—_ - Of Third-Cities Cities, Reading * Leads in Number, Wilkes- Barre Per Capita Largest. pele CARBONDALE COST LOWEST Corry Has Smallest Force, and Erie Expense Per Capita Exceeds Other Towns—Larger Cities Need Traffic Police. —~Harrisburg. determined by the Bureau of Munici palities of the Department of Labor and Industry, and the results were Price Jackson. i 1 { | i { SETRRERIRIHN Rr ise "PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS STEER nn nine Howard McComsey, of East Dru more, on a twelve acre field has an average of 150 bushels of potatoes W the acre. This is in striking contrast with what he had on six acres last season, when ne had few more than supplied his own family. Norristown women gladdened the nearly 1,000 men of the United States Ambulance Corps, encamped at Betz wood, with all sorts of pies, which were served at evening mess, Altoona Insurance offices are em- ploying women as solicitors. Drought has compelled the Green Mountain colliery to put on the water train. Army enlistments have created va lice. L.ebanon county's annual institute ono “te in teachers are the county Commission government has re created in the Department of Labor and Industry by the last Legislature. in the Bureau of Statistics and In- formation. Its work is in charge of J. Herman Knisely, chief. The compilation shows that Read- ing, with the largest population of the 31 cities cited, has 104 policemen— the greater number of the cities in- cluded in the list. Corry, the city of the least population, has the least number of police—four. The popula- tion of each of the cities for 1917 has been estimated by increasing the 1916 estimate of the United States Bureau of Census by one year's ratio of in- crease, Carbondale has one policeman every 2799 inhabitants, while Wilkes Barre has for every 768 inhabi- tants. The total annual cost of main- taining the police force in Corry is $3820, while in Reading the | an- nual cost is $115,000. The lowest an. nual cost per capita of population is in Carbondale, at 36 cents, while the highest cost per capita is in Erie, at $1.33. In the larger municipalities greater cost of policing is attributed to the necessity for greater numbers of traffic police, as well as for more patroimen and officers. The annual wage cost per policeman varies from €800 in Williamsport to $1140 in Johns- town. The complete tabulation show- ing the number of policemen in each municipality, the total annual police cost, the anrual police cost per capita of population and the annual wage cost per policeman is: . City. No. police, Total An incl. officers Pol. Cost to one total the An. Pol cost per cap. 76 79 51 36 07 24 66 59 $45.518.00 46,850.00 11,782.50 7,140.00 44,683.00 18,613.72 10.500.00 00 00 00 00 00 Allentown Altoona Bradford Carbondale Chester Coatesville Connellsville, Corey ....... 3820 Dubois ...... 8.276 Easton 29.280 Erie 101.566 Frankiin .... 7.800 Harrisburg .. 7 78,275.00 Hazleton 17,000.00 Johnstown £8.380.00 Lancaster 44.900.00 Lebanon 14,820.00 Lock Haven. 6,180.00 McKeesport 58.000.00 Meadville £.600.00 Monongahela 4.700.00 New Castle. . 33,800.00 Oll City 10,200.00 Pittston 14,880.00 Pottsville 12.000.00 Reading 115.000.0600 Titusville 5.000.060 'niontown 14.230.00 Wilkes-Barre. Williamsport. 95 23 ae 68 on ro STRAND O ek oO “- 3 () 1.20000 32,724.00 Miner Disobeyed Order. The State Compensation Board has made an important rulifig in a coal mine compensation case, that of Gurski vs. Susquehanna Coal Com- pany, Luzerne county, which contended that a man met fatal in jury by going back for tools which Were necessary work assigned to him. The Board gays that “it is clear his orders pro- hibited his going into the place where he met his no evidence that anotihgr machine could not have heen proved to re- place that which he went to get, In another mining case, that of Tourish vs. Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron Company, Schuylkill, compensation was allowed the widow of a miner who suffered apoplexy fol lowing the firing of a “shot” In a mine. Death was due to “pressure of alr created by the explosion of the dynamite” was one of considerable violence, si it Give Up Only Their Dinner. While the Pennayivania State Socle- rious departments and commissioners of the State Government, has given up its annual dianer this fall because of the war, its monthly luncheons will be continued. They will be held on the first Wednesday of each month in toils city, and a number of State officials and prominent men will speak at the functiors. Considerable attention is to be given to the historical fontures of the State Government and the early legislative days. four years. Id Jenkins, McVeytown, chugnt 400 salmon in the Juniata river this season. H. F. Behreiber, of Old Zionsville, raised 1,700 bushels of potatoes, Berks Red Men will raise $10,000, by each giving $1, to purchase war am- bulances, The schools of closed on account diphtheria. Absolom procured a gunner's Pottstown magistrate. TI farm of Emaus have been of an 84, of Fox license Yergey, tae late township, he 137 Long, of Upper Bern county, was gold to Mrs. A. J Shartlesville, for $6,422.72 “Out of town buying” is ascribed as the m for rocms in the near Valley Forge American. Revolul adopt a French « John W. Balthas farm in Tilden t ty, to Jacob L. Balthas Altoona Y. W A. has $20 000 of the $50,000 it raise a week ago. Lack milk Hobbie Creamery, ative plant, ten years’ operation acre ten tenantiess t of Roy reas ord 8 decided a Yoear Ks coun r 87.100. threatens to a farmers’ of Three thousand, four hundred and sixty-six bank accounts, for $267.09, were opened in newly organized school thrift Vegetables riased seventy piles of the Newport public sold for $51.05. Fifteen cases of diphtheria developed in Martinsburg, all the schools in the borough are closed and no service schools. A French Altoona higl forty - hospitals, selves for possible ser The last toll county is a thing Duncansville and Company, after a having decided to accept £4,000 for the road, to be ly by the slate and the county system. by language class in nurses in local prepare wo graduate anxious to vice in France. in Das i. furnpike of the Newry year's Franklin counly farmers have paid men to cut corn and do other rush by moonlight. day in shops went on the farms and worked until midnight cutting corn and husking. Women also worked by moonlight on scores of farms. Seventy draft soldiers left port ner.” and and populace Five left town, 20 from the First 43 from the Third district. from Norris district David Armstrong, Leiperville, by road, newspapers who of truck patch in the Armstrong is blanchi rear of his home. using the newspapers for ng the celery cent in the ployees. This will mean an added pay. ment of between $50,000 and £60,000 a year. A large number of shell making ma- chines were installed in Jeaneaville Iron Works, which is being altered to handle a 5,000,000 order for the United States government, after turning out 500,000 shrapnel for the Russians. The time for paying taxes to enable soldiers to vote hag expired. Encouraged by getting work this fall in the farming districts, the brawny miners up state now seek employment in the timber yards of the anthracite collieries. Using their husbands’ passes, wives of the Juniata Valley Railroad men { : ¥ It cost Henry W. Heidenreich $288.05 to be elected Mayor of Hazleton by getting more than 51 per cent of the vote at the primaries. Charlés BE Jefferies, who obtained the Democratic nomination for County Controller at the primary election, fil- ed an unusual expense account. In a letter to the Prothonotary: he said: “To secure 2,336 votes and the Demo cratic nomination for County Control ler in Blair county cost me 25 cents.” FOOD PLEDGE WEEK CAMPAIGN COMING OCTCBER 21 TO 28 Bh A ——— cvery Family Must Do Utmost to Conserve Resources and Lend Money to Nation So We May Crush Enemy. LEARN LESSONS OF ECONOMY Washington.—America’s place In the Industrial competition of nations that will folloy peace will be deter- mined In large part by the response that the American people make to the coming food pledge week campaign. This 1a the bellef of the United States food administration and is one of the thoughts that is spurring on its forces in their preparations by enrolling the families of the nation in the cause of food conservation during the week of October 21, “When the war Is over,” the food administrator declared recently, “Bu- rope will find herseif with a redoced standard of living, with a people greatly disciplined In all directions, und in a position to compete in the world’s markets in a way that they never have been able before, We shall also face a world with a reduced con- suming power, and unless we can se- cure such discipline In our own peo ple, we will be In no position to meet that condition when peace comes,” The idea that the purpose of food saving Is not alone the present one of feeding our army and the allies, Is further developed by the belief of the food administration that wars are pald of the savings of pay present conflict out of the today or after the war by to two billion dollars a If the United States year. Were an 5 no pop 8 tion anto- he appeal for the conserva There would be an The mailed Imperial food de control, rule in the kitchen, would be enforced ant the tut not an Crees of the bayonet, country. Ours is Food in the hands of the people themselves and it the administration in control is to the people that has pledge card campais Hoover has ters «1 this ap Herbert peal an “unprecedented ads that demo- -an adventure whether or not determine eratic form of governmen to engage In a with autocracy. The food pledge week 1 ath ® : © grapple a result of voluntary insuring the general of The food pledge week cam. reprez nts an effort American homes ns possible Our pledges servation. tO as tO whent everybody helps, conserved If the many unite in a reserves oan common policy. be conserved Our ment can be co-operates, The American people join together in a4 common tion policy. supporting this policy they are asked ecard denoting membership administra in thelr window. In order that conservation policy may be un derstood. the reasons for it made plain, manner of observing It ren dered certain, lnstruction cards—"The War Creed of the Kitchen,” are to be hung in the home, And that is what the national food pledge week campaign is all about, are tion Whole Family Under Fire. A land owner of Vergeze, according following letter from his son, ¢ staff captain: “1 heard a strange story today, that and a boy of sixteen had been found among the men of the battalion of unmounted chaus An Investigation was made, were found to bo the wife and son of a chausseur who had de termined not to be separated fron him. Both went into the trenches with other poilus, and the most striking thing about it is that they had been with the battalion for five months be fore the authorities found out. 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The cannot be but the ground has been cleared for a colossal amount of work, embracing all branches that go to make for the efficient operation of a modern war machine, and a big share {will be taken over during the bad { weather by Americans, not only in [the United States, but also in France. | And this quite aside from the training {of the fighting men and the education waghout the gigantic death bl discussed, details PREPARING FOR THE Wr so WINTER offen- gives nowadays In every big The machines are capable of per forming wonders in any weather short of a hurricane, and there will Le plen- ty of aerial activity, especially bomb- ing raids, right through the worst TE ——— months ; but poor visibility will make | co-operation with the gun batteries dif. BIG MOVES NOT LOOKED FOR ficult, the more so as the Germans j latest type of “Archibald,” or anti-air- [of the officers in the latest phases of {craft gun, enforces respect and cow | warfare. Short, Sharp Blows at Selected Points | 01s pilots to fly high, | The result of all this activity will During Fine Spells, With Occa- In these circumstances big sweep [be that next spring the entente allies sional Airplane Raids To Be ing moves are not looked for, but rath- | Will possess a supereminent war ma- Order of Day for Winter. er a repetition on a more intensive chine, gunned, manned and equipped {scale of Iast winter's tactics. Short, | In an unprecedentedly complete and Paris.—Preparations for the fourth | sharp blows at selected points during | magnificent manner. It was correct to winter campaign on the western front {fine spells, a continual battering on | say last winter that in 1017 the entente are already in full swing. The sum- | wide fronts by concentrated gun fire allies would develop a striking force mer campaign is over, and while both {lengthening out to closeup rest sta | which could not be exceeded in 1918 the English and French may be ex- | tions, hundreds of airplanes swarming [If the war continued. But at that pected to make a few big drives, it Is lout to attack encampments, aviation | time the intervention of the United not anticipated that the beginning of | sheds, munition dumps and lines of | States was only a dim possibility ; the winter, for military purposes, will see | communication—these will be the reg | revolution In Russia and the collapse any radical alteration in the war map | ular order of the day throughout the [of her army were foreseen by nobody. From Factory and Home to Men in Trenches. of France and Flanders. Millions of sweaters, suits, rubber Wellington wraps, muflflers, gloves and mittens are beginning to flow out from fac. tory and home to the French poilus and British Tommies, hundreds of thousands of whom are facing their fourth winter period in the trenches. The comfort of the fighting man is so carefully studied now, after three years’ experience, that nothing will be overlooked to make the coming harsh trial bearable, Practically all the way from Nien port to Verdun the armies are in quar. ters totally different from those they occupied last winter; with the excep: tion of one or two stretches — as around La Bassece and the Argonne the French and British are stationed In captured German lines. Throughout the spring and summer the men have shown little Inclination to dig, feeling that in view of the possipility of a further move forward, just enough shelter was good enough for the time being. Turning over earth hag never appealed to any infantry in this war, but necessity is likely to force them to do a lot of it ia order to provide them: selves with snug and well-drained trenches for the winter, Little Change in Line, Until next spring the western line is not likely to vary to any great ex- tent, unless the totally unexpected happens. High winds, morning and evening mists, snow flurries and rain will limit the usefulifess of the alr plane and diminish the enormous help socks, paper boots, head i | i i winter. The enemy will be be torn in his dwindling reserves and every possible step token, first to pre vent his ever again assuming the ini tiative upon the western front, and, secondly, to weaken him {rreparably for the final Knockout blow in 1018. The part the American contingents will play In the winter's activity Is the closest of sll military secrets at this time. There is nothing that Hin. denburg is burning to know so much as just what Pershing'’s plans are, and there is nothing that Pershing is more bent upon doing than keeping the slightest hint from Hindenburg. Prudence the Motto. But while no light can be shed at this stage upon the plans of the Amer ican commander in chief, I am able to give this assurance, that prudence Is his motto, that he will never consent to play to the gallery as even the best generals are sometimes tempted to do, It Is Hailg's great merit that he bides hig time and only strikes when he is able to strike In real earnest. Pershe Ing resembles the British leader in this respect, and Europe has had enough war experience to know that these are the men who get the real results at the least possible cost in lives, and that though they have little to show on the war map, they are steadiiy, per sistently, relentlessly weaffmg down the toughest foe that ever took the What can be sid, however, without giving any information to the enemy is that here In France Americans will Tough Problem for Enemy. As the situation stands at present, with the United States adding her with a still unextinguished hope that the Muscovites may be brought back allies will be able to confront Hinden- burg with a far harsher problem in 1018 than they could have hoped to put up to him in 1017. Next spring the British army will still be at top strength, for in the past summer Haig has put forth nothing like his maximum effort, and in com- sequence has suffered losses far below the figures anticipated at the British war office. When It was seen that the Russian army must drop ont of all offensive plans this summer and that Germany would ba able to develop an front, the Franco-British policy natur- ally became more conservative. The tion of an irresistible power before the Passengers Brave Sea's Perils. An Atlantic Port.—An American pas- eight passengers and crew re.
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