6 RimBURG TELEGRAPH fcvf WPfr FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I K||' evenings except Sundav by B TKI.*".BAI'H PRINTING CO. ■graph Batldlag, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE Hpreridenf and Editor-in-Chief B. OTSTER. Bueincw Manager ■ v. STKIXMETZ. .Voo<;injj Editor El MICHEXER. Circulation Manager K Executive Board M. OGELSBY. K F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. tthc Associated Press—The octal Press is exclusively on- tihe use for republication of ■ ; neoSispatches credited to it or Hat ot'scise credited in this paper local nohes published republication of apecial herein are also reserved. Member American Eastern offlcen I Chicago, 111. at the Post Office in Harris ■g. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mall. $5.00 a year in advance. HnJRDAY. OCTOBER. 26. 1018 W. Human life and health are • precious than dollars, unctl is doing well to consider building of a city emergency It&i. The old smallpox hospital ■ t worthy the name and is a Uis- j s to Harrisburg. Fortunately, j school board was far enough d of council to provide us a is of caring for the sick at this . But the city has no right to at the expense of the school dis- We ought to have an emer- , y hospital and it ought to be ted the coming year. Now is the to find the means. sere is just one way to get better j ■jjortation service require the i#lsory officials, from the Direc- I Njeneral down, to stand in line! S buy their tickets just as the Blc must, and then ride in the . n coaches with the public. The Pfition IIy unmindful of the outstanding that Republican votes in the ate and House at Washington e made possible the great war 1 ixurc-s advocated by the Presi- ! t. Without these votes the war mm eould never have been ; pte giving him such an answer as will ' demonstrate for all time the de termination of the American people j to have a hand iq their own govern ment. Again we are impelled to sug -1 gest that while we are getting rid of one kind of an autocracy we should be careful that we do not encourage another sort in this country. Similar appeals were made in i New Hampshire. Wisconsin and . \ elsewhere and the answer came back promptly in a way that was not to \ | the liking of the Democratic attempt j to use the war for partisan political . purposes. • It is obvious that the President's 1 real purpose in seeking the election of a Democratic Congress is not that ' he fears laik of support during the j war, but that he will not be able to shape legislation along Democratic j lines during the reconstruction per- | iod after the war. This is the milk in : the cocoanut and it is the, reason ! why the people of the .United States j should pay absolutely no attention to his plea, for it is a matter of historic record that the policies of the Demo [ cratic party have proved destructive to business and oppressive to labor during every period in which that party has been in power. Every Democratic administration Wil son s first term not excepted—has been marked by the wreck of indus try and ruin of countless individuals. Mills have been closed and bread lines lengthened. The soup house has replaced the restaurant. It was so in Cleveland's day; it was so in the Wilson administration before the war came along with its big orders from Europe; it will be so again if a Democratic Congress is left to shape the affairs of the nation after the war. If we listened to the President none but Democrats would be elected to the next House and Senate. What an absurdity this would be in a govern ment in which the minority power is always useful as a balance wheel. If we in Pennsylvania hearkened to the White House plea, we should turn Democratic over night, al though an overwhelming majority of our voters do not believe in the doc trines of Democracy. We are asked to cast our ballots against the dic tates of our own consciences. We shall not do it for the President nor for anybody else. Mr. Wilson's plea is illogical, ill-timed and thoroughly ! out of tune with his own'professions. It is a mere subterfuge to use the war in an effort to bolster up the waning powers of Democracy, and is unworthy of a President of |he United States. If you want sectionalism to con tinue. and the South kept in control of ail the important committees of Con gress. you can get exactly that thing by keeping Democrats in control of both houses of Congress.' Under the Democratic caucus system, the South is always in the saddle when a Demo cratic majority is in control. COLONEL HOUSE AGAIN COLONEL HOUSE again to the fore: This time he has regretfully left the President to worry along alone with the weighty affairs of state while he has gone off to tell the European premiers how to end the war. , Who is this millionaire Texan, anyway, that he should be given precedence over former Secretaries of State and ex-Presidents, skilled in diplomacy and having the trust and confidence of their fellow citizens? An obscure figure before dragged injo the limelight by Mr. Wilson, he goes Hitting about the world "repre senting" the American people on 1 momentous occasions, without being responsible to them in any way or i bearing any mark of their approval. The people of the country would feel much more at ease with Mr. Lansing, or Secretary Root, or former President Taft, or some mqn of that calibre in Colonel House's shoes. i Nothing more important could be undertaken by the city school district than the Americanization work among the alien and .foreign-born popula tion of Harrlsburg. With the close I of the war will come great problema and among theae will be the concrete merging of those who have come to this/country into our citlaenry. Ex perience of aome of the more able teachera has given them great hope of the development of the Americani zation plana. No brighter children in the local schools are to be found than those of the foreign-born fam jilies. They quickly absorb our gov iernment Ideals and are patriotic to | the last degree. I As to the election of Republicans I to Congress, would It not be the part j of wise economy to put the national i purse strings in the hands of a ! party of proved integrity, unbiased by sectional considerations, inti , mately acquainted with our Indus j trial problems, so steadfast in the {maintenance of the national honor ithat It lost the election of 1916 on {the "he kept us out of war" issue: a .party which stands for the uncondl : tional surrender of Germany, for a dictated and against a negotiated : peace*, and for immediate prepared ness to meet after-the-war condl- I tions. :rf • FAUTTCT IK By the Ex-Conlmlttecman Leaders of Keystone State Repub -1 licans took two very pronounced stands yesterday, both of which will have much effect on the campaign , in Pennsylvania and which will be much referred todn months to come. Both reflect the general sentiment ' of Republicans. State Chairman William E. Crow issued a statement in answer to the Wilson call for election of Democratic Congressmen in whieh he denounces the injection of the war into politics and says that Pennsylvania, where the Republican party was born, will make an appropriate answer. The state chairman in a statement issued a few days ago said that the Demo cratic Congressional delegation from Pennsylvania would be much re duced. He believes the President's course will cause still further reduc tion. State Senator E. H. Vare, ex-Sen ator David Martin and other promi nent Philadeiphia Republican lead ers, declared that they defled the liquor men to make a tight against Senator William C. Sproul on any , grounds and started the Philadelphia Republican city committeemen on a house to house canvass to make a notable Republican vote. —The Philadelphia Evening Led- , ger last night printed this editorial Un regard to the Democratic can- j didate for Governor and the good roads bond issue amendment which conspicuous Democrats have attack ed: •"It is, of course, always possible to write volumes about the issues involved in a political campaign— even a Pennsylvania political cam paign. Yet., on the whole, the sim ple faets are invariably the most eloquent. The conspicuous fact in Judge BonniweH'6 candidacy is the ! Judge's enthusiastic opposition to prohibition. Senator Sprout's cam paign is made notable by the Sen ator's plea in behalf of the constitu tional amendment which would give the state the right to exxpend t50.000.000 on a system of good roads. Between rum on the one hand and good roadß on the other there , can be only one choice." —Walter Darlington, writing in the North American, has this to say about A. W. Duy. the Bloomsburg Republican who is making a splen- j did tight for Congress in the 16th District against Congressman John V. Lesher. who is incidentally said not to have even made a dent while at Washington: "Albert W. Duy, of \ Bloomsburg. nominated on the Re- I publican ticket, whose chances of j election are counted very good, al- | though the district normally is Dem- ' ocratic. Lawyer, a leader in public I affairs, of outstanding ability, de- ' scribed by his neighbors as a big. j clean, honest man, Duy is a candt- 1 date stronger than his party, pos sibly with greater individual strength than any other man in Columbia county or the district. His person ality wins htm support, regardless of party." , —Great regret is expressed among Republicans all over nie state be cause of the death of John R. Hal- j sev, the brilliant young Wilkes--; Barre lawyer, from influenza. Mr. Halsev came of a prominent Repub lican family and made his own mark in Luzerne county where he was Re publican county chairman for sev eral years and chairman of an im portant subcommittee of the Re- i publican state committee. —George J. A. Miller, member of the House from one of the Lehigh j districts for two terms, died sud- I denly from pneumonia. He repre- 1 sented Lehigh's Republican district ; and this year had most of the nom- i inations. The committee Is meeting : to-day to till the vacancy. The aspir- 1 ants are Oscar A. Xeff. of Slatington. ' member of the Republican state 1 committee; Samuel J. Evans, former postmaster of Slatington, and Ed ward J. Jordan, a young Allentown j businessman." —The indictments against Ellis A. i Gimbel. James J. Ryan and Dr. I Frank C. Hammond, former mem- j bers of Philadelphia draft appeal ; board No. 2, have been ordered] quashed by Attorney General Gre gory. The attorney general is said to have reviewed the indictments in person and ordered District Attorney Kane at Philadelphia to nolle prosse the cases. This means that the gov ernment withdraws its charges against Mr. Gimbel, Mr. Ryan and Doctor Hammond and completely vindicates them. District Attorney Kane is expected, within A day or | two, to issue a public statement to this effect. These cases had at tracted wide attention owing to the fact that Walter Willard, generally supposed lo be close to men high in power on Capitol Hill was chairman and was also among those indicted at the start of the proceedings. —Dr. B. F. Royer. acting Com missiner of Health.' replying to the criticisms of the state-wide closing order which are being sounded in the press and through letters coming to the State Department of Health from various persons throughout the state, last night issued the fol lowing statement: "A few Pennsyl vanians have been small enough to attribute the drastic action taken by this office in an attempt to save hu man life, as having been taken for i political effect. It has even- been I hinted from certain sources that I prohibition of the sale of alcoholic j beverages had some political motive back of it. For shame: That any Pennsylvania citizen should stoop so low." —Allegheny county Republicans are holding legislative district meetings. —Most of the men chosen yester day by Governor Brumbaugh to take soldier*' votes are partisans of the Governor. It Is interesting to note that Roggenberger, one of the Phil adelphians. engineered the flght for Senator Nominee Woodard against the Vare-Woodward scheme. HAHIUSBURG TELEGRAPH THAT GUILTIEST FEELING ~ ~ ~. \ plO - Tflv ouEhTA J OP The eeN viHac .TME 'TOO BAO- - Too / I oui _ o M TA t>oiue. - \ Vkimouu THE Roues X • ■. _ _ • / oaS hTa VoAITOD" / f // VJHY \ \ ' 4-30M6 IS VUTTINIb I Twe y we A fiOoD / I Too 6A ° ( THE A' 'f ' \ RIISMT Tte fiOA* • / V ' V USM') f LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | AT IT'S OLD, OLD GAME ' To the Editor of the Ttlctrofli: On various occasions the Patriot ' 1 has endeavored to belittle the rap-! i idly growing influence of the Penn-1 sylvania Patriotic Union, its latest ef-i | fort appearing a few days ago when jit threw itself into fits because a 1 j letter sent out by the Union called attention to the splendid part Penn , sylvania is taking in the war for the ! triumph of Right over -Wrong. Of course, the Patriot can never see i any good in the achievements of the j Keystone State, nor much in any- I thing else, unless done by the Pa- j triot or the party for which it 1 exists. —but that is another story. | | The Patriot calls the letter in ques- j I tlon "slanderous." "selfish." damna- | ble," etc.. but nowhere in its editor- i ial does it attempt to deny or dis- I prove the statement complained of. j If it is true, it is not slanderous. , Will the Patriot undertake to point j out wherein the statement in ques- | ; tion Is untrue? If it is true, should I 1 not every local Pennsylvania n be j j proud of what his State is doing? A Member of the Union. | " Tek Ker uv Jim ' Deah Lawd, I feels to lif a lltT I prayer— !*My boy Jim has done gone ovah thaih, I An' 1 se so wuthlcss 'cep' to pray fu' him II ax yo", Lawd. will yo' tak keer uv Jim? 1 1 reckon yo' don' know my boy Jim. ' ! Dey's so many black boys tall 'n' slim, But I'se gwine te 11 yo'. Lawd. you'll know him by his eyes, Fu' evah sence he gin hisse'f— you'd be surprise' De look uv glory dat seem to cling— j Reckon sho dot boy has seen de! king In all his glory, 'n' de light done shine Back in dent eyes uv dat black boy uv mine. I craves to shaih dat vision 'long o' him, ' But all I had to gin is gone—dat's i Jim. Gvyine mek put, someway, outen | him, Ef. Lawd, yo'll jes' tek keer uv Jim. j —Leigh Hichmond Miner, in the' outlook. SONG OF VICTORY Gone are the long,'long nights of ] dread, Gone are the days of weeping. Awake, awake, ye mighty dead! i Wherefore are ye sleeping? See. fading in the stormy West The evil tires of warning! And see! —the Eastern sky is bright' With promise of the morning! j Awake, press on, the hour Is nigh, And Victory your battle cry! They died for this! Oh, never doubt For them the dawn is breaking! ! At Victory's triumphant shout j The shattered earth is'waking. O living hearts, be worthy these j Strong hearts in silence sleeping. And peace will bless the earth again, And Joy be born of weeping. , Look up! The long, long night is gone. And Victory is leading on! —Elspeth Honeyman, in New York Times. LABOR NOTES r - . Bloomington, Ind., permits work ing girls to wear overalls In the streets. * Britain's munitions factories em ploy 2,500,0u0 men and women. Bulgaria has within recent years developed a great rug-weaving in dustry. Agricultural workers in West Gloucestershire, Eng., demand $11.25 a week. % Jt n#w wage scale for the Journey men Stone Cutters' Association of North America, Philadelphia Local, establishes an increase from 65t;ents to 72 H cents an hour for cutters and $1 more a day for carvers and sculptors. , Northampton (England) shoe trade workers have gone out on strike as a protest against a further comb-out. "ZIMMIE" By Thomas L. Montgomery State Librarian ipnpHlS little story of one of the i I leading attractions of Harris * burg has no reference whatever ( to a banker of high degree, a speak- i er for war bonds nor to one high I up in the council of the govern- i j ment. Zimmie acquired his name from a i well-known newspaper notoriety. He is a diminutive specimen of the j screech owl (Megascops Asioi and is Iso called because he prefers to screech rather than too hoot; but his j screech after all is but a melancholy note largely used as a love song to j | give him and his progenitors a place j lin zoological existence quite apart ' from the cricket and the lion, for i Zimmie has real ancestors whose ; effigies have been used in all ages I as indicative of wisdom. It is true I ; that in later years his common name ; has been applied to men of all ages who love darkness rather than light | ! and who stay Up so late that they ! blink in the sunshine. Be that as it j may, it was a common saying of the ! ; Greeks that to "send an owl to i ! Athens" meant pretty much the | same as "carrying coals to New i Castle." When Zimmie came to the State Museum and adopted Mr. and Mrs. i Rothrock as his companions he j seemed but a bit of fluff blown in by ! the wind. He had been found by Stuart Wtir in Park and did not seem to be destined long for 1 the cares of existence, deprived of! ! his parents and the diet which they 1 only could prescribe for him. j Thrown on his own resources, how- i ever, and taking no notice of the j dead animals of large size around 1 him. Zimmie would pounce most ac- j curately upon grasshoppers that 1 were provided for him and would My Own Srall Come to Me Serene I fold my hands and wait Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea. I rave no more 'gainst time or fate. For 10. my own shall come to me. I stav my haste, I make delays, I For what avails this eager pace? I I stand amid the eternal ways And what is mine shall know my face. • Asleep, awake, by night or day The friends I seek are seeking me; , No wind can drive my bark away. Nor change the tide of destiny. i What matter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; j i My heart shall reap where it has , sown, I And gather up its fruits of tears, i j The waters know their own and draw The brook that springs from yon der height; ; So flows the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight. i The stars come nightly to the sky; < i The tidal-wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor • high. I Can keep my own away from me. JOHN BURROCGHS. A RECORD CAMPAIGN (From the Philadelphia Press) 1 In all the history of American ! I politics there has never a situa- I : tion such as exists in this campaign, i There never was a tilhe when the ipi.se will go to the Jury with so little 1 Argument as to its merits as is the ' | case this year. The war itself would 1 'be sufficient to obliterate most of j • the familiar signposts of politics. The mind of the nation is on events across the sea. This does not mean ; that voters have not opinions as to how to cast their ballots on Novem- | ber fifth. But they are chary about j expressing their belief as to politics : in the face of a world war. The ! silent vote has this year reached I (its high-water mark. Another feuture of this campaign is that two million voters will not take part in the voting. The men ; in France cannot cast their ballots. ! No satisfactory'way hus been found) ito permit them to do this without, 'disturbance to miliary plans. Theo-j | retically, should affect each ' party about equally, as the selective | draft was no respecter either of per sons or parties. Bukit is very likely that it may have deciding effect in j curtailing communities and dis tricts. Just what will be its effect lean only be guessed until the bal lots are counted. There is no one who can figure out the result of the absence of these voter* and their votes. stalk a cockroach with unerring pre cision, and so he lives happily in his strange surroundings and seems to enjoy the attentions poured upon him by an every increasing circle of friends. Although a cage has been prepar ed for hint Pre has been allowed his freedom but never oversteps the ■ window sill. L p to date Zimmie has shown per tubation of spirit as to two objects only, a horse and a dog seem to carry terror to his mind. He can spot either of these as far as Walnut street and his whole expression changes. He seems to grow grav and to shrink to about three quarters his normal size. His affection for his foster parents is very evident. He starts at the mention of his name and seems to enjoy fondling and even teasing. There is indeed little raptorial about Zimmie. He seems to wish to tell you that in cleaning up the various insects that he is acting as a con servator for the human race and when he consumes a sparrow it is not a greedy or gluttonous display, but an intimation, so to speak, that there are too many sparrows al ready. It seems a shame to call him an owl because it is a well known fact that "owl" and "howl" are from the same root and in fact in every lan guage the word to designate "owl is an intimation of some loud call; but Zimmie's call is not loud, it is plain tive and invites confidence. Zimmie has made up his mind that he is satisfied with his surroundings and that he will eliminate every roach, cricket or mouse appearing within his domain as long as he has a leg to stund on. At all events Zimmie is a 'owling success. Approve the Road Bond Issue [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] pf several proposed amendments to the State Constitution which will be submitted to the voters on No vember 5, that one which would au thorize an issue of $30,000,000 of bonds for road improvements com mends itself to every progressive citizen and should be approved. Two points of immense value have been impressed upon RennsylvSiia by events of the last couple of years and these should serve to dispel any lingering objeections to his bond proposition. One is that Pennsyl vania must have highways adapted to the demands of modern transpor tation; the other is that no business can succeed unless it is conducted on businesslike lines. The Federal Government's war financing has taught us to regard credit at its true worth. The country has not shrunk from negotiating stupend ous loans to carry on the good light for the sublime cause. This signi fies popular comprehension of a basic principle of business, namely. ! that plant and organization must be i In the highest state of perfection if the results desired are to be se cured in the shortest possible time and with the most economical out lay. Big business enterprises require large capital. Credit supplies the funds that are not otherwise avail able. Pennsylvania needs capital with which to improve the highways , of the state and make them most ! serviceable to th< people. The busi nesslike procedure is to issue bonds | and carry the work to completion ius quickly as possible. As Senutor I William C. Sproul, Kepublicun nom ' inec for Governor, has explained, the bbnds.wlll not be Issued until after i the war is ended because it will be impossible to begin the greut work before that time. But it is highly I important that authority to tssue the bonds be granted now. If It is, ! road improvements can begin as soon as peace conies and the work will afford opportunities for employ ment to the thousands who then will 1 need it. With Sproul in the Gov ernor's chair, there will be public j confidence that the rold program j will be carried out as a business I proposition to the benetlt of every ' citizen of Pennsylvania. So the I electors' duty is clear. ! Vote for the bond issue and vote I for Sprout. Elect the whole Re , publican ticket to assure good gov ernment. Why Show Iniquity? Why dost thou shew me Iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me; and there are that raise up strife and contention.—Habakkuk i. 3. OCTOBER 26, 1918. \A WELCOME ABDICATION iKfom the Phlla. North American) When we remarked the other day i that there had been a revolution in th(p country's relation to the prob lems of making peace, some reader* wc. tind, doubted the statement, j They argued, not without heat. ! Ghat President Wilson's diplomacy i throughout had been a marvel of i logic and consistency, and they re jsented the suggestion that he had 'been impelled to yield seme of the j arbitrary moral authority he had as- I sumed and to recognize the dictates lof public opinion in this and other countries. But to understand the I reality of the change and to meas jure its extent, they need only com : pare two of his state papers publish ed within a space of ten days—the | deplorable "Inquiries" addressed to . Germany on October 8. and the wholly admirable note dispatched to Vienna oh October 18 in response to |an almost identical request. I Perhaps the highest tribute that lean be paid to the latter utterance iis to state that it requires no "inter pretation." Its brevity, clearness and candor leave no room either for misunderstanding or embarrass ing rejoinder, and it gives concrete form to vital peace terms which the ' administration's policy had tended Ito obscure. j••• < • • i A further revelation of eneour | aging significance is that the Presi dent no longer regards his personally 'devised sets of principles and pro i grams of terms as tinal judgments, any questioning of which, bjj the i Allies or by Americans, was quite i recently held to be a grievous form |of heresy. If his article of last 'January respecting Austrla-Hun i gary has lost its sanctity, as he j admits, so have many of the others. He will better serve the cause to I which he is devoted if he fully rec ognizes that an enduring peace must represent the common will of the democratic nations, and not the formulas devised by one conscien tious but arbitrary personality. fOUR DAILY LAUGH I An . „ EMBATTLED * FAMILY. fX I'm sorry to | ,-Hw bear that you and i 3 1 [/' ■ your wlfe ' B moth t iq| ( er have had a iwXy falling out Is jg the bre%k In the ! .. v relationship per j\ manent? !'i I'm afraid it "IS 'it t(., 1:5 isn't but the brealt in the fur niture is. ! THE ROMANTIC TOUCH. TX - George, father "**-5 | objects to my WU : ra He y io K e. yOU - Yes. I'm so 'm! i glad, now how S | romantic our W | will be. 1 -.r—a THE PRICE OF C \ PEACE. JPy worried about domnlty. BEFORE THE FLOOD. jg I Noah (pausing L*i lr: in his work on Kf tho ark) What were those neigh- IT|! they Mere trying V 1 ; to give me an Aji f argument against preparedness. THE RETREAT. Wac 'Corre wNS# spondent Any news from the JaWVWE General (hur yrlT rying by)— None whatever, except that the front la I now rMr - lamttng (Etjat High school boys from Harria burg, Heading, Lancaster, York and other cities and'■towns of Central Pennsylvania have been the means of saving many fhousands of dol lars worth of apples and corn for the orchard ~nd farmers of a dozen or more counties which have been hard hit by the shortage of farm labor and ,in some sections the stu dents have constituted almost all the help the farmers had. Most of the , boys went out befrfre the influenza epidemic closed the schools, "but since that time the number has been increased. In the Adams county "apple belt" tho boys helped get In a big crop and as the greater part of the shipments from that region were in bulk and by carload lots to be graded elsewhere in many cases the boys were of great serv ice. The boys also helped in saving the peach crop 'earlier in the fall. This ie the first tiirrt* in which & general call for students, to assist In the fields and orchards' has been made and the response has given farmers aid and put pocket money into the hands of the boys. The corn cutting also called out many men from the cities and towns who wanted to get into the open air dur ing the prevalence of the Influenza epidemic. In some of the southern counties a huge corn crop was raised and most of it is now out of danger. • • • Capitol Hill is getting back to normal as far as the personnel of the departments is concerned and clerks and stenographers are on deck again after suffering from in fluenza. Ir. spite of the line airy location of the Capitol there was not a department or bureau which was not affected and some of them had to get along with less than half of their forces on some days. One of the oddities of the epidemic was that none of the heads of departments was taken sick. • • • State officials, men connected with big corporations and private owners of forest land, conservationists and lovers of wild life have been mak ing a special effort this year to pre vent recurrences of the full forest fires and calls will be made upon sportsmen and others who go Into the woods to not only prevent Area, but to go out of their way to stop them. The loss in timber in Penn sylvania last spring alone was more [ than a million dollars and thou sands of acres, including some young timber planted at considerable ex pense, were ruined. An elaborate system of warnings of fires has been perfected in a dozen counties and hunters wi'l be asked to give their help in event of blazes occurring. Appeals have also been made to the national railroad authorities as sta tistics show that .a high percentage of the forest fires in the regions , wherein there is good hunting have been caused by sparks from locomo tives. Less in game last spring was very great, notably in Center and other counties where efforts to propagate have been under way, fires occurring in districts which had afforded good hunting. This fall the small number of fires has been en couraging. • • • It is an interesting fact for Har risburgers to know that two sons of a native of Harrisburg, the late Gen eral Calvin DeWitt, are now colonels with the American Forces in France. Col. Wallace DeWitt is a medical officer and Col. J. L. DeWitt is in command of an infantry regiment. " Col, Wallace DeWitt was in com mand of the hospital at Camp Sher man, Chlllicothe, 0., until some months ago. • • • "For the period of the war," which has been appearing in a num ber of the decisions of the Public Service Commission In regard to complaints which have been dis missed bids fair to turn up a good many times additional in the official documents of the Pennsylvania state government in the next six months. A number of the com plaints filed against public service companies before thw commission, especially those calling for con struction of various kinds will prob ubly be dismissed without prejudice because of abnormal conditions, while some extensions will bo granted for the same Indefinite stretch of time. The uncertainty about the duration, of the struggle is going to make state officials very cautious. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —George W. Norris, of the farm loan board, has taken a residence In Washington. —Bernai d J. Newman, who is well known here because of his ac tivities as a housing expert, has at tacked conditions as he found them at Chester. —Register of Wills William Con ner, of Braddock, says that famous steel district, is one of the leaders in sending men to the army. —Admiral C. F. Hughes, the new commandant at League Island, says that a deeper Delaware is very likely. —C. B. Prichard, Pittsburgh Director of Safety, ran afoul of one of his own policemen and was told that he ought to be driving a team ' of mules instead of an automobile. | DO YOU"KNOW 1 —That Harrisburg steel plates have l>een used for manufacture of vessels for Uncle Sam in the Orient? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The old White Hall hotel sits wnp used as an annex to the court house a century ago. The Congressional Contest [From the Altoona Tribune] It is the belief of the Tribune that if the voters of this congressional district will take the time to look up the unpatriotic and sectional rec ord of such Democratic leaders in congress as the chairman of the house committee on ways and means and the chairman of the military committee they will join the Tri bune in the belief that men of such calibre should not be placed at the head of great committees. And 11 they do that they will vote for the re-election of Representative John M. Hose and hope for the election of a Republican majority. That is the only way In which better chalr< men can be secured. For the Detnn cratlc constituencies of the South never ask anything about a man's capacity or about his convictions; the fact that he is a Democrat ii enough for them. We can only get the needed change by depriving the Democratic party of its congresslon* al majority.