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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1918
And be ye Kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving each other,
even as God also in Christ forgave
you—Eph. 1:82.
VICTIMS OF BAD HOUSING
WHILE the influenza epidemic,
has been no respecter of per- ■
sons and both rich and poor
have fallen before its ravages, the
State Health Department's observa
tions indicate that bad housing has
greatly Increased the sick and death
rates. Where the housing has been
unusually poor there the disease has
been at its worst. Nor is contagion
' originating in slum districts con
fined to the slums. It is like a snake
that winds its slimy path from the
gutter to the palace, spreading its
poison as it goes.
In other words, we, all of us, are
now paying for the crime of bad
housing. Not only are the poor people
who must live in the hovels we
have permitted to be built and
rented in the community paying for
their insanitary surroundings in
sickness and death, but the germs
originating there spread to all parts
of the city. Never have we had
such an object lesson, but the ques
tion arises, will we, as the epidemic
wanes, go back to our old ways or
will we begin the elimination of the
unfit house? The extent of the next
epidemic and the percentage of
deaths therefrom will depend upon
the answer.
Senator Sproul may be trusted to di
rect a constructive highway program
when he comes to Capitol Hill next
January. He has been intensely in
terested in the good roads question for
years and the proposed loan upon
which the people will pass at the No
vember election ought to he one of the
subjects carefully considered during
the next few days. It ought to be
adopted by an overwhelming vote.
NOT FOOLED BY NOISE
THERE are still those who be
lieve that the prohibition cause
in Pennsylvania has been some-!
what damaged by the closing of the
drinking places during the prevail- 1
Ing epidemic. This belief is based
on the assumption that many per
sons resent the increased cost of
medicinal concoctions, especially
whisky, and may emphasize their 1
disapproval by voting against the
candidates who favor the prohibi
tion amendment to tho constitution.
No consideration Is given, however,
to the important fact that since the
elimination of iiquer there has been
a marked and significant Improve
ment in pubile order as well as effi
ciency In Industrial and other bust-|
neas establishments,
Recently the eeke producers of
the Uniontown district declared the
removal of the iiquer menace was
an imperative necessity if the Con.
neilsville cake regions were to pro
duce the maximum quantity ef eoke
fuel, It was shewn that a new ton.
nage reeerd for the Fayette eeunty
legion was established during the
first week of the enforced "dry"'
period, when the output was within
600 tons of the 760,860 mark, this j
reeord beating the previous high
record ef September 10 by pearly
6,000 tons, and In the midst of a
devastating epidemle, at that,
Fuel administration efficlals eredit
the gains of 81,457 tons, as compared
with the output for the week ending
October B, eu, almost entirely due to
the establishing of q "dry" gone
around that particular mining region
through the enforeement of the
health order.
As a result ef these significant
and impressive figures ths field rep.
resentatives of the fuel administra.
tion have been instructed to analyse
conditions eritieally, with & view to
making a complete and reliable re
port on ths effects of ths health de
partment's "dry'' edict upon the rank
and file of the working men. A dis
patch from Uniontown states that
generally speaking the men were re
ported to have worked more stead
ily and with wore vigor than when
an unlimited supply of intoxicants
THURSDAY EVENING,
could be had for the asking:. It Is
also stated that the man power of
the region was increased for the
week in question from ten to thirty
per cent and this result was attri
buted almost exclusively to the ab
sence of liquor.
Right here in Harrisburg we have
seen the beneficent effect of the clos
ing of the saloons. Mayor Keister,
would undoubtedly prove an impor
tant witness against John Barley
corn, as would also the officials of the
police department. Warden Mcll
henny reports that daily admissions
at the county jail have fallen from
15 to 2 a day as a result of the "dry"
order. There are those who vainly
imagine the people are being de
ceived by the noisy protests of the
j pro-liquor element of the commun
ity. Judge Bonniwell and those
who pretend to believe he represents
the "personal liberty" rights of our
citizens are claiming a wonderful
impetus for his campaign on the
"wet" platform, but the Telegraph
makes this prediction—that Senator
Sproul's majority in Pennsylvania
for Governor will be larger than the
total of the Bonniwell vote.
We shall not be greatly surprised
to see some peculiar voting at the
November election on the prohibi
tion issue. Scores and hundreds of
men who personally "take a drink
or leave it alone" will cast their bal
lots on the side of prohibition. It
is not only a moral issue; it is an
economic proposition and as such
will be given the serious considera
tion of thousands of thoughtful
people. Also, those who count on
the workingmen of Pennsylvania lin
ing up behind John Barleycorn are
headed for a big surprise. This
problem is not one that can be
differentiated as to classes of so
ciety. Men and women have learned
that the drink evil has touched every
quarter and done injury in all, and
they have numbered its days.
The and the coal ad
ministrator have been working in per
fect harmony. Let's hope there will
be no breaking off of negotiations.
ON WITH THE WAR
THE Kaisor and his lieutenants,
who have been hiding behind
the mask of a proposed popular gov
ernment. will derive little satisfac
tion from President Wi'son's latest
note. They must unconditionally
surrender or the emperor must abdi
cate in favor of a ru'.er to be chosen
by the voice of the people. In any
event, the German military clique
is to be crushed out of existence, find
its power to again turn hell loose
upon the earth is to be taken away.
The import of the President's lat
est message is "unconditional sur
render," for it is difficult to be
lieve that the HOhenzollerns and the
Junkers will retire while their
armies are intact, though battered,
and they are still in power at home.
The President's late't note leaves
little to be desired, although it is
disappointing to those who believe
he should have ummed up his
thought in the two words, "uncondi
tional surrender." It is at once a
notification that the Allies do not
mean to be drawn into the folly of
a negotiated peace with the Hohen
zollerns and a bid fcr revolution in
Germany. The only way the Ger
man people can have a place at the
peace table is by turning out
beasts who have made the war pos
sible.
The President frankly says he
knows he is dealing with a band of
| liars whose word is not to be trusted,
and that he does not mean to be
caught by the vague promises of
| those who regard solemnly-enacted
international treaties as so manj
"scraps of paper." He is willing that
there should be an armistice, but j
the armistice must be left to Foch,
Haig. Pershing and Diaz, and is to
be of such character as would guar
antee the military supremacy of the
Allies. It is not difficult to Imagine
Foch's terms—the laying down of
: German rifles, the surrender of Ger- j
man cannon and the occupation of
German strongholds by Allied troops. 1
This would amount to that "uncon-1
I
ditlonal surrender" which the Allied
world is demanding.
Many will differ with the Presi
dent in his bid for popular govern
ment in Germany, feeling that we
should leave hands oft there. But
others will see in this part of the
note an effort merely to split the
liberals from the militarists in the
empire and thus increase dissension.
On this score, the speech of
Prince Max in the Reichstag yes
terday, vague and rambling as it
Is for the most part, makes clear
that Germany la not yet ready to ac
cept a peace of the kind outlined by
the President, Therefore, the war
must be continued. It will not end
this year. The probabilities are that,
unless Germany breaks from within
during the rigors of the winter or
by internal disagreements much
more serious at the moment than
can be seen from this distance, a vig.
1 orous campaign in 1919 will be nec
essary to bring the Kaiser to his
knees.
Forward with the war. then. Let
*
us at home emulate the soldiers In
the field, who are throwing back the
enemy on every front with one
thought, and one only, in their minds
—to beat Germany by force of arras.
There is a task for each one of us.
Unquestionably, the prolonged peace
talk has slowed up war work In some
directions. Let us set back to work
with redoubled energy. Down with
the Kaiser. On with the war.
T>OUc*IK
By the Ex-Committeeman
A very wholesome state of mind
; seems to be now the rule among Re-
I publican leaders In Pennsylvania
! and in the counties where elections
; have been more or less debatable as
; a result of the notes of warning
| sounded by Chairman William E.
! Crow, of the Republican state com
mittee. While the Republican state
ticket has never been in danger the
! attitude of the liquor people has
been such as to make possible a re
duced majority and to jeopardize
congressional and legislative elec
tions. The state chairman has noti
fied the men in charge of party af
fairs to go to work. They seem to
have started.
i The Republican state campaign
I is to he waged through the county
j organizations and the Democratic
I party will furnish the interesting
! spectacle of two campaigns. Judge
j Bonniwell is touring the anthracite
regions meeting voters and friends
| in a manifest attempt to get around
the effect of the influenza 4>an, which
is being observed by the Republican
state candidates. The Democratic
state organization is boosting J.
W ashlngton Logue and striving for
election of Congressmen.
The candidates tor Supreme and
Superior Court are hoeing their own
rows. In this connection it is inter
esting to note that S. H. Huselton,
who was supposed to have gotten
out of the fight for superior court
judge, is a candidate against Judge
W. D. Porter, who will give him a
thorough trouncing. Huselton has
sent a letter to one newspaper deny
ing that, he withdrew.
And in the midst of it all Con
gressmen Kreider, Griest, Focht and
Rose, are marching right on to re
election with chances excellent for
Candidates Duy in the 16tli and
Brooks in the 20th districts.
—Charges directly accusing mem
bers of u Philadelphiaa local draft
board of inducting men opposed to
them politically Into Army service
are being made in the Public Led
ger. It is alleged that a doctor who
Is a Trainer follower in one of the
downtown wards sent a Vare man
who had defeated him for city com
mitteeman to camp, revoking a de
ferred classification. The Army offi
cers sent the man back.
—The campaign being made by
Professor Francis A. March. Jr., of
Easton for Congress against Con
gressman Henry J. Steele is attract
ing much attention. It is believed
that March will come closer to win
ning than has any Republican in that
district in years. Some of his friends
say there is no doubt of his success
because of the Democratic split.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to
day accuses the state health au
thorities of "withholding home rule"
for Philadelphia In the matter of
lifting the ban against meetings of
various kinds. It charges that Dr.
B. F. Royer, the Governor's ap
i pointee as acting commissioner of
i health, refused to allow Philadelphia
city authorities to raise the ban
and gives much space to what it
terms 'a clash of opinion" between
state and city health officials. Inci
dentally, Dr. J. S. Neff, one of the
members of the advisory board of
the State Department of Health, is
quoted by the Inquirer as confirm
ing Dr. Charles B. Penrose's version
of the transactions with Dr. Royer.
—The influenza ban is commenc
ing to give considerable uneasiness
to men high in the state administra
tion.
—The Philadelphia Record inti
mates to-day that if Representa
tive Thomas F. McNichol gets ap
pointed to the Municipal Court
bench in Philadelphia it will show
whether are Yares are In or out of
favor.
—A Reading dispatch says: "The
Sproul boosters say Bonniwell's ef
fort to break up the regular Demo
cratic organization and the forming
of a new party has lost for him a
goodly number of regular Demo-
Icrats, who will vote for Sproul."
—The appointment of Howard E.
Butz, the Huntingdon editor, to be
state fire marshal, seems to meet
general approval. It is predicted
that he will be among the few heads
of departments to be retained under
Sproul.
—James F. Woodward, Republi
can candidate for secretary of inter
nal affairs, was here for a time
yesterday. He says that Allegheny
will go over 25,000 for the Repub
lican state ticket.
—The Philadelphia Press to-day
' days: "Thomas F. McNichol, Vare
I floor leader In the House of Repre
! sentatives at Harrlsburg In the last
j session, is desirous of a place on
} the Municipal Court bench, and this
l is the reason he recently resigned his
| nomination for the Legislature. The
subject was brought up for discus
sion In political circles yesterday by
the resignation from Select Coun
cil of William J. Crawford, who will
take Mr. McNichol's place on the
legislative ticket."
—The Philadelphia Press indulges
In this editorial shot: "It might be
Interesting to know that Democratic
Leader Palmer and Democratic
■ Candidate Bonniwell are thinking on
the armistice line just now. Every
thing In their party Is so quiet that
even if they should whisper It would
be heard."
—Withdrawal of George Franklin
Brumm as Washington party can
didate for Congress In the Schuyl
kill district assures the election of
John Reber, prominent manufac
turer. The Democrats now realise
that the, jig is up for them In that
county.
—Philadelphia has had to ad
vance Its Interest rate from four to
four and a half per cent for Its new
bonds,
,—Hasleton city fathers had a dis
cussion about flushing streets during
Influenza, While the discussion was
on the streets were flushed by those
in charge,
—Friends of Judge John W, Kep
hart are predioting that he will go
to Philadelphia city line with a nice
majority over the field,
—Northern tier prohibitionists are
inclined to vote for Bproui, Similar
sentiments are being expressed in
some of the southeastern counties,
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Support For Senator Sprout
[From the Philadelphia Inquirer]
It is not surprising to learn that
thousands of the fellow-citieens of
William C. Sproul, residing in the
counties of Delaware and Chester,
have resolved to cast their votes for
him, regardless of political considera
tions. Many of these neighbors of
Senator Sproul have voted tire Dem
ocratic ticket all their lives, but the
opportunity of placing in the Gov
ernorship a man in whom they have
trust and confidence will cause them
to ignore partisanship and support
the candidate who is best fitted for
the high office which is to be filled
at the November election.
It is no secret that this remark
able condition of affairs has been
brought about by the esteem and
the affection in which William C.
Sproul is held at home. He has
been "everybody's friend" in the best
meaning of that phrase. Successful
himself to a remarkable degree, he
has not permitted that success to
affect the size of his hatband nor to
warp his heart, but he has always,
when possible, extended the cheering
word and the helping hand to those
who are fighting the battles of life, j
In the course of years, therefore, and
quite unconsciously, he has created
friendships which money could not
buy, and which are worth more than
any office to which he could pos
sibly be elected.
But, quite apart from the strength
which has come to him by reason
o£ his engaging personality. Senator
Sproul is going to poll a large vote
through the state on nonpartisan
lines. Thousands of Democrats will
vote for him because they believe
that he best measures up to the re
quirements of the great office to
which he aspires. He has political
convictions, and he will stick by
them, but these men who propose to
vote for him regardless of party con
siderations know that once he has
been chosen by the votes of the peo
ple that he will be the Governor of
all the people, and that he will not
permit narrow nor petty reasons to
influence his official actions. They
feel that he will do all in his power
to give us a constructive adminis
tration, that he will labor to build
up the already great interests of the
state, and that he will aim to have it
keep abreast of the other progres
sive states of the Union. They feel
that he will not dissipate his strength
upon small political wrangles, but
that he can be counted upon to give
us a strong, broad-minded adminis
tration of the office.
None of these things can possibly
be hoped for at the hands of his op
ponent, because that gentleman,
from the very nature of things,
would have to spend most of his
time in "getting even" with his fac
tional foes, and in making it warm
for those who opposed his election.
Senator Sproul, to a singular de
gree, is in the position of a man
who has no foes to punish or friends
to reward. He will go into office
without any handicaps. He will have
every incentive to give the people a
first-class, dignified and progressive
administration, and those who know
him have no doubt but that he will
do these very things. It is because
of these facts that he is going fo polt
a Very large nonpartisan vote in
Pennsylvania.
LABOR NOTES
Over 11,000 women are employed
in factories in Chile, South America.
Membership In the Austrian labor
unions has declined 60 per cent,
since 1913. ,
Dock laborers in the Dominican
Republic are paid 80 cents a day.
Detroit labor men have donated
their library to Uncle Sam's soldier
boys.
The wage scale of organized car
penters in Newark, N. J,, is now 70
cents an hour.
Female employes in seven occu
pations in France average 50 cents a
day.
The New York House Wreckers'
Union has established strictly union
conditions and raised wages 3 214 perl
cent.
On July 2, at Toledo, Ohio, Ameri
can Flint Glass Workers' Union will
convene.
An Ever-Present Help
"O God, thou art my God; earn
estly will I seek thee; for thou hast
been my help and In the shadow
of thy wings will I rejoice."—Ps. 63;
1 and 7.
■ t
How Can Germany Pay?
By Henry Sterling Chapln of The Vigilantes.
AS WE READ of the deliberate
devastation of towns and de
struction of personal property
in France by retreating Germans,
human nature revolts and the de
sire to wreak equivalent vengeance
upon the Germans when our turn
comes—as we are sure it will—rises |
in every man's mind as a sense of
justice.
Then our centuries of civilization
assert themselves and we realize
that it is not possible for the Allies to
do anything tc German homes and
villages that is equivalent to what
the Huns have done to us.
How can Germany pay?
Here's a way.
Assuming that we bring the war
lords to their knees, we would de
mand that German labor transport
trees from Germany and plant thorn
When the Colors Went By
The great outpouring of French
sentiment for Americans is de
scribed by Lieutenant Frank O. Brig
ham of the air service, whose home
is in Oakland, Gal. He writes to his
father, F. E. Brigham. and his letter ]
is reprinted by the Literary Digest:
I was in Paris July 14. It was a
wonderful day in every way. The
early morning was very dull and
gray, but by the time the parade was
started there was not a cloud in the
sky. I never expect to see another
spectacle like it unless I am for
tunate enough to see an Allied en
try into Berlin. Half the world —
yes, more than that—was represent
ed in line and represented by the
best that each nation could bring
forward. As the colors of each na
tion went by, Paris seemed to get
more and more excited until I be
lieve that they had reached the ab
solute heights of enthusiasm.
English, Belgian, Italian, all of
them took the city by storm, but
away off down the line I heard a
I hum that steadily grew louder and
| sounded above all the rest of the
I noise, a hum that somehow or other
got inside of me and made me stand
a little straighter, and then about a
block away I saw a Hash of color, and
oh! how wonderful it looked to me
for the color resolved itself into the
"Colors;" and then, my dear people
I thought the heavens had broken
loose. I have never in my life heard
such an outburst of noise. It was not
the high shouting that one usually
hears, but a roar that started away
down and gradually increased until
when it broke the very windows rat
i tied. It sounded like the organized
yell of a million rooters, and then
just as quickly as it had started it
died down, and amid an absolute
silence and with every civilian hat
oft, every man in uniform, at a stiff
salute, the colors of the United
States of America went by.
Write Cheerful Letters
When you write to your soldier
overseas, be cheerful above all else.
Write as though he were in the
next town on a business trip. Tell
him how the house and garden l
look, the talk of the neighbors, and
who has been the latest one to en
list; how the Liberty Loans and the
Red Cross drives made out. But
never, never write that you are hav
ing a hard time. If you should bo
having a hard time, apply for help
to the Red Cross.—From the. No
vember Red Cross Magazine.
On Being a Martyr
When we read, we fancy we could
be martyrs; when we come to act,
we cannot bear a provoking word. —
Hannah More.
The Casualty List
I cried aloud to the wind
(I saw it, I heard it roar),
Begging it to be kind
To the man child that I bore.
Hands that plucked at my breast,
Can it be they handle the sword?
Milk fed atom at rest
Is he a man in the Lord?
i
Babe I was Joyful to rear,
Man 1 would save from the blast.
Morning and evening a fear
Fretted and felled me at last!
Out of the soil of despair
Blossomed life's flower I'd
missed;
And I could mother them all—
All in the casualty 11*11
! in France until every tree has been
, restored.
Demand that German buildings of
appropriate character be torn downj
1 and their stones and plumbing and
their contents be transported to
. France until every house and every
; household in France has been re
' stored.
'I Make German labor perform this
! until it is completed, with provision
only for the essential food, lodging
and clothing,
i In this way the destruction the
, Hun has performed will be visited
upon him without further economic
loss and the lesson will be taught
1 in every German village from which
the trees and houses are selected
for deportation.
Any indemnities for, damage to
human life, such as are ordinarily
computed at the end of a war, should
be entirely independent of this phy
sical reconstruction of Hun damage.
This would teach the real lesson
in the right way to the people of
Germaav.
THE STATE CAMPAIGN
[The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times]
Now the influenza epidemic pre
vents the intensive campaign which
had been planned for the last two
j weeks of the pre-election season. |
i Public gatherings are forbidden.
There will be no spellbinding, no
parades, none of the usual manifes
tations incident to a political can
vass. But the people must not for
get the election. Before them are
reared two prospects. Either they
will flock to the polls and perform
the duty of citizenship on November
5 by voting in accordance with their
principles or they will stay away and
make a mockery of the same. For
Pennsylvanians the issue is clearly
defined. Will you have good govern
ment or will you have bad? Sena
tor William C. Sproul, Republican
nominee for Governor; Senator Ed
ward E. Beidleman, for Lieutenant
, Governor, and Representative James
F. Woodward, for Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, stand for good gov
ernment. Senator Sproul's platform,
with which all should be familiar,
makes plain his high purpose, his
splendid equipment, his intelligent
comprehension of public questions
and necessities, and displays the
, lofty ideals of the patriotic citizen
I that commend his candidacy to the
[ thoughtful and solicitous for the ac-
I complishment of best in public
service. With thesiw.hree gentlemen
! of large experience*safely elected,
■ Pennsylvanians may feel that their
1 state is entering upon a better era,
and they may be proud that other
[ peoples soon to be freed can find
i here a demonstration of the blcss
; ings of popular government which
i will inspire them to higher endeav
: ors. If we fail on November 5 we
' shall have done much to negative
the promises of the war in which w
are so unselfishly striving.
Rockefeller and the Press
In a recent talk before an import
ant conference in New STork John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., chairman for New
York of the United War Work cam
paign, outlined to about one hun
dred and fifty editors of trade news
papers the importune.) of their co
operation in the November drive
for *170,000,000.
Mr. Rockefeller looks young. The
record shows him to be in his forty
fifth year. He could pass for thirty
five. He is utterly Democratic, ut
terly simple and earnest. He gave to
his hosts on this occasion, and to
their other guests the impression of
a man coftsecrated to the one pur- !
pose of making this great war drive
a complete success—financially and
; ethically. He depionstrated his broad
vision through an appeal for co
operation in the united drive on
straight patriotic lines. He called
for the elimination from this effort
of every evidence of religious divi
sion among our people. t
Mr. Rockefeller took occasion to
relate his experience with an im
provised "newspaper cabinet" on the
occasion of his personal investiga
tion, some time ago, of industrial
conditions in Colorado. That ex
perience, he confessed, had given
to him a new realization of the ser
vice-spirit of the American newspa- j
permnn.
"I am increasingly impressed," he |
said, "with the power of the press ;
in moulding public opinion. I can '
say, from my own experience and
observation, that almost always,
this power is exerted for better
ment."
OCTOBER 24, 1918.
SUNRISE IN BELGIUM
[From "The Belfry of Bruges"]
In the market place of Bruges stands
the belfry old and brown,
Thrice consumed and thrice rebuild
. Ed, still it watches o'er the town.
As the summer morn was breaking,
on that lofty tower I stood,
And the world threw off its darkness,
like the weeds of widowhood.
Not a sound rose from the city at
that early morning hour,
But 1 heard a heart of iron beating
in the ancient tower.
I beheld the Flemish weavers, with
Namur and Juliers bold.
Marching homeward from the bloody
battle of the Spurs of Gold.
Saw the fight at Minnewater, saw the
White Hoods moving west.
Saw the great Artevelde victorious
scale the Golden Dragon's Nest.
And again the whiskered Spaniard
all the land with terror smote;
And agtyn the wild alarum sounded
from the tocsin's throat;
'Till the bell of Ghent responded o'er
lagoon and dike of sand;
"I am Roland! lam Roland! there
is victory in the land!"
Then the sound of drums aroused me.
The awakened city's roar
Chased the phantoms I had sum
moned back into their graves
once more.
Hours had passed away like minutes;
i and before I was aware,
Lo! the shadow of the belfry crossed
the sun illumined square.
—HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
iIOUR DAILY LAUGH
ifM DESCRIBED.
i Pa, what is
j ,/fy money-mania?
1 W|St' 1— \Blf\l An incurable
iSw) tBS disease, my boy,
v# and y ° Ur motll * r
SMALL MATTER
Wo thought the
baby swallowed J'j/
a 15 gold piece TkL/
the other day. my'j.pijl IT /
And you found PlM' /
that he hadn't? (jD
Y'es. It was IjlKr
only a quarter. *?Wj HH
j big iuem.
i \ Can two live as
I ) urLr"" cheaply as one?
\ \ llklfe? s Well, another
IK \ ln- j- passenger adds
: nothing to the
j upkeep of the
I IH| motorcar.
Cr* " ■*
AN OLD RHYME "
' REVISED.
For wilful waste
makes woe-
And you may
You'll wish you
You once let
numn
COMFORTS.
info /O Daughter I
rfj L. have a letter from
JLfef J Lieutenant Pln-
feather. He writes
,hat he Bleeps ln
% , a pup tent -
® —What else
/ / cquld ho expect?
/ / When ho gets
■SttL / / ol< *cr has
'ijCW jr-m I moro sense they'll
/* -yl 11 j [j) probably give
htm a dog tent,
or maybe a regu
lar kennel.
lEmthtg (Efyat
Transition of the old three-story
brick building at Second and Locust
streets so long used by the United
Evungelical Publishing concern into
a home for the automobile registra
tion and of the state government
calls utlentlon to the fact that this
structure has played a rather im
portant part in Harrisburg life in
its forty years of existence. A row
of houses stood on the site of the
building when it was bought in the
early seventies by Washington Barr,
who was the Col. John T. Ensminger
in second hand goods of his day. <.
Mr. Barr had a store in Second
street near Walnut and stored
various urticles from wagons to
spinning wheels in yards in Front
street one being between Walnut and
Locust streets and another under
Market street bridge. Mr. Barr's
building was quite an improvement
on Second street and it was soon
noted as Barr's hall. It was a place for
small meetings and various conven
tions, but best known as the home
of numerous dancing classes in this
city. Many young people of the
day learned to waltz and various
steps in that old hall, while the Sun-
day evening spiritualistic meetings
are recalled by quite a few of our
people. Later on an undertakers'
school was held there. The first
floor was occupied by Chambers
Mullin as a grocery. Mr. Mullln was
also a man of consequence in his day
and was for a time in charge of
buildings on Capitol Hill. The
United Evangelicals have held forth
in the building for years.
• * *
Ed ByCrs, historian in chief of the
■Western Union, remarked yesterday
when the operating force was being
moved up stairs in the building on
Third street occupied by the tele
graph company that it was the first
time, barring an interval for repairs,
that the knights of the key had not
worked on the first floor in half a
century. The Western Union has
been in Third street for over fifty
years and its operators have always
held forth "down stairs." Now they
will be "up stairs" and the commer
cial department will have the first
floor to itself.
• • •
While sawing a log from one of
the old hickory trees that formerly
stood in the old Paxton Presbyterian
church yard at Paxtang, Howard C.
Fry, the coal dealer, came upon a
round bullet deeply imbedded in the
wood. The ball had every appear
ance of having been there for a long
period and as the trees are for the
most part from 100 to 200 years old,
the piece of lead may have been
fired into the tree by some early
settler in search of game or in de
fense of his cabin against Indian
i attack. The bullet is perfectly round
land of a caliber not used for many
I years. It was used in the very old
Istyl.e muzzle-loading rifles in vogue
| before the breeoh-loaders came into
I use. Mr. Fry has preserved the bul
let in the wood as he found it and
has It on exhibition at his residence
in Paxtang.
• • •
Death of MBS. Charles E. Caro
thers, wife of the deputy secretary
of agriculture, recalls an interesting
story about this estimable woman.
When the deputy was sheriff of
Washington cofinty Mrs. Carothers
looked after the welfare of the pris
oners and did It in a way that turned
many a man back to right ways.
She was a real matron, say people
from that county, and more than /'
one man who made good after leaving
prison returned to call and to tell
her about it. When she was taken
sick and suffered throughout a long
illness there were numerous bou
quets and gifts *ent to her by men
whom she had shown kindpess in
days when they were under penalty
of the law.
• • •
William H. Ball, secretary to the
Governor, has received a copy of
one of the propaganda newspapers
dropped by German airplanes on
French lines last summer from his
son-in-law, Lieutenant Wesley
Harding. The sheet is printed in t
French and contains some rough
cartoons, chiefly aimed at the Eng
lish. The whole thing is a very
manifest effort to make trouble be
tween the French and their Allies.
It is the first copy of the kind re
ceived at the Capitol.
• * •
Howard E. Butz, the new state
fire marshal, has the distinction of
having traveled all over Hunting
don county. He certainly knows
more people in that county than
almost any man and his acquaint
ance in the Juniata valley is very
extensive. In Harrisburg he is well
known by reason of frequent visits
and his service on the district draft
board.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator C. Sproul
started in newspaper work before he
left college and used to be a cor
respondent from a college town.
—Congreßsman-at-Large Thomas
S. Crago, of Greene county, is one
of the authorities on military mat
ters in the House.
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der served four years in a Pottsville
company of the National Guard.
—Representative John M. Flynn,
of Elk, the oldest member of the
lower house in service, is unopposed
for re-election.
—Senator C. J. Buckman, presi
dent pro tern of the Senate, is not
yet forty.
—James F. Woodward, candidate
for Secretary of Affairs, is
a native of New Brighton and just
fifty years old.
—Col. H. I. Bears, who achieved
fame by knocking down a German
and making a battalion surrender,
is a marine officer whose home is
in Philadelphia.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg steel fs in
use on American destroyers?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Pig iron made here was used
for cannon balls in the Civil War.
SPROUL THE MAN
[From the Wilkes-Barre Record!
There is no doubt in the minds
of the great majority of voters as
to the fitness of the two candidates
for Governor. Mr. Sproul is so far
above his Democratic opponent in
general equipment for this high of
fice that we may have entire con
fidence that his election would mean
intelligent and fair and square deal
ing with the weighty after-the
war problems that will concern the
people of this Commonwealth. Mr.
Sproul is one of the most promi
nent businessmen of the state and
a man of sterling Judgment. The
only clement of concern is that ho
may be defeated by overconfldence
on the part of his friends.