6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Hstablishtd if It PUBLISHED BT THE TBLEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE PrtsuJtnt and Editorin-Chitf T. R. OTBTER Stertiary GUS M. STEINMETZ Mtto aging Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building. 21# Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publlsh ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, lIU. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers *t $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. ■worn dally average circulation (or the three months ending May 31, 1015. ★ 21,577 if I Average for the year 1914—21358 i Average for the year 1013—19.002 Average for the year 1012—10.649 Average for the year 1911—17»563 ' Average for the year 101CK—16»281 The above flgurea are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged eoplea de- < ducted. ] MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 28 1 _ I — " i Youth should b* a tatingj bank.—Madame , Switching. —. 1 CANADIAN EXPORTS C A CCORDING to the report of Con sul General John G. Foster, Ot tawa, Canada, our export trade with that country fell off $119,000,000 for the calendar year 1914. as com pared with 1913, while there was an Increase in imports from Canada of B| about $8,000,000, making a total loss ( ■ to this country by reason of Canadian ( f competition of $127,000,000. f The following are some of the ar- , tides given in the consul general's . tabulation, showing Imports from Can- , ada into the United States, Canadian valuations: Animals, (cattle, etc.), | 1913, $7,674,718, 1914, $13,104,754; , leather and manufactures of, 1918, . $509,986, 1914, $3,758,401; milk and cream, 1918, $1,405,681, 1914, $2,893,- , 090; provisions, $1,358,287, 1914, $6,- , 543,454; wood, manufactured, $4,- ( 599.877, 1914, $7,217,810. These articles went on the free list. , or the duties were materially reduced , by the Underwood law which went , j into effect October 3. 1913. , The report shows that, with the as sistance of a Democratic tariff law, , Canada is able to raise large levies , I. of troops to send to Europe, as well , as food supplies to the allies, , and still" Increase appreciably her ex ports to the United States to compete , with our own products. EUTURE OF THE JITNEY ALL the country is talking of the Jitney, its present relation to the transportation situation and Its future. Anything bearing on the matter is eagerly read. One of the most interesting digests of the prob lem Is presented in a report of a committee to the Oak land Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club after an Investiga tion that included all of the leading cities. The committee calls attention to the fact that in looking over the history of urban transportation it finds the horse car giving way to the cable car, and the cable car (except under very special conditions) to the electric trol ley car. There was an economic Jus tification for each change which made it necessary and unavoidable. The wiping out of investments in the horse car, cable car. and earlier elec tric car lines and equipment, and re placement with the efficient and ex pensive modern equipment, had its Justification in the accompanying so cial, physical and financial develop ment and improvement of the people and communities affected. It was re flected in an incerase in property values which greatly overshadowed the immediate Investment in the transportation system destroyed. y Will the Jitney do this, the commit -1 tee asks and then tries to answer tho question from its findings. It is quite conclusive that if the motor bus comes to stay, it will not be In the shape of the present Jitney, and if the motor bus is to be the transporta tion unit of the future, it will super cede the electric car because It is economically right, and in doing so, It would Justify the replacement of the present Investments by enhancing the property values of the commu- Ity, says the committee. This Is the keynote from the stand point of the report. Will the Jitney relieve congestion in apartment or tenement sections in the way that every city in America is striving to solve that problem, or will it only ag gravate and increase the present diffi culties? If i does not, what will be come of the values beyond the mile limit which the committee finds to be the ultimate range of service of the Jitneys? If the Jitney weakens the present transportation systems which draw the support for unprofitable lines serving the outlying districts from the section where traffic is densest, what does it mean to the property owner and the home owner in the suburbs of Oakland, and the American city? The committee believes that the Jit ney bus, in a large measure, is due to poor business, hard times and the impossibility of men obtaining work of any kind. "Many of these men al ready owned small autos or had saved enough money to buy an automobile, i i n this way the; went into the MONDAY EVENING, Jitney bus business. For the present they are doing something for them selves and their families. Their time is occupied and the nickels they take In enable them to eat at tho expense of their autobus. In other words, the Jitney driver Is living upon his capi tal. or the capital of some one else, because tho Income la not sufficient to provide for his living and the neces sary operating expenses, plus fixed charges and depreciation." Extended investigations of the com mittee showed them that the average Jitney travels 137 miles per day with a car mile Income of five and a half cents. Considering depreciation and coat of operation and allowing $3 to the driver. It was found that even the smallest Jitney could not run for less than seven cants per mile. This em phasizes the fact that most drivers are living at the expense of their auto bus and on their capital rather than on their Income. Investigation of certain standard traction bonds In California, with a par value of $107,422,000, showed a shrinkage from December, 1914, to March, 1916, of $8,887,000, or about eight and rne-quarter per cent. The ultimate effect of this Is appre ciated by anyone who considers that over $60,000,000 worth of California electric railway bonds are held by savings banks and local investors in California, or, in other words, by home people; $430,767,703 in outstanding stocks and bonds was the total for thirty street railroads on June 30, 1913. *The same applies, doubtless, to other States. California receives five and one fourth per cent, of the gross income of street railways, and the total tax paid on gross income amounts to about 12 per cent. This means a total loss to the public on principal lines of the State $300,000 per annum, aside from the other form of taxation placed by the public upon street railways in the building and maintenance of that por tion of the street occupied by the roadbed. It was found In London, where the motor bus has attained its great est prominence, that whereas the cost of maintaining a certain road surface prior to the advent of the motor bus was 6.483 d. per square yard, it was increased to 13.403 d. after one year of bus traffic, or slightly over 100 per cent. In this case it was the public—or in other words, Middlesex County Council — appearing in its own behalf to de mand relief from a new burden of < taxes imposed by the bus traffic. During the rush hour from 5 to S p. m., the average number of passen gers transported in the. 6-cent limit from the business center of Oakland (a length of three blocks on Broadway) Is 113,500. Approximately 13 Jitneys would b.e required to give the same carrying capacity as one street car. In Oakland, to handle the above traf fic requires 23 4 cars with a headway of 15 seconds. To move the same traffic with Jitneys at 13 to 1 would require 3,000 cars. No further argument need be ad vanced as to the necessity for fewer and larger transportation units in the congested districts during rush hours or normal, hours of .large trafpo. The logical conclusion from the committee's report is that if the pub lic continues to support the Jitney, and thereby weakens the street railways and ultimately puts them out of busi ness, they must expect a zone system of fares, because the small Jitney can not operate over a much longer route than three miles at a profit. The American cities have religiously fought the zone system on account of the destruction of property values and the ongestion of population. The report is not only interesting. It is important and should be in the hands of everybody Interested in the Jitney question. Governor Brumbaugh has passed the Job of selecting the most distinguished Pennsylvanian along to the news papers. and the newspapers are passing it along to their readers. Evidently both are students of that eminent au thority whose philosophy in life Is that it is better to "Let George Do It." THE ANTI-DRUG CRUSADE THE government has Just com pleted a round-up of violators of the new anti-drug act at Erie. Hundreds of prosecutions are now be ing brought in the United States court against persons who have sold habit forming drugs in violation of the fed eral statute. This was to be expected. It is no matter of wonder that unscru pulous persons have attempted to elude the government agents in this line of illicit trade. The returns are highly profitable and the demand great on the part of "drug fiends" who had ac quired the habit previous to the enact ment of the law and who were, and are, willing to pay any price for means of gratifying their cravings. However, the federal web is drawing around all of these. In a remarkably short time the sale of habit-forming drugs has become almost as rare as the manufacture of "moonshine" whisky or the counterfeiting of na tional currency. Always we have had criminals who would engage in either and run the risk of being caught. Al ways, also, secret service detectives are apprehending these and sending them to the penitentiaries for long terms. The same will doubtless he true of drug sellers, except that the demand for "dope" will fall off steadily for the reason that few, If any, new "dope fiends" are being made. The pro hibitory statute is being so vigorously ■ enforced and unscrupulous physicians , and druggists are being so closely ! watched that few people In the future ! will have opportunity to contract the t habit. And this Is the great benefit that will come from the operations of the new federal act. Hudson Maxim says we spend enough on chewing gum every year to build a . battleship. But It wouldn't be so bad If Bryan would only acquire the habit. ' The Sultan of Turkey is sick, and ; moat of us will agree that he has a ■ perfectly good excuse. ' There are worse places than Harrls ' burg In which to spend the month of > June. , ""PtKKQlffctfCuUa. By the Ex-Oommlttecroaa Pennsylvania's campaign for the Su perior Court nominations seems to have opened up with a rush. Nomi nation papers for Judges Orlady and Head are reported to have been started out by their admirers In a score of counties and papers are also reported In circulation for Judge J. W. Bouton, of McKean county, for one of the three nominations and friends of ex-Judge W. D. Wallace, of New Castle, are get ting busy. Nothing has come from the north eastern part of the State as yet regard ing the reported candidacy of Judge 11. A. Fuller, of the Luzerne bench. The Judge was mentioned immediately upon the announcement that Judge Charles E. Rice would not bo a candi date again and a boom was started for him, but was not pushed. Considerable Interest is being shown here in the situation in the Miffltn- Huntingdon-Bedford district, where Judge Joseph M. Woods is a candi date for re-election. What is inter esting people here, is what Huntingdon county will do, as Samuel I. Spyker Is talked of as a possibleVandldate. A boom was started in Philadelphia last night for Joseph P. Rogers, assist ant district attorney, for one of the Judicial nominations. Rogers has often visited here. A New York story Is to the effect that Justice A. Mitchell Palmer will leave the Court of Claims to become counselor of the State Department, the place made vacant by promotion of Secretary Lansing. Representative William T. Ramsey, who represents the district compris ing the city of Chester, has declined the proffer of support of his friends for the Republican nomination for mayor. He says the work of a legis lator is entirely congenial and that as matters are now he intends to be a candidate to succeed himself In the General Assembly. Because Governor Tener, Repub lican, named to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Henry K. Wean, a Republican, John Faber Miller, a Republican, the friends of Judge Mil ler argue and expect that the Repub licans of Montgomery county will in dorse the action of the Republican Governor by according him the usual nomination for the office to which he was appointed. C. Henry Stlnson, of Norristown, and William P. Young, of Pottstown, a Bull Mooser, are other announced candidates. —The Kolb dinner in Philadelphia has started much talk about the may oralty in that city, probably the big gest political factor in the State Just now. City Chairman Lane is still working to get a "neutral" candidate, one that will tie acceptable to all sides. The independents profess to be en couraged at the outlook, but the Dem ocrats are split up the back again. —Wllkinsburg will have a special elect on in August on a loan of $125,- 000 lor imporvements. —W. M. McKean, former district attorney of Northampton, will be a candidate for Judge of that county. NATURALIZATION INCREASES [Washington Post.] The great increase in the number of applicants for citizenship papers in Chicago and most of the other large cities indicates that the hyphen is gradually disappearing from Ameri canism. Originally there was a general belief that the increase in naturalization was due to the fear of many alien residents of the United States that they might be called upon to fight for the country of their birth unless they became citi zens of the United States. Lately, how ever. it has become clear that the rea son for the increase is simply that the aliens wish to remove all doubt as to where their allegiance lies. It is pretty well known that there are about 8,000,000 Germans and about 2.000.000 Austrians In the United States, but these figures represent a combination of those actually born in Germany and Austria, with those born in this country of foreign or mixed parentage. What is more significant is that there are actually two and half mil lion of foreign-horn Germans in this country exclusive of those born of for eign parents. Likewise there are more than a million Austrians and half a million Hungarians. MORE GERMAN THOROUGHNESS [St Paul Pioneer Press.] The world has heard much of Ger man preparation and thoroughness since the beginning of the war and new examples of it are discovered nearly every day. Two very striking illustrations have Just come to view. The one has to do with Germany's marvelous preparedness for war, the other with her struggle so to utilize her foodstuff resources as to prevent famine. Former Senator W. A. Clark, the copper magnate, related recently how for three years preceding the outbreak of war Germany had taken half the annual supply of copper produced in the United States, or as much as the rest of the world put together. Ger many's purchases amounted to 6C0.000.000 pounds a year. Senator Clark declared that it Vas impossible for Germany to have used all this in her industries, and that she must have been hoarding it. as she would gold, against the possibility of war. The other illustration will Interest housewives especially. One of the American delegates to The Hague Peace Conference, who also visited Berlin, tells of an interview with Frau Heyl, "the most powerful woman in Germany." who has written five cook books —"one for the North, one for the South, one for the East, one for the West and one for Central Ger many. This enables us to utilize the foods that grow in each part of the country." REVOCATION AS A REMEDY [Pittsburgh Gazette Times.] Commissioner Cunningham of the Department of Highways at Harris burg yesterday revoked the automo bile license of a Johnstown man for operating his car while intoxicated. The culprit had pleaded guilty to the charge before Johnstown's mayor so there is no doubt of his offending. This remedy for the evil of reckless driving of motor vehicles, if applied in every instance in which opportunity is presented, ought to work a two fold reform. It will make our city streets and country thoroughfares safer and It will contribute to tem perance. Considering the enormous number of automobiles In the State, and the immense popularity they have attained. It is a sure thing that when men discover they may not run their machines and be drunk at the same time, without risk of losing the privi lege of handling the steering wheel inri the right to operate, thev will ad- | just their habits to suit conditions; and when that is done there will be | less reckless driving. If the police authorities are alive to their duty they will inform the de partment at Harrisburg of every case like that of the Johnstown man, and thus simplify the task of minimising k a nuisance and a public danger. t HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH This Is the second cartoon of a series by L.. R. Key, a young Harrisburg art student .of prominence. Mr. Ney is drawing a series of these cartoons especially for the Telegraph. They will appear at Intervals of about * one week during the summer. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —A resident of Bethlehem sustained j a stroke of apoplexy while picking • cherries and a York man was painfully Injured by falling from a cherry tree. Farmer boys in search of excuses, at tention! —Perhaps It's only natural that straw votes do not become popular untjl aftei the harvest season. —Many a man who bought a Panama hat this year with the excuse that It will do for three or four summers, knows In his heart that he will buy a new one next year. —The funniest thing about the posi tion taken by those who contend that prohibition does not prohibit is the efforts they are making to keep prohi bition from not prohibiting . ■—The final plunge of the politically lost is taken immediately after he de nounces the newspapers enmasse. —Straws show which way the wind is blowing, but then, so do the flimsy gowns the summer girl is wearing. " —— i EDITORIAL COMMENT I A GREAT JOKER Villa offers to resign, but the min ute they are congratulating htm he takes second thought and a town or two. —Atlanta Constitution. MAYBE T. R. IS URGING HIM ON It is said that Mr. Barnes will ap peal that libel suit. How that man must love to hear Roosevelt talk!— Philadelphia Inquirer. BEEN DONE BEFORE "Billy" Sunday is accused by his secretary of "borrowing" his sermons. Many better preachers than "Billy" have done this, but not many were able to make it an act of savins grace.—Rochester Herald. NEW GLOSSARY NEEDED Reinforced glossary of war and medical terms is sadly needed. Just confuses the ordinary mortal to read that a man was wounded between the Dnelster and the Pruth. New York Evening Telegram. GREECE AND ITS OPPORTUNITY [From the New York Herald.] Can Greece sit complacent under the prospect of Italy joining In the division of Turkish spoils? Can she conte-nplate the possibility of that portion of Asia Minor confronting the Aegean whore Greek population dominates falling in to the hands of any other nation than herself? The time is fast approaching when Greeks must determine whether the Greater Greece of national aspiration Is to become a reality or a dream un fulfilled. 1 BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Gertrude Atherton is now at home from the hospital, recovering from her serious illness. Instead of going to California for the exposition, she ex : pects to spend the summer In New York and has taken an apartment near Riverside Drive. The publication of Mrs. Atherton's latest book, "Cali fornia: An Intimate History," was timed to meet the demands of exposi tion visitors who might desire a color ful account of California's history. "Empty Pockets," Rupert Hughes' new novel, Is published this week by the Harper®. It la a baffling mystery of the last year In a man's life, and of the men and women who entered into It. The hero was found murdered on the roof of a tenement house and In his hand he clutched strands of red hair. Now each of the women In the story, the young and charitable daugh ter of a millionaire, the beautiful Rus sian Jewess, the wife of a gun-man, and others, all hnd red hair, and each had cause to wish the murdered man harm. Not until almost the end of the book Is It possible to guess which one is guilty. Like a Dickens novel, "Empty Pockets" is a very hive of men and women of different classes whose lives and loves are tangled to gether. CHOOSING SIDES CAREER OF BARON STIEGEL (From New York Evening Post) LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsyl vania. cherishes the memory of a glassmaking Colonial, Baron Stiegel. Legend tells of his eccentrici ties and extravagances. The piety of modern times holds annually, at Man helm, where his factory was. a Feast of Roses In his memory. Such is the legend that Freedrick William Hunter, in the handsome volume, "Stiegel Glass," has investigated with scientific accuracy. Naturally some abatement of the legend results from Mr. Hunter's discovery and sifting of actual docu ments. For example, the only decu mentary proof that Stiegel was ever a. baron is the doggerel couplet on cer tain stoves which he cast at Eliza beth Furnace: Baron Stiegel Ist der Mann Der die Oefen glessen kann. Evidently Baron was merely a nick name. It was an appropriate one for the man. Born at Cologne in 1729, moving to Pensylvania in his twenty first year, Henry William Stiegel promptly married an ironfounder's daughter and began a sensational ca reer as a rpanufacturer. By his twen ty-sixth year he had taken over Eliza beth Furnace, his father-in-law's property, with two partners. Char acteristically, he soon quarreled with them, and began to extend his activi ties. From records and excavations on the spot, Mr. Hunter proves that Stiegel began making glass at Eliza beth Furnace as early as 1763. The next year he went to England, prob ably to plan for the famous flint glass works which were soon to rise at Manheim. The first factory ran about four years, and closed down in 1769 in financial difficulties. Undeterred by his bad luck, Stiegel was already build ing on a larger scale, and adding to his coarser product colored, cut, and enameled glass in great variety. For the time he advertised freely. His agents in Philadelphia and New York urged the purchase of Stiegel glass as a patriotic duty. Boston, how ever, would only buy his excellent product when represented as import ed. Visions of fortune hovered be fore the Baron. His progress from and to Manheim were made with four LETTERS TO THE EDITOR^ SAYS UEKMAXY WILL WIN To the Editor of the Telegraph; Steelton. Pa., June 28, 1915. I challenge your editorial of June 25th, anent, "War Is Not Over." The heading I do not challenge, but your arguments as well as Its conclusions. Look at facts and conditions as they are and not as you wish them to be. The comparison of the North and the South have not the least similarity on German conditions or upon the con ditions of the European war. Ger many and Austria are able to develop themselves. They have mighty big factories, and an immense amount of war material stored up, which will last them for ten years. It would make your eyes dazzle to see how the Ger mans store up for the future. Now, Mr. Editor, when you speak of defeat you must show me the vic tories of the Allies. There are none. German strategists are just as able to judge as those of the allies. When ever the allies were defeated, they withdrew for strategetical reasons. The Germans do the same, but they have not been overwhelmed yet in a single case. The English navy is paralyzed by German strategy and when it comes to speak of victory there is none on either side as yet, although the English are the heaviest loosers. Germany is able to send nearly all English and. French men-of war to the bottom of the sea. The world has advanced since 1861-1865, and let me tell you that Farragut was in the same position as Germany Is In regard to England. The number alone does not win a battle. Russia is done for; Franc© Is impoverished; 1 England has yet her money and men, , but no lighting material. Italy Is no 1 good, It always played the black handed game. Beggars, thieves, organ- I grinders and blackhanders. But Eng land is making the attempt to get another class —the Balkan States— which are the cut-throats. Let. me tell you, that a victory of these would mean the greatest calam ity the world ever had seen. Will they be victorious? Never! England with all its hosts will get whipped; even If the war would last 10 years, England Is a sport-ridden country— Land what is the saddest theory Is ttj JUNE 28, 1915. horses preceded by outriders and a pack of hounds. Yet the Glass House never really paid. The Baron was careless about details, a ready bor rower, a bad bookkeeper. As early as 1773 he sought the desperate ex pedient of a lottery to keep Manhelm afloat. In August of 1774 Manheim was advertised by the sheriff of Lan caster county for debts approximating £II,OOO. The bubble had burst. The Baron sojourned for a time in debtors' prison. An ejaculation in his book of devotions • shows that, like most ad venturers of his sanguine tempera ment, his conscience was good. He ignores his own recklessness and mere ly invokes the Lord against his ene mies. To follow the sinking fortunes of the Baron is unnecessary. As an em ploye at his old Elizabeth Furnace, he helped cast cannon balls for Wash ington. He enrolled in the militia, but apparently never fought. In the last ten years he moved several times, living as a dependent. In 1779 he sold the two faithful slaves who had long served him. There is a tradition that he taught school. In 1785, in his fifty-sixth year, he died, and no body took the pains to ma,rk his grave. It is odd that our earliest type t>f the speculative manufacturer should have been a German. Stiegel in his energy, unbounded hopefulness, lack of method, and waiver of ordi nary prudence, is the spiritual father of millions of subsequent promoters. His interest, like theirs, is not in the tedium of execution, but In the glor ies of conception. There is something of the artist in the type. Stiegel does not seem to have invented much, but at least he tried to put his product on the level of the best that Europe then made. Mr. Hunter has spared no pains in identifying the Manhelm pieces. He gives reproductions of no less than 158, with eight separate color plates. While the book is a model of exhaustive research, its cau tious antiquarianism is enlivened by wit'and humor. It is indispensable to collectors of Colonial American glass, and it is equally interesting as local history and biography. The buckram clad ocavio is beautifully made at the Riverside Press, the edition limited to 420 copies. expects even the United States to take up arms in favor of her. If America would have a Jefferson or a Cleveland as president, there would be trouble with England, but not with Germany, which is defending a just cause for all nations on earth. Tours truly, C. F. TIEMANN, Evangelical Lutheran Pastor, 206 S. Third St. WORTH LEARNING Miss Gladys was rather a flippant young lady, and just so was her friend. Of late meetings between the two had been few and far between. Gladys' friend could not fathom the reason why. and In order to satisfy her curiosity she called one afternoon. "No, mum. Miss Gladys is not in," the maid Informed her. "She has gone to the class." "Why, what class?" Inquired the caller. In surprise. "Well, mum, you know Miss Gladys is getting married soon. So she's tak ing a couple of lessons in domestic science."—Exchange. Our Daily Laugh the po ° R \Ty Mary Elephant: Vs —) 0) Oh my goodnessl that mouße Ja&fJr f run up my trunk jflr: f and I haven't ■ chair to stand on. " <S ~' NO CINCH. How the hoe looked to little Willy Cityboy af- /jCjfl tor his flrst hour at farmwork! icbrnmg Qlbat *ih«j fact that quail, have been heard calling In Reservoir Park and in fields about Pajctang, grouse have been beard "drumming" In Wildwood Park and wild turkeys seen on First Mountain within sigh' of the dome of the State Capitol, to say nothing of the deer swimming the river at Dauphin, calls to mind that the State authori ties are making good in a promise a few years ago. When the hunter's license act was first agitated the claim was made, rather grandiloquently it was thought that the game would be brought back to Pennsylvania. Game | has been bought and turned loose, ! some of It not far from Harrlsburg, j but what has taken place has been an Increase in public sentiment toward hunting. It used to be that some peo ple went hunting and fired on every thing that had feathers or fur, chick ens and dogs not escaping. But that was ten years ago, before the laws relative to killing of male deer with horns only and forbidding killing of turkeys as well as limiting the quail season became operative. Since that time there has been a marked change in the public idea about game. Soma hunters are just as keen as ever after the birds and deer and hare, but there are others who prefer the sport and do not think so much of the size of the bag. If a couple of counties in this section could be closed to all kinds of hunting for three or five years the result would be a joy not only to the hunter but the nature-lover. This county abounds in places Ideal for game to breed and undisturbed by hunters from one year's end to an other. Perhaps, Wildwood park would become a sort of native Pennsylvania zoo after all. The tennis court at Melrose, out in the eastern end of the East End, is one of the prettiest places now to he seen about the city. Roses of the climbing variety have been trained about the wire netting and they are new in full bloom, affording red, white, and pink blossoms. The court attracts more attention than most flower gardens. A man who follows very closely the movements of foreigners says that the number of residents of Steelton and this city who have gone back to fight in the last year is far less than one would suppose and that there are men 'working here who are liable to recall to military service who show no intention of returning. Some of these men have answered recalls to war by inquiring of officials the require ments for citizenship. A Pittsburgh friend sends an inter esting article on the way streets con necting with Pittsburgh are being re named by the boroughs and townships through which they pass. Some tima ago attention was called in this col umn to the method adopted by tha Wilkes-Barre City Planning Commis sion in securing uniform names ol streets, it being the scheme to have the various small municipalities agree. In Pittsburgh all streets and avenues connecting the city with surrounding municipal divisions are to be renum bered to conform to the Pittsburgh base. The city numbers will be con tinued in all directions from the city. The plan has the endorsement of va rious district boards of trade, tha post office and the city administration as well as of numerous borough au thorities. It would not be a had plan for Steelton, Paxtang and Penbroob to do the same thing with Harrisburg. Harrisburg friends of Dr. J T. Rothrock, the veteran forestery corn 4 missioner and conservationist, will be interested to learn that he has agreed to take charge of the publication known as Forest Leaves, which is tha organ of the State Forestry Associa tion. This publication under the late John Birktnbine was an interesting 1 one and dealt with conservation in a ! practical way. Dr. Rothrock's man agement of It is expected to make it exceedingly virile as he Is a vigorous writer and the subject of conserva tion is closest to his heart. Market and Third streets had a fun ny, and yet annoying, blockade tha other evening. An automobile which had been stopped to allow traffic to go in the other direction suddenly stall ed. The man got out and cranked three times before he got under way and as he was, exactly in the middle he held up things four ways. When he got started there were a couple of parades of automobiles through grin ning throngs. Col. Harry C. Trexler, quartermaster general of the National Guard, haa been elected president of the city planning commission of Allentown. The colonel is one of the most progres sive men in the city by the Lehigh and his development of his own properties has shown him to be a m. t n of advanced ideas. He is well known to many Harrisburgers. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator S. R. Catlin, of Wilkes- Barre, has offered a right of way to a trollev company if it will build a line. The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexander, a former moderator of the Presbyte rian Church, dedicated the new church at Ebensburg yesterday. —Senator T. M. Kurtz, of Punxsu tawney. has gone to the San Francis co exposition. —President E. E. Sparks of State College, has been making a tour of the State's extension schools. —Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, is Just now the object of some suffra gist interviewers. —Ex-Judge Harmon Terkes, of Doylestown. has been elected presi dent of the Pennsylvania German so ciety. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg will make big shipments of wheat this summer and Fall? CAN* W ORDS DO IT? Mr. Bryan is inducing every editor in the country to act as his press agent while he discusses the "causeless war." but he has not yet convinced us how war is woing to be made an impos sibility in the future. The Nebraskan\s flow of words is amazing, and if wordn will stop Von Hindenburg and Von ~ Mackenscn and the other vons, he should be able to do it. Mr. Bryan talked himself out of the presidency • twice and out of the cabinet once, so It can bo seen that his qualifications are not to be despised.—New Castle , News. CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 5 Cents a Pint Prizes of SR, $2.50 and sevnral SI.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Strou»
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