8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THB HOME Founded IS3I (Published evenlags except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. ■E. J. STACK POLE, Prti't A• EJitor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUB M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member American Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Building Entered at the l'ost Office in Harris- Durgr* Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a CJSl&w\reek; by mall, $6.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28 The men whom I have teen suc ceed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business uiith a smile on their faces and took their changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came. — CHABI.ES KINGSLET. OUR TROOPS IX FRANCE THE graphic description of the landing pf American troops In France, which it was the good fortune of the TELEGRAPH alone of all evening newspapers coming into Harrisburg yesterday, to print, aroused the city to a pitch of en thusiasm that could not have been much greater had a battle gone fa vorably for our soldiers in the field. Indeed, as Emerson Collins pointed out at the Rotary Club's recruiting rally last evening, the successful passage of the army through the U-boat infested waters of the Atlan tic was in itself a victory of no mean magnitude. No such mobilization or movement of troops under such dif ficult conditions was ever made so quickly and successfully, we are told, and this augurs well for the future safe conduct of Americans to the fighting front. The secrecy surround ing the whole affair illustrates very vividly the truth of the assertion that no formal censorship is required to prevent American newspapers from printing anything that might be of aid to the enemy. The few thousands of men who will be thrown into the fray may not count for much so far as their material strength Is concerned, but they are a guarantee to France and England and Russia and Belgium that America means business, and to the tired men of three years' serv ice in the trenches the Stars and Stripes headed for the battle-line will loom large as the deciding fac tor in the great struggle. Old Glory in France, backed up by the first of the armed millions that are to fol low, spells certain victory for the Allies. Germany, having lost the* Initiative on the west front, and un able to regain it even though Rus sia lies for the moment inert and helpless on the east, will be put to quick and complete defeat next spring when the Allies, aided by the brave young men of America, attack from all sides at a given moment The end of this war is in sight, and unless all signs fail, it is due to come not very many months after the United States troops In force ap pear on the battlefields of ~ France, providing, of course, that Russia does her part, as it now appears she will. DAYLIGHT SAVING EVERYBODY who hu a garden or who loves outdoor life and has not too much time for it, will hope that the House will con cur In the action of the Senate and pass at once the daylight saving bill. There are so many advantages to thli plan that Is difficult to under stand why Congress ever hesitated about its approval. As a writer In a current maga zine points out, to introduce the plan, all that would happen is this; On a certain night when going to bed, people would put their clocks an hour ahead. The next morning they would get up at the same time by the clock, go to breakfast, busi ness, luncheon, dinner, all at the usual time; and the only observable difference would be that they would have spent a shorter time In bed. In the morning, by an hour, and they would have an extra hour of day light to spend usefully. Incidentally, they would turn on the artificial light an hour later In the evening and save so much on their bills for gas or current. People who might object to being robbed of an hour In bed on the night the plan was started, could draw comfort from the reflection that on the night the plan was re versed In the late summer, they would have an extra hour for sleep. Opposition to the daylight saving project can only proceed from lack of misunderstanding of the subject. Persons who have been used to hear the whistle blow at 12 o'clock noon scent calamity should the same occur at 11 o'clock; they cannot get It Into their heads that under the plan the whistle would still blow at 12 o'clock, and that In reality tlie question of whether or not it is noon by the sun has nothing to do with the matter. No on* is actually con- THURSDAY EVENING, solous that at a certain time of day the sun has attained the top of his arch across the sky. In point of fact, there are only a few places In the country where noon and 12 o'clock coincide. Under the plan, 12 o'clock would still be the time for the midday "knocking off" and the evening suspension of work would also occur at the Bame clock \lme as before; the only difference would be that the sun, at each of these times, would, on his daily path, be one hour behind his pres ent schedule —an astronomical mat ter which no one would care any thing about. What people would be interested in would be to observe that they would now have an addi tional hour of daylight, after stop ping work for the day, in which to do the things which they can only do by the light of the sun. The principal active opposition comes from the railroads, who fear confusion over time tables. This, however, is not Justified by experi ence, as it has been found an easy matter to accustom people to re member that railroad time is an hour slower than local time, and to govern their movements accordingly, but even that could be overcome by proper arrangements the country over. German railroads are so op erated and, surely, American rail road men won't admit they can't do something that Germans can. DR. BULLITT'S DEPARTURE HUNDREDS of Harrisburg peo ple who have learned to know and love the Rev. Dr. James F. Bullitt will regret that his work is to take him to other fields. Dr. Bul litt, scholarly minister and charming gentleman that he Is, has been Iden tified with every civic welfare and public improvement campaign that has been waged In the years of his rectorate at St. Andrew's. His clarity of vision and practical Ideas have been helpful to those who have had the pleasure of working with him In movements of the kind. Harrisburg has been proud to number him among her citizens and Is sorry to see him depart. Modest, retiring and every ready to see credit for his own good works go elsewhere, he nevertheless has left a very distinct impress for good upon the commun ity In which he has labored so ef ficiently. KEEP WEATHER EYE ON JAPAN IN a recent address to the gradu ating class at Johns Hopkins College, President Frank Good now, who for years was China's con stitutional advisor, warned America to keep her weather, eye on Japan. He declared that the United States must look to its interests in China, for if Japan succeeds in getting half her demands In that quarter of the globe it will mean the end of our trade in Cathay. Our exports to China are now averaging some $36,- 000,000 annually, although there is already a marked dropping off In our sales to her of cotton goods, Japan 'having secured practical control of that trade. The fact that we have joined her In the allegiance against Germany will not deter Japan from grabbing all she can get In China, and If she can ever bring power enough to bear to coerce China into discouraging the importation of American goods the door which John Hay opened will be closed In 1 our faces. FOOD CONTROL HERE Is a first class argument for food control legislation in the United States, as set forth by the New York World: Bread which in Detroit sells at thirteen cents a loaf is sold In Windsor, across the river, for nine cents. Economically the two cities are subject to the same conditions. But Windsor Is In the province of Ontario, Canada, and Canada has a food-control law, whereas De troit Is in the United States, where no such legislation has yet been enacted. Yet Canada has been at war since 1914, while the United States Is scarcely as yet In the war. The answer Is too obvious for comment. EVIL OF IRRESPONSIBILITY CONSIDERABLE discussion is' being Indulged in on the part of certain small manufacturers | who have been given the cold shoul der by the Government, when seek ing an opportunity to get In on war supplies, relative to the manner in which that business is being handled In Wasliingt6n. A man in Washing ton recently cited an Instance; A certain trust has control of a large percentage of a raw material now much in demand by the Gov ernment in the form of soldiers' equipment. A subsidiary corpora tion of this trust manufactures this equipment from the parent com pany's raw stock. An official of the trust is one of the dollar-a-year em ployes of the Government. The sub sidiary company puts In a bid for supplying this equipment. The bid goes to the War Department and Is referred to tho committee which Is making government purchases. This committee refers It to a subcommit tee to report on whether or not the price bid Is fair. Sitting on this subcommittee Is the dollar-a-year employe, whose salary from, the trust will keep the wolf rrom the door for some years to come. Of course, the subcommittee finds that the price bid Is very, very fair, and the con tract is awarded. It is all very simple, when you know how. These dollar-a-year em ployes—and there are many of them now In Washington—are held to no responsibility whatever. They are taken on at this nominal salary in order to get around a law forbid ding the acceptance by the Govern ment of free service. They are ap pointed without the consent, and often without the knowledge, of the Senate. In addition to the favorit ism which. In the human nature of things, they are almost certain to show their own companies, they are placed in a position to learn all. the Ins and outs of the business of their competitors, and the mass of data which they will have collected I fore the ond of tie war can be used with telling effect against those com petitors. Their appointment should receive the sanction of the Senate, and they should be held to a high measure of responsibility In the use to which they put the Information which comes to them. Ck By th&_Ex-Conimittccman L.IL .= =4l ( Governor Brumbaugh sprung a i couple of surprises when he sent his | long list of nominations to the Sen- | J ate for confirmation last night. | | There were reports early in the even | ing that the Governor was going to allow appointments to lapse, but the ' Governor declined to comment upon : them, and tbout 11.45 o'clock sent to the Senate a regular bale of pa pers. The Governor's selection of Paul W. Houck, of Shenandoah, to suc ceed his father, the late Dr. Henry Houck, as* Secretary of Internal Af fairs, was a surprise. Mr. Houck was mentioned on and off for the place, but denied any ambitions in that direction In recent weeks. Only as late as yesterday morning Mr. Houck said: "There is nothing to the report that I am to be Secre tary." The other surprise was Frank R. Shattuck, prominent Philadelphia lawyer, to be member of the State Board of Moving Picture Censors. He is well known throughout the state, and will succeed J. Louis Breitlnger, of Philadelphia. The selection of ex-State Treasur er Robert K. Young, of Wellsboro, to be Public Service Commissioner, has been much talked of. As one of the leaders In the Bull Moose movement Mr. Young was nationally famous. He was legislator years ago, then a capable Auditor General and retired in May, after four years' service in the Treasury, during which he in augurated many Important matters. Mr. Young has been here so much that he Is almost a Harrlsburger. —Mayor Smith appeared to be rather peeved when he left the city for Philadelphia late yesterday aft ernoon. after the defeat of the tran sit bills. He said that he had re ceived a square deal from the House, but did not consider that lie had se cured the full measure of support from political leaders. Kor days It has been gossip about the Capltoi that the Mayor was about the only person who was working overtime to get the bills through, although in the House most of the Phlladel phians appeared to be Interested. —Tho speech of Representative Aron, who comes from the ward of David H. Lane, the former city chairman and sage of Philadelphia Republicans, was one which raised blisters on Mayor Smith but he only grinned. The effect will probably be to take the veteran away from the Mayor and there Is no telling what other backwash may come out of the transit situation. —The second-class city legislation ended pretty promptly yesterday aft ernoon when it was announced that the Governor had a rod in pickle for it if it got through. This was an other effort which started early and was allowed to drag. The bill was passed once, after some strenuous fighting, and had to be recalled from the Governor for purposes of amend ment. It- never got back. —The township code, which Is now up to th*s Governor, will give the rural municipal divisions a complete code, the work of James N. Moore and his experts In the Legislative Reference Bureau. —Senator Charles W. Sones, of Wllllairtsport, was host at a dinner given last night to members of his committee of the Senate and a num ber of friends. The Senator had been considerably talked about as a pos sible candidate for Governor and E. Lowry Humes. Democratic District Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, who Is said to be the choice of the machine bosses if they can not see daylight for one of the triumvirate which Is running things, showed much Interest in the Lycoming man's history while here a few days ago. —The session just closing has been remarkable for some very noisy leg islative "drives." There was the famous "probe" of the administra tion. the compensation amendment campaign, In which some members intimate the administration got cold feet; the Philadelphia small council bill; the numerous revenue bills, the Scranton "mine cave" bills; tho sec ond and third-class city bills; the movement to trim appropriations and hamstring some departments whose chiefs played politics, and last but not least, the Philadelphia tran sit bills. —Senator Asa K. DeWltt, who was named as the Democratic candidate for president pro ten:, of the State Senate, is a banker at Plymouth, and has been affiliated with the Old Guard wing of the Democracy. Sev eral times he has run afoul of the bosses. The Democratic senatorial caucus was held early this morn ing and attended by all of the minor-| ity Senators. It was harmonious. Earlier in the night the Democratic Senators threw gubernatorial bou quets at Senator Sones. —-The nomination of T. Henry Walnut. Independent Republican, ex legislator and civil service reformer, as an assistant United States District Attorney in Philadelphia, has arous ed the Ire of several Democrats who are lined up with the Wilson organi zation in New Jersey and elsewhere. Roland S. Morris is being sharDly criticised. Co-operation The valuable man In any business is the man who can and will co operate with other men. The fore man who opposes the introduction of a new man Into an institution, and fights every Innovation which he himself does not suggest, is doomed to a gradual and creeping defeat. Men succeed only as they utilize the services and Ideas of other men. Co-operate!—Elbert Hubbard. Cleanup Campaign in Canada [Toronto Star.] A don't-be-dlrty shower was re cently given for an April bride when everything that could be thought of In the way of cleansers was given the bride-to-be. The Poet of a Great Loan Here Is a poem written in May, 1861. when the people of the North ern States were being urged to sub scribe for a government loan: They Can Lie About It A few years hence some of our shirkers will be hard put to explain to their children why they didn't do their bit In the war against ar - neroy Tribune-Telegraph. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AINT IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGSj i VJHGK) - SAY IM ABOUT TEN I - A of. Oj-B ' FaoM NOW YOU AR rsceipto 0 u o* your ! CLEAMIMG OUT Yooa DESK /MOD 'PAIP PAYS AMD Yoo PETL. DOIAJ*/- y c v VAJHCW ALL OFA SUDDEW Vowr COME /~\ll "O a „Jt Ak/AV'T TMAT ACROSS A PAPCR. "THAT LOOKS FAMiUAR I iH-H -H VVCJ• IHA AND Yoo ITS A LIBERTY V/i 1 ~ , ViTv amT . fSOND You HAp fwPLETecr. forgotten BE A CjH-HH-RH-lx AND ABOUT AMD IT3 U/ORTm y-> . A<p) -y., Fp ELI N' . * whole u>r / rEELiN . H> sr JmsFr\ EDITORIAL. COMMENT i The food famine Is still far! enough away to earn the gratitude I of the Butler Democrat, which notes cheerfully that no one has yet sug gested eating Ben Davis apples or carp to reduce the cost of living.— Kansas City Times. At the marriage of Lloyd-George's daughter the ceremony was entirely In Welsh. Some day when we can open all the windows we should love to hear the Lohengrin wedding march in Welsh. Grand Kaplds Press. Mr. Bryan, speaking up in Wash ington for the food-control bill, add ed to the occasions upon which, with a word in reason and in season, ha has earned the country's grati tude. —New York World. The curtailment of the teaching of German in some schools suggests the idea (that there might be added interest developed In teaching Eng lish. —Bucyrus Journal. The Same Thing [Kansas City Times] The German kaiser, the friend, champion and protector of small na tions, Is profoundly moved by the fate of Greece. That Is to say, he is profoundly moved by the fate of Con stantine, which is the same thing. Poor Greece, deprived of a king Just as the time when It most needed one. That is to say, poor Constan ttne, deprived Greece just at the time when he most needed it. That is to say, Just at the time when the kaiser most needed it, which is the same thing. Path of Gold [New York Tribune.] A path of gold—ol, build It quick and straight For mercy's feet ro tread! There is no time to wait— ' Each minute pulses red From Freedom's wounded heart. Make haste to do youi part! Swift as they are, your gifts will be too late To help the dead. But there are those who live, whom you can spare A little of the agony they bear For you—that's true; have you not thought how true? For you. <■ These, who have learned how much body and soul endure. Their church-bells were as sweet as - ours. Their gardens were as glad with flowers. Their women were as pure. Their children sang und laughed and played As merry and as unafraid— O little heads bowed on the desks as though The lesson being hard, you fell asleep! We shudder and we weep—but tears are cheap. More, more than tears must pay the debt we owe To those who.se bieedlng breasts have been our t hleld, • A wall that will not yield. God knows this moment is too deep for hat<v The hour is great, it calls -us to be great. Our hand shall comfort him whom It must strike— For wounded friend and wounded foe alike K A path of gold! OIC build It quick and straight! —Amelia Josephine Burr. \ CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist BLISTER BEETLES SOMETIMES large swarms of long, narrow, black, gray or striped beetles appear and destroy the foliage of garden and field crops. Occasionally called "old-fashioned potato bugs," there are several species appearing In early summer, and each prefers particular types of plants. The young stages feed on the egg masses of grasshoppers In the soli, hence are beneficial for that time. Quick action in spraying with arsenate of lead throughly ap plied may save crops; but their sudden appearance in swarms cause quick damage. Ling of workers armed with foliage brushes can put them to flight with the wind and occasionally save & field crop. THE PEOPLE'S * A Fatal Cry of "Help" To the Editor of the Telegraph: The old adage, "He who will not heed must feel," is not reasonable nor compassionate. The adage is not an inspiration to cautiousness nor a bar to imprudence. Feeling may restrain a dog from biting the second time, but never will It keep it from bark ing. It is difficult to change the na ture of a thing, whether the bark of a tree or the bark of a dog. "If they won't hear let them feel," some one said when I remarked that It Is our duty to warn people when in danger. I feel It to be my moral duty to warn my fellow-men wnen i believe they are in danger. I have been informed that there are thoughtless, commonsonseless youths along the west shore of the Susque hanna river who indulge in rrequent bathing In the grotesquely-tormed Conodoguinet creek. No special objection in this. Al though a number of years ago one day a lad who was warned by his mother not to go into the water dis obeyed his mother and did go in, but he never came out alive:"" But what is dangerous, as well as irritating, is for boys who are in bathing to make a lamentable ado and cry, "Help, I am drowning," or "Help, some one Is drowning." Boys in the neighborhood of Pos spm Hollow raise such alarms. It is an act of foolhardiness and has its punishment. Several years ago a group of exactly such boys, out of sheer deviltry, pre tended that one of their number was drowning and made a fearful outcry. The employes of a nearby planing mill heard the cry. A number qurcxiy left their benches and ran toward the stream, only to be greeted by the cry of mockery and ridicule by tne young bathers who Imagined it a huge joke on the millworkers. Several days later a similar cry went up. but the millworkers were now somewhat wiser, and kept on with their work. This time the ring leader in the huge Joke of the other day reaped his justified reward, and his lifeless body was fished out sev eral hours later. A similar fate awaits our West Shore boys and many other boys who so cruelly Impose on humanity. Bath ing at any time is risky, but to play the fool Is exceedingly hazardous. If the victim would be the sole suf ferer it would be bad enough, but consider the sorrow It causes in the home and among loved ones. Children, let me warn you against such a bad practice. PASTOR C. D. RISHEL. South Enola, Pa. More Pity, Less Censure To the Editor of the Telegraph: A careful study of the Kaiser's words and deeds for full two years compels the conclusion that both are dominated by a species of dementia, not new to the world, and when Influ encing the average mind. Is not only dangerous to his associates, but In valid in its relations to the world at large. But the Kaiser Is much more than an average man with average opportunities for good or evil. His inherited equipment and opportunity is worldwide and centuries long in their accumulation. His hallucination takes the form or 'amour prope", or what Is popu larly known as "swelled head,'" su perinduced by the long years or Ho henzollern heredity and teaching; especially as touching the character of God and the sort of man and meas ures employed by his Maker In his domtriancy of human affairs. H seems never to have learned that "God has made of one blood, all nations of men to dwell on all the face of earth." He emphasizes God's kingship Instead of His fatherhood, His destructive power Instead of His sympathy, pltv and love. He seems to think that the god worshiped by him delights In the most ferocious cruelty to which modern military instrument* can be devoted. Consequently, he congratu lates himself In the destruction of innocent noncomhatants, such as help less women and children, bv the most barbarous and cruel methods possible. Methods which It required a full quar ter of a century for him and his aids to invent and learn to apply; he re joices that In so doing he Is the vlce "*®nt ot the Almighty, the mouth stituted God. Listen to Home of his blasphemous c.entences: "I represent monarchy by fSS. gra £ e of God." Look at another: There Is only one master In the em plre, and T am that one." Here Is an other. made In mustering In the Pots dam recruits: "If I order you to shoot down your relatives—brothers, yes, even your parents, you must obey me without murmuring." Apd again: \ou must all have one will and that Is will. "There Is only one law and that Is my law." But most braz en and blasphemous of all was the proclamation to his army nearly three years ago. as far back as September 13. 1914: "The Spirit of Qod has de scended upon me because I am Ger man Emperor. I am the Instrument of the Most High. I am His sword. Mis representative on earth. Woe and death to those who oppose mv will! Death to the Infidel who denies mv mission! L*t all the enemies of the German nation perish! God demands their destruction—God, Who by my inouth mnnmons ydu to carry out His decree." Compare these utterances with Queen Victoria's proclamation; or Ab raham Lincoln's messages on accept ing, at the hands of the American vot ers, the presidency, or his words at Gettysburg, or compare them with Premier Gladstone's declaration of principles, or with the teaching of the Holy Scriptures, and it is not diffi cult to conclude that the Kaiser Is the victim of a dangerous mental malady. He is a menace to the whole earth," because, as the result of gen erations of Hohenzollorn teachings, of the loyaltv to Inherited leadersnjp, and to the theory that "the king can do no wrong," he has behlno him nearly fifty millions of subjects and' fifty millions or more of subjugated allies, and the military preparation of fortv years, all largely victims and partners of his hallucination. Couple with this the brutalizing physical ef- ] feet of the hop gernr as found in the enormous quantities of the narcotic, drug that for unnumbered decades has been gulped down by the Kaiser's ancestors; coupled further with the still more brutalizing spiritual effect of the rationalistic and materialistic and semt-lnfidel theological teachings for more than a hundred years, and the diagnosis of the Kaiser's bru talized mentality and morality is not a difficult problem. He and his have hecome callous to all the finer feel ings of the race, and are now the chosen and natural allies of the un speakably murderous Turk. But while we pity the leader and the great German people In his un fortunate but self-inflicted dementia,, it must not prevent us from hunting him If need be to his speedv death; for "better that he should die. than that whole nations should perish." The Hohenzollern's god Is clearly a case of mistaken Identity. Ho- has horns, a split hoof, a barbed tail, and he carries a trident. The Kaiser's god should, in the Interest of helpless women and children and of a world peace be hurled face downward, so that the more fiercely he scratches at the grave's depths the sooner he will find his native sulphurous home— It Is hoped to there he chained not onlv for a thousand years but for all time and for all eternity. , No single character In earth's long history has been able to unleash the world dogs of war as has this Satan- Inspired Kaiser. None has filled so romnletelv the measure of war as set by Byron's "Don Juan": "All that the miVid would shrink from In excesses. AH that the body perpetrates of bad; _ . All that we read, hear, dream or , man's distresses, All that the devil would do If I run stork mad; | All that defies the worst which pen expresses. All bv which hell is peopled, or is said As hell—mere mortals who their nowr abuse— Was here (as heretofore and since) let loose." SILAS C. SWALLOW. Harrisburg. Prosperity Bulletin "Judging by experience Rained from our near neighbor, should not be surprised to see an enormous In crease in business in many lines." WILLIAM WRIGLEY, Jr.. William Wrlgley, Jr., Co., Chicago, 111. To a Flag . When yesterday, the dying Cubun called. The world beheld thy rippling stripes .on high. Thy men with noble mien and fear less tread Went proudly forth In Freedom's name to die. Say ve to-day thy youth Is orothel ored; In poolrooms, bars and "movies" they learn crime; Dreaming of painted women, lust and sin, They take no count of Virtue, Strength or Time? To-morrow shall we bow our heads in shame And drag thy tattered bunting from lis peak Though land, resources, wealth and arms abound, Admitting that In manhood we are weak? Must we thus cringe before a tyrant's will By thoroughness and submarine made great? While loyal service yields to base desire. The crash of empire rumbles at our gate. Not so! Our braves again will vol unteer As did their fathers when the cuusc was right. Strength, vigor, courage and a stern resolve Will place thee flag, the foremost In the fight! —By G. F. Lumb, V. P. Rotary Club, JUNE 28, 1917. Labor Notes Idaho has passeM a workmen's com pensation law. The United States Department oP Agriculture is planning the enroll ment of several thousand women for "work on the farms in this country. A new wage contract secured by Toledo, Ohio, Typographical Union provides for a rate of S2B a week for day newspaper work and s3l a week for night work. Since the commencement of war the British trade unions have succeeded In obtaining war bonuses and in creases of wages aggregating about 110,000,000 pounds. At the -convention of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Stationary Fire men it was voted to extend the title of the organization by the words "and oilers." All the Eastern railroads have taken steps to provide for the use of worn en in every place that they can suit ably perform the duties of positions formerly filled by men. Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in spite of the great armies of men they have sent to the front, have maintained their labor standards, with little or no variation. In France and England, earlier standards of hours are being restored not only to proteet the health of the workers but for the sheer sake of industrial efficiency, present and fu ture. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ALMOST THE SAME. "You're cra*y about George, aren't you sis?" "Huh, Mother says I'm crazy U have him about." A PEDESTRIAN ONCE. "I sec Bradley riding on the stree ears. I thought he owned an auto.' "He does, but he made the mis ako of teaching hie wife to drive QUALIFICATIONS. "Do you think women would make good soldiers?" "If they were as persistent In bate tie as In argument they would be Invincible." THE COLLEGE GRADUATE. College j.'duate (to the world) —Come on, you bug bully 1 You'n nn *aiA*t the real thing now; I getting (gfral Passuge of the Beidleman bill for the terracing of Capitol Park along ■Third Btreet, the removal of the side walk along the east side of the street at street level and other changes la the thoroughfares about the park In cident to the Improvement of th# capltol zone, recalls the fact that It was the late Mayor E. 8. Meals who first suggested the terracing of the rhlid street side of the park. Mayor Meals was a close follower of th oh P ,.rvL lm^rOVements an<l a keen ,„5 u . r - , He wai much interested in the development of the zone, evea wpnf" e ii 10 L >lan for the extensiol went through, and during his term !iii i , e l glHlature Introduced several bills looking toward the development tapitol surroundings. His rec ord as Mayor is filled with references ,Z s V c, \, proJcctß unrl h0 was an en thusiastic supporter of the plan to & 1 ? xper , , r of tho cit y i/£ a 'I 1 * plans f. or tho extn 1°". although generally not favor- W f" lißt!ncnt of outside talent for Harrlsburg improvements. • • Edson J. Hockenbury, who put S 3 ( t blg: Liberty Loan cam paign for MurrisV.v-fr* viho was assigned by the National Red Cross headquarters to conduct the Red Cross campaign in that city, return -2,,„ yeSterday - having had wonderful success. Mr. Hockenbury was chos- S™ 'J! lea<l the Milwaukee campaign for the reason that it was regarded as a particularly difficult field, on of the lar Ke German ele there. Ho has conducted 135 2-7? aigns throughout the country. iri.l* * °o-. e P tho alx bl * men ot the United States in that lino of work. Cs ?f!! that he went Mil waukee with some misgivings, but - ba< : k saying that he had the happiest time of his experience. The work was not without some oppo sition, but generally speaking the people of Milwaukee rallied loyally i°-n <?nn Cal nnrt oversubscribed -°O.OOO, The goal fixed for the city Ii? ; wilen the campaign closed it was found that $750,000 had te.s1 v A n - At ,he dlnnr which brought the week to a close the com mittee raised $250 and presented Mr. Hockenbury with a S2OO eight day gold watch and a solid gold thirty-second degree Masonic charm. Ihe watch is enscrlbed: "Presented I# ?.1? on Hockenbury by the Men °g MJJwaukee, Red Cross campaign, During the early part of the month there was a scarcity of sweet potato plants that ran the price from twen ty cents up to SI.OO a hundred. Yes terday there were more plants on market than there was demand for them. Some farmers carried large bunches of them back home. The answer lied in the late spring, which held back the development of the plants, and in the fear of those who hod prepared their ground that there would be no late plants forthcom ing. It will not be too late to plant sweet potatoes Saturday, or even on the Fourth of July, if the ground is mellowed and the plants wfcll wat ered when planting and kept shel tered'from the sun. • The Legislature which quit, to-day came near getting the record for late at night sessions. The House has sat until after midnight fourteen times this month. The Senate also had late sessions. Late hearings were likewise a specialty. * • • "You are now riding across a piece of soil like none other known in the world," said H. G. Niesloy, Dauphin county farm agent, as he with number of friends were motorist I across Cumberland county the other day, this side of Carlisle. He re ferred to the famous Iron Stone Ridge, which passes across Pennsyl vania from New York state down into Maryland at that point. The land is not very fertile, and is mixed with a very hard stone called iron stone. There is no other surface land like it on earth, so far as is known. The only explanation geologists can iind for its existence here is that at some far remote time of the past there was a tremendous upheaval of the earth and this formation, which has been found far beneath the surface in borings elsewhere, was cast up on the surface. • • Dr. H. H. Longsdorf, of Cumber land county, is one of the members of the State Committee of Public Safety who has taken his appoint ment seriously and has done his bit to make the farmers of his district understand the importance of in creasing their yields. He has gone about, with other members of the committee, making speeches and meeting the farmers at their homes and in their fields and has been largely responsible for the twenty per cent, increase of acreage report ed to have been planted in "Old Mother Cumberland" this year. He haj just completed a trip over the county with experts from State Col lege who have been teaching the farm women the latest tricks in the art of canning and preserving. Dr. Longsdorf comes from a family of doctors. Ills father was a physician before him and raised a company in bis home district in the Civil War, serving as its commander. After ward he returned to the'practice of medicine in the old homestead, which has been continuously a doc tor's headquarters for the past sixty years. Dr. Longsdorf is past the military age and that Is the only thing that keeps him from going into service. But one of his sons Is now about to sail for France for duty as a physician and surgeon and a daughter will go to the front as a Bed Cross nurse. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE \ -Ex-Secretary of the Common weath Robert McAfee, who was here yesterday, has been visiting in New England. —Representative James 8. Boyd, of Norrlstown, la the most traveled man In the House. He has been abroad half a dozen times. —Jesse Green, a Chester county man, lectured to State dentists in Philadelphia on how ne came to live to be 100 years old. —John O'Donnell, new head of the State Moving Picture League, la a Philadelphia producer. —Senator Charles H. Kline hu Ju. dical ambitions in Allegheny county. DO YOU "KNOW That Harrisburg makes mnohln- | er.v to manufacture munition*? HISTORIC HARRIBBCRIG The first Legislature sat here In 1813 and ran from December unti) the following March. Canada's Opinion [Toronto Globe.] Jn the past ten days hundred* of United States soldiers from Fort Niagara have visited Toronto, If they are average specimens of the? American soldiery, the German , sneers at American military prowess i will disappear at the first enoounten,
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