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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
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'H. J. STACK POLE, Pres't &■ Editor-in-Chiif
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FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3
Employment is nature's physician.
—Galen.
FAREWELL AND GOD-SPEED
ANOTHER contingent of Harrls
burg troops tramped away to
day in response to the call of
the nation—Truck Company No. 6 of
the Ammunition Supply Train. At
its head marched its organizer and
commander. Lieutenant Harry A.
Souders. And in this the TELE
GRAPH takes considerable personal
pride, for Lieutenant Souders is a
member of the TELEGRAPH Fam
ily, a loyal, energetic, capable young
man.
To him and to the young men who
went away with him the TELE
GRAPH, speaking for all the people
of Harrisburg, bids farewell and
God-speed, with wishes and prayers
for a safe and triumphant return.
Pride and sorrow are mingled as the
youth and flower of the city's life
line themselves up on the side of
democracy, risking limb and life at
the call of freedom.
THE BUTTE LYNCHING
IF ever there was an excuse for
punishing lawlessness by lynch
ing, it was in the t-ecent hanging
at Butte, Mont., of an I. W. W.
leader, who had dubbed the soldiers
of the United States "Uncle Sara's
scabs" and had indulged in a speech
highly treasonable and totally pro-
German. The law has been entirely
too lenient with this I. W. "W. crowd
and others suspected of being in the
pay of the Kaiser. The example of
■ Eutte carried out in a few other
places, inexcusable and wrong
though lynching is, would do much
toward bringing to a quick conclu
sion the propaganda of anarchism
and treason that has been rampant
of late throughout the county and
which has been permitted to go un
noticed in large measure by the De
partment of Justice.
It would be well if some of the
editors of German language publi
cations in the United States made
their homes in Bute. These gentry
are of the same stripe as the I. W.
W. member strung up out there.
They border on treason In every
issue. They should be suppressed,
one and all, and their publishers
placed in concentration campc for
the period of the war. Nearly every
German newspaper in the United
States is an adder in the bosom of
the nation.
DON'T FEED THE TRAMPS
JOHN' YATES, head of the Asso
ciated Aids, warns the people of
Harrisburg against the feeding of
numerous tramps who apply for as
sistance. These he says, are loafers.
They do not want work. Many or
them pose as being sick and unable
to labor. Refer all such to the Asso
ciated Aids, where, if they are telling
the truth, they will receive medical
attention.
There Is work for every man who
will work, with hundreds of Jobs go
lng begging. Mr. Yates has places
open for more men than he can find.
The farmers about town also are
ready to take on anybody whom he
sends them. The tramps who beg at
your back door do not want work.
They want to live at your expense.
There is no place in the economy of
things as they now exist for drones.
Starve them into seeking the work
they loath. To share ycur hard
earned food with them is to do your
self an injustice and the country a
wrong.
IIAVETX)ST THEIR "PUNCH"
THE fighting in the Champaign
and in Flanders is not decisive
save in one respect—in both
sectors it has been shown conclu
sively that the Germans have lost
their "punch." The French have
thrown back repeatedly with heavy
losses the tremendous attacks of the
Crown Prince and have been able
even to advance in the face of the
German offensive. The Germans
have lost heavily in men and mu
nitions and have paused*" for""the
moment with the French line nearer
Germany than when the fighting be
gan.
In Flanders the English have swept
the country for miles in the first
rush of the new offensive and the
Germans counter-attacking have
)teen hurled back even at points
where for the moment they were
able by the force of superior num
bers to push themselves into first
line trenches.
The superiority on the West front.
where the war will be decided, is
distinctly with the allies. Germany
cannot gain there and the allies have
(demonstrated that whenever they
FRIDAY EVENING.
are ready they can knock a fresh
hole or two In the lines of their foes.
The process Is costly, to be sure, but
far more costly to Germany than to
the allies, with their ever-growing
man-power and no end of munitions.
The first answer of Britain to the
U-boat threat has been an attack on
a vaster scale than ever before and
a big push In the direction of Ostend
and Zeebruge, the great submarine
bases of the Germans. The U-boat
has not done the task assigned it
and never will. The end of the war
is still far in the future, but with
America's fighting forces growing
like a snowball as they roll along
the end Is as certain as though al
ready at hand.
DOING THEIR PART
NE of the most gratifying fea
/"\ tures of the Capitol Park ex
tension development is the
hearty manner in which the vari
ous public service corporations have
entered into their part of the Im
provement. „
The changes incident to the pur
chase of the properties and the aban
donment of streets in the extension
zone have caused these corporations
to spend thousands of dollars with
out a penny of return or the hope
of profit. The Bell Telephone Com
pany, the Cumberland Valley Tele
phone Company, the Harrlsburg Gas
Company, the Harrlsburg Railways
Company and the Harrlsburg Light
and Power Company all are co
operating most heartily in the re-1
moval of unnecessary overhead wires
and the placing of necessary cables
urider ground. The various corpo
rations mentioned gave up hundreds
of customers when the old Eighth j
ward district was wiped out and the j
traction company rendered back to
the city very valuable franchises
which had been granted to it per
petually.
In addition, the companies main
taining overhead wires along the
streets abutting the park zone are
either removing them or are plan
ning to do so. The poles are coming
down and the thoroughfares will be
freed of unsightly encumbrances long
before the State completes its part
of the program.
This is the right spirit. It is an
attitude which wins public approval.
All public utilities, depending as they
do upon public patronage for their |
support, are beginning to understand
that their own prosperity hinges
largely upon their intelligent and
generous discharge of reciprocal
obligations. There was a time when
corporations enjoying' public fran
chises did not recognize this and
much of the hard feeling that has
arisen between the people and the
companies has been due to a refusal
to acknowledge undoubted public
rights. That Harrisburg utility man
agers have joined with the people in
their efforts to beautify the park
zone is a most encouraging sign.
TIJE WRONG OF CENSORSHIP
GEORGE CREEL'S latest instruc
tions to newspapers—which, of
course, reflect the attitude of
the administration regarding
th< publication of war news—clearly
Indicate that those at Washington
are trying desperately to bring about
a condition whereby they will be able
to Impose the rigid censorship which
up to this time has been denied by
Congress. In the light of this there
is particular interest In the address
of Pomeroy Burton, managing editor
of the London Daily Malt, before the
international convention of Rotary
Clubs in Atlanta recently, in which
he blamed the close censorship of the
Allies for the slowness of the Ameri
can people to realize they are at
war. Mr. Burton said:
The reason for this strange
lethargy In the face of national
peril is mainly two-fold. First,
the allies' policy of close censor
ship, which 1 regard n.i a stupid
policy and always have, has re
sulted in keeping the full flow of
war facts and a reasonable under
standing of the worst develop
ments from reaching the people
of the world, a policy which hae
already cost countless thousands
of lives and untold treasure and a
policy which I earnestly hope will
not be repeated here.
And that Is the very kind of a cen
sorship into which the newspapers
of the country will be plunged if the
authorities have their way. This Is
what Mr. Burton thinks ought to be
done:
Reverse this policy of secrecy.
Let the people at home have these
and other true pictures of the war
an it really is, and I firmly believe
that the response would be elec
trical, particularly here. The peo
ple of the United States would
rouse as one man to their task,
fired with patriotic fervor born of
a full and true understandig of
what this war mean* to them and
their future, of the individual ob
ligations it imposes upon those at
home as well as upon those who
are constantly facing death for
the sake of those at home! Now
this, it seems to me, is of para
mount importance, in view of the
circumstances which exist to-day,
clearly indicating that as this
great country organizes for war
or slowly well or badly,
earnestly or haltingly, so will the
end of this war be soon or long
in coming-
foUUc* IK
By the Ex-Commlttecman
Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der has gone to the seashore for the
week-end and the papers In the
mandamus proceedings brought
against him by the four state offi
cials have not yet been served upon
him. Mr. Snyder said before going
to the seaside that his answer would
depend upon the petition which he
had not yet seen. The answer is re
turnable on August 13 and it is ex
pected In spite of the delay In serv
ing the papers that it will be ready
in time.
Whether Mr. Snyder will start an
action on his own account to in
quire by what right the four offi
cials assume to exercise the duties of
the offices is to be determined later
on. It is now being seriously dis
cussed, but whether it will be start
ed before determination of the pres
ent action, which involves claims to
pay by officials classed as "ad in
terim" appointments rather than
right to hold office as a clear cut
proposition or not will be settled
soon.
—The Democratic state executive
committee will probably be called
for a meeting early In September to
name a candidate for Congress in the
Twenty-eighth district which is the
only one to hold a special election
this year. The Democrats are await
ing the result of the conferences go
ing on among the Republicans of the
district before making a choice. Un
der the Democratic rules the execu
tive committee fills all vacancies.
—The Philadelphia Pj;ess, which
has been more or less favorable to
the reorganization wing of the Dem
ocratic state organization, says: "A
lively contest in the Democratic
ranks is beginning over the magis
terial candidates to be supported.
There are seven vacancies to be filled
at the November election and the
Democrats and Republicans each will
make four nominations. The terms
of two Democrats expire, those of
William Eisenbrown and E. K. Borle.
They are candidates for renomina
tion. In addition there are the for
mer magistrates, John J. Grells, Wil
liam H. Belcher, Joseph S. Boyle and
James H. Toughill among the many
aspirants for nominations. The Don
nelly and the Thornton factions in
the Old Guard and the Morris and
anti-Morris wings in the reorganizer
faction are all eager to secure rep
resentations and a four-cornered
fight is looming up."
—The decision of the Vares not to
boom a South Philadelphia man l'or
city treasurer of the Quaker City
and the sort of understanding reach
ed in regard to Senator E. W. Pat
ton for the place, cause the Phila
delphia inquirer to speculate on
whether it does nqt mean a revival
of the candidacy of William S. Vare
for mayor. The Inquirer says:
"With the opinion generally prevail
ing that District Attorney Samuel P.
Rotan, Register of Wills James B.
Sheehan and Receiver of Taxes W.
Freeland Kendrick will be supported
for renomination by practically a
united Republican Party organiza
tion, the City Treasurership has been
looked upon as the only important
city nomination in doubt. Besides
those enumerated in the South Phil
adelphia contingent Senator E. W.
Patton. of West Philadelphia, has
been prominently mentioned for
City Treasurer. Some of his friends
claiming to have the support of the
Vares have had nomination papers
in circulation in Senator Patton's be
half and these papers have been
numerously signed. Patton's friends
yesterday renewed activities in his
behalf."
—Ex-Speaker John E. Faunce left
an estate of SIOO,OOO according to
statements filed yesterday.
—William Price, Pittsburgh
banker and one of the big men of
that city, is being strongly boomed
as a candidate for mayor of Pitts
burgh. He is a member of the board
of prison inspectors and declined the
city treasurership a short time ago.
He is backed by many prominent
men. One of the facts about him
is that he gives one-tenth of what
he makes to religious work.
—National Committeeman A.
Mitchell Palmer failed to meet the
kicking Democratic committee in
Philadelphia yesterday and there
are some hurt feelings.
—James B. Anderson has compli
cated things in Philadelphia by com
ing out for judge.
—Democrats and Washington,
party men are attempting to get to
gether on Pittsburgh mayoralty.
—Councilman G. A. Dillinger,
stormy petrel of Pittsburgh politics,
is a candidate for renomination.
—Mayor Smith has lifted the vice
quarantine and ordered arrests on
sight.
General Crowder
We have hitherto refrained from
generalizing about the official acts of
Brigadier General Enoch H. Crowder,
U. S. A., provost marshal general, in
the management of the selective
draft, because we were curious as to
how far he would go and how he
would get out of the difficulties that
surrounded him. He has now reached
a point in his progress at which it is
not inopportune to speak frankly of
his official conduct.
In brief, this has been marked by
uncommon capacity, resourcefulness
and enterprise. To General Crowder
fell the task of improvising machin
ery for registration of the young men
of the United States for military ser
vice, in the application to the nation
of a law imposing a new method of
performing old duties, arid of devis
ing a knave proof and fool proof lot
tery which affected the habits and
occupations of 10,000,000 individuals
directly and five times that number
indirectly. He had to guide Uncle
Sam's hand as it was put Into prac
tically every home in the land. Gen
eral Crowder accomplished this ex
peditiously and without indicting un
necessary confusion on the country.
Registration and lottery were con
ducted in a manner that left no
doubt of their impartiality and fair
ness; and General Crowder was so
completely prepared against unfore
seen emergencies that at the last mo
ment he was ready to revise his sys
tem to meet, in satisfactory fashion,
any new condition that might arise.
It may be said that General Crow
der had a well disposed population to
deal with and competent aids to as
sist him. This is true. But the most
willing population and the most com
petent aids lacking efficient direction,
or handicapped by an incapable su
perintendent, would have made a sad
botch of the enterprise; and if the
draft had been botched, General
Crowder would have borne the blame
for its failure. As it va carried out
with success, he deserves the credit.
We esteem it a privilege to salute
General Crowder as a thoroughly
equipped provost marshal general
gifted with good sense and executive
ability of the first order. If all our
military men measure up to the stan
dard he has consistently maintained
our troubles and sacrifices in the war
will be reduced to a minimum.—New
York Sun.
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Labor Notes
Haddington, Scotland, County Coun
cil has decided to grant a bonus of
50 cents a week to each man of tne
police force within the county.
Women lamplighters in Glasgow,
Scotland, wear masculine uniforms to
work in.
It is probable the Great War Vet
erans' Association will co-operate
with Hamilton, Can., Trades Council
regarding this year's Labor Day cele
bration.
As a result of America's entry !nio
the war, opportunities are offering
for women art students to replace
junior municipal draftsmen of mili
tary age.
Prevention of child labor and other
abuses is to be undertaken by the de
partment of civic relief of the Penn
sylvania State Committee of Public
Safety.
The first women elected to the Ber
lin magistracy have received their
appointment. They have been as
signed to take charge of public social
welfare work.
Hamilton, Can., Trades Council has
indorsed the stand taken by the Hy
dro-Radial Association that the Do
minion Government in future bonus
no more Canadian railways.
Wage Increases that total $15,000
a year have been secured by Balti
more, Md„ Yeast Makers Union, ai
filiated with the A. F. of I
Trade Briefs
Tasmanian dealers have inquired
about the prospects of securing a
market in New York for apples.
This will necessarily be in the fu
ture. The fruit is said to be of
high quality, and prices in London
range from $2 to $3.50 a bushel.
Catalogues lot barbers' supplies
are wanted at the American Con
sulate at Valetta, Malta.
There is a good market in New
Zealand for American buggy whips.
If manufacturers in this country
would make droplash whips of the
required style a profitable trade
would develop. Hickory cart and
stock crops are needed by a firm at
Auckland.
Five hundred and thirty-four
trade opportunities giving , specific
information about supplies needed
at Lyons, France, and vicinity, have
been compiled and published in
pamphlet form by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce.
Copies may be procured at the local
office, 409 Custom House, New York.
Consul-General A. A. Winslow at
Auckland, New Zealand, states that
there is at present an opportunity
to supply farmers in that district
with American fertilizers. Germany
was the former supplier .of these
products.
Machinery for manufacturing
toothpicks is needed at Palestine,
Tex.
A Mexican firm at Monterey -de
sires to represent American manu
facturers of textiles, toys, tinwares,
glassware and enamel waj-e.
Milk-apparatus is wanted by a
firm at Tokio, Japan.
Plans for a plant using
pulverised coal for fuel are under
consideration at Melbourne, Aus
tralia. American firms Interested In
Its construction and equipment
should correspond with the city
electrical engineer, H. R. Harper.
An American firm is to build a
rubber factory at Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. The Brazilian Government
has contracted with the company to
supply the country with many needed
I rubber goods.
The city of Sydney, Nova Scotia,
presents an attractive field for
American mining machinery and
construction materials. The district
office of the bureau of foreign and
domestffc commerce, 409 Custom
House, New York, has a list of cor
porations in Sydney using those sup
plies.
A Wisconsin firm Is manufactur
ing wooden soles for shoes as a sub
stitute for leather. These soles uve
made of yellow birch and are Inex
pensive and durable.
Road levelling machines are In
demand at Havana, Cuba.
Machinery and hardware are
needed at Popayan, Colombia, South
America. Catalogues and corres
pondence should be in Spanish.
American machinery for making
cables for marine use Is wanted by
a Spanish firm at Barcelona.
Data and prices on equipment to
smoke and can fish are wanted at
Pensacola, Fla.
Ice plant supplies are needed at
Johnson City. Xenix,
THE PEOPLE'S
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Wants Different Ending
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Steelton, Pa., July 30.
"iour editorial headed "Shameful"
is a very fine one as worded, except
ing the last paragraph.
If the negroes are at fault, let the
law take its course. If they are noi,
let them alone. Now in such a case
some one should be subject to the
law for such an outrage in our State.
It is the leniency of the law in many
cases of mobs of a class of whites
that cause a re-opening of such
cases. I would like to read a differ
ent ending to such a timely para
graph.
A STEELTON RESIDENT.
H. C. H., Steelton.
Tech Students and Draft
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
There is an imminent matter of
vital importance to the American na
tion concerning which very little, if
anythihg, has been said in the news
papers—hence the presentation of
this letter, and with it an urgent re
quest for its publication in your col
umns and, subsequently, for a wide
circulation through copying by the
public press of the entire country.
I refer to the depletion of the
classes in technical schools, first, by
widespread volunteering for the
Army and Navy, and, second, by con
scription. This subject received much
attention at the Washington meet
ing, on the 6th and 7th inst., of the
Society For the Promotion of Engi
neering Education, an organization
of twenty-five years' standing and
composed of most of the leading
American instructors in all lines of
applied science, and also a few
prominent practicing engineers. The
meeting was addressed by such dis
tinguished men as the Secretary of
War, the Chief of Engineers of the
United States Army, and the Direc
tor of the Bureau of Standards. The
five sessions held by the society on
those two days were devoted almost
exclusively to questions of public
welfare, principally connected with
the war, its subsequent conditions,
and its anticipated problems.
As I attended all of the sessions
from start to finish and took the
deepest interest in the entire pro
ceedings, I feel justified in making
the following statements, and in
claiming that they express the opin
ions of a number of the most pro
found thinkers of America:
First. The larger part of the civ
ilized world will have to be recon
i structed after the war, not exclud
ing our own great railroad system,
which undoubtedly will have de
teriorated on account of over-use
and lack of adequate upkeep.
Second. Such reconstruction is al
most exclusively the work of engi
neers.
Third. The European technical
men have been killed off by thou
sands during the past three years;
and their slaughter will not cease
until the war ends. Moreover, it is
more than probable that many
American engineers who serve in
Europe will never return to our
shores, and that a large number of
those who do come back will be
more or less Incapacitated from ac
tive professional work.
Fourth. The technical schools of
all the other warring countries than
ours have practically been out of
commission for three yeafs, thus
tutting down there, almost to zero,
the supply of new men for the engi
neering profession.
Fifth. The call to arms in this
country by both volunteering and
conscription It is feared will soon
have reduced to about one-half the
attendance at the technical schools
of the United States, while instead
of being halved It ought properly to
be doubled.
Sixth. In spite of the present
paralyzatlon of many lines of engi
neering work, due to the cessation
of large constructions and to the ab
solute lack of capital for Important
new projects of a peaceful charac
ter, the demand for young graduates
of technical schools by the manufac
turers of war supplies is so great
that there is already a marked
dearth of such assistance, which
dearth will be more and more ac
centuated as the war progresses,
and as the call for ships, guns, am
munition, aeroplanes, automobiles,
and other war paraphernalia in
creases.
Seventh. Until the United States
entered the war. It was almost cer
tain that most of the reconstruction
work of the world would be done by
American engineers, and In any case
they are sure to get a fair share of
it; but It seems a shame that this
country should miss such a golden
opportunity as that which lies before
It for securing- the lion's share,
Eighth. The capacity of the old,
experienced, and well-established
American engineers for doing work
is practically unlimited, provided
that there be no shortage of young
properly-educated assistants; be
cause most technical men of mature
years have developed highly the fac
ulty of management. On that ac
count the average total annual
amount of work engineered by such
men in this country could readily be
increased five fold, or, possibly even
ten fold, without causing undue
overstress either physical or mental;
and, consequently, the great mass of
the work of world-reconstruction
could emanate from the United
States and be handled abroad by
American engineers.
Ninth. It is beyond question that,
for the next ten years or more, engi
neering is everywhere going to be
the most lucrative of all the profes
sions. ,
From these nine premises what is
tlie important deduction to be
drawn ?
Evidently it is that, by some
means or other, we must manage not
only to prevent any faWing oft in the
attendance at our technical schools
both during and directly after the
war, but also greatly to increase it.
And how can this be done?
The answer to this question is not
difficult. as follows:
First. By urging more young men
to go to college, and by persuadmg
their parents that it is their duty to
send the boys there for the ultimate
good of both themselves and the
country.
Second. By inducing all sub
freshmen who have shown any spe
cial aptitude for mathematics, me
chanics, or chemistry, to take the
technical courses.
Third. By discouraging the enlist
ment into the Army and Navy of all
students in technical institutions,
but, on the contrary, by encouraging
them to remain and graduate, if pos
sible. Of course, those who are
drafted will have .to serve; for it
would, manifestly, be unfair to the
rest of the youths of the country to
excuse a man from going to the
front simply because he is a tech
nical student. Such drafted students,
however, should generally be sent
to the engineer corps, because their
services in that branch of the Army
would probably be more effective
than in any other, and because the
training they would receive therein
would be likely to serve them in
good stead in after years when prac
ticing in the engineering profession.
Fourth. By granting government
aid to those youths of evident special
ability in technical lines who are un
able to raise the money necessary for
a course of instruction.
If these four steps be taken, the
unique opportunity referred to will
not be lost; and this country will
then become the leader of the world
in activity, effectiveness, and wealth.
Let* me, therefore, most earnestly
Implore all youths who are ready for
college this fall, and who are not In
any way linfitted for technical ca
reers, to take up some branch of
engineering or technology; and let
me entreat the parents or guardians
of such youths to exert their in
fluence so as to induce the boys to
choose that line of study for their
Jife work. Remember: it is not only
for the good of the country that I
make this appeal, but also for the
ultimate benefit of the young men
themselves!
Some reader of this communica
tion may remark that such an ap
peal would possess more force if it
were to come from a national engi
neering society than when emanat
ing from an individual engineer.
Very true! But until quite lately
there has been no engineering so
ciety which draws its membership
from all lines of technical activity;
and the ' one which is now being
formed, viz., the American Academy
of Engineers, has not yet received
from Congress the national charter
for which it has applied. Were that
association to-day fully organized
and recognized by the government, It
assuredly would make such an ap
peal as this; and, in my opinion, that
appeal would immediately be re
sponded to by the nation, for the
American people certainly are sens
ible enough to heed seriously any
words of warning coming from a
select body of the most practical
men in the land.
It is true that such an appeal
might readily be made by the old
and well-established Society For the
Promotion of Engineering Educa
tion; but, If so, it would generally
fall upon deaf ears, because It would
immediately be remarked that the
professors were simply trying to re
cruit their classes and were "root
.lng" tor their schools, .On that as
AUGUST 3, 1917.
count, at the meeting of the society
I refrained from offering a motion
to the effect that it officially make
this appeal, which I then had in
mind. However, the society is going
to do what it can to help the profes
sion by publishing ■ and circulating
widely the speeches of Secretary
Baker, Brigadier General Black, and
Dr. Stratton hereinbefore referred
to. These addresses will corroborate;
what I have said in this letter; and
I trust that they and my earnest en
treaty combined will result in aug
menting materially next September
the attendance at the technical
schools of the United States.
Respectfully submitted by
J. A. L. WADDELL,
Consulting Engineer.
Get Repdy For Next Year
[Detroit Free Prefcs.]
Now is the time to begin planning
and organizing for next year's crops.
The world's need of food will be as
great next year as it is now, If not
greater. Soon this year's crops will
bo in hand and then distribution and
expenditure will begin. Before that
time is reached Michigan and the
United States ought to be fall-plow
ing every available acre and laying
by in store seed for next spring.
Fall plowing is usually done now
adays only for winter wheat sowing.
And there ought to be a greater
acreage of wheat sown this autumn
than ever before in American history,
with the double stimulus of certain
high prices and great demand. But
in an earlier day many farmers
plo\ ed fields in the fall and harrowed
them In the spring for corn, potatoes
and other crops. The practice ought
to be revived and pushed by organ
ized effort. Next spring may be like
last spring, too wet for plowing. But
if the plowing is done this fall the
wet spring that may be can be to
some extent overcome. And to aid
in this particular, attention can be
given to drainage this season.
OUR DAILY LAUQH
A HE ESCAPED
f REPROOF.
Does your
wife enjoy her
whist club?
Can't say
but I do. She
comes home so
used up she
doesn't say a
NEXT STEP
The prices on a c vrLffllS
bill of fare
Now fluctuate (T\ JGH
and flicker.
(n fact we j ijj
might as
well pre-
To order from
Sg / PRODUCTIVE.
IjV 3 V I got three
y * bushels of pota
£ toes out of that
Jp little garden of
B & mine last year.
I . That was a
jfe ] pretty good
V ■ showing.
* "hould say
■ 1 I waß, WJ y. 1
Jftfi |only planted
II ™ J' 0 " bUßhel "'
LOOKS THAT '
How are drugs
named. Here'*
one called phen- VjW
grabs up a list-
HEtaratng st?at
This is the time of to gf
rid of the weeds so tha'there will
be better chances for foocfcrops next
year say the experts in tilng oft|e
soil. The time to get rid c weeds la
right now when many of;hem aro
in bloom and the beauty of thlr
coloring makes one forget i e ir nui
sance qualities. All over thojourrtry
slde, on the comparatively'ew va~
cant plots about the city a n >n
gardens there are many flcyers to
be seen that represent taklrr from
the soil properties Which should
go into food plants. The tlmeto cut,
say the experts, is right nof, not
when the scenic end of the wttls is
over and the seed poda have ffmed
or have burst. The dandelions
made everything look so prettithls
spring scattered their seeds farpnd
wide and there will be dozen! of
plants next spring because somebne
did not cut down the yellow bloiis.
On Capitol Hill they mak it a busi
ness of getting the dandejons wien
they are in flower and suih a tlihg
as a dandelion forming a puffballis
unknown In that part <f Fatlfcr
Penn's domain. It takes vigjance a(d
work, but the man who wants |o
raise vegetables had bette* do tjo
same thing. Just now the cilcory 3r
the blue devil is in blosson in tlia
country and along the roads and life
wild mustard, wild parsnps aid
other weeds which look prety aju
lend charm to rural walks, kit
useful plants are also about t> seed.
The wise thing to do Is to cm down
these plants when they are in lower
so that the soll'Will be able to fford
better nourishment to grains, pota
toes and other plants next yea, and
there will be fewer weeds to pu\ up.
As one of the State exports saidyes
terday, "Work with the hoe nowmd
avoid so much work next spring?
Martin M. Keet, formerly a m<h
ber or the HARRISBURU TEllp-
GRAPH staff and well known n
Harrisburg, is in Dayton, 0., as pii
licity expert for the committee whifc
is fighting the efforts of politicians t
do away with the city managershi,
form of government in that city. Tht
Citizens Committee of Dayton is
making a strong campaign against
the attempt of the Democratic ma
chine to go back to the old ward sys
tem of government. Dayton has done
so well from the standpoint of tho
people under the city manager form
that its fame has gone into every
other city that has in mind anything
in the way of civic betterments. But
the city managership has been hard
on the Democratic bosses who had
been in control of the city. Their
patronage has dwindled away to al
most nothing and they have raised a
fund whereby they hope to make a
successful fight to regain control. The
Citizens Committee is holding mass
meetings and doing everything pos
sible to nominate on August 14 a set
of candidates who will be pledged to
continue the reforms that have
worked so well.
There were odd things connected
with the storm yesterday afternoon.
Right when the winds began to blow
and the rain to fall, an advertising
vehicle came down Third street. Tho
paint with which its signs were let
tered was of the runny type. It ran
when the rain began. At the rear of
the Capitol a man backed up with a
truckload of paper towels. About
half of them were thoroughly soak
ed. On a row of dwellings being con
structed the men in charge had Just
laid the paper on the roof prepara
tory to the regular roofing when the
wind came and took it to the next
block.
A crowd of visitors to the Capitol
got the fright of their lives yesterdav
afternoon during the big storm. It
seems that one of the windows high
up in the collar of the dome had
been left open for ventilation and
when the storm came along the man
sent to close it found the Job too
much. He yelled for help and by
the time another man got to him tho
window had torn loose and had slam
med shut. The people down in tho
rotunda hearing the man's shouts,
gathered around to see what had
happened when a shower of glass
came tumbling down. The policemen
and guides hustled them to shelter.
The storm caused a letup in the
rush hours on the ice cream factor
ies. For several days the demand at
soda fountains and ice cream places
has been manifested by lines two
and three deep. The telephones of
the ice cream places have been ring
ing over time find the delivery wagg
ons have been suffering from the
heat. Three and four times the ordi
nary summer supply has hardly been
enough to meet the tremendous cry
for the great delicacy. Truekloads
filled with a couple dozens of cans
are nothing uncommon.
Accidents run in chains. Yesterday
afternoon i car on the Fourth street
line just shaved a wagon State
street, and at North alley It side
swiped a small motorcar. It took as
a wheel and made the car look as
though it had been in anjion. V/hen
the names had all beeifftaken and
statements given, the motorman
found that the fender had been re
duced to a memory. A number of
troopers, attracted by the racket,
came around to help and the fen
der was Just being lifted off when
one of the Abiding doors fell off tho
car. It landed on one of the Guards
men. Then more names had to he
taken. Finally a wagon came alon*
with some lumber on it and one of
the long pieces just missed the car.
The motorman speeded up and left
thanking his stars nothing else had
happened.
Visitors here yesterday included
Harry K. Daugherty, former member
of the Legislature from Mercer
county and prominent in the pro
gressive movement of 1912. Mr.
Daugherty was here on business at
the State Capitol.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^
—Judge W. W. Carr, of Philadel
phia, has gone on a trip to Nova
Scotia.
—Dr. R. E. VanLennep, of Phila
delphia, will be in charge of one of
the new base hospitals to be estab
lished in that city.
—Ex-State Treasurer Robert K.
Young, is slowly recovering from the
accident In which he broke his hip.
—Major Frank R. Smith who will,
be in.charge of mall for soldiers
; France is a former Philadelphian.
—Lewis Nellson, of the Pennsylva
nia ralfrt>ad, home from ti visit
paid to Fort Niagara.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg lias men In
almost every infantry regiment
of the United States Army?
HISTORIC HARRISBURQ
One hundred years ago Harrisburg
was a big grain shipping center.