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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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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.
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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
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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.,