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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,