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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
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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,