10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 'K.J. STACK POLE, Pres't &• Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Uanagins Editor. i Member American Ushers' Assocla rtureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office! Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., ab second class matter. _ By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY ! THE CAI'ITOI, PARK HILLS GREAT credit is due all those concerned in the working "out of a proper treatment of the Capitol Park zone. Prominent members of the Senate and House in charge of the several measures which have been introduced to authorize the change in the regrad ing and planting of the park are co-operating with the State officials who have presented a plan so gener ally acceptable that there has been no criticism of it in any essential particular. Harrisburg as always is co-oper ating in the making of a proper en vironment for the splendid building on Capitol Hill and there will be en tire harmony in whatever is done hereafter to complete the compre hensive scheme of treatment sub mitted by Arnold W. Brunner and Warren H. Manning, the noted land scape designers and planners en-I gaged by the State. The bills which have been Intro- j duced into the Senate and House are I understood to embrace the best thought of the leaders of both ' branches of the Legislature and arc | in consonance with the general recommendations submitted by the | Board of Public Grounds and Build- | ings. The extent of the farm movement in Harrisburg and vicinity and throughout Central Pennsylvania is surprising many persons not familiar with what has been going on during the last few weeks. Great areas of unused land are being cultivated and the yield of vegetables is likely to be much larger than originally antici pated by those who have been most active in this campaign. Governor Brumbaugh has consistently urged activity in this direction and his sev eral proclamations respecting plant ing and seeding have had a whole some effect upon those who had not previously given serious consideration to the subject. ROOSEVELT IN FRANCE COLONEL ROOSEVELT yet will lead American army into i France. Ifp has the people j back of him without regard to party and all the machinations of politi cians and the army clique at Wash ington will not avail to keep him from going to the help o the Allies with a lighting force of Americans who believe in him and are willing to light under his leadership. It is significant tnat he and those associated with him already have re cruited for the Roosevelt division 180,000 men and that these are ready to go at once across the seas. There should he no politics in this war .and great care will have to be exercised at Washington that the confidence of the people In the good faith of the administration is riot shattered by moves which suggest political motives. Colonel Roosevelt has demonstrat ed the highest type af patriotism in his offer to raise an army and go as a subordinate commander, and why his tender should not be seized j by the government is inconceivable to the average American citizen. Thousands of those who have not always agreed with the Colonel in his political policies are now with him and are ready to fight with him for the great principles underlying this titanic controversy. It is said that several thousand surgeons and medical men havtf. proffered their' services through the Roosevelt re cruiting headquarters add that scores and thousands of men who are outside the provisions of the con scription act are anxious to don the uniform of Uncle Sam and fight with "Teddy" against the Imperial ism of Germany and the world. Two Important labor bodies are in session in Harrisburg this week and more and more this city is becoming the mecca of those who represent not only labor, but every other Interest of the State. When the Penn-Harris Hotel shall have been erected the city will be better able to entertain Its frequent groups of visitors and to ex tend a more hospitable hand to all who come this way. CORNERING POTATOES " POTATO speculators are busy In Central Pennsylvania and throughout the State. The TELEGRAPH has printed several stories of their activities and now comes a report from Berks county that these Philadelphia speculators are offering to buy the entire 1917 potato crop in advance, offering $1.60 a bushel, payable on delivery. For tunately the farmers are not being caught; few are entering into con tact It is generally believed that WEDNESDAY EVENING, these men are attempting to corner the potato market so as to Impose additional burdens upon the people next Fall. There is nothing that the Com mittee on Safety appointed by Gov ernor Brumbaugh can do which will more effectually protect the pool people than the adoption of some means by which thts sort of out rageous speculation in food products may be checked. It is bad enough, in all conscience, that the people must pay unreasonable prices for the things they cat, owing to war conditions, but it will be infinitely worse should they be made the vic tims of conscienceless individuals and associations through arbitrary price fixing and the cornering of the supply. State Treasurer Kephart was the recipient of a distinguished tribute in the dinner tendered him at the Har | risburg Club last night by the mem- j j hers of the State Senate. "Keppy," as all his friends are pleased to call the .good-natured and stalwart ex-clerk ! of the Senate, has come up from the J ranks, a self-made man. and it is said | the secret of his success has been his readiness to learn front those who have passed along the highway of life before him. Generous to a fault, he has surrounded himself with many warm friends who are not confined to any party or faction. OUR TREES Governor brumbaugh has urged stronglj* the planting of native Pennsylvania trees in | the transformed Capitol Park and l this plan has been widely approved, especially his suggestion that mu nicipalities and boroughs through out the State each be requested to supply a tree to be named in honor of the donor. It is proposed through this plan to have York day, Lan caster day, and days for all the other towns nnd cities participating in this important tree planting program. All will thus feel that they have a part in the permanent treatment of the Capitol Park zone. There are still many great trees in Pennsylvania, but most of the monarchs of the forest have fallen in the great timber operations of other years. It is said, however, that there are still in the Cook tract along the banks of the Clarion river white-pine trees towering 250 feet in height and more than 150 feet from the ground to the first limb. There are also trees on this tract said to have been standing when Columbus discovered America. I Whether the Stale will ever take j title to this property remains to be j seen, but for years efforts have been ' made to have it turned into a great! national park, as attractive as the j Yellowstone Park or the Redwood ' trees of California. The Cook forest comprises the breeding- place of much of the wild life that inhabits Pennsylvania mountains and it is said birds and animals are seen there never obs served elsewhere in the State. Bringing German prisoners to the United States may result in some of them getting just where a large num ber of them have been longing to be ever since the war started. PATRIOTIC UPPFII END THE people of the upper end of Dauphin county are responding nobly to the call -of the Red Cross. Halifax, Millersburg, Lykens, Wllliamstown, Wiconisco and Eliza bethville together have enrolled more than 1,000 members and in a few weeks those in charge of the auxil iaries promise to have at least 500 more. This is good work. The peo ple north of the mountains never let Harrisburg and the towns to the south excel them in any effort for the public welfare. The spirit of wholesome rivalry existing there is well illustrated by the fact that Wll liamstown, in an effort to surpass its neighbors, last night rolled up a membership of 154, breaking all rec ords for suburban towns. Perry county is doing almost as well. Duncannon to-day reporting more than 100 Red Cross members. Unless Harrisburg responds more generously the suburbs may show a larger enrollment in proportion to the population than the city Itself. Secretary of War Daniels thinks maybe the submarine menace ha* been solved, but the proof of the pudding will be the sinking. LOYAL MINERS THE men of the Short Mountain colliery of the Susquehanna Coal Company are to be com mended. Yesterday they sent to the superintendent of the mine the pledge of their union to use its best efforts to procure a maximum of produc tion during the war to meet the threatened shortage. Workmen and employers alike might take a lesson from this. Production of manufac tures as well as of fuel must be kept up. Capital and labor will per form a patriotic duty by following the example of these upper-end min ers. Buying a war bond on the Instal ment plan is only another way of lay ing something aside for a rainy day. ABLE AND WILLING REPRESENTATIVE JULIUS KAHN, of California, handling the President's conscription legislation in the House, offered an unusual spectacle. Mr. Kahn is a Republican, stajanch and unconditional; yet the crucial measure of the war was piloted through Its course by his capable hands after the Democratic chair man of the committee on military aflalrs had flunked his duty to his own iPresldent and to his country. The incident will not be forgotten and It will serve a good purpose in the next Congressional campaign, when the record of the two parties, Individually and collectively, is under consideration. In the meantime, there will be, we are confident, many more proofs OL the unstable raliajice which ma.v be placed upon the Democratic party and its Congressional leaders in time of real stress. This war will go on, the legislation to provide for it will be drawn, and the largest sup port which it will receive will come from Republican ranks. The country will not be unmindful of this when the day comes to take a reckoning and to render unto men and parties their political recom pense. All Good Scouts will help the Boy Scouts. tn. By the Ex-Committeeman Members of the Legislature who have evidently been hearing from home were to-day demanding that some action be taken within the next week to inform the State when the Legislature would close its ses sions. The suggestion of June 14 and the agreement of the House leaders to recommend a date on Monday night were th; big topics of discussion in newspapers through out the State as well as In Legislative halls to-day and the general senti ment appears to be for an adjoiyn ment and not a recess. Senatorial leaders to-day intimated that they would join in the selection of a June date and there were signs that every legislator was going to get things into shape for the home stretch. The Legislative records are being scanned because it is recog nized that there may be some fights in various counties based upon what has been done or left undone here the last three or four months. Chairman of committees of both branches of the Legislature • were hustling to-day to get reports on all bills in their hands and there will be plenty of action by committees in the next ten days. —Friends of Colonel Harry C. Trexler, of Allentown, quartermaster general of the National Guard, have revived the boom for him for Gov ernor, holding that the Republican nominee should not only be a busi nessman, but a man from the coun try. The colonel is said to be not adverse to running. ■ —People throughout the State are showing a big interest in the Capitol salary changing bills which are pending in the Legislature and some of the newspapers suggest that the pay be equalized by eliminating some jobs. Senatorial leaders are said to have this in mind. —lt commences to look as though the State Treasury organization would be retained for the present by State Treasurer Kepliart and that Auditor General Snyder would be rather conservative about his appoint ments. The men in service will be kept going until a general program of changes is (fetermined upon as the new Auditor General is not disposed to have efficiency interfered with for a minute, but speeded up instead. He has been looking into the way things have been conducted wtlli a view to making haste slowly and records of the last two years are being studied. —Representative "Jim" Boyd, of Norristown. is developing into a humorist. Yesterday after Represen tative lsadore Stern, of Philadelphia, was expatiating at length on the value of liquor licenses, he said "A liquor license is the most valuable license there is." Mr. Boyd, who Is built on athletic lines, rose and ask ed solemnly "How about a marriage license?" x —Representative T. J. Graeff, of Tamaqua, enlightened the House yesterday on bills and salaries. He declared that a bill to raise salaries of judges was "an adjuster, not a salary raiser, because it makes the salary what it should be." In another instance he told a Westmoreland questioner that there was not one man who was on the Schuylkill bench who could not earn more than the salary fixed in the bill. -—The nominations of Major John C. Groome, of Philadelphia, to be superintendent of the State Police, and Edward Bailey, of this city.to be forestry commissioner, were not political in the opinion of Senators, because they were confirmed the night they were sent to the Senate. —Representative D. C. Rudisill, of Adams, is crusading for payment to townships of the "dirt road" allow ance. He says the State owes the townships $3,000,000 and that it dates back for years. Back to the Soil The young k-nut, unfit for general service, volunteered for work on the land. He went down to his father's "place" and began "farming." A friend passing that way spied him ir leggins and Norfolk jacket strid ing across a wide stretch of moor land. He hailed him. "Hallo, Smutty!" he cried as he came up. "What are you doing in this forsaken land?" "Farming. I've gone back to the land." "Any good at it?" grinned the friend. "I should think so! See this piece of moorland? Before I came it was going to waste- —no use at all; but with a lot of work I've turned it into a rippin' golf links."—New York Globe. Flashes of Genius Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.— Roche foucauld. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treason, stratagem and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.—Car lyle. To give alms is little unless you give thought and heart also.—J. M. Jamison. The only reform that really re forms is the reform that comes from the heart of the individual. Not all the king's laws nor all the king's statutes can reform ati evil com munity.—Duke de Boulogne. As we love happiness and liberty wo should not attempt to curtail or circumscribe the liberty or happi ness of others. —Thomas Paynton Cooper. Conviviality and the merry inter course of men are among the Im portant relaxations of life whereby many evils and grievances are elther 1 forgotten or forgiven. When the means Is denied an important fea ture of sociability has gone which nothing else can replace.—E. A. V. Maltby. Charles M. Schwab says:— Recently we have- heard much about Investments. To my mind, the best Investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work—Just plain, hard work. After a man's position is assured, he can Indulge in pleasure If he wishes. He will have lost nothing by waiting— nd KAlnd muo' HAKRISBCRG TELEGRAPH I OH, MAN! .. ... By BRIGGS I I- , } L^—-- -7 I :R.S? @SFF -.J., 1" 'IS - |-T TRVIMG * -POSE ' 5 TOUTS TO T * ,ES O^E.' , UK'E LEAV/C-S STUDIO "AT CASE" LOOK * HF OF W AISIXATIOM "PLEASANIT AKID A MOWIE ACTOR" SMIUT KITI "' WELL! " TNEV'W MOT '"JOA.T-LU W W.FE. CLF R-C $O BA-D! TRETTY ° TICWUEC TO. rROOFiS GOOT3 V>HOTOGRA'PHER PEATH" imifeiLM Hungary Now Bankrupt [From the New York Times] Dr. Ede Palyl, in a recent article in the Az Est of Budapest, entitled "Hopeless," makes some startling revelations in regard to the state fi nances of Hungary. Doctor Palyi is not only a prominent Magyar politi cal economist, but he is an ardent supporter of close economic relations with Germany. He leads up to the statement that Hungary is insolvent by pointing out that, while the productions of Hun gary realized in the year before the war 950 million dollars, the war had cost the state up to March 1 5 bil lions, and that an equal amount would be necessary to liquidate na tional expenses at the close of the war —if the end came soon. Hence, while the whole national production has never exceeded 950 millions, the government will be cajled upon to pay In interest alone 600 millions. This is, he says, why the Magyars re fused to entertain the last war loan, the true figures of which have never been published. He predicts "a re vealed catastrophe" with tho floating of the new war loan. "If the wage earners," he declares, "were to pay 50 per cent. Income tax and the farmer 50 per cent, of their produce in taxes, and the Industrial products were requisitioned entirely, even then the needs of the state would not be covered. And if the state were to seize the entire agri cultural products of the country aft er the war from the producer, 18 million dollars would still be wanting to cover the interest the state has to pay on the war loans." A Flying Start As the result of lectures adminis tered to him by both his father and the young woman of his choice, a certain young man decided to turn over a new leaf and show some in terest in business. "Well, Molly," said he to the girl one evening, "I am really going into business in earnest. Made a begin ning already to-day." "Good!" exclaimed Molly. "And what was the nature of your start?" "I ordered my tailor to make me a business suit." —Philadelphia Eedger. The Ony Way President H. H. Wright, of Fisk University, was complaining In Nash ville about the worship of wealth which characterizes the twentieth' century. "A young man," he said, "asked me the other day which was more essential, riches or brains. " 'Brains,' said I, 'of course, but In these times the only way a man can convince people he has got brains is to get-rlclies.' " —Washington Star. Little Boy in the Morning He will not come, and still I wait; He whistles at another gate Where angels listen, Ah, I know He will not come; yet if I go How shall I know he did not pass Barefooted In the flowery grass ? The moon leans on one silver horn Above the silhouettes of morn; And from their nest-sllls finches whistle. Or, stooping, pluck the downy thistle. How is the morn so gay and fair Without his whistling in the air? The world is calling; I must go. 'ow shaH I know lie did not pass Barefooted in the shining grass? —Francis Ledwldge. The German Noah's Ark Tle German Sheep The German sheep, dear children, grow To ordinary size; Their wool Is long and silky, though, And falls about their eyes; And thus they do not see so well — I'm also told they cannot smell. The German Goat The German goat, my little dears, That wild and skippish beast, Conducts the sheep from east to west. And then from west to east; And when the sheep sit down to rest He tells them of that awful pest. The Russian Roar The Russian bear, dear children, used To shamble round the fold, And ask for little lambs to eat. And scare their mothers cold; But now It Is the bear that gambols The German goat cpnducts tho sham bles.—Exchange- ( T" " I GROWING UNREST IN GERMANY \ i ) THE little that leaks out of Ger-1 many concerning the work of i amending the Imperial Consti- | ' tut ion is strongly suggestive of ex- Itieme discontent with the existing I political conditions. | Contented nations do not stop in 1 the middle of a bitterly contested .war to remedy flaws in their funda "n-.ental law. Questions of ratios of representation and of executive re sponsibility are not pressing at such times as long as all goes well with the armies. The position of a Chan cellor defies attack as long as the foe is on the run and the bulletins from the battlefields are uniformly glorious. It is only when the mili tary outlook is dark, the foe every where advancing, the rolls of death Browing longer, the list of victories shrinking to nothing, and the people at home feeling the pinch of hunger that the politicians begin crying for reforms in the executive offices. For two or three weeks there has been a concerted attack In the j Reichstag upon some of the Imperial I prerogatives. According to the cables this has settled down to an effort to modify the constitutional clauses giving' to the Kaiser unre stricted control of the army and navy. They form an entering wedge. No War Needs at Home t Philadelphia Bulletin] With seventeen separate requests ! from foreign powers for assistance i out of the national war chest, ag j BlegatingBlegating almost the entirety of th'e j $7,000,000,000 loan, Congress anil I the administration Tuesday con fronted the rival demand of our own army and navy in the shape of an appropriation bill totaling nearly $3,000,000,000, and which was said to be .only the beginning. Thus far provision has been made chiefly for the organization and equipment of the new army which is to be raised, and even then only for such part of It as is in more or less immediate prospect. The actuality of war has not yet been reached, j and the costs of preparation, or j evpn of the Initial stages of actual I operation, are not the full measure | of the ultimate expense of malntain ; lng the struggle and carrying It I through to victory. The new navy Is yet In the mak ing, but when it shall be in commis sion, and that must be as speedily as possible, there will be a largely Increased charge for Its mainte nance. i Clean-Up Week Every housekeeper knows the nec essity of periodical house-cleaning supplementing even the most care ful and painstaking daily routine of housework, and municipal adminis tration in this particular is only housekeeping in the broader degree. Clean-up Week, which now, for the fourth time, Is officially proclaimed, is simply an application of the com monplace practice of every house owner and housekeeper.' It is an effort in co-operative cleanliness; it serves the better health of the community by Its rid dance of the breeding places of dirt and disease; it contributes to the s.ghtliness of the city by its im provement of door yards and home surroundings; this year it Is pro posed that it shall aid in economic development by its preparation of vacant ground for purposes of culti vation. But the chief purpose and service of Clean-up Week are in its enlist ment of popular interest in munici prl housekeeping. There is more or less difficulty in prodding mu nicipal bureaus and contractors to a competent performance of their work in cleaning streets, but with patience and persistence that can be done, it Is far more difficult to reach the individual citizen effectively and to prod him to do his part in keep ing the streets—or even his own premises—clean, and the occasional appeal of this nature, even though it may seem to some to be more or less fantastic, is of practical value because it makes an unusual appeal to the great majority of citizens, and leaves a permanent Influence and inspiration with a great many. I —Philadelphia Bulleti}!. j I longer can the Kaiser appoint navy officers at his sole will. The appoint ments must be countersigned by the I Chancellor or by the Secretary of State for the Admiralty. Military j appointments must be countersigned i by the War Ministers, who are re | sponsible to the Reichstag, not to the I Emperor. | Together with the attacks upon | these autocratic features of tho Ger 7 | man constitution conies the endeavor to oust Chancellor von Bethmann- Hollweg from office. Again this is a thinly veiled attack on the Emperor himself. The Chancellor is his crea ture, appointed by him and respon | sible alone to him. The attack on the servant is in effect a revolt against the master, i The incidents are significant. They | indicate a degree of unrest in politi cal Germany that few supposed to | exist there. We may be sure that j exaggerated reports have not been j allowed to pass the censor. What we have read probably falls far short of the entire story. There is every reason to believe that discourage ment over the continued reverses suffered in the war has at last stirred the German people to protest, and even to organized opposition to the government responsible for them. —New York Sun. Mobilizing the Boys [New York World] The proposal to enroll the idle yout,h of the country and make an agricultural and industrial reserve of them is to be commended. It is estimated that thers are about 5,- 000,000 American boys between 16 and the age of enlistment, of whom 2,000,000 are without occupation. They are mostly sound physically and they are full of an energy which now in many cases finds an outlet In aimless play and sport but needs only to be organized and given di rection to become useful. This can readily be done and pre-' | sumably with their active co-opera tion. Certainly the remarkable growth of the Boy Scout movement has been a lesson in the adaptabil ity of American boys to organiza tion. Enrolling for digging and planting and helping In shipyards will of course not make the same appeal to the spirit of adventure and romance. But the American boy Is a; least a good deal of a patriot and zealous for "doing his bit" in some | form. He will be more willing to work if his playfellows are work ing. t Altogether, it should be profitable t" the country and profitable to its idle boys to mobilize them for war aid. In a few years more they will b< doing the nation's work and safe-guarding its welfare, and It will l>e beneficial to have the interval passed in an apprenticeship which will discipline them for their duties as men. • Speed the Day I would love to go a-fishin' If the wars would only cease; The only thing I'm wishin' Is a million years of peace! The one thing for which I'm sighln* Is a bank beside a stream And the white clouds sort of Iyln' 'Gainst the blue sky, like a dream. I'm a weary of the killin'. And the talk of men and guns; If 'twas my say I'd be wlllln' To let the world's little ones Have their daddies, to go strayin' Where the spring's first blossoms blow. And the Southern winds are playln' And the branches swing down low. I am weary of the reading Of the thousands torn and slain; Of men lying torn and bleeding, Of a world grown old in pain; I would march beneath Old Glory, For the freedom of the race; I would end war's dreadful story And put peace in warring's place. I can't get no fun from flshin", ■Whilst young men go down to die; And I'm wlshln'. wishin", wlshln' That the warring days were by; When the glad world lies a-dreamin' [ In sweet peace beneath the sun I will go where streams are gleamln' And where g.reon grass-billows run. —J. M. Lewis. In Houston Post. MAY 9, 191 Labor Notes Joplin (Mo.) Iron Molders' Union has secured an agreement with em ployers in the city and near-by local ities. These workers will be paid SI.OO per day for a nine-hour day. This means a total increase of 50 cents a day. The creation of a state constabu lary, as recommended by the Cali fornia State Council of Defense, will lie opposed by the California State Federation of Labor, representing all the organized wage-earners of Cali fornia. In one year Toronto metal polish ers have raised wages 22 per cent, and established a minimum rate of ■5 cents an hour; reduced the work day from 10 to 9 hours, secured the Saturday half holiday in a majority of the shops and made better work ing conditions possible. The executive council of the Cali fornia State Federation of Labor has decided to co-operate with the State Building Trades Council of California in invoking the initiative on the bill defeated in the Legisla ture to abolish privately-owned em ployment agencies. Lieutenant General Goener has proposed to the Governments of the Federates German States that rep resentatives of labor be appointed to various organizations to satisfy the people that foodstuffs available are actually distributed justly and In ac cord with the requirements of the working population. A Natural Ambition We should think the Kaiser would want to come over here and shoot us up, in the hope that in the gen eral melee he might happen to hit the man who told him that this country would not stand by Presi dent AVilson against the Imperial German government.—Ohio State Journal. OUR DAILY LAUGH LONG AND SHORT OF IT. "I wonder why it takes pay day ■o long to come around?" "It only seems long when you're short, and the shorter you are the longer it seems." IT DOES. "Three moves are as bad as a Are." "And one visit of the paper hang ers beats a cyclone." JUST REVERSED. Doctor: Did he take the medicine I prescribed for him religiously.? Nurse: No, sir, he swore ever? time. [EimtUtg Qttfat'j W|iii6 there have been many criticisms of the present Legislature because of its disinclination to en act many things which certain peo ple have desired, its general policy of doing little in the way of pushing the appropriation bills to the front and its refusal to adjourn early, the fact remains that it has performed considerable sen-ice in the way of ad \ancing codified law, remarked an at torney of wide experience about leg islative halls to-day. This man said that among the legal monuments in Pennsylvania, measures which had attracted national attention, were the school code, the soft coal and other codes, which date from the Tcner administration, and the bor ough code which was one of the enactments of Governor Brum baugh s first session. This Legislature O. pasßed un act providing that the State Legislative Reference Bu reau, one of the most useful branch es of the State government, in opin ion of the man who was talking, should continue its codification of laws. The general assembly has yiven approval to various acts to amend existing codes and Is just naw en gaged in a study of the great work pei formed by the State Commission 01 Laws Relating to Decedents' Es tates, which will bring within six or sc\on acts a multitude of !.ta;Mt3s SfOnio dating back into the early days of tiie republic. The game and li.-ih codes are now in the Sea-t.o and when enacted, ns they will be, men and women will be able to go hunt ing or lishing without a law book under one arm acid a blank bail bond under another. These two bills will be invaluable as many people have been arrested because of ''filiations 2' the law through sheer Ignorance. The township code, which would provide a system of government fur such municipalities similar to tli borough code, is in committee and there are under way codes to as semble the laws relative io pubi;c charges, agriculture, insurance and highwajs, while it is likely that in the nuxt few years codes governing -corporations and even State taxa tion may be enacted. • ♦ • One of Uncle Sam's cavalry horses had a lovely time in the Capitol park extension yesterday afternoon. Ho had gotten away from the Govern or's Troop stables and noticing tha grass in the plots in tho middle of State street proceeded to add to his morning meal. None of the men in charge appeared to notice that the horse had gotten away and the first thing a motorman was frantically clanging his bell for the horse to get off the track. The horse refused to budge and when the motorman got down and waved his arms the liorse snorted and proceeded to kick. Just then an automobile came alongside the plot and the owner tooted the horn. The horse fairly jumped away, but he soon came j back and grazed up and down the street, keeping carefully away from all moving vehicles. People connected with the ■Legisla ture get so accustomed to talking; in large figures, especially when dealing with appropriations that they do not seem to realize how it sounds. Last evening a couple of legislators were discussing: appropriation bills, which have been pouring <in with huge sums carried. "Why. the total asked is almost $135,000,000," said one man. "Yes, we've got to cut down about $50,000,000 and then we must allow the -highway about $18,000,000 and the schools the same. It's a great problem," observed the other. "Well, possibly the cut will only have to be $45,000,000," remarked the first man. "Maybe so," was the reply. "Say, I'll match you for cigars—ten centers this time." • * * Col. Samuel A. Kephart, brother of the new State Treasurer, was prevented from attending the inau guration of the now custodian of the State finances this week because of his recent assignment to command the United States troops on the Canal Zone. Colonel Kephart, who is a West Point graduate, is an officer of the coast artillery corps and is in command of the fortifications at the isthmus. • • • The display of the French colors about the city _ yesterday was tho most extensive 'ever known in Ilar risburg. Indeed, the State Capital has never gone in very much for the display of any flags except those of the nation. State and city. Once in a while the green Irish flag Is flown, or our Italian neighbors display their beautiful banner, but nothing like the showing of thp tricolor of the French republic lias ever been known. It is not so long ago that flags of other nations were objected to in Ilarrisburg, but now every one who can get a French flag is flying it and British flags, which, havo been a rarity hero since 1775, are also to be seen. The great war has upset a good many things about Ilarrisburg, but the change in senti ment about flags is most noticeable. * Under present city plans the area to be cultivated for vegetables on McCormick's island, tho city's big up-stream domain, will be materially increased. The last few years about a third has been cultivated, but prob ably over a half will be set out this year. More would have been devoted to gardening if it had not been reserved for the tree nursery in which the city park authorities have set out over 2,000 young trees with which to plan parks. "Do you realize that it Is near the middle of May and wo are wearing overcoats as a matter of course," said a traveling man yesterday. "I havo b£en down South and find the same conditions, a backward sea son." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. T. Stotesbury is once more head of tho Philadelphia Opera or ganization. —Ex-State Treasurer Robert K. Young has a dozen or more invita tions to make addresses on the In dians of the State whose history he has studied for years. —A. M. Iloagland, new mayor of Williamsport, is well known here as he has frequently appeared in cases at the' Capitol. Representative John S. Eby, of Newport, says ho is going out. to work on the roads on Good Roans day, if he is the only man to do it. —Senator David Martin and Sena tor John C. Homsher have a record. Each has presented one bill. DO YOU KNOW ■ i' —That Harrisburg has been mak ing special steel to bo used In gun sh-.elds? HISTORIC HARRISBCI^G John Harris commandeered wheat nnri other provisions grown here abouts for the when It was at Valley JTerg*
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