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OPPOSIT.aN TO
NEW ALTO CODE
Proposed Incrazse In Licanse
Fea is Unpopular.
BARELY PASSES SENATE BODY
Advocates of Measure Claim Protest
Not Well Taken Because Additional
Fee Wouid Méan More Money for
Good Roads in State.
Harrisburg, Pa., June 12.—By a vote
of twenty-six to ten, the Bucknian ‘au-
tomobile bill went through the. senate.
last week and is now before the house
for concurrence. Its success in the
lcwer branch is hardly possible unless
the amendments inserted by the sen-
ate are dropped. These amendments
to which automobile associations all
over the state have filed protests deal
. with the cost of licenses. The fee on
all high-priced cars has been increas-
ed over 50 per cent.
Those urging the amendments claim
that the men protesting are pursuing
a short-sighted policy. It is their con-
tention that inasmuch as the money
collected on auto licenses is to be used
for the repair and .comstruction of
roads, owners ‘of machines will be
more than reimbursed for the increas-
ed fee by a saving in tires.
Senator Buckman had the bill hur-
ried through the senate in order tha‘
no time should be lost in the fight to
eliminate the changes made. The m--
tor organizations of the state wont
every amendment to the bill stricken
out, so that it will be in the shape
agreed upon between legislative lead-
ers, motorists and the state highway
"department. Senator Buckman is none
too sanguine about the passage of the
measure, however.
The bill abolishes all existing auto
laws and if it does not pass, conditions
will remain exactly as they are under
the present act, With this idea in ming’
Senator Buckman intreiu~ed a bit of
emergency lezislation in the shape of
an amendment to the section of the
present adt relating to front lights on
autos. He would amend this so that
no lights would throw a ray higher
than forty-two inches from the ground
at a distance of 70 feet from the auto
Is Emergency Bill.
A new bill affecting the auto busi-
ness has been introduced by Senator
RBdward W. Patton, of Philadelphia.
This measure provides that after Jan-
wary 1 next no person could operate a
public garage or auto repair shop with-
out obtaining first an annual license
from the state highway commissioner
at a cost of $2. The revenue would be
used for highway improvement. An-
nual reports would have to be made to
the crmmissioner showing the numhe-
of autos handled for stor-ge, repair
and alter~tion and provision also is
mad= for the public sale of vehicles
where the owner has failed to pay for
storage or. repairs six months after the
gmount was due.
A resolution calling on the state
highwav department t~» “stop conctruc-
tion of joy-riding bouleyards” and in-
stead to build roads to facilitate move-
ment of ~erienltural products to towns
. was presented by Mr. Millieron, Arm-
strong, in the house. Mr. Walter,
Franklin, objected to its consideratior.
and .it went over.
Want New Highways.
. When a batch of bills<creating new
state hichways came up one day las‘
week an attempt was made to have
them sent back to committees, prob-
ably never to see the light of day
again. Country members made vigor-
ous objection to this and succeeded
in passing the bills on second reading.
It is doubtful if any of these bills
will ever reach the governor. Both the
senate and house highway committees
have an understanding to create no
new state highways unless the pros-
_pects for more revenues become more
favorable. In this connection the
chairmen of these committees point:
out that of the 10,000 miles of state
highway created by the Sproul act,
less than 2500 miles of that roadway
have been permanently improved.
The only reason the bills ever got
out of committee was due to the ab-
sence of Representative Spangler, of
York, chairman of the house commit-
tee on public roads and highways. Mr.
Spangler was away at Fort Niagara
training for duty and the acting chair-
man permitted all bills to come out.
Spangler returned to Harrisburg and
endeavored to send them back, but
faileq in this attempt by a narrow
margin. The vote plainly indicated,
however, that the opposition is suffi-
clently strong to block the measures
from reaching the’ governor.
A resolution proposing that the mem-
bers of the legislature be paid the
final $100 of salary due them in liber-
ty bonds instead of cash stirred up
more trouble in the house of repre-
sentatives one morning last week
than it has seen in many days. It
brought Representative Maurer, the
Reading Socialist, to his feet to file a
protest and declare that if he wanted to
buy a hond he'd buy it, but he wouldn’t
buy it on the conscription system.
Many members more or less audibly
grumbled opposition to the prospect
that their final payment from the state
would he made in government bonds.
but realizing thet the situation war
loaded with dynamite as far as poliii-
en] records were concerned few hs
the hardihood to spesk on the floor.
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Fight aon
“They are mustering in the Guard.”
Four times within the memory of .iv
ing men these tidings have spe! .rom
lip to lip throughout Pennsylvania.
Four times, while men‘s lips have
spread this terse message, men’s hea ts
have sensed a stronger tension and
fen pulses have known a quickening
eat.
For men know that the simple an-
nouncement of this shifting of Guard
control from State to Federal hands
can have but one interpretation—the
close approach of a great national crisis.
Once—almost a lifetime ago—the
tidings presaged the storm and fury of
civil strife into which marched gaily
the youthful chivalry of Pennsylvania's
militia, to emerge, four years later,
stern and masterful conquerors.
A second time the message forecast.
ed the clash of arms which broke the
faltering grip of an old-world empire
upon. ah unwilling new-world, calany.
And again file upon file of Pennsylva-
nia youth was seen on its way to take
up the cause of an oppressed people.
. Once again—and t time so recent
that echoes of the measured tramp are
hardly stilled—the mustering-in meant
a long jaunt to
‘ed over the border.
Today—
“They are mustering-in the Guard.”
Well may the heart-tension tighten
and the pulses leap more responsive
than ever to this speeding message.
For never before has it been the fore-
runner of a national peril of such sin-
ister portent. , ;
War's Weird Shadow.
Less than three years ago peace-
ovine Americans paused in their
placid progress to turn a startled eye
toward a fezrsome spectre, which
suddenly rearing itself in centr
Europe, sta'ked rapidly over teeming
and prospeccus [inds, imp..ntiug death
and blight with every zhast'y footstep.
It was—and is—an uncaniy monster
of blood, fire and steel, refleciing in
its hideous outline the hatred and ven-
om of its creators tcward all mankind
who do not accent the idea «f national
existence to which they have ded cated
themselves. It is muscled with hum2n
flesh and guided by human intelligence
on a career of surpassing deviltrv.
To the safe spectatcr on America’s
distant shore came first on'y a feeling
of loathing fcr this unclean creature
and its masters. It seemed unbcliev-
able that a monstrogity so foul and
malevolent could spring to life in this
enlightened day.
Americans viewing its revclting
progress with horrified eyes, dil so
with only the impersonal interest of
unconcerned onlooke:s Danger to
their own free land—and free institu-
tions—from the disportings of this
monstrous thing appeared too remote
to be given any consideration.
Its bloody wallowings so riveted the
eye that for a time the grim purpose
animating its ruthless onslaughts was
entirely uncomprehended.
It was not until Belgium had been
shattered almost beyond hope of res-
toration ang liberty-loving France had
been brought face-to-face with virtual
annihilation, that America grasped the
true gignificance of the demon machine
and its workings. :
Shall Liberty Vanish?
And who can doubt, today, that thig
significance is, in all probability, the
obliteration of the liberal institutions
to which free peoples are committed.
Should this machine prevail liberty, as
we know it, must, in time, vanish from
the face of the earth.
The nation stands today at a cross-
road of destiny and the path to the
goal of security looms up rugged. Al-
ready it is resounding to the tread of
armed men. The regular army is on
the move and now the call has gone
out for ,the country’s second line of
defense—the National Guard.
Pennsylvania once more is calling
her loyal sons. It is a time of stir
and bustle and furbishing of sword
and gun and bayonet from the banks
of the Delaware to the shores of Lake
Erie. Armories are ringing to the clang
of weapons and stalwart young figures,
there, are seen tugging at strap and
buckle in the bundling of accoutre-
ments.
More than usual, there is noted the
prevalence of military uniforms in the
street crowds. And the walls are
everywhere proclaiming the need of
filling up gaps in the various arms of
the service.
The Guard is pulling itself together
for another sally to the “front.” There
is every indication that its departure
on this occasion will be more inspir-
fing than ever as a display of a great
State's military power.
The country is proud of its regular
fighting men but, after all, the home
sentiment clings more fondly to the
fighting men of the Guard. Pride in
the regular army units is impersonal
because they are recruited from the
eountry-at-large.
But with the Guard it is different.
When a Guard regiment musters-in it
earries with it to the firing line. the
god name - 2a zattieular ecamunity;
n that stecl-tipned colnimn swinging so
jauntily down tlie street, when the
Guard is pessing by, are hoys from
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Ge the Guard a Fighti { Chance
side Your Friends
Fill up the National Guard
ALL BRANCHES OF ARMY SERVICE ARE OPEN TO YOU.
the far southwest, |;
“where the bright face of danger peer-
.more—to you, then you have failed to
Guards Rank as Veterans,
It is a veteran force wii h will, on
ais occasion, represe.. Pennsyivania
.n the Federal service. The Guard is
out recently returned from a stremu-
sus period of duty on the Mexican
sorder. Long hours of stiff practice
in military maneuver under the blis-
ering rays of a tropical sun have
cese-hardened the guardsmen. And
their efficiency has become a matter
of national record. :
They “did their bit” side by cide
with the regular army on the border.
land, acquir ng, by emulation, many of
the campaigning tricks of the experi
enced oldier.
But efficient as is this fine State
soldiery, its numerical strength is
much below the war standard fixed b;
the Federal government. Some re
ments can muster, at present, O!
two-thirds of the number they should
have in their ranks.
Pennsylvania's uv manhood
which recently made such an inspiring
response to the call for registration
now has another patriotic duty con-
fronting it. Those wno have register
ed are eligible for military service.
they will be ordered
o report for physica examination an
f up to the physical requirements, wi
be ordered into the tary service.
There 1s no obligation, however, up-
on a registered man to await a formal
call to arms. In fact, since it is more -
than likely he must ge it is greatly to
his own advantage to be the arbiter;
himself, of where, when and how he
shall go. ;
Enlistment Beats Draft.
Isn't it better, by way of example,
for an eligible man to enlist, now, in
a crack Guard regiment of his home
section, where he will stand shoulder-
to-shoulder with friends, than to hold
back until ordered into the service,
assigned, perhaps, to a newly-formed
command where he will be a stranger
among strangers? :
There is the ary of regimenta.
prestige—the satisfaction that spring:
from association with an organization
of old and honored traditions—:na tha
confidence that is begotten of comonde-
ship to commend voluntary enlistm. ng,
All of these are assured to the man
who picks a home regiment.
On the other hand, none of these
things is assured to the man who waits
for a regiment to pick him. Volunt-:y
enlistment gives a sure-thing choi.e,
But the only sure thing in store for the
man who waits is the gure thing that
he will have to go, if he is fit to go.
The Guard offers the same ind:ce-
ment in variety of service that is of-
fered by the regular army. Infantiy,
artillery, cavalry and engineers are
open to recruiting.
This puts the Guard on the footing
of the regular service, of which it is
soon to be a part. From the recruit-
ing end, Guard service is even more
desirable with its opportunities afford-
ed recruits to be placed in the ranks
with the boys from home.
Always maintaining the highest pay
of any army in the world, the army
service—both regulars and Guard—
has taken a new lead far bevond even
its old pay-roll standard. The rate of
pay for enlisted men is now $30 per
month and upwards.
Even at $30 a month there is a big
‘nducement to save. Since everything
is “found” for men in the service, ex-
penditures need only be for a few per -
sonal luxuries. It is figured that a
man may easily save two-thirds of his
nay. There is a system in vogue by
which the money may be left on de-
vosit, and ‘4 per cent interest is al-
lowed. x
Army's Brighter Side.
And these are details not ts b= cver-/
looked even by men who are keen in
hot-hearted desire to serve their State
and Nation. That there are many such
is the confident hope of the Pennsyl-
vania Guard.
It is men of that calibre who have
made the Guard what it is today. And
it is to men of that calibre whom they
are appealing to make the Guard what
it must be in the future if it is meet
the high hopes of the State, the Na-
tion and a stricken world.
The sky is over-cast, and the war-
clouds have gathered. There is sore
need here, and elsewhere, of that plc-
tured uprising of patriot manhood to
strike a blow for the Old Flag and the
Old Land.
And now—what does the mustering-
in of the National Guard mean to you?
Has it stirred you to po sense of
your personal responsibility in this
great crisis? :
Has it not caused you to feel that it
is your duty to stand in those brigfling
ranks—your country’s living walls o
defense—just as much as it is the duty
of those gallant men who have been
standing there from the first moment
of danger?
If it does not mean all of this—and
grasp its meaning.
Pennsylvania treasures grateful
memories of sons who have nobly re-
sponded to her call in every grave
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Marines.
Marines—soldiers serving on ship-
board—date back to the year 16064,
when an order in council, dated Oct.
16, authorized 1,200 soldiers to be rails
ed afd formed into a regiment. More
regiments were later on formed, and
in the latter years of the French wars
they numbered 32,000. The marines -
are today a feature of every navy, and
in most countries officers of the ma- :
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the army and navy.—London Chron-
icle.
Slaves of the Gown.
Some women live in a state of per- |
petual preparation of wardrobe. They .
never seem to acquire one in any ap-
proach to completion, ‘and they are al-
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or purpose. The materials of which
their gowns are made must be of the
nature of Penelope's web.—Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Womanly Retort.
“Women are terribly inconsistent,”
protested Mr. Kwibbles.
“John,” replied his wife, “you know
the poet says, ‘Consistency’s a jewel’
And you told me yourself that much
jewelry is not good form.”—Washing-
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The First Question.
“Opportunity is at your deer. Wants
you to zo with him.”
“Has he a car?" —Louisville Courler-
Journal.
Ventriloqulam.
hour of the past.
Spall Pennsylvania's call, today,
find sons too indifferent to give hee
in this the gravest moment of her
history?
There is one sure responess
¥iil up the National Guard.
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