8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPEK FOR THS HOMS Pounded itjs (Published evenings except Sunday by TO 19 TBLBGRAPH PRIKTIHO CO, Telcvraph Building, Federal Sqaare. •E.J. STACK POLE, Pre ft Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. American Story. Brooks A Entered at the Post Office In Harris burr. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, 16.00 a year in advance. , SATURDAY EVENING, JUNES Amid the hotcltng Wintry sea. We are in port if we have Thee. — KEBLE. THE HOME GUARD MEN beyond the age of military conscription, but active enough to shoulder a gun and render very effective service in an emer gency, will meet at the court house to-night to discuss the formation of a Home Guard, to be called into be ing when the National Guard is sum moned to the war camps. These men are not imbued with a desire to don a uniform and parade at home while their younger broth ers do duty on the firing line. They do not imagine that it will be neces sary to meet an Invading German army. But they do know that no community should be left, especial ly in war times, without an armed force ready to respond for public protection should Internal disorder of any kind arise. German sympath izers might use the absence- of the National Guard to stir up trouble. The very knowledge that a well drilled, well-armed Home Guard stood ready for instant call would be a deterring Influence In such circum stances. Besides, nobody knows how long or to what lengths this war may go. Men now beyond the age of con scription later may be called upon to serve. It Is better that they should be prepared. The Home Guard will give them their first lessons in army life. Every man who has received an Invitation should be at the court house at 8 o'clock to-night. If old Omar had lived In these days he wouldn't have classed bread as a simple diet. DEATH FOR SUCH THE astounding assertion is made by a United Btates Sen ator that a German agent is busy in New York buying up cargoes of wheat and other foodstuffs, osten sibly for the allies, and sending them to sea where they are made the tar gets of German submarine boats warned beforehand of their coming. If this is true the only punishment worth while is death for the culprit. It is hardly conceivable that there is anybody so despicable as to de liberately send food to the bottom of the ocean, while the world starves, or who would order the crews of merchant vessels to almost certain death at the hands of U-boat com manders, whose only thought is to destroy and slay. But Germany has played so many dirty tricks in this war that anything may be believed of her. At all events the declaration made on the floor of the Senate must not be permitted to go unchallenged. Do you remember the time when a birthday surprise party was the height of social dissipation? CENSORSHIP DEAD THE House by a decisive vote yesterday killed tl>e obnoxious censorship clause of the espion age bill, so strongly urged by Presi dent Wilson. Dispatches from Wash ington reciting the debate preceding the ballot by which the censorship provision was voted down indicate that the House Interpreted the Pres ident's demand as indicating both an attempt to compel the newspa pers in dealing with the govern ment's activities in relation to the war to publish only such matters as the President should himself author ize and to publish them in form sat isfactory to the President. In brief, they regarded it as a palpable move ment by the government to prevent the people from obtaining any real knowledge of the manner In which the war is being conducted. All the Influence the administra tion could bring to bear upon the House membership was exerted in behalf of the measure. The highly succeesful fight against the proposed muzzling of the press was led by Representative Graham, of Philadel phia, a Republican, to whom the thanks of the newspapers of the country are due. This action of Congress will not cause the newspapers to break any rules of censorship they have laid down for themselves. Not a word of "aid or comfort" to the enemy will be published* and If any rash editor should overstep there Is law enough on the books now to punish him. The failure of the censorship clause simply means that the newspapers will not be prevented from criticis ing the President and the govern ment in general in such manner and upon such occasion as the conditions SATURDAY EVENING, may warrant. All of them will pa triotically support the administra tion to the last gasp In the prosecu tion of the war, but that does not mean they will gloss over gross er rors or paint failures as successes. This Is a democracy and the people are entitled to know what their gov ernment Is doing and to bo In posi tion to form their own conclusions. What, we arise to ask, has become of our old comrade in arms, the Overt Act? SCHOOL BOARD CHANGES RESIGNATION of A. carton Stamm as president of the School Board, while It came without warning, was the logical re sult of the worse than stupid con duct of a majority of the board with respect to the selection of architects to design the new high schools. Mr. Stamm very forcefully sums up his main reasons for stepping down In the opening paragraph of his letter to the board, as follows: As the official head of the board its president is generally, and per haps properly, looked upon as the exponent of its policies and the representative of its accomplish ments. and he assumes & cor responding responsibility. In m.v Judgment the recent action of a majority of this board in select ing four architects to design five units of what Is actually a single educational plant must inevitably result in a waste of the public money, in architectural medi ocrity, in buildings indifferently adapted to their proposed uses, and, worst of all, in the denial to the boys and girls of Harrisburg of much superior educational op portunity and advantage that it was Intended they should have, and that it is their right to have. The whole proposition involved In that action Is to my mind so ab surd, so harmful and so hopeless, that I am unwilling to take, or to even appear to take, any further responsibility for the proposed building program. Further, Mr. Stamm says, he Is now a minority member of the board, and as such would be out of place as its president. Mr. Stamm has done what he be lieved to be for the best interests of the people. The childish behavior of the five members of the board who wilfully foisted upon the people a high school building "program" unworthy of the term might have been enough to disgust him to the point of leaving the board entirely, but he has courageously decided to remain use his influence to pre vent any more such mischievous be havior as that which characterized the selection of high school archi tects. Mr. Enders, also, was fully justified in resigning as chairman of the building committee. Mr. Enders has made an ideal sch)l director. He has been on the right side of every question that has come before the board since his election. That the high school building program has been wrecked is no fault of hi ß - "He wo.uld not have been true to himself had he remained as the nominal head of a building enterprise In which he had no faith whatsoever. Dr. Yates' resignation as director no doubt was prompted by recent occur rences In the board. The elevation of Director Werner to the presidency is in entire accord wijh the conduct of the majority members of the board in other mat ters of recent development. Werner, elected as a McCormick Democrat on an alleged reform ticket, has done anything but live up to the promises made for him previous to his elec tion. Little more can be said for Dr. Keen, a Republican, who has been made vice-president. Both have been amon# those who have set back the school progress of Harrisburg a generation. Next fall the people of the city will have opportunity to choose men to succeed Messrs. Bretz and 8011, of the 8011-Werner - Keen - Boyer- Bretz combine. Mr. 8011, it Is said, will not be a candidate. Mr. Bretz, if he runs, will be defeated. Unfortu nately, the mischief they have done will be largely beyond correction. The haphazard, hit-or-miss high school building program they have helped outline will be by that time much too far along to be remedied to any effectual degree. But reckless disregard for public interests may be prevented In the future by careful selections at the polls in November. What is needed most now is to make the U-boats permanently sub marine. THE CANOE BECAUSE of a fatality near Scwvnton in which a canoe played a conspicuous part, the editor of the Scranton Republican thinks that canoes should be barred from all summer resorts and feels that perhaps the Legislature with propriety might pass a law forbid ding entirely the use of the canoe in this State. It is well that the editor of the Republican does not live in Harris burg. He wouldn't be at all popular here if he continued to voice senti ments of that kind. Little old Har risburg thinks very well of the canoe and that little vessel is all very well In its place. In the hands of one who knows how to swim and what to expect of his craft the canoe is "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." To abolish its use would be to remove from thousands their chief means of recreation and sport. It is the last vestige of Indian life left to us of to-day. It is a safe enough boat in proper hands. Only when It is manned by per sons unskilled In water or who are unacquainted with Its moods and whims is it dangerous. But under similar circumstances so is the horse, the motorcycle, the shotgun, the automobile and nearly every other instrument of sport. If we are going to take all the danger out of out door life we may as well close the shutters and spend our leisure time in bed. What's the good of the skies being blue and the sunshine bright if you have to sit In an office all day? *~Po£tttC4 CK By (he Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh's veto of the Sproul bill to devote all of the pro ceeds of the foreign fire Insurance premium tax to the municipalities for firemen's relief organizations on the ground that the Legislature has made no provision to replace the revenue thus diverted from the State's own lire insurance fund has not improved the general legislative situation very much according to people at the Capitol. of the legislators who have remained here over the recess to study bills and attend to matters in the departments have been Inclined to show resent ment over the comments of the Gov ernor because the revenue raising program has not been determined upon. The amount of money which would have to be replaced annually is *200.000. in the opinion of people at the Capitol the veto message rather em phasizes the lack of harmony be tween the Governor and the men In charge of the appropriation and revenue legislation and it was much commented upon to-day. The result may be that the legislators may rush the appropriation bills through in the next ten days and let the Gover nor work over them before closing up. which would not add to the ser enity of things at the Capitol. —Chairmen Buckman and Wood ward, of the appropriations commit tees, have been spending part of the recess here checking up the bills so that there will be no differences be tween the way they are sent to the Governor and the amounts deter mined upon. —The revision of the general ap propriation bill will be started next week as the bulk of the departments have sent In letters outlining the amounts needed for salaries. Just what will be done about the Labor and Industry, Public Service and other branches of the government or the Governor's contingent fund has not been outlined. —The direct inheritance tax will go through the Senate next week a,nd the question whether the one mill manufacturing tax will be passed will be settled within ten days. —The indications are that the ap propriation bills will be reported out carrying something around $80,000,- 000. The revenues will bo greater than ever before under the present | laws and with the addition of the direct inheritance tax there t should i be plenty to meet the appropriation in opinion of men who have been observing legislation. -—A tight is threatened in the House when the highway appropri ation bill is reached. An attempt will be made by administration men to restore the $18,000,000 figure which it originally carried, but there will be opposition on the ground that the prices of labor and materials are so high that the work would be very expensive. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch in a .Washington letter says that General C. I M. Clement will be reappointed to command the Pennsylvania divi sion and that practically all of the officers will be retained. It states that there will be no politics in the appointments. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says that the transit conference in Philadelphia yesterday forecasts the reaching of an agreement on the transit situation. Other newspapers are inclined to think that there are big differences to straighten out. —Collector of the Port William H. Berry, who has always been quite a friend of William Jennings Bryan, is outfin a statement In favor of a big army. —The increase of salary for Phil adelphia magistrates carried by the bill approved by the Governor yes terday will make the place very at tractive when the primaries are held. The present magistrates cannot take the Increase. It is said that the ma jority of the places to be filled this fall have been outlined in the Vare plans. x -Third-class city representatives may ask another hearing before the Senate committee in charge of the bills, but It is probable that the senators will determine what changes to make in the measures without much further public discussion. —Governor Brumbaugh will talk over things with friends in Philadel phia over the week-end and outline plans in regard to the balance of the session. Administration men Bay they do not see any agreement on appointments in sight as yet and are eager to get the causes of difference between the State Defense Commis sion and the Public Safety Commit tee ironed out speedily. America, Come On! The Hun strikes quick. The Belgian lies oppressed. The Turk's sword drips, Drawn from thy mother's breast. Thou promisest thine aid To martyred babe and maid. Why tarry in thy tent, Till all our strength is spent? America! Come on! Come on! Our ranks grow thin. Our lands are script and bare. It rains iron bombs. Our breath is poisoned air. Why doest thou lie asleep, Across the ocean deep? "Tis not from fright or fear, 'Tis not the price, though dear. America! Come on! Come on! Thy land stands free, We grind beneath the heel, And yield life's blood To autocratic steel. • We gave thee liberty, Our bondage set thee free. And now our aged back Must bear the yoke, the rack. America! Come on! Come on! When .thou dost rise The tyrant to withstand, They all fear thee, . Who tyrannize a land. But why art thou so slow. Whose power can lay them low? And why does freedom lag? Oh bring! Oh bring her flag! America! Come on! Come on! Meroz accurst, Came not to help the Lord, Against the might Of Sisera's cruel sword. And shall ye guiltless be, This day of tyranny, If Caesar sceptre wields O'er freedom's battle fields? America! Come on! Come on! —lt. M. RAMSEY, Newport, Pa. Take Up Your Gun Take up your gun and go, lad But give yourself no pralsa. 'Tis but the debt you owe, lid, And that your valor pays. There's death! But even so, then You'll walk the deathless ways. And greater peace you'll know then, Than those who count the days. You can't deceive your heart, lad! The urge Is In your veins; And you but choose the part, lad. That 'yields the greatest gains. How quick the compensating Of all your valor pays— But oh, the weary waiting Of those who count the days! —TOM DALY. HAHJRISBURG 6^9TELEGRAPH ( AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS L__ • WHErJ The wife DPG-S AND You PUT - AMD LOOK AT LAST summer's suit out /V-*"" ' • OF THE ATTIC AND ASKS ~*~ HE MIRRoR DO You wanjt | n - AMU' You put- tour Beew overlooked when the •RO<JKJ]> AMD DECIDE THAT —' HAMDS 'CASUAL LlWg' sotT VJAS PUT AW/A ' l ''AU-U-u. PEHHftPS AFTER ' THS PACKETS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]' Not a Desperado To the Editor of the Telegraph: In the interest of simple justice would you kindly give the following a place In your paper? In the TELEGUAPH of Friday last is a front page article concerning Charles Fahnestock of Mt. Holly Springs. In that article he is said to be regarded as "one of the most desperate characters that has been at larga in this section of the coun try for mAny years," "a powerful man with a long record of fearless acts," and other such bad things. Charles Fahnestock is a boy about sixteen years of age, who ought not to be in the army. He is not a des perado nor a desperate character. He is only a boy gone wrong. He has done a few things which were violations of the law. He doubtless has been living a wild life. If he has deserted it was very wrong and he will have to suffer the conse quences. But these things do not constitute him the desperate man represented in your article. The mother of Fahnestock is also represented in a very unenviable light. Now the truth is, Mrs. Fahnes tock is a quiet, inoffensive woman, who has had more than her share of the hard burdens or life. For six or eight years, while she was raising this boy, she cared for and support ed an invalid husband. The circum stances under which she did this were peculiarly difficult. She has the kind respect of those who know what she has passed through and the brave way she has borne her burden. It is hard for neighbors to accept the statement made of her in your paper. Even if it were true, we should remember that a certain great man said of himself, "In my haste I said 'all men are liars.'" Sometimes in anguish of soul and haste things ars said which should be neither regarded nor repeated. Then the article closes with these words, "Some of the residents of Mt. Holly are very anxious to have him captured and are not particular whether it be dead or alive. They declare that in the event the latter they may arrange a patriotic parade to celebrate the event." This is a pure fabrication. Certainly every right-minded citizen of Mt. Holly wishes for his arrest, but no respec table citizen is anxious for a tragedy. We have heard nothing but indig nation expressed over that unfair and unkind article. Mt. Holly is not planning nor desiring such a celebra tion. When we wish to celebrate we can get up something quite respec table in a nobler cause. The whole article is a tissue of falsehood built around a few sad truths in the life of an ignorant erring boy. Wherein he has done wrong and is now doing wrong, /the writer of this statement does not In any way <iesire to screen him. But it hardly seems fair nor is it Just or honorable for those who feel se cure in their footing to push a boy when he is going down hill. We ask of you that fairness be done by you to the parties concerned and that this be given as prominent a place as the former article. Any amount of signatures could be gotten to this statement, but it is not necessary. W. H. DOLBEER, Pastor of Mt. Holly Lutheran Church. "We Can Have No Bungling" Not until universal service had removed the war in England from party lines was there anything ade quate done. Then, and only then, did England begin to put forth her best efforts. And this we can ask— This must not be a bureaucrat's war. Civil administration in the field has always failed. War is a highly specialized business, the most highly specialized business in the world. And we who give our best have the right to demand the best. We can have no bungling. The English Fieid Marshal Wolse ley, writing of our Civil Whr as a military expert, said: "The Northern prospects (lid not begin to brighten until Rlr. Lincoln,. In March. 1864, with that unselfish intelligence which distinguished him, abdicated his military functions in favor of General Grant." War is not a thing for amateurs In high places. —Mary Roberts Rinehart In "The "Altar of Freedom." Charles M. Schwab says:— Jimmle Ward, one of our vice-presi dents, used to be a stenographer. But he kept doing things out of his regu lar line of duty. He reminded me of appointments, and suggested little things that helped me get through my work. He was thinking beyond his Job, so I gave him a better one. And he has gone up and up. ON WITH THE DANCE K IT is night. The tables are grouped about a skating rink of artificial lee. Between rink and diners is only a narrow race track, where the guests may dance. The music stops, the dancers languidly rejoin their tables. They aro to gaze upon a scene that will stir even their jaded appetites. The harsh lights fade and a soft rose floods the Ice. There is a fan fare of trumpets and a troop of girls in furs and bare legs skate forward. Every line and curve of their lovely bodies is revealed as they bend and twist to the sinuous music they fol low. Like swallows thoy dart here and there. In measured evolutions they move in stately column or mad ly whirl and turn into the group which is the finale. They go. Tliey are but the prelude to the premiere patineuse and her partner, bi swing strokes, side by side, they mveep over the glassy square. They waltz. They quarrel, she flees, he pursues and entreats, she yields. It is a Russian ballet on ice. The Incense of Egypt The diners are aweary. Enough of the Frozen North. Egypt! Attend ants roll a thick, warm velvet rug over th<! whole left surface. From somewhere an Eastern incense floats through the great hall. A barefoot Egyption dancer runs forth. Slowly the dance begins. She dances not with her legs alone, but with her whole being. All the fire ofsthe East shines through her movements. Her arms are snakes to charm and hold. Her eyes are mirrored in the Nile. Her body is the body of desire. Wild er and wilder it grows, until at last she sinks together, a worn out thing. America! To arms! A great splen did fellow six feet tall strides upon the scene. He is clai in American Warns Against Dictatorship [New York Sun] The proposition that mere election or appointment to an important of. (ice does not give a man any intel lectual superiority is illustrated by the promotion of a lawyer from the bar to the bench In Missouri. In the course of his speech against a food dictatorship Mr. Reed, who is him* self a lawyer, said: Mr. President, we are a funny set of creatures in Chis world. I have seen an ordinary lawyer practicing at the bar who, when he was called into consultation with lawyers at the same side of the table, they woild express great doubt as to whether he knew anything' about his own ease. When they met him in the forum as antagonists they unhesi tatingly attacked him with su preme confidence in their own power. 1 have seen thst man peddle his own petition, X have seen his friends peddle it, to have him appointed to a judicial posi tion. I have seen the disgust written upon the faces of the members of the bar at the su preme impudence of the fellow asking for a high judicial posi tion. I have seen him appointed, and twenty-four hours afterward I have seen them banquet him and call him Judge; and two months afterward they would quote everything he said from the bench as though it were said by the Lord Ood of Hosts. Yet he merely knew no more upon the bench than he did before. He merely had a little more authority. So It will be, our breezy Mlssourlan predicts, with the appointment of a food dictator. Ho can hardly be more than an ordinary man: He may be a smart man, but there are thousands of smart men. He may be a good man, but there are thousands of good men. He may be an energetic man, but there are thousands of energetic i men. Whatever lie Is, he cannot attend to the business of the one hundred and four millions of people In the t'nitcd States so well JS. they can at tend to that business themselves. It Is delightful in these days of overwrought anxiety to find a pub lic man who Is an optimist and is willing to trust the people to take care of their own affairs. Congress should consider his warn ing and look askance at proposed dictatorships. The institutions of the country need not Vie revolutionized because we have a war on our hands. Adopt Trench Helmet [From the Boston Globe.] Our soldiers of the sea have been the first of our troops to adopt splin ter proof helmets. A new typo of chilled steel head protector has beef) devised for the marine corps, and Its I members will be thus equipped as fast aa the order can he made up. The marine corps Is almost always first. Its officers have seen the value of the Lewis machine gun, and the corps has this weapon ready for business when called'' upon. Other branches of the service can follow or not as they choose. The marines are usually followed. khaki. What a soldier he would be: With a gorgeous bass voice he sings a modern music hall patriotic song. A troop of chorus girls, also in American soldier uniforms, troop out to sing the refrain. WUh little minc ing steps they follow the six-footer in war evolutions. Then all present rise and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Great applause and cheer ing. It Is a real patriotic revival. The Wor'd at War Somewhere that night an Ameri can destroyer patrolled a little space in the North sea. It was a moonless night. Anxious watchers scanned the darkness. The searchlight! No, that flash of white was only the crest of a breaking wave, not the wake of the lightning beneath the sea. Hark! Was that the wind or the whirr of a propeller? Will the dawn never come? Soon our sons, our brothers, will be In the trenches of France with Pershing. They will be huddled in bombproofs awaiting the end of the German drum flrer for its cessation will mean that the attackers, ad vancing under its cover, are only fifty yards away. Will the artillery never end and let us fight? Hark, the curtain of fire Is lifted! At night In our shipyards, our munitions plants, our steel mills, men and wonren were tolling till dawn to complete government or ders.. At Washington anxious de partment chiefs planned all night long how the Nation might be saved. In a President's study a light burned till the sun rose. These are the days that try what nations are made of. These are the days when nations call for all the energy. a'l the time and all the funds I that "their citizens possess. Rome would not cease her play. The -bar barians her gates heard the shouts of her revelers.—From the New 1 York Mail. The Present Crisis Once to every man and nation comes i the moment to decide. In the strife of Truth with False hood, for the good or evil side. Some great cause, God's new Mes siah offering each the bloom or hllght. Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right. And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Then to side with Truth Is noble ; when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis nrosperous to be just: Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord Is crucified,' And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. 'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers' graves, Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime— Was the Mayflower launched by cow ards, steered by men behind their time? Turn those tracks toward Past or Future, that make Plymouth Rock sublime? New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good un couth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her campflres; wc ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attniepf the Future's portal with the Post's blood-rusted key. —James Russell Lowell. Benefit to Posterity Congressman Kitchin says he would feel like a miserable coward "to impose a burden on my chil dren, and on my children's children, to pay for something for which they were not responsible, and yet refuse to take out of my pockets money for my share of the burden." All of us feel the same way, but there Is room for debate as to the proper share of the taxpayers of the coming fiscal year. They have got to pay a great deal, and they know It; but to make them pay half of the current cost of war is to put more on them than was ever put on taxpayers anywhere be fore. Mr. Kitchln's posterity will reap the benefit of the destruction of autocracy and the reign of peace In the world, and the Interest, on a large public debt will not burden them very much.—Philadelphia Record. Boys Are Patriotic Our young men are Rocking to the colors all right, as you will notice by the way the vivid spring neckties arc selling.—Grand Rapids Press. JUNE 2, 1917. Labor Notes Conferences of federated shop men and officials of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company have re sulted in an agreement to raise wages 2 cents an hour for all crafts men. Circus women have formed a Red Cross auxiliary and a "cigarette for soldiers movement," and every woman performer in Ringiing's Cir cus, including the 300 ballet girls, has become a member. Federated shop men on the Bos ton and Maine railroad have raised wages 2 cents an hour for all crafts and secured a Saturday half holiday during July and August without loss of pay or working extra time. Women are helping South Jersey farmers grapple with the labor problem. A serious shortage of farm bands is reported, and farmers have been obliged in many cases to pay double and triple the wages which formerly prevailed. Two years ago unorganized steam fitters and helpers at Hartford, Conn., were receiving sl2 and $9 a week. Then they organized and their latest gain, the result of a short strike, guarantees fitters $27.50 a week and helpers $16.50. Attleboro, Mass., jewelry workers have organized to reduce their work day from ten to eight hours. OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 WHAT'S THE USE? Alice —It never makes my husban# mad if 1 insist on having my owti way. Dorothy—Then why don't you do as you please all the time?' Alice—Cause lt never make him uad, DISGUSTED DAD, "I dunno how that boy of mine got through college." "Didn't he learn anything?" "Why, he can't even read the Latla on his diploma." PROSPERITY. "That mining stock I bought last week hus gone up three points al ready. Do think I'd better aell?" "Hang on to lt by all means. The price of waste paper is solng up aU the time-" CONVENIENT. The damsel said: "I like a lake. In summer when they're clearer You're apt to And that one will mak A very handy mirror." filming (gfraffl Pennsylvania will probably have the largest acreage ever devoted to lorn raising- this year according to reports from farming districts which are reaching the State Department or Agriculture. They show that Im mense areas have been planted with corn in agricultural counties and that where wheat has failed to meas ure up it haa been plowed down and corn planted. This has take* Place in a number of counties. W eluding Dauphin and Cumberland. reports were that manv farm ers contemplated Increasing their* corn planting and that many wouldV urn to buckwheat, a grain which Is more extensively raised in Pennsyl vania than in any other State. Sinco e unfavorable reports about the wheat crop have come in they have been followed with statements that i have been p, ° wc d. the now thi? lr £ ,Ven v Up - EB "nates are now that the wheat crop will run only about seventy-five per cent of the average for the last ten vears weather conditions and pests being SucTin* „ The f tat V°°!ogist 1" con? ♦. sseri f of experiments t £ Krain moth, farms hal ing been secured In Cumberland, obsprvnH and . York counties where B „! f onß , llave been under wav for i T the K rou d was plowed °L, plan ting with wheat last fail. qi fht o „f . 1 1?' b o r 1 a " d farm ls within arbmtni t St , ate Ca P if ol and weli for observation. The losrj rrom the moth was very heavy in ' I' 0 ! 0 " an ? Y ork counties last fall of 'l ?i, s " frprptl, If a method vlnr r . bushels of grain this ffood coming here tell of f™. frut * prospects, especially in Southern Pennsylvania counties. ' r? f ,ho . S,nto Capitol Park Extensto" Commission, which went rtflt lst /. nee offlc ay on Thurs rtfrt a t r earr Vlng out a splen a nntSw? Commonwealth In rernrH M manner, have placed on jerord their appreciation of their ate colleague. Samuel Kunkel. The ronntv MI l' e /""J 1 ,0 ,he Dauphin County Historical Society as a memorial to the well-loved Harrls ♦ ••ii? a -? t er- 11 is a framed por trait of Mr. Kunkel as he is best re membered by many people with n£T out lt T,IPS verses are by a Detroit man and are singularly ap propriate to Mr. Kunkol's life. ♦ • * co, ' cot 'on s of °>< l newspapers in this part of the State are as com plete as that which the State Mu seum has just acquired from the es tate of Daniel Musser, of Lebanon county. The list Includes hound vol umes not only of the Oracle of Dau phin, the first newspaper published here, but of other Harrisburg news papers in the days when Lebanon county was a part of Dauphin. Thero aro likewise some Lebanon county newspapers in bound form and Ger man newspapers which tell of earlv days of the county after its erection. The collection" of clippings, which unfortunately, is not indexed, is said to be very interesting. * * Uncle Sam's cavalry horses which the Governor's Troop brought hack from the Mexican *border are hav ing a pretty fine diet these days. The horses live in the Capitol park ex tension and once In a while take walks to see the progress of demol ition of the district. They have been enjoying the young leaves of tha trees and a couple of fruit tree* which were left marooned when tha damolishers took down the house* have furnished fine feasts. Tested day one of the horses got over Into the grass plots which remain In tha center of State street and was taking a midday luncheon on some of the wild roses that border the plots when captured and led back to the corral. • • • Speaking of the Capitol park ex tension a good many people are wondering- what will be done about the miles of curbing that are in placo along the streets. These stones rep resent thousands of dollars lnvaated and it is assumed that the city Au thorities will make a dicker with the Board of Grounds and Buildings for its use. There is a chance, how ever, that the thrifty State may de. I cide to *sell the curbs. • * The way Bethlehem advertises on the backs of envelopes of its busi ness houses is well worth looking at. The ancient city that is so busy now has the slogan "Bethlehem's Gates Are Open" and there is a pic ture of a wide-flung pair of gates to back it up. Sixteen arrows point the way to important places with the distance given. Harrisburg, the state capital, is given as 100 miles away and the slate, coal and resort regions are similarly indicated. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —J. Benjamin Dimmick is work ing to get Colonel Roosevelt to make a Liberty Loan speech in Scranton. —Judge H. H. Cummings, who decreed no liquor in Northumber land county on Registration Day, has advanced ideas on the subject for his county. —Lewis Emery, Jr., former sena tor, is one of the incorporators of a big brick company in his home city of Bradford. —Governor Harding, of the Fed eral Reserve Board, will speak In Pittsburgh next week in behalf of the big loan. —Chaplain Charles Schall, of the Tenth Pennsylvania, has worked out a plan to place the names of those who go to war on tablets in their churches in his city of Connellsville. —Dr. John B. Lowman, chief sur geon of the Cambria Steel Company, will go to France with a hospital unit. 1 DO YOU KNOW Tliat llarrlsburg developed the first really successful river coal enterprise. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The old State Arsenal, which stood in Capitol Park, was the drill ground of recruits early in the Civil War. A Modest Note Reginald De Koven recently told a story in praise of modesty. "A group of tourists," he said, "visited in Bonn Beethoven's house. One of the tourists, a girl of 20 or so. sat down at Beethoven's piano and played the Moonlight Sonata none too well—Beethoven's own work, in his own room, on his own piano. "When the girl had finished she arose and said to the caretaker: " 'I suppose lots of famous musi cians have been here and played on this Instrument?' " 'Well, miss,' the caretaker an swered gravely, 'Paderewski was here last year, and his friends urged him to olay, but he shook his head and said: " 'No: I am not worthy.' "—Wash ington Star.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers