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ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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HURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2
If we charged so much a head for
insets, or if God sent round a drum,
efore the hawthorns came into
ower, what a work ice sould make
bout their beauty; but these things,
kc good companions stupid people
;ase early to observe. — STEVENSON.
AHEAD OF THE TIMES
--p ARRISBURG is again a little
I ahead of the times in the mat
ter of thrift in the school
>om. The school banking system
itroduced by Superintendent F. E.
ownes and then President A. Car
>n Stamm is recommended for
ioption elsewhere.
According to a dispatch from New
ork, America will be the first na
on in the world to rewrite her text
Doks so that the school children of
lis country will be taught thrift. Ac
jrding to an announcement by the
hrit't Education Committee of the
ational Education Association, rad
al innovations in the AmerLcan
hool curricula are about to take
lace.
The lives of James J. Hill, Mar
lall Field, John Wanamaker and
Lher great American business men
111 be studied in the schools, and
(xt books on arithmetic, history,
English composition, domestic
sience and household economics
'ill be subjected to radical changes,
'or the first time in the history of
iie world, thrift and personal ef
ciency will be given scientific con
ideratlon in the class room. Not the
!rlft of mere money saving, but
he broader thrift of individual pre
aredness for practical life will bo
aught, dec !are> the committee's
tatement.
Tlii3 is the weeping sgnificance
f the resolutions adopted by the
fational Council of Education at
ts meeting in Portland last week,
'he resolutions were written andpre
ented by S. W. Straus, of New
fork, president of the American So
iety for Thrift. They point out that
m account of the war America must
rom now on eliminate waste of ev
ry character; that President Wll
on's first message to the public
fter the declaration of war was on
hrift; that the only way to safe
;uard the economic future of the na
ion is throußh a better understand
ng of thrift, which can be made
possible only through the school
•ooin, and that at the forthcoming
neeting of the Council of Education
n Atlanta, Ga., the school organiza
,ion will be expected to have before
t a comprehensive plan for the
>ractical study of thrift in the
schools of America.
The plan as worked out here is
lot so comprehensive as that sug
gested, but it is a step in the right
lirection and indicates that the
ichool executives of the city have
>een thinking along modern, pro
;ressive linos.
Horse moat Is selling for elghty
lix cents a pound in Germany, but
lirloin at twenty-eight is still good
•nough for most of us.
LET THEM TRAIN IX ENGLAND
aT is now said that some, if not
all, of the cantonments for the
new national army will be seri
ously delayed for lack of lumber for
construction purposes, and that it
will be October, at least, before the
drafted men can be mobilized and
begin training. In this case much
P" "e time will be lost—and time,
w, with the Russian debacle
ked, is of prime importance
nd to all the allies.
England, as we understand,
ire a million men or so in
ments who have had some
iof training. Why is it not
> for these men to be sent to
France at once, letting our men take
their places In the English canton
ments for their training? In the
meantime our cantonments can be
built for the accommodation of the
second instalment of our drafted
> -my, which, it is agreed on all
hands, will be necessary. It will be
no more troublesome to transport
our men to England than to France;
It will be as easy to provision them
In England as in Prance. This sug
gestion Is one which our government
should feel entirely free to propose
to our British allies.
They have claimed that the large
number of men kept In England was
because of the fear that it Is "not
Impossible" that a German Invasion
of the British Isles may be at
tempted. In such case the Americans
■Will defend British soli, even as they
THURSDAY EVENING,
will defend French soil. Such an
arrangement would Immediately
strengthen the western front—and
England would lose nothing. Why
not try it?
Puzzle—Supply the missing word:
Is it enough for you?
PROHIBITION WINS
THE "bone dry" prohibition
amendment passed the Senate
yesterday by a two-thirds ma
jority, and with votes to spare.
Twelve Democrats voted against the
resolution and eight Republicans op
posed It. Party lines were split wide
open on it, leading members of both
big parties casting their ballots in
favor of the resolution and others
equally as prominent voting and
speaking in the negative.
It is said some senators opposed
to prohibition voted for the reso
lution because they felt that, regard
less of their own views, the agitation
had reached a stage where the people
as a whole should be permitted to
exercise their rights of franchise in
its decision. They were consistent in
taking this attitude." It has been too
frequently the disposition of the Sen
ate to stand pat on its own views
concerning grave matters in which
public opinion registered precisely
the opposite.
Adoption by the Senate of the
"bone dry" resolution does not make
the country dry, although it Is a long
step in that direction, much longer
even than the most ardent friends
of temperance had hoped for at the
hands of the present Congress. If
the liquor people oppose it in the
House, as they doubtless will, they
will show plainly that they fear the
verdict of the people. If, as they
assert, a great majority favor drink,
then there can be no better way in
which to place the stamp of popular
approval upon the liquor traffic than
by letting the people place it there
through the medium of the ballot
box.
The truth is that the booze in
terests know the day of whisky, beer
and wine is nearing its close. They
are fighting desperately in the last
ditch. They are willing to spend mil
lions to prolong the struggle because
they can always wrest back those
millions in excessive profits from vic
tims of the rum habit.
Not one good thing can be said
for booze. On the other hand, the
list of evils that can be traced to it
is as long as the calendar of crime
and reaches far beyond the limita
tions of the criminal courts, deep
into the welfare of society and the
happiness of families, and affects the
destiny of countless millions yet un
born. The government that is sup
ported by it pays dearly for the
alliance. The poo'house, the prison,
the potter's field, the insane asylum,
the orphans' homes, the bankruptcy
courts and a hundred benefactions,
charities and corrective institutions
are the expense the community shoul
ders for the comparatively small re
turns in taxes and license fees the
liquor sellers pay for the privilege
of dispensing poison in the com
munity.
Let the people have their way and
the sign of the saloon will be rele
gated to curiosity shops and dime
museum chambers of horrors.
PLACE FOB DENMAN
GENERAL GOETHALS' services
will be utilized by the govern
ment through ordering him to
France in command of our engineer
force's who will be engaged there in
railroad construction for war use.
Denman's services also can doubt
less bp continued to the pubile by
hu\ing the President appoint him to
the vacant position on the Trado
Commission to succeed the late Com -1
inlssloner Parry, of Seattle.
To be sure, Parry was a Progres
sive Republican and Denman is a
Democrat. But a little thln like
that is of no consequence in this ad
ministration, no matter what the law
may have to say about the partisan
composition of a commission.
Ostend always was an attractive
place for the English in summer.
WHAT IS POUK?
THE passage of the twenty-seven
mtlllon-dollar rivers and har
bors bill and the vote upon it in
either branch of Congress go to show
once more that "pork" is always
located in the other fellow's district
or state. It is like the definition
given by an English bishop to a
nobleman whd asked for the differ
ence between orthodoxy and hetero
doxy. "Orthodoxy," replied the
churchman, "is my 'doxy and hetero
doxy Is your 'doxy.'"
*~F > STIKLCA Mt
Bj the Ex-Commlttcenmn
Senator William C. Sproul, of Dela
ware, has the record of the senators
for having the most bills approved
during the session of 1917. The
Delaware senator presented forty
e':ht bills, including two consti
tutional amendments. The latter do
not require presentation to the Gov
ernor. Of the remaining forty-six,
thirty became laws through approval
cy the Governor, eight were vetoed,
one bill was killed in the House, one
stricken off the calendar in the
House, five left In Senate committees,
one left in House committee. The
amendments included the $50,000,000
road bond Issue amendment, which
will be voted upon by the people of
the state at the election In Novem
ber, 1918.
Senator Edwin H. Vare presented
twenty-seven bills, most of which be
came laws through approval by the
Governor. Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder, President pro tem. Beidle
man. Senators Buckman, Salus and
Kline presented many bills, but were
not as lucky as the Delaware or
South Philadelphia senators.
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der is maintaining silence about what
his course may be over attorneys to
be named in behalf of the State un
der the direct inheritance tax law.
For years the Auditor General named
all of the attorneys for the collateral
inheritance tax law, but Attorney
General Brown has given notice to
registers of wills that he proposes to
exercise the authority given him
under the act of 1915, which means
that he will either name the attor
neys or have an understanding with
the Auditor General.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to
day devotes considerable space to
an article in which it contends that
the proceedings In the constitutional
convention of 1873 were all of a
trend which showed that the fram
ers desired the Senate to have full
power over confirmation of major
appointments by the Governor. It
reviews reports of the proceedings
of that time which were much talk
ed about among legislators last win
ter and the remarks of Auditor Gen
eral Snyder in his farewell in the
Senate in April.
The Inquirer prints the following:
"Attorneys for Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder have decided to
make the basis of their contention
that Governor Brumbaugh has no
authority to reappoint the 'eight of
ficials whose nominations were re
jected by the State Senate decision
by Chief Justice Mercur, of the State
Supreme Court, given on May 23,
1883. This was in the case of the
Commonwealth against David H.
Lane, then Recorder of this city.
"In the course of this decision the
Chief Justice employed these words:
"Before he (the Governor) con
templates the appointment, the Sen
ate must consent to his appointing
the person named. It may, however,
prevent an appointment by the Gov
ernor, but it cannot appoint. It may
either consent or dissent. There its
action ends. It cannot suggest the
name of another.
"If it dissents, the Governor can
not appoint the person named."
"This last sentence will be made
the keynote of the argument of the
counsel for the Auditor General,
who declare that Attorney General
Francis Shunk Brown has never
gone officially upon record before
the recent action of the Chief Ex
ecutive by the filing of an opinion
that the Governor could reappoint
after nominees had been rejected by
the Senate."
—Filing of a nominating petition
for Thomas D. Shea, Nanticoke law
yer, for judge in Luzerne county,
means a revival of the fight of ten
years between Shea and Judge H. A.
Fuller, who will be a candidate for
re-election. Shea was the leader in
the movement to impeach Judge
Fuller which heifl disturb the ses
sion of 1913 and has been an ac
tive figure In pcltt cs of the third
county.
—J. Harris Mussina, well km>wn
in Clinton county affairs, is a can
didate for renomination in his
county. , 1
—Harry S. McDevltt, special dep
uty In the Auditor General's Depart
ment. 1s working on plans for uni
formity of business methods in State
institutions. He will have an office
on the second floor of the east wing
of the Capitol.
—Walter F. Dumser, Reading edi
tor, has been appointed to a position
in the Public Service Bureau at
Washington. It is understood that
he will have charge of publicity
matters for Pennsylvania.
—The newspapers of the State ap
pear to be watching the row among
the Philadelphia Democrats over
patronage with a good bit of inter
est. It is believed that It will be
followed by explosions in other sec
tions of the State.
—A list of Republicans appointed
to places in Philadelphia Federal
establishments which deserving
Democrats think they should have
has been made up by the Old Guard
Democrats in Philadelphia and will
be sent to Washington.
—The Philadelphia Press in a
discussion of the Democratic row in
that city to-day says: 'VThe Demo
cratic slate for the primaries will be
arranged at a conference to be held
to-day between the Organization
Committee of the Democratic City
Committee, Tenth and Walnut
streets, and A. Mitchell Palmer, dis
penser, under limitations, of Federal
patronage for Pennsylvania. The
Old Guard element which controls
the organization at Tenth and Wi.l
nut streets is Incensed that more
jobs are not being awarded to its
members and on Monday night
raised its joint voice in protest. It
had been intended at the meeting to
secure from the representatives of
the various wards suggestions for
the Democratic Councilmanic candi
dates from all the wards, hut the
protests against insufficient jobs
swept aside all other business. At
to-day's conference with Mr. Palmer
the attitude of the City Committee
will be copimunlrated to him and if
there is no improvement from Wash
ington a delegation will go to the
Capitol to protest."
—Representative John Mehrlng,
of Philadelphia, has been reappoint
ed a deputy coroner.
Women's Rights in Philippines
Women in the Philippines, from
Filipino to Ifugao and from Kalinga
to Moro, have a lot to say about the
way things are run.
My first realization of the different
status of Philippine womanhood
came on the Pacific steamer on
which I last returned to the United
States. A young Filipino wanted to
wrestle with some of the Japanese
on board. But his wife was with
him and she feared she would lose a
husband in the melee. She vetoed
his desire with considerable ease and
perfect effectiveness. If she had been
a Chinese, Japanese or Indian of the
same class her husband would have
wrestled as long as ho wanted to,
or could, and the woman In the case
would have kept her mouth shut. In
the Philippines I have observed that
the woman holds the purse and the
! gavel.—From the Christian Herald.
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1 EDITORIAL COMMENT J
In England they are still looking
for the man who put the mess in
Mesopotamia.—New York Sun.
The I. TV. W. agitators were shipped
out by rail. One rail would have been
better than two.—New York Sun.
Recent events have shown that it
is easier to make a radical change in
a German Government in China than
in Germany itself.—New York World.
The Frankfurter JCeitung calls Dr.
•Vichaelis "a Prussian in the best
sense of the word." Bust .lust what |
is the best sense of the word?— New
York World.
Prohibition voted in Porto Rico two
to one Is only another of those vast
flanking operations by which New
York Is to he encircled and, eventual
ly captured.—New York Evening
Post.
It goes, we presume, without say
ing that there will be a stop put to
the manufacture of whisky from
grain, but how about this stuff In dry
territory made from sepulcher paint,
shellac iodin. carbolic acid and brick
dust, and red pepper Juice? —Macon
Telegraph.
H. G. Wells' criticism of Great
Rritain in his "Mr. Britling Sees It
Through," which were read and en
.loyed by Englishmen, were cut out of
the Russian translation by the Rus
ian censor because "tliev \vfre criti
cisins of a powerful ally."—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The American Ambulance
The transfer of the American Am
bulance from the control of the
French government and of the com
mittee that has had immediate
direction of Its work to representa
tives of the American army gives
a new status to an institution that
has made for itself a magnificent
record in relief work and at the
same time has been- an important
instrument for the expression of the
friendship felt by the American
people for France from the begin
ning of its gallant struggle against
a ruthless invader. On August 14.
1914, the American Ambulance had
its birth. Founded by Americans
then in Paris, appeals for support
brought ready and unceasing re
sponse from Americans on this side
of the Atlantic—Americans eager to
join with their fellows In giving
practical aid to the sister republic
and in showing appreciation of the
sreater aid the French of an earlier
day rendered to this country. This
support has been not one of
machines and money alone, but one
of men. To this work of relief con
ducted under the flags of the two
greta republics hundreds of young
Americans have devoted themselves,
have risked—-and some have lost—
their lives, honoring their country
as well as themselves.
It has been a great work, a work
well worth doing, a work well done.
Small wonder, then, that the exer
cises attendant upon the formal
transfer, "which are described in a
special cable despatch to the Herald
from Paris, should have been
marked by a display of deep emo
tion. By special request the flag
that has flown over American Am
bulance headquarters since its foun
dation has been presented to the
Minister of War to be retained as
one of the precious souvenlrj of ttye
days of trial.
Under the American army and
the American Red Cross the ambu
lance organization will continue its
labors for France and for humanity,
but no new record can eclipse that
already mude.—New York Herald.
Hoover's Single-Mindedness
When. Herbert C. Hoover has a lob
in hand he is apt to have a rather
single-minded purpose. In Belgium
he developed the Idea that the reason
he was there was to feed the Bel
gians. And that idea was a life-pre
server for the Belgian people. Few
men have ever had the temptations
that were given Hoover to throw
down a task. When the situation be
came completely hopeless Hoover
was wont to remark, "But wo must
remember that we are here to feed
the Belgians," and grit his teeth and
go on working. Sometimes the provo
cations became so intolerable for
some of the other Americans that
after working upon one another's
feelings thev would decide that the
time had come to stop the whole bus
iness as punishment to the Germans
or to some set of persons. But it
never went any further than that,
for a few words from Hoover were
always enouph to put everybody back
on even keel and to cause them to
wonder that with millions of inno
cent lives at stake they could have
thought of anything so preposterous
as abandoning the great work thv
were privileged to share in.—Hush
Gibson. In the Century.
A LITTLE TALK
By S. W. STRAUS,
President American Society for Thrift
IN many cities of the United ]
States at the present time, home
owning campaigns are being
conducted. This is a commendable
aspect of thrift. In fact it embod
ies one of the most noble exempli
fications of this sterling virtue.
Statistics show that about one-half
of the Americans own their own
homes, so there is still a large work
to be done along this line of eco
nomic Endeavor.
As I have many times pointed
out in these articles, thrift does not
consist merely In saving money.
Money saving is only an elemental
component of thrift. To be thrifty,
one must be a money-saver, but
learning to save money is only one
of the primary steps to be taken in
the building of a thrifty character.
There is a vast distinction between
saving merely for the sake of ac
cumulating or saving for a definite
and worthy purpose.
The day a man begins saving
money for a home marljSLthe be
ginning of u new and finerNife for
him than he has ever known before.
He is saving for the most worthy
object possible. The home is ' the
unit of which the nation is con
structed. It Is the solid foundation
on which society rests. It is man's
finest token of civilization it is
everything that a man might live
for or die for. In the vocabulary of
progress it has no synonym.
President Wilson tells us that "If
men do not provide by saving, for
all those dependent upon them, then
they have not opened their eyes to
Wasting Coal
[Chicago News.]
War, the well-known twentieth
century educator, perhaps, will teach
us how to eliminate the smoke nui
sance. It promises, at any rate, to
effect this marvel, and the threat' of
a coal shortage should prove a sharp
goad in the flanks of wasteful fuel
users.
The United States Bureau of Mines
asserts that "fully $500,000,000, or
one-fourth the issue of Liberty Loan
bonds, was wasted last year In this
country through the inefficient use of
coal." This declaration is approved
by the federal department of the in
terior.
Director Manning, of the Bureau
of Mines, estimates that many small
power stations which generate elec
tricity get only about one-half as
much energy out of the coal con
sumed by them as efficient power
plants obtain from a similar amount
of fuel. Steam plants, he thinks,
make so poor a showing that the
average energy developed Is only 5
or 6 per cent, of the potential energy
in the coal burned by them.
Here is presented an inviting and
profitable field for investigation and
experiment. Owners of power plants
ought to secure from the federal
• bureau of mlliei Its various reports
on fuel saving methods. Then they
should set themselves seriously to
work to Increase the efficiency of
their furnaces and boilers.
Four Million Aliens
[Knoxville Journal and Tribune.]
There are four million aliens in
the United States, that Is unnatural
ized foreigners. Many of them have
resided in the country for years with
out making any attempt at natural
ization. They do not mean to become
Americans, they did not mean to ever
be Americans when they came here.
They came for no other reason than
they thought it was easier for them
to make money here than It was in
the land of their birth.
Many of them came for jobs in
American Industrial establishments,
some of whom may have been given
employment for the reason they were
willing to work for lower wages than
that expected by native employes. It
is more than possible that some of
the labor troubles we have had In
this country might have been traced
to the presence of these aliens.
It may be said of the presence of
aliens tn the country, who have come
with no intention of becoming Ameri
cans, some of them at this time are a
source of concern. Not all of them
are enfinles of the country, a ma
jority of them doubtless are not, but
of course they have less interest in
the success of the nation In the war
than those who have been born hero
and who have lived here all their
live*
any adequate conception of human
life."
There are relative values in sav
ing. based both on motive and pur
pose. The man who saves money
merely for the purpose of investing
it in an illegitimate business enter
prise, could not be called a com
mendable practicer of thrift. The
miser is unpraiseworthy. Those who
hoard their money in secret drawers
or chests are worthy only of con
demnation. These are all practi
tioners of misguided thrift.
On the other side, we have those
who save for various purposes.
Young men or young women who
save their modest accumulations in
order that they may acquire a col
lege education are worthy exponents
of true thrift. Parents who save for
their children lead ennobling lives,
as do all those among us who, with
some fixed and worthy purpose, set
aside from their small incomes as
much as circumstances will permit.
Among these are the men and
women who are saving to own a
home.
Let this movement be encouraged
everywhere in America. Let us be
known as a nation of home-owners.
Nothing will give us more substanti
abiiity. It is thrift developed to one
of its finest possibilities.
What sweet memories the word
home brings to many of us! How
fortunate were we that had a home!
Give your children a definite place
that they can call home and when
they have grown older their mem
ories of it will.be among the hap
' picst thoughts of their lives.
Propaganda—Or Hysteria? !
The credulity of those inhabitants
of India who have accepted the re
port spread broad by German agents
that King George was killed by a
bomb dropped on Windsor Castle
does not greatly exceed that of some
American victims of German propa
ganda. In this country we are being
fed on talcs of disaster which have
no more basis than that surreptiti
ously sent out from Bombay. Yester
day Secretary Baker very properly
scotched a mischievous story, sent
out from Washington, purporting to
give the substance of reports made
to the War Department by officers
Just back from the British and
French fronts. The Secretary of 'WJar
showed that no such reports had
been made and, moreover, that none
of the officers referred to entertained
any such views as those attributed
to them. Investigation proves that
the secretary's denial is fully justi
fied.
Hardly had that lugubrious effu
sion been disposed of than another
in somewhat similar strain made its
appearance. The difference between
the two Is that the first bore all the
earmarks of "fake," while the second
avoids the pitfall of spurious author
ity. It is distinguished, rather, for a
superabundance of obviously amateur
strategy and for the presence in it of
the familiar man of straw created
for the sole purpose of being demol
ished. In it we are solemnly told
that the British and French armies
cannot possibly rol) back the Ger
man armies by turning the German
lines—when if any one thing should
be clear even to a press association
strategist it is that the idea of
"turning" the German lines finds no
place in the plans of Haig and Pe
taln.
From Washington conies the sug
gestion that the effusion in question
was Inspired by persons in high of
ficial position for the purpose of
waking the country to the seriousness
of the task ahead. That may absolve
those responsible for its production
of the suspicion of playing the game
of German propagandists, but whero
does It 'cave the supposed sponsors
for such a work of folly?
The country is not in need of the
man-of-straw speotoirle to wake it
' up. The country is all right. It will
be' happy when It is certain that
Washington has waked up.—New
Yolk Herald.
After the Hike
Two army shoes lay resting.
Propped up by blanket rolls:
Their tongues hung out and wearily
They viewed two Jagged holes.
"These are the times," the right one
said,
"The tlineß that try men's soles."
• —Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
"AUGUST 2, 1917.
Labor Notes
Painters at Osliawa, Can., liave or
ganized. '
Railway carmen on the Grand
Trunk want higher pay.
Tennessee compels a semi-monthly
payday.
Frisco barbers ask an increase 01
$2 a week.
Painters at Norwich, Conn., will Get
sl9 a week on September 1.
Dayton, Ohio, tilelayers get 65
cents an hour, eight hours a day.
Motormen and conductors at Port
land, Ore., have formed a union.
Superior, Wis., boilermakers have
secured union shop conditions.
Plumbers at Bridgeport. Conn.,
now get $5 a day.
Antisweatshop legislation Is In ef
fect in New Jersey.
Frisco butchers ask a 6 o'clock clos
ing hour Saturday.
Montana miners will establish a
system of co-operative stores.
In Spain many women work sell
ing newspapers.
There are four women sanitary in
spectors in Toronto, Can.
A provincial council on re-educa
tion has been appointed to work in
conjunction with the Canadian Mili
tary Hospitals Commission through
out Saskatchewan with a view of fit
ting disabled soldiers for employ
ment.
In order to become better ac
quainted with railway men and their
conditions the Rev. W. E. Millison, a
Methodist pastor in St. Thomas, Can.,
has made a round trip as fireman on
a Wabash engine.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
\VV m * FLATTERING
\r \ 111 COMPARISON.
iVrf/V Are you fond
I I rim i' 7°' & ran< * operat
fl H Yes. Next to
B • W/WX\ t * le cheering at
AMBs v A a ball game th*
mKwN * Jli no'se a good
RKl't i/jf H chorus can
■S Oil II ff ft* make ' s about
Bl \ the most Insplr
■ f ifi lnß thing I
Ji ((J it JX know of -
WORSE.
How did you C
come out on the *
horse races yes-
Oh; I broke || II
even. How about *
I' m even
_ L ISM> HIS OBSERVA *
\ Beauty Is only
/ sltln deep ' you
I \ I used to be.
: V. ij\) 1 think the girls
IHB H - are laying It on
RUDE BOY.
Jack told me
last night that I '\\j2
was his very. \uj
—Jack will soon
find out how un
certain life Is.
i&nrtng (Ulptf
The state's chicken crop is the
latest one to be reported to be run-<
ning below tho standard of previous
years notwithstanding efforta made
last winter to bring- about >n In
crease in the yield. Many settings of
eggs were distributed and ,it is
claimed at the Department of Agri
culture that if they had not been
used the decline in poultry would be
considerably less.
The department experts who have
jjpeen getting reports on chicken rais
ing in the food conservation cam
paign say that there are probably z
million and a half less chickens on
the farms of the state as compared
with a year ago. The high prices
for fowls caused large sales to be
made, while prices of grain for feed
also caused some owners to cut down
their flocks.
Another estimate is that there are
6 per cent, less chicks hatched this
year than usual on the farms of the
state. It is believed that decjines
will also "be shown in ducks and
geese.
• ♦
One of the handsomest specimens
of artistic illuminated chirography
seen in this city for a long time is
the work of Wilmer Johnson, of the
state Department, the man who
makes out the commissions for
gubernatorial candidates, not only in
a 'big round hand," but in all sorts
? hands, plain and fancy. Mr.
Johnson has Just completed the en
grossing of the resolutions passed by
the Pennsylvania State Society on
the death of the late Henry Houck,
Secretary of Internal Affairs, who
died in ofllce, and was succeeded by
his son, Paul W. Houck. The reso
lutions are bound in book form. In
soft leather, a fine specimen of high
art in binding. The chirography is
in various letter forms and each page
and resolution is embellished with
illuminated initial letters, strongly
resembling the work done in the old
monasteries by the monks in the
preparation of religious works before
the art of printing was invented. Tho
color work is of the highest artistic
skill and the whole forms a most
perfect specimen of art that is sel
dom seen in these days. Mr. Johnson
spent hours in what he considered a
labor of love, and his production has
been highly complimented by all who
have seen it. The book will be pre
sented to Secretary of Internal Af
fairs Paul W. Houck.
* * *
The State Dairy and Food Com
missioner's agents have reported a
new form of adulteration of a food
condiment discovered in Philadel
phia and have caused thirteen ar
rests. The offense charged Is the
use of a weed known as coriaria in
sweet marjoram, which is extensively
used in flavoring. Tho weed is
claimed to have poisonous qualities
and the manufacturers claim that
they purchased the spice abroad and
6id not know of the adulteration.
♦
The weather is blamed in a bulle
tin issued by the State Department
of Agriculture for the prospects of a
short crop of honey in Pennsylvania
this year. The crop has been run
ning over a million dollars in value
in Pennsylvania the last few years,
but the severe winter and lack of
care of hives are asserted to have
caused a decline in production that
will run into thousands of dollars.
* * *
Some forehanded Individuals have
been endeavoring to secure holds on
automobile licenses for 1918, al
though the half license period for
this year has only begun. The an
nouncement of the style and color
of the automobile licenses for the
next year caused a number of letters
to be written and lately announce
ments of contracts let for drivers'
badges stirred them up again.
• •
Selection of a headquarters troop
for the Seventh or Pennsylvania Di
vision of the National Guard will be
made shortly by Major General
Clement. There are four troops of
the First Cavalry being mentioned
for the honor: the Governor's Troop,
because it is located at the State
Capital and takes part in ceremonies;
the First Troop, which has a splen
did historic record; the Sunbury
troop, which is in the general's home
town, and the new Danville troop.
♦ •
Some idea of the wide nature of the
traffic that pours through Harrisburg
every day can be gained by watch
ing freight trains. The other day a
car marked "Constitutional istas de
Mexico" went along hitched to an
other marked "Canadian Pacific"
and in proximity to cars from the
Denver and Rio Grande, Great
Northern and Georgia Railroads. The
through traffic that passes by Har
risburg or over the Susquehanna
every twenty-four hours tells a won-
I derful tale.
TTVc sar.ner in which the national
Kiiardsmen who are probably enter
ins upon their last week at home are
being drilled by their officers at
tracting much 'attention. The men
are being taught not only to tako
care of themselves in sanitation
work, but to handle their guns, while
there are squads to be found march
ins about the countryside on hikes
or riding across country, ara
to be met in odd out-of -tins-way
places loaded down with their packs
and hiking along gettinp
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
says he is too busy to take a vaca
tion this year.
—Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods will spend part of the month
in Massachusetts.
—Bishop Rogers Israel, of Erie,
is at the front in France, having
arrived a few days agoj
—Colonel Fred Taylor Pusey, quar
termaster of the National Guard di
vision, has Joined the staff at Sun
bury. He was lately with the Public
Safetv Committee.
—President Charles Aiken, of Sus
quehanna University, is much in
terested in the new Susquehanna
Trail road.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrishurg is the center of
more than a dozen state road
routes?
'HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Some of the citizens gave their
labor free on the first courthouse.
Moccasins
"Moccasins of moosehlde, hanging by
your thongs,
Where would you bo taking me to
day?"
"Deep among the pine woods, where
a man belongs!
Treading up the balsam-fragrant
way.
"For the clouds have done their
weeping,
All the cataracts are leaping,
White anemones are peeping
From the runnels of the snow;
"Down the wind the hawk is riding,
On tho bow the Jay la chiding,
And the little fawns are gliding
Oil the trails we used to know."
—By Arthur Ginterraan in ColUer'a
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