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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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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.
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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
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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.