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H ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20
GENERAL VON" HISSING
REPORT of the death of General
Von Hissing, governor general of
Belgium, reaches this country.
The death of Von Bissing will be
hailed as a blessing by millions of
Belgians and with rejoicing by friends
of humanity everywhere. He lived a
fit and servile henchmen of the
cruel Kaiser, and he dies "unwept,
unhonored and unsung." The world
could lose many such as he and be the
richer and the better for their
passing.
Von Bissing it was who was made
military governor of Belgium im
mediately after the invasion. It was
lie who sat complacently by and saw
Belgian women grossly mistreated by
brutal soldiers, who saw Belgian
babies die of starvation and want
while he dined amid plenty and slept
at ease in a stolen bed; he it was who
lined innocent men before "their own
garden walls to be shot, while their
horrified families looked on; he it was
who signed the death warrant of Edith
Cavelle.
Von Bissing won for himself a high
place in the German government, but
"what profiteth it a man if he gain the
whole world and lose his soul?"
"You can't buy preparedness," says
an exchange; no, but a full purse helps
ft lot.
FRIENDLY AND SYMPATHETIC '
THERE is now pending in the
House Committee on Immi- i
gration at Washington a bill
requiring persons not citizens of
the United States who are sub
jects of countries with which the
United States is at war to" register
through the postoffice o*f their re
spective places of residence for the
purpose of surveillance. This is
simply a precaution against the alien
element of our population which re
gards fealty to any belligerent as
paramount to decent consideration for
the country which has provided a!
haven of liberty and opportunity to I
the oppressed peoples of the world.
To the German subjects within our [
gates "there is given the assurance of j
good will so long as they conduct \
themselves in the proper way. "The i
American people," says a recent state- J
ment, "look with the greatest friend- '
liness and sympathy on the German |
subjects who face the trial of resi
dence here while the United States is
at war with Germany. We are es
pecially the friends of the German
people who have dwelt among us and
have shared our life. In this trying
time they may be assured that there
will be no disposition to harm them,
to interfere with their normal activi
ties, or cause them any unpleasant
ness If they strictly perform the duty
imposed upon them by international
law of rendering faithful obedience to
the laws of this country and refrain
from any interference with the war or
any act prejudicial to the interests of
the United States Government.
As has been frequently suggested,
the Federal Government at the pres
ent time is relying upon the friendly
devotion and loyal support of those
aliens of enemy nationality who have
found homes, livelihood and privileges
within the territory of the United
States. The government believes
there will be little need for an intern
ment program. It has confidence in
the friendship of Teutonic residents
■who will receive protection and friend
ly treatment so long as they are de
serving of it.
Harrisburg's Planning Commission is
doing much for the proper development
of the city and its suburbs. As we are
now on the verge of another era of ex
pansion, the efforts of the commission
to provide for open spaces and detached
houses will doubtless be exerted to the
limit.
RUSSIA PREPARING
THE American-Russian Chamber
Commerce looks for a high de
velopment of commerce between
the new Russia andthe United States
following the war, declaring that Rus
sia will take our manufactured ar
ticles and will send us raw materials.
Attention is called to our export trade
to Russia in 1916, a war year, as show
ing the possibilities in that field, and
the Introduction of American capital
Is earnestly solicited in connection
with the reconstruction and reorgani
zation of Russian resources.
Under the present administration
such an appeal to American investors
might meet with favorable response.
In the first place, Russia will operate
under a protective tariff law, a policy
which the Democrats in this country
refuse to accept. In the second place,
American manufacturers who engage
RIDAY EVENING.
in business in Russia would doubtless
find a government doing all it could
to encourage them. Instead of con
tinually harassing them.
One or two large American con
cerns now have subsidiary plants In
Russia, and when representatives of
these concerns appeared before the
Ways and Means Committee they made
the assertion that under the Demo
cratic tariff policy it would be more
profitable for them to manufacture
their parts in Russia, paying the low
Russian wage scale, and ship the parts
to this country to be assembled, and
that was just what they contemplated
doing before the war changed the sit
uation. Of course, that means that
Russian laborers would benefit at the
expense of American workmen. If we
can keep American capital at home it
will be used to employ American la
bor, and it will stay at home under
"the protective policy.
The American-Russian Chamber of
Commerce is not altogether actuated
by philanthrophy. What that body
would like to see is a large increase
in the sale of Russian goods in the
American market, and they would not
confine it to raw materials by a long
shot. Even with the war on her hands,
Russia has undergone some wonderful
development in her steel industry, and
steps are being taken to increase her
forest output and export. While on a
visit here from Moscow a few weeks
ago. Consul General Snodgrass was
quoted as saying: "When she is es
tablished on a normal basis she will
adopt a higher tariff. Russia is going
to be one of the greatest manufactur
ing countries in the world."
Russia knows the value of protec
tion because she lias seen it work out
in Germany and in the United States.
But we will dodder along under near
free-trade till the country returns to
Republican control. *
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What are you doing to encourage the
birds this year? A little birdhouse,
simple fountain or some food, will at
tract thousands of the songsters year
after year.
INCREASING THE FOOD SUPPLY
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH is stir
ring the interest of the people all
over the State in the raising of
food products and the general cultiva- j
tion of the soil. He has issued one |
appeal after another calling upon all
classes of people to make use of the
land. He often refers to the "loafing
hillsides'.' and it is for the purpose of
making use of every available inch of
tillable ground that the Governor is
asking the people to get busy now..
He has called upon the trustees of
State institutions to plant at once
something that can be used as food;
to the State Highway Commissioner
he lias said that the forces at work
upon the highways may be assigned
to cultivate the soil: and he is deter
mined that no red tape shall interfere
with the important service which he
has in mind.
This is precisely •••hat should be
done. While it is necessary to have
men on the fighting line it is just as
necessary to have those on the farms
and' wherever there is a vacant lot
busy with the raising of things to eat.
In this propaganda Governor Brum
baugh will have the united support
of the people, and as the time of seed
ing is here every community and in
dividual must get busy, to the end
that the best results shall be achieved
for the good of the nation.
ARMY NEEDS ARE URGENT
THE announcement that intensive
training for reserve officers and
those desiring commissions will
start in the early part of May indi
cates that the first step has been taken
toward the upbuilding of an army
that can represent adequately the
United States in the great world
struggle. Three months at least must
elapse after the camps are under way
before the officers will be equipped
and instructed to handle the 500,000
volunteers or draftees. Six months to
a year will then be required to whip
the 500,000 into shape to hold up
their end with the regular army and
the militia. The announcement comes
none too soon.
Optimism and the exercise of fore
sight are not incompatible. We may
hope and believe that the war will be
over before the need arises for mo
bilization of the full capacity cf the
nation, but that need not prevent us
from avoiding the error of adopting
the short war fallacy which proved so
unfortunate for France and England.
This nation must prepare for a long
war, and if Congress ever can agree
it would seem that such will be the
plan 3, and so emergency measures are
out of place. Universal military train
ing is to be desired, but the processes
involved in working out the scheme
that in five or ten years would give
every young man military training are
too intricate for the immediate need.
Tfce President's plan of selective
conscription is the only feasible way
to get immediate results, and the soon
er our representatives in Congress re
act to a strongly united public opinion,
the more quickly will America truly
"And herself."
The moral and practical effect of
America's entry into the war is good
in that it brings up financial and in
dustrial re-fenforcements for the allied
entente. But that is not enough.
Armed participation is the next move
and atiy Individual or group of indivi
duals who place obstructions in the
way of .a rapid development of the
country's latent military force for the
purpose of stepping into the fight, is
not made of the stuff of Valley Forge
and Gettysburg.
Maybe the grain price juggling will
have a good effect; Government control,
for instance.
If the enrollment for the parade con
tinues to grow, we may have to send
out of town for spectators.
If Von Hindenburg continues to "re
treat to victory" the Kaiser may have
a chance to celebrate it in Berlin, after
all.
Strange tilings have happened, but
nothing stranger than that the Ameri
can flag should be flown by Knglish
hands over the King's palace in London.
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I By the Ex-Committeeman
Notwithstanding the inability of
Governor Brumbaugh and the leaders
of tfie Senate to reach any under
standing in regard to the sending of
recess appointments to the upper
house for confirmation as required by
the Constitution it is likely that the
Governor will fill some of the vacan
cies existing within the next month or
so and trust to "developments to have
the men named continue in office.
The executive department has been
giving careful consideration to the
possibility that the incoming fiscal offi
cers might refuse to honor warrants
for pay of men not confirmed by the
Senate and the view is now held that
until the Legislature adjourns sine die
the Governor is in control of the ap
pointments and that he might allow
them to lapse and then name the men
all over again. This would have the
effect of continuing them in office un
til 1919.
Incidentally, the State administra
tion is prepared for suits which may
be started by taxpayers or anyone else
to test legality of administration of
offices by men who have not been Con
firmed.
—Gossip is heard that the Governor
has made tentative selections for the
superintendency of public grounds
and buildings, for which Private Sec
retary William H. Ball is once more
being mentioned; commissioner of
banking, for which General C. M. Cle
ment lias been the most mentioned;
and chief censor, which is also to go
to Philadelphia. Reappointment of
Dr. Nathan C. Shaeffer as superinten
dent of public instruction, is regarded
as certain.
—The administration people con
tend that the appointment of a secre
tary of internal affairs to succeed
Henry Houck does not have to go to
the Senate for confirmation and it is
believed an appointment to that office
will come along very soon. Ex-Con
gressman D. F. Lafean has been much
mentioned for this place, but West
ern Pennsylvania administration lead
ers are said to want it for their sec
tion.
—Pittsburgh people are coming
here In force on Tuesday to discuss
the Lynch bill to remove the nonparti
san feature from the second-class city
act. The hearing will probably be a
lively one.
—Philadelphia's city councils yes
terday went on record against the bill
to make the city council a single
chamber, but there was a lovely de
bate before the action was carried.
—Governor Brumbaugh last night
announced that nothing had been de
termined regarding the resignation of
O. D. Bleakley as a congressman from
the twenty-eighth district adding that
the question was in the hands of At
torney General Brown.
—The bulk of the discussion over
third class city legislation appears to
be among half a dozen legislators and
city officials from various parts of the
State. The impression that the whole
State is aroused over some of the bills
is not well founded.
The Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin in a discussion of thecoming judi
cial elections says; "The number of
judges in the Philadelphia Courts who
will be up for re-election this year is
probably the largest known in this
city since the judicial office first be
came elective. It is not certain, by
any means, that all of them will
receive another term. There is a dis
position to raise objections to two, if
not three, of them on the ground that
"new blood is needed in the courts,"
and it would be easy, as a consequence
of factional politics, to start up a for
midable opposition to any of the
Judges. The 'nonpartisan'judicial bal
lot opens the way, too, for a scramble
when new candidates make their ap
pearance. On several occasions since
it was authorized by a law which was
conceived in a beneficent purpose, but
which has fallen far short' of It, can
didates for the Supreme Court, as well
as various Common Pleas Courts, have
had to spend their money liberally, to
take a hand iu the electioneering and
to compromise themselves much more
than they ever did when they were
nominated by party conventions.
During the past forty years nearly all
our Common Pleas and Orphans'
Court Judges who behaved themselves
have been re-elected, with only three
or four exceptions. There is no other
great city in the United States that
has a record like Philadelphia's in the
prolonged retention of men on the
bench who have given steady satisfac
tion from year to year, and who have
been elected fOF a second or even a
third ten-year term on the principle
that one good term deserves another."
HAKRISBURG S&jfc&i TELEGRAPH
JOIN IN "POTATO"
NINE Governors have added their
influence to the promotion of
Ernest Thompson Seton's Wood
craft Potato Clubs and have agreed
to help or have named State officers
or commissions to enlist the aid of
boys and girls and adults who cannot
do other war service.
Postmaster Thomas Patten, of New
York City, has given the Woodcraft
Potato Clubs the use of his estate at
Seabright, N. J., for potato planting
and Mrs. Henry Seligman, of New
York, who has an adjacent estate at
Seabright, has offered to finance the
planting and care of the gardens by
the Monmouth County Woodcraft Po
tato Club.
Ex-Governor Slaton, of Georgia, has
joined the Woodcraft Potato Club and
has planted a large part of his estate
in potatoes.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railways
Agricultural and Immigration Depart
ment has joined on the movement and
has called for 500 pieces of literature
concerning the formation of potato
clubs for distribution to agents along
the line who will be asked for form
clubs.
(Jovernor Whitman writes that he is
"heartily in accord with the activities
of the Woodcraft League of America
in promoting the cultivation of po
tatoes in places which have not here
tofore been under cultivation," and
has asked the Commission of Agricul
ture to co-operate.
Governor Walter E. Edge, of New
Jersey, says: "I can assure you that
the departments of the State of New
Jersey will be only too glad of an op
portunity to call in the assistance of
the Woodcraft League of America in
The Eagle's Song
This poem, by Richard Mansfield,
singing of the reconciliation of North
and South under the Stars and
Stripes, was written before the war
with Spain, but ls s even more appro
priate to-day than it was then.
The lioness whelped, and the sturdy
cub.
Was seized by an eagle and carried
up,
And homed for a while in an eagle's
nest;
And slept for a while on an eagle's
breast;
And the eagle taught it the eagle's
song;
"To be stanch, and valiant, and free
and strong!"
The lion whelp sprang from the eyrie
nest,
From the lofty crag where the queen
birds rest;
He fought the King on the spreading
plain,
And drove him back o'er the foaming
main. *
He held the land as a thrifty chief.
And reared his cattle, and reaped his
sheaf,
Nor sought the help of a foreign land
Yet welcomed all to his own free land!
Two were the sons that the country
' bore,
To the Northern lakes and the South
ern shore;
And chivalry dwelt with the Southerh
son,
And industry lived with the Northern
one.
Tears for the time when ttyey broke
and fought!
Tears was the price of the union
wrought!
And the land was red in a sea of
blood,
Where brother for brother had swell
ed the flood!
And now that the two are one again.
Behold on their shield the word "Re
frain!"
And the lion cubs twain sing the
eagle's song:
"To be stanch, and valiant, and free
and strong!"
For the eagle's beak, and the lion's
paw,
And the lion's fangs, and the eagle's
claw,
And the eagle's swoop, and the lion's
might,
And the lion's leap, and the eagle's
sight,
Shall guard the flag with the- word
"Refrain!"
Now that the two are one again!
Cumulative Evidence
Headlines in an exchange tell of
aliens in this country rushing in large
numbers to secure "civilization" pa
pers. To be sure, the rush for the
papers shows the aliens to have been
civilized before, but the papers will
add to their satisfaction in it. —Pitta-
burgh Post.
the task of interesting the young peo
ple in the planting and cultivation of
potatoes." The Department of Pub
lic Instruction is asked to co-operate.
Governor Sleeper, of Michigan, ex
presses interest in the movement and
says that his "War Preparedness
Board" has been asked to act.
Governor John J. Cornwell, of West
Virginia, names Hon. C. R. Titlow,
Director of Agriculture Extension,
Morgantown, West Virginia, the State
official who will co-operate.
Governor Blcket, of North Caro
lina, heartily approves "of the efforts
of your league to Induce the* young
people-in the country to cultivate po
tatoes" and accepts place on the hon
orary council.
Governor Earnest C. Harrington, of
Maryland, says that "plans are on
foot in that State to cultivate every
available acre of land and that the
Agricultural Department will co
operate with the Woodcraft League.
Governor M. H. Holcomb, of Con
necticut, is "in hearty accord with
your plan for increasing the produc
tion of potatoes," accepts place on
honorary council and names a repre
sentative who will aid in promotion.
Governar J. G. Turner, Jr., of Dela
ware writes: "I think you are taking
the right step when you are providing
applicants with seed potatoes for
planting. You have my approval and
the privilege of using my name on the
council."
Governor W. L. Harding, of lowa,
advises that Dr. R. A. Pearson, presi
dent of the lowa State College at
Ames, lowa, "will be pleased to co
operate with you in the potato cause.
You also have my assurance of such
assistance that I can render in the
matter."
Germans, Awake
Awake, OGermans! Hark! The bell
Intones for you the warning knell
Of kings and potentates who claim
To rule on earth in heaven's name.
Thy duty, plainly written, lies
Across the clearing Russian skies.
To break the bonds that hold you fast,
And see the despot's day is past.
Where budding springtime now should
dwell.
Your tyrant sows the hate of hell.
Intrenched in long and deadly rows
Are men who should be friends, not
foes.
Why should you fight? *Why should
you die?
Why heed commands, however high?
Why longer aid a blood-red scheme
To bring to pass your mad king's
dream?
The right to govern is divine,
But does not dwell In royal line;
The people only, in God's sight,
Can truly claim that sovereign right.
Awake, then, Germans! You alone
Can wrest from vicious hands your
'own;
And when to earth the crown you've
hurled,
You'll join the freemen of the world.
—Howard Markle Hoke. ,
War Book For Schools
-t Kansas City Star]
Why should not the Federal Gov
ernment issue a pamphlet for use In
all the public schools of the country,
giving an account of the causes of the
war, of the issues involved and the
reasons for the participation of the
United States?
It is Important that the boys and
girls who are to constitute the next
generation have a correct understand
ing of this tremendous episode In his
tory, that they do not develop rancor,
prejudice and one-sided views, and
that they see the conflict not as a fight
to show we "ca'n lick" somebody, but
as part of the world-wide democratic
movement which will free the Ger
man people as well as the rest of the
world from the domination of a
wrong set of ideas —ideas that are
hostile to the real interests of civiliza
tion.
A primer-like book prepared with
these ends in view would be of Im
mense service to teachers in present
ing the subject of the war judicially
and correctly.
The usefulness of such a publica
tion would depend entirely, of course,
on the manner In which It was pre
pared. It ought to be written by a
man of the highest standing, of known
sincerity of purpose, and with the
ability to write clearly and Interest
ingly.
This newspaper knows no/ one so
well fitted for this task as ex-Presi
dent Eliot, of Harvard University. It
believes there could be no finer na
tional Investment than put a pamph
let on "America in the War" by Presi
dent Eliot in the hands of every
school teacher In the United States,
and in the hands of as many pupils as
might desire it enough to pay a nom
inal price to possess It.
APRIL 20, 1917.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
"Germany is fighting for the free
dom of the world!" says the Cologne
Volks Zeltung, whose editor is hereby
nominated for the presidency of the
International Humorists' Association.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There's this advantage about food
preparedness; it will not come amiss,
no matter what the war situation may
be. —Marion Star.
About the time one has become im
pressed with the paper shortage ana
begins to fear the worst along comes
a copy of The Congressional Record
as a reminder of the great, if not sin
ful, waste. —Toledo Blade.
If Germany wishes to array any
more enemies against her, she soon
will be forced to send Zeppelins to
raid the folks on Mars.—Kansas City
Star.
If spring would only get fully
sprung!— Boston Advertiser.
Japan, too, has decided to recognize
the new Russian government. Already
the old one is unrecognizable.—Bos
ton Globe.
Labor Notes
i Plumbers are among the highest
paid of workmen, the average wage
throughout the country for a day of
eight hours being more than N t5J
Notice issued by the British mili
tary authorities calling certain col
liery workmen in the South Wales
coal field to the colors have been
canceled.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia
passed the second reading of a meas
ure to grant the suffrage to women
and to allow them to practice law.
In several instances where British
munition factories have been built in
solitary waste a complete village has
been built for the women, with
school, church and institute.
Wages in miners in Nova Scotia
have increased by approximately 2o
per cent, since November 1, 1916.
War bonuses have also been granted.
Women police for South Africa
are recommended by an authority on
law and order "to meet social prob
lems of present day," as brought
about by the war.
As a result of the special one-cent
assessment to organize women, ap
proximately 20,000 women workers
have joined the trade union move
ments within a year.
Hamilton (Canada) Labor Council
Indorsed the resolution of the Guelph
Trades Council, asking the Dominion
government to remove the 'embargo
on oleomargarine and to admit it
duty free.
Missouri's Labor Commissioner has
Issued a statement in support of a
bill Intended to compel employers
to pay the wages of employes when
discharged.
England is caring for its women
munition workers in a very practical
way. In most factories canteens sup
ply hit meals day and night, rest and
ambulance rooms have been set up,
and women doctors and nurses are in
constant attendance.
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Harrisburg seems to bo getting
ready for to-morrow's biff patriotic
demonstration as far as flags go and
if the purchases being made and the
flags now being shown ure anything
to go by there will be a display of the
Star Spangled Banner to-morrow
which will be worth while traveling to
the State s Capital to see. The beauty
of ft is that the placing of the nation
al colors on the outer walls is not con
fined to any particular section or
c\ en the line of march of the parade
to-morrow, but it is general all over
the city. Flags are flying from small
homes in the side streets and no mat
ter how narrow the thoroughfare
lag to a block at the very
least. In residential and business sec>
uons there are very handsome flags
n?™" w 'J ts to be noted that fam
ilies of foreign origin, including many
whose heads are not naturalized are
showing the American flag and often
times displaying the colors of their
T? , I , and - This is especially true of
the Italian families. The colors of the
United States and the Italian king
dom are to be seen in quite a few
windows. Every mill or factory of
any size is flying the flag. In some of
the plants every separate building has
a J? a £ and there is a rivalry to see
which one has the best and the larg
est. A trip up through the Pennsyl
vania railroad yards shows the flag
flying from every building from the
lower end of the city to Linglestown
road and Enola and Rutherford have
flags galore. The showing of the colors
is far mors general than during the
Spanish war.
• • *
Old residents are recalling that it
was this week flfty-six years ago that
the Hrst Defenders came to this city
on their way to Washington. The
Lewistown, Heading, Pottsville and
other compunles of militia left their
homes on April 18 and reached here
within a few hours. Most of them
spent the riight of their arrival here
on the floors of the State Capitol and
were hurried off to Washington next
morning with many line lunches given
to them by the Harrisburg people.
• *
A visitor from another planet drop
ping into Harrisburg first glance
sec little to indicate that the
United States is really at war. Ap
parently it is the same carefree crowd
that usually throngs the streets but
every now and then something hap
pens that shows how alert is the un
dercurrent of feeling. When the
whistles of the nearby industrial plants
were blowing to denote the raising of
flags excitement was everywhere evi
dent. Men and women came rushing
from stores and offices to discover the
cause of the noise. Everywhere men
were asking: What is it for? What
does it mean? Especially is the public
Interested in the Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending Works. When the alarm
for box 51 struck recently, one anxious
citizen reports that he was unable to
get a line not busy to the plant for
several minutes. When he finally got
in touch with a clerk and inquired if
the plant was on fire, the clerk re
plied that he had been so busy answer
ing the same question since the alarm
struck that he had not, as yet, had
time to look outside to see where the
fire was.
• •
The coming of war has not only
brought out many reminiscences of
stirring times in the days of other
national struggles, but has revived
interest in many places intimatejv
associated with military affairs. Mailt'
of these spots are well known but
there are many which have played
quite a part in local history and State
history, for that matter, which are
not known of. It would be interest
ing to get the locations of the various
armories or drilling places in Harris
burg in years gone by, especially at
the time of outbreak of war. For
last forty years or so the City GrrJ**
Armory, at Second and Forstto
streets, has been a militarv center.
Years before that the hall which oc
cupied the site of the present HAR
RISBURG TELEGRAPH • building
was the military place and at one
tinje or another the building which
stood on the rear of the property now
filled by the Harrisburg Public Li
brary was a military headquarters.
There must hava been other places.
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The gardening work being done
about the city rather indicates
that the fine beds of flowers which
have been so much admired In many
parts of Harrisburg will give way
to the lowly but vital potato plant
this summer and that there will be
corn stalks instead of golden glow
and tomatoes instead of zinnias and
ladyslippers. The seedsmen say that
they have been asked for more vari
eties of vegetables than they knew ex
isted and that the number of folkswho
have been after cabbage stalks has
been remarkable. The cabbage sets
could be sold over a dozen or more
times.
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The fine weather has brought out
the first flowers of the Capitol Park
display and very appropriately they
are, red, white and blue. The bright
red of the tulips along the fronj. of the
plaza is Offset, by the blue and white
hyacinths in the beds near the Hart
ranft statue. There will be thousands
of plants in bloom in Capitol park in
the next few weeks.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ""
—J. M. Fraizer, prominent Phila
delphia hotelman, is urging the big
hotels to cut down the number of
soups and other dishes served.
—F. H. Barker, one of the Cambria
members of the Public Defense Com
mittee, is a former judge.
—Col. O. C. .Bosbyshell, Philadel
phia, veteran, was a speaker at tha
celebration of the Pottsville First De
fenders.
—Col. E. M. Gross, Greensburg
school official, has turned over a whole
farm to children for gardens.
—Judge Aaron Swartz, of Mont
gomery, will be given a dinner In
honor of thirty years on the bench.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg engines are
in use 1 in Uncle Sam's navy yards.
* HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city was a distributing depot
of quartermasters' supplies during '
most of the Civil War.
A Vanishing Trick
Two local friends of a noted ma
gician were the guests at dinner.
"You do some wonderful things on
the stage," one of his friends ob
served; "but I am inclined to think
you are handicapped when you ara
awav from your apparatus."
"To an extent, ys," the magician
admitted; "but there are many things
I can do anywhere on a moment's
notice."
"Let me see you do something
now."
"All right. Take, for instance, this
the Brussels sprouts and the
salad —"
"In a very few minutes we will
I cause all of them to Entirely disap
pear."—Youngstown Telegram