10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings axaept Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. ''*l<(r>|l> Building, Fcd-rnl Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIN'METZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. 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 this fiaper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r! Newspaper Pub flishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks A Avenue Building, Western office Flniey, People's Gas Building -l Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a rmnrc..' -frt week; by mail. $.1.00 a "year In advance. WEDNESDAY. JULY 23, !i)l9 Admit your ignorance, and tew will blame 1/0!'.; pretend to knowledge, ud inc xeorld Will shame you. •-■Anon. SAVE THE CHILDREN NOTHING more important has been attempted in the way j of welfare work in Harris burg than the present survey of. child conditions by volunteers asso ciated with trained nurses under the direction of the State and city health • departments. Colonel Edward Mar tin. as the genius and leader of the health and sanitation activities of ; the Commonwealth, is determined j that Harrisburg, as the capital, shall ! have clean and wholesome surround ings, not only for the adults, but al so for the little children. The plan and scope of his campaign now un der way appeals to all intelligent people as part of a great movement for the substantial betterment of the community. Just in proportion as the babies and the little folks under the age of six are given a proper start in life will the city prove its worth in the generation of which they are the beginning and the hope. Already the survey has uncover ed many deplorable things and Har risburg must realize its obligation under the circumstances. We can not hope to have a healthful city ! with cancerous sores existing in the midst of unhealthful districts and where the people are in some cases so situated as not to be able to help themselves. The good women who are co operating with the trained nurses in this survey are giving consecrated service in a cause which cannot be too greatly magnified, inasmuch as it affects the most vital interests of the city. It is the sort of public service which is free of all unfortunate re actions because those interested in the work are giving their time and effort out of a lofty sense of per sonal obligation to their fellowmen and women. All the agencies for good are being employed wherever necessary in relieving intolerable conditions here and there, and in giv ing medical and surgical aid and professional advice where needed. Elsewhere on this page to-day the Telegraph reprints an editorial from the lending newspaper exponent of Democracy in Pennsylvana. It is worth reading as setting forth that journal's opinion of the management and methods of the State Democratic Committee. BLOT ON ESCUTCHEON ACCORDING to a bulletin of the United States Public Health Service dealing with the prev alence of venereal diseases among the second million of drafted men by cities. Harriobuts is given a most unenviable showing. One who is greatly interested in correcting these conditions writes the Telegraph: "Under this showing Harrisburg is by far the highest and most dis graceful in relationship in the State of Pennsylvania; more than Phila delphia, for example, and being ex ceeded by only a few northern cities in any class." •.'his correspondent believes that . twrious responsibility rests upon municipality and that the obliga tion cannot be shifted in any in different fashion. This blot ought to be wiped out in some definite and efficient manner. Such a record standing against Harrisburg is a dis grace to the whole community and any supine attitude on the part of our decent citizens will reflect ser iously upon an otherwise model municipality. If Harrisburg has suffered through the fact that it is an unusual rail road center, bringing hither many temporary residents and thereby padding the statistics of the public health, then that fact should be brought out and the truth be known. On the other hand, if we have per- WEDNESDAY EVENING. mitted a condition to prevail here until It has become a public scandal again the exact cause should be de veloped and steps taken to remedy the situation. Colonel Edward Mar tin, the State Health Commissioner, I has the courage and the initiative j and we can safely follow his intelli ; gent leadership. j Democrats all over this United States revenue district, the Ninth, are [greatly peeved over the closing of the j Lancaster headquorters and the loss I of forty places for deserving workers, ' while Philadelphia gets the office, j Vork is lookng hopefully to a turn of •the tide in its favor. PROFITEERING? IF THE Government is offering the people army provisions at twenty per cent, benefit the priee paid for them, and these prices are only a shade below the whole sale prices of foods on the open ' market, doesn't it look as though there has been some profiteering at the expense of the Nation during the war? This is a matter that will bear investigation. Instead of paying 1 more than the private wholesaler 1 the Nation should have bought much cheaper. It looks, however, as though the purchasing agencies of the army bought first and asked prices afterward —which is very poor business, indeed. There are few people living in the : "Tlardscrabble" district on either side !of the street who do not at heart j favor the gicat public improvement which contemplates the parking of the west side of the street between Tlerr and Calder. Any legal steps whi h might overturn what has al ready been accomplished would likely be opposed by a majority of those af fected by the condemnation proceed ings They are loyal citzcns and, while insistent upon their rights, do not desire to do anything that would in any wise interfere with the com pletion of a great municipal undertak ing io the improvement of the River Front. When the cut-out offenders fall ! into the hands of the local magts- 1 tratos and the police department' there, should he little mercy shown them. They have been warned times i without number and their indifference I to the health and comfort of the com munity justifies severe treatment, j Many persons in all parts of the city, suffering from illness, are the helpless ! victims of these noisemakers who care nothing about anything sa"e! their silly desire to be seen a ltd ' hiard. When the dirt begins to fly pres ently in the further improvement of the Capitol Park zone and the city i falls into line in the widening of Third , and Walnut streets, and the various j public utilities eliminate the big poles ! ar.d overhead wires, and the city and i county join in the erection of a com- | blnaton city hall and courthouse,] won't that be a grand and glorious; feeling for every progressive citizen! of Harrisburg? Many of the paved streets are be- • ing scarred by ditches for the lnstal- I lation of conduits, but this is a tern-| porary condition and presages the re moval of practically all the overhead wires in the central business district. , One of the things which should be emphasized as to contractors is the restoration of the streets and side- . walks to the same condition in which ; they were found before the cutting i of the surface. Forestalling in the markets of the! city should have been stopped long' ago. but it is never too late to under- J take a proper reform and provide an ] effective remedy for conditions which! concern the entire community. Coun-! !oil i to be commended for taking the j ! bull by the horns and providing such ' | measure of relief as are practical to, I overcome present serious conditions | 'in the supply and distribution of food, i | Governor Sproul and Banking | ! Commissioner Fisher have demon- ! strated their qualifications as public ; | servants in the prompt handling of I the unfortunate bank failure in Phila delphia and in conserving the inter ests of the Commowealth as they may be affected by the insolvency of the institution in question. Governor Pproul is probably ready to admit that the easier Job is passing bills —or is it passing the buck?—to | the Governor than is the duty of ap proving or disapproving the output |of the lawmakers. He has had experi ence ut both ends of the Capitol and doubtless could speak feelingly on this subject. The aggressive Elliott-Fisher or ganization has brought from the re mote corners of the United states and from lands beyond the seas a fine bunch of live wires who appreciate Harrisburg and who have only com pliments for the splendid Penn | Harris hotel: which is their headquar ters for the week. The lily pond at the pumping sta tion has been a prize enigma for two or three years and the absence of the fountain has given rise to many inquiries, but the leakasre is now be ing remedied and we may expect the flowers to bloom again for the ad miration of all who pass that way. When the Dauperata goes out to I sea its most important cargo will be invisible —the splendid record of this district in the varous Liberty Loans and the unselfish and efficient labors cf those who made possible a fine pa triotic showing in the midst of war. The legislative committee of the State Grange, perpetually out of Joint with modern good roads methods, has heard from the Governor and will ap preciate the surprise of the fellow who never heard of a boomerang. Policemen and all who are inter ested in the preservation of order tes tify to the better conditions which prevail since the closing of the booze joints on the first of July. "Sam" Hertzler is the type of rail road engineer that has made the P. R. R. famous as the leading railroad system of the world. IT>cfct* IK ""Pouvoijkrtutav By the Ex-Committeeman i Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell's de ' nunciation of the methods of the Palmer-McCormick coterie of bosses ■ in running the Democratic State ma i chine in the letter he sent to all Federal officeholders he could reach •in the Philadelphia district ask : ing them to refuse to contribute to 1 support of the Democratic State I committee is regarded as the real ' opening of the fight for control of j the Democratic State organization in Pennsylvania. Added to the con i tcntion that has prevailed in the , Democracy of the Keystone State in 'every year before a presidential dele gate election for a generation will Ibe the personal animosity of At i torney General A. Mitchell Palmer j and his pals toward Bonniwell. The tight this year and next will i be a repetition of the reorganization ; fight of 1911 when Palmer and his , pals got control of the machine by the time honored method of de nouncing the methods of those who ran tHe machine. Some think that they have bettered even the old nta ' chine methods. The fight of 1911 j had an ancestor in the Bryan-Guffey i row of 190" and so it goes on | back to the time that Guffey de- I throned Harrity and his people as | Harrity and his men seized the I levers of the machine very early in I the nineties. The Democratic his tory of Pennsylvania is punctuated | with quadrennial brawls and many j gravestones. —Judge Bonni well's excoriation i of the bosses of the Democratic ma chine who repudiated him after his nomination for Governor at a popu . lar primary has quite overcast in . political discussion the perennial row lin Philadelphia and the seething i municipal politics in everyone of the 'third-class cities now that the damp ' er of nonpartisanship has been re ' moved. The Judge calls the demand ]of the Democratic State committee . "an impudent violation of law" and j says that it approaches "false pre i tonce." He says that the same I crowd collected $60,000 last year | and "betrayed" him in the guber- I natorial fight. The purpose of the | letter he says is "to put them in I funds to bolster up their decrepit | and tottering organization." j —The Democratic newspapers i which used to weep over letters of ' Hepublican organizations asking ' contributions are strangely silent I about this latest break of the wind i mill on Market Square and ignore j Judge Bonniwell's blast. The Phila | delphia Record says that Bonniwell . has "rapped the bosses." Other j newspapers say it is the start of the fight for control of the State coni . mittec and the presidential dele : gation. | —Abolition of the Lancaster reve ; nue district and retention of the . Scranton revenue district, which j was put back on earth after a period of suspension soon after Wilson be came President, is also rising to | plague the Democratic bosses. This 1 section has always been regarded ias the satrapy of the former Demo | cratic national chairman. The ' Democratic city executive commit i tee of Lancaster met to protest I against abolition and wired the In ! ternal Revenue Commissioner about j it. In reply that official from the | security of the Potomac telegraph ; ed that it was to better the service j whereupon the Lancaster men re ! plied by asking why he did not ; abolish all the offices. One Lan caster dispatch says: "As an up ! shot of the affair it is currently rumored that the Palmer-McCormick faction has severed allegiance from Collector Davis, who was for years , Democratic county chairman and 1 entrusted their local leadership to Postmaster L. N. Spencer. The in cident serves to mark the contrast i with whicih Congressman W. "W. j Griest, of this district, handled a similar situation in 1912." —The effect of Democratic re organization methods in Dauphin, Cumberland and other counties is well known and was reflected last fall in the congressional and legis lative elections in this part of the State. Other counties are torn up through the Palmer-McCormick method and Allegheny is having pains in its Democratic organiza tion. Just as an illustration there may be cited this remark from the column of Roderick Random in the Scranton Times, one of the big Democratic newspapers of the State: "The situation of the Democratic party of Lackawanna county so far as it has developed as to the com ing campaign is disheartening and discouraging to Democrats who are on principle desirous of Democratic success and have been heretofore encouraged by the conditions favor able to victory next November. All of the candidates who have so far registered for nomination for county offices are made up of one single ele ment of the party, and that element, it has been demonstrated on various occasions, is not able to win suc cess alone." —Philadelphia newspapers say ! that it is very apparent that the Penrose people control the new regis tration commission in Philadelphia and that the election of H S Thomas as chief clerk displacing h! If* Hess, a \are man, proves it. The Philadelphia Record says that the Governor erred in appointing four Republicans to the registration board. It insists that C. R. Wood- ZV S t£ t Ue P ubllcan - The Governor held that he was a Town Meeting man. u " e —Director of Public Safety Wil liam H. Wilson will be a candidate E or W P patton Phia C ° UnCl1 ' Council may rU " for Sheriff or —Chester city council $25,000 to establish a ward in the (.hester City Hospital and $2 son for maintenance. *ASOO —The terrific calling down given to the executive and legislative com mittees of the State Grange by the Governor in regard to its statement relative to the "overhead" cost of highways has been given wide rnib Hcity and is likely to end any f u ,th or reviews of the Legislature from that source Some of the Granges are said to be Indignant at the wav tht mire" 1 PUt thelr fee * '"to Registration has begun in Pitts burgh where there arc prospects of a strenuous fight over Republican county nominations, "'"-.in —Speculation as to the purnose of the Bull Moose meeting here veers between Pinchot's desire, to round up the herd or whether he schemes to run for national dele gate or senator. —Two school loan bills suffered defeat in Delaware county recently In Springfield township a bill for $75,000 was downed when fifty-eight votes were polled against it and forty-seven in favor of the bond issue. A $40,000 loan bill for East Lansdowne was swamped by a vote of 119 to 19. &AJRRJSBTTRG TELEGKAJPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST-REGULATED FAMILIES By BRIGGS f HEV'. SOM6QOOV I \ C " 1 """N \ \ . lIS EV/ERYOCDY) J ) W i OUT &TV /V& te-w A• / OH- AG-NES ) AGnks -OH P.\r ' Woo- hoo Ay lagncs!! I $ \ (£ visa hovT) I *\ ( \ y I That PHO-y/ I NOTE / Vv/v// OM '■'* VERY J — "N_ \ ' y y' SLL "Thanh 1 J A Shady "Proposition" [From the Philadelphia Record.] If, as has been alleged, Federal I officeholders in Pennsylvania un- j der the protection of the Civil Ser-- j vice laws have been receiving from | the Democratic State Committee in- | formation that "we are endeavoring j tv. put under way a program that will need considerable financial as sistance, and it i 3 one that you need have no hesitancy in going along i on," coupled with an invitation to | "aid us to the full limit of your I ability," said limit being indicated as 1 two per cent of the officeholder's ; salary, the Democratic State Com- j mittee is engaged in a contemptible ' enterprise which is no whit more re- I spectable because corrupt Itepubii- j can organizations. State and city, ! have been practicing it since time i immemorial. The macing of officeholders for po- | lltical contributions is based on the j idea that public office is a private • snap which the holder is obliged to ' pay an annual bribe to retain. This I view has long since been discredited, j A political party has no more right to collect an arbitrary tax from the I officeholder than a policeman has | to levy graft upon a merchant for extending to him illicit privileges, j The Democratic State Committee j must know this. If the practice is not illegal, why the vague, law dodging wording of the hypocritical letter? Why does the secretary of the committee ask for support for an indefinite "program," an unnamed "proposition," instead of asking outright for a political contribution? Why are the figures representing the sum demanded marked on the letters without specific assertion that the contribution so indicated is ex pected? "The Record" advises the recip ients of such letters to retain them as evidence in the event of further developments, but otherwise to pay no attention to them. An honest State Committee, Democratic or Re publican, could raise sufficient funds tor all legitimate campaign purposes without blackmailing employes of tiie Government. Trade Briefs A factory for the manufacture of chinaware will open shortly at Forto Alegre, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The British Board of Trade has published instructions to ship sur veyors in regard to the arrange ments for preventing falls ! from fouling when they are being j recovered. A restriction of 25 per cent, in ! the planting of sugar In Java in ; i order to increase the output of rice ' has reacted advantageously on the Japanese sugar industry. Many | capitalists are keenly interested in , I sugar just now. in view of the ex- \ I pected continuation of prosperity. Increased activity is shown in the i I Japanese petroleum industry. Drill- : ! ing for oil is soon to start in the \ naval oil reserve fields in Formosa, as well as in Nairyo and Kosempo. The Akita Mining College is to in augurate a course in petroleum en • gineering, which is said to be the first of its kind in Japan. A list of the principal leaders of Sweden who have given evidence of their desire to trade with American • firms has been received from Con sul George D. Hopper of Stockholm. Copies of this list may be obtained from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce or its district and co-operative offices upon re ferring to File No. 116,055. The rubber trade of Japan is re ceiving quite a revival. During the four years of the recent war there was a gtut in this market, which was primarily caused by Germany and Austria (who had been large importers of rubber) being com pelled to discontinue buying in the I East. When the United States placed an import embargo on this commodity the glut in the Japanese market became more acute. A Little Advice on W. W. [From Harvey's Weekly.] The dear old Springfield Republi can screws up the remnant of its courage sufficiently to remark: "It may appear exceptionally dar ing to offer advice to a man who is now generally supposed never to accept such offerings, but our bit of common counsel to the President Is to call ofT his speaking tour, seek a conference with the elder states men of the Republican party and propose that they attain a domesti cated peace without violence con cerning the covenanted peace of the world (Paris edition) before the Senate goes into prolonged convul sions of debate on the question of ratification." Heresy! Treason! Put him out! LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Points Out a Fault i To try Editor of the Telegraph: What is all this talk about high . cost of living? Do you know what class of people do the most kicking about high cost of living. It is not the poor man. The poor man's wages are about proportioned with , the cost of living in normal times, j The class of people that are doing the most kicking are a class called the would-bes, which mortgaged their | homes to buy an auto and now their j wives go to the grocery store and j ask for four eggs, ten cents worth , of very best beef steak and five j cents worth of lard, and then kick i because the grocery man does not j give them more for their money. I Now comes the farmer. He is a | robber. Let me tell you something about a farmer. I have been there. If I were farming to-day and stand ing in the markets and the people would come up to my stand and ask the prices and pull out a roll of i money big enough to choke any horse, I would ask these prices, 90 cents a dozen for eggs; live chickens, $2; dressed, $3.50. When he would kick about prices, I would say why in the H , don't you go rent or buy a farm and get some of this easy money. The farmer and his wife must work from sun up till sun down and stay at home on i Sundays to do the work. The would- j be wife is through at noon and ready for the picture show every day. Also a few words about that guy on Crescent street who wants to loan the 1 city $1,900 to buy cheap vegetables j for the poor" people of Harrisburg. I I wonder if this is all the money he ' has. If so, he is poor himself, for almost any poor man has that much sticking oround these kind of times. If he is a man of money I would suggest to him to go and buy a farm and move on it and raise vegetables and bring them to Har risburg and sell them to the poor people cheap. The cost of living always did and always will adjust itself. The sup ply and demand and as long as times are like they are at present, then prices cannot come down. CITIZEN OF HARRISBURG. Would Prosecute To the Editor of the Telegraph : You ask how the high cost of liv ing may be cut down in your July 18, 1919 paper. James Sweeney states ! in the same paper to prosecute the j ones that do not comply with the | law in selling their potatoes, vege ! tables where incorrect weight and j measure are used. Do you think the \ merchants are going to starve if they ! sell according to law, which I be- i ! lieve they all do. Would they not | put the price to make a profit. I j have been associated with the mer j chants for eighteen years, and I j find 95 per cent of them strictly I honest. My suggestion is for the I State to cut out Chief Sweeney and j his weight and measure inspectors, ! which means thousands of dollars i to the tax payers and which would I allow the buyers to have more j money to spend for what they need, j We do not need this army of men j with their expensive automobiles to i watch us; we can watch ourselves. I In addition to these sealers we have { in this State a lot of game wardens i mediators inspectors riding over our j railroads in Pullman cars. We must ' maintain their upkeep. I sincerely j feel the burden which these men ] are bringing upqn the public In ad j dition to all other political posl | tions which must be eliminated. | Their service is of no use to the tax ] payers or to any good sound citizen. I believe I am voicing the minds of our people. This will help the high cost of living, and put these fellows where they belong. I say cut them out. READER. Cut Out Middleman To the Editor of the Telegraph: I have been a reader of the Tele graph for years. About cutting the living cost, I will give you a few suggestions. In the first place cut out the middleman. There is too much of that business going on. He . is the fellow that fixes the price. | In the second place snub the party | who is asking exorbitant prices. , Shun him like you would a snake. I Refuse to buy from him until the ] price is reasonable. There is too 1 much price fixing. I read an article in this week's issue of the Telegraph where the farmers say they must pay big j prices for their feed and seeds. If j he is a practical farmer or trucker, he will raise his own feed and seeds for replanting. If he cannot do that he should not term himself as either. But the poor farmer is not making any money. Oh, no! Five years ago he came to market with an old bony horse and an old rickety ■wagon. Now he brings in his pro duce in a $2,000 machine. Poor farmer! You go to work for him. He will offer you about $1.75 per day and j work you fourteen hours! He gets : $2.50 for a bushel of wheat, $2 for corn; 65 cents for butter and eggs; of course the cows and chickens re quire a whole lot more feed now than they did five years ago. We have laws governing shipping rates, railroad fares and other com modities; We should also have laws governing the price of food. For stalling and price-fixing and see that they are rigidly enforced. Laws are of no use if they are not en forced. Elect a few men to the Legislature who cannot be bought off and who are in sympathy with the working man. My best sugges tion I believe will be found by not paying any old price, but just pass it up for a few weeks. It is easier to go hungry for a short time than it is to starve. Hope lam not tak ing up too much space. Thanking you kindly, I am A WORKING MAN. Suggests Probe To the Editor of the Telegraph: One of the first steps to be taken j is to investigate all wholesale houses or others that are known to be profiteers, and expose their disreput able and dishonest methods. Some time ago arrangements I were made by some .citrus fruit growers, with a certain wholesale ! produce concern, in this city, for i the sale of a carload of grapefruit and oranges, to be sold on consign ment. I Upon arrival of the fruit, the shippers were notified that the fruit had reached its destination in good conditon. They were also advised that for certain reasons the fruit was sold for $2.25 per box. irrespec tive of size of fruit and whether the box contained grapefruit or oranges. This wholesale concern remitted, commission, etc. The returns to the growers were so much below pre vailing market quotations, and be low what they wore getting for their fruit that an Investigation was started. Ihe fruit, as will be noted, was bought at an average price of three and a half cents each. The same fruit was put on the market for the consumer to buy at an average price or fifteen cents each, or a profit of eleven and a half cents each, that it was necessary for some one to have to haul the fruit a few squares to a retail stand. (Don't forget that the shipper, in this instance, paid the too.) Isn't that profiteer ing .' No wonder the Harrisburg consumer is up in arms against high prices and will be all the more so when he finds that he has to pay fifteen cents for a grapefruit that was practically delivered at the store where he bought it, for three and a half cents. Some dealers, of course, paid this wholesole house as high as $4.60 per box for this same fruit. Thai was the 56 size, which made the wholesale price eight cents each. So Mr. Consumer if you bought some of this fruit and paid from ten cents to twenty cents each for the grape fruit, you are left to ascertain for yourself as to who received the dif ference between three and a half cents and what you paid for it. A READER. Roosevelt and the League [New York Sun.] As some of the advocates of the League of Nations have recently taken the liberty of saying that Theodore Roosevelt favored the League of Nations, the Sun believes it will be conclusive to reprint the letter which Colonel Roosevelt wrote to Sir Henry Rider Haggard a month before he died. It is dated at New York, December 6, 1918, and reads thus: "My Dear Rider Haggard: In a moment of pessimism the other day I said I never wish ed to hear from any English man excepting , but that w ns because I had forgotten you. "I doubt if I ever again will go back into public place. I have had to go into much and too bitter truth tolling. Like you, I am not at all sure about the future. I hope that Ger many has suffered a change of heart, but am anything but cer tain. "I do not put much faith In the League of Nations or any corresponding universal cureall." With these plain words in mind : there need bo no further guessing about the attitude of Colonel Roose velt on this particular subject. JULY 23, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit j XI'MBER TWENTY-EIGHT. "One upon a time some genius | with a most perverted type of mentality got busy and invented a most horrible and vile stink;" said Major Frank C. Mahin, of the Army Recruiting Station, 325 Market street, Harrlsburg. "Then along came the war and we started using anything and everything that might possibly help us win the war. The Chemical Warfare Service in particular was busy trying out new things and among them was this horrible stink. Tt was a gas that smelled just as though a thousand skunks were hav ing a regular Donnybrook Fair in the immc liat- icinity. The gas was absolutely harmless, if you didn't happen t<, have, a susceptible stomach, but no one would ever dream that it didn't mean sudden death with such a vile odor. Of course it couldn't be used very often because the Boche would get wise, but undoubtedly it might be valuable once or twice. Great secrecy was maintained about this gas until just before the St. Mihiet offensive and then all troops who were to participate in the attack were told about 'skunk gas.' The great attack came off and as our boys progressed through the Boche j lines in various localities, we ran into areas which had been shelled with 'skunk gas' shells and I can I assure you there was no doubt in j any one's mind or nose when they i ran into such an area. Now all j troops had most positive orders that' [upon noticing any peculiar odor, gas ■ masks would be at once adjusted as I all belligerents were continuously I working to evolve new poison gases, j The result of the explosion of a | skunk gas shell was that every Boche | within smelling distance most hastily I donned his gas mask and then pro ! ceeded to swallow his heart and his breakfrst, both 'of which had come | up into his throat, and started to | pray that his mask would absorb and protect him from this vile smelling | American invention. Naturally he j was doubtful of the efficiency of his j mask to absorb the fumes, as the j tendency is to make poison gasses | as nearly odorless as possible so as Ito prevent their presence being de tected. But here was a gas with a • m ° 8t smell so it must be lof frightful potency, to be worth ; using and every dear little Boche I was petrified with fear. Further it lio aV Kr y at disadva ntage to have to fight with a gas mask on so our | men were given two great advant j ages by the new gas. they didn't I have to wear their masks—knowing it was harmless—and they had I greatly added confidence from know ing the Boche were terrified. Where nlt, r ,. th ° g ?, S T ent the Boche quit fighting, all they wanted in the world was to get away from that r?v v at to ? s P eed to save them selves from the painful and fright ?£ ?v. , at must assuredly fol 'ow, tfl e inhalation of any such odor as skunk gas' produced. So even I hetna P iT Ve r te o enius ' ultimately helped Uncle Sam win the war." Mr. Black Jack We "' Jack— t0 y ° U> Mr ' Black You are sure some fightin' man. An now with the Kings and the .frinces You're a-rldin' along In the van. Rldln ' y a b£ ad with the all star An' the Victors in London Town An you've been an' dined at Buck 'nham, Where th' King keeps 'is bloomln' Crown. Well, that's Just whur' you belong Jack— e ' Away up there with th' Swells A-cannln' along in the lead, Sir To th' tune of London Bells. *1 So 'ere's to yer, Johnny Pershin' You're a proper flghtin' man; Mindanao to th' Marne, Sir. You can lead—we'll say you can. —Seabury Lawrence in New York Sun. Democrats Defeated It The Georgia State Senate, solidly Democratic, defeated ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment on July Bth when a motion to disagree with a committee report against rat. iflcation was lost by a vote of 37 to 12—a fair sample of Democratic "enthusiasm" for the measure which Georgia's Junior United States Sem ator espoused and which the Demo cratic President approved and per sonally requested the Democrats to enact Bwttmg paper of them all, his honorable 3 discharge that had just been given ' him. With a record of six major > engagements, a personal bag of 83 5 prisoners that he took single-handed 3 in an attack on a concrete pillbox of 5 the famous Hindenberg line, the 9 Congressional Medal of Honor, and 3 the British Distinguished Conduct - Medal, "Mister" Gaffney, who is i Irish and proud of his medals, con -9 siders himself fit, despite the loss l of his arm, to cope with the prob s lems incidental to earning an honest t living. His compensation from the 5 Government for the loss of his arm r doesn't mean much to this self-re - liant genial soldier-citizen. He ex t pects to make a lot of money and ? he probably will. Private Gaffney 1 was very explicit in his explanation - that he had not done a brave thing - in taking 83 prisoners after killing t half a dozen Germans with a hand e grenade and his bayonet. He kept t his nerve; that was all. "I was the . oldest man In my company, next to . the captain," he said, "and I kind , o' kept the men in good spirits. But r I wasn't a sergeant and couldn't or ! der a detail to take this particular v pillbox, so I thought I might as well die up there as out In tho open." It was through the actions of such men as Private Gaffney that the Ameri can Army made its great reputation. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE i J —John E. Sones, one of the for ' mer legislators running for judge, is a Schuylkill lawyer who halls from Snyder county. —Major Ralph A. Gregory, just home from France, has been made cashier of a Scranton bank. , —Chairman C. M. Palmer, of the House Educational Committee, seeks to be District Attorney of Schuylkill county. " —Ben Branch, Mauch Chunk lawyer who took the votes of the Rainbow Division's Pennsylvanlans on the way to France and got just out of sight of land, is a candidate for District Attorney in Carbon county. —Ma.vlor Heldenreich, of Hazle u ton, makes youngsters who violate the curfew law, report three even ings in succession at his office. DO YOU KNOW | y ' '' —That Harrisburg steel Is n e being used in English building o operations? c h HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Telegraph offices have been lo .. cated in Third street between Market 0 and Walnut ever since telegrapli lines came to this city.