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THE EVENING HARR1SBURG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918 PAGE SIX The Prayer By EDMUND VANCE COOKE The Hunter's Moon Travelette Ky N'IKSAII BETHANY BEACH, DELAWARE Established February 15, 1317. Published every evening except Sunday by THE PATRIOT COMPANY UN. Market Square, llarrlsburg, Penna. President Secretary and Treasurer Goneral Manager Kdttor Managing: Editor VANCK C. McCORMTCK HKNRY B.

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Dear God, I do not plead or pray To hold me In the sheltered way. Shielded of mind and heart. That asks too much of even Thee, That sets too slight a task on me, That shirks my rightful part. If I be saved from Bin and woe, From nuns that scorch, from winds that blow, By tenderness of Thee, What though my brow be all un-marred, My soul unseared, my hands un-scarred, What merit la to me? Dear God, I only nsk the right To battle forward toward the light, The right to stand or fall! Set me between the false and true; Mine be the choosing which I do, Mine be the burden, all. Shield me not even from the wrong, Dear God, else how shall I be strong.

To heed another's cry? Yea, If I have not self-control Over the sinews of my soul, Better Thou lettest me die! 1918, N. E. KBUT WAR SAVINGS STAMPS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1918. Why Don't You Say "Hello" First? By the REV. CHARLES STELZLE Many years ago a small Summer resort was established on the coast of Delaware, by members of the Christian and named by them Bethany Beach.

The heads of the Church expounded the merits of the location from the pulpit. Many were interested, but few courageous enough to make the trip which was a long one by boat, train and coach. Several families, how-sver, decided that it would be an ideal place for their children to spend the vacation months, so a few cottages made their appearance at irregular intervals along the beach. For some years each Summer saw an additional dwelling place erected and a new family would be added to the colony. He telsNiid not flourish because the place was too small and isolated to appeal to the many.

After about twenty-five years Bethany Beach can boast of some thirty Summer homes find a post-office. There is also a "drug store" which is open twice a week only to sell ice cream. A narrow boardwalk stretches along the white sands for about a quarter of a mile. Parts of this walk are annually carried off by the Winter storms, and several times the waves have carried it all away. This no longer surprises the taxpayers, and they patiently" vote money to build a new one Local carpenters are called upon, and they promise that the new walk will stand rough weather.

Trrey also promise to make it a "rush order" and not to take more than two years to finish the promenade. At one place the boardwalk widens into a small pavilion which is used for open-air prayer meetings twice a week. The war has made itself felt at Bethany, too. For a few brief weeks last Summer the inhabit- THE DRUNK SCARCITY CINCE the "flu" regulations made this city and county dry, the police business has languished. During the last twenty days preceding the dry order, there were 142 arrests, of which ninety-four were directly traceable to booze.

In the first twenty days directly following the dry order the arrests were seventy, of which only forty-two were listed as liquor cases. The week ending Saturday showed only one arrest for drunkenness. This suspension of the liquor traffic gives strength to all the reports from "dry" areas over the country. One need not probe in the statistics of Seattle, Topeka and other "dry" cities to learn how prohibition cuts down the police business. The demonstration has been right at our doors.

And if this were the only merit of prohibition, would it not be enough to win support for it? There are other virtues, of course, increased bank deposits, more homes owned by the occupant, fewer desertion and non-support cases, less cruelty and suffering of women and children; but does not such a remarkable shrinkage in arrests as this city experienced point the way to a voter's duty? No man of brain and conscience will overlook this fact in discussing his legislative choices the next few days. In Bottomley and McCoy in the county and in Black and Hartman in the city the electorate has men, pledged to vote yes on the national prohibition amendment. There are no others in the field so pledged. The opponents of these men are "wet," tacitly agreeing that the country is better off with the police blotter full of "jags" than clean. On the legislative tickets no man ought to consider party above this vital principle and he need not.

Hundreds of voters will disregard party lines in casting their votes for "dry" candidates. All voters should. It is a time for bigger things than partisan bigotry. s(buy war savings stamps); A VOICE FROM THE PAST "LIE has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good." When T. Jefferson quilled those words the Wil-helm Hohenzollern of the time, a German monarch, wore a British crown and a Hun frown.

One could almost be persuaded that the Jeffersonian document was, in its major part, directed at the brute whose boot of Prussianism today crushes human rights Somebody said to you today: "How are you, Jim? or whatever your name may be. And you replied: "Pretty well, thank you" And you thought that you had fulfilled all the requirements bf polite society. But why didn't YOU ask about the health of your friend andt neighbor who greeted you?" Sometimes you've gone through the day perfectly miserable because somebody didn't say "Hello" to you. Of course, your friend's mind may have been troubled or his eyes fastened upon something which required all his attention, or there may have been a dozen perfectly good reasons why he didn't say "Hello!" Perhaps somebody does not say "Hello" to you out of pur cussedness they simply don't want to. They are just built that way.

But you can't imagine how unhappy such people are. In mosft cases they'd give anything to be different. Now YOU can help them. It may be hard for you to do so but try it! Say "Hello" anyway, if it chokes you! When you've thought about your friend's failure to greet yoti perhaps you've thought, a bit scornfully: "I'm as good as he is." Well why didn't you prove it and not wait for him to makoi the first polite advance? Just because you're like most of the rest of us we expect mora from others than we're ready to give ourselves, or we've developed a false modesty which prevents our taking our rightful places among friends and neighbors. Anyway why should your friends inquire about your health and why should they greet you with a hearty "hello" when yott usually wait for them to do it FIRST? Suppose you try the OTHER way just for a- day forget about yourself become really INTERESTED in your neighbors and friends and don't give them the chance to say "Hello" FIRST.

What a day you'll have! I'd like to hear about it. -tjBUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS- But the sun rose on the same peaceful homes, the same undisturbed shore, and on sleepy small boys who were bitterly ading was heard far out to sea. Every one flocked to the beach. The sheriff ordered all lights out that night. A raid or something else terrible was fully expected.

ants lived in a state of continual excitement. Strange camouflaged ships were seen passing; hydroplanes circled mysteriously over the beach; one day cannon -THE HA SKIN LETTER By FREDERIC J. HASKIN employ uld men, care should be taken not to overtax their strength, and every possible safeguard for their health and comfort should be provided. The Training and Dilution Service is working on the theory that the labor shortage can be best relieved by training the workers on hand to a "Labor Dilution" WASHINGTON, Oct 2 3. There is one phase of the labor situation in this country which mystifies a great many people Undoubtedly, a very serious shortage of labor does exist; yet it is not uncommon for a work-ingman to cool his heels for hours in an employment office, only to receive the final verdict "there is nothing doing." higher efficiency, and by providing WAR HUMOR training scnoois in the trades now so badly overcrowded.

In this connection Mr. Clayton has divided the The reason for this is that only labor of special sorts is in demand. country into twelve districts, with war industries. Out of this number six million must be added to war industries by the first of June, leaving non-war industries to struggle along with a scant seven million. "There is no such thing as nonessential industry," Director Clayton affirmed, recently.

"There are industries which are essential to tho prosecution of war, and those which are not. Most of tho latter are essential to a comfortable human existence, and therefore must not disappear. LABOR DCOFICIT IV 1 I) 1'STItII It is not likely that the non-war industries can continue as they should with seven million workers. Yet there are more ways than one of making up this deficit, and more than one of supplying the six million needed for war purposes." These ways are all combined in the term "dilution." The single feature of dilution, which is best known, is the introduction of women into work performed heretofore exclusively by men. This has not been quite so extensive as has generally been supposed.

The Government, from the beginning, has followed a policy of extreme caution in regard to women workers. Women, it has decreed, shall not be taken into industries in localities where there are idle men able to perform the same work. Where the introduction of woman labor is necessary, the workers must be paid the wage given to men for the same work. It will not do for men returning to their Jobs after the end of the war to find a lowered wage scale awaiting them, KMPDOYMENT OF BOYS AND A(iED MEN The Introduction of boys and aged men is another method of dilution. Here, also, the work must proceed with greatest care.

Boys under the age of sixteen will nottbe permitted, under any circumstances, to work during the school term, nor, says the Government, should the prospect of high wages bo permitted to lure into industry youths who, ordinarily would have worked for a higher education. Where it is necessary to There is no wild scramble to obtain the services of floor-talkers, ledger clerks, window dresses, or dook agents. On the other hand, there is One of the German regiments opposite the Americans, the members of which are, by this time, probably listed as "missing, believed prisoner." had -Just been paid when the curtain went down on their activity in 1 jerre. Exactly forty-eight hours after the Germans marched before their paymaster and got their pay, they marched before an American officer, who relieved them of the modest collection of marks, pfennigs and other things they had received. Paris Stars and Stripes.

LONDON Time Just after the Austrian peace note. Place An American hospital. Wounded California rancher asked what he think about it, replied: "We've got to finish it. I lvie 6000 miles from here and can't keep coming back every ten years or so." -I(BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS)! a very acute need for machinists, toolmakers, and men of similar trades. It is said that there is not a single expert machinist in the labor market today.

If Riich a one exists ho will be able almost to command his own wages from any of a score -of Industrial plants. WHAT DILUTION IN LABOR MEANS As a result of this shortage of men skilled in certain trades, a strange word has come Into use in factories. The word Is "dilution." KULTUR Roughly, dilution means plugging A Hero Every Day Brave Deeds of Men in America's Fighting Service boundaries identical with those of the production districts of the Ordnance Department, and superintendents have been named in each district. It will be the duty of these superintendents to visit each employer of more than a hundred men and induce him to establish a training department in his plant. Where necessary, tho superintendent will personally assist in the organization of the training department.

VALUE -OF TRAINING IS DEMONSTRATED The value of such a department was stated in a recent Government bulletin: "No manufacturer, having more than one hundred employes, can afford to be without this aid to real efficiency. It is safe to predict that any plant not now having a training department can increase its output twenty-five per cent with its present labor force as soon as such a department is well organized. This is not a wild guess, it is a statement based on experience." The Government will lend every aid to the establishment of training departments. Where skilled instructors are lacking, or cannot be spared, instructors will be assigned to begin the training. Text books, charts, shop methods will be furnished to the instructors.

Bulletins giving counsel and constructive criticism will be sent to the employers from time to time. The training department does not have to be elaborate or expensively equipped. A corner of the main building with a few of the most commonly used machines will suffice. under heel of steel. The true clue to the top Teuton's tendency to tyrannize and terrorize exists in that phrase dipped from T.

inkhorn "HE has refused HIS assent The day of disregard for popular desire, the era of the despot, the Stygian age of oppression and suppression has ended. The hand of Time is writing the last chapter in that book of bloodshed based on a blasted superstition 'The Divine Right of Kings." Public voice will give no choice to appointed rulers the matter of rejection and acceptance of issues for the general good. The national head will be elected and respected for his acumen, discretion, judgment, vision and worldly wisdom. But he will counsel, not control; advise, revise and devise measures for his people's prosperity, welfare and happiness; not abuse, confuse, refuse and overwhelm the subjects of his realm. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS)) The Weather Bureau declares that big gun discharges, battle explosions and concussions do not affect the weather.

The weather, however, is affecting the prosecution of the war not unfavorably to the Allies, either, according to the headlines! tCevy war savings stamps" With all respects to Lord Milner, it is hard for American dem tSatement of a Belgian Soldier "At Boort Meerbeek I and my two comrades saw a German come out of the wood and fire three separate times at a little girl of from 4 to 8 years of age. Seeing that he failed to hit the child by firing at her and that she stood quite still, he ran at her and bayoneted her in the stomach. At the sight of this we rushed up and the German soldier threw up his hands as a sign of surrender, but I killed him with the butt of my rifle. With the exception of the little girl there was no one in the neighborhood." -tSBUY war savingsTta'm'pTV- up holes which exist In the labor supply by the introduction of new workers and of new methods. This is a problem so complex and important that it has been necessary for the Government to create a special division of the Department of Labor to take care of It.

This division is known as the Training and Dilution Service, headed by Director Charles T. Clayton. A few figures suffice to show what the Training and Dilution Service is up against. At the last census fhe industrial population of the United States (including agriculture) was listed at thirty-nine millions. Since that time, according to official records, three million have been added, making a total of forty-two million.

Out of that number, five million have joined the colors. The farms engage eleven million and the professions a million. The war industries have taken twelve million, leaving only thirteen million for non- This Day in the War Private Morris F. Fleitz of the U. S.

Marine Corps faced death for thirty-six hours while his comrades were driving the Hun from Bouresches. Driving a small delivery car, Fleitz made trip after trip along the shell-swept road from Lucy to Bouresches. In daylight he was constantly in the range of enemy observation posts. At night his course was marked by enemy flares. The car itself was struck twelve times, but Fleitz scaped injury and continued at his work.

He even carried ammunition across a shell-riddled field and recovered rations from portions of the front that been wrecked Jjy shell fire. His gallant conduct won for him a recommendation for bravery. Private Fleitz enlisted in the Marines April 23, 1917. His father, Vinzinz Fleitz, lives at 1848 Frankfort street, Louisville, Ky. October 23, 1817 French north of Aisne smash through on six-miW front.

October 23, 1916 Von Mackensen announces he has captured Con. stanza. October 23, 1015 French aid reaches Serbs at Strumitsa. October 23, 1914 American Relief Committee starts census of Bel glans. ocracy to understand this fear of the spread of Bolshevism in Ger-1 Tom Steps Into tfce Spanish Flu By Altaian DOINGS OF THE DUFFS It AAW'yma 1 MUCH J-OMSERlkAT Biro IssojkgYo many.

If the HUNb take to cutting their own throats it will save us the trouble. -BUY WAR SAVING5 STAMPS- Florida negroes have organized to sell 10,000,000 Thrift Stamps to their race. The man who put the CAN in AmeriCAN also included AfriCAN and was determined to tie a CAN to the Kaiser! -BUYWAR SAVINGS STAMPS Captain Rizzo and those with him who sank the Austrian dread-naught "St. Stephen," have been awarded $250,000 prize money. A sort of after-the-war "sinking fund," so to speak.

-BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS A layman at the frpnt would wonder at the Insatiable appetite of our Army horses till closer inspection revealed the "nose-bags" to bo gas masks. BUY WAR SAVINGS' STAMPS Belgian refugees declare they found some Germans were "kind." Probably the same sort as the "good Injuns" on frontier days. New chief advisers reported In Turkey, in Austria and in Ger many, Pass the plums as fast as they may, few more will share them. Hun U-boiU are shipped from Zeebrugge to Kiel, and Yank mines guard Kiel's outlets, Lnyfng them mo Indefinitely? buywab jAVlfiss stamtDi- Tell your troubles to Fech, is now the order of the day, Its?.