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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
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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