6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded lS.n Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. —-I——- K. J,STACKPOLK,/Vm I and Editor-in-Chief P. It, OVUTEK, Business Manager. OUS M. STEIN'METZ, Managing liditor. Member American • " Newspaper Pub- People's <}" as Build- ing, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post OfTice in Ilarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in aavance. SATURDAY EVENING, 3XS. 27 Search thine own heart, what paincth thee In others, in thyself may be; All dust is frail, all flesh is weak; J Be thou the true man thou dost seek. —Whittier., A HARRIS BERG EOEXDATIOX MANY generous citizens of Har risburg who have passed to their | reward fully intended during J ihcir life activities to provide in some I way for the comfort and happiness of those left behind. Public bequests in some cases had been thoroughly con sidered, but as in many cases the doing of the thing which was important was postponed from time to time until the intervention of death. Thus it has happened that piany well intended and philanthropic projects were allowed to go into the discard through the spirit of procrastination which characterizes a large part pf the human race in its ' preparation for the inevitable day. In many of the deposit boxes in the ' banks of this city are the last wills I and testaments of many of our citi zens. Some of these doubtless provide for the things which are close to the hearts of the makers of these docu- i ments. Private bequests as well as ; public bequests are included in these final testaments. What troubles many who are filled with generous impulse and who desire to help their fellow men is the thought about the character of their giving and the nature of the useful thing which they would like to provide for their fellow townsmen when their activities here cease. As a result many laudable memorials which would take form and substance were it not for the habit of ; putting off from time to time the action which would make a certainty of an idea never come into existence. At Cleveland there has been organ ized what is known as the Cleveland Foundation—a community trust. This is a new idea for the conservation of wealth and for the efficient utilization of the proceeds of wealth. It offers advantages to all who desire to make bequests for educational and chari table purposes and for the good of mankind. Several gentlemen of Har risburg have been discussing the mat- ■ tor of a similar foundation for this; city, it is believed some such plan would relieve the minds of those who sincerely desire to help in community projects for the welfare of all, either during their lives or at their death. It j is figured that within twenty-live years the Cleveland Foundation will have at' its disposal at least $50,000,000. Elsewhere in the Telegraph this evening is given some further detail as to how the Cleveland Foundation is conducted and this newspuper would be glad to have the views of any of our citizens upon the proposition. In the report of the State Economy and Efficiency Commission prepared by its counsel, Harry S. McDevitt, there is ■much constructive matter which should have the careful consideration of the legislature. Several bodies now per forming important functions under the recommendations proposed would be merged iu some cases and their duties divided in others in the interest of ef ficiency. Perhaps the most Important proposal is a change of the date of the Governor's election from the even to the odd numbered years, so that the Kxecutive would not be compelled to assume his duties at the opening of a session of the legislature. All who have observed the embarrassment of the Governor when catapulted into' the midst of the lawmaking arena, realize the necessity for the proposed change, which would be clearly in the Interest oC good government. NO MOKE BARE LEGS AT SHORE THE Atlantic City beach censor Is at work again. He has just Issued his "book of rules" for the com ing Hummer. Anything that pertains to Atlantic City has a very decided local flavor in Harrisburg, so we shall herewith print a few of the more striking restrictions on feminine bath ing raiment—or lack of it—decreed for the seashore the coming vacation season. Among the most interesting paragraphs are these: Girls may go without sleeves, but not without stockings. Knitted bathing suits will be per mitted—if there are skirts. All skirts must approach the knees. Just how neat the ltneeg depends on the "architecture" ot the wearer. IJfe guards will not be requested to carry rulers to measure the skirts. That is left to the indi viduality of the bather. Thin girls will be allowed more liberty In this line than plump maids. And there you are—stockings re- SATURDAY EVENING, I quired, but they may be white, or tlesli-colored, or pink, or purple; any i old color just so they're there. Also, bathing suits may be knit and skirts "must approach the knee," although not necessarily near enough for close acquaintanceship. Atlantic City reforming with respect to its views on what is proper dress for women in the surf? It is to laugh! Every spring beach officials down there pretend to be greatly shocked at the costumes they permitted to be worn the year previous. Last spring the line was solemnly drawn on one piece bathing suits. Now it is dis covered that "barelcgs are risque," to i use the censor's own words, and, not | withstanding the high price of hosiery, | stockings must be donned, wirtle in a paragraph following the censor hints at revelations of feminine form divine in jersey tight knit suits and skirts of a length to suit the wearer, far more alluring than mere barelegs. Wo suspect the censor of trying to make the public believe that each year's costumes are just a wee bit more daring and naughtier than the shockers of the season past. By and by the ban on bathing suits will have exhausted the styles. What then? Something modeled after Annette Kel lerman in a portion of the film marked "eliminated by the censor," we sup pose. Mayor Smith is said to be using his good offices to bring harmony to the contending: Republican factions in j Philadelphia. He could hardly perform a more helpful public service. But I should he fail in his harmonizing- ef j forts, may we not all hope that he will jbe successful in preventing the bel ligerents from invading the territory beyond the Philadelphia line? SAX FRAN CISCO'S SURVEY WHAT may be accomplished through the proposed surveys of the school and police sys jtems of Harrisburg by experts of the j Bureau of Municipal Research, -work | ing through the Chamber of Com | merce and in conjunction and co rporation with the officials of the de [ pertinents named, may be judged from the recently published report of tho work the bureau did along somewhat broader lines for San Francisco. Impelled by "rapidly rising taxes," says the foreword to tho report, the San Francisco Heal Kstale Board ap pointed a tax committee to combat unnecessary budget allowances and consequent tax imposition. But (lie task proved to be so large tlint only experts could handle it satisfactorily. The financial jungle was almost im penetrable. The city accounts fur nished nothing from which it was pos sible to construct a statement of tho actual needs of the city in the past or in the future. There were innu merable indications of inefficiency and waste, but it was impossible to identify and convict them except from the basis of some comprehensive and ac curate financial survey. And the best way to obtain such a survey seemed to be the employment of the experts of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York city. Taking up the thread of the report at this place, the editor of the San Francisco Argonaut discusses it as follows: The necessary funds for so good a work were speedily forthcoming. The experts arrived last June and began their work, and now we have the inclusive summary of discoveries and opinions, so lucidly arranged and so admirably expressed as to represent not only an almost ideal municipal system, but the practical steps by which it can be reached- At the same time the report contains nothing that is sensational, nothing in the way of startling revelations, indictments, or denunciations. It is a cold, im partial, and judicial picture of con ditions, good and bad alike. It en ables the citizen to discover, al most in a moment, the exact merits and demerits of nearly every fea ture of the city government so far as its finance and administration are concerned. The general impres sion left upon the mind by this re port is an encouraging one. If there has been gross inefficiency and mal administration—as of course there has been—they are not usually of the willful or vicious kind, and we are shown how easily and how promptly they can be cured. The chapter of financial mismanagement is heavy enough and serious enough in all conscience, but it is not of the crudely corrupt kind. It is repre sented in the main by & thousand driblets of extravagance and waste fulness. This report has been made the basis for vast savings in San Francisco, and not nearly all of its suggestions as yet have been put into practice. That similar economics and improvements of administration and service will be the outcome of the friendly and co operative inquiries to be made here cannot be doubted. Xeither will the School Board nor the Police Depart ment be censured by the public If it be found that their ways and methods can be improved upon. Petty wastes and Inefficiencies, ap parently trifling in themselves, but direful of results, in the aggregate, spring up in private buslnesA unless every activity is closely watched and wise executives from time to time hire outside experts to come In and criti cise their establishments from top to bottom—not. Tor the purpose of find ing fault and placing employes in a bad light, but that evils may be cor rected and improvements intelligently directed. Often the men in charge have their eyes too close to their work to get a proper perspective. There is little real difference be tween public and private business. The same fundamentals are at the bottom of both. So it happens that the efficiency experts are called in to look over the school and police depart ments and In a friendly way to suggest betterments. What was accomplished for San Francisco as a whole is pro posed for Harrlsburg with respect to the two branches named. Universal military service along rea sonable lines appears to be gaining great headway among the people, who are at last convinced that the United States is in no more danger of becom ing militaristic as a result of such preparedness for national defense than Switzerland fofct I 'piH.KOtjltfaKUk Bf tho Ex-CommlUeenuui Penrose men contend that there is not the slightest chance of the pro posed investigation of tho conduct of the State government being given up and at Philadelphia to-day the final plans will be made to put through the Sproul resolution in the upper house. The idea is to have it reach the lower house of the General Assembly by Wednesday. Tho House would act on it finally a week later. A joint reso lution takes the same course as a bill and the Governor has authority to veto it or to reduce the appropriation. It has been intimated that Mayor Smith, -of Philadelphia, has been en deavoring to obtain harmony and that some up-state leaders are opposed to the Penrose course. Neither seems to be correct. The Penrose people are preparing to put through the reso lution with the Salus amendment and the administration is planning other amendments and sounding out Demo crats. Its present plans are to combat the resolution, but they may be changed to-day. The Democrats will naturally support an investigation. If any overtures to head oft,the Investigation had been made, the dis closures about the expenditures of the Governor and the charges relative to other departments by the Philadelphia Public ledger, the Evening Bulletin, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and other newspapers have destroyed the chance, declare Penrose men. The Ledger, which is certainly not a Pen rose newspaper, and more against than for the Republican State organization, has done more in the way of crititcism of the Governor than anyone else. —The Philadelphia North American I to-day belittles the probe and that is about as far as it goes. The Philadel phia Record pays that Penrose men declare they have two-thirds of the two houses favorable to the probe and that the resolution will get to the Gov ernor on February 6. It also says that the Snyder public service "ripper" will pass the Senate. Tho Ledger says that the Penrose-McXichol people have de fied the Governor to veto the probe and that they are ready for a battle for folitical supremacy in Philadelphia, which is at the bottom of the whole row. —According to Washington dis patches, the national administration has determined to get into the lime light again and to put forward a few prospective candidates for state offices and Congress by launching its probe of election methods in this and other slates. Soon alter the election the Wilson administration threatened to investigate election frauds in Pennsyl vania, notably Philadelphia, but the soft pedal was put on by some Demo crats who were rather fearful of start ing something. There were also inti mations that the Vares did not want the probe started in their bailiwick. Now the word comes fr.om Washing ton in tho following dispatch: "The inquiry in Philadelphia, it was learned to-day, is not the only one now in progress in Pennsylvania, although nothing in detail was given out as to the scope of the inquiries in other parts of the state, nor is any in formation obtainable at the present time as to the outcome of the investi gations In • Philadelphia other than that the evidence accumulated points to infractions of State laws and not the Federal law. A conference be tween National Chairman McCormlck and Attorney General Gregory to-day is of interest in this connection, through the known fact that Mr. McCormlck had laid before the de partment the Charges of election frauds in Philadelphia." | —Congressman W. g. A'are wus styled the "good angel of education" in South Philadelphia yesterday by Judge John Monaghan in a speech de livered In Philadelphia. The congress man's'work for schools was referred to. —During the tirst of a series of con ferences to be held between Mavor Smith and the members of tho Phila delphia ('barter Revision Commission the attitude of the administration toward the proposed charter wan.out lined yesterday by the mayor to mem bers of the subcommittee of the re visionists. The mayor has pledged his support to some of the reforms that are destined to give the city more home rule, while others will not in vite his interest, although he may not oppose them. —Plans were completed last night for a large representation of Central Democratic Club members at the coro nation pageant at Washington in .March and some inquiries were being made to-day by West End Repub licans where they were going to come in. The West Enders would like to maintain their club identity. —The Democrats of the city will have a big time on Jefferson Day if someone does not forget the date again. Next Wednesday legislators of the Democratic faith will be invited to the club's annual pigroast. —Auditor General Powell says any one who wants to throw rocks can do so. —Xo one about Capitol Hill can be found who will sponsor the report that a bill to Increase the Governor's salary to $25,000 is to be put through this session. There is more interest in who is likely to be the next Governor. Un der the law. Governor Brumbaugh could not participate in any salai-y in crease and the fund for his traveling and incidental expenses is likely to be cut down. —Philadelphia is now going through another transit row. It involves the future of the city and the usual pull ing and hauling Is under way. —Wllkes-Barre officials have de clined to get behind the "mine cave" proposition and it looks as though the I.ackawanna delegation would have to to bear the brunt. Unfortunately, the situation in Scranton Is different from any other part of the state and not well understood. Sartorial Uplift in Kansas As far as can lie learned there is not a lull dress suit in Wellsville. Rut a number of the business men and some of the younger crowd are ser iously considering buying Tuxedos, half brothers to the full dress suit. There are many advantages to the Tuxedo, which can be used at infor mal as well as at most formal oc casions, and which will answer Tor a good Sunday suit. Several who would like to have and wear these suits ha ve agreed to buy one if as many as fifteen on twenty others will buy at the same time. To further the good cause a local merchant has agreed to let the buyers have them at cost if a considerable number will join in or dering.—From the Wellsville Globe. The Loyalty of Readers The readere of newspapers are just human beings. They are fully capa ble of understanding the necessity of a higher price for a newspaper—lf that necessity is explained to them can didly. As a body they are not given to intemperate judgment. As a class they have in collective form the rea sonableness of the Individual, the con siderateness, the senso of fairness. If it is necessary for a publisher to charge them more for' his paper— for their paper—he will not be visited with their wrath and hostility. He will find their loyalty undiminished. The readers of any good newspaper will stand by that newspaper when the test comes.—Editor and Publish er J HARRISBURG fßg. TELEGRAPH FLIRTING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Needs of the City lfarrisburg, Pa., Jan. 26, 1917 To the Editor of the Telegraph: East Sunday's snowfall still lies un touched in most of the streets, includ ing Green street. Such a system of street cleaning' is absurd and disgrace ful. They should he readily and sys tematically cleaned; residents would then take pride in having their side walks cleaned. A deplorable condition of affairs. Take the garbage and ash question. When a breach has been committed in a contract of such Importance there should be no hesitation to cancel it and pronounce it void. The municipal authorities must undertake the work and meet the necessary requirements. Pie-crust promises are aggravating. Take the police system. The police men personally seem a nice, civil body of gjen. They are not to blame if the system under which they are instructed tcr perform their duty is entirely old fashioned and out of date for a city like Harrisburg. Where do you have to go when in need of a constable, leaving the few traffic men in the heart of the city out of the question? If a woman or man Is attacked, robbed or maltreated throughout the residential quarters in this city, what is to be done? Ask the culprit to wait while you find a telephone and then ring up 107? In the case of the man, if he is blessed with physical force, with a knowledge of pugilism or wres tling, it mny answer, but what about the weaker sex or the aged? Why, It is ridiculous and horrible, particularly to those with modernized knowledge. AVe need an up-to-date police sys tem for the proper protection of its residents. It can easily be done in this city. 1 have traveled the large and small cities of Europe and made a study of these subjects. Reformation in these ( matters is essential for the welfare of the people of Harrisburg. They need and de mand it. Yours sincerelv. BRUCE GREEN*. 1814 Green street. In Market Square To the Editor of the Telegraph: Yes, we should have an "isle of safety" and a public comfort station in the Square, and Ave have tlirf money to build them, but there is another thing to consider—and that is the traction company. If the station is built, the safety standards will probably be removed, and then where will they hang their tin box for receiving canceled trans fers? And another thing, what will they do with the beautiful old hot water boiler they have now in the Square and which they use for stor ing sand? Both these things are there —go and sec. CITIZEN. Homes For Martins To the Editor of the Telegraph: I am very much interested in pro viding the proper bird boxes for the martins which visit us each year at the entrance to (lie bridge on .Market street. Hundreds of these beautiful Thirds congregate around Mr. Bales' provision store, where they attract a great deal of attention. If the park authorities woudl look favorably upon the proposition I should be glad to contribute $lO toward the erecting of artistic homes, one to be placed on each side of the entrance to the bridge. I mention this place as appropriate because the insect life seems to attract them within a hundred yards of this spot. Will you not place this matter before your constituents? Yours very truly, THOMAS U MONTGOMERY, State Librarian. Oldest Paper in Michigan I From the Kalamazoo Gazette. ] "The reproduction of the accom panying bills will be convincing evi dence of the tremendous increase in the price of news print paper which the Gazette is now forced to pay. The Gazette uses a carload of paper every ten days, or about 1,000 tons per year. This supply at the old price would cost $40,000 n year. 'Figured at the best price thus far made by any newspaper for its 1917 supply, $3.25 per 100 pounds at mill, or $3,404 to. b. Kala mazoo. The Gazette's paper bill for this year will be $9,000, or an in crease of $29,000 over the cost of this single article for iai6." Wo make this statement to appeal to the sense of justice of our readers and to prove to our subscribers how imperative it is for us to make an in crease. of subscription rates so'that we may meet the serious print paper con dition that has already caused more than 800 papers to suspend publica tion. The raise has been delayed in the vain hope that conditions would change and improve, and thus not force us to make the Increase. But instead of Improving, conditions are going from bad to worse and it is now not a question of the price of print pa per, but the problem of obtaining a supply to meet our day-to-day needs. r BETHLEHEM STEEL PREPARED FOR PEACE /IS AS That the Bethlehem Steel company is prepared for peace with a program for rebuilding' Europe, and is* better prepared for peace now than it was for war two and one-half years ago, is the feature of an articl# on the Bethlehem company, written by David 11. ltiddle, of the editorial staff of the Philadelphia North American. Air. Biddle was formerly with the Harrisburg Telegraph. Since joining the staff of the North American, he has made an industrial survey of com munities of Central and Eastern Penn sylvania and found unprecedented prosperity. He is making another tour of the same communities with a view to ascertaining the permanence of prosperity as he found it in 1915. His account of future prospects of the Bethlehem Steel company follows in part: Bethlehem. Pa., Jan. 23.—There will be no "war liaby" bubble burst ing ill Bethlehem when the war ends. Bethlehem Steel is prepared for peace with a program for rebuilding Europe and a plant big enough to car ry it out. Even the doubting Bethlehems are at latft convinced that a plant into which $23,000,000 lias already been poured for expansion and which still goes on growing cannot slip away in the night. A monthly payroll of $2,- 500,000 and 10,000 new inhabitants building 1,000 new homes are rather comforting things to an awakened pair of "show-me" communities. The most convincing tiling about the future of Bethlehem Steel is not that every department is choked with orders to 1918, nor that almost every week a new building goes up, nor any of the well-known bullish tips to the market and the street. But Bethlehem is better prepared for the coming of peace today than it was for the coming of war two and one-half years ago. In all of Bethlehem's foreign con tracts for shells and ordnance there is written a clause which means that European governments when they no longer need shells will turn to Bethle hem for the steel of reconstruction. It is estimated that war orders total ing than $100,000,000 are held here. 11" the war should end tomor row the foreign governments have agreed to substitute at once for the shells they don't want an equivalent order for commercial steel. Work Aplenty in I'catf, as in War With less than half of the produc tion oC the giant plant going into munitions making and this to be re placed with foreign commercial busi ness when munitions are no longer needed, ollicials have no hesitancy in saying tlat the full force of 26,000 men now at work will be needed when peace is declared. Sudden peace might, for the mo ment, halt work in some departments, it is admitted, but peace will not come that way, the feeling is here. When it does come, this steel giant will be ready to take up the job of putting Europe on its feet again with a plant that can make almost anything peace able that Europe may want. A constructive program is being worked out, a program that will keep lathes turning when no more 14-inch shells are wanted abroad, a program that will add new products to the va ried production of "Schwab's folly." Crucible steel products are already being made here, and that line will be expanded. Ingot and molding foundries are considered as another line. There is a possibility that llcth lehcm will go into the making of standard parts of steel ships which will be put together at the throe ship yards now held by the Schwab inter ests. All of these possibilities are con sidered in the program which is to keep the Lehigh valley filled with smoke after the battlefields of Eu rope are cleared. New Buildings All the Time There is 110 mushroom growth about the score of buildings and additions under construction now. These new machine shops, new rolling mills, new blast'furnaces, new power houses, are permanent expansions ot commercial departments to handle the demand for steel which peace cannot stop. Since the war started $25,000,000 has been spent in building additions to the plant. Millions more are be ing spent now or will be spent this year. One expansion alone is costing 5,000,000. The capacity of mills in which structural steel is rolled is being doub led by a building operation which started this week. This department has been Increased 60 per cent, since the war started. The milling capacity has already jumped from 73,000 tons a month to 120,000 tops a month, and this cnpacity Is to be doubled. Six new open-hearth furnaces have been built since August, 1914. A 35- inch blooming tailll,. five bar and billet mills have been added. The blast fur nace capacity of the plant has jump ed a third. Seven generators, each of TATJUARY 27, 1917. ■ : .000 kilowatt capacity, have been added to the electric power plant. These are the additions to the main Lehigh plant in the heart of South Bethlehem. In the Saucon section of the great works a 42-inch mill for rolling shapes and two smaller mills are under construction. A 1,300-ton mixer, two 220-ton tilling furnaces and a 25-ton bessemer vessel with all the auxiliaries of a steel plant are being installed. This section of the works will be in operation in June or July. . ol which goes .Jo prove that Bethlehem Steel is prepared to han dle a good bit more of peace than it has of war. Even now, it is by no means all war in this big plant. Less than half of the daily tonnage of steel goes into ordnance. . „ war contracts, said to amount to $100,000,000, will not be tilled for another year, if the war lasts that long. \\ hen the war ends the foreign governments will merely change the word "shell" In their cables to the words "rail beams and shapes," and Bethlehem will go on reaping the re mainder of that $100,006,000. In other departments, the commer cial steel that the public forgets in the glamour of war contract headlines cannot be turned out fast enough to till the orders. It was stated authori tatively here today that in nearlv ev ery department of the plant orders for the rest of 1917 have been booked. And some ol' these departments are booked into 1918. Although there are 26,000 men em ployed in the Bethlehem plant now, there is work for at least 3,000 more If men could be obtained. The big problem is not to And work for men here, but to find houses for them. N for them. Although there are 1,000 houses - under construction at this minute within a radius of five miles of the Lehigh Valley station, these will be occupied as fast as the walls are plastered. m .9 ct , M< " "v Building Houses T bis home-building is an interesting sidelight on the way Bethlehem has become convinced about the steel busi ness. A year ago the steel company was in despair. Men coming from ail over the Lehigh Valley, from as far away as Maucli Chunk, Quakertown, from Easton, Allentown and every lit tle community within a radius of twenty miles, wanted to move closer to their work and save carfare. But there were no houses. Bethle hem was not yet persuaded. Land on the outskirts of Bethlehem and South Bethlehem had been bought in some Instances by speculators, but the local real estate men did not want to take a running jump into anything but a sure chance. They are doing more than running jumps now. One llrm has already built seventy-live houses on a tract where 400 will go up. Half a dozen local operators are building from twenty to fifty. On the outskirts of Bethlehem and on the west side to ward "Bonus hill," the section where President Eugene M. Grace and other officials live, houses under construc tion are everywhere. Many of these bouses are beinff built and paid for by workmen under a plan supported by the steel com pany. The men are urged to build their own homes. The steel company has backed the Bethlehem Secuiities Company, which takes second mort gages on homes and receives monthly Instalments on the debts. By virtually advancing these men money to build their homes, the compujiy has drawn into the population of the towns men that would otherwise lrave been lost to other steel centers. OUR DAILY LAUGH I ! AN . AGGRA- I VATED " FAULT. She hath still a /\ waist too Albeit we have/ /SjStb frowned V. i JjttKKg . For the greater \i f- J3' \ that objec- -p—|P-W-B—r,- The easier it L/M is got tfL around. ~~ J &rQ. ■ d HARD " o> old Chap, it L J *, costs me fifty reallsr hlnk ©mring (Eljat |; y^|p— >■'■ i I | | || ■' ■| J| The question whether a man can OPH erate a Jitney while his application) for a certificate of public convenience) is pending before the Public Service commission and the proposition whether a jitney operating- under | municipal license requires a State cer tlflcate* in addition have been raised before the Public Service Commission and will be determined during thd next month. Half a dozen problem* attending jitney operation have been 4 settled lately by decisions in cases from Allegheny, Luzerne, and L&cka wanna counties and it is ahso held by the commission that a State certifi cate is needed as well as a municipal license. However, there have been some jltneymen who want a new de cision. The question whether a jit ney can operate while the certificate! application is pending has been rais ed by respondents in some of the complaints made by Baldwin town ship, Allegheny county. There are sev eral dozou jitney cases yet to be cleared up by the commission and as fast as the studies of each one are concluded and application of a pre vious decision is faund an order is issued. Probably fifty cases have been determined in the last month. • • Notwithstanding the wintry weath er numerous applications for younf trout for "planting" during the spring are being filed at the State Depart ment of Fisheries and many thou sands will be distributed as soon as the waters are in shape. Most of the applications are from clubs and as sociations which have agreed to loolv after the details of distribution along trout streams and to make reports to the department. • Steelton Firemen's reception to bor ough residents of the Governor's trooi> is only one of the lines which will in time mean closer ties between the companies of the department. The affair held In honor of the troopers was one of the largest celebrations that Steelton Firemen have held and they have been congratulated by prominent residents of the town. ♦ * • The Bethlehem Steel company plant at Steelton appears these days to be the aim of many workers who have been thrown out of work elsewhere. Early in the morning there are men on the street cars who request the conductor to let them off at the Steel company's oliices. Have you ever tried to simulate civing a perfectly healthy, active pa tient a batlv in bed with all her street clothes on'.' If y