6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOMB Pounded ISjl Published evenlags except Sunday by THE TKLECRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ■E.J. STAC K POLE, Pres't & EJitcr-in-C hiof T. R. OYSTER, Business Manager, GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor ■ Member American Newspaper Pub lation and Penn- East ern office, Bulldin^ Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as sjcond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a {TS3V..Vrvir£i.> week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 23 The soul alone, like a neglected harp. Grows out of tune, and needs a j hand divine; Dwell thou within it, tune and touch the chords. Till evert/ note and string shall answer thine.' — HARRIET BEECHES STOWE. NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL WITHIN a few days the Legis- j lature of 1917 will have com pleted its work. Owing to political factionalism there has been j more or less dissension since the be- I ginning of the session in January, but when the record shall have been j made up It will probably be found | that while nothing much has been j done in the way of new statutory I enactments the people have been saved the additional burden of un necessary laws. Outside the appropriation meas- I ures and the few necessary things' that have been dpne in correction of ; existing laws, the work of the Leg- j islature has been largely of a nega tive character. , But why should the people worry? j The very fact that there has not been j a further deluge of legislation should : be a matter of congratulation. In stead of condemning the law-makers I they ought to be commended for avoiding the temptation to place upon the Btatute books a lot of acts which are unnecessary and In many cases positively burdensome to the people. Quite as much 'ability is necessary to prevent foolish legislation as to provide for constructive measures. | And for this reason the people may j feel satisfied over the results of the I session. 1 Meanwhile, what has become of the j Valley Railways terminal proposition, the relief of traffic congestion and i the incidental improvements grow- I ing out of the conferences held some i weeks ago? Under present condi- I tiohs the handling of the street cars | In the main business section is more or less of a Chinese puzzle. MUST HAVE THE RIGHT MAN THE entrance of Dr. George R. Moffitt into the service of his country will remove from an Important position here one who has given the city valuable service. As the bacteriologist in charge of tests at the filter plant, and who has con ducted the investigation of milk and Ice cream supplies of the community Dr. Moffltt has occupied a place ofj peculiar responsibility. ■ It may be assumed, of course, that j the Department of Public Safety will i exercise great care in choosing his successor, but it will do no harm to suggest that this is the one place in the whole city government which will admit of no political favoritism or official interference. The life and health of the community depend upon the scientific treatment of the water supply, as well as of the milk and ice cream. We had a most dis astrous experience last summer, which should never be repeated. To be sure, the invasion of typhoid came from without, but it might eastlv have occurred through carelessness or incompetence from within the city. Dr. Moffltt's place must be taken, if he is actually called into the national service, by a bacteriologist of un doubted abllty and character, and no other will be acceptable to Har rlsburg. We're going to miss a lot of familiar faces in Harrlsburg soon, but those of us who remain with the rear guard should show our patriotism and Inter est in the boys at the front by doing everything possible to make them comfortable. LETS PULL TOGETHER WE have had surveys and sur veys and more surveys with the purpose of improving con ditions In Harrlsburg, notably the educational facilities, the police serv ice, the street railway operation and now the ash problems. But these surveys will amount to nothing and will simply represent the expenditure of private and public funds without result unless those charged with the municipal administration, do their part. We believe that ucne of our officials is disposed to v,llfully neglect any public duty, but there is now and then an apparent Indifference which may be nothing more than a failure to appreciate the importance of these matters which so vitally affect the welfare of the people. SATURDAY EVENING, Whatever City Council can do as a body or through the Individual com mlsslpners to correct any of the con ditions of which there has been pub lic complaint ought to be done speedily and efficiently. Their duty Involves the street traffic problems and the Police Department. As to the street railway difficulties, these are up to the corporations In terested, and while the problems are not so easily worked out as might appear to the casual observer—albeit every patron of a street railway line believes he could manage the system better than those charged with that duty—they are not •? serious that something definite and practical may not ba evolved In the near future. In short, let us all pull together— the municipal authorities, the public service corporations and the people themselves. Nothing Is to be accom plished without constructive effort along reasonable and Intelligent lines. POLICE CIVIL SERVICE ANT civil service law affecting the present police department of Harrlsburg cannot be construed as a safeguard for afty officer who is Incompetent or otherwise unfit for police duty. If any officer Imag ines that the people of Harrlsburg will stand for a law or construction of law that will protect an Inefficient policeman simply because he hap pens to be now a member of the force he should emerge from his trance and get ready for the catapult which is bound to eliminate him from the payroll of tne people. _/ Those officers who are honestly striving to do their duty and give efficient and faithful service have a right to expect protection under the civil service regulations. Public opinion undoubtedly will support them in such an attitude, but these men must not be handicapped In their efforts by association with other officers who are unfit and who should have no consideration what ever in the enforcement of the civil service regulations. Mayor Miller has a high and im portant duty to perform, and we have not the slightest doubt that he will see to it that the provisions of the civil Ber\ - lce law, which are now In effect, shall be generally enforced for the good of the service and In the interest of the people. % Harrlsburg will watch with Inter est the actual operation of civil serv ice in the police department. There has been much to be desired in our police department and It Is now up the individual officer to demonstrate whether he is to be permanently em ployed by the city or relieved of his star without unnecessary delay. THE POST OFFICE AGAIN POSTMASTER SITES is naturally chagrined over the indefensible and annoying delays in the com pletion of the Federal building here. Not only Is the conduct of the pos tal service affected, but the whole business section In which the Federal building is located Is Inconvenienced. City Commissioner Lynch would be justified in compelling a clearance 01' the rubbish and building material from the Locust street sidewalk of the government property and at least this much might be done to relieve the serious congestion. MORE CHERRY PIE ABIT of whimsey relating to the dainty of the season, fresh * cherry pie, appearing in these columns a few days since, has been made the subject of several letters to the editor, the correspondents be ing kind enough to commend the sentiments the TELEGRAPH ex pressed. Here is an extract from one of them: And so I read your article on cherry pie with so much relish that * I rushed right out and bought a box that didn't look big enough for the kind of a pie I wanted, so I bought another and the day being far gone 1 gave the old maininy who presides over the kitchen of our boardinghouse r quarter to bake me a pie. and I ate two-thirds of it for break fast. That saved a dish of wheat cakes, some bacon and bread. The cook gave the quarter to the Red Cross. Thus I became a conserva tionist and a patriot at one time, and also had my cherry pie. I aeree with you; there is much virtue In cherry pie. Thus again is the power of the press for good demonstrated, and the gentle potency of cherry pie brought to the attention of a pub lic acquainted, possibly, with only the gustatory side of this peer of all summer pastry dlshep. Who knows, had Harrlsburg indulged all week in a diet of cherry pie, Instead of 1100,000, $200,000 might have been raised for the Red Cross fund. Another correspondent regrets that the editorial did not appear In verse. He says: ' I read your cherrv pie article with interest. It took me* far back .into my childhood days and made me yearn with an un quenchable yearning for the appe tite of the period when 1 picked the cherries and mother made the pies. The Telegraph and cherry pie make a good dessert for any dinner, but you made one error. Cherry pie is a poem and you should have couched your very proper praise in verse. We are not too modest to agree that cherry pie and the HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH do make a mighty fine combination with which to conclude a good dinner, but as for putting the pie into verse, we are •no poet. But Tom Daly, of the Phil adelphia Evening Ledger, can write poems on anything, and here Is hig latest on cherry pie, which we hope will fill- the bill: Oh, cherry pie! Yum. yum! Oh, gee! Let not the crusts close-wedded be. But puffed and flaky, plumped with meat And all the red heart dripping sweet With luscious oozlngs. syrupy. Ah! that's the cherry pie for me! I'll want two "helpln's," maybe three— Who ever got enough to eat O' cnerry pie? What odds if in our dreams we see Nightmares and goblins. We agree Though pain usurp Joy's earlier seat. No collywobs can quite defeat The gustatory pleasures we Owe cherry pie. Secretary Reeves, the new head of the Y. M. C. A., arrived in this city to take up his work in the midst of the strenuous Boy Scout campaign and the tremendous energy of this old town has so impressed him that he is look ing forward with joyous anticipation to the campaign later on for the cause In which he has a particular interest. LK t KKO ICCLYJxI By the F,x-Committeeman Over half of the bills on third reading on the calendar of the House of Representatives for Mon day night, the first session of the last week of the session of 1917, are House bills, and after Monday there will be no chance of any House bills being acted upon in time to pass the Senate. As a result many of the bills on the House calendar will die and some of the more important ones will be imperiled unless special or ders are made for their consideration or there is a limitation of debate. Efforts to bring about a special cal endar of the more Important bills are under way. The Senate calendar contains few bills, compared to the House calen dar, and It has practically cleared all of its own bills from its list, hav ing sent them to the House earlier in the week. The House calendar contains 290 bills, of which 266 are on third read ing. Of this number 162 are House bills, fifty-one of the latter being for new highway routes. There are thirty-four bills either on special calendars as revenue or appropria tions bills or on the postponed lists. —Blanks are being prepared at the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth for nomination petitions for judicial candidates of whom there will be a large number this year. There are over a score of judicial seats to be filled and nine teen associate judges' terms also ex pire. The period for circulating pe titions will begin early In July and forty days will be allowed to secure signers. —Judging from what the Philadel phia newspapers are prlntlng.'the de velopment In regard to the Senate, transit bills are likely to be cause for quite a factional outbreak in the closing days of the Legislature. Things are in bad enough shape In the House anyway because of the condition of the calendar and the fil ibusters against the act to suspend the full crew bill, the differences over the compensation amendments and similar measures and- the chances are that unless some agree ment Is made regarding considera tion of various bills that there will be endless debating on Monday night instead of any real progress. —The Philadelphia Ledger says that Mayor Smith considers that "a political Issue" has been made out of the "kidnaping" of the bills by Rep resentative Aron and that he pro poses to fight for the bills. Repre sentative Aron refused to give up the bill to Representative Glass as order ed to do in a letter sent by Chairman | Stern, of the committee in charge, and stated that he would act prompt ly on Monday. Glass made a blister ing attack on Stern and all hands seem to be Issuing statements. David H. Lane, sponsor for Aron, said that some of the charges were "tommyrot." —Newspapers of the State outside of Philadelphia are not showing much excitement over the "kidnap ing." In Scranton they are all discus sing the plan to end the "mine cave" nuisance and the chances are that there will not be much more heard on the question in the Legislature. —lt is probable that men Interest ed in attacking the constitutionality of the act making Clinton county a separate "Judicial district will take it to the Supreme Court. —Judge C. C. Evans, of the Colum bia county courts, has been endorsed for re-election by the Columbia Coiyity Sabbath School Association. —Mayor Kosek, of Wilkes-Barre, who has been more or less of a storm center In political affairs. Is now en gaged in a controversy with the Gov ernor over the draft boards. He says that he was ignored and that he does not propose to aUow the Governor to "Insult" him. Labor Notes The British government joins with trade unionists in their opposition to child labor on the ground that if the war were won under those con ditions it would be lost, as future generations would be destroyed. The Board of Trade of St. John, N. 8., Canada, has put itself on rec ord as favoring the volunteering for the farms of men from the business houses, preferably men who have had previous experience on the ] farms. Portugal has a law compelling all employers to give their employes one' da< of rest each week, thus putting an end to the practice, which had become quite general, of working people seven days in the ween. In Prussia 30,000 women are working In mines. Some 50,000 are at work on State-owned railways and thousands are working In munition factories. All are at work under gov ernment orders and military rules. Wages in England have been In creased In proportion to the in creased cost of living. When , work ers demand higher rates the first question asked is: "What is tire In crease In the cost of living." That being ascertained, it is added. Hamilton (Canada) branch of the Independent Labor Party went oi record as strongly opposed to gov ernment appointments to civilians to local branches of the Pensions Beard, Provisional Employment Bu reau and Department of Weights and Measures. A demonstration by many thou sands of workmen organized by the British Workers' League was held In Hyde Park, London, to express fra ternal greetings to the peoples of allied countries and the determina tion of the workers to continue the war. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BOOKS AND MAGAZINES | Cuptuin lun Huy lK'ltli Returns to England—Captain lan Hay Belth, author of "Tho. First Hundred Thou sand" and "Getting Together," who returned a few weeks ago from a very successful lecture tour in the western part of tho country and the Pacific coast, 'has sailed for England. Captain Beith has been in this coun try since last October, lecturing on "The Human Side of Warfare," be sides having given at various times a lecture on "Recent Military Tac tics." Captain Beith expects to be on duty on the French front dur ing the summer and to spend some time on board the vessels of the British Grand Fleet, and if the gods are kind, he will come back to this country In the fall to tell us just what is happening on the European tiring line. "Obstacles to Peace" For the Jap anese—"Obstacles to Peace," by 8. 8. McClure, (Houghton Mifflin Com pany) which is now In its second edition in English, is being trans lated into Japanese and will shortly be published in Japan. Wounded Nearly Killed by Kind ness—A story which proves that wounded soldiers in hospitals are apt to be nearly killed by kindness is told by Colonel James Morris Morgan in his "Recollections of a Rebel Reefer," (Houghton Mifflin Company). Colonel Morgan was an officer in the Confederate navy and during Jhe Civil War he found a friend in a hospital. "Jimmle, for God's sake make them move my cot to the back of the hospital," the sick man pleaded. "He was near tho entrance," Cclonel Morgan explains, "and every woman visitor who entered either washed his face or fed him jelly! His face was get ting sore and dyspepsia was coming on." At Colonel Morgan's request the head surgeon pinned a notice on the cot: "This man must only be washed and fed by the regular nurses." All Continents in War [From Answers, London.] A day when all the world should be at war has often been the sub ject of sensational fiction, and those who profess to read the riddles of prophecy have often prognosticated it;' but to-day it is practically an ac complished fact. It is surprising how little of the world is not directly involved in this stupendous con flict. Six-sevenths of Europe is in the war area. Only Spain, Switzerland. Scandinavia, Denmark and Holland arc out of it. Yet Europe, the very center of the vast upheaval, Is not as> fully represented, according to its area, as the other continents, with the -one exception of South Amer ica, although, if the Argentine Joins Brazil, even that vast continent will be almost entirely belligerent. With the exception of Mexico, the whole of North America is in the fighting, and, if China be counted a belligerent, less than one-sixteenth of Asia is at peace. It la a remark able that, with the exceptions of Spanish Morocco and Abyssinia, the whole of Africa is in the war. whilst it goes without saying that every square inqh of Australia, the small est of the continents, although more than two-thirds the size of Europe, is devoted to the cause of the Allies. In fact, the situation reminds one of the story of Mark Twain, whose father commanded him to weed the flower bed, and who slyly retorted that it seemed a case of "flowering the weed bed," for it is much easier to name the states at peace than those at war. 1 Hands Across the Seas The task before the American Red Cross Is to support the American doctors and nurses already at the front, to care for the great armies which we are to raise, to watch over the dependent families of our sol diers who are called to the colors, to provide recreation and sanitary protection for our troops after they are sent to France, to take over the work of guarding France against the ravages of tuberculosis, to care for the women and children of the de vastated districts, and to bring to Russia a concrete message of help which will strengthen her wavering resolution and her faith in demo cracy and discipline. Such a task is appalling in size, but if carried out with the support of every individual American it can be accomplished. Canada with eight million population, contributed money and material to a value of sixteen million dollars for her Red Cross and the relief of her sick and wounded. If America does as well, in stead of the hundred million dollars which Mr. Davison asks, two hun dred million dollars will be the con tribution of America to its Red Cross. —The Outlook. Liberty Loan Comment New York World—"By this in spiring demonstration uf national unity and financial power the United States fittingly supplements its re cent enrollment for military serv ice." New York Sun—"The loan, more successful than the highest hope of friends or the deepest fear of foe had expected, is as heavy a blow as has fallen on the Central powers and their vile tribe of agents in this country." New York Herald —"The brilliant success of the Liberty Loan evi dences the wealth and the patriotic spirit of the American people—and to their appreciation of a good thing, for he that has bought a bond has a bargain." New York Tribune—"lt means that the greatest democracy in the | world Is entering the war en masse and no alien machination can long delay our full strength at the task." CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist CUTWORMS REPORTS of exceptional damage to young tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, pep per, potato and other planis throughout Pennsylvania and in other states are received almost every hour by letter or phone. Do not mistake the fact that plants cut off at the surface of the ground have been attacked by cutworms. One may not see them, for they hide during the day in the soil or under rubbish. I Don't blame the trouble on earthworms or slugs, as many persons are doing. Cutworms are easily controlled with a simple remedy, and with one application at this time. Make a poison bran mash by ■ mixing dry twenty-five pounds of bran with one-half pound of Paris green, moisten with one quart of cbeap molasses, the Juice and chopped pulp of three lemons or oranges, and sufficient water to make a dry mash, which barely holds together when squeezed In the hand. Smaller amounts In proportion. Scatter broadcast and sparsely in the evening, over gardens or fields to be protected. Birds will not eat the mash containing fruit Jui<^e. V When a Feller NBy BRIGGS I v > <TA,Re iith pr *\T Right ' THE PEOPLE'S L - Thinks U. S. Should Pay To the Editor of the Telegraph: I saw the cartoon on the front page of the TELEGRAPH, entitled "He Might Be -Your Boy," repro duced from Public Ledger. I also read the attached piece to the car toon, of which I am going to quote a paragraph, "Is there an American who wishes to take the responsibil ity for a life that is lost because there were no funds, no supplies and no equipment on hand to save it?" I think this is trying to teach the public a wrong impression. The United States government has no right, or excuse to send an army or unit into battle without a fully equipped hospital corps. They should have- as many nurses and doctors as would be needed, and they should be equipped with all the surgical in struments Und surgical supplies re gardless of cost. The money to do this should come out of the United States Treasury, the same as it will to pay for the rest of the army, and not from the American Red Cross. Hoping you will please publish this letter, I am your CONSTANT READER. "Booze" and Food To the Editor of the Telegraph: X have forwarded the following letter to Herbert Hoover, at Wash ington: My Dear Sir—l have your circu lar letter addressed to- me, in com mon With other clergymen. I am not a pastor, but I can assure you that I am a "lover of liberty and your fellowman," and that I sympathize with the movement to conserve the food situation of our country to much larger extent than that indi cated in your letter. My entire time is taken up in a work that, if it were given triumph, would immediately conserve enough grain to feed every British and French soldier on the European battlefields. "In such a time as this," it be hooves us to turn first to God. As a nation we have been flaunting the red flag of defiance In His face. Once before this we did so, and He brought upon us the calamity of the Civil War. Not until the nation in 1863 got on Its face before Him, confessing its sin and appealing to Him through Jesus Christ, the medi ator between God and man, did He see fit to turn the tide of victory toward the Northern arms. I strong ly feel the need of making the na tion to feel Its need of the Bread of Life. When once this Is done, there will then be the disposition upon the people's part to conserve their daily bread. Your statement that "the present excessive cost of food Is not justified" Is added proof of the above. Among our national sins is that of harboring the infamous liquor traf fic. This traffic is using foodstuffs for the production of that which not only is not food, but which is de structive of both the physical, men tal and moral powers of those using it. The most conservative estimate I have seen based upon the internal revenue report for 1916, is that the grain thus used would make 11,- 000,000 loaves of bread a day, while some experts place It as high as 16,- 000.000 loaves. Were it simple in dulgence in that which did no fur ther harm than simply to waste, it (Would not be so bad. Bat when the result Is to render men unfit to serve either at toil or in the army, it looks to me that one of the first things that your department ,ought to do would be to demand of Con gress that they forbid the destruc tion of foodstufTs In the making of intoxicating drinks. This would con serve both food and man power. X trust that the dally press has misrepresented you as saying that the food shortage Is not sufficient yet to warrant the step of national pro hibition. The people had learned to trust you and love you In connection with your work for the Belgians, In which we had a part. But some of us wese shocked when the above sttaement was reported as coming from you. 1 believe that we should not only forbid our own nation using foodstuffs for the making of alcoholic beverages, but that we should condition the supplying of our grain to the European nations upon their doing likewise. It is worse than absurd for Ensrland to permit the making of 10,000,000 barrels of beer, requiring 900,000 acres of land on which to raise the grains neces sary for it, 30,000 men to raise and harvest them, and 5,000 men to mine the coal for the brewing, and then cry to us for food. I believe in self-denial, but we should insist on England" and France fully stop ping this worse than waste of food stuffs as wejl as the people of our own land. From your position of commanding influence, will you not lend your hand to this end? Sincerely yours, D. E. P. PRUGH. Local Carpenters Best To the Editor of the Telegraph: The undersigned desires to pres ent to the citizens of Harrisburg and vicinity the following fact: On June 11, I took a large num ber of carpenters to Gettysburg to work on the erection of barracks for the U. S. soldiers. The condi tions they received were 60 cents per hour, time and half time for over time, double time for Sunday, board and transportation. As tho business agent of the Harrisburg building trades, and the A. F. of L. organ izer for this district, my duty called me to the operation again on Tues day 19th, and upon my arrival on the field I was met by the superin tendent of the work and he said: "I want to congratulate you on the fine bunch of men you brought me, they wil.l do anything they are ask ed, and 'we are going to keep them until the last." Upon inquiry I found that the men from Philadel phia and Baltimore had stated they were going to make the Harrisburg bunch hustle, but In two days tlm* it was the reverse, and the boys from Local 287, stand above them all, and everyone has stayed sober and worked every day, and when the work starts on the next contract their names are on the list to go to work on the Job, which will prob ably be somewhere in New Jersey, and at more money: also they will take about as many more with them, the names of those I have on my list at this time. If you can't take your hats off to such men as that who have shown what kind of workmen we have here, why we had better get new glasses, and Its up to all to help boost and bring our union men to the front, and we will then make better men and mechanics out of ihe poor ones, and In their behalf I extend an Invitation to anyone to attend our federated trades meet ings, flrst and third Mondays and discuss the questions of bettering our conditions and boosting our district. Thanking you. I am Yours fraternally, H. M. BROOKS, Bus. Agt. and Organizer A. F. of L. Attila Attlla, the king of the Huns, aft er putting his brother to death, soon gained the title of the "Scourge of God." But at last the Goths goti him in a corner and stuck sharp steel Into three hundred thousand of his followers. Eventually Attlla died of hemor rhage. If you cannot see In the above statement a suggestion of what will happen to crazy Bill, I miss my guess.—The Silent Partner. The way to hoe in the garden is to wait until the sun goes down. Then you can't see to hoe, and It will be necessary to wait until the sun cornea up.—TLu Silent Partner. JUNE 23, 1917. Fine Fellows [The Silent Partner.] Nearly # all of the finest fellows In my circle of acquaintances drink. Personally, I like these fellows im mensely. They are good-natured, easy-going. almost always agreeable. Everybody seems to like them, and they seem to like everybody else. They are usually young, look well, and behave well. Generally, speaking, these "fine fellows" are as good as I am, and in many ways a whole lot better. But these "fine fellows" that we all like so well cannot stand the gaff. They dodge the difficult prob lems more otten than other, men. They lack what we call nerve to tackle trouble to-day—right now. They seem to hate obligations. They put off, postpone, delay and defer to-day's duty. Then, in order to forget, they throw in a couple of genial cocktails, and then a couple more. Conditions seem to change with them, and con sequences appear more rosy. You can see, without any further comment, that the more they delay doing the right thing at the right time, the more they are inclined to drink. The more a tnan drinks, the less capable is he. The more he drinks, the less effort he puts forth, and the less pay he Is bound to draw. It often happens that these "fine fellows" awaken some morning to find that some sober, industrious young men have been appointed to take their places. Then the descent begins. • Then these "fine fellows" start down the slide, and not one in a hundred can seem to stop until he hits the bot tom. Fine fellows, every one of them. OUR DAILY LAUGH FATHER MIS- \"A PIiACED ADAGE. I V 1 V amassed by in dustry tho for- K" • jK tune which you I \ u|H squandered in & vHBP Gilded Youth V J 1 I\l —Well, that's }- n' 1 | the rule. Bust- ; I / I ness baf or e I J J < * 'pn*i em jo i w 9l{l 110 au ' An VV oj.aAi 'sao-juiod Nt jo }soa OTJ ** 'ma *®h —Jna "Bona isoai GETTING It Is a time of O There's money everywhere At every turn Munition mil- Sbgttittg (Efyatj R°trlans who visited Wellsville H„:?M !l,eßt " of E - J - Lewis, of the n„,r urR Leather Products Com <.nn W l ero lm P res 'ed with the thrift Pnr ®?M er P rtse of that little town. thn if, wero th ey amazed by the size and extent of the Industrie* P'f-e®. far removed as It la connections. Tho Vells\llie Whip Company, General trrinn Ker * Milligan told the Ro- Who !, Urna out "fty gross of in sf, *!s y and disposes of them. I pa^s of the United States and abroad. The raw materials must flnlhoH ! he faot °ry and the finished product away by wagon, but som War - ' Wh,ch hus cut off some of the sources of supply in far whfJh 4f^ P ° re ' or tho automobile, which carries no whip socket, have been able to cut down the business to any appreciable degree. .v"! r^ MlniKan told th e Rotariana that the original whip factory had been started by tho founder, Mr. Wells, away back In 1837, in a small room at York. The nearest railroad point then was Harrlsburg, and the materials and products made the thirty-mile trip by wagon. The fac tory grew and was removed about that year to Its present site In Wells viile. It now occupies a long, vine covered stone building and looks just as prosperous as it is. Just back of It is the factory of the Harrlsburg Leather Products, a large frame structure, big and airy in summer and steam-heated in win ter, which gives employment to the sons and daughters of the men who find employment in the whip factory or in that other of the trio of big industries in Wellsville. the Wells- L. i Manufacturing Company, of which TV. D. Brougher is the head, bomc idea of the extent of this com pany s business may be obtained from the fact that last year It turn ed out 632,000 fly nets for horses, which Is the unique and almost the sole product of the big factory. But Wellsville has public spirit as well as business enterprise and the town reflects the thoughtful care of Its citizens In their pride in its ap pearance and the prosperity which It enjoys. Home gardening was a fa vorite outdoor occupation In Wells ville long before the war forced It upon less thrifty communities and every house has Its flower as well as its vegetable lot adjoining. The streets are not the ordinary bor ough streets. They are well kept and the houses almost without exception shine resplendent In fresh paint and the fences are gleaming white with lime applied this spring. Wellsville is the home of Richard Young, a millionaire leather man of New York, whose summer home Is one of the show places of that town. Mr. Young came to Wellsville one day some years ago to do business with this same Wellsville Whip Company and there met one of the charming girls for which the town is famous. She is now Mrs. Young and every summer comes back to renew old acquaintances amid the scenes of her gtrlhoood, while Mr. Young is one of the big holders of stock In the whip company and Just to show his Interest in the place not long since presented to the town a hand some schoolhouse, fully equipped with everything that any city school of modern design and furnishing can claim. The Rotariana were so well im pressed with Wellsville that they are very Hkely to accept Mr. Young's invitation to come out some day this summer and be his guests for a time. • • • Relating his last conversation with "Uncle Henry" in his office at the Capitol Just' prior to his death last winter, Dr. McCaskov gives this In teresting account: "We had an old time hour with him not long ago in his reception room at the Capitol and talked of men long gone, some of tliffm forgotten. 'Mac,' he said, 'you and I are all that are left of those old days of Burrowes and Hickok and Wickersham and Brooks and F. A. Allen and Woodruff and other good men of that early time. Soon we'll be gone.' We laughed, ■\es,' said I* 'we were youngsters then; you were a little ahead of me, and I haven't caught up with you yet. We don't see many on the street who are ninety or a hundred— and we must vanish soon. But we are in no haste to be away from so good a world.' So we chatted pleas antly of yesterday and a* near to morrow. I little thought it was the Inst time, and that when next I saw his face there would be no smile upon it of friendly recognition." • • Speaking of the Capitol, one of Its admirers is Attorney General Brown. Not long ago he met some friends In Philadelphia who were talking about spending the summer on a motor trip to see points of general interest in eastern States. It cropped out that they had not been In Har risburg since the Capitol was built. "Start in and see Philadelphia and then go see the Capitol of your own Slate. Then you will be ready for others," was Mr. Brown's admon ition. • • • In years to come some citizens and citizenesses of Harrlsburg will be rather surprised to find what they gave to the Red Cross in the great war. One of the features of the sub scriptions this week has been the putting down of gifts in the name of youngsters. It was the same with the Siberty Loan and It is starting out young Harrlsburg In the right way. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I —H. Burd Cassell, who presented the memorial tablet to Donegal Church, used to be a congressman from the Lancaster district. —Frederick B. Shipp, Pittsburgh Y. M. C. A. official, will take up work for the association in France. —J. W. Henderson, ahief of tha smoke bureau, has been getting after big Pittsburgh concerns for violating the smoke law. —The Rev. E. A. Lemolne, a Greensburg minister, will work In a shell plant because ho was rejected for army service. —George S. Crampton, pnt In charge of the field hospitals of tha National Guard, has been activa la the Guard for years. | DO YOITkNOW I, That Harrlsburg Is hecomlnjc na- f Uonally famous as a free gtvlng city? HISTORIC HARRIS BURG This city was one of the first to respond to the call for funds for the sanitary commission during the civil war. Noble Women The relentless advance of a day has not robbed this nation of ita millions of patient, noble women— women who are willing to serve and sacrifice; women willing to work Ilka slaves to win. All through the Western States, on my way east recently, I could see, from the car window, women out In the fields at work with hoes. Soma were hanging to the handles of plows I and doing more than their bit— Tha I Silent Partner,
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