10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.VJItAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-inrChief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 0. P. McCULLOUGH, 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 to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local ncfcvs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American A Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa "r * Ja 1 - ■ Iqti. tion. the Audit Trwßnul Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- BBWaTSßSfflfc sylvania Associ ' !SIS Iff ate<l Dailies. isiifil- < QSi S MSI In Eastern office, Dl Story. Brooks & SSS 55 S9B nv Finley, Fifth ISbSbEBS 1& Avenue Building 55EJI 3{J!B l® New York City; WjnjSsrf: <af Western office, f| :"2 'IMSStory. Brooks & *r—iniyi Finley. People's Gas Building. ' Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918 *-■ Without courage there cannot he truth, and without truth there can he no other virtue. —Sir Walter Scott. MUST CRY ENOUGH! MAYBE the Prussian pirates think they can camouflage their hellish intentions behind specious peace propaganda, but they must learn once for all that uncon ditional surrender is the only basis , of settlement. Here is what Presi dent Wilson has said on two occa sions: "The government of the United States feels that there is only one reply it can make to the sug gestion of the Imperial Austro-Hun garian government. It has repeat edly and with entire candor stated the terms upon which the United States would consider peace, and can and will entertain no proposal for a'conference upon a matter con cerning which it has made its po sition and purpose so clear." Again; "They have convinced us that they are without honor and do not intend justice. They observe no covenants, accept no principle but force and their own interest. We cannot 'come to terms' with them. They have made it impossible. The German people must by this time be fully aware that we cannot ac cept the word of those who forced this war on us. We do not think the same thoughts or speak the same language of agreement." The Kaiser and his dupes have but one way out; they must cry "Enough!" The French promise to "kick the Turks out of Europe," and General Allenby is kicking them out of Pales tine, which would make it appear that the Turks have something on the historic gentleman who found him self between the devil and the deep blue sea. NOT TAKING CHANCES THE promptness with which Maj or William G. Murdock, the chief draft officer for Pennsyl vania, called off the physical exam ination of registrants who were with in the ages summoned for military service in the Philadelphia districts is most commendable. It may be presumed that if the situation be comes serious in any other district he will be just as alert to halt dan ger of contagion. The average draft board has to assemble its men in rooms for ex amination and the close contact ne cessitated by scores in a restricted space is the danger against which medical men are warning. Nowa days the army comes first and the draft executive's action in stopping even so important a part of military work as examination of registrants shows the way' for municipal officials who may be called upon to close theaters, churches, halls and to halt gatherings of people. Influenza has a great many possi bilities and recognition by authori tive sources and establishment of regulations will bring home to many people just what has to be done to successfully combat it. No chances are being taken by Uncle Sam and the rest of us should - steer our courses safe as our part just now. LICENSES AND COURT ALL over Pennsylvania hotels are closing their doors for good and hundreds of licenses will not even be lifted during the com ing Spring. Aside from the national embargo on intoxicating beverages public sentiment has developed to such an extent that the dealer in alcoholic stimulants sees the hand writing on the wall and is dropping out while the dropping is good. Because of a lack of patronage one of the oldest hotels in Allen town has been closed and two or , three other hostelrles have been con verted into residence apartments. Lehigh county liquor Interests have also been greatly surprised with the announcement that one *>f the lar ger brewing concerns—the largest TUESDAY EVENING, beer-making establishment in the county—will sell the twenty-five hotel properties that it owns in Allentpwn and the rural sections. It is estimated that the concern has several hundred thousand dollars in vested in prdperty of this kind. Other large brewing concerns in i that section of the State and in ad joining counties have been forced to suspend business because of the establishing of an army camp zone by the government. It is predicted that even if the county does not go dry less than 25 per cent, of the 300 liquor-selling places in Lehigh county will apply for licenses next March. There is a hint here for the tem perance folk of Central Pennsyl vania. Under frequent rulings the courts here and elsewhere have de cided that it is up to the people who are opposed to licenses to make proper representation when appli cations are being considered. Fre quently licenses would be refused if the court was in possession of the facts showing lack of necessity or other reasons for refusing the ap plications. There are, saloons in Harrisburg and its immediate vicinity which are dignified with the name of hotels which should disappear with 1918. In' the case of a number of them there never has been any real rea son for their existence, certainly not from the standpoint of public hotel necessity, and the prohibitionists and others who are interested in the political phases of the question might divert some of their surplus energy into the preparation of sub stantial facts for the consideration of the courts on the hearing of license petitions. The other day the grand jury of Delaware county submitted to the court a recommendation that "in order to reduce crime and to in crease the production in industries engaged in essential war work that on and after January 1, 1919, the Court refuse to grant any license for the sale of liquor as being either necessary or desirable for the wel fare of the people of Delaware county or for the good of the people of the United States." Judge Johnston received the re port of the Grand Jury and it will be interesting to observe the action of the Delaware court with regard to license applications a few weeks hence. John Barleycorn sees his finish quite as clearly as his friend and coadjutor, the Kaiser. It is now up to the people to aid the courts in administering the final knockout. Charles M. Schwab went to his old home town of Loretto the other day and participated with several thou sand people in raising a service flag on the campus of his alma mateiv— St. Francis College. Among those in the parade were his mother and father and it was a proud day for them and for their son. One of the things that has made Schwab a great man is the fact that he has not for gotten whence he sprang and the people among whom he got his start. Schwab is human and because he is human he is a great* leader of men. ARE YOU IN LINE ? FINAL victory over the Prussian outfit is absolutely certain, but we must not deceive ourselves by imagining that the war is going to come to an end in a few days or weeks. We must drive with all the force and energy of an awakened people and only when a righteous peace shall have been secured can we afford to drop back into the smug contentment that too long pos sessed us. There is much to do and the job immediately at hand is the scrfp ing together of every cent necessary for Uncle Sam's military operations. This is no time to talk of how little we can get along with, but how much is needed and at once provide the funds. Our business community is largely conservative and there is no sign of hysteria anywhere. We are pulling as a people in one direction and to accomplish the best results we must continue to tight shouldfr to shoul der until a great triumph for jus tice and decency shall have been achieved. NO TIME FOR LAGGARDS A.CTION of the Department of the Secretary of the Common wealth in certifying the nomi nations for the November election to the commissioners of the various counties on Saturday, notwithstand ing the fact that there were some vacancies which might be filled, is to be commended. People have be come tired of the backing and fill ing in making changes in nomina tions wherein some men who were willing enough before a primary got cold feet, were stopped in their am bitious careers by Federal orders or retired for other reasons and de layed business while they arranged for their successors, and similarly no one cares very much if the poli ticians cannot agree upon a man to be named where a vacancy is due to death, resignation or other causes. Saturday was the time fixed for certifying the nominations and they were certified. Preparing election lists is a business proposition and not to be held up for any reason. In this case, not even the influenza was allowed to Interfere. The ballots went out while some men were still debating as to who should be put on and other citizens were commun ing with themselves and friends whether they should accept. Now it is up to the local authorities. Any additional names will be certified promptly by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, but whether they get on the ballot depends on the progress of the printing. Things are moving in Pennsyl vania now. This is no time for lag gards in politics any more than in any other line. By the Ex-Committccman Although reports indicate that the registration of voters in the cities of Pennsylvania will run only about eighty per ceht. of the normal there have been some places, liker Harris burg, fo£. instance, wherein the showing is better than expected. In Philadelphia the totul registration of the three days is being counted up and quite a few men who are in federal service of various kinds are sending in their registrations by mail, wheh they may do under a state law of recent enactment. While city registrations are down because of the lack of Interest and the absence of soldiers there will be some figures made up by men who will present petitions for list ing and quite a few soldiers will vote under the plan being worked out at the Capitol to send commis sioners to the camps in this country. State Chairman William E. Crow, of the Republican State Committee, is not allowing anyone around him to be fooled by the strong senti ment for Sproul and is calling upon Republicans to see that the vote is gotten out and not to take it for granted because Sproul is so popu lar that' everyone will vote for him. The Bonniwell people, on the other hand, are engaging in a "gumshoe" campaign, which aims at putting over just such a surprise as they ran in on National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and Democratic National Chairman Vance C. Mc- Cormick when they defeated Joseph F. Guffey for the gubernatorial nom ination. j Members of the Democratic state executive committee will be called I for a special meeting in this city during the next week to fill all va cancies and outline the campaign which it is proposed to make on the part of the Democratic official or ganization. The influenza and the ILiberty Loan campaign which ad journed politics in this state came in very handily for the Democratic state organization which does not want to support Judge Eugene C. [Bonniwell, but wants to boom J. ■Washington Logue fqr second place >and to speed up the Democratic Con gressional campaign. The situation iwill permit of about fifteen days of intense activity late this month. As yet no Democratic aspirants ■for the 18th Congressional and 41st Senatorial district nominations have come over the horizon. Democratic National Chairman Vance C. 51c- Cormick, who lives in the 18th dis trict, is said to be much exercised j over the failure to get a candidate to succeed H. H. Mercer who quit last week. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says: "Senator Sproul is per sonally following every move in his campaign and is in constant touch with Senator William E. Crow and W. Harry Baker, chairman and sec retary, respectively, of the Repub lican State Committee, upon whose shoulders rest the responsibility of mobilizing and directing the great army o£ Republican committeemen covering every section of the state and with whom he is working in ab solute harmony. Chairman Crow has sounded a note of warning to the committeemen to insure . the polling of every Republican vote and has directed attention to the activ ity of certain liquor men who are back of Bonniwell and to their ef forts to divert Republican votes to their favorite. Although conceding his defeat, they are asking that Bon niwell be given complimentary votes "just to keep our boys together." —Herman Dilsheimer, Sr., a Phil adelphia publisher, was yesterday nominated for State Representative on the Republican ticket from the Ninth district of Philadelphia to suc ceed the late Henry Gransback, Sr., who was the "Father of the House of Representatives." The nomina tion followed a conference between City Solicitor John P. Connelly and Register of Wills James B. Sheehan, Republican leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth wards, respectively. William Nichols, of the Eleventh ward, and Mr. Sheehan represent ing the Twelfth \vard members of the Republican City Committee, named Mr. Dilsheimer, and this se lection was ratified by the Executive Committee of the Republican City Committee and attested by Chair man Henry C. Ransley and Secre taries E. W. Patton and James B. Sheehan. The nomination papers were sent here late last night by a special messenger. Mr. Dilsheimer has bedn a proofreader for the Leg islative Record and is well known here. • —There are now reports that the tax rate is to be raised in Philadel phia instead of being lowered and at Pittsburgh they say they do not know how an advance in taxes can be avoided. There are rumors to the same effect in Scranton. —City officials of Allentown came pretty close to getting into a pack of trouble over their own construc tion of the Clark act. When Com missioner Royer ordered saloons and amusement places cjosed the Allentown officials took the position that under the Clark act they have certain health powers and proceeded to allow the liquor and movie places to stay open. However, that ended Saturday night. —Reading City Councilmen are in a snarl over whether a SBOO,OOO loan ordinance for water improvements should be ipassed or not. —The Philadelphia Ledger has started a new fight against the pres ent ballot, which is enough to puz zle anyone. The Ledger says men interested in election affairs at Philadelphia got the official sample and remarks: "As Is usual, thqy express astonishment and something like dismay at the size of the sheet with which voters will be required to wrestle when they enter the poll ing booths to make their selection for Governor, congressmen, mem bers of the Legislature and judicial candidates for the Supreme and Su perior Court benches. As' the years pasp and' factional fights, fads and advanced theories give rise to new parties the ballot grows larger, so that fearful anticipations of what a voter may be required to face in the future are not at all strange. Ac cording to measurement of the sam ple sheet, the ballot to be used at the November election will be twenty-six inches long and nineteen inches wide." fiABKISBCHG TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES By BRIGGS FRieoiO \A<iF6 AND FRIEND at THE TAP OF TH SELL FiW ;, SURPRISED, FH. WITH p H< COUNTERED WITH straight HOS6ANO eiMTeR RING AT BOTH CAME £££!£,? oP A uUiCKED RIEHT TO JAW LEFT BUT BLOW WAS A a ß^e. F "FH M * J NDI Glancing cue APPEARS A BIT W0l AND BLOVAJ AMD JMILED MERUOUS 4 ~ _ ( CONFIDENTLY >ISJ VAIM SZ^D °J^ C BJT BuT - CACKi " ,Me uu K KS A co^T.O. y H JlLl Hl/ ft R. H. makes same effort to F W has ph. at mercy. Rains f; m , OATT6R6O OUT OP Ft . lKlK& To The REGAIN LOST GROUND BuT BLOW APTe P BLOW ON F" H'S HUMAN SHAPE IS A GLUTTON) r.H. o ~n-c-r> N.iT BLOWS ARE W6AM AMD HEAD AND BODY. REELING PUNISHMENT. CRIES FLOOR AND IS COUNTgO OUT. LACK THE PUNCH. AROUND THE RiN€> LIKE A 0 P * SToP THK FIGHT" AND , DRUNKEN MAN FH. IS A . ••Take 'IN* OUT" PITIFUL SIGHT "THE IRON DIVISION" [Philadelphia Evening Bulletin] J It is with feelings of pride that all Pennsylvamaris. learn that by com mon consent the Twenty-eighth, commonly known as the Keystone Division has been dubbed "The Iron Division," because of its stubborn fighting in the last few months. The sobriquet is not a new one. It is really carried over from the Civil War, when a Wisconsin unit became known as the Iron Brigade, because of its services. The Iron Division is composed al most exclusively of Pennsylvaniaus —it is assumed that vacancies nave been filled up by drafted men—and is composed of National Guard Mili tia units, some of which have a history running back to the Revolu tionary War, and practically all to the Civil War. Although most of the 40,000 men are new to the ser vice, tradition counts for much in military matters, and the units which fought in che War of the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, and that with Spain, have an advantage over those sud denly collected in this great emer gency. Some two thousand casualties of all kinds have already taken place among the men from Philadelphia alone, and ihe total is much larger, for the Western counties also have suffered heavily. To this division has been given some of the hardest tasks of the war, and in every case victory has resulted. This, to be sure, is true of all troops, but the casualty lists of the nation show how these Pennsylvania boys have led all the rest in hard fighting and in sacrifices. To-day they are once more leading the drive in France near Verdun, and no one doubts that they will achieve every objective. In this war there is certain to be enough glory to go around, but Pennsylvanians at this time are particularly justified in their pride over the achievements of the Iron Division. Prugh Is Disappointted In his report of the Democratic State Cofmittee Meeting, as printed in the official Prohibition Weekly, the chairman of the State Prohibi tion Committee, laments the failure of the Democratic bosses to square promise with performances thusly: "Your chairman never expected to hear in a Democrat convention sentiments that aligned themselves so closely alongside those the Pro hibition Party has been preaching for lo these many years, and was almost led to hope that the old party he had to forsake so many years ago because of its wetness might yet bring up its banner and place it alongside that of his own. So far as it went, the platform adopted is a fairly good one, but it seemed sofewhat strange that after such pronounced utterances against the liquor traffic the plat form contained not one word con cerning the burning question of the convention and of the hour, the destruction of the liquor traffic, nor even an endorsement of the pro hibition amendment." To Popularize Bank Shares To supply safe and attractive in vestment, and to create new bank capital, the editor of the London Economistsuggests that if the saving habit can l?e continued after the war this dual purpose might be served by having the banks increase their capital and offer the new shares to the public. This, he thinks, would furnish an investment free from many risks of industrial enterprises, and allow the banks to undertake business hitherto outside their province. LABOR NOTES Canadian Pacific commercial tele graphers at Montreal decided to de fer the proposed strike and to pre sent their case to the Federal Gov ernment. The United States Employment Service has issued a statement show ing that 1000 community labor boards throughout the country have 1 been organized or are in final proc cess of organization. Clerks in the Easton (Pa.) office of the Alpha Cement Company daily Journey, to Martin's Creek, nine miles away, after office hours 'to assist in harvesting crops on the company's farms. The Canadian Government's war policy, a scries of admonitory but not mandatory regulations, provides that there shall be no strikes or lockouts during the war and con cedes the right of workmen to form unions and of employers to form associations "Beware of the Greeks When They Bring Presents" To the Editor of the Telegraph: And now, with Germany's new chancellor, comes a new proposition for peace! Sojnething surely to be expected, and as surely to. be shunned. The greatest peril which now confronts the Allied world lies in some glittering temptation which the enemy shall put forth for a ne gotiated peace. There is absolute | danger even in any temporary par- j ley which Germany may propose. Her most plausible offers are not I things to be toyed with. That which | may seem outwardly most fair is j fltilled to the skin with an inward treachery. "Vice is a monster of such hid eous mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, [lt may be, we shall] First endure, then pity, then embrace." This new proposition, when ana lyzed, reveals the same tigerish j claws and teeth which have so ruth lessly torn and devoured the flesh of humanity. Having failed in the most inhuman and terrific methods of warfare, the voice of Germany now, as spoken by the new chancel lor, is for a council of the belliger ent nations to consult with her as to' possible terms of peace. Germany has no moral right even to ask for such a conference. Un der a malign leadership, she has de liberately trained herself for more than a whole generation for the: [ destruction of civilizatfon. She has I acted under a philosophy as devoid of morality as that of the jungle. She has re-enforced her fell pur | pose by a resort to every form of barbaric crifelty, by the defiance of all human decencies, by the most murderous iconoclasm of the com mon rights of man, by the grossest violation of all the treasured ameni ties of civilization. Germany delib erately, of set purpose and policy, has been guilty, and in most exag gerated forms, of every crime against humanity. In arms, Germany has shown her self a colossal brute. But not even in this has appeared her supreme perfidy and flendishness. With both satanic skHl and unscrupuloilsness she has transferred her entire ad ministrative life into a great training school for the practice of deception. Her systems of espionage are with out parallel among the nations. In a spirit of vulgar disregard of all international amenities she has sur veyed the entire world for the sys tematic placing of her spies, her'in cendiaries. her murderers, where they could strike most directly at the vitals of those nations which she has chosen to count as un friendly to her interests. In a mon strous and brazen perversion of all the recognized principles of interna tional comity, she, as heartless as a viper, has utilized her ambassa dorial palace in the capitals of the nations as the very headquarters of treasonable propaganda against the very nations to which her ministers have been accredited. Germany has won for herself the right to be treated only as an im penitent and monstrous outlaw againts civilization. She has for feited all just right even to sit In First Soldier in Politics (From the Springfield Republican) Those who expected the United States to be ruled by war veterans for the next forty years will see some vindication of their forecast in what has already happened in Hopkinton, N. H. At the primary election Private Wendell A. Clough of C Company, 103 d Regiment, was nominated as candidate for representative to the New Hampshire legislature by the Democrats of Hopkinton. He was severely wounded in the recent Battle of the Marne July 20, but is now recovering from the loss of one leg, just below the knee, in a hos pital in France. He is expected home soon. So far as our observation goes, Hopkinton, N. H., has stolen a march on the rest of the United States in being the first to put the old soldier into politics. A Land Laid Waste For a nation is come upon my land, strong and without number, whose teeth are the tqeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig *ree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. —Joel 1, 6 and 7. final councils for the settlement of the war. She has committed the unparalleled atrocity of murdering ten millions of men. And of the most virile young men of the lands she has hopelessly maimed many millions more. In all the territories which she has overrun she has sown herself an insatiate vampire of ruin. In a spirit of monstrous and heartless frightfulness. sh£ has ruth lessly destroyed the most cherished art of the world; has devastated the most fruitful lands, has laid in ashes homes of the innocent and the poor, has indulged in wholesale and beastly outrage of the most beauti ful womanhood of the lands, and out-neroing Nero ,lias played in the role of the champion assassin of humanity. The whole civilized world has suffered under the Thoiiike strokes of this self-installed, power fully organized and sworn enemy of mankind. For the very purposes of self-defense against this diabolical destroyer, the treasuries of civiliza tion have been drawn upon to the verge of bankruptcy, bequeathing perforce the drain of heavy taxation upon generations yet unborn. And yet Germany has the infinite gall, as though she were an aggriev ed party, to ask the nations to sit with her at a council table of peace! She has proved herself a pastmaster in the arts of national lying and de ceit. She has laid the very ana tomy of her unscrupulous depravity naked and shameless before the world. It is only the mushy pa cifist or the murky traitor who can now have the face to make any sympathetic plea for this arch-de ce.iver of the nations. The Allied world which has borne the heavy shock of her treachery must not be misled by any of her hypocritical overtures- Germany, the great crim inal against the nations, deserves to be whipped helplessly into the dust, she should be made to feel unremit tingly the hard strokes of punish ment until in her very hopelessness she cries out for mercy. To make any compromise with Germany now would be a crime against civiliza tion; to do this would entail an embargo of disgrace and misfor tune against the future of mankind. A supreme need of the world to day is a leadership which shall be wholly patriotic and absolutely non* partisan. Mr. Wilson, if his vision shall prove equal to his opportunity, stands very near in his own person to a sovereign arbitrament Of the world. No man in all political his tory has ever had so great opportun ity as is his for rendering a su preme service to civilization. But our President is a greatly burdened man. Like an Atlas He may well stagger under the very weight of the world. His recent utterances have been superb. Their uncompromis ing embodiment in administrative policies are, and will remain, a su perlative demand in all councils called for deciding a permanent peace for mankind. Mr. Wilson needs the patriotic and prayerful support I of all good citizens that his strength may prove equal to his duties; that his resolution may hold him always unflinching and enduring to the lofty plane of his own noblest speech. If he fails not, his name will worthily hold historic place among the greatest of Americans- GEORGE P. MAINS. Harrisburg, Pa. Common Sense in Germany [Kansas City Times] The Berlin Vossische Zeitung sums up the probable consequences of Bulgaria's surrender as follows: Turkey will follow suit. Rumania will rejoin the Allies. The Southern Slavs will be aided by the Allies against Aus tria. Austria's capitulation is likely, very reasonable forecast, we should Say. We had no idea we should find any German newspaper taking so sensible a view of the situation. The only omission is the final sentence: The overwhelming defeat of Germany is inevitable. FUTURE LANDMARKS A cannon for the public square Looks nifty, by the way, The Germans have a lot to spare; We're taking them each day. We have to use these guns awhile, Although we've many tons. They help us win another mile And capture other guns. But when the way to peace they pave And our brave boys embark, Then every little town can have A cannon for itfc park. —Louisville Courier-Journal. * OCTOBER 8, 1918. Senator Sprout Sets Pace [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] From New York comes the an nouncement that Governor Whitman, the Republican nominee, and Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic candidate, propose to halt their campaigns un til the great drive for the Liberty Loan has come to a successful con clusion. It was the proper and the politic thing to do, but it is a cause for satisfaction to know that this idea originated in Pennsylvania, aifti that Senator Sproul, the Republican nominee for Governor of the Key stone State, was the first man to set this patriotic example. There is no doubt that the plan to "adjourn" partisan and factional politics during the loan campaign will be adopted practically in every state in ihe Union. Patriotic poli ticians —and there are many such — will Instinctively want to follow the lead of Pennsylvania and New York in this respect. The war has had the effect of drawing out many cf the best qualities of our people. It has proved that most of them are at heart loyal, and that they place pa triotism above politics. The great issue in this country at the present time is to win this war, and every thing else must take a secondary place. This thought has taken root in the hearts of the people, and it has given us a singleness of purpose which spoils victory. We have dif fered upon many public questions in the past, and we are going to dif fer upon many of them in the fu ture, but so far as the vigorous pros ecution of the war is concerned we are united in a way that must en courage all true patriots and bring Room to the ranks of the enemy. OUR DAILY LAUGH \ ALAS, POOR Miss Giraffe —Oh dear, why didn't I think to bring a step jw IK 1 ladder vrhen I came here to stand under the 11 mistletoe! 11/ljl f] ECONOMIES. De Grouch— Why don't you /fAI wear some of I y° ur ' a st year's kW /miyi k, Daughter Kafifr fjK Hjft Why, father. MkWh rßc Didn't I have my I'wiiff last winter's furs ma -de over and I t Td\ wear them all I BL. I'l Jy) U last summer. THE NEW CRY. Things are differ ent than they What's the mat tells me that her fjtky WfP husband com- jmS&SL plains that she doesn't serve the same canned hi goods his mother -(r P \J I used to take. BAnd then things are not quite QUICK ACTION. You've heard the saying, touch And it has wis- -rl • dom, don't you know. So when an easy xtlhrk you've —— And made yeur I|M touch, don't >• hang around. fainting Qtyat Purchase of the 4,700-acre tract of land In the western end of Hunt ingdon county known as the Para dise furnace property for incorpor ation in the Pennsylvania State Forestry Reserves will make the seventh of the old-time Iron manu facturing estates to pass into the control of the Commonwealth, hour of these old-time furnaces with the hundreds of acres otM forest land from which they drew their supplies of char coal for making iron from local ores are now. part of the State Re serves in Huntingdon county, two are in Franklin county and one in Cumberland. Some of them were of wide fame and most of them were among the furnaces which helped make this the premier iron manufacturing commonwealth a cen tury ago. One antedates the Revo lution. Most of them are large properties and the titles date from the proprietors or from the early Commonwealth and all have his tories of interest in the industrial system of Pennsylvania. The tracts include farms, quarries, mines, sand banks in some cases, houses, water power, ice ponds and in a few in stances the okl furnace mansions, seats of hospitality that were fa mous. Paradise furnace, the latest to ho bought lies In the western part of Huntingdon where 100 years ago there was a marked iron develop ment which survives in the Saxton, Riddlesburg and other furnaces. Reuben Trexler, a Berks countian. built Paradise furnace in 1821 and it ran for many years. Greenwood furnace, another Huntingdon fur nace properly Incorporated in the state domain, dates from 1833 and until recent years was operated. It is at McAlvey's Fort, which was noted in early days. The Monroe furnace property, another state owned tract, is in Barree township and thi3 furnace was built by Gen eral James Irwin In 1845 and had many ups and downs. It was noted for its stove plates, cast on what was known as the "Philadelpihia plan . The Barree forge tract dates from around 1794 and was closely associated with early iron enter prises in Huntingdon county. There are parts of the old furnace estab lishments standing on some of these properties, enough to give an idea of what they were like. The earliest one of these Iron en terprises now owned by the state is Pine Grove, where cannon balls were cast for the Continental army. This furnace is on a noted tract in Cumberland county and the furnace was operated for over a century. It is supposed to have been started about 1768 or 1769. In any event, stove plates bearing the date of I<7o and the name have been found. Michael Ege, the Carnegie of the Cumberland \alley in Revolutionary days, owned this plant together with other Cumberland furnaces. In 1877 the furnace was remodeled and a few years ago the state bought the property, one of the most valu able and having varied resources. Mont Alto furnace tract is now the center of the State Forest Academy. The old furnace was built in 1807 by the Hughes brothers, who figured In southern Pennsylvania iron man ufacture considerably a century ago. At one time there were rolling mills. - nail factories, forges and foundries# at Mont Alto. Probably some of the otljer holdings of the state in Franklin and Adams counties in cluded tracts used for furnishing charcoal to the score or nu)re of Iron making enterprises in that re gion, which still boasts hematite mines and has abundant water power. • • Some one of these days there will be a demand for water power and the wisdom of the early ironmas ters who constructed their furnaces on the banks of stream where they could get good "fall" will be ap parent. There are many places on streams in state reserves which have ample power and some day the sites of these old furnaces and forges may resound with the whir of wheels. Robert S. Conklin, the state forestry commissioner, has been keeping a very close eye on these forest tracts and not only these old furnace properties but many others which will be a great asset for the Commonwealth in years to come are now vested in the state. There are other properties which will eventually come under public ownership and which will be developed not only for the timber they contain, but the water conserv ed against that day when people tell us the coal will be worked out. Since Mr: Conklin has become com missioner hundreds of thousands of woodland which was thought worth less, but which because of water power and timber growth is valued high has been added to what the people own and not only has the state forest reserve gone close to the 1,100,000-acre mark, but the woods are no longer guarded as though they were forbidden for ests. but under proper regulation have been thrown open to grazing, hunting, fishing and camping. Some of the finest camp cities in the state are on Commonwealth land and are let at a nominal figure, the only requirement is that property shall not be destroyed and that there he protection from fire. The latter precaution is insisted upon and per sons'found guilty of carelessness do not get privileges and generally wind up before a magistrate. • * * Caledonia furnace, the seventh of thfe furnace tracts owned by the state is better known because Thad Stevens owned it than for its part in Pennsylvania iron making. Ste vens and James D. Paxton started it in 1837 and it was part of the Great Commoner's liabilities at one time and assets at another. The Confederate army burned it in 186 3 during the invasion of Southern Pennsylvania. Some of old stack is still standing and is to be seen along the Lincoln highway. It' was one of the first furnace prop erties to come under state control. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "" —Governor E. P. Passmore, of thW Federal Reserve bank at Philadel phia, is being congratulated upon the thought of having prayer for the success of American arms and Liberty loans at homes on Sunday. —The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Sbel ton, prominent Pittsburgh clergy man, has accepted a call to German town. d —Charles J. Rhoades. former Philadelphia banker, is in charge of exchange of prisoners at Berne. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Hnrrisburg stool is being used In ships being built in Allied countries? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Iron manufacture began In tjls place as early aa 1812.
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