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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
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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.
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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, .
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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.
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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
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' 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.
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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.
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