8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 " y Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.%3HAIH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqnare ■ E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STBINMETZ. Managing Editor 4. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 1. 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 n*vs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m. Member American A _ Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla 'JPfecSkaraßl Bureau of Clrcu flgllilsfll ,at J on and^Penn- K3C {8 1188 M Eastern office, I Story, jJSm Avenue. Building Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918 Genius is only great patience.— Buff on. RUIN PLANNED GERMANY protesting that her soldiery has not, by orders of the government, either need lessly destroyed property in France and Belgium nor cruelly treated the inhabitants, lies not only outrage ously, but stupidly. The evidence of her guilt is in our hands. It cannot be refuted. This wholesale destruction un questionably has been part of a well-laid plan to put the business of France and Belgium under a great handicap in competition with German trade after the war. It reveals the cold-blooded, heartless character of the German war-lords. In 1913 Germany was unable to compete successfully with these Bel gian and French industries. They were employing thousands upon thousands of people and were mak ing money. The war jsave Germany the opportunity to ruthlessly destroy the mills and disrupt the organiza tion and the Kaiser's armies have been willing tools in the work of destruction. Lille, Tourcoing, Rou baix, Lens, Cambrai and countless other towns and cities have been systematically ruined. , Shall not Germany be made to pay for this? Shall we negotiate a peace with so disreputable and treacherous a foe? Can we do any thing but fight on until we shall be able, by sheer force of arms, to compel this robber of the nations to as nearly as possible restore his loot and repair his destruction? The answer is on the lips of every man or woman you meet. It is "unconditional surrender." Australia wants U. S. trade after war —Newspaper headline. And why not? WHOSE GOVERNMENT? DON'T let the election go against the government," wails a Demo cratic Liberty Loan worker in Chicago; meaning thereby, please re elect a Democratic Congress. So, we ask, whose government is this, anyway? The answer, of course, is that our government belongs to the people. And a majority of the voters of the United States are normally Repub lican voters. Therefore, it will not be "going against the government" elect a Republican Congress in November. On the other hand, the choice of a Republican Congress would have a stabilizing influence at Washington and would insure the President full co-operation and sup port on every measure designed to hasten victory in the war; for the Republican party is very distinctly a win-the-war party. It will be remembered that Presi dent Wilson had to turn to the Re publicans in Congress when his own party members deserted him on the draft and, other vital war measures. Republicans votes enabled the ad ministration to put its plans into execution. Republican votes have been cast consistently In favor of progressive war measures without regard to party. Republican Con gressmen and Senators have placed patriotism above partlsanlsm on every occasion when there has been the necessity of choosing between the two, which is more than can be said of some of the Democratic rep resentatives for whom the 'adminis tration is now pleading so earnestly. But Republicans have not been treated fairly In return. The big Re publican States have not been ade quately represented on the Important committees and with few exceptions the President's appointments have been confined to the Democratic party, with a large slice of patron age going to the Solidly Democratic South. Nor has the country-at-large fared any better. For example, ooal and wheat prices have been regu lated by law, but the price of cot- WEDNESDAY EVENING* ton continues to soar with no pros pect of relief, because the South is in the saddle and cotton is king with the Democrats who control affairs at Washington. One can Imagine that a Republican Congress would not be long in turning its attention to the toll the Southern Democrats are collecting from the rest of the country in the way of unrestricted prices on cotton. Nobody can honestly question the position of the Republican party with respect to the prosecution of the war; nor will it be denied that a majority of the Democrats in Con gress have done their part. The war is not a one-man nor a one-party affair. It belongs to all parties, afid for the most part both Republicans and Democrats are earnestly in favor of its vigorous prosecution. But the war is going to end within the next two years—during the terms of the Congressmen and Senators to be chosen in November —and then will come the great problems of recon struction. Here the Democratic party must take a back seat. It has never been the party of construction. Its record is one of opposition and its administrations have been marked Invariably by the wreck of business and tho ruin of trade. Capital has lost millions with Democracy in the saddle, and labor has been without employment. Mills have been closed and breadlines have been long. We need go no further back than the period Just before the war broke out in 1914, which event alone pre vented the country, under President Wilson, from suffering one of the worst business and labor depres sions in its history. In 1914, with a Democratic President and an over whelmingly Democratic Congress, we were heading directly from the height of prosperity to the depth of ruin. And, now, with the great recon struction period almost in sight, is it any wonder that thinking men hesitate to entrust" the fate of the country to the representatives of a party that could not manage the affairs' of government successfully during normal times? Certainly not. Nor is it remarkable that the voters should turn in this crisis to the great Republican party which brought the country safely through the Civil War reconstruction period and under whose policies the immense indus tries were developed that have en abled us to fight a winning war against Germany. This is a govern ment of the people, by the people and for the people, and a majority of the voters normally cast Repub lican ballots. A Republican Con gress, all other considerations aside, is the most natural result to expect from the elections, and with the other appeals added it is reasonable to look for a Republican House and Senate in the next Congress. Lancaster has driven one of its pro- German, Kaiser-loving preachers out of tows. He might Join that other gentleman of the cloth sent to Leav enworth prison for his Hun senti ments. We must put on the screws. WELCOMES QUARANTINE THERE is one person in the com munity who looks upon the in fluenza epidemic and its inci dental quarantine with not unkindly eye. Lean this way and we will reveal his identity. He is the small boy wito has not gone through the pains of the dis ease. v You remember, of course, those good old days when on clear frosty mornings, you stuck your nose from under the covers and wondered hopefully whether by any good fortune the school house might have burned down during the night. Well that's the way the small boy feels about the quarantine. To him the closing of the schools is a heavensent blessing; nothing less. He casts his eye anxiously over the evening paper, fearing the fateful announcement that school is to start on the morrow, and then goes whooping joyfully off to supper when he fails to find it. He turns over for another half-hour in bed in the morning, the while he dreamily con templates the possibilities of the day for boyhood pleasures and grins imp ishly to himself when it chances through his mind that even the Sunday schools are closed. In the v language of the street. Shakespeare "knew a lot" when he said: "Sweet are ths uses of adver sity." To quit fighting now would be to leave Germany in a position to renew the war at a moment's notice. LITTLE MEN AT WORK THROUGHOUT the belligerent countries much attention is be ing given tq after-the-war eco nomic construction. There promises to be a tremendous revival of trade and industry at the close of hostili ties and the tendency is for all the countries to prepare for the peace activities which are regarded as of supreme importance. Hence the im portance of the congressional elec tions. X According to his own newspaper mouthpiece, "the business of the War Trade Board is of such a vital and deliberate character" that Mr. Mc- Cormlck will turn over the campaign to the vice-chairman of the Demo cratic national committee. But the duties of the War Trade Board are not "of such a vital and delicate character" as to prevent Its chairman from indulging in the cheapest sort of partisan politics. Colonel George Harvey declares that Chairman Mc- Cormick "must surely be an incor rigible partisan. If he were not he would realize the unpatriotism and also the impolicy of some of the ut terances which he is permitting, if not directing, the assistant treasurer of the Democratic national, commit tee to put forth. Colonel Harvey maintains "there la very serious objection to drag ging the war into politics or the injecting of politics ipto the con duct of the war, both of which things, he regrets to say, the money begging letters and circulars seem calculated to do." In the current number of his "War Weekly" the Colonel quotes from a recent circular of the national Democratic committee to the effect that the election of a Republican Congress In November "would be viewed as a defeat for PrSsident Wilson by our allies and particularly by our enemies." This same circu lar asks, "what would Berlin think lit the administration's party met iwlth national defeat?" and Colonel I Harvey replies, "So far as that ques- Itlon is directed to us, we reply un hesitatingly that we don't care a j tinker's dam what Berlin thinks on that or any other subject But as a matter of fact we don't believe that the election of a Republican majority—always provided it was a loyal majority—would give the Kai ser and his cohorts a crumb of com fort." Further along, after reminding the Democrats that three of the six United States Senators who refused to support the "war" President when he asked for a declaration of war against Oermany were Democrats, he says: Indeed, we should say that a Republican majority might cause the Germans more dismay than comfort; because, since it would entail no slackening in the pros? ecution of the war, it would con firm them in the knowledge that so far as the war is concerned this nation is united in support of the President, and that in that respect it aoes not matter which party has a majority in Con gress. As a matter of fact, 'there is no Justification for the pretended con cern of Democratic partisans over the election of a Congress that might not be controlled by the President's own party. He has been loyally supported 'by Republicans every where and It is a rank suggestion that the vigorous prosecution of the war depends upon a Democratic Con gress. The little men at Washing ton who are keeping up this hue and cry are endeavoring to make up# in noise what they lack in ability. IK By the Ex-Committccman Reports reaching Republican state headquarters in Philadelphia indi cate that while war activities, the Liberty Loan campaign and tho in fluenza epidemic have put politics on the shelf in many counties there is small doubt of the Keystone State rolling up a majority for Senator William C. Sproul and his colleagues on the Republican state ticket that will be fairly proportionate to the majorities of other years. In some sections of the state leaders are op timistic about duplicating the suc cess of the Delaware senator In tho primary at the general election, while others say that the reports of inroads made by the Bonniwell "gumshoe" campaign and the liquor men's attacks on Sproul are not overdrawn. The Philadelphia Evening: Bulletin in discussing the reports as received at the Republican headquarters says: "The Republican state com mittee will within the next day or two forecast a plurality for State Senator William C. Sproul, Republi can candidate for Governor, of not less than 150,000. Governor Brum baugh's plurality four years ago was 134,825. fetate Senator, William E. Crow, chairman of the state com mittee, has authorized the claim not only that Senator Sproul will be elected on November 5, but that the present Democratic Congressional delegation of seven members from this state will be reduced to at least three. A minimum Sproul plurality of 150,000 over Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, his Democratic opponent, was declared to-day to be based on "rock-bottom estimates" turned in to the state committee at the re quest of Senator Crow by Republi can chairmen of the various coun ties." —On the other hand, the Phila delphia Inquirer says that State Chairman Crow has sent out what it calls "a note of warning" to leaders and committeemen not to assume that the Republicans will have a huge majority, but to work to see that it is assured. The Inquirer says: "If the plans mapped out for the closing days of the canvas's are carried out, Chairman Crow believes that Senator Sproul's majority will not be less than 150,000 and that it may exceed 200,000. There are thou sands of Democrats who will not support Bonniwell and who will vote for Sproul in repudiation of the men and interests that are behind the Bonniwell candidacy." —The Philadelphia Press Joins in the careful discussion of the cam paign and warns that too much should not be taken for granted. The Democratic Philadelphia Record, while not referring very much to the stealthy manner in which the Dem ocratic nominee for Governor has been going about the state even in the midst of the Liberty Loan cam paign. says that "distress signals" were hoisted at the Republican state headquarters and that "amusing es timates" are being made. The Phila delphia North American seems to be determined that pople shall know that Sproul typifies the prohibition sentiment and that other men should join in and help. —The estimates which annoy the Philadelphia Record are that Sproul will carry Delaware by 12.000 be cause men of all shades of political belief are for him; Chester by 5,000; Montgomery by 12,000; Dauphin by 8,000 and.Bucks by 3,000.. —ln the midst of it all the Demo cratic state windmill is silent and such things as a vacancy on the Democratic Congressional ticket In the home district of the Democratic i national chairman, are not popular topics on Market Square. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times prints an Interesting account of a meeting In Pittsburgh at which the legislative leader of the "dry" forces, Representative John W. Vickerman, charged that liquor Interests were deliberately lying about Senator W. C. Bproul In connection with the in fluenza quarantine in the hope of making votes for Judge E. C. Bon niwell, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate. The Pittsburgh newspaper says: "Ever since the liquor dealers were closed by the State Department of Health as a part of the program in preventing the spread tot Influenza, effort has been made by the Bortnl well forces to use the quarantine us a meaiv, of influencing votes against Senator Sproul, the Republican nominee. Some liquor men spread HAJfiRISBURG TELEGRAPH ! IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES By riieUKt OUR MAIO ~ s C " 1 uerrT- WBLL BITHSR VJNBVE [J n f* 6 r o 2Y**Zo I C \ ~~~ V I ft>R6£>T n> . 2XS*r. f HeRe, V He )n • TOM thc OVM MtAU- L3TVS f CATIN6 IN ThS / ) OLD NAPKINS/ APPET'TC / PEPPe* K, ° I eAT, IN "me V WE CA \ kitcmbn - Mice /I / L i*e. A SALT- YOU'LL / \IT'LL SAUfc WMK , f N. \ for A CHA.N6E- / V eu ulrti P I FltJO'O* U / v y j>yo p-" r SHC WL \ Tne "pautrv y U™ J fif&■%. SS". / rs( v ._ TneAes NO/ spoobw . p A -r ? / . DResseD-nu ]^' —v CATS LIKE / ioP OUR EAT V (CAT SO SlOv* J f \ the story among others in the busi- | ness and among members of drink ing clubs, that Senator Sproul had urged Governor M. G. Brumbaugh | to brtpg about the closing of all j place's selling liquor." —Senator Sproul will discuss cam paign plans with Republican state leaders the latter part of the week And likely make some campaign speeches next week. Judge Bonnl well, notwithstanding newspaper criticisms of his course in neglecting his judicial duties to play politics, is starting on a new tour. He will be in Lackawanna county to-day and Luzerne to-morrow. Next day he will be in Northumberland and the weekend in Lycoming. Next week he will spend in the western part of the state. Just what E. J| Fithian, the Prohibition nominee for governor, will do after the blast given him by M. J. Fanning in the North .American is not known. 1 —Practically every head of a de partment of the state government consulted about sending election commissioners to take votes of sol diers in the camps in this country advised against it. William H. Ball, secretary to the Governor, is said to have been strenuously in favor of sending commissioners in order that there might be no criticism in favor of men not being given a chance to vote. —Charles B. Lenahan, candidate for Supreme Court, has opened head quarters in Philadelphia. • HANLEY URGES SPROUL [By the Rev. Michael J. Fanning] Ex-Governor Hanley, of Indiana, late presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, is taking an ac tive interest in the Pennsylvania campaign. In a recent edition of his paper, The National Enquirer, there appeared two signed editor ials over his name well worthy of the attention of every dry voter in the state. Under the headline "No , Equivoca tion Here," he quotes the ratifica tion plank found in Senator Sproul's personal declaration of principles, and adds: "This rings true in its every line, word and syllable." He then calls attention to Judge Bon ntwell's seeming subserviency to the will of the liquor forces, and adds: "This presents a clean-out issue on the question of the amendment In Pennsylvania—an issue so clearly drawn and so decisive in character as to leave every elector in the state, who desires to ratification of the national amendment, and the end of the liquor traffic in America, no choice—he must either vote for Mr. Sproul, or by his ballot imperil the fate of the amendment, certainly in Pennsylvania, and possibly in the nation." Under the headline: "An Un paralleled Situation," he calls atten tion to the fact that the Prohibition party in New York and in Ohio in dorsed the Republican candidates for governor, and contrasts this wise act with the foolish policy of the leaders of that party in Pennsylvania. Following a paragraph in which he characterizes Senator Sproul as a satisfactory dry candidate; Judge Bonniwell, as the agent and repre sentative of every interest in the state opposed to ratification; and Doctor Fithian, as worthy in every essential of heart and mind of the great efflce to which he aspires; he adds: "Doctor Fithian's candidacy, how ever, can avail nothing for the tem perance cause under such circum stances. Every vote cast for him will make Bonniwell's election more nearly possible. "Prohibition voters ought to do in Pennsylvania what they are doing in New York and Ohio —join the forces that are battling for the amend ment's ratification under circum stances that hold assurances of vic tory. , "The National Enquirer is con vinced that Doctor Fithian should withdraw and thereby clear the way for the support of Mr. Sproul by the third party prohibitionists of the state." True, every word of it. Every intelligent prohibitionist in Pennsyl vania, who is not a bigot, will say amen to this clarion call from their national leader to enter the camp where victory waitß. They owe something to Senator Sproul and should be quick to realize, and prompt to pay it. Had it not been for his voluntary, unexpected, and from the viewpoint of personal suc cess on his part, unnecessary declar ations, prohibition and its twin re form, woman's suffrage, would, cut but sorry figures in this campaign. Owing to his fine courage which led him to strike out on an untrod den path, fraught with danger to a political aspirant, his fearless declar ations in favor of these reforms, now accepted by his fellow candi dates and other leaders of his party, have virtually bocomo the platform of the dominant party in this state. This means their ultimate victory, and that at an early data. The American Answer [Col. Harvey's War Weekly] * < , IN the words of the caption of the cartoon with which we recently strove to the American attitude toward the murderer who <;omes with blood-s'.aincd hands kiitcking at our door: "Tell him to go to hell!" And take down the rifle. This, then, is the "only possible answer" to tiny German or Ausiro- Hungar'an suggestion, proposal or prayer for a conference or for peace negotiations: We will not compro mise those principles. We cannot accept the word o,f the Huns, and it would therefore be worse than futile for us to enter into negotia tions in which we should be asked to accept their word, and into which" indeed, we could enter only on the basis of such acceptance. It would be an anomaly for parties to enter into negotiations if each was not ready to accept the word of the other. * But are we thus shutting the door against any possible peace, by re jecting peace overtures? By no means. On the contrary, we are opening it wider and facilitating the France's Awful Suffering [From the New York Times] When the American Red Cross on August 12, 1917, organized its work for the women and children of France under the Children's Bureau of the Department of Civil Affairs in France, with Dr. William Palmer Lucas, professor of children's dis eases at the University of Califor nia, as chief, Mrs. Lucas accompa nied her husband to France and joined in his work. For ten months she worked with him in the estab lishment of children's hospitals, con valescent homes, nurseries, in re ceiving and caring for homeless children, in finding the relatives of the little ones who had lost their families in the terror of bombard ment or flight, in feeding children who had been hungry for three years. Mrs. Lucas' book is about the work of the American Red Cross for the children of France. But it is not only civilians, doctors, nurses and aids who are interested and help. One of the things that has most impressed her in France is the quick response made to the chil dren's needs by the soldiers from America. "I love this Army of ours that has come to help and doesn't for r get the . children," she says. And she tells a story of one company— one of many groups—that adopted a French boy. The men wrote: j "Company G met Easter morning. We want to adopt a little boy of 6 with blue eyes, the son of a man who fell at Verdun." It was.easy enough to And such a child, and his photograph and his itory were sent to Company G. In writing, the worker for the Chil dren's Bureau chanced to mention the fact that little Henri had two brothers and two sisters, and the answer came back, unexpected and prompt: "Company G takes the whole bunch." "It isn't just the fact of illegit imacy. It's the awful bitterness and hatred that is behind such scenes," I she continues. "I look at the iJoor babies, who are so helpless and pa thetic, and I think I have never seen anything more shocking; but, oh, jthe mothers! That any human be | ing has been forced into such a hideous struggle is what is so hard !to bear. And there you are. But ono great, big fact remains, that the power that brought this on a peace ful world has got to be crushed, now." Bluffing (From the Kansas City Star) It is to be expected that Germany will make wry faces and do a deal of gagging before she takes the med icine. She will try to make paper concessions and to save what she can. She will vow that she will never accept unconditional surrender, and will fight to the last drop of blood, and all that. Her talk will be all bluff. She must take the medicine in the end, and she will. There is nothing else possible. Bower bf God Unto Salvation So, as much as in me is, I ftm ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For lam not ashamed of tho gospel of Christ; for It is the power of God unto salva tion to every one that believeth. — Romans I, IS and 1* conclusion of peace at the earliest possible moment —at a mudh ear lier moment than would be possible under any arrangement of confer ence or negotiations. It would be possible to have peace, complete and lasting peace, before sunset to morrow, in the only way in which peace can be- had now or at any time. That is, through Uncondi tional Surrender. Let Germany throw down her arms and stop fighting. Then we will march our army into Berlin and tell her what is going to happen to her. No compromise! Np negotiations! No "conference" save of the Allied Powers among themselves! No bargaining with woman-ravishing, baby-murdering Huns! It is for us to dictate, and for them to accept. And however harsh and hard our terms may seefh, it is for the Huns to thank God —not their Old Ger man Gott, but God —for the great mercy Which he puts into our hearts to grant them, in permitting so much as one of them to remain alive and free. That is the answer to the peace drive, and must be the only possible answer to every peace drive they may ever make. THE ANSWER They ask for peace, Liars and thieves, who slay, and rape, and burn, Now seek to parley what they shall return. They ask fbr peace, Cool, cultured brutes, more foul than they that breed Dumb beasts that know no law but lust and greed. They ask fo rpeace! Their fat, short-fingered hands still dripping red With blood of little children and our dead. They ask for peace! And think those loathsome paws are fit to be Grasped by clean hands, the hands of chivalry! Great God of mercy and righteous ness, Give us the strength to make them understand That on his knees their fiend of frightfulness Shall get the only justice" from thy hand! Lay down your arms, you troops of treachery! Lay down your pride, you hosts of hate and hell! Lay down your lies, your loot, your lechery! Lay down ydur arms, you killers of Cavell! Then only shall you know your God of might, Your "God with us," who now commands "Thou must!" He is the great Jehovah, God of right, Your God, our God, the God in whom we trust. To Him we leave all vengeance; and like Him We come to you with healing for all harms; But we come, led by Joan and sera phim. Lay down your arms, dark power! Lay down your arms! —William Duncan Cheney, in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Struck their Funny Bones The reaction of the German sub marining in American waters on the boys "Over There" will be interest ing to home folks. When the news got to Frailce that submarines were plying in American waters near New York, did it produce consternation? No. Did it produce regret? No. Did it make them mad? No. It made them laugh. All over France the boys laughed; laughed uproariously, doubled up and laugh ed. I found this everywhere. I do not attempt to explain it. It just struck their funny bones. I heard one fellow say, "Now the next best thing would be for a sub some night when thefe was nobody in the of fices to throw a few shells into one of those New York skyscrapers." "I'll say so! I'll say .so!" was the ! laughing reply. "Wow! There'd something do in' nt home then wouldn't there?" my friend th'e artillery captain said, with a grin.—William L. Stldger, in the Outlook. OCTOBER 23, 1918. Confession, Not Compliance [New York Times] The Germans have not yet learn ed to understand, much less to speak, our language of agreement. Wo may regard their latest note as a German effort to meet the Presi dent's demands. In part it does move toward them, but haltingly and with evasions, notably in re spect to the abandonment of inhu mane practices contrary to the-laws of war on sea and land; but in other parts it rings false, it is colored with those deceptions and hypocri sies which we have come to regard as inseparable from the processes of the German mind. If we go back a little more than three months and try to imagine what sort of note the Gorman government would have drawn up in respect to peace discus sions before July 18, we shall see at once that in this note it has gone far toward those admissions and compliances which have been set up by President Wilson and the Allied governments as the condi tions which must precede the con sideration of peace proposals. But Germany has not yet traversed the whole of the wide space between her position and that of the Allied governments. The most we can say is that she is on the way and that she will be forced to complete her hard Journey to the point of full surrender. Going Some Government controlled express is doing the railroad administration a good turn by making freight seem fast by comparison.—Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times. [OUR DAILY LAUGH APPRAISING THEM. New Comer I Which is the best jl!Pv| 'jf jjlr boarding house in Old Timer JHwhl | There isn't any w I best; I've tried •em all. But I l|<| |l||yßH can point out a KB-*, <_ illM few of the worst. /9K op all times. ■ r*WiYB There are times fiffl ft (J AM when one wishes / "jam on " were alone. iFXi} t'-. happened Ivr} /—JhEjBIB 1. to ao last eve— \lW' A'"' III my fl ancee caught ' 'JBFllfl me dlnln ff with a ,'k f 'C' 'HI i pretty Stranger. WHERE FATHER J STANDS. Pl' Dobbs—Are you r^/jja roing to give any / \Vi 1 Aiflw • parties this win- // nothcr and \, {iris will give | f . jarties, I'll figure. Mi I " ts usual, as the HIJ/* 1 nnocont bystand- |||i | V HIS ANSWER. j Teacher —What is the plural, of Bright Pupil— THING TO DO. C I It is always —yj v3aky-J --ustomary to ask jaKj guest to call /I,' gain, isn't it? / vl v J-jft l)s Of course It Is; / £ 1 specially if ho Is A \ i R bill collector. Vv J ] lEimtf ttg (Eljat One of the city's medical men, who has been going day and night for the last two weeks, and who has been In every section of Harrlsburg, said the thing that Impressed him was the way people were staying at home. "Veqy often when people anl going at a high rate of speed things fix themselves upon notice whleh ryould not be observed other wise," said he. "The thing whicik has made me wonder as I drive about is why so many windows are lighted up between 7 and 10 at night. Take the residential sections, there are lights in every window. It looks as though everyone was giving a party. At first I could not account for it and then it struck me that the people of Harrlsburg had no place to go but home and that they were staying at home, get ting acquainted with each other. The Influenza outbreak with its closing of theaters, saloons, ice cream and soda parlors and prdtty nearly everything else including the churches, has not been a bad thing for Harrlsburg in one or two ways. We have suffered much, but from what I have found there have been some compensations and home life has been given an impetus which it needed even in our city of homes." The observations of the medical man are certainly to the point. There are more people staying home now than probably ever known before and, barring the first week or so after things open up at the theaters and amusement places there will be more or less return to home conditions, especially if it happens to be an early winter. "Down town" and the other centers of life in Harris- ' burg are about the deadest places at night one could imagine. Sunday night is lively compared to most of these evenings and 10.30, the hour when many people are starting home from the theaters, is a gloomy time. In the language of a "newsy" who hangs about Third and Mar-, ket: "Dls town's goin' to bed awful early now." * • • Pennsylvania's State Capitol, which a few weeks ago, was bright with the many colored posters call ing upon people to subscribe to the Liberty Loan and filled with auto mobile parties and visitors, is now one of the gloomiest places in Har rlsburg. Half the building is closed through the edict of the Department of Health and the great bronze doors are half closed with big signs hang ing from them that the Capitol is closed except to people 'having of ficial business and newspaper cor respondents." The legislative halls are locked tight and a guard sits in front of the Governor's reception room which contains the Oakley paintings. The Liberty Loan posters have all disappeared from the cor ridors; less than half of the ele vators are running; the force of caretakers and charmen is reduced by the epidemic and in the depart ments there are many vacant desks because of illness of clerks, while meetings and hearings have been dispensed with and meeting places are closed. The open window and the closed door are the rule and visits by delegations are being dis couraged until the danger from the epidemic passes. A few days ago Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh is sued a letter to heads of departments suggesting that the women employes volunteer as nurses, but the sition did not take very well in of fices where forces are short owing to illness and the press of routine business never seems to grow less. One of the effects of the closing or der has been to inundate the Gov ernor's office with telegrams and let ters, some protesting and some in quiring about the duration of the "shutdown." * • • "This prohibition because of in fluenza is not such a bad thing aftet all," remarked a man who has seen many sides of life and been able to view the result cheerfully. "It is a sort of trial heat for the boys so that they will realize what is com ing." • • • The influenza outbreak has had the effect of causing an increase in the correspondence of State Capitol departments the last week, and the reflection of the State Department of Health's order to close all amuse ment places, saloons and other points where crowds might gather and the authority given to local boards to close churches and schools has curiously enough added to the mail for the Governor and other of ficials. The Department of Health gets a large amount of mail in any event and this quantity has been incroased lately. The mail of the Governor has contained quite a few letters relative to the order and in fluenza generally, some of the com munications being protests and oth ers advisory. The Attorney General has not escaped the flood of letters about the consequences of the stnte's regulatory -action, either. Times when extraordinary measures have to be taken are generally those chSsen for many folks to take pens in hand and address state ollicials. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE p—- —J. G. Pheasant, chief housing investigator of the Emergency Fleet, has been getting busy on con ditions in the Schuylkill Valley towns. —Dr. Charles B. Penrose, promi nent Philadelphian, was too busy yesterday With public affairs to get out for the first few days hunting which he has seldom missed. —Judge Wi S. Butler, of thi Chester county courts, has adjourn e^_>he criminal courts for the coun. ty until December because of influ enza conditions. DO YOU KNOW I < —That Pennsylvania is much moat to the Allies and tljj , some of it is going from risburg? yr HISTORIC HARRISBCRG —Harrlsburg's first amusemet* place was the race course along river shoro. Janet's Protest (From Everybody's Magazine) Janet, aged •, was taken by ha mother to lunoh at the house of i friend. The hostess was of a talkatlvl variety, and. In her enjoyment a certain interesting little incident! she was relating, quite forgot to glvt food, After a lapse of several mlnutei Janet oouid endure this eltuatloi no longer, 80, raising her plate 1 high as she could, she demanded t| a shrill voioe; "Anybody here want a eleM ? plate 7"
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