10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELSQRAPH PRINTING CO. Tflffrtph BUIIIIIDK. Federal Square E. J. STACKI'OLE President and Editor-in-Chief r. R. OYSTER, Business Manager • QUS M. BTEINMETZ, .V % ' . . * . - , ' • "* r ;' V; " V ' TUESDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 2fi, 1918. i been certain that the next Congress ! would have been pro-war. perhaps even mure so than its predecessor. ' because the pacifists were largely eliminated in the primaries. MI ST BE PUNISHED • rr*HE police force of Ilarrisburg. ; | 1 aftci 1 Saturday night's raids, has no longer the confidence of the public. Wherever men meet and the subject is discussed, the question is raised as to whether ilarrisburg po licemen protected vice for personal gain or are simply stupid. In either case, the public should have the , truth. Innocent officers should be , | vindicated and the guilty punished. The police force operates under , ! civil service and has recently as j sumed the attitude that since it is jno longer a political pawn it has ! become a law unto Itself, and can 1 ! conduct its affairs a? it pleases, with ; out let or hindrance. It demands j higher wages—to which an efficient ' force might be fairly entitled—while I permitting vice to flourish and the ! city to be advertised as a place where [crime goes unptininhod. if not pro : teeted. I Nor is this the first effense. Isn't ' : this the same police force that inter | ferred with a Federal officer in pur suit of his duty and brutally assault ed him? Isn't it the same force that refused to listen to Federal protests ' that whisky was being sold in Har- I j risburg to soldics? Isn't it the 1 same force thst permitted condi l tions to reach n stage here ' where ; Army authorities threatened to close even law-abiding licensed places be l cause so much liquor was sold ille i gaily? Isn't this the same force ! that promised to prefect the public by the use of semaphores on Mar- J ket street and then fcund it "could not?" Isn't it the :ime force that permits the use of noisy cutouts and ; allow s motorcycles and automobiles i to use the city streets at all hours ias speedways, r.t the risk of the lives 'of pedestrians" I It is; all of these and mere, and It, 'is about time that C'ty Council calls ■ for an explanation. Either Council 'lias control over the police force or it lias not. and the sooner w-e know J which is "boss" the better. Council j has the authority ar.d it would.be ; fulfilling a public du'v and meeting a public demand if it called for a j showdown Immediately. There will i be no living with the police if they are permitted to give Ilarrisburg this j black eye and escape unpunished. ; ! "Meatless weeks" have been ahol i ished in Germany, but DV. Solf still | continues to starve. ACTION DEMANDED nMHERE appears to lie confidence I I on both sides in the fight for | the ratification in the Pennsyl | vania Legislature of the proposed prohibition amendment to the fed eral constitution. Those who favor the amendment declare they have assurances to justify their confidence in its ratification, while the liquor ; men feel that they have a chance | in the House. Whatever may be the real situa | lion it is the hope of all who favor a constructive session of the Legisla • lure that the prohibition matter will jbe taken up immediately upon the convening of the Legislative bodies and promptly disposed of. It ought not to be a kicking post throughout the session. Governor-elect Sproul declared in his original campaign statement that the time had come to : eliminate the liquor question as a ! hindrance to the important work of the State. We believe that the next ! Governor will insist that the matter be disposed of without delay, to the : end that important matters which ! have been held in abeyance for sev ' eral years may be taken up and ! given full consideration without the i complication of a controversy over i the liquor traffic. ! Mr. McAdpo's passing and some ! other events of a significant char ! after indicate the decadence of Dem i ocratic confidence In the perpetuation jof governmental control. Their scheme at Washington to upset the ! reorganization of the Senate by Re ' publicans is an indication of their' : fear of approaching developments, ! but the Republican leaders having I once thrown away their party ad- I vantage through a split are not likely |to perpetuate that sort of thing , again. It was a cunning game to set up alleged opposition to Senator Penrose, who is entitled by seniority to the chairmanship of the Finance committee, hut it is too transparent, and already there are signs that the Republicans will take control of the next • Congress without serious dis turbance of party harmony. j Holland baa had the friendship and j good will of America for many years, but uhless something definite ia done with William Hohenzollern, the former German emperor, who is wait ing for aomethlng to turn up on a comfortable eatate in Queen Wil helmina's realm, there will be a rapid decline of lntereat In the Dutch peo ple on this side of the ocean. It would appear that the Dutch govern ment would have realized the danger lof entertaining the former Kaisqr from the beginning. Thanksgiving turkey at thirty-five cents a pound looks more hopeful. IKH4yttfCLHUI By the Ex-ComnUttecman i s Judging from what is being prtnt e ed In Philadelphia newspapers there are chances that differences between i Republican leaders in that city and s fthe prolonged fight between the - j Yares and the independents over leg- I; islation affecting the state metropolis, j which will elect a Mayor next year, r I may have a serious effect Upon the e | peace and -harmony program out- ! B ' lined for the General Assembly of j | 1919. Senator Edwin H. Yare is an- ! " I nounced in Philadelphia newspapers r i to-day as opposing the proposed new -! charter plan, which is advocated by s ; many representative men and in whicli there are hints that Governor 's | elect William C. Sproul is interested, j The Yare opposition may be pos ; slble of settlement before it gets into - | the Legislature. The independents ! want to get rid of the two-council j 3 | system and the Yares want to retain ! , I it. A suggestion that the Yares would j i accept a single councilman with one v man from each ward does not seem I to have taken well and on top of it 8 1 the row precipitated by the Public , | Ledger against street cleaning has " j made matters worse. It is believed -{that the Yares are seeking to get an agreement on a general legislative program as it affects Philadelphia t and that the Philadelphia Record's announcement that the South Phtla - delphia Senator will fight charter re vision means that he is open to argu ' nient. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to- I day says that there is reason to be s fleve that Senator Penrose and Gov ernor-elect Sproul "will be in ac | cord' on the Speakership of the s House. The alliance between the . Yares and Congressman W. W. , Griest, of Lancaster, on behalf of Hess is not regarded as serious. The ! Griest course his been an interest . ing one in recen years, but it may not bring results this year, high men in Republican councils intimate. ' | —Stock of Representative Robert • | S. Spangler, of York, is rising for ! Speaker, but up on the Northern tier ' | tlie flag of George W. Williams, of I I Tioga, is continuing to be a rallying ; point. , 1.1 -—lt was announced yesterday that | Charles B. Lenalian, of Wilkes- I Barre. received the third largest vote J In Philadelphia of the candidates for I the Supreme Court. Mr. Lenahan, ; who is a Democrat, receiver 15.677 I in that city, and 136 soldier votes, i i making a total of 15,813. The total i vote for Alexander Simpson, Jr., was 195,689; John W. Kephart? 36,078. 'There are indications that Lenahan ran well generally. i| —Senator Sproul is in Washing ton to-day. say reports and will be 1 • in Philadelphia to-morrow night. i —Official returns reaching the State Department from the counties I. show that at the election on Novem i ber 5 scores of people in almost ' i every county reporting voted the ; Washington party ticket, but, that ( except for local contests the Roose velt Progressive and Progressive, ' Bull Moose and other parties which ' were created in the historic cam . paign of 1912 and retained their place on the ballot because of their votes in following years, polled a very few votes for 1917. Indica tions are that the bulk of them will disappear this year. The Washing ton party, will retain its place only in event,of polling live per cent, of the vote.' —Governor-elect "William C. Sproul and Lieutenant Governor elect Edward E. Eeidleman were ' Washington nominees and the votes [noted range from 19 to 75 in the j smaller counties which have tiled. ! —The Philadelphia Bulletin edi torially voices a thought which is uppermost in the minds of many men in politics in Pennsylvania, Re publicans and Democrats. It is that the various "war" boards and regu | lators, some of which furnished roosting places for deserving Demo crats, should disappear. The Bulletin says: "The war Is at an end; there is no likelihood of its revival; our enemies have been subdued, and there is now no good reason why we should not move buck promptly to the paths of peace and the normul 1 life of the nation. All extra agents, inquisitors, regulators and adminis trators should be released at an early day from their functions, to the end j that all citizens may find themselves j free of every form of vexatious, ir , I regular and arbitrary | which has been saddled upon them as a "war measure" or a "patriotic obligation." —One of the interesting things in , state politics is what the French call a rapprochement between Gov ernor Brumbaugh and Auditor Gen ' eral Snyder. It is not so long ago I that they were throwing tomahawks , at each other and now the Auditor General is Insisting that the Gov ernor be made the historian of the war against objections raised by the Philadelphia Ledger and Record and men in politics. Mr. Snyder said last i night that he had not changed his course and that as far as the Gaither action to restrain payment ot any ! money to the Governor from the $2,000,000 war fund for writing his tory lie was "certain that the War ! Board would do nothing that savored of illegality" and that its acta would ■ puss legal muster on Capitol Hill. —According to the Philadelphia '. Inquirer, "Scott S. Leiby, of Perry oounty. the only McCormick-Pulmer Democrat in the Senate, tried to go to Congress at the recent election, but he was Ignominiously defeated by i Congressman Benjamin K. Focht, ■ of Union county, who swept the dis . trict With a great Republican ma jority." ' —All the men elected to the Log • islature froiq Allegheny county arc i Republicans. . —The iftit of 1864 providing for the taking of votes of Pennsylva nians in war service will probably be one of the statutes brought down to date early in the coining session I of the Keystone State Legislature and at the saipe time there will like '. ly be a clarification of the act pass ed to provide half pay for dependants ' of state officials and attaches who ' enter active military or naval serv i lee so that it shall not become a roosting pole. The latter law was I passed last session and some men who could hardly hope to be retain ed by the Incoming administration are wearing khaki and their families getting nice pay. Just why the last ' Legislature was not urged to change ■ the act of 1864, which was found more or. less cumbersome when com missioners were sent to El Paso to take the votes of National Guarda > men no one could understand last Vear. ' AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOVS FEEUN'T ~ By BRIGGS j ABOUT TH<5 AIST oF Tue "AND IU TAKING IT OFF LA - ANJO T IS TO B£ READY FAOIOTH You MIH6T M 155 "*S "* • SHOUJ T TO You CVRSGS -THE "BY FRIDAY THE TH - FIU£ -AMD ADMIRE HER \AJRVST BRACELET BREAKS - AND YOU DAYS FROM PAV DAT- SHE VUATCH- * GALLANTLY OFF6R To TAKE IT MOST HAVE IT BY TMEM SO ' To THE jEweieß, FOR RePAiR IT"" MUST. BE GOTTCN I-So ON FRIDAY Too HOSTte OWCPC - AND - TNE S>NOST tbuN< OH"Hh- BOY*' AIN'T IT , TT WSI FROBABLY^f^ 5 /S'oT 6 THIN 4 ,BCH.ND THS COUWTffR A GR AND F.v/E BeaNS | ( SAY 4 PU£ASC | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |' OIR THA.V.VKS OFFERING To the Editor of the Telegraph: Jn these stirring times of war and] in these glorious times of peac?, let us stop for a moment and tonsider a few of the many things for which we] have to he thnnkful, in this won-1 derful year—nineteen nunJred and I eighteen, for probably never again in] the world's history will there be a' world-wide peace dawning just as it| is to-day. First, we ere thankful for and; proud of our Christian country, the] I'nited States of America, the grand-1 est country to us on God's whole] earth. Think what a privilege is ours] to he able to live under the Stars and j Stripes, the emblem 'of freedom.] Wherever it flies on this continent or] on any other it signifies to ihe wan- > deter," the down-trodden, the op-1 pressed, Freedom—Freedom to wnr- ! ship God, Freedom of Speech. Free- ; dom of Press, grand and glorious Freedom. May our flag ever be the I symbol of right and might, And our institutions, our schools.; our libraries, hospitals and other or- ! ganlzations like the American Red| Cross and the Young Men's Christian | Association and the Young Women's; Christian Association and many more] too numerous to mention, should we] not be doubly thankful for all these at such a time as the present? And last, in the years to come will j it not be the greatest honor of all ] for us. that we shall he able to tell the future generations of the lawn ofj world democracy? Shall we not be' proud of the fact that we .ivel at such a time. T.et us look in our own i hearts and find the answer. HELEN S. T„ SHU FY, • 1705 Penn Street. Harrisburg, Pa. | ' ,| GETTING BUSY [Front the Philadelphia North American] While the industrial world rever- ] berates with the collapse of billion- ' dollar war contracts and cowers in 1 the shadow of colossal uncertainties, j a reassuring trumpet note resounds j from Washington. A correspondent ! of the New York Evening Post, one i of the administration's most faithful . mediums, says: "President Wilson has ap pointed a committee to lay be fore him a definite program for carrying, the country back to a peace basis." While this may seem like calling a town meeting to discuss plans for ; establishing a lire department after ] the conflagration has broken out. It j is only because the reader is yet un informed of the tj-ue purport. A later paragraph tells us: "This board has already been ut work for several days, and is expected to report to the President within a day or two." So, you see. Mr. Cynic, something j is being done, after all. to save the ] situation. And 'even yet you can faintly conjecture what this great something is. But we will let you into the secret. Here it is: "The principal issue it (Ihe President's board) is called upon to settle is whether the President in his coming mes sage to Congress shall ask an j extension of the life of certain of the war agencies, in order I that reconstruction may be I guided to completion by them." So, why worry? 11l the crush of matter and the wreck of worlds | there are still messages to be writ- | ten, and perhaps even notes. And besides, by that time, in the splendor I of a European pageant, there may ] be nothing left to reconstruct. -Some New Senators George J. Brennan wrting in the Philadelphia inquirer, says of some of the new Senators: "Max G. Leslie. a veteran politi cian, who has frequently been re ferred to as the "Jumes P. Mc- Nichoi' of Allegheny county, is going I to be a potential factor in the next ; legislature. The stalwart wing of Ihe ] party in that county claims twenty- I two of the twenty-four members of ; the Houscf and with possibly one j exception, upon certain issues. It is 1 predicted, the six members of the j Senate will work In harmony. Leslie i is conceded the leadership of the ] county's delegation, and he will fig- i ure In every important proposition ! that shall be before either the House i or the Senate at the coming session. ; He is fond of horses, likes to lay a wager on a race and has been a ' magnanimous winner' und a game' loser, all of which- were part of the ' makeup of the late 'Sunny Jim,' of ] the Quaker City, whose death oc- I curred one year from last Thurs- ] day." "Schuylkill county sends as suc cessor to Charles A. Snyder, who quit the Senate to become Auditor Gen eral, Robert D. Heaton, who tired of Washington life and switched from Congress to go to the State Senate. He ts Imbued with the thought that It is better to be a factor In a small body like the State Senate than to imagine you are a national character ; ; Advises Mr. Wilson to Remain at Home ! John Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, ; lawyer and distinguished Democrat of the old school in an open letter !to President Wilson strongly urges ; upon Mr. Wilson the unwisdom of | his announced intention of going to | France for the peace conference, j Mr. Cadwalader assures the Presi ] dent that the Constitution offers a j complete bar to such a trip. Mr. i Wilson will remain at home, he in ] sists, or will automatically relinquish j his office under the Constitution, and ] Thomas R. Marshall, the Vice-Presi ] dent, will become President. Inci ] dentally, Mr. Cadwalader takes the j President rather tartly to task for ; some of liis public utterances prior ; to the war. Among other things ] Mr. Cadwalader says: I "One reason for not providing for | the temporary performance of presi dential duties by a Vice-President, no doubt, was that, when the Con- i i stitution was adopted the Vice-Presi- I dent was always the second choice ; for the Presidency, and a man ] chosen for the Presidency itself Vy 'at least the minority of the electors i was available. This constitutional I bar to your leaving the country is, of course, sufficient: but you cannot be indifferent to the evident objec ij tion on other grounds widely stated in the press of the country, i "Rightly or wrongly, you hat e not j been in accord with the sentiments I just because you happen to be cn ] rolled as a member of the House of , Congress." j " 'Jack' Robinson, who left the i Senate from Delaware county years ago to go to Congress, always re- I grettcd that he did not remain in I Harrisburg, and Ihe late J. K. P. ! Hall, of Elk county, was glad to re i turn to the Senate after he had a j taste of Congressional life in Wasli | ington." COME DOWN TO EARTII ] [From New York E v entng Telegram] It is well to keep our feet on the i ground and remember that the en trance of the United States into the war was not to democratize the ! world, nor pay a debt to Lafayette, j not to pretend any affection for Eng ' land, nor because Russia was our i friend in the civil war, nor by rea-. son of our large Italian population of decent law abiding citizens. The United States went into the war at the eleventh hour to save herself. Had the Kaiser overrun Europe and subdued England we ; were next on his list. "America had better look out : after the war. 1 shall stand no nonsense from the Americans," said the Kaiser in 1915. Now, partly through pro-German propaganda and ulso for other repre hensible reasons, we are Invited to forget punishment of the Kaiser and contemplate long discussions on free dom of the seas, something never ] threatened except by Germany; a I league of nations, a dream the scrap | of paper incident disposes of; abo lition of war forever, which will I never be as long as water runs, j grass grows and men covet, and a I lot more subjects calculated to_,ffll ] with disgust the soldiers and sailors I who have borne the heat and bur- J den of battle, tend to afford the tem ; pcrarily exiled Kaiser infinite amuse ! ment. V it should be sharply recalled to ] some statesmen that our first duty is punishment of the Kaiser and that the slogan of to-duy should be "On to Berlin," to make our conquest certain, and not on to the pence table to hear ourselves talk. LABOR NOTES ] United Mine Workers' membership [is 422,112. ] A municipal coal yard has been 'established at St. Thomas, •Can. i Akron (Ohio) carpenters have been Increased to 70 cents an hour. Woman machine-shop workers at 'Rockford, 111., have organized. ] Kingston (Canada) textile workers 1 have formed a union. I Electrical workers at Greenville, ,S. C„ are almost 100 per cent, or , ganized. A metal trades council has been ] formed at Everett. Wash. ! Total 'membership of the Brother hood of Bookbinders is almost Iff,ooo. Heavy forgers in Toronto shipyards are paid 85 cents an hour.' Canadian munition workers have been granted the right to organize. Retail clerks at Sydney. Nova Scotia, have secured a shorter work day. of the people at large in the subject I of the proper relation of lite United ! States to the great war. The people i have never 'been too proud to tight.' j They have never desired 'peace with- I out victory.' They did not approve -1 of your extending in their name and I in that of the Government congratu j lations to the Kaiser on his birthday . ] during the period of tlie worst out ] rages of the war. They hafe al- I ways been deeply concerned, 'as to ] the causes and objects of the war,' ! and they expressed no doubtful feel ! ings when you did not favor uncon l ditlonal surrender. : ] "These quoted statements natur ] ally lead to doubts as to Ihe position j thut might be taken under your in j ffuence at the conference, and it will j he most unfortunate if any lack of j harmony should exist in adjusting I the claims of the Allies, who have j borne the great burden of the war for our sakes as well as for .their own. "Thank God we came to their • rescue before it was too late, and 1 all gratitude and thanks to you are ; j freely felt and extended, since you j acquiesced in the necessity of our | country's aid being given to save ] the civilization of the world. In ] this the people of the United States) ] have given magnificent evidence of. j their approval and willingness to j , I make every sacrifice in the great; : cause." , Mr. McAdoo's Retirement j* j [From the New York Evening Sun]] The resignation of Mr. McAdoo as; Secretary of the Treasury and Direc- ] i tor-General of Railroads is some- i I thing like a calamity to the Admin- I istrution. The blow is all the more i l serious that it comes from within. ( ' The machine built up by President j ; Wilson for the management of the I i country's business is none too strong ] i iit the best. Many of lis parts lack j ] tensile strength and others driving, ] force? the whole is wanting in co- j ! hesion. It could ill afford to lose; ] one of lis real working elements. ] The retiring Secretary had unus- ! ] ual capacity for work. He had also j ' a degree of judgment and restraint 1 of which a majority of the Cabinet ] 1 members, and indeed the leaders of ] the party in power generally, seem to be divested. He not only sup '-] plied a large proportion of such 1 energy as has been shown, but also acted as a sort of balance wheel, I ' I especially as respects contemplated j 1 j excesses of financial legislation. We can well believe that his un- | 1 - loading of the toil and the respon-; ] sibility on the eve of reconstruction I is viewed by the President and in ] ' | Administration circles at large with j 1 j dismay. Among the public the great j anxiety will be over the possibilities ] 1 of the successorship. It will be possible lo put both of the vacated j 1 posts in hands so much worse that i all sunc citizens and above all the ] I business community will await some- j ' j what breathlessly the announcement j • 'of the President's choice. 1 ! It must he remembered, however, | ] 1 that the danger and harm are mini- j 1 | mined by the fact that the control I 1 ! of the Congress pusses into the J hands of the Republican party on; ' March 4. This means the returning! 1 j sway of intelligence, breadth of view i ' and balance of judgment in matters ] ] of legislation, the independence of ' | legislation from executive domina j tion, the general "unscrambling" of | ] j dictatorial conditions, and the appli-! ' I cation of wholesome criticism and 1 ; ] guidance to administrative conduct. 1 In short, a new era of sanity Is ap- j preaching in which the importance j 1 of one man as a semi-conservative ] force will be of less moment than i during an epoch of uncurbed inno- j vation and experiment. , I Herr Self's Words Disproved j I [From tjie New York Evening Sun] j i Meatless weeks have ended in Ger- i many; (he bread ration has been | raised Id five pounds a week. The | i French Government finds un ar- i rangement has been made under I . which Germany is to furnish "im ' j mediate help and sufficient cereals '■ to relievo the misery in Austria." i On the same day on which these announcements were made the French Minister of Provisions, Vlc ■ tor Bohret. declared It would not be \ possible at present to increase the civilian rations In France, i It appears, therefore, that Ger many is not so badly off as Austria, and is perhaps as well supplied with food as France. Yet Herr Solf. the vociferous propagandist, endeavor , Ing (o excite sympathy throughout the world, continues to beg for modi fication ol the armistice in behalf 1 of "women and children." ' flerr Solf's campaign uppears to be purely political und to hear no relation to domestic conditions in Germany. i Surrender German Fleet J [From The Admiral's House, Boston, Nov. 19. 1918.1 Ship after ship, and every one with a high-resounding name, From the robber-nest of Heligoland the German war-fleet came; Not victory or death they sought, but a rendezvous of shame! Sing out, sing out, A joyful shout, Ye lovers of the sea! The "Kaiser" and the "Kaiserin," The "Konig" and the Prinz," The potentates of piracy, Are coming to surrender. And the ocean shall be free. They never dared the final fate of battle on the blue: Their sea-wolves murdered mer chantmen and mocked the ilrowning crew. They stained the wave with martyr blood, but—we sent our trans ports through! What flags are these that dumbly droop from the gaff o' main mast tall'.' The black of the Kaiser's iron cross, the red of the Empire's fall? Come down, come down, ye pirate flags—yea, strike your colors all! The Union Jack and the Tricolor and | the Starry Flag o* the West Shall guard the fruit of Freedom's war and the victory confest, ! The flags of the brave and just and j free shall rule on the ocean's breast. [■ Sing out. sing out, A mighty shout, Ye lovers of the sen! The "Kaiser" and the "Kaiserin," I The "Konig" and the "Prinz," The rubber lords of death and sin, | llavc come to their surrender, i And the ocean shall be free! -HENRY van DYKE, r. S. N. SUSPECTED TO THE LAST [From the New York World J j It was with battle ensigns flying, the crews at <|uarters and all guns I manned thut the four hundred war ! ships of the Allies awaited the Ger ! man flleet at the place of surrender. ! Distrustful and vigilant, they stood | ready on the 'instant to meet any hostile move. It was not merely a display.of superior force that they had planned. They knew that they had reason in all circumstances to hold the Germans in suspicion, and I they were prepared to deal with ] treachery us it deserved. Against any other nation than Germany, in the hour of its defeat, the precautions taken by the victors would have been uncalled for and superfluous. They would have out raged the honor'and self-respect of | any except the Germans, but the | German navy long since passed the point where its honor could be out j raged. The practices to which it j descended during the war have made it an object of universal loath | ing and contempt. Its highest j achievements, were' performed by , the battle cruisers that by night i bombarded unfortified English coast i towns and slaughtered hundreds of I helpless nonoombatants, and by the U-boats that waged ruthless war | fare on passenger and hospital ships i and shelled lifeboats, i The German flag belied all the noble traditions of the sea and been | made by the men who served under it the symbol not of gallantry and I valor in combat but of unrestricted, I premeditated assassination. To the ' German fleet, as It approached the rendezvous in the North Sea, the Allies' warships paid only a just and | fitting tribute when they held it un | der thfeir loaded guns. Even while I bearing the white Aug it was not to lie trusted. SOVEMBER j The mellow year, is hustcning to its close; I The little birds have almost sung their lust, I Their small notes twitter in the dreary blust— I That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows;— The patient beauty of the scentless rose, I Oft with the morn's hoar crystal (luaintly glassed, j Hangs a pale nio,urner for the sum mer past, And makes a little summer where It grows;— In the clilll sunbeam of the faint brief day The dusky waters shudder as they shine; The russet leaves obstruct the strag gling way • Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks doflne. And the gaunt woods, in ragged, • scant array, Wrap their old limfis with somber iv'y-ttflne. —HARTLEY COLERIDGE. fumttng dljat When word of the signing of the armistice was received by the United States Transport Poeohontas, for merly the Princess Irene, the ship was is midoceun, and Captain Ned Kalbfns immediately ordered lights on and had a moving picture show for his people. This much comes from the captain, who is a son of Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, in a letter to his parents. Then, he writes, he s. went to bed in his pajamas for the llrst time on shipboard in nine months or more. Captain Kalbfus' letter, which is the llrst of any size lie has written since the war began, hints at some experiences of a thrill ing kind, and while he did not. have any such attack as that which fell upon tlie Mount Vernon, commanded by Cuptain Dougles E. Dismukes, an other Harrisburg man, ho went through enough to demonstrate what he considered "responsibility." Dike Captain Dismukes, whose handling o l the Mount Vernon after the torpedo ing attracted national attention. Cap tain Kalbfus is chary in talking about himself. However, it is known that the Poeohontus, under his command, made voyages of over 50,000 mites and transported over 20,000 men without loss of a single life. On one trip the Pocohontas towed in a dis abled steamer picked up two days out of New York. Suffice it to say 1 hat while he was transporting sol diers or bringing home his ship, the commander never took off his cloth ing and seldom slept. In recognition of his record. Captain Kalbfus has been appointed to command the bat tleship lowa, which is a step toward a higher command. • • • If any one wants any information I in regard to whether the war is over, I all he needs to do is to sit at the telephones in the Harrisburg Tele graph office. A month ugo the movements of the armies of Persh ing, Petain and Haig, the Italian campaign, the watch on the fleet and the developments in Russia, to gether with the draft, were the tilings people telephoned about night and day. They took an abiding in terest and they telephoned in a very explicit manner. Now the tele phone calls are "Who won the game?" • • * One of the reasons why Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, of the Gov ; ernor's staff, is deeply interested in the project to make the Susque ! hunna river navigable is because his grandfather, Colonel James W, Quiggle, former State Senator, intro duced a bill into the state Legislature., to make the river navigable by a system of dams* and locks, thereby connecting Lake Erie with Chesa peake Hay. Senator Quiggle was also a member of the board of di rectors of the old Susquehanna Canal. He was greatly interested in the improvements of state water ways and his grandson inherits this enthusiastic interest. * * * Jaincs A. Rteesc, chief of media tion in the State Department, of La bor and industry, was presented with a service pin yesterday at the opening of the state conference of officers of the Labor and Industry Department. It was sent to him by James A. Smyth and other friends In the Federal service. At the out settrtifUQuuJifUi' .Mr. Steese was sgnl a iHTCWtMufenrr stars in *>oor *f M jiis four sons, who were officers in * the Army. Since then one has died and the pin presented yesterday by Commissioner McNtchols in behalf of his friends contained one gold star and three silver ones, one of his sons, an officer at Camp Lee, having died. • • Quail have been heard calling in old Paxtoji Churchyard and in the grounds of the Pennsylvania State Insane Hospital. "Bob White" seems to be getting close to urban life and is more protected by farmers than ever. Comparatively few have been shot near the city. • * * One of the most amusing features of the proseht reififn of high prices i aside from the noisy assertion of men who have turkeys to sell that people must eat turkei on Thanks giving Day to be patriotic, is the 1 reason advanced for the rise in tlife price of buttermilk. Until the Danubian principle of drinking sour milk to ward otT old age became gen , eral and the dietetic values of but termilk were recognized buttermilk was fed to the pigs or thrown uwav. Now there is a demand for it and one man had the gall to explain an advance of two 1 cents in the price per quart by saying, "It costs more to produce."' The remark of the farmer at the Verbeke street mar ket who explained his boosts in price for everything by saying that "railroaders are making money" seems to be a sister to other remarks heard. • • • Pennsylvania is face to facer with a shortage of chicken this year, ac cording to reports which have been reaching the Department of Agri culture. The high prices asked for turkeys lately seem.to have turned attention to poultry of other kinds and as geese and ducks have also been high tile chicken market was • fairly raided with the result that it showed a smaller chicken population in the barnyards of the state than known for a long time and that ow ing to the high price of feed many poultry raisers had "unloaded" their stocks. Similarly many people who have kept chickens in yards at homes have given up the plan and the winter will start with probably a smaller number of fowls than usual on the farms and in the poul try establishments. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Judge Charles B. Witmer, of the Federal Court, used to he the United States Attorney for this dis trict. —Justice J. Hay Brown presided at the Pittsburgh memorial meeting to Justices Potter and Mestrczat. —Judge C. V. Henry, of Lebanon., mentioned for Superior Court, has been called- to preside in many dis tricts of the state. —Judge John B. McPherson, of the United States Circuit Court at Philadelphia, has recovered from his recent Illness. —Judge H. C. Quigley, of the Cen ter county courts, likes to go hunt ing. lie used to be in the National Guard. —Judge.D. V. McPherson, of Get tysburg, is the only Judge wtth two counties which are separated. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel is in ships which arc to be launched next moiith? HISTORIC HAKRISBURG —Conrad Weiser and the Half King held the cqitfcrence her* in 17(14 which kept many Indians oft the warpath,