6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR TOR THB HOMB Ftuniid ilji Published •venlnVs except Sunday by THE TILBGRAPH PRINTING CO, Th(nfk Building, Federal !|un SB. J. ST ACKPOLE, Prt/i & Bdtior+n-CkUf F. R. OTBTER. Busintss Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managint Rdifr. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of *ll news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper Mid also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. $ Newspaper Pub- lishers' Assocla- Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ tUTTn By carriers, ten cenU a > week; by mall, $6.00 a year In advance. ■ ■ Monday, July 20, 1018. A healthy body is good, bu.t a toul in right health, —it it the thing be yond all others to be prayed for; the blessedest thing that earth receives of heaven. — Carlyt.e. "OH, GO TO H—, MOTHER!" THIS was the parting shot of a drunken young soldier as he left his home station In the northern part of Pennsylvania for camp. But the young soldier was not talking. It was booze. The story comes from Clarion In this State, where several hundred citizens, including some drafted men who were leaving for camp, entered the bar-room and office of the larg est hotel in the town and demolished the fixtures, glassware and mirrors as an expression of their indignation over the refusal of the proprietor to close his groggery during the depart ure of the young soldiers for the war. This booze dispenser, who had previously refused to close his place when other young men left for the front and who had taken In nearly SI,OOO on that day, barely escaped a coat of tar and feathers and a ride out of town on a rail by concealment! in the house of a relative. It was on the first occasion three weeks ago that the drunken boy came from this bar-room and when admonished by his mother beoause of his condition slapped her on the face and said: "Oh, go to H , mother!" It was too much for Clar ion to stand. What an awful memory for a mother and what a still more awful memory for a son going to war. And all because a greedy hotel proprietor, without patriotism or consideration for the community whlclT he is al leged to serve, refused to close his bar while the soldiers were leaving and their friends were wishing them God-speed. Is it any wonder the sentiment for the absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic is rising higher and still higher? * Under Government direction it re quired almost five years to remodel the Federal building in this city, a Job that should have been done In six months, and yet our public utilities are rapidly being turned over to the same control. ENTERING FIFTH YEAR TO-DAY we enter upon the fifth year of the great war. Yes terday four years ago Austria declared war on Serbia and precipi tated the conflict which we know Germany had plotted for many years. Had we known then what we do now we would have been in the conflict >s soon as England and al most as early as France. But It Is with only the last year of the war and that ahead in which we are for the moment Interested. As we cast our eyes back over the twelve months Just closed we see the Russian collapse, the Italian defeat last autumn, the stupendous drives of the Germans against the Allied armies; and the wonderful defensive operations that have again and again checked the enemy when suc cess for him seemed near at hand. But, as Secretary Baker said last week, transcending the significance cf any event in ye actual theaters of the war, America's full participa tion in the conflict. Involving the transportation overseas of more than a million men to engage in it, must remain for all time the great, out standing feature of the fourth year of the jtruggle. It is upon America that the en tente is relying for the men and re sources to turn the tide. The Secretary of War points out In a review of the situation that a year ago the number of American troops going to Europe had not be gun to assume large proportions. A few regulars and some National Guardsmen had been sent to France, but most of the military training camps were still being built and the men selected as the first contingent to be culled to the colors were still Ir. citizen!' clothes. Until August I, 1917, the total number of American ■cldlers taken overseas was 26,967. Soon after that date ths movement r MONDAY EVENING, 1 of troops w&a accelerated. Thou- ] sands were dispatched across the Atlantic during the winter months, but it was not until the great Ger man offensive was started late In March of 1918 that the movement began to assume really noteworthy proportions. The figures for the months from August 1, 1917, to July 1. 1918, follow: August, 18,323; September, 32,523; October, 38,259; November, 23,01<; December. 48,840; January. 46,776; February, 48,027; March, 83,811; April, 117,212; May, 244,346; June, 276,382. On July 1, 1918, there were 14,644 American marines in France, bring ing the total number of American troops in that country and Italy up to 1,019,115. And by the end of the present month there will be an army of more than a million and & quar ter. And now we know that the Ger mans cannot meet us man to man. We know that our manpower is in creasing steadily while theirs Is al ready past the peak. We know that we have but to preserve and sacri fice to win all our objectives. What are these objectives? President Wil son has outlined them. Briefly, they follow: Final settlement must be based on essential justice. Peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about like' chattels. Every territorial settlement must be for the benefit and In the Interest of the populations concerned. 'All well-defined national aspira tions shall be met with the utmost satisfaction consistent with the fu-1 ture peace. And how long must we fight to ob tain them? Unt4l Germany Is beaten and helpless. That this is in the minds of those who are conducting the war as well as In the minds of the American people Is shown by the recent utter ances of Secretary Daniels on the subject, who has said; The war will go on until the conditions outlined by President Wilson are assured. Germany can have peace any day it com plies with the President's state ment. Many of Its people would compel acceptance by their rul ers if they were articulate. The kaiser started the war for conquest without consulting the people of Germany. The American people wish peace, but no peace that does not In sure permanent freedom from future war menace and does not guarantee the right of small na tions to order their own form of government. How long will the war last? Until Germany accepts the terms proposed by the President or the Allied troops march In triumph through Berlin. We are headed In precisely the same direction upon this anniversary of the beginning of the war as we were a year ago—but we are much farther along. The New York Herald has named the Crown Prince Mlstah Rat Face, but the Herald should remember that there are some self-respecttng rats In the United States whose feelings should not be hurt. WHY FORD RUNS HERBERT KAUFFMAN, in one of his syndicated editorials, uses up a half column of neatly turned sentences and revamped epi grams in pointing out the virtues and failings of Henry Ford as senatorial material—leaving the balance so heavily on the credit side that the reader is supposedr upon perusing the article, to throw his hat in the air and join the Ford campaign proces sion. But Mr. Kauffman omits the one reason—the vital reason—why Mr. Ford is a candidate. He neglects to mention that Mr. Ford is the hand picked choice of President Wilson because thereby the President be lieves he may change the political aspect of Michigan. He knows he could not elect a Democrat, so he is doing the next best thing—trying to elect a Wilson Republican, and Mr. Ford is the willing victim. "Poli tics" has not "adjourned" in Mich igan. The allied armies are going so fast that we can't keep up with the pro nunciation of the names of the towns they capture. HARRISBURG CUPS? LAST January when the snow lay two feet thick on Harrlsburg streets some thousands of farm ers came here from almost every section of Pennsylvania to attend a mid-winter exlbition of farm prod ucts and tractors. It may be mad dening or refreshing, according to the frame of mind of our citizens, to recall that weather, but this show held in the midst of one of the worst winters that has descended upon us in many years was such a tremen dous success that a general demand was made for it to become an annual affair. The show started in 1914 In a side room of one of the city's halls where some State associations of farmers, wool growers, poultry lovers and fruit raisers were having meetings and by judicious use of publicity It began to Expand. Last winter it was a real show and peo ple woke up to what Pennsylvania could display in mid-winter, what It had saved over from the fruitful summer and the bountiful autumn. It is going to be held again. The plan is to have this show in the week of January 20 when the various State agricultural, horticul tural and other bodies will be hold ing annual sessions In Harrlsburg and the Inauguration will take place. It will be a notable assemblage of the best of the fruits, grains, nuts, eggs and other things that go to make up our food supply and corn will be king for a day with boys and girls here from forty counties. The point Is that tht show la (co ins to be held again in Harrisburg. It is going to bring many peoptp to Harrisburg. In years gone by the prizes were ribbons and cups paid for by either State officials or raided by passing the hat among Interested men. There Is no reason why there should not be some Harrlsburg cups. There should be a Chamber of Com merce cup, a city cup, a Orange cup. cups from this or that organization, business' house or Individual, show ing that Harrlsburg has an interest 4n the show, which Is bound to grow in importance and be a feature, of mid-winter here. A little encourage ment thought out now and displayed in January may mean much when some other place comes along with an effort to grab the show when it Is worth while. Wonder how the Kaiser enjoyed the anniversary? Wheatless days having been aban doned, the restaurantkeepers will contribute an extra slice of bread to the Joy of living. IK By the Ex-Committeeman From all accounts Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Democratic candidate for Governor, does not Intend to merely rest upon the letter Issued on behalf of his ambitions to dominate the Democratic organization as well as run for Governor and will make a series of visits during August to counties where he believes that he can make tronble for the bosses of the machine. The Judge has been sit ting back awaiting action from the call to arms, which thus far has failed to elicit any response from the national committeeman from Pennsylvania or his partner In the machine, the national chairman. Democratic state headquarters has no word as yet about dates for com mittee meetings and is awaiting fur ther instructions about who is to be the acting chairman while State Chairman George R. McLean is at war. —Discussing the row In the Penn sylvania democracy, now so dis united and inharmonious, "The In sider" says in the Philadelphia Press: "In the Democratic ranks opposed to Judge Bonniwell there Is an apparent disposition to let the coming campaign go by default. Some of the important men will not be active In the state at all. Vance C. McCormick and A. Mitchell Pal mer, the titular leaders of the party, are engaged In very important war work in Washington—in fact, this state of affairs was largely respons ible for Judge Bonniwell's victory in 'the primaries. Only recently, as mentioned above, Joseph F. Guffey withdrew from the scene and State Chairman McLean went Into the Army. Other men of prominence in the party are about to enter various phases of war work. The result will be a free field for Judge Bonniwell to a great extent. If these adminis tration men had had their way, he never woud have been the candidate, but now that he is at the head of the ticket and they feel pretty sure he lias been defeated in an attempt they impute to him of getting con trol of the party machinery, they have little additional interest in (he situation, because they cannot sin cerely go out on the stump and ad vocate his election." —The Philadelphia Record has this from Norristown: "So confident are the Montgomery county support 's of Judge Bonniwell, candidate for Governor, of an independent party movement throughout the state looking to the selection of a Lieutenant Governor nominee in harmony with the judge's views on sumptuary legislation, that they have begun the preliminaries rela tive to the new entity here. The plan is to place in the field a ticket of which the Judge shall be the head and a well-known Democrat who en tertains the ideas of Jeffersonlan doctrine with regard to the Issues of liquor license and prohibition as his running mate." The Inquirer and other papers look for a concerted ef fort to drive J. Washington Logue off the ticket as second place can didate. —A Pottsville dispatch to the In quirer says: "Some Democrats nre deserting Bonniwell because of his independent course in the selection of a state chairman. The leaders of the county Democrats are made up of postmasters and revenue officers and other appointees of the federal administration, and they generally follow the dictation of the Palmer- Guffey wing of the party, who hold the reins of the state organization. Bonniwell's stand Is antagonizing the Democrats of this county in which that party is dominated by the regu lars, and they are - deserting him by the scores. Schuylkill will poll a record-breaking vote for Sproul." —To-day the racket over regis trars will start in Philadelphia and it seems that Penrose men are wait ing to see what action will be taken upon their recommendations for di visions registrars before they make another move for a report upon their claims by the city committee. The proposition to have the Repub lican state committee petitioned to intervene in the interest of the can didates on the Republican state ticket is still under consideration and may be acted upon before the end of this week. No date has been fixed for the meeting of the committees of the Republican state committee authorized at the recent meeting of the committee. —l,ee Ellmaker, a former legisla tive correspondent, connected with the Philadelphia Press,.and for the past two or three years Congressman Vare's secretary here and in Wash-] inpton. enlisted In the Navy as an apprentice reaman in the radio ser vice. Mr. Ellmaker was busy yes terday explaining how he did It and only satisfied his friends when he made it known that the surgeon gen eral had granted him a waiver on weight, which is above the figure set by regulations. —lllness of State Chairman Wil liam E. Crow has demonstrated how popular he is in the state. From every county there have been in quiries about him and general grati fication that he is on the way to re covery. —Senator William C. Sproul will return from Virginia this week. He has met Senator Penrose and a num ber of prominent Republicans at the resort the last few days. ' —The Smith administration seems to have put E. R. Gudehus into the place in the recreation department in Philadelphia in spite of protests. The storm is not over, however. Ships to Stagger Imagination Mr. Schwab Is back from the West. In a short time, says he, the ship tonnage output will reach 500,- 000 or 600,000 tons a month. When all the yards are going full speed they will turn out 10,000,000 tons a year. To resort for the to Amer ican slang—inelegant but exceeding ly expressive—that's th Philadelphia; Jnq.ulre*v ' HARRISBURG fiSB&X TELEGRAPH! WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND Copyright, 1918, by The .Tribune Association (New Yofk A'ribune) German Alarm at the New Zionism From the Literary Digest NO little excitement has been caused In Germany by the official announcement of the British government that it is their intention to erect in Palestine a "na tional home" for the Jews. As a re sult all sorts of new societies have sprung up in Germany whlqji pro fess a species of Zlonisrfl, but are In reality propagating camouflaged Pan-Germanism. One of these so cieties, the Pro-Paiestina, recently formed in Berlin and composed mainly of Christians, is designed "to encourage the Jewish colonization of Palestine." It Is blessed by Georg Gothein, a member of the Reichstag, who was much perturbed at the pic ture of the "future independent Jew ish national state of Palestine," which he declares the English have set before the world in their own Interests and not that of the Jews. He roundly states that It Is to the interests of the Jews, "as also of the Germans, that England's plan should fall." Continuing his discus sion in the Berliner Tageblatt, he tempts Turkey on the one hand by the lucrative possibilities of a rich Jewish colony, and on the other promises the Jews "cultural Inde pendence," whatever that may mean. At any rate, here Is what he says: "The English attempt to win the sympathies of the Jews in all lands must be foilpd by the Germans. This will require an understanding with the Turkish authorities, who In the past have been thoroughly agreeable to German requests. colo nies and brains are necessary to In crease the exports and improve Tur key's unfavorable trade and financial balance. All of them can be fur nished by the Jews, and there ought to b*s every readiness to encourage JeWsh settlements and to see in Pal estine a national and culturally in dependent Jewish community. No doubt the work of colonization will take time and toll, hut while Pales tine Is there for those whose re ligious zeal draws them toward It, the great mass of the will, as before, remain In the lands where their cradle has stood. Therefore our aim must be to make the Jews real citizens of the state with equal rights and socially not Inferior to people of other origin." Another of the new societies re cently founded in Germany is the Central Organization of German Citizens of the Jewish Persuasion, or, as It Is colloquially known, the V. J. O, D., whose alms are "the se- TO THE DEAD KNIGHT Sleep well, dead lad. Knight of the Azure Blue! Sleep well, thy stately sleep amid the bloom! Love holds thee dear; Faith halls thee leal and true; Proud Honor weaves rich chap lets for thy tomb. Dead In the splendor of thy golden youth, Dead in tfie promise of thy dawn ing day. Yet ne'er to die, immortalized in Truth, A living star in Freedom's sky alway! Deathless to ride, in never-ending flight. Through vaulted domes of span less spaces far. Close to the founts of quenchless, radiant light, ■Where, glory-crowned, God's fade less heroes are. They hold thee not—these hills where thou wast born. Nor yet these hearts that love tfcee, warm and .dear: Now art thou ray of that eternal morn That breaks in ceaseless splendor, W on year. —"Wilyam P. F. Ferguson. curing the rights of the Jews in Eu rope and the East." It has been de nounced by the Zionist organization in Austria. Switzerland and Holland, who declare that it is a "German in strument to offset the favorable ef fect upon the Jewry of the world of the declaration in favor of Palestine on the part of Great Britain, France and Italy." In support of their con tention they adduce as proof a re cent article in the Jewish review. Nord und Sud, from the pen of its president. Dr. E. Fuchs, who wrote: "England not care anything at all about the Jews, but is simply using them as a means to gain con trol of Palestine and to weaken Tur key. The question has arisen as to how to offset England's political stroke in such a way as not to In jure Turkey and also to withdraw from English Influence the Jews of neutral countries and the non-Zion ists of England. The Zionist papers of Germany have adopted a very straightforward and patriotic atti tude toward the English halt. They have accepted the friendshfp of that country, but have curtly reclared that as Jews they must remain neu tral, nd that the Turkish Jews must remain loyal Turkish citizens without participation in the struggle of the nations. - "We have been approached by a number of German national Jews who wish the Centralverein to issue a declaration against Zionism. This we have declined to do. We must oppose these extremists. Our gov ernment has been able to support the Zionists without weakening Turkey. It could not leave to England the prestige of a monopoly of Jewish friendship. Jewish colonization in Palestine can be made to strength en Turkey and create for her great economic power. It would not in jure Turkey at all if the Jewish col onists received cultural autonomy instead of political independence, thus giving the color of a Jewish state while at the same time remain-' ing loyal citizens of the Turkish Empire." While this program may satisfy the Jewish inhabitants of Germany, it does not appear to meet the ap proval of their coreligionists In Aus tria, for we find the Vienna Morgen Zeitung saying: "The program-of the Central Or. ganlzation can not arouse enthusi asm among the Jewish masses. Its demand of 'actual' equal rights may succeed on paper, but It will have no real value." Word From Captain Hall The first direct word from Captain James Norman Hall, author of "High Adventure" (Houghton Mifflin Com pany) who was shot down behind the German lines, after an air battlo with the German "flying circus," conies in a letter to his friend, Paul Rockwell, Paris correspondent of the CHicago Dally News. "You have doubtless heard that I am now a prisoner in Germany," Captain Hall writes. "During the combat I had the misfortune to break one of the wings of my aeroplane. Then a shell from a email quick-firing gun struck my motor and it was all up with me. My right ankle was bad ly broken in the landing, so that I am now in a hospital and likely to remain here for some time. The time passes very slowly and I have suffered a great deal with my ankle, but I am being kindly treated here and therefore have a great deal to be thankful for. *1 am not yet at a prison camp." Captain Hall's moth er, howevfer, haj? received word that her son Is a prisoner now at Camp Llmburg. . Injustice to God-Fearing Hun It wouldn't be a bit surprising should Berlin let out a wail that ceming right back with a copnter offenslve is not fighting according to [the rules.—From the Marion Btax. An Amazing War Interlude [Philadelphia North American] Every reader of historical anec dotes has smiled over the picture of George 111 sitting In a daze at his dinner, pathetically trying to con centrate his wavering wits upon the problem of discovering Jiow the apple got into the dumpling. Many fairly well-informed persons, how fiY er * * lave f ound a mystery much like this in recent news from Rus sia. They have become aware of a large Czecho-Slovak apple In the Siberian dumpling, but how It got there and what its presence por tends they could not clearly explain. Yet the uncertainty of the public mind on this vital matter seems less remarkable when it is recalled that the Government Itself only recently awoke to the facts. "Some offi cials," said a Washington dispatch of June 18, "have been laboring un der tire impression that these Czecho-Slovaks were people of those races resident in Russia. No sym pathy for the movement exists among those officials who believe that the Russian situation will ad just Itself. They hold that as a military factor the organization will have no effect." The facts are, of course, that the Czecho-Slovaks are not Russians by birtl) or residence, and that as "a military factor" they have accomplished something the American Government has held would be beyond the power of all the Allies combined. In a war engaging nearly thirty nations and transforming the life of the whole world, the story of these daring bands Is unexampled In ro mantic appeal and inspiration. Iso lated, unsupported and only half armed, they have established them selves across a continent While the statesmanship of great Powers has hesitated and evaded, t&ey have opened the way for the salvation of Russia and for preventing German domination of eastern Europe and Asia. Surely It would be one of finest ironies of history if the project of a Prussian world empire were to be shattered by these for mer victims of Teuton autocracy, and if helpless Russia should be "freed by Slav "little brothers" who once looked to her for liberation. [The North American then gives the story of the brave efforts of the Czechs and Slovaks, two branches of the same family, to get out ot Rus sia to the aid of the Allies. And on this dauntless force will concentrate the armies of freedom for the de liverance of Russia]. THE BAGMEN [From the Johnstown Tribune.] The Democratic National Commit tee is sending bagmen around the country gathering money from rich Democrats. The money is to be used In the .Congressional elections this fall. Why the necessity for money to preserve the Democracy? Why not permit the plain people to vote without undue Influence? The fanatical organs of the De mocracy are attempting to influence the elections by proclaiming that the test of patriotism is voting for Dem ocratic candidates. This un-Amer ican slogan Is dinned Into our ears by a local authority. Yet, that au thority was so negligent that it did not provide candidates to be voted for in the Democratic county pri mary. The bagmen of the Democratic Na tional Committee are after "rich" Democrats for money. Is It feared that a Republican Congress will show up the weak places? Is the case so desperate that it is deemed necessary to buy votes? Something akin to a panic affects the Demo cratic party leaders. What is there to hide?. Is it significant that the Job of raising money has been taken over by the Democratic National Commit tee, whose chairman is the ruling power in the War Trade Board? In other times the Democratic Congres sional Committee raised the money. Does It make a better impression upon "rich" Democrats to have the bagmen represent Chairman McCor mlck, rather than Chairman Ferris? * SP ~' !fULY 29, 19181. • NO 18th CENTURY PEACE! [Kansas City Star] Four years of war and the Ger man government, does not yet know why the.world Is In arms against It! Witness the old Eighteenth Century peace formula It Is proposing and which It appears to think ought to end the war In a way comfortable, satisfactory and pleasant to every body. Picture It as the German leaders complacently sketch It In their latest peace outline, made to King Alfonso. German autocracy, Its red sword still unsheathed, negotiating at a council table. Belgium, Northern Franco, Serbia and the Baltic provinces are pawns In its hands to be traded In or held back as advantage dictates. The slave merchant Is crying his wares. What is he offered for Bel glum? What for the Iron mines of France? For himself, he admits he needs some coaling stations, for he expects to have a big navy and mer chant marine after the war. And, of course, he wants his African colo nies back. Surely nothing is simpller to arrange, as he sees It. He shoves in one of his pawns and takes out a naval base In the Pacific. Tie shoves in another against the dis mantling of Gibraltar. He sets aside a nicely calculated portion of his loot and suggests that the handing over of the Sues Canal would be about the proper offset to that. This Is the German's Idea of war and this his notion of peace; to grab all he can get before the police ar rive and then open a negotiation for the return of a minimum of the loot in exchange for a guaranty of his possession of the remainder. That is the basis he seriously pro poses for a negotiation to end the war. That is as near as he has come to an understanding of what the democratic allies are fighting for. He thinks this war is Just another of the sort of which his own history is full, a war for territory, idemnlty, trade concessions, dynastic advantage and that It can be ended when the diplomats are ready for the swap ping stage by anothet Congress of Vienna. He thinks democracy cares as little for Its dead as he cares for his, and will sit down with him on the field of their sacrifice and trans mute their blood Into the base cur rency of diplomacy—"rectification of frontiers," "status quo," "sphere of influence," "freedom of the seas," "place in the sun." These are his counter coins minted on the fields of slaughter to which he has led his people, and with them he expects to dicker and traffic with America, of which he knows so little that lie Imagines her coming to a peace con ference jingling the same kind of coin. This swollen trafficker In blood has his lesson yet to learn. America Is fighting for other things and will not stop until they are won. And one principle to be established on these fields of sacrifice and suffering is that this devoted blood shall pay no fee to wlr's base broker. There will be no market day for Germany's "honest tradesmen" who come ex pecting to match hecatombs with us and strike a balance In a gamblers' agreement to knock off play for the present and cash in their chips. OUR ITALIAN ALLIANCE One of the best pieces of ne\?s of the week Is that of the arrival of American troops in Italy, to serve by the side of the Italian troops un der the triumphant command of General Diaz. We have hitherto urged that this should be done and have pointed out the chief reasons for its desirability. if not its neces sity. It is thus that pur alliance with Italy is perfected In form and is made effective in spirit and in fact. For this there is the strongest his torical and sentimental as well as practical warrant. A peculiar inter est in Italy has long been cherished in America. It may have been be cause of the personality of Garibaldi, it may have been because of the un rivaled and lrresisttble charm of Italy, it may have been because of our simple love of freedom' and therefore our hatred of such tyranny as was imposed upon that "geo graphical expression"; whatever the reason, the fact is that the first reat war for the liberation and unity of Italy, fifty-nine years ago. was re garded with perhaps greater sym pathy in this country than any other foreign struggle of the kind. No where in the world was the expul sion of the Austrian Bourbons from Italy hailed with greater satisfac tion than In America.—North Amer ican Review's War Weekly. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I HOW'S THIS. P o 1 111 c 1 a ns yawp a good deal Bsi about t * ie voic ®°' / ffi T\ Yet do all the talking them- FOR DKER. The problems 1" dfip v which beset our ways fS ffi* Through bar dshlps ■ffljfSSL 7 must bo got A man Is lucky nowadays * ? Who Isn't be lng shot at. v\_ f EXACTLY. Did his rich uncle remember him in his will? I see! Another case of a rich man with a poor memory. When de man what owns Ppßlgißl | In his bed am jjj|j|j |j p* • An' de watch- Wid de lady o'er de way. J\ OTfv • | TOO MUCH. (f&L 'i Poor Algy has jLA-jr I, broken down and <0 Bent t( > //jkp, /■ a rest cure. jWMj What was the Over exertion. 7/~ wv. fl* Hls vaiet ,e ' l u anc * * or nenr, j * X\ lj| week he had to own na,,k * Ebpnfttg Qltjal The Susquehanna river fairly bob bed with the heads of bathers and was crisscrossed by boats and canoes for the five-mile water front of Har- ; | risburg on Saturday. This may not f mean very much to the average man and woman who llveß here, but to those who had vision enough to see that the wide'branching river, as the Indians used to call it, was the real recreation place for Harrlsbvrg It will bring a sense of satisfaction and possibly a feeling that there Is still much to do before the people of Pennsylvania's capital get the full value of what nature has given and which causes visitors from less-fa vored communities to go Into ecsta cies. It is not a dozen and a half of years since the movement began to let this city enjoy what had boen bestowed upon It and because the sewage which lined the shores did not kill off the lads who paddled in It and learned to swim in it thirty, forty, fift£ years ago, there were i some who did not approve the plans to Improve the water front. There' were all sorts of fears manifested from Ice floods to immorality and 1 the disturbance of the restful quiet j of a contented burg's riverside seemed to be of more Importance' than the healthful enjoyment of citi zens unborn. Some of the reason ing was about as clever as that of a man who in opposing the bond issue for the filter plant told John A. Af fleck that the raw water had never hurt him. There w6re people who insisted to newspapermen that the river would never be anything more than a sewer and a coal mine and that the park department would need a police force the size of a. regular army regiment to maintain the properties If the Front | was thrown open to general bathing. And yet on Saturday there were men , and wom%n, boys and girls, whol i families out in bathing suits: girls in bathing suits paddling about the I islands in canoes; boys In bathing i suits having diving contests near the bridge piers; children In bathing suits being given lessons In swim ming by their elders In bathing suits | right at the bottom of the "steps" • and lots of people having a good time and blessing those who over came prejudice with every plunge of their arms and kick of their heels as they swam. ' • • • Apropos of the pleasure that hun dreds of people get from the Sus quehanna river here every day be cause It is municipally controlled it may be Interesting to note that a writer in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin laments the fact that fifteen or twenty years ago the mayor of that city vetoed the bill for the park way. Then, he writes, the project would have fcost *3,000,000 and now the city has spent 112,000.000 and is not done yet. The Philadelphia parkway Is a wonderful project and millions are being set aside to carve It through bricks and mortar In reg ular Baron Haussman style. Several years after the Civil War several citizens of Harrisburg took up the subject of Hardscrabble and one of them told the writer that it could have been made city property for 139,000. • • • Just what the condemnation of the parcels of River Front property along Front street from Herr to Calder street will eventually cost the city in this latter generation can not be set down accurately, but it need not be doubted that the multiplier of $39,000 will have to be of gener ous size. As far back as the days of the old Duck tavern, a more or less famous rendezvous for men in rafting days which stood about where Hardscrabble begins. It was realized that "some day" the River Front would be municipally owned, only when they figured out that it would be wharves. Now the general feeling among the people is that they want It made into park and bathths place right soon. • • • Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, will start out In a few weeks on his an nual tour of about 600 miles of state game preserves, which have been in creased by four and three auxiliaries since he made his last round. This visit is enough to tire out men con siderably younger, but the veteran game official makes the greater part, of it in automobiles and while within the many square miles enclosed by preserve wire he tramps it off tracks and right through the forest. A year ao Dr. Kalbfus was accompanied on a visit to tracts of state forestry reserve proposed for game preserves by Dr. Charles B. Penrose, president of the State Game Commission, who has been much Interested In the ex tension. of the work of the state in this direction. Dr. Kalbfus will spend two or three weeks on the trail and will visit the new state re serves or game sanctuaries, th® Ly kens valley, in Union, Carbon and Huntingdon counties and the first of the auxiliary reserves which are being surrounded with notices and wire in Bucks, Clarion and Luzerne counties. There are a number of tracts being offered In the western section of the state for auxiliary re serves, some of them of large size and if they are suitable they will be added to the list and state aid given to propagation plans. • • • Major W. G. Murdock, chief draft officer, celebrated his birthday on Saturday by working fourteen hours. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [ —David J. Lewis, the head of the telegraphic lines, often spends sum mer vacations In southern Pennsyl vania. —General C. Bow Dougherty, for mer head of the National Guard, has been making a tour of the anthracite regions to speed up production. —Dr. W. H. Knapp, head of the housing department of the Chester Shipbuilding Company, is said to . have been In half the dwellings In that city In the course of his Investi gations. —Chaplain C. H. Dickens, of the League Island Navy Yard, Is making a series of open-air addresses In Philadelphia. 1 • DO YOU KNOW —That from the time that John Harris first saw the Susque hanna about 1717 he never dropped the idea that it was tho greatest natural transportation center In many miles because of the valleys opening here? And he was right about It. HISTORIC HARRISBC?9G Horses and cattle were raised in this section and assembled here in three wars for support of American armies.
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