12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PUINTIXG CO.. Telegraph Ilulldlnff. Federal Square, K.J,STACKPOLE,Fr't and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GL'S M. STKINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- K Si Eastern i|lj| jp nue Building, New _ ing, P Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. 531& X. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5 There is nothing impossible, even in the sphere of the cleansing of a man's own life and the empowering of a man's own will, to the creative power of faith. —Robert E. Speer. A SERIOUS SITUATION HARRISBURG is confronted with a serious situation which must have the immediate attention of the people through our civic bodies or some voluntary movement. There are not enough houses in the city at the j present time to accommodate all who j desire to reside here. In the TELE- j GRAPH yesterday was published a j statement of the conditions that ought to arouse widespread interest among all who have any concern for the fu ture of Harrisburg. Owing to the high cost of materials and labor, builders have not been as active as in former years and houses for rent are in great demand. In some cases those who occupy rented dwell ings find it impossible to locate else where at the expiration of their lease and It has been necessary to institute ejection proceedings in a number of cases. This is an impossible situation | and relief must be provided without; an hour's unnecessary delay. Millions of dollars are now awaiting j investment and It should not be \ difficult to interest sufficient capital to j erect some hundreds of small houses' for those who are practically without a roof to cover their heads. As a re sult of the -conditions two and some times three families occupy a single house and this is simply an invitation to unsanitary and unwholesome de velopments in a short time. The man or men who will provide the homes which are needed at rental figures that are within the reach of the workers of the city will be doing a good thing for the city and the pros perity of the entire community. With out homes we shall certainly have an increasing shortage of labor, and those who want to come here to live will find it impossible to do so. There is no cause for procrastina tion. The need is pressing upon Har risburg as never before and the Real Estate Board of the city should make the facts so plain that immediate steps shall be taken to remedy a most un usual situation. Penbrook is still enduring Its dust and mud, with no apparent hope of relief. How much longer the condi tions in that town shall persist only a prophet can foretell. Every time a street car or an automobile passes through the main street the town is hidden in a cloud of dust. There must be some way of improving the condi tions. MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION* WHEX will the Legislature learn that the only satisfactory legis lation for the municipalities of , Pennsylvania is a home rule amend ment to the State Constitution per mitting the cities and towns of the Commonwealth to frame their own charters to meet their own particular needs and the desires of their people? Instead of passing promptly Senator Beldleman's resolution for the submis sion of an amendment of that nature to popular vote, the law-giving bodies are indulging in their regular biennial debate over third-class city law amend ments, changes and revisions that give little promise of doing more than mak ing of the Clark act even more of a hodgepodge patchwork than it aU ready is. Whether or not the proposal of Sen ator Beidleman that in the interim be tween the adoption of his home rule resolution by-the Legislature and its approval by the voters, the cities of the State return to the old ward representation method of city government solves the problem of rooting out the evils of the Clark com mission form law, is a question for discussion in the Legislature. Certain it is, however, that the measure framed by the Dauphin county sen ator and all other third-class city legis lation Introduced this session have been the result of the utter failure of the Clark act to meet the needs and demands of cities like Harrisburg throughout the State. Opponents of the Beidleman meas ure have complained that it would make the Councils of muncipalities af fected subject to partisan elections — that "it would reinject party politics Into muiclpal government." This crtl cism would be all very well if party politics had ever been removed from municipal government in Pennsylva nia, but the fact is that under the so called "non-partisan" clause of the Clark act partisan politics has had a THURSDAY EVENING, larger part in the city elections of Harrisburg than at any time within the history of the city. In this, as in every other feature of government, this city has suffered as a result of the commission law under which it now operates. The sal ary provision for councilmen has drawn into every campaign dozens of little men entirely unfitted for the office and who have had in mind only the item of $2,500 a year that has dangled as a luring bait constantly before them. The result has been the dis missal of the broad-minded, honest, patriotic citizens of ability who used to manage our parks, our public work? and our water department through non-salaried boards of com missioners, who in turn employed skilled men to do the work they out lined. and the substitution of popularly elected superintendents whose only Qualifications for the work to which they have been assigned is the author ity vested in them under the provisons of the Clark law. Harrisburg has suffered in consequence. Public inter est in municipal affairs has waned al most to the vanishing point. Civic spirit has declined. The whole city lias gone backward. Instead of adminis tering their offices with only the best interests of the municipality as a whole in view councilmen have been playing politics morning, noon and night. We are nearing the end of another councilmanic term. Indications are that unless the Legislature makes some radical changes in the Clark act or repeals it altogether and gives us something more suited to our needs, conditions will continue to grow worse Instead of better, the scramble for of fice will be repeated next Fall with the salary as the lode star of the can didates and the interests of the city a mere minor consideration. Despite the objections of those who oppose the Beidleman unsalaried ward council bill, there is evidence that a serious effort will be made to get it through the Legislature in one form or another. Possibly its chances of success might be materially bright ened if an amendment were added giv ing council authority to elect a city manager. City managership is in the minds of many people in Harrisburg who believe it would do much to in crease governmental efficiency and en courage public Interest In municipal affairs. It has worked well elsewhere. It is worth a trial here. But that aside, almost any proposed change from the present .well-nigh in tolerable conditions ought to be con sidered. It is a notable fact that all of those who oppose the Beidleman bill and other measures designed to sup plant or supplement the Clark act confind their criticisms to mere ob jections to the measure under consid eration and offer nothing whatever of a constructive character themselves. City Commissioner Gross again as sures a waiting public that he will take steps to riprap the river front about the middle of the year. Why he postpones this important improvement until the l latter part of June or July only he can tell. However, the incom petency of the present park adminis tration is being realized by more and more people every day and a continu ance of the persistent do-nothing policy may in the end prove a blessing if it arouses the people to the necessity of a change of officials. In view of the frequent promises of Commissioner Gross to do this or that and his utter failure to achieve results, little hope can be held out for any improvement during the rest of his term. TIME TO EX LIST NOT ail of us can enjist in the army —age or other disqualifications may stand in the way—but all of us can enlist in the Red Cross,which, with the Preparedness Societies that have been merged wtih it, will stand back of the armed forces of the United States supporting the men in the field in a thousand different ways. Every one of us owes some service to the nation. The Red Cross offers a universal opportunity. Its activities are so numerous and its work of such a widely divergent character that [ there is room in its ranks for every J person in the whole United State*, no i matter how humble. Former Mayor E. 7.. Gross, as head of the local chapter, has called for en listments. Soon the needs of the Red Cross hero will require the sup port of thousands of our people. Don't wait to be drafted volun teer, and do it now. If ever Ilarrisburg needed a great exposition hall. It needs one now. Most of the population would like to get into the Chestnut Street Auditorium to-night for the great patriotic rally, but there Is only sufficient room for a comparatively few hundred, more's the pity. Perhaps the time will come when a great exposition building can be erected at Island Park, high above the average flood line, and with ample accommodations for any great public assembly, concert or exposition. Such a building could be reached quite as easily on the Island as in any other section of the city. Good for the railroad men in the Pennsylvania shops, which have been decked ,with flags as a visible sign of the personal loyalty of every one of the sturdy railroaders. For the first time since the beginning of the great war this country is i n step with the sentiment of our people. There Is a feeling everywhere of relief that at last the United States is march ing to the music of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Has It occurred to Commissioner Gross that the time to get free dirt for filling out the river front where needed is now? John Sharp Williams -savs LaFol lette's address in the Senate was "pro- German, pro-Goth and pro-Vandal." Outside of that, we judge, he thinks it a perfectly good speech. Welcome to HarrUbuxx. Mr. Gerard! •foUtla U | By the Kx-Ck>mnimreman^^ Surface indications are that the Legislature will finish up its work about May 24 and take a recess and men who play politics and who observe politics all over the State declare that upon the manner in which things are conducted here in the next six weeks may depend in a great measure next year's gubernatorial election. Legislators are commencing to hear from home folks about the policy of the general asseihbly and both the partisans of Senator Penrose and Gov ernor Brumbaugh are being told that this is a poor time to get into wrangles about confirmation of appointments, credit for legislation and methods of disbursing State money. There have been made charges that there is more political warfare under way on Cap itol Hill than in some parts of Europe and warnings that the situation will be taken advantage of by Democrats are coming every day. The meeting of the Governor and some of his advisers and the senatorial leaders in the executive department the other night resulted in proof that the two factions are as far apart as ever, but there are hopes that some thing in the way of a protocol may be drawn up next week. —The movement to have Major General C. M. Clement, of Sunbury, named to the vacancy so long existing 011 the Public Service Commission, which began last summer, has been redoubled lately and the Governor has been asked by many people through out the State to name him. Strong support has been given to the general by military men and Senators identi fied with the Brumbaugh wing have been urging his selection. The Gover nor has not yet satisfied himself as to what the other faction would do about the appointment in the Senate. —The same situation prevails in re gard to the superintendency of public grounds and buildings for which Paul W. Houck and William H. Ball are still being mentioned. —Appointment of A. Nevin Detrich, of Cliambersburg, chairman of the Washington party State committee for several years, to the chief examiner ship of the State Insurance Depart ment. came along last evening accord ing to schedule and he will assume his duties at once. Mr. Detrich will have headquarters In Philadelphia. The appointment carries $4,000 salary and does not have to be confirmed, a cir cumstance, which it might be added, is fortunate for Mr. Detrich as some of the Senators were inclined to be re sentful last night of the selection of so ardent a partisan of the Governor in his presidential campaign. —As far as can be seen there has been no progress made In the reach ing of an agreement between the Gov ernor and the Senators on approval of recess appointments and the Governor is In the position of having his Public Service Commission deadlocked over the Philadelphia transit situation and being unable to name any one to the long existing vacancy with any as surance that he would be confirmed. There is always a possibility that the Governor may take the bull by the horns and name some one anyway, .al lowing him to take his chances with the rest of the recess appointees. —Appointment of James H. How arth, of Pittsburgh, to a $1,600 clerk ship in the State Insurance Depart ment last night caused some interest ing gossip. There were reports that Howarth would get this job during January, but nothing came of them. Howarth's brother is Representative W. J. Howavth, of Pittsburgh, who voted for Cox in the caucus. There have been reports that the son of a Clearfield member who was for Cox would get a job in another department but nothing has been done as yet. —Philadelphia city council is having its own time over propositions to in crease salaries. As in the State gov ernment the city administration ia confronted with the danger of losing trained and experienced men because of the small salaries paid. Just The Ashes [Chester Times.] Ashes wc will have with us, even after we have discarded the sack cloth of the Lenten season. We refer, of course, to the ashes that have been removed from the heater and the cook stove in the kitchen. Ashes, ashes, ashes! They are strewn on some side walks, they litter other streets, they afe dumped here and there upon va cant lots, and are even, in the dead of a sheltering night, tossed across out back fice. The problem of the ashes is ever with us. Some persons, dutifully and decorously, solve the question by hiring someone witn a cart to haul away the refuse of the winter fire. There are others who face the problem meanly and sneakingly. And it can be done easily. All that is needed is a vacant lot —a wide and hospitable, vacant lot that the neighborhood can use if the neighborhood is so minded. The ashes of yesteryear are still strewn plentifully about, such sedi ment as the four winds of heaven have not whirled around and whisked away to be deposited upon your and our .center table, to be mingled with the baby's food, to become part of grandfather's diet. It is simply ter rible. It is at this particular time that the ash problem is obstreperously with us. It is now at the end of the wtntes fire season that the problem of ash distri bution appeals to us with especial force. Everybody is cleaning out his cellar now, and there are ashes to burn. If there was but a way of burn ing them, or if they would but take the wings of a dove and fly away and leave us at rest! If there was peace to' ashes, instead of incessant motion and eternal dust! In the meantime we wish they would hurry and improve the method of col lection. A Pacifist of 1775 (From the Kansas City Star) "Perhaps the whole story of em pire does not furnish another instance of a forcible opposition to government with so much specious and so little real cause • The annals of the world have not yet been deformed with a single Instance of so unnatural, so causeless, so wanton, so wicked a rebellion." These are the words of an Amer ican writer, a Harvard graduate, Dan iel Leonard, who protested In 1775 against the movement for Independ ence. Numerous other cultivated men wrote In the same vein. These men were the spiritual fore bears of those Americans who to-day insist that there Is no such thing as a righteous war and that the nation should not offer .armed resistance to maintain Its rights. The Day's Circulation . At 2 cents a copy, the Day, the na tional Jewish dally published in New York, has a daily and Sunday circula tion of 75,000 copies going Into the homes of New York families, whose earning capacity and purchasing pow er has established them among the best of the Jewish element in Amer ica. HAttRISBURG ffIKV TELEGRAPH When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS J EDITORIAL COMMENT Since reading that a reporter who died in Chicago among other bequests, left $2 00,000 to a library, we cannot find tt in our heart to blame people for not believing what they see in the newspapers.—New Orleans States. Probably Charles Evans Hughes perfectly understands what the Presi dent means by "peace without vic tory."—New York Telegraph. Count Zeppelin is dead and the oc cupant of every baby carriage in Eng land is begging the nurse to put the top down.—Brooklyn Eagle. It may be written in history that Germany was submarined by her own U-boats.—New York World. Besides, a literacy test would re quire a considerable reorganization among immigration officials.—Newark News. Wonder If the Kaiser is planning to eat his next Christmas dinner in Boston or New York? —Boston Trans cript. The average Congressman displays less interest in the freedom of the seas than in free garden seeds.—Philadel phia North American Dr. Zimmermann, of Berlin, says he is anxious to find out how the United States came into possession of his friendly suggestion for the dismem berment of this country. Yet he would forego the knowledge if he could find out how much more this government knows about his plans.—New York Sun. What Advertising Means "Advertising." said an advertising authority, "is the simplest thing In the world. You have something to sell. Somebody else wants to buy it. There fore, you tell them about it. It is.the straight line of commerce —the short est distance between supply and de mand. When you advertise you are simply telling them in a way that will create in their minds a desire to buy. It is group salesmanship by the print ed word. • "Many make the mistake of consid ering advertising art expense. It is not. Rent is. So is light and trans portation. Advertising is not, because it pays its way as it goes along, and is all the time adding to the cumula tive value of good will. "There is expended in this country each year in advertising of all sorts between $650,000,000 and $700,000,- 000. At least half of the total is ex pended in newspaper advertising. John Wanamaker recently pointed out that every man who pays one or two cents for a newspayer saves eight or nine cents, because of the fact that, that newspaper carries advertising. In other words, if it were not for adver tising, it would be impossible to pro duce the newspaper for less than ten cents a copy. East year the volume of national advertising in the news papers increased from $55,000,000 to $75,000,000 —something like 30 per cent. It costs one-fifth as much to talk to 1,000 people through the news papers as it does through general media, and you can pick the 1,000 people you wish to reach. This is economy." Reorganize The Cabinet [Kansas City Star.] On the eve of war the President owes it to the nation to reorganize the Cabinet. In a crisis like this every de partment of the government ought to be directed by the country's best brains. It ought not to be merely a "coalition Cabinet." A coalition Implies pla cating the opposition by including some of its wheel horses in the gov ernment. If the most capable men for directing the departments happen to be both- Democrats and Republicans, let men of both parties be named. But let them head departments not because they are Democrats or Republicans, but because they are the best men in the country for the Job! The present Cabinet was selected on the usual partisan basis. In naming its members the President was looking to the political effect rather than to getting efficient executives. The most conspicuous Instance is in the nation's first line of defense, the [Navy Department. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM A Caution To the Editor of the Telegraph: Having learned that monies are be ing paid to persons who are solicit ing for "the church on the hill" under the impression that it is for the new- M. E. church north of State street, I wish to state that no one has been au thorized to solicit for this worthy en terprise and suggest that all persons desiring to give us financial aid will Understanding Germany (From the Kansas City Star.] When Mr. Brltling in H. G. Wells' book comes across the German "Hymn of ilate" in the early days of the war he is baffled by it and suggests that lie would like to look inside the head of the man who wrote it to see what was going on there. The developments of the war, including tiie Zlmmermann note suggesting to Mexico a recovery of her "lost provinces" in the United States, have made many Americans share Mr. Britling'a wonder. Germany has shown a national thought and feeling so different from that with which we are acquainted that we are baffled for the explanation. How can it be, we ask, that the inen whom the world looked up to as leaders of thought—Ostwald and Eucken and Haj - nack' —should be talking like crazy people? How can such a clear headed physi cist as Professor Ostwald say in the Journal de Geneve: "Germany, thanks to her genius for organization, has at tained a stage of civilization far higher than that of all other peoples. Ger many wants to organize Europe, for up to now Europe never lias been organ ized?" How can Professor Eucken say that "to us, more than to any other nation, is intrusted the true structure of human existence?" How can the dis tinguished theologian, ilarnack, virtu ally repeat these words to a delegation of Americans? How can a presumably sane Munich professor. Baron Van Stengel, say: "The war has demonstrated, throughout its course, that we, the Germans, have been chosen by Providence, from among all earth's peoples, to put ourselves at the head of all civilized nations and guide them to a sure peace under our I protection? And how can a scientific man, a dis tinguished ethnographer, K. F. Wolff, lay down this policy for a conquering Germany: "The conqueror must have an absolute will to dominate and must strive for the political and ethnical an nihilation of the vanquished. He must entirely ignore the fallacy that the van quished have the right to maintain their language and nationality. A victorious people, invading a country, must insist upon Its privileges in the most ruthless manner; it will commit no injustice in doing so. it will merely derive the na tural consequences of Its position. Such men as this can conquer, they are al lowed to conquer, it is their duty to conquer." Ten years ago a Hungarian scholar. Dr. Emil ltelch, professor of interna tional law in the University of Vienna, wrote a book in which he quoted from numerous German writers on the su periority of the German people to all other nations. In other countries, he said, occasional writings of this sort appeared and were regarded as the work of cranks. In Germany this feel ing of German supremacy was "a vast wave of national thought." This national ambition. Doctor Reich then predicted, must lead to a war in which Germany would seek to gain the leadership of the world. His prediction was correct. Most of the world Is In arms to-day to prevent Germany from imposing its kultur on other peoples at the point of the bayonet. Two reasons for this strange self exaltation are apparent In the history of Germany. Within a half century the nation sprang from comparative insig nificance to a position of leadership in the world. A sudden rise to distinction has demoralized individuals. In this case it has affected a whole nation. And In the second place the political rise of Germany has been based on the deliberate use of war as an instrument of national policy. Such use of war is abhorrent to Americans. It was given the glamour of brilliant success by Bis marck. The effect has been to create a na tional spirit which has menaced the civilization of the world. It ts to curb this dangerous spirit that the United States Is on the eve of war. DO YOU KNOW —Tint Harrisburg lias scores of automobiles that will be put at the disposal of the government? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This place waft one of the centers of cannon ball making in the war of 1812. APRIL 5, 1917. do well to have positive assurance as to where their money is to go before payment is made. R. H. COLBUKN. Can't Do Without It To the Editor of the Telegraph: Please send us the TELEGRAPH again. We can't do without It. GEORGE WHITCOMB, No. 78 N. Fourteenth St., Harrisburg, Pa. OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 UNPROFIT- One never loses NV\ > anything by keep ing an engage- KW\V |H Except half an hour's time wait- ||w| lhg for other Can you tell I'm When you'look For. there the And lies, and Ilea, Alice are not on speaking terms. more than make iff up for it by what |Sij& they say about each other, Wr kZ j .a- j Labor Notes Clarksburg (W. Va.) building trados will have strictly union shops after April 2. Five thousand fur workers In New York city have had wages Increased 10 per cent. Flint Glass Workers' International contemplates the organization of lamp workers. The first strike of American workers (sailors) occurred In 1802 in New York city. Painters of Dundee, Scotland, have gone on strike for more pay and short er hours. China has only one physician trained along modern lines for each 600,000 in habitants. About 30 per cent, of journeymen barbers are victims of pulmonary tu berculosis. Massachusetts has a home-building plan, under which the State proposes to erect workingmen's homes to be sold to applicants on terms of easy payment. lEtomttg Cdt|at People who observe the railroads have been Impressed the last few days by the, tremendous amount of traffic being handled through Harrisburg. It is coming from all parts of the flortli, South and West through this city and either the embargo along the coast must have been raised or the big east ern cities are drawing in supplies of all kinds. There are some who say that the railroads arc making a great effort to clear up all the traffic pos sible to make room for what demands war may bring. In any event there has been a ceaseless rumble of trains through Harrisburg day and night and some of the trains are barely clear of the city before others take their place on the lines. The wonder ful part about it all is the way the yards handle the enormous number of cars. The three great yards at Enola, North Harrisburg and Ruther ford are apparently jammed with traf fic, but the work of sorting them out Is going on systematically. All seems confusion to the ordinary observer, but it is order and rapidly moving or der at that. The trains are coming in made up to go to their destinations beyond in many cases, but there Is an amount of classification work done here that Is amazing. For months past this has been going on without in terruption even on Sunday and cars from every railroad in the United States and Canada are being sent through Harrisburg. The railroads arc doing not only an immense amount of work, but doing It quietly and it Is easier to get behind the railing of a bank than to get close to a rail road yard. The police crusade against persons who fail to dim their electric lights is having its effect and the last few nights there have been few automo biles which have thrown their glare about the city's streets. On some of the streets, notably Front, Second, State and Derry, the police order has had a gratifying effect and the blind ing iigtyt which used to annoy drivers, motormen and pedestrians and even people along the sidewalks Is notice ably lessened. A friend who lives in the suburbs calls attention to the tricks of some dog fanciers whose love for animals overcomes their sense of right. One man who has a fine dog missed the animal for several days. When he came back the dog had a nice collar, different from that with which he went away. And the dog license was also different. Matters were soon ad justed. Several Instances have been heard of where dog owners found missing animals home again without collars. The dogs showed Indications of harsh treatment, having evidently been tied up and their collars re moved. The difficulty Is that stolen [ dogs when they escape are apt to be I picked up or shot as ownerless be cause the thieves remove the collars. Speaking of dogs a couple of them caused considerable excitement in Capitol Park yesterday. They started to chase squirrels and a couple of squirrel guards threw their canes at the animals. That was what the dogs were used to and they just put on speed and made for trees. One beat a squirrel to it and was about to seize the animal when a woman threw an umbrella and the ferrule struck the dog on the neck. By that time one of the policemen had recovered his cane and had routed the other canine visitor. • * • Wild rabbits are commencing to be come more or less of a nuisance to farmers in this section of the state, according to some remarks made by people here and there is no compunc tion shown about shooting them by men whose crops they have damaged. The rabbits seem to have multiplied exceedingly in Cumberland county and are to be seen In many roads this spring. It seems rather odd that in some parts of the state sportsmen are asking the authorities to furnish rab bits for breeding so that they will have a stock while in others the animals are a liability. If the Mearkle bill now ponding in the House of Representatives goes through there will be considerable less noise by automobiles in Harrisburg, as there are some pretty stringent pro visions regarding the use of mufflers and cut-outs. This bill would also make pretty stiff penalties for persons who stole cars and forbids any person from blowing the horn of a car which Is standing on a highway. This Is an interference with juvenile sport, but the people who oppose the fun say that it leads to tampering with ma chines, handling levers and other things and that the safest plan is to forbid any one having anything to do with cars that do not belong to them. This bill would also enable imposition of tines for speeding on the riverside road or on Mulberry street viaduct and some of the speed machines that tear up and down Second and Third streets would run up against a state law. Throughout the bill contains pro visions designed to halt troubles which have afflicted Harrisburg in common with the rest of the State and which the great majority of automobile owners and drivers deprecate and do their best to check on the part of a small number of persons who do not care what they do. Talking about traffic there Is noth ing worse according to a couple of the traffic "cops" than a man who has just taken out his new car for a trial without an instructor. Such people furnish the- majority of the violators of the regulations and as they do it through a case of "rattles" it takes some time to untangle the knots. The other day a man not familiar with the management of a car got twisted at Third and Market streets and the policeman quickly sized up what was going to happen and stopped every one else. He held up trolley cars, trucks, automobiles and a delivery wagon or two and then watched the fijssed up auto owner get out of the tangle. He did not say anything but the man's face was the color of a red beet and he got enough advice from the rest of the folks. It's funny and yet saddening to watch men who have long stopped at the Commonwealth hotel come up tho street, take a look at the big board fence about the building and then stop some passerby and ask what has hap pened. There are many people who have not heard of the change. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. C. Nolan, prominent Reading banker, was unanimously re-elected to the Reading city planning commission but said he was tired of fighting and refused to accept. —Mayor Hogentugler, of York, who refused to permit anti-war meetings, is a keen advocate of proper prepared ness. — B. C. Atlee, of Lancaster'• auto mobile club, says his country's motor car owners will place their vehicles at government service. —Director W. H. Wilson, of Phila delphia safety, says that citizens should unite In home guard organizations. —General Charles Miller, former ' ' commander of the National Guard, is taking an active part in spite of his age in the preparations for war In hi® aectlon of the tate. ,
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