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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1918
There is a home for weary souls
By sin and sorrow driven,
When tossed on life's tempestuous
shoals,
Where storms arise and ocean rolls,
And all is drear but heaven.
—WILLIAM B. TAPPAN.
OUR BOYS IN BATTLE
LIEUTENANT LONG and Lieu
tenant Swartz, the Harrisburg
officers first to arrive home
after participation in the fighting
along the Marne, bring back to the
home folks the thrilling atmosphere
of that wonderful series of battles
in which the Keystone troops turned
the tide and sent the Hun hordes
reeling back toward Germany. When
the whole story of that wonderful
achievement shall have been told
the people of th United States will
realize as never before the fighting
qualities of the average American
soldier and the high morale of those
who are making the stand for lib
erty and decency three thousand
miles away.
In the preparation of a housing
code for Harrisburg the City Commis
sioners will doubtless keep in mind
the necessity for remodeling many old
and tumble-down buildings which are
not fit for human habitation. It-is not
only a question of better buildings for
the future, but also an improvement
of conditions in those congested sec
tions of the city to which the Tele
graph has called frequent attention.
HOPELESS DEMOCRATS
THE hopelessness of the Demo
cratic party in Pennsylvania
and the utter inability of its
self-proclaimed leaders to lead, were
never better illustrated than by the
present total disruption of the or
ganization. With President Wilson
at Washington solemnly declaring
that "politics is adjourned." his two
spokesmen in this State, Palmer and
McCormick, came to Harrisburg
playing old-time machine politics
with bassdrum and cymbals to say
nothing of a fine .display of redilre
and rockets.
It is a sordid story, with a humor
ous side, this Palmer-Bonnlwell-Mc-
Cormick incident, and not all of it
by any manner of means is told in
Palmer's charges against his party's
candidate for Governor. In synopsis
it is this. Bonniwell decides to run
for Governor in the Democratic pri
maries. The Palmer-McCormick
machine sets out to beat him. Bon
niwell beats the machine and is
nominated. McCormick sulks in his
tent, hesitating between the shame
of supporting a candidate whose af
filiations with the booze in
Pennsylvania are his proudest boast,,
and the humiliation of being com
pelled as National Democratic Chair
man to bolt his own State ticket. So
he remains silent and lets Palmer
do the talking. PeJatier does, with
out consulting McCormick, and like
the real, dyed-in-the-wool machine
politician he is, asserts that the
choice of the party is good enough
for film and he will support Bon
niwell.
Thereupon he undertakes to lead
Bonniwell into the Democratic Pal
mer-McCormick machine camp, and
Bonniwell declines to be led to the
slaughter. When it becomes clear
that he cannot control the fire-eat
ing nominee for Governor, Mr. Pal
mer digs up a series of charges that
sound very much as though, if true,
he must have had considerable
knowledge of them before he first
aligned himself with Bonniwell fol
lowing the primaries, and the stage
is set ready for the Bonniwell com
edy, September 14, with a big hook
in the wings awaiting the moment
deemed best for the summary re
THURSDAY EVENING, SABBISBURG TELEGRAPH! ' , ' SEPTEMBER 5, 1918.
moval or tne ODnoxious canuiuaio ao
the central figure in the play.
So the situation resolves itself
down to this —Bonniwell won't play
with Palmer, so Palmer repudiates
Bonniwell, seconded by a meek "me
too" from the national chairman. No
body doubts the unfitness of Bonni
well for the Governorship. Nobody
has imagined—not even Palmer or
McCormick —that a Democrat ever
had any show of election as Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania this year. The
present row, therefore, is not in the
interests of the people, but is for the
control of the Democratic party ma
chinery. If Bonniwell polls more
votes on the Fair Play ticket than
on the Democratic ticket, the Demo
crats would be in a bad way, unless
they had repudiated his candidacy
and they are playing safe. That is all.
As to the allegations that Senator
Sproul is not a sincerely "dry" can
didate, why should the liquor inter
ests put a "wet" man like Bonniwell
in the field if the Chester Senator is
not favorable to the enactment of the
prohibition amendment? And as to
his not daring to make any declara
tions on the temperance ✓ question
following the primaries, he has dis
proved that allegation before it was
uttered, having repeatedly made his
position clear on prohibition since he
was nominated and has freely ex
pressed the hope that the Republican
platform will contain a "dry" plank.
The Palmer incident has had the
intended effect. It has eliminated
the Bonniwell candidacy utterly
from the race and has added thou
sands of votes to the majority by
which Senator Sproul will be elected.
But it has done more than that. It
has so split up the Democratic party
as to insure the election of an almost
solid Republican Congressional dele
gation from Pennsylvania this fall.
This despite the plea of National
Chairman McCormick for Democratic
Congressmen to "support the Presi
dent," in his speech before the com
mittee yesterday.
Republicans of Pennsylvania know
that the President has looked to the
Republican side of Congress on every
critical occasion since the declara
tion of war and that many of his
most important war policies would
have gone by the board but for Re
publican votes. Instead, then, of
choosing doubtful Democrats, Penn
sylvania Republicans will send to
Congress to support the President in
his war aims sturdy Republicans,
who, while giving the administration
every assistance within their power
in the prosecution of the war, will
also have minds and convictions of
their own when Republican princi
ples are at stake. The kindest thing
Pennsylvania can do this Fall for the
President is to send him a solid Re
publican delegation, and the pros
pects are bright for just such an
event.
The happenings of yesterday
prove beyond question that the Dem
ocratic leadership is virtuous only
when it suits its purpose, and since
it has long been known that Bonni
well and his pals are interested only
in obtaining the reins of Democratic
power in Pennsylvania, there remains
only one hope for a decent adminis
tration of public affairs in Pennsyl
vania the next four years, and that
lies within the Republican party and
with its candidate for Governor, Sen
ator Sproul.
The Wotan line had a fine, mouth
filling sound, but it takes more than
that to stop the British.
THE M'ADOO ORDER
SECRETARY McADOO'S order to
railroad men to get out of poli
tics or out of the railroad serv
ice has caused all manner of discus
sion wherever railroad men fore
gather. For the most part the rail
roaders disapprove the order as an
unnecessary infringement upon the
rights of the American citizen. They
believe as administrator of the rail
road systems of the country in the
war period the Secretary of the
Treasury is justified in enforcing any
regulation which may have to do
with efficiency and the achievement
of the utmost limit of service in the
prosecution of the war. But they re
fuse to accept as necessary or ad
visable in a country whose govern
ment is for the people, by the people
and of the people the elimination of
a large and intelligent element cf
the population from participation in
that government.
It must be apparent to the aver
age thoughtful person that this dis
crimination against thousands of
men will inevitably lead to indiffer
ence to the important duties of citi
zenship and a possible attitude of re
sentment toward governmental reg
ulation in other directions. So long
as the people of the United States
are encouraged to take part in the
making of its laws and the adminis
tration of its affairs there can be no
real danger of failure in any feature
of our governmental activities or de
cay of our free institutions, but the
shutting out of a large class of citi
zens from participation in these ac
tivities may lead to serious conse
quences.
It is quite conceivable that Secre
tary McAdoo had in mind a useful
purpose- in divorcing the railroad
men from political but it is
an open question whether the drastic
order compelling these men to aban
don all thought of participation in
government save as they may cast a
ballot is not likely to lead to worse
evils than those which the order
may be designed to cure.
Under our system of government It
would seem to be fundamentally
necessary to encourage the citizens
of all classes to take an active part
not only in the intelligent exercise of
the franchise, but in seeking to
serve in public office. It is probable
that the railroad men who are now
candidates for office will submit to
anything and everything which may
seem to be necessary to win the war,
but the time must come when the
pendulum will swing back and nor
mal conditions be restored.
"PO UTCCI IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
While the election of Senator Wil
liam C. Sproul as the next Governor
of Pennsylvania has never been in
douot irom the day of the primary
in May, the events of yesterday in
the Democratic State Committee
have made certain an. immense ma
idriiy for him and the choosing of
an almost solid congressional dele
gation from Pennsylvania. Until A.
Mitchell Palmer, the Democratic
national committeeman from Penn
sylvania, made his sensational
charges before the party's highest
official body yesterday against Judge
Eugene C. Bonniwell, the nominee
of the Democratic voters at the pri
mary for Governor, there were some
who thought that the liquor men
and others behind the Judge might
engineer a combination which con
tained possibilities of cutting into
the Republican vote in Pennsylva
nia in war time. But not now.
There is no occasion in the tem
pestuous history of the Pennsylva
nia Democracy in the last forty years
that is comparable to what occurred
yesterday in the hall where the pres
ent bosses of the Democratic ma
chine won control in 1911. The Re
publican party in its most strenuous
days never had anything like it and
it would seem that a prediction that
the Democracy is due for more years
of wandering would be well founded.
The men who are leading the rival
factions of the Democracy of which
such rosy things were printed after
reorganization set in do not care
who is elected Governor. They want
to destroy each other.
—ln dramatic intensity the meet
ing yesterday afternoon was rare.
The Democratic national committee
man from Pennsylvania speaking
with the Democratic national chair
man presiding as the direct repre
sentative of the President of the
United States in party affairs
charged that the nominee of the
Democrats for the highest office in
Pennsylvania was a political crook.
And then the state committeemen,
elected at the same primary at
which the state ticket was named,
formally summoned the candidate
for Governor to appear before them
on September 14 to show xtause why
he "should not withdraw from the
ticket." As the nominee is not an
swerable to the committee and there
is no way of recalling his nomina
tion he can either come here and
have a Bonnybrook fair or he can
stand off and thunder.
—The Democracy of Pennsylvania
is going to continue the entertain
ment it has furnished for many
years and the participation of the
liquor men in politics will be marked
by another shining example of bone
headedness.
—lmmediately after the adjourn
ment of the Democratic state com
mittee yesterday afternoon the Pal
mer charges, which had been made
in typewritten form, were sent to the
state headquarters and to-day will
be mailed to Judge Bonniwell with
notice to appear before the commit
tee in this city at noon of Saturday,
September 14. Friends of the Demo
cratic nominee here said that the
judge would speak for himself and
not only predicted that he would
continue on the ticket in defiance of
the leaders oY the rival faction, but
challenged the Palmer-McCormick
men to start either a new ticket or
bolt him.
—Before leaving for Washington,
Palmer and McCormick said that the
charges made spoke for themselves.
Palmer professed only mild interest
when informed that Sinnott had
plead%d abuse of confidence. Warren
VanDyke, secretary of the state com
mittee, who will send the notice to
Bonniwell, declined to make any
comment beyond advising that the
Palmer charges be read carefully.
The general opinion among ob
servers here is that it is a straight
fight for control of the Democratic
organization and that the develop
ments of yesterday headed off a de
mand for a reorganization after the
November election which would have
been made by the Bonniwell people.
It is also the opinion here that the
campaign against the ratification of
the prohibition amendment has been
given a terrific jolt and that men
who had been active in efforts to get
a big registration to-day will suffer
some disappointments and that in
terest in the Fair Play party will
languish. It is interesting to note
that to-day no pre-emptions of the
name were filed. It is the first day
since last Friday that none has ap
peared.
The nominations on the Fair
Play ticket must all be filed before
to-morrow night. If any additional
party is going to be launched by
anybody it will have to appear by
that time.
—ln addition to the Interesting
spectacle of Palmer and McCormick
standing up and professing to be
purifiers of the party because Mc-
Cormick as cheer leader for Palmer
demonstrated that he was with the
righteous, the people at the state
committee meeting heard the na
tional chairman call demand, for
getting of politics in one breath ar.d
the election cf a Democratic Con
gress as an essential in the next. It
is very evident from what was seen
and heard at the Board of Trade
building yesterday that there is no
intention cf adjourning Democratic
politics, state or national, for a while.
The only persons who should adjourn
that pastime according to the view
expressed by the chairman, are Re
publicans, whose recovery .of con
gressional seats in Pennsylvania ap
pear to bo causing Mr. McCormick
irritating dreams.
—Another thing that is bothering
the leaders of the reorganized dis
organized Democracy of Pennsylva
nia is that railroad men have been
forced by the order of Director Gen
eral McAdoo, highest Democratic
authority next to the President, to
get out of every political connection
from precinct registrar to candidacy
for the Legislature. For years rail
road men have been striving to get
direct representation, as pointed out
by this newspaper a few days ago,
and now it is all wiped away by the
Democratic national administration.
Railroad men who came here yester
day to see the national leaders got
little satisfaction.
LABOR NOTES
The Union Pacific Railroad will
shortly try an experiment by using
women to load freight cars.
Women employed in the munitions
factories of Great Britain are com
pelled to wear a khaki uniform.
The Railway Mall Association is
composed of 120 locals and has a
total membership of 13,011.
Several women in the State of
Washington are working as station
agents on the various railroads In
that state.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Since the expulsion of Prince Llch
nowsky from the Prussian House of
Lords for telling the truth, it is
doubtful if there are ten righteous
men left in Sodom.—<sol. Harvey's
War Weekly.
Writing in the North American
Review—"As an Englishman Sees
It"—Maurice Low discusses the war
from the Englishman's viewpoint,
saying: "For the last few years
Americans have been talking about
the wonderful efficiency of Germany
and bemoaning their own ineffici
ency, reproaching themselves for not
having patterned after German ex
ample. What it has taken Germany
forty years to do, what for forty
years has been the life of Germany,
the one thought on which her people
have centered, the idea around which
all Germany has revolved, America
will have done in two years. That
may seem an exaggerated statement,
but it is nevertheless true. A year
hence the United States will, If nec
essary, have a larger army in the
field than Germany had at the be
ginning of the war. A year hence
the American Navy will be more
powerful than that of Germany. A
year hence the guns, ammunition and
aeroplanes manufactured by the
United States in the first two years
of the war will exceed the material
with which Germany entered the
war."
AS TO REPRISALS
"We favor reprisals," says Colonel
Harvey. "We would exact from Ger
many the fullest possible indemnity
for the material damage which she
has done to Belgium, France and
Serbia, thought it bled her white and
kept her so for a hundred years. We
would sweep every German sympa
thizer and propagandist in America
into a prison pen, not where he would
be coddled and fed on the fat of the
land, but where he would be made
to feel some little measure of the
rigors which his kind have imposed
upon innumerable innocent people.
We would send German spies, ncen
diarles, and what not to the lethal
zone between a blank wail and a fir
ing squad. We would impress it upon
the minds of our soldiers at the front
that their first duty is to kill Huns.
If it is necessary or unavoidable that
prisoners shall be taken, take them;
but always remember that the first
choice is to kill.
"This is not savagery. It is not
bloodthirstiness. It is humanity. It is
justice. It would indeed be mon
strous injustice to forego the exac
tion of the greatest possible Indem
nity that can be forced by military
pressure from the lootfllled treasuries
of Germany. It would be inhumanity
to leave at large innumerable crim
inal conspirators. It would be blood
thirstiness to refrain from the killing
of a few whose deaths would mean
the saving of the lives of many. It
would be betrayal of humanity and
civilization to treat on terms of
equality and confidence those who
have shown themselves Intrinsically
criminal and depraved.
"We would not have our soldiers
degraded to the level of those with
whom they are fighting, and we have
no fear that they will be. Men who
slaughter mad dogs and rattlesnakes
and exterminate vermin do not there
by become degraded. On the contrary
the consciousness of having done
good deeds and of having freed the
world from peril tends toward a
higher spiritual standard. Our sol
diers who are killing Huns for hu
manity's sake will experience an ex
altation of soul such as the Crusad
ers knew and such as the pioneers
of progress and of rishteoußn6ss &*•
ways feel at the overcoming of dif
ficulties and evils.
"Reprisals, but not 'in kind. No
imposition of evil, but inexorable and
relentless exaction of atonement for
evil. No ravishing, slavery, murder,
sacrilege; but 'force, force to the ut
most force without stint or limit,'
and above all, at the present time,
the force that kills Huns!"
Germany Is Weakening
The condition of the German
army now verges on demoralization.
At no time in the war has it suffered
such heavy losses in men and guns.
The tally of prisoners taken by the
Allies in little more than six weeks
must be near 150,000 with Haig's
latest success. The Germans are
gravely crippled by waning power of
artillery. Their casualties have re
cently been enormous. It is evident
that they cannot bring up enough
reserves to stop the Allies. The Ger
mans are in the Bhadow of a great
disaster on the western front. —
N. Y. Times.
Colver Urges War Time Advertising
By Hon. W. B. Colver, Chah'inun Federal Trade Commission
[From the Editor and Publisher.]
DISCONTINUANCE or even sharp
curtailment of advertising be-
cause of temporary war condi
tions, would seem to imperil the
most valuable asset that any bus
iness has —namely, its good will. No
more faulty logic can be found than
that which would imperil a manu
facturer to cease building for the
future by means of advertising sim
ply because the output of his factory
is, for the time being, restricted; or
because diversion of his facilities to
war work has operated to withhold
his goods from accustomed markets.
In modern business there can be no
sufflcient-unto-the-day policy.
In advertising the businessman
has built up the intangible or spir
itual side of his business, if such
it may be designated, as distinct
from the material side. It is the
spiritual side, as represented by
goodwill, that is slower of growth
and that is the more seriously jeop
ardised by neglect—neglect which
could take no more disastrous form
than an interruption to advertising;
For example, if I have the requi
site capital I can build alongside the
plant of the Columbia Graphophone
Company a factory equal in all re
spects to the Columbia manufac
tory. Assume that I can turn out
an Instrument comparable In every
way to the Columbia product and in
equal numbers. Yet I am not even
a going concern. I cannot sell that
instrument to the public In profitabl
quantities until I build up the good
will that the Columbia Company has
acquired by years of advertising.
Goodwill, in my estimation, is far
more valuable than the physical
property with which it is linked.
The physical property is, in a meas
ure, useless without the vitalizing
spark of goodwill * * *
That, at times such as the pres
ent, there should be some hesitancy
regarding advertising policy may be
because it has never been scientific
ally determined what proportion of
advertising expense is an operating
charge and what proportion a capi
ta! charge. In my estimation, only
a small part, if any, of advertising
expenditure is properly chargeable
as a current item of sales expense;
but is, rather, when, translated into
terms of goodwill, a permanent in
vestment and hence a capital
charge. Given this conviction, it
must appear quite as shortsighted
to discontinue advertising merely
because the war has momentarily
GERMANY'S CREDITORS
[Kansas City Times]
Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the
Manufacturers Record, of Baltimore,
has been figuring out a way where
by Germany can find the money to
repay the Allies the cost of the war,
and has hit upon the plan of com
pelling it to repudiate its bonded
debt. This debt Germany owes to
its own people and its repudiation
would mean national bankruptcy,
which is what Mr. Edmonds would
see brought about as a punishment
r.o greater than Germany deserves,
as well as a guarantee that it will
remain helpless and quiet for at least
a generation.
"A prosperous Germany within the
next quarter of a century," he says,
"would be a blot upon civilization
and would show that civilization did
not have the moral backbone and
manhood to punish the criminal."
A prosperous Germany within the
next quarter of a century certainly
would look a little too much like a
premium on burglary, and the Allies
probably mean to discourage bur
glary. In lending their money to
their government the German people
were investing in a get-rich-quick
scheme. They were perfectly willing
to take the spoils if the army could
bring the loot back. It was adver
tised in the most public manner that
what the army was setting out to do
—armed and equipped with the
money invested In it by the German
people—was to rob France. The
scheme failed, whereupon the in
vestors sought to get a dividend by
robbing Russia. The loot Litre has
been rather disappointing, and tho
only hope the gamblers in il.e gov
ernment's war securities now have
s to get their bare principi 1 back.
Shall they be permitted to get it?
Shall the Allies allow thts wrecked
and bankrupt institution to pay out
its remaining assets to preferred
creditors, the insiders in its own con
spiracy to rob, while the people of
France and the other countries that
have saved civilization shoulder the
billions of debt incurred n the job?
Obviously that would be tc treat
thin speculation of the German peo-
interrupted distribution as it would
be deemed unwise of a manufacturer
to Junk a portion of his factory
equipment because there had been
interruption to its use.
Th manufacturer who has con
verted his factory to war work and
has therefore interrupted the pro
duction of his original line, does
not tear down and discard his ex
pensive machinery to save the in
surance premiums or other similar
expenses. It would be just as sensi
ble for a manufacturer, whose com
mercial integrity is founded upon
advertising, to abandon his adver
tising campaign in order to save the
carrying charge on his greatest asset
—goodwill ♦ • •
Persistent Advertising Is Insurance
There is scant Justification, it
would seem, for the misgivings of
the advertiser who is prone to allow
his investment in goodwill to go by
default merely because he suspects
that popular demand or the condi
tions of distribution may undergo
some radical change after the war.
If a businessman is basing his ex
pectations upon an unworthy prod
uct he might as well abandon it
once and for all. For the manufac
turer, however, who has faith in his
product there is every reason to
have faith in the future and every
incentive to take out insurance in
the form of persistent advertising.
Dominating the minor considera
tions of ways and means is the big
idea that an advertiser is justified,
in the face of suspended animation,
commercially speaking, in doing
everything within his power to sus
tain his commercial integrity jind
preserve his commercial identity.
Let the corporation with such an
asset use its surplus, employ its un
divided profits, or even borrow
money to protect, by means of con
sistent and insistent advertising, that
invaluable, intangible asset —good-
will, which is the one thing that
cannot be bought out of hand after
tlic war.
They told me when I was a young
ster that "even the Lord can't make
a two-year-old calf in a minute."
nig advertising spreads after the
war will meet equally big spreads.
Business will bid for public atten
tion and interest on a bull market. I
The purpose will be to put a punch
into the goodwill that has gone
flabby. The man who goes into
that contest with a public attention
and interest which he has never al
lowed to relax will go in with his
goodwill trained to the minute. He
will wtn.
' _
pic as a legitimate Investment. I'
would be to admit that the party to
a fraud has the same pro .action in
law at the intended victim of it. If
there are to be any preferred cred
lt.ois of the German government
ruieJv they should be the Allies who
ha* a been put to the cos; of lound
ir.g up the robber and recovering
iho stolen property.
IF *
If you can hold your head up while
the others
Are drooping theirs from marches
and fatigue;
If you can drill in dust that clouds
and smothers,
And still be fit to hike another
league;
If you can stand the greasy food and
i dishes,
The long black nights, the lone
some road, the blues;
If you can choke back all the gloomy
wishe3
For home that seem to spring
right from your shoes;
If you can laugh at sick call and the
pill boys,
When all the other lads are check
ing in;
If you can kid and Jolly all the kill
Joys,
Whose faces long ago forgot to
grin;
If at parade you stand fast at atten
tion.
When every muscle shrieks aloud
with poin
If you can grin and anicker at the
mention
Of some bone play connected with
your name;
If you succeed to keep your knees
from knocking.
At thoughts of all the bullets you
may stop;
If you can do these things and really
like 'em.
You'll be a reg'lar soldier yet. old
top.—D. H. W., in The Trou
ble Buster (U. S. General Hospital
No. 2, Fort McHenry.)
e
Outmatching the Big Bertha
[Philadelphia Inquirer]
There came from Paris the other
j day a brief cablegram. It was so
| brief that we quote it in full:
In special type, l'Heure (a news
paper published in Paris) prints
prominently this enigmatic note: I
"Will the echo to the great Bertha
soon be heard? Will that echo have
a Yankee accent?"
We wonder how many readers of
the Inquirer puzzled over that short
telegram. And yet had they follow
ed carefully the news printed in this
journal they need not have been at
a loss as to its meaning.
The "great Bertha" is the big gun
that has been bombarding Paris
from a distance of seventy miles or
so. But weeks ago—yes, some
months ago—guns made in the Unit
ed States capable of throwing an ex
plosive projectile upward of one
hundred miles were landed on the
other side of the ocean. Huge siege
guns that will smash fortifications aj
thirty-five miles are daily toys of
American artillerists training in this
country. But the rival to the "great
Bertha," the gun with a "Yankee ac
cent," is quite another thing. It is
evident that the Paris newspaper
has heard of it. But so far as is
known that gun has not spoken.
But there are many other things
that have not talked to the Germans
yet. They will all talk in due time.
When Marshal Foch gets good and
ready to let loose with his big offen
sive (which will be next year, we
suspect, not this year) it is more
than likely that the Hun will find
himself in for surprises which even
his "kultur" has not been able to
suspect. We are in this war to win,
and we are going to win.
And we are going to win in Ger
many—not on the soil of France.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
A CHRONIC
, SHOPPER.
My wife shops
Surely rain
keeps her in oc
casionally?
Yes. Then she
shops by tele-
M phone.
1 AN EXCEPTION \
Was there ever
| a woman who Jv'
| did not grab her 7)
| skirts and jump IMk
\ for a chair or a
table when she \JI I
saw a mouse?
§ BETWEEN
GIRLS.
I'm not happy
unless I have an
engagement ev
ery evening.
Me too. With
a couple of brok
en engagements
to patch up the
next day.
> DIFFERENT.
Can you keep a
But will you?
• 1 Oh, that's dif- TBlfc?
ferent. I don't > 1 A
bpsbtw his dr ®am.
1 the matter
' a wonderful
91, 'lf -mSm dreamed you
I were suing me for
,
FAMILIAR SAY
ING ILLUS
-1 He hung on fuf VI
Hanging (Eljat
There will not be so much interest
In the next draft numbers drawn fol
lowing the new registration as there
was when the first big lottery tools
place at Washington, for the reason
that the draft numbers will be sec
ondary, to deferred classification. For
example, the first man drawn may,
by reason of having dependants or
being physically disqualified be the _
very last to be called if he ever
On the other hand it might chance
that the man who is the 125 th to be
drawn might be the first to be callel
if the one hundred and twenty-foiw
before him happened to be entltl<
to deferred classification.
Nobody will be able to tell with
anything like accuracy his place on
the actual draft list by consulting
his number as drawn at Washington.
At best any such guess can be but
approximate and ip many cases
would be so far in error as to be
absolutely without meaning, so far
as possible date of call or order of
being called is concerned. The only
way for the Class 1 registrant to find
his true place in the draft will be to
wait until the questionnaires are all
filed, the various classifications re
corded by the draft board and then to
count the number from the first
name down to his own, as listed with
his local board.
• • •
Some of the lads who are being
called into the Army are getting a
mighty short time to prepare. One
of them, a Cumberland county resi
dent just turned 21, desired to be in
ducted into the service and called on
his local draft board to make ar
rangements. "No use said the secre
tary, you leave for camp on Thurs
day." That was on Monday. Pretty
short shrift, even for a man who
knew his time was drawing nigh.
• •
The Telegraph loses another of its
reporters to-day—Paul D. Fettrow,
who leaves to go into military train
ing at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Mr.
Fettrow has been connected with tho
Telegraph staff for several years, act
ing as Steelton reporter and "cover
ing" the West Shore territory. He
is a hard-working, cheerful, studious
young man who will succeed any
where he may go, if application and
industry count for anything. His
friends on tho paper presented him
with a silver wristwatch upon his
going and hope to have him asso
ciated with them again after the
war.
• • •
A thoughtful young lieutenant who
deserved better stubbed his toes hard
Sunday morning against a bonehead
ed individual in the Harrisburg po
lice department and left the city with
a very poor opinion of the town. He
was in charge of a big truck train
coming down the Carlisle pike and
headed for the Atlantic coast and on
the West Shore paused to ask his
way through Harrisburg, saying
"our trucks make considerable noise
and I want to go through the city so
that there will be as little disturb
ance of church services as possible."
"Ask the police department for a
pilot," suggested a bystander, which
the young officer did, and with This
result:
"We have no time to be piloting
soldiers around Harrisburg; find your
own way through-"
For the good name of the town
and to save the face of the officer a
West Shore man volunteered for the
service and under his guidance tli®
train was piloted through the city.
The Harrisburg. Rotary Club has
endorsed the nation-wide movement
for a "war angelus," meaning there
by a period of two minutes set apart
at 11 o'clock each day for prayer for
the success of the allied arms and
the attainment of the aims set forth
by President Wilson in his war
speech. Just how the subject will
be taken up here is not known but
it is likely that a committee will be
named to take up the subject. Ro
tary clubs everywhere are support
ing the idea, which is already in op
eration in a large number of cities,
the notification to the people of the
hour of prayer coming in the form
of whistle-blowing and bell-ringing.
G. W. Ensign, the well-known con
tractor of this city, is not one of
those who believes that the Susque
hanna cannot be deepened at com
paratively small expense. Within a
few days he will complete the dam
ming of that section of the stream
between the big island and the east
ern shore above Falmouth. Fur
thermore, has has done his work on
the bare bottom of the river, with
out interference by the stream. Thi3
he accomplished by a temporary dam
a half mile to the north, dumping
sufficient fill into the water to di
vert the current to the west of the
island. "The possibility of high wa
ter worried me, but not nearly so
much as the labor problem," he said
the other day. "The river behaved
itself, but in one week I sent to the
job 76 workmen and at the end of
the week had 26 men on the dam."
The new dam will do much to give
the York Haven Power Company
additional power for the Harrisburg
district as it will add tremendously
to the stovage capacity back of the
big turbines which operate the plant.
• • ♦
The meeting of the Democratic
state committee yesterday brought
to Harrisburg many men of long
prominence in Democratic affairs.
Charles P. Donnelly, one of the Phil
adelphia leaders, said that it was
thirty years since he had come to
this city for a Democratic meeting
and that yesterday's events were his
toric.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Adjutant General Beary will be
one of the speakers at the discus
sion of care for disabled soldiers to
be held by the American Academy
of Social and Political Science in
Philadelphia this fall.
—Commissioner of Health Royer
used to be a physician in the Phila
delphia municipal hospital.
—Secretary of Agriculture Patton
has taken to sheepraising at his farm
in Chester county.
y —Bromley Wharton, secretary of
the Board of Public Charities, serv
ed for years in the First Troop, Phil
adelphia City Cavalry.
—State Treasurer Kephart still •
keeps up his connection with the
railroad brotherhoods.
x —Fred Godcharles, deputy secre
tary of the commonwealth, served
for years in the Old Twelfth Penn
sylvania. i
—lnsurance Commissioner Am
blpr's first public office was postmas
ter of his home town.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg Is making
valuable mechanical appliances
or munitions for almost every
one of tlio Allies?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
One hundred years ago Harris
burg got much of its winter store of
provisions from the northern tier
by flat boats.