8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded /ijf (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. •E.J. STACK POLE, Pros' t & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American • Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit • Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City; Western office, Finley, Peopled Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, *5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 28. Death cannot come to him untimely who has learned to die.—Dean Milman. NEED OF TREE TRIMMER THAT Harrisburg needs a city for ester or official tree trimmer is pelf-evident. Mftny trees have been iillowed to grow wild and it is quite a common thing for pedestrians to have their hats knocked off by low hanging limbs and branches. If we are not to have a Shade Tree Commission, will not CityCoun eil at least see to it that the trees are properly trimmed? Steelton more than a year ago cre ated a Shade Tree Commission un der the act of Assembly providing for such a municipal body, but Har risburg, after fiddling with a make shift city forester arrangement, has übandoned its trees to their fate. An indictment of the present ad ministration would embrace a good many things beside the neglect of the trees, and would include the river front, the Donato statuary, the smoke and dust nuisance, the littering of the streets by sifting coal carts, indifference to bathing and boating facilities on the Susque hanna basin and failure to provide reasonable tree regulations. The Kahn of Kiva threatens to Usurp the place long held in the news dispatches by our friend the Akupd of Swat. \ AN OFFICIAL FAILURE ISN'T the Chamber of Commerce just a little bit Impatient with Commissioner Gross respecting the disposal of ashes and garbage? Has the Chamber no appreciation of the tremendous responsibilities resting upon this official? JSuppose he has been promising to make a survey and arrive at some definite con clusion regarding the matter, hasn't ho the right to think at length over these grave problems, and can he think without plenty of time for the thinking? It is preposterous that lie should be called to account simply because he promised two or, three months ago to do something and has not yet done it. This particular official is the Promi.ser-Extraordinary of the pres ent municipal administration. He liever fails to make a promise if a promise will defer real action. Then, too, the Chamber of Com merce must understand that this is fc campaign year and Commissioner Uross hasn't time to waste on ordi nary municipal duties. He must con duct a canvass for re-election and the shaking of hands and the patting on the back of the dear people nec essarily consumes a lot of time. The Chamber of Commerce, of course, realizes as the wide awake business organization of the com munity that the present ash and garbago contract expires within a few month® and it appreciates the Importance of arranging for muni cipal handling of the ashes and the other waste of the city, but Commis sioner Gross is going to have a sur vey of the whole thing, some time, dome day, when he finds time to get down to brass tacks. But the Chamber of Commerce should not shove. He doesn't like to be shoved. He believes that public office Is a private snap and when, it is dis agreeable to do something which is In the Interest of the people, but which is likely to estrange a voter here and there, he always decides in favor of the voter or voters whose wishes are contrary to the public welfare, but whose support he wants. Commissioner Gross Is the kind Of official who has thrown discredit Upon the commission form of gov ernment. Personally agreeable, with plenty of physical energy If rightly directed and a good vote-getter by reason of his personality, the present head of the Department of Parks la absolutely lacking In the qualifica tions which should commend such an official to the people. His pro crastination and indecision and lack of executive ability are the out standing defects of his publlo ser vice. Ash cana and garbage heaps all over Harrisburg are significant mon uments to the failure of at least one public official to do duty. Judge MeConnell, of the Westmore land county courts, baa Issued an order to the Sheriff to notify all farm ers drawn for Jury duty during the week of May 7 that they are excused. The Court alio served notice on coun sel that In cases -where It -was neces mar T to bring witnesses tnt eour* SATURDAY EVENING, who are engaged in farming tlio cases will be continued. Judge McConnell is doing a patriotic service In thus releasing for service on the farms those who are more needed there than they are in jury service. There are many forms of patriotism beside serv ing at the front. Colonel Roosevelt will yet lead a di vision with our allied forces in Eu rope. Senator Hale, in a speech in tlia United States Senate, declared that the appearance of the Colonel in France at the head of an American force, no matter how small, would prove an in spiration to all the nations striving for the salvation of civilization. It is believed the administration at Wash ington is beginning to realize that an expedition from this side of the ocean would be or great benefit in the su preme struggle that is now under way. THE PEOPLE AND VTIMTIKS NOTHING more patriotic has developed since the outbreak of the war and the participa tion of the United States in the in ternational struggle than the action of Pennsylvania Railroad officials. Promising its co-operation with the other railroad systems of the coun try, the facilities of the Pennsylvania lines have been pledged to the limit to the government in the conduct of the war. It Is Incidents of this kind which increase the confidence of the people in their great public utili ties. Another instance is a conspicuous advertisement which appears in the Kansas City Star this week. It reads as follows: The Kansas City Railways deep ly regret the serious and unfortu nate accident at Mt. Washington Tuesday forenoon, when seven persons were injured. Tills com fiany is striving to its utmost to mpress carefulness and safety upon each of its employes and asks the public, and particularly the drivers of automobiles, to ex ercise great care in passing in front of cars at street crossings and elsewhere. None of us can be too careful. Tills Is a further evidence of the j trend of sentiment regarding the operation of public utilities. The "public be d d" era has passed with all important corporations and there is now a distinct evidence everywhere of a disposition to meet the public halfway, and which should have been done long ago. Such an advertisement as that quot ed would have been an unheard of thing a few years ago. "Safety First" is the slogan that is calling public attention to greater care in every direction. But beyond and above all else is the attitude of these public service corporations toward those whom they serve. It is a favorable sign of the times and a promise of better things. Right here in Harrisburg there is now going on a survey of the street railway situation as a reponse to public sentiment on the question of traffic congestion, and it is the hope of all who feel the need of improved service here that this survey will develop such improvement as% will assure the public of a real desire on the part of the Harrisburg Rail ways Company to give efficient trans position facilities without unneces sary delay. LOYALTY AND PARTISANSHIP THE two terms are not inconsist ent. Yet there is a persistent attempt now being made and much is being said and printed in its course to set up the dictum that support of the President during the period of the war with Germany must be based upon an elimination of party affiliation. This argument is directed wholly to Republicans; and some members of that party— a few of them men who are recog nized leaders of the party—are yield ing to It. This Is an erroneous policy based upon an erroneous argument. One may be patriotic in the Republican ranks as well as out; and to sup port the President in the proper conduct of the war does not neces sarily imply a desertion of one's Re publican principles. 011 the con trary, the proper conduct of the war depends upon the application of Republican principles to the organ ization of our new armies, to the means of financing their operations, to the designs for expanding and conserving our supplies of food, to all the agencies which must bo de vised and operated to make our en trance into the war a real factor in producing that victory and that peace to which we are now pledged. Therefore, there should be no weak yielding of Republican prin ciples before the specious arguments of the Democratic leaders and press. There should be, rather, a stronger insistence upon the use of Repub lican methods of taxation to produce war revenues, upon the adoption of Republican ideas I'OT the creation of a fleet and an army, upon the ap plication of Republican theories in every channel of action where our forces are directed. History has proven the worth or these methods, these ideas, these theories; Just as history has shown that Democratic methods and practices are of ques tionable value. Republicans will do the country little service If they now surrender all for which the party has labored so many years in order to show that they support the President. Such a course would make them slaves rather than supporters. Let us be either Republicans or Democrats. We can bo patriots under either party designation. When public ofllclals understand and appreciate that their first duty is to the people there will be a higher type of public service. The average community is hard to arouse, but when it gets awake it moves with the force of an avalanche. Harrisburg is about due for another awakening. It Is the opinion of leading business men In the United States that the biggest boom in the history of the world Is now about to start in this country. It would appear under these conditions that any reduction of en i ergy In our customary activities would be unwise and without Justification. I It should be the effort of business men in the United States to keep things humming so that those who fight, as well as those who must continue to look after those who remain at home, may not be hampered in the slightest degree. Ex-Senator Tustin, of Philadelphia, has suggested that the school boys might take a prominent and useful part In the planting and cultivating of crops this season. This matter is likely also to recelve'the attention of the Committee of Public Safety through Its State and local organiza tions. There will be no room for idlers anywhere and the chap who loafs should be made to feel the con tempt of the community. As usual, this city has taken a prominent part in the preparedness program of the country. Standing at the very front of the recruiting rec ord. we also have, to our credit several of the best trained National Guard organizations in the United States, beside Red Cross and other associa tions which are doing intelligent ser vice in every possible direction. Governor Brumbaugh and Mrs. Brumbaugh have set a fine example of artistic window box treatment at the Executive Mansion. Just now the windows are decorated with boxes filled with luxuriant pansies that beckon and nod to all passersby. It Is a beautiful decoration of the official residence of the Governor. Four Garibaldi brothers, grandsons of the Italian patriot, have inter viewed the American Ambassador at Rome with a view to offering their services to the United States in the war with Germany. These are the evidences of widespread interest in America's participation in the world war. We wonder If the college boys are as much attracted to the farms by patriotism as they arc by the country girls? Speaker Clark's idea of supporting the President is to vote aaginst all his war bills. The "embattled farmers" no longer carry muskets; the hoe's the thing. T><>ezt£c* £. Bj tlic Kx-Committoeman j With the bill appropriating $2,- 000,0U0 for the State to expend in co-operation with the natioral gov ernment certain to pass and the atti tude of the Governor in regard to his appointments well established, the big thing of interest in State politics just now is how the liquor interests are going to meet the demand to make the State "dry" for the dura tion of the war. Governor Brum baugh in a telegram to the President and in letters and statements has come out flatfooted for making the nation "dry" for the war and it is assumed that he is as keen for mak ing the State "dry," too. The liquor interests are understood to have seen the trouble coming and to have hurried up their meeting of the law and order committee of the House for a cleanup of bills last Tuesday. They refused a hearing to Representative Lex N. Mitchell on his proposition to amend his bill so as to make the State "dry'i. for the war and sent out the original meas ure with a negative recommendation. The Jefferson coiyity member promptly came back with a bill to make the State "dry" while the war lasted and gave notice that he pro posed to demand action if the com mittee did not meet within ten days. He may also move to have the com mittee recommendation on his first bill overturned. The liquor people are inclined to "sit tight" and allow things to develop at Washington in the hope that it will not be necessary to force men to vote 011 the liquor proposition again this session. —Candidates for judge' through out the state are commencing to be heard of and their statement on the liquor question are the chief things in which people are taking an inter est. One of the most unique comes from a candidate in Monroe county who says that he is opposed to shut ting off all licenses because that is too much like local option. -—A number of petitions have been received in the House for the passage of a resolution petitioning Congress to make the country "dry" during the war and it. is understood that the matter will come to a head during the next week. One such resolution is in hand and another is said to be pend ing. —lt is" now stated that there are only five poin.ts of difference on the transit bills in Philadelphia and they will all be fought out here. Regard ing the proposed hearing the Phila delphia Bulletin asks why it can not be held in Philadelphia. —The Philadelphia Press and the Philadelphia Record are up on the watch tower to-day declaring that there shall be no "fat jobs" created out of the $2,000,000 defense fund. The Press says: "The expenditure of the $2,000,000 defense fund appro priated by the Legislature to prepare the defense of Pennsylvania and aid the National Government, will be so carefully guarded that only actual necessity will be considered as a rea son for expenditure. There will be no new-fangled plans, no large pay rolls or fat jobs and every Item will have to be so carefully worked out before approval that there will be 110 doubt left as to the wisdom of its ex penditure." —Representative James G. Dell, of Huntingdon county, the chairman of the Rural Members' league, makes some interesting statements regarding the league and himself and his colleagues in the Huntingdon Evening Journal. It appears that the Journal criticised him. This Is the way Dell came hack: "If to put up a tight against consuming all sum mer in discussing city factional tights is rebellion, I am proud of the name. When I went to a member of a third class city to solicit his support on a measure in favor of the rural dis trict, he said, "No country in mine." 1 made up my mind that they should fpel the strength of the "country" members and thev felt at once. In less than pne-half hour one of tlie Philadelphia members came to me and said. Now that you have organ ised a stand, we want to help you." I said, "Cut It out." —Governor Brumbaugh and his friends and Senator Penrose and his friends are meeting separately In Philadelphia to-day to plan further moves in this city and it is Intimated that things will go along about as they have for the next fortnight at least. By that time the joint appro priation committee will he through its hearings and bills will be ready to report out. —Auditor General-elect Snyder Is in Philadelphia and Inclined to be belligerent, a little more so than on, Monday. He says that he will not only run his department efficiently, but see how efficiently it has been run In the past. —The delay in Issuing the call for HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH - " > The Days of Real Spor By BRIGGS v_ The SPY '--- -- J W"w^% tho congressional election in the 2 Bth district is said to be due to the de sire of tho Govern.or to have it held after the stress of the legislative ses sion is ended. —Pittsburghers are having a lot of fun these days calling attention to the numerous Philadelphia rows which are precipitated into the Leg islature for settlement. In years gone by it was the general thing to have a month or two devoted to bills growing out of factional fights in Pittsburgh and the "ripper" bills are well recalled. Now Pittsburgh is a peaceful political meadow compared to the Quaker City. —According to a story which is going the rounds, one of the floor masters of the dominant faction in the Legislature is said to have de clared after the fourteenth mass at tack to carry through a Philadelphia bill had been shot to pieces that ho was not going to lead any more for lorn hopes and that he wanted to have enough battalions lined up be hind him to carry the bills through before he would give the signal to charge again. The language he is said to have used was that he was "tired of being a goat." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" Automobile Fuel To the Editor of the Telegraph: A former Harrlsburger now resid ing in Los Angeles, California, writes his brother under date of April 23, 1917. as follows: "This country alone has 65,000 automobiles and with our good roads and fine weather, it is a pleasure to be out. Our gasoline is 19 and 20 cents and many use -a mixture of distillate and gasoline, the former selling at 10 cents per gallon. Eighty per cent, of our jitney busses use it without any gasoline. On Ford cars on long runs, we usually use C.O per cent, distillate and 4 0 per cent, gaso line and get excellent results." HABRISBUBGER. Our Flag "And for your country, boy, and for that flag, never dream but of serving her as she bids you. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or abuses you, never look at another flag, nev er let a night pass but you pray Ood to bless that flag. Remember, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and govern ment, and people even, there is the country, herself, your country, and fhat you belong to her as you do be long to your own mother. Stand by her as you would stand by your own mother." —Edward Everett Hale. ED PAGE Russia—America A wind in the world! The dark de parts; The chains now rust that crushed men's flesh and bones,' Feet tread no moro the mildewed prisoni stones, And slavery is lifted from your hearts. A wind in the world! O Company Of darkened Russia, watching long in vain, Now shall you see the cloud of Rus sia's pain Go shrinking out across a summer sky. A wind in the worlAJ Our God shall be In all the future left no kingly doll. Decked out with dreadful sceptre, steel and stole. But walk the earth—a man lu char ity. A wjnd in the world! And doubts are blown To dust along, and the old stars come forth— Stars of a creed to Pilgrim Fathers wortJi_ A field of broken spears and flowers strown. A wind in the world! Now truancy From the true self Is ended; to her part Supremo again she moves—and from her heart A great America cries: Death to! Tyranny! A wind in the world! And we have come Together, sea by sea: in all the lands Vision doth move at last, and Free dom stands With brightened wings, and smiles and beckons home! —JOHN GALSWORTHY. The foregoing contribution belongs to the series of messages from British authors which, at the re quest of tho Provisional Commit tee of the Duma, have been cabled by the London Daily Chronicle to Russia for publication in the Rus sian Press. AN ENEMY GREATER By Allan Sutherland WE have the best of authority for the statement that "A man's foes shall be they of his own household." In our beloved land the whisky peril is a far more deadly one than can be thrust upon us by an armed enemy. It is a peril that finds its most fruitful breeding places In distilleries, cabarets and saloons, and its most pliant victims among our young people. It should be banished from our country. Especially at this time of national danger from with out we should strive to shield our selves from this grave danger within. It is absolutely true that the liquor traffic and success in war will not mix. If we hope to be a victorious nation we must be a sober nation; if our men are to conquer others, they must first conquer themselves. The man who is a slave to his ap petite is not a free man, and cannot successfully light tho battles of free dom for freedom. May we, as a na tion, be quick to learn this impres sive lesson! It has been well said that "a na tion or an individual discovers its greatest weakness when it needs its greatest strength." Because we have to-day an alcoholically temperate England, we have a far nobler Brit ish army; Russia, without its vodka, is reaching the height of its fighting powers; and France has long since discovered that absinthe and victory do not consort together. This war is revealing to Europe the necessity of temperance as noth ing has done heretofore: and Ameri ca may well prolit by the tragic les sons which have been taught. We should quickly realize 4hat whisky is our greatest foe—great because of its insidlousness; and great be cause of its treacherousness. We should rid ourselves as early as pos sible, of a menace so deadly, of a foe so Machiavellian! Dr. Homer W. Tope, the able su perintendent of the Philadelphia District of the Anti-Saloon League, Argentina's Awakening Saturday evening In Buenos Ayres a meeting for the purpose of urging war with Germany was attended by 4 0,000 persons. On Sunday a pro cession favorablo to the Allies, the United States and Brazil, in which 100,000 persons participated, march ed for hours, singing patriotic songs. Demonstrations like these show how the judgment of civilization is turning inexorably against the aims and methods of Prussian militarism. Tho Argentine Government at first, while not distinctly pro-German, was far from sympathetic with the Allies. Outwardly friendly to the United States, its attitude toward us has often been characterized by aloof ness or suspicion. The great change in popular sentiment has resulted in part from the Gorman atrocities, and in part from the ideals of lib erty and democracy and justice pro claimed by President Wilson when we entered the war. With the . greater part of North and South America united in con demnation of the autocracy which has tilled tho earth with bloodshed, outrage and misery, the league which presently will enforce peace upon a nation for fifty years instructed in aggression becomes stronger day by day. New York Times. Jefferson For Conscription [Prom the New York World] Thomas Jefferson was perhaps the earliest advocate of selective con scription. In a letter written Sep tember !. 1814, to John Wayles Eppes, Jefferson said: "I think tho truth must now be obvious that our people are too hap py at home to enter into the reg ular military service, and that we cannot be defended but by making every citizen a soldier, as the Greeks and Romans, who had no standing armies; and that in doing this all must bo marshalled, classed by their ages, and every service ascribed to its competent class." Some of the most vehement of the conscientious objectors to President Wilson's plan of selective conscrip tion boast of their democracy and on frequent occasions quote Thomas Jefferson. We commend te them thl£ utterance of the great apostle of democracy, In which, as In many of his writings, he anticipated the prob lems of posterity. eloquently says: "Slumbering Europe is at last aroused; and the war de clared by the great nations against drink will continue until we have a suloonless Europe! Liquor is already on the run in America; the battle- Held is nation-wide. An ex-Governor of Ohio says; 'America should keep her power and her preparedness dry.' We must be sober to win." A great metropolitan paper says, editorially: "This war is driving Europe to temperance: and it is doubtful if Europe, facing tremen dous problems that follow the war, will ever again permit alcohol to re sume its destructive rule. The United States, in preparing for war, in the very beginning might well prolit by Europe's experience. Let one of the very first measures of America's war preparations be a blow at alcohol; we cannot too soon rid ourselves of this fearful menace!" Powerful organizations are align ing themselves against the liquor traffic. Only recently, the giieat Penn sylvania State Sabbath School As sociation, composed of many of the most influential citizens of the State, took the following action: "Whereas, The United States has recognized a state of war existing between this country and Germany and is preparing to mobilize all our forces for the greatest efficiency; and, "Whereas, The nations of Europe now at war have declared that the deadliest enemy of efficiency is alco holic drink and have made prodig ious efforts to suppress this common enemy; and, "Whereas, This principle has been recognized in our navy by the exclu sion of all alcoholic beverages from our ships; therefore be it "Resolved, That we urgently re quest our government to put into actual practice in the army the same rules now in force in the navy, be lieving. us we do, that it will result in greater efficiency and be for the best interest of our soldiers and our , country." Mission of the Red Cross Wilkes-Barre is about to under take a campaign for the chapter of the Red Cross In that city and the Record says; "If the United States is to profit by the experience of other belliger ents it must take hold of the move ments they have found to be of the greatest advantage in prosecuting the war, and one of them is the Red Cross. The organization is not—as many suppose—interested chiefly in making bandages and supplying nurses for those who may be wound ed in battle. Its scope is so large that it embraces almost everything in the way of humanitarianism, and its appeal ought to be as great a stimulus to patriotism as the call to arms. "While the United States was a neutral the American lied Cross en gaged in philanthropic effort that will forever redound to the credit of ihe nation. With no thought of par tisanship, with no distinction as to race or nationality, it extended the helping hand to a host of suffer ers and through Its instrumentality scores of thousands of lives were saved and the distress of other scores of thousands was mitigated. When at the beginning of the war little Serbia \yas threatened with an ap palling epidemic of typhus fever and other deadly diseases, volunteers supported by the Ked Cross went into the midst of the peril and checked the ravages. What was done in Belgium, in Poland and in other stricken regions makes up an ag gregate of merciful ministration that cannot be estimated. Before the war, famine, pestilence and great disas ters were the objects of sympathetic attention. "Now that our own country is face to face with horrors the extent and duration of which no one can fore see, a limitless field of endeavor is opened up and the Ked Cross Intends going forth to Its mission in the spirit of real American enthusiasm. The form of service it will rentier appeals to every person, whatever his sympathies or affiliations may be. It reaches out Into the world of suf fering and lays upon it the soothing hand. It not only binds up the wounds of the flesh but extends its beneflcience to all manner of agon izing distress. It brings comfort and cheer to those who are called i uDon to make heavy sacrifices." APRIL 28, 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT Among- Americans now living who have devoted themselves to interna tional law and international relations Elihu Root is easily the most dis tinguished., He is eminent both as a publicist and a statesman. He has a working as well as a theoretical knowledge of American foreign pol icy. No man could be found more competent than he is to head the American mission to Russia. —New York Tribune. Governor Brumbaugh's call to school children to offer their serv ices for farm work is directed as well to the school authorities, who are urged to make arrangements that will facilitate the transfer and to impress upon the pupils that by helping in the raising of food they are engaging in a patriotic move ment. The proclamation is one of the most extraordinary ever signed by a Governor of this Coinmon weath, but the conditions that con front us demand extraordinary meas ures. "These boys and girls can turn the tide and feed the world," says the Governor. —Wilkes-Barre Rec ord. Speaker Clark is opposed to "fas tening tlie disgrace of a draft" upon the manhood of America by resort ing to conscription before making another trial of the volunteer sys tem. The Speaker has got the thing backward. The disgrace is fastened on Americans by the volunteer sys tem which permits the patriotic and the willing to perform the military duty of the hangers-back."—Kansas City Star. OUR DAILY LAUGH § NOTHING TO WORRY What's ths matter with My business has slumped. Bah! You look so gloomy. I thought, it might have been tho home teajn. HER TURN. \ / Are you going Mfe. '• Ami to the whist vWJKV/ club this after. (|jP noon ? 1 No; it's my turn to stay W away and bo & J&L /M talked about. y' Jitl : •/, MM tr o jb -j'f HIS HOI'E. How are you going to spend HMI the summer? nißiH! 1 hope I'll be '• \ able to spend -.f X 1 the rest of it as lwl\ I I spent the first P art kicking Ml II about cold MJUM waves. HIS IDEA. A" Why won't I jjksgl /\ you marry me? ''/PffiW// Because I / / don't love you. M Why need that matter? We'd simply have a j \ I flve-year start 1 'H 1 on, half the peo- U pie in our set. | SMrwf I l ' Stoning (Efyat A friend who keeps posted on mil itary matters and who read the comments in this column the other evening on places used as armories and drill halls In Harrisburg has sent some interesting memoranda regard ing the homes of tho organization which is considered to have bee> Harrisburg's official representativi in the War of the Rebellion. There were many volunteers from this civf and vicinity during that struggle andjf they were in many commands, but the company which went into ser vice as a body and perpetuated itp history was the First City Zouaves# which later became Company A, in 7 Pennsylvania volunteers, the regiment commanded by the late Col. W. W. Jennings. The Zouaves, says our friend, drilled first at the Capitol and then occupied armory quarters in the Exchange Building, which occupied a site near the cor. ner of Third and Walnut streets, where the Federal Building stands. This armory was used after the Zouaves went into the service by several emergency companies form ed hero and the same place yr** used for drilling purposes wljen tW Zouaves were reorganized as a bat talion in 18G9. This company gave an unusual number of officers anc was one of the best known in its di vision. From the Zouaves grew tht City Grays with their bearskin sha kos, gray coats and white trouseri that we used to trail around town when ihey turned out on Decoratloc Day. The Grays moved to the pres ent armory at Second and Forstel streets, in June, 1874, which was re built in 1884-5, and is now the home not only of Company D, but of Com pany I, the headquarters and supplj companies and of the headquarter) of the Eighth regiment. * * Safety material issued by the De partment of Labor and Industry it bulletins and posters have been at tracting attention '>£ great industrial corporations, commercial sign man ufacturers and safety organization! in nil sections of the United States One large safety sign manufactures corporation of Denver, Colorado, ha; distributed, all over the country extracts from the monthly bulletit of the Labor and Industry Depart ment of Pennsylvania, as argumenti i for safety in general and the sale oi the company's safety and American ization signs in particular. Severa. large corporations with plants it many States have written the de partment to learn if big supplies o! the safety material may be purchas ed from the Pennsylvania State gov ernment for use in plants of tht company located in States othei than Pennsylvania. Kecent issues o: the Outlook have contained editor ials commending this work of tin Labor and industry Department a: published in its monthly bulletin Other publications that have recent i ly contained extracts from tho De partment bulletin are Scientifii American, Iron Ase, Electrical Ke 1 view, New York Weekly Underwrit er, Manufacturers' News of Chicagc and large metropolitan dailies. Officials of school boards through, out the State are sending nuincroui letters to the State Board of Edu cation pledging support to the reconi mendation of the Board made las week that pupils should bo allowed to leave their studies as early ai possible this year to help in farm and garden work. Probably lift 3 boards have sent formal notices t< Dr. J. George Becht, the executive secretary, that the schools will dos within a few days aud the pupil! credited with certain work it the) make good records wtitle working it the fields. The general tenor of th< letters coming here is that in rura districts the term has been closed although in many instances it did not start at the usual time last fal because of the outbreak of infantili | paralysis in order that boys ma; work on the farm. Increases in rates announced bj water, electric and other companie) throughout the State appear to hav< stirred up an unusual number oi complaints to tho Public Servic< Commission. Generally, spring tim< rates cause more or less objection but this year the number of com plaints growing out of the increase! is greater than ever known at thii lime. The complaints are not con lined to any one section of the Slate, but are mainly against charges OI companies serving wide areas in stead of against those in cities. At immense amount, of money is involv ed in the rates complained of. Activity of John P. Dohoncy former newspaperman, and now in vestigator of accidents for the Pub lic Service Commission, bids fair t< cause the familiar red flag of tht crossing watchman to disappeai from the landscape. Mr. Dolionej has been working to get the rail roads of the State to unite on a form of signal to be used by watchmen and expects that the round red sign! which have been employed bj watchmen along the Pennsylvania and Northern Central railroads it Dauphin and adjoining counties, will be in general use. They resembU a red barrel top and can be seer even farther away than the red flag and infinitely better than tho dirtj white or stained green flags whict some railroads had been using foi crossing watchmen. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General W. G. Price, command er of tin First brigade, is a mem ber of the Coroner's jury on tlu Eddystone disaster. —David B. Oliver, president of tin Pittsburgh Hoard of Education, hai named a committee to arrange foi children from schools doing agri cultural work. —W. H. Sunshine, former courtly treasurer of Cambria, has beet elected a director of the Johnstown Chantber of Commerce. - President P. W. Hinnit, o! Washington and Jefferson Coilwar will give students, enlisting for ' full credit for studies. —Col. Fred Taylor Buaey, whl was quartermaster of the Pennsylva nia division at the border, was hen yesterday conferring with Stat< officials. 1 DO YOU KNOW 1 That Hnrrisburg Is regarded as a viUii point in tlic national transportation system? I HISTORIC HARRISBURG The old camelback bridge wai opened with purades of citizens fron Dauphin and Cumberland countiei who met at the island. Measure of Brains I From the New York Herald! This notice Is posted outside thi ministry of munitions in London. "If you are a nice girl you won* I wear high heeled shoes; rememba your brain is measured in invert* ■ rr"" JP <Ji size of oar boot heel-'
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