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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 191S
'Tis always morning somewhere, and j
above
The awakening continents, from
shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds are. singing
evermore.—Longfellow.
WHAT ARE YOU PAYING?
WHAT have you paid for a seat
at the big show?" asks an !
exchange of the man who is :
viewing the world war from a safe j
distance of 3,000 miles.
The question is apt and well put. 1
The greatest spectacle of the ages j
is being enacted. Mankind never '
lived through a more thrilling
period.
What have you paid for your seat j
at the performance, you who view it
through the columns of your news- I
paper, on the screen at the movies |
or in the letters from your lad over |
there? What are YOU paying? j
What is it worth to be alive and !
safely out of the frightfulness of j
Europe?
Ask yourself that.
Then think it over.
What is your seat in the grand- j
stand worth, in Liberty Bonds, for !
instance?
Six billions? Sure, we'll raise it.
A GOOD INHERITANCE
ANDREW S. PATTERSON, AS I
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, has done nothing
better than to get Harrisburg's hous-t
ing problem to the point of serious
consideration. It has not been a j
highly popular movement because;
many have failed to understand its
importance. Lawrence Veiller's able!
address at the luncheon last week;
cleared away all doubts and Mr.
Patterson has the gratification of<
seeing his pet project in the way of
receiving the attention it deserves.
He will pass it on to the new ad- j
ministration of the Chamber, about!
to come into being, and it will be one
of the big projects for the Chamber]
to "put over" next year.
The fact that the war may not
be over then should not deter
those who will take up the work
of the Chamber following Mr. Pat
terson. Indeed, that should be mere
ly another reason for speeding up.
for housing is both a war and a,
peace issue.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, I
in a special article from London
on the elimination of the slums of,
that city, points out the immensity!
of the housing task the government
has assumed in the very face of the
most burdensome war in all history. ]
In Great Eritain, as in the United!
States, thef-3 has been a determina-1
tion to close the slums, the restricted i
districts and similar objectionable'
quarters, as a protection to the sol-!
diers and the general community;!
but Great Britain has gone much
further than we have done in this
matter, for they are converting and
rebuilding these condemned dis
tricts so as to provide better homes
for the working classes and prevent
congested conditions that prevail in
many parts of the poorer sections of
London.
Here in the United States, as Mr.
Velller told us, we also have found
it necessary to go into this building
business to provide homes for work
ing men and women in those local
ities where there has been an in
crease of population caused by war
Industrie or additional government
work, and Congress has voted a very
large amount for these improve
ments. The British movement pro
poses not only to provide these ad
ditional quarters but to do so by
tearing down and removing the slums
and converting them into residences
for the working classes, it is a big
job to undertake in the midst of a
great war that is calling on the
country In so many ways.
Yet the London County Council Is
so well satisfied with what it lias
already done In the matter that it
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 25, 1918.
proposes to carry the project to the
end. according to the Picayune cor
respondent's information. It be
lieves that it will more than pay for
itself in the improvement that will
result, in the reduced sick and death
rate, that the council believes that
it would be a great misfortune if it
was abandoned at this time.
The appropriation for this work
was originally 17 Ms million dollars
of which 10 million dollars has al
ready been expended. The commit
tee which has had charge reports
that it has already cleaned up fifty
five acres of slums of the most of
fensive and insanitary character and
has provided in this area homes for
one hundred and sixty thousand peo
ple at a cost of barely $6O apiece
When it is considered how much this
means in better health and better
conditions, less sickness, less im
morality and suffering, fewer crimes,
it will be recognized that a war
against insanitation, vice and suffer
ing is as important in many re
spects as the war against the Ger
mans, and that it will materially in
crease the effectiveness and produc
tion of the British working man.
"In this country," observes the
Picayune, "we have closed many of
the restricted districts and slums,
but have done little towards bring
ing these sections into general use
again: and we are not likely to re-!
store them to such use unless we
adopt the methods of the London j
County Council, to reconstruct und.i
rebuild them. It is a matter worthy;
of consideration in those cities which
have such slums and unoccupied dis
tricts and against which the com
plaint is raised at the same time,
that they have no homes for work
ing people. Thus two birds can
be killed with one stone —the clos
ure of the slums and the provision
of more homes for workers, and
a general betterment of their con
dition."
Surely, if England can do so much
under such great difficulties as pre
vail there, we in this country can
do more. To come back home.
Harrisburg and its housing problem
are so far removed from the war,
as compared with England, that it
is almost as though no war is being
fought. Can we do what the Eng
lish are doing for their working
people? We can—and must. The
Chamber of Commerce is the instru
ment through which we must work.
Mr. Patterson is leaving his successor
a good inheritance.
]
Charles S. Mellen complains in court
that his wife "hit him with an old
marble eesr." What's he kicking
about? It might have been real.
DOOMED!
THERE are growing indications
that the Kaiser does not trust
the mettle of his troops before
Metz and in the adjacent iron ore
district of Briey. H?h recent visit to
that sector, with his distribution of
400 iron crosses and his appeals to
the German soldiers to "stop the
Americans" means nothing less than
that he fears the Yankees may re
peat their St. Mihiel exploit on a new
and vaster scale. But it will take
more than the bombast and worth
less trinkets of a discredited Em
peror to heal the canker of dis
couragement'in the German ranks or
to halt the onrush of the victorious
Americans. Metz and the nearby
iron mines are doomed..
Yon Hertling says "Germany's situa
tion is serious." and something tells
us he's right.
GIFTS FOR THE BOYS
THE government has wisely de
cided to permit the American
soldier" in France to have each
a Christmas parcel. Of course, there
had to be teslrictions, for the reason
that the number of ships to carry
them is limited. If each man abroad
at Christmas receives only one par
cel the total will be more than iwo
millions, the likelihood is. So, in
order to control the flood of gifts
that otherwise would make the
handling of them impracticable, the
department has decided only one
package will be accepted for each
man. General Pershing is forward
ing coupons bearing the name and
address of each member of the ex
peditionary force, to be distributed
to the next of kin.
These couptjns must be-attached to
standard containers, 9 by 4 by 3
inches in size, which will beprovided
by local Red Cross chapters upon ap
plication.
All packages must be mailed be
fore November 15, as weeks will be
required to get them to ports of
embarkation, across the Atlantic and
to the various piaces in France
where men are stationed.
The packages will be small—
pitifully small, as Christmas pack
ages go, but the good cheer that can
be crowded into a package is not
limited by its size. Christmas is a
season of sentiment and the lad in
the trenches will rejoice as much in
a little box from home as he.would
in one of larger size, even though
it may not be so satisfying from the
standpoint of appetite. Beside, the
same size box foe rich and poor
will tend toward good feeling among
the boys "over there." But i'f you
must send your own lad something
, "extra," there is no reason why you
should not mail or cable him the
money and let him buy his own
feast.
Secretary of War Baker says he "is
amazed" at the United States' war
preparations in France, and this itself
is amazing.
And now even "near-beer" is giving
up the ghost, the Government having
leased one big plant for a warehouse.
Over In Cumberland county, the
other day, a farmer drove a pig to
market in the morning and drove a
new automobile back In the evening,
and now his neighbors ate" wonder
ing—
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Schemes of the Democratic state
machine bosses to have the Demo
cratic voters of the state concen
trate upon one candidate for the
Supreme Court to insure the main
tenance of party representation upon
the bench of the Commonwealth's
highest court, and presumably, to
make safe the candidacy of Justice
E. J. F\>x. of Easton. went to smash
at Philadelphia last night. The
other candidates refused to agree to
the plan and friends of CharleS B.
Lenahan, of Wilkes-Barre, one of
the strongholds of the' machine, is
sued a statement that he was going
to remain in the battle to the bit
ter end. Partisans of other Demo
crats who aspire to the bench joined
in the resentment showti over the
attempt of the bosses to boss the
nonpartisan ticket as well as the
Democratic machine.
It is generally believed that Jus
tice Fox was named by the Governor
after the opinion of National Chair
man Vance C. McCormick and Na
tional Committeeman A. Mitchell
Palmer as to his availability had
been obtained. The trouble was that
Democratic bosses of the other fac
tion were not consulted and they
are not inclined to go along at all.
—The meeting yesterday was the
first of the kind held in recent years.
Leaders of no other party or fac
tion ever had the.nerve to try what
Palmer and his pals are commonly
understood to have had in .their
minds when they got the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee to
meet in Philadelphia. The row in
the party over -the repudiation of
the nominee of the Democratic
voters for Governor by the men
who control the titular organization
of the party and the meeting to
flout the official body of the Democ
racy held by the Bonniwell men have
made any agreement well nigh hope
less and the party's condition in the
state desperate.
—Senators William C. Sproul and
Edward E. Beidleman. the Repub
lican nominees for Governor and
Lieutenant Governor, toured Cam
bria county yesterday and met with
a reception every bit as enthusias
tic as that given to them in insur
gent Somerset the day before. They
visited most of the towns and were
given a noonday reception at Ebens
burg attended by men of every party
and in the evening the reception
at Johnstown was a big affair in
which Republicans and Democrats
gathered to greet them. Senator
Sproul. who is at Eddystone to-day,
will be in Philadelphia to-morrow.
—The Philadelphia newspapers all
agree that the meeting was anything
but a success. A. V. Dively, of Al
toona. and Henry Budd, of Philadel
phia, the latter a Bonniwell man.
ignored it. Justice Fox was on hand
with a number of iends and Lenah
an was also around. State Chairman
Lawrence H. Rupp, and other lead
ers endeavored tQ make plain that
the party was in danger of losing its
representation oil the Supreme
Bench, but the aspirants did not see
why they should get out. What is
disturbing Palmer and McCormick is
that they are not only confronted
with one of the worst breaks in the
Democracy during their regime but
there is a chance that for the first
time in a century the Democrats may
get into a place where they will have
no justice of the Supreme Court in
the Keystone State. It will be recall
ed that it has been since the Palmer-
McCormick crew was in charge of the
machine that Lehigh county elected
a Republican Senator, something un
known in 102 years. And all this has
come to pass in spite of panegyrics
from Market Square about a united
and harmonious party.
—ln addition to spending much
time in discussing the "freeze out"
on Supreme 'Court the executive
committee talked over the meaning
of the Bonniwell meeting and it is
reported that some unofficial emis
saries were flitting about. However,
it does not look as though any agree
ment can be reached.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer says
the Democratic Supreme Court situa
tion means a "free for all" tight,
while the Press says no agreement
was reached. The Record remarks
that the meeting was not a success.
Following the meeting, Lawrence H.
Rupp, the new state chairman who
presided, made the following state-'
ment: "For the purpose of promot- j
ing the intent of the constitutional j
provision, the matter was discussed
and it was decided to submit the mat
ter to the candidates for such action
as they desired to take."
—The Record says regarding Bon-J
niwell plans: "The members of the
campaign committee, which is au
thorized to take charge of the state
campaign, will shortly be announced.
Judge Bonniwell selected ex-Sheriff
Love, of York, as chairman of the
body, and Samuel R. Tarner, candi
date for Congressman-at-Large,
named two prominent labor leaders
as his quota on the committee. This
campaign committee was author
ized at the meeting of the Palmer
controlled state committee at Har
risburg on June 19 last. It was de
cided that Judge Bonniwell shall
name the chairman of the body and
each of the candidates two men to
the body. Announcement was made
yesterday that the new campaign
committee will co-operate with all
local county committees, and where
necessary will organize bodies to
work in the interest of all candi
dates for state offices, as well as for
Congress."
—Nomination of Senator S. S.
Leiby, of Marysville, subboss of the
Perry county section gang of the
Democratic machine, as a substitute
candidate for Congress in the "shoe
string" district, will not matter. The
re-election of Congressman B. K.
Focht is assured. Leiby got elacted
to the Senate a couple of years ago
when some people were off the job
and has an idea that he can shine in
Washington as much as he did in the
Senate when he opposed the 'in
vestigation" resolution. A. W. Auo
ker, who was named for Congress at
the last hour, withdrew because he
<Ud not have time or money to de-
Vote to the row, it is said. Leiby has
been put forward to keep the party
flag flying. It's a good ad, anyhow.
—Judge John W. Kephart, of the
Superior Court, who filed his nomi
nation papers yesterday for the Su
preme Court, is to speak in Philadel
phia and Lancaster to-day. The
Judge intends to spend some time in
Western Pennsylvania.
Each in Its Season
To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under
heaven: a time to be born, and a
time to die: a time to weep, and a
time to laugh: a time to love, and
a time to hate: a time of war, ahd
a time of peace—Ecclesiasties 111, 1
to 8.
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ARMY LIBRARY WORK
The American Library Association 1
has been designated by the Govern-j
ment as the agency for supply- j
reading matter for soldiers, sailors'
arid marines, overseas and on this!
side.
The Library War Service of the |
American Library Association seeks |
to place in the hands of every mem-1
ber of our lighting forces the book]
he needs when he wants it, whether
he.wishes io read for recreation or to
fit himself to be a better fighter or a
better American, to help him win!
success after the war.
Library War Service supplies!
books and magazines, through mill-]
tary and ifaval officers, the Red:
Cross, Y. M. C. A., K. of C„ Y.-WJ
C. A., Jewish Welfare Board, War
Camp Community Service and Sal
vation Army, for the use of the men
of the army, navy and marines.
It places libraries on warships,
transports and government cargo!
ships. Two hundred and fifty ves
sels have libraries; there is a deck
library on every transport.
It buys Educational and Technical
Books to meet the demand of the
men for "Books that Help."
It maintains Library Service in
military and naval hospitals.
The work of the American Library
War Service to date can be sum
marized as follows:
41 Library buildings in opera
tion.
43 large camp libraries estab
lished.
143 hospitals and Red Cross
houses supplied.
243 librarians maintained in
the service.
315 small military camps and
posts equipped with
books.
350 points overseas supplied
with books.
406 nava! and marine stations
supplied with libraries.
1,547 branches and stations lo
cated in recreation huts,
barracks and mess halls.
600,000 books purchased, largely
technical.
1,030,458 books shipped overseas.
3,011,510 gift-books placed in ser
vice.
5,000,000 gift-magazines distributed.
Henty No Back Number
Librarians in army camps complain
of a shortage of what are called
boys' books. Neither the American
Library Association nor the public
which contributed gift-books to the
camps realized that there would be
many calls for Henty and Alger, but,
they were mistaken. Thousands of.
soldiers, and even some officers, re-1
tain their taste for juvenile litera
ture- "Mayor writes one i
camp librarinn, "has just taken out
;The Young Acrobat,' and say 3,
'Get some more of these, won't you?
They rest my brain.' "
From an army camp at Colum
bus, New Mexico, comes a hurry
call for boys' books, Henty, Bar
bour, Tomlison. The regiments in
training there contain some very
young soldiers, boys from remote j
ranches and border towns. They
have read very little in their lives |
and the librarian in charge of the
camp library is having a hard time
getting them interested in books.
Love stories they laugh at, and solid
reading has no attraction for them.
The librarian noticed that the few
boys' books on the shelves were in
use all the time so she sent a call
for more. "Anything to get them
into the habit," she says wisely.
LABOR NOTES '
New Haven (Conn.) Bartenders'
Union has secured a. new agreement
with a minimum rate of |2s"a week. |
The War Industries Board lias
voted that raw materials will be de
nied employers who attempt to --e
-cruit labor by using competitive
peacetime methods.
Vancouver (British Columbia)
Electrical workers and telephone
girls employed by the local telephone
company have secured a union shop
contract and wage increases. •
Cincinnati cereal and malt work
ers. affiliated with the International
Union of Iho United Brewery and
Soft Drink Workers, have secured
voluntary wage increased of $5 a
week.
, Union boot and shot worker* at
Gait, Canada, have secured an ad
vance of 15 per cent, in wages for
members employed in the cutting de
partments and 10 per cent, in the
other departments.
Sherlock Holmes in Greek
For Soldiers' Libraries
By FRANK PARKER STOCKBRIDGE, Director of Information
HE was a young Italian, a sol- |
dier in the American Army. !
He had been wounded, but |
now he was well enough to help in j
the domestic work of the big base
hospital not far from New York ;
City. There is a free public library
in the hospital, one of the many li
braries established in army and navy
camps, transports and hospitals, by
the American Library Association.
Every minute of his time, when he is
not working the young Italian sol
dier spends in reading, the hospital
librarian reports. He has read
many volumes of the classics, from
Dante's Inferno to Plutarch's Lives
and Plato's Dialogs.
In addition he has read three i
biographies of Napoleon, Froude's
Caesar, Macauley's Lays of Ancient
Rome, Maeterlinck's Measure of Jhe
Hours. Hudson's Psychic Phenom
ena, and Maturln's Laws of Spiritual
Life. These books give him some
thing to think about while he is
sweeping the long corridors of the
hospital. "I sweep," he says, "but,"
he adds proudly, "this is the United
States Army."
Not all soldiers read the classics,
but they all, or nearly all read some
thing. Most of the foreign born
want to read books in their own lan
guage, and books to learn English.
Every library in the camps and hos
pitals supplies these needs.
At Camp Funston, Kansas, there
are an unusually large number of
forqign-born soldiers, and the li
brary is well supplied with foreign
language literature. "We have books
in French. German, Spanish, Modern
Gteek, Yiddish, Norwegian, Swedish,
Polish. Rumanian, Russian and
Bulgarian" reports the librarian in
charge, "and they are all in constant
circulation."
Sherlock Holmes in Greek
Some pf these books are by native
authors and others v are translations
from English, for it is desirable that
our foreign-born soldiers become
familiar with English and American
books. The other day a Greek boy
brought a book to the librarian's
desk to be charged. The librarian,
not being able to read Greek, asked
1 the boy what the book was.
"Why, don't you know?" exclaim
ed the soldier. "It's Sherlock
Holmes." |
These translations are extremely
Not a Ripple
[Kansas City Star]
How well America has "found"
itself in war has been evidenced
over and over again. The selective
draft, the Liberty Loans, the steady
application of the vast powers of the
government willingly and unhesita
tingly conferred on it by the people,
the successful meeting of the tre- i
mendous problems of transporting !
and maintaining an army of millions !
overseas, the uncomplaining accept- j
ance by an easy living population of
enormously increased taxation, all"
these things and many more have
shown America's fitness for the great
task this crisis for civilization has
laid upon it.
It is no,f surprising, therefore, that,
the peace bait cast toy Austria should
have failed to produce more thaji the
merest ripple upon these deep still
waters of American public opinion.
The notion of stopping the fighting,
just at the moment when our armies
have begun to go forward, to talk
peace terms with a perjured and
treacherous foe, a foe yet unbeaten
and seeking to escape his certain
beating by trickery and the chicane |
of Old World diplomacy, such a no- i
tion never had a chance to displace
or sidetrack for a moment the fixed
purpose in the American mind to
fight the war to a victorious end.
THE POPPIES
Between the fountain's crystal thread
" And clumps of golden glow.
Along my winding garden walk
The scarlet poppies grow.
With draughts of deep obivlon
Within their hearts confined,
And silken petals flickering
Like flames in every wind.
I walk among them when the noon
Is bright upon their leaves,
And when they fold themselves to
sleep
In amethystine eyes.
And when the moon above their rest
Keeps guard with silver lance.
For oh! beyond them I can see
A wooden cross in France.
Minna Irving.
useful to the soldiers who are trying
to learn to read' English. They will
read a book in their own language
and then tackle the same book in
English. Knowing what the story
is about makes it easier to read.
Knowing this, the librarian at Camp
Gordon, Alabama, got several copies
of Robinson Crusoe for use among
the foreign-born soldiers who knew
little English. Almost every one had
read the immortal Crusoe in his na
tive language, and it was a good
book for them to make the basis of
English study.
The greatest demand for foreign
language books are from Poles.
French, Spanish, Jewish, Russian
and Italian soldiers. About the stif
fest request the Library Association
has had so far was for the Arabian
Nights in the original Arabic. A
professor in Columbia University
was appealed to, and before long the
homesick' soldier from the far east
got the precious book of stories his
heart craved.
Forty Nationalities
We have at least, forty national
ities represented in our great Ameri
can Army, and while we hope, when
the army gets back to the United
States every man in it will be speak
ing English fluently, there is no de
sire to make him forget the language
he learned at his mother's knee.
Beginning November 11, all the
welfare forces at work to help the
army and navy—the Red Cross. Y.
M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A.. Library
War Service of the American Li-
I brary Association, the Jewish Wel
fare Board, the National Catholic
i War Council, the Salvation Army
and the War Camp Community Ser
vice, will begin a great drive for
funds to meet the needs of the com
ing year The great sum of $170,-
500,000 must be raised if our sol
diers and sailors and marines are to
have the comforts they need and so
amply deserve. Everybody will be
asked to give as much as he can af
ford, and everybody who has a man
in training camp, in the trenches
overseas, or on the warships, will
help to the utmost of liis power to
make the drive a success.
People are not asked to give to
this or that fund. All the money
goes into the common welfare fund,
and each orgartization listed will re
ceive its quota. To the library fund
is allowed $3,500,000.
Fighting on Historic Ground
The region in the Holy Land
where the British are carrying on
the present military orperations is
famous in Biblical and Roman his
tory. On the plain of Esdraelon, or
Jczreel, the Israelites fought battles,
as recounted in the Book of Revela
tions and other parts of the Old
Testament. It is famous as the bat
tlefield of Armageddon and, accord
ing to Revelatipns, is to be the scene
of the decisive battle at the end of
the world. Nazareth is at the north
ern edge of this plain, west of the
hills of Galilee and southeast of the
Bay of Acre. Gibora lies on the
southeast and Mount Carmel on the
west, nearer the Bay of Acre.
Tul Keran, a small village men
tioned in the dispatches, Nabulus,
and other towns lie in the region
south of the plain and in the re
gion of hills and rolling plains be
tween the hills of Ephraim and the
Mediterranean, all north of Jeru
salem. All through the region are
the remains of two old civilizations,
the ruins of the civilizations of the
tribes mentioned in the Bible and the
later civilization of the Roman col
onies.
Beisan lies in the valley of the Jor
dan. not far from the river, about
fifty-five miles northeast of Jeru
salem and directly east of the plain
of Esdraelon, although to reach it
from that region a traveler would
pass through the depression between'
the hills of Galilee and the hills of
Ephraim. This ancient town was a
center of the Romans during their
control of the land, and the remains
of an acropolis, a Roman bridge, a
theater, fragments of homes and
columns, and many tombs
may be seen there yet. Only a few
hundred persons live near the town
now. Dera, on the railroad to Me
dina, lies about forty miles northeast
of Beisan.—Exchange.
And the Lord With You
Be not afraid of their faces: fir I
am with thae to deliver thee, saith
the Lord—Jeremiah 1, 8,
| Out-Shermaning Sherman
I wonder what General Sherman
would say.
If he were lighting in France to
day?
If back in the '6os he said that he
did;
Just fancy to-day how his language
might skid!
The epigrammatic,
Somewhat erratic,
Always emphatic
Old general would be at a loss no
doubt;
After turning his phrases inside out,
Perhaps he could only stand up and
spout
His choice pepigram in a deafening
shout!
A thousand or so and a cannon or
two.
In the general's day made quite an
ado;
iThen, gas and grenades and the
blinding barrage,
The subs and th Zeps and the cam
ouflage,
Were not in the game; yet he called
it Hell!—
O, what would he call It to-day, pray
tell?
The philologistic,
Metaphorlstic,
Ever linguistic,
Some blasphemistic
Old general would find all his dic
tion amiss
To define such a depth in the devil's
abyss;
Perhaps he could only stand up and
hiss
That Hell in his time was .never llkfe
this!
—OLIVER OPDYKE in the New
York Evening Post.
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•Euentng
One of the finest signs of the
spirit which is being shown by the
men of Pennsylvania who signed up .;
under the call of the President for
national defense just twelve days *
ago is that so many of them have
returned their questionnaires to their
local boards, was the comment of
Major William G. Murdock, the
state's chief draft officer, who has
been visiting various cities and keep
ing in close touch with the working
out of the new draft. To all in- •
tents and purposes the registration
of September means a new draft.
The older registrants, those of 1917,
and June and August, 1918, will all
be in camps or held home on de
ferred classifl .ttions by the middle of
October. The registrants of Septem
ber, 1918, as those hundreds of
thousands of Pennsylvanians who
registered on September 12. will be
officially known, will be called upon
to go to camps late in October and
during November and December.
According to the major many of
the local boards, which just began
to issue the questionnaires the end
of last week, have found their
people very responsive and the
tilled out papers have been literally
rolling in on the members of boards.
This has been made possible through
the assistance of lawyers who have
helped,the registrants, many of them
as in the case of the attorneys of
Dauphin county, at the sacrifice of
their own hours of business and
pleasure and even at loss of meals,
as was the case with some men. The
lawyers here have set a most com
mendable example to people in other
walks of life by going to the court
house day after day and night after
night to assist men in answering
questions which would terrify the
ordinary man. And it is no_w up to
the boards of instruction to prepare
to give the men advice in regard to
personal matters, the insurance
feature of the army and preliminary
military training. Major Murdock
has several times commended the
fine spirit which is shown 'in Har.
risliurg and the zeal of business and
professional men to aid the young
men of their country who are pre
pared to go to camp. It is the kind
which, army officers say, gets re
sults.
• • •
Congressman B. K. Focht. of
Lewisburg, tells a story about a
Pennsylvania Congressman well
known to many in Harrisburg,
Charles H. Rowland, of the Clear
field district, which illustrates how
some men in staying home are
called upon to face more than those
who go. This is the way Mr. Focht
tells it in his Saturday News, of
Lewicburg: "The other day one of
Pennsylvania's most popular Con
gressmen, sturdy, stalwart in body
and bigness of heart, met a test un
der which one less brave, one less
true ps an American, would have
quailed. Congressman Charles H.
Rowland, representing the Clear
field-Center District, and whose home
is at Philipsburg, went to Camp
Meade to see his two sons who are
in the service, and say farewell tot%
one who was leaving for France.
The young man, taking his father by
the hand and looking into his kindly
face, said, 'Good-by Dad, I am go
ing and will not get back.' It took
a brave, self-sacrificing American to
go with such a premonition, and a
father of undaunted spirit and cour
age, to like a Spartan, embrace his
loved hero son apparently unmoved
but possessed of emotions which en
gulfed his very soul."
• • •
Presence of Lieutenant Governor
Frank B. McClain at the Capitol yes.
terday attending a meeting of the
War Board, caused a man conver
sant with many activities about
Pennsylvania to remark "Frank
McClain could have made a couple
of hundred thousand dollars of real
money and fixed himself for the rest
of his life if he had devoted to his
business the time he has given to
the work of the State Committee of
Public Safety the last year." When
asked what he meant this observer
replied: "Well, McClain knows
more about the livestock business
than nine-tenths of the merf in that
business and the coming of war
opened rare opportunities for him.
It also opened rare opportunities for
him to be of public service. Mc-
Clain would have liked to shoulder
a gun, but he was not exactly of an
age for such service. The State Pub
lic Safety Committee, now the
Council of National Defense, re
quired just some one with the
energy, brains, commonsense. ac.
quaintance and experience of Frank
McClain to sort of keep a hand on
things. .The result was that before
he knew it McClain by virtue of his
office, and his willingness was giv
ing two, then three, and then four
days a week to the work of the
Council. He is one of the few men
who has its.whole gigantic busi- '
ness in his grasp and he is serving
for nothing. Other States have their
big men well paid for doing what
McClain is doing just because the
work is to be done. I hope when
the next administration comes in
he will be fittingly honored for what
he has done."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Major Charles T. Griffith, of the
United States Army, has taken
charge of the new student training
class at the University of Pennsyl
vania.
—Representative James A. Dunn,
of Philadelphia, has received word
that his son, a sergeant in the Army,
has suffered a shattered arm in
France.
. —James C. Rogers, chief paymas
ter of the Pennsylvania railroad, is
ill at his home in Germantown.
—Dr. John Price Jackson, now a
lieutenant-colonel, has three acad
emic degrees in addition to military
titles.
—Dr. C. D. Koch, the new deputy
superintendent of public instruction,
has begn an educator from the days
, he left school and was principal and
inspector for years.
—N. T. Folwell, prominent Phila
delphia businessman, is not inclined
to accept some of the statements of
congressional financiers without dis
cussion.
—T. C. DuPont, head of the Johns
town railways, expects to have
women conductors on the cars on
October 1.
—R. F. Bigham, long connected
with Allegheny county Republican
affairs, will be secretary of the
county committee again this fall.
DO YOU KNOW |
—That HArrisburg tin is being
used to make utensils for the Army
and Navy?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—John Harris organized the first
corps of riflemen on the Susque
hanna to protect his infant settle
ment from Indians.