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SATURDAY EVENTING, JANUARY 6
I could tto greater sorroiv oit'ti
Than live in Paradise alone.
—Goethe.
THOSE MUNITIONS BIDS
THE offer of the English firm to
furnish shells for the United
States Navy at a figure far below
tho lowest bid of any American manu
facturer points a number of lessons
which the country might well pause to
consider.
In the first place, it is evident that '
no more English shell contracts will
be placed in the United States and
that the golden stream which has been
pouring for months Into the laps of
American munition makers has been !
dammed at its source. The offer of an
English firm to sell us shells at figures
below those of domestic concerns also
illustrates not only that England's
munition plants have reached a place
where they are able to care for all
Britain's needs in this respect, and to
make up the deficiencies of French
and Russian factories, as well as to
provide the Belgians with the ammu
nition they require. This also shows
how splendidly the English have re
sponded to the call for mobilization of
manufacturing resources for war pur
poses and how little the English have
been hampered In their shipping facili
ties for all the German submarine
warfare.
But biggest and most important of
all for this country Is the lesson that '
may be read Into the ability of Eng- i
land to undersell the United States In
open competition even during the un- 1
certainties and stress of war. The fact
well Illustrates the point Raised by Re- !
publicans ever since the war started i
that unless American industry and
American workmen are given the pro
tection of adequate tariff duties the
end of the war will witness such a
panic her© as the world has never
seen.
At the very best the reaction from
the abnormalities of war to the nor
malities of peace is bound to be dis
tressing, but with our markets left
open to the same kind of attack that
had prostrated them at the beginning
of the war and wtih long pent up
' European industry hungry for a for
eign market and -willing to sell at
prices we cannot touch, the only thing
that can save us from the suffering of
idle millions is the prompt erection of
a <arlft wall high enough to keep the
commercial invaders on their own side
of the water.
Cornwallis always was an unlucky
name in English army circles.
HIGH PRICE OF LOBSTER
THE Philadelphia Evening Ledger
mourns over the fact that lob-
ster has advanced in price to 85
cents a pound. Just why a news
paper writer should worry about the
price of lobster we are at a loss to
understand, unless newspaper writing
is n much more lucrative occupation
in Philadelphia than it is in Harris
burg. Most of the time we can be
found right up in the front seats
among the sob squad when food prices
begin to soar, our handkerchief
soaked with tears and our souls
steeped in bitter thoughts, but
when it comes to lobster why,
"we should worry," let 'er rip
knock off trie lid and make the
sky the limit. High-priced lobsters
have no terrors for us. We can't
afford 'em even when the market is
at rock bottom. Here's where we
have one laugh at the food barons
anyhow.
The allies having entered into a cru
fade against the "made In Germany
phrase seem to be carrying it even to
the peace propaganda.
KICKING CHAMPS DOG AIIOIXD
CHAMP CLARK opened Congress
with a thump of the gavel and
a published Interview declar
ing that this was to be a working
winter for Representatives and that
there would be no long holiday recess
aa a practical demonstration of the
Democratic devotion to public busi
ness.
Floor Leader Kitchin informed the
newspapers that the Christmas re
cess would take place about as usual.
Speaker Clark then intimated that
there might be a compromise on the
subject.
There waa.
Congress recessed on Friday, L>t
cerr.ber 22, to reconvene Tuesday,
January 2—the recs
SATURDAY "EVENING, &arrisburg telegraph JANUARY 6, i£l? ;
tomary length; But we have a new
demonstration of what constitutes a
compromise in the Democratic mind
which the Speaker possesses-.
It is the hame hind of ft compro
mise that President Wilson has all
along been hiaklng With Germany In
the submarine issue and Which he
made with the tallroftd brotherhoods
on the Adamson law.
Tills kind of a compromise consists
in letting the other fellow have his
own way. It Is about the only exhlbl
tlon which Champ Clark has ever
given of having traits In common with
"Woodrow "Wilson.
At any rate, the stock market has
been responsive to the President's
peace overtures.
THE SMELL OF "'BILED DINNERS"
COLLEGE boys are mighty finicky
these days. There's the Whar-
ton school chaps of the Unl
\ versity of Pennsylvania, at Phlladel
; phla, for instance, who have Just
| made public complaint because the
j smell of New England "biled dinners"
| occasionally floats through their class
rooms from a nearby food dispensary.
Now if it had been that the students
j couldn't work for thinking of how
j delicious "biled dinners" taste, one
might understand. But, no; they pro
| test because they do not like the
odors. Think of it, men! The smell
i of a New England "biled dinner" dis
tasteful and disagreeable when in
i haled about the fag-end of a busy
morning after an early breakfast!
Why it's preposterous!
Perhaps it may not be amiss to
suggest that the Wharton school boys
j of Philadelphia send the smells —ac-
companied by the dinners, of course
—to the Wharton school lads in Har
rlsburg. Complaints? Not on your
life; a vote of thanks, or we miss our
guess.
■\Ye hope the forming of a "Billy"
jSunday Corporation will not be follow
ed by an effort to organize a soul-sav
ing trust.
DAIRY INSPECTION
COMMENTING on an editorial ap
pearing In these columns, a
farmer, who does not give his
name, writes:
Y'ou ask us to "bow gracefully to
the inevitable" and accept State
dairy inspection, but will you. in
the city, bow gracefully and ac
cept an increase 'in the price of
milk? The farmers as a rule do
not object to dairy Inspection, as
such, but they do object to that in
spection being carried on by inex
perienced agents of the State, after
the manner of some work of a simi
lar nature that has been done In an
unreasonable and unwarranted
manner by boys Just out of college
who know no more about the prac
tical side of farming than the
farmer does about running a steel
mill.
State or Federal inspection of farms
| is written on the books of prospective
legislation. It is certain to come in 1
i one form or another. Conscientious,!
; painstaking farmers must be subject j
to it because other less careful farmers j
[ have been selling dirty, disease-con
taminated milk to helpless consumers.
The farmers are not able to correct
this condition. The people have no
resort but to governmental super
vision. As to the form dairy Inspec
tion shall take, that is largely up to
the farmers. They can see to it that
the law is framed so as to work upon
them no undue hardship. They can,
and should, see to it that the work of
inspection be done by men of experi
ence. Mine inspection, for example,
which Is under State supervision, Is
required to be done only by experi
enced men who must undergo a severe
examination as to their practical and
working knowledge of coal mining. It
should not be difficult to put some
such clause Into whatsoever milk m
spectlon bill shall be enacted.
X i:\YSPAPKR PROSPER IT V
THE Hartford Times, Hartford,
Conn., introducing a little book-
let entitled "One Hundred
Years of the Hartford Times," has
this to say concerning a phase of news
paper making that is all too infre
quently discussed:
No newspaper management min
imizes the importance of the com
mercial aspect of its enterprise; but
all intelligent newspaper publishers
Know that a newspaper to survive
and prosper, as The Times has sur
vived and prospered for one hun
dred years, must identify itself
with movements and with men
commanding the confidence of the
community. There must be poli
cies and purposes appealing to the
highest class of citizenship to se
cure in return from that class a
moral support upon which must
rest any enduring material pros
perity.
Newspapers in general are published
for the profits they earn.butsofhrfrom
stultifying them, this very desire for
money-making is perforce an up-llft
ing influence. Pick out in any com
munity a prosperous, profitable news
paper and nine times out of ten you
will have chosen one the aims of
which are for the public good and
which has been consistently and per
sistently for a period of years Identifi
ed with a large majority of the for
ward and progressive movements of
its home city and the country at
large. The newspaper that continues
to be published at a loss very often
would hesitate to take the public Into
its confidence as to how Its deficits are
made up and whence comes the money
to meet its expenses. The newspaper
that earns a profit to its owner must
have readers, and readers, in these
days of popular education and free
thinking, do not long patronize a pub
lication the policies of which are open
to suspicion. Profits are Indeed a sub
ject of vital interest to the newspaper
publisher, especially In these days of
excessive prices, but In every newspa
per office worthy the name there is a
code of ethics In no way related to the
pocketbook and which is as sacred ns
the decalogue.
The Times itself is an illustration of
the truth of these observations. The
prosperous, well-founded newspaper
in any community is tlje newspaper
that haa served and Is serving that
co<*u>-4inJty falcly and honestly.
J RESOLVED : : : : : : , i : By BRIGGS
BY rJoHW a. ALIBI- N| BY MALCOLM G.
To 6ay noThikig / 1 caddy- mot to
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Senator Edwin 11. Vare's defiant
declaration of Thursday that Senator
Penrose and his friends would not
undertake any investigation of the
Brumbaugh administration because
they did not have the vote 3 in either
branch of the Legislature waif an
swered last night by Senator Penrose
with a statement that he thought con
ditions on Capitol Hill required a thor
ough probe. As the senior senator did
not talk about impeachment, and as
Senator Vare's side is believed to be
seeking some way to avoid being too
much ignored In make-up of commit
tees and in legislation, there were a
good many people who to-day thought
that the battle was being fought to at
tract attention while some earnest
workers were engaged in an effort to
arrange a protocol.
Senator Penrose will go to the sea
shore to-day and so will many other
men prominent in the politics of the
State and next week there will be
many conferences. It is understood
that some neutrals in the State Re
publican row have been at work and
that the administration forces have
more than a passing interest in what
may happen in the next few days.
—The Penrose statement of last
night appears to have been a direct
answer to the Yare defiance. It was
hoped generally that when the speak
ership contest was settled things would
quiet down, and Governor Brumbaugh
in a statement on Tuesday said that
he was going ahead to attend to busi
ness. Some chattering in Philadelphia
about impeachment and other things
seems to have Irritated Senator Vare,
for he emitted a roar of defiance
Thursday, and the Penrose answer
may make the situation acute again.
Senator Penrose said:
"For all purposes looking toward
the enactment of progressive legis
lation and for investigations of mal
administration and malfeasance In
public office under the present ad
ministration. a majority of more than
two-thirds can be counted upon. This
majority will also prevail in the pass
age of appropriation bills over the
Governor's veto.
"This estimate, of course, includes
a great bulk of the Democratic vote,
because the question of such Investi
gations will appeal to all good citizens
regardless of party, and the same ob
servation will apply to the passage of
appropriation bills and progressive
legislation. All the members, whether
Democratic or Republican, breathed a
sigh of relief in feeling that they had
been emancipated from the Brum
baugh-Brown control.
"As to the course to be pursued, as
far as I am concerned. I am entirely
satisfied to have the Legislature eman
cipated from the Brown-Brumbaugh
control, and the subsequent proceed
ings will have to take their natural
and logical course.
"Republicans will endeavor to purge
their household of those unworthy to
remain therein, and at the same time
in working for the good of all the
people, as they will be doing, they will
welcome the support of the Democrats
in the Legislature to that end.
"In these matters all good citizens
have a common interest regardless of
party. I have been urged by thou
sands of person from all over the State
to keep on with the work begun. This
has always been my Intention, as 1
have frequently stated. There will be
no let-up in the proceedings.
"The Intention Is to make exhaustive
investigation of administration abuses
and malfeasance, and the people will
be astonished when they are fully in
formed as to the many acts of mal
administration during the last two
years at Harrisburg."
—As to the direct charges against
tho Governor, the Senator said that
there was ample evidence that the
Governor did not account for cam
paign contributions. This, said the Sen
ator, amounted to a violation of the
corrupt practices act. The Philadel
phia Record says the Governor and
his friends are planning a defense of
impeachment and that Colonel Kolb
Is with the Governor. Tho North
American quotes Attorney General
Brown as saying regarding Senator
Penrose. him rave."
Senator McNicliol saw Mayor
Smith yesterday in Philadelphia and
discussed matters of legislation, giv
ing the Mayor a chance to "be good."
—Chief Censor Breltinger appears
be getting a good many commenda-
tlona from organizations in Philadel
phia.
—Considerably Interest was aroused
here to-day by the conference held
yesterday at Pittsburgh In the interest
of State-wide prohibition as some of
tho participants had been men hith
erto identified with the local option
campaign, but who are now for prohi
bition. The general course of some of
those who have been fighting rum,
notably certain officials of tho Anti-
Saloon League, has been objected to in
various parts of the State and the new
movement Is said to be formed solely
for the purpose of demanding State
wide prohibition and working for it
regardless of who may be Governor
or Speaker. A State convention will
be held in Pittsburgh on February 8.
—Officials of the Prohibition State
committee are getting ready to pre
sent some strictly prohibition legisla
tion during the coming session and
there will be conferences here before
long at which plans will be laid.
—lt is understood that two or three
members of the House have been
making inquiries as to how to phrase
resolutions to submit prohibition
amendments to the constitution and
that such measures will undoubtedly
make their appearance In the House.
—The Anti-Saloon League, which
will have a local option bill this ses
sion, will probably wait until the com
mittees are named by Speaker Bald
win before announcing who will be
In charge of their bill. Last session
George W. Williams was In charge,
but whether lie will act with the
league this session or not is not stated.
Mr. Williams is a staunch local op
tionist.
Inspected to Death
[New York Sun.J
In his message to the general as
sembly the outgoing- governor of Ohio,
Mr. Willis, Bald something:
"My brief experience as a State offi
cial has convinced me that Ohio is
overofficered and overinspected and that
the people and business of Ohio are be
ing inspected to death."
Every Governor of almost every State,
every Mayor of almost every city,
knows at or before the end of his (Irst
term that the truth which Prank
Bartlette Willis has spoken so frank
ly about Ohio is applicable to almost
every government in America. Pay
rolls sag under the overgrown list of
superfluous employes. The people and
their property are inspected from a
dozen sides for evils which, if they
really exist, are not remedied as a re
sult of the inspection.
A Governor and a Mayor who would
enter on a term of office with an ob
session for eliminating the ridiculous
and the extravagant would come out
with glory, but how the tax eaters
would hate him?
College Men
[Theodore Vail In American Magazine]
The young man entering life must not
be impatient. He must accumulate ex
perience, he must learn the duties of
his position by the actual doing before
he has any value to hia employer.
The reason so many college boys fall
is that they are full of theories; they
think they know It all. A college course
is a good thing, an excellent thing, but
it must be given to the right kind of
youth. Quite/n number of the highest
positions are filled by men who went
through college but who had no false
notions as to what was required of them
when they entered business. No man is
w °rth anything until he has gone into
the heat of the battle and had hia
theories subordinated to practice.
The son of rich parents is handi
capped In his youth. He gets no ex
perience of doing things, and no op
portunity to benefit from hard knocks
such as come the other fellow's way.
When a boy comes to ask me to put
him through college I tell him it would
be the worst thing ihat could happen
to him. I sAy: "You would not only
have a burden of debt on your should
ers when you finished college, but you
would have the additional burden of
getting experience—and it Is pretty
hard to get experience and earn money
at the same time. You can earn money
only after you have had experience."
New England Farmer Prospers
With fresh eggs selling at 65 cents a
dozen, potatoes marketed by grange
organizations at record prices, und
.small community manufacturing made
pof-stblo by the Kcsoline engine, winter
on New England farms is not the un
productive period It was a quarter of a
century ago. Agents for player pianos
and motor cars are probably finding
Maine as rich a field tn these days as
lowa and Kansas.—Christian Science
Monitor.
TAX ON THE DISSEMINATION OF
INTELLIGENCE
j Congress could Hjo nothing that
j would so provincialize the country as
| to pasa the pending Randall amend
ment to the post office appropriation
bill providing for a graduated second
| class postage rate.
By this amendment It is proposed
i to make the rate of postage on na
tionally circulated newspapers and
periodicals one cent a pound for a
: distance less than 300 miles; two
cents a pound for Sioo miles or over;
three cents a pound for tiOO miles or
over: four cenls a pound for 1,000
miles or over: five cents a pound for!
1 1,00 miles or over; and six cents a
pound for 1,800 miles or over.
Thus, current news and intelligence,
furnished to the peoplo by newspa- 1
! pers and periodicals is to be taxed
j and therefore will presumably be re
tarded in proportion to the distance
that separates the subscribers' from
I the usual centers of publication. For
| there are natural distribution piont.s
j for the circulation of intelligence, as
i there are natural markets or centers
of distribution for cotton, oranges,
| iron ore. wheat, etc., and it is well
known that recent rulings of the In
terstate Commerce Commission have
| tended to lower the rates oil such
commodities in proportion to the dis
tance from the natural market in or
der to facilitate a wider distribution.
Surely nothing is more important to
any nation than the free circulation
of intelligence, even into the remotest
i corners of the country, and to ham
per, impede or tax that distribution
in favor of one section and against
another is more inexcusable with re
spect to this particular commodity
than to any other.
Daniel Webster, who was largely re
sponsible for creating tV.e socond-clnss
postage rate, declared that the widest
dissemination of newspaper andj
LETTERS TO THE EDITO^)
The Mexican Border
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I send you the enclosed clipping,
which If you care to publish, do so.
Yours truly,
J. E. RUTHERFORD,
The devil In liell, they say, was chained.
And there a thousand years remained.
He never complained, nor did he groan.
But decided to start a little hell of his
own.
So he asked the Lord If He had any on
handi
Left over when Ho made this land.
The Lord said, "Yes, I've plenty handy.
But I left it all down on the Rio
Grande—
In fact, old boy, the truok is so poor
I don't think it could be used as hell
any more."
The devil examined it closely and well
And concluded the country was too dry
for h®"-
But the Lord, to get it off of His hands.
Promised the devil He'd water the
lands,
As Ha had some water that was of no
use.
Regular bog: holes, and smelled like the
deuce.
So the trade was made and the deed
was given.
And the Lord went back to His home
in Heaven.
And the devil said It was all he needed
To start a new hell, and then he pro
ceeded.
He scattered tarantulas along the roads,
Put thorns on the cactus, and horns on
the toads,
He mixed up the sands with millions of
ants,
So those who sat down needed half
soles on their pants,
He lengthened the horns of the Texas
steer,.
And put an addition to the jack-rab
blt's ear.
He quickened the step of the bronco
steed
And poisoned the feet of the centipede;
He put juajalota in all the lakes
And under the rocks hid rattlesnakes;
The wild boar roams through the chap
arral.
And it's damned poor place he's got for
a hell.
(Juajalota. is a venomous pest known
aa a water dor.)
periodical intelligence and criticism
was absolutely essential to properly
secure the liberties of a democracy.
Have conditions so changed that it
would to-day be better to discourage
all nationally circulated newspapers
and periodicals and Vnake tho local
newspaper the sole and supreme pur
veyor of all news on all subjects and
from all sources, local and foreign?
Not the least unfortunate result of
such legislation would be its effect
upon scientific, professional and other
class publications. Such periodicals
are financially impossible unless na
tionally circulated. Some of the most
important of these periodicals are to
day circulated at loss, by persons In
terested in the promotion of the
sciences that they represent. To ma
terially increase the operating ex
pense of circulating such periodicals,
not only by quadrupling, on an aver
age, the postage rate, but by making
necessary the employment of addi
tional help to carefully divide the
widely scattered circulation Into eight
different "zone" packages, would. In
some cases, be absolutely prohibitive.
The small additional revenue which
the government would gain by this
amendment would hardly compensate
for the loss of such Important con
tributions to science and learning.
The amendment should be defeated.
If the rate must be raised let. the in
crease be shared equally by all publi
cations, and borne equally by all sec
tions. Above all, let us keep the nerve
centers of intelligence freely open to
the farthest reaches of the body
politic, that there may be throughout
all the members no Impairment of
that responsiveness toward every Im
portant issue, social, scientific or
political, which only a thoroughly in
formed public sentiment can make
possible.—A. H. 11., In Central Law
Journal.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Advance in marine insurance rates to
15 per cent., coincident with the peace
move, may be called constructive criti
cism.—Wall Street Journal.
The Allies, in awarding Constanti
nople to Russia, have evidently forgot
ten the famous recipe for rabbit pie.
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Those 448,000 rounds of ammunition
permitted into Mexico will doubtless be
returned to the United States in the
usual way.—Wall Street Journal.
General Scott thinks that more men
might be attracted to the regular army
if the soldier s pay was raised. It does
look reasonable.—Dallas News.
It was not reasonable to suppose the
war babies could attain the age of two
years without ever keeping their proud
Earents awake nights. Cleveland
leader.
Speaking of large returns from a
small investment, how about Mr Wil
son's contribution of $2,500 to the
Democratic campaign fund? Nash
ville Southern Lumberman.
The obvious thing for a poor man to
do is to join a diet squad.— Louisville
Courier-Journal.
OUR DAILY LAUGH |
QUICK SHIFT. Jlj
Bessie says f
fou have beau- j J
I must thank iSfc y
Sho wants to VIR I \\\
know where you
——WHAT'S THE
(TWj : come over to
iH j[ Mrs. Jones with
-S, ■n She'll make you
,#i l*4\ gg feel just as If
_ ffl nyQfr-'j 8m you were at
fgST home.
I Hubby—Then
II • what on la
• Vt'll i\ \ th * sense of go-
II I ■AJ lng there?
©mtittg Chat
People who attended the conference
on the same and fish law changes held
at the State Capitol yesterday weri
rather surprised at the statements
made by representatives of sports
men's associations In regard to thA
populer demand for fishing on Sun
day. Some of the speakers were em
phatic In their predictions that th
next legislature would not pass a law"
forbidding fishing on the Sabbath and
It was only decided to give the com-
mltteo In charge of the fish code pro
posed to be submitted authority to in
®*rs„a c 'iuse In the code forbidding
angling on Sunday In the/ event that.
It was found that the Governor would
not a PProve It unless it contained such
a prohibition. One speaker said that
tHere were more peoplo riding on rail
load trains on pleasure trips on Sun
flay than travel by automobile for
Pleasure on that day, and that if peo
ple could play golf, tennis, croquet of*
baseball on Sunday there was 110 rca-*
son why men who worked ten hours
a day six days a week should not bof
? r ! 1 ? to en J°y some sport fur
nished by nature in the woods wheroi
tne air is pure and where there arty
opportunities for children to enjo/
country. Another point made!
was that many fishermen who can goi
to a place outside of the State for tu
dollar and be permitted to iish all day
UnS A ?i re to do that t0 paying IV
tll.it ar , V? the State for a fishing
JfJt *1 an ? tfl ero was any re^
™ °l„ flshin P Sunday it would
cost the State thousands of dollars*
which men would be otherwise will
ing to pay. The statements wer
™ considerable vigor by men, 4
ha i, ,hPy dl<l not flal OtV
Sunday and did not countenance it,
♦• * ? ha(l I>een canvassing
sentiment and were surprised at the>
result. One man, an ardent church,
worker, admitted the growth of a dis
position on the part of people in th
State to make Sunday more of a dav"
of recreation than rest and said it
would be a force which would havo
to be reckoned with in the 1917 Legis
lature. The discussion lasted a> hour*
and impressed everyone in the meet
ing because it was unexpected and.
practically none of the members had.-
tailced it over with each other,
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Not often does an official on an In
spection visit from another city rgC
an 6pportunity to observe fire ap
paratus in deadly serious action suclt
as fell to the lot of City Commissioner
E. Z. Gross and Fire Chief John Kind
ler during their trip to New York a
few days ago to investigate different
types of motor apparatus for Informa
tion incident to the proposed purchase
by Harrisburg of $60,000 worth ofi
motor equipment. But Park Commis
sioner Gross and Fire Chief Kindier
got into New York just about the timo
the motor department was busily bat
tling with the big film company blaze.
Following their inspection of the New
York lire apparatus the Harrisburgr
officials went over to Elizabeth, N. J.,
and had a look at that city's motorized
department. Probably one more trii
will be made. This will be to Myers
town to see a certain type of engino
pump in action. Incidehtally whilo
in New York Chief Mechanician De
maree offered his services to Harris
burg's new mechanician if the latter
makes a little visit there. New York'.-*
mechanician equipment is one of the
best in the country and Mr. Gross wa*
told that the "HI" ol' N'York's" depart-'
mental head will be glad to show
Harrisburg's new official 'round so a*
to give him what tips he can pick ui
on the way the great metropolis
handles this Job. *
• •
Thus far, and there is no reason why
! there should be any difference, thu
transfer of United States property to
the Pennsylvania militia organizations
which have • returned from El Pasu
has been made rapidly and in a man
ner that has brought general com
mendation. The Pennsylvania Na
tional Guard property system is recog
nized by the regular army officers as
far in advance of other States and
the methods will be easily adjusted to
take care of the many new proposi
tions which are cropping up because
of the placing of the Guardsmen on
a footing more closely approximating
the regulars.
• •
Although the streets were glazed
with Ice and sleet In the recent storm
that struck the city, the telephona
lines still buzzed busily. In a certain
section of town there are two women
who live but a short distance apart and
both are noted as being the most effi
cient newsgatherers of the vicinity.
The icy condition of the streets
prohibited tl>e early morning call to
'swop' gossip, so they were forced to
resort to the telephone. The follow
ing conversation was heard by a visi
tor that listened so well, that he was
able to hear not only the booming
voice of the obese (for libel's sake, wo
will say) Mrs. Skyblue, but also tlio
querulous screech of the angular Mrs.
Darkbrown at the other end of tha
line.
"Good morning," said Mrs. Skyblua
In answer to the call.
"Good morning," came the reply*
"I'm so sorry that I can't get over to
see you this morning, but to venture
out a morning like this is Just liko
tempting Providence."
"Oh, I'm so sorry, too," complained
the other, "I had such a perfectly aw-
Tul story to tell you about Mrs. 'you
know' —that lives next door, only I
couldn't tell you over the phone."
Scarcely had she finished speaking
until in hurried tones the following
was heard: "Well, now maybe. If I put.
on rubbers I could walk faster. I'll
be right over—in three minutes."
• • •
Among visitors to the city yester
day was Colonel Frank M. Vandling,
a former llarrisburger and one of
the best-known of the State's national
guardsmen. He was welcomed by
many friends.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Dr. O. R. Altman, of Unlontown*
has been eflected president of the
Fayette County Medical Soceity.
—Congressman J. Hampton Moore,
who is objecting to special aid for
farmers and none for manufacturers,
represents the big manufacturing dis
trict of Philadelphia.
—Dr. F. W. Wright, prominent
Fayette county educator, will become
a State educational official in Massa
chusetts.
—A. A. Shoemaker, well known
here, has been elected to head tha
school director* of Montgomery v
county.
—Senator P. C. Knox will spend tho
winter in southern States with occa
sional visits to Valley Forge.
| DO YOU KNOW |
That Ifarrisburg has one of the
largest bread outputs of any dtjr
of 100,000 populution In the land?
HISTORIC HARRISBFRG
The leading provincial officials held
meetings at Murris Ferry annually
from 1755 to 1765.
Raise in Price %
The afternoon newspapers of Erie,
Pa., the Times and the Herald, now
sell for two cents a copy.