8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBGRAPH PRIXTIXG CO., 1 Telegraph llulldlngr, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Pres't ana Editor-in-Chief S\ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub ./li-T-mitt Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Clrcu- IjfaßSliWDs.. latlon >nd Penn- ISliSitSl fif sylvanla Associat es 3 flCJli Si Eastern office, SE'laßf'SH HI Story, Brooks <& His £ 229 ffil Flnley, Fifth Ave- S"! nue Building, New JSIUiSfiS is Tork cu> " : West- Mtf'Jlan ern office. Story, ley.^People's Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail. $5.00 at I year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 18. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.—Gal. 6 ; 7. PENNSYLVANIA CITIES MUCH has been said during the last few days concerning the constructive program for the Legislature in which both Republican tactions propose to have a part While no definite statement has been made as to the nature of the pro posals which will be submitted to the Legislature it is intimated that the bills to be introduced contemplate im portant reforms in many directions. May we not suggest that now is a good time for those who are prepar ing measures which will benefit the State at large and its several munici palities to give serious attention to the question of home rule, not only for the cities, but for the boroughs and lesser communities. Pennsylvania has been checked in its development by general laws re stricting cities to the things specified by the Legislature, when these cities should be permitted to do anything and everything legitimate for their advancement not prohibited by the State constitution. Nine States already have adopted home rule provisions for cities, which have proved uniformally satisfactory. There has been a gradual increase of home rule sentiment in Pennsylvania and one Governor after another has referred to the subject in messages to the Legislature. Local charters are more satisfactory than general laws affecting all com munities. Under present conditions these communities are restrained at every turn and the power of self gov ernment has been withheld, so that no progressive move can be made without encountering a constitutional or statutory obstruction. Harrisburg frequently has been con fronted by problems which seriously interfere with its advancement and the time of the Legislature is con stantly taken up with local legislation in the form of general laws which should not for a moment encumber the calendars of either Senate or House. Responsibility should be placed upon the cities and when this shall have been done by a wide meas ure of home rule men of civic pride and public spirit will be glad to aid in the solution of the local problems, which are never the same in any two j cities. The State at large demands the j entire attention of the Legislature and i yet about seventy-five per cent, of the time of every* session is consumed in the consideration of bills designed to' relieve this or that municipality when these same municipalities should be disposing of their own matters with out hindrance to the Commonwealth. In short, the cities should be permit ted to control their interests and un less and until there shall be an amend ment of the State constitution giving them the right to adopt their own charters and dispose of their own pro blems there will be constant irritation and retarded development. Only this week a committee of the borough association of the State agreed to favor a home rule amend ment In the Legislature, and judging from the general operation of the average Pennsylvania borough some such legislation is seriously needed. REVISING UPWARD f A BOUT six weeks ago, Secretary of j£\ the Treasury McAdoo issued his annual report which predicted a deficit of about $185,000,000 for the fiscal year to end June 30, 1918. Now he Is out with a statement to the effect that $379,000,000 of additional funds must be raised for that year. It will be noticed that although the Wilson administration revised the import taxes downward, every time they re vise their estimates of expenditures, they revise them upward. CRIME AND THE SCREEN TWO moving picture theaters at Uniontown were robbed during a fierce blizzard this wfeek. Three safes were blown open and the robbers escaped with $1,500 and valuable pa pers. These theaters are within 1,500 feet of each other. Thus the film lessons in burglary bear fruit in the moving picture the aters, illustrating the force of publicity and the menace to public safety of many of the so-called dramas now pre sented upon the screens. Unless the moving picture promoters realize that they are sowing the seed which must produce a crop of criminals, the blow ing open of safes at Uniontown means the beginning of a train of outrages of this character. There has been complaint of strict censorship of the moving picture In dustry, but it would appear that a. "I'IWMMY iviwwe, much more drastic supervision of the films will be necessary to prevent a serious depreciation of public morals. What has happened at ftnlontown Is likely to happen elsewhere and the blame must rest upon those responsible for educating the youth In crime. WHAT ABOUT THE SQUARE THROUGH the introduction in City Council of an ordinance pro viding for the employment of an expert to prepare plans for rerout ing of traffic, an Isle of safety and pub lic comfort facilities in Market Square, the people of Harrisburg are squarely fronted with a proposition that has been incubating several years. It should now be threshed out and defi nitely set .led. The people authorized an item of $25,000 for this purpose in one of the earlier loans, but public sentiment has always been opposed to a public comfort station as the most conspicuous object in the city's main plaza. Until this week the municipal authorities liavc declined to take ac tion. City Commissioner Lynch, however, has finally been persuaded—but with a wry face—to start the ball rolling, and it may be imagined how cheer fully he presented the ordinance for an expert's services. Commissioner Lynch is not always strong for experts, albeit he recognizes their value In public comfort matters. Several ex perts have tried their hands on the Market Square problem, but when the final solution shall have been reached it will be through the counsel and ex perience of practical traffic authori ties. For after all, the people must un derstand that it is not a public com fort station in Market Square that must be provided; what is demanded is relief from intolerable traffic con ditions. Whether the street cars shall run around an oval—otherwise an isle of safety—or in some other scheme of track rearrangement is the problem. But popping up at every conference held v-der the auspices of the execu tive committee of the Municipal League is the little public comfort joker—the scheme for an overhead or underground, or partly overhead and partly underground, station with toilet facilities. Shades of John Harris! The mem ory of the good old founder to be per petuated in the finest open plaza dedi cated by him in the very heart of the city, not by a statue or other suitable memorial, but by a public comfort station! Under the circumstances, let us hope that Commissioner Lynch's ordinance may be made comprehen i sive and specific so that the expert en gaged shall suggest an appropriate de sign for the thing to which our people will always be delighted to point with pride when showing visitors about the city. All that aside, however, we should have some sane treatment of Market Square as to traffic provisions and an isle of safety. These ought to have been provided long ago; but why the "public comfort" rider is always at tached to the propositions in face of j public disapproval Is difficult to un-1 derstand. Many admirable things have been j done by the Municipal League. It has had an honorable part in all the pub lic improvement work of the last six teen years. There is yet an inviting, not to say clamorous, field for its im portant activities, but the urging of a public comfort station as one of the features of the proposed changes in Market Square is, in the judgment of many thoughtful citizens, a serious mistake. Public comfort facilities are sorely needed, of course; but let these bo provided in convenient locations where they will not evoke public ridi cule. Council will do well to stop, look and listen before reaching a con clusion In this matter. GETTING TOGETHER FROM Albany comes news of a reconciliation between Governor Whitman and Colonel Roosevelt. Reconciliation among men who once bore the Republican name in common and have again taken up political comradeship has been fashionable since last June. It is a good example Jto follow. . ""poCifctc* Lk ' (""PtKKOifttfuUa By the Ex-Oommittecnuui Harmony in the Democratic State organization, which has been growing more or less obtrusive in the lost month, seems to be on a fair way to be shattered because of a row which has | broken out among the factions over i vacancies in the Federal service and j some postmasterships which have not i been filled because bosses could not ! agree upon the selections. For months ! the State leaders were able to pacify I the local leaders and in spite of the multitude of applicants for places managed to prevent any breach at various meetings last year. They even kept the liquor question down and men who had been deadly rivals united under the stimulus of a national cam paign. When the Republican state leaders started to row over the speakership the Democrats fairly threw themselves at each other and there was much talk about the harmonious organization and the manner in which the Demo crats were united and bent upon clean-' lng up and doiug other things to Penn sylvania. And now they have fallen out over the part which they should take in any Investigation of the State government and over the appointment to the mercantile appraisership in Philadelphia. Some of the Democrats want to run the investigation and others want to take only a part in It, while some do not want It at all. The Philadelphia Press, always friendly to the reorganization crew, has this to say: "Factional strife in the Democratic ranks between the Old Guard and the Reorganlzers. never actually concluded, although appar ently so, when City Committee Chair man B. Gordon Bromley retired as head of the Old Guard and State Com mittee Chairman Roland S. Morris re tired as leader, of the Reorganizers, has broken out afresh in the struggle for the $4,000 appratsershlp post re cently made vacant by the retirement of W. W. Roper. The slated candidate Is, as announced by Tho Press, A. L. Moise, law partner of City Committee Chairman Edgar W. Lank. He has the backing of A. Mitchell Palmer. Vigorous opposition to the Moise ap pointment, which his backers tried to have made before knowledge of it was widespread, has broken out since pub- 1 liclty was given to It." The Philadelphia Inquirer of to-day 1 says: "A Penrose move to win the 1 co-operation of the Democrats in the : prQbing of the several departments in : thp Brumbaugh administration was disclosed yesterday when Senator Pen rose admitted that a proposition had been made that there be at least one Democrat from the Senate and one from the House uj>on the joint com mission of the General Assembly to conduct the investigation. 'I think this is an eminently fair and proper I suggestion,' remarked the senator, I "and believe it will be carried out.' The senator added that there had been no agreement as to the number of members to be appointed on the com mission. He said it was desired that the commission be as small as possible, the exact number to be determined be fore Monday next, when the resolution will be offered at Harrisburg. There are ten Democratic members of the Senate and thirty-seven Democrats are on the roll of membership of the House. The attitude of the Demo crats has already been clearly defined by the action of their caucus which was followed by the introduction of a resolution in the House by Representa tive Sarig, of Berks county, calling for an investigation of the various charges made by Senator Penrose and others affecting the State administration and reciting such allegations in full. The Democrats hope to make political capi tal out of the probe that will aid them in the next gubernatorial campaign. - ' —Democrats in some of the cities of the State are not showing as much eagerness to spend their money for trips to the Wilson reinaugural as they did four years ago and there are fears among some of the Democratic leaders that there will be a startling contrast between the Keystone State paruders of March and those of four years ago. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, where the jobs are nearly all given out, there is little interest, and the Lackawanna and Luzerne contingents will be more of compliment to the men who worked them up than to the President. —Another thing which is disturbing the Democrats is that there is a pro nounced division among some of them on the rum question. The State lead ers have not made up their minds and the red-hot declarations of some can didates two years ago are not echoed by the rank and file. The fact that the Democratic members soft pedalled that proposition at the recent caucus In the Capitol is regarded as significant. —The city of New Castle lias solved the much vexed question of where to locate its garbage plant by buying a plot some distance from the town. Al toona will probably do the same. —Senator Frank E. Baldwin, who was fought by the State administration forces for election to the upper house, may be a member of the investigation commission which Is proposed. —The formal resignation of Bank ing Commissioner W. H. Smith was issued last night. It is less than twenty words. —D. Edward Long, the new Su perintendent of Public Printing, had a talk with the Governor and Attorney General yesterday and will await con firmation by the Senate before making any move to take charge of the office. ■ —The city council of Williamsport is tied up in a knot on the question of a city clerk to fill a vacancy caused by death. Several ballots have not shown an election. A Pittsburgh dispatch says: "AH of the Allegheny county representatives who voted for Richard J. Baldwin for Speaker in the Republican caucus, and probably more, will back Senator Pen rose to the limit in his announced plan to investigate State offices at Harris burg. Public Service Commissionet William A. Magee. ex-mayor, and chief . Brumbaugh supporter here. Is care fully laying lines to capture the mayor i alty for President J. P. Kerr, of Pitts burgh's .city council of nine at the i nonpartisan primaries, in opposition to the regular organization forces ' headed by Mayor Joseph G. Arm strong, a staunch supporter of the i senior senator. An investigation of the Public Service Commission, which would have to do largely with the po litical and other activities of Commis ' filoner Magee, the antl-Magee people here figure, would keep Magee busy i enough In Harrisburg so that he would have little time to direct the mayoralty i campaign of his friend, Dr. Kerr." A joint resolution of the General Assembly such as is proposed for the , creation of the Investigating commis sion requires the signature of the Gov. • ernor to be effective. "I assume the Governor will affix his signature to the resolution." remarked Senator Penrose in Philadelphia last night, "as he has said he welcomes an investigation of his administration." —Senator Vare and his party are expected home from Hot Springs to , morrow or next day and the plans for meeting the Penrose probe will then be started. —Senator E. E. Jones, of Susque , hanna. was among callers at the Pen rose offices In Philadelphia yesterday. —Senator Salus is to be given a din ner in Philadelphia and ex-Repre-i | BUBBLES—THAT'S ALL 1 News Note.—Dr. J. T. Spangler, professor of philosophy at Valley College and former pastor of First United Brethren Church of this city, says this is the age of frivolity. sentatlve D. J. Shern, his former rival . and probable successor, will preside. I —Plans for some investigations of I expenditures of commissions are being | discussed among leaders and it is pos- I sible that there may also be probes of ' reasons why game protectors were dis- , missed. It is said that direct orders for political activity of such officials were issued. Year of Prohibition j [Kansas City Times] Prohibition has been in force one 1 year In the State of Washington. The Spokesman-Review, leading newspaper ! of the city of Spokane, in its issue of ! December 31, gives nearly two pages t to answering the question: "lias pro- < hibitlon paid In Spokane?" It re views the business conditions and • i sums up the situation under two ' large headlines. One says: "Bankers, 1 Merchants, Wholesalers, Realty Men " and Amusement Men, Tell th° Same Story, That Business Is Better." The < other headline is: "Four Million Dol- 1 lars Saved for Spokane Pockets by 1 Dry Law." In 1916 Spokane, with a population i of 105,000, had 160 saloons which took in an average of $75 a day for 313 days. This totals 3,756,000. Add to this the business done by breweries and liquor supply houses to private homes and the amount is $4,800,000 which Spokane spent for beer and booze in 1915. The Spokesman - Review estimates i that in 1916 there was illegally sold - in Spokane by bootleggers at an aver age of $7.50 a gallon, about $700,000 worth of booze. This taken from the total spent in 1915 makes a total saving of $4,100,000 in the first year of prohibition. "This," says the Spokesman-Review, "means a saving of $35 per capita, or about SIOO for the average head of a family. This $4,100,000 would pay the costs of running the city govern- i nient nearly three times over. Spo kane's saving on booze alone would pay all the taxes levied for all pur poses in a whole year." The average number of inmates in the county infirmary, or poorhouse, dropped from 172 in 1915 to 117 in 1916, and there was a net saving of $6,000 in the cost of operation in 1916. In 1915 120 cases of delirium tremens were handled by the county physician, and only eleven were handled in 1916. It cost $35,000 less to administer the jail, courts, in firmary and indigent relief in 1916 than in 1915. The record of arrests shows drunkenness to have decreased 40 percent., vagrancy 27 per cent, and disorderly conduct 31 per cent, in 1916. "One-half as many burglaries were committed during the dry year as were committed in 1915, one-third as many forgeries, less than one-half the rob beries, less than one-third the petty larcenies. When in 1915, with the saloons running, desperate men took > any means to get money, there were 439 cases of burglary, robbery, forgery and larceny combined. In 1916, with the city dry, there was a combined total of 166 such offenses, a reduction of 62.2 per cent," says the newspaper. And yet there are men who argue that prohibition is a hindrance instead of a help. Was Postmaster 44 Years Common opinion makes the Post Of fice Department the conspicuous haunt of the expiring spoils system. Yet the postal service is not all spoils. A little village In Trumbull county, Ohio, mourns the retirement of a post master who held his office for some thing more than forty-four years. If the calculation of the local correspon dent is right, this Federal official must have been appointed by President Grant i and weathered any number of partisan I storms since then. The merit plan in public office was a curiosity little understood forty-four , years ago. The jobs, large and small, were supposed to belong to the party in power. This retiring postmaster has seen through the wicket of his village office a transformation of the public i view touching such positions as he and hundreds of thousands of others slmi | larly employed have occupied. But the ' transformation is not yet complete. The improvement continues.—From the s Cleveland Plain Dealer. i War Prosperity That the prosperity of the last year • was distinctively and chiefly war pros '■ perity was made increasingly evident ' from each successive month's report I of foreign commerce. The culmlnat r ing and convincing demonstration of it, however, appears In the recapitula tion of those reports for the calendar I year. The second largest item on the 1 list, larger than even that of bread ■ stuffs, Is that of explosives, including ■ gunpowder, dynamite and cartridges. ! In spite of the talk about "permanent ! prosperity," which we heard last ! autumn, no intelligent citizen would ' pretend that its Increase from only $6,272,197 In 1914 to $467,081,928 In 1916, was due to any other cause than the war. Boston Transcript. Christ, the Foundation According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another bulldeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he bulldeth there upon. For other foundation ran no man lay than that Is laid, which is Jeausl i Christ.—l Corinthians iii, lo and 11, I COLONEL PRAISES PENNSYLVANIA will feel a thrill of pride in reading Theo dore Roosevelt's introduction to "Justice to All," the story of the Pennsylvania State Police, now writ ten for the first time and issued this week by a well-known publishing house. "This is a volume so interesting," says Colonel Roosevelt, "and from the standpoint of sound American citizen ship, so valuable that it should be in every public library in the land." After reviewing some of the achieve ments of the force during the past ten years and commenting on the vividness, interest and accuracy of the! work of the author, Miss Katherine j Mayo, he speaks of his personal ac quaintance with the rank and file of the force and concludes with excep- j tional praise of the entire personnel, j In "Justice to All" the author has! made the presentation of the facts re lating to the organization and serv-1 | EDITORIAL COMMENT] Eggs mailed C. O. D. may reduce the H. C. L., but probably not P. D. Q. —N. Y. Sun. In justice to himself, ought Mr. Lawson to keep that secret corked up much longer? Isn't he affaid he is going to burst?— Kansas City Star. The dollar that the merchant saves by not advertising is usually spent paying interest on the note made necessary to carry over the goods.— Chester Times. An ounce of preparedness is worth a barrel of pork.—Brooklyn Eagle. A plowshare beaten Into a sword can not so easily be beaten back again.— Brooklyn Eagle. Admiral Dewey Is 79 years old, but still looks like a lion in a den of Dan iels.—Wall Street Journal. The Cause John Masefleld. the famous English poet, has sent the United States a New Year's message, in spite of the fact that his services with the British lted Cross at Galllpoli and at the French front have been almost incessant, and he has had scant time for writing. Masefleld has contributed a poem, "The Choice," to the January number of Contemporary Verse, Issued January 18. the Philadelphia magazine devoted wholly to poetry, in which he prophesies the ultimate overthrow of all mon archical forms of government and which concludes with an expression, well be fitting the dawning year, of his coura geous faith that the soul of man will soon weary of "the sack of many-peo pled towns" and experience a new spiri tual birth. Masefleld's reception by audiences in ,this country, which he visited last year, during his convalescence from a fever contracted at the Dardanelles, was one of the most remarkable ever given a poet. All the halls at which he spoke were crowded to the doors and In Phil adelphia the crush of his admirers was so great that his lecture had to be postponed until a larger auditorium could be found. His new poem fol lows: The Kings go-by with jewelled crowns; Their horses gleam; their banners shake; their spears are many. The sack of many-peopled towns Is all their dream. The way they take Leaves but a ruin in the brake, And, in the furrow that the plowmen | make, A stampless penny; a tale, a dream. The Merchants reckon up their gold; 1 Their letters come; their ships arrive; their freights are glories. The profits of their treasures sold, They tell and sum. Their foremen drive . Their servants, starved to half-alive, . Whose labors do but make the earth t a hive t Of stinging stories; a tale, a dream. t The Priests are singing in their stalls; . Their singing lifts; thalr incense burns; their praying clamours. ! Yet God Is as the sparrow falls. • The Ivy drifts, [ The votive urns . Are all left void when Fortune turns, t The god is but a marble for the kerns t To break with hammers; a tale, a I dream. 1 O Beauty, let me know again 1 The green earth cold, the April rain, the quiet waters figuring sky. The one star risen. So shall 1 pass the feast Not touched by King, Merchant or Priest; Know the red spirit of the beast; Be the green grain; Escape from prison. —Copyright, 1917, by Contemporary Vers* * . / ice of this alert and hard working de partment of the State government as interesting as the most thrilling de tective story. Newspaper readers have heard of the acts of courage and heroism which have made a similar organization, the Northwestern Mounted Police of Can ada, so well and favorably known, but few people realize that within Penn sylvania's own borders there is a force with an equally splendid record of dangerous work well done. Tho book will prove not alone ontertaining but enlightening to thousands of these quiet businesslike men going about | their duty of upholding the law. Major John C. Qroome, Superin tendent of the Department, says of the ! book: "The general public knows so i little of the organization and dally ! work of the State Police Force that I | am grateful to Miss Mayo for having [ presented the facts in such an accurate | and interesting manner." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Boys at the Border To the Editor of the Telegraph: Please print the following in your paper and oblige Paul R. Miller, Com pany I), Eighth Regiment, it having been sent me by George H. Myers, of West Fairview: While tenting to-night on the Rio Grande Our boys of Company D Are anxious for their old home land, Their friends they long to see. Yet, there are prayers from their home land To guard them one and all Who volunteered with heart and hand, They answered to the call. May God's great blessing, great and small. Be with our boys, both short and tall. And may our blessings from home land Rest with our boys on the Rio Grande. A Cycle 'Tis Springtime in the heart When comes. The buds of love peep out, The birds sing round-a-bout . When baby conies. 'Tis Summer in the heart When baby laughs; The flowers of Joy unfold. The sunshine is pure gold. When baby laughs. 'Tis Autumn in the heart When baby wuep.<; life's Joy all turns to tears, It's loving hopes to fears. When baby weeps. 'Tis Winter in the heart When baby goes; The chill blasts of despair Strike life's tree, cold and bare, When babv goes. . EDNA OROFF DEIHL. Paxtang, Pa Written for the Telegraph. I OUR DAILY LAUGH CUT FROM MENU. / I, What are you f ( "W paying for J_ _ eggs? Nothing. They're too blamed high. MERE MAN'S Kfj Tho averag* | bachelor n dinner, i Or so on man d e " C 4-1 cides. apt to be & 2 74And better / than bride* DIVIDING THE! I for us and we'll lining Chat According to reports which are be ing received at the State Department of Agriculture attendance at the farm ers' institutes this winter Is greater than it has been for years, records be ing broken in some counties and oven in severe weather tho number of per sons reported at meetings has been ahead of the average. The attendance in York and Lebanon counties was vory high, while in Somerset county 6,000 persons attended the sessions. Dauphin reports a record-breaking at tendance with big llgures from Craw ford, Fulton, Franklin, Schuylkill una Washington counties. In Lancaster county the attendance jumped from 5,400 to 7,400. State olttcials say that the increase in attendance is largely duo to the interest In the propositions for forming co-operative associations for marketing of products in large lots and soil conservation. * • * It's odd how men will be in politics together for years and be active in tho same part in the same district and yet never meet. Yesterday X'"irc Mar shal G. Chal Port, who has been a figure in Huntingdon county politics for years, and D. Edward Long, the new superintendent of public printing and binding and leader in Franklin county Republican politics for years, were introduced to each other, lioth were chairmen of their respective coun ty committees at the same time and in the same congressional district. • • A good story is being told about a visitor to the Capitol. This visitor came from the country and he looked the part. He asked to bo shown the paintings and appeared to be specially interested in the series in the Gover nor's reception room. He stopped for some time in the big apartment and finally sat down to study the panels. A man came along and asked if he could tell him anything. The visitor remarked that tho paintings interested him greatly and the other man started to tell him all about them. Then the visitor unlimbered and gave dates, facts and incidents of the life of Wil liam Penn. It turned out he was a Quaker and had made a special study of the founder of the Commonwealth. * ♦ ♦ Lieutenant-Governor Frank B. Mc- Clain likes to keep things moving in a rapid yet dignified way at the State Board of Pardons and yesterday be ex pressed his impatience with lawyers who moved simply to gain time. "It should be understood," said he, "that this board will not tolerate time wast ing tactics and that lawyers who file half of the papers in the case and then try for a continuance will find their cases stricken off the list. And they will not be restored except for good reasons. Judge H. A. Fuller, who figured in an interesting story from Wilkes-Barre the other day is well known to many here. The judge is one of tho most painstaking of men, as people, who came in contact with him here during one of tho raids made on him of tho stormy session of 1913 well know. But the latest incident must have tried him. lie was hearing a case when called to the telephone on an urgent matter, as it was represented to be. It turn ed out to be a woman of whom he had never hea>d and she asked him how to make her son get up in the morning. The judge was, taken somewhat" by surprise, but aSvised the mother to throw water on him and courteously bade her good day. Then he went back to the trial of the case. * There is a sign at Fourth and Straw berry streets that announces that vehi cles must not enter Strawberry from Fourth street. It is a one way high way. The other day a driver of a truck started in when he saw the sign# Instead ot" going around a block he ran out and turned his machine around. Then he backed into tho smaller thoroughfare as far as the rear of the Majestic theater. * • * There is no doubt that the old men who have taken the messenger boys' places are just as efflcient and per haps more so than the erstwhile boys, but have you ever noticed the changed attitude of the average businessman toward the new "boys" Have you ever been in a busy crowded office when a messenger came in and the busy man at the desk called out, "Well, couldn't you hurry that a little." Then did you ever watch his tone and manner change as he notices that instead of some young Mercury an old man stands respect fully at his desk? How quick the i tone changes as he asks, "Why, hello, Dad. how are you to-day?" Especially is this true if the waiting messenger wears the little button of the civil war veteran as some of them do. We as a nation are not any too i much inclined toward respectful pat ! riotism bul more and more we are coming to include in our ritual of rev i erence the "Boys who wore the Blue." * • Ex-Sennto- C. Tt. Eantz, of Leba non, was here yesterday to argue a case before the State Board of Par dons. ft was his first appearance Seforc that tribunal in a long time. ["mL KNOWN PEOPLE ~| —H. H. Mercer, who made the tile floor for the State Capitol has been re elect rd president of the Bucks County Historical Society. —Unitec State; District Attorney Kane says that he will use common sense in dealing with white slave and Mann act cases in his Jurisdiction. —J. L. Spangler. well known to many here, was chairman of the com mittee which welcomed home the Bellefonte troopers and the Boalsburg machine gun company. —Ellin Paxson Oherholtzer, who is acting as chnirnutn of l lie State Board of Censors:, in a historian of note and a personal friend of the Governor. —Maior R. W. Montclius, who re tires from the National Guard, spenl almost 22 years in the service. | DO YOU KNOW | That Hurrislnirg is rapidly com ing to the front ns a big car repair point? HISTORIC HARKISBURG The first blast furnace in Harrisbun was built along Paxton creek. Pennsylvania's Reforestation [New Yorjt Sun.] Pennsylvania has been making mon progress, perhapß, than any other Stnt< in reforestation. East year it plantec 6,000,000 trees, almost us many as wert plante.. upon denuded lands within thi national forests. The result of earlie: planting is showing. In the oldes plantation, made in 1902, 90 per cent of the trees, white pines, are alive, tlv largeßt being twenty feet high throughout the State 75 per cent, o the trees planted are alive, some o them having made the remarkab growth of forty-nine inches in a yeai The averages are said to compare fa vorably with those of German foreßt which have been fo"t* a century or mor under intensive management. The re suits have been so satisfactory as t establish the fact that reforestatlo: solves the problem of reclaiming th 8,000,000 acres of barren land In th State.
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