8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A WtWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded i4«7 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.EURAPH PRINTING CO., Ttltgnik Bulldlaar, Federal *«uare. E. J. STACIvPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief E. R. OYSTER, Kusintss Monagtr. GUS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub f§j|f£g j5 Eastern office. Has- Gas°Buildlng, Chl Entered »t the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. .. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a y ear j n advance. Sworn dally average circulation Car the three months ending Dec. 31, 1815. ★ 22 '412 * Theae Cfftirrs are Bet. AH returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted, SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 29. If a good part of our brain is oc cupied with worrying. it deprives us of just to much thinking power with which to attend to business. — ANNlE PAYSOX CALL. PREPAREDNESS AND PEACE NOTHING has so upset the cal culations of the Democratic politicians as the forceful speech of Representative Mann, the Republican leader in Congress, on the subject of national defense. His pat riotic declaration in favor of prepared ness and his clear and unmistakable demand for a proper attitude toward this question on the part of all citizens has cut the ground from under those Democratic bosses who imagined they would surely place the Republicans of the country In an embarrassing and unpatriotic position. Mr. Mann suggested that it was the part of wisdom for us to prepare for any possibility of trouble that may <ome. Coming from one who has never favored a large standing army and who has been classed as a little navy man. this speech has aroused the | country as nothing that has yet been j uttered regarding the national de fense. He has pointed out the upset condition of the world and the abso lute necessity of the United States placing itself in position to defend the interests of the Republic and protect and guard the lives and liberties of the people. The Republican champion in Con gress is not one of those who places much dependence upon what he terms a "paper pence." He manifestly be lieves with a majority of his country men that we arc menaced by power ful foes who will turn their attention toward the United States as soon as the conflict ends in Europe. In the judgment of Mr. Mann we should strive to maintain peace at any hazard, but he thinks the time may come when wo shall not have the determin ation: then we should be prepared. He realizes that the cost will be enor mous, but he also understands that It is better to expend millions in pre paredness than billions in tribute. Fear of war with England after the cessation of the struggle in Europe is quite as prominent in the minds of | many people as a possible conflict with i Germany. We must not overlook the! fact that the Untted States is en-1 oroachlng upon the trade and the! prestige of Great Britain in many di- ■ rections, especially In South America, j We are even now looked upon with | envy by many of the foreigners who j have been our erstwhile friends. These are the things which should make our government and our people think. Preparedness is not a preparation for war; it is a preliminary of peace. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, presented some practical and common-sense views before the State Agriculture Board this week. His plea for protec- j tion of the birds as friends of the farm- I er should be heeded. Xot only on the farm, but alio in the town and city, i the bird life ought to be conserved, j Many diseases of trees would be cured should more attention be given our feathered friends. BUILDING AN EXPORT TRADE ! WE "'cannot sell abroad without j buying abroad to something! like the same extent," says the j editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, a publication with free trade tendencies. The trouble with the Democratic tariff policy, however, is that it plays both ends against the middle. Under it our Imports Increase almost In an inverse ratio as our exports decrease. The Republican polio* is to so adjust tariff rates that the cost of production at home and abroad may be balanced. That gives the foreign manufacturers an even break in the American mar ket, provided their products are of as good quality and workmanship. Un der the Democratic free trade policy our domestic manufacturers have to fight to retain the domestic market. How, then, can they energetically go about the conquest of foreign fields? The editorial continues: "Until we • •an supply other countries with what they want at as low a cost as they can get. it for elsewhere, nnd take our pay in what they have to supply from their ! own production, it Is useless to talk about extending our foreign trade." "Useless" is a strong word. Under the KepuMicaa tariff law of 1909, our ex-. port tradaincreaaedfrom $1,710,000,000 In 1910 to $2,428,600,000 In 1913, and our favorable trade balance from *188,000,000 In 1910 to $658,000,000 In 1913. We took our pay mainly from foreign goods of a non-competi tive character, or which, dne to some peculiar quality or preference of the well-to-do American consumer, found : a demand in our market. If the : foreign manufacturer to any extent squared our export accounts through the sale in this country of his com petitor)' articles, it was because of lower interest rates and incidental ex penses abroad which had not been covered into the protective duties of the Republican law. With particular reference to manu facturers, there are two ways in which the United States "can supply other countries with what they want at as low a cost as they can get it else where." One way is to pay our labor ing men the European rates of wages. On an average, two-thirds the cost of manufacture is paid out to labor in the United States, and our average wage scale is twice that of England, three to four times that of Continental .Europe, and twelve times that, of the Asiatic countries and Japan. Any manufacturer who wants to force even the English rate on our American laboring men is welcome to the Job. The Democratic party tried it before and was ousted. The other way is to guarantee to the American manufacturer the American market to such an extent that his mill can run full time and at 100 per cent, efficiency. The higher the efficiency the cheaper the cost of production. The consumption value of goods in the United States has been estimated at $20,000,000,000 annually. The larger the share of this consump tion value guaranteed to the American manufacturer, the greater the oppor tunity for his mills to run full time, full capacity, giving labor steady em ployment, achieving increased effi ciency, lowering the unit cost of pro duction—hence better preparing him to extend his foreign market and meet the competition of the pauper-paid labor production of Europe and Asia. And the mission of the Republican tariff policy is to bring this about. This has been a busy week one way and another on Capitol Hill. Boards and officials and commissions have con ferred on matters affecting their sev eral departments while Governor Brum baugh has been getting into touch with the Important Republican leaders from all parts of the State. Out of all the conferring and exchange of views should come a still better atmosphere of harmony in the administration. lilt \NI»IES- APPOINTMENT IX choosing Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. President Wilson has selected a man of brilliant intellect and one of the best lawyers in the I'nited States. Brandeis is a keen analysist and has an extensive knowledge of the law. It is not on the score of his ability or his honesty that objections to him have developed in the Senate. Senators evidently fear that Brandeis has been for so long connected with cases that may come before the Supreme Court and has held such radical views concerning them and business problems In general that he may not be able to divest him self of lifelong habits of thought in order to bring to the duties of the Supreme bench the calm, fair-minded judicial attitude required for a proper administration of the office. It is sur prising for these reasons that Presi dent Wilson picked Brandeis from the comparatively large number of well qualified men against whom none of these objections could have been raised. Emperor Francis Joseph appears to be approaching the last foe in this life. When he shall have passed away a still greater conflict is liable as a re sult of the demand of Hungary for separate government. For years the Hungarians have been dissatisfied with their hyphenated relationship to Aus tria and those familiar with the condi tions in the Austria-Hungarian empire realize that only the respect of the Hungarians for the aged emperor has prevented an open break. With the increased cost of shaving and hair cutting and incidental facial decoration by the tonsorial artists of the city we may anticipate the day when the growth of alfalfa will he largely increased in this community. Already one may see luxuriant dis plays of black and tan trimmings float ing upon the winter breezes. Surely our barbers should have some con sideration for those sanitary features other than the antiseptic treatment of their daily utensils. Civilization is moving along. In dignant refusal of a Penbrook con tractor to remove the old gallows among other debris from the Court house suggests the change In methods of inflicting capital punishment. Xo more shall we have the gruesome scenes which too often featured exe cutions in this county. With the In troduction of the electric chair and the snuffing out of criminals in the new State Institution among the hills of Center county the old order has pass ed. There ar e still those students of criminology, however, who believe that the example of the public hanging was more effective In reduoing crime than the modern scientific plan. Among the get-together meetings of the year is the annual banquet of the Dauphin County Bar Association. Al ready a committee of prominent law yers has been appointed to arrange for the event and the legal fraternity will break bread and have a good time to gether at the annual feast. Xews that England has lost a half million men in battle won't help the popularity of the conscription bill any. Announcements from Indianapolis and New York indicate that neither miners nor railroadmen want to strike. The "get-together" spirit seems to be spreading. [TEIEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE I —An alibi some times dls-proves the old assertion that a man cannot be In two places at the same time. —The Sick Man of the East appears to have been transformed Into a goat for Austria. —A hyphen is a small black line, blacker even than it looks. —The Colonel shows commendable self-restraint in letting President Wilson have the front page all to him self. —Kansas has a woman candidate for vice-president. Why so modest? —The married man's first line or defense is the telephone line. EDITORIAL COMMENT The Teutonic Governments should send fewer notes to Lansing and more to the submarine commanders.—Boston Transcript. Brand W hitlock may have had a rough voyage of it, but it seemed the only way to avoid a Vice-Presidential nomination.—Atlanta Constitution. Germans ought to love us because the British dislike us, and the British ought to love us because the Germans dislike us. but it doesn't seem to work out.—Chicago Daily Xews. What chance has the poor English slacker, with conscription leering at him on one side and leap year clawing at him on the other?— Kansas Citv Star Germany Is getting so mad because the allies won't sue for peace that the first thing they know she may start In an <l lick them all over again.—Dos An geles Times. A. Mitchell Palmer is anxious to be re-elected as Democratic national com mitteeman. Mr. Palmer has not vet received irom President Wilson an ap pointment that suits him and It is na tural that he should want to remain in a position where he ran he of service to the big chief.—Wilkes-Barre Record. England feels a draft.—Chicago Post. Wait for the big show! At Chicago, June i. Two rings! lndianapolis Xews. Germany s plea in effect seems to be that she is not guilty, but won't do it again.—Columbia State. The Central Powers apparently are trying to solve the Balkan problem by cancellation.—Boston Herald. If demands for reparation are com piled with, those submarines mav soon become I. O. C-boats.—Philadelphia In quirer. Lansing and von Bernstorff seem to be searching for a word that will sound hard in English and soft in German.— Brooklyn Eagle. FOUR DON'TS A few don't s might well be con spicuously posted in manv a mother's mind. Don t consider it neeessarv to svs tematically underrate your child. Your adult friends will know vou do not mean it, but the child will not, and probably more characters are weak ened by the lack of self-confidence en gendered by such a process than by the vanity which follows the silly bragging of overfond parents. Don t think that the'moment ycu are alone with your boy or girl you must find fault or endeavor to improve the occasion by a little moralizing, no matter in how loving a spirit. This is the hardest don't of all. for no one is so anxious to help a child toward per fection as is the parent, yet it surely leads to an avoidance of the moments alone together, which should be times of happy confidences. Don't correct the child before others. Never mind if a well-meaning- relative does say, "My dear, I am surprised that you do not show more force of character: your children are suffering from a lack of discipline." Pass the matter over until you and the small offender can have it out alone. If the circumstances are such that It cannot be passed over, take him out of the room. Lastly, laugh often with, but never at. your child. This takes self-denial, but it pays. Make up your mind that whatever others may say, he can de pend upon you for a quick, sure under standing, without quibble or joke at his expense. This does not mean that he must not take his share of harmless fun. It is wholesome, and too much sheltering would make him oversensi tive; but the mother who lets her child know that she never makes fun of htm will be surprised at the confidence with which he relics upon it.—Xella Toss Ford, in the March Mothers Magazine. BOYS.' OPPORTUNITY At the National Farm School, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, worthy young men who desire to make agri culture their lifr's work, but have not the means to pay for an agricultural education, may realize their ambi tion. This school, which was opened a score of years ago and has a farm of almost 400 acres, situated ih one of the richest agricultural districts of Pennsylvania, gives to poor, worthy boys a three-years' training in practi cal and scientific agriculture, free of all cost to them. The object of the school is to train young men in the practice and science of agriculture for agricultural callings and for leader ship of agricultural colonics. The requirements for admission are briefly: The applicant must be be tween 16 and 20 years of age: he must have an education equivalent to that required for admission to the High Schools of this country: he must be in good physical, mental and moral health: and he must have an earnest purpose to make agricultural his life's work. Applications for admission to the new term, which begins in March, are being made now. Further informa tion may be had by addressing Mor ris A. Kaufman, chairman of the Ap plications Committee. 407 Mutual Life Building, Philadelphia, Pa. FOUR HOPES [Ohio State Journal.] Cardinal Gibbons expresses four hopes for this republic. The first rests upon the wisdom and discretion of our civil rulers; the second upon the intelligence and patriotism of the American people; the third upon a sufficient army and navy to repel in vasion; the fourth upon a trust in the protection of an overruling provi dence. The cardinal's fourth ground of hope will not be generally regarded as important because it is too vague and vanishing But really it is thu most important hope he has express ed. if not Indeed the only true one. This trust is spoken of so frequently that it seems to have hardened into a mere sentiment. But, this trust is more than a creed or a doctrine; it is a faith that is a part of life, and be comes a trust just as much as one depends upon his legs to wall; with. This trust enters into a man's life carrying with it all the virtues, nobil ities. and hopes that human nature van contain. Such a trust Is a real thing. It is an association, a day's work, an hour with a friend, an ex perience of Joy or grief. Any man who separates this trust from his life may be a worthy citizen, but not the worLhiusC HAJUUBBCKG irfffiy TELEGRAPH TotlUct IK I>eK)vo4|CcaiiXa1 > eK)vo4|CcaiiXa | Ry <>*♦ Ei-CommlllwßMi^ Governor Brumbaugh in Philadel phia yesterday reiterated his hope that there would be harmony in the election of deiegates-at-large to the Chicago national convention. The Philadelphia papers to-day quote him as saying that he looks and hopes for harmony. The Pittsburgh papers say that there will be harmony if he has to fight for it. The Governor has been endeavor ing to reach an agreement upon a list of twelve Republicans who will be generally acceptable for delegates-at large to the National convention. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "It would appear that the outcome of recent conferences will be united support of the following:, according to usually well informed party leaders last night: I nited States Senators Penrose and Oliver, Governor Brumbaugh, Mayors Smith, of Philadelphia, and Arm strong, of Allegheny; former Lieuten ant Governor Watres, of Scranton; Brigadier General C. M. Clement, of Sunbury; E. V. Babeock and D. L. Gillespie, of Allegheny county; Col onel James Elverson, Jr., of Phila delphia; E. J. Stackpole, of Ilarris burg, and Colonel H. W. Shoetnaker, of Altoona. This is the list recently announced by Mayor Smith as favor ed by the Governor and his friends with the exception that Messrs. Bab cock and Gillespie take the places of George E. Alter, of Allegheny, for mer speaker of the House, who is proposed for election from his home Congressional district, and former Lieutenant Governor John M. Rey nolds, of Bedford county, who is said not to be eager to run." —ln commenting upon the political situation Governor Brumbaugh vester day said: "I am for harmony on delegates to the Republican National Convention. I hope, and fully expect, that the Re publican party will be united for the national campaign of this year. This Includes the faction that supported Roosevelt in 1912, and all other fac tions. The only interest 1 have in the delegate situation," the Governor added, "is to see (hat there is harmony as to the delegates." In commenting upon the National situation, the Governor said: "I see by the newspapers that Presi dent Wilson is in favor of a nonparti san tarifT commission. I came out for a tariff board long ago, and am glad to see that President Wilson has very lately been converted to the idea. Present business activities," the Gov ernor went on, "are only temporary, and a result of the European war. Mills were idle a year ago, and would be idle now but for the war. Industry is like an individual, it cannot be in a happy condition if it is uncer tain when it goes to bed what its con dition will be in the morning." —Charles A. Ambler's candidacy for auditor general, which has not yet been launched, was boomed and bat ted yesterday. Charles Johnson, State Insurance Commissioner, came out with a boost for him in these words: "In view of Mr. Ambler's splendid service rendered this Com monwealth during six terms as Rep resentative in the State Legislature, and especially the fair and capable manner in which he conducted the office of Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives during the session of 1915, supporting and earnestly advo cating the passage of humane legis lation passed at that session, which redounds so generally to the welfare of all our people, the unanimous sentiment of the people of Mont gomery county, from a careful can vass. establishes him as the logical candidate for the office of Auditor General, and Mr. Ambler can be as sured of the united support of the voters of our county." —At the other end of the State S. R. Tamer, prominent railroad man, i came out with a violent attack upon his attitude in the Legislature. —County Controller Hendersliot, of Luzerne county, has caused excite ment among the placeholders In that county by refusing to pay salaries until all the placeholders come before the county salary board. —George D. Porter, who has been much in the limelight in Philadelphia since things began to move because of interest in the delegate elections, is preparing a statement in which he will set forth his own attitude. —The first petitions for placing of names of candidates for nominations upon the May primary ballot will be issued from the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth next week, but the papers may not be circulated until February 18 under the primary law. Requests for hun dreds of blank petitions have been filed at the Capitol from all parts of the State and many inquiries regard ing the provisions of the law have been made. —lt is expected that in the next two weeks numerous announcements of candidacies for delegates and for nominations to be made at the May primary will be made. The circula tion of petitions for signers will be in order on February 18 and two months later all papers must be on file at the State Capitol. This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— s—_____—J IIH HH I |B| . .... jf P® , i■■ < • I FREDERIC C. MARTIN prominent in musical circles in the clt.v and vicinity, a pianist and composer of rare ability and charm. Mr. Martin Is director of the Carlisle Choral Society and is doing much to develop musical t&ituu and uute ill Uiis, his home town. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY WAR BABIES—By Hungerford. —Froiu The Pit (nilurich Sua. S4 VING THE BABIES By Frederic J. Haskin WHEN a baby arrives in Kansas, he starts' life with a certificate from the board of health, a book of instructions on the care of ba bies. and a congratulatory note from the Governor. Kansas begins to look out for her babies before they are born, and stands by them officially through all their infantile troubles. The country is justt beginning to take real interest In the welfare of the baby. This year will see the biggest campaign in history for spending a knowledge of babies' needs. The cli max is scheduled to arrive early in march, in the form of a nation-wide Baby Week. The Yuma Valley Women's Club in Arizona will hold a Baby Week. In Nebraska 200 women's clubs, half of them in rural districts and some of them 30 miles from a railroad, will carry the movement across the State. | A hundred towns In Florida have started work on their plans. Some community or organization in every State in the I'nion has already begun preparation for the coming Baby Week. There will be all sorts of Baby Weeks. Some of them will be munici pal, in big cities, and Borne rural, in the country districts where the co operating workers will have to come from miles around. Some of the cam paigns will be directed by State boards of health, others by local women's or ganizations. The national campaign is being directed by the General Fed eration of Women's Clubs. The State universities of 32 States will co-operate by offering special courses In extension work, consisting of correspondence and lecture material on babies. The children's bureau of the Department of Labor is flooded with requests for its literature on "How to hold a Baby Week." The baby is about to become a figure of na tional prominence. The purpose of a baby week is two fold. It seeks by unique and striking means to awaken the community to a realization of the condition and needs lof local babies: and it teaches the 1 mothers and fathers and sisters of babien how they should be cared for. ;The death rate of American babies shows clearly the necessity for some such propaganda. Out of every 1,000 American babies, 124 die before they are twelve months old. Intelligent care on the part of parents and community would cut such mortality in half. The figure may not be Btartlingly high compared with I OUR DAILY LAUGH I JUST so. She: I joined (h * anti-gossip Jjjy | the idea is to con- , fine the gossip to jßftljy &SS your own mem bera, and not let^^ OFTEN THE And do you 4fi ' ove an ' Tna ' s ' ? , Sure: I'd reth i er " ee a <loK fl ßht dan anything J DIDN'T HAVE I wonder Tom txi ijm had the courage JbR He didn't. He 1 Jwsp\ B* married a widow. (Wt n,<, chear KSMX -V:\ ~/■ — Say. Mister. I <2F% ~ * ot a dandy CUM jQ*Zr \ word to fit yer Ik JKSX# case. I'll git it ]P ° ff y ° U ' er * A COMMUNICATION "To Mr. Wing: Dinger. "Care Harrisburg Telegraph. "Your poetry's rotten, Wing Dinger— "You think' you're some hot metre slingcr. But we've had enough Of your rotten stuff. So go run your head through a wringer. "Yorn <-orsix, c.or. DINGER." "We dare you to publish this." nEPr.Y I Fie. lie, dear Uol. I <*.n 11 your bluff! Think you, that I wlio write such stuff Ami dare to print It KIVP a rap For you or any other chap? WING DINGER the rest of the world—in fact, it Is bet ter than the average—but It Is twice as high as it need be. In Vienna and Berlin, the infant death rate runs up to 160 per thousand, while in St. Pet ersburg and Moscow it reaches 280, but London's infant deathrate, in spite of the unsanitary conditions in the poorer quarters, is only a little over 100. In typical Norwegian and Swedish cities it drops to 80 per thou sand, and faraway New Zealand sets an example by losing only 50 babies out of every thousand in their first year—two to every five that we lose in America. The American people have been haz ily aware of a high infant deathrate in this country, but It has been blamed on the crowding in big cities, and on the large number of immigrants that enter our ports yearly, and are pre sumably less enlightened than the na tive-born. Recent investigations bring out tli startling facts, however, that education in the care of babies is at least as badly needed in the countrv as in the city, and that in New York at least, where (host. of the immigrant influx finds lodgment, the deatjirate among their infants is lower than that among the babies born to native Amer ican parents. This is the sort of thing that the promoters of Baby Week intend to fight. Several cities held local baby weeks last year, including New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh, but this year's activities will be on a much wider scale. Illinois, for instance, be sides the Chicago campaign, already has the pledged support of 535 wo men's clubs in the work for 1816. Wisconsin lias an interesting pro gram laid out for the week. The point that will be especially stressed in this State is the importance of parental in fluence on the future well-being of the child. A system of visiting nurses to call on and confer with expectant, mothers will be advocated. A triple organization is back of the Wisconsin work, in the shape of the State Fed eration of Women's Clubs, the Depart ment of Health, and the extension di vision of the University of Wisconsin. Montgomery county, Pa., will insti tute a new form of the Baby Week I when several of her small rural towns [come together and hold a joint pro gram. Texas will devote specia latten tion to the rural Baby Week. Albany and Schenectady have their plans well under way. The big cities will prob ably all observe baby week; the ma jority of them have already outlined a | schedule. [THE STATE FROM DATTODAT I A York authority declares "thousands have died of kissing," and the sage of | Milton Grove observes, "Oh, death, where is thy sting?" It is said that we must have weather, whether or no, and the police of New Castle evidently believe that they must make arrests, whether they can find I suitable objects for that purpose or no. After a difficult capture the other even ing, Officer Sharvitz, of that city, plac ed under arrest a disorderly pig which had explored a large restaurant. Officer Wahl will do the honors as chef. A Loretto man takes issue with the accredited statement of the weather man that Thursday was the warmest January day in years (fill in the number yourself). Charley O'Donncll, who is not only a weather prophet, but also a hotel man, recalls the year 1876 when It was even warmer in January j than during the present month. And there was little sickness that year, he also recalls. Speaking- of warm weather, the old swimmin' hole and a well-skinned base ball diamond wouldn't go so bad right now. Eddie Roth, Ilarrisburg Academy football star, is evidently of the same opinion, for his swim in the Susque hanna of a short time ago does not seem to have materially harmed him. "A moonlight schedule" is to be put jinto effect by the Electric Light Company, at the notification of tlie borough council. When the moon shines sufficiently bright, electric light will not be required, but on all other nights they must burn till midnight. No pesky robbers will be able to "have it soft" in that active community. Emma Rohotian. of Shamokin, on the evening of the 27th, sent a postal card to her parents, but before the mail could be delivered In the morning, they received word from Elizabeth. N. J., where she was visiting, that she had been accidentally asphyxiated during the night. HOT BISCUITS TFrom Farm and Home.] If you want to serve the biscuits fresh and hot to your guests at an af ternoon tea, here is a good way to pro ceed : Into one quart flour put one teaspoon salt, three level teaspoons baking pow der. and sift all together Into a small mixing bowls. Then melt one table spoon shortening and pour Into one cup i sweet milk, pouring all into the flour. Eiirhtly mix to the consistencv of dough for rolling. Roll and cut an Inch thick, placing In baking pan ready for the oven. Place the pan in a cool place until wanted for baking, about twenty minutes before serving, in the afternoon. By the time the cloth is laid tjand the other refreshments brought 1 forth, they will be done and found ] delicious. They can be prepared in the I early morning and left all day. lEhming CCljat r " " 11 :aa==a=aßg== . ji' =a—caaf Resumption of work at a number o• long idle blast furnaces, the speed ing up of production at coal min. fcnd the demands of the railroads for men have caused what State officials In charge of employment matters con sider the most serious condition in regard to labor in years. There have been more applications made to the State employment agencies in the last three weeks than In any month since they were started and men in charge of iron works and mines have taken to using the long distance telephone instead of writing letters or sending telegrams asking for help. As fast as a name is put down at the agencies men in lines which need men, and they Include almost every one, are communicated with. Jacob Llghtner, chief of the State's employment agen cies, says that the three bureaus have found work for 900 men and hav« applications on file to take care of a good many more men if they will only send along their names. In Central Pennsylvania a number of furnaces are being started and managers art seeking men, while the railroads have been recruiting in the country durins the winter months. Although it will be weeks before much outdoor work can be done contractors and farmers are seeking Information as io how they can get hands. With industries at top notch and the ordinary supplj of labor from abroad shut off the de mand has come at a time to test tin new State bureau. People of Pennsylvania do not ap preciate the sport there is in fishing for the yellow perch, says Commis stoner of Fisheries N. R. Buller in the course of a statement made here to-day on the prospects for fishing in the State next Spring and summer, The commissioner has arranged tt "plant" many thousands of trout, bass sunfish, catfish and perch this yeai and a particular effort will be madt to popularize the yellow perch. The latter fish he contends should be bet ter known because it can be taken with any bait and may be caught by women and children. In a numbei of cases these fish have been set oul by the department so that they will propagate In regions where people camp in summer. Practically every desk In the hall of the House of Representatives in the State Capitol has had to be re paired the last few months as the re sult of the strenuous times during the Legislature of 1915 and because ol the numerous occasions on which the hall was used for meetings. One car penter has been working for several weeks simply repairing places where the desks had been worn or cracked or .where seams had opened. Stamp collectors are on the trai] of the new Pennsylvania State stoclfj transfer stamps, which are used as evidence that the tax of two cents on the hundred dollars of value have been paid. The act has been in effect for about four weeks and a. number of inquiries have been made as M how collectors may obtain a set oi the stamps. The stamps are all sold through agents and nqt directly from the State Capitol. This item- from Johnstown may lnj terest a good many residents of t.hia city: "Members of the Johnstown 'Boosters' League,' which has prac tically every church and social service organization in the city on its roster, conferred with the county commis sioners to-day relative to the establish ing of a "work farm' for delinquent children. At present local delinquents are sent to state institutions. The boosters' plan is to have a farm where practical agriculture will be taught in connection with agricultural classes. A tract of ten acres is under consid eration as a possible site." » » • Senator William C. Sproul, chairman of the State Historical Commission and president of the Pennsylvania Fed eration of Historical Societies, will be senator again from Delaware county! His friends in that county have lined up for him already. His election next November, which is a foregone con clusion, will be his sixth term. He is now the ranking member of the uppe« house, the "Father of the Senate.' Next January about this time he wil begin his twenty-first year as a senatoi of Pennsylvania, a distinction given tt few men and certainly merited by th< Delaware legislator, who, by the way is a native of Lancaster and only aboul forty-six years old.^ Charles A. Wilhelm, who celebratci his eightieth birthday yesterday, ii probably one of the best known Ode Fellows in this part of the State He has been a member of the ordei for half a century. Mr. Wilhelm has been a staunch Democrat no mattei what happened for many years. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE~| —Congressman D. F. Lafean is go ing into some new industrial enter prise in York. —Jacob S. Hawk, Carbon counts commissioner, celebrated his seventy sixth birthday. —Thomas Kennedy, mentioned fot president of the Mine Workers ol America, comes from Hazleton. —Professor A. E. McKinley. of the University of Pennsylvania, has sug gested studying the industries ol Philadelphia as a profitable thing foi students to do. —William H. Goft, of Wilkes Barre, is the new president of th< Pennsylvania State Lumbermen's As sociation. —Frank Silliman, of Philadelphia has been elected vice-president of the Michigan Railways Company. —Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, has returned from Florida. [ DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisburg is becoming a center of stogie manufacture? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The Buckshot war occurred her« in 1838. — "I'll Prove It by the Newspaper" Every day you hear the news paper referred to as a medium to settle some dispute. It is an authority. And in its advertising columns, too. It is Sir Oracle. They form the public market place 'where buyers come and of fer what they have to sell. There is nothing else quit# like them in this respect. The advertising In this very newspaper to-day is typical of the business life of the com munity. It is as interesting as It is au thoritative and it is read and re ferred to by nearly all the read ers of the newspaper.
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