8 fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenlags except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING .CO, Telegraph Bulldlug, Federal Square. E-J. STACK POLE, £r Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as 8 :cond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a tuKlsSsasil* week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY JULY 24, 1917 Keep your face always toward, the sunshiny, and the shadows will fall behind you. —M. B. WHITMAN. TAKE THE VOTE THE Senate is pledged to take a vote on total prohibition by con stitutional amendment. This is a proper move, whether it Is forced by "wets" or "drys." It is just as 1 well for the public to know where both branches of Congress stand on I the subject. Even though the reso- j lution were defeated at this time the j vote would show a great increase in j prohibition sentiment and would be that much gained toward the day when this country shall be rid of the curse of drink. The reign of King Alcohol is almost at an end. Every move that is toward his de- j thronemeijt is to be encouraged, I whether it is immediately successful or not. The trouble with the Russian sol diers is that they think Bryan was right in his doctrine of making war by debate. DAYTON'S CAMPAIGN DAYTON is now in the midst of an energetic campaign for and in the interest of the mainten ance of the city manager form of government. Great headway has already been made since the change a few years ago from the old sys tem and while certain political in terests are doing their best to un horse the oity manager, the people are determined that the efficiency of the new system shall not be lost to Dayton. In the July number of "Town De velopment," a magazine devoted to community betterment and improve ment, Martin Keet, a former mem ber of the TELEGRAPH staff, con tributes an article on the public golfing facilities of Dayton, which he describes as a welfare experiment 1 in which all the people of the Ohio city are interested. Dayton has a large-hearted and progressive citizen in John H. Patterson, head of the National Cash Register Company, and he has earned the everlasting gratitude of his fellow-citizens by , presenting Dayton with a great play ground which was formerly the country club of his employes. It is ' now the Community Country Club and is one of the most promising of the municipal welfare activities. This club is open to every man, wo man and child of Dayton and is op erated and maintained by and for the people. As a community club it is particularly inviting to the large number of Industrial and other em ployes who need the benefit of out door recreation. Harrisburg has a somewhat simi lar recreation ground in our great Reservoir Park, but the Dayton plan has been worked out on the basis of community enterprise and the in terest as a result is city-wide. There is music and dancing and all sorts of outdoor sports and the result has been the general betterment of the city and its people. Probably no city in the country was more in advance with respect to public golf and tennis than Har risburg and there has been for some time public discussion here of danc ing in the open under municipal aus pices, Anything which will increase the contentment and happiness of the community should be provided. It is for this reason that the civic activities of Harrisburg have always embraced proper facilities for the recreation of the people through the parks, the Susquehanna Basin, the public golf links and tennis courts and the playgrounds for the chil dren. No other city has done more for ita men, women and children in a Comparatively short time than our own beautiful home city on the Sus quehanna. But we can always learn something from other municipali ties and even In these war times we must be awake to the importance of providing for the health and com fort and pleasure of the people. The Crown Prince has been almost as successful in the Champagne as he was at Verdun. STREET REPAIRS COMMISSIONER LYNCH t believes that he will be able to have the paved streets in more or less satisfactory condition befora the cold weather of next winter. Owing to labor conditions and the difficulty in obtaining necessary ma terial at the opening of the season the asphalt work was delayed, but considerable headway has bean made TUESDAY EVENING. recently and it is thought all im portant repairs will have been com- 1 pleted before next winter. Harris burg's reputation as a well-paved and clean city must be maintained, and Mr. Lynch Is in accord with the spirit of the city in this respect. He must have the co-operation of indi viduals and public utilities to secure the best results. Kerensky appears to be headed to ward everlasting fame or oblivion, and it is not apparent at this moment which. HELP THE RETAILERS THE attention of TELEGRAPH readers is called to the adver tisement published the past few evenings in this newspaper by the retail branch of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce, addressed "To the Patrons of Harrisburg's Re . tail Stores." The merchants have undertaken to follow out the recommendations of the Federal authorities with re spect to conservation, of energies and expenses during the war, to the end that needless work may be avoided and prices of retail wares kept down as low as possible to the consumer. Free deliveries have been one of the chief sources of an ever-grow ing "overhead" In many of the stores, and It is to the correction of this evil—for evil it has come to be —that the retailers have turned their efforts. After careful consideration, always bearing in mind the conveni ence of the buying public, the mer chants have summed up their re- I quests to patrons in the following brief and simple code: FIRST—When shopping, do not leave the story empty-handed. Carry parcels with you to the ex tent of your ability. Help to make this "the fashion." SECOND—When you have goods to be returned, do not leave home empty-handed. If all customers would carry small parcels for ex change. the saving of time in de livery departments would amount to thousands of hours annually. THIRD—Do not buy merchan dise until you are sure you are going to keep it. Make a careful selection a habit. FOURTH—Avoid C. O. D. pur chases whenever possible. FIFTH—Shop early in the day, if possible. Stores must have a sufficient number of salespeople all day long to handle the trade at the very busiest hour. To help us distribute the business more evenly, would result in great eco nomy—to us and eventually to you. SIXTH—Any articles of mer chandise, which for some good reason is to be returned to a store, must be returned within a reason able time—five business days. NOTE—The merchants of Har risburg confidently expect to do a greater volume of retail business during the war than ever before. This has been the experience in England. However, this increased business must of necessity be handled with fewer employes and the public's co-operation will make more and better business possible. Please remember, when these new regulations are applied to your personal affairs that the men who used to render you so many extra services and the capital that was employed in many ex pensive privileges are being turned over to the United States Government to be used in the prosecution of the war. Study those instructions well, for in the end they are going to save you money. Bear in mind that "free deliveries" never have been free. You have paid for every package which the merchant brought "free" to your home. Merchants must earn a profit on every transaction, if possible, and the buyer .s assessed in addition to a fair margin of profit op his purchase a charge, trifling to be sure, on every package that goes out of the store in order to pay the cost of making the deliv eries. "Free deliveries" have enter ed into the cost to you of every ar ticle that goes over the counter. Re move this large and ever-increasing charge and merchants will be able to sell for a little less than before. "Free deliveries'' were started by merchants anxious to draw trade to their stores thereby. As individual enterprise this was all very well, but when It reached a point where a shopper demanded delivery of a spool of thread to her home five or ten miles from the store enterprise became a burden alike to the store keeper and the buyer. The delivery system has been growing steadily and the costs have been piling up. Economists have been protesting against it as a needless expense and a senseless waste. Everybody knew that the limit of endurance was ap proaching and the war has been the last straw on the camel's back. But this is only one phase of the problem. The war will take—al ready has taken, Indeed—many men from the working forces of the stores, and business is increasing in volume as the prosperity of the country increases—so that the men who are now driving delivery wagons and arranging for deliveries within the stores will be needed to fill the places of those who have gone or will go into the army or other lines of war service. More business is to be handled by fewer salespeople, as the merchants point out, so it is important that as much effort as possible be eliminated and the energies of the depleted store forces concentrated upon service to the customer. However,- the merchants are not going to unreasonable lengths. Some free deliveries, of course, must be maintained. Thero is no other way out of It. But for the most part if you insist upon the delivery of ar ticles which you could easily carry, you will have to pay for t'ne priv ilege. This is fair, in order that the men and women who enter heartily into the package-carrying plan may not be assessed that you may go free. Help the merchants In this and you will be helping yourself as well. "Do your bit" as a shopper. CK "~Pe.KKOljCca.KUi> By the Ex-Commlttccman Exclusive of appropriation bills, only eight bills of general character 'remain on Governor Brumbaugh's desk and they will probably be dis posed of before Saturday night, when the Governor will leave for a vaca tion trip. The appropriation bills are listed and the amounts are being gone over by the Governor in con sultation with Chairmen Woodward and Buckman afld Secretary Whar ton. The general bills in hand include the judges' salary increase measure, which affects eight or ten counties; the bill to suspend the full crew law during the war and the fish code. The Governor has given no intima tions as to what he will do with any of these bills and he is receiving considerable mall about the latter two. —Harry S. McDevitt, who will be come Deputy Auditor General next month, to-day practically closed up the work of the Economy and Ef ficiency Commission, whose elaborate data and reports will be filed at the Capitol. The name of the first deputy has not been disclosed by Auditor General Snyder, who will name him in September. —Mr. Snyder is getting ready for anything that may turn up in the controversy over his refusal to recog nize the reappointed officials. He declared to-day that he would await any action taken by what he termed the departments upstairs, the Execu tive and Attorney General's depart ments being located on the second floor of the Capitol. —An interesting announcement in Pittsburgh is that Joseph A. Her eon, prominent in the Monongahel? Valley and well known here, will be a candidate for senator from the Washington-Greene district. Thf Democrats have had this district for several .years, the last Republican senator from Washington having been Senator Burke. Mr. Herron will enter the lists early and will be strongly backed. —Ex-Senator Ben Jarrett, of Mer cer county, is being strongly favored for the Republican congressional nomination" in the Twenty-eighth district. —The Public Service Commission's approval of the Philadelphia transit applications last evening will end a situation which threatened to mak trouble. Mayor Smith was urging the state commission to act and ra scnted the refusal some time ago when Commissioner. Hagee opposed the issuance of the papers. Now the commission has put the whole mat ter up to the mayor by approving the applications. It is understood that last night's vote on the approval of the plans was not unanimous. —The Scranton Republican says: "That Mayor E. B. Jermyn may throw his hat into the ring in 1918 for the Republican nomination tor state senator to succeed Senator W. M. Lvnch. now superintendent of the Farview Hospital, was the state ment made by one during the week who is in close touch with the local political situation. Mayor Jermyn, his friends believe, would make a formidable candidate. It is early for anything in the way of candi dates. but Albert Davis, who tried for the nomination against Senator Lvnch, Attorney C. P. O'Malley and Representative Hugh Dawson have been mentioned as possible candi dates." —Schuylkill Democrats, through the executive committee of their party, and the Republicans, through their committee, have indorsed the candidacy of H. O. Bechtel and of C. E. Berger for judges of Schuyl kill's court of common pleas and other aspirants are practically out of the contest. This was made the more emphatic when John F. Wha len declined to permit petitions to be circulated for his nomination. Mr. Whalen, who is the solicitor for the Reading Railway in this region, is a member of the Democratic ex ecutive committee. Bechtel is a Democrat and Berger is a Repub lican. Their indorsements are made without party preferences, but are given in accordance with the prin ciple of a nonpartisan judiciary. Ef forts made to defeat these indorse ments fell to the ground. Berger was recently appointed judge by Gov ernor Brumbaugh. Judge Bechtel has been on the bench for years. —The Philadelphia Ledger, in a Washington dispatch, says: "A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance C. Mc- Cormick, recommended by Governor Brumbaugh as members of the Ex emption Appeals Boards in Pennsyl vania, have not yet indicated wheth er they will accept the honor. This was announced to-day by Secretary of War Baker. Both these Demo crats strenuously opposed the four Republicans serving on local exemp tion boards on the ground that they would be candidates for office in No vember. They carried their protests to Secretary Baker, who has not yet acted on their cases. In the mean time Governor Brumbaugh sent the names of these leading Democrats to the President for the appeal boards. It is believed that Mr. Mc- Cormick will decline on the ground that he is a member of the Export Commission and that his duties here will prevent him acting in Pennsyl vania as a member of the Exemption Board." —According to administration in spired rumors there will be changes in the State Commission of Agricul ture and probably a change in the 1 chief of the Bureau of Mines before the end of the year. —Governor Brumbaugh last even ing named four more members of the Monroe County Committee of PROSPERITY BULLETIN "Business will be what we make it. We are hoping that there will be enough optimists to offiset the pessimists. We be lieve it is time enough to lay down when you are knocked down, and we are going to push our business MORE than ui-ual. We see evidenco of a rapidly in creasing disposition on tho part of all businessmen along the same lines." MULTIPOST COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y. HARJRISBURG frfßSftX TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! ... ... ... ... ... By BRIGGS \WHV GEOR—-~ v I Q ulTe A ) .Sirjce. i (SAVAJ Yoo LAStj "The POPULATION O<= \ A WEEK LATTER N J ftORiOEO IM-1903 UJAi \ c — —— —v r~)72i/Lfr ~34-3,676. o/ f?EUCMuE, WAS l °9\ •" HE H * S *1 /'You REAUZ6 I SURe! \ (7tZ floft ] /w nMiSP J 11 dance to heav fvJl W'liAv en with you. ♦ $. II Young Maa ■My fi| —And rermSßT?! GETTING JB-- making any progress with father calls you utead of a mutt. •'HmQ I _ __ REGULAR I CINCH | Nobody can say - T/ you don't know f '*v3l ow t0 danc# A] these days. you don't r. j inn flE* dance as they do, pC - may be a new jjjf step you have. J a J And nobody is IM { going to run th® 1 risk of criticizing v a new ste p Why did you - mai Bm ask Alice to I'd never heard her be f ACCOMMO DATING. ? Bill JJlrd: Oee, this hotel U great; they even send you op a towel! OWES IT TO GRATITUDE. OL Tou ought to do something \\ v-tQ A MM for that cold. / BB What. After t j the way It haa treated me ? u| || tEtoning fflljat There is one camp in Harrisburi which is important to the 17,50 i men of the Pennsylvania dlvisioi and yet it has not attracted on< ninetieth of the attention bestowe< upon the camp of the units of th< Kighth Infantry at the island or th; plattoon camps of the First am Third Infantry scattered about thi section. This camp is in every wa: a model affair, exactly in accorc ■with regulations, and one of th' busiest places in the state. It is a the state arsenal, where the quarter master's corps has been camped foi Hie last few days for the adminls tration of the equipment and sub sistence of the guardsmen called ou on July 15. This corps has a tre niendous task because it had to pro vide the food and many other thin',: for the dozens of units scattered ovt the state. The men in home station! at Erie, Williamsport and othei cities, as well as Pittsburgh an< Philadelphia, are supplied by order! from the tents at the arsenal as wel as the men who are forming th truck trains at Mount Gretna. Ai immense amount of detailed worl has to bo handled at this camp ant the officers in charge work until lat( at night. They are in charge o Colonel Harry C. Trexler, the chie quartermaster, who handled the sub Eistence and equipment at Moun Gretna last year when the men mo biiized for service at the Mexicai border. The camp is not a very bij one as compared to that at the island but it is a very vital one to the sol diers who have answered Uncle Sam' call. Residents in the vicinity of Losh'i Pun, along the main line of th< Pennsylvania railroad twenty mllei west of this city, were mystified a fev nights ago by mysterious rays o light playing across the skies an< along the ridges of the nearby moun tains. The light apparently cam from a point in the country back o John Doyle's property on the eas bank of the Juniata and those dowi on a level with the river were at t loss to explain the puzzle. It wa plainly a searchlight, but as then were no electric light plants near b; the idea of German spies and Zeppe lines began to flit through the mind of some. The mystery is still un solved, but it is strongly suspectei that one of the lads encamped at th Boyd Memorial cottage known to b an expert with storage batterie knows something about it. • • • There is not a more nelghborl community of summer cottages alon the main line of the Pennsylvani than the families encamped at Ac queduct. Last week they held neighborhood picnic at Bailey's Sta t.ion which was attended by mor than forty, young and old. The tabl that was spread would have brough a frown of displeasure to the face o a food dictator, but the picnic part greeted it with howls of deligh After dinner there was baseball an everybody took to the river for frolic upon their return home. • • • "Nothing to flsh for but eels an I wouldn't catch one if it was th only flsh in the river." was th lnment of W. B. Bennett yesterdaj "Bill" is one of the most enthusiasti bass fishermen in this city; also on of the most successful. The river have been stirred up by the rains an the creeks have been no better. Ben nett fishes with artificial bait am the things he takes along to attrac the big black bass are hideou enough to give a person the "willies. But he tosses 'em into the water a the end of his line and thebass svvln right up and take hold. Probabl determined to get the nasty thing out of the water as soon as possible somebody has suggested. • • * Some of the people about the Stat Capitol are of the belief that th Mount Gretna camp, on which th State has spent thousands and thou sands of dollars the last twent: years, will be used for somethini after all in spite of the location o camps in New Jersey and Maryland It is believed that it will be used fo leserve recruit organizations whei the guardsmen go to their trainini camps. . Nowadays an organizatioi Is maintained and things are differ fnt from the Civil War, when the: let a regiment lapse after its tim expired. • • • According to a man at Hazleton who has written to one of the de partments of the state government the raising of potatoes from peeling has been successful. Governor Brum baugh suggested that It be tried las spring and there was a more or les gusty controversy over the idea. Ho tel men said that It was possible am feasible and some men said that i only worked occasionally where th soil was good. The Hazleton ma: seems to have succeeded under ad verse conditions. • • That the United States govern i ment is very much in earnest abou Keeping liouor away from Its men li uniform is well demonstrated by th manner in which people traveling ii a Pennsylvania Railroad car th other night were handled. It seem that a soldier was on the train and i man who belongs to the type tha cannot travel without a flask inslstei upon giving the soldier a drink. Be tore anybody got out of that car h had to give his name and everyon was subpenaed to appear at a hear ing. Colonel Theodore Burchfield, o the State Library, who celebrated hi seventy-fifth birthday yesterday, wa a member of the old Harrisburi Riflep, a number of whose member went Into the One Hundred ad* Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Rett ment, which was commanded by tS late Colonel W. W. Jennings. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —John T. Dempsey, the miners leader who was re-elected dlstrlc president the other day, has hel( that office for several years and 1 one of the best-known miners' lead ers in the state. —E. E. Loomls, president of th Lehigh Valley Railroad, is on a tou of the lines in the Wilkes-Barre re glon after a vacation in the Adiron dacks. —W. J. Baird. well known li musical circles here, Is active in th movement to have community sing lng among soldiers before they go t camp. —Magistrate Robert Carson, wh was one of those rejected at For Niagara, has been drafted as one o the Philadelphia recruits. —Senator E. E. Jones, of Susque hanna, who was here yesterday, ha< just come from New York and othe cities and said this was the hottes place he had struck. DO YOU KNOW That with all its enlisting Har risburg has boon supplying many men for farm work? HISTORIC H.VRhISBURG The first church bell was on th Reformed Church at Third am Chestnut streets