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THTRSDAY, JTXY 18, HIS
To travel hopefuny a tetter thina
than to arrive, and the true tvccejs is
to labor. — STEVENSON.
QUEXTIN ROOSEVELT
EVERT American worthy the
name mourns most sincerely
with Colonel and Mrs. Roose
■velt the uptimelv death of their
youngest son, Quentin. The heroic
sacrifice cf this most worthy son of
a worthy father comes to each one
of us in the sense of a personal be
reavement and brings home to us
most forcefully the horror of the
great conflict in which we are en
gaged.
Lieutenant Roosevelt died as hi?
father would have had him go, if
death were inevitable, fighting gal
lantly against odds the foes of his
country. The young man's name will
fill another bright page in the his- j
tory of the Roosevelt family, but ;
thut will not assuage the grief of a !
loving father who is denied, by an
ungrateful government, the privilege
of going to France to avenge the
death of his gallant son.
"Voung Roosevelt might have had
a captaincy of infantry had he so
desired. He had the training and
the qualifications for that, if not for j
a majorship. But he chose more
hazardous sen-ice with the lowly
rank of lieutenant. He recked not
of persona! danger, but went, like
thousands more of his fellow Amer
icans. where duty called. All honor
to him. If some other financially
independent gentlemen who sit
about * Washington, camouflaged by
high sounding titles and private of
fices, were to follow his example, the
cau&e of patriotism would profit and
public affairs would suffer little.
A GOOD EXAMPLE
FRANCE has set America another
good example by punishing with j
death M. Duval, editor of the j
Bonnet Rouge, a French newspaper
that sold itself to Germany. Re-j
cently much has been published ofi
pro-German newspapers in the
United States. One arrest has been
made and there is talk of others.
The newspaper editor who trades
with the enemies of his country Is
worse than a Benedict Arnold. The
soldier traitor must necessarily op
erate in a limited way, but the care
tully camouflaged treachery of a
faithless journalist in control of an
influential publioation is capable of
irreparable damage to the moHUe
of the people. Such an editor Is a
Judas Iscariot and the noose is too
good for him. If we have any of
that type in the United States we
should give them a dose of the
medicine France has prescribed for
its Bolos and Duvals.
MEN WHO WOULD SERVE
IX every community there are
young men of service age who
have been rejected for physical
disability and these are frequently
misunderstood in their several com
munities, inasmuch as no provision
has been made for the wearing of
any insignia which would indicate
that they are willing to serve, but
have not been accepted by the gov
ernment.
Harrisburg is not an exception In
thu matter, some of our well-known
young men having been refused op
portunity to Enlist in one branch of
the service or another. It has been
suggested from time to time that
some sort of badge should be given
to men of this class that they may
not be regarded as slackers when
they are willing and anxious to
serve. This would also differentiate
men of thia type from those who
are doing their level best In one way
or another to avoid serving their
country In the fighting forces.
The young man who makes a real
effort to enlist, as many have done
repeatedly, and is told that he does
not meet the requirements, should
have some way of demonstrating to
everybody that he is not indifferent
to his duty. Under the circumstances,
it would seem to be only just that
man of thia class should be given
* button or other insignia that
would indicate how they stand with
THURSDAY EVENING,
respect to the national defense and
the service.
BLOOD MONEY
THE Washington report that
President Wilson means to take
a stand against war-time pro
hibition because of the loss In taxes
involved is unbelievable.
Surely the President does not deem
it necessary to traffic in the bodies
and souls of countless men and
women to find money with which to
win the war. This is a conflict of
right against wrong, of humanity
against Inhumanity, and liquor Is as
debasing to the individual as Prus
sian Kultur is to a nation.
But If the moral issue does not
appeal to the leaders of the admin
istration, surely the economic side of
the question should, especially among
officials who breakfast, sup
and sleep on "war economies." To
be sure, we may be taxed in some
other way to take the place of what
has been collected from the drinking
element, but having spent nothing
for booze we shall have all the more
money for taxes. Besides, there Is
the matter of fuel, food and trans
portation involved In the making
and sale of drinks, to say nothing of
the labor now so badly needed in
other lines of {rade, which Mr.
Hoover says must be diverted to
legitimate uses if disaster is to be i
averted. And of what use to save
taxes if we are to go cold and hungry
next winter in order to put grain
and coal into taxable beer?
The answer to the demand for
greater revenues lies In the tarifT.
Republicans would have turned to it
j long ago. Democrats will have to
come to It sooner or later. There are
| already signs that their leaders in
[ Congress recognize this.
It Is now proposed to increase the
sugar tariff "for revenue," albeit
there will be a large measure of the
heretofore "damnable protection"
in the bill, and this time one item
will raise a huge sum for war pur
purposes. The Democrats also are
trifling with tea and coffee, which
Republicans always kept on the free
list because they did not compete
with home-made products—and the
Democratic hand-picked tariff com
mission has committed heresy by
urging a tariff bill higher in its levies
than provided by the much-abused
Payne-Aldrich act. They will find
the country far readier to accept
such a means of raising war revenues
than by the collection of blood
money from saloons.
Williamstown is going to keep the
home fires burning in the most prac
tical way. A Board of Trade has been
organized, and the gool people of the j
mining town are going to see to it j
that their community is a good place I
in which to live and a fit place to j
which the boys will return after the j
war. Every town should follow the j
example of Williamstown in this re- I
spect.
SAFE PLAYGROUNDS
THE police dapajtment should :
support as vigorously as its |
means command the campaign
the Park Department has begun
against disorder and vandalism on
the public playgrounds. If boys and
men refuse to obey the rules and
regulations they must be punished.
These pub'.'" recreation places must
be kept safe at all times for the
girls and bofs who use them. Some j
of the boys arrested a day or two !
ago are old enough to be at work. |
But if they won't work at least they ]
must be forced to behave.
FEELINGS OF HUMANITY"
BAROX BURIAX. Austrian for-!
eign minister, expresses the be-j
lief that the w-ar •'might be
j ended the moment the Allies agaiiv
\ manifest feelings of humanity."
"Feelings of humanity," forsooth:j
! What "feelings of humanity" did the;
! Hohenzollern-Hapsburg twin devj',3
i exhibit when together they consplr-!
j ed to the rape of Serbia and Uel- j
j gium? What "feelings of humanity "'
j did they display toward the women
i and babies of the Lusitania, or for'
| Edith Cavell, or for the innocent
maidens and wives of Bflglum, or
for the soldiers they tortured to
death by gas and flame, or for the j
; helpless ipmates of Red Cross hos- j
) pitals and homes of noncombataots
i they have bombed?
"Feelings of humanity?" So far
as the Hohenzolterns and the Hapa
burgs are concerned we have none.
And as for the end of the war, that
will come when these two rivals of
\ Satan and their imps are safely
j caged In the hot little hells now be
ing prepared for them.
ON FLANDERS FIELDS
THE failure of the Austrian drive
in Venetia, or, more properly j
speaking, the success of the i
Italian resistance and counterattack, j
have given rise once more to the
hope that Triest may be taken and !
the road to Berlin opened from the
east and via Vienna.
This is an old dream. Xapoleon i
once had it; probably every advo
cate of the restoration of Italia Irre
denta has thought 14 push his le
gions beyond the Trentlno and to
take deserved revenge upon the Aus
trian and the German.
But we doubt if It will come to
pass, even now. Flanders has been {
too often the theater of war to be J
pushed out of the limelight now.
NEWS VALUES SHRINK
OXE of the Interesting effects of
the war Is the shrinking of
news values. Before Germany
went stark mad and started to run
amuck an accident like the sinking
of an excursion steamer in the Illi
nois river Saturday with great loss
of life would have been the occasion
for tremendous display even in con
servative newspapers. Columns upon
columns of descriptive matter would
have crowded almost everything else
off the wire and the biggest type in
the office would have been necessary
to herald the disaster. The Incident
would have been a nine days' sensa
tion.
But life has been cheapened and
the appetite for gruesome detail sa
tiated by the frightful happenings
in Europe. What, we wonder, will
the yellow press do when peace re
turns and news events of first mag
nitude happen only once or twice a
year T
u
By the Ex-Commit toyman jj
The right of Chairman McLean to
designate Joseph F. Guffey or any
one else to act as chairman of the
Democratic state committee during
Mr. McLean's absence in the Army,
will be questioned by the friends of
Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, nom
inee for Governor. News of Major
McLean's proposed leave created
much surprise here, and while peo
ple at Democratic state headquarters
were like clams in the absence of
Secretary Warren VanDyke, who
had business at Washington, the
partisans, of the judge were not.
Howard O. Holstein, who ran for
i Lieutenant Governor on the Bonni
well ticket, bluntly declared when
told of McLean's action and the talk
of Guffey as acting chairman, "that
means more trouble. How does h£ do
that?"
The belief here is that Judg Bon
niwell will either demand a meeting
of the state committee or the execu
tive committee, which is composed of
the division chairmen, and renew his
effort to name the chairman. The
I state chairman has not yet succeed
ed in mollifying the judge or induc
ing him to attend either a meeting
of candidates to name a campaign
committee or to designate a day
wnen he would meet with the plat
form committee.
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
yesterday summarily removed from
the board of Recreation the three
membeis whose resignations he had
demanded because they refused to
s.ipport for the post of supervisor of
the city's playgrounds Edward R.
Gudehus, a former clerk in the of
fice of Senator Edwin H. Vare.
—Pittsburgh's council adopted a
resolution presented by Enoch Rauh
by which the several thousand per
diem men employed by the city will
be given a two weeks' vacation with
P a >\ provided the step does not cost
the city any money for substitutes
and that the service is not impaired.
W. J. Burke, who is the author of
a measure to give the men the va
cation without restriction, opposed
the Rauh resolution, arguing the
per diem men were entitled to vaca
tions the same as other employes,
even if it did cost the city monev.
• • •
—ln discussing the boom launch
ed by Lancaster countlans (or Rep
resentative Michael R. Hoffman, .'or
State Treasurer, the Philadelphia In
quirer says. "While Mr. Hoffman is
popular in his home county, he is
not well known to the active Repub
licans of the state. He is of a mod
est, retiring disposition and would
probably be handicapped in that
respect should he find his competi
tors for the State. Treasurership
trained campaigners, with potential
connections in the different coun
ties.
"In Congressman Griest, he. how
ever would have the support of one
of the most experienced and success
ful factors in the Republican State
organization. Griest has frequently
been referred to as "the Sphinx of
Pennsylvania politics.' He is not
given to public declarations as to
his political plans and has for vears
frequently acted independently of
state leaders.
"As to the State Treasurership, a
number of months must roll by be
fore the issue will be up to a vote.
' The State Legislature will be re
convened on the first Monday of Jan
uary and during the session some of
the members of the General As
sembly may strike a popular chord
in fhe advocacy of timely legislation
or there may be a hero of the war
with Germany who may loom upon
the political horizon end be acclaim
ed the successor to State Tieasurer
Harmon M. Keph&rt. In fact, there
are So many contingencies that may
arise that would effect the situation
that speculation at this time as to
any one's chances would be mani
festly premature."
At the Bend of the Marne
!From the New York Tribune.]
Heavy business at the bend of the
Marne. "In their counterattacks"
—quoting from the unadorned news
narrative—"the Americans took be
, tween one thousand and fifteen hun
dred German prisoners, including
one complete brigade staff."
We grimly salute one complete
brigade staff. We tuck it in our
belt, and leave it to digest its ex
perience. It is nothing. "We are
thrilled not by the achievement, but
by the sense of participation. We
know with whit stuff we are turn
ing the balance of man power
against the enemies of democracy.
We know with what shy and valor
ous unconcern it will acquit Itself.
We know also that from a time
immemorial it has been intended
th&t in this critical hour of the
struggle between two mutually an
tagonistic forces on earth we should
have strength and youth to give on
the side of right; and we give it in
an unlimited spirit. People are
j never surprised by their own des
j tiny. That Americans should be
counterattacks on the Marne Is in
' credible news, if you stop to reflect
! upon it. Yet, how inevitable the
I reality seems.
MOTHERS'IN~WAR TIME
A beautiful preface by Maurice
Maeterlinck to a series of powerful
French war pictures by S. Levy
Dhurmer, contains the following:
Their sons are taken from them
at life's fairest moment, when their
own lives are on the decline. And
yet, our mothers do not weep as
have the mothers of other wars.
We know not what sustains them
and gives them the strength to bear
the remainder of their life. Some,
among them have other children,
ar.d we can understand how they
lavish upon them the love and the
future which death has cut short.
Many have never lost, or else they
try to recover their faith in the
eternal promises. But so many
others, whose dwelling is forever
derolate. seem to entertain the same
hope as those in whom hope has al
ways been alive. —In The Red Cross
Magazine for August.
What a Sad Waste
[From the Grand Rapids Press.!
Speaking of the futility of wealth.
Andrew Carnegie has given away
his seven thousandth pipe organ and,
not on* of them can play ragtime. 1
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Shall It Be "Booze" or Coal?
[Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
It is now up to Congress to make
a clear-cut choice between booze for
the mining communities and coal
lor the war and the public.—Na
tional Coal Association.
There wi'.l be no disposition on the
part of thoughtful patriots to min
imize the significance of the delib
erate declaration of the National
Coal Association that nation-wide
prohibition of the liquor traffic is the
sole condition under which the coun
try can hope for the necessary coal
production for next winter. These
men, after a careful survey of the
subject, have arrived at the con
clusion that "the country cannot
have both 'booze' and sufficient coal."
If their conclusion Is correct there
ought to be no hesitation about the
choice that must be made. And ]
the Issue ought to be presented to
Congress by the President and the
fuel administration in such a form {
that there will be no excuse for the j
covert friends of "booze" to hide be-i
hind technicalities of 'eg's'.ative pro- !
cedure. The country as a whole will
not hesita'.e for a moment about the
sacrifice of that "personal liberty''
which figure so largely 'n the pro- !
hibltion discussion, once it is COR- j
vinced that the necessity is gen-1
uine, and that the alternative pointed
out by the coal operators is 'nevit
able. There can be only one answer i
to the question, "Shall it be booze '
or coal ?•"
Prohibition as a war measure
stands on a different footing from
prohibition as a permanent social
and political policy or the nation.
Perhaps the experience of the war
may be a determining influence In
the" final decision of one of the grav
est questions confronting humanity,
but the discussion of the one ought
not to be permitted to divert atten
tion from the other. If it is now a
question of "booze" or coal, the
cho'ce of the nation will be decisive
ly for coal!
THEY COST 25 CENTS
[From Collier's]
On "War Savings Stamp Day" an !
editorial In Mr, Hearst's "New York
Evening Journal" exhorted its read
ets as follows:
Buy your thrift stamps, show
them, to the family. Point out
the picture of George Washing
ton in the middle of the stamp,
if the gifted author of those lines
had only stopped writing about
thrift stamps long enough to buy
one —or at least to borrow some
one else's —he would have found
that it might puzrVe even the own
er of "The Journal" to discover a
portrait of George Washington in
the middle or anywhere else. It is
a risky business, this describing ob
jects we have never seen.
A JUST VETO
TFrom the Kansas City Star.]
The farmers of America, as The
Star has had previous occasion to
say In approving the announcement
that President Wilson would veto
the *2.40 price for wheat, are not
profiteers. Aa he has pointed out in
his veto message, they have worked
in patriotic spirit to meet the food
requirements of this country and its
allies. The price fixed is generally
felt to be adequate. To increase it
would be to lay a heavy burden on
the consumer and on the Allied na
tions. The President has acted
wisely and justly in disapproving
the advance.
LABOR NOTES
Union bakers of Los Angeles, Cal.,
ask increased wages and recognition
of the union.
Berlin, Germany, had 302.000
union workers In 1913. It now hasj
but 130,000.
Jt great number of Danish farmers
and farm workers are securing em
ployment In England.
City scavengers at Edmonton, Can
ada, ask for an increase to 40 cents
an hour.
High school boys have been given
employment In the Pennsylvania
railroad car repair depot at Sunbury,
Pennsylvania.
By 1920 it Is expected that there
will be 1,000,000 men working on
our ships and equipment.
Equal pay for men and women on 1
similar work is advocated by the
American Federation of Labor.
Representatives of the British Sea
men's TJnlon are endeavoring to form
a new international federation.
"Belgian Gadfly" Stings Germans
!
The forts of Liege are smashed,
but La Libre Belgique, the "Belgian
gadfly," remains.
Material resistance, barriers of
steel ond concrete, the German in
vader could crush and pass. But the
spiritual, impalable, opposition
which flowers so perfectly In the lit
tle secret newspaper which the Bel
gians love and cherish, the German
mind is not constituted to overcome.
And so long as La Libre Belgique
continues to appear Belgium can
never be a wholly conquered state.
Again and again the German au
thorities have announced the sup
pression of the paper and the con
fiscation of the plant. Fines and im
prisonment Invariably follow these
announcements. And Invariably La
Libre Belgique appears once more—
perhaps with new editors and an
other staff, undoubtedly from a
freshly hidden plant tucked away
In some Indomitable patriot's clam
my cellar or dust-heaped garret
It is still appearing, to-day it is
the most popular newspaper in Bel
gium.
With charming audacity the man- i
agers see that the privileges of their
journal are extended to the governor
general. Whenever a new number is
printed he a'.tvays finds two copies,
fresh from press, upon his desk. No
one knows how they get there —at
least no one with whom the secret
Is not safe. And no one in the Ger
man organization has yet found a
way to prevent them getting there.
A general who Is exposed to such
Irritations long enough would rather
lose an army corps.
Cne famous number, smuggled as
usual to the official desk, displayed
a halftone portrait of his excellency,
the Baron von Bisslng, holding his
"favorite paper." The caption ex
plained that "the dear Governor
General, weary of reading false
hoods In the censored press, was
seeking the truth in La Libre Bel
gique."
A! 1 Journals from outside the
country which might carry matter
detrimental to German interests
were banned absolutely. Neverthe
less these managed to circulate
through secret channels, sometimes
even copied out on typewritten
sheets. By and by the Allies learned
to drop pamphlets from airplanes.
Burleson As Wire Chief
[N. A. Review's War Weekly]
There has been no definite com
plaint by the government as to either
the promptness or the secrecy of the
wire service. Secretary Daniels, to
be sure, did talk In his testimony be
fore the Commerce Committee of
the desirability of Insuring privacy
of wire communications, especially
during the presence of submarines
on our coast. But he made no spe
cific charge of news leakage, still
less of any Inefficiency of wire ser
vice. Secretary * Baker informed
the committee and the country that
"it goes without saying that the
president ought to have authority to
take over these lines." But even
the exuberant and unrestrained
imaginative powers of the Secretarv
of War did not enable him to get
beyoryJ this generality. He had no
complaints to make. He specified
no Instance of work in the War De
partment having been hampered by
defectives wire service or of War De
partment secrets having been re
vealed by telegraphic or telephonic
carelessness that the companies
could have guarded against. Mr.
Burleson injected a little humor into
r the discussion by expressing a desire
to put the telegraph and telephone
service In the same class of efficiency
with the mall service under his ad
ministration of the Post Office De
partment. From which may the
Lord tn his infinite mercy deliver us!
Our present telephone service Is ad
mittedly the best In the world. Our
mall service under Mr. Burleson has
become the worst mall service the
country has ever known In all Its
history. Perhaps some jungle coun
tries. In proportion to their popula
tion and Intercommunication equip
ment, may" have a viler mail service
than that with which Burleson
sagacity has saddled these United
States. But If there Is such a coun
try we have never heard of it or
read of It. and we have not the re
motest belief th&t It exists. As the
Director General of Telegraphs and
Telephones, naturally Mr. Burleson
would be ambitious to reduce the
wire service to the same level of In
efficiency as the mail service
I Though the Germans devised a
shrapnel shell which broke only
when near the ground and made it
extremely dangerous for any one
to be in the vicinity, the journals
from the skies were eagerly searched
for and passed from hand to hand.
And it was not long before un
censored papers, printed in Belgium
itself, began to appear. Of all the
clandestine journals the most vigor
ous and defiant was La Libre Bel
glque.
No one knows where it is printed.
Its habitat is fantastically referred
to as "une fcave automobile," which
might perhaps be translated as a
migratory cellar or cellar on wheels,
and its telegraph address is "The
Governorship, Brussels." The price
is Indefinite, varying "from zero to
Infinity," and there Is no regular
time of issue, but an average of
three or four editions a month has
been maintained.
Not even the carriers know where
the paper Is published. If, there
fore, the police captures a carrier
with these verboten papers In his
hands, they may visit the direst pen
alties upejn him, but the printing and
distribution of the paper goes on just.
the same.
The German authorities, in their
rage at the defiance of this plucky
little newspaper operating under
their very noses, have made the most
savage and elaborate efforts to hunt
down the offenders. To handle the
paper or even to have It In posses
sion is made a serious offense, and
a huge reward—originally 25,000
francs but later raised to 76,000 —
has been offered for information
leading to the apprehension of the
editors and proprietors.
The tone of the. paper is delight
ful. It always keeps its security of
temper, and its srlrit is irrepressible.
The Belgians enjoy it, and all the
copies are carefully treasured. The
usual circulation Is about 10,000,
but the paper proved so popular that
the first five numbers were reprint
ed three or four times after their
original publication.
One of the most interesting fea
tures of La Libre Belgique is its
monthly air supplement, giving in
Flemish and French the news of the
war. It is published abroad and
scattered in Belgium by aviators.
DREAMER OF DREAMS
If I would I could move mighty
mountains and hills.
Uproot them and build me a keep
in the air;
I could turn teeming river and black,
turbid hills
To make me a lake plaisance, pla
cidly fair.
If I would!
But to lie here and list to the wild
churning seas
Sweeter seems;
And I sail yellow leaves down the
swift autumn brefeze —
Dreaming dreams!
If I would I could grasp in my hand
half the earth,
Make them mirthful or sad a£ I
laughed, as I cried;
I could guess at the where of the
world before birth.
At the infinite whence, and the
whither beside—
If I would!
But I wonder and watch as the
small, busy world
Past me streams;
And I shepherd my woolly white
clouds, wind unfurled, dream
ing dreams!
—Basil Stephenson of the British
Army, In Contemporary Verse.
All Waste Must Be Stopped
[From the Liberty Press.]
"Were It not for looking forward
to something brighter," said the man
who can take a drink or let it alone,
"man would die of despair. Person
ally I long for the day when this
cruel war wjll be over and the coun
try can get back to fceatlng Abe grain
now sacrificed to making the world
safe for democracy into something
to drink."
Safeguarding Mother
[From the London Answers.]
Daisy (10) to Dolly (11) —We
must be more careful what we say
before mamma. She picks up our
slang so readily."
Lucky if Not Half a Dozen
[From the Memphis Commercial
News.]
Everybody is not perfect; every
rfamiiy tree bears one lessrft.
JULY IS, I*7lß.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Austrian offensive indicates
that a drive by driven men is not
likely to prove a success.—Louisville
Post.
"The German people is destined
for great things," says the kaiser. In
cluding the greatest licking in his
tory.—Wall Street Journal.
The shortage of wool in Germany
is fast approaching the stage when
the kaiser will no longer be able to
pull it over the people's eyes.—New
York World.
Although they are not of the
slightest importance any more, Ger
man peace terms are always inter
esting, particularly to newspaper
paragraphers.—Kansas City Star.
Burglary Is increasing at an ap
palling rate in Germany, according
to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The na
tional policy is being individualized,
as it were.—Minneapolis Journal.
HEARKEN, O EARTH
Hear all ye people; hearken, O
earth, and all that therein is; and
let the Lord God be witness against
you.—Micah i, 2.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
jl | /P&b GONE UP.
n V Mamie; 1
i * /'A. wond er what
I i has become of
U the old-fash
'oned dime
(rone up to a
H dollar and a
i
SHE PAVED K jC\ t
THE WAY. t J®lfi
How did Pa \
act when you kpft >
asked him for K)
my hand?
Very gentle
and courteous. All
It took me com- JIH
pletely by sur- |M ||!l|
you used to be J)
w/r' \-~Zs dangerous.
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I Hun for your
i > a 2n( * Microbe
-—What is It?
Microbe—
| A cake of soap I
HELP.
Drum Stick— i v lp J "tj
See here, you
quit your fool- 11
Ingr or I'll beat X
your head off! I
L-o
think you would
11 be afraid of be-
Ifi -f 4iii 1n g arrested
UI with that cos
-71 M* f<l Son: Say Dad,
// "I" 0 ® you
JH- stopped my al
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7-y^Jj- —4—4 notices me J
Bmttttg (Eljal
— ...
Some idea of the enormous expan
sion of the work of the State Se
lective Service headquarters, other
wise the center of the army draft
organization for Pennsylvania, can
be sained by the fact (hat a year
ago the whole force in charge of the
launching of the draft in the second
largest state in the union consisted
of seven persons and now there are
over sixty. The state draft system
was started to work In Pennsyl
vania in two rooms on the second
floor of the Miller Bros, building at
Locust and Court streets, being In
charge of Cols. Frank G. Sweeney;
Lewis E. Beitler and J. Warner
Hutchins. There were a couple of
clerks and stenographers, but It was
not until a couple of carloads of
forms and paper arrived that any
idea of the scope of the work could
be .obtained. Then more people were
added and rooms were securedon
Second and Court streets to handle
the supplies and the force over
flowed the two upper floors. Then
Major W. G. Murdock and later Col.
Howard S. Williams, now In France
came along, and a floor in the Frank
lin building was annexed. By cold
weather tho headquarters was a hive
and Anally in the winter time the
first floor of the Board of Trade was
secured pnd Major Murdock put in
charge. The whole force moved and
now the place fairly hums. Of the
original force only Miss Grace Wad
lin, who is in charge of the shipping
division, is the only one now on tho
list. J. Hillary Keenan, of Greens
burg, became chief clerk when the
new headquarters was opened and
Leßoy K. Lafean, of York, took up
the strenuous job of handling the In
ductions. It Is only a question of
time until the headquarters will
need more room as the supplies are
scattered and the lower hall where
the force is grouped is one of the
busiest places In Harrisburg, the
Western Union tetegraph operating
room no exception. The headquar
ters not only has to handle the calls
and the reports, Kut to keep redord
without end. In spite of the rapid
expansion of the system and the un
certainties of what was coming next
the headquarters has made the draft
in Pennsylvania a success In the
highest sense of the word and mainly
by working fourteen hours a day
and taking no Sunday rest.
♦ •
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Cyrus E. Woods, who has been
spending a fortnight in western
Pennsylvania, was here yesterday
accompanied by Mrs. Woods on the
way to the Reserve Militia encamp
ment at Mt. Gretna. He will at
tend the review to-day and visit
several of the eastern counties the
remainder of the week.
• •
Quite a number of young men In
this section of the state have been
taking advantage of the special in
duction calls announced at state
draft headquarters, whereby thoy
can be sent to the University of
Pittsburgh, Lafayete, State an<J other
colleges for training of a mechani
cal kind. The calls are open until
next' Monday to registrants of 1917
and 1918 and grammar school and
high school graduates who are avail
able for general military duty, es
pecially those with a mechanical
turn can be sent. They are being
trained for all sorts of service in and
behind the lines and will be quar
tered in the colleges while being
trained. Probably a dozen from this
city have been specially inducted .In
the last week and the number of in
quiries reaching state headquarters
shows how highly the chance Is re
garded.
• • •
Harrisburg gardeners are going to
have a lovely crop of weeds to buck
against next summer if the signs are
right. Just now the fields are bright
with the blue of the chicory, the
white of the wild parsnip, the brown
of the burdock and other plants
which may have medicinal, but no
other use, and which come after the
yellow of the wild mustard and the
dandelion. These weeds have In
creased amazingly in and about Har
risburg and are exceedingly sturdy
and hard on soil. Just to show how
they can be carried it may be cald
there are seven different varieties of
pestiferous weeds in the federal
building lawn.
* • •
The register of visitors to the
State Capitol is always very inter
esting to the Harrisburg man who
likes to go and see what is in tho
State House, but only about one-half
of the people who enter the building
on sightseeing bent take the trouble
to put down their names. In tho
last week there have been people
from over a dozen stiftes and from
Cuba and Mexico at the Capitol.
It is nothing unusual for Chinese and
Japanese nml even Hindus to register
on Capitol Hill and before the war
Europe was represented several
times a week.
• • •
"Putting up" eggs seems to have
become a popular pastime in Har
risburg homes and is to a certain
extent taking the place of the pre
serving of blackberries, raspberries
and ether small fruits which aro
short in supply this year because
there ait so few hands to gather
them. Eggs have been developing
some startling midsummer prices
and tho preserving of them for win
ter use in that chemical known as
"liquid glass' is now a household ac
tivity in Reglna street, as we'l as
Front.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
• —N. H. Grubbs, the county farm
agent of Allegheny, secured 143
sheep for one of the Pittsburgh golf
clubs which will have its links kept
short by sheep aiid at the same time
help along the food supply.
—John Glass, treasurer of North
umberland county, was a visitor here
yesterday on an automobile trip.
.—R. J. Alderdice, superintendent
of the Pittsburgh police, has under
taken a crusade to round up the
sla'ckcrs In that city.
—Seward E. Button, state chief*
of mines, has been given leave from
his duties as Luzerne draft board
member, while he is working to
speed up production.
—The Rev. Edward C. Ifilnkel,
West Chester minister, -will become
a chaplain in the army.
—Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the
University of Pennsylvania, received
a letter from the commandant at
Plattsburg complimenting him ftpon
the spirit of the university boys in
camp.
|' DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg loses industries
because of the lark of homes for
workmen?
IITBTORIC HARRISBURG
The first businessmen's organisa
tion was formed here about 100
years ago to urge on the improve
lament of the Susquehanna.