6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjr Published evenings except Sunday by I THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., I Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K. J. STACKPOLE, Prut ana Editor-in-Chief s'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. j Member American in Newspaper Pub f|P|g jjjgl g aylvanta Asioclat- nue Building, New —~ cago, Illf' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. , S 2®P®s t . By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 5 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 27, And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to tcork with your hands, even as we dhargcd you. —ll. THESS. 4:11. THE WEATHER SMILING skies make smiling faces. It is easy to be pleasant when the sun shines brightly, e\'en though a wintry breeze be snapping uncomfortably at the ears and nose, but the test of good nature comes on a day like this when, as Dickens said of one like it, "the ice it isn't water, and the water isn't free, and you cannot say that anything is what It ought to be." The man who can sit down suddenly on a slippery pavement coated with about an eighth of an inch of what he discovers to be the wettest kind of water, and can get up smiling without saying anything that he would be ashamed to have repeated in Sunday school, is a man to tie to in any emer gency. Anybody can get mad when the weather behaves as though it lias been especially designed to produce a maxi mum of profanity in a given period of time, but It is the man who can grin when everything is going at sixes and sevens, including Ills feet, who is a genuine ray of light in a gloomy world, and he gets his reward. This applies also to the subscriber who greets the Telegraph carrier with a word of sympathy and appreciation for his faithful service, instead of acolding him when he comes slipping and sliding up the front -walk ten tninutes or so behind schedule on a (light like this. There are indications that the Kaiser %as a better opinion of President Wil son than formerly, but he is not averse :*or all that to putting one over on <jrour Uncle Sam. IMPORTATIONS INCREASE IMPORTATIONS of manufactures for further use iiv manufacturing j and manufactures ready for con- ! Isumption totaled $034,000,000 during | the first ten months of the current year. This is $12,000,000 greater than the total for the first ten months of 1913 (nine of which was under the Republican protective tariff law) despite the fact that imports from Germany, Austria Hungary and Bel- i gium have practically ceased, and | Fiance, England, Russia and Italy fire using a large portion of their productive energy in the manufacture of war supplies. This increase in imports of foreign commodities which compete with do mestic manufactures, the product of our highly paid mill operators, is due principally to two causes: First, the tariff-for-less-than-revenue rates In the Wilson-Underwood law, and, sec ond, the tremendous industrial ef ficiency of Europe growing out of the war. If these countries can increase their hold on the American market at the same time that they are carry ing on the bloodiest and the costliest war in the history of mankind, what is the prospect after the war has ceas ed and hundreds of thousands of the impoverished swell the ranks of the mill operatives, whilst benign govern ments lend their financial support to industries which may need assistance to extend their markets, give employ ment to a tax-crushed populace and rehabilitate their respective nations? Under the Democratic tariff policy foreign goods will pour into the United States as long as wo have the money to buy. Those who arrived lata at work this morning: had a perfectly lovely ex cuse. THIS YKAR AMI NKXT TELEGRAPH reporters interview ing the heads of industrial estab lishments in ITnrrisburg receive nothing but the most glowing accounts of business conditions for the year past and most optimistic forecasts for the future. Business has been good, It is good and the promise of the future is fair. But it is not wise always to accept appearances at their face value. Always a glance beneath the surface is advisable. Nor need one be classed as a calamity howler be , cause he declines to be hypnotized Into a state of false security by conditions that are so abnormal that they may be upset by even so slight a disturb ance as the possibility of early peace in Europe. I<et England, France or Russia reply favorably to the note of the President nnd the whole loosely built industrial structure erected upon the foundation of war necessities will come tumbling down around our ear. The Unllod WEDNESDAY EVENING, States is 110 more prepared for peace to-day than it was for war when Europe took fire more than two years ago. One need look no farther than Steel ton for proof of this. E. G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Com pany and one of the greatest steel authorities in the world, said in New York last week: As soon as the war ends this country has got to have tarift pro tection, or the iron and steel in dustry will be ruined. This means that the hundreds of millions paid out in wages now to Americans will be paid out to workers living abroad. Under the tariff now existing in this country no man in the iron or steel industry could live. He could not pay his workmen, to say noth ing of earning a profit. Before the war it was bad enough with Germany, the only Important competitor in the iron and steel business here. Her competition was enough—if the war had not come—to ruin the iron business in this country with the tariff that we have. But since the war began France and England have devoted all their energies to iron and steel produc tion. And they know how to compete as well as Germany. We have 110 such protection. Nor are we likely to have soon. It is not within probabilities that the slow moving, free-trade believers in Wash ington will repudiate their Underwood tariff schedules before they must-. The country will be on the verge of ruin before they will wake up. fully to the falsity of their tariff beliefs, although here and there signs indicate that some Democrats are beginning to understand the peril confronting the nation. So it behooves every business man to so trim his ship as to be ready for any gale that may beset. Nothing could be more disastrous than that a period of sudden contraction of trade should find us with an incompleted program of expansion upon our hands. Don't be mum when you're asked for a subscription to the Mummers' parade. BOOZE BILL CUT $3,500,000 ALTHOUGH bootleggers have worked diligently since the State of Washington went dry, January 1, 1916, the city of Spokane figures that it has reduced its booze bill $3,500,000 in the first year of pro hibition, as compared with the days when the saloons and breweries thriv ed in the State, according to an analy sis of the situation made by the Spo kane Chronicle. About $500,000 has been expended for liquor by citizens of Spokane since the saloons were closed. Of this amount $150,000 went for the pur chase of liquor on permits issued by the county auditor under provisions of the State law. The police estimate that $350,000 went into illegal liquor purchases. Tho amount of liquor shipped into Spokane and other Wash ington cities, the Chronicle says, is ex pected to be cut materially when Mon tana's saloons are closed. Spokane has expended $.1,500,000 for good things of life that' formerly went to wreck tho health of the drink ers and the happiness of their homes. Business is better for that aniouot of money; so are the people. The only sufferers are the saloonkeepers, and since as a class these no longer exist, there is small room for worry on their account—especially since they are now engaged in lines of business which in time will teach them the folly of legalized booze. REJOICING IN CANADA THE reason for Canada's oh-be joyful spirit as a result of our November election has a little meaning all its own, and that meaning is not at all hard to find. During the first 10 months of the current year our imports from Canada totaled nearly $187,000,000,0r more than twice our imports from that country fir the first 10 months of 1913, nine months of which were under the protective tarift policy, our Canadian imports for that period totaling $92,000,000. Canada has a right to feel elated for she has a fat market for four more years, while goods produced in the United States and seeking the markets of Canada are subjected to high pro tective duties. ALAN SEEGER THE Telegraph takes pleasure In replying to the following letter: To the Editor of the Telegraph: Who is. or was, Alan Seeger? There appeared in the columns of your paper, a few days since, a really remarkable bit of verse by him, called "I Have a Rendezvous With Death"—and after his name the words "Killed in France." Was he a poet of some note, or was this little poem one of those single, in spired utterances that war and daily association with death so often wring from the heart of a man never before suspected of lit erary abilities? I confess my ig norance. I never saw Seeger's name before. INQUIRER. This is the third letter of the kind received since the "Rendezvous with Death" was published. Seeger's collected poems have just been issued by Scribner's. His "Rendezvous with Death" is included. He was a young American writer of great promise and he fulfilled his rendezvous before Cie Gorman trenches in the face of a withering machine gun fire as he charged in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion. From early youth Seeger had writ ten poetry, and it was his passionate quest of beauty, so faithfully mirrored in his verse, which was primarily re sponsible for his presence in France at the outbreak of the war, and thus, Indirectly, for his enlistment In the Foreign Legion. The reason for his voluntary service is set forth by the poet himself in a letter written from the Aisne trenches to "The New Re public" during the Spring of last year. lie said he had chosen Paris as his abiding place from all the cities of the world—he and his comrades. Paris was in danger, his friends went to her rescue; he went with them. How much literature lost thereby nobody can tell, but It has been enriched by one of the most remarkable pieces of prophetic verse over penned. Seeger foresuw his doom, railed against it, •wrote his protect in lasting lines—and then went forth to his fate AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING* -7 By BRIGGS ] VCKJ SCEM -AwD iOMC OUE ANO WJHEKi IT <r=wJ~> D THAT SU66CSTS OWE COMES DovaJKJ SCv/EM HCUR'A SHOUT WOUkJD /" ~~ \ VO^DPAUJ a n)EcewT hmo ! / Owe Mof?e ) hand • You Pra^j ACL MIGHT i HAMD An o / Ano PILL A # . LET-i / FOYau FLUSH ' ADJO UR M/ WIMMGPI OF The CALLS MTH nothimo. | NIGHT ALSO HAS 6U T BiG PAIR AMD You T>l6 t>ouw * LL ?, l £i C AwD \ > FOR EUARV dollar EWERVTHINJG LK "~PtKKOIj£<KUIZa By the Kx-Committeeman Headquarters for the speakership boom of Representative Edwin R. Cox, of Philadelphia, opened last night with a fire of verbal shrapnel, aided by some big gun firing from Capitol Hill, against Representative Richard J. Baldwin, rival candidate for Speaker, and the men behind him. It. was the noisiest opening of a speakership cam paign known in Harrisburg for years and the closest approach to it was the John R. K. Scott boom in 1913, follow ing, which Scott took to the warpath and is still going. No less than three statements were sent out from the Cox headquarters and one was made by Attorney General Brown, the latter as an answer to Sen ator William C. Sproul. The Cox shrapnel burst about the bastions of the Baldwin boom, but drew no reply. The man front Delaware sat in his headquarters all evening, while the Cox headquarters buzzed with the Philadelphians who came with it and the Capitol Hill people who joined in the throng. Loneliness did not bother Baldwin, who remarked that as far as he knew there were less than half a dozen legislators in the city. The Cox people put out pictures find placards galore and let everyone know that the Philadelphian was strictly in the fight to win. —The essence of the statements is sued by the rival headquarters last night amounts to a claim by Baldwin that he has 114 sure, with 2 in sight, and he said that he thought he would have 120 in the caucus, and a fiat con tradiction by Scott, who said that Baldwin could not muster sixty votes and knew it. Scott also made the statement that if by any misfortune Baldwin should be elected* it would be a slap at the Progressives and would mean Democratic victory. —The Cox headquarters staff was augmented by Director of Public Safety W. II. _ Wilson, City Commissioner George' F. Holmes and others allied with the Vare wing of the party and they spent most of -the evening and most of this morning conferring with Scott, who appeared every now and then to give out a statement. A. Nevin Detrich was also there and a list of men who are going to help the Cox boom was issued. —James H. Maurer, president of the State Federation of Labor, who Is very strongly advocating the election of Cox, last night Issued tho statement which he had been discussing most of the day in answer to the letter of J. J. McDevitt, a vice-president of the State Federation, who had attacked Cox's labor record. Attacking Baldwin's labor record is a favorite diversion of the Cox boomers and when McDevitt turned the fire Maurer issued a state ment that McDevitt should have issued his letter on stationery of the Bar tenders' Union and not use the State Federation's. —Presence of ex-Representative Daniel J. Shern, of Philadelphia, at the Cox headquarters surprised many men, as for years Shern and the forces back of Cox were antagonistic. —Senator Vare joined in the state ment firing from the Philadelphia end anil in a bitter series attacked his opponents. —Attorney General Brown's answer to Senator Sprout was read with much interest, as Mr. Vtrown charges that the fees he drew were as counsel for the legislative commission to revise the revenue and corporation laws. He says: "Senator Sproul was chairman of the Senate finance committee dur ing all this time and could. If he would, have ntded some of these beneficial measures to adoption, but he refused, notwithstanding my repeated and urgent requests to do so. The reason was that he was financially interested in the subjects which in the reports he had recommended to he passed and personal interest tied his hands and silenced his voice. During the last session he was a member of the steer ing committee of the Senate and I louse to confer from time to time with the UoVernor In aid of good legislation. He ,was the consistent opponent of all measures providing for additional revenue, even though part of it was to build roads which he had bound the State to (Construct and for which there HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH was not only a public demand but a public clamor." - —Senator Penrose joined in 1 lie at tacks on the Attorney General last night and charged that he was not a Republican and that he never took part in Republican councils except as a lawyer. The senator says there will be investigation by the next Legis lature of the Brown fees. Said Sen ator Penrose: "These fees are not easily ascertained from an examination of the reports of the Auditor Gen eral because they are covered tip un der the designation of attorney feos, but at an early opportunity, doubtless, the vouchers will be required and will show that several hundred thousands of dollars have been paid to Mr. Brown and his associates, often for nominal work. In (he case of the revenue com mission, to which reference has been made, his charge for professional serv ices was some SoO.OOtl. more or less, which the commission grudgingly was induced to pay him." —Newspapers of Die stale appear to be generally demanding a clearing up of the charges that this or that is wrong and the chances are that legis lators coming here will be imbued with the idea that there should be some investigations. If this policy is adopted it will mean a protracted session with little more than appropriation bills and most of those more or less mussed up. —Mayor Fischer, of Williamsport, whose citizenship has been attacked, will resign next week. —Congressman Coleman says that he is confident that he can show that he was legally elected his in district. —Mayor Smith's home legislators appear to have .ioincd the Cox forces. —William A. Fisher, prominent in Butler county affairs and long con nected with the county committee, is dead. —Appointment of treasurers for Franklin and other counties is ex pected to come soon from the Gov ernor's office. Slowing Down At this time of year business usually slows down in many directions. The developments of the last two weeks, inaugurated by Germany's note for peace, have added somewhat to the slowing down. This is especially no ticeable where speculative commodi ties, including farm products, have en tered into consideration. No doubt all buying from now on until the present situation lias crystallized will be more rautious, where possible to cut it down, especially 011 commitments which ex tend too far into the future. Dun's Review says that this will be wel comed by producers with contracts for months ahead and pushed to their utmost capacity to meet requirements. —The Bache Review. Military Training [Saturday Evening Post.t] Australia, at war for two and a half years, rejected conscription. Tt -was only after nearly two years of war on an unparalleled scale that England— most grudgingly—accepted conscrip tion, with various modifications and disguises. Conscription in the United States is unthinkablo by tiny mind of normal temperature. But there are elements of military training that are valuable to any people in any situation. A discipline, both of body and mind, can be founded upon the manual of arms to much wider advantage than upon the rules of football or bnseball, because it can be given much wider application. Ath letics in schools and colleges persist ently selects those candidates who need athletic training least, because they are already so well developd bodily as to give promise of exceptional perform ance. The hollow-chested boy and girl are usually slighted. As now mainly organized, athletics in school and college elects the underdeveloped to sit In the grandstand and shout. Many parents choose a military school for boys solely for the bodily and men tal discipline involved. There is no rational pacifist objec tion to training on the military model in public schools. The model has been pretty carefully devised to get chest expansion, erect carriage, precision of motions, alertness; order and unity are implicit in It. If our militaristic agitation of the last two years should result In sol dierly drill in athletics as a standing feature of public school Instruction, its untoward intentions might well lie forgiven. Foundations of God Nevertheless the foundations of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Bet every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.—Xl Timothy 11, 19. COMMUNITY CENTE , THE GROWTH OF A CITY | j A GREAT many people are apt to think that the recent widespread movement in the cities of this country toward the establishment of social centers, playgrounds and insti tutions of like nature is representative of an innovation in human affairs. In reality, however, there is nothing new in the impulse, nor, when the full fruition of all these efforts is realized, will there then exist any condition which has not been experienced by the people of this country before. There was a time, before the rapid growth of cities, with their limiting and confining tendencies, had set in, when the community center —although not called by that name—was as per vasive an institution as it is now a rare one. The original social centers were the corner grocery, the church bazar, the town square, the public market and the schoolhouse. These performed completely all the functions which we now demand a social center shall perform. But their service in this respect was a gratuitous one; in I EDITORIAL COMMENT! Washington Herald—There is no evidence yet that the threatened egg boycott will cause the hens to go on strike or even ask for an eight-hour day. Washington Post—Those Valley Forge patriots may have been experi enced looters, but the cold storage out put suggests they overlooked quite a number of fresh eggs in their day. Curious Condensations [Taken From Exchanges] One out of four Australians has a substantial bank acount. Many ostriches in South Africa are hatched in incubators. A six-mile bore under James Peak, in the Rockies will cut 73 miles off the trans-continental trip. Bessie Arnell, a Chicago nurse, re cently received a $500,000 bequest in the will of an aged woman she once nursed. The gasoline consumed in the United States this year has been estimated as equivalent to a stream six feet wide and a foot deep flowing at a speed of a mile an hour. French chemists have discovered that coating the interior of containers with aluminum paint will prevent the accumulation of deposits that often come from hard water. Swedish scientists aro producing a new fertilizer by treating feldspar or another mineral base of potassium with a suitable amount of carbon and Iron in an electric furnace. To obtain a powerful searchlight with a comparatively weak current a Frenchman has mounted a number of incandescent lamps 011 a revolving circle, each In turn being illuminated briefly and their combined rays be ing collected by a reflector. Secretary of Labor Wilson began his career as a coal digger. China yearly Imports $4,000,000 worth of various kinds of leather. The Venezuelan Government has decided to build a highway across the Republic that will be CB3 miles long. The world's best cork comes from Spanish and Portuguese trees that are allowed to become 40 years old before the bark is cut, and tl.en it is removed only every eight or ten years. Ireland has 84,869 land holders' having plots not exceeding an acre, j 61,730 who hold more than one acre and not more than five acres, 153,299 under 15 and 136,058 not exceeding 30. To permit the miners to work longer shifts, the owners of a German coal mine compress air at the surface of the ground and pipe it to the deepest workings to cool and dry the atmo sphere the men breathe. Mrs. John McDonlugh of Gorham, Me., roused by the shouting of the telephone operator in an opposite I block, who first saw a big fire there | recently at once shot her automatic re-; volver out of the window and ran; down the street, pulling doorbells and ' shouting tire, until- she reached the! church, where, with aid, the bell was: rung. Approval of a Modest Man [From I<a Folletto'* Magazine.) Senator I-#a Kollette's re-election has been hailed with loy by true Progres sives everywhere in the nation. DECEMBER 27, 1916. this era of the country's history the social impulse was so naturally grati fied that men were able to satisfy it without becoming cognizant of the fact that they were doing so; and, as a re sult, the socializing aspect of these in stitutions received no recognition of the kind that might make men fully conscious of what their essential func tion consisted in or to how great an extent, they were necessary. The march of progress in time robbed these original social centers of their socializing power and made it necessary for their survival that they should function more technically, more in line with their essential na ture as institutions of a definite kind existent for a definite purpose. But a further advance will reclothe them with the old social covering. Indeed, we are now on the threshold of every where revivifying our specialized in stitutions so as to give them once more the character of social centers in addition to their more indispensable use.—Dallas (Texas) Morning News. [OUR DAILY LAUGH CHRISTMAS ( M The Christmas Of give and HOPE SHE'LL CATCH HTM. W"" Whero aro yo ® 7j jVW going, my ~Y&Ki ) y maid? "Ut. I'm going j pL JB >*- hunting sir, r - file said; What are you /ii pretty Vp The chump A*il who wrota '***£&" * M* rhvm. * S he sAld. What a vi'on-% derful com- •tirafftti* plexion she has. / < j Yes. Doesn't / / 1 seem natural, _/'i H \r— i does it? (,\ V l^r- I It isn't. J* ! Pompous Mediocrity [Philadelphia Ledger. | AVe talk a lot about the "tired" busi ness man. Ho has no monopoly of weariness, in various callings men grow lirod, and tor various reasons. One of the most fatiguing experiences of this-mortal existence is to meet the man whose head Is much too large for his brains, whose vanity exudes at every pore, whose sensitiveness is ever the chip on the shoulder ready to be knocked off, the tail of the coat drag ging on the ground ready to be trodden upon. It argues a limited experience of the world if a man feels himself large and consequential. What on earth has iie done that other men did not do be fore him, and do a great deal better? All the boasting of what one can do and what one will be is nothing;. If all the hot air that eddies and stratifies where people are supposed to be at work could be converted into calories, there would be no need of mining coal. And a good deal of the talk consists of overrating one's self and under rating the other fellow. Atoning Otyat Just as an instance of the necessity of getting outdoor work done it may be stated that there are several con tracts under way about Harriaburg where the men have to build fires in order to thaw out the ground. This work is going ahead almost day and night and the stern demands of busi ness, which know no abatement be cause of the present conditions, are forcing constant effort to get ahead in spite of the weather. In the Reading Railway's track extension work be tween the city line and Boyd the work- 1 men are digging dally with big fires near them, and the additional track, which is badly needed because of the constant growth of Reading traffic, is being put down in the face of Ihe severest weather. The other day the men went to work in a snowstorm, but they made tine progress, and by night fall had lots of track made. They were probably the only men engaged on outdoor work that day. The work on the new bridge over the Reading tracks at Poorhouse lane is also being hurried along, fires being built to help the graders, and the road roller goes over frosted ground. In the Pennsyl vania yard improvement work is also going ahead, although not favorable on many days for outdoor labor, and about the Pennsylvania and Central works there has been no cessation on the imp-ovements and repairs. The huge furnaces are being constructed at Steelton without any regard for weather conditions. * e A good story is being told by per sons who traveled on a Pennsylvania Railroad train going to Philadelphia a few days ago. On the train were a number of men active in politics and a game of cinch or something like that was played all the way to Philadelphia by Richard J. Baldwin, candidate for Speaker; William H. Ball, secretary to the Governor, and W. Harry Baker, Republican state committee secretary, with some others sitting in. The joke was that Baldwin won most of the gubernatorial secretary's cards. ♦ • "We have sold more chocolates than I ever knew before," was the remark of a confectioner yesterday. "The de mand has been tremendous and T think that there is something in the contention that there is more candy and less whisky given at. Christmas time. The demand for high grade goods has been growing constantly and this year we sold everything we had in stock. I think we could have sold more. A shipment we got three days before Christmas melted away. The factories seemed to have trouble keeping up the supply." • • • The Harrisburg and Valley railways met the biggest strain in their history on Saturday. The travel cat in early and continued until late and standing room only was the rule. Both com panies had every car in service and the man who ordinarily kicks when a car is crowded, was in a peaceful frame of mind. There was no other alternative. The situation was sum med up by the remark of one of the railways men at Market Square in the height of the rush. A querulous citi zen was growling about lack of cars and the man replied: "Well, we haven't any more. Every one is out except the summer cars. Want one of those?" Strange an it may seem there were numerous sales of boats last week and one man who handles such things declared that he had sold an unusual number of canoes. As a matter of fact interest in river sports has been grow. ins rapidly and the presentation of n. canoe or some paddles or some boat seats or cushions is as common a.A baseball bats and gloves or a tennis racket. But it does seem strange to think at canoes for Christmas when the wide branching Susquehanna is frozen solid. * Major J. C. Kirk, of New Cumber land, who is at the soldiers' home at \\ ashington, where the soldiers occupy the old summer home of President Lincoln, seems to have enjoyed a tine Christmas dinner, judging from the menu cards sent home. There was a band concert by the band of the homo and the veterans enjoyed roast Rhode Island turkey with all the trimmings from oyster cocktails to cigars. There were doubtless some tall stories told. The major is getting ready for his an nual march down Pennsylvania avenue. * • * Captain F. S. Leisonrlng, who will be In charge of the muster out of the Eighteenth Infantry at Pittsburgh, is a regular army officer who started his career as a soldier in the Cliamhcrs burg company of the Eighth Infantry. He went through the Spanish War and won a commission in the regulars afterward. At ("amp Brumbaugh ho was in charge of muster-in work and is well known to many residents of this city and the Cumberland Valley. W ♦ Congressman J. R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, who is the guiding spirit at the Cox headquarters, is a former legislator and was a candidate himself in 1913. Mr. Scott is vigorous and re sourceful and his handling of the cam paign is being watched with Interest here. rWEIL known people —The Rev. Robert MacGowan, of Lancaster, is spending the week at the seashore. —J. B. McMicliael, prominent in Carbon county affairs, has been made head of the Jercsy Central engineering corps. —Colonel E. I>. Kearns, commander of the Eighteenth Infantry, says that talk about trouble among Ills men at the border is all nonsense and officers back him up. —S. L. Parkes, secretary of the Berks County Conservation Associa tion, is leading In the movement to distribute grain for the birds In the mountain districts of bis county. —Dr. J. N. Jacobs, former county controller of Montgomery, who Is strong on controveisU- with officials, is just seventy-eight. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg plants are mak ing many constituent parts of i munitions? HISTORIC HARRISBITRG In old days the bells used to nil ring in Ilarrisburg on Christmas Day. Prohibition Prohibits The sneer of the liquor interests, that "prohibition does not prohibit," has already been answered by several of the prohibition States in the enact ment of laws which will make it next to impossible for the liquor interests to invade those States, on any pretext, without the risk of involving them selves in serious difficulty. States that have been "dry," that is are now be coming "boue dry." The latest ac cessions to the "bone dry" ranks are Arizona, Idaho, and Oregon. Kansas, of course, led the movement. The liquor interests said that Kansas could not keep them wholly out. Kansas accepted the challenge, and does keep them out, as nearly as it is, at this stage, possible to exclude any kind of lawbreakers.—Christian Science Monitor-
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