8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 f I ! Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlnar. Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F\ R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUB M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. I Member American lation and Penn sylvania Aesoclat- E n'ue Building, New- Brooks & Finley., People's GM Build- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. |5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 8. If God bejor s, who can be against tis?—Hebrews S;3l. THE GERMAN PURPOSE AS the situation growing out of the break with Germany grows more and more tense the con viction is being forced home in many minds that there may be method in the madness of the Kaiser. It is be lieved by many that the embroilment of the United States in the great world catastrophe, according to the view of Germany, perhaps would result in benefit to that country when the show down comes at the close of the war. In other words Germany would prefer to have the United States sit ting at the table when p. final settle ment of the struggle is under discus sion. Germany probably has figured that Uncle Sam would be more lenient in his treatment of the Kaiser than the other belligerents. This fits in with a theory that Ger many made the promise to cease her submarine warfare last May with the definite purpose of withdrawing her pledge when a sufficient number of submarines were ready for the circle now being drawn around England. Whether this theory has any basis or not it is one of the interesting features of a discussion which is going on everywhere regarding the purpose of Germany in baiting the United States to a break and the more serious eventuality of war. Brewers in California are urging a reduction of saloons in San Francisco by one half. It is also proposed to in crease the license fee from 1500 to SI,OOO. Still another evidence of the passing of John Barleycorn. COMMUNITY CENTERS SENATOR CHARLES A. SNYDER is to be commended for his ef forts to improve not only the schools fo Pennsylvania, but also the conditions which affect the local com munities of the State. His bill, which embodies the hopes and aims of civic organizations which have been trying to make the schools in cities and towns real community centers and meeting places at night, has been ap proved wherever its provisions arc understood. There ought to be no doubt about the passage of such a measure and it should go through with the support ot' every legislator. For years and years the discussion of a wider use of school property has proceeded without any very definite results. Now the people are becom ing aroused to the importance of utilizing the buildings which for school purposes are so little used dur ing the year. Under the Snyder bill school boards would be required to estimate the amount of money need ed for the additional use of the build ings for community purposes and to authorize a tax of not more than two tenths of a mill on the assessed valua tion every year providing such action is authorized or required by a popular vote. Two or three years ago the Tele graph started a community center movement with the aid and support of some excellent citizens in Harris burg and for a ttme the Camp Curtin building was utilized in this way, but owing to the lack of funds the work was abandoned. Since that time there has been an increasing interest in the community center idea and with President Stamm and his associates on the sch6ol board heartily in favor of anything and everything which will enhance the welfare of the people there la a chance for real community effort through the measure proposed by Senator Snyder. That talk of Charles Schwab as "sec retary of munitions" sounds pretty good to us. With Schwab on the job there would be some likelihood of hav ing not only the men and the guns, but plenty of the things that go with them to make an effective army, and without r.ny updue chatter about it.- THE SALESMANSHIP CLUB THE Salesmanship Club proposed for Harrisburg should have a large membership. This city has become a veritable headquarters for commercial salesmen. Our location geographically and with respect to railroads, the Establishment here of great warehouses and distributing plants and the density of the popula : tion immediately surrounding the city , have all conspired to make this a salesman's center. Many of them are among the brightest and best paid men in their lines in the State, and the wonder is not that they have de cided to organize but that they did not get together long ago. Salesmanship used to be a hit or miss occupation. Anybody who got - THURSDAY EVENING, out of a Job started out to "sell some thing." The theory of business was that if you built the best mousetrap In the world and your factory was lo cated In the midst of a deep forest the world would wear a pathway to your door. But not all mousetraps were the best in the world and it took a long time for the world to wear the path to his plant, so the wise manu facturer began to wear paths from his door, and he assigned salesmen to do that work. Naturally he wanted good men for the jobs and"%o it has come about that many of the vej-y high salaried men in the world are salesmen. The manufactured product lies useless on the shelf unless some body sells it, and the manufacturer whose sales force is llvest sells most goods. But salesmanship goes farther than that. The owner of a manufacturing plant is a salesman if he shares in the formulatioA of his selling policies. The president of a railroad company is n salesman if he exercises supervision over the sale of its services. The ef ficient advertiser is a salesman of the highest type, although he may not once in a year come into actual touch with the people who buy his goods. All salesmanship, however, is based on the same general principles and qualifications, although methods may differ widely, and on the success pr failure of its salespeople any estab lishment must rise or fall. It is not difficult to understand, therefore, why salesmanship clubs are popular. All salesmen have the same common problems and the study of human na ture is not the least of them. Asso ciation, the exchange of ideas and ex periences and an occasional discus sion of some pressing problem by an expert in his line cannot be other than beneficial. There is room in Harrisburg for such an organization as is planned and there is little doubt of the success of the movement now under way. "When outsiders begin to "butt in" Americans forget their political differ ences in order to join forces and "lick" the other fellow. Notice how the Ger man break has put -a blanket on the Brumbaugh and the "leak" investiga tions? FORCING PROHIBITION THE usual number of anti-liquor bills are being presented In the Legislature, among them sev eral for local option and a resolution to submit a prohibitory amendment to the constitution to a vote of the people. It is a foregone conclusion that local option will be defeated again this ses sion. A majority of both parties ap pear to be opposed to it. The liquor crowd got in its work at the primar ies while the "drys" were giving at tention to other matters. Perhaps it is just as well. The longer local option is delayed the nearer Pennsylvania is to State-wide prohibition. The will of the people is for local option. Rum as a legalized business is becoming more unpopular every day—even among habitual drinkers. If the liquor dealers, had been wise and had recognized this changed atti tude of the public, they would have submitted to local option and fought it out, community by community. In stead of that they have spent thou sands upon thousands of dollars an nually endeavoring to thwart the will of the people in the legislature, and they have succeeded and will succeed again this year, but not all their mil lions can halt the progress of public opinion on the temperance question. Blocking the will of the people mere ly delays the evil day. Thousands of voters who have looked leniently upon the saloon frown upon the methods of the liquor lobby in the Legislature. One of these days they will lose all patience and a prohibition amendment will result. When that time comes the liquor men will have only themselves to blame. They have been sowing the wind, and the har vest will be the whirlwind. Henry Ford begins to show signs of being a most warlike pacifist. CHEER UP; SUMMER'S COMING CHEER up, fellows, all's not gloom, even if the Groundhog did retire for six more weeks. Yesterday the dispatches carried an item from the seashore to the effect that Atlantic City has started its an nual fight to exterminate the mosquito. Of course the mosquito will decline, as usual, to be exterminated and will be "zinging" around as lively as ever in a few months. But that's not the point. The idea is to show that sum mer is just around the corner and that in a short time we'll be slapping our ears, not to keep them warm but to bat the busy mosquito. With the temperature and the coalbin both low It seems like wo can hardly wait. _________ Mr. Bryan says he is in Washington "at the President's command," and per haps that command flnay be to "go away back and sit down." "JAPAN ABOVE ALL" ACCORDING to the views of a writer In the Kansas City Times, the recent dissolution of the Japanese House of Representatives, by order of the emperor. Is a victory for the war party. Men who know the internal life of Japan say that Japan has cast the die for a policy of "Japan above all," a policy of aggressive mili tary action in China, hostility to the foreigner and extensions that may menace the western nations, he adds. The hand of Mitsuru Toyama, leader 'of the Gen-Yosha, Japan's political Mafia, is seen behind the latest move. Toyama represents the spirit of mili tarism In Japan and he has thrown his strength behind Premier Terauchl and against the Liberals. "Japan above all" sounds sus piciously like' an Oriental adaptation of "Deutschland über alles," and If that be so and the Japs are half as shrewd as they have the reputation for being they will pause for a mo ment to study cause and effect In Ger many before plunging the country into a policy that has made a once highly respected nation an outlaw among the peoples of the world. **Japan ove* all" Is a tine, high-sounding phraer THEY CANT ARREST YOU FOR THAT By BRIGGS j ;7TrT) yIU iSSjetT P FeSi tofixsl LISTE <JOe-\t-L - AND 7H& / Joe rue X A-R D£2*V MOWEY TO LATER HAVE-THAT r et J THE FOUOVVuKf A LOT OF EXTRA . SPRIWC4 TwS FOR Vou rvjexx W CEK EXPENSE LATELY 1 WAS <3O(I0Q To y-,. THIS \ W/CEK 6UE - BUT ILL SLIP SLIP Vou THAT TEM y y y ou THAT TETO I owes Vou AfMD -y —— FI p JT OP IsomeßODV COPPEj> / \ jr. yjggx SORE \ IT OFF OF LOT OP .MOSURAK.CE SJMEXHTSG M DOIHG YH, S - DUG AND I MAD To L U k e VHIS 'i . r -£ UC ThG OTHER Th6Y T USE ALL MY STVSRCE | TM? NE*-? ? Gc " MO ' ARREST TOO CASH - BUT I'LL, HANPI Ttf G ° Xhat FOR Twprr * • / YOU THAT TEM AJEXTJ UESK I TERJ BCRR -• / V VjjeEK 'POSIT/UELY'/ \ _/ with the destructive possibilities of a ton of dynamite, and Japan should think before exploding It in her own cellar. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 Congress Henry is now in position to sympathize with the man who hunts a fas-leak with a lighted candle.—Phila elphia North American. Revelations of conditions in the Tren ton prison show that in New Jersey the "pen" is more barbarous than the sword.—Philadelphia North American. German Bundesrath prohibits imports without permission thus reaching an understanding with the British navy.— Wall Street Journal. If the "leak" investigation keeps up at this pace it won't seem just right not to have some distinguished alienists testify.—Springfield Republican. Trade Briefs Monazite deposits have been discov ered in Ceylon arid plans perfected for the magnetic separation of the min eral. America and Brazil have form erly supplied most of this product, which is used in the making of gas mantles. Special Agent Juan Homs at Perth, Australia, asserts that American man ufacturers should find a ready market in that district for what is known locally, as "stump jump" ploughs. This type of the plough will roll over stumps and other obstructions. They retail from $175 to $350 each. Jamaica's total shipments of ban anas in 1916 amounted to 5,000,000 bunches. Other crops were corres pondingly good. Three sets of sugar conveyers are being installed on the Kuhio wharf, Hllo, Hawaii, and will be in work ing order by the time of the sugar shipping season of 1917. This will greatly reduce the cost of loading sugar. Machinery for the production of square and hexagonal tiles- for bath rooms is needed in Spain. The tobacco industry In the Ha waiian Islands is being revived by a company which is capitalized at SIOO,OOO. No large crops have £>een raised since 1913. Rhymes From the Nursery >——————— In February In all the months in all the year, I'm just a little boy— I never think of bein' big, The future don't annoy Me any. What's the use? You ain't a boy but once! I've heard dad say so often, So I just act the dunce, And cut up larks, and do mean tricks, And have all sorts of fun; But 'bout the first of February, Then my thinkin' is begun! For that's the month In all the year, When I know I'm a man, Or I have the makin' of one. Which Is just as gran'. So teacher says. She reads 'Bout Washington, the brave, And kind and noble Lincoln, And I try to behave! You might not think it could be true, But teacher says it is— I might be Pres'dent some day myself, So I'm tendin' strick to biz! EDNA GROFF DEIHL. Paxtang, Pa. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" As to Steam Heat To the Editor of the Telegraph; Surely the Telegraph, always among the first to take up the cause of the people against anything savouring of high-handed monopoly, will lead the campaign now on to force the Light, Heat and Power Company to give value received. I have watched with great interest the slow awakening of the people of llarrtsburg to the fact that they are being robbed gently, gracefully, if you Will, but nevertheless surely, by a cor poration. Now the awakening has come, let the newspapers lend their aid. No name other than robbery fits the act of a company which will take money from anyone wishing city steam and then even pretend to supply It from the inefficient and insufficient plant that now stands. During every cold wave, the same "trouble" is reported and causes untold annoyance and suffer ing. The trouble really is always the same. The boilers, of which there are too few, nre working to capacity in mild weather and when In response to insistent demands during a cold wave, a slight accession of pressure is at tempted, the boilers burst. Just as they did during the past week-end and the people are deprived of all heat though paying for the full amount. How soon Is this condition which is causing considerable unfavorable comment from other cities, to be reme died? MR. SQUARE DEAL HXRRISBURG TELEGRXPH foUtUi, u By the Ex-Cornealtteeraaa Governor Brumbaugh is getting ready to fill the vacancies in the State government in spite of frowns from the State Senate. The Governor has been busy working out plans for some trenches in the event of hostilities reaching a livelier stage. Just what he is going to do about the Sproul resolution is not announced, but friends say he will veto it, and a legis lator from the home district of Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, said yesterday that .a taxpayers' suit to test the legality of the commission to investi gate government in Pennsylvania was probable. The Governor has considerable pat ronage at hand, but has never put his hand to the ax in earnest. He has places to fill which he will employ. If the Senate refuses to confirm them he will have some time in which to give friends places and power. The lawmakers will not Btay here all sum mer, and if the Senate does knock out the appointments the Governor can still switch places in the government and name new men to vacancies. It is underslood that two men of experience in the building and main tenance of large buildings, as well as in buying supplies, have been consid ered for the superlntendency of public grounds and buildings. One man is said to live in the eastern part of the state and to have declined because he did not care to leave his present place. Th other man has not been talked of much. In this connection it is in teresting to note that there has been a recurrence of the talk of the quali fications of William 11. Ball, private secretary to the Governor, for the place. Mr. Ball was chief of the bureau of city property and ran the Philadelphia city hall and some $50,000,000 worth of city property, having wide experience in building matters and in the numerous things coming under such work. Whether he could be induced to make the change, no one knows. The Governor has In mind for the place of chief of the censors of pic tures a man highly versed in art and of the type of Ellis Paxson Ober holtzer, secretary of the board. In all probability there will be a ruction over the action of the Senate in passing a resolution to give the chief clerk of the Department of Pub lic Printing and Binding authority to use the powers of the superintendent in case a vacancy occurs such as is now the case with A. Nevin Pomeroy out and D. Edward Long suspended in m|dair, the Senate having hung up his nomination. The administration men claim that the resolution' was an invasion of the executive branch of the government on which they are very sensitive at present and the point was also made last night that laws could not be changed by resolutions. —Representative Dunn, a Vare man, put in a bill to give the United States government the right to buy land for extension to the Frankford arsenal, which is in his district, some time ago. The other day Representative Perry, McNichol man, put In the same bill. Perry's bill has been reported out and is going through. Dunn's is sleeping. —The House elections committee, of which Mr. Palmer is chairman, is arranging to hear people who desire to advocate the change of the date of the fall primary in odd-numbered years so that it will avoid the Jewish New Year. There is no opposition to it except that the selection of the first Tuesday In September brings it right after lAbor Day, and a further change has been suggested. —Representative Whltaker was the first member to be called to the chair by Speaker Baldwin. The Chester county man 1s chairman of the com mittee on manufactures and the ex ponent of the military in the House. Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, of Philadelphia, was here yesterday to look after some of the legislation af fecting firemen, he being: the president of the State Association. —The Wild I.,ife league is planning to have another game law conference here shortly. There are some bills it wants to talk over with the Game Commission. —Harry Bovard and Captain John B. Keenan, prominent Westmoreland men, were here yesterday. So was John Robert Jones, former legislator from Schuylkill and mentioned for judge to succeed Charles N. Brumm. —The town council of Tamaqua which ilost three members because they were found identified with con cerns having borough contracts, has named Ihree men connected with- the liquor interests of the place to succeed them. .— Ex-Mayor Jones, of Coatesville, who wus ousted, has declined to be a GREAT LINCOLN HEART OF CUMBERLANDS THE mountain folk of Cumberland Gap, where Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee touch sides in the midst of the wild and rugged Appala chians, are going to lead the country this year in honoring the birthday of Lincoln. They arc going to lead; for their's Is the right to lead; they are his own people. They will be hosts to the rest of the nation on February 10, 11, and 12, wiien hundreds of notable men and women from every state in the Union gather at Lincoln Memorial Uni versity, Cumberland Gap, to pay hom age to the mountain boy, railsplitter, country lawyer, President and martyr. It will probably be the greatest Lincoln memorial celebration within the generation. In the midst of the giant hills that once echoed back the words of Henry Clay, of Calhoun and Andrew Jackson, in bygone political barbecues, noted men from East and West, North and South governors, senators, preachers, educators, leaders in commerce and in science will gather to take new thought of the great lesson of his life. Historical Memories It is safe to say that those who will make the pilgrimage, the experience will be like turning back the pages of American history to that chapter in ante bellum days during which the Great Emancipator was a typical moun tain youth. For he was typical of that rugged, picturesque, lough-hewn coun try. The cabins that still dot the moun tain sides have their Lincolns and Hankses to this day, and, while the world all about them has been strid ing forward from rail-splitting and mule-riding; from candles and home spun, thoy have not kept the pace. They are isolated, apart from /the world and though a race whose ances try can bo traced back in unbroken lines to colonial times, they know less of the conveniences and opportunities I candidate again at the special elec tion. —Altoona people are petitioning Representative J. E. Rininger to se cure an amendment to the Clark act calling for a workable recall proposi tion. —Bethlehem lias Voted $150,000 for street improvements and DuKois IIUH beaten an $85,000 loan. —Congressman Coleman, of Mc. Keesport, has abandoned his contest against the election of M. Clyde Kelly. Kelly won on the face of the returns by 251. The Way Home Whichever way the feet may tread, However far the place. We find Love's holy {ountainhead. And know Its tender grace. Our footsteps always Jaad us home. Our hearts are guiding too; And voices sound from all around. Ah....Home is calling you! Man strays to foreign lands and fair; His missions bid him go. And we must wander everywhere If duty wills It so. But through this pilgrim,i;je of years Some fate has planned it thus; Our hearts keep track of safe trails back And Home is calling us! Youth sets bold foot outside the gate, And faces westward ho! The Little Mother begs him wait, But Youth Is bound to go. And there are many lonely years, And there are eyes made dim, Till Love's sweet way shall fix the day When Home will call to him. The pathway back is red with rose; The birds still have a song: The same clear Childhood river flows That same green wood along. And oh, but It is good to feel That old sweet ecstasy. Its poignant grief, its great relief. Ah Home is calling rnel —W. Livingston Lamed, in The Christian Herald. The Mississippi "Comes Back" IFrom Memphis Commercial Appeal.] The word comes down from the steel and mining centers along the Ohio river that a great revival in river transportation is to be seen on the Mis sissippi river during the present year. For one thing, a great increase in coal towing to the southern territory is to be opened up, and for this purpose alone many steel barges are now under construction at Ambrldge, Pa., where the American Bridge Company plant is located. Congestion of rail facilities, the sur prising cheapness of water transporta tion and the nearlng of the time for the expiration of long-term rail contracts are said to be the reasons for the re ported. reawakening of river transpor tation. One industrial eoncorn at Pittsburgh, which moved coal by its own fleet, did it at one-eighth the ra.ll cost FEBRUARY 8, 1917, of modern life than the Immigrants from Europe or the negroes of the South. still live, as it were, in a bygone age. Their customs, their speech and their mannerisms are those of the era before Daniel Boone ex plored his way westward, and their outlook on Ufa little changed from the days of Lincoln's boyhood. Lincoln Type Not Extinct So, the Lincoln type is still there; the mound is not broken. The raonu tains that looked down on his early struggles for an education could tell of battles against poverty and circum stances of birth waging to this day by just such mountain youths a3 his tory pictures Lincoln to have been, to lift themselves from illiteracy. It is said that the -threat career of Lincoln hinged on the fact that he had access to six books. Children in the public schools are told that at the beginning of his liyht for learning, he would study for hours by the light of a blazing pine knot when the day's work was done. A sober visaged, ungainly boy, sprawled on the cabin lloor poring over borrowed books by the light of the fireplace; that is the picture most of us bring to mind when we contem plate Lincoln's early days. To-day, 1n that very region, young men no more fortunately situated than was Lincoln, are emulating his exam ple, spurred by the same restless fires of ambition and indomitable will their mountaineer stock has given them in common with the great man they fol low. The future Lincoln University will be far greater and qiore widely known, for a movement is on foot, supported by some of the foremost men of the country, to secure for it an endowment of $1,000,000 and make It what Lin coln would have wished to see it; the gateway to learning- for every moun tain boy and girl, the avenue of escape .from the doom of ignorance and stag nation. I OUR DAILY LAUGH HOLDING jnember of de I never seo you I Reserves. —Bl GOOD SIGNS. fPMI Iv 1 tll,n k your boy V /V will choose ? asked Mr. I Law, replied yflk White. Because a he can taill n /llinfv *os. ' ou^er an ' 'ong- II v 1 er when he's got W>l\l t ' le wron P I{/ ?! °' an ar K ument I' - Q If 1 ",-rJ than anybody I ever heard. „ PALPABLE EVI- \. DENCE. Who says we ean't peer Into the future? qIQ Not with any Bah! I can -> show you an ac- tual X9X7 car. J THEIR BUSI ' Mr * R o a c Ik fl jM Look out, boys, u 4 you'll falL jL JB Boys: Don't Jr\ worry. We'ra Mw tumble-bugs. A SAVINO, . I see you'r® laying out a ten nis court in your yard. I didn't f3jrjv know you played the K&me. h Yi, I don't, but you J, sec I won't have ngß'3 to~mow that part of the lawn after ' ' y eHjdP I take the turl IW off. , I 2*benittg (Eljal Governor Brumbaugh's suggestion yesterday afternoon at the monthly luncheon of the Pennsylvania Stata Society that the Legislature appro priate SIO,OOO for the purchase ol current art to be placed in the Capitol as a means of preserving of Pennsyl vania history means a good bit to Ilar risburg and is in line with the Gover nor's oft expressed desire to make the •State Capitol a place of beauty in a beautiful city. The Governor's idea is to supplement the art works in the Capitol by completing as soon as pos sible the Oakley series in the Senate and Supremo Court chambers and also in having arrangements made for tha. proper decoration of the north corri-A dor. As to the works which he sug gested that the State boy from time to time it would be,the plan to have an art Jury composed of the best posted men in the State who would select canvasses of merit and historical im portance which could be in keeping with the splendid decorations now in the building. Some time, it is the Governor's hope, the State may have an art gallery in the domain of the Commonwealth in Ilarrisburg where paintings depicting the great part Pennsylvania has played in the devel opment of America may bo assem bled. The election of John S. Rilling, Public Service Commissioner, to be president of the State Society is a compliment to the Erie lawyer for lis was the man who conceived the idea of the society and did much to estab lish it. Mr. Hilling wrote tlid consti tution and was active in the days when the organization, which is unique in State capitals, was taking its place in the official and social life of Pennsylva nia. Mr. Rilling named Secretary ot the Commonwealth Cyrus 15. Woods for re-election, but the secretary who had made a most satisfactory first president, declared in favor of the office rotating and Mr. Rilling was nominated and elected. There were congratulations for him to-day. * • • The congestion which occurred in Third street last night when the alarm was rung for the blaze in Strawberry street illustrates the need lor traffic regulations that can and will be enforced. In less time than it takes to tell it the street was tilled with people and automobiles. Then a trolley car came along and into the space between Walnut and Market piled seven pieces of tire apparatus. The firemen untangled the jam and while they were doing it other fire men were chasing automobiles out of Walnut street between Third and Fourth, where half a dozen trolley cars were stalled because of a de railment at Fourth and Walnut. The worst part about Walnut street was that in addition to the cars there were automobiles left standing on both sides of the track and if the fire had been in Walnut street just what would have happened can bo better imagined than described. Perhaps, Mr. Drlscoll could find material in the condition that prevailed on the two streets men tioned. • The great army of men who walk into the business section of the city from the residential section seems to have dwindled this week. There have always been doubts about the size of the army, although the number of men who declare they walk is legion, The difficulty seems to be that so many of them have pressing business on very cold mornings and have to take the first car that comes along. A walk is very invigorating in tha morning, but there are few who ad mit that zero weather scares them oIT. • • • Anyone that thinks the average boj of 10 or 12 isn't vitally interested in the American-German situation miss his guess, too. "Gee. maybe one of them there sub marines'll come up the Susquehanna, and bombard Harrisburg," ventured one of two lads who were arguing the respective prowess ot the Kaisei and Uncle Sam. "Huh, lot you know about submar ines," scoffed the other. "Why how'd they get through tlio dam at McCall's Ferry? Why my Pop says even the fish can't get up the river. Besides d'yuh over hear of a submarine bom. bardin' anything. They shoot torpe does at ships under the water, dum my." * * * In spite of nine murder cases listed this week for trial at the continued sessions of criminal court, and four to be heard at the March sessions, the crowds which usually are present in court rooms when murder cases come up were not in evidence this week. Even court officials remarked the slim attendance. When court opened on Monday there were less than fifty persons, with the exception of Jurors, who sat through the preliminary work of picking juries. "Murder trials are getting common," was the way one court attache explained the slim crowd, but others blamed it on the intensely cold weather. * * "Wanted A Name" was tlio an nouncement a fe\v days ago that tha borough council of a thriving West Shore town would name the new town lockup after the first prisoner to be placed back of the bars. As the inhab itants o£ the borough are all law abid ing citizens the new bastile most like ly will go without a name for some time. ♦ * The' session of the House held to day was the first time the lowet branch has met on Thursday for a long time at this period of a session. Generally meetings are held on Thurs days only toward the end of a ses sion when things must be rushed. In cidentally, President Beidleman pre sided yesterday at one of the busiest sessions of the upper house held this early in a session in ten years. rWEIL known people ~ —Dr. C. J. Hexamer, the Philadel phia German who suggested that there be a referendum on war, haa abandoned that plan. The doctor is tl.e head of the German-Americau Alliance in this country. —J. F. Seldomridge, who is active in the State organization of men con nected with fairs, is one of the offi cers of the Lancaster Fair Associa tion. He is also opposed to a State fair. —Senator C. W. Sones has been made one of the legislative commH tee of the Susquehanna Trail Asso ciation. —W. H. French, well-known burgh newspaperman, is criticully tin with pneumonia. —H. W. F. Price, prominent Butler educator, has taken charge of v>r Wr in Pittsburgh. | DO YOU KNOW "1 That llarrisbunc markets arc as good as any in tlio State and prices lower In many Instances than in larger cities? HISTORIC HARHISBVRG Harris burg's first, school board wa* created right, after the town was laid out. Home Truths [From tlio Boston Transcript. 1 "My wife would rattier cool; than cat," "So would mine—than eat lliu stuff she cooks."
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