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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1019
Who learns by finding out has seven
fold
The skill of him who learned by bc
\e ing told.
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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.
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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,