8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. HICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 3. 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 to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local ndors published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American A Newspaper Pub -p— Ushers' Associa- Bureau of Ctrcu lation and Penn ptoS fi SSI' sylvanin As socl ' IS! C ABB H Eastern office. ; § "s? SI Story, Brooks & fi 9SS (Q Finley, Fifth EssiX Building r, —Hnley. Poodle's — Chicago, m!\ nK ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ** week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1918 Unheard, because our ears are dull, Unseen, because our eyes are dim, He walks our earth, the Wonderful, And all good deeds are done to Him. —WIIIITIF.B. VOTE FOR GOOD ROADS DO not overlook on your ballot to-morrow the road loan amendment. After you have voted your party ticket look care fully. to the marking of the good roads proposal. Vote "yes" and get Pennsylvania out of the mud. If we pass this good roads loan we do two things of prime import ance— We provide money for the con struction of such a system of high ways as we cannot get by direct appropriation unless we overtax the farmers or cut down the school and other State appropriations. And— We set aside a big fund to be used at will during the period when the war shall end. the boys come home from the front, when our industries are changing from a war to a peace basis and there will be more Job hunters than jobs. We owe it to these lads and to our workingmen at home to ar range for public work to tide them over what t promises to be an inter val of unemployment. Nothing better than the road loan could be found, for road building now enters Into many forms of industry. Not only must the roads be built, but the material of many kinds must be prepared and hauled by the rail roads and*>y motortrucks and count less farm wagons to the place where It is to be used. Vote for the road loan and you Vote for good roads and future prosperity. Vote against it and you vote for bad roads and against the best In terests of thousands of working people, If the Dauphin County Booster Committee's forecast is as accurate this time as it was at the primaries, Senator Beidleman will carry every voting precinct in the city and county, which would be in strong contrast with the results of a certain election four years ago, when a Democratic Dauphin county candidate for State office lost every voting precinct in City and county except his own. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED NATIONAL CHAIRMAN HAYS, in a telegram to the Tele graph, says reports from all over the country are to the effect that President Wilson's challenge to Republicans has been accepted In a manner that will return a Republi can House and Senate to Washing ton to-morrow. Republicans every where are resentful over the inter ference of the White House. The straight ticket voter will be at the polls to-morrow in numbers not knowq in recent years. Even men who would have split their tickets; Via the prohibition question, the re ports indicate, are so intent upon re buking Democratic dictation that they will, overlook the liquor ques tion in the marking of'their ballots If that happens to Interfere with Iheir larger Intent of voting only for Republican candidates. If this is true, it is unfortunate, hut should , the fact develop nobody would be to blame therefor but the President himself, who has submerged every other issue to that of sustaining his own personal dictatorship in na tional affairs. But, whatever may happen here ehd there throughout the State, the return of a very large number of "dry" candidates is certain, for in many districts both Republican and Democratic candidates are pledged to the amendment, and a very large Dumber of Republicans in Republl - us MONDAY EVENING, can districts are on record in favor of it. Under the caption, "Not a Party Matter," Vance C. McCormlck's news paper urges the election of "dry" candidates to the Legislature, while, on the other hand, it is trying by every means possible to turn votes , from Senator Sproul, the only "dry" candidate for Governor wljo has any chance of election. "Must con science yield to party regularity?" asks the McCormick newspaper. Ap parently so, since Mr. McCormick, who dodged the temperance issue in his personally-controlled Democratic platform, is now asking that Demo cratic voters cast their ballots In a manner that will benefit nobody but Judge Bonniwell, the "wet" candi | date, since every vote against Sen ator Sproul is really a vote against the election of a prohibition Gover nor. Too weak to insist upon a plat form temperance pledge for the Democratic party, McCormick now camouflages his real sentiments by urging the election of "dry" Demo cratic candidates to the House, while he covertly makes votes that will benefit only Bonniwell, the Demo cratic "rum" candidate, by urging men to cast their ballots against Sen ator Sproul. The answer, of course, will be another repudiation for th McCormick brand of politics. The utter presumption of the <WII - idea of superior wisdom and his autocratic yearning for more power are evidenced ir. the weak efforts of his apologists to gloss over the weak ness of his position. For instance, the morning mouthpiece of National Chairman McCormick, the Harrisburg Patriot, declares with its customary cocksureness that "no real American wants to believe and does believe that Roosevelt Lodge, Penrose, Fess and the other politicians really sp'eak for the Republican voters." They not only speak for the Re publican voters, they give expression, as have ex-President Taft, Senator Knox and other real statesmen, to the convictions of thousands of Dem ocrats. 'PREPARE FOR PEACE NOW I AFTER the war" is soon going to be a live topic," says the Raleigh News and Observer, owned by Secretary of the Navy Daniels. "Going to be," indeed! To all except the watchful waiters it is already a live tqpic. Republicans have been discussing it for months. Democrats have been insisting that after the war is over will be time enough to prepare for peace. Republicans have been insisting that the first great Job is to win the war and win it in such a way as to make peace honorable and per manent. They have also insisted that while we are winning the war there is nothing to prevent pre parations for peace. Republicans have repeatedly quot ed British and German authorities showing that,the industries of those countries are running at full speed, though some of them are tempor arily diverted to war work. The die plants of Germany are bigger than ever before, but are devoting most of their energies to manufac ture of munitions. They will be turned back to dye manufacture as readily as they were turned to the manufacture of munitions. The cotton and wollen mills of Great Britain are turning out more goods now than ever, though much of the product is for war purposes. They will turn to capacity production of peace goods as soon as the war is over. Japan has been increasing her sales in South America and in other countries where we expect to find permanent markets. Shortly before the war began, the i Democratic party enacted a tariff law that threw our markets open ' to the foreign product, and the foreigner promptly took advantage of our liberality. Our mills were closing and workmen were seeking beds in free lodging houses and , food from free soup houses. If you can't remember, look back at i the files of the newspapers with their pictures of men and women standing in line for food and beds. 1 The ' law which brought about that sort of thing was framed by Democrats over the protest of Re publicans, and Republicans have in sisted that the first step in pre paration for pfiace is restoration of the protective tariff. Against that policy stand Kltchin, of North Caro lina, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, and Simmons, of North Carolina, chair man of the Finance Committee of the men who have most influence in the framing of a revenue bill. These two men have the backing of President Wilson, with his determination that "re moval of all economic barriers so far as possible" must be one of the conditions of peace. Those two men have the backing of Josephus Dan iels and his paper, which has been quoted above. Those two men Tiave the backing of Northern Democrats, who go into the Democratic caucus, and subsequently vote to perpetuate the Southern control of both houses of Congress. All people who believe that the time Is here for preparedness for peace, rather than that the time will soon be here, should cast their votes for Republicans who stand for Im mediate preparedness for peace, both in re-enactment of a protective tariff and in the enactment of other legislation that will get the country ready for normal Industrial activi ties. So the "kept us out of war" fiction before the President's election 0fV916 Is to have Its counterpart in the ■with holding at Washington until after election day of the Increase of one dollar a ton on anthracite coal. This, to make up an Increase of wages for miners at the cost of the consumers. It was agreed after several confer ences that the wage Increase and price jump should be announced at the same time, but while the increase In wages was allowed to leak out, the j news that consumers must pay the ; bill of $45,000,000 a year, according to recent advices, is being kept under cover to save Democratic Congress men. What a nice little game! A LETTER addressed to the Tele graph contains a button of the 1916 campaign with this in scription: • < "For pie and mine—Wilson." and ftlis comment — "Note the sentiment; isn't It char acteristic of him?" One must admit that more than ! one meaning can be read Into it. I THE REAL ISSUE SATS the New Torlt World, news paper spokesman for the Wil son administration: In truth It must be said of the present Congress that few if any of its predecessors ever exhibited less of party spirit. R has been nonpartisan in its faults as well as in its virtues. • • • Considering the fact that the great majority of Republicans and Democrats in both branches have sustained the Administration in all its war measures, the neces sity for the re-election of a Demo cratic Congress as such and solely for the purpose of war is not ap- ' parent. Then why all this turmoil? The President says he wants a Demo cratic Congress to help him win the war. His newspaper mouthpiece says a Democratic Congress Is not necessary for that purpose. The truth then stands revealed as thought ful men have seen it from the first —that what the President really wants is a Congress that will bow the knee to him in the reconstruction period after the war. The World knows that Mr. Wilson has made the worst blunder, of his political career, but by arguing for a Democratic Congress for after-the war legislation it has misinterpreted the thought of the country. A ma jority of the voters of the United States are Republicans. They have been challenged to declare their party preference, and they may be depended upon to do it. Vote for men in Congress whose slogan is "unconditional surrender." They are all Republicans. The Kaiser is still hesitating, re gardless of the old saying that "he who hesitates is lost." "failU C4- IK By the Ex-Commlttccman President Wilson's course in in sisting that Pennsylvania, busy with war activities and smitten by influ enza, should have a campaign after all lias worked to the immense ad vantage of the Republican party in the Keystone state. It has stimulat ed interest in the election, made cer tain an increase of Republican rep resentation in the congressional dele gation, assured a fine majority for the Republican state ticket and will put Democratic strength in the next Legislature at a low figure. Almost of equal value to the Re publicans with the President's parti san appeal for election of Demo cratic congressmen after "adjourn, ing politics" has been th.e attitude of Judge Eugene C.Bonniwell, the Dem ocratic nominee for governor who lias campaigned in the fact of quar antines and pretty nearly everything else, making a typical liquor inter ests' drive for the highest office in the state. Senator William C. Sproul, whose dignified position has attracted at tention in other states, will be a na tional figure after to-morrow. Win ning against a powerful coalition and by a remarkable majority at the primary he will be chosen governor after hardly making any campaign at all. The estimates of Republicans like Senator IJoies Penrose, State Chairman William E. Crow, Secre tary W. Harry Baker, of the Re publican state committee; Senator Edwin H. Vare, Lieutenant-Gover nor Frank B. McClain and others fa miliar with Pennsylvania and its people, run from 150,000 to 200,000. The senator himself looks for around 150,000, but he always careful about figures. Judge Bonniwell talks glibly of 100,000 majority and his newspaper supporters say victory is assured. The Democratic national chairman is looking the other way. —As a result of reports from camps and various military and naval stations here there are Pennsyl vania soldiers and state officials, who have been arranging for the taking of the votes of the soldiers, believe that there are more Keystone state men in the army and navy overseas than there were in the combined armies at Gettysburg. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh,^.who went over the reports received as to the number of Pennsylvanians in ser vice, says that he believes there are about 240,000 men from this state in Frapce. Estimates made at Ad jutant General Beary's office are that there are something over 75,000. Pennsylvanians in military and naval establishments in the United States. At the rate men are moving it is likely that there will be a quarter of a million Pennsylvanians in France before long, in opinion of men at the Capitol. —lt is believed that quite a num ber of the Pennsylvanians in camps and stations to which commissioners have been sent are under voting age and this will cut down the number of men to cast ballots. The commissioners, all of whom are on their way to their assignments, will return their pollbooks as soon as possible after the election is held. Under the regulations they will or ganize the election boards and gather the certified returns and file them with the pollbooks at the State Department. They will be paid ten cents for each mile traveling upon presentation of the returns. Owing to the great distance some will have to travel. Including, the men who went to the far west, it may be two weeks before their official returns have been filed. Some of them have arranged to telegraph results on the state ticket- More commissioners were sent out this year than ever. Camps will have elections where there are less than 30 Pennsyl vanians in some cases. —John F. Short, of Clearfield, was sworn in as United 'States Mar shal, at Pittsburgh Friday before Jhdges C. P. Orr and W. H. S. Thompson in the United States court. Mr. Short took ilio oath In the presence of the retiring mar shal, Joseph Howley, deputy mar shals and some personal and polltl- I HA.RRISBURG TELEGRATIR " 1 WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND WILLE HAS SC,/^ JUST SNEEZEO , cal friends, including Chairman John W. Kobinson, of the Demo- i cratic county committee. Marshal I Short took possession of the office at | once. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in noting the activity of Judge Kugene C. Bonniwell in Allegheny county j remarks that political meetings were J held in his interest last week and j that one of the speakers was P. H. | Keefe, head of the Allegheny i County Liquor Dealers' Association. ! —Judge John W. Kephart has I sent word to friends here that lift has no doubt of his election as SUA preme court justice by a fine rpajor- ] ity. Second place, say Kephart i partisans, is'between Justice Alex ander Simpson, Jr., and Charles B. | Lenahan, of Wilkes-Barre. Phila- ! delphia newspapers strongly urge | Simpson. —Congressman B. K. Focht, who | was here yesterday on his way home from the Cumberland valley, said that he had no doubt of the result in the 17th district tomorrow.. He remarked to friends "The people of the district have told me that I stand for what they want and that my course in the war, and before it, too, met their approval. That is what I have tried to do." —The election of Congressman John R. K. Scott as a legislator in Philadelphia is expected to be fol lowed very speedily by an announce ment of further ambitions. If he does come out for speaker there will probably be opposition to him. —Auditor General Charles A. Sny der says the Schuylkill situation, senator, congressional and state, is in excellent shape. He expects a Republican sweep. —The Philadelphia Bulletin re marks anent, the election: "The general measure of respect and good will for Senator Sproul, large as it was when he was nominated in May last, has become larger in the in terval." —A. W. puy has sent word to ! friends at the Capitol that the 1 Northumberland-Columbia district is going to go Republican this time and that he expects to sweep it for Congress. —Resident Clerk W. S. Leib, of the House and Republican chair man of Schuylkill, has defeated In fluenza. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times is having a lot of fun over the at tempts of the Allegheny county Democratic machine, which is of ficially run by reorganizers, to con duct a campaign in that county witl# the Bonniwell machine in charge of Old Guard and liquor men. It also remarks on the clash of various booms for county offices next year. —The Democratic city committee counsel in Philadelphia has asked for police and federal protection in the Fifth ward on election day. —Maxwell Stevenson, Jr., Phila delphia magistrate, has gone to war. An acting magistrate will have to be named. Approve the Road Bond Issue [From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] Every consideration of self-inter est and public service demands sup port of the bond issue amendment to the Constitution by Pennsylvania voters next Tuesday. The -proposi tion is to authorize the issuance of $50,000,000 of bonds for the im provement of roads. There can be no question as to the necessity of road improvements on a large scale. The benefits are derived by every part of the population, by city dwellers, small town residents, and by agriculturists. Nor can it be said that any one division of the people will benefit more than an other. The farmer who hauls his products over good roads gets them to market more expeditiously and more cheaply to the purchasers, who reap advantage from release from dependence on railroads or slow and dangerous transportation over bad-conditioned dirt roads. Improved highways knit the people of the state closer together. All profit from the improvements. And, nobody is conscious of paying to secure the benefits which are of incalculable value. The work cannot be done until the war ends. When thp war is over road work, If the people ap prove this bond issue, will provide employment for thousands of men and contribute enormously to re ducing distress which, without it. may be expected. Senator Sproul, i Republican nominee for governor, i has explained this clearly. -He will \ guard against any abuse in the ex- 1 penditure of the money, if the ] amendment is approved and he is ! elected governor, i —; God Save the Republic! 'God Grants Liberty Only to Those Who Love It, and Are Always Ready to Guard and Defend It."—Daniel Webster (From the North American Review War Weekly) It was the hyprocrisy of Mr. Wil son's sinister appeal that hurt most. No argument was needed to convince the people of the impossibility of reconciling his solemn renunciation of politics to his abrupt substitution of partisanship for patriotism in this hour, of the Nation's peril. It was all too apparent.. That is what shocked the country. It came as a blow in the face that a President of the United States could, for any conceivable reason, descend so far from his high estate* His doing so for the. unmistakable purpose of furthering liis own tower ing ambition was felt instinctively as a reflection upon the Republic itself. The mere suggestion of set ting up in America an autocracy, "unembarrassed" by duly chosen representatives of the people, while demanding the obliteration of depotic tule throughout the world, was so glaring an incongruity that it could not fail to be regarded everywhere as a reproach to the whole country. The people were shamed that their President should hold their intelligence, their pride and their fidelity to their time-' honored institutions in so slight esteem. But time now is too precious to dwell upon even national humilia- 1 tion. Nor need we concern our-, selves with the just resentment of faithful public servants at misrep resentation of both their acts and motives so wicked as to fetch, for the first time in the history of our country, an accusation of deliberate falsification from a former President against his successor. We may even pass over the insolent imputation of ignorance of American political affairs on the part of our Allies. It is the menace to free govern ment staring us in the face that demands attention. Mr. Wilson tells us how he, and how he believes the countt y and the world, would in terpret the election of a Republican Congress. It would imply repudia tion of his leadership. It would embarrass him as spokesman of his countrymen at home and abroad. It would dispel "unity of command" —his sole and exclusive "unity of command" —in civil as well as mili tary affairs. It would compel him to take counsel with the direct rep resentatives of the people. It would take from him the "control of legis lation" which he now possesses and would vest it in those representa tives,' as provided explicitly and jealously by the Constitution. It would, in a word, restore the legis lative branch of the Government to the people. To maintain "unified leadership" and "unified control," meaning his personal and "unembarrassed" lead ership and control, therefore, it is "imperatively necessary" that the Super-Piracy (From the New York World) Even if it stood by itself on the records of these war times, the case of the Norwegian bark Stifinder and lis abandoned crew would be suffi cient to convict German frightful ness of outdoing piracy lh point of ruthlessness. Such is the conclusion one must reach who reads the plain story of the bark's crew who have Just reached New York after long days and nights of torturing, heart breaking struggles in an open life boat. There were seventeen men on the Stifinder when she left New York, bound for Australia, September 26. They took to boats October 13, when a German submarine first looted and then sank the bark. They were a thousand miles from tho nearest shore. The brigands of tho sea turn ed their backs and sailed away. Sev en victims of this barbarity are still to bo heard from —or never to be heard from. Ten are In this port with their pitiful tale of fifteen days of hunger, of ceaseless, blistering toll at the oars. No crew with any prompting of human decency would have treated even a militant enemy as that U-boat gang treated the men of er. That these suffering Norwegians were not foes at all but sailors of a neutral nation, is a fact aggravating the German offense not against hu manity aloni but world-laws of bel ligerency. / J ■ ■' Nation should return a Democratic Congress, which would ceord "un divided support" to him and to him alone as "the Government" of the United States. Now consider: If the election of a Republican Congress would mean all of these things, what to Mr. Wilson's jmtnd would the election of a Democratic Congress signify? The opposite, of course the exact opposite in every respect. It would relieve him of all embarrassment. It would give to him full authority us spokesman of the Nation. His sole, exclusive command in civil as well as military affairs would have been confirmed by the people. .He would be freed from the necessity of conferring with their representa tives. His "control of legislation" would be unqualified. His word would be law. His every wish would be enacted. The Constitution would be evaded and in effect abro gated by direction of the people, from whom he had received, not a mere endorsement as President, but a positive mandate to act hereafter as their duly designated absolute ruler. That is the interpretation which Mr. Wilson would put upon, and would have a right to put upon, the election of a Democratic Con gress. Millions of voters might not have intended to confer autocratic powers upon an Individual. But they would have done so. Mr. Wil son has set the trap with supei-la tlve skill. It waits only to be sprung. • Talk of partisanship is arrant nonsense. Mr. Wilson cares no more for the Democratic party than for the Republican party or the Prohibition party except as a ve chicle for his own aggrandizement. He is an autocrat by nature and by training. He Is temperamentally incapable oft meeting anybody upon a basis of equality. One or the other, must be master. He aims avowedly, through this election, to achieve mastery, absolute at home, and, through that, as nearly abso lute as possible his ambition, so far at least as this country is con cerned, and will hold in the hollow of his hand the destinies of the Nation. We have set forth as clearly as lay within our power the normal issues of this campaign, due con sideration of which would surely | have produced a Republican Con • greas. Mr. Wilson, in his despera tion and daring, now injects an ab- I normal and overpowering issue | which must be met at the polls. I It threatens representative gov ernment. It involves the liberties of the American people. It strikes deep, at the very foundations of free institutions. It is a menace to all mankind. This is not exaggeration; it is sober truth. GOD SAVE THE REPUBLIC! PLAIN BUSINESS [From Philadelphia Inquirer] election of Senator Sproul to tjs Governorship is more impor tant to the people of Pennsylvania than it is to Mr. Sproul. It is true that he is a candidate for the post, and it is no secret that he would appreciate such a mark of confi dence on the part of his fellow citizens, and that he would endeavor to fill the office with credit to him self and the slate. But If, by some unthinkable chance, he should fall of election It would be a calamity to the Commonwealth. The state of Pennsylvania would be deprived of a broad-gauged, high-class, ex perienced and able man at the very time when the services of .such a person were must urgently needed. The administration of a state, like the management of a business, calls for executive capacity, the ability to handle men, the power to make proper selections ns heads of de partments, and a thorough knowl edge of her plant. If We Dared Throw Things To our mind the limit of extreme improbability is that the kaiser will succeed William J. Bryan as the leading attraction on the Chautau qua circuit.—From the Grand Rapids Press. The weather's getting colder, But no matter 1 do, The blamed old furnace will not work, 'JUnney's got the flu NOVEMBER 4, rsno. Of Course, Swap Your Horse! [From Philadelphia Public Ledger] Why, of course, swap your horses politically! That's the constitu tional and the Ameflcan way of carrying on a government of the people, and it has proved a mag nllicent success for over a hundred and thirty-one years. So just why the Democratic cabinet men, one or two of whom are citizens by adoption, and hence not familiar at first hand with the fundamentals of the American viewpoint, keep on harping 'on that old absurdity that not to continue a President, or any one else in office, or his friends, or his party in power, for that matter. Indefinitely, is akin to the alleged evil of swapping horses while cross ing a stream, passes belief. * We do not believe in officcholding in per petuity nor in lifetime presidents, and we have found that since the currents of American life and poli tics are always running strong, be wo at war or at peace, the best thing is a change in executives, since the forefathers rightly assumed that every one who took high office would be just us American as his prede cessor and be fresher at the bat, and hence they set us horseswap ping while your Uncle Sam crossed the stream as the very fundamental fact in the American system. And the swapping, on the whole, has worked so much better in all our national crises than the "trained guiding hand" of the perpetual kings or dynasties in Europe that, at-last, Europe, sick to death of kings and autocrats and the perpetual and divine right of certain men to reign and govern and continue in office, is kicking the system overboard, in fact all Europe is getting ready for some extensive executive swap ping on its own account, and while crossing the stream of war and peace at that! Col. Harvey Sez, Sez> He— Possibly one reason why the elec tion of a Democratic Congress is not generally conceded to be "im peratively necessary" is that the passage of the Woman Suffrage amendment has not yet proved to be so "vital to the winning of the war" as the President professed to think. Ludendorff is dismissed because he failed to reach either Paris or the Channel Ports. What is to be, done with the Crown Prince for faiting to take Verdun? And to the Kaiser, for failing to keep that Christmas dinner engagement in Paris? This is the real acid test of a Congressman: If he was, in the President's words, "pro-war but anti-Administration" he is N. G.; but if he was anti-war but pro-Ad ministration, he is O. K. That lie (Col. House) can make any binding: compact or perform any oiticial function is of course en tirely out of the question. He can not do so any more than could John Lind, or William Bayard Hale; or Deacon Job Trotter of Squedunk. First he mixed the decks, then he gummed the cards, and finally, in despair, he passed the buck. So ends the note writing for the pres ent. / KNOW I know where the gray squirrel has his house. In the heart of the autumn woods, Where he hides his store of winter nuts As a miser hides his goods; I know how he chatters in the sun,, These days of bleak November, I know, because I've walked of yore A path I well remember. I know where the muskrat dives to seek His tunnel in the bank, And rises high to find his nest. Built warm with grasses rank. I know where sweet the black grow, On bushes -everywhere, A well laid banquet in the woods, That else are cold and bare. I know "where the redbird lilts his song, And the blue jay screams and cries. Where a streak of soft, Vermillion tint Lights up the fading skies. I know where scarlet sumacs grow. By fields of upturned loam, And Bob White calls, though fields are bare, On the road that leads toward home. MARSHALL LOUIS MERTINS. OUR DAILY LAUGH TERRIBLE REVENGE. I firH I Mrs. Smith: \ laVji II My gracious, if J) there isn,t my J • husband with two i strange ladies— /-?==. I'm going right j \ out and buy a / I new dress and I „ have it charged! TO THE MILI TANT LADIES. ih-M Think not, you v-ftv , 5 fair, who In .jSjEH, War's game J Would with 1 rude man as- J CR, sume a place wIr'ST/' That facing pow- WW der is the iff v s' same MM \ As simply W V • p o w d ering "your face. ( SPRIGHTLY CONVERSA TIONS. i - ft-,1 x Did she take ' you out in her / , new car? \\^ es ' an< * s^e left no stone un- ' turned ,n ller fort 3 to show me ]J v a good time. RUINOUS. iT J/?® Gossip doesn't I'm beginning A' to agree with you, my dear. 'J'&r* The last secret I Mm Sf ■ ' heard cost mt II D over two dollars. #1 V A SAD STATE. Why, what is M9L the matter, rnliAi Mabel, you look wl_s JBBBbJ like you didn't have a friend? 'tA That is it ex- ITQ \ actly. I have U \ about as many \ friends as an ] alarm clock. I iEimmtj (Eljat! According to C. Floyd Hopkins there will be fourteen theaters or moving picture establishments which will open their doors in Harrisburg this week, but In opinion of people who have followed the amusement business here for years there has never been any suspension, outside of the usual summer intermission, thnt compares with what has just been gone through. There have been soqie times in severe winter or when things were abnormal that shows were given up for a few days, but a month cut out of the period ordinarily active is something un precedented. The financial loss duo to the cancellation of all bookings for the regular tjieaters here and the stoppage of the "movies" will run into the thousands. It is some thing that even the people in the business do not like to talk about. As for the popular opinion it is best 'gauge by the way people have jaeen asking when doors were going to be opened. The bulk of the inquiries have come from persons who are either "movie fans" or habitues of the thea'.-r, but all the same mere have been many, many individuals who do not belong to either class who have been eager for the rais ing ol' restrictions so that they can once more "drop in" for a short time in the afternoon or evening. The amuseifient places of Harris burg have a far greater place in tho life of tho city than many think and it is Just commencing to bo realized. Tho attendance at tho theuters for the lirst ten days of tlie "free period" will bo worth noting. • * • And by the same token, as cer tain men like to say, the people tho closing of the amusement places has hit hardest are the very ones wliiqh national policy has been to furnish pastime. The soldiers who come to llarrisburg from the garri sons near here and the men who are working on various products for national defense have had to under go a lot of deprivation of amiAc ment. It may be true that they have gotten more sleep than other wise and saved money, but tho fact remains young soldicrf and young stcelworkcrs like some amusement and they have felt the cutting off of the shows a lot more than they have said. It has been hard for them to understand, some of them say, why the shows should be closed and the "live and tens", for instance, be permitted to go ahead as usual. And the sight of soldiers buying ginger ale in a drugstore and solemnly standing outside drinking it out of a tumbler, borrowed for the occasion, is either edifying or amusing. And there is difference only in theory between chances of contagion in an overloaded, packed to the platforms, trolley car and a Sunday Inorning service in a well vqntllated church auditorium which is cleaned at least once a week. These are just some ideas heard at random the last few days and since the period for the quarantine is about ending it will not do much harm to mention them. Hut, ac cording to one of the city fathers, "The next time such a thing as a quarantine is to be clamped down on this town there will be at least notice given to city council as to when and how it is to bo done." It may be added that some medical men are of tho same opinion. • The late Mayor John D. Patter son, who was soveral times called A to the chair of chief magistrate of llarrisburg, used to say that this was a most law abiding city, con sidering the fact that it is a trans portation and industrial center and people come and go a great deal. The observance of the quarantine regulations has been remarkable and to use the language of a state offi cial "somewhat shows up by the dif ference the way some other towns have behaved." * • • Expiration of enlistments, better offers for trained men to go into the police forces of corporations and last but not least men enter ing the army have depleted the .Slate Police force to a number which is less than known since it was estab lished by Major John C. Groome in 1905. The total number of vacan cies is now 67 and efforts to recruit up during the war have been diffi cult. In spite of these conditions the force is maintaining almost the usual number of substitutes and the officers are covering large districts. ♦ * 4 These are the days when the dogs go hunting in automobiles. Almost any day cars can be seen going in or out of the city bearing hunters and their dogs. It is not so long since the impulse of the average dog was to Jump out of an automo bile as soon as it started. Now they jump in and wait for the car to start. The hunters say that the dogs are kfen after a ride and that they seem to enjoy tho luxurious way of traveling to the hunt. WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE —H. C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker, Is a member of the com mittee named in New York to pro tect foreign investments after the war. —Raymond E. Brown, Brookville lawyer well known here, has been made a major In tho judge advocate generul's department. —Joseph T. Ailing, prominent Pittsburgh businessman and paper manufacturer, is just home from France and is speaking for tho United War work. —The Rev. Dr. W. H . Roberts, stated clerk of the Presbyterian General assembly, says that this is the time of a thousand years when events in Turkey and Palestine are considered. —Judge C. Y. Audenreid, of Phil adelphia, has created a stir by say ing that prisoners are treated too much like guests in Philadelphia. —A. T. Dice, president of the Reading, was congratulated by many railroad men on his birthday on Saturday. ,| DO YOU"KNOW —That Harrisburg car repair men arc working in France? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first car #hops were estab lished in Harrisburg in tho early i forties. PERSONAL LIBERTY [From Pennsylvania Farmer] Practically everybody conserved food, stopped using gasoline on Sun day, bought Liberty Bonds, contri buted generously to many causes, and did tt freely with no thought of claiming it to bo an encroachment upon their personal liberty. They did it for the v common good. But when it-comes to stopping the traffic in intoxicating liquors, consistency is thrown to the winds and those who make money out of the business, and those in their employ, immedlaTely try to throw sand in tho eyes of the public by crying, "personal liberty."
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