14 HARRISBIIRG TELEGRAPH A NEW SPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bnlldlnir. l'cderl Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief I'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GLS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. j. Member American Newspaper Pub sylvania Associat jjjjjjjjfllgl jjSf mif Building, N.w lng. P Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Ilarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. !). = i Whatever turn the path may take to left or right, 1 think it follows The tracing of a wiser Hand, through j dark or light, Across the hills and in the shady hollows. —Henry van Dyke. TERMINAL FACILITIES IT is a good sign when civic and j street railway officials get together for the consideration of problems, the solution of which involve the con venience of the public and the general welfare of the community. Several conferences have already been held with a view of determining the best plan to overcome intolerable traffic conditions 111 the central business dis trict. As a result of these interchanges there ia daylight ahead. Following the discussipn, the Municipal League lias put up to the City Planning Com mission a scheme which embraces the ' best thought of all interests and upon | its approval by the official planners the Valley Railways Company will be j urged to adopt the terminal arrange ment proposed. We fiave no doubt j that the 'cross-river utility corporation will be glad to co-operate in any prac- I tical measure that will give relief. Prompt action is absolutely necessary; the working out of a plan has been hanging fire finite long enough. The solution proposed is regarded by engineers as ideal under the cir cumstances. It involves, in brief, the erection of a terminal station on Wal nut street, at River alley, and the double tracking of Walnut street for one block, thus relieving Market Square of the constant congestion which lias so seriously impaired the street railway service of the city on all j lines. This matter settled in the right way, the Harrisburg Railways Company should at once procure the services of the best operating engineer available for a survey of the city lines with a view to improving the system and overcoming conditions which have given rise to wide-spread criticism. Let the whole job be completed at one time. Poor old Carranza actually got on the first page this week; but he had to take sides with the Kaiser to do it. FAUI/r OP THE SYSTEM THE Chamber of Commerce again has placed this community under obligations through presentation of an authority on the police condi tions of America at its noonday lunch eon yesterday. C. J. Driscoll, repre senting the New York Bureau of Mu nicipal Research in its survey of the police department of Harrisbufg, was the speaker of the ocasion. In all the series of the luncheon talks none has been more important in its relation to the welfare of the city than the admirable address of Mr. Driscoll. Familiar with the famous police forces of the great cities of the world, he brought to the discussion of this important subject a large experience, a clear and fair niind, and great good sense. Some time ago the Telegraph took occasion to criticise rather severely the police methods of llarrisburg. Things had come to such a pass that a remedy was necessary and out of this criticism has come the investiga tion which is now being made under direction of the Chamber of Com merce and a number of public spirited citizens who have contributed toward the expense. But in all frankness and honesty the Telegraph desires to make a con fession in fairness to those members of the local police force who may have suffered in public opinion through tl.e rather drastic treatment of the matter by this newspaper. We failed to realize, perhaps, that in gen eral criticism many faithful and effi cient members of the force were in volved in the public censure which was visited upon the department as a whole. This was far from our thought and we desire now in this public manner to state that there are doubtless many men now serving the city in the police department who should have been commended rather than condemned. As Mr. Driscoll observed in his ad mirable presentation of the subject, the system is at fault rather than the men employed as the conservators of public peace. We trust that out of the survey now being made will come a general transformation and such an improvement as will give to the city ( a police department second to none in the United States. As suggested by FRIDAY EVENING, the Chamber of Commerce It is the duty of our citizens to familiarize themselves with the constructive work which is now being done looking to ward the improvement of this im portant public service. Ex-Ambassador BernstorfT will leave 1 for home February 13, and we hope no body feels superstitious about it. WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT? EVERY time a steamer is sunk by one of the belligerent powers a trifle is added to the cost of living in America. Our contributions to the war fund j are made in this way. The greater the losses at sea the higher the insurance rates on shipping. The higher the in surance rates the higher the freight rates, and the higher the freight rates the higher the prices of commodities in general. This last onslaught of Germany upon the shipping of the allies is bound to run up prices on every ar ticle and on every ounce of raw mate rial brought into the United States from abroad. The insurance people are willing to take the risks, but they make ship owners as a whole pay more for their policies. The ship owners shift the burden to the exporter and the ex porter must add the charge to the wholesaler. The wholesale merchant passes it along the line until eventually it reaches the consumer. He pays the freight. With all due regard for the proprie ties and in perfect accord with Presi dent Wilson in his actions in the pres ent crisis, we arise to remark that it would have been awfully embarrassing for those "he kept us out of war" shout ers if this situation had developed dur ing the campaign. THE FORUM'S GOOD WORK THE People's Forum will resume activities on Sunday by pre- senting to its members the tal ented widow of the noted negro poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Mrs. Nel son—she having remarried—is a na tional ligure. Her presence would grace any entertainment. She will bring to the colored people of Harris burg a word of encouragement from their fellows in other cities. She will be a living illustration of what a col ored man or colored woman may be come in America. It is good work of this kind that has made the Forum one of the most potent influences for good in Harrisburg. Some of the immigrants we have ad mitted recently might be more accept able to the Government if they could not qualify under the literacy test. SOMETHING IX NAMES THE proposal to change the name of our new possessions In the Carribean to the Dewcj; Islands l.as little merit. The great admiral certainly does not need it to enhance his fame or to preserve his memory. The ships which he took from the Spaniards at Manila Bay were trans ferred to our navy list after they had been put in condition but their Spanish names went with them, and those names tell the story still. Tl.e Danish West Indies have come to us as the result of a commercial transaction of which we shall not be wholly proud in the future, we think; so let them come and continue as St. Thomas and all the rest—and so tell their own story. There are indications that perhaps the Groundhog means to crowd the whole six weeks more of winter into BRAZIL AM) GERMANY BRAZIL is reported as likely to follow the United States in break- ing off relations with Germany. Brazil has very excellent reasons for taking this attitude. Victory for the allies means much to Brazil. The allies, many believe, are fighting the battle of the South American Republic, if not of the whole South American continent. Germany long'has had her eye on that country; so much so, in deed, as to plant what amounts almost to a v crown colony there. Now is the time, a great number of Brazilians think, to make impossible any such pro-German program after the war as appears to have been in contempla tion previous to the conflict. MII.ITAKV TRAINING SECRETARY BAKER has con gratulated tlio commanders of the troops along the border for the excellent conduct of both men and officers —and very properly so. The National Guardsmen went to Texas fresh from office and mill and many of them raw recruits unfamiliar with even the rudiments of military duties. They are soldiers now in every respect, ready for the rough est kind of active service. Nevertheless, as former Secretary of War Stimson has pointed, out, the 138,500. guardsmen thus scraped to gether between June 18 and August 31 were not at once an army. The chief of staff testified that only 19, 000 of them could shoot "tolerably." Some 50,000 of them never had had range instruction with the army rifle; 71.000 of them never had attended an encampment. There Is no possible de fense of a system producing such re sults. The experiment had been given a thorough try-out and it Tailed to produce a great defensive force quickly. Ever since 1903, when the so-called Dick law weht into effect, the federal government has been paying subsi dies to the militia of the States. That law had offered every inducement— pay, subsistence, equipment, transpor tation to army maneuvers—to get the States to put their National Guard or ganizations" upon some sort of mili tary footing, and after fourteen years of this experiment, during which its failure was public knowledge, Con gress could think of no other remedy than to increase the subsidies, with the result now known. The answer to this failure of the militia —not individually, for the make-up of the Guard is excellent and its morale is beyond reproach, but as an adequate defensive institution— A GOLFER'S FAMILY LEADS A HARD LIFE By BRIGGS " MV LAND " |,S " eL -~ IT fjfrc- / | / (WTW 7hat- ALL Voune HAS. TO BE \i // , / -1/ - DONE- I s,/ / \/ Gas BAV — FOOL MAY AS weu <£*&> CQ3 v Mriw c 'i™ 1 <sf *" rr' - #r •l -Jimimy- ||||| || | is universal military service. Nor is that idea the bugaboo it was as late as a few months ago. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, chaplain of the famous Iron Brigade of the Civil War, took a very sensible view of universal training when speaking before a Sen ate committee at Washington the other day, he said: We never can be and never will be a military nation. The test of that came at the close of the Civil War when 2.000,000 men were mus tered out, flushed with victory and under the command of a man who became President of tin- United States. There were predictions that Grant would become dictator. In stead of becoming a dictator he could riot be nominated for a third term and that great army melted like snowflakes in a stream, in the stream of American life. Univer sal trdining is perfectly reasonable and imperatively demanded. It is the solemn duty of the American nation to meet any war conditions that may arise. Students from Princeton and Penn sylvania universities advocated a law that would compel them to shoulder arms along with the plumber's son and men of every walk. Their action followed that of Harvard men, includ ing several of the inhabitants of that university's exclusive "gold coast." Slowly but surely people everywhere are coming to that view of it. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT] Speaking of "war-rabies," farm pro* ducts of 3 916 were worth $13,149,000,- 000.—Wall Street Journal. , They might try King George on the job in Greece. He hasn't anything to do at home now that Moyd-George is running the whole works.—Philadel phia North American. If paper had been selling at present prices in August 1914, von Bethmann- Ilollweg would not have spoken so contemptuously of the value of a scrap of it.—Brooklyn Kagle. The German raider took motion pic tures of her work In destroying allied merchantmen. The Sussex incident taught the Kaiser never to relv again on a pencil-sketch.—Philadelphia North American. Colonel Roosevelt evidently is read ing the Bible backwards. He started at Armageddon and has now reached Meroz.—Kansas City Star. Rhymes From the Nursery] Making Valentines We're awful busy kids these days, We've hardly time to coast; We've hardly time to eat our meals— Just grab a piece of toast And run off to the nursery, And take a bite between The cutting up old cardboard And the coloriu' it with green. Or red'll do as well, or blue— Just so it looks real fine; And then you paste a picture on, And there's your Valentine! Esceptin' you must have a verse— And rhyme I never could! So I allers call on sister Who can inak* them awful good! She makes up nice ones for mamma, All full of love and joy. She makes up one for baby All about his pretty toy— She makes up ugly ones for dad— Oh! Gee! He'll have to laugh! I've ones that call him monkey and And I've ones that call him calf! But I'm amakin' one myself— I've not told to a soul; I make the words up in the dark. As round my bed I roll — It's for Eouise in our school— Her hair's all full of curls-- I just got this far—"l like you More'n a thousand girls!" EDNA GROI-'F DEIHL. Paxtang, Pa. Jefferson To Women [Thomas Jefferson.] But above all things and at all times let your clothes be neat, whole and properly put on. l)o Dot fancy you must wear them till the dirt Is visible to the eye. You will be tile last who is sensible of this. Some ladies think they may under the privileges of the dishabille, be loose and negligent of their dress in the morning. But be you, from the moment you rise till you go to bed, as cleanly and properly dressed as at the hours of dinner. • • * A lady who has been seen as a sloven in the mowing will never efface the impression she lias made, with all the dress and pageantry she can afterwards involve herself in. • • I hope, therefore, the mo ment you arise from bed, your iirst work will be to dress yourself in such style as that you may be seen by any gentleman without his being able to discover a pin amiss, or any other cir cumstances of neatness wanting. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T>c&Kc* U | 'PtKivoifCtfaHla H By the Ex-OommlttetmM 1 1 Now that the resolution for the probe of government in Pennsylvania is in the House and people can form a pretty fair idea of what it is going to do to politics in Pennsylvania, the Legislature wil get into its stride and things which usually occupy atten tion will commence to figure again. The framing of the appropriation bills will be taken up with little de lay and consideration will be given to amendments to the school code, third class city code and similar meas ures which are subjected to biennial changes. Little time will be lost as the leaders have begun to realize that the Legislature will have to be industrious to overcome the dilatory policy of the first month. The local option bill, which has lately kept people all stirred up until after the middle of each session, will be brought out promptly, possibly next week, and there will bo no hearings. In years gone by friends of local option have rallied here, held hearings, made demonstrations and sonc home with the bill defeated. The opponents of local option have control now, but will permit a fight to be made to put the bill on the calendar notwithstanding the negative recommendation which it is expected the committee will give. Local option is not getting the atten tion it did last session, and it is the general impression that some of the boomers of local option did the cause more harm than good this year. The thing to do after the Vickerman bill is put out of the way will be to organize at once for the contest next year. The organization of the Legis lature ended chances of local option in 1917. —Regarding the investigation reso lution, which went through first read ing without a chirp in opposition yes terday in spite of a lot of newspaper noise, the Philadelphia Inquirer to day says: "Unless there shall be a change in sentiment there appears to be no doubt that the Sproul resolution will be passed finally by the House and be sent to the Governor. Should the Governor veto the resolution the Penrose men cannot count upon a two-thirds vote to pass the measure over the Governor's veto. Their plan then will be to offer a concurrent res olution which does not require the signature of the Governor. Indepen dent investigations regardless of what shall be done in the way of a general probe are being considered by the Penrose chairmen of various standing committees before whom State offi cials. it is proposed, shall be sutpmon ed to give an accounting of their offi cial acts." —Reports are persistent that Pri vate Secretary William 11. Ball is be ing seriously considered by the Gov ernor for appointment to succeed Sam uel B. Rambo as superintendent of public grounds and buildings. —Cloyd B. Kwing, of Mt. Union, named yesterday to the State Board of Agriculture, is a personal friend of the Governor and interested in agri cultural studies. For years he has been observing farming conditions in Huntingdon and counties in the Juni ata valley. —Philadelphia's magistrate system was hotly attacked yesterday by Pow ell Evans and James C. Jones In ad dresses before businessmen and it is likely that there will be considerable sentiment manifested to make a sub stantial change in the plan for cases now going before the magistrates. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has gone to the South again and insists that he is not taking a hand in legis lative matters. The Mayor is study ing the transit situation and may have some meetings in {Southern States on the matter. —The Union 1-eague of Philadelphia at a meeting held last night heartily endorsed the President, the gathering being one of the most notable ever held in the city and the action of the great Republican. organization .in standing behind a Democratic Presi dent will be much commented upon. —Buzerne liquor dealers have start ed proceedings against seventy keepers of saloons whose manner of conduct ing their business does not meet with approval. This is cleaning house with a vengeance. Among the charges made are selling on Sunday, conduct ing unsanitary places and gambling. —ln Bradford county the sale of bottles has been abolished over bars. If a man wants a bottle he must go to a wholesale house. —An old friend, a bill for a stand ard textbook for schools, is expected to appear this session. The Philadelphia Record to-day says that Representative Herman D. Hecht instead of making a roar over the Sproul probe resolution at the meeting of the House appropriations committee, was very tame and that In stead of tearing things up he practic ally apologized for having to oppose the measure, saying that he was In an embarrassing position. TO CUT UP BIGGEST FARM Dalrymple Heirs Will Divide 22,000-Acre Tract in North Dakota at the Close of Next Harvest [From the Minneapolis Journal] THE famous Dalrymple farm in Traill and Cass counties, North Dakota, said to be the largest In the world and known wherever agri culture on a mammoth scale is talked of, is to disappear. That which re mains of the great holdings of Oliver Dalrymple, in his day the greatest farmer in jtlie world, comprises 22,- 000 acres, it is to be cut up into about 100 small farms of 160 to 320 acres. The seed, that is all ready in the Dalrymple seedhouses on the farm for the 1917 crop, will go into the ground this year, for the land is fall plowed and as ready as can be at this time, for tl.e spring planting. But when the 1917 crop is taken off the land, that will be the end of the Dalrymple farm. New holdings, generous enough in area as farms are measured in the East, but tiny in comparison with the parent farm, will be laid out. There will be farmhouses and farm buildings in every direction, as the new small farms are taken up, where now, in winter time, there is a vast unbroken tract that to the traveler by rail or along country road suggests an uninhabited country. Nearby Cities Pleased Casselton, Valley City, Fargo and other prosperous North Dakota towns will be glad to see the bit? l'arin broken up. Time was when these bonanza farms were a great asset and the pub licity that their successful operation gave to the Northwest at a time when many people supposed grain could not profitably be raised that far north, was worth millions. But economically North Dakota has changed. Oliver Dalrymple, who was a Scotchman and a skilled farmer, operated a 3,000-acre farm south of St. Paul prior to 1875. That made him an agriculturist of some note even then. In 1873 Oliver Dalrymple and his brother, William F. Dalrymple, became interested in North Dakota land. They were convirfced that it would raise good crops. The Dalrymples interested E. 8,, W. J. and J. JJ. Grandin, three brothers of Tidiotite, Pa., also two Eastern capi talists named Cass and Cheney. Tn all seventy-five thousand acres of land were bought. The Northern Pacific, to finance itself, in a period of tight money, was issuing land script with I stock and the land was acquired in this way in part and partly by direct purchase. There was made from the 75,000- acre holding a number of farms that were of such size that each was re markable in itself. But the Dalrymple farm was the largest of any and after breaking twenty thousand acres in LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A TENDER TRIBUTE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir—Among the many tributes paid to Mr. Samuel Kunkcl, the ten derest one is Known, by few. • During that saddest period, as friends were looking for the last time upon his face, two little boys—his Romper chums-—quietly entered the room, approached the casket and therein laid their offering: a single rose—an American Beauty, made of paper. Who will measure its intrinsic worth? When a Roman conqueror returned from victory he was crowned with oak leaves. This conqueror of the hearts of children, at the close of the Battle of Life received their guerdon of love, gratitude and a Rose. J. B, Harrisburg, Feb. 9. 1917. Idolatry As It Is After months spent in idolatrous lands, I have been una,ble to see much real worship In heathen shrines. The educated worship with their tongues In their cheeks and the ignorant with their hearts In their mouths. But the amount of real worship that exists in heathen temples is very small. Sometimes a bereaved mother "will enter the temple and draw from her kimono the tiny bib of a departed little one, and tie ,it to rhe statue of Jlzo, the god of motherhood. Sometimes an old man or woman, almost blind, will enter the temple and rub the eyes of a wooden god and then rub his own in the hope that eternal darkness may not close in on his affrightened ,soul. In some places, Buddhist services are as dignified, as well attended and as help ful as our own. In Hakodate 1 attended a Buddhist preaching service that smacked less of Idolatry and more of morals than some ceremonials In our cruciform (Jhapels. Maynard Owen Williams, in The Christian Herald. FEBRUARY 9, 1917. 18 76, Mr. Dalrymple continued extend ing until at one time he had in excess of thirty-live thousand acres under cultivation. , W idc Attention Attracted Visitors from every part of the united States and many from abroad came to the farm, at harvest time, to see the wheat. Writers for Kastern publications came to view and describe the farm. Many columns were writ ten in magazines and Kastern periodi cals of the scale on which operations were conducted. The romance of the bonanza farmer was written and re written. For twenty-five consecutive years nothing but wheat was raised on the Dalrymple farm. But for some years past crop rotation has been followed and the farm has produced vast quan tities of flax, barley, rye, oats, millet, and other crops in the process of rest ing and restoring the soil and every year a portion has been laid in sum mer fallow. Oliver Dalrymple, liis name known in England, France and Germany, himself a St. Paul resident in tlie winter time and a practical farmer on the land 111 spring, summer and harvest time, died in 1908. There was some cutting oft of parcels of land before and after his death, but even after that had been done his two sons, William Dalrymple and J. S. Dalrymple of Minneapolis came into poscssion of nearly twenty-two thousand acres. Part of this is in Traill, but the major portion lies in Cass county. "My brother and I have decided to give up operating the farm and divide It into small farms," William Dalrym ple says. "It is better, we think, that this be done, for many reasons. And we think It better for North Dakota. Made World Look IJp "When my father went into what then was Dakota Territory, few people believed that grain could profitably bo grown so far north and there was a very crude conception of what the country that we now speak of as the Northwest really was. It was the big farmer, doing things in a big way, that Woke up the world to what the possi bilities were. As a means of pub licity for the Northwest, if for noth ing else, the big farms were great assets. "Hut economic conditions in North Dakota have changed. The State is rich and prosperous, methods of agri cultural operation have changed, everything is different. It will lie bet ter for the State, for the towns and cities of the State and for all the peo ple interested in the development of the State to have a great many small farms in the place of the one big farm." OUR DAILY LAUGH FATHER 1Ml ! : iFWWS KN EW LJ WkMm OTHERWISE. 1 ; i I don't believe that music inW ,BL H teacher can Alf make anything out of Kath erine's voice. You're mis taken. He's \\ made over a L P J">T''l I hundred dollars | | out of it already. "" WORSE YET. "2, Look here, F<\ /X\J landlord. There's *** Y&'JflU two lnches of *' a t® r ' n our ce '" ■ra ; lllllllt That's nothing. V'lliilV "* ust think of th HmL. '\4M poor soldiers in -iU V the trenches. They have to stand in water up to their waists all day long. NO ALLURE- JJ {^r MENT. JjXK Some day 7 you'll be rich \W~j\ enough to retire from business. y\v \K / > Give up my If-jK' Al nice pleasant Ml / \ / IV> office and stay u/l home? 1 should |T i | - Bp ■ay not. J\ p|f jjj: Bntttg Qlhal The average man probably docs not realize that the railroads of this state are among the greatest factors for Americanization. This may sound strange when it is considered that they are among the large employers of for eign labor, but the fact is that the transportation companies are con stantly bringing to the attention of the aliens in their employ the impor tance of becoming citizens. It makes the men better workmen; makes tlieni feel that they belong, which is a big thing when there are many men of diverse nationalities employed, and it inculcates a sense of responsibility. The railroads issue all orders In Eng lish. The men soon realize that It is important to know just what the or ders say. Sometimes they do not trust their own people who act us inter preters and their forenien have to hammer Into their heads what the or ders mean. Then, too, the foreigners are not slow In• recognizing that the men who learn English and become citizens have the best chance for the permanent and the better jobs. They are the canniest people In the world at making money and it is not a very long step from knowledge of English and things American to owning a home and becoming a citizen. The way a man who can vote will swell around among his former countrymen is signilieant. Then, too, the railroads are very careful to have the men in charge of work Americans and to have a pretty fair sprinkling of natives among the workers on the various jobs. The places where anything could happen are all in charge of Americans, very often men who live right at the place and whose fathers and relatives have worked "on the road." Tho crews arc American to a man and proud of it. All through the railroads are strong for Americanization and a tremendous force for popularizing what this state and nation stand for. The German crisis lias brought out a good many applications for nat uralization and the reason in many cases is not far to seek. Another thing noted here in this crisis is that there has been •little excitement among; the foreigners coming from the cen tral powers. There has been no draw ing out of money front postal savings or from hanks worth commenting upon. In fact, among the men from Austria and some provinces in the eastern part of the German empire the workmen who still owe allegiance to emperors are disposed to let events take their course and to go on earning more money than they have been get ting in their lives. The men from allied countries did not get excited and there have been no racial clashes here abouts. From what men who observe the foreigners say, there does not seem to be probability of any, either. Knowledge that one can enjoy the fruits of labor and lie down at night in safety has always been something that appeals to the man from overseas. This part of the state, although set tled by people from half a dozen lands, has always been intensely patriotic. Central Pennsylvania was one of tho hotbeds in 1775 and the records show that there were mighty few Tories about. Those who were here when things began to grow tense soon left. There were no more ardent lovers of America than the sons of men who emigrated from the British Isles to tho valley of the Susquehanna and who fought their own cousins at Chadds Ford and Germantown and descend ants of Germans who came here be fore Independence and after the Ger manic troubles of 1848 are as strenu ously American as the progeny of tha Scot and the Irishman. Some odd acts of Assefnbly are go ing to be repealed this session of the Legislature. Several acts are being advertised in various counties which sound quepr. For instance. Allegheny county announces it is going to aslc repeal of the law relative to catching foxes in that county. "Did you ever stop to consider that in a few generations the present tele phone receiver will make the average person unable to hear from the right ear?" said a prominent physician re cently. A new thought, but seemingly a logical one. Any organ loses its power by long disuse. Most men uso their right hands because countless aeons of time ago our sturdy forebears protected their hearts with a shield held 111 the left hand while they wielded their stone clubs the right. Years of warfare made the. right tho strong arm. To-day when -the tele phone bell rings the logical thing to do even for a left-handed man is to pick up the receiver with the left. The left ear is trained to pick up the most delicate sound vibrations. If you do not believe this, just try using the left ear. In a few generations of abnor mal development of the left ear, per haps, the doctor's theory will be vin dicated. 1 * * • The State School Directors' Associa tion, which lias been holding Its con vention here this week, had as one of the speakers at its first meeting years ago. Governor Brumbaugh. The Gov ernor was then a school superinten dent and talked business with the di rectors. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Captain J. F. McFadden. of tho First City Troop, is urging his men to qualify as < avalry officers. [ —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart spoke on Dickens at the annual ban quet. of the Dickens Fellowship in Philadelphia. —Senator Owen Jenkins is an au thor of Philadelphia historical works pertaining to the revolution. —W. S. Kirkpatrlck, former attor ney general, is the head of the North ampton Bar Association. —J. L. Mason, former football player, has been named as Philadel phia's lirst director of play. | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg steel used in making government munitions is subjected to some of the severest tests known? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In old days Harrisburg people kept up their marksmanship by rifle matches along the River Kront. Our Trade Involved [Kansas City Star. I While the American protest against the latest German notification is based 011 the general grounds of neutral rights. It should be understood that these rights Involve more than the oretical considerations. American for eign trade with Europe in the elbven months ending with November amount ed to 8,500 million dollars. Most of this enormous trade went Into tho pro scribed zone. Jt Is this commerce which Germany seeks to cut off by what Is known to International law as a "paper blockade" —a blockade by notification merely, . supported by occasional attack,* on shipping which has no standing In In ternational law.
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