8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE BO ME Founded 1881 . Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.KGIt APII PRINTING CO. Telegraph Balldlng, Federal Square * E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMBTZ. 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 othorwlse credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of speolal dispatches herein aro also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. E&starn office, Story. Brooks & Pinley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office. Story. Brooks & Pinley, People's Gas Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Fa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, SEIT. 18, 1018 Drudgery is the grey angel of suc cess.—Dß. GANNETT. OUR ANSWER PRESIDENT WILSON voiced the sentiment of the entire nation when he promptly and tartly declined Austria's presumptuous at tempt to bring about a premature peace that would have left the Cen tral Powers with all their powers for evil intact and the opportunity at their disposal to again drench the world in blood when they deemed the moment propitious. The fact that but a half hour intervened be tween his receipt of the Austrian proposal and his flat refusal to con sider it is a refreshing chapter in the history of an administration whose greatest fault has been that it has been too deliberate. The President has recommitted himself to his program of complete victory bv force of arms; a program which the country has accepted and which it will insist upon at any cost. His reply will be a greater blow to German hopes than the driving of Ludendorf's armies out of Belgium. It Is the beginning of the end for Germany. It assures the world that American men, and Armerican arms and American dollars are pledged to the continuance of the war until the German Beast has been overthrown and the liberty of the world is for ever safe. It is what the American people expected of the President. Nothing less would have satisfied them. Having been repudiated by the twin bosses of the Democratic party. Judge Bonniwcll, the party's choice for Gov ernor, who himself first repudiated the bosses, will now wait for the re pudiation of the whole outfit by the voters of Pennsylvania in November. HELPFUL CRITICISM BOTH Senator Beidleman and Auditor General Snyder spoke at length before a gathering of Republicans in Harrisburg Monday evening upon the importance of helpful, constructive criticism in the conduct of the war. They dwelt upon the beneficent effects of pub licity upon the actions of men in public life, with especial reference to the present administration, and all they said is true. They might have quoted many Instances. For example, on the very day that the Senate passed the prohibition amendment to the agricultural ap propriation bill the President and his advlsei-s got together and con cluded that the manufacture of beer is a bad thing and ought to be stopped. Forthwith an order was issued prohibiting such manufacture after December 1 next, all very good of Itself. The Executive action In this case recalls to mind many similar In stances In the past. When the air craft program began to lag last win ter, and it was seen that millions of dollars of the people's money was being wasted, serious charges were made In tho Senate against certain officials, and the Committee on Mili tary Affairs began an investigation of the whole aircraft situation. Bow ing to the Inevitable the President directed the Attorney General to start a similar Inquiry. The Senate Committee filed a re port, the chief recommendation of which was that all production and operation of aircraft should be placed under a single head. The pressure for the adoption of that re form became so great that Mr. Wil son was forced to act to save his face, and John D. Ryan was clothed •with supreme authority over all mat tors relating to our air program. But months before the aircraft agitation it became evident that there was little co-ordination among the various war activities of tho gov ernment in the' purchase of sup plies. Duplication of orders resulted, and real competition sprang up AS to which Bureau could pay the high est price and obtain the goods which WEDNESDAY EVENING HAHRIBBURG t&Sg&L TELEGKSPH! SEPTEMBER 18, 1918. several others were after. The Re publicans In Congress insisted that a Committee on the Conduct of the War should be appointed, whose principal duty would be to see that the enormous appropriations made for war purposes were expended to the best advantage. Again the Pres ident saw the wave of public senti ment, and appointed Mr. Stettinius, of New York, to correlate all pur chases of material and supplies so that each department should get the benefit of the best prices. In all of these matters Mr. Wil son has refused to act until induced by agitation in Congress. Although the need of those reforms had been apparent for a long time, it was not until the Senate or House was on the eve of taking decisive action that the President stepped in and sub stituted a plan of his own. He knows that Congress reflects the will of the geople, and that it would not con tribute to his polilcal welfare to have it appear that ho had refused to give heed to their wishes. Anyone who doubts the wisdom of helpful, constructive criticism of the administration, In Congress and out, should consider the numerous fundamental changes that have been made in our military policy and pro gram since our entrance into the war. In the majority of instances he will find that they have first been brought forward in the Halls of Con gress, and vigorously supported by public opinion, before they have been adopted by those in executive au thority. ' Palmer and McCormick have adopted the same methods which they virtuously denounced when they took over the party organization, or what was left of it. and with a fine show of political morality proceeded to re organize the machine for their own purposes. Bonniwell has at least dem onstrated the utter selfishness of these two arbitrary dictators, and the Democrats of Pennsylvania will now probably seize the first opportunity to do some reorganizing on their own account. CAMPAIGN METHODS THROUGHOUT Pennsylvania the newspapers are united in stal wart support of the party's standard bearer •in this campaign. In a recent issue the Washington (Pa.) Observer discusses at some length "What Republicanism Means in Pennsylvania," dwelling upon tho constructive policies of the party. Special emphasis was given a recent statement by United States Senator Borah regarding the listlessncss among American voters, citing the indifference of political leaders fre quently to the great issues which concern the people. In the opinion of the Observer, if we are to maintain our political parties as real instruments of good government in this country "we must have the principles of our parties stated more frequently not only by our candidates for office, but by our political leaders." Too much emphasis has been plac ed by political organizations, in the view of our Washington contempo rary, on that sort of organization which must, year after year, be maintained by tho expenditure of money and the dealing out of politi cal Jobs. .Illustrating this point, at tention is called to the arousing of the people to the importance of war activities and the fact that because of their widespread interest under splendid leadership the response is general and satisfactory. In other words, results are obtained through the enthusiasm that comes from di rect personal interest. Similar inter est, the Observer argues, could easily bo aroused by the discussion of the principles of government which so largely and vitally affect the people. We quote ircm the Observer as fol lows: If our political campaigns were characterized by proposed con structive programs and undoubted initiative in policies and plans the voters would more enthusiastic ally respond and there would be far more faith in their own par ties. Fortunately for the Republican party in Pennsylvania this year the campaign leaders have the op portunity to go before the voters with a candidate for Governor in William C. Sproul, who not only has a constructive program, but who has the initiative, the intelli gence and the influence to carry out that program. Not for a generation, perhaps longer, have the voters of the Re publican party had presented to them for consideration in their primaries a more statesmanlike, constructive program than that on which Senator Sproul was nominated for Qovernor. That program stands to-day as the pro gram of the Republican party be cause it was endorsed by the rank and file through their selecting the candidate who prepared it. If the Republican party in this State goes before the voters on that program and through a cam paign of enlightenment and edu cation tnakes it widely known, Senator Sproul will not only bo elected by one of the largest plu ralities ever given any candidate for Governor in this State, but it will greatly strengthen the party as an effective political organiza tion in the future and give it a commanding position for tho larger content in the Presiden tial year, 1920. Senator Sproul's outspoken decla rations in support .of certain fixed principles of the Republican party, his pronounced stand for the prohi bition amendment and his large ex perience as a legislator have given him such pre-eminence over all other candidates for tho gubernatorial office that his election in November is so absolutely certain that he can well afford to discuss from time to time during the campaign, as he has already done, the constructive work which will engage his attention when he comes to Harrisburg next Janu ary. Southern statesmen at Washing ton are very much out of Joint be cause of a proposition that there shal( be a study of the cotton situation with a view to fixing a basic price for that product. Notwithstanding these same statesmen voted for $2.25 wheat, they are uproariously indig nant now that It is urged that a price ba fixed on cotton. IK By tho Ex-Committeeman Indications are that the speech making campaigns of all political parties in Pennsylvania will be con siderably abridged because of the big Liberty Loan drive which is coming on and that the tours which in other years have occupied six or seven weeks will be materially cut or con densed. The schedules for the can didates' tours are being made up, but It may bo some time before they are ready as the men in charge are awaiting information as to the man ner in which the big drive is to be conducted in various counties. Men active in politics here say that they do not want to Interfere In any way with Liberty Loan matters. Many candidates volunteered to be loan speakers long ago and some have sent word here that they will reduce their campaign work. State Chairman Lawrence H. Rupp, of the Democratic State Com mittee, who is expected here this week is getting into touch with va rious districts and it is probable that the campaign speeches under au spices of the State Democratic head quarters will be in the last two or three weeks of the campaign. The time for tiling nomination ptt pers for the Supreme Court election will expire a week, from to-morrow. —The Anti-Saloon League endorse ment of Senator Sproul at Philadel phia will be followed by similar ac tion in Pittsburgh. —Following the instructions and warning given tho assessors of Clin ton county in court by Judge R. B. McCormick, as to performing their sworn duty without fear or favor and assessing real estate at the fig ure it would bring at public sale, three of the assessors have already handed in their resignations and nine others have signified their in tention of doing the same thing. It is likely that others will take sim ilar action, for they they are not go ing to run the chance of being haled into court and fined, as there is very little pay in the office as it is. Under the circumstances it may be some what difficult for the Clinton County Commissioners to secure competent men to fill the vacancies. Two of those who quit stated it was their intention to resign before Judge Mc- Cormick gave his talk to the asses sors. —Representative John W. Vicker man, of Allegheny county, the lead er of the "dry" legislators in the last session, who was here yesterday, is a very vigorous champion of Sproul. "We have endorsed Sproul at the meeting of th headquarters com mittee of the Anti-Saloon League. We believe in him and will work for him. He will get the solid vote of the church people," said be. "The booze outfit is slipping. I do not see anything to Bonniwell, but at the same time we have got to stay on the firing line. Mulvihill and his crowd are backing Bonniwell and going around with him in Western Pennsylvania, but they are not get ting anywhere. Sproul suits us. And I guess he suits the state." —Ex-Congressman Thomas W. Templeton, of Luzerne county, will likely be named to succeed Repub lican County Chairman John R. Halsey, who had to retire from poll tics because he is a railroad attor ney. —Filing of the nomination petition of Judge Joseph W. Boston, of Mc- Kean county, as a candidate for the Supreme bench, is taken by people at tho Capitol to mean that an active campaign to create in the Republi can party a situation like that in the Democracy which had four aspirants is to be undertaken. The McKean Judge has been an aspirant for ap pellate seats upon several occasions. —Retirement of Representative A. Ramsey S. Black, of this city, from tile Democratic legislative ticket, is to be followed by other railroad men, according to what was heard at the Capitol to-day. Inability to get any further information from Washing ton in response to requests is inter preted as meaning that candidates must withdraw. —-Already there is speculation as to who will succeed Deputy Secre tary of the Commonwealth Fred A. Godcharles, who has been commis sioned a captain of ordnance in the army. Under the law Chief Clerk George D. Thorn takes over the duties. Captain Godcharles will go on the war-leave list and get half pay during his term of service. —Senator William C. Sproul, Sena tor E. E. Beidleman and Auditor General Charles A. Snyder were the speakers at the bi£ rally of the Republicans of the Ambler district at Ambler last night. Over 4,000 persons cheered them. The sena tors promised business methods In the state government and the Audi tor General, who was in rare form, handed the Democratic ringmasters a series of jolts on the way they have adjourned politics for everyone but themselves. —With Chief Zoeller and Police Chief Nolan back at work the Wilkes-Barrc council yesterday, af ter temporary suspension, began consideration of bills amounting to more than SI,OOO, all concerned with (he Chamber of Commerce charges of graft and inefficiency against the department of public protection. Chief Detective Hergert, the only man expelled from the force, is popu larly supposed to be slated for a new position. Of the bills, SBOO is for tho transcription of testimony. Cham ber of Commerce officials paid $lO,- 000 of their organization's money for the probe. —The platform adopted by iho| Democratic party's highest council makes plain why people do not take such documents seriously any more. It throbs with patriotism and blazes with generalities. It shows moro uhat the leaders of the party are afraid to set down than policies to which they are committed. It calls for the election of Democratic Con gressmen. The Democratic national chairman pleaded In his speech that what he termed "an adverse Con gress" should not be chosen. —Leaders of the different parties are sending notice to the active men in the various divisions to make a special effort to get out a big reg istration on the last day, Saturday, October 5. —William E. Crow, chairman of the Republican state committee, calls upon his fellow Republicans to register to Insure the election of Wil liam C. Sproul to the Governorship and the success of the Republican candidates for Congress. WHAT DOES A BOY THINK OF ON HIS WAY TO SCHOOL? ... By BRIGGS /2OCM ! I WU.AMT TP -AVAJ HJHOL. *I! R ,D W " 5H ~ R , ' ™" MV <*-• • AM- THEY COULDN'T SCHOOL. H use D BURNJ J)AAfT. - I W |SHT THEY VUISHT SHE'D Go IKI G£T NOBODY t O TCACM DXBAJNJ- IWOOuD VAJAMY PeLLUHi Th' RED CRo3S O uR- *ROOm OU AAHTHTIUC." "BODY 12. YSWSS OLD TO CARRY DOWJDER OR " | VdISHT. t WAS Aw' Tnew 'D 6o - v/u- TVieUC. <Soe-S V ... OLD AS MY BAD AM' * . T*H£ LAST "06U - ..I (qO'SH. •COULD TH WORK - CIRCUS OR. SOOAE-THIN VU'SHT THE OL.O SCHOOL AN' C. ARKJ LOTSA MOIUGV IAJO ULCI 'BE CM - V ALL OF • r>' "BE IT RESOLVED" [Philadelphia North American] Of the many varieites of adminis tration politics that are being played in Washington, the most reprehen sible is the deliberate campaign waged to make it appear that this nation is made up largely of disloy alists, pacifists and slackers, who were finally forced to do their duty by a far-seeing, patriotic, Demo cratic leadership. The promoters of this campaign include not only self seeking politicians of the baser sort, but members of the cabinet and oth ers who have the confidence of the President. Soon after America entered war the Wilson partisans began to "make a case" to camouflage the record of evasion which the admin istration had made. In speeches and in political articles they eulogized the President's "patience" and "foresight" in deferring the declara tion. "He was waiting," said a dis tinguished publicist, "to see how fast and how far the American people would keep pace with him and stand up to any action that he proposed." • • • The only color of justification for the impression Washington seeks to convey is that, out of their senti ment of loyalty and respect for the Presidency, the American people permitted their Judgment to be over come by the mistaken counsels which so long emanated from the White House. There was at work during those lamentable months a powerful propaganda of pro-Ger manism in the United States, vir tually tolerated by the administra tion. There was also a small but vociferous element of pacifism, whose agitation derived importance from the fact that it was represent ed in the cabinet. But the vast masses of the peopje were animated by a sturdy Americanism and stood ready for months to answer the summons of a hesitating leadership, as they showed by their enthusiastic approval of every utterance by the President upholding the nation's rights. • ♦ ♦ It is with profound respect for the goqd qualities of President Wil son that we suggest, in his interest and in that of the country, a change in the nature of the resolutions which are being adopted by so many public assemblages. Instead of the needless appeal to the people and belief that he will stand by the peo ple; that he Will be strong in the faith, resolute to consider no com promise with evil, inflexible against any inconclusive peace, howsoever it may be urged by plausible states men or visionary enthusiasts or voices in the air; that he will seek the fullest co-operation with the na tions which have a moral kinship with America, and implacably war upon those which plot the destruc tion of liberty; that he will, in a word, make the great force of his personality and position the instru ment of the spirit of the American people, which is now. and always has been, resolved upon a peace with victory. OVERTURES FOR PEACE [Philadelphia Record] A sufficient reply to Austria-Hun gary's peace overtures was made in advance by the recognition by the United States and its Allies of the Czecho-Slovaks as an Allied nation. We cannot make peace and betray them, and their country must be carved out of the Dual Monarchy, which can have peace at any mo ment if it will simply surrender and submit itself to the terms of the Allies. LABOR NOTES The national harness and saddlery adjustment commission has ordered wages increased to 60 cents an hour for leather workers employed on government contracts. In a protest to thp Dutch Parlia ment against a war tax on tobacco, the bund of cigarmakers in the Netherlands represented that over 45,000 people make a living out of the rolled weed. During the month of May the of fices of the Brotherhood of Team sters received per capita tax on 82,- 749 members. President Tobin says this is the largest per capita tax ever received. In France factories, workshops, foundries, warehouses, work yards and all industrial or commercial es tablishments considered dangerous or objectionable, whether to the safety or salubrity of the neighbor hood, to the public health or to agricultural operations,. are subject to the supervision of public author- We Shall Not Break Faith [Woman's Home Companion] You are the mother of a son with our forces overseas. A whisper comes to you that the Germans are ready for a just peace. This whisper may come from a neighbor, or it may come in print, or in some other way. The neighbor, or the author of the lines in print, may be only foolish, or he may be a sympathizer with Germany. Your son is beyond the Flanders crosses, ro\v on row, along the danger line, facing the exploding shells and poison gas of the unpity ing enemy. Other men in his com pany have been killed. Perhaps you tCould be more than human if you did not at least listen to these whis pers. Perhaps it is not strange if you are tempted to believe, and to say, "We must make the just peace the Germans are willing to accept." i Not strange!—with peace your boy; comes home, without it he stays to face the exploding shells and tho poison. But what of the son of another mother who sleeps in Flanders' fields? "We are the dead." If he could speak, would he say, "Let them have their peace"? The an swer has been made by one now him self of their company: "If ye break faith with us who die, Wc shall not sleep, though pop pies blow In I'landers' fields." What Is Coining to Them [New York Times] Mr. Wilson has informed the only persons who needed the information that this country is in the fight to beat Germany. Employers or em ployes who- Imagine wages or condi tions of employment are seriously to be considered in comparison with the supreme object of winning the wa'r are now powerfully instructed as to their obvious duties. The President commandeers at once employers and employes. He takes possession of the Smith &. Wes son pistol plant in Springfield, whose owners refused to abide by de cision of the War Labor Board, and he rebukes the Bridgeport machin ists, fat with swollen wages, who, against their own representatives ami all intelligent labor leadership, have taken this time of all times to mani fest their intolerable selfishness. You will be pariahs in every chance of employment. You will be first in being speeded to the front- Your country will make you pro scribed if you persist in your refusal to work. That is the essence of one of the firmest and most patriotic ut terances that Mr. Wilson, who has made so m'any, has ever made. These high-puid Bridgeport slack de luxe that is getting rich and in among the labor unions. The Cen tral Federation of Labor has told them what It thinks of them. There is a class of purple laborers to luxe that is getting rich ahd in solent. The majority laborers, the people <?f the United States, have no use for them, in so far as they shirk. KAHN PRAISES Y. M. C. A. In a letter received by George W. Perkins, Otto H. Kahn, the banker, who has recently completed a tour of the French front, sets forth his im pressions of the work at the front of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, and the Sal vation Army. According to Mr. Kahn, the war work associations are doing wonders to maintain the morale of the Ameri can soldiers and to bring them some thing akin to home in the war-rent world in which they are fighting. His letter reads: "The feeling of the long distance separating the soldiers from home to probably the one hardest to get accustomed to and to overcome for the splendid fellows who are so vali antly and admirably defending our country's honor and safety , and the highest possessions of the civilized world. The Young Men's Christian Association, with the vast ramifica tions of its beneficent activity every where in Europe where our army is fighting, training, or resting, is in a position to do, and is doing more, spiritually and actually than prob ably any other agency now at work to give to our boys something akin to a home, something which brings the sweet and eagerly welcomed touch of American surroundings and at mosphere into the strange and unac customed world in which they are k moving for the time being." t That your son may know immedi • ate safety it must not be that those s othef women's sons died in vaip. ■ They have given the "last full meas ure of devotion," and they, more . than we who have given almost noih i ing, are entitled to speak. "Take , up our quarrel with the foe." It i must not be that their death was s fruitless, nor must the son of your ; son be forced to go through this ; same ordeal e. quarter-century from ■ now. For of course the point is here: 1 The Germans do not want a just 1 peace. A just peace means the wip ■ ing out of their whole military ma ■ chine and most of their dangerous ' feudal system of government. A just >1 peaqe means the hanging of a con j siderabie number of Germans of ' high rank who have ordered the vio ' lation of all the rules of civilized ! warfare. A just peace means that the Germans must pay for all the ' unlawful damage they have done. ' The Germans do not want a Just s peace. This job must be finished. Wo • shall not break faith. These dead in Flanders did not die in vain. While the larks still bravely sing. , our guns must as bravely speak be ■ low till a peace is won of Vhicli both the dead and the sons of our sons can say: "They kept faith." For Governor of Pennsylvania [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] It is not at all necessary to call the attention of the citizens of Penn sylvania to the length, breadth and depth of the gulf which separates the campaigns of William C. Sproul and Judge Bonniwell for governor. There is no comparison between the two. Senator Sproul lifts his candidacy upon a high plane of ser vice to the nation and state. With him the first of all considerations is' to win the war, to support it to the ! annihilation of autocracy, and then ■ to face the industrial and business > problems, which will be of so serious . a nature when peace is declared With Bonniwell it is Democratic leadership. It isn't Germany or the - vast interest of Pennsylvania that , bother him nearly so much as a pnr -1 tisan quarrel with a pair of bosses 3 who want to control the Democratic - party organization machinery in the stute. r There is chaos in the Democratic 3 ranks in Pennsylvania. We Hear - very much about liars and traitors - and the like. The Bonniwell parti -1 sans and the Palmer and McCormlck s partisans are staging a cut-throat - farce-comedy while the state is cail'- s ing upon its best to support the na tion at war. * The Democratic spectacle is netth - er edifying nor amusing. It is dis gusting. But it is succeeding ad -1 mirably in proving the utter unfitness of the Democratic party to govern 3 Pennsylvania. It is moat fortunate that in Sena-, a tor Sproul there is a candidate for 3 governor who is not only equal to the r emergency, but is splendidly fitted to conduct the affairs of state. The duties and responsibilities which will confront tho next governor will be . studendous. They can be intrusted to Senator Sproul in full confidence. e The Tramp of Marching Feet f [Kansas City Times] If the Kaiser and his war lords listen to-ciay they may hear tho tramp of myriads of feet—the tramp of the new armies gathering in America to meet the challenge to civilization that issued from Berlin four years ago. America met the challenge last year by the registration of the bulk of its young men. To-day it proves its determination by going deeper into the industrial life of the Nation and registering not only the boys, but the older and established men, the men who normally are in charge of the larger share of the country's activities. It takes this action, not grudging ly, not under conpulsion, but freely, enthusiastically. The men who go to the registration booths to-day are ■ ready and eager to undertake any; service that will hasten the end of! the nightmare of Prussianism that has descended on the world. There is no spirit of levity in the millions who thus place themselves at the disposal of the cause of civili zation to-day. They have counted the cost and they pay it willingly— That government of the Hohenzol lerns, by the war lords for German dominion, shall perish from the earth! , State's Autumn Arbor Day O painter of the fruits and flowers! We thank Thee for Thy wise de design. Whereby these human hands of ours In nature's garden work with Thine. Give fools their gold and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field or trains a flower Or plants a tree is more than all. For he who blesses most is blest; And God and man shall own his worth Who toils to leave as his bequest An added beauty to the earth. And. soon or late, to all who sow, The time of harvest shall be given: The flower shall bloom, the fruit shall grow. If not on earth, at last in heaven. —Whittler. HE WANTS TO FIGHT [Philadelphia Inquirer] I was having mess one day with a group of military policemen. I_ sat under a tree with a good looking man who seemed disgruntled about something. "Don't you like the job you've got?" I asked. "I certainly do not. I'm an ex pert horseman, in the cavalry, in fact, and here I am stuck away in the military police. I want to get in the cavalry where I can do some thing." "But you're safer where you are than you would be in the cavalry, aren't you?" "Safer? Yes. But who wants to be safe? I came over here to fight." This private was once a constable in Harrisburg, Pa. The Power of the Potter Hath not the potter power over the clay, of thq same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? —Romans 6:21. OUR DAILY LAUGH GREAT A 43$ KNOWLEDGES. J "Tj U J Are you mad, "fl J*fl j[\ Jlmmie? fit Naw! I was just thinkin' how fjL&f ffj/jf you wimmen put nllrn\ a man to tho JflW Nil dogs! "~y mmmm HER IDEA OF ■I tjk > \.r; REST ' f ?ijO John, aren't we i J going to take a W• y! 't (vacation this (Si \Si A * supposo by \ t%. Ml /vacation you 1 Vi*"— if V mean some swell Ifk. N I) resort where one flw \ v itmi has to dress three ■|jV\ NOT EXACTLY. Isn't Jones a dreamer? "/v&y Well, not ex- jj Jg' actly. You see, his castles in tho air generally in elude an heiress. gfjl V'dK r\ HARD TO EXPLAIN. htfS Pa, what is 1 meant by single \\JjLf blessedness? My son, that is /A\J a term you will // V\ never be able to \ \ \\ know the slgnifl l\ \\ . cance of until 3A h I you ar o married. THE SPECIFI CATIONS. ■ . Marry mo and I -A can promise a iBBf complete reform. It's never too late J Miss Pfllppe— But I don't want a mended htis- IB band. I want a ■ fresh, brand new Jv *•** Ji I model. - | Euetting Gllfat Nothing Is left of the thorough fare known in Harrisburg of other days as Tanner's alley except a line of water pipe and a memory. Steam shovels and plows have made the once lively thoroughfare, where rows and racket were wont to reign at night, only a half-filled ditch aiM it is being covered up so fast that in a short time sod can be planted over it. Tanner's was the first of the alleys to be gouged out of existence by the excavating machinery v/hich went to work in Oapitol Park ex tension this summer and Cranberry was the next to go. Cranberry has been obliterated although there are some people who recall what it used to be like especially the days when one Fisher used to get into action. Fisher-was a sort of Eighth ward Peter Blackwell, but a more virile type. Now Thnner's alley is passing and in a short time South alley and other streets will be wiped out and then the machinery will start in north of State street. Filbert will be about the last to go as it and Fourth street will care for the traffic until the new highway being built by Super intendent George A. Shreiner out o* Pipe Bending Works cinder and slag and presumably to be called Cocrr monwealth avenue is completed. The old Eighth is not hardly recognizable and one has to wonder what some of the old denizens would have thought if they could have seen a horse mower cutting the grass which has been raised where something else was the crQp in years gone by. • • Captain Frederic A. Godcharles, Deputy Secretary of the Common wealth, is the second man from Northumberland county to hold the place of deputy. Years ago General Charles M. Clement was the deputy. The General, oddly enough, com manded the regiment in which the new captain of ordnance learned the soldier business. Captain God charles was not here to get the mes sage announcing his appointment as he was at Camp Perry with the ex pert shooters of the country. He is an adept witli the rifle and the shot gun and will likely be assigned to the important work of teaching tlio soldiers how to shoot, as marksman ship is playing a big part in the work of the Americans in France, much to the astonishment of their friends and foes. • * • A gfod thought was given to the Central High School seniors on Mon day by Ross A. Hickok in his little talk to them about what military training means. He called attention to the fact that when the boys come home from France they will be in competition with the students of to day and that they will have to bo on their toes to keep up with them. It was a talk straight from the shoulder and the boys were given to understand that military training was not going to be a picnic, but would require not only drill but study and practice. It is probable that as a result of the movement to train the students in the city's high schools that a number of the boys will enter Company I of the Re serve 'Militia or the Harrisburg Re serves. The work of the two or ganizations is being cordinated and many of the Reserves have gone into the Militia. •• • | A friend who likes to hunt bulk." frogs and to eat them, too, is morn or less inclined fo think that the prohibition of the use of lights at night to spear the "bullies" ought to be changed just as some of his friends aver that the blackbird sea son ought to open a couple of weeks before September 1, which is now the legal date. "Bullfrogs are multiply ing and there is nothing more an noying than a chorus at night when you can't see them," said he with feeling. "The average bullfrog is a foxy cuss, anyway, and when you take away the light you are going to take a fling at a noise in the dark ness and be rewarded with a de risive 'jugerum' or a resounding "plop," as he goes into the water. There ought to be a time, say at the close of the season when lights could be used, just to thin out the , rascals. A bullfrog can make you feel meaner than anything I know, except a lazy, overfed trout, espe cially when you have sneaked up on him and he hops in jyst about the time you are going to spear him." * * * People at the Capitol are speculat ing about what will have to be dona with William Penn. As noted in this column some time ago William is getting bald and growing a fringe about his neck. William is- tree No. 1 in the "Row of the Governors" along the Walnut street front of Capitol Park. William was planted by the Governor and his wife and has not been well this summer. The up per branches of the tree are bare of leaves, but the growth seems to have come out at the top of the trunk where the tree forks. • • • When American troops arrive at a port or leave a train one can tell by their stride they they are from the United States Dr. Bagnell said. "They have a swinging stride and a' look in their eye that shows they are there for a purpose. The French and English people know it and their admiration for the thousands of Americans Js a splendid tribute to our boys. In any of the cities or towns where there are American troops or through which they have parsed this spirit is found." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ) —Floyd Gibbons, Philadelphia war correspondent, is making a series ol addresses in eastern counties on what he saw in the war. —John P. Dwyer, Philadelphia newspaper editor, seems to be hav ing considerable fun with United States District Attorney Francis Fisher Kane these days. —Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, promt nent Chicago educator, is to a series of addresses in this statA f, behalf of the Liberty Loan. —Chief Justice J. Hay Brown a. ministered the oath to forty young women of the Junior service corps ai Lancaster. —Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pittsdf burgh, is taking a big interest in th project for improving housing condi. tions in his city. —Charles A. Cowen, of New York, active in the Zionist work, has beeX busy holding meetings in Pittsbury" —Edgar M. Sheppard, member o an old Philadelphia firm and n Princeton man, has volunteered fift overseas work. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg soldiers are nt* tracting attention by the manner U which they are learning their butil< nes in camps In this country? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first blast furnace in Han risburg were built along Paxtoi creek and fifty years ago there wen four of them.
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