14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded jjjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager, QUS M. STEIN-MKTZ. Managing Editor. jL Member American bS H sylvanla Assoclat gjSflS S V nue Building. New People's Gas Ruild Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mall. $5.00 a -■SiitßJ" year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, A PHI I, 19 The initiation of all wise or noble things comes and must come from individuals.—J. S. Hill. PATRIOTIC MERCHANTS rE merchants of Harrisburg did I a purely patriotic thing when! they agreed to close their stores Saturday afternoon and evening in order that their employes may partici pate in the great patriotic demonstra tion. The committee in charge asked them to shut up shop only until 6 p. m., but the businessmen generously decided not to reopen until Monday morning. In order not to interfere ■with shoppers who find it incon venient to do their shopping before nightfall, the stores will be kept open j to-morrow evening until 9 o'clock. 1 The people of the city should respond by co-operating with the merchants in order that they may lose nothing by their holiday agreement. Too bad that B. F. Umberger, so long [ active in all municipal work, has sue- ' cumbed to the lure of rural life. We ' shall still hold him, however, as a citi- I zen of Harrisburg in everything except I the voting privilege, and we're sorry he 1 can't ge.t a special dispensation to di vide the suffrage privilege between ; Perry and Dauphin counties. Let us 1 ope that his place on the Planning Commission will be taken by one equally fitted for the service and de voted to the interests of Harrisburg. \ ••SOME SWEET DAY. BY AND BY" SOME sweet day, by and by," j when the whispering breezes pf spring time shall have given way to the warm winds of summer, when fall and winter shall have come and gone and come and gone again in innumerable procession throughout 1 the slow rolling years; when the war i clouds that now darken the skies of j J all the world, long ages since shall 1 1 have been swept away and the sun of j i an everlasting peace shall shed its ' serene rays upon a smiling earth; 1 when flocks of peace doves soar in the ' I heights of an azure firmament where ! anon the warrior eagle was wont to 1 1 preen his battle plumage; "Some \ sweet day," we repeat, (as the orches-11 tra plays low, soulful music and the ! i audience sits In tense expectation of ; i the dramatic climax to come) when 1 the moss of ages shall have grown j 1 and withered and grown again o'er the \ rusted cannon that now roar with a 1 roar unending along a hundred far- j flung battle fronts; when the name |' of the Colonel shall be reflected only 1 from the pages of ancient history, and , when the millennium shall have come i and passed and been forgotten, al most; then perhaps, perhaps, we say— - The work on the new postoffiee S building may be completed. Preparations for placing the country i on a war basis has given an impetus i to permanent read building which noth- j ing else could have done. Every high way should be placed in the pos sible shape, so that there may be quick communication between communities for the distribution of supplies and ac cessibility for rapid transportation of every sort. BOOZE ON THE BRINK EVERYBODY except a few besotted Individuals who care more for their dally rounds of booze than they do for their dally rations of food, or those of other people, will approve the resolutions adopted by the suf fragist leaders of the State In confer ence here yesterday, urging upon the Legislature and Congress the enact ment of prohibition legislation for the period of the war. It is absurd that while the Federal and the State governments are strain ing every effort to increase the supply of foods, while the whole world Is on the verge of a provision famine and while economists all agree that the breadbasket is to be the deciding fac tor In the world-war. we should con tinue trf pour millions of bushels of prfWi yeaily into the beer vats and wlin.tey stills of the country. Alcoholic liquors serve no good pur pose in times of peace and they have been found in Europe to be of vast in jury in time of war. Grain that Is used to make whisky or beer Is worse thaa wasted. It is turned from food to poison. ~ The suffragists are right In going beyond the State Legislature for the necessary legislation. Desirable as such an enactment would be at the hands of the General Assembly of Pennsyl vania, It would be of little avail so long as other States placed no ban on their alcoholic manufactures. The food problem is by no means local and it cannot be solved by even the most drastic remedies'to i*o- V ! "'ippp-. ■ ' jiV.- . • ' \ • THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG grfEßftl TELEGRAPH! APRIL 19, 1917. lated districts. This Is a matter for the T prompt attention of Congress. As Dr. | Swallow said the other day In a letter to the executive, an opportunity for service now presents Itself to President Wilson such as comes to few men. Will he grasp it? If your neighbor's chickens disturb your garden, talk first to your neigh bor; after that remember that posses sion is nine points of the law and that chicken potpie makes a line Sunday dinner. THE COMIXG CAMPAIGN ALREADY certain prominent mem bers of Congress from Pennsyl vania are erecting their lightning rods for the governorship contest of next year. Among them is said to be Colonel Thomas S. Crego, J. Hampton Moore and Henry W. Temple. Every county will have a favored son in the i prubernatorial sweepstakes of 1917. It lis going to be SOME campaign. Among Republicans there is very seneral criticism of the factional dif ferences which have endangered the party alignment in Pennsylvania, but notwithstanding these differences there are signs here and there of a more sane conduct of party affairs. Men who are disposed to break into the j limelight through factional exploita ; tlon will realize before the year is I much older that they have traveled j the wrong road toward party prefer i inent. Throughout the State the ac tive workers of the Republican faith ; are thoroughly out of patience with a continuance of internecine contro versy. These believe that the leader ship of the party should realize the danger of further factional disruption and bring about, without any delay, | harmonious agreement. So long as this is a government of the people and for the people and by the people the party as such will con tinue to exist and to perform its func tions. But partisan success cannot be predicated upon party dissension. Unity of effort and purpose are neces- I sary to build up a virile and success ful organization, local, State and na tional. There are those in the Democratic camp who imagine that the fact that the country is now in war will aid that particular organization. This does not follow by any means. While Repub licans are just as patriotic and will give just as cordial support to the I President and the government as those 1 of any party, they will still maintain the Integrity of their party faith and stand shoulder to shoulder in all mat ters affecting the party organization. It Is too often the effort of Demo cratic "patriots" to use patriotism as a cloak for their partisan scheming and these politicians must understand that their appeals to Republicans to do this or that, while they themselves are doing exactly the opposite, will ' fall upon deaf ears. Denny O'Neill is absolutely right in his proposition to make Pennsylvania a : dry State for the period of the war and : to convert into food everything which has heretofore been going into booze. FOOD CONTROL, PRESIDENT WILSON should lose ( no time in presenting to Congress , his plan for food price control dur- i ing the period of the war. Every com- 1 modity that comes to the table Is sub- ' ject to unjust tax at the hands of spec- \ ulators intent upon taking the maxi- I mum profit from transactions in food- ' stufTs that have no other purpose than , the inflation of profits for personal • gain. This juggling of provisions brought j about the overthrow of the Czar In , Russia. Food speculation in Germany t is a growing menace to Hohenzollern ambitions and England is just now be- \ ginning to appreciate how serious it Is ( to trifle with the food supplies of a < people. | With all that is being done to in- , crease the yields of all manner of farm ; products this year there should be no ' question about everybody in America ' having enough to eat next winter if the price is kept down to a reasonable level. The President is headed inthe right direction. If he has any regard , for the welfare of the common people or his own standing In popular opinion a little later he will push to an early conclusion his food control program. Every vacant lot in Harrisburg should j be utilized this year in the raising of i food products. Now is the time to get busv. A WISE DECISION THE committee in charge of Sat turday's patriotic demonstration wisely concluded not to postpone the celebration because of the death of Mayor Meals. The last official act of the Mayor was to issue the parade proclamation. It was his desire that the whole city join in pledging loyalty to the flag and devotion to the Nation. It would have been his wish that noth ing be permitted tp Interfere there with. There's one thing pretty sure; Hin •ienburg will never be foolish enough to let them name another line for him. The backyard garden is a regular hotbed of patriotism. Ever since the racket started away back in Bunker Hill days, Boston has always insisted In getting into th<s war news, even if It is only seeing hostile submarines and hearing "heavy firing just off the coast." The news dispatches indicate that the Germans in the East are about to retreat to another great victory. Through the State Board of Educa tion a careful survey is to be made of the work which may be done by the school children of the Commonwealth In this crisis. More and more the peo ple are beginning to realize that real preparedness involves activities not heretofore contemplated In the every day life of the State. i The gorgeous showing of yellow bloom , along the river embankment, between ( Walnut street and the city pumping station, is material 'evidence of what should be done along the entire River Front. Thousands of plants at the city nursery should be given permanent place along the river embanfement. MOVIE OF A MAN WALKING FROM OBSERVATION CAR TO DINING CAR By BRIGGS OBSCRVA"T(OM CAR' MERCEDE'S Tb DIME R, EXITS FROM M6RC EDGS ENTER -3 IS 1 IfilfW /// / \\ CAR 11NSOMNi/vS. I Av CORv/6 fr [ 1 '/ / \ y . " WtSS AHICKON" C/SR "BlCpxi \ X 1 J (one*; ~j ENTERS "WAXAHATCHI" M i&vVw slf IX 'KENNERDAU" wsiv FJ K/ I * GLEN ELLYM" - vf / \ lJm " BLACK>AOOR " t — t " "Balmoral" _ T , mi. "~P _^By^tl^JEx-C<wnmltteemaiP^^j According to stories which are go- i Ing in political circles the hearing to ' be accorded by the joint appropriations committee next week to members of the State Commission of Agriculture Is , expected to "start something" In regard to the appointive power in the Depart- . ment of Agriculture. Some antiad ministratlon men have the Idea that ' there is friction between the commls- ! sion and the Secretary of Agriculture, j although Secretary Patton expressly i denied it at the recent hearing. The j claim is being made that the commis- ( sion is nothing more than a rubber s stamp body and that it should either ] be abolished or be clothed with real power to appoint or remove. ( If the hopes of the men who have ] the idea that there is a row under way < in the department are realized a bill i to give the commission wide powers t and to strip the secretary of some of ] the authority which It is alleged he has ] "usurped" will be presented. The in- j teresting thing about it is that both ( the commission and the secretary owe < their appointments to the Governor and l neither the commission nor the secre tary has been confirmed. 1 Members of the State Senate have | made up their minds that no appoint- < ments will be sent to the Senate for ] confirmation until after Senator ( Charles A. Snyder becomes Auditor ] General, and it is said that some of < them do not look for any statement of i the Governor's position on recess ap- \ pointments to be made until the night j before the Legislature is to take its i recess after acting on appropriation \ bills. , —Proposed amendments to the State , workmen's compensation system are likely to figure considerably in the pot- i Itics of the present legislative ses sion. The labor leaders who came here i for the hearing before the House labor and industry committee are making strenuous efforts to get Governor Brumbaugh to declare In favor of some of the radical changes covered by the Woodward and Michel bills, but the Governor has maintained the same position as the Compensation Board, and declined to make any statement one way or the other. It Is said that the labor leaders wil urge him to de clare In favor of some of the provisions next week when the House committee Is expected tcf take action. Some ad- j ministration men have been boosting the amendments, but It is stated that it is being done Individually. A dele gation of labor leaders called at the Governor's office yesterday to ask him to state his position. —The visit of William Flinn to Har risburg continues to be much talked about and It Is expected that some of the fruits of it will turn up In ap pointments that will be announced be fore long. It was said about the Sen ate that Fllnn's visit was more to try and head off the Lynch bill to repeal the nonpartisan election part of the second class city act than anything else. Flinn has taken an advanced po sition on nonpartisan elections and It was wagered to-day that if the Lynch bill got through the Governor would veto it. —An Interesting story was started In Western Pennsylvania yesterday to the effect that Governor Brumbaugh did not Intend to accept the resignation of Congressman O. D. Bleakley, of Ve nango, and would not call a special election. The Governor's office stated that while the Bleakley resignation was In hand nothing had been decided about what to do with It. —lt is not generally known that Congressmen are state officers and the certificates of their election are sent from the State Department. The Gov ernor signs tlfclr papers just as he signs the commission of the Auditor General. Wife yolunteers, Too [lndianapolis News] Rushville, Ind. —Since A. L. Stew art, city engineer, has offered his ser vices as a civil engineer to the na tional council of defense, Mrs. Stew art, who formerly was a telegraph operator, has -written to Daniel Wll lard, chairman of the transportation , and communication committee of the . council of defense, that she will serve ! in the capacity of a telegrapher if • she is wanted. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart's only child, ' Simeon Stewart, a student at Purdue t University, expects to enlist when a company Is formed there. ENGLAND'S "PINCH HITTER" COMING HERE ON A MISSION Arthur J. Balfour Arisos to His Great Capacity Only in Times Crisis—Oil Other Occasions He Prefers Incisure and Study to the Hard Work of Public Life and His Countrymen Admit They Do Not Understand Him. • ENGLAND Is sending on a secret mission to Washington the man that England has confessed time and again it does not understand. Ar thur J. Balfour has been the riddle of English politics for a generation. Many men have spoken of him, many others written of him and rarely have any two of them agreed. He has been declared brilliant and slothful, 1 consistent and Inconsistent, forceful and vacillating, kindly and hard hearted, able and incompetent. Balfour has been In English pollttcs 1 forty-three years—he Is 69 now. He 1 has held many positions, from that : of a mere under secretary to prime minister. He always has been a figure to be reckoned with: defeats never ' have lessened his prestige, though he 1 has tasted many of them. This man, ' a conservative of the conservatives, to- ' day Is foreign secretary In the cfflcl- ' ency cabinet headed by the rankest liberal pf them all. A member of the family of Cecils, Balfour, of course, was born to a po litical career. A man could not be a Cecil and do otherwise than take up politics. He went Into the House of Commons at the age of 26 and car ried with him the name "Miss Nancy," conferred upon him by his school mates at Eton who found little to ad mire in the anemic, studious and none too friendly youth. In the House of Commons he showed an aptitude for nothing but leisure. He became presi dent of the local government board and later secretary for Scotland. In both these positions he missed every chance of doing anything remarkable. He was clever enough, but he did not care to work. He seldom arose before noon and for several days at a time he did not go near his offices. He Arose to the Occasion This was the man the Marquis of Salisbury—Balfour's uncle and then the greatest of the Cecils—appointed to the tumultous job of chief secretary for Ireland. The always turbulent island was in a worse state than usual at that time, which was 1884. Men were being shot down almost every day; it was openly stated the next chief secretary would not live many j days after setting foot upon Irish soil. It was into this seething welter that the studious. Indifferent young Bal four was sent. The Irish Nationalists had a good laugh at th-? appointment. They did not laugh long. Balfour, the lazy and pampered, soon became Balfour the Iron fisted. He brooked no opposition, he arrested men right and left, he stamped out all violence. The man completely altered his habits. Instead of arising at noon he arose at daybreak, ho learned the Intricate details of Irish and he never quailed before the fiercest opposition of Parnell, Redmond, Dil lon. Morley and other able and deter mined Irishmen. But after completing that task Bal four came back to England and fell Into his former easy going habits. He golfed and played tennis and read much, but worked little. Then old Lord Salisbury called the young man to his side as a lieutenant, it wus the signal for Balfour to change again. In the House of Commons he became the supreme debater, the Incomparable fighter. If a bill came up over which there was a decisive party war Bal four could be depended upon to learn every detail of It, master every phase of its effect and lead the argument for or against It. Languorous, slow In movement, ex tremely courteous, the man appeared far from formidable. Yet few dared to face him in debate. Saw the German Menace Before he became prime minister In 1902 he had started a movement to increase England's naval strength. To Balfour must be given the credit for perceiving the danger '.hat lay In Ger many. He warned against It In a day when few Englishmen believed there - was such a thing as a Teutonlo i menace. As a prime minister Balfour was i not succeasful simply because he op i posed reforms that the people were i determined to have. His admlnistra f tlon brought him Into sharp conflict with Lloyd George and Asqulth and In , the end', he was beaten by the forces > they led. Balfour fought always with i the conservatives; he nought to retain ,for the upper classes the privileges the I people demanded. The rising flood of democracy engulfed him. For two years he was out of the British Parlia ment altogether, but he got back and became again a dominating figure whenever he chose to be. Why he has kept to his political career Is something that he himself once said he could not explain. "Give me my books, my golf clubs and leisure and I would ask for noth ing more," he once said. "My ideal life Is to read a lot, write when I feel like it, play plenty of golf or tennis and have nothing to worry about. I could give, myself that kind of life, yet I do not." Is a Rich Man He Is a rich man, owning an estate of more than eight thousand acres in addition to extensive real estate prop erties in London. His library is one of the finest in England. Truly he, if anybody, could afford to quit work and enjoy the sort of life he cares for most. But he is constantly in the top flight of English public life and remaining at that eminence naturally calls for a great deal of hard and fatiguing work. When Lloyd George became premier he unhesitatingly named Balfour to one of the chief positions, that of foreign minister. He had been first lord of the admiralty In the first As qulth coalition cabinet and he was one of the few men of that cabinet Lloyd George took within his inner circle. That in itself is evidence of the wide ability of this man who now Is entrusted with a secret mission to America that may have much to do I with this country's future course in I the world war. ! As a matter of fact Balfour appar- < I cntly has that rare faculty known to i Americans as the ability to "hit In a ( pinch." When called upon to do big t things he can deliver the needed j smash; when there is no call for heroic action the man simply goes back to the golf clubs and hooks that he loves best and to which he longs some day to give all his time. Probably the riddle of Balfour Is only the Inability of folks to understand a man who Is so honest with him self. Thrift-over-the-Counter "An important contribution toward preparedness," according to an edi torial In this week's (April 21), Col lier's Weekly, "Is now being made by the National Thrift Bond Corporation, recently founded with offices at 61 Broadway, New York City The Idea is to make it possible for anyone, any where In the U. S. A., at any time dur ing business hours, to Invent as little (or much) as $lO in sound interest bearing securities which can be readily sold again for cash. The cor poration Is to purchase State, munic ipal, and other tax-secured bonds, place these In trust, and Issue In their stead thrift bonds in units of $lO each and bearing interest at 3 per cent, or 30 per year, for each such bond. When the plan Is In full opera tion these bonds will be furnished by the corporation to department stores, drug stores, cigar stores, and other popular retailers at the fixed price of $9.85 each. The stores will make a modest distributor's profit by retail- I ing them at $lO apiece, and will also i buy back at $9.85 each in case the In vestor wants to cash In at any time. The corporation will keep going on the difference between the 3 per cent, paid Investors and the 4 or *V4 per cent, recetved on the underlying State, municipal and other securities. The plan Is absolutely sound, is backed by responsible and reliable men, and will be a big addition to our general Investment scheme. We need these popular-sized securities to help drive out the gold-brick type of financing. It Is also very important that means be developed for getting everybody In at once on national bond issues when war comes. Great Brttatn has gone far beyond this plan In popularising her new publlo debts, but beginnings are beginnings. A few thrift bonds will make dimes grow In your pocketbook." EDITORIAL COMMENT In these progressive times, war for' men seems to mean votes for women. —Kw York Sun. English womanhood Is marching through the munitions factory to the polling place.—Boston Herald. The Russian provisional government has decided to abolish capital punish ment. Probably Nicholas feels a little better now.—Charleston News and Courier. There's no law against hoping the new Russian government will abandon the custom of using "pi" lines as names for their cities and officials.— Macon Telegraph. The esteemed Herald suggests that von Hindenburg, tn his "masterly re treat," is luring the Allies to Berlin. Perhaps he wishes to compel them to live there and starve as the Germans are doing.—New York Morning Tele graph. Labor Notes A mammoth oil-driven harvester that is being tried on Australian wheat fields strips about sixty acres a day. Journeyman tailors of St. Joseph, Mo., have again organized. They al lowed their union to lapse several years ago. The United Mine Workers of America is conducting a vigorous or ganizing campaign in Maryland and i adjoining coal fields. Tho thousand and three hundred Manitoba (Canada) boys and girls are entering a vegetable gardening competition this year. The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks has secured a working schedule sign ed by the Maine Central railroad to apply to its general offices. Washington's legislature has pass ed the flrst-aid-to-the-injured bill, which provides that a portion of the cost shall be borne by workers. The trade union movement attempted to have the cost placed on industry. OUR DAILY LAUGH SPEAKING FROM EX- ' PERIENCE. The Promoter 1 —My money comes so easy I mX \ It's just like tak- | 7 L 1 lng candy from \ y 1 I ababy - aPK\ n fJ The Producer Mr) \1 // fjJ —And havo you / Lj W found taking N / a*''! candy from ba- ft II 1 bles a safe, easy W |l I and profitable \ enterprise? I IDEA. 1 !pa An(i *•- fused to make a contribution to i y ° ur very wor ** 1 thy charit T? } Ually Bald that " away ha'd give It BOY AGREED WITH HIS PA. "Tou should always tak* torn*, body of your slse." "That's right, pa; these little fal lows ara so short that they can't help hitting below the belt" Ebenttig <M|at| 1 1 ■ ■ II ■ ■ II .1 M saJI The Tuscarora-Path Valley Stat© highway route whleh the delegations from the Cumberland and Juniata valleys asked the Governor and State highway officials to take steps to Im prove 1b designed to furnish the sec ond of the connecting links between the William Penn und Lincoln high ways. One such link is furnished bv a road which cuts from Everett across Huntingdon county, a very pretty stretch of country. The Path Valley route begins at Kort Louden and goes through one of the tlnest valleys in ' the foothills of the Allegheny moun tains to the Juniata river. The roads J'e in fair shape considering the fatt that while over 100 years old not much has been done to improve them in the modern sense and it would probably taot tftko so very much money to make them first class. Wliaf interests Harrisburg people is that the Improvement of this stretch of highway would open a way for a day's ride through a section little known to people of this city. It would afford an all day run through the Juniata val ley to Mifflin or Port Royal and then down the Tuscarora and Path Val leys to the historic frontier town and then to Chambersburg and through the Cumberland valley to Harrisburg. * The valley traversed by the propos ed highway Is like those In the upper part of Dauphin county. It is sparsely settled but abounds in beautiful scenery. It is of great interest in the history of Pennsylvania, too, for be fore the Revolution it was one of the outpost valleys. It was patrolled by provincial troops whp had their headquarters in Forts Louden, Mc- Cord and other safety points in the valleys behind and many a time par ties of savages were intercepted and thrown back. It was a sort of No Man's land in the French and Indian war and even In later years the people who settled in it had their flintlocks handy. • • Action of the House of Representa tives on the woman suffrage resolu tion on Tuesday and the meetings of the suffragists In this city yester day and to-day have attracted na tional attention to Harrisburg. The suffragists in Pennsylvania have been making a plucky fight and rallied af ter their defeat in 1915 with such vim that a good many people, in cluding many of the suffragists, ex pected that they would get through their constitutional amendment reso lution about the same way that they did in 1913. The defeat by a narrow margin and the killing of the resolu tion by the refusal to reconsider was flashed from the Atlantic to the Pacific and there were many messages received here yesterday and to-day asking for information on the result. ♦ • • Reports of "heavy firing" heard at sea and of German war vessels of mysterious appearance disappearing in the fogs off the New England coast, remind men who were about newspaper offices In the Spanish war of the days of excitement before Cer vera's fleet was trapped. There was hardly a day that went by without a Spanish ship being sighted some where and e%'ery time the Atlantic fleet fired a gun there were reports -irculate/d of a heavy engagement. The result was that the telephone bells worked themselves into a state of hysteria about newspaper offices. The last week the number of inquiries made of newspapers about reports of German vessels has been many times the questions asked about the propos ed patriotic demonstration. ' . •• • L By the end of the week one of the landmarks of old State street will probably be well along toward demoli tion. The National hotel was put in the hands of the wreckers on Tues day and to-day the workmen are throwing down the walls of the third story. The old National hotel as we know It dates from the seventies. Long before the present brick build ing was erected there was a hotel near the corner of Fourth and State streets, proximity to the State Cap itol having caused a tavern to be opened probably seventy-five years ago. The predecessor of the brick hotel was a log house near the corner which old timers say contained a huge fire place in a very commodious bar room. The National had a suc cession of genial landlords, Fred Ebel being the latest. The demolition of the hotel has attracted much at tention from the denizens of the Eighth ward. • * • One of the interesting results of the commencement of war has been the Hood of inquiries made at offices of insurance companies regarding life and accident policies. The bulk of the life policies have had attached In the last few years what is known as the "war clause" which was designed to protect the company in the event that the insured went to war. Whether this will be modified now that the na tion has taken up arms is what is in teresting a good many people. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Lieutenant Governor McClain rejoices In an automobile which is numbered 22222. —George Wharton Pejyier, chair man of the public safety committee, walks several miles a day to keep him self In condition. —William Flinn, the former Bull Moose leader, who was here this week, says he likes to come back to legisla tive hallß where he was a figure for many years. —Ex-Senator J. M. Campbell, of Mercer, who was here yesterday, has congressional aspirations. —-C. E. Carothers, the deputy sec retary of agriculture, owns a couple of fine farms and can turn a furrow, too. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes special steel plates for almost any kind of industrial work? HISTOIUO HARHIsnVRG Partisans of Andrew Jackson held a state convention here In 1824 and boomed him for the presidency. First Among the Captains [Philadelphia Public Ledger] Said Rabelais nearly four centuries ago. "Corn Is the sinews of war." > To what better use can thousands " and thousands of school and college boys devote their next vacation th% to help forge these sinews? Where? In the harvest fteMs and the hay mow, in the potato patch and the corn row, in the dairy and the fur row. Who will organize the regiments, brigades and divisions of cotfege boys who do not go into the army and mar shal them upon the thousands of farms where they can create the sin ews of war, which their comrades In form will need? Corn, I tell you, Is ths great element of this war. Lack of corn or lis equivalent precipitated the Russian revolution and dethroned a csar, To shut out corn from England the kaiser inaugurated hie submarine bru talities and so brought the United States Into war. Your Uncle Renben Corn tassel marches first among the captains of .Industry In the present strlff H a
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