6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded /ij/ (Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlus, Federal Square. 'K.J. STACK POLK, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Bus in ess Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor, j jd Member American | C. "WlraaaiP Gas Butufing! Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as s icond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, 15.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY. JULY 14, 1917 Who steadfastly pursues his goal Despite what winds prevail, A'or loses courage from his soul Can never wholly fail. —Susir M. BEST. PRICE OF PROCRASTINATION THE government has taken over one of the pieces of fire appa ratus built f.or the Harrisburg Fire Department. If Commissioner Gross had pur chased the Are apparatus last year, when all manner of machinery was lower in price and before the war made government confiscation a ne cessity, Harrisburg now would have all its engines and pumps and the government would be confiscating the property of some othen city. We are paying the price of pro crastination. THORNS OF DELAY THE watchword, "Too late," which has marked so many of Eng land's contributions to the war is plainly to be attached to the pro posal to inaugurate a great naval offensive against Kiel, Heligoland, Zeebrugge and other German naval bases. If the British grand fleet had at tacked Kiel at the outbreak of the war, and before its waters were mined and its land defenses strength ened, there is no doubt that the Ger man seapower would have been im mediately demolished. That Is pos sible now, but at a far greater cost than would then have been neces sary and to which the American fleet—as Winston Churchill suggests —will be asked to contribute. In the event of such a proposal we can hardly refuse. But we can make sure that the laboring oar is taken by our British allies. We imagine that even Josephus Daniels will in sist upon this. IN FIRST LINE TRENCII THE Republicans in Congress have done themselves great credit by the manner in which they have disregarded partisanship In support of every measure tending to strengthen the administration in the conduct of the war. Not every measure has been passed in the form requested, it is true. In fact, most of the important bills have been freely discussed and amended, with manifest improvement as a conse quence. By debating and perfecting the measures Congress has helped rather than hindered the adminis tration in the ultimate winning of the war. The one piece of legislation for which the administration made the most persistant tight was the so csl'.sd spy bill, which would give the bureaucrats almost absolute power over free speech and a free press. Undoubtedly the enactment of that law in the form desired would re move many unpleasant features from the management of the war, but it would hinder rather than hasten victory. With the censorship powers established, we should have had no exposure of the slaughter of nurses on American ships by defective American shells. There would be no discussion of standardization of munitions and guns with a view to securing intercliangeability. There would be no exposure and no danger of exposure of neglect in providing healthful shelter and food for the eoldiers. There would be a complete bar to disclosure of favoritism, sec tionalism, and bad Judgment in the letting of contracts. With a" law on the statute books suppressing pub licity, there wouid be encouragement of carelessness or fraud. Neither carelessness nor fraud can win or help win this war. When it was proposed in the Sen ate to ask the War Department for information regarding the sizes of guns and shells used, defenders of the administration protested that this would be jeopardizing our interests by giving information to the enemy. Nothing could be further from the fact. If Germany wants to know what size of shells we use, she has already gained tho information. But that Information would be useless to her, for our shells would not fit her guns, and she has no means of get ting possession of them until they are delivered from the muzzles o.f our guns. When a Republican Sen ator asked for information regard inr the lnterchangeablllty of Amer- SATURDAY EVENING, ican munitions he rendered a distinct public service for which he should be thanked rather than criticized. An examination of the record will show that Republicans have been constructive, patriotic and effective in their suggestions upon matters relating to the war. They have some times been the means of securing legislation over the obstructive ef forts of Democrats. Because tho war places the President and the members of his cabinet in the lime light, th assistance rendered by j members of Congress is frequently overlooked. But history, when written impartially, will tell a story of efficient and patriotic service of which Republicans will be proud. TURN OUT TURN out to-morrow and pay tribute to the brave men of Captain Stlne's company who will leave for their mobilization point at Chambersburg. We who remain at home owe a debt of gratitude to those who take up the burden and the peril of the soldier in our behalf. It is a small thing to rise an hour early Sunday morning to see these, our neighbors and friends, off and bid them God speed with our hopes for a safe and triumphant return. Captain Stine is an active and a useful citizen. He lays down the duties of business and official life at the call of the country. Once be fore he marched away on a some what similar mission. Some of the men who went with him then will be in the company he will lead to morrow. It is not often that such an honor comes to any man —to take part in two wars for the freedom of the seas, for the great cause of lib erty and the furtherance of democ racy. Here is a man who well might have said he had "done his bit," and who would have been of great serv ice at homo during the crisis, but who has set aside all personal feel ings and interests to take up the duties of the man in the trenches. Soon he and his men will be on the fighting front in France. Some of them may not come back. If we are to do honor to the captain and the men of Company C we must do it to-morrow. Turn out in the civilian corps if you are not a member of one of the organizations that will march, and give the boys a rousing sendoff. Make them understand that the folks back home are with them, heart and soul. OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN WHEN our new crop of lieuten ants leave Niagara, Platts burg and other officers' train ing camps to take up their assign ments with the national army, they will be "officers and gentlemen" in the best sense of that classic phrase. And the second half of the phrase is held as important as the first in the United States army. There has been much marveling on the part of the public at the number of would-be officers who have been weeded out after two or three weeks trial In camp. There Is a mystery story be hind many a dismissal of a young fellow with every indication of be ing good physical and mental ma terial. One was told the other day b>\ a young training-camp officer on leave. There was a young man in his company who had shown first-grade qualities. He was a fine physical specimen, a natural executive and lAuier, and had done faithful and efficient work. One day some ladies were watching the drill. As this man's file came past the drill sergeant overheard him make a joking remark about the lady vis itors that was obscene in its nature. He was hauled before the command ant at the close of drill. Others who overheard the remark were called as witnesses. He was dishonorably discharged from camp on the ground that a man who could make such a remark about a woman was not a gentleman and so unfit to be an American officer. He might make an ideal colonel of a Prussian regiment assigned to Bel gian raid duty, but he won't do to command Uncle Sam's "Sammies" In France. "We don't keep a man, either, who expresses the slightest wish to go," said the officer. "No one is wanted who Isn't consumed with enthu siasm And bent on making the high est mark of efficiency," and nearly all are men of this caliber. The saddest trip in the life of many a young training camp officer is the trip home attar being honorably discharged be. cause of some minor physical defect, and nine-tenths of the young men who come back are in that class. These should not be confused with the few who are weeded out to keep the morals of the camps u|j to the high standards required physically. It is to be hoped that the youngmen who will be called to the colors to make up the first great army will be as well safeguarded as are those In the officers' encampments. fp CK "P-KKC^tca)iXa By the Ex-Committeemaii The Democratic row over the re appointment of Francis Fisher Kane as United States district attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania, is grow ing acute. The people opposed to him have marshalled quite an im posing array of names and are said to have made remarks which may be forced to a hearing. One the side of Kane there has lined up Roland S. Morris, the former State chairman and prospective ambassador to Ja pan, who is quoted In the Philadel phia Record to-day as saying that he never said anything against Kane. Morris also said that he would like to see Kane named again. The fact that Morris came out and said that ho "desired" to see Kane reappointed Indicates that the Dem ocratic bosses have swung in for Kane and his reappointment can be expected. The reappointments of Berry, Kurtz and others show that they are still powerful with the President. If the reappointment is made, however, a row can be looked for at the meeting of the State com mittee next year and an antima chine State "nomination ticket at the primary would not be surprising. —The Democratic Philadelphia Recoctl to-day summarizes the situ ation in the matter of the reappoint ed officials: "Auditor General Charles A. Snyder, .who was a visitor here yesterday, persists in hi s determina tion to hold up the salaries of the eight Stats officials reappointed by Governor Brumbaugh after their confirmation had been refused by the Senate. The Auditor General will re fuse to sign the pay warrants of the eight officials, and as State Treas urer Kephart is unable to pay them unless their warrants are signed by the Auditor General It will be nec essary for court action to test the right of the Auditor General to with hold his signature from the war rants. In order to clarify his posi tion on the matter Auditor General Snyder made it clear that he does not intend to hold up departmental requisitions or warrants. Only the individual warrants of the eight non confirmed officials will be withheld. This plan will permit the other em ployes in the departments of the eight officials to receive their sala ries regularly as in the past." —Auditor General Charles A. Sny der, much to the chagrin of many persons who have been hoping to stir up trouble, has decided to defer making appointments until well on In the autumn. He has named only a few men since he selected his chief aids in assuming office and they have simply been assigned to duty as clerks without being formally ap pointed. The Auditor General said a few days ago that it was his plan to keep things running and as to the loyalty of men in his department he was not losing sleep over anything like that. There has been much in quiry, especially among men con nected with the State administra tion, about when Mr. Snyder will name a deputy and when he will do a number of things with which he is alone concerned. Without much fuss the taxation bureau of his depart ment is going ahead with settlements and the receipts are expected to make a fine showing for the first alx months of the Snyder term. The Au ditor General says he will make his appointments "by and by." —The manner in which nomin ating petitions fbr associate Judg ships are commencing to be filed at the State Department is attracting attention. The time for circulating such papers started less than a fortnight ago, and there are already almost a dozen on file. The time limit is August 10 by which time it is probable that there will be a long list. There are more associate Judges to be elected this fall than for years. —Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh has about 160 bills of general char acter and probably 400 appropria tion bills to dispose of before June 28. He has vetoed 106 bills. It is ex pected that he will clean up appro priation bills by the end of the com ing week. The Army as a College I wouldn't my army trick for a similar period- of time in college, though I never went to col lege, parttly because of my going into the army. In truth, the army proved to be my college. It enabled mo to get most of what college would have given and much more which it could not have given. In addition to travel, adventure, physical development, it so turned out that X obtained much from books. When I enlisted I was un educated; on discharge X was fairly well educated. The one thing individual soldiers have in abundance is time. Even on the firing line, time ofteh hangs heavily. In camp it overwhelms. There are hours and hours with naught to do but await mess calls and roll calls —those invariable, un necessary, often senseless, linings up. The monotony becomes more fearsome than bullets. If a man has any inclination toward the print ed word, he cannot help reading— provfded he can get anything to read. Ofter for \jveeks at a time I read a book a day. How I obtained them seems a mystery to me now. They appeared to fall like manna—they were mental manna—from the. sky. Books, papers and magazines in practice were common property, each being passed along through a system of loan and exchange untif worn to shreds.. Some one sent us a large supply of old magazines. I've heard that it was Helen Gould, now Mrs. Shepard; if so, God bless her! —Aaron Hardy Ulm in Collier's Weekly. • 1917 We have heard the music ringing From the camps of long ago; We have seen the allied armies Tramping forth to meet the foe; We'll now take up the battle song, That all the world may know, That we are marching on! We have heard the bugles calling To the sons of other days; With its stirring notes commanding, There is time for no delays; Let's Join with England's lion's roar, The Yankee eagle's scream, As we go marching on! We have heard the voice of wailing, Belgium writhing in her pain; And our hearts grow cold with horror. At the tales of children slain; We are marching o'er the sea to help. Her freedom to regain, Old Glory's marching on! Though half the world's between us, And many leagues divide; Our souls are intermingled, And our hearts are side by side; You have called to us, f) Belgium! And the banner of the free, For you is marching on! —By W. T. Southwick, Auburn Prison Convict —With Apologies to Julia Ward Howe and John H. Jewett HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! THERE ARE GOLF CUPS, AND THEN JUST ORDINARY CUPS -> By BRIGGS Ijljp Vy \J (TTiiirn *z? £ '' Lu LETTERS TO THE EDITOR "A Message Unto All Nations" To the Editor of the Telegraph. See Genesis Xl—ln the land of Shinar, was Sh m the Son of Noah, who lived five hundred and two years after the flood, but during the first one hundred years of his life before the flood, his generation in the land of Shinar began to build a city nam ed Babel and it was within this city they had started to build a tower of brick, whose top was to reach heaven for a Name of honor unto themselfs. So God came down and said, they go unrestrained to do what they imagined to do and God therefore confound their language that they could not understand one another's speech and not one other brick was laid by them to further build the tower or city when God did scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. likewise, Shall ye be visited with the iniquities of your sins and the prosecution of this world . war? Wherewith ye seek to destroy my works and annihilate the Soul-life of my plantations? which God only can give and maintain, until their alloted time on earth was finished without restrain, then God will re claim them as his own. And yet, this Soul-life is forced across the Life-line to stand before Him as evidence of your guilt Thou Shalt Not Kill? It will not be neces sary for the waters to give' up its death nor doth God require the graves to give up theirs in order to prove your guilt Thou Shalt Not Kill Nay, your Soul-life is all-suffi cient for God to interfere with the conduct of his own household where in your action and the cdnduct of your character are bis soul-consider ations, as to the extended interest each Soul afld Nation has taken for or against War and participating therein to release life from Earth with a liesire of worldly honor and wealth for the selected few, their only aim in life is to subdue, Instead of rearing and maintaining life unto its maturity, the principal point in the redemption of Souls from evolu tion is to keep them in' line with their own future Soul-development and a further procrastination of this principal is a direct violation of God's evolutionary Soul-dellverance from earth to heaven, r While this world war is the cause of God's cup running over, he will no longer withhold your reward for the damage ye have wrought in his household as keepers of all Soul-life which ye have slain, and this no et-rthly foe can never reclaim with justice as your reward towards God or Man. Thus ye have earned what God will give you within or soon after (30) days of this writing, a change equally to living in a desert to feed your millions of people on and your works or factories will be useless on account of your mixup in mind to prevent a further better ment of your condition until the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who will then rule the world so that all righteous souls can live in peace as their only salvation to build your future on, and His second coming will be with in less than one thousand years, yea', less than one thousand months will bring Him here, not to be crucified, but to rule the world. So if ye now lay down your arms and war no more, then God only can stay this awful change and mixup, but if ye prefer to fight on using God's Soul life for further material strife in Life against God and Man, which is in reality a direct hindrance to Mother Nature, then God will cause this change and mixup to come upon you sure, so that ye will neither war nor live as ye lived before, by a single touch upon this earth with His right hand can God bring this change and mixup in less time than the two words can be spoken. . And' should it come to pass in less time than 30 days, then ye may say why I didn't tell ye so, but to this-4 must say, that I, could not have gave ye even this much time to lay down your aims, because war is a submission of man to the devil who in this manner after all his previous methods have failed him to destroy all good Chris tian civilization God's people have accomplished here on earth for the future welfare of all mankind. This message must reach unto all nations and If their leaders don't act, then It's people must act. So let us all act and pray unto Christ to help us eve® now to stay God's wrath. God has told you in the Scripture that he will not again des'troy his world, but that he instead will elim inate all wicked and self-future gen erations to inhabit thereon. Amen, 324 Hiimmel St., Harrisburg, Pa. J. G. H. KOHLHAAS. Occult Scientist. July 14, :o::. To Citizen, Steelton If the correspondent from-Steelton who signs himself "Citizen" will fur nish this office with his name and address a representative of this news paper will call and take up with him the matter about which be writes. HOW ADVERTISING HELPS THE ' No. 2—RETAIL ADVERTISING By P. S. FLORE A, Secretary-Manager Associated Advertising Clubs of the World THAT advertising does lower the cost of getting goods from the maker to the final user finds forceful illustration in the fact that advertising, fcv speeding up the busi ness of a retail store, brings sales up while other certain fixed costs of duing business remain the same. That Is one of the thoughts which were brought out by some of the biggest businessmen of the country at the ann.ual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World at St. Louis, June 3 to 7. As every one who has thought the matter over at all well knows, there are certain costs of doing business, such as rent, heat, light, insurance, fires, general management expense, etc., which go on constantly—which exist whether busin.ess is plentiful or scarce. All these costs must, of course, be included in the gross profit, or the mark-up, so-called. It will be readily seen that still more customers could as well be waited on in a store at apy time and this applies even to the busiest store. The same storerooms would accommodate more, so the rent would not need to be increased. The same insurance, taxes, light, heat, general management expense, etc., would cover the needs of a considerably bigger business. It would only be necessary that a feiv more salespeople and cash girls and delivery boys should be employed, so that the increased cost of sell ing more would be comparatively trivial. Advertiser Has Profiler Stocks The growth of the business, bring ing about the resulting economies, has been more marked because the advertising merchant, selling his "German Press" of America "I have found here a very active I German press, which neglects no opportunity to misrepresent and distort whatever may be said by a representative of the Allies," said Lord Northcliffe at a dinner of the Over-Seas Club, byway of apology for reading a prepared address in stead of making an impromptu speech. It is not merely by dis torting and misrepresenting the utterances of representatives of other governments that the "very active German presg makes its presence and its purpose known in this land. This "German press" shows its hand by constant attacks upon the policies of the American government and upon the vital in terests of the United States. The most flagrant instances of offending appear in the columns of newspapers which seek to disguise their treasonable activities under a camouflage of Americanism. A newspaper which contends that "conscripted" soldiers should not be sent to Europe—where alone this war can be won—comes perilously near to putting itself in the Berk man-Goldman class of patriots. When a newspaper contends that this country has no other war nim than to bring about the democratiza ton of the German people it shows that its concern is for the German people, not for the people of the United Stifles. A newspaper which seeks to "muddy the waters" of embargo by crying out that we must let n'eutral nations have all the sup plies they seek —well knowing that some at least of those neutral na tions are acting as middlemen in supplying Germany—is as pro- German as it could be if published in Berlin. German language newspapers are the lesser offenders; they do not get far, at best. The most sinister pro- German and an.ti-American cam paign now being conducted in this country is that of the portion of the "German press" that uses the Eng lish language.—New York Herald. Perils of Tarpon Fishing While fighting a large tarpon weighing about 200 pounds at John's Pass yesterday morning, Miss Freda Solomonson of Tampa came near losing her life when her necktie became entangled in the reel and tightened around her neck, gradually choking her to llfeless ness. If the line had not broken Miss Solomonson would probably have been choked to death. —From the St. Petersburg Times. Plenty of Both The draft comes next, and men will be given as freely as dollars for the defense of the country.—Phila delphia Bulletin goods faster "turning his stocks oftener" in the parlan.ee of trade— has been able to have fresher stocks, the best styles, etc. By turning the blow flame of his ad vertising on a certain department whose goods might otherwise move slowly, he keeps the stocks moving in season, and so has new goods at the beginning of the new season. The public, knowing this, natur ally prefers the advertising store, and this feeling on the part of the public helps keep up the bigger volume of business which keeps the cost of doing business down. Buys Goods For Less The merchant who does the big gest business buys the most goods, and It is the man who buys the most goo*ls who gets goocit the cheapest. Here, aigain, sd\ lng helps the public. The j bber or % manufacturer, shipping in bigger quantities to the bigger buyer, re ceiving his mon.ey promptly and be ing at a smaller expense in various ways, is glad to sell for less to the businessman who buys in big quan tities. Nonadvortlsors Would Win Out Advertising men know, of course, that if advertising were not a public benefit, the advertising store could not long survive, for nonadvertis ing stores would soon rise on thd busy corners of our great cities and drive the great advertising stores >ut of business. rf'V'llli It is for the purpose of demon strating the great truth that ad vertising is a public benefit, as well as a benefit to the businessman, that the advertising clubs have ap pointed a committee, headed by Prof. Ralph Starr Butler, of New York University, to gather eviden.ce upon this subject. Reviving Flying Wedge Old football players remember the flying wedge, how hard it was to break up, and what a consistent ground gainer it was. Well, he fly ing wedge has been adopted by Ger man airmen and they used it in their recent destructive visit to London. They flew goose-fashion, in a way that may be described as the "goose step of the air." A big machine flew at the apex of an angle, with other machines, regularly spaced, trailing backward in two long lines, ten or more 011 each flank. It is said that this formation was, perhaps, the cause of the failure of British air men to stop the attack or to prevent more of the German filers from get ting back home alive. The London raid and the severe criticism it has caused to be aimed at the British authorities lend new interest to American plans for the war in the air. The nation which produced the inventor of the aero plane should .certainly be able to make as good flying machines as other nations and should make them not by hundreds but by thousands. The war is going to be won in the air, for the reason that the airman is the army's scout nowadays and without scouts an army would be at its enemy's mercy.—Savannah News. / CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist. THE ARMY WORM The army worm sometimes ap pears in great numbers without warning, devouring crops of sev eral kinds, especially oats and corn. Garden and truck crops usually suffer severely at such tlmei Since army worms appear without warning, be prepared for immediate control. Army worms are a species of cutworms with a habit of travel ing in great numbers from field to field seeking food. Two controls are available. Poison bran mash scattered before the moving hordes, or deep, straight-sided furrows tutned toward the on coming, crawling caterpillars. At intervals pf 10 to 20 feet dig post holes in the furrow into which the worms drop, to be killed later by a light spray of kerosene. Make poison bran mash by mixing 20 lbs. of bran, and V 4 lb. parls grcAn, moisten and mix to a stiff mash with water, Juice and pulp of three oranges or lemons, and one quart of cheap molasses. Broadcast thinly, where needed. JULY 14, 1917. Labor Notes The Building Trades Council of San Mateo county, California, Is erecting a labor temple In San Mateo which will cost f 10,000. Membership in the United Textile v\ orkers of America has increased by over 16,000 since the 1916 con vention. At the request of the Imperial Government, Australia is sending a large number of laborers to Britain for war work. The town council of Ayr, Scotland, has decided to grant additional war bonuses to employes of the various departments. x. Pi P e f* tter s at the United States Aa\al Torpedo Station at Newport, R. 1., will form a union. Piece workers in the textile trades or Mexico have secured advances of from 4 0 to 100 per cent. , Ri Spain's 19,500,000 population, 4,000,000 or about 21 per cent are engaged in agricultural pursuits. A municipal day nursery has been started at Stoke Newington, Eng land, for the use of women muni tions workers. 1 nnn W i or l c st . ate has an average of 1,000 industrial accidents a day re quiring treatment from first aid up. OUR DAILY LAUGH l f\\ ' OUCH! ( ci J'j Dr. ( Am os Skeeto—l think n • I'll take that fellow's blood PreSSUre! pm FROM AN - _ ECONOMICAL, C VIEWPOINT. i ft V V Do you be y lieve In early sfj , marriages? iM i Jwk a\ Yes ' With the \ cost of living as An iOn' [ I high as now I'm ™ jßr ' ,ncllned to the I I ;i •/.,) belief that the illllli fi !|[ l. 'T 80 <>ner he girls lil WM-' I |f are married off tbe better. fj I know a man who had a hun (£ dred aurtain •jl I ?>\ calls a week. |;| /]• j I suppose he > \ was a matinee IIK No, he was a till J house furnisher. HIS so ,, OC. OOPATJOH. / Reggry —win ff lhiVM you marry me li U ilil &S3 1 stop sm°k | SjL |j| |lng cigarettes? ilMi /■ Rem: i -yTk V ' ■ couldn't think VSJk i of marrying a •;* W) JHH man who dlf nothing. rr^n I V J \ FEMININE J \ INTEREST. J What do e b /J your wife think / of the special articles you are rC j wrltlns? V••( A I Oh, she's very X *A\r *\f , much interested fl —always asks me, as soon as I / ? \Tget home, if I f \ X/* have received / \\ the check yet. lEtontng (Hljat An interesting fact in connection with tne announcement that Au gusta, Ga., has been selected as the place for the training camp for the Pennsylvania National Guard is that it was in a camp at Augusta, called Camp McKenzie, in which a num ber of Pennsylvania regiment* saw their final service in the Spanish- American war. The keystone state organizations which were sent from Mt. Gretna to Camp Alger and which were later concentrated In the Sec ond army corps camp at Camp Meade " near Middletown, together with organizations from a number of other camps, were sent to the Au gusta camp the early part of No vember, 1898, and remained there until March of the following year. In the regiments which went to tha Augusta camp were the Eighth, Twelfth, since disbanded, and Thir teenth, which made up the Third Brigade of one division of the Sec ond army corps and were command ed by General J. P. S. Gobin, elect ed lieutenant governor in that year. The Sixth Regiment from southeast ern counties and some of the west ern regiments also went to the south ern camp site which is to be occu pied again. • • • An unusual application to be heard by the Public Service Com mission next Wednesday is one by the Pennsylvania, and Cornell and Lebanon railroad companies for ap proval of the right of the Pennsyl vania to operate aad maintain the railroad and rolling stock of the lat ter as agent. The application is the first of the kind to come before the commission. • • • A well-dressed, intelligent looking stranger wandered into the Capitol building last night, looked all about him in wonderment at the beauties of the ipterior as seen>from the ro tunda, and then accosting an official who was passing by said: "Beg pardon, sir, but would you please tell me what building this Is?" Tableau and information. • • One of the new policemen at the Capitol who has not yet acquired his uniform, met up with a stranger near the entrance to the big build ing and they engaged in conversa tion, in the course of which the stranger remarked: "Seems strange to me that be sides- the police I see here to guard this building there are not some plainclothes men here. Uniformed men can always be spotted, but a plainclothes man cannot." "Think so?" said the guard. "Oh, yes," was the reply, "ther ought to be some plainclothes men here." "Perhaps there are," said thw guard, turning back the lapel of his coat and showing his Capitol police badge. The stranger looked foolish. • • Thousands of dollars are going into the formation of new coal com panies which are applying for char ters from the state government and the number of such companies re ceiving letters patent to do business in the Keystone state since the first of the year is probably greater than ever before in any similar pei id. As high as nine have been chartered in a week and many of them have authorized capital stock allowances of $50,000 or SIOO,OOO. The coal companies chartered since January 1 have almost all been for the soft coal field. Only a few companies have been formed to deal in coal and M virtually none td mine anthracite.® • Men who are on the National Guard reserve list will commence to find out that it means active serv ice if they are willing and able to stand the test within the next few weeks. The call of the Adjutant General for the National Guard to mobilize to-morrow contains refer ences to the reserve for the first time In such an order from General Stewart's headquarters. Enlisted men are to report to commanding officers of the organization stationed near where they are located and, if convenient, to the commanding of ficers of the organization from which they were furloughed to the reserve. The reservists are to be considered as temporarily attached to such commands and notice given to the Adjutant General. The last strength report showed the reserve for the first time and on July 1 the total of officers and men in such a class was 677. * * • Dr. I. K. Urich, Lebanon county legislator, was among visitors to the Capitol yesterday. Dr. Urich came to see how things have been going since the General Assembly adjourn ed. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^ —Paul H. Galther, named on one of the district exemption boards, is one of the leaders of the Westmore land county bar and a prominent Democrat. —Judge O. H. Bechtel, of Schuyl kill. who has been endorsed for re election, is the son of a former judge of the county. —W. 11. Schwartz, the Altoona editor, is very ill at his home in the Mountain City. —Dr. Russell J. Smith, active in Philadelphia food conservation, is making speeches on practical ways to cut down what i not needed at meals. —Agnew T. Dice, president of the Reading, in an address to employes, assured those wh6 enlist that they can have their Jobs back by prompt ly applying for them when their terms end. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg woolen goods arc being used In the navy? M HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first state arsenal built In Harrisburg was in the Capitol grounds. Fallacy "Germany's claim that she imports nothing, buys only of herself and so ft is growing rich from the war, is a dreadful fallacy." The speaker was Herbert C. Hoo ver, chairman of the American Food Board. "Germany," he went on, "is like the young man who wisely thought he'd grow his own garden stuff. This young man had been digging for about an hour when his spade turn ed up a quarter. Ten minutes later he found another quarter. Then ha found a dime. Then he found a quarter again. " 'By gosh,' he said, 'l've struck a silver mine,' and, straightening up, I he felt something cold slide down his leg. Another quarter lay at his feet, lie grasped the truth. There was a hole in his pocket."—Washington Star.
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