8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjr Published evenings azcept Sunday by THE TELEOHAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 'E.J. ST ACICPOLE, Pres'l & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. J Member American 1 Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Clrcu SUfl H SSft sylvan ia Asaocl -O<S! C sl Eastern office, i Ui <m Story, Brooks & pSSSfSS U Flnley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office! ..®£33Sj Finley, People's Cas Building, - —— Chicago, ill. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cent* a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 12 Character is impulse reined down into steady continuance. t- —C. H. Parkhurst. SCHOOL BOARD'S DECISION IF Harrisburg gets the best possible high school building program for the million and a quarter to be spent, It will be by no virtue of the school board. Regardless of the capabilities of the men who were chosen yesterday to design the build- the method of choice was such as to leave the question of ability and merit entirely in the back ground. When Messrs. Keen, Boyer, Bretz, 801 l and Werner voted to divide the work anions four architects they did so with no assurance that they were purchasing for the school district the best talent available for the work. •There was not the barest suggestion of competition. No plans were sub mitted. The directors were guided simply by their own desires and their will to do as they pleased because they had control of the board. It is to be hoped they sincerely believe they voted in accordance with the best interests of the school dis trict, but they give no concrete facts upon which to convince the public that they did. Instead of any well outlined build ing program the extreme likelihood is that the city will get a mere hodge podge for the vast sum of money to be expended, for even though the architects selected give to Harris burg as good work as any four ar chitects possibly could, they will not be working together and their ef forts will not be co-ordinated either architecturally or with regard for uni formity of building design. Each is at liberty to select his own style and model the buildings as it seems best to him, so long as he keeps within the general specifications to be pro vided by Dr. Downea. Of course, the board might make changes and re visions, but is the board better quali fied than the architects themselves? The whole controversy was unfor tunate and the result is not calcu lated to increase the confidence of the public in the efficiency of the school board as a whole. Some rad ical changes must be made at the next election. Scout Organizer Buddy bids, us fare well to-day. Harrisburg would like to keep him. He has been Just what his name indicates. PLANT: PLANT! PLANT! REPORTS *of the condition of winter wheat have stirred still further those who are bending every effort to increase the produc tion of foodstuffs in the United States. We are still in the midst of the seeding time and must be up and doing. Governor Brumbaugh and others are urging planting, and still more planting, but it is feared that even these appeals may not be sufficient to increase the food production to the necessary quantity throughout the country. Gardens • are being cultivated everywhere and vacant lots used, but there are still thousands of acres which might be utilized in the rais ing of vegetables of every sort. Chil dren who cannot fight can plant and cultivate, and now is the time to go back to the customs of earlier days when the children on the farms pro duced quite as mucn in the way of food products as the adults. We can't grow too much stuff, but we must get busy now. Now watch Scouting go scooting. DYES AMERICAN hosiery manufac turers meeting this week re joiced over the progress Americans have made in the manu facture of dyestuffs. "We are independent of /Ger many," is the burden of their song. And so we are. No more is there talk of white clothing as a necessity because of a scarcity of dyes. Our chemists have solved the problem and capital has flowed into the en terprise. But what of the time when the war shall end, and the cheap ma terials and the cheaper labor of Ger many are turned loose upon the high class, well paid dye-wnakers of Amer ica? What then? Will democracy persist in its free trade policies and ruin this infant industry, or will the party hearken to the still, Bmall voice raised in the hide-bound Dem ocratic State of Louisiana, which has sent W. P. Martin, an ardent Pro tectionist, to Congress? There he SATURDAY EVENING sits, day after day, preaching high protection to American Industry, working for it day and night, and having no other rival interest in leg islation. Moreover, Mr. Martin has a new seat in, the Ways and Moans Committee, where he can do some thing more than talk, where he can argue and vote, and where- he will have an Important hand in drafting tho new protective tariff law which ho predicts will be on the statute | books before another year rolls around. And, let us repeat It, he represents a Louisiana district. In addition to being one of the most ardent pro- J tectlonlsts in Congress, he is the only j protectionist from the solid Demo- J cratlc section of the South, and he , Is the first non-Democratic repre-1 sentatlve to be sent from Louisiana since the days of reconstruction. As such, his presence in Congress seems to be portentlous: It seems to Indi- , cate a new attitude In the South toward economic question:?, to be ! the forerunner of a new day. In "The Observer" of current issue | he says: I am not a sectional protection ist. 1 am for protection all along the line. I believe in America first. 1 believe that sugar should be given immediate protection, be cause Congress lias recently held hearings on the subject and knows exactly what to do; but I am for adequate protection to all other American products as soon as the hearings can be held. The Underwood tariff law is a failure —the Democrats themselves ad mit that fact, and a majority of both parties in Congress are agreed that we must have high protection immediately so as to be in a safe industrial position when peace comes. Mr. Martin is right: sectional pro tection does not pay. What hap pened to sugar when the Underwood tariff became operative will happen to dyestufls when peace Is restored— unless it *is properly protected. Harrisburg boys now have very I concrete evidence that they have quite! a lot of admirers and well-wishere j In Harrisburg. GOOD HARRISBURG "K TO longer will tho • Boy Scout * movement languish in Har risburg for lack of popu lar support and organized supervi sion. Thanks to the Rotary Club j and those who so generously sup- ] ported the campaign which that oi>- ganization fathered, sufficient money has been subscribed to finance the movement here for three years, and that time it will have been so well established that it will never languish. > As the able and energetic national organizer, Lewis Buddy, so aptly put It in a speech the other day, Harris burg will reap the full harvest of what it has sowed this week ten, twenty and thirty years hence, when the Boy Scouts of to-day themselves are the fathers of sons stronger and better because of the clean, ac tive lives of the little lads now budding Into Scouthood. This city never has witheld its support from a worthy cause. Un der the leadership of Howard C. Fry, George W. Reinoehl and the campaigners who gave freely of both their time and their money, the city has taken another step forward. It was a strenuous task while it lasted, but those who made the sacrifice have the reward that lies in knowl edge of duty well done —and some thing else, too, a memory of pleasant companionship and the very real personal benefit of friend ships and acquaintanceships culti vated in the trying circumstances of public service. Harrisburg owes a debt of gratitude to all who partici pated. Go to church to-morrow —and after church make an engagement to take a long walk Into the country, where you will find "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks and good In everything." BARRING FIREWORKS ROBERT ADAMSON, fire com missioner of New Youk, has put a ban on the sale of all kinds of fireworks in that city and their use on the Fourth of July. This may be a perfectly wise pre caution from the standpoint of pub lic safety, but the commissioner is widely in error when he bases his action on the reason that "all pow der usually used in fireworks should be conserved for use of the United States government." To forbid the sale of these goods on that ground is foolish and would serve only to put' an unnecessary hardship upon jobbers and manu facturers who now have on their shelves all of the explosives that would be used for Fourth of July purposes this year. Contracts for fireworks usually are placed n year in advance. It might be all right to rule fireworks out next year, but certainly not this, on the score of conservation. Another curious feature of the situation is the fact that, since the ban has been placed on the reckless use of the dangerous varieties of explosives, the public has returned largely to the use of the little old fashioned flrecracxers and the im port reports show that large quanti ties of these have been brought into the country this year. In whlcjt case we would be celebrating the Amer ican natal clay with crackers of Chinese manufacture. The present Congress seems de termined to burden newspapers to the point of absolute destruction. Con stantly efforts are being made to hamper the press, not only in its news service, but in its business con duct. Yet we must be patient and non partisan. Russia uppears to be taking coun sel of Mexico. [BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" 1 ! "'l'lie Adventure of Death,".by Rob ert W. Mackenna, M. A., M. D.—The Putnams will publish iate in May u volume entitled "The Adventure of Death," by Kobert W. Mackenna, M. A., M. D. It is written by a medical man who proves that, as a rule, all fear of death is taken away from the dying, and that, so far as tan be ascertained, the act of death; is free from pain. He also shows that there is reasonable ground for' a belief in the survival of person-1 ality. An interesting section of the book deals with the feelings of sol-] •liers in action. In spite of its sub ject the book is uplifting, strength ening, and free from gloom. The chaptei headings indicate the scope of the volume: Poem, The Great Adventure, The Fear of Death, The Painlessness of Death, Knthanasia, What Life Gains From Death, Does Death End All, Epilogue. JolTre. No imaginable event in i the long months of conflict still to come can rob the victor of the Marne of his pre-eminence. He is the one grandiose figure of the war. No imaginable event can rival the bat tle of the Marne in its significance for the history of the world and civilization. It does not matter that Marshal Joffre has been replaced as leader of the French armies. It does not matter that the battle of the Marne left a heavy task and tremendous sacrifices for the French nation to carry through. If the genius of Joffre spent itself oi\ the Marne, it was in the performance of j a supreme mission carried out 1 amidst all the circumstance of a great drama—a mighty issue decided after agonizing suspense amidst the hush of a watching world. After two and a half years of crashing conflicts and untold heroisms, of sweeping victories ami great retreats of a war map unrolling itself over three continents, it is still impossible to go back to the now old story of the Marne without that catch of the breath, without the sacred awe. aroused by the presence of powers and issues almost more than human. The drama of the great war has worked itself out contrary to all the rules of dramatic construction. There were no long acts of preparation and development. Hardly had the play begun when the climax was upon us. Forty-one days from the rise of the curtain to the pitch of the action, and thirty-two months of slow des cent towards a final curtain not yet in sight. Is it any wonder the events and the man of those forty one days still maintain an unap proachable fascination? From an Editorial in the Nation, New York. The Colonel Getting Warm [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] Colonel Roosevelt may be correct in his claim, made in Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, to the Kings County Re publican committee, in an impassioned speech, that the Government is afraid he will do his work in the war too well to grant him permission to sail to France with a division of volun teers, but his criticisms may not ad vance the cause he advocates. He makes the claim with Rooseveltian ineisiveness that the men to till his division are ready, only awaiting his word to dash to the mobilizing point from all States of the Union, and that nothing stands in the way of an American force on the French front within two months, but the fears of the Government that he will do his duty too well. The cheers that punc tuated his well-expressed desire to tight for France must be taken to mean enthusiastic sharing in his aims and his conclusions, but cheers in a political organization of antagonistic faith to that of the administration may be without practical effects. Darkening State Department [New York World.] By practically closing the State Department to newspaper corre spondents Secretary Lansing intensi fies conditions which have long been a subject of complaint. What has often been called the dark depart ment is now to become darker than ever. The United States is the only great self-governing' country in which no method of exacting infor mation as to foreign affairs, even on proper occasions, has been provided, interpellation by a member of Con gress is not possible, for no repre sentative of the State Department attends that body. The publication of white books is rare, and such diplo matic matters as sees the light does so usually long after it has ceased to be of interest. . Mr. Lansing has created a Bureau of Foreign Intelligence to which all inquiries are now referred; but, like every other agency of the depart ment, it is secretive and perhaps un informed. The great need in this and in fact, every branch of government, is a bureau of publicity. Although tlje Secretaries of State, War and Navy recently organized something of the kind, it is as yet more of a hope than a realization. There will be less talk and less need of censorships if information to which the public entitled were promptly forthcoming. In most things, even in war, there is little need of secrecy in such a govern ment as ours. When attempts are under cover the chances of harmful publications are greatly increased. No Bread? Eat Candy Manneapolis Tribune.] It was Marie Antoinette, wasn't it who, when told that the people were crying for bread, asked why they didn't eat cake? We have been warned by the government to take steps to prevent a shortage of food in this country. But the government has also set out in enthusiastic terms the flour ishing condition of the candy busi ness. We are told that it has ex panded with great rapidity; that whereas at the conclusion of the Civil war we had only about 400 es tablishments, with an aggregate product of only $3,000,000 a year, the number of establishments has grown to over 2,500, and the prod uct to $185,000,000. The expenditure per capita at the beginning of this period was 13 cents per annum, and now each person during a year is spending for candy SI.BO. So it appears that if we run short of bread we can eat candy. There is, however, a practical side to the con fectionery industry in war time. Army commissary departments have found it worth while to supply candy to the soldier. It is a great stimu lant. Too Busy to Explain About three weeks ago the Ger mans explained that they retreated to shorten the battle rront. At pres ent they are so busy retreating that they haven't time to explain.—Louis ville Courier-Journal. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'PottttCO- C>t | Rjr llto Kx-Committcrtnan j Reports that Governor # Brumbaugh plans to send to the Senate a num ber of appointments made between the adjournment of the 1915 Legis lature and the organization of that' of 1917, and would also send In the name of Hanking Commissioner Dan iel F. for confirmation were current about the Capitol to-day. The Governor was away trout-fishing and Secretary Ball was in Philadelphia, so that no information on the subject could be obtained. Some of the senators who have been favorable to fixing June 11 for ad journment expressed the belief this week that the Governor would be like ly to send In some names and that there would be no wholesale rejec tions. Men who are not in sympathy with the Governor and his friends have intimated that In case of de partments whose chiefs are not sent' In for confirmation there would be big cuts in appropriations. Whether these reductions would extend to the Executive Department or not could not be learned. —Auditor General Snyder has de cided to wait for several weeks be fore. putting changes In his depart ment into effect. The Auditor Gen eral spent most of this week study ing- matters pertaining to the ad ministration of his department and said that he did not have any "vio lent changes" in view. When asked what would be done in the case Of state officials not confirmed the Au ditor General said that he would not eross bridges until he arrived at then). —The matters connected with the adjournment of the Legislature will be settled in Philadelphia within the next three days and Monday night the adjournment resolution will go in with June 1-t as the date. The Senate will not act hastily In the matter. —The actions to test the right of Register of Wills Sheehan to certain fees of office in Philadelphia will he threshed out in the courts. Thou sands of dollars are involved. —Roland S. Morris, former Demo cratic state chairman, was named as the master In the proceedings for sale of a big foundry at Bristol. —Senator E. H. Vare was yester day awarded contracts for J 183,000 for buildings and other work in the southern part of Philadelphia. They are part of the improvements near League Island. —Governor Brumbaugh yesterday cleared up twenty-eight bills and has about thirty remaining on his desk. The $2,000,000 defense fund bill is among those not acted upon. —Candidates for judge in Alle gheny county are increasing in num ber. It is expected that there will be close to twenty. —Governor Brumbaugh's vote on the AVoodward Allegheny county court bill is apt to cause considerable com ment when the Legislature convenes next week. —Members of tile House of Repre sentatives face the largest calendar of third reading bills of any time since the session of 1917 began for the Monday night session and it is doubtful if the lower branch will get through the list by the end of next week. The calendar of bills on this stage will run over 150 and there are about thirty bills on the postpon ed calendar. Over sixty bills passed second reading in the House on Thursday and were added to the third reading list. —Considerable comment has been called by the reprinting of House bills for trifling typographical errors while they are still in the House, instead of having the bills corrected when they are reprinted for Senate use. The other day the Wallace civil service bill, now on third reading in the House, and one of the twenty-page bills, was reprinted because the name Pennsylvania was misspelled. The bill has not yet been in the Senate. Another bill of ten pages was re printed because the word eighteen was not spelled correctly. Appreciates the Gift It Is to be hoped that the Kaiser appreciates that sword which the Sultan of Turkey has sent him. It is red with the blood of massacred Christians.—Charleston News and Courier. • A Mutual Hope We are overjoyed with the assur ance that "Russia still is in the war to the end," and we hope that wo and the Russian ministry both have the same end In mind.—Kansas City Times. New Decoration Needed The Kaiser will have to invent a new decoration for the Socialist lead ers who are trying to induce Russia | to pull out of the war.—Rochester Herald. The Answer Now that Honor's last word has been spoken And our flag for the battle un furled; Now our false sleep of peace has been broken By the war drums that beat through the world. Will there still be the long, weary waiting? Shall we strike with the bare sword of Right? Or will endless and futile debating Continue far Into the night? There's a call ringing clear o'er the waters. Do you hear It? Again and again; "We need you—your sons and your daughters. Are you coming to help us—and when?" Must we still remain silent, denying Our duty, the debts we should pay; Or shout back like thunder replying, "Hold on! We are coming—to- day!" —H. Varley, In the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Charles M. Schwab says:— Mr. Carnegie's personality would enthuse anybody who worked for him. He had the broad views of a really big man. He was not bothered with the finicky little things that trouble' so many people. When he made me manager Mr. Carnegie said: "Now, boy, you will see a good many things which you musn't notice. Don't blame your men for trivial faults. If you <lo, you will dishearten them." When I want to find fault with my men I say nothing when I go through their departments. If I were satis fled I would praise them. My silence hurts them more than anything else In the world, and It doesn't give of fense. It makes them think and work harder. ' When a Feller Needs .s y briggs "V 3§St THE PEOPLES FORUM "Slapstick Patriotism" To the Editor of the Telegraph: I ain quite as patriotic as the average patriot. I AM an average patriot; and by that I mean that my love of country is rated always at par. .But I am not a "slapstick pat riot," and by that I mean that I do not display my patriotism at the slightest provocation. I am not a professional patriot—who is, by the way, protesting so vigorously at all times that he is a patriot that doubt arises as to his patriotism. ' The "slapstick," or "professional" patriot is continually saluting the flag—or thinks he is; and continually rising to show respect for the national an them, when respect at such times is quite as out of place as the rendi tion of the anthem itself. Permit me to protest against the "slapstick patriotism" which in spires moving picture organists to play "The Star Spangled Banner" two or three times an evening. Per mit me to protest against cabaret amusers, who, even though the cab aret attendants bo intoxicated, break into the stirring strains of the an them. ! "The Star Spangled Banner" should not be played as though it were "Poor Butterfly." You know that. Why cannot the moving pic ture theater managers absorb that idea, and the managers of cabarets and other places of amusement? The Governor of Pennsylvania owes it to the flag and the national anthem to issue a proclamation, if he has the power, setting forth when and where the anthem should be played and the fl ig displayed. It is a mighty sad commentary on the patriotism of a groat many] folks that they are willing to salute! the flag and vise when a cheap or-) chestia or a picture organ plays What Mr. Gompers Wrote I The attitude of Samuel Gompers, President of the Americun Federa tion of Labor, toward the Boy l Scouts of America, is clearly stated in a letter which ho sent to James 1 E. West, Chief Scout Executive, upon receiving the information of the action taken at the Rochester meeting of the Federation. Mr. Gompers wrote: "It is gratifying to Know that the declaration of the Rochester con vention of the A. F. of L. has had its effect by allaying criticism on the part of labor movement through out the United States. It is the de sire of the officers of the American Federation of Labor to keep in touch the Boy Scout movement so that in matters affecting the rights and interests of the working people as represented by the A. F. of L., there may be a constantly closer attitude on tlie part of the Boy Scout Movement toward the or ganized labv movement in its work and struggle for the achievement of a higher political moral and social standard. As a man, and as Presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, I shall be glad to do anything within my power to carry out the declarations of the American Fed eration of Labor in this regard. "I thank you for the report of the Boy Scouts of America of last year, copy of which •you so kindly sent me. I shall be glad to receive your semi-monthly bulletin regularly." Patriotic Rivalry A man we hate Is Samuel Bowers: His backyard garden's Better'n ours. —From tho Macon Telegraph. BY C. F. O. A man who hates me Is old Sam Gissen; For my jack garden's Better'n his'n. —From the Baltimore American. "The Star Spangled Banner," but are not at all willing to give a practical demonstration of that patriotism by enlisting In the army or navy. AMERICAN. The Church and the War To the Editor of the Telegraph: Search as you may, it's highly im probable that you'll And a time in all history when man needs a higher ideal and a clearer conception of things truly righteous to guide him through the dazzling complexities of the present. Man to-day in this country is call ed to take up the gauge of battle in the great cause of freedom. Our country is going to prove herself worthy—have no fear of that. But in proportion to her conception of the highest ideal is going to be her worthiness. And right there is where we must first answer another call —a call which takes us penitent to the feet of Him, who, in giving His blood for us—gives us the true jdeal and conception. And this is not a one-sided call— it is one which in clarion tones (oraes to each of us—for those of us who stay home need that ideal and truth just as much as those who go. And this ideal if we cherish it will lend an indefinable support to those who fare forth to engage in the world's most stupendous struggle for humanity. Seek Him who embodies that ideal. As close to Ub as He always is—it is for you to i-each out to Him. He is waiting for you—He will re ceive you and you Him if you will but seek. And in receiving Him, you will make your part in the struggle lighter, which, in turn will strength-1 en the cause of your country. Seek Him to-day in prayer, and to-mor row in prayer and church. CHRISTIAN CITIZEN. The Tricolor The flag of France is blue and white and red; Red for the blood her hero sons have shed, White lor the stainless hands they lift on high To the blue glory of the stainless sky. [ Lo, where the Marne, a sluggish ser pent winds. The happy warriors sleetf In quiet trance; Their pure red blood a chalice cup that binds All sons of Freedom to the flag of France: Snow-white the wings of avlons as they flit, Daring the foe and tempting cir cumstance; Snow-white their pilot's records, too, that knit All sons of Freedom to the flag of France. One spar of blue, 'mid storm-clouds rent in twain, Is pledge for shrouded sun's re kindling glance; A pledge, the golden deeds upon the Aisne, For sons of Freedom and the flag of France. The flag of France is blue and r.hite and red; Red for the blood her hero sons have shed. White for the stainless hands they lift on high To the blue glory of a stainless sky. —Francis C. Fay, in New York Times. Prepare For War Proclaim ye this amon? the Gen tiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men. let all the men of war draw near: let them come up: boat your plowshares Into swords, and >our pruning hooks Into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.—Joel ill, und 10. MAY 12, 1917. Notes Masons at Newburyport were pre vented by law from demanding more than $1.50 a day In 1832. Frisco Photo-Engravers' Union re quests an increase of $4 per week and a reduction in tne hours of labor. Five per cent, of the population o? this country earns Its living di rectly or indirectly in tlio electrical business. United Cloth Hat and Cap makers' International has trebled its mem bership in the past year. It now .has over 12,000 members. Railway carmen at Kansas City, Mo., subscribed for .SIOO,OOO worth of the Federal war bonds issued re cently. The Jamaica Government has de cided upon an extensive scheme for the development of the sugar in dustry. • Dungannon (Ireland) District Council has suggested that seed po tatoes and oats be granted to labor ers who are cultivating plots.. Seventy-five per cent, of the wo men employed in the German metal trades work 10 hours or more a day. Trenton (N. J.) Metal Polishers' Union has secured wage increases that range from 5 to 15 per cent, in the various branches of this in dustry. OUR DAILY LAUGH DOWN THE L.INE. Near Sighted Bird—Ah, there is ■omeone on my line, PRACTICAL. THEMES. "Our sweet girl graduates are get ting' practical, eh?" "I understand most of the essays this year will be on such subject* as dress reform and the cost of liv ing." Wifey V.'hy fijll didn't you ac- fill j&j eept the Brown's : offer to take us ■; In their car to (7 Cj/'-Stw" ' the party? *rA (L JjSjy thought I'd wait. They have Just an ordinary \ / yi| auto and tlio \W //' V V Woods have a p ( M limousine. They I I \ - | might offer to J*""""/ / . pick us up, ' ■' j 7 *' ■ ■ —-r? Ebputng (Efjal The railroad and steel making dis tricts' about Ilarrisburg have been sending quite a few men trained In railroading and In metal working to the headquarters of the new engi neer regiments in the last few days and half a dozen industrial plants '° givo up men engaged " t men and othors on their of tht i" K lorces - Announcement ipifimnnt o ™ of tho engineer egiment seems to have stirred up recruiting here and numerous appli cations have been made by young railroad men for information about the enlistment. These applications have come from not only Harris hjg- railroad population but I from Enola, Marysville and other railroad towns. The men enlisting ale mostly those who have had ex perience on locomotives and trains, although there are a number of trackmen who havo gone up for ex amination. Flagraisings and patri otic parades in Dauphin and Cum berland counties have caused a num ber of young men from the country to come to the recruiting stations and at the same time brought about complaints from farmers jhat young fellows were leaving the plough for the army, it was through the ap made to tho employment ana lurm bureaus for hands that it was discovered that a fair proportion of men enlisting were farmer lads, in the I-ykens Valley patriotism has | been running high and tho mine woikers have been having a strenu ous time to keep the young men on e r jobs so that they can keep then piomises to the coal companies to keep u]) production during the war. According to reports which are coming hero the recruiting of National Guard organizations is go ing ahead quietly throughout the state and some companies have pretty close to their war strength on the rolls, the men having taken the precautions to be examined. v\ hen the Guard is ordered to Mt. Uretna it is expected that the show ing, notably in the Eighth Regi ment, which was short a good many men last June, will be materially im proved. ' • • • Howard M. Hoke, secretary to the Attorney General, used to be a court reporter in Cincinnati and tells some interesting anecdotes of the late Sen ator James B. Foraker, who was a judge in tho Ohio city when Mr Hoke lived there. Mr. Hoke fre quently reported cases in his court. Later on he was employed under William 11. Taft when a judge. • Frank B. Bosch, of this city, is probably the tirst Ilarrisburg man to see tho interned German sailors at Atlanta. Mr. Bosch was in that city a short time ago and drove out to Fort McPlierson where the sail ors were to be seen in a great stock ade. They seemed to be enjoying themselves. • • • Although the number of persons registering at the State Capitol Is more or less reduced because of the war and the decrease in traveling, the places whence they come seem to be as distant as ever. One of the men i registering the other day came from Cape Town, South Africa, and was a native of Taku, China. The hlgli school of Narberth visited the Capt. tol yesterday. ♦ • 9 The County Commissioners' or ders to constables to shoot all dogs in which no license tax has been paid, brought into the office tfee other day an old colored man Susquehanna township. "What's the trouble?" Chief Clerk Edwin H. Fisher asked. "A-h, ah d-d-done want a-a-a-a d-d-d-dog 1-license," came the stut tering reply. "Where do you live?" "Sus-sus - susquehanna township. Hurry up. The alley's a-a-all f-f-full of d-d-d-dead d-dogs b-b-back of our place. W-w-we g-g-got our d-d-dog l-locked up and ah w-want to g-g-get b-b-back b-b-before any thing h-h-happens." He got his license and saved the dog's life. • • People who have been coming here for legislative sessions year af ter year and who are active in State affairs are watching with interest the developments in the new hotel proposition. For a long time there have been some skeptics about the start on the hotel and lately some wagers have been made about the new structure being ready within a year. One man who has watched the way buildings start is betting on the hotel being under roof by Christ mas. • • • Former meuibers of the Legisla ture are commencing to drop into the city to see the lawmakers at work and to tell of the days when they were in the legislative halls. This week not less than twenty-five former Senators or Representatives came back to Harrisburg to look at the chambers at work on the ac cumulated mass of bills. The former members seem to cherish pleasant memories for they linger about the halls as long as anything Is going and make It a point of sitting in their old seats. • * * Work was started to-day on the demolition of the last of the build ings in Capitol Park Extension dis trict which were sold a short time ago. There will bo no sales for some time to come and > the removal of buildings will likely be resumed in the fa'.l. j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —W. 11. Barrett, well known here, has been elected secretary of the Philadelphia Builders* Exchange. —H. L. Robinson, prominently mentioned for judge in Fayette county, is taking an active part in the Thompson settlement. —George E. Bartol has been re elected head of tho Philadelphia Bourso for the twenty-sixth con secutive year. —Dr. W. B. Cadwalader, prom? nent Philadelphian, will engage • medical work for tho army in France. —Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart will speak at the Guard celebration in Pittsburgh to-day. —Dr. J. B. Carnott, tho old univer sity football player, will be in charge of the university base hospital.4 —Hampton L. Carson, former at torney general, has donated part of an office building In Philadelphia for recruiting purposes. | DO YOU'KNOW That Ilarrisburg steel used In government work at navy yards ranks among the best In tho country'.' HISTORIC HARRISBURG This community raised a regiment immediately after the battle of Bull Hun and fully equipped It,
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