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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!
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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<j to the Sec
retary of the Commonwealth to
cover cost of taking the votes of
the soldiers. This was to cover the
cost of sending commissioners to
El Paso, where the Pennsylvania
troops were stationed in November
of 1916, and to ove rsixty-five
camps and stations last year. The
peopel who went to El Paso had to
wait a while for their money. Those
who went in 1917 were paid
promptly because last year the
funds were available. The El Paso
vote-taking cost over $6,000 and
that of 1917 something more. ' Thus
far $12,726.53 had been used up in
the appropriation of $25,000.
In 1898 the state spent but $4,957
in getting the votes of the Keystone
State soldiers in the field, including
the voting in the Philippines, which
was conducted by the regimental of
ficers and forwarded home.
The expense this year will run
high, as the men are much scat
tered. The original plan was to
name commissioners to go abroad,
but the War Department declined to
give permission. The rapid move
ment of men from camps has
caused a reduction in the number of
commissioners which it was hoped
to send, but there will be some ex
tended journeys for some men.
One of the interesting things in
connection with the appointment of
[the commissioners is that months
ago.men began writing for appoint
ments and numerous names were
suggest by the Governor's partisans.
The Governor also had a list of his
own. Since the outbreak of the in
fluenza epidemic men chosen were
asked by telegraph if they could ac
cept. A number declined the honor
at this time.
A Year of Fighting
[From the New York Sun]
It was only a year ago to-day (Oc
tober 21) that the first of the Amer
icans entered the trenches. A week
later their people at home heard of
their going over the top, side by side
with Frenchmen, not far from Lune
ville. These were General Sibert's
men, the first division of Regulars.
In the year that has passed we
have heard often of our troops in
the field, and so has Germany. At
Cantigny, Seicheprey, Chateau
Thierry, Flsmes, St. Mihiel —wher-
ever Foch asked Pershing to break
a German line our men were not
only ready but able to equal the
work of the best soldiers of Europe.
Those who doubt may consult the
ghosts of the Prussian Guards.
We had a few more than 100,000
men in France a year ago; we have
2,000,000 now. In this Year of Real
ity we have made it evident to Ger
many that America not only could
but would stake everything on the
winning of the war. A year ago to
day America was to Germany a trifle
and Germany was sending her sol
diers to the Italian front to wrench
from Cadorna the fruits of his pa
tient Work. Since then Italy has lost
and won, and Germany has won—
and lost.
The casualties of the American
army since Sibert's men began the
real business of war have been per
haps 60,000; a small number when
compared with the average losses of
our Allies in a year. If it be the Ger
man decision that the war shall go
on, then it has been Just the begin
ning for America of her fighting. But
America's army is trained, fresh,
eager and increasing in number at
the rate of 10,000 a day, so for Ger
many it is the beginning of the end.
FIRE PREVENTION
There will be no special observ
ance of fire prevention day. a week
from next Saturday, but fire losses
to the extent of nearly $23,000,000
in Pennsylvania during the year 1917
give us reason to think about elimi
nating unnecessary risks. Accumu
lation of inflammable material that
might as well be thrown on the dump I
heap, carelessness with mutches unci
with cigar und cigaret stubs—these
are some of the things to be avoid
ed, and it does not takejnucb time
or Incut* much trouble' to- avoid
them.—Wilkes-Barre Record.
OCTOBER 25, 1918.
Belgians Good Accountants
[New York Times]
While the great majority of the
Belgian cities just freed from Ger- j
man rule are alternately weeping i
and cheering for joy at the termina- i
tion of a bitter slavery extending
over four years, as has been so
affectingly told in the dispatches of 1
Philip Gibbs, others of that per
secuted people are engaged in a
sterner task. They are sitting down
at tables with pen and paper and
making out a bill whith they are
going to present to Germany for
payment.
In it they are jotting down what
promises to be an almost endless
list of items which, when added up,
will make a colossal total, and they
are compiling it from what is evi
dently a carefully kept account of
damages inflicted, thefts committed,
and of ruthless extortions practiced.
As creditors, the position of the
Belgians is in essential respects
different from that of their co-bel
ligerents, for the Germans entered
theft- country, not as soldiers wag
ing war, but as outlaws and bandits
—deliberate violators of a solemn
treaty and precluded from appeal-1
ing there, as they can elsewhere, to
"military necessity," as an interna
tionally recognized excuse for the
destruction of life and property. It
is a suit under what amounts to
criminal, as distinguished from
either civil or military, law that they
can bring against the Germans, und
they are privileged to demand puni
tive and exemplary damages as well
as mere remuneration.
How much of their bill will be
paid depends, more or less, of
course, on Germany's ability to pay,
but of her legal and moral liability
to undo as much as possible.of the
harm she has done in Belgium there
can be no question. Not a little of
it as regards property, and all as re
gards life, is irreparable by the de
livery of money, but it is none the
less well that the full score should
be formally made out and pre
sented for the inspection of the
world as well as that of Germany.
OUR DAILY LAUGH |
1111 11 11
! HE KNEW A
I REAL REST.
M y vacation
•tarts next week. B? . ' j\ .A \
Going away? Ej-afjPl .i 'lSfc,!,
N ° — 1,114 my bli If
THE FAMILY
BUDGET.
VP M Hor 'Father
i Jv ii' N° nßenß ® ! Why
iv' your Income
I wouldn't buy
feathers for her
yjs Her Suitor
||l That's all right.
\f y| They're not
wearing feathers
now.
GUIDANCES I
Are your chil- |S
dren much of a „_.
help and comfort.
can always do- CRjjp ~W w
pend on them to
tell mo where tho Ipifci .fcr&A
best moving pic
tures are to tm
§HIB VIEWS.
The headless
horseman used to
be a favorite
character with
novelists.
I don't know
much aboutheaa
1e s s horsemen,
but plenty of
people run auto
% " mobiles that way.
A PUBLIC
BENEFACTOR.
Patriot l'm
starting a move
ment to establish ®(\/S Wk
a mun lo Irp a 1
a municipal rink? j
Patriot —To I3y/ . M
find some use for •
the cheap skates 1-
that are running
.the town.
font! ttg (Eljat
Some estimates as to what sums
of money will be required to carry
through the great plan for exten
sion of Capitol Park, the improve
ment of the old park, construction
of the formal entrance and place
for ceremonies in the west front
and the bridge to be dedicated to
the counties of Pennsylvania will
be made up next week when the
State Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings meets to consider the
plans of the architects and engi
neers. The last Legislature made
an appropriation of $350,001) to start
the work, but, owing to the war and
the cost of materials the Board
deemed it wise to have the plans
fully worked out and all estimates
made and to confine the actual op
erations to tilling and grading, which
is under way. The extensive changes
In the old park, designed to fit it for
inaugural and other ceremonies and
to complete what was never finished
in the original plans, were allowed
to go over. Similarly the construc
tion of the new power plant was de
•rred. The funds appropriated for
the objects will ue available when
the war is over. The plans of Ar
nold W. Brunner, the architect in
charge, who was the creator of the
Cleveland and Denver civic centers
and the Morningslde park in Man
hattan; Warren H. Manning, land
scape engineer, and J. H. Greiner,
bridge engineer, will be submitted,
showing the whole proposition in
detail. The park extension plan
dates back over a quarter of a cen
tury and but for the war would
have been well under way.
• •
Captain P. A. Godcharles, deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
who was granted leave to enter the
ordnance department, has been ap-/
pointed on the staff of General'
Leonard Wood, and is on his way
to the general's western headquar
ters. Captain Godcharles was sta
tioned in Washington for a time and
will have charge of instruction in
rifle practice. He is one of the best
marksmen in the state. There have
been reports that General Wood may
be sent to .Russia.
♦ * *
William Williams, the new secre
tary to the State Commissioner of
Health, who comes upon the scene
when the ambulance gongs . are
clanging, is an old newspaperman.
He is a close personal friend of H.
Lindley Hosford, who was secre
tary for several years and has been
all over the country. Mr. Williams
hails from Meadville and did news
paper work on .the New York Her
ald. He was with Ringling Bros,
circus publicity department for nine
years and in winter time had charge
of the editing end for Barnum's.
He was in Florida when he got the
hurry call to come home. He knows
newspapermen all over Pennsylva
nia.
• • •
Major Walter T. Merrick, former
senator and northern tier lawyer,
was here yesterday with a number •
iof friends. They visited the Capi
j tol and called on otticials. The ma
jor said he was renewing old ac
quaintances. He has many.
* * *
Friends of William H. Ball, secre
tary to the Governor, are "kidding"
him about the inkstand presented to
him yesterday by a hard-coal region
admirer. It contains inkwells and
match places and also a thermome
ter. The presence of the latter on a
gift in these strenuous days is the
cause of some of the jocose re
marks.
• * •
"I don't see why they want the
saloons open," mused a man lean
ing disconsolately against a pole i-g,
Market Square ' last evening. "The
price of everything is so high that
you can't buy much and what you
do buy is no good aqy more." Again,
it may be remarked that even in
fluenza, dreadful as it is, has some
compensations.
Another interesting sidelight upon
Harrisburg and its life under epi
demic regulations is furnished by
the quick lunches. Midnight is ordi
narily the closing time for these
establishments, although some of
them, in Market street and in the
! railroad district, keep open all night,
i When the closing order began to bo
felt the lunch places were favorites
for men who like to be about at
night, but the attendants consid
ered that twenty minutes was about
long enough for a "stew" or a "ham"
and they made them move on. The
result was that the luncheries did
not become roosting places and they
have found that time goes slowly
and that there are many yawns be
tween 10 and 12.
•
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil was talking the other day
about the way men in charge of
work on various sections of road
had pulled through hard jobs. "1 '
think that the three-mile stretch on
the National pike was the best
place. I had been chasing the man
in charge pretty hard and he had his
own troubles getting hands," said
he. "Finally he organized some
Sunday working excursions and
went through with it. He reported
that there had been 137 men and
four women."
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—J. Henry Scattergood, prominent
in Philadelphia political affairs, is
being mentioned as a possible can
didate for commissioner in that
county.
—E. F. G. Harper, one of the
commissioners named to take sol
dier votes, is a former legislator.
—W. R. Coyle, recently promoted
from captain to major of marines,
is a resident of Bethlehem.
, —Judge H. C. Quigjey, of Belle
fonte, has been seriously ill.
—Frank A. Greene, the new
Pennsylvania insurance agent, is
well known to many residents of
Harrisburg.
[ DO YOU""KNOW
—Tliat Harrisburg mattresses
were used to take care of people
in state emergency hospitals
this month?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The lirst time troops camped on
the big island in the Susquehanna
was in the War of 1812.
v
Sort of Books Sent to Camps
One of the results of the campaigr
for gift books last spring was an in
flux of reading material of the typ
which careful mothers take pains t(
remove from the environment oi
16-year-old daughters.
That the gift horse had to he in
' spected carefully was demonstratec
a number of times. To one camp 11-
! brary came copies of Zola's "L'As
sommolr," Daudet's "Sapho," and D
Maupassant's "Bel-Ami."
From the reading room in s
church were sent copies of Snappi
Stories.
An offer of a file of the Undertak
er's Review, was graciously rejected
School readers untedating the Clvt
War were received. —American Li
brary Association News. '