8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 • Published eveniags except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTINU CO., Telearraph Building, Federal Square. ■IE. J. STACK POI,E, Pres't tr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Buiineti Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Menacing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau or Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern of Hce, Story. Brooks & Avenue Building, Western office! Story, Brocks & Finley, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a njSBIIiyijISSL week; by mail. J5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 8 Have more than thou shoiceit, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou OKest. — SHAKESPEARE. PROFIT FROM GARBAGE W* HILE city councllmen are looking about for methods of disposing of city garbage sat isfactorily and economically {hey might investigate the suggestion thrown out by the United States De partment of Agriculture, which has data showing how at least one city, Hull, Mass., has solved Its garbage problem by feeding the offal of the city to hogs. This town, the Department of Agri culture says, has a herd of 325 hogs which are turning the garbage into pork, and providing a cheaper dis posal of the waste than was possible under the former garbage reduction methods. Hull's municipal or com munity piggery has been undertaken I in response to appeals for more meat production, and officials of the Unit ed States Department of Agriculture and of the Massachusetts Agricultur al College report the system as prac tical. The town's committee of public safety advanced the money to buy the young pigs, which were taken at cost by citizens. The land for pastur ing and housing the hogs was given free, so the only cost was for two large hog houses. One man feeds and manages the entire herd. Each day the uneaten garbage Is taken away before any more is fed; all hogs are Inoculated against cholera and are kept under sanitary conditions. When the hogs are ready for mar ket the unit cost of care and feed ing will be shared equally by the owners, and this sum, plus the orig inal cost of the pig, will be the only expense to the owners. The public safety committee is holding a sur plus of young sows for breeding, since It plans to continue the sys tem. Citizens of this town extol the advantages of Its garbage disposal and recommend It for other places of similar size. THE GROCERS' PICNIC THE conservation of food is go ing to receive an awful blow to-morrow. But it will be in a good cause. The grocers will hold their annual picnic then and a grocers' picnic without the biggest kind of a big dinner would bo an utter failure. There are no more hard-working or obliging tradespeople in Har risburg than the grocers. Are you caught with company coming unex pectedly after closing hours? The grocer may be relied upon to leave his dinner to help you out. Do you want an article he does not carry In stock? Surely, the grocer may be depended to get It for you. All summer the grocer provides picnic lunches for the other fellow and to-morrow he is going to have one of his own. The public will not begrudge him his hard-earned out- Ink, but will wish him the good time that Is his due. WANTS A FOOTBALL ARMY GENERAL PERSHING wants a "football army" In France. Any person familiar with football knows what that means—the snap piest kind of team work, with abut ter brilliant Individual effort In any crisis. No men In the world have been able to stand up against the youth of America at football and If they fight the same way they play It will be a sorry day for tho Germans ■Srhen the American Boldiers go against them. A MORALITY LEAGUE MRS. GRACE HUMISTON, the New York lawyer who solved the murder of Ruth Cruger by Alfred Cocchl through finding her body burled in his shop after the police had failed, has announced her Intention of Incorporating the Mo rality League of America. The pur poses, as set forth, are to inform the public throughout the United States In regard to dangers to women and girls, to report to the authorities complaints as to Immoral conditions and to work for legislation to further the alms of the league. Mrs. Humiston has shown herself to b well qualified to head such an organization. Unquestionably, thou sands of women and girls go the way of Ruth Cruger every year In the large cities, due to their ignorance of the wiles of the white slavers and their Ilk whose' business It Is to WEDNESDAY EVENING, traffic in humanity. Acquaint the women and girls of the country -with the traps that are laid for them and hundreds will escape. If the league saved only one girl from this un happy fate all tho efforts and ex penditures it proposes would be well worth while. BIG THING FOR CITY HARRISBURG and vicinity have been the scene of Important activities In every war since the early days. Camp Curtin being a center of military movements and organization during the en tire period of the Civil War, Camp Meade the headquarters of the Sec ond Army Corps in the war with Spain, and now ground adjacent to the site of old Camp Meade has been leased by tho government for the erection of aeroplane, wireless and machine gun depots. Before many weeks the "put-put-put" of the air craft may be as common hereabouts as the chug-chugging of the auto mobile. This government enterprise ought to prove a big thing for the Industrial life of the city, giving em ployment to a large number of men and bidding fair to become perma nent, the lease giving the govern ment the privilege of purchase. It Is to be hoped, also, that the plans of the owners of the ground adjacent for the erection of an aero plane factory may also materialize. Tho aeroplane Industry is in its in fancy. The government alone within the next two or three years will y>end $640,000,000 for aeroplane equipment and the number of manu facturing plants adapted to the making of aircraft is limited. Captain Earl Hamilton Smith, sec retary of the National Aerial Coast Patrol Commission, in a recent ar ticle on the big building program, says that while the automobile In dustry can be utilized for aircraft making, the field for private manu facture Is wide open. For a time a genuine fear was felt by American aeroplane companies that the en trance of tho automobile Industry into the equation might put them out of business. This would have been a cruel fate for pioneer organizers who j have struggled along for years wholly j on their own slender resources and | without the substantial support i which they had a right to expect from their government, and which they did not get until the appropriation in August, 1916, of $18,000,000 for army and navy aeronautics. It is evident now, however, that these aeroplane companies will have to double and treble their plants to handle the Increased business which they are qualified to take care of, and it is expected that there will also be plenty of orders for all new com panies which can show sound financ ing, proper facilities and skilled per sonnel. It is thought that the new companies, when they are properly organized and up to standard, at first will be given orders for spare parts. This in itself will amount to a vol ume of business totaling $50,000,000, Captain Hamilton believes, to supply the heavy and unavoidable wastage In the British and French and Italian air services. The air program will be a billion dollar proposition within a year, this authority contends, for the reason that the money already appropriated will not be enough. The total amounts to-day are $694,000,000. There will also be the $100,000,000 which the Navy Department has just asked at the eleventh hour, plus the $11,000,000 it already has. The Navy side, however, is another story alto gether. The Army budget of nearly $700,000,000 will all be spent or con tracted for by August 8, 1918, and the net result by the opening of the spring campaign may not be as many as 5,000 American battleplanes ac tually in the war zone. In addition to a large number of training machines. Thus, this huge sum, anfl easily $300,000,000 more, when made avail able, will merely lay the foundation for our much talked of campaign to "win the war In the air." This foundation work, neverthe less, is all Important, and the sit uation at present gives promise that never has money been better spent. As a result, if the carefully laid plans work out, tho United States will be turning out 3,000 aeroplanes a month by a year from now, which means that we should have 80,000 In the war zone when the 1919 campaign opens. The man who puts his money Into aeroplane building, providing he has a machine of which the government approves and his project is amply financed, Is not only a shrewd busi ness man but a patriot as well. OFFICIAL EXAGGERATION TOO many little men are now go ing about the country as seventh gons of seventh sons, uttering prophecies regarding the war which make Job's lamentations look like humorous sayings in com parison. They pretend to have a knowledge of events, present and fu ture, which would be amusing under other conditions. This awful struggle in which we are engaged is appalling enough without Increasing the horror through exaggerated state ments. Manifestly, something of this thought was in the mind of the Philadelphia Record when it de clared: Secretary Baker should not seek to alarm the country over the idea that we may not have ships enough to carry our troops to France. Ships can come back and be used, over again, can't they'' Have any of the transports that carried the first division to France been sunk? If they have not the same vessels that carried a division in June can carry an other in July and another in each succeeding month. A dozen or 15 transports used over and over would suffice, and we hi' e navy enough to convoy them. As the Record la one of the most Influential and fair-minded of the Administration's supporters. It will hardly be accused of partisanship in thus warning the Secretary of War against unnecessary and alarmist statements. There has been entirely too much of this sort of thing and a censorship of offlc'al exaggeration may be more to the point than the attempt to muzzle the newspapers. f uc By the Ex-Committeeman Officials of the Governor's office and of the State Department of Labor and Industry to-day professed entire ignorance of the appointment of William B. Smith, son of a Vare ward leader in Philadelphia, to the $5,000 j)ost of chief of the bureau of statistics and information made vacant by the resignation of Paul N. Furman, of Wayne, and in the ab sence of any official announcement friends of the numerous other as pirants for 'lie place redoubled their efforts. William H. Ball, secretary to the Governor, was outUt the city to-day, said yesterday that he had no knowledge of the appoint ment and Commissioner John Price Jackson, of the Department of Labor and Industry, who is the man to make the appointment under the law. Is away on a month's vacation. He started a week ago. At the othce of the bureau there is no information about Mr. Smith and no instructions have been given anywhere about him. The bureau is splendidly organized and the sys tem is carrying it on as usual. Mr. Smith will not have much to do when he does arrive. —Payment of requisitions for sal aries or expenses of James W. Leech, member of the State Compensation Board, who has been serving ever since reappointed by Governor Brumbaugh on July 9, and for Rob ert K. Young, who was sworn in as Public Service Commissioner yester day in a hospital at Blossburg, will be held up at the Auditor General's department the same as the requi sitions on behalf of the four state officials who embarked in the man damus proceedings against the Auditor General. Auditor General Snyder takes the position that they are In the same position, and whether any will be filed for the present Is not known. Mr. Snyder is working on his answer to the proceedings and says the rejection by the Senate will be brought out. —Mayor Smith's endorsement of Register Sheehan at Philadelphia is generally accepted throughout the State as an effort to bring about a State-wide peace among Republicans, but it has not been followed up. A good many men in politics are wait ing to see what the mayor does about Samuel P. Rotan, .candidate for re election as district attorney. Mr. Rotan is a personal frlencj of Sena tor Penrose —The Philadelphia vice and tran sit situations continue to heat up the city. —Lackawanna Democrats are In a turmoil again. This time A. G. Rutherford does not propose to be stood aside for the nomination for district attorney. The Lackawanna bosses have been trying to get the belligerent major to accept a nomina tion for something else so that they can. put Leon M. Levy into the dis trict attorney nomination. but Rutherford Is bucking. —The Warner act relative to elec tion of poor directors in the middle coal district seems to have a fine breeder for candidates. They are rather numerous. Hazleton's police are going un der civil service this week. Some of the Hazleton people wonder what police up there will be like when out of politics. —A dispatch from Chester tells this entertaining tale: "Evidently smarting under the unexpected de feat for the newly created Civil Ser \ ice Board, T. Trainer, secretary of the Chester Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce, this morning sent his resignation from the City Planning •Commission to Mayor Wacley S McDowell. The resignation read as follows: 'Please accept my resignation as .1 member of the City Planning Commission, same to take effect ".his date. I don't mind being the goat occasionally, but I do mind being made ai. ass of in the open.' " —Members of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee held a conference last night at the head quarters fti slatc-makt igf purposes in accordance witii th*i program an nounced at the re*e it meeting of the committee. Repre>onl.);v. s of vari ous wards were p.-sent to confer v ith Chairman I<a ik and others and the subject of councilmanic candi dates was discussd. Xo considera tion was given to liumtnjr candidates for the major offices and heal of tile ticket and no announcements were made. An eiY /i*t will be made to set up councilmanic tickets in every ward, and the committee ex pects to elect several members. Why Send Guard South? The War Department with in scrutable wisdom is about to send the National Guard regiments into southern camps for intensive train ing. The First Minnesota, with sum mer torridity at Its height, is about to entrain for Demingr, N. M. Other training camps have been establish ed throughout the South, where the guardsmen are to be "hardened" for service abroad. It would be a fair Inference that they are to be sent to Mesopotamia or Palestine, when they are ready to fight. Why else should they be train ed in the South, unless they are to serve in the tropics? The climate of Northern Prance is much like that of northern United States. In winter it is cold and snowy and altogether rigorous. Who doe's not remember the dispatches from the front last winter, with their tales of sheepskin clothing, frostbitten Angers and toes, and other injuries by freezing? One would suppose that our own northern fall in winter would be a better preparation for campaigning in Prance than the enervating heat of the south. Rut the War Depart ment knows better. It knows that the statesmen who rule the commit tees of Congress are all from the South. That is an argument for in tensive training in southern camps that outwelerhs all considerations of climate.—Minneapolis Journal. Coal Profits One war certainty for the United States Is a reduction of Inflated prof- Its obtained fron\ circumstances Im posing upon the necessities of peo ple. Unavoidable circumstances will be bitter enough. Man made difficul ties. selfishly contrived by war prof iteers to take advantage of extra ordinary conditions, will be remov ed. w.e think. That idea may penetrate the minds of the coal operators finally, as well as the minds of other ex ploiters of abnormal conditions. The temper of the people will not permit submission to outrageous Imposts. The government will not submit to It. Profits taken out of distress and suffering are scandalous and damn able. Nr/-o, who fiddled while Rome burned, was a humanitarian as com pared with the map who plays the cash register wh 11 o brave men give I. UD their lives. —Chicago Tribune. • 4 HAKRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH Poem Rich With Thouhgt [From the Kansas City Star.] No singlo poem in the English lan guage, perhaps has contributed so many lines that have passed Into currency of quotations as Gray's fa mous Elegy. It Is a veritable mine of epigrammatic nuggets that have enriched tho language of orators and writers and become such familiar property that their origin is almost forgotten and they seldom now re ceive the credit even of quotation marks. Here are a few of them that will be recognized as old friends: "The .ihort and simple annals of the poor." "Rich with the spoils of time." "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." "And freeze the genial currents of the soul." "Full mnny a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its fragrance on the desert air." i "Some mute, inglorious Milton, some Hampden guilty of his coun try's blood. "Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed." "The applause of listening senates to command." "The noiseless tenor of their way." "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife." "Even in our ashes live their wonted fires." "A youth to fortune and to fame unknown." "To wade through slaughter to a throne." The German Press Here The existence of German language publications is a direct menace to this nation. All of them should be suppressed. Is not there almost as great a menace in publications In some other languages? We may not be at war officially with Austria- Hungary, but Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and Turkey are at war with this nation when they continue to tight by the side of Germany. Every publication under the control of the countries allied with Germany is at heart antiAmerlcan. Authority to exercise a strict cen sorship over all such publications should be inherent in the war power that belongs to the President when the nation is at war. The fiction that we are at war only with Ger many should not blind us to the ob vious fact that Germany's allies are at war with us. Public opinion can be trusted to deal with the "reptile" press pub lished in English, but only the, gov ernment can deal with that portion of the foreign language press that Is aiding the enemy. It is the duty of the government to deal drastically with the menace It presents.—New York Herald. No Petrol For Pleasure Probably the council of national defense Is right in Insisting that pleasure riding should be curtailed sufficiently t6 prevent too great o, draft upon the reserve of crude oil in storage. A better remedy, however, is to increase the supply. These gentlemen say themselves that "there is oil to be had if producers in the oil business will redouble their efforts to get It out of the ground." It has been found in Eng land that recreation, sports, and pleasure-giving entertainments are essential to promote the recovery of soldiers overcome by the strain of trench warfare. Similarly, the. enjoyment derivable from motoring may have, and we think undoubtedly has, an affirmative sanitary value in this country. Let us have more gasoline rather than less motoring for health-giv ing pleasure.—New York Sun. Labor Notes The last half-yearly report of the Glasgow (Scotland) Council 4hows a very marked decrease In pauperism. Detroit now has several wireless classes organized by the Detroit branch of the National League for Woman's Service, where women may qualify as radio operators. It has been arranged that skilled shepherds serving with the British home forces be granted agricultural furlough if their commanding officer can spare them. Wisconsin State Commission has prohibited all work for women in manufactories and laundries between 6 p. m. and 6 a. m. except in pea-can ning factories. Of the coal produced in Great Brit tain in 1913, 189,092,269 tons were retained for home consumption, rep resenting 4.108 tons for each of the population. Twelve thousand German workmel recently attended a meeting at Blele fold, the center of the Westphalia linen Industry, and adopted a resolu tion demanding peace annexations or Indemnities. The British Columbia Electric Rail way has raised wages of Its electrical workers from $4.50 to $4.90 for an eight-hour day. Wlremen employed on a monthly basis are Increased $lO. The appellate term of the New York Supreme Court has decided that the landlord of an apartment house must exercise care In the employment of help so that tenants may not suffer from dishonest employes. The mineral resources of the Far East are to be made the subject of a thorough study this year by the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Sacrifice The crown prince sacrificed his picked men and persisted in his at tacks until his troops were ex hausted. —Battle report. When a prince la heir apparent to a rather shaky throne. And his prospects might be brighter than they are, Do not ask him to consider other in terests than his own. If his royal stock is e'er to go to par. If ho sacrifices others, others hum bler far than he. There is method In his madness, doubt it not, For no democratic menace can those soldiers ever be Who He still upon the field of bat tie—shot. No; there cannot be a neater way to make a throne secure Than to sacrifice potential revo lution; If the losses total high enough, then Right Divine Is sure It has found a quite Infallible solution. So. should you read of "sacrifice," "persistency" and such On the p?rt of one who hopes to be a king, Pray, remember he ic sacrificing nothing as muuh As he's doing quit® another, subtler thing. When a prince is heir apparent to a rather shaky throne, And his prospects might be brighter than they are. Do not ask him to consider other in terests than his own, If his royal stock is e'er to go to par. —A. H. Folwell. in New York Sun. When a Feller NBy BRIGGS i - MOBILIZING GREAT ARMY OF TWENTY MILLION More Than Usual Reasons to Extend and Intensify Day of Prayer For Schools This Year—Nation wide Observance in Churches, Schools and Homes September 9 AMERICA will mobilize two great! armies in September. One will be an army of more than 500,- 000 and the other of more than 20,- 000,000. The one contains the war riors of to-day, the other those of to-morrow and the future hope of the country. The first is organiied for destruction, the second for in struction. On the success of both tho future of the world depends. There is no more appropriate time than September 9, when the mobili zation of the armies of American manhood and American youth is taking place, for the people to join in serious thought and prayer for the 20,000,000 schoolchildren of America. It is a great task to mobilize over 500,000 men in a few months. Six teen training camps are being pre pared in different parts of America, wooden houses are being erected, and in a few weeks the equivalent of a city of the size of Pittsburgh, Balti more, .San Francisco, Los Angeles or Milwaukee springs up ready to receive its inhabitants and to meet all their needs. These men must have their moral and religious life maintained at any cost of sacrifice to the Christian people of America. The largep army of 20,000,000 will mobilize in almost a day. It will be brought together not by the sound of the bugle, but by the ringing of the schoolbell. It will prepare not for war, but for peace, under the superintendents and teachers, the generals and captains of the educa tional battalions. Not since the days of the Civil War have our schoolchildren stood In more need of Christian help, our prayers and watchful Interest, than now. Many ~re in danger of losing their education owing to the pressure of work in agriculture and manufac turing. in England the age at which children entered school was raised from five to six and thousands twelve Why We Stand With the air filled with patriot- Ism and with the universal obser vance of the unwritten law that Americans pliall rise to their feet when the "Star Spangled Banner la slaved it Is Interesting to know the origin of the custom which Is given in Burrows of Michigan and the Republican Party, by William Dana Orcutt, to be issued by L/ong mans Green & Co. In October. It 'was In 1891 when Senator Julius C. Burrows was the orator of the day at the closing exercises of the graduating class at West Point Toward the close of the sneech he said: "Soldiers should not be heedless to the sentiment of their songs and to the music of their bands !T would like to see every true American soldier or citizen, when hf hears the grand notes of our National air. rise to his feet In Pat riotic recognition and unco\er. Almost instantly Vhe b ®- n d began to nlav the "Star- Spangled Banner,' and Colonel Wilson, the Superinten dent and the entire Battalion of responded to Burrow s pat riotic suggestion by springing to tJhelr feet with a common Impulse, which action was followed by every person In the audience, and all stood with bowed heads until the last note had ceased. It was an Impressive sight, and attracted much public attention. Later Burrows had his custom made compulsory at West Point but It required no legislation to the, custom become universally popular. To Senator Burrows, then belongs the credit of first suggesting what has now become nn unwritten law of ith.o nation. —Exchange. and under allowed to leave school to go to work. But England awaken ed to her mistake, and America must not imitate It. Predatory Interests demand the repeal of laws against child labor as a patriotic act. There is danger of an increase of youthful crime due to the lack of parental care when fath ers are at war and mothers at work. During wartimes the stress on the nerves of children is particularly great, especially in sections where labor conditions are acute or enemy attacks are made. Therefore there are more than the usual reasons why September 9 should be observed even more widely than formerly as a Day of Prayer for Schools. Since this day was sug gested by the National Reform As sociation, which has its headquar ters in Pittsburgh, Pa., fifteen years ago, it has been approved by many religious organizations and is more widely recognized each year because at this time the schools are opening and it is realized that the year's work cannot be better begun than by praying for the children and youth and considering their moral as well as their Intellectual needs. Active local interest in a Prayer Day for Schools is urged by local clergy, who have Indorsed the Idea, and it Is the hope that the observ ance will be universal. Prayers will be offered on that day In thousands of churches and homes throughout the country, and many ministers of all shades of belief will deliver ap propriate sermons on some phase of the. Important relations between morality and education. Methods of adequately meeting the moral and Intellectual needs of the schoolchildren will be further con sidered by the leading educators of the world at the Third World's Christian Citizenship Conference which is to meet in Pittsburgh, Pa., in July, 1918.—Exchange. German Language Press It is said to be the Intention of the government to find some method of dealing firmly with the German language press. If the rights of free Hpeech and of opinion be invaded in this particular, the German lan guage press will be obliged to reflect ths t the situation was created by it.'i own lack of consideration, by its own lacK of wisdom and of restraint. A great deal of tolerance has been accorded many newspapers printed In the German language and the damage they may be able to do If they Impose upon this tolerance can be foreseen by any one. In our mixed society, incentives to disorder, grumbling, whining, and rebellion must be discouraged. They cannot be tolerated. If the German lan guage press has lost all sense of pro portion and fitness, it may have to be dealt with in a fashion which or dinarily would disagree with Amer ican ideas of liberty.—Chicago Tri bune. PROSPERITY BULLETIN* NO. 48 We are quite firmly convinced that business will be as good, If not better, than It is ordinarily. Wo expert to continue our ad vertising during the coming fall as usual. MARVIN E. GRISWOLD, TheGrlswoldManufacturingCo . Erie. Pa. AUGUST 8, 1917. J. Ham's Vision Senator Lewis' speech indicates that he has just awakened, and that he knows nothing of the condition of things throughout the world. It indicates that he has been too busy combing his whiskers to realize that we are in a war where a compro mise cannot be agreed upon, and wherein defeat would mean the ruin of our country. We are fighting to make this world a "safe place for democracy," according to President ■\\ ilson. The President's eloquent words are true. We are fighting for liberty and self-government. A peace compromise with Germany to day would mean that ten millions of lives have been sacrificed without any advantage coming to civiliza tion. Think of It, fellow men!—think of It!—we must depend upon such men as J. Ham Lewis to protect our great Interests and preserve a great country.—Deg Moines Capital. OUR DAILY LAUGH I A COOL HAND. Pprgeant (to re crult): What would be the 1 first thing you'd f®?* 1 do If you were aL J iAL-JT on guard duty / f at the powder 'y a*V*V* \m r the thing blew / Recruit: The J first thing I'd AjWt p*lO do, sir, would be Vy4 to fire a shot to giva Yhe alarm. jfcjjl HIS POSITION. \* " N Stranger I Are you the rjkSs"' /f Mm head of the Vw\ '" i wir Man (meek- MWjjL ly)—No, I guest I' m the door- AN ORIENTAL PUNSTER. Lady—So your wife wants ali mony. Chinese Laundryman—Yep; allee money one gottee. GIVE IT TIME. "Eo!l nsy egg threo minutes." " 'Scuso mo. Dat aig 13 Je3' out o* cold storage .n* three minutes won't much mors dua Ja' th*w it,** lEtentng CttljaJ The number of Harrisburg resU dents who rise up early in the morn and go ou,t and hoe their "war gar dens" or truck patches or vegetables beds before breakfast is really aston ishing and if they do not work too hard and eat too much breakfast be cause of the appetite they acquire they tackle work with energy that lasts for hours on the hottest kind of a day. There are hundreds of gar dens about the city especially in the Tenth ward and on the Hill, which are tilled by people who go to them with the first peep of day, when the roosters are tuning up and the birds are giving half awakened pipes. Some of these have their gardens close to. their homes and hustle over after a cup of coffee and before breakfast, but others start their day by an hour in their gardens and then go to their jobs in mills or offices or other places. There are some men who nave arrangements mado whereby they have an extra hour in the morn ing to work in the garden instead of taking some time oft in the late aft ernoon because they say they can work better and there are precious few employers who are not encourag ing people to raise food and who are willing to make arrangements on time. People in various offices who do not have as long turns as folks in other establishments have more time for their gardens and whole families are feeling better and getting enjoy ment as well as beans out of their gardens. Railroadmen, motormen, conductors and others who go on duty between noon and 1 o'clock, do lot work in the mornings and the chatter about the way the pota toes are coming on is indicative of a return to the soil In the midst of the capital city. The "war gardens" will probably save a lot of people money and provide them with plenty of food which can be put away for winter and next spring, but the amount of good that they have done to people in a physical sense Is not to be cal culated. They have been a blessing tn more ways than one to many a Harrlsburg man and unless a good many signs fall, gardening has been given an lmpetfts by the war that will outlast the strife. Plans for many more gardens next year aro being made. • • * The military activity has caused the collection of colors of Pennsylva nia regiments in the Capitol rotunda to be a center of attraction not only for the general public but for tho soldiers themselves. Flags of regl lents in which relations marched and fought are hunted out by the boys in khaki and often there are family parties which come with a veteran of the Civil War to view the relics. The other day a veteran of the War of the Rebellion and his son who served in the Spanish War hunt ed up their respective colors to gether • • • Lieutenant Colonel Frederic A. Snyder, who has been made lieuten ant colonel of the First Pennsylvania Engineers, is a close personal friend of Colonel F. M. Ott. of this city, with whom he served in the National Guard for years. Colonel Snyder was the engineer officer attached to tho staff of General J. P. S. Gobln when he commanded the Third Brigade in the Second Division of the Second Army Corps at Camp Alger and Camp Meade. He was noted for his maps and the accuracy of his mili tary engineering work. Lately he has been in Canada, having gone there from Plattsburg. The opinion among military men is that the state is for tunate to regain such a valuable officer. I • • Colonel Frank G. Sweeney, the chief officer at the state draft bu reau, has just completed thirty-five yoars in the National Guard, almost all of which he has passed in more or less close official relation with Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart. For ten years the colonel commanded the Chester company of the National Guard, which wns in the Sixth Regi ment, of which General Stewart was adjutant. When General Stewart went on the First Brigade staff the colonel was appointed about the same time as inspector and the appoint ment of the general to his present high place twenty-two yers ago was followed within a few months by the selection of Colonel Sweeney to bo Inspector general. As an Inspector the Chester colonel was noted for his Insistence upon practical work and training of tho men. He was down on parade stunts, but he be lieved in clean, serviceable equip ment and knowledge of the duties of a soldier. * * • Col. Harry C. Trexler, the head of the Immense business being done by the quartermaster corps of the Penn sylvania troops, says that he is en joying every minute of the work. Colonel Trexler, who Is one of tho wealthiest men in Pennsylvania, has given up all his private business and is working day and night to, keep tho State's soldiers supplied with food and other things, sleeping at night in a tent on the arsenal grounds and using his own automobiles on the business of the army. The col onel seems to be having an even better time than when he was at Mt. Gretna last year. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"] —Samuel H. Layton, new superin tendent of Altoona schools, comes from Lancaster, Ohio. —H. T. Moon, named on one of the draft appeal boards, is a proml- t nent farmer of Bucks county and a member of the State Commission of Agriculture. —James B. Bowman, well-known Altoona resident, was seriously in jured by lightning at his summer home In Maine. —Captain C. C. McGovern, com mander of Pittsburgh cavalry, is in structing home defense men in Alle gheny cdunty towns. —Councilman P. Lavelle, Is the acting mayor of Johnstown, In tho absence of Mayor Franke, who is a member of a draft board. —Judge John W. Kephart gave 125 for the Are company making the best appearance in the Cambria county firemen's parade. The judge Is a member of a company hlmsotf, 1 DO YOU KNOW "] That Hnrrisbnrg Is helping make equipment for soldiers. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The town was first lighted about 1800 when Market and Second street businessmen contributed for lan terns. A California Suggestion If a man thinks a woman will not be efficient in assembling the parts In an industrial plant, let him try dress ing the l?aby while he carries on a conversation with his moj|h full at iplna,—Cfatco Enterprise.,
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