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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 0. 1918
Stand erect, and, like a man,
Know "They can who think they
can.'"
— NIXON WATERMAN.
"ON TO BERLIN!"
WE are speaking in terms of
force now," says Secretary
Lane, a member of the Presi
dent's Cabinet, "because that is the
one language which the German
government understands. We will
continue to speak in the language
that comes from the cannon's mouth
until we have achieved a military de
cision. A military decision will have
been reached, as I understand it,
when Germany knows that she has
been whipped, and knows that she
will be whipped again if she cont!n-{
ues to fight, that she cannot star.d I
against the physical force of the'
world, or its moral force."
.And when the Hun has been licked
to his knees, as is certain to happen,
let the armes of liberty and right
eousness and justice march on to
Burlin and determine there the fate
of the instigators and bloody leaders
of the inhuman horde that has up
set the peace of the world. There
must be no "negotiated peace." Con
dign and adequate punishment must!
be inflicted and the German people j
should be given such an object lesson j
as will cure them for all time of their 1
obsession that they are a superior
tribe whose will stall be imposed
upon the rest of mankind.
"On $o Berlin" is the order which
will be cheerfully obeyed by the
American forces and their brave Al
lied. •
Can there be any significance in the
fact that we have not recently read
anything about the "latest German
war loan being oversubscribed?"
POLITICS VS. PATRIOTISM
UNDER the caption "Politics vs.
Patriotism." the Bureau of
Municipal Research puts out a
bulletin calling public attention to
the need now of considering the
problems that will come with the
close of war. Says the Bureau:
When our boys come marching
home they will be in need of jobs,
and lots of them, thousands and
thousands of them. Who will give
.them work? What will happen
when the munitions factories and
other war industries close down?
Some people think we'll muddle
through somehow. Some of them
even deny the existence of anv
problem. But as a matter of
fact, after every war the prob
lem of reconstruction has been a
difficult one. A few venerations
ago, thousands of veterans of
European wars were hung as va
grants. More recently other vet
erans have sold shoe-strings or
begged on the street corners.
After the Civil War we had free
land in the West to give to the
soldiers, but that has now gone
If wc are not to face a disastrous
crisis we must make thorough
preparations in advance.
Unquestionably, as the Bureau
urges, i,t is our duty now to plan
comprehensive programs of public
works to bridge over the critical pe
riod of the readjustment. States
should see to It that there is means
of raising money at hand; that laws
for needed Improvements are made;
city planners should prepare for
definite developments. Bonds, if
necessary, should be authorized, v. ith
the understanding that they will
hot be issued or sold until industrial
conditions warrant.
Some communities are already at
work on the problem. Philadelphia
and New York are preparing by sur
veys and otherwise, the State of
Illinois has set aside $60,000,000 for
road improvements, Toledo has a
reconstruction program under way
and Rochester has taken steps in
that direction.
Pennsylvania, thanks to the fore
sight of Senator Sproul, is fairly
well prepared for eventualities.
There is at hand the act of May 7,
7 917. a law of which' the Chester
Senator is the author, providing for
the appointment of a commission to
be appointed by the Governor, the
duty of which would be to outline
public work In order to provldo em-
MONDAY EVENING,
ployment for the people of the
State at decent wages during pe
riods of industrial depression.
There has been no need for the
Commission since the enactment of
the law. so it has not been appoint
ed. Doubtless Senator Sproul. when
he beccmes Governor, will see to it
that the law ts made operative and
ample funds placed at the hands of
the Commission for use should the
occasion arise.
A great step in the direction . '
providing employment during the
reconstruction period will result if
the proposed $50,000,000 road loan
is approved by the people, as it
doubtless wilt be. In the light of
billion-dollar appropriations by
Congress, fifty millions do not look
so big as they once did.
In Harrisburg the proposed Capi
tol Park development could be
made to give work to a large num
ber, should the need arise, but we
ought also to be looking toward mu
nicipal improvements of other sorts.
Now is the time to plan. To-mor
row the war may end. The re
construction interval should not find
us as grossly unprepared for peace
as the opening of hostilities found
us for war. Let us have work in
plenty at good wages in sight for
our boys when they come home.
We must think of them in their
absence. ,
Just'to let the Kaiser know that
we don't mean to listen to any peace
chatter this winter, we are going to
raise another Liberty Loan.
STAMP IT OUT
ORDINARILY the "frhain letter"
is a burdensome nuisance and
should be discouraged. But qe
casionally comes one that deserves
to go the rounds, even at the risk
of overburdening the already griev
ously-taxed mail service. Such a
one has for its purpose the stamp
ing out of German propaganda. It
reads like this:
The false and malicious stories
constantly being circulated as
facts, discrediting our high offi
cials and the Red Cross, the care
and conduct of our troops, and the
condition of our cantonments,
etc.. are German propaganda. In
tended to create distrust and dis
contentment among our people and
discourage those who are working
for the country.
These stories are accepted as
news, and unfortunately are being
given the widest circulation by
patriotic Americans, who do not
realize that they are aiding our
enemies.
The espionage act provides
punishment for those who "con
vey" any false reports or state
ments concerning our govern
ment. Those fighting for us de
serve the fullest measure of our
loyalty and support, both in word
and deed.
We have resolved to close our
ears to al! such stories and so dis
courage their circulation. Will
vou do the same?
' Every citizen should assist in
stopping these malignant lies, so
enlist vour friends by mailing to
dav six or more exact copies of
this letter. Do not break the
chain. .
Here is a chain that ought to be
made strong enough and long
enough to link up every loyal Amer
ican man, woman and child. The
Government is dealing fairly with
us in the way of news. If a depart
ment head forgets his duty for a
moment in this respect, some watch
ful Congressman, Senator or news
paper correspondent is sure to call
his failure to the attention of the
public. We have no big losses to
hide; no defeats to conceal, and
if we had, they would soon become
public property. The only matters
that do not find their way into print
are of a character the knowledge
of which would aid the enemy, and
he would be a poor citizen who
would ask for that. What you see
in the newspapers concerning war
developments is true; nothing is
hidden that seriously affects the
public. Don't believe any report
until the newspapers verify it. All
else is apt to be German propa
ganda. Any move designed to
stamp that out is worthy of atten
tion.
It takes more than a mere German
torpedo to put our old friend Jim
Ham Lewis out of the running.
MILITARY TRAINING
NO dojbt the experiment in mili
tary training about to be tried
out at the High School will be
so successful that It will be found
necessary to employ a regular driil
master and instructor. The members
of the Harrisburg Reserves who will
contribute their services temporarily
are performing a patriotic duty. The
young man who will benefit are rap
idly Hearing eighteen, the new draft
age, and the more they know of ihe
rudiments of the war game when
they enter the Army, the greater
their chances of promotion. From
the ranks of the new armies the non
commissioned officers and lieuten
ants will be chosen and, naturally, the
lad who goes to training camp with
a knowledge of drill formations aad
the duties of the soldier will have a
big handicap over his fellow who has
his military a. b, c's to learn.
But even though the war be over
In a few months and the boys of six
teen and seventeen now are not
called, the mental discipline and
physical exercise they will receive
at drill would make the new course
of study well worth continuing as a
part of the school requirements un
der an experienced teacher.
During the month of August we
sent to France 400,000 soldiers, the
practical equivalent of the whole 1020
German class. And there are thou
sands more to follow.
Says a German war report: "We
are everywhere in.our ne'w positions."
Repeat dally and run t. I. as the ad
vertising department might say.
It's drawing near the Thanksgiv
ing season again, but we haven't
heard much about the Kaiser'a dinner
arrangements.
"An excuse, an excuse, my kingdom
for an excuse" —the Kaiser.
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By the Ex-Commit tee man
v The nation-wide movement against
use of gasoline on Sunday seems to
have prevented Judge Eugene C.
Bonniwell, Democratic nominee for
governor in spite of the bosses, from
bringing up the heavy artillery which
he had promised would be brought
to bear upon National Committee
man A. Mitchell Palmer and his pals.
The judge had arranged to issue a
statement yesterday, but did not.
He may later.
The Philadelphia Record, Judge
Bonniwell s newspaper backer, to
day joins Jury Commissioner
"Paddy" Brennan, of Allegheny
county, in demanding that Palmer
retire as national committeeman and
says various sharp things about him.'
The Philadelphia Press, which has
always been more or less favorable
to "the Palmer-McCormick regime,
to-day prints an article from its
Washington correspondent which in
dicates that Democratic leaders at
the national capital are disturbed at
the actions of the Pennsylvania
bosses.
As both Bonniwell and Palmer
were chosen by direct vote of Dem
ocrats they can make faces at each
other all day long and no one will
be hurt.
— Th Press says: "Democratic
Congressmen and candidates for
Congress of that party in Pennsyl
vania are discussing means ta over
come the repudiation of the partv's
Gubernatorial candidate by Demo
cratic National Chairman Vance Mc-
Cormick. and A. Mitchell Palmer,
Pennsylvania's National Chairman.
The situation facing Democratic can
didates in normal Democratic Con
gressional districts is admittedly
serious, according to the estimates
of those who have presented their
case to members of the' delegation
here. Before Judge Bonniwell has
time to act there may be a meeting
of the Democratic delegation in Con
gress from Pennsylvania to formu
late an appeal to the Democratic
voters of the state to ignore the ac
tion from Palmer and McCormick
and support the Democratic straight
ticket. They say that unless the
full Democratic vote is cast in the
Democratic column the Democratic
holdings from Pennsylvania will be
reduced.
i —An interesting sidelight on mat
i ters is given by a report at Wash
ington which says that the volunteer
police system of Pennsylvania is
considered a model for other states.
This force was provided for by the
bill presented to the Legislature and
championed by Senator William C.
Sproul.
—From all accounts State Chair
man L. H. Rupp, of the Democratic
State Committee, is having an un
happy time. Rupp lives in a county
where Bonniwell sentiment is strong
and it is intimated that if he goes
too far in fighting the Democratic
state nominee his chances for be
coming judge of Lehigh, which is
his ambition, may be affected.
—Ex-Senator Webster Grim, the
Democratic nominee for Governor in
1910, who was fought by McCormick
et al., is in a serious state. He
says Bonniwell has a fine chance to
win.
—ln a review of the Democratic
fighting in Pennsylvania, the Phila
delphia Pi ess says: "The McCor
mick-Palmer organization's right
gave way when its candidate lost the
nomination as Governor; its left was
flanked by the formation of the
"Fair Play" party. Therefore. Field
Marshal Palmer concentrated his
forces and struck at the center. Atul i
as in the cauu of Foch in the firsci
battle of the Marne, the attack went I
through ihe enemy lines. Juuge'
Bonniwell went into retreat in the'
fastness of Pike county, and at Ihe!
present time, he is engaged in a des
perate attempt to reform his divi
sions. Of course, this analogy ap
plies to the warfare between the "re
organizers" and the "old line" fac
tions within the Democratic party,
with Judge Bonniwell as the Moses
of the latter division. The "enemv"
against which Palmer and his fol
lowers diracted their attack was not,
in this case, the Republican parly.
The action they took practically in
sures the election of Senator Sprou!
on the Renublican ticket. Therein
lies its audacity. Therein also lies
the reason why Judge Bonniwell and
his advisers never believed it would
be done, ind why, presumably, they
thought they could afford to go to
such lengths in flouting and anger
ing the state organization in the in
terests of the 'Fair Play' party."
—Speaking in Montgomery county,
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
created much comment, especially
when he said: "The Democrats
started one war—the Civil War—and
the Republicans had to finish it for
them. And the Republicans had to
pay the bills. Now they've started
war—for a mighty righteous
purpose—but it looks to me as if the
Republicans will have to finish this
one also. But if we do. and we will,
we'll want a receipt and the coming
election will thoroughly indicate
what that receipt will be."
—A Pottsville dispatch says'
"After ascertaining the sentiment of
the leaders of the Democratic patty
as to his acceptance as their choice
as a candidate of that party for the
Supreme Court bench. H. O. Bechtel.
president judge of the courts of
Schuylkill county, has decided to cjuit
the race. This is not because he had
not been encouraged by his friends,
for he had the support of many of
the leading Democrats and of some
Republicans throughout the state,
but because of the disrupted condi
tion of the Democratic party in the
state. As Alexander Simpson, of
Philadelphia, a Republican, had been
appointed to succeed the late Judge
Porter as a Supreme Court judge, it
was believed by Judge Bechtel that
the fionor to succeed the late Judge
Mestrezat would fall to a Democrat,
thereby keeping the political com
plexion of the highest court un
changed."
—The state administration wing
of the Republican party scored a
victory over the Penrose faction Sa'-
urday at Reading by the election of
Thomas C. Seldle as chairman of
the county committee at its annual
reorganization meeting. The vote
was 65 for Seidle. who Is compensa
tion referee by appointment of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, to 10 for Harry
P. Shomo, of Hamburg, who is an
attache in the office of Auditor Gen
eral Snyder.
Always Look Like That
Uncle Bill, hearing an explosion In
the immediate neighborhood, said to
his small nephew, sitting in the auto
mobile beside him: "Get out Jimmy,
and look at the tire, and see If It is
flat."
"It looks pretty good." said Jimmy
upon inspection; "It's only flat on the
bottom side."—Everybody's MAga
slne.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE JENNINGS CASE
To the Editor of the Telegraph: i
In view of the attack on William j
Jennings 1 cm prompted to .isk|
whether or not, in tne light of right
living and the demand upon us to do
all we can to win the war, this pros
titution of wealth and power on the
part of the millionaire owner of the
Patriot is no: wholly inexcusabie-and
unpatriotic. There is no ground, un
less the occasion be so extraordinary
as to demand it, for men who can to
strike right and left that they may
cripple the i rcspects of America in
winning the war. One would think
Mr. McCormick. high in the councils
of President Wilson, would be the I
last man in the United States to j
open his columns to this sort of thins
at any time, most of alt at a time
when every one is yielding his best to
uphold the President and support the
country against the unspeakable Ger
man. It is bad enough in time of
peace to sit back and scowl and scold
at those with whom we do not agree.
At no time is this sort of thing
creditable: at this particular time it
is wholly unwarranted and unpatrio
tic. Either Mr. McCormick himself
or the men to whom he has entrusted
the publication of his papers in his I
absence, under the guise of "duty"
are doing their level best to hamper
the administration in carrying out
the plans that are so near the Presi
dent's heart. In view of the urgency
of the moment, would it not be well
for Mr. McCormick to forget his per
sonal dislikes and to cast aside his
political disappointments and turn in
with the remainder of Harrieburg's
Icyal cittzens to win the war. Daily
persual of his papers certainly proves
the need of a patriotic head and a
patriotic staff in Market Square, H-ir
risburg, Pa.
AN ENLISTED MAN.
The Jennings Case
[From the Sunday Courier.]
Nothing is gained by holding
prominent men up to scorn. Cer
tainly go public good was served
during the week by the notorletv
given William Jennings, a city bank
er, who had in accordance with his
interpretation of the coal adminis
trator's rulings procured a supply of
buckwheat coal for his winter home
near Duncartnon. With considerable
prominence his act was ventilated to
the public. It happens that Mr.
Jennings according to the ruling of!
State Fuel Administrator William |
Potter, had a perfect right to buy
the coal he did in the manner he did:
furthermore he figured it was a
grade of coal hard to use and not'
generally wanted by the public.
Friends of Mr. Jennings were of the
opinion that some other object than
that of giving the news moved those
responsible for the publicity. In view
of Mr. Jennings' activity in war wotk.
especially in the Liberty Loan drives
of the past, ft was regretted that any
stigma should be cast on him and
there were not a few persons who
said so in emphatic words
. COARSE WORK
[Front the Kansas City Times.]
The German crown prince tries to
emphasize the theory that Germany
did not desire war. but that England
did. Germany had just levied a big
property tax to increase its army and
the French government had been
warned by its military attache at
Berlin more than a year before the
war that the German preparations
would be complete by July, 1914.
In the same period the British gov
ernment had refused to take Lord
Roberts' advice and. Increase its mili
tary force.
Specifically, when war came Great
Britain had an army of 186,000 men.
Germany one of eight hundred thou
sand. Also Germany had several
millions of trained reserves to a few
hundred thousand in England.
The crown prince is about as re
liable in his remarks on the origin
of the war as he is in his statement
that the majority of Americans do
not know what they are fighting for.
A Message to American Business
By Yal Fislicr, London Publisher
THE experience of Britain's re
tail stores contains an ob
ject lesser, which should not be
lost on the businessmen of America.
During the first few months of :he
war, many stores cut down their ad
vertising- But Selfridge did not. He
did not skip a single day. He used
ail the space the papers would al
low him to use and Jias continued to
do so. The result was that Self
ridge's profits during the first year
of the war were $573,000; during
the second, $750,000, and during the
third year, $1,125,000.
"Another London store, much
larger than Selfridge's at the atart
of the war, decided to cut down its
advertising, and did so until they
saw their mistake, and the result is
shown in their returns. This store's
profits for the first year of the war
wefe $1,546,000: for the second year,
$1,000,000; and for the third year,
$1,175,000. From fourth or fifth
place among London stores, in vol
ume of business and profits, at the
start of the war, Selfridge has climb
ed to second place as the resuit of
his continuous advertising, and he
would be first to-day, had not the
STATE TAXATION
[From the Philadelphia Press. J
It becomes more and more evident
one~of the principal functions
the next Legislature will be called on
to fill will relate to a new basis for
raising the necessary revenue of the
state by taxation. That the process
will have to be on a new basis, or at
least, one differing considerably from
the present, is evidenced by the fact
that considerably larger sums will
have to De appropriated to carry on
the Commonwealth's business. When
the last Assembly was making its ap
propriations the United States had
only recently entered the war and at
that time tht situations which have
developed during our war making
were not in evidence, nor were they
to be foreseen. Consequently, the
appropriations of 1917 were made on
only a slight expansion of the ordin
ary peace time conditions, and the
amount of money available for them
was largely ihe product of our usual
peace time items of taxation and
valuations. • as the main
tenance of charitable institutions is
one of the largest burdens on the
State Treasury, it will be seen at once
that here alone is an item that, if in
creased, will throw new burdens of
taxation on the state. With the main
highways of the state bearing an un
precedented load of, freight traffic
which the railroads cannot take care
of, and rapidly breaking up under
the strain, It is hard to see how an
extensive road building enterprise
can be avoided, even under the pres
ent conditions which make road
building so tremendous a problem.
Here, again. I* the necessity of rais
ing and spending huge sums.
With the burdens of Federal taxa
tion what they are, and inevitably
destined for increase under the new
bill, it will be appreciated that the
task of the state's money-raising
body will be a delicate one, demand
ing more foresight and judgment
than have ever been brought to the
task before. After the more spec
tacular things, such as the prohibi
tion and suffrage amendments, for
instance, have been got out of the
way, the next Legislature may well
find tuxation problems its principal
matter of care. \
Grandfathers
"Father, what kind of boats were
the rams they used so much in the
Civil War?"
"They were probably the ances
tors of the ewe boats of to-day, my
I boy."—Puck
war prevented building additions |o
his store.
"British manufacturers who have
not a dollar's worth of merchandise
to sell, whoso entire plants are em
ployed on government work, are
keeping their advertising continu
ously before the public, because
while they are perfectly willing to
turn their profits over to the gov
ernment. while tpey are perfectly
willing for the sake of winning the
war to have their factories comman
deered and their normal business
completely stopped, yet they are not
willing to sacrifice their good-will;
they are not willing to have their
names or their products forgotten.
"And so they continue their ad
vertising, continue building their
good-will, so that when the war shall
be won there will be an intmediace
demand for the blllipns of dollars'
worth of merchandise that their
greatly enlarged factories will then
turn out. .
"This is a time when every manu
facturer, every businessman should
look far ahead. Good-will cannot
be built in a day, even by adver
tising. The war will not last always.
We have all seen the mistake of be
ing unprepared for war; it is al
most as great and serious a mistake
to be unprepared for peace."
THE AMERICAN PRIVATE
[From the Stars end Stripes, FranceJ
"Greater love," says the Bible,
"hath no man than this, that he lay
down his life for his friend."
The American private has. shown
a still greater love for his country.
He has come 3,500 miles from home,
minus the glory and trappings of
rank, prepared to give up his life—
and sometimes more—for the land
he loves. He is giving up the
comfort and ease and the dreams
he knew at home for the long
drudgery and monotony of training
not to speak of reveille and chow
and inspection and Btable of K. P.
details too numerous to mention.
All this is but the prelude to the
life forfeiture he stands ready to
make, and often makes, at the end
of the road. He has the greatest
Job in the war, because his Job en
tails the greatest sacrifice, and this
is a war of sacrifice. '
An officer of considerable rank
saw a line of Yanks move to the at
tack, cheerful, nervy, on the Job, as
they headed for almost certain
death into a machine gun nc.it.
Later, he saw many of them come
back, shot up, % dripping blood and
minus food and water for more than
Just a few hours. But, limping or
reeling, they returned from-the at
tack as they went to it—cheerful
and nervy, without a whimper or
complaint, only sorry they couldn't
go to finish with their pals. They
took nothing 'to their credit, and
they looked for no reward. They
had merely done a job. and they
didin't stop to figure that It was
the biggest job of the army. And
the officer, looking on. said it all;
"God! There's no living man too
good to be a private in the Ameri
can Army."
Hindenburg's Latest Song
O where, O where's my little line
gone?
O where, O where can it be?
With its head cut off and its tail gone
wrong,
It seems to be all at sea.
—Fiorn the Philadelphia Evening
Public Ledger.
Judging Another
Therefore thou art fnexcusable, O
man. whosoever thou art that Judg
est; for wherein thou judgest another,
thou condemnest thyself; for thou
that judgest doest the same thing.—
Romans 11. 1
SEPTEMBER 9, 1918.
HIS OPPORTUNITY
[From tlio New York Times]
Wherever the white man guthere,
where* er the white man
leads.
Yarns of his pluck and his prowess,
tales of his doughty deeds.
Come from the pens inspired, speak
from the pictured page.
Keeping a nation's history green for
an unborn age.
These are the things we look for out
of a favored race.
Holding Its own traditions, proud of
its time and place.
Wherever the need is vital, the white
hope dies to win.
But what of his humble neighbor,
the man with the dusky skin?
Simple, untrained, untutored, ground
'neaih the scornful heel.
Of people who balk at color, what
does the dark man feel?
How can a soul so humble thrill with
a patriot's pride.
How can the patriot tire burn 'neath
a du&lty hide?
Ask of the God who made him,
giving him here a place,
Meekly accepting his portion, son of
a thwarted race.
Always part of a purpose, set in t.ho
world'e great plan.
Biding his time tt> show us the worth
of the colored man.
Where was our dark-skinned brother
whet the trumpet sounded
"Aid:"?
Hiding back in his shanty, white
livered, cowed, afraid? *
Deaf to the call of duty, hushing the
Voice within.
Dodgibg the draft and faking, sav
ing his precious skin?
Where is the truthful story of the
part the negro took?
Penned in the'army records, written
in God's great book.
Showing the negro's mettle, the big
soul shining through—
The white man's loyal courage,
under the ebon hue!
There on the field of battle -.vh&t is
the black man's part?
Men who have seen have told us, in
words that thrill the heart-
Here is the question answered, the
time for doubting past.
Here comes the man called "nig
ger." into his own at last!
Shoulder to shoulder with white
men, faithfully holding his
own.
Doing his bit in the trenches, Nlying
without a moan!
What though his skin's like mid
night, woolly and kinky his
hair ?
Here is a man and a brother! Honor
him everywhere!
HELEN COMBES.
Cotton Profiteering.*
[From Phil. Evening Public Ledger]
When the Department of Agricul
ture reported that weather.conditions
had reduced the prospective cotton
crop of 15.235,000 bales to 11,137,100,
cotton went up ?1" a bale on the ex
changes.
Now the war industries board is
considering the advisability of fixing
the price of cotton in order to "stabi
lize" it. It is selling around thirty
five cents a pound. It used to be pos
sible to raise it at a profit if it could
be sold for eight cents. It is said that
it now costs eighteen cents a pound
to produce it.
The anticipated crop of more than
15,000,000 bales was much larger
than usual. The "average crop is
about 12,000,000 bales. The prospec
tive shortage, when compared with
this average, is not very large. There
ought to be a generous proiit for the
growers if they can get thirty-five
cents or even thirty cents a pound
for it.
The country will await with con
siderable interest the efforts of the
war industries board to stabilize the
price, knowing, as it does, that
Chairman Kitchin, of the Ways and
Means Committee, has not sought to
tax any of the war profits of the
cotton growers.
OUR DAILY LAUCH
SOME
RESTRAINING.
The Sympa
thlzer I'm sur
prised that you
didn't save any-' "ffzfp W
thing out of your >* $
failure. Didn't
you retain a law- \
3'er ? i-mJn we
The Insolvent— HI
Sure, I retained a
lawyer and the ,-3*5)
lawyer retained ' -
the assets.
\
■hi, * OVERHEARD
N HM* W IN THE zoo
Jin M <° N A SUNNT
1 AFTERNOON).
WELL QUALI-
He: You ought
to make a good
He: You go ||||l // \T
up In the air so \\
IMPORTANT.
My dear, what
T shall I buy you
VJ for your birth
fef Consult your
Jeweler. Ho
*i i \ knows pretty well
.1 I what my tastes
And did you
40 JU\ tell him anything
about the state of
i my finances?
A BLESSING To
SOME. ntrt,
Long dry spells ' jp'A
are bad for farm- &C+
Yes; but Just Mi ;p V\
think what a 4fM .'i >J
blessing for the M^ A/ Wf?Y
fellows who buy I r I—
those 15.98 sum- VJ f I '
mer suits. --\| || | 3
MAKES NO
V\l DIFFERENCE.
Dearest, isn't
\< \ j ove blind?
y I Yes, even when
' V J one has the love
light In his eyes.
I—J
[Euettmg (Eljat ,
The front line trenches are so far
away and we have all been regaled
with so many stories of horrors that
now when we are getting letters from
our own Harrisburg soldiers telling
of the little incidents not associated
with death and wounds we rejoice.
The interesting letter of Leßoy E.
Rife published in this newspaper on
Saturday and tolling of football right U
after a battle with the Huns was the
talk of Harrisburg yesterday and
every chaneo we get to read of re
laxation of the terrific strain we are
as happy as the boys themselves. A
letter came here a day or so age
from Lieutenant George J. Hook,
who a little over a year ago was ad
tertising manager tor the Kaufmat
stores, and who is now in the Signa
< "i? rps ln France, right up where
things are doing. It illustrates thai
the world is small after all and thai
even war has a lighter side. He was
in a trench dugout one dark night
and a terriiic barrage tire Was undet
way when he was called to the field
telephone and asked, "Have you got
all your copy ready for the Kaufman
ad yet? If you don't hurry it, you
won't get it in; that's all. Under
stand?" The voice at the other end
of the line was that of Lieutenant
Harry A. Souders, formerly con
nected with the Telegraph's advertis
ing department and now in the Sig
nal Corps, too. Both men went out
with truck companies and were great
friends, but the war had taken them
far apart. Some how or other Sou
ders found out he was near where
Hook was stationed and when out
with a wire company in shell holes
in No Man's Land, watching for
movements by the Huns, relieved the
tedium of that awful job by getting
his old friend on the wire and "josh
ing" him about "ad copy." j
* •
"While it would be impossible to
even estimate how much gasoline
was saved by cars being kept in gar
ages under the federal ruling againet
Sunday riding, it is safe to say thht
there were comparatively tew of the
350,000 pneumatic-tired vehicles in
Pennsylvania operated yesterday,"
said George B. Brusstar, chief of the
automobile division of the State
Highway Department to-day. "From
what I have learned there has been
a growing sentiment in favor of ob
serving the ruling to the letter. Even ,
if half of the cars usually run on
Sundays when there were no restric
tions were idle, the saving would be ,
immense." Mr. Brusstar gave 354,-
165 as the number of pneumatic
tired automobiles registered by the
state. This includes transfers, but
the chief says that in many cases
such transactions have been fol
lowed by new cars being registered
so that the number of 350,000 ;s not
far from the mark. "But to get the
motor vehicles in use in the state vou
have got to ligure on more than the
350,000 pneumatic-tired machines,"
remarked Mr. Brusstar. "As of Sep
tember 5 we had 28,791 trucks regis
tered and, of course, many of them
are not run on Sunday, but on the t
other hand, we have registered 25,-
654 motorcycles and many of them
have been used on Sundays. Then
there are 7,325 dealers so that vou
can see that we have-well over 400,-
000 motor vehicles of various kinds
in Pennsylvania and if they are all
kept at home the saving in gasoline
would be enormous." • A
•
Later plowing will be done in the
southeastern counties of Pennsyl
vania this year than usual, accord
ing to reports of crop reporters re
ceived at the State Department of
Agriculture. The soil has been so
dry that August plowing has not
been successful and in the big wheat
growing counties of the Susquehanna
and other valleys wheat and rye may
ibe put in late in October if the
weather is favorable. Efforts are be
ing made in Lancaster, York, Cum
berland, Franklin, Chester and
other counties where wheat is ex
tensively grown to enlarge areas for
that grain, some farmers disregard
ing the rotation of crops for the first
time in their lives. Reports also in
dicate that there are more tractors
in this section of the state engaged
on farm work than in any other por
tion and that their use has become
general. Much plowing for wheat
will be done by tractors especially in
jthe southern tier, where there has ,
been heavy buying of animals for
army use. Late sowing because of
danger of the wheat fly is becoming
more of a practice, reports indicate.
The state authorities are asking that
the wheat acreage be increased from
90,000 to 120,000 acres.
• • •
Members of the Harrisburg Re
serves out drilling men of draft age
in the counties have been given a lot
of advice by men who fought in
other wars and men returned from
the camps and even Europe. The '
sum total of what has been told is
that quick wits and a knowledge of
ways to light Indians are what are
needed more than anything else
Drilling is only a means of develop
ing the plmble mind, said a veteran
of frontier fighting at Penbrook Sat
urday. "But after all, the fellows
who can take cover quickest are go
ing to get there," he remarked.
• • •
A. Nevin Detrlch, late examiner
in chief of the State Insurance De
partment, field manager for the
O'Neil campaign and head of the
Washington party organization for
a while, is now an army printer. He
is at one of the camps training for
a commission and a sergeant told
someone he was a printer. He is
not a printer,, but he buckled to it
and is running a printing press with
his feet.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Major J. P. Kerr, member of
Pittsburgh council, has resigned to
give all of his time to the Army.
—John F. Short, the new United
States marshal for Western Pennsyl
vania, has had a strenuous prelimin
ary training as food administrator
for Clearfield county.
—James A. Wakefield, Pittsburgh
lawyer home from the Pacific coast, *
says that the I. W. W. act like trai
tors ln that section.
—D. J. Barry, chairman of the
Cambria county Liberty Loan drive,
is arranging for numerous mass
meetings to start the drive.
—H. W. Stickle, of the Army engi
neers. in charge of Western Penn
sylvania work, has been promoted .to
be colonel.
—David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh
registration commissioner, had been
appointed to a place in the Army.
[ DO YOU KNOW |
Harrisburg has been as
sembling walnut and ash for
Army needs?
HISTORIC HAPRISBURG
Parson John Elder and John Har
ris used to drill men for Indian war
fare defense along the Derry ■tree*
pike. ___ .. .