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TTESDAY, JTLY SO, 1918
Hare more than thou shovest,
Speak less than thou knoxcest,
Lend less Man thou oicest.
—SHAKESrEAKE.
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THE PARTY CONVENTION |
ELSEWHERE on this page Is re
printed from the esteemed In
quirer of Philadelphia some
thoughtful comment upon the recent
convention of Republicans in New i
Tork. Since the r.ew-fangled ballot
reform schemes have been put into
operation in this State the old-time
convention has ceased to exist.
No one who knows anything about
party enthusiasm will contend thai
the present si-stern is an improve
ment upon the old convention ar
rangement. Party committees meet,
of cours®, but these do not arouse
the widespread Interest of the con
vention of other days.
If we car.'t havea real nominating
convention, let us at least have an
assemblage eveVy year which will
give expression to the party senti
ment in the State.
How about the suggestion as to
military training in our schools! Who
will lead in this movement? How
about the directors themselves?
HOW ABOUT OL'R TREES?
HARRISBL'RG has become about
hopeless regarding the very
much needed and frequently
promised Shade Tree Commission
Meanwhile the trees are dying and
the city promises in the not distant
future to be as shadeless as the Sa
hara Desert.
Other places are showing more
sanity in this important matter and
tree planting is receiving the same
attention as other important muni
cipal functions. Dispatches state that
the Chamber of Commerce of Mor
risville. a New Jersey town, is pre
paring a tree-planting program in
honor of every man from that place
in the war service. Each tree planted
is to bear the nameplate of a soldier,
with his military unit and date of
enlistment A patriotic rally will be
a feature of the event.
On several occasions the Tele-!
graph has suggested some such pro
gram for Harrisburg, but it has not
yet received official approval. If the
civic or municipal bodies are not
sufficiently interested perhaps the
people themselves may care enough
for the trees to honor the hundreds
of young men who have left Harris
burg to serve their country.
Of course. Harrisburg must have
bathing facilities. When the Susque
hanna basin shall have received the
attention it deserves the thousands of
men. women and children here who
are entitled to fair consideration will
have bathing beaches and bathhouses
under municipal supervlsorship. This
should be an issue of the next munici
pal election.
COL. HARVEY'S VIEWS
COLONEL GEORGE HARVE7
continues to ring the changes
on the President's suggestion
that "politics has adjourned." In the <
current number of the North Amer
ican Review he presents In full the
correspondence with Vance C. Mc-
Cormlck, chairman of the Demo-'
cratic National Committee, and Will
H. Hays, chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, responsive
to his suggestion that there should
be no campaigns in certain Repub
lican or certain Democratic Congres
, signal districts this year. He figures
that the elimination of such sure
districts would cut down the cam
paigns for Congress more than fifty
per cent- In short, that the number
of Congressional elections would be
reduced from 435 to less than
and probably by supplementary mu
tual agreement, to not more than
seventy-five.
Colonel Harvey Ls quite pleased
with the prompt and satisfactory re
ply of Mr. Hays to his proposal, the
Republican chairman Intimating
that a conference of the two flarty
heads "might make more surely ef
fective our determination to whack
any disloyal head that may show
i - up." But be Is not happy over the
I apparent sidestepping of Chairman
TUESDAY EVENING,
McCormick, who promised In his
letter ol May 17th that the augges
tion would have his "most careful
consideration."
"There the matter stands." Bays
Colonel Harvey. "The prompt re
sponse of Mr. Hays Is undeniably
frank, unequivocal and, to our mind,
worthy of the highest commenda
tion." The Colonel thinks, however,
that, after five weeks of dallying
with the suggestion "to which he
[McCormick] had already given
careful consideration" he is -,var-|
ranted in making a direct appeal to
the leader of the Democratic party |
—the only man who can meet the
country's demand and resolve Into
accomplishment his own duties that
politics shall be, as it ought to be,
adjourned.
Manifestly, Colonel Harvey Is de
termined to smoke out the insin
cerity and hypocrisy which seem to
environ those Democratic bosses
who favor nonpartisanship and "pol
itics adjourned" when It is to their
interest to do so, and play politics
to the limit when it suits their pur
pcvses.
In his "War Weekly." the Colonel
quoting from the New York Times,
asks. ""What is the use of wasting
time, money and energy on a minor
ity candidate in districts now
clearly Republican or Democratic
and represented by men of undoubt
ed patriotism?" To which Colonel
Harvey rejoins:
"There is no use, of course; there
never was; but it has taken the
Times a long timo to find it out —
about as long, in fact, as it took Mr.
McCormick to consider the advisa-|
bility of considering what he had al
ready considered."
"Russia will come back," says a
Petrograd dispatch, and our advice is
that if she wants to get there In time
she better start soon, for she has
gone a long way in the wrong direc
tion.
BOARDS OF INSTRi'CTION
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL
CROWPER is backing a move
ment for the appointment of
boards of instruction throughout the
United States in a plan to instruct
drafted registrants before they go to
camp. It is hoped through this ar
rangement to save months of train
ing through a home knowledge of
discipline and war aims. Already the
Harrisburg Reserves have offered
their services in the training and
drilling of men who are registered
and likely to be called at any time. l
These boards of instruction, which
are organized with the thought of
making better soldiers and citizens,
will be designated through the local
draft organizations and a conference
will be held here this week to fur
ther the work in Pennsylvania.
General Crowder says "the plan in
cludes all such measures as are best
calculated to prepare the selectives
to go to camp willing, loyal. Intelli
gent, clean and sober, and thus bet
ter to fit them for rapid progress in
their military education after joining
the army." ....
Of course, the board of instruction
will be under the authority of the
'.ocal draft board and will consist of
an appropriate number of citizens of
high character and ability, enjoying
the confidence of the community.
Subject to the ultimate authority of
the local board, says General Crow
der, each board of instruction will
perform its work by individual in
terview and group meetings with the
selective, by giving advice and in
struction on all subjects that ars
necessary or useful to future soldiers
and 'by arranging for preparatory
military drill and instruction where
feasible.
Local boards are authorized alid
directed to furnish to tlj.e boards of
instruction access to the records for
the purpose of compiling lists of
names and addresses and to send out,
in the name of the local boards, any
notices of meetings or interviews as
desired and requested by the boards
of instruction.
Few of the selectives have had
military training before reaching
camp and it is believed through
these boards of instruction much em
barrassment will be saved the men
themselves and great good shall be
accomplished in advancing their fit
ness for service.
It is not generally known that in
the mobilization of the great citizen
army defects have frequently been
largely mental and it has been found
that the proposed boards of instruc
tion are useful in overcoming the un
fortunate mental attitude that upsets
the new soldier. Personal instruction
will have much to do with the re
moving of Imaginary troubles and
placing the registrant in a better at
titude of mind. Men who leave home
mentally and morally fit are in bet
ter shape to become good soldiers
when they arrive in camp.
They are going to cut sugar con
sumption again, in which case the
restaurantkeepers may have to pro
vide microscopes with each little en
velope.
JUP. ON THE JOB
JUPITER PLUVIUS is taking a
hand in the fighting along the
Marne river. The Germans
have been forced to abandon many
of their guns in the mud and the
Americans close upon their heels are
using these pieces in accelerating
the retirement of the enemy.
A significant feature of the fight
ing of the last two weeks is the
growing confidence of the French
and the Allied forces. Prestige of
the German strategists has been bad
ly upset and the French military
leaders now believe that the Ger
man soldiers also are realizing the
failure of the German high com
mand. Deprived of overwhelming
brute force, the Prussian highway
men are no match for the Allies on
any front
If the Frenchmen, who comprise
seventy per cent, of the forces which
have been keeping the Germans on
the jump In the present drive, are
"bled white," as Prussian advices
have frequently declared, then we
must believe that the whiter they
are bled the harder they flght.
The farmer isn't Interested in
clouds with silver lining*—what he
is looking for in clouds is rain.
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""Po&tZc* Ik
By the Ex-Commttteteman |
Present Indications are that Major
George R. McLean, the Demacratlc
state chairman, will remain at the
holm of the Democratic State com
mittee in Pennsylvania and handle
what needs to be done from Wash
ington where he is stationed In the
judge advocate general's office. The
details of the campaign will b* left
to Warren YanPyke, secretary of the
state committee, who has managed
the headquarters for the last five
years. This plan will not be changed
unless there is a rumpus raised in
the state.
It is authoritatively stated that
Joseph J. Guffey. of Pittsburgh, who
was mentioned as a possible acting
state chairman again, would not con
sider the matter at this time.
State headquarters people are with
out any information as to when the
state candidates will meet or the plat
form committee will get down to
business.
—State department officials to-day
declared that they were awaiting
word from Scranton as to the out
come of the contest over the Republi
can senatorial nomination. There is
nothing official here since word of
the contest was received, but as soon
as word is received a formal certifica
tion will be made to the Lackawanna
county commissioners.
—After considerable Jockeying to
control the appointment of a succes
sor to Harry J. Stone, as chief clerk
to the City Commissioners, at a sal
ary of $2,500 a year. Mayor Smith
has finally obtained the position for
a resident of his ward. The new ap
pointee is Windom D. Bryant, a per
sonal friend and an accountant.
Commissioners Holmes and Kuemel
were disposed to appoint an out-and
out Vare man. but the Mayor insisted
that since Stone, whom Holmes flred.
was a resident of the Twenty-eighth
ward, that the place belongs to him.
—There may be a battle looming
up in the Berks county Republican
ranks for the organization meeting
of the county committee to be held
in Reading on the first Saturday in
September. Rumors of opposition
to Thomas C. Seidel"? candidacy for
county chairman come from the vi
cinity of Hamburg, where it is said
Harry P. Shomo will be backed by
former Judge W. K. Stevens and the
Penrose organization. Should this
program go through there are inti
mations that Mr. Shomo's son, Wil
liam A. Shomo, a Reading lawyer,
would be a candidate for the place
as compensatioa referee, held by Mr.
Seidel. who is a Brumbaugh ap
pointee.
—The road of County Fuel Ad
ministrator in Chester has proved so
full of quicksands and morasses that
the original appointee. Democratic
County Chairman Bayard Kane,
gave it up alter spending heavily of
his own niads. He Is succeeded by
Plummer E. Jeffries, a West Chester
man long identified with the inde
pendent friction of the Republican
party. There was a tremendous
beating of bushes and trumpet calls
for a Democrat to come forth to the
sacrifice, but after one glance at the
empty par.trjvthe faithful, to a man.
kiaked off his shoes and fled speedily
t the tall timbers.
—City Manager Hinkle is organiz
ing a junior police force for Altoona
and has named as their chief Lieu
tenant Colonel Walter B. Allen, of
the home defense police. The junior
police are to be under the auspices
of the public welfare board. Ac
cording to the plans, it is intended
to have four junior officers in each
ward. Their duties will be to pre
serve order on the playgrounds, and
act in a general police capacity, re
porting violations of ordinances, but
they will not make arrests. The pri
mary object of the organization is to
supply the boys with a form of In
struction and recreation, develop a
teeling of civic responsibility and
help to lay a foundation for future
good citizenship.
_ —Officials connected with the
United States district attorney's of
fice in Philadelphia declare that men
accused of irregularities in the ad
ministration of the draft will be in
dicted before the Federal grand lury
no matter who their friends may be.
There will be some additional de
velopments it is predicted.
—Wilkes-Barre's chief of police,
who Is the central figure in the
Chamber of Commerce graft charges,
has made a statement in which he
declares that the detectives vno
worked on the case are smeared
with gra/t% themselves. The situa
tion is rapidly becoming one where
charges and counter charges are nu
merous.
—Caunty commissioners from all
over the vate will gather at Pitts-'
burgh next week for a general dis
cussion of county government and!
proposed laws. It is said that thei
Attorney General's Department will'
have a representative at the meet-1
ings and that the State Board of|
Public Charities and Auditor Gen-j
eral will also have men there. The
legal department is said to be plan
ning to offer assistance in the draft
ing of bills to be presented at the
next legislative session.
—Considerable comment has been
caused in political circles by a let
ter in the Philadelphia Public Led
ge! signed by Jcfcn McE. Bowman,
calling upon legislative candidates to
agree to submit the -legislative
amendment to the voters of the state
before passing upon it. There are
signs that this plan will be much
heard of later on. The Bonniwell
people are said to intend to make
their fight right on the amendment
and precious little else.
German Idea of a Joke
[Kansas City Times]
Here is the way the official Ger
man report softens to the folks back
home the news of the German re
treat from the south bank of the
Marne:
"On the southern bank of the
Marne after four hours of artillery
preparation and under cover of a
heavy fire and with numerous tanks
the enemy made combined attacks
against positions which had been
evacuated 'by us during the previous
night which attacks uselessly beat
against empty positions."
"We fooled 'em," says the high
command. "Great joke on the Allies.
They attacked positions from which
we had retreated."
Thus Is the German to be per
suaded to overlook the defeat while
bursting, out laughing over the joke
said to have been played on the
victor*.
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A Pennsylvania Convention
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Last week the Democrats of New
York held a state convention at Sara
toga. The week before the Repub
licans gathered. There were several
hundred delegates in each body.
Now these conventions are power
less to nominate tickets. They may
suggest and indorse candidates, but
there are primaries in New York as
there are in Pennsylvania, and candi
dates are actually nominated at these
primaries.
Of what use, then, these conven
tions? Of great use. They assemble
the party thought of the state. They
discuss events and men and they is
sue a declaration of principles, which
declaration virtually becomes the
parly platform. Thus the Republi
can convention placed the winning
of the war above all else and sound
ed a patriotic and never-surrender
note that rings throughout the na
tion.
We have nothing like this in Penn
sylvania. Sometime ago the Penn
sylvania State Committee met in
Philadelphia and sought to arouse
enthusiasm. But such a meeting was
only a makeshift for a dignified as
sembly representing the people. It
had its value, of course, but this
value was exceedingly limited.
There are many things about our
election laws that . ned changing.
One is the abolition, as at present
practiced, of "assisting" a voter at
the polls. This is a source of de
liberate crime. Another is a simpli
fication of the system of marking
the ballot so that if a cross is raide
against a party title the ballot will
not be thrown out if the voter makes
a cross against the name of a candi
date in another column. The inten
tion of the citisen to vote a 'straight'
ticket with the exception of the
cross made elsewhere is plain. In
New York and other states this inten
tion Is recognised by law. In Penn
sylvania the voter Is disqualified. It
is a deliberate scheme to swindle.
When these changes for the better
have been achieved in our election
laws, provision should be made for
the choice of delegates to a state
convention where party principles
may be declared —not to choose can
didates. but to represent party sen
timent in speeches and platform.
We have much to learn from New
York in these respects.
Col. Harvey's Observations
[From the War Weekly.]
"Ludendorff calls his own men
traitors." He ought to know.
Speaking-of passing the buck re
minds us that we have been reliably
informed tliat Mr. Baker has cabled
to General Pershing that General
Wood will be given no European,
cor.mand without his approval as
indicated by a request. If General :
Wood goes to Italy it will be be-i
case General Pershing suggested
him for the command.
Canada, we are told, has sent 400.-
000 men to the war and has 100,000
more In reserve. According to the
good old Rule of Three, then, to do
as well as Canada has done, the;
United States should send 5.700,000!
men to the war and have 1.400,000'
In reserve. Until we have done that'
we shall have no cause to complain J
of the burden of conscription. And'
let us remember that it is just as
much our war as it is Canada's.
The Telegraph Adventure
[New York Times.]
The railway experiment was much
less of a leap into unknown prob
lems than the wire adventure, and
was undertaken uncjer greater ne
cessity. Railway rates and finances
were as well understood as anything
can be after thirty years of regula
tion. The telephones and telegraphs
have not been equally regulated,
their finances have not been so con
trolled, and their efficiency rivaled
that of the railways, although the
railways were at the topnotch of
their public service. During the de
bate on the subject In the Senate it
was said that the officials advising
the President were "bursting with
ignorance." and names were men
tioned unkindly. But the wires have
been taken into the hands of the
government and the thing has passed
beyond debate.
World's Meanest Man
This Is a great big world and it
is hard to say who Is the meanest
man In It, but when we recall our
thrilling boyhood days we feel like
giving our vote to the Nodaway
county watermelon grower who has
bought a machine gun.—Kansas
City Times.
Woe Betide Public Men Who Trifle
[New York Times.]
GENERAL SMUTS, the Roer sol
dier and statesman, predicted
In London a day or two ago
that eventually the American Arm>
in Franco would be numerically
stronger than the combined armies
of France and the British Empire;
that is to say, the allies would have
more than 6.000,000 men. perhaps
7,000,000 men, in the field. Only
with such a host could we expect to
achieve a military victory over Ger
many alone. But when is America
to forge ahead of her allies in fight
ing man power? There will be no
prospect of it until the draft ages
are extended, and that is a matter
that Congress has put over. Con
gress is waiting upon the President
and Secretary Baker. A dispatch
from Washington yesterday said
that they had not yet agreed about
the draft age limits. There are signs
that when at last Congress takes up
this pressing question it will be de
bated interminably. "This war,"
Chairman Pou ot the Rules Com
mittee is quoted as saying, "should
be fought by men and not by boys.'
It is not fair to call upon young men
not of age to fight the battles of this
country, and T shall oppose any such
legislation." From what war ever
fought since the dawn of time were
'young men not of age" excluded?!
If the American people are in earn-]
est in the prosecution of the mo- 1
mentous conflict thev have entered.]
they will put the extinguisher upon!
politicians whose objections, if sus-1
tained. would he a "gottsend" to the
Germans. In the ranks of every!
combatant nation In Europe are'
younsr men, not of fighting age in!
Mr. Pou's opinion. If Great Britain
and France had refused to train and;
equip their youth for the front, Ger-1
many would long ago have been the!
10 VICTISf
I sing the hymn of the conquered,
who fell in the battle of life —
The hymn of the wounded, the beat
en. who died overwhelmed in
the strife;
Not the jubilant song of the victors,
for whom the resounding ac
claim
Of natioqs was lifted In chorus,
whose brows wore the chap
let of fame,
But the hymn of the low and the
humble, the weary, the
broken in heart.
Who strove and who failed, acting
bravely a silent and desper
ate part;
Whose youth bore no flower on Its
branches, whose hopes burned
in ashes away,
From whose hands slipped the prize
they had grasped at, who
stood at the dying of day
With the wreck of their life all
around them, bnpitled, un
heeded, alone,
With death swooping down o'er their
failure, and all but their faith
overthrown.
; While the voice of the world shouts
its chorus.—its paean for
those who have won;
. While the trumpet is sounding tri
umphant, and high to the
breeze and the sun
Glad banners are waving, hands
clapping, and hurrying feet
Thronging after the laurel-crowned
victors, I stand on the field
of defeat.
In the shadow, with those who are
fallen, and wounded, and dy
ing, and there
Chant a requiem low, place my hand
on their pain-knotted brows,
breathe a prayer.
Hold the hand that la helpless, and
whisper—"They only the vie-*
tory win,
"Who have fought the good fight
and have vanquished the de
mon that tempts us within;
"Who have held to their faith unse
duced by the prize that the
world holds on high;
"Who have dared for a high cause
to suffer, resist, flght—if need
be to die."
Speak, History! who are Life's vic
tors? Unroll thy long annals,
and say.
Are they those whom the world
called the victors—who won
the success - of a day?
The Martyrs or Nero? The Spartans,
who fell at Thermopylae's
tryst.
Or the Persians and Xerxes? His
judges or Socrates? Pilate or
Christ?
victor and dictated her own terms
of peace. America would have been
next in line for discipline and for
punishment in the form of indem
nity.
The war must be pushed with all
the high-power energy the American
people are capable of. Obstruction
by musing idealists, pacifists, nnd
German propagandists will not bel
tolerated. If an American Army of
5,000,000 men is needed, it must be
sent to France. Mr. Wilson has said
as much himself. Congress, by the
way, has given him a blank order
to fill in. Mr. Wilson, too. has said
something else very much to the
point. It was at the opening of the
Liberty Loan campaign in Baltimore I
on April 6. 1918, after one year of
war for America: .
"Germany has once more said
that force, and force alone, shall
decide whether justice and peace
shall reign in the affairs of men,
whether right as America con
ceives it or dominion as she con
ceives It shall determine the des
tinies of mankind. There is,
therefore, but one response pos
sible from us: Force. Force to
the utmost. Force without stint
or limit, the righteous and tri
umphant Force which shall make
Bight the law of the world, and
cast every selfish dominion down
in dust.
Thunders of applause greeted this
tremendous statement which will be
come historic. Mr. Wilson had read
the souls of his countrymen, and he
spoke their purpose. Class 1A is
exhausted. How can we send "Force
to the utmost. Force without stint
or limit," to France when it is most
wanted, unless the draft ages are
changed without delay? This is the
most urgent question before the
American people. Woe betide the
public men who trifle with it!
THE CURB MARKET
[From the Pennsylvania Farmer]
The curb market offers the most
direct route from the farms to the
consumers. It eliminates the mid
dlemen and dealers in the products
handled and should save money for
both producers and consumers. To
ibe successful it must yield advan
tages to both Interested classes. The
producer must receive more for
What he sells at the curb than he
can realize by sale of the same prod
ucts to the dealers. The consumer
must be able to buy at the curb at
a sufficient saving to pay for a long
er trip to market and for the trou
ble of carrying goods home. If
products at the curb are of a higher
quality than those offered by the
grocers, the buyers may be trusted
to appreciate that point and give
added preference to the curb mar
ket. But farmers cannot expect to
build 'business upon prices that of
fer no inducement to buyers to
come" to their wagons. On the oth
er hand, town and city consumers
cannot expect farijiers to bring their
produce to the curb and spend the
time of parceling it out in small
sales unless such marketing brings
them a commensurate Increase in
price over what the dealers are pay
ing.
Curb markets ara only a partial
solution of the bigger marketing
problem. They can bo served only
by those farmers living within haul
in* distance. But they benefit all
farmers when they help increase the
bulk or the produce bought and
consumed. The real market prob
lem is not to get higher prices for
a short period, tout to get the prod
ucts to the consumers in such u way
that more will be consumed and a
higher range of prices made pos
sible over the year. The article on
the first page of this issue tells how
curb markets help to this end. It
also discusses some of the funda
mental requirement In the develop
ment of curb markets. There is op
portunity to repeat the success of
the towns discussed in many more
of our eastern cities.
Two Fathers—a Contrast
[From the Los Angeles Times]
There is a very distinguished and
widely known father in Germany
who is not at all in doubt as to
whether his sons have been killed or
captured. Eh, Wllhelm!
Whatever else has been said of
him in the past or is to be of
bim in the future. Colonel Roose
velt is no piker as a patriot. The
Roosevelt boys could have easily
found something "soft" in the way
of Army headquarters Jobs either on
this side or in France. JEvery one
of them has gone in whera i*< inu.
ble is the thickest, ;
JULY 30, 1918.
Soldiers' Chances in War
[Spokane Spokesman-Review ]
Great as the danger and large as
the losses in the aggregate, the indi
vidual soldier has plently of chances
of coming out of the war unscathed,
or at least not badly injured.
Based on the mortality statistics
of the allied armies, a jrldier's
chances are as follows:
Twenty-nine chances of coming
home to one chance of being killed.
Forty-nine chances of recovering
from wounds to one cnance of dying
from them.
One chance In 500 of losing a
limb.
Will live five years longer because
of physical training, is freer from
disease in the Army than in civil
life, and has better medical care at
the front than at home.
In other wars from ten to fifteen
men died from disease to one from
bullets; in this war one man dies
from disease to every ten -from bul
lets.
For those of our fighting men who
do not escape scatheless the govern
ment under the soldier and sailor in
surance law gives protection to the
wounded and their dependents and
to the families and dependents of
those who make the supreme sacri
fice for their country.
Mrs. Willets Is Out Again
We are glad to learn that Mrs.
■Willets is able to be out again. It
is nearly two months since she
kicked at the cat and broke her
kneecap against the door. Society
has missed her very much. —Home-
town (Penn.) Banner.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
A NATURAL.
WWtil/rJY J MISTAKE.
jj Willie Wood
_ ~ a pecker: Someone
has been borln *
here before me!
PUZZr.fjf.
Mr. Owl (look
lng at golf ball): I /
My! what kind of \
■vu estc Is that} frfipPLy
kitchun
WJ ; CHATTER.
I Potat <> Mash-
VaHlfl'vVvf er: Why do you
'< object to Mr.
£^?S<r-/'( Tea Kettle?
11 „ Rolling Pita:
ln\ jHI He * s always
spouting hot air.
A SUBDUED CANINE.
"Does your dog ever growl?"
"No. He knows that my husband
has him hopelessly outclassed."
AH
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j -STAC\ ."IPO YOUR. I
THE ONLY SLOGAN.
Of all the slogans
E'er expressed
"For God and Country,."
Batting (Hljat
Wisdom of the men whoso influ
ence led to the erection of the Tech
nical High School building on an
elaborute fcalo Is being demonstrat
ed now that the last of the houses •
on the lower edge of Capitol Park
Extension have vanished from Wal
nut street and the full effect of the
front of the school can be gained
from across the area which is to bo
added to the commonwealth's for
mal garden. Viewed from tho Stnto
street bridge or from tho east end
of the State House, the elevation of
the building, as the architects call
its front, is very striking, and those
who have had It come upon their vi
sion when turning Into North street
from Cowden or Seventh or when
coming over the bridge have been
struck by its Imposing appearance.
It was some strugglo to get "Tech's"
builrUng constructed for that future,
but the expenditure is well repaid
and will bo realized more and more
as the Capitol Park Extension de
velops. And by the same token It
will be an incentive for the city
fathers to see that all future build
ing along not only the park exten
sion. but on the Third and North and
Walnut street sides of the older park
area shall be of a type that will flt
in with the scheme of the eminent
architect who is "dreaming out a
beauty spot." to use his own words
in description of the present phase
of the great embellishment of the
official center of the state. Tho new
Penn-Harrls and tho T. W. C. A.,
with the Technical High School,
form an excellent start, and when
the Scottish Rite Masons build their
temple North street will get Its in
centive.
• • •
It seems rather odd to see men
with picks and hoes tearing up tho
surface of what was once South
street and to see a steam shovel pre
paring the erstwhile highway of
Tanner's alley for, seeding with
ffrass. There were times when vet
eran police officers like "Jim" Mc-
Cann and "Joe" Thompson were ac
customed to look for something dif
ferent from herbiago being raised
over in those byways of the old
Eighth ward. But things are chang
ing in Harrisburg, and ornamental
shrubbery will soon be where the
"Red Lion" and the "Garnet House"
were objects of Jealous eyes from
patrolmen and perchance there may
be a fountain playing where gamy
games were wont to be held on the
site of "Fris" Battis' old clubhouse.
• • •
Turning to newer Harrisburg, it
may be said that the completion of
the new Penn-Harrls is being rather
eagerly awaited in many parts of the
state, to judge from remarks of trav
eling men and others having bus
iness here. They have been hoping
that the contractors for the interior
will make a.record, and from all in
dications" there will be a regular
scramble to get names down on the
first page of the register. Out in
Pittsburgh when the William Penn
was opened they had a man by that
name who was a descendant of the
great William to sign first Perhaps
he can be* induced to come to tho
state's capital for the same cere
mony.
• * •
The new government control of
the telegraph and telephone lines of
the country will give rise to some in
teresting problems. For example,
tho men in charge of the local West
ern Union and Postal offices are
wondering whether or not there is
any truth in the report that the two
oflifflces are to bo combined. Tho
same question has arisen in the
minds of those responsible for tho
operation of the two local telephone
companies. There has been some
talk of turning the conduct of both
tho telephone and telegraph lines lo
cally over to the post office depart
ment but this would be as bad as
turning the post office department
over to the telephone managers.
Neither knows anything about the
highly technical and complicated
affairs of the other, and it would ap
pear the height of absurdity to at
tempt improvement of already very
efficient services by taking them out
of experienced hands and putting
them into the hands of men already
over-burdened with the growing ac
tivities and problems of the post of
fice service whose ignorance con
cerning wire operations is quite as
great as the ignorance of the wire
managers in matters pertaining to
the mails. It is believed that good
judgment will dictate the continu
ance of the telephone and tele
graphic service in much the same
manner as at present, but the fre
quent and unaccountable changes on
the railroads under government con
trol have caused a feeling of uneasi
ness to pervade the forces of th.e
Western Union, the Postal, the Beli
and the United companies.
Edson J. Hockenbury, of Harrls
burg, is at present leading the con-
test for the biggest foodflsh caught
along the Jersey coast this summer.
His catch was a channel bass weigh
ing forty-two pounds and was taken
while fishing from the pier of the
Wildwood Crest Fishing Club, of
which Mr. Hockenbury Is the secre
tary. This club which was organ
ized by the Harrisburg man now has
the longest pier on the Atlantic re
sort coast and some of the best
catcljes made this summer between
Atlantic City and Cape May have
been from it. Mr. Hockenbury Is
convbtning business with pleasure at
the shore this surrvner. planning his
fall and winter campaigns and fish
ing when he has time. His family is
with him.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator T. L. Eyre has been
elected a director of the United
Sportsmen of the state.
—Dr. J. W. A. Haas, head of
Muhlenberg College, is advocating
military training as a part of th
course of the college.
—Captain J. Kirk McCurfly, <C
Rwarthmore, hns organized ml | ntJn
sedition committee. He Is MM
the militia company at that 'T
—J. W. Bouton. prominent
perrt oil man, has been chosoa
of the Northwestern T~i ninljtOll'li
Producers Association.
—Senator E. H. Vare preMrttftv',
the flag at the opening of the Vfcra
playground, named for the SenttfVV
late brother, George A. Vaa% "fii
Philadelphia.
—E. T. Noble, weß*Bowa n&-
burgh attorney, has beeC
stoned a major In the
cate general's department.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Hai-rMburg Is making
gun carriages to carry the Amer
ican guns that will strafe the
Hun thoroughly 7
HISTORIC HARRISBURG •
—A century ago the district where
the Pennsylvania freight station
stands used to be an industrial sec
tiM Wi wagon and coach repair
•hopa.