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MONDAY EVENING, JT7I.Y 15
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
— BURNS.
STARTING RIGHT
THE example of the men who
have had to confront the town
development problems that at
tend the construction and operation
of shipyards. Iron and steel works,
collieries and other industries where
housing facilities are lacking should
commend Itself to every man who
is interested in business which calls
fbr expansion or creation of towns.
Hundreds and hundreds of houses
have had to be constructed as a nec
essary accompaniment of the great
shipbuilding enterprises at Bristol,
Chester and other places on river
and lake In Pennsylvania and as part
of the means of providing labor tor
mines in Washington. Greene, Alle
* gheny and other counties in the soft
coal field. In some instances they!
called for buildings which would be J
permanent instead of the old shack!
style of building. The attractive!
home was demanded to take the
place of the barracks and the sleep
ing shed.
And these men met the situation
by going rjght to the State experts.
They have asked State engineers to
prescribe what should be done to
make model towns and settlements.
They asked the Commonwealth's
technical men to say what kind of
houses should be jftit up; to super
vise plans for the water supply and
to pass upon the sewers and tho dis
posal. In other words, they saw what
the older communities, which "just
grew" about some industry or trans
portation center, had to meet when
they expanded and they wanted to
start right.
"How to keep Judges out of poli
ties" is the title of a Philadelphia
Public Ledger editorial. Up here in
Dauphin county we elect the kind of
men who. know enough to sfay out
of politics without the necessity of
being kept out
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW
UNTIL the Washington adminis
tration recovers from the ob
session that it owes the people
no explanation of its official acts
the increasing protests will grow in
volume and energy. Recently out
breaks in the United States Senate
have been frequent and bitter as the
result of indifference to requests for
explanations from department heads
of unusual usurpation of legislative
powers.
Nor will the treatment of Major
General Leonard Wood down. He is
believed to be the victim of the
President's personal resentment and,
despite the protests of distinguished
members of the Senate, not a word
of justification is offered for the
heartless sidetracking of a brave sol
dier. His chief fault seems to lie in
the fact that he favored prepared
ness fbr war when his partisan crit
ics at Washington were ridiculing
such appeals as hysteria.
President Wlson's insistence upon
government control of the telegraph
line is another case in point. No rea
son has been given the lawmakers at
the National Capital for this be
stowal of still greater power and
they naturally hesitate in the ab
sence of justification. Power and
more power seems to be the constant
demand of an administration that Is
directing a war to make the world
safe for democracy. The peopje have
a right to expect that Congress will
assume its full share of responsibil
ity in this great crisis and weakness
in either houso will be properly con
demned.
Again, Postmaster General Burle
son'* Incompetent direction of the
postal service has been responsible
for much of the doubt that is preva
lent throughout the business world
es to the fitness of the administra
tion to manage the public utilities
that are now under its control.
Drastic changes are constantly be-
Inn made without the slightest ex
planation of the reasons therefor
and the people are not going to pas
sively submit to autocratic rule with
out a kick. They are ready to back
the President and his advisers to the
limit la everything having to do with
MONDAY EVENING,"
the winning of the war, but they
wnt to know whether what la pro
posed Is a military necessity or
merely an experiment of govern
ment •
Can you ret away from your Job
for six months or more? The T. M.
C. A. needs war workers in France.
OUR HOUSING PROBLEM
SINCE March 8 of this year, when
the Telegraph drew the atten-
tion of the people of Harrlsburg
to the seriousness of the city's hous
ing problem and the necessity of Im
provement, this newspaper has given
serious study to the question and to
day begins the publication of a ser
ies of articles which it is hoped may
point the way to a solution, Andrew
S. Patterson, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, awake to the con
ditions, proposes to take the matter
up with the federal government's
housing experts; Dr. Royer, acting
State Health Commissioner, offers to
co-operate with State aid; while tho
State Bureau of Municipalities,
which has gathered much data as to
what other cities are doing, offers
to place its services at the disposal
of Harrlsburg.
The stage is set for a successful
campaign, but those who have in
terested themselves in the movement
must realize that they face what
| may, and very likely will, prove a
! long, hard task. The need is appar
ent beyond tho necessity of demon
stration, and it may not be very dif
ficult to reach a satisfactory method
of correcting the evil, even though
the United States Government
should decline to give the city the
assistance which those who have
given thought to the situation
believe It deserves. But to de-
vise a means of putting Into op
eration any plan Involving the in
vestment of large sums of private
capital will require tact, skill and
perseverance of a high order.
The leaders may well take a les
son from the public Improvement
campaign of 1901, when all manner
of obstacles were thrown in the way
of those who were making the .fight
for filtered water, paved streets,
parks, sewers and those other !ih
provements in which Harrisburgers
now take so much pride. There will
be those with axes to grind and land
to sell. There will be others who
will want to protect their own 'rent
profiteering by endeavoring to block
the new enterprise. There will be
ultra-practical souls who will de
clare that the time is not opportune
that the money cannot be raised or
that we "had better let well enough
alone." There will be those who
should invest who will hold back.
These and other discouragements
there will be. But back of it all th
campaigners will know that tliey
have the support of the best-think
ing people of the city, that they are
engaged In a most important civic
work and that success will crown
their efforts if they persevere.
The project is big and the prob
lem not to be solved in a day. If
the next six months, or even the next
year, brings with it concrete results
we shall be fortunate.
The first logical move Is to do
what Mr. Patterson proposes—ask
the federal gcvernment to help us in
our difficulties, since war industry
has been largely responsible for our
present overcrowded condition
since prompt relief is necessary if
we are to find means of keeping In
Harrisburg the hundreds of workers
who are being brought here to keep
the war material and munition mills
100 per cent, efficient. No time
should be lost in ascertaining what
Washington will do. After that we
shall know better where we are
headed.
There are American readers of
country newspapers who used to think
the Bastile was only another name
for the county Jail.
AS TO THE HOME FIRES
THERE are many persons in
every community singing vig
orously the popular war ballad
"Keep the Home Fires Burning,"
who are not putting much fuel on
the flame in the way of personal ef
fort or contribution of funds to the
things which are necessary to main
tain those things which are essential
to the happiness and prosperity of
the home life.
It la quite necessary to keejf the
fires burning, to the end that the
home institutions, the welfare of the
community, the maintenance of the
activities which are a part of the life
of every community, may be con
tinued in the way that will meet the
approval of the boys who have gone
away to flght our battles and the
battles of the world.
Let us remember when we show
indifference to these things at home
that our vocal efforts are out of tune
with our real interest. We must do
our part here at home while the boys
are doing their part In the great
theater of %ar.
The Chinese are'said to have de
vised a new method of preserving
eggs in powdered form, but who wants
powdered egg poached on toast or
fried with bacont
, *J > oUUc4. LK
"PfcKKOl fjUcOila,
By the Ex-Commltteeman
Politics has certainly not been ad
journed among the Democrats of
Pennsylvania. While Judge Eugene
C. Bonniweil, the candidate for ir<*v
ernor who refuses to recognize the
sincerity of the men who got control
of the machine through reorganiza
tion some seven years ago, is going
about the state muking speeches,
some of the Federal officeholders
have been gumshoeing and each side
has scouts watching the other. And
to add to (he interest there are a
number of argent spirits who be
lieve that they can bring peace ami
who are trying to frame u pa work
ing agreement that will bring Bonni
weil and his friends and State Chair
man George R. McLean and his
friends together for a discussion of
the platform and the plans for the
campaign. It is safe to assume
that there will be nothing in that
line for a while as the feelings of
both sides seem to be rather on edge.
—Judge Bonniweil was in the Ta
maqua region Saturday and yester
day making addresses and his friends
In tfie northern part of the state were
speculating on what business had
taken United States District Attor
ney E. Lowry Humes, Joseph F. Guf
fey, ex-state chairman, and other
westorn Pennsylvania leaderq Into
Elk, Potter and other counties.
—Hugh S. Andrews, Scranton at
torney, has been named to succeed
H. A. Hubsler as associate counsel
for the compensation board in the
Scranton district The appointment
is commended by the Scranton Re
publican and it is intimated that it
will be acceptable to organization
leaders.
—Plans for carrying Into every
county in the state the campaign of
Edward J. Pox, of Easton, for elec
tion of the Supreme Court bench,
were laid at a largely attended meet
ing-. of Northampton county law
yers, says the Philadelphia Record.
The committee in charge of this
work will consist of former Attorney
General "William S. Kirkpatrlck, '
President Judge Russell C. Stewart,
Judge William M. McKeen, Jennel
C. Evans, Aaron Goldsmith, James
W. Fox, George F. Coffin, Asher Seip
and Herbert F. Laub. Mr. Kirk
patrick was named as chairman and
Laub as secretary. The committee
is nonpartisan, five of the members
being Republicans and four Demo
crats. Mr. Fox, who is a Demo
crat, was recently appointed to the
bench by Governor Brumbaugh.
—The Insider, writing in the
Philadelphia Press, says: "Draft ir
regularities have been dragged into
local politics and it is entirely within
the possibility that some of our ac
tive and influential ward and divi
sion leaders will be called upon to
explain their connection with deci
sions rendered by the local boards.
I have known for some time that in
vestigators of the Department of
Justice have been studying the con
nection of the draft boards with
Philadelphia politicians. Especially
keen has been the study of these in
vestigators of the activities of cer
tain lawyers whose political pull has
been stronger than their knowledge j
of legal principles. The newspapers
have been giving prominence to the
draft irregularities downtown but I
am informed that the investigators
have not confined their probe to that
section. The office of the United
States District Attorney in Philadel
phia has been demanding exact
proof in these cases and the rigidity
of its rules has not been conducive
of publicity up to this time. There
is a probability, however, of an ex
posure one of these fine days that
will make a political sensation."
—Congressman John R. Farr. in a
speech at Scranton, urged that Gen
eral Leonard Wood be sent to Rus
sia.
—Hazleton officials declare 4 .hat
city Is cleaned up and that there
need be no fears about it.
—A Wilkes-Barre dispatch says:
"All kinds of fiseworks are promised
by the defense In the graft cases
when the official probe of the police
department starts Thursday. It was
strongly intimated to-day that coun
ter charges will be hurled back at
some of the Chamber of Commerce
officials. Captain of Detectives Adam
Hergert and Police Clerk Patrick
Nolan were with their counsel the
greater part of the day and they de
clared they will be ready to face any
charge the detectives may make.
Each side is promising all corts of
sensations."
—The Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin suggests that it would do
some people good to read the school
reports. Not enough is known of
what schools are doing.
—Notwithstanding denials of ap
pointments at the State Highway
"•Department, a Pottsville dispatch
says: "Frank C. Reese, field agent
and investigator for the Anthracite
Consumers' League, has been ap
pointed as auditor in the offices of
the State Highway Department at
Harrisburg. Reese is one of the lead
ers of the independent Republicans
in this vicinity and is an expert ac
countant. He served a term as
county register and also as deputy
controller and was a member of the
Legislature five years ago."
—Governor Brumbaugh has ac
cepted an invitation to speak at the
Typographical convention at Scran
ton on August 11.
—Pittsburgh newspapers say that
Mayor Babcock found a man with a
SSOO wharf lease and a pull clean
ing up $5,000 a year.
—Johnstown council authorized
the Civil Service Commission to ex
ercise its judgment as to the rules in
tho police vacancy emergency,
which, counctlmen snid, meant thnt
they may employ men not resldonts
of the city or some who are past the
maximum age limit of 40 years. Fol
lowing the conference official an
nouncement was made also that tho
City Council will establish a police
pension fund to provide for officers
retired after certain terms of service,
with part salary continuing.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
In discussing the Prohibition guber
natorial candidate's plans jays:
"Think what you like about the Pro
hibition candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania who considers 5,44 4
votes In the primary an Indication
that he can win in November."
No more fitting action was taken
by the great conference of prominent
men in New York In the Interest of
war work of the Y. M. C. A. than the
decision to co-operate with the Y. W.
C. A. in all future movements having
to do with the care of our men In all
branches of the service. In the great
campaign for funds a year ago Har
rlsburg set the pace by an Immediate
arrangement with the Y. W. C. A. and
the Y. M. C. A. for a combination
drive, and the results were so satis
factory that other districts adopted
the same plan.
Punishing the profiteer Is all right,
but prevention of profiteering would
be much better.
HAJtRIBBUKG TELEGRAPH
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BY BRIGGS
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® 9^yrlht ' 1918 by Tha Tribune AnocUtfan <New York TrlbQQff
Senator Sherman Talks of Creel
IN a blistering speech on the pro
posal of the President to take
over the telegraph lines. United
States Senator Sherman paid his re
spects to George Creel, chairman of
the Committee on Public Informa
tion. Here are a few extracts:
"A flier on airplane news absorbed
his next effort. He It was who in
serted language in a thrilling serial
dubbed 'The Official Bulletin,' to lead
the unsophisticated citizen to believe
hundreds of aircraft had gono to
France and thousands more would
be ready within a few days. The
European sky was to be blackened
with them in a little while. He was
told of the gap between the fact and
fiction before it was published. Yet
it appeared and Mr. Creel latd it
upon an individual named Strunsky.
"The Von Igel revelations were
given him to prepare copy for publi
cation. His handiwork relating to
Holland brought an Instant and in
dignant protest from the Nether
lands minister.
"The latest exploit of this public
functionary is a feature-service ar
ticle dated July 7, 1918. From proof
sheets we learn It was sent out by
the committee on public informa
tion. The style and familiar nausea
remind one of overindulgence in
pawpaws. It identifies unmistakably
the toadeater whence it came.
"The sub.iect is the Secretary of
War. His wearing apparel, gait, how
his brain functions, his manner of
saying 'yes' or 'no,' of making a
complete tour of the brown Daven
ports lining the wall, giving to each
occupant a succinct judicial answer,
are minutely sketched. Without
warning, the startling Information
that he thinks clearly under all cir
cumstances and is never ambiguous,
is hurtled out. He selects his words
fastidiously, shading his meaning
like one of the old, masters mixed his
colors. The reader's head buzzes
when he is told the secretary can
keep three or four stories, told him
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR),
THE HOUSING STUDY
To the Editor of tht Telegraph:
It Is a pleasure to read that our
Harrlsburg Chamber of Commerce
Is about to undertake an Inquiry in
to the housing situation in Harrli
burg. There Is no more fertile field
for investigation. And there is none
which it has longer neglected. I
recall reading in the Telegraph
when the. demolition of houses In the
old Eighth ward for Capitol Park
extension began the suggestion that
the housing situation should be in
vestigated and something done. This
suggestion was renewed about a year
ago when we could all see the big
holes being made In the district nnd
were wondering whether the deni
zens were going, to move to. Since
then the Chamber of Commerce has
arranged a number of parades and
has avoided doing anything that
would solve the fuel or labor prob
lems here. So with my neighbors I
am glad to see that it has gotten
awake to one of the gravest prob
lems that confronts our fair -ilty.
Let some of the members of the
chamber make tours of Slbletown
and the old Seventh ward and some
other parts of our city and I'll war
rant you that they will find a num
ber of thefr fellow citizens who
would appreciate the stimulus that
organized effort can give to a hous
ing Improvement. The old Tele
graph Is on the right track. Keep
after them.
I PLAIN CITIZEN,
by as many men, up in his dome all
at ono time.
"Instinctively we think of the jug
gler who entranced our boyish atten
tion by keeping up a gorgeous maze
of whirling balls with no perceptible
effort except a fixed smile. Suddenly
he appears mingling with ambassa
dors, the wise, the good, fair forms
and hoary seers; he tbrns aside in
the twinkling of an eye to meditate,
while contractors hang in midair and
profiteers wildly clutch their pocket
books In deafening silence.
"Yes or no comes with a decisive
ring in his voice, and hundreds of
millions of dollars gush from the
treasury at his nod. Then the earth
temporarily resumes its customary
revolutions. Five stenographers then
rush in. He dictates to nearly all of
them at once. Others linger in hail
ing distance as a reserve if some per
chance should drop dead.
Immense bundles of documents of
state appear in which ho immerses
himself, lost in a profound vacuum
of sublimated thought. The short
handers flee madly from the incar
nated human tempest, waving their
notebooks ominously. Now the land
scapes fades away in a haze of to
bacco smoke. Gradually the scene
reveals a briar root pipe, with the
Secretary of War attached, curled up
in a deep, soft arm chair, reading
his theocrltus and Juvenal, or a biog
raphy of Tom Johnson and three
cent car fares.
"From this deep dream of peace
this overripe Boswell blazes the film
with Baker's trip to war-swept
France. We are permitted to gaze
upon the greatest Secretary of War
the world ever saw. Stanton strug
gles dally into view merely as a basis
of comparison to enable outstagger
ing mentality to gain a last look of
Baker walking serene on the sum
mit of Inaccessible grandeur before
we lapse into unconsciousness. The
peerless strategic and warrior fin
ishes the moving theater by remain
ing for hours in trenches and Jug
outs in mortal peril from bursting
shell and scattering shrapnel. Here
the dazed audlence'dlsperses."
Conserve Fiscal Strength
At the beginning of the war we
were debtors to the extent of from
$6,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000 to
foreign countries. Since August,
1914, we have acquired more than
one-third of the world's gold coin
and bullion, and have purchased
abroad between two and one-half
and three billion dollars worth of
American securities. We have loan
ed through private channels appro
mately $2,000,000,000 to other coun
tries and through the government
have advanced $6,000,000,000 to our
Allies. America will soon have its
own merchant marine and we shall
then pay to ourselves our own
freights.
In contemplating our tremendous
fiscal strength, however, we should
not lose sight of the necessity for
conserving It, and also for holding
our present supremacy in the world's
money market. Let us prepare like
wise to hold and further to expand
our conditions. In brief, I am con
vinced that the general use of bank
and trade acceptances will be one of
our greatest national assets not only
in the present crisis, but also in the
economic struggle which will follow
the cessation of hostilities In the
battlefields of Europe.—Albert Bre
ton, N. Y. Banker.
GET ACCLIMATED EARLY
[From the Wilkes-Barre Record.]
Now comes another decree from
the war-time autocracy in Washing
ton, one rhat next to the stomach
hits the public in the most tender
spot. The orders are that no home
may be heated more than sixty-eight
degrees, the purpose, of course, be-,
ing to aav coal,
PEOPLE AREN'T FOOLED
If the German government did
spend a million dollars to get control
of the New York Mail, it must long
axo have learned that it wasted its
money. It might have learned in
advance that Its money would be
wasted if it had made inquiry about
the fate of newspapers that had
been bought to become organs of
some interest.
The trouble is that as soon as
the public learns what Is up—and it
soon does—the kept newspaper loses
whatever influence it might once
have had.
Public service corporations seek
ing unfair franchises have wasted an
enormous amount of money in buy
ing an interest in newspapers. For
all the pood it did them they might
have thrown the money in the river.
People are wise to the game, and
they pay no attention to the Inspired
utterances of the interests.
In the long run people aren't
fooled. Those who think they can
be are the real fools. —Kansas City
Star.
OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
HERS.
Maude—Our food conservers hav#
been trying to get around the waste.
Frank—So have I for some time.
THE QUES- Z
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We that shall
They will a*k
me and
Not what did
you give MM
But what did
NOTHINGS
DOING.
Harduppe u|
just asked me
for $lO on the
pretext that ha iSjpv
left his pocket
book at home. /Jr
Did you fall Siffl \
Fall nothing. LIJ M|>
I gave him a
. nickel for car- Mil -nf T""
fare so that he jU"
•ould go home
and get It .
What delayed
bt \ /'(St £5 you ' or your
' dlnner7 The
\ ntrir baseball season
WTll ~7) 1 over.
' Sir w vrvflfT" 8h! wife
doesn't know
that * M yet *
JULY 15, 1918.
AS A GERMAN SEES IT
The Lokal Anzelger, of Berlin pro
tests against the German govern
ment's proposal to billet the German
soldiers in private families following
demobilization at the end of war as
one that has "sent a shudder through
Germany," and publishes the fol
lowing letter:
I hope as a father and husband
that your paper will agitate rest
lessly against this unheard of scheme
to thrust the demobilized soldiers
Into our private homes.
.What can our government* be
thinking of to devise such an intol
fiVo ' n t rus lon on German family
"le. I cannot Imagine the official
lesponsible for the idea can be
the husband of a young wife or the
rather' of grown-up daughters. The
whole enterprise is too horrible to
contemplate. -®<
It is something which threatens
thb very foundations of the German
n?i and lt ™ust not' be allowed.
Ihey seem to know one another
over there pretty well, after all.—
Col. Harvey's War Weekly.
THE ENLISTED MEN
| [By Ella Wheeler Wilcox]
There are many splendid soldiers,
I With insignias on their shoulders;
j >hen I meet them on the street up
: goes my hand.
And with military motion,
j I express my sincere devotion:
Both my homage and respect these
men command.
But I somehow have a feeling.
Alt too earnest for concealing.
When I meet the private soldiers day
by day.
And my heart leaps up saluting.
Those who quite beyond disputing,
Are the men who must go deepest
in the fray.
Theirs the duties unremitting.
Theirs the pleasure brief and fitting;
Theirs the hard and dull routine
work in the rear;
Theirs to march on uncomplaining,
Be it hot or be It raining;
Theirs to plunge into the fight when
foes are near.
Theirs to make a lowly station
Shed great glory on the nation.
And If need be theirs to die to save
the land.
So, dear fellows I salute you.
Ana I know Death will transmute
you
Everyone Into a general in God's
land.
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION
The public ln the Allied countries
ls beginning to inquire at whose
door this paralysis of Entente diplo
macy lies. If it should be at
America's, the fact, in the event of
an undue prolongation of the war,
will detract seriously from the merit
of her splendid co-opcration with
men and material. If Japan alone
hesitates, some of her own people
will be the first to charge her with
a half-hearted adoption of the Allied
cause that stopped short of any
real sacrifice. The case for Allied
actiof ln Russia Is overwhelming.
Naturally it must not be a blundering
intw-verttlon, which would achieve
nothing for without good will of the
Siberian population it will be impos
sible for the Japanere army to
approach Europe within a given
time. There can be little doubt that
Colonel Semenoft would have wel
comed support at any moment during
the last four months, and any con
spicuous success on his part in
Eastern Siberia might well galvan
ize true Russian opinion into action
against the German and Bolshevism
from one end of Russia to another.
—From the Near East.
COTTON IS IMMUNE
Amid all the talk about profiteer
ing and the activity in regard to
price-fixing at Washington, one pro
duct of the country remains immune
from attack and action, and that is
cotton. This state of thing is a very
significant commentary upon the pres
ent political control of the country.
The more the case of cotton is con
sidered, the more interesting it be
comes. Before the war it was a drug
upon the market. There still echoes
in the ears of the country the "buy
a bale" cry that went up from the
South when first the European
struggle put an end to normal trade
conditions. But tho price of raw
cotton has gone up five hundred per
cent since the war began.
The cotton raisers boast of their
ability to prevent limitation of the
price of their product and in face
of the fact that the price of wool
and wheat and many other commod
ities have been regulated by law.
The cost of raising cotton has not
even been doubled, yet It is bring
ing five times the price that It did
before. Is the cotton raiser a pro
fiteer? What would be said in Con
gress of the manufacturer who had
Increased the price of his products
to five hundred per cent? Loud
and long would be the denunciation
from the majority side of Congress,
and bills would be rushed through
to punish the offenders.—Phlla.
Press.
HOW THEY LOVE
How does a woman love? Once, no
more,
Though life forever Its loss de
plore;
Deep in sorrow or deep in sift,
One king rcigneth her heart
within; .
One alone, by night and day
Moves her spirit to curse or pray.
One voice only can call her soul
Back from the grasp of Death's
control;
Though love has beset her, or friends
deride —
Tea, when she smileth another's
bride.
Still for her Master her life makes
moan
Once is forever, and once alone.
How does a man love? Once for all,
The sweetest voices of life may
call,
Sorrow daunt him or Death dismay,
Joy's red roses bedeck his way;
Fortune smile, or jest or frown,
The cruel thumb of the world turn
down.
Loss betray him or Love delight
Through storm or sunshine, by day
or night:
Wandering, totting, asleep, awake,
Though souls may madden or weak
hearts break.
Better than wife, or child or pelf
Once and forever he loves—Him
self.
—Rose Terry Cooke.
* -
Jonah Swallowed by a Fish
The word of the Lord came unto
Jonah the SOB of Amlttal, saying,
arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,
and cry against It. But Jonah rose
up to flee unto Tarshlsh, and went
down to Joppa; and found a ship
going to Tarshlsh. But the Lord sent
a great wind Into the sea, and there
was a mighty tempest. Then the
mariners were afraid. So they took
up Jonah and cast him forth Into
the sea: and the sea ceased from
her raging. Now the Lord had pre
pared a great fish to swallow up
Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly
of the flsh three days and three
nlihta. —Jonah 1, 1 to 7,
Etofttittg (ttljal
nr2 Vh,le th# f olks in Harrisburg
ultZ™Tr in to notlce the gaps
mills anH m" 18 made ,n offl <=es. stores,
the fitr a rt^ any . other placea through K
seivice of ihifv ' lnto ">ta%
Wfi rtM o „ young men more than
Guard.m n Rgo when the National
e a " d 'S were mobilizing and the
cruitint 8 wer f thronging the re
walk bf t ceSl J 1 ,a only when a
residential sections or a ride to sur
zalion of tOW , nß tha t*thore is a reali
zation of what manpower means
and t d h eparluro of the Guardsmen
and the men who went out in the
first half year of war left a good
Nnw y th° /' Ut We Bhif ted around.
>. ow the draft calls and the enlist
ments and the moving of men to es
?? n is a hi ndUSt^ leS ar maWng more:
store ™ star that tells the
story. There are streets in Harris
burg where the service flags gleam
® other house and when we
starred aDd three even four "
we feel "ke raising
ind in th 11 OUt ln the country
a " dth ® small towns is where the
service star carries its appeal. Up
near Rockville there is a small
house which flies two stars. Near
hnitli * V* , ls an °ther isolated
house which also flies two and near
Hummelstown three shine. Just
v. th ,® sorvic © means to these
households we can imagine. But
Ef°! ,ably one of the most striking
Illustrations of the way the young
men in the small towns responded
ia gi\en in Wormleysburg where
there is a iblock of four houses, each
showing a star, one of them two
• • *
Pennsylvania trout fishermen'nre
enjoying bettor trout fishing in July
than ever known before and have
not only been making record
catches, but have been finding trout
where they bavo. not been seen for
years. This ls one of the oddities in
fishing produced by the unusual
weather conditions of 1918, Reports
coming to ihe State Department of
1' isherics have shown, morever, in
spite of the war that there are fully
as many fishermen this year as be
fore and that many women have
been enjoying the angling. The trout
season was retarded this year, it
will be recalled, by a snowstorm
which swept the state on the first
day and brought in its train such
I cold weather that it was May before
streams were in any sort of condi
tion for fishing. Recurrent storms
and periods of cold weather for sum
mertime spoiled much of the Mav
and June fishing, but the last twent'v
days reports indicate that the best
trout fishing in a long time is being
enjoyed. Thanks to the systematic
able to take care
of themselves, both brook and brown
trout, have been seen and caught
over a wide area. The western county
reports are all very favorable to a
good, if late, trout season. This
year for the first time the basa
and wall-eyed pike or Susquehanna
salmon seasons began with July and
the weather which favored trout
fishing spoiled much good general
bass fishing. Northern and western
counties have reported to Commis
sioner Nathim R. Buller that very -
little good bass fishing has been en- W
joyed, athough there are apparenty
plenty of fish. In the Susquehanna's
lower reaches some salmon have
been taken, but the best of the ba.s
fishing thus far has been in the
large creeks ir the southern part of
the state. Some fine catches haw
come from s-treams stocked a few
years ago with the small-mouthed
black bass. The end of the trout
season on July 31 should find the
bass fishing in full swing and (he
shifting of the weather may not in
terfere with the sport so much afte
all.
• • •
The army construction truck does
not seem to know the days of the
,T h . ey are in motion most of
the daylight hours during the week
and yesterday a number were to bo
observed getting up rush supplies for
some of the construction near the
y i J h e army tt-uck takes up a
room and is often oper
ated by a young man who disregards
speed limits, traffic cops, cut-out or
ders and the public, but it has suc
ceeded in getting some improvement
to the roads between Harrisburg and
Cumberland, an improvement
fi! u ,P 6 anc * ln galvanizing
the borough fathers of Paxtang and
Lemoyne into a realization that some
of their highways look like solidified
sea waves.
• * *
r-JJu ® trlke ? me that the new State
Capitol park policemen, of whom I
observed a number, should be put
heer*™V < ! f \ drlU - If th ° y are not
better posted in regard to dogs the
squirrel population of the state do
main will bo thinned out," remarked
a man who has considerable busi
ness at the State House. "For a
while the dogs were pretty well
trained and avoided the park. Latelv
there has been a relaxation and I
have noticed some fine dogs racing
around in the park, innocently chas
ing squirrels and scattering the Die
eons that the children love to feed
Just write that dogs are all right!
but not in Capitol Park.
• • •
People in this city will be inter
ested to know that the directors of
the Susquehanna Trail Association
which was formed to develop the
great North and South state high
way, will meet this week in Sun
bury to arrange to make the road a
national affair. The meeting will bo
i^ u £. 1 e plan to have it made
a highway from Buffalo to Washing
ton, passing right through Harris
burg. The new road section at
Clark s Ferry will be part of this
road.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—Stacy B. Lloyd, of tho legal de
partment of the Pennsylvania rail
road, who has frequently appeared
here in hearings, has been commis
sioned a major in tho judge advo
cate's branch of the Army.
—C. L. Malone, well-known Sha
mokin physician, has been appointedT
a captain in the medical corps of the '
Army.
—George S. Oliver, of Pittsburgh,
chairman of tho State War Indus
tries Board, will be a speaker at the
Johnstown meeting.
—E> r - H. A. Garfield is expected
to speak at Altoona's big meeting
of coal operators to-morrow.
—A. R. Hamilton, who presented
the situation in regard to coal and
liquor in the western part of the
state at the Washington conference,
is a Pittsburgher, formerly in tho
newspaper business.
—W. F. Detzel, the vice-president
or the State Association of Chiefs
o' Police, has been long connected
with the Erie police.
DO YOU KNOW ~~
—That every week thousands or
dollars are paid on Llbeity
Ronds in Harrisburg banks?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harris Ferry used to be a for
warding point to southwestern coun
, ties of Lebanon and Lancaster coun
ty pig iron.