18 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE lIOMB Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBLEGIIAPH PRINTING CO.. I Telegraph Untitling, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief 6'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. aUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American llshers' Associa tion. The Audit Bureau of Circu- Septylation and Penn sylvanla Associat- I Eastern office, Sjlj § jjSjg SM Flnley, Fifth Ave- KSjSiSSiSB nue Building. New ern o'fi ce ; B y iid^ eople ' s Ch" 3 cago. 111.' fcntered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. IS Xo one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. — DICKENS. PLANNING COMMISION WORK THE sale of the old Heister prop erty and the announcement that this famous fruit farm is to be broken up into building lots emphasizes tho importance of_the City Planning Commission's recent work in tho district lying between the north ern city line and the Rockville moun tains. It would be little less than criminal to ruin this desirable piece of property by dividing It up into town lots that will encourage cheap and crowded building. The district, and particularly that portion lying along the river, is very desirable for residential purposes both from the standpoint of public pride and private Interest. The law fortunately provides that In case the Planning Commission disap proves of any plan or part of a plan submitted for approval it may make its own plotting survey and submit It to the owners or promoters. This gives ample opportunity both to safeguard the Interests of the public and to reach a satisfactory understanding on both sides. The seventeen-year-old locust is due again next year, but the San Jose scale we have always with us. IS AMERICA SLIPPING? IN this day of the whirring aeroplane and the cirgaret-smoking society 'girl, the evidence is everywhere present that "the old order changeth!'* America Is In a transitional period whence she will emerge In years to come for better or for worse. The na tion to-day Is becoming efficiency mad, system .crazy, pleasure wild, and the need Is great for wise counsellors and calm, far-seeing minds, lest we come out, as a nation, from the shadow of the present world conflict Into sad disillusionment rather than a great fu ture. A somewhat lugubrious prospect, It may be said. Perhaps so, but is it not! true that there is something lacking In present-day life to that full-grown Americanism which In this age is mixed •with a heavy dash of Mammonism ? j America Is personified Into the figure of the Almighty Dollar In the minds of foreign nations. They cannot ac- i cuse us of heartlessness. to be sure, 1 In the face of our kindness to the Belgians and Armenians, but, we do not want to become soulless, either. Closely allied with the outcome of the European struggle Is the welfare of America, commercially and spirit ually. From among the many issues quoted as having caused the war, one great fact now stands forth; the strug gle Is a battle for supremacy between the Democratic Ideal, the rule of the people, Hhe fostering of individualism on one side, and the Teutonic concep tion of the sovereignty of the State, the suppression of the Individual to governmental efficiency In tho hands of a few, and the über-alles quality of the German Kultur. Tho history and traditions of Amer ica bind us Inseparably on the side of the former. And if the democratic Ideal Is worth anything, it is worth cherishing. One way to do this Is to render our shores Impregnable to for eign cttack and to place our armed forces on an equality with those na tions with whom war Is possible. America Is no more Immune from the scourge of conflict than has been any other country. Ought we not to In still, then, In the minds and hearts of our youth, the high Ideals of citlzen •hlp and patriotic devotion to our country's honor that Is so essential to the future maintenance of our coun try's Integrity before the world? Grant this; are we then giving thought to the best Interests of her hoys and girls, her young men and young women, or are our own thoughts and actions tending to place the all-gllstenlng glamor of the dollar flrrt In their thoughts? We are living In an age of apparent prosperity, when money comes easily and goes even more easily—wo Re mand more luxury, more pleasures, with the result that greater superfi ciality exists in our customs aad habits and we slowly undermine the virile fiber of our national life to the extent that we become blinded to the better tnlngs. In the mad rush of business, altruism does not play the part It should. The world, of course, Is up side down, and America has a strong part to play in helping to right It. Our future depends on each individual man, woman and child, and If we are to continue to stand for "life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness," *nd to maintain our dominant world J 'f | iP | "^PP^PP4|HPIBP r ' ' 4 ,' r " FRIDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG sf§§l& TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 15, 1916. Influence, it behoovee us to awake from the satisfied state of security Into which we have been lulled by a tempo rary shifting' of tho scales In our favo^. It Is to b© hoped that Confess will act wisely at Its next session with a view to working- out some adequate method of military training and pat riotic education of our youth, main taining tho proper balance between an over-zealous tendency toward mili tarism and an under-courageous wil lingness to look the facts squarely in the face with respect to our still woeful unpreparedness. It Is suspected that the Kaiser is be ginning to find that the best kind of a trench Is that made by a plow. 'EFFECTOFFOOD BOYCOTT FOOD prices on the Harrlsburg markets declined sharply the past week. This Is remarkable because usually just before Christmas increased demand and willingness of people to buy at any figure have com bined to cause advances in many lines. Unquestionably the quiet but very ef fective boycott which Harrlsburg mar ket patrons began just before the Thanksgiving season Is having its ef fect. | The federal government has thrown up its hands and confesses its inability —rather, Its unwillingness—to attempt criminal prosecutions, just as every body familiar with the department of justice as at present organized could have forecasted from tho beginning, so that the only weapon remaining at j the hand of the housewife is her own j decision not to buy any food that ap pears to her to be higher than condi tions justify. How well the local boycott works when applied In that manner is shown by the fact that turkeys will be cheaper at Christmas than at Thanksgiving, because hundreds of Harrisburgers; who ordinarily dined on a holiday dish ; of roast turkey declined to be held up by dealers Intent upon wresting the last penny from their patrons. Just so long as sellers of foodstuffs i —and this includes producers. Jobbers, 1 j wholesalers and retailers —think the I public will stand for top-notch prices; ! | Just so long will top-notch prices pre -1 vail. It Is only natural, perhaps, to i sell at the highest possible market figure. But when the food merchants I find demand falling off and their pat rons refusing to buy, Just as naturally there Is a readjustment of prices, of j course within the limits of the law of ! natural supply and demand, which, by the way, has very little to do -with recent efforts to make the consumer: pay unreasonable profits. ! FARMER AND CONSUMER | THE Grangers In session in Phlla- ' delphla this week discussed at I j • length plans to eliminate the j j middle man by bringing the farmer I and the consumer into direct contact. ' Produce direct from the farm to the i household unquestionably would tend I : to improve the quality and lessen the | cost, while yielding higher profits to j the farmer. But before that can be j accomplished the Grangers must learn I how to market their wares. Salesmanship and deliveries, which*j make city business on its present! scale possible, are largely unknown i to the farmer. The getting of fruits, j vegetables, meats and dairy products j from the farm to the city Is the big j factor In price regulation. Thousands of barrels of orchard and garden crops go to Waste every year In districts iso lated from the railroads that would bring fair prices In town. The great problem Is how to get them there. Perhaps good roads, motor trucks and trolley lines may some day bring about the desired result. But until some such developments come about and the farmer learns how to sell di rect, there Is little chance that the middle man will be displaced, even by the parcel post. Where's that scoundrel who has been complaining that there are no longer any "old-fashioned winters?" TRUE DEMOCRACY TRUE Jeftersonlan Democracy, of the Wiisonian strain, put over another one at Washington this week that will make voters wonder how many more salaries are to be tacked on to the already over-burden ed governmental expenses. Each Con gressman, It Is proposed, shall have an employe at a wage of $75 a month —this In addition to the regular sec retary. Here we have a fine Job for the youngest son, or the poor cousin, or the aged grandfather, or the broken down uncle. It Is a wise piece of legislation from the standpoint of the Congressman with a largo number of dependents on his hands, or who is In Congress not so much for what he can put Into his Job as for what he can take out. Next session, perhaps, It will be found possible to give each Congress man an automobile with a liveried at tendant or a suite at the new Wlllard, with butler and valets thrown In. Or may be It will be discovered that on account of the high cost of living $75 Is an Inadequate salary, and that it can be doubled without much protest on the part of those efficient watch dogs of the treasury who went Into office on a platform of economy and etfi&ency. and whoso policy In office DO YOUR CHRISTMAS MAILING EARLY ! I SEE W HAVE WE 1 YES, I MARKED f BOWL OF GOLDFISH J BOTH ENDS SO J ~ ig|yj I THINK SON£ OF ALL PACKED j 6E^ —> THESE E(KiS PERISHED i§ 11 RIGHT WAY . Wf?oNlx WAY i mT PLASTER how TO <FMr am DONT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST ON THE UMBRELLA THROUGH THE MAIL. MINUTE TO MAIL YOUP XMAS GIFTS ® ADDRESS SIDE OP WAIL MATTER appears to be founded on the theory that money Is made to spend and that, being the root of all evil, it should be spent as quickly as possible. How mild the Pankhurst riots of a few years back must seem to London. Unbelievable as it may seem to some j of the nations at war, America would ; welcome a permanent peace at any ma j terial cost to herself. [ T>6 UtlciU. Isy the Kx-Committeeman [ Governor Brumbaugh's adoption of a drastic policy to further the selection of Representative Edwin R. Cox as the Republican candidate for speaker of the House, as evidenced by his re quest for tho resignation of A. Nevin Pomeroy, superintendent of public' printing and binding, has attracted no end of attention all over the State, and it Is generally believed that the Gov ernor will go further to show that he was in earnest when he said he had "rolled up hts sleeves" to help the South Philadelphlan. Opinion appears to differ whether the Governor and his friends will be able to get control of the organization of the House which Is vital to them be cause the Senate is generally classed as anti-Administration. The Governor yesterday expressed the greatest confi dence In hts ability to get the mem bers necessary to win, but it was not until he took the axe in hand yester day that some of his principle sup porters believed he had a fighting chance. On the other hand friends of I Richard J. Baldwin assert that he has over 100 members and declare that the Governor has not made any "con | verts" through his conversational methods . They are a hit apprehen sive, however, as to what may follow the pushing of the vigorous policy such as the Governor inaugurated yes terday. —lt is declared that Uiere is no politics in the request for resignation of James McKlrdy, assistant director of the State Legislative Reference Bu reau. It was denied at tho bureau that he had been asked to resign, but he had nevertheless, while some peo ple were denying it. McKirdy has been the alleged cause of friction. He is a man of unusual ability in his line and has done valuable work. W. H. Wacker, who is in the law office of Compensation Chairman Harry A. Mackrcy in Philadelphia, was picked out some time ago for McKirdy's place, but Auditor General-elect Sny der, who says sententiously that he has no favors to ask, but many to give, appears to think that John H. Fertig, of Pottsville, (ho compiler in the bureau and one of its legal lights, should have the place. Hence Mr. Wacker will have to possess his soul in patience as the Administration is not going to risk a falling out with the potential Snyder. —The Baldwin people stood fast to a claim of 115 men to-day and said that the failure of the Administration to give figures or names when the Cox men were claiming everything was rather significant. The Cox peo ple dealt in some additional claims of generous nature to-day. —Much depends upon the attitude of Mayor Smith of Philadelphia. The Mayor is "sore" on the proposed de vision of the city charter and fears that If he espouses tho Cox cause tho Penrose people may make it warm for him. The Administration is claiming something like 31 of the 41 members in Philadelphia, but that claim like the claim of 1(5 In Allegheny for Cox may be subject to revision when Janu ary 1, rolls around. The delay In the Philadelphia caucus la at the instance of the Mayor. —The fact that Representative H. M. Showalter, of Union, Is disposed to be for Williams is causing concern at the Capitol. Williams has developed more votes than given credit for, and this may account for the scheme to trot out Charles Walter, of Franklin, for some trial heats. Walter has a lot of friends and might draw from Williams without hurting Cox. ■ —Representative Duncan Sinclair was here yesterday and left doubt In his wake. —On this subject all that Senator Mc- Nichol would say -was: "The Governor is the type of man who gets into high places by reason of misplaced confi dence of both party leaders and the voters at large. He has accomplished little or nothing of a constructive character, but has appointed to ottice at htgh salaries men who go up and down the State playing petty factional politics and who are not serving the State." —The Democratic legislators will be told to make the best of their oppor tunity In the factional fighting at a dinner to bo given to them by Na tional Chairman McCormlck at which A. Mitchell Palmer and Joe Guffey and Warren Van Dyke will be present. The dinner is regarded as McCor mlck's plan for taking title to the Democratic legislators and evidence that he proposes to get all he can in the way of party prestige put of the Republican fuss. McCormick evident ly sees a great chance to do some thing and if he can get the Democratic legislators to take orders there may be doings. The dinner will be "dry," naturally. It might bo added that local option will not be a popular theme. Democrats have doubts about it when they get among themselves. —The start of real warfare by the Governor called forth tart comment j from McNicliol men. The Philadel phia Ledger says: "At the same time, the Penrose-McNichol leadership, it was learned, is compiling official data to show from their point of view the 'small amount of actual constructive work done in the last eighteen months by Governor Brumbaugh and Attorney General Brown." The results of this investigation will shortly be an nounced, and, it waa hinted, may be preliminary to a formal legislative in quiry. While the anti-Brumbaugh leaders have not decided definitely as to the advisability of impeachment proceedings, based on the Oliver check, they realize, it was admitted, that any investigation of the Gover nor's activities may precipitate that issue into the forthcoming State Leg islature. For example. Representative Isadore Stern, one of the McNlchol floor leaders, is ready, as he has an nounced, to press for impeachment. —Representative Cox who spent most of the afternoon with Attorney General Brown and Congressman Scott, left for Lancaster last night after issuing a statement expressing the utmost confidence. Mr. Scott added a few bright colored words and both were in good humor over the day's developments. ''There Is no doubt of my election," said Mr. Cox. "Last week I found conditions in Allegheny county strongly In my l'avor. I have known all along that I would have two-thirds of the members from Philadelphia county. After my visit to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, I feel more than ever certain. As an ex ample of the promises of support I am receiving from all over the State, I do not hesitate to tell what I have been able to do in Lackawanna and Luzerno counties. Neither I nor any one else having knowledge of the feelings of the members in those two counties doubt but that I will receive a majority of the members in both 1 counties. The support I am promised there is most cordial. It is based principally upon my record and the record of my principal opponent, Mr. Baldwin, in the last session of the Legislature. The labor legislation of the last session, principally the Work men's Compensation Law, has almost revolutionized the Industrial condi tions in the hard coal regions. Be sides giving my very active support to that measure, the people of those counties are aware of the fact that I was sponsor of the Child Labor Bill. They know also that my opponent at tempted to emasculate that bill by the introduction of the Baldwin amend ment, which he supported on the floor of the House with several strong speeches." QtrVdaTui Una 4 The Rook of Truth and Facts, by Fritz von Frantzlus. In the midst of peace discussions and in the light of the attitudes of the countries at war, it might be inter esting to ascertain through the thoughts of a zealous German parti san Just what his opinion is of the condition of affairs not only In Ger many, but in the United States and England also. "To acquaint the Am erican people with German Ideals, which are so grossly misunderstood in this country," Is the author's own ex planation of his writing. With the coloring removed, the book is an in structive compilation of facts about Germany. The Great Conwtor, by Perclval W. Wells. (Bartlett Pub. Co. $1.30). "The descent to Avernus (Hades) Is easy," said an old Latin writer, but to have it made so easy that it re quires but a short use of the eyes In reading Mr. Wells' recent book is un precedented in the annals of the watch-dog Cerberus. If you desire to visit the regions of his Satanic. Ma jesty under the ruler's personal guid ance there Is no quicker method of emulating Dante than by reading 'The Great Corrector.' The trip is de scribed In satirical vein, the sinners and criminals of all sorts are classi fied and the punishments derived are sufficient to distort the Imagination of the most hardened. The book Is not remarkable. The Career of Kathertnc Bush, by Elinor Glyn. <D. Appleton and Co.) Katherlne Bush begins her business career In the office of a money-lender. Many and varied are the types of the human beings that swing In, and re tire through the great green doors. She makes up her mind to learn things, to grow and to, progress, no matter what the sacrifice. The author pictures vividly the happenings In the business and social world of this young girl, and shows very clearly that it rests with each woman within herself to master her own destiny. SCHEDULE OF A M PRE-CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES Friday, December I—Peruse a "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early" plea, and agree with the sentiments. Saturday, December 2—Start a shopping list and stop after writing the word "book" opposite the name of the brother-in-law who usually gives you a book. Sunday, December 3—Express un bounded loathing and contempt for the persons who wait until the last minute before doing their Christmas shopping. Monday, December 4—Wonder what you can give your pretty cousin who has everything she needs. Tuesday, December 6—Figure up how much you can afford to spend on your wife's present. Wednesday, December 6—Go over figures on wife's present and deduct ten dollars. Thursday, December 7—Kick your self for being penurious, and add twenty dollars to figures on wife's present. Friday, December B—Look in two stores for wife's gift, but get nothing except tired feet, a lame back and a grouch. Saturday, December 9—Reckon up the number of shopping days remain ing before Christmas, and flnd with some relief that there are twelve. De termine to do your Christmas shop ping early. Sunday, December 10—Read news paper articles about the overworked shopgirl, and curse the brutes who wait until the last minute. Monday, December 31—Visit stores, determined to buy eighteen or twenty presents, Including one for your wife. Come home with a very bad case of nerves and one two-dollar necktie for your wife's father. Tuesday, December 12—Deliver ser eral heated lectures to acquaintances on the folly of giving Christmas pres ents. Wednesday, December 13 Give wife a cheque with which to purchase gifts for twenty-two of your rela tives. Thursday, December 14 Discuss with your wife the amount of largess to be given to the postman. Janitor, maid, cook, washwoman, elevator boy | and office boy. Friday, December 15—Get a cottony feeling in your mouth trying to decide whether or not your wife will like the tbits ot the Outer Doors Why Don't Yuh Wipe Yer Shoes ? I hope some folks Is satisfied What's always got the blues 'Cause winters now aint like they was— Why don't yuh wipo yer shoes? I tell yuh them WAS winters! Yu've heard such folks enthuse? But say, Old Buck, w"hat's wrong with this! Why don't yuh wipe yer shoes? "December's Jest half under way," So states th® Annvllle News— "But snows have fell three days this week!" Why don't yuh wipe yer shoes? I've got to use the kitchen door — A wife's an' mother's views Seem frequently to coincide!— Why don't yuh wipe yer shoes? I hope It's summer when I mount The stairs o' golden hues Fer Old St. Peter jest MIGHT snap "Why don't yuh wipe yer shoes?" Business Briefs Knit goods traders are all breaking records for sales and production. S. D. Bausher, textile manufacturer of Hamburg, operating a chain of fac tories in upper Dauphin and Berks counties, has been re-elected president of the Hamburg Savings Bank. Seventeen thousand cars of freight were handled through Reading last Sunday. The United States Expansion Bolt Company, of New York, has bought the plant of the Columbia Malleable Iron and Steel Company, at Columbia. The United States Government will be in the market shortly for *15,000,- 000 of army supplies. A Meteorological Motto [From the Christian Herald.] The Lord sends the sunshine and the rain, but the farmer must do his own ploughing. present you are thinking of buying her. Decide that you'd better give her something- else. Saturday, December 16—Enter a jewelry store with the idea of asking a salesman's advice on what your wife would like, ami get in the way of eighty customers, who walk on your feet. Sunday, December 17—Swear be cause the stores aren't open on Sun day. Monday, December 18—Decide not to do any shopping on Monday be cause of the large Monday crowds. Tuesday, December 19—Remember that you have no presents for anyone except your wife's father and, panic stricken, rush to town to buy presents. Fail to find anything that anyone would like, except a workbag for your favorite niece. Wednesday, December 20 On learning from your wife that your fa vorite niece has three workbags, de clare in disgust that you won't give anything but Christmas cards, and that there's plenty of time left in which to buy presents, anyway. Make out a list, showing how much money you are willing to spend on each per son. Thursday, December 21—Buy fifty Christmas cards, and then discover that you can think of only twenty eight people to send them to. Do up presents with your wife. Friday, December 2 2—Hush to town to do your Christmas shopping- early, before the Saturday rush sets In. Buy fourteen presents that you don't want to buy, paying fifty per cent, more for each than you said you'd pay. Go home on the verge of a nervous break down. Do up presents. Saturday, December 23—Remember seventeen people for whom you should have bought presents. Make a final despairing effort to think what to buy your wife. Fall miserably. Give your wife a cheque with which to buy your seventeen presents. Write a cheque as a present for your wife. Do up pres ents. Sunday, December 24 Tear up cheque for wife and write a large one. Figure up your expenditures, and won der whether you will be able to pay your Christmas bills by July. Do up presents and go to bed at two a. m. with a sick headache and a stern de termination that next year shall be different.—K. L. Roberts In Life. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I IT PATS TO , 1 | BELIEVE. htfjP Do your chll- M* dren still believe / HU ! in Santa Claus 7£ ** XlVv Well, if they | don't they are 11 j H]M\/ Wjl diplomatic '] IW| enough to pro- /// lf| tend they do. vjJ jTr pf-wt if W SENSIBLE an Imported hat Hi a foreign label M B B| for the lining. THE SECRET. jfaj Why la Santa Clans ao popu- Because he ■HuKaLx* gives everything //\VV \\ but advice. 11 yX\ "Well, Peleg. how do you find the encyclopedia the feller left on ap proval?" "Seems to be all right. Ain't no er rors in It so fur as I kin see."—Louis ville Courier-Journal. Flatbush — ( Do you consider the sparrow the most troublesome bird? Bensonhurst Why, no. You nev er see a sparrow on a woman's hat at the theater."—Yonker's States man. Starting (ttljal Some of the men who will sit in the next Legislature have commenced to object to the high cost of living In Harrlsburg as they forecast It from rates charged. As a matter of fact, as one Harrlsburg man to-day pointed out, the hotel and accommodation rates In Harrlsburg are no worse than Reading, Altoona and a dozen other cities and the contrast In some r*; spects, notably the smaller hotels, >0 said to bo in favor of Harrlsburg. The legislative session with its sudden de mands for accommodation of hundred!* of people over nlglit or for two or three days creates emergencies which are not easy to foresee and which would put other cities to makeshifts. Yet Harrlsburg has often taken care of hundreds who came here little ex pecting to remain more than half & day. Then, too, during the legislative session there are numerous meetings held hero by organizations which swell the number of transients. * • • Superintendent Rambo is losing no time getting ready to place the Oakley paintings in the Senate chamber and while the House chamber is torn up for the usual renovation and for the placing of new globes in the giant chandeliers the green and gold cham ber of the upper house is filled with scaffolding. As soon as the paintings arrive they will be placed and the Senators will revel in allegorical art with a decided peace slant when they meet. • • • The New Haven firm which bought the old Bay Shoe Factory building used as a part of the Capitol after the fire is losing no time. It bought the old building along with a dozen others on Saturday and the Bay building a third demolished. The roof is off and part of the sides is down. Other buildings are going rapidly and the latest purchases are furnishing an im mense amount of building material which is sold before it is taken out of the buildings so keen is the demand Cor second-hand stuff. ♦ • • Some one doubted a statement made in the Telegraph the otherday that 250 bears killed in this State was a larger number than killed in some Western States. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus says that It Is moro than In all Colorado. An other man says that Montana killed only 100 bears last year. • • * Although the hunting season is over, the good stories of unusual hunt ing Incidents are Just beginning to be told In the barber shops and meeting places of the erstwhile hunters. A local man recently confided to a friend and of course the friend confided In the "bunch": "While hunting in the vicinity of Losh's Run as the day drew to a close," said he, "ho realized that the road was strange to him and that undoubtedly he was lost. Plodding along the road a little further he rams to a barn built close to the roadllne, with a sign about ten feet from the ground that evidently pointed the way, but in the gathering darkness he couid not distinguish the words. Just then a native happened along, from whom he anxiously Inquired the way to liar rlsburg, but evidently it was a strangf name in that vicinity for the question elicited no reply. Then he pointed to the sign asking !t's significance, but the taciturnity that characterizes the natives in those parts prevented him from obtaining any Information. P' coming desperate and bellevin" tiii sign to be the key to the sltur 'ion li dragged a heavy post for so;ue dis tance, stood It against the barn and then attempted to increase his height by standing on the post and then on tiptoes. He noticed the barn felt sticky but he thought perhaps the dew was unusually heavy that night. • Af ter much effort he at last struck a match in whose flickering glare he read In bold letters, "Fresh paint, DON'T drive close." • • • It Is hard to beat the kids In getting up excuses. The other day a young ster appeared at the Public library and registered his name as Henry Somethlngvieh. The attendant in charge, who has had much experience in handling the children's book ser vice and who has been doing somo not able work In that line, promptly call ed attention to the fact that the day be fore the name had been registered by another boy as Harry Somethingvlch "Another boy registered that name," said she. "Yaas." "Well, who was he?" "My brudder." "But you have the same name.' "Oh, he writes left hand." rWELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart haf been re-elected chairman of the Board of City Trusts in Philadelphia. —Ex-Auditor General Slsson says he Is enjoying the political passing show from Erie. 1 —Dr. Leo S. Rowe, the University professor, who Is active in the Mexicar commission matters, Is an authority on Latin America. —C. J. Jaegele, Pittsburgh publish er, has been made a Knight of St. [ Gregory. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg's output of steel this year was the maxi mum in the history of the city? HISTORIC HAKRISBURG This town was census headquarteri for this section when the first censua was taken. A Psalm of Llf® 1916 Model. Ask me not In mournful numbers What's the price of gasoline;. For mine Income it encumbers, And my peace of mind serene. Cars are real, cars are earnest, And first cost is not the rub, But this flitting yon and hither With Its tipping, booze and grub Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is my destined end or way; But to drive that each to-morrow Finds more bills for me to pay. Art Is long and time Is fleeting. And my car, though stout and bra*% Still, like all possessed. Is beating Down my good resolves to save. Cost Is with me at the garage. Cost Is with me 'long the way; But like all dumb, human cattle 1 must drive, so I must pay. I trust no lane, howe'er pleasant. Some roadhouse will be ahead; And my wife must have a dinner, Though It means next day no bread. Cars of great mew all remind mg I should have a car sublime; But, I parting, leave behind me, Fordprints on the sands of time. Fordprlnts that perhaps another Driving o'er our bumpy main, A forlorn and bankrupt brother, Seeing, wished he'd bought the same- Let me then be up and driving. With a heart ror any fate. Still sight-seeing, while conniving How the dog-gon bills can waltl Ralph Irving Delhi, Paxtang, Pa.
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