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MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 26
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Strength of mind i exercise, not
rent.- —Pore,
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THE STREET CAR SURVEY
ADVANCE representatives of Blon
Arnold, the famous engineer
who has been engaged by the
Harrlsburg Railways Company to
make the survey of its lines In the
city and its suburbs as recommended
by the lIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
for tho betterment of its sorvlce, have
arrived. They come with, the recom
mendation of the Harrlsburg Cham
ber of Commerce and, having had ex
perience here previously in tho em
ploy of tho Municipal League, may be
expected to be so familiar with con
ditions that little time will be lost in
getting down to real work.
Tho survey comes at an opportune"
moment. Warm weather, with its
problems of park traffic and picnics, is
at hand. Local 'industries are em- |
ploying moro and more people. Travel
to and from the suburbs is grow
ing. Conditions, if in some respects
they have not been what they should
be, would grow worse rapidly unless
some attention were given them. It
is pleasing to noto that the work Is
to be taken up promptly and pushed
to an early completion. It is to be
hoped that the willingness of the com
pany to co-operate with the public in
submitting itself to such regulations
as Mr. Arnold may impose, in order
that its patrons may be ' bet
ter served, will bo met in like spirit
by the people, and a better mutual
understanding established. Only by
both working together can the best
Results be achieved.
AVhen you go into Wild wood Park,
remember that the flowers are for
everybody to admire, but for nobody to
carry home.
GENERAL WOOD
IF the removal of General Wood
from command of the Department
of the East to the comparatively
insignificant and unimportant Depart
ment of the South is an indication of
tho way in which politics is to be per
mitted to enter the military policies of
the administration, then In the event
of war that impends Heaven help the
country. *
At a time when the defense of the
New York district, in which are
located the great munition and supply
plants of tho country, is of vital im
portance to the welfare and safety of
the nation as a whole, the man who
has worked out the plans for its pro
tection and who knows more about
the situation than any other in the
Army is summarily removed and given
what is regarded as a minor command
on the flimsy ground that he has had
nearly four years of service at this one
post and according to some unwritten,
archaic rule must be removed, there
fore, regardless of circumstances.
Of course, the War Department may
have knowledge of conditions in the
South that demand there a cool
headed, experienced commander of
known ability, but there is no present
indication that such is the case.
Wood's place in the present crisis is
New Y'ork. It'is not wise to change
horses in midstream. The War De
partment, through Secretary Baiter,
apparently has been far more intent
upon administering a slap at Colonel
Roosevelt through General Wood than
it has had regard for the efficiency of
the service. •
Wood is well able to care for him
self under any circumstances. He may
bo "expected to transcend conditions
and to render tho country valuable
services at his new post. But that Is
• not tho point. If the administration
is to keep tho .confidence of tho public
.in the crisis It must do what It has
asked tho people to do—forget politics
and give Itself over whole-heartedly
. and unreservedly to the defense of the
nation. Only In that way/ can tho
patriotism of tho great rank and file
of Americans be made to count most
and only thus can the war upon which
we are about to eiftbark be fought to a
successful conclußion without needless
sacrifice.
Up to this moment the conduct at
Washington has been admirable. The
mobilisation of the country's industries
has gone forward with .remarkable
celerity and with such efficiency that
contracts for supplies to meet the
needs of a half-million men In tho field
have been made up and those to whom
the work will be entrusted are ready
to begin turning them out at a mo
ment's notice. Large orders for guns,
ammunltton, aeroplanes, dirigibles, sub,
marine chasers, additional units for the
Navy and for the strengthening of
every line of defense have been placed.
The nation is in a better Istate of pre
paredness now than at any time since
tho European war began.
But back of pur wealth of goi4
MONDAY feVENINGi
-resources there ■will always be the
mam and the man mnst be made to
feel that "Washington is acuated by no
other spirit thari that of patridtjsm In
Its prosectilioh fef the great dntjF en
rusted to It: 'There must be M hint
of political favoritlstn ill Aritt# br
Navy:
It is for this rensoh, and In no spirit
cf earping criticisms that Americans
everywhere resent the removal of
Wood from the post he filled so welt at
New York: The administration: if it is
wlsei will take warning therefrom-.
\Vhy hot another teneampment
en the site hi eld Camp Meade?
LABOR AND PUBLICITY
LABOR'S Opeh Forunl yesterday
decided tipoit ft. wise move When
H took btepG for the
organisation o? ft department of pub
licity, 'The labor movement Is one of
the great ftnd growing forces in the
community! 'Too often, however, ii
has been without Voice, hot because of
unwillingness of newspapere to publish
accounts of itp hetivltleS, but because
usually ltd hroceedinga have been be
hind closed doom through which tfiere
came ho hewn to the offices of daily
publications
The result had beetl that Very often
| labor has been misjudged and inla
| understood. News has been distorted
or garbled, not intentionally, In most
cases, but because Reporters had diffi
culty in getting at the facts, The
TELEGRAPH, as an example, realiz
ing the importance of thld class of
news to the community, and being
unable to get Into touch with it prop
erly, has for months paid an agent in
Now York to oolloct for It the "Labor
Notes" which appear dally on its edi
torial page. ,
A large percentage of the readers of
this newspaper are laboring men.
They and the public, too, are entitled
to know what is going on in union
circles. The TELEGRAPH la pleased
to note that It is to receive its labor
news from an authentic source.
No more will we talk about "Czar
like" powers.
PENNA. WILL GIVE FREELY
FROM the morning hours of this
country, Pennsylvahia, province
and State, has given freely of its
manhood and Its wealth for the Com
mon welfare and for defense. In the
Impending struggle against the prin
ciples of autocracy It will give as freely
as it did in the days when Harrisburg
was the frontier line against the
French monarchlal armies and as it
did when the freedom of the seas was
challenged by England in 1812. Red
fields, cessation of business and debt
have been the portion of the Keystone
State In its devotion to the Union, but
in the triumph of 1865 Pennsylvania
saw the principles which entered into
its foundation firmly established as
those of the land.
Without any hysteria, with a calm
| ness and readiness that attest devotion,
the young men of Pennsylvania are
making ready to answer their coun
try's call, the matrons and the maids
are preparing for emergencies behind
the lines, business men are lending
their systems to defense and legislators
are adjusting business so that there
will be no delay in answering any call
Washington may make.
It is proper that the legislators who
are here in the midst of the biennial
session have declared in the last
twenty-four that all the re
sources of this Commonwealth shall
be placed at the back of the President
and'that projects dear to communities
and important to the State at large
shall be subordinated to the voting at
men, money and supplies in the hour
of national need.
Pennsylvania will never be prepared
in llie sense that militarism knows It,
but it will stand ready to give all for
the cause of freedom.
Don't bo afraid to display the good,
old flag. ,
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SHUT UP OR HE LOCKED UP
THE HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Is In receipt of an anonymous
letter to the editor which. If it
were signed and the name made pub
lic, might easily result In tho writer
being sent to prison by the federal
authorities.
This Is no time for tho publication
of pro-German sentiments In Ameri
ca. If any resident of this country
entertains sympathy for a military
power that ruthlessly orders tho mur
der of American women and children,
Ills place Is either behind the bars or
in a trench along the German front.
It has been remarkable all through
the controversy leading up to the
threat of war now hanging over us
that the loud-mouthed defenders of
Germati brutalities against Americans
never havo made any attempt to get
back home to take up arms In defense
of the government they profess to love
so devotedly, This has been the great
weakness of their arguments—that
they da wot have the courage of their
convictions,
It has been all very well, perhaps,
to blat about, the virtues of the Im
perial Government so long as the two
countries were at peace, but at this
stage of the proceedings it is a ques
tion of phut up or be locked up.
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Future of Railroads
Ivy L. Lee. of New Y'ork, made
some important observations in Kan
sas City, Mo., on March 11 befora the
Westminster Forum on the topic of
"What is to Become of tho Rail
roads?" He predicted that the close
of the year, June 30, 1917, which
marks the termination of the first ten
full years of railroading In this coun
try under government regulations
"with teetli," there would be the fol
lowing exhibit of conditions:
"1. A vastly increased railroad in
vestment; an even greater percentage
of increased service rendered; and no
return earned upon the increased in
vestment;
"2 Railroad building at a very low
ebb, railroad facilities congested, no
adequate plans being made to provide
for future requirements, and
"3 Issuance of new stock for rail
road construction wherein investors
take their chances in the enterprise at
an end."
He concluded his informing review
as follows:
"Railroad regulation is here and
has come to' stay. That is sound and
no enlightened railroad officer objects
to it. likewise, this country cannot
stand still. Provision must be made to
provide the necessary transportation
facilties. That provision can be made
in only one of two ways; through gov
ernment ownership or through per
mitting railroads to earn enough
money to atract the capital they must
have it the business of the country is
not to suffer. What is needed above
all else is nonpolitical constructive,
consistent regulation. That will avert
government ownership; it will give
the people an economical railroad sys
tem. And it is of vital Importance
that the public understand and sup
port a policy of regulation which will
center its attention upon building and
providing facilities rather than pri
marily upon punishment for evils of
the past."—Army and Navy Register.
Animal Life at Front
(Prom the Manchester Guardian)
The following extract from a letter
from the trenches shows that sapping
is not contined to combatants: "As I
crossed to my dugout," ho says, "I
was arrested by a visible upheaving
of the ground, it was a mole at work,
and as 1 watched it a battery of 60-
pounders let off a salvo. The mole
continued its labors unmoved and un
concerned. The shots disturbed a flock
of rooks, which were busily searching
for food on the thawing ground, but
they merely expressed their annoyance
at being so rudely and needlessly dis
turbed, and resumed theh- quest at
once." Gnats, freshly emerged, arc in
the air, adds this naturalist of the
firing line, and daisy leaves are mak
ing a valiant effort, to assert them
selves amidst the surrounding desola
tion. "The whole sounded a note of
hope; the birth of a new year's life;
the promise of better things. Yet it
emphasized, too, the inexorableness of
nature's laws. Wars may come and
i wars may go, but Ihey cannot inter
fere with the regular rhythm of the
cycle of natural events. Thank God
that- it is so."
America's Military Hope
There is not the slightest question
that, given time, we could raise and
equip a larger army than any of the
nations engaged In the Kuropean war.
excepting, perhaps, Russia. The cen
sus shows that there are 20,000,000
men In the United States of military
age, from 18 to 45. If we take the
military ago as from 18 to 32, we
have nearly 10,000,000, and if from 18
to 23, nearly ,5,000,000. Moreover,
about 1,000,000 young men reach mil
itary age here every year. Thus, if
we went into the business of raising
armies, we should rot lack men; nor,
In view of our huge manufacturing
plants, should wo lack equipment.—
The World's Work.
Tottering Privilege
When the revolution started in China
and the Manchu dynasty was deposed,
most foreign observers said China
wasn't ready for a republican form of
government, and the people wouldn't
know what It meant, President Yuan
took this apparently common sense
view, tried to make himself a dictator,
and one morning found arsenla In his
gruel, For some curious reason ther
Chinese Insisted on having a republic.
Bo everybody knew Russia wasn't
ready yet to be a republiq and needed
the RomanotTs, 'Possibly, But It looks
now as If Russia might have that odd
human liking for democracy that de->
veloped in China,
After all, privilege of every Sort is In
a mighty uncertain position, Justine
is the only secure foundation for
human Institutions.—Kansas City Star.
Following Our Example
There will be a senorita in the new
Mexican Congress, Why couldn't Mexico
wait and see how we came out with
gurs?—Houston ,
kXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Ck
By the Ex-CommlUecnMn^^J
The conference held here on Satur
day by a dozen or so Bull Moosers who
had refused to accept the dissolution
of the Washington party last year and
who plan to create a party of protest
under the name of the Progressives,
seems to have suffered the fate of all
such movements. Precious, little at
tention was given to it. The men
who were in the van of the real pro
-1 ressive movement and who paid the
bills were conspicuous by their ab
sence and it is regarded as very doubt
ful whether the irreconcilables who
gathered here could form an effective
organization in any cdunty.
The conference was called by Mat
thew Hale of Boston, who did not at
tend, uud it brought together a dozen
men, including some who rode into
fame and office on tho wavo of 1912
and have not amounted to much since.
It was decided amid considerable
"resoluting" to send a delegation to
tho conference at St. Louis.
_ Prominent Progressives, who voted
for Hughes and contributed to his
campaign fund last year, declared to
day that they had no sympathy with
the scheme and would have none of it.
They predicted that It would not be
heard of in the present situation.
—According to word from Phila
delphia there is going to be some
raiding on the State administration
after all. Senator Penrose and his
friends held a meeting in Philadelphia
yesterday and decided to carry on
some inquiries by committees, along
the lines of that which has been under
way in regard to contingent funds and
needs for additional clerks by the
appropriations committees.
—Auditor General-elect Snyder Is
said to plan some sweeping Inquiries
into recent activities in the Auditor
General's Department. He will also
stand pat against paying salaries of
men not confirmed by the Senate
when the session ends.
—Governor Brumbaugh at Atlan
tic City yesterday reiterated his declar
ation that the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania could clean house without the
aid of the Democrats. Answering
some comments by Vance C. McCor
mick, the national chairman of the
Democrats, whose business it is to
make Republicans look as black as
possible, the Governor said: "I do
not believe that at all, the so-called
'situation' in Pennsylvania is very far
from being hopelessly bad. And I
believe, furthermore, that the Repub
lican party is entirely capable of do
ing any hausccleaning that may need
to be done."
—According to the Philadelphia
Press there will probably be a show
down on the question - of local option
when the representatives of organ
ized labor meet in Harrisburg in May
for their annual convention. Labor
men seem to be somewhat divided
on the question.
—Third class city representatives
will have their say here ' to-morrow
when all the third class city bills will
be considered by the House commit
tee in charge. There will probably
be more municipal politics going on
the Hill to-morrow than for a long
time.
—Tho proposed boxing commission
bill is being fought by some political
lights, it is und<ystood. The Catlin
bill, which seems to have had a hard
row In the Senate, will be up for con
sideration to-nlglit.
—There are noSv four candidates
out for the nomination for associate
Judge In Perry county, George E.
Boyer, the latest, being a "dry" man.
The term* of Judge Bernhelsel expires
next December,
• —Legislators are looking fpr what
Representalve Stltes called "another
wash day" to-night when there will
be efforts made to reconsider defeat
of the HeSfernan bill to take tho po
lice and firemen out 6t Philadelphia
city politics, The latest consideration
of tho bill brought out. a fresh basket
of Philadelphia dirty linen.
The Way to Tell
lie talked out of the sides of his
mouth
And wore motor
Olovee,
He talked ef the moter show
And of speed and of the price of
Oasoline,
And he also wore a pair of
Goggles
Fo
We'knew he didn't own a motor car,
th* Qraulm
WEIGHING THE MOVIES
Experts, who .have balanced the
good with the bad of the motion pic
tures, hold that the influence is 85 per
cent, good, according to Ellery F.
Reed, who describes in the May Moth
er's Magazine a recent investigation
directed by the graduate department
of sociology of Clark University. Fol
lowing are some of the conclusions
reached:
The movie is a great tfacher of so
ciology. It Is no longer true that "one
half docs not know how the other half
lives." The broad outlook on social
conditions the photoplay Is giving to
the masses is laying the foundation
for vast social and economic changes.
In sex relations the photoplay is
standing for high ideals. Love between
the sexes forms a part of almost every
plot. Immoral relations or scenes sug
gestive of such sometimes appear, but
are almost Invariably (condemned by
the general atmosphere of tho play.
Labor Notes
The cost of food In Canada has gone
up about 75 per cent, since the war
began, according to figures compiled by
the Department of Labor. It has risen
about S7 per cent, in Great Britain.
Agitation by the American Federa
tion of Labor and its 30 affiliated Fed
eral employes' unions resulted In wage
Increases tor 200,000 Federal employes
by the Sixty-fourth Congress, which
adjourned March 4.
Union carpenters of Detroit and
Wayne county, Michigan, iiave voted
in favor of a five-cent raise in wages
per hour. The union will ask 60 cents
an hour after the first of May.
The Missouri child labor law pro
hibits the employment of boys and
girls under Ji, years of ago In any
pursuit with the exception of agricul
tural or domestic service.
Dallas (Texas) trade unionists have
secured the necessary signatures for
four ordinances to be voted on April 3
—eight-hour day for men employed by
public utilities corporations; safety ap
pliances for street railroad employes;
no increase in rates by public utilities
without a vote by the people; pro
tecting public utilities employes In
their right to join labor unions.
The Open Road
As the homeless long for home, I atn
weary for the sight of it,
The swerve of it, the curve of it, the
shadow dappled white of it.
The moonlight, the gloomlight, the pine
dusk fragrance dim;
The ring of frost touched highway.
The hush of leaf-strewn byway.
And the swaying tree that beckons to
the far horizon's rim;
As the homeless long for home, I am
heartsick at the call of it.
The dure of it, the lure of it, the thorns
miles and all of it;
The star gleam, and the far gleam of
beechland kindled fire.
The dim hills distant lifting,
The gray mists shadow drifting.
And the calm pine breathed upland on
the ache of old desire.
As the homeless lpng for home, I am
hungered for the touch of It,
The length of it, the strength of it, the
steel and velvet clutch of It.
The known ways, the lone ways, from
clustered towns apart;
Tho scent of rain sweet heather.
The cloud white wander-weather.
And the ha"wk free, gypsy will of It to
still a' vagrant heart.
—By Martha Haskell Clark.
One Way Out
"My wife wants me to go shopping
with her, I don't see how I'm going to
get out of It."
'lf Bho were to send you back to your
office after less than an hour of shop
ping and told you she would never take
you on such an expedition again, you
would consider yourself repaid for your
trouble, wouldn t you?"
"Certainly, But how am I going to
do that?"
"Let her catch you flirting with a
fascinating girl clerk," —Birmingham
The Salvation of God
And all the flesh Shall see the salva
tion of God.—Luke 111! 6,
An Old Friend
''You're an eld friend ef MP, New
rich, I understand?"
"I should say 80. I can remember
when he used to drink his coflfe out
ot ths paucer,"-Petroit JTree I'res*, -
MARCH 26; 1917:
Was the movie found wanting In
clean, healthy atmosplvereV A num
ber of the plays were sermons on
gambling', theft, selfishness, unfaith
fulness, drunkenness. Immorality and
social injustice. The moral lessons of
the pictures were more effective for
the absence of exhortation. The drama
of life with all its intricate, conliictinK
emotions, its succession of cause and
effect, its pain, its injustice, its joys
and its rewards, is more vividly seen
than in life itself.
The personal life and environment
of the observer fade away. lie lives
with the heroes and heroines on tire
screen. Their problems, their suffer
ings, their regrets, their joys, their
victories are keenly felt by the ob
server. He sees that suffering In
evitably follows evil and injustice and
that happiness follows virtue, justice
and love. The photoplay has been
weighed in the balance and in the
large has not been found wanting.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
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|jj| MYSTERY
A|i ii.l - So you read
A d d 1 e p a t e' s
j "jl novel. How did
il l It come out?
j | It's a mystery
ill I to ino. I guess
j IT" he must have
hypnotized the
publisher.
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quit dunning mo
for that suit. Do ■[ £
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NOTHING
R DOING.
I'm the plur-b.
er - come to fl*
the furnace.
Well a plumber
pjif(i\ w,th a bill the
ulna size of yours
can't fix my fur-
PREPARED.
How do your f||\
employees stand
on the question o! lllgif
preparedness?
They're for It, '(tTV
all right. They
sleep all day at
tho office so they i.y £ /'
can dance all
©jetting (Eljat
I Farming work, which 1B just as im
portant hereabouts these days of pre
paredness as transportation, manufac
turing, equipment ant} training, is be
ing held back considerably in this part
of Pennsylvania by Old Jack Frost;
Mr. Frost put in his foundations so
well last fall and winter that there are
many farms where the turning up of
the soil hus been held back and spring
ploughing may be later than for a
long time. Tests have shown the frost
to have penetrated from one to two
feet in many favorably placed locatioi*
and some of the legislators from
ern and western counties who av>
here for the session say that they ha/<
heard of four and five feet of frostr
being observed. Three feet of frost is
apparently not uncommon in soma
sections of the statq. With these con
ditions it is not surprising that there
should be so much mud and that the
farmers should be so held back in
their spring work and the city builder
and the contractor despair of getting
under way to any extent before tlio
first of April. The frost was so sever**
in many sections and the periods of
thawing and freezing came when there
was so little snow that the wheat has
undoubtedly suffered in a very year
when all hoped for a big crop. There
are some who are hoping that after
all the situation in regard to the frost
in the ground And the damage to the
crops by the hard winter weather,
which had so much snow at the wrong
time, may be like the result of the
frost on the water. Not for a decado
have the rivers and creeks been filled
with so much ico and not since 19U4
were so ominous along the
streams. But the ice caps broke and
gorged and either moved on or melted,
because we have not had much trouble
ahd there is comparatively little ice in
the Susquehanna and little in any of
its tributaries,
•* . •
One of the things which must im
press the average city man
for a ride into theoSountry or who
takes a railroad ride through one of
the valleys is the extensive use of limo
as a fertilizer. This was caused by tlio
abrupt shutting off of the German sup
ply of potash, which like everything
else that the Teutons could corner
they managed pretty effectually to
control. The country has been unable
to get back to a fertilizer condition
approaching what it was before the
war started and as a result the great
agricultural regions of the State aro
turning to lime. It is fortunate that
this section is so rich in limestone. In
fact, it was the limestone that made
this portion of Pennsylvania so notable
in agriculture and has contributed to
making the Keystone State stand so
well on the roll of agricultural com
monwealths, a showing which is re
markable when one considers its pre
eminence in manufacturing and min
ing. Now limekilns that have not been
used for years are in operation and
new ones are being built. The num
ber of kilns burning lime near this city
would be surprising as the number of
farmers that are using the product.
If there is one thing which this
Legislature appears to be specially in
terested in it must be weeds. There
are bills of various unusual object in
hand, anting them proposed licenses
for cats awl dogs and some restrictions
on use ol automobiles, bells and ex
plosives, the blowing of sirens and the
emission of smoke, but the weed ap
pears to be the pet object.- No less
than seven bills for extinction of weeds
and the consequent encouragement of
agriculture, the increase in production
of foodstuffs and benefit of thiv
farmer are in hand. They wouls
abolish the 'blue devil" or chicory, tho
wild mustard, the wild parsnip, the
hawkweed and other pents, including
the thistle. In fact, while some bills
vary as to the pests all go after the
thistle. It has no friends and its ban
ishment ought to be carried out with
out new acts. Under the terms of tho
last anti-weed bill that beauty of the
fields —the diisy—is to be cut out
alonfi; with the wild carrot and tho
devil's paint brush. The proposed acta
not only banish the weeds which
cliarm so many with their flowers and
cause the farmer to say harsh things,
from the roads and % rights of ways of
railroads and trolley lines, but decreo
that owners of vacant land and fields
shall remove them without notice.
In regard to the cat license bill
mentioned it is not such a bad propo
sition. The idea of licensing a tom
cat strikes one living in Harrisburg as
almost as absurd as decreeing the cut
ting out from a Held near Dauphin of
a patch of daisies. Yet both are pieces
of legislation of considerable import
ance to the farmer. The trend of the
times is toward increase of production
of foodstuffs. If there is one thing
war may do it Is to teach us to rely on
our own things and not to neglect
natural resources of the Susquehanna's
fertilo valley and buy stuff produced
in Kansas which will make tho prollt.
The daisy Is one of the worst pests of
& farmer and is a noxious weed that
helps spoil crops. The cat destroys
more birds than any other agency. The
birds are the greatest benefactor of
the farmer and the gardener. The bill
for the cat license would not impose a
general* State system, but enable each
city or borough to enact an ordinance
for a license for each furred songster
of the night. The measure was pre
sented by Representative Robert A.
Stofflet, of Easton, and the advantage
Is that while ('amp Hill might be
plagued with cajs and desire to en
force a license system to thin out those
whose owners did not care enough for
them to pay a dollar tt -would have
authority to pass an ordinance, whilo
Middletown. for instance, not being
bothered, -would not require such a
regulation. And Camp Hill could re
peal the license ordinance when it had
served its purpose.
j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—William C. Ash, principal oC the
Philadelphia Trade School, says hi 3
2.100 pupils can turn in and make mu
nitions if needed.
—Prof. Guy H. Chipman, of the
West Chester High School, goes to
Brooklyn to take up work at the head
of a big school.
—William J. Mulr. prominent In
fraternal organizations, lins been
elected secretary of the Shamokln
school board.
—Charles Qetalnger, conductor of
one of the Reading crack trains to
New York and known to many promi
nent men, is celebrating tifty years as
a railroad employe.
—General C. T. O'NeH, commando*#
of the Third Brigade, says the way to
be prepared is to be recruited up to
the maximum.
—Dr. Edward Martin, Philadelphia
physician, urges people in his city to
avoid illness by standing erect.
—J. K. McLenahan, the veteran
Blair county manufacturer, received
many telegrams of congratulation from
prominent men in honor of his 89tli
birthday.
DO YOU KNOW
—Tliat IlarrlsburK can furnish
im|>ortaiit parts for mechanical
plants for munitions In short
order?
HISTORIC HARRISBL'RQ
John Harris ferry was operated fop
eighty years by the JHarria family,