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HnJRDAY. OCTOBER. 26. 1018
W<rU end don't tcJkuid. —SAMUEL
IbjtaoN.
fT£T RAUNICK ALONE
P|ITY COUNCIL is well within its
\ : fights in asking City Health
jjbffieer Raunick for a report on
le Jxtent of the influenza epidemic j
i ■arrisburg. but council would do i
to let the health department de- j
how long it will be necessary '
he quarantine to remain in
, There is no denying that the j
tion has been very serious. A
re at the obituary column of the j
fraph any evening is proof of '
It is also true that the disease 1
the wane. But it might be very
jerous. with the likelihood of .
ffing the city back again into ;
snewa! of the epidemic, if thc
rantir.t were lifted too soon. Bet
a day or two late than a day too
>. 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 <Jf classes will help a whole {
Eijlc.wiU do the Democrats some
■ if' forced to be a little E'emo-
Kor WILSON S WAR
RtESIDENT WILSON is not a
■ superman, but he is the ac
■ cepted head of the Great Amer
■ government. As such, his opin- I
I arc entitled to a fair hearing.
I any attempt, even on his part.
Idiscred:: the patriotic attitude
■ tho' ris of Hepublicans all 1
B"' the United States will be 1
Hftaid. There has been a
88. effort for mnths to create
that any Re-
success at the approaching
will be interpreted in Ger-
B a repudiation of the Presi-
for the purpose of win-
for Democratic candi-
President had not mani- '
I partisan tendencies in so
his appeal for the
lion of Democrats might be over- ;
ted. but at no time has he showr.
to accord the patriotic
i of the other political house -
| any credit for disintcrsted and -
sister.: loyalty to the govern- ;
it Taking their cue from the
i in the White House, Democrats
the same mind are calling upon
jjeople. In a more or less frantic '
hysterical fashion, to "stand by |
President:" These have been I
>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<i The President knows, as 1
pwhole world knows, that Re- j
Hears atood by the adminlstra
i when the administration's own '
II leaders, for whose ptol.ticul 1
tlon the President now is ab
i begging, threw the President's I
plans into the discard and
I in a manner that caused many
papers throughout the country
large them with un-American
, if not of actual pro-German
nfortunately. the slightest crit
m of any proposal emanating
n the White House is regarded
e majestic. The American mind
•never yet been attuned to one
iff, and even in these critical war
SATURDAY EVENING,
times the people will insist upon
their right of free speech and a free
press, so long as there is no disloy
alty in what they do or say.
We find in the morning oracle of
the Democratic National Chairman
this cryptic sentence:
What must be the consequences
to America, to its Allies, to the
great cause of world liberty to
which they are dedicated, if there
is sent to Washington this fall
a Congress which at heart op
poses itself?
It evidently means something
quite deep and overwhelming, but
ns to the consequences of the elec
tion of a Congress which will be con
-1 trolled by the Republican sentiment
'of the country, the United States
{ and its allies will have no fear. Nor
' will there be any question anywhere
| as to the patriotic devotion of the
j Republican statesmen to the great
! principles to which the United States,
j has dedicated its men and its re
' sources of every sort.
President Wilson has weakened
j himself in his partisan appeal for
• support of Democrats and instead of
helping Democratic candidates for
; Congress-he has probably given im
petus to the demands of the people
' generally for an unfettered, free
i and intelligent expression of the
! public mind through the legislative
branch of the government. Instead
j of such an appeal, the President —
j in view of the consistent and able'
j support of Republican leaders in
i Congress and out—should have call
ed into counsel with him those
men of, the opposite political faith
who have shown by their works and
by their frequent appeals to their
countrymen, the breadth and sin
cerity of their patriotism and loy
| alty.
Since the President himself has
reconvened the politics which he
had previously adjourned, he may
expect Republicans to take him at
! his word. They will be justified in
> 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.
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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.