10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. NEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph BalUlns, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief ■F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor AR. UICHENER, Circulation Manager Execatlve Board I. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press— The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thi3 fiaper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American PI Newspaper Pub /kr miM lishers' Associa f"-,-rfa tion, the Audit JsigggESSft Bureau of Circu ital aHMPPrIt™ lation and Penn- sylvania Associa ggj g Egg ated Dailies. Hi £ fifll DC Eastern office Wfi 3 BSI fl Stury. Brooks & Western office! -KJIHPb! Story, Brooks A Gas Building " Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a yoi week: by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1919 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the com munion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. —//. Cor. 13:14. GOOD SUGGESTION DR. C. E.. L. KEEN'S sugges tion to the School Board that a school house site be procured In the vicinity of Paxtang should have more than passing attention. As he said, it is only a question of a very short time until Pax tang comes into the city. The dividing line between the two already is in distinguishable and development is so rapid there that it will not be long before there will be no space left sufficient for a school house without the tearing away of houses that are badly needed as dwellings. It is also true that valuations will be much higher when the Time comes for a city school house there than they are now. The same ap plies to the new Fourteenth ward. Had the directors of years past shown as much forethought as the present board is displaying in its consideration of outlying tracts for school purposes we should not now be facing grave difficulties in find ing locations for buildings. A CELESTIAL % EXAMPLE LET those who object to the stringent provisions of the Pennsylvania anti-sedition law get down their dusty copy of Milton and read those sections of "Paradise Lost," having to do with the revolt in Heaven. "Order Is Heaven's first law." we are told, and when Lucifer started to overturn the government and place disorder over order he was thrown out of the place bodily and assigned to a region where his ideas would not conflict with the happiness and harmony of those who who desired to live in peace. Lucifer was the original Bolshevist, and while Pennsylvania is not quite Heaven, still what is good enough for Heaven ought to be good enough for us. THE CHAMBER'S WORK WHAT is the Chamber of Com-' merce doing for Harrisburg? It might better be asked, what is not Hv big and useful or ganization doing for the City? Only those who are in direct touch with the central organization can have any proper understanding of the many important things which the Chamber has done and is doing for Harrisburg. Many of its achievements are of a character which do not attract general atten tion, but are nevertheless importUnt in their relation to the progress of the community. Recently the publicity committee of the Chamber arranged for the plac ing of Harrisburg sign-boards along all the important highways leading to this city. These not only ad vertise Harrisburg, but prove a matter of great convenience for the motoring public. It is a fact that the city has not been properly look ed after in this respect heretofore and to the Chamber of Commerce must be given credit for supplying th ncec But this is only one of the scores and hundreds of things of a prac tical nature which are being done without blare of trumpets or rat tling of drums by the business or ganization. It is the center and hub of the concrete public spirit of the city and represents in its member ship the co-operation of men who are devoted to the upbuilding of the community and the safeguarding of its welfare. It must not be forgotten that an other asset developed by this im portant organization is the public spirit of the people through the good fellowship functions that are an essential part of the activities of THURSDAY EVENING. the Chamber ol Commerce. In these occasional get-together meet ings the live wires of the community ! learn to know each other and I through the touching of elbows be i come better acquainted, and as a ; result contribute their efforts to the ! advancement of many public move j ments designed to help the city and make it a better place in which to i dwell and do business. , Far from being a selfish and self | centered organization, the Chamber ] of Commerce is primarily an asso ' ciation for service and it should ! have within its membership every man who loves his city and wants j to help in its material and esthetic | development. "HIS EXCELLENCY" THE New York World takes ex ■ ception to the title, "His Ex i cellency," which the French ! has applied to President Wilson. It's ! not democratic, says the World, j "The head of the United States," ! continues that newspaper, "has no I title but 'the President' and is never even addressed but as 'Mr. Presi dent.' " All very true, but the French have the best of the argu ment at that. "His Excellency" is a ! mild enough title for an official who has assumed, so many autocratic 1 powers as has Mr. Wilson. Indeed, it is amazing that the discerning French people, quick to sense the fitness of things and to apply them in terms of speech, did not pay their compliments to the President in some such title as "Your August Highness." or "Your Imperial Majesty." The French have seen the Presi dent hobnobbing with royalty, re ceiving like a king and issuing mandates and ukases with all the air of an imperial potentate of the old school. How amazed they would be if they should read some of his writings as a private citizen and then compare them with his actions as a public official. Take for example what he himself, as a college pro fessor at Princeton, wrote concern ing the assumption of despotic pow ers by a President of the United States, years before he began to en tertain the presidential bee. In one of his lectures, deprecating what he described as unwarranted substitu tion of individual will for that of the people, he wrote: Such things are not only deeply immoral, they are destructive of the understandings of constitu tional government, and, therefore, of constitutional government it self. They are sure, moreover, in a country of free public opinion, to bring their own punishment, to destroy both the fame and the power of the man who dares to practice them. * • • Nothing in a system like ours can be constitutional which is immoral or which touches the good faith of those who have sworn to obey the fundamental law. The repro bation of all good men will al ways overwhelm such influences with shame and failure. What a difference of viewppint a few years and changed conditions have made. Here we have this most democratic of authors becoming the most autocratic of Presidents, and forecasting in advance his own fate. Wonder is not that the French gave him the title of "Excel lency," but that they stopped there. A PUBLIC MEMORIAL PHILLIP S. MOVER, county Solicitor, speaking at Shells ville's welcome home celebra tion the other evening, advanced the idea that the proposed joint court house and city hall be dedicated to the memory of Dauphin county sol diers, sailors and marines who served in the war with German. It is a fine idea. We have passed the place where great deeds and noble sacrifices are memorialized in gran ite shafts or bronze statuary. Util ity, as well as beauty and dignity, is demanded of any public me morial. As Mr. Moyer said in his address, the State has decided to build a great viaduct to the memory of Pennsylvania soldiers, and such a building as the county proposes to erect might well be made a me morial to the Dauphin county boys who gave such good account of themselves in the service. As the State will do in the pylons of the bridge, the county might copy in the tower or halls of the court house, placing therein the name of every Dauphin county man who wore his country's uniform during the great struggle. It is to be hoped the authorities will think well of this suggestion. LET'S CELEBRATE LET'S celebrate like real, honest to-goodness Americans this Fourth of July. Let's have a "real, old-fashioned Fourth." Surely the eagle is entitled to scream. Surely we are justified in our pride of nationality. Surely we may be excused if we grow a bit boastful. Our fathers were not so far wrong when they used to declare that "America can lick all creation." To be an Americans Is greater than to be a king. To be an Amer ican is to be the most favored in dividual in the world. We are the richest, most prosper ous and most peaceful nation on earth. Yet we throw all our wealth, our love of quiet home-life and our desire for peace to the winds when the flag calls, and in a few months, comparatively, we come marching victoriously home from a field upon which a powerful foe has bowed his I knee to our prowess. The war is won, Germany is beaten, humanity is saved, and America was the deciding factor. Surely we are entitled to a cele bration. Let's make it a day of re joicing and Jollification. [""pO&Uc* CK T > e*,KOi|toa)ua By the Ex-Committeeman It is becoming very evident that j the preliminaries to the quadrennial ' struggle for control of the Demo cratic machine in Pennsylvania are not only going to be fought out this year at the primary election for nomination of Democatlc candi dates for county and municipal of ficers throughout the State, but they are going to be waged with a vigor that should make them vastly enter taining. Already some signs have been seen which indicate that the Paliner-McCormick-Guffey machine is to be bucked in a score of coun ties, some of them counties where it was thought that the reorganiza tion element had entrenched itself by judicious selection of Federal ap pointees, while in others it looks as though the reorganization element was going to "lay down" as it did here a few days ago when the Old Guard elected the city and county Democratic chairmen. The scouts sent out through the State to inspect the wrecks of the machines in various counties have not found much encouragement and the division of the Democrats over the liquor question which cropped out so strongly last year has been more or less intensified by the wan derings of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in his official course at Washington. In several counties only postmasters and a few of the Democrats who stand by the' State organization no matter who he may be, have been found left of the ma chine run by A. Mitchell Palmer, Vance C. McCormick, Joseph F. Guffey and other bosses until the call of Federal jobs fell upon their ears. Attempts to rehabilitate the organizations have not been success ful in several counties and in others, Berks and Northampton, for in stance, the visits of the machine scouts have operated to bring out declarations of war. A good many rivalries will be fought out at the primary polls this year and the uncertainty that exists is one of the reasons why the presi dential boom of A. Mitchell Palmer is not being so conspicuously dis played now as it was a short time ago. —Another interesting Democratic development is that W. W. Roper, the old Princeton football star, who had some experience with the Dem ocratic machine during his brief tenure of the place of appraiser at Philadelphia, is out as a candidate for council in Philadelphia under the new charter. He has not an nounced whether he will run as a Democratic candidate or as an in dependent Republican. However, he makes the illuminating statement that he thinks it is time for the citizens to step in and make the politicians go out. Until he got tangled up with Palmer-McCormick- Morris politics. Roper was a very ardent Democratic reorganizer. —Congressman Arthur G. De- Walt, of Allentown, who trimmed the Democratic machine so thor oughly at the last congressional pri mary, is said to be seriously consid ering being a candidate for the new Lehigh judgeship on a nonpartisan ticket. Democratic State Chairman L. H. Rupp, who also lives in Allen town where DeWalt's faction has beaten him regularly, is also said to have a judicial bee. Senator H. W. Schantz and ex-Representative Claude T. Reno have been spoken of from time to time. —ln Luzerne county they are look ing for Major George S. McLean, the Democratic State chairman until a short time after the war got under way, to become a candidate for judge against Judge John M. Gar man. That would make a straight out Democratic fight and decide how Luzerne would line up when the fight comes for control of the State machine next fall. —Another thing which is going to m'litate against the continuance of the control of the Palmer-McCor mick group is the sorry showing made in the Legislature which has just adjourned. There were chances for a united Democracy, such as has been frequently proclaimed in this city, to have made at least a bid for public notice, but a number of the Democrats voted against suf frage when Palmer sent letters here urging its support. —Naming of a judge to fill the vacancy on the Orphans' Court bench of Allegheny county will take place within a short time, it is ex pected. Allegheny county attorneys have submitted the names of several men, some of them among the emi nent members of the county's bar. —The Philadelphia Bulletin ex presses the opinion that the pro posed investigation at the Eastern penitentiary will not do Warden "Bob" McKenty any harm, but will likely do Cherry Hill some good. The Bulletin also remarks that there have been a number of investiga tions of one kind or another at the place. —One of the first of the bond issues to be put out by counties to help give the State a fine system of roads in conjunction with the High way Department is now being offered in Philadelphia. It is of the McKean county bonds issued at 5 per cent. Others will come along gradually. —Col. C. M. Berntheizer, district attorney of Lancaster county, will likely be a candidate for election for another term, as he was in France a good part of his term and in Mex ican border service much of the rest. —Judge J. Willis Martin, of Phil adelphia, has declined to serve as chairman of the committee to se lect a candidate for mayor on be half of the independents in that city. The Judge seems to have been selected as chairman without know ing much about it. The committee was announced after a dinner of thirty and among the committeemen to select the man to buck the Vare candidate are Powell Evans, Alex ander DeHaven and Thomas Rae hurn White, all more or less known here in conjunction with the charter legislation. Haig on the Links Field Marshal Haig took up golf after he had passed his youth and is by no means a Braid or a Quimet at that game. After playing a round at Bt. Andrew's. Scotland, recently, •he former commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary force told a story about a caddie watching his play for a while, and then remark ing to .another caddie, "He was a better general." TT A PBTfIRTTTtn TELEGICXP3 WONDER WHAT SOME HEAD WAITERS THINK ABOUT .... 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COURSE, FOR MY SHOW IMO BIDDING EXPRESSION- FIRST NAME IT HURTS TO SMILE BUT THEM EXTRA ATTENTION IT MIGHT PAY ME OH NO.NO - MN' Declaration of Independence IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 IIJHEN', ID the course of human events, It becomes ™ necessary for one people to dissolve the political bunds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the sep arate and ?qual station to 'which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separa tion. We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and or ganizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Trudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accus tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usur pations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient suf ferance of these colonies; and such is now the neces sity which constrains them to alter their former sys tems of government The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated in juries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most whole some and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of Immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspend ed in their operation till his assent should be ob tained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the ac commodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of represen tation in the legislature—a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the de pository of their public records, for the sole pur pose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measure. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused, for a long time after such disso lutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, In the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and con vulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of Justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judi ciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us In times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power. , Hunting Celebrities Booth Tarkington is said to tell with gusto this story concerning himself and the author of "In Se cret," just 'published by George H. Doran Company: "I was strolling around an artists' Red Cross fair when two pretty flappers of six teen or so came up and asked me for my autograph. 'I haven't got a fountain pen,' I said much flattered. •Will pencil do?' 'Yes,' said the other flapper, and go I took out my pencil and signed by name in the Morocco-bound book that she had given me. The flapper studied the signature with a frown. Then he looked up and said; 'Aren't you He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and un acknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: I'or quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; For protecting them, by a mock trial, from pun ishment for any murders which they should com mit on the inhabitants of these States; For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; For imposing taxes on us without our consent; For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences; For abolishing the free system of English laws In a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit in strument for Introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies; For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our governments; For suspending our own legislatures, and declar ing themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection, and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our peopJe. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with cir cumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled In the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken cap tive on the high seas, to bear' arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare Is an undistinguished destruc tion of all ages, sexes, and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have peti tioned for redress in tVi most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by re peated injury. A prince whose character Is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to ex tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kin dred, to disavow these usurpations, which would In evitably Interrupt our connections and correspond ence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, ac quiesce in the necessity which denounces our separa tion, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, In General Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of right ought to be free and in dependent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, nnd that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain Is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that as free and Independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract al liances, establish commerce, and do all other acta nnd things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provl dence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Robert W. Chambers?' 'No,' said I. 'l'm Booth Tarkington.' The flap per turned to her friend with a shrug of disg-ust, 'Lend me your rubber, May,' she said." New Measurement Standard [From the Clarksville Banner-Sen tinel] A. H. Dudley says that last week while he was driving with three other salesmen between Prairie Hill and Moberly they followed a hail storm a mile wide and twenty mileg long which was so severe that the car was hub deep in stones and in the fields they were five to eight Inches deep, stripping , trees of fol iage ruining wheat fields. The hailstones were about the size of a quarter and were piled in ravines two and a half feet. Republican Efficiency Representative Madden, Republi can, of Illinois, points out with pride to the achievement of the Republi can- management in the House of Representatives in disposing of all of the great appropriation bills within one month after Congress convened, und to the further fuct thut the House, instead of tuking a breathing spell ufter completing this task, is plunging into the consid eration of general legislation which the country- U .demanding , JULY 3, 1919.' No Wonder Germany Quit XI'MBER NINETEEN "People often wonder why men got 'shell shocked' during this war and such a thing had never happen ed in any previous war," said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Re cruiting Station, 32 5 Market street, Harrisburg. "The answer is that the ordinary person does not realize the difference in artillery expenditure during the present little fray in Eu rope and the good -old wars of days gone by. During the entire Civil War the Union Army used about five million artillery shells, grape and canister, and such an amount was absolutely unprecedented in the past. The tremendous use of artil lery during that war was one of the reasons why it aroused so much interest among military men all over the world. But then you turn to this present and the difference is quite incredible. For instance, instead of five million artillery shots the French, British and Americans used during the last year of the war to say nothing of the Italians, Bel gians, Portugese, etc. —more than one hundred and sixty-five million shells, or in one year they used thir ty-three times as much as the Union Armies used in four years. During the battle of Gettysburg the Union Army fired 32,781 artillery shots in the three days the battle lasted. "During the St. Mihiel offensive the Boche made a counterattack one afternoon and in five hours they i presented my regiment with about 40,000 shells, in five hours a quar ter more than the whole Union Army used in three days. Now the front covered by the regiment was about one-ninth that of the Union Army at Gettysburg, so at that rate the concentration of tire on us was only something more than one hundred and fifty times as great as the Con federates put up with. Yet an other side of the question is the difference in the force of the ex plosion of the Civil War shell filled with a small amount (half a pound) of black powder and the modern shell with its pounds of T, N. T. or Amatol. "Whoever heard during the Civil War of a man being killed by the concussion of a shell without leav ing a mark on his body, yet that happened frequently during this war. You all know what it is like when a big flash of lightning hits within a square of you. Perhaps once or twice in your life such a thing has happened. That is very much like a shell hitting close to you. Imagine such a flash of light ning and thunder clap every few seconds, hour after hour, day after day, night time just as bad as day time, for four or five days and nights until your relief comes in. It does kind of get on your nerves after awhile; ask any Doughboy. "Here and there you find a man whose nervous system isn't quite up to average or who had the bad luck to have a particularly big shell burst particularly close to him and some thing, some little brain cell, broke and you have a case of 'shell shock.' We. caught it hot and heavy, but we had more guns, more shells and better artillerymen on the Allied side, so the Boche caught it even worse than we did and the 'worse' was so very rapidly getting even so much 'worse' as American guns by the thousand were arriving at the front." t Cardinal Mercier's Memoirs Cardinal Mercier has written his memoirs, and arrangements have now been completed for their publi cation in both serial and book form on both sides of the Atlantic. It is said that a London daily has paid a great price for the right to print portions of the Cardinal's wonder ful story. George H. Doran Com pany will publish the book in America. The date of Cardinal Mercier's visit to this country is not yet def initely fixed, but he is expected to arrive in October. He says, in a recent Interview: "I shall put my self entirely In the hands of Cardinal Gibbons on my arrival, and he will arrange my program. I shall prob ably visit the universities, but I have but one thought, namely, to thank the big. wonderful America for all that she has done for Belgium and Christian civilization, and for the help she has given in food, clothing, etc. Every one knows that the final success was due to the Intervention of the American army. The rapid formation of a complete American army has been a constant cause of admiration and wonder, but I have already said this to many Ameri cans." Abetting Qllfal Walter Shatter, the aviator, la not satisfied with having battled against the Hun for months in France, dur ing which he shot down a number of machines and was hitaself brought down a prisoner behind th German lines, but goes hunting for , A adventure of all sorts right here at home. Nor is he content with bor rowing an Army plane from the Middletown plant occasionally and doing stunts over his home town. The other day ho and his younger advlnln Wi " lam ' somewhat of aa adventurer himself, left their Dau phin home in a canoe bound up Glark's ferry they diacov- . Susm.nh in tho dam across th ® swolpn lhroUKh which the . .u rlver was inning at a t fook Ilk , t i, n,ndC the water below Niagara. B ° of the ra P |ds at Walter said it looked like a fine place for a canoe ride. Brother '"'am looked the situation over, opined that they could steer their small craft between the sunken whin?' \ ! Jagged rocks and the whirlpool in the center and get iefvo r Sa vff Iy " So ' div esting them selves of shirts and shoes, they took the canoe above the dam and set out on their perilous passage. A Party of cottagers at Juniata Bridge, just opposite, tried to persuade tho mCn , not to r,Bk thcir "^B, but the pair just laughed and pro ceeded on their way. As tho canoe the rapids a bl * wave tossed the bough high in the air, b „ ott r Btruck a sna * from thi destroyed section of dam and toro a b,g hole in it. The occupants were thrown into the swirling waters and A in.i T " utcs were !cst to sight. A little later both showed up, hang ing to the overturned canoe and try ing to make shore. The stream was too swift, however, and they didn't B-t out of danger until they reached a grass-patch a mile or more down When they came back for their clothes Walter expressed the opin ion that the trip can be made and t Id tr y "sain when the canoe had been repaired. Harnsburg is undoubtedly waking hv i bathing facilities offered ~ m beautiful Susquehanna ) "ich attracts the eye of the travel- L^. a ( S . he l . CrOSses the brltJ E e and meditates how alluring life in Har risburg must be with such a beauti rul stream at the very door. Hun dreds of canoeists have taken the plunge this year who never used what- facilities we now have. Tho <• hot summer brought out as many as * three hundred canoeists yesterdav, the bulk of them housing their craft at George Riest's boathouses at the.foot of South street. Riest has added another huge craft tjvhis fleet and this is now the sort from which to swim and paddle. One of the oddest sights this year, and one never before seen here, is a launch with airship fixings, the motive power is high up at the stern, thus relieving the weight . v somewhat and the launch draws 1 less than any other now in commis sion. The drowning of four persons last year; the loss of two, only last week, has aroused all persons who * ' patronize this healthy sport to or- ' ganize a life-saving corps. It will be set up at the Riest boats; a pulmotor secured and Mr. Riest be lieves he will have no difficulty in getting a dozen good swimmers to volunteer to make up the corps. The young folk are waiting with bated breath for the city to build the necessary swimming pools which are planned to be erected at Hardscrab ble, In these a great public could be accommodated and it is even sug gested that swimming should be compulsory in school instruction. In behalf of swimming it is said that as a preventative of disease and up builder of the body it stands with out a rival among all the systems devised for the purpose of physical care and perfection. This year promises to make a new era in the number who are enjoying water sports in Harrisburg. The Riest boats will formally open their sea son with an evening "house-cooling" early next week. One large deck will be used for dispensing soft, cold drinks and the open /leek will no doubt be popular on hot nights * • • In the midst of all the long, long stories which the returned veterans are passing out to the willing listen- P<' ers, there are several which have their amusing side. One of the boys tells of a time during the party when prisoners were coming in fairly rapidly. All of a sudden there was a commotion up the road and a struggling mass of uniform, olive drab and field gray-green, came whirling down the road. Near the brigade dugout it resolved itself Into one large Boche noncom, all dressed up in a million shoulder knots, iron crosses, stripes, ribbons, and everything else—and appended &.< to either side of this lovely appari tion were two husky Yank privates, each desperately trying to get the prisoner away from the other. The harassed squarehead looked „ very worried as the struggle continued for his souvenirs, but finally a cap tain appeared from brigade and stopped the souvenir hunters in their wild hunt. And it was two very disappointed bucks who went back to the line complaining bit terly on which "saw him first, '* while a little llason corporal con ducted the beautiful Boche back lo the German pnradlse. A Survival of the Past [From the Altoona Tribune.] > The Harrisburg Telegraph tells of a Philadelphia minister who re- _ cently indulged in a peevish tirade ** against the Boy Scouts, alleging that they are prone to create disturb ances in church and are sometimes absent from religious services' on Sunday, spending the time on camp ing trips. The Telegraph deals very Justly with the survival of a past age. but we shall not repeat its remarks. We venture the tion that the minister who assumesT such an attitude toward a boys' or ganization is a misfit and as unpopu lar among the men and worpen of his congregation as he is with the boys. A live preacher never has any trouble with the real boys of his congregation for the reason thi t he remembers his own boyhood and makes allowance for a boy's spirits. Besides that, he knows all about bov nature and he accommodates him self to it, to the end that he may win the busy young fellows lnste;tof% , of repelling them. It is a great mis- •' fortune when the preacher is a miss anthrope.
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