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MONDAY EVENING, MAY 28
The essence of love is kindness.—
STEVBKSOX.
PEACE IX SIGHT
SIGNS of peace within the Re
publican party of Pennsylvania
have been noted recently and
there is general approval of the pro
posal that factional discord, which
has caused such general protest,
shall cease. Strong men in the or
ganization in all parts of the Com
monwealth have insisted that a con
tinuance of the factional activities
can result only in party disaster.
Pressure from all quarters has
been exerted upon the leaders and
these are beginning to understand
that any further disturbance may
seriously direct the party at large
in the campaign next year. There is
no occasion for the bitterness which
has cropped out so strongly during
the session of the Legislature, and
while Uepublicans cannot always be 1
as one upon men and measures, they
can at least agree to disagree with
out party disruption and continual 1
dissension.
few Republicans there are who
will not hail with pleasure evidences j
of party harmony. Perhaps no more '
I significant incident in this direction j
can be mentioned than the dinner
\ which is to be given in this city to- '
< morrow evening in honor of Sena
tor Sproul, a leader of the organiza- '
tion forces, by Senator Vare, the '
leader of the State administration i '
wing. In the breaking of bread to- i'
gether factional differences may be i
forgotten and a better understanding 1
reached in the management of party,
affairs. 1 1
All good Republicans will hope j
that the dove of peace will have a !
prominent place at the banquet.
Congratulations, "Tech;" "some I
echool!"
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ANOTHER TYRANNY ENDED I
CHEEK, >e friends of freedom;!,
shout, ye disciples of dein- '
ocracy, another tyranny has!
been laid in the dust. The Stymie j
is no more.
What, you don't know what a
stymie is'.' oh, ye benighted ones!
The Stymie and Col. Bogey were
erstwhile boon comrades and both
of them terrors of the golf course,
until the Colonel was rapped on the
head and put to sleep by the gentle
man who introduced "Par Golf," but
the stymie lias continued to intrude
its obnoxious self between many an
ambitious putter and a hard-fought
match. Now the Western Golf As
sociation has decreed that the time
worn nuisance is to be abolished and
another stop for the freedom of the
links has been taken. It has been
decreed that hereafter the ball near
est the cup sliall be played first.
There is only one trouble about
these reforms in the ancient and
honorable game of golf. It has been
said that nobody plays golf but the
man who is wealthy or he who
hopes someday to be wealthy, but
there is another class of players
sprung up in recent years who take
to the golf course as an overloaded
locomotive boiler turns to the near
by safety valve. They are the self
repressed ones in the office or the
timid ones at home who become as
raging lions at the sight of club
and ball. They are the mild-man
nered, sweet-tempered, soft-spoken,
model citizens who blast the grass
around the teeing grounds, and
wither the putting greens with vol
leys of brimstone English every time
they top a drive or foozle a put.
The stymie used to be one of their '
pet diversions, always prolific of out
pourings of pentup language that i
turned loose elsewhere would be
proper cause for excommunication,
discharge or divorce, depending
upon the environment of the offend
er at the moment "What, we arise
to ask, are these poor fellows to do
If the golf rules committees keep
* on eliminating excuses for cussing?
Who says that a rainy day is
,dreary?
NOW, WATCH 'EM GROW
NOW watch the gardens gTow!
To-day's rain is worth untold
thousands of dollars to the ,
farmers of this vicinity, not to men
tion the countless home-gardeners
whose crops have been at a stand
still, if not threatened by total ex
tinction, as a result of the combina
tion of dry, cold weather that has
been our lot practically since May 1.
We had begun to think that the
winds from the northwest, which i
had beea sweeping steadily down
MONDAY EVENING,
I upon us, would never cease. Cer
| talnly, they mark a new era In
j weather observations hereabouts,'
. and nobody has been able satisfac
j torily to explain the phenomena,
j Happily they are past and unless all
| signs fail a period of fine growing
| weather is in eight. Now is the
time to set out cabbage, tomatoes,
j beets, sweet potatoes, and indeed
I any kind of plants. Don't be afraid
|of a few raindrops. A wet back to
day will pay large vegetable returns
later.
Remember that the Q. A. R. veter
ans need flowers for memorial pur
poses, and that the rooms of Post 68
. will be open to receive floral gifts on
the morning of Decoration Day.
SUGAR BEET SEED SHORTAGE
THE Dutch ship "Noordam,"
bound for the United States,
was turned back by German
"subs" the other day to discharge
18,000 bales of sugar beet seed con
signed to growers In this country.
That will result in an injury to the
sugar beet industry here that will
be consequential In the year to come.
If Germany had any respect for the
law we would remind her that sugar
beet seed is not contrabrand. If wo
had possessed a little more respect
for the industrial welfare of the
United States we would be raising
beet seed sufficient for our own use ,
to-day.
Both parties have been censurable
with respect to a tariff duty on beet
seed to encourage domestic produc
tion —the Democrats doubly so be
cause of their antipathy to any tariff
policy which would encourage do
mestic sugar production. During the
fiscal year 1913, when beet sugar had
a protective tariff, our growers im
ported about 15,000,000 pounds of
the seed, and the following fiscal
year, 1914, with sugar operating un
der a 23 per cent, reduction of duty,
and scheduled for free list May 1.
1916, imports of beet seed fell to
about 10,000,000 pounds, a decrease
of 33 per cent.
Several considerations operated
after that to favor the beet sugar in
dustry; the war was creating a vast
draft on our sugar supply; the Dem
ocratic tariff law was a rank failure
as a revenue producer; and the vote
of the growers in Utah and other
localities was needed. So the pro
gram of free sugar after May 1,
1916, was destroyed, just a few days
before it would have become effect
ive.
The effect was immediate and as
tonishing. We had imported but 5,-
000,000 pounds of the seed up to
May, 1916. By the close of the fiscal
year we had imported 9,000,000
pounds, and by the close of the cal
endar year 1916 we had Imported
19,000,000 the greatest im
portation in our history. The bulk
of it prior to the war came from
Germany; now it comes from Russia
and the Netherlands.
The Department of Agriculture
finds that we are well able to raise
our entire supply in this country,
and the imposition of a small tariff
to encourage its growth would make
u.s independent of Europe and such
an instance as that of the "Noor
dam" would not pester us.
ADVERTISING PROSPERITY
ONE of the most constructive
* pieces of advertising publish
ed by the HARRISBURG
TELEGRAPH in months was the ad
vertisement of Doutrich & Company
which appeared in columns of this
newspaper last Friday. It is well
worth reprinting. It ought to lie in
the hands of every businessman and
every person with money to spend in
this and every other city. It is more
than an advertisement; it is a care
fully prepared, well rounded, con
vincing essay.
"Don't be a business slacker" is its
title and byway of introduction is
this definition of the man who has
permitted the war to frighten him
into a too close tightening of his
purse strings:
The business slacker here at
home Is our one real enemy—rar
more of an enemy than tlie Kaiser,
because the Kaiser cannet get at
us. If you cannot thrust a bayo- '
net, you can at least drive your
business harder than you have
ever driven it before, and thus
help create the imperative pros
perity with which alone this war
can be won. It betrays weak
mindedness to think of diving
headlong into a period of panic,
penance, abject fear and hyster
ical economy. The man who
sneaks down and buys a marriage
license life preserver is not the
worst breed of slacker. Conscrip
tion will take care of him. But
for the business slacker there is
no law but his own conscience.
The man who destroys business
takes the bread out of the mouths
of thousands.
"Business as usual" was the Eng
lish slogan following the entrance
of Britain into the war; business bet
ter than usual should be that of the
United States. Seven of dol
lars are to be spent by the United
States government in this country.
Think of the prosperity that will
make. There is no reason why we
should hold back. There is every
reason why we should go forward.
There is no place in the United States
for the "business slacker." Look
up your Friday's HARRISBURG
TELEGRAPH and read that "ad."
It doesn't advertise the wares In
which the company deals; it adver
tises prosperity.
If thl* registration keeps up, the
Governor will have to number his
proclamations.
NO HURRY
THE Germans claim to have sunk
1,325 ships in the last three
months. To offset this loss of
shipping the United States, during
the same period, has appointed a
shipping board which knows noth
ing about ships, has appropriated
fifty million dollars for the use of
th. board and has provided a lot of
joba for deserving Democrats. The
ships? Oh, there's no hurry about
them.
'Potttuca CK
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By (he Ex-Committeeman
Advocates of woman suffrage may
make their final effort In Legisla
ture to-night and as an indication
that they do not expect to get very
far they have addressed a saluta
tion from "those about to die" to
Speaker Baldwin and members of the
lower house in which they are taken
to task for not passing the suffrage
legislation. The suffragists announce
that they intend to come back and
that legislators who oppose them
will have their own troubles.
The suffragists are understood to be
planning to move to place upon the
calendar notwithstanding a negative
recommendatiop the Mitchell bill to
permit women to vote at presiden
tial elections. The negative recom
mendation was given by members of
the judiciary special committee sign
ing up a report. Opponents of the
bill contend that It would do no good
to put it on the calendar as It would
be defeated in the wlndup.
The Mitchell bill is similar to the
bill presented in the Senate by Sena
tor Vare and still in committee.
—The dinner to Senator W. C.
Sproul to-morrow night continues to
attract attention and has caused
more speculation than any event in
State politics in a long time. The
general opinion is that It will mark
a getting together and that the boom
of the Chester senator for governdr
will be heard from. The senator
just smiles and will not talk. i
—The reappointment of Col.
Richard Coulter, Jr., or Greensburg.
as colonel of the Tenth regiment, has
revived talk of him as Democratic
candidate for governor.
—Deaths are announced of Ex-
Congressman A. L. Kiester, of Scott
dale, and Ex-District Attorney W. A.
| Blakely of Pittsburgh. Both were
men of wide influence and much in
State affairs.
—Warren Van Dyke, secretary of
the Democratic State committee, has
been visiting friends among post
masters in Western Pennsylvania.
—The Philadelphia Ledger in re
viving reports that Penrose and ad
ministration people have reached an
agreement on appointments on a
"fifty fifty" basis says: "Penrose
leaders are freely giving Senator
Vare credit for tne smoothing of
the way for a probable harmonious
ending of the Assembly. They point
to his work in forming a State War
Board and now to his dinner for
Senator Sproul. It is known that
Senator Vare would also like to
honor Senator Crow, as well as Sena
tor Sproul, In some signal manner.
Both Sproul and Crow, along with
Lieutenant Governor McClain and
Auditor General Snyder, are being
considered for the harmony nomina
tion for governor.
—The Beyer bill providing for
elective school boards in Philadel
phia and Pittsburgn bids fair to be
as much a cause for physical strife
as the various Philadelphia bills in
the Legislature. At the hearing held
on the bill in Philadelphia on Satur
day the board was attacked as com
posed of unprogressive old men and
defended with as much vigor. The
next hearing Is set for Pittsburgh on
Thursday.
—The Philadelphia Republican or
ganization has come out with en
dorsement of the re-election of
Judges Rergy, McMichael, Ferguson,
Staake, Audenreld and Monaghan, of
the common pleas bench and Judges
Anderson and Lamorelle, of the
orphans' court bench. Democrats
will probably not make much of an
effort against them. It does not mas
ter anyway.
—Schuylkill county Democrats are
getting ready to boom Judge Bechtel,
of Pottsville, for re-election. They
have formed a county-wide club
without assistance from the Demo
cratic State windmill.
—Judge Butler, of Chester county,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer has
conceded a re-election.
—There are only a few hearings
scheduled for this week. One will
be the final session of the Philadel
phia transit situation to-morrow be
fore a Senate committee and hear
ing on the bill to bar children under
sixteen from moving picture thea
ters. Another sign of the closing up
of the session is that the Public
Charities Association has suspended
publication of its bulletin. Various,
other activities are being closed up.
—Capitol Hill is suffering from
some trepidation over the general
appropriation bill and it looks as
though there would be delays in pay
ments in June as occurred in 1913
and 1915 because of the lateness of
approval of the bill.
—The right of the governor to
appoint the secretary of agriculture
Is preserved in the Bohr bill to abol
ish the State Commission of Agricul
ture and substitute therefor the ex
ecutve committee of the State board
of Agriculture. The original bill took
away the right of the governor to
appoint but it was represented that
such an enactment would be follow
ed by a veto.
Must Have Training
How afraid we are of airing our
love of our country! How shame
facedly we rise to the national an
them! How many excuses a man
will give for going to war, except the
fundamental one tha* he loves his
country and is going to stick by her
though the heavens fall!
Little boys, these men of ours, hid
ing their deepest feelings with a
gibe!
Some things wo women must
learn, and now is the time to learn
them. Sacrifice is an old story to
women. They have always known it.
But not sacrifice to an abstract ideal.
Sacrifice to an ideal, then —and per
sonal service.
And this personal service, mothers
of America, is not rolling bandages
for the other woman's son.
That hurts, but it is true. This is
no time for evasion. And it is not
because I have made my sacrifice
that I say it. It is because, uniess
we give, unless our army is large
enough, those who have failed in
their duty are sending the best youth
of the country to death. It will be
murder.
In return for what we give, we
women of America have the right to
demand certain things. First of all
we can and must demand time that
our boys may be trained. We have
taken a long time to go into this war.
And because the country would not
believe that we must eventually be
Involved, we have lost precious years.
—Mary Roberts Rlnehart in "The
Altar of Freedom."
Charles M. Schwab says:—
Eugene Grace is a striking example
of what may be accomplished by the
man with his eyes fixed farther than
his pay envelope. Grace's ability to
outthink his job. coupled with his
sterling integrity, lifted him to the
presidency of our corporation. Eight
years ago he was switching engines
in the yards at Bethlehem. Bast year
he earned more than $1,000,000, and I
predict that before long he will be
perhaps the biggest man in industrial
America.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
One ship we can afford to lose is
the censorship.—Brooklyn Eagle.
An army at the front is worth two
in the training camps.—Baltimore
Sun.
The food situation is acute when
they fight so over Mush.—St. Ix)uis
Globe Democrat.
One can admire Marshal Joffre
without being able to pronounce him.
—New York Morning Telegraph.
We didn't start the war, but there
is a general expectation that we're
going to finish it.—Philadelphia
Press.
The time for the War Department
to have prepared for a three-year
war was three years ago.—Boston
Transcript.
It is reported that the Berlin po
lice have arrested a man because he
shot at the Kaiser and missed.—
Philadelphia North American.
There's really nothing like a heavy
dose of U-boat for a bad case of neu
trality.—Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Diet and Character
On the theory that as a person
eats so is he, the truth of which we
have been trying to disprove in our
household, with more or less success,
we have shifted Hannah Louisa's
diet from rice and Hungarian gou
lash to spaghetti, and that has not
proved satisfactory either. After eat
ing a pound or so of it yesterday she
seemed to think her Babv Ford cab
was a street piano and stood for an
hour or so beside it burning an
imaginary crank, stopping now and
then to take the imaginary pennies
out of an imaginary tincup.—Liberty
Press.
There He Goes Again!
Howdy-do and thank you. Incipi
ent Hill of Beans. Faith revives and
hope is renewed with your first peep
through the crust of the earth. You
are the advance agent of the fat of
the land, the rising tide of prosper
ity! We bestow upon you an excla
mation point. Let it stand as our
apotheosis. May the dews baptize
and sunbeams kiss you into full
glory.—Toledo Blade.
Song of the Sea Slugs
Sing me a song of a frail M. L.,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Rolling about in an oily sweel.
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Out on a high explosive spree,.
Petrol, Lyddite and T. N. T..
Looking for U-boat 3. 3. 3.,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of a bold young
"Lieut-
May the Lord .have mercy upon us;
Two gold bands on an "owed-for
suit,"
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Ship the cable and full ahead.
Hard a-starboard and heave the lead,
The detonators are in my bed.
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of a bright young
"sub,"
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
A very ignorant half-baked cub.
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Of the King's regulations he knows
not one,
He has left undone what he should
have done.
And, oh, my Lord, when he fires that
gun.
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of a CMB (engineer).
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Bred in a garage and sent to sea,
May the Lord have mercy upon us:
Taken away from the motor trade, 1
Seasick, sorry and sore dismayed,
Eut a hell of a "knut" on the grand
parade.
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of the M. L. cook,
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
With a petrol stove in a greasy nook.
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
Our meals'a lukewarm lingering
deatji.
We'll praise the Hun with our final
breath
If he'll strafe our galley and slay our
chef.
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
Sing me a song of a North Sea base.
May the Lord have mercy upon us;
A dirty, forgotten one-horso place,
My the Lord have mercy upon us;
When the wind blows west, how
brave we are!
When the wind blows east. It's dif
ferent far.
We wish we were back In the harbor
bar,
May the Lord have mercy upon us.
, —M. L., In The Rudder.
FINDING THE RIGH
FOR WOMEN IN
A Vocational Commission Is Suggested to Sec That the Vassar
Athlete Gets the Place of the Dock Laborer Who
Goes to Fight For His Country
By AGXES BURKE In the New York Sun
The war is on and in the eco
nomic upheaval that must follow the
enactment of the conscription act is
about to begin.
And those of us—namely, we poor
women—who are going to be the
most upheaved are beginning to face
the future. For into the places of the
men who will fill the ranks of the
army and the navy, Plattsburg and
the aviation corps, will go a con
stantly Increasing number of women.
Young women, old women, married
ones and single ones; those who have
slaved all their lives and those who
have never lifted a finger, will step
forward to (ill the places temporar
ily forsaken by the men compatriots.
This is no unique emergency. Eng
lish women and French women, who
are running everything from locomo
tives to trams, and making munitions
as well as bandages, have pointed
out a possible future for American
women. American women, who are
quite as forehanded as the men, have
for months been training themselves
to be not only better cooks and more
thrifty housewives, but also daring
ambulance drivers and fearless radio
operators—for young women who
have spent their lives on the golf
links and behind 60-horse power mo
tors and steering gears are not going
to be content to be mere nurses'
aids.
The Old Illusion Slutttercd
Feminism and earning a living and
the Twentieth century have killed
the old illusion that a woman who
wants to serve her country should
llnd a haloed sphere in holding the
head of some dying soldier, or in dis
tributing flowers, or 'singing the old
home songs in the convalescent ward
of some hospital until tears come to
the eyes of the soldier who has al
ready seen quite sorrow enough.
No. This sort of thing, thank
heaven, has gone out. The women
who have long since ceased being
weak and clinging creatures in time
of peace cannot easily assume less
dashing roles in time of war. They
would much prefer, and they know
it to be infinitely wiser, to leave the
dying soldier to the far more capable
hands of a registered nurse, to re
linquish the entertainment of the
convalescent to the professional
artist who will never fail to fill the
wards with healthful laughter. For
women who have worked —profes-
sional women, secretaries, business
women, stenographers—are not con
tent to serve their country in any
capacity that does not exact fully of
their experience and ability. Why
should a $5,000 a year woman make
bandages or pack comfort kits that
any debutante can manipulate?
A vacational commission armed
with an understanding of women and
some intelligence tests is necessary
to assign the champvon athletes
from Smith and Vassar to the docks
and the expert suburban housewife
Wealth as War Asset
To what degree the weight of eco
nomic power thrown by the United
States into the balance against Ger
many brings victory closer for the
Allies is indicated in a booklet is
sued to-day by the Mechanics and
Metals National Bank, of N'ew York
city. This booklet, entitled "Apply
ing Our Wealth to War," shows that
the developed resources of the Unit
ed States are more than double the
resources of any other single na
tion; that, in fact, our wealth ex
ceeds the combined wealth of the
world's three other greatest powers
—the British and German empires
and the French republic.
The United States possesses one
third the reckoned wealth of the
world, the Mechanics and Metals Na
tional Bank calculating it at $250,-
000,000,000. Our wealth is twenty
five times larger than at the time of
the Civil War. Besides material
wealth, however, the bank empha
sizes fhe adaptability and organiza
tion of the American people, on
which, It maintains, a successfiH out
come of the war will largely de
pend.
The annual Income of the Amer
ican people is placed by the bank at
$40,000,000,000, the annual savings
at $5,000,000,000. The booklet is de
signed with the purpose of stimulat
ing subscriptions to the Liberty Loan.
Horse Sense?
Yakima Pete, a packhorse famous
in the State of Washington in the
business of carrying tourists over
the mountains. Is dead from a fall.
It Is said of this horse that he could
smell a flask of whiskey In hundreds
whom no gasfitter could trlfile with
to the bossing of the lady plumbers,
rather than the other way around.
Although, the H. C. of L. being what
it is, who woulu not prefer to be the
plumber?
A Fair Division of Work
Then, because one is the daugh
ter of a magnate, or the granddaugh
ter of a woman who has organized a
relief society with a press agent—is
that any reason why one should get
all the night jobs as truck driver?
Truck driving, like plumbing, is a
lovely job. Especially in the spring.
I Freedom and individualism have
gone out of this community in the
middle classes, but the truck driver
has kept his soul his own.
We nominate for the truck drivers'
Jobs all those poor wives and maiden
aunts who have never, in all their
forty-odd years, been able to call
their souls their own. Their renais
sance is here.
And although we know that most
women who will take men's jobs be
cause of this war will go into a
munition factory, or into a civil ser
vice job as a clerical worker, or into
husband's or son's places behind the
counters or the plow, we feel that
Justice should turn over to the sex
some of those delightful stationary
positions that strong and able-bodied
men now decorate and monopolize.
The 6-foot imperious elevator start
er, who stands all day long in the
hallway, speaking now and then to
some favored passer-by, answering a
question at intervals, but earning his
living by a series of signals to a wait
ing and attentive-eyed mob of ele
vator operators, has always been a
marvel to us.
Women As Elevator Men
Why should this not be a nice po
sition for some poor woman who has
to go out to support herself? Why
would not women make perfectly
nice elevator men? They are cer
tainly quick witted and they are
even more used than men to running
all day long up and down the stairs?
Why should not women have the
nice jobs as floor walkers? Why
should women not stand in a grand
and Imposing manner at the front
door of a department store?
Why should they not sell tickets
in the subway, seated on a comfort
able stool? Why should they not
open the door of hotel taxis for rich
and beautiful people? When all the
exquisite and Imperturbable young
men are wafted away from box of
fices and hotel desks and jewelry
counters and the candy counters and
soda fountains into the trenches,
why cannot some of the weary wom
en of America be put in their places?
Before the munition factories are
filled and the civil service and the
yeomanry lists made up, and the
farms overrun with your mothers
and sisters, we ask you that little
question.
of pounds of baggage disposed on
his back and would buck and kick
until he was free of it.—Columbia
State.
Trade Briefs
Many kinds of American goods
were displayed at the Western Prov
ince Agricultural Society's fair at
Rosebank, South Africa. Automo
biles. motorcycles and an exhibit of
chewing gum were among the more
popular articles presented. It is said
that a number of orders were taken.
Catalogs sent to Finland should be
printed in the Finnish or Swedish
language. A large number of these
books recently received at Abo were
printed in Russian and proved use
less.
A gypsum mine and a considerable
deposit of asphalt have been discov
ered near Lafayette, La. The gypsum
is near the surface of the earth and
can be easily mined.
A valuable market for farm ma
chinery can be developed in Ruma
nia. Requests have been received at
the American legation at Jassy for
catalogs of American supplies whldli
will take the place of the antiquated
methods in use before the war.
What If He'd Said Knickers?
One of our sisters has quit attend
ing church, says the Osborne Vil
lage Deacon, because she does not
consider the minister the right kind
of a man to be at the head of a
(lock. The minister recently used the
word "Petticoat" In one of his ser
mons, and this sister was so shocked
that she covered her face with her
hands and didn't dare look anybody
In the face for two whole weeks.—
Kansas City Star.
MAY 28, 1917.
Labor Notes
Oshkosh, Wis., is to have a mu
nicipal yard.
Carpenters at Fairmount, W. Va.,
have a 100 per cent, organization.
Ashland, Wis., painters demand a
nine-hour day.
Crab pickers at Hampton, Va.,
have formed a union.
Tinsmiths at Norristown, Pa., have
secured an eight-hour day.
Portsmouth, Ohfo, bricklayers are
paid 75 cents an hour.
Carpenters at Greensboro, N. C..
i have formed a union.
Nebraska barber Sunday closing
law is effective July 1.
Bartenders at Glen<live, Mont.,
have obtained the eight-hour day.
Montana lias a new eight-hour-day
law for stationary engineers.
Kansas City, Kan., courthouse will
be built by union labor.
A barbers' license few has been
passed in lowa.
Wallace, Idaho, painters get a
day of eight hours.
Cement workers at Oglesby, 111.,
have secured an eight-hour day.
Illinois barbers are working for a
Sunday closing law.
Elevator Constructors' Internation
al has almost 3.000 members.
| LAUGH
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A MIDNIGHT SCARE.
Willie Firefly—Tee hee, those fool*
Ish bugs think I'm a ghost!
THET DON'T COME BACK.
"Just what is youf*iiusband's am
bition in life?"
"He has none."
"Poor man, I suppose that is why
he got married."
THE SAME REBTTI.T.
~T)o you Intend to move this year?"
"Well, we did intend to, but all of
our neighbors moved, so it saved us
the trouble."
PERFECTLY SAFE.
"I say. Jack, do you think I can
safely ask your cousin to marry me?"
"Sure! She told me she wouldi"
marry you if there wasn't anothc
man on earth."-
Shotting (jtyat
Iho State o£ Pennsylvania hai
been engaging In a good many un
usual lines of activity these wai
'lays and some of the things dons
may savor of paternalism, although
all are more or less beneficial. Tlu
state lias acted to get seeds and sup
plies cheaply for people in the coun
<ry, it has been helping to build
roads, to free turnpikes, to finish
bridges, to construct dikes, to drain
lands and to aid enlistment and
stimulate patriotism, it furnishes
expert advice free on almost any
thing of a public nature, especially -v
sanitation, agriculture and good gov-
Et Jts latest f„„ t . tlon !s dis .
trlouting' young chickens. It hau
pens that not long ago the stat.
offered to give the benefit of its lists
'' ./""'S a " ( publicity avenues to
nf r,or cll °ice <?Kgs in the hands
of persons who would be willing tu
r.u f ™,^ ls 10 incr case *lie food sup-
Ply. J his worked very well but a
lew days ago a firm offered 2 OOC
young chickens to further help al'ons
the lowl Industry. It followed UK
its offer with the birds. The ship
ments were sent to W. H. Douglas
of the Department of Agriculture'
and he has been the official dis
pe"ser of "peeps." The state gives
H half dozen or so to persons whu
have not been raising chickens and
who will agree to take care of them
and follow prescribed rules in feed
ing and caring for them.
Under the terms of two bills ap
proved by Governor Brumbaugh
last week penalties are provided for
two conditions which have caused
complaint on roads in this section
ot tiic state. Under the Beyer bill
anyone operating a motor vehicle
who happens to hit a person and
fails to return and give aid is to be
subject to a good stiff tine and jail
sentence. The other law makes an
intei est iug fine for any person who
dines any vehicle or leads a horse
on a public highway while (JrunU.
J here have been instances on the
Hiverside* lload above the city, on
Reading turnpike and on the road
to Middletown where both laws have
been needed this year.
1 hanks to the patriotism of most
of the big employers in this com
munity there will be few persons
who will not have a chance to own
a war bond. It was learned to-day
that thousands of dollars' worth ot
honds have been subscribed here by
employers who have offered to carry
them without cost to employes while
they are paying for them. The los
in interest which will be occasioned
to the employers will be a pretty
substantial item, but it has the dou
ble compensation of the knowledge
that it is patriotic and inculcates
the idea of thrift. This is a prettv
saving city, as is shown by the re
ports of various organizations at
Christmas time, and it will be able
to absorb a good many war bond;
in the course of the year.
One of the evil effects of the
shortage of labor in country districts
this spring and summer, remarked
a man at market on Saturday is thai
there will not be much done tc
check weeds. The farmers anc
their people are all so busy with
i he fields that they do not have time
to cut down the weeds along iht
roadsides, which are the most pro
lific cause of scattering of seeds. In
the city the cultivation of man>
plots which have been vacant foi
years will result in the destruction
of many noxious plants and weeds
Speaking about cultivation of va
cant plots a number of real csta#
dealers and owners about the cit>
have been permitting planting in a
way that helps, although somewhal
risky lor the planter. There art
many lots about the city which ar
for sale and which are now used foi
gardens. The owners and agents
have told the persons who wanted to
uso them that they can cultivate all
they have a mind to but that thej
must remember that the tracts are
for sale.
The appearance of the bridges
spanning the river with their numer
ous lights and the scores of brilliant
arc lights along the city streets and
in the big yards at Knola make the
Susuqehanna hereabouts a scene ol
beauty at night. An evening ride
to the top of the Reservoir knobs
before the moon gets bright is some
thing which will repay any one and
give an idea of the big expense ol
the llarrisburg district. The city is
marked out by rows of lights, the
Pennsylvania yards gleam with
them, Knola is asparkle, Rutherford
yards are a cluster of silvery beams
and the Cumberland Valley rail
road is to be picked out by a row ol
glowing globes. And Steelton con
tributes its share to the illumination
by fiery clouds above the Bessemei
mill or streaks of flame from th
furnaces.
• • •
Experts of the State Department
of Agriculture have been on the
.lump "doctoring" soils lately. It
seems as though almost every own
er of a farm who wrote for some at
tention or man who wanted 10 take
up some farming had, something
wrong with the soil. Franklin Men
ges, one of the state soil experts,
has visited four counties in one day
l&tcly to "prescribe" for the ground
The demand for fertilizers is greater
than ever known and it Is surpris
ing the amount of lime being em
ployed. Fields on which lime has
not been spread for years are being
covered with It.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Samuel Rea, president of Th
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
will make speeches in support ol
the Liberty I^oan.
—Judge W. C. Ryan, of Bucks
county, will make the addresses at
flagraising3 in his county Wednes
day.
—Dr. Herman Hornig, Philadel
phia's official entomologist, says thai
saloonkeepers ought to take stepl
to eliminate the files from ban
which carry many diseases.
—Dr. John A. Brashears, th<
Pittsburgh astronomer, made th<
speech at Jeanette's tlagraislng.
—John Brophy, the new president
of the Central Pennsylvania miners
Is only thirty-three. He lives li
Clearfield.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg's Sunday
School enrollment Is oivo of the
largest of any city of its si7.o in
the country?
WIKTORIO HARRIBBIRO
Alexander Hamilton came here q
the time of the Whisky Xnsurrectlol
to discuss defense plans with official
In this part of the state.
Saying the Worst
Perhaps some of the people wh<
were opposed to the selective draf
are those who were looking for job
that would send them spellbinding
around the couhtry urging enlist
ments. —Utlca Observe*