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fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
Pounded IS3I
Published evenlags except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING .CO,
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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.
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burg, Pa., as 8 :cond class matter.
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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.
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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.
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Safety stating that he did BO at the
request of A. Mitchell Palmer.
—The city of Reading has about
given up the idea of collecting poll
tax which has yielded $28,000 a
year.
—Hazleton is considering trying
out the city manager system and
there are some men who are study
ing whether it can be done under
the third class system.
—John C. Schafer, one of the first
members of the Palmerton town
council, says he has had enough of
politics and will quit.
—Secretary of Internal Affairs
Paul \V. Houck was presented with
silver by his former associates In
the Schuylkill county commissioners'
office.
—Philadelphia city Republicans
started out yesterday to get a rec
ord enrollment for the fall election.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "In
itial steps in the preparations for the
registration of voters and the filing
of nominations for the fall election
were taken yesterday by Executive
Director William E. Finley, of the
Republican City Committee, who for
wards the necessary blanks to the
various Republican ward headquar
ters. All previous registrations are
void. It will be necessary for every
one who desires to vote at the No
vember election to be registered
upon one of the three days fixed for
registration of voters prior thereto.
These days are Thursday, Septem
ber 6; Tuesday, September 11, and
Saturday, September 15.
Stitch in Time Saves Nine
"Yankee vultures" are we in the
eyes of the Weser Zeitung, because,
forsooth, we are taking advantage of
existing conditions to corral South
American trade. "The efforts of the
North American money princes and
their hireling Wilson to grab trade
with So'Mh America, and especially
to throttle with golden fetters Brazil
and Argentina, assume constantly
more ruthless form"—the sum of the
offending of the aforesaid "money
princes and their hireling Wilson"
being that they are "attempting to
swallow Germany's share of trade
with South America, amounting to
$337,000,000 a year."
The plaint of the Weser Zeitung,
organ of German shipping Interests,
Is well grounded but misdirected. In
stead of criticising the United States
and American merchants for taking
advantage of conditions not of their
own making, it should turn its bat
teries upon those at Berlin who
brought "n this war and created the
conditions of whioh it complains.
That will come, but too late: some
body in Germany should have
thought of it when the Kaiser and
the junkers decided to plunge the
world into war.—New York Herald.
Discontent in Germany
This discontent Is not political. It
is economic and military. Every
pound of food that can be kept out
of Germany by such measures as the
embargo that President Wilson has
proclaimed will increase it. Every
military success won by the allies,
however small, will intensify it.
Every measure that is taken to com
plete the economic, military and
moral Isolation of Germany will
widen the breach between the autoc
racy and the masses which have had
their fill of sacrifice which gains
them nothing.
German autocracy has lived by the
sword and ruled by the sword. It
must die by the sword. The crisis
through which the empire is passing
is a summons to the allies to prose
cute the war with still greater vigor
and determination. The psychology
of the situation is now on the side of
democracy. The German autocracy
has no means of dealing with popu
lar unrest, except through victories
In the field, and If these are denied
to It, if defeat is piled upon defeat,
the system will soon go crashing
down to ruin. The harder the blows
that the allies can now deal the
quicker the end.—New York World.
Hamburg and Humbug
Isaac Taylor in his "Words and
Places," says that during the last
century false political rumors were
so often propagated from Hamburg,
then the chief port of communication
with Germany, that "a piece of Ham
burg news" came to be a proverbial
expression for a canard, and this was
pared down into the modern term
"humbug." If we did not have the
word before in English we would
sadly need It now for some of the
news that has been coming from
Germany during the last few weeks
at least.—New York Herald.
When He Balks
It Is a strange fact that usually the
man who Is always looking for a
fight is so bashful he has to be pulled
to the front In time of war.—Phila
delphia Inquirer.
THE NEXT LIBERT I
MANY of those Who assisted Sec
retary McAdoo in floating the
Liberty Loan met with embar
rassment and difficulty occasioned, as
they thought, by the fact that some
of those who were directing from
Washington were revealing too much
zeal, too great enthusiasm and too
little judgment or knowledge of con
ditions.
Our own bankers explain this by
saying that the offer of the Liberty
Loan was a new proposition, sudden
ly made in tho expectation that It
would be promptly accepted by the
people, but that the work was di
rected by a staff which was without
experience. Now, while a new loan,
possibly for $3,000,000,000 is under
consideration. Secretary McAdoo will
have the benefit of the lessons taught
when the first loan was offered. Since
the secretary was able to announce
that the Liberty Loan was over-sub
scribed by a little more than $1,000,-
000,000, men of finance began to give
careful consideration to what they
regarded as the Inevitable offer some
time in the autumn of a new loan
which might possibly exhaust the en
tire amount authorized by Congress,
namely $5,000,000,000.
Many have been the Inquiries put
to bankers in this city which referred
to the rate of interest which Secre
tary McAdoo might determine as the
expedient one to dominate on the
bond. But it has been invariably ob
served that it is, at this time, not so
much a question of the rate of inter
est as of thorough preparation fo'r
offering the loan to the people. Many
of the organizations, voluntarily
created for the purpose of aiding the
secretary in placing the Liberty Loan
have been maintained so that they
may be ready to take up the work
of selling the new bonds. But the
chairman of all the organizations and
the men of influence as bankers are
persuaded that the new loan can be
floated even more easily than the
first.
Although there has been no final
analysis of the statistics which tell
the story of the floating of the Lib
erty Loan, yet it is the opinion com
monly held in this city that the over
subscription of $1,000,000,000 reflects
the heavy subscriptions made by the
banks. These subscriptions were thus
written because the banks were
anxious to feel assured that the Lib
erty Loan would be fully subscribed
and therefore were not taking any
chances that the popular subscription
would be sufficient.
The Value of Publicity
No doubt the managers of all the
Federal Reserve banks are persuad
ed that with adequate advertising
Purely Personal I
A Congressman opposed to uni
versal military service was quoted
yesterday as saying:
"If the government should reach
Into a thousand or rtiore of my
homes"—(the gentleman Is not a
Mormon he meant homes In his dis
trict)—"and grab the youngsters,
what chance do you think I would
! have of re-election?"
| And, of course, this gentleman's
re-election is the most important
thing in the world.—New York Sun.
CROP PEST LETTER
By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State
Economic Zoologist
ONION THRIPS
WHEN onion tops are grow
ing nicely they are often
I attacked by a tiny yellow
thrip, causing a whitening or
blasting of the leaves. Thrlps
suck the green chlorophyl from
the plants, and prevent growth
and development of the onion
bulb. Look for them at base of
leaves or in protecting folds.
Spray with nicotine solution
combined with soap as a spreader
and sticker. Apply spray with as
much pressure as possible for ef
fective work.
Clean cultivation is advisable,
for thrips thrive over winter on
weeds and grass adjacent to
fields. Crop rotation is always
recommended as an aid to in
sect control. In the early season
watch for first appearance, and
control at once.
and publicity carried on upon a na
tional scale the people, as a whole,
will have a good understanding re
garding the meaning which lies be
hind the second loan offering. It has
been suggested that Secretary Mc-
Adoo call to his support the expert
and experienced men who in co
operation make up the national ad
vertising advisory board. This body
includes the advertising men of the
United States and is said to be rep
resented by the best advertising abil
ity in the country. Therefore, it is
suggested that Secretary McAdoo
turn over the entire work of promo
tion, advertising and publicity to this
body and having done that, direct
the body to nominate a committee of
five members who will sit in Wash
ington during the period of the new
loan without compensation, except
actual expenses, and who under Sec
retary McAdoo will take personal
charge of the entire work. The sug
gestion is that to one member of this
committee be assigned all matters
relating to display advertising. He
should make arrangement for a
campaign in the daily newspapers of
the United States and various peri
odicals that are nationally distribut
ed. He should act in an advisory ca
pacity with the local organizations of
the twelve Federal Reserve districts.
A second member of the committee
should take charge, in co-operation
with the committees in the twelve
districts, of posters and similar ma
terial. A third member should co
operate with the twelve bond selling
organizations so that circulars and
pamphlets of explanatory nature are
available for the use of the solicitor
when he approaches an individual to
whom he hopes to sell bonds. A
fourth member should be assigned
by the secretary to act in advisory
capacity, so that he may assist the
reserve district bond selling organ
izations in standardizing their news
paper display advertising and help
them prepare copy of the right kind.
The newspapers in the next cam
paign will necessarily be extensively
employed and the best opinion is that
they should be properly recompen
sed for this service. In the Liberty
Loan campaign the newspapers con
tributed, without cost, considerably
in excess of $1,000,000 worth of
space. For the experience gained in
many parts of the country when var
ious committees and organizations
were trying to sell Liberty Bonds to
the people made It clear that one of
the great obstacles to the early pop
ular sale of the bonds was a lack of
publicity of the kind which would
have enabled the people to get a
good understanding of what the
bonds meant.—Holland In the Wall
Street Journal.
Labor Notes
Jewish bakers at Toronto, Canada,
have established a co-operative bak
ery.
On July 17, at Detroit, Mich.,
Stove Mounters' International Union
will convene.
The United States Navy needs 10,-
000,000 yards of cloth to uniform its
sailors.
Omaha, (Neb.) city charter has
been amended to permit ownership
of public utilities.
When the men barbers in Mil
waukee are called to war, women
will take their places. x
Washington, D. C. Journeymen
Tailors' Union is conducting a vigor
ous organizing campaign.
Detroit (Mich.) Horse Meat Pack
ing Association has organized to pro
mote the sale of a new table deli
cacy and also reduce the cost of
living.
The Education Committee of Lon
don, Eng., has accepted the offer of
clergymen of all denominations to
do national service as schoolteach
ers.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has ac
cepted the principle of "equal pay
for equal work" wherever women are
employed in places of men.
Permanent flremen of Belleville,
Can., who have been getting a salary
of S6O per month, have petitioned
the Council for an increase to $75.
Federated shopmen on the West-/
em division of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad have secured a new agree
ment and raiaed wages six cents an
hour.
JULY 24. 1917
On the Front Line
[Philadelphia Record.]
All honor to Harrisburg, Wilkes-
Barre, Lancaster and Union county,
which have already supplied so many
men to the military service of Uncle
Sam that they will not be called
upon to furnish any more under the
selective draft! This is a remarkable
record, of which those communities
rv&y well be proud. Many others did
nearly as well, though they didn't
reach the honor roll. York, for In
stance, whose quota is 44S conscripts
under the draft, has already given
4J5 volunteers to the government, so
that only 11 men will taken from It
Easton, Williamsport, Allentown and
Scranton also did remarkably well.
Little Snyder county, with a quota
of 144 and a credit of 127 volunteers,
shows the fine patriotism of the
farming districts.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
r—i AN' in . rra.-
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H- II (to young man
\jßs 'H -13 Bin sbe bas been
Y n kjTjjjO L dancing wlth>
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