8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THR TBLBGRAPH PRINTING CO., IVleKraph Building, Federal Square. ■E.J. STACKPOU3, Pres't &■ Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American 1 - Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu . mag lation and Penn sylvania Assocl jjfjl Building pY CBter B CP?' 0 ButuPlifg" — —— Chicago, 11L Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $6.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 19 Clever men are good, but they are not the best.—Car lyle. NO TIME FOR HAIR-SPLITTING ris probable that the United States will be compelled to endure much of the anonyance that arose in the early days of the war In England through the impolitic and thoughtless action of men in public place or on advisory commis sions and boards. Let us hope, how ever, that the efforts of Pennsylvania to place herself squarely behind the government will not be weakoned in any way through controversy or splitting of hairs upon any subject. All that the people want is efficient administration of the trusts reposed in the various bodies created for the national defense. There are imbued with patriotic motives and a desire to be of service in this time of crisis. Political or factional or other con siderations must not be permitted to interfere in the slightest degree with what shall be done at this time. Disagreement upon non-essentials may be expected when men are small and arbitrary in their attitude, but where the situation calls for the highest form of public service it may reasonably be expected tkat per sonal differences will be submerged in the great desire to accomplish that which is best for the people. Among other things, the Germans should take note of the fact that Gen eral Pershing Is from Missouri. STEF.LTOX'S CELEBRATION THE hyphen appears to have dis appeared completely in Steel ton. There are no German- Americans, or Austrian-Americans, or Creation-Americans; wheresoever they were born, the people of the steel town are plain Americans to-day. The banners of their home lands stand furled at home while men and women of all races and creeds that go to make up the cos mopolitan populatiai are marching beneath the folds of Old Glory. Under the leadership of Quincy Bent, local head of the big Bethle hem Steel plants, and the progres sive men and women of the town, such an event as that scheduled for to-day could not be other than a suc cess, but a parade half the size of that arranged would have been highly creditable to the town. Har risburg congratulates its neighbor on its spirit and enterprise. General Illndenburg appears to be more successful than Henry Ford in getting his men out of the trenches. HEARTY < o-oi'i .RATION GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH and the executive committee of the Committee of Public Safety having had a thorough un derstanding regarding the co-oper utlon of that body with the commis sion created by the Legislature for national defense it is fair to assume That from now on the co-ordination of the work will proceed without controversy or delay in any impor tant particular. Much practical work has already been done under the supervision of George Wharton Pepper and those associated with him at the Philadel phia headquarters and the Governor has been assured upon all sides of the aid of patriotic,citizens in every line of endeavor. Day by day the people of Penn lylvania and of the United States it large are realizing the great re sponsibility resting upon them In placing the oountry upon a war basis. But however great the burden there is an evident purpose every where to co-operate with all the Dfficial bodies in the defense prep arations. "This Is Roosevelt's war," shrieks "Gum Kho Bill" Stone. If "Bill" Isn't tareful his dear friend, the Kaiser, is Folng to be offended by undue neglect. CLOSE ATTENTION NECESSARY WITH the rapid-fire work of the closing weeks of the Legisla ture It will be necessary for those In charge of Important meas ures to keep their eye on the clock Mid their hand on the levers of leg islation. As Is always the case the finish of any big session is accom panied by more or less hectic con flit ions which frequently Interfere with the proper consideration of im portant measures. After all is said and done, how ever, the bills which, should have Immediate attention are those gen- SATURDAY EVENING, orally affecting the constructive work of the State. In the prepara tion of calendars much of the Junk of the session gets In tho way of the more serious proposals and to avoid obstruction of this sort re- Quires careful attention day by day by those' who are really Interested In accomplishing results. We are sorry that Colonel Roose velt is not to be permitted to go to the front. If the President is right In his conclusions the country is wrong; If the President is wrong, then both the President and the country will be ."uf ferers. The suspicion will not < >wn that there Is a vast amount of poll tics mixed with patriotism at Wash ington. THE TRAINING CAMPS THOUSANDS of young men throughout tho country are now In training camps being put through their testing by compe tent officers and when the great army of the people shall be called into the field later in the summer it is reasonable to expect that officers thoroughly equipped for their work will be ready for their country's service. While the War Department has made no announcement in regard to the second series of camps, never theless it seems possible that one will be held commencing in August. This will give an opportunity to all men who failed to apply in time to enroll In these camps or who were not admitted because of lack of room to enter an officers' training camp. Far be jt from us to hold Germany up as an example for patriotic Ameri cans, but will the gentlemen of the Legislature forgive us for calling at tention to the very short session of the Reichstag? PATRIOTIC ANNIVERSARIES OBSERVANCE of Memorial Day with fitting solemnity and en- tire absence of the holiday levity that too frequently has marked the occasion in recent years is very properly urged by Harrisburg Chap ter of the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution in resolutions adopt ed at the annual meeting. This ac tion is in line with the sentiments of the Grand Army veterans who are in charge of the program. Memorial Day was not designed as a time for merry-making, but as a period set apart for payment of tribute to the soldiers of the nation who sleep their long sleep beneath the sod of every State in the Union. Kac.ing the grave crisis that before the end of summer will take young men from almost every family in the land into the pre carious service of the army, Memor ial Day, 1917, should take on added significance. Equally to be commended In the chapter's recommendation that the Fourth of July be celebrated this year as never before, with all the pomp and ceremony and enthusiasm associated with "an old-fashioned Fourth." Never has the nation's birthday meant so much to us as now, enjoying as we do all the bless ings of freedom and prosperity our democratic form of government has brought to us and on the eve of our entrance into the great contest that is destined to give to the down-trod den peoples of the old world the blessings of personal liberty and op portunity that have been ours since that fateful July 4, 1776, when the fathers of the Revolution threw down the gauntlet to a powerful antagonist and fared forth to battle for what we have come to look upon as dearer than life itself. Camp Hill must realize that its fu ture does not depend only upon the enlargement of Its borders, which is most desirable, but directly upon the permanent treatment of the highway from the river to the limits of the borough. There is no worse road in Pennsylvania than this piece of high way, which has been a constant source of complaint so long that even the good-looking young girl who drives four horses'in the cultivation of a large field near Camp Hill cannot divert the attention of the peeved mo torists. However, it must not be for gotten that this would have been remedied long ago had not the State backed out of its bargain to' lend the borough the aid it asked. It is probable that the several bills providing for permanent treatment of the Capitol Park zone will have final consideration next week. There is no opposition whatever to these meas ures, all members of the Legislature and State officials realizing that there is but one thing to do, which is to carry out the plans so admirably con ceived by Mr. Brunner and Mr. Man ning. Corporations and all others respon sible for openings in the paved streets should do their utmost to have re pairs made as quickly as possible. CONSCRIPTION DAY THE national conscription bill has been signed and the regis tration day fixed. The Presi dent defines the new law in language to which every patriotic American can subscribe. He says: It Is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling; it is rather se lection from a nation which has volunteered in mass. It is not an army that we must shapf and train for war; it is a nation. The nation needs all men, but it needs each man. not in the field that will most please him. but In the endeavor that will best serve the common good. Congress has provided that each man shall be classified for ser vice in the place to which it shall best serve the general good to call him. That Is the way everybody should feel about it. Conscription, as tho President says, Is merely a scientific means of selecting the proper men for the proper places, In order that there may be i>o misfits, no wasted energy and that the war may be brought to a successful close at the earliest possible moment with the least loss of life. To be conscripted for service now is Just as patriotic as to volunteer. When a man regis ters In effect It Is as though he step ped before the recruiting officer and said; "Here am I, ready for service; usslgn me to the post I am best qualified to All. I ask no favors. I desire only to serve my country ac cording to my fitness." ""PoCtttCJ- CM, By the Ex-Commlttecmnn The Impression seems to be pretty general at the State Capitol and In Philadelphia, too, that the differ ences In regard to scope of work which threatened to take the State Defense Commission and tho Public Safety Committee into politics were ironed out at yesterday's joint con ference in the Governor's office and that next week a program wherein the committee can be of much as sistance to the Defense Commission and the State will be prepared. It is now recognized that much of the Inventory work which it was thought the committee would be called upon to do has been handled or is in progress by the national au thorities and that the food problem Is of such wide importance that it will probably not be a matter of State control. One of the lines in which the com mittee will be called upon to help will be in properly launching and supporting the registration. The of ficial machinery will be under State auspices, but such things as aiding in the effort to make it a great patri otic event will be within the province of the committee and valuable work can also be performed in seeing that there are no slackers. The commit tee ran also help In arousing public sentiment to the vital relation of equitable labor distribution to the present crisis. The general plan will be tor the State committee to be assigned vari ous lines of activity with an appro priation formally made by the De fense Commission and all accounts audited by the Auditor General's de partment. The salary list will be held down to a minimum and the idea of making Philadelphia the cen tral point of committee activity will be abandoned because what the com mittee will have to do will be of such state-wide significance that it will necessarily be directed from this city, the center of the State govern ment, and In touch with all coun ties. —Governor Brumbaugh's approval l&st night of the Crow Senate bills providing for amendment of the law relative to the filing of nominating petitions, will make a big change In the time for certification of nomina tions to counties and prevent mis takes due to the haste with which this work had often to be conducted, because of the limited period for making up the lists. The new acts will in nowise interfere with nom ination papers by independent or ganizations, It is declared at the Capitol. The bills were drawn by Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the State Department, as the result of difficulties encountered in the last few years. Under the law all nomi nating petitions must be filed at the Capitol by candidates for State, Con gressional or Legislative offices. Gen erally, there has been a tremendous rush in the last twenty-four hours. Under the Crow acts, the time for filing is shortened from sixty to fortv days and the twenty days clipped off given to the certifying period. Ex perience has shown that petitions will be held back until the last week or last forty-eight hours, no matter how long the period for filing and study of papers shows the average one was signed up in a week. Thus, contend officials, there will be no hardship and there will be no delays in certifying names. —Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods Is the latest official to receive showers of offers to be of service in the registration of men called to the colors. The mail of the Governor and of Adjutant General Stewart has been loaded with offers of men to assist at the registration, either for money or pure patriotism, but when it was learned that Mr. Woods had been working on a system for regis tration at the direction of the Gov ernor his mall began to be loaded up, too. Hundreds of offers have been made to help and the names are being listed for reference to the sheriffs or mayors where the people live, so that they can get in touch with them and avail their registra tion organizations of the services if needed. —The State Board of Censors is the latest to come under fire. Stanley V. Mastburn, a Phlladelphian, has sent a letter to Governor Brumbaugh in which he assails the way they do business. Mr. Mastbaum seems to be of the opinion that he has not been given a proper deal and is dis posed to criticise the way things are handled by members of the board. There never has been any appoint ment made of a third censor since J. Louis BrelUnger resigned. -—The Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin regrets the resignation of Chief W. H. Connell of the Bureau of Highways of that city, and savs bluntly that politics is the cause of what It terms a "misfortune" for the city. The Philadelphia Ledger also says that the city suffers because of C'onnell's resignation and that "effi ciency Is unwelcome in the office which he vacated." —The regularity with which legis lators not aligned with the State ad ministration on some of its policies are catching vetoes is being much commented upon about the Capitol. Up to date, Senator Charies H. Kline appears to be the leading sufferer. The Fool Censor [Manchester Guardian] A correspondent guarantees the accuracy of the following: An aped lady of literary tastes. In the course of a letter to her nephew In the States, quoted the well-known "Ring in" and "King out" verses from "In Memorlam." She learned with amazement that the censor had de leted "with acid" one verse, namely: Ring out old shapes of foul disease. Ring out tho narrowing lust of gold. Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring In the thousand years of peace! Sort of Rhymes With Coffer The fact that Joffre doesn't rhyme with anything is baffling the war poets, and let us all be thankful that it is so. —New Orleans States. HISTORIC HARRISBURG When the first State officials came here to establish the Capitol, the townspeople rode down to Middle town to meet them. That was 114 years ago. Charles M. Schwab says:— Bethlehem's biggest asset is not its rolling mill plants. Its gun shops, its armor works, its rail mills; it Is the men who make up Its enthusiastic or ganization. For more than thirty years I have been superintending the manufacture of steel, and I can say that my men at Bethlehem are the most energetic, competent and lovable young men with whom I have ever worked. 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And one which is not without a sense of genuine moral teaching is "Cecilia of the Pink Roses," for in more ways than one are .the great all-powerful lessons and questions of life brought into the tale. But it is the sweet, winsome, captivating unfolding of the story that places it high in the ranks of good, clean, desirable fiction. Cecilia is a true little Irish girl who, in her early years lias to be mother and housekeeper in a two room tenement apartment after her mother's death. A discovery by,her father in the manufacture of bricks makes them very wealthy, and fol lowing a wish of her mother, Cecilia is sent away to an exclusive school, there to learn to be a lady. Cecilia's love for her father, her father's for her, and her love for her brother first and then another; these are but the ground work for the most charming story of recent fiction. "Cecilia of the Pink Roses" doesn't stop with being just good reading entertainment for it's the kind of story which, after one has read it, makes one wonder whether one's life cannot be made a bit sweeter —a bit more like Cecilia's. "Letters From 11 French Hospi tal" (Houghton Mifflin, SI.OO net.) A collection of most unusual let ters written by an English girl, who gave her services as a volunteer Hed Cross nurse. Published not so much for their literary merit (although there is a commendable style in them), as for. their value to show the daily life of nursing in a war hospital, and in a mafiner to set forth a phase of war about which we hear but very little. "Letters From a French Hospital" comes at a timely moment, one when these actual experiences will be of ex treme interest to thousands of our own girls. The writer whose name has been withheld has gone beyond the point of letter conversation and has in really graphic description given us a peep behind the scenes of the alleviation of the horrors of war; not from the viewpoint of one who has made nursing a profession, but from that of one who seeing a duty stepped forth to meet it, and knowing a duty, held a steady course through ill health and strenuous days and nights. This "human in terest" volume commends itself strongly to every one of us, espe cially at this time when our gaze turns into the future to see what of this same condition awaits us. Newspaper Advertising Thomas H. Moore, associate direc tor of the Bureau of Advertising of the A. N. P. A., advocates the news paper against all other methods of promoting general <tore publicity. He says: "The newspaper goes into the home. It is part of the home, part of the family. Newspaper advertise ments are read under the most fa vorable circumstances. They are read because people want to read them, and not merely because they are thrust upon them. People who read them paifl money for the priv ilege of doing so. "It is the force of the newspaper behind the advertisement that gives it its big punch. If there were no advertisements the newspaper would still exist, because it fills a great human want. Advertising that ex ists merely because it is advertising can only be given a supplemental value. The advertising is part of the newspaper because people expect it. It is there because it is news and service to the reader. Newspaper advertisements come to the people by their direct commission, and at their request. "I find five successful stores using newspaper advertising alone, to one using a combination or mediums. "Even stronger evidence In favor of newspapers can be had from the records of some great businesses to day that started from small begin nings. If we inquire into the history of these businesses we usually find that they began to grow with the first little advertisement that was put into the daily newspapers. You will find in every city, stores whose newspaper advertising has increased from year to year as their business has grown proportionately. Fifty-six years ago ac men open ed a clothing store In an adjoining city with a capital of $4,000, and now the turnover is $50,000,000 yearly. "In June, last, the founder of this business was asked his opinion of advertising values, and turning back THE PEOPLE'S Sunday Farming To the Editor of the Telegraph : As I sat at my front window last Sabbath morning and watched the men and horses laboring on the tract being laid out by T. G. Calder, and known as Cloverly Heights, the idea came to me that it would be a grand, good thing to follow the ex ample of that patriotic pastor of the church in Lexington, Mass., who closed his church for the months of May and June so that his "flock" could spend their time in caring for their gardens and so he could en list in the service of his country. By this I do not mean to say that I believe it necessary to work on real estate propositions on the Sab bath, but I do say that in justice to the man who works from seven in the morning until six in the even ing, six days a week, that it would be perfectly proper and fitting that he be permitted, and in fact en couraged, to spend as much of the Sabbath in his garden "doing his bit" as his conscience dictates. He who does not have the morn ings and evenings to spend raising something to eat, is entitled to more consideration than anyone else be cause he belongs to a vaster army than those who work from eight thirty to five-thirty. A large num ber of these men either lie around the house and read the Sunday pa per or go down to "the corner and talk things over" because of some thing better to do. Why not enlist these men and their families in the great army of the "hoe." By so doing he would be doing his country a service that otherwise he does not have the op portunity to perform because of his long hours of labor. I do not believe in closing the church at any time, but there are a great many people who do hot attend regularly and who would be doing their country and state a vaster amount of good by raising a good supply of food for next winter than spending their Sundays at home or on the corner. My object in writing to you at this time 1s to enlist your support and co-operation in a movement that is every day becoming more essential because of the lateness of the sea son. and it is, therefore, necessary that more people be enlisted in the garden movement. It is in the name of the laboring man who has longer to his first experience as his start ing point, he said: AVana maker Tribute "Our little allowance of advertising, money went to the newspapers then, as it goes nearly altogether to-day, because, if 1 ever have a monument for discovering anything, it will ba for tinding out that the only adver tising of direct and instant benefit to both merchant and customer. Is in the daily newspaper of known cir culation. All others are vanity and vexation of spirit. To have learned this -fact has greatly holped my en terprises, though often there has been serious discomfort in saying so publicly." "The hand that wrote this tribute to newspaper advertising was the hand of the world's greatest- mer chant —John Wanamaker." Strange Idea About Wilson There could not be stronger evi dence of the stability of this repub lic and the healthful vigor of its democracy than Is to be found in the united support given to Presi dent Wilson in the great task laid upon him. From the time when he ended u long period of- uncertainty by uttering in memorable words tho judgment and the decision of the American people, his leadership hari commanded the undivided and ar dent allegiance of his countrymen. Injudicious admirers are not sat isfied with this, however. They are not content that the admirable declaration of tho causo of democ racy. and the policy of action which It introduced, should counterbalance the two-year record of Inertia which preceded them. They are inclined to insist that President Wilson, mis judged by the heedless and maligned by the envious, was always moving steadily toward this goal: that the apparent Indecision which bewild ered public thought and confused the common judgment was really a subtle device of super-statesman ship, designed to lead the nation to make the choice which Mr. Wilson's sagacity has discerned from the be ginning to be wise and nqfeessary. No sooner had the chords of "He kept the country out of war" been drowned by the clamor of martial preparation. Ilian there arose among his partisans an admiring refrain celebrating the fact that ho had led hours of labor and less time to de vote to a garden during the week that I suggest that he be permitted and encouraged to work his garden on Sunday. Yours very truly, WM. HOWARD SPEAKMAN, 1717 Revere Street. Buddy Thanks Telegraph To the Editor of the Telegraph: On the morning that I first met you I knew that we were going to get close together during this three weeks' of strenuous work, And I want to assure you that X sincerely value the friendship that has de veloped d&ring that time. Also please accept my real appreciation for the splendid publicity and space you have given me throughout the campaign. The editorials you have written I value particularly because X believe it is peculiarly effective in convinc ing people of the vital value of this wonderful movement that I repre sent. I shall be looking forward to the time when I can pay a little visit to this good town which has treated me so royally, when I can renew the friendships that I have made, not the least of which, by any means, is that of your own good self. With kind remembrances, Sincerely yours, LEWIS BUDDY, Nat. Field Scout Commissioner. Wants Square Deal To the Editor of the Telegraph: Will you please tell me why the men of the National Guard and reg ular army are not given a fairer deal ? Why are men taken from civil life and placed over these men as offi cers, when men in the National Guard and regular army have serv ed from five to iifteen years. They are fully as capable—some of them. I understand the colonels of rcgi menj.s were asked to send twenty five men to the training camps. Why should Colonel Wood of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry pick his men from the First and Second Troops of Philadelphia—his favor ites? Are these things right at a time like this when men's patriotism is aroused and they get no better chance than that? Why cannot polltids be forgotten at this time? A WIFE OF A GUARDSMAN. the country into war. He is repre sented as the misunderstood, but far visioned, statesman who labored foi two years to fit the nation for 'ts part in the conflict, gradually instill ing in his unresponsive countrymen a spirit of high resolve, and acting at last when lie was quite persuaded that slow-moving public opinion had come abreast of his advanced oosi tlon. • • There are no reservations in our loyal adherence to tho President's leadership, and it has been our Judg ment that the errors and deficiencies in his past course might be left for the scrutiny of history. But we must object to the studied promotion of a theory which has no foundation in fact and which is intolerably un just to the American people. • * * Happily, the record ij. too plain ti he distorted. If President Wilson, as his eulogists have persistently de clared, "kept us out of war," let that achievement content them; let them not impair his present leadership by trying to demonstrate that his course was insincere and that he was re elected under false pretenses.—The North American. Labor Notes Strikes in this country date back to 1740, when a group of journey men bakers in New York City struck for higher wages. To meet the increased cost of liv ing, 1,000,000 female munition work ers- in England have asked for an In crease in pay. An electrical process Is being tried in Russia for the manufacture of gold leaf, heretofore made only by hand. Nairn (Scotland) School Board has agreed to pay a war bonus of SSO to teachers with a salary of SSOO or less. Peat covers about a seventh of the area of Ireland, and deposits are es timated to contain 40,0.00,000 tons cf fuel. London. (Can.) Street Railways offer to recognize the recently organ ized union and to grant a number of concessions was accepted. MAY 19,191 T. Hearst Singes Houston Secretary Houston's plea for studied economy, wearing old clothes, etc., brought forth a vigor ous reply from William Randolph Heart, whose letter to the editor was published in the columns of Mr. Hearst's New York Evening Journal. Mr. Hearst said, in part: "Mr. Houston is doing his best to bring on a financial depression, and what will this country do if we have financial depression on the one hand and tremendously high taxation on the other hand? "A man with an ounce of intelli gence. an inch of foresight, can see that if the people who have money to spend stop buying at the stores, the stores will fail and go into bankrusptcy. Hundreds of employees will be discharged, the orders to tho factories will be discontinued. The faories, except those which are supplying government orders, will be closed up, and thousands of their employees will be discharged. "The depredsioji is already felt, the stories are already encounter ing the effect of this dread of high taxation, and this preachment of false economy. You cannot take away from the purchasing activity of the community (1) the money that is removed by taxation and (2) the money that is hoarded through fear and have anything left to sustain the business of the country. "As a matter of plain fact, the people who can spend should con tinue to spend. The business ot the country should go on, as far as pos sible, as Usual." —Editor and Pub lisher. OUR DAILY LAUGH | HEARTLESS. She — l Attended cooking school before wr were married. He —What did you do thera- plaj bridge T " V PATRIOTISMIN TOYIiAND. Wooden Soldier—Come on fellows, ■lgn up. Do your bit and don't be • slacker. AN V IVIDUAL. "What's y0... favorite animal?" "A goldish; it doesn't sing or have to be put out of the house at night" A TOUCH OF REALISM. Mrs. Battlecry—My club has aelted us to take part in the pageant of the '®o's that they'ro giving. Friend Husband—What do they want us to do, impersonate the Civil Wart Stoning (Eljal Suggestions that Pennsylvania, the champion buckwheat raising: State of the Union, increaso tho acreage voted to-the grain that makes the flour that makes the batter, that makes the delicious cake, are about >,°nv e i, made . by state officials Who VO,H i° en ? t . ud >' in K the acreage de „ ralalng of foodstuffs in the w omm .onwealth. This State bushpi, ?*?' foui " and flve million morn th buckwheat last year, sands „fT a u y , other Stato b y thou ured out Jh ß^ 6 ' 8, und il has been fl &" " some of the run-down voted to co , u ! d be Profitably de- Th,. n i raising of this cerealJ offlcfals v° ney ln U - too > tho „ L or of f the production or buckwheat has been growing in fn thf noS"t ° nd 11 ls be,lev d that BUch an oL ye! , lrH there ca bo mako ilT a ?f Planted as woulfl he Statn f, ? ,P re -°minence of come st.l. that ", ne for years to come, Steps are also belne takpn Uiuantltles^f 0 f eople to ra,Be larger that thn * anß l nd a suggestion the State buy UD larirn and* 1 self B th' th ? standard varieties no sell them to people who will tlo r ns 6 h° P i ant under ce rtaln condi tions has been considered. It hu<i that° V be' UuT £ #C, , ded b * Powers like ii,„ buying up of beans, uv ! ,r P T' for the state to going a mi S<? , Potatoes, would be esDßrlftllv ! far " 11 is believed, e h X, a y among men interested ln Question ' tters ' that it is only a State will i a tlme until the to making appropriations to insure supplies of seed vegetables dcmnS n f SMds themselves. A steadv i_ e l" and '°r such materials for farm lios been no.| Wi H llr L the reach of a nas been noticed the last few veara and sentiment in favor of such Stat in'ffli W "& h -ould favor sales in small quantities, has been crow- Posed V to r° ng 11,080 who are °P a matter of princlple! reßulat,on as When col. Lewis E. Beitler of for th l ia .' U i® new ,leld secretary mittep firJt PubMc D <"ense Com niiitee, first came to Harrtabnr* was a full-fledsed dlploniat He had Mayors Fltlr 2 eor etary under delnhln \ an / St,lart >n Phila hnnHii,l ?} ild a reputation for handling questions and all kinds of I"®" a successful manner, and his acquaintance was Statewide. Gov- Dan'el Hartman Hastings in looking about for a private secre tary, ilxed upon "Lew" neftler as PhUadel d n y h^ neW him ' a,ld ,h *" Philadelphian came to Harrisburg to ((lirinir ' tosLv 1 1'nistration that was, ay the least . stormy. But he was h , Lf SUfCCS '/, Ul ln the ° mco of wnVln ?£, CX ?f UtlVe ° f 11 state as >'e frtfnrtl Tir a , nd hc addc d to his friends. While in Harrisburg Mr ® t e 1 !; o n rst resided in third street r^£? ,a ** re - and later removed to i? l!jt^er h °use, Pine near Second where he and his accomplished wife were noted as entertainers, and were prominent in Harrisburg soei ?i™, he " .Governor Hastings re tired Mr. Beitler was named as dep uty secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Stone. When Governor 6 appointed General Charles Miller of Franklin to be major gen- S the Pennsylvania National Guard, lie sent Mr. Beitler to Frank. lin to tender him the appointment, and at that meeting General Miller requested Mr. Beitler to become a of his staff with the rank I "S!'?, 1 " 1 colonel, and ho accept- S. , That Js how he became a colonel. Colonel Beitler was afterwards re appointed deputy secretary of the Commonwealth by Governors Pennv packer and Stuart, also being majfc a member of the military family or each governor, advancing his mili tary rank, but he dropped out for a while under Governor Tener until the latter, feeling the need of a man ot such wide experience on his staff reappointed him an aid. In the Pener administration Colonel Beitler had charge, as administration secre tary and as the motive force, of the arrangements for the holding of the reunion of the Union and Confed erate soldiers of the Civil War on the battlefield of Gettysburg on the fifti eth anniversary of that great battle, and so i well did he perform the duties that the received the enconi ums of thousands of men who par ticipated. His report on the holding of that reunion is considered a gem. being one of the most complete over made. For several years Colonel Beitler has been connected with a trust company in Philadelphia, hut every Harrisburger extends him "welcome to our city." * ♦ • Colonel Beitler, who has estab lished the offices of the Defense Commission In the lieutenant gov ernor's suite, is rejoicing in the fact that he was able to secure the desk which he used when he was secre tary of the Gettysburg Semicenten nial Commission, the place in which he won national notice because of the manner in which things were handled. The desk wa.-i used by the colonel for three years and yesterday he dug It out of one of the depart ments. • * The bill passed by the Legislature a few days ago to provide for the State of Pennsylvania to pay the ex penses of Its sons who fought in the battle of Vicksburg to attend the anniversary exorcises was drawn by Colonel John I!. Patrick, one of the leading veterans of the State. The bill provides I'M- extension of recog nition of services of the Pennsylva nians along as liberal lines as Gettys burg and Colonel Patrick drafted it after a study of the situation among survivors of the regim.ents which took part in that battle. * * . * —Cards have been received here announcing that General George W. Goethals has entered a big engineer ing tirm in New York, of which John •C. Jay Jr., formerly of this city, is a member. Mr. Jay was connected with the Pennsylvania Steel Com pany for several years. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. W. W. Keen, noted Phila delphia physician, was hurt in an accident near his home and Is con fined to his room. —Blaine Aiken, who has been transferred to the officers reserve of the National Guard, has been active in the service for twenty years. —Representative Fred Beyer, chairman of the House judiciary general committee, used to be an as sistant city solicitor. < —Dr. J. P. Kerr, Pittsburgh coun cilman, who was here during the week, is spoken of for mayor of that city. —Senator IT. A. Tompkins of Cam bria is a big coal operator and Is enlarging some of his operations. —E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadel phia financier, says that he win quit the transit board If the dispute* are not ended soon. | DO YOU KNOW • That II arris burg can Turnlsh men familiar wltli every branch of railroading to tbc government I mum ice? ' ~ i
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