6 HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH A HEWS PAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THIS TELEGRAPH PRIXTIXO CO.. Telegraph Uulldln*. Federal Sqaare. E. J. ST ACK POLE. and Editorin-Clutf E. R- OYSTER, Busintts Managtr. GUS M. BTEIXMETZ, Mamagint Editor. ing, P Chicago, fli. Entered at the Tost Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. S Calami/y is man's true touch stone. —Beaumont and Fletcher. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WEEK CHRISTIAN" Endeavorers through out the world this week are observing the crowning event <?f the year of Endeavor activities. Christian Endeavor week began with last Sunday, which was a day of re joicing, when Christian Endeavor was thirty-six years old. The climax of tho week will be "Decision Day," to-morrow. The Rev. Francis E. Clark, D.D., founder of the great movement, can now look back triumphantly to the evening of February 2, ISBI, in the parsonage of Williston church, he be ing at that time pastor of the Willis ton Congregational church, at Port land, Maine, when he organized the first Young People's Society of Chris tian Endeavor. The organization has had marvelous growth ever since. The first convention was held June 2, ISS2, when only six societies were repre sented. The young people's work has had a constant success in many lines of activities until to-day the society has an enrollment of 52.000 branches and 4,000.000 members. In Atlantic City, in 1911, President W. H. Taft was one of the principal speakers. At that convention Dr. Clark introduced the slogan for the Endeavorers "A Saloonlees Nation in 1920," which has been ringing throughout the World ever since. A "campaign for millions'' which no doubt will be realized in two years, is making great progress. The aim is for a million new Endeavorers. a mil lion new converts uniting with the church, a million new members of the peace union, a million new dol lars for missions, ten thousand new societies of the Christian Endeavor, twenty thousand new comrades of the quiet hour, ten thousand new legion ers, ten thousand new Christian En deavor experts and five thousand new life-work recruits. Pennsylvania Endeavorers, with 2,- POO societies, are doing their share. ROROUGH PAYING BlfcT. THE Legislature should pass with out delay the bill recently sub- mitted having for its object as surance of State aid for the paving of State highways through boroughs. There has been misunderstanding and aggravating delay in the improvement of roads through small towns. The nutomobilist knows without being told •when he leaves the township highway for the borough street. Nor is this all the fault of the bor ough governments. They have felt that, paying more taxes than the people of the farm territory surround ing, they are entitled to State aid in the Improvement of their main high ways, especially in view of the fact that the State bears the whole cost of road building through the agricultural districts. This is an eminently fair position and the Legislature will do well to clear up a situation regarding which there has been all too much doubt and concerning which the State Highway Department at times lins shown none too much interest. THE RELIGION OF PATRIOTISM GOD grant that Wilson either keep us out of an ignominious. eleventh hour participation in a war which was none of our making, or provide us with an issue worth while to the end that it may be said of America, in the event she is drawn into the struggle, her deeds were lut, her words truth and her thoughts freedom.' " The words of Dr. J. Dun can Spaeth, of Princeton University, opportunely spoken at the University Club banquet last evening, struck a lesponsivc chord In his hearers that brought them to their feet singing "America" with the old-time fervor that cynics like to clatm is no longer a factor in American life. Dr. Spaeth's speech started out to he a discussion on college loyalty, but the eminent lecturer slipped into deeper channels and dipped Into the subject of nationalism and the sub serviency of every other doctrine to the overpowering religion of patriot- Ism. His prayer for divine guidance to the President in this time of na tional crisis closed a bril liant analysis of the na tional situation; a situation which finds Americans ready by instinct to fight, but prompted By intelligent un derstanding of the issues involved to SATURDAY EVENING, avoid hostilities, if possible, with honor. The desirability of rehabilitating' ! ourselves as a nation in the eyes of i ithe world was strongly emphasized by! j the speaker. There is no question \ that our national reputation has suf- ; fered abroad since the outbreak of the j war and our course in the present crisis must be such as to Improve our ] standing among the nations of the world. But it is not true that the country as a whole has been smitten , by the blight of materialism to a de- j gree that would prompt the 'people to '• I accept peace with anything but honor, i : At all costs, Americans will insist thafl the ancient freedom of the seas be i preserved, that the American flag may fly where Americans carry it and i that Americans go wherever their ; pleasure or their business may take | j them. The religion of patriotism is ' ; not dead here, however much foreign ! | peoples may believe it. and only such ' a national crisis as that through which we are now passing is neces-' , sary for a revival in all Its varied forms of enthusiasm and service. AMERICA AND WAR IF the United States enters the Euro pean war it will be regretfully and sorrowfully. There will be none of the cheering or the exulta tion of Spanish-American war days. The people of this country do not want to fight. They have showed that at every stage of the often-renewed controversy with Germany over the transgression of. their rights. They have turned the other cheek until pa tience has ceased to be a virtue. They have been goaded to the point of madness more than once. But al ways they have preserved their equanimity and have restrained their impulses. Even now they are willing that every step be taken to keep the peace, if that can be done with hon or. But let nobody, here or abroad, imagine that the United States cannot fight. If the nation is drawn into the conflict it will go reluctantly, but once the step has been taken there will be j no turning back. We have the men j and the resources and the will. All j that is required is time, and that is i at our disposal, thanks to the posi-! tion in which Geflhany finds herself i at home. If it be war, then the Unit ed States will be in it to a victorious conclusion and nothing can stand in the way of that, eventually. The fulfillment of the destiny of the United States is not yet. The nation is i a "melting pot" in which the process of melting has been scarcely more than well begun. Some great crisis may be necessary to forge the country! into the unit it aspires to be, but which as yet it is not. This conti nent was not allowed to lie fallow un- j til the needs of an oppressed and re bellious Europe demanded a refuge for a freedom-loving and liberty-seek ing people, to be overrun by the min ions of a despot. If ever there was a divine purpose in the development of nations it has been expressed in Am erica, which stands for everything that is uplifting and progressive, where a new race of men is being tre ated from the most virile and up standing of the oppressed peoples of the old world. There is something of more than ordinary stamina and courage and will to do in even the humblest and most ignorant of the immigrants who seek our shores. They have the spirit of the pioneer, which is the determina tion to risk all and dare all in the hope of self-improvement. The hum ble "foreigner" of a generation back is the father of the substantial men and women of the community to-day. The later comers have been absorb ed, but not fully assimilated. A vio lent assault upon the nation from the outside probably would accomplish more in that direction than years of ordinary events. The sympathies of the country nat urally have been divided with Respect to the war in Europe and there may be those even now inclined to waver in their allegiance, but it would be well for them to do their wavering in profound silence. Ambassador Gerard is quoted as having informed a cer tain eminent German statesman that there is a vacant telegraph pole in the | United States for every traitor, and that is the way Americans feci about it. But there will be use for few poles. The nation will stand united against the assaults of any foreign enemy and the outcome will never be for a moment in doubt. Thousands of soldiers went into the Civil War as aliens and came out Americans, it would be so to-day. THEY CANT ARREST YOU FOR THAT By Briggs Irru G /v*FULL T~HAO s AkiO This Too BM> —AMD THIS C &u~cakJ'T DO OF CLUBS H *° MV JIRWER ON * AFTGR PIONT APT6R THC AWVTHINJ<S WT H AMO YOUR 1 IA/OVJUO HAV6 THG SECOND BRASSIE "THIRD" Vbuß MAJ-Hte PARTNER GOTTCeJ AT SHOT I (/v/OUt-D (OOWJ ~ I 3HOOLP HME W.TH \ LEAST SO YARDS B6 OM TrtC RIGHT U? ST*rr.s TVO-S j six BUT IF I Ov x2> AFTGR finishes \ MY PUTTER \ - Tug HOLE- \ j HA'- / l)/7//xA im committing This, they m'Um ' ARResT Vou Fow That. Old George Ade [From the Oklahoma.] Many persons were shocked a bit. ; we imagine, to read on the cover of j one of the current magazines, "Look- j ing Back From 50"—by George Ade. | To be sure, the riotous Ade days have \ long since passed, but when he was in j fullest bloom he was as the breath of i youth eternal. The notion that he j could grow old was preposterous. But time continues a relentless old adver- ' sary. If one is reckless enough to be born in Indiana in ISU7 why he's bound to be .">o years old in 1 y IT. That! was Ade's folly and this is his fate. Yet tile elan of Ade in his prime persists even into his gray anecdot age. Wealth fiasn't made him pom pous. And how refreshing it is to see a man, who can probably eat eggs several times a week, retaining much of the spontaneity and unaffectedness of the grim garret era. Still the satiric slant is his. and still the imps of wit dance round his pen. Of course, he dodders now and then, for vide Brother Longfellow— Whatever poet, orator or sage May say of it —old age. is still old age, It is the waning, not the crescent moon. The dusk of evening, not the glare of noon, but mostly he retains those faculties that sparkled in all the newspapers and screamed across the footlights when this twentieth century of ours was in safety pins. May his way stretch long and pleasantly down through the lengthening shadows. U. S. Has Low Freight Rate At this critical point in the develop ment of the American people's rela tion to their transportian systems. It is worth Avliile to point out some items bf comparison ot our railroads with other transportation systems of the world given in a recent report of the bureau of railway economics. It appears from this investigation that the freight rates paid the American railroads are now hut little more than 6 per cent, of the average rate on European lines. No country of the world shows such a low freight rate as the Vnited States except India, where tho labor cost is so strikinkly small as compared with any other country as to change the whole prob lem of comparison. The average ton mile rate in our country is .729 cent: in India, .7 cents; France, 1.18 cents, and Germany, 1.24 cents. In the new er countries of magnificent distances and small density the average rate per ton mile runs up as high as 7.04 cents In Brazil. Our railroads have over come the handicap of extremely long hauls by operating and engineering boldness and ingenuity, chiefly exem plified by the larger capacity of freight cars and the greater power of locomotives. Our freight car carries much over twice the voluqie of the European car. Our average freight train hauled in 1913 435.4 tons, the average German train hauled 239 tons and the Frencli train 147 tons. —American Review of Reviews. Save Your Waste Paper Paper is so expensive these days, it will pay yoit to save and sell it. The February Woman's Home Companion says: . "Nowadays tho economical house wife should save all her waste paper, for which she may obtain a fair price. Many hesitate because buyers de mand that it be baled, hut here are directions for making a simple baling press: Procure a largo box, and lengthwise of the bottom cut a slot a few inches wida Next lay three or four stout strings lengthwise across the bottom inside. Have them a few inches apart, parallel to each other and long enough to tie over the bale after the box has been packed full of paper. Having done this, provide a lining of old cloth, cafpet or heavy paper, allowing the ends to extend over the box. as was done with the strings. Each day deposit yor waste paper in the box, pounding it down occasionally to make it compact. When the box is stuffed full, draw the ends of the lining over the top and fasten the strings securely. The slot in the bottom of the box will enable you to force the bale out of the box." British "Tanks" f Frederick Palmer In Collier's] Germans surrender to a tank in I bodies after they see the hopeless-1 ness of turning their own machine pun and rifle fire upon that steel hide. Why not? Nothing takes the light out of anyone like finding that his blows go into the air and the other fellow's go home. There seemed a strange loss of dignity when a Prus sian colonel delivered himself to a tank, which took him on board and eventually handed hiin over to an in fantry guard; but the skipper of the tank enjoyed it if the colonel did not. ■Food Product The Dove of Peace, as we have hoard. i Becomes a plump and docile bird. \ Which unto those who fight and steal I T,ooks like a rather tempting inenl. fit at* HARRISBURG Oftftflg TELEGRAPH 1 ' HE'S MAKING MAINE DRY Young Governor Milliken Rigidly Enforcing Prohibi tory Law; Old Alliance Is Broken YOUNG CARL. E. MILLIKEN, the new Governor of Maine, has put that State on the water wagon. Though .Maine has had a prohibitory law for some years it was never en forced to any extent until the youth ful temperance advocate became Gov ernor a few weeks ago. Now Port land, Bangor and Lewiston, as well as the smaller cities are as dry as Kan sas towns. Milliken's first act was to inform sheriffs and public prosecutors that he would institute ouster proceedings against them unless they enforced the law to the letter. It is true the Maine law regarding such ouster proceedings is vague and the Governor would have had to go to a long and technical pro ceeding to make good his threat. But he blurted the sheriffs and prosecutors who had been winking at violations of the prohibitory law for so long. Boot leggers were either arrested or warned by the officers to get out. The mode of action depended on how close tho al liance had been between the law vio lators and the officers. But at any rate arrests for drunkenness have display ed a remarkable decrease in the last few weeks. Would Tighten the l.aw The Governor has asked for four amendments to straighten the pro hibitory law. These would make easier the process of removing delinquent ofllcers; would make owners of build ings in which liquor is sold account able as well as the actual sellers; would make violators of the liquor law suffer both fine and jail sentence and would provide for the outright LETTERS TO THE EDITOR That Monsun Lecture To the Editor of the Tele£raph: In your last evening's issue, a "sim ple-minded" (self-termed), using the cognomen, a HEARER, assailed the very instructive and pleasingly unre served lecture on "Turbulent Mexico" by the eminent explorer and lecturer, Dr. Frederick Monscn erstwhile Doc tor of Archaeology of the University of California. Just a word, currente calanio, in defense of Dr. Monsun's remarks. A brief and pleasing history of the early struggles of Mexico against the ag gression of foreign powers and the subsequent throwing off of the yoke of the "Little Emperor" with the ban ishment of the Austrian Archduke, Maximilian, was succeeded by the re lation of the present line of provincial presidents and their attendant revo lutions with the foreign powers, the latter's foreign policies and kustiy our own foreign Dolicy. Here the digression to which our HEARER took exception. Or. Mon sun disclaimed our ration's foreign policy in terms couched in English, au jus, not hidden behind a barricade of grammatical phrases. "Cowardly, it is," he stated. Can a true, red-blooded American deem it otherwise when he recalls Belgium, bleeding and torn? Servia? Rumania? the devastation of Poland? while we, in America, leis urely permit, these outrages to be per petrated, unmindful (apparently) of the existence of treaties for the pres ervation of small defenseless nations or of the existence of • international law. Again. Is anything so wearisome as a lecture by some prominent doctor with a one track mind? "He is a trav eler and tells the tales of a traveler" (continues tho HEARER). What a pleasant innovation. A lecturo with some kick; vivid, interesting tales; ; episodes, tersely related; in all a most ! entertaining combination. I sincerely trust the Harrisburgi Natural History Society will be sue-1 ressful in their excellent endeaor to ■ have Dr. Monsun again address us on | some prominent topic and I would | suggest that the eminent Doctor be l placed under no restrictions, limiting l digression, l-'or God help a one track I mind! A HEARER, ALSO. ! I'I.ACI SO R.KSPOXSIBILITV llarrlsburg, Pa., Feb. 1, 1917. 1 To the Editor of the Telegraph: Permit me, through the columns of' ; your valuable paper to say, or rather I imswer a few questions in regards to traflic suggestions of the Harrisburg j Railway company. 1 see Mr. Musser i blames it all on the subway or Mar | lcet Square. Now I do as much, or ; more, riding than any man In Ilar rlsburg. 1 can tell a few facts myself; : Not over two weeks ago I had oc ; casion to go to Middletown on im j portant business. I left the Hill on a j Twenty-third street car at Eighteenth and Derry streets ot fifteen minute:) lof six p. m., got to Cameron and I Market at seven minutes of six, wait- confiscation of all vehicles used in conveying liquor. Although tl.e Governor did not re quest it he has approved a bill already submitted to the Legislature that would make possession of liquor in any form prima facie evidence of a violation. It is said the provisions of (his bill are so wide that they would make it a penal offense for a man lo take a drink of liquor in Maine. Prices of Booze Soar Of course the liquor traffic has not been completely stamped out, the present law is not extensive enough to permit that, but compared to the Maine of former years the State now resembles a section of the Sahara. The few bootleggers hardy enough to ply their trade are charging fifty cents a half pint for the worst kind of whisky and fifty cents for a bottle of beer, and there are only a few of these bootleggers where before the new Governor's Inaugural Lewiston alone had at least one hundred more or less open liquor resorts. The open violation of Maine's dry law in other years was due largely to the lax State administration and to tl.e control of sheriffs by liquor houses in Boston and New York. In many instances sheriffs were able to retire with comfortable fortunes after a few years in office. They were able to take graft both ways—once from the shipper and once from the illegal seller within the State. But the firm minded young Governor who was elected on an "absolutely dry" plat form has made these emoluments of the sheriff's office a thing of the past. Ed on the Middletown car till 6:05 p. m. I left Cameron and Market streets tor Middletown. The car was packed, it was almost impossible to get standing room. The motorman stopped twenty-eight times between Harrisburg and Steelton, not to let off any passengers, hut for people who wanted to go clown the line. The con ductor opened the back door every time; not to take on any more pas sengers, because that would have been an impossibility, but to tell them there was another car following. We arrived at Middletown at 7:06 p. in. We did not have those congestions when we had the old experienced motormen and conductors. The most of the tie-ups do not occur in the Subway and Market Square, but out of the city limits. inexperienced motormen do not' understand sig nals and simply wait 'till they see an other car in sight and the next thing they know there are three or more cars in the same block. I will bet Mr. Musser the price of a box of good cigars against a nickel's worth of peanuts he cannot tell me when tlie cars were tied up in the Subway for fifty minutes, outside of the Subway being Hooded. In the last year there have Tieen more accidents, especially since the strike of Railway company employes, than there has been in the past two or three years; none, or very few happened in the Subway. No, the trouble lies with the inexperienced employes. I am no striker, never worked for the company and never will; only I believe in putting the re sponsibility where it justly belongs. Thanking you for this courtesy, I am a daily reader of the Telegraph and a citizen of Harrisburg. CITIZEN*. Pioneer Days "Tell me of your early educational hardships." "Well, I lived seven blocks from a Carnegie library and we had no au tomobile."—Louisville Courier Jour nal. OUR DAILY LAUGH I y 1 „ ' fJL) A FISHINOI "Eytfv Friend: I think there's a fish on • . [ Phone Oirl: *" t Dear me. I won ' der -what number he wants. The Actor: iMkrj JJjjjpA There are no jQljk great plays any- The Crank: No great plays! IM 1m Just you wait till jr our ball team gets LU ■ Into Its summer FEBRUARY 3, 1917. United States Uniform Several cases have come to the notice of the War and Navy Depart ment of alleged violation of the pro visions of section 126 of the act of June 3, intended for the protection of the uniform and prohibiting the wearing of it except on the part of members of the military-naval per sonnel and certain organizations. In this connection is It interesting to learn that the civilians who attended the training camps may wear the uni form provided for them by the gov ernment only during their period of service under instruction and not aft erward on their return to a civil status. On the otber hand, the stu dents of the military schools who be long to the .senior and junior classes of the officers' training corps may wear tl.e uniform continuously. Mem bers of the Army Officers' Reserve Corps who have been duly commis sioned by the President may also wear the uniform after the manner of offi cers of the regular establishment whenever there is occasion to do so. It is more or less difficult to regulate the misuse of the uniform or parts of the uniform in other directions, and it remains to be seen to what extent this may be accomplished by the pro visions of the new law. It is in tended by the military-naval author ities to prosecute the offenders and take official action to the end, now that there are means of doing so, that the uniform may be fully protected from unlawful use.—Army and Navy Register. The Child and the Bee I watched a busy bumble-bee. Kissing the roses "cap-a-pie," The roses did not seem to mind— Just tossed their wee heads in the wind. Coaxed I "Oh busy bumble-bee, "Won't you just once kiss little me? "Why should you choose a common rose "When you've a chance to kiss my nose?" And then the busy bumble-bee, At last sat up and noticed me— I stood quite still, just like the rose, And let him kiss iny wee pug nose! Oh dear! That nasty bumble-bee! llow tlowers stand him X can't see! He just may kiss that red, red rose— I'll let my mother kiss my nose! By Edna Grolf Diehl. Paxtang, Pa. Outside Suggestions [Kansas City Star] When the city administration de sired systematic suggestion tor im proving the efficiency of several of the city departments, it very sensibly went to New York and got trained men from the Bureau of Municipal Research to make the surveys. These men were familiar with, methods of other cities and they brought to their task special information, combined with the outside point of view tind freedom from prejudice. The results have justified the plan. Under tho city manager plan of gov ernment the municlpality.could go out side the city to get an experienced and efficient man to conduct the munici pal business. The advantages are obvious. Horses Out of Yellowstone Arrangements are being mado to selT 2,000 horses which heretofore have drawn touring stagecoaches through Yellowstone National Park for use in European armies. Their places will be taken by automobiles. The change will remove one of the picturesque features of the Yellow stone tour, but at the same time will facilitate the trip through Geyser land. The change is made at an op portune time for a pecuniary view point, as the horses that will go to the European tlghtlng governments will bring highest prices. Right Hand and Left • [New York Sun] With his right hand President Wil son puts down on paper his thoughts on the subject of world peace. With his left hand he switches his personal medical attendant from tho stairway to the escalator. With his right hand the President salutes the Congress deferentially. With his left hand ho beckons the Congressmen Into tri-weekly confer ences at the Capitol, at which they learn from his Hps what he expects them to do. Mr. Wilson keeps his right hand conspicuously off legislation; with his left hand he forces the legislators into line. Mr. Wilson keeps both hands off I Mexico, where things go from bad to worse: but when he comes to war on the other side of the world he puts both feet in it. Cold-Blooded Preference "Would you rather have money than brains?" "Yes." replied Mr. Growclier. "You can hire an alienist with money, but with only brains you can't hire any assistance whatever." Washington Star. Etotttttg <EJjal Frederick Monsun, the noted o>c. plorer, who lectured at the Technical high school Wednesday night befort the Natural Hfstory society, in Cham bars burg Tuesday luid the misfortune | when speaking before the girls <>| Wilson college, to display the littli device with which he is accußtomvi to signal his lantern operator for I change of view on the screen. "I told him," said Mr. 'Monsun, ro lating the incident to friends at thi •engineers' club, "that X would anai my Angers when 1 desired the slidei changed and everything worked aB right until about the third snap Then that bevy of young beautiei who constituted my audience begun snapping their own fingers whenevei they thought they had enough of oni snene and embarrassed me consider, ably,by causing the scenes to In changed so fast I couldn t keep us with them in my lecture. ".Seeing that the system had fallc<! I stopped short in my remarks and called to the operator: 'Pay no mor< attention to the snapping of lingers When 1 want a change I'llrwhistle." "I thought 1 was safe," said Mon sun with a smile, "because I figured the girls couldn't whistle. But 1 wni mistaken and such n whistling as thcr was in that hall for the next Ave min utes might have disconcerted even a veteran of the platform like myself. "But they are good girls and aftei they had their fun they did give m the most courteous attention I could ask, and I guess they liked it, for they have engaged mo to come back in March. I'll take an extra signal along thts time." * * • Mr. Monsun was with Jack Lon don, the author, only three days be fore his death. He motored out from San Francisco to London's big ranch and spent Sunday and Monday with hint. He had not arrived home again before he picked up a newspaper and saw the notice of London's death. "London looked in the finest of health when I saw him last and we had made arrangements to spend next summer in the South Sea Islands," said Monsun. "You can imagine how surprised I was to get. the news. Even now I can scarcely bring myself to be lieve the splendid, up-standing, virile fellow is dead." There are few ranches like London's in all the West, Monsun said. London spent a large part of his S4OO a day in come on it, putting $75,000 into a model piggery constructed entirely of concrete and glass. "Humans who got in to see those pigs," said Monsun, "had to wipe their feet on a mat be fore entering and refrain from spit ting. London certainly took a lot of pains with those porkers. At Intervals of every two hours the pens were all automatically flushed and even the feeding was done by means of ma chinery and the rations were care fully apportioned and weighed." * * Sirs. Estelle Thomas Steel, widow of the late Colonel Steel, who Is the newly elected secretary and treasurer of the Mechanlcsburg Daily Journal, called up the Telegraph the other evening to express her pleasure in an editorial having to do with the life and career of Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, who is lying at the point of death. Captain Jack Crawford and Colonel Stee! knew each other in the old army days and in their youth. Mrs. Steel entertained the old scout at their home many times. She drop ped the information known to but few that in his early youth Captain Jack Crawford lived in the vicinity of Ashland, Pa., having been born in tho coal regions and was for a time a breaker boy. That life was too tame for him, however, and he "went west" and became famous as a warrior, writer and lecturer. ** * K Announcement is made that the Me clianicsburg Dally Journal will be run by Estelle Thomas Steel as secretary and treasurer, with Edward Thomas as manager and E. C. Gardner as edi tor. Mrs. Steel Is a daughter of R. 11. Thomas, the founder of the Journal. She is a member of the League of American Women and a member oC the committee on Reliable Journal ism of that city, also a member of several organizations of women writ ers. The Journal was published by Robert H. Thomas, Jr., up to the timn of his death and plans have been made to continue the paper In tho family. Even some people are mighty par ticular when they are in jail. As a ' matter of courtesy, prisoners In th Steelton lockup are asked at each meal what they prefer to eat. If it is not too much out of the ordinary tho wishes are granted, but they mostly ask too much and get the worst of the bargain. The other day a negro was asked what* he wished to eat. He replied that he was not of the com mon class and that he wanted "a big fried fish with French fried potatoes,, a side dish and plenty of bread and butter." After asking for the big meal another In a cell adjoining who was a frequent visitor at the jail, exclaimed that "you will surely git that boss, 'ah tels youse." The Vhigh toned" colored chap's meal was not Just exactly what he ordered, it might be proper to say. * * * The observance of Candlemas day in Harrisburg is getting to be more and more general. For many years it was a religious anniveAary, but lately it has been noted by some fam ily gatherings. In a number of Har risburg homes the evening meal was eaten by candle light last nlg^t. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE * —Geilteral A. J. T-ogan, commander of the Second brigade, is In Florida for a brief vacation. —W. J. Brennen, the Democratic leader in Pittsburgh, Is among advo cates of more boulevards for that city. —John Cadwalader, the veteran Philadelphia Democrat, is urging the President to sieze the interned ships before trouble comes. —U. J. McLaughlin, Cambria's blast furnace engineer, will go to the Wharton Company's new plant. —T. D. Harman, who spoke here last week, addressed Ohio legislators yesterday. • | DO YOU KNOW [ That Harrisburg is a central point for gathering of crops of half a dozen counties? I HISTORIC HARRISBURG In John Harris' day there were 4 fewer islands in the Susquehanna than now and woods grew right down to the river shore. : Discarded Rubaiyat "A loaf of bread—a Jug of wine quotes poetry. "Are you aware," interrupted Miss Cayenne, "that bread tis becoming more expensive every day, and that this is a prohibition community, any how?"— Washington Star. ...... Appreciation (in motor car) —This controls the brake. It is put on very quickly In case of an emergency. Co-Ed—Oh, I see: something like a kimono.—Orange Post ,
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