6 HARRISBDRG TELEGRAPH J. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A- R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUOH. BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OY'STER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all pews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. , All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. (f\ Member American ] Newspaper Pub- L ".sbers' Associa- Bureau of Cirau- Siaif&tHSJsSfa lation and Penn- StaiSEw iffiSß 59 fISSB Ml Eastern office, I Story, Brooks KBSiBI Sf Avenue Building - Chicago, 'in.' inK ' Entered at tho Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. t By carrier, ten cents a 4 week; by mail, 15.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1918 The soul is like the sun, which dis appears from our mortal eye, but i which in reality never disappears, but ceaselessly gives light in his pro-' gress. — GOETHE. HEROES' DAY MAYOR HYLAN, of New York, has issued a proclamation setting aside September 1 as Heroes' Day, when the city will honor the men whom It has sent, to battle, as well as hold services for those who have fallen or who have died in the service. This is a proper recognition and ought to he extended to other cities. We do honor to ourselves when we pay tribute to the bravery and hardi hood of our soldiers in Franco. In our hearts we do this every hour of] the day, but public acknowledg ment would be encouraging to the men abroad and would help keep up the morale at home. THE VALUE OF A FAIR SECRETARY OF AGRICUL TURE CHARLES E. PATTON is exactly right In his position that the educational advantages of a county fair or an agricultural exhi bition outweigh any considerations which the Federal Fuel Administra tion may have for advising against holding fairs as a means of aiding the coal situation. Without going into the fuel conditions, concerning which some stories heard last spring • and much denied are now being dis covered to be only too well founded it may well be said that the sugges tion that Pennsylvania discontinue county fairs as a means of keening miners at work and to save coal on railroads Is mighty far fetched. In the first place the farmer is the man the nation needs to keep on the farm and to help him get his maxi mum produclion of foodstuffs. For months and months this newspaper ani thousands of others have been giving space to emanations from "Washington urging the farmer to ex tend his wheat acreage, to plant more potatoes, to try soy beans, to to raise sheep, to plant more corn7> to feed cattle and do other things which are of .value to the republic, but more or less bewildering in va riety and insistence. One of the means suggested to get more atten tion for farming and by farmers was the holding of shows. The corn club has been developed in Pennsylvania and has added many acres to the land now under cultivation. The apple, wool, grain and other exhibits shown the last few years have un questionably stimulated production. If the suggestion of a man traveling up and down the land that fairs be cut out would be followed these ex hibits might be shown in the barn yard of the grower or at a crossroads school house. The effect of a fine ear of corn from York county would be lost on a Mercer county farmer and similarly the pride of a Lehigh county potato would stir no emula tion among the farmers of Cambria. It is admitted that life on the farm is more or less routine and •without much change. Hence, the value of the fair for amusement, if we leave the educational end of it out of the calculations. People in some districts have the fair or the farmer's picnic in their minds as their yearly recre'ation. To deprive them of it for the doubtful value of the fuel that might be conserved or produced would be unfair, to be blunt about it. And lastly, the number and size of fairs held in coal producing coun ties is not impressive in the list of more than seventy fairs In Pennsyl vania with an attendance of a million and a quarter. There are not half a dozen in the anthracite region which might by any stretch of the imagina tion interfere with the coal produc tion, and if an exhibition like the Indiana county fair, for instance, should be abandoned it would affect a county which has many mineral SATURDAY EVENING, but many, many farmers and numer ous farms of splendid producing value. What the fuel administration needs to do is to hunt up coal cars, not county lairs, at least in Pennsyl vania, which is rapidly getting into high place as a producer of food stuffs and which Is caring for a pretty fair sized portion of its eight millions of people. The Keystone Commonwealth is unlike any other State in tho diversity of its industry and beyond,the comprehension of some people from States whose whole population does not equal that of either Philadelphia or Allegheny county. WILL WE FORGET? ; _ WILL we soon forget the man ner in which Germany has betrayed the trust of human ity and shortly after the war is over resume our former trade relations with the German people? The answer depends to some de gree upon the way the war ends. If the allies are compelled to beat the German armies Into submission at terrible sacrifice of men and treasure, then there can be no thought of mercy for Germany in the hearts of the present generation, ®t least. If, on the other hand, the German penile arise and overthrow their war lords and establish a de mocracy, our pledge i? to meet them half-way, in which case trade rela tions cannot easily be withheld, al though doubtless there will be mil lions of people who will hesitate ever again to use German goods. The American Guardian Society takes the former view of It. It be lieves that safeguards must be rais ed now to protect the American peo ple in the future against German aggression and its thousands of members pledge themselves to boy cott German goods for a period of twenty-five years. There are many who will agree with the society in its explanation as to "Why we should boycott Germany," that "Our boycott of Germany is not founded merely upon a desire to 'punish' Germany for her countless crimes, but it is based, by calm and deliber ate Judgment, upon these three log ical and inexorable conclusions from Germany's war: 1. The abhorrence of all things German, and the repulsiveness at taching to things made by blood stained German hands, of stolen materials, with stolen machinery and by slave labor. 2. A fixed determination to turn no more wealth into German hands, for use in promoting'an other world war. The payment of indemnities by Germany after the war is Germany's business, not ours! 3. Finally, a twenty-five-year boycott is necessary because we now know (1) that the Germans alive at the close of the war rever will reform and set up a clean and honest government, and (2) that it will take a generation of Germans as yet unborn to free that nation from the military mad-dogism that prevails every where throughout the Hun Em pire to-day. But the society does not go far enough. A mere boycott pledge is inadequate. If we are to preserve the country from a renewal of the flood of German-made goods such as we had before the war we must prepare to protect American busi nessmen and American workmen from unfair competition with the poorly-paid mechanics of Germany who will be hungry for jobs at any price after the war. If we are to keep up American wages to the present high level, as both employ ers and employes desire, the only way to proceed is to bar cheap Ger man products by a tariff wall that will keep them where they belong. It Is all very well to promise boy cotts and reprisals by declinations to trade, but when by reason of com petition of this kind, business at home begins to fall off and wages to recede, low prices will have the call and Germany will begin to sell goods In large quantities In America. There is only one sure cure for the evil, which is to make it unprofitable for Germany to attempt to market prod ucts in the United States in compe tition with American-made products. A Republican Congress and a Re publican President could be depend ed upon to look after that. HINT FOR HIGH SCHOOL THE Harrisburg Academy, with the opening of the fall term, will have military instruction as a part of Its course of study. Here is a hint for the high schools. With ino lowering of the draft age limit to eighteen years many high school boys will go into the army within the next year and a class in military drill could do much to prepare them for the field. Indeed, it becomes a duty on the part of all school officials, under present circumstances, to offer these lads opportunity to fit themselves for their country's service. That is what the schools are for —to fit students for their life work, and if military duty is to be their first activity after leaving study then a course In sol diering should be offered to every male student in the high schools. Dr. Brown, of the Academy, has recog nized the need and has met it for the institution of which he is the headmaster. TURN IN AND HELP SOME time in September a million Pennsylvanians are going to thetr polling places or some other designated points and put down their names for that grand army which Is going to end the war and give peace for the rest of our time. The regiftratlon system will be something like that which was carried out with so much success in June of last year and repeated in June of this year when the men of draft age signed their names, only greater in every way. This coming Saturday we will see the men who have become of age since June 5 sign up* It "VtU be ths turn of tho rest of us men under forty-five next. To register all of these men will require hundreds and hundreds of h&nds. The government is paying tremendously for war. The expense is terrific. We are all help ing to pay It. Let every man who is qualified to act as a registrar or who has had experience turn in and help. Let him send his name to his local draft board as a volunteer who will work for nothing and bring his own lunch. IK By the Ex-Committee man Not only will Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh be called upon to send to the next Senate the names of the state officials refused confirmation last year and who won the Supreme Court contest when the Auditor General challenged the Governor's right to appoint as recess appoint ments, but he will have an unusual list of names to present to the upper branch of the Legislature when his term ends. This list will probably be the greatest in years and the fate of some of the men now holding official places is frankly in doubt. It is customary for the retiring Governor to submit all appointments made in the recess to the Senate when he delivers his suggestions in the form of a message and this Gov ernor Brumbaugh will be called upon to do with a Senate which will be more or less hostile to some of his appointees. Four years ago all ap pointments of the retiring Governor were withdrawn by Governor Brum baugh who held them until the very last week of the session of 1915 and then made up his own list, causing a stir such as had not been knbwn in years in state politics. Among the high state officials whose names must go before the Senate are Adjutant General Frank D. Beary, Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton, Banking Commis sioner Daniel F. Lafean, Insurance Commissioner Charles A. Ambler, Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan R. Buller, Superintendent of Public Printing D. E. Long, Public Service Commissioners W. A. Magee, M. J. Ryan and H. M. McClure, Chief of Mines Seward Button and James W. Leech, of the State Compensation Board. —The historic August meeting of the Democrats of Lehigh county, which has opened Democratic state campaigns for more than a century, will take place late to-day and Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the nominee for governor in spite of the bosses, will be the star speaker. The judge landed in Lehigh last night from Pittsburgh where he had been in conference and made a speech at the presentation of a flag. It is to be noted that Congressman Arthur G. DeWalt and other men who won at the primary against the Palmer-Mc- Cormick combine, will be prominent with Bonniwell. —Judge Bonniwell is reported to-1 have completed arrangements for the establishment of committees to han dle his campaign in western counties wl>ere the official committees are controlled by the machine. These committees will be announced when all efforts to get closer co-operation fail. It is said that some prominent Democrats disgusted with the place grabbing of the Paimer-McCormick element havfe lined up with Bonni well. —ln regard to the attitude of Judge Bonniwell toward the official machine of his party the Philadel phia Record, which speaks by the hook for the nominee, says: "Judge Bonniwell stands unalterably oppos ed to the ratification of the national prohibition amendment and it is upon this issue he will carry his fight into every section of the state. Sena tor William C. Sproul, the Republi anc nominee, has already gone on record as favoring the passage of the amendment, so the issue between the two candidates is clearly drawn. It is not considered likely that the Democratic resolutions committee will include in its platform any plank calling for the defeat of the proposed amendment. The mem bers of the committee, of course, will be guided entirely by the wishes of National Chairman Vance C. McCor rnick and National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and-they would not dare to prepare a platform in con formant with the wishes of the majority of Pennsylvania Demo crats. as expressed "at the polls at the May primaries. Reports were current here yesterday that the reso lutions committee would agree to sidestep the liquor issue if Judge Bonniwell would agree to attend the conference." —The Philadelphia Public Ledger attacked the plan for division of Philadelphia wards, saying that there are "too many already." —The Fifth ward case is to be taken to the highest courts according to counsel for the convicted men. —Senator Sproul will majte a number of additional speeches next week, but not start his campaign until September. Senator Beidle man goes to Killinger to-day. THE TURN OF THE TIDE Oh, listen to the cheering by the rivers and the streams. From Fontenoy to Torcy and Bel leau, From Soissons to Chalons, t from Epernay to Rheims. * For the Allies are pushing back the foe! The going it is good and the courage It is fine, And blue and khaki chase the flee ing gray; 'Tis a long, long Journey from the Marne to the Rhine. But the Allies have started on the way. They have mowed down the enemy with many a yawning gap. They have captured his munitions where fled: And General Foch who leads Is fol lowing up a map Whose roads are all clearly mark ed in red. No more shall flee the peasants in the invaders' way, The dwellers by the Ourcq and the Aisne; Their hastily packed household goods are now unpacked to stay. For the villagers are going home again! —M. E. BUHLER. In Every Neighborhood [From the Detroit Free Press.] "Gen. Foch is a brilliant strate gist." . "Yes, but we've got a guy in our neighborhood who knows more about how this war should be run than Foch ever will know." RARRISBTIRG t&S&S' TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OVT OF LIFE By Briggs WCLU .He-Re \ ov/eft om t 1H& FRONJT AT IA4T-- To . <2?£T Goo|> rvs Shot •at a fevv A-Lm FRIT 2. ' ' A D N THE f KAI^E THE VICTORY DRAFT [From the New York Tribune] The new draft should be called the Victory Draft. General Marsh says it is needed to furnish the fighting pow er with which the war can be won. In that case everybody ought to be for it. The revised American program calls for eighty divisions on the fighting line in Europe by June 30 next. Counting 40,000 men to a di vision, including auxiliaries, that would mean 3,200,000 men at the front. Eighteen divisions —720,000 men —would be in the camps at home as a reserve, and as they crossed the Atlantic their places here would be taken by new divisions. General March says that 4,000,000 Americans in France, under a single commander, could so next year any where they wanted to go. That Is not oversanguine. Germany will not have thfe strength left a year from now to hold any line against 4,000,- 000 Americans, aided by the French, British and Italians. To keep a fighting army of 4,000,- 000 going we should have to raise between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 men. We have about 1,000.000 volunteers. The first draft and the two classes reaching twenty-one between June 5, 1917, and June 5, 1919, probably will furnish more than 3,000,000 men. It is the War Department's present aim to raise about 2,300,000 from the new draft. All these re cruits will be needed. Any attempts to limit the new conscription will there fore endanger the program of vic tory. If the minimum age Is raised to nineteen the maximum age will have to be raised above forty-five, or else the present exemptions between nineteen and forty-five will have to be narrowed. That is the nut which the opponents of the Senate bill will have to crack. Wo must get the men. Age limits and deferred classi fications will have to take care of themselves until the creation of an army of victory is assured. Congress must act in this spirit. Let us develop our manpower to the utmost—and quickly. Otherwise we shall have missed the meaning of all the military experience of the last four years. Germany's Retreat Specialist [From the New York World.] The report that General Hans von Boehn. the German "retreat spe cialist," has been appointed to the supremo command on the *BOOIOI6 front has more than a military in terest. It was General Boehn who conducted the masterly German re treat from the Marne salient, and doubtless he can do as well in Pi oardy, where conditions are still more favorable, but the German general staff needs a retreat specialist at home quite as much as at the front. The Hindenburg offensive which began so promisingly March 21 lias been wrecked. All the German hopes of peace through a military decision have been blasted. The promises of Hindenburg and Ludendorff have gone to protest. The German news papers are men ting bitterly upon the failure of the high command, and Maximilian Harden Is again as sailing Prussian policy. A. retreat specialist who could lead the Ger man people back to a state of confi dence would be worth more to (he Kaiser than Ludendorff, to say noth ing of Boehn. LABOR NOTES Many collieries, it is claimed, are running from 25 to 40 per cent, short of full working forces, and unless exemptions are granted to mine workers they will be still fiy ther crippled by the labor shortage. A vitally serious shortage of skilled workers, particularly ma chinists and toolmakers, in the war industries of the country is to lead almost immediately to a broad ex tension of the government control over the recruiting nnd distribution of labor. Draftsmen in the various shipbuild ing and manufacturing plants in San Francisco have formed an organisa tion. Officers on United States coasting vessels have been granted a 25 per cent, war risk bonus on account of U-Boat raids. A bill to be introduced in the New York Legislature will prohibit the employment of "conductorettes" on night cars. All the firefighters in Dennlson. Tex., have unified their Interests and are in a union with a charter from their Intematalonal association. The Cavalry in France From the Stars and Stripes, France. ABOUT seven months ago, when the cavalry began to arrive in Europe, fresh from the dis agreeable work along the border and in Mexico, every man was eager for the required training in order to get at 'em. After visiting numerous "rest" camps and incidentally help ing along with the stevedore task, it was learned that "for the present only" the cavalry would do remount duty. , If anyone, during the day or night, would like to see thousands of stub born mules and horses extracted from a transport, or see men on foot, sweating blood in sunny France, leading these same animals miles to the remounk depots which they them selves have established, and then ob serve the men with the yellow hat cords, or cross-saber collar insignia, loading long trains with animals, after which, when bound for the front, each to sleep on a THE NEWCONTEMPTIBLES "Regard them not," the Kaiser yawned, "because the lust for gold That has them firmly in its clutch will never loose its hold. They may stop minting money long enough to call me 'Hun,' But what care we for epithets?— They'll never fire a gun!" Tell that to your well-trained, pre cise, unthinking war machines, Who had the grave misfortune to en counter our Marin|s. Relate it at the Marne. which saw your second big defeat— ; The Mills of God are grinding as the Prussian hordes retreat. "What can they do?" "the German press inquired with scornful sneers, To beat our mighty army that was building forty years? Behold the New Contemptibles, pre pared to thrash us—how?" Behold them then —and let us know, what think you of them now? The British crush your submarines; they beat you in the air; The "idiotic" Yankee now is primed to do his share. We're in! And we will carry on un til the sun shall shine Upon Old Glory's brilliant folds, re flected in the Rhine! Full slow to draw the sword were we, but now the die is cast — The tongue *ie Prussian understands we speak to him at last Now we will fight, and we will die, but right must surely win, And though we start "Somwhere in France" —we'll finish in Beriin! BEATRICE BARRY. Willis-Cox Seesaw in Ohio | [From the Evening Public Ledger, Philadelphia] Frank B. Willis has been nomi nated for the Governorship of Ohio, for the third time by the Repub licans. A similar honor has co-me to James B. Cox at the hands of the Democrats. Willis beat Cox In 1914 by 31,000 plurality and Cox beat Willis in 1916 by 5,000 votes. There was a Presi dential election two years ago and Wilson carried the state by 89,000. Cox was evidently a weak candidate. H must run this year on the strength of his own record without the as sistance of a Democratic presidential candidate to bring out the vote. It looks very much as if this were Willis' turn to win again. At any rate, he will have the support of the dry forces, for he favors the ratifica tion of the prohibition amendment to the national constitution. THE WAY THEY GO [From the Kansas City Times.] Ah, fame is but a fragile flower, Bright for 0 day, then wlzzled. Celebrities wo now acclaim To-morrow morn have fizzled. TENNYSON J. DAFT. ) A Fine Place For Them Does Foch mean to keep on till he drives those Huns into the Kiel canal —or what?— Erie Dispatch. Old Cuss Still Useful at Times They always dig up Hindenburg when the crown prince makes a bad [break.—From the Chicago News. sack of oats in a French boxcar while eight mules are trying to get into that same sack; if one really de sires to see healthy Americans smile and cheerfully with characteristic go get 'em pep, build stables, move barracks, juggle the pick, shovel and whitewash brush, improvise water systems and the million and two other things in connection with the establishing of a remount depot, in addition to M. fK. P. qnd stable duty; if one thinks this a "taureau," just find the location of one of Uncle Sam's numerous stations and drop in any time between 6 a. m. and 6 p. m. any day in the month. The secret is this: That with every stroke of the pick, shovel, brush and curry comb; every stable or barrack built or moved; every parasitic dis eased animal dipped, goes the sin cere hope that soon such conditions will develop as will enable the cav alry to render more assistance In herding the Hun—to earn this noto riety—because, "for the present," the cavalry is playing the game. HOW TO MAKE SOAP [Bulletip of the American Chemical Society] Are you trying to conserve fats? Then you know one way to conserve is to use up the craps of fat in mak ing soap. If you have tried to fol low the directions on a can of lye. you were appalled to find that it was necessary to accumulate five and a half pounds of fat. Perhaps after carefully following these, directions, instead of endlngwith something you could call soap you had a still greasy, curdled, useless mass. Do not be discouraged. Next time you make soap observe these precau tions: Have the fat only just melted. Add the lye very slowly. Make the soap in smaller quantities, at first anyway. Pour into a glass Jar five and a quarter cups of cold water. Add to the water the contents of a can of lye. Stir until all the lye is dis solved and allow it to become com pletely cold. Try out the fat from scraps pf meat by heating. Clarify the fat and get rid of any salt it may con tain by boiling it for at least five minutes with several times its vol ume of water. Allow the fat to col lect, then skim it off. It may be melted and strained again. Make out of stiff paper or card board some molds about the shape of a cako of laundry coap, but thick er. Weigh out half a pound of fat. Heat it just enough to melt it—no mdVe. Measure out half a cupful of the lye solution. Add the lye to the fat a spoonful at a time, stirring well after each addition. This should take over five minutes. Keep on beat ing until the mass is fairly thick; pour it into molds. Set it away to harden and ripen and you will be enthusiastic when you use your fine floating soap for dish washing. General Pershing in France [Hamilton Holt in the Independent] Everywhere I went I inquired about General Pershing's ability. I heard nothing but universal praise of his tact, discretion, judg ment and force. He is evidently an organizer and statesman of first rate ability as well as a real military leader. One or two people told me that he was working too hard and too many details were put up to him by his subordinates for decision, but he hardly looked like a man who was allowing himself to be overburdened by the strain of petty details. Noise Isn't What Coynts Because half a dozen grasshop pers under a fern make the field ring with, their importune chink, whilst thousands of great cattle re pose beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants cf the field; that of course they are many in number; or that after all. they are other than the little shrivelled, meager, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. —Edmund Burke. Not to Mention the 45s The 35 and 40-year-old follows who have been expressing regret that the age limit prevented them from going into the army are not looking as happy now as they did a short time ago.—From the New Orleans States. * AUGUST 17, 1918 Mais, Oui, Mr. Briggs [From the Atlantic] "When you have been on patrol a long way behind the enemy lines, shooting up towns and camps and railway trains like a pack of aerial cowboys; when, on your way home, you have deliberately disobeyed or ders and loafed a long way behind, the other members of your group in order to watch the pretty sunset; and as a punishment for this aesthetic indulgence, have been overtaken by darkness and compelled to land in strange country, only to have your machine immediately surrounded by German soldiers; then,'having taken the desperate resolve that they shall not have possession of your old bat tle-scarred avion as well as of your person, when you are about to touch a match to it. if the light glistens on a long French bayonet and you learn that the German soldiers have been prisoners since the battle of the Pomme and have Just finished their day's work of harvesting beets to be used in making sugar for French poilus—oh, isn't it a grand and glor ious feeling?" To which I would reply. "Mais oui, men vieux! Mais oui!" Costs More to Run Hotels [From the St. Paul Dispatch] The cost of , operating hotels in 1918 is, on the average, 32.2 per cent higher than it was in 1914. In various items the Increase ranges from 10 to 150 per cent. T. D. Eilers of Storm Lake, la., told the North western hotel men at their conven tion here. OUR DAILY LAUGH HER CHOICE. What a fine y J JjJ g carriage that j, JF Yes. But I'd 'f rather know the „ f j* man .with the |B ifH millionaire ,' .1 slouch who ' owns a limou- yw~' WHAT SHE'S AFTER. "Do you think Germany really rants peace?" "Undoubtedly. Two many pieces." EASILY HIS FAULT. "What In the world made yon Jilt Reggie?" "Oh. ne got on my nerves, alwayi asking permission to kiss me." TAKES A BACK BEAT. "They say he is an authority on the subject." , "He la until he talks to his wife." lEitt tutuj fflljat Dauphin county draft boards, with exception of OT& of the city, seem to be moving pretty actively along the lines suggested by 'Provost Marshal General and urged by . Chairman William Jennings, of the Dauphin county couitcll of national defense, In the Instruction of the men of draft age, which will come In handy when the new draft law is put Into effect. The local boards were called upon to name committees of Instruction and the plan as followed by the Elizabethville board seems to be generally accepted. This calls for a general meeting of all men of draft age In a district and addresser by an Army man upon the military side and the way things are done at camps, so that the men will not be too scared to talk when they arrive; by an insurance man who explains the Army insurance plan; by a Y. M. C. A. worker who tells the men what the great association and kindred bodies are doing to make them feel contented and how to get the advan tages they offer; by a doctor upon being clean, morally, mentally and every other way, why and how to get so and stay so; then some pa triotic talks, singing, music and gen eral getting acquainted, winding up with some preliminary military in struction so that men will know how to keep step when they go to the oamps, can stand at '.'attention," face properly and other little things that are hardest to learn. The Steel ton board has organized and the Steelton Reserves are furnishing the drillmasters, as the Harrisburg Re serves are doing for the rest of the county. The Paxtang board has named Robert T. Fox, of Hummels town, assistant district attorney, ns chairman, while the city boards have also named their men to direct the instruction of the drafted men. 11 is one of the most important things to be undertaken and it is a pity that more peoplq who have time on their hands are not doing more for it. * •• . | State Fishery authorities will prob ably have to call up or call upon 1h Federal government for some as sistance in untangling a situatior which has arisen in the Susquehanna and which are killing thousands ol valuable food fish. Recurrences 01 the draining of acids from papei mills, tanneries and similar plants ' which drove the fish from the Alle gheny, Clarion and other westerr Pennsylvania rivers have been re ported trom the west branch of the Susquehanna and for miles streaks of poison have been observed, de stroying not only fish but plant life The conditions in the Susquehanna's west branch came to a climax this week when people in a dozen towns telephoned here that splendid specl : mens of bass and some salmon twen ty-four and twenty-six inches long were taken from the river dead from the pollution. The destroying ma terials were traced to tanneries and other plants which contended thai they were engaged in government work and that the conservation or ders would prevent spending moncj for filtration purposes. In some sec tions the situation has become at serious because of indignation ol fishermen that state authorities have sent notices of a peremptory char acter to filter wastes and will con test appeals to Federal authorities — to avoid doing the work. • • "Gasoline conditions do not ap pear to be interfering with peoph traveling to Harrisburg," remarked one of the clerks at the Bolton ir chatting about conditions here yes. terday. "As a matter of fact we have had about as many parties ns we had this month last year and the people travel as long distances. Jus! look at'that register and see how they have been coming in. They c,ome from all sections and it seems as though all roads lead to Harris burg." • • The Killinger picnic which is being held to-day in the upper end of the county and Ihe Loyalton picnic which comes next Saturday have been held for years and have developed from Sunday school affairs into community gatherings of the greatest kind. They bring together farmers from three or four counties and the agricultural experiences of one of the thriving districts of the Susquehanna Valley are threshed out and sacked away for winter discussion and spring practice. Quite a few Harrisburgers who come from "above the moun tains" make it a rule to go to one of these gatherings, just as many travel to the Gratz fair. * * * There have been a good many puzzled people about Union station this week because of the arm bands or brassards, as the Army calls them, which are on the arms- of the sol diers and drafted men. "MP" means military police and it desig nates a man to keep soldiers in or der, such men replacing the provost guard of Camp Meade days in Har risburg; "SP" means special police and signifies that the wearer is in charge of a group of drafted men on the way to camp, while a plain brassard with a number or initial on it means a drafted man on his way to camp. And all three have certain rights and privileges which the average man must respect. • * • Among visitors to the state draft headquarters yesterday was Harry W. Chamberlin, prominent attorney of Milton and a member of the local draft board for that section of Northumberland county. Mr. Cham berlin, who was In the Spanish War, is a nephew of the late James I. Chamfcerltn, Qf this city. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ - -Representative Charles Walter Was the speaker at the Red Bridge picnic in Franklin county yester day. , —Frank B. Willis, who is going to run for Governor again in Ohio, spoke at Pennsylvania institutes last winter. —General Charles W. Kutz, In command at Camp Meade, Is a Read ing man and graduated from West Point In the eighties. • —Senator P. C. Knox. has re turned to Washington after a vaca tion at the seashore. —Mayor Heldenreich, of Hazle ton, has started enforcement of the curfew law and Is ordering arrests himself. —George Stewart Patterson. Phlla delpahi lawyer, is spending the month on Long Island. —Robert D. Drlpps, Philadelphia, well known here, has been appointed secretary of the national defense council of Philadelphia. DQ t YOU KNOW , J Til at Har r lsbiirg la packing provisions for Pershing's Army? HISTORIC HARRISBURG .v. l from half dozen threatened centers met here in the French and Indian wars to plan de- I rense
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