10 HARRiSBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.ViRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building. Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circidation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBT, 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 nAvs published herein. >ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American l Newspaper Pub —lishers' Associa- r —, tion, the Audit iiisTui Bureau of Circu wttfwHlSSEiaA lation and Penn- sylvanta Associ iSaSSss u ated Dailies. I S3 MM Eastern off i ce. ' Wflg Hi 93 Finley, r °F if th Avenue Building ■SISWBS sff New York City; Vfly Western office. Story, Brooks & 13 "if Finley. People's f 'Ayr-*-—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. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1918 And if thy brother sin against '.hee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. —Hat- thew 18:15. • INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC THE Philadelphia Inquirer, com-' menting upon the folly of per mitting ourselves to be unduly excited over the influenza epidemic, jffers this very excellent bit of ad rice : Panic is the worst tiling that can happen to an individual or a community. Panic is exaggerated fear, and fear is the most deadly word in any language. The fear of influenza is creating a panic. i an unreasonable panic that will j be promoted, we suspect, by the i drastic commands of the authori- I ties. Let a person become excited I over the daily reports of new | cases: let him brood over them; j let him shake his head in dismay i and with every little ache or pain | that mav be harmless in itself i give himself over to dismal imag inings. and he is providing a fer .tile field for attack. His mind , fears it. becomes receptive to it. I invites it. i Take precautions, but don't be .'oolish. Don't Imagine yourself sick when you are not; on the other ; hand, don't try to fool yourself Into I believing you are well If you are 111. i Don't dose yourself with medicine, but don't neglect a dodtor when a doctor Is needed. Be moderate In all things. Cool heads and calm nerves are as essential as throat gargles and antiseptics. "Bert" Blough. and may his tribe increase, was the Abou Ben Adhem of the Liberty Loan forces yesterday. He topped them all In the number of subscribers and the total amount. HUNS' FATAL BLUNDER WHERE there is much smoke there must be some fire." Is an old saying that may be applied to the latest report that von Hin denburg has resigned as chief of the German staff after a heated In terview with the Kaiser. Whether or not the old field marshal actually has turned over his duties to Lu dendorf, the repeated reports of dis cord at the Hun war headquarters are unquestionably founded upon fact. Either Hindenburg or Ludendorf is responsible for the German drive for Paris this year, and indications are that Ludendorf must shoulder the load. At any rate, he had charge of the operations, and all through the grim days when German armies were sweeping over northern France, threatening Paris and the Channel ports, the name of Luden dorf loomed large in the dispatches from Berlin. It was not until the tide of battle had turned that Ber lin took pains to deny the rumor of Hindenburg"s death and to an nounce that he was actively engaged in an endeavor to extricate the Ger man armies from the dire distress into which Ludendorf's leadership had plunged them. Military experts' for several weeks have been asserting that the Ger man armies can be saved only by a retreat from France and Belgium, but despite this concensus of opin- ion, through the Influence of these who t<ll hope ta save something • from the rout, they have been kept fighting hopelessly to stay the steady advance of the numerically superior Allies, It is entirely in accord with developments that Hin der.burg, himself a soldier rather than a diplomat, should have urged a great retreat, such as he engi neered on two previous occasions with resulting victories for German r.rms, and should have insisted upon having his way in the face of the Kaiser's desire for a continued stand, *st least until the result of his latest peace offensive should become known. Ludendorf, for obvious reasons, hoping to save his face and to wrest something of victory from de feat, might be expected to take sides with the Emperor, and it would not be surprising to again soe WEDNESDAY "EVENING, |the name of Ludendorf loom large In German cables. But, individual responsibility for the spring drive aside, it is now ap parent that instead of bringing Ger jman victory immeasurably nearer, ■as appeared in the dark days of the {Easter season, the German offensive of 1918 was the supreme error of jthe war from the Hun standpoint. 'lt was the fatal blunder w.ilch upset all the plans of the pan-Germans for world dominion. If the Go-man armies had remained on the Hin denburg line last spring, it is scarcely likely that more than a | half-million Americans would be 'now in France. In that event, too, jthe initiative would have been with ;the Allies, but they would have been I exposed to the same danger which ] has proved the downfall of the en emy—an advance at terrible loss j which could not be sustained j against numerically superior forces. If the spring offensive had not been [essayed, German divisions could j have been sent to aid the Austrians in the drive upon the Italians, with possibly very different results. There would have been ample men in Bul garia to uphold the hands of the wavering Bulgars, and the Macedo nian collapse would have been post poned, at least. From the moment the American troops stopped the German advance 'at Chateau-Thierry and hurled back the surprised Prussian Guard in dis orderly retreat, the spring drive of the Huns has been the best card of jthe war for the Allies. When Lu i dendorf played his trump ace he neglected to consider the jcker he ! had dealt his foe in the shape of iFoch and the Allied unity of com [mand. | Dissension is a child of failure, and ever since the days of Adam, man has displayed a tendency to "get from under," so that it is little wonder we now find dissension within the headquarters of the Ger man staff and it may easily be true that Hindenburg has washed his hands of the whole problem of hold ing the German armies in their pres ent perilous position and has retired to that obscurity whence he" came when the Russian Road Roller ap peared in East Prussia. The press and the people of the United States have beaten President Wilson to It. With one voice <hey have declared that they will have no peace made in Germany and that any talk of negotiations is futile. RARE DIPLOMACY A FTER the first flush of dis appointment over the discovery that President Wilson did not yield to the temptation to turn down flatly and without parley the latest German peace proposals, the care ful reader will conclude that the President has given voice to as rare and effective a bit of diplomacy as the history of the nation presents. Yankee like, the President evades a direct reply to the German note by asking in turn several questions of a highly embarrassing character. "Do you accept my fourteen points or were you only camouflaging?" he asks, in effect. And Prince Max will have to answer shamefacedly that Germany does not accept those terms. "Do you represent the war lords or the people?" the President queries, and again the Imperial chancellor will have to confess that he is merely the agent of the Hohenzollern mili tary clique. "Are you ready to evacuate Bel glum and France and show the world that you are really sincere in your peace move or are you only trying to fool us ail Into letting you get away with your loot?" continues the President, and Prince Max must admit that Germany has no inten tion of getting out of invaded terri tory until forced out. The President's language is mild to a marked degree, but every sen tence contains a barb that will bring wails of pain from the German gang at whom they are directed, Ger many's answers must convince even the German people of their govern ment's insincerity, wickedness and duplicity, The President has placed Germany in a position where she must confess her crimes with her qwn lips. He has set a trap for the German chancellor into which he needs must walk. As your hat is knocked off by the overhanging branches of the trees on practically every sidewalk in Harrisburg, don't swear at the owner of the tree, let your anathemas rest upon the indifferent City Council which still believes that the care and planting of the trees of Harris burg Is a matter which need not concern the municipal authorities. fdOtci. U By the Ex-Committeeman State Capitol officials to-day took the view that the regulations an nounced from Washington for tak ing of the votes of soldiers in the home camps meant that no commis sioners would go abroad from any of the states. Governor Brumbaugh has not yet named any commission ers, but it has been the intention to select some men to go to France and England, if practicable. The War [ Department regulations will proba bly cause the commissioners to be !\f. med only to camps and stations in this country, and as soon as received they will be printed for instruction j of the men chosen to handle the sol dier vote. The regulations were announced by Acting Secretary Crowell. The general staff has arranged to permit election officials to go into the vari ous camps and establish headquar ters for registering the men and tak i ing their ballots, and state represent atives of political organisations have been asked to designate representa tives for the purpose. Literature de signed to instruct the voter in the manner of casting his ballot may be distributed from the camp election booths, but distribution of literature designed to influence him in regard to his choice is forbidden. —Philadelphia judicial authori ties have now ruled that the mem bers of the Board of Recreation and other bodies in that city need not contribute to campaign funds asked by the city committees in that mu [ nicipality unless they want to. —The Philadelphia Press to-daf says: "If the belligerent Democrats of Pennsylvania will just watch what is going on in international war they may learn one or more ways to get the suspension of hostilities which they need almost as much as the Kaiser does." —-Complete returns of the regis tration of voters in Pittsburgh showed that the total registration in Pittsburgh for this fall's election is 53.881. This is a loss of 31,471. or about 37 per cent, of the total as compared with the total for 1917, which was 85.352. The great fall ing off in the number of voters regis tered is believed to be due mainly to the taking of men from Pittsburgh for the Army and Navy. There is undoubtedly, however, a lack of in terest in politics due to the war. —Reading city politicians who noted a big drop in registration are inclined to reorganize the nonparti san movement to prevent re-election of James H. Maurer, the Socialist legislator. G. S. Smith, the new McKean county Republican chairman, plans a lively drive when the Liberty Loan work is over. ~~ Th * Pittsburgh Gazette-Times sajs. The light registration was unfortunate, but its effects can be partly nullified if every voter who did register does his duty by William ' J*P rou l on election day. A Re publican who fails fo cast his ballot is giving Bonniwell a vote —Considerable doubt is being ex pressed about the State Capitol whether the protest of the Lancaster Law and Order Society against al leged gambling at the Lancaster Pair Ven L, far ' Under Act of 191, providing for aid for county rairs, there was much discussion of how far the state should regulate the matter. It is believed that the low does not have a full set of teeth and that it may be difficult to stop the payment of the state subsidv. This is the first complaint to be made Capitol against the manner in which a fair was conducted, and it will be considered at the Auditor General's Department. For years there has been more or less tempt ing of fortune at fairs throughout the state and half a dozen years ago it cost some Central Pennsylvania fairs their money. —State Grange officials have not made much headway in the cam paign they started some months ago against the $50,000,000 road bond issue and one of the reasons as signed is that the people are rather desirous of good roads and do not regard $50,000,000 with as much awe as they did before the days of Lib erty Loans. There is more or less general inclination to get the good roads, even if they do cost a lot of money, and the remarks made by men from various sections visiting here are to the effect that there is not the antagonism to the big loan amendment In the rural districts that there was a half-decade ago. The ballot is so big that many people may not look at the amendment. —The Philadelphia Bulletin Joins the Public Ledger in criticising the ballot. "After all that has been said and written, and demanded and promised, in the course of many years, on the subject of providing the people of Pennsylvania with a ballot which they may mark intelli gently and vote conveniently, the customary annoying and perplexing sheet is to be prepared for the elec tion," says the influential Philadel phia daily. "It will be so big that the voter will have difficulty in han dling it in the polling booth, and it will be so full of names of candidates and the text of proposed' constitu tional amendments that it will prob ably bother him more than ordinarily if he sha'l mark it in full. Is not the organized intelligence of the Repub lican party in this state equal to the Job of devising a ballot which shall be small in size, simple in form and easy of comprehension? The next governor and Legislature at Harris burg ought to take special pains at the winter session of that body to get rid of this cumbersome and stupid nuisance." A Prayer O' God, I pray of Thee, Let these things come to be To punish Germany. Through all the coming years Let her heart break—with fears And shedding endless tears. Let all her hopes be vain. Let her bear the curse of Cain For the millions she has slain. Let her bear the awful blame And let her hated name Be whispered low,—with shame. Let her hear the steady beat Of Five Million Allied feet On Berlin's doomed street. And until our sword Is pressed TTpon her naked breast O" God. don't let us rest. God Is not mocked. Whatsoever a Notion soweth. that shall it also reap. Germany as a Nation must be destroyed. W. E. COCHRAN, Cleveland, Ohio HARRISKCrtG TELEGKXPBC SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By Briggs mmm m DR. HILL OS THE LOAN Writing to the New York Times, the former United States Ambassa dor to Berlin, Dr. David Jayne Hill, says: "The artful efforts of the Central Powers to obtain a respite under cover of a negotiated peace should deceive no one and should not in any way affect our activities in pros ecuting the war, which is not yet won. "The first step toward an appeal for a discussion of peace terms on the part of the Central Powers should be the complete evacuation of invaded territory. The alterna tive is to drive the invaders out. "To speak of the President's pro posals as "bases" of negotiation is illusory unless they are previously accepted as "terms" of peace. "I am moved to say this at this moment because many well-mean ing people may be deluded into be lieving that the war is practically ended, and that the money demand ed to execute the plans of our Gov ernment will not be needed. S u p" a state of mind on the part of the American people would immediately lessen the effect of our victories in the field and greatly prolong the war I am for this reason tele graphing to my bankers to double my subscription to the Fourth Lib erty Loan." Commenting on this suggestion the Times observes: * "Dr. Hill points the way for patriots and men of sense. What, relax our efforts now, draw in our purse-strings when the Government offers us a loan, and all in the be lief that victory is won or about to be won? There actually seem to be persons who believe that the Ger man Army is on the run, and to have a hazy half belief that the battles are being fought, or are about to be fought'on German soil. That army is still 70 miles from Paris and 350 miles from Berlin. !it is yielding ground steadily, but is yielding it inch h fact that Germany believes herself 1 to be only checkmated, not defeat ed. is shown by the impudence of the peace offensive she is conduct ing She acknowledges herself stop ped. that is all: and she has got to be forced into a far different frame of mind, forced into it by har( i—expensive —fighting, before we can talk of letting up in our ef f°Dr. Hill considers the p re ®* nt J° be the time for him to double his subscription, not to halve " °J| let it remain stationary. We con sider it to be the time for e\ ery patriot to follow the ex-Ambassa dor's example. Thanks to the uni fied command under Foch. have accomplished in the Aeld what no allied armv was ever able to ac complish in the preceding four years; we have got Germany on the defensive and have forced her to admit that she cannot get to Paris or the Channel. But there is plenty of fighting still ahead of us. Our boys can t do it unless we furnish th Drni^ n be satisfied with using your cash funds to the limit: use your credit too. The banks will enable responsible persons to subscribe on a 10 per cent, margin. Can there be a better evidence of the stability of the investment?" LABOR SOTES Members of the Baltimore Typo graphical Union employed in com mercial shops have secured a volun tary wage increase or a week, following conferences with the em ployers and representatives of the union. The National Safety Council, in prosecuting its safety campaign, is urging upon workers that goggles or other forms of glasses be worn where the eves are exposed to dan ger from flying splinters or par ticles of metal. Owing to the Intent of the Brit ish to establish diamond mills at home to cut African rough stones, upon which the Amsterdam indus try Is predicated, interested Hol landers are looking toward the dia mond fields of Dutch Borneo for a supply. The National Industrial Confer ence Board has been Investigating the question of women in metal trades and finds that employers, as a rule, favor this plan from the standpoint of economy and do not consider the question in its broader significance. This Is The Mothers Loan HE is a member of the British Commission to this country, and he was commenting on the achievements- of America in France. "When the full story is told, it will be one of the most inspiring records of history," he said. "No one who has not been there can imagine it. The port where your troops land has been transformed as if by a miracle. Great piers stretch out into the harbor; lines of railroad, laid with American rails by American engineers and traveled by American locomtives, stretch away toward the battle lines. Huge storehouses cover theadjoining acres for miles. I tell you, it is marvelous what you have accomplished!" And then he added, in after thought: "You are pouring out money as if it didn't cost anything." Pouring out money as if it didn't cost anything—that is our record in the war thus far. Our first year cost us billions more than the first year of any other nation. And now we are asked to raise in three weeks the largest loan ever subscribed by the people of any nation. We are running this war in the most extravagant fashion; and there is not a man, woman or child in America who wnts it conducted in any other way. Why? Because we value spfeed more than money; and speed is always extravagant. Speed means more guns brought more quickly into play, and more ammunition to feed them. Speed means ships built at high cost be cause of overtime wages; it means airplane plans discarded as fast as new improvements come along. It means all this—and we bear the cost of it gladly, without regret. For YANK TO GERMAN MAJOR Here is one of Floyd Gibbons' best narrations of the fighting on the western front: "Well, listen to this true story of a German major who was taken ! prisoner by the Americans. We asked him for his impressions of I Americans as fighters. He was de cidedly sore. Evidently something was on his mind. He said that he knew nothing whatever about the lighting qualities of the Americans. He added, however, in perfect Eng lish, that he had found them "ex tremely persuasive.' "Then he described exactly how he was captured. He said that dur ing a terrific barrage delivered by the Allies he was in an underground compartment with foi;ty-two wound ed German soldiers. When the bar rage ceased the Americans came over. The German major's first look at an American soldier came when one of our boys, a private, appeared at the opening to the underground compartment. The very thought of that fresh private with his undigni fied informal manner seemed to have gotten the very goat of the major. For, according to him, the private appeared with a hand gren ade in each hand and his tin hat pushed back on his head. Armed and rigged in that manner he looked down the stairs into the face of the German major and yelled at him: " 'Come out of there, you Dutch blankety blank —or I'll spill a whole basketful of these things on top of your bean.' "No, sir, there was not the sign of a smile on the major's face as he told it. Not a tract of humor was in him. Just plain disgust. The very idea of taking a prisoner that way—and a high and mighty major at that!" Scripture For the Kaiser [From the Kansas City Star] The kaiser, in his speech to the Krupp workers, showed himself something of a student of the Scrip tures, Has he. happened lately to turn lately to Ezekiel vil, 25 and 27? He might learn something to his ad vantage by doing so: "Destruction cometh: and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. "The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with deso lation and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their wav, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the Lord." Speed means a quicker, surer Vic tory, and our boys earlier home again. "1 beat the Austtrians because they did not know the value of five minutes," said Napoleon. His rule for victory was to be on the ground first with the most guns. "I owe all my success in life to having been a quarter of an hour before my time," Lord Nelson once remarked. His victories, too, were victories of speed. The cry of every American woman to her government to-day should be "Spend money faster!" Every ounce of her thought and energy, during the three weeks dedicated to the fourth Libery Loan should be em ployed in arousing tin her own household and the households of her neighbors an eagerness to lend every possible penny, and to lend It quickly. Thus the fourth Liberty Loan may become a message of far-flung en couragement to our boys across the seas: a message of unpleasant augury to their foes. For every bulletin of the mounting millions will cry out in tones unmistakable: "We are raising a greater fund than men and women have ever raised. We are raising it in three weeks, when smaller loans have taken four. Money is nothing to us —we sacrifice it gladly for the sake of speed. For the sake of a quicker victory, and the return of our boys to their homes." In the spirit of that message let us face the greatest loan in history: a loan too large to be subscribed by banks and business houses—so large that it must come out of the little economies of women. A Mother's Loan—a cry from the heart of American womanhood for Speed.— Woman's Home Companion. HEROES OF THE WAR (From Captain Gilbert Nobb's story entitled, "On the Right of the British Line," recopied by William Fenstemacher, scribe, Boy Scouts Troop, No. 13.) Speaking of those left behind, I am referring to mothers, wives and sweethearts. Our fighting men are cheered in the streets, every news paper and magazine sings their praise; every shop window reflects their needs; in theater, pulpit and workshop their praises are sung. But are they the real heroes of the war? Ask the fighting man himself. Speak to him of his wife or mother, and the expression on his face will answer your question. There is no one to sing her praise, no one to paint the picture of her deeds; no one to tell of that lonely feeling when her hero departs and the door is closed behind him. The fighting man looks upon his share of the war w,ith a light heart. I Events come too rapidly upon him to feel depressed. He does not feel the knawing hunger of the lonely wait; the emptiness of the world when the parting is over the empty chair at the table, and the rooms made cheerless by his absence. There is po one to describe the terrors of the morning casualty list; the hourly expectation and frozen fear of the telegraph boys "rat tat" bringing some dreadful news. There are no crowds to cheer her; no flags or trumpets to rouse her en thusiasm and occupy her thoughts. No constant activity, thrilling excite ment, desperate encounters. Here is a silent patriotism. She is a true hero of the war. And hundreds of thousands of homes throughout the nation, her silent deeds, her wonderful fortitude, are making the womanhood of America. A history which medals will not re ward, nor scars display. No Peace With Hohenzollern [From the New Tork Times] If Germany wants peace, let her do away with her irresponsible, braggart Kaiser and speak by a Government of her own people to the Governments of the allied peo ples. It is not from Prince Maxim ilian, answerable only to imperial authority, but from a Minister re sponsible to the German people that Germany's plea for peace must come. He does not even describe himself, in his Reichstag speech, as such a Minister. Compliance with the terms the Allies are agreed In insisting upon as indispensable to a lasting peace, demands of Germany an enforced or voluntary change of heart and purpose. OCTOBER 9, 1913. DEFEAT I Here lie I, Who should be Master of the World. The sides of the coffin hem me in; j The lid presses on my face. I The plans of thirty years are ended beneath a velvet pall. I I planned a war to make all other peoples of the earth I The slaves of Germany. II almost won, I thought, ' I captured ships and guns and cities, but not their spirit— A spirit that neither frightfulness nor ruthlessness could break, Nor sudden death, I Nor mutilation. Nor violated homes, I Nor slavery. I willed to conquer by the power of the material; I was conquered by the power of the spirit; The only slaves I made were Ger man slaves. England lives; France lives; Even Belgium lives, Whose blood spattered the tram pling feet of my on-marching armies. I lie here, k \ Still, cold- 4 Not for to-day, nor for to-morrow, But for all eternity, j —LOUISE SPILMAN. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ED 1 STICKLER FOR PA. Well, my son? How can a solid fact leak yfl | PSHE DID. Did Miss Swift get a run about for Christmas? married Reggy De Fast on that Jf ~ Edith (sighing) —Oh, dear! Tom hasn't proposed \ / Marie Well, what can you ex pect of a chap who never runs his auto over ten miles an hour. "jSSjWJyA . /T^ RSI SURPRISE 1 j ||L. A FOR CHOLLT. I R'aV } Cholly And } was my present / a surprise for yonr sister? ©I Willie Tou K/X C*' / bet! Sis said she /Xfa never Imagined |B fir -Y you'd give her ■j anything so AN INVALU ABLE GIFT. What did your father say he £44 would give you / V*"\ for a weddlqg / \ present? \ \ He said he =r Th~ ' would give the // W only thing he /111 VA could give K truthfully his sympathy. ( laipmng QHjat "Harrisburg does not often get excited and It is not showing any signs of panic over influenza. It has a pretty high percentage of cases and the business-like manner In which its people have taken hold of the situation and the lack of hysteria is commendable," remarked Dr. B. F. Royer, the acting commissioner of health and boss of the fight against the epidemic. The doctor has lived here long enough to know the city and its people and the fact that the State Capital it attending to its sick and caring for business and the important war industries here is being noticed. Some of thfi cities of the state became disturb ed over the disease and others were much distressed because they had to close picture palaces and beer saloons. Harrisburg has a pretty numerous collection of "thirst par lors" and "movies" and it accepted the situation with resignation. Even when the soda fountains, which vie with the film places in popularity were hit and ice cream became as banned as beer is on Sunday wo were philosophic. Even the stir at the Capitol, the activity of the doc tors, the jammed drugstores and the arrangements for tent hospitals have not affected one nerve of the city, say the observers who are in clined to join with the state offi cials in praise of the coolness of the city's people. • • • The war may be wide and Amer icans may be serving their country in many lands and under many suns, but the world is not so large after all as is shown by the meeting of sons of three of the members of the Telegraph Family. The Tele graph has two score of its Family at the colors and sons of other mem bers are in arms. It happened the other day at Givres, where the Americans have astonished the Al lies by building the largest supply depot in the world, cutting the tim ber and doing all the construction, there met three of the Sons. Frank H- McCormick, head of the press de partment, happened to mention that his son was at Givres to JLinwood B. Wanbaugh of the linotype battery. . Now it happens that in the same town there were not only one Mc- Cormick but two Wanbaughs and none else than Francis Dwyer, son of M. F. Dwyer, one of the oldest members of the Family. Thejf are in various units and all very much determined to see the thing through to the finish. * * * ' Influenza is turning many men to the streams. These are men who can generally find an excuse to go fishing anyway, but the influenza or der forbidding congregating and stopping business of various kinds is a fine reason for seeking the fresh air of the rivers and the creeks. Con sequently there have been some bass hooked and some Susquehanna sal mon given excitement who would otherwise have swam in the waters of the river undisturbed. • * By the same token there are a number of Harrisburg families which are doing without wash wo men this week. The presiding genius of the tub is susceptible to respira tory disease as a general rule and the number who have concluded to forego an advance wage, plus car fare, to avoid danger of "ketching" j the epidemic is uncomfortably large. And the laundries are doing a pretty stiff amount of business in conse quence in Harrisburg. * * * Ella J. Skeahan, marshal of the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, N. Y., is the first woman to receive requisi tion at the State Capitol. The mar shal is also the first woman with po lice powers to transact official busi ness at the Department of the Sec retary of the Commonwealth. She came here with papers for Helen Solotar, who was arrested at Phil adelphia and got the great seal and ribbons on the documents in s.iort order. • • * More rabbits and squirrels have been reported as capering around the fields in the central and eastern sections of the state than for five years by wardens of the State Game Commission. In some places the rabbits have been making them selves almost as much of a nuisance as the squirrels. Several years ago the state distributed rabbits in coun ties where they were shy. Their descendants are numerous. • * * A good many young men seem to be willing to go into the Army's mechanical training courses judg ing from the applications being msde for admission to the draft calls for the University of Pittsburgh, Stale College and Carnegij Institute, which close next Tuevlay. Under the call these classes can be filled by voluntary induction of white reg istrants with grammar school edu cations and more than needed seem probable to apply bs'-me the vol untary period ends on Saturday. * • * "The people .of Pennsylvania have a good bit of money in the banks according to the statements made by those under state supervision and they ought to be able to fi nance their shares of the loan in style" remarked Daniel F. Lafean, commissioner of banking to-day. • Dr. J. T. Rothrock, the "father of the State Forestry Reserves", has personally visited many of these tracts with Mr. Conklin and gives the advice of his years of tours in the woods. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —John R. Drexel, the Philadel phia banker, is home after a trip to Canadian provinces. —Dr. B. F. Royer, who is very much of a storm center just now, is a Franklin countian and used to be in charge of the Philadelphia muni cipal hospital. —Colonel Wardlow Milne, of the British army, will deliver the lec tures on the Mesopotamian cam paign at the University of Pennsyl vania. —H. C. McEldowney, the Pitts-- burgh banker, is in charge of loan work in that city and is giving the whole three weeks to it. —Eli Hemple, a Williamsporter, has celebrated fifty years with the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin. -—George W. Gelser, district at torney of Northampton, says that the Pennsylvania Jury system needs a questionnaire to determine quali fications of men called. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has almost half of its factory capacity on articles for Uncle Sam? HISTORIC nARRISBURG In the War of 1812 Harrisburg tanneries made much of the leather for equipping American troops.-
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