10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OTSTER, Business Manager OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. 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. //j . Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa va-2--tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu taaaigagSKia lation and Penn * sylvania Associ 'jeSS*"= 0 ated Dallies. iiiil m : 408 45 CBS HI Eastern office, ! i£f H SSSi St Story, Brooks & SBB3SSS rM Finley, Fifth ESiaPl* Avenue Building. r-IBtjia 9SB BP New York City, KMpSSESSiiw Western office, isfio 'nlranrls story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at tho Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ftfeSHWafwwg week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1918 j Trust in no. inc, hut in Providence and your own efforts; ;:ever separate the two. — DICKENS. PENROSE AMENDMENT SENATOR BOIES PENROSE'S i amendment to the man power bill whereby men called in the draft shall be classified according to the information given on their ques tionnaires and not be required to claim exemption is exactly what American spirit and fair play calls. for. By its terms a man will putj down his answers to the questions j asked by the form and the local j Jra tt hoard will then proceed to put' him in a class where he belongs. Classification will thus become more or less automatic. It will In nowise deter a man comfortably situated, but given a deferred classification for reasons set forth on his paper, from asking for active service, but It will remove embarrassment from men who would rather don a buck private's uniform and leave the wife and kids to hustle for themselves I than claim exemption when other j men are not doing it. Tho manner in which the Ameri can people have arisen to the wari Is one of the magnificent things of j all history. With that vigor and j thoroughness for which the people of this republic have been noted from the days when they chased the red man over the Blue Ridge to the time when they ended the nuisance of autocratic rule just off the south eastern coast the men have sprung to arms to make the world free and j fit to live in. President Wilson has been backed up in a way that is wonderful when one thinks of it. But at the same time there are many men whose families need their sup port and guidance; whose work in communities is such as to demand that they stay at home to continue it, whose brains are more important producing than they would be fight ing, In other words Whose-place is at i home until the summons for every I man is made in a last extremity. No ' one likes to stand aside when duty! calls, and when the trumpet is sounded for men to gird on their armor the red-blooded American wants to fight. Naturally, he doe.s not war* to claim exemption and have it tb-.-wn in his face In after' years, when the neighbors have for- [ gotten the entirely proper reasons! for his deferred classification, j whether they be in tho public In- j terest, because of the Importance of j his work or tho plain necessities of I his family. The Penrose amendment | is a square deal and the country will j appreciate It. Again the Republicans at Washing ton have demonstrated their patriot ism by support of tho Administra tion's war program when Democrats recorded themselves against It. Also tho floor management of tho revised and important draft act was in the hands of a Republican member. Sena tor Sproul has already pointed out that the election of a Republican ma- 1 jority in Congress would be the best thing that could happen for the prose cution of the war. THE GASOLINE ORDER IF THE Fuel Administration feels that the use of the passenger automobile on Sundays must be restricted for the sake of the gaso line such a measure will save for war purposes, the least we can do is obey. The request, which amounts to an order, will be regarded as a real hardship by those who have no other time for the use of their cars ex cept on Sundays, hut it is not to be viewed in the same light as the "fuelless days" of last winter, which cut down production and limited the earning capacities of ' millions of people. Nobody is actually hurt by being compelled to remain home Sundays and by doing so we are merely sub mitting to a condition that has pre- THURSDAY FVUNTNG, vailed in England and France ever since the war began. If we are called upon to make no greater sacrifices than this we shall be fortunate In deed. • But however they regard the mat ter. all good citizens will loyally support the government in its latest efforts to conserve fuel supplies for the use of the army. From the industrious manner in which German submarines are devot ing themselves to the sinking of Ash ing boats, one might suspect that the Kaiser holds a lot of shares In the big beef packing companies. GRRMANY MUST PAY RICHARD H. EDMONDS. the able and patriotic editor of tho Manufacturers' Record, adds to the Philadelphia Public Ledger's proposal that the Kaiser and his fel low murderers be punished, an im mense war indemnity with which to reconstruct the woeful 'wastes left in the wake of the Huns in Belgium and France. Mr. Edmonds reads public sentiment in the United States all right. We do want indem nity, not for ourselves, but for the poor, helpless, homeless souls of Bel gium, France, Italy, Servia and those other nations laid waste by the por cine appetites of the Kaiser and his plunderbund, and we want the arch criminals of the world-war properly punished. Germany can afford'to pay for her folly far better than the South, fol lowing the Civil War could bear cue | burden that defeat brought to her, argues Mr. Edmonds, who reminds I us that while the South fought falr-| Ily for what it deemed a worthy 'principle, "Germany's war is for no principle; ir is a definite, prear ranged and predetermined war for the express purpose of conquering and looting the world." "It is the most unholy war known to mankind. Its barbarism has been i the barbarism of Hell itself. It has destroyed womanhood and child hood as ruthlessly as it has destroyed cathedrals and churches and works of art," says the writer, and con tinues: After years of preparation, through its schools and its univer sities. for the purpose of encour aging its people to long for a chance to loot the world, and through years of strenuous work to create the greatest fighting machine ever known, it launched upon a peaceful world its cam paign of murder and pillage. It seems inconceivable to think that there • can be found any honest-hearted man or woman who could for a moment question that justice to the men who have died, to the millions of men and women who have lived in an agony of woe, and to the civiliza tion of the future, demands a financial penalty equally as great as that here suggested, In addi tion to the penalty of death upon the leaders of this fearful con spiracy. If this penalty should be en forced upon Germany (and in say ing Germany we include Its al lies) to the extreme, that count try would not have proportion ately as great a burden to carry as the South had to bear after 1865. As the South redeemed itself from poverty to prosperity with in half a century, it would be en tirely possible for Germany to achieve as much. Moreover, It would be a curse to the world for Germany not to have to suffer through long years of penitence and struggle for the unspeakable crimes which it has committed. A prosperous Germany within the next quarter of a century would be a blot upon civilization and would show that civilization did not have the moral backbone and manhood to punish thq crimi nal. As well might we open the doors of every penitentiary in every land and turn loose every vile criminal who has forfeited his right to earn a living and to be treated as a decent citizen, as to permit Germany to go unpun ished for a long term of years as some atonement for its crimes, with a financial indemnity which would restore to the nations robbed and looted the financial cost of saving civilization from destruction. As the war goes on and we sound depth after depth of German infamy, our views as a people change. As our young men die and our ft old men and women go brokenhearted to their lonely graves bereft of sons who should have been their comfort; as we read the letters our boys in France send home of a country de vastated, of churches burned, of homes looted, of property destroyed, of babies murdered and women rav ished, mercy becomes a mockery and we steel our hearts for the aw ful fate we as a people must deal out to this criminal among the na tions. These voices crying for just punishment of the German people who have aided and abetted in the greatest crime of the ages are the spokesmen of a vast mute element of the nation that has become legion and is fast becoming universal. Ger many has contracted a great debt and Germany must pay—in both blood and money. There is naturally considerable hot air about the steam heat rate advance. FOLLOW OHIO'S EXAMPLE OHIO Republicans yesterday adopted unanimously a plat form containing a plank strong ly favoring national prohibition. It was obviously the thing to do. Pro hibition sentiment is growing by leaps and bounds. It is sweeping the country. More than half the number of States required to make the amendment a part of the Constitu tion have approved it. The final suc cess of the measure appears to be as sured. It is a wise political leader ship that moves in accord with pub lic sentiment, if not in advance of it. It is folly for political organizations to stand in the way of what the peo ple earnestly want, for in the end the people will have what they want. The Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania in framing a plat form should take a leaf from Ohio's notebook. Senator Sproul has said that he hopes the platform makers will come out flatfooted for prohibi tion, and he is careful to add that no matter whethsr they do or not he means to stand by his own declara tions on the liquor question. The occasion will permit of no straddling. The platform should de Clare one way or the other. The "wets" are lining up behind Bonnl well. There is but one place for the Republican party in Pennsylvania this Fall—and that is in the "dry" column. By the Ex-Committeeman Predictions are not wanting that the meeting of the Democratic State Committee here next Wednesday will be in line with the traditions of the party in Pennsylvania. Every sign is that there will be a clash of con tending cliques and Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers say that the ruling faction plans to retaliate upon Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell for his attacks upon the men at the head of his party's official organization. It is intimated in ene "newspaper that even his standing as a Democrat may be impugned. The leaders of the rival factions are giving all of their time to the war inside their own party and there is more scheming and backing and filling going on /than has been known in the last half dozen years. The federal jobholding coterie which has been running the party machine in Pennsylvania, is face to face with the biggest fight it has had since it dethroned the old Guftey-Dewalt crowd by a bare majority. Singu larly enough, the place whexe that historic Democratic event occurred will be the scene of next week's meeting. | —Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers say that it Is apparent j that the reorganization group pro poses to have all of the big timber here for the meeting so that the showing may be as impressive as pos sible. It is not the intention of Judge Bonniwell to ignore the meeting. He will not attend it, but his friends will he the're and the Judge, If he does not come to Harrisburg, will be I within telephone distance and will have some of his. trustiest and most resourceful lieutenants on the ground. They will be ready to fight at the drop of a hat, too. —The scheme of„ the bosses is to call the Judge to account for filing papers to create a third party when he is the nominee of the Democratic party at a direct primary for the most important office in the 3tate. The fact that some con. pi 'uous Democrats, the national c v .a for instance, indulged in Iho -.astime of bolting in 191 i does net matter. This is 1918. In addition the wind mill forces intend to turn on the Judge some of his own ammunition. He has been demanding that J. Wash ington Logue, candidate for Llfcu tehant Governor, withdraw because he is "dry" and therefore out of tune with the Judge, who is "wet." The Judge argues that as he won over Joe Guffey at the primary on a distinctly "wet" platform that the Democratic party by expression of a majority of its voters is therefore "wet" and Mr. Logue being "dry" must get off. • —Although ill at his home in Union town State Chairman William E. Crow has been getting into touch with the Republican county chair men throughout the state, urging that they get the voters qualified. The chairman has sent a letter to each county chairman asking him to at once get in touch with all his com mitteemen, and with assessors and tax collectors, to see that as many Republicans as possible are quali fied to vote In November. Voters, in order to cast their ballots, must be assessed, pay their taxes and be properly registered. Assessors will be in the polling places on Tuesday and Wednesday. September 3 and 4. the last days to be assessed. The last tax day is Saturday, October 5. Tho registration days are September 5, September 17 and October 5. It is important that voters understand that registration at the spring reg istration does not qualify them to vote at the November election. The spring registration merely permitted voters, who had not registered pre viously, to qualify for the spring primary. • —All the Republican nominees for state office have accepted invitations to attend a Montgomery county Re publican mass meeting on Robin son's Meadow, Collegeville, Saturday, September 7. In addition to Wil liam C. Sprout, for Governor; Ed ward E. Beidleman, for Lieutenant Governor; James F. Woodward, for Secretary of Internal Affairs, the candidates for Representative in Congress-at-Large and Congressman Watson, United States Senator Pen rose, Auditor General Snyder, and Gabriel H. Meyer, of Lebanon, have signified their intention of being present. —The plan of the reorganization or ruling clique is to adopt a plat form which will sidestep prohibition, glorify Democratic regularity and re bound with patriotic utterance and when the Judge does not subscribe to it, to declare he is without tho fold and should retire as Democratic candidate for Governor and run on his own party track. —The discussion of these various positions will not be ope sided when the state committee meets. —The Philadelphia Record says that an effort may he made to "in duce" the Palmer-McCormick ele ment to accept the Bonniwell plat form, which means that an attempt to put a "wet" plank in the plat form will be made at the state com mittee meeting. —The Bonniwell people will pre empt their party name here to morrow and will likewise get some of their nominations on file. It is said that Strayer and Tarner; can didates for Oongress-at-Large, will bq with Bonniwell. Both were claim ed to be reorganizers. —Superior Court Judge John N. Kephart sat on the bench with Judge Ross, at York this week. The Judge was in York and Lebanon counties seeing friends and went to Ebens burg last night. —Judge Bonniwell is at the Wash ington county fair to-day and also has a meeting of friends scheduled for Pittsburgh. —Senator Penrose is due here to morrow night on his way to Union town whence Senatpr Sproul goes to morrow. — r Two brothers of Senator "Sam" Salus have been put in class 1A in the Philadelphia draft. They had been in different classes. —Thomas H. Hlggins, editor of the Delaware county Democrat, whose son was killed in France, has gone into the army. —The Woodrow Wilson League, of Chester, has endorsed Judge Bonni well. The Busy Boche HoW doth the little busy Boche Improve each shining minute? He gets out of a salient As fast as he gets in It! —Brooklyn Eagle. IT ATCRI&BURG tS3SSTELEOHAPH WHAT DOES A MAN THINK ABOVT WHEN TAKING HIS MORNING SHAVE? By BRIGGS 'Ho-fl-ViAfiHM- --> i wonder why f\ " \ certaimuY Fee_ \'n—Get • down To ' , L ...OrzT ' FetLow COS 3 Those rotted - ST(U I Had The off.ce awd v tonJ wight Thih6S- nr oom-T GST- a <?ool> time - t-ri all Out. a, lotta Work * ~ CHA ANYTHING iw a LIFE Tune.- - VUH Gotta GET OUT A. lotta COIf J fV,H (JoTTA HAUE A" ONCE IN A WHILE OR OUST To Fe6L RoTteN LITTLE FUAJ- <SeT IT VUH GST stale ' J sys ' r&^ A ' " Those Rickeys is " Wonder what ee- u/ell- iOo more for •• FEEL pretty what KNOCKEP me CAME OF THE b - s " t N\E- I'M OFF6N T Goot? COMS idcaiN 1 '" SOME (3 F 1 WAX FOR. A UOM6 TIME HANGOV&f* -- ( HAX> MO SOBCR To Gotta 'TEis)l> To 80-SINESS "To TAKE ALL Re ST OF TrtC 'BUSINESS NovaJ - STILL •AT STUPE ON AW j Do WT FEEL SO EMPTY stomach: J ROTTEW * LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A CAPITOL GUIDE To the Editor of the Telegraph: "It was a happy thought that sug g sted the distribution of a little bul let 1 ".. describing the Declaration chamber in Independence Hall to the million and more visitors who come there each year. Wilfred Jordan, the curator of the hall, tells me that the plan looks to the preparation of sev eral other bulletins, all of which will be distributed free to visitors. "The first bulletin, a fourteen-page leaflet, illustrated with facsimiles of the Resolution of Independence and of the Declaration itself, is now be ing given aiyay in the hall. "There is a great deal of informa tion packed away in these pages. Many are devoted to facts and dates and answer the inevitable questions which nine-tenths of the visitors either ask or on which they desire to be informed. "From all parts of the civilized earth visitors come to the birthplace of Liberty, but not one in a thousand knows anything about the chamber itself or what's what there. In the leaflet will be found a brief account of every important in the room and a short chronology of the development of the Declaration from the time of the Virginia resolutions introduced by Richard Henry Lee, but believed to have been written by Jefferson himself, to the time the engrossed paper was signed by mem bers of the Continental Congress in August, 1776. "Decidedly the bulletin is likely to prove of immense educational value; and the more information is obtained about the historic room the deeper and more vital will be the patriotism' of the visitor." The above clipping from the Phil adelphia Ledger explains itself. At the present time there are thousands of visitor i to Pennsylvania's mag nificent State Capitol who greatly de plore the absence of any available printed description of the building, its statuary, paintings, etc. The writer believes that the Com monwealth could not serve the many interested visitors to better advan tage than by presenting them with a copy of a publication giving a brief description of the many matters of interest. The writer is proud of Pennsylvania and the Capitol, and more especially because he has had the opportunity to inspect a consid erable number of other state cap itol buildings of the United States, none of which surpass that of .our own grand Commonwealth, regard less of more lavish expenditures of money by sister states. The guides who escort visitors may tell about the sublimity and grandeur of the edifice, its compelling beauty, •strength and harmony of its beau tiful and imposing architecture; but a printed description would be prized by visitors and, tourists beyond spoken words, however fitfully ex pressed. OLIVER D. SCHOCK. Are They Going Backwards? (From the New York World) J Transit facilities in New York are vaguely suggestive of the kaiser's j itinerary to Paris. No Way to Woo Comfort Lima Beane says you can't get, cool by sticking your finger in a re-, volving electric fan. —From the To ledo Blade. LABOR NOTES Akron (Ohio) machinists haave a 100 per cent, organization. Canada had 37 strikes in .May, in volving 14,583 workmen. Policemen in Greater New York ask increased pay. Baltimore (Md.) Clothing Cutters and Trimmers' Union was recently awarded an increase of $2 a week in ; nearly all the shors. In Febrifar? a j similar advance was secured. Vancouver (B. C.) street car men j are to receive a minimum of 40 cents a% hour and a maximum of 51 cents an hour, two years' service to deter mine the maximum pay. Tbey re ceive the elght-'hour day and get time and a half for overtime. Commencing September 1. 1918, no member of the Journeymen Tailors' Union of America will be allowed to ! work under any but the following conditions: (1) Free workshop fur nished by the employers; (2) a week ly wage scale to be fixed by the local; (3) eight hours to constitute a day's work; (4) time and one-half for i overtime , Christ the Combatant [Front the Christian Register.] BEFORE this war goes much further it will be someone's business to say that Christ in the trenches is not merely Christ the consoler, but Christ the combatant. We are re uljaforthwith to declare it, and now so do. That is the most im perative lesson we have to leabn if Ave are going to make religion count for the utmost to-day. The time has passed for that wraith-like concep tion of the Man of God. We have got to see him acquainted with arms, and not merely moving about in white robes haloed with supernal glory. His work changes according to the needs of the world. We have got to go through the mental travail of learning the Christ of anger and action as well as the Christ of meek ness and meditation. We are bound to follow him, going down into the pit of the mire and filth, and the shot and the shell, and the guns and the grenades and the bayonets, doing to the death the iniquities incarnat ed in the enemies of man and God. That is inescapable. It must be done. It is unthinkable that He would kill only because we have misinter preted His Jlcrson and His mission; and because, when it comes to re ligion, people are sentimental chil dren who flee from the incontro vertible logic of fact. We are in this war because we believe it is a judg ment of God that only by force of arms can we save the world. As Christians, oi course, we say Christ approves. But would he fight and kill? Th} business of Jesus Christ was to save the world, we affirm; and that is our business. He was willing once to pay with His body for His soul's desire. But most of us go no further. There was no in ternational warfare during His life time, and His recorded experiences are thereby limited. We are unable, from facts, to collude what He would do; but we ou"ht to Gen. Crowder a Draft Student Representative Greene. Vennont, who as member of the House Mili tary Affairs Committee has come into intimate contact with General I Crowder, tells how the latter spent a lifetime studying for the big job he now holds. "When General Crowder was a junior lieutenant at an obscure army post in Texas he chanced upon a copy of old Civil War draft regula tions," Greene said. "He read them over, first out of curiosity. Then he began to think how those rules could have been made more just and equitable. "Gradually he evolved his ideas of how a draft should be run and with the idea came the conviction thai some day in this country there would be .the need of a great army and that this army would be raised, not front volunteers, but by a process of selection front the total nian-power of the country, "Meanwhile Crowder was advanc ing in the army step by step. "When# the United States entered the war General Crowder was the one man in the army 1 who was ready to go before Congress with a con crete suggestion for the framing of a selective draft law." Other members of the Military Committee say Crowder's suggestions were written, into the bill almost without change.— Exchange. The Public Be D [Philadelphia Press] Director General McAdoo started in very exuberantly to cut down the expense of conducting the railroads, and among his comparatively small economies was the closing of most of the branch ticket offices in the large cities. Experience of railroad managers had established these as rot only a convenience to the public but as a necessity to prevent conges tion at the railway stations. In this city, as elsewhere, it has been found that the public could not be prop erly accommodated after the clos ing of the branch offices, and ad ditional windows for the sale of tickets have been opened at the sta tions, and a back office established at Chestnut street near Sixteenth. This does not fully relieve the pres sure, however, as the waiting crowds in busy hours attest. After he has been in charge of the railroad busi ness for a few years the Director General may know apart of it al most as well as the managers who have spent a life time learning It. I be in no doubt, 'from the inviolable! j nature of luc approach to every! [ crime, what His course would be. Let us say, with supreme con- j j tempt for casuistries, that they who; | think that the Jesus Chr.ist of the! | soldier is a remote God presiding \ over devotional services in stately! I temple and administering the ele-! I ments of the communion, at once' ] defame the soldier and deny their! Lord. Let our word be not mlsun-1 I derstood. We speak with the pro- i ; foundest reverence for the ministra-l ! tions and forms of religious observ-! j ance. But the Christ whose princi- j j pal business is in the sanctuary I j made with hands is a false Christ, j j The true Christ is out there in the! i thick of it, on land or sea or in the i air. There is not a danger tha't He j | would evade, there is not a soldier | but He would brother him with hist | virile love, there is not an opportu-l j nity to deal death to the enemy that I i He would not shrink from or delay! !in seizing! He would take bayonet I and grenade and bomb and rifle and! i do the work of deadliness against; j that which is the most deadly enemy; ! of His Father's kingdom in a thou-' ; sand years. He came that we might j have life, abundantly. That is the ; inexorable truth about Jesus Christ; I and this war, and we rejoice to say' | it. If it is not so, then the war is not ours. I The spirit saith to-day: Come; ; forth, thou Christ complete, captain; jof our salvation, exemplar in the j flesh of every noble impulse and do- j sire that ever moved the heart and j 'soul of thine own beloved mankind! ! Be with us in thy mystical might,! j with thy relentless passion to save I I the world again which has been lost \ I since thou were here. For thou and! I we ir> one, at last; yea, thou are! I infin-t .1., like us, as we would be like! i tb'-s, e.,d together, though we de-i ! scend to hell, we shall win the vic ' tor.v. Good soldiers of Jesus Christ! Gompers and Labor Pacifism , | [From the New York Times.] In addition to his unremitting and! I fruitful patriotic labors at home, Mr. | , Samuel Gompers has done the Unit- i i ed States invaluable service abroad. IHe is for a "dictated peace" as , strongly as Mr. Lodge and the rest| I Of us, outside of the Socialist Little I J Germany and the imitation intellec- 1 | tuals of American pacifism, few but I unfit. Keen and ready was the opposi- I tion of the Federation of Labor to j the Stockholm Conference and all j the other German sideshows, the j ■ yearnings of some weak-kneed or | weak-headed Entente Socialists fori ("conversations" with the German j Socialists, leng notorious agents and | tools of the German government. Steady and keen is the federation's! opposition to all the games and de- ! vices of the dupes or accomplices ofj the German Socialists to bring about' a peace by understanding, a peace of; negotiation, a peace that shall leave Germany free to continue her policy I of dominion. Mr. Gompers has blocked once the little game of Mr. Arthur Hender son and the other gods of what is now the Independent Labor Party, which consists in large part of "mid-' die class" people. Mr. Gompers has! sailed for Europe, to block Mr. Hen derson's game again. Automobiles and the War [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] It is not only the owners of auto mobiles who have benefited by jour neys on the country roads on the universal day of rest. The automi bilc has developed generosity in the people. Millions who do not own cars are guests of those who do when they ride and they get more than fun out of it. But if the gasoline-sup ply is short, or a shortage is immi nent if motoring is not curtailed, the people will forego with an approxi mation of cheerfulness the road pleasures to which they have' be come accustomed. "Win the war' ts a slogan that means something. The popular sentiment is. "if the war can be won that way, take my car." Old Stuff, Bill; Old Stuff Like all defeated campaign man agers, the Kaiser is claiming every thing.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. To Be Admitted It must be admitted, however, that the Kaiser has come nearer fooling all his people all the time than any other ruler.—lndianapolis News. AUGUST 29, 1918 Fair Play and No Immunities [Philadelphia Press] It is not contended that the gov | eminent should not raise eight bil lion dollars by taxes, if that is re : garded as the proper proportion. It ;is contended, however, that there ] must be no "politics in the levying of i taxes; there must be no immune j class; and there must be a special [effort to round up tax dodgers. Con • centrating on wealth and industry is a very foolish way of bringing about | the ideal condition in this country. 'There are certain industries in the I country which have for sectional or ; political reasons been absolved from j the payment of taxes. There are cer ! tain things which are untaxed which ' could readily bear a- tax. Why i should there be any immunities or i exceptions? Why should not the doc i trine of fair play in taxation have , a chance, especially in time of war? OUR DAILY LAUGH | LACK OF H CONFIDENCE. r^jjl The weather X/UVTTN man says we AW / will have snow f, tomorrow. j y/VVfkrfL means that WiUt good weather V JF/fV has arrived at > PHEW! -dfflflllL -O jr7.l There's some- Bid t hln 5 in his face ™ B. I doift like. I 1 must be ilH|| that rank cigar he Is smoking. COULDN'T KEEP A JQB. [ f/7 <{P^ Powder Can: V// What's the mat- yOl " Pistol: oh, JhJV// I'm getting fired 1L all the tlir*o. lIHjU | > HE WANTS TO j 'f* § Pa, what Is a I ' ' oves books, my KiwZZS 1 Then Is a ma* \j V jn|jlM: who loves fish o j flshworm? HE HAD BEEN quickest way to \, 'jS tlon, young man. 1 |8 j Insult an of- it \ | fleer, Is the j quickest, I JP j §HIS CHANGE. This Is a world ■ of change. Yes; and, by I the way, have j you got any lEmtmg ©hat The last of the flowers that witl bloom In the old Capitol Park beds are blood red and they are blossom ing with all of their pristine color and making the lawn bright in hall a dozen places. It is.not the inten tion to have any of the old style flower beds next spring. Everything about the park is to be changed to make it conform to the great scheme which is being worked out to make the Commonwealth's domain one ol the beauty spots of the land and the old-fashioned round beds of gerani ums and cannas and other flowers will be seen no more and the squir rels will have to forage some other place than hyacinth and tulip bulb beds for their midwinter banquets. The green of the potted plants will not be seen again and the petunias will be missed. The flowers that are now blooming are the red cannas, which are saying farewell, the gera niums which seem to be as robust as in July end the scarlet sage which lives up to Capitol traditions of red ness. These flower beds will be re moved this fall. The old conserva tory has about disappeared and the rose garden which bordered the glass houses except some plants which look like golden glow and which wave their message to "come and cut, again" in melancholy fashion, as though realizing that it is their last stand on Capitol Hill. The flower beds will he replaced with native shrubbery of which a large number of plants have been gathered. "I don't think you have mentioned the eight o'clock rule in your remi niscences about the swimming in the old Pennsylvania canal," said the man who was born close to the cana! and liked to swim in it better than in the Susquehanna. "There used to be a rule that us boys could not go in swimming near Market or Chestnut or Mulberry streets in the evening until 8 o'clock. The reason was thai there were trains arriving and de parting trorn seven to eight and us boys used to gather in crowds and wear only birthday suits. The last train was old St. Louis Express. II pulled out sit 8 o'clock and when the last car had cleared Markei street there was just one splash all along the canal." A friend who lives in another citj has sent an interesting bit of chat about the old Walnut street lock ol the canal. This lock, he says, was the only or.e in the state at whose start the Governor took part. It was known as the Penn lock and the cornerstone was laid March 14, 1827 A Masonic ceremony took place and there were present the Governor ami state officials and many prominent men, including the governor of Ten nessee, who happened to be here or a visit. The orator was no less a person than the speaker of "h House, later Governor Ritner. Tht old canal seems to have been a migh ty important enterprise to the peo ple of the State Capitol in the earl,y days. Father Per.n's revenue seems tc have been hit by its usual late cum mer malady—lots of checks and noi so much money. Occasionally a check for a couple of hundreds ol thousands of dollars comes along to gladden the heart of State Treas urer Kephart, but lately there have been 400 to 500 checks a day and an aggregate of SBO,OOO to $90,000. Of course, there are many folks wno would be glad to endorse a thou sand checks for $50,000. but when one is accustomed to turning over slips of paper for a quarter of a million or'incre a $156 check loses its novelty. The work or fight order seems to have caused some queer ideas, ixi the first place draft boards are limit ed to specified occupations which are to be classed as unproductive. Some draft officers, however, have been making their own arrange ments and railroad men, steel work ers and others have been called up. There is no controversy whether a lawyer is an officer of the courts and not to bo drafted. The draft officers hold that a lawyer can be drafted the same as a surveyor or a clothing cutter, but seme attorneys rely on the famous Gibson decision that an attorney is an officer of the court. Union station is about the most in teresting place in Harrisburg if you can get near enough to it. There arc trains of soldiers going through con .stantly, the movements being vari - ous ways and there are also parties of officers and men about. The can teen workers of the Red Cross are about the busiest people in Harris burg and they are easing the minds of many a boy and cheering the hearts of their folks at home by seeing that postal cards are mailed and some times having to furnish the stamps. The other evening while a train load of drafted men was standing in the station on its way to Camp Lee a. train filled with sol diers from the "Sandstorm" divi sion, which was raised on the west ern desert, came in and there was a cheering match. The soldiers were | singing and cheering and shouting I and the drafted men were making ! considerable noise themselves. It | was noted, however, that the drafted 'men were not as cheery about it as I their brothers in khaki, but the I cheering had hardly been returned a couple of times when they perked up and made the station shed fairly rock with sound. The cheering and" sing ihg attracts many people to the bridges and even into the station and there are some trains upon which the men appear to be well drilled singers and quite happy about it. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —John W. Jordan, reappointed a members of the Valley Forge Com mission, is one of the noted hlstor-,. ians of the country. —State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery is working on his hobbv, which is bibliography of the state end has an impressive list already. Edward Lindsay, who is to pre side at the meeting of Library trus. tees at Oniontown, is active in the library at Warren and served in the Legislature. —Senator William C. Sproul's am bition is to gather the facts for a history of the Delaware river. —Charles B. Spatz. former legis lator, who is fifty-two, tried to en list in the Signal Corps and was re jected at Reading. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg pig Iron is being used for making many articles for carrying on the war? HISTORIC! HARRISBURG Conrad Weiser complimented John Harris upon the ideal location of his home for the transportation route*
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