8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER'FOR THE HOME Pounded iSjr (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH I'HIMIVd CO., TcleKrnph Uulldlng, Federal Square. 'E.J. STACK POLE, Pres't tS* Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. PCS M. STEI.VMETZ. Managing Editor. • Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, tho Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Rulldln;?. New York City; Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley. People's Gas Builpirrg, —. Chicago, 81. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a work: .by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17 Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.—Wordsworth SIT*POUTING THE PRESIDENT HERE and there partisan efforts are being made to discredit Republican newspapers that happen to differ with officials In matters affecting the conduct of na tional affairs. It will be a sad day in the United States when the loyal press of the country snail be forced to approve by its silence the In efficiency or partisanship of men who happen to be in public places. Of course, no loyal newspaper will give aid or comfort to tho enemy through publication of matters which are manifestly Improper, but the efforts of certain zealous sup porters of President Wilson to place in his hands a club to compel news paper subservience to the wishes of the administration in all matters only serve to accentuate the protest which has gone up from all quar ters against a drastic censorship proposal. It will not be gainsaid that the Republican leaders in Congress and elsewhere, including ex-Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, have done their utmost to uphold the hands of the President in preparations for the national defense. This is the only patriotic avenue of real public serv ice and there has been no evidence anywhere of a desire to do other wise than properly support the ad ministration, but all over the coun try are certain little men who as sume to speak for the President on all occasions who are doing more to destroy faith in the administration at Washington than they are to bring the people generally to its aid. Nothing which may be attempted at Washington will do more real harm than the choking process by those who have already been char acterized as "slackers" by the Dem ocratic New York World. Certainly this great ihetropolitan newspaper cannot be accused of disloyalty to the President. Of course, it Is disconcerting to the "kitchen cabinet" when Demo cratic leaders refuse to go along with the President in everything that he proposes, especially when Republican statesmen make possible the enactment of measures which are advocated for the national de fense. These incidents in a national crisis are not overlooked by the people and the puerile efforts of Democratic newspapers of the small bore variety to belittle Republican support of the administration will fall flat under the circumstances. It is self-evident that the admin istration party in Congress is dis playing little enthusiasm for the vital measures which warfare de mands and the administration is do ing nothing to stimulate patriotic legislation. "DAYLIGHT SAVING" DAYLIGHT SAVING" now has the endorsement not alone of the Legislature, but of the Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylva nia and of trade bodies and business men all over the State. The Legis lature recommends the passage of a national law by Congress to that end for the reason that the move ment must be countrywide to be ef fective. A state iaw would be so confusing as to be disastrous, if not Impossible of operation. In these days of interstate railroads and na tional solidarity in many other re spects state laws that might have worked admirably a century ago are impossible. So the Legislature of necessity has put the matter up to Congress. We are told that turning the clock back one hour from April to Septem ber would save a million tons of coal a year that now go into the manu facture of gas and the generation of electricity. This ■ item alone, espe cially at a time of fuel shortage, would make adoption of the plan well worth while. But, will Con gress take that view of it? Or will it prefer to chatter unendingly about the necessity of conserving the na tion's resources, while by its own neglect it continues to conspire for their wastage? rfhe people will watch with interest the progress of the "daylight saving" bill. THE GIDEONS THE mass meeting announced by the Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers' Asso ciation, the chief work of which is the furnishing of Bibles for hotel puaat room*, to be held 1b Fahnes- THURSDAY EVENING, tock Hall Sunday afternoon should be well attended. Harrisburg peo ple last fall contributed sufficient money for the purchase of 465 Bibles for the purpose named and these will be distributed among the hotels of the city at the meeting next Sabbath. As the State Secretary in his call aptly says: "There never was a time when It was more necessary that the actions of all men be grounded upon the Word of God than the pres ent," and the Gideons have made it their self-appointed task to see to It that those who are far from home and In a strange land shall not lack opportunity of beginning and ending their day's work with a verso or a chapter from the Book of Books. Their kindly mintacrations are to be observed in hotel rooms all over the land. They have been constantly at work for years. They mean to keep right on. They usk little and they give much. The people of the city owe them their support. What has became of the little snipe who used to call the National Guards men "tin soldiers?" "WE CAN START AT ONCE" AMONG the sayings of famous seamen that adorn the history of the United States navy none Is more characteristic than the reply of Admiral Sims, commander of the flotilla of destroyers on his ar rival In British waters to the question of the English commander as to how soon the Americans would be reudy for service. "We can start at once," said Sims, and to prove it in an hour after the long voyage across the Atlantic the whole American contingent had steamed to sea in active search of ■ German U-boats. Unless history fails to repeat itself, as it has done in every war since John Paul Jones first made the Stars and Stripes a terror on the seas, the American navy will give good ac count of itself in this conflict. Some of these days we shall open our newspaper to discover that Hobson has been out-Hobsoned and that we have in the navy a new Dewey or a new Schley. Accomplishing the im possible always has been the favor ite diversion of the United States navy, and it will be surprising, in deed, if the dash and enterprise that have carried it through a thousand deadly perils and snatched victory time and again from almost certain defeat do not accomplish new mar vels in the present war. American naval commanders are men of imagination, and imagination is as necessary to naval success as are courage and expert gunnery. We have been much impressed recently with the importance of superiority of armament and cannon as prime re quisites of naval success, but there still remain those great factors, the "man behind the gun," and the offi cer behind the "man behind the gun." In these the United States navy acknowledges no superior and few peers. "We can start at once," is as ever the slogan of the men who keep the American flag aloft at sea. The Russian bear appears to be a little wobbly in his hind legs Just now, but wait until Mr. Root arrives with his barrel of American money. OUR WHOLE I>UTY BUSINESS activity and industrial prosperity for a period of years are confidently predicted by many leaders in the business world/ They agree that the prosecution of the war will have no serious effect upon the going forward of industrial and commercial activities. The point is made clear in a re cent interview by J. Ogden Armour. Discussing the economic conditions and the future of the nation's de fense, he declared yesterday that the prompt adoption by the Amer ican people of the "business as usual" idea would enable the nation to prosecute the war without ex periencing the temporary depression which was felt in England and France. He said further: As patriots it is our duty to stop the wastage of food: as patriots it is equally important that we do not stop the ordinary purchasing on which the business and the in dustry of the country are found ed. Hysterical economy Is as much a menace to the nation as is prodigal waste. The pursu ance of our normal business along usual lines is of paramount im portance at this time in order that our nation may maintain itself on a sound economical and industrial basis from which to piosecute the military phase of the struggle for the freedom of mankind. Faith in the great need of the people of to-day; faith in fciovi dence to lend might to our right; faith In nature to respond bounti fully to the wonderful efforts of our agriculturists to Increase the food supply, to provide a surplus for our allies, and faith in our Government, which has taken hold | of the problems before it in a Way that demonstrates that It is de serving of our faith. All over the country business men ! are beginning' to realize that there ) Is no occasion for lrysterla or for any radical change in their usual activities. As a result, business Is go ing ahead with increasing Impetus | frijpi day to day and once our na tional policies shall have been agreed upon and the defense meas ures fully put into effect there will be a gradual disappearance of un certainty and a nation-wide co-oper ation In everything which will give confidence throughout the business world. If President Wilson is' really sin cere about preventing a food short age, why doesn't he set his foot down hard on putting 71,000,000 bushels of grain into alcoholic beverages each year. Somehow, the threat that we may have to substitute corn pone for wheat bread, next winter, doesn't seem to worry us much. "The Germans seem to have lost their punch," says a writer from the French front. May be, but the allies appear to be giving it back to thein every day, and right on the nose, at that. ~ T>oC£t£c* U Ry (lie Ex-Commlttcomnn | Although leaders of the State Sen j ate have not yet indicated in any : way what they plan to do in regard to tho closing up of the business of 'the Legislature of 1917 there were a good many rumors heard abqut i the Capitol to-day to the effect that i the recess idea had become consider ably stronger and that it would be , seriously considered when the Sena | tors gather here next week. The ' gubernatorial appointments and the j possibilities of some switching in the I event that adjournment comes sine ' die ure said to have caused the | change of front. Meanwhile the | Senate will continue to keep busy j and to get the bills over from the ! House. | The general impression is growing that there will be no closing up on I June 14. Instead it looks more like I Jine 2l or Juno 28. One of the rea j sons for moving the date beyond the fourteenth, which was the day set | by the House, is said to be so that a , plan can be worked out In a week's | recess either the last week of this , month or the first week in June. Under present plans the ap propriation bills will have to be acted upon by the Governor while the Legislature is still In session. -—From ail accounts the Rural Members League or "Farmers Al liance" lias a rival in the House of Representatives in the Early Risers Union. This is an organization of legislators who are accustomed to running races with tne roosters in rising from their downy couches and who think that the State lawmakers should start work about the time the average city legislator Is eating breakfast. Tho Union put over a resolution to meet bright and early this morning, but there was a lot of grumbling about it. —Captain T. J. Groff, of Tamaqua, may have some troubles of his oyn before he gets his bill to increase the salaries of the Schuylkill judges enacted into law. The captain ar ranged for Schuylkill and Westmore land to be taken care of, but the Senate committee took charge of the bill in a kindly way and added to it the various other judicial salary rais ers and also provided $4,000 Instead of $2,000 for the Dauphin county judges for handling the State cases which are so numerous In this coun ty. The Tamaqua member is op posed to this plan and will Insist on his original bill. However, it looks as though he would not get anything if he does not accept amendments. —Congressman T. W. Templeton, of the Luzerne district, was in Har risburg last evening for a short time on matters pertaining to his district. The Congressman was much inter ested in legislative developments. —Registrars without regard to party lines are sending in word of their readiness to sit for registration of men under the draft and there is no question but that when the Gov ernor issues his -call that the regis trars in every city will make a hearty response. The rural regis tration will probably be con<#ucted in as patriotic a manner. —As the legislative session moves toward tho finish there are signs that thfe feelings of members' are commencing to grow a little worn. The objections and criticisms which have been coming lately from ad ministratioh and Vare adherents In the House have attracted consider able attention. They have more frequent lately. * —The Democrats wound up their days of lamentation yesterday after noon when E. Lowry Humes, United States District Attorney from West ern Pennsylvania, completed two speeches on pending bills. He made two the day before and left with a credit of four speeches and two In terviews. W. G. Sarig, of Temple, Berks county. Democratic floorwalk er, also participated in the waiting for the closing day. Roland S. Mor ris, mentioned as likely to become an ambassador to Tokio, found Harris burg legislative doings too tame and went home before the hearings. Mr. Humes addressed the corporations committee on his "trust buster" bill, which he urged as a panacea for what ails everything and was very keen about the Democratic plan for automatic charity appropriations. Mr. Sarig also spoke on the same 'bill. It Is generally believed tho Democratic windmill has outlined protests to the people against the refusal of the Democrats to take the propositions seriously. —Up to noon to-day none of the Democratic legislators had requested the withdrawal of any appropriation bills reported to the House with affirmative recommendations under the system sanctioned by custom for twenty years and many Democrats. —Among former legislators here were F. P. Barnhart, Johnstown, and M. F. Shannon, Luzerne, and ex- Senator Joseph H. Thompson, of Beaver. Possibilitics of Bad Verse [From the New Republic] No one has yet written any ade quate appreciation of the possibili ties of bad verse. The verse. I mean, that is composed at the crisis of life. 0 1 the mountain tops of exultation and in the joyless valleys, by per sons unskilled and ordinarily im politic. The verse that is hidden away in vases and bureau drawers, never to be shown, and always pro duced in some moment of vanity. Only the true poet cou'd write a just appreciation of bad verse; and from his pen the words would come too much tainted with the implica tion of irony. The quality of bad verse is not strained. It is written to suit no magazine's policy. It is re warded with no check. It is a brave denying of- reality; a prayer that is its own answer, it is, to use Maeter linck's phrase, "a making or invok ing of wings" by creatures that creep on their bellies. Favorite Hymns Favorite hymns of famous men male an interesting catalogue. Glad stones special choice was "Praise to the Holiest in the Height," and it was suns at his funeral. Tennyson's favorite was "Holy, Holy, Holy." One of Ruskin's preferences was "Jesus, Hero From Sin Deliver," upon which Ik 3 preached a little sermon to some three hundred school children, his guests one afternoon at Brantwood. [ Matthew Arnold's choice was "When 1 Survey the Wondrous Cross" (Watt's masterpiece), the third verse of which M. A. was overheard recit ing to himself only an hour before his quite unexpected fatal seizure, And Henry Ward Beecher declared "I would rather have written 'Jesus, Lover of My Soul' than have the fame of all the kings that ever sat or. the earth.—From the London Chronicle. Hamilton Descendant to Wed The Baroness de Graffenried has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Gertrude Ray Ham ilton, to Paul McCulloch, son of James W. McCulloch of this city and the late Jane McCul loch. Alexander Hamilton was the bride-elect's great-great-grandfather. The wedding will take place' this spring.—From the New York World. • - HARRISBVJKW TELEGRAPH '~T " O The Days of Real Sport . . By BRIGGS w¥T' w'4 J®' m?A The^„T' t A flMjf M/MidVl% 1 1 . ( <' n1 " Comnj6 ov/er ">" ' 'l/SiWli/|jll/ EDITORIAL COMMENT Russia has collapsed and the Unit ed States must take Russia's place in the stpuggle against German au tocracy, but there is little apprecia tion of the significance of that fact in the House and Senate. French and British soldiers are dying by tens of thousands in the battles along the western front, but Congress keeps the United States marking time. —New York World. Some men call themselves "Con scientious Objectors" and so hope to escape conscription. The country calls them by a shorter and uglier word.— Kansas City Star. Price Russia Must Pay No country is more interested in a peace that shall be a guaranty of the safety of democracy in the world than is Russia. But the soldiers and workmen, who are agitating for a peace conference, should reflect that no peace that woulw leave the funda mental issue of the war unsettled would afford such a guaranty to any democracy, least ot all to Russia. They may feel very sure, too, that if their peaco overtures find any fa vor in Germany it is not because of any sympathy of the German gov ernment with their aims. German militarism has its own aims, and even though those aims may con template peace at this moment, the motive behind that program is not one that promises any security to a peace that would meet the aspirations of the Russian people for the free development of their institutions. Russia's democracy was war born and it must be war nurtured until it finds stability, not in a separate peace that leaves autocracy undis turbed as its next neighbor, but in a world peace that leaves that auto cracy broken and forever incapable of again plunging the world into the] horrors it is now passing through. Democracy is not a boon to be won cheaply. It is not to be purchased and made secure by a peace of ex pediency or a peace of unrighteous ness. When Russian democracy overthrew its own autocracy it had only made a start toward the goal it must attain if it is to deliver the Russian people from their enemies. Another autocracy, more powerful than that of the Romanoffs, must be overthrown before the Russian peo ple are free and that autocracy still confronts them unbroken. The Rus sian soldiers and workmen, who have everything to gain by a peace that the democracies of America, England and France ate striving to bring to them, and which will be one in which all democracies can find safety, should not make that task harder by trying to buy free dom at a bargain. Nothing but payment of the full price—which is continued war until German mili tary autocracy is crushed—-can bring it to them with a guarantee that it is safe for the future.—Kansas City Star. Cornfed Patriotism Privation loaf? Not for this sec tion, with seventeen million acres of corn in Kansas and Missouri alone. L,eave off the loaf altogether, for that matter. There is corn bread, corn pone, "Johnny-cake," corn muffins, hoe cake, or whatever may be your favorite name for it, to fall ■back on. And certainly there is nothing akin to privation about a steaming slab of corn bread gar nished with hom grown sorghum molasses. Nor is there any danger of honest hunger with a kettle of corn meal mush sputtering on the kitchen stove. Maybe you have grown away from "Johnny-cake'' in the last two de cades of lolling in the lap of lux ury. In that case now is the time to get back to the habit and teach it to the family. Every loaf of bread saved, they say, is a bullet against autocracy. A quarter of a century ago, with corn selling on Western farms at ten and fifteen cents a bushel, the government sent "Corn Meal'' Mur phy to introduce corn bread and he was spurned. The peasant would munch his black rye crust, but corn was fit only for nis cattle and so has remained. Perhaps tastes there are not so highstrung now. If they are we can eat the corn here and send the wheat there. Much of the South got along on little aside from corn for four years bock in the sixties and liked it so well that corn still is in favor there as a food. —Kansas City Star. Quite a Nice Young Man f Kansas City Star] The bridegrom was not forgotten iu the Hope Dispatch's recent write up of a wedding. In fact, the Dis patch said he was "nmong the finest young men in Dickinson, robust, manly and prosperous and yet gen tle, high-minded and exemplary in his life." AN HOUR MORE That's One Thing the Daylight Saving Plan Means, Says Henry M. Hyde in the Chicago Tribune I YOU wake. The room Is already flooded with sunlight. You look at your watch. It is only 5 o'clock. Two hours remain before it is time to get up. You try to doze off again. The dazzling sun light makes it hard to get back to sleep. 8 o'clock you are at your desk. At 5 In the afternoon the day's work is done. You get home forty min utes later. By fi o'clock twilight has begun. One hour later and the sun has set. Daylight is over and gone. Suppose, now, you had waked at the same time in the morning. Sup pose your watch had marked 6 o'clock instead of 5. You would have gone to work at 8 o'clock, as usual, and quit at 5 o'clock. But at the end of the day you would have had a whole extra hour of daylight to use as j'ou please, working in your garden, playing golf or baseball, walking in the parks, swimming, or what you please. From Employe's Standpoint From the standpoint of the work nian or employe that seems the most important advantage in the daylight saving movement—the scheme for turning all the clocks and watches one hour ahead in the spring and turning them back for the same dis tance in the fall, when short days and early darkness come. Of •course, it is also true that ev erybody would save one hour's con sumption of electric light because he would go to bed one hour sooner after it became necessary to use arti ficial light. Instead of retiring at I Loan For Every Farmer 1 The sum of S2OO will be available at the nearest bank for every On tario farmer who desires to increase his acreage and needs to money to buy seed. No farmer in Ontario need go without seed this year. Loans will be repayable with in terest at 6 per cent tho first of No vember after the farmer has sold his crop. If .the crop fails and the farmer is unable to repay the money, the [Ontario government will make it good. These are tho main features of tho arrangement made by T. W. Mc- Garry, provisional treasurer, through the organization of resources com mittees, with the Bankers Associa tion, for loans to Ontario farmers who need seed and have no money with which to buy it. These are 175,000 farmers in the Province of Ontario, so that If every one takes advantage of the arrange ment the sum of thirty-five million dollars Is involved. —From the To ronto Globe. The Future of Business The uncertainty which has existed ever since the. war began as to the conditions that would prevail after the war ! s clearing away, and confi dence Is becoming established that there will be plenty of business not onlv while the war lasts but for a term of years /hereafter. The amount of work which is piling up for the principal industries, and par ticularly the iron and steel industry, drives assurance of this. There !s b itreat volume of business booked into 1918 and bookings into 1919 are not infrequent. The shipbuilding industry is certainly good for five years of activity, and steel men be lieve that railroad equipment and construction, and other important demands will not. be satisfied in much less fime. The lumber industry looks forward for several years of assumed activity, and if we are alert to our investment opportunities abroad we can create a large outlet for many lines <sf goods. Our developing re lations with Russia China and South America are very favorable to trade expansion if we nre prepared to give the financial assistance the'v will need and nre worthy of.—Bulletin ot the National City Bank., Increased Capacity The steel Industry has been great ly stimulated by the war. On De cember 81, 1914, the total capacity of the country for making steel bil lets and castings was 40,9i5,325 tons, and on December 31, 1916, according to tho preliminary estimate of the American Iron and Steel Institute, it was 48,770.000, with 0,283,500 ad ditional tons capacity building. The Increase already in service on Janu ary 1 last was therefore 20 per cent and when present construction Is completed the increase will be 35 per cent over the capacity of 1914. • —Bulletin of the National City Bank. 10 o'clock, as at present, one would actually turn out the light at 9 o'clock, though, under the proposed scheme, his watch would mark the hour of 10. In factories and stores which now keep open in the afternoon after dusk has begun to set in experience has shown that there is less likeli hood of accidents if the establish ment is closed while it is still day light. Save Conl Rills v If the daylight saving plan were adopted all over the United States it is estimated that more than one million tons of coal, now burned to produce electric light, would be saved. In the present situation, with a greater demand for coal than can bo readily supplied, with railroads congested with coal cars, and the constantly rising price of fuel, that is an item worth considering. There is a bill now before Con gress which provides that on the last Sunday in April of each year all the timepieces In the country shall be advanced one hour and on the ?ast Sunday In September they shall be set back an hour, thus saving an additional hour of daylight dur ing the spring and summer. As a measure of economy the plan had a'ready been adopted in Eng land, France, Germany. There is more than a possibility that it will be adopted in the United States in time to get the benefit of it during the present year. So for no argu ment which even appears reason able has ben advanced against it. Labor Notes Chile's compensation law is effec tive June 1. Spain has government control over mine organization. There are 109,000 factory workers in Finland. Toronto (Canada) cement workers ask 45 cents an hour. Canadian banks employ more than 3,500 women. Every policeman in Berkeley, Cal., now has an automobile. Gardening Is now taught in 642 schools In Scotland. California now has a law licensing plumbers. Kyoto (Japan) is soon to have a university for women. A new political labor party has been formed at Toronto, Canada. Women are being taught to run trolley cars In Topeka, Kan. In Great Britain 500,000 children start work each year. Milwaukee's Public Employment Bureau found work for 25,945 last i year. South Carolina has 7,000 children I under 16 employed in textile mills. ! A minimum wage of $5 per day of eight hours Is provided for in a ] new working agreement negotiated Iby Frisco Upholsterers' Union with i the Furniture and Carpet Trade As [ sociatlon. Richmond (4'a.) Electrical Work- I ers' Union has reached an agree j ment with contractors. The gains i include an eight-hour day, a 50-cent j minimum wafr rate, time and one | half for overtime and double time j for Sundays and holidays. ! Officers of the White Rats Actors' union have declared the strike against 60 theaters in various parts lof the country suspended because of war conditions. The strike was caused by n lockout-policy of the Vaudeville Managers' Protective As sociation. Wheeling (W. Va.). contractors are signing the new wage scale of leath ers' Union No. 184. A piece work rate of *3.50 per thousand and a day work rate of $5 is asj<ed. Former rates were $3 a thousand for soft lath and $3.50 for hard lath, with $4.50 a day for time work. For the first time in its history, women bave .lust been hired to rush j munition work at u point In New York State. Women In overalls are i replacing men In doing light me [ fchunlcal duties to release the men j for heavier work. WAY 17, 1917. OUR DAILY LAUGH HANDICAPPED. "You're always complaining of colds and. rheumatism. I wouldn't care so much if you only had soma fashionable disease." "I -wouldn't care either, but for two things. 1 haven't got the price and I can't pronounce their names." A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. "Well son, I see you're changed considerable since you left home for college—s'pose you'vo made wonder ful Improvement." "Yes father, I can play a guitar rnd sing harmony as well as any body at school," CRtTEL WOMAN. Mr. Cheapskate: I think I shall buy myself an auto coat. His wife: Why don't you buy a Jitney coat —it. would be nearer your speed? HER RIVAL, "How was it you didn't have a nice time out yachting?" "It was so very stormy that George had his hands full with the sails all tho time ar.d could do nothing but hug the shore, PREVAILING FUMES. "Do you practice deep breathing, ta I told you?" "Can't do It, doctor, without get- Ing yqur lungs full of gasoline." ghntfttg <gfrat| Mayor Charles A. Miller la one of those who helped bring the new Harrlsburg Into being:. Long before any of the great improvements in recent years had been talked about Mayor Miller, then city clerk, eat at his desk In the courthouse ona afternoon chatting with a young newspaperman then doing city of woFjc for a Harrlsburg news was du ring the days when tne Hiver Front resembled a public wll , en consumers were able to i>!L 5 y , water supply down in ™ S"i when every rain flooded A?* of Pa *ton creek valley, mtin !! er *,.delivered himself of a 1' l il th /? t Koun ded like dream slutf at the time but which now ap* J?®* 8 ..T *? OBt in the "Bht of propli# S;„„ I „ hav ® a *''K dream for Har u t R ' sa Mr - Miller, "and part ° f , ~ to Simon Cameron, who i,. !" a retal n'ng wall ought to be built along the River Front and ™ as so impressed with the pos sibilities of Eleventh street that he desired its name to be changed to C ameron. There is only one way to bring those improvements about, and that is for the city to float bonds to build a wall along the river which would be made to cover the outlets to the sewers, and in some way, just how, I do not know, to so divert the waters of Paxton creek as to prevent the flooding of the Paxton creek vat jey. When those things are done Harrlsburg will have the most beau tiful river park in Pennsylvania and what is now known as the Sibletown section will be reclaimed and Cam eron street will take on the impor tance (he old Senator foresaw for it. Another thing we must have," he continued, "is filtered water." That, as nearly as the writer can recall, was the gist of Mayor Miller's con versation. It illustrates the charac ter of man selected by City Council to be the chief executive of the city. The wonder is that it lias taken tlio people all this time to find him out. Andrew E. Buchanan, division passenger agent for the Pennsylva nia Railroad in this city and recently elected president of the Hotary Club, has a sense of humor all his own. ile was division commander of tho "Blues""in the Boy Scout campaign of last week. On the first day the "Beds," led by Flavel L. Wright, came out ahead and there was a good deal of Joking back and forth at the expense of the defeated divi sion. The day following the "Blues" forged to the front and in making his speech of consolation Mr. Bu chanan for a moment surprised his audience by presenting Mr. Wright with a small flag of Holland. "This little flag is the symbol of the dogged persistence of the Dutch people, who know no such thing as the impossible." said Buchanan. "It typlftaa the kind of courage you "Beds' possess. It means that defeat to-day is only a symbol of victory to-morrow. It stands for persist ence, perseverance and a dogged de termination to win," he added, as tho "Reds" broke into cheers. "Hut," he continued, while the "Blues" roared with laughter, "in tills particular instance it means that you 'Beds' are 'in Dutch'." • • These are the days when the rhu barb has the call. People who at tended the markets of the city yes terday morning appeared to be much impressed with the food properties of tho great spring tonic vegetable, or fruit as some term it. and there were few baskets which did not have a bundle of the long stems showing. Bhubarb is systematically abused * and very much used. A great many people accustomed to it In their youth pretend to pass it up, but it is to be noted tjiat almost everyone eats it when it is served and thflt rhubarb pie is as popular in HiH'- risburg homes as it was ten years ago. • • • There were quite some noted men in Harrisburg yesterday for hear ings before Legislative committees. In the number J. Benjamin Dimmick, former mayor of Scran ton; ex-judge W. F. Wheaton, of Wilkes-Barre; W. L. Connell, mem ber of. the conciliation board and one of the big men of Scranton; James Scarlet, the Danville lawyer, and E. J. Lynett, the Scranton pub lisher. • • * The smoke which swept over the city yesterday and last night from tho forest lire in Perry County was a new experience for some of the legislators, who did not understand bow the city should be so permeated by the odor when the fire was so distant. Automobile trips have been taken up the river by a number of people to see the fire. • • One of the reasons advanced at • the Capitol last night for the fixing of an unusually early hour for the convening of the House to-day had a religious flavor. "Why are these rural fellows so bent on a 9.30 session?" asked one member who does not like to get up early.- "Don't you know? Well, the day is Ascension Day. They want to go to church," was tho reply. • • * "As a matter .of fact," said an old observer of legislative matters to day. "This session of the Legisla ture hus had about all of the inter esting moves that have characterized former sessions, but the dragging maimer of the whole business and the tense situation existing between two branches of the government have rather prevented them from being observed. More things have turned up this session than usual and every week there is some new ruction." ~~ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. John A. Brashear, a Pitts burgh scientist, is home from Japan and says that there is good feeling now toward America. —Charles B. Spatz, former legisla tor from Berks county, is turning at tention to real estate developments. —H. C. McEldowney, a Pitts burgh banker, is head of a commit tee of Pittsburgh bankers pushing the war loan in that end of the State. —Dr. W. R. Bobison, Spanish war veteran, is organizing Washington county Home defense organizations. —Anderson H. Walters, Johnstown publisher and former congressman, is the new president of tho Johns town Rotary Club. DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg cigars arc gold all over tlic country? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Thad Stephens used to try cases in cour}. here and often made speeches in Harrisburg. Children Give Up Movies [Prom the St. Paul Pioneer-Press 1 Even the children of Winnipeg are "doing their bit" in war service. Boy and girl pupils of King George School have foresworn chewing gum, candy and the movies until the sum mer vacation. Their spending money Is being contributed to Red Cros* i funds. ,
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