6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TUB TEI.*GRAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-inrChief F. R. OYSTEfc, Butinei* Manager OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager- Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited t.o It or net otherwise credited in this paper and also tho local mhvs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American i Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn | sy.van'a Associ ifeliiffir," IVestern office. Story, Brooks & G lnl . ey ' Peo ( f le ' s - Chicago, B U l!" idntered at the Post Office in Harrls , burg. Pa., as second class matter. • Bm carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3(1, 1918 Life is a long lesson in humility.— J. M. BARBIE. THE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT has Senator Sproul ever done in public life to merit the support of independent citizens?" asks Chairman McCor -mick's subsidized morning mouth piece. What a foot question to ask con cerning a man whose very first act in public life was to run counter to the wishes of the most powerful political organization in the State, and who ever since on many oc casions has proved that he is a man* of independent thought and action. The Patriot's owner is without a candidate. The Democratic voters at the primaries were so disgusted with the,manner in which he and his fellow gangsters had man-han dled what is left of the poor old Democratic party in Pennsylvanif that they nominated the representa tive of the rum interests, Judge Bonniwell, rather than stand for the subservient tool of the McCor mick organization. As everybody knows McCormick could have written a prohibition plank into the Democratic platform. But he didn't do it. Why? Because he was playing politics and some of his friends were afraid their inter ests with the saloons might be in jured by any reference to temper ance. So the McCormick-Palmer platform contains no mention of this vital issue. And now, this disgruntled, dis-' credited politiihl bosslet, feigning that respectability to which his ac tions give the lie, solemnly urges voters to east their ballots for the Prohibition candidate for Governor, on the ground that Senator Sproul is not sincere In his courageous stand for prohibition, a stand that McCormick in his Democratic plat form was afraid to take. The voters of Pennsylvania know Senator Sproul. His record is an open book and the principles on which he bases his candidacy are honest, progressive and in full har mony with the best thought of the State. The voters also know Mc- Cormick, whom they defeated for Governor four years ago, not only in the State at large but in his own county, city and ward. They will not have any difficulty in under standing the latest McCormick out burst for what it is. Senator Sproul should be happy. It is a well-known fact that anybody whom McCormick supports for office in Pennsylvania is beaten, and vice versa. Germany has made a deliberate at-" tempt to destroy the industries of France and Belgium, and when peace comes she must be made to restore all that she has stqlen or wrecked. It is because of this and other problems that the next Congress of the United States should be composed of men of large experience. Unless definite steps are taken now in planning for the peace period, we may expect to suf fer for our failure to prepare as we are how paying heavy toll for our sliort-slghtcdness In falling to get ready for the war. NOW WE UNDERSTAND YOU may Recall that the Tele graph expressed some surprise several days since that Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCor mick had stood sponsor for a letter ■ demanding cash contributions from federal officeholders for the benefit of the Democratic campaign fund. The National Chairman had wept so profusely over tho contributions ■Ji Buto employes to Republican campaign funds that it was with some astonishment we found his name attached to letters brutally telling government employes to "come across." It seemed unlike the McCormick who, in his own cam paigns used to find the McCormick millions ajnple to meet the Demo cratic extravagant slush funds, .to go about the country, begging for p.aitry sums of $5 to $25 from poorly-paid postal attaches. Ac- WEDNESDAY EVENING, cordingly wo paused for a moment to wonder who had nailed up tho bunghole of tho McCormick barrel. But now It is all cleur. It was dis closed, when the Democratic Cam paign Committee filed its accounts at Washington this week, that Mitch ell Palmer, Vance C. McCormick and Joseph P. Guffey had loaned the committee $150,000 last campaign. This explains why McCormick is so Anxious to raise a big campaign fund this year It also explains why McCormick was so set upon having Guffey elected Governor of Penn sylvania. ( They wanted to get that $150,000 back. i Vice Chairman Cummings, of the Democratic National Committee, de clares that "the country will judge the relative abilities of the two par ties to administer post-war problems by their records." So it will, and that will mean the passing of the control of Congress to tho Republican party, j which has never failed when great I constructive work was to be done- ANY JOB LOOKS GOOD THE Kaiser is ready for a new job. The erstwhile exponent of the divine right of kings is now willing to become "hereditary presi dent of a German republic." It is to laugh. What's in a name? Would Wilhelm be any safer as "hereditary president" than he is as kaiser? The truth is that "all-highest" fears ho is about to become "all-lowest" and he is in a of mind where anything less than utter ruin looks good to him. Republican voters are hot going to be misled by any beating of tom toms over the Democratic slogan "stand by the President!" If it hadn't been for the Republicans who stood by the President on his various im portant war measures the country would not now be in shape to smash the Hun. 'When the history of the \yar shall have been written it will be found that the patriotic Republi cans at Washington and throughout the country bad more to do with de feating the Germans than their par tisan opponents. NO DICTATORSHIP REPUBLICAN indignation over the President's plea for a Dem ocratic Congress is well sum med up by Chairman Hays. He says: A more ungracious, more un just, more wanton, more menda cious accusation was never mdde by the most reckless stump orator, much less by a President of the United States for partisan pur poses. It is an insult, not only to every > loyal Republican in Congress, but to every loyal Republican in the land. It fully merits the resent ment which rightfully and surely will find expression at the polls. The President has remained silent under Chairman Hgys' vigorous re joinder. Probably he is not anxious to bring upon himself another broad side of the kind. By this time he probably realizes the stupendous blunder he has made. Republicans everywhere have been aroused to an extent that will send them to the polls next Tuesday to prove to the President that they are free-born Americans and not weak creatures incapable of action without White House instructions. Son-in-law McAdoo thinks the President is justified in his appeal and should be a dictator. Says he: "The President, who is commander in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, must not have the au thority divided in the United States between the Cpngress on -the one hand and himself upon the other." In other words the President is greater than the constitution, in Mr. McAdoo's opinion. It is time the country registered its ideas on that subject. Republicans are indignant as never before. The effect of the White House plea will be merely to increase the Republican vote. EUROPEAN ECHQ GOD reigns, and Woodrow Wil son is President of the United States." Thus is the im mortal utterance of the martyred President Garfield paraphrased by a Mississippi Democrat. "God reigns, and the Government at Washing ton still lives," carries an appeal to the patriotic citizen wholly lacking in the glorifications of an individual indulged in by certain politicians at Washington. STATE'S GRANARY THE Lower Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys, long noted for their share in the upbuild ing of Pennsylvania's premier indus tries of iron and coal, are shining in the record of food production in war time and figures compiled at the State Department of Agriculture demonstrate that they are again meeting the call of the nation not only for men and raw materials, but for food as well. Not far from one half of all the wheat grown in Penn sylvania this year was raised within seventy-five miles of the State Capi tal, the great bulk of that being within fifty miles. Between Harris burg and Reading, Harrisburg and Coatesville, Harrisburg and Mason and Dixon's' lino, in counties adja cent or having but one county inter vening, is the granary of Pennsyl vania. The "million bushel" wheat counties of the Keystonfe State are neighbors of Dauphin. The leader of the wheat counties Is Its mother county of Lancaster. With these figures in mind it is interesting to know that Dauphin has increased its acreage in wheat anckthat it will strive with its greater agricultural sisters of Cumberland, Franklin, York, Adams, Berks and the others far up In the wheat list to give Mother Lancaster somewhat of a chase. . Dauphin has given hundreds of sons to the army and navy, produced huge amounts of coal, cut big tracts of timber, dug large tonnage of stone for flux and building and made more iron than ever since the war began and now, with over half a million bushols of wheat tfhd almost a mil lion bushels of oats to its credit this year, It la going In for raising the food as well as everything else that It Gun to win the war. IK By the Ex - Committeeman With only a few exceptions all of tho men appointed commissioners to take the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers and sailors In camps and naval stations have been sworn In and received their Instructions. To-day the commissions of the men who took the oath yeßterday, but whose assignments had not been designated will receive their notices where to go. A number of men who could not get here yesterday when the meetings were held arrived to day and were sworn In. The supplies of the men assigned to western and southwestern camps, forts and stations, practically all detailed to go west of the Mississippi are the only ones to be Issued. These men received their commis sions and supplies last night and i will meet in Pittsburgh on Thurs day. Other men will leave Friday and Saturday, according to location of cgmps. Sue of the commissioners are members of local draft boards and owing to the newly-issued calls and the urgings of State Draft head quarters to speed up classifications some inquiries have been made as to what effect it wijl have. Most of the election commissioners are new men, who do not know the ropes. Very few of the men Who served in either 1916 or 1917 have been appointed and it is noticeable that General C. Bow Dougherty and other military men who made up the bulk of the delegation in pre vious years have not been appointed. Some men who were named refused to accept because of influenza and others were aware of what they were going up against and declined. —This is the way the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times sizes up the cam paign: "While there has been a great deal of apathy throughout the state, tliff signs are indicating on awakening of tho electors to the importance of the election Novem ber 5, when a governor, other state officials, members of Congress, state senators and representatives and judges of the higher courts are to be elected. The ordinary methods of campaigning cannot be employed because of the influenza quarantine. There are no public meetings, tho burning of red fire or the beating of drums. It is a year when it is up' to the individual voter to turn out and do his duty. This week the mails will carry him many messages and those who hope to win by gum shoe methods and the polling of a light vote are likely to find the night of November 5 that their cal culations have miscarried and their energy and money wasted." —The fact that Governor Brum baugh let the retirement of L. R. Palmer as acting commissioner of labor and industry, pass without a statement qs to reasons, recalls other removals. The rule may be noticed next winter when other changes take place. —Retirement of L. R. Palmer is commonly attributed among men I familiar with politics in Pennsyl vania to friction with William H. Hall, secretary to the Governor, and to date back to the refusal of Pal mer, after consultation with Dr. Pat terson, of the Bureau of Hvgiene, to accept Dr. E. R. Walters, of Pitts burgh for a place In the department, while the removals of Inspector W. G. Fisher and Referee T. J. Dunn added something to it. Mr. Palmer will likely accept a place with one of the big steel companies and not be a candidate for any place in the state government next year. —While the retention of Walter McNichols, acting commissioner of labor and industry, is unlikely under the new administration, the naming of 4he Scranton man may result in some folks Connected with the de partment finding the climate of Harrisburg agreeable to continued work in this city instead of making their headquarters some other, place. —Walter Darlington, writing in the North American, says that Con gressman Bruce F. Sterling, of the Tayette district, is now courting Democrats of both camps and is due to be defeated. Sterling has been a Palmcr-McCormick boss. —The re-election of Congressmen B. K. Focht is declared by men familiar with the Seventeenth dis trict .to be assured. Focht, say these Deople, will carry every county over f,eiby. —ln Northampton county a strong move has been .started by Republicans and Democrats aline to secure the election of Justice Fox. The situation in the state at large favors selection of Jydge John T. Kephart with the other place be tween .Justice Alexander Simpson, Jr., and Charles B. Lenahan of Lu zerne. Recent actions on Capitol Hill will hurt Simpson, it is said. —The North American to-day says Judge Bonniwell has sent a hurry call to Washington for aid and also assails United States Dls tr'ct Attorney Kane for his stand in the Cadbury case. —Auditor General Snyder told people at Republican state head quarters yesterday that things were looking very well for Sproul' in the lower anthracite region, says the Philadelphia Press. —The fight of the State Grange leaders and certain Democrats against the road bond issue amend ment, does not seem to be getting ai\y farther than the McCormick machine scheme to drum up votes for Fithian against Bonniwell to avoid a vote for Sproul. . —Re-election of Congressman/ Rose is said to be certain as a re sult of the President's appeal lor Congressional elections. —The Philadelphia Ledger says the McClure liquor crowd in Dela ware county is against Sproul. But it don't matter. —Prohibition State Chairman Prugh is on his way west at state expense, after declaring for Fith ian with might and main. —John E. Walsh, a protegee of David H. Lane, is being boomed for the vacancy on the Philadelphia municipal court bench. The fact that Mr. Lane was for Sproul may not make Walsh popular with the Gov ernor. —The Altoona Tribune seems to have taken' off its coat for Judge John W. Kephart for the superior court. The Judge has been getting considerable support in upstate newspapers and the Tribune con cludes a eulogy of him with these words: "Boys like Judge Kephart deserve to Succeed and the people in the face of these facts, will un doubtedly rally to his support in November regardless of party con siderations." . :ar* - v HARRISBU RG TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES-:- -:- -:- -:- -:- By BRIGGS r ßr (SoLtr th*7l ) CtnrF* Wrs * „ 6 wteK.s i A SOMG GY HufiO / / vu' s'OwC) Po66QmD6S~ NoS"T ■ B'<3lUf>J<b ITS A / I IT 0R1M65 TsaS / B6AUTiFO- RECORD v V wONDeRPui. Riec Fj To eves J , euer HEARD-- } GEORG6 uooio't \ X - , K \ I lOGvyeft GET vou Put ohj a - uETi \1 ( TiRED HEARIIV/6 IT HAV/6 a UTTLE I / • I /V"' . "\ C~~\>i : """\ /put~~om - f'^z^z 0 ) TV^r■ ri,k • -T'VOO are / "RECORD BuT / S AQOoT" \ I You "BOUGHT I (JHIJ-R "TIRED OP" i get t.red / • /** good I J/ v That THAT Record I TH6 / \ I \ / I q — A saaa & ocd 7- v__ jy v y jr ,N(3 puT ,T ,njt ° • 1 ° n H otH'onW 0 t H 'on W USERVICE <FZL BY SENDING \ lT ' TME WORK OR BE JUNKED ' [From Boys' Life for October.] Think of them—our soldiers. Wet, muddy, nerve-racked; Machine guns piercing them, Airships bombing them. And yet they go for\vard t Foot by foot, Sometimes a mile. But there are many who fall; The stretcher bearers gather them up, The ambulances carry them to the rear. Groans, tears, weakness? Never! Not when they're conscious. "See here, doctor, let me go back!" "Come on, Doc, give me one more crack at them!" Meantime we're safe at home. They don't ask us to share their dan ger. They ask only for food, equipment, ammunition. Secured through the sale of Liberty Bonds. We've succeeded in three campaigns; What abcmt the Fourth? If we quit, they MUST. - j The Hun is rurining. If we work fast we can keep him moving— If we let him catch breath, he's com ing back. What are you going to do, Scout? Just read the papers and talk loud about victory? Or help WIN that victory? If you're a true American, you'll be selling bonds. That's your biggest job just now, And some investor is waiting for you; If you don't sell him a Bond Uncle Sam loses the money. A machine gun goes empty at a criti cal moment, The Hun listens, turns, counterat tacks. A rush carries our hard-won trench, Americans go down, Cold, stiff, full of ghastly wounds. Your sale could have stopped it— That sale you did not make. Isn't it treason? Isn't it murder^? They don't ask -us to risk our lives; They don't ask us to go cold and hungry. They ask us only to sell Liberty Bonds. If you don't work, you hinder, Like a broken ball in a bicycle bear ing. And in hindering, you help the Ger mans. The Hun is not dead yet. r He will hit the line again. Will he lirtd you there —or just a hole? The Scouts have pledged 100 per cent, loyalty. 1 Are you with them or against them? There's no neutral gear in Uncle Sam's tank; You must work or be junked. A False Note "One of my pupils," says a Buf falo teacher, "could not understand why I thought that the following paragraph from his composition on 'A Hunting Adventure' lacked ani mation and effectiveness; "Pur sued by the' relentless hunter, the panting gazelle sprang from cliff to cliff. At last, she could go no far ther. Before her yawned the chasm, and behind her the hunter.' " —Montreal Daily Star. Sinning Find the Law For as many as have sinned with out law shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. —Romans ii, 12. LABOR NOTES Miners in Indiana averaged almost SIOOO in wages for the year 1917. Cincinnati bakers have been in creased $2 a week. In Japan girls 12 years old work 10 and 12 hours a day. Munition laborers in Berlin, Ger many, can earn S2OO to $250 a month. Newark. N. J., milk drivers have received a raise of $2 a week. Engineers on Irish railroads have, been granted a bonus of $3.16 a week. Seven of the 11 Canadian provinces now have compensation laws. Farmers throughout Ohio are form ing co-operative buying, societies. Textile workers in Toronto have re ceived an increase of from 18 to 20 per cent. The industrial arbitration act of New South Wales, Australia, has bAen amended. What Shall BeDone With the Kaiser? By Kugene V. Brewster ON July 5, 1914, the Kaiser called an imperial council at Pots dam which was attended by Moltke, then chief of staff, repre senting the army, Admiral von Tir pitz, representing the navy, the great German bankers, railroad directors, ambassadors and captains of indus try. The Kaiser presided and sol emnly asked each person present if he was ready for war. All responded in the affirmative except the financi ers, who stated that they must have two weeks in which to sell their for eign securities and to make Joans. That time was granted, and the rec ords of all the great stock exchanges of the world show that during those two weeks large blocks of stocks | were sold and that prices detlijied rapidly. * On July 22, 1914, about two weeks | later, the Serbiah ultimatum was , j sent, which precipated the great war. It is no longer a secret that the j Kaiser had been for many years pre paring for this war. It is no longer doubted that the Kaiser wanted this | war. It is no longer disputed that the I Kaisier's ambition was to become a | world conqueror. His desires, meth- j ods, his faithlessness, heartlessness, j ambition, his very heart have been j laid bare to every man's knowledge, and to-day he is the most despised man on earth and the blackest char acter in all history. His war on civil ization has set practically the whole world aflame with anger and hatred. Caesar took 800 towns, subdued 300 states, and conquered 3,000,000 fighting men, one million of whom perished in battle and 300,000 of. whom were sold into slavery. Jenghis Khan caused the destruction of 14,-' 000,000 human beings. A million men perished in the battles of Tha pus and Munda, and the Tartars filled nine sacks with right ears of the slain in the battle of Lignitz. Timeur the Tartar's order delivered 100,000 to eternity in a single night, and, as Gibbon tells us, erected on the ruins of Bagdad a pyramid of 90,000 heads. Belisarius poisoned the waters of the hostile cities. The ex ploits of Surrey in Scotland left Taft on Wilson's Plea [By William Howard Taft —Cour- tesy of The Public Ledger] The President, having put by, in grim times like these, the scrbples of taste in his appeal to the Ameri can people for the return of a Dem ocratic Congress, of course invites a respectful consideration and dis cussion by every- loyal American citizep of what he says. The appeal of the President is forcible but specious. The unified leadership he asks is autocratic power in fields in which the Con stitution and principles of demo cracy require that he should con sult other representatives o{ the people than himself. In pursuit of his policies he con sults neither his own party nor any other. He wishes a Democratic Senate, not because he would seek their assistance in ■ the foreign policy to which by the fundamen tal law they are to advice and con sent, but because he can'mold them absolutely to his will without con sulting them. He has visited his displeasure on every Democratic member of either house who has differed with' him and called upon that member's constituency to re ject him. Is it necessary to the country's welfare that he should be absolutely ruler of this nation for the two years ensuing from March 4 next? That is the premise upon which the soundness of his appeal, in its ulti mate analysis, must rest. Do we need during the life of the next Congress a dictator? One who knows the facts of this war, and our part in it, and who loves liberty and popular government, must an swer no. The war is nearly won. It may take a year longer. We hope it will be less. The complex questions of the terms of peace are to be settled in the term of the Congress now to be elected. The still more difficult questions of reconstruction after the war are to be met by that Congress. Do the American people by their action in the next election wish to make both the terms of peace and the recon struction after the war depend on the uncontrolled will of Woodrow Wilson? That is the issue which he puts to them in his appeal. "Unless you give me uncontrolled power, you repudiate me and my leadership before the world." Aut Caesar aut nullus. . J 1 - nothing but bare, blooksoaked ground behind, and the Pillage of Magdeburg in the Thirty Years War left little else. But all these were angels com pared with the Emperor of Germany. And that was long ago. And times have changed. Even in 1035, the clergy announced this malediction on the warriors: "May they be ac cursed and have their potion with Cain, the first murder; with Judas, the arch traitor; and with Datham and Abiram, who went down alone into the pit. May they be accursed in the life that now is, and in that whiqh is> to come may their life be put out as a candle!" What would they say of this modern Bombastes | Furiosos? What would they say of j this man's inhumanity to man that I has made countless millions mourn? I General Grant "entered the army j with regret and left it with pleas ure," to quote his own words; and ! after Waterloo, the conqueror of j Napoleon wrote the most pitiful ex pressions of sorrow and regret for j the awful losses, and said he would willingly sacrifice his own life to prevent war. But what of the man j who started the greatest of all wars? j Has he a tender thought or a single regret for the incalculable horrors and sufferings he has caused? Na poleon was sent to St. Helena —pun- ishment indeed for such a man. But St. Helena would be a paradise for such a vain soulless creature as Kaiser Wilhelm. Sad has been the j fate of our great historic characters —even of our good ones. Alexander died in his youth. Socrates was made to drink the fatal hemlock. Caesar was assassinated by his friends. Jesus was. crucified. Galileo was made to recant under penalty of death. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Columbus was put in chains. Cromwell, a price was put upon his head. Napoleon was sent to St. Hel ena. Lincoln was assassinated. What shall be done with this fiend when he is caught? That is for wiser heads than ours, but we probably all feel that as he has shown no justice, honor or mercy to the millions, no justice, >nor or mercy shall be shown to him. COME ON! We've some Yankees oversea Fighting for our Liberty Who are putting up a mighty lively scrap; They are having lots of fun Taking wallops at the Hun, And they're making plans to change the German map. See them wave their tin chapeau, Hear them yelling at the foe: "Up and at 'em, boys! Let's go! COME Oh'!" And over here at home, Oh, you fellows on the Somme, We've another bunch of tireless, fighting chaps Nearly half a rnillon strong— Growing bigger right along— Who work for you from reveille to taps; Hear them chant the Kaiser's knell As they give their battle yell: "We have stamps and bonds to sell!" COME ON!" Whether work or whether play, You will find it true as day That a little dose of ginger aids success; If a thing's worth while at all It deserves your giving all The enthusiastic effort you possess. See that fellow In the lead? Listen to his fighting creed: "Get a going—show some speed! COME ON!" SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN Stripping your neighbors Is only to take away from them the means of doing you a michief. —Frederick the Great. Above all, you must inflict on the Inhabitants of invaded towns the maximum of suffering. You must leave the people through whom you march nothing but their eyes to weep with. —Bismarck. The more unmerciful the conduct of war the more merciful lh reality, for the war is thereby sooner end ed. —Hindenburg. The Innocent must suffer with the guilty. All that is as nothing com pared with the life of a single Ger man soldier.—General Von Biasing. International law (German ver sion) is by no means opposed to the exploitation of the crimes of third parties (assassination, incendiarism, robbery and the like) to the preju dice of the enemy.—German War Book. Create examples which by their (rightfulness will be a warning to the whole country.—Wilhelm li. OCTOBER 30, 1918. Women Can Save Paper "Don't mind wrapping it, please." If every woman who goes to the gro cer. candy, or delicatessen store, , each day, would use this phrase to i the clerk, when buying package goods, she would save thousands of tons of materials and chemicals, now essential in making munitions, poi son gas, and other war materials. Don't be ashamed to carry home a bottle of milk, unwrapped in the usual paper, bag. War pride should prompt you to take a basket to mar- I ket, reusing your saved paper bags, !' not only once but a number of times, and thus do your share in paper con servation. Isn't the milk just as good; , the package of chocolate as tasty, i the biscuits as palatable? You must I take the initiative; the store clerk doesn't dare offend you. Your government needs your co operation; it needs to restrict paper making; it needs all paper for re manufacture into shell wrappings, for packing soldiers' food and cloth ing, for questionnaires, for records, correspondence, for soldiers' letters. Do your part and prevent an actual shortage. The War Industries Board. TAKING ROOT IN HELL [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Henry Morgenthau, former am j bassador at. Constantinople, made an I address the other night. He said that the war will have been fought in vain unless peace is restored "up on terms that will change the men tal attitude of the German people toward its own masters and towards ! the rest of the world." "I regard this as the fundamental point in the whole international [ situation," he wen* on. "At present I the German people possess a phil j osophy of life that takes its root in hell. Unless they discard this and bring their thinking into line with I that of enlightened nations, we will ''have obtained not an end to this war, i but merely a truce." I He insisted that the Allied armies | must destroy the whole German military machine as a physical fact. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I in boarders this found It out yet? THE ALTERNATIVE, Mr. Hobbs—Do you think youH j be able to keep up with your neigh | bors? Mrs. Hobbs—lf we can't my dear, we'll move. JEALOUS. Mr. Dauber HpPT \[Jf said my face 1 \ was classic. ) What is classic? / Oh, most any thing old, BSa TRUE POLITENESS. "Does your wife listen to your advice?" | "Listen? Of course she does. My ' wife is very polite," Emrotg (Htjat One of the city's oldest physicians. In speaking about the Influenza epi demic which has swept Pennsylvania and given Harrisburg some experi ences which a couple of years ago could scarcely have been predicted, declared that in all the history of this place he had never known the churches to be closed. The medical man, by the way, voiced his ap proval of the general closing— '■ schools, churches and theaters and all the rest —but he remarked upon the changed conditions which made It possible to halt so many activities of the people. Reviewing the his tory of epidemics in this city from away back in the first decade of Harrisburg, when the so-called yel low fever outbreak caused lt>ss of • life here that scared the people, this physician said that it had not af fected the life of the place, propor tionately as much as to-day. And the other fever epidemics, smallpox-* and various ailments, which hayri' afflicted Harrisburg never forced the authorities to take drastic steps that have been resorted to to halt influenza. In those days the fact of contagion and infection was not as well established, and preventive medicine was almost unknown. To sum it up, this physician says that the reason the quarantine worked so well was that people had been used to owing to the war, and something more, even the closing of churches, seemed to come naturally. • * • A man who Had been in Canada says that the restrictions on sugar and white bread do not exist as wo know them here. In the Dominion hotels, he said, sugar and white bread are on the table. "But," ho remarked, "they have signs which say that if you do not need sugar or white bread do not eat it. They suggest, that you refrain. And I found that the people did. There were none of the severe rules wo know in this country." • • • Certainly the most pathetic part of the influenza epidemic which has been epidemic in Pennsylvania since early in the month is the part pub lic officials are being called upon to do in seeing that children bereft of their parents are cared for. Hardly a day goes by but some re pprt is made at the State Depart ment of Health about children left orphans through influenza's ravages and local health authorities ask what shall be done. In many other cases children are being taken care of by relatives or locally, but instances . have come to flight of little ones in rural districts and in industrial communities whose parents have been stricken down and the families left without providers. The State Council of National Defense* special office here and the Red Cross, which also has an office in conjunction with the State Department of Health, have been. giving special at tention to such cases and have called in the State Board of Public Chari ties and various organizations to care for children. With a death rate of almost 1,000 a day in Pennsyl vania, the epidemic has taken away what officials here believe statistics will show, to have been many heads of families. • • • The next Legislature will be asked to cure in voting the money for thly conduct of. the State Police force what is now held to be too specific an itemizatiorf of funds. For years expenses of sickness or injury of men stricken down on duty or funeral costs of State Policemen killed whiltf making arrests or preserving order have been paid by the state. This year questions were raised for the first time and expenses of sendrttg home the body of a trooper killed i on duty have actually been met by collections taken up .among the men themselves. Similarly the hos pital expenses of men injured or taken sick on duty have been cared for. • • • This is what a Pittsburgh news paper says of a man well known here:' "John M. Phillips, state game commissioner, also known as "Chief Silver Top," of the Boy" Scouts, has gathered three barrels, or about 5,000 walnuts for planting this week by \the Scouts. This work will bo under the .direction of William H. Weishcit, assistant scout executive, and field scout executive C. B. Shaler and Thomas Sparrow. The planting will be done in places favor able to the growth of the black walnut trees. The walnuts now really are in their hulls for plant ing. • • • Some of the men who came here to take the oaths of office as Ulec tion commissioners and to receive their supplies had a chance to ob serve Harrisburg because the assign ments to camps were not ready to announce. While awaiting the word from the Governor's office the vari ous commissioners strolled around town and one man voiced the gen eral opinion when he said "I wish my town had saved its river front and fixed it up the way you have." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. S. McDowell, who is very much in the limelight these days because of the Chester situation, has been mayor of that city for a couple of the biggest years the place c\er had. —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran ton, has kept in touch with the in fluenza situation by making trips about the city. —-Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts burgh, who was here yesterday, says he is a farmer on the side and owns a couple of model farm's. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, says that the hardest thing about influenza is that It has prevented him from playing golf, to which he is devoted. —John V. Kosek, mayor of Wilkes-Barre, and A. M. Hoagland, mayor of Williamsport, are mem-, bers of local draft boards in their cities. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg special steels have been used for niaking army surgical Instruments. HISTORICAL HARRISBURG The state government moved to Harrisburg in wagons from Lan caster and it took four days to get all the archives here. A Long Tunnel For Japan Japan is planning for a seven mil lion dollar railway tunnel which will pass under Mojl Straits and connect Shtmnosekl and Dairl. It Is to be more than seventeen thousand feet long and will require Ave yeare for .building. From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
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