10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JA NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME • Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEL%SRAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GCS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 9. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER. GCS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The j Associated Press is exclusively en- t titled to the use for republication of I all news dispatches credited t.o it or not otherwise credited in this paper ; and also the local n*vs published herein. _ | All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- j JfVrrSEL Ushers' Associa- ' tET-v.' tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu gwaMegßuß lation and Ponn- j nil — "21 5 C2B ttfl Eastern office. . (Walßl Wj Storv. Brooks & Slilaßß&ra Finley. Fifth; 'tafSESaW Avenue Building ■jffllfflLSßß w New York City , 'j.-lWr* ft- Western office, Story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, —■ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Bv carrier, ten cents a 4> week; by mail. $3.00 . a year in advance. j WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER , 191S -I ==- : = i To say well is good, but to do well is j better; Do well is the spirit, and say. tceljJ the letter; SPROUL AND BEIDLEMAN PENNSYLVANIA is to be con gratulated upon the election of, William Cameron Sproul to the; highest office within its gift. No man has ever been chosen governori with more evidence of good will and confidence in his fitness than the Republican candidate. He has manifested throughout the campaign ! a clarity of vision and a singleness 1 of purpose to serve the State which have commended hint to men of all parties. He will assume the respon sible duties of the gubernatorial of fice backed by the training of years in the Senate and in business life. No political entanglement of any sort will embarrass htm in the per formance of his public duties. He j has avoided all such pitfalls and will • enter upon his administration with j a clean page, so that In undertaking the development of policies outlined \ In his letter of acceptance some months ago there will be no hln-; drance to freedom of action. Great things are ahead of us In J the reconstruction period upon 1 which we are soon to enter: and Pennsylvania, with Its stupendous Interests —Industrial, commercial and agricultural—will demand the best thought of those whom the people i have commissioned to administer the j offalrs of the state, A remarkable' opportunity Is presented for con. j structtve effort and we believe that; Senator Sproul has un appreciation I of the needs of our eight mlltlon i people far beyond that of the aver- j age citizen. In the few speeches he I has made during the campaign he s has Indicated his course so clearly j that thouasnds of his fellow-citizens j not allied with the Republican party' gave him their votes as un expres. | sion of their confidence In htm. But! he must have the help and co-oper- j ution of all the people In working cut the big things which have been 1 outlined in his several publie ad- I dresses, and we have no doubt whut- | ever that he will keep In touch with those who have a real desire to aid him in developing the Interests of; the State for the benefit of the people. Of course, all Harrisburg will wel-; come the £overnor-elect with open hearted hospitality. He is no stranger here. For years he has been a frequent visitor and during his service in the Senate has learned i to know much of the aims of the community. He has watched the progress of the city and in every way has encouraged the various improve ment projects which have made Har risburg n fit place for the seat of government of a great common wealth. Governor Sproul will have at his elbow an able and experienced man In Lieutenant Governor Beidleman, who has been in close touch with State affairs for many years. Sen ator Beidieman's election was a cer tainty from the moment of his nom lffation. He is as well known throughout Pennsylvania as Senator ' Sproul himself, and is well qualified for the high office to which he has been chosen. That the Lieutenant Governor-elect has the support of his home folks, as well as voters throughout the State, is evidenced by the splendid vote rolled up in his behalf in Dauphin county. He is a self-made man. having worked his way up from grocer's-cler k through high school, where he was gradu ated with honors; to membership in' the Dauphin county bar; to a dis tinguished place among the lawyers •of the State; to the House, where he served two terms; to the Senate, where he served two more and where he was for one session presi dent pro tempore. And now he Is elected to the second place within the gift of the people, of the Com monwealth. Senator Beidleman Is 1/ * WEDNESDAY EVENING still a young man and ho haß gono far. His friends confidently believe that still other honors are In store for him. A few days ago the Food Adminis tration announced a reduction in the price to be paid for live hogs and the following day announced an increase in the price to be paid by consumers for ham. The reduction in the price paid to the producer was due to the slump in* the price of corn, which caused farmers to rush their hogs to market. The reason for the increase in the price New York newspaper admissions of j Democratic defeat look good to us, | Messrs. Beckley and Bowman, In i Cumberland county, now realize that ' ; the best way to be Insured of election ! | Is tr> be opposed by National Chairman i ! McCormick's newspapers. Pink whiskers have gone out of style in the United States Senate, and j Jim Ham Lewis Is no longer a polltl- j I oal aspirant against Crown Prince J McAdoo. j Germany doesn't like the bombing planes. Always ttmld and never brutal, the Hun Just naturally pro tests against those American birds of ! the air. Kaiser Bill says he would be willing I to become the hereditary President of Germany. His way of demanding that all the Germans vote one way. We wager Vice-Chairman Cummings is wondering to-day why he let Chairman McCormick wish that rotten campaign job on him. The voters of the country have proved pretty conclusively that they favor their democracy spelled with I a small "d." National Chairman Vance G. Mc- Cormick will now be In position to conduct a sale of damaged political remnants. And now. folks, we can concentrate on thoughts of the little hunting trip that politics crowded out. And hundreds of the brave boys are in at the finish of what they started in the middle of July. "Same old "coon" turns up smiling in the Telegraph to-night. i Young Mr. Leiby is at least a wiser man. Most of the "fiu" appears to have flown. Good evening. Governor Beidleman'. Ford flivvered. IK By the Ex-Comniittecman Pennsylvania voted for .uncondi tional surrender yesterday. The re sults of the election when studied show that the sentiment of the people of the state which has con tributed almost a seventh of Per shing's armies and enormous war supplies and oversubscribed bond issues allotted to it is that the men in the field must be supported to the limit. The Keystone state voted neither "wet" nor "dry." It voted for a peace that shall be lasting and in full accord with the American aims. The volume of the vote seems to have been a surprise. The verdict in regard to congressmen will be a surprise to the little coterie of Penn sylvania Democrats around the President and if the old phrase "As Pennsylvania goes so goes the nation" eans anything in these days when things are changing so rapidly the next President is going to be a Republican. Pennsylvania will not only have one of the most experienced legis lators and businessmen of the state to be Governor the next four years, but have experienced men, men who knows its interests, in responsible places in Harrisburg and Washing ton. —Senator Sproul's election seems to have been as decisive as his vic tory at the primary. The Republicans had the usual scare over the result and there were panic conditions last Saturday. The results have demon strated that there was much to that assertion of the Philadelphia Press j that Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell and | the politicians and liquor men who j backed him are "experienced j boasters." while the remark of the j Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, in the j other end of the state, that the i people of Pennsylvania will vote with a sense of the responsibility of their j ballots this year seems to have summed it up. —The Republican state organiza- j tion has again demonstrated its! thoroughness and its power. State | Chairman William E. Crow and j Secretary W. Harry Baker have made good on everything they prom-! ised. In spite of the fact that there i was no campaign and that the Dein- ! ocratic candidate "gumshoed" the j state and interests that know no J party were noisy in his behalf and | tilled the air with threats the Re publican ticket has gone through as predicted. —The plight of Democratic Na tional Chairman Vance C. McCor mick is something that will attract attention all over the land. Every thing and every man he opposed j won out, except Judge Bonniwell, j who was repudiated by the Palmer- | McCormick controlled state com mittee after being named at a direct I primary. McCormick supported the ; Prohibition candidate, who was a J sideshow and got the usual consider- j tion. He fought Sproul, Beidleman J and other winners; he demanded; more Democratic congressmen from Pennsylvania and he got fewer. He j insisted on dictating the legislative j representatives in his own county : and the result was as significantly j against him as what happened to j him at home when he was a candi- j date for governor four years ago. —There is little doubt but what the Bonniwell forces will demand an accounting and that ,the state will be edified by a continuation of the fight over control or the works of the Democratic machine so that one faction or the other shall boss the delegation to the next Demo cratic national convention. —According to men aligned with the Bonniwell faction of the Demo- , cratic State Committee they are not | going to be long about "starting | something." Open defiance of the; verdict of a popular primary in r.e- I gard to the gubernatorial nomination 1 would be enough under ordinary cir- j cumstances to hale leaders before j the state committee, but when with j all the federal patronage at their disposal and federal* officeholders called upon for contributions the facts that the state machine leaders actually lose Democratic Congress- | men when the President expressly j asked more and that the Democratic j organization is in shreds will be used to the limit. McCormick and his group got into power on less. They made much noise about it, but when it comes down to making a racket the Bonniwell crowd has McCormick and the windmill crew breaten by many miles per hour. —Congressman B. K. Focht, who was a target for McCormick's news papers second only to Bonniwell at certain stages of the campaign, said this morning that he was thankful for his majority, of course, but thankful that the people of the Sev enteenth district were "next to Mc- Cormick." —The opposition to the road loan was dazed early this morning by the figures which showed the way people were thinking about that issue. The political junkers of the State Grange and the McCormick clique did not understand that, either. —Judge S. J. M. McCarrell, of the Dauphin county courts, the preceptor in the law of Lieutenant Governor elect Edward E. Beidleman, said to day: 'I am proud of Beidleman." Beidleman succeeded in time to Judge McCarrell's seat in the Senate and to the presidency pro tern, which the Judge had held. Both have felt the lash of Vance C. McCormick. But the people have elected them every time. i —Writing for yesterday's Phila delphia Inquirer about the election, George J. Brennan made this inter esting comment: "In the contest which will decide to-day William C. Sproul has the backing of the lead ers of both Republican factions in Philadelphia, with the Penrose co horts vieing with the Vare hench men V> roll up the biggest possible majorities in their'respective wards. In Allegheny county, Pittsburgh's Mayor, E. V. Babcock, and his entir l administration forces, are heartily in line for the whole ticket and former Senator George T. Oliver and former Mayor William A. Magee, Jr., of rival interests in the past, are together in this contest. In fact, every organized element in the party is for Sproul. J. Denny O'Xell, who was the favorite of some churchmen and radical dry workers at the primaries, has been on the stump for Sproul and Roose velt shouters and Taft conservatives throughout the state are all whoop ing it up for Sprrul and the whole ticket. As to the United Democracy" always essentia', for the success of a minority party nominee, there has been no such thing in the woods in this campaign." —The next thing on the program Is a session of the Democratic state committee to "purge the party." * IT A ftRISBT'RG TELEGRAP9 MOVIE OF A MAN AND A ROAST OF BEEF ByBRIGGS \ BOAST iw THE ice- / CENTAINLY/ TA 7>TA I PLACE IN THE J *-\ \ Box FOR. MC? . I I vgiLv. / . \ ICG - BOX ? /" \ - " r 1 lakcs TVHMGS our v. rUTs IN t V \ s G QIMG TO C f OP ics-eox TO * ROAST PACK IN ICS Box FULL .. 8 \ > J" TAKSS OUT TJPFLPC C PUTS ROAST [ i-r /- AM - T OR/ ROAST AND PACICS il VT 0 W TOP OF I L 1 66 / IN ALL OTHER POAST -. I DONE / STUFF CLOSE LC - BO * V_ZI RECENT ELECTIONS (Philadelphia Inquirer) In 1898, a war year William A. | Stone won the election as Governor, | with a plurality of 117,906, Stone j polling 476,206 votes to 358,300 for I George A. Jenks. Silas C. Swallow | also ran that year and polled 125,746 | votes as the Prohibition candidate, | 4,495 on Honest Government | ticket, 2.058 as the People's Party { favorite and 623 as the Liberty Party | nominee. In 1902 Samuel W. Pennypaeker, Republican, defeated Robert E. Pat tison. Democrat, by 142,350 plural ity: Swallow, Prohibitionist, polling 23,372 votes, and Slaton, Socialist, 21,910 votes. Edwin S. Stuart's plurality in 1906 over Lewis Emery, Jr., was 48,364. Stuart polled 501,818 votes on the Republican ticket and 4,600 on the Citize. s' ticket, while Emery receiv ed 301.747 on the Democratic ticket, 145,657 as the' Lincoln Party candi- | date, 9,194 on the Commonwealth, 1 3,675 on the Union Labor and 781 on | the Referendum ticket. In that year James A. Maurer, of Reading, polled | 15,169 votes on the Socialists' ticket I and Homer L. Castle got 24,793 as i the Prohibition nominee. When John K. Tener was elected j Governor in 1910 he had.a plurality of 33,487 over former Senator Web ster Grim, of Bucks county, who de- j t'eated William H. Berry at the Al- j lentown convention for the Demo- I cratic nomination. Berry, however, | ran as the Keystone Party candidate ! and in that campaign Judge Eugene , C. Bonniwell bolted the Democratic I state convention nominee and j stumped for Berry. This fact has been emphasized by the Palmer- I McCormick Democrats, who bolted 1 Bonniwell at yesterday's election. \ Berry in that contest received 382,- j 127 votes on the Keystone Party ticket; Larkin. Prohibitionist, polled ; 17-,445 votes; Slaton, Socialist, 53,055 I votes. Governor Brumbaugh s plurality four years ago was 134,825. He re- | ceived 532,902 votes on the Repub- , lican ticket, 37,824 as the Keystone j Party's candidate and 17,956 votes ; were" handed to him by the Personal Liberty Party after he had renounc ed its organization and platform, but too late, however, to have his name stricken from its At that election former Mayor of Harris burg, Vance C. McCormick, received 313,553 votes on the Democratic ticket and 140,327 as the Washing ton Party candidate, a total of 453,- 880, as against Brumbaugh's total of 588,705. j Joseph P. Allen, Socialist, got 40,- | 115 votes in that contest, the late! Charles N. Brumm, as a Bull Moose 1 candidate. 4,031; William Draper j Lewis, Roosevelt-Progressive, 6,035; and Matthew H. Stevenson, Prohibi- ■ tionist, 17,467. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE John Mullins, some miner! Lives at Hemphill, Pa. The day after President Wilson j asked for more coal, Miner Mullins tore in with a vengeance. Mullins kept his mind on coal, with a picture of the Kaiser in the ; background. In one month after | the President's appeal was issued Mullins dug and loaded 691 tons. This is said to be the world's rec- , ord. but Mullins wasn't digging for I records. He was digging to help , win the war! LABOR NOTES Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is working in a Stamford (Conn.) shipyard at' 918 a week for patriotic reasons. Derry (Ireland) transport workers| hav# returned to work pending a set- . tlement now being negotiated. Most of the labor troubles in Eng land are caused by young men ex empted from military service. The men *of Japan are the best needleworkers of the world, and the women of Persia are possibly second. Joint action by the Winnipeg (Canada) Barbers' Union and the Master Barbers' Association secured the passage of a city ordinance which reduces the work day one half an hour. There are now in excess of 1,000 communal kitchens in the United Kingdom. New York will employ women street cleaners in outlying districts. Sixty-one new lodges were organ led or reinstated by the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in July, William C. Sproul Will Be Inaugurated Governor on 27 th Wedding Anniversary SENATOR WILLIAM CAMERON SPROUL, governor - elect of Pennsylvania, was born at Octoraro, Lancaster county, on Sep tember 16, 1870. In his early boy hood his family moved to Chester and he was graduated fr # om the j Chester High School in 1887. He I then entered Swarthmore College, ; from which he was graduated with i honor in 1891. Senator Sproul may be said to | have become interested in politics during his freshman year at Swarth- > more. Then .it was that he met j his life-long friend, A. Mitchell Pal- i mer, prominent Democratic leader ; of the state. The men were class i and roommates and together they j brought about a decided change in j the social life of the college. In j those days before the secret fra ternities had appeared at Swarth- I more, there was intense rivalry be- | tween the two literary societies, the | Eunomian and Delphic. The Eunom- j ian had fallen on evil days and had j only a few members while the Del- ' phic was powerful and controlled the college politics. According to Mr. Palmer Sproul came to him a few days after col lege had opened and said to him: •Mitchell, I have been thinking a good bit about this literary question , and I've made up my mind that you j and I should join the Eunomian. j It isn't so big as the other society | and if we go in and take a pretty i good bunch of our freshmen in with ; us we can control that outfit and | get the offices. Besides we can build it up and make it a big in fluence in college.'' Sproul and Palmer College Allies So Sproul and Palmer joined the Eunomian and they ran it and soon had the satisfaction of seeing it fully equal the rival organization in numbers and powers. While at college Senator Sproul took up newspaper work. He sent news items to the Chester Tigies and several Philadelphia papers. In addition to this he was editor of ' the Phoenix, and assumed a leading place and- tilled several offices in the literary society, the fraternities of the college and in the athletic association. After his graduation Senator Sproul immediately engaged in business. He purchased a half interest in the Chester Times, of which paper he is now the presi dent. The company also publishes the Chester Morning Republican. Senator Sproul had but recently attained his majority when, on Jan uary 21, 1892, he was married to i Miss Emeline Wallace Roach, daughter of John B. Roach, ship builder, and granddaughter of the famous John Roach, who founded the shipbuilding business at Chester which flourished so extensively dur ing his life. i In passing it is well to call at tention to the date Senator Sproul's wedding and to note that his inaug uration will occur on the twenty seventh anniversary of that impor tant day. For several years after leaving college Senator Sproul gave all his attention to his newspaper work. In 1900 he branched out and or ganized the Seaboard Steel Casting ! Company, now merged with the Penn Seaboard Steel Company, of I which he is chairman. Sproul virtually entered on his ' political career in 1896. At that I time, by virtue of his position us an owner, of the most influential newspaper in the county, Sproul had become pretty thoroughly in terested in the politics of Delaware county. John B. Robinson, "Fight ing Jack," picturesque and daring in his political methods, was in Congress and, with the lace Jucge Thomas J. Clayton, was the domi nant factor in the political affairs of the county. • When 26, Elected to Senate When it came to elect a Senator in 1896 the Robinson forces picked Sproul as the likely candidate, and it looked as though there might be a lively tight, but Baker decided to quit politics and practise law, and Sproul was nominated and clecterf to the Senate when he was just twenty-nine years of age, be ginning a career in the Senate which has extended into six terms. For many years Sproul was the youngest man In years in the upper house, and for ten years he has been the ranking member in point of service. Judge Johnson, leader of the old opposing faction, is now Senator Sproul's close friend, and Sproul has unbounded admiration for and confidence in Judge John son, "whose like," he says, "you'll never see again." With all of his business and pol itical activities, Senator Sproul has found time to pay a great deal of attention to fanning. He was born on a farm and he has been close to the soil all his life. Senator Sproul has big farms, and while he has had the experience and is capable of doing the actual farming himself, he employs men to do the actual work. Real farmers of the country round about know that Sproul is one of them. He is as proud, if not prouder, of his membership in the Brookhaven Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, as he is' of his many connections with some of the most important clubs and organizations in the country. Throughout his legislative career Mr. Sproul has shown sympathy with all movements tending to im prove conditions for farmers. With him the idea that Jhe farmer is too heavily taxed amounts almost to an obsession. He was largely instru mental in having established the Bureau of Markets in this state, which does such excellent practical work in making easier and more profitable the marketing of farm products. Lives on Farm Mr. Sproul's place in Nether Providence, outside of the city of Chester and within sight of the swarmiing activity of that busy in dustrial center, is a farm. He has 188 acres there, about twenty of which are occupied by the grove within which sets the historic and beautiful old mansion which Mr. Sproul has developed into one of the most interesting country houses one might find in a long search. The remainder of it. almost 170 acres of beautiful land, is devoted to raising grain and dairying. Senator Sproul is greatly interest ed in Swarthmore College, his alma mater, and has been active on the Board of Trustees there for many years. A few years ago, upon the twentieth anniversary of the gradu atiqn of his class, he furnished the fupds to equip the observatory at Swartmore with astronomical ap paratus and with dhe of the best j telescopes in the East. The tele scope, of twenty-four inches aper- ; ture, is widely known, and the ! Sproul Observatory, under the di rection of Professor John A. Miller, is famous for its determinations. This year an expedition from the Sproul Observatory made very sue- | cessful observations of the total' eclipse of the sun. a point in Colo rado being the headquarters of the party. In 1912 Franklin and Marshall College, in Senator Sproul's native county of Lancaster, gave him tjie honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. This year he was similiarly hon ored by Gettysburg College. Senator Sproul is president of the Chester Shipping Company, Ohio Valley Electric Railway, Lacka wanna and Wyoming Valley Rail road, and General Refractories Company. He is a director of the Commercial Trust Company, Phila delphia, Baltimore and Washington | Railroad Company, the Penn Mu tual Life Insurance Company and of several other banks. He is a ' director of the Pennsylvania School for Feeble Minded Children at ! Elwyn and is a member of many clubs. He is president of the Union League and a member of the Penn sylvania Historical Society and chairman of the Pennsylvania His torical Commission. Other Presidents Unafraid We have known Presidents who were not afraid nor reluctant to stand up manfully in the face of any Congress that the people saw tit to send to" Washington, and who have been able to do excellent work in the presence of a Congress of poli tical complexion contrary to their own. —Col. Harvey's War Weekly. On the Shelf Lives of great men oft remind us (Forty-seven dollars net) That we really ought to read them Since we went and bought the set. i 1 ■NOVEMBER 6, 1918. BACK TO BERLIN (George Seymour of The Vigilantes) Oh, the towns of France are tempt ing and the maids of France, are fair, stocked with booty rich and rare, But the air is most unhealthy, and to linger were a sin, So I think I'll pack my little grip and beat it for Berlin. You told us, Father William, when the year was young and green, That we should dine in Paris in the summer of 'eighteen. But the chance of dining anywhere fades off to vapor thin, So I think I'll order 'round the car and motor to Berlin. You've said our land was mighty, that it didn't need a friend, And that one more hand against us wouldn't matter In the end. But I've seen the Yanks a-coming and I know we cannot win, So I'm off to camouflage my face and hide it in Berlin. Our Belgian trip was splendid, and I love to hear the ■ iueal Of babies and old women when we put them to the steel. But I fear when God comes down to judge the sort of men we've been He'll think that hell's too good for us and leave us in Berlin. . t * Baker and Machine Guns "Unfortunately," remarks the Boston Transcript, "the 'astonish ment' of Mr. Baker and his de fenders will not bring back to life the gallant dead in the Champagne and elsewhere on the American front where lack of machine guns lengthens the casualty lists by many hundreds, it may be thousands of names. Mr. Baker was urged to stock up with as many machine guns as could be bought of the best type available. He would not do it." OUR DAILY LAUGH I GOOD PLAN. We stayed in i To carry every- And he replied, the heartless K/ ' l\ My spring has JS 13 B busted since t&U y we wed. * iw ' , u lEirotmg (Eljat To-duy, when Harrisburg and thi rest of the state are studying electiot returns and on another page will l>< found a statement of the votes cas' in the state's capital for governor it is interesting to note what oui journalistic forefather, the Oracle 01 Dauphin, says about the result ol the election for governor at which the first state executive to officiall) S reside in Harrisburg was chosen bj a large majority. This election tooh M place In October, 1808, and Simor, Snyder, for whom Snyder count) was named and who was long a storm center of politics, was elected governor. Snyder was a Northum berland county merchant and a nuir of the plain people. He had been defeated by Thomas McKean In 1805, but three years later won ovet ' James Ross and was re-elected In 1811 and 1814. In 1808 he got 67,- 97,5 votes to 39,575 for Ross. The infant borough of Harrisburg seemed to be one of Snyder's strongholds because it gave him 534 votes and al lowed Ross just ninety-two. It was while Mr. Snyder was serving his first term and largely through the influence of his friends that the bill was passed to make Harrisburg the capital, and in 1812, while ho was serving his second term, the state government moved rn wagons from Lancaster to Harrisburg, and Gov ernor Snyder took up his residence in Front street below Walnut. That the Snyder victory created some stir in Harrisburg in those old days , is evidenced from this extract from the Oracle of November 12. The friends of Mr. Simon Sny der, in Harrisburg, commemo rated that gentleman's election to the executive chair by a pub lic dinner yesterday. Over 150 persons sat down to the repast. In the evening a number of the houses were illuminated and a huge lantern containing a num ber of lights, displaying sundry emblematical words thereon, was puraded through the streets. . • ~ . "I have never known of an elec- * tion day marked by so little betting,'' remarked a Harrisburg man familiar with many local activities last eve ning. "I heard of one or two bets on the representation in the Con gressional contests, and that's about all. It was unusual, but this is an unusual year. .Hen coming here from Philadelphia say that there has not been much betting in that city, either" ... t Ono of the interesting things talked about now when men who travel a good deal meet is the way they got in or out of Lancaster. Most of them seemed to go byway of Dillerville and the day the quar antine was at its height men drove into Lancaster and got out again by roads that were apparently not known to the State Police or which, owing to the number of highways, could not be patrolled as efficiently as the big main-traveled roads, which were roped off. This quaran tine, by the way, was a new work for the State Policemen, who have had to do all kinds of things and who do not seem to have liked the quarantine much, although like good soldiers they do not say so. ... fr The Harrisburg Public Library I has provided probably the most ex tensive display of the United Wat- Work posters to be seen in any place in the city. The library has spe cialized- in the posters which have been issued since the war began, and French, British, Italian and Serbian have been displayed, while during the Liberty Loan and other drives the posters attracted much atten- I tion. The library has a part in the War Work drive, being one of the seven, and Miss Alice R. Eaton se cured a complete set of the spirited posters of the Uhited War Work and it greeted people who entered the li brary to-day when it opened after being closd a month bcause of the j influenza epidemic. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge John B. McPherson was congratulated yesterday by friends on his birthday. —Admiral Francis T. Bowles, well known to many Pennsylvanians, is out with a plea not to let up in ship building because the war is nearing a close. —Representative Nelson McVicar, of Tarentum, has been put in charge of the prosecution of people violat ing the health regujations of the state at Pittsburgh. —Judge Charles L. Landis, of the Lancaster county courts, whose ac tion in the influenza regulations has created some stir, is one of the au thorities on Lancaster county his tory. —George S. Webster, Philadelphia dock director, is making big plans for expansion of that port after the i war. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has sur vived muny strenuous cam paigns when party feeling ran high and it never had an elec tion riot? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris was frequently called to the sessions of the council at Philadelphia to report on condi tions hereabouts when the town had not even started. A POOR JOKE The Berlin Welt am Morgan writes under the title "Distinguished Visit ors at the Home for the Blind": "The East-German Press of Au gust 20 reports a visit of the Prince and Princess August Wilhelm of Prussia in Bromberg. The report also contains the description of a visit to the war-blind in the Home for the Blind, and stated further: 'The distinguished guests graciously honored each blind man with kindly words and a handshake, and pre sented each one with their photo graph.' " The blind must have opened their eyes at this princely gift, but the Bromberg paper printed nothing about that. In November, 1918 Johnny, your answers are jkll wrong! Why don't you know your geography to-day? Please, teacher, the map moved while I waa asleep. A " '