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SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 10
There is no action so slight or so
mean but it may be done to a great
purpose and ennobled therefore; nor
is *v purpose so great but that slight
actP**n may help it, most especially
that ch'tef of all purposes the pleasing
of God. — ANON.
PRESIDENT'S DECISION
PRESIDENT WILSON'S decision to
arm merchant ships flying the
American flag for defense against
piratical German U-boats and his call
for a special session of Congress to
assist him in the crisis that impends
should serve notice to .the world at
large that America means to keep faith
with her citizens and to stand up
firmly for her rights among the na
tions.
Unquestionably, the President has
the people, with him in what he has
done. The only fear they have enter
tained was that he would not so act.
That he has done so has inspired them
with a confidence and a belief in his
leadership that a thousand high
sounding notes could not have pro
duced. They know now that the old
spirit of Arherlcan manhood is alive
at Washington, as It is throughout the
nation, and that wliate'cr betides we
have done the courageous and the
honorable thing.
The summoning of Congress is al
most a call to arms. The day of reck
oning with Germany cannot be long
postponed. The first American gun
ner who punctures the sensitive hide of
a German submarine commits an act
of war. This, then, is the period of
preparation. The calling together of a
vast volunteer army for defensive pur
poses is only a matter of time. The
country must now bend every energy
for the great emergency that appears
inevitable in the near future. The Issue
is not of our own making. It has been
forced upon us. We must meet it ■with
the same courage and decision that
has characterized this latest act of the
President.
BRIDGE AT STATE STREET
ADVOCATES of a bridge over the
Pennsylvania railroad at Wal
nut street should give close
study to the plan evolved by Archi
tects Manning and Brunner for the
substitution of a viaduct at State
street, with easy and convenient ap
broaches from Walnut street and
North street, both on the Hill and
west of the railroad.
The State street bridge would solve
the problem for the largest number of
people, and no doubt in the end will
be built. Those who have planned it
have arranged the highways leading
up to it in such a way as to eliminate
the objections that have been made
by people wh# believed their needs
could not be met by a State street
crossing. The more clsoely the plan
Is studied the more appealing it be
comes.
DEMOCRATIC REVERSION
POULTNEY BIGELOW'B state
ment, in an address deliv
ered in Canada, that the
American consular service |s
composed of broken-down politi
cal bosses, worn-out lawyers and
dentists, and men who could not earn
a Jiving at any honest or respectable
business, is perhaps true to-day and
was largely true twenty-five years ago,
The Republican party gradually and
rapidly worked away from that coa
dltlon of public affairs by establishing
the merit system In promotiens and
the competitive test system In original
appointments in the consular service.
The Democratic administration put us
back a quarter of a century in our
standards of public efficiency.
ENGLAND AND IS
THE stability of England is the
security of the world," wrote
our own Emerson a time
when praise of anything British iwaa
no* uyor> w|th favor the
SATURDAY EVENING,
United States. The same la true to
day, only far more so than then. If
England falls the United States must
fight for her very life, for that would
mean the war with Germany lost to
the allies, Canada invad&d and laid
tribute, Mexico armed and sent
against us and armies of trained vet
erans menacing us from the north as
well as from the south and east.
There may remain in this country
some of the old-time antipathy fo'r
Great. Britain, but even the bitterest
anti-British partisan would feel less
secure with a German colony in place
of Canada.
CAPITOL PARK PLANS
TENTATIVE plans for the develop
ment of the Capitol Park Exten
sion Zone have been submitted
to the public for approval. They rep
resent the mature thought of Archi
tects Brunner and Manning, who rank
among the most noted of their pro
fession in the world, and at first glance
appear to bo admirable. However, as
Governor Brumbaugh has said, they
are not final, but are given to the
people of the State for study and sug
gestion. They contemplate the ex
penditure of large sums of money, but
over such a long period of years that
the erection of buildings will not more
than co respond to the growing needs
of the State in an administrative way.
The plans are comprehensive and
provide for a harmonious scheme of
treatment, so that, if they are adopted,
as it is presumed they will be at least
in large measure, those whose work
it will be to develop the park exten
sion zone vi(ill be moving constantly to
ward a given end. The treatment pro
posed is elaborate, but not more so
than it should be. The business of
the State has so outgrown the cap
itol that ofTices of tlie several depart
ments are now scattered throughout a
half-dozen State-owned buildings in
the extension zone and elsewhere in
privately-owned structures throughout
the heart of the city. The need for
enfargement will not only grow with
the population, but will be augmented
greatly by the evident desire of the
people to bring the affairs of the State
and those of its citizenry jmore and
more into close relationship.
The need for additional office room
is not a matter of the future even if
present conditions were tolerable. It
is a problem that must be solved be
fore the landscaping of the capitol ex
tension zone can be taken up seriously.
Some of the old structures must be
removed if the district is to be beauti
fied, but before these can be torn
away they must be replaced by others.
The necessity for an appropriation
adequate to the needs of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings for the
coming two years in the preliminary
work of grading, landscaping and
preparation of plans for buildings that
must be erected in the near future
should be impressed upon the Legisla
ture. No delay should be permitted
in the formulation of the required
budget, and some especial means
should be taken to acquaint the legis
lators with every detail of the plans
as outlined at the conference yester
day. They should be made to feel that
the matter is one in which the State
as a whole should be interested, that
it is really national in its scope and
that it will give to Pennsylvania a
capitol worthy of its importance
among the States and equal to that j
of any capitol of the old world.
•We in Pennsylvania have had big
things in mind for the capitol park zone
ever since the extension was author
ized. We have approached its de
velopment in a big way. Big men nave
devoted their thought to it and In
turn have called other big men Into
consultation. It now remains for the
Legislature to view the project in a
big way, and to act accordingly.
A VAST DIFFERENCE
A REPUBLICAN administration
fought the War with Spain
at a cost of $78,500,000
for the operations ot the land
forces. We had about 4 0,000 men In
the actual theater of the war. The
present Democratic administration
kept Pershing's column of 12,000 men
In Mexico for ten months at a cost
of $14,000,000 month. By compari
son, the outlook is not agreeable in
the event that wo really get into the
European struggle on a result of the
German submarine campaign. But it
may happen that any force will be
cheaper than staying out,
MAKE IT COMPLETE
THE Mayer of Minneapolis
thinks that the prepared
ness propaganda is ninety
per cent, commercialism and ten per
cent, patriotism, Mathematical com
putation! of this sort are not now
pressing, There will be time to cipher
it all out after we have fought a war
or after we have found that we do
not have U) tight one,. What the
country needs is JBO per cent, of pre
paredness, the fati<? ot its component
parte te he determined later.
TAX MBit
A FARMER ta Manitowoc, Wis
consin, found a kettle contain
• ing $7,000. Will this sum be
Included in any liability he may be
under for the payment of income tax?
Except for the fact that, he is engaged
in the business of agriculture, this
might be subject tp the excess
profits tax. Tax him. Democrats, tax
him.
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.CHEC^ V
What England Is Facing
Some of the premier's proposals will
'especially shock Britishers of the old
school. For example, every available
acre will be put under the plow, even
if landlords are sufficiently rich and
unpatriotic to keep the acres fallow.
This means the expropriation of ileer
parks and game preserves which the
nobles artd plutocrats have for cen
turies devoted' to their vanity, or their
pleasure.
Confiscatory taxes would have
wrought this revolution In due course,
but an imperiled empire cannot wait
while the taxgatherer reclaims the lost
areas. With every available acre sown
to grain and with the demand from
brewers and distillers drastically cur
tailed, or entirely' cut off, the admiralty
should be jtble to underwrite the food
supply, on the ration basis, with which
Germans for many a month have had
to rest content.
It must bo remembered, too, that the
British, like the Germans, were apt
to overfeed in the ante-bellum days,
from which it follows that the suffer
ing will be largely imaginary, at worst.
In any case, their is no present reason
to suppose that Britain, any more than
Germany, will be starved into surren
der.
Both peoples are sure to tighten
their belts and fight on till a decision
is reached on continental battlefields,
or Hritain loses command of the seas.
That the struggle would ultimately en
ter upon this phase was fairly clear
from the moment when the invasion of
Belgium threw Britain and her ilect
into the opposite scale; for, from that
moment it. became certain that Ger
many must win a Trafalgar, or accom
plish a similar result with the sub
marine. Tt is this final phase that the
premier has just summoned parlia
ment and the people to face.—From
the New Orleans Times-Picay\me.
Recruiting
Whatever the merits or demerits of
our present military system, this na
tion owes a vote of thanks to its re
cruiting officers. Whether they can
get the men needed when we begin j
forming the reserve is doubtful in the
extreme, but up to date their success
is remarkable.
They have gone out into the open
labor market, and gained recruits
when every Industry is clamoring for
more workers. The ranks of the cav
alry have been filled a little beyond'
the number authorized by Congress, i
The artillery, engineers and medical |
corps are nearly full. The infantry is
10,000 short of the increase author
ized. but has till June 30 to -nake
good and expects to do so, Under the
circumstances, this is a remarkable
record.
To be sure, our recruiting officers
have something to offer prospective
soldiers. The new law attended to
that. Men can go up from the ranks
now more readily than ever before,
und they are doing it in scores. West
Point furnishes only a fraction of the
officers needed: the rest must bo ap
pointed from civil life or be brought
up from the ranks, and these are
Riven the preference. There are first
lieutenants in the army now who were
sergeants less than a year ago.. Then
there is a chance for men who make
good to be sent to "the Point," and if
any one can learn the soldier's trade
well enough in that time, he may be
furloughcd to the reserve at the end
of a year.
But these advantages would count
for little if they were not exploited by
as keen an advertising campaign as
ever was conducted for private gain.
The young oflicers in charge of this
work cannot be enamored of it, Like
all men who have eiven thought to the
matter, they ■> believe that military
service should be a matter of duty, not
of personal whim. But the country
has a task to do, and they
are doing it like soldiers, Good for
them.—Chicago Journal,
Greater and Less
Mary had a little steak,
At 1 o'clock each day,
'Twas thus hep simple lunch she'd
make,
For that was Mary's way,
And Mary said as time went by.
"A steak much smaller grows!"'
Another thing took Mary's eye;
The price ascending rose.
And as the war went on and on,
The meat grew smaller still.
Presented by the waiter, John,
Much larger grew the bill.
"The thing's absurd,*' poor MarJ?* said;
"What is this difference for?"
The waiter, as he shook his head.
Said: "Miss it is the war."
The restaurants are tir-'g-jt and gay
In every swarming street,
And still, the more we have to pay
The less we get to eat.
: —kondon Globe.
HARRISBURG ftSslg&S. TELEGRAPH
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Republican factional politics which
has been rather quiet, to the great re
lief of many people, since the Legis
lature started its recess, was stirred
up again last night by a declaration
by Senator Edwin H. Vare, of Phila
delphia, to the effect that he would
oppose the bills for a single council
for Philadelphia and other measures
sponsered by the reform organizations
and'hacked by Senator Penrose. The
senator said he and the Mayor are op- j
posed to the bills and that he believes
the Governor will veto them.
This declaration by the senator
means a new injection of "Philadel
phlaitts" into the Legislature, and it is
interesting to note that the North Am
erican, which is generally friendly to
the South Philadelphlan, says to-day
that "progressive legislation advo
cated by reform organizations and
promised the support of Senator Pen
rose is threatened with disaster by
Senator Vare." The Philadelphia Rec
ord says Vare's declaration means "a
bitter fight," while the Ledger asserts
that Vare says "most of the reform
bills are needless" and intimates that
Senator McNichol may also take a
hand.
This Vare statement, coming right
at the time when most people about
the Capitol believed it would be pos
sible to Work out some sort of an
agreement on legislation and guberna
torial appointments, will make trouble
in opinion of Harrisburg observers
and plans for investigations by stand
ing committees, which have been pig
eonholed, will be taken out again.
There have been hopes generally ex
pressed about the Capitol that Phila
delphia factional politics could be kept
out of the balance of the session and
the State given a rest.
—Death of Ambassador Guthrie,
generally believed to have been the
Democratic leaders' choice for Gov
ernor in 1918, has caused a revival of
talk of Colonal Richard Coulter, Jr.,
of Greensburg.
—Ex - Insurance Commissioner
Charles Johnson, the Montgomery
county leader, is being much mention
ed as the probable successor to Chief
| Clerk Harmon M. Kepliart, of the
1 Senate, when he becomes State Treas
i urer in May.
—The Philadelphia Record says to
day regarding the Legislature: "A de
sire for a short session of the Legisla
ture is held by the Governor and his
friends, who declare that nothing in a
legislative way has been accomplished
so far this session. They are not
pleased with the character of the leg
islation proposed up to this time, and
one leader close to the Governor inti
mated yesterday that vetoes would be
numerous unless some "sane and sen
sible" measures were put before the
Legislature."
—Altoona is threatened with a new
wave of reform on Sunday sales of
candy and soda.
—Senator Charles J, Magee, of
Pittsburgh, brother of the public ser
vice commissioner, is seriously ill.
—York council last night put Wil
liam Axe, a Democratic policeman,
back on the force in spite of the
Mayor's protest,
■ —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
calls for repeal of the full crew bill.
—Senator McNichol will be home
from the South to-day and so will
Mayor Armstrong and the Pittsburgh
leaders.
Drafts of a bill which will give the
third class cities of Pennsylvania a
single chambered council consisting
of a member from each ward elected
on party platforms have been pre
pared by Senator Edward E, Beldle
man, president pro tern of the State
Senate, and the measure will probably
be introduced at an early day in the
upper house of the Legislature, Un
dty- the present system "councilmen
are elected at large on a nonpartisan
basis.
Senator Beldloman, whose views
against the nonpartisan election of
judges are well known, holds that the
jbjections to such elections apply to
the third class cities and considers
that there should be a return to the
party platform election system.
In addition tq proposing that
councilmen should be elected on a
party basis, Senator, Betdleman favors
the election by the voters of third
class cities of city treasurers and
other officers formerly elected at
large but made elective by council
under the Clark third class city act.
—Democrats are talking all over
the State about a very apparently in
spired statement in the Harrisburg
Patriot, owned by National Chairman
Vance C. McCormick, to the effect
that no /changes are contemplated In
President Wilson's Cabinet and that
the fact l>as been known "In govern- i
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THE PEOPLES FORUM
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Ash Collections
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
City council will certainly have the
hearty approval of all the voters in
the West End if they do away with
the foul smelling garbage plant, near
Wild wood park. For years the sum
mer air lias been sickening, and life
uptown is almost unbearable because
of the nauseating odors from the dis
posal plant.
When providing for municipal gar
bage and ash collections comes before
council, the big question which fol
lows if this plan is adopted, is how to
dispose of the refuse. The ash prob
lem is comparatively easy. There are I
plenty of places along the ouskirts
of the city, which can be used and
the owner of the land will be only too
glad to get the fill.
But the garbage is another problem.
Commis-sioner Gross has mentioned
an incineration plant as one solution.
He adds that this will mean the pass
ing of the present garbage plant.
if the incineration scheme will do
away with the stench of boiling de
cayed animal and vegetable matters,
then let us have it. Anything that will
keep the air in the city fresh anil pure.
Another bad feature about the garbage
plant is that it spoils summer trips to
the lower part of WiUlwood because
of the foul smell. Why have such a
beautiful park such as Wildwood if
nearby there is a plant similar to a
phosphate factory or tannery, making
it almost Impossible to stay near the
place because of the sickening odors?
While the voters expect council to
adopt the plan which will bo most
efficient and yet cost the least money,
it is a foregone conclusion that there
will be no opposition, a least from the
West End, if something is done that
will end the days of the garbage plant.
FRESH AIR CAMPAIGNER
Federalize Warehouses
• To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Let the internal revenue department
cause every cold storage warehouse in
the United States to come under its
jurisdiction and on every package, be
It one dozen eggs, one bucket of but
ter, or a sack of potatoes, be stamped
with the same kind of internal revenue
stamp now on each bottle of bonded
whisky, stating the date the package
was received in the warehouse and the
ment circles In Washington for some
time," right after Mr. MeCormick's
name had been mentioned by Nation
al Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer
as likely to become secretary of war
in the Wilson Cabinet. The publica
tion Is generally taken as an expres
sion of the national chairman's desire
that the use of his name In connection
with Cabinet places should cease. It
is also significant that since tho para
graph appeared that Mr. Palmer has
not been mentioning Mr. McCormlclc
for any place. It Is a matter of com
mon knowledge hero that the nation
al chairman does not desire any ap
pointment at the hands of the Presi
dent and that he did not express any
wish for any place during the first
term. It Is also said by some of Ills
friends that he would hardly care to
undertake tho burden of candidacy
for governor, although It goes with
out saying he would like to have some
one thoroughly in accord with his
ideas become the candidate.
Labor Notes
The leading industry in New York,
measured by the value of the manu
factured product, is the making of
women's clothing.
Nine hundred and eleven local
unions are affiliated to Bricklayers'
International and the total member
ship is 70,000.
The International Federation of
Trade Unions claims an affiliated
membership of approximately 7,500,-
000,
Increased wage to lumberjacks and
other woodworkers Is proving a de
cided handicap to recruiting in the
north of Canada.
Greece has adopted a standard time
that saves half an hour of daylight
and brings the nation within the zone
of Eastern European time.
has been developed for
spreading fine rock-dust on the pas
sageways of bituminous mines, to pre
vent explosions of coal dust.
| The Industrial Accident Board of
Massachusetts, in its report to the
Legislature of 1917, strongly urges
that'tho compensation act b made
compulsory.
MARCH 10, 1917.
date It leaves on it, and not to bo in
over six months. Result, the law of
supply and demand and normal prices.
A. GABRIEL
That Walnut Street Bridge
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Sometime ago the citizens of Har
risburg living on Allison's Hill formed
an organization to secure some way
in which to overcome the climbing of
steep grades, lonely stretches of road
and dangerous subways.
After some thought they decided to
ask the citizens of Harrisburg for
their co-operation in building a bridge
which has been designed to give the
people of the Hill what they absolutely
need and desire. The citizens of Har
risburg voted and carried an appropri
ation of $300,000 to give the citizens
on the Hill a viaduct designed to give
tliem what they ask for.
Now why does the Governor of this
great Commonwealth lend bis ears to
a seemingly favored few and not give
tho citizens on Allison Hill a chance to
voice their side of the question.
The writer cannot understand why
a State street viaduct is pushed so
much forward. Tho people of the Hill
never asked for it. And not only that,
but a viaduct to the brow of the hill
at Walnut street would be much short
er, consequently cost the property
owners of Harrisburg a great deal less
in taxes.
The writer wishes to see the Capitol
Park look better than anything of Its
kind in the world. Nothing is too
good for Pennsylvania. But don't
spoil the whole thing by putting a
bridge right in the center of it, that
would spoil the appearance from the
railroad.
Cut off State street nt Cameron,
throw the viaduct over to the brow of
the Ilill, make a. boulevard from Wal
nut street over Royal Terrace to State
street, then double track the whole
business for the electric, cars. Thus
giving the park zone all the space
needed, keeping the cars out and af
fording a good view of Harrisburg and
Capitol and at the same time giving
the people of the Hill what they need.
Please invite a few of the private
citizens living on the north side of the
Hill to call on you, you will soon find
out that tliey have a real complaint.
L. T. J.
[OUR DAILY LAUGH
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permission
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live, my son. JH-fa
f FIERY PA.
The water
pipes at our
house froze the
That so ? Have
to send for a
No. Pa got
hot and thawed
them out him*
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Martha, didn't I
tell you to sweep
Wt* the dirt under the
Martha- Sure,
i an' Ol did mam—
> look for yourself.
Simuttg (E{fat
"Pennsylvania's game appears tad
have gotten through the winter prettyl
well Judging from reports which El
well, Judging from reports which Jj
have received from wardens and.
sportsmen throughout the State,'"
said Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
the State Gaine Commission to-day.
"It has been a severe winter, but tha
birds seem to have survived it pretty,
well. Sportsmen in many parts of the
State have fed the quail and I wish;
that more farmers would help tha
birds. The rabbits and grouse aecm
to have gotten along well and tlia
large game has not been injured. The
small birds have managed to get
enough food and I do not talce much
stock in stories about coveys being
found frozen. We have investigated
these reports and have failed to find
much loss. What I do hopo is that
the sportsmen of the State will co
operate to an even greater extent in
feeding quail. We have been dis
tributing birds in counties where the#
have been unknown for years ana
with assistance of residents we will
be able to do more stocking witlj,
quail."
* •
A $5 bill and a letter sent by a resi
dent of Chicago was forwarded to thd
State Treasury yesterday by the of
ficials of the Norristown State Insanei!
Hospital and the money was sent t<*
the conscience fund while the letter"
will go into the records. The Chicago
man addressed the president of tha*
State Hospital at Norristown and sett'
forth that he wished to return $5, as*
in his youth he had stolen fruit fronv,
the Commonwealth. Lately, he said
that he had felt the error of his ways*
and Is now glad to make restitution.
The letter closed with a request foir
forgiveness and an admonition ted
read some enclosed tracts, "as theyf
may do you people good in omei
way."
•
Gilding the lily is rather a difficult
operation from an artistic stand
point but at the State Capitol they;
have evolved a plan for painting the
marble. The capitals of the big Cor
inthian pillars in the rotunda hava
always seemed like marble and hava
been generally supposed to be marble.
The other day, however, some of tha
Capitol force built scaffolds about the
capitals and calmly proceeded to
paint them. These capitals like thosa
in the corridors are of composition.
• • *
C. Laurence Shepley, who has beert
city editor of the Harrisburg Tele
graph for several years, has resigned
to become executive secretary of tha
Chamber of Commerce of Dußois. In
line with its policy of promoting
members of its family. The Telegraph
has named Bion Welkcr as city editor
and William S. Worst as telegraphic)
news editor. Both young men aro
well known for their newspaper en
terprise and ability.
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Some odd inquiries are continually
being made about the way compen
sation operates. The other day a
telephone call was received at one of
the State offices desiring to know
whether compensation could be hud
by any worker.
"Yes, compensation is for workers,
but you havo to follow the law and
the rules laid down," was the an
swer.
"Well, I got injured all right."
"Tell me how and I can tell yoil
what to do," was the suggestion od
the State attache.
"I got fired. How much can I sua
for?" was the paralyzing answer.
* *
The complaint of County
F. R. Hendershot, of Luzerne county,
that murder trials cost that big
county $20,000 a year can be appre
ciated in this county. Dauphin county
has spent more for such trials in the
last six months than in any period
in ;ts history and from a county hav
ing comparatively few such trlu!s (
considering its population it has at-i
tracted much attention.
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Captain J. B. McCalley, formerly of
this city and now of Pittsburgh, watj
here yesterday looking after some Na
tional Guard matters. He is an officeß
of the First artillery, but being an
aviator, will probably go Into thai
branch of service in event of an emer
gency.
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It is'an interesting fact to note thai
it was Just fourteen years ago that
the Princeton alumni were addressed
by the then president of the Univer
sity, Woodrow Wilson.' It was his
first address here and he made a ring
ing speech on the university and tha
part it plays in developing men.
"Millions of dollars are being spent
light in sight of the State Capitol,' l
said a man who observes things, in
talking about improvements lasl
evening. He mentioned the big rail
road improvements, the expansion at
Steelton and the Central Iron and
Steel works and other industrial en
terprises, but most of all he dwell
upon the large sums of money going
into Improvement of property ift Har
risburg and the building of new
homes. Now with the State coming
along with its park and building
plans this city will be a busy placd
for years to come.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Henry Frick is planning anotliel
big building for Pittsburgh.
—Ellis Ames Ballard, the commis,
sloner In the Thaw case, Is also to de
bate transit with experts in Philadel
phia next week.
—Judge 11. A. ' Fuller, of Wilkes<
Barre, says he will administer n(J
oaths of allegiance to aliens who ap
ply nfter war starts.
—Prof. Jesse H. Holmes, o|
Swarthmore, well known here, ha<
been chosen as president of the na
tional Association of Religious Liber,
—W. S. King Is the new president
of the Philadelphia Ad Club.
—Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, o<
the Philadelphia municipal
snys that child labor Is a burden oa
parents.
| DO YOU KNOW "1
That narrlslmrg has a cliancc U
show what it can do now tlint
Mate's plans for Capitol park cxtinu
slon havo been made public?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first military headquarters II
Harrisburg wns John Harris stockada
built before the French and Indliß
War.
American Atrocities.
It was a U. S. merchantmen.
That flew the starry flag.
And the way It up and acted
Would disgrace a pirate rag:
For It swaggered o'er the ocean
With the horrldest of meins,
A-plcklng on defenseless
German super-submarines. ,
—Chicago Tribun<
Both Confident
The absolute certainty of the mai
who says Germany cannot be beatm
is fully equaled 7 by the serene coctej
surety of the man who says the allied
have the war won.—Anaconda Stani
(lard