8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR FOR TUB HOUB Poundid rijt ■■■ Published evenings except Sunday by i THE TBLEGIIAPH rKIIVTINO CO.. Ttltgnfh Building, Federal Square, B. 3. BTACKPOLE, Prts't and Ediltr-im-ChUf JT. R. OYSTER, Business Monafr. OTJS M. STEINMESTZ, Managing Editor. a Member American rjprt lishers" Aaaocia aWjg|g3gjfa| tion, The Audit Bureau of Clrcu lation .end Penn (|Pj H B|jjg |8 aylvania Aasooiat jlliigtiS Eastern office, Ha«- (ISH B rjgl Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building, New Brooks, ' People's ~— Gas Building, Chf cagro, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris ourg, Pa., aa aecond class matter. By carriers, eix cents a week; by mail, $3.00 -'fits * * a year in advance. •wora dally average circulation for the taree month* ending I>ec. SI, 1818. ★ 22,412 * Theao flvurea are net. All returned, uaolC and damaged eoploa deducted. as ■ -» SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 15 The past is usually the enemy of cheerfulness, and cheerfulness is a most precious attainment. Arnold Bennett. KNOX FOR PRESIDENT : A S was to be expected, tho an- X*\, nouncement of Philander C. Knox as a candidate for the United States Senate, with the back ing of both Republican and Progres sive leaders throughout the State, has brought him moro than ever into the limelight as a presidential possibility. • Mr, Knox commands, as does no other man, the united endorsement of the Republicans and Progressives in this State, and if Pennsylvania is to stand solidly behind any candidate In the two conventions to be held simul taneously at Chicago, Knox is that in dividual. The good faith of both Re publican and Progressive leaders in their professed desire to get together for a decisive defeat of the Democracy next November could not be better illustrated than by their unanimous acclaim for Knox, who is at one time sanely progressive and reasonably conservative. There was no fiercer battleground anywhere than Pennsylvania during the Fall of 1912, and since the Pro gressives of this State have reached a point where they can endorse the chosen candidate of the Republican party for the United States Senate there should be no trouble about get ting together in a national way on the same man for President, especially since he has the qualifications for the office possessed by Mr. Knox. Penn sylvania is setting a fine example for the leaders of the two parties In other States and no candidate has as yet been presented who so admirably fills the bill for Republican and Progres sive amalgamation as does ho. PREPAREDNESS WHEREFORE take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness. And your feet shod with tho prepa ration of the gospel of peace; Above all. taking tho shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take tho helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.—Ephesians, 6:11-17. TRIED AND FOUND WANTING THE large increase in imports from Canada during both the peace period and the war period, under the Democratic tariff law, and a slump in the sale of our products to Canada during these two periods, ab solutely refute the contention of President Wilson and other Demo crats that "the Underwood law has not had a fair trial." Importations from Canada into the United States are of goods which come into direct competition with our own products. While the States bordering the Dominion suffer most, the effect is felt throughout the country. These im portations are made up of lumber, pulp wood, paper, coal, flaxseed, fish, dairy products, food animals and farm products generally. While Secretary Redfield is endeavoring to distract the attention of the public by giving publicity to our large Eu ropean export trade, due to war orders, It might be well to come out of the clouds for a few moments and see what is taking place nearer home. The Underwood free trade law went into effect October 4, 1913. The European war broke out August 1, 1914. Hence, for the purpose of comparison, three periods are con sidered in our trade with Canada. First, the ten months, October 1912 to July 1913, under the Republican tariff law, a Republican peace period; •econd, October 1913 to July 1914, under the Democratic law, a Demo cratic peace period; and, third, from October 1914 to July 1915, under Democratic law, a Democratic war period. The figures are taken from official reports of the Department of Commerce. Comparing the Republican peace period with the two following, we find that from October 1912 to July 1913 we imported goods from Canada to the value of $98,000,000, while our SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 15, 1916. exports to Canada reached a total of. $345,340,000, or a favorable balance of trade with that country of $247,- j 340,000. During: the Democratic peace period our imports from Canada ( amounted to $140,000,000, an in-1 crease of 43 per cent, over the' previous period, while our exports to; Canada fell to $276,000,000, a de-j crease of 20 per cent. The balance of ] trade in our favor was $136,000,000; i the loss of trade by displacement of | American products and decreased sales to Canada was $111,340,000. Not- ' withstanding the fact that Canadian, granaries and larders were called upon to supply her own military forces and to help feed the Allies, imports into this country from Canada during the ten months Democratic war period i amounted to $128,250,000, an increase! of 31 per cent.; exports dropped to j $240,000,000, a decrease of 30' perl cent.; our favorable balance of trade 1 sank to $111,750,000, and our loss of l trade amounted to $135,590,000, all t compared with the Republican peace j period. The Democrats can hardly | contend that the slump in exports during this period of war was due to shortage of ocean transportation. The standard of comparison in con sidering the effects of the Under wood tariff law are the ten months' period above referred to, which are adopted In order to present fair state- I ments, not complicated by war condi- i tions. In the case of Canada, how- j ever, these complications do not exist j in such marked degree, and as the official figures for the months of I August and September 1915 are avail-i able, the computation can be carried out for full years. Our imports from Canada during August and September 1913, under Republican, law, amount ed to $24,700,000; exports to Canada, $66,170,000. Imports, August and September 1914, Democratic law, $31,- 240,000; exports, $58,700,000. Im ports. August and September 1915, $33,000,00; exports, $66,600,000. These figures indicate that notwithstanding the demands on Canada from abroad, she continues to strengthen her hold on the American market under the free trado provisions of tlio Demo cratic tariff law. Champ Clark's statement that tho "Underwood law is the best tariff law ever enacted," should bo amended by adding the words, "for Canada." A "SPECIAL TAX" SAYS a Democratic newspaper pub lished in the internal revenue dis trict of which Harrisburg is a part: Fifty-five cigar manufacturers of the Ninth Internal Revenue district have closed their factories and warehouses and have made an nouncement that they will not re sume business this year. Most of those who have closed are the smaller manufacturers, though sev eral large firms have dropped from the ranks. Forty leaf tobacco deal ers have also ceased activities, sell ing whatever stock they had on hand. In the entire Ninth dis district, at the present time, are j slightly moro than 1,200 factories and more than 100 leaf tobacco dealers. A special tax placed on manufacturers is partly respon sible for the closing of many of the factories. This "special tax" is one of those imposed upon the business of this j country by the Wilson administration, ] which this same Democratic news- : paper has been telling us is responsible for the wave of "war order" pros perity now sweeping over the country. The tax was imposed in order that a Democratic Congress might spend more money than any Congress in the history of the nation ever spent before. Forty-five factories and forty deal ers put out of business in one district by one tax—and "big business" the only gainer! If this is a sample of Democratic efficiency and Democratic prosperity, heaven deliver us from a continuance of it. YOUTH AND AMBITION* YOUTH'S Fruitless Dreams of Fame," is the caption of a sar castic essay in a journal that the Telegraph does not care to adver tise by mention of its name. Youth and ambition, the two are one, and the statistics of failures have no part in their outlook on life. What does youth care that only two or only four of a hundred are "successful!" Youth will be ambitious for all that and the dreams of youth are not "fruitless." The writer who tells you so may be brilliant mentally but he is wrong spiritually and he looks at life through jaundiced eyes. Theodore Dreiser had some views on this sub ject. He voiced them long ago, but they are as true now as then. Here they are: The hope of fame—what hours of speculation, what pulses of en thusiasm, what fevers of effort, are based on that peculiarly subtle illu sion. It is yet the lure, tho Ignis fatuus of almost every breathing heart. In the young particularly it burns with the sweetness and per fume of Spring (ires. Then most of all does there seem substantial reality in the shadow of fame— those deep, beautiful illusions which tremendous figures throw over the world. Fame partakes of the beauty and freshness of the morn ing. It has in It the odor of the rose, the feel of rich satin, the color of the cheeks of youth. If we could but be famous when we dreain of fame, and not when looks are tinged with jrray, faces seamed with lines that speak of past struggles, and eyes wearied with the terisity, the longings and the despairs of years! To bestride tho world In the morn ing of life, to walk amid the plaudits and tho huzza lis when love and faith are young; to feel youth and the world's affection when youth and health are sweet —what dream Is that, of pure sunlight and moonlight compounded. THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL CHAIRMAN RAKER, of the Ro tary committee that visited the Central High School yesterday, said that it was the purpose of his committee to stir up public interest in the new high school project and thus assist the school board in Its endeavor to have passed a high school loan. This is the full duty of such a com mittee. No self-constituted body should attempt to tell the" school board what It should do In tho way of details, but all good citizens owe it to the board to create sentiment in favor of the necessary loan, and the Rotary club has been, and Is. a powerful force in this direction. The school board was elected by the people and it alone is responsible to them. The people have confidence in it that the snarling and yawping of a few chronically bilious political malcontents cannot for a moment shake. The board Is able and ready to take up the Important work of high school construction, but it must have public sentiment back of it when it comes to large appropriations and it is gratifying to note that the voters are coming forward freely to offer it. I j T>oeacc«. u CKKC Iv&HUi, By tlwi Ex-Committeeman Influential Democratic members in Congress have aligned themselves with Congressman John J. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, in his campaign to, destroy the scheme of A. Mitchell i Palmer and his pals in the Pennsyl- | vania Democratic machine to have, postmasters named In districts with out consent of the Congressmen. This ■ is a vital principle with many of the ; I Democratic Congressmen and it is i understood that some of the biggest | I Democrats in the House have taken I up Casey's fight. According to reports reaching here ! from Washington there is consider-' able resentment outside of the Demo cratic delegation from Pennsylvania against Palmer's assumption of pie cutting. The Congressmen hold that as national committeeman he has enough to do to get the Democrats lined up together and to heal the : breaches in the State organization I without going out and making trouble ! for Congressmen who were re-elected ! when ho was routed in his "siege of I Penrose." I The upshot will probably be the , destruction of Palmer influence in ap pointments and then a united effort to drive the former Congressman into the political shadows where ho chased the men who ran the Democratic ma chine in Pennsylvania before he wriggled in as a "reorganizer." —Mayor Smith has given a chill to some men in Philadelphia by declin ing to agree to creation of more offices. —The men who sign nomination papers before February 18 may be getting their friends into trouble as the date must follow every signature. —Democratic candidates for Slate committeemen pledged to overthrow the Palmer machine are said to be springing up about the State. —Allentown Democrats will cele brate Jackson day to-day. —Ex-Speaker George E. Alter was the big speaker at the Hellevue meet ing in the interest of Representative John W. Vlckerman's candidacy for re-election and prominent Allegheny men urged that both Mr. Vickerman and his colleague, Nelson McVicar, of Tarentum, be returned. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh sent the fol lowing letter to the chairman of the meeting: "I am advised that you are about to select a candidate for the General Assembly from your district. May I call your attention to J. W. Vickerman, your present member from Bellevue, whose record here was a credit to you and to Pennsylvania? He enjoyed the fullest confidence of his colleagues and was one of the most useful men in tho House. In character, ipdustry, capacity and loyalty I found him always four- ■ square, and I think if I may make I tho suggestion his return would be a fitting recognition of a worthy and ! high-minded official." The Philadelphia Ledger to-day says: "In Pennsylvania, political har mony, as indicated by the Knox can didacy, is felt to be a closed incident, at least as far as the national delegate situation is concerned. Skirmishes, | and possibly a real fight, may develop lover the naming of the Republican 'State ticket for Congressmen, State I Treasurer and Auditor General. Sen lator Penrose's friends had no fault to find with the fifteen possibilities for delegate at large announced by Mayor Smith to be the result of a Vare-Brum baugh conference. Both sides were satisfied." —Auditor General Powell will probably ask the attorney general's de partment for advice in regard to the conflicting claims of S. J. Toole and Louis Alpern to be the legal mercan tile appraiser in Allegheny county. A similar situation exists in Dauphin county and according to reports re ceived here the same conditions may arise in other counties where new boards of county commissioners re called selections of appraisers by pre decessors and elected men of their own preference. The auditor general has been getting information the last, few days regarding the situation in Pittsburgh, Deputy Auditor General C. E. Wlllock being now in that city look ing up matters. —R. L. Myers, former member of the House from Cumberland county, denies reports that he will run for the Democratic nomination for senator in that district. —Organized railroad men in the j Pittsburgli district are demanding that John C. Kaiser, member of the House in the last session and who voted against the full crew bill, be forced to leave the Allegheny county tax revision board to which ho was recently ap pointed. It is charged that he is not eligible. Kaiser is sitting tight. —Mayor Smith yesterday picked a site for the convention hall for Phila delphia. j —Tho Plymouth school board has asked the Luzerne court to settle its deadlock. • —The new Republican Board of County Commissioners yesterday de clared the election of Milton Weller, a Democrat, as mercantile appraiser, to have been illegal and instructed Coun try Treasurer Meyers not to furnish him with any supplies to do the work. The Commissioners will elect his suc cessor on Monday. Weller was a member of the retiring Board of Com missioners and at its final meeting ob tained the appraiser's job by entering into a deal with Charles Bercaw, tho Republican member. Bercaw and Weller supported Bercaw's choice for scaler of weights and measures, Noah Dietrich, a Republican. 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"; —Chicago has a leap year club. Nothing like that needed in Harris burg. —There are no knockers on Knox. —The leopard may not be able to change his spots, but the bull moose can change his horns Into an ele phant trunk. —"No more bowl fights." says a Philadelphia headline. In other words the university has canned the bowl. —lf this thing keeps up some men will decide to buy automobiles if they raise the price of a gallon or two of gasoline. SIGNS OF HARMONY New York Sun: From two op posed and generally antagonistic quarters yesterday opponents of tho Democratic party received im portant and encouraging news. Wil liam Barnes announced that he would not seek to attend the Republican na tional convention as a delegate, basing his decision to eliminate himself on the ground that hia personal unfriend When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS MS C'MERC <£UICW / f y (MAKJTA SHOVJ/ liness to one of the candidates for the Presidency might embarrass him in the performance of his duties; and the Progressive national committee by resolution declared its willingness, amounting to a strong desire, to unite with the Republican party in the cam paign. THE STATE FROM DAT TO DOT Who Is not thoroughly in accord with the principles of humanity expressed in this little paragraph which we gleaned from the columns of the Philadelphia North American? "R. Sayres, a very wealthy man, and large landowner of North Dakota, swings this slogan, 'Song birds forever and a catless world in 1920,' as if there wasn't plenty of room in this big world for songbirds, cats and Sayres. The Creator made cats and songbirds and put wings on the latter that there might be no conflict. Verily, rich men have strange ideas of peace, cats and sundries." Jamaica ginger as a beverage may appeal to some fire-eaters, but speaking for ourselves alone, we prefer some thing a little milder. C. P. Calderwood, of Lewlstown, has been found guilty of selling the stuff without a license. St. James' Episcopal Church In Lan caster will soon start a dancing class, to be "under strict supervision" and "very strictly chaperoned." This is one of the first churches to inaugurate the innovation In Lancaster, yet we foresee t'uturo complaints that "somebody Is al ways taking tho joy out of life. One can't hike fifty-four miles and carry a grouch the entire distance. So Alexander Ferko, of Bakerton, has dis covered. and therefore he dropped the case which he had brought up against Winton Guenak for beating him up. Ferko walked that distance In order to bring the awful villain to justice, and at the end of his series of hikes, the matter wao amicably adjusted. A serious-minded youth In Clark's Vr.iioy school. In Porter township, nearly caused a tragedy yesterday when somebody jokingly told him the "teacher was going fo lick him." He obtained a loaded rifle anil planted him seif In the door of the schoolhouse. worked up to such a pitch that one word would undoubtedly havo preclpi tatod a tragedy. A little headwork on the part of the teacher prevented any thing serious. "Do the dead return?" The Reading Tteiald prints a story that Dr. Thomp son. who died a year ago, is coming back, and will be a truest to-morrow of the Independent Spiritualist Church, in Odd Fellows' Temple, Reading We wonder whether he will keep the en gagement he has made. WHO'S GUILTY? St. Paul Pioneer Press: Some womer are prone to bewail the pass ing of chivalry. There no longer arte any gentlemen of the old school, they insist. And on superficial glance this appears to be true. Certainly in this world of rush and hurry women are r.ot deferred to in elevators and they are. forced to take their chances in boarding street cars. But. as much as we hate to say it, the fault in great measure attaches to some of the dear women. They lament that there aro no gentlemen, and then they demonstrate by their own deeds that not all aro ladles. Taking deference for granted has done much to dispel—if not the def erence Itself—at least the outward and visible signs of it. Too few women vouchsafe even so much as a nod to tho men who open street car doors for them. Men are just as chivalrous as ever. Put them to the test and they will demonstrate This. But most of them, resenting the new attitude some wom en have assumed, of anticipating chiv alry, have learned to veil their true and better impulses. Thank heaven, however, it is only some, not all, women. EDITORIAL COMMENT Mrs. Pankhurat Is heart and soul against the Germans. She knows that militancy would be precious little fun If old von Hlndonburg wero chief of the London police.—Charleston News and Courier. The death-ship Eastland has been purchased for $46,000 and presented to the Illinois Naval Reserve by "publlc splrited citizens." Or are they ex tremely practical pacifists?— New York livening Sun. OUR PERISHABLE LITERATURE By Frederic J. Haskin J IF some archaeologist were to dig up the remains of our big cities in the year 5000 A. D.. he would come to the conclusion that the American peo ple had no literature except diplomatic and other governmental records. The government not long ago awoke to the fact that its older records were rotting and its whole history would pass into oblivion if not more durably recorded. The Bureau of Standards was forthwith set to work to perfect a paper as nearly indestructible as possible. With the exception of the government records printed on this paper, there is nothing in our im mense product of the press that will survive a few centuries, and little that will last more than a few years. All our newspapers, all our novels, all our classics In poetry and prose would have crumbled to dust. The archae ologist might find a few parchments and vellums dating back to tho year 1000, but tho paper of the twentieth century is not made to last. When newspaper files only forty and fifty years old are opened in public libraries, the sheets are found yellow and brittle. They break at a touch. Librarians report that the ordinary novel, printed on wood-pulp paper will stand only about forty Issues. That is, after forty people have drawn It from the library for reading, the book is in such a state that it is fit for nothing, not even rebinding. Thus its life is less than two yearn. Books printed on the better grades of paper will last longer, but only rela tively speaking. When a few centuries have passed over, they will be indis tinguishable from their humbler breth ren. All this is in striking contrast to the literature of ancient peoples, which was traced on imperishable parchment, and unless lost or destroy ed entirely, comes down to us in a permanent record of what men thought and felt three thousand years ago. The British Museum has an Egyp tian parchment dating black 3100 years—and the Egyptians did much of their writing on even more imper ishable stone. Parchments and vel lums a thousand years old are com mon in collections. The Middle Ages did all their writing on such material, and In consequence we havo a record of their most trivial activities. Tho old Hebrew laws were traced on parch ment long before the birth of Christ, and it is a tradition in the Jewish church that the more important laws must be kept on parchment to-day. Parchment Is made of carefully pro pared sheep or calf skin, and thus Is naturally durable. Even the old-time papers, however, wero made to last. Museums have documents on Ara bian paper 1000 years old, and others of Europeans origin that date back to 700 and 800 A. D. In those times there were few books, but they were very precious, and men felt that their value would endure for all time. They spared no effort In tracing them on imperishable backgrounds. To-day, one of the big New York newspapers throws two hundred thou sand copies on tho streets at a single edition. An hour or two later those tons of closely printed paper aro ab solutely valueiess, except as waste. In point of timeliness, they are deader than tho Pharoahs. There is nothing so out of date and out. of demand as the first edition of a big paper when the newsboys begin to call the second. Such being the, case, it is just as well that all our paper Is not designed to last for a score of centuries. But no records of our times would be so accurate and so valuable to future ages as would a complete file of our typical dailies. Libraries keep care- I ful files, but most of the papers crum ble away before the end of the first century. An effort was made recently by an association of public libraries to induce several of the more impor tant newspapers to print daily a spe cial edition on a high grade of paper for the benefit of future ages. A few gJ the papers fell in with the plan for .* time, but the practice never got be-. yond the experimental stage. It is claimed that improper storage conditions are responsible for much of the quick deterioration of newspaper files. At the Library of Congress are kept the oldest flies on the American continent, some of them dating back to the last years of the eighteenth cen tury. The complete files of a New York evening paper, from the year 1801 down to date, are preserved in fliis library. The papers are sealed in dust-proof cases, and the room where they stand is kept clean as a hospital to discourage the thriving of insects, of which there is a large family that delight in the destruction of books. [The temperature of the room is kept constant, and the very air that is al lowed to blow over the old papers at certain times must be washed and screened before it is admitted. Such precautions in themselves show how perishable a newspaper is. It is interesting to note that, bought by tlio government In quantities of sev eral hundred tons at a time, the in destructible paper is only two or three times as expensive as the ordinary grades. There seems to be no reason why the best of our literature should not be put forth in occasional editions designed for the reading of ages yet to come. Ordinary printers' ink will stand clear for thousands of years if only the paper Is the right sort. Meanwhile, though our paper may be an ephemeral product, we are us ing more of it every day. The volume of books and newspapers printed grows by leaps and bounds. A single Sunday edition uses as much paper as one of the typical periodicals of a century ago used in a year. The pulp mills are chewing deeper and deeper into our forests. Wood is used for pulp to-day that the manufacturers would have laughed at ten years ago. The manufacturing cost of hemlock i pulp, which is one of the best varieties. I lias doubled In the last fifteen years. The price of paper in the future pre sents a problem. I OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT HIS FAULT You »ald you «1 give ma back that £ fc. T" $5.00 out of your j! "tc—/pijßj wife only let me 1 have 26c out of THE REASON My 'Winsr Dinner Some kind friends have said to me: "Wing, we've had no verse Prom you for a day or two. And we've tried to nurse All our patience, but, my boy. If we do not see Something from your pen' quite soon Peev-ed we will be." Lest you, too, may take offense at my absence, bo, I'll explain so that the cause You may clearly know. I've had grippe, and had I tried To write poetry, gee, I am sure that you would not Have quite gotten me. Well, may you be glad that, friend, Some days I did miss, For with head stuffed up my verse Might have come like this: "I ab id the houde to-day Wib ad awbud code, Head dobbed üb, ad caddot breade Through by bloobid dobe." j jEtottUtg (Efrat j If there is a comrade living whw fought with Harry Koat during: IhJ Civil War as a member of the Fifty"* fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Voluw teers, he will confer a great favor o4 •Mr. Itoat to make his whereabouts known. The last survivor known here abouts besides Harry Koat, the veteran constable, was A. C. Leonard, of Lan caster. Ills death occurred last week. Prior to the death of Mr. Leonard ho and Constable Itoat would meet once each year and talk over war tlmiSk, For three years these reunions wero held. There were a half-dozen com rades who moved West and have not been heard from since. Not having heard from them in ten years, they have been recorded as "absent and un accounted for." Constableßoat is anx ious to secure the names of comrades who- may bo living. He has in hi* possession some interesting records which he prizes very highly. » • * Although grip has been rampant In Pennsylvania for a month or more and there has been considerable pneu monia, it has been some time since any outbreaks of typhoid fever amounting to very much have been re ported to the State Department ot Health. Smallpox, which has been popularly classed as a winter disease for a long time, is also less ihan usual. Typhoid, against which the State has made a campaign of prevention which has attracted almost as much attention as that which Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon ha 3 fought against tubercu losis. has been declining for several years. Last year showed a notable de crease as compared with 19X4 and in splto of several spots where typhoid was reported in 1915 it is believed the total of cases and deaths will run less than in the year before. » * t Friday seems to have supplemented Tuesday as the favorite visiting day at the State Capitol and the next to the last day of the week has been marked by numerous people from about tha State touring the big granite building. In summer months the third day of. the week appears to be the big day for sightseers, with Wednesday also doins well in the visiting list line. Since the weather turned cold, however, tha guides have noted that Friday has been considerably favored for trips through the corridors and legislative halls. In the visitors have been people from all over the State, not the least number of the visitors being Mennoti it.es and others in their distinctive garb. Saturday is the day for schools and other organizations. • • • Lawyers who have been'clearing up State tax claims which have been held by the Commonwealth against their clients have been making some un usual payments at the State Treasury lately. One attorney brought in a check for over SI,OOO for some taxes which had been due several years, in another instance a tax of S2O was due for a couple of years and the penalties and interest caused it to run up. It had also cost the State considerable for postage. Among the checks re ceived this week was one for (> cents as a balance due on 1914 tax. e * • Applications for the use of sites for camps in State forest reserves are al- I ready being received at the office oC the State Forestry Commission, al-| though it is a good six months and | more until the camping season can start. Some of the requests are from camping clubs which have used the State lands for several years. The State gives the use of tracts and streams free upon agreement to ob serve certain rules. • • • < A long, lean, lanky foreigner the other morning stood for several min utes gazing into the large looking gloss in the elevator at the rear of the Courthouse. Then he looked around as if he wanted to say something. "What do you want?" asked George Young, the elevator man. "Two beers," was the reply; "mo thirsty," he added. The foreigner insisted on getting a drink, and James A. Stranahan, attor ney for the Anti-Saloon League, was called in to aid in convincing the , stranger that the elevator was not a speakeasy or saloon. * * * Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Su perintendent of Public Instruction, who has been ill for the last week, returned to the State Capitol yesterday and was warmly greeted by his friends. • • • Removal of the big blocks of granite from the Government Build ing here is attracting much attei!- ' tion from visitors to Harrisburg as . well as men interested In construc- Ition "affairs here. Yesterday a dozen I I men who had business at the Capitol , stopped and watched the blocks belrn? ; swung about by the derrick as though , they weighed only a hundredweight. [* * • State Game Commissioners will hold several hundred quail at half a dozen points in the State until the winter is over to acclimate them. The quail | have come from Mexico and will be | liberated when the snows disappear. ; 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Thomas H. Martindale, who will 1 head the coal price probe, is a noted • hunter of big game. : —J. S. McCulloch, new head of the . Union National Bank, of Philadelphia, • succeeds W. H. Carpenter, who was ■ fifty-two years in the harness. —John Dcwar, of Pittsburgh, has again been elected president of the Master Painters. He is well known to many Harrisburgers. —PresidenL F. W. Hinnlt, of Wash ington and Jefferson, spoke In Phila delphia a few nights ago, urging churches to aid colleges. —David M. Colder, a Chester county commissioner, is the new president of the Chester County Agricultural So —P. H. Geherrity is the new post master of Bellefonte. [ DO YOU KNOW ~~ That Harrlsborg cigars are sold in the Far West? HISTOIUC 'HAimiSBUKG William Maclay, who contended for Harrlsburg for the State capital alop"* with John Harris, predicted that thC' would be a big Industrial community t f Hi Are Boys' Shoes Made ] of Paper Mother sometimes is prone to think so, as she sees them rent in tatters. .. . She wonders if leather has gone out of use by shoemakers. Of course, the shoe a healthy boy could not wear out is one he couldn't wear. „ , But there are degrees in boys shoes. Some are very much bet ter than others. ..... Several brands have been built up by a maintained reputation for sterling qualities. Mother should look into this shoe question carefully and a good way to gather Information Is to read /he advertising in a live newspaper like the Tele graph.
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