8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjt Published evenlmgs except Sunday by the telegraph printing co„ Telegraph Building. Federal Sqnnre. ■E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. PCS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn- K8 £ fiiit M ® "t rn office, jiff 1 Jga 7 enU^ Htory, Brook?'& s F:nley, 1 o's Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a " ' vreek; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, JULY 2, 1917, Many a man's destiny has teen settled by nothing apparently more grave than a pretty face on the op posite side of the street and a couple of bad companions round the corn er. —Stevenson. IT IS TO UI'GH EVERY time the endowed mouth piece of the Democratic bosses in this State llnds itself without excuse for some of the shortcomings of an administration it is maintained : to support, it begins to paw the dust) ' and call the TELEGRAPH a lot of j hard names. Just now, having been caught pa-j rading about with a prohibition ban- ; ner in one hand and a lager beer j ' sign in the other, it Is squealing like I 1 a stuck pig and scattering mud about I 1 perfectly regardless of the appear-1 ' ance of the landscape. 11 But don't think we mind, dearj contemporary. One can imagine how ! i it must feel to have a bottle of beer |' slip out of one's inside pocket just j 1 as one is in the midst of an impas-j i sioned plea for bone-dry prohibition. Rave on, old friend, and take a cue : from the conduct of that historic i personage who, on a somewhat simi lar occasion, found all "hell a-poppin' and no pitch hot." RETALIATION AT WASHINGTON CONGRESS persists in its inten tention to tax newspapers be""' yond any other industry affect ed by the proposed war revenue bill. It the real purpose of certain alleged statesman at Washington is to de stroy in large part the newspaper in dustry they might accomplish the same end much more expeditiously by the enactment of a law which wou'd declare the publication of all . newspapers unlawful and contrary to pu i'!c policy. Some day the pea ple v 11 get awake to what is back of this discrimination against the press of the country. Thv -w-fii real ize, perhaps, that once the accustom ed avenues of publicity are destroy ed the men who are given to ex ploitation of the government for per sonal purposes shall be able to achieve their plans without serious danger. Following an effort to control the newspapers through- an arbitrary and senseless censorship, the same influences are now striving to im pose additional taxes upon an indus try already suffering as no other in dustry in the country through ex ttaordjnary increases of costs in ev ery direction. Print paper and ma terials and news service and all • other items of expense have been enlarged beyond anything ever known by the newspapers of the United States. If the magazine publishers and certain metropolitan newspaper owners do not care to bear their reasonable proportion of the mail charges upon their several publica tions, they ought not to expect to shift the burden, through a tax upon advertising, to the smaller newspa pers of the country. But that is pre cisely what is being accomplished by the proposed tax upon the ad vertising space in addition to the Federal tax already paid by news papers upon their general revenues. Striking at certain newspapers, groups of politicians at Washington are now visiting their wrath upon all newspapers. It is now the day of little men, but the pendulum of public opinion must soon swing back to a sane view of the usefulness of the press of the Republic, which has been doing valiant service in pre paring our people for the war and In supporting the great measures for x national defense. THE "SAMMEES" UNCLE SAM'S soldier boys in France have a new name. The French have dubbed them the "Sammees" and doubtless the name will stick. It was inevitable that the United Btatwr troops under Pershing should be g(ven a nickname. The French in -*_v_fanjryman 1® the "Poilou," and the British private is —.ix v known as "Tommy." The versatile F Hnch lost no time in providing the app*~ latlon. As the men marched down from thp transports, as one man the gathered spectators spontaneously let OUt cheer foe —"Samtnee! Sammee. **** it Is and "Sam is likely td e, at least so -ice la concerned, although -A'yi iDfljjfuneral faJrol MONDAY EVENING, In the United States It probably will be shortened to the American equiv alent, which Is "Sammy." Now, American soldiers having been formally designated by title, who will write the song which thev will sing as they march into the trenches? Such songs are not the product of design. They spring spon taneously from the hearts and souls of their writers. They are the prod ucts of occasions and the people for whom they are written recognize without knowing why that they hnve come upon a bit of Inspired verse and music, and the twain sweep the land as did many of the old Civil War tunes that survive even to this day. And in this respect, one mast venture the prediction that this war will produce nothing more appro priate, nothing more tltting to be the world-wide hymn of democracy than that stirring old anthem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," which was sung in so many Harrisburg churches yesterday as a part or the patriotic services. It is tit to be the battle hymn not only of the United States, but of free peoples everywhere, it Is the one song of its kind the world over that is as applicable and as full of meaning and Inspiration for the Russian, the French, the Italian or the English as it is for those who owe allegiance to the flag under which it was written. HITS THE XAIIi ON THE HEAD SPEAKING before a gathering of Narberth people last evening Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh summed up concisely the whole tem perance question as it applies to the war, when he said: It has come to be known, that no nation can successfully wage war or peace when its mind and brains are clouded and befogged by rum. It is a source of consid erable regret that Congress and the executives at Washington have been unable to put into pending legislation for food con trol an absolute prohibition of the rum traffic. PENNSYLVANIA AND THE WAR HOW little acquainted the au thorities at Washington are with the sterling qualities of Pennsylvania Germans is shown by the fact that some of the officials there feared an outbreak among them if the country went to war with Germany, acording to a statement by Governor Brumbaugh in a public address yesterday. President Wilson has no more loyal supporters in the prosecution of the war than these same Pennsylvania Germans. Pennsylvania Is perme ated throughout by this German ele ment. Pennsylvania, it will he re membered, subscribed to ipore than one-tenth of the Liberty Loan issue, gave more than one-tenth of the $100,000,000 Red Cross fund and more than one-tenth of all the vol unteers from all the States hail from the Keystone Commonwealth. The President is too well versed in national conditions and historical fact to have doubted for a moment the loyalty of the Pennsylvania Ger mans. The fears which Federal of ficials held previous to the nation entering the war did not originate In the White House. WAYNE COUNTY SETS PACE WAYNE COUNTY, thirty-sixth Congressional District, State of New York, is setting the pace for all other counties in the United States in regard to war meas ures. The other dny the Wayne County Farm Bureau arranged for twelve camps of twenty-five boys each, to constitute a labor supply for picking berries, cherries, thinning fruit, working on truck crops and for general harvesting purposes. Each camp will be under the direc tion of a responsible leader. •Any community in the county needing help will apply to the Farm Bureau, but they are cautioned to do so In advance so that proper plans can be made. It was Lyons, the county seat of Wayne, that gave up its county fair this year in order that the fair grounds might be set out to corn. There are 3,020 counties in the American commonwealth. If every one of them would get Into Wayne county's stride there would be an end to presidential dictatorship and war bureaucracies. NO TIME FOR BICKERING UNLESS all signs are wrong Pres ident Wilson is surrounded by a cabinet that is anything but j harmonious. The coal price dispute looks very much like a plot on the part of Baker and Daniels to force the resignation of Secretary Lane. •Right or wrong, these members of the cabinet would have served the public just as well had they taken up this matter with the President and the Secretary in the privacy of the council chamber instead of rush ing into print with a controversy that cannot do other than give "comfort to the enemy," however j much money it may or may not j sa\e to the United States. That the I attack was made through the news papers, instead of the medium of the cabinet meeting, shows how much politics Is being played at Washing ton at a time when there should be no politics there and how little some of the members of the cabinet care for tne welfare of the nation so they can vent their own petty spleen upon each other. Lot there be an end of this quar rel. The members of the cabinet can teach the country a valuable lesson In loyalty by standing behind the President and avoiding In any public l-'nanner the appearance of differences official family, for It can- Mr Wilson* mon l Wil Imagined that Daniels "hat Baker and shocked as n/* Hjess, he wan - Aarge over country at > lifeVy ruallcif r <lellb*r l Hhey set out 'Ptn.KCijkrajua, Ry the Ex-Committeeman Replying to the ridiculous charges of Mitchell Palmer that the exemp tion of Pennsylvania to be used to send Democrats to the front and keep Republicans at home, Gov ernor Brumbaugh yesterday said: "If Palmer says I was guided in politics In any matters concerning the appointment of registrars he lies. If he does not know that I did not make a single appointment he Is a. fool. If, knowing that I did not make one appointment, he says what he Is quoted as saying, he is a rascal. "Palmer's statements are on a par with those made by him a year ago when he declared that the State was bankrupt. Yet his henchmen in-the Legislature have just voted for ap propriations of $80,000,000 to SO,- 000,000. If what he said about the Commonwealth's tinancial condition is true, thon his henchmen aro ras cals. If they were right In voting these appropriations fhen ho was wrong." tio\ernor Brumbaugh further ex plained: "In Philadelphia and cities ot the second class the mayor, regis tration commissioners and city med ical authorities conferred and se lected the appointees; in third class cities the city controller and med. ical authorities selected trie men. while in the counties the sheriff, president of the'county commission ers and medical, authorities named the boards. At a public meeting in Harrisburg I impressed upon them the necessity of selecting men above reproach. They forwarded the lists to me and in turn I forwarded them to Washington and the appointments were made there." Attorney General Brown said: "The Governor has taken the high est stand in this matter and it is absurd to charge him with the re sponsibility for the appointments. Washington wanted the men select ed who were appointed and the wishes of the Federal Government were carried out." Circulation of nominating peti tions began in Pennsylvania to-day in behalf of possibly thirty candi dates for the bench and before the week is out dozens more will be in the hands of men getting signatures. In Philadelphia all of the judges are to be backed for re-election by the Republican organization, but in Allegheny county, where there are five to be chosen, there will be a grand scramble. There are sure to be contests in a number of other dis tricts. The papers for Judge S. J. M. McCarrell, of Dauphin county, will be started this week. The judge's friends will give him a fine compli mentary signing of papers. There nre no state judges to be elected this year, but the number to be chosen in common pleas dis tricts is unusual, just as the number aspiring to associate judge places is out of the ordinary. —The appeal from the decision of the Dauphin county court that the act making Clinton county a sepa rate judicial district was constitu tional was presented to the Supreme Court in Philadelphia on Saturday. An early decision is expected. The selection of a judge to hold offices until an election is held is to be made by .ihe Governor. —Mayor Smith is still shaking up the Philadelphia magistrates and has reassigned some of them. The mayor has some of the Philadel phians guessing. —A. W. McDade has recided to enter the contest for Judge in Dela ware county and a strenuous cam paign is l'kely. —Orphans' Court Judge J. C. Work, of Fayette county, will come up for re-election this year. —Dr. J. B. Twetdle, a veteran Carbon county medical man, has shaken hands with every president since'Buchanan and with Jeff Davis in the bargain. —lt commences to look like Dr. J. P. Kerr and E. V. Babcock as rivals tor mayor in Pittsburgh. Patriotic Sunday Yesterday was celebrated through out our land as a day of worship and prayer for our country. It is a time for every true American to take some part in making our country worthy of its present world respon sibility. Every one can be a booster —everyone can lend cheer and everyone can send up a daily prayer. We so often err in our mathematics because we leave our God out. Who can estimate the power of the daily prayers of the American people? Let us swagger through the streets pufTed up with material pos sessions—let us prayerfully wait be fore God that we may even be true to the lofty destiny for which God gave us our material life. If we are to win the war against things that are deadlier than Zeppelins and artil lery. we must face our present task prayerfully. Messiah Lutheran Church Bulletin. The Demoralized Flaper In England the flapper is a high I school girl—a species of quasi inno- I cent "chicken." Here the term is used to designate I the unworking young woman. She ic Is who "shops." She is delightful | to take out in times of peace, because she has no mission on earth but to be pleasant, no wish (if the host be a "spender") but to be taken out yet again. She has yet to find 'her soul, which in common parlance means she has to get up and do something to justify her existence as a consumer of potatoes. There is ample opportunity to pick up a good soul in most any place. The Red Cross, with its determina tion to win J1C0.000.000 can assur edly use her. Is she not amazingly good as a persistent beggar? Train ed by an indulgent father, she is ! only awaiting a complacent husband! : Let hor veal talent be devoted to a good and unselfish cause just once. ; There isfhope in this for her ulti mate release from the honeyed ways of Flapperdom into the nearest ap proach to the vaunted, albeit brom idic womanly woman we all talk about, but don't ask to go out. Then there is gardening. She is abundantly healthy. Let hei* dig. If there is some youngster disqualified by a weak heart (no pun) he can act as understudy for the real thing out in the trenches. She'U work better with an audience of one. But see that she does work, as work all must. Many n ex-Flap per is a heroine In France. There is a mighty opportunity for the Flapper. Let her once realize that bafck of the Flapper is the spirit of a pioneer, and she'll prove that the American woman in all her phases is basically the real thing.—Milwaukee News. Real Giving [From the Detroit Free Press.] There is no special Charm or bliss In giving what You'M. never mlas. . TheonlV gift WwUi iWhilo and real HAHRISBURQ QfilAft TELEQR^VPft The Days of Real . By BRIGGS f Keep bac wA akjy a/tci deut s fi-r t. i*ytx N\ fIT S (SOII^ CHit-DRSM* I 1 •— happen OKJ tub. ,-* 1 fto BE *7 • —■ , \ FOURTH —I'M r _______ AMV/SB TM E: ]\ \ /2fi\ /| f CARGFUL ( '<&, - \ SL WHSW CMIL-OWGoJ- |\\ (WK A Cj(|Nl - lOAT. hgwrv ! I | hp —rz\/~~ ~y -HpfTl- 'V >_\ <&}2jl HURRY uP'^ I,, ''■•• "''^ A - • Af /|f(i r EDITORIAL COMMENT The farmer's life is a merry one. He can sing 't his work, without dis turbing: anybody.—Toledo Blade. Colonel Henri Watterson of the Louisville Courrier-Journal says Texas wil raise 8,000,000,000,000,000 watermelons. Marse Henri evidently goes on the theory that there is no use in having ciphers if a fellow can't use 'em when he feels like it. — Marion Star. The Roumanian mission is wel come, but we hope they won't con sider it too pointed if we ask, just be tween us allies, why their country picked the particular moment it did for Jumping into the war.—Kansas City Times. How to obtain a rest. Contract smallpox.—Mitwaukee News. But were there ever such uneasy days as these for the heads that wear crowns—that is, that wear them after the fashion ot the kaiser?— Pittsburgh Post. Take a lot of salt with those Aus trian accounts of so fnany thousand Italians captured.—Baltimore Sun. Russia is beginning to understand that separate peace means separate pieces as far as she is concerned.— Chicago Herald. There is no oil trouble in Mexico, and another Teutonic dream hass gone a-glimmering. Baltimore American. Upsetting Our Gravity tSpringficld Republican.] In scientific circles there may he a flurry of excitement'over the re port cabled from London that the last Zeppelin which headed for Paris "fell 11,000 feet in eleven sec onds." The achievement is the more remarkable because the best falling record for 11 seconds hitherto has been under 2,000 feet. If the Ger mans have amended the law of gravity we should perhaps take more seriously the story, also from Lon don, that at the last big raid a 100- pound bomb which had failed to ex plode had been dug tip at the depth of 111 feet. Otherwise it remains, rather dubious, for while the Ger man planes were certainly flying' high, an altitude of 19,000 feet'was! lßtely commented on as exceptional, and 20,000 feet, or 3 4-5 miles, would I give but a little over 1,100 feet fori striking velocity, or but half the muzzle velocity or a high-powered I rifle. There Is a tendency to ex aggerate the velocity of projectiles dropped by airmen, because the dizzy altitude of the aviator attracts attention, while the height to which shells may be thrown from guns is less in evidence. As a matter of fact, the gun which bombarded Dunkirk from 22 miles away was probably sending its huge shells to a height of 11 miles, to which aviators do not yet aspire. As for penetration. 20 feet of earth is commonly reckoned ade quate bomb-proofing for resisting all hut the heaviest howitzer shells: it must be that the Germans, having finished with international law. are now violating the law of gravity. | , When the War Is Over When the war is over, laddie, .Tust take this tip from me, There'll be no German submarine A-diving through the sea! For the Fatherland of Kaiser Bill (The guy we're goin' t<s lick) Will have a brand new Kaiser, and, By gosh, he'll be a mick! We'll chahge their tune, "Die wacht am Bheln." Into an Irish reel. And make those Dutchmen dance to It, If that's the way we feel; For the coppers then In Berlin Will be mleks from County Clare, When we've put an Irish Kaiser In the palace over there. Sliure, In every German parkway You will meet a sweet colleen. While their fields of waving sauer kraut We will plant with shamrocks green. No liverwurst. no sausage, when The Dutchman drinks his "suds"— He'll eat corned beef and cabbage and Some damned good Irish spuds. Their murd'rous guns and gas bombs We'll make them throw away. And have them use shillelahs Or bricks of Irish clay. They'll sport no Iron Crosses; Shure 'tis shamrocks they will wear. When we've put an Irish Kaiser lnJ.he palace over there! ...5. ' >- "? ew York Su P" EIGHT-FOOT POTATO PENS GROWING FORTY-TWO Xcw Discovery (IT Potato (.rowltii: by .Jfrrnu of Hugo Potato Hills In Fenced Inclosures Saves Labor and Land By H. M. GKORUG Formerly Editor of The American Homestead, a National Farm Monthly FORTY-TWO bushels of potatoes in the season of 1916 from a plot of ground only eight feet square, or an equivalent of more than 28,000 bushels to the acre of ground space-used, was the astonish ing feat of R. E. Hendricks, a resi dent of Kansas City, Mo. Like all great discoveries. Mr. Hen dricks' method of raising potatoes is founded on such simple elemental principles that one wonders "why some one didn't think of it before." He had often watched the potato pile in the cellar bin, which every spring sent out its shoots through every possible crack and crevice. Soma times these sprouts would crawl out along the floof a distance of seven feet in order to reach the light. From this beginning he conceived the idea that if this pile was removed out into the open and given soil and ferti lizer, with proper conditions of light ■ and moisture, the potatoes would grow and reproduce their kind. Three years ago he built what he called a "potato pen" which was nothing more nor less than a huge potato hill, the sides of which were supported by a losely constructed in cisure, built after the fashion of an old rail fence. Within this lnclosure, only 8 by 8 feet In size he planted his potatoes in thin layers of dirt and manure, piling one layer on an other until the pen was 8 feet high. The "potato pen" became a mound of green. He had found that his potatoes not only grew better than they did in the cellar, but that at digging time he was uole to harvest forty bushels of as fine potatoes as are grpwn -anywhere. The following year he secured thirty-two bushels in the same size pen, nd last year the astonishing total of forty-two bushels. The details of the construction and j management of these "potato pens " I as described by Mr. Hendricks, out-1 line a plan by which anv one hav ing access to a plot of ground no! larger than a flower bed can raise all! the potatoes needed for an average, family for a whole yenr. The potato '■ pens may be built 8 feet wide by any I length, just so they are built strong! enough to keep the sides from i spreading. Most any kind of good! stout material can b. used, if light 1 lumber or boards are used the pen i may be braced through the center; with wire. Rich earth and well-1 rotted manure must be on hand in sufficient quantities to till the pen to the top. The potato pen. as described. Is built 6 feet by 8 feet, inside meas-; urement, and Is fi feet high. The pen is built as each layer is! placed and planted. You can use! one by six-inch boards for the ends and sides, leaving a 214-inch space between the boards fo'r tho, potato sprouts to come through. Start i the pen with a six-lncn layer of dirt. | Then mark off the plot a foot apart! each way. allowing six inches of space for dirt all around between the outer row of potatoes and the inside of the pen. Plant a potato seed at every cross line or Intersection of the plot, forty-elifht httls to the layer of dirt. Thfn put an inch or two ofi well-rotted manure over the potatoes' and sprinkle well with -rater. Then : lay six inches more of dirt, mark off as before, plant manure and water again. Repeat this operation with enough layers to fill tne pen to the top. To keep the dirt from falling out of the pen as the layers are i placed, draw up old straw or hay! against the cracks or crevices. As the pen rises t nace on the. fourth layer of flirt in the center of; one side, about two reet above the' ground, a "moist teser." This is made of sny piece of timber about I the size of the arm, a piece of four] bv four Inches by three feet long, placed so it will protrude from the' pen about a foot. After the potatoes' have been planted three week* loosen the tester, pull out and run your hand In to determine the mois ture. By so doing you will know how much water to use on the pen. After the tester has been once removed this can b repeated once or twice a week. Watch the tester and keep the dirt In proper condition. The pen should be near a water supply, so that it can be well watered during dry weather, it should be watered from the top about twice a week unless rainfall is sufficient. The "moist tester" will always enable the grower to determine the proper moisture condtions. The top layer of dirt should be sloped gently toward the center, so the ground wil absorb and not shed rain: but care should be taken that mud be prevented from forming on top and baking to a crust. When the earth is dry the mound should be sprinkled on the top and sides. The potato vines will grow to the top and sides of the pen (the nearest way to light), emerging through the crevices and concealing the timbers with a coat of green. When the po tatoes are matured the pen mav be taken down the potato™ rolled out of the thin covering with a raake and the material, dirt and manure saved and used again and again. Potato pens may be started as early and late as possible, giving potatoes ninety days to mature, ex cept the early ones. The usual time of planting potatoes in the North is from March to June; but under this method the potatoes may be planted much later than is possible under open field conditions, where the fac tor of hot, dry weather must always be taken into consideration. Whh irrigation and every possible condi tion of good potato growing—mois ture. ventilation and drainage—al ways under his control, the grower is virtually certain of his crop. In hi 3 experiments Mr. Hendricks used the Ked Early Ohios for seed, cutting two eyes to a good-sized piece. This year he is experimenting with other adaptations of his plan and expects to have some interesting announce ments to make by next November. Mr. Hendricks is backed in his work by a good wife, and his neighbors of twenty years' standin-r vouch for his honesty and integrity. The possibilities of this new meth od of raising potatoes, in the saving of labor and of land, are amazing to contemplate. When outside condi tions are unfavorable the production can be carried on successfully under glass and shipping from warmer climes made unnecessary. With such a cheap source of food supply within reach of al the people of the earth, the specter of famine and the day of high-priced foods will become a thing of the past. Forcible Reformation Spring cleaning was in progress and masculine labor was hard to find. The widow asked her "char lady" if sho would bring her hus band along one day to assist in mov ing some heavy furniture. The man came, and the widow was astonish ed to see bow battered his face looked. "Has your poor husband had an accident?" asked the widow. "Oh, no, mum; that's what 'appen cd when we 'ad a few words not long ago." "Dear me, Mrs. Scrubbs! Did you do that? What a shame! He seems such a nice, quiet man, too!" The charwoman pursed her lips. "He is now, mum," she said mean ingly. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel egraph. CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist SCALE INSECTS TREES which are so badly af fected with scale insects, that serious Injury might ensue If treatment is delayed un til fallor winter, may be treat ed with fair success in summer. Watch'closely for the appear ance of the hatching young which look like tiny yellow mites, and immediately apply,, six to eight per cent, kerosene emul sion or self-boiled lime-sulphur solution. Strong sprays cannot be used while foliage is present, ex cept that strong lime-sulphur may be planted on the trunk and branchen of small trees badly afflicted. Certain Scalo insects largely confine themselves to the trunk and branches of ornamen tal trees and shrubs. v ' \ JULY 2, 1917. Labor Notes In Canada the Agricultural Depart ment is willing' to co-operate in any way In organizing the farmers to co operative selling. Springfield, Ohio, Retail Clerks' Un ion has secured a half holiday on Wednesdays during the months of July, August and September. Pittsburgh, Pa., Sheet Metal Work ers' Union has established a record in the wage negotiations by increasing rates 80 cents a day. Closer affiliation with farmers and the railroad brotherhoods was agreed to by the Alabama State Federation of Labor at its convention. Increases in wages that will cost the Detroit United Railway $1,100,000 a year have been agreed on by a board of arbitration. OUR DAILY LAUGH FOR MOST OP US. "Father, what's the longest period of the year?" "From one pay day to tho next" DESCRIBED. "Pa, what la luck?" "Luck Is what the anti-prepared Hess people think we should depend os. to keep us out of trouble." LOOKS THAT WAY^ "Do you really think I marrie you for your money?" < "Well, the way the money ha.- Imen going it looks suspicious." SAFETY FIRST. Mouse —It looks fine, but It may be one of those wireless traps I've WH aVioiit Me H,VE"I>VT IN lT\fc . NOW \MAVT nvwtKX* OFF TV£Kt ON \HW DlttS Bw ND'tfT JOHN WAMCOC*. K6OUT THE* SION mnt 50 £■, yiith A, pert Im rriuoe vMHiii*. pjt 2-bpttittg (Cfjat Harrisburg's parkways aro Just commencing to be beautiful. Thanks to the planting system inaugurated some years ago and the care given to the maintenance work, the borders of the driveways are lined with hedges and rows of shrubbery and bushes and roses are blooming along yards and yards of the highways that girt the city. The Cacaeron Parkway, which was the first to be laid out, and which Is visited by so few people that it Is regrettable. Is ono of the prettiest driveways to be found In Central Pennsylvania. Turning sharply from the humming indus trial district at Lochlel it follows Spring Creek and the borders are commencing to show the results of proper planting. The roses and othe" flowering plants are gay with colors and the fine old ttees are worth see ing. The creek is bordered with younger trees and the whole drive way is delightful. The new Paxtang Parkway which goes from tho Dorrr street pike to Reservoir Park is ono of the most popular but it will take a couple of years to get its borders Into shape. Fortunately, It possesses many attractive natural features. When the connecting link between Reservoir Park and Wlldwood is tin ished tho city wltU have a belt of driveways that will surprise even fhe men who planned them. Wildwood is commencing to draw more and more visitors and every fine after noon there are groups of children playing in the woods and watching for tho rabbits and the birds. • • • If the Lohr bill now in the Gov ernor's hands should become a law It will enable a clean-up of dogs, ownerless and destructive dogs, to be made in the county districts out side of the city. Thanks to the op eration of the dog license law in Har risburg the number of useless dogs has been materially reduced, but the difficulty is that there are so many animals who either have homes or no homes in the boroughs or coun try and which are more or less of a nuisance. In years gone by there were many sheep raised In this sec tion, but there are few now in spite of the high prices of wool and mut ton. Dogs have been in a measure responsible. • ♦ • Some of the gardens about the city are being turned into quite fancy affairs although the average owner of a "war garden" does not have much time to attend to the ornamental side because of the de mands on his time to fight the weeds and the bugs. In some sections vines have been trained on the fences around the gardens and owners of some plots took the time while plants were coming up to construct fences of ornate design. Out on the hill the morning glory seems to have been the favorite decoration for gar den fences. • • • Between the operations at the Pax ton furnaces and the open hearth steel plant of the Central Iron and Steel Company, preparations to start Lochiel furnace and the busy Elliott- Fisher plant South Harrlsburg seems to be coming into its own again as an industrial section. The removal of the Chesapeake Nail Works was a blow for that section, but tho war has brought it around again. * • • It's a rather significant thing when baseball is not played on Saturday afternoons in Harrlsburg. There were some games on the island and at various places about the city oil Saturday afternoon, but there were half a dozen good diamonds which were not used at all. Some of these were up town and others were out on the Hill. The evening games have been given up in some sections of the city because everyone is turn ing to garden work or drilling. War has brought about many curious chances in Harrisburg that are not realized until ono bumps against them. • • • According to some conversations h?a;-a e.bovt the ira>.*V.3<s In til's -ity on S?/.i\r?9y a number of ie ■wontUUr.sr If r*>sn who a fjjv months sgo ottered feacy pricas tcr all the potatoes thsv could produce this fa'l w;" €';er r t; u.'i\. This sec tion of the Stale wp.s ??-ered 'ay po tato cappers. They ict->d f?r specu lators and offered fanny p'iies for potatoes, but gave no money. They just took memoranda th".'- <3? and So would sell them potatoes at from i! 50 to i 2. The 'armers are won dering whether if the potato crop is big, as it is likely to be, whether the advance men will be around again, and if the crop falls and prices go up whether they will hold the producer. It is a nice situation and shows the folly of getting stirred up by spring prices. In the Cumber land Valley the speculators ducked when asked to put up any advances or even to buy seed. • • • Isaac R. Pennypacker, a close rel ative of the late Governor and a his torian and student, takes a sharp rap at Representative Isadore Stern-for calling the Pennypacker relics "a collection of junk." Mr. Pennypack er points out the value of some of the articles and seems to have n rather poor opinion of Mr. Stern's ability to judge of what is worth while in Pennsylvania. • • • Announcement that the Middle town Fair organization will be reor ganized will be heard with Interest here. The Mlddletown Fair has been quite an institution in recent years and as Gratz Is an autumn fair Mld dletown filled in very nicely during the summer. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —James A. Gardner, New Castle City Solicitor, has been named as a member of the conscription board for Lawrence county. —Morris Knowles, In charge of concentration camp construction in Maryland, is a Pittsburgh engineer well known to many here. —United States District Attorney Humes, of Western Pennsylvania, is assisting to form home defense organizations. He Is on the Na tional Guard reserve. —N. W. Gerber, head of the Bucks County Farm Bureau, got together a gathering of overy corn and pig club in his county. —Ex-Senator Henry D. Green, of Reading, was almost drowned when the boat in which he was fishing was carried over a dam. —W. A. Dunlap, who succeeds the late Murrell Dobbins as an Inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary, i 8 a prominent undertaker and active In Philadelphia business affairs. —Representative Noble Clements of Northumberland, Is organizing a truck company for war service. f DO , YOU "KNOW That Harrlsburg tins nine units of tho National Guard, either formed or In the making? HISTORIC HARHfIHBURG Tito first fair was held In Harris, burg about 1835,
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