8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published eveniags except Sunday by THE TBLECHAPH I'HIXfING CO,, Telegraph Ilulldluir, Federal Sqaare. •£ J. STACKPOLE,Pw'f <S* F.Jitor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American ifi| jj Eastern ✓office, Chicago, 111. K " Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as s scond class matter. .By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6 Then said Jesus unto his disciples. If any man would come after me, Jet him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow me.—MATT. 16:24. THE SAMMEES EXCEL THE Sammees in France had a rifle and hand grenade throw ing contest Saturday. Picked men from the whole French army were pitted against the best shots and the most accurate throwers in the American contingent. The Americans won both contests by a slight margin, despite the fact that the French have had three years of trench practice with grenades and that the Americans were handicap ped by lack of familiarity with the new French rifles with which they have been supplied. It is the verdict of the officers that American skill at baseball is respon sible for superiority with the gren ades, and if so, heaven help the Germans when the National League stars get into the trenches. It is both gratifying and encourag ing to learn that the American fight ers are second to none in skill with the rifle and other methods of trench warfare. These contests speak well for the results that will be attained when the Sammeos reach the fight ing line. DEMOCRATIC "HARMONY" FOR the first time since the days of Fritchey control a Stucker has been chosen to a position of responsibility in the affairs of the Democratic party iri Dauphin county, that the Stuckers have been without power; far from it, but the McCormick influence has been too strong for them in the machine. The Stuckers have the same fervid love and intense admiration for the McCormick faction that the devil is supposed to entertain for holy wa ter. The choice of Charles Stucker j as county chairman is another illus- j tration of the old adage that poli-j tics makes strange bedfellows. The j spectacle of the twain lying down "harmoniously" together reminds one of the story of the lion and the lamb and a curious public will watch with interest to ascertain *by future developments which turns out to be the lion. , AUTOMOBILES AND ROADS AUTOMOBILE drivers of Penn sylvania, to the numberftf more than 300,000, have paid into the Treasury of the State since January 1 $3,325,000, and dealers say this will be greatly increased before the end of the year and that 1918 will break all records. This byway of emphasizing the Importance of the automobile in the cause of good roads in Pennsylvania, for every penny of the license fees, by legislative act, goes into highway improvement. The automobile own ers are paying their own way in Pennsylvania. If the machines are hard on the roads, they more than make up the difference in the money they provide for betterments, and the interest they have developed in highway improvements has been the largest instrumentality in the good roads campaign that' is now under way in every part of the Common wealth. If the automobllists stand shoulder to shoulder and line up behind them all the friends they can induce to vote for it, the proposed road loan will go through in 1918 with whuge majority. TRIFLING WITH HONOR MUCH is being made by the yellow press of alleged efforts to evade the draft, hasty plunges into matrimony, it is charged, being one of the most popular means! Doubtless there are young men who prefer the cares of family life to the risk of trench warfare and who have taker, unto themselves wives in the hofte thus to escape military service. But tc pronounce every man a slacker who has been married since the passage of the draft law Is a gross exaggeration and does an in justice to thousands of well-inten tioned, patriotic and courageous young Americans. Suppose, for illustration, a young man of draft age had been engaged to marry last winter and the 'date of the wedding haa been fixed for June, July or August. Is he a slacker because he keeps his word to the girl of his choice? Or. is she to be despised because she loves deeply enough to wed a man whom she knows must shortly go away at his country's call? We think not. MONDAY EVENING, The yellow press'ls not complete without Its dally sensation, couched in 120-point type across the top of the page. To-day it is the "mar riage slacker." To-morrow it may be a sudden death magnified into a suicide, or an accident masquerading as a murder. Always it must tog Itself out in lurid trappings and cater to the dime-novel tastes of its scan dal-hungry patrons. But when it trifles with the love and honor of the youth of the land it displays a yellow streak as well as evidences of yellow journalism. ENCOURAGING SIGNS THERE is no lack of encouraging signs amid the gloom of war for those who will look for them. Former Ambassador Gerard, in his new book, first chapters of which were made public yesterday, takes a very pessimistic viewpoint, indeed, but it must not be forgotten that his expressed purpose is to "arouse the country to the seriousness of -the war," and with that point in view he could not be expected to paint a very rosy picture of the Immediate future. Elsewhere, however, there is apparent a more hopeful attitude. The speech of Lloyd George on Saturday is an example. Reaching a climax, after declaring that there could be no peace without absolute and complete victory over Germany, the British premier says that "No one in Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia, or even in Germany and Austria, has any idea how near we are to-day to the summit of our hopes." This can mean onlr that Lloyd- George is confident the end of the war is much closer than even those much nearer the inside facts than the public believe. This view closely corresponds tofthe recently expressed opinion of the close-mouthed General Haig, who has told the world that th'o Allies will win decisively on the west front and that "complete vic tory" is assured. Nor is this at variance with the observations of our own General Pershing, who yesterday wired the London Times: Spirit and morale of allfcpd armies splendid. General situa tion better than at beginning of any other year of war. Allies should look forward with full con fidence to complete victory. In support of all this undercurrent of confidence, expressed witliout reservation by men of characteristic reticence, is the assertion of Elihu Root, just home from Russia, that the erstwhile domain of the Czar 5s on the way to become a full-fledged republic, which means that Russia will continue despite hardship, dis organization and temporary defeat on the side of the Allies. Beneath all this there must be more than a ray of hope. The dis position of both civic and military authorities with respect to the war has been so pessimistic that when they go out of their way to predict early and complete victory their opinions must be given due weight and consideration. This, however, does not mean that there should be any letting down of effort and preparation In this coun try. Quite the contrary. If early victory is assured, it is all the more Important for haste here, in order that we may be in at the death of autocracy and be accorded the pjace we should have at the peace table. BAKER IN ASCENDANCY IT is said at Washington that "Bar ney" Baruch was not placed at the head of the new centralized purchasing board because he could not secure the recommendation of his associates on the Council of Na tional Defense. That honor goes to Frank A. Scott, of Cleveland, Ohio, the home city of Secretary Newton D. Baker, who discovered Mr, Scott and brougnt him to Washington. His preferment over Mr. Baruch appears to be a tri umph for Mr. Baker ngainst the in fluence of Secretary McAdoo—and it may foreshadow the development of -the Secretary of War as a candidate for the presidency In opposition to Mr. McAdoo. Age, geography, freedom from previous entangling alliances and from the chaVge of nepotism, and the likelihood of a united support from his home State, combine to give Mr. Baker elements of strength which Mr. McAdoo lacks. And yet, if Baker should bear away the prize, wo have no doubt that McAdoo would conclude that the United States entered this war in vain. ■"Potittc* i* By the Ex-Committeeman From developments on Capitol Hill in the last few days the state admin istration will not start "house clean ing" in any of tho departments un til after the primary elections. It was Vlie original plan to make a number of changes as soon as Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh had fin ished work on the legislation left with him by the General Assembly and he had gone on his vacation so that he could not be reached by friends of men to be decapitated. Private Secretary William H. Ball Is the man to whom tho task of "firing and hiring" has been con fided and although he has been homo several days nothing has happened. There were reports of changes to he made in the lire marshal, highway, public grounds, insurance fund and other branches of the government, but nothing occurred and the belief is thut the administration generals in Philadelphia, Allegheny and other counties where there are contests to be made or protocols to be worked out have asked that there be no dis turbances for the present. Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, who will be the man at tho helm during the Governor's vacation, as he was in the last two years, will be here to-morrow. Auditor General Charles A. Sny der is expected here late to-day from the seashore to work on his answer in the mandamus. Mrs Snyder will not uproot things in his department forces unless the administration starts to make trouble. —Governor Brumbaugh's ap proval of the judges' salary increase bill continues to attract much atten tion throughout the State and the Governor has received letters of thanks "from attorneys and friends of the judges in the half dozen or so counties affected. —According to reports which are current the Vare people are making headway in their# plan to insure a majority in both branches of Phila delphia Council next month. —The Philadelphia Press in a re view of politics In Eastern Penn sylvania and especially Philadelphia Issued yesterday says: "But while there are factional fight possibilities In the Republican organization there is far more acute bitterness in the slender ranks of the Democrats. There are two factions and a ready means of emulsifying them in the Republican organization; there are at least twice that number of fac tions, and with "no cohesive power of office' and no leadership to bring thefm together among the Demo crats. There are the Old Guard at Tenth and Walnut streets, at whose head are Charlie Donnelly and John O'Donnell, both friendly to Senators Penrose and McNlchol, and the fol lowers of Postmaster Thornton, re garded as quite as practical a poli tician as Donnelly and bitterly op posed to him. They and the two camps or reorganizes, who have captured all the big Federal offices and who look on the Old Guard as very common clay, make a four cornered fight over the few minor ity places, and the empty honor of nomination for 'row offices' certain. And meanwhile, there Is dissension between workers and leaders, too; for witness the City Committee meeting Monday night—the workers openly charge that the easiest way to get a job within their capacity is to apply not to Democratic leaders but to Congressman Vare or some of the other Republican Congress men and ward leaders. If the pros pect for 'harmony' within the Re publican Organization is good the possibility of freedom from serious attack from outside is even better." —Although Senator William C. Sproul smiles when talked about as u candidate for Governor his friends are becoming very active in the east ern counties. Delaware is already lined up and the Chester organiza tion is working for him, too, while Montgomery and Bucks are counted as pretty certain to support him al though tho latter counties have a favorite son in Congressman H. W. Watson. There is also a movement for Sproul in other Delaware river counties. Media dispatches speak j as though the Delaware Senator had i decided to run. —ln the western part of the State | Ex-Senator John S. Fisher, of In-1 diana, is being much spoken of as a possible candidate for Governor. —Altoona has thirty-seven candi dates for its school superintendency i which may be filled to-night. Prof. Dively, of that city, is said to have a ' good chance. —William Price, prominent bank er, has written to the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times that he is not a can didate for Mayor of that city. This leaves Commissioner William A. Magee, Dr. J. ,P. Kerr, president of| council; E. V. Babcock and Col. O. K. Taylor as the men most talked of. —The political pot is starting to: boil in Cambria county. Fire Chief | Logan M. Keller, County Detective 1 Roscoe Custer, ex-Sheriff William S. Stutzman and City Councilman John] Berg, all of Johnstown, and Robert, Dunsmore of Barnesboro, have an nounced their candidacies for the Republican nomination for sheriff. Councilmen Patrick Lavelle, Thomas J. Harris and George M. Harshber ger, together with Howard Evans and Charles Stewart, have an nounced that they will be candidates for election to Johnstown City Coun cil. —The Democratic State machine will not figure very extensively when the Lehigh County Democrats open the State campaign Saturday. Con gressmen Steele and Dewalt will be the headliners. The Lehigh Re publicans will start their campaign fireworks on August 25 with Lieu tenant Governor Frank B. McClain as orator. —A. n. Grander well known here and abtive in Delaware politics. In sists on being Republican candidate for sheriff. —Fred S. Drake is the latest can didate for Judge in court No. 5, Philadelphia, where Judges Staake and Monaghan are candidates for election. Judge E. C. Bonniwell, James B. Anderson and C. A. Bart lett are also candidates. Dauphin Lions and Lambs in a Great Act The unwonted harmony that reigned on Saturday in both the dlty and county Democratic committees has attracted attention throughout the state and a great many Demo crats are wondering when the lions will start to eat the lambs or whether the lambs will become carnivorous and begin to bite the throats of the lions. Ordinarily Dauphin county Democrats give a signal to the other Democrats of the state when to start to fuss. They used to rejoice in a battle record that is longer than an English grenadier regiment possesses to-day. Now when the Philadelphia Democrats arc in an uproar and there are heartburning which can scarcely be uttered In Allegheny, vfrhen Lackawanna, Erie, Luzerne, Monroe and Chester Democrats are turning to the grindstone Instead of HARRISBURG tTELEGRAPH v • AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELING? By Briggs r AFTER Youve Got The ~"Am© hav/e <3ot out - anjd find You hav/c. left BOAT ReADV AND EVERYTHING YOUR T>lP6 AND SETTLED A , , matChfS ASHOBP , FIXED FOR * LONJG PLEASANT T*I -r£ eri T U MATCnfii ASHORE I Ft,3HiNG - AND POVAJNJ Floß AhJD HP>v/ff SEARCHEO iJu HAVE ROWED TvaJO. MILES AND StfcHCHEi) r^X YOUR SPOT ' And finjallY as a last -And There You Resort Ydo Look seueßAu lept OVER. AIN T T Yoo Tackle Box from LAJrr <SOMMSM the dove cote for inspiration, the action of Dauphin is interesting, but not Important. The "complete harmony" may bfc soothing to-day, but when some of the Democrats sit down and after thoughtfully considering local fed eral appointments, begin to think over what happened Saturday, there will be mutterings in the night watches. Ten years rgt* unanimous election of officers by either committee would have been considered a sign of de cadence and two years ago a reso lution commending Vance C. McCor mick would have been a signal for brickbats. Charles D. Stucker, Sixth ward, old-time foe of McCormick, was elected cqunty chairman, and G. W. Mac Williams, Tenth ward, city chair man. The other officers elected by accla mation by the two committees were: County—John H. Eby, former county commissioner, of Lykens, vice chairman: J. Douglas M. Royal, Har risburg, secretary, and Fred L. Mor genthaler, of Harrisburg. treasurer. City—James G. Miles, vice-chair man; Augustus Gelsel, secretary, and Fred L. Morgenthaler, treasurer. Do You Know Your Son?' Do you know your own son? "What a foolish question!" you re ply. "Of course I know my son." Yos, every mother knows the physical appearance of her -SOD, but few know the real boy—the mind and soul which constitute your ac tual son, says Edwin Puller in The Mother's Magazine for September. You know his looks, his habits, his likes and dislikes, but do you know the psychology, his mental processes and the viewpoints which determine his every act? The average parent Is as ignorant of this subject as the laborer Is of logarithms—and what is more, the same average parent thinks he knows all about boy train ing from the mere fact that he Is bringing up a son. Other parents may make manifest mistakes in raising their sons, but jthe average parent believes that his [superior intuition qualifies him for ithe responsible ask of training his .son, evefl though he has never de voted a day to the study of his com plex subject nor evolved a definite [system of procedure for laoy train ling. Fathers, actuated by mascu !line egotism, err more frequently land more deeply than mothers. It lin characteristic of the psychology i o f woman that the mother is more Iwilling to learn at least the rudi 'ments of a subject so vital to the | family life as the correct training of her son. The basis of all boy training is parent training. The average par ent is either untrained or under trained in raising a son. First of all, one must understand the men tal processes of the boy at the sev eral periods of his lite. The boy at six, ten, fourteen and eighteen years is four different individuals as widely and as markedly different as any four persons of your acquaintance. He leads a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde life during the four periods of de velopment, but fortunately for the boy, these characteristics are succes sive and not concurrent. Exploits Don't Win Wars Germany cables its latest raid of English towns by airships as a "bril liant exploit." If that's all, it Is of no military value. "Brillant exploits" win no wars. A solid thrashing is the only thing that tells in the end. Arnold's heroic march up the Kennebfec to Quebec is a classic in military suffering; but it got us noth ing. The British seizuee of Washing ton In 1814 was of no military bene fit to them whatever. Captain Hobson's daring exploit with the Merrimae In Santiago har bor required immense nerve, but it didn't stop a Spanish exit later. General**, Funston's capture of Agulnaldo was melodramatic and spectacular, but the Filipino insur rection ended only when American soldiers had disarmed every warlike tribe. The Confederate" swept easily up to Chambersburg and burned it, but Chambersburg was soon rebuilt, al though the Confederacy was not. "Don't try to be a hero," wrote General R. E. Lee to his own son, who enlisted as a private in his fa ther's army. Just plain, solid soldiering that ■tuck to its job as ordered was the thing General Lee wished his son to adopt. That's tho thing that wins war, by exhausting the other fellow.— Girard, In Philadelphia Ledger. GOLD ALONE WILL NOT WIN THE IT is inevitable that criticism I should grow bolder as a kfeener! appreciation of the task to which the nation is dedicated sinks deeper and deeper into the consciousness ci the people. Enormous grants of money and credits to the Allies in duced at the beginning a feeling that we could buy our way through, that the extent of our sacrifice would bo financial, that it would be a 3 1-2 per cent, war, we furnishing the capital and collecting our interest at dates agreed on. Each billion dollars is another nail in the Hohen zollern coffin, was the popular thought. We know now that there is as yet no corpse ready for inter ment. We have, as most Americans have, a supreme confidence In our ability ultimately to pry the Hun's hold loose, tear out his teeth and send him whimpering home. But we can't choke him with gold dollars and we can't maim him with harsh words. We've got to back our coin with American genius for organiza tion, Ameriaan industrial ability, American bulldog tenacity and American willingness for sacrifice in a great cause. On those altars in Flanders we must put our lives as well as our wealth, for neither will be of much value to u* unless we win decisively this battle of the giants. We have no sympathy, however, with alarmists'who spread the doc trine of German invincibility and arouse the feeling that it is hope less and useless to attempt to break down the Kaiser's military machine. The Teutons ha\'e dug themselves in and with wonderful skill and bravery they hold their lines. But, as we pointed out recently, since Septem ber, 1914 they have shown no super iority in any field against disciplined Will Co-operate Now that press censorship has broken out in a fresh place, with sundry new whereases, provisos and coridltions laid down by that enthu siastic exponent of loud silence, the amiable Mr. George Creel, we hasten to express our perfect acqui escence in the new regulations. We have not violated the old ones, but we are ready to take Mr. Creel's word for It that the old ones were "no good," and when he thus takes us Into a corner and solemnly en joins us to keep silent we are glad to assure him that we shall continue to co-operate in the work of pre serving family secrets. . Inasmuch as this subject has been brought up again, however, it seems only fair and wise that one or two suggestions should be made in the interest of the public welfare, as well as In vindication of the press. Mr. Creel says there have been "re peated and serious violations c* the voluntary censorship," and for this reason he considers it imperative to mnjte tho restatement of "neces sary secrecies so complete and ex plicit as to leave no room for hon est ignorance or dishonest evasion." It would be interesting to know to what "repeated and serious viola tions" he refers. We were under the impression that there had been very few violations of Mr. Creel's former "rules for young journalists," and we have still to learn that any of them have produced serious results. Wo seem to remember that the only bad break that has been made was that of our guide, philosopher and friend in translating the "cryptic" message of a plain sallorman Into the glowing language of-romance.— Baltimore Sun. At Customers' Expense There would be greater rejoicing the country over regarding the an nouncement of the hotelkeepers' food conservation committee as to meatless 'days, the curtailment of bread ahd butter and kindred "econ omies'' if it were accompanied by any indication of a curtailment of I'ilces. Just at present the situation eems to be that restaurants and no tels are '•on i sr\imf f-jed at the ox p-i *e of their •: Stov.-t* • thl proprietors are becoming more pa triotic the more profits they make. —New York Tflbun*. and organized troops under anything like equal conditions. If it will be difficult to drive them back to the Rhine, it is even more demonstrably true that the lines of the Allies can hold interminably on the western front. We* have a chance to break through; they apparently have none. German propaganda has impaired, if it has not wrecked, Russian effi ciency. The ground is laid for an other stupendous Teuton victory, om of those victories which involve little fighiing and are no evidence what ever of German invincibility, but which exert an enormous moral ef fect and give to the unthinking the impression that there is no power which can withstand the mailed fist. The American public must be warned against such Impressions, must be taught to understand that we are to take the place of Russia and wuge the fight to a decision in the West, where German skill is mot by equal kill, where she must fight for what she gets, and where the mas-, tor stroke forever exploding tho myth of German military Invinci bility must be delivered. We have four things to supply: money ships to keep supplies mov i ing, airplanes to assure Allied dom inance of the air and troops to fight. The first we are providing, the sec ond wr are about to provide, the third we shall deliver next spring and the fourth we have broken all the interpretations of modern dem ocracy to supply. Nor shall we fail in any feature of this fourfold, pro gram. We may be about to pass through a German period of the i war, one of those discouraging pe riods ts'milar to that following Cher. ■ celloisville, but, if so it will he iho last o ci'ch periods, 'ihoieuft-:• dav, will i er!n to break. —I'Jiaadelphiu 1 Ledger Labor Notes Worcester, Mass., has added two women to Its police force. Plumbers at Edinburgh and Lettn, Scotland, have been Increased 3 cents an hour. Coal cards have been Introduced in Berlin In order to regulate the win ter supply. Belleville Cits'. Can., has decided to give the tlremen a war bonus of $5 per month. Women are employed In the various shops' offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad In Altoona. has been decided to abolish night work and Sunday labor In Liverpool. England, bakeries. Women have supplanted superan nuated men as grade-crossing tend ers on the Nickel-Plate Railroad. Two-thirds of the population In some of the Latin-American republics cannot read or write. A large number of Athlone, Ire land, workers have joined the Labor Battalion, which is going to France. Unless the consumption of wool Is materially curtailed In Scotland, the mil-ls will have to close. Women employed by the Unitea States Navy Department are to re ceive the same pay as the men. A union of ex-soldiers and war In valids has been formed In Germany to advance their economic and political interests. i .i i PROSPERITY BULKTIN NO. 43 There Is absolutely no question In our mind but that we are on an era of very big business and as far as our advertising Is con cerned we believe it to be the part of patriotism as well as good business to proceed with our plans In anticipation of finding an unusually productive market. THE KROHN-FECHHEIMER CO. (Red Cross Shoe), * Cincinnati, Ohio. AUGUST 6, 1917. Congress and the War [Philadelphia Ledger.] There may be much ground for criticism in the conduct of the war thus far. Delays have occurred which might have been prevented. Dupli cation of effort where there ought to have been unity and co-operation has operated as a drawback. And inval uable time has been lost in squab bles over methods and prerogatives. But the American people, may lie re assured by the knowledge that the administration is actually learning by its experience. The very friction and inefficiency have been a neces sary preliminary to the application of radical remedies, it is only fair to say that, wonderful as have been the achievements of Congress thus far, the department of the govern ment most in need of investigation and supervision is not that over which the President presides. It is the part of Congress to And the ways und means, that of the Executive, to carry out the will of the nation. There is no call to minimize the diffi culties of the task of the former. The formulation of a revenue-pro ducing measure, on the gigantic scale required by the present emergency, is a herculean undertaking, especially if the result is to be an equitable distribution of the burden among the people. It calls for statesmanship and patriotism; the nation will not accept as substitutes for these quali ties narrow partisanship and fac titious fault-finding. This is a fact that certain senators and representa tives are prone to forget. A reminder will do them no harm and may do some good. OUR DAILY LAUGH Congressman— I'onrlvo your / I^^? and sometimes Ifllll I lift Hl' ! ill I QUITE rcvi -1 dent. . I I / I understand 3 / Miss Whizz is j! ' suin g you fof Jlliili, /I breach of prom- - I didn't If |i| know she was la love with you, \ Vy| J That'a th trouble, she NOVELTT WORN OFF. // MU \ Why were you I j\ not at school IL J yesterday? \\V It was my XV\ i birthday. JfV But I don't stay home from I. Jp/ school on my I birthday. I 1 I Well. I sup- I I pose it is be- - cause you've got Wr) M / used to 'em. y| BETWEEN If I?/ J/R* * TRAMPS. A 1 thought youse was groin' to Join de army? p rjH I was, but dey 5 uH turned me down cause 1 had wftter on de you try de navy ' lEborotng (Eljat The Hessian fly has not been abla to render much assistance to the Fatherland by attacking the wheat of Pennsylvania this year because of the offensive defensive undertaken by the farmers last fall and main tained this spring. Reports coming to the Stato Department of Agri culture show that late plowing and the turning down of "volunteer" wheat last fall and the attention given to wheat this year prevented the usual ravages of the pest that takes its name from the German principality. From some sections of the state where the fly caused loss last year there has not been a com plaint, while the fly seems to have been pretty well checked In the cen tral wheat growing counties. Very favorable reports have come from farms in the iiortheast and northern sections, where more wheat was set out, especially In anthracite counties, where grain is reported as getting attention again. According to the reports coming here, the threshing season Is getting into its stride, al though late, due to the unfavorable weather, which harmed the crop as much as the Hessian fly did last y°ajV In some counties, notably northern, farmers have adopted the western plan of allowing their wheat to settle in outdoor bins formed by temporary rooflng over in the rteld before threshing. This plan, which J"}®. ° een urged lately, got its first trial in some counties this year and „^ thcr operated against a fair test, state officials are urging in the i°. correspondence which the Si. activity has brought to Capitol Hill that the greatest care be devoted to seeing that granaries are free from traces of the grain moth, which last year cost the farm ers of the state a loss of over a quarter-million dollars. It is esti mated that the state wheat crop, which was 25,000,000 bushels last year, will fall short between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 bushels. ♦ • • Recent army orders announce the promotion of two regular army of ficers well known here. Robert C. Williams, major, Twelfth Cavalry, detailed as the division inspector- Instructor at the Adjutant General s office and tho officer In charge of the muster of the Eighth Regiment units here, is advanced to lieutenant colonel and assigned to the .Sixteenth Cavalry, Williams has been here soma time and is well known to many fn Harrlsburg. G. V. H, Mosely, major, artillery, who was chief of staff of the Pennsylvania division at El Paso last winter, be comes a lieutenant colonel of ar tillery. • Dairy and Food Commissioner James Fou3t, who was elected presi dent of the National Association of American Dairy, Food and Drug Officials at the annual convention in Atlantic City, has been a member of that organization for a number of years and has served on the com mittees which have been striving for uniformity in enforcement of food laws. He is the first Pennsylvanian to be chosen to the office. * * • It is an interesting thing to note In view of General Porshlng's sug • gestion that general officers sent to France should not be over forty-fivo years that oil the generals and all but four colonels of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, now part of the United States Army, are under forty-five, And three of the four are mighty close to It. They are men who have -been Identified with the Guard for twenty years in some cases. • • • It's awful when the golf bug catches anyone. The Reservoir Park course has its devotees and the coun try club courses have their regulars, zealots or fanatics, as the case may be. But the prize story is told of a man, like some others, who had no time to play "the fool game" until he started to play it. Two Harris burg journalists, golf yearlings, in duced a former Cambria county scribe to accompany them to Reser voir Park the other afternoon. They had been badly bitten and the ex-Cambrian says he went along so that he could have some peace. It took him fifteen shots to make the first hole. When he finished the eighteenth hole he was so thoroughly Inoculated that bought nineteen dollars' worth of dlubs and also took out a membership in the clubhouse. A dollar and something per hole Is pretty fair for a beginner. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —J. M. Frazler, Philadelphia hotel man, is giving up his time to secure cooks for the new army. —Francis A. Fry, of Newport, president of the McAUstervllle or phans' school alumni, has called the annual meeting for August 22. —Mayor M. N. Donnelly, of Pitts ton, Is getting busy asking people why farmers who have been urged to plant large crops are not being encouraged by fair prices. —Dr. D. Webster Evans, of Scran ton, well known to many people here, has been reinstated In the Scranton Surface Protective Association, which figured extensively in legislation last winter. —Francis J. Torrance, big business man and head of the State Board of Public Charities, is working daily In his shirtsleeves as member of a Pittsburgh registration board. —H. M. Gooderham, head of the Cambria food committee of the pub lico service committee, visits every one of the "war gardens" for inspec tion. —Jacob Mazer, Pittsburgh accous tics expert, has been asked by Den ver to work out the problems for Ita outdoor theater. | ■ DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisburg shipped iron to Pittsburgh right artcr the Revo lution? HISTORIC HARRISBimG William Maclay made the first eurvey to determine whether the Susquehanna hereabouts would be navigable. War Economy in the Kitchen Do not serve butter at the same meal with meat, says Jeanne Judson In #he Mother's Magazine for Sep tember. Learn to know the value of fat meat and suet and how to combine these meat 'products with other things to make palatable dishes. Do not ur,e fresh milk or cream for coffee or In cooking when tinned milk Is quite as palatable and nutri tious, besides being free from disease germs. Leain to gauge the family appe tite so that there is sufficient for each meal without waste. Nover cook or serve a dessert which is for taste or show alone. The dessert should be nutritious and wholesome as well as palatable and good to look at—a real addition to the meal, not a frill.
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