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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.