14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A YSPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGKAPH PRINTING CO, .Telegraph Building, Federal Square —• E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief J". R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor MICHEXER, Circulation Manager I Executive Board i, P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. J<Smbers 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 this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. SfUl rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; "Western office. Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building Chicago, 111. JSntered at the Post Office in Harris , .burg, Pa„ as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a *v"*-La"-' week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1019 Who learns by finding out has seven fold The skill of him who learned by bc \e ing told. . .1 v AFTER NOISE-MAKERS ANOTHER noisemaker has been fined. Mayor Keister is dis posed to exercise his power to suppress the unnecessary noise about which there is general complaint. The most serious is the open cut out of motorcycles, automobiles and ; trucks, and it would seem that the j motorcyclq officers on the police , force should be able easily to appre- j hend the main offenders who have , continued to flout the orders of ; .Mayor Keister and the police depart- j jfrient. A few culprits have been I jfined for violating the cut-out ordi- j qiance, but there has been no ap- | lessening in the noise from ; this cause. Hundreds of witnesses j •fcould willingly rise up on every i street to testify against those who i indifferent to the comfort and i health of the people. A courageous policeman or two on Motorcycles should be able to bring fccut a change in present conditions Within twenty-four hours. *~German dye agents are already said to_.be active in an effort to restablisn their American market and defeat proposed Government control of dye Imports When one studies the Hun i Character as he refuses to admit de- ! feat and seems incredibly stupid with | Inspect to his own unpopularity in this country, there should be no sur prise cr. the trade issue. The dollar hasn't much sentiment, to be sure, I hpt there are some millions of Ameri cans who will refuse to aid the al leged German superman in regaining Wis pre-war stronghold on certain pf our industries. BUOYS AT THE DAM DR. ?. F. HASSLER'S plan to place life buoys above the ~ breast of the river dam as a | warning to canoists is a wise meas ure. Had these bouys been in place & month ago at least two lives might have been saved. The Sus quehanna river basin is going to be come more and more popular as a recreation place for the people of Harrisburg and it must be safe guarded insofar as possible. PROPER ATTITUDE CITY COUNCIL very properly has agreed to take over and care j a for the proposed memorial to harrisburg soldiers, sailors and ma rines which the Chamber of Com wverce committee has recommended b£ placed at State and Thirteenth #t*c-ets. *|This should always be the attitude council. Every utility, every cftjnament, every piece of park land tile city can acquire by gift the Municipal Government should be a*ly too happy to accept and care w". •-'Which brings up the thought that is still lying in a dusty ware house the wonderfully beautiful Muntain given the city by Mr. Her sftey, the chocolate manufacturer, j W'hy not get that out and put it up? <&her cities are bidding for gifts lljte this. ~What kind of encouragement are tfjs offering men who may be thinking of making presents to the (yty—which means, of course, to all the people? FREE TRADE THOSE who have been deluding themselves with the notion that the League of Nations cove nant does not give the League con trol over import tariffs should grasp the full significance of the remark made by the President in his ad dress to Congress, when, in enumer ating the things the Peace Confer ence had accomplished, spoke of "a complete and systematic interna tionalization of waterways and rail ways which were necessary to the free economic life of more than oris nation and to clear many of FRIDAY EVENING, Sabbisburg ' JULY 18, 1919. the normal channels of commerce of I unfair obstructions of law or of privilege." / If any waterways and railways ; are to be internationalized in a way j not existing before, if the economic j life of nations is to be more free I than before, if normal channels of i commerce are to be cleared of ob ! structions of law and privilege, how | can this be accomplished except by | vesting in the league of Nations 1 the power to compel the United | States to admit commerce into its | ports free from the restrictions j heretofore established by law? It I has been the privilege of American ' workmen to have the protection of import tariff laws against ruinous | competition from cheap products ! from abroad. This is the only kind j of law obstructing commerce; this j has been the only privilege Ameri j can labor has enjoyed under laws | which obstruct commerce. President Wilson did not state j explicitly what he meant by the J clearing away of obstructions of law ] or privilege from the channels of ! commerce, but it is impossible to ' imagine any application of his words j other than that they refer to the j same.subject he had in mind when, i in his fourteen points, he demanded j "removal of all economic barriers, i so far as possible." If this is not what he meant by | the words in his address to Congress, 1 he should hasten to state explicitly, I comprehensively and completely what he did mean. | j NOW TO GET BUSY THE State has dealt generously with Harrisburg in its appro priations for Capitol Park extension improvements. Nearly $2,500,000 is at hand for the Memorial Bridge, the first office building and the development of the grounds. Superintendent Templeton announces that he will lose no time in closing up the details. The city is ready and has the money for its part of the work. Now let's get busy. We have been doing pre paratory work for years. At last we arc to see the fruition of our pre liminary effort. The money at hand is ample for the work that can be accomplished during the next two years. A vast amount of drainage, street line changes and grading remains to be done. The erection of the bridge is a gigantic in itself. The new office building is to be so built that it will stand for all time. The State and the city are joining in an enter prise designed to mark the present as a period of great constructive de velopment in the history of Harris burg and of Pennsylvania. What we do now will be a monument to the creative ability of this period. Those in charge of the park improvententsl very properly went about their work 1 slowly and methodically, getting the best adviee obtainable and changing and revising the plans time after time until a model of beauty and utility has been worked out and we are ready to begin the work of mak ing the dream come true. Much of the money to be expend ed will be put into circulation right here in Harrisburg, and hundreds of men will find employment on the bridge, the office building and the grounds. In every way Harrisburg is fortunate and it- has to thank the State for the very generous treat ment it has received. The day work is commenced on the park develop ment proper will witness the begin ning of another great forward move ment for the city, for we ourselves will now turn our attention toward the erection of a new joint city hall and court house, the building of a high school, the enlargement of our general hospital and the construction of a contagious disease hospital, the completion of our park system, the improvement of our housing condi tions and the transformation of whole districts in the campaign now under way for the making of a model city along the lines of public health and sanitation. No city in the coun try is more favored at this moment than Harrisburg. None has a bright er future. Let us get to work. Henry I-'ord knows how to make an automobile, but when he comes to the discussion of theories of Gov ernment his carburetor refuses to work and his cutout suggests more noise than sense. WAR RISK INEFFICIENCY DEMOCRATIC sighs of disgust are becoming more and more frequent over the almost in credible inefficiency exposed in the Bureau of M ar Risk Insurance from day to day. Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, says, "My attention ha 3 been called to some of the most wretched mistakes that it is possible for any human being to make as coming from that bureau." 'Since the organization of that branch of the Government Repub licans in Congress have been calling attention to the absolute lack of effective system that prevails in its offices, but their recommendations for improvement have never been followed. Prtduction and still more produc tion is the answer to the demand for relief in many directions, not or.ly with respect to the high cost of liv ing. but in the output of the industries 1 of. the country, "PotlUc* ix r J > tivivc if ica,yuxx> By the Ex-Committee man If the bitterness being displayed already by Senator Edwin H. Vare and the leaders of his faction in Philadelphia politics against the va rious elements which antagonize him is anything to go by the pre dictions of a tremendous battle for control of the Philadelphia city gov ernment made during the session of the Legislature are well founded. The new registration commission appointed by Governor Sproul and generally accepted as a good body was fairly swamped its soon as it began to meet by the activities of the Vare people who sent in thou sands of names of men to be regis tered. Simultaneously the reform and independent elements started proceedings to strike off names. The situation is that the row in Phila delphia has started earlier than usual and that it is going to be worth watching. During the legislative session it was generally recognized that the registration commission was the key to the whole problem and Senator Roies Penrose paid particular atten tion to the bill. If the contentions of some elements in Philadelphia ar weel founded, there is a chance that many voters names may be stricken off and Vare control of some wards endangered, says the Evening Bulletin, which the Vares started to list names as indicating that they realize they are up against a fight. The ruction has detracted attention from announcements of candidates. I —Third class cities are also very j busy with the municipal contests which have started as a result of the repeal of the nonpartisan law and the general opinion is that the repealer has had a wholesome effect on both Republican and Democratic parties because it stimulated in terest just when the let down due to biennial nonpartisan elections was commencing to have an influence on the party organizations that boded ill for them in State and National election periods. —The York Dispatch says that the repealer gave "a flying start" to things in the city by the Codorus. Discussing the effect of the repealer it remarks on a condition singularly like that in Harrisburg and other cities saying: "The passage and sign ing of this bill has upset the plans of a number of incumbents in city offices as well as some other aspir ing ones on the outside, who, be lieving that the bill would not be come a law, had already entered into combinations with some lead ers and other politicians of both sides, in order to secure their own election and that of the others in ihe combinations. The signing of the bill completes the abandon ment of all such deep-land plans, requiring new arrangements which will quite possibly result in disap pointment of the ambitions of some." —Representative John R. K. Scott one of the most active figures in the Legislature, startled some people in Philadelphia a few days ago by saying that the council section of the new charter was written by "a cheat to keep Philadelphia people out of true councilmanic represen tation." George W. Coles, of the Town Meeting party, says that the fight will be fought out at the pri mary and that who ever wins will be entitled to the victory. —The town of Thornburg, Alle gheny county, had a bond election the other day and the Gazetts-Times says that nineteen of the thirty-one voters took part, authorizing a 330,- 000 loan. —Harry Meyers, treasurer 'of Northampton county, is a candidate for treasurer of Easton. —Prohibitionists in Philadelphia are commencing to sit up and take notice as the Anti-Saloon League has announced that it will hold 200 rallies in Philadelphia alone. The Anti-Saloon League proposes to take the lead in the tight for election of "dry" legislators in 1920. —One of the reasons for condi tions in Philadelphia is the failure of voters to register in opinion of the Inquirer which says editorially: "Last spring only 241,090 voters registered out of a total of 416,860 assessed voters. Thus 175,000 citi zens did not register. Allowing for possible padding of the lists, remov als and all other disqualifications it is reasonable to say that there were 1(50,000 citizens in Philadelphia who did not take sufficient interest in the Government of their city to qualify for the purpose of casting their vote on election day. This is really a scandalous state of affairs, and in itself accounts in large degree for the inferior kind of administra tion to which the city has been sub jected in recent years." —Judge James 11. Drew, of the Allegheny county court, has taken a notion to run for common pleas court and there will be a strenuous fight for places on that bench to which five men are to be elected. The orphans' and county courts will have no contests. —W. R. Lewis, former district attorney of Lackawanna county, is a candidate for judge to succeed Judge O'Xeil. Joseph Burke, of the Scsranton Times, is a Democratic candidate for county controller. —Colonel D. J. Davis, adjutant of the Twenty-eighth Division, will not be a candidate for judge in Lacka wanna. • —The Rev. George Chalmers Rich mond, of Philadelphia, has asked re moval of United States District At torney Francis Fisher Kane. —Captain Stuart Lafean's boom for treasurer of York county has been countered by one for E. J. Neff. The captain is just home from France. —\Y. J. McConlogue, former audi tor of South Bethlehem, may he a candidate for city treaurer of Beth lehem. —ln discussing the passage by fhe Legislature of the bill increasing the salary of members to 32,500, the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph says: "If the action shall result in. im proving the standard af the men sent to Harrisburg, or inducing those of the present caliber to exert them selves a little more vigorously for the common welfare, the public will make no complaint." —Candidates for and against the manager system will be in,the race at Altoona. It is probable the pres ent commissioners will stand as fa vorable to the issue, while another group will be in the contest as against that form of Government. It is generally understood that senti ment is decidedly against the man j ager form at the present time, says a dispatch to the Philadelphia In quirer. OH, MAN! ... ByBRIGGS M(V. A U R.IT\ —X , *. F MVS6LF-- O^Y^JWNJ^" H °O HE<?6 YOO A6E BILL- SEE }/ WHAT O T,ME Y^J S A PF5 TTY VVJSE*R\IIIX FTTTTTZ TTP) ,P VOU CAW GET THIS BLACK >A /STIFF SLUG OP T\ ||A GUESS ILL COFFEE. .DOVAJNJ-- YOURS I AM 1 ? - XA "~ , ° VZ^" 0 '! 16 I /Y WPI LLHH HE / COMLMFL ROUMD ALL RIGHT-/ AM * ? U/HA7 I TAKING- / // FG|S I SJSK COUCH / - CANJ YOU <?IT X — W AI T ANDY? * <54 HOURS LATER . Cannot Bind America [From the Kansas City Times.] France, so Mr. Frank . Simonds J says, gave up • its demands for a strategic frontier on the Rhine in ! return for President Wilson's prom ise of a defensive alliance with the United States. The French, in his opinion, would regard the United States as guilty of had faith if it failed to carry out the President's ! promise. There is no disposition in this 'country to .underrate the debt it j owes to France or to evade obliga- I tions. It is generally recognized j that for indefinite time to come i the French boundary must be our ! boundary and must be defended by I us. Undoubtedly if Germany should I attack France we should be bound i to get in. But that is a different ! matter from entering into a definite t alliance binding us to send aid. Frankly, such an alliance might he an incentive to some future im- '■ perialistic Krench Government to j seek trouble rather than to avoid ] it. Would Austria, have sent the j ultimatum to Serbia in 1914 had it hot been frir the. consciousness of her "defensive" alliance with Ger many? " There could be no ground for any feeling in France that this country | had been faithless to its obligations j if the Senate should refuse to ap prove the proposed alliance. The French Government knew that the President is not the treaty making power of the Government. The prime minister of England may negotiate a treaty and never submit it to the House of Commons. But the Commons can control him through.the power to turn him out of office. Under the American Con stitution the President cannot be re moved from office, so ratification of treaties by the Senate was pro vided for to safeguard the Nation against the exercise of autocratic power in foreign relations. It was well known that the Presi dent had appealed to the country to sustain his foreign policy by elect ing a Democratic Congress last No vember, and that the country had responded by returning a Repub lican Congress. \s the President refused to take with him to the peacp negotiations anv representatives of the tieaty making body of Congress he French Government was taking chances when it accepted his word as final. To be sure, it would have been embarrassing for M. Clemen ceau to say: "Mr. President, this is an essential matter to France, attitude is satisfactory, but under your constitution two-thirds of the Senate must approve. Y\ e should like assurances that a Senate con trolled by the opposition party will acquiesce." Such a proposal wou d have been embarrassing. But in view of the President's attitude it was necessary. in not asking for such assurances the French Government was experi menting with an uncertainty. The United States will not be guilty of of had faith if it acts In accordance with what it conceives to fie the Nation's best interests in regard to the French alliance, without regard to the President's desire to commit the country to a new fore gn policy by his own unsupported will. The Inflated Dollar r Front the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] The prices of food and clothing and eoal and house rent are higher in Europe and America than they were five years ago. Wages are higher and workingmen are demanding that they be increased still more. And no one knows what the end is. But of one thing we may be cer tain and that is that prices will not go down so long as wartime inflation continues. There is more money in circulation to-day than there ever was before. The total circulating medium of the whole world on January 1, 1912, was about eleven billion dollars. This included, gold and silver and paper. There was in circulation in the United States, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy on Janu ary 1, 1918, twenty-two and a half biilion dollars' worth of paper. In these five countries when the war began the paper money in circula tion amounted to about two and a half billion dollars. Now, it is an axiom of finance that there cannot be inflation of currency without inflation of prices. The currensy has been inflated. The prices have suit. We may fret aiid fuss and Tume all we choose, but all our fuming, fussing and fretting will not make a dollar worth what it was in 1914. The world is overstocked with money and it is cheap. There will be discontent and suffering until wages and salaries have adjusted themselves to the new value of the dollar. Substitute For Saloon SALOON substitutes do not trou ble Cordova, a little town in Alaska, not the big one in Spain. The substitute is already there in the Red Dragon Club, which started as a rival to the first saloon,, and will soon proudly wave the flag of victor. Its great superiority over most of the proposed substitutes is that it has the saloon "kick"—"a 'kick' not entirely alcoholic, but in creased and made human by socia bility minus the frigidity of formal gatherings and the personal free'- doni which permitted any man to say whatever he pleased in what ever way he pleased." Just how this personal-liberty "kick" is to be applied to all the retrieved corner saloons of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, et al., The Public Led ger of the latter place is not pre pared to say. But small towns and rural centers are urged to take not ice, and The Ledger sees in this Alaskan rival to the "poor man's club" a means of saving "recourse altogether to theory," since this club "has been weighed in/the Alas kan balance for ten years and not found wanting." Founded in 1908. the Red Dragon Club boasts this interesting history: "With more than a score of sa loons in the little town of slightly in excess of one thousand inhabi tants, not to mention numerous dance-halls and dives, the Red Drag on has held its own and made a name for itself not only throughout Alaska, but in many parts of the world. "The Red Dragon has a 'kick' in it, although no alcoholic beverages have been served there. Any man, drunk or sober, is welcome there. He can read, write, box, play pool, talk 'trade' with men from all parts of the territory, drink coffee, swap stories, or express his opinion on any matter that come up from ten o'clock in the morning until mid night every day in the week. If he is to drunk to navigate, friendly hands will be found to steer him to his cabin or to a bunk where he can sleen off the effects of a spree. "™e Red-Dragon Club-house was opened in Cordova by the Protestant Episcopal Church many years be fore it had a church building there. In fact, St. George's Mission has just been completed.. "In 1907, when the Copper River & Northwestern Railway Company was preparing to build a terminus near the native village of Eyak and lay its track into Cordova, which then existed only on paper, the Rev. Unite to Fight Landlords [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] The war that is being waged by more than 25,000 householders throughout the city against land lords and constables to prevent eject ment from their homes because of refusal to pay alleged exorbitant in crease in rents resulted in the Tenant's Protective Association of Pennsylvania fitting a petition in the common pleas court asking for a charter. This is the first legal step of its kind for judicial sanction to an or ganization to fight alleged rent profiteering, and from the papers filed members will be sought from all quarters of the city and possibly throughout the State. The legal move indicates bitter opposition to the actions of some landlords and their attempts to evict when their demands are not met. According to the papers filed, the association was formed to "secure the betterment of rental conditions, particularly in Philadelphia and throughout the State; of aiding its members and encouraging the same to build their own homes and to ob tain for the members an increased strength and solidarity in negotiat ing and moving for the betterment of rental and housing conditions." Suggestion For Auto Tourists [Horton Correspondence Topeka Capital.] Jim Campion, a Horton man, was stuck the other day in a bad mud hole, and after exhausting all the tricks of the garpe he found his long record was broken with his car mired and no team in sight. He started up the road looking for a team when he met a wagon circus on the way to Whiting, headed by a man leading an elephant. The elephant easily pushed the car out of the mud and the circus man refused to take any money for the Job. "As elephants are not very common on the country roads around Horton," Campion ex i plained, "steps should be taken to I nave more brought here." E. P. Newton, a Protestant Episco pal missionary, visited Eyak. The railroad company assigned a site near its proposed terminus in Cor dova where the churem could erect a building. Mr. Newton decided that a seven-day and seven-night a week clubhouse was needed in that rough, pioneer community much more than a church. Work was soon begun on the Red Dragon. "It was a neck-and-neck race be tween Mr. Newton and the pro prietor of the first saloon to be built in Cordova to see. which would be finished first. The saloon won, but the Red Dragon was the second building to be finished in the new town. "it was then, and still is, a very crude affair. A one-story, one-room frame building, twenty-four by thirty-six feet, with a storm porch, it had little to differentiate it from its rival saloons, dance-halls, or stores, except for the equipment which it housed. It contained a fire place, a piano, a large 'mission' table with writing-pads and magazines, three bookcases filled with a thou sand volumes (most of which were the gifts of individuals later), box ing-gloves, a pool-table, a large davenport, two couches with pillows. Morris chairs, and a stack of fold ing chairs, three game-tables, an alcohol coffee-urn, and a chafing dish, and an altar with its equip ment, which was kept in a closet until Sunday, when the one room was transformed into a place of worship." It took the name Red Dragon Club-house in order to convince those shy of anything religious that it was not a place where religion would be obtruded upon those un willing to hear it. Neither dogma, church standards, nor tests of the moral character of its visitors have been brought forward. But "Every one has been welcomed. A second reason for selecting the name Red Dragon was that the church, when it should come to be built, was to be called St. George s, and the -dragon was deemed a fit ting name to be used in connection therewith because of the story of t. George and the dragon. "And then Mr. Newton wanted a name which, with a dragon painted in red, could be used on the station ery of the club-house to held adver tise it throughout Alaska. It soon became famous. Letters to men who expected to be in Cordova were frequently addressed in care of the Red Dragon fealoon, the writers knowing the proclivities of the per- I sons addressed." My Boy He is only a little feller. There's a lot that he doesn't know. But his laugh it is sweet and meller, And his soul is as white as snow. There isn't so much in his noodle, And instinct, is all that he's got. He is beginnin' to toddle And climb up the old what-not. He is just beginnin' to wonder What this worl d is, and why. He is just beginnin' to ponder, He is just beginnin' to try To solve this here thing called exist ence; To measure the journey ahead, And wonder how he'll make the dis tance That all of his forebears have ' tread. I Y*ou talk of the joy and the ages, The happiness that is supreme, The greatest in all of life's pages The pleasure that seems like a dream. It comes when his soft little paddie Seeks this time-worn face and a voice I That is now and untried, murmurs: "Daddy." For happiness, that is my choice. ■He doesn't know much, but he's learning, He knows not the right from the wrong. | But his wee little brain is a-yearn ing To grasp the portent of life's song. | I wish I could keep him a baby, , This atom of humanity. [ He doesn't mean much to you, may be— , But he s world and heaven to me. LABOR NOTES j Over 200,000 people are employed | in the mines in India. Norway has civil service retire i ment legislation for government em- I ployes. i Over 60 per cent of the workers |in all occupations in Jamaica are engaged in agriculture. J No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER THIRTY-SIX "The other day I made some rather strong remarks about the Boche and their treachery and cruelty," said Major Frank Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, llarrisburg, "whereupon a woman spoke up and said I acted as though 1 hated Germans, to which I replied that 1 most certainly did. She remarked that of course 1 was a professional soldier, so that sort of thing was expected of me. I had to admit that 1 was not primarily a humanitarian nor a citizen of the World, but was an American by birth and training, however 1 had seen many people who were not pro fessional soldiers who also loathed and detested our late adversaries. For instance, ministers of the Gospel are hardly to be considered as blood thirsty, aggressive fighting men, yet I had seen numbers of chaplains who had acquired 4 5 caliber auto matic pistols and a liberal supply of cartridges after having been in bat tle against the Boche, and who furthermore, had practiced with their pistols so that they might, if opportunity arose, do their bit to wards sending some Boche to the place where snowballs melt quickly. These militant chaplains, who were acting as their consciences dictated after practical experience, would go into action with a Red Cross brassard on their arms and a pistol tucked inside their waistbands so it would'nt show. Some'even went so far as to carry a hand grenade in each pants pocket in addition. And I can as sure you these brave men were not going armed for their own self-pro tection, but so that they could pro tect wounded men from the Hun bar barian if need arose. On one oc casion at least, a Boche sniper shot the doctors working on the wounded at a dressing station and then started to work on the Hospital Corps Men. About this time a chaplain came along and went out hunting the sniper. He found him hidden in a tree and our fighting parson prompt ly reached rjown in his pants and produced his 45, drew a bead on the Hun and sent him 'over the great divide.' That chaplain later re marked that his one regret was that he was ordained and could not take a rifle and go out hunting such coyotes. On another occasion a Roche machine gun sniper hidden in ■our lines, made it impossible to evacuate the badly wounded as lie would fire on every litter team carry ing a badly wounded man and furth ermore never fired at anyone else. Every man on such a litter team was unarmed and wore a Red Cross brassard. A number of men were detailed to round up this machine gunner and amohg those looking for him was a chaplain'and that chap plain had taken off his Red Cross brassard and was carrying a rifle which he know how to use and fer vently hoped he would have the chance to use in a very few minutes. I Another chaplain was with an artil lery observation group during a Ger man offensive in July and after everv other man on the party had been killed or wounded and he himself had been gassed, took off his bras sard and for forty-eight hours re mained out in front of the infantry re r>" nK t * le re °' re Kiment on ~® Boche who were attacking. What difference did it make to him that he was a chaplain; he knew the Hun and it was up to him to be a inan and an American for the sake of his country and of his country's allies. Just as the chaplains put aside and forgot all sectarian claims, so that \ l , ™ at , terp rt not whether a man were | Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gen i tile, he was an American, doing a man s part for his country and noth ing else mattered. And so it came about that no matter who the man was, before he had served long in front of the Boche he actually hated them, hated them for their cruelty, for their treachery, for their utter I lack of all sentiments of honor and ! of fair play." 11 elcomc For Pershing [From'the Kansas City Star.] Laclede, Mo., is making arrange ments for the homecoming of its greatest hero—General John J. Per shing. General Pershing indicated some time ago that as soon as the Peace Treaty was signed he would return to the United States and in tended to visit his birthplace and boyhood home. Mayor Allen of Lacled* has cabled to find out the earliest date he can come to Linn county and a State-wide celebration is planned. Paul to Philemon Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord. —Philemon, 20. ©mttttg (Mjat More "war talk" is being heard in Harrisburg and Steelton nowadays than in those stirring months when the United States entered the world struggle and the trying weeks a year ago when our own Pennsylvania sol diers were demonstrating their powers over the Hun. This is the natural result in a community which has welcomed home hundreds of its most active residents and it is going to have an effect that will be inter esting to watch for a long time to come. Old residents say that the re turn of the men in blue from the Civil War brought about a notable change in .Harrisburg in the sixties, sending new men to the front and altering viewpoints and generally bracing up the town, which was one of the most active in the State due to its proximity to the fighting zone, its importance as a transportation, mobilization and training camp cen ter and its official position as a State capital. In a much lesser degree this influence was noticed after the Spanish-American War. And now there are re-entering into local af fairs, many men who have been in tensively trained, to a far greater de gree than ever known before, and the impetus they are going to give to affairs in every walk of life will be a lesson to a generation of Har risburgers. It has been remarked from time to time the manner in which Harris burg churches, local organizations, business establishments, schools, fra ternal organizations and the' like kept close to the men in the service and how effectually it was done is shown by the renewal of ties. It has been a good thing for the men left behind and the "Kid" who went away some two years ago is now listened to with a new respect. And it .may be said that many of the stories told have an element of truth not commonly attributed to war stories and that it is surprising to note the familiarity of the average soldier with the important places and his conception of the operations in which he participated. Major Mahin of the recruiting of fice has an interesting story to tell of one of the chaplains of the A. E. 7,' w , ho was with his regiment in the I ifth Division, which, by the way, is at present largely iilled with drafted men from Pennsylvania. The Major says that one time in the at tack he was going along the line of the first wave which had been temporarily stopped when he found a ligure alone in a shellhole, his body limp and his head rolled over to one side. Thinking it was a wound ed or dead man from his own outfit Major Mahin jumped down to see. When he lifted the soldiers head, the man woke up and the Major found himself looking into the pale tired face of the little sky pilot. This in the first wave, and he had no business to be there, but thought he might do some good. Later in the attack, when a machine gunner was holding evacuations up by firing on stretcher parties, the parson again figured. The dirty Boche was not firing when the litter bearers went up, but as soon as they started back with four men grasping the litter and naturally not able to drop and conceal themselves, the niachinfe gunner would cut into them. A score of riflemen were looking for this lone Hun, and suddenly the Major chanced upon his fighting sky pilot, his cross brassard torn off, and creeping with a rifle in his hand up the hill where the clip-clip of the machine gun could be heard. Another story of fighting parsons comes from the Seventy-sixth Field Artillery. In one case, where the main body had fallen back from a slight hill to beyond the railroad embankment some 400 meters to the rear, the Seventy-sixth sent out an O. I'. party, which included the regi mental chaplain, to the hill. In the course of the next few hours most of the party were either bumped off or wounded. And for forty-eight hours the parson stayed there and directed the fire of guns belonging to his regiment. Later, when he came back, the infantry held him up and were going to shoot him as a Roche spy. The doughboy captain had his 4 5 out already to shoot day light into the parson, as they didn't believe there were any Yanks out in front of their own outposts, when a cautious second looie suggested that they < all up the Seventy-sixth and ask if they really had an observing parson out in front. Luckily for the parson, the Seventy-sixth replied in the affirmative, and he was able to rejoin his regiment unperforated. And still another parson, this time Ben Lacey, of the 113 th Field showed himself to be a man who could preach and fight at the same time. In the advhnce in the Argonne the Thirty-seventh Division cap tured a battery of German 150 howitzers, with sights complete, so fast had the Heinies deserted their pieces. Chaplain Lacey got two gun "ew* fr °"> the 113 th, one from the 11 4th, and the fourth from a French battery of 75s which was working nearby. He also got a map and went over to the division, where they gave him some targets. Then, with a big glass under one arm and two tele phone men following him, the sky pilot climbed out on the ridge to wards Montfaucon and carried on a harassing fire until his several huni dred rounds were exhausted. And after that he regulated the fire of a battalion of 75s when their regular observer could not see the area at which they were firing. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Mayor Louis Franke, who is fighting the Johnstown Traction Company, was the central figure at the hearing on the service in Johns town. —Major IV. P. Clark, in charge of rifle practice of the Reserve Militia, has been active in militia af fairs for many years and an en thusiast on rifle work. —Major Jonathan Jones, one of the Philadelphia city engineers, is home after service in France. —W. H. Gaylord, Jr., has been elected head of Scranton's first aero club. —Judge John C. Haymaker, Alle gheny judge, who will run again, used to be district attorney of his county. I—Montgomery l —Montgomery Evans, Montgomery county attorney here yesterday, is one of the oldest and most active members of the bar of that county. . —The Rev. T. W. Davies, Sus quehanna clergyman, will go to Albany. [ DO YOUKNOW 1 —That Harrisburg tin plate has been used for many kinds of Army equipment the last two years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The last legislative session was I held in the Dauphin county court ' I house in 1821,
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