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TUESDAY, OOCTOBER 29, 1918 Religion's in file heart, not in the knee. — Douglas Jerbold. CAMPAIGN SIDELIGHTS SECRETART DANIELS said at Hartford last night that the Republicans of the United States are "seeking to drive a wedge between the Allies." When he says that Secretary Dan iels lies. He lies wilfully, maliciously and stupidly. If anybody is driving wedges it Is Wilson. He started this Congressional argument and what ever the results the responsibility will be on his head. The public knows that Republicans had made no active campaign up .to the time the President challenged them. Politics was "reconvened" by the Democrats. They forced the Re publican leaders into a whirlwind finish of what had been a most quiet campaign. • •*••• Senator Knox struck the nail on the head yesterday when he said the American people want the Senate to have a voice in the discussion of the peace treaties about to be drawn, as the Constitution provides. Pres ident Wilson wants to have the only voice in those proceedings. He is not entitled to it and Republicans mean to see that while he enjoys avery right the Constitution provides and full support of Congress in avery worthy war measure, he shall lot have one iota of autocratic power more than he now possesses. • • • • > • The President is now explaining the "third point" in his peace terms, an obscure paragraph into which eny meanings might be read. He lays it does not mean free trade for America. But let nobody be de ceived. It will mean free trade for the United States If Woodrow Wil ton has his way in Congress, be cause the President is a radical free trader and he will see to it that we Pave that kind of a tariff law if we sleet Democrats to House and Sen- Ite. And free trade would bring the tame hard times that we suffered in Cleveland's day and which were on he way in 1914 when the war with Its big munition contracts turned panic into prosperity. Of all the American casualties re ptrted by the War Department from Hay 4 to October 24 inclusive the twelve Southern states contributed (.671 against 6.752 from Pennsyl rania. And yet the partisan sup porters of President Wilson are yell ng for Democratic members in Con p-ass from this state, which has been loing everything to win the war—in irder that the President may have Ittpport for his war program. Is bis part of a plan to make the United Itates safe for the Democratic party? REPUBLICAN ANSWER BINCE the President has thrown down the gauntlet on partisan lines and at a time when by Htnmon consent of men of all parties politics had been adjourned there lias been such an upheaval of po lUcal activity as would not have peen possible under ordinary condi tions. Here In Pennsylvania the peo ple of a great patriotic Common, realth bad taken the President at lis word and were conducting the punpalgn with the soft pedal, but fee man in the White House having Misted on double forte he should lot be surprised when the blast of lepubllcan harmony arouses the lehoes along the Potomac. He started something politically phlch he can't finish; that will be be Job of the voters, and Pennsyl. nla will give her answer next fuesday, Of course, we are warned that lonnlwell, the repudiated Demo vatic candidate, and hie wet cohorts, ire going to upset the Republican AJculationa la this Bute; that cores and thousands of people are ©ing to visit upon Senator Bproul, ■he admirable Republica^^Ablate TUESDAY EVENING, for Governor, all the grouch of those who have been protesting against the closing of drinking places under the edict of the State health author ities, but again we venture the pre diction that notwithstanding these noisy statements Senator Sproul will lead the van with more majority than Bonniwell will have votes. Only the other day two potential political leaders in Philadelphia an swered a defiance of the liquor inter ests with declarations that these in terests are not so important from the political standpoint as they , would have the voter believe and every threat of retaliation against Senator Sproul on this issue will mean an increase of his vote on elec | tion day. Beating of tom-toms and eleventh- j hour stampeding tactics will fool j only those who like to be fooled. It appears that Colonel Edward' Mysterious House is an accredited j plenipotentiary of the United States after all. although it was first an nounced that he was President Wil son's personal representative in Eu rope only. Speaking of his last visit overseas, a few months ago when things looked dark, the Colonel, in a cabled story, says: From that hour the clouds be gan to lift, and we could see. dimly at first, the stars of hope and victory which to-day are shining with such a steady and effulgent glow. Some gloom dispeller is our Texas friend, but we can't help wondering what Lloyd George. Clemenceau and others think. NO GERMAN TOYS FOR US THE New Tork Tribune reports that "400 tons of German toys have arrived in New Tork." But who trants to buy a German toy? Is any American so cold of heart that he would willingly place in the hands of his little daughter a doll 1 made, possibly, by one of the fiends > who chopped off the hands of Bel- i gian babies? Or who would want; his son to play with an automatic i toy devised by that same devilish j ingenuity that invented poison gas and the flame thrower? How do we know that in these toys do not link some of the devilish infernal machines that have blown to pieces Allied soldiers picking up apparently innocent objects on the j battlefields of France? The firm to which the toys were consigned has refused to accept : j them, and very properly so. We used to love the German Noah's arks and the long rows of little wooden animals that came with them. They brought us dreams; of the kindly old toymakers who passed away with the coming of the new at*d brutal Germany of Kaiser- j ism and the Junkers. A German: ark now would remind us only of i the flooded lowlands of Belgium j and France, with the glassy-eyed corpses of drowned soldiers staring j at us from their watery graves. "Made in Germany" used to be a j legend to delight the childish heart. : It was a part of the Christmas sea-j son and decorated half the toys old j Santa Claus tucked away in youth- ! ful stockings or tied to the Christ- j mas tree. Then "Made in Germany" ' meant merely that the bauble had I j come from overseas. Now "Made j |in Germany" means made in hell. ! ; German toys are blood-stained, j around them linger the dark shad- • i ows of ra\age and murder and on ' them is the stamp of the most devil- i j ish nation God ever permitted to; | prepare on earth for their everlast- : | ing punishment hereafter. They ; reek of the charnel house and the | pit. We want none of them. I Prince Max's speech indicates that j Germans want a German peace or no ; i peace. Let the war go on. MIND OUR OWN BUSINESS IN a remarkable analysis of the ! President's notes and the Ger- j man tergiversations George; I Trumbull Ladd, professor Emeritus j 1 of Philosophy at Tale, observes: Now we cannot maintain our | "face," or our character for dis- ' • interestedness, if we put in our oar to save the German boat from { sinking, or even to keep it steady by inflating it with bubbles of hope in matters affecting the return of the colonies or the nature of the economic regulations to be con cluded at the end of the war, between the separate nations now i engaged in it. Doubtless our Allies will not tell us to mind I our own business about these matters, and that they and their colonies will look after that as* | they deem best fitting their eco nomic and political interests. But i they might without essential in justice do exactly that. Neither will they remind us that trade adjustments byway of tariffs i and concessions may be well enough left, without interference, to the individual nations. But should they do this, our mouths woul(*be pretty effectually closed j by remembering our own policy • in such matters for the last quar ter century and more. At the end of the war trade arrange ments will be fixed by acts of Congress and not by Presidential proclamations. Let us then confine ourselves, when It comes even to suggesting ! terms of peace among ourselves, j to matters about which we have a right of decisive opinion, if not | a right to pose as arbitrators or peacemakers In any special way. ; And let the Government at Wash ! ington show the modesty and re serve which characterize Pershing | and our armies. For in the • Judgment of those on whom we must most rely to bring the horrid war to a successful end, there is Just now nothing so menacing to the attainment of that end as the public and diplo matic talk about peace, especially when the discussion is called out in answers to notes from Ger many or Austria. May we not hope, adopting the language of the White House, that our government and our President will preserve the equilibrium that should be maintained by one and all associated in a common cause. In short, let's be modest and stead fast In co-operating with war-time Allies. Above all else, we must not rock the boat or throw a life-line to the Hun pirates. In the British Parliament a day or two ago Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Spokesman of the war cabfnet In the House, de clared "he had not in the least changed his view that nothing could be more foolish than to have a dis cussion of peace terms at this mo ment." and this sentiment was in dorsed by an emphatic cheer. Obviously we are out to win the the war, but not for a moment must we forget that we have allies who will have something to say about the terms of peace. , Owing to the influenza epidemic and the Liberty Loan drive, the attention of the voters has been largely di verted from the issues of the impend ing campaign which concludes with the election on November E. Cen tral Pennsylvania is especially inter ested in the making of permanent highways, and it should not be for gotten that the ballot will contain a blank for an affirmative or negative vote on the proposition to make a loan of $50,000,000 to begin the con struction of a great highway system after the war. Unless this loan is au thorized at the coming session of the Legislature it may be years before the great road-making program can be put into effect || Zk By the Ex-Committeeman The Democracy of Pennsylvania, reorganized and disorganized, is Just now affordng the people of the coun try a spectacle as interesting as any to be found in the Union. The offi cial party machine is carefully avoiding any reference whatsoever, even derogatory, to the candidate | nominated by the voters of the party for governor and is scarcely show ing any indication that there are any other candidates on the state ticket, but whirling away at a great rate in an effort to make good on the President's partisan plea for Demo cratic Congressmen. The antagonism between Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the party candidate for governor, and the proprietors of the party windmill is so great that some of the candidates for Congress are ask ing that they should not be identi fied with either faction so that they will not be made tomahawk posts. And in the midst of it all the party stands an excellent chance of losing its sole representative on the state supreme court bench. The general attitude of the Re publican state candidates, headed by Senator William C. Sprout, in re fraining from campaigning, is much cofnmended. On the other hand, the course of Judge Bonniwell is meet ing much criticism because of his tours of influenza-afflicted districts. One of the oddities of the cam paign is a protest from some miners in the anthracite region that they are being kept at work in the mines to prevent them from campaigning for Bonniwell, when the national authorities have been calling for every miner to stay at his post and make up the shortage of coal due to men having gone to war and the ter rible effects of the influenza epi demic in the coal regions. —The general Impression created by the substitution of Congressman John R. K. Scott for his law partner, W. T. Connor, as Republican legis lative candidate for the House in the Eighth Philadelphia district, is that Scott has a speakership bee buzzing around. In addition to desiring to be on the floor of the House as the Vare watchdog, the adroit Philadel phian is said to seek a greater meas ure of prominence following his ca reer in Congress and encounter with Senator Beidleman at the primary. —There are some people who be lieve that the course of the Governor in dismissing Lew R, Palmer as acting chief of the Department of Labor and Industry and chief of fac tory inspection Is to maintain peace in his official family the closing months of his term as it is a matter of common knowledge that Private Secretary William H. Ball and Mr. Palmer did not agree. This view is generally held by Philadelphia news papers in commenting upon the matter. There are also some people who think thht the dismissal of Palmer, noted as a safety expert all over the country, will react on the Governor's Supreme Court appoint ees. —The Philadelphia Municipal Court appointment is going to be in teresting to observe. The selection will show where the Vares stand with the Governor after having re fused to follow him in the O'Neil campaign. The latest man to ap pear in the ring beside Representa tive "Tom" McXichol is ex-Repre sentative and Assistant City Solicitor H. T. Baurle, a partisan of "Uncle Dave" Martirv —Senator vare and his followers are out making a real campaign for Sproul in Philadelphia and defying the liquor men. who are lambasted again to-day by the Philadelphia North American. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that the election of Samuel A. Kendall for Congress in the Twen ty-Third district over Bruce F. Sterling. Democratic boss, and of General Willis J. Hillings over Congressman E. H. Beshlin, an acci dent in the Twenty-Eighth district, seems to be certain. Similarly the President's appeal seems to have sealed the fate of Congressman John V. Lesher, Sixteenth, and A. R. Brodbeck, Twentieth, both Demo cratic machine men. —Reports from Washington are that McCormick and other Demo cratic bosses are "lending" money to the Democratic national com mittee for its Congressional strug gles .this year. —Judge James B. Drew of Pitts burgh has been commissioned a cap tain in the Army Service Corps and assigned tp field duty with the. Amer ican expeditionary forces in France under General Pershing. Tim ap pointment was made by Adjutant General Harris on recommendation by Provost Marshal General Crow der. The Pittsburgh Dispatch says, "When Judge Drew leaves the bench he will be the first jurist in Pennsyl vania, perhaps in the United States, to enter the active service of the country with the army in the field." There will be another judicial place for the Governor to fill, the others being Westmoreland county, held up for the present, and the Philadel phia Municipal Court place of the late Judge Gilpin. —Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sisson, of Erie, was among the visitors to the city after spending the weekend in Philadelphia. General Sisson says that Erie county will be good and solid for the Republican ticket this fall and that it will be worth watch ing. . * HARRISBUHO TEXEGKXPH ■ SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LlPt By Briggs — "| T '_ ; F I WSH • 7 /ttooP CALI. L>P T-,e ( PAINTG N K PA.-T6R - TME C/NRPEWTER \ RNIRI R \ TUT PLUMBER AMC THB ] f 0 \ / Yes - THAT J VUHAT RNEY I VOALW PAPFB ER - - IF JHST / U/HAT t SAY THFT AIM"T \ I ALL .SAY- VUAMT IT CONJS • \ COME TODAY AMO I / Y **••• ~. 0 -r A R.QHT AWAY-- CAM T / GS T ORH £*£??-- CAMT GET / I GET THS HELP* 7 I THE "THC CNO SIFT~VE~ + -P. . PLUMBCR / .T' ' ?APEER POSEUR HAMOIE T\ KAKFP" I IS- I CAN T Y<XIR JOBTOR A \J N TME I\R\LOCI\ \ UEAV/S "INE SHOP- VAIEE* ON / \ - ALL MY HELP \ DAYS-, ALL OUR *. . / ' VMENT ANO SPROUL'S CAMPAIGN [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] Circumstances over which he has no control have compelled Senator Sproul to abandon his formal cam paign in Pennsylvania. He had numerous engagements to speak in various parts of the State, but it has been found necessary to cancel these dates, ana it may be said that, so far as mass meetings an<f the regulation red light and hurrah business go, the campaign it at an end. But it is to be earnestly hoped that the absence of these outward signs of activity may not affect the zeal of those citizens who believe that Senator Sproul is the ideal man for the Governorship and that the success of the Republican ticket at the forthcoming election is a de sirable thing for Pennsylvania. Not in many years has there been a can didate with higher qualifications for the high office to which he aspires. Not for a long while have we found a man better equipped for the duties of the Governorship than this man of affairs, who knows every corner of the Commonwealth, and who has the will and desire to give the people a progressive, business-like and com petent administration. Election day will be here in a few days, and it behooves the good citi zen to do his own campaigning in the interval. By rare good fortune the members of the Republican party have a candidate for whom it is un necessary to make apologies. His record is an open book. He has served in Harrisburg for more than twenty years, and in all that time he has been honest and straightforward with the people. He has voted ac cording to his convictions, and even when he has found it necessary to differ with his friends, he has com pelled their respect. He may be said to be his own platform, al though at the outset of the cam paign he declared himself on all the important issues of the day in a calm, dispassionate and dignified speech. His strength lies in the fact that he \s progressive, that he is strong without being tyrannical; that he is honest without constantly prating of his honor, and that he has the poise and the ability to be a first-class executive of the Keystone State of the Union. The opponents of the Republican ticket are making a "gum-shoe" campaign. They are all things to all men, and they are counting up on the small registration and the supposed apathy of the people for a surprise on election day. To be forewarned Is to be forearmed, and every real Republican who hopes for the success of his party, every good citizen who wants an honest and progressive administration of the af fairs of the State, and every Penn sylvanian who desires a Governor in whom all may feel a pride, should resolve to vote on election day and induce his neighbor to do likewise. THE PLANTING OF A TREE (From Steep Trails, by John Muir, Houghton, Mifflin Co.) When a man plants a tree he plants himself. Every root is an an chor, over which he rests with grate ful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to feel the joy of living. He necessarily makes the acquaintance of the sun and the sky. Favorite trees fill his mind, and, while tend ing them like children, and accept ing the benefits they bring, he be comes himself a benefactor. He sees down through the brown common ground teeming with colored fruits, as if it were transparent, and learns to bring them to the surface. What he wills he can raise by true en chantment. With slips and rootlets, his magic wands, they appear at his bidding. These, and the' seeds he plants, are his prayers, and, by them brought into right relations with God, he works grande. miracles every day than ever were written. LABOR NOTES The War Department wants wom en as reconstruction workers among American troops injured during he war. The women's camps and col leges are giving the courses of train ing necessary for these workers. The present army of anthracite mine workers, it is said, is barely sufficient to maintain the present maximum output of 275,000 tons daily. There are now 153,000 mine workers, or 24,000 fewer men than before the war. About 6,000,000 acres of land is given over to tobacco cultivation in the world. Irishmen who go to England to work will now be liable to be taken for military service. Peoria (111.) Sheet Metal Workers' Union has secured a wage increase lof 6 cents an hour, . . ' ' A Shabby and Sinister Appeal (From the Philadelphia North American) APEXNSYLVANIAN of our ac quaintance who twice voted for Mr. Wilson, and who has had such faith in the President that he defended the recent diplomatic cor respondence with Germany, was pro foundly shocked on Saturday by the hite House proclamation demand ing the election of a Democratic Congress as a test of the nation's loyalty to the government. "Has the President," he asked us, "gone mad?" We took this to be, of course, what is called, a rhetorical question, and not a serious inquiry as to the men tal state 6t the executive. It may be observed, however, that if the as tonishing utterance were a product of a mind diseased, instead of an act showing great power of will and per sonality, it would have to be re garded simply as a new symptom of a long-standing malady. For the present proposal differs in degree only, and not in kind, from many demands for absolute control made by President Wilson. What makes it remarkable is the issue which prompts it. In former appeals he asked for autocratic power on the ground that he had to deal with hid den mysteries of statecraft, and Americans patriotically deferred. But here he cites matters of national concern respecting which all citi zens have full knowledge and the strongest convictions. From the time when this country entered the conflict President Wil son's attitude has suggested that he regarded the war as a personally conducted and party controlled en terprise. Unquestionably he has prosecuted it first of all for the bene fit of the nation; but none the less his sense of proprietorship has led him to capitalize it to the limit for the political benefit of himself and his party. In doing this he has ex hibited a wonderful skill and audac ity, representing flagrant partisan ship as lofty patriotism, and making patriotism serve the sordid ends of partisanship. But never before has he gone so far in studied effort to •profiteer politically by the misuse of both. There can be no question of mini mizing or misunderstanding his ap peal. It has been put forth avowedly as the dominating utterance of the campaign, and such it will assured ly be. Whatever its results, Amer icans will ~be in no doubt as to the nature of the regime which the ad ministration purposes to impose up on the country. President Wilson bluntly asks the election of a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress as an evi dence of national unity, patriotism TO TWENTY-ONE When she grows up to twenty-one, And I am forty-nine; Say, won't It be most flattering And extra superfine; If when we galavant to town, For dinner or a show. We act so—-you know how—that folks Will think we're girl and beau? If through the years which lie ahead My bank account I mend; And though not parsimonious, Go easy, where I spend; Perhaps I'll save a little wad To give this tot o' mine; When she arrives at twenty-one. And I at forty-nine. / But most of all, I hope we go In wonderment and song; To tread those paths which some • how, just To little kids belong; That I can guide her footsteps where j The sun will always shine; As she sweeps on to twenty-one. And I, to forty-nine. LESLIE ALAN TAYLOR. NOT HARD TO DECIDE [From the Altoona Tribune.] There is no reason why any citi zen of Pennsylvania should find it difficult to make up his mind con cerning candidates for whom to vote on election day. As it happens the , Issues are clearly defined between [ the gubernatorial nominees of the two great parties. Judge Bonnlwell, the Democratic ■ nominee, has made the issue very plain. He came out as the "wet" j candidate and the -liquor people managed to get him the Democratic , nomination by a few votes more than ! Guffey received. Since his nomina tion he has been going up and down the state denouncing temperance ideas and making the liquor issue his sole stock In trade- . v ¥: ' and confidence in the government of the United States. He attempts to cover this outrageous demand by ad mitting that no party is "paramount in matters of patriotism." But his celebrated care in the choice of words gives unmistakable meaning to the succeeding sentence, which declares that the situation "makes it imperatively necessary that the na tion should give its undivided sup port to the government under a uni fied leadership." The most obvious offense of the proclamation is its unmanly resort to tactics forbidden by fair play. There has been virtually no cam paigning this year, because Amer icans, regardless of party, have de voted all their energies to the Lib erty Loan and other war projects, and also because the influenza epi demic has prevented public meet ings. And it is President Wilson, who loftily urged that politics be "adjourned," who now prostitutes his position as chief executive of the whole nation to the service of a par tisanship not only selfish but vindic tive, and attempts to brand as dis loyal all citizens who have convic tions opposing his. • ••••• It is certain that a Democratic Congress would stand unitedly against repeal of the extraordinary grants of authority. Through such a body the vast autocratic powers now held by the executive would be projected into the future, and the most vital interests of the American people put absolutely at the direc tion of one partisan will. There j would be no Inquiry into the colossal waste of public funds through ex travagance and incompetence. The problems of demobilization and gov ernment railroad ownership, the policies of the merchant marine, the tariff, universal military training, federal control of the supplies, dis tribution and prices of necessaries —all these things would be subject to his arbitrary decisions. And since this administration draws its main support from the south, this means that the nation would be under a political absolutism directed by par tisanship and sectionalism. By his action President Wilson has violated the first principles of Americanism and democracy. For the chief executive to adopt such a position under any circumstances would be discreditable enough. But the worst of his offense is that while receiving, as commander-in-chief of the nation in time of war, the loyal and united support of all citizens, he has forced a cleavage in public thought and purpose, not upon any true test of patriotism, but by raising issues of partisan politics. NO AUTOCRACY FOR US Commenting on President Wilson's plea for a Democratic Congress the New York Sun says: "There is yet another aspect of the matter which may be faintly indi cated in one paragraph. Shall there be self-determination in all other parts of the world, and no self-de termination in this republic? Shall the rest of the world be made safe for democracy and the very first principle of democracy be vetoed in the United States by Executive de cree? Perhaps this is, after all, the most momentous question raised by the President's ideals. Perhaps nothing better could have happened for the preservation, in the long future, of our cherished institutions of representative democracy than this amazing pronouncement of yes terday. It will at least serve to bring into the clearer light, cer tainly if perhaps prematurely, broad issues of domestic import which have been for some time dimly discern ible in the shadows qast by the great war." . RIGHT JOB FOR FORD Secretary Daniels urges Michigan voters to elect Henry Ford to the Senate on the ground that he is building a typo of boat which is ex pected to play the very dickens with submarines. But won't it occur to the logical mind that if being a successful boat builder entitles Mr. Ford to public office he ought to be made, not Sen ator, but Secretary of the Navy?— From the Kansas City Star. The Hun Can Run We'll hear the primer class: "See the Hun. Can the Hun run? The Hun can run. See, the Hun run. The ■on of a gun,—From the Houston Post. . ... OCTOBER 29, 1918. "HE W4S A ROOSEVELT" Somewhere near Chambry, France, Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt is sleeping:, and to every American the spot where he lies is hallowed soil, says William Heyliger in October Boys' Life. On an afternoon in mid- July, just as thousands of people were pouring from the great office buildings and shops of New York for lunch, newspaper extras announced that he had been shot down while fighting two German battleplanes. Men who had never seen him bit their lips and stared ahead with eyes grown suddenly moist. Women pressed handkerchiefs to their lips as though to hold back their expres sions of pain. Over in France a boy, a mere lad of twenty, was dead— and for a moment a great, rushing city paused in its toil to do silent reverence to his memory. "He was a Roosevelt," men said in husky voices, as though that told the story. It is a great thing for a boy to carry in his veins the blood of a family rich in traditions of service, of patriotism, and of clean, noble love of country. Quentin Roosevelt was such a boy. As an infant, he lay in his mother's arms while his fath er, under a broiling Cuban sun, led the Rough Riderß against the Span ish lines at Las Guasimas. As a schoolboy the great publig buildings at Washington were familiar to his sight, for his father was then Presi dent of the United States. His young eyes saw Congress,in session. He heard earnest debates on public questions of importance. He was too young, perhaps, to realize then what it all meant: but from it, and from the staunch family of which he was the baby, he absorbed the finest ideals of liberty. And for liberty, on that mid-July day in France, he gave his life. OUR DAILY LAUGH I Jl'' l hate to think [a/TO. | Wpf I of my thirtieth [jflf i' birthday. W '|L ll\ =f Lot's not bring i iSYfi up tho past. T*|'| 111 j P LOOKING i AHEAD. I see you're building a gar age. Have you bought your car No, but I'm saving cigarette cou P°ns. ' CHEERING THE ANIMALS. C /"V— —-ill Visitor A "*°-l great many peo- gi pie come here jMC Keeper of Zoo glad of It. It u seems to sort of A-.'' ■■ cheer the anl- f (// mala up to see a 'i crowd. tALSO, IT'S THE Why did you have your new dress made so F To match my husband's finan cial condition. 3AFETV I .AST. Now I sup- IV V I pose I'll have to I\ \ \ V trump up eomo / \\ ! J excuse to tell [ ■ J my wife about f'-A I my losing her |—^— doE - ~ \ r\ ; •1. Ug-M lammto (Etjat 11 , The foreign population of Harris byrg and Steelton, which comprises almost every nationality In Southern Europe and many men from the banks of the Danube and other big rivers which have fceen figuring in the war news apparently does not intend to be caught in another "dry" spell due to influenza epidemic or .to be thirsty during the semiprohl bltion which will come when the breweries suspend and higher taxes are imposed on liquors. Every grape ** vine for miles around this city has been made to pay by its owners be cause of the extensive purchases of grapes made by the foreign speaking people. They have bought grapes of every kind, including tjie so called fox variety, and have paid • fancy prices. Some have walked miles to buy the grapcq and carry them home and whole families hAve gone out into the country to secure • the supplies, while every man who could get an automobile or a team went beyond the range of the walk ers. Wild grapes and grapes grow ing in tracts of woodland which did not seem to have any owners havo been stripped from the vines. The foreigners say that they want to make wine. Every fall there are large purchases made with this ob ject, but this year all records have been broken for quantity bought and prices paid. Estimates are that hun dreds of dollars have been paid every week at Steelton alone for grapes and they have been sold by the wa gonload. Some of tno foreigners have also been visiting stores to buy small stills as they say they are go ing to make their own liquor as well as wine. The foreign population of this section has always insisted on having its own peculiar drinks and there have been many mysterious purchases made in the summer time, but nothing li,ke this fall's out lay for grapes. * • • "The best evidence in the world that the influenza epidemic quaran tine was justified," said a well-known trolley official to-day, "lies in the very large number of street car con ductors who went down with the dis ease. These men met people in crowds constantly during the rush hour when the cars are filled. They took their beds by the score and even now, with the epidemic on the wane, the street car companies are unable to keep their usual schedules. The Valley lines have not been able as yet to resume their fifteen-minute service and they are using as sub stitute conductors a number of Technical High School boys who volunteered to help out during the emergency. If it had not been for them and a few other extra. men picked up the lines would have been completely tied up. Harrisburg lines suffered in proportion. It is notice able that the conductors, who had to venture into the filled cars, caught the disease in much larger numbers than the motormen who did riot come into such close contact with passengers. These facts make it • plain to me that if the usual meet ings had been allowed and places of public gathering had remained open the death rate would have been much higher." • • • H. E. Prevost, the well-known division publicity chief for the Bell Telephone Company, with headquar ters here, has come upon a tele phone directory for Harrisburg and vicinity of the year 1892. At that time there were just 295 stations in • Harrisburg. To-day there are 12.000 Bell phones in use in the city. Few industries in the country can boast of such a growth. In those days only the more prosperous or pro gressive businesshouses or citizens had a phone. To-day people of even the most moderate means have phones in their homes. Then a tele phone connection cost a young for tune per year; now the rate is so low almost anybody can afford one. The general offices in those days were at 22 Market street and one old-style switchboard with two or three operators sufficed to meet the needs. Leonard H. Kinnard, now high in the counsels of the Bell Tele phone Company, with offices in Philadelphia, was then local man ager. It is interesting to note that none of the Harrisburg newspapers except the old Star-Independent had then reached a stage of prosperity where their owners felt expenditure for a telefchone wise, while even the Pennsylvania railroad had but a few instruments and the State Capitol was without its own exchange, only a few of the officials being so reck lessly extravagant as to spend money for such luxuries. But the street car company had several, in dicating that it was making more money then than it is in these strenuous times. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE - —Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain, who started out to give one day a week to the State Council of National Defense at Philadelphia, is now devoting four. —Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts burgh, has been personally visiting .hospitals in his city during the in fluenza outbreak. —Adjutant General Beary has been connected with the state mili tia for thirty years almost to a day. He started -as a private in the old Fourth Regiment. —Dr. Charles B. Penrose, head of the State Game Commission, has de clined to become head of the Phila delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. —General W. J. Hulings, candi date for Congress in the northwest ern district, has five sons in the Army and would like to go himself. —Daniel S. Brumbaugh, Blair county treasurer, who has been iv, is improving. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg made parts for big trucks now in use in France? HISTORIC HARRISBURG General Arthur Sullivan was here when he was organizing his expedi tion against the Indians and a num ber of men from the lower Susque hanna accompanied him on the great attack. GOD'S SUNSHINE Never —once —since the world began Has the sun ever once stopped shin ing. ' His face very often we could not see, And we gr.umbled at his incon stancy: But the clouds were really to blame, not he. For, behind them, he was shining. And so—behind life's darkest clouds, God's love Is always shining. W® veil it at times with our faith less fears. And darken our sight with our fool ish tears, , But in time the atmosphere always clears. For His love is always shining. —JOHN OXENKAM. . i
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