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THURSDAY EVEXIXG, MARCH 22
Our ivants have all been felt our errors
made before.
—MATTHEW ARNOLD.
ALL FOR OXE: OXE FOR ALL
AMERICANS are prone to family
quarrels. We have our differ
ences political, industrial and
personal, and we Some times come to
blows. But let anybody from the out
side threaten to get into our own pri
vate little melee and 10, what a re
markable change comes instantly to
pass. At once the fighting neighbors
separate and all set upon the out
sider with a vehemence most astonish
ing. In an instant it becomes a ques
tion of one for all and all for one;
America for Americans and all of us
brothers of the blood to death. Erst
while enemies become bosom friends
and hostile fists are unbent to work
for the common good, or bent even
tighter to meet the common enemy.
No better illustration of this very
admirable national trait may be found
than the appointment yesterday by
Governor Brumbaugh of a 'committee
of prominent Pcnnsylvanians to
mobilize the industries and resources
of Pennsylvania for the defense of the
nation. Scanning the list of names,
one cannot be other than deeply im
pressed with the liberal views of the
executive in his selections and the
willingness of those he chose to as
sume the important duties designated,
for it is not to be supposed for a
moment that a single one of them will
not serve. It goes without saying that
they will feel honored to have been
chosen and will give their time,
energies and talents freely to the great
task involved. In the committee are
political rivals and business competi
tors, figures prominent socially and not
a few who may be suspected of far
better acquaintance with the factory
than the ball room and others who In
private life are scarcely on speaking
terms one with another. But all of
them stand on the common ground of
patriotism and all of them may be
counted upon to do their part, as the
Governor well knew when he named
them.
UNIVERSAL TRAINING
MUCH has been said for and
against universal military train
ing—mostly for—in the series of
interviews and letters now running in
the TELEGRAPH. One or two of tlrose
who have opposed the proposed Cham
berlain bill have displayed a woeful
lack of knowledge of its provisions.
In the first place, there has been ex
pressed the fear that this measure
would result in tho raising of a great
army that might be used to put down
labor troubles. The bill distinctly says
that men trained under its provisions
cannot be called for strike duty. "The
reserve citizen army or tho reserve
citizen navy shall not be used in cases
of strikes or other industrial disputes"
is the exact wording of the measure.
Another objection that has been
raised is that such an army might be
rushed into war at the behest of any
hot-headed President so minded. This
would be impossible under the terms
of the Chamberlain bill, which stipu
lates that the reserve army and navy
so created could be called to the colors
only in case of a defensive war; that
is, if some other nation attempted to
land troops on United States soil.
These are practically the only ob
jections that have been raised. They
are easily answered. With them out
of the way the citizen who shrinks
from preparing to defend his home
and family in time of national peril
will have some difficulty in defining
his peculiar type of patriotism.
PIFFLE!
OF all the piffle that has come out
of Europe since the beginning of
the great war—and there has
been enough and to spare—the press
agent story from Berlin with which
some newspapers decorated their first
pages yesterday is the worst.
The German retreat was a great vic
tory. Von Hindenburg gave up all the
territory he had fought to retain for
nearly three years in order to "sweep
forward and drive the allied French
and English back to Paris." He fell
back toward the Rhine so tjhat he
THURSDAY EVENING,
might the more easily go forward to
Paris.
The tale Is preposterous: just how
much so is shown by to-day's dis
patches showing that the French have
forced the Germans to what they have
long avoided—open field fighting. The
Germans might have had this had
they chosen at any time to come out
of the trenches on the Somme.
The Berlin dispatches may do all very
well for German consumption arid
they may bolster up the hopes of Ger
man sympathizers here and elsewhere,
but they are so far from the facts
that they scarcely deserve a place in
the news, except as illustrating the
desperate folly to which the German
propagandists have been prompted.
SOME ACTION AT LAST f>
THE proclamation of the Presi
dent advancing the special ses
sion of Congress to April 2 is a
step in the right direction. The only
fault to find is that it was not taken
previously and that the date named is
not Monday, March 26.
The decision of the President to get
Congress together earlier than was
intended looks very much like a sop
to popular clamor. Wisely or un
wisely, the executive has been much
slower than the country to respond to
the intolerable conditions brought
about by German disregard for Amer
ican rights on the sea. The whole na
tion is aroused to the rteeessity of
quick action and while the President
may be moving behind closed doors to
the defense of the realm in a manner
commensurate with the importance of
the occasion, the public would feel
much more content with his deliber
ateness of procedure if it were given
some hint as to what is going forward.
Congress never should have been
permitted to leave Washington. The
unfortunate filibuster ->vhlch resulted
in many vital emergency measures
falling by the way made it imperative
that prompt measures be taken to cor
rect the grave error committed by the
little band of self-seekers who stood
in the way of their country's measures
to protect itself from foreign aggres
sion.
But there is no good in fault
finding, except as newspaper criticism
unquestionably has had a largo part
in spurring President Wilson to hasten
somewhat his dilatory preparations for
war. What is needed when Congress
does assemble is that men of all i
parties shall lay aside their political
interests and devote their • energies
solely to patriotic consideration of
measures necessary in the crisis that
now impends. Nor win the people
hold the President blameless if he in
sists entirely upon his own way. Wise
compromise of views is vitally im
portant to action that will hurry the
mobilization of our tremendous re
sources to meet any demand that may
be made upon them. Two heads are
better than one any day and the
President tacitly admits his de
pendence upon Congressional co
operation when he declines to assume
responsibility for acting in the absence
of approval by House and Senate.
Aside from the declaration that a
state of war exists—a mere formality
to give national recognition to a con
dition that even now exists—Congress
in extra session will be called upon to
decide questions of even more far
reaching importance than armed con
flict with Germany. To Congress the
people must look for such effective re
organization and enlargement of the
army and the navy as will place them
in position to make successful war
upon the mightiest military machine
the world has ever known. Congress
faces also the great question of uni
versal training and the raising of a
citizen army, and whether or not this
is to be used for national defense only
or for foreign service in case the need
arise in Europe.
These things cannot be decided in a
day. There will be many differences
of opinion. Debate is to be expected.
Snap Judgment is not to be counten
anced. The country must be con
vinced that the program decided upon
by Congress and the President is the
best that could be devised. It Is for
these reasons, and in no spirit of cap
tious criticism, that newspapers the
country over have been urging insist
ently a little more vim, energy and
promptness at the White House.
HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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Labor Notes
Toronto ciou* cutter* are 97 per
cent, organized.
Union painters in Chicago get 70
cents uu nour.
Ureece has enacted civil service re
tirement legislation.
Tunnel workers in Arizona have
1 tie eignt-nour aay.
increased pay has been granted To
ronto (uauaua) policemen.
Kansas had 04 coal mine fatalities
iasi year.
Canadian munulaeturers have
agreed to give preference to returned
boiuiera in lining vacancies.
A West Virginia law provides that
checkweiglimen shall be placed at
mine tippies. The purpose of tills leg
islation is to assure miners pay tor
all coal mined and prohibit operators
trom robbing their employes.
President William D. Mahon, of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employes, has
been selected by the executive council
of the A. F. of L. as successor to the
late Dennis A. Hayes.
Kansas City (Mo.) local central
body favors the principles of trade
unionism being taught in the puolic
schools and has asked every member
of organized labor to petition the
board of education to this effect.
A bill has been introduced in the
California .Legislature that would in
crease wages of compositors, press
men and bookbinders employed in the
State Printing Office from $5 to $5.50
a day.
The International executive board
of the United Mine Workers' Union
has Inaugurated a vigorous organiz
ing campaign In nonunion coal fields,
and has placed tills work in charge of
a permanent committee on organiza
tion.
Tho United States produced 477,-
000,000 tons of coal In 1912 .though
employing only 723,000 men In the In
dustry, while Britain, with 1,069,000
coal miners, brought only 260,000,000
tens te the surface,
In Arabia the pay of cooks and
house servants runs from $8.30 to
$13.20 per month. Other dally wages
are as follows! Carpenters, 60 to 58
centsj masons, 85 to 60 cents! coal
coolies, 25 centsj day laborers, 10 to
16 centsi
Officials ef the New York State Fed
eration of Labor are arousing trade
unionists to the danger of a constabu
lary bill being passed at this session
of the State Legislatures
The Locomotive Engineers' Mutual
Life and Accident Insurance Associa
tion, conducted by the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, • protects its
members at a less cost than bld-llne
companies:
For An April Inauguration
Every four years an agitation is
started for changing the date of in
auguration, without result. Nothing is
more unpleasant to endure or more
easy to forget than !iad weather. It
seldom happens that March 4 or 5 is
suitable for outdoor ceremonies, and
generally the conditions are as bad as
the winter affords. Who will soon for
get the blizzard which "flared back"
when Taft was inducted into office?
There is no reason whatever for con
tinuing the present date, and there
are plenty of good ones for a change
to April 30, when Washington was
first inaugurated. That March 4 was
selected in the first place was a mere
hazard. When the Congress under the
Confederation learned that eleven
States had ratified the Constitution it
passed legislation to carry it into ef
fect. The first Wednesday in January
was named for casting the electoral
votes by the legislatures, the first
Wednesday in February for counting
them and the first Wednesday In
March for the Inauguration. However,
Washington took his time and was
more than a month late in reaching
New York. —From the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Failure
Has success your pathway dogged,
Everywhere you turned,
Never left your heart in doubt.
Never left you spurned?
Has good fortune tracked you down,
Followed on your drift,
Poured the gold into your lap
As a Midas gift?
Has fulfillment close pursued,
Over-brimmed your glass,
Left you naught for which to yearn.
Naught to come to pass?
Then you liave been fobbed of much
Strengthening for men:
If at first you do not fall,
Try, try again.
—McLandburgh Wilson in Life,
uv
By the Ex-Committecman
■' 11.. —llll 'J
Stories that in spite of the apparent
"harmony" existing between potential
State senators, and the intimation
from Senator Penrose that he is going
to await developments, some quiet in
vestigations are under way on Capitol
Hill, have excited more than one man
active in the politics of the State and
Democratic leaders are reported to be
tearing their hair because they fear
someone is going to turn up something
which they would like to employ for
campaign thunder.
The general "probe" is on the table
in the Senate, where it went when the
Governor sent in his veto message, and
no action has apparently been taken
by standing committees to make in
quiries into the conduct of any of the
departments. The legislators have
been letting out their feelings in re
gard to factional politics in debates
on bills, such as that 011 the Philadel
phia measure to take the police apd
firemen out of politics, while the lead
ers have been going around arm in
arm.
—Late last night it leaked out that
one of the reasons for the feverish
night work in some of the departments
was because the appropriations com
mittees had adopted John R. K. Scott's
famous method in the session of 1915
when he demanded information on
how every dollar of each contingent
fund was spent. It was a rare occa
sion for Scott, who was then off the
reservation, but his plan has been put
on rubber tires and worked behind
closed doors this winter.
—Some time ago it was openly de
clared by Penrose men that they were
going to cut contingent appropriations
down to the bones. Having the power
in committees, they could do so with
out much trouble, but administration
men promptly came back with the as
sertion that they would interfere with
the public business if they persisted in
punitive measures.
—The latest information is that the
pruners and cutters of contingent
funds have been seeking justification
and from some reports have turned up
very interesting matters which will be
made public one of these days. The
Economy and Efficiency Commission
in making up the budget has been
careful In dealing with contingent
funds, too.
—Governor Brumbaugh is still sit
ting tight on his appointments and
although he has been in conference
with senators on the situation in re
gard to recess selections not sent to
the Senate he has not indicated what
he will do. The senators, however,
have said what they are going to do.
The Governor would like to get his
appointments confirmed soon, but dis
likes to have them embarked upon an
uncertain sea.
• —Auditor General-elect Snyder, who
was inclined to be belligerent some
time ago over the failure to send in
appointments, has decided to wait until
he is the man on the watch tower. It
is possible that something may happen
between now and that first Monday in
May when Snyder will succeed A. \V.
Powell. The Legislature will not ad
journ until after Snyder takes his new
office.
—Auditor General Powell says he
will make his report to the Senate and
House on the employment of experts
in his office and that he will show all
there is to show. It is said that
SIO,OOO of the $29,000 secured by
Powell in the deficiency bill will be
spent for the exports.
The Copperhead
His name is lost to history, but he
deserves a monument. 1 mean the man
who first nailed the word copperhead
to a traitorous act.
The word came In during the Civil
War, and, as everybody knows, was
applied In the North to Southern sym
pathizers. The word has slept for
thirty years or more, since reconstruc
tion days. Now copperhead bobs up
again in type and cartoon. It is the
most bitter political epithet used any
whero In the world.
The copperhead is one of the three
fatally poisonous snakes in all North
America. It is especially prevalent In
parts of Pennsylvania. Early settlers
called It the pilot snake. They insisted
that the pilot or copperhead always
traveled ahead of tho rattlesnake, and
hence the name pilot.
But the woodsman has a particular
reason for loathing the copperhead a
little more than he does the rattler.
The latter sounds his venomous and
ringing alarm before he strikes, hut
the coppearhead attacks in stealth.
One is an open foe and the other,
which is quite as deadly, a hidden and
so moro treacherous foe.
To be a human copperhead thus
signifies a degree of loathsomeness
never contained in the name Tory of
Revolutionary times.—Girard, In the
Philadelphia Ledger,
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
MUSICAL HARRISBURG
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
As a loyal Harrisburger, I was
shocked recently to overhear a con
versation of two men sitting behind
me on a train to Philadelphia. They
were evidently musicians, possibly im
presarios, and were discussing the
drawing qualities of various great
artists. Finally, one of them said,
"Kreisler! he'd pack his houses any
where. He's such a wizard."
"Except in Harrisburg!" replied his
companion.
"Harrisburg!"—and the tone made
me wince. "You never can tell what
that town will do. I'd rather take
chances with places half its size when
it comes to making good music pay.
Blank (naming a famous impresario),
says he'll blacklist them soon."
J indignantly entered the conver
sation and told them a few home
truths on the audiences we had given
Gluck, Paderewski, Gogorza and
Eames, Nordica, and other great
artists, but I fear I left them uncon
vinced of the real musical apprecia
tion of Harrisburg.
This comment so often heard has
become a reproach to us. We stand
for such big things in civics and phil
anthropy that we cannot afford to fall
behind in musical afti educational
lines. I, therefore, aft the TELE
GRAPH to help in a crusade to re
verse this judgment.
There is an opportunity at hand
this week. We have the privilege of
ihearing three of the most popular and
pleasing grand operas, "lligoletto,"
"Tales of Hoffman" and "II Trova
tore," presented by the San Carlo
Grand Opera Company, an organiza
tion which has had tho unique ex
perience of being the one traveling
grand opera company that has not
failed lamentably, in one, or at most
two, seasons.
When the immense cost of produc
ing grand opera is considered, also the
increasing intolerance of any but the
best music, the fact that the San Carlo
company grows in favor each season
is surest proof Of the kind of opera
it gives. Owing to the European war
the cast this year is stronger than
ever before.
There is no question of the merit of
the opera to be given; the only 'ques
tion is: "How will Harrisburg wel
come it?" With such crowds as in
Washington after six days of the San
Carlo repertoire, compelled an extra
performance last Sunday night at the
Belasco Theater? With such eager
ness as in Pittsburgh, turned eight
hundred disappointed music lovers
from the doors when Rigoletto was
played? With the packed houses that
in York, Altoona, Johnstown showed
the appreciation of the people for
high-class opera?
I hope so. We do not want the dis
tinguished singers who form this com
pany to feel that our city is musically
unresponsive—or as our critics of the
train put it: "Just another Harris
burg frost!"
We want the opportunity to hear
good operas well sung; and we want
those opportunities to be recurrent. I
"Boche"
The proclamation by a Munich
newspaper of the German purpose to
murder American sailors serving as
gun crews on American ships Is inter
esting and educational. It is interest
ing as it discloses the German mind
anew, and educational as it explains
much in the European point of view
that has puzzled many Americans.
The war has enriched the vocab
ularies of civilized nations with a new
word. The adjective "boche" means in
French and in English alike a char
acteristic German thing done in a
typically German way.
Byway of example, one might
speak of the destruction of Louvain
the atrocities committed upon Belgian
and French women and children as
deeds essentially "boche." The Lusl
tania was a "boche" performance in
the most unmistakable degree.
The appellation "Hun" claimed for
the German people by the Kaiser and
temporarily adopted by some English
men tends to become obsolete. Lon
don, like Paris, now invariably refers
to the German as "boche." Evidently
there is a desire on the part of Ger
mans to establish the term In America.
This will not be difficult. A few more
murders, a little more barbarism, and
"boche" will be as well established In
the United States as in Western
Europe, it will be for us, as it
has been flfc the French and the Brit
ish, a new word made necessary by
the appearance of a phenomenon un
known to recent generations. C'est
boche, the French say of certain
things otherwise Indescribable. As
usual, they have found tho necessary
word. —The New York Tribune.
MARCH 22, 1917.
appeal to your paper, always alive to
the musical advancement of our city,
to make plain to the music-loving
people of Harrisburg, not alone what
they will miss in not hearing "Rigo
letto," "Tales of Hoffman" and "II
Trovatot-e" this week; but what they
may miss in future seasons by indif
ference now.
A. HARRISBURG OFERA LOVER.
DOLLARS AX I) TIIE DAIRYMAN
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
It is interesting and amusing how
our State is getting after the common
class of people's dollars; when the
hunters' license started and we were
required to pay a dollar for a license,
people seemed fairly well satisfied.
We hear rumors to increase that
fee to $2, but it seems quiet at pres
ent. Now they are aiming for a State
fisherman's license which is merely
fifty cents to start on. As a rule the
farmers' sons go hunting on Novem
ber 1 and go fishing on Ascension Day,
which relates mostly to the poor class
of people who are absolutely not
able to pay. That bill is in committee
now and seems to have died.
We are having a tax at present on
agricultural lime, and a tax at present
on fertilizer, and a bill introduced In
the Legislature to tax cats. The gen
tleman that introduced that bill
should be the tax assessor and catch
the cats and put bands around their
necks. Then you would certainly see
the cats spit and scratch and the poor
fellow would have to be doubly pro
tected by our State Compensation
Board.
Wc notice in the latest newspaper
reports of the Interstate Milk Com
mission appointed by the different
governors in their reports recently to
have the farmers pay $1 for a permit
to sell their milk and urge dairy in
spection which seems in my opinion
to give a great many jobs for some
State College students.
It is claimed that there are 250,-
000 farmers in the State of Pennsyl
vania; in a rough estimate there are
200,000 either dairying or selling but
ter, which would mean another $200,000-
out of the farmers' and dairymen's
pockets. Why should we pay a pre
mium to sell our product in a free
country?
A case of beer costs but $1 for 24
pint bottles; the food value of a quart
of beer is considered less than three
per cent, and still costs ten cents at
the bar for a pint bottle of beer. While
1 am no friend of local option, it is
merely an illustration. A quart ol
four per cent, butter-fat milk is con
sidered forty-three per cent, food
value. Take the average quart of milk
which is less than ten cents per quart
retail, why should there be a kick
when you buy a quart of good milk
for ten cents and pay ten cents for a
pint bottle of beer?
Is it not time that the public in gen
eral looks into the above matter and
sees that the dairymen are protected
by urging the different members of
the Legislature and Senators to see
that the dollars stay in the dairymen's
pockets?
FROM ONE WHO KNOJVS.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
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Is your iLm&\
band interested in aJ SW JggVt
the war news? Vj JwSBL
Yes, indeed. He J
always reads It i'f ilm
the very first >*(lf .V KB |Jf|
thing after the llfj LJ if Iff
baseball scores. w'wf r-*
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McCole's matrl
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ties have been
Yea, his -wife's ,
relatives have
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Simttng GMjat
One of the things which must have
impressed people who attended the
hearing held yesterday afternoon on
the Vlckerman local option bill, and
there were a number of Harrisburgera
in the audience of the nine speakers
on the measure, was the general
recognition that prohibition is coming.
For years the advocates of legislatiou
to further restrict the liquor traffi*
have been coming here advocating,
local option. For a time the sniali/\
units were favored. Lately the coun
ty unit has been to the front. In fact,
ever since the appearance of the Fair
bill some years ago the local optionisUj
have been committed to the counij>
as the unit. Two years ago the sug
gestion that prohibition either in the
form of a general law for the State or
l>y districts or an amendment to the
constitution was not well received.
Everyone was then lor local option by
counties. Yesterday speakers openly
declared that prohibition was the so.
lutlon and some of the speakers saiu
it was coming within a few years, it
sounded rather strange to hear local
option advocates saying that. There
were Intimations from some ol" the
speakers against the bill that the.v
recognized the spread of prohibition
and that they considered such an Issue
one which should be fought out rather
than local option.
The arguments heard yesterday
were different from those with which
advocates of local option have regaled
legislators for years. To begin with
the Anti-Saloon League, for the tlrst
time in years, had no conspicuous
place in the list of speakers. The ad
dresses of Secretary Landls, of the
State Sunday school association, the
biggest and most effective organiza
tion of its kind in the country and of
Governor Brumbaugh were most ef
fective. The Governor took occasion
to pay his regards to those who have
hinted that he has grown lukewarm
and his 'declaration of advocacy of
local option was about all that any
one could ask for earnestness. That
vigorous churchman, the Uev. A. G.
Kynett, who is well known to many
here, was also an effective speaker and
his blunt declaration that the church
people were coming here year after
year until they got what they wanted
made more impression than was ap
parent In the hall of the House.
Charles P. O'Malley, the Scranton
lawyer, who closed for the opponents
of the bill, made the best of the wrong
side of the argument as Harrisburg
people familiar with his legislative
and legal career expected him to do.
It was unfortunate that the feelings
of the advocates of .local option got
away with them when Mr. O'Malley
was speaking and they hissed, but his
rebuke made even the speakers and
leaders of the temperance movement
smilev He said that oeople who hissed
put themselves on the level of those
creatures who were given the hiss us
a means of making themselves heard
—the snake and the goose.
Local option will bo fought out
about Tuesday. It is the plan to make
the fight on it on second reading 111
the House and the "wet" element In
sists that Its fate is certain. Local
option has not been the feature this
session that it was last year when it
was the big thing about the Legisla
ture until child labor and workmen's
compensation bills got under way. This
is largely due to the result of the legis
lative elections. The advocates of the
bill awaited developments and when
none came decided to have a hearing.
The hearing was really more to start
things moving for next year's cam
paign and some legislators sat up an#
took notice when J. Denny O'Neil an
nounced the other evening that he
proposed to get every candidate on
record before the primary election waa
held next spring.
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When the local option bill is oul
of the way legislators and those who
follow the Legislature know that the
turn in the session has been reached.
For years the advocates of local option
have kept it up in the air and at
tracted attention there for popu
lar interest and in some cases pressure
on legislators. The bill has generally
been allowed to slumber for a few
weeks and then a hearing has been
held. Local option will be out of the
way soon and the business of the
present session ought to start to shape
itself, for which many will be thank
ful.
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In connection with local option it is
interesting to note that one of the
speakers on the measure was John A
McParran, master of the Stall
Grange. McSparran spoko on three
bills hero this week and two last week.
He has been an advocate of locaj
option for years and is the Grangers'
representative here, "t have to keen
posted on most half of the bills intro
duced and be ready to speak on al
most anything at the drop of a hat,
said he. "This week I spoke on dairs
inspection and local option withlu
twenty-four hours."
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One of the funniest Capitol Hill
stories came out yesterday. A mat
met a deaf and dumb man in thi
corridor. The man wrote down where
he wanted to go. The man took him
around and when he struck the office
found that the man in charge had
poor eyesight and not having the
glasses he needed with him could not
read what the deaf and dumb man
wrote ln the form of a request for in
formation. So the man who had
volunteered to act as escort had to
take what the mute wrote and read
it to the man eyes.
Search of old law books shows that
restrictive measures on liquor have
appeared in the Legislatures regular
ly for fifty years. Ever since the Civil
war there has been a gradual move tc
check liquor sales and this State ha!
had a varied amount of legislation.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |
—Nathan T. Folwell, promineni
manufacturer of Philadelphia, is be
ing congratulated upon his birthday.
S. p. Kcr, head of the new West.
ern Pennsylvania and Ohio steel com
bine, is an enthusiastic golfer.
W 11. Conner, the steel manu
facturer, is planning big things for one
of his .plants near Buffalo.
—Ralph M. Campbell, of New Ca ;
tie, is being boomed for preside?.* •-
the State organization of the Sons <s
Veterans. He is well known her*
—Congressman H. W. Temple in r.
address at Pittsburgh upheld the righi
to arm ships, lie is a college profes
sor and a deep student of law.
—George Wharton Pepper, chair
man of the denfense committee, is s
Plattsburg graduate.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrlsburg Is one of tlic
State's big centers of distribution
of foodstuffs?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
The first flrehouse in HatrlsburJ
was located on the river front.
Misanthropy
"You always speak kindly of th 4
absent?"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne; "some
tiresome people's absence is so desir
able that I am willing to offer Induce,
jnonts."—From the Washington St&q