16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 1831 PUBLISHED BY TRE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Buildlnr, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at < u ifrb msix cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harrl.x burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dull)' nvernice circulation for the three montlia ending Nov. 30, 1015. 21,794 ♦ Average for the rear 1914—21.SjJJJ Averaite for the year 1013— 10.1W19 Average for the year 1812—10.(140 Average for the year 1011—17.M2 Iveragre for the year 1010— 16,U«1 The above figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 17 Wherever a process of life com municates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the life becomes genu inely significant.—William James. HARRISBURG THE PLACE IF, us declared by Governor Brum baugh last Fall, the headquarters of tho referee districts in the State Workmen's Compensation system are lo be located so that they will be rasily accessible, a mistake was made l>y the Workmen's Compensation "Board in designating Lancaster as the headquarters of the district com posed of Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancas ter, York, Adams, Franklin, Perry and Cumberland counties. The reason given is that Lancaster Is the home city of the referee assigned to this district. Tn the first place, Lancaster is not the most accessible point in the dis trict, and Harrisburg Is the center most easily reached from any of the eight counties as compared to Lan e-aster. Secondly, the point that the referee will only have headquarters in his home city and travel around to hear cases does not seem to apply to the Seventh district, whose referee lives in New Castle, but who was required to mako Erie his headquarters. Thirdly, this city is the center of more diversified industry than Lan caster; It is a railroad center, which Lancaster is not, and it is the official center of Pennsylvania. Lastly, the convenience of no State official, large or small, should be taken into consideration against the service of the public. Time was when building operations were suspended during tho winter, but modern equipment there is little of outdoor operations even In the most severe part of the year. This is demonstrated in the very extended building operations and remodeling contracts throughout the city. CAPITOL PARK EXTENSION THE statement of Governor Brum baugh with relation to the de velopment of the Capitol Park extension will be received with pleas ure by all Harrisburg people. The new area can bo made a thing of beauty and a Joy forever to the people of the State at large as well as to those of tho city, or it can be spoiled almost beyond remedy. That the State and the city are working In perfect harmony and that both will rely largely for their final decisions upon the reports of experts of world wide experience and note assures the people that the public money ex pended for the enlargement of the park will not be expended In vain. It is good news, also, that the State approves the city's recommendation that plans for the Improvements be made without delay, so that when the Legislature provides the required appropriation no time may be lost In beginning the work. Trie Capitol Park Extension promises to be the great material monument of the Brumbaugh administration. The Telegraph again assures its readers that any opinions of theirs sub mitted under proper conditions for pub lication, so long as the subject is with in the ordinary bounds of public discus sion. will be given space In its columns. These opinions should be as briefly building operations and remodeling editor. WEST SHORE ACTIVITIES THE value of community effort and co-operation has been pretty thoroughly demonstrated in the developments along tho West Shore. Not only are the towns and villages getting together for their own welfare, but the puDllc utilities are showing a disposition to co-oper ate with R view to making Trafflc con ditions more satisfactory for tho whole district. Harrisburg has set tho pace in many ways for its subur ban neighbors and one admirable feature of the city's activities is the disposition to aid in every proper ■way tho surrounding communities. Harrisburg occupies, in a way, the relation of the big brother to all the towns and villages within a radius of ten miles and has been helpful In FRIDAY EVENING many linos of improvement which affect these outlying and contiguous } districts. While the city is doing what it can to make better living conditions upon all sides it Is the manifest interest and duty of these suburpan places to co-operate with Harrlsburg so that there may be effective work in the In terest of all. This is being done along the West Shore and the fine example of community spirit there displayed is an inspiration and guide for every other town In this section. Good teamwork will accomplish much and the West Shore live wires are demon strating their ability to help them selves. With the coming of 1916 the horo scope of the setting sun shows a favorable outlook for the territory | basking under the big? umbrella of the | West Shore. It only remains for all of the towns and villages emoraced within that territory' to co-operate in an energetic way through some Joint body that will put into force and ef fect the plans which are now being discussed for the general betterment of the whole district. In this work the Telegraph pledges its most earn est support and it has watched with Increasing interest the responsive character of the activities in Camp Hill, West Fairvlew, Wormieysburg. Enola, New Cumberland, Lemoyne and the remainder of the territory in volved in this latest community movement. A LIVE REPUBLICAN CLUB A NEWS item in last evening's issue of the Telegraph called attention to resolutions passed by the East End Republican Club, urging the commissioners of Dauphin county to adopt the Mothers' Pension Law, so that the benefits of the State appropriation may be obtained for needy widows in Harrisburg and the county at large. The East End club is one of the llvest Republican organ izations in the State. Its scope of vision Is wider than the mere politi cal horizon. It is doing things that are making a name for itself, not only in the Allison Hill district, but in all parts of town and it is deserving the support of every loyal Republican In the district east of the railroad. City Commissioner Lynch is quoted as favoring a reduction of the sidewalks at corners of congested street intersec tions in the business district so that the area for the passage of vehicular traf iic will be extended. Without any statement from Commissioner Lynch, we assume that the radial curbing will be of solid granite instead of the make shift concrete and steel-bound curbing, which has proven a costly experiment in some residential and business streets. GOKTHALS AND THE PRESS WEAKNESS In public men is sometimes exhibited in a pe culiar fashion. Even the strongest of these persons who stand out In great achievement frequently demonstrate a weak point in the most unexpected way. General George W. Goethala is the latest big man to ex pose his vanity, or worse, in an effort to control newspaper comment or ac tion in the handling of his official re ports on the Panama canal. It is hardly conceivable that one who lias been so fairly treated by the press of the United States would make the mistake which has called down the censure of such prominent newspapers us the New York Times because of his effort to control the date and form of the publication of his reports. It seems incredible that he should have sent out copyrighted reports upon offi cial matters, accompanying the same with instructions that they should be "printed in full or not at all," and that no summary of their contents or com ments upon them should be made by an editor sooner than the day after the copyrighted publications had ap peared. What right General Goethals had to copyright an official report does not appear, to say nothing of the colossal nerve of his suggestion that the re port or reports should be printed "In full or not at all." The distinguished engineer hits done a great work on the Panama canal, but his arbitrary pow ers on the Isthmus do not extend to the newspapers of the United States, which have done so much to uphold and make successful his administra tion of the Canal Zone. His mistake in this instanco is sim ply an illustration of the lack of ap preciation so often manifested by pub lic officials. They are always perfect ly willing to accept tho support of the newspapers, but too often forget that these same newspapers are doing constructive work in building up their official policies. This lack of appre ciation is not confined to the region of the Panama canal; It is a common system of official blg-headedness that follows occasional success. A returned American, who had been pressed Into the Kaiser's service at the outbreak of the war In Europe and who was released through the good offices of Ambassador Glrard at Berlin, says tho German people are downhearted over the war and no longer believe the news paper reports of German successes. If the truth were told, not only the Ger man people, but all the other peoples drawn Into the maelstrom of the awful conflict In Europe are weary of the struggle and would, rejolftj over a decla ration of peace. I'AOIFIO FLEET SAVED THANKS to the enterprise of New York financiers, more patriotic and far-seeing than the mem bers of Congress who passed the dis astrous LaFollette ship law last win ter, the remnant of tho Pacific Mail Company's fleet on the Pacific is to bo saved to this country. The purchaso of the seven remaining vessels of this corporation by the financial Interests identified with the National City Bank of New York is the first step toward tho creation of an extensive American lino trading between west coast and South American points. The enforced desertion of the trans-Pacific trade by the Pacific Mall, due to the operations of the new shlpmen's law, is a sad blow to United States shipping, but the j enterprise of the New Yorkers who are stepping Into tho breach to preserve) the steamers for American resist ry is a sign that capital Is mora than anx ious to invest in a merchant marine, even under very unfavorable condi tions, and that with proper encourage ment there would be no need for the foolish ship purchase measure ad vocated by the national administra tion. Whatever the final conclusion of the special art commission on the location of the Donate statuary, it is certain proper action has been taken in asking the advice of Warren H. Manning, the city's landscape designer, so that his large experience may be utilized In placing the statuary to the best ad vantage. Few mistakes have been made in Harrisburg in matters of public im provement where the counsel of ex perts was invited and their advice fol lowed. In one or two Instances mis takes were made, and in every case it turned out that some inexpert opinion had been taken In preference to the ad vice of one of experience. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —The college boy wonders why father doesn't earn more money. Af ter he leaves school he wonders how he Is able to earn so much. —Every member of the Rotary Club is going to give a poor family a basket at Christmas time. Are you going to let those Rotarlans be ahead of you? —When ambition runs ahead of ca pacity, give capacity the whip. —Wo haven't heard any popular rejoicing over the report that we are to have a Du Pont powder mill In our midst. —The red flag over the park board offices Is the sign of skating at Wild wood—but cautious ones should re member that red flags are also signs of danger. —To the little folks the days until Christmas are all too long—to grown ups they are all too short. "Every thought has an heir" ob serves a contemporary. And some of them "hot air." EDITORIAL COMMENT "| That Los Angeles woman who says she wants a husband so much that she would be willing even to take a Demo crat seems to have given the acid test proof of necessity.—Philadelphia In quirer. The scorn of overwrought Europeans for America just now is to be regretted, but it is not insupportable.—Philadel phia North American. Mr. if| yT changed my jje What was the if' ill «ft He said he had 99 *AJL • changed his, too. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Lk By the Ei-CommlttcemM The first phase of the campaign for election of Democratic national dele- Kates in Pennsylvania has been started. The President has commenced to hand out the post office appointments which ha.ve been held up and It is expected that in a short time the whole list of 103, held up by the reorganization tna chine men for various reasons, will be filled. j Judging from the men selected, the I reorganization people seem to have the same old hold on the President as they have put over their men in al most every instance, and it is believed that whoever gets the rubber stamp for Millersburg will be named. One of the interesting contests is at Wilkes-Barre, where the President has a candidate, Congressman Casev has a candidate and A. Mitchell Palmer has a candidate. ~A. J. Palm, named as postmaster of Meadvllle, used to be connected with Democratic state headquarters in old days. He swung in with the re organizers, however. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, will be sworn in on January 3. Judge Patterson will administer the oath. —For the first time since the enact ment of the law providing for the elec tion of mine inspectors the actual choice of the voters for that office in Lackawanna county has won the office. For years it has been the custom of the mine examining board to pass enough men only to fill the vacancies, and the voter was compelled to take the men selected by the board. This year there Is an additional inspector ship. At the election D. T. Williams, a former inspector, was elected with out the "O K" of the board. In re taliation the board qualified William Reid. Both applied for appointment by court and Williams was named. Senator Boles Penrose, speaking at Washington on the recent meeting of the national Republican committee, said that It could be taken as Indica tive of conditions In the nation. He added that he did not consider that there was any candidate for the Re publican nomination as yet. The senator in reply to this question, "Who do you think are the strongest presi dential possibilities?" replied: "In my opinion no one is a candidate for the nomination as president in the Republican party In the usual sense. I do not know any candidate that Is being pressed in a systematic way as has been witnessed in previous presl tential campaigns. Several prominent Republicans have been mentioned In connection with the nomination, but I believe that eaoh and all of them are willing to look at the situation in an impersonal and patriotic way, with a view to serving the best interests of the party." —According to rumors. Mayor Ira W. Stratton, who will retire from the chief magistracy of Reading in a short time, is being favorably considered for a State position by the Governor. Stratton was talked of for Public Serv ice Commissioner here to-day. —Judge Brumm, of the Schuylkill county courts, Is threatening a new move. There have been frauds in some townships and the judge pro poses to go to the townships to hold hearings. He says It will savo the county money. —Democrats over in the Northamp ton-Monroe district are having a good bit of amusement over the contest between A. Mitchell Palmer, who Is out of Congress, and Henry J. Steele, who is in, over the patronage in that district. Palmer assumes to dictate in the approved reorganization manner, but Steele IK making a noise at Wash ington. Only recently Congressman Casey, of Luzerne, served notice on Palmer that he was to stop trespass ing. —The assignments of Pennsylvania congressmen attracted considerable at tention to-day among people at the Capitol. The fact that S. Taylor North went on the committee on education and John R. K. Scott 011 the conmiit- I lee on education was not lost on people at the State House. Congressmen Griest and I.afean and Garland 011 post oflices also interested many. B. K. Kocht's assignment to war claims also has a peculiar interest because of his district, which suffered in the raids. —A. M. Bowman, one of the Demo cratic candidates for tlie. House In the Cumberland district last year, says never again. —The proposed selection of E. U. Sowers for city treasurer of Lebanon seems to have stirred up the animals in that county. Sowers was beaten for council. PAYING HIS WAY Nnturnltr-ed Cltlr.cn Donalm ■ New Bullet to Government [From the Washington Herald.] A design of a new kind of bullet, in tended especially to pierce steel hel mets of the kind now worn by the men in the trenches in Europe, has been received at the Navy Department from Charles H. Shapiro, of Spokane, Wash., a naturalized Italian. The design, which Mr. Shapiro has I bestowed on the department as a Thanksgiving gift, is being studied by the Bureau of Ordance. In presenting the design to the Gov ernment "free of cost or restrictions," Mr. Shapiro wrote: "On Thanksgiving Day I will try to remunerate my adopted country, which offered me freedom and the opportunity for better education, by sending here with enclosed sketch representing a bullet which I expect will cut through steel helmets. I donate this to the Government free." WILSON'S WEAKNESS TFrom the Philadelphia Inquirer.] The material welfare of a people is i Important. But it cannot In the long 1 run be separated from their honor. "We cannot," said Senator Borah, "play the merchant with the miseries of the human race or barter the Uvea of our people for industrial advantage." A policy which sanctions such acts is cer tain to awake in time the resentment of a nation which, however permeated with materialism, holds instinctively to a hlirh Ideal. No President ever had a 1 better opportunity than Mr. Wilson l BA GDA DTHE By Frederic J. Haskin THE British advance up the Tigris River, which has been before the walls of Bagdad. Is an operation of the Eastern campaign second In Importance only to the struggle in Galipolli. Bagdad is the key to the Euphrates valley route, al ready partially traversed by the Bag dad railway, which is known as the "short-cut to India." The fall of the city would mean a big victory for the allies, and it Is being stubbornly de fended by the Turks. Bagdad Is used to sieges. She has known them in almost every gener ation for thirteen hundred years. No city has had a more stirring history, seen more of the pomp and splendor of the East, or occupied a more Im portant position commercially and strategically. Few people realize that for centuries Bagdad was the most im portant center of literature, science and art, as well as the busiest and wealthiest hub of commerce in the world. Though Bagdad to-day is a city of 150,000 people and capital of a Turk ish province, she retains hardly a sha dow of her former greatness. There were two million souls within her walls when London and Paris were no larger than Washington. The very bricks in the houses of modern Bagdad have been used over and over again, as the buildings were sacked und razed to the ground by victorious besiegers and laboriously rebuilt. Some of them bear the stamp of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled six hundred ■ years before Christ. If the English take Bagdad, they will enter a typical Oriental town, with a labyrinth of unpaved streets, some of them so narrow that two horsemen cannot pass abreast, a town that Is an Island during the Spring floods of the Tigris and the Euphrates, where the restless river waters gnaw contin ually at their banks until whole rows of houses topple into the stream, where the lack of all sanitation makes the death rate so high that In times of epidemic most of the population leaves the walls and camps In the nearby desert. The streets have a curiously forbidding and inhospitable look, due to the fact that few houses have outside windows, and loom up to the passerby as a solid bank of dead walls. The typical native establishment consists of a two-story building with a small garden in the rear. Kitchen and servants' quarters are on the ground floor, while the first floor is given over to the family. The roof makes a third floor, where the natlvp of Bagdad really spends more time than In either of the others. In the hot season, | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" RECALLS OLD INCIDENT To Ilie Editor of the Telegraph: I see In your paper the offer of Jacob Tausig's Sons. Sure the world Is get ting better. Home thirty years ago I ™rk«l at the Pennsylvania steel worUs?"™'This letter Is to show that blood will tell. I was on night turn. One Saturday morning I was speaking to Dr. Kaysor, Daniel Bacon and Jacob Tausig, when a policeman came by with a small boy. Mr. Tausig asked: "What are you doing with the little fellow?" "He says he was riding on cars, and we will find out where he be longs," replied the officer." Then I usked the boy: ' Where is your home?" He would not tell me. but said: "My stepmother whips me, and T want to go to my aunt In Maryland." I asked the officer: "What will It cost to send him?" He did not know, so we went over to the | old Union Station. The prico was $3.16. I paid it and the boy said to me: "Who are you? My aunt will ask me." So I gave an envelope to him and then went and told Mr. Tausig, and he want ed to divide the expense with me, but I said: "'No,' It will all come right some time," and It did. for two or three years after that time I built a house at Mr. Tausig's suggestion. I was just $l,lOO short, and he loaned the money to me and I had no security at all. But I paid it years ago. Now I write to say "God .bless such peoplo." Respectfully, C. H. BAU.IETTE. Carlisle, Pa., December 14, 1915. THE LAW By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1915, Star Company. Tour path may be clouded, uncertain your goal: I Move on, for the orbit is fixed for your soul. And though it may lead into darkness of night. The torch of the Builder shall give It new light. You were, and you will be, know this while you are; Tour spirit has traveled both long and afar. It came from the Source, to the Source It returns; The spark that was lighted eternally burns. From body to body your spirit speeds on. It seeks a new form when the old one Is gone. And the form that It finds Is the fabric you wrought , On the loom of the mind, with the fiber of thought. Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow. Tour life will reflect all the thoughts of your now. The law is unerring: no blood can atone; The structure you rear you must live in alone. Tou are your own devil, you are your own god; Tour fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod. And no one can save you from error or sin Until you shall hark to the spirit i within. DECEMBER 17, 1915. when the south wind blows from the Arabian desert and the thermometer climbs to 122, he takes refuge in the coolness of the cellar. Palaces Filled With Treasure The royal palaces in the old days were divided into twenty-three build ings, decked out wtih treasures from every corner of the globe. A whole palace was given over to the Silver Tree, one of the wonders of the world, whose branches were pure silver, weighing 60,000 ounces, with leaves of gold, on whose branches sat golden birds studded with jewels, which sang loudly by virtue of mechanism con cealed within. The scientific mind might trace here the beginning of the phonograph. The singing birds were regarded with high favor, and the caliph used this particular palace as a prison for his closest relatives. Municipal government in those days was the unmethodical personal affair dear to the heart of the East. Tyran ny and injustice flourished side by side with lenience and benevolence. The caliph would often Interpose per sonally between his officers and some I unfortunate offender, giving the crim ' inal a moral lecture and a purse of Bold Instead of having him crlcifled head downward on one of the Tigris j bridges. I Bagdad was noted ovenln the Orient i for the cruelty of the punishment , practiced within her walls. The bridges of boats over the Tigris, were continually decorated with the heads | of offenders, and this, too, was a favor ite place for crucifixions. Specially I Ingenious instruments of torture were devised in the city. One grand vizier j invented a steel shell to fit a man's | body, studded with spikes within, where offenders were shut up for days, unable to move without impaling themselves, until death set them free. The vizier had an excellent opportun- I ity to appreciate the fine points of his invention, for he himself was eventual ly put to death in it. I »ong Tale of Battles The story of Bagdad through the centuries is one long tale of battle and siege, in which the present bloody assaults of the British are only an in cident. The English Tommies and the Turks who fall to-day mingle their bones with the dust of the fighting men of every great warrior-nation that the Eastern world has known. Arabs, Turks. Persians, Mongols cap tured and recaptured the "Glorious City," as Turkish official documents still name Bagdad. Though enervated by wealth nnd luxury, the capital has always resisted stubbornly, and to day Is no more than sustaining her age-old reputation. 1 THE STATE FROM W TO W~ "Skating In vogue," says the Punx sutawney Spirit. It is true. So is everything else. It is a good maga zine. And we like to look at the pic tures. However, we appreciate just 'what the Spirit meant by the above •statement and merely wished to show our good-fellowhip toward the Nast publication. The Johnstown City Hospital will be benefited very materially a week from to-day, when the Innocent pedes trian will be seized violently by strange hands and will bo tagged with a bit of holly, size commensurate with the size of the coin coughed forth. Ten cents will be the minimum. "Jesse James was a man', and he traveled, etc.", if we are correct in our memory of the song that runs something like that. Pottsville has a Jesse James, a real, dyed-in-the-wool bandit, only he isn't a man. He is 13- year-old Stanley Mause, who laid plans to set lire to the paternal home and then steal S6OO. He is said to have been crazed by reading dime novels, and is one of the worst terrors in the prison. "I defy you!" cried the stage hero ine, as the heavy villain appeared on the scene. "Do your worst." And the bold, had man took her at her word and did his very worst—or at least that was the unanimous verdict of the disgusted audience. This story, we feel compelled to admit, was filched from the Philadelphia Evening Led ger. There is a dispute down in the east section of the State somewhere as to whether a rooster can crow or not. It will bo decided by the Judge who is presiding in that district. A cross examination has brought out the fact that the hens do not help the roosters to crow, but the roosters do help the hens to cackle. This is a fine distinc ition and calls for serious thought on | the part of our learned judges. Bradford county from the looks of things will have to go a begging for constables, if present conditions con tinue and those who have been elected justices and constables continually re fuso to act. Evidently the glittering badge does 110 longer possess its form er fascination and rubbable propensi ties. The Pennsylvanian, the daily news paper at the University of Pennsyl vania, a few days ago celebrated its thirteenth anniversary. It was first published in 1886 as a weekly, but in 1894 was changed to a daily. The strategy of the forces that landed at Saionikl is now apparent Instead of drlvine reenforcements to the Servians, they Just wait for the Germans to drive the Servians back to the reenforcementß.—Philadelphia .Worth American. ©mmtg GUjat State Game Commission authorities believe from reports which have been brought to this city by hunters corn ins out of the South Mountains and upper Susquehanna regions and from the Juniata Valley that the kill of buck deer this Fall has probably gone larger than in any of the last half dozen years. It would not sur- • i prise people here if the kill ran as * high as 1200. Last year there were 1102 deer killed. Under the rules of the State Game Commission the wardens are required to make a re port on the kills of game in their dis trict and as the wardens are in close touch with the hunting parties, espe cially in the deer season, the data is generally accurate. To begin with deer were plentiful throughout tho regions where they have been noticed for the last dozen years and in some cases were so tame that it seemed a »u an l? to them; This was true in the South Mountain rc ion although in the Juniata and Susquehanna val leys the deer gave hunters plenty of work. This winter it is the intention to purchase deer in Michigan and other States and to liberate them in the game preserves which are being established and in counties which have been closed to deer hunting for a period of years. These deer will be trapped next month. * * • Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown has placed in his department a portrait of James Wilson, eminent Pennsylvanian of colonial and revolu tionary days and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He found It in one of the storerooms in the Capitol, having been returned from some exposition where displays of pictures of the great Pennsyl vanlans of the past are some times made. The attorney general also discovered a picture of George Bryan, president of the council of Pennsylvania during part of the Revolution. • • * R. L. Watts, of State College, who was here yesterday, has been promi nently identified with the agricultural education work in this State for years and one of the men frequently spoken of in connection with the State Department of Agriculture. • ♦ » "It would not be a bad thing for people to have clean-up week before Christmas and then, again, the dav ufter' commented one of the city's veteran firemen as he saw the bundles being carried into a trolley by Christ mas advance shoppers on Saturday afternoon. "The paper in which the guts are wrapped and tho packings and things like that are often catiso of fires and ray advice, and it. is based on experience. Is that the people of this city should make it a point to get rid of all loose paper and other stuff likely to cause a fire as soon as possible. They can burn it In their furnaces or put it into the refuse cans. But get rid of it." • • • Christmas trees are commencing to appear on the railroad trains, some huge cars filled with trees closelv packed down, being sandwiched be tween coal cars on a number of the trains passing through this city on Saturday and yesterday. The trees came from tho northern part of the State and were consigned to Phila delphia. Apparently, there are few trees coming from Maine this year. After all, there are as nice Christmas trees as any one would want to bo bought right here in Harrisburg from people who cut them within forty miles of the city. • * * "Between the Christmas rush and the way mail is being shipped out from Capitol Hill It is enough to make a man dizzy," said an attache of the post office yesterday. "The es tablishment of new branches of the government you say it is?" he re plied when told how tho workmen's compensation system was occupying considerable time and costing much money for postage and printing. "Well, it beats anything I ever knew. The Highway Department shoots out automobile tags by tho thousands, but the letters that come down from the Hill from departments help to make the postage bill something awful." • * * A good story is going the rounds of Capitol Hill about a Dauphin coun ty man and Harry S. McDevltt, coun sel of the Economy and Efficiency Commission. This man went to Mr. McDevitt's office and asked for him. He was in another part of the build ing. Then the man called again. Mr. McDevltt was Still out. "Will you please tell him I'm waiting for those snow shovels. I want to go to work," the Dauphin countian told the stenog rapher. Mr. McDevitt is still wonder ing how he gets into the Capitol Hill labor game. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ralph H. Sweetser, president of the Thomas Iron Company at Easton, has been elected president of the Eastern Pig Iron Association. —Chief H. F. Ferber of the Scran ton fire department, is getting after people who allow snow to accumulate on fire escapes. —L. Fred Klooso, the re-elected president of the State Ilotelmen, Is prominent in the hotel business in Pittsburgh. —William Allen, prominent Johns town fisherman, has secured many Maine salmon eggs for "planting" In streams near that city. —Val Fitzpatrlck, well known among railroad trainmen here, is ac tive in Washington in behalf of legis lation before Congress. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrisburg made stock ings arc being sent to Canada? HISTORIC HARRISBXTRO Some of the Congressmen made Harris Ferry their stop ping plara after the British took Philadelphia. nun < * \ Two Pushes Are Better Than One Provided they are in the same direction and at the same time. Local dealers find they can double their sales on certain products by pushing with the manufacturer's newspaper ad vertising. They show the goods and talk about them at the time the news paper advertising la running. . They add their push to the pull of the newspaper advertis ing. Results progress on an auto matic scale. The dealer sells more goods, the manufacturer pushes harder for business and does more ad vertising.