6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME . Founded iSjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELE<iRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building. Federal Square. 'E. J. STACK POL.E, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief I F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. jfe- A Member American ■ 1 Hi Newspaper Pub rEPl " ' at ' or i and Penn- P| ■ Eastern office, .\ v 1 P Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as s jcond class matter. By carriers. ten cents a week; by mail. $6.00 "ttiifai?- a year In advance. SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 30 1 am unaware of anything that has a right to be called an impossibility. —THOMAS B. HUXLEY. WHEN THE GUARD GOES WHAT are we going to do by way of a community farewell when the National Guard companies of Harrisburg march away at the call of the President? It is time we were thinking about this. Only about two weeks remain in which to make our plans, if the dato of mobilization, July 15, is not changed.^ DESPICABLE POLITICS MITCHELL PALMER has stoop ed to many disreputably prac tices during his career in Pennsylvania politics, but none so despicable as his latest attack on Governor Brumbaugh's appointments to membership on the exemption boards. Palmer charges that the Governor has appointed men to these boards who will send to the front only men who are opposed to the Republican organization in Pennsylvania. Palmer is not only a liar, but a stupid liar, and his charges are so palpably false that it is scarcely worth while to reply to them. Look over the Jist of Dauphin county ap pointees, for illustration. Is there a man among them who would stoop to such trickery as Palmer's jaun diced vision conjures up? If so, will not Mr. Palmer or his local disciples point him out? It Is evident, that Palmer and his friends know none such. They would be only too happy to quote one ex ample, if they did. But consider the matter from its political side. Palmer accuses the Governor of trying to holster up the Republican organization in Pennsyl | vania. Now It happens that Govern- I or Brumbaugh and the Republican Organization are bitterly opposed to each other, throughout the whole State. Under the circumstances is it likely that the Governor would, do anything to strengthen the political organization he has been fighting since his inauguration? Palmer is self-convicted of lying at every turn. Not only that, but by spreading such false reports as this he comes perilously near to treason. And in this respect it may he asked, what has Palmer done byway of patriotic service since this war start ed that entitles him to set himself up as critic of anybody, Republican or Democrat? A WORTHY BILL GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH could please thousands of people In Central Pennsylvania and at the same time provide a much need ed means of inter-communication I for traffic of all kinds by signing the Beidleman bill for a bridge over the Susquehanna river at Mlllorsburg. This bill has been before the Leg islature twice. Once it was passed by the Senate and fell in the House for lack of revenue. This year the ap propriations committee approved it and both House and Senate passed It. It is now up to the Governor. The proposed bridge is not merely a local project. It has to do with travel east and west across the State. It would provide a means of uniting two prosperous communities and give the people west of the river an all-the-year outlet for their trade and produce, they do not now have. There is only one bridge be tween Harrisburg and Sunbury, and that is old, inconveniently situated and excessive toll Is charged for Its use. The Mlllersburg route would pro vide a short cut from one bigTiighway system to another and would trans form the commercial conditions of the whole district on both sides of the Susquehanna river for miles around. It would be a fine beginning lor what must come eventually— State bridges to join State high ways. COOLIE COMPETITION IMPORTS from China, British East Indies and Japan Increased $105,. 000,000 during the ten months of the current fiscal year ended April 30, over the same period 1916, and they were $200,000,000 over the rec ord for the 1913 period, under the protective tariff law, or an Increase of nearly 100 per cent. Tho total from the three countries the period ended April last was ■1411,000,000, or one-fifth of our total Hnportatlon from all the world. Dur- Hk the 1913 period Imports from three countries amounted to SATURDAY EVENING. $211,000,000, or slightly over one ninth of our total importation. This gives some idea of the change which has been taken in trade cur rents, and the extent to which those countries having the lowest cost of production and labor wage in the world are profiting by the Under wood tariff law. President Wilson—"Wet" PRESIDENT WILSON has taken his stand on the prohibition question. He votes "wet." He has asked Congress to permit the making of beer and wine, by his Imperial grace. Now let those Democrats who for years have been labeling the Repub lican party the party of "booze" come forward and explain. The President has had his opportunity to rid the country of the curse of drink —and he has failed to grasp it. Let us hear no more pratings of Demo crats on the prohibition question. The leader of their party has spoken and few of them will have tho tem -0 erlty to say to him what they would had he been of the opposing party. Says the President, the conserva tion of food is the greatest problem of the day, and in the same breath, "let beer and wine continue to be made." The making of beer, according to the Brewers' Year Book, requires the toil of 75,000 farmers for six months to furnish the foodstuffs necessary for the annual output of beer. If the labor of these men could be diverted so that the grain and other products raised for the liquor industry were to be used for food in * stead of liquor it would relieve the situation produced by the present scarcity of food. This would be the indirect benefit of war-time prohibition, but if it be said that the barley on hand would be wasted did it not go Into beer, the statement of Herbert C. Hoover, food expert, before the Senate com mittee of agriculture a few weeks ago, may be quoted. He said: Barley mixed in a bread makes a bread which has as fine a texture as wheat • • • and would enable us to release just exactly that quantity of wheat. • • • There is a certain deduc tion from the barley—the total barley used in brewing—to ac count for the malt which is givu back to the feed, but even then there Is a large margin of saving if the brewing could be cut out. • • The difference between the feeding value and the fodder and the intake of the brewery In grain, means just that much more food stuffs to our allies. • • • We could save from fifty to sixty million bushels of grain on the brewing side, after having al lowed for the fodder proposition, and that grain is of utmost value to our allies. Or, if that be deemed insufficient argument against the use of grain in "booze" at a time when the world is Hearing tho starvation point, the opinion of Prof. A. E. Taylor, pro fessor of physiological chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and crop expert for the Department of Agriculture, may be of some value. Prof. Taylor says: In my opinion, on the basis of crop prospects, the need of grain, and especially barley, which has proved itself valuable a,.s a flour, is such as to make It Imperative upon us after the present malt ings in operation and under con tract have been concluded, in about three months, to cease the manufacture of malt for internal or export trades for brewing. Thus It may be seen that the food question and the beer questloft are so closely allied that they cannot be separated. We have been asked to eat less grain and less bread, in order .that the food supply shall be conserved. The President wills that the supply of beer shall be unlimited. The result will be that there will be no saving of grains, for the non-drinker will refuse to deny himself and his chil dren the grain products and the brtad they demand In order that his neighbor who drinks may have an unlimited supply of beer. The ab stainer will not deny his stomach bread that his neighbor may take a bath in beer. If he is so minded. For one thing, however, we may be gratehil. We know at last where the President stands on the "booze" question. THE LOYAL UPPER END READ upon another page of the TELEGRAPH to-day of tho spirited manner in which the towns of the upper end of Dauphin county have rallied to the support of the Red Cross. More, than eleven thousand dollars have been raised there as a result of the labors ol the devoted men and women whe have organized campaigns after the manner of that conducted in Har risburg. Dauphin county never has shirked when the war cry rang through the land. The upper end folks have ren dered yoemen's service In this first drive for funds, but beat of all is the fact that they are determined to hold their organizations together in order to serve effectively so long as there is work to do. "Po£tttc£ Ot Rj the Ex-Commlttccman Two men are more in the center of the political stage in Pennsylva nia to-day than at any time in the last six months, and that is saying a fn'eat deal. They are Governor Brumbaugh, some of whose ap pointees were rejected by the Senate and whom the State is watching to see what he is going to do about it, and Auditor General Charles A. Sny der, who is being observed to see what he is going to do about what the Governor docs. It is currently reported that some of the rejected men will be named to places in the State government. Appointments made now would hold good until the end of the Governor's term as th£ Legislature will not meet until 191 <T when the Governor will retire. There will be no Senate around for eighteen months to dis cuss appointments. Governor Brumbaugh has been of the opinion that he had certain rights in appointments which were not shared by Senators, it is said that he may place Daniel F. Lafean, Charles E. Patton, D. Edward Long :>nd possibly Robert K. Young in dif ferent place from those he named in his nominations to the Senate. The places which may be used in the switching process are: Compensa tion Commissioner at $7,000; Bank ing Commissioner at $6,000; Super intendent of Printing at $3,000; Sec retary of Agriculture at $5,000, and Commissioner of Fisheries at $4,500, to say nothing of Public Service Commissioner at SIO,OOO. The Governor has a number of fine cards in his hands again. —One of the interesting stories afloat about the confirmations is that when Senators found that should Dr. John Price Jackson not be confirmed as Commissioner or Labor and Industry, Ex-Speaker Charles A. Ambler would be named in his place, they hastened to ap prove him. Another story is that the Senate leaders preferred to keep Insurance Commissioner J. Denny O'Nell in liis department rather than have him named to another where he could be a thorn in the side of the antiadministration forces. —Legislators remaining in the city were somewhat amused to-day by the outbursts from the Democratic machine managers and mournins organs over theconscription boards. In the flntt place the selections were approved by the national adminis tration and in the second place the Democratic State bosses liavo been somewhat noted for their strictly machine appointments since they got hold of President Wilson's rub ber stamp for Pennsylvania. Just what the conscription boards would liiivc looked like had Palmer and his pals had the naming can be imagined from the color of appoint ments they have made in federal service. —Third class city officials all over the State are writing here for copies of the bill establishing civil service in such cities. A number plan to make it effective at once. —Hanover township, Luzerne county, the wealthiest of the kind in the State, is said to be satisfied with the township legislation that has been enacted. Under the bill ap proved yesterday the dominant men in its affairs will hold office as com missioners until 1920. —For the second time in less than six months the State Department of lianking is without a commissioner and Captain John W. Morrison, the deputy commissioner, is again ad ministering its affairs. When the veteran, William H. Smith, retired last January Captain Morris took charge of the department as dep uty, returning to his place when Daniel L. assumed office. Now since Mr. Lafean was'not con firmed he is conducting affairs again. Tlu* York man retires as commis sioner at a time when a call is gen c rally made for statements. -—The retirement of Commission er N. R. Puller leaves the depart ment in charge of 11. R. Stackhouso, who took charge as chief clerk a month ago. Mr. Puller will remain here for a short time to assist in conducting affairs and a similar ar rangement will likely be made in the case of D. Edward Dong, who wn.s not confirmed as Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding and who arranged for the new printing contracts which will take effect Monday. —Newspapers of the state appear I to be generally congratulatory of the Legislature for not passing: any more laws and for sticking to codes and important matters. The action eft the Legislature in sifting out one third of all bills presented for en actment is rather unusual. When the Governor gets through, his veto rec ord will be worth looking at. He has done fairly well up to date. —A number of legislators remain ed here to-day to go over bills which passed finally. There are hopes that the appropriation situation will work out favorably and that with the di rect inheritance tax tnere will be no reason for reductions. Circulation of nominating petition? for candidates for nominations for judge will begin on Monday. Forty days will be allowed to circulate the papers, which must be filed at the office of the secretary of the com monwealth. These petitions will be the first to be circulated under the provisions of the act signed several weeks ago, which shortened the period for circulation and gave a longer time for certification of nom inations. the large number of such papers filed by aspirants for legisla tive and other nominations in even numbered years causing a rush at the last minute which occasionally caused errors in Initials. Twenty-seven common pleas judges, three orphans court judges and twenty-two associate judges are I to be chosen. T/ie twenty-seven judges will be elected in sixteen dis tricts, Philadelphia having six and Allegheny five. Two of the orphans court judges will be chosen in Phila delphia and one in Fayette. The as sociate judges will be elected in seventeen counties. The commission for Paul W. Houck. of Shenandoah, to bo secre tary of Internal affaifs for the unex pired term of his father, the late Dr. Henry Houck, will be signed by Governor Rrumbaugh, when he re turns to Harrisburg in the week. Commissions for officers who were confirmed will ho Issued soon after. In (he case of officers who had been appointed for terms end ing with the session of the Senate who were confirmed new commis sions will be issued. HAHRISBURG TELEGR^VPH DON'T YOU BELIEVE THE MAN WHO IS ONLY IN THE GAME FOR EXERCISE -> By BRIGGS } f' IAJHV DOM'-T YOU WATCHI C X /MUJD! ___ ( THE BALLM? I THI>S LOOKS \ / SOM-'IT. (aSgf T>Al6^O__V .. . CXOG"- 1 <S<W>G GOLFERS WHO COMTI NVJALL-Y VMOL TFTIGA"* IKJTO LBS TALC. GRASS - LOV \ , HI(VRT LIK^ '' ' Too '"OFTEW THE GOLFER ~W \F .-•' ' ' A \ ''^/LI \ / BEGWOI A CADDY LIK£ " _ '• ,\r %V/""' THIS. ' Tod OFTEA He 'P3Y7^ CR * TREATS THE CADDY .AS He 5?/ WOULD AN ANIMAL INSTEAD */ (Y AS A HUMANIR©E 1 TO<s-. English War Time Sayings Don't always be thiriking of get ting back to where you were before the war. Get a really new world— Mr. Lloyd George. If any person eats the same amount of food that he or she did in pre-war times, he or she Is guilty of disloyalty to the country and to thosa fighting for -us.—Lord Robert Cecil. There are a great many people who, when they say they have done well for the country, really mean that they have done better for themselves. —Mr. Biron. The working classes have such bitter memories of the losses that have been sustained by education through religious controversy that they are determined that religious controversy shall no longer be alowed to pervert or disturb or stop educa tional reform. —The Bishop of Ox ford. The intermediate state between poverty and riches is the fiscal pur gatory of to-day.—Mr. J. A. R. Mar riott. The art of a great city should ex press itself through aesthetic beauty and dignity, not merely by showing borrowed specimens of work in a gallery, but in its own buildings, fur niture, crockery, metal work, em broideries, carpets and plate.—Mr. Rothenstein. —From the London Ob server. Tipperary Comes to Bagdad Oh, they shook their magic carpet, an* they made a 'ellish dust, An' their slimy incantations, an' their crystal globes went bust. An' they sang their bloomin, chan ties, an' they banged their fool-l ish bells. But we savvied we could get there, 'spite o' all their cranky 'ells! So we up wi' "Tipperary," an' we pounded "em like grain. An' tli' dust was like a blanket— thought I'd never see again: An' T kinder did regret it, for I'd fixed my mind t' see . That land o' silly 'arenis, and queer kings, that lived t' spree! Well, when we got inside it, I'd 'a' never knowed it! Say— Just a low-down, dirty 'amlet, where no Britisher'd stay! An' T wonder, wi' their magic, if they'd changed it —d'ye see? For I know this ain't the Bagdad where ol' Haroun use' t' be! ■ —Theda Kenyon in Everybody's Magazine. German Crop Failure Amsterdam dispatch says German crop will be almost complete failure, due largely to continued drought, which has ruined grains and vege tables. Plowing, which is done mostly by women and prisoners, is shallow and inefficient. Commercial [ fertilizers are lacking and natural j fertilizers are worthless, because I cattle were, poorly fed. Sowing was 1 lnte, owing to late spring and lack >f labor. In northern Prussia sowing has not commenced. —Wall Street Journal. The Road to France The following stirring lines from the pen of Daniel M. Henderson were awarded the prize in a poetry contest conducted by the National Arts Club, New York. There were some four thousand entries: Thank God. our liberating lance Goes flaming on the way to France! To France —the trail the Gurkhas found; To France —old England's rallying * ground! To France —the path the Russians strode! To France —the Anzac's glory road! To France—where our Lost Legion ran j To fight and die for God and man! ! To France—with every race and breed That hates Oppression's brutal creed! ! Ah, France, how could our hearts for get The path by which came Lafayette? How could the haze of doubt hang low I Upon the road of Rochambeau? | How was It that we rtiissed the way j Brave Joffre leads us along to-day? iAt last, thank God! At last, we see There is no tribal Liberty! No beacon lighting just our shores, No Freedom guarding but our doors. The flame she ktp.dled for our sires Burns now In Europe's battle-fires. The soul that led our fathers West Turns back to free tho world's op pressed. Allies, you have not called In vain; We share your conflict and your pain. 'Old Glory." through new stains and rents Partakes of Freedom's sacraments. Into that hell his will creates We drive the foe—his lusts, his hates. Lnst come, we will be last to stay. Till Right lias had her crowning dav. Replenish, comrades, from our veins The blood the sword of despot drains, And make our eager sncrlfico Part of freely rendered price You pay to lift humanity— You pay to make our brothers free. See, with what proud hearts we ad s, vance Z'o France! A NEAR VIEW OF FAR RUSSIA MELVILLE E. STONE, manager of the Associated Press, was asked recently to address the Brooklyn Civic Club on the Russian revolution. Referring to the new Russia, the allotments of lands, the demolition of tha vouka factories, Mr. Stone narrated some rather amusing phases of the really pa thetic, such as this: Out near some point—lrkutsk or Omsk —there was a governor of a prison who heard of the revolution. The prisoners didn't hear of it, but the governor knew it was coming. "Well," he said, "I am going to flog them once to-day anyhow so they will enjoy freedom when they get it." So he called them in and l!ogged them, and then disappeared. The parish priest told them of tho revolution and informed them they were all free, and they went down to get this man, who had indulged in the flogging process in the morning. And they found him, and of course they were greatly incensed and they wanted to kill him. One of them said: "No— No, we will not do it. We will not stain this revolution by murder!" And they didn't. Now I have very great hope for the future of Russia. I first visited Russia something like twenty-five or twenty-seven years ngo. I have been there frequently since. The Russian people are a kindly people There was never any reason in the world for the racial quarrel that ex isted there, except that it was stim ulated by the bureaucracy. The Kishinev massacre, the Lodz mas sacre and the otbes were all stimu lated by a number of Chauvinists, who were acting in conjunction with the St. Petersburg bureaucracy. That went on and 011 and on until it finally reached a point where no Not His Name [From the Youth's Companion.] In Dublin a zealous policeman caught a cab driver in the act of driving- recklessly. The officer stopped him and said: "What's yer name?" "Yc'd better try and find out," said the driver peevishly. "Sure, and I will," said the police man, as he went around to the side of the cab where the name ought to have been painted; but the letters had been rubbed off. "Aha" cried the officer. "Now ye'll git yersel' into worse disgrace than ever. Yer name seems to be oblitherated." "You're wrong!" shouted the driver triumphantly. '"Tis O'Sulli van!" Taxing Newspapers [New York Times.] The newspaper business, like any other, should pay its Just proportion of the costs of government. It always has. Newspapers pay taxes upon their real estate, they pay corpora tion taxes, they are subject to the Federal corporation Income tax. The money they pay out for print paper, ink, and other materials goes to pay the taxes of the producers thereof. Newspapers have never been favored | by exemption from taxes. They have 110 desire to be so favored. What has into the heads of ! some senators and representatives j the notion that newspapers should be singled out as a subject of special taxation, put in a class apart from all other corporations and property owners, and made to pay taxes not levied upon other similar industries? The newspapers of the country are loyal, they have always been willing to support the government. They are entirely willing to support it now, they will give freely of their ] profits and their substance to enable , the government to pay the costs of i war, but they see no justice in the | atteuipt to single them out for spe cial burdens, heavier by far than 'those imposed upon the majority of other industries. The corporation in come tax has been willingly paid, it is easily collected. That is an indi cation of the direction in which the government should proceed in its ef forts to obtain new • revenue. The newspapers will make no objection to taxes upon corporate or individual Incomes justly and oquitably assess ed upon all business interests in the country. In any system of taxation that may be adopted, the precept that it is not wise to destroy the sources from which revenue Is de rived should be kept steadily in < view. member of the bureaucracy felt that he was safe; thai these attacks which were made by the Third Sec. tlon of the Czar' 3 police were like lv to reach him. A man would sit j in his apartment r.r it. his home in St. Petersburg. There would come | a rap on the door. A polite young j ir.an in citizen's clothing would be introduced. He -vould say to this home-staying body: "They would like to see you down at police head- I Quarters. There is a carriage down- | stairs: will you conie down?" He j would put on his hat and coat and go down. He was taken to police headquarters and Iht n, without trial, without any knowledge as to his of fense, he found himself sent to one of the dungeons in the prison of St. Peter and St. Paui en an island in the Neva. Well, the next, day his family, not, knowing, but suspecting that some thing was wrong, took steps to in quire. The man' 3 brother went to the prison and asked the keeper if ivan is there* The keeper said, "Well, who are you, that you should in quire?" "I am his brother." "Oh, you, are." "Yes." "And you want to see your brother?' "Yes." "Well the next cell to his Is vacant, and you shall have it." Now that has been the attitude of the country. "If you drop the lines, the horses would run away." All you had to do to induce the Em peror to send a man to Siberia was to say, "Well, your Children are in danger." "This man I" a revolution ist." "This man will poison your food." "This man will throw a bomb and kill you." While I think Nicholas honestly wished to give them a better gov ernment, he countenanced tyranny j and barbarism out of his fears, until I it became absolutely unendurable.— > Exchange. Children of War Not for a transient victory, or some Stubborn belief that we alone are right; Not for a code, of conquest do we fight, But for the crowded millions still to come. This, unborn generations, is your war, Although it is our blood that pays the price. Be worthy, children, of our sacri fice, And dare to make your lives worth fighting for. We give up all we love that you may loathe Intrigue and darkness; that you may disperse The ranks of ugly tyrannies and, worse, The sodden languor and complacent sloth. Do not betray lis, then, but come to be Creation's crowning splendor, not its slave; Knowing our lives were spent to make- you brave, And that our deaths were meant to set you free. —Louis Untermeyer in Collier's Weekly. Unbelievers They could not enter because of unbelief.—Hebrews lil, 19. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist NICOTINE SPRAYS THE safest and most effective sprays for plant lice or aphis affecting any kind of plants are commercial nicotine preparations or homemade to bacco decoction. The commercial preparations are highly concentrated and bear large dilution with water and soap. Black Leaf Forty, a 4 0 per cent, nicotine sulphur,' kill aphids even though diluted with one thousand parts of water, with soap added as a sticker and spreader. Other commercial pre parations of the same or , less strength are good when direc tions are followod. Make tobacco decoction by steeping (not boiling) a pound of tobacco stems in threo or four gallons of the liquid, and soap and use as spray. JUNE 30, 1917." Labor Notes Several of the large hotels in New York City are employing women to replace the men called away for war service. Recent strikes and lockouts in the building industry at Cleveland, Ohio, have resulted in the Building Trades Council and the Building Trades Em ployers' Association creating a board of conciliation of seven men from each organisation to settle industrial dis putes. Over eight thousand carpenters and allied craftsmen in the mill industry in and near Frisco are enjoying tne Saturday half holiday, which has just been established as the result of thor ough organization and conferences with employers. An Order in Council prohibits Cana dians employed on docks, stores, ves sels or vehicles where ammunition or explosives or inflammable substances required for the manufacture of ex plosives are stored from smoking or having smoking materials in their possession there. A safety-first campaign to minimize accidents in navy-yards, arsenals and other Government establishments has been launched by the Federal em ployes' compensation commission, working in co-operation with the na tional safety council of engineers. A survey is now being made of all the navy-yards arid arsenals of the At lantic coast. OUR DAILY LAUGH In nil* e>s guff pUD K\WK GEORGE PUT OP HWBUJFI CAV.IEV) fTTOTHEW SIN AHO DUMPED Htt TEN INTO THE B<Vf In nifo, HURRAH • AN UNDERSEA BIT. Lobster Oh, Mr. Fish, lend us 'our scales, we want to weigh the aby! TOOTSY WOOTSY! "What makes It jiggle around BO?" • "Ha! ha! It's a spoony coupla trying to fish and hold hands at the same time!" GREAT FUN. | "Hey, Bill I'm signing the hotel register!" ©rotittg dljat T J lie tap of the repairmen's ham nici.s and the noise of the plane have taken the place of the rap of the Ravels of the presiding officers and the rustle of bills in the legislative halls at the State Capitol and the force of repairmen from the base ment of the Stqte house are now In Possession of the chambers where laws were being made a few days ago. This biennial visit of the re pairmen folows close upon the de parture of the legislators. They promptly take account of the dam age done during the session and make such Immediate repairs as are necessary, it is not believed that the damage done to the desks or chairs, will be as great as in former sessions m spite of the length of the sitting. Seven broken chairs and a score or so of desks scratched or partly broken are the record of the damage done i n the strenuous clpsing days In the House, while comparatively little Thl rt ne u dS t S. be donu in the Senate. nnlishS ♦ aU be BOne over and polished at once. The job will re- J" ™ or ° attention in the House I as the tops of a couple of desks were broken and some of the woodwork cracked during the parades and dem j onstrations of the windup. Pour i ET of the desks in tha u a Z be repaired and it was b ? for ® aU were In good condi tio •f 6 ' 31 "' .1 the governor approves the "em in the general appropriation J 1 - e , change. to the galleries or the legislative halls that work will be undertaken this fall. Architects will be asked to make suggestions for a new arrangements or the seats. • * * • -^ a *!° n al Guard publication Our Army and Navy," contains an interesting illustrated article on the dedication of the First Defenders' 1 J 1 i ) ) nl ! nie I nt at Alientown this spring. Adjutant General Stewart is the cen tral figure and there is a fine photo graphic. reproduction of the scene when he was delivering the oration of the day. • * * It makes one poor to handle checks for figures that run up into the thou sands. The other day three checks for over $200,000 each arrived at the State Treasury. Every now and then Father Penn takes in a check or two which resemble the total revenue of some of the smaller nations and which help to keep the schools and roads going. It is not unknown to have a million dollar check but late ly $200,000 checks have been rath er common. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad and the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Companies each paid more than $200,000 on one day this week. • • * The State Department of Forestry is making some interesting and valuable suggestions about teaching boys to know trees and to love and protect them. In one of Its recent bulletins the department says: "Teach your boy to identify one tree a week for a year and let him plant several along your fences and keep them watered and cared for. Nut or fruit trees should be planted by pref erence." • • Demolition of St. Lawrence's Catholic Church, which has stood sentinel at the head of Fifth street for more than a generation, is being attended with considerable interest for many people. The church was so stoutly built that it has been neces sary to use dynamite to get down the walls and the charges have rever berated through the central part of the city, leaving the church looking like a ruin in the war zone. The chances are that it will take another week to get down the building as much care will have to be used on the towers, which abut in Walnut i street. • • * A little further up Walnut street the operation of the big steam shovel on the site of the Grand Opera House for the new Penn-llarris hotel is at tracting its share of attention as it rips into the dirt and rocks of the big hole. This operation is as signifi cant of the development of the city as is the tearing down of the church for park purposes. • • * J. D. A. Morrow, the Commissioner of the Pittsburgh Bituminous Opera tors' Association, who declared to a Senate committee yesterday at Wash ington that drink elimination would mean many more tons of coal, is well known to many people here. He has been a frequent visitor to Har- I risburg and is one of the best-post ed men on mining matters In the country. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator J. P. McNichol is plan ning to attend some races in which he will enter his fast horse this sum mer. —N. M. Edwards, one of the vice presidents of the State Bar Associa tion, is city solicitor of Williamsport and a frequent visitor to this city. —Ex-Senator John M. Jamison, of Greensburg, Is head of the safety committee for that county. —The Rev. E. F. Hawk, Philadel phia clergyman, has gone to Canada to become a chaplain in a regiment. —Dr. W. O. Sherman, Carnegie Steel surgeon, is giving instruction to people in Pittsburgh on what he learned in the hospitals in France. Dr. Sherman addressed several meet ings here recently. | DO YOUICNOW ~~| That Harrisburg Is shipping im mense quantities of manufac tures abroad as well as to other States? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harris Ferry men wofked at iron furnaces In the Cumberland Valley which made cannon balls for Wash ington's army. Niagara Speeds Up Autos It was the touch of Niagara that transformed aluminum from a labor atory curiosity into one of the most essential of all the minor metals, one with which it would now be difficult to tiispense and which has been power to the Allied arm In the European war. Take It out of the automobile industry and the stream of cars would fall to low-water mark Instead of rising above it. Between Niagara's alloys and her abrasives, it is estimated that every industry utilizing steel has multiplied its productive powers by three. En gineers who know every phase of the processes of automobile manufacture declare that if It had not been for these abrasives and alloys every mo torcar factory In America would have had to slow down to one-flfth of its normal production when the war broke out.— From the National Geographic Magaiine. Coming Events When through Aveeplng for the fall of Constantino, the Kaiser had better take time by the forelock and have the puluce help rig up a good strong net.—From the New York Telegram,
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