6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR TUB HOME Founded itji Published eveniags except Sunday by TPHB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Bulldlnc, Federal Sqnare. K. J. STAC K POLE, Pr/x'l & Editor-in-Chief F■ R- OYSTER, Bnsmtsj Manager. OUB M. Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Building^ Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as s jcond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mall, J5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 20 ifan is not the creature of circum stances; circumstances are the creatures of men. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? THE Kasas City Star makes this editorial reference to agricul tural conditions in Kansas: As an apology for its small wheat crop, Kansas begs to report that it has from 2 to 2% million acres more corn than it ever planted before. It has about twice the usual acreage of oats and It has an excess of from 25 to 50 per cent, forage crops. In addi tion, the small fruits are produc ing a bumper crop, and cherries and apples look quite cheerful. And now. the congregation will please arise and repeat in chorus that time-honored question: "What's the matter with Kansas?" The ex-Czar could give the Kaiser pointers how to attain a lasting "peace without annexations or indem nities." GOLF IN GOOD CAUSE ON golf links all over the United States on July 4 thousands of golfers will play for the benefit of the Bed Cross fund. Golf is good sport and excellent exercise at any time, but played in the inter ests of such a splendid cause it will have even a greater zest than usual for its devotees. It is not often that a man has opportunity to "do his bit" and have a day's outing at one and the same time. The plan is this. The Red Cross has suggested to the 300,000 golfers of the country that on July 4, when the links are usually crowded to ca pacity from sun-up to sun-set, tour naments be arranged, each entrant be assessed a suitable fee and the receipts given to the Red Cross. It is expected that at least SIOO,OOO will be raised in this way, if the day be fair. The plan is capable of extension. Why not have every vacationist con tribute a half-dollar to the fund and every man, woman and child who goes picnicking give a nickel or a dime? We believe this idea of vol untary taxation for the support of the Red Cross would have popular approval. The average American is a reckless spender whpn he starts out to have a good time and a little of his vacation or outing: fund di verted to tlio benefit of and wounded soldiers would not trouble him in the least and might be con ducive to peace of mind should he get to wondering whether or not personal pleasures are permissible under the strenuous circumstances of the moment. , Meanwhile and notwithstanding, what has become of the daylight sav ing proposition? If we are to have this change in our economic system it would seem to b about time for something to happen in that direc tion. Congress might save a lot of daylight by cutting out the debating activities of that body and getting down to brass tacks in the passage of the war measures and all othe.- legiflation necessary for the welfare of the country. It is estimated that British people are now saving $12.- 000,000 in gas and electric light hills as a result of the daylight saving movement —setting the clock one hour ahead and so substituting an hour of sunlight at one end of the day for an hour of artificial light at the other. England and France snd Ger many have already adopted the plan j with remarkable results. The success the Crown Prince has I hart lately would seem to indicate that it might be a wise policy to let him take command behind the lines to loot the French households of silver and kltchenware. TWO WAYS TO ensure ample support and ultl male success for his proposed policy of conscription. Sir Rob ert Borden, the Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, has called upon Sir Wilfrid Laurler, his great an tagonist. and loader of the Liberal party, to Join In forming a coalition Cabinet to carry on the government of the Dominion during the war. In this country we do things dif ferently, A Democratic President de cides upon conscription as a national policy, he finds his own party defiant and himself dependent upon Repub lican support to pass the measure. Yet Republicans are not called upon to tako seats in the Cabinet. On the other hand, if they make a nomina • tion in a Congressional by-election, in a district which has Deen for years Republican in representation—as In the recent election In New Hamp shire —spokesmen for the adminis tration are ent out from Washington WEDNESDAY EVENING, TEEBOKAFBC JUNE 20,1917. to tell the people of the district that It will be counted treasonable for them to prefer a Republican to a Democrat. It may be this is the correct way to unify a nation at war. On the other hand. It may be that the Cana dian method Is better. ROBBERS OF THE POOR MR. HOOVER, speaking at Washington yesterday, made the amazing assertion that the coun try has been robbed of a quarter of a billion dollars In the last five months by food speculators. "Flour should not be sold for more than $9 a barrel," he said, "but some one is charging $5 more on every barrel. About $50,000,000 is being taken from the people each month in this fashion. This means that $250,- 000,000 has been taken from them in excess of normal profit on flour alone I during the last five months." Mr. Hoover told the Senators: Food prices must be controlled or they will rise to gigantic heights. „ , Unless food is controlled the European demand may leave this country without sufficient supply next spring. The only way to relieve the situation is for Congress to pass the bill creating a food controller. By ordinary effort America can produce 60 per cent, of what her* ' allies need. The other 40 per cent, must be supplied by self-denial and rigid economy. Hoover's main purpose in appear ing before the Senators was to dis claim there any idea of a "food dictatorship" In the bill. But ha need not have explained, so far as the great majority of American people are concerned. The public is perfectly willing to have Mr. Hoover as "food dictator." Rath er one dictator whom they have learned to trust than a thousand who have boosted prices at will and who rob them of a quarter billion dollars in five months. The people believe Mr. Hoover has told the truth. They are fully con vinced that food prices are extra ordinarily high only because a few food barons have been able to con trol the supply. They would not feel so badly about It did they think the farmers were getting the benefit of the high prices, for the farmer is a good spender along legitimate lines, and when he is very prosperous the whole nation feels the benefit in in creased yields and the consequent purchases of farm equipment. But with the excess profits going only to the food speculator, to the injury of both the farmer and the consumer, public indignation is growing apace. At a time when the food supply is large, wages high and work plenti ful to a degree never before known, the cost of provisions is reaching proportions that are out of the reach even of families that never before had so much money to spend. This condition is going to give rise to seri ous disturbances if It is not cor rected. Pressed as most business men are by the hardships and uncer tainties of war trade complexities, they must, face another readjustment of wages if the price of food is not reduced. Whether they like It or not, employers must realize that even the present high scales of pay will not be sufficient to meet the ac tual needs of working people unless there is some relief in the way of lower food costs. We cannot afford at this moment, with all the neces sity there is for maximum output in every line of effort, to enter upon a period of industrial disturbance, of wage disputes, walk-outs and strikes. Yet that is the direction in which we are headed and -that is the destina tion we are absolutely certain to reach If Mr. Hoover Is not given op portunity by Congress to halt this artificial advance in the cost of liv ing, to enforce restrictive regulations upon middlemen and to Insure fair prices for both the farmer and the consumer. •Call it what you like, food control or food dictatorship, the people care not, but they are intensely Interested In Mr. Hoover's proposal. They have faith in his ability and confidence In his integrity, and it will go .hard with both Congress and the country if he is not given the authority which President Wilson seeks for him, , follttco. IK r Hp CKKC if likuvui By the Ex-Committeeman The legislative situation, which is the sore point in State politics Just • now, seems to be quieting down, al , though It is liable to change over night. The sentiment In both ■ branches appears to be to adjourn , next Thursday, June 28, and sugges tions of extension of the time, even i to save the Jam of bills on the House calendar, are unpopular. Both Re publican and Democratic leaders i /realize that it would be best for the future to have the legislators close 1 up their work on the day fixed. The Republican leaders figure out that many of the mls'.akes of this session can be obliterated by a busi nesslike close and the get-together idea was strong on Capitol Hill this morning, while the Democrats who have fallen down harder than atTany time in a decade are now aware of their lost opportunities and the sorry spectacle they have made of them selves and are anxious to go home. The Democratic record of achieve ment will be less this session than even Republicans hoped and there will be nothing to support the grandiloquent promises made to the President. In no instance have the Democratic leaders attempted to carry out the much trumpeted poli cies of their legislative program and there will be a reckoning among the party leaders over the failure to make a record when everything was favorable. —The decision of the House yes terday not to adopt a rule which would kill oft the House bills on the calendar means that there will prob ably be a Friday session. Next week will bo devoted to Senate bills, while the upper branch will work on House bills. It is probable that members of the House will wake up to the time lost in oratory and how bills are being killed because certain members persist In making speeches several times a day. Twice the num ber of bills passed yesterday could have been sent to the Senate If the debating had been curtailed, and It could have been, because much of what was said has been declaimed on other bills, aired in interviews or given in committees. —Among legislative visitors was P. A. Philbin, a member of ihe House from Lackawanna a decade ago. Mr. Philbin was here for the first time in nine yeras and remarked upon the changes in the personnel and- the way of doing things. —Ex-Speaker George E. Alter, who left for his home In Allegheny county last evening, was given hearty greetings by many of his former col leagues. The ex-speaker said he just came over to see the lawmakers at work. —Albert Davis, former member from Scranton, who is here this week, is being talked of for mayor of that city. —There were flocks of rumors go ing about the "Hill" to-day about an agreement on appointments to follow the settlement of the fuss over the direct Inheritance tax bill. It was said that the first lot would be sent to the Senate on Monday night. —The passage of the "mine cave" bills last night in the House was very tame when one considers the fuss made over them. Those bills, which are very vital to the welfare of people in the Scranton district, have been before the House or its com mittees since February. They are now up to the Senate. —The gathering of rival leaders in Senate and House at the dinner of Chairman Stern's judiciary special committee last night was the talk of the Capitol. It was a regular love feast and the Philadelphian, who has been lambasted for factionalism from time to time, has a right to be proud of It. Cynics Rebuked A rebuke to the cynics has been the co-operation of the leaders of the various industries, most of them representatives of the soulless (?) corporations, who are giving their time with no compensation, and in many cases even at personal expense for offices, correspondence, etc., that the government may have the benefit of their priceless experience. It is very safe to say that were the gov ernment to be paying these men sal aries, commensurate with the in comes they would receive in their regular business connections it would represent a staggering sum. It is not this fact, however, that is so gratifying, as the spirit behind it which prompts these men to gi¥e their services in this patriotic way. Second only is it to the patriotism displayed by those who have en listed for actual service at the front, for "Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life." We cannot all go to the trenches, many of us can contribute very little individually to the financial aid of the government by purchasing bonds, but we can all, from the greatest to the least, forbear the utterance of gloomy or even dubious comments relative to the business future. Better if we think such thoughts, to inform ourselves and see how groundless they are, and then spread the knowledge we have gain ed to help suppress all manifesta tions of pessimtsrti. We must not only think optimist ically, but we must talk and live that way also. If we say we believe that prosperity will continue, and hoard our money, we are hypocrites and as bad as traitors. Ouu being at war should not be made the excuse for withholding any contemplated expenditure, but the more reason for making it, for when we spend we show confidence in our continued prosperity. prosperity.—Commercial Car Journ al. Colonel's War Text A message from Theodore Roose velt to American soldiers in France will be inserted in all Bibles given to the fighters by the New York Bible Society, according to an announce ment made yesterday in a plea for funds to buy 100,000 books. The message reads:- "The teachings of the New Testa ment are foreshadowed in Micah's verse, 'What more doth the Lord re quire of thee than to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.' "Do justice, and therefore fight valiantly against the armies of Ger many and Turkey, for these nations in this crisis stand for the reign of Moloch and Beelzebub on this earth. "Love mercy, treat prisoners well, succor the wounded, treat every wo man as if she was your own sister, care for the little children and be tender with the old and helpless. "Walk humbly; you will do so If you study the life and teachings of the Savior. "May the God of justice and mercy have you in His keeping." An autograph signature is printed at the bottom of the slip, and at the top are the.words: "Colonel Roose velt's message to the troops through the New York Bible Society." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Temperate Movie Man To the Editor of the Telegraph: Easily tfie most popular or at least one of the most popular movie actors that comes to town 1? Douglas Fairbanks. Many of his lovers would sooner lose their dinner than to mls one of his films. Recently he ap peared in Harrisburg in two of our theaters the same week, and in each picture there was Introduced a pro longed drunken scene and, unneces sary to say, the tipsy fellows were very funny and entertaining and seemingly enjoyed by the audience. But after talking among themselves a few of his friends concluded that he was too big a man to be asso ciated with such conduct. One of these admirers wrote him about It, asking him if he didn't think that he could do his bit by cutting out tho drunken scenes In his future films. The following answer arrived a few days ago: "Lasky Studio, 'Dear Mr. Blank: "Your point is very well taken and I agree with you that drunken scenes are not necessary, and will not be shown in any more of my "pictures. "Sincerely yours. "Douglas Fairbanks." TEMPERANCE. Labor Notes Canada has entered into an under taking to revise Its policy in restrict ing Hindu immigration into the Dominion. Women lamplighters of Glasgow, Scotland, wear a neat uniform de signed purely on masculifie lines. Sunday labor has been abolished as far as possible, In the factories under the control of the British Min ister of Munitions. During the twelve months the Pe oria (111.) Street Car Men's Union has been in existence wages have In creased 150 per cent. In 1898 Stationary Firemen's In ternational had 44 4 members. At the recent convention the member ship was placed at 17,000. Of the 2,500 women conductors employed on the London (England) street cars nearly half were former ly in domestic service. There is hardly a trade or profes sion that was formerly considered absolutely masculine that does not now engage many women. No move is made by the British government without consulting trade union officials, many of whom are exempted from military service. A German woman and a prisoner of war, usually a Russian, working side by side in the field is a common sight throughout Germany. To meet the increased cost of liv ing over 1,000,000 female munition workers in England have asked for an increase in pay. The great tinplate mills which the Bethlehem Steel Company Is build ing at Baltimore will be ready July 1, and the steel plate mills will be ready August 1. The Chilean government Is devot ing much attention to developing the coal mines of that country, some of which extend three miles under the ocean. The English trade-union move ment has a larger membership than before the war and it has surrender ed no standards definitely, although some are suspended for the" Mme being. Beginning November 1, members of Cleveland (Ohio) Electrical Work ers' Union No. 38 will receive an ad ditional 25 cents a day, and on the following May 1 another 25 cents a day, making the minimurrr wage SC-.20. Overtime will be double these rates. The Unfurling There's a streak across the sky line That is gleaming in the sun, Watchers from the lighthouse towers Signalled it to foreign Powers Just as daylight had begun. Message thrilling. Hopes fulfilling To those fighting o'er the seas. "It's the flag we call Old Glory That's unfurling to the breeze." Can you see the flashing emblem Of our country's high ideal? Keep your lifted eyes upon it And draw joy and courage from it, For it stands for what is real, Freedom's calling To the falling From oppression's hard decrees. It's the flag we've named Old Glory You see floating in the breeze. Glorious flag we raise so proudly. Stars and stripes, red. white and blue. You have been the inspiration Of an ever growing nation Such as this world never knew. Peace and Justice, Freedom, Progress, Are the blessings we can seize When the flag we call Old Glory Is unfurling to the breeze. When the cry of battling nations Reaches us across the space Of the wild, tumultuous ocean Hearts are stirred with deep emotion For the saving of the race! Peace-foregoing, Aid bestowing, Bugles blowing, First we drop on bended knees. Then with shouts our grand Old Glory We set flaunting to the breeze. —Clara Endlcott Sears, in the Boston Transcript. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist THE GRAPE BERRY MOTH AND ROOT WORM THE Grape Berry Moth, and the Grape Root Worm can be controlled by thorough spraying with arsenate of lead and soap. Bordeaux mixture Is added to this to prevent black rot and mildews from destroying the crop of fruit. Add three pounds of dry arsenate of lead and two pounds of dissolved soap to 50 gallons of 2-3-50 Bordeaux. Thoroughly apply Just after the grapes bloom and again about 12 to 16 days later. This will kill the tiny berry, worms shortly after they hatch and most of the beetles of the grape root worms before they deposit their eggs. In some sections of Pennsylva nia, where the season begins earlier and is longer it may be necessary to make a third spray ing in the fore part of August to prevent Injury by the second brood of grape berry worms. Thorough work Is necessary and the spray can be applied best by using leads of hose and directing the spray nozzles by hand. If the root worm beetles ap pear in numbers and eat their peculiar chain-like areas in the grape leaves without getting enough poison to kill themselves, a thorough spraying with three or four pounds of arsenate of lead to fifty gallons of water, should be made immediately, covering the foliage entirely with spray and the root worm beetles will be destoryed. When a Feller Needs BRICGS WOMAN OFF TO CHINA TO STUDY^ Dr. Kin Will Make Report For United States on the Most Useful Food of Her Native Land NO less a personage than Brown-1 ing sang of the bean, and Dr. Yamei Kin, the only Chinese woman graduate of an American medical college, made it the burden of her good-by song on the day she left New York a few days ago for the Orient to gather data on that humble but nutritious food for the Department of Agriculture at Wash ington. The call for sustaining food Is imperious; the cuisine of China is one of the toothsome cuisines of the world. These facts, coupled with Dr. Kin's departure, make an llluml rating paragraph on the subject of feeding ourselves ena our allies. Also, of more than sentimental in terest is the circumstance that the appointment 1 of Dr. Kin marks the first time the United States govern ment has given so much authority to a Chinese. That it is a woman in whom such extraordinary confidence is now reposed detracts nothing from the interest of the story. China has given the world many things. Paper was manufactured in China in the third century. If Europe had enjoyed communication with China it would have learned of print ing many centuries before it did. In China, also, gunpowder was first In vented. This same astonishing race produced the mariner's compass In the fourth century, porcelain In the third, chess and playing cards In the twelfth, and silk embroideries in al most prehistoric times. And now Dr. Kin is going to soe if her native land can teach the United States how to develop a taste for the soy bean in its numerous disguises. For about 4,000 years the Chinese have been practically self-supporting from the productions of their own soil. The price of porterhouse steak has never bothered them appreciably, but what they don't know about possible vari ations in the treatment of beans we could learn over night. "The world is in need of tissue building foods," said Dr. Kin, "and cannot very well afford to wait to grow animals in order to obtain the necessary percentage of protein. Waiting for an animal to become big enough to eat Is a long proposition. First you feed grain to a cow, and, finally, you get a return in protein from milk and meat. A terribly high percentage of the energy is lost In transit from grain to cow to a human being. Roughly speaking, the process is not unlike the loss of heat units In coal burned in a loco motive before the wheels go round. "All grains contain a certain per centage of protein, but all beans con tain a very great proportion of pro tein. The statement is frequently made that the Orientals live almost exclusively upon rice, eating little meat. It is not generally known, per haps, that deficiency In protein is n.ade up by the consumption of large quantities of product.! of the soy bean, which takes the place in our dietary of meat and other costly nitrogenous foods. They are oaten in some form by rich and poor at almost every meal. Instead of taking the long and expensive method of feeding grain to an animal until the animal is ready to be killed and eaten, In China we take a short cut by eating the soy bean, which Is protein, meat and milk In Itself. We do not eat the plain bean In China at all. It is never oaten there as a vegetable, but In the complex food products—natto, tofu, mlso, yuba, shoyu and similar dishes. "The chief reason why people can live so cheaply in China and yet pro duce for that nation a man power so tremendous that this country must pass an exclusion act against them Is that they eat beans Instead of meat; but nothing llko the navy bean, which by many -peonle who do not get much exercise is considered a rather heavy food. Furthermore, pork and beans as feu to the men in the United States Army and Navy become monotonous after awhile, even though the addition of the car bon contained in the shape of pork fat makes such a meal possess every element necessary to sustain life. "But human nature is about the same everywhere, and the Chinese don't care for a monotonous bean diet any more than other people. So they have taken this soy bean and managed to invent a great many kinds of products. The bean curd is a food made from pulverizing the beans into a flour and then boiling this milk-like concoction, letting the curd rise to the top as your grand mothers in this country made cottage cheese. I spoke of totu—this Is it. Nothing is wasted, nothing lost. In China. Most of these soy bean prod ucts, popular from ar.clent times, are fermented. The call walls and other carbohydrate materials are broken down, the cell contents rendered more readily digestible, and peculiar and pleasant flavors developed. "Soup noodles are made out of bean curd. Entrees made of bean curd are served with cream mush room sauce or a hot Spanish tomato sauce. A salad of bean sprouts, ac companied by cheese—the cheese a cross between Camembert and Roque fort, and made from the soy bean— is very nutritious end palatable. Americans do not know how to use the soy bean. It must be made at tractive or they will not take to it. It must taste good. That can be done. We make from it a delightful chocolate pudding. A black soy bean sauce we use as a foundation for sweetmeats in China. The soy bean contains ,practically ro starch, which 'means that It is a most desirable food for diabetics, and alrfo, of course, for vegetarians. Buddhists kill no ani mals —they thrive by making a specialty of the soy bean, which, by the way, is already being used In the French army. They lind there that soy bean mixed with flour makes a good cracker, more nourishing than any other cracker. "In some things we Chinese have far outstripped you. We have vast areas of swamps, and we have made them wonderful In their productive power. The first requisite of life is food, which, throughout the same zone all over the world, is practically the same. You have vast areas of swamp lands and permit them to lie waste. We are showing the United States, right now, how It can make semiarld regions yield. I came here once for the particular purpose of getting American corn with which I hoped might improve the Chinese corn. I found it not much better than our own. "The soy bean thrives best under conditions favorable corn culture, and on soils of medium texture well supplied with potash, phosphoric add and lime; also It Rives Rood re turns on light, poor soils. If planted for hay or fodder, the seed is sown broadcast or closely in drills in the spring when the soil Is thoroughly warmed; If for the beans, in drills about three feet apart and cultivated like corn. Soy bean hay cut in sea son and well cured has a high feed ing value. The seed, being a concen trated feed, is usually ground and mixed with other fodder. Fed alone or with other materials, the mfeal la quite thoroughly digested; experi ments with sheep showed that 91 per cent, of the protein and 84 per cent, of the total organic matter was as similated. Similar values of the seed were 87 and 85 per cent. The seed Is aslo an important source of oil, and the seed cake, a by-product in making oil. Is a valuable feeding stuTT. The name 'soy' is from the Japanese word 'shoyu,' a food pre pared from the seeds. "A *oy bean patch, therefore, la one of the best things in the world to-day for all concerned. The con ditions brought about by the war must have upset the old contention that the work of food production cannot go beyond a certain point. High prices to the farmer for his products are usually caused by small crops. It has been argued, under ordinary conditions of peace, that, however desirable increased produc tion of farms may be from the con sumer's point of view, it did not fol low that such increased production would result in an increase in the cash income per farm. As the theme was embroidered, the farmer ap peared to have no incentive to scien tific crop increase, for that would mean merely a lowering of the price at which he would sell. "I should say that the plain man who now raises soy beans will come into his Sown. Farmers are the last persons to take their place in the modern world of organized industry. In so far as agriculture is a special ized branch, overproduction in it is temporarily possible." No Marriage De Convenance "These fell in love," is the way the Independence Examiner heads its list of marriage licenses issued. —Kansas City Times. OUR DAILY LAUGH A SHORT ("" / /£/ DROP. I> 11 S 1 * 1 Book O? Worm: Hurt & I yourself? yttua, ■ 2nd Book Worm: No, 1 ' ]s_ only fell from , | I the second ; I 1 Btory ' jf AN INVITA "Y TION. Fish—Oh, I ' ({ffl/M Ba y wont you drop in for din liffiT >//n HARD WORK * iSimt a ° y° u < *° whsn Jack I \ talks baseball? " rry to intelligent. Batting ©lptl J. Howard Stine, the new Boy Scout .executive, Is thoroughly In love with his work. He Is one of those who believe all boys are good. The bad boy," he says, Is a mls- V }?' e . any b °y the proper C activities with which to em divldua.? J} < l and he wlll be an ln . l any f ather will be proud, is Mr. Stine's belief. moreb„v s" hls ex P er lonce that th r v Scouts there are in any nth! m ( H r Juveniles there are Befor °i pa . 1 and county courts, dav ho B v ,^ otary Clu *> the other iL.tL Pla nc , d tho necessity for control the scout move ment in every, city of any size "The scoutmaster is the secret of thl is thT ,m„ th ° tro ° p ' and the troop is the unit around which the citv organization is formed." he said. "It necessary for some adult of ex ecutive ability to interest young men no- Ml 7 of leadln S and direct ing the troops, to teach them how to 7. and ,n the Principles of hr?n y ? ls means we hope to Dring the scout opportunity to 2,000 ?oys in Harrisburg, Instead of 200." it is the intention of scout executives to teach trie boys how to earn their own scout equipment. Work, instruc tion in all manner of useful activi ties and service will be the watch words of scouting in Harrisburg. 14 R ft the new division pub licity manager for the Bell Tele phone Company, has joined the Har risburg Reserves and will be out for drill this evening. Taft has had military experience both in school and as a member of the National f>uard cavalry. He is just the kind Of material the reserves need and they were glad to enroll him. Taft is a former Philadelphia newspaper man and comes to this city highly recommended by those who knew him there. He was make-up man on the old Muncey publication there, which was one of the best papers from a typographical standpoint ever published in Pennsylvania. He is now devoting his talents to the publicity and printing work of the telephone company in this division. it C 2 U P 6 men Prominent In city affairs were observed In very close confab the other evening. They spoke earnestly together for a long time and people who saw them con cluded that there were big matters in the wind. When they separated one of the men remarked to the other: "That man miy know a lot about finance and other things but he's clean off when it cames to po tatoes to use for seeding." The parade of the Spanish War veterans yesterday afternoori at tracted a good many favorable com ments because of the manner in which the men marched along the streets. They seemed to have the spirit of 1898 and they kept step and swung along just as in the April and May days when they were sum moned to camps to be hammered into shape. Some of the squads which marched along yesterday were heartily applauded for the way in which they handled themselves. The soldiers of this day, in their khaki, were most generous in tributes to the men in the blue and gray. Quite a few of the men here for the convention of the Spanish war convention went to the site of Camp Meade to look over the field where they spent a good many weeks in the latter part of 1898. Some of the men who visited the place were among those who Joined the four Philippine regiments organized at the camp in 1899. The people at the Jednota orphanage were probably a good bit surprised to see men in uni forms strolling about the lanes of old Young farms and pointing out places from the rising ground on which the big barn stands. The sites ■of the corps headquarters and the hospitals were visited by a number of men who spent time in their tents nineteen years ago. One of the vis itors commented upon the fact that there was nothing to mark the site of the camp, not even a marker along the pike. Ex-Speaker Georgo E. Alter in the course of his visit to the Legisla ture yesterday commended the law makers for not piling up a lot of laws. He spoke feelingly because the session over which he presided worked into hot weather to get the statutes in shape. "The merits of a session are not to be judged by the size of the books of laws. The Legis lature is often to be commended more for the things it refuses to do than for the things it does," said he. "The things it is asked to do are mar velous. A great many seem to have the impression that the function of a Legislature, the purpose for which it is created, is to enable people with fads to impose those fads upon other people." • • • The systematic manner in which the ropfs are torn off buildings and things are ripped apart in the demolition of the structures in Cap itol Park extension is attracting some attention. AVhen the wreckers start on a building it is only a mat ter of hours until the filling up of the cellar excavation starts. The building is taken apart and the ma terial piled up. It does not stay long as it is in demand and houses are memories in a mighty short time. • * * Third-class city officials who have been here considerably this year keeping tabs on the legislation af fecting that class of municipalities in Pennsylvania say that they pro pose to start early next time. The Third-Class City League will meet in Hazleton in August and the plan in to have the changes favored in ♦he laws thoroughly threshed out long before the next Legislature •meets so that the bills may be dis cussed next year before the legisla tors are elected. In this way many things which have caused trouble this session will be overcome. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —R. V. Massey, the new general superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad, found a number of old friends with whom he had worked years ago when he took charge at Altoona. —Judge Charles E. Berger, the new Schuylkill Judge, took a prom inent part in prosecuting ballot frauds some years ago. —Ex-Speaker Ambler is working up sentiment for road Improvements by making speeches in Montgomery county. —General C. A. Devel, who waa4 one of the officers at Camp Meade in 1898, was the speaker at Chester Military Academy commencement. —District Attorney E. Lowry Humes will go into the federal ser vice if the reserves are summoned. | DO YOUKNOW That Harrteburg is supplying large* numbers of shoes ' for Southern State shipments? HISTORIC HARRISBURO In early days Sunday services used to be held on summer evenings along the River Fronts
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