10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.%;RAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager, Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local published >ll rights of republication of special j dispatches herein are also reserved. ! M Member American | Ushers' Assocla- j lation j ||||j|j n East or n office^ "iBISSy Chicago, ®Sl' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. rgnwy By carrier, ten cents a 4> week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918 Don't sit in the corner grieving For the praise you are denied; Take new hope and be achieving What shall bring you future pride' —S. E. Kiser. EXCELLENT CHOICE JUDGE KUNKEL'S choice of John F. Dapp to be school director for the unexpired term of Dr. William N. Yates, resigned, will be j generally commended. Mr. Dapp is the type of man Harrisburg should have in its public life. He has been identified with all manner of civic movements, is active in war work and deeply interested in education, having been for years one of the trustees of Gettysburg College. Judge Kunkel in the selection of such men as J. William Bowipan for Mayor and Mr. Dapp for school director i has set an xcellent example for his 1 fellow citizens as to the type of men they should elevate to places of pub lic trust. One would imagine from reading the last German note that the Hun I -boats have been indulging in a yachting cruise and that France and Belgium have been strewn"with flow ers as the German armies retired. WE'RE ALL CRAZY DR. COTTON has discovered that bad teeth cause insanity and that bad teeth are often caused by kissing. Therefore —no more kissing, no more insanity. But there will be those who will argue, and far be it from us to deny the truth of It, that a man who won't kiss a pretty girl when the chance offers is already crazy—so there you are. Or, if we have to keep out of the asylum by rei raining from kissing, there will be many who will hunt up a girl of their choice, lug her off to a sanitarium and go rip-tearing, raving crazy It's a poor choice, this remaining sane and kissless or going crazy with kisses, and there will be oodles and oodle sof men who would follow the first young woman who comes along singing Frank Daniels old ditty— I'm going crazy. I'm going crazy. Don't you want to go along; We'll live in the madhouse over the hills And playin the fields with the daffydills; I'm going crazy: don't you want to go along? If kissing pretty girls is insanity then the bulk male population ought to be in the violent ward, with plenty of straitjackets around for the worst cases. Republicans throughout the coun try are determined that the recon struction period following the war shall have the careful consideration of men big enough for the job. and with this view of the matter they are going to give special attention to the election of members of Congress next month. Pennsylvania has a particular Interest in having strong representa tion at Washington. Already the Democrats, in a hypocritical appeal to "stand by the President," are en deavoring to line up voters who may lie deceived by this sort of tommyrot. If it hadn't been for the Republicans at Washington, who stood by the President, the war measures would have been seriously Jolted at a critical stage in our war preparavlons. A PROPER QUARANTINE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH feels called upon to deny the state ments of Judge Bonniwell to the effect that Sanator William C. Sproul was responsible for the Influenza quarantine orders closing the churches, schools, amusement places and saloons of the State. It must be self-apparent to anybody that Senator Sproul could have had noth ing whatsoever to do with this order, emanating as it did from the State Department, with the ap proval of Governor Brumbaugh, but the Governor nails the obvious lie f the Democratic candidate, in a FRIDAY EVENING. manner that shows up Bonniwell simply as trying to round up a few rum votes. However, had it been true that Senator Sproul was back of the closing movement the fact would have reflected credit upon his good judgment and regard for public wel fare. The epidemic is being checked largely because of the efforts of the health authorities and had the quarantine not been placed the death rate unquestionably would have been much larger. The same "gents" of small caliber who conducted the campaign of 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of war," are now piping up with the other j slogan, "Stand by the President," in the hope of electing enough Demo-1 cratic members to Congress to control that body and perpetuate their parti san domination. Republicans all-over j the country have stood by the Presi- I dent in the most patriotic fashion, I and it comes with poor grace from ( many Democrats to emit that sort of { appeal. I EVIL COMMUNICATIONS WHEN one reads the tricky.and insincere and double-tongued communications of the Berlin bandits he cannot doubt that Presi- j dent Wilson was absolutely right when he said last September: We are all agreed that there can be no peace obtained by any kind of bargain or compromise with the Governments of the Central Empires, because we have dealt with them already, and have seen them deal with other Governments that were parties to this struggle at Brest-Lltovsk and Bucharest. They have con vinced us that they are without honor, and do not intend justice. They observe no covenants, ac cept no principle but force and their own interest. We cannot "come to terms" wtth them. They have made It impossible. The German people must by this time be fuhy aware that we can not accept the word of those who forced this war upon us. We do not think the same thoughts or * speak the same language of agreement. Germany cannot or will nbt un derstand our view and under the circumstances the President would seem to be entirely justified in put ting an abrupt stop to any further correspondence with the outlaws. With the rapidly-changing condi tions in Russia, it must not be for j gotten that the Y. M. C. A. has had 1 much to do with maintaining the friendship of the Russian people for America. They have not forgotten what was done for the common sol diers in the tragic winter of 1917-18. JOBS AFTER THE WAR WHAT shall we do in the re construction period when the boys come home from France and are hunting for work if we do not wisely look ahead toward pro viding public improvements that may be utilized to meet the emer gency? When war industry is be ing turned into peace industry and the readjustment of labor is in pro gress upon a scale so vast the condi body at this time can see the condi tions that will prevail during the transitional period, we 'shall be in deed fortunate if we are able to utilize public funds for the stabiliza tion of the business of the country. Prospects are that with wise ad ministration at Washington and a peace favorable to the Allies, our present great prosperity will con tinue for a long time after the war. But there is bound to be an interval of readjustment in which there will be more job-hunters than jobs, and here -it is that public funds, properly expended, should be utilized to meet the emergency. This interval may be prolonged and become a serious menace to the country unless some means of overcoming the difficulty is reached. Senator Sproul realized this as early as last session of the Legisla ture, when he was instrumental in having a law passed providing for a State commission on industrial de pression, with authority to provide work for the idle. But such a com mission must have money and the way to get it is through the $50,000,- 000 good roads bond issue which will come before the voters Novem ber 5. A vote for that issue will be a vote to provide work for those who will need it during the readjust ment interval. A vote against the loan will be at vote against providing jobs for those who will need them when war orders are no more and peace contracts are not yet written. Interest in the Congressional elec tion is increasing as the campaign draws to a close, and the ver*--fact that it has been a short canvass is rapidly developing interest in the next House at Washin'ton. So far as Congressman Kre.Jer is concerned, he has no opposition and will get a fine vote of confidence from the people of this district. Other districts are like wise showing evidences of interest in the election of Republicans as the im portance of the after-war period is brought home to the people. There must be a great constructive program at Washington when the hostilities cease, and Pennsylvania is vitally in -1 terested in the kind of men who will be in Washington for that work. Wonder what Colonel House thinks about the last note? As Adviser Ex traordinary, he must have his ear to the ground and a fair interpretation of the undulations would spell "Un conditional Surrender." Senator Sproul has no reason to feel disturbed over the noisy activi ties of his repudiated Democratic competitor. Not even the hysterical effort to creat the impression that the closing of drinking peaces as an epidemic emergency yrouid enor mously Increase Bonniwell's strength will disturb the Republican candidate. Dauphin copnty farmers learned this week that "pigs is pigs" only when kept in pens, and that when turned loose to pasture they are as cicau as any other animal. IK By the Ex-Committeeman What is ordinarily the final and most strenuous week of a campaign may not even be the first week in Pennsylvania this year as a result of the influenza epidemic. While conditions are Improving in eastern counties the fear of a recurrence of the plague is causing medical men to insist that the ban on meetings be maintained, while in western and northern counties the disease is spreading and prostrating many peo ple, the anthracite counties being similarly afflicted. Indications are that the Republican state campaign, I which was given up because of the Liberty Loan drive, will not be re sumed but that all attention will be devoted to oongressional and legisla tive contests which will be conduct ed by committees in districts and counties. Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the Democratic candidate for governor, seems to be the only exception to the bar against campaigning in the old-fashioned way. The judge is touring the anthracite region, where influenza is rampunt, and meeting the Democrats, issuing statements in which his doctrine of personal lib erty is enunciated and assaults made against all Republicans. The judge was in Luzerne county yesterday and is in Schuylkill and Northumberland to-day. The Bonniwell style of campaign ing is generally criticised and Gov ernor Brumbaugh's statement yes terday in which he denounced any man who endeavored to make politi cal capital out of the epidemic has been much discussed. —While Bonniwell has a very ac tive headquarters in Philadelphia, prominent liquor men around his headquarters in Pittsburgh are in charge of "Paddy" Brennan, the Allegheny county jury commissioner, who achieved fame by his outbreak at the meeting of the Palmer-Mc- Cormick state Democratic commit tee here last month. Brennan is somewhat of a figure in a certain kind of politics in Allegheny county. —The way the campaign is going in Allegheny county is indicated by this extract of a report of a meeting of Tenth legislative district Repub- J licans in Pittsburgh takert from the Gazette-Times: "The usual effort has been made by some of the liquor j men to get votes for the Bonniwell candidacy on the plea that the in fluenza epidemic is a Wardship to their business. This method has not proved a success and with the neces sary work btween now and election day it is believed that a splendid showing will be made in thq Tenth district. The war and the influenza has taken all interest out of politics, but efforts will be made to get into the homes and show the voter how important it is that he exercise his franchise this year. As an indication of the number of soldiers this dis trict has produced, Register of Wills William Conner said that 2,800 voters had gone from Braddock, North Braddock and Wilkinsburg." j —The extent to which the influenza ban "is affecting politics in Pennsyl- j vania can hardly be estimated and it | will probably cause a reduction in the total vote beyond what was ever expected even in a year when 300,- 000 Pennsylvania men are in milithry service. The Philadelphia Bulletin says editorially about the influenza ban in that city: "If Dr. Royer, the State Commissioner at Harrisburg, shall persist in refusing to heed the advice or recommendation of the Philadelphia authorities in such a matter, he will give rise to the be lief that he is either arbitrary, or finical, or both. Meanwhile Director Krusen should take care that the "home rule." as he calls it, which Philadelphia ought to have in setting this question, shall again be com manded to the considerate attention of the Commissioner. If common sense is to have anything to do in this matter, the order will be re voked next week, and if it shall not be, the right of Commissioner Royer to use the power of his office unrea sonably should be promptly tested in the courts by Philadelphia citizens." —The list of men named to take the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers in camps issued by the Governor's of fice is attracting much attention as a number of the commissioners are men little known in the state. Some are very well known on the other hand because of their part in the primary campaign this year. —Democratic State Headquarters is out with a call from the Demo cratic National Committee for elec tion of Democratic Congressmen. But there is no Democratic candidate in the.Eighteenth District, however. The national committee's call and condi tions in the "home' district make an interesting comparison. —The Wllliamsport Gazette and Bulletin says editorially: "In Wil liam Decker the* Republicans of the Twenty-fourth Senatorial district have a candidate who sizes up to all of the requirements of the position to which he aspires. Mr. Decker will ably represent his district at Harrisburg." —Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, is said to have an eye on an appellate court seat. —Charles B. Lenahan, of Wilkes- Barre, who is a candidate for the Su preme Court, has opened headquar ters in Philadelphia. A lawyers' committee is conducting an active campaign in behalf of Supreme Court Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr. —John E. Walsh, an attorney, with offices in the Lincoln Building, Phil adelphia, is being put forward by his friends for appointment by Gov ernor Brumbaugh to the vacancy in the Municipal Court, caused by the death of Judge Bernard Gilpin. 'PEACE [Germany Asks For Peace.] The following poem; referring to Germany's peace proposals, was written by Wendell Phillips Staf ford, one of the Justices of the Su preme Court of the District of Co lumbia, who sent it to his friend, Jesse E. B. Cunningham, the well known Harrisburg lawyer. Chief Justice McCoy, of the district court, lost a son in battle on the fields of France: Peace, while the red-tongued rep tile wallows and spawns in the sun? Peace, while fair cities, exploding, mark the homeward trail of the Hun? with the Kamerad-pistol and the hospital pointing gun? Peace with the rapers of women, the orucifters of men? Peace with the poison-spreader? Peace with the thief in his den? Peace till he sleeps and is rested?— Oh, he will be ready again! Peace till his fighters have got a new grip- on the throat of the slave? Peace till our dead are more quiet that call to us under the wave? Peace, peace! Oh, yes, you shall have it; but it is the peace of the grave! BABHISBURO TELEGFOLPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUfPJ By BRIGGS j ACTC# YOU H AVJ6 EUJO Y 'EO ~ ARJD OIOE DAY YOO —AMO YOU ACCE*R QOT AT TO . RFCD\J€ AM IMVMTAT.OW AFRSS T M C IUCK TT-IAT WITH AM - DAISJCE F P CR - M6P 5 " V J UWKMOWM ©.PL FOR T P 1 AFFATR,- AMO SRPMT> A - LOT' OF KIC^'IUG, V E AON- * 'I *!? YBO A R.KJE AMP QLOK-R-BIOUS FEEUNJ SME IS <501M6 TO BE A EOSM.IKIG W.NR M HER II L| R II I PF PILL—' AND MAKE VOURIEIF /=§& L. l J JH *' " The Pennsylvania Campaign ! [The Philadelphia Inquirer] Between the war and the abnormal amount of sickness we have not been thinking much about politics in Pennsylvania this year, but we are going to have a most important elec tion in the state in two weeks, and it is necessary for the people to bestir themselves if they do not want It to go by default. The state is Republican by a large majority and the ticket that has been presented for the votes of the citi zens is away above par. The candi date for Governor represents the highest type. He is a man of affairs with a splendid record. He has had many years of legislative experience, he knows the needs of the people, he is acquainted with the resouces of the state, and he may be depended upon to muke an ideal Governor. He is well balanced, he is prudent and he is patriotic to the core. In the or dinary course of events he should have an overwhelming majority, and there is every reason to believe that he will have a great vote. But we must not be over-confld ent. Over-confidence has lost more than one political campaign, and it would be a calamity if such a thing were to be permitted this year. Sen aator Sproul haas given practically all of his time to war work. He has devoted the time that would or dinarily go to his personal cam paign to the sale of Liberty bonds, and at the present moment he is under the shadow of a personal be reavement in the death of a member of his household. Under such circumstances it be comes the duty of all good citizens to see that his interests are not neg lected. We have only a few days be fore election, and it is highly im portant that the county committees see to it that preparations are made for getting out the vote. The dispo sition is to forget about politics, and there is danger that many persons may neglect to go to the polls in the belief that their votes are not needed. They are needed, and that fact can not be impressed too strongly upon the voters. The war will be over one of these days, and then we will be face to face with many important after-the-war problems. The next state adminis tration will have to handle these problems, and it is vital that the Chief Executive of the state shall be a sane, well-balanced businessman who has the courage and the ability to do the right thing. William C. Sproul is the man for the Job. He must be elected, and he should be elected by a majority large enough to prove the sentiments of the people. We have members of Congress to choose also—men with breadth of vision who will see to it that the United States shall continue to hold the supremacy already won by the war. Do not make the mis take of thinking that vote is not necessary. Keep the great issues pf the day in mind, and be sure to cast your vote on election day. Didn't Have Time At 12 the other night one of our aviators who had libertv until 10.30 was "hot footin" it back from a hop harbor in a neighboring ville. He passed the tracks, the "Y," and then started on the double past the sentry at the gate. "Halt!" commanded the sentry. ."Halt nothin'," yelled the gob, "I'm two hours late now."—Prom the Pantllac Pilot, France. Hard Luck Bill—This war Is fierce. Jill—What's wrong now? "Why, I got a letter from my girl who is Over There to-day, and the censor but out sixteen of the nineteen postscripts In it."—From the Yonkers Statesman. LABOR NOTES Street Railway Employes' Union of Staten Island, N. Y., has gained better conditions and a 20 per cent, wage incraase. There Is not a child under 16 em ployed in the cotton industry in Ohio. Butchers' workmen at Madison, Wis., have secured a 10-hour day. Bookbinders' International has a membership of almost 16,000. Janitors of Seattle (Wash.) thea ters have secured union recognition. Franklin (Pa.) bookbinders have raised wages to $25 a week. Brewery Workers' International was organized in Baltimore August 29, 1886. Milwaukee society women are tak > lug temporary jobs in canneries. Nearly $12,000 Required to Take Votes of 45,000 Soldiers IT WILL take the bulk of the sl2,- | 300 now available in the state treasury under the special'appro priation of 1917 to take the votes of some 45,000 Pennsylvania soldiers scattered through the various camps and training stations of the Army and the stations and reserve depots of the Navy in this country if the present plan to send conimisisoners is carried out. Each commissioner is alowed ten cents a mile for each mile actually traveled and the state provides the pollbooks, ballots and other supplies for the holding of elections which are conducted at camps by soldiers or sailors selected by the commissioners and sworn in by them. The state has already ex pended considerable money on books and ballots. The decision of the Governor to send commissioners was reached after Adjutant General F. D. Beary had secured from 120 camps state ments as to the number of men from this state in their limits and when several state officials had ad vised against sending commission ers because at least 275,000 Penn sylvania soldiers now overseas will have no chance to vote at all and the men in this country may be moving before election day and also that tome of them may be under age. The influenza conditions were also raised. The Governor, how ever, took the that every Pennsylvanian ought to be given a chance to vote, if in the United States. To give the commissioners in struction and the cash and for de livery of supplies, for which each commissioner is personally respon sible, they must meet here, and to get around the Royer order against meetings, it is proposed to have only a few commissioners come here at a time instead of a general meeting as heretofore. The commissioners have not been assigned, but some will get their traveling orders Monday. These will include the men to go to Seat- Reveries of a Cannoneer Could it ever have been, I wonder. That the barking guns were still? That no one could hear their thunder Rolling from plain to hill? That a man might sleep in the morn ing. Sleep with his dreams set free jFrom the endless flash where the H. E. crash. With never a reveille? Was there ever a life behind us, A life that we knew before? With never a shell to find us, Crouching in mud and gore? With never a pal to bury As part of the bitter test, With never the cry of a last good by , From a mate who is starting west? Well, there's a dream behind us, I And a life that is out ahead, With never a shell to blind us, Far from the sleeping dead. Yes, there's a happy morning Over the waiting foam, When the game is won and we've licked the Hun, And the good ship points back home. —Stars and Stripes. Unidentified (From the Detroit Free Press) Recently, during the operations of the British Egyptian expeditionary force in Palestine, a town to the south of Beersheba was captured and in it was discovered a splen did example of mosaic pavement. The excavation of it was placed in charge of a chaplain, and while the work was proceeding some huhian bones were discovered. Elated at the find the padre im mediately wired to great headquar ers: "Have found the bones of saint." Shortly after the reply came back: "Unable to trace Saint in cas ualty list. Obtain particulars of regi mental number and regiment from his identity disc." Rejoice and Do Good "He hath made everything beau tiful In its name; ulso he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end. I know that there lis nothing better for them, than to rejoice, und to do good so long us [they live."—Eccles. 3: 11, 12, I tie, El Paso and other distant points. I The people here reckon that the men sent to Seattle, where there are 1,000 merton naval station, the state will spend ove rs7oo alone. Some of the far western posts have from twenty to seventy-five Pennsylvanians and they will get chances to vote, accord ing to present plans. The last Legislature made an ap propriation of $25,00