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WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 29
The year's at the spring!
And Day's at the morn I
The lark's on the wing!
The snail's on the thorn!
God's in His heaven:
All's right with the world.
— BROWNING,
THANKSGIVING!
GIVE thanks unto the I.ord, call
upon Ills name, make known His
deedN among the people."
"Sing unto the Lord, for He hath
done excellent things) this lit known in
all the earth."'
"It Is n good thine: to give thank*
unto the Lord) nnd to sing prnixes unto
Thy name, O Most High.
"To show forth Thy loving kindness
In the morning; and Thy faithfulness
every night."
"Let us come before His presence
with thanksgiving, nnd mnkc n joyful
noise nnto Him with psalms."
"Dollar bills and new gold scarce,"
says a news item heading. We judge
the writer meant scarcer.
H A HI) SCRA BBLF.
OWING to tho illness of City So
licitor Seitz certain legal matters
affecting tho Hardscrabble con
demnation proceedings are in statu
quo, but these are not of such a charac
ter as to seriously delay the final clear
ance of the district in question. There
is nothing to prevent the filing of the
bonds of the city to protect the in
terests of property owners not satisfied
with the awards and begin the removal
of the properties on the river front
between Herr and Calder streets.
Thiy improvement is accepted
throughout the city as one which
Bhould have been made long ago, and
while the rights of all the property
owners must be conserved at every |
step it does not follow that there is
anything in the situation which would
Justify unreasonable delay on the part
of the city.
Our unrivaled river front is an asset
of which every citizen is proud and the
stranger within our gates always goes
away from Harrisburg with a feeling
that there are few cities so blessed in
the matter of picturesque environment.
Everywhere there is the thought that
the river frontage constitutes the best
feature of the city's esthetic values.
Landscape architects distinguished
throughout tho world have been here
and these have told of the splendid
treatment of tho city's river line.
All that is now needed to complete
this work is the proper protection of
the embankment on both sides of the
Susquehanna basin. Especially must
attention be given to tho slope In the
newer sections of the city. This is
one of the things that ought to have
been looked after during the late sum
mer, but whatever the excuse for
• failure to so, it is certain to be
demanded by the people with the
opening of next Spring.
We regret that the postal laws for
bid publication of a letter from a
reader who tells what he thinks of the
farmer who tried to get fifty-five cents
a pound for turkey to-day, but we con
sole ourselves nnd our friend with the
thought that we agree with him. and
we're much obliged to him for saying
it for us, as we hesitate about swear
ing on tho eve of Thanksgiving Day.
FOOTBALL
THANKSGIVING will witness the
ringing down of the curtain on
the 1916 football season, and the
sport-loving American populace will
turn Its attention to other matters.
It was a season in which the
"dopesters" did not have it all their
own way. A number of surprises
upset calculations and overturned the
betting contingent, and all the big
teams suffered at least one decisive
defeat, except Brown.
Last Saturday marked the surging
of the tide of interest in football to
tho high water mark, when 120,000
people, more or less, crowded two
separate stadiums within seventy
miles of each other and either cheered
themselves hoarse with delirious Joy,
as In the case of tho Yale rooters, or
accepted with equanimity the ap
parent Inevitable as did the Ollphant
harassed Navy supporters.
The two football classics, the Army-
Navy and the Yale-llarvard games,
evidence the hold which football has
on the American people. King Base
ball glares with envy. The Roman
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, BAKUBBORO tfSßflll TELEGRAPH! NOVEMBER 29, 1916.
gladiator stuff, which used to he such
a favorite descriptive asset among
football writers, is gone and football
stands on a Arm basis of strong clean
competition, where brains and muscle
share equally In the outcome.
Brown is undisputed champion of
the season. Yale has redeemed her
self. There remains but the Cornell-
Pennsylvania struggle on Franklin
Field Thanksgiving Day. Our best
wishes for a hard-fought battle.
We have not noticed any mention of
the King of Rumania's Thanksgiving
proclamation.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
DO Your Christmas Shopping Early"
is a slogan that has a few days
to run before it becomes an
achronistic, but how many of us are
still in that old rut of indecision as to
what our Christmas purchases shall be.
Wo clench our fists and grit our teeth
and say "To-day I will get some of
these presents out of the way," but the
hour comes and we heed it not. And
the days pass and the Yuletide draws
near and we shiver with apprehension
as the night before Christmas with its
nonstlrring mice is on us and we are
unprepared.
The man of business prides himself
on his systems, his efficiency, his
prompt decisions, etc., etc. But what
becomes of all these boasted charac
teristics when buying Christmas pres
ents is the order of tho day, or night?
What a pleasing conception of pure,
unadulterated bliss it Is to Imagine the
unheard-of event of a man going home
and warming his toes on the fireplace
or the radiator the night before Christ
mas without being called from his
solid comfort to go downtown and
make the neglected purchases. And
think how much it would contribute
to the proper appreciation of tho sea
son by tho hard-working and willing
clerks and shopgirls who so many
years wander wearily home after a
gruelling week of caring for late
shoppers.
There are no two ways to It. Tie a
ribbon around your finger or in your
buttonhole. Do it now!
Oh, stop complaining for a moment
and be glad you're living.
CANADA INCREASING SALES
COMPARING the nine months
ended September, 1916, .with the
samo period for 1915, it is found
that Canada increased her hold on the
American makec in this brief period
35 per cent., or from $119,000,000 to
$161,000,000. The 1916 period records
an increase of $69,000,000 over a simi
lar period in 1913, under the Repub
lican tariff law, farm products and fish
accounting for the bulk of the in
crease.
Naturally our exports to Canada
have increased, but this is due mainly
to the requisitions she has made on us
for war supplies. No one expects them
to keep up indefinitely, but the rapidity
with which Canada is hurling her
goods into our market shows the ne
cessity for a speedy return to the
policy of protection if we have any
sympathy for the American farmer
and fisherman.
No Canadian, however blinded by
his love for gain, could frame an
effective argument as to why the
United States should be obliged to pay
the high Canadian tariff to get its
goods into the Canadian market and
at the samo time open wide the gates
to the free distribution of Canadian
products in the American market.
SCIIWAR AND CIVIC SPIRIT
IT is not often that there comes to
the notice of the Telegraph a
speech so greatly to its liking or
so much in accord with its own con
victions as the address of Charles M.
Schwab before 800 residents of the
two Bethlehems Monday night, urging
the union of the two towns to make
one city. At the risk of tiring its read
ers with too many sermons from the
same text, it presents herewith two
paragraphs from Mr. Schwab's re
marks that apply to Harrisburg as
much as to the Bethlehems and em
body tho true spirit of civic better
ment
♦hMLv,f US set5 et together in our
thoughts and purposes and let us
work together until we can in fact
and in law become so consolidated
into one great civic center. Single
purpose, common sympathy, united
efforts and consolidated activities
mean one city [Bethlehem]. " v,uea
We—myself and associates—are
not endeavoring to force our views
upon you. I want to nee the real
ization of this proposition worthy
of your efforts. I foresee addi
tional cost to our enterprises, as
you probably see additional cost to
yours, but we must sink selfish
,K we do have higher taxes
we will have a better place to live.
lou know that values h"rfl have
Quadrupled, and therefore we can
? r, to '"ake some sacrifices in
the interest of a greater com
munity.—Charles M. Schwab,
Study those last words: "We can
afford to make some sacrifices in the
interest of a greater community."
They sum up the whole history of pub
lic Improvements in Harrisburg. Be
cause the people here, consciously or
unconsciously, decided that way, Har
risburg is what It Is. Unless there is
in tho hearts of its people the will to
sacrifice individual interests and
profits for the good of the whole no
city can become great; with that spirit
predominant there is no enJl to its
possibilities.
Read again the paragraphs quoted.
They are the very essence of public
enterprise.
THE PATROL WAGON AT FIRES
SOME time ago Mayor Meals for
bade the police patrol wagon and
ambulance to respond to fire
alarms—a service it had performed
for years.
On Monday evening a baby was
burned in its cradle.
Kind-hearted firemen rushed it to
the hospital on a bumping, rattling
hose wagon—the only vehicle at their
command.
The baby died on the way.
Isn't it about time for the Mayor to
reconsider that order?
Or is wear and tear on the patrol
wagon more to be considered than
life?
"Villa dead or alive"—Just now very
much allvf
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Representative Edwin R. Cox, of
Philadelphia, sponser for the Brum
baugh child labor bill last session and
chairman of the committer on manu
factures of the House in the last three
sessions, was last night brought out
by the Vare-Brumbaugh-Magee-O'Ncll
forces as their candidate for speaker
of the next House against RichaVd J.
Baldwin, of Delaware county. The
battle was Joined last night after Sen
ator Penrose had come out with a
statement in which he said that he
was for Baldwin to the finish and that
there would be no compromising as in
the organization of the House in 1915
and after State Chairman Crow had
failed to get the Vare brothers to
agree to Baldwin for speaker. The
fight is on. There are 170 members
of the House; who are Republicans and
the administration forces deny that
they have attempted to induce any
men to stay out of the caucus or that
they are behind any contests to un
seat Republican members not of their
way of thinking.
The selection of Cox is believed to
have been agreed upon at the confer
ence held at the Executive Mansion on
Wednesday night by Governor Brum
baugh Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
and Congressman Vare. All parties
to the conference deilared that the
speakership was only "Indirectly" dis
cussed at Philadelphia last night and It
was admitted that it was the theme.
The Governor and the Vares have
a personal antipathy for Baldwin, and
it is believed that to get Mayor Smith
In line they were forced to drop their
idea of taking an up-State man like
Williams of Tioga, or Walter of
Franklin, and to take a Philadelphian.
In order to get the support of the Phil
adelphia Mayor it Is also understood
that an agreement was made that no
"ripper" legislation was to get past the
Governor's desk. Smith has not made
any announcement but the Penrose
people are not counting on him.
—Senator Penrose, who beat the
Vares to their launch of Cox by a dec
laration for Baldwin, said: "Without
having any desire to interfere In any
way with the actions of the Legisla
ture, it is evident to me, from 'nfor
majtion that I have received, that a
large majority of the members favor
Baldwin for speaker.
"As far as I am personally concern
ed, I am very friendly to him. He also
Is the only candidate who up to this
time has announced his candidacy or
who seems to have any large following
in the Legislature. "I believe that he
will be elected speaker of the House of
Representatives from all that I can
learn by a sufficient number of Repub
lican votes to constitute a majority of
the whole Legislature."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
"This statement was made after lie
had been called upon by Republican
State Chairman William E. Crow, who
had previously met Senator Edwin H-
Vare. The Penrose claim is from 110
to 120 Republicans for Baldwin out of
a total of 169 Republican members of
the House entitled to participate in
the Republican caucus. They claim
"at least seventeen" out of the forty
one representatives from this city, con
ceding the full force of the Smith ad
ministration to be back of Representa
tive Cox for speaker. They claim also
nineteen and possibly twenty of the
twenty-four representatives from Alle
gheny county. Delaware and Chester
counties have already gone on record
solidly for Baldwin, and two votes
each from Montgomery and Bucks are
also signed up for "tho pride of
Chadds Ford." While Mayor Smith
yesterday took no stand publicly on
the speakership, the Vare men expect
him to come out for Mr. Cox."
—Mr. Cox's announcement says:
"I am a candidate for election as
speaker of the House. To be the speak
er is a great honor and one of which
any member has the right to be
proud. In the next few days I propose
to make a canvass of every member
elect and to submit for their consider
ation my record in the last four ses
sions of the Legislature during which
I served and I shall ask for their sup
port as speaker on this record. Upon
it I have every confidence that I shall
receive the support of a majority of
the members."
—The Philadelphia Press, which
boosts Cox, says: "Representative Cox
was one of the few Philadelphia mem
bers, who. two years ago, voted for
local option. He fathered the child
labor law as It was placed in his hands
by Governor Brumbaugh and fought
for it until it was enacted. During all
his terms he especially addressed him
self to the enactment of legislation
which would exterminate the money
loan shark. The Cox law has been
sustained by the local courts. He also
supported the Wilson cold storage
law, the workmen's compensation law
and all other humane and progressive
legislation offered during the four'
sessions of which he was a member."
—The outbreak of war over thfe
speakership of the next House will
probably result in the postponement of
appointment of any one to the vacancy
on the Public Service Commission and
tho various other places which are in
the gift of the Governor. It had been
expetted that the eommissionership
would be filled by Thanksgiving Day,
but there has been another sudden
change of plans and the places will
be held open for a while. It is said
that the managership of the State In
surance Fund will also be held open.
One of the men who would be willing
to take it is Paul N. Furman, who is
looking after details of the speaker
ship fight on behalf of the State ad
ministration. Mr. Furman was in
charge of headquarters work for the
Governor's presidential campaign
and has been busy as a nailer for the
last week on the speakership contest.
—The administration forces are
commencing to get busy on people in
>he departments to line up members
from their home districts and it is
probable that there will be some lively
times about the Capitol as the anti-
Baldwin people are the same as those
who went down to disaster in the
Presidential primaries and since that
time there have been a good many ex
pressions of regret that they did not
use the places In their gift to help in
the fight.
—Charles M. Schwab's appeal to
the Bethlehems and the small bor
oughs about them to unite in one big
city is expected to be realized. It will
stimulate enlargements in various
parts of the country.
—Congressman Barchfeld will con
test his defeat in Pittsburgh.
—News of the illness of Edward M.
Bigelow was received with much sur
prise here. A number of congratula
tory telegrams on his appointment as
director of public works went from
here to him yesterday.
—Representative E. R. Cox will
start on an active campaign for the
speakership immediately. He counts
on up-State votes.
—The Philadelphia North American
to-day tears up the activities of the
Philadelphia city committee to get its
debts paid. Any such action on the
part of the Democratic State machine
does not seem to be noticed.
—Tho Philadelphia Record says it
is a fight between Republican factions
that will have much influence on the
Governorship.
Ms of the
Out o' Doors
THANKS FROM ONE
WHO LOVES THE WILD
I thank Thee, Father, Thou hast made
me not too blind
To see Thy face in every flower that
grows,
Nor yet too deaf to hear Thy voice in
every wind!
I thank Thee Thou hast made my
soul not quite so dead
Nor dull, but I can hear Thy Great
Heart's
Presence in the twilight's lull or sun
set's rod!
I thank Thee Thou hast understood BO
well and smiled
So kind upon the hills, the woods, the
streams, and made
So many wondrous spots for those
who love the Wild!
Business Briefs
With the extra dividend of 8 per
cent, as declared by the Atlas Powder
Company the company this year will
pay a total of 25 per cent, to stock
holders.
The council board of the Pennsyl
vania Bankers' Association has se
lected June 7-8 as dates for next year's
convention at Bedford Springs. D. S.
Kloss, of Tyrone, was re-elected secre
tary.
The United Fruit Company for the
year ended September 30 shows sur
plus earnings available for dividends
equal to 24.4 per cent, on the common
stock, compared with 16.1 last year.
Sumner L. Tone, now vice-president
of the Duquesne Light Company and
a former member of the Pennsylvania
Public Service Commission, will suc
ceed James D. Callery, of the Pitts
burgh Railways Company, who has re
signed to become associated with M.
M. McMullen & Co. in the banking
business.
Effective Answer
The 3,000,000 subscribers to the lat
est French war loan offer the most
effective answer to "France is dying!"
Boston Herald.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO
OLD SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN
By Rev. F. F. Holsopple, District Supt. Anti-Saloon League
304 Telegraph Building
ON November 7, 1916, four States,
containing a population of
5,400,166 and an area of 326,112
square miles, outlawed the saloon.
These states contained one-twelfth of
the area of the entire United States
and equal to almost eight times the
area of the state of Pennsylvania.
There are 2,543 counties in the
United States. Through local option
or state-wide prohibition 2,047 of these
counties were dry before November 7,
1916. On November 7 191 countios
were added to this list, leaving only
355 wet counties in the entire nation.
Tho liquor forces of the country are
welcome to whatever comfort that
may bring them.
Michigan voted dry by 75,000 ma
jority. Grand Rapids with a popu
lation of 112,000 in 1910 voted dry
with 3,000 majority. Detroit with
nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants voted
even. Montana went dry by 20,000
majority. Every city in the state ex
cept Butte gave a majority In favor of
prohibition. South Dakota went dry
by 25,000. Not one city in the entire
state voted wet. Nebraska closed her
saloons with 25,000 majority. Utah
elected a governor and legislature
pledged to the immediate enactment
of statutory prohibition a-s soon as the
legislature convenes. Florida elected
a governor and legislature committed
to the same proposition. It Is more
than a possibility that Wyoming will
take similar steps as soon as the legis
lature convenes. Two years ago Seattle
voted wet by 15,000 majority. On No
vember 7 it voted dry by 20,000 when
an attempt was made to weaken the
prohibition law. In Oregon an attempt
to vitiate the prohibition law was de
feated by over 90,000.
In one single day 114 breweries were
voted out of business; 6,528 saloons
followed suit. The progress by years
of the prohibition cause is indicated in
the following table: Maine, 1851;
Kansas, 1880; North Dakota, 1889;
Georgia, 1907; Oklahoma, 1907; Mis
sissippi, 1908; North Carolina, 1908;
Tennessee, 1909; West Virginia, 1912;
Virginia, 1914; Colorado, 1914; Ore
gon, 1914; Washington, 1914; Arizona,
1914; Alabama, 1915; Arkansas, 1915;
lowa, 1915; Idaho, 1915; South Caro
lina, 1915; Michigan, 1916; Montana,
1916; Nebraska, 1916; South Dakota,
1916. To these should be added
Florida, Utah and Wyoming. This
will leave only ten states more to adopt
state-Wide prohibition before three
fourths, the number necessary to
ratify the amendment to the Consti
tution, of all of the states are dry. The
situation in these ten states is as
follows:
Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky,
Texas, New Mexico and Delaware are
practically ready to adopt state-wide
prohibition.
In New Hampshire licenses can be
granted only after an affirmative vote
In each town is taken. This vote is
taken every two years. In 1910 203
towns voted against licenses, 21 towns
voted for licenses. The majority of
tho state against licenses was 7.6C3.
In Vermont a similar law prevails.
Seventeen of the 246 towns have sa-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THANKSGIVING PERFORMANCE
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Much comment Is being passed
about In our city of the kind of show
that is brought here for our apprecia
tion, as is the one the local manage
ment has procured for the National
holiday, Thanksgiving.
As wo realize that it is to our ad
vantage to live in a city as we have,
it is only a course of our duty to it,
to remain here on the day of thanks,
and be in a position to give thanks to
all that are concerned in the manage
ment of our public affairs; and like
wise with all due respect to our man
agers of public places of amusement,
I do believe that it is a means of giv
ing thanks by them to hook a show
of such a caliber that will be ap
preciated by the citizens of Harris
burg that have been their loyal pat
rons in the past, instead of making
it necessary for them to go elsewhere.
From the foregoing statement it is
plainly seen that the objections to the
show that is booked for the National
holiday. Thanksgiving are in a large
majority; I would humbly appeal to
the local management to endeavor to
make a change in the program in
order that we may complete our day
of "thani;s" with the viewing of the
caliber of show that can be fully ap
preciated as a Thanksgiving offering.
A THEATERGOER.
loons and 7 of the 17 towns have an
aggregate of 12 saloons. Delaware
has only 200 saloons in the entire
state and state-wide prohibition is'a
near possibility. Two years ago Cali
fornia gave a wet majority of 170,000.
This year that majority was reduced to
45,000. Seventeen of the 23 counties
of Maryland havu voted dry and Mary
land is approaching the state-wide pro
hibition class. One hundred and six
counties out of 120 in Kentucky are
dry and more than 80 per cent, of her
population live in dry territory.
In Indiana the dry forces won a
notable victory. Two United States
senators who are wet have been re
tired and dry men elected in their
places. Ten wel congressmen were
defeated and ten dry congressmen
elected to replace them. A dry gov
ernor was elected by a strong majority.
Pennsylvania, the supposedly im
pregnable Gibraltar of Diquordom, is
feeling the effect of the temperance
agitation. Five years ago 60,000 of
her people lived in dry territory: to
day 1,500,000 arc in no-license coun
ties. In 1911 there were 700 square
miles of dry territory; to-day there
are 12,300 squares miles of dry terri
tory. From 2 counties in 1911, 11
counties are dry in 1916.
if a resolution to amend the Con
stitution should pass Congress it seems
almost certain that 41 states would
ratify such an amendment within two
years. In 1914 when the constitutional
amendment resolution was before Con
gress only 9 states had voted dry, and
in a number of these the laws had not
yet gone into effect. The measure will
be presented to our present Congress
with the pressure furnished by 27
states that are practically dry and 10
more that are on the verge of taking
the step. More people have already
petitioned "Congress for the passage of
this resolution than for all other
amendments combined. ,In 1914 the
congrcssiortnl delegation from the
state of Indiana voted solidly against
the resolution. On November 7, 1916,
this delegation was sent to the scrap
heap and a delegation of 10 members
committed to the support of the reso
lution was elected in their places.
Should this resolutl'on pass the pres
ent session of Congress or the one fol
lowing. a salonHoss nntton in 1920
bids fair to become a renliiy.
, Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular
for April 25, 191fi, refers <o tbo ap
proaching convention of the Notional
Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association
in Louisville, Kv„ in May, as follows^
"The convention w'll he representa
tive of a trade that is helner hounded
In every precinct, municipality, county
and state, as well as the national capi
tal, by an organization as relentless ns
fate; an organization possessing force,
great numerical strength, unbounded
enthusiasm, and unlimited resources
in money, and in persistent workers—
the Anti-Saloon League."
The Brewers' Year Book of 1915
nnotes from the unpopular Review.
After discussing the remarkable rise
of prohibition sentiment the author
volunteers the remark: "The head
and front of that movement is the
Anti-Saloon League."
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This Is conference time in Harris
burg. It is a sure sign that the legis
lative session is approaching. A few
weeks ago a conference on water con
servation, last week a conference on
industrial welfaro and to-day a confer
ence on stream pollution were held
and hundreds of men interested in
various matters which will be within
the authority of the next Legislature
have been coming here for meetings.
Next month tlio State Grange will have
a conference here and the State Edu
cational Association will gather to dis
cuss legislation and kindred matters.
The announcement is also made that
on January 6 the State Game Commls
sioh wiU meet and have a conference
of men interested in hunting and fish
ing. This conference will probably be
of considerable Importance, as the idea
is to agree upon a general line of
policy for the game and fish bills to be
presented to the next Legislature. For
years a sentiment has been growing up
that there should not be frequent
changes in game laws.
A. W. Erunner, the architect foif
the improvement of the Capitol Parle
and the extension, is now in what ha
calls the "dreaming stage." Mr. Brun
ner left hero the day after his con
ference with the Board of Publio
Grounds and Buildings and has been
sending here every now and then for*
information, maps, data and various
things. He told Superintendent
Rambo that he was going to dream,
out his plans. It took him months
to dream the plans for the wonderful
civic center of Cleveland and the
treatment of Upper New X°rk. The
general opinion is' that Pennsylvania
Is going to get some notable things
from him.
Miss Violet Oakley, who is com
pleting the five paintings for the Sen
ate chamber, has been making a
specialty of studies in Pennsylvania
history for the decorations. There
are four to come which will bring
things down to date and represent the
big events of the last half century.
Just what will be done about decora
tions for the north corridor, which,
the late John W. Alexander was t
execute, has not been settled.
The Post Office these days gives
some signs of the "shopping early"
movement. It is in the form of people
who are buying money orders to send
to folks in other parts of the country
or at home. Some of the money orders
are of pretty good size, too. Tha
foreigners appear to be heavy in
vestors in money orders, but whether
they put them down in their socks or
hide them in mattresses or send them
over the ocean no one can tell. Every
now and then one turns up with a
bale of the blue slips and "cashes in."
The manner in which high prices
for butter are driving people to use o£
oleomargarine is shown by the fact
that there have been 400 applications
for the State's lences for the sale of
the product for the month of Decem
ber alone. This will cover the holi
days. The lotal number of licenses
issued will probably reach 3,200. The
income of the division has gone over
$300,000 for this year, with another
month to go.
Governor Rrumbaugh has developed
a bad habit of being late for lunch.
He works at the Capitol until a few
minutes before meal time and then
hustles for the Mansion. And he gen
erally gets there late. The other day;
he was lute because he stopped to
show some kids how to shoot marbles.
The next day he was late again. This
time it was because he was trying to
show some boys he met in the street
how to throw a curve.
John W. Vickerman, the Bellevua
publisher, who was re-elected to tha
House of Representatives from his dis
trict in Allegheny county, had mora
majority than his opponent had votes
and then some. Mr. Vickerman was
on three tickets, receiving an aggre
gate of 9,322 votes. His opponent got
3,986 votes. Mr. Vickerman's Repub
lican vote alone was 8,796.
A friend who handles considerable
outdoor work and who is much in
terested in Retting as much accom
plished as possible before the snow
flies has kept tabs on the weather in
this section. There have been only
eight days in the last fourteen weeks,
not counting in yesterday or to-day, on
■which outdoor work was not possible.
"Got any turkeys?" asked a Harris
burg man who went out in his auto
mobile to do some forestalling for his
own dinner table and who was deter
mined not to pay the middleman, etc.
He was addressing a farmer.
"Vein" was th-a response.
"Say, what are those over theret
Ain't they turkeys?"
"Yah."
"Well, ain't they for sale?"
"Yah."
"T want "-le."
"Nein. Them's for Christmas. Mail
said he take 'cm all."
•
Dr. Henry S. Drinker, president of
University, named as one of
the members of the committee to draft
legis'n'irt-i on water conservation, ia
one o" the f <r n most conservationists in
the State. He has been studying the
subject for pinny, years and long ago
was an ardent advocate of preservation
of streams.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—The Rev. Walter C. Pugh, Sun.,
bury rector, will stnrt what he calls
a "clinic for drunks."
—-Professor Leo S. Rowe, the Latin
American authority, says that Car*
ranzn will end by crushing Villa.
—E. J. Lynett. the Scranton pub
lisher, is interested in the merger of
Adams county electric concerns.
—Judge Albert Johnson, of thd
Union county courts, will sit in the
trial of the big libel suit of ex-Judge
Reed at BrookviHe.
—Edward M. liigolow, who returns
to the control of public works in Pitts,
burgh, was the creator of the city's
park system.
1 DO YOU KNOW ,
That n dozen State highways con-
verge on Harrlshurg?
HISTORIC HARRISRURC, ...
The old pillory used to stand in the
triangle at Paxton, Race and Vine
streets.
EDITORIAL COMMENT")
With Congress a tie, why not do the
gallant thing and make Jeannette
Rankin Speaker. New York Mora*
ing Telegraph.
Mr. Ford will envy Mr. Wilson's
ability to conduct a peace-party with
out wrecking it. Philadelphia!
North American.
It Is only natural that the cry, "Hal
kept us out of war," should have been
effective on the Pacific Coast. —
Florida Times-Union.
With the election of a Socialist
sheriff in Nevada, Socialism passes
definitely out of the stage of Utopia*
, New York Evening Post. P