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THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 14
A healthy body is good; but a soul
in right health, —it is the thing be
yond all others to be prayed for; the
blessedcst thing that earth receives
of heaven. — CARLYI.E.
FLAG DAY
LET me tell you who I nm. The
work tbnt we do la the mnking
of the real flng.
I am not the flig—not at all.
I am whatever you make me—noth
ing more.
I am your belief in yourself, your
dream of what n people may become.
I live a changing life, a life of
moods and passions, of hrartbrenkN
nnd tired muscles.
Sometimes I am strong with pride
—when men do an honest work, fit
ting; the rails together truly. Some
times I droop—when purpose has ifoue
from me nnd. cynically, play the
coward. Sometimes I am loud, gnrish,
full of that ego that blasts Judgment.
But always I nm all that you hope to
be and hnve the courage to try for.
I am song and fear, struggle and
panic nnd ennobling hope. I am the
day's work of the weakest man nnd
the largest dream of the most daring.
I am the Constitution and the courts,
statutes and statutemnkers, soldier
and dreadnouKht, drnyman and street
aweep, cook, counselor nnd clerk.
I nm the battle of yesterday and the
mlstnke of to-morrow. I am the mys
tery of Ihe men who do without know
ing why,
I nm the clutch of an Idea nnd rea
soned purpose of the resolution. I nm
no more than what you believe me to
be, anil I nm all that you believe I
can be.
I am what you make me, nothing
more.
I swing before your eyes as a bright
gleam of color, a symbol of yourself,
the picture suggeHtion of that bin
thing thnt makes the nation. My stnrs
and stripes nre your drenms and
labors. They are bright with cheer,
brilliant with courage. Arm with faith
beeauap you have made them so out
of your hearlM, for you nre the mnkers
of the flng and it Is well that you
glory In the making—Hy Franklin
Knight I.nne, Secretnry of the In
terior.
It looks as though somebody is
trying to jimmy Jamestown.
PRESIDENT'S FLAG DAY SPEECH
PRESIDENT WILSON'S Flag Day
oration at Washington to-day
■will rank as not the least in
the series of state papers that have
ccme from his pen since the en
trance of the United States Into the
world war. It cannot be classed
otherwise than a new and vivid light
on the German situation. It will take
rank with the President's message
to the Russian people and his other
•war utterances of strictly official na
ture. It was addressed to a limited
audience, but It applies to the Inter
national situation and will be In
terpreted as ex-cathedra by the world
at large.
The careful reader will gather
from a perusal of the speech that
the President strongly suspects Ger
many will endeavor shortly to place
the United States In a wrong light
before the world by making bid for
premature peace on grounds that
this nation will not be able to ac
cept. This thought runs throughout
the address. The President says
frankly that he has been approached
on this score In a multitude of ways
and he warns the peoples of all the
allied nations not to be deceived by
this latest propaganda of the mlll
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THURSDAY EVENING.
tary dictators of the Central Powers.
It he does not know positively that
a formal peace move is about to bo
made, he at least has very good
grounds for believing that it Is in
contemplation at Berlin and he has
shrewdly beaten the imperial gov
ernment by warning the public in
advance just what peace with Ger
many at this time on a German
basis of settlement would mean. If
the address does not forestall the
German attempt to place the burden
of continuing the war upon the allies
it at least will clear the atmosphere,
lets the world know where we stand,
why we fight and the only condi
tions upon which wo will be content
to lay down the sword we were so
reluctant to draw.
The address ought to be in the
hands of every European, friend and
enemy alike. Nobody reading it can
fail to be impressed with the force
of its logic and with its sincerity.
There is not a false note in the whole
document. It is a diplomatic mas
t'erpiece from whatever angle it may
be viewed and while Its meaning is
by no means all on the surface, its
perfect frankness classes it with the
type of "shirt sleeve diplomacy"
for which the United States has been
noted.
King Constantlne has also lost his
Job. That's what comes of having a
nagging wife.
Throw Out the Life Line
HARRISBURG having set a pace
in the Liberty Loan bond sale
which no other district In Pennsyl
vania hai equaled, comparatively
speaking, it remains only for Penn
sylvania's capital city to set a new
mark in Its contributions to Red
Crosj work next week.
Tho American Red Cross is "draw
ing a net of mercy in an unspeakable
sea of pain." It Is preparing to take
care of the khaki-clad Americans
who on foreign soil will do their
best in an effort to make this world
free for democracy. Millions of dol
lars will be required for this work.
The Red Cross war council, with
Henry P. Davison, of New York, as
chairman, proposes next week to
raise $100,000,000 to put the Red
Cross on a good financial footing for
the world's great needs.
It may be said that Harrisburg
has "done its bit."
But Harrisburg must do more
that) its bit—it must do its best.
If Germany triumphs In this world
war the United States will be as
sessed tens of billions of dollars by
the German war lords. In contrib
uting our $4,000,000 to the Liberty
Loan we have helped keep the Ger
man wolf from our door. By aiding
the Red Cross we will do still more.
Bondage is certain if the Kaiser
wins.
It is far better, therefore, that we
make It impossible for Kaiserism to
triumph.
W. T. Hlldrup, Jr., and the men
associated with him on the executive
board of the local Red Cross, deserve
everything we can do to aid them
in their effort to raise SIOO,OOO next
week.
And here Is a thought that is
worth thinking about:
Harrisburg bought $4,000,000
worth of Liberty Loan bonds. It
now seeks to raise SIOO,OOO for the
Red Cross.
If those who bought Liberty Loan
bonds will contribute to the Red
Cross their first year's interest on
the bonds, the total will be $140,000.
Throw out the life line!
Put another contribution back of
Liberty!
The ex-Czar Is to be allowed to
participate in the election of the first
President of Russia. Something tells
us that N. Romanoff will receive at
least one vote.
EXTORTION
FOLLOWING is one of several
letters received by the TELE
GRAPH in recent weeks:
Will the Telegraph please tell
me what redress, if any, 1 have.
In a case like this? I am a gro
cer. The other day I bought cof
fee. It was billed to me at the
price agreed, twenty-three cents a
pound, with an item added for
"war tax" at one and a quarter
cents a pound. The dealers say
that if the war tax hill in not
passed by Congress they will re
fund this money. Have thev any
right to collect war tax from me
before a war tax hill is adopted
and approved?
Here and there both wholesale and
retail grocers are attempting, and in
some cases succeeding, in collecting
"war tax" from their customers.
There Is no ground for this. No
"war has as yet been Imposed.
Money so collected will not go to
win the war: It will line the pockets
of unscrupulous merchants using
their country's misfortune as a
means of selfishly enriching them
selves.
The evil can be stopped by pur
chasers absolutely refusing to pay
any such assessments—for that Is all
the surcharges of that kind amount
to.
Extortion Is not a pretty term,
but It is the only way to define such
practices.
Bass liars who go out to-morrow
are requested to take their yard
sticks with them.
RINGING FOR YOU
THE old Liberty Bell rang again
at noon to-day.
It was ringing for you.
From Its brazen throat It sent forth
a nation-wide call to service.
"Buy a Liberty Bond!" "Buy a
Liberty Bond!"
That was the burden of its chime.
Have you responded?
What do you think of those Amer
icans who shirked when the Liberty
Bell first rang its challenge to op
pression throughout the land?
Do you, who have not yet bought
a bond, wish to be regarded by pos
terity as you regard the Tory slack
ers of 1776?
The lists close to-morrow.
France feels about Pershing the
way the Continentals felt about
Lafayette.
Ck
Tty the Ex-Committeeman
The direct Inheritance tax bill, the
only revenue raisihg measure of any
consequence to get by the Legis
lature, is now assuming a big place
in the General Assembly. The bill
is In the hands of the Governor, who
has Indicated his dissatisfaction with
the provisions relative to employ
ment of attorneys. Under the act
these are placed In the hands of the
Auditor General.
The bill is designed to rai9e
$5,000,000 a year additional revenue
and all appropriation bills are based
or. this sum. If the Governor vetoes
the measure It will mean rebuilding
of the whole appropriation structure
and no end of fuss In the Legislature.
The leaders of the Legislature have
refused to recall the bill and the
Governor Is standing pat on his in
tention to veto It. The time will be
up next week.
—Owing to this new snarl, the talk
of the Legislature making its ad
journment on June 28 a recess in
stead of final adjournment has been
revived. There nre some legislators
vho contend that the Legislature can
be adjourned to a future date with
out difficulty and that there are
precedents for It. Administration
men are doing their best to dis
courage this idea and owing to the
ccndltions produced by the prolonged
sessions members are declaring for
quitting on June 28. •
—The whole situation is to-day as
much up In the air as it was a week
ago and a fresh council of the older
statesmen of the Senate may be held
Monday.
—Representative F. B. Beyer, the
Penrose floor leader, was at Wash
ington to see Senator Penrose. It is
expected that the new Penrose plans
will be heard of Monday. The de
feat of the bill to take the police and
firemen out of politics -In Philadel
phia has strengthened the adminis
tration forces in the House and they
are now setting sail for the small
council bill.
—Some joker got loose In the
Capitol late yesterday and poßted the
following just outside of the hall of
the House of Representatives to show
how the feeling runs:
"A member of the House repre
senting a county of not more than
one million eight hundred thousand
(1,800,000) inhabitants, not less than
five thousand (5,000) Inhabitants,
takes this method of procuring
unanimous consent to introduce a
bill at this time. The bill will pro
vide as follows:
"Fisrt. Every head of a family in
Pennsylvania shall receive the sum
of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per
annum, the same to be paid by the
State Treasurer. All dependents not
members of families and all unmar
ried persons not living at home shall
receive not less than twenty-five hun
dred dollars ($2,500).
"Second. A 1 taxes, state, munici
pal and local, are hereby abolished.
"Third. The Legislature shall ad
journ until the first Monday of Jan
uary, Anno Domini 2 017.
"Members will at once mall their
consents to 'The Member from
Utopia,' in care of the postmaster of
the House."
London's Food Problems
Increased activity of the I 1 ood
Controller's Department would seem
to be indicated by prosecutions of
traders and others for contraven
tions of the numerous official orders.
Miss Theresa Fawkes, of Great
Glen, was at Leicester on Saturday
fined £9 for feeding a pony on bread.
It was stated that the pony was a
pet, and had been given bread for
thirty years. Sixteen loaves were de
livered at the house for two persons.
The police found about four pounds
of bread in the stable. John Watkin,
who fed the pony, was fined £l.
At West London Police Court Al
fred Bernard Hemmings, baker and
confectioner, Fulham-road, Fulham;
his manager, William John Wines,
and an assistant, Edith Bonham,
were bound over for exposing for
sale pastry to which edibles had been
added after the mixing of the dough.
The defense was that there was a
difficulty in understanding the Order.
The Magistrate said the Order was
a comprehensive one, and it would
appear that almost anything that was
not plain and unadorned came under
its operation. He thought the in
tention of the Government was that
nothing should be exposed for sale
that was in the least attractive to
the public or that would encourage
them to be greedy. "Perhaps," he
added, "that will be good for them
and good for the country. At all
events, It is not an easy Order to un
derstand^'
At North London Police Court
Frank Wheldon, managing director
of Messrs. W. Humphrey (Limited),
bakers and confectioners, of Seven
Sisters-road, N., was summoned for
exposing for sale light pastries. The
defendant informed the police that
the trade drew a distinction between
"puff" pastry and "short" pastry, and
contended that the latter did not
come within the scope of the order.
The magistrate held that the words
of the order, "light or fancy pastry,"
Included both "puff" and "short"
crust. To hold otherwise would be
to reduce the order to nonsense. He
Imposed a nominal fine of 40s.
At Willesden Ada Stovey, assistant
to Uptons, High-street, Harlesden,
was fined £5 for attempting to im
pose a condition for the sale of
sugar. At the same court three local
bakers were fined £5 each for expos
ing for sale loaves of bread "not of
one pound or an even number of
pounds In weight."—London Times.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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The Days of Real By BRIGGS jl
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ] ;
It is unfortunate for our allies that
they couldn't have had the benefit of
the seven-billion-dollar loan several
years ago, when a billion dollars
would have bought something.—
I Kansas City Star.
Congress should direct the War
Department to raise the age of de
pendent chiidren in the registration
questions. It is idle to have laws
against child labor while considering
twelve-year-old children self-sup
porting*. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The subscribers to the German
war-loans are being told that they
will be paid back out of the indemni
ties the Government expects to col
lect at the end of the war. This
sounds like one of those bets that is
to be paid when Mr. Bryan is elected
President.—Kansas City Times.
A Part For All
If there are those who feel that
they are barred from service to their
country by the restrictions of the
conscription registration they should
read the address issued to the old
soldiers at Leavenworth by S G
Cooke, governor of the national
home. In it he says: "The country i
needs your oncouragement, your in
fluence and your thoughtful effort in
all ways to conserve its resources, to
hearten its efforts, to encourage and
stimulate the new generation and In
every way to strengthen its firing
line."
That reflects what should be the
real spirit of America in this crisis.
The country is calling only its young
men to bear arms, but it is calling
all to bear a part. The army can do
its part at the front only if those who
stay behind do their part back of
the line. —Kansas City Star.
Line Drawn on Lace
[Oak Hill Press.]
We see that the neftv shirts for
gentlemen have garters hanging at
intervals around the tall, the way
we understand corsets do, the object
being to give the sock and its con
tents a neat and trim appearance,
and, while we suppose we must
make some concessions to feminism
we will state here, now and irre
vocably that when they begin to
force drawstrings and val lace on us
we are going to join the army and
ask to be put in the front rank.—
Ohio State Journal. 'Twill be neces
sary to add an extra length to the
garters of Ryder's new harness in
order to make the connection be
tween shirt tail and sock, but my
what room there is for a wide fringe
of lace!
Why Publicity?
[Kansas City Star.]
Several letters have come to The
Star in the last few days urging it
not to give publicity to the activities
of copperheads, anti-registration
cranks and the like.
It always seems that the easiest
way to combat undesirable things is
to ignore them. But that doesn't
work. Long experience has shown
that publicity is the best corrective.
The Star believes that the public
Is entitled to know what is going
on. If treason is being preached
the people ought to know it. If wo
are so feeble, so lacking in moral
stamina that we shall be upset and
demoralized by learning the facts,
then there isn't much hope for us.
CROP PEST LETTER
Dy Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Eco
nomic Zoologist.
PEACH LEAF CURL
THE peach leaves all over the
state, where spraying has
not been properly and timely
applied, are curling up and mak
ing blister-like growths. This Is
caused by a fungus disease called
peach leaf curl, which in bad at
tacks defoliates the trees. Pre
ventative measures only can be
applied.
To prevent damage by this dis
ease. spray the peach trees during
the dormant season with lime sul
phur wash, diluting the concen
trated solution to test about 4 de
grees Beaume, or 1.03 specific
gravity.
The best time to apply is in the
late fall or early winter while the
weather is still warm enough to
permit spraying. If delayed until
spring it frequently happens that
there is sufficient warm weather
during the winter to start the
buds to swelling. If this hap
pens the bud scales are separated,
permitting infection of the leaves
before they have emerged from
the buds. Once Infected, no
amount of spraying will control
this disease.
THE PEACE OF VICTORY
FOR , WHICH WE STRIVE
THEODORE ROOSEVELT in the July Metropolitan
THE United States does not wish
from Germany, Austria or Tur
key a foot of land or a dollar
of indemnity. We are In this war
Partly because It liud become Impos
sible for a high-minded nation long
er to submit to the intolerable out
rages and injuries which for two
years we had suffered from Ger
many; and partly because it was—
as it long had been—our clear duty
to take active part in the war for
democracy against autocracy, for
right against wrong, for liberty
against militaristic tyranny, for the
cause of the free people against the
despotic and oligarchic governments
which deny freedom to the peoples.
We must continue steadfastly in
the war until we gain peace by vic
tory; for no other peace justifies
war. The peace thus gained must be
the peace of justice and of righteous
ness; for an unjust and unrighteous
peace is far worse than a just war.
The principle underlying the peace
should be the right of each people
Privilege; Not Requirement
Some confusion has arisen rela
tive to the privilege granted to sub
scribers for one SSO bond or one
SIOO bond to pay the full amount at
once, with the assurance of an imme
diate allotment in full and delivery
of an interim certificate at the earl
iest possible moment.
It should be clearly understood
that this is a privilege and not a re
quirement." The subscriber for one i
SSO bond or one SIOO bond may avail
himself of this privilege of full pay
ment, or he may pay 2 per cent,
upon application and the balance as
provided for other bonds; that is, 18
per cent on June 28, 20 per cent on
July 30, 30 per cent on August 15
and 30 per cent on August 30.
The subscriber, therefore, for a
SSO bond or a SIOO bond has the as
sured certainty of obtaining a bond
either by the cash payment in full
or the payment in the stated install
ments. Subscribers for larger
amounts will have to await the allot
ment when all the subscriptions are
in and may not obtain the full
amount of bonds subscribed for.
It Is Better
The khaki lads with drum and flfe
March down Fifth Avenue.
Their eyes are eager for the strife
That moulds the world anew. ...
And you—and what of you?
It is better to travel a bloody track
And come home dead or maimed—
It is better to go and never come
back,
Than to stay and die ashamed.
The lads in khaki sweep on past.
All straight and straight aligned.
When the rattle of drums is gone at
last,
What is there stays behind? —
Not a thing remains behind.
'Twas our country's very self march
ed by.
And many a man may fall—
But it's better to live the hour you
die
Than never to live at all.
—Louis How.
Dollar Not Quite Almighty
• [Houston Post.]
When a man is born into the world
to-day we ask, "What will he in
herit?"
When A man passes out of the
world to-day we ask. "How much
did he leave his children?"
When a girl selects a husband and
the marriage license is published we
want to know, "How much is he
worth ?"
And when a man .tells of his en
gagement his mother and his father
and his sister* nnd his friends rise
up and inquire, "Is she rich?"
The almighty dollar is in control.
Money is the only thing that counts.
Riches make the man.
That is to say, these things are
true in some circles of society and
among some people.
There are still alive people and
many of them to whom the dollar
docs not appeal as a controlling
power. These men and women know
that wealth does not make happi
ness, that riches do not mean cul
ture, and that money alone does not
compensate for lack of gentleness,
of honesty, of ability, and of desire
for service.
"Nothing So Rare, Etc."
Showers on the way.—Weather
prediction.
Coming or going?— Kansas City
Times.
to govern itself and to control its
own destinies so far as such control
does not conflict with the rights of
others.
I have said that we wished noth
ing for ourselves in either territory
or indemnity. But we ought to in
sist on formal recognition of the
Monroe Doctrine; for this would not
only be to our advantage and to the
advantage of all well-behaved Amer
ican nations, but would mark a long
stride forward in international peace
and fair dealing. In its essence the
Monroe Doctrine is a declaration
that hereafter there i? to be no ter
ritorial aggrandizement by European
powers on American soil at the ex
pense of American nations. South
of the equator there are growing
civilized states capable of enforcing
this doctrine themselves, and there
we should Join in enforcing it only
at their request. But north of the
equator our interests are such that
we must be the guarantor. This
should be specifically acknowledged
in the treaty of peace.
An Aztec Solomon
On one occasion an officer stole a
sack of silver pesos. He fled Into
the State of Guerrero. Zapata sent
for a young officer of his staff and
said:
"You will follow this traitor night
and day, and never rest until you
find him. You must not kill him, but
bring him back to me alive. I will
hang him In the plaza before all the
people as one who has been false to
his trust."
Without remark the young officer
left the headquarters and started
the pursuit. For weeks he trailed
the fugitive back and forth through
hostile country. At last he captured
him and brbught him, hound hand
and foot. Into a room where Zapata
was holding a conference.
"Ml general," he said huskily,
"you told me to capture him without
injury and bring him before y0u..l
have done so. Now I want to ask
one favor. Let me die in his place
and set him free."
"What fool is this?" cried Zapata
In amazement. "Why do you, an
honorable soldier, want to die to set
free this traitor."
"He Is my youngest brother," re
plied the officer. "I obeyed your or
der because you are my chief, but
If my brother dies because of me, I
would not want to live."
For a moment Zapata gazed from
the cringing prisoner to the pale
faoed officer standing rigidly at at
tention.
"Listen to me!",he filially exclaim
ed, pointing his finger in the pris
oner's face. "Your brother has
proved that ho is a man. So I will
grant his request. This Is my sen
tence; you will be stripped of your
rank and you will work as your
brother's mozo. You will do wom
an's work and cook for him, and
serve him as a slave. Nevermore will
you carry a gun In* the company of
free men. Go!" The Christian Her
ald.
Jews Demand Palestine
At a Jewish conference In Kiev,
composed of 360 delegates, repre
senting two million Jews of the eight
governments of the Ukraine. 32 4 del.
egates voted to demand of the Peace
Conference, an autonomous Jewish
center in Palestine and the grunting
of national and civil rights to the
Jews of all countries, especially Ru
mania.
In the cablegram announcing this
conference, received by the Pro
visional Zionist committee. It \fcss
stated that this action was displeas
ing to the thirty, six delegates rep
resenting the Bund, who withdrew
from the conference demonstra
tively.
Every Citizen's Duty
Meantime, the country is carrying
on another great movement In be
half of the war—namely, the effort
to popularize the great government
loan, not but that It would be fully
nubscrlbed otherwise, but because
this loan Is merely paving the way
for others, and the great apathy of
the public toward investing In bonds
must be broken down in order to
insure future subscriptions from the
rank and file. This same apathy
existed in England among tho mass
es, when the first loans were brought
ont there. There the Indifference
was gradually dissipated, and al
though the first loan was largely
taken by banks, the last one for
$5,000,000,000 —the largest amount
ever offered by any government—
was subscribed for by over 8,000,-
000 people.—J. 8. Bsche bulletin.
JUNE 14,1917.
Labor Notes
Toledo (Ohio) organized sheet
metal workers have established the
4 4-hour work week and a minimum
rate of 50 cents an hour.
A British munitions worker was
sentenced by a Birmingham magis
trate to twelve months' imprisonment
for attempting to restrict the produc
tion of munitions.
Practically every Kansas City
(Mo.) electrical contracting firm has
signed the agreement of Electrical
Workers' Union, No. 124. Wages arc
increased from $5.20 to $5.50 a day.
Lord Derby, in describing the kind
of woman wanted in the aeroplane
factories of England, said they should
have an engineering turn of mind
and some education.
Women conductors on street cars
in the near future was predicted by
traction employers, members of the
Pennsylvania State Railroad Associa
tion, at their semiannual meeting.
Every electrical contractor in
Joplin, Mo., has signed the new scale
of Electrical Workers' Union. Wages
are advanced from $4.80 to $5.20 for
an eight-hour day.
The price of coal is said to have
reached S3O a ton at Rome, Italy,
and steps are being taken to bring
it from Japan, where the cost is just
one-tenth as great.
Electricity is generated by a wind
mill so successfuly at a German tech
nical school that it is estimated a
similar plant could supply light and
for 100 persons at a cost of
$125 a year. ✓
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I OUR DAILY LAUGH
COULDN'T PICK HIS JOB.
i "Why didn't you enlist?"
J "I couldn't decide whether I wan l
to be a colonel or an admiral."
FINANCIAL.
"Money Is awfully tight Just now."
"Is that so? Well, I'd like to find
i wad of it in that disgraceful con-
Ution. I'd run it in."
VIEWPOINT.
"Are you making' a. garden 7"
"That's what I call it. My wife
md daughter call It merely mussing
ip the yard."
MISPLACE* ZEAL.
Teacher—Why are you late for
jchool ?
Pupil—Please, teacher I must
uv. over washed myselfc
lEtomttuj CMfatl
r - - ■ Ji
Robert B. Reeves, the new
secretary of the Harrisburg t. M.
C. A., is destined to become one of
the best known and most popular
men In the city. This is saying a
good deal on short acquaintance,
but one conversation with the able
and energetic young man who has
been chosen to put hew life and
ginger into the local association will*
be convincing proof that the esti
mate is not overdrawn. The man
ner in which he sized up the situa
tion in his first report to the di
rectors Tuesday night was a revela
tion to those who heard him and a
delight to all who have the best In
terests of the association and its
development into a helpful influence
in the city at heart. Mr. Reeves
was not at all backward about tell
ing the directors what he believed
must be forthcoming in the next
year or two and he has the hearty
support in the board in most of his
recommendations. There will bo lots
doing around the association build
ing in the next few weeks. "Meet
me at the T. M. C. A." is going to
be a slogan for the men of Harris
burg before many months ana tho
new boys' department now being
planned will take into the associa
tion a lot of youngsters who have
absolutely no place to pro °ther than
the movies or other places that may
be all right once in a wh:lie but are
not to be recommended as a steady
daily diet. , •
It is Mr. Reeves' plan to take all
the stiffness out of the Y.M. C. A.
and to make real sociability oneof
the big features. He is a Rotarian.
That may be one of the reasons why
he is so keen for the social end
of the work. Any rate. Harrisburg
ltotarians will be given an oppor
tunity to study the association from
tho inside instead of the outside be
fore the club is many months older
and Mr. Reeves hopes to have this
hustling organization of live wires
thoroughly informed as to the needs
and aims of the Y. M. C. A. In
Harrisburg, as he and the directors
see them. But you must not gather
from this that the "Y" is to become
a "one man" association. Far from
it. Many young men, and older ones,
too, are to be given ample opportun
ity to help put the work on its feet
here and the chances for service of
a very real kind will be many once
the plans now under consideration
work out.
•
Mr. Reeves is a young man, but
not too young. He Is married and
the father of three children, two
beys and a girl, the oldest being
seven. He is just now engaged In
finding a place for them In Har
risburg. He is a man of engaging
personality and of unbounded energy
and enthusiasm. He has made good
in every position which he has filled
and Harrisburg he does not mean to
make an exception.
* *
Policemen in addition to being the
guards of the city's safety are called
upon from time to time to perform
many and various little favors for
people who usually think it is in
their special line of work and that
the policemen are being paid for it.
An uptown woman recently Insisted
an officer remove a dead cat that
had been littering an alley for sev
eral days. Perhaps one of the most
original requests recently came from
a section quite a distance beyond the
city limits. A resident called up
and reported a dog he would like
very much to have shot as he was
no longer needed about the house.
When the desk man inquired for
name and address the complainant
admitted he lived quite a distance
beyond any officer's beat. When
told an officer could not leave the
city limits to shoot an erring
canine, he promptly and obligingly
volunteered to bring the dog to the
nearest officer for execution. His
kind offer was denied.
♦ • ♦
Shortage of sweet potato plants in
Harrisburg is troubling local gar
deners this year. Twenty cents a
hundred was the price for fine plants
last June. This spring 50 cents is
the price, and only a few to be hart
at that. The plants that are brought
to town are fine and sturdy and the
weather has been prime for planting
the past week. Sweet potatoes R rOV Y
splendidly in most of the soils about
Harrisburg and the local crop Is
growing every year. More will be
planted, if the plants can be Pro
cured, this year than ever before.
For those who know how to cure and
nack them, the local grown sweets
are available for food as late as May
of the year following the harvest.
Both the yellows and the reds are
grown hereabouts in large quanti
ties. ♦ •
Speaking of gardens, J. William
Bowman, of tho firm of Bowman &
Co wh"ch had on display last year
a large number of the biggest pump
kins ever brought to Harrisburg, will
be responsible for a bumper crop of
Mimpkln pies hereabouts next fall.
He saved the seeds from the largest
of the pumpkins and distributed
them among his friends. While they
lasted he was the most sought after
man downtown, but he says he could
have given away ten times as many
seeds as the prize pumpkins needed.
Every man who has been Py® 8 ®" 1
with seeds' has promised to send
Mr Bowman at least one pumpkin
pie next winter. Maybe it won't be
such a bad investment after all.
Some of the legislative bills have
had varied careers this B ® aß °"' t an t £
the divorce measure which went to
the committees on game, forestry,
health and other
nothing on a couple of others, t n
insurance, bill has been In six differ
ent committees and when last heara
from was resting In the railroad
committee.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |
Col. Richard Coulter, command
er of the Tenth Pennsylvania regi
ment, Is going to be due for appoint
ment as brigadier general soon.
—Senator C. J. Buckman. chair
man of the Senate appropriation!
committee, expects to lnto th *
army when the session ends.
—Speaker Baldwin says this Is th
first session in which he has not had
Robert Von Moschlaker,
of the Supreme Court likes to t*"
stories of his early trials In e~"rT
He was assistant district attorney for
years in Philadelphia.
—Mayor Kttts, of Erie, who was
here this week, says the lake c 'tyls
going to have one of the greatest
harbors one of these days.
DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harrisburg steel la used
for making delicate weighing
machines?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Iroquois Indians used to come
down to Harris Ferry to talk over
matters with John Harris and colon
ial officials.