8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Foundtd iSjt Published evenlmgs except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Tcltnaph Building, Federal Square. E. J. ST ACK POLK, Pres't Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. (JYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Afanaging Editor. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office. Avenue Building, StjOry, Brooks C & Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Ha., as s tcond class matter. -jjgeagOfc. By carriers, ten cents a CT?st;r,73®sr) %/eek; by mall, J5.00 a year In advance. MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13 If only myself could talk to myself As I kneic him a year ago, I could tell him a lot That would save him a lot Of things he ought to know. —KIPI.ino. COAI. PRICES COAL prices, the government tells us, must not be advanced more than 10 cents a ton Sep tember 1. In other words, the virtuous federal authorities are not going to let the bold, bad coal barons rob the poor public of more than a dime In ad dition to the extortionate prices now being charged. For these small things, we suppose, we should be humbly grateful. But we are not. What wc want in the way of coal prices Is not 10 cents more a ton, but 10 cents or 50 cents, for that matter, less. Strange to say, the present high retail prices are not attributable to the coal trust nor to the small deal ers so much as to the so-called "In dependent" operators, men who boast they are "not In the combine." When the big operators ran short of coal, due to Increased demand and decreased production caused by lack of labor, the "Independents" stepped Into tho breach with accumulations of coal which were knocked down to the highest bidder Instead of be ing distributed pro rata at a fixed price, as is the custom of the trust. So It is to the independents that the government must look for relief now. However, putting up the price "only 10 cents" a ton won't remedy conditions. REPUBLICAN ? FRANK WILBUR SMITH, a mem ber of the Philadelphia force of postal inspectors, has resigned from the government service. Several weeks ago Smith was ap pointed by the War Department post office inspector in charge of the United States malls for the American army In France. He went to Wash ington and planned a postal system that would expedite the delivery of malls to American soldiers abroad. He was ready to go to France, with the rank of major, to take charge, being attached to the staff of General Pershing, when Secretary of War Baker Informed him that Postmaster General Burlecon refused to sanction the appointment. Smith was given no reason except that Burleson wanted the place for somebody else. We don't know Smith and we have absolutely no knowledge as to his politics, but It's a safe wager he Is a Republican. MOTORING AM) GASOLINE AUTOMOBILISTS who use thoir cars for pleasure will find a trlflle of comfort in the Issue raised by Alfred Reeves, general manager of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce, with the statement of President Bedford, of the Standard 011 Company, that all pleasure rid ing must be discontinued '.f a famine of gasoline is to be prevented and a plentiful supply left for military and commercial purposes. Mr. Reeves does not believe that pleasure riding need be seriously curtailed If •co'i omles be observed by pleasure ride's and owners of commercial car* a* well. But while ho takes exception to the unqualified demands of Mr. Bed ford for the elimination of all pleas tiro driving, Mr. Reeves gives this bit of pertinent advice: Everything considered, there Is no cause for alarm among auto mobile makers and users over the fuel situation, but it is both wise and patriotic to encourage the conservation of gasoline by avoid ing waste and by careful car bureter adjustments and handling of cars so as to get the greatest liosslble mileage from every gal on of fuel used. Doubtless President Bedford real ized when he posted his conservation ■bulletin that all he might say would not have the effect of cutting off entirely the use of the Automobile for pleasure and recreation, and Mr. Reeves very properly takes excep tion to his unqualified statements. But the public will agree with the Standard OH executive that much Joy-riding could be eliminated with out Injury to public health or pleas ure and very much to the advantage of everybody and everything, the gasoline supply Included. Nobody begrudges the hard-work ing man whose only extravagance is his car an hour or two In the country with his family these hot avenlngs, or even a whole day In tho MONDAY EVENING, open. The automobile Is no longer the luxury of the Idle rich. It Is the proud possession of many a working man who never hopes to bo wealhy, and the producers of autoinoblloa and gasoline ought to be attempting to cheapen their products and in crease the supply. Notwithstanding the present mar ket conditions of petrol tho future not so dark as might be imagined. It is known that the Mexican oil fields have been scarcely touched and new fields are being discovered yearly In many parts of the world. The war condition is abnormal an<l may be corrected by peace at any time. But the automobile la growing in popularity and one of two thinss must happen—cither the quantity and the price of gasoline must re.aah satisfactory levels or somebody will produce a carburetor that will burn some other fuel satisfactorily. Thoro never was a grave necessity like the threatened shortage of gasoline that didn't of Its very self produce ti remedy. GOOD ADVICE HE TELEGRAPH Is in receipt | of the following letter relative to an editorial appearing In these columns Saturday under the caption "A Call to the Colors," point ing out the necessity of Mod men coming forward as candidates for the three vacancies on tho School Board to be filled in November: To the Editor of the Telegraph: I read to my Sunday school class of men to-day what the TELEGRAPH had to say about It being the duty of all good citi zens to see that first-class men are elected to the School Board. Every man In this city ought to read it. It ought to be posted on all the billboards. One of mv young men said: "O. what's the use. They'd call us grafters If we didn't do politically what they wanted." Now, this is all too true. Hut you are right. Good men should not fear criticism if their hearts are right. I say with all my heart, come out. men and Join the Harrisburg colors. We who stay at home must see to it that we have right here in America the same kind of good government our boys are fcoing abroad to insure for all the world. SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. The importance of filling the va cancies on the board of school con trol with men well qualified in every way for the great trust imposed In that body Is proper subject for the discussion of any Sunday school class, or any other assemblage of Harrisburg men, or women, at this time. The Harrisburg School Board was wrested from political control after the hardest kind of a fight, only to fall into the hands of directors a majority of whom have displayed no aptitude whatever for the duties de volving upon thefn and no sense of the Importance of their work to the future welfare of the community. There is text for an hour's sermon in the concluding sentiment of the TELEGRAPH'S correspondent. "We who stay at home must see to It that we have right here in America the same kind of good government our boys are going abroad to insure for all the world." At this period of all others in our history as a nation It is important that we do have good gov ernment "right here In America." We have set for ourselves the task of making the world safe for democ racy, but what boots It that we should achieve world-democracy If democ racy at home Is not productive of honest, efficient administration of our public affairs? Then, too, there is the necessity of making every dollar buy a full dol lar's worth—the conservation of money, materials and effort. This is no time to entrust to men who have proved their lack of fitness for the responsibility of supervising the expenditure of more than a million dollars. Waste has no place in the economy of the nation at war. Taxes aro high and going higher. The tax payer cannot afTord to have his money frittered away. A fine place to begin this good government program Is the School Board. Who will volunteer? THE APPROACH OF FALL THERE Is something In the air tho past few days that was not there before. There is a chill in the early morning and haze across the landscape. Fields that were bright and glorious green are turn ing brown. There is a new note in the song of the birds and the katydid has begun to voice its complaints in a manner that can mean but one thing—summer is nearlng Its end and fall is appioaching. Weeks be fore the calendar records the wane of the warm season nature tells the tale and paints the picture for those | who listen and look. Have you noticed that -you do not havo Indigestion after a Pullman car dinner? That, however, la not be cause the cooking or the food has Im proved. tK ""PiKKOiftcania By the Ex-Committeeman Governor Brumbaugh's request for the resignation ol' Highway Com missioner Black and the letter of the Somerset countian in severing his connection with the state govern ment has superseded gubernatorial talk and even Interest In the Demo cratic row la Philadelphia over Fed eral patronage. That the Governor and his old-time friend and personal selection for tho state highway chief ship should break with sharp words was a surprise for many people. The newspapers of the state gave much attention to the retirement of Mr. Black yesterday, but there is not much editorial comment upon It to-day. The Philadelphia Public Ledger sharply criticises the Gover nor's action, declaring that he seems determined to sacrifice state interests and his own good name "to the pur pose of partisan politics," and saying that the Governor has "blindly sur rendered his judgment" to politi cians. The Pittsburgh Post, Demo cratic organ, says that twenty mil lion dollars is too much to trust to a department that has any politics in it. —The Governor's office and the administration chiefs here have de clined to make any statement about tho resignation and the Governor's office did not give out the letter in which the Governor asked Mr. Black to resign. Mr. Black has refused to make any further comments. —The belief is that the drastic action taken by the Governor means that the state administration intends to be a greater factor In the selection of the next state ticket than has been believed. No one high in adminis tration councils has enthused over the Sproul boom and the Scarlet boom has not evoked any hurrahing at the Capitol. A good many peoplo cling to the opinion that Attorney General Brown may turn up as the administration candidate. —Congressman Dewalt was given a great send-off by Lehigh Demo crats on Saturday and will be a can didate next year. Reorganizes were not very prominent at the meeting. —Judge Harry Alvan Hall, of Elk, in a statement issued Saturday says that ill health is the reason he de cided not to run again. —When Frank B. Black retires from the State Highway Department on. Wednesday the direction of its nffairs will devolve upon Joseph W. Hunter, First Deputy Commissioner, who was formerly Commissioner himself and who has twice acted as Commissioner since. Mr. Hunter took charge when E. M. Bigelow retired and when Robert J. Cunning ham died. Mt. Black Is expected here late to-day. although at his office it was stated that no one knew lust when he would be here, as he had cleared up affairs before leaving Friday. —Things were going on as usual In the department to-day and Chief Engineer W. H. I'hler. who was re ported as likely to resign, laughed about it. —Capitol Hill Is looking for ap pointment of a successor to Mn Black to be made very soon and In surance Commissioner J. Denny O'NeH, of McKeesport, Is mentioned as the most likely vnan. Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton and General A. J. Logan, of Pittsburgh, mentioned when Mr. Cunningham was appointed, are also talked of. —General Willis J. Hulings, of Oil City, who wants to be a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket in the Twenty-eighth district, will not have his papers filed unless the courts order it. The Secretary of the Commonwealth's department declined to receive papers presented Saturday by the general, who con tends that he was misled by a printed form which had been superseded by the act of 1917 shortening the time for filing. The first paper filed con tained only 78 names. Two hundred were needed. • —E. V. Babcock has formallly an nounced his candidacy for mayor. There are now three candidates with Commissioner Magee on the horizon. —An Altoona special says: Tho proposition for a trial of the city manager is still being pressed. It is probable that a committee of fifty eight citizens, two of them from each precinct in the city will recommend four candidates on that Issue. They will consist as is now heard of two prominent merchants standing for the business interests and two work inemen, representing the wage earn ers. The impression prevails that It will make a strong combination to be backed by a platform assuring efficiency in city government. On the other hand many residents are said to be not willing to adopt such a plan of conducting municipal affairs. The present commissioners, it is understood, may seek re-election and appeal to the conservative ele ment to not make a change at this time, advancing, among other rea sons, that it is proving too expensive elsewhere and to await developments to see if such form of government is successful where now being used before adopting it here. Labor Notes . Dominion Trades Congress meets In Ottawa. Can., in Sepember. Finding homes and providing enter tainment for the 13,000 employes In "the city of standing room only" Is the task set for itself by the Fire stone Tire and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio. In many of the large factories In the vicinity of Bridgeport, Conn where shells and cartridges are being manufactured, lathes, milling ma chines, drills and planes are being operated by women. Civil servants of the Saskatchewan (Canada) government who desire to work in the harvest fields will be given leave of absence from their duties for this purpose, and will draw pay while away from their work. In England feminine hands are seen turning out 15-ich shells practically without masculine assistance, doing the bulk of the work on the famous British tanks, guncarriages and. natu rally, on aeroplanes and airships. Philadelphia Wool and Carpet Tarn Workers Union Is working out a plan for a general flat increase of $3 for the craftsmen. This involves approx imately 1.500 in the trade who are directly under the jurisdiction of the organization. Workmen in Germany's shipbuilding Industry, particularly metal workers at Hamburg, demand a reduction of working hours to flfty-two weekly, and an Increase In wages of 50 per cent. Women workers have also for mulated demands. Sixty training schools, where more than 32,00u ' (Undents have already qualified, are now open in London. England, and the provinces under the scheme for free Instruction In muni tion-making started by the Ministry of Munitions and the educational au thorities. I HARRISBUHG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELW? By Briggt — N " AFTER "FRIEnJD WIFE ASK<S -AMD YOU DRAW YOUR /tyJJ) THE WTC TRHSS OM You To MEET HER lb PICK VA/EEKS SALARY l*i A HAT MARKED ' OUT THE HAT YOU ADVAM CB REDUCED If _ T ° BUY F ° R HC " R FROrA ~ AfiJD IS^USJS>EC IDEV WHICH WHEm ALL OF * SUPDEM "ArJO The -SAL-G5- To PURCHASE, THE ome SHE 6SPIES A I>ARV.IMG . COST L tel Ofl marked #24.50 or one Hat Decides /w For tß.oo "fo Take it (NO M PRICE MARKET)) I BA -BY Russia's Amazons The female of the Russian species j becomes dally more deadly than the j male, If we can believe what we j read. One turns from news of the rout in Galicla to the epic of the Legion of Death with a lifting of spirits almost dizzying. When the Russian morale is restored we shall have Kerensky to thank, but also these Slavic Amazons, these Lenas and Sonias, who climb over the top into hell Vvith a dash wholly Invin cible. They carry each a ration of cyanide of potassium against their capture by the Germans. This is the latest news, and a dramatic com mentary on their heroism and on the extra hazards which everywhere dog their sex. One of these sisters of the sword, we are told, lies in a Petrograd hospital, suffering from shell shock, but with a German helmet on the bed beside her, to bring her the same joy and consolation which come to little giris with the measles from toys cuddled up close. This helmet belonged to a man whom she impaled on her bayonet. Another girl in the company, de scribed as its most popular member (in the language of a high school commencement). ran into a shell on the battlefield and was blown to fragments before the eyes of her undismayed comrades. Still another, a musician, was riddled with ma chine gun bullets. Such are a few of the incidents of their baptism of fire, in the course of which these amazing girls made many prisoner*. Five of the latter were of their own sex, they say—five poasant girls, embryos of that type of patient docile German hausfrau whom in another era we have associated with the milk of human kindness—indis tinguishable in uniform, equipment or deportment from the men. Wom en vs. women, tearing each other to pieces, no longer with gossip or finger nails, but with shrapnel! What are we coming to on this careening planet!— New Tork Trib une. Cheated of Victory Herr Loringhoven, speaking in the Reichstag, laments that the sol diers of Germany "have been really cheated out of the fruits of their vic tories" because the evergrowing number of nations allied against the Fatherland has made it possible for "our enemies" to continue the war far beyond the period of German calculation. What was to have been a short and merry conflict—Paris in ix weeks and then on to Russia — has dragged on into the fourth year, and now the armies that set out for conquest are told that theirs is a war of defense. Doubtless Herr Lor inghoven reflects a pessimism pre valent throughout Germany. Official reports have reeked with announce ment of victory upon the heels of victory, and yet the "victorious" armies get nowhere. Why this strange situation? It is well for themselves that the German people are asking—why? The next step in their questioning will be toward the end of discovery Just where lies the responsibility for the miscalculation that turned ex pected victory into certain defeat. In time the questioners will get at the heart of things; they then will un derstand that the reason for Ger many's plight is to be found in their own blind worship of a State that can do no wrong, dominated by an emperor who clings to the nrchaic idea that kings rule by Di vine right. They then will realize that such a state belongs to the Dark Ages, not to the civilized world of to-day, and that leaders who rely upon doctrines of the Dark Ages cannot know how frfee peoples think. When that understanding reaches the German people It will be the end of the Hohenzollern and of Ho hcnzollernism. —New York Herald. WHO COUNSELS PEACE? Who counsels peace at this moment ous hour When God hath given deliverance to the opprest And to the injured power? Who counsels peace when vengeance like a flood Rolls on. no longer now to be re prcst:— When innocent blood From the four corners of the world cries out For justice upon one accursed head? Woe, woe to all, both woe and end less shame If this heroic land, Fulse to her feelings and unspotted fame, Holds out the olive to the tyrant's hand. • • • Down with the tyrant; with the murderer down! —By Robert Southey. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Thanks Carpenters To the Editor of the Telegraph: I desire through your columns to express my thanks and appreciation to the, members of Carpenters Union ii w ' lo so nobly responded to iny call to them to work on the shoring up of the building in North Third street to prevent further accident, after the falling of the one building. Too much praise or thanks cannot be given them, for some had on their good clothes, which they immediately changed, and procured their tools and got on the job. I further want to extend my thanks to William Mcßride, of the Warren- Moore Company, for sending me his force of men. all members or 287, and by their united efforts the place was made safe enough until the wreckage can be removed. At my second call for six men to work on Sunday, to further secure the walls, ten responded. When men respond in that manner without hesitation, I believe they should have all the praise and thanks that can be given them, and I take this manner of doing so. Yours very truly, H. M. BROOKS, Business Agent, Federated Trades Council. Took High Bid To the Editor of the Telegraph: Would you be interested in a news item for the benefit of the public, proving that the purchasing depart ment of the Harrisburg schools paid SI.OO per gallon of the people's money for the same material that was of fered to them for BO cents? On May 2 the Harrisburg schools submitted bids for supplies for the year. On the item of disinfectant, this company bid 50 cents per gallon; on item of liquid soap this company bid 50 cents per gallon, goods delivered Harrisburg. You can therefore Imag ine our surprise to receive a letter from the secretary in which he stated that the board of education was pay ing for disinfectant *I.OO per gallon and for the liquid soap 80 cents per gallon. We asked for an explanation as to why we were not given the contract and we have never received any. We took the matter up with the mayor and still received no satisfaction. ' Therefore, this Is the reason I am calling the matter to the attention of your paper, as surely a business transaction of this kind should be of sufficient public interest to warrant investigation. I am Very truly yours, _ F. C. BARTON, Panozone Company. Philadelphia. Pa. Our Resources "When Li Hung Chang visited this country several years ago ho took back to China the report that the vast resources of America were un known to our own people," remarked Stephen Demmon, a stockman of Wyoming. "Wu Ting Fang also was impressed by the great possibilities of the country. Lord Roberts like wise has remarked upon the won derful riches of the United States. Here at home, however, we do not appear to realize how great our country Is and how limitless its re sources. "I can remember when 15,000 cattle on the Chicago market was a record. That was along In 1885. To-day 40,000 cattle In a single day on the Chicago market does not even cause pasiing notice. In the leading cattle markets—Kansas City. Chi cago, St. Paul, Sioux City, Omaha, Denver and Fort Worth —there are daily sent to the markets more than 250.000 head of cattle. We are pro ducing more beef cattle to-day than ever, of course, and the relatively In creased production Is not very far behind the increase In population. True, prices have gone up along with the increase In production. Twenty years ago 6-month-old Polled-Angus steers would bring from sl7 to S2O a head; to-day this same class of cattle are commanding from S6O to S7O. It was not so long ago that the farmers with the old-style, horse drawn Implements would thresh 1,100 bushols of oats a day; to-day we thresh 15,000 bushels a day and 10,000 bushels of wheat. "It Is not geneally known that Montana to-day grows more wheat than Kansas, and the grade of wheat 1b equally as good as that of Kansas, Nebraska or lowa, Montana cattle that reach market will weigh 1,70 ft pounds, as against" cattle of other states that will not average more than 1,400 pounds, and all the Mon tana cattle are hay fed. "There Is a little town In Wyoming —Monfort It Is called—that has a population of less than 150 people that sends to the market every year more than 7,000,000 pounds of wool. Our own people do not comprehend what an Immense country we have and the extent of our resources. "At Fremont, Neb., they are pre paring to entertain 500,000 people atj Training of Dogs To the Editor of the Telegraph: As a matter of Information to your readers who may be interested in the subject, I hope you will give the fol lowing a prominent ylace in your col umns: Under the provisions of section 26 of the Act of June 7, 19X7, the new game law of this State, dogs, when accompanied by an<l unser control of I their masters, may be trained upon j any of the living wild game or birds of this State, excepting elk and deer and fawn or wild turkeys, from the first day of September to the first day of March next following, Sundays excepted, so long as no injury Is inflicted upon said animals or birds. We recognize that it would be impos sible to adopt a hard and fast rule regarding the training of all dogs. We know that while the bird dog may be and should be limited In its range, both in the matter of time such dog may run as well as in the distance he may go from his master, that to attempt to apply to rabbit dogs or coon dogs a rule that might be ap plied to bird dogs would not only be unfalt, but would also be ridicu lous an* •mpossible. We, tiiurefore, propose to interpret this provision in a manner that will place bird dogß under the rule that might be applied to rabbit dogs, or to ooon dogs, and to say that dogs In this respect shall be under a rea sonable control by the 1 " masters. By this we mean that the person in con trol shall take his dog out, and shall see to it that tl\e dog Is taken home when the man returns to his home, and that dogs s'fiall not be turned out J.o run as they please all day or all night as the case may be, regardless of what harm they may do. During that/Interval between Sep tember 1 and March 1 next following, the majority of game, both animals and birds, is so fairly well matured as to be able to take reasonable care of Itself for a limited period, but Just as the fox hound can run down and kill a fully developed fox by per sistent and continued effort, so much of our game could be and would be destroyed if dogs were to run at will during any period of the year in this State, and the law does not intend that this shall be. but the running of dogs In course of training will not be questioned during that period be tween September 1 and the first day of March next following, if the dog is under the reasonable care and con trol of Its master, and is not allowed to run for such a lengthy period as must, of necessity, result in Injury or death to the game pursued. Respectfully yours, JOSEPH K ALB FUR, Secretary Game Commission. ■ • a tractor demonstration. Before the European war the crowds at such exhibits rarely reached more than 80.000. The tractor engine has revo lutionized farming and made avail able hundreds of thousands, yes. mil lions, of acres of land that with the old style of plowing could never ha v.. been made to produce, perhaps."— Washington Post. Hope For Russia Ellhu's Root's expression of con fidence in new Russia is welcome tes timony In view of the pessimistic tone of many of the news dispatches. Mr. Root is not a man who would be easily duped by theorists or mis led by dreamers in matters of gov ernment. His belief, therefore, that order and discipline are triumphing in Russia disposes of much of the superficial discouragement over the Russian situation. Even the reverses and desertions at the army front do not seem to dishearten Mr. Root or the members of the commission. It Is apparently their feeling that the fundamental desire for a stable, efficient govern ment Is powerful enough to over come the Intrigues of the pacifists, the wild eyed radicals, and the Ger man spies. All the commissioners agree that rioting and anarchy are, as a matteV of fact, conspicuous by their ab sence. It Is on this fact perhaps as much as anything else that their confidence Is based. A nation that can go about its business "as usual," In spite of every temptation that must be offered when old restraints are removed, is, we have reason to hope, a country that cannot go very far wrong. From the Insufficient evidence at hand it would seem that the council of soldiers and worktngmen does not represent tWe country at large. Cer tainly a large share of the troubles of the provisional government may be traced to the council. It has exercised almost tyrannical powers. But If, as the American commission believes, Russia is on the road to a representative, constitutional gov ernment, the influence of that self appointed body will be short lived. —Chicago Tribune. AUGUST 13, 1917. Feeble-Mindedness The addresses by prominent osteo paths at various churches in town last Sunday, and reported In The State Journal yesterday, were all in teresting and uplifting. Dr. Drew spoke of the mental defectives and the danger they were to the future welfare of the nation. He spoke decidedly against the increase of feeble-mindedness through ill-sorted marriages, and his position was well taken. There is another view in this matter that should engage the scien tists' attention. The mind, so much talked of, is not a definite and inde pendent faculty. It conies from a contact of the spirit with the en vironment, so the way to strengthen and purify the thought is to provide It with a wholesomo environment. Now society, the street, the sports, the funny pages, the shows, the talk, the empty leisure do not constitute an environment that will strengthen the mind and elevate the thinking. They are the influences that contri bute to feeble-mlndedncss, the kind that Dr. Drew spoke of. They make the morons that crowd society and the streets. They are the influences that lower the citizenship. We have been engaged in an effort to dissi pate these influences, and introduce those that would give tone and char acter to the mind. The usual phar macopeia with its salves and lotions does not reach the spot. The true doctrine is the Bible doc trine—"as a man thinking in his heart, so is he." So the idea is to fill his heart with good things to think about. These are nature, good will, faith and the graces of the spirit. This is our prescription for defective minds. The doctor is all right in his matrimonial strictures, but he needs the tonic we have suggested.— Ohio State Journal. OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 PARDONABLE CRIME. "If I should kiss you, would you have me arrested?" "What would be the use? Any judge would acquit you." SOLD. "Is this hammock perfectly safe?" "Not for me to sit In alone, miss. There's a constant danger of falling out unless you havo some one to hold you." BETWEEN ROOKIES, "llow do you like the Idea of dying for your country?" "I don't mind the Idea of dying for my country, but I'm blessed M I like this job of peeling potato* for her,"- Brottag ffllyat-- I It Is a pity that Harrisburg does | not have moro military ceremonies I such as that which took place at the Island on Saturday night when three • of the Eighth Regiment companies participated In evening parade with Lieutenant Colonel Frank E. Zelgler In command. It was the first time since the men were mobilized last month that the people of this city had a chance to see them assembled and the favorable comments were many. The policy of scattering men at home stations worked against suc!i gatherings at first, but In other cities the commanding officers, realizing the stimulus It gives to interest in * things military, have taken advan- ® tage of the War Department's per mission to have parades. It would give great pleasure to the city an<*. the surrounding towns which have given their young men to see all of the national guard units here assem bled in a parade before they leave their home stations for the southern training camo. The camp of the regulars at Get tysburg, which Is rapidly assuming large poportions and which without much advertisement is becoming noted throughout the eastern states for the thoroughness with which the young soldiers are being drilled, is causing the battlefield town to be a point of attraction for Sunday excur s on ra "roads and for auto mobile pilgrimages for miles around. k a ttlefleld with its wonderful collection of monuments has long peen a place of tremendous Interest to every American and the visitors to it are in the thousands every sum- I ne , r- This year the camp for the training of regulars has drawn to it many more people and the railroads are hauling thousands every Sunday. The training of the soldiers for war and the visits puid by men, women and children around Gettvsburg should Inspire every Pennsylvanlan for the tests which are to.come. • * • Frank Payne, who was named by the State Committee of Public Safety to have charge o< organization of th home defense police for this county, has been assured of the co operation of the Harrisburg Re serves, which have been undergoing training at the Island twice a week for the.last eight or nine weeks. This organization will furnish a nucleus for the Harrisburg unit and the rest of the county wii; be organized grad ually. • * • Frank B. Black, who laid down the position of chief of the State Highway Department on Saturday, was one of the wealthiest men con nected with the State government. Mr. Black comes of a family long identified with Somerset county, which has turned from an agricul tural district to one teeming with mining and manufacturing, and al though his personal taste was for scientific farming the former com* missioner naturally fell into line with the development of properties. Some of the ventures have been extremely profitable. • • • General Peyton C. March, chief of the artillery of the American forces in France, is a Pennsylvanlan and a member of what most college men know as "the March family." Their father was Dr. F. A. March, long Identified with the Lafayette College. General Msrch. like his brothers, was a noted athlete and a hard student. He is a brother of Professor Thomas S. March, stat<3 high school lnspecctor and author of one of the best his tories of Pennsylvania for ready t reference, and of Alden March, the man who is rehabilitating the Phila delphia Press. • • # About one of the best examples of heeding advice to aliens to keep quiet is furnished by a native-born Ameri can who has lived most of his life in Austria and who is now employed in a business establishment here. He was born in Pennsylvania and whon he was two his parents returned to Austria, where he grew up and ab sorbed Austrian ideas. He came here some years ago'and Is a model work man. When the "war arguments" grow heated and the Teutons are roasted because of the atrocities of the Prussian military caste he does not "jaw back." He walks to the window and looks out. • • * The recent number of In the Open, the. publication of the Wild Life League, contains the last article on forestry written by the late 8. B. Elliott, of Reynoldsville, for years a member of the State Forestry Com mission, and with Dr. J. T. Rothrock a leader In the forest conservation movement in Pennsylvania. It Is en titled "Forest Lands and Tax Prob lems" and reviews in his thoughtful manner one of the big things in systematic reforestation. * * • Whether it is because the outbreak of war has called many young men to the colors or forced them to more work In the industrial and business operations whoso increased pressure is part of Harrisburg's part in na tional defense, the fact remains that there Is not so much interest In river sports. This has been explained bv some men on military and industrial grounds and by others by reference to the vagaries of the weather and its effect upon the Susquehanna. The city turned to its splendid natural playground last year with such In terest that he contrast now appears striking. Perhaps the Kipona will revive it. , f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^ —W. A. Garrett, Philadelphia transportation expert. Is home from France, where he went to look Into the railroad situation. —M. P. Qulnn, of Overbrook. has been selected by Archbishop Pren dergast to have charge of the food conservation In archdlocesan mat ters. —Ernest T. Trigg, president of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, has started after gas rates in that city. —Representative James H. Maurer of Reading, will attend the Minne apolis labor conference this month —Elmer Spahr. of York, has bi*=& selected as president of the StaW. Bricklayers and Plasterers" Union. —The Rev. Henry Finn, Johns town clergyman, may be named a chaplain In the army. —City Controller E. S. Morrow of, Pittsburgh, has celebrated his sev* enty-elghth birthday. ■ 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has several men in tho aviation training camps? HISTORIC HARRISBUKO John Harris' stockade was located along the river front from Mulberry to Vine street and was the first for tified place on tho Susquehanna.
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