8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Teleiraph Building. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE* President and Editor-inrChief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Ek tion, the Audit Sat Bureau of Clrcu-, via lation and Penn-' sylwmia Associ im Eastern office, EH Story, Brooks ;w Avenue Building, jjW New York City; sJJf Western office, fK Story, Brooks & Finley, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a Ttitsftgf|cwiyi. week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1018 You cannot dream, yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourslf into one. — Fboudb. NO PEACE NOW THE Austrian proposal for peace discussions by the belligerent nations is an admission by the Central Powers that their case is hopeless. Tney are like a party of thieves cornered by the police trying to save their necks and retain their booty by promising to be good in the future. We cannot make truce with murderers and robbers. We cannot sign a treaty by understanding with the Kaiser who has a habit of tear ing up treaties and pronouncing them mere scraps of paper when they stand in his way. We cannot make peace while the Kaiser has it in his power to start another war. Germany and Austria are on their last legs. Another year will see them conquered and powerless to again drench the world in blood. Their governments havo been guilty of crimes that would take an individual to the gallows." They must be pun ished and punished so severely that never again will any tyrant of the Kaiser's stripe have the temerity to raise a mailed fist against weaker na tions. The blood of outraged woman hood, the bufferings of enslaved girls, the maimed bodies of childish vic tims of German hate, the pale ghosts of starved babies; these and myriads of justice-loving men, ready to make the supremo sacrifice on the altar of* liberty, raise their voices to the world against a premature peace. We would be false to our own boys who have died on the fields of France if we paused now with victory in our grasp. No, we must go on. The road is bloody and the going hard, but at the end lies the hope of humanity for a millennium of peace, and we must pause until we have attained the goal. It is intimated in dispatches from the now reduced St. Mihiel salient that General Pershing's objectives in the offensive he has undertaken are limited.—New York Times. Limited, apparently, to the ability of his husky fighters to keep up with the fleeing Germans. ARCH-TRAITORS MUCH has been said byway of newspaper criticism of George Creel and the Government's official publicity bureau, and de servedly so, but the Committee on Public Information has justified its existence in the exposure of Lenine and Trotzky as the arch-traitors of Russia, who sold their country and its people to Germany for $25,000,000 in Prussian gold. The proof which Mr. Creel offers is beyond question. It leaves abso lutely no room for doubt. Lenine and Trotzky, posing as friends of the common people of Russia, have been in reality the paid tools of Germany. Instead of the high-minded ideal ists, befriending ths poor at the ex pense of the rich and striving for . universal brotherhood, this pair of international gutter snipes has been plotting a serfdom for the entire Russian race worse than anything the Czars of the past 400 years have imposed. Developments in Russia in recent months have revealed Lenine. and Trotzky for what they are; the Creel papers are merely corroborative evi dence, so far as they are concerned- They and their Bolshevik govern ment have so shamelessly worn the livery of the Kaiser that little proof was needed in their case. But with Germany it is different. The imperial government all along has virtually contended that it did not start the war, despite all the evi dence to the contrary; but now it Is proved before the whole world that the Kaiser was planning hostilities against France and Russia, which of course included Belgium, as early as June, 1914, and that If the Serbian excuse had not arisen another would iiave been found. The Kaiser is left MONDAY EVENING, hajeuusbitrg TELEGRAPH: SEPTEMBER 16.1918. without a leg on which to stand. He is convicted out of his own mouth. He is seen by the world as the arch fiend of all time, even as Trotzky and Lenine are exposed as traitors to their country and traffickers with him in humaji life and human liber ties. Is there anybody who wonders why we are at war? Is there any body who falls to understand why we are willing to sacrifice our last man and our last dollar to keep this frightful Prussian Thing from the shores of America? Republicans who still believe the liquor Interest should have considera tion are manifestly blind to the signs of the times. The Republican State Committee should at least see the handwriting on the wall, and blaze the way for all candidates. AN IMPORTANT SERVICE THE Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce is performing a high- ly Important service in bringing to Harrisburg the noted housing ex pert, Lawrence Velller. Mr. Veiller' comes for three days this week, dur ing which he will make a brief sur vey of the local housing situation, and will outline his findings and his proposed treatment at a luncheon of the Chamber on Friday. Harrisburg is fortunate in procur ing so able an engineer. Mr. Veiller is secretary and director of the Na tional Housing Association. He is a pioneer in his line, having given twenty year 3 of his life to the study of housing conditions and the cor rection of housing evils. He is not a theorist. His plans have been worked out economically and satis factorily in scores of cities. He Is eminently practical, with no fixed ideas as to what must or must not be done. He is perhaps at his best in devising methods for the treat ment of individual problems. He knows how to make old houses hab itable and presentable and rundown communities desirable as residency sections. He knows how to make very dollar spent buy one hundred cents' worth of housing improve ment. Harrisburg is facing a serious shortage of houses. There are those who do not believe we should confess our lack in this respect. They think that by attempting to conceal it from the world it will somehow or other cure itself and that manufac turers and shippers will continue to come to Harrisburg with their plants, regardless of the fact that we have no place for workmen or offi cials. This is a narrow and a fool ish lf we want more people we must provide houses for them. It is possible that the Government will do something for us to meet an emergency due largely to war condi tions and the enlargement here of war industries But, at any rate, wo should plan now for what eventually we must do. The Chamber of Com merce views the situation correctly. Its housing survey is its most im portant service to the community this year. Mr. Palmer, praising National Chairman McCormick and himself in this city, declared that "both are now engaged in "war work." Isn't it a crime to drag these two patriots away from their jobs to dabble in politics, when the President insists that "poli tics is adjourned." A "WET" PLATFORM THE Palmer-McCormick wing of the Democratic party was con sistently inconsistent on Satur day when, after it had "repudiated" Judge Bonniwell because he opposes prohibition, it adopted a platform which makes no mention of the pro hibition question. In other words, the Palmer-Mc- Cormick crowd pretend to be "dry," but they are very careful not to of fend the breweries, the distillers and f;he saloonkeepers by taking a firm stand for prohibition. If they were sincerely "dry" they would have adopted a ringing temperance plank. They would have come out openly and would have urged their candi dates to work and vote for the adop tion of the national amendment Dy the next legislature. The platform is made up of the same old meaningless mouthings. It is interesting and important only for what it does not endorse, rather •than for what it does. Palmer' and McCormick are for prohibition just so long as it is politically profitable for them to be so. Senator Sproul's manly declaration in favor of the prohibition amendment is not only in strong contrast with this hedging and dodging by the little Democratic politicians who have been saying he is not sincere, but it shows him to be a man with the courage of his con victions, while the Palmers, the Mc- Cormicks and their ilk are hiding their heads in the political sands ana pretending there is no liquor issue by declining to discuss it. And these political cowards have the temerity still to go about attempting to con ceal their wolfish characters be neath the sheepskins of reform. After the war those thousands of German aliens interned at different places in this country, and who are constantly prating of the "dear Fatherland." should be immediately loaded on ships and sent to Germany. Their room will be much more desir able than their company. d,et us all hope that a proper bill will be presented at the next session of the Legislature providing for the utilization of prison labor on the roads and public work. An average of 216 prisoners-are in the Dauphin county jail, and because thel-e is no provision in law for working these men they are boarding at the expense of the taxpayers Instead of* dotng the work that is being done in other parts of the country by those serving terms for all kinds of offenses. Warden Francles, head of the State Institution in Center county, strongly favors the use of prison labor as a humanitarian as well as economlo policy. Dauphin county's roads need the labor now going to waste at the bastile In Wal nut street. IK By the Ex-Conimittceman What stands out most prominently as the result of the remarkable meet ing of the Democratic State' Commi ttee on Saturday is that the body which was absolutely dominated by National Chairman Vance C. Mc- Cormick and his friends in another of the perennial fights for control of the Pennsylvania machine, ducked the liquor question. And while Na tional Committee A. Mitchell Palmer stamped and stormed his indlgnatlop at the iniquities of the organized liquor traffic, McCormick did not even slap it on the wrist. And yet it is the liquor question which Palmer and his pals assert caused them to discover in the nominee of the Democratic party for governor of Pennsylvania so much to abhor. Crafty as was the national cha-.r .man's speecn at the meeting on Sat urday, he uncovered the real cause of the brawl when he said the No vember election would be an 'im portant" one because '1920 is just ahead. Palmer never even intimated that he knew there was such an event as a presidential election im pending. McCormick, less skilled in forensic art, not only admitted that Bonniwell had driven a "salient" luco his crowd's lines, but laid bare the cause of the animosity he feels to ward the Judge. And that is be cause there is a fight on for control of the Keystone State's delegation to the next Democratic national con vention. —The action of the state commit tee in deciding to ignore Bonniwell in its platform and resolution as he ignored the state committee's notice to appear and purge himself of Palmer's charges was expected. Bon niwell and the state committeemen got their commissions from the voters at the same election and, as pointed out in the Philadelphia In quirer, not even Democratic party rules permit one faction to disre gard the mandate of a direct pri mary when it gets mad at the rep resentative of another group. Bon niwell will run as Democratic can didate for governor and the Demo cratic state machine, dominated by the Democratic national chairman and his coterie, will work, according to the official resolution on Saturday, for every other Democratic candi date. Just what the candidates think about it may be understood from the fact that none of them was here o"h Saturday. —William H. Berry, collector of the port of Philadelphia, appeared for a two-fold purpose. He was in tended to represent the "cold water" segment of the Democracy, but he came to extol Wilson, who gave him a job; praise Bryan, whom he lol lowed In theories, and demonstrate his thanks to McCormick, who .sup ported him after bolting the Demo cratic state ticket in 1910 and, to emphasize the fact that both he and McCormick -are Democrats again. Incidentally, as Bonniwell was his campaign manager in the luckless days of the Keystone crusade, he ap peared to exhibit political ingrati tude. Of late every time Berry has tried to get into the limelight some one has put dimmers on the lenses. It cost $2.49 to get the proxies at -the Democratic, state committee meeting seated. Uncle Sam is no respecter of even Democratic poli ticians occasionally, and every docu ment like a'proxy to sit in the com pany of such a select body as the Democratic state committee has to pay a tax of ten cents. A. Mitchell Palmer paid his dime for a proxy just like "Jim" Magee, the United States marshal, and other men con nected with the administration which stands sponsor for everything con nected with the war. Proxy making is a science now, and even the even tempered Warren VanDyke some times finds the blunders of men who should know better rather trying. —ln the lino of proxies it may be stated .that while State Chairman Lawrence H. Rupp announced nine ty committeemen present there were counted on hand, including the ten cent proxied members, just seventy. —Speaking of the Democratic meeting attendance, it is interesting to note that not only was none of the candidates present, not even "Wash" Logue, but that Congres sional nominees absented themselves. Most of them kept away numbers of the state committeemen from their counties. This is also interest ing in the light of the Harrisburg district's denunciation as a traitor of any one who would think that the row would disturb the serenity of mind of a Democratic Congressional candidate. Congressmen Dewalt. Steele and Campbell, who have sure things, were not here. Congress man Sterling, who has a chance, was not here, and only one committee man from his district was here. Con gressmen Lesher and Brodbeck were not here, and committeemen from their counties were scarce. The same is true of Congressman Besh lin. These Democratic Congress men, like the aspirants in other dis tricts, know that there is going to be a day of reckoning for the wrecking of the party and they are not going to get into the smash. Just as significant was the absence of Senatorial and Legislative candi dates. They stayed away because they will be the ones to get the brick bats from both sides. "There are too many doctors now," was the way one man hitherto conspicuous in party affairs put it when asked if he was going to attend the meeting. —Some of the friends of certain eminent Democrats who are aspir ants for the'supreme bench scent a scheme of the partisans of Justice E. J. Fox in the Gilmore resolution for the oxecutivo committee to have a roundup of all aspirants in an ef fort to concentrate so that there will be at least one Democrat left on the supreme bench. Fox is generally supposed to have been named after some one close to the Governor got into touch with Palmer and Mc- Cormick, and McCormick's news papers have treated him rather kindly as compared to other candi dates. The committee will have a meeting in Philadelphia on Septem ber 24, out it is doubtful whether any aspirant will retire. Certainly A- V. Dively, who sat in the meeting as committeeman from Blair when the resolution was adopfed, and .Charles B. Lenahan, of Wllkes- Barre, who has been making the crowd nervous by his activities, will not get out. It will be curious to see how the committee treats Henry Budd. the noted lawyer, who Is being boomed by the Bonniwell people for supreme court. —Even the McCormlck hat carriers were forced to admit when the state committee meeting closed on Satur day that it was nearly time to tele phone for the undertaker. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... BY BRICCS * t / WvWA \ / <frrxrA / _ \ / /ZV F.k \ / V \ / , .—. ffiSlH I) i) REAL LOVE IRAGEDY CONGRA TULA TIONS I have no words of sympathy to waste On those brave boys who sail across the sea To give their youth, their strength and energy, And of war's mighty rack and rue to taste! To one and all I say, with eager haste, X envy you so glorious a chance! Would that I, too, might serve, "Somewhere in France." Or with Italia's host or Britain's band— Fighting for honor, for my native land! For stalwart natures, ideals true and chaste, There is no forum greater than that field Where Right and Wrong, in mortal combat, strive! Proud should they be who make such conflict yield That splendid Peace on which the nations thrive! I have no tears of sympathy to shed For those frail women who must give a son To aid Jn deeds that now are be ing done Where cannons roar and shell-torh earth is red! Nay, I am filled with happiness in stead! For, in the lists of human enter prise, What goal shines brighter in am bitious eyes Than this, to which the patriot soul is led? What life is nobler, and, if death must be, Whence comes more glory to eternity Than from the annals of Wrong's overthrow— The righteous conquest of an evil foe? Soldiers and Mothers, you are blessed by fate! I do not pity—l congratulate! LURANA SHELDON, In New York Times. Pershing Says Prayers Help General Perghing says that the prayers of Americans at home are helping the soldiers in the trenches. In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Charles S. McFarland, replying to greetings of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, he says: "The powerful resources of the nation which have been placed un grudgingly at the disposition of the army are indispensable for the ac complishment of our duty. But we know that mere wealth of material resources or even of technical skill will not suffice. The invisible and un conquerable influence let loose by the prayers and hopes and ideals of Christian America, of which you are representative. Is incalculable. It furnishes the soul and motive for the military body and its operations. It steadies us to resist manfully those temptations which assail us in the extraordinary conditions of life in which we find ourselves. "We of the army think with grat itude of the unflagging service and wonderful trust in us of the churches at home." LABOR NOTES .Mississippi unions have Joined a state federation. Musicians at Stratford, Canada, have organized. Berlin, Germany, has 1,000,000 mu nition workers. When the British Trades Union Congress meets at Derby in Septem ber for its annual conference the membership of affiliated unions rep resented probably will be more than 4,000,000. Right of approximately 600,000 em ployes in shipyards controlled by the Emergency Fleet Corporation to organize trade unions and right of employers to form similar organiza tions is recognized by the corpora tion. Chinese waiters, long kno\vn to this country, particularly the West, are making their first appearance in London. Heretofore Chinese have been employed as domestics only in the kitchen. \ Let the Punishment Fit the Crime By H. 11. Windsor, In the October Popular Mechanic* Magazine behooves us to be on our guard. Already German propaganda Is busily at work in this country to establish a condition of mind on which it hopes eventually to realize in a weakened public sentiment. It emphasizes the spirit of forgiveness let bygones be bygones—they see their mistake—the German people were not to blame, and so on. There is only one safe course for civilization, unless it seeks a repeti tion of the present conflagration. The offender at the court of nations musta not only be punished, but must be rendered hafmless. In the case of an insane, or ma licious bad man loaded with dan gerous weapons, who is apprehend ed killing enemy and innocent alike, he is first of all deprived of his weapons, and then locked up and carefully watched until reason Is re stored. ' The Hun is the bad man of the world. As the first condition to peace, there should be taken from Germany all her dangerous weap ons of warfare. All battleships, sub marines and ships of war. All weap ons and remaining ammunition of her armies. All machinery used in the construction and manufacture of same. All records of the military system with which her secret-serv ice archives are filled by the ton. As a partial offset to the industries and cathedrals and towns wantonly de A Mother's Seven Soldier Sons [Col. Harvey's War Weewly.] Well, we do owe Redlands an apology, and that apology is ' oreby tendered with the hope that it will be accepted as frankly as it is of fered. At the same time we would wish to extend to the people of Red wood City, San Mateo county, Cali fornia, our hearty congratulations on having so splendid an American mother as Mrs. W. H. Wyman among their citizens. She is an honor not only to Redwood City but to San Mateo county, to the State of Cali fornia and, indeed, to ail American motherhood. And wo would still further congratulate the people of Redwood City and of San Mateo county on the superb way they rose to appreciation of Mrs. Wyman's patriotism when the facts in her case were brought to their attention. Not only did Mrs. Wyman get the seven-star service flag she coveted, but she got, through formal presen tation from the people of Fresno city a gold seven-star service pin, with every star a jewel, which ornament, with a very pardonable pride, she is now wearing. And that is not all. The people of San Mateo county are raising a fund wherewith to purchase for Mrs. Wy man a home which is to be all her own, and in which we hope she will live to elcome those seven splendid ons of her's when the war is over, j Incidentally, we may mention that, after some little trouble in learning the correct address of Mrs. Wyman. we have committed to the care of the Politicalmaster General certain substantial testimonials of regard which we received from War Weekly jreaders, and which we also greatly hope—although the hope, alas, is tempered with some measure of \ doubt —thqt the Politicalmaster Gen eral will succeed in delivering into the lady's hands before the war is ended and the boys get back. ' A CORRECTION To the Editor of the Telegraph: In the newspaper reports of the recent Dauphin county W. C. T. U. convention my name was mentioned as chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the Public Schools contest, .one of the most important, of the whole year. The credit for' this should have gone to Mrs. John DeGray, who did an excellent piece of work. If you will publish this I shall be greatly obliged. MRS. H. B. HARTZLER. Looking Unto the Lord Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.— Mtcah vil. 7 istroyed in Belgium and France, burn |or destroy all her plants for the I making of utensils of war, and all shipyards where warships are butlt. Remove all submarines and aircraft, and destroy the places where these have been or can be kept. Carry away all materials gathered for the manufacture of things of war. Root and branch, let the work be thor ough and unwearied. Forbid her to maintain either navy or army for a long term of years. Let the leaders who represent the spirit of Hunism suffer the just penalty of their crimes, by permanent exile, or oth erwise, as necessity may decree. With these things accomplished there may be hope, in the course of two generations that the German 1 people come to realize what constitutes the ' qualifications for membership in the family of na tions. When the poison gas of German propaganda reaches us, as it inevi tably will one of these days.'and your generous sympathies are ap pealed to, "to forgive and forget," do not forget thd enormity of the offense; how |totally uncalled for was its occasion; and the spirit of greed and power which prompted it all; and like a juror sworn to put away his sentiment of pity, and ren der only Justice according to the law, so let us each stand firm and lend our voice to a public sentiment which demands punishment for the offender, and protection to the world. Pershing Advances (From New York Times) There is a thrill for the American people in the news that their First Army is in battle on the St. Mihiel salient and advancing on tfje outer works of Metz. Hitherto American troops have co-operated with the French in the Rheims-Soissons sec tor and with the British in Artois. The Americans are now fighting as a homogeneous force and playing the greater part in a strategical move ment, the French co-operating on their right and left. This movement is being directed by General Pershing, and the honors of victory will be his. He is attacking on a front of twelve miles, and he has his own flying corps to signal to his artillery and bomb the enemy. The Stars and Stripes are going forward after a long period of waiting, which has tried the patience of the American -people. They have longed to see their own army in ac tion, having faith in its invincibility, desiring a demonstration of its sol- I dierly qualities not only to impress our brave allies, but to show the Germans how the Americans whom they have disparaged and affected to despise can fight for a 'just cause. The glorious day has come at last. Booze Celebrating Departure "A man wounds woman companion following drunken orgy," is the way the headlines tell of a chootlng at a Kansas City hotel. "At the time the police entered the room two quarts of whisky were standing on the< dresser," the account says. "The man was apparently Intoxicated." Booze is determined to impress on the country that no mistake has been made in the determination to banish it from the United States.—Kansas City Star. Always Offensive Germany and Austria have agreed that the present is no . time for a peace offensive, according to a news dispatch from Switzerland. The present appears to be a bad time for Any sort of an offensive for Ger many and Austria, except as to their conversation, which is always offen sive.—Kansas City Star. Will They Miss Me? Oh, will they miss me over here When to the war I've gone; And will they weep that one so dear Has put the khaki on? I hope they'll miss me over here. And likewise, I declare, I hope all Huns that I come near Will miss me over there. —Joshua Lott. TUMULTY'S EXCITEMENT [New York Times.] President Wilson evidently had no hand in the composition of Mr. Tumulty's egregious letter to Chair man Hays. It is all Tumultian; and the state of mind it reveals must give some concern to Mr. Tumulty's triends. For it gives tho clearest possible proof that he has got him self into u mental state wherein any one who- opposes the Democratic party is guilty of a species of moral turpitude. He quotes the speeches of Republican statesmen, wherein they express their natural hankering for Republican victory, and quotes them with a triumphant air, as if he were convicting them of treason. He had inquired of Mr. Hays whether that individual had charged the President with being willing to make a compromise peace if 'hat would keep the' Democratic party in power. Mr. Hqys replies that he did not, and implores Mr. Tumulty, rather turgidly: "Let not political parties spend their time accusing each other of disloyalty when both are loyal." Mr. Tumulty confounds him by producing a statement of his in which he said that "more atten tion to politics" was needed. This statement, Mr. Tumulty says, with a bewildering air of completely con futing him, is "obviously partisan." Still with that bewildering air of triumph upon him, Mr. Tumulty pro ceeds to arraign Senator Penrose, who is a Republican, for making a Republican speech to other Repub licans. He quotes an incriminating passage beginning, "I want to say to tjie Republican party, keep it vigor ous and virllo all through the United States, successful whenever It can be successful," etc. He quotes passages from other Republican speeches all of. which convey to the ordinary mind the Impression that these Republicans would like to see the Republican party win. No doubt they convey the same impression to Mr. Tumulty's mind; but that mind I is In such a fervid state'that the ex ! pression of this desire on their part j seems to him to verge on Copper headism. . What dons Mr. Tumulty want? The tone of tys letter almost sug gests that he believes it is near trea son to invito any one to vote the Re publican ticket. The President is very. busy with more important things, but •it does seem as if ho could spare a moment to put a little ice on his secretary's fevered brow, or tame down his anguish in some way. As l'cf Mr. Hays, who was speaking in what he supposed to bo confidence and whose remarks were not stenographically reported, there is a version of his speech which rep resents him as saying nothing what ever about the President or the Democratic leaders in connection with ending the war, but as saying that "a certain socialistic coterie in Washington" would like to end the war without hurting Germany too much. If he said that, he under stated the truth; the coterie is not only in that frame of mind, but seems to be doing.all it can to bring its wishes about. It is only socialistic in the parlor-socialist way, but it looks with a kindly eye on pacifism and the Nonpartisan League. It is not so long since it actually pro jected the notorious Lindbergh of Minnesota into the White House and got him an interview with the Presi dent. Going to Knit, Maybe? General March says 95 per cent, of the American troops are being withdrawn from the French and English and concentrated at a point that he did not designate. Now what do you suppose they are being concentrated for? To knit socks, maybe?— Kansas City Star. Esteeming Others Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. —Philippians ii, 3. | OUR DAILY LAUGH HIS LICENSE. Burglar: Give mo your money Victim: Gently, ' I gently. I ' was V. \ i just robbed by one of your fra- ryww Did he have a r j\ ft 3 j Yes indeed—a 111 1 || 11 big shiny one, A Jlj Ijjl cannon, I think "• ' ' M II Iv would fit it bet ter. PEnBO NAlk / That's as plain //R. —Tw aB nose on your face. There you are. V Getting personal *'* ,n A DISTINCTION DIFFERENCE. Going to send Jf#j ' your wife away reMi-a. isl for the summer? V-"t Hush. Don't put jjjwUMjs. 1 it that way! I'm going to let her go away, but if eho thought for a . minute that 1 was T if sending her she'd ® 1 stay right here. • f. BOMB I RESISTANCE. pie are said to fol low the line of least resistance. Maude - That doesn't apply to kissing. The men like for you to pyt up a small slxe bluff. NOT IN HIB Mrs. Bmith: Do I i you like codfish ' I ill balls, Mr. Gray? New Boarder: < |J I I don't know. MgEWJ Ml Mrs. Smith, I || W|K)G> can't remember rJgjGSfrHfl IMjTyi having attended THIS YEAR. Isn't it warm r JK/\ today, Maude? wy \\\ Yes, Grace, but i// n i\ how lovely and lj // H cool your furs do "von look. lamttttg (Eljat! 'The fact that Dauphin county went ahead of Philadelphia in War Stamp felling last week was pleasant reading to war investors in this com munity, but there is a very general belief that sales not only should but can be increased here without. interfering with the Liberty Loan or ' * the drives in pchalf of any of the ggencies that are doing such won derful work to back up the fighting men." said a businessman last week. In the opinion of somo observers the sales here have not jumped because of the restricted number of places where War Stamps can be bought. The location of th main selling agency on the second floor of the post ofHce has not helped, either, because poople have not reached the point where they will climb stairs, to save. Posters have become so numerous and so striking in promoting the objects of the various agencies of the govern ment that the people have come to regard them more in the light o" rivalries than "punch." There has been much conversation about War Stamps in Harrisburg. The manv booths which have been established in stores and industrial establish ments , the advice to have been printed on the pay envelopes to In vest some of the contents In Thrift Stamps and the enlistment of the people to urge buyers and sellers not to forget the small Investment that leads to big returns have not materialized. The Chamber of Com merce has done some things which popularized War Stamps, they have been prizes at various entertain ments and the boy and girl scouts have been on the job, but the truth is that most people who were Inter ested have become "too busy" and Postmaster Frank C. Sites has not been supported as he should have .been. These remarks represent tho boil-down of views of twenty men spoken to' yesterday on the subject. The fact Is that almost all of them are true. Harrisburg has a great reputation for going through with things, but it has gotten so accustomed to the multiplicity of "War Signs," just as newspaper offices have become burdened with "publicity" from government depart mental press agents at Washington, that the significance of W. S. S. is not borne home as strongly as six months ago and it needs something beside wind and ink to speed it up. • • t Formation of the Home Defense League, at Hershey, makes tho fourth such organization in Dauphin county with at least one other likely to be established in the upper end. There are now units at Harrisburg, Steelton, Middletown, Hummelstown and Paxtang have reserves, but they do not conduct regular drills any longer. e • • Members of the Telegraph Family have given their congratulations to Augustus Blacksmith, the oldest of their number, upon his seventy-fifth birthday. Mr. Blacksmith has been continuously in the service of the Telegraph for over flfty-flve years. • • • T. Ellsworth Davies, the coal land expert who is to come here to take charge of the survey of the coal lands of Dauphin county which some believe are not assessed at has had wide experience in such matters In the geological field and figured in some strenuous contests to make coal companies pay fairer shares of taxes on undeveloped coal lands. Ifwhat is generally believed in the Lykens valley—that there aro millions of dollars o( untouched coal in the Short Mountain—is estab lished the county will get much more in taxes and maybe Harrisburg would get some Lykens coal. * • • An Austrian workman got "No. 3," In a Hill car the other evening. The Austrian was one of the few who have been inclined to brazenness hereabouts. He wore a ring which had some Austrian insignia on it and pushed his way through the crowd at a car door and took a seat, grinning at the wdmen who had to stand. Some one told him to get up. He would not. So a man went over and stood so that every lurch of the car he trod upon the Austrian's toes. Black looks, mutter ings and every other sign from the foreigner made no impression. "Get off," finally said the Aus trian. "Get up," said the American. The foreigner stood it one more block during which he got tramped two or three times and then he bolted for the door, making faces at every one and scowling at the car as it sped by when he had alighted. • • * "The war movie has the old fash ioned blood and thunder reel faded." was the remark of one of the local picture magnates. "We have had some very fine films here, but the pictures that draw the crowd are those from the war zone. The official pictures bring In people that never go to a movie and they set the reg ular fans to cheering." • * * Is a workman an Industrial acci dent victim if the ankle on his right foot has been broken while at work— if that right foot was part of an artificial leg? A regularly executed accident report has been received at the Bureau of Statistics and In formation of the Department of Labor and Industry from John J. Boland and Company, mine opera tors, at Dunmore, Pennsylvania, set ting forth that James McGarry, an employe, turnqd on his foot and broke his ankle while at work Sep tember 4th. The accident report further states, —"This Is an artifi cial leg, however, but he had to have same repaired." ~ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. Lowry Humes, former legis lator and United States district attorney for western Pennsylvania, has been commissioned a major >. the Judge advocate general's depart ment. —Horace R. Manley, the new United States commtesioner at Phila delphia, is a Media insurance and rear estate man. —The Rev. H. L. Chance, of Phila delphia, has taken charge at Allen town. —Thomas Kennedy, miners' pres ident in the lower anthracite field, is expected to be re-elected at Nes quehonlng this week. —C. D. Weirick, district attorney of Lebanon county, is active in tho labor work of his county. 1 .DO YOU KNOW | —That Harrisburg lias more people employed on the railroads now than ever before? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —ln old days when there were ■ menaces to health, in Harrisburg, i the people got together and bought [the properties and cleaned them up.
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