16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telnnyh Building, Fed-rsl Square —sxs= =3 E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manaper OTJS. M. STF.INMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board I. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. SR. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated PrcßS is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Building < Chicago, 'ill. dins Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail $3.00 a year in advance. FRID AY, SEITfIMBER 2. 1I ft The heavens declare the nlory of Ood; and the firmament slieireth his handitcork. — l'SALM 1!:L THE PUBLIC APPROVES j THE courageous stand of- Gov- j ernor Sproul in the western | strike riots will be commend- . ed by every law-abiding citizen of! Pennsylvania. At whatever cost, the ; public must be protected from tlie 1 disorderly element that always takes | advantage of disturbed conditions to 1 vent its lawless inclinations upon helpless people. There are among the foreigners j on strike men who are there for no j good end. They are agitators who 1 have gotten into the mills for lite 1 express stirring up strife between employer and employe and , thus furthering their own selfish purpose, which is to overthrow the government of the United States. Governor Sproul is right when he 1 says that Pennsylvanians are a law abiding people and he is merely carrying out the desires of ninety nine per cent, of the residents of this* State when he says that what ever measures are necessary will tie taken to enforce the laws and pro tect the public. In times of disturbance there arc no innocent bystanders and the good citizen will refrain front violating 1 the law in any respect. Cithers must j expect to be dealt with accordingly. SHOULDER TO SIlOl I.DEU. IT IS encouraging at this period j to oTiserve the fine feeling which | is manifested in the attitude of j organizations of ex-soldiers now j being formed in this city. This week ; the Veterans of Foreign Wars ar ranged for a parade on n certain evening and the Harrisburg post of the American Region, which had also called a meeting for the same evening, immediately cancelled the date and arranged for another eve ning to avoid conflict with tlie other association. This is the right spirit, inasmuch as there is r.o real rivalry or competition between the two or ganizations, one making eligible for its membership those who have seen service outside tlie country and ihe Region providing for all who have participated in the great war be tween May, 1917. and November, 1918, whether at home or abroad. Harrisburg is a patriotic com munity and these organizations will serve to keep alive the fires of patriotism and loyalty to country so necessary in viow,of what litis tran spired during recent week;:, A strong and virile Americanism is necessary to the perpetuity of the in stitutions for which 'America lias stood and will continue lo stand. The American Region and the Vet erans of Foreign Wars will follow naturally in the footsteps of that splendid organization, the Grand Army of Ihe Republic, which lias given devoted service in war and in peace and which will continue to do so as long as these old comrades survive. The American people have con fidence in their soldier sons and look to them to blaze lite way to a still higher civilization. TROTSKY'S WARNING LEON TROTZKV, the impossible Bolshevik nuisance in Russia, speaking at Petrogrrnl recently, gave a detailed program of BoD shevlk military operations, lie said that the "immense world combat against capitalism" would he fought out In America and England. This boast should be sufficient for the patriotic American workingmeti who are being deluged with the fool ish propaganda of Europe. There is no doubt whatever that most of the violence that has aroused right thinking people in the industrial cen ters this week is due to the activi ties of undesirables who have come (to this country from the disturbed 'sections of Europe and Asia. With this fact in mind, It is not likely that gjnartcans, native or adoptod, .vltt ynrmit the breaking down of v.——..-.P.— ...... *• -• - i- FRIDAY EVENING* | our system of government through the fulse teaching and murderous program of the misguided horde that | has invaded the United States during i recent years and which fattened on | high wages while other loyal work lingmen were fighting the good tlgh' o\ erseas. Chief of Police Wetzel has given notice that the curfew regulations will be strictly enforced, This means , that children unaccompanied by a | person more than twenty-one years j old must be oft the streets at nine thirty o'clock in the evening. There will be no wnrnings hereafter, but j parents and guardians will be ox- I pected to perform their duty in see j ing to it that tlte children over whom ! they have control are at home at I the hour fixed. Americanization j begins here. CON KLIN WILL ASSIST i STATK FORESTRY COMMIS SIONER CONK I, IN has been observing with interest the tree-planting movement in Harr's | burg and in a commendable spirt I tenders the co-operation of the. int ' portant department of which ho is i head. j His letter to Park Commissioner i Gross contains some practical sug ! gostions which will doubtless havtj. ! consideration and the most impor- I tant of (hose is (he adoption by City I Council of the shade tree law. which j should have been accepted by llar ■ risburg long ago. j There is scarcely a block in the jolty which does not utter, through its ; trees, the protest of an inanimate j thing against indifference and tieg ! loot. Many of the low-hanging limbs j obstruct ihe passage of pedestrians j and yet so long as there is no real [authority vested in a proper com-' i mission to look after lite trees we; ! may expect this condition to eon- ; ; tinue. ! It is encouraging lo note the ac tivities of the Department of Parks j with respect to tree planting, but j I some constructive program must be | outlined, to the end that we may j . have a real planting period during! 'tlte next month. Individuals can do j lunch themselves by arranging for jtlie planting of trees along their side- j : walks or.on their premises and those ! I slioalij consult tree authorities with-j j out delay, with a view to having the I proper species ready for setting ottt I mi or before the autumn Arbor Day. ' KNOX AND YKLOVITCII IVJrnil olUciul." hi Cnry nr tvxit*<l Mic'nat'l Y*lot itfli, | with making x<ilitious utt?r- ' I ances. The asserLeti Yclo- • i \ itcli ciiHtrihiitcMl iani|hU-ts urg ing turning: l the strike int a revolution wiiirit would take over the Gtvernment for lite union.— , .News disnateh. * i , MICH AED YEI.OViTCII about tits the individual who thus | delies the generous and whole some Government of the United States. Ills name should be spelled '• Yellow vh.eli." as Kett'ifartdieMinflj t Do character of tDo desperate .bifif-j ers who have come to thiscountry of opportunity and tire now doing, j their level best to overturn our in- ] Mitutions and replace them with the; j impossible theories of government' j imported from Russia and the other j i upset dynasties of tDo old world. I United States Senator Knox made Jaa important point in a speech this j week when he declared that the j class of foreigners for whom this ) Nation tuts been pouring out its blood and treasure for tlte last year and a | half are responsible for much of the | unrest that now plagues the Anteri j run people. Referring to lite steel j sir.he. Senator Knox said with re | sped to the unruly foreign element j and tlte responsibility of aliens for | creating liiueh of the disorder in the , industrial districts: I I do not vouch for the truth of , these statements, but suppose it ! is true thai tlip Americans went I tn work and thai the foreigners, fur whom we, have done so much, j and l'ot tyhoni we are asked to do ■ so much, are striking, w y should ] we not ascertain the fact as a j basis for a policy tliat this Gov j eminent should pursu. 1 1 he Pennsylvania statesman is ab j solutely right in liis position and his fellow countrymen will approve lite j suggestion that we as n nation ought to determine without delay what pol j icy shall l>e pursued in dealing with j those who have eonte hither only to j spit upon Ute freedom and the op | port unities which have been offered j them by a generous nation, j Del us have a showdown and otiee j for "all settle the question whether ttic American nation is simply pass | ing through a period of testing, j which .will make a liberty-loving I people stronger and more lit for the j tremendous responsibilities which [have been imposed by the world f war, or is approaching Ihe 'finish of la noble experiment. NOT KVEN TIIK CORK GIt'KAT BRITAIN, France and | Italy, according to recent cable I advices, have decided to divide j among themselves the eighteen (irr man ships now at Hamburg. Amer- i I lea is not represented on the repa- , I ration commission and seems to be I getting a raw deal at Paris. The acting head of the American peace delegation is said to-he'pre paring a protest against this deci sion of the three European powers, but his objection will probably go to join those other protests of the pre war period when the t'nitedX States made objection to certain moves of Germany and the governments with which we were subsequently: allied in the war. Makes one wonder whether we should not have a Cleve land or a Roosevelt to tell the European powers where to get off. Our philanthropic administration at Washington seems to be so deeply engrossed in making the world safe for Democracy—or is it the Demo cratic party—that the rights and in terests of the American people are : being constantly overlook**. FSLZUCI IK By the Kx-Committeeman | ! II- 1 Reports reaching the State Capi -1 tol from varjous county seats indi cate that in many counties members |of election boards failed to properly account for unused ballots and that 'there was more than ordinary delay j due to the mistakes in the counts and necessity for verifications. | t'lticlals in the election bureau at tlie State Department are receiving numerous inquiries on mooted ques tions, but us tlie State 011 y certifies judicial nominations, no decisions are being given. The proposition 11s regards sole nominees 111 certain counties where there were three or more aspirants for nonpartisan nominations has not come here as yet. Studies of the recent amendments to the election law a? regards tlie marking of ballots are being made at the t'api'.ol and some marked bal lots have ccnte here with certain combinations of marks us bases of inquiry. —Some vigorous scouting is being done by tlie advance men of the Democratic State organization as 1 result of the recent Democratic pri mary in order lo make sure .hat the fences*of Attorney General A. M.t- I hell Painter have not been broken. The Attorney General is being quietly boomed as a Presidential possibility and it is the pan to force the fight ing for national delegates tlia*. are friendly lo the State machine, so tl-ut if needed (hey will be for Wilson anil if net that Ihey will lie sine far Palmer. While Hie Democratic machine has been lielped by the primary re sults in Philadelphia, Allegheny. Lackawanna and o her count es. many of the thinkin Democrats are disturbed over the shrinking of tin registration in the cities and piti ably steal vote cast in the large cities and in most of tlte counties. They are inclined o consider ll.at it means a situation requiring a cure. This may mean that some one close to Palmer and of greater force than Dawrence 11. Hupp, the present chair-, man. may lie put in charge in fact, if not in name. Rupp has been in liarrisburg but'seldom: is not known to many Democrats and cut 110 fig ure at all during the legislative ses sion when It's party's representation was negligible. ('buries Job 11 son.Deputy Auditor General, says that the whole Repitli ' 'ca it ticket is going through in Montgomery county with a big ma jority. Steps for promnt organiza tion of the county for tlic fa'l elec-' Hon ore being taken now. Dnzorne cotintv is also being nr. gnpized for a Republican. The Wilkcs-Enr'p Record, which fought \ mil rose West, is out for bun now that lie was nominated for County' • 'oiiiinlssoner. •Tifitee 'siiniud E. Siiiill is one o' tlie few Ii *ii 111 hailglt appointees in be beiu li to win in the primary, lie V.-IS •riven r.ti per cent, of tlie votes in tlie Monroe-Pike district and ■s as good n-■ ' leeteit. ]|e was op posed by Kv-Judge W. A. Erdrnan and 1 . I). Towmepil. lie carried both counties. lie is not 40 years of imp and is a son of tlie late Con gressman SIIIIII. who was nole.l as a warrior in the Democracy. People 'ere remember him as one of ihe II "liters aen hi I -\. Mitchell Palmer to tWn he ran for the Senatorial nomi nation. John Ei McD innnr'i. we' 1 known n c-ls "ir'l n nf ilcwn to defeat hi the Pending Democratic council mftn'" nripiarv liy one vote, -- Schuylkill connlv authorities -ire preparing to In urn h a enmpaVrn agnipst ballot frauds in that conniv tmrlicnioTlv inn epeing' the votes In parts of PottKvill.i. -The name of Ex-Jtulgp \V K Stevens, of Rend'n". is being beard rs a possible candidale fcr Auditor General. So is thai n<" Col. Joseph 11. Thompson, of the 110 th. who lives in Reave" county. Dr. F. 11. Frederick, of the Pitts burgh Civil P-rvlce Board, a l.e-'ie 'eailer in Pittsburgh, i s being boosted for Coroner of Allegheny connlv when Coroner Samuel C. Jamison resigns, which it is expected will be next month. Results of the Democratic pri mary in Allegheny county whore Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell endeav ored to have a personal friend nomi nated for county commissioner and failed, are said by people there to have eliminated any chance of the Judge controlling lie Democratic national delegates from that county's four districts. —E. D. Raker, tlie postmaster of Phaniokin, would like to know who the Democratic State bosses have picked to succeed hint. Raker is Democratic candidate for district attorney in Shamokin and wants to politicate at once. I —On order of Judges John D. Phafer and Ambrose B. lteid, dep uty sheriffs seized 20 ballot boxes from districts in 10 wards and [brought them to the Allegheny court j house where they will be opened to .straighten out discrepancies found 1 by the returning board now making |a canvass of the vote cast at the pri | niary election. I —George W. Coles, chairman of the | Town Meeting party, declared at I Philadelphia that he had been "in j advertently quoted" when he sa'cl | several days ago that the Town 1 Meeting party had passed out of ex- I istence. Tlte Evening T.edger says: ".Since | Mr. Coles, in his statement, pointed ' out thai the work of the Town Meet i ing party had been accomplished [through the nomination of Con [ gressman Moore for mayor, Town ; Meeting workers have been insist - | ing that they, at any rate, were alive and demanding continued recogni- I tion as independent leaders." —The Moore letter in the Phila- ' |<lelphia Evening ledger, contains 1 this remark about something that | lias nuzzled people here: "Funny! j how the Kendrieks got mixed up jin the enmpaign. The Vares were! .hanking heavily on Freeland Ken-j driek, the receiver of taxes, who had I heen spoken of as a candidate for | I Mayor. Freeland Kendrick is a j ! good talker and popular over the ' i town. Without intending to mix the j Kendrieks up. Congressman Moore j asked his old friend and attorney. ' ..Murdoch Kendrick, a cousin of i Freeland, to become his manager. I Murdoch Kendrick is a I'niversitv of Pennsylvania man. who had ser- ' .red with Mr. Moore in the city', treasurer's office, afterwards be coming assistant district attorney, j under John C. Bell. H's willing- 1 ness to act as campaign manage-. proved a boon to the Moore forces. 1 There wore times when the head- i lines have mixed the Kendrieks up. ; hut there was no time during the! campaign when the Moore mnna- \ ger was not on-- the job, driving: hard at the opposition, or success- I fully parrying their best blows. It 1 was a light which the lawyer thor oughly enjoyed from start to Aniak HXBHMBTTRG UfiOtfl. TELEOKHPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES OH, MAN! .... By BRIGGS ' No Wonder Germany Quit By MA.TOM FRANK C. MARIN Of tin- Army Recruiting Station | "All through my service In France I it was a matter of great interest to i Sine to question tlie Boche prisoners Swe took. As I spoke German anil ' I hail been all over Germany it was ■ i particularly interesting, for as soon j as a prisoner would discover 1 had > i been in his town he would tell me j | anything and everything he knew, ■ ,including the location of machine j gun nests, how many guns and men j there were in each, etc., right along! j with the story of how hard it was j ; for his wife to live on the food sub- j ! stitutes and how tired they all were j jof the war. While we were in the | I V'osges we frequently left bills of j ! fare, showing in German what we | 'were getting to eat in our trenches, i in the, holies that some Jlun whose | tummy craved real food would see i the bill of fare and sneak over to | 1 surrender. The first time our propa-j j ganda to the Boche stomach worked, I ! Whs- the day after our patrol shot j !the sentry in front of the major's I house in the village of Menil. The I | following evening two German sol-| ' diers came up to our wire and sur- j rendei ed. They both produced a bill of fare as soon as they got inside j the wire and asked with deep anx-j iet.v if it were true. They later told j me their reasons for coming over! I were two-fold, tlrst, to get some of! I that fresh beef and wheat bread ad-1 | vertised in our bills of fare, and sec-j ond, they were scared at what had 1 happened the night before. I asked I them what had happened and they 'said that about one o'clock the sen ! |r\ in frrtnt of the commanding of -1 (leer's house in Menil had started to : blow his bugle but his blowing had : been rudely interrupted. They had ! heard what sounded like a volley ot ! shot" but the sentry was so torn to I plcOes that they had been unable to | ' determine whether a shell or an i aerial bomb had hit him and since I he was quite and entirely dead, lie could not explain what had really ! happened. Having seen the effects of one .4r. caliber pistol bullet on a i man 1 could readily realize the con ! dition of the sentry after being hit I bv seven in a volley. Tlie prisoners went on to say that that day many j doctors and staff officers had in Menil to view the holy and the ! scene of the crime in order, if pos ! stble. to determine by whom anil , how this man had been killed. Since | i in all the four years of the war such , a thing had never happened to the German army, a sentry kll ed mys- I tcriouslv in front of his battalion , ! commander's quarters eleven hun- | dred meters back of the lines, every- . 1 one was very much excited and very much frightened. The major had , moved his headquarters back to a 1 camp about a mile in the rear and ! p was believed another battalion, a l/attalion of shock troops would come ! into the trenches that night to rein-j ■ force the battalion already there. , j A'sc thev said that a lot of their i comrades would come over and sur-1 I render if they could get away from j ' |i,p officers and machine gunners ! who would shoot tltem like dogs If | thev thought they were trying to •Kamerad.' All of this was extreme ly inteiesting and extremely gratify ! ing. That one little episode had suc- I ceded In drawing a shock battalion i".to the trenches of a 1 supposedly j I quiet sector meant that one battal-1 j ion less would get rested to meet the | I allied attacks farther west, for !| ' then and there decided that shock | battalion was going to have a busy i time. ami it did. Tile telephone wasj mighty active for u few minutes and I the wiiole front woke up. All night| long we harassed every road, trail, and communicating trench witty ar tillery and machine guns, so that battalion had a real merry time com ing into the trenches. Also we hastily arranged u number of patrol raids which combed the Boche trenches in different sections at dif ferent times during the night and kept their batteries barraging and their machine guns burning up am munition all night long. Towards morning one of our patrols ran into a bunch of Boche who really put up a tight and sure enough from their dead we found that the shock troops had arrived, but we got first blood out of them. We were in front of them for unother month and I can assure you they spent a month of worried, sleepless nights, for they never knew from one night to the next what .new damnable trick the pig-dog Yankees would spring/ on them." Bless His Holy Name Bless the liord, <). my soul; iind all that Is within me. bless his holy M.m. —Psalm* I. General Denikine Russia's New Hope: Record of the Man Now to the Fore in the South What the Successor of Korniloff and Alexieff as the Leader of the Cossack Forces Is Like—His D. :ocratic Tendencies Under the Rule of the Czar G GENERAL. DENIKINE, who it. is reported is now the chief ruler In Russia, Admiral Kol chak having resigned in his favor, fs one of the ablest and most demo cratic and patriotic leaders of Rus sia outside the Bolshevik area. His political headquarters are at Rostov, on the Sea of Azof, at the mouth of the Don, and he Is the successor as well as ona of the most loyal fol lowers of the old Don Cossak leader, General Korniloff. When he organ ized his volunteer army of the Don in an effort to redeem southern Russia from Bolshevism he made the following statement: "The future holds out for us the prospect of a hard struggle—a strug gle for the entirety of ruined, dis membered and humiliated Russia; a struggle for the perishing Russian culture, for the devasted Immense national wealth: for the right to live and breathe freely in a land where . iw has been replaced by the reign of a mob; a fight unto death, if necessary. The form of the Rus sian government of the future is de pendent on the will of the consti tuent assembly which is to be con voked immediately upon the re-es tublisiinient of law and order in the land." At present General Denikine's au thority now extends not only over the Cossack region but over a wide stretch of territory between the Volga and the Dnieper. He com mands the Black sea coast between Georgia and Bessarabia, and has un der his control such important cities as Kharkov, Kiev and Odessa. His staff is in quiet restful Taganrog. While his political counsel has pitch ed its quarters in Rostov. As to the type of man that Deni kine is "Struggling Russia" presents this very timely pen picture: During the regime of the the czar, Denikine enjoyed the reputation of a radical. Several facts will show how he acquired such a reputation under a bureaucratic regime. When Denikine was at the end of his course in the academy of the general staff, the pendants and routine worshipers of the academy, who were displeased by his uncom promising and • often curt truthful ness, told him that in spite of the fact that he had proved to be a brilli ant student there was no room for him in the general staff. Denikine thereupon addressed a personal let ter to Nicholas 11, in which he re quested that his standing be investi gated and that he be either punish ed according to law, if found guilty, or allowed to proceed unmolisted along the road which he chose as his lifework. We do not know whether his letter reached the czar or not, but it Is certain that this letter found its wayj to the desk of the minister of war. Denikine was invited to the ministry and was ordered to forget forever about the general staff career. The, irrepressible nature of Denikine, I 'however, could not acknowlegdej I such a sudden breakdown of all his! I hopes. On the next day all the of ficer-graduates of the academy were to be received by the czar in audi ence, and Denikine appeared with the other offlqers at the palace. Upon his arrival he was informed that as he was being dropped from the rolls of the academy his introduction to the emperor was not in place. But even such a categorical statement could not break down the young of ficer's iron will- Denikine remained in that palace, and in order to avoid a scandal he was allowed to remain among the officers and to occupy the place he was entitled to, at the head of the class. When Nicholas II turned to him 'with the customary question—where I he. Denikine, expected to serve after 'leaving the academy'—Minister of I War Kuropatkin would not permit ! the young officer to open his mouth ! and reported: "Tour majesty, this officer has been declared as undeserving to serve |in the general staff. T shall have ] the honor to report to vour majesty j about this case in detail." I Nicholas passed him by. Deni : ktne's 'ast hope was crushed. I Soon, however, some of his luckier [friends, who were serving In the Warsaw military district persuaded the then commander-in-chief of the district. General Puzyrevsky, to in vite Denikine into the district staff. After having made his acquaintance, General Puzyrevsky, in appreciation of Denikine's striking ability for warded a recommendation to Petro grad to transfer Denikine to the general staff, and the functionary who was taking the place of Kuro patkin, who had left for the Japan ese theater of war, did not dare to refuse the Influential Puzyrevsky. So Denikine was appointed to serve In the general staff. After seeing service in the Russo- Japanese war, where he distinguish ed himself. Denikine returned to Russia and served in various dis tricts. He aroused the enmity of his superiors by a series of articles in the military journal Razviedchik, imder the general caption "Army Notes" and under uom de plume of Nocliin, which contained castigat ing criticisms of the state of affairs in the War Department. He was more than once invited into the of fice of his raging superiors, particu larly by General Sandetzky, in whose district he served for a long time, where he was subjected to furious grillings. "You'll have to forego your liter ary exercises, colonel, or else • * you understand." But apparently he did not under stand. for in the next number of i Razviedchik there appeared another, still more caustic, article by Nocliin. When the world war broke out Denikine first served as general quartermaster for one of the armies, but later this staff work proved to be of little satisfaction to his stormy nature, and he requested to be trans ferred to the active front. He was placed in command of an "iron" brigade and later of a division of sharpshooters which wrote a number of brilliant pages into Russian mili tary history. After the revolution Denikine oc cupied the post of chief of staff un der the supreme commander. General Alexieff, and when the latter resign ed he received, first, the western and later under General Kornilov, the south-western front. On June lfi, 1917, there was held, at Riniavka, a conference of all army and front commanders and the mem bers of the government. Denikine came to the conference with a grave and well-founded report on the con dition of the Russian army. At tlie beginning of this report the general said: "I must ask you to excuse me, as my words will not be, T know, too pleasant. But I was frank and trulli ful under the czar and I will remain the same under the revolution. "the four months of 'revolution ary' army legislation has .dissolved the army. It has trampled in the mud our banners. Give them back to us. Do not fear; the names of the autocrats have been obliterated from them just as they are obliterated from our hearts, but there is inscribed up on them the glory of past victories and the historic valor of the Rus sian army. Bet us unfurl them In their full grandeur and glory and then bow before them." After this speech A. F. Kerensky came over to Denikine and said: "Genernf, permit me to shake your hand and to thank you for your honest and truthful words." But later Kercnsky went back on Denikine, Alexieff and Korntloff and fell by his own folly. Recently General Denikine made a tour of the liberated territory of south Hussia, visiting the principal centers, such of Kharkov, Eknterins s'av and Tsaritsyn. Everywhere he 'received a mos*. enthusiastic wel come from the entire population. In Kharkov crowds of people gathered outside the house where he was stay ing and would not disperse until the general came out on the balcony and addressed them. After thanking the people for their warm reception, he said: "We bring peace to the labor ing classes and freedom to Russia, where every workman and peasant must be guaranteed a free and happv existence. God grant that our task he crowned with success, the fratri cidal war brought to a speedy end that in the Holy Kremlin we may ofTer thanks to God for the sal- VRtlon of Russia." And 'that Is th" man that is bc- I'.ieved will save Russia! SEPTEMBER 26, 1919. God Bless the Flog Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming. Snatched from the altars of in solent foes. Burning with star-fires, but never consuming. Flash its broad ribbons of lily and rose. Vainly the prophets of Baal would rend it, Vainly his worshipers pray for its fall; Thousands have died for it, millions defend it. Emblems of justice and mercy to all. Justice that reddens the sky with her terrors, y Mercy that comes with her white handed train. Smoothing all passions, redeeming all errors. Sheathing the saber and breaking the chain. Borne on the deluge of old usurpa tions Drifted our ark o'er the desolate seas, Bearing the rainbow of hope to the nations, Torn from the storm-cloud and flung to the breeze! God bless the flag and its loyal de fenders, While its broad folds o'er the bat tlefield wave. Till the dim star-wreath rekindles its splendors Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave! —Oliver Wendell Holmes. Bogs, What Do You Think? What does the average American hoy think of America? These are days when fanatics are trying to tear down the fabric of the greatest popular government the world has evfer seen. The "Reds" run Sunday Schools in the big cities of the country and teach radicalism. What is all this going to do to the boy? There is one chapter in "High Benton ' William Heyliger's new book for boys that every American boy should read. It deals with the election of Kerrigan, a poor lawyer, to the Congress of the United States! It breathes a sublime love of coun try, a passionate ideal of American ism. It is, in itself, a powerful ser nton on justice, liberty and equality No boy can read that chapter with out feeling his heart swell with pride that he, too, is an American. That ; chapter alone stamps this book as one of the most significant pieces of writing that has been published in | years. This is an Appleton book. Human Classifications [lrvln S. Cobb in the Saturday Even ing Post.] It seems to me one of the chief peculiarities of human nature is that it divides all civilized mankind into two special groups—those who think they could run any newspaper better than the man who is trying to j run it, and those who think they I could run any hotel better than the i man who is hanging on as manager jor proprietor of it. These are sub : divisional classifications of course I for example, women who think they ! nan tell other woman how to I bring up her children without spoil | ing them to death, and women who : are absolutely sure no woman on j earth can tell them anything about ; the right way to bring up their own children; which two groupings In clude practically all women. To a Perspective Cook j (From the New York Tribune.] I Curly Locks, Curly Locks, wilt thou be ours? i Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet weed the flowers, But stand in the kitchen and cook i a fine v N meal, ; And ride every night In an automo bile. Curly Locks, Curly Locks, come to us soon! I Thou needst not to rise until mid afternoon; Thou mayst be Croatian, Armenian or Greek; Thy guerdon Shall be what thou askest per week. Curly Locks, Curly Locks, give us a chancel Thou shall %ot wash windows, nor iron my pants. Oh, come to the coziest of seven room bowers, Curly Locks. Curly Locks, wilt thou be ours? Emting (Eljat It's a rather strange thing for ho tels to be hunting rooms for people. Of course, it has been known in Har risburg for years, but everyone rather supposed that when the new Penn-Harris was built that it would meet the conditions for years to come, especially in the handling of the crowds of people that came hero for various meetings. During the session of the Legislature the hoteis of the city were simply jammed as there was much out of the ordinary in the session that attracted peoi lo here and a number of State orga,.i --i rations held meetings here during | the winter because at last Harris | burg had a place wheie meetings . could be held comfortably and a lio j tel that could care for people ut | tending them on a large scale. Dut I now the session is over and go.io I and there are many meetings ol a j State-wide nature which are bruit ing hundreds of persons to the Htutj Capital; many folks coming here to see the city and the State House o.i automobile tours who did not coma > this way because of roads and knit lof hotel accommodations in yea is i past and the usual run of peopl.i having business at a State Capital I and in a live town. And the hotels | are taxed to care for them. People | are actually being asked to send Hie j locations and character of rooms which they have for let to help out the hotels. It's a rather interesting, and very gratifying, thing to note that Harrisburg is so much upo.i the map and that people are coming here in such numbers. * Men who have been on the "ex tra" list of the railroads for quito some months are commencing to find that they do not have much time to spare and that they are pretty nearly "regulars" when it comes to their jobs. Quite a few men who had been on the "call list" of the Pennsylvania, for instance, and been tilling odd jobs during the summer have found that the calls of the road are so insistent that they barely have time to look aiter things about their own homes and gardens, because everyone on the railroad seems to have a garden this year. With more crews being put to work, towers being reopeneu and things generally speeded up, it wouid ap-, pear that if no striae ill industries hits this section that there will be lively working times ahead. In regard to the war record of Bernard Brady, the inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Washington who seems to have become a soldier in a Pennsylvania regiment in the Civil War while under nine years of age, a friend says that the late Captain John C. Belaney, one of the young est men in the Civil War, was born in 1848 and came out of the army one of the youngest lieutenants known. He was not thirteen when he went into the army. Daniel A. Clemens, Jr., who enlisted with ltis father in a Lancaster regiment, tells an interesting story. His father was a private in the same regiment and used to carry the rations for his son, who was company drummer, in his haversack. The younger Clemmens followed the regiment und was final ly taken on as a drummer when eleven years, four months and fif teen days of age. The mustering officer put him on as fourteen al though he was born February 28, 1852. He was in the battles of Chickamauga and marched with Sherman to the sea. The gentle sport of "gigging" is under way in the Susquehanna river in full force just now and there is hardly a night but what the flares of the men who spear fish as they come up to see the bright lights are made out on the river. This has al ways been more or less of a sport about here and some fine fish are taken that way. The favorite places appear to be along the Cumberland shore where the Juniata and Sher man's creek and Conodoguinet creek waters flow along. This water is. free from the coal and culm which, hugs the Dauphin shore because of' the water from Shamokin and Wico nisco creeks. Great interest is being shown ini the bridge building business in the bids made for the construction of the memorial bridge in this city. The opening of the bids brought here pile of the largest gatherings of build ers and material men known in a long time and they have been fol lowing up every move made in the project. From what has been learned the State will ask that work be launched as soon as possible after the contract is signed which will likely be next week. The first steps will be removal of tracks and street material and then the State street bridge will be taken down, a tern- ■ porary bridge for pedestrians being I constructed. Speaking about the gun hunt( which are under way in some sec- , tions of the State under provision*! of the law forbidding foreigners to own firearms of any description calls to mind that when such hunts were '■ made in this city during the war there were some reniarkable con traptions found among the foreign ers. Tn spite of all that can be dono the aliens seem to get guns, some of them dating back fifty years, and when a time of anxiety comes thevf are in possession of something which) may make trouble. When the* houses were searched here shotguns which were made in the seventies, army muskets from the Civil) War fancy fowling pieces and all sorts of guns were found On<- man re marked that the appeared tog be afraid of lnd ! bought any^ old thing that v i Vioot. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —w. Oscar Miller, former State Senator, was nominated for council in Beading. —William Conner, register of wills of Allegheny county, well known here, will be elected for a third term. —Col. E. M. Young, of AUpntown, prominent banker, was here yester day and visited the Capitol. —General C. T. Cresswell, com mander of the Reserve Militia, was here on military matters yesterday. —Charles .T. Hepburn, counsel for the Philadelphia Real Estate Board, says the property owners will help the tenants committee and back up the Attorney General. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg stee! Is used for making scientific instru ments? HISTORIC HARRISBURG ' —John Harris paid for most of the equipment of the first compriy of men sent trom here to aid W ald ington.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers