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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23
Man, who man would be,
must rule the empire of him
self. —Shelley.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AN EXAMPLE j
ACCORDING to dispatches frdm !
Berlin Professor Weldner, an |
agricultural expert at Passau, I
Bavaria, advises the people of Ger
many to follow the example of'
Nebuchadnezzar and eat grass, con- j
eoling them with the assurance that I
alfalfa and red clover are not at all I
unpalatable when properly prepared. I
The picture the Good Book pre-1
eents of Nebuchadnezzar dining 1
sumptuously upon dandelion, nar-J
row-leaved dock, alfalfa and other!
dietary dainties of the field and j
meadow, is not calculated to fill the |
German breast with unbounded joy j
over the thought of going out and |
doing likewise. We have it upon j
unquestioned authority that "he did 1
eat grass as oxen, and his body was 1
wet with the dew of Heaven, till his j
hair was grown like eagles' feathers,
and his nails like birds' claws."
We have a vision of the German !
family getting up early in order to!
nibble enough tender shoots for
breakfast before the pigs and the
chickens get on the job—beating the
early bird to it, as it were and
fighting in the meadow behind the
barn with the cows and the horses
for supper. Maybe the subservient
German mind will yield even to this
but we suspect that the
change from sausages and beer to j
gfass and rain water will be even |
more than the patient minions of!
the Kaiser would stand without
protest.
Be that as it may, however, we are
in no wise loth to express the hope
that the German people may feel
constrained to give the suggestion
of Professor AVeldner a fair trial,
and that they may profit thereby
even as did the distinguished gentle
man of Holy Writ to whom he refers.
Who knows but the learned pro
fessor may have in the back pirt t of
his mind as a possibility for Ger
mans partaking of grass diet this
confession of Nebuchadnezzar, fol
lowing his sojourn with the butter
cups and daisies, to wit:
My reason returned unto mo and
for the glory of my kingdom, mine
honor and brightness returned
unto me.
If Professor Weldner can guaran
tee similar results in Germany he
has the permission of the United
States to lead forth the German
people to pastures green and at the
head of them his imperial majesty,
Emperor William, as chief Nebu
chadnezzar of the lot.
Notwithstanding the cold and late
epring, preparations are being already
made for a general decoration of the
homes of the city with window and
porch boxes. The start of last year
lias encouraged many more persons to
thus add to the beauty of their home
surroundings.
PROSPERITY AT HIGH TH>E
IT Is worthy of note that one of
the larger Industrial concern's of
the city which has been operating
under a receivership for several
years is now about to pass into the
cotitrel of Its stockholders and direc
tors.
The Central Iron and Steel Com
pany is an important plant, where
hundreds of men are given profitable
employment, and the fact of its
emergence from a period of finan
cial difficulty will be hailed with sat
isfaction throughout this commun
ity. The products of the big South
Harrisburg industrial establishment
are famous for their high quality
and it ts believed the present pros
perity will make for still greater
growth and enlarged activities.
With the increase of the shipping
Industry of the country it is prob
able that the Harrisburg plant,
which has turned out so many thou
sands of tons of ship plates, will be
called upon to aid in the upbuilding
of the maritime interest of the
Enited States.
Conditions at this plant are sim
ilar to those which prevail in other
local industries and indicate the high
tide of industrial prosperity which
Is sweeping over the country and
which promises to rise higher and
ptill higher as the enormous require
ments of the war are met.
Some people have been criticized in
Germany for eating sparrows—Eng-
lish sparrows. Would that they might
(find some way to entice the few mil
lion English 8 par rows In the United
Etates to the Fatherland. These lit.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
tie pests are malnng it almost Impos
sible to encourage the sons birds to
stay with us.
CENSORSHIP
NEWSPAPERS everywhere will
oppose with all their might
the effort of President Wilson
to have written into the espionage
bill a newspaper censorship clause of
the character advocated by the ad
ministration. To do otherwise would
be to submit weakly to a wrong to
themselves and the public at large,
and to surrender a right guaranteed
them by the Constitution of the
United States. With the censorship
rule in force as advocated, irrepar
able wrong would be done, inefficien
cy in office would be shielded and
the people of the country left with
out opportunity to form an intelli
gent opinion of public stewardship.
The President urges a censorship
that would forbid absolutely the pub
lication of a single criticism of any
man in the national service or any
measure considered or adopted by
Congress relating to the war.
Newspapers would be com
pelled to publish what the Presi
dent and his friends want published
or keep quiet. There would be no
freedom in the land and personal
liberty would become a mockery.
Our government professes to be
"fighting in this war the battle of
democracy," yet we are asked to sub
mit to such a tyranny as the kaiser
himself has not had the temerity to
attempt.
The independent newspaper has
been and is the bulwark of Ameri-
can free institutions. Remove the
freedom of the press and it is only a
very short step to stoppage of free
speech. In every community the
public in recent years has flocked to
the support of the newspaper that ,
has established its own freedom by
printing the news in unbiased form
and by contending for what it earn
estly believes to be for the best in
terests of all the people. In short,
the public has come to look with dis
favor and mistrust upon the newspa
per published merely for political
purposes or for the advancement of
its ownership, whether individual
or corporate. The effect has been to
immeasurably strengthen the press
jf the nation. And now, at one fell
blow, the President would lay low
this flourishing tree of independent
American journalism, under the
guise of war necessity, but in reality
for vastly different reasons, and
would make of the newspapers of
the country unwilling trucklers to
the whims of his own political sub
ordinates. It is unthinkable that
Congress will adopt any such meas
ure, and the HARRISBURG TELE
GRAPH rejoices immeasurably in
the courageous attitude of the Re
publican members in opposition to
this un-American clause.
Not one American newspaper has
published anything since the war
began which could be construed for
a moment as giving information or
encouragement to Germany, unless
perchance it may have been parts of
the speeches of some of the Presi
dent's own party leaders in Con
gress; Senator Stone, for example.
Take for illustration Marshal
Joffre. There is no more readable
news than that concerning the doings
of this famous Frenchman. Yet in
a day Joffre dropped completely out
of sight. Why? Because the State
j Department simply let fall a hint
that it would be better to have his
whereabouts for the present un
known. Again, where is Root, spe
cial representative to Russia? The
newspapers—some of them, at least,
know, but they won't tell until Wash
ington says the time is ripe.
American newspapers are sitting
as censors on themselves and in ad
dition they are willing and ready to
abide by any rule designed to con
ceal from the enemy the activities of
the government in prosecution of the
war and to withhold any item that
may be of "aid or comfort" to him.
But they object most<strenuously and
will resist to the last breath unjust
infringement upon their constitu
tional rights and they will refuse ab
solutely to be bound by a policy cal
culated to make abject slaves of
themselves and political serfs of the
American people.
Let the rip'rapping of the river slope
go right on. It Is not the first time
that an appropriation was a trifle
short for an important public im
provement. This embankment must
be protected against further damage
and now is the time to do the work,
which is of an emergency character.
KITCHIN'S TAXATION
CLAUDE KITCHIN is now revel
ing in an opportunity to ex
ploit his peculiar ideas of tax
ation. which are, as the country
knows, unlimited in sums of money
which he would raise, but very dis
tinctly restrained in regard to the
manner and the sections of the coun
try In which they are to be raised.
Mr. Kitchin is a little confused in his
mind between taxation and confisca
tion—but he has now an excellent
chance something.
U
Ry (he Ex-Committeeman
Coincidence of the presentation of
the bill to permit women to vote at
| presidential elections by Senator Ed
| win H. Vare in the Senate and the
I vote of sixteen members of the Ju
i diciary Special Committee of the
| House to report negatively a simi
lar bill introduced in the lower
branch impressed many people yes
terday and to-day. The suffragists
evidently expected some action by
the House committee in charge be
cause a short time after Senator
Vare had presented his bill their out
posts issued notice of what had hap
pened, making a sharp attack upon
the membership of the lower branch
and especially denouncing the com
mittee in charge.
Chairman Isadore Stern of the Ju-'
dietary Special Committee, declared
that the action of the committee of
which he is the head was not in line
with his idea. "X preferred to have
the bill sent out on the floor of the
House and disposed of there as the
better proposition, but sixteen mem
bers of the committee signed up to
negatively report it," said he. "I
think_they made a mistake, but it
is up to~>4ieni."
The general impression is that the
Vare bill will have rough sledding
if it gets very far.
—The appearance of Dr. William
Draper Lewis as counsel for Mayor
Smith in the transit hearing yester
day was one of the things talked
about. The Vare-Magee-Brumbaugh
alliance has been gradually getting
the former progressives into camp
and the former candidate for gov
ernor. who withdrew in favor of a
Democrat, fighting side by side with
the Governor's close friend in Phila
delphia, was much commented upon.
The hearing of the joint appro
priation committee on the requests
for appropriations by the Public
Service Commission last night turned
out to be a plain business inquiry
without politics. Chairman W. D. B.
Ainey, Secretary A. B. Miller and
Chief Coleman J. Joyce, of the Bu
reau of Accounts, explained why in
creases were asked and gave lirst
hand information about the scope
of the work of the commission.
There was nothing about the ques
tions that approached those in the
Department of Labor and Industry
appropriation inquiry. After the
Public Service hearing was ended it
was intimated that all of the $400,-
000 additional desired would not be
granted, but that the greater part of
it was favored. J. Herman Knisely,
chief of the municipal affairs bureau
of the Department of Labor and In
dustry, had a midnight hearing and
engaged in a bout or two with Sen
ator T. L. Eyre, of Chester, over
some observations over bond issues in
Coatesville and Lebanon, wherein
the bureau had taken a hand.
The legislative antl executive com
mittees of the State Grange came to
town late yesterday and resoluted
against the constitutional amend
ment to Issue $50,000,000 for high
ways which will be voted on finally
this session before being sent before
the people. The grangers suggested
manufacturing taxes and imposts on
coal, gas and other things.
—Last night's parliamentary bat
tle over the condensation amend
ments was one of the most Interest
ing of the whole session and showed
that a definite alignment of men op
posed to the election of/ Speaker
Baldwin still exists in the House.
This has developed several times, but
not in as much strength as last eve
ning.
—"Farmer" Creasy, who observed
the legislature yesterday, said that
it did not show much fight. The
"Farmer" evidently would like to be
back on the firing line to arouse the
Democratic minority.
—Democratic Floorwalker Sarig
will make an effort to have the Dem
ocratic platform bills taken out of
the refrigerators next week. The
Democrats have done nothing since
the speeches by their ringmasters,
and it is very apparent that they do
not hope for any action except some
thing over which to wail.
On to France
(Philadelphia Record)
France saved us. Now we have a
chance to save France. This nation,
which Germans have for forty years
been threatening to "bleed white," is
already weakened by the effusion of
blood through nearly three years, and
it needs help. The encouragement will
come when the first division of the
American expeditionary force shall
join the heroic French army which is
staying the flood of Invading Ger
mans and slowly evicting them. The
help will come as successive American
divisions join the French, and the
Germans are driven back where they
belong.
The best news that has come for a
long time is the announcement that
a division, under the best officer we
have, has already been told off to go
to France as soon as possible, and we
do not doubt that before the an
nouncement was made the transports
had been collected. The value of
even one division will be out of all
proportion to the number of rifles
carried. It will be the demonstration
to our Sister Republic that we are
coming to her help.
"I Love My Country"
And even now. all over the coun
try, on this bright spring day, there
are mothers who are waiting to
know what they must do. Mothers
facing the day with heads up and
shoulders back, ready to stand
steady when the blow falls: moth
ers who shrink and tremble, but
ready, too: and other mothers, who
cannot find the strength to give up
to the service of their country the
boys who will always be little boys
to them.
I love my country. There is noth
ing she can ask that I will not do.
I am ready to live for her or die
for her. Last stand of the humani
ties on earth, realization of a dream
and fulfillment of an ideal, my home,
my native land—that is America to
me. Because I am a woman. I can
not die for my country, but I am
doing a far harder thing.
I am giving a son to the service
of his country, the land he loves.—
From the Altar of Freedom.
Fire Will Try Men's Work
Every man's work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare
it, because it shall be revealed by
fire: and the fire shall try every man's
work for what sort it is.—l Corin
thians, S: 13.
Charles M. Schwab say*:—
Real success is won only by "hard,
honest, persistent toil. Unless a young
Iran gets accustomed to that in school
he is going to have a very hard time
getting accustomed to It outside. The
cliap who goes to college only because
it suits his parents to send him, and
who drifts, dreamily through his
classes, gets a disagreeable jolt when
hit lands a job outside with a salary
attached to it.
HABRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
"The United States has entered
upon a new era: an epoch in our na
tional history is impending, and we
are about to write a new chapter in
the annals of progressive democracy
and enlightened liberty and freedom
throughout the world." Chatta
nooga Times.
"The call of France is heeded. An
American army will be dispatched j
to the trenches of Western Europe
long before the great national force
can be selected and trained." —
Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Proposed censorship regulations I
would, if they had been in force at ■
the time of the Spanish-American
War, met with the cordial approval
of the gentlemen who sold embalmed
beef to the government.—Editor and
Publisher.
The problem of turning the pan
handler into the plowhandler is not
the least of the social enigmas.—
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A New York clergyman states the
Issue alllteratlvely.. "The demolition
of deviltry and the dominance of de
mocracy."—Columbus Dispatch.
Labor Notes
A new workmen's compensation
act was passed by the Kansas Leg
islature.
Carpenters at Toronto, Canada,
will'ask 65 cents an hour on May 1.
Boilermakers on the Pacific coast
get 56 cents an hour and a 48-hour
week.
Texas State Federation of Labor
convenes at Fort Worth in May.
Retail clerks at Temple, Texas,
have contracts with 98 per cent of
the merchants.
Grand Hapids, Mich., horseshoers
have secured the eight-hour day and
Saturday half-holiday.
Hamilton, Ohio, city firemen arc
to get the two platoon system begin
ning June 1.
The Wyoming Legislature passed
the labor commissioner bill and a
52-hour week for women.
On May 14, at Kansas City, Mo.,
International Brotherhood of Sta
tionary Firemen will convene.
The number of married women
working as wage-earners has doubled
in the last year.
A corps of 2.000 men is employed
in New South Wales in the destruc
tion of rabbltß.
The New Zealand government is
considering taking up the scientific
fostering of the oyster industry.
Organized labor in Nova Scotia has
succeeded in securing representation
on the workingmen's compensation
board.
Jackson, Mich., Brewery Workers'
Union has signed agreements with
local breweries. Wages are raised $2
a week.
Efforts are being made to unite
5,000 men, boys and girls engaged in
the embroidery industry In Jersey
City, N. J.
Drum Taps
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Drummer there in the blinding fight.
Why do you beat so fast to-night?
Why is your face so blanched and
white?
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Sluggard, what of the sllenWlain!
They who fell —have they died in
vain?
Drummer, strike on your drum
again.
Drum tapfa! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Drum taps! Drum tsps!
Who will come?
Who's for liberty, who'l! pay toll?
Who will blazon on Valor's scroll?
Strike, oh strike on each drowsy
soul!
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Who will come?
Hark! Like thunder that stills the
drum,
Valorous youth no longer dumb, '
Shouting battlewards, "Lord, we
cotne!"
Drum taps! Drum taps!
Lo. they come!
—W. Monro Anderson in London
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THE PEOPLE'S
Camp Hill Complaint
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
This letter is addressed to you
with the hope that publicity may
bring relief from the obnoxious, un
sanitary system of garbage disposal
which now exists iu Camp Hill, and
which will shortly become very
much worse with the coming of hot
weather.
At present the citizens of Camp
Hill are expected to dig a nice little
hole in their yards and bury their
garbage every few days. The dogs,
however, object to this hiding of the
sweets, and promptly proceed to dig
it up, and examine it. and scatter
what they do not want to the four
winds. This is certainly a wonder
ful system for the Twentieth Cen
tury. Needless to say, the flies also
are among those present, and if a
better breeding place for flies than
exposed, decaying garbage can be
found, we wouldn't *iow where to
look for it.
We like Camp Hill; good water,
good air, nice homes, good trolley
service and an excellent class of
people. But a miserable disregard
of the health of the community is
evidenced by the lack of proper
garbage disposal. Oh yes. we are or
ganized; we have community this,
and community that, but wouldn't It
be more to our credit to have a com
munity movement directed towards
obtaining relief from such an out
landish custom, and dangerous prac
tice.
Isn't it strange that with the cause
of the last State-wide epidemic of
infantile paralysis not definitely de-
Making New York Safe
In the gray of the morning of
Thursday last the citadel of the
liquor power of the Empire State
capitulated. The Hill-Wheeler bill,
extending to the people of the cities
the right to vote on the licensing
the sale of alcoholic beverages,
was passed, and sent to the governor
for his ready signature.
Under the new law, by petition of
one fourth of the voters in any city
except New York, these four propo
sitions may be submitted at a spe
cial election:
(1) Shall any person be author
ized to traffic in liquors to be drunk
on the premises where sold?
(2) Shall any person be author
ized to traffic in liquors not to be
drunk on -the premises where sold?
(3) Shall any person be author
ized to traffic In liquors as pharma
cists on a physician's prescription?
(4) Shall any person be author
ized to traffic in liquors only in con
nection with the business of keep
ing a hotel?
Thus the principle of popular con
trol of the liquor traffic—long de
nied in New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania—has now been estab
lished in the largest state of all. The |
courage and determination of Gover
nor Whitman, the conscience and
steadiness of Senator Hill, Assembly
man Wheeler, Speaker Sweet and
their legislative allies, the wisdom
and audacity of Superintendent Wil
liam H. Anderson of the Anti-Saloon
League, and above all, the ground
swell that beat upon the Legisla
ture from the aroused Christian pub
lic—"the churches in action against
the saloon" —all these, with strong
praying and a well furnished war
chest, brought the thing to pass.
Next April ought to see the battle
joined in twenty-tive of the smaller
cities, such as Blnghamton, Elmira,
Auburn, Jamestown, Gloversville,
Glens Falls, Ithaca, New Kochelle,
; White Plains, Geneva, Johnstown,
Plattsburgh and Canandaigua. There
is every prospect of success in most
of these places, and more than a
fighting chance in the larger cities
like Syracuse and Rochester. For
twenty-five years the city dwellers—
four-fifths of the whole population—
have been disfranchised on this vital
question. Now that the ballot is in
their hands we expect to see them
use the weapon to kill.
In New York city, as noted above,
the liquor interest has retired to an
inner fortified line, protected by a
j double referendum entanglement.
The senator from this county, whose
! efforts helped the metropolitan sa
] loon to dig Itself in, is the one who
i gave aid and comfort to the some
| crowd a few weeks ago at Albany
i by assailing Superintendent Andei
; son for suggesting suspicions of bri-
I bery. As too often happens, the li
j quor interest found its champion
j among those whose church and so
| cial and political relations should
I have made them its most dreaded
I eemies. If the people of New York
I city ask why they have not the same
| right as others to vote on the llquor
I question, tho plain answer Is that
i Senator Ogden 1,. Mills thought they
| were not to be trusted.—Christian
Advocat
termlned, and with the advancement
of so many theories from experts
naming the fly as a carrier of the
dicase, that Camp Hill allows such a
condition to exist, and in fact is not
even considering a remedy. Es
pecially so. since among Its citizens
are Included physicians, sanitary
experts, etc, of the State Depart
ment of Health, who are entirely fa
miliar with the dangers caused by
allowing fly breeding places to open
ly exist in such numerous instances:
Let us all pull together to see if a
borough collection of garbage can
not be obtained.
Sincerely yours,
J. B.
Fireworks' Supplies
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Our State Fire Marshal is evident
ly not aware of the fact that fire
works were manufactured one year
ago for the coming season, ac
cording to the following:
"State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port
yesterday Issued a Fourth of July
proclamation calling upon all mayors
and burgesses of the State to see to
it that all prohibitive ordinances re
lating to fireworks and firecrackers
be enforced this year.
"Why not economize in gunpow
de: he asked after calling atten
tion to the great loss of life and
property that accompanies and fol
lows every Independence Day cele
bration."
Doesn't he know that pll the firo
works for 1917 are now made and in
the jobbers' hands?
H. J.
The Turning Down of T. R.
The President, in the Star's opin
ion, has made a serious mistake in
refusing to send Theodore Roosevelt
with a volunteer division to France.
Undoubtedly his action is support
ed by the genera! staff, but the mil
itary reasons assigned for the re
fusal are far outweighed by other
considerations. General staffs, even
in Europe, are not infallible. There
are times even in war when military
considerations must give way to con
siderations of general policy.
When the Germans began the Ver
dun offensive last year, the French
high command proposed to give up
the fortress and retire to a more
easily defended line. But the French
cabinet properly overrode the pro
posal on the ground that the loss
of Verdun would be a blow to the
morale of the whole nation.
In the situation as It. exists to
day the sending of American troops
to France at this time would have no
military significance. A mere divi
sion is a drop in the bucket, and the
general staff is known to have
argued that no men be sent to
France until enough were available
to be effective. But the military ar
gument was properly set aside by
considerations of policy urged by the
French. Briefly, these were that the
fighting forces of our allies on the
wesiern front would be enormously
encouraged by the appearance of
American soldiers on the fighting
lines. While the number of men
might be small, the moral effect
would bo very great.
For this moral effect the name,
prestige and vigor of Roosevelt
would be incomparable. His bitter
est political opponents have never
denied the strength of his leadership.
He has the quality, possessed in like
degree by only one other living man,
Lloyd George, of inspiring confidence
and enthusiasm. Ills presence in
France would prove a wonderful as
set to the French nation. At the
same time he would arouse Intense
Interest throughout the Hnlted
States in the effective prosecution
of the war. The conflict Is still
so distant that the American people
have only begun to realize Its sig
nificance. They do not yet know that
they are in a life and death struggle.
No such effective way could possibly
be devised to awaken public senti
ment as to send a Roosevelt division
to France. It is unthinkable that
the Nation at this crisis should fail
to be given an opportunity to avail
itself of the resources embodied in
Roosevelt.
That the country appreciated the
situation was shown in the remark
able vote in ConßrOHs authorizing
volunteer divisions. The House, at
rirst unfavorable, reversed itself on
the proposal because it "heard from
home." The Nation wanted Roose
velt. It wanted htm not for tech
nical reasons, but because it felt in
stinctively that his finalities were
imperatively needed at this time.
In disregarding this mandate o'
the Nation, it cannot hut be that th
President has hurt the cause he hn>
at heart, lie Is con-• lumler-in-chlrf
of the army. Conercss and the coun
try must bow t'> bW decision. But
they hope lie wt'l tlnd soni" means
to omploy the abilities of Roosevelt
where thev will prove as valuable as
they would have oti the fighting
line in City Star.
MAY 23, 1917.
I 92.35 PER CENT. RISE
| IN DAILY PAPER COSTS
[Editor and Publisher]
Prices of l'orty-sevcn articles that
enter into the making of u large
daily newspaper have advanced ap
proximately 92.35 per cent, since the
declaration of war in Europe in
1914. This figure does not take into
account news print and wages, which
vary with the community in which
newspapers ara published.
f The Chicago Herald, In announc
ing the change in the price from
one to two cents a copy, gave as
the reasons the advance In the price
of all things purchased by a news
paper. It cited, among other items
that it would cost the Herald $400,-
000 .more this year than last for
news print paper, and that the price
of everything used by a newspaper
except iodide rcsublimed had gone
up. The figures given by the Herald
show what a large daily .newspaper,
maintaining an engraving plant, has
to contend with.
Victor F. Dawson, in his statement
to the readers of the Chicago Daily
News of the reasons which have
made necessary the abandonment of
the one-cent selling price, cites the
fact that the increased cost of white
paper for that newspaper for 1917
over 1916 will be $1,381,574.30, fig
ured on equal tonnage for the two
years.
Farm Wagon's Value Grew
[From the Toledo Blade.]
Defiance, Ohio. Seventeen years
i ago Thomas Craig of near Ayersville
bought a brand new farm wagon,
and he paid S6O for the vehicle,
i After using it for seventeen years on
the farm Craig held a public sale re
cently and sold the running gear
alono for S6O. The bed of the wa
gon was disposed of for sll.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
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outlaw you i wj
went after? V/'vr \— L /
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> {S? AMENITIES.
J. Wlfey—Henry
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i lf%\ have a new
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1 ¥M Mr J! Hubby —And
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Xa 1 on stewed
VJ,'// ) prunes I could
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I yaCht
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1 SUITED HIM. ' ' ■->
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don't see what - &
those strap ■ t
hangers kick
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beats a seat any u /*"■' /VI
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Harrisburg's importance as the ot
Acini center of the State was strlk
'ngly impressed upon people abou
the State Capitol yesterday. Almoa
everywhere one turned there was
man of prominence in some commit
nity and the meetings and hearing
held on the famous Hill during: th
day and evening made up a 111
which affected everyone in the Key
stone Stnte. As a matter of fao(
almost any one of the various meet
Ings was of such moment as to b
"first page stuff' in the newspaper!
of Pennsylvania in ordinary tlnwn
but in the present strenuous stat<
of affairs many of them got bar*
mention. The meetings of the Leg
islature were out of the ordinary
tho Supreme Court session was Im
portant and tho various hearings bj
Legislative committees were ot tre
mendous interest, while the meetings
in the Governor's department wert
historic. The conference of sheriffs
and mayors called by Governor
Brumbaugh will take place in Stt
annals as its significance is realized
No gathering of the kind was ever
held hero before and the assembling
of the chiefs of tho official divisions
of the Commonwealth was a .war
time proceeding which grows In im
presslveness as one considers what!
ii. meant, it takes rank as a confer
ence of officials with the notable
meeting of tho Public Safety Com
mittee hero late in March when men
who direct untold millions were
brought together to plan for the wel
fare of their State in the same room.
• • •
Prof. Howard Wert, the well
known writer, is as handy with hia
hoe as with his pen. Regardless of
the weather conditions Mr. Wert's
garden has been prospering and he
is now enjoying radishes every day
with prospect of peas and other
green stuff of the kind in the near
future. Mr. Wert is one of the
pioneers of backyard gardening in
Harrisburg. For years every Inch
of ground in the rear of his Second
street residence has been cultivated
and made to keep down the high
cost of living in the Wert household.
• • *
Guy B. Strausner was in town yes
terday. Mr. Strausner is ono of the!
city's messenger boys who have
risen to an honorable place and gooil
salary. In Spanish-American War
days Strausner was messenger boy
for the Associated Press in tho city.
He was SWitt on his l'eet, of clean
cut build and eager to serve. One
of' the newspapermen dubbed him
"The Dispatch Boat Guy" and the
name stuck. But Guy was too swift
for the messenger service and now
he Is one of the best steel and iron
salesmen in tho employ of the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com
pany, of Youngstown, 0., with head
quarters in Philadelphia. With the
same company is Elmer McCleary,
a Harrisburg high school graduate,
educated in engineering lines at
State College, who is now assistant
superintendent of the company's
biggest plant with 13,000 men un
der him.
* *
It does not often happen that
three mayors sit in the same bar
ber's chair in the same day, but Giles
H. Bower, of the Palace Barber
Shop, performed that unusual serv
ice yesterday. First there strolled
into the shop Mayor Miller, of Har
risburg, and he had scarcely .taken
his hat off when Mayor Kltts, of
Erie, Appeared on the scene. Closely
following Mayor Kitts came Mayor
Smith, of Philadelphia. Mayor Kitts
was In the city on business pertain
ing to the Legislature and Mayor
Smith had accompanied a delegation
to Harrisburg to meet the Public
Service Commission on transit mat
ters.
State Capitol folks had a fire scare
the other evening. The air was heavy
and there was more than the usual
amount of smoke being blown over
from the Pennsylvania railroad
yards. Some one walking in the Cap
itol Park looked up and seeing the
light from the reflectors which play
upon the national flag on the cen
tral building against the smoke con
cluded that there was a fire. For a
time it did look as though there were
a lire right on the roof and people
not familiar with the smoke and
air currents about the Capitol got
busy. State policemen and Capitol
policemen hustled up to the roof
with some legislators and attaches
and concluded that it smelled like
coal smoke.
• *
The display of tulips In the big
bed in Capitol Park just north of
the Library building is the finest over
seen in the State's domain. It Is
even better than the rows of flowers
which are to be admired every
in front of the Capitol building, a
show which has Included from three
to six varieties. The display south
of the Library contains several vari
eties seldom seen here and some of
them are eighteen to twenty Inches
high.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Justice E. A. Walling, of the Su
premo Court, In session here, looked
in on the State Senate, of which he
was formerly a member.
—Theodore C. Search, prominent
Phlladelphian, was a Capitol vis
itor.
—Colonel C. T. Cresswell, former
colonel of the Third Regiment, la
bend of a cavalry organization of the
home guard at Crcrmantown.
—Elmer K. Hiles, secretary of the
Western Pennsylvania Engineers So
ciety, has entered one of the new
regiments with rank of captain.
—Guiseppe Donato, the sculptor,
played detective and arrested a man
who robbed him in Philadelphia.
—Joseph Elkinton, prominent
Quaker, is homo from a trip tn
China and is speaking on conditio**
in that land at Philadelphia.
—Chess a Franklin
banker, is to be the speaker at the
banquet of Northwestern State K "inJn
ers at Grove City, Thursday.
—The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Snyder,
Pittsburgh minister, is to go to Soulx
Kalis.
DO YOU KNOW |
-
That Hnrrisburg typewriters
arc in use by the United Stot^f
army ofliccs?
HISTORIC HARUISBtIRG
In 1781 Harrisburg was the cen
tral point of this section for the pro
visions being levied upon for th
use of the American navy.
Quit $5,000 Job For Mayor
[ From the Detroit News.']
Mayor Ira M. McKinney has lef
a $5,000-iv-year Job to work Unham
pered as mayor of Alma, Mich., a
SSO a year. McKinney is a candldat
for re-election in the spring and h
wants to see certain legislation In
auguroted. He was superlntendea
of the • < Aima plant of the Micbiga