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SATURDAT, JULY 7, 1917. ♦
A life on service bent,
A life for love laid down.
Is the life for others spent
Which God will crown.
—AIXKJSOJT.
MAD DOGS
ANOTHER German air raid over .
London! More women and j
children slain. The Prussian
mad dogs are snapping again at the j
heels of Christian civilization. There j
Is only one way to stop a mad dog.
THF APPLE CHOP
LOVERS of apples win be de- J
lighted to hear that conditions]
in the Franklin county fruit belt
are not as bad as at first said to be :
and that In general the apple crop!
will be a success. As reported some
time since by the Telegraph, Adams I
county apples are In excellent con-1
dition and little hall damage has |
been done there. This statement;
coming from a no less authority than ;
the famous Dr. Fletcher, of State j
College, should quiet any fears that
might have arisen.
Men like the Tyson brothers, of
Adams county, have done so much I
for apple growing in that section!
that It Is gratifying to note how rap-
Idly the Industry Is forging to the
front In competition with the In
dustry in other States. "Apple Seed
Johnny" may been the father of
apple growing in Pennsylvania, but
It is men like the Tysons and Dr.
Fletcher who have placed it on a
scientific, profit-making basis.
Muncipal Band Concerts
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH hav
ing approved a bill permitting
I
cities to appropriate money for
municipal band concerts, Harris- !
burg should put Itself on record as '
the first municipality in the State
to lake advantage of the new law.
Harrisburg had free band concerts
In Reservoir Park long before any
other third-class city in the State
gave apy thought of music for the
masses under municipal auspices.
The late George G. Kennedy was the
father of the park band concert In
Harrisburg. He personally solicited
subscriptions with which to meet the
expenses and took much pride in
bringing to the city many of the
crack musical organizations of the
East Later, under V. Grant Forrer's
superintendency of t.ie old park
board, the concerts w;s continued
More recently they have been
dropped as a feature <H summer life
In Harrisburg; more's the pity.
Nobody is to blame tor t'uis. What
is everybody's business is often no
body's business, and it .has been so
with the free band concert move
ment. Under the old plan a few
people paid for the pleasure of all.
By the provisions of the new law
the band concert funds would come
out of general revenues, and the ex
pense thereby properly distributed.
If it be too late to make an ap
propriation this year an Item by all
means should be included In next
year's budget.
VOLUNTEERS
IT speaks well for the good cit
izenship of the community that
the Harrisburg recruiting dis
trict has responded with 1.500 more
volunteers for the Regular Army
than tho quota prescribed by the
War Department, and that of Jhese
Dauphin county came forward with
155 mOre thafi required.
These men will have advantages
over those who are conscripted.
will train with men who know how
to fight. They will be shoulder to
shoulder with the experienced sol
diers of the Regular Army, than
whom there are no better In the
world. The privilege of volunteering
SATURDAY EVENING,
is still open, but the time left Is
limited. For the man who expects
to be conscripted and who prefers
to go as a volunteer there Is no bet
ter way than to get Into either the
Regular Army or one of the National
Guard units at once. There Is room
In both.
MONEY FOR RIFLE CLUBS
IT is to be hoped that the com
missioners of Dauphin county
will take advantage of the law
approved by Governor Brumbaugh
yesterday permitting counties to
give financial assistance to rifle
clubs, the members of which pledge
themselves to come to the protec
tion of their respective counties at
the call of the Governor.
The Harrisburg Rifle Club is a
fine example of th'j spirit and serv
ice such organizations may render.
It has been in existence little more
than a year, yet it has sent to the
officers' training camps or to the
army more than half of Its enrolled
membership. It has spent and Is
spending its own money to perfect
its members in the use of the rifle.
The government is aiding in a gen
eral way, but the county should
stand willing to do its part
These men are sacrificing their
own time, money and effort for the
safety of the people as a whole. A
soldier who cannot shoot straight
may as well not be on the battle
front or in the militia body entrust
ed to home protection duties. A
crack shot is worth a dozen whose
marksmanship is poor. The rifle
clubs make sharpshooters of their
members. They should be support
ed.
SPIES
SPIES are everywhere in this
country and little has been i
done to prevent their ope#a- |
tions, according to dispatches from
Washington. This notwithstanding |
early plans, approved toy the Presi
dent, for circumventing their actlvl- I
ties. And here is the explanation of
Lincoln Colcord in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger as to why Mr. Wilson's
program has not been carried out:
The story runs that the Cabinet
also highly approved qf the pro
ject, and thought that it ought to
be don# at once, until it cams to
the question of how it was to be
done. Thereupon trouble arose.
Secretary McAdoo said that, of
course, this central intelligence !
bureau would be organized under !
the Treasury Department, since
Secret Service operations tradi
tionally had been conducted under I
his department. Secretarv Baker |
immediately objected, saying that j
in view of war conditions the cen- |
tralized intelligence bureau ought
to be under the War Department. |
I This brought a demand from
Secretary Daniels that it be organ
ized under the Navy Department,
since the navy was the older !
branch of the service and our war
operations would all be overseas.
Secretary Gregory thought that it \
ought to come under the Depart- |
ment of Justice, since he had the i
best intelligence bureau to start !
with. Even Secretary Burleson j
put in a claim on it. saying that 1
the Post Office Department was
larger than any other and covered i
the whole country. '
Thus, between nine stools, the
project fell very flat, and has
never since been revived. As a
consequence the country to-dav is
without adequate provision "for !
collecting intelligence regarding
the host of spie which must be
sending information to Germany. i
This is a fine time for the little
men who make up the big cabinet
to air their differences.
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HOW COLLARS WEAR OUT
THE LITERARY DIGEST devotes
more than half a column of it 3 ;
current issue to a scientific dis-
I cussion of the topic—"How Collars
Wear Out" The Digest refers, of
course, to collars of the stiff, linen!
1 variety which for years have stood at
once as a badge of gentility and a 1
mark of submissiveness.
But why scientific research should!
be necessary to ascertain how collars !
wear out will puzzle the average
' man who believes not only how, but;
why, and his views are backed up,
by long-suffering and bitter ex- i
perience.
For example, he buys a new collar:
and after giving it proper initiation
into its duties as the guardian and
adornment of his precious neck, ho
entrusts it to the tender mercies of
: the laundryman. Most men believe
\ that all the strong arm gentry of
j the country get their early training
: in laundries.
The first couple of trips mak"e no
! apparent Impression. The collar
! comes home stiff and glossy. But by
j and by a faint tickling just forninst
the Adam's apple gives sign that the
herculean efforts of the laundrymen
are beginning to get in their work
around the edges, as It were. About
the same time the front buttonholes
begin to grow, affording ample play
; for the vilest tendencies of depraved
I collar buttons (all collar buttons are
' depraved by nature; some say they
were Invented in Germany) and from
; then op to the bitter end the wearer
i never knows at what embarrassing
moment collar and shirt may part
j company In front leaving the un
fortunate and unoffending necktie to
\ face'a miserable existence of divided
| allegiance.
Finally there comes the awful
reckoning, when, with murder in his
aoul, with a neck sawed to the raw
and the upper edge of his collar
filed down to a razor edge, the
wearer rebels and ID Berserker rage
tears the collaf In twain with a fine
1 ripping sound and casts It from him.
followed by a line of conversational
condemnation not ordinarily used In
polite households.
That's the how and tho why of
collar 'wear-out. But w can give
the Digest a sure oure for the evil.
We know lt'j a sure cure, for we
have tested It ourselves. It's like
this. YV>u buy a dozen or more soft
collars or soft shirts with collars
attached, put your stiff collars In a
laundry box and store 'em away on
the top shelf of your clothes press.
Then you forget where you put 'em.
fofctttc* tx
exxo ificanlo.
| By the Ex-Committeeman
—From all accounts there are some
free for all races being conducted In
smaller counties where there will be
associate judges elected this fall. The
time for circulation ot nominating
petitions began on Monday and in
some counties there were half a
dozen candidates before night. There
are associate judges to be elected In
sixteen of the counties of the State
and the rivalry is keen in most of
them. In JPerry county, for Instance,
there is only one judge to be elected
and there are several candidates. In
Juniata, Montour, Sullivan and Union
counties ihero will be two judges
selected and the candidates are ex
pected to be numerous. Circulation
of petitions for most of the judges
who will run pgain began this week
but there were not many reports re
ceived here of rival candidacies. The
demands for petitions this year have
been pretty extensive and the supply
laid in by the secretary of the com
monwealth has been in demand.
—The first changes of any conse
quence to be made in the fiscal de
partments of the State government
will be started the end of the coming
week. Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder and State Treasurer H. M.
Kephart have managed to keep their
own counsel pretty well about the
appointments to be made and they
will make them gradually. In the
T-easury, Corporation Clerk H. D.
Jones will retire on Saturday and
there may be some changes in the
Auditor General's Department an
nounced next week. Reports of
changes in the Public Service and
Insurance Departments are denied.
—Governor Brumbaugh last night
announced his approval of the Stern
House bill fixing the date of tha
September Primary for the third
Wednesday instead of the third Tues
day. This change affects only the
primary in odd numbered years and
was made because of a Jewish holi
day falling on the third Tuesday.
—The Philadelphia Record to-day!
says that it looks as though the rival j
leaders had agreed upon a slate for j
Philadelphia offices this fall. Sen-1
ator Penrose is to have the district
attorney, the Vares, the city treasur- j
er. the mayor, the receiver of taxes i
and Senator McNichol the register.!
This means that District Attorney
Rotan, Register Sheehan and Re
ceiver Kendrick will succeed them
selves. Senator E. W. Patton will be
come city treasurer.
—According to the Philadelphia
Inquirer Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tus
tln has landed the appointment of
caretaker at the Fairmount Park.
The ex-Senator was downed by a
Vare combination but appears to be
able to capture several places every
now and then.
—Democratic National Commit
teeman A. Mitchell Palmer Is still
suffering from the clouts handed to [
him by the Governor and others j
relative to his assertions regarding'
the conscription boards.
—lt is figured out that Governor
Brumbaugh will approve appropria- i
tions to amount of $82,000,000. The
appropriations as made aggregate
555.852.169 and the Governor will
j tackle the job on Monday. The'
amounts carried are all higher than
approved two years ago and the j
I chances are that the Governor will |
cut things down to the original fig- j
| ures agreed upon in the committees, l
—The appropriation bill carries!
j two items for the Fire Marshal's De- j
i partment. One is in case the reor- '
| ganization goes through.
U-Boats Losing Heavily
Announcement has been made
several times that American gunners
| on merchant ships had reason to be
! lieve they had been successful in at-I
: tempts at sinking submarines. A j
' ship reaching England on Sunday. |
for example, was attacked by two ]
j U boats that were driven oft by the I
j machinegun crews. Confidence was |
. expressed that the periscope of onej
j attacker was shot away. Other evl- i
i dence has accumulated to indicate
! that the Allies are making progress |
against the undersea foe.
But there generally is room for |
doubt as to ilie efficiency of those
announced successes against the U- ;
boat. The attacks very often are at j
long range. The enemy disappears 1
i and no one can be sure whether the
submergence wis voluntary or,
j forced. Th<v work of destruction
; against merchant ships has kept \
I right on, al'.hough in diminished pro- 1
] portions recently, and left a sus- [
j picion in the minds of many that |
• the allied gunners might not be as ,
successful as they have believed.
Now comes indisputable proof
: from headquarters in Germany that j
i the warfare on the submarines is ef- ,
i fectlve. The losses have reached such ,
proportions that it is no longer per- '
[ mitted to mention them. No lists of
j U-boat casualties have been an- ,
I nounced by the admiralty in recent'
\ weeks, although until a month or
more ago those missing were listed.
It was not, of course, always known
in Germany whether the miss'ng had
perished or been captured.—lndian
apolis Star.
The Habit of Saving
Those "aingle-sllce-of-bread" fig
ures issued by the Department of
Agriculture are impressive. If every
home in the United States and
there are 20,000.000 should waste
one slice of bread a day, 7,000,000
bushels of wheat would bS wasted In
a year, or the annual product of
470,000 acres. We all know that
there Is more than an average of
one slice of bread for each American
household wasted in a day. So we
may be sure that our waste ap
proaches the 10,000,000-bushel mark
in a year.
"War is not a blessing. But It may
have Incidents that come as bless
ings under Martian disguise. Per
haps this war is going to teach us
as a people sane economy in our
homes. We throw enough out of the
window each year to keep poverty
away from the thousands.
If. when the lowering clouds have
passed and the sun of peace again
shines on this land, we shall have
learned the significance of a slice of
bread and other culinary units of
our domestic life, we shall have con
ferred an altogether surprising boon
on ourselves. For-thrift Is a habit,
Just as In waste. We acquired the
habit of waste in piping times of
peace. The habit Of thrift awalla
us If we hava the character as a
people now to acquire It.'—From tho
Cincinnati Times-Star.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT J
"The mailed fist of Germany, with
further aid from* Almighty God, will
restore you to your throne," Is!
"Your William's" message to Con-1
stantine, his jobless brother-in-law. j
By this time even Constantino must j
suspect that that "mailed fist" is be
ing held by the Allies for Insufficient
postage.—New York Herald.
Frederick Palmer, writing In Col
lier's, says there are no extraordinary
happenings any more, and that he
may yet have to write about a siege !
of Jerusalem conducted by the Kan
sas National Guard. There are some
fascinating speculative possibilities In
the above remark, the Lawrence
Journal-World points out. One can
imagine a Kansas boy In the Meso
potamlan expeditionary force, stand- j
ing on the site of the Garden of
Eden, thinking of Kansas and wish-1
ing he were back in "God's country." ;
—Kansas City Star.
There is flattery in calling them!
food-gamblers. Gamblers take
chances. —Newark News.
A Kentucky woman shot at her;
husband and killed a Jersey cow j
worth SIOO. A gun is a dangerous,
plaything in the hands of a woman ;
who can't shoot straight.—Kansas 1
City Star.
Liberty Bonds are not yet listed, on
the Berlin bourse. Wall Street
Journal.
Home With Heads Up
I believe that many of the men
who have "dropped out" here at
Plattsburg have come to the conclu
sion that they should never have
"dropped in." That in itself goes
far toward settling the "policy" of
the new method of selection of offl
cers whether of the new army or of
the reserve corps.
It means that the man who must
leave Plattsburg or the other camps
can go home with his head up. He
has been convinced not that he was
unfit to serve his country, but that
he was not fitted to serve it in the
capacity that appealed to him. And
the mere fact that he displayed
enough Initiative to seek command
should be everlastingly in his favor.
Some of the earlier dropped men
from the encampment were perhaps
bitter about it. The later home
farers have been not even philoso
phical about it. They have been en
thusiastic. ready to return to their
homes and do what they could.—
Herbert Reed in the New York In
dependent.
Throw at Unseen Targets
On the commori not two hundred
yards from the hutments there aic
many queer earthworks where re
cruits in the reserve battalion of the
! London regiment are taught almost
under war conditions. They are
! given bombing practice in all Its dif
ferent stages, and the raw recruit
■ finds that the hurling of a Mills is
not as easy as it looks at first sight.
! First of all, the men throw the
I grenades in the open at a well de
' fined mark, until after some weeks'
; training they are able to throw from
! the directions of an observer with
a periscope, who watches for the
i heads of the enemy to pop up. These
I heads are on a hinge, and mp.y ap
pear in any one of a half a dozen
; different traverses or emplacements.
! The observer has to be continually
i on the alert, and the bomber must
also keep all his wits about him. so
that he can %iake his blind throw
as efficacious as possible.—London
Times.
The Honey Bee
Oh, de bee is on de clover.
An" he's singin' of a song
As de sun goes drlftln' over
Where de day Is warm an' long.
Oh, dat bee Is kind o' funny,
Yoh thanks he'l try to win
Foh de sweetness of de honey.
But he'll sting you if he kin —
You hardly don't know wtoat to
say
'Bout sech a blame contrary
way!
Oh, de bee Is kind an' gentle
While he's tollln' through de
hours,
An' a-slngin' sentimental
To de bushes an' de flowers.
Den he'll take a sudden notion
Dat it's time to start a fight.
An' he'l stir up a commotion
Anywhere dat he kin light—-
An' dar Is folks, It 'pears to me,
Dat acts Jes' l,ke dat honey bee.
—Washington Star.
I MUNICIPAL BOTANICAL GARDENS)
>
IT Is a noteworthy fact that the
United States is beginning to
appreciate botanic gardens. This
appreciation may be relatively su
perficial as yet, but the superficial
is usually the preliminary step that
leads to the fundamental. The de
sirability of botanic gardens was not
obvious when large areas in a state
of nature were available to almost
j every one; but when we developed
congested populations in cities and
made artificial most of our open
areas, the thought of botanic gard
ens began to take form.
Those of you who have traveled
In Europe must have been Impressed
by the multiplicity of such gardens.
I They began there in the form of
; monastic gardens, in which the so
! called "simples," used in primitive
1 medicine, were cultivated. Then
I they came out into the open as city
I gardens, chiefly for the enjoyment of
; the people and to beautify the city.
Finally, they became also scientific,
j and gradually led to such great es
j tablishments as the botanic gardens
iat Home, Geneva, and Paris, the I
'great modern gardens on the .out- I
i skirts of Berlin and Munich, and i
! that greatest of all garden establish- !
j ments, the Kew Gardens f London. >
! These are but conspicuous iliiistra- j
| tions of what almost every Koropean |
! city had developed before be began I
Ito think of garden establishments. j
* * * *
There is nothing more artificial
than city life, and therefore nothing i
j more abnormal. Some are able now I
1 and then to renew their contact with j
i the natural and normal, but most l
j are not. A botanic garden brings to!
j the many a touch of what only the ;
i few can secure for themselves. You |
| have doubtless developed some very i
definite and effective ways of ex-1
pressing the social contribution of j
this garden to the life and welfare l
of this community. But to me,
Do**'n With Autocracy
July l, 191",
U. S. S. Prometheus,
Cars Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Would you mind putting this great
piece of poetry in your paper and
waking some boys up at home
Please, and oblig me. I got this
from Our Navy, the magazine of the
service. Harry S. Clark, formerly of
"57 Clinton street, Lemoyne.
The war clouds are gathering thick
in the east.
The peaceful . vocations of men
have ceased.
Go forth into battle, each mother's
son,
To save what our forefathers died
for, and won.
Come on the front with your brawn
and your brains. •
And the spirit of Seventy-six In
your veins,
We need you right now and we need
you bad, too,
Evbry day that you slack, is no
credit to you. •
j i
Our honor's at stake and our coun
try's in trouble.
So take up your arms, to the front
on the double,
Each man do his bit and show he's
a backer,
We all know that God, and the
world, hates a slacker.
Tha eyes of the world are upon you.
young fellow,
Do you want It to see plain as day
that you're yellow?
There's only two channels open to
you,
One Is the khaki and one Is the
blue.
Let us rise In our might to our task
on the run.
With the bursting of shells and
the roaring of guns,
We know that our cause Is most
righteous and just,
And we won't see "Old Glory"
dragged Into the dust.
Hurrah /or Old Glory, the Red.
White and Blue,
And remember the things she has
done for you,
I'orget for a time your work bench
and tools,
Until Autocracy's crushed and
Democracy rules.
speaking in general terms, the con
spicuous social contribution is to
provide the opportunity, and see to
it that all the people take advan
tage of it.
* • • •
Perhaps the most significant con
tact with nature is the handling of
plants. We are seeking now for
an army of people with some ex
perience in handling plants; for
more people who will cultivate
Slants wherever space permits. You
ave been made to realize, tn these
days of testing our resources, that
the most important material prob
lem we are facing as a nation is
the problem of food-production and
conservation. Food-production has
lagged far behind population, and
this Increasing gap must be closed
up. Our science of transportation
has far outstripped one science of
food-production, so that we have
come to depend not only upon a
diminishing food supply, but also
upon transporting that supply across
a continent. To learn to grow plants
and grow them everywhere, espe
| daily near our great centers of
I population, is a crying need.
The development of home gard
j ens, therefore, is not merely a serv
-1 ice for social betterment that all
| recognize, "but it is becoming more
j and more a public necessity. Any
| institution that gives you and your
j children this training is not merely
i an educational institution, but also a
j public benefactor. A botanic gard
i en doing such work Is like a power
| house, radiating energy throughout
i the 'commun'ty. Such training is an
j equipment which not only enriches
I life, but it is also an equipment for
| service.
These two contributions, social
| and educational, seem very obvious,
I but the third contribution needs ful
| ler explanation.—From address de
j livered at Brooklyn, April 19, 1917,
by Professor John Merle Coulter.
Prussianism at Its Purest
There is a world of meaning in
the words of the German General
von Blume, who publishes a review
of the military situation in the semi
official North German Gazette. "With
our three allies," he says, "we now
have to guard ourselves against
thirteen entirely hostile and nine
half-hostile states, comprising the
greatest part of the earth's inhabit
ants. The more enemies the more
honor."
Nothing could be more typically-
Prussian than that. Nothing could
Illustrate more powerfully the extra
ordinary vanity, the amazing conceit
of the German ruling classes, which
has convinced them that the Ger
mans are the chosen people; that
German Kultur is superior to any
other culture, and must be imposed,
by force if necessary, upon the other
and "inferior" peoples. This vanity
is utterly unshaken by the fact that
the great majority of the earth's in
habitants entertain a very different
opinion of the Germans, of German
Kulture, and of Germany's cause in
this struggle.
General von Blume points out that
Germany and her three allies are
now opposed by "thirteen entirely
hostile and nine half-hostile states."
He seems to take pride In this. It
lias not dawned upon him that he is
emphasizing the very fact which is
most damning to Germany—the fact
that the opinion of the great major
ity of manhood is adverse to her.—
Charleston News and Courier.
Civil Liberty
Our responsibility for the wise and
temperate use of civil liberty is' of
general obligation; and it is our ex
ample as a Nation that has sensibly
affected the civilized world. The
image of personal freedom, of order,
of security, of happiness, and at
national -prosperity, which our coun
try presents, has had its influence
wherever learning and commerce
have penetrated. When our revolu
tion began, despotism prevailed
everywhere, except In Great Britain
and her colonies; or If civil liberty
existed at all on the continent of
Europe, it dwelt l|l timid retirement,
in thjs romantlo valleys of Switzer
land, within the shade of the loftiest
Alps. But we have Jived to witness
a visible Improvement In the Institu
tions and policy of nations, after the
tempest of the French Revolution
had subsided, and its ravages were
repaired.—'James Kent (1828),
JULY 7, 1917.
Labor Notes
Men of 22 nationalities work In on©
Arizona mine.
Ohio's 50- hour work week for
women was effective June 29.
Canada has practically no returned
soldiers out of employment.
Bay City (Mich.) Iron molders
have raised wages to $4 a day.
Retail clerks at Beaver Falls, Pa.,
have formed a union.
Chile will organize a system of
Government labor exchanges.
Wages of colored worker* in this
country average SB.6S a week.
Toronto plumbers have been In
creased to 50 cents an hour.
Government employes in #ie Neth
erlands have a minimum wage.
Canada will introduce vocation
training for disabled soldiers.
Chicago stockyards employ more
than 5000 colored workmen.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
| VIEWPOINT.
1 war la always
Can you Im
: aglne what this MtgSeT '
| country would Jjgi*
I be like If no- 3FfL
body ever had /itIV
died for It. ifcgfl /la
1 MORE WAT*
j I THAN ONE.
, I Mr. Titewad:
1 If you married
I Ime for my
I ,) „ / money, why do
you want a
His wife: Be
y jJ p cause I have de
jj /J elded that that
Wm \mS// la easier
uW W// way to get what
I married yot
GAVE IT UP.
"Going to plant potatoes In your
garden this spring?"
"I thought I would, but *hen I
looked up tho way to do It I found
that potatoes have to planted in hllla,
and our yard Is perfectly flat,"
AN INDUI/3ENT FATHER.
"How la John trotting on at col
lege?" r
! "Famously, 1 think, he spent over
ja hundred dollar* Just for books the
[ first tferee months he was there."
Abating
Governor Martin O. Brnmbaogfc It
writing out all of his vetoes In hla
own handwriting this year. Two
years ago the governor made hla
notes and dictated the messages,
often after studying or discussing the
comments on bills given to him by
the attorney general and hla deputies,
Governors Stuart and Tener used to
dictate their messages, but Governoi
Brumbaugh has abandoned that plan
and now writes out his own mcssagei
and sends them to his office to b
copied. The governor has beejj
working on bills at the ExeeutlJ
mansion and plans to handle all thai
kind of business at his official home,
only going to the Capitol to meet en'
gagements, which are being heK
down to a minimum during the con
sideration of bills. Very few people
are being permitted to call on hlra
and to save time he has asked foi
briefs. When the governor gets th
comments from the attorney gen
eral s office on a bill and has all th<
brief in hand he locks himself lr
nts library and writes out hli
thoughts. Many of the vetoes are It
characteristic Brumbaugh phrase
ology and quite a few of them hav<
been surprises. After the vetoes hav<
been written out and compared th<
governor occasionally sends for them
to see how it looks in typewritlnf
and sometimes there is another writ
lng to care for some interlineation!
or some eliminations.
* • *
Thanks to the war gardens Penn
sylvania will probably have th<
P. cabbage and bear
crops In its history according to esti
mates made by men who have beer
studying reports sent to the Stat<
Department of Agriculture. PraC'
tlcally every city and borough hai
reported more gardens than evei
known before and that most of them
have planted potatoes, beans or cab
bage, which crops were all shor
last year. In the country farmeri
have increased the area under culti
vation tremendously, in some in
stances so much as to seriously em
barrass them for labor and the acre,
age given to potatoes is very large
It Is believed that the potato crop 01
the state will go over 30,000,001
bushels this year and that a grea
amount of it will be stored. Th<
potato vleld last year was only 19,
000,000 bushels. Late reports indi
cate that there has been a market
increase in the condition of thi
wheat in practically every district
the month of June having been ver
favorable to grain. The hay crop ii
some sections is not up to expecta
tions.
• • •
The summer rush to visit the Stat
Capitol Is on and automobile partie
from a dozen different states ar
registering almost dally at the offic
lof the guides. The number of vis
I iters registering this summer i
larger than last year, especially u
school parties. Several parties hav
stopped here on the way to Wash
ington.
•• * ■
In all probability steps to star
work on the Capitol Park extensioi
landscape will be authorized nex
week when the Board of Publi
Grounds and Buildings meets. Th
appropriation bill is in the hands o
the governor who discussed it befor
It was reported out.
• * *
The new colors of the Pennsyl
vanla railroad's signal system hav
been attracting much notice and th
use of the yellow, which has bee:
extensively used on other railroad
is rather strange to people Wi
have been brought up on white fli
red. The red remains as the dange
sign, but yellow takes the place o
white, indicating things are cleai
Green is the cautionary sign. Th
I sight of lamps'at the end of train
J painted yellow and showing
I chrome light are a novelty. The
can be seen quite some distanci
too. o
• • •
The cavalry horses stabled over i
the Capital Perk Extension distric
are getting well trained and if the
get to France they will be used t
war's wild alarms. The stable of th
horses Is right close "to the build
ings on which the contractors hav
been using dynamite to tear dowr
Yesterday afternoon about twent
horses were tethered within a shot
distance of St. Lawrence's churcl
where explosives have to be used t
rip apart the walls. There wer
numerous charges used, but th
horses did not seem to mind it
particle.
♦ • •
Governor Brumbaugh la getting
good many letters about the Cam
Curtin Memorial proposed In th
Senate bill now on his desk. Thl
camp site is known from Maine t
California and the attention given i
the newspapers to the bill Avhen
was going through the Leglslatur
has caused many people to writ
their views on it to the governor an
to commend his remarks made o
the subject last wlmer. That th
letters are in favor of perpetuatin
the great mobilization camp of th
Civil War goes without saying.
1 WELL KNOWN .PEOPLE
—Robert S. Conklin, commission'
of forestry, who was sworn in f(
another term yesterday, was one (
the first men connected with the d<
partment.
—Representative C. M. Palmer, i
Pottsville, who was here this wee
had to register under the draft h
cause of one week.
—S. A. Small has been commi
sloned as a justice of the peace f<
Chambersburg.
—Ex-Senator Valter McNlchols, i
Stranton, was among Capitol visitor
—Prothonotary J. M. Cook, i
Somerset, Is 111.
—Howard Ileln*, the chairman <
the food conservation end of tl
Public Safety Committee, is devotii
all of his time to tfie work.
| do youTknow
Tliat Harrisbarg is the dis
tributing point for immense
quantities of anthracite as well
as bituminous coal?
HISTORIC HARRTSBtTRG
In the War of 1812 soldiers we
mobilized along the River Front.
Regular Names
Note was made recently of the e
listment of Ulysses S. Grant, 8
grandson of the great TTnlon gene'ri
In a New York regiment. Enroll
in a Yale contingent now ready f
France Is William H. Seward, 4t
a great-grandson of our famous cl
war secretary of state. Even in
republic there la something gra'
fully significant in these fresh lln
lng of old .family names wl
national affairs of destiny. Inde<
one of the finest features of the r<
demoeratto life might well be t
persistence of otd-fanilly tradltlo
of readiness nnd faithfulness *o t
public service—New York World.