HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH If NBVTBPAPER FOR TUB 80318 Founded 18 SI Published evenings except Sunday by 188 TBi.&nitAi'ii piunrriNO co. VWcgnpk Building. Fedeml Bqnere B. J. BTAGKPOLB President and Bdttor-likChhf F. R. OYSTER. UuMneee Manager OVS U, BTEINMKTZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Executive Board 3. p. MoCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. R. OYSTER, • OUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—Tho Associated Press Is exclusively en tltlod to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper i and also the local n<*vs published j AJI rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. S Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit | Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Ivenuo Building Western ' office. Story. Brooks & Finley, Peoale's Gas Building, Chicago, 111. Sintered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Fa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, SB.OO a year In advance. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1918 There are three kinds of people in the world—the wills, the won'ts and the cants; the first accomplish ev erything, the second oppose every thing and the third fail in every thing.—WlLLlAM T. ELLIS. GERMANY BEATEN THE end of the war is so plainly j In sight that fighting may come to an end before these words reach the public. Germany has been unable to procure an armistice be fore the defeat of her armies. The military supremacy of the Allies has 'been clearly proved. German sol diers are utterly defeated and in panic-stricken flight. Even though actual warfare ends to-day, the world knows that the Allies have smashed the Gerqtan military machine, and that it is trying desperately to save the remnants from utter annihila tion. That is the big thing that his story will record of these momentous days. The legend of German invinci bility is shattered. Xnd the next biggest thing Is the plight in which the German empire finds Itself. It is in grave danger of going the way Russia has gone. It will be to the interests of the Allies to save the nation from this disaster. The Bolshevik Is a menace to the world. Bolsheviklsm must be put down If civilization is to live. A quick cessation of the war, the occupation of German territory by Allied forces, the abdication of the Kaiser and a complete democratization of Ger many alone can save the country from a deluge of blood from within. We have no great pity for the Ger man people In the misfortune that has overcome them, but It Is our duty to the world and to ourselves to put down the international crim inal wherever he may be found, and the Bolshevik Is as bad as the Kaiser himself. Germany has broken with the shaky Government of Russia, but having stolen about everything that the Prussian Invaders could lay their hands on, they are probably quite wil ling to relinquish any further respon sibility. One of the specifications of the peace terms with Germany should be the sending of an enormous salvage corps of the Allied armies to scour every part of Germany for the plunder which has been shipped back from the Invaded territory. Germany will never get what's coming to her until there Is a thorough reclamation service es tablished which will return, so far as possible, the stolen property of the neighboring countries. ARE YOU READY? ONLY those who are In Intimate touch with the great wap work program of seven wonderful organizations have any real appre ciation of the comprehensive char acter of their big undertaking. Of all the projects that have b'een launched, however, none Is more far-re&chlng than the determination of the United War Work campaign era to establish among the fighting forces of the United States overseas universities for the continuance dur ing the period of demobilization of the educational work which was in terrupted with the breaking out of the war. Several thousand professors are being mobilized under the direction of the united campaign leaders for educational work on the other side of the ocean. All the Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus buildings will be utilized as educational cen ters and here the university work ; will on. Millions of dol lars are necessary for this splendid effort In behalf of the boys who have been fighting the battles of freedom and justice. Many of the young soldiers will come back as a reaqlt of this program ready for their de grees or prepared to continue their eollege careers without any serious Interruption of their studies, This arrangement will reproduce In a way the military institute of kven ma I peace times where the educational [ and the military are combined In a wholesome and practical manner. There are thousands of buildings available for the soldiers and the Importance of continuing at the close of hostilities the welfare work which has been so largely resport* etble for maintaining the morale of the fighting forces Is evident. When our fighters come back they will bo better men In every way than when they left. But We must stay with them until they get back homsl There will not only bo oppor tunity for the classical training of the men: thero will bo vocational training and every opportunity to tit themselves for even better things when they return homo than they had before going Into the army. ' So the United War Work organi sations are getting right behind the men at tho most critical time to prove to them that the people at home are ready to back thein in war or peace. The plans that have been worked out to let our flghtors go to school —to give men vocational and technical training that will fit them to earn more when they return than they did before they left —the opening of the English and French universities for higher education — the organization of correspondence cobrses so that however isolated a man may bo he can benefit by these advantages—these are the things which the great army educa tional program of the United War Work campaign contemplates and which the people of the country are now to provide for in their contributions to the big drive that will get fully under way next Tues day, the 12th of November. So it is up to you to show by your willingness to help in the raising of this great fund that you are much interested in the fighting men who are ready for peace as you were for the same men who were pepared to make the supreme sacrifice for you on the fighting front. The nearer peace conies the more you must give—to make the period of demobilization an asset instead of a dangerous liability for our fight ers. THANKSGIVING WEEK GOVERNOR RRUMBAUGH has asked the people of the Com monwealth to observe to-mor row as Thanksgiving Day for the passing of the influenza epidemic. That is a good thought, but why not enlarge upon it? Why not make the whole of next Week a Thanksgiving period for the victory that has come to the Allied arms and the preserva tion of civilization? The man who is truly thankfol gives. The ancient Hebrews offered up sacrifices of the best that God had given them. Let us emulate that worthy example by giving something of our plenty to those who need it, and with the War Work committee asking for SIBO,OOO from tho city alone, it will not be difficult to de cide where your gifts should go. Be thankful to the soldiers and sailors who have made our civiliza tion secure and register the fervency of your prayers by the number of the dollars you give for their welfare. Give as you pray. ] " OF THE OLD SCHOOL THE Telegraph published last evening a poem by Prof. J. H. Kurzenknabe, of Camp Hill,'long ! a resident of this city and known and loved by thousands. If all the people native to Germany were of the kindly nature of the aged j musician there never would have been a war. As Mr. Morgenthau, tlfe dis tinguished former ambassador to Turkey, said during his address in i Chestnut street hall Thursday, the German life of a half-century back has been crushed by the military teachers, who took the children at the cradle and instilled into their hearts and minds the damnable doc trines that almost ruined civiliza tion and are about to destroy the forces that set them in motion. Just now we are so sore over the atrocities of the modern Germans that we have forgotten for the moment the older, kinder Germany, but we are not so vengeful but that | we hope the old days will return! and after a period in sackcloth and ! ashes the Germans may again come into their own. Prof. Kurzenknabe is of the old school of Germans, but ho is of the modern school of Americans, all wool and a yard wide. THE ONION CROP WESTERN Pennsylvania far mers complain that they have no market for the 75,000 bushels of onions they raised this year, and they are at a loss to under stand why. We think we know. Most likely its because of the scarcity of > good beefsteak. Steak smothered in ! onions used to be a favorite dish In ) many restaurants. But when the army went to France and most of tho fine cuts of beef followed! and what was left at home shot up beyond the price wo once paid for turkey, the consumption of onions suffered likewise. The remedy is equally simple and scientific. Let the far i mers who complain raise steers on one half the farm and onions on tlie other, and—presto—the problem Is solved. Or, the war coming to an end and the supply of boef for home con sumption being gradually increased, why not an advertising campaign to popularize the consumption of beef steak smothered in onions, In which the restaurant men and the growers of French fried potatoes might Join. Pictures of a prime broiled sirloin, surrounded by steaming brown onions, with crisp potatoes on the side, together with a pot of coffee and plenty of bread and butter—be fore-the-war-slze orders —and the line "Tender and julcyl fragrant and wholesomei" or something like that, ought to do the trlek. Which would be profitable for the hewspapere as well as the onion growers, We know a lot about onion grow ing and selling) ilo We not? We do not, r f > U[tic4' "^KK^tcayua By tlio Kx-Committeeman Probably the thing which Is caus -1 Ing the most comment among men who have studied the returns of Tuesday's election is that thero should have been conditions ap proaching panic among Republicans in some sections of tho state a week ago. There were places in Pennsyl vania which were covered with a blue haze seven or eight days ago. Some Republican loaders of long ex perience were over the situation and Inclined to give ear to the extravagant claims of Demo crats and to disregard the predic tions from the Republican state headquarters. A week ago State Chairman Wil liam E. Crow calmly stated that the Republican majority for the state ticket was going to go close to 200,- 000, but observers, accustomed to the vagaries of Pennsylvania politics, took a different view and talked of 75,000. The truth of the matter is that between the noise made by the Democrats in their Insistence that Democratic Congressmen had to be elected to win the war and other re markable pre-election statements and the din made by the liquor in terests and the "experlnced boost rs" about Judge Bonniwell many men were led astray. The result has shown that State Chairman Crow and the people at Republican headquarters had their ears to the ground a week ago and got it right. Incidentally, Senator Sproul, who made 150,000 as his mark, received a very pleasant sur prise in a majority which distanced even his record vote over and above his opponent at the primary. The conclusions to be drawn are that the Republicans were united and did not realize how much the Presi dent's appeal had damaged his own party, already rent by the row be tween McCormick and Palmer on tho one hund and Bonniwell on the qjher. —Men who have followed politics will regret the death of Samuel E. Hudson, dean of political writers in Pennsylvania. "Sam" Hudson, as <ie was known to every man who ever got anywhere in state or Philadel phia affairs in the last forty years, entered newspaper work early in the seventies and Became noted as a Washington correspondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin and as a legis lative correspondent. He was a varied and prolific writer, most entertain ing and with a fund of reminiscence which he had lately been writing for the North American's Sunday issue. Mr. Hudson was connected with most of the Philadelphia newspapers in his day and was a figure at many legislative sessions. —lt will take the soldier vote to decide the Luzerne county Congres sional contest. Lackawanna's result will not be changed by the soldier vote and it looks as though the Dem ocrats had won the seat. —Mayor Smith is out for a lower tax rate in Philadelphia. —Pittsburgh people will demand creation of a State Health Commis sion to review acts of the Commis sioner of Health ds a result of the influenza controversy. —James M. Hamilton, a figure in the battles against the McClure peo ple in Delaware county, has retired from politics, it is said. He was some fighter and cost the McClures wake ful nights and large expenditures. —The manner in which every northern tier county went Republi can is somewhat interesting because I it means Republican peace even if the perennial Philadelphia row does try to break out again. —The boom for Representative Aaron B. Hess, of Lancaster city, for speaker is said to be now In the finishing shop. It will appear soon. —The general impression is that there will be very little opposition to the nomination of Frank A. Smith, former Republican county chairman, for Senator to succeed Lieutenant i Governor Edward E. Beidleman. ! There will be a special election in 1 the winter. Mr. Smith is favored by many Republicans in city and county. —All expense accounts of the 126 commissioners dispatched to camps and stations of the army and navy and marine corps in this country jto take the votes in the national I service will be audited by the Dep uty Secretary of the Commonwealth and paid by the Auditor General's Department without question, ac cording to a statement heard to-day. The appointment of commissioners i was a matter in the discretion of the Governor and there is over $12,000 in the State Treasury to pay the ex | penses. The state allows ten cents a I mile traveled. The stjte will be call -1 ed upon to pay a 'pretty penny for S expenses of some of the commission | ers who were sent as far as Salt Lake, Fort Sill, Fort Russell and I other places in the Far "West where few Pennsylvanians were reported, while the cost of the six or eight sent to Pacific coast states will run high considering the number of votes polled. —The Philadelphia and Pitta burgh newspapers print considerable interesting speculation from Wash ington about the figure Pennsylvania 1 will cut in the next Congress. The Inquirer, for instance, says: "In the House, where the latest returns , show a net gain of two Republi cans in the Pennsylvania delega tion, Representative Thomas S. But , ler, of Pennsylvania, doubtless will be made chairman of the committee on navql affairs. Representative 1 Benjamin K. Focht, of the Seven . teenth Pennsylvania district, is ranking Republican of the war claims committee, which will In crease in importance. Representative J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, will loom large in the Investigations which the Republicans will launch to see how the war appropriations have been expended. He has tried both in the ways and means committee and on the floor of the House to se cure legislation looking toward the creation of a joint committee on expenditures, and has invariably been blacked by the Democratic ma jority. With control in the hands of the Republicans the lid will be off for a thorough accounting of the gigantic war appropriations, and It is expected Mr. Moore will be promi nent in the investigation. New Re publican faces In the Pennsylvania delegation will be Edward S. Brooks, who succeeds Andrew R. Brodbeck, in the Twentieth district; S. A. Ken dall, who follows Bruce F. Sterling, and Willis J- Hullngs, who defeats Earl L. Beshlln." * .ipj iHHgp MH *^! feARRISBURO fcSSfe TEtEGRXWt 77/47 GUILTIEST FEELING ByBRIGGS MI3S IMG AN) tSNjy PUTT OP /T"7Z M?I /7 WB'vE lov/c TvUO FCET ON Tr>e ElfiHTeeNTw / \A/HnT. 7 1 / A CHNN/ce Ver- HE OP MlKff '.; GREesi FOR A. WlNjr>iNl6 OP 'T . ", 1 J S * r r^a A ~ 1 WY otvje op NIOVAI iP YoJ W6 LEAD A y AfJT AT Mls Tne match T?t ® _eiV ATffS 0 H CHaivl'c | £nAf*/v\ec> ) EK*PRei3iow 1T.3 A TIE A\Jt> fsIECuS . _ van*"*" 'TH I uiFtt TbDAY RM{l ' iTi A sSCRCAfii PU'-ViMfi ** e.TR f ITALIA IRRIDEXTA [From the Kansas City Star> The complete and decisive victory achieved by Italian arms, a victory which, measured by its direct and immediate results, must be account-1; ed one of the greatest in the war's { annals, will be accorded the fullest recognition by the Allies and by his tory. A year after the defeat of Caporetto, in which German treach ery accomplished what German and . Austrian arms could not do, the' army has shown the world how slight was the crack opened up in I the Italian defense by the elaborate j propaganda and barrage of lies with ; which the enemy had sought to 1 break it down, and how steadfastj and unshaken Italian nationalism; and the character of the Italian I people remained thoughout the or- ; deal. The resolute stand on the Piave,' after the retreat from the Isonzo, j deprived the enemy of all the ex-, pected fruits of his victory, pur-1 chased by deceit and intrigue. The | army did not break, the nation stood I firm and, instead of the sack of! Venice arid the triumphant march to | Rome the enemy had promised him- ! self, he was forced to devote his I whole strength to holding a line, that profited him nothing and kept j from Germany the help that had I been hnticipated from a released Austrian army. If Italy had done no more for the ! Allied cause, this canceling of Aus trian, co-operation with the German forces in other theaters would have been an ample measure of service from a nation without large econo mic resources and deficient in war material, such as coal and steel. But Italy was not content with that effort. Her soil was invaded. Her ancient provinces were unre deemed and she had lost the line of her first brilliant advance. She re sumed the offensive, forced the pass age of the Piave, defeated and routed a great Austrian army that occupied ' a front of more than a hundred j miles, and in a campaign erf but a i few days, laid Austria's military j power in the dust. 'Germany's last j ally, the power closest to her and on j which which she counted the most, was put out of the war, and, by a poetic Justice, put out by the na tion the Austrians had long oppress ed and despoiled. Italy is redeemed. The Italian flag again floats in Trieste and the l Trentino, and in the acclaim of the | Italian people over this victory of J Justice every Allied people wii l heartily join its voice. Both Were Proud [From the Chicago Tribune.] Anna, the maid, having picked up a woolly sheep, a soldier boy, a Teddy bear, and many kindred treas ures strewn about, vigorously pro ceeded to tidy up the apartment- Mother came home and expressed a warm approval. Much gratified, the maid re marked with pride: "It takes me to clean up." , With equal pride Delia remarked: "It certainly takes me to dirty up. That gives you a lovely chance to get praised by muvver." LABOR SOTES The convention of the North Caro lina State Federation of Labor peti tioned the State Legislature to pass a free textbook law. In the steel works at Hanyang, China, common labor gets $3 a month, skilled labor gets from $8 to 812 a month. Traffic over the Tralee and Dingle (Ireland) I.lght Railway was sus pended for some days owing to a strike of the employes. It is estimated that in all lines of Vork 1.442.0A0 women have stepped in to fill the depleted ranks of indus try in England. The anthracite coal district has lost 30,000 miners through the draft, enlistments and by Inducements of fered in other industries. State administered workmen's health insurance was Indorsed by the Colorado State Federation of Labor at Its recent annual conven tion. Pennsylvania railroad clerks in Philadelphia are Joining the Broth erhood of Railway Clerks in squads and platdons. There are 8.000.000 British wage earners now being paid from the public funds, either for service with the oolors or in munition work and other war trade* Every Hut Will Be a University Class Room When Victory Is Won WHAT shall I do when I get hack home?" "Will I be all out of step? "Will these warfare years unfit me for making progress in business when I return?" These are the questions that boys are asking over there —asking them eagerly, half fearsomely. They have given a year, or two, or three years and of the best part of their lives. Will it mean that they are handicapped permanently because of that sacrifice? Not much! When the day of final victory comes every "hut" in France j will become a university class room. Our belief in the necessity and value I of this work is so great and our; confidence in the backing of tho j people so strong that the Y. M. C. A. } recently ordered over two million j dollars' worth of educational books j to go to France now and be paid for j out of the money to be raised in j the forthcoming United War Work i campaign. The leading educators of | America have been across and laid out the plan; the best teachers that Our lighters haven't failed*you. Don't fail them! When pcaoe revues more than ever they will need the entertainment and educational work of these seven organizations. j our schools and universities can pro- j vide, have volunteered to go across. I And with them will go a steady > stream of the ablest American busi nessmen. Together they will keep the boy up to the mark. They will give him the chance to come back, a better trained, more resourceful, more successful boy than when he; wont away. He has fought your battles forj you and won. Will you send him the , men and the books that will help him to win the battle of after life? | Dr. John R. Mott has this to say j of the great reconstruction move ment for soldiers: "The burning question to-day is, j . shall the period of demobilization be • a period of demoralization or not? j We have sent more than 800 pro-1 What Have I Done? [From the United War Work Cam paign Literature] What have you done, what have you done To help the boys "Behind the gun?" Men who, fagged and travel weary. Turned the tide at Chateau Thierry, And those whose bleeding bodies stood The hail of death at Belleau Wood? For these, the bravest under the sun. What have you done? What have you done? What have you done, what have you done To back the men who stopped the What have you offered —words or deeds To meet your country's urgent needs? Trenches in France are running red With freemen's blood for freedom shed. They braved the blast of fire and gun. What have you done? What have you done? What have you done, what have you done Along the trail of the frightful Hun To mend the bodies racked and torn? What have you given, what forsworn : To ease the hunger, pain and woe j Wrought by a brutal, savage foe? i Have you a heart, or have you none? I What have you done? What have you done? ' What will you have when vlct'ry's won— A record to show or one to shun? Which shall it be to praise or blame, 1 A glow of pride or blush of shame? I When war scarr'd heroes question I you, What will you say, what will you do? Answer to conscience—every one, "What have I done? What havo I done?" —AMfHI WRIGHT. Retaining One's Confidence Cast not away therefore your con fidence, which hath great recom pense of reward. —Hebrews x, 88. fessors and teachers over there and we need two thousand more. We need five million dollars for text books alone, for the American Army. We need three million dollars for books of reference. The educational program ought to get one hundred million dollars .by itself." Among other plans originated in Harrisburg for stimulating interest in the United War Work fund and raising the city's quota of SIBO,OOO, and the district's quota of SBOO,OOO, i the endless telephone story, which was originated in Harrisburg by Mrs. William Jennings, vice-president of the district committee. This telephone story is to be told to thousands of women over tho tele phone, with the approval of the district chairman, E. J. Stackpole. The district chairman for women 1 When tlie whistle blows, and they cull it the end of the war, , don't expect Bill and Jim to l>e morning. Think how long it took us to get our lighters across. Then ' you'll realize how long It may take to get them back. We want th make the period of demobiliza tion a line, helpful period for ev ery Yank. Don't stop giving now. Tills will be the time they will need us most. lines up her county .chairmen; the j county chairman for women covers j her county with sufficient workers, using those already on the county committee, and adding 'many moro, so that the story may be carried to the remotest home. For the rural communities there will be a woman for each school district. For cities and towns the wards will be used for the units. The endless telephone story will start November 11, each committee member telling seven women the United War Work story by telephone. If any women called have heard it, another woman will be called. Each one will be told to tell the story to seven others who have not heard, | asking each Of them in turn to tell I seven others, thus making the end less telephone story. No soliciting I for money or requests for contribu- I tions will be made over the phono. SAVE TIIE LEAVES [From the Atlanta Constitution]' The season when tho raking and burning of fallen leaves is the order of the day is upon us, but the house holder, and especially the war gar dener, who is provident and thought ful, will rake the leaves that fall upon and litter his premises, but he will not burn them. Instead, he will pile them in a heap or put them in a pit—which is bet ter—there tb let nature convert them into plant food. This applies not only to the leaves that fall (Juring the autumnal sea son, when the trees disrobe prepara tory to their winter sleep, but to all I manner of vegetation, such as weeds, dry grass, dead stalks, etc., that clut ter the garden' after having served their immediate purpose. All are of earth earthly, and all were Intjndect to return into the earth again. That is In keeping with nature s rcheiiie. The agriculturist who is wise, re gardless of the scale upon which he operates, will conserve them and make of them a valuable byproduct of the year's output. Going Up [From the City News] f Tho military party Jn Germany (hat has screwed up its face, shut its eyes and declared It won't take the medicine under Its nose may learn something by opening one eye &nd taking a look at the armistice terms imposed on Austria. Armistice terms,' the kaiser and I his may be Informed, are I going up. They are a war com modity and those that must have them have to pay dear. Germany must- buy in a rising market. Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria have swept the counter bare of anything that could be called a bargain. They didn't haggle. They were in such a. hurry they didn't ask to have the article wrapped up. Now the kai ser will have to take what is left and nobody will pretend it is a thing he 'drill take any pride In having sent home. But 11 he must and at the price marked on It. That is the only choice left to late comers. NOVEMBER-' 1918. 'A Question of Law [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] The food administration of Penn sylvania which has admitted Itself rebuffed in attempts at remedial ac tivity by the absence of state laws to restrain profiteers, believes a way is opening to effect a change. A mass of evidence is said to have been col lected to prove the profiteering prac j tie* common in Philadelphia, and Congress will be asked to act upon | it by providing legislation that will give the food administration a legal resource. The long list of regulative orders issued from time to time has given the public an impression that the food administration had almost unlimited powers, but Mr. Hoover and his subordinates say the reverse is true. When the beneficial results of the food administration in New ' York were pointed to by victimized Philadelphians the answer invariably was that official activity in New York I was through state laws. Mr. Hoover and his assistants i deplored from time to time that fed ! eral agents, acting in the national | interest, were forced to rely for legal i aid upon state laws, and solicited i Congress to provide the necessary | power which always was denied. ' Now the food administration believes 'it has collected enough testimony on the widespread ravages of the profiteering epidemic td satisfy Con ; gress that legislative necessity has > been proved. The Pennsylvania Food Administration has had field agents : out for some time gathering prices * on all staples and noting practices, | and is able to establish the profiteer- I tng fact whether Congress gives heed | and supplies the corrective laws or I not. The • administration also ex presses the opinion that if Congress I will furnish the legal weapon profit eering in foods can be brought to an end, the result consumers have I hoped for without much hope in its I consummation. FOUR DAILY LAUGH NO LONGER COMPANY. fpX U Do you know V <j-y"jthein very well? ("Y . i W I think so. *J 7 ' Sy) Whenever I go •\ Fjk'N/ Q/tVere for dinner | N ' I'm always ex \ jjfl pected to help ~ 'u.y _|H with the dishes • ,'Y afterwards. She * k never thinks of letting them go tin morning to entertain me. • DUCKED ANYHOW. rY I wonder why )| ml (ones always |fl| f labors under the if| €Bnj& (elusion that-bo (jyrfli *i JS?MP 6 in the swim ? | fj*rd by a so any rt'i. sJgtj ILWIRAI' J| 1 TIME WORKS WONDERS. f 1 thot Jones IML _/ VY£Y ! ;)l S' was a militarist. *w\}' /\ vi i t Ho was till he §SFIS& ! got mayrled, but Nia ij I now he's a pcaco at-any-prico man. | POSTING THJE I BACHELOR. Y YpX ! But even a j married man I has a right to jlgSfiaM ! My dear fel- i|ra|M< v I low, it isn't a iBPBIAYq | question of |V!Uj' 'question cf 111 • I lEimmtg (EJjat The Lykens Valley anthracite min ing region of Duuphln county -will show a loss o( hundreds of thousands of tons, possibly a million, as the re sult of the influenza epidemic whioJ* swept through that section wltn grcut The ban was just raised to-day on that territory, the emmgency hospitals at Lykens and Wiluamstown having been closed a few days ago. There are dozens of persons just recovering from the epi demic and there will be weeks be- , fore the full tide of production of coal can be resumed. In this city it is estimated that there were 500 deaths and between 7,000 and 8,000 cases, while Steelton was hard hit. Where housing conditions were not good there were many fatalities. Middletown, Hummelstown, Millers burg and Hershey wore not so seri ously affected us tho mining section. In tho mining region tho men are slowly getting back to work, and Charles J. Price, the state mine in spector, says that mining has been much hampered by tho epidemic. In Williamsport it is reported that there -were forty-two deaths in a population of 5,000, while Tower City and vicinity, over the Schuyl kill line, lfad about 115 deaths in 0,000 population. In Lykens and Wieonisco there were fifty-three deaths with a population of about 5,000. Several of the collieries were actually shut down for from three or four days to a week by the epi demic and tho production of anthra cite of a high grade, ordinarily 7,- 000 tons a day went down to fifty per cent, for tho October working days. Much 'expense will fall on municipalities, but largely costs of lighting the epidemic are going to be taken out of the half million dol lars or so to the credit of the State Health Department. All these bills will be paid and then sent to the Auditor General for final auditing. The cost to the state will not bo complete for weeks owing to tho widespread nature of the epidemic and the extraordinary conditions which had to be met. ♦ • • People hereabouts are wondering what effect the end of the war is going to have on the plans of the government and the great military storehouses established at Middle town and Marsh Run. Some very am bitious projects for roau Improve ment and other developments are in the wind and if the national au thorities determine to curtail or abandon the plants there will bo changes. The belief is that they will be permanent,- at least for a decade to come. • • • State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery, who is greatly inter ested in the systematic organization of efforts for collecting the history of Pennsylvania, has begun prepara tions for the meeting of the Penn sylvania Federation of Historical So cieties here next January. There are almost fifty societies affiliated with this organization and they are being relied upon to assist the State Historical Commission in assembling the data relative to Pennsylvania and the great war, a work of the utmost importance because of the tremendous part Pennsylvania men and resources and products have played in tho struggle. Captain H. M. M. Richnrde, of Lebanon, is the president of the State Federation, and its first vice-president is a Har risburger, Dr. Hugh Hamilton, while .B. M. Mead, the lawyer and historian, is chairman of tha oom mittee on sites. • • • The white frosts which have peared on the roofs and lawns of Harrisburg the last few days brfog home to us that tho eleotlon Is over and yet in spite of the heavy char acter of the particles to be found on every surface before the sun gets busy have failed to dim the glory of the cosmos or tho colors of the cluyjanthemums. The tall cosmos jis to be seen peering over many a ' fence and hedge and is rivaling the chrysanthemums in Insisting that ' this is an ideal autumn in tho Sus -1 quehanna Valley. And similarly the I foliage on the Islands show that winter has not yet compelled the lowering of the colors. • • Pennsylvania's State Capitol, de dicated in the month of October, twelve years ago, had fewer visitors in the month just closed than ever known in any similar period since the building wqs formally opened by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. This was due to the fact that tho month had scarcely commenced be fore the influenza ban was placed upon it and all visiting except on official business was forbidden, tho "show" places and legislative halls being closed tight and signs and watchmen put at the doors. The office of the guides and the register on which people of every state and every nation and every clime have written their' names were locked up ana the autumn automobile parties, which have been a feature of every year since the famous "penn*r a mile" excursions instituted by the late Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, were notable for their absence. This has been a favorite time of the year for farmers to come to Har risburg as tho harvesting is ended and they can visit the Capitol. Even the State Museum with Pennsyl vania birds and beasts and reptiles and fishes had to close up and the various educational excursions to study tho exhibits were abandoned. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Isaac Sharpless, head of Haverford, says that William Penn first proposed the" League of Na tions. —J. P. Gaffney, Philadelphia cIW solicitor, says that this is the tin I .* when salary inequalities should 1% corrected. —W. H. Donncr, the steel marni. facturer, is giving much of his tim 4 to government work at Washington, —Representative D. J. Bechtpld. of Steelton, re-clccted this week, U a native of Myerstown. —Representative W. K. West, e~ Danville, hero yesterday, has served three times in the House. —S. Ddvis Page has been eleotj>*. president of tho Colonial Social of Pennsylvania. f DO YOU KNOW ! -' - " * ■ ■ —Hint Harrfsburg-yvado gun carriages* are in Pershing's army? , , HISTORIC IIARRISBUJIG The State Arsenal turned out much ammunition here during the Civil War. Speed, the Parting Pest Ring out, wild bell\ Across the snow! The kaiser's goings—? Let him go! —Tennyson J. XML [
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