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MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1918.
The bravest are the tenderest
The loving are the daring.
—Bayard Taylor.
PUNISHMENT FOR HUN
THERE Is a rising sentiment
among the Allied peoples fa
vorable to an international
military tribunal at the close of the
war which will try every criminal
from the Kaiser down who has been
responsible for the horrible butch
ery and the untold agony of the last
four years and more. Whatever
the peace terms; nothing must be
done that will save these butchers
from the punishment they deserve.
Wo should like to see the best of
Germany given to the impoverished
Belgians. French and others to be
occupied until the Germans restore,
through their own efforts, the deso
lated regions in the war areas.
Also, we should like to see each In
terned German in this country sent
back to the "dear Fatherland" to
work out his own future.
It is not to be forgotten that over j
there the men are standing shoulder'j
to shoulder and they are not asking J
each other where they were born, i
whether they were reared on a golden j
spoon, and It makes no difference to !
the fighters whether their ancestors !
arrived on the Mayflower or came over I
in the steerage of an Immigrant ves- ;
sel. They are fighting together for a j
great cause and the folks back home
must take fire from their devotion to
the get-together principle.
GO HELP THE FARMERS
THIS week, because of the In
fluenza edicts, there are some
hundreds of hefty high school
students In Harrisburg and vicinity
who will not be able to attend
school. They can work ahead on
their books, but we know how it
was when anything happened to
Jolt the curriculum out of place
when we were boys, and it Is not ex
pected that any great progress will
be made at home. And neither will
the students do much drilling by
themselves.
But there is a place for them on
the farms and in the orchard.- Tho
farmers of Dauphin county are call
ing for hands to gather the corn and
help with other crops which will he
hit by Jeck Frost, who is already
starting to paint the trees, and or
chard owners of Cumberland and
Franklin and Adams counties have
work for every pair of hands. And
they are willing to pay. It Is open
air work, helps keep youth healthy
and will aid much in food conserva
tion.
Boys, there's a chance to turn this
enforced vacation into something
mighty useful to everyone.
State Health Commissioner Royer
has acted promptly and efficiently in
an effort to suppress the prevailing
epidemic, of influenza. Of course,
there will be criticism of his course
here and there, but in emergency the
official with courage must not stop to
discuss possible objections. It is his
duty to exercise his best judgment
and act at once.
LET'S KNOW THEM
IS it true that men vested with au
thority are continuing to charge
young men summoned under the
national defense procedure to file
questionnaires fees ranging any
where from twenty-five cents to a
dollar and a half for making out
the questions asked by the War De
partment, while the lawyers of Dau
phin county are sitting night and
day at the courthouse and various
other places and giving their time
and services free? If that is so, it
Is surely time the public knows their
names. A regrettable thing about
the draft is that It does not compel
men in official station to give their
services free to young men who are
getting ready to offer themselves.
Action of the lawyers In staying
up late at night In the courthouse
and sacrificing their time to help
men on questionnaire* and of county
MONDAY EVENING,
official* and some magistrates In re
fusing to accept a cent for taking
acknowledgments Is BO oomracnd
able that by very cxamplo It ought
to shame the men who chargo a fee.
It would appear that the boards
of instruction named In the various
draft districts have a Held for In
vestigation of such matters. The
medical and legal advisory boards
of the draft districts are doing
splendid work. The boards of In
struction have been getting under
way, but their course is not well de
fined as yet. It certainly seems that
there should be some people some
where in the draft system who can
unearth the quarter pinchers and
the dollar grabbers.
Officials have a right to charge
fees, but, as stated in letters issued
by the Attorney General in re
sponse to some inquiries from no
taries public. It Is to be hoped that
there are not many so unpatriotic
as to do so.
The Kaiser, In choosing Prince Max
for a Cabinet post, was careful. It
will be noticed, to pick a man who
spent some years in an insane asylum.
"ON TO BERLIN"
ERMANY is again bidding for
G peace. There are reports that
the Kaiser's government is
willing even to accept President
Wilson's "fourteen points essential
to peace"—if only the Allies will
stop fighting and talk. That is the
milk In the cocoanut. Germany
wants to quit the war on terms fav
orable. at least in some degree, to
herself, and an early cessation of
the hostilities is her only hope. Ger
many is defeated, but not con
quered. Germany, defeated, hopes
to escape with some of her loot;
Germany conquered will have to ac
cept the Allies' terms in every re
spect and a conquered Germany
will be in no position to renew the
war if those terms are not to her
liking.
If we stop fighting now It is cer
tain that Germany will never be fully
punished for her crimes. If we per
mit an armistice the interval would
be used by the Kaiser to gather his
shattered forces for a strong de
fense of the German border. In case
the war should be resumed.
The great danger now is not that
we shall lose the war on the field of
battle, but that all our sacrifices
shall be rendered vain by a prema
ture peace.
Over-night reformations are some
times sincere and lasting, but who
can believe that the German war
lords have been suddenly converted
from rank barbarism to humanitar
ian civilization, if the term may be
used, when with their voices they
are telling us how they hope here
after to live at peace and harmony
with their neighbors on terms of
honesty and decency, the while by
their written orders the German
armies are deliberately, needlessly
and maliciously burning and de
stroying the cities and towns of
France. We can believe the Hun only
when we have stripped him of his
arms and have htm on his back with
a bayonet at his throat. Peace can
come when American troops are in
Berlin —not before.
Unquestionably, the American peo
ple would vote almost unanimously
that way If a ballot were taken. Be
yond a doubt President Wilson
would act in accord with their de
sires. A referendum Is impossible,
but the American people have just
as sure a means of making their
views known. They can oversub
scribe the Fourth Liberty Loan. If
that is done the Kaiser will realize
that his last hope is gone and the
march to Berlin will be continued.
Buy bonds—twice as many as last
time —as your answer to the winn
ings of the whipped and begging
Beast of Potsdam.
Isn't it about time for the Allies to
warn the Germans that for every
French and Belgian town they de
stroy in defeat, one such Ger
man town or city will be laid waste?
CO-OPERATION AT HOME
ONE of the things that has come
out of the war is the lesson of
co-operation, and throughout
every community, large and small,
in this country the people are
realizing the value of getting to
gether and cutting out waste and
inefficiency through overlapping of
effort. This is true of the Liberty
Loan and all other activities. It
runs down through the business fab
ric and after the war there is going
to be less of the foolishness of In
sane competition and all that goes
with It.
In d. recent address. Charles H.
Stabin, president of the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, con
cluded as follows:
With courage we must face the
future, confident that with a bet
ter , understanding of our local
and national problems, and with a
closer and more sympathetic co
operation between the governing
authorities and financial institu
tions, continuing progress will be
assured. These are not the times
for jealousies, prejudices or sel
fishness. but with largeness of
heart and bigness of vision we
must unite in a common effort to
help America achieve its manifest
destiny.
Right here in Harrisburg there
has been fine co-operation in many
directions, but there is. still room
for improvement and those who will
not co-operate must soon bo made
to realize that they are outside the
pale of decent consideration with
respect to all movements vital to!
the community.
Harrlsburg has grown and devel
oped along all legitimate lines be
cause tho people have In the pnst
stood togother and co-operated In
telligently on definite programs.
Now and then an obstreperous In
dividual or group will get In the
way of the procession, but the com
munity car moves on notwithstand
ing and the little men are flattened
underneath. This Is the Inevitable
result of pettiness and the puerile in
jection of Individual grouch or
smallness of vision where there
should be only generous and big
hearted co-operation.
fMtiesU
By the Rx-Commlttccman
While it will take several days to
obtain complete Information regard
ing the registration of voters in the
I cities of Pennsylvania for the No
vember election, it is believed that
the total will run far short of that
for last November. Saturday was
the last day for personal registra
tion and between interest in the war
and tho Liberty Loan and lack of
interest in politics the impression
is that the enrollment of voters was
lower than on any previous third
day known since the personal reg
istration act became operatives
To begin with there are over a
quarter of a million Pennsylvanlans
in the military forces of the nation.
Many men have dropped interest in
politics because of war activities,
Loan work and business and did not
register. Party workers were unable
to get men to the registration places.
M hile the Republican registration
will be fair in many cities, there Is
no question about the Bonniwell
people having registered all the
"wet" element possible.
In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Scranton reports were to-day that
the registration af all parties was
considerably below normal, even
counting off the soldier vote.
—Regarding the general cam
paign newspapers like the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times, the Phila
delphia Bulletin and the Scranton
Republican express the belief that
It will be rather "quiet." The Phila
delphia Press, in a weekly review by
Odell Hauser, says in part: "Our
campaignless state campaign is go
ing quietly on. There are no public
meetings by either party and the
candidates are not on the stump ex
cept where they are making Lib
erty Loan speeches and meeting
the voters that way. The events of
tho last few days suggest the
thought that even had the Liberty
Loan not been the direct means of
putting the quietus on the speech
making, the influenza epidemic
would have been, for meetings of
all kinds have been prohibited by
the health authorities. There have
been many causes working together.
In the first place, the war has so
absorbed the public attention that
listeners for any other cause have
been hard to get. The politicians
have all been reporting they can
not get their voters interested in the
coming election. The Republicans
feel that Senator Sproul Is as good
as elected now and that he will
carry the rest of the ticket with
him. They believe that campaign
tng would be a waste of time ex
cept possibly in some of the con
gressional districts where they hope
to return Republicans instead of
Democrats. The Democratic party,
on the other hand, is in a snarl over
its candidate for Governor and for
that reason it cannot get up the
highest enthusiasm over the pros
pect of campaigning. Judge Bonni
well. the Democratic candidate for
Governor, is the only exception.
While the judge only makes Lib
erty Loan speeches when,he appears
in public, he is, nevertheless, devot
ing all Ills time to the same sort of
a noiseless campaign which won
him the Democratic nomination
over the party's choice for the of
fice."
—Up at Altoona, L. L. Banks,
passenger trainmaster of the middle
division, has asked conductors,
brakemen and baggagemen for an
individual report on whether thev
Pre holding public office or are can
didates for office, or whether any
of them have resigned from political
office. Other branches of the service
are making similar inquiries
—All state-wide, supreme and su
perior court, congressional and leg
islative nominations and the two
constitutional amendments to be
voted for in November haye been
certified to the commissioners of
the counties of Pennsylvania by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth
and the official form of the ballot
enclosed so that printing may start
pt once. The ballots wsrc certified
with a number of vacancies unfilled
and state officials say that nnv sub
stitutions coming now will be gent
to the commissioners of the coun
ties interested and if the names can
be added before printing well and
"good. Otherwise," say men here, it
will be a matter of stickers. The
nominations were certified late Sat
urday night, the latest they could
be held, say officials at the Stale
Department.
—lmmediate preparation of spe
cial ballots for the soldiers to vote
will be started. Tliey will be rushed
as it is expected the commissioners
to take the soldier vote will be
named before long.
—G. Scott Smith, compensation
referee at Kane, was on Saturday
elected chairman of the Republican
county committee of McKean at a
meeting held in Bradford. P. D.
Gallup, of Smethport, the chairman
for several years, retired. Mr. Smith
is a newspaperman and well known
to many residents of this city. He
is an energetic worker.
—After taking tbirtv ballots In an ef
fort to brpnk the deadlock existing In
the forty-first senatorial district, the
Republican conferees at Butler ad
journed without selecting a candidate
to fill the vacancy In the Senate caus
ed by the death of the late Senator
.T. Frank Graff. The state committee
will be asked to make the selection.
Armstrong county, with six votes in
the conference, presented three candi
dates. Peter Graff, of Worthlngton.
son of the deceased senator; W. Fred
Turner, of Freenort, and G. W. Bar
kin. of Ford City. Butler eotintv
presented the pme of former Dlatrle't
Attornev Bam Walker. The last bal
lot stood Wnlker f>. Turner 3. Graff 2.
I.arkln 1. The Inabilitv of the Arm
strong deler-ates to unite on a candi
date of their own and an unwilling
ness to throw the nomination to But
ler county was the cause of the dead
lock.
—The Democratic State Executive
Committee has taken no action on the
Democratic vacancy, j
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THE GERMAN PLIGHT
(From Christian Science Monitor)
The surrender of Bulgaria means
much more than the reduction of
the Mittel-Europa forces by the
number of 1 tho soldiers of Ferdi
nand's army. It means, tirst and
foremost, the severing of German
communications with, Turkey and
the East, and the fact that the Turks
will now be left to fight out their
own battle as best they may. No
longer will the crowd of the Fried
richstrasse Bahn gather to see the
Hamburg-Bagdad Express steam
out, for the length of that famous
train's journey will in future be cut
short at the banks of the Danube-
More important than any of this,
perhaps, is the fact that the way is
now open for the Allies, if they
choose, to advance by the back Joor
into Austria. With an allied army
on the Danube and an Italian army
reasserting itself across the Venetian
border, the fate of Austria is so ob
vious and so certain, that the Ger
man papers are already discounting
the withdrawal of Turkey and the
Dual Kingdom. Every one knows
the pace with which news travels in
the East. Nobody knows how it
goes exactly, but it goes. Enver
may rage, and Talaat imagine a vain
thing, but the Turk is going to dis
cover that there is something wrong
with the armies of the All Highest,
and when that day.comes Enver and
Talaat will probably wish not only
that they had been a little more cir
cumspect in taking sides, but that
they had exhibited a little more re
straint in their Armenian policy.
Turkey cannot possibly carry on the
war cut off from Germany. "Jeri
cho Jane," rusting in the waters
of the Jordan, affords a very good
text for the friends of the Entente
in Stambul to preach their sermons
from.
Nor, as a matter of fact, will even
this be the conclusion of the whelo
matter. The Kaiser may scold the
German people as much as he likes,
but that people, unless they are more
credulous than it seems possible to
imagine, will receive his heroics on
the subject of the magnificent suc
cesses of their sons and brothers,
with their tongues in their cheeks,
The magnificent successes of Ger
many may be seen in the western
front crumbling from the North Sea
to Switzerland: in the stream of pris
oners perpetually entering the allied
cages: in the hundreds of guns find
ing thfir way to the allied lines:
and in the mountains of material
deserted too precipitately to be even
destroyed. The simple truth is that
mesmerism, when it once begins to
crack, cracks apace. It is almost im
possible to say on Monday what
Tuesday may not bring forth. Essen
will have- to work overtime to pro
duce enough peace doves to fill the
expectations of the defeatists, before,
the snap is followed by the final
bang.
LABOR NOTES
Nearly all Japanese pearl divers
are women.
Copper workers are immune from
typhoid fever.
Toronto. Can., will organize a
metal trades federation.
A' technical trades school has boen
opened at London, Ont.
Ten shipyards employ more than
550,000 workers.
France imnorts 12,000 Chinese
coolies a month.
A child welfare association has
been formed at Toronto.
Montreal, Can., has 123 local trade
union bodies. ,
Freight handlers at St. Paul,
Minn., have organized.
Seattle (Wash.) Boilermakers'
Union has 19,000 members.
Police of London. Eng., demand
union recognition.
Members of the Canadian Mer
chant Service Guild have decided to
tender their renienntion to steam
ship companies which refuse to rec
ognize their guild. ,
"Kings of Whole World"
Doomed on Armageddon Field
Where the British Army Has Driven Out the Turk
ish Allies of the Kaiser, Battles Were Fought
Many Centuries Before the Christian Era
[The Kansas City Star]
THE word "Armageddon" is used
but once in the Bible, but since
this war began it has done mani
fqld duty for orators, statesmen,
preachers, novelistg, poets and writ
ers of things wise and otherwise
about the war and its significance.
It is a word of vast imaginative po
tentialities, opening vistas to the
mind's eye that are cosmic in their
range and sweep, foreshadowing is
sues of cataclysmic sublimity. It
was the- apocalyptic eye of John tho
Divine that first visioned this place
of the world's last battle of the na
tions, yet his mention of it is almost
casual. It occurs in the sixteenth
chapter, sixteenth verse of Revela
tions:
"And he gathered them together
into a place called ift the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon."
And those that were to be gath
ther there, as appears from the four
teenth verse, were "the kings of the
earth and of the whole world * * *
to the battle of that great day of God
Almighty." Then "the seventh angel
poured out his vial into the air and
there came a great voice out of the
temple of heaven, from the throne,
saying, it is done."
A few days ago came a detailed
report of the operations of the Brit
ish army in Palestine, driving the
Turks before them to tl)eir last stand
in the Holy Land. And incidental to
the drive the correspondent men
tioned that "on the north our cav
alry, traversing the field of Arma
geddon, had occupied Nazareth,
Afule and Beisan, and were collect
ing the disorganized musses of en
emy troops and transports as they
arrived from the south."
Thus the "field of Armageddon"
emerges from the vague realms of
prophetic vision to find a "local hab
itation and a name," and a battle has
been fought upon that field, or near
it, which may be fraught with final
ity to some of the deep-laid schemes
of "the kings of the earth and of the
whole world."
The Plain of Megiddo
The mention of the name "Arma
geddon" in a military dispatch will
doubtless send many students of cur
rent events to their maps and their
histories. Biblical and profane, only
to be disappointed if they confine
their search to the literal word. They
will find no "field of Armageddon"
upon the map, no mention of it in
history by that name, outside of the
solitary reference to it in the Bible.
But the "field of Armageddon" re
ferred to in the dispatch Is the Plain
of Megiddo, which is the great tri
angular valley in t£e central part of
the historic Plains of Esdraelon,
stretching northward from Megiddo
to the hills of Nazareth, eastward
to Mount Tabor and westward to
Mount Carmel. The entire plain of
Esdraelon, which extends from the
Bay of Acre to Beisan above the Jor
dan, is drained by the Kishon river,
which empties into the Bay of Acre,
near Haifa, one of the Mediterra
nean ports recently captured by the
British feces.
Though there is by no means an
unanimity among Biblical scholars
upon the subject, the consensus of
learned opinion identifies the Plain
of Megiddo, or the Plains of Esdrae
lon, for the names are often used
convertibly for the Valley of the
Kiqjion, with the scriptural "field of
Armageddon." The name "Megiddo"
signifies in Hebrew the "place of
troops," and it has been a place of
many battles since the dawn of his
tory.
The town Megiddo. which. Is situ
ated on the east of the plain, oppo
site Jesrahel, commands the central
of the three passes that join the
I plain with the seaboard. This pass,
which offered the best and shortest
route from Egypt and the south to
Northern Syria, Phoenicia and Me
sopotamia, was the one commonly
followed In ancient days by the As
syrians. Egyptians, Greeks and
Romans, whose battling hosts swept
over these "plains of Armageddon'
on many a military expedition.
An Ancient Fortified City
Megiddo, from which the Plain of
Megiddo, or "Armageddon," derives
I its name, is one of the oldest in
I Palestine and was a fortified city of
jgreat importance in ancient Syria
iand was often the battleground of
| kings. As far back as tho fifteenth
i century B. C., Thotlimes 111, the
Egyptian Pharoah, invaded the val
ley with his conquering legions. Nine
1 centuries later another Egyptian
I ruler, Pharoah Necho, overcame the?
Hebrew King Joslas there and slew
him in another historic "Armaged
,don" battle. David possibly con-
it and Solomon fortified the
' Pass of Megiddo. King Ahaziah of
Judah found refuge there when flee
jing from Jehu of Israel.
Somewhere in this valley was
fought the battle that inspired that
grandest of battle paeans, the Song
of Deborah. The Biblical acount of
this battle, which is related in
Judges, iv., states that Deborah, the
"Mother in Israel." in the name of
the Lord, directed Barak, her gen
eral, to "go and draw toward Mount
Tabor, and take with thee ten thou
sand men of the children of Nup
thali and of the children of Zebulun,
and I will draw unto thee to the
River Kishon, Sisera, the captain of
Jabin's army, with his chariots and
his multitudes, and I will deliver
him unto thine hand." And thus
she celebrates the victory in her
famous song:
"The kings came and fought, then
fought the kings of Canaan in T.aan
ach by the waters of Megiddo; "they
took no gaip of money. They fought
from heaven; the stars in their
courses fought against Sisera. The
River of Kishon swept them away,
that ancient river, the River Kishon.
O, my soul, thou hast trodden down
strength. Then were the horsehoofs
broken by means of the pransings,
the prancing of their mighty ones."
And it was in this Rong that De
borah uttered the "slacker's curse"
—the curse of Meroz—which was
invoked by Theodore Roosevelt to do
duty in the present war.
"Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of
the Lord, curse ve bitterly the inhab
itants thereof: because they came
not to the help of the Lord, to the
help of the Lord against the
mighty."
What the Y. W.C. A. Does
The Y. W. C. A. War Work Coun
cil has put Its resources at the serv
ice of the War Department Commls
| sion on Training Camp Activities,
i The Council maintains' ninety
one hostess houses in Army, Navy
and Aviation camps, thirteen of
them for colored troops.
It makes a "bit of home within
the camp," off hours for the men,
visiting days for mother, friends and
babies.
Special aid to the foreign born In
their home tongues helps ' cheerful
service beneath the flpg.
Ninety-three and rec
reation centers make men in uni
form welcome to home-like social
events.
War service centers keep girls fit
to do their bit on war orders for
our armies overseas. For every
man in khaki there will be a girl
in war Industries.
Hostess houses are building for
the girls of the United States Sig
nal Corps who tend the wires for
the Army In France.
Betrotjial to the Lord
And I will betroth thee unto 'me
for ever; yea, I will betroth thee
unto me in righteousness, and in lov
ing kindness, and in mercies. I will
even betroth thee unto me in faith
fulness; and thou shalt know the
Lord. —Ho sea li, 19 and 20. i
OCTOBER 7, 1918.
Prohibition and Pessimism
Said the Pessimist to. the Honest
Man:
"I can't do justness by your
plan;
For there's a trick to every trade
And by deceit all gains are made.
None cgn deny It."
The Honest Man still shook his
head.
"I will not cheat to earn my
• bread;
I still believe it the better plan.
The policy best for every man.—
Then let us try It."
riaid the Pessimist to the Sober
Man:
Why do you thus upset my
plan? ,
My shops will close, my ships
will sink;
All goes to the dogs unless we
drink.—
I'll take to the woods."
The Prohibitionist shook his fist
In the pate green face of the
Pessimist:
"I'm tired of you and your con
stant whine—
Cut out the beer, cut- out the
wine;
Produce the goods!
—R. M. RAMSEY.
BILLIONS FOR THE BONDS
(From the New York Sun)
N > one of us shall doubt that the
Fourth Liberty Loan can be sub
scribed to the full six billions of dol
lars. If they should feel like it the
produce s of three great crops alone
could pretty nearly do the jcrb.
The wheat growers of the United
States have just sold or are just now
selling some 900,000,000 bushels of
wheat for a mere matter of a couple
of billions of dollars. The cotton
growers of the United States are just
now selling a crop of some 11,000,-
000 to 12,000,000 bales for another
two billions of dollars. The corn
growers of the United States are Just
now selling a crop something short
of 3,000,000,000 bushels for upward
of six billions of dollars. Omit the
oats, the barley, the rye, the hay,
the tobacco, the potatoes; and yet
those three staples—wheat, corn and
cotton—foot up in round numbers
ten billions of dollars.
If they should feel like it those
producers could take care of the
major part of this Fourth Liberty
Loan, because what they have pro
duced must largely represent to them
surplus wealth. At 90 cents a bushel
wheat only a short span back was
the horn of plenty; and now it is
two and a half times as much a
bushel. At 50 cents and 60 cents corn
was a golden harvest; and now it is
three and four times as much a
bushel. At $6O a bale cotton was
king; and now it is $l5O to $2OO a
bale.
So those farmers and planters as
a whole are up to their waists in
coin; they are up to their necks in
credit. It is surplus wealth—surplus
production—which must pay for Lib
erty Bonds, and they are the ones
who have it. They have no moun
tains of K'itchin taxes through which
they must dig right on the heels of
this Liberty Loan. From their bank
balances to the Liberty Loan sub
scription lists their path is free and
clear. They can buy bonds for cash
or they can buy the mon the instal
ment plan by the truckload. .
The End in Sight
Germany's military might is begin
ning to crumble, and we see the first
effects of it, not only on the western
front, but in Palestine and in Mace
donia- The process of disintegra
tion is not likely to be rapid for a
long time but there is conclusive
evidence that it has begun.—From
the New York World.
Don't Be Like King Gama
[From' the Boston Herald.]
This is no time for fussy folks. It
is no time for caustic complaints of
service in lestaurants or stores or
offices. It is a time for lessening all
demands on others and for lighten
ing in every possible way the bur
dens on the overworked.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
I wish I was a 1
landlord gay. 1
My life would I—
be content,
For no one YEx/h. OH
knows a n
easier way I "
To go-and raise S
the rent.
LA NATURAL
MISTAKE.
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brought!
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in Wall street?
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Although there Is a very general
disposition to regard the present
epidemic of Influenza as a new dis
ease and to call It Bpanlsh, Dr. B. F.
Royer, the acting oommlsßlonor of
health, says that It Is essentially the
same as that which ravaged the
United States In 1889 and 1890 ut
der the name of the Russian in
fluenza. "Bacteriological tests have
shown that It Is the same as that
which afflicted this country twenty
eight years ago and It seems to be a &
severe type, which spreads rapldlv ™
and is very prostrating," said he.
The 1889-90 outbreak came to this
country from away over in Eastern
Siberia, said the acting commlH
stoner. It spread through Russia,
and was soon brought to this coun
try, much as the present outbreak
seems to have come over. Recollec
tions by medical officials here of the
1889-90 outbreak were that It did
not fall as heavily upon Pennsyl
vania cities as the present, but then
industrial conditions were different
and the country was not under the
stress of war production. The com
batting of the disease was directed
by the old State Board of Health,
but more In an advisory manner
than regulatory as it did not have
the power of the Department of
Health and no such drastic action
as that taken a few days ago to pre
vent congregating of people was pos
sible. Capitol officials are referring
to the present outbreak as "grip."
• • •
Better results in enforcement of
the dog license law are being ob
tained in rural districts of Pennsyl
vania, according to officials of the
State Department of Agriculture,
which Is charged with enforcement
of the code of 1917. In districts
where it was necessary to invoke the
law to force constables to kill un
licensed dogs or to arrest men
who permitted dogs to go un
licensed or at large in farming re
gions where efforts are being made
to increase sheep there have been
evidences of regulation. The Stato
police and State game wardens have
I been assisting In the enforcement
I and also forcing aliens to give up
dogs. In some cases foreigners
were discovered to have several ani
mals.
• • ♦
Capitol park pigeons have been
driven to the tall timbers and the
sparrows forced to fly for their
lives by an invasion of blackbirds ,
the last few days. The blackcoats,
officially the purple-headed grackles,
arrived in a swarm and proceeded
to disturb the breakfasts of the
feathered denizens of the park on
Saturday. They did not bother the
gray squirrels, but did not run when
the bushy-tailed bosses of the park
came around. But no pigeon had a
chance to get a bite of corn and as
for the sparrows, they were not only
driven from the feeding grounds
along the walks frequented by vis!- ,
tors to the park, but pickets of
blackbirds disturbed their morning
baths in the fountains on the west
front. It was the first time the spar
rows had been put to rout and yes
terday they were in a state of ter
ror. The blackbirds held the park
and sparrows were forced to forage
in streets and along the River Front
while the pigeons stayed up on the
capitals of the pillars of the State
House or in the trees and watched
the black-coated invaders making
free with the grain asd kernels of
nuts thrown about by-vlSltors. '■
Colonel B. N. Hyde, for years li
brarian at Pottsville, and well
known to many residents of this
city, died Saturday at an advanced
age. He was a West Point gradu
ate and classmate of General O. O.
Howard.
Henry E. Bodlne, formerly In the
Department of Internal Affairs, and
lately manager of the Altoona
Chamber of Commerce, has resigned
to go to Fort Wayne, where he will
become identified with the Chamber.
He was formerly at Clearfield and
in Altoona was active in the Liberty
Loan and other work.
* • •
Major Rudolph F. Kelker, Jr.. of
the United States Engineers, has ar
rived in France where he will report
to the Pershing headquarters for as
signment. Major Kelker, who is a
son of the late Luther R. Kelker,
was formerly engineer of transit for
the city of Chicago and later camp
adjutant at Camp Grant where ho
helped organize a regiment of engi
neers. He is a State College gradu
ate.
• • •
Squads of Technical High School ,
boys who are out in the orchard dis
tricts of Adams and Franklin coun
ties are writing twitting letters to
their comrades in this city who i
have to give up work because of tho
school closing order, while they are i
having the time of their lives in tho
orchards where apples are plenty
and influenza unknown.
•. *
Combination of gasolineloss Sun
day, the closing of the churches be
cause of the influenza outbreak, the
advice of the doctors to everyone
to get into sunshine and a perfect
day caused every road in the vicin
ity of Harrrisburg and the River
Front to be filled with walkers.
Taken as a whole, said one of tho
doctors last evening, the day was
the kind needed to chase people out
for healthful exercise in fresh air
and probably went a great ways to
ward bringing about better condi
tions. It seems to have been one
of the situations which could not
help being beneficial.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—General William H. Rose, ono
of the Regular Army men promoted
a few days ago, is a Lancaster man
and a West- Pointer.
—J. J. Brooks, active in the fire
brick business, has been named as
one of the national advisory board
on refractories.
—Mayor Louis Franke, of Johns
town, says he thinks he will organ
ize all slackers into a regiment and
see what he can make out of them.
—W. H. Davis, Pittsburgh health
director, personally gave thevioticcs ,
to people to close up in that city to
fight influenza.
—Fred C. Ilaller, the supervisor,
of bakeries in Pennsylvania, says
that millers will be forced to
Victory flour.
—Col. John S. Muckle, prominent
Philadelphian, will entertain British
and Canadian Army officers of the
recruiting mission Just before they
leave for home.
| DO YOU KNOW S
—That llarrisVmrg is on its
mettle for the Liberty Loan this
week and it has never failed?
HISTORIC HAHRtSBURG
Continental money was taken in
Harrisburg without question in tho '
darkest days of the .Revolution.