HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE ROME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER. Bu-sinejj Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board \ P. McCBLLOUGH. 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. Member American \1 Newspaper Pub- lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- BBBWafsSm W sylvania Associ [jgiglS* Hated Dailies. |Ej|pa toS 55 fiCTB IMEastern office, Elßiif SI Story, Brooks & SS§ & 888 0 Finley, Fifth ISSSSSIW Avenue Building JStSSBB Sf New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley. People's 'UfP Gas Building. - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *"'Soyo A> week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, SETTEMBER 14, 1918 For the love of God is "broader Than i'-c measures of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. — FABEB. DEMORALIZED THE Donnybrook Fair at the Board of Trade this afternoon will have the effect of complet ing the demoralization of Democ racy in Pennsylvania. The spectacle of two factions of petty politicians fighting over the control of a politi cal machine, while they should be standing shoulder to shoulder in support of the war aims of the ad ministration each claims to repre sent, is disgusting to patriotic citi zens. Nothing is involved in to-day's "scrap" save who shall control the Democratic party machinery in Pennyslvania on the eve of the next presidential election. Palmer and McCormick were ready enough to link their political fortunes with Bonniwell so long as they thought Bonniwell could be made their will ing tool. Bonniwell has no hope of election, and he is contending with the Palmer-McCormick faction solely with the thought of wresting away from them the party leader ship in Pennsylvania. Neither is better than the other, and both are bad. Each places party above pa triotism. It is time that an entirely new group of Democratic leaders is developed in this State if even the remnants of the minority party are to be saved. Employment of prisoners in county jails on county farms and highways is having widespread approval. There is no reason in the world why a lot of able-bodied men should be living at the expense of the taxpayers while the revenues of the same taxpayers are being consumed in public work. The Prohibition party is still insist ing. through its leaders, that a sepa rate ticket shall be supported, not withstanding the clear and unequivo cal position of Senator Sproul, the Republican nominee for governor, on the prohibition amendment. Of course, iy is immaterial this year, owing to the fact that thousands of members of the cold water party will refuse to follow their leaders in this matter, but how would these leaders explain the election of an outspoken liquor candidate should their votes and those of men who adopt their third party suggestion happen . to achieve that result? CONFIDENT OVER THERE FIELD MARSHAL HAIG, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in FYance. has issued an order to his armies in which he declares that "the enemy has spent his effort." Like every great commander he thanks all ranks of the fighting forces for their splendid efforts and assures his troops that "we have passed through many dark days together. Please God these never will return." This message of assdVance and confidence will also hearten the allied forces on every field. There appears to be no doubt in the minds of the leaders overseas that the German machine is break ing down. It is now the duty of the men and women back of the lines to throw into ail their activi ties their best endeavors, to the end that the men who are doing the fighting may feel the strength which comes from the invisible force that will reach them from the united energies of those at home. In his reply to President Wilson's inquiry as to a statement that he had indicted the Democratic Administra tion for favoring an inconclusive peace settlement. Chairman Hays, of the Republican National Committee, makes it clear that he said nothing of the kind, but did urge a Joining of hands by all parties in the prosecu tion of the war. It has not been for gotten that Mr. Hays agreed to a proposition looking to a practical ad SATURDAY EVENING, Harrisbitrg TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 14, 1918, journment of politics during the war. but the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was not permitted to Indicate a similar attitude. In fact, while pretending to favor an adjourn ment of politics, the Democratic leaders at Washington have plunged into the most active partisanship throughout the country. PREACHING KULTUR AS the causes of the war become better understood and the ef forts of the Kaiser and his as sociates to throw the responsi bility upon other shoulders plainly demonstrate their fear of the punish ment in store for them, extracts from the sermons of German preachers may still further illuminate the situa tion. These preachers, whose sermons have been reprinted by a professor of theology at the University of Copenhagen and subsequently trans lated from the Danish by Jesse Broh ner, show conclusively the trend of the German mind and the obsession of the German people. These Hun preachers do not repre sent the ignorant class, but the so called cultured element of the Ger man people. They have been largely responsible for the dissemination of the "higher culture" and assaults upon the Christian faith in the way of higher criticism have emanated in practically every instance from Ger many. Such sentences as these, taken at random from a number of the sermons, indicate the trend of Ger man thought: You have now the enemy in your clutch, pass a just Judg ment. Let the leaden bullets of East Prussia buzz, and let each bullet account for the life of a foe. The Germans are the first be fore the throne of God—Thou couldst not place the golden crown of victory in purer hands. We have become a nation of wrath; we think only of the war. * • * We execute God's Al mighty will, and the edicts of His justice we will fulfill, imbued with holy rage, in vengeance upon the ungodly. God calls us to murder ous battles, even if worlds should thereby fall to ruins. We are woven together like the chasten ing lash of war; we flame aloft like the lightning; like gardens of roses our wounds blossom at the gate of Heaven. We thank Thee, Lord God! Thy wrathful call ob literates our sinful nature; with Thine iron rod we smite all our enemies in the face. The war now shows the ele mentary revolt against the moral idea of the world. We fight— thanks and praise be to God—for the cause of Jesus within man kind. Verily, the Bible is our book. Even if. for a long time, we did I not value it as such, we now ac knowledge that it was given and assigned to us, and we read in it i the original text of our destiny, which proclaims to mankind sal vation or disaster —according as We will it! God's people will come forth from this strengthened and crowned with victory, because they stand on the side of God: but all God's adver- : saries will find out that God will not be mocked, and that He rules the history of the nations accord ing to His will. To allow to the weak the same right of existence as to the strong, vigorous nation means presumptuous encroachment upon the natural laws of . devel °P , T, < L , l l t : The small nations have no right of existence and ought to be swal lowed up. . . . __ ~ It is moral. Inasmuch as it is reasonable, that the small states in spite of treaties, should become the prey of the strongest. And so the self-confessed high waymen, the barbarians of Prussia, the slayers of children, the despoilers of women, the inhuman vultuYes of a grasping nation doomed to destriiw tion, betray the faith and outrage the sacred calling of the Man of God. So many interesting papers are be ing read before the Dauphin County Historical Society that it's a pity some arrangement has not been made for issuing these papers in some form that will give them wider considera tion. Of course, the society is treas uring this important historical mat ter, but a monthly or annual bulletin containing important papers would add greatly to the interest and im portance of the work of the organiza tion. OUR CHIEF BUSINESS CAPTAIN HARRIS, tour times wounded in the great war and hoping for another chance, told members of the Chamber of Com merce yesterday that the chief busi ness of the American people at this time is •'Killing Germans." It isn't a pleasant thought; war is never pleasant. But it is true. "War," the Secretary of War has said, "should be our one thought and purpose," and the whole object of war-making in the present in stance is to kill so many Germans that the Kaiser will be forced to surrender and acknow ledge his dream of world dominion a vain hope never to be realized. And only by "killing Germans" can this be brought about. Therefore, "killing Germans" is, indeed, the chief business of the na tion; not only of its soldiers in the field,but of its peopleback home. The soldier who missed shooting a Ger man when the. chance offered would be untrue to his oath. The American businessman who delays a govern ment contract is as guilty as the sol dier who fails to shoot. The Amer ican workman who does less than a full day's work on any product that is to go to the Army or the Navy is failing in his task of "killing Ger mans," for if the artillery does not get the guns or the shells or the Navy does not get the ships our sol diers will be delayed in their great work. Every one of us is devoted to the task of "killing Germans." The more we kill and the quicker we do it the fewer American boys will die and the sooner the war will end. SOAK 'EM HARD! MORE power to the Department of Parks in its effort to squelch the rowdies who have taken advantage of the absence of many of the men at the front to override the authorities here and there. Al derman Landis, before whom a num ber of these culprits have been heard, has imposed some stiff fines and ho would be justified in soaking these loafers much more heavily. event to Imprisonment. Harrisburg is not going to stand for the break ing down of its decency and morale during the war period any more than it would have done in peace times. We have no doubt that the courts and the police authorities and all others charged with enforcement of the laws will co-operate .with the Department of Parks and all muni cipal officials in preserving order un der all circumstances. So, again we say to Alderman Landls, and to all other charged with the administration of law: Soak them and soak them again! foUtict Ck By the Ex-Committeeman Three booms of Democrats for the Supreme Court were very much in evidence among the members of the Democratic state committee and the county leaders gathered here from various sections of the state for to day's meeting of the bellicose body with indications that the heralds of another would be present before the sun sets. Two Democrats have en tered their nomination papers for the campaign and the signatures for two others are being assembled in a score or more of counties. A. V. Divoly, Demalcratio state committeeman from Blair county, was here exhibiting his own boom which was formally launched a few days ago, while James Fox, of Kas ton, brother of Justice E. J. Fox, who has also filed papers, was circu lating with much vigor among the Democrats and doing his best to keep the boom out of the factional row. Friends of Charles B. Lenahan, who has been in many counties, were here telliug how acceptable he would be to every one, while some of the Bonniwell men were passing out the word that Henry Budd's papers would be filed very soon. The only Republican to file papers Is Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr., but the Kephart papers are said to be in the oiling. —To-day's meeting of the Demo cratic state committee is one of the big things of national politics just now. The course of National Comnilt teeman A. Mitchel Palmer in repudi ating the nominee of his party for Governor of Pennsylvania at a direct primary and the approval and ap plause given him by the Democratic national chairman are such unheard of proceedings that men all over the country are watching the develop ments in Harrisburg to-day. —Some people here profess to see a new phase of presidential interfer ence in party affairs. Heretofore the President as the leader of the party has taken a hand in primaries, but if he is at the back of the two bosses it will be the first tme that the pow er and prestige of the chief magis trate has been thrown against a man who holds the certificate of nomination by the Democratic voters of a state in a direct primary, where in the candidate defeated was the pet of federal Jobholders. —The upshot of the matter will probably be that the Democratic state organization will conduct a campaign for a decapitated state ticket, while the nominee for Gov ernor will run his own show. Such an anomalous condition would be the logical result of the management of the Democratic party in Pennsylva nia in the last seven years. —There are bets being made at the Capitol that Pennsylvania will not send any commissioners to take the votes of the Keystone state sol diers in France, but that steps are being taken to salve the feelings of those who looked for exciting overseas trips by nice assignments to camps in the United States. For some time it has been the opinion, outside of the Governor's office, that the taking of votes would be con fined to camps and cantonments such as was the case last November. There will probably be fifty camps, posts, forts, stations and similar places, including colleges and schools where men are getting special train ing, to which commissioners will be sent at ten cents per mile. Originally the act provided that there should be one man for each regiment, but this was disregarded in assigning men to go to the Mexican border so that it has a precedent. The chances are that the commissioners will be named on a nominal basis of one to each 1,000 men and as there may be posts with less than 100 men the chances are good for several hun dred men being selected to take trips. The books and statutes and rulings on the subject are being printed and when all the nomination papers are in and the various with drawals and substitutions are accom plished the special tickets will bi made ready. Compared to last year things will be simple. The state bal lot will be the same and will have some nine spaces while there will be congressional and legislative nom inees together with the nonpartisan blocks. —Senator William C. Sproul and Senator Edward E. Beidleman, Re publican state ticket leaders, who are to speak in Doylestown to-day, in Montgomery county Tuesday and then go to Pittsburgh for the last two days of the week, may visit Har risburg and vicinity late this month or early in October. No definite plans have been made but Repub lican leaders have been so impor tuned for their presence that a series of meetings may be arranged. If the meeting can be planned it will be for a Saturday so that the people of the farming and industrial districts will have opportunity to hear the two candidates. Owing to Senator Sproul's extended legislative service and his successful business and farming enterprises near here he has many admirers and Harrisburg is making bids for a place some where up near the start of the cam paign instead of coming along at the end. —Congressman Aaron S. Kreider will speak here with the state candi dates. His own campaign is in ex cellent shape and his course at Washington seems to be meeting such general approval that there are doubts exnressed whether his Democratic rival, H. H. Amercer, of Cumberland, will get anywhere at home. Dauphin and Lebanon will go heavily for Kreider. Mention of the name of Frank A. Smith as can didate for Senator to succeed Mr. Beidleman when he becomes Lieu tenant Governor, has been favorably received all over the county. —The compilation of the regis tration of Dauphin county voters outside of the city shows that 20,- 151 have been enrolled this year, of which 12,765 are Republicans, a remarkable showing when it is con sidered how many young men have gone to war. The lack of Democratic organization is demonstrated by the fac( that ther e were 3,285 registered as Democrats and 3,538 as nonpar tisan. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By Briggs I . /GLUL TMPVRFI f HOVAJ BOUT OUW)//VOP<S I CANT AWT) S oRRY 5iR I / r Art D I / NO7 PuTTIMC, / GOLF M.ATCH )/ MAKE IT / DOZEN <3OLF ] 7 ON ACCOOWT I / GO5> D |W A I SUODAV FRED / LA/6 GoT TO I BALLS - I OF < 1 ° / QUALITY OF \ lAJ<IL >BO BT // lUORK OIU 7^,I,PL SHORTAGE AND A / SV CEL TNESE , • VOB ? / THE LIBERTY COLOMEL Y / OP LASOR I J.GGCB / DAVS - T-MSY / X* / LOANJ - \ C PI /( G° LF 6A Y. V \ CAWT GET IT J R—/ V AWFULBUAR \ H AU£ EIM /I AR6 H AR-D / R~ \ Y • Y \ /~~ X BUT ,-pv ' V' ALLOWED / HOW AM ) / SCOTCH/ WEAR HERE WE ) ANV 1/ I GO'NG / V. / AR= HU A CDB.V I HER ANSWER (A reply to "A Letter Home," by Grantland .Rice, Lieutenant 115 th Field Artillery, A. E. F.) Loved One, when you come back to me, The sun will shine and soft winds blow. And we will link the days of Then With broken threads of Long Ago. Then ours will be a sun-kissed sky Without a cloud or tinge of gray To mar the perfectness of it— When you come back—to me — some day. The hours will hold no dread —no fear — Just waiting, with a Joy filled heart And welcome for each coming day— For Time will tear cftirk clouds apart And turn them into golden dreams That later merge to twilight gray. And Now will be a curtained Past— When you come back—to me — some day. The flame-shot blackness that en gulfs Shall disappear like sllv'ry mist. And paths—o'er which you slip and slide — Will bloom with flowers—rare— beauty kissed. For clotted gore and stench-clothed forms Shall breathe to life Earth's fair est flowers— And Vlct'ry sweet will banish night Behind the hills and morn-bathed hours. • And when you do return to me. As true as when you marched away. With naught but mem'ry left—of Now — • Life will be one long, perfect day. Then Love will take the place of Fear, For Vict'ry flashlights all the world, And recompense for that which is Will be our flag—unstained—un furled. And then, with all the struggle past. Through loyalty to flag and home. Through bitterness and sacrifice, I know—My Loved One—you will come. And dreams that were shall be ful filled Dreams worth the parting, wait ing. pain, And we will walk the old, loved paths ! When you come back—to me— again. —Mrs. Albert J. Schubring. South Milwaukee, Wis. Reward of Brains (From the Pittsburgh Post) While some of the railroad execu tives who formerly received salaries in the neighborhood of $lOO,OOO a year from private companies are now paid between $40,000 and $50,- 000 by the Government, a cut of 50 per cent. in their compensation, nevertheless a great tribute has been paid to the brains in the business. A Vocational War Report A battalion of lawyers charged traditionally, followed closely by a company of ball players who scored heavily. These were backed up by a platoon of swimmers diving reck lessly into the fray, only \o have a squad of engravers rout the en emy!—R. D. Washburn, in Cartoons Magazine. LAB~6RNOTES Savannah (Georgia) machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths have established the eight-hour day and secured double time for overtime, im proved working conditions and a 73- cent minimum. The formation of an official all women's council to deal with the problems of women workers is an nounced by Miss Mary Van Kleeck, director of the women-in-industry service of the Federal Department of Labor. An agreement has been reached be tween the Imperial Munitions Board and the .Toronto Aeroplane Wood workers by which all differences have been settled. The wage scale will be 65 cents an hour. London (England) women school teachers may strike as a result of the stand taken by them in laying al leged discrimination between In crease in salaries to men and women teachers before the National Council of Women r \ Immature Peace a Colossal Calamity By H. 11. Windsor, In the October I'opulur Mechanics Magazine FOR every day the war is pro longed some advantage is lost to Germany when the time ar rives to write the terms of settle ment. Not long ago a large portion of our people were rather indiffer ent to what those terms might be so long as the sacrifice of life, the devastation of property, and the un settled condition of the world at largo were brought to an end. This feeling was not due so much to a careless indifference of what the struggle for world freedom had cost those countries who are now our al lies, as it was to a lack of apprecia tion of what they had suffered and a proper realization of the enormity of the offense against civilization. Busy as usual, even more so, in our accustomed occupations, we did not take the time we should to think the matter out, each for himself. We read with horror and repug nance of one event after another in which acts of torture and barbarism had been resorted to by the enemy, but absorbed in our own personal ambitions we failed to comprehend that these offenses were in reality as much directed against each one of us individually as they were against the immediate and direct victims of those efforts. Nor was it through any intentional disregard of the great wrong being enacted that we listened to the clang of bells and scream of sirens as the Are department rushed past our offices and homes to battle with the confla .gration in a distant part of the city —so distant we could see neither the smoke nor flame; and a moment later, when the alarms had died Helping One Another (From the Portland Oregonian) The movement to utilize crippled 1 soldiers in reconstruction work and , in aiding the recovery of wounded men brought back from the front recognizes the principle that this is good for both parties to the trans action. The cripple who has mas tered his disability is ijrneflted by , the knowledge that lie is doing a definite service to his fellowmen, and the convalescent is certain to be inspired by the example set for htm. Of all the factors operating against recovery, the surgeons tind that the feeling of despair is the most seri ous. When this is changed to hope, the problem of the convalescent hospital is much simplified. There has not been as much dlf . Acuity as might have been expected in finding men equipped for the new task. In no other army in the.world. 1 perhaps, would it be possible to And i so many men who are unconquer able optimists. When such men as : these, who have made the sacrifice, are employed in construction work, ■ their inAuence is almost inAnitely 1 greater than that of those to whom the great experience is still a closed book. "Blind teachers of the blind" con veys a new meaning in the present I situation. It already has been shown . that no instructor of a disabled I man is so valuable as one who has ■ been himself disabled similarly and . . has triumphed over circumstances. ! The opportunity thus to perform ' . real service is not the least of those i which are being opened to the crip pled veterans. A Word From F. P. A. (From the Philadelphia Evening ' Ledger) . Speaking of humorists. Captain Franklin P. Adams,'the well-known [ wit, is now doing conAdential work in Department G-2-B at Pershing's headquarters in France. G-2-B, we presume, stands for Giving tt to [ the Boches. The American Press . Humorists at their recent conven tion sent a message of friendliness ' to F. P. A., to which he replies: . "It's a grand game to be in, and it is worth the privation of bathing in a split of Marne water to know, at Arst hand, that nothing in the J world can keep us from walloping the Boche; or, as we uncouth war " rlors, in our slangy way, call him, 3 the enemy." Those Fool Yanks a (From the Mason City Globe- Gazette) There seems to be quite a good i sized American monkey-wrench in 1 the perfect German military ma chine. away, the most of us resumed our occupations and dismissed the mat ter from our minds. A few drops of rain had fallen but the lightning had not struck. That we might be mor ally wrong in doing so did not oc cur to many; probably it is human nature the world over to be senti mentally sorry, but not to the point of sharing another's burden. And this was our national attitude of mind four years ago today. Steadily, but with progress so in sidious and slow as to be at times unnoticed, the storm approached our own shores and homes, until it reached our very doors. Now that an unscrupulous enemy lies in wait to sink hospital ships bearing our own nurses and wounded; drops bombs on our own hospitals behind the lines, and in its effort to subju gate the nations of the world is re sponsible for thte casualty lists that face us daily, do we slowly begin to absorb and comprehend that feel ing of indignation and hate which permeates to the remotest corner of the lands of our Allies. We at last begin slowly to realize the Colossal Calamity of an Immature Peace. Until the cancer has been cut out to its last fiber, until the Thing has been utterly crushed, it were vain to even think of peace. For the present, then, civilization has but one effort, one purpose, and that is to win the war. but when i the day comes in which to consider the terms of peace may we think with deliberation and soberness, and : not forget its awful cost, and the necessity and responsiblity of a right and lasting settlement. Hold Your Liberty Bonds The effort to separate Liberty Bond holders not familiar with stock and bond values from their Liberty Bonds has taken a new turn. The manipulators instead of offering to buy the bonds at inadequate prices offer in exchange for them the stocks and bonds of various wildcat corporations, whose face value is large but whose actual value is lit tle or nothing. The safest Investment in the world is a Liberty Bond. For a pa triotic American, Liberty Bonds are. the best investment in the world. It is not only a wise thing to hold them it is a patriotic thing to do. The soldier that takes a trench and then voluntarily gives it up is not to be compared with one who takes a trench and holds it against the enemy. An American who buys a Liberty Bond and then sells it is not so good an American as one who buys a bond and holds it. This does not apply, however, to one who sells his bond because of real necessity; there is legitimate trading in Lib erty Bonds which the treasury rec ognizes. It was a wise and patriotic old colored American who refused to sell his $lOO Liberty Bond for $96, because he would not give up the United States' promise (his bond) to pay him $lOO with interest for the United States' promise (currency) to pay him $96, and who refused to sell the same bond for $lO2, be cause, he said, that the $lO2 must be counterfeit or else the would-be purchaser would not be willing to give it for only $lOO. It is safe to say that there are no gold bricks or wildcat securities among that Amer ican's assets. AMERICA (FYom the Buffalo Express) Everyone has noticed the very large number of names of foreign character in our casualty lists. They generally outnumber what may be called "native" names. "Native" names of Americans are now the names found in every country in the world, though we still persist in the odd discrimination. Now note what the Treasury Department re ports regarding subscriptions to the last Liberty Loan. Eighteen per cent, of that loan was subscribed for by people of thirty-eight foreign na tionalities, with the Germans show ing in the largest numbers. No one needs to be told that this land is full of men of German birth who could not be more thoroughly American if they had been born here. Just so with other thousands of aliens. All are Americans: all be lieve in America; to them America is everything. Ours is a wonderful country. Honoring an Absentee (From the Cleveland Plain Dealer) Fiorello H. La Guardla was elect ed to Congress as a Republican from the Fourteenth New York dis trict two years ago. This week he was renominated by the Republi cans and indorsed by the Democrats, though the district in normal tirpes is overwhelmingly Democratic. And La Guardia was 5,000 miles from New York during the entire cam paign. It was an unusual compli ment to pay a man who has not yet finished his first term in Congress. La Guardia is a major in the American aviation service on duty in Italy. When the war came to Amer ica he did not stand on his exemp tion rights as a member of the House; he volunteered for active duty and accepted service in the most dangerous arm of the service. Though his district has not had the benefit of his counsel or his vote in Congress it has had the inspiration of his example as a patriot and fighter in the cause of liberty. The Four teenth district has been highly dis tinguished and honored by its rep resentative. It is not supposed that La Guar dia will return to America for the fall campaign; there is, indeed, no particular reason why he should. It is possible he will not be able to sit in the next House. But his con stituents will be tontent. They are furnishing an example of patriotic devotion that might well be emu lated elsewhere. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH NO DECISION. Wlfey How . late you are, dearest. What ftjL \ was the score? | ) Hubby—lt was Vvjj. a . tie game. iLjLpj fl|OL Neither side scored In nineteen // i \\\ innings. I ,| §& Wlfey What U | Wk a shame? Did \\ , , | -SA they give you I ' your money back 7 CANDOR. Wt I In one respect ]a; ri, . 1 she's like all oth- Wh\\y\ jt f\ er women. " 'jf\ 4 Moaning she In 1 Ivi thinks she's so l/l ] |r IY •' different. THE USUAL WAY. /sZ&s I glvo my wifo f V half my salary VZ>/ ftSi every week to Jtf' lp spend on the 811 housekeeping and ffijPSSapJt j herself. And what do /_ / | you do with the jSj M ; other half ot , your salary? | s ff Oh, my wife ' ' borrows that. HER WISH. UM Darling. I wish you'd treat me \ 1 don't get you, , % TjliiS And blow me Vi us ° n to a dinner )| JP down town now / /1 v v and then. SECOND Is your hus band interested /A in the war news? \ Jm Yes, indeed. / He always reads II K jRv it the very first /1 FT'' . IM— thing after the baseball scores. J THAT'S WHAT. What is an ul tlmatum, pa? m * uIL t S w " lcn y°" A| mother say# she ffkwants a now h#< Slotting (ttljat Preliminary steps are being taken at the State Capitol to obtain the of ficial data regarding Pennsylvania soldiers and sailors for the making of the history of the Keystone State in the great War and In a short time * It is expected that a complete rec ord of the men who went out with the National Guard units to Camp Hancock will be in hand. Then the compilation of the enlistments in the Kegular Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps will be sought through Washington and each local draft board will be usked to furnish names of men inducted from its official rec ords. The Adjutant General's De partment is In charge of the collec tion of the names of the State's Mili tiamen who were mustered into Fed eral service and in addition has com piled extensive Information about Mexican border service. The other information will likely be gathered through the committee of the State Historical Commission on the state history and the state draft head quarters will have the records of the operation of the selective service law. Experience with the records of men who served In the Civil and Span ish wars has enabled a system to bo worked out and with the draft head quarters records It is believed that the information will be available in much shorter time than after pre vious wars. • • • The Rev. Dr. Robert BagneTl, pas tor of Grace Methodist Church, who spent three months In France and England on a tour to American troop camps and army bases, has a num ber of interesting stories of the ef fective organization and work of the Y. M. C. A. One soldier to whom ho spoke said: "These 'Y' fellows cer tainly are on the job. Why I be lieve if a German bomb would blow me a hundred feet in the air I'd find a 'Y' secretary up there with a cup of coffee to hand to me." Speaking of the work of the Y. M. C. A. In small French villages where Ameri can troops are quartered for a short time nnd then move on. Dr. Bagnell said the secretaries are always ready when the men leave and go right with them. "As soon as the order comes to pack the worker gets hla equipment together, goes right on with the men and as soon as they reach their next stop for a camp he is on the job. Sometimes the same night the boys reach another town where they are to stay for a short period the secretary communicates with headquarters and sometimes has a concert company or some oth er entertainer or speaker sent out at once. That the boys appreciate this service ts seen everywhere. None ever had anything but praise for the Y. M. C. A. work." • * In London the "Eagle" hut Is the leader Dr. Bagnell said. This is the largest one in the world and has many buildings all connecting with a central one. There are rest rooms, billiard room 3, reading rooms, a big auditorium, restaurant, in fact every thing a soldier can want. Every ef fort is made by the Y. M. C. A. workers to get the boys there when they come to London on leave. They are told in the camps in England about the hut and secretaries give them directions to it so that if a sol dier once gets to the hut there is little danger of him meeting any temptations In the largest city in the world. At the "Eagle" hut there arc two women fully acquainted with the city. One of them is a noted so cial worker. When a soldier on leave arrives and wants to go sightsee ing or visit certain places these two women map out his tour nnd in case a group of men are going a "Y" worker is sent along. In this man ner soldiers on leave can see the most in the shortest possible time. * * As the uniform always attracts in every city, and there are many pit falls for the soldiers. Dr. Bagnell told of the system which has been developed in London. Workers pa trol the streets at nights and when they see a soldier or sailor they stop him and inquire what he is doing. In case he has no mission and is just wandering around he is taken to a hut. Frequently men on leave are found at night under the in fluence of liquor. They are taken to the hut also and kept there until morning. • • • During his visit in the battle zones Dr. Bagnell met Representative M. Clyde Kelly, of Pennsylvania, who was with the party of Congressmen who went to France. Dr. Bagnell explained that he did not take time to visit the front line trenches In the battle area because of the time which he would have lost in mak ing the trip. * • • While Dr. Bagnell did not go to Italy he had an excellent oppor tunity to study the Italian situation he said. He did not give any further explanation, but in speaking of his experiences mentioned that on one part of the tour he had a fire view of the Alps. It was suggest ed that he must have been in South ern France. He only smiled. Dr. Bagnell was under military regula tions during hie entire trip and is yet so far as making any public statement of the places he visited. He gave that as his reason for not mentioning any towns or villages. • * * Some neople are easily satisfied. A short time ago a man in New Jer sey wrote to Deputy Attorney Gen eral William M. Hargest for the laws of Pennsylvania relative to marriage, Mr. Hargest replying that they were to bo found In seven vol umes of a standard digest. The Jer seyman at once replied with thanks, saying that the Information was whaf he needed and suggesting that th< laws be at once placed at everj courthouse or place where personi would be likely to ask question! about them. He did not want other! to be as inconvenienced In getting information as he had been befor writing to Mr Hargest. ' Just wlun the others of whom he was so solid tons would think of wading througl seven volumes is a little hard to wor out. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1" —Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Philadol phia health director, does not see anj danger in the Spanish influenza a present. —Col. E. J. Lewis, of the retlrc< list of the Army, has been reeallei to duty in the Inspector generalj office. —Fullerton L. Waldo, phia newspaperman, is home from i visit to the front in France. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsbnrg la sending considerable steel to industrial and railroad enterprises as well as to war? HISTORIC HARRISBtTRG Democratic state gatherings wei held In Harrisburg as early as 18X1
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