12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH -\ XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THIS TEL%GKAI'H PRINTING CO. Telesrraph Building, Federal Square EL J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager QU3 M. STEINMETZ, Managing , Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGHI BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member ot the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local n*va published herein. tl , ~ „ , , >ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Chicago, IU." nS ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * T week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 118 Write it on your heart thai every ' day is the best day in the year.— EMLESON. TURKEY POINTS THE WAY TURKEY, surrendering uncondi tionally, leaves Germany bat tling on alone toward some thing better than complete submis ' sion to the will of the Allies, for | Austria-Hungary to all intents and purposes is out of the war. Turkey points the way, just as Bulgaria did a few weeks ago. The war in the east is ending with the Allies every where victorious. It will so end on the western front if we do not weak ly yield to a negotiated peace. Bulgaria is done for. Turkey has quit, Austria-Hungary is trembling on the brink with the Italians push ing from -behind and there is no hope for Germany if we but permit Foch to continue his relentless pres sure In France and Belgium. That Austria will throw herself entirely on the mercy of the Allies is not difficult to foresee, and then the way will be open to Germany by the rear door and unconditional sur render will be her only choice. A few days, a few weeks at the most, will bring the end for Austria, if it is not already here. Big things hinge on happenings within the erstwhile Dual Monarchy, now apparently broken for all time, but the most important for us is the smashing of a Prussianized Germany. Bohemia is to be independent. Austria, Hun gary and the Slavish states are to have separate and individual govern ments. The dream of a Germanized state extending from France to Bag dad is gone, but there are indica tions that Germany is trying to save something for herself from the wreck of Hungary. If the Allies are wise they will prevent any undue in ■ terference by Germany In the af fairs of the oid Dual Empire. The war is being won In the field so rapidly that news can scarcely keep pace with events, and If the Allies submit terms to Germany that mean anything less than complete and unconditional surrender they would make a frightful blunder. With Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Foch, Pershing, Haig, Diaz, Sims and Mayo having voice in the dic tation of the terms of the proposed armistice there would seem little danger of that. The going Is hard with those Dem- j ocratlc partisans who are endeavor ing to apologize for President Wil son's frightful break in appealing to the country to elect a Congress of Democrats that he might not be hin dered in his conduct of the war. It. was bound to come this reaction of an intelligent people and the endeavor to constitute the man in the White House as a superman has dismally failed everywhere. FOUR PILLARS PENNSYLVANIA has been for tunate In the men who have been chosen as Its congressmen at-large from time to time In the last forty years and the names of some of those who have been hon ored by the suffrage of the com monwealth's people, are known to students of history. But not In recent years have four as well equipped men been presented as candidates as the citizens who have been nominated by the Republicans at a popular primary. Their elec tion Is a certainty. It Is a mere matter of majority. It so happens that three of the Republican candidates are men who have sat at "Washington, The fourth has had legislative experience .In the Pensylvanla State Senate, Ex cept for one man who was a legis lator years ago their four rivals on the Democratic ticket are men without the service so essential at the national capital at this time. Indeed, the Democratic candidates the President asks the people of this FRIDAY EVENING, * Keystone State to support * are scarcely known. On the Republican ticket for Congress-at-large appear these names: William J. Burks. Thomas S. Crago. Mahlon M. Garland. Anderson H. Walters. The Congrress In which these men will sit will be one of the most Im portant In the history of the repub lic. The party in power in time of the greatest "war will be asked for an account of Its stewardship. The session will be called upon to legis late so that the peace of the planet may be assured. American prestige I was never so high. Our people will ! never suffer it to be lowered. Col. Crago is one of the military experts of Congress. A veteran of the Spanish and Philippine wars, a student of military history, he oc cupies a unique position in Wash ington. Recognized by'army offi cers as one of the most capable of ; legislators In militajjy matters; con sulted even by Democratic chiefs, honored by the majority, he is one of the strong men of Important committees in war time. Mahlon M. Garland, a resident of the county so justly entitled to the name of the "workshop of the world," the great source of muni jtions, is peculiarly fitted to repre sent this industrial commonwealth In such legislation as will affect its economic side just as William J. Burke, who is proud of the fact that he is a railroad engineer, can speak for labor. Senator Burke, as Harrisburg knows him. is one ot the front rank railroad workers of the country, holding high positions j in brotherhood and ranking officer j of committees. The railroads are, J the arteries of Pennsylvania and Senator Burke knows them from end | to end and the men who work on! Ithem. It is fortunate that the legis-1 lation which will be enacted in re gard to transportation will come be fore this sturdy representative of the army of railroad men of Penn sylvania. j And finally, but only because W is down in the alphabet is Ander son H. Walters, former congressman, progressive, able. Successful in newspaper work and business he combines experience and brains and | will be valuable in the big work to be done at Washington. Pennsylvania is going to have a big Republican delegation; larger! than for years. Thesfi four men will be pillars. For the first time in the history of tire United States a secretary of the President has assumed the preroga tives of a member of the Cabinet. But it is all of a piece with other things which have' transpired at Washington in these latter days. ] FOCHT'S BROAD VISION CONGRESSMAN' FOCHT is not I a whit disturbed over the ef forts of his partisan opponents to represent him as unpatriotic. His record gives the lie to these subtle insinuations and the fact that as j far back as 1911 he pointed out in the House the importance of a great aeroplane program shows that his vision was much wider than that of the President, who as late as Decern- j ber 8, 1914, in a message to Con- | gress insisted "that we had lost our i • selfpossession; that we had been j thrown off our balance by a war I with which we have nothing to do, | whose causes cannot touch us." Congressman Focht realized"then, as the pacificists of the present Dem ocratic administration did not, that we were as much in the war from the standpoint of the menace of the Hun in 1914 as we are at the pres ent time. It will not do for President Wil son and others like him who resisted preparation for war and who was re-elected on the issues "he kept us out of war." to reflect upon the pa triotism and loyaltf of other men in public life simply because they are Republicans. Republicans might with wisdom amend the hypocritical Democratic slogan of 1916 "He Kept Us Out of War" by amending that sjogan thus: "He Kept Us Out of War—Too Long!" Republicans can be defeated i but they will not accept without pro test the unwarranted and contemp j tible effort to produce and vilify them simply because they are not of the President's party household. He has invited the storm which has burst with such fury and the piti ful efforts of his supporters to dam the ever-increasing weight of pub lic resentment will prove utterly futile. So long as politics was ad journed the Republicans in Pennsyl vania and elsewhere were disposed to. suppress the criticism of the President and his advisers, but when he threw aside everything in the way of fairness in order to help men of his own party to Congress he forced Re publicans with any sense of self re spect to enter the arena of political activity with all the force and cour age of a great constructive and pa triotic party. Elsewhere on this page to-day is an extract from Highway Commis sioner O'Neill's McKeesport news paper. It is a strong argument for the proposed 150,000,000 loan for good roads and should be read by every body interested In Improved highways notwithstanding the petty efforts of National Chairman McCormlck's local mouthpiece to throw discredit upon this great Improvement tproposed It is believed the voterijf' of Central Pennsylvania will be lirgely In the affirmative on this proposition. While thousands upon thousands of Republicans over there are fighting to put down and out the most Infamous autocracy of the ages their Republl can brethren over here are fighting quite as hard to prevent the setting up of a political autocracy at Wash ington, President Wilson has arous ed the people of the United States as they never have been aroused to the importance of crushing at ita In ceptlon the outrageous attempt to capltallie the patriotism of a people for political ends. We are advised from Washington that the President expscts to make a move In the peace overtures with Ger many which the Democratic leaders are privately saying will turn the re ceding-tide and assure the election of a Democratic House. We are to as sume that the war negotiatlone are all a part of the Democratic cam paign. IN PERFECT HARMONY THE joint note of former Pjesl dents Roosevelt and Taft 'in "reply to President Wilson's ap peal for the return of a Democratic Congress is significant of the per fect unity that now exists In the Re publican party. President Wilson's plea has thoroughly harmonized both rank and file and leadership. There -are no longer conservative and progressive elements. Repub licans have merged ail those differ ences of opinion that made the elec tion and re-election of Wilson and a Democratic Congress possible, and as the country is normally Repub lican, it is not difficult to foresee that the next Congress will be of that persuasion. The statement smacks strongly of the authorship of both men whose names appear at the bottom. It Is at once calm and judicial and fiery and vehement. It iS clearly an expression of their joint thought and the views of both. It is a strong platform, bidding for the voice of all the people through Congress in the settlement of the war and the solving of the recon struction problems to follow as against the dictates of one man. It should have a strong appeal for all true Americans, regardless of party. I _ i] fslLticitK By the Ex-Commlttecman One of the most remarkable of the developments of a year singular for the odd things which have occurred in polities is the manner in which the prestige of Democratic National Chairman Vance C. McCormick and Democratic National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer as Democrats of the front rank have waned. This is becoming more and more apparent and is all the more interesting be cause no two men figuring in the politics of the Keystone State for a century have had more aid given to them by the President of the United States in the way of patron age and all that goes with it than these two. And they have not only lost every time when there has been a fight, but repudiated the nominee of their own party for Governor at a primary and seen him grow in finitely stronger as the campaign progresses than any man running in Pennsylvania since their regime in the Keystone State Democracy be gan. The Democratic windmill on Mar ket Square is typical of the plight of these brevet generals. Instead of be ing a live party headquarters it is a gathering place of factionalists, shunned by the men who want votes and chiefly notable for its activity in gathering contributions from feder al jobholders. —ln this connection it is interest ing to note that Homer S. Cum mings, tlie vice-chairman of the Democratic national committee, who has displaced McCormick as the guiding head in the campaign for more Democratic Congressmen as demanded by the President, has made SIOO the contribution figure. —Telegrams coming to this city the last few days signed by Mr. Cummings ask whether certain men will not give SIOO for the President's own personal stunt. Some have been sent to federal jobholders, already in touch or rather in the toils of the Democratic state windmill force and others have been sent to Democrats of credit and renown and bank ac count. It is interesting, indeed, that Mr. Cummings sends them and that the rate is SIOO. The files of Mc cormick's newspapers fairly shriek with- fake sorrow expressed when Republican committees asked for contributions from placeholders. —Republicans of the state will elect their whole ticket by a nice majority, elect more Republican Congressmen than for years, and a solidly Republican Legislature, dem onstrating to the country their views on the President's partisan course and their opinion of Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCor mick, according to expressions made at Republican state headquarters in Philadelphia. The headquarters has been in touch with every county and notwithstanding the epidemic defy ing activities of the liquor men be hind Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell's campaign the election of Senator William C. S'proul for governor is assured. It is .just as certain as the election of Betdleman for lieutenant governor and Woodward for secre tary of internal affairs. —State Chairman William E. Crow has sounded the final call to duty and will go home to-morrow to Uniontown well satisfied. —Under the caption of "Bonni well's Latest," the Philadelphia In quirer to-day says: "Judge Bonni well, Democratic nominee for gov ernor, has sent out over his signa ture a letter to Democratic commit teemen throughout Pennsylvania, claiming both Philadelphia and Al legheny counties for the Demo cratic ticket and his certain elec tion. He says this will mean the greatest indorsement President Wil i son could receive of his recent stir ring appeal. He calls upon his sup porters to write to the "soldier" boys In the (/amps to for him. —While Philadelphia is seething with politics and the usual rows about alleged violations of the Shern law are taking place the influenza conditions have caused one of the quietest campaigns in years in Pitts burgh and Scranton. The only at tempts to play politics at such a time have, naturally enough, been by the liquor element which has determin ed to swing the two cities. —Reports from the eight coun ties of the Seventeenth Congressional district are exceedingly favorable to the rolling up of a big majority for Congressman B. K. Focht. The Con gressman's friends say he will carry every county over Lelby because the voters know that when it .comes down to standing for real American. Ism Focht's course in Congress is away up in front. —-This Is Senator Bolee Penrose's birthday and friends ail over the state sent him congratulations. .—lndications in York county are more and mora favorable to the HARRISBURG HWjE& TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A MAN WHO WAS ABSENT MINDED OPEtos up sess eiMTofciAU Becomes esiGfcosSED NEWSPAPER COWABMT • ON WITH EDI TO MAC . PRSSIOBM-rS CJHMEWT LMSST Voe j - . ' _ ' ' R6AU2eS BAND IS Co HAT ®"" P^M^N^onal. election of a Republican Congress man and a Republican Senator, ac cording to reports coming here. —Philadelphia lawyers yesterday endorsed Justice Simpson and a few dayi ago those of Blair county en dorsed A. V. Dively- Northampton is for Justice Fox. Judge Kephart has sent word to friends here that he is well satisfied with conditions all over the state. The gain in strength by Lenahan the last few days is one of the interesting fea tures of the campaign. —The city of Chester is now out in the open after Acting Health Commissioner Royer and Lancaster and Norristown men threaten to join forces. On the other hand Gover nor Brumbaugh is standing right behind the commissioner. —Senator E. H. Vare last night declared Philadelphia would give Sproul 100,000 majority and that he would sweep every ward in the city. He said the Democrats were "de moralized, disgusted and divided." —Chairman Charles H. Kline pre dicts a good Republican majority in Allegheny county. —Bonniwell says he will oust Mayor Smith if elected. The Mayor is safe. —John Reber will be the 'Congressman from Schuylkill and there will be a Republican, Senator from that county, too, says' Auditor General Charles A. Snyder. —Luzerne will elect Republican Congressman, say reports coming here to-day. —Judge Strauss, of Luzerne, took the money involved in a row between men who' had bet on an election in Hanover township and 'gave it too the poor district. Selah. Col. Geo. Harvey Sez, Sez He "Glad tidings of great joy," both at home and abroad. First, from abroad, since it is for the victory there that all things here are done. There has been no hitch nor failing in all of Foch's marvelous campaign. Marvelous, we say, in its conception, its execution and its results. It is a great thing for one man to direct the armies of five nations on a bat tle front measured by hundreds of miles, in three distinct forms of fight ing, so that there will be absolute unison of at all points. We shall be put to it to find anything in military history comparable with it. Perhaps the nearest parallel was pro vided by Grant, when he simultane ously directed his own campaign in Virginia, that of Sherman in Georgia, and that of Thomas in Tennessee. But those were only three armies, all of one nationality, and by no meanq as closely linked together in opera tion as the Allied line which reaches unbroken from the Alps to the North Sea; while the contrast in numbers makes the hosts of 1864 seem petty. Yet the execution of the campaign is as successful as its proportions are grandiose. Wherever he strikes, Foch wins. Weeks ago it was observed that with an American Army of four or five millions at the front, the Al lies would be able to break through the German line wherever they pleas ed. Well, we have now about two millions over there, of whom prob ably less than half are at the front, and the Allies seem' to be able to shatter and force the German line wherever they please. Remember, too, that we are routing a foe with out outnumbering him. Exact statis tics are lacking, but there is good reason to believe that the German armies are equal to the Allies in num bers; perhaps at some points their superiors. We do not say that they are their equal in equipment, or in morale. But in sheer mass of "can non fodder," which is the Hunnish basis of estimate, they are; a fact which enhances the marvolousness of Foch's achievements. The former German not long ago referred to Belgium as a pawn In the game which Germany was playing. Is Count Hertllng a chess player? If so, he ought to know that sometimes a mere pawn check mates a king. There is nothing holler than Ger many fighting for life.—Cologne Ga zette. Tell that to your Gott. Will the Postmaster-General ex plain?— Washington Herald. He will not; he can't even do that. Must Free Slavs, Wilson Tells Aus tria.—World headline. All right, all right; go ahead, Foch! U. B. —United States. Uncle Sam. Ulysses Simpson. Unconditional Sur render. Status Quo Will Maintain Since the kaiser has practically failed, it will be a long time before anybody tries to take the manage ment of the world out of the hands of God.— From the Toledo Blade. Proud of Their Soldier Sons (Front the Chicago News) j The most blithe und brilliant of the comediennes of the American stage to-day are the ones who are I proudest to boast of their sons who are fighting or champing in khaki for the word to pitch in. Blanche Ring trains like a boxer to keep fit and youthful and looking about 20. although she has a son, Gordon MacNichol, who is an officer waiting to be sent over or already in France. She is as vain as a field mar shal of her soldier boy and has kept near him in the various camps. One night in a big Chicago restau rant the jackies' band entered the lobby and played the national an them. Everybody in the several cafes on the same floor arose except one young woman, who went petulantly on eating her dtnner. Blanche Ring was entertaining guests and she stood at attention till the anthem was finished, her eyes riveted on the tactless woman, whom the head | waiter had several times requested Ito stand. When the hymn was through Blanche Ring rushed at the woman and shouted in her clear voice: Denounced as Slacker "How dare you sit down when our national hymn is being played? Your place is in Germany, not here, and the next time you stand up. See? You stand up! I have a son who is fighting for his country and nobody insults his flag, the Star Spangled Banner, while I'm around. You shall be reported to the proper authorities and De watched. I'll see to that." No song Blanche ever sang made such a sensational hit as that speech. And she would have reported the woman, but, alas, the government is speedier than its heroines, for be- ( fore Blanche had time to inquire how and where the authorities could be summoned, behold a gentlemanly BOOT OUT DEM.CONGRESS [N. A. War Weekly.] When, a short time ago, the War Industries Board meekly attempted to reduce the price of cotton only two cents a pound, up rose the pa triots of the South In their wrath and not only demanded the recall of the order but insisted upon a pledge to leave cotton alone alto gether, Nevertheless, on September 21, the discrimination had become so flagrant that the President an nounced that the Government would fix a fair price on cotton as on other necessities and would take charge of its distribution. But he quickly discovered that the Democratic Congress, in this matter, had ceased to be a rubber stamp and he was compelled to reverse his position. The net result is that the South, instead of making pecuniary sacri fices ,is the greatest profiteer of tile war, and the people of the East and West, rich and poor alike, along with our Allies, are forced to pay the price of a Southern Congress. This is sufficiently shameful, God knows. But even more harmful in a broad sense is the demonstrated inefficiency and sloth of the present Congress. At this momertt, the big revenue bill, over which Mr. Kitchin and his conwatriots dawdled for four months and which should have become a law in September to avert immeasurable confusion in its ap plication, lies in a Senate commit tee, whose Republican members are striving heroically in co-operation with the Treasury officials to elimi nate some of* its Incongruities and barbarities, and it can hardly pass before the -holidays. "If," says the World, "the hesi tation that we have seen in this respect had been visible in the field we should not .have to-day the glo rious records of Chateau Thierry, St- Mihiel and the Argonne. In war, delay is always costly and fre quently disastrous, and that is as true in civil as in military circles. Our one great slacker is Congress. While all other Americans, with supreme' confidence in themselves, have been fighting and paying, it alone, with its stupid, eyes on the November ballot boxes, has been doubting and dallying." And that Is the absolute truth. The Democratic Congress has failed wretchedly in every respect. It has proved Itself not only Ineffi cient beyond all precedent, but greedy to the verge of Immorality. Only with a sense of horror can one contemplate Its fatuous undertaking of the mighty tasks which await its successor. Let its stupid eyes now flxrd 'on the November ballot boxes" be opened! We unhesitatingly call upon all intelligent citizens, regard- officer arrived on the scene. The event had been reported while Blanche Ring and the head waiter were frightening the recreant lady into a patriotic spirit. Elizabeth Murray is perhaps the most oratorical mother of the whole, dashing clan of stage parents. Her son held his father's honored name of Fasnacht, one of the oldest names in Pennsylvania, until the war ; broke out and then he legally chang ed it to Murray and joined the navy. | Elizabeth quailed a little when George arose and declared he was no longer of the ancient German aristo cracy of Chester county, Pennsyl vania. Wayne Home Her Heritage He had been born in the house which was the home of "Mad An thony" Wayne, and Elizabeth still owns the splendid old place. It is entwined about the memories of the famous Colonial and indian fighter i and everything from the Brand.vwine j and the storming of Stony Point to the battle of Tieonderoga, Mumee Rapids and even the founding of Port Wayne. Ind., is wrought in clinging history all over the "Gen eral Wayne" house, as Elizabeth's in heritance. is called . Why should George not be a soldier from the ground up, no matter what he calls himself'.' He was brought up on war. And, as Elizabeth says, re flectively: "Well, as for th' Murrays, ivvry wan av thim who isn't a king is a a queen, so let him go to it, though his father was as fine a man as any German mother ever hounded to the worst." Young Murray is a picturesque ' figure in his sailor togs and he is j as handsome as his mother and the kind of soldier Elizabeth would hur rah for even were he not her own beloved boy. less of party, to unite in determina tion to— BOOT THE DEMOCRATIC CON GRESS OUT OF EXISTENCE! Wilson and Republicans Mr. Wilson wants only rubber stamps, his rubber stamps, in Con gress. He says so. No one knows it better than the Democratic Con gressmen. He calls for the defeat of pro-war Republicans and the election of anti-war Democrats. He, as the Executive, Is no longer satisfied to be one branch of the Government as provided by the Constitution. Republican Congress men must be defeated and Demo cratic Congressmen must, as they yield in everything. That is evi dently his idea —the idea of an au tocrat calling himself the servant but bidding for the mastery of this great free republic. Republicans in Congress have seemed to him good enough when they assented, as they did assent with highest patriotism and some times against their best judgment, to his proposals. Republicans at home have seemed to him good enough to send fully a million of their sons into battle, to furnish at least half of the Army and far more than half of the money for the winning of the war, but they are not considered good enough to have a voice in the settlement of the war. Why? Have not they as much at stake in the future? Mr. Wilson says he has "no thought of suggesting that any political party is paramount in matters of patriot ism." but he does suggest it, and he suggests further that he alone is paramount in intelligence.—Will H. Hays, chairman Republican Na tional Committee. Experienced Boasters Judge Bonnlwell has quit making a noise about the private organization he was going to effect to take the place of the Democratic state com mittee which Is having a vacatioh this year, and he has not filled out his proposed all-booze ticket with candidates for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Internal Affairs. He has not, however, dropped the sa loon, and perhaps it will be able to turn over some votes for him, but there will hardly be enough of them to be In anybody's way at the elec tion. The Bonnlwell politicians are experienced boasters, and now Is the time for them to liberally practice their art, as they well know.—Phila delphia Press. His Job Foch is said to be a bad letter writer, but there is no doubt that he will be able to dictate good, binding terms for surrender.—From the New York American, 1 NOVEMBER 1, 1918. Need of Good Roads [Front the McKeesport Daily News.] Aside from choosing a governor and filling other important offices, the voters of McKeesport and throughout Pennsylvania will decide, for five years at least, the question of good roads. If they vote against the proposed fifty-million-dollar good roads loan the question cannot be brought up again for five years. Pennsylvania needs good roads. Never before was the need so great and never before has there been so much evidence of it. With heavy coal and Army trucks passing over the roads of the state almost daily since the United States declared war, many that were in excellent condi tion have been run down, until it has become a big problem to keep them at all times passable, particularly when the shortage of labor is con sidered. Good roads are essential to the welfare of state and nation. It is not difficult to realize what would have happened had Army and coal trucks been unable to use the roads of the state. Shipment of badly needed material to soldiers and of coal that undoubtedly prevented much suffering last winter and kept munition plants running last sum mer would have been greatly re tarded, With concrete evidence before them of the necessity of good roads, it is believed that when voters go to the polls next Tuesday they will, largely, vote for the good roads loan. The good roads issue is neither po litical nor partisan. Good roads benefit everybody and every com munity. Five more years without funds sufficient to build badly-need ed roads would be a calamity to Pennsylvania. Now is the time to vote the money, for it will be some time before the roads can be built. Those in charge may be depended upon to first build the roads most needed. |OUR DAILY LAUGH TOO MUCH. PThat fashion able Mrs. Jones has sued for di vorce. < What's the charge against her husband? Neglect of her bulldog and fail ure to support the same, I be- QUITE SO. J ify] v .^ Rankin, what f* I Is good for 1 Rankin (bright ty): Bees, Miss. W fTHE FIRST STEP. Pa, I want to git in society. All right; I s'pose we kin hlro a reporter to write somethln' scandalous about jr-\ ua - TRUE. Misery loves 1 J tT" company. %& / Yes, and some 1 V*v' ;J A folks persist In fl \Y v: .> acting as though iJlJ'' they were mar- MM 'i\ \ , rled to It p viit- HAD AN EYE [ FOR SHAPE. Sa,d one "Grace SOr ,ii . shows good form and As with a friend he talked a bit. A f Good form is J right, h1 s Believe me, I'm admiring U, iEumttg (Eljat Just as the long distance telephono is commencing to gather In much of the business which the congested telegraph lines cannot handle In and about llarrisburg, motor truck lines are entering' into a held of transportation which was barely dis cerned before the world war began. Harrisburg has become familiar with the trains of Army trucks which pass through the city, coming from the Lincoln highway at Chambers burg or coming down the William Penn and jolting along over the highways in the boroughs between this city and Allentown, but it is not generally known that there are half a dozen lines of trucks running out of or through Harrisburg on regular freight service and they are doing a tine line of business, handling what the railroads cannot possibly han dle. Some of these trucks make reg ular trips to Philadelphia and New York and in addition to those which move from this city there are trucks which come through our town on regular schedules, Sunbury and Lewistown concerns, for instance, having trucks which pass along Harrisburg streets with products every week and oftener. Of course, these lines, like the' use of the long distance, to get through what the dots and dashes men can not care for, came into being, more or less, since the government took over the railroads and telegraph lines and the critics of government ownership have thrived much thereby. Tlio telegraph offices in Harrisburg are jammed with government stuff, war, banking, a dozen lines, and there is naturally a great lot of commercial business and in influenza times much newspaper matter. The railroads are burdened and men who used to seek, business for railroads, express, telegraph and other companies are about us arbitrary as they used to be obliging. The war has curious ef fects and if any one would have fore told that the automobile truck would have been handling railroad busi ness and the long distance telephone relieving the Western Union, for in stance, he would have been able to make some arrangements which are | hard to achieve now. Speaking about the telephone end of the government, it is an interest ing fact that it -will be this means of communication which is going to handle the bulk of the election news next Tuesday. And the spry gentle men connected with the Bell system are proceeding to get ready for it. The telephone has always been a more satisfactory way of getting such news, but the telegraph companies always shrieked hard and held on to the business. Now they are un able to do very much and the tele phone is coming into aqther hig field in which it will serve many thousands of people and in speedy fashion, too. The Philadelphia Public Ledger of yesterday published this about some people well known to many Harris burgers: "In a recent letter from London to W. Heywood Myers, of Philadelphia, vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Colonel M. C. Kennedy, of the staff of Brigadier General W. W. Atter hury, calls attention to the existence in the English metropolis of what is probably the only monument ever erected commemorating a charge of British soldiers under the leadership of an American officer. The monu ment, which stands near Bucking bam Palace, was erected by the Royal Marines in memory of tlijeir comrades who fell during the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1599-1900. A bas-relief on the side facing the pal ace depicts an assault by English troops under the leadership of Capt. (now Brigadier General) John Twiggs Myers, who is at present in command of the United States ma rine barracks at Paris Island. S. C. General Myers, who is a brother of W. Heyward Myers, after serving his country through the Spanish War, i went to China in the Brooklyn ajid ! was sent to Pekin. During the de- I fense of the Pekin legation he took 1 command of a detachment consisting |of twenty-five British marines, fif | teen American marines and fifteen i Russians, and with this handful of men dashingly stormed and captur ed a barricade erected by the be siegers which was endangering the defense. It is this event which is represented on the monument." Mrs. W. Heyward Myets was one of the Sargent family of this city. • * * Members of the Harrisburg units of the Reserve Militia and the Har risburg Reserves will resume their drills next week in all probability. Arrangements are being made to get in some outdoor work before winter sets in. A number of the Reserves have gone into the Militia. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge Thomas C. Jones, of Mc- Keesport, appointed to the Alle gheny county court, was one of the original members of that court. —Colonel Franklin Blackstone, who leaves the Reserve Militia for the Army, served through the Span ish War. —E. M. Herr, head of Westing house, addressed national manufac turers at a big meeting in New York. —Lot W. Reiff, of Reading, new naval officer of customs in Phila delphia, has taken charge of the of fice. —Colonel A. M. Holding, of West Chester, is head of the legal advis ory boards for the draft in Chester county. DO YOU"£NQW 1 —That Harrisburg pretzels arc In demand at Army camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG A hundred years ago there were seven mills along the creeks in Har risburg and as many tanneries. What One Sees at the Front [From Arthur Conan Doyle in the London Times.] We had halted the car for an Instant to gather up two German helmets which Commander LatJiajn had seen on the roadside, wirfen there was a very heavy burst cldse ahead round a curve in the village street. A geyser of red brick dust flew up into the air. An instant later our car rounded the corner. None of us will forget what we saw. There was a tangle of mutilated horses, their necks rising and sink ing. Beside them a man with hla hand blown oft was staggering away, the blood gushing from hie upturned sleeve. Beside the horses Jay a shattered man, drenched crimson from head to foot, with two great glazed eyes looking upwards through a mask of blood. Two comrade: were at hand to help, and we could only go upon our way with tha ghastly picture stamped upon oui memory. The image of that dead driver might well haunt one In one't dreams. __ J
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