12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. U. J. STACKPOLE. Pris t and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QVS M, STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- A t j;T Ushers' Aasocla- BgggjSr-jUisjji tlon, The Audit Bureau of Clrcu- latlon and Penn f £ll3 U eylvanla Assoclat- Pfc v 3 odi '3l Eastern ofnce. Story, Brooks & l SeSlSe nue Building. New fc iqi S3 BBS If York City; West i ern Story, B y ild^ e ° ple ' s Chi" Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, 13.00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11 Business despatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. — Bulweb-Lttto^. FTBIiI© spikit THE Telegraph's congratulations to the Harrisburg Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Jovian League and the Harrisburg Light and Power Company for their joint efforts in behalf of a Municipal Christmas tree. It is but fair to say that but for their joint enterprise the city, which Inaugurated the Municipal Christmas tree in Central Pennsyl vania, would have been without a tree this year, while many of the smaller towns around about which take ex ample of us would have had their community celebrations. Christmas Is above all else a season of thought for others. Most of us feel that way about It, but even In our giv ing we'are apt to be selfish. We think of our immediate friends and possibly a few people we know who need as sistance, and let it go at that. Too few of us have the community Christ mas spirit. But It Is a good thing that some of us do have It. The community oelebration of any sort makes for a better city and a more contented people. It gives to even the poorest and humblest a share In the Joys of the holidays. It would be a sad day for Harrlsburg If it ceased to observe such occasions. The small boy with Santa Claus thoughts in his mind will frown upon that proposal to make stockings shorter. CimiSTMAS STAMPS WHEN you set aside your Christ mas appropriation, Mr. Harris burger, when you make up your gift list, Mrs. Harrisburger, and when you figure out your selections for relatives and Little Harrisburgers, don't forget to include a certain amount for Red Cross Christmas seals. Within a few weeks another cam paign of Yuletide goodwill and good cheer will have been closed and from all indications previous records for sales will be smashed to smithereens. As ever, the school children of the city and neighboring communities are coming to the fore as salesmen and the possibilities are that the half million mark—the number which Dr. C. R. Phillips and the general Red Cross committee expect to sell—will easily be reached before the dawn of; the Birthday. For several years Harrisburg people have responded generously to the call for enlistments in the great nation wide campaign; each year the sales have been larger. As the years go by the educational end of the crusade Is being driven home more forcibly. Harrlsburg people realize pretty gen erally now that all but twelve and a half per cent, of the proceeds go toward the assistance of the local sufferers of the dreadful "White Plague"—to provide trolley tickets to and from the open-air schools, cloth ing where necessary, carfare to Mont Alto or to Cresson, clothing for the less fortunate folks who must travel the long way. The balance goes to the National Red Cross organization. And as Harrlsburg learns so Har risburg responds. That's why, in the opinion of the general committee, half a million Red Cross Christmas seals ■will be sold in this city and surround ing towns before the advent of 1917. It is Just possible that Hiram John son may not go so far as to vote all the time with the Senate Democrats. IS RESERVE BOARD BOSS? THE activities of the Federal Re serve Board are causing some comment these days, especially among those who recall that the chief complaint and criticism of the cur rency plan worked out by the Aldrich commission was that It provided for too much centralization of financial authority and power. The law as finally passed was shorn of some of this, but it is evident that the reserve board holds that it pos sesses sufficient powers of admonition, at least, to admit of its talking a large share in directing the general opera tions of the banks which compose the federal reserve system. The British government planned to make Use of its treasury bills in this country to finance some of its military purchases and American bankers con templated accepting these obligations, backed as they are by large gold re serves held for the purpose In Cana da, In the same manner as if they were MONDAY EVENING. OHMAW! By Brigg, ) / wa ? t \ OF COOR3e ~1 < PBRHAPa eve Gar ou> ( AIO MEET my WIFC MAN THIMK3 tflS OWN I F"A3HioNei> View/5 Tom V | - 6hf s The Besr I wipe The best in / I But a man s Placc is ] I PAL IN THC World / "^ e BUT NOT / 1 BY H<S wife's sioe - 3HS / I / EVERY MAN HAS a I \ 00 GHTA "Be A PAL- ' ' A T2M '- "a" \ I Right y low TonkSht - I want J f° e " LWTfN-ThßWi A \ J rw To cro.M us V friend op m.ne .n toujo- s— r ( '"N. { I i/JAMTS 7b TALK BOSO4ESI '' 1 VAMTH ' • DONT V^ANTA regulation bills of exchange drawn to cover ordinary commercial transac tions. The reserve board frowned upon this plan and issued a circular warning member banks from tying up their li quid funds in such securities. The board held that the funds of the mem ber banks should be kept In fluid state for the benefit of American enterprise and that they should not be absorbed in foreign treasury bills. The obvious retort of the member banks who contemplated such action was that the operations of the Federal Reserve Bank system in the large fin ancial centers have not yet been of such character as to demonstrate their tremendous value to enterprising Americans, and that tlio system—out side of the South—has caused very few borrowers to procure accommodation at any other place or at any lower rate of Interest than they did before the law went into effect. In addition, many banks, especially in the smallei communities, have seen no inconsider able percentage of their assets tied up in their investment in the stock of the regional reserve banks, from which they have received practically no benefit. They probably thought. In addition, that the opinions of the re serve board have no binding author ity. On the face of It, trading In the treasury bills of the British govern ment looked to be safe and remuner ative. But the British government promptly ended the discussion and the agitation by withdrawing the bills from the market; though the,pro priety of the reserve board's action and the manner in which its warning was issued still remain the subject of comment. When peace is Anally negotiated Belgium will have to rely again on an other "scrap of paper." GOLD INCREASES SPEAKING in round numbers, the money In actual circulation in the United States a year ago was a little less than S3B per capita and now is about $42 per capita, an increase of about $4 per capita, or a little more than 10 per cent. Of gold coin alone there was an Increase from about $5 per capita to SC.SO per capita, or 30 per cent. This great Increase in gold in circu lation has been due to shipments of gold to this country by the nations at war- to pay for supplies. Increased gold means vastly greater increases In credit and a business situation which many people call inflation. It is a condition brought on by the war and It will last as long as the war continues. Broadway, as the police of New York Bay, may be free from pickpockets, but have the police looked inside some of the places of business as well as on the sidewalks? Another inventor announces the dis covery of an "absolutely punctureless tire," but what we would like to have somebody Invent Is a gasolineless auto mobile. William Jennings Bryan says the Democratic party will "make war on liquor;" and he might have added that many, many Democrats already are en gaged in putting down liquor. "Danes Face Food Shortage." News paper headline. But at that Denmark has nothing very much on us Ameri cans. Do you remember the time when there was no greater Joy In the whole world than one of those large, yellow clear toys? Lloyd George promises that the new English war cabinet shall be "little, but oh, my!" Now that we have found Oliver Os borne there may still be some hope of discovering Charley Ross. The forecasters predict a white Christmas, but what we are far more Interested in Is a green pocketbook. The munition factories are becoming almost as deadly as the munitions they make. T>cotcC4 OV j By the Kx-Committee man Return of Governor Brumbaugh to the State Capitol to-day is expected by administration people to be followed by a series of conferences on the speakership contest and the State Executive will be urged to a more vigorous effort In behalf of Represen tative Edwin R. Cox. It Is understood that several of the administration leaders will counsel radical action even bo far as to demand changes in personnel of departments if attaches can not Induce their home members to swing in for the South Philadel phian. Governor Brumbaugh was assured a few days before Thanksgiving Day that Representative Richard J. Bald win could not be nominated for speaker of the House. It was also intimated that all that was needed to solidify the elements opposed to Baldwin was a declaration by the Governor in favor of Cox, who had been agreed upon a few evenings before. The statement was issued and the Governor left for North Carolina, believing everything was as lovely as represented to him. It was found that reports of some of the "pickets" were unreliable and on top of discovery that men claimed were the other way came the an nouncement of his candidacy by Rep resentative George W. Williams, of Tioga, the local option leader, and the man who carried the Governor's ban ner in the local option fight of 1915. It is also intimated that Mr. Cox did not find things as lovely as had been represented to him either. In the next few days State adminis tration leaders will tell the Governor, what they think about it and Private Secretary Ball, who has been most ac tive in behalf of Cox, will inform him of what he has found out. The Gov ernor will then be asked to determine whether he wants to make a relentless tight with all its possible consequences in the session or whether he will so campaign in behalf of Cox as not to arouse any new antagonisms. —The Baldwin people have an nounced that the two Lebanon coun ty members have signed a statement declaring for the man from Chadds Ford for speaker, and intimate that there will be more. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer there are twen ty legislators in the anthracite field for Baldwin. They include five in Luzerne county, five in Lackawanna, three from Northumberland, four in Schuylkill, one in Wayne and one in Carbon with the upper end member from Dauphin. —Friends of Edwin R. Cox declare that he made a dent in the Baldwin strength in Western Pennsylvania by his visits to Allegheny county and that he will turn up with members from the big steel county who have been counted for the Delaware man. On the other hand the Baldwin people say that Cox's visit to Allegheny county was the worst thing he could do as It brought out the men who are be hind him and their combined efforts did not gain him anything. —Democrats in this State are get ting somewhat apprehensive about William Jennings Bryan. There is a plan made to capture the Pennsyl vania governorship in 1918 when the national administration will throw all of Its influence into the fight for its slate. With the peculiar attitude of the President toward prohibition and local option in the campaign just end ed there are fears that Bryan may set out to make fences for himself by backing some slate of his own in Pennsylvania. Bryan Is popular with the rank and file of the Democrats in the State and if he starts to buck Wil son and Wilson's choice there will be merry doings. —The Democratic State windmill is being kept open and ready for emergencies. It Is the plan to have the Democratic members of the House caucus in the headquarters and noth ing will be said about local option if it hurts any member's feelings. The attitude of recent candidates on the subject will not be referred to out of consideration to them and deference to the President. A Great Hotel Man [Prom the New York Sun.] George C. Qoldt was the greatest hotel man of his time because he un derstood the Innocent weakness of mankind, because no fault was too "mail for his attention and because he worked hard. It has been said of him that he would have made a great Mayor or Governor. It is better to record his actual accomplishment, the rescue of an important but neglected bus!nas from the slough of ineffici ency. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I EDITORIAL COMMENT! In future elections, why not let Cali fornia decide all by herself, to save wear and tear on the other States? Philadelphia North American. Broadway objects to the "saving-day light" plan on the ground that we have too much daylight already.—New York Morning Telegraph. Champ Clark's idea that a country can keep out of war by attending to its own business would cause a Bel ?:ian to smile sadly and mockingly. So ar as nations are concerned it does not take two to make a quarrel—only one.—New York Sun. Morals and Magazines [The Fourth Estate.] Certain magazines were roundly de nounced for the character of the mat ter they publish in last week's meet ing of the Illinois Federation of Wo man's Clubs. The speaker's subject was "The Problem of Reading for the Adolescent Girl." Two magazines were singled out for special condemnation and one of them was dubbed "the un speakable." It is not strange people are begin ning to protest against this type, says the Chicago Herald commenting on the Incident, as there has been a striking deterioration in the character of maga zines during the last few years. The honorable exceptions emphasize wbat might be regarded as the general rule. They likewise furnish a standard of taste by which the fall of the maga zines denounced may be measured • • • Once the monthly magazine was the familiar friend of the family— even deemed worthy of preservation In binding. No father or mother hesi ' tated to leave it on the table for the young girl to read. It was read carefully from cover to cover because it was felt that the conto"!* were all worth while. To-day It is often bought for a sin gle story or a single name and lightly thrown aside. The newspaper is read more care fully than most of them. Tho magazine has fallen and one somehow thinks of the Mann act in connection with the kind denounced at the Woman's Federation. Thrift to Rule Our grandfathers discovered a country of "inexhaustible" wealth. The prairies upon which their cattle could graze were "limitless." Tho stretches of land upon which grain might be raised were "endless." The forests, the coal lands, the great reservoirs of oil and gas were without hounds. So we grew wealthy—and wasteful. The plea for conservation has been heard for several years. Perhaps it is not too late to be effec tive. This "inexhaustible" wealth of nat ural resources has had its influence upon our national character. Our governments have been wasteful. Our workmen have paid little attention to preventable sickness, to the the economies practiced in foreign coun tries. We haven't been shiftless, but we have been thriftless. Tho Italian who has come to this country and become wealthy, the Jew who left Russia in poverty and ac quired a banking business, the Jap anese, who became rich on a little garden patch in California, serve as lessons of what we might have done if we had the saving instinct. There will be more thrift In Europe when the war is over. Every interest •will be subservient to thrift. Govern ments will take a hand in it, teaching the public ways and means of living without waste. In a greater field they will conserve their natural wealth, watching over water power and coal lands and agricultural projects lest there be waste. Intensive methods of manufacture and of selling manufac tured products will be put into opera tion. Scientists will be called in to advise government and people how to make every resource and every penny count. If Americans, while this is going on, do not reverse the present method of living for the day only, of spending lavishly merely because they have the wherewithal, the wealth which has been piled up in this country will slowly but surely gravitate to the other continent. This is not a plea for hoarding. It is a plea for invest ment and conservation of all re sources—human and natural. —From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Post-Standard. Santa Shops Early Santa Claus, old jolly fellow. In the autumn rich and mellow, Strikes out early for his toys; Christmas gifts for girls and boys, He don't wait till bleak December, But gets busy In November, For lie has a sense of pity For the clerks in town and city Who detest the Christmas season 'Cause some people won't use reason; So he smiles and counts his money And while days are bright and sunny Santa stores each toy and treasure And the shop girls beam with pleas ure. Not a whit fatigued or surly; Do your Christmas shopping early. MARTHA J. OPIE. Wllliamstown, Pa, HOW GUARDSMEN TALK ON , BORDER; MANY STRANG TERMS | L J BRING on the chow; only don't give me any slum," one guards man told his mother on the night I of his return from the Mexican bor der. His mother naturally demanded a translation, says William M. Tugman, in the Providence Journal. "Why, chow is the army term for anything good to eat." the guardsman explained. "Slum means soup. I niig-ht say, 'Bring on the eats, only don't give me any soup.' That would be perfectly plain." Many of the guardsmen have come home from the border with an en riched and picturesque vocabulary. Part of it is regular army slang; part of it is mongrel Spanish; it has some- I times shocked and sometimes amused I the home folks. i Most of the army slang relates to chow. That Is almost the most im portant subject of conversation in the army, anyway. But the faltering Spanish phrases are an embellishment. "Please pass me the blood," a re turned guardsman is apt to say, point ing to the catsup. I "Gracias," he will say when his wish has been fullllled. Hardly any one on the border says "Thank you." It, is "gracias," and "gracias" It will be with the guardsman for a long time to come. Nearly every one, even those not connected with the army, knows that "corned Willie" is canned corned beef. The returned guardsmen hope they may never see it again. I Some people are going to be sur | prised, however, when they hear guardsmen referring to "ole Bill." "Ole Bill" is not a departed comrade, merely "corned Willie" under another alias. Returned guardsmen say they have sworn off drinking "blackleg." "Black leg" is strong drink, not alcoholic, however, simply the powerful black coffee served In the army to wash down the "Willie." Beans are apt to be called "bullets" or 'berries" in the army, according to their condition. Hot cereals may be called "bran" or oats." Potatoes, of course, are "spuds" or "Murphies." All other vegetables are "greens." There is a Tittle song which the men sing to the notes of the mess call, a complaint more often made in fun than in earnest. It goes; Soupy, soupy, soupy, Without e'er a bean; Porky, porky, porky. Without any lean. Coffee, coffee, coffee. The worst you ever seen. The ungrammatical conclusion of the verse is conscientious. Grammar Isn't popular in the ranks of the army, and some of the Rhode Island men will have to practice to regain their old time correctness of speech. Army men have borrowed from the circus in calling their mess halls the ..£.5 t .? p ' Mess kits are called China, ana that is a real touch of 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" STILL. A BOOZE STATE To the Editor of the Telegraph: It seema strange that Pennsylvania, the great Keystone State of the Union, which was foremost in the struggle for American Independence and foremost in the effort to emancipate the slave, should be one of the three "booze" States of the land, sharing with New Jersey and Nevada the infamy of being still given over to liquor rule. May the day be hastened when our otherwise noble Commonwealth will take its place with tlie devoted sisterhood of States which are working for a liner type of manhood, a safer world of business, and a purer, happier home! Christian men and patriotic men should unite with commercial interests to do away with a business that besmirches our lawmak ers, nils our Jails and almshouses, breaks the hearts of wives and motn ers, debauches our youth, sends inno cent children to want and dishonor, and leaves behind it everywhere the serp ent's trail. At the recent election, the liquor traffic received overwhelming condem nation. Twenty-four of our States are now In the "dry" column; thirteen have local option, with less than half their territory without saloons; and eight have local option, with more than half their territory without saloons. Sixty per cent, of the*people of our country, and 85 per cent, of the area, are now within "dry" territory. The Rev. Dr. C. F. Swift, State Super intendent of the Pennsylvania Anti- Saloon League, recently said: "Never in the history of this great movement have the temperance people had greater reason for rejoicing than now. Or equal ly (Treat importance, and possibly more so, is the decided expression of a large number of the other Prohibition States reafllrming their action in refusing to vote to enact any other form proposed by the liquor people to change to any method of restriction of the liquor traf fic other than Prohibition. Pennsylva nia is ready for and will fall Into line under the new watchword and slogan, 'On to Washington for National Con stitutional Prohibition.'" It is a Joy to know that not only booze dealers, but politicians also are now being put on the defensive. In the recent election, neither of the dominant parties would adopt a prohibition plank Four years hence, however, a far dif ferent condition will prevail, and the party tbat does not realize the vast im portance of reckoning with prohibition Eentlment will by that very act sur render all hopes of having Its Presi dential candidate elected. AUjAN SUTHERLAND. I DECEMBER 11,1916. humor. The mess sergeant Is some timed called "the mesp," and that, perhaps, Is an unfair and deceptive abbreviation. Finally, of all the slang pertaining to chow, there is the "galloping gou lash," otherwise known as "cooks mounted," or the "kitchen chariot." The worst thing about the "galloping goulash" is that its chief production is "slops," thin soup not considered worthy to be called "slum." Some of the strangest language in the army is heard 011 the picket line. Horses are frequently called "goats" or "sheep." Occasionally there is a "camel," a "giraffe" or a "juggernaut." Tile term "outlaw" for a wild horse is not unusual, although the name "corrahu," common in Battery A, is. Automobile and horse terms have become crossed in some mysterious manner. The owner driver speaks of putting a "shoe" on his machine. In the army the horseshoer puts "tires" on the mules. Long before the Rhode Island militiamen went to the border, a captain was "the old man" or "the skipper." They have picked up other names for officers on the border. , A lieutenant Just out of West Point is a "shave-tail," because he has Just changed his long cadet coat for the service uniform. A general is a "big chief. ' A colonel Is an "eagle," be cause of his insignia. Other officers Ket any nicknames that come handy. Kven the non-coms have special names. The first seargeant Is always the "top." Any sergeant is a "sarge and any corporal a "corp." Signal men are known as "boobs with flags." Infantrymen are always "dough boys," and this term has never been sufficiently explained. One theory is that the Infantrymen wrap their feet in fresh dough when they are swelled from long marching. A man who has served on the bor der will probably not say cavalry soon again. In the ranks of the army cav alry is always "calvary." It Is bad form to call It anything else in en listed men a circles. One term which the Rhode Island guardsmen picked up on the border is the Spanish "abarrotes" for groceiies. Un the trip home, wherever a stop was n L ade ; , a general store was always hail ed with a shout "Abarrotes." "Ciudad," the Spanish for city, is another word adopted by many of the men. Likewise there is "toros" for bull and sometimes for beef. "Adios" is the word used by most of the guardsmen in saying good-by to any one. * As long as the border service is re membered mud of any kind will be dobe to the militiamen. Adobe mud is really peculiar to the border coun try and Mexico, but, nevertheless, all mud is dobe. l , he L s tr an Kest habit of speech formed by the Rhode Island guardsmen on the border was calling home_. That, however, is a habit already forgotten. I OUR DAILY LAUGH f PUZZLED. Giraffe: Now what was It I was to remem ber when 1 tied this knot In my Statistics show that married **JuEuj,m men live longer ' will 'j than single ones. ffiw!) lerves th*m mT AN OBSOLETE JI Tlmea Hay* changed, j IH, Yes, I don't / J believe you'll \ M ever hear linjr °' t ' le young stfrs growing up Juir Y% wishing for th kind of pie their mother's used to mak*. * " "Tls, Indeed, a sanitary age." "How now ?" "I notice that the electrician who Installed our phone never touched the wires with his bare hands. He wore rubber gloves."—Kansas City Journal. iEbpntng (Eljat Pennsylvania Is Just now expert* encing one of those periodical cam. paigns in behalf of individuals sen tenced to pay the extreme penalty of the law as recognized from the days of the Tower of Babel and the office of the State Board of Pardons is re ceiving pleas for mercy for lads of seventeen and eighteen convicted of parricide. The strenuous nature of the efforts calls to mind the fact that every year for the last fifteen there has been some big caso in which the clemency placed within the control of the State Hoard of Pardons by the Constitution has been sought by news papers, committees, individuals and, even communities. The natural senti.i ment of people against capital punish ment and especially against sending to death women or boys has been In voked, adroitly at times, but always with vigor. The case of Kate Edwards, of Berks county, sentenced to death and refused commutation and pardon time and again, set a precedent in I ennsylvania against capital punish ment for women. Governors refused to sign her death warrant and the pub lic did not object. Ultimately she was pardoned and passed into oblivion. So othe / women who stood In the snadow of the extreme penalty. The present Board of Pardons has taken a j' a ' ,d against campaigns such as have been launched In the last month for lad= mU ation of y° un men - mere nnn t Z.- lO f e c ? ses have already been FW ' decided against them. h™L Stances in the history of the DO?tunftv m ? are , with the "me and op fon .n l {\'. Ven ln tho March-Pen ning f " sntJ5 nt J Blgeso cases, in which the ard declined to interfere Youth retardation tr ? n^f r mlnfls ' ,nt oxlcatlon; ties nsanuv k °, f CUrly opportuni- m Pulse °f the moment. been rnorto Ki a . other Plw have Deen made by eminent counsel and vet whereTt w deC " l ned to lnterf re except where it was shown that matters had th nt's S wl C | e i, the trial or where those withw! . v V hich can not be considered within the rules of evidence or some ?vn a ? ?u. ry colu,i,lon was found. It wof J- is P ,lr P<>se that the board nas constituted, as is to be found in the memoirs of those who sat in the constitutional convention. Time and again people of counties have been worked up by sentimental waves and •! n iS olne cases they have come here Vith matter which gave a new phase, but too often with only those things which were threshed out at trials and which when winnowed by the board were found to be based upon the hope of mercy. • ♦ • Successive State officials who have sat upon the State Board of Pardons have told me that it is the hardest form of service for the Commonwealth and I know one man who used to dread the coming of the third Wednes day of each month, the date of the sitting of the board. Another told me that it was only a sense of duty that kept him from getting sick sometimes when the board was scheduled to meet. The late Robert S. Murphy, Lieuten ant-Governor under Edwin S. Stuart, who, like, John C. Bell, Attorney Gen eral under John K. Tener, had "been a district attorney, once said that it re quired all his brains and training to keep the legal aspects of a case in their proper place and all his sand to avoid giving way to pleas for mercy in many cases. Most of the men who have sat upon the board in the last decade have been personally opposed to capital punishment and the idea of it is positively repugnant to two mem bers of the present board by their own statements. * • * One of the odd things about cam paigns for extension of clemency to persons convicted of murder is that they seldom lead to moves to abolish capital punishment. Of all the recent cases in which unusual efforts wera made to secure recommendations ol mercy I recall only one which led to anything like an attempt to get the Legislature to change the law. Cases which have stirred up the whole state brought expressions of regret or grati fication. according to the way the case went, and ended there. Bills foi abolition of capital punishment have turned up in the Legislature and nevei gotten out of committee. It took years of energetic propaganda to get th< electrocution law passed. One session a bill giving juries the right to saj whether a person should die or suffei life imprisonment for murder attracted little or no comment and was vetoed Since the last General Assembly mel there have been some big cases sub mitted to the board. It will be in teresting to see what turns up ln the Legislature and how any propositions are backed. In another instance some printed matter regarding blankets came to u friend and he brought it around tc show. In this envelope were the cata log of the blanket manufacturing firm, a circular about a gas engine mada in the same town and a slip sheet with n boost for some kind of breakfast food, The card of a lumber association was enclosed. Harrinburg may be the heart of distribution, but it has something to learn about co-operative mailing. • * * Glfford Pinchot, who speaks to-nighl before the members of the Engineer! Society on the conservation measures now before Congress, plans to paj some visits to liarrisburg during tlx coming legislative session. Mr. Pinchol has been carefully following up th legislation proposed in this state rela tive to water power and forest con servation and has been visiting sonu of the districts. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Congressman G. W. Edmonds, ol Philadelphia, who is active in fooc embargo legislation, got first-hand in. formation for his bill in Philadelphlt and by inquiries throughout the state. —Major-General C. M. Clement commander of the Pennsylvania troops on the border, has been In the Na tional Guard since It started under th< reorganization. —James M. Beck, president of th< Pennsylvania Society at New York used to be active In the PhlladelphU courts. Highway Commissioner Frank B Black spends his spare time on hli model farm In Somerset county. | DO YOU KNOW ~") That liarrisburg is sending ma chinery to Japan? HISTORIC HAimiSIWRG Harrlsburg's first manufacturing ven ture was wrought fron nails It begai about. 1786. Shutting Door to Drinker [Kansas City Star.] The opportunities for the man whi drinks are narrowing ull the time. Th railroads won't have lilni. The shop the factory, the stor do not want him and now the drinking policeman am fireman must go. The mayor and clt] council of Joplin, Mo., decreed thl week that city firemen and policemei who take even one drink, on or of duty, shall be discharged. The head of the Chicago police department hav just announced that the man who doe not drink will be given the preferenc over the man who does. James Couz ens, millionaire Detroft police commit sioner announces: "Applicants for Job must not drink." Booze Is on its last legs.
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