10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH /< NBIISP.irUR FOR THE HOME Founded it.u Published evenings except Sunday by TUB TKI,E<iH \l"II I'IU\TI-\G CO., Telegraph Ilulldlng, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pr« 7 and Editor-in-Cliief P. K. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STOCINMETZ, Manning Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub *. -f.Tf Ushers' Associa -JS-g lion, The Audit •cgofW 1 "-'-;*,-"3% Bureau of Clrcu- HHMpM lation and Penn jmMiltfr 3 sylvanla Assoclat ; (CP B a ed Dailies. *lßßfll a ~Z fiSI a»iE !3j Eastern office. Has llHßfsS 9 hrool'.. Story & ' ™° S SOB KM I'.rook:-', Fifth Ave .3?j m nue Building, New -J!S|Ln{KB » York City; West- T i 5 ern of flee, Has brook Story A >V~,je|2Huß Brooks, People's c Gas Building, Chi " cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg-, Pa., as second class matter. T-iftE'".'},-. By carriers, six cents a <B?KEIstJSPjD week: by mail, 13.00 a year In advance. Sworn dully average elrculntlon for the three months ending February I'll, .1111(1, ir 22,785 it Thew Okutcn nre net. All returned, unsold niicl (Imnneed copleii deducted. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 1 j The shadow .of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope. —ll ILL A Ml. THE BABY SHOW THE Ilarrisbu rg Health Depart ment is preparing an exhibit for the annual baby week, to lie observed in this and other cities, itnd physicians and nurses will con tribute their services to make it the tuccess it should be. The popular methods of the baby I Week, which are those of all astute , iidvertisers, form an invaluable I method of reporting to the parents of j this nation those .standards of infant j welfare which experts are endeavor- i Ing to make clear. The baby week emphasizes the con- I H motive side of infant care. It ad- j drosses not only individual parents but communities. The best test, of its value will be the j . work that follows it. Undoubtedly every State Board of Health should secure what only six! Stales have at present—a special divi sion of child hygiene. No city or town 1 should fail ti> provide Instructive nurs- , ' lug service and to pay constant heed lo the problems of hygiene and sani- i lation, or proper housing and of recreation spaces, since all these im-1 mediately affect the welfare of in-1 fa nls. , There are 3,009 counties in the United States. In every county seat ! there should be a center for the! health work of that county—a station for examining babies, and other chil dren, and for furnishing expert ad- j vice for keeping them well-I—in 1 —in short, j t a health teaching center. We must have complete birth regis- | t ration. All these will be institutions for the j common use- no more revolutionary, no more eleemosynary, than public ] schools and weather bureaus and agri cultural experiment stations. The New Zealand infant mortality rate is less than one-half of ours and j is being further reduced.,. Why take less pnius for American ; babies than New Zealand takes? The correspondence between the I President and late Secretary of War is I described by Oswald G. Villard as a "fresh revelation of the President's In- I stability of purpose." And to think that j the man who wrote that phrase used '■ to be one of the most eminent of the 1 Wilson kitchen cabinet! SAFE l\ Ills OWN BACKYARD RE PR158 E N T.\ TI V E BLACK, Democrat, of Texas, made a speech in the House, recently, defend ing and commending the present man agement of the Rural Mail Service, lie is from the. same State as Postmas ter General Burleson, so perhaps he is safe in-uttering his words of praise. If he were seeking re-election from a northern Slate he would find a lot of angry farmers taking issue with him. The "lonely President in the White House" has disappeared from the news dispatches from Washington. Instead we now have word pictures of the President—with his bride—seeking se clusion on the Presidential yacht "Mayflower" to wrestle with grave of State. CENSORSHIP AT ITS WORST THE censorship which European governments exercise over the correspondence from the theater of war has Ihe valid excuse that free communication from Ihe zone of light ing might lend to enlighten the, enemy. The censorship which the President has imposed upon the State Department in making reply lo the Senate's demand for information re garding .Mexico has no such excuse. We are not at war with Mexico, despite the fact that nearly 150 of our soldiers anil citizens have been killed by Mexicans —upon their soil and upon ours—during the three years that have worn away in "watchful waiting." Nor is the Senate to be regarded by the White House in a hostile ilspect. Mr. Wilson's party has a majority of sixteen votes in the Senate and the resolution of inquiry was passed without a dissenting voice and amid many protestations on ihe part of Democrats that "there is nothing to conceal." Vet the most vital matters of information which the Senate de manded were denied to it upon the •nnveuicut excuse that it is "in- SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG irfSBV TELEGRAPH MARCH 4, 1916. ! compatible with the public interest." This In censorship at its worst, for It : confounds tbc interest of the Presi dent with that of the public and rc | fuses to the representatives of the j people the facts which they are en titled to receive and which an ad ministration which was acting in good faith would be prompt to produce. "Arrant nonsense." says Champ Clark of the talk that Claude Kitchin is to be ousted from his as leuder in the House of Representatives. Of course. As a matter of fact, the job isn't worth lighting over. • HAM AND "MARSH" THE exigencies of the Democratic situation in Indiana have caused the President to do another flop, and he is now in favor of Mar shall as his running mate for a sec ond term. Senatot' 1 Jim Ham Lewis, of Illinois, was looking forward to that honor, and it is reported that since he heard of Mr. Wilson's latest change of heart he has been, "dumb, mute, not saying a word." We can imagine Mr. Wilson's explanation to Senator Lewis, paraphrasing Colonel Lovelace's verse: Yet thUi inconsistency is such As you too shall adore; 1 could not love thee, Ham, so much, Loved I not Marshall more. Mr. Wilson once described his mind las a single track affair. But he cannot say it is a single-term mind. BRINGING HOME 1 HE SCRAP WHEN the European war broke out. it was Charles >l. Schwab who first saw the vast demand for American-made munitions, and his foresight and salesmanship are now taking shipload after shipload of mu nitions in a continuous procession across the Atlantic to the armies of the Allies in the field. When the war comes to an end the battlefields of Europe will be one vast junk heap, with millions of ions of steel to be picked up about Verdun, in France, and in Flanders, not to mention Rus sia, Austria and a hundred other scenes of conflict. Is it too much to expect that the thrifty Mr. Schwab will be again to the front, buying unlim- | ited quantities of scrap after the ! "scrap," and bringing home the shat tered shells to be forged into plough- i scares and other useful articles of j peaceful trade? A lot of "deserving Democrats" got prominently mentioned in connection with the vacancy in the War Depart ment. This puts them in line to make j a substantial contribution to Wilson's [ second campaign fund. THE GORE VOTE IT is said that Berlin docs not look upon the United States as a well ( united nation, but rather as a "mass | meeting," where it has been agreed I thai popular r pinion shall prevail, but where there is little unity of thought or purpose. If that be so, the imperial ; government is due for a rude awaken ing. While the vote tabling the Gore resolution may not bo all that might be wished in thai respect, it should 1 afford a lesson for Von Bcrnstorff, j who had prepared the way for what, he hoped might be a breach between j Congress and the President, to the great advantage of Germany. The German government appears to be basing its assumption of disagree ment in the United States on the same basis as it did the mistaken notion that Great Britain was on the verge of! revolution at the outset of the present war and, therefore, would not risk getting into the fighting—and with just about as much foundation in fact. 1 Germany or any other nation will find that while Americans may differ, and ; differ even to the point of bitterness, | on matters concerning themselves and i their government, they will stand for i no outside interference. Spain found that out in IS9B when she went into the conflict, more than half believing the South would not. prove loyal to the national govern- ! ment, only io learn that the South needed no spur to cause it to rush to the nation's defense in time of need. That little scrimmage did more to ob literate the feelings aroused by the Civil War than any other one incident in history, and so Germany must learn the lesson that, by her shameful at tempt to betray America through Americans she is but drawing tighter j the lies that bind the States together. ! That Denver does not grow hys- I terical over New York's demands for roast defense does not mean that Colo ! rado would not be one of the first Stales to < ome lo the defense of the I East at the crack of an invader's can non. or that because New York is not i excited over San Francisco's real or | fancied fear of Japan is no sign that the metropolis of the East, would not, without .1 moment's hesitation, throw i her men and her millions into Ihe bal- I nnce If ihe Pacific coast were threat ened. There is no doubt In the mind of any American of the stability of this nation. Those who think otherwise have been misled by mere surface indi cations or thv»y do not understand the spirit that un lerlies the republic and has brought the government unscathed : through a thousand trials. ' The President lias blundered; blun- I dered frightfully, indeed, and millions of Americans have lost confidence in his ability. But not one of them doubts his good intentions or his pa- I iriotism, and when it comes to a choice | between him and the minions of Ger ! many, between him and the weaklings 1 and traitors of his own party who would desert him in the most serious crisis of his administration, every red blooded American will be found be hind the President. There is no telling how much harm jthis Gore resolution has done abroad, j but the Senate's almost unanimous | vote in suppart of the White House should have i counterbalancing effect and there can be no question that the 1 Republicans of the House, backed up j by the better element of the Demo ■ erats, will stifle all attempts of Bryan and his pro-German ilk to further em barrass tbc administration in the lower | branch of Congress. Plndell. of Peoria, arrived in Wash i ington as per schedule. He was not i unpointed Secretary ol War. but he | YOU'LL HAVE A HARD TJME RECOGNIZING LAST YEAR'S TEAM : : : By BRIGGS /Tovkcv* THAT \ / IS Trie Pittsburg! TUAT MAVW I N Team- lIT K.ft - . 1 I ,S# *" T « Aj [ THAT IHAY im(, J . . . I . I 'JfTtt V^FAICM^] \ 5h«T Ctvue < DOtJUC \ - I CAIO T i WTL/X vr 7 He H * " If V» u C*.J T Te,. t T„ e ""' <ZTv : WE StVMI lEAVi AMV OTMFR VOAY- . * ' piRATts «,aaits ■ — visited tho White House, where he said ; to the President. "We are with you In your program of preparedness. We ! are not committed to any plan." More | exact language for describing the ) President's position could not be found, j He is not committed to any plan, but iie is for preparedness. BUSY DAYS AHEAD THERE are busy days ahead for Harrlsburg, with the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company build ing a new river bridge and extending its tracks, the Pennsylvania construct ing new jards and a new freight sta- ' tion and .lie Philadelphia and Read- 1 ing putting on two new passenger! trains and letting contracts for big ex tensions between Harrisburg and Rutherford and in the Rutherford yards. Harrisburg is becoming more and more the great eastern "Heart of Distribution." NAVY NEEDS IT would seem that instead of con- | stantly demanding rr;ore ships and j more men. our naval heads might; take a little time off and do some re- ! cruiting. With Secretary Daniels boast- ' ing of the unprecedented efficiency, of our fleets, it is announced that six of j our battleships are lied up in dock, ' largely because there arc no seamen or officers for them, and lhat many of the I vessels now at sea are undermanned, j | ""ipoCtfccCO- By the TCx-Committeemsn Decision that the Democrats of Pennsylvania must elect their nation al committeeman at the State-wide primary in May when they will elect all delegates and State committeemen I and make nominations for Slate of- 1 lices, Congress and Ihe Legislature,! announced yesterday in an opinion by Deputy Attorney General W. M. Har-| gest. will force ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer to go to the voters of i tho Democracy of Pennsylvania for I endorsement if lie wants it. In other words Palmer, who was nominated for United States Senator at a State-wide primary in 1914 and thoroughly beaten at the general elec-j tion. must go before the part}' again ! if he desires to hold the national commltteemanshlp to which he was elected by tho delegates at Baltimore in 1 1» 12. The Old Guard wants to take j the place from him. It is believed that Palmer is a can- : didate to succeed himself' and if he! runs it will afford a splendid chance; for the Old Guard and other elements 1 opposed to the domination of the j Pennsylvania Democracy by Palmer] and his pals to light it out. Not only the national commltteemanshlp and control of the State committee,; but also of the national delegates will i be laid before, the voters. It's a grand chance for the Democrats to row' again and from all accounts they are i going to take it. —Senator John Sharp Williams is to address the Berks Democrats at j Heading on April 13. | —Harry A. Mackey, Chairman of | the Stale Compensation Board, i aroused some attention In Philadel phia yesterday by attacks on the city police, but William H. Wilson, the of public safety, ignored them. The next move is up to Mack ey, who was real vociferous about it In court. —Elliot P. Jones, a West Chester law student, is a candidate for United State Senator against P. C. Knox. • —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is ! going to spend a week or so at Aiken. iS. C. He will avoid discussion of municipal matters and State politics. —A. L. Harbour, of Erie, was here yesterday to see Governor Hrtiiuhaugh about being candidate for the Senate in Erie county. Harbour was active as a Bull ilooser a few years ago. It is believed in Erie county that C. P. Rogers, Jr., looks more like the Re publican nominee than anyone else at this writing. Mr. Rogers, however, has not made any announcement. —The reorganization Democrats are making faces over the candidacy of W. N. McNair, of Pittsburgh, for national delegate-at-large. SlcNair was a candidate for secretary of inter ;nal affairs last year against the wishes of the bosses and he is candidating again without permission from Pal mer and his pals. —Rumors that State Chairman Ro land S. Morris is thinking about let tingv some other Democrat take the i tire arc in circulation. Morris' term as chairman will end in May and lie ! will be the main target of the Old Guard. I —Congressman Edmunds in a speech at Philadelphia opposed inde pendence for the Philippines. -—The Philadelphia municipal court is again under tiro in the courts in a test proceeding. —Senator Penrose is back in Phila delphia and meeting up-State leud i ers to-day. —Ex-Senator Fox's declaration for harmony within the Republican par ty has attracted much attention from men active in politics in Central I Pennsylvania. The Dauphin situation I had been closely watched. —Charles A. Oliver, a Lebanon ; registrar, has been accused of some ! false registration. —Ulrich J. Miller, of Kutztown, has ; announced himself for prothonotary of Berks county, election lo be held in 1917. —Philadelphia Progressives arc much torn these days. Some are for 1 return to the party and some for Roosevelt. —The declaration of the Chamber of Commerce convention for home | rule for Pennsylvania cities sounds • very much like a shower of bills in Ihe next Legislature to bring about | changes in the third class city law. I —Seberal Blankenburg. office hold i ers, who were dismissed, are starting contests in court in Philadelphia. | —Philadelphia city's board of re vision of taxes has been reappointed | by the courts. J —Ex-Congressman A. M. Walters is said to be considering running for (Congress against. Warren Worth ! Bailey on cither the Republican or Progressive ticket. -—Berks county controller has re fused to approve bills for rum for mince pies at the almshouse. HOUSECLEANING "Ah sec yo' is houseeleanin.," said Mrs. Snow White. "Yes," replied Airs. Marsh Green, "dey is nothin' lak' movin' things 'round once in awhile. Why I des come ereross a pair of slip pers under de bed dat Ah hadn't seen foil five ycahs."—Dallas News. FRUITS OF WILDERNESS Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; | for the pastures of tho wilderness do |spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, j the tig tree and the vino do yield their i strength.—-Joel 2:20. FREE GIFTS Now xye have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is |of God; that we might know the j things that, are freely given to us of I God. —I Corinthians 2:12. OUR DAILY LAUGH BOBBIE WARN* y ttWrW ED HlM [ Cholly: You v might tell your sister I have a r. couple hundred ffiSv ' S/ S /Y dollars saved. Bobbie: Lemme see, that's about \L four spring hats, u!> aln,t it? : ABOUT THE SIZE OF IT. Moralizer: All / / men arc born / i Demo ralizer: ( Jp i Yes, and the ~ j jjH \ equality stops IH | right there. |HL HER IDEAL. Inventor: That ,-uL machine can do • the work of te Visitor: Gee JV t whiz! My wife V / '• ought to have | I .Wr... I married it! I I jB J nothing at v^/-* He: Dar,in *- 1 would live for ign She: Humpt! Lots of fellows < " B *° r MORE SETTLERS WANTED By Frederic J. Haskin THE United States has an emigra tion problem. All our national life we have been worried over the immigrant, whether to admit him, what to do with him. Apparently everybody wanted to get In and no body wanted to get out. Now the op posite issue arises. In the last ten years almost a anil lion Americans have emigrated to the Dominion of Canada. Their space cannot bo tilled by any million of the immigrants that, Europe sends us so liberally. They are no problem for Canada. Practically all of them are young native-born farmers and their families, the best kind of Americans. The present Congress is considering a number of different bills calculated to keep the American at home. They are all land bills, for the question Is a land question. Canada has millions of acres of land open 1O entry, and she has the most liberal kind of land laws. Contrary to the current impression, the United States also has an immense amount of public land unpre-einpted. In the eleven farthest western States you can pick a homestead out of 260 million acres of land. Four-fifths of Nevada is still subject to settlement and entry. So is two-thirds of Utah, half of Arizona and Wyoming, and one-fifth to one-third of Oregon, Idaho. Montana, Colorado, California and New Mexico. Uncle Sam is still in tho land olllce business, but his trade is falling off. Now it is desirable that as much of our public lands as possible should be settled by Americans. Out of the 260 million acres open to entry. It Is doubtful whether more than half can ever be put Minder cultivation, but ISO million acres of land is still a good sized block of real estate. It can sup port millions of people. Vet those who might "take it up," as the home steader's phrase goes, are moving across the border, largely, according to the statesmen of the border States, I TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ] j A lawyer calling a witness on the j other side a "paid hireling" reminds I , us that tho pot once called the kettle! I black. j —Altoona's mayor In his first rnes i sage urges a new city hall. Aw, come on down to Harrlsburg and write an other. —Nowadays when a man boards a ship to cross the Atlantic its often all over for him. —The man who shrinks from mar riage is usually a pretty cheap pat tern. —They tell us that there is no use in preparing as wo will never be at tacked; which is just what they were saying in England before the war broke out. EDITORIAL COMMENT FORWARD. MEN! [Grand Rapids Press.] Owing to the war there is a. great shortage of canary birds. Now if we j can manage an embargo on rubber j plants, men, we shall have something worth lighting for. PROMINENT SMALL POTATOES, TAKE NOTE [Milwaukee Journal.] Yes, every good and great man has j been attacked, but that doesn't make! every little two by four who reminds; you of it cither good or great. THE SEARCHLIGHT NEW wmELEKS OUTFIT A new set of wireless apparatus has been designed for the United States Signal corps with a number of advan tages over any now in use. It can be knocked down and shipped in pack ages 300 pounds in weight. It can be carried on backs of mules or by men if necessary. If Shipped by railroad it can be packed in a box car or on a flat car. If needed for emergency use. It could either be set up and op erated on a flat car or in the box of a large wagon. It Is, therefore, well adapted to maneuver in mountainous j ; countries. It is of exceptionally high i power, being capable of tranmltting land receiving messages within a ra-j | ilius of at least 250 milen. I because of the more liberal land laws I j they find there. In Canada every • j homesteader must be a British citizen, born or naturalized. So our enii ■ | grants are lost to us for good. One of the bills before Cougress . | provides for a homestead twice as big las the so-called desert elatm, which i can now be located, and four times II the size of the old hundred and sixty ■ acre homestead that made the Middle :, West. The new size is the six hun i J dred and forty acre grazing horae • i stead. It must be located on land >i designated by the Secretary of the In •! terior as grazing land, and the ob ject of the men behind the bill is to ; utilize sections which are too broken 11 and barren for farming, by combining • stock-raising and the growing of a i! few odd crops in the level or watered i corners. 11 In this way six hundred and forty acres may support a family. That has been the underlying I principle of all our land legislation 11 for the last hundred years—to divide .| it into the smallest tracts necessary 11 for the support of a single family. But i | the character of the public land is ' | changing. A hundred and sixty acres : j in Illinois or Kansas can support scv , era! families at a pinch. Even three I hundred and twenty is too little in , some of the dry, rock States. More l over the land that is open to entry io l day has been picked over. It is what i every earlier settler rejected when he came to look at the country. So the • man who homesteads nowadays needs > j and is entitled to, a bigger piece of > j land. <! If the six hundred and forty acre i j bill passes Congress, it will make a l great difference in certain fundamen tal conditions in the West. All the ■ immense tracts of public land are not ; lying idle there. They are being used for the grazing of cattle and sheep. ; Hence the large cattle and sheep own [Continued on Page B.] ' | THE STATE FROM POTTO DA/" I City Councils of Lancaster have passed an ordinance which in the j well-known parlance has practically j "put the bug" on jitneying down there 1 just as it did in Harrisburg some odd weeks or months ago. A bond of •$2,500 for every car driver and a graded license for every car are the requirements. Tlio plucky postmistress at Port Trevorton, live miles south of Selins grove, with the material assistance of her daughter, who opened the win dow, scared away two robbers whose goal was the inside of the post office safe. Mrs. Michael, the postmistress, is a very capable woman and a little brandishing of her revolver was suffi cient warning for the marauders. During the month of February the New Castle News statisticians figure I that in the twenty-five issues of the daily approximately 555 miles of pa i per were used, which if rolled out. in I one length, would reach from New (Castle to St. Paul, Minn. That is, if it didn't have to cross any rivers. Mrs. Hiram P. Yeager, of Heading. : claimed that she has a right to have I a front porch extending live feet out ! along her house frontage. Her claim j was sustained in a. superior court de cision, which decision saves from de ! struction 2,000 or more similar porches. A hit of news gleaned from the pro lific columns of a daily contemporary i in another section of the Slate features "Dare-Devil Dick" Murphy, of Haverhill, ] Mass., aged in, who is said to have made a world's record at high diving. With the aid of a sweater, football lieadguard and a pair of red trunks (color significant, of nothing in par -1 ticular) he dived from the top of a jeoal tower 163 feet into the harbor. NOT THE FLASH "Valor strikes only when it is right to strike," says President Wilson. But valor'' must also be ready and able to strike. Paralysis of the army and locomator ataxia of the navy will not I make the "sword flash as if it carried ithe light of heaven upon its blade." It is the cut and thrust of the sword jthat counts, not the flash.—Johnstown Trader. lEtentttg (Efyat fa^or»5 fl i° n tl " m«Ht»ry plans no th* I™. , thf! military committee t ( l,„ house of Con Kress mear Pennsvivn f °f thp National Guard r Die n/th "'S. ,he "Pinion of pet bL ? t9 Capitol who hav i^rr, the effect of such It win nM B6 1 thc Ol 'Kanized millti: the dl«h«L > \ meon 11 halt towar nentflhilT 11 ' K° f 'nfantry res the lnst has been " nder way I "eveial -nrt « year l- b,lt the revival t vears .W tv ea^ izution °f more. Fc aftt»r pi„^)*. r department has hoc fantrv orMniI a H to cut down ir 'iuxllinrv- »t and create inoi ihouih th«! £ ops ; Now u look 3 « Siv l. Kej ? tone State would hav Th« mJh™ VA mil,(iil instead of on. is not fat fr V? r „ d of Pennsylvanl is not far from 11,000 men It is <■> iTthe nr„V ha !, in " ,e nc * five yea. if tne proposed plan crops thrnn^i and men 6 b ® ° Ver L>o . no ° offlcei ana men. No one here will maV any predictions as to what mis , lh ri\ Kh t,lc enactmer noted regiments possib'e. In the last decade or so tli Twelfth, Fourteenth and Fil teonth disappeared from the roll t [he Thc J p reor sanization c the formation of commands to tal< the place of the old Seventh, Eleven! and Seventeenth regiments which di> appeared long ago, would go a lon ways toward increasing the numbc of men which might be needed. Bi no one at the Capitol will talk aboi possibilities. There have been td many schemes proposed In the la fifteen years. Records of the State Treasury wlic V- a ?' as operated in Philadelphia i i< 9o and J (96, brought here in ba rels when the Capitol was moved froi Lancaster over 100 years ago, arc b< ing rearranged and given better sto age places by the auditor general ■ orce. Some of the old vouchers a tract much attention. The cheel were slips of paper, crudely printe about one-fifth the.size of an ordinal check and when returned were paste into the stub where an entry to eo respond had been made. The ba anco was Kept on the back of tl stubs. At noon the other dav in the cil electrician s office at police headqua tors, a crowd of city patrolmen, oil clals ot the department and the new: papermen were waiting for Rox 4 4 just installed at the liarrisburg Pi| and Pipe Bending: Works, to somi (lie noon alarm. At one minute afti twelve a few looked at their watehe smiled and waited. Second by sccon the time went by and at four minuti after, the phone rang and an exclt« voice from one of the fire engii houses in the city asked whether tl alarm had come in. Soon after dozen queries were received. In coi necting up the box with the city ci cuits, the wires were accidental joined to telephone wires, causing tl trouble. One of the signs of Spring whit have been noticed by thousands < Harrisburgers the last week was huge pile of canoes in front of a Ala ket Square sporting goods store. Tl canoes came heavily wrapped in bu lap and were pilcfd twenty feet liifl along the curbstone for several day The canoeists of the city, by the wa are living in hopes that the city coiJ mission will provide some suitab place for housing their boats befoi the liveries at "Hardscrabble" are to] away as part of the general sch4P of beautillcation of that section of tl River Front. In striking contrast to the lon pinched faces of the icemeri are tl radiant countenances of the cit) canoeists, who plan to get an ear start, this Spring. Ordinarily February the Susquehanna is ic bound, at several points, anyhow, at there usually is considerable sno along the watershed. The open wll ter has left the stream comparative clear of Ice and there is small pro ability of it freezing over any moi l-ast Spring the river crawled l around high water mark early in tl season and hung around until .Tun Then it started to fall but the riv was poor for real canoeing until la in the season. "Things, according indications, will be much better tli Spring," said a river lover to-day. • » » Not only the canoeists, but o rivermen were disgusted with tl condition of affairs last year. Tl turbulent, muddy waters made fishii Impossible until late in the seaso There were remarkably few bass at salmon caught. For some reason other the old river was no good evi for duck hunting. The birds flc across-country it seemed and paddl and splashed around in quiet, secludi creeks. * * • This is the season of the townsh supervisors' conventions througlio the State and practically every ol cial of the State Highway Deput ment has been out addressing the meetings or road congresses this wee Chief Clerk Howard Fry is in char of the department and he has be busy receiving delegations. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —F. IT. Moyer, who was formei at Pittsburgh, lias been elected clii eiV&inoer of the Cambria Steel plan —The condition of Edward Bigelow, former State Highway Coi mlssioner, is improving. He w taken ill at the road congress mci ing. —The Rev. Dr. John T. Murpl for years head of Duquesne Univt slty "lias been given the degreo of dt tor of sacred theology by tho Pop< —James H. Maurer, head of t State Federation of labor, Is advoci ins old age pensions. —Justice Martin N. Brubaker, Mt. Joy, has passed his eighty-li: year and has seen seven generatioi | DO YOU KNOW That llarrisburg is a noted cei» tcr for scrap iron? II I STO RIO HARRISBV KG The lirst lines for State street w„ run through a pasture Held west I Capitol Hill. Note the Success Signs Newspaper advertising shows which way the trade Is going. Noto the pages of advertis ing in to-day's Telegraph and vou will sen at a glance that the list of merchants, manufactur ers and other advertisers com prise the most progressive and the in'ist successful business and professional men In our community. Advertising and success go hand in hand. You don't see a concern constantly advertising In the newspapers unless it Is successful. Also, tho houses that make the biggest successes nowadays do so by satisfying and pleasing the public on whom their success is based. And in order to reach the public the most successful busi ness and professional men use newspaper advertising. JOach depends upon the other. Good businessmen and good newspapers. working together, spell success.
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