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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1917.
Hope larger hopes.
Thy heart to love expand;
The lather's heart is large,
And takes all in;
And he can save His own
In every land.
Love thou, and hope that all
The Christ may uiin.
—Mabiaxxe Fabxixgham.
NEW CIVIL SERVICE BOARD
COUNCIL is to be commended
upon its choice of a civil serv
ice board to conduct examina
tions of applicants for the police
force, under the recently enacted law
taking the force out of politics.
Pierce Rettew, Technical High School
professor of civil government, is well
qualified for such an examining
board, and Dr. Thomas E. Bowman
stands high in the medical profes
sion, while Mercer B. Tate has been
identified with every progressive
movement in Harrisburg for so many
years back that he has become part
and parcel of the city's life, a,nd
knows men and conditions locally as
few others do. The board may be
expected to conduct police examina
tions fairly and honestly.
But the mere "taking of the force
out of politics" is not going to rem
edy conditions much. The personnel
will not change with the operation of
the new law. On the other hand, it
is distinctly provided that policemen
now in the service are to remain "on
good behavior," which means that
some men who never should have
been appointed may have life jobs.
What Council should do as soon
as possible is to enlarge the force by
about twenty men, and give the
board opportunity to inject some
new blood into the department. So
> long as the present inadequate force
is entrusted with the duty of pa,-
trolling a city that has been grow
ing rapidly while the number of men
has been at a standstill, so long will
theft and disorder prevail.
There are many evils that the force
as constituted could correct which
have not been corrected, but the
„-nder is that conditions are not
worse.
Now that we have a civil service
hoard—and a good one—let's put it
to work.
SAVE THE BIRDS
T GILBERT PEARSON, secre
tary of the National Associa
tion of Audobon Societies,
writes the TELEGRAPH that "as a
result of the high cost of meats peo
ple have begun a perfect orgy of
killing songbirds for food," and asks
this newspaper to call the attention
of the authorities to these viola
tions of law.
If there ever was a time in the
history of America when we needed
to protect our insectivorous birds it
is now. The greatly increased acre
age of land being put under culti
vation calls for an equally Increas
ed number of birds to help keep
down harmful Insects. Government
authorities are responsible for the
statement that one-tenth of all the
agricultural products in the United
States are destroyed annually by in
sects. This percentage now certain
ly will be on the increase, at a time
when the pendulum should be swing
ing in the other direction.
To be sure, the birds have been
In the cherry trees lately, but the
season is almost over and they will
again turn their attention to in
sects. Don't let anybody shoot birds
within the limits of your observa
tion. There is a heavy fine attached
to violation of the song-bird protec
tive law.
HOME CANNING
THE Federal authorities are do
ing an excellent work in teach
ing the housewife the latest de
vices in canning and preserving, and
arrangements have been made where
by readers of the TELEGRAPH
may have advantage of these new
"tricks of the trade," which are
fully described In a special bulletin
just Issued by the United States De
partment of Agriculture, Farmers'
Bulletin 839, "Home Canning by the
FRIDAY EVENING,
One-Period Cold-Pack Method."
This bulletin is Of special Interest
and value to all housewives, canning
clubs, societies or persons interested
in conserving the food supply of the
nation. It may be had free by ad
dressing- the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The bulletin contains very explicit
directions for canning practically
all of the common garden vegetables,
including tomatoes, peppers, sweet
peppers, pumpkins, squash, sweet
corn, field corn, beans, peas and root
vegetables, also various combina
tions of vegetables. It also Includes
canning directions for soft fruits
and berries, hard fruits as apples,
pears, quinces. Directions for the
canning of camp rations, meats and
soups are given in detail.
Each step in the canning process
by the one-period cold-pack method
is carefully outlined from the pre
paration of the equipment and the
raw materials to the storing of the
canned products. A special time
table showing how long fruits,
vegetables, soups and meats should
be scalded, blanched or sterilized, Is
of particular value to the housewife.
Various types of homemade and
commercial canning outfits are de
scribed.
Every woman reader of the
TELEGRAPH should avail herself
of this offer. Write soon, for the
supply is limited.
THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES
ONE of the strongest arguments
in favor of the improvement
of our waterways has been
brought out by Representative S.
Wallace Dempsey, of New York, who
states that ninety per cent, of the
population of his State are located
in the cities and villages along the
length of the Erie canal and In New
York city, at the mouth of the Hud
son River.
The Erie Canal was constructs# in
the early days, and runs from Buf
falo to Albany, a distance of about
300 miles. Mr. Dempsey states that
to-day practically all the city popu
lation and the wealth of the State,
outside of New York city, are lo
cated along that waterway. 1
"We believe," says he "that water
trahsportation tends to the growth
and the prosperity or any commun
ity which maintains It." The people
of Congressman Dempsey's State
have certainly followed that theory
in the millions of dollars they have
appropriated for their great barge
canal now nearing completion, the
deepening of New York harbor, etc.
With such co-operation at home
the Government can better afford to
extend aid than in the South, where
every sunken log must be pulled at
the expense of the Federal treasury.
GIVE RAILROADS FAIR DEAL
THE passage of the bill authoriz
ing priority of shipments by rail
as the President may direct
means the virtual control of railroad
operations by the administration and
the exercise of this power may have
a very great influence upon railroad
revenues. Yet nothing has yet been
done to counterbalance this.
The food control bill, which like
wise seeks to impose governmental
regulation upon the farmer In the
production and distribution of his
crops, provides, thar a minimum
price may be fixed so that, no matter
what may happen, the farmer will
not have to sell his products at un
remunerative figures. The railroads
should be treated equally well.
The government tells the railroads
how much they shall pay their em
ployes, how many hours their men
shall work, what character of freight
shall be carried and all that; and this
is all right, but the Government
should also tell the railroads that the
work they do for the public shall be
paid for at remunerative prices.
A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE
HOOVER'S plan to secure food
conservation through the vol
untary efforts of American
housewives is a sensible method of
procuring willingly what even the
most rigorous of laws would find
difficulty in establishing.
This is still a republic, despite the
autocratic powers which have been
conferred upon the President, and
there is yet some truth In the old
adage, "One may lead where one
cannot drive."
The craze for laws to accomplish
that which common sense is perfect
ly adequate to bring about is one
of the amazing developments of war
time —and it has been carried to an
extreme in this country from which
the reaction is inevitable, and, we
fear, imminent.
WHY NOT TAX AIR
THE tax on electric light and heat
is characterized by Representa
tive Edward C. Little, of Kan
sas, as "a tax against the civilizing
influences of the American social
structure."
Mr. Little believes that big in
comes and big profits should pay for
the war, and that taxes on heat and
light, which affect every small home
owner, ought to be omitted. He de
clares that water might as well be
taxed as electricity.
M'ADOO, 1920, BUBBLE
NO SOONER was it known that
the Liberty Loan had been
taken up than the Democratic
press came out with a prepared-in
advance statement that to McAdoo
was due all the credit. This despite
the fact that ten days before the
books closed the loan was but sixty
five per cent, taken, and only after
superhuman efforts of the banks and
the newspapers was success finally
achieved. The presidential boom of
McAdoo for 1920 is on.
NO "D. D'S"
THE Socialist who has gone to
Russia with the Root mission
has been expelled from the
party because he did not procure the
party's sanction before accepting a
government Job. It is evident that
there is no Socialistic synonym for
"deserving Democrat.'' ,
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By the Gx-Commltteeman
Democratic machine leaders who
had been hoping that something
would turn up in the Legislature
which would give them material for
campaign thunder are well nigh In
despair arter searching the records,
Ibecause In almost every' instance
things about which they would like
to complain tangle up some deserv
ing Democrats. There is hardly a
single item on which a grandstand
play could be made that would not
catch a Democratic member and
often an Influential one.
Owing to the fact that there were
no Democrats In either the Phila
delphia or Allegheny delegations,
the Democratic leaders hoped at the
outset of the session to be able to
use the Legislative Record for much
noise, but the up-state Democrats
went along on practically everything
and showed such avidity in getting
after appropriations in the good old
way that hopes were blasted. Then
Governor Brumbaugh remembered
A. Mitchell Palmer's declaration
that the state was bankrupt and ask
ed why the Democrats voted so hard
for appropriations of between SBO,-
000,000 and $90,000,000.
The Democratic ringmasters will
get together for a conference this
month to frame up a policy for the
county campaign. Prizes will prob
ably be offered for some real Ideas.
—News of the Governor's appro
val of the Bidelspacher bill allow
ing extra pay for election officers at
the rate of a dollar for each 100
votes polled above the first 250 was
received with a good bit of joy
throughout the state late yesterday.
It means thousands of dollars more
for the election officers who have
been seeking higher pay for several
years. County commissioners who
will have to pay the bills are not so
much pleased.
—A resident of Stroudsburg last
evening sent a letter to the Gover
nor In which he said that he could
not understand A. Mitchell Palmer's
objection to the conscription boards
as in Monroe county one of the men I
was one of Palmer's noisiest sup
porters.
—The following newspaper clip
ping has been received at the Gov
ernor's office from Senator W. C.
Sproul: "There have been no com
plaints regarding the men named
for the exemption boards in Dela
ware county and those who have ex
pressed opinions upon the matter
here are inclined to the belief that
if partisan politics have been in
jected into the matter It has been
by Democratic Committeeman Pal
mer in trying to make party capital
out of some of the appointments In
certain counties. State Senator
Sproul, although not in accord with
Governor Brumbaugh in Republican
politics, stated to-day that the Gov
ernor has made every effort to han
dle the responsibilities growing out
of the war situation in a broad
minded way and that in his address
and instructions to the public offi
cials connected with the draft and
registration he had shown a high
minded patriotism and devotion to
duty."
—Secretary of Internal Affairs
Houck does not plan to make any
changes in his department for the
present. Auditor General Snyder is
said to be planning a number of new
moves, but will wait awhile before
announcing them.
—Little opposition to the plan for
merging the Bethlehems seems to
l>e manifested and it is believed the
election will result in the merger.
—The Democratic Philadelphia
Record says that the Vares are
planning to gobble up registrars in
some of the Philadelphia districts
under the guise of Democrats and
that the city committee will meet
soon to devise some plan to head it
off. The Washington party is ex
pected to make a claim for regis
trars, too.
The House bill making it manda
tory for county commissioners to ap
point registrars in Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and Scranton on recom
mendation of ward or city commit
tees of any political party or to file
reasons for rejections was vetoed by
Governor Brumbaugh, who says that
it would "throw the entire matter
back into the maw of politicians."
The governor also said that the
measure, if enacted, would take away
from registration commissioners
practically all power in the matter
of appointments and that it "would
stimulate unworthy political partisan
manipulation and close the way now
open to our electors for fair play and
a square deal. The courts have up
held the present procedure and tho
petty politician should not be en
couraged to defy the courts and the
people by an appeal to the legisla
ture." The present law, he says, is
"a great advance, an important re
form, over the old-time scandal" and
adds "We can not allow such reac
tionary and nonprogressive enact
ments to become law."
Dog Movie Star Dead
Hero, the $20,000 dog and the
greatest canine star in moviedom, is
dead. This was revealed when Harry
Marks, owner of the animal, sought
recourse through Harry Epstein, at
torney for the state labor commis
sion. The animal received injuries
which caused his death acting in
films, it is alleged.
With tears streaming down his
face and his voice broken with sobs,
Marks told how the dog had been
the sole support for him and his in
valid wife and how he had labored
for ten years to tr/in the dog as
the brightest dog in American films.
Injured while acting in the film
ing of a comedy for a Los Angeles
corporation, Hero died a few days
later, and now Marks wants com
pensation for the loss of his faithful
worker.
According to Epstein, the film
company refused to make any settle
ment and Marks sought the aid of
the labor commission, believing it
could settle his difficulties. He was
referred to a private attorney.
Hero will be romembered by thou
sands of Angelenos as the dog which
traveled the streets with a squirrel
on his back, carrying the squirrel's
cage in his mouth.—From the Los
Angeles Express.
Ship Whale Meat East
A meeting of representatives of
whaling companies and meat dis
tributors was held at Portland, Ore
gon, recently to consider means of
extending the market for whale meat
•throughout the United States. The
market already established on the
Pacific Coast is regarded as perma
nent, but the supply of ooeat is so
large that it is proposed to ship it
in refrigerator cars to Eastern cities.
—From the Portland Oregonian.
Reason For Peace
In other words, according to the
President, Germany wants peace be
cause of a belief that the quitting
would be much better now than later
on.—Savannah News.
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Labor Notes
Hamilton, Scotland, has established
a municipal meat factory.
It is proposed to increase the pay
of Canadian soldiers to $2.60 a day.
In France the women letter car
riers receive a dollar a day.
New York city may release muni
cipal employes for farm work.
The Krupp munition plant in Ger
many employs 25,000 women.
Italy is depending upon her women
to till the soil of that country.
The new Labor Party in Rumania
is in favor of women suffrage.
Vancouver, B. C., City Council has
passed a three-dollar-a-day mini
mum-wage ordinance for city
laborers.
On July 21 at New York City
American Wire Weavers' Protective
Association will meet in convention.
Fifty thousand disabled soldiers
were placed in employment in Eng
land last year.
British women are taking the
places of lumbermen being called to
the front for war service.
In Vancouver, B. C., 1500 women
are enrolled as fruit-pickers and in
Victoria 500.
Kingston, Canada, separate school
teachers were given a bonus of SSO
because of the high cost of living.
The Union of Women of
France has over 2300 nurses distrib
uted in 360 hospitals.
All the woman organizations in
New York City engaged in war work
are to be put under one head.
American Hotel Association will
organize a force of cooks to teach
other cooks at American army
camps.
Newry, Ireland, carpenters are
asking for an increase from 12 cents
to 14 cents an hour in their wages.
Laborites in the Australian Par
liament objected to a secret session
for consideration of the recruiting
problem.
Successful experiments with cotton
growing have been carried on in the
Canal Zone by a North Carolina man.
British textile workers, after a
conference at Bradford, applied for
a 65 per cent, advance in wages on
pro-war rates.
Food prices advanced 32 per cent,
between April 15, 1916, and April 16,
1917, reports the Federal Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
New York City International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union has
asked its organized employes to raise
wages 20 per cent.
The system federation of the Wa
bash Railroad has secured an agree
ment for a flat increase of 5 cents
an hour and the eight-hour day.
It has been ruled In Ohio that the
■widow of an unnaturalized citizen is
entitled to a mother's pension, under
the State law.
The Illinois Legislature has
amended the workmen's compensa
tion law bv making compensat'on
compulsory for employers' instead of
optional.
Tacoma (Wash.) Teamsters' Union
has secured a one-year contract with
the Team Owners' Association. Tho
union shop and increased wages are
agreed to.
Following upon various experi
ments carried out on a small scale
last summer, a league has been
founded in Berlin for the transfer
ence en masse of town children to
the country for a prolonged stay to
work on farms.
In the metropolitan area of Berlin,
Germany, there were on January 1
more than twice as many wemen and
girls engaged in industrial pursuits as
men and boys, the number being re
spectively, 274,600 and 118,901.
South Dakota has probably less of
what is known as "labor legislation"
than any other State. The only
statute of this kind that South Da
kota has covers hours for the em
ployment of women and sanitary
regulations.
During May there were 3 4 strikes
in Canada, involving 134 firms and
10,955 employes. Twenty-four of
these strikes, involving 79 firms and
3286 employes, commenced during
the month. Seventeen strikes termi
nated during the month.
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WILL ENLIST EVERY WOMAN IN
HOOVER'S FOOD-SA
EVERY woman in the State of
Pennsylvania will be asked to
join a food-saving army. Each
woman is to be an enlisted "soldier"
for Uncle Sam and the allies. The
commander who will direct this
army is Herbert C. Hoover, the man
who fed Belgium, and now Food
Administrator at Washington, D. C.
The enrollment will be conducted
by means of pledge cards similar to
the one reproduced above. Read it
carefully. Every housekeeper in
Pennsylvania will receive one and
will be expected to sign it before
July 15 in testimony that full sup
port will be given to the food con
servation plan.
Every woman in the household is
'to sign this pledge whether a mem
ber of the family or an employe.
In addition to the million and a
half Pennsylvania "soldiers," Mr.
Hoover will direct more than eight
een million other women "soldiers"
who are to be similarly recruited
from the other States and territories.
Each woman "soldier" will be as
signed to the second line of defense
to fight the waste of food.
Mr. Hoover's position with respect
to those who enlist will be less that
of a general than that of an adviser,
who suggests ways by which waste
may be avoided. Enrollment com
pels no one to any course of action
beyond conviction of duty. Each
member of this army will do as
much of what Mr. Hoover advises
as her circumstances warrant, and
her judgment dictates. In other
words, all co-operation, even after
enrollment, will be voluntary.
In connection with the activities
of a food-saving army. President
Wilson said:
"To provide adequate food sup
plies for the coming year is of ab
solutely vital importance to the con
duct of the war. Without a very
conscientious elimination of waste
and a very strict economy in our
food consumption we cannot hope to
Vice About Army Camps
' It is cheering to read that the vice
| which usually follows an army has
not established itself in touch with
, the thousands of soldier boys en
camped at Fort Riley.
From other camns throughout the
country the news is not so encourag
ing. Eastern newspapers are print
ing stories of vice resorts near army
camps, and are demanding that the
saturnalia of vice which reigned
along the Mexican border last sum
mer shall not be extended to any of
the army camps of this war.
It is said on good authority that
during the first eighteen months of
the war one of the great powers had
more men incapacitated for service
from preventable diseases contracted
in the mobilization camps than by all
the fighting on the front, and the
Journal of the American Medical
Association printed from the Vienna
report the statement that "Since the
■war began a toital equivalent to
sixty divisions have been temporarily
withdrawn from fighting because of
those diseases."
In Massachusetts they are de
manding that young Americans en
listed in this war for democracy shall
not be exposed to this secret foe:
the conditions about the camjls must
be kept decent.
Mothers of California, who have
given their sons to war, are demand
ing of the government: "Bring my
boy back clean."
The Y. M. C. A. is getting ready
to combat this vice in and around
army camps. It has raised 3 million
dollars for that work and is asking
a million more.
A man said once that if all the
money spent on Y. M. C. A. build
ings resulted in saving just one boy
it would be money well spent.
"Aren't, you a little extravagant
in that?" asked another man.
"Not if it was my boy," replied
the first.—Kansas City Star.
A Kentucky Complaint
"A big howitzer uses up the equiv
alent of two barrels of whisky or 20
barrel 3 of heer" In the form of alco
hol <svery time it Is fired. The wast
age of war Is somp'n scandalous.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
No Mirrors For Martyrs
The suffragette sentinels In front
of the White House seem to ha<'e
found it Impossible to keep their pa
triotism on straight. New York
Herald.
fulfill this primary duty and In no
other direction can women so great
ly assist as by enlisting in the serv
ice of the food administration and
cheerfully accepting its direction
and advice."
Mr. Hoover has appointed as re
cruiting officer for the State of
Pennsylvania, Howard Heinz, Direc
tor of the Food Supply Department
of the Committee of Public Safety.
Mr. Heinz has asked the co-opera
tion of the seventy local Public
Safety Committees in various parts
of the State in enlisting the house
keepers. Other agencies will also aid
in the distribution of 1,500,000
pledge cards throughout the State.
Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, Slate Su
perintendent of Schools, has written
every county superintendent of
schools in the State, strongly rec
ommending the co-operation of local
school boards in the work of regis
tration.
Women's National Council of De
fense and other women's organiza
tions, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and
civic and religious bodies have been
asked to assist in making the regis
tration complete.
Each card when signed will be
forwarded by the local committees
to Mr. Hoover, in Washington. The
name of each signer will be record
ed. Specific instructions will from
time to time be forwarded from Mr.
Hoover. Household tags which will
serve as badges of enlistment to be
displayed in windows will be fur
nished.
The slogan of the army is "Feed
the allies out of what we save."
Ninety per cent, of the food con
sumed in the United States goes
through the hands of women, and
tliey may best "serve by saving."
If you do not receive a personal
invitation to sign, consider this your
invitation and ask your local Public
Safety Committete for a card, or
sign the form at the head of this
article and mail it to your local
Committee of Public Safety, or to
the Food Supply Department, 14 26
South Penn Square, Philadelphia.
Coal Enough
Official figures for six months re
assuring to coal users.
Not only food but fuel is a vital
need of this country and of our al
lies—coal to run the ships and rail
roads, to feed the iron furnaces and
furnish steam for all the manufac
turing plants, coal in greater quan
tities than have ever before been
mined in the United States or in any
part of the world—and this need
is being met in truly Ani ®k>'an fash
ion by the operators and owners of
the mines and by the diggers of coal.
With these words, Secretary Frank
lin K. Lane began his statement re
garding the coal situation as report
ed to him by the statisticians of his
department.
The production of coal in the
United Stateslast year, he continued,
was the greatest in the history of
the country. A new record, however,
was set for the first six months of
this year, fully 270,000,000 tons of
bituminous coal being produced
since January 1, thus exceeding the
output of the first six months of last
year by about 20,000,000 tons. Even
better news is that the limit has not
yet been reached, for as the rail
roads are able to work out to better
advantage the problem of car sup
ply and give to the mines greater
facilities for transporting their prod
uct to market, the supply of coal
that reaches the consumer will be
in steadily increasing quantities. In
the early months of 1917, because of
the congestion of the railroads and
the difficulties of transportation, the
production of bituminous coal fell
behind the high mark set in January
and February, a year ago. As a re
sult of the patriotic and earnest en
deavor of the railroad officials and
the coal operators and representa
tives of mine workers who have vol
unteered their services to the Fed
eral government in this emergency,
production has been speeded up
within the last few months and the
output of soft coal which in May ex
ceeded all previous records, was sur
passed in June.
You and Me
A thorn upon the stem
A drop within the sea,
The shadow on the grass.
That's me.
A rose upon a bush
A ripple o'er the blue,
The sunlight after clouds,
That's you.
—Theodocia Pearce in the Toronto
Globe,
JULY 6, 1917.
The Real Gentleman
Do not undervalue the character
of the real gentleman, which is the
most respectable amonst men. It
consists not of plate and equipage
and rich living, any more than in
the disease which that mode of life
engenders; but in truth, courtesy,
bravery, generosity and learning,
which last, although not essential to
it, yet does very much to adorn and
illustrate the character of the true
gentleman.—John Randolph.
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noth in'.
CHANGING fcoFFWge)
THINGS PIHEERINTK
AROUND. Jlr ira^'l
What do you
think of this
suffragette busi- Jjarf""
1 think that MTPT
the way woman li 11 Xm Wflmf
is taking man's |f r ~ 1 1? \l mfl
place means 1ft:: J I/M
that next leap Si#
year it will be in g|] y\
order for a man IS
to propose to a W
woman.
fNOT FOR
THINKING.
What did your
husband think
of the baseball
game?
Oh, he doosn't
go there to
think. He Just
hollers.
J Y
VERT SOON. T
Hello Bill,
haven't seen you \
for a long time | | J
—why did you \~V '/• tLA]
quit Wall street
when you were r 1 ml
doing so well? ( \ f|T \
I have a bet- \\l \j QJHB
ter proposition I \ \\
—l'm going in / \ v
for gardening. \ J
J NOTHING
' A/?' This business
about the early
b,rd catching
the worm j 9 a n
/ jJ bunk. It's nine
fefek/" o'clock, and I
maCuii haven't seen one
WHEN THE
HOME RUN rfrTSfel*
WAS MADE. &
Bird: Heavens,
they have start-
•d to throw
bombsl / /
LJL
Ibmng (tt^at!
Farmers In this section of the
State have commenced to cut hy
and from indications the crop will
be more of a success than the whe&*
which has not been looking as wefl
in this part of Pennsylvania as in
former years. Jhe hay crop, thanks
to the numerous rains, appears to be
pretty fair, although estimates for
the state at large are not as favor
able as hoped. There will be a tre
mendous demand for hay this fall
and winter because of the number of
horses in military service and the
necessity of keeping the home supply
of cattle up to the mark. The cut
ting of hay is late this year, chiefly
because of the weather, although in
some sections labor shortage is the
cause. The wheat and rye are also
being cut now in some parts of the
Cumberland and Lebanon valleys.
The potato yield hereabouts will o
tremendous, thanks to the foresight
and energy of many town lotters.
The whole yield of potatoes may go
up to 33,000,000 bushels for the state
against 19,000,000 last year. That is
the present estimate, but the bugs
have yet to be heard from.
Out in the country the "blue
devil" is in flower and the farmers
and their friends aye taking every
chance they can to chop it down as
they go by. The other name of the
"blue devil" is chicory and it is
chiefly notable for its beautiful
flower and its spreading proclivities.
It is as bad as the wild mustard or
the dandelion when it comes to
spreading over the landscape. . It is
hard to kill, the only way to get rid
of it being to rip it out of the ground,
and it is as damaging to the ground
as the dandelion or the burdock.
• * •
Governor Brumbaugh's address
some days ago at Ardmore in regard
to fears of the Germans expressed
by the federal government at the
time of breaking of diplomatic rela
tions has a very interesting connec
tion at this end of the line. More
than a year ago one of the news
papers of national fame got the idea
that there was danger from the Ger
man element In this part of the
country and especially in units of
the National Guard from commun
ities where German families pre
dominated. It was hard to convince
the aforesaid newspaper that the
German people hereabouts are de
scendants of people who fought in
the Revolution and that they are not
only fourth and fifth generation
Americans, but that many of them
cannot speak German. This lament
able lack of knowledge of a large
part of our people has a parallel in
what Governor Brumbaugh speaks
of. When things became tense last
winter some one on the banks of
the Potomac became seized with a
fear that there would be a rising of
the people of German descent
agaUast industrial establishments,
etc. The man who expressed that
fear was told that there would un
doubtedly be an uprising but that it
would be of people of German an
cestry and with German names who
would join with English, Irish,
Scotch, Welsh. Dutch, Italian and
others in lynching any one who tried
to endanger life or destroy property.
A good story is being told about a
man from a rural district who camo
here to atted to registration for con
scription. He let the time go by
and was reminded of it some days
later. He forthwith hastened to this
city and the natural place for him
to go was the United States army
headquarters. He said he wanted
to put down his name. They
he wanted to enlist and they put him
through. He passed a splendid ex
amination and when it was all over
he asked what else he should do.
He nearly fell dead when he was
told that he should start for a camp,
to became a soldier. From all ac
counts, he was game.
Some idea of what the State Game
Commission is 'aiming to prevent in
the passing of the claims for boun
ties for the heads of noxious ani
mals may be gained from the simple
statement that the commission ha 3
had to reject claims upon nineteen
separate grounds. Some of these
have been turned down because
there were no affidavits, others be
cause everything in the claims was
all in the came handwriting, claim,
statement, affidavit and witness all
being in the identical form. In other
instances there were proofs of fraud
such as use of heads of various birds
for goshawks, while the commis
sion refused to pay claims except
where it was set forth that the just-
Ice had split the head of the fox,
weasel or other animal. The reason
for this was that there was nothing
to prevent the man who had a pelt
from going around to justice after
justice to make claims as long as he
could get away with the same old
skin. Once the head was split it
could not he used again. There
were instances known where heads
were not touched.
Among the officers of the regular
army who have important posts Just
at present are the sons of the late
General Calvin DeWitt, a native of
this city. They are Majors Wallace
DeWitt, of the medical corps, who is
the medical officer at Fort Ethan
Allan and Major J. L. DeWitt, who
has been at the bureau of militi-i
affairs. They are descendants of
Dauphin countians who fought in
the Revolution.
• • *
Robert P. Dohoney, son of John
P. Dohdney, investigator of accidents
of the Public Service Commission, is
the latest Harrisburger to enter the
United States service. He has Just
been notified that he has passed the
examination for one of the hospitals
units and is here arranging to de
part with his organization.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "T
—Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pitts
burgh, made three speeches on
July 4.
—R. L. Watts, dean of the school
of agriculture at State College, Is
making personal appeals to grafl.
uates of the College to increase the
food supply.
—Charles E. Patton, ex-secretary
of agriculture, had a birthday yes
terday and the staff of the depart
ment telegraphed congratulations.
—Bishop Rhinelander, of Phila
delphia, is to spend the summer at
Newport.
—Thomas W. Cunningham, clerk
of Philadelphia courts, is spending a
short time at the seashore.
DO YOUICNOW
That Harrisburg Is the center
of a great potato raising district
this year?
HISTORIC HARRIS BURG
In Civil War days Harrisburg had
great depots of supplies for troopa.
All Supposition
Twenty-one is supposed to be the
age of discretion, but some women
live to be 60 years before they are
discreet enough to wear corofortabl*
shoos, —Houston Post, j. .