6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JBSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE PRINTING CO. Telegraph Buildlag, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Businete Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. 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 nAvs published herein. * All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American | a 8 * V n k"'°& Chicago, nil" (^ner ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a > week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1918 Trials are God's vote of confidence in us.— Db. F. B. Meyer. COMPLETE SURRENDER! UNCONDITIONAL, SURRENDER is the answer of the people of America to the latest German peace note. "Fight It out now," is the essence of American thought, and to that end the people of this country—and of all allied countries —are willing to continue their sacrifices of blood and treasure. There must be no negotiations, no haggling, no opportunity for Hun trickery. If Germany wants an armistice, the way to get it is to lay down her arms, admit complete defeat and throw herself on the mercy of the Allies. It is a preposterous thought that President Wilson should enter into discussion with a government that cannot speak the truth. It is un thinkable that he should debate terms of peace with a power that even at the moment ,1s laying waste with lire and sword the country through which its armies are re treating. We cannot make peace with this beast until we have broken its neck. The President's inquiries as to the meaning o£ Prince Max's note were all very well, as intended to show up the "new" German government before the world as a double-dealer and an imposter, and to divide Ger man opinion at home, but it is be yond thought that, having succeeded in his purposes, the President him self should fall a victim to the trick ery Hte has exposed. America will never consent to a peace that does not include restora tion and reparation for German dev iltry in invaded countries and on the high seas, heavy indemnities, guar antees and an international court martial for the investigation and punishment of every German of high or low degree, from the Raiser down, responsible for the war and the inhuman and barbarous crimes of which they have been guilty. We must not —and will not—compro mise for an instant one lota of the principles which we have supported with the men and resources of the country. We must not disappoint our allies and those small nations .looking to the United States for leadership in their aspirations for complete self-government and Jus tice, Militarism is in its death throes, and the armies under General Foch are administering the flnal blows. A little while and the blood and the anguish will be over forever —if we do not yield to the hypocritical wail for mercy that hi\s gone up from Berlin, This is no time tor foolish sentiment. The fighters are decid ing the issue, They have made the sacrifices and they demand complete victory. The President's reply to the latest peace move could be, and should be, summed up in two words: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. "France has 458 eonvlcts for every 100,000 of hsr population," obsedves a paragraph. That's nothing: Germany has 100,000, THE GERMAN COLONIES GIVE Germany back her African colonies? Why? What has Ger many done byway of coloniza tion to warrant the trust? What did she do to the only tribe that, goad ed to desperation by her outrageous treatment, rose in rebellion? The order of the German commander tells the story. It was; "Kill themi kili every one of them; take no prisoners." And eo the tribe was exterminated. We have fought to make Belgium, and France, and Serbia, and Italy and many smaller nations of Europe free from the frightfulnesg of Ger-> man rule, Shall we, then, turn over to this band of murderers and plun derers some millions of helpless black people in the heart of Africa? MONDAY EVENING, Where would be the justice of that? How could wo answer for It to Qod? No, & thousand times no! These Germans must be kept at home. Their hands are red with the blood of thousands of helpless human be ings. They have shown themselves unfit for trust. The colonies that have been taken from them must be kept from them. We are fight ing this war to break German rule the world around, not to perpetuate or extend It In any quarter. Knowing when not to quit is al most as important as knowing when to quit fighting. DR. HYMAN WIENER THE death of Dr. Hyman Wiener removes from the medical pro fession of Harrisburg a young man of remarkable attainments and high Ideals. He literally sacrificed himself to his profession. Although he early realized the dangers of the Influenza epidemic, he continued serving his patients until pneumonia developed and in his run.down con dition he fell victim to the disease he had helped so many others to survive. Dr. Wiener ranked high among the physicians of the city, occupying a place in their counsels far beyond that ordinarily accorded a man of his years. He was at once loved and respected and his death leaves a place among the medical practition ers of Harrisburg not easy to fill. He was a young man of much promise Just on the eve of a great career. Up-to-date we have heard of 10.- 642 Infallible cures for influenza. A PRINCE OF DEVILS WE are hearing a lot at this time of the "new day" in Germany, of "liberalizing" of the German government, and a lot of twaddle of the kind designed to lead gullible souls to the belief that the people of that benighted country' are at last coming into their own and taking over the ruling power so long held by the Hohen zollerns and their Ilk. But the Reichstag is still the same old talkative, helpless Reichstag which a few months before the Kaiser annexed the Russian prov inces passed its famous resolution for "peace without annexations or indemnities." It is the same old Reichstag that was designed by Bis marck as a debating society in which representatives of the people—but not all the people, equally and alike —might talk their heads off. while the power for action, change or re form remained solely in the hands of the Kaiser. It is still a talking machine —and that is about all. It has no power over the Kaiser or his cabinet. The German min isters laugh in the face of the Reich stag and the Reichstag in return can only rage impotently. The min isters—who constitute the govern ment—are responsible only to the Kaiser who appoints them and re moves them. Thus the whole gov- I ernment of Germany resolves around the Khiser and -is the creature of his whims and policies. Let nobody be deceived. The Kaiser is still boss. He is still the power with which we must deal in Germany, and his is the power of hell. We are dealing with a Prince of Devils and his cunning is sur passed only by his cruelty. He Is trying to fool us that he may de stroy us. The job of bringing the apple crop and the ultimate consumer together without shocking the consumer to death over the prices appears to be hopeless. NONE TO SAVE CONGRESS might be better en gaged than in debating a con tinuation of the "daylight sav ing" law during the winter months. The advantages of such a decision would be doubtful. Indeed. If the clock is permitted to stand as it is, one hour ahead of the sun, dur ing the short days of the year sun up will come somewhere along about 8.30 in the morning, instead of 7.30, or thereabouts. Thus, even for store employes who go to work now at 9 o'clock instead of 8. break fast would be eaten by artificial light, while little if any gas, oil or electricity would be saved at the other end of the day. One can't save daylight either morning or j evening if there is none to be saved. It is easy enough to get up an hour early in the "good old sum mer time," but, as Harry Lauder has put it — "When the snow is snowin'. And it's murky over-head, Oh. it's nice to get up in the mornin'. But it's nicer to lie in your bed". The law is good as it stands. It shouldn't be spoiled by over-doing its benefits. Let us hope the President in this supreme hour of decision will actually adjourn politics and Invite ,to the counsel table the leaders among his countrymen without regard to pprty. Colonel House is not a superman, BOND-SLACKERS SOME of us have been "stack ing," Not all of us, nor even a great many of us. but some of UB very seriously, Just who these "some" are it re mains for themselves to decide— themselves and the bankers and men of financial experience in the community who know their means, and know also how many bonds they should have bought which they have not. There are two types of bond slackers—the man of limited means who buys one bond when down in his heart he knows he could pay on the instalment plan for two or three, and the fellow who has the money but who holds back In order io find six or seven per cent. In vestments. One is as bad as the other. Both are yellow to the oore. Neither one is fit to be called an American. Both ought to be held up to the public as an example of bad citizen ship. Unfortunatey, It is not always possible to ferret out men of this stamp and give their names to the public. ■ But for all such there re mains the sorry knowledge that they have proved themselves allies of the Kaiser. They know that, so far as their money and effort are con cerned the baby killers, the mur derers, the ravagers and the thieves of Prussia might have their way in France—anti afterward in this country. They will look their mis | erably small accumulation of bonds over and know that they did just a little as possible to save the world from kaiserism. They are like the soldier who thought he had per formed his duty when he had shot one foeman, the fellow who quitMn the middle of the battle because he thought the enemy was almost beaten. They are the half-hearted, yellow-streaked men who their fat purses before ttieir country and therefore, In reality, have no country. They are the creatures whom the poet said "go down to the* vile dust from which they I sprung, unwept, unhonored and un sung." foUtUtlK T>tKH^xfa By the Ex-Coinmlttcnan | Senator William C. Sproul and 'senator Edward E. Beidleman, jwhose plans for a speaking tour of | the state following the Liberty Loan | were canceled because of the influ (enza epidemic, will probably open 'what there is left of the campaign lin Western Pennsylvania next Mon iday. This date is not positive, how iover, as everything depends upon tho outcome of the state-wide warfare against the disease. It was the plan to have the two Senators and others of their col leagues on the ticket tour the central counties and take part in a Dau phin county demonstration as a com pliment to the nominee for Lieuten ant Governor, but influenza interfer ed and there will be nothing doing this week. The general plan is for them to go to Pittsburgh early next l week and make that the headquar- , ters for a tour of western counties. Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the Democratic nominee for Governor, made another of his "visiting tours" last week. He went to Fayette coun ty where he did not speak but cir culated and when he got back to Philadelphia declared that he was sure of carrying that end of the state and other things too numerous to mention in this present emer gency. F. J. Fithian, the cold water candidate for Governor, who is mak ing a desperate effort to stay in the public eye with his automobile band wagon, is reported to have been in Somerset and adjoining counties, but Ino one seemed to be much interest ed. Senator Sproul embodies all any one may require in the way of a can-, s didate pledged to the "dry" amend ment. —The Democratic state executive committee will meet in Philadelphia next Saturday to fill vacancies on the ticket and decide how far a state campaign should be conducted by the nominees on the state ticket who adhere to the official organization. The plan was to have the meeting early this week, but owing to the Liberty Loan and influenza situa tions and the fact that no candidates have been found to plug up the holes in the ticket in the Eighteenth Congressional and Forty-first Sena torial districts the meeting was postponed until the end of the week. —The general plan is to have J. Washington Logue go out on the stump and make some speeches and he will likely be Joined by Asher R. Johnson, candidate for secretary of internal affairs, and J. F. Gorman, nominee for Congress-at-Large. —As far as thfe windmill band can j do it Judge Bonniwell will be ignor- I ed and he will ignore the official ! machine of his party as completely as possible, while paying attention to the conduct of National Chairman Vance C. McCormick and National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer in flouting the nomination of the voters of their party for governor. —The interruption of the state campaign has given the political wiseacres an opportunity to indulge in that dearly-prized Capitol Hill di version, speculation upon the changes which the incoming admin istration will make, not only in fol lowing out well-established political principles, J>ut in disciplining men who have played the game beyond the usual primary practices and been luckless enough to have lost. The forthcoming changes in the heads of the Insurance, Health, Ag ricultural other departments are much discussed and the belief is that with a few exceptions there will be few of the important men retained in the Attorney General's Department, while tile new Gov ernor will naturally make a sweep in his own department.' —The fact that M, K, Ely, dis missed as a bureau chief by the act ing Commissioner, of Health, was placed by Executive Department or der in the Public Service Commis sion is taken as a sign of the times in the Capitol, juet as the further fact that other men have managed to hold on. —Early action is anticipated by the Governor in naming the com missioners to take the soldier vote after Adjutant General Beary gets replies from commanders of camps who are expected to Inform him of the number of Pennsylvanians in their commands as of to-morrow. The Governor is said to intend to name men to go abroad in event . that any commissioners can be named for France. —The Cambria County Good Roads Association has sent word to the people in charge of the road bond issue campaign "full and com plete co-operation of this organisa tion In the campaign for the au thorization by the voters of Penn sylvania of a bond issue of $50,000,- 000, to be used for road construc tion," the letter says. "We are this day preparing a letter to be sent out .to all members of our organization, urging that they become active in their respective districts in explain ing the nature and purpose of the proposed bond issuo, to secure for it as general a support as possible at the coming election.' HABJUSBOHG TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A KAMERAD By Briggs THE PEOPLE'S FORUM THE NEGROES' SlDfe To the Editor of the Telegraph: It to me that the article in Friday evening's Telegraph, bear ing upon the "color line" at Dickin son, should not pass by without comment. The authorities by their rashness and assertiveness have in vited upon themselves the most bru tal criticism, besides proving that they are incapable of the great trust this community lias placed in them. My purpose, in rushing to print, is to re-assure the many thousands of colored boys and girls, now strug gling in our public schools, at al most inconceivable sacrifices, that the world is not all like reactionary Dickinson, that in some parts of the u.niverse one's character and ability' count much more than the color of his skin or the shape of his head. Indeed the position of this college becomes more and more per ilous as the world approaches its goal of universal brotherhood and good will "towards all. President Morgan might do us all a great favor by revealing the phy sical processes by which he arrived at the conclusion that Dickinson was perhaps no longer a suitable habitat' for colored students merely because a few "beaux vivants" from the South were soon to take up residence there. And if this is logi cal, would it be preposterous to ex pect Dickinson to go through the kaleidoscopic changes suggested by the following 'lypothetical cases? If the great war were to stop sud denly, and Germans were to stream by the hundreds into this Institu tion, would she become German in her proclivities? Would the "Wil len zur Macht" of Nietzsche replace democracy of Jefferson? Would Dickinson set out to develop the su perman or lead, the precarious ex istence of pan-Germanists? Would she discard her ideas of peace and fair-play, and exult in war and bloodshed; or train Attilas to plun der and destroy? Would Its esteem ed president enter into partnership with the German "Gott," and launch a policy of frightfulness, or thinking that his was the chosen college, set out to destroy all others? Again, suppose Orientals, in ever increasing numbers were to flock to Dickinson for their training, would it mean that the authorities there would condone and participate in the worship of Shinto. Confucius or Buddha? And would the Koran replace the Bible in the divinity hall? No! Dickinson must remain typi cally American at all costs. Not only in the matter of color, but of ideals and practices she must ad here unfalteringly to the tenets and exhortations of those high-minded men who have shaped the destinies of our great coyntry. The Southern er must be put into the common melting pot of liberalism, and boiled until everything that smacks of pre judice or sentiment is forever driven from his hide-bound soul. Prejudice seems to rest upon the antiquated idea of race superiority, which manifests Itself in the caliber of one's mind and the color of one's skin. But, thanks to science, we have arrived at a new psychology, completely overthrowing the formor illusions, and proving beyond a doubt that "no race of men can lay claim to a fixed and hereditary type of mental life. such as we can now know with exactness to be unchange able. We do not scientifically know what the true racial varieties of mental type really are." Let us, for example, take the Japanese. He teaches us to-day that it Is some what hard to find out by looking at the features of a man's face, or at the color of his skin, or even at the reports of travelers who visit his land, what it Is of which his race la really capable. As regards color, I have only to direct you to one of President Lin- coin's speeches In which he reprov ed the white slave-owners, who held they might justly enslave negroes because their own was the fairer race. Lincoln warned that, by the same token, each one of them might be justly enslaved the moment he met someone fairer than himself. Now, we are told that the Germans, in respect to color, are the white race 'being direct de scendent# of the Aryans, who came from Asia into Europe during the early migratory period. But is not every red-blooded white man in America to-day in arms against German aggression and domination? Superiority is something hard to establish. A man shows his super iority over another by his good deeds and not by constantly remind ing him of his inferiority. Our so called race problems are merely the problems caused by our own anti pathies. Unless Dickinson puts an unusually high appraisal upon mon etary values, unless she wants to em phasize gain rather than service, she does not have to suffer embar rassment at the hands of her South ern students. A democratic or cos mopolitan school seldom wants for students or for funds. Therefore, it would be advantageous for her to reject Southern patronage unless she felt sure that the Southerners could ! be molded into a progressive, God i fearing type of citizenship. I Southerners are pouring into Har vard in increasingly large numbers, I but they have not in the least dis- I turbed the staid policy of this in stitution. In Harvard "a man's a man for a that", irrespective of his race, color, or creed. All have equal opportunities to learn together. In fact, Harvard men live together, and thereby learn to' know each other in a way impossible under any other circumstances. The Southerner ap pears very awkward at first, but soon adjusts himself to the demo cratic conditions imposed upon him; and to his own surprise becomes a "mixer". Some of the most ar dent admirers that the colored stu dents at Harvard have, are found among the white students who come from the heart of the "Black Belt". Now, why are these conditions possi ble? Because Harvard believes that our blood is one with liuifianlty's. She would not lower her standards or ideals for anyone. Every stu dent must toe the mark or get out. In conclusion, let me reiterate that race prejudice is largely the result of persistent ignorance. It thrives as long as there Is no means of intellectual intercourse between races and no common religion. But mod ern civilization has made both of these things possible, and it is quite essential that we keep these chan nels of communication free and un ! obstructed. For, after all. there is jno "race" problems, there is only I a human problem. And its answer I is In the working out of love for I God and man. Sincerely yours, H. P. PAYNE. GERMANY IS LICKED No higher tribute could be paid to the fighting qualities of the French army, says a war corre spondent, than the speech of a dy ing Prussian captain, who asked his captors if he might be allowed to speak to one of their officers. A lieutenant belonging to a famous Colonial division came up, and {he wounded man, propping himself painfully on his elbow, gasped in good French; "I know we are enemies, but as a profeseional soldier, I want to tell you I have never seen anything finer than the conduct of your men. Un fortunately for us, you will be in Germany before Christmas,. but just the same I want to congratulate you. Will you shake hands with me .bofore I die?" GET RID OF KITCHIN! [From the New York Sun.] The last man in Congress who ever ought to have been chairman of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives is Claude Kitchin. In time of peace, to place at the head of that com mittee, so deeply and powerfully in volved in the industrial lot of the American people, a man of such limited intelligence, of such econo mic ignoranee, was folly and mis chief. • • • . With a Republican House, Presi dent Wilson should still have the votes to support his conduct of the war, and they would be intelligent votes. They would be sound votes. They v would be competent votes. But when the American voters had overturned the Democratic ma jority In the House, which created Kitchin, the prime revenue for the country, and which remains re sponsible for him, then, as chair man of the ways and means com mittee, as a figure of national promi nence, as a member of Congress in the very least degree noticeable, Kitchin would disappear as com pletely as if dropped through a trapdoor into the-cellar of the Capi tol. Get rid of Kitchin! [ OUR DAILY LAUGH ■IIIPI iIiLJIIIJ I! ONLY WAY. that automobile How did you car _ THE PROPER ■> SPIRIT. fl II LLn IT! He: Yes, but I Mimi, it isn't I quit© the con ventlonal thing / * or y° ur ®m- I I T \l\ ployer's son to Li l\\ marry you, a —InV I - Mimi (sweet- jUJ 111\ — ly): Yes, but do tot ze Ameri- I cans say zat is I the only excose \ „ I for having ze conventions? Dem's purty big hoofs fur a Hu! Nttflm" '1 OCTOBER 14, 1918. Penrose's Career Watched in China In a letter from Shanghai, China, /o the Bellefonte Keystone Gazette Frank E. Bible, former editor of the Center Democrat, and now teaching English In the BaptlstCol lege, Shanghai, says: "I read with considerable inter est the Harrlsburg Ttelegraph's quo tation from the proceedings of the Northampton Republican commit tee, and its tribute to Senator Pen rose. "I have watched Senator Pen rose's career from the time he first entered political life, sometimes as a Democrat, sometimes as a Repub lican, and again as an utterly dis interested and consequently fair ob server. His career is interesting aside from the broad statesmanship which has characterized it, in the fact that he has been the best damned man in Pennsylvania since Senator Quay's time, and in all his thirty three years of p->fitical life, the only charge made by his enemies both in and out of his party, that ever stuck was that of "Boss" which is but a vulgar substitute for leader. "You would bo surprised to know ] that away out here twelve or thir teen thousand miles from his home, the Senator is known to some as 'Boss' Penrose, and with real good people a boss is just short of the Devil, lacking horns, hoofs and a tall. Several times I have had occa sion to set people rigjit on the Sena tor by reviewing his record, und have gotten a frank admission from my auditors of their utter ignorance of the man and his work. Their misinformation is, of course, deriv ed from your own vile profession. I remember just before leaving home, when tho question of the elec tion of senators by popular vote was being discussed, a remark by a prominent 'independent' Republican of Philadelphia in a mixed politlcul company, that 'if it came to a popu lar election, Boise Penrose would be stamped in Pennsylvania to the tune of at least three hundred thou sand.' "Then away out here years later I read that he had carried his state by I think something so big that the fig ures have escaped me. One loses interest in a 'walk-over.' I con cluded that 'prominent' politicians often have better hindsight than foresight. "I hope I have said nothing in reference to the Senior Pennsylva nia Senator that will meet with the disapproval of a Democratic or Progressive Republican censor. I am at least not asking or expecting political favors. "I am proud of him as a Penn sylvanian, as I think every unpreju diced citizen of his state should be. "You know out here we are to all foreigners, Americans. Among our selves we are both Americans and Pennsylvanians, Virginians, etc. And each stands up for the honor of his state and the reputation of her pub lic men when unjustly assailed. Our state pride seems to be more pro nounced because we are so far from Socialism and Kaiserism [From the N. Y. Commercial] Socialists in Germany, Russia, America and other countries are do ing their Kaiser's dirty work. Under the guise of friends of freedom they are striving to rivet the shackles of autocracy and Prussian militarism upon the free peoples of the world. Their leaders work for blood money, and their activities are measured by the cash they receive from the Beast of Berlin. In America a vast corruption fund was raised by the German ambas sador through the sale of bonds and notes countersigned or endorsed by himself, of which at least fifteen mil lion dollars have been traced by American secret service agents. Some parts of this fund is still in the hands of the Kaiser's secret ! agents in the United States, and this money is forthcoming to pay the ■lcosts of German and pacifist propa > ganda and to assist more or less i openly in electing socialists to Con ■ gress. Professing socialists are not • spending much money. They get it • somewhere and do not give it away, but from some secret source any i enemy of the country can draw all , the money required to pay promi • nent and high-priced lawyers when , he is brought to book. In' Russia the Red Terror is~the work of German hirelings. As com pared with it, the French Revolu tion was a love feast. LouisXVl and Marie Antoinette were executed after a trial which was unfair but which presented the outward form of a ju dicial proceeding. The Red Terror ists of Russia murdered the former Czar and his heir in cold bloqd, and it is believed that they burned the Czarina and her daughters to death. They have slaughtered more inno cents in two days than were put to death during the Terror in France. No protests against these outrages in Russia have come from the So cialists of New York City, or at least from those who control that faction or who now support its candidates for public office. On the contrary, they profess to admire Lenine and Trotsky, and many of tHem knew the latter personally when he was living in this city. It is the duty of every citizen with a vote in the Con gressional districts where Socialists are candidates Ut the coming Con gressional election to let Russia know that Bolsheviki are looked upon as pariahs by all true Ameri cans and that we regard with horrtfr the crimes committed by their class in Russia. One of their candidates for Congress now stands charged with violating the Espionage Act. Debs, five times Socialist candidate for the presidency, has been convict ed of such a crime. Socialism stands revealed as the enemy of the plain people and the subsidized supporter of Kaiserism. Editors Hear Northcliffe London,.—Entertaining a party of American editors at luncheon at the Times offices. Lord Northcliffe, toast ing the American visitors, said: "In America last year we won dered at the.strange phenomenon of the rising young men of that na tion, many resident a thousand miles from the sea, being drawn by some mysterious instinct to leave their prosperous careers to come across the Atlantic. Their crusade was one of the groat miracles of the world. "Public opinion had become unan imous in America, not because they had anything to get out of the war, but because of the overwhelming instinct to rise to the cause of jus tice." "We never use the word 'for eigner' In regard to Americans in this country," Lord Northcliffe added. "We regard you as our selves." Dr. Edward J. Wheeler of New York replied to tl\e and F. P. Glass of Birmingham, Ala., a mem ber of a second party of editors, de scribing his voyage across the At lantic, said: The fear among the 1,800 Amer ican troops aboard see chip was that the war might be finished before they arrived In France-" Hunting (Eljat j Study of the streets on Saturday night was an interesting matter for anyone who had the time to observe the demeanor of the hundreds who thronged Market and Third and other thoroughfares in the down town district from early in the even ing until IX o'clock, probably more from force of habit than anything else. Nowhere was there dispositiop'to criticise the orders for the closing of the stores and stop the sale of ice cream, cigars and magazines any more than there had been against the state order locking the doors 'of the places of public amusement and saloons. Indeed, the attitude lias been marked by a cheenlhilness which would not have been thought of before we entered into the war. We have gone through a course of regulation of many ac tivities and in a way Harrlsburg was pretty well schooled in obeying or ders long before the drastic precau tions promulgated to light influenza and the mounting death rate. But the old thing about the crowds in Market street and the Square Satur day night was that while they seem ed to have little kick against the closing they did not hesitate to con gregate, to stand- around in groups, to spit over pavements and pass around cigars, cigarets, candy and plug tobacco. In Union Station where the sales of even periodicals was stopped along with the peculiar brands of candy dispensed at its "newsstand" there were the usual Saturduy crowds and the congregat ing was a great deal more than would have occurred in most of the churches. There seemed to be a lack of cc-ordination between the health authorities and the police authorities in regard to the street crowds and there were more people standing "around the four corners of Third and Market at 9 o'clock than would be found in a "movie". It seemed when the tire alarm was sounded by some miscreant at 11 o'clock at night as ,though it had been done as a piece of sarcasm to ward the congregating order. The sounding of "four" brought out people by hundreds and they were jammed in South Third street and adjoining thoroughfares as though danger from contagion was as fnr away as the steppes where influenza is generally understood to have started on its prostrating march across the world. Prevention of street crowds by the police arm would seem to be as important as the prohibition of the congregating at amusement places and groceries and the like by the health author ities. • • • "There are two classes of' work ers in this community who have had to suffer very much through influ enza which has struck down their companions. They are the tele phone operators and the motormen and conductors," said a physician yesterday. "I don't count us doc tors or nurses. We are like you newspaper people. We are ex pected to go always. But the tele phone girls have had their work multiplied by the epidemic and the force of operators, which is limited anyway, has been hard hit by the influenza. I fully appreciate the ef .fort to cut down calls and everyone should avoid messages not tant for the sake of people who have' to use the telephone to get doctors or drugstores. As for the motormen and conductors, suppose that they would all get sick." • • • Arrangements are being made by 1 Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, the State Game ■ Commission Secretary, to purchase some 200 deer during the coming ■ fall and winter to stock the now . preserves in the Lykens Valley rc i gion of Dauphin county and in For ; est county. Some may go into other ' preserves, although reports are that > there are many deer in the South ■ Mountain region and in the Elk ' Cameron-Clearfield-Clinton district. " These deer will likely come from t Michigan and will bo liberated after 1 the hunting season. The pheasants ' will be turned loose in the spring. \ The movement to remove the pro tection from red squirrels is taking [ shape and will be heard of during the coming legislative session when . plans for advancing seasons on . blackbirds and gray squirrels will . also materadize. People coming hero [ are also talking very favorably of • the projects for planting hickory i and beech nuts so that game may • be provided with a new food supply. ■ More kafflr corn has been planted ' this year than expected because of 1 the war conditions and a pronounced i change of sentiment toward caring for wild life is to be noticed. • • • Just now authorities appear to differ on the eve of "Walnut Plant ing Day," proclaimed by the Gover nor, about the way to plant. I. C. Williams, the Deputy State Forestry Commissioner, says that the hulla should be removed and Dr. Kalbfus, Secretary of the Game Commission and a wild life authority, says that the hulls should be merely crushed. Governor Brumbaugh says that far mers ought to provide the walnuts for planting and farmers are in clined to plant as many as they can themselves. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George H. Earle, Jr., the Phil adelphia banker, is seriously ill and mourns the deaths of two daughters the last ten days. —R. M. Fry, well known here, is taking a prominent part in the Liber ty Loan work in the Connellsvillo region. . • „ —John W. Rauch, the Reading publisher, celebrated his fiftieth wedding anniversary. —lsaac H. Weaver, prominent Lancaster businessman, .has been elected president of the Chamber of Commerce in that city. —W. P. Rellley, who commanded the Wllllamsport battery when the war began, has been promoted to be a major of artillery in the 107 th Regiment. —O. W. Mason, prominent In the iron trade at Philadelphia, will g