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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.