12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A X EIi'SPAFER FOR THE HOME Fcunded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Freit ana Editor-in-Chief l"'. R. OYSTER, Business Maxaier. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Mamatimg Editor. - Member American Newspaper Pub |jjj g^*N ~ cago, 111* 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. FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 22 Time flies, suns rise, and shadows fall. Let it go by, 10.' —love is forever over all. —SELECTED. SCHWAB'S CHRISTMAS TOKENS THE close personal relations be tween Schwab and the employes of the Bethlehem Steel Company is shown by the presentation to each man at Steelton of a handsome calen dar, with the great steel magnate's compliments and wishes for a merry Christmas. But better than that and emphasizing the sincerity of the token, each man's little gift was accom panied by announcement of the amount that will be added to his salary as a result of the recent ad vance in wages by the Bethlehem in terests. It is not difficult to under stand why Schwab has so few labor disputes. It looks as though the warring na tions might try to consign the Presi dent to the usual fate of the peace maker. HOSPITALITY AT WHITE HOUSE THOUGH the President is giving thought to the high cost of liv ing as national problem, he is evidently not concerned about it per sonally. At any rate, he is having politicians to dinner and to luncheon much more frequently than he used to . In Roose velt's time the White House table was a clearing house for all kinds of in teresting people and at breakafst Taft discussed many a topic with guests. Mr. "Wilson, however, has rarely made use of his mahogany in this manner, and his recent entertain ments for Bryan, for Vance C. McCor mick and for Francis Heney have been so much advertised that people at the capital are beginning to think a new era is at hand in White House hospitality. England proposes to free the Irish rebels now in prison. But can she bring the others back to life? THK ASHCAX PIZZLE r A PUZZLED uptown resident writes II the Telegraph to know how he can at one and the same time "comply with the Health Board s ash can regulations and at the same time keep out of the sheriff s hands." lie says his case is typical of many others, and there are reasons for believing it is. The Health Board requires all citi zens to put their ashes in receptacles holding not more than two bushels. With this he has complied, but, he says, his can became full and he started in by filling lardcans. He has seven lardcans filled to running over now, three peach baskets and one nail beg. and at the time of writing the ashman had not put in an appearance. "When he does come." writes the correspondent, "I suppose he will re fuse to take any ashes except those in the regulation sized can. If so. what is to become of me? Must I keep on buying large cans, hoping that some day the ashman will again pay me a visit, or is there some way that I can be relieved when I have performed my part of the contract and the ash man has failed to comply with his?" The How Old is Ann? and Why is a Chicken? puzzles apparently are about to have a new rival; Anybody with a solution to the ashcan problem please notify the Telegraph, that it may pass the glad word along. The French are going to reduce the number of Cabinet meetings and legis lative sessions. President Wilson and the Pennsylvania Legislature, please take notice. A "LOW-DOWN" TRICK IT'S a mighty "low down" trick the Smithsonian Institute plans to play on the gorillas of the French Congo, but if, as the late Mr. Darwin suspected, gorillas and men have many common characteristics, the Smithson ian scientists are dead certain to'"put it over" on the shrewdest old gorilla that ever went mate-hunting in the iiingle. Everybody knows how even the most unsusceptible of men will chirk up and respond when a pretty wo man summons him to her side. It is this weakness of masculinity on which the hunters count to work the down fall of more than one of the big Afri can apes, whose mounted hides, it is planned, shall be placed among the permanent natural history exhibits of the institute at Washington. Prof. Garner, of monkey talk fame, is to sit in a tree near where the hunt ers are hidden, and utter the love calls of a flirtatious gorilla maiden. Up will come the gorilla men by the half-dozen, bang will go the rifles— v.- FRIDAY EVENING, and another victim or two wilt have gone down before the mlllenium-old lure of woman's wiles. It all depends upon Prof. Garner's ability to assume the graces of a lady baboon, ami the professor is staking his professional reputation on being: able to get away with the job. In which event one can't help wonder ing what would become of Garner if some rascally old gorilla got past the rifles and discovered tho true charac ter of the "lady" in waiting. About this time most of us begin to waver on the wisdom -of the turkey boycott we had intended to wage. MANXKKS OF AUDIENCES THE Telegraph is in receipt of the following letter: To the Editor of the Telegraph: Can you not use the attached . editorial taken from an issue of the New York Times this week? "Mr. Paderewski at the meet ing in behalf of Poland was dis pleased with the ambulatory i habits of part of his audience, and pointedly admonished the restless i ones to remain in one place if they would hear him. Those who have j attended the recitals of the first of pianists should know by this time thit he is sensitive to extraneous influences. But is he to blame? Hundreds of years ago a sage of i the Apocrypha wrote. 'Shew not forth words where there is a mu sician.' Yet many nowadays think it makes no difference if they ar rive late and with noise, depart early with more noise, slamming doors or holding them open for drafts and distracting lights and echoes, and in the meantime con verse and are as fussy as they please, when the argument in speech or in music is something that the thoughtful majority de sire to consider without disturb ance. When one on the platform makes a stand for the dignity of his art he is also defending the lieace of mind of all who are be fore him. 1 lowever desirable cour tesy may be'in private, in public i it becomes indispensable. Those i who obtrude their own lack of good manners and thus inflict their minority selfishness upon the long-sufTering majority deserve the censure, and the victims of their misbehavior are glad when any has the courage to read them •! the sorely needed lesson in de- i portnient." It surety seems timely for some of our Harrisburg audiehces and might reach and correct some of the offenders. Very truly, A SUBSCRIBER. There is no greater nuisance than the man or woman who whispers or rattles a program during the rendition of a musical number, and the giggler has driven thousands of music-lovers to commit murder in their hearts. When the great pianist, Ethel Leginska, played in Chestnut Street Auditorium : the other evening the noise during the opening number was so great that the artist paused for a few seconds until the audience took the hint and became quiet. You may be simply burning to tell your neighbor that you first heard Melba sing the selection of the moment in New York ten years ago and how delighted you were at the time, but be lieve one who knows, your neighbor is not so muolv interested in your remi niscences as he is in the music he is hearing, and the man or woman on the seat in frcAnt thinks—and very properly, too —that you are merely trying to let folks know how exten sively you have traveled or how many of the great musicians you have heard, and it is a safe guess that his esti mation of you Is not materially raised thereby. Tlie man who talks during a musical number is only equaled as a public nuisance by the wretch who sits all through a play telling his friends in stage whispers ''what is coming next" and how much better the "original company" was. The theater manager who provides padded cells or muzzles, or both, for such will confer a boon upon long suffering humanity and win for himself a place among the im mortals. While you're spending it you spell it "blew." The next morning you spell it "blue." BATHHOUSES AND BEACHES TNDICATIONS are that not much persuasion will be necessary to induce City Council to endorse Commissioner Gross' recommen dation for a bathhouse and bathing beach item in th? next annual bud get. But there's many a slip 'twlxt the cup and the lip, and the Har risburg Navy and all others interest ed should r.ot conclude too early that their fight is won. Harrisburg will not be sure of the desired im provements until the budget has been passed finally by council. Every pos sible influence should be brought to bear to impress upon councilmen the wide-spread interest in the project. They will act in conformity with what they believe public sentiment to be. Some of the Wall Street "war brides" are wearing mourning. THAT ACTO TRI'CK TO anyone with the inner workings of irmy unit, the necessity for a vehicle capable of speedy transportation is immediately apparent. A regiment without a light auto truck for the convenience and efficiency of its men is indeed lacking in an essential. The government does not provide light trucks and it has ap parently been the pleasure of those at home to supply the means for supply ing their own boys on the border with such vehicles. It is understood that the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, in which the Harrisburg boys are enrolled, is badly in need of a truck of the kind and is in fact the only regiment that hasn't been provided for. A mistaken im pression has gotten abroad that the truck, when purchased, will revert to the government ip the event of the dissolution of the troops. This is not the case. The truck will be the prop erty of the Eighth Regiment and not even the government has the privilege of commandeering a regiment's private property. Just as soon as the remaining half of the required amount is raised a tele gram will be sent to the Eighth in forming them of Harrlsburg's gift. It Is to be hoped that no disappointment will mar the Christmas of the boys BABJUSBURG TELEGRAPH! whom we would far prefer to have with us next Monday. Let's do tho next best thing and show them that \ve are thinking of them at any rate. A contribution to the auto truck will do this. We refuse to extend holiday greetings to the Weather Man If he doesn't give us a white Christmas. I feUttw ck I'PeKKOiftcahXa By the Ex-Committeenuui In spite of efforts by the backers of both Representatives Richard J. Bald win and Edwin R. Cox, candidates for the Republican nomination for the speakership, to minimize the local option issue and of the State adminis tration to insist that the real contest Is progress against reaction local option has taken a prominent place In the last forty-eight hours and may have a good bit to do with the final result. What has done more to bring about this bobbing up of local option was the issuance of a letter on the sta tionary of the Local Option Commit tee and signed by Its secretary advocat ing the election of Cox. The backers of George W. Williams at once got to work upon local option men all over the State and protests against the swinging of that organization for Cox and charges that the State administra tion had deserted Williams, Its local option standard bearer In the last ses sion, were made. Prominent men in the committee as serted they had never heard of the letter and ex-Speaker Alter, a cham pion of local option, came out for Baldwin, and others for Williams de claring that they would not support Cox. It also developed that men claimed fonCox were for Williams on this issue, Representative MeCurdy of Blair, being one who is said to be for the Tioga man. —Ex-Speaker Alter in a statement issued to-day denounced the use of the stationery of the State Local Option Committee, of wl.lch he is a member, to attack Baldwin and boost Cox. He issued this statement: "I know of no authority for sending out any letter in the name of the State Local Option Committee. There has been no meeting of the committee for a very long time. Naturally I object to an attack on Richard J. Baldwin on a letter head bearing my name as one of the committee supposed to be standing over the letter. He is one of my good friends and helped to make me Speaker in 1913. I regard him highly. He is a strong character, re markably well informed, and would make a good Speaker." A dispatch says: "Alter's state ment is the worst blow the Cox candi dacy has received to date in tl.e west ern counties. Cox had been count ing on all four 'dry' members from Allegheny county and the united 'dry' vote throughout Western Pennsyl vania." —Representative G. A. Wickman, of Allegheny. Is out for Cox. He was claimed by both sides. —Representative Baldwin sent word last night that he had added another to his string in an eastern county. Representative C. E. Cook, of York, claimed for Baldwin, turned up at the Governor's office. He is having an unpleasant time of it because of a let ter he wrote some days ago. —The Democratic ringmasters' cau cus last night in Philadelphia named E. Lowry Humes, a United States dis trict attorney, as chairman of the committee on legislation which means that the national administration as well as the State Democratic machine will keep an eye on Democratic mem bers and see that they do not stray when it comes to voting for speaker. The ringmasters were very strong about attending to the party's own af fairs and letting the Republicans row. Palmer. McCornvck and others made declarations for straight party work and slapped the Republicans for the factional fighting, forgetting the spec tacle Democracy only recently exhib ited in Pennsylvania. The present Democratic bosses got into power by the rawest kind of ax work, compared to whicty the course of the State ad ministration is of the Sunday school variety. —The Philadelphia Record says that the Republican row is going: to last after the caucus and the Philadel phia North American says that Pen rose is coming to Harrisburg to push his battle against the Governor and the Vares. The North American is no longer "agin the government." It Is the State administration's most earn est supporter in Philadelphia. Yester day it played up the Vare statement and played down the Penrose charges which in other days would haVe suf ficed to make it roar. —Everyone at the Capitol has taken the cue given by Governor Brum baugh and refuses to discuss the charges made by Senator Boies Pen rose that Governor Brumbaugh and his political advisers have been prom ising otflces in the State government in return for legislative votes for Cox. Attorney General Brown last night asked how old are such charges, re marking that he had heard them in years gone by. Some of the newspa pers, however, take a serious view of the 'situation and the Philadelphia Ledger notably calls upon the Gover nor to disprove the charges, saying that too much has been going on in the way of politics to please persons uninterested in who happens to be in control of patronage. Smaller news papers are taking the same view and in newspapers which devote attention to financial affairs there are numer ous interviews expressing the hope that the Governor will not allow the State Banking commissionership to become a political asset. —Attorney General Brown said last night in Philadelphia in discussing the Penrose charges: "If the object is to get votes for Baldwin it would seem that the claims of the Baldwin people that they have enough to elect their man are unfounded. If they are so sure of victory why are they opening up headquarters and running down legislators? If they have 110 votes, or more, as they claim, why are they so solicitous concerning the result that they are using every endeavor to get more votes? They are not within sight of winning, by a large majority, and they know it. Mr. Cox will be the next speaker of the House; there can be no doubt of that." —Activities were suspended at the Baldwin headquarters this morning and the men in charge departed for their homes. Mr. Baldwin, who will return to this city on Tuesday, for the active prosecution of his campaign, sent word that he was well satisfied with his visit here and that he had discovered in conversations with men who had called upon him that they were not for Cox as claimed by the administration people. The Baldwin people were jubilant to-day over the statement made by T. Eyre. —Both Public Service Commission er Magee and Insurance Commissioner O'Neil, old-time rivals in Allegheny county politics, have gone homo to work in that county in behalf of the Governor. Mr. Magee is claiming any where from twelve to fifteen of the twenty-four Allegheny votes. He re fused to be disturbed by the reports of the McVicar candidacy. —Men connected with Capitol de partments went home by the dozens to-day to spend Christmas and most of them were given the information that anything they could do to influ- When a Feller N By BRIGGS — ' W \ s \ See WHerr I f \ /iTdiAS J \ • DeAR OLD f I SAN"I"A Brought" | \ YoU ~ waSW'T j A / HE MICE ? O.n y ence home members to vote for Cox would be appreciated. This was gen erally taken as a mildly worded warn ing of more drastic action to follow. —The death of the county treasurer of Mercer makes the seeond such offi cer to die in a week. The Governor will fill the places. The Philadelphia Ledger gives first page prominence to a statement that it is a war to the finish between Pen rose and the Yare*Brumbaugh-Magee alliance. The Ledger, which is rapping the administration's political activity while boosting it for what it has done, is insisting that there will be strenuous times in the Legislature. —A dispatch from Pittsburgh last night contained the following: "Poli ticians of anti-Penrose affiliation, aroused by the Alter stand, profess to see in it the first unblanketing of Alter as candidate for Governor of the Oliver forces here, who are supporting Bald win for Speaker. His strong stand for Bald v.: n, in view of his own high standing in local option circles, is ex pected to prove a big asset for the regular organization, and to mark the final parting of the ways between two two of tho big local option leaders in this end of the State, Alter and J. Denny O'Ncil, Insurance Commis sioner. Representative Cox finishing two days of campaigning in western counties here to-night, declared him self confident he will be elected Speaker. His path crossed several times to-day with that of Joseph R. Grundy, of Bristol, here in the interest of Baldwin. Grundy was equally con fident for Baldwin." Sawdust to Furnish Motorcar Fuel Undeterred by the ancient tale of the man who fed his faithful horse on sawdust, chemists of the American Chemical Society declare that it will soon be possible to run motor cars on alcohol i|;rlved from sawdust. It is claimed that alcohol may also be produced from other by-products of industry, and that the Southern darky may lose his "black strap" mo lasses as a result of the demand of in dustry and Dleasure for a cheaper fuel than gasoline. It is claimed that alcohol can be produced from these and other by-products and retailed for 25 cents a gallon, and be preferable to gasoline at the same price.—Chris- tian Herald. A Christmas Lament Christmas isn't Christmas when there ain't no kids aroun', Sakes alive! Yer might as well be liv in' neath the groun'! Yer might as well be quittin' all yer useless fuss and flurry, Yer might as well Jest settle down and stop yer work an' worry, Yer might as well Jest sit down quiet and fol 1 yer useless han's, Yer might as well read Milton's "Lost" er somethin' else—cause lans! There ain't 110 use er tryin' to make your house looks like a home! With all yer cakes and wreaths and trees —it's jest an empty tomb! What's the use to bake big cakes er stir up heaps o' batter. If there ain't no little fingers to lick 'round the bowl and platter? What's the use to moul' up candies flno or peanut taffy Ef there ain't no kids to mess up things and nearly set yer daffy? What's the use to run to town and spen' most all yer money Ef there ain't no kids to peek aroun' the keyholes sort cr funny? What's the use to stay up nights to trim a Christmas tree When there's no one there to look at it nex' day but. Jim an' me? Gee! Sometimes when I see kids atug gin' after folks, Seems like they've the brunt of life when I've only the Jokes; When I see them buyln* shoes and payin' big meat bills. When I see them handln' checks to doctors for kids' ills— Then I think I'm sort er smart alivin' Jeat with Jim, But say! when Christmas time comes roun' such thoughts is mighty slim! Christmas isn't Christmas when there ain't no kids aroun' Wish Brother John down country'd bring his five and come to town. —EDNA GROFF DEIHL, j Paxtang, Pa. I MARJORIE STERRETT PROVIDES PR MARJORIE STERRETTS dime Is going to work. Ten months ago a thirteen-year-old Brooklyn schoolgirl sent 10 cents to the New York Tribune to start a fund to build a battleship for Uncle Sam. Since then the 10 cents has grown to over $20,000. More than two hundred thousand chil dren and grown-ups, inspired by the little girl's example, have added their contributions to the patriotic cause. So the movement grew. In the course of time gatherings of people came to gether to help along the gill's idea. One of the first of these was at the New York Hippodrome, where a num ber of Broadway artists responded to Charles B. Dillingham's Invitation to give a benefit for the Marjorie Sterrett Fund. A little later Marjorie was in vited to receive contributions for her fund at a benefit for the American Red Cross and the American Ambu lance Hospital, at the Grand Central Palace, under the auspices of such women as Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs.' August Belmont, Mrs. E. IT. Harriman, Mrs. Wlllard D. Straight and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. There is no longer any necessity for the dime to lie idle In the bank, merely actng as a magnet for other dimes and dollars. It has grown big enough to do something. • Though it has not yet grown big enough to build a battleship, it can stimulate greater efficiency among the battleships already built. If Contributor* Approve That is what it ts going to do, if you who have added to it think the cause worth while. The Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund, with the approval of those who have contributed to It, will be invested and the Interest on it will be given as prizes for battle efficiency In the navy. No act of Congress is needed to ac complish this result. A determined ef fort was made to have Congress accept the fund to be appropriated In accor dance with the law for naval construc tion purposes. Congressman William S. Bennett, of New York, introduced a resolution to that effect, but It died in the naval committee of the House. The committee decided that Congress was able to provide enough battleships for the nations in the regular way. Congress thereupon proceeded to pro vide for the construction of ten new battleships before July 1, 1919, to- Effect of Peace Plans A fortnight ago the American wheat crop on paper was worth $350,000,000 more than It is to-day. A fortnight ago American stocks and bonds were worth on paper almost a billion dol lars more than they were last Friday. That 1s what tlio formal suggestion of peace by one of the belligerent* did to American values. What an actual and speedy peace would do may only be conjectured. The point which It Is Intended to make here is that If Ger many's peace offer does nothing else it will have served as a fine object lecson for the entire United States. The lesson is plain, distinct and easily read. Our prosperity came as a se quel to war and not as & result of leg islatlqn at Washington. Our labor Is highly paid because European labor is bleeding to death. Our agricultural and manufactured supplies command a high price for the reason that a de structive war Is eating up supplies of every kind faster than Europe can furnish them at home. American pro ducers of all kinds profit by the war, while American consumrß of every kind lose by the war, since they are obliged to bid high for their coun ty's output of necessities In order to k>ep them away from Europe. Thus the war helps the pocket of the pro ducer and bleeds that of the consum er. Just as certainly the end of war will profit the consumer, but hurt the producer.—Philadelphia Public Ledg er. DECEMBER 22, 1916. gethe'r with nnmeroiia smaller ships to complete the fleet. Who can say that the public interest aroused by Mar jorie's dime did not make itself felt among the representatives of the peo ple who voted for this generous in crease in the country's first lino of de fense? Secretary Has Authority But the dime still lay in the bank, pleading to be used. One dime cannot help the navy a great deal. But It oc curred to some of those interested in tlie fund that the interest on all its as sociates in the cause could be used to very good advantage. The idea was presented to the Secretary of the Navy, who lias full authority to accept such gifts, though he cannot receive money outright for building naval vessels. Tills was his reply: My dear Mr. Keohan: Referring to your letter of June US, 1916, in regard to the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund: It is understood' that this fund will amount to approximately $1,500 per annum, and it is considered advisable that this fund be award ed annually to (1) The crew of the turret making the highest llnal merit at the short range practice S9OO (2) The crew of the broad side gun mounted on bat tleship, destroyer, cruis er or gunboat making the highest final merit at the short range battle practice 200 (3) The crew of the sub marine making the high est final merit with tor pedoes for the year 400 This will give each winning crew approximately sl2 per man. In case the fund amounts to an other sum, it is suggested that pro portions be approximately the same as given above. The award will be made by the final records and determined by the Directory of Gunnery Kxercises and Engineering Competition, and the prizes will be issued with appro priate ceremony on board ship by the commanding officers. Sincerely yours. JOSEPHyS DANIELS. Secretary of the Navy. Charles Has Been Sheared Charley Underwood received $172 for his wool, Mercyville (Iowa) Banner. OUR DAILY LAUGH ft(M What', thlm ffr | about Smith go %*7QF I a K lnf Into bank rnptoyT I thought he wai weal thy T ( mgSk He wu, but J%o' I / Jinf hls instat es? VBk on tryln * to (M, FmP. furnish their JBB V house to look like the picture* in the art maga zines. I'm made of or- " w F 1 dlnary clay, L J Admission K M now I make fIBBBf yVr' When zero weather 1 " a SI conies our fjHnHi lxJ=== Cold baths I ~ never take. ' J _ Ibmng OXi|at It Is interesting to note that the State lias taken exceptions to paying for a bridge over Muddy creek, in York county, because it is not a navi gable stream, and that the authorities of our rich southern neighbor contend that if it has never been officially de clared so it is a waterway for which a navigation company was chartered. Muddy creek is down near Mason and Dixon's line and Is nothing like our Swatara or Conodoguinet creeks. It is not even as big a waterway as Sher man's creek and is more comparably to Wiconisco creek. Yet It. seems thaf in years gone by it was counted as a stream with possibilities. There are a number of streams along the Sus quehanna which have never been de clared official waterways and which never will until light draft boats be come lighter. Yet many of them ore covered by old patents or charters, taken out In the days when water transportation was as much of a specu lative affair as railroads and trolley lines later became. The Susquehanna has had numerous steam navigation companies chartered to sweep along Its occasionally stormy surface, but the river bottom has been too close to the top, as "Mayor" Berrler sometimes says In discussing navigation of the commercial variety. The Susquehanna navigation was very real before 1800 dawned. In fact, as eaarly as 1778 the provincial assembly undertook to do what even modern engineering has never tackled —remove the obstruc tions to navigation in the Susquehanna. The keel boats, "arks" and "broad horns" used to bump on the same rocks that we used to run on when we went swimming in someone else's boat. In 1795 a proposition was taken up by the State to improve navigation and in 1823 the State named a commission to consider the question of the river from NorthumberTand to tidewater. Finally came the canals, and river traffic, much discussed in the newspapers and recorded as something extensive, came to virtual extinction, and in time the canals which took the business were wiped out by the expansion of rail roads. Yet when one thinks of it there is a great possibility yet for floating various articles down the Sus quehanna. "You have a great river here and it's useless exeept for a water supply and for drainage," said a prominent resi dent of the state one day. "Someday when gasoline launches are better de veloped you will be taking regular trips up and down and bringing your garden truck to town from up and down the river." The gentleman said the in creasing cost to railroads of transpor tation was rapidly bringing it about. There is a reminder oJ the good old summer time in a largo motorboat. which Is safely moored in a yard at Eighteenth and Derry streets. It got there on wheels and they are of a good stout kind that will get it back again. The boat Is a big affair, sea-going size, and will be placed on the Susquehanna next season. Just now It looks rather odcl over half a mile from the river's edge. • • • The men connected with the sand and coal fleets, who are taking an enforced holiday because of the Sus quehanna freezing up ahead of its usual schedule, are of the opinion that there will be plenty of coal next apring in spite of the activity of coal com panies in reclaiming the culm and waste at their mines. Immense quan tities have been spotted by these men. who have been traveling up the river as far as Sunbury, and they say that the spring freshets will wash much out of the Shamokin and Wieonisco and other streams Into the hanna. The big deposits up the river will be brought down and there is a brisk season ahead for next summer In the coal line. • • * The Susquehanna Trail Association, which was formed the other day at a meeting held at Willlamsport. will have a big mass meeting in that city on February 2, at which Dauphin and Northumberland counties will be repre sented. The trail association extends its activities clear up to the New York line and local organizations are being formed to back it up. It will have Harrisburg for its southern terminus and use the new state highway being built between Dauphin and Halifax. ♦ ♦ * The Moorliead chorus, which will sing at the municipal Christmas tree celebration Sunday evening, under the direction of Abner W. Hartman, is the pet organization of the Mooshead Knitting Company. The company has provided a fine room for the rehearsals of the chorus and takes as much in terest in the young singers as they do in their own activities. Mr. Hartman is just the man for the job. He sings delightfully and has the happy faculty of Imparting his own enthusiasm to those about him. Under his direction the Moorhead chorus is making an ex cellent reputation for itself. It will sing in uniform Sunday night, using the Board of Trade building as head quarters. • • • One of the city's hotels has had applications for all of its rooms twice over for next week, when the edu cators and the men interested In the organization of the Legislature gather here. Most of the hotels will have a strenuous time taking care of visitors and traveling men say they are glad It hits the time when they will be home. rWELL KNOWN PEOPLE Harrv S. Lydick. Pittsburgh law yer and former legislator, will make his home In Florida. L. R. Gleason, the big up-state tanner, has sold his tanneries to the Armour Interests. —John M. Phillips, Pittsburgh game commissioner, says that he thinks more rabbits were killed this year than ever before. —Dr. J. George Becht. secretary of the State Board of Education, has been making addresses at teachers' insti tutes the last two weeks. —A. Merrit Taylor, the Philadelphia transit expert, has approved the new high-speed lines for that city and so Informed the mayor. [ DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg is at such m rail road point that its fish and oyster supply is of the best ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG y Troops mobilized for the Whisky In surrection camped along the river front. Belgian Deportations (Phila. Record) The United States could hardly do less than to express Its grave disap probation of the deportation of the Belgians, and it can hardly do more. As the largest of the neutrals and a heavy contributor to the relief of des titution in Belgium caused by the war. It was Incumbent upon the United States to express its opinion of a prac tice which Is inhuman, totally without justification In the law of nations, and which can hardly fall to check, If it does not stop, the succor of the Bel iglan victims of war.
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