10 iHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Uull<ltng. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Businett Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A- R- MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board * J. P. McCUELOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—Tho 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 Newspaper Pub llshers' Assooia liES-'D -tXfsA tion. the Audit wtK " Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn • sylvanla Associ- I HffgT M &ted Doilies. Si R MSI ■ Eastern office, Bel 555 Story, Brooks & i" Ual K| Finley. Fifth £ - iOX Avenue Building JSLtefifiS New York City; j Western office. Jgjli J ' ejfi]yrS Story, Brooks & Finley. ' Chicago, lU. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week: by mail. JS.OO a year in advance. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1918 He icho takes the wrong road must make his jovrney twice over.—Svan ish Proverb. THE PRIMARY FIZZLE WE are rapidly coming to the realization that the general primary scheme is a delusion and snare- Ex-President William Howard Tail has emphasized in his usual convincing way what this newspaper and others have frequent ly urged, that the general primary has respited in party disorganization and the elimination of personal in terest in government among the voters. It was recently stated that almost 150,000 voters in a certain important State had refrained from participating In the primary election. We know here in Harrisburg and Dauphin county how things work, and Mr. Taft believes the evils of the old convention system, which might easily have been remedied by law, did not apprach in any degree the shortcomings of the primary as at present conducted. Under the old convention plan men of all parties took an active In terest in the campaign and with few exceptions the nominees were accept able to the people. Indeed, there were fewer misfits under that system than has been the ease since the in novation of the so-called popular primary. "We have been getting farther and farther away from the old land marks and institutions upon which the progress and prosperity of the country have rested. Let us get back to them as soon as possible., Let us drop the "isms" and so-called up lifting reforms and return to the fundamental things which make for widespread interest in our institu tions and a greater force by the in dividual in the conduct of public af fairs. When Secretary .McAdoo issued his edict against railroaders becoming candidates for office or participating in political contests he dealt popu lar government a blow from which It will be long in recovering unless the people at once repudiate his au tocratic decree. Railroad men and all other men have as good a right to offer ( themselves for the public service as those who presume to create a class of officeholders of their own make. Americans are willing to submit to many things which are contrary to their ideas of popular government at the present time, but the day must come when they will insist upon a return to a more' reasonable gov ernment and a conservation of the right of parties and individuals. RIFLE CLUB BENEFITS ELSEWHERE to-day the Tele graph publishes a letter from Fred A. Godcharle3, telling of the good work the Harrisburg rifle team is doing in the national shoot at Camp Perry, Ohio. Marksmanship counts just as much in this war as •in any other and the encouragement the Government is giving to rifle clubs is money well spent. All pros pective soldiers should take advan tage of the opportunity offered. But It Is incomprehensible 'hat any citizen should believe he will be called more speedily for military service if he is an expert rifleman than If he is unacquainted with the use of military weapons, but that such an impression is not infrequent ly encountered is evident from the testimony of many civilian rifle club members, who have met such an at titude when urging upon citizens the advisability of Joining a rifle club. The truth of the matter is that the Government takes no special heed of a recruit's rifle qualifications when men are called to service. In fact, the system of training at the canton ments presumes that the citizen is untrained In the use of arms. Oc casionally, when there Is work to be done which requires a special pro ficiency in marksmanship, an effort THURSDAY EVENING, it. made to obtain the services of mon qualified for the task in hand, yet the average rifleman is no more liable for military eervlce than is the totally untrained man—all other matters being equal. There is no gainsaying, however, that the cltisen who learns to shoot before he reports to the cantonment is rendering a patriotic service to'the Government. Before he reaches the Western Front every man must know how to shoot. If he will discount the long period of training neces sary to educate an untutored man after he reaches camp by learning fo shoot of his own volition, he will have materially aided in the task of developing himself into a trained I lighter. And, finally, thare is another point which no citizen should overlook and one which cannot be too strongly emphasized, since it has a direct and personal bearing upon every man who may be called upon to serve. Every man who is drafted instinct ively begins to count what remains of his life by that time "when the war is over." He feels that he is going to be one of those who come back, because he wants to believe that he will escape. Tet the man who deliberately, neglects to protect himself in every possible way for the task before him 1b lessening his chances of returning by the same ratio that he fails to prepare himself to meet the hazards of the battle field. SENATOR LODGE'S VIEWS U'NITED STATES SENATOR LODGE is giving full emphasis to the attitude of the Repub lican party in the support of all war activities and measures. Regarding the futile peace proposition of Aus tria he is direct and forceful when he says: We shall press oil until the onlv end worthy of attainment is fully reached. Germany has brought unnumbered woes upon an innocent world. She must be put in a position where she can not strike again. She has ap pealed to the lust of conquest, the dread arbitrament of arms. By that she must abide. She shall not now resort to talk and bargain for a decision. We mean to put her in phys ical bonds. We mean to make the world safe for all free, law abiding. decent people so that they may. live in peace, unthreat ened and unalarmed. For this we fight. We shall not ask more. We shall not accept less. Germany was able to build np a hug® military machine and to edu cate the people to believe that bru tality was justified as a means to ward achieving world power, but the psychology of the Prussian mind has shown serious defects at every turn. The boasted efficiency of the Prus sian has been simply the "efficiency" of force and unrestrained blood thirstiness. As suggested by Senator Lodge ■when Prussian militarism is crushed and the Germans throw up their hands, then the United States and its allies will tell them the terms of peace which they are to accept. There can be no negotiation or par ley over a peace table with the high waymen and cutthroats who have devastated Europe and been respon sible for the suffering of a world. President Wilson, with the force of a bludgeon and with admirable promptness, met the peace thrust of the Austrian hardyman of the Kai ser in a way that met the expecta tions of all his countrymen. And now it is force and still more force until the Hun is on his knees ready for the rod which is in pickle for him. UNITING ON SPROUL THE temperance forces of Penn sylvania are very properly unit ed on Senator Sproul for Govern or. His indorsement by the Anti-Sa-j loon League takes to his support a| non-partisan organization made up of I voters of all parties and churches! that favor the enactment of legisla tion designed to stamp out legalized traffic in liquor. With Bonniwell boasting of his affiliations with the booze element of the State and basing his candidacy on his opposi tion to the adoption of the national prohibition amendment, there was j really nothing left for sincere friends of anti-liquor legislation to do ex cept to get behind the Republican candidate. Senator Sproul's declaration is strong and comprehensive. He says; I favor the prohibitory amend ment to the Federal Constitution, and if I am elected Governor I shall, as a patriotic duty, use my best efforts to secure its ratifica tion by Pennsylvania and the passage of such legislation as may be needed to make it effec • tive. Such legislation I will glady approve and fully enforce. No honest thinking friend of pro hibition could ask for more. Every body knows that the Prohibition party's candidate stands absolutely no show. To work and vote for him :is effort entirely wasted. Even : those who are closest to him know that. The one candidate for Govern lor who favors prohibition and who | stands any show of election in No vember is Senator Sproul. All sincere advocates of the adoption of the fed eral amendment will vote for him. Any diversion from the main issue of getting this amendment through the Legislature is of secondary im portance and designed to detract votes from the main issue. COLONEL ROOSEVELT COLONEL THEODORE ROOSE VELT'S recent editorial in a metropolitan magazine on "The Great Adventure" is generally re garded as commenting upon his son's death in France. He takes occasion in this remarkable article to discuss those who are fit to live, and these, he adds, are those who do not fear to die. Colonel Roosevelt has been, through the last four years or more, the virile personification of the American spirit, and long before other states men were able to visualize the world struggle he was urging hio country men to prepare for the crushing of the German menace. More and moro he Is being regarded as the foremost leader of his day and what ovcr of prestige he may have lost as a party man in the contest of 1912 has been more than recovered through his constructive patriotism in the lost year. Men of all parties now pay tribute to his greatness, to his remarkable vision and his sturdy Americanism. All sympathise with him in the loss of a brave son, but they do more than that; they recognize his use fulness and the strength of his char acter and the force of his leadership in this crisis of the nation. He is a great, outstanding figure among the American leaders to-day and his place in the hearts of his countrymen becomes larger and larger as the forces which are being i directed to overthrow the Beast of | Europe become understood. "~po£tttc£ CK wXa. By the Ex-Committeeman While the men at the Democratic state windmill are going through the motions commonly associated with the conduct of a real live party organization it is generally believed that there is not going to bo much of a campaign made in Pennsylva nia by the machine- Virtually noth ing will be done about a campaign until after the executive commit tee has its "freeze out" meeting on Supreme Court nominations at Phil adelphia next week. Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the nominee of the Democrats of the state for governor in spite of the bosses, is making good on his asser tion that he would not pay any at tention to the machine and is run ning an active campaign of his own. The Judge is at Center. Hall to-day where he is making a speech which is indicative of his policy. He says that the people of Arizona and New Mexico have no right to force their I policy in regard to prohibition and J the like on Pennsylvania. Senator Sproul is due to pass 1 through here to-day on his way to > Pittsburgh and to-night Senator Pen- j rose will be here. He will start in the! morning with Auditor General Sny- j der and Senator Beidleman for Pitts-| burgh. —"Babcock's buttermilk party." which Senators Penrose. Sproul, Beidleman and Crow will attend, is a yearly event in Western Pennsyl vania politics and this year is to be in the form of a reception to the nominee for Governor. "An infor mal farm party," is the official des ignation and the host, "the poor lum berman," as he styled himself at the recent state committee meeting. E. V. Babcoek, Mayor of Pittsburgh, accompanies his invitations with a map showing the roads leading to his place, "Rosemary," which is an hour's ride by automobile from Pittsburgh. Mayor Babcock's out ings have been styled "buttermilk" parties because he departs from the custom of political gatherings and confines all liquid refreshments to milk from his herd of Holsteins. fa mous among the prize cattle of the country. Babcock ignores factional lines in making up his list of guests, which always number five hundred or more, and the gatherings afford an opportunity for men in political life to exchange notes and to greet candidates, present and prospective, for offices high and low. —"I am afraid my old friend. Judge Bonniwell, is degenerating into a common scold," said the netv. ly-elected Democratic State Chair man, when asked if he had anything to say about the berating the Demo cratic candidate for Governor gave him in his latest effusion. Mr. Rupp said Judge Bonniwell based his tirade at him from a single sentence in a letter and thereby twisted the. context. Judge Bonniwell insists that A. Mitchell Palmer has showered fa vors on Mr. Rupp, who asserts he never in his life asked Mr. Palmer for anything for himself. Mr. Rupp, chairman of the committee on reso lutions of the state committee, which was entrusted with the draft ing of the platform, as well as State Chairman, indicated he would ignore the Bonniwell "blast" at him and not dignify it with a reply. According to an announcement made b the Americus Republican Club. Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican national committee; United States Senator* P. C. Knox and Boies Penrose and Senator Wil liam C. Sproul, Republican nominee for Governor, will be in Pittsburgh, October 9. All of them are to make an address at a banquet to be given the night of that date by the Ameri cus Club. Invitations have been sent to Republican leaders throughout Western Pennsylvania and the club expects every county to be represent ed. A conference on the political sit uation in Pennsylvania is to precede the banquet. —Senator Frank E. Baldwin, of Pottcu- county, and Representative John Siggins, Jr., of Warren, who were here to-day on business at the Capitol, sav that everything looks favorable to a big Republican vote in the northern counties. —Senator Sproul is to speak in Somerset county next week. Senator Beidleman will accompany him. —Representative L. F. Benchoff, of Franklin county, is helping out in his home school district as a teacher. He was a former county school su perintendent. —Ex-Representative P. F. Enright. Bethlehem, has been chosen one of the school directors of that city. —According to Washington people there are chances that the Senate may not confirm John R. Bucher as postmaster at Columbia. —Northampton Heights council is about ready to pass the ordinance to annex that borough to Bethlehem. —Walter Willard. the Philadelphian J who attracted much attention by the way he handled the business of dis trict appeal board No. 2, of which he was named chairman through ad ministration influences, is again a target in the Philadelphia Record to-day. Mr. Willard was indicted by the Federal Grand Jury after his board had been abolished and has been interviewing himself lately. This morning the Record say he is trying to make a "sympathy" play and scores him to the extent of almost half a column. John P. Dwyer, of the Record, who made the fight against Willard and his board, is now pro ceeding after United States Attorney Francis Fisher Kane. Fighting Methodists Philadelphia and New Jersey Methodist ministers have protested against being exempted from the draft. Onward, Christian soldiers! — From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. &ARRISBITRO TELEGItAPti IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES-:- By BRIGGS L_ . A . I /pool* r* /OHS VWIU <lbr^ I J r * \ I Twa 0 1 I excuse >fcU"SW.F \ o'*-W f HAVt veo EVER 1 I \M& LBAJHJ J ( - VJ*VP I i DE6m wrsREiTBoJ / PR®** "twe V\, . V. J T>*E I w MTRomomicaL I I ■S T * s #i'" Ve Mwa ) ( /cIT VffiA , / g ^eAßC>*> * PPSS -'•■■ ' * GERMANY'S PEACE DRIVE [Kansas City Star] The expected peace drive has be gun. With German reserves deplet ed, with Foch delivering terrific blows, with the American Army flooding in. with its quality just dra matically demonstrated in the bril liant victor of S. Mihiel, with the U-boats failing, the Central Powers are looking for peace. Tbey will look in vain. Every peace hint that has come from Ger man officials or German newspapers is based on negotiations for the western frontier, but with the con quests on the east made secure. There is no sign of a change of heart. The masters of the Central Powers believe their bag of sixty million Russians, to make more can non fodder for the next year, is suf ficient victory. It would be the part of smart traders to take what they have now, lest they lose all by wait ing. We know what Germany is. We know its unscrupulousness, its per fidy. We know what it promised Russia in the way of peace, and we know how it performed. With the present masters of Ger many the world can have no deal ings except from the cannon's mouth. They have forfeited the confidence of mankind. There is no use wasting time with them. From their spokesman at the opening of the war, when Germany violated its treaty to invade Belgium, we have their maxims: "Necessity knows no law." Would you fight for a treaty, a mere scrap of paper?" We can trust to nothing they say, for they may repudiate it the next day. The only security for the world against another outbreak of this mad lust for world domination is to inflict overwhelming defeat on Ger many, to break its evil power. If all this sacrifice shall not have been in vain, we will treat only with a beaten and humbled Germany; only with a Germany that has finally learned the lesson that the way of the transgressor is hard. The Austrian offer—made, of course, at the instigation of its Ger man master —Indicates that the war lords have begun to see the writing on the wall. But there is no sal vation for them. Now. thank God, they can read only their doom. The Gun in the Drawer I am The Gun in the Drawer. I I am the Defaulter's back door, the Hero's loud moment, little Wil lie's accident, the lock on the | Ingenue's honor, the play- j Wright's stupid solution, the Di- j rector's easy way out, the sure j cure for ' Over-Footage. I was in the first Motion Picture, j and now lam liable to appear anywhere. i I am the goldarndest excuse for real drama on the screen— —but they need me in France, and if someone will only send | me across I may get a Hun or two and then the sore world may forget that I ever was The Gun in the Drawer.——-Photo play Magazine. Avoid Foolish Questions But foolish and unlearned ques tions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. —II Timothy 2:23. LABOR NOTES Barbers at Kansas City, Mo., have i secured increased pay. Sacramento (Cal.) building labor ers get $3 50 for an eight-hour day. Cement finishers at Boston, Mass., are paid ?G a day. Racine (Wis.) metal polishers have Increased wages 10 cents an hour. I Government railroad employes in Switzerland work 11 hours a day. Switzerland's watchmakers' fede ration has 4.600 female members. The principle of the eight-hour day is approved by the National War Labor Board. Charleston (W. Va.) will have the greatest Labor Day demonstration in its history. Vancouver (British Columbia) Steam Engineers' Union has won its fight for an eight-hour day. Toronto (Can.) Street Car Men's Union has Fecured a wage increase of seven cents an hour. Employes of the Canadian Express Company have been given a substan tial increase in wages and a schedule of better working hours. - They Hated to Hear of Hatred [New York Times.] I EMPEROR WILLIAM, man of delicate sensibilities that he is. could uot restrain his emotions while he horrified the gentle expo nents of Teutonic virtues who work in the Krupp factories by telling them that the minds of Germany's enemies were filled with hatred. His voice trembled as he said it, and his hearers shrank, as well they might, from the picture he painted of whole nations harboring this most vicious of human sentiments. A few of them may have a haunt ing memory of a certain "Hassge sang" that had a wide vogue some time'ago—almost at the very begin ning of the war, in fact—but, of course, that song was written by a wicked Englishman, if it wasn't by a hardly less wicked Frenchman or American or Italian, and even then the good Germans suffered cruelly from the knowledge that there were people in the world of instincts 30 base and of culture so low as to take pleasure in singing a song inspired by such a feeling. Germans, if hard pressed, might have confessed at that time to a slight dislike for the British. The German professors and pastors, in their mild way, called attention to what they cculdn't help considering Advertising Pays Advertising is not a luxury in which pride-puffed manufacturers indulge themselves, but is a force which has been responsible for American prosperity, declared Jesse H. Neal ,an advertising man of New York City, in the course of a Con gressional hearing, with reference to the new postal zone rate law. "More than any other one force," he said, "modern advertising is re sponsible for the prosperity of Unit ed States industry. The great ma jority of our improved manufactur ing, selling and distribution methods have been the outgrowth of adver tising; advertising which has scrapped obsolete machinery; adver tising which has standardized pro duction operations; advertising which has made better merchants and distributors; advertising which has provided consumer A.arkets at a minimum of cost. "All of this has enabled quantity production, by economical processes, and has enabled us to pay higher wages than any other country and yet to be able to compete in the markets of the world, with the low paid and oppressed workmen of less progressive countries." General Pershing [New York Times] Among the host of deserved con gratulations that have come upon General Pershing for his victory, that of President Meqocal, of Cuba, must be not the least grateful. Mar shal Foch and all the great names, military and civil, that have over , whelmed the modest Missourian with ' their applause of his splendid ! achievement, still triumphantly con j tinuing, are guarantors of his bril | liant present and future. President i Menocal's felicitation on tyis birth ' day "touches deeply," the General I says, "so many of us who twenty | years ago fought for 'Cuba Libre.' " I Twenty years ago General Pershing I was in the Tenth Cavalry and went 1 through the Cantiago campaign. Then he was a minor figure. Now he is a world figure. The New Drill She said with really pleading eyes, "Tell me —X know you will— I The words I've heard your captain say; I Come! let us play at drill! ! The first commands 'Forward!' 'Quick March!' •Halt!' Then, I think, 'Right Dress!' And wasn't there another thing? 'Present Arms!' Um! I guess! You hold your arms straight out — like this— We'll do without a rifle. And then—now, Charles, you really must. You really must not trifle! Now, sir, salute your officer— Oh! Charles, for shame, how can i m you ? I told you to be serious You horrid, cheeky man you!" He ordered arms at her command; She smoothed her mangled hair. Pouted and frowned and blushed— and then Said coyly. "As you were!" — LA Touche Hancock, In Car toons Magazine. imperfections in the British charac-| ter. But hate the English? hate any-; body? Never! It was a general, all-i embracing love that was expressed | when Germans drank to "the Day," j as had been their pleasant custom | for many a year, and when "!hei Day" did come at last, with what! suavity did they notify all and sun dry, and especially the dear Bel gians, that it had arrived! It is no wonder that the Kaiser can hardly endure the thought that; there are people in the world wtioj hate —no wonder that the Essen folk turn pale under their honest grime | when they hear from the Infallible j One that such folk are opposing his : beneficent plans and are showing a! strong inclination to carry the war' out of France, where it belongs, into 1 Germany, where it ought never to be. The Germans don't want to be j hated—they know of no reason why | anybody shoult} hate them. Hatred i is hateful. Directed against Germans it is nothing less than fiendish, and | it must have been from their sincere i appreciation of these truths that, \ waiting only till the Kaiser was out I of sight, a large number of those 1 whose applause he had so well j earned by his condemnation of hate' went on a strike for more pay and I a little something to eat.. Democratic Entanglement [Wilkes-Barre Record] If ever a worse situation was de veloped in politics than that of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania at present, it is not within memory. The candidate for Governor repudiates the dominant organization and the organization repudiates the candi date for Governor. And it is only a few years since the organization emerged from nothingness and pre sumed to map out the destiny of the unterrified host for generations to come. Was it n6t Messrs. Palmer and McCormick who informed the people of the grand old • Common wealth that they were going to clean up everything in sight and lead eight million people out of the wilderness of graft, corruption, betrayal and infamy that for so many years had made the nam# of the state a word of contempt and humilitation? Was it not they who were going to res cue all of us from the slavery of the worst political autocrats the world had ever seen or endured? Alas! how often are good intentions crush ed under the juggernaut of vicious ness! Judge Bonniwell is the miser able old juggernaut, oiled and greased and ready for action, and by whom? By a majority of the Demo cratic voters who turned out on last primary day. They declared that he should be the party candidate for Governor and under the law their will is to be respected. Liquor or anti-liquor, it would be all the same. The Judge is not of the caste and it is decreed by the reformers and reorgantzers that he shall not be elected. The issue is between the leaders in the Palmer- MeCormick camp and the majority i voters who registered their will at the primaries, The fight is entirely within the Democratic party and there the mess will remain, growing mare nauseating as election day ap proaches. Miners, Stick to Your Work Miners who desert their jobs are in the same category as the Bridge port strikers whom President Wil son read out of the ranks of loyal workmen. If injustice is done them, it can be corrected. The Govern ment has established means of me diation that have the approval of the great majority of people. The men on the War Labor Board are above suspicion. The fuel administrator has this great agency at his back and justice will be done to every branch of mining. The public at times sympathizes with strikers, but not now. These times are different. The salvation of the nation depends upon loyalty in industry as well as upon loyalty upon the battlefield and there can be no compromise with stubbornness. The miner who himself from his work while the war is on can ex pect no public support. He cannot be regarded otherwise than as a downright slacker. Wilkes-Barre Record. There's a Job at Home There's an American labor mis sion now in England and another in Italy. Let's now send one to the Schulklll mining district—Philadel phia North American. SEPTEMBER 19,1913. SONG OF THE GUNS ! This is the song that our guns keep singing, Here where the dark steel shines: This is the song with their big shells , winging Over Lite German lines— | "We are taking you home by the shortest way. We are taking you out of this blood and slime To the land you left in an ancient day, j Where lost lanes wander at twi light times We are bringing you peace In the swift release From the grind where the gas drifts blur I On a steel shod track We are taking you back- We are taking you back to Her!" This is the song that our guns keep roaring Out through the night and rain: This is the song with their big shells soaring Over the battered plain— "We are taking you home by the only way, By the only road that will get you To the dreams you left where the dusk was gray And the night wind sang a long lost track; We are bringing you rest From the bitter test, From the pits where the great shells whir; Through the blood loam We are taking you home. We are taking you home to Her!" —The Stars and Stripes, France. OUR DAILY LAUGH 13|1 V --fjjk jfjwf TRUE f GENERALLY. S Did you tip JyX K the waiter? |<l Most liberal *[ ly. I ordered \ Ttotri two boiled eggs and gave him f one of them. ABSOLUTELY. % * People should w m marry their op- / / Jgu) posites. I M Most people kf; .raggi are convinced —I that they did. TT.UE. f\ Hcr Dad — course, you have heard nr> y daughter sing, v*. (h Suitor Tes .."ia sir; but I shrulc ffir M S " ke t0 have he> must be aw- jl never can tell her anything flilVX y but what she's (jj ' \ heard It before. 5 . UNEQUIPPED. t&k ■£■ er—So you've been out of Jjjfi -fyl work for over a 'o> year. Too bad! Jm 1 can *' v * you a *| hfl couldn't take It J'U Just now. I ain't 3*J"E3" got no evening I clothes. Earning (Eljat If gaaollneless Sunday has man aged to keep the cars in the garages and to help make us all better peo ple and more careful of the Sabbath it has certainly caused a revival of the popularity of the bicycle. More wheels were to be seen on the streets of Harrisburg and Steeltoh on Sun- v day than known in a dozen years. v The country roads were marked by the clouds of dust they kicked up ana the people going to church and from Sunday school had to duck them. Old wheels which had not been used for months came out and boys were in their element. And at night the manner in which the elty ordinance requiring lights on bicy cles was violated and men and hoys roamed up and down the streets and out corners without any warning, just missing men, women and chil dren, was a reminder of old times. The policemen were not used to the swift-moving wheels without lights and the miscreants gave them laugh ter when told to stop. If the b.. cycle proves as popular next Sun day as It wes last Sunday, there will be plenty of excitement and the po licemen cught to fatten their aver- I ages. When It comes down to a good place to get out of the rain, com mend us to the Capitol Park squir rels. Yesterday morning when the rains were coming down and all na ture seemed weeping, a squirrel woke up and took an observation. He had gone to sleep in the cannon of Spanish war days in front of the State Museum, having possibly been locked out of his home, and when he found things were wet he turned around and went to bed again. "Matt" Johnson, who has charge of registration matters at Major Murdock'B draft headquarters, which never sleeps or seems to want to, is now commencing to talk without using figures. Mr. Johnson had the draft reports from 281 districts, each one reporting in eleven columns, to look after, and between mistakes in telegrams, errors in transmission and other polite names for blunders had a cheerful time running down the correct figures. But he finally got them and now orders his meals and handles business by ordinary terms instead of calling out figures. The fine cooper beech in Capitol Park is to be taken care of when the changes are made to the plaza on the west front of the great building, this beech being what Superintend ent George A. Shreiner styles "an in stitution." The beech is one of the finest trees in.the park and its color scheme attracts much attention. It is to be moved when the time comes to enlarge things on the Hill. Col. Frank R. Keefer, of the United States Army, who was here yesterday at the conference between state officials and heads of state in stitutions, belongs to Harrisburg, al though he has been for years in the Army. He is a son of the late Ma jor John B. Keefer and his mother and sister reside at Front and Ham ilton streets. He is the chief medical officer in the office of the Provost Marshal General, and in Washington they say he is going higher. i i •• " General Willis J. Hulings, former Guardsman, Senator and Congress man, who was here yesterday for a meeting of the State Armory Boarc and remarked that things were kind of quiet. "I'm running for Con gress again up in my district," said the Oil City man, "but things arc kind of quiet. It does not seem like the old campaigns. Maybe it will liven up. but there is not much stir ring now." Hummelstown seems to be strict ly on the map when It comes to hav ing Its men trained. The Harrisburg Reserves have been sending details to that town to drill the men of draft age and, although a number of the men have gone to camps, there are others coming on and they go right in. Now steps are under way to re vive the Reserve organization tr Hummelstown to assist in the train ing. In addition to drills, it is the plan of A. Reeder Ferriday, who has been working on the details, tio have men give talks on war topics lid-con junction with Chairman C. M. Her shey, of the board of instruction. James C. Deinlnger, executive clerk to the Governor, is on his an nual vacation to Sullivan county, where he has his home heath. Mr. Deininger likes to hike across the mountains and, while not equipped with seven-league boots, manages tc make much mileage. He knows al most every nook of that picturesque portion of Pennsylvania and says that for views it has some of those better known far distanced. Howard M. Hoke, secretary to the Attorney General, is home from his annual trip to Maine, which he has been taking for years. Mr. Hoke came home byway of Fort Monroe, where his son is a student in an ar tillery school. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. G. Mitchell, who goes to the West Jersey division of the Pennsyl vania, was for some time head ol the Monongahela division. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith expects to make a number of speeches in Philadelphia for the Liberty Loan. —Edgar.V. Felton. former heac of the Pennsylvania Steel Works, is visiting eastern counties lo get the labor distribution question into run ning order. —Daniel Winters, long prominent in Pittsburgh affairs, has been elect ed a member of the city councils oi Pittsburgh. —William E. Quinlan. head of th< Schuylkill county War Savings cam paign. is ill at his home in ville. —Edgar Scott, prominent Phila delphian. active in war work in France, is home on a furlough. —Grler Hersh, York county bank er, is taking a prominent part if' preparations for the Liberty Loai drive. —C. B. Pritchard, Pittsburgh dt rector of safety, has caused a sti by asking clubs to close at eleven —Director George W. Datesman of Philadelphia highways, is arrang ing for a big extension of mosquiti killing works. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrtsbnrg is sending large amounts of steel to plants for the manufacture of rifles? HISTORIC HARRISBURG -—The first move for a bridge ovw the Susquehanna at this point begai in 1800. The subscriptions wen opened is 1809,
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