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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918
If we knew our brother a-s God
knows him, we should never dare to
despise him any more.—G. H. Morri
son.
REACHING THE CREST
WE ARE unquestionably ap
proaching, if we have not al
ready reached, the crest ot
the influenza epidemic. The disease
first showed itself seriously in the
training camps. Then it spread to
the cities, towns and countrjslde
Now the deathrate has begun to tall
in the camps and the number of the
new cases is on the wane. That
would indicate'a coming recession
of the outbreak among the populace
\n general. , . ,
Unquestionably, the bright, brisk
kwiumn weather is having a good
effect. Then, too, people are more
careful than they were before the
epidemic became violent, and the
effects of the quarantine regulations
imposed by the health authorities
are beginning to be felt. The dis
ease will not pass in a day, but we
may expect to see a steady and
marked decrease in the number of
new cases. In a few weeks the epi
demic will be a mere matter of his
tory, except that our health authori
ties will have a new chapter of data
for study and new measures to out
line in case of another such out
break of influenza as we have had.
TIME FOR A CHANGE
PENNSYLVANIANS. more per
haps than the citizens of any
other State, realize how impor
tant it is to bring about a change in ;
the control of Congress. As a result
of the Republican disruption sev
eral years ago a group of men with
no experience in business or state
craft were placed in power at
Washington and the country has
since learned its lesson. Little men
from the South, coming from com
munities where big enterprises are !
not known, men of the Kitchin j
type, have been wabbling along in ]
the chairmanships of important i
House committees, dictating with j
ruthless and arbitrary power legis- |
lation that is discriminatory in its
character and sectional to the last
degree. Nobody with half an eye ]
can help seeing the favoritism that
has characterized the enactment of
revenue measures and the regulation
of commerce for and in behalf of
the South.
It is obvious that the cotton
planters are running things and it
is just as obvious that the revenue
measures have been drafted in the
interest of the same section of the
country. Of course, we should raise
no sectional issue at any time, espe
cially in the time of war, but we
are not responsible for such an issue.
That responsibility must rest upon
the gentlemen of the south who are
now in the saddle and who are rid
ing their brief power to death.
Involving as it does, legislative
control of the many problems hav
ing to do with the prosecution and
financing of the war, and, we fer
vently hope, the far-reaching prob
lems, domestic and international,
growing out of the war's termina
tion, we cannot urge too strongly
the importance of the Congressional
campaign in which we are now en
gaged. In these absorbing times
there is danger that we may forget
the past and neglect consideration
of the future, but if we recall the
expensive failures of former Demo
cratic administrations, and condi
tions as they existed under this ad
ministration during 1914 prior to
the outbreak of the war, we must
realize the importance of the No
vember election.
There is everywhere a determi
nation to win the war, but as firm
a determination is prevalent in all
quarters that the war must be won
by deeds, not words; that hesi
tancy must give way to action; that
the burden of financing the war
should be equitably and wisely dis
tributed; and that ruthless extrava
gance and continued neglect of
preparation to properly cope with
the mammoth problems that will
FRIDAY EVENING, llffiMl 1111 l ' " OCTOBER 18. 1918. "
follow the close of the war will not
be tolerated.
Republicans everywhere are
united, and while In this contest we
are pitted against a thoroughly or
ganized and well-oiled political ma
chine backed by thousands of politi
cal officeholders, a careful survey
of the outlook promises Republican
success if we but put forth the nec
essary effort to acquaint the coun
try with the facts.
Here in Pennsylvania, the bulwark
of industry, it is important that our
people give attention to the elec
tion of members of Congress who
will not penalize industry and com
merce, but will treat with ordinary
fairness a Commonwealth that is
providing at least one-tenth of the
manpower and resources of the
United States in the world struggle.
Christmas advertising this year is
going to expedite holiday purhasing
materially, so that our merchants
will not be burdened with the terrific
congestion that has heretofore been
incidental to Christmas shopping.
Decimated forces, as a result of the
war and the epidemic, make early
shopping this year a necessity and it
should be the pleasure of the buying
community to aid the merchants in
every way possible.
THE GERMAN GOTT
THE Kaiser seldom makes a pub
lic address or announcement
without mouthing the name of
his "Gott." The sycophants who
write about him invariably repre
sent him as solemnly religious and
as a student of the Bible. Yet his
study of it could not have been pro
found, or, if profound, it has re
sulted in a mental twist that is pe
culiarly Teutonic. Surely the Kaiser
must have read the first of the Ten
Commandments:
"Thou shalt have no other gods
before me."
The "Gott" of the Kaiser, whose!
earthly vicegerent he professes to
be. cannot be the God who gave ;
this commandment to Moses. Tha
Gott is supposed to aid the Germans
in all their atrocities, to smile upon |
their barbarous conquests, to be con- j
tent with the Germans' belief in
thair superiority, to be in harmony
with their mission to exterminate all
other peoples, and to sanction their j
doctrine that the state is a divine
institution and that every act of it, j
however cruel or dishonest, is justi
fied. This is the Gott the Kaiser I
worships and whom he had taught'
his deluded subjects to worship'.
Thus the Kaiser and his nation j
have had this other god before them
—not the God of peace, and mercy |
and truth, without whose notice not |
even a sparrow falls to the ground. |
Before the Children of Israel made j
for themselves a molten calf and [
worshiped it the anger of the Lord .
waxed hot against them. Shall this |
German blasphemer and his idola- ;
trous nation, then. escape His
wrath? They will not, for our Lord
—the Jehovah of the civilized na
tions—has Himself set the penalty:
"I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous j
God, visiting the iniquity of the fath- J
ers upon the children unto the third j
and fourth generations of them that j
hate me."
Throughout all history God has
employed human instruments for
His works upon the earth. For years
the Germans have vilely plotted to
subdue all other peoples and have
besought their Gott for his help.
Breaking other Mosaic command
ments, they have killed, they have
stolen, they have born false witness,
and they have coveted. They have
had this other Gott before them, be
lieving that he was hilping them
commit all these sins, and as truly
as there is a God in Israel, the Al
lied nations are His instruments to
bring upon the Kaiser and his people
the punishment set by the com
mandment. Unto the third and the
fourth generation the iniquities of
the military rulers of Germany shall
| he visited. They cannot escape them,
j Already they are in the terrible
shadow of God's wrath waxing hot
against them. They shall be a na
tion in sackcloth and ashes and to
I the end of time they shall be abomi
! nated.
All who favor Improved highways
in Pennsylvania must remember that
the ballot for the November election
will contain a proposal for a highway
loan that will be used in establishing
a decent road policy after the war.
We must not forget that with the re
turn of millions of men, the best way
to show appreciation of their sacrifice
will be in some constructive program
of employment that will immediately
give them something to do and aid in
the readjustment of conditions.
GLORIOUS NEWS
TrlE news from Belgium is glor
ious. Ostend freed from the
invader, and without a hilow
struck in defense of the harbor
itself.' The plight of the German
army is clearly shown in its retreat
from its sea bases in Flanders, to
which it might have been expected
the armies of the Kaiser would have
clung as long as possible.
As long as they had their flank
upon the ocean and the big harbors
at their command, the Germans were
free from the fatal turning move
ments Foch knows so well how to
execute, and had the advantage of
warring with U-boats on the ship
ping of the Allies without great dan
ger to their undersea craft. Both
on land and sea momentous changes
in the war may hinge upon this
hurried vacation of the coast of Bel
gium, which will soon be held by
the British and Belgians all the way
to the Dutch frontier.
It is a little more than four years
since the newspaper correspondents
were graphically describing the
thrilling scenes incident to the de
parture at the British transports
from Ostend, loaded to the gun
wales by all who could get away
from the approaching Germans, and
it was proper under the circum
stances that a British naval officer
should be first ashore on the return
of the refugees. No one Incident
of the recent allied vlotorles pic
tures so vividly the turn affairs
have taken against the Germans as
this retirement from Ostend and the
surrender of Lille.
Here and there are examples of the
foolishness of men who place their
political and partisan opinions above
the principles which they profess. A
particularly exaggerated case is that
of the York county Prohibitionist,
who has no hope of election whatever,
but stands in the way of a Republi
can candidate for the State Senate,
who is an avowed advocate of the na
tional prohibition amendment and all
other measures designed to restrain or
eliminate the liquor traffic. His
Democratic opponent is avowedly
"wet," but notwithstanding this situa
tion, the Prohibitionist persists in
running, against the advice of those
who at heart favor the amendment
and realize that every vote diverted
from the Republican candidate is di
rect aid for the Democratfc nominee.
We doubt, however, whether many
sincere anti-liquor voters will be de
ceived by such tactics in York county
or elsewhere.
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By the Ex-Commlttccman
| Influenza may be the means of pre-
] venting many Pennsylvania soldiers
| from casting their votes in the mili
tary camps next month. Just when
lit had been worked out that the men
iin the camps and cantonments and
(training stations in the United
| States could cast their votes, al
though men on overseas duty would
not be able to do so, the epidemic
has come along and prospects are
that the whole plan to take the
votes of Keystone State men in na
tional service may be jeopardized.
At first it was the plan of the Gov
ernor to appoint men to take the
votes of all Pennsylvania soldiers,
but the War Department practically
declared that sending of commis
sioners would Interfere with mili
tary operations and in an opinion
by William E. eller, first Deputy
Attorney General, it was held that
the state could cheerfully conform
to the rules of the supreme military
command. Preparations were then
made to have the votes taken in
this country and Adjutant General
Frank D. Beary asked commanders
of all camps to forward hint infor
mation as to the number of Penn
sylvania men in service on Tuesday
last. Some reports have come in,
but information has also been re
ceived that some camps are quaran
tined and that many soldiers have
influenza.
Right on top of this condition has
come the report that some of the
men offered appointments as com
missioners to take the votes have
been reluctant, to leave home be
cause of influenza conditions pre
vailing in this state and the situa
tion at the camps. The whole prop
osition is more or less uncertain
about the Capitol and the Governor
(has not yet announced what he is
[going to do.
—Members of the Democratic
state executive committee are to
meet in Philadelphia tomorrow to
discuss vacancies on the Congres
sional and Senatorial tickets and
plans for the campaign. Some tours
by candidates the last two weeks are
a possibility.
—Ralph E. Smith, who has fig
ured in several of the Democratic
powwows here has been made chair
man of a committee in charge of de
tails of the Democratic campaign in
Allegheny county. John P. Bracken
i is chairman of another committee.
| —'Farmer" Creasy, who was taken
; ill here last week, is recovering at
his home. The "Farmer" and some
i of his Democratic friends are getting
i ready to attack the road bond issue
! amendment.
I —Attorney General Francis Shunk
i Brown has issued a letter to the
; newspapers of the state commending
j Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr., to
! their support. "My former law part
ner, Alexander Simpson, Jr., now
serving on the Supreme Court, is a
candidate for election to that court
in November of this year," he writes.
"I commend him to you as specially
well qualified for the duties of the
office and will appreciate your active
support for his election."
—The Philadelphia North Ameri
can makes an attack upon United
States District Attorney Francis Fish
er Kane to-day because he refuses
to take steps against Cadbury, the
Haverfprd pacifist. Cadbury is just
now "getting his," as the saying goes,
in the newspapers for his peculiar
utterances on the subject of America
and the war. Mr. Kane has been
noted for his own course in office
which is hard for some people to un
derstand.
—Representative S. A. Whitaker,
of Phoenixville, has been commend
ed for service in France. Mr. Whit-'
aker has been a prominent figure in
the last three legislative sessions. He
was nominated for another term, but
declined owing to service in France.
In all probability he will be chosen
to higher honors.
—New Castle's registration is
over 1,500 short of what it was last
year. Erie also reports a shortage.
In both of those industrial cities peo
ple are letting politics go.
—Much sympathy is being ex
pressed for Senator Sproul because
of the death of his son-in-law, Cap
tain H. J. Klaer.
—The Lake Erie and Ohio river
ship canal board is said to contem
plate asking for an appropriation to
continue its work on the ground that
the war shows the need of water
ways.
—The city of Bethlehem is about
to annex Northampton Heights and
3 1-2 square miles of Hanover town
ship, which will take in the villages
lof Shoenersville, part of Ritters-
Iville, Hanoverville, Rosemont and
(Elliott Heights. The city recently an-
Inexed North Bethlehem, Macada, Al
[toona, Edgeboro and East Bethle
hem, 12 square miles.
—Joseph Fletcher, a Philadelphia
judge of election has enlivened
things by a tight with a policeman
and has been arrested. It was about
[the only sign of life in Philadelphia
politics.
May Be Yet
That Hindenburg line fails to halt
the hosts of civilization. While be
coming pretty flexible, it has not yet
been twisted into a halter.—Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
French Made Easy
The French word "etats" Is a
freak of a word, though its freak
ishness is slightly marred by the
matter of singular and plural. Spell
it backwards and you have its
meaning in English.—Boston Tran
script.
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BONNIWELL AND BOOZE
[Front the Latrobe Pennsylvania
Bulletin]
The action of the Anti-Saloon
League, in endorsing Senator Sproul,
the Republican candidate for Gover
nor, was not necessary in order to
make clear the clean-cut distinction
between the Republican and the re
pudiated Democratic candidate, on
the question of prohibition,—or in
fact on any question;—yet the en
dorsement will be welcomed as a
further formal recognition of the
sterling qualities of Senator Sproul,
in contrast with the discredited Bon
niwell whose own party would not
have him, and who, in this day of
war, continues to prate about the
doctrine of personal liberty as ap
plied to strong drink.
Senator Sprout's squarely-defined
position on the national prohibition
issue will win him thousands upon
thousands of dry Democratic votes,
—while thousands of Democrats who
even though ordinarily they might
be wet, will shun Bonniwell who has
been repudiated by the Democratic
state committee, and who is running
on a ticket of his own making.
It is difficult to see where Bonni
well and those who have taken
places on his new party ticket can
command much of a vote, in Nov
ember, yet all those who would de
plore the placing of Bonniwell in
power, are urged to take nothing
for granted, respecting the ap
proaching election.
Bonniwell is making a plain, bold
bid to secure the vote of the liquor
interests. He is their candidate.
He is championing their cause.
Nobody wants to take anything
for granted, in a situation like that.
THE SPIRIT OF METZ
While our American boys are on
the Metz front, winning glorious
victories, and at a time when every
heart is set on the capture of Metz,
that city of quaint, beautiful old
French life, that barbed-wire strong
hold of German oppression, the
translation of Maurice Varres' great
classic, "Colette Baudoehe, the Story
of a Young Girl of Metz," by the
Baroness Huard (George H. Doran
Co.) comes in the most timely fash
ion. This work, appearing in
France in 1908 (though now for
the first time in English) was the
most powerful propaganda that the
French had yet achieved. In the
form of a romance the story clearly
shows how the love of little Colette
could never be attuned to that of
her Prussian suitor, how the ugly
modern German buildings jar with
the exquisite refinement of Metz's
18th century structures, how Kultur
aand French culture will not mix in
Lorraine, how France can never rest
with the German thorn in her side.
TO THE GERMAN EMPEROR
Now that avening armies
Hurl back your shattered lines,
You lift your cheating proffers
And tune your subtle whines;
The flail is raised to smite you
And now before it fall
You would avert the whip-lash
In fate's stern judgment hall.
Across the fields of Belgium
You leave the spoor of hell,
We trace the Beast-retreating
And mark his actions well;
You launch a rain of shrapnel
At wounded men in boats
The while you cry us "Comrade"
With blackly perjured throats.
We have been stern and patient,
We have withheld our hand
In that firm-lipped appraisement
You do not understand.
Now you shall have our answer
In storm of belching shell;
"No covenant with devils.
No compromise with hell!"
—Private Willard Wattles, Brigade
Surgeon's Office, 164 th Depot Brig
ade, Camp Funston, Kas.
The Yellow Streak
(N. A. Review's War Weekly)
The expected has happened. The
Hun shows the yellow streak. We
were recently discussing the prob
able psychology of the defeated Hun;
which was an unknown quantity,
seeing that for a century the Hun
had known no defeat, but an un
broken succession of victories. It
occurred to us then that he would
probably turn coward, though we
were willing to consider the pos
sibility that he would fight with the
proverbial though futile fury of a
cornered rat. In that concession we
did the Beast unmerited honor.
There is no fight in him in defeat.
He turns yellow, all the way
through.
Stand by the War
THE Republican party says to the
country STAND BY THE
WAR.
j in this declaration of purpose is
j included the statement which the
(Democratic party seents to have
'adopted as a slogan—"Stand by the
President."
Stand by the President in support
of all war measures is a duty and
privilege which the Republicans
have assumed as a matter of course,
as to all that the great office im
plies, and in the performance of
which duty the Republican party
has functioned far more fully and
efficiently than the Democratic
party, and in which course we shall
persist without waver or shadow of
turning.
The Republican party says
STAND BY THE WAR.
This includes more. It includes.
Stand by the President; it includes
stand by every public official, high
(or low, measured by the thorough
ness with which that public official
stands by the war; it includes stand
by the government; stand by the
country; stand by our Allies, every
|one; stand against our enemies in
this war, every one; stand by our
soldiers in France and the soldiers
lof our Allies; stand by every effort
| for WAR SAVING and WAR GIV-
A GHETTO ARTIST
No more surprising instance of
the born artist has occurred for
many years than the case of Rose
Cohen, author of "Out of the Sha
dow" (Doran). Perhaps the native
tire of the Russian temperament
has something to ,do with it, added
to the adaptability of the Jewish
race; but in the end art is always
inexplicable. Starting life in the
peasant class of Russia, emigrating
to this country at the age of twelve,
slaving in the sweat-shops of New
York's East Side, with no educa
tion and no leisure from drudgery,
Rose Cohen has yet produced a
book of exquisite beauty and artis
tic restraint.
From the beginning she was one
of those who see, and whose imag
ination records what they see.
Not the least interesting portion of
her book is the picture of her early
childhood in Russia, full of fresh
and vivid color; and she carries the
same sense for detail throughout
her life in this country.
She could not keep awake at
night school after working in the
shop all day. But gradually she
learned to read and then to write,
i putting down sentence after sen
tence only to tear it up, struggling
toward self-expression. The story
of her attempt to read Shakespeare's
"Julius Caesar," inspired bji a Settle
ment House lecture, is both brave
and pathetic; she gave it up in de
spair, and tried "Little Women" in
stead. But the perseverance with
which she saved pennies for books
from the corner drugstore, the
open-mindedness which led her to
study Christianity at the hospital,
and the imagination which asslmr
lated and interpreted all experience,
however trivial or sordid, go far
toward explaining the intellectual
breadth as well as the rare sin
cerity of her autobiography.
BREAKING THROUGH
[From the Chicago News.]
With almost mathematical preci
sion Marshall Foch is preceedlng
with his tack of destroying the Ger
man armies. Those armies are still
capable of desperate fighting, but
some of them have been fought into
a very perilous position by the ad
mirable strategy of the generalissi
mo of the Allied forces.
Not until he had involved the Ger
man in gigantic struggles from the
North Sea to Rhelms did he begin his
menacing attack by French and
American forces from Rheims to
Moselle. Here the swift successes
iof General Gouraud and General
| Pershing brought to the German
i High Command visions of complete
disaster through the prospective
'severing of certain German lines of
communication absolutely vital to the
: armies farther west. Consequently
jthe sectors from St. Quentln north
iward were hastily denuded of their
.best fighting divisions, which were
i hurried to the region of the great
est danger. The break through that
has now come between St. Quentln
and Cambral was the logical result.
I since the British, French and Ameri
can forces in that region were pre-
I pared to seize the opportunity and
[exploit it to the full.
IN'G in this country; stand for the
Fourth Liberty Loan and every other
wgr effort; stand for the cause for
which we fight; stand by the "irre
ducible minimum" of peace terms so
splendidly enunciated by Senator
Lodge; stand by the war aims of this
country to vindicate American
rights, interests and honor and to
forever end Prussianism in the
world and the oppression which it
typities, and to make certain for-,
j ever the inability of militarism,
! Prussian or otherwise, to disturb
iagain the peace of the world; stand
| irrevocably for a peace with vlc
'tory only and against a peace based
ion a compromise of principles which
'would make a sacrilege of our sac
rifice to be made again by our
grandchildren; stand for the prep
iarution now of a sound and proper
I foundation for a policy of recon
struction after the war which will
| fulfill the economic needs and rea
'lize the spiritual Ideals of our peo
|ple, that the greatest good may
icome also to our own country from,
'and after, our supreme sacrifice.
! All this we say—STAND BY THE
! WAR—and for this purpose we ded
icate the last of our blood and of
our treasure. —Extract from speech
by Will H. Hays, Chairman ltepub
lican National Committee, Grand
Rapids Mich., Sept. 26, 1918
i
The President at Politics
[From (fo\. Harvey's War Weekly!
Mr. Wilson had occupied the White
House less than a year when a dele
gation of three hundred working
women waited upon him and sought
his support for a proposed amend
ment to the Constitution granting
universal suffrage. After listening
j courteously to five short appeals, he
I declined the invitation upon the
| ground that he was no longer free
!to express his views upon subjects
| which had not received "the gigan
j tic consideration of those for whom
lam spokesman." He had set him
self "this very strict rule when Gov
ernor of New Jersey," had "follow
!ed it as President" and should "con
|tinue to follow it as President."
;For that reason, he added, he was
"shut out by my own principles"
from voicing his convictions. lie
had no doubt, however, that the
visit would "make a profound im
pression" upon the country.
Ordinarily so gallant a remark
from a Chief Magistrate would have
served its purpose of closing a some
what trying incident, but the leader
of the delegation, Mrs. Glendower
Evans, of Baltimore, could not re
frain from recalling to the Presi
[ dent's mind a certain conversation
which she had had with him at Sea
Girt while he was a candidate.
"I thought from what you said
that you were in favor of our cause,"
Mrs. Evans declared with no little
spirit, and, after a slight pause,
added bluntly with a slight tinge of
bitterness, "You were gunning for
votes then."
"I was much freer to express my
opinion then than X am now," the
President rejoined, still affably
though rather lamely, and the Inci
dent was closed, indeed, with a
sharp click.
Since then, the Democratic party
having given "organic consideration"
to the question and having consigned
it to the States for decision, the
President has regained his freedom
to demand Federal action, and
again, as in 1912, in the words of
Mrs. Evans, he is "gunning for
votes."
Because that is what the spectac
ular appearance and speech in the
i Senate chamber meant, a grand
stand play for women's votes in the
icoming elections; nothing else in the
i world.
OUR DEAD
Our dead shall not have died in vain;
By all their pain and sacrifice.
We will maintain their costly gain,
Their truth shall smit the Prince
of Lies.
By all their love for this bright
world
They fought to free from deadly
stain,
By the bright flag about them furled
Our dead shall not have died in
vain.
—Elmer Ellsworth Brown.
Why Is a King?
(From the Boston Globe)
Why did the King of Bulgaria go
to Germany, to Bad-Nauheim? Why
is the King of Bavaria going to Bul
garia, to remain Ave days in Sofia?
[Why la a king, anyrrag*
By BRICCS
They Watch, Our Holy Dead
(From the New York Times)
On Flanders' fields, in Picardy, in
battle-torn Champagne,
Where fair Piave rolls its flood from
off the Lombard plain;
Where Serbia joins Albania's heights
and Greek and Bulgar meet.
And Holy Land and Tigris see the
Turk in just defeat,
In Russia's vast despairing land—
how far the tight is spread!
And over all, that growing host—
the legions of the dead!
Among that host are shrinking souls
of child and wife and maid—
Dishonored souls, that cry to God
that vengeance be not stayed,
And, with the souls of those who
fought, they watch Attila's
spawn
Invite a peace to stay our hand and
make those souls a pawn;
They watch the butcher's ghastly
course, his hands each hour
more red,
And see that hand held out for
peace—they watch, our holy
dead.
And shall we say they died in vain,
those friends that stemmed
the tide,
And close our ears to solemn pleas
from those who bravely died,
Shall shrewd old men, in secret met,
decree these deaths were vain.
Then get them home and plan to
' start that holocaust again?
"No peace," they cry, these dead
of ours, "but peace for which
we bled."
Remember, they are watching us,
I those legions of the dead-r-
We owe a debt of honor to those
sacred, holy dead!
—Thomas Henry Ryan.
fOUR DAILY LAUGH
,E £a™?E oF
NATL RE.
.'here's beauty
in the thun- v
der"s roll _rV "^TvnWi
And in the /&N.
ocean's llljll
'd rather hear
That hits the
base ment '
AVAST—THERE.
Bug—My there is a stiff breeze on
leek toniehtl
THE CIAS9IC KICK.
**What is tho llaalt In this club?"
"The food."
JttNGLE.
Ist Monk—
What's old nfjji
camel sore *1 J f
about now?. l '®" ® .
2nd Monk—l J&jL <v
dunno, he's al- CK W./fK
ways got his
back up about Jj|p
iEimratg (Ehal
While the present outbreak of in
fluenza Is a far more serious epi
demic than that which swept the
city in 1889 and 1890, the l'act re
mains that Harrisburg people have
in the century and a half of the ex
istence of their community met and
conquered far more serious attacks
of contagious and infectious dis- V
ease. Indeed, if one could read the
newspapers of bygone days in Har
risburg it would seem that the city
was not suffering very much and the
restriction of business, cancellation
of school sessions and general "shut-"
ting down" would appear rather in
cidental compared to the drastic
steps undertaken by common con
sent long ago. There were no health
officers in those days, but there was
a town spirit that brooked no non
sense and demanded, and received,
a co-operation that turned out most
efficaciously. From that old news
paper beacon of this place, the Or
acle of Dauphin, comes an account
of how when the people of the town
thought that a milldam and pond
on Paxton creek was to blame for J,
the spread of the epidemic which \
closely resembled yellow fever they t
proceeded to destroy the dam and
pay the owner the value. From the
account books of that first sanitary
improvement of llarrisburg which
have come down to us we learn
that there was an assessment made
on every property owner for the cost
of the property and that every one
paid it, while when it came to tear
ing down the dam it was accom
plished in spite of shotguns. That
was in 1793 or thereabouts. In 1802
there was an outbreak of cholera
here. In the twenties several out
breaks of fevers which swept the
country came here and the town has
had smallpox and various other af
flictions along with the rest of Penn
sylvania cities and come through be
cause its people kept their heads
ahd turned in and helped the doc
tors and the sick. The newspaper
accounts of other years are an in
spiration to the people who are fight
ing influenza now.
• *
Some friends who have been
reading the accounts appearing in
I this column from time to time about
the project for improving the navi
gation of the Susquehanna have
(called attention to an old advertise- *
ment which appeared in that ances
tor of the Harrisburg Telegraph,
the Oracle of Dauphin, which bears
on the subject. This advertisement
appeared in August, 1795, after a
meeting had been held by men from
various counties of Pennsylvania
and Maryland for the purpose of or
ganizing the work of removing ob
structions from the Susquehanna.
It reads:
WANTED—A number of per
sons who are acquainted with
blowing rooks and removing ob
struction in the Susquiehanna
river, between the mouths of
the Swatara creek and the Ju
niata; those that can be well
recommended shall have gener
i ous wages. Attendance will be
given at Harrisburg during
I court week for making con
, tracts.
i * *
s The project of making the river
navigable in 1834, to which refer
l ence was made yesterday, seems to
have been a successor to the scheme '
r launched away back in 1790, and
• after the Legislature had refused to
spend any more money, to have
• wound up in the halls of Congress.
' The AVar Department assigned an *
engineer to make surveys and esti
mates which was done very car*v
, fully, but Congress was more iw
-1 terested in improving the navlga- t
tion of creeks in other parts of the
i country, as it was until very recently
, and to the great advantage of the
, Southern States, than in voting
, money to make a channel in the
> | Susquehanna. The era of the canal
was just beginning then and the
i development of the railroads which
l succeeded it put a damper on water
transportation in this section of the
, state. However, as Governor John
K. Tener 9aid one day when view
i Ing the old canal locks and works
at Clark's Ferry, "Some day people
will wish they had that old canal
back again."
* • *
I "I know the first disposition of a
person asked if a telephone call is
' essential is to get mad, but a little
reflection will demonstrate what it
means," remarked a man connected
with telephone operations yesterday,
"There are many people sick in ex
changes. They are short-handed
and if the women, and men, too, who
call up people on the telephones in
morning and afternoon hours to
chat will just defer that pleasant oc
cupation for a week or -so it will
help all around. There are many
important calls for doctors, drug
gists and nurses which are actu
ally delayed because someone is
talking something else than busi
ness on the wires. You newspaper
people can help a lot if you will
call this to attention of everyone."
• * *
One of the interesting things '
about the business of the State Water
Supply Commission these days is the
number of applications being made
for approval of construction of dams.
They are held to indicate a revival
of interest in water power in the
stute. This week applications for
no less than six dams were approved
and others are pending. Some of
the dams are for coal companies
which want to prevent coal from
being washed away, but most of
them are for power purposes. Half
a dozen dredging enterprises were
also approved, some of them to deep
en channels. The commission is
rather chary about granting per
mits for filling these days.
, [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Alan C. Dodson, active in coal
production in the Hazleton district,
says that doctors going Into the
army are having a serious effect in
his district which is short on medi
cal men.
—C. C. Dickson, one of New Cas
tle's best-known businessmen, will
retire after fifty-one years of busi
ness.
—Judge M. B. Stephens, of Cam
bria county, is taking an active part
in the Liberty Loan in his county.
—Dr. J. H. Sigafoos, of Bethle
hem, has been named as district
' deputy of the Elks for that section
of Pennsylvania.
—Senator E. F. Warner, coal ad-
mlnistrator in the Carbon regiffh,
has asked people not to burn up ties
or sills except for fuel.
—Col. Asher Miner, commanding
the Luzerne county artillery, and
mentioned for his bravery at Fismes,
used to be a member of the Legis
lature.
—Mayor A. M. Hoagland, of Wil
liamsport, is taking an active part i
in fighting influenza. He has been
busy assembling tents and cots.
T DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg silk is being
used in making flags?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—During the Civil War every
church and schoolhouse in Harris
burg was used to care for wounded
soldiers. _