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THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 81
The thing ire Jong for that we are
For one transcendant moment.
—LOWELL.
CAN YOU AFFORD IT?
f A SK yourself this question;
"Can X afford not to buy a
Liberty Bond?"
Then answer it this way:
"If I value the privileges I have
enjoyed as an American citizen —if
I want to make certain that my chil
dren and future generations shall en-
Joy the same privileges—l must do
my share toward stemming the tide
of oppression which threatens our
shores. I must do my part in show
ing President Wilson, our govern
ment in general, our army, our navy
and our allies that every person in
the United States is solidly support
ing them. Therefore, I must buy
ft Liberty Bond."
Then go into the nearest bank and
ask the man at the window how it
can be done by investing a dollar a ;
week for a little less than a year.
Just what does Hlndenburg mean (
by a line?
JAPAN AND THE WAR
THE prominent part Japanese
torpedo boat destroyers have 1
taken in submarine activities in
European waters within the past two 1
weeks indicates that Japan has be- 1
gun to realize the gravity of the sit- :
uatlon which England faces on the '
seas. The part Japan has played in 1
this war has been largely selfish. It
has been the Japanese policy to "let
George do it." Nominally at war
with Germany, the only part Nippon
had played up to a month ago was :
the taking of a few minor German I
forts in China —of vast importance 1
to Japan in her conquest of the East !
—and the sale of large quantities of 1
munitions to Hussla. 1
It Is remarkable that while troops 1
by the hundred thousand have been 1
rushed from India, Australia and 1
Canada to the aid of the allies, not
more than a few hundred Japanese "
soldiers, If any, have found their way :
to the European battlefields. No rea
son has been given for this. No
sooner did the United States declare
war on Germany than representa
tives of the allies swarmed to Wash- 1
ington, as ready to seek assistance of
men as of money. Apparently no
such requests were made of Japan.
Now, however, there appears to be ■
a gradual awakening in Japan. A
separate Russian peace would mean
a Russia friendly to Germany and a
successful Germany would mean
frightful revenge upon Japan and the
demolition of the tower of dreams
Japanese have built around their
scheme of dominion in the East. In
short, Japan soon must come into
the war on a scale commensurate
with her state of preparedness or be
ready to take either a minor part In
the triumph of the allies or to wage
a losing war at frightful cost should
German prove victorious. Very dis
tinctly it is now "up to the Japs"
and there are signs that Toklo Is not
unaware of the trend of affairs.
"Germany will be punished," says
Kipling. Rudyard apparently has a
pretty good hunch.
A BAS THE HARD-BOILED SHIRT
HOORAY for the Haberdashers'
Association! A grateful public
(male) hails 'em as benefac
tors of mankind, friends of democ
racy, liberators of a half hundred
million throttled throats and as
many embattled manly bosoms.
Report from Chicago are that the
haberdashers have placed their ban
on the hard-boiled shirt, the high
standing stiff collar and starched
cuffs. Starch Is needed for food.
Hence, as patriots, we are ask£d to
wear our starch inside our chests in
stead of on the outside. Taken by
and large this is not a very hefty
order. As patriotic Americans we
can think of sacrifices that would
be much harder to make. Yea, we
rejoice in conforming absolutely to
this new dictum of the arbiters
whose decree It erstwhile was ttiat
we should" go about clad In stiff and
unyielding garments that had they
been inflicted upon a horse or dog
would have brought down upon the
perpetrator's head the righteous
wrath of the S. P. C. A.
But let by-gones be by-gones. If
the Kaiser were to quit right now
and let Harden run for President
we'd be willing to call it all off and
get square with the Germans by let
ting them have the agony of a pop
' ular election every four years. 80
with the haberdashers. If they let
us alone with our new-found bless
ings, they permit us to 101 l about
fc iUafitl shirts and soft collars, to
THURSDAY EVENING,
day nothing of cuffs of a variety that
are not always too far up when thoy
are not too far down, we'll not only
fcrgive and forget, but we'll hall 'em
as sartorial reformers and friends of
masculinity the civilized world over.
Think of It, men! No more the
agony of a Jagged collar; no more
the cuff-links that won'fmatch; no
more the shirt-stays that won't stay;
no more the vain search for the elu
sive collar button.
A bas the stiff cuffs! A bas the
high collar! A bas the hard-boiled
shirt!
And, while we are about, a bas
also the laundry bill.
Th man who plants a garden is a
patriot; the man who keeps his gar
den well hoed is a hero.
THE EBY FOUNTAIN'
THE placing of the Eby fountain
on the plaza at the city pump
ing station Is a worthy tribute to
the memory of one who was
throughout his llfo a friend of chil
dren. This memorial erected by Miss
Eby in memory of her brother, ex-
Mayor Maurice C. Eby, is of special
value at this location. It Is properly
named "The Children's Fountain."
Let us hope that Commissioner
Dunkle will arrange for the dally
removal of the ashes in the rear of
the fountain so that this beauty spot
may not be disfigured by the waste
of the big engine room of the pump
ing station.
The employes at the station are
lovers of flowers and shrubbery and
it Is to their credit that the planting
is carefully looked after by them.
Doubtless, the Department of Parks
will co-operate with Commissioner
Dunkle In making this plaza the
beauty spot of the river front.
When the Italians turn their wing
the Austrians are naturally expected
to take to flight.
BEER AND THE WAR
THERE are signs that whiskey
makers and manufacturers of
beers and light wines are at
the parting of the ways on national
prohibition during the war. The lat
ter are asserting that to forbid the
browing of beers or the fermenta
tion of light wines, with millions of
gallons of whisky stored away, woiiid
be to turn loose on drinking people
the stronger beverages that are vio
lent '.n their effects on the system.
This may be true, but the fact still
remains that nobody who now finds
solace in beer need take whisky if
beer is no longer to bt had, and it
cannot be questioned that great quan
tities of grain are going Into beer
that should be used for foodstuffs.
For the United States to fight
any war other than a completely
victorious war would be an intoler
able degradation of its place and
spirit. And victory in this war de
pends upon preventing the exhaus
tion of Great Britain, France and our
other allies. We must eliminate
waste immediately and reach the ul
timate of efficiency in the production
of shipping and the use of money.
This Is necessary because France
faces a deficiency of 127,000,000
bushels of grain. England is actually
beleaguered and is resting in the
shadow of the bread ticket. The
allied nations and neutral countries
confront a grain shortage of 200,-
000,000 bushels. We ourselves are
short 5,000,000 bushels on our win
ter wheat crop.
Last year the liquor traffic in the
United States destroyed approximate
ly 135,000,000 bushels of grain, nearly
the amount of the world's deficit. In
the manufacture of whisky, 39,748,-
892 bushels were changed from food
to poison. The exact amount of
grain used in making beer Is not
known, but is nearly 100,000,000
bushels.
This grain, if made into bread,
would have supplied every man, wo
man and child throughout the nation
with a substantial meal every day
during the year. Billions of pounds
of bread far worse than wasted!
In the shamble fields of France
young men by the millions are plung
ing through barbed wire and burst
ing shells for the cause we have
taken as our own. They are giving
their lives for us. emptying their
veins freely of life's blood. Are we
willing to empty our glasses for
them? Are we so little in earnest
that the thought of the fishes suck
ing the flesh from the bones of Am
erican women and babies will not
nerve us to the sacrifice of a beverage
which cannot even be classed so high
as a luxury?
*Think of the billions wasted, with
war loans to be subscribed! Think
of the ship tonnage, of the car space,
of the misapplied labor!
Only God knows how serious Is the
situation which faces us. Russia
may go to pieces. The western lines
may crack under the strain of the
armies which could then be with
drawn from the East. We may find
our freedom and the world's safety
dependent upon our own arms unless
the British and French are supplied
with grain sufficient to solve their
pressing food problems and release
their men for Individual and military
purposes. Victory in this war may
depend upon the last million bushels
of grain rather than the last million'
of men.
Under these circumstances, the
waste of food In the making of beer
and whisky both should stop and
stop NOW! There should be no dis
crimination. With regard for the
use of strong drink instead of the
lighter brews, let the guilt rest on
the head of him who declines to re
sist the temptation to drink.
"The transit pot is boiling," says a
Philadelphia newspaper headline. Na
turally, where there Is so much water.
Think of the back newspaper read
ing MacMUlan and his party will have
to do to get to the place where they
know as little about the war as we
who have done our reading in dally
Instalments do.
"France bars Socialist pacifists from
peace conference." For fear of hav
ing them et into * fight, perhaps.
Tstltlco. IK
By the Ex-Commlttecman
Time for closing up the work of j
the Legislature will probably not be
settled until the lawmakers return
to Harrisburg next Wednesday.
Loaders of the Senate who were in
Philadelphia yesterday have deter- ;
mined to talk over the general situa
tion with House leaders anck'it is
possible that the recess idea may be
revived. Certain declarations about
an agreement on appointments and
confirmations which were rife last (
week have not been very well sub- i
stantiated and the wish seems father
to the thought in a good many cases.
A week ago some of the legislative
leaders were making preparations to
resume their business at home about
June 22, it being thought that the
Legislature would quit on June 21. i
In the last day or so there has been
more talk of June 28, and even men- 1
tion of the first week in July. This
is taken to mean that the appropria- j
tion bills will be rushed through to !
the Governor's office and that he will
have to act upon them before the
close of the session, which would re
quire forcing into ten days what a
Governor generally has twenty or
twenty-five days to handle.
—An interesting sidelight on state
politics comes from Philadelphia,
where Senator J. P. McNichol has
made a tart reply to Mayor Smith's
telegram charging that the Senator
listened to men in corporations. The
Senator and the Mayor have been on
pretty fair terms, but there are signs
of a break, which is all the more in
teresting becauso McNich9* and the
Vares seem to be busy emphasizing
their close personal relations. Sen
ator McNichol said that It was up
to the Mayor to get the transit lease
and that he was opposed to giving
the Public Service Commission any
more authority in the matter. The
chances are that there will be a
row over the transit bills here next
week.
—The Philadelphia North Ameri-
I can to-day prints an Interesting list
of possibilities for governor, viewed
from its own angle. The Philade
phia Ledger discovers that this year
the state will elect twenty-six Judges
and the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says that Governor Brumbaugh
would be very glad to have the legis
lators go home.
—The fight over the bill to take
the nonpartisan feature out of the
second-class city law will be settled
next week when Senate reconvenes.
The effort to drop the bill from the
calendar has aroused antagonism
among some of the senators and
when the bill gets to the House again
there will probably be a battle.
—The Luzerne county Judgeship
contest in which Judge Fuller will
fight for honors with Thomas D.
Shea, his old rival, promises to be
of State-wide interest this year. The
two men have been much in the pub
lic eye and both have been > prepar
ing for the fray.
• —All over the State men have been
watching what the Governor would
do about the bill changing the meth
od of paying the salaries of the leg
islators. It has been well known
that the Governor did not desire the
Legislature to sit any longer than
necessary to clean up the bills and
remarks" that he would be glad to
hasten adjournment have been made
very trc-ely.
—The third-class city bills will be
taken up in Senate committees dur
ing the coming week and it is said
that the experts in such law will go
over the details of each bill. An
osreement on reporting out will be
made and the measures take their
chances on the floor.
—Democratic legislators are plan
ning a large talkfest when the two
Democratic platform bills get up on
third reading' in the House next
week. The Democrats have missed
so manv chances this session that
they will try to make up for lost time
and devote valuable hours and much
expensive space in the Legislative
Journal to preparation of campaign
thunder.
The German Record
On the day when German air
planes dropped bombs in Dover, kill
ing twenty-seven women and twen
ty-three children half a mile from
any military work, the German gov
ernment gave notice of intent to con
tinue sinking hospital ships "in the
entire barred zone and in the Medi
terranean" —except at one point, un
der conditions strange to the law
of nations.
So lengthens the grim score that
will be washed out In blood. Begin
ning with the Belgian "scrap of pa
per"; through lawless murder of
civilians on land and sea and from
the sky; through forced contribu
tions, and hostages slain without
fault, the old fanes of holy faiths
desecrated, and sculptured orna
ments of antiquity battered down;
through poison gas in the trenches,
and poisoned wells In Africa and in
France, and devastation of homes
without war excuse, and the seizing
of old men, women and girls to drag
into slavery, and the butchery of the
wounded under the Bed Cross, the
red recital runs to our day, unmiti
gated by any sign of returning sanity
or awakened scruple. Beckless of
the future, though the world is at
last rißing in armed protest against
her intolerable acts, Germany, as
though mad, still soils and slays.
No peace can bo made with mili
tarism that wages war in disregard
of every softening scruple devised by
civilization. No faith can be placed
in the forsworn. The German peo
ple themselves must be unyoked
from the wolf. —New York World.
Air Cavalry
In the present war cavalry cannot
well bo used effectively because of
the trench fighting. For the first time
in history cavalry is faced by a
swifter, deadlier, more mobile arm—
the aeroplane.
But the aeroplane itself, effec
tive as it has proved, has been used,
in a sense, with European conserva
tism. To be sure, the embattled arm
ies now have their thousands of air
scouts and air cruisers, but one ven
tures to believe that were a Napo
leon or a Dee in charge of the op
erations he would develop the new
factor as Napoleon developed artil
lery and as Lee developed cavalry.
The time apparently is coming for
the use of aeroplanes in clouds, in
hosts, in armies.
The extraordinary usefulness of
the air fighter has been conclusively
demonstrated. Is It not possible that
the American mind, with its genius
for discarding the old and. developing
the new, will exalt the aerial factor
in war to the degree of its highest
potentialities and thus decide tho
struggle?
In view of the backwardness of
this nation In developing its air
service and the fine efficiency of the
French in aviation, such a suggestion
may seem absurd. Yet the possi
bility exists for further amazing
demonstrations of effectiveness in
air operations, and this possibility Is
worthy to receive the careful atten
tion of American experts.—Chicago
News.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
That truth is mighty is amply
proved by the fact that it still sur
vives after German statesmen have
stretched it all out of shape.—Kan
sas City Star.
Berlin says the German line is in
vincible. Certainly. Whenever it is
in danger they just move back three
or four miles.—Philadelphia North
American.
Hindenburg may have paraphrased
Grant's famous line so that it reads:
"We'll fight It out on this line if I
have to take the line with me." —
New York Morning Telegraph.
It is requested of the press that
no speculation or rumor be publish
ed other than those given out by
the War Department.—From a War
Department statement. Secretary
Baker should establish special days
for issuing his speculations and ru
mors.—Philadelphia North Ameri
can.
Worth noting that the colors on
the Tricolor of France, the Union
Jack, and the Star-Spangled Banner
are the same.—Wall Street Journal.
Julius Caesar, son of Minnie Cae
sar, of Brooklyn, has joined the
United States marines and will help
overcome the Goths.—Chattanooga
News.
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King George's Potato Patch
Most persons think of royalty as a
matter of fuss and feathers. But the
divinity that doth hedge a king is for
public consumption; in private he
often cultivates the simple life.
There is nothing surprising in the
announcement that King George of
England spends his afternoons work
ing at a potato patch in Windsor
Park. The lamented Pingree of De
troit, who tried to make the idea
popular years ago, is being every
where justified in these days. George
V has good hereditary example for
his love of the soil. His ancestor
whom the singers of the Declaration
of Independence denounced so fierce
ly, was in truth a kindly soul, and
he was much happier as "Farmer
George" than as the protagonist of
personal Bovernment with the par
liamentary aid of "the King's
friends." His intellectual ideas wero
those of the country squires of his
day. "Shakespeare is sad stuff," he
confided to Fanny Burney on a mem
orable occasion, "Only one mustn't
say so—what, what?" Perhaps he
might have been spared the unhappy
insanity of his last years if he had
never been burdened with the affairs
of state.
To be on dress parade all the time
would be a fearful penance to pay
for exalted rank. The only ruler of
our day who seems to enjoy it is the
Kaiser. Even in his own family, wo
are told, he assumes the god and
seems to shake the spheres. The de
posed Czar of Russia, who has an
essentially bourgeois nature, took to
shoveling snow as soon as the strain
of czarshlp was over. A little pseudo-
Czar like Ferdinand of Bulgaria
would not take his downfall so con
tentedly. The late King Edward VII,
though ho realized the royal duty
of not permitting familiarities, was
one of the most genial of men, who
loved to throw aside ceremony. Vic
tor Emmanuel of Italy, another
monarch upon whose good nature
none would think of presuming, is
democratic in his views and habits.
Europe, outside of Germany, would
hardly endure another Louis XIV.
The simple life may be lived too ex
clusively, of course; Louis XVI spent
hours in his workshop that had bet
ter have been devoted to meeting the
troubles that were to cost him his
head. There is no such peril in King
George's cultivation of his potato
patch. He is engaged in the laudable
task of setting a good example to
his subjects. It is only another mani
festation of the tact and common
sense which have helped to make
his throne secure.—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Closer Relations
[From the New York Telegraph.]
Is the late spring a result of closer
relation!! with Canada?
Charles M. Schwab says:—
integrity. Incidentally, is one of the
mightiest factors in salesmanship. If
you have a reputation for staling
facts exactly, for never attempting to
gain momentary advantage through
exaggeration, you possess the basis of
All successful "salesmanship.
Rhymes From the Nursery
A SOW; OF THE BOTTLE
There's a cure for a 6ry, and a
balm for a sigh,
In a white milky bottle, I love it,
oh my!
It appeases my woes, it scatters
my foes,
When I get hold of one, why I
curl up my toes.
And I shut my eyes, and hush up my
cries,
And away I go sailing—way off past
the skies!
Where a country of babies and white
bottles lies!
Let the other small tots, have their
bread—lots and lots,
Or big plates of Ice cream or
round apricots,
~ I never would wish for the likes
of a dish.
That had in things to eat like po
tatoes and fish!
No, I just shut my eyes, rend the air
with my cries, ~
And there's only one thing that my
heart pacifies—
'Tis a white milky bottle my soul
satisfies.
To a bottle I sing! Oh, a bottle me
bring,
All other food to the winds I would
sling!
Let the nipple be black, let the milk
not be slack,
And rest ye assured that my lips
I will smack!
Then I'll shut up my eyes, and I'll
hush up my cries.
And away I'll go sailing—way off
past the skies.
Where a country of babies and white
bottles lies!
By Edna GrofT Delhi.
Fishing For Dreams
We are two fishermen, Sunnle and I,
Fishing for dreams in the broad
blue sky;
I for the dream of a love that wont
Like a singing bird to the firmament;
He for the dream of the fairy isles
Where the sun all day on the hilltop
smiles.
And the birds and the flowers and
the hearts of men
Go singing together adown the miles.
And love comes unto Its own again.
Ah, wonders, indeed, come to our
bait.
As there on the bank with our lines
wo wait;
And wondersi go by all day o'erhead,
And we try to guess what the red
bird said.
What the gray squirrel thought,
what the chipmunk spied,
And then on the beams of the sun
we rido
Over the riddle of pain and care
To the fairy hills of tho everywhere,
Counting the buttercups, making a
wish—
Sunnie and I, with our dreams to
spare,
The fishermen twain that never fish.
—Baltimore Sun.
Legitimate Censorship
The substitute censorship provision
proposed to be introduced in the
House, and presumed to have the
approval of the President, discloses
a better understanding of what a
censorship may legitimately attempt
to do. It gives the President author
ity to prescribe rules for the preven
tion of military information reach
ing tho enemy through publication.
That is a purpose every patriotic
Amerlcun will be ready to serve, and
no objections can be made to the
fullest authority being given the
President to see that 1t Is carried
out. But the new provision express
ly recognizes that there is nothing
In that purpose which should re
strict the right to discuss or com
ment on tho acts or policies of the
government or Its representatives.
This proper distinction Is all that the
opponents of the former censorship
provision have contended for. No
publication that respects Itself or
the interests of America would ask
or assert the right to give informa
tion of the movements of troops or
the disposition of tleets, or print any
other news that could be of value to
the enemy. But the acts of a public
official or the policy of an adminis
tration, or legislation In Congress,
can never be subjects of censorship
laws In a country that claims to
be free. The right and the duty to
criticize SUCH HITS and policies are
Inherent In this democracy, in jleace
nnd in war. It augurs more encour
agingly for the proper conduct of the
war that this has at last been recog
nized In Washington.—Kansas City
.Times.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Do \\ e Really Know the French?
"There has been much talk of
France having been reborn through
the agony o£ this war,," says Alex
ander Powell, in "Brothers in Arms,"
to be published on June 2, by Hbugh
ton Mifflin Company. "Therein we are
wrong. It is merely that we Ameri
cans have known the French only
superficially, and that, in thinking
and speaking of them, we have in
dulged in the careless and inaccurate
habit of generalization. We have be
lieved them lacking in seriousness
and perseverance, and we have
thought them Volatile and tempera
mental * ♦ • What have we known of
the sober, simple-hearted, industri
ous, frugal, plain-living deeply relig
ious people • ho are the real France?
France has not been reborn. It is
an affront to her to say it. She has
but cast aside the glittering garment
which she wore for the gratification
of strangers in order to frde her
sword arm."
Treat the Private With Consideration
Roger Batchelder, in "Watching
and Waiting at the Border," Just pub
lished by Hougton Mifflin Company,
has written the story of the National
Guard's experiences at the border,
from the point of view of a private.
Mr. Batchelder, who is still an un
dergraduate at Harvard, was a mem
ber of the machine gun company of
the Eiehth Massachusetts regiments.
One of the most telling points in his
uncommonly interesting book is his
account of the treatment which the
privates received at the hands of
some of the civilians in Texas. "A
soldier is never welcome anywhere—
unless It is pay day," says Mr, Batch
elder; "then he is greeted with the
proverbial open arms • • • I have
heard accounts from other men of
incidents which sound Incredible, but
to which I give credence. One man
told me that a citizen attempted to
charge him flvo cents for a glass of
water. And at a dance hall in Ysleta,
a smal town near El Paso, the pro
prietor placed the following sign at
the door: 'Dancing for Ladies and
Gentlemen; Soldiers and Dogs Not
Allowed.'" The reading of .Mr.
Batchelder's book ought to arouse
the public to a worthy determination
to treat enlisted men with all pos
sible consideration.
Must Be No Negligence
But I am finding some things to
cheer me. There is, for instance,
the knowledge that the scandals of
the Southern camps during the
Spanish War will not be repeated
there we lost ten boys from disease
to every one killed In battle. Think
of it! We learned nothing from that
war, but wfi learned greatly from the
war in' Europe. There will be no
cruel and useless waste of life from
disease. On the Mexican border
there was practically no sickness, al
though the natural conditions were
In favor of It. w have sanitarians,
now, and water suppiFe* -will
watched. The inoculation against
typhoid, too, has eliminated the dis
ease, both in the European armies
and here. Because it is waste that
we fear.
We are trying to feel, we women,
that no cost is too grfat, if needful to
preserve our country. But wo will
never be reconciled to waste of life
through negligence. And this I
promise, now. Let such negligence
occur, and let me know of It, duly
Investigated, and I will make the
press of the country ring with it, to
the eternal shame of those who are
rtsponsible.
I have been to war, and I know
this: That men living in fearful
surroundings may be kept healthy by
proper care. This care is what we
demand, those of us who oannot
fight, but who are bearing out own
burdens, nevertheless.
—Mary Roberts Rlnqhart In "The
Altar of Freedom."
No Change
They had parted long years ago.
Now, In the deepening shadows of
the twilight, they had met again.
"Here Is the old stile, Mary," he
said.
"Aye, an' here be our initials that
you carved, Sandy," she replied.
The ensuing silence was broken
only by the buzzing of an airplane
overhead. Honeyladen memories
thrilled through the twilight and
flushed their glowing cheeks.
"Ah. Mary," exclaimed Sandy,
"ye're just as beautiful as ye were,
and I hn'e never forgotten ye, my
bonnte lass." .
"And ye. Sandy," she cried, while
her blue eyes moistened, "are Just as
big a leer as ever, an' I believe ye
Just the same." —Minneapolis Trl-j
MAY 31,1917.
Labor Notes
Sweden has a compulsory old-age
pension law.
Denmark has government inspec
tion of bakeries.
Richmond, Va., operates a public
employment bureau.
Oklahoma compensation law al
lows no death benefits.
The British Cabinet has a Minis
try of Labor.
Women are employed as steve
dores in German seaports.
New Mexico compensation law Is
effective shortly.
Miners In Japan are paid 20 cents
a day-. •
On July 1 Frisco painters will ask
$6 for an eight-hour day.
An eight-hour day has been grant
ed Canadian Pacific engineers.
President Gompers advocates no
strikes in war time.
Women car conductors may be em
ployed in New York City.
London (Ont.) labor unions de
mand municipal coal yards.
tanada will use convicts to replace
farm labor.
Frisco upholsterers have secured
an increase in pay.
Blacksmiths at Vancouver, B. C.,
are paid 56% cents an hour.
Omaha (Neb.) sheet metal work
ers have a 65-cent-an-hour mini
mum.
Bartenders at Newark, N. J., have
secured a 10-hour day.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
ONE WAY.
She: Did you ever go a-eourtln* T
He: Oh, yes!
She: What did you say? .
He: I sa-'d. "Good morning,
Judsc.*
CHVING IT TIME.
"Hustle up, old map! Remember
the world owes you a living."
**l know; but I don't feel like be
ing: hard on It until after this heat
BETWEEN GIRLS.
"She says she wishes she could see
herself as others seo her."
"That's Just an excuse for spending
* lot of time lajront of a mirror."
2Etettfitg (ttljaij
tt übllshed statements that the
i n States army plans to change
us divisions so that they will con
ain but two brigades and those of
our Infantry regiments each caused
considerable astonishment here as
e nited States laws governing or
ganization of militia have been fol
owe to the letter and Pennsylvania
as a complete tactical division, one
of the two states in the country to
have such arrangement of its mill
tary arm . The new pJan would
cause considerable changing and
shifting about and undo the hai
work of the last few years by state
0 cers. An interesting statement
about the proposed chango is tho
It would call for formation of nn.
machinegun company to each bat
talion instead of each regiment as
at present. There would thul be a
machinegun company to each three
companies of infantry, a proportion
considered to be about right in the
™ Bt V d i eS t0 date - 11 is also report!
m J£ a e numbcr °£ Kuns in each
machine company would be increas
wnnM K rt^ ermore - tho companies
would be increased to 200 men in
s cad of 150. This would m£n that
to wou ! cl furnish about 250
to 300 additional men for the Eighth
regiment. Under the new plan, as
reported, thero would be 2,000 men
and sixty-seven officers to a regiment,
uuard officers were immensely inter-
] n the reports last night, and
predicted that it would mean diftl
'"sett'ne equipment In time
th mi°i H a t l< i n , at such strength by
the middle of July.
• • •
P° ster s about the city
urging people to invest in the Liberty
® nd to enlist come from the
Committee of Public Safety,
which has also issued a very notable
poster reminding people of registra
tion day next Tuesday. Never in
1 ennsylvania history has the poster
campa.ign gone as far as it is being
carried now and the posters will be
well worth preserving.
Men connected with the registra
tion plans In this city are commen
nlS £ y the P erson s within the
age of the first draft so that they will
„. < L„, ready to , me ? t an y difficulties
wnicli may arise because of foreign
languages As a result there has
een a quiet listing of every person
„ ® can speak the various languages
of Europe, all of which are repre-
Se -'?i here. The court interpreters
n,i .£ f ,n , general duty subject to
call that day and men who have
knowledge of various tongues will
volunteer their services.
The scarcity of tomato, pepper and
other plants experienced a little ear
i iTi ln , season by growers of vege
tables has been somewhat overcome
by the efforts of greenhouse men to
bring on a second crop. The largo
number of private gardens now be
ing operated in the vicinity has used
up more plants than ever before and
for a time it looked as though there
would be a famine. Sweet potato
plants are just beginning to come
into the market. A larger number
will be planted this year than in any
previous year hereabouts. Properly
cared for sweet potatoes are a suc
cessful and profitable crop In this
locality.
• • •
A well-known minister put the
Liberty Loan proposition in this lan
guage the other day: "It is the
Liberty Loan, and get back your
money, principal and interest, or an
Indemnity, collected by the enemy at
Washington, and you will pav both
principal and interest—getting back
nothing."
That ia what It is—either buy a
bond and receive Interest or pay an
Indemnity and lose both principal
and Interest.
♦ • •
Older residents of the citv to-day
recalled the first Memorial bay par
ade held in Harrisburg. It was in
1868 and Major Lane S. Hart was the
chief marshal. The route of the
parade was over the central part of
the city and there were impressive
exercises .attended by thousands of
people.
* •
Stories by the dozen could be told
of the late Edwin M. Householder,
the Capitol Policeman who died a
day or so ago. Mr. Householder
knew every man of prominence ln
State affairs for forty years and most
of % them by their front names, and
he used to tell many amusing inci
dents of the times when he ran the
first elevator in the Capitol and of
the mistakes made by men in get
ting in and out. Mr. Householder
will be missed by many visitors to
the State House.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Bishop Ethelhert Talbot, of
Bethlehem, is celebrating his thir
tieth year as a bishop.
—H. H. Hagy, who is in charge of
the Liberty Loan in Berks county,
says the county can take $4,000,000.
—Adjutant General Stewart had to
work yesterday and for the lirst time
in years he made no Memorial Day
address.
—J. V. Symons. active in steel af
fairs. has been placed in charge of
itil steel and rolling mills at the
Cambria sttel plant at Johnstown.
—Judge Alton B. Parker has been
a figure in the courts in Pittsburgh
this week.
Prof. S. M. Lindsay, former Uni
versity of Pennsylvania professor,
now of Columbia, is making a series
of addresses on what war economy
means.
DO YOU KNOW
Tliat Harrisburg furnished some
interesting experiments in eJcc
trie street railway construction
when the lirst line was built?
HISTORIC JIAKIMNIU'UG
The first furnace to make iron !n
Harrisburg was located along the old
canal.
The Profiter
Harold McCormlek, of Chicago,
who has outfitted the whole Yarrow
dale crew at his own expense, is a
very rich man and a very .generous
man, but he does not like to be
"done."
Mr. McCormlek. on one of his
visits to Florida, neglected to stipu
late his hotel rate ln advance. The.
hotel man took advantage of this
oversight, and the bill he presented
was exorbitant.
Air. McCormlek, however, paid
without a murmur. Then he said, as
he folded the receipt ln his wallet:
"By the way, have you got any
two-cent stamps?"
"Yes, sir," said the hotel man.
"How many would you like to
have?"
"En said Mr. McCormlek,
mildly, "how much are they apiece?"
—Washington Post. '
Undaunted
He—They say it is dangerous to
eat ice cream, dearest.
She— Yes, darling, but it la iuk
a sweet way to dlt.