6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JBBl t ==: Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Uulldlng, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief V. It. OYSTER, Business Manager QCS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor, A R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager- Executive Bonrd J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY. P. R. OYSTER, GDS. 1L STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American r 3 Newspaper Pub mrggH ltshers' Associa njjgSa tion, the Audit ' ...fill Bureau of Circu- ScGClaB lation and Penn uiiijl svlvanla Assocl ip W ated Dailies. _ ILL & 6£!Csfi3E In Eastern office, *- *35"? ,dl Story. Brooks & egg 53 Bag IH Finley, Fifth a? Avenue Building. 5138 New York "City ; SuPflfMgC *-)3r Western office. WSti S Story. Brooks & Finley, People's W Gas Building, - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a •'yh ■ ■ week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1918 The saddest sight in all the world is not a grave of the dead, grievous as that might he, hut it is a grave of the Hving humanity sepulchred while yet alive. FRANCES E. WIL LABD. FALLING DOWN WE ARE falling down, falling down bad, on our War Sav ings Stamp quota for Har risburg and Dauphin county. We are away behind the amount set for us by the Government agencies, and other * communities are forging ahead, some hating surpassed us by more than one dollar per capita. In all other forms of war work this community has excelled. Our young men have volunteered in very large numbers. Others have re sponded willingly and gladly to the call of the selective draft. Are we going to let these lads stick, or are we going to back them up with our quarters and our dollars? There is but one answer. We must buy more stamps, every one of us. We must do without some lit tle luxury each week and put our savings into stamps and Baby- Bonds. It must not be said at the 1 close of the year that Harrisburg and Dauphin county were found "slack-, ing" in any form of war activity. THE "DOG DAYS" END W ITH sunset to-night the "dog days" end, and housewives who dread the season will be inclined to rejoice. But be not too demonstrative until you take a look ahead. By mid-January of 1919 August of 1918 is going to appear in the light of a pleasant period of balmy days and peaceful nights. The prospect is not bright. Unless we mistake, there will be more "lightless nights" and "fuelless days" and we shall be "cussing" the Kaiser more fervently than ever and ban ishing the shivers along our spines by working ourselves into fits of temper. Then shall we look back to these "dog as a blessed sea son. CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM THERE are still a few two-by nine Democratic organs that can see nothing but the very essence of wisdom in every act of the "Washington Administration. Shutting their eyes and closing their ears that they may not see or hear anything that might break the spell of their partisan obsession, these or gans continue to scold all who chance to differ with the various and sundry officials who are charged with the conduct of the Government. The other day the New York Sun urged that whatever castigations are due Secretary of War Baker for blocking the expanded draft age law should be left to "the impartial pages of history," but Colonel George Harvey dissents from the Sun's view that revelation of incapacities and weaknesses such as these, in times such as these, should be left "to the future historians of the Wilson Ad ministration." "If the house be on Are," he says, "a timely warning of the fact is infinitely more to the pur pose than would be pages of histor ical description of the delays and blunders which resulted In the house being reduced to ashes. If an in competent steersman is at the helm of one of the most vitally important units in the Administration fleet, even non-constructive criticism which merely exposes the fact is vastly more serviceable than a post mortem historical analysis of tho way the incompetent steersman wrecked the ship. And we submit that condoning the incompetence and failing to expose it and keep Jt in the glare of pitiless publicity is a poor way of standing by the t Admiral of the fleet and the head of the Administration." So, also, in tho case of Secretary McAdoo, who recently suggested MONDAY EVKNINU, that "when causes for theso minor grumblings are explained to the peo ple they take It splendidly, for, as far as I have observed, and I have observed very carefully, the peo'ple are going into this war with all their spirit and in the most devoted fash- Ion." Again Colonel Harvey ob serves: "Right you are. Mr. Secretary. You have got the measure to the microscopic fraction of an Inch of the American people in their will to win this war and make an er.d for once and all of the human jackal in the spiked helmet now loose and ravaging a world on which he rests as a blighting curse. The American people are going into this war with all their spirit, and, furthermore, that spirit is growing in volume and intensity with every passing day and hour. That is why they are get ting beyond the mood to tolerate for a moment any shufflings, and hold ings back, and putting on the brakes to check the progress of such vital war-winning measures, for instance, as the one for Army increase by ex pansion of the draft age limits." The American people are giving their men and all their resources for the winning of the war. It is their war, not the war of the President, or of Congress, or of heads of depart ments, or commissions, and because it is their war, which they propose to continue until victory shall have been achieved, they are going to ex press themselves concerning its con duct —hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they piav. Let's get over the foolish Idea that our Government officials are Infal lible, that their persons are in some manner sacred and cannot ap proached; but reserving to the peo ple the right to point out mistakes and to urge changes; pledge whole hearted support, that force, and still more force, shall be used in the smashing of the Beast of Europe. THE AIRPLANE FAILURE IF the administration had made good its_ air program of 26,000 aeroplanes on the French front at this time the German defeat would have been turned into a rout and the war would be over b?fore the end of the year. Failure to do so will cbst thousands upon thou sands of the lives of American boys and the expenditure of billions of dollars in the work of destruction that otherwise could have been de voted to promote the blessings of peace. • The report of the special Con gressional committee on the aircraft falldown is a most amazing recital of official incompetence, and worse. The Navy Department's air program, operated in precisely the same man ner as that of the War Department, appears to have gone along in first rate fashion, with some delays, to be sure, but generally with success, and has been productive of a great naval fleet of hydroplanes. The fail ure in the War Department, with its costly expenditure of time and money, was enacted directly beneath the nose of Secretary Baker and is traceable directly to his proverbial inability to get beneath the surface of situations, the wholo details of which he should have at his fingers' ends. That the evils have been removed and the faults corrected is good news, but one would rather hear it at the hands of the committee than from Mr! Baker. With the best in tentions in the world the Secretary of War has slipped again, most grievously, and Congress will be wise to accept the investigators' report at its face value and adopt its rec ommendations. We must have planes and plenty of them if we are to win this war. Whether or not Mr. Baker approves the means by which we get them is of small moment to an aroused people who are far more in terested in policies and their results than in officials and their reputa tions. THEIR EYES ARE OPENED IT was a fine body of young sol diers in the making which as sembled at the Courthouse Sat urday morning to be advised regard ing war insurance, the hygienic sys tem in operation in the camps, the work ot the various welfare organi zations and the aims and purposes cf the struggle from the Amencaii standpoint- To the Germans and their sympa thizers who had been persuaded to believe the French were bled white, the British exhausted and the Amer icans useless amateurs, it has been a month of humiliation and disillusion ment. It may even be doubted whether the moral are not more se rious than the material effects of these continuous defeats, according to a war correspondent at the front. Through the proper instruction of these young rfien who are going forth to war much will be accom plished. Their viewpoint is impor tant and the local committees which are acting with the several draft boards are able in a tactful and helpful way to brush aside many puzzling p>blems that might, if al lowed to go unsolved, serve to re duce the morale —the fighting spirit —of the rapidly increasing Army. The eyes of the enemy are fast bqjng opened and as the truth dawns upon him the resistance must crum ble and the will to fight break down. Let our boys enter the service with a high sense of duty to a great cause and with the determination to crush the German menace to the peace of the world. Such meetings as these now being held in the different draft districts of the city and county are ' certain to be of great value and the results of the patriotic efforts of the Harrisburg and Steelton Reserves and the committees on instruction co-operating with the draft officials will show in better satisfied and more efficient soldiers. ToUtlc* IK By the Kx-Committeeman While Senator William C. Sproul was making a ringing speech tilled with patriotism and pledging sup port of Republicans and party news papers to the national administra tion for the winning of the war, the factions into which the President's party in the Keystone State is di vided were on Saturday giving an excellent demonstration of the fact that Pennsylvania Democrats have not adjourned politics. The leaders of the federal jobholders' coterio which has control of the machinery of the party were trying to work out a plan to prevent a right when the state committee meets here next month instead of in August as called for and Judge Eugene C. Bonmwell, candidate for Governor iu spite of the bosses, was opening his own party headquarters and defying the titular leaders of his party. It is a "beautiful situation, quite the oppo site from what was promised to Democrats frcm the Market Square windmill. With the Republican nominee pledging the President sup port to win the world war the lead ers of the Keystone Democracy are planning private warfare of their own. It is the natural consequence of the leadership which reorganiza tion brought to the Democrats of the state. Senator Sprout's speech will be a national document because it clearly sets forth what is to bo done and outlines work in striking contrast to what is under way between the belli cose Philadelphia judge and the men who went after places of federal power as soon as they got control of the party's works with loud profes sions of desire for its welfare and nothing else. —The Philadelphia Press says Judge Bonniwell plans "a new party" while the Record says that the Judge's friends suspect that some men "are intent on wrecking the party's chances" this fail. The North American says "Bonniwell and Booze" will be the and that it looks like a light for party control. —The plan is to launch this week an independent political party with Judge of the Municipal Court Eu gene C. Bonniwell, Democratic nom inee for Governor, as its standard bearer. Notice of the formation of the new party was given. Saturday by Judge Bonniwell in a letter tj Democratic candidates for Congress, the State Senate and House of Rep resentatives. Judge Bonniwell in vited the Democratic nominees to affiliate themselves with the new party. Bonniwell followers declared in Philadelphia Saturday that scores of Democratic office seekers will tie up their political fortunes with the Democratic nominee. The name of the party under which Judge Bonni well proposes to tight the Palmer- Donnelly Democratic state commit tee and the Republican candidates has not been announced. —The North American Bays: "The organization of the third party was decided upon, it is reported, when former Congressman J. Washington Logue, "dry" candidate for lieuten ant governor, the second place on the ticket, declined to get off so that a "wet" candidate like Bonniwell could be chosen in his place. Asher K. Johnson, of McKean county, Democratic nominee for Secretary of Internal Afiairs, is a Palmer-Mc- Cormick man, and therefore is also persona non grata to Bonniwell. It is not the intention of the Bonniwell boosters, however, to name a candi date for lieutenant governor and sec retary of internal affairs. They hope to attract support for their bob tail ticket from wet Republicans. The Record declares "Judge Bonni well's announcement that he will lead a third party to the polls is taken as an open challenge to the Donnelly-Palmer leadership of the Democratic party. Ex-Congressman Logue was nominated for the office of lieutenant governor over Howard O. Holstein, of Harrisburg, by only 210 votes, and at the same time he won, unopposed, the nomination to Congress from the Sixth district, an office he formerly held.." —Robert Grey Bushong, county chairman, has called for the annual reorganization of the Berks Repub lican county committee on Saturday, September 7. At the same time, it became known, says a Reading dis patch, that Hairy P. Shomo, of Ham burg, a leader of the Penrose ele ment, will be a candidate for chair man against former Chairman Thomas C. Seidel, who is serving as compensation referee under appoint ment of Governor Brumbaugh. A lively contest between the two fac tions is assured. —By a vote of 13 to 8, members of the grand jury, which spent last week investigating alleged election irregularities at Lackawanna's pri mary election in May, refused to re turn indictments against election boards in five districts. * The jury's action came as a surprise. Two re ports, a majority and minority, were made to the court, eight jurors fa voring indictments. A request that these eight jurors be permitted to resign was ignored by the court. District Attorney Maxey intimates the same cases will be presented to the next grand jury. —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day makes a sharp attack upon Judge Bonniwell's "third party with a wet label," as it terms his venture. It says that the judge having won the nomination at the primary wants to run the whole party. —Pittsburgh newspapers are caus tic in comments upon the action of firemen in that city and it is believ ed that there will be some speedy legislation to prevent any further interference' with public protection because of strikes. —Mayor A. T. Connell has given assurance that the city government of Scranton will co-operate to the limit in making conditions safe for soldiers. —Johnstown's muddle over tho appointment of a chief of police is only another manifestation of the trouble over the third class city code. Harrisburg has had its own experiences. —Senator Penrose and Senator Sproul are expected to stop here to morrow on their way to Lebanon. Prisoner Tearing Papers A lanky privatb was detailed to take a captured German artillery' of ficer to regimental headquarters. He had progressed about half a mile wheq. the American noticed that his charge was tearing up some papers he evidently didn't want to get into American hands and scattering ■ pieces along the road. w "Ain't you the cute cuss?" said the American. "Now you Just go back and picks them all up." The officer may not have under stood the instructions, but he did the gestures which accompanied them, and he complied. He spent the next half hour painstakingly gathering the fragments of a map which, wheff pasted together, showed all the Boche artillery positions in his sec tor.—From the Stars and Stripes in France. RARRISBURG BQ#6y TELEGKaj-JTC WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND . BY BRIGGS ' THE TEARS OF RHEIMS [Howard Wheeler in Everybody's] We had motored almost all night on the way to Rheims. It was rain ing hard and very cold. The morn ing was a little brighter. We were almost five miles out when we got our lirst view of the cathedral — "La Glorieuse Mutilee," the French call it. The towers stood out clearly against the sky—certainly a wonder ful mark for the barbarian gunners. As we entered the dead city and turned into the avenue leading to the cathedral, at a little distance it seemed to me that the reports of the damage had been exaggerated. But as we came closer it was plain that the church was just a shell. We stopped at some distance and walked toward the entrance. There were great 4 holes where pavement had once been, and the whole area around the "cathedral was a waste from glancing shells or misaimed shells which had been (Tred at the historic structure. And from this debris, from the fallen stone that will always stand as a monument to the Hun, there rose that wonderful statue of the Maid of Orleans, un touched: not even a nick in the up raised sword. Inside it was the old story over again. There were great holes in the roof, demolished statuary, torn pavement. Even the spot where Jeanne d'Arc stood near the main al tar while Charles VII was being crowned King of Prance Was oblit erated forever. The same terrible story—with one difference. A por tion of the roof had been of wood covered with lead. At the time of the flrst bombardment interior re pairs were under way. The bom bardment set fire to the scaffolding and the flames caught the roof. The lead sheathing melted, dripping on the floor or running down the walls. In many places it still hung in long, slender festoons. The guide ex. plained the cause very slowly so that I should understand. "We have come to call them," he .concluded, "the tears of Rheims." A Lucid Interpretation As we understand it from the ex planations of the German war cor respondents, von Hlndenburg length ened his lines in order to shorten them.—From the Dallas News. He's a Regular Lassigny (From the Phila. Evening Ledger) Even the literary world has its massifs. Think of Irvin Cobb. LABOR NOTES Maimed soldiers will be taught new trades at a school to be established in Philadelphia. Employes of the Canadian Ford Motor Company demand $5 for an eight-hour day. Twenty thousand women have been placed in positions by the government since February 1. During the last year the Canadian membership of the Brotherhood of Carpenters increased 1,200. Bozeman (Montana) has Increased the wages of CTty laborers from 23.50 to $4.00 a day of eight hours. A 50-hour law for women and chil dren was defeated in the recent ses sion of the Massachusetts Legisla ture. Manchester (N. H.) cotton opera tives have been conceded a 15 per cent wage increase. The new scale of the Denver (ColA Cooks' Union asks for eight hours, six days a week, with $4.60 for head cooks and $8.50 for assistants. JAPAN AS A WORTHY ALLY By HARRINGTON EMERSON LITTLE Japan defeated the great but weak colossus of China, little Japarf astounded the world by defeating the armies and navies of Russia. Growing Japan built mills and factories and rapidly rose to a position of the first rank, always, with the old Japanese honor, strictly adhering to the sacredness of given word of pledge, of treaty. Has Japan honorably worked as an ally? She has. Did Japan have noble ideals?* She did and they were: To discover the secrets of the universe, to stay its disease, to sub jugate it for the benetit of humanity. To lead again up into the light the great yellow race which has sup plied the world with so many of its leaders. To take first rank herself among the civilized nations of the world and to establish as to Eastern Asia a Monroe Doctrine of the far East for the Oriental. Japan's aims were high and we of the United States were her best friends and greatest admirers until insidious German propaganda tried to and, to our shame, succeeded in arousing distrust. Did Japan have the brains, the WERE WE DRIVEN TO IT? [Col. Harvey's War Weekly] We know now why the brakes came off. The explanation of our pacifist Secretary of War's sudden self-reversal is disclosed. It is very simple, and very convincing. He was driven to it; that is all. He was coiE strained by the remonstrances, ap peals, demands or what not, of our Allies. Any pretense that it required long and profound study, from late in June until early In August, to convince one of the ablest public officials the President has ever known that two and two make four, would of course be puerile. The simple fact is that when our Allies learned that at the very height and crisis of the campaign he purposed to "lie down on his Job," they read the riot act to him. It was only through compulsion that the thing which he vetoed in June he dictated and demanded in August. * * It is proverbially better late than never. And though it is theoretically impossible over to atone for delay, it may be possible practically to make up for it to so great an extent that the delay will be forgiven and for gotten. But how much better It would be to be prompt instead of dilatory; how much better to act I spontaneously upon our own Initia tive than to wait until we are drag ged or driven to It! SYMPATHY They who discern not. * Who shall inform them Or make them perceive What their eyes are beholding? Can they be glad with your Joy? Or pulse with your heart-beats? Tou point the face in the cloud And they who look after Shall laugh at your beholding And your pleasure be ashamed. Give not the gold of your joy Into hands that tarnish. —Helen Hoyt in the Dial. The Only Good Thing There Is only one thing good to be said of the grasshopper invasion, and that is it is not German propa ganda.—Baltimore American. God Is Light God Is light, and in him Is no darkness at all.— l John 1:6. money and the men to warrant great enterprises? She did. Did Japan have ready armies, well equipped manufacturing plants, did she have a fervently industrious civil population? She had them all.* Did Japan deliver what she prom ised? She was the tirst, and alas the only one of the Allied powers to date to achieve signal victory over the Prussians, shattering for all time their lustful plans of Oriental conquest. Japan supplied Russia with both money and munitions. Because Russia Initially showed weakness on every one of the five tests, because Japan initially and continuously has shown growing | strength on every one of the five' tests let us go ahead with no more ! illusion as to present Russia or future Russia, let us go ahead with faith and trust in those yvhose fifty years of modern history have earned trust, faith and admiration, and let the East and the West fight this war to a finish, not for immediate, not even for proximate, but for ultimate welfare. That ultimate is not the exaltation of any one nation, or of any one race or of any one religion-, but for the glory of high ideals, for peace on earth and for good will to ward men. BEDLAM DECLARES WAR [N. A. Review's War Weekly] Announcement of the Bolshevik declaration of war upon the Allies is not likely to make anybody's flesh creep. It is only the verbal formu lation of a long existant fact. Just as the Huns declared war on civili zation when their hordes swept into Belgium, so did the Bolshevik crew | of crooks and' madmen declare war | on Russia's former allies when they I sold out to the Huns and turned I loose_jyun armies of reinforcement I on the western front. If among them there were deluded I ones who really relied upon Hun I faith when they subscribed to that i Brest-Litovsk document, humorously | described as a "peace" treaty, and j which virtually put Russia under , the Hun's feet, the delusion could hardly have been shared by the leaders in that interesting dicker. With them, beyond much doubt, it was a simple case of barter and sale, j They got their price and they deliv ered the goods. Such of these leaders as survive the maelstrom and manage to es j cape with their plunder may yet find I their way back to our own shores. This was their original base of op erations. They sought shelter and prospered here, and. after the man ner of their kind, turned on the hand that fed them. From the moment' of their arrival they began an anar chist crusade against America and' everything American. Then the op portunity ojSened in Russia. They abandoned their efforts to promote wreck and ruin here and flow to the more promising field. But that field has now been pretty well gleaned. The days of Bolshevikery In Russia are clearly numbered. Not, o* course, that the end will come without the usual accessories of slaughter and arson. There will be'plenty of that, no doubt. But the spree could not go on Indefinitely. Montclair's Angelas To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir—Tour suggestion of an "Angelus" is excellent. It is recog nized here at the hour of 12. And the bell of the "Old First" Presby terian Church Is rung at that hour every day. Edwin Ferris. Montclair, N. J., Aug. 15, 1918. —From the Montclair Tribune. £xj, nr EVOLUTION IN FIGHTING Napoleon was wont to say that tactics changed every ton years. The I evolution In ways of fighting has so speeded up that In the greatest of all wars the transformation comes at least overy ten months. German tactical contributions have been In chemistry and cannon fodder. The French have led In the surpassing uso of high-powered and accurnte machines. Their 75s are the best guns in Europe and In the hands of their masters have pro duced a curtain of shells, a barrage, which may be dropped over a de tachment of the foe to cut him oft till the pollus mop tip the position, or thrown in front of an advance to keep It safe until It reaches Its objective. American gun crews have proved such apt pupils of their French instructors that word comes of crack Yankee batteries which can serve the 75s so fast that cap tured German otllcers ask for a look at the big new mnchino gun. The British havo produced char iots of fire. Where the lay of the land favors their use. tanks are the nightmare of the Germans opposite. For a brief space on the Somme In 1916 the advent of the armored monsters, crawling out of holes, knocking down trees and crushing machine guns," thrilled the world. Last autumn, at Cambral, they had a better test. Just at dnwn, without nrtillery preparation, a lino of mon sters flopped over tho top toward the enemy positions. It was no faiHt of tho. tanks that the promising Cambrai salient was later narrowed uhtil It could no longer bo held. . The glory of the tanks is In the future. They are multiplying fast. The offensive of 1919 will see American-made and .Ajnerican manned tanks swarming towsrd tho Rhine as flivvers swarm toward the beach on a 30th of May.—Boston Globe. PENNSYLVANIA'S GLORY [Fronj the Philadelphia Inquirer] Senator Sproul. in the course of an eloquent address at Erie, declares that moro Pcnnsylvanians have died upon the lield of honor since this war began than those of any other State in the Union. He 'did not in tend to make any invidious distinc tion in a cause where all are equal ly doing their duty, but he could not refrain from expressing the pride he felt over the glorious sacrifice of these sons of the Keystone State. As with Colonel Roosevelt, the war has got very near to Senator Sproul, be cause his own son was among those? gassed by the Huns. Fortunately, he is recovering, but the incident en ables the Delaware county statesman to feel with those other fathers and mothers of the Commonwealth who have read the names of their sons in the ever-growing casualty lists. The war is coming home to us in the most intimate manner. In the thick of the tight have been the boys from Lancaster and Lehigh counties and from Philadelphia. One battalion, including these young men, has been pushing forward for twenty-seven days in pursuit of the fleeing Huns. There have been counterattacks and tierce fights and j some of our boys have had to pay [the price of their oourage and gal lantry. But the commander of one' of the companies is authority for the statement that, amid the worse hor rors of war, not one of Jthese Pcnn sylvanians faltered or turned back. We would not be human if we did not feel proud of such representa tives, and Senator Sproul speaks truly when he says that they have given imperishable glory to the great State of Pennsylvania. The Regular Thing Noiv A goose once laid a golden egg. In days long gone and olden. But at the price they are to-day 'Most any egg seems golden. —Kansas City Times. OUR DAILY LAUGH par PLEASURE Wi Slip DESTROYED. *Fly: Hey fel- /\ lers, no use bit- /NMST* — lng this horse. He doesn't seem I ffiT. j io mind it at fDOG LIKE. He barked his chin on a chair. Then what? Then he The proposed food embargo should shorten the war. Unless the v 4jHfi belligerents are / v—wrhf JH of the sort that / ijrJ would rather J fight than eat. J —' zfM UNSANITARY. me ' the water ln % SAMPLES. F J&ZR'.YRL The farmer now Accumulating p1 en teous Aft T. . MpßlHr As condescend- -■ What he's not going to eat r7T himself. Euentng (Eljat If necessity for war conservation j has taken away the numerous olec-1 trie signs which used to shino forth] in'Harrisburg und make it a glitter-, ing night spectacle when viewed | from a distance tlio municipal light- i ing system und the parks make city sparklo as with jewels fronrj many a point and war Industries add! color. Tho valley of the Susquo-j hantia from Kockvtllo bridge down g to Mighsplro is a great sight in thai evening. Soon from Reservoir Par km Fort Washington, Murysvillo movx.-<t tain or York hills it is well worth tncg trip to get to those vantage points. Bridges an l River Front picked outi with electric lights, railroad yardnj gridironcd with arc lumps, industrlsdl plants guarded by searchlights and, hugo reflectors and stacks red with tlame make a wonderful picture and. when trolley curs and trains pass, about it adds to what the artists call "night effects." War has brought to " 1 the iron and steel plants hereabouts continuous operation and It seems as though the Bessemer steel mill at Steelton was going all the time, showering tho night with sparks of t marking the day with fire-shot smoke; blast furnaces are flushing the skies with reflections from casts, and cinder tups, while many stacks, fly their llamo colors half a dozei't places in tho city where only dark ness canto with the end of the day's* work a year ago. Harrisburg and fteelton are smokier than ever, but where it comes from the mills and furnaces no one seems to mind very much. Tho real smoke nulsanco comes to Harrisburg from careless firing on trains, a practice which seems to have grown in extent and costliness in tho last six months. Just why steam has to be kept so high that it is blowing off all tho time some engines axe on sidings at Union station or standing on bridges nnd the passing of trains should bo marked by trails of smoke that streak tho Monday wash In these days of fuel conservation is one of the things that folks talk about. When Charles E. Pass retires from the office of prothonotary, ha has a future awaiting him. Mr. Pass demonstrated the fact at that great community gathering of upper Dauphin, county, the Loyalton pic nic. He was called upon to conduct that delicate operation known as auctioning the cakes and candy which the women folks put up in such tine style and which, it may be added, they consider with such Jus tifiable pride. These packages were sold for the benefit of the Loyalton j Red Cross. Mr. Pass didn't sell anything except the prize cake for less than $4. When he found a man with means In the crowd he singled him out and coaxed or demanded a bid and he seldom failed to get it and when bidding was slow he an nounced various bids. County Treas urer Mark Mumma and County So licitor Philip S. Moyer found that they had bought some prize pack ages at about $5 each when they were enjoying the spring or the view. Mr. Pass found out that Fernando Laudermtleh had appeared at the picnic with $7 and it cost him $6. But one of the incidents was when Jesse E. B. Cunningham, who was at the picnic to help drill drafted men, bought a package and when the youngwoman came around to do/?' liver the cake and collect the cash he said, "Soil it over again." The young woman looked pained and asked, "But haven't you any fam ily?" • • * Some of the reports sent in by the local draft boards throughout the state .are of interest because ol the sidelights they give on local con ditions, but Saturday night a tele gram which got Major W. G. Mur dock out of bed was a regular searchlight. It came from a board in Fayette county and announced that claims for industrial exemptions had "submarined class 1." • The stretch of highway between Middletown and Steelton has been given a new name. It is no longer designated as the road of "frozen waves" by people who have the ill luck to travel over it, but it was christened by some people who came a long distance to visit the depots and who arrived at the Bolton in a state of exasperation and interior dislocation. When the cause was asked a man in an automobile dus ter said, feelingly, "wo have just been over 'Bouncy-Bumpy-Bang highway.' It's a credit to Dauphin county and must make the recording angel work." Paxtang's stretch of state highway has a rival at last. • * • Paul Kurzenknabe, a member of the well-known musical family and the bugler of the Harrisburg Re serves, has been giving his time to training Boy Scouts and other young men to blow the calls. The other evening one ambitious young man arrived with an artillery trumpet and self-conlidenee, announcing that he was ready for practice. Kurzen knabe thought he needed instruc tion, but the young man disagreod. He said that ho knew "all four calls." "Oh, very well," said the bugler, "There are only forty-two." Before the evening was over, tho young man had doubled his list of calls a_nd was making echoes around the Cumberland Valley railroad bridge. • • • Spencer G. Nauman, one of the younger lawyers of the city, will leave in a few days for Army service, having been dommissioned in the re mount division, whose work pertains to tho ca-e of tho horses and mules of the military service. Mr. Nau rnan was raised in Lancaster county and horses have been his hobby so that he will bo able to do a part which will be both valuable and con genial. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Congressman Thomas S. Crag*, who jolted Washington with some remarks about losses in his speech the other day, comes from Greene county and served through the Phil ippines. Ho was for years in the National Guard. —Prof. Harvey C. Hayes, Swarth more professor, has been given leavo for the war as he is working on physical work for the Navy. —Edgar C. Felton, former head of the Steelton works and now actlvo in the work of distributing labor, is establishing agencies in railroad tions. —Dr. Earnest LaPlace, of Phila delphia. has been made a major In the medical service. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg preserving products are helping the Army provision supplies? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harris Ferry was a center of safety organizations against Indians In two wars and many Important conferences were held here.
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