molders through-)
out Colorado, have secured the 8-
hour day.
One hundred charters have been
issued by Sheet Metal Workers since
January 1. • •
Over 100,000 women are employed
in various capacities on Prussian
railways.
♦
Sneer at Our Advertisers
i
Germany Is Planning to Get Ahead of American Salesmen
From the Scientific American.
IS Germany stealing our markets
while we sleep? The question
may seem absurd. With her in
dustries paralyzed by war and cut
off from the outside world by an
impenetrable wall of steel, how
could German products make any
headway in foreign markets? The
answer is to be found in two very
significant paragraphs from German
papers which were recently re-pub
lished in "Printer's Ink."
One of these, from the Berlin
Tageblatt of April 26, reads as fol
lows:
"If the despised Yankee nation
think they are going to win the war
and force Germans out of foreign
markets there is nothing to indicate
this sentiment in their local and for
eign advertising. Many of their
advertising agencies have closed
their doors through lack of patron
age. Their much talked of captains
of industry have canceled advertis
ing* contracts everywhere. Germany
and German merchants have in
creased their advertising space in
neutral markets and at home. It
pays to advertise in war as well as
in peace. The far-seeing merchant
never stops advertising."
The other item from the Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger of April 20, reads:
"Nothing is more acceptable to!
the German nation than to note the|
fact that the North Americans have
abandoned advertising their goods
in practically all of the foreign mar
kets. In the Latin-American pub-
the market which they
have always tried hardest to acquire
'has been a heavy loss of advertis
ing. . A widely known Buenos Aires
I agency announces the fact that 83
per certt. pf the United States adver
tisers have canceled their contracts.
This is also true in the Orient, and
a careful compilation of the de-
"HER BOY"
My lad was such a home boy; every
night
He'd curl up in that big, brown,
shabby chair,
And dream of knights and swords
and maidens fair;
When the war came, he would liken
each grim fight
With those his dear "Round Table"
waged for right;
And dreadful things his young
heart couldn't bear.
That happened babes and mothers
"over there,"
Fired his gray eyes with Galahad's
pure light.
Of course he went to rescue in their
need
Those helpless mothers and their
little ones;
His chaplain wtote —l wished I'd
seven sons
To follow him, so proud I was to
read! —
"Because he loved his home with
such romance.
He gave his life to save the homes
of France."
—Charlotte Becker, In Llfo.
Even Farther Than McAdoo
[From the Nation's Business]
Priorities in England have been
extended to railway travel. Before
hoarding a passenger train, erne has
to tell the board of trade about the
necessities of his case, and obtain a
permit, byway of validating his
ticket. Besides, If he is a com
muter, either habitually or byway of
convenience since Germany institu
ted air raids on London, the rail
ways have been given authority to
refuse him a season ticket unless he
buys one for six months.
Not "Spurlos" This Time
[Fron> Toronto Mail and Empire]
Germany's impudent assertion
that the Canadian hospital ship was
sunk by a mine, probably a Brit
ish mine, is an Indication that the
instructions to. the captain of the
U-boat were to sink the vessel with
out .leaving a trace. His error in
permitting one boatload of those
aboard to escape will probably get
him into serious trouble with the
German Admiralty.
Confusion
Oh, Mr. Cltyrube salutes
With Joy his garden fair.
He pulls up the potato shoqts
And hoes the weeds with care. ,
—Wa*hijagtori Star.
crease in advertising there shows a
greater depreciation than in South
and Central America. In the United
States itself there is not a paper
which has not suffered a loss in its
advertising lines, and that despite
the fact that the last year showed
an increase in the millionaire class
of 973 individuals. In other words,
the war has terrorized the • Ameri
can nation, but not the Germans;
for a perusal of our periodicals will
show that manufacturers still adver
tise even if they have not the goods
to deliver, but with the idea of
keeping their names before the
public."
Evidently, despite the handicap of
war, German manufacturers are not
only looking forward to the resump
tion of commercial activity when
peace is declared, but are now ac
tually engaged in building a foun
dation for future business.
Apparently many of our own mer
chants have overlooked the real sig
nificance of publicity. A man who
does not give the matter serious at
tention is liable to think of adver
tising only as a means of selling
goods. He does not realize that his
advertisement is not merely pur
chasings customer, but is also pur
chasing an intangible something
goes by the name of "good
will." Advertisements build hinv a
reputation, and the only way to
keep this reputation alive is to per
sist in advertising, even when there
is no immediate market for his
products. Good will is like a tender
plant that must be watered and
cared for even when it is not flower
ing; and*unless we are careful, the
good will that our nferchants have
established is liable to die during the
long drought of the present war. If
neglected too long it may never
I flourish again. This is just as true
I of domestic trade as of commerce in
I foreign lands.
"We Kill or Are Killed"
- [New York Evening Sun.] v
The Germans have discovered that
the ideal of the American soldier is
summed up In the phrase: "We kill
or are killed." They admit that their
experience of encounters with our
troops proves this no vain boast. Our
men are not soft fighters; they do
not hold up their hands and howl
"Kamerad!" when outnumbered or
surprised. And they realize that it!
is a fight to the death. They prefer
death to capture.
The casualty lists bear out the ac
curacy of this diagnosis. The total
of those missing in action, including
prisoners, is only a little over 450,
out of 9,600 casualties reported.
When th'?ir full weight is felt by
the enemy he is likely to realize that
the end is certain and \hat, in due
time, sentence will be executed upon
him. "We kill or are killed," and
most of us are not going to be kill
ed.
AN EVENING THOUGHT
"We will never bring disgrace to
this our city by any act of dishon
esty or cowardice, nor ever desert
our suffering comrades in the ranks.
We will light for the ideals and
sacred things of the city, both alone
and with many: we will revere undj
obey the city's laws and do our best
to incite a like respect and rever
ence in those above us who are prone I
to annul or set them at naught; we
will strive unceasingly to quicken
the public's sense of civic duty.
Thus in all these ways we will trans
mit this city not only not less but
greater, better and more beautiful
than it was transmitted to us."—
Oath of the Young Men of Athens.
Getting Pretty Paternalistic
[From the New York World.]
Men In the Army and Navy will
vote in the congressional elections
this fall, so far as possible, without
interfering with their duties, if their
states have, made the necessary ar
rangements. We need these occa
sional reminders that there still are
states.
Its Being German Explains It
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.]
One of the things that would be
inexplicable if it wasn't German Is
the spectacle of Germany appealing
to international law to Justify its
criticism of our handling of the Von
Rlntelen case.
JULY 12, 1918
THE NATION'S DEAD
Where lie the dead, Sentry?
They lie yonder on the hill;
The stars look down upon their rest,
The night wind groweth chill —
But the flag that led them proudly
waves,
For brave men follow still.
How fell the dea.(f. Sentry?
They fell fighting for the right;
They followed a£ the heels of Death,
Nor looked to right nor left; |
And their country's grateful memory
Shall keep their honor bright.
How lie the dead, Sentry?
The dead lie very still;
The moon shines soft and tender
O'er the graves upon the hill.
While lone mothers weep in silence,
As mothers always will.
How sleep the dead. Sentry?
The dead sleep very sound;
The graves upheaved on yonder hill
Have made it hallowed ground.
And on the lips of unborn time
The heroes' names shall sound.
—Maitland Leßoy Osborne.
NEW IDEALS
War is in itself damnable a
profligate misuse of the accumulated
brain-stuff of centuries. Neverthe
less, there's many a man who has
no love of war, who previous to the
war had cramped his soul with lit
tleness and was chased by the "bay
onet of duty into the blood-stained
largeness of the trenches, who has
learnt to say, "Thank God for this
war." He thanks God not because
of the carnage, but because when the
winepress of new ideals was being
trodden, he was born in an age when
he could do his share.—Coningsby
Dawson in The Glory of the Trench
es.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
He's getting
iIO.OOO a year, 1/ \
md isn't worth it. "TV \
No man Is. Wlt 1 4 \
I quite agree HuU \f I
with you. I'm get- j/ A
ting S2O a week, \
i ANOTHER
MEAN MAN.
> /x>A VM "'Crooked teeth
I 11 arß sat 0
\\ W- due to lnsuffl
/V\ dent exercise ot
yn | I I Women sel-
I T 1 U j dom have 'em, I
U *M s'pose.
He (nervously)
I think I'm going
1 to kiss you. |
She: My, what I I I II A§#J
in impulsive! 1 B'VAJSufIT
fNOT FOR HIM.
Naw! Dey say
dat fame is a
there's generally
■oap Is bubble*
_
THE BITUA
you hev a man
dat was praetic
fend you in de MMfIK
[ Yaaa, Indeed. W
He wu prac-
J tiein' law, an' I.
b wu de feller he
i wa practicin'
M.
Ebettittg (Ctjat
aan-p- i ... -J.
Judging from what men who are
In charge of big operations in this
vicinity say the trouble with
the unskilled labor situation in many
respects is to keep men on the Job.
The scarcity of labor is being grad
ually overcome through the stabiliz
ing plans of the State Council of
National Defense and the work of
employers and foremen. The mov
ing of gangs of laborers from one
ifcrt of tho state to another at the
whim of a boss or under the blan
dishments of a scout for an indus
trial plant or an employment agency
with a contract to till has been pret
ty well checked. Men no longer
come to work one day and leave tha
next night for some other county,
but tho trouble is now that they go
from job to job in the same locality.
There are few more interesting stud
ies in human nature possible than in
observing the way men act when le
ceiving more pay than ever accus
tomed to in their lives. Svne of
them will work three to four days a
week and develop illness. This is
getting common as the weather
grows warmer. But there are ways
of correcting that. Now the trouble
teems to be that men engaged on
one branch of a big contract will
hear that the men of another line of
work in the same plant or operation
are getting a couple of cents more
per hour. The result is that the men
in charge of the latter will probably
have a lot of applicants who do not
tell where they have been working
but who are eager for jobs. And
it Is only when the men in charge
of employment get down to it that
It Is found that one department
fctands in a fair way to rob the
other. But this is being corrected.
An uptown pup of good breeding
and careful attention at home was
affected by a wanderlust the other
day and came sixteen blocks down
into the business section of Harris
burg and went into a store. The
people in the store thought he be
longed to a customer and smiled at
him until the dog noticed the cash
carriers whizzing about the estab
lishment. Some instinct from a bird
dog ancestor stirred within and with
a joyous bark he started down the
aisle after the "bird," which prompt
ly took an upward flight. Bui a
minute later along came another
with a series of short staccato barks
the delighted dog started in pursuit.
He did this a couple of times and
then they tied him up and telephon
ed the owner, whose name was on
the collar.
• •
The June 27 number of the Manu
facturers News, of Chicago, contains
an extensive discussion of the Penn
sylvania Workmen's Compensation
[ system by Chairman Harry A.
| Mackey. The article deals especially
| with awards and is the first authori
tative article upon the manner in
which the Pennsylvania board has
dealt with the problems arising out
of the Keystone state's complex in
dustrial conditions. In the course
of his paper he says regarding a
phase which interests everyone:
"Claims are constantly presented '
asking for compensation for apo
plexy, various forms of heart disease,
pneumonia, tuberculosis, appendici
tis, abscesses, nervous shock, nephri
tis, peritonitis, paralysis, aneurism,
and embolism. It is just as import
ant to society that an unestablishcl
claim be disallowed as that a worthy
one should receive prompt compen
sation. To that end there must be
a complete and harmonious co-or
dination of medical and legal learn
ing producing final judgments that
shall appeal to the common sense
of the community.
f • •
State Fisheries Department offi
cials have placed a ban on wooden
minnows containing more than three
hooks. The minnow with threo
rows of hooks, each row contain
ing three hooks, is considered as
nine hooks and is against the law.
A burr of three points is rated as
three hooks. The treble hooks may
be used in Lake Erie, but not in
the streams within the state and
under this ruling will do away with
some of the old-fashioned fishing
when men put out outlines with i
dozen hooks and the wooden min
nows with from six to a dozen hooks
or points were common. The Fish
'eries Department has made this rul- ,
ing in reference to the use of what
is termed artificial bait: "There is
nothing in the act of July 28. 1917,
(the fish code) prohibiting the sale
of plug bait with three treble hooks.
The only restriction is that they can
not be used In the island waters of
this Commonwealth with three
treble hooks. The department con
siders a burr of three points as three
hooks."
• * •
From all accounts the bass fisher
men have been having a good time
in the Conodoguinet. This stream
has not been affected by the rains
as have the Juniata and the Sus
quehanna and the bites are fully up
to the reputation of the stream. The
Conodoguinet has been noted for tlio
fine quality of the bass to be taken
in it and although people from oth
er counties stumble over the name
they like tc sit by its banks. The
Susquehanna salmon do not appear
to he biting very well as yet in this
neighborhood. the coal dredgers
probably having frightened them off
for a while.
[_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~]
—Walter B. Allen, of Altoona,
who 1s making a census of black
walnut trees for the government, is
receiving word from many districts
of the presence of trees.
—L. B. Day, superintendent of
Scranton detectives, was here for a
day on his way to the state conven
tion of police chiefs.
—Grier Hersh, York food adminis
trator, is an ardent golfer and
sportsman.
-—Alexander Farnham, nestor of
the Luzerne bar, was chairman a I
the Lanahan endorsement meeting. <
—R. E. Cresswell, Johnstown law
yer, is active in a committee which
is running down alien owned prop- ■
erty in Cambria county.
' —Charles B. Prltchard, Pitts
burgh director of safety, is engag
ed in a controversy over the fencfl
unit, which he says the city should
not support
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg has given
many mechanicians to the air
service?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Anthony Wayne once owned prop
erty on the River Front near South
street which was given to him for
bravery.
Leaves It Behind Him
Our explanation , of the motor
cycllqt's haste is that he is trying to
run away from the noise he makes.
—From the Kansas City Star.