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FRIDAY, .VCGT7S7T 23. 1918
Pray in faith; and faith is not on
ly a trust in God's goodness or pou>-
er, but the definite assurance thai
ice heve received the very thing tee
ask. — Andrew MragAY. ,
I
THE TIGER AND THE FOX
THERE are many reasons why;
General Foch should be made
generalissimo of the allied
forces. In the first place, France is
the battle ground and the French,
nation has most at stake in the war..
Again, Foch knew better than any-;
one else the character of the terri-1
tory over which the battles must bo|
fought, the obstacles to be met, the|
opportunities for advantage and the
characteristics of his antagonists.
His military training and skill were
at least equal to those of any other
general in the allied forces. Re
sults have fully Justified the selec
tion based upon the considerations
mentioned, and Premier Clemenceau
has the satisfaction of seeing his
choice vindicated. The credit ac
corded to Foch must be also ex
tended to Clemenceau who, it is un
derstood. insist :d upon the general
being placed in supreme command.
Here's a paragraph from the letter
of a soldier of Pennsylvania now in
France to his mother:
We move—really this time—
early in the morning. It is Just
after supper on a very changeable
day. Most of the regiment is now
up in the front line and we now
take our place with them. At
least, that is what everyone
thinks is the end in view. And all
rather hope so, in order to get
the anxiety over with. If we
do get there, will do ray best for
your dear sake and for that of all
the dear people at home.
Could anything be finer than the
patriotic sentiment of the last sen
tence —"If we do get there, will do
my best for your dear sake and for
that of all the dear people at home."
And that is the spirit of the American
fighting boy.
RECREATION NECESSARY
THERE comes this protest from
a reader of the Telegraph who
believes that "recreation should
be suspended for the period of the
How caji our people go to the
theaters, to outings and to pic
nics while our boys are dying in
France?
There are many who take this
mistaken view of the situation
which the country now faces. It is
a conclusion reached without proper
consideration of all the elements in
volved.
Who would be the better if we all
put crepe on our hats and went
about smileless with our best funeral
expression always to the fore?
Pack up your troubles In your old
kit bag.
And smile, smile, smile.
While you've a lucifer to light <
your fag.
Smile, boy. that's style.
What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while.
So, pack up your troubles in your
old kit bag
And smile, smile, smile.
That's advice straight from the
front line trenches. It is the favor
ite song of the soldiers in tight
quarters. It is the kind of thing
the soldier does and it is what he
wants us back home to do. Nothing
would worry the soldier in France
more than to think that we in this
country were unduly worried or
were growing mournful and morose.
No. our writer friend views the
thing from a wrong angle. The sol
dier must have his recreation. As
soon as they are back from the
trenches or the battleiine—no mat
ter how many of their comrades may
have fallen there —the lads in uni
form demand recreation and relaxa
tion. They laugh, and joke and
play, with death all around them,
and thus they gather new courage
and new strength for future trials.
And the men who are holding the
trenches in pnlll and factory, in of
fice and mine back home are no dif
ferent from the man in uniform.
They are one and all working under
unusual <ff>ndltlons, subject to un
usual strain; they become tired and
Aervoua and they require their play
FRIDAY EVENING.
time as does the soldier, if they are
not to become stale and inefficient.
A "day oft" now and then is essen
tial to the well being, physical, men
tal and moral, of everybody. "All
work and no play makes Jack a dull
boy" is a truism that applies even
more strongly to war times than to
the easier days of peace.
Bernard!, the German strategist,
who wrote several books before the
war as to the military aims of Ger-
many, and who manifested only con
tempt for the British Army, has rea
son to believe that the Tommies are
not such poor fighters as he pre
tended to think. They have been
driving his particular army over a
large section of France for several
days, and seem disinclined to stop the
exercise.
TOO LATE TO HESITATE
PERHAPS the most serious crit
icism of the Washington Ad
ministration is Its frequent
hesitation In matters of the gravest
concern affecting the war. First, in
preparation for the struggle which
was Impending, then the delays in
Important decisions affecting equip
ment, next the failure to act prompt
ly in the new draft measure which
the military authorities were ur
gently recommending, and then the
"watchful waiting" as to Russia
Even Ex-President Taft, who has
been most patriotic in support of the
Administration, suggests this hesi
tant weakness in a statement regard
ing the situation in Russia. He
says:
We, who are raising an Army of
millions of men. need not hesi
tate to send a force of two or
three hundred thousand men to
form a nucleus of a new Russian
Army to break Germany on that
side. We shall thus reduce her
western strength far more than
w'e shall our own. It is vastly
easier to redeem our pledge to
save Russia from Germany by
kicking her out of Russia now,
before a treaty of peace, than it
is to put her out by enforcement
of treaty provisions afterward.
We may regret that we are
"shuffling in" to a policy of fate
ful import. We may ask why we
do not send an American general
of sufficient rank and experience
to command our forces and head
the expedition instead of a Japan
ese general. We may query
whether our policy does not lack
candor of declaration and fore
sight in execution. Nevertheless,
as now initiated, it must develop
into a great successful campaign,
saving Russia and crushing Ger
many. By circumstances and pub
lic opinion, we are again pushed
into a course first objected to and
then adopted. We may have lost
months of precious time, and the
present inadequacy of force em
ployed may cost us months more.
Still let us rejoice that the Irre
vocable step has been taken, and
be confident that our Government,
as it comes to realize the exigen
cies. wUI meet them ultimately
with a* Army and a Navy suffici
ent for the task.
Notwithstanding the procrastina
tion that has been so oftsn a sub
ject of criticism, the people of the
United States are determined to see'
this thing through regardless of mis
takes of the past or the future.
They strongly approve the proposed
army of four or of men
and are back of the Administration
to the limit in the prompt organiza
tion of this great force to the end
that the Hun menace may be
crushed for all times. Amerlcune
will always insist upon the right of
free speech and the inalienable
prerogative of constructive criticism
of their officials. While reserving
unto themselves these privileges of a
free government, however, they will
not hold back one atom of their sup
port of the constituted authority in
prosecuting a vigorous and winning
war.
They're having meatless days in
Vienna; also breadless and vegetable
less days. And after a while they are
going to have kingless days.
German women are operating ma
chine guns on the battlefront, news
dispatches say, and yet there are
some American women who think they
are overworked when they are asked
to give the Red Cross a few hours
each week.
RESULT INEVITABLE
BUSINESS men in Philadelphia
are making loud protests
against the slow mail service
there since the mail tubes have been
discontinued. That was to be ex
pected. The mail tubes were a
great invention for the saving of
time, and the discontinuance of that
service is bound to cause delay. For
the information of persons not fa
miliar with tube transportation of
the mails in large cities, it may be
explained that the tubes serve ex
actly the same purpose and operate
in the same way as the cash-carriers
in stores. In former times, it was
the practice to have cash boys run
ning through the aisles of stores
getting money changed. That caused
confusion and delay, especially when
stores were crowded. Now the clerk
takes your money, puts it in a little
container, dyops it in the carrier and
it whizzes along to the cashier who
makes the change and shoots it back.
In former years, and at present, all
mails were carried over the streets j
in wagons or automobiles. Owing j
to congestion of city traffic, this
caused delay, and tubes were con
structed under ground from one
part of the city to another. Letter
mail was put into cartridges, these
containers slipped into the tubes, and
they went whizzing along on their
journey, regardless of crowds, block
ades, snow drifts or what not on the
streets above. It was a little more
expensive service, but it was quicker.
It was an improvement over old
methods of handling mall, just as
the subway street railway systems
are an improvement over surface
cars. The tube mail carriers were
established by Republicans, who'are
always constructive in their manage
ment of either public or private af
fairs. The present administration
discontinued the tube service and
went back to surface transporta
tion, hence the protest in Philadel
phia, where it is declared that even
the "special delivery" service is a
joke. Undoubtedly, the mail tubes
In aome form or other will eventual
ly be restored, but not until the
postmaster general has given the
public more poor service than it
will stand for.
The Bolshevik! having declared war
on America may be embarrassed to
find an army with which to fight.
If the German fleet comes out, the
Allies will do to it what they are
doing to the German armies.
'p tKK4uica.Kia.
By the Kx-Committeeman
While certain of the Democratic
leaders of the state are hoping
against hope that there will be some
sort of an agreement reached between
Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, the
Democratic nominee for Governor,
and the bosses of the federal Job
holders' union as to the manner in
which the party in Pennsylvania
should be run after the coming elec
tion, there is a general belief that
the Judge and his friends will go be
fore the Democrats of the state with
a demand for reorganization. This
was the method pursued by the Pal
mer-McCormick clique in 1911, fol
lowing the developments of'the cam
paign of 1910, and if the vote for
Bonnlwell does not show up well in
districts dominated by Palmer and
his pals the chances are that Demo
cratic history will repeat itself.
The attitude of the Judge has been
a disappointment to the machine
leaders who find it hard to realize
that the candidate does not rate
them as high as they consider they
stand in the Democratic party. It is
said that the Judge has sent word a
couple of times that he considers all
incidents connected with the state
committee and the platform as
closed. This is the reason why the
state committee is not to be called to
meet next week as required by the
resolution passed here last June. The
indications are that it may be well
on in September before any session
is held and then a platform which
will not disturb the judge or any one
else will be adopted.
—William C. Sproul, the Republic
an candidate for Governor, and his
colleagues, will open the campaign
in Lehigh county to-morrow and
there will be a notable gathering of
leaders from eastern counties. The
Senator received 1 great welcome
yesterday in Erie.
—Although Senator Sproul was in
Erie Judge Bonniwell was so busy
with the aftermath of his visit to
York, where he seems to have upset
the whole applecart of the reorgan
ization faction, that he telegraphed
regrets at his inability to travel to
the city by the lake. In other words
he was so occupied with York and
other eastern affairs that he passed
up the chance to make a speech at
Erie.
—Tork is not the only place where
the judge seems to have been getting
busy with the reorganizers' men be
cause there are reports coming that
In Allegheny and western counties a
formidable organization is being built
up behind the judge and he will go
to Pittsburgh next week to add some
additional strength. It is said that
Bonniwell has the Democrats of the
hard coal region in a state of mind
that can only mean turning on tne
federal jobholders wnen the time
comes to contest for control of the
machine.
—Senator Penrose and Senator
Sproul will be the big speakers at
Lebanon next Wednesday.
—Senator 'Edwin H. Vare yesterday
gave assurances to the real estate
men of Philadelphia that as far as
he could exert his influence there
would be no increase in the tax rate
in Philadelphia and that he would
work to get it Cut. There was some
thing unusual in the call of the real
estate men upon Senator Vare,
they are said by the Public Ledger
to have "ignored" the mayor and
Chairman Gaffney, of councils' finance
committee.
—The Pittsburgh Post's announce
ment that John F. Short, the Clear
field editor, is to be named to the im
portant federal post of marshal for
western Pennsylvania is generally ac
cepted as being what is planned. The
Post is speaking by the book on Dem
ocratic matters in western Pennsyl
vania. Short's appointment is a
shrewd move because it may serve
to strengthen the reorganlzers among
the men of the central group
counties who have been ignored time
and again in the distribution of pa
tronage.
—Hazleton and other coal region
towns are having trouble to keep
police forces together. The men are
resigning to work in the mines as
they can make more tnoney.
—ln Westmoreland county steps
have been taken to have the liquor
dealers aid in the coal production
movement. It will be a test which
will be interesting.
—The Luzerne County Grand Jury
yesterday ignored charges of conspir
acy brought by Mayor Kosek against
Allen Olds Meyers and Steven Dona
hue, Burns detectives, who made the
investigation that resulted in graft
charges against the Wilkes-Barre
police force. Mayor Kosek charged
the detectives with an attempted
frameup, by which the Mayor's char
acter and integrity were to be as
sailed along with the bringing of
sensational charges against Chief of
Police Zoeller, Police.Clerk Nolan and
Captain Hergert, of the city detec
tives. Only Mayor Kosek and the
court stenographer were called to
testify.
—Notice of the abolition of his posi
tion as assistant engineer in the Bu
reau of Highways was received yes
terday by Walter D. Gernet, of Phila
delphia. Director Datesman in a
brief note explained that the place
would be vacated on account of the
small amount of work to be done on
the Northeast Boulevard. Gernet was
assigned as resident engineer on the
boulevard work and his friends say
that his work on the various contracts
has been of a high character.
—Concerning the Short appointment
the North American says: "Until a
short time ago Short was an -old
guard" Democrat, aand vigorously
opposed the Palmer-McCormick or
ganization. He had turned Clearfield
county over to the "old guard" candi
dates, and was one or the leaders who
carried his county four years ago for
Michael J. Ryan for the Democratic
nomination for governor over Vance
C. McCormick. Recently Short was
induced to "get in out' of the rain."
Treat 'Em Rough
Sign in a Tonopah restaurant:
"Use only one lump of sugar in your
coffee. Stir like heii, for we don't
mind the noise."—St. Louis Globe-
Democratj
Girls, It's a Serious Matter
The scarcity of men at summer re
sorts used to be a joke. It has passed
i that stage now.—From the Bir
mingham Aae-HeraTd.
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Sure Bait For Husbands
It is well that the war satirist who
has set England and America by the
ears remains anonymous, else the
militant feminists might forget their
promise to lie down with the lamb
"for the duration." In his "second
Book" (Doran), Artemas dispatches
a few sharply pointed arrows in the
direction of designing maidens.
Here is a bit of his advice on getting
a husband.
"Bring up thy mother in the way
she should go and restrain her con
tinually. Else shall she hold thee
up before the young man's eyes with
out ceasing, wherefore thou shalt
surely lose him.
"Consider the worm. It sitteth on
its hook in a duiet place, nor follow
eth after the fish. Nay, rather doth
it entice him because it sitteth aloof,
Do thou, therefore, in like manner.
"When a young man speaketh unto
thee concerning a miracle that hath
saved him his life, then open thine
eyes into his, and call him wonder
ful.
"For in this manner shalt thou re
move the credit of it from the mir
acle and he will believe thy words.
And he will perceive in thee a multi
tude of charms that erstwhile had
been hid."
"Which Eye, Sir?"
[Pittsburgh Post]
There Is a story from the west
ern front of an officer Instructing an
American artilleryman to hit the
enemy in the eye at a long range
point. The gunner appeared hurt,
i and on being asked to explain, de
manded. "Which eye, sir?"
While no names were given in the
above story, and it may have been
heard in many forms before, the
good aim of the American gunners
is proverbial and has won special
praise ffom the time our boys ap
peared in France. The latest re
port of this nature deals with one
of our corporals who has been as
signed to duty as a sharpshooter. He
! has picked oft six Germans in the
j past three days, and three of them
at a distance of 600 yards.
! German and English Fleets
Captain Persius, the distinguished
German authority, is reported as
saying that the British fleet has
done nothing during the four years
of war. Perhaps not, in comparison
with the vast activities of the Ger
man high seas fleet and the world
wide German commercial marine.
—X. A. Review's War Weekly.
Coming, Uncle Sam
General Crowder keeps calling
them and they keep right on answer
ing. The Kaiser will begin to think
there's no end of Yankees the way
they're pouring into France.—Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
A Good Guess
If the statues of the Hohenzollerns
are not melted down now they cer
tainly will be .later. —Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
Poor Health Resorts
Russian cities aren't proving such
exceptionally fine health resorts for
German officials. Seems to be too
hot. •
It's the Humidity
It didn't take a mind reader to tell
what most people were thinking
about during the past three days.—
From the Toledo Blade.
LABOR NOTES
Twenty firms in Winnipeg, Canada,
have conceded the Job printers an in
crease in wages of $5 a' week.
Every industry except Tarming in
Eureka and Humboldt county, Cal.,
is on an 8-hour basis.
On August 6 at Chicago. 111., the
International Glove Workers' Union
of America will convene.
Sheridan, Wyo., has passed an or
dinance Closing all places of busi
ness on Sundays and legal holidays.
Pennsylvania already is in the fore
front of the States in plans for mak
ing maimed soldiers self-supporting.
British farm laborers are to have
a half-holiday, this making their or
dinary working week one of five and
one-half days.
During the last six years organized
street car men In Chicago have re
ceived more than I'tO.OOO in benefits.
Russia Betrayed, Harden Declares
(By Maximilian Harden)
THE world will not forget that it
was Nicholas who procured for
the idea of disarmament a re
sounding annunciation and that the
opening of the Hague conference
was for him as the dawn of a new
life. History may discern in his
character many signs of flickering
weakness, but no ignoble trait of
will * * * If the second Nicholas
ever had a program it was to bo
mindful of the injunction of his
namesake before him—to do on the
throne all that lay in his power in
order to win from the masses that
looked up to him forgiveness for the
monstrous prerogatives of the crown.
* * • He summoned the nations to
disarm and banned alcohol from
Russia. That he willed these three
things, history will some day write
down to his credit in her book. His
conquerors who gave themselves out
to be the savior of mankind, the uni
versal Messiah, have worked in eight
months more horror and woe than
he wrought in eight years • • •
All their attempts to translate the
great French revolution into Russian
have merely landed them so deep
in blood that they imagine they can
earn Germany's commendation by
reporting that so far 130 persons
have been shot on suspicion of com
plicity in the murder of the German
envoy at Moscow.
"But Russia is not dead yet. Never
War Finance and the Public
[Col. Harvey's War Weekly]
Nothing could be more gratifying
than the cheerfulness with which
the American people are meeting the
demands of war taxation. Whatever
the Government needs it can get,
either by taxes or by laws; and
whatever proportion Congress and
the President decide shall be fur
nished by taxes, that proportion will
not only be furnished, but furnished
with scarcely a trace of protest.
Palpable inequities of detail will be
objected to, perhaps made much of;
but there is surely no harm in that
Of the magnitude of the burden, as
such—and it is of course beyond all
precedent, and steadily going high
er—there is substantially no com
plaint whatever, and will be none.
In this, as in the deeper sacrifices
of the battlefield, America has stood
the test without a quiver. Her heart
is in the right place. * • * The time
will come when the economic wel
fare of the country, very possibly
its rescue from financial dangers no
leoo grave than those with which it
had to grapple for years after the
close of the Civil War, will depend,
as it did then, upon the existence of
a body of sound public sentiment on
the basic questions of national
finance.
Here's a Fountain of Help
If you are down with the blues,
read the Twenty-third Psalm.
If there is a chilly sensation about
your heart, read Revelations 3.
If you don't know where to look
for a month's rent, read the Twen
ty-seventh Psalm.
I.f you are lonesome and unpro
tected, read the Ninety-first Psalm.
If the stovepipe has fallen down
and the cook gone oft in a pet, put
up the pipe, wash your hands and
read the first chapter of James.
If you feel yourself losing confi
dence in men, the thirteenth
verse of First Corinthians.
If people pelt you with hard
words, read the fifteenth verse of
St. John and the Fifty-first Psalm.
If out of sorts, read Hebrews 12.
More Power to Them!
General March most commendably
says that the object of the allied
army on the Aisne-Marne front is to
annihilate its foes. We ourselves ven
tured to suggest some time ago that
the chief duty of America through
its army and navy was to "Kill
Huns!" And the boys Over There
seem to be doing It. More power to
them!— North American Review's
War Weekly.
Something an Indian Can Do
Of course we don't countenance
barbarous warfare or anything like
that, but if one of General Persh
ing's Indians should return with the
Crown Prince's scalp, we don't be
lieve he would be court-martialed.—
Portland Press.
The Master of Destiny
Circumstances,! I make circum
stances. —Napoleon Bonaparte.
forget that The might of Russia,
stMl ungainly and like a child, can
not be broken from without. Nor. as
our generals testify, has it been
broken even in this war by any su
perior strength of Germany. Only
from within has this power been
paralyzed for a season by an incom
prehensible miracle, or, if you will,
by the poison of Lenine world com
munism.
The Brest treaties, Herr Harden
declares, are a crime, the unredeem
able sin of Austro-German diplomacy
as represented by Czernin and
Kuhlemann.
"No lapse of years can redeem
the son of Count Czernin and of Herr
von Kuhlemann, in that they allow
ed this harvest of mercy, paid for In
blood, to be swept away at the very
door of the barn, and in that by
their lust for the plaudits of a day
they dissipated the profits of this
grand prize. • • The fruit of
their world jugglery, the outcome of
their despicable little game, now
with a promise of free democracy
and now with a threat of brute force,
is that without the slightest need,
almost everywhere from Kola to the
lower Danube enemies are arrayed
against us, and that at every Social
ist meeting in western lands warn
ings are loud against a people whose
inmost aspiration has been laid bare
hy the treaties of Brest and Burk
harest.
Must Keep Our Heads
[N. A. Review's War Weekly]
In Great Britain the other day the|
celebration of the fourth anniver
sary of that country's entry into the
war was marked by two dominant
features. One was rejoicing over
the victories which were daily being
reported from Champagne. The oth
er was a wise admonition against
over-exultation and over-confidence,
and a reminder that the war was in
all probability still far from its end.
In France and Italy the same pru
dent spirit seems to prevail. We
shall do well to make it prevail here.
Our perfectly natural and commend
able thanksgivings and rejoicings
over the achievements of our troops
must not for a moment be permit
ted to carry us in even an infini'
tesimal degree to slacken our efforts
to put forth "force, force to the ut
most, force without stint or limit."
Above all, let nobody venture to
cite this second miracle of the
Marne as rendering unnecessary the
extension of the conscription age.
In fact, it is a powerful argument
for making such extension at the
earliest possible moment.
Women as Whitewings
TFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
New York, which has Just follow
ed the example of more progressive
Cities like Pittsburgh in the appoint
ment of women police is going to ad
vance a step farther by employing
women as street cleaners. The first
batch will be put to work in the out
lying districts until the public has
a chance to become accustomed to
the sight, but later the idea is to be
extended.
Recognition that street sweeping
is a necessary public service and
that there should be no distinction
in service to the community between
the housewife who sweeps the side
walk and the woman in the city em
ploy who sweeps the streets may
come In time. One thing may be
reasonably expected—that the wo
men whitewings will make a good
Job of it. The long experience of the
sex with the broom must give them
an advantage over their male com
petitors. What man can ever hope
to wield a broom to the satisfaction
of a woman's eye?
Pictures on Transports
The T. M. C. A. established a mo
tion picture circuit for the trans
ports. Each transport Is provided
with 40,000 to 60,000 feet of film.
The crew and the soldiers enjoy the
pictures going over, as do the wound
ed coming back. There are over 3,-
500,000 feet of film shown on the
boats of the high seas every night
under the auspices of the Y, M. C. A.
The Fighting Name, Yanks
General March, chief of staff, has
appealed for the elimination of the
name "Sammee" as applied to Ameri
can troops. He says that if there's
one thing American soldiers don't
like it Is to be called Sammee, and
that the allied soldiers can't under
stand why such vigorous fighters
should be glw _ a silly name.—
Washington dispatch.
T 2rri, rrio,
Must Get Into Training
[From the Pittsburgh Post]
No matter which class of the new
draft Is called Into service first. It Is
common sense that, If we are to win
the war next year, the sooner the
available men are put Into training
the better. Every day of training
lost counts against the early ending
of the struggle. Whatever Congress
does In extending the age limits it
should do It promptly and without
Imposing restrictions that would
hamper the War Department in
training the men.
Americans are determined' to win
and nothing will enthuse them as
the policy of a "quick finish." While
Congress it not expected to pass the
momentous mea&ure without dlß
cussion, it can put It through In a
bualness-llke way that will thrill the
country. It has Indicated that It
will extend the draft limits and It
should make the most of it in giving
impetus to "On to Berlin!"
Hays and McCormick
Colonel Harvey has put the matter
beforei the chairmen of the two na
tional committees. His reply from
Mr. Hays was clean-cut and un->
equivocal In its adhesion. Mr. Mc-
Cormick was willing to consider It.
—Louisville Herald.
Willing but not able, apparently.
—Col. Harvey's War Weekly,
All Guilty
I. W. W. All Guilty.—Headline.
Which Includes also the one hun
dred who were convicted in Chicago
last Saturday.—Kansas City Star.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
BPS
LOOKED LIKE IT.
Bugs: Run for your life, hen
comes one of those armored tanks.
ENVY.
Gas Lamp—Some people are bom
lucky. That fellow has a swell Job
in front of a big hotel!
ALLIED PROFESSION.
"Did you ever aee men shear
sheep?"
"No, but I've watched my father
clipping coupons, which I Imagine
is something similar."
TOO PERSONAL.
"My personal property was great-
taxed this year, was yours?"
the doctor told me I had a
CW Of oyer taxed a arras."
lEumng Qlljai
Comment has been made froip
time to time about the manner in
which the automobile has revolution
ized farmers' means of getting about
to go to church, stores, markets and
similar places to say nothing of the
ease with which a whole family can
be picked up and transported to a
fair or a picnic or harvest home, but
the average person has not noted
how the old stage lines have been
driven from the roads by the motor
vehicle. One has only to attend one
of the numerous farmers' gatherings
which are held throughout this part
of Pennsylvania in August to note
how general is the use of the auto
mobile. In fact, the man who drives
horses or owns a double team of
mules is looked upon much as tho
man who was the proud owner of a
car six or eight years ago. There
are some towns in Dauphin, Cum
berland and Perry counties which
have for more than a century bad.
what was called a stage to keep
them in communication with the
outside world and their people, mails
and express packages and even milk
cans and other things were handled
by stage which took them to the
nearest railroad point. Some of theso
stages have been real old stages, too
but most of them ordinary wagons!
For months the owners of theee lines
have been turning to gasoline for
their motive power and have heen
doing quite well. The bulk of them
have also been canny enough to se
cure certificates from the Public
bervlce Commission which gives
them exclusive routes. There are
probably hundreds of rural routes
served by automobiles now where
for years teams and stages were the
means of transportation, while there
tu>, C , OU n try Jltneys whlch connect
£Y systems and have timo
trains, too*'' 11 the railroaa
• • •
P ', an ® voly ed by Mechanlcs-
Durg peoplo to overcome thefts of
so£fnt? r ors . anizin R an autoVnoblle as
alonß the lines of the old
horse thief protective concern, which
was a terror to evildoers in years
here T'l, I>idS falr to be '°"owed
, e o re - Thare are some Harrisbnrg
f who have been suffering from
loss of. cars who are considering the
tie n s°thT t A U n l Plan „ ln othor coun!
ninn i. ? and Eaet Pennsboro
Plan is also being studied.
• • •
People at the Capitol are now
calling the genial chief clerk of the
Adjutant General's Department, Dr.
B. W. Demmlng. The reason Is
that he accompanied a party of doc
tors to the base hospital at Camp
Meade on an Inspection tour and
when they went Into the operating
room he went along, just like any of
the rest of us would do. A nurse
handed him the gown and other
things doctors wear .upon sucli
mournful occasions and as he wears
large spectacles and looks impres
sive at all times, the operating sur
geon continually called his atten
tion to the fine points of the opera
tion, addressing him as "Doctor."
Whether the doctor was "on" or not,
no one seems to know yet, but Mr!
Demmlng did not do any talking!
He looked wise and got away with
It But he has a new title. ~
• • •
J. Hillary Keenan, chief clerk t.
?.. tate Headquarters, la
nothing if not patient. He has to
listen to all kinds of tales of woe
from people who want out of the
draft and some who want ln. Tho
ones who want ln, strange to say
are the most persistent because thev
usually wish to get ln a special call
or an officers' training camp or soma
other place where the getting is not
good. But the other day Mr. Keenan
had a sequence of visitors quite out
of the ordinary. He was visited in
quick succession by a doctor, a priest
and an undertaker.
• • •
James F. Lentz, recorder of Dau
phln county and general manager of
affairs in the upper end of the
county, is sleeping with one ear
open these days. Mr. Lentz Is an
early riser, but not early enough
for some of the young men In the
upper end district who turn to him
as guide, counselor and friend in
draft matters. They call him on
the telephone during the day, at sup
per time nnd when he has gone to
bed, while some of the farmer boys
call up on the telephone about the
time that the roosters are starting
to herald the coming day.
• • •
Dr. Frank C. Hammond, of Phila
delphia, who was here yesterday at
tending the meeting of medical men
to discuss the, supply of physicians,
is the medical aid to the Governor
ln draft matters. He has been prom
inent In draft matters and is presi
dent of the Philadelphia county
medical society.
Information comes to the State
Draft Headquarters in devious ways.
It comes by mail, telegram, tele
phone, freight, express and word of
mouth, but the oddest one of all ar
rived a day or so ago when a letter
came giving information about a
slacker. It was signed by an ear
nest young man from western Penn
sylvania who signed his name with
this Utle: "Learning to b© detec
tive." His chief complaint was that
a man discovered that "radish "
meant "register."
• • •
Col. W. W. Fetzer, the Milton man.
who was killed in action, had a re
markable experience in the National
Guard and army. He started as an
infantryman in the 12th Regiment
and then went into cavalry. When
he got to France he was in engi
nef,r?' machine gun, trench, mortar,
artillery and finally back to infan
try again. He was a brave and
painstaking officer of high value.
Captain Paul Houck, son of the
Secretary of Internal Affairs, was
here a day or so ago on leave, Ha
i4gimenTs, ttl ° Be th * neW
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE f
—General Douglas Mao Arthur
who will have a regiment largely
made up of Pennsylvanians at Camp,
Meade, is a son of the famous gen
eral,
—James A. Gardner city solicitor'
iof New Castle, president of the
Lawrence county veterans has is
sued a call for a reunion, He is well
known to many Harrisburgera.
—Lester Larimer, Ebensburg
banker, has four sons in the army
and four not yet of draft age. He
has a basketball team in his
ily, which he captains.
1 DO YOU KNOV ] i
—That HarrfetburgV* experience
with street paving caused many
changes in plans for improvements
in other cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
General Zachary Taylor was
among th men who addressed the-
Legislature m the eld Capitol.