10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HSIME Pounded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THK TBLKGRAPH FRIXT»O CO., Telegraph Untitling, Federal Mqiiare. E. J. STACKPOLE. Prest and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STCIINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat ed Dailies. Eastern Qfflce, Has brook. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New em office. Has- C3cs°niitldlng, Chi' - cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harriß burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <DmsE|rMsEt> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Snnm dally eierrcf elreulntlnn for the three niont. * ending April 30, 1018, 22,341 Theae figures are net. All returned ■naold ami damased copies deducted. WKONKSDAY KVKNIXG, MAY 111 It is for chastening that ye endure; 60 (I dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there uliom his father chastencth nott — HEß. 12:7. I>(>\\ \ WITH THK WIHKS CITY COUNCIL doubtless will pass the Lynch ordinance granting permission to the Cumberland ,Valley Telephone Company to lease its tir.dcrground conduits to the Western Vnion Telegraph Company for the purpose of eliminating overhead wire Jines in the heart of the city. The •difference between Market street be fore Ihe removal of the poles and after ward is an example of the desirability of removing all wires possible from the standpoint of the city beautiful. If Ihe city is amply protected In the way of tire and police alarm systems, the contract with the telephone com pany granting the city free use of the conduits, it would be folly to allow the «pare room in Ihe pipes to lie idle ■while the Western I'nion wires are obstructing the downtown streets. t Williamsport Is showing a lot of *'pep" nowadays in boosting that city. Huslness men NCive raised over SIOO,OOO with a view to organizing a realty as sociation for the erection of a large number of houses to provide for a pos sible sudden Increase In the population as provision for a big manufacturing plant about to be located In the metrop olis of the lumber region. It is grati fying to note that the first subscription was made by the Williamsport Sun, a wideawake evening newspaper. THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION ELSEWHERE in this issue a school teacher, writing to the editor, endorses the Telegraph's plea Yor twelve months' pay for teachers. Yesterday there appeared in this, newspaper announcement of the organization of the Pennsylvania League of Education and one of the ntated objects of this association Is the 1 enactment of laws requiring school teachers to l>e paid for the full year, Instead of merely for the teaching .period. The League is made up of ffcusiness and professional men. Both teachers and those in other walks of •life, therefore, have the common [knowledge that to teach requires con stant training and that the schools •would profit immeasurably if teach ers were paid for the vacation period and could give that .time to study and cultural pursuits. If the new League brings this about it will have ■Accomplished a big thing. The need of education, at least for a part of society, has been recognized from time immemorial and has been pro\ ided in a manner consistent with the ideals of every age. There never ■was a more complex age lhan the present. Grave problems confront us. Civilization itself is in the balance. Christianity is put hard to the test. Whatever shall help to solve the ques tions of our age, we are convinced that education must after all lie a primary means. The human mind has in it a world of possibilities, but possibilities must be realized to avail. When these are called forth to consciousness, they ihecome the powers that mold society and achieve its realization. What we now are as a people is due largely to the ideals of Christian education. The Pilgrim I-'athers laid down the proper basis of popular education in the General Court of Massachusetts in li>47, when they set forth the decree: "(hat learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers, in the church and Common wealth, the Lord is assisting our en deavors; it is therefore ordered, that every township in this Jurisdiction, as the Lord hath increased them to tho number of 50 householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, etc." The best is none too good for our | hoys and girls. Two months of train ilng are not too much for ten months ot teaching. Adequate pay is the | ■ li* ii er. WN/RS OF OUR GOVERNMENT f*l |ERHAPS the most serious phase of the commission form of gov ernment which the officials of | Harrlsburg must guard against in the Interest of efficiency and public sup j port is that defect of the new system which detaches the officials In a large ,<UgrM from direct touch with the WEDNESDAY EVENING, people. Under the old and more rep resentative bicameral system of coun cils the citizens of the several wards managed to keep in closer relation with the municipal administration, which is extremely Important to the development of a competent and effi cient conduct of public affairs. Through the various civic bodies, such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Civic Club, the Rotary Club and the. other associations, the Ave com missioners now managing the city are enabled to hear from their con stituents, but even these agencies do not always speak loudly enough upon the subjects which ought to have the consideration of the municipal man ngers. It is doubtless the wish of these five men In authority to know what the public wants, but unless there is a more emphatic expression of the popular will our officials can hardly be expected to understand what is in the public mind. It would be most unfortunate to have the community lose Interest in its own important affairs through any laek , -of communication with the proper administrative authorities. In- deerl, this menace of the commission form of government is giving many thoughtful people pause, and care must be exercised by the officials themselves th.it Ihey do not lose (ouch with the sentiment of the community. Also, there is a tendency when gov ernment Is concentrated in the few to assume an altitude of personal owner ship which is often manifested In a disregard of the expressed will of the pcopie. t>f course, this sort of thing may always be remedied at the suc ceeding election, but many serious lapses tnav occur during the period of waiting which follows any Indifference of an ofiending official. Now and then an arbitrary and in different altitude upon the part of offi cials leads to reaction and a breaking down of civic pride. This is a serious loss to any community and must be regarded with alarm whenever it oc curs Fortunately for Harrisburg there has been little of this sort of thing, but a tendency in this direction is now manifest in the rather trifling attitude of City Council toward the placing of the Hershey statuary. This gift of a $25,000 group, accepted by the city In good faith, was a municipal transaction and Ihe comparatively small amount of money necessary to set up this statuary in some proper plrce should not be permitted to Inter fere with the placing of the group at the coi?t of public ridicule. Some way should be found to carry 0111 Ihe original plan and we believe the City Council should approach Ihe matter In u serious way. HANDING AND THE I'KIMARIKS SAID Senator Harding, addressing an Ohio political club last week. The primary system of to-day is the biggest fraud ever conceived In the name of reformation. I will rejoice when we get back to repre sentative politics. The primary plan was doubtless conceived in good Intentions, as abuses did exdst in the old conven tion system, but whv not correct those abuses In a common sense way? The present primary law Is a delu sion and a snare. There will be some forty-seven marks for each voter to make in Dauphin county elections next week, clerks at the Courthouse who have made tip the ballot say, and just what benefit is to be derived therefrom nobody, even the framers of the statute, decline to say. Some day we are going to do a lot of revising of ballot laws by wiping them all off the books and beginning over with the old-time vest pocket slip. POOL T MILKS AND CHITRCHKS WHETHER placing a pool table in a church or permitting a church society to' establish such an amusement device in its quar ters constitutes a compromise with the devil is the momentous question being considered by a special commit tee of the Preabytery of Syracuse, New York, following a controversy which threatens to disrupt the aristocratic old First Presbyterian Church of Ani boy, that State. Upon the report which the special investigating committee will make hinges the fate of amusement, not only in the Amboy church, but in all the churches of the Syracuse Presbytery. The controversy is due to the recent re vival In that city of Billy Sundhy, who favors the use of men's clubs to bring men into the church. The pastor of the Ain boy church and the chairman of the board of tn stees of the congregation favor pool, billiards, checkers and backgammon as a means to attract, those into the fold who heretofore have wandered "out on the hillside alone," as the re vival hymn has it. Opposed to them are a large number of the congregation. Both are thor oughly in sympathy with the efforts of the pastor to convert the erring ones, but one protesting elder voices the opinions of the opposition when he asserts that "Jesus never advocated the installing 'of a pool room in the church with a devil under the table as the means to draw men and boys into the fold'." All of which is piffle and drivel. Many who do not approve of the methods as a whole of the Rev. Mr. Sunday will agree with him In this. The sainted Dwight L. Moody was as fond of a game of billiards—or pool— a3 anybody, and, it is said, kept a table in his own home. And nobody ever accused Mr. Moody of being in league with the devil. Quite the opposite. Pool 1s of itself as harmless as golf, and as an adjunct to the men's room of a church might be made a very helpful and attractive influence. In stead of getting "all het up" over a little matter like a pool table —which is lawn croquet in a sublimated form— the Syracuse Presbytery might devote a little more time to considering why so many pool parlors are attracting young men who ought to he in the chuivh and who might be there but for the stern and forbidding attitude of those whose business it should be lo | throw as many lures around church affiliation as the social club does about [ its membership. 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —"The English language has only SJ sounds," observes the Ohio State Jour nal, and there are married men who think that is twice the number neces sary. —The way a wren throws an invad ing English sparrow out of its nesting j box is our Idea of the effective pre paredness. —"Some day Woodrow may answer Theodore," says the St. Louis Globe- IJemocrat, but there Isn't a newspaper j In the land that could go through the I mail with Theodore's comeback. | —Driving an automobile Is all very ! well until the automobile begins to drive the driver. —The latest invention is a tonoscope, Ito make singing visible, and If some of it looks as bad as it sounds the tonoscope pictures aren't going to draw many beauty prizes. — EDITORIAL COMMENTI The Carranza government is ar ranging to buy up all of its paper money. They must have heard of the 1 high prices being paid for scrap paper In America.—Nashville Southern Lum berman. Disarmament theorists who depend for defense on those ".1.000 miles of open sea between America and Europe" must find interesting reading In the account of the Russian army's voy age to France. Philadelphia North American. Ford peace leaders will wait a year before submitting their peace plan, their information convincing them that the war will last that long. They're like the Sumter county parson who was asked to pray for rain and wouldn't do it because the wind wasn't in the right direction.—Tampa Tribune. Three-Cent Lunch For five months this winter the Whittier School has been selling to any pupil who wished it a hot, nour ishing luncheon at the noon hour. To start the system an old cook stove was put up in the school kitch en. Eleven tables were arranged by fastening together unfinished boards 12 feet long, and placing them on saw horses. Ten tables, 12x2 feet, sup ported by two or three horses each, were put up. These boards were covered with white oilcloth. The sum of $45.77 was spent for dishes and kettles. Of course the classes in cooking could easily prepare the luncheons, but that would give them no variety in their class work; so it was thought best to hire a cook who should be on hand from hHlf-past eight in the morning until half-past twelve. The cook not only prepares the luncheon but sees that the tables are clean, and that the serving tables are set up. As soon as she has served the hot dish her duties end, AI cleaning up aft er lunch is done by seven children who earn their luncheon in this way. Pour of them—girls—wash and dry the dishes. Three of them—boys— clean the lunch room. The work of cleaning up takes thirty minutes un less over 100 children stay to lunch. How does one know how many to provide for? When the child comes into school in the morning he takes his three cents to his teacher and re ceives from her a -ttn check, stamped with the school letter. This check is his receipt. About 20 minutes aft er the beginning of the session the cook Is told how many checks have been bought, and therefore how many luncheons are to be served. —South- ern Workman. Continental Talk I Boston Post. ] At the meeting in Buenos Aires, re cently there was suggested a method of radio communication between the countries of this hemisphere which has received approval by our State de partment. This, as outlined in the statement made in the United States Senate, seems to have the elements of practicability and efficiency. ft is proposed to divide the territory embraced in the American republics into zones of radio communication, with one control station for each zone, which latter will receive and relay radiograms to destination as may be necessary and in accordance with spe cific regulations drawn up by the com mittee. There will be one main station for the entire hemisphere located as near ly a central position geographically with reference to all the American re publics as may be practicable. The solidarity of this western con tinent has been intimated or advanced by nothing moft directly practical than this project. The Real Reason For a long while we couldn't think why the Irish irreconcilables seized the Dublin postoftlce, but now we see that it was In order to improve the censorship of the mails.—Detroit Jour nal. As Always tPhiladelphia North American] A lot of men who have never raised their voices for preparedness will be the ones to send frantic appeals to their Congressmen asking for protec tion if war comes. 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ] TWRIiVK MONTHS' HAI.AIIY 159 Paxton Street. Harrlsburff, Pa., Alay 8, 1916. To the Editor of the Telegraph: The teachers of liarrisburK appre ciate your editorial of April 18, which advocated twelve months' salary for ! us. The general public needs lo be en lightened in school matters. While Harrisburg teachers are not paid for holidays, we are allowed half-pay for four weeks' sickness, hut In many cities teachers are paid for days of actual teaching only. The report of the Investigation of the Russell Sage Foundation says that Pennsylvania stands thirteenth In the matter of teachers' salaries Mttle wonder that the neighboring States draw off the cream of our profession! According to averages a bricklayer gets twice as much as a school teacher and the trainman more than the col lege professor. Teachers ought to be regarded as salaried men and women, not as day laborers. Three-fourths of the teacher's salary is needed for the necessities of life. What is left for higher culture? When the glad day comes that we get twelve months' pay, then we can afford to seek the culture necessary to our profession at summer schools, in travel, and In all avenues which recu perate our mental and physical energy. In return for all this consideration the public will receive Its recompense In better teaching. Kvery child de serves a happy teacher, and how'can a teacher be happy if she is harassed by thoughts of how to make ends meet and fearing an old age of dependence? Very respectfully yours, Kll/.abeth S. Baker, President of Teachers' Uague of Har risburg. HARRXSBtTRG CfiSfc TELEGRAPH! tK L\%,KQifao,KlcL By thf Ex-Committeeman Representative Stern's charge that Governor Brumbaugh failed to ac count for $5,000 of campaign contri butions in 1914, the announcement that Governor Brumbaugh intended to continue his campaign tour and to denounce the campaign waged against him and the statement that Senator Penrose would make another speech on the issues of the campaign as he sees them on Friday night in Phila delphia. have turned the center of in terest of the primary campaign to Philadelphia again. Pittsburgh has quieted down and from all accounts there will not be as bitter a fight in that county as anticipated and in Lackawanna county It is claimed that the administration will not have much trouble. The Democratic factions are furn ishing as much music as the Repub licans and statements are being made so rapidly by the rivals for the empty leadership that they are getting in each other's way. 1 The Brumbaugh people have appar ently determined to ignore charges made regarding th<B governor's ex pense accounts and that State officials are cutting meetings of commissions and boards and hours at their desks to tour the State or to work for the governpr and his delegates. There ' have been no orders issued at the Cap itol, but the administration nnturally I counts upon the personal loyalty of 'the persons holding office. It is well understood thai highway or other de partment employes who engage in political activity will be "called down." I However, there are a good many peo : pie at the Capitol who are aiding the lirumbaugh campaign managers by in - I formation regarding home conditions !or giving names of persons to whom I campaign matter, letters and the like may be sent, as has been done many I times before. • The Capitol is taking a |l?reat interest in the tight, but the measures used have been less drastic !than expected up to date. | Senator Penrose Is to be followed .on the stump by City Solicitor Con nelly, who will attack the Vare com bination, while Senator McXichol who 'called the Vare-Brumbaugh-Smith I ticket "a mongrel Republican" ticket | is expected to keep at it. Senator Pen rose is going to invade the ward of Harry A. Alackey, chairman of the | Compensation Board and on Saturday to enter the mayor's home district. Senator Vare says that Representa tive Sterm is "a blatheiskite" and that j the charges about the Kolb matter are | untrue. Democratic reorganizers are getting scared about the re-election of State Chairman Morris and are making des perate efforts to get committeemen who will support him. —Philadelphia school authorities are having a time because they refused : to let Mayor Smith have the use of a ' school house for a meeting. —York citizens have formed a f,afean committee and it has been busy up to date raising campaign funds and putting out statements attacking Senator Penrose. —Pittsburgh is having some of the most legislative contests In i years. Some well-known men are fig uring in the battles. , —Friends of Congressman Edgar R. j Kiess say tha< he will win his contest | for Republican renomlnatlon In the ! Fifteenth district. —Efforts to arouse sentiment for | Congressman John R. K. Scott are I being made. The city has been well I supplied with Scott placards. I —Theodore L. Bean, chairman of the -Montgomery County Ambler Cam paign Committee, issued another state ment yesterday just to reassure the Ambler followers. "Charles A. Am- I bier will win the Republican nomi nation for Auditor General," the state meft reads. "From reports which we have received front every county of I the State, Speaker Ambler should be victorious by 115,000 at least, though !it would not surprise us should his I majority reach 150,000. Montgomery, | his native county, will give Ambler > 12,000 majority." While the proposed loan hills in Philadelphia which Mayor Smith is so anxious to have adopted are looming large as one of the issues of the cam paign. it is hardly likely that the Pen rose-McNlchol speakers will attack them very forcibly from the stump. There was a report yesterday that Sen ator Penrose would oppose the loan on the stump, but one of the Senator's chief lieutenants said that he did not believe so. Senator Penrose has al ready gone on record as favoring the carrying out of the transit plan. —After stirring up Ihe animals and making a great deal of excitement about a probe of the campaign expense accounts of the Pennsylvania Pro tective Union, which was active in 1914, United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes abruptly ended mat ters at Pittsburgh until after the pni mat-les. Tt is understood that some of the Democratic leaders have been so busy investigating that they have not had time to look after their fences and have troubles at home. Joseph R. Grundy was not even subpenaed. —ln Philadelphia council yesterday the Philadelphia electric rate case bobbed up and intimation of politics were heard. Chairman Gaffney charged that Councilman Trainer was trying to mak« someone "a goat." —A. Mitchell Palmer made a bitter attack upon the candidacy of Michael l.lebel. Jr., for Democratic national committeeman yesterday. He made the usual charges. —Ellis IJ. Orvls. candidate for United State senatorial nomination on the Democratic ticket against Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, Is making speeches in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court after hearing at Philadelphia yesterday argument on the appeal from the decision of the Dauphin County f'ourt ordering the name of J. Washington to re main on the Republican primary bal lot as a candidate for Congress in the Sixth district sustained the decision of the lower court. Objection against Rogue's name being printed on the Re publican ballot, was filed in the Dau phin County Court by Henry A. Yost. The objection was based on the fact that the persons who made affidavit to the signatures on Tonne's nominating papers being genuine did not know all the signers. The Dauphin County Court dismissed the objection. THK NEW STRAW MI) By Winn niiiEfr Dressed up in my new suit Sunday Went out walking, and soon saw That in bead dress I was faulty— That I should have had a straw Tn place of my old style felt hat; So at onc-s made up my mind That to store I'd on Monday. A new straw sky-piece to find. Did 8s I'd made up my mind to, Monday 1 went to the store; Tried on straw lids, plain and fancy, And from out a score or more Chose one. and coughed up three dollars; Hut that didn't make me wince. What gets me is It's been too cold To wear the dacnurl hat u'ar alnM THE CARTOON OF THE DAY A MAY DAY "STRIKE" —From the X. Y. World. ( THE FAMILY BUDGET By Frederic J. Haskin v ; A FAMILY WHOSE Income was 12,500 a year had never saved a cent. They were not profligate in any sense. They paid a mod erate . rent for a house in the location where they thought it b£st for the two children to grow up, they did not set an elaborate table nor wear costly clothes, but still they lived up to their income—-the money went, and half the time they did not know how. Then, not long ago, one of the chil dren had a bad case of mastoiditis which kept him several weeks in the hospital, and the bills for medical at tention approximated three hundred and fifty dollars. They decided to borrow the sum and pay it back out of their income, so for the first time they drew up a family budget in which they made an inventory of their ex penses. A complete readjustment in household expenditures followed, and they saved the amount of the loan wtthin the year. After that, they got the habit, and put a certain per cent of their income In the local sav ings bank every month. It usually takes some sudden finan cial crisis such as this to teach the Importance of savins, although since the European war there has been a j change in the American attitude to Americanism , t Kansas City Times] "I'm straight United States and nothing else, and that is all any man ought to be in this country." That was Theodore Roosevelt's reply to a suggestion that he should pussyfoot to get the votes of the kind of Americans who are not straight United Slates. It was a reply that will meet the emphatic approval of ninety-nine Americans out of every hundred. That is, of real Americans. If there are those who believe such words should not be spoken, they are not Americans. They merely have a post office address In this country. If there are those who believe they should vote for an American President as Germans or Englishmen or French men, they are not Americans. If they are in America for any other purpose than to live and vote, and if need be, to fight, for the best interests of Am erica, they are not Americans. if there has been any uncertainty about what constitutes an American, if there has been any doubt about the meaning of Americanism, Theodore Roosevelt has cleared up that un certainty and removed that doubt. It Is a way he has when speaking. It is a good American way. Those who are not straight United Slates now know where he stands. To-morrow He was going to be all that a mor tal should be, To-morrow. No one shoud be kinder or braver than he To-morrow. A friend who was troubled, and weary he knew, "Who'd be glad of a lift and who need ed it, too, On him lie would caJl and see what he could do To-morrow. Each morning he stacked up the let ters he'd write To-morrow. And thought of the folks he would fill with delight To-morrow. It was too bad. Indeed, he was busy to-day. And hadn't a minute to slop on his way; More time I will have to give others, he'd say, To-morrow. The greatest of workers this man man would have been To-morrow. The world would have known him had he ever seen To-morrow. But the fact is he died and he faded from view, And all that he left here when living was through Was a mountain of things he intended to do To-morrow. —Edward A. Guest In Detrott Free Press. Tabloid Topics The melting point of aluminum Is i 1,215 degrees Fahrenheit. it Is estimated that there are 170,- ! 000.000 real negroes in the world. | The mocking bird of the south is sometimes encountered as far north as I the Potomac. Forty-eight materials nre used in 1 the construction of a piano which ' come from no fewer than sixteen countries. A million persons assembled in a crowd, with a. due allowance for three square feet to a person would cover lan area nf, ahnllt. seventy acres. MAY 10, 1916. ward thrift. The great men of all the nations have been holding forth on the value of economy, and the words of an American financier have been quoted widely. "If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or failure In life, you can easily find out. Ask yourself but one question: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out of the procession, for the seed of success is not In you." So, thrift has ceased to be Ignom inious but the great trouble lies in the fact that many people don't know how to save. When factories and other business enterprises desire to save more money, they secure the ser vices of an efficiency expert, who points out various places where, there Is unnecessary waste. But the house holder has nothing to guide him but his own common sense. There are many different ways of saving, and what Is successful In one case will not prove so in another. In every household, however, there should be a budget—a simple system of bookkeeping whereby the Income Is distributed into various divisions, in oludlng shelter, food, olothing, oper ating expenses, which comprise heat, light, laundry, etc.; education, amuse- [Continued on Page IS] WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What Is the city gross bonded Indebt edness? Sinking Funds? Net? $1,874,100.00. 195,818.43. $1,578,- 281.57. Women After the War [New York Tribune] War is often pictured by the radicals as a retarder of progress, a destruc tive force that disarranges fine pro grams and seta back the hands of the clock. However you view the merits of the case, one obvious exception is being already noted by observers everywhere. Feminism, in the darkest sense, has received a sudden and utterly unforeseen push ahead as an incident to the great war. The move ment of women Into Industry and to ward economic Independence has raced forward at a reckless pace since the days of Ijiege. For what women are doing in factory and field, for the realization of power which has come to them, and especially for the conse quences to men and women alike after the war, this sudden shift In occupa tion and thought promises to furnish one of the most serious problems of readjustment In the decades to come. Some Dinner! We had some soup made out of turtle, which Is better'n you'd think, to look at a turtle. Afterward was fish I couldn't name. Then there was ducks and potatoes, cooked together so you couldn't tell 'em apart, and considerable other birds with things put on: and alfalfa, with kerosene on It, maybe. After a while comes soft cheese, with strawberries, and yet softer cheese, with little onions cut in it, if you liked that better—l can't remember all them things now or how they come, but we was a couple of hours there and got considerable to eat before we quit.—From "The Man Next. Door," in Saturday Evening Post. I OUR DAILY LAUGH SHE JOLLY WELL DID. J Mary had a lot of cash 'Twas left her by her "faw ther;" And perhaps she didn't cut a dash. Oh my, you TfV know * well, raw tlier! WAR NEWS. His Backer: Why did you let that cheap mAmm < !' prelim. Mc- /£ m if Kid Wallop: B Aw, he had B ffl Jf| the referee for »* Jyv! Stoning (Eljat M. B. Foster, the naturalist, who lives bark In one of the mountain valleys, had many Interesting snake stories to tell to his audience when tie lectured In the Technical High School auditorium the other evening under the auspices of the local Natu ral History society. One of the snake stories that he related is as follows: "A young woman In one of the Wes tern states who had a propensity for chewing gum, was one day walking home over the plains to her home from visiting the town stores. Busy moving her jaw she tripped over a stone. As she fell,she was horrified to see a rattlesnake coiled up in front of her and ready to strike. In falling she dropped her gum which lodged in the mouth of the reptile. The fangs of the snake became tightened from the chewing gum, and prevented the snake from striking. The woman at. once dispatched the snake, and re turning to the town received four dol lars for the skin. In addition to twen ty-five cents for the rattles. A little later, she was seen going home with four dollars and twenty-five cents worth of gum under her arm." Rlr. Foster then proceeded to let a real live rattler with drawn fangs run around the "Tech" rostrum,and more than one present breathed easier when the reptile was replaced in the bag. » • • Lieutenant Derwent Wood, the fam ous English sculptor. Is the son of a former citizen of Harrisburg, who married an English woman and set j tied at Keswick, where the son was born. He has done some remarkable work In providing "masks" for the disfigured soldiers of Great Britain. The most pathetic case of all of these was that of a trooper named Everitt, whose face had been broken by an ex plosive bullet, llis nose had been car ried away almost entirely and his left cheek torn open from his ear to the corner of his mouth. Like most, of these victims of facial disfigurement, he has had to undergo operation after operation. He received his wound on May 13 of last year. Finally he was brought to a London hospital on Sep tember 2, and up to a couple of weeks ago, despite the fact that his wound I had entirely healed and surgery ad mittedly had done alt that It could for him, he remained a sad sight. Be fore the war he was a taxi driver. Xow, made at least presentable by the wonderful "facial mask" which Wood has contrived for him. a mask consisting of the false nose, cheelcand a "mustache" which conceals his in jured Hp. ex-Trooper Everitt is plying his old trade again and doing well at It. "When he saw himself with his mask for the first time," said the sculptor, "he jumped for joy." One of the Interesting things about the present campaign for legislative nominations is that in adjoining coun ties up the Susquehanna river, two first, cousins, named for the same man, are candidates for Mouse nominations. Jesse Beaver Kremer, of Milton. Northumberland county, and Jesse Beaver Gearhart, of Danville, Mon tour, are candidates for Republican honors. Their mothers were sisters, daughters of Jesse Beaver, of Dan ville. a member of the "war legisla ture" of IStil as member from Union county, and a brother of General James A. Beaver, afterwards gover nor. • * • People are so glad that Spring has come that they go out for tennis or golf no matter how high the wind. Yesterday afternoon the courts and links at the country clubs were filled with players and the wind was blow ing a regular gale at the time. Some of the tennis matches were marked by wierd shots and as for those per- I feet drives in golf they described very | peculiar angles. • • • A friend who keeps tabs on the de velopment of city transportation mat ters calls attention to the fact that special rates for children are now being agitated In a number of cities. For Instance the question is raised In Pittsburgh If the Pittsburgh railway system does not have the right to give a reduced rate for schools, while monthly tickets for school children are I being considered on the Mahoning and Shenango system. • » • The new Lebanon armory, which Is being dedicated to-day, is regarded by guardsmen as one of the model armories for a single infantry com pany in this part of the State. The building was started last summer and was held up for a time, but is now complete and ready for service. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —-W. D. Uhler, chief engineer of the State Highway Department, was in charge of highway Improvement in Philadelphia for a time. —William Alexander, new post master of Chambersburg, Is law part ner of Ex-Congressman Thad. M. Mahon. —Ex-Governor S. W. Pennypacker, re-elected head of the Philadelphia historical organization, has held that office, for many years. —Judge C. P. Staples, of Monroe, who was overruled by colleagues who ! favored licenses, says that such action | does not mean that it will be followed In all things. j. I4nn Harris, of Bellefonte, for mer State forestry commissioner, who was here yesterday, is much inter ested in forest fire prevention. 1 DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrisburg river front tniilraont is being copied in half a dozen states? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One hundred years ago Harrisburg had more taverns than it has to-day. f 1 Double Jointed Co operation Mr. Manufacturer: The local dealer has the final word as to whether your goods sell In large or small quantities. You need his co-operation. He does not believe that ad vertising in mediums of "nation al circulation" help htm much, and he does not enthuse over goods so advertised. That's a condition, not a theory. To ar gue about whether he is right or wrong, Is unprofitable. • You need Tils co-operation. If vou advertise in the mer chant's local newspapers you complv with his idea and gain his support.—You get his co-op eration. ro-oppration Is an operation at which more than one must oper ate.—Get that? If you are interested in the new way of Increasing sales, write to the Bureau of Adver tising. American Newspaper Publishers Association, World Building, New York. i V ,/
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