14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TGIAiRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE • President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Bor.rd 3. P. McCULLOUOH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. | Member of the Associated Press—The , Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited t.o it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local nttvs published herein. >ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . 1 /f, Member American A. Newspaper Pub -.iSfcimtgt llshers" Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu -i lation and Penn -tfrasßl IS sylvanla Associ g kg ated Dailies.* Kinsr ! S CSC fii! Eastern office, | SiSsal !S Story, Brooks &' 883 33 338 ',* l Finley, Fifth jjssSigS'Eff Avenue Building ■BaHggjiK Western off! ce\ Gas ' Building, ■ Chicago, lIL Entered at the Post Office in, Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a S * week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1918 He icho knows most, grieves most , for wasted time.—Dante. BE SURE TO REGISTER TO-MORROW will be your last day to register, if it happens you are a voter of Harrisburg j or any other third-class city. And ; if you do not register you will not | be allowed to vote in November. I It is important that you should 1 cast your ballot this year. Thous-j ands upon thousands of Pennsylvania! voters are in France. You must look' after their interests here. Just as they j are looking after your interests! "over there." You would be false to the trust your fellows in the ser- j vice put in you if you do not exer-1 cise your voice in the coming elcc-! tions in behalf of good government: in Pennsylvania and at Washington, l too. If you are a Republican you will desire to elect Senator Sproul and | his colleagues by the largest major-1 ity ever given a candidate in Penn-j sylvania, as a protest against the die- j reputable politics being played by ] both factions of the opposing party, j If you are a Democrat you will want; help swell Senator Sproul's vote us registering your disapproval of the 1 Palmers, the Bonniwells, the McCor- 1 micks and others of their ilk who I would sell out their own party's in terests for a mess of political pot-1 tage. Anybody who can get Into the open I these days must realize what Gover- ! nor Brumbaugh means when he speaks : of "the glory of Pennsylvania's hills." j NOT A STAIN WHAT a precious tangle it is, | to be sure. First we have Hearst being attacked by the j New York Tribune as pro-German and rabidly anti-British, with ac counts of the familiarity of the New I York Prince of Yellow Journalism [ with 8010 Pacha, who was shot for I treason by the French, with von | Bernstorff, the fork-tongued Ger- ; man Ambassador to the United ■ States, and with other notables among the German propagandists. \ Next we have George Creel, the chairman of the committee on Pub lic Information, and scoffer of the National Legislature, giving to Hearst practically a monopoly of the war film service, engaging as his as sistant Carl Byor, of the New York American, putting his approval on literature which the National Security League finds to be "a masterpiece of German propaganda," and praising Konta. Then we have Secretary Baker condoning attacks on Hearst. The case of Rumely, editor of the New York Evening Mail, bursts upon us, and we learn that his paper was purchased with German funds, and the name of Henry Ford is men tioned in connection with Rumely. At length we learn that Arthur Brisbane, who held himself out to be the sole owner of the rejuvenated Washington Times, and who is in timately associated with the Hearst policies and propaganda, was hlm -1 self the recipient of contributions from largo German Interests with which he resuscitated the Times and carried on nothing more reprehen sible, Just at this crucial period at least, than propaganda In favor of the breweries. The largest con tributor to this purpose was George Eh ret, also an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, whose prop erty was seised by the Allen Prop erty Custodian because of Ehret's alleged German connections, and plaoed In the hands of Ehret's son for management—dire punishment! And coincident with the dissemina tion by Brisbane of German brewery propaganda, the publlo has been re galed with Brisbane editorials sound, ing the pralsee of Secretary McAdoo, presidential aspirant, to the seventh heaven, while Joe Tumulty, the private secretary to the President, tells Brisbane that "I am sure yeu are going to make the same good FRIDAY EVENING, Democratic tight in Chicago that you have been making in your paper in Washington, and I want to see Just how you do it." And all these months the people have had it dinned into their ears that a vote for a Republican is a vote for the Kaiser—that the elec tion of a Republican Senator will bring Joy to Berlin. But where in the Republican party is to be found the taint? Somebody ought to change the name of the Berlin to Bagdad Railway. A WHOLESOME EXAMPLE JUDGE KUXKEL made an ex ample of tnc Pleasant View youth who struck one officer and threatened another in Reservoir Park tecentljr. The young man was convicted in criminal court last week of assault and battery and sentenced to $25 fine and the costs of the two suits brought against him by V. Grant Forrer, assistant super intendent of parks, who has been do ing excellent work in keeping the public parks safe for women, and children. It was brought out before Alder man Landls at the hearing and be fore Judge Kunkel in court that one of the officers in the case drew his revolver during the fracas and the defendant attempted to make an ex cuse for himself on that score. But neither the alderman nor the Judge was much impressed. Indeed, Judge Kunkel specially mentioned this inci dent when he charged the jury and made it perfectly clear that in main taining order in the parks the po licemen are warranted in taking any measures they deem necessary for their own safety. There has been too much disorder in the parks and the public will thank all those concerned in bring ing one of the ringleaders to justice as a wholesome example for who misbehave and disregard the! orders of the park officers. A WAR DEVELOPMENT THE public used to have a lot of sympathy for the striker. People thought wages must be unrea sonably low or working conditions intblerably bad to induce a man to leave his Job and cut off his income in the hope of bettering them. So the employer whose men were on strike was generally looked upon with suspicion—if not worse—and the striker g'ot all the benefit in case of doubt. It is an American trait to ide with the underdog, and the employe nearly always ap peared to that role, so the majority, sided with him and hoped he'd win But the war has ohanged the public's view a bit. Wages are high and working hours are short. The country needs every man's labor. If America fails in this critical hour the war will be lost. Europe Will starve and our hundreds of thous ands of soldiers abroad will be driv en into the sea. So the people feel that everybody should work every day to produce the food and muni tions so sorely needed. They believe that, under these circumstances, no misunderstanding can arise that cannot be settled between employer and employe by arbitration. They have come to look with disfavor alike upon unreasonable employers and employes, and to class both as "slackers." EARLY CLOSING DD. ROBERT BAGNELL, re turning from England recently, said he was embarrassed while there by the praise showered upon the American people for their vol untary sacrifices toward the winning of the war. British and French of ficials marvel at the willingness of Americans to give up anything in the way of food that Administrator Hoover suggested would be helpful , in feeding our allies. Over there laws, with stern penalties attached, are necessary to enforce the food and fuel regulations. Here we have, when necessary, our "wheatless .days," our "meatless days," our "heatless days." our "lightKess nights" and even our "gasless Sun | days"—all upon the "honor" basis. | With no punishment for violation there are few. if any, violators. And, now, our merchants having been asked to observe a shorter sell ing day for the conservation of fuel, are opening their stores later and closing them earlier. They are doing this voluntarily, as a war measure, and shoppers may easily distinguish the many who have fallen Into line with the new move by the cards in their windows. In a short time all stores will be observing the new uniform hours. The news dispatches from Washing ton strongly hint that for those who will not volunteer an order will be issued. It is not likely, however, that this will affect anybody In Harris burg. The volunteer spirit Is too strong here to require more than the recommendation promulgated by Administrator Hickok.. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC SPANISH Influenza threatens to become as prevalent as was "la grippe" In 1889 and 1890, when thousands of persons were af flicted and many died. Previous to that time, during which period It was Imparted from France, the dis ease In a milder form was known commonly as Influenza, But the French name came with the epi demic and a little later It had degen erated Into the "grip." Now It has become Spanish Influenza and Is back again In a virulent form, The disease Is really a menace to the health and effectiveness of the community as a war work center. At the risk of a Jest on a serious subject, Influenza Is not to be "sneezed at." It Is worth avoiding. Being a disease oentraoted largely through the mouth and nasal pas sages, meuth and nese washes ef an antl-septle eharaeter are helpful in warding off an attaek. But best of all is a vigorous, well-kept body, plenty of fresh air and proper food, and a stomach and Intestines work ing as steadily and as regularly as a clock. Precautions are simple and worth observing. If the statistics of epi demics in camps and other cities are accurate, it may easily happen that from 30,000 to 40,000 persons may contract the disease in Harris burg unless means are provided to prevent. By the Ex-Committeeman Certification of the nominations for the November election will be made to the commissioners of the sixty seven counties of Pennsylvania Sat urday night by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Whether charges due to withdrawals and substitutions are made after that date will be a matter for counties and will depend upon the stage of printing of the ballots. The forms of the ballot with the state wide nominations printed have been prepared and the congressional, senatorial and legislative nomina tions will be filled in. Changes have been made almost daily lately and word had been received that Demo crats propose to have a new candi date in at least one congressional district and that the Republicans and Democrats will file nominations for senator in the Armstrong-Butler district whose representative in the upper house died a short time ago. "The law requires us to certify the nominations thirty days before the election and that time is up on Sat urday when we will certify" said George D- Thorn, acting deputy sec retary to the Commonw-ealth who is in charge of the details of certifi cations. —The special election in the Arm strong-Butler district will make four such elections to be held. The others are in Philadelphia, and Alle gheny counties where senators died and in Schuylkill where Charles A. Snyder resigned to become auditor general. The men to be elected in these four districts will serve two years each. The twenty-five sena tors to be eleclbd in other districts will be for four year terms. In the event that Senator Sproul and Beid leman are elected to state office on the Republican ticket in November special elections would be required in the Delaware and Dauphin dis tricts to give those counties repre sentation in the session of 1919. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says that Senators Sproul and Beidlem.ut and State Chairman Crow have placed themselves "on solid ground"! by adjourning politics until the Lib- j erty Loan is out of the tvay. This j is in marked contrast to the manner in which Judge Bonniwell is troop ing about the state. Senator Sprout's attitude has been commended gen erally. —The York fair people have in vited Senator Sproul to visit that great gathering Thursday of next week. —Senator Crow's warning not to take the Republican victory for granted, but to get out and work for it is being supported by Republican! newspapers generally. —No one seems to know whether there will be any meeting of the Democratic state executive commit tee to 1111 vacancies to-morrow or Monday. The state windmill is Hap ping dismally and the millers are wondering where the grain is to come from for this fall's grinding.! —Judge Bonniwell arrived in Scranton to-day for a "reception" to be tendered him to-morrow. The judge is touring Lackawanna and adjoining counties. J. Washington Logue, his colleague in state politics and opponent in factional politics, is not touring, but is staying in his home city working for the Loan. —A general call has been sound- ' ed by Republican city chairmen all over Pennsylvania for the commit teemen to get the voters registered to-morrow and the Democrats are-in a regular state of panic because of i the fact that very few followers of I Palmer and McCormick seem to care anything about registering and the 1 partisans of Bonniwell are sitting about wondering what to do next. The truth is that with almost 300,- 000 men in the national service and the average Pennsylvanian interest ed in winning the war and putting over the Loan, there are thousands of names not on the lists which in ordinary times would have been reg istered early. The problem is to get a majority of the voters of the state qualified to vote next month. , —Registrars will be at the polling places at the hours designated and unless there is a rush the total num ber of men qualified to vote will look sick. —Liquor interests are reported to have arranged to see that their peo ple register. It is up to the other people to see that their names are put down, say Republican leaders. —John D. Carr has been chosen mayor of Tlniontown to succeed J. M. Bailey, who retired because of illness. —The Forty-sixth ward of Phila delphia, was divided by court order yesterday and the people will vote on it next month. The Record charges that it was done to oblige the Vares. -—ln the event that Senator E. W. Patton is chosen to fill the vacancy on the county commissioner board in Philadelphia to-day it will mean another Senatorial vacancy to fill. —Republican city chairmen in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton and other cities are out with calls to voters to register and make party success sure. —ln outlining the Montgomery .Bucks Congressional contest a Nor rlstown dispatch says: "The last hope for a possible chance for the Democratic candi date for Congress In the Bucks- Montgomery district went a gllmer ing when Fletcher W. Stltes, of Narberth, withdrew as the nominee of the Washington Party for a seat in the lower House at Washington. It was believed by the Democrats that If Sttto3 would stay In the race he might draw awaj{ from Congress man Henry W. Watson, Republican candidate for re-election, enough votes to penmtt Attorney Harry Grim, of Pcrkasle, with the aid of the administration to slip through. Btltes was an opponent of Watson for the Republican nomination of Congressman at the May primaries, and considerable heat developed amons the advocates of these two. Watson was nominated with a sub stantial majority, and BUtes' friends were bitterly disappointed. For a time the Democrats believed thai the Narberth man would try for the poet anyhow." HXRIUSBmJ 889881 TE3CEQRXPH MOVIE OF A MAN LISTENING TO A LIBERTY LOAN ORATOR ... By BRIGGS * IUCLL | PGGL ?RGTTV • T* . _ GOOD ARSIP PATRIOTIC -I'VE . MGCM " TNERES A FELLOW •ITU E* S ll_l_ STOP A js™" \srjzF~~ . GooD TAtKeo" VERY .FBRCEFUL- MIS | M GOIIOG TO DO A *L£T— fv,K • THINK" ARGUMENTS ARE LITTLE FIGORIMG GREAT- AND HG'S RIGMT HERB AAJD NOW" BY GEORGE - I'LC "| LC TVVKE Five "I've A NOTICW TO . p f DO IT" HUNDRED" * . SI6NJ OP FOR Six G ifa J I " * " UMOR " ■' MR. BALFOUR'S ANSWER In his Motropolit&n Opera House speech last Friday President Wilson said that the people of the world are demanding; "that the leaders of their Governments declare to them plainly what it is, exactly what it is, that they are seeking in this war, and what they think the items of the final settlement should be." For himself he said that there must be a League of Nations, pio vided for at the peace taif.e- Tnen he called upon the leaders of other Governments to speak out as plainly: "And I believe that the leaders of the Governments with which we are associated will speak, as they have occasion, as plainly as I'have tried to speak. I hope that they will feel free to say whether they think that I am in any degree mistaken in my Interpretation of the issues involved or in my purpose with regard to the means by which a satisfactory settlement of those issues may be obtained." We have England's answer to this j call, made with a precision, a dell-1 niteness,' which leaves nothing to the imagination. Mr. Balfour began iJyl accepting the President's principle of a League of Nations. Heaocepted! the principle that it should be form-j ed at the close of the war, not later. | Then he went further and said this: "Evidently we are bound to see that! the labors, the work which you re-j quire your new machinery to do,! shall not be greater than any ma- j chinery can be asked to do." That j is, as he further explained, the map j must be so arranged "that the great occasions for wars will not over whelm you." We must not leave all the conditions favorable for the outbreak of a new war and then trust to the formation of a League of Na tions to prevent it. He went on to explain that wrongs must be set right "before the League of Nations sets to work" and that it must have "a clean slate to work upon," and he stated definitely the wrongs he had in mind. First, he declared, we must notf "perpetuate the state of things which | exists in Central Europe." We must! | not leave Germany in possession of; | Russia or dominating her. We mustj ! not deprive "the small people along | the Baltic" of hope. We must not i leave Poland's wrongs unredressed, must not lea\c her "where she has been for all these generations, a re- I proach to all civilization." We must not leave in their old position the ! subordinated peoples who have for generations been trampled in the Austrian Empire under the heel of "the Geyman and Magyar minor ities." We must not leave the Balkans In the condition which has constantly; provoked "bloody wars among them-; selves" and been "the occasion of hostilities among their neighbors.'" We must not restore the bloody sway of the Turk "over the territories which have been torn from him'' and leave him "to massacre at will and plunder at will." We must restore to Italy "those populations which will really make her indeed Italy Redeemed." We must relieve Greece from the threat that has hung over her; we must restore Serbia and Belgium; wo must allow France "to resume her full place in Western Europe," as it was before the Ger man raid of 1870. "After you have carried out these great reforms, after you have freed Europe from Prussian militarism, after you have restored Asia as well as Europe to a position in which self-development is possible for the various nationalities which occupy them then, and then only, will your League of Nations work." The President could not have de sired a more explicit answer. The British position is clear, and it is in accord with the principles the Presi dent has laid down in his various speeches. Unless these things are done, the peace will be merely an incubation of new wars, and the passions thus left to smolder would in time burn up the League of Na tions like a cobweb. The League of Nations must be planned to stay, not be disrupted by passions mightier than all its pledges, and to that end, as Mr. Balfour said we must give it "a clean slate to work upon." LABOR NOTES Civil service retirement legislation is in effect iv. India. Denmark hus over 100,000 women engaged In agriculture. Ten hours is the legal work-day in Arkansas sawmills. Canadian unions demand legisla tion against Asiatic labor, Mexico forbids the employment of children utidet 12 in industry, In Madros, India, the industrial accident rate is 0.46 per 100. The Twenty-Eighth—The Iron Division ALL Pennsylvania is proud of the Keystone (Twenty-eighth) Division, as are General Pershing and Major-General Muir. its commander. General Muir, who is a kind of Haroun-al-Raschid among the en listed men, appeared among the ranks near a village south of Ex termont, just before it was taken by our troops. With him were Col onel Walter C. Sweeney, Captain Theodore D. Boal, of Boalsburg, Center county. Pa.: Lieutenant Edward Hoopes, of West Chester, and Corporal Olin McDonald, of Sunbury, of his staff. Enemy air planes, which had been circling above, swooped down and fired on the party. General Muir seized a rifle left standing against a tree by a wounded soldier, swung it to his shoulder and fired upon the nearest aviator, who turned and fled, fol lowed by the others. General Muir is regarded as a martinet in the Army, but it was very largely his unrelenting, per sistent, hard work that whipped the Twenty-eighth "Division into such shape that it has covered itself with glory in less than three months' fighting in France. He is particu larly the friend of the enlisted nfan, and is said to turn a friendlier side toward the men in the ranks than toward the officers under him. He is 58 years old, having been born in Erie, Mich., in 1860. He went through a hard school in the old Army, having spent seven years as second lieutenant and seven years as first lieutenant. He "has seen serv ice in Cuba, the Philippines, China and the Panama Canal Zone. Last November he was assigned to suc ceed Major-General Charles M. Clement, of Sunbury, Pa., when the latter relinquished command of the | Twenty-eighth Division. then at ' Camp Hancock, for physical rea : sons. I Captain Boal is one of the largest I landowners in Central Pennsylva- The Pennsylvania Hills Dulled with the life of the city by the thoughtless throng estranged, My thoughts go back to the wood land where happily I ranged. Again I wander in spirit where the cool spring waters flow And watch the changing hues of the speckled trout below; In my heart comes a silent yearning almost akin'to pain To know the peace and quiet of the Pennsylvania hills again. In the busv heart of the city I am swept with the restless tide. But the ghost of a vanished pleasure is ever ky my side; The spirit of the woodland that haunts the dell and glade With the scent of the purple violot and the cool of the noonday shade, 1 And the peace of a perfect day through my heart for a moment thrills — j The peace of a perfect day in the Pennsylvania hills. In the glare of the city twilight when the stars are hid from view. And the moon's pale beams shine dimly the lamp-lit darkness through; Come memories tinged with sadness of a pensive twilight glow i And the dancing lights of fireflies thick In the swamp below, ! And the ever creeping shadows dark ening the hollow-rills; Shadows cast by the light-crowned Pennsylvania hills. —BERNARD A. BENSON. Street Railway Fares The American Electric Railway \ Association compiles a continuous tabulation of increases In railway fares, which up to a recent date :-hows that three cities now have a [ 10-cent fare, forty-three cities now have a 7-cent fare, over 100 cities have a fl-cent fare, and there are other situations where a 5-cent fare exists with additional charges for transfers or Increased fares outside of a certain central zone. According to the calculation, up to September 15. 270 Increases in fares had been "granted, of which twenty-four have been granted since July 1, 1918. It further states that about one-quarter of the urban population of the country, or about 12,000,000 out of about 41,000,000 people, are now paying more than the standard 5-eent fare for street car service,' In regard to the gen eral question of public utility in creases In rates, another committep located' in Washington has recently reported that since January 1, 1918, there have been granted between 600 and 700 rate Increases.—Na tional City Bank. nia. He is an architect by profes sion. Several years ago he organ ized the first cavalry machine gun troop in the United States, equip ping it at his own expense and training it on his own estate. He offered it to the government and it became the machine gun troop of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, see ing service on the Mexican border, When the cavalry regiment was split up the machine gun troop be came part of the One Hundred and Seventh Machine Gun Battalion of the Twenty-eighth Division, and Captain Boal went on the division staff. Lieutenant Hoopes is a son of Herman Hoopes, of West Chester, and comes of an old Quaker fam ily. He is a nephew of former Gov ernor Warfield, of Maryland. He was a lieutenant in old Troop A, First Pennsylvania Cavalry, during the Mexican border service. When the cavalry was split up he was transferred to the Eleventh Infan try. He went to France as a bil leting officer, but once more was transferred, this time to the mili tary police. News has been received here of a glowing commendation bestowed upon the Iron Division by Geheral Muir after its service in the Marne battle. In the course of a general order, he said: "The division has acquitted itself in a creditable manner. It has stormed and taken a point that was ! regarded as proof against assault. It has taken numerous prisoners from a vaunted Guards division of the enemy. It has inflicted on the enemy far more loss than it has suffered from hini. Let all be of good heart. We have inflicted more loss than we have suffered; we are better men individually than our enemies. A little more grit, a little more determination to keep our enemies down, and the division will have the right to look upon itself as an organization of veterans." "A Great Host Shall Come!" [Nina Larrey Duryea in Harper's Magazine] In the evacuated region of France one heard of a woman of education who, eight months before America j declared war, had lost her mind from too much suffering. It was said she possessed the gift of prophecy. One evening this distraught creature ap peared in our garden where kultur had cut down trees, uprooted cur rant and rose bushes, and polluted ! the well. The woman wandered to , and fro unmolested, as though searching for something, until she reached an American soldier who j had neither moved nor spoken. Be | coming aware of his presence, she ! asked, "Who are you?" He saluted and replied, "An Amer ican soldier fighting for France." "Perhaps you can help me," she said. "I had four sons.' One lies beneath the snows of the Vosges; one rots on the bed of the sea; one fell from heaven, I know not where, and one—lay here, on my breast, soft and warm and' —mine. But strange men came with spikes on their heads. There were great | noises, raging and cruel happenings. | At last there was a vast noise and blackness. When it passed I saw iriy baby lying in pieces. Those men kicked the pieces arid laughed and then put them in a box and took them awry. Can you tell me where they are?" Without waiting for a reply, the woman walked on. peering about for that box which held the baby she had loved. Again she approached the soldier, and as though for the first time, ehe said, "Who are you?" and again he made the same reply. Then a dawning . comprehension seemed to pierce her brain and she touched his sleeve and groped over the national insignia of his rank as she reiterated the word—"Ameri can." Then she stepped backward and with upraised arms burst into a sort of Biblical rhapsody; "A great host shall come In num bers like the stars of heaven. The sea shall bear them. Justice shall be upon their banners and liberty shall be their cry. Their tread shall shake the fortresses of the proud. The great king shall hide his face in fear and shall seek for safety and find none, for the curses of his peo ple shall rise like flames about him arid he shall walk In the blood of his children. Hasten , the coming of that mighty host, O Lord God! Make clear their way. Let the shin ing presence of our glorious dead be about them," for they shall bring —peace!" She moved away, searching for her dead baby. It Is to be remembered that she ceuld have had no know ledge of America's entry Into the war. OCTOBER 4, 1918. Shotguns in the Civil War. Frederick E. Hedley, a soldier of the Civil War, writing to the New York Times, says: "To say nothing of the monu mental Prussian cheek in protest ing against the American shotgun in war, in the facte of the Prussians' crimes with torpedo, Zeppelin, sub marine and poison gas. the Prussian ignorance 'is dense, if it be hot as sumed. "In the war for the Union (1861- 65), particularly in the border states (Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri), there were both Northerners and Southerners who came to the field with shotguns. General Grant fought two of his first great' battles (Fort Donelson and Shlloh) with many of his almost similarly armed. My own regiment was one of these, with old Harper's Ferry muskets altered from flintlock to percussion, caliber .69, carrying' a ball and three buckshot, the effec tive range being about 200 yards, with much of the fighting at half that distance and less." Only One Bad Place Uncle Bill, hearing an explosion in the immediate neighborhood, said to his small nephew, sitting in the motor car beside him: "Get out, Jimmy, and look at the tire ahd see if it is flat." "It looks pretty good," said Jimmy, upon inspection: "it's only flat on the 'bottom side." —From the Oregon Journal. * That Ye May Prophesy Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesv. —I Corinthians xlv, 1. OUR DAILY LAUGH i "WHERE WOM i EN ARE jgNy'c SUPERIOR. . A (■lt—/*'' How's your [j ' JjSpfl wife getting nr • along with the ! / "Wf Great. She's bluffed three * traffic police ' ' IPL__ men already. REDUCER. f Did your doc- htbij S. l tor tell you to eat less luxurl- \ BT' \ the market quo ! NOT AS YET. 11 Tp 7 Do you think : j the war is near i\ \ haven't heard | i /^ = 'l ot any munition .\ I factories start . j lng a plowshare department •I i ACCOM- ft|U\ lI—JS-llI I —JS-ll PLISHED. I'l I , Well, Donald j ' . did you learn J? ■ anything in i school today? Jimk Yes. I learned BTi) to whistle with up my lips, so \f the teacher ihPr fllnl can't tell who's JKT CURIOUS. course, like a,U lAjjk't women. yo a have an lnordl /(lilfA nate curiosity. wWMiu Wlfey—Got a life cur,oslty ' hava •' II fymttng (Eijat A list of nearly thirty Pennsyl vania corporations In a certain classification in the Auditor Gen eral's Department, all of which had titles with the word "German" In them a year ago, has shrunk to just one. This branch of the state government keeps a record of the | official designations of corpora tions and all changes must be AlecL with It. The movement to eliminate the German name has grown so strong lately that changes of-name have been filed with frequency and yesterday next to the last one was altered. Most of the companies had the form "German-American" In I their names, Dut the bulk of them have adopted something very dif ferent. All evidences of Teutonic influence seem to have disappeared. The concerns include financial, man ufacturing,* brewing and similar cor porations. In the last year and a half no applications for charters have been filed bearing the name German and companies which had used such designations for many years have entered changes and 'secured official sanction for the al terations. . Although It will probably be a couple of months until the snow flies arrangements are being made for the construction of snow fences at points along the Lincoln High way where observations have shown that they may be needed during the coming winter. Last year, owing to the movement of army trucks over the Lincoln High way that state road was kept open by snow shovels and scrapers and some fences were erected at points where it was found that drifts oc curred. Since that time the high way and the country have been studied and additional fences will be constructed. Most of these will be at points on the crests of ridges. Preparations are being made to safeguard heavy truck movements during the coming winter as infor mation reaching here is that thou sands will be moved from factor ies to seaboard for army use. "Billy Bates does not seem to care just how he leaves vegetables at night and seems to think that be cause he is next to the police sta tion no one is going to come around and steal anything," remarked a man walking along Market street, yesterday. "Yes, but did you notice that the foxy Billy took care only to leave baskets of red peppers'setting out '.'" said the other man. These are the days when the doc tors connected with the State De partment of Health arp hitting only the high places. The outbreaks of influenza have been coming thick and fast and every industrial com munity where men are engaged on war work has been calling for help, all sorts of suggestions for fight ing the disease have been coming in and cranks are keeping the wires hot. The hardest people to deal with are those who think that their business will be ruined and who in sist that they are vital to the win ning of the war. "The outbreak is a serious one, but the best thing to do is to stay in the sunshine and keep cool about the affairs of life," rernarked Dr. B. F. Royer, State Commissioner of Health. • • • • "Under present conditions men in charge of dirt roads should bend every effort to get them into good shape for the winter. A large por tion of the dirt roads of Pennsyl vania will always remain so and plans for improvement of others have been set back for years by the war," said Highway Commissioner J.. Denny O'Neil to-day, in discuss ing the general road situation. "The last week I have come over some ex cellent dirt roads. They were in charge of men who understood their business and who not only saw to it that they were properly drained, .which is the foundation of good roads, but who evidently inspected their roads and made sure that the surfaces were crowned. Some of these roads did not have loose stones on them at all and were smooth and as good as many an improved road I have encountered in Pennsylvania.." • • Outbreaks of influenza reported from the soft coal regions are being watched with considerable anxiety by officers at the State Department of Health and experienced physi cians will, be detailed to make ob servations. Wherever possible local nurses will be employed to instruct families where the disease occurs how to treat cases, but if they are not available because of the many nurses who have gone into army and Red Cross service, special nurses will be sent from dispen saries of the department to give instruction. Ruspiratory diseases in mining- regions are considerably feared. "You people in Harrisburg have got to hustle on your Liberty Loan. Out in our town of McKeesport we have taken our quota and are try/ng to double it," said Highway Com missioner J. Denny O'Neil yester day. "The men in the mills were all organized and many of them took as high as $ 1,000." Officers of the Reserve Militia are discussing plans to ask the next Leg islature for authority and appro priations to permit the organization o'f enough cavalry to form a regi ment as well as one or two addi tional regiments of infantry and an enlarged truck train. The Militia now consists of three regiments of infantry and one squadron, four troops of cavalry and a small truck company. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Congressman L. T. McFadfs k ' who sees all Congressmen frnnV Pennsylvania Republicans jfv&" time, is a northern tier banker. —Col. J. Howell Cummtngs, the Governor's staff, is making L.t?". erty Loan speeches in Philndelp!--v —Prof. W. B. Huff, of Brj- Mawr, has been granted leave een appointed a cap tain in the medical corps of the army. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg is growing to be quite a center for the as sembling of buckwheat? HISTORIC HARRISBURG r-The first big flood that hit Har rlsburg was 120 years ago and was known as the "pumpkin flood,' be cause it came at the time when the pumpkins were ripe and were swept ' away.