6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XSIfSPAPER FOR THE HOME r.-undid :SJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGBAi'H I'IIINTIXO CO, Ttifgrnpb Building, Frdfrul Square* E. J. STACKPOLE. Prts t Sr EJilcr-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Ma uger. GL'S M. STEINMETZ. ilamcttr Cditer. JL Member American \ Newspaper Pub ' lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Clrcu w *Sii ?■ latlon and Penn sylvania Associ fi£S SR Eastern office, RE| §|| Sm Brooks & ■fjll-lfl Ist m Avenue Building, We*tern office, " Entered at the Post Office in Harrla burg. Pa., as s *cond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mail. $5 00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY. JULY 18, 1917 I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principali ties, nor poicers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall he able to separate us from the lore of God. which is in Christ Jesus our i Lord. —ROMANS S:3S, 39. GOVERNOR AND GOOD ROADS GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH must have had real satisfaction In approving those items of the general highway appropriation mea sure which makes possible the elim ination of considerable sections of tell roads in the eastern part of the: State. In his public speeches on the! subject of better highways the Gov- j ernor has never ceased to hammer! with all the force of his vocabularyl the turnpike hindrances to the de- j velopment of the State. No other j official has ever gone into so many j of the remote corners of the State | and his automobile tours have served j to educate the people to the import- \ ance of intercommunicating high- I ways and a better system of trans- j portation for the products of the j farms. In the midst of war the necessity j for good roads Is being impressed J upon the people and the puerile ob- i jections of demagogues and cheap I politicians have ceased to have ap-1 preciable effect upon those who fire I advocating the permanent treatment! of the main highways of the Com- j monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh has given an impetus to this senti ment which cannot be discounted in any criticism of his administration. What he has done in this regard will stand out as a distinct achieve- j ment, especially the taking over of turnpikes and the obliteration of j tollhouses and tollgates. These bar- | riers to progress must be swept away | and Harrisburg will not be satisfied I until the tollbridges which empha- ] size the old order at our very gates 1 shall have been made free. How long will it take Reed, of Mis- j souri, to find out that the people of j the country are behind Hoover, not ■ Reed. THROW OUT DENMAN THE country is disgusted with j the row William Denman has | kicked up with regard to the J creation of new shipping with which j to combat the ravages of the Ger- ' man U-boats. If the President is; wise he will send Denman in a hurry ; back to practice law in his western home. About all he has done since j his appointment has been to heckle General Goethals, pester those who want to get something done and de- ! lay the whole ship-building program. J The differences between Denman j and Goethals are the differences that! always arise between a theorist and j a practical man. Denman is a law yer nnd knows little or nothing about i such gigantic enterprises as the ship ! construction plan proposed. Goeth-! als is the man who built the Panama canal. He backs up his recommen dations with hard-headed common sense and a remarkable record for achievement. Against this Denman presents his own half-baked ideas. Goethals is the man for the job. The country believes in him. The country, on the other hand, does not even know Denman, and It appears doubtful if he knows himself, or at least his own mind. FAIR PLAY INTENTIONALLY or unintention ally the industrial districts of the North are discriminated against 1 in favor of the agricultural districts of the South in the conscription law provisions as they stand, according to latest dispatches from Washing ton. The draft quotas have been based on the census department es timates of population reckoned from the number of men of conscription age who registered, regardless of j the fact that population in these j abnormal times cannot be so figured, j For example. Detroit, with an actual! population of less than a million, is I given an estimated population of a! million and a half for the purposes I of the draft. This overestimate is' due to the great automobile indus- I tries there which have drawn large- ' ly upon the young manhood of other ! localities for workmen. The alien population, which can not be drafted, is also counted in the census estimates, so that dis tricts employing the largest number of men in Industries, both young . WEDNESDAY EVENING,' Americans and foreigners, would be called under the draft regulations to send a much larger percentage of men to the front than would the Southern States, where Industry has lagged. Not only would a draft made upon such lines be unfair to the young men of the North, but it would drain a large percentage of efficient workmen from the railroads and the war-time industries where they are sorely needed. It is well that this condition has come to light in time for a change to be made. Better a few days delay than that unfairness should creep into the operations of the conscrip tion law or that industry should be crippled. It is bad enough to send a full and fair share of young men to the trenches, without contributing a larger number than an honest in terpretation of the law requires. The British will not give the Ger man U-boats opportunity to sink the four German ships the British have captured. THE PARK m:YKIA)P>rt.\T HIS approval of the measure for the widening of the streets about the Capitol and his as surance that the appropriation for the planting and regrading of the Capitol Park zone will be granted, fulfill the pledges of Governor Brumbaugh respecting the active development of the park area with out delay. The plan to remove the i last building not later than August | 15, also indicates the purpose of the j State officials to maste no time in ! starting this public work. There will be general approval throughout the Commonwealth of the final step in this great public improvement. A German newspaper says Michaelis is a Prussian in the best sense of the word. Good night, peace! EASILY EXPLAINED WHY," asks a correspondent, "does the TELEGRAPH be rate the President and Con gress becase they will not narrowly bow to the wishes of persons and newspapers like the TELEGRAPH and pass a, food bill forbidding the making of alcoholic drink? Why j does a broad-minded paper like ; yours take such a narrow view?" The answer is simple. The TELEGRAPH is reliably in formed that enough foodstuffs went to the making of alcoholic driuk last year to feed 7,1)00,000 people for a whole year. This tiewspaper cannot understand i why Congress should let stand on the ! statute books laws that will result in some men starving in order that others may get drunk. That's all. Old Saint Swithin appears to have put one ovfcr on the Weather Man. A HARMLESS GERMANY j AKAISERLESS, junkerless Ger many will be a harmless Ger many. Why? For the same reason that a czarless Russia is a harmless Rus sia, so far as ambition for world control is concerned. Tlfe German people have been woefully misled. They have not been without blame, it is true. They have supported their officials in the policy of "frightfulness" and dlsre- • gard for the rights of others. Never- j theless, it was the system and not the people who brought on the war and responsibility for everything that has come about since then must rest j finally upon the ruling classes. Democracies do not fight democra- j cies. Make a democracy of Germany i and militarism would die a natural ; death in Europe. Our sincere sympathy for the farmer who is caugh* with his hay and wheat unharvested. USELESS DELAYS IT is not likely that the Dauphin County Court will countenance j the manifest scheme of delay in j the Hardscrabble proceedings. City i Solicitor Fox is doing his utmost to' bring this matter to a final issue and the never-ending objections of the counsel for the few persons who are endeavoring to block this im provement are not likely to impress the court. There should be an end I to the whole matter and unneces-1 sary delay will not conserve the rights of anybody concerned. According to the news dispatches, the German Crown Prince has left for the front—that is, as r.ear the front as the Crown Prince usually gets. PRESIDENT AND SUFFRAGE PRESIDENT WILSON'S opposi tion to woman suffrage is "stupid and stubborn," according to Mrs. Abby Scott, speaking for the suf frage crusaders at Washington, and she adds: The real trouble is that the President does not believe any won-.an is the equal of man. No woman could look into his face, as I have done, and believe other wise. In the language of the melodrama "them is harsh words." but not alto gether undeserved, perhaps. If mem ory is not at fault, it was less than a year ago that the then candidate for re-election appeared before a gathering of suffragists and, if he did not promise to support suffrage, at least he let his audience think that he intended to do so. However, one cannot blame the President much for turning a deaf ear to persons who haunt his front gate, night and day, and persist in waving obnoxious banners in his face every time he stirs from home. It isn't pleasant to be President and have to dodge out of your back gate every time you desire to leave home without getting into a fist fight with a delegation of husky amazons. The suffragists have not taken a course designed to get them very far with the President, and what is worse, they are "getting in wrong" with his wife. And any husband will tell you that's no way to begin to curry favor with the head of any house, whether of the White or just the plain, side-street variety. | EDITORIAL COMMENT "1 Count Seebach, of Berlin, says: "It Is In vain to desire to win Americans with civilities nnd sentimentalities." I Never heard the submarines called I that before.—San Francisco Chron | lcle. The Kaiser's wrath over the de thronement of his brother-in-law, the King of Greece, makes It plain that the Allies had very good reason for insisting on this step.—Oshkosh Northwestern. A Mexican paper of pro-German | stamp, called La Defensa, having I proposed a war to regain California I and Texas, and an American officer with a Prussian point of view hav ing proposed seizing Mexican oil wells. we can call it even.—New York Evening Post. In this period of multiplied mis sions the country frowns only on omissions.—Newark News. Bethmann-Hollweg will take Into retirement one consolation. Having refused up to that time to make pub lic notice of America's entrance into the war. he will now never be com pelled officially to undergo the hu-' j initiation.—New York World. i Evidently the American people j think more of the Red Cross than j they do of the iron cross.—Oshkosh I Northwestern. The Day of Reckoning (New York World.) A new German Chancellor cannot add a single soldier to the hard pressed armies of the empire. A new German Minister of Ma rine cannot add a single gun or ship to the Grand Fleet that has been bottled up by the superior sea power of the Allied navies. A new German Foreign Minister cannot add a single grain of wheat or a single potato to the scanty food, supplies of the German people. I So much for the Ministerial crisis! and its effect upon the conduct ofi the war. The Kaiser, the autocracy and the I war party may believe that the sac rifice of Ministers under whom Ger- j many has not achieved victory wtlll allay public discontent, but the dis-I content is certain to arise in a more; intense form when the German peo-1 pie discover that nothing ot' material | or military advantage has come of I the changes. Primarily, it is not dissatisfaction 1 with the political state of Germany i but dissatisfaction with the military i state of. Germany which is respon- Bible for the agitation that compelled j the Kaiser to ;,'et rid of his Chance!-| lor and his other Ministers. If the I German armies were winning victor ies in the field, if the German sub marines were starving England and I the German fleet were challenging!' British supremacy of the sea, there would be no political crisis in Ger many and no serious demand for po litical reforms. A Sound Veto [Philadelphia Ledger.] Governor Brumbaugh is to be warmly congratulated upon his veto of the Stern bill forbidding the dis semination of knowledge or infor mation relating to birth control. The measure was reactionary in the ex treme, it was introduced and passed without opportunity for public dis cussion and without full disclosure of its source and purpose. And its enactment by Pennsylvania would have fastened upon the State a stigma of narrow-minded ignorance and prejudice which it should not deserve. The movement in New York and other States for the repeal of laws limiting the freedom of physicians and others in conveying information which would save the health and lives of countless thou sands of women Is based upon mo tives of the highest altruism. It has won adherents from many thought ful students of social progress, and i f is backed by arguments so hu mane and sensible, by reasons that make so compelling an appeal to common sense and sound judgment, that men and women have been will ing to make great personal sacri fices in behalf of the cause. Laws such as that which Governor Brum baugh has just vetoed are based upon the principle that It is better to have been born an imbecile, or into squalor and suffering, than nev er to have been born at all! Hap pily Pennsylvania is not yet ready to have that hideous doctrine made a portion of its penal laws. N. Trade Briefs A full equipment for the manufac ture of carbonic acid gas is needed by a firm ut Cartago, Costa Rica. Bids have been opened by the Navy Department Bureau of Sup plies and Accounts, at Washington, D. C., for navy type stockless an chors. Prices on tile and slate roofing, mantels, tiling, interior finishing ma terial and other building supplies are wanted by a firm at Barnesville, Ga. There is a market for cotton, worsted, artificial silk and building j materials at Lyons, France. A cannery equipment suitable for' preserving cabbage is needed at Flor ence, S. C. Data and prices on a Portland ce ment plant of a two hundred bar rel daily capacity are requested by a firm at Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Ornamental moulds for cemen/ work are In demand at Muskogee, Okla. Catalogues of American construc tion materials have been asked tor by a firm In Santo Domingo. Bicycles and accessories, varnished leather, condensed milk, talking ma chines, glass phials, sewing ma chines and stoves are in demand at Calcutta, India. A municipal water and lighting plant is to be installed in the city of Orlando, Fla. Construction firms who are interested should correspond with the city clerk. A firm at Athens, Greece, desires to represent American manufactur ers of bottles, brushes, canned goods, candies, clocks, copper and many other lines of goods. Paper, printing presses, watches, hardware, paints, sjap, perfumery and glassware are needed at Kara chi, India. Catalogues and prlcelists of all klrn'a of American goods are wanted by the American Chamber of Com merce for Italy, via Victor Hugo, No. 4, Milan Italy. Books on trade in formation are also welcomed. Brazilian coal deposits in The Peixe River valleys are to be exploited bv the government and a railroad com pany, American railway supplies and construction materials will be needed. There is a market for fans that could be operated without electricity at Aden, Arabia. Consul A. E. South ard suggests that fans using burning spirits or kerosene for power would make large sales. Catalogues are needed. Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pre sents a good market for American confectionery. To insure the best re sults capable representation of the manufacturer should be esta llshed. Light agricultural implements that can be worked by hand are - -eded badly in China. Small h. aullc presses suitable for vegetable oils are especially wanted. It is not at pres ent possible to introduce heavy m r.hinary into thin murkat. f HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH '"potttlca ut By the Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh's reduction j of ths appropriation to the Auditor General's Department by $122,000 and his veto of measures in which Auditor General Charles A. Snyder was personally interested such as the State Salary, State Finance and Revenue and Economy and Ef ficiency Boards, announced last night after two days of discussion, are | generally expected to lead to strife I between the executive and the con- I troller. Each side appeared to be | waiting for the other to -make a statement to-day. On each side there were declarations made privately that the tight would go to a tlnlsh. The Governor issued his action on i the general appropratlon bill at 8 o'clock last night. It was prepar ed for noon, changed to 3 and then held up until 8, while the Oovern or was discussing items with heads of departments who had gone to him after his letter of condolence on having to use his ax. The Gov ernor had no statement to make beyond what he said in his message to the effect that lack of revenue forced him to make cuts. Mr. Sny der said this mortiing that he in tended to "analyze" the Governor's action later on. Next to the Auditor General's De partment that of the Commissioner of Health suffers the most and while the cuts do not mean that sixty stream inspectors will lose their jobs, there will be material reduc tions. Commissioner Dixon is in Philadelphia. The action of the auditing end of >lr. Snyder's department late yester day in declining to recognize the payroll of the Department of Agri culture signed by Secretary Patton, ne of the officials reappointed by the Governor after rejection, opens the battle and a court test of the Governor's right to reappoint will follow mandamus proceedings to force the Auditor General to honor the payroll. He says privately he will not pay on such requisitions. He will speak publicly later on. —Governor Brumbaugh's request that people interested in bills now before him file briefs instead of seek ing hearings or interviews does not appear to meet with much ,of a re sponse. In order to handle the tre mendous mass of bills still before him the Governor has given up going to the Capitol and remains all day and most of the night in his study at the Mansioil. People wanting bills signed have- found this out and in stead of going to the offices in the Capitol are besieging the Mansion. Very few of them get to see the Governor. Resenting the seclusion which the Governor has been forced to place himself several legislators have demanded to see him at th official residence and one member angrily refused to leave without see ing him yesterday. The Governor's action In staying away from the Cap itol has aggravated the condition which prevailed during the session when legislators complained openly that they had to wait days to see him. —Now that the general appropria tion bill has been cut over two mil lion dollars and half a million taken from the highway bill, it is expected that the Governor will veto about two more millions from the four hundred hospitals and other appro priation bills in his hands. The Gov ernor has until July 28 to dispose of bills and will immediately after leave for a rest. It has not been announc ed where he is going. Attorney Gen eral Brown, who has been working with the Governor on bills and see ing many of the irate callers, will go to Lake Placid. —One of the interesting develop ments in the controversy between Auditor General Snyder and his predecessor, A. W. Powell, which is attracting state-wide attention, came last night when W. B. Kay, corpora tion clerk under Powell, and one of the men involved in the effort of the Auditor General to get Powell to return certain disputed papers, put out a statement blistering the former Auditor General. The state ment was threatened most of the day. It was reported at hand in the afternoon, but turned up' after 9 o'clock last night. In it Mr. Kay quotes the letter of Mr. Snyder per mitting him to practice in the de partment, and then says: "I have been silent because I preferred to talk after the establishment of the truth. Even now, Mr. Snyder's let ter says practically all that need be said. He has all the facts, and wrote the letter in their light. What Mr. Hess said last week of Mr. Powell's violation of my friendly confidence, is true. Ke is guilty of seltish and cold-blooded treachery against men who sacrificed their interests and risked their reputations ft>r his sake when he, above all other men in Pennsylvania, stood in need of friends. In order to attain his own ends he was willing to let innocent ren suffer for his act. I am not go ing into details, —the Auditor Gen eral has them all." —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times takes an editorial fling at the Gov ernor for his action on the highway bills. The Pittsburgh paper savs that the Governor is apparently about "to see it through," notwith standing his own ideas on certain matters. —State Chairman William E. Crow came here yesterday with one of his sons on his way to the seashore. "I'm on my way for rest. It is what we all need," was his comment. —Berks Democrats appear to be bent on raising a row and may have something to keep company with the effort to prevent reappointment o{ District Attorney Francis Fisher Kane. The Berks Democrats want the seat of Congressman Dewalt and there are mentioned Charles B. Spatz, the Boyertown statesman; Ira G. Kutz and J. E. Warner, of Read ing. with School Superintendent E. M. Rapp in the oftlng. —The Philadelphia city commit tee contests are at last being heard by committeemen. 4 Let Us Build, Not Boast (New York Sun.) Germany has evidently embarked upon the building of aircraft In pro digious quantities. And no wonder. Every audible voice in the United States from newspaper and magazine to prosy orators in the Senate has been raised to tell*the glad story of how we shall presently blind the stubborn Teuton with our clouds of planes, as yet unordered and unau thorized. The boasting was vocifer ous enough to penetrate the inmost chambers of the German War Office. No wonder the Teutons got busy. Yesterday it was announced that the great Zeppelin shops at Frledrichs haven, on Lake Constance, are being remodeled for the purpose of making airplanes. Bearing thfc Cross Daily And he said unto them all. If any man will come aftar me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.—St. Luke, IX. 23 '] ! When a Feller Needs a Friend . e y briggs j | j Copyrighted 1917 by The Tribune Aisoc. (New York Tribune). THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Wants Free Bridges To the Editor of the Telegraph: I saw a statement In an evening paper about annexing a part of the West Shore and vicinity to Harris burg. A few men claim that over a thousand people want to b an nexed to the city. I wonder 'f they consider a lot of thousands that don i want to be annexed, until Greater Harrisburg and the West Shore have a couple of free bridges across the river—say, one at West Fairvtcw, one at Wormleysburg and one at New Cumberland. And modern bridges, not any old kind of a sucand-liana bridge so narrow that peopl* wear their clothes out passing each other when walking. Wake up, you nar row-minded thinkers, and let's have the free bridges first. Yours respectfully, DAVID H. FRANK. License and Constitution To the Editor of the Telegraph: The liquor license question Is a question that will not down. It is an old saying that no question is ever settled until it is settled right. Com promise or the "choosing of the leasi of two evils" only prolongs evil It self. In Pennsylvania the accepted law of the State vests the granting of the license to sell "liquid damna tion" In the discretion of the court. Until it is licensed, the saloon is an outlaw. The license simply legalizes the outlaw. Much" is being said about the revenue the traffic pavs the Gov ernment in the effort that is now being made to shield the outlaw from execution. Yet, so far as we know, no decision of the courts has ever recognized the license system as pri marily a "revenue" producer, but only incidentally as such, and as pri marily "a police measure." (See de liverances of the United States Su preme Court.) The aim of all good government is the destruction of outlawry. The United State? Constitution "puts it thus: "to establish justice, insure do mestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our poster ity.'* The whole influence of the liquor traffic is opposed to this entire aim of government. It does not "es tablish justice," but heaps Injustice upon individuals, the home and the state: It insures the destruction ol domestic tranquillity": it is against "the common defense." furnishing a rendezvous for the anarchist and the criminal ir times of quiet.. and so dangerous to the common* defense that, when riot threatens, the saloons are at once closed for the sake of "the common defense": it injures "the general welfare in a multitude of ways: and. to-day, it Is unwilling to Play the patriot's part by ceasing the destruction of foodstuffs during the war, when lack of food to feed our armies and those of our allies is threatening the "liberty of ourselves and our posterity." Every legislative and judicial offl- CROP PEST LETTER By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist POTATO APHIS GREAT damage to the new tip leaves by green lice or aphis on potato vines is now observed by growers in many parts of Pennsylvania. Numer ous letters and telephone calls for immediate aid have been re ceived in this office. These lice multiply rapidly, and appear to come in from outside sources, but really have develop, ed from a few unnoticed adults. Arsenate of lead, paris j-reen and Bordeaux mixture are use less, because the lice puncture the plant with a tiny beak, and suck out the sap. Spray with nicotine solutions or tobacco de coctions mixed with water and soap, according to directions. Don't use a sprinkling can, for material Is wasted and treatment Is not effective. Buy a sprayer to suit your needs for it Is money wisely invested for treatment of many kinds of crops. cer of the state is sworn (or affirms) ' to support this (United States) Con stitution." I raise the question. How can any legislator vote for the enact ment of any law that would legal ize a business (?) that strikes at the fundamental aim of government as delimited by the Constitution and do so without violating his oath of of fice? I do not say that the violation ■s intentional or realized, but. never theless !t is beyond my comprehen sion how any man can by any act or his help to make legal any bus iness (?) that tends to destroy the things for which good government aims as stated in the Constitution and not violate his oath of office. Ana what of the man to whom the legis lature has committed the discretion of legalizing this outlaw? He is bound by the same oath "to support this (United States) Constitution." Granted, that the legislature may have provided for the licensing of the traffic; does that necessitate the court to do it if in doing so there is established an institution that tends to destroy what the Constitution he has sworn "to support" declares to lie its aim? or ,if he does so. can he do so without violating his oath of office, whether it be deliberate violation or not? For one, I cannot see how any man can "support" any constitution and at the same time help establish anything that will strike at Its foun dation principles. And their oath of office, if kept inviolate, it seems to me, would compel the legislator to refuse to enact license laws, the gov ernor to refuse executive approval t<r them, and the court to construe them as unconstitutional. Speaker Baldwin is reported to have said that "the peonle of Delaware county have heretofore shown their preference for the liquor traffic by their support of men favora'Jle to the business.' Thus far h<> was r'ght, and he might have widened his stale ment by substituting "Pennsylvania" for Delaware county": but he was not right when he went on to say that they had "no ground for com plaint." It might be so ,>f those who v Jted for such men, hut it is not true of those who registered their oppo sition to such election at the ballot box. These have still the right to demand that every man in office keep his oath of office Inviolate and to complain against anv act of !efrlsia ture or court that violates the aim or Rovernment as stated in the Consti tution. The primaries nnd elections are coming on In our State. There Is a large number of Judges to elect. Will not the wise citizen seek to place '"these places of respons'hiUtv nun who have a keen sense of their obli gations to the people them, and the fundamental claims of the Constitution which they will swear to support, and the courage to live up to their highest and best convic tions concerning good government? If the liquor traffic is the greatest menace to our land, will not the good citizen put Its destruction first among his political aims? in lPl? a new legislature will be elected. There are enough people oppose] to the liquor traffic in Pennsylvania to kill it at that election. If they will all stand In one solid phalanx at the should it not be done? hy should we retain upon our stat ute books any law that strikes at the roots of good government, or why should all such not h-> cut >lown by the ax which our courts i an wield tutidnal"? b * ars " 1e narn ® "Unconstl- B. E. P. PRUGH. Democratizing Germany Are we beginning to have our way with Germany? Pershing's army, the destroyers, the Liberty loan, the registration, and the draft seem to be undermining German autocracy. The German people we devoutly hope are beginning to realize that America means business. that an overwhelming victory for the Ger man arms is out of the question. Some of their leaders are openly de claring that the imperial German government blundered outrageously when it forced America into the war. A new spirit prevades Germany the spirit of protest. It Is giving the empire an unwritten constitution which, if it. persists, will greatly modify the written constitution. Only a few years ago Wllhelm II declared (and the written constitu tion Justified his so declaring): "There Is but one master of the em pire. That is I. I will tolerate no other." To-day there seem to be two —Wllhelm- and public opinion, with public opinion the stronger. Chi cago Tribune JULY 18, 1917. OUR DAILY LAUGH MODERN BATHING. He: You must be very fond of "he water, I see you here every day She: I am! I love to sit on the .en. IF IT SHOULD HAPPEN. "How did you avoid the draft?" "Easy, my wife was medical ex aminer on the exemption board." A NUTTY QUESTION. "Pa?" "Well, my son?" "Pa, after an army has shelled the enemy do they eat the colonels?" PA'S BIRTHSTONE. Daughter—Pa, wljat is your tlrth •tone? Father of Seven (wearily)—Til# ffindstone, I guess, toy child. % A MISNOMER. "I can't understand why they call this a pleasure car." "Why not?" "The blame thing has riven me nothing but trouble." Intoning Qllfat "Distribution is the governing fac. tor in the price of foodstuffs In Pennsylvania and as soon as we can accomplish that there' will lie a pro nounced change for the better," de clared Secretary of Agriculturo Charles E. Patton to-dny, in talking about the range of prices. Mr. Pat ton has Just returned from Washing ton, where, ho says, there will be a prolonged fight over the food con trol. "There is no excuse for tho high prices we had to pay last win ter, to my mind, and 1 hope they will never come uguin. They should not if we are able to work out plans for distribution," he continued. Mr. Patton said that the state authori ties had been working up co-opera tive organizations for the sale of l'arni produce and that a number had found it profitable last year, because it got their crops into better mar kets and whence the distribution was well handled. What the stato needs, however, is more such organizations. "If we can get them," said he, "the lurmer will get better prices and the products will be more widely dis tributed and made available for more people. Distribution is the keynote." Mr. Patton saigl that he believed tho approval of the bill creating the btate Bureau of Markets In th De partment of Agriculture would do much toward improving conditions and that no time would be lost in getting it into operation. It gives broad authority in case of food Bhortage, to power to confiscate rars of foodstuffs. Under law of this kind any storing of potatoes in cars for high prices would be hazardous. The State Highway Department has lost several of its chauffeurs aa a result of the mobilization and the formation of truck companies. Two of the officers of the Supply Truck Train were in the Highway Depart ment, one being the chauffeur for Chief Engineer W. D. Uhler. Sev eral other departments have lost men who have gone into various units formed In this section. One of the clerks of the Adjutant General's own office enlisted. From all accounts the Pennsylva nia National Guard takes the field with better equipment than many of the Guards of other states and it Is due to the foresight of Adjutant Gen eral Stewart, who began placing con tracts for everything from socks and shoes to hats as soon as the war clouds began to lower. The General Assembly made a generous appro priation for the purchase of supplies with the result that not only were the men in the Guard well provided for but that when the recruitment to war strength began there were arti cles on hand to take care of the new men. Fortunately Pennsylvania has an abundance of funds to provide for such matters and the militiamen will be "found" very well. The city's island was one of the most popular places in the city last night and both ends of it had many visitors. The camp of the Guards men attracted hundreds of visitors and somo of the militiamen and many visitors went to the lower end to see the Reserves drill. The use of the island for military purposes is something new, but it is attracting attention to the advantages of the city's property for not only athlettc contests but as a beauty spot and as a recreation and drill ground. • • • Lloyd Mitchell, of the Auditor General's Department, is asking peo ple if they believe thirteen is a hoo doo or a good thing. Mr. Mitchell* sa>'s the other day the conductor of a fast train on the Reading reached Harrisburg with thirteen people in the parlor car and his receipts were sl3. On the return trip he started from Harrisburg with thirteen peo ple and at Reading thirteen mora boarded the car. The crowning fact about it was that the trip was on Friday, the thirteenth of July. • • • One of the notable things about the "war gardens" that are blooming all over the city and its suburbs is the rivalry between the owners and the gardeners. Out on the Hill there is a race to see whose cabbages look the best at the end of the week and the man whose potatoes have blos somed is accounted very fortunate. The weather and the late planting have combined to hold back the flowering of potatoes and each plant, to show its colors is given recogni tion. And then its owner goes about talking of its progress. • • • A motorboat now conveys the lit tle folks to and from the municipal camp at Island Park, V. Grant For rer, superintendent, having procured the little craft for the period of the camp. Despite the rain the girls have had music the past few days, one of the talking machines used for folk dance music at the playgrounds hav ing been provided and Commissioner Gross personally contributing the records. Despite the rain the girls have been having a good time. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE } —Representative A. B. Hess, of Lancaster, who was here yesterday on legislative matters, is active in his county's big tobacco trade. —Bromley Wharton, secretary of the State Board of Charities, believes that tfte market farms are going to be one of the big factors in feeding the state this year. —George Wharton Pepper, chair man of the Public Safety Commit tee, is taking an active part in many of the plans to further the recruit ment of Guard organizations to full strength. —General A. J. Logan, command, er of the Second Brigade, has taket up his headquarters In one of the big office buildings overlooking the city of Pittsburgh. —John T. Dempsey, the miners" leader, says that the men in the mines owe It to the country to pro vide an adequate supply of fuel to make munitions. —A. M. Janney, prominent Phila delphian, is in Vermont for the sum mer. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg castings are used on the streets of many state towns? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Paxton creek furnished the power for the first furnace to be erected for the manufacture of iron in Harris burg. Wouldn't Care to Be Quoted German soldiers are getting tired of war, but they can't say much about it until after they are cap tured by the enemy.—Toledo Blade. American Efficiency It's got so that the economical housewife can split & pie evenly among a family of nine or ten per sona.—Detroit News,
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