18 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by rHE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telearraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief feyit OYSTER, Business Manager pUS. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor [A. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board gypr McCULLOUGH, M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GU& M. STEINMETZ. % Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication ©f all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. Ptll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. i By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1910 I dread nothing so much as fall ing into ruts and feeling myself 6c toming a fossil. — JAMES A. GABFIEI.D. TWO GREAT BRIDGES READERS of the Telegraph of Wednesday must have boon greatly interested and im pressed with the story reprinted on the editorial page from L,'lllustra tion (Paris), telling of the wonder ful memorial bridge now under con struction over the Marne river at Chateau Thierry to take the place of the old bridge blown up by American engineers to prevent the further ad vance of the German horde toward Paris. Here the tide of battle turned and the Paris newspaper gives full credit to the American soldiers. This bridge is similar to our own structure to be erected at State street, and on the southern bank of the Marne a square has been planted which wilt provide access to the bridge and give scope to its deco rative composition. Again this square at Chateau Thierry suggests the Har rlsburg memorial square at the east ern entrance to the proposed won derful viaduct at State street to be erected by the Commonwealth and Harrisburg. On the Marne also at the entrance to the memorial struc ture will be erected two monuments representative of French and Ameri can soldiers who successfully de fended the river lines and prevented the Htm advance. These monuments suggest again the pylons with their figures of French and American sol diers because the great pylons at the western approach of the memorial bridge at State street will likewise commemorate the splendid soldiers and sailors of this State by a digni fied architectural group. The building of the memorial bridge on the Marne was started in August, when a symbolic ceremony marked the placing of the first stone. This also is a coincidence, inasmuch as the first step toward the building of the memorial bridge in this city was officially taken about the same time. It is a remarkable coincidence Chat there should be designed for Pennsylvania's splendid memorial a commemorative structure similar to the bridge approved by the expert *rt critics of France for the high Nrater mark of the Hun invasion at Chateau Thierry. Under the circumstances, it is rea sonable to expect that a transfer of the $300,000 loan from the proposed IWtalnut street bridge to the great memorial bridge will be approved "unanimously by the voters of Har risburg at the election next Tuesday. My. what a sudden interest the i democratic bosses are taking in the "ticket they condemned at the pri maries. KEEPING STEP THOMAS ADAMS, a town plan ning advisor of Canada, said in an address before the American Clvio Association at Philadelphia Sbat the "greatest defect of our j Anglo-Saxon civilization is that it 3uu paid all too little attention to tao environment and housing condi tions of its working classes. 'Al though we have thousands of acres Of spare land in the United States had Canada, we have not been able to afford enough space in our cities tar recreation centers and for small "plots of ground around our homes.' " Our Canadian visitor hit the nail OQUarely on the head and he empha sised it by the further comment that wo cannot prevent- an inevitable re action in favor of the saloon unless yn give the people some strong counter attraction. Harrlsburg real izes this situation, and it is becauso It does realize conditions growing out of the prohibition of the liquor traffic that much is being done here to make the living conditions better and the recreational opportunities (•taquato for all the people. Yvfieri the loan for the bathing Reaches and bath houses on the Sus quehanna basin comes before the FRIDAY EVENING, voters at the election next Tuesday they will not fall In appreciation of the importance of such facilities for Harrisburg. With the growth of community centers and playgrounds for the children and adequate homes for the working community, the city will be an even more attractive mag net for those who would live in a wholesome and comfortable atmos phere. The use of money at the polls, according to old politicians, is not confined to Carlisle. Nearly all can tell the story of a silver dollar that was handed over to a voter in the booth and of the dollar rolling out before the elec tion board.—Harrisburg Evening News. They could also tell of women of South Third street who leaned out of the upper windows of their homes and witnessed the Democratic dis pensers of a big corruption fund, giv ing large bills to the voters as they 1 passed single file into the polling places during a famous mayoralty j campaign here. j TWO REASONS WHY ! COUNTY CHAIRMAN WILLIAM j H. HORNER says there are two j prime reasons why every Republican should go to the polls next Tues day. They are: First, because the ticket named in September is made up entirely of men worthy of the support of the party. Second, because the vote rolled up this fall will have an important bearing on the Presidential election next year, when every Republican will desire to see the party in power at Washington turned out and Re publicans elected to replace them. I These are good and valid reasons 'for a big Republican vote next Tues day. Just because the Democrats are disrupted and discouraged in Har risburg and Dauphin county is no reason why Republicans should be careless of their duties, and it _ia not likely they will be. Indeed, the present state of dis organization in the Democratic party should be the very reason why Re publicans should show their interest. A big vote this year will put the Democrats of this district entirely out of the running next year and will make it more and more difficult for the would-be bosses to control them either at the primaries or at the general elections. But even more important is it that the present very efficient and businesslike administration of af fairs in this county should be con tinued by the election of men of the type of those now in office. The Republican candidates one and all were nominated by unusually large majorities. Every one of them Is of good character. It has not been even hinted by the opposition that they would not make good public servants. They are the regularly nominated candidates of the Re publican party and they are worthy of trust. This is a normally Re publican district and they should, and doubtless will, receive over whelming majorities at the polls next week. But if they are to have the sup port they deserve every Republican must vote. It is up to you, Mr. Republican. The Methodists of Harrisburg In a great union conference determined to widen their sphere of usefulness by promoting practical Americanization efforts A definite program is to be ar ranged for this work to cover Har risburg and a radius of ten miles out side. We suspect that our Methodist friends are just a few laps ahead of ony other denomination In this im portant decision. Americanization Is one theme which is being discussed In religious and secular circles and the jlive church organizations will be able jto do much to solve the alien problem .in the United States. Arnold W. Brunner, the distinguish ed New York architect, who designed the Capitol Park zone changes and the Memorial Bridge, addressing the American Civic Association at Phila delphia. paid a high compliment to the State Capital and declared that'"no where has there been evinced a great er harmony of the ideals of the city and State than in this Common wealth.." Is it any wonder that witli such testimony from so many places regarding the Harrisburg improve ments in co-operation with the State, that this city is becoming known far and wide as a leader of American municipalities? In a divorce case this week the petitioner told President Judge Kun kel that his wife had left him he cause she preferred to live in Phila delphia while he chose to remain in Harrlsburg. Constituting themselves as Jury in this case the people of Harrisburg will undoubtedly decide lin favor of the huspand who prefer red Harrisburg to Philadelphia. ""poCttteo IK By the Ex-Committeeman Considerable apprehension is being manifested by men connected with the Democratic State windmill as to what may happen to the party in Its claim to minority representation In counties where there have been flank movements engineered to elect county officers. The Democratic leaders have always attempted to assert something like constitutional rights to minority county commis sionerships. This county is an in stance. and there are others where thought of electing any one as a minority commissioner who was not a Democrat has been occasion for shrill sneaking. Ko\\ \he Democrats have trouble in Philadelphia where the Charter patty, instead of damaging the Re publicans as was hoped, is likely to be the cause of the Democrats los ing a place. In other counties labor and other movements which have been coddled by Democratic leaders have been the cause of similar heart burnings. The Democrats are now appealing to their people to stand fast and vote the straight ticket everywhere. Another cause of Democratic wakefulness is the situation in Read ing where it looks as thjough the fight for thi mayoralty was between John Keim Stouffer, the Republican nominee, and J. Henry Stump, run ning mate of Representative James H. Maurer on socialistic legislative tickets. William Abbott' Witman, after a noisy start, seems to be In danger of being a bad third, which will not help the troubled Demo cratic situation in the capital of that ancient Democratic stronghold, Berks county. Apparently the Democratic ring masters have been so busy getting things in shape for the delegate and State committee elections next year that they have either gotten out of touch with local affairs in certain counties or else have been shown the door. —Just as an instance of the way the Democrats and some of the inde pendents have gotten tangled up this fall, this extract from the Philadel phia Press may be cited. The Press has been making a close study of the unusual political situation in Philadelphia and is of the opinion that the 'Democrats have some fight on their hands to hold minority places. It says editorially: "We are not concerned in the contest for minority offices be tween the Democratic party and the so-called Charter party, but when the Democratic city chair man, who is also a candidate for county commissioner, says that 'the law was specifically framed for the purpose of alloting tho minority places to the Demo crats,' exceptions are to be taken. If the law—which is a provision of the Constitution—had been specifically intended to allot the minority places to the Demo crats it would have been differ ently worded. In the case of county commissioners it is pro vided that three shall be elected, but no citizen shall vote for more than two, the three high est to be declared elected. As a matter of fact, in several coun ties, where one party or the other has a preponderating vote, that party has been frequently able to elect all three commis sioners. The law has generally worked to give the Democrats a commissioner in counties where they have been able to maintain a fairly good organization, but recently in Philadelphia they have had bad luck, or bad man agement. They cannot claim anything under the law unless they have the votes." —Some attention has been at tracted to the local issues involved 1 in Sunbury's election this year as i the question of adopting the com- ] mission form of government for the borough, instead of following the general provisions of the borough code, is to come up, and a $lBO,OOO school loan--4s also before'the peo ple. The Sunbury Daily gives this j account of an important endorse- , ment given to the plan: "The com- i mission form of government which . will be voted on at the general elec tion in Sunbury on Tuesday of next • week, November 3, was endorsed at a regular meeting' of the Central La bor Unioir; last evening in the P. O. S. of A. hall. There was a good turn out of delegates and individual mem bers. The endorsement by the Cen tral Labor Union, made only after wide inquiry by its leaders from other Pennsylvania cities, which adopted it, to find out how it is working in their communities, will go far toward carrying the proposi tion in Sunbury, as its members will be guided largely by the unpreju diced infestigatio nof its officers. The endorsement is the biggest boom the plan has received during the cam paign, as it is from the largest body of electors in Sunbury." ' —Soldier candidates are keeping folks busy in Cumberland, Franklin and AdamS counties. They are on both of the principal tickets and are hustling as they were doing just about a year ago. —The new Lebanon campaign committee last night arranged to make a vigorous close to the cam paign. There was a large attendance of party workers. —The Altoona Tribune is out for the election of John W. Blake for mayor. It has been making daily references to the noted blacksmith candidate. —The Johnstown Tribune is out with a suggestion that the Demo crats of Cambria call upon their "finance committee" to pull them out of the hole into which they have fallen. —Scranton's campaign has gotten to the full-page advertising stage. The Republican takes it's rival to task, saying "The Scranton Times, while loudly proclaiming its 'non partisanship' in the judicial cam paign, making a vicious partisan and personal attack on District Attorney Maxey, in the interest of its own candidate, Judge O'Neill, whom it is supporting for reasons which it con fessed a short time ago were purely for the benefit of the Democratic party." —According to reports heard in Philadelphia, Congressman J. Hamp ton Moore is determined to see that Republican leaders do their duty and he will judge after the election by the figures. Warnings against knifing for support for councilmanic candidates have been issued, says the Evening' Ledger. —Chester county Republicans de clare that they will sweep the county* with their ticket. The Democratic element has gotten into a fight all its own. —Washington county's battle is being waged in the newspapers al most as fiercely as that in Lack ! awanna county and the chances are , that there will be a pretty good , Republican vote, notwithstanding all the row. Washington elects two 1 judges this year. —Governor Hproul speaks at Ches ter's final rally to-morrow. SDOtRISBURG TELEGKXP3 SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By BRIGGS 4 f WELL' WMAT. . 'RoOND^ riMALCV BoU<SH TJ / Vou M GAM ) / J°H- MGAnO TetLlrslG PeoPtC THAT f /QrtlAt&J 6oiMG~~~Tb A THAT PL ACS- / £_ LLY WAJ JUST START A SCHOOL. — i— Thsy say Th6fe /- s. l c-rpi msiM& Vou ! /fit For mots up There F. X. ISM T A RI3H IM / T X 7, AV „ E YOU CAM / 7 TOO- THSY SU*£ 7 •VE A THE LAKS- ITS TOST < A , O V. \ SOMFBOIIY / I FT) T ° M£ W' E * OM X JOT A] UK6 THE DEAD SEA 7 . | L ° ,T / '\^OO Z^MK^^ R Government's Function [From Kansas City Times] The public welfare is expressly declared by the constitution to be a chief concern of the Government. That welfare undoubtedly requires that there be no cessation of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life. It seems no new theory then upon which the Government now pro poses to exercise its powers to in sure a supply of coal, without which industry, comfort, life itself could scarcely continue. The powers of the Government undoubtedly are equal to the case if the emergency is shown to require their exercise. There can be no argument on such fundamentals. A Government must be strong enough to preserve the society organized under it. Failing of that it is manifestly inadequate to the principal use for which it is instituted. We are accustomed to think of the Government's war power as its highest function. But actualy what the Government does in war is simply a means in the exercise of a higher function still —that of pre serving the institutions of peace. When war comes all private and in dividual rights cease, or are sus pended, while every citizen gives his labor, his fortune and if necessary his life to maintain the existence of the Nation. Nobody then questions the power of the Government when properly exercised to the end in view. But that end is not 'different from the end always in view. Nor are the means to attain it, so far as the powers of Government are concern ed, less under any other condition than they are under the Condition of war. It is only because, hereto fore, the condition of war has been the sole one under which the ex istence of society has been threaten ed that w'e have regarded it, and the powers then exercised by the Government, as extraordinary. But actually the condition that would come if all industry in the United States ceased would be more terrible than any that war itself could produce. Would anybody deny that under such a condition the Government lacked the power to remove its cause? If that cause was the stoppage of codl produc tion or the stoppage of distribution, could anybody argue that the Gov ernment ought not, through its power, to compel the service of citizens, to produce coal or operate the railroads to distribute coal? Is that a greater power than the Gov ernment exercised when it con scripted the labor of citizens, their money and their lives to defeat the German armies? Nobody wants to feel that the necessity of such exercise of power will arise. Probably it won't. Nor is argument particularly in order on the question of a man's right to work or not to work as it pleases him. That question can go over, as they say in the Senate. The main point is that there is no limit to the power of organized society, of which the Government is the legal agent, to preserve its existence whether from foreign or domestic challenge. Fiction Writer's Progress t [From Life] When he started —One cent a word: "He lit a cigaret." Six months later—Three cents a word: "Taking out his ornate cigaret case, he extracted one of the slender cylinders and applied a match to it. The curling smoke mounted like incense at the altar of some pagan goddess." Two Vears later —Twenty-five cents a word: "With a gesture that embodied consciousness of position and supreme ease of manner, he poised the cigaret between his slim fingers. For just a fraction of a second he held it before pal*' it to his llp3, as one pauses before a kiss to take the fullest pleasure in the anticipation. Then the spurt of the match brought his features Into sharp relief for an instant, to be veiled the next second by the misty exhalation of that first perfect puff." When he finally arrived—One dollar a word: "He lit a cigaret." How About It? [The American Legion Weekly] The Army will take over the work of the seven welfare societies, says Secretary Baker. An organization connected with the General Staff will be charged with the develop ment and supervision of the educa tion, recreation and morale of the service. Which would you rather | have, a grizzled General Staff col onel or a Y., or K. of C. lass to look 'after your morale? "Gas"—The First Alarm A Frenzy for Which the Hun Was Not to Blame By INNIS BROWN IN THE AMERICAN LEGION WEEKLY I WONDER whether any man who saw front-line service in France will over forget that first gas alarm. Surely none of the boys who were bitten by the fiendish stuff, and possibly marked for life, will ever forget its horrors. But aside from these there are hordes of others who undoubtedly recall the first time the cry came down the line—"Gas!" Speaking for my own organiza tion, a 155-mm. howitzer regiment, memory emphasizes the ludicrous side of that initial alarm now. Back in training camp we had been duly impressed with the terrors of gas. Officers detailed to special gas school came back reeking with figures and statistics, convincing of its deadly horrors. Daily drills in adjusting and wear ing masks, together with emphatic warning against giving the alarm in playfulness, and thorough admoni tions as to the consequences of fail ure to take every possible precau tion against it, left an Impression not unlike that of telling "bogey man" stories to a child. "Take no chances, play everything safe and be suspicious of all unusual circum stances and conditions," was the policy. Three weeks before the beginning of the St. Mihiel offensive we fin ished our training and moved up into the Toul sector. Two days after our arrival, wo were ordered to relieve a regiment holding old defensive positions in the vicinity of the villages of Manonville and Bernecourt. At the end of a week's time we received orders to prepare advance positions to be used in the St. Mihiel drive. At the time our regiment echelon was located In a wood some two or three kilometers from the town of Menil La Tour. In a pocket of this wood, flanked by a road which ran past the echelon, was a big ammu nition dump. At night the road was crowded with all kinds of vehicles hauling ammunition up to the for ward positions. Trucks, caissons, fourgons chariots du pare and every other kind of conveyance available were pressed into service. Failure to observe rules of the road often led to bad Jams and tie-ups. One night I was detailed to take charge of the battalion train engag ed in moving ammunition up. As we moved forward to load up we encountered a bad blockade, includ ed In which were details from the two light regiments of the brigade. With a lieutenant from my battery, I rode forward to learn the cause of the tie-pp. As we neared the lo- Republican Doctrine [From the Dubuque Times-Journal] We have pointed out that the great leaders of the Republican party have always maintained the cause' of Americanism. The stand taken by the party to-day is in en tire accord with its position in the past. It is not an accident that the Republican party has been called upon to put American interests in the foreground. One of the clearest statements of this principle was made by Presi dent McKinley in his first inaugurul when he said: "It has "been the policy of the United States since the foundation of the Government to cultivate re lations of peace and amity with all the nations of the world, and that accords with my conception now. We have cherished the policy of noninterference with the affairs of foreign governments, wisely in augurated by Washington, keeping ourselves free . from entanglement either as allies or foes, content to leave undisturbed with them the settlement of their own concerns. "It will be our aim to pursue a firm, dignified foreign policy, which shall be Just, impartial, ever watch ful of our national honor, and al ways insisting upon the lawful rights of American citizens every where. Our diplomacy should seek nothing more and accept nothing less than is due us." Worth Considering [From Kansas City Times] The only advantage in a celluloid collar is that it makes nice fuel in cold weather. cation of the dump, in a kind of depression, we noted a rather pe culiar smell. Passing a sentry at a cross road we inquired whether any gas had been reported. He said he had heard nothing of any, but that sev eral men "coming out" were wear ing masks. X told the lieutenant to go back and order our men to put on their masks. Instead, he went back to the head of the column and shouted "Gas." A loud yell went up immediately. Carrying out orders, the sentry fired five shots in rapid succession. Horns honked, gongs rattled, and within two minutes the uproar could be heard spreading far back into the countryside. At that time our regimental gas officer was a lieutenant of rather excitable nature, though keen in sense of duty. After shouting the alarm at the top of his lungs sev eral times, he ordered all hands to get into their masks at once. Due to certain attention he had been giving his feet he had on but one shoe at the time, but the fact didn't hamper him in the performance of his duties. "Is there any gas here, lieuten ant?" inquired one of the men after adjusting his mask. "I don't know," replied the offi cer, "but if there is I'm a gone gos lin. You keep your mask on. I'll take whatever chances are to be taken." In the midst of all the excitement nobody had the presence of mind to appreciate the strong improbabil ity of a gas attack. Clouds of gas was an utter impossibility under the existing conditions. As to shell or projector, Fritz hadn't fired any thing that far back since we had arrived. But in spite of this the lieutenant raced to the picket line, grabbed a horse, sans bridle or blanket, clambered up and made a wild dash for Menil la T6ur to learn, if possible, where the alarm originated. Meantime, back on the road near the ammunition dump, where we had unintentionally provoked all the disturbance and excitement, we had long since arrived at a solution of the mysterious odor. Some two or three miles farther back along the road was a small remount station. A part of the equipment of the sta tion was a dipping vat for treating horses and mules suffering from skin diseases. Probably half an hour before we arrived, a detail had passed with twenty or thirty horses that had been dipped. The chemi cals used had diffused the "gas" odor through the atmosphere. Amending Greeley's Advice [From the New York World] The Cincinnati Enquirer amends Greeley's famous advice to young men and says, "Go South, young man, go South," and editorially In dicates some of UM possibilities in that region when it says "the real undeveloped frontier of the United States Is in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains." As the United Slates Reclamation Service has re cently pointed out there are in the Everglades of Florida alone 1,200,- 000 acres of rich soil awaiting reclamation and that, too, in one of the finest climates in the world. In the Carollnas, especially in North Carolina, there are unreclaimed lands perhaps equal in extent to those of Florida, while there are other great areas unredeemed in Alabama, Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas. The Red Cross [From the Philadelphia Press.] _ The accounting which the Red Cross is making of its trusteeship of the tremendous war fund that was entrusted to it by the American people is the best possible prepara tion that could be made for its forthcoming membership drive. No benevolent organization has ever had before the handling of so enor mous a fund. There were four hundred millions of dollars placed at its disposal, .either in cash or in material. How good wap the Red Cross stewardship, how effective its methods, how business-like its or ganization, how excellent Its results, the reports tell in very convincing way. OCTOBER 31, 1919. Bad Men of "Character" Historians who try to write of pre historic times tell us that men won wo men in these days by brute force. Strength in man still appeals to women tremendously, and she likes to find her master, in spite of the vote and a few other things. Bad men usually show strength of some sort. Maybe that is why they are attractive to women. Follow up the life story of any crim inal you like, and you'll find a woman in the story. No matter how bad a man may be, he can usually find a woman who will believe in him. Why do women seem to like "Blue beards," or at any rate bad men? Take any scoundrel you may know, and you'll find that he has character, although it is bad. He is untroubled by scruples and conscience, so when he wants a thing he sets about getting it. This may explain why, in so many in stances, a bad man steps in and wins a woman where many good men had hesitated. You cannot get away from the old scientific law —"Like repels, unlike attracts." There is generally something force ful about a bad man which appeals to a woman as strength, something primi tive and fine. She feels the personality of the scamp, for he possesses person ality. Like the moth fluttering round the candle, which gets scorched at last, the woman who is attracted by a bad man usually ends by being his. She may even be aware of his bad ness, and it does not repel her. In the heart of a good woman there is always the desire to help. She imagines that her power will be so great that she will be able to reform him. Women seem to glory in self sacri fice, and they revel in making martyrs of themselves. The most cruelly treated wife will rarely hear a word against her mate. She herself will tell you of his • cruelty, but beware of how you sympathize. It is not for you to con demn. Good women so often get the bad men, whereas good men seem frequently to woo women who are not worthy of them. Human nature has many kinks. —London Answers. Lion Is Household Pet The lion says a writer in our Dumb Animals, which prints a photograph of very mild young beast, would seem to contradict the general opinion that a lion's wild nature cannot be practically changed by kindness and human 'asso ciations. Since he was but a few days old, the young lion has been the pet and playfellow of Mrs. Herbert Colo, of San Francisco. Tawny Pershing, that's his name, is now nearly two years old, tipping the scales in the neighborhood of two hun dred pounds, and it is hard for either Tawny or his mistress to realize that he is getting too big to fondle. He dearly loves to romp and play with her and she is as eager to play with her big pet now as when he was but the size of a Maltese cat which she provided for his playmate. She tumbles him around, pulls his legs, ears or tail as fearlessly as though he were a teddy bear. Tawny has his regular play hour every day. His young kingship does not know he possesses such things as teeth or claws. Has never been whipped, so knows nothing of anger or hatred. Has never been In a cage, nor prodded with a sharp piece of steel; has never been hungry, consequently knows nothing of killing. Kindness only this son of a royal breed known and is all he will ever know, his young mistress declares. Tawny's home is a roomy garage with sunny windows, a wide shelf where he loves to sleep, his cat-com panion at his side. Among his play things are a keg. which he holls about with his big velvet paws, a long piece of rubber hose he loves to pull away from his mistress, and a rocklpg-chair In which she sat to rock him, when smaller, nor has ho forgotten its use at present. During the Liberty Loan drive, Tawny and his mistress were on the job every minute and did their bit for Uncle Sam without a growl from either. Strive Lawfully No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him, who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And If a man also strive for mas tery, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully—ll Timothy, ii, 4 and 5. m Beans Is Beans [The American Legion Weekly] Beans in gold pots were served the King and Queen of Belgium when they visited Bostoti. But beans is beans, we suspect, even In a gold pot. laKttmg (Eljat So little has been said about th€ plan for a State Commission to study and recommend revision of the Con stitution of Pennsylvania that th average man does not realize the Im portance of the body which is to be appointed shortly by Governor Wil liam C. Sproul and which will hold its sessions in Harris burg. For years there have been discussions and revise Pennsylvania's con stitution and there are persons who are as insistent upon changing its > aS there are folks who hold that it meets all requirements e n, Wa . y 1 is ' a 'ihough the number n latter is Browing less and less all the time. In the last live legisla live .sessions efforts to secure a new constitution have been made, but it was felt last winter because of condi tions following the war that instead or providing for a convention that a commission be selected to make a study of the organic law of the Commonwealth Just as commissions have been named to study work men's compensation, old age pen sions and health insurance for Penn sylvania. The members of the com mission will have only recommenda tory powers and serve without com pensation. It; is the Governor's plan to select a thoroughly representative body, which is one of the reasons why the appointments have not been made. The idea of having the com mission meet here, except for such committee work which may be necessary, will bring its business un der the dome of the Capitol. The fact that the convention which drafted the constitution of 1873, a different form of body than that to be named this year, met in Phila delphia caused some criticism to bo leveled against it. The convention of 183& met here and also held some meetings in Philadelphia, but the bodies which framed the constitu tion of 1776 and 1790 met in Phila delphia, as dill the State convention which ratified the Federal Constitu tion. There appears in some quarters to be considerable misapprehension regarding the program of entertain ment incident to the reception of King Albert and his party the other day. One of the Philadelphia news papers says "State officials were sur prised when they learned that the program did not include a visit to the Capitol." So far as the Cham ber of Commerce was concerned the program from the outset contem plated a visit to the Capitol, the planting of trees on the Capitol grounds as a memorial of the visit, a short street parade in order that the party might gather some impres sion of the city and finally an in spection of the great industrial plant at Steelton. Of course, the program was in danger of breaking down sev eral times and up to the last minute, owing to the shifting orders from the Department of State at Wash ington and the party en route, but through the co-operation of Gover nor Sproul and Colonel Charles H. Patterson, a Harrisburg boy accom panying the party on its tour, the tentative program was finally ap proved by King Albert and carried out as originally intended with one or two minor exceptions. As a mat ter of fact, no official program of en tertainment in Harrisburg is com plete without the inclusion of a visit to the Capitol and, if possible, a re ception by the Governor. The Capi tol is the great outstanding feature of the city, and how the impres sion could have gained currency that King Albert was not expected to look over the great building is a matter of speculation among those who were on the inside of the ar rangements. Harrlsburg people have been con siderably interested by the testimony given by H. S. Kerbaugh, the con tractor, before the United States Commission investigating the air craft production. Mr. Kerbaugh, whose firm built Enola yards and the Market street bridge piers, had charge of construction of the Gov ernment spruce production railroad in Olympia Peninsula, Washington. One of his statements was that sol diers were paid $8 a day for work on the railroad, the Government offi cials insisting upon soldiers being employed. Drafted men were em ployed. One thing the wet October with its periods of warm weather has pro duced and that has been a plentiful crop of late bugs. Ordinarily at this season of the year few bugs are to be seen about the electric lights, but almost any night they are to be seen buzzing near the lamps and butting their heads against the glass. Mos quitoes and similar insects are also more aboundant than usual at this time. • • • Many expressions of sympathy for "Tony" Frenie are being heard in the city because of the illness of a Senate attache whose length of serv ice goes back a long time and whoso acquaintance among men of affairs in Pennsylvania is most extensive. Mr. Frenie is said to know more and say less about the men who have run politics for a generation than any one on Capitol Hill. He is well known to many a Ilarrisburger, as he came here from Baltimore al most forty-five years ago and in the days when he was proprietor of the Lochiel barbershop he shaved states men of every rank, was the man whom Quay sought, Hartranft called for and other noted men insisted upon his personal care. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE r J. Montgomery, of the Read ing Coal and Iron Company, who has been ill, is improving. —D. Lloyd Claycomb, candidate for district attorney in Blair against Marlon Patterson, used to be in the Legislature. Dr. Charles Rohland. who re signed as health officer of Berks is well known to Harrisburg medical B. B. Cannon, elected president of the 12th Regiment "Vol unteer's Association, is a car manu facturer. . —Mayor Charles J. Biddle is to make the memorial address at Mor risville. \ _. . —The Rev. Dr. George' W. Shel ton, Pittsburgh clergyman, is milk ing a series of prohibition addresses John D. Kephart will be speaker at the Reading Sons of V et erans celebration. —Mayor Clarence J. Smith, who had charge of the Roosevelt tribute at Allentown, is a newspaperman and former national guardsman. T DO YOU KNOW • • —That Harrisburg Is repre sented in regiments in Germany, Honotnlu and tlio Philippines? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Seventy-five years ago Sixth street become noted as the "back road" to Harrisburg.
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