10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaara E. J. STACKPOLLI President and Editor-inrChief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICH EVER. Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. EOYD M. OGELSBA, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of .H news dispatches credited to it or net otherwise credited in this paper and also the local published herein. A',2 rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American . Newspaper Pcb ' iffij Sqj {Sjjj Cittern office. j Building ____ Chicago, IS!-*"'" Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. " : I If every day tee can feel, if only j for a moment, the elation of being j alive, the realization of being cur' best selves, of filling our destined j scope and trend, tee may he sure that ( •<: arc succeeding. —Bliss Carman, j THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1919 sa . OUR MEMORIAL WHILE Pennsylvania is consid- ; ering a great memorial in the shape of a splendid inonu- ' mental viaduct as a part of the Cap- ' itol Park extension plan, New Jer-; sey is giving attention to the erection j of a mammoth assembly hali as that • State's memorial to its martyred sol- i diets anc* sailors who fell in the j world war. The structure will be; erected on lands adjoining the Cap- j itol at Trenton and the plan pro vides for the financing of the propo- j sition by popular subscription. Harrisburg Is now giving serious j thought, through a committee of the j Chamber of Commerce, to its own' particular memorial and the general; septiment seems to favor a building, or other structure which will com- : line utility with th memorial fea- j turc. Come on, January, with your brisk days, and make the flu fly. ALL CABLES RADIATE FOND parent, even the wires have their limitations. That is [ one answer to the thousands of inquiries which are pouring into Washington from parents, relatives : and sweethearts of the lads "Over There" as to why they are unable to get any information concerning their boys within anything like a reasonable time; in some instances not at all, and in others receiving false news. Ever since the good ship George Washington heaved anchor, and pointed her nose Brest ward with her load of human freight, and some not so human, the trans-Atlantic cables have been swollen like German sausages, and the wireless has sputtered like a convention of hare-lipped Socialists with everything down to the minut est concerning the President, Mrs. Wilson,, the prolific Boiling family, the 150 college professors, the Creel minstrels and the two brass bands, the royal florist, and the imperial chef and his twenty four culinary assistants, who are making the Grand Tour a magnifi cent exhibition of American .democ racy in full and opulent bloom. No sooner had the vessel gotten out of sight of land than the public was informed of the President's slight cold. On passing the place where the Lusltania was sunk, which, by the way, must have meant a detour of several hundred miles, we were told that the Presi dent raised his hat and sent a silent prayer heavenward, which was the correct direction, of course, but we could not help recalling, on reading that Important item of news, that one week after the sinking of the Lusitania ho declared Americans to be "too proud to fight." On the Monday following the President's arrival in France, the cables conveyed to us the following Interesting bits of Information: "That his bed is of mahogany, bound with brass, and shaped like a gondola; that he chose a church of his own denomination; that he Joined vigorously in the singing; that he wore black morning coat, gray trousers and a high hat; that 1 he did not take a seat in the first row of pews, but sat in the eighth row; that he paid great attention to the preacher's discourse; that he wore the same air of serenity as on his arrival, that he felt at home. At Brest "the women wept open ly" at his approach. The palace of Prince Murat, in Paris, where the President sojourns, was described THURSDAY EVENING from collar to gable, and the tact that the bedroom occupied by Mr. Wilson contained four pictures of Napoleon, and a silver crucifix hung over his bed was dutifully recorded —by cable. Mrs. Wilson's gowns and millinery have been pictur esquely described —by cable, and faithful attention has been given to weather conditions, the cuisine, so ciety, golfing, motoring, etc. If the temperature of the Presi dent's morning bath, or the color of his nightie have been omitted it was j through oversight, and we may de j pend upon receiving that informa | tlon when the monopolization of the ! cables has become absolutely com | plete. All this Information, of I course, has come as a sort of gar nnlsh to the more solid assertions that everyone Is in absolute accord with Mr. Wilson in everything he utters, or may henceforth utter, London and Paris papers to the con- I trary notwithstanding. Sometimes, i however, the wires evidently get crossed, and wo receive state ments conflicting like these two: "The President expressed warmest sympathy with Italy's aspirations," and "Mr. Wilson did not know what Italy should receive, but that he in tended to support action that would be Just." As stated at the outset, the wires have their limitations. In more than one Instance since the junket began the press has carried as much ns two or more pages of creelo grams on matters pertinent and im- j pertinent respecting the Trip Tri umphal. The hope deferred by the business of king-making which j maketh the heart sick is one of the ! penalties which parents, wives and sweethearts must pay to the Democ racy wo witness to-day. But, let It "strut its uneasy hour," to quote its chief exponent. The Republic will be restored In 1920. I Germans must now salute Yankee j officers, according to orders issued yesterday, and if we had our way ! they'd walk bareheaded in the pres ! ence of American privates, too. TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT THR New York 'World, together with several other newspapers with liquor leanings, is trying to drag the returning American sol diers into the arena to fight the los ing battle of runt. The World pro fesses to believe that our men com ing back from France will be strong ly opposed to national prohibition, on the ground that they have seen in France that liquor as the French use it is not injurious and is better than total prohibition. The World should know better. Poison in any quantity is injurious, and alcohol is a poison. The French are a great people, not because of their drinking habits, but in spite of them, and they would be the better ( for total abstinence. But beyond that, the American boys will return ,from France as they went away— some favoring prohibition, others op posed to it, and still others luke warm in either direction. Six months abroad will not greatly change their opinions on the subject. But they will know, one and all, that they are better men for their own abstinence, and that isn't going to injure- the prohibition cause very much. The President is a diplomat, we'll have to admit that. He is going to visit while in Rome the King, the Vatican and the Methodist College. KEEP GOING AHEAD SINCE city officials have deter- j mined to collect ashes under a municipal system they should determine upon real Inspection and real service. The people will no long er be patient with war excuses of in efficiency anywhere in the city's ad ministration. So long as war conditions prevail ed the people were inclined to he patient and to overlook many things that under ordinary conditions would have invoked widespread complaint. Now that the war has ceased we are getting back to earth again and the taxpayers who are contributing more larely than ever before for the conduct? of the city's business will in sist upon getting a return for their investment. Boosting of salaries is all very well if the salaries are earned and the services rendered, but the people are not going to be satisfied with com pensation without adequate service. They have a right to expect efficiency and it is the duty of every official to see to it that in all branches of mu nicipal activity results commensurate with the outlay of nearly a million dollars annually ure achieved. In passing, it may be observed that a system of ash collection which would mean the planting of ash cans and garbage receptacles along the curb line will not commend any scheme of municipal collection. This good old town is on the map to stay and no indifference to detail can long continue without public protest. Mayor Keister, very properly, in his address at the formal opening of the Penn-Harris Hotel, dwelt with pride upen the various stages of the city's • .evelopment and improvement, and it is Important that the record of past achievement bo not blurred by failure in any respect to maintain the reputation which tho city has ob tained for progress and scientific ad vance. "Government a loser In operating the railroads." says the Democratic Phila delphia Record, which means, of course, the taxpayers are also all losers. Ordinarily we shrink from a cold wave, but after the past few days It will be welcome If it only brings blue skies. Ck By the Ex-Committeeman I Health insurance, especially for workers in industrial and manufac turing plants, will be one of the chief sociological problems to be consid ered by the next Legislature, and in order that the matter may be forci bly presented to the members of the Senate and House Governor-Elect William C. Sproul will be asked to include a recommendation for such legislation- when he presents his pro gram to the General Assembly. The last session of the Legisla ture appointed a commission to study the question. The commis sion is composed of Senator E. E. Beidleman, now Licutenant-Gover norelect; Senator Charles W. Sones, Senator John 11. Weaver and Repre sentatives William T. Ramsey, of Delaware county; John M. Flynn, of Elk county, and Jsadore Stern, of Philadelphia. Mr. Stern expects to present the matter to Mr. Sproul at an early date and will then place before the Governor-elect a mass of data and statistics bearing upon health in surance as practiced abroad, which the commission has gathered since adjournment of the last Legisla ture. The success of the workmen's compensation act and other hu manitarian acts has convinced manu facturing interests that health in surance has virtually become an eco nomic necessity. It is known thut Governor-elect Sproul has a lively interest in the subject, not alone from the point of view of a public official, but as a progressive busi nessman as well. Therefore, it is felt he will give the question close study, and advocates of the propos ed legislation feel assured lie will take affirmative action upon their request that he recommend to the Legislature its earnest considera tion. —The Philadelphia Record, Dem ocratic, endorses Senator Penrose's stand for election reforms in the following editorial: "Senator Penrose was quoted the other day as saying that the most important duty of the Pennsylva nia Legislature which meets next week, is to reform the election laws of this state. "There can be no question that this is so. It will serve no good purpose for our reformer friends to revise the charter of Philadelphia and permit the present election laws to remain as they are. We have had too many fool election laws im posed upon us by fool reformers. What is needed is radical revision that will make it possible for every person who ought to have the right to vote to exercise that right as free ly as possible, and assurance that his vote will be counted as he means it to be counted. "There should at the same time be such changes in the statutes as will make it certain that any man guiltv of election fraud shall be sent to jail for a term that tits the crime. Judges should be given no right to impose a sentence that suits the personal view of the judge. Any man guilty of an offensive interfering with the honest casting and count ing of the ballot of a person who has a right to vote should be sent to Jail, with no prospects of pardon until he has served a term that fits the crime. The Legislature should not permit the trial judge any discretion in the matter." Says the Philadelphia Record: "A short but busy session of the Penn sylvania Legislature which convenes next Tuesday at Harrisburg is look ed for bv members and party lead ers as well. The volume of pro posed legislation is not so large as usual, but the matters to be con sidered is regarded as of more than ordinary interest to the people." —Attorneys Hugh B. Andrews, William B. Landis and John R. M il son are seeking the solicitorship for the compensation reference in the Scranton district. Attorney H. C. Hubler held the position until he entered the Y. M. C. A. service in France. Mr. Andrews took up the work after Mr. Hubler left. —Arthur Davis, director of pub lic safety, and Charles P. Savage will likely contest for the Republican nomination for county controller of Lackawanna county next year. Mr. Savage . has been attached to the county controller's office for twenty vears. Arthur Davis is a son of the iate W. W. Davis, a member of the first City Council of five. When Mayor Alex. T. Connell assumed of fice, Mr. Davis was made director of public safety, but resigned to devote his time to his private business. And They'll Be Back is. Y. Evening Telegram) Some of our troops are now home from Rusfia, where they assisted the Allies in stemming the rising tide of Bolshevism. "And those Bolshcviki are the cheapest cooties in the world," said Private Ernest M. Walker, of Manistique, Mich., on the White pier soon af ter the Baltic docked. "Some times when we took pity on them and tried to treat them decently they'd watch their chanco and try to get even by cutting the bellies of American, English and I rench boys who were sleep'ng beside them." "And what happened then?" "What happened? Well, we were a long way from London, Paris and especially Washington. We dealt with the d'rty devils with out waiting for anybody to tell u.i the rules. Get me? When tilings like thai happened we first told them they were swine and then acted accordingly. And if any one back home here doesn't like it they can lump it. Get me?" Further, the Bolshevists were all officered by Germans. And these are the fellows, both Bolshevists and Germans, we are cater ng to here! "Incidentally," says the Indian apolis N<sw, "the millionaire's son and the garbage collector's boy who have hunted Boches together are go ing to have some things in common when they return." Thank Gpd! Explaining a Missouri Failure [From the Paris Appeal] An Interested crowd watched a chimney sweep try to climb the flag pqle on the dome of the Monrpe county courthouse to put the cable back on the pulley and earn *lO. lie made several attempts but finally, gave up. He was too old, his legs too stiff and his feet too big. the staff too fragile and the distance to the top too great. . . ,W • • % . ' ' A ' * PtARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WHAT DOES A MAN THINK ABOUT THE MORNING OF JANUARY IST? ... ... happv HAOW) -/^ S vi..) 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The fortunate circumstance of the location of Camp Funston "just a ss the way" from the Kansas Codege, makes it possible for the cafnp and the college to enter into such a plan and demonstrate its practicability. in fact, it is the application of the idea of universal military training to present camp life. It combines the college education and the inten sive short course in special sub jects, with the physical and military training. The plan agreed upon by General Wood and President Jardine gives the soldier his choice of professions. If he wants to go to the farm, if he wants to bocotne a truck gardener, if he desires to be a dairyman or a producer of poultry, or if he wants to locate on a fruit farm, or become a farm manager—he will be permitted to begin to prepare himself for the profession while he is in the army camp. The same is true if the soldier con cludes that he wants to live in the city and have a trade. The college will equip him as a motor mechanic, a truck driver, a blacksmith, a car penter, an electrician, a radio opera tor, a draughtsman, a foundryman or a machinist. If the soldier's term of enlistment is a- short one—there is the short course mapped out for him. He can take the eight-week course which will give him a start in any one of the trades. If his term of enlist ment is a long one, he can take the regular college course, while he is receiving the army camp training. General Wood and President Jar dine are to be felicitated upon the working out of the plan and the put ting it into practical effect. It might have been expected, however, that such a progressive idea would origi nate in the minds of such a soldier as General Wood and such an edu cator as Doctor Jardine, not to men tion the fact of its happening in such a state as Kansas. The Wonderful Year (New York Times) The extirpation of military autoc racy and the awakening of the in ternational conscience were the great events of the year 1918. It was a wonderfu/ year in the annals of human progress, not merely be cause the nations fighting for justice and freedom overcame a powerful foe, not alone because they destroy ed an evil, the source of unnumbered woes to mankind, but because con currently all the work awoko to the consciousness that the thing it had tolerated from the dawn of history, the control by one or a few of the destinies of the many, was in truth an evil, a wrong, and must for all time be ended. With us here in America it is no new story, it is a foundation principle, but history will date from the year 1918 the worldwide acceptance of the prin ciple trfat government must rest up on the consent of the governed. That, in a word, is what the nations' have accomplished in thwarting Germany's attempt to extend her rule over unconsenting people. All the world now sees that she at tempted a monstrous' wrong; and all the world is resolved that any nation that in future attempts to perpetrate shell a wrong shall be treated as a malefactor and put down. LABOR NOTES Several manufacturers producing aeroplane motors In Great Britain will hereafter make engines for motorcars. Another British concern which has been making shells will now turn out shoe machinery. Nearly 30.000 women registered with the Bridgeport (Conn.) office of the Employment Service recently, when It Inaugurated a lively campaign to enlist women for Industrial employ ment. Millions of workers employed in the iron industry in Germany are now out of employment, due to the fact that the industry has always depend ed upon Alsace-Lorraine for its raw product. , Los Angeles shipworkers recently constructed a twelve-room- school building, in which workers will re ceive instruction as shipwrights, ship fitters. welders and molders in Juut twelve hours. Stealing Apples In No Man's Land THE following story is told by Lieut. Dick Phillips of Yates Center, Kas., formerly at tached to the 13"tli Infantry In France, and now on duty at Camp Funston. "My platoon held a section of front line trench that was several hundred yards distant from 'Jerry.' About midway between the two lines stood three big apple trees. 1 could see the apples hanging on those trees, and I kept thinking how good the Winesaps and Jonathans had tasted back in the good old days in Kansas. So one night, after it had become thoroughly dark and after 1 had inspected my section of trench, I decided I'd just have to get a bite out of one of those apples. "I crawled out into No Man's Land and made my way to the trees. Care fully and, as I thought, nolsdlessly, I picked several apples and made my way back successfully. "The next night a couple of my sergeants, having the same Kansas born hunger for apples, made the same trip, and the following night two or three of the fellows repeated. GERMAN REDNESS [New York Tribune] What happened in Russia, in the dramatic phrase of Georg Brandes, was that on being delivered from Czarism the proletariat snatched the executioner's idle axe. Will that happen in Germany? Nobody knows. The power of prophesy is bankrupt in the world. Anything may happen anywhere. And yet, just as one learns in every day life to accept appearances pro visionally so one will distrust the parallelism between Russia and. Ger many. It may be real. It may be that the Germans, with their genius for complete and elaborate detail in place of originality, will show us something frightfully efficient In the way of Bolshevism. But the possibil ity seems too theatrical and obvious. We are obliged, at least, to con sider the dissimilarities. It is very easy to be deceived by names. Bol shevism in Germany may be, like Bolshevism in Russia, not in fact but in spelling. Our own preference is to believe this to be the case, and the basis for that opinion is the com mon knowledge of the differences be tween Russia and Germany. These are differences both of degree and of kind. The German people are, in the first place, much more political than the Russian people. Secondly, they are more industrial. Thirdly, they have a much larger equipment of rational knowledge and economic experience. If these facts have any meaning whatever it follows that the German people, as a whole, have a much greater capacity for self-government than the Russian people and know their economics too well to enact the childish tragedy of killing the goose to get the eggs. One cannot imaine it—unless, ot course, there is, indeed, a fate that decroes poetic justico. In that case Germany may have been mad for the high purpose of self-destruction. Bar ring that one romantic possibility, we incline to think that Bolshevism in Germany will turn out to be very unlike a thing of the same name in Russia —or that in so far as it turns out to be the same thing it will bo overwhelmed in Germany. Was Once "Waste Land" [From the Wall Street Journal] In the office of George F. Baker, in the First National Bank of New York City, there hangs on the wall the original patent from James 11, King of England, dated February 4, 1685, for the land on which the First National Bank now stands, therein designated us "wasto land" outside the city gate of New York. It was is sued to one Thomas Dougan, "late Governor and-now admiral of New York." There is attached a small sketch of the property, showing Wall street with its fence, and the city gate, through which leads "Broad Way." When one considers that this "waste land' now represents one of the most valuable spots in the world one realizes what changes a little more than two centuries hove wrought in New York City. What would Thomas Dougan have said if he had been told that on this "waste land" would one day stand a banking institution returning Its stockholders over eighty per cent a year'! Those apples weren't like the Kansas variety, but at that they tasted pretty good to the boys after trench rations. For some reason the next night nobody went apple picking. Alpng about 9 o'clock, the time we'd us ually slipped, out to the little or chard, there came the 'Bang! Bang!' of high explosive slie'ls. 1 thought Jerry was shelling one of my com mand posts and I ran out of my dugout to investigate, but the shells hadn't landed in the trench at all. We were considerably mystitied, and couldn't figure out what sort of trick the Boche gunners were up to. "But when morning came we saw. Where those apple trees had stood was just one big hole. The Germans had fairly obliterated that little orchard. How they knew of our apple picking trips I don't know. Perhaps they noticed that the ap ples were missing; perhaps their listening posts had detected a noise when we were out there; maybe they did it just out of pure cussed ness. "Anyway, we got the best of those apples before 'Jerry' got wise." Where the Pope Stands [New York Times.] How chimerical are the Austrian hopes of enlisting: the pope's aid in behalf of the ex-kaiser who lingers anxiously over the border may be seen from his Holiness' address to the members of the Sacred College. He said that he would do all in his power to facilitate "acquiescence in the decisions of the peace congress, in order to Insure a just and dura ble peace." Whatever is uncertain about the decisions of the peace con gress. nothing is uncertain about its determination not to restore to a lirone either the kaiser who waits at Eckartsau or the kaiser who I waits in Holland. The pope also said he hoped his work henceforth "might be an echo of the decisions of the peace con ference." The whole tenor of what is reported of his words is that he intends to work for the erection of a permanent peace, and not lend himself to any plans to restore the state of things which made this war not only possible but sure to come. This is what the allies are seeking for. The pope speaks as does the President. He recognizes, too, the economic questions brought up by the war, and the social issues, by saying that he would labor for "the protection and direction of workers and the counseling of the wealthy classes for the good use of their wealth and authority." Altogether it is a for ward-looking declaration, and it is of very great importance in this time to have so progressive a pope as Benedict XV. Medals For Draft Members (From Philadelphia Inquirer) • Secretary Baker has performed a notable service in asking legislation of Congress which will permit the presentation of a suitable medal to every member of the thousands of draft boards which conducted the "selective service" operations of the government. It has so happened that most of the publicity received by these hard working men has been of an unfor tunate sort. They have been the focus of all kinds of grievances. They have been blamed for what they have done and for what they have failed to do, but any sane view of their labors must be that they labored long and deserve the thanks of the country. Many of these members have worked without compensation. In almost every instance real sacrifices have been made, notably in the case of physicians who at n time when their profession was depleted by members going to war have used much of their time in a service for which they have received tittle or nothing. There have been mistakes. Some members have been guilty of bad practices, but on the whole th's body of men have been unremitting in helpful labors and are deserving of some objective symbol which they may with pride hand down to posterity. The Lord Dispelled Fear • Be not afraid of the King of Baby lon, of whom ye are afraid, 'be not afraid of him. saith the Lord; for I am with you to save you, und to deliver him from your hand. —Jere- miah xlii, 11. • } JANUARY 2, 1919. TRADE BRIEFS England's Minister of Munitions announces he is fixing export prices of pig iron applicable to all exports while extisiing maximum prices for home delivery remain in force. New maximum prices are also being fixed for steel delivery in England from February 1. A Belgian export merchant wishes to represent American manufactur ers of hardware, furniture and up holstering specialties, building requi sites, imitation leather, tin and hol low ware, mining requlsities, nonfer rous metals, copper and galvanized articles, iron and steel, engineering specialities, drugs and chemicals. According to the Chinese customs return, pewter ware to the value of only $1,476 and $1,036 was exported In 1916 and 1917, respectively. How ever, the export is undoubtedly much larger than this. Most of the emi grants to the South Seas carry a few dollars of pewter ware in their baggage. According to the Agricultural De partment of the Argentine govern ment the stock animals in Argentina on October 1, 1918, was as follows: Cattle, 25,866,763; horses, 8,323,815; mules, 565,069;a55e5, 260,157; sheep, 43,225,452; goats, 4,325,280, and hogs, 2,900,585. Swatow Is probably the largest producing center of joss paper in China. Its average annual export amounts to half the total export from ail China. In addition to supplying the local demand the following amounts Were exported: 7.111,333 pounds valued at $1,249,690 in 1916, and 7,023,200 pounds valued at $l,- 071,332 in 1917. About half of the export was sent to Hongkong, Siam, Straits Settlements and the Dutch In dies. The Siameese government Gazette announces the issuance of one tical (37 gold cents) currency notes, two lowest denomination of previous is lowest demonination of previous is sues of paper notes being five tical ($1.85). It is understood that this action has been taken mainly in or der to conserve the country's metallic currency, the coinage of which at the present time is not practicable. Estimates of the olive oil produc tion in Greece for the season just ending place the quantity at 31,702,- 800 gallons, or approximately thirty per cent, more than the output last year. Nearly 3,000,000 pounds of hams, valued at about $355,000 United Htates currency, were exported from China during 1917. England was the principal importer. The foreign commerce of the Phil lippine Islands for the first eight months of 1918 exceeded in value that for any other eight month pe riod in the history of the Philippine trade. Both imports and exports par ticipated in this notable expansion, The total value of imports for the eight months ending August 31, 1918, amounted to $62,154,227, as com pared with $41,539,870 for the first eight months of 1917. The total val ue of the exports for this eight month period was $86,044,902, against $57,322,263 for the corre sponding period of 1917, If Crowder Pays the Soldiers [From the New York Sun] From Washington there comes a report that General Enoch H. Crow der is to be relieved of his duties as Provost Marshal General and assign ed to the task of paying the sol diers. Nobody doubts General Crowder's ability to clean up the mess incom petencei red tape, and' unprepared ness have created in the pay de partment. His record is the guar antee of his efficiency. But is General Crowder the only man in the military establishment who can tackle this Job with fair prospects of success? Is there not under the stars and eagles and other Insignia of the army outside of him, a sufficient amount of genius to dovise and apply a pay sys tem that will not keep soldiers and their families waiting months for the money Uncle Sam owes them? Among ull the men who have Join ed the colors in tho last two years, is there not at least one other with enough capacity for orderly business management to install an accounting practice that will meet the roquire .-oents of tho army? The implication of General Crow der's unofficial nomination for this Job is that he and ho alone can do the work. If this is the case, if it is actually H fact that nobody except General Crowder can pay the sol diers promptly, if the United Statos is utterly dependent on this one in dividual for the administration of Ihe army pay toll, we should be Will about it. lEiipnt tig GMjat Col. Charles Patterson, brother of Andrew S. Patterson, who spent New gear's In Harrisburg, brought back from France with him a very good story illustrating the spirit of the American soldier in the war. Col onel Patterson was on the dock when the torpedoed Mt. Vernon, under command of Captain Dismukes, of Harrtsburg, arrived, and heard this experience of an officer who saw Sen utor I.ewls, a passenger, endeavoring to quell what he took for signs Of panic aboard. r When the torpedo, which tore a hole in the side of the ship and sOnt her down seven feet below normal into the sea, struck the steamer some soldiers aboard were at breakfast. All rushed to their stations and donned lifebelts, as they had been instructed. One big Yank was plainly disturbed. He made two or three false starts back toward the cabin and seenied very ill at ease as com pared with the nonchalance of his companions. I.ewis thought the man was panic-stricken. Approaching him quietly he said: "There, there, comrade, the ship is all right. Don't be alarmed, the cap tain says we are not going to stnk. He calnn" "Sink, tho dickens! Calm, thun der!" yelled the Yank. "I'm not afraid of sinking, but why did that blasted Hun send his old torpedo along before I got my serving of pineapple?" "Under private management we i used to get our oranges through from Jacksonville in four days," said a man to-day who is accustomed to have friends in Florida send him an occasional box of the fruit. "Now, with the government in charge, it takes nearly three weeks. For ex ample, X had expresed pro-paid to me more than a week before Christ mas a box of oranges and grapefruit for the holidays. It turned up yester day. Where it was loafling in the meantime Uncle Sam may know, but he hasn't toid. Jf that is a sample of government ownership me for the good old days when express com panies were looked upon as private monopolies." A certain clerk in one of the coun ty offices in the courthouse is in the habit of taking his watch from his pocket and laying it on the desk. During the day he walks away and forgets to put the timepiece in his*, pocket again. Fellow clerks warned him, but it was no use, and ono day— the watch disappeared An exciting half hour followed and the clerk wasn't sure whether the watch had actually been stolen, or whether he was the victim of a .iakc. ho mail carrier happened in a few minutes later with a small box, addrosed to the owner of the watch, and when he opened it. he found his timepiece. Quite a few friends were present when the package was opened, other wise the clerk probably would have believed he had forgotten to takes the watch with him when he left home and that his wife sent it to him by mail. W. R. Zimmerman, Assistant County School Superintendent, wasn't worried about the sugar restrictions which the Food Administration en forced during the war. Every time a new order came along Professor Zimmerman took a trip to the moun tains for a day and at night came home with a fine lot of honey. Dur ing the summer and fall months he located a number of bees and brought home many pounds of honey. His largest find was in Oc tober when he cut a bee and got seventy-five pounds of honey. Ho has located others which he is plan ning to cut in the early spring. At his home he has a number of hives filled with bees and during the com ing summer expects to have a good, supply of honey without doing any mountain climbing to get it as tho bees which he cut were located in the hills in this county. One of the busiest men in town this week was S. E. Weber, of Seranton, president of the Pennsyl vania State Educational Association. He had on his shoulders all of the complicated details of the arrange ments for the big convention and Its many branch meetings. But he never slipped a single cog and at the con clusion of the meeting last evening was heartily congratulated by friends who knew at what pains he had been at to make the gathering the success it has been. He was one of the first men to register at the new Penn- Harris and made his headquarters there during the week. A man in front of the Penn-Harris created some little interest Tuesday, lie kept pointing away up toward one of the top floors. "What's the matter?" asked the curious bystander. "Matter enough," was the response. I can't locate the sixteenth floor. "Aw, get out, you're kidding," was the reply. "Deed I'm not," said he. "I guess I rented the sixteenth floor at $16,- 000 a year, didn't I?". "And before that I used to live out in the country in a nice big hotel." "Oh," said the bystanders in chorus, pointing to their foreheads, and the group dispersed leaving the $16,000 gentleman still meditating on whe*e to find the sixteenth floor in a ten-story building. An International Banner (From Boston Transcript) It is rather an odd idea to regard the blue and white flag of the allied martlme council as the banner of the Dengue of Nations already in exist ence. This ensign with the central horizontal band of blue .between bands of white—seeming to symbol ize the blue sky of hope gleaming between the snow-covered mountains of defense of Europe and America— may Indeed become an international banner of the greatest consequence and honor, but it is the flag of the victorious Entente and nothing else. It is the ensign of the league which has humbled another league, and that is all there is about It. , It is the flag of a league of a part of the nations, not of the whole. But Just now, and for some time to come, it is a part which is greater than the whole. Burglar's Sense of Humor [From the Steubenville Gazette] Ernest Thomberro, fleeing from a man who accused him of theft, climbed to th roof of a building where ho tripped and fell through a skylight, landing on a counter in a store three floors below. The first thing he made out after the fall was this sign. "Everything on this counter , five cents." "jjee," lie said to the alarmed shoppers, "I've never felt so cheap in | tail-lite"" „ . I
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