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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
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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
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Edith (sighing)
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for a weddlqg / \
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"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.-