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MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21
Remember, gentlemen, that
when you meet with a diffi
culty you are onjhe eve of a
discovery.—Lord Kelvin.
SELLING THE LIBERTY B©NDS
OFFICIALS of the Clearing House
Association are naturally pleas
ed to accept the proffer of the
bond agencies and salesmen of
their services for the sale of liberty
bonds in this city.
Harrisburg people are never slow
to find a way to accomplish any. task
that may present itself. In this in
stance the men whose business it is
to sell bonds offer to give their own
time and energies to putting the!
difty of buying liberty bonds direct
ly up to the people. • There is noth
ing like personal contact in sales
manship. Newspaper advertising
has paved th 6 way. The people now
understand just what these bonds
are and the terms under which they
are to be sold. They know, too, how
important it is that the issue be
fully subscribed in the time set. They
will have no excuse, therefore, to
offer when the salesmen call.
The bond agents are volunteering
thus to "do their bit." Treat them
courteously when they call and buy
as many bonds as your pocketbook
will permit—or, better still, be pre
pared to tell the salesman thaf you
already have subscribed your full
share.
In Philadelphia, the other night, a
Guardsman shot and killed a man who
attempted to take a gun from another
soldier. And, of course, the victim's
friends think the slayer should be
tried for murder.
BUSINESS AND THE WAR
CONSIDERING the great wealth I
of the allfes with the assurance,
that they cannot be beaten, j
and with strong possibilities of com
plete victory, depending upon how'
far we jcare to push the advantage,
that is now ours, it would seem un-1
questionable in any event that the!
credit of France and England j
should be perfectly good, but backed j
as they are by the guarantee of the j
United States their bonds absorbed i
in this country will be a source of j
the greatest prosperity for the
American people. The future of the
country is bright, from the view- j
point of wealth widely divided,
among the people; that Is, if the
people themselves are wise enough
to seize the opportunity offered.
Following the Civil War govern
ment bonds were common forms of
credit and exchange and they form- i
ed the basis of many a modest in
come. They were often reckoned
better than gold as they sold above}
face value and the man or woman j
who invested in them never had I
cause to deplore the fact. We are!
offered now the chance that our
fathers had in the Civil War. It is!
for us to economize here and there
and lay ba:k something for a rainy
day in the way of government
fconds. This and the substantial
taxation that is now proposed by the
Government should have a tend
ency, along with that of advancing
costs, to produce thrift and economy
that was the general rule of the
American people two generations
ago, and the lack of which was a
considerable factor for poor business
and slight financial stringency some
years before the war.
The large government loan would
oeem to vastly stimulate the produc
tion of this country as a whole, and
at the same time decrease the buy
ing power of the dollar, though the
latter process has been in effect for
some time. It would seem there has
been- considerable depreclaUon in
money values abroad, as exhibited
in foreign exchange, besides the
variation due to their Imports large
ly exceeding the exports. .
In an effort to maintain the value
of their money, Germany has fixed
prices for foodstuffs, but it has been
necessary to vigorously restrict the
amount that could be purchased by
any one person. While the value of
the dollar had been decreasing even
before the war, and will probably
decrease more rapidly now, there is
reason to believe that there will be
■ome factors that should later act
In the direction of eventually in
creasing its purchasing power.
As the price of food and other
commodiUes increases, will con
sume a smaller amount and receive
a greater value for that which we
export, giving us a splendid oppor
tunity to save individually and col-
lectlvely. As the chief executive of
this country has expressed our lack
MONDAY EVENING,
of desire for conquest, the latter will
probably be our compensating: fac
tor for the expenditures we are mak
ing.
The Immediate effect of our large
government loan should not produce
a panic or great stringency, as the
money will be deposited largely In
the districts from which the sub
scriptions are derived. It Is a trite
saying that "Money is simply a
medium of exchange."
IJ would not seem a time to specu
late, but a splendid one for pure
and particularly long time invest
ment. The men (also business con
cerns and institutions) that can save
and invest in the government, rail
road, public utility and corporation
issues, will render a service to the
country, and will bo later well re
paid for their thrift, far beyond the
sacrifice of luxuries and waste that
can be well dispensed with.
Business promises not only to bo
"as \isual" during the war, but "bet
ter than usual." If we buy what we
need, avoiding both extravagance
and waste, all will be well and we
shall have something to save beside.
The country seems to be getting
along very well with the grain ex
changes closed.
CHANGING ON TARIFF
ris a remarkable and important
fact that many newspapers and
periodicals which until recently
made light of protective tariff agita
tion are now discussing the question
seriously and admitting the probable
need of a restoration of duties on the
basis of the protective principle.
Those Republicans who have stead
fastly adhered to time-tried funda
mentals will find some satisfaction in
observing the capitulation of their
opponents.
"After the war" will not bo a
proper time to take up the tariff j
question. To leave the question un- •
til peace has been declared would
very likely involve us In embarrass
ment In dealing with the terms of
peace. It has long been apparent
that at the close of the war the allies
will endeavor to frame commercial
policies among themselves to their
mutual advantage and to the disad
vantage o£ Germany.
If, at the close of the war, we
have still a low tariff policy with a
multitude of commodities on the
free list, we shall take up commer
cial questions on an equality with
Great Britain, whose normal policy |
has been one of free trade. If, on
the other hand, the close of the war
finds lis with a protective law on the
statute books, ( we shall have an ad
vantage, for we should then be oper
ating under our normal system and j
could not be expected to make any!
concessions. We could retain our I
normal import rates more easily
than we could impose them at the
time we were participating in the
establishment of peace and the new
relations which we shall sustain to
ward all the rest of the worluV We
might be able to make some "con
cessions" from high protective rates,
but we would have nothing upon
which to base concession if we
were operating under a free trade
policy.
We should lose no time, therefore,
in getting back to our normal "Am
erica First" policy, so that we shall
have that advantage when we nego
tiate with the other warring nations j
concerning future peace relations, j
"The British perfect woman has
been discovered —she is -to ;w\d the
mother of five children," says a news
item. That being the standard. Har- j
risburg ought to be able to furnish at j
least a half dozen for every block in !
the city.
SETTING IDLERS TO WORK
THE Mayor of Findlay, Ohio, has
issued a noticj to the idle men
of his city that they must
work or subject themselves to forced
labor. According lo the Morning
Republican of that city, the Mayor j
"has the support of every citizen in :
his efforts to rid the streets and loaf
ing centers of their parasitic groups
and transform them into laborers
for the nation's weal."
Just how the Mayor expects to en
force his order is not apparent. Per
haps the vagrancy law of Findlay will
govern the case. However that may
be. it is altogether probable that the
publicity given the Mayor's notice
will create a public sentiment which
will in itself drive the idler into use
ful occupation.
RAILROAD PATRIOTISM
RAILROAD corporations and their
millions of employes through
out the United States are now
on their mettle and will have an un
usual opportunity to show what they
can do for their country in a great
emergency. This is the conclusion
of a prominent railroad official and
It Is reinforced by statements of
other railroad managers.
Efforts are being made upon ev
ery hand to increase the railroad fa
cilities and to assure the country of
the highest type of efficiency in the
operation of the 262,000 miles of
lines. It is understood that without
largely increased railroad equipment
1a cars and locomotives there will
be a hampering of the mobilization
of the nation's armies and the trans
portation of the needed supplies. For
tunately for the country, the rail
road men —officials and emnloves—
are patriotic and are determined to
do their utmost to meet the emer
gency.
In a recent bulletin of the Amer
ican Railway Association, through
its special committee 4>n national
defense, the need of co-operation In
every department of the railroad
service Is emphasized. Employes are
urged to do theli- level best to
achieve the highest efficiency in the
operation of the roads under exist
ing conditions. This co-operation is
also Invited on the part of shippers
and all who arc in any way inter
ested in railway service.
Among other things It has been
suggested that the railroad officers
' and employes get together at dl
vision points and consider the na
tional situation In ail Its aspects, so
that those immediately concerned
may be fully acquainted with the
need of the transportation facilities
of the country at this time. There
will also be conferences between
railroad managers and commercial
bodies, shippers and consignees, so
os to enlist their aid in attaining the
desired efficiency.
It is a time when all must pull
together for the safety and welfare
of a great people.
It certainly is a line thing to have
several boys who Insist on seeing the
circus.
CH.
f i KitO if&rcuvca
fiy the Ex-Commlttecmnn
Members of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature may take a recess over next
week because of Memorial Day and
then come back and work until the
last Thursday in June, when they
may either adjourn or take a fur
ther recess. The latter plan seems
to be the most likely.
For several days there has been
gossip among the legislators here
about a proposition to take a recess
over Memorial Day and to-day It
took form when several members de
cided to suggest to the rules com
mittee of the House that the lower
branch work until Friday noon of
this week and then adjourn until
I Monday evening, June 4. It was
pointed out by some of these men
that the appropriation bills and oth
er important House bills will l>e out
of the way by Friday and that if
they went home over the week-end
and came back it would be for prob
ably only two days' sessions.
Members of the Senate are said
to be favorable to the recess idea.
By .the end of the week. If the House
keeps the Friday program the Senate
will have all of the important bills
and the framing of a program for
the last lap of the Legislature, as
far as business goes, can then be
taken up.
The recess proposition is regarded
.as ending all hopes of the Legisla
ture winding up before the end of
June and makes it reasonably cer
tain that the appropriation bills will
go to the Governor for action while
the Legislature is in session.
—Conservationists in various parts I
of the State hare been writing here j
for information as to the occasion
for the Salus bill to provide for sale
or lease of natural resources of the
State and inquiring whether it would
not interfere with the general plan
of conservation of forests, water and
other natural advantages of Penn
sylvania, as well as the state forest
reserves, to which the state adminis
trations for the last decade have
been committed. The bill sponsored
by the Philadelphia senator would
give the State Board of Property
wide powers over coal under
streams and timber on top of forest
reserves.
—Philadelphia bids fair to pre
sent some new cases of entertain
ment to the House this week as the
Penrose people will make an effort
to get the single barrelled Philadel
phia council bill before the lower
branch. This is one of the reform
measures to which the Vare people
are violently opposed. The opposi
tion to the bill to keep policemen
and firemen out of politics appears
to have been appeased by some
amendments.
—After a lot of fuss the Phila
delphia transit hearing set for to
morrow and called off has been ar
ranged again. Senator Kline, chair
man of the committee in charge,
wants to postpone the hearing be
cause of some engagements, but pro
tests were made in Philadelphia and
checked it.
—Hazleton is threatening to start
enforcement of the old blue laws.
Altoona has been enforcing them
and creating more or less stir every
Sunday.
—The bill to repeal second
class city nonpartisan act wnll be in
the Legislature to-night and the re
sult is being awaited with interest
because it will indicate state-wide
feeling.
—Governor Brumbaugh spoke in
a church in Philadelphia last night
on the war and its problems for
citizens. The Governor again re
ferred to his intention to call upon
members of the public safety units
to act as watchers during the regis
tration on June 5.
—Judge Charles D. Copeland, of j
the Westmoreland county court, is!
in battle already. The Judge raised
his stenographer's salary to $3,000
and when it was made an issue de
clared that he not only stood for
it but that he would be a candidate
in 1919 whether his enemies liked
it or not.
—Democratic bosses are having
trouble with York county postmast
ers. They insist on more pay and
the congressman has a large mall
these days.
—Joseph R. Grundy has given
some very practical aid to his home
borough of Bristol. There was senti
ment in the town in favor of a bor
ough manager to get things into a
new business system and Mr. Grundy
who had already been a substantial
benefactor of the town, offered to
pay the salary for three years,
amounting to $6,000. The pouncil
accepted the offer with a suitable
expression of thanks for the gift.
—C. P. Greenwood, former Ches
ter county legislator, died suddenly
in Philadelphia last night. He was.
well known here.
Frost Should Use Judgment
Frost on the pumpkin at the right
time is poetic. Frost on the tender
tomato plant Is pathetic.—Toledo
Blade.
Retroactiveness Too Limited
The trouble about a retroactive
ilcome tax is that the thing it falls
on won't retroact worth a cent.—
Chicago Herald.
Monkeying With the Buzz Saw
The,head of the German Reich
stag defies America, hut he should
remember that defying America Is
what, got the Kaiser a new enemy.
—Atchison Globe.
Hope
[From. New Haven Evening Union]
While Maximilian Harden lives,
Germany will not be wholly without
a vision of truth.
The Watchful Spud
[From the Boston Transcript]
Remember that the eyes of tho
potato are upon you.
When Greek Meets Greek
[From the New York Sun]
When Frenchman meets American
then comes the hug of war.
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BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" 1 ,
"War Flames"'—John Curtis Un
derwood, (Macmlllan $1.35). Rarely
is one given the opportunity to get
a truly vivid insight into a war
it is being waged, but in "War
Flames" one receives a conception
that grips and appeals as no other
war volume has yet done. Mr. Under
wood's verse is indeed a marvel of
fact, coupled with a true imagina
tive power that places his work in
the front ranks of tlie true artist.
Notable, in tlie opinion of the writer,
are his groups of verse written
around Belgium and Austria the
most appealing, but that does not
detract from the other groups,
groups written around every nation
now at war. For every line portrays
with brilliant, vivid colors an inci
dent of this war, that now, with our
own country in the melee comes
home to us with additional forc&.
And "Our Share," the envoi of the
volume, speaks to America in clarion
tones our weakness, our waste, our
Godlessness. "War Flames" is writ
ten with a wealth of inspiration
gathered from a variety of sources,
each inspiration touched by a mas
ter hand with sublime imagination
which carries the reader to a level
from which he perceives a new per
spective in the.tangled skeins of this
great world war.
"In the Claws of tlie German Eagle"
By Albert Rhys Williams, special
war correspondent for The Outlook.
Some winced and cried aloud, oth
ers turned white with terror, still
others laughed defiant to thQ_ end.
Caught in the Claws . the author
shared with these fellow prisoners
the torments of trial as a spy by the
German Military Court in Brussels.
Humor brightens the book where
is described the faking of war pho
tographs, and eternal romance lifts
you above the red reek in the tale
of the American girl the author aid
ed in her search for her officer lover.
Net $1.50. E. P. Dutton &■ Com
panv, 681 Fifth avenue, New York
City.
Central Called Him
She was a telephone girl, he a
telegraph clerk, and they were con
templating matrimony. They were
sitting by the Are discussing the
biissful time when they would have
a little home of their own. The
conversation drifted to the topic of
tire lighting and he ventured the
opinion that no man should get up
and light fires in the morning. He
should lie in bed and rest for the
day's work.
The girl stared at him IU silence
for a minute, and then very sweetly,
but with great firmness, said:
"Dear man, ring off, please;
You're on the wrong number!' —Ex-
change.
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Ex Patria
May God forgive you Germany,
For you know not what you do. •
A loyal son, I can not keep
The faith with such as you,
I have a mother waiting
Out there beyond the Rhine-
May God -forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
I said you were attacked, I lied;
The ties of blood held fact
But now the truth —those dreadful
days
Of doubt are safely past.
I have a little sweetheart
Somewhere beyond the Rhine—
May God forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
Belgium! Dusitanla!
A friendly nation mourns!
Sharp as a Uhlan's lance is
Th' eternal crown of thorn*
Ere you regain your reasons.
Your foes must cross the Rhine—
May God forgive you, Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
L'KNVOI.
The call has come across the seas,
I, too, must fall in line —
May God forgive you. Germany,
Fatherland of mine!
—New York 'Times.
..St''
Charles M. Schwab says:—
There are a good many things to be
considered in selecting men for im
portant positions. One of the things
that I always take Into acount is their
family relations. If a man's wife
takes the part of a discreet helper,
co-director with him, he is that much
the more valuable to us.
It Is a common enough saying that
it is harder to save money than to
earn it. The women of the United
States have more to learn about their
husband's money than the .men have
to learn about getting it. ' That is.
men are getting more out of thoir
earning' capacities than their wives
are getting out of managing the
money which their husbands provide
for them.
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| THE NEW LOAN AND OTHERS \
MOST Americans Remember from
their school days that the cost
of the Civil war to the North
was $3,000,000 a day. The sum seem
ed tremendous, and indeed it was
for those times. Very likely in pro
portion to the population and the
wealth of the day, it was as great
as the sums expended by the Euro
pean governments in the present
world war. Still It sounds small In
comparison with the $30,000,000 or
more expended by the British gov
ernment every day.
And now comes the American gov
ernment with plans.to raise $5,000,-
000.000 as/a long-time loan, besides
$2,000,000,000 more in the form of
treasury certificates for a short
period. To this is to be added an
other large sum raised by new tax-
How long these sums will last
no one can say. Should they all be
expended within one year it would
represent over $2 5,000,000 a day,
SumlAys included.
The wealth of the United States
has been estimated as in the neigh
borhood of $200,000,000,000, or
roughly speaking, thirty times the
amount of this loan. Germany, with
a population of about two-thirds
that of the United States, and with a
wealth considerably less than one
half that of the United States, has
now floated six different lorfns ag
gregating approximately $17,000,-
000,000. One cannot help wondering
how soon her ability to raise ad
ditional sums will end.
What makes the contrast between
the American government and the
German government the more strik
ing is that up to the present time
Germany has done practically noth
ing to raise by taxation the money
needed to pay the interest on her
huge loans. Not far from one-fourth
of the last loan must have - been
used to pay interest on the sums al
ready borrowed.
An interesting feature about the
national indebtedness of nations is
brought out by the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. It is pointed out that
the only two countries on the face
Labor Notes
Magnetized plates, to be fastened
to a finger with clips, have been
invented to save carpenters' time
picking up nails.
The Chilean Government will send
an agent to study the paper-making
industry and processes in the United
States and Canada.
The first farm paper was printed
in England in 1081. and dignified it
self with the title Collection of let
ters for the Improvement of Hus
bandry pnd Trade.
In addition to improved conditions,
Toronto brewery workers receive an
increase in wages of from $1.50 to
$3 p.er week. The present scdle of
wages is sl6 and $2.5 a week.
Twenty-four women are studying
wireless telegraphy preparatory to
their replacing the men operators
employed at the navy short stations.
The fishermen of the Gold Coast
of Africa devote each Tuesday to the
sea god, doing no fishing but utiliz
ing the time to mend their nets.
Legislation passed by the last Ten
nessee State Assembly will go far
toward regulating the evils of pri
vate employment agencies.
Connecticut State Senate has
passed a bill that would prohibit
the attachment of the body of a
union man in a court action grow
ing out of strikes.
Southern Pacific R&ilroad officials
estimate that the recent eight-hour
settlement with train service em
ployes will cost the company "be
tween $1,750,000 and $2,000,000 a
year."
Secretary-Treasurer Persion of the
International Hod Carriers Building
and Common laborers' Union re
ports that twenty-five locals have
been organized during the past quar
ter.
A Greek sponsre fisherman's dive
tc a depth of 262 feet In the sea Is
believed to be the world's record for
a man unprotected by any sort of
diving apparatus.
The warden of the Kansas State
penitentiary favors a liberal use of
the parole system In these war times
and would release inmates in the
State penitentiary for farm purposes.
Conditions on the Atlantic Coast
have compelled vessel owners to
raise wages of able seamen and fire
men to S6O a month; oilers and
pumpmen, $65; boatswains, S7O, and
carpenters, $75
of the globe which have made a
practice of paying in the piping days
of peace the indebtedness incurred
in times of stress are the United
States and Great Britain.
When our Civil war ended the
government's debt was $2,700,000,-
000. Twenty-five years later $2,-
000,000,000 had been wiped out,
leaving inly the $70,000,000. When
the Napoleonic war in IS]2, ended,
the British debt was $4,400,000,000.
Eighty-live years later it was $3,-
100,000,000, and that, too, in spite
of the fact that in the interim sl,-
8000.000,000 had been borrowed.
The real total reduction, there
fore. during that period was $3,100,-
000,000. While. Great Britain and
the United States were redeeming
their obligations on this tremendous
scale, all the other great countries
of the world were piling up new
debt.
When the present war broke out,
France had a larger debt th.*n any
other country. Her credit, however,
was excellent and the debt was owed
entirely to her own people, from
whom she was able to borrow at a
low rate of interest.
And well might her credit have
been good. In the 125 years from
the time of the French Revolution to
the outbreak of the war, she had
had no less than nine different
changes of government—consulate,
empire, monarchy, empire. Bourbon,
monarchy, Orleanist monarchy, re
public, empire, republic. But no
single one of these governments,
whether republic, 'consulate, empire
or kingdom, ever for a minute
thought of repudiating the debt of
its predecessor, even though that
debt was incurred in an endeavor
to prevent the new government from
coming into existence.
This record of the American gov
ernment, of the British government
and the French Republic, is one of
which every believer in democratic
government can be proud, for it
shows that democracies pay their
debts with greater faithfulness and
greater promptness than have mon
archlal countries or empires.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Is the late spring a result of closer
relations with Canada?— New York
Telegraph.
Those who take no stock in war
are invited to take a bond. —Wall
i Street Journal.
"Buy baby bunting" has become
the most popular nursery-song.—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Kaiser is piling up a terrible
handicap for that slogan "Made in
Germany" to carry hereafter. —De-
troit Free Press.
There was a little Kaiser and his
name was Bill; he got in the world's
way and then stood still. Teut! Teut!
—Wichita Beacon.
The Kaiser has thanked the Crown
Prince for holding the Hlndenburg
line. This will amuse Hindenburg.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Even the man who does not favor
prohibition will admit that the linuor
Industry goes agairtst the grain.—
Philadelphia North American.
The size of that war-loan may
convince Europe that all Americans
are millionaires. Future tourists may
have to pay for this war.—St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Bendemeer's Stream
There's a bower of roses by Bende
meer's stream.
And the nightingale sings round
.it all the day long;
In the time of my childhood 'twas
like a sweet dream
To sit in the roses and hear the
bird's song.
That bow'r and its music I never
forget;
But oft when alone In the bloom
of the year.
I think; is the nightingale singing
there yet?
Are the roses still bright by. the
calm Bendemeer?
No, the roses soon withered that
hung o'er the wave.
But some blossoms were gathered
while freshly they shone.
And a dew was distilled from the
flowers that gave
All the fragrance of summer,
when summer was gone!
Thus memory draws from delight
ere it dies
'An m;sence that breathes of It
many a year:
Thus, bright to my soul as 'twas
then to my eyes,
Is that bow'r on the banks of the
culm Bendemeer.
Thomas Moore.
MAY 21, 1917.
Jesus Foretells Resurrection
Then answered the Jews and said
unto him, What sign shewest thou
unto us, seeing that thou doest these
things? Jesus answered and said
unto them, Destroy this temple, and
in three days I will raise it up. But
he spake of the temple of his body.
When, therefore, n<? was risen from
the dead, his disciples remembered
that lie had said this unto them and
they believed.—John 11, 18 to 22.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
"PMJTS Mi ! I
A MISFIT. " Jj
Duck: These
humans make
me laugh—the
fellow that de- ItvNv i
signed those )\ po | |
pants never /\ | I I i
saw a duck! / ]J —| j
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SThe Salesper
son Wooden
shoes, number
12. with • iron
heel plates?
Yes, we have
them. Here you
are. Going to a
masquerade?
The Customer
ing to the wed
ding of the man
that stole my
best girl and
chuck these at
r.n. . the happy
bridegroom.
THAT'S DIP- [ kl
FERENT. ' LJU
Mrs. Knagg— f \\\
I'm not like /fIVH ' Vk
some women. I IM/ I
I'm not given to
small talk. 'f if~lP
Mr. Knagg— * *" yJ'
But the long / T \
talks —oh, my! I N/Tvrx
■L j A DIFFERENT
\ Slie: DI(J y®®
| \\l j, -vJBj ever have an
Pr ucut ® °*
spring diver?
NEEDS forim
TRAINING. g
Edwin You l}/ y®
have made mo v Jf/
no happy by ac-
ccpting me. MJL( LM
Though I know Bf Jm
I'm not fit to do l4i Jm .
your most me- Mmj ■
That's real dls- %J[Jmfj
appointing. I fc 1
was expecting J A
so mucfi of you hfi.
In that line. *.H &
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
Griddle—Shall TVe sign him up for
the team?
Ladle —Sure thing, he'll make a
dandx battsrl
Brcnutg (Elf all
Military matters will be brought
pretty close to home in and about
• larrisburg this summer even more
than through the operation of the
conscription and the recruitment of
the organisations of the National
iuard. Chances are,that now that
the date for registration for the
selective draft has been announced
there will be a rush to enlist
so that young men may have the
Pleasure of saying they went before
they wore called and that the op
portunity to get with men from one's
own town will cause the recruitment
of the home military organization#
t0 be accomplished
J 1? difficulty. The commanders
or the Guard companies here have
already been at work getting avail
able men to put down their names In
event of a call to active service and
now that the Guard has been sum
moned to go under canvas in July,
many of these men will enroll. Then,
too, the fact that Mt. Gretna will
probably be the point of mobiliza
tion. equipment and preliminary
training of the National Guard dur
ing the summer and the headquar
ters of reserve recruit battalions wilt
bring it close while the formation of
the four regular army regiments at
Gettysburg will be of interest. Thus
within forty miles of Harrisburg
there will be two great camps and
this city will be the center of Na
tional Guard administration and of
recruitment. In addition there will
be formation of the Reserve Militia,
which will correspond to the Provi
sion Guard during the Spanish War,
and which will bo composed of men
who have served with tbe Guard,
who have attained age close to re
tirement from active service; who are
above the ages of the men called or
wanted nt present and who having
dependents can not go with the ac
tive forces. This community of 100,-
000 people will probably contribute
pretty heavily to the armed forces as
it lids always done in time of need.
• • •
While the registration for con
scription will call up all men who are
between the specified ages, it will
not mean that they are to be called.
Men with dependents will be the
last. The prime purpose of the reg
istration is to select those whose en->
trance upon active military duty will
work the least hardship. Speaking
about the matter yesterday a man
who has studied the proposition and
who knows the ins and outs of the
defense scheme said that he thought
there should be some provision made
for certifying that a person who
happens to be rejected on physical
grounds had responded to the call.
There is nothing meaner than calling
a man a slacker ahd in the language
of the citizen who made the sug
gestion "ability to flash a certificate"
would be of value. Perhaps, some
thing may be done along this line as
has been done in Kngli^rtd.
• ♦ •
Weather conditions hereabouts,
which have been the cause of so
much comment, seem to be general
over the country. Traveling men who
have been in other States tell of
backward seasons, lack of rain and
of unusual winds. The latter condi
tions has been generally noted and
is rather discouraging to farmers be
cause what rains have come have
been followed by so much wind that
much of the moisture has been taken
up without penetrating the ground.
The weather conditions have caused
many freshly planted fields to be
dry and folks who have set out young
tomato and cabbage plants would
<lo well to water them regularly un
til the weather conditions are settled.
Organizatipn of watering brigades
now seems to lie as important 4iß
weeding squads will be later on.
Some residents of this city who
went into the portions of the districts
where forest lires have occurred got
the surprise of their lives when sum
moned to help light the flames. 11
seems that some automobile parties
went out to see what a forest fire
looks like. One party went down the
Cumberland valley to the Mont Alto
legion where men are working night
aiul day to combat srpall blazes. An
other party went into Perry county.
In both instances fire wardens asked
them to lend a hand. They complied
and worked for an hour or so while
the firefighters rested. Thefe have
been some instances heard where vis
itors were asked to help and refused,
thereby bringing out threats to
prosecute because the law requires
people summoned to help fight a fire
to' respond or be arrested.
• *
Next to a fire a circus is the cham
pion means to get a Sunday crowd
assembled. The arrival of the circus
yesterday probably caused more ab
sences from Sunday school and serv
ices than imagined. The youngsters
had a hard time avoiding lining
curbs to watch the wagons KO by
and as for the circus ground it was
jammed all day long and extra cars
were required to haul people just to
see the tents.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—George C. Thayer, captain of
the Philadelphia city troops, is be
sieged by applicants for enlistment.
—Col. W. J. Crookston, National
Guard officer In charge of formation
of new hospital organizations at
Pittsburgh, served In Austria during
the early months of the war.
—Judge J. J. P.ufHngton, of the
United States court, is making a
series of addresses in the State on
the work of the national war council.
—A. C. Gordon, Pittsburgh school
principal, has offered Mayor Arm
strong the services of all school
principals In registering men for the
draft.
—Frederick C. Dunlap, now chief
of highways in Philadelphia, is a
personal friend of Mayor Smith.
—P. F. Booth, dlroctor of supplies
of Pittsburgh, is planning to open
a coal mine on city property.
—George H. Rowley, Mercer coun
ty District Attorney, has. turned his
attention to routing gambling from
fairs.
DO YOU KNOW |
That llarrlsburg can mobilize
hundreds of expert car repair
men in short order?
HISTORIC HARRIBBI7RG
This place was a supply depot for
three armies on the Union side
the Civil War.
We're All Counting on Tom
Past performances count a whole
lot and the public probably Is cen
tering Its interest on that "some
what different lino of Investigation"
that Edison is following in his quiet
campaign against the outlaw U-boai,
—Columbia State. f
Vanished Concern
[From the Washington Star]
"Do the pacifists worry you?"
"Not any more," replied Senator
Sorghum. "It's getting so that a
pacifist hasn't any political influence
whatever." •