8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI Published evenlags except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 'E.J. STACKPOLE, Prut & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not other wise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Rureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Avenue Building' Brooks Entered at the Poet Office In Harris burg:, Pa., as sicond class matter, _carriers, ten cents a \7eek; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. J TUESDAY EYENING, AUGUST 21 Fed by discouragements, taught by disaster, So it goes foncard, now slower, vow faster. —SUSAN COOI-idgk. UP TO TOWNSHIPS SOON' THE legislature of 1917 passed a law which will enable closer co operation between the State Highway Department and boroughs for betterment of State highway routes which are borough streets, and it has appropriated almost $2,- 000,000 to meet the long overdue Claims of townships under the Jones "dirt road" aid act. Some of the boroughs have taken advantage of the first named law to secure authority to issue bonds for reconstruction of such of their streets as happen to be main high way routes on a "fifty-fifty" basis with the State Highway Department and others which ai*e responsible for disgraceful roads. Such as In Pax tang, may be forced to do so. The State Highway Department Is 'now certifying to the fiscal authori ties requisitions t6r distribution of almost a million dollars to the town ships for maintenance of "dirt roads" and it will be up to the townships to get their highways into better shape. There are few prettier roads to be found than in the rural sections of Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry and other counties in this section, and it is the duty of the township authori ties to utilize what money the State gives to improve them as much as possible. Under the new laws townships will be called upon to do their part and If boroughs will not they can be taken Into court. China wants to send an army of 80,000 men to Europe and a million laborers for the digging of trenches. The new entrant into the group of Allies Is not without potential possi bilities. INDUSTRY "AFTER THE WAR" AN article on the subject of prlce tlxlng, apearlng in the New York Journal of Commerce re cently, says: Under the enormous stimulus which is being given to produc tion in so many important lines, il is certain that when the war conies to un end the productive capacity of the country will be far beyond what It has been in the past, and there is good reason to believe that permanent beueflts will be realized and widely dis tributed. It is true that producers instinctively l'ear a period of over production and of unprofi cable prices following such an expan sion as is now occurring, but while prices will fall enough to greatly relieve domestic consumers the foreign outlet will probably be sufficient to take our surplus at (air prices. , As we all know, the chief causes jot this enormous stimulus have been, first, an export trade which Increas ed from an annual average for the five-year pre-war period of f 2,166,- 000,000 to $6,294,000,000 for the last l fiscal year ended June 30—a 200 jper cent, increase—and, second, to (the necessity for supplying by do mestic manufacture many commodi ties formerly purchased abroad. Fully 75 per cent, of our exports to day consist of war munitions—cloth ing, machinery, food and explosives, "While the remaining 25 per cent. I goes to countries cut off from Euro pean purchases. The new dye and tchemlcal industries are examples of the second cause. With our entry Into the war the industrial throttle •■was opened to the last notch. Such an epoch-marking war work: •seemingly economic paradoxes. Nor mally mills running at capacity are ,ble to reduce the unit cost of out put. But demand has everwhelmed earnings have been gen erously distributed, and as generous fly put into extensions, and the high iwage scale -has bulged the pocket: if laborers. Raw material source;: ■ are pushed to the limit to feed In -1 satiable mills. These factors have increased unit cost. Except for certain building and 1 ram materials there will be a'ter t rific slump in our export trade tc j Europe Immediately following the (■war. This is bound to react more or | less on the market at home, evi denced by falling prices. There will tcome a period of rehabilitation In I Europe, and of retrenchment here, |wlth labor seeking to perpetuate the Mpresent scale. Except for lack ol TUESDAY EVENING, r certain raw materials German in- I dustry lias not been harmed. French and English industry is more effi cient than ever in the history of those peoples. All the energy which = the war has developed in Germany, y England and France will be directed speedily Into the channels of foreign • trade, tfnpan has Increased her pro -1 ductlvlty three-fold, China t\yo-fold. . For three yeaVs overproduction has been offset by destruction. Fol lowing the war consumption will get back to riormal. How Is Industrial America to make good its extensions and Its new undertakings? If the Democratic tariff policy Is allowed j to prevail our domestic market will be the bazar for the products of Europe. Three billion dollars worth of products entered our market last year, with Germany, Austria and j Belgium no longer factors. What would be the effect of $4,000,000,000 worth coming in three years from now. which is highly probable under peace conditions and a Democratic law? The nearest approach capac ity production in normal times can be achieved only through absolute con trol of our own great market. Then, and not until then, can wo market our surplus abroad in competition with Europe. The Republican policy , of protection of American industries and the American standard of wages is our best assurance of prosperity to continue when the war is no more. As Senator Penrose said the other day, this Is no time for tariff re visions, but it is time to think about them. 1 Now that the State can aid boroughs to Improve sections of main highways : through these minor municipalities, we may hope that the impassable ' stretches near Harrisburg will cease to be a disgrace. i NO "KIPONA" THIS YEAR POSTPONEMENT of the '4tl pona" this year, as announced by the Greater Harrisburg Navy, will be generally approved by the people, much as they would have enjoyed this Interesting river carni val. The upset conditions caused by the mobilization of our great National Army, the going away of so many of the young men who as sisted In making the big river event a success, and tho constant appeal for necessary funds for war purposes were the moving considerations in the omission of the "Kipona" this year. Let us hope that Admiral J. Wil liam Bowman, his captains and all j othefs interested in the development | of the Susquehanna basin, will be j ready a year hence to celebrate peace j on the broad bosom of the noble! river which means so much to Har- : risburg and which will often figure I In the happy dreams of our boys at the front. As a loyal citizen of Harrisburg, and one who wants to see this good old town forge right ahead, are you really doing anything to help place In charge of municipal affalrskofflcials 3 of the right type, men who will do r everything for the making of a better s and mare wholesome city? . GO TO IT t West Shore Firemen's Union | has taken up again the proposal I to merge all of the West Shore 6 1 towns Into Harrisburg. This Is a 8 proper move. With Steelton and one or two other suburbs added this j j would make Harrisburg the thit% largest city in the State and with size | 3 come advantages that less populous communities operating under one ad- I t ministratlve government cannot at , ford. It may take some Vjme to work f out the plans the firemen have in - mind. But they are on the right track and eventually will win. Go to It, firemen, you have hold of a live and popular subject. v Reading is considering a piggery - for garbage disposal and the ques tion is now uppermost because the municipal incinerating plant is now out of operation for lack of coal. Our own Councilmen are in the midst of the garbage problem hero and It must be decided aright. No temporizing will do. "PENNBY" AT THE FRONT NO better choice for railroad ex ecutive in France could have been made than W. W. Atter bury, whose genius along the lines of transportation have helped to make the Pennsylvania railroad the greatest in all the world. It no doubt s will be a source of satisfaction to tho l, men of the system to know that the 1- several regiments of engineers re e cruited from among Pennsylvania - employes will have at their head it their old commander, and that the 0 chieftains of the big corporation o they serve are not asking the rank - and file to do more than tli'ey them - selves are willing to do. 1. Mr. Atterbury knows railroading 1- practically and theoretically. He 1- knows what to do and how to do it, 1, and he has a very laudable habit of t. accomplishing Uie impossible. There - Is every reason to believe that he will d maintain the reputation of the f Pennsy for excellent service under y any circumstance*. 6 Again the Rotary Club has done a gracious and kindly thing In having :s as Its luncheon guests the young men '- of the community who have Just been e commissioned as officers after a t- period of intensive training In the 3 camps at Fort Niagara, Madison Bar racks and elsewhere. The occasion was one of great interest and benefit " to the olulf members and their guests. Our Rotarlans represent an optimistic f element of the city and the organiza !S tion has much to its credit of con- L- structlve and substantial achievement, •e . Riprapping of the river slope ought to be followed promptly by the filling out of the shoulder above the riprap *llne and the regradlng of the walk. O The planting of shrubbery and vines e Is on the program of autumn activity , r for the Department of Parks. I- ]j Our soldier boys are leaving us n gradually for the active duties of final preparation, and we send them away s * with tears of regret, but with pride e In their devotion to country and con •f secratlon to unselfish service T>c,ettfc* u By thr Ei-Commlttecnmn Judging from what newspapers say, there is general relief through out, Republican circles in Pennsylva nia that Mayor Thomas B. Smith has succeeded in getting the warring fac tions in Philadelphia to forget their points of difference ana to unite upon candidates fcr the important offices. It is generally believed that the mayor has also won an agreement In regard to councilmanlc and com mittee places and that • there will radiate from the City of Brotherly Love such peace influences as will bring about composing of contro versies in other parts of the State. The effect of tho protocol reached in Philadelphia will be watched*with Interest in other parts of the State and it is believed that if things have not gone too far in the mayoralty contests in Pittsburgh and Scranton that something may be done which will put the party into better shape for the gubernatorial campaign next year. While Senator W. C. Sproul con tinues to be the man most talked "of as the possible Republican on whom the leaders will unite for Governor, there are other men who have ar dered lightning rods. The Democ racy, true to form is quarreling about loaves and fishes and whether the scholar in the White House picks Vance C. McCormicli national chair man or William B. Wilson Secretary of Labor to be the Pennsylvania Democrats' candidate, there will be a row. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger gives this version of the conference held yesterday in Philadelphia to at tain the harmony program and says details will be completed to-day: 'Mayor mlth, Senator Vare and Sen ator McNlchol held a conference yes. terday and ratified the harmony city and county ticket at the coming pri maries agreed upon at Atlantic City and arranged to devote to-day to framing a harmony councilmanic and magisterial ticket. While the mayor and the senators were confirming the results of the talks at the shore. Senator Penrose was In the offing, as it were. He remained In his office irt this city, but so soon as word came that 'everything was all right' ho sped to Washington. Yesterday's conference was about the last of the series of maneuvers that have marked the progress ot the harmony program. When it was all over no body had anything to say. Senator Vare announce*, however, so soon as all the nomination papers had been filed ho would issue a state ment. Interesting in tnis connection is the fact the papers for the renomi naton of District Attorney Rotan were filed yesterday with the county commissioners by William E. Fin ley, executive director of the Ilepub : lican city committee. Mr. Finley is ! Senator Vare's right-hand lieuten | ant. Mr. Rotan is Senator Penrose's j personal allj" —Pittsburgh dispatches tell of j more men filing petitions for council j and a general battle opened for the mayoralty. —Mayor Smith says A. Merrltt Taylor Is playing politics In the Philadelphia transit squabble. Sep tember 7 is the date for the new hearing. —At Easton yesterday Judge Stew art appointed a new school board for the city of Bethlehem. The con solidation of Bethlehem and South Bethlehem gave the new city a pop ulation of more than 30,000 and it therefore became a school district of the second class and entitled to nine directors. The new board is to serve until the first Monday of De cember when the directors, who are to be elected at the November elec tion, will take office. The appointees are: William R. Coyle, the Rev. W. M. Schwarz, Edgar W. Speck, Stew art Shinier, Lawrence J. Broughal, Dr. Robert J. Yost. Mahlon Ritter, Harry W. Lewis and Dennis McCarty. —The Nonpartisan Committee, a Philadelphia Democratic sideshow, .which unsuccessfully sought to have ] V\Villiam A. Glasgow become a candi date for district attorney, held a | meeting yesterday and decided to in t rease the scope of the movement. Overtures may be made to the Demo- I I cratic city committee for a fusion i ticket, with the Democrats naming j two of the candidates for county offices. —City Solicitor Connelly, of Phila delphia, yesterday appointed John C. Bell, Jr., son of former Attorney : General John C. Bell, an assistant city solicitor, at a salary of $1,400 a year. Young Bell recently was op erated upon foi appendicitis, and will I not assume the duties of the oflfre until he recovers. —Berks Democrats have avoided a fight by slating W. G. Hlntz for prothonotary naminatlon. —York County has one of the larg ets flocks of candidates in years. —Connellsville. one of the new cities has a three-cornered fight for mayor. ! —Mayor Smith has taken the wind out of Congressman John R. K. Scott by turning in for the councilman whom Scott is opposing In his ward in Philadelphia. —The Pittsburgh mayoralty con test has reached the statement mak ing stage.. —Senator Horace W. Schantz, who is also Lehigh's Republican County Chairman, is making ar rangements for the Republican county meeting, to be held next Saturday at Levan's, near Allentown. He has the promises of Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain and • Auditor General Charles A. Snyder i to make the principal speeches and local leaders on the oratorical menu include Assemblymen George J. A. | Miller, District Attorney Warren E. (Miller, former District Attorney Fred •P. Gernerd and Ralph T. Schatz. The Democratic county meeting at Dorney Park last Satur day was below normal, with little enthusiasm. "Unhung Traitors" of America Colonel Roosevelt does not tnlnce words when he tackles any of the great subjects of the hour. In the course of a brief address In New York the other night he paid his compliments to the Industrial Work ers of the World and their allies and he pronounced them "Unhung trait ors." That tells the story In two plain words. It applies not only to the lawless bands that have tried to crip ple the United States by incitlns strikes and riots, but also to all those who by word or deed do anything to weaken or discredit the United States in the great struggle in which It is engaged. Those who preach disloyalty or treason are "unh'ung traitors." There Is no other way In which they may be designated. Philadelphia In quirer. Where Glory Is For what glory is It, if, when ye ! he buffeted for your faults, ye shall take It patiently? but if, when ye 1 do well, and suffer for It, ye take it pallcntlv, thie Is acceptable with God.—l Peter, 11, 20. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A MAN TRYING TO RAISE A CAR WINDOW By Briggt \/ERV \AMR N\ IN) IHINKS OP6NI TFTVS TO OP£TM OT H/SVUIOG TRAIN)- WLLVJDO VAJ VAJOULT> \MI NJ DOV>J TO <3G.T MVJCH LUCK 8E MUCH BETTER -BEMEFTR OF A- TALL J OUTVSLDE AIR V c f FOUMD S VAJIKJDOVAJ SU-PKER*C EFFOER* GXTPA 4U-PRERWC NOT ONLY UNSUCCESSFUL TO LOOSE CO IT UP EFFORT AMT> MUCH VM ARM6R BUT- FAINTS EDITORIAL COMMENT ] Pershing doesn't want lukewarm support at homo.. He believes non combatants should display a burning ardor to keep the military kettle boiling.—Philadelphia North Ameri can. The penitentiaries ought to be self supporting and under a proper or ganization of society they would be. In war times, at any rate, prisoners ' who are anxious to get out and fight i should be permitted to stay In and t work. And their work should be I made to count fti their own support. —Altoona Tribune. Elihu Root sees no hope for peace at this time. And Mr. Root is ad mittedly a far-seeing man.—Greens burg Tribune. A SQUARE DEAL FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN [NewYork World.] The administration soldiers' insur ance bill was drawn up by Judge - Julian Mack, of Chicago, and has I been described as a model of clear, j concise and detailed provision for all contingencies growing out of service In the war. II is all of that, as wyi appear from a reading of ' Judge Mack's exposition In the Sunday World. First to be cleared up is the mat ter of life insurance for the soldier. What the peace-time hazards to life are is known. They make the cost of Insurance at the average soldier's ago $8 a year per SI,OOO, and it is the plan of this bill to make the sol died bear that cost from his monthly pay, and he can carry as little asj ? 1,000 or as much as SIO,OOO of in- ' surance at this rate. If the soldier survives the war he can convert this term Insurance into a level-premium policy and still have the risk carried by the government without those ex cessive charges for high office sala ries and agency expenses which are more or less the inevitable Infliction of private life insurance. Just what will be the extra war time hazards to the soldier's life cannot be known in advance. But they are high enough to put insur ance with private companies beyond his reach, and these costs will be borne by the public treasury. This is a most important part of what Judge Mack calls the plan "to give a square deal to our fighting men." But beyond all this are most liberal provisions for casualty com pensation to the soldier and his de pendents and for the industrial re education and rehabilitation of the wounded —all at the expense of the public save only the enforced regular allotments from the soldier's pay, which also are added to by the gov ernment in case of dependents. It is rightly called a "square deal." In generosity and squareness It is be yond all precedent for any govern ment. It is a pension plan sys tematized and known of in advance and independent of the favors and caprices of politics. There should be no question of its adoption. Our Soldiers Want Books One of the most interesting de velopments of war times Is an nounced through the war service committee of the American Library Association in a letter from a "rookie" In a camp "somewhere on the map," telling of a revolutionary innovation in the game of poker. "A good, book beats a 'royal flush'," wrote this rookie, "and is tho only thing known that can beat this com bination of the cards.' Old regulars had told us this when we first came to camp, but we thought they were merely spoofing. Now. among a lot of other things, we've learned that they were right about the books. "Almost all of the boys here would 1 rather read than play cards, any day, and our moat exciting gambling when a book appears is to draw straws to ; nee who'll be second and third and fourth on the waiting list. Any book will do. Some like novels and some like histories and some like hooks of travel. But In a pinch we'll find good reading in even an arithmetic or grammar." Steps to meet this need already i have been taken by the American Library Association, which through a committee on camp libraries has started a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to build libraries at the thirty-two cantonments and encampments of the new army to supply the men with books and to provide good reading for tho slclt" and injured at home and abroad, for the men In the trenches and for sailors afloat and ashore. Hope Is entertained that the $1,000,000 needed will be subscribed In a shojt time, and the library war service committee is anxious that every man, woman and child In the country should have a "finger In the Die." or at least a dollar In the fund. THE AUGUSTA TRAINING CAMP IN their assignment tof Camp Han lock at Augusta, Georgia, the Pennsylvania militiamen have drawn one of the prizes among the new training camps, says the Phila delphia Evening Bulletin. Noted for Its climate, which residents assert is equal to that of the Riviera, the Guardsmen In their period of drilling and hardening before their departure \ for France, will enjoy delightful tem- j peratures, soft summer breezes laden with the odor of fragrant pine for ests, sunshine in abundance und a J dry, healthful atmosphere that should put them in the best of con dition. The site to which they have been assigned, near the United States Arsenal, is the best around Augusta, being known as Summervllle, for a! century an aristocratic suburb of this | old Southern city, located on sand I hills three hundred feet above the i city. The nearby winter homes of John ] D. Rockefeller and ex-President Taft j are evidences of the advantages of J this location, which has also been known to thfe Augustans as Mt. Salu brity. According to Augusta's weath er forecaster, E. D. Kmigh, zero tem perature has never been experienced in Augusta, while for thirty years he claims there has been no record of l a heat prostration during the sum mer months. But in addition to being a favored resort to health-seekers, Augusta is also a bustling city, which in the past! fifteen years has grown rapidly. "The ! Lowell of the South" it has been j termed by reason of its big textile I factories, where the cotton picked in ! neighboring fields Is worked Into' fabrics. Since the Spanish-American War, when the city's suburbs also witnessed the establishment of a similar military rendezvous, Camp McKenzle, the city's population has nearly doubled. A few "skyscrap pers" have been erected recently and the appearance of the city modern ized by the establishment <tf- "white ways" and well-paved streets. The streets of Augusta are a matter of particular pride to its residents, as the city, laid out In 1736 by General James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, possesses wide, well-spaced highways, plentifully bordered by parks and lined with handsomo homes, the principal thoroughfare, Gfreene street, being a spacious bou levard with four rows of stately old shade trees. As a military center the city has always figured in the annals m Georgia's participation in war. Ogle thorpe made it one of his advance posts early In his administration and during the French and Indian war the English and Colonists were en gaged in military operations around Want State Police In conference at Portland, Ore., the Governors of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington have been discussing war questions 111 which the six States have a com mon Interest, notably the seditious, disloyal and destructive proceedings of those sons of- disorder and sabot ■ age, the'l. W. W. Every one of the | six Governors desires the establlsh- I ment of a State constabulary in his j State, regards such a trained, mobile, nonpartisan, nonlocal force as the j best means of dealing with the I. W. W. or any other local disturbers or emergencies that may arise during the war. Such a force New York has, after too long timidities of the Legislature, i a body of picked men, finely discl | pllned, ably led. Such a force Is | needed for rural security in every | State. It has been made even moro necessary by the war, tho absence of the National Guard, the flaring up here and there of violence against the selective draft, the unsleeping activities of propagandists, agitators and societies of many names, united in the purpose of helping and serv ing Germany, hampering the prose cution of the war. bringing on a peace fatal to civilization. —New York Times. Sinn Feiners Are Unrelenting The Sinn Feiners have elected an other antt-Natlonallst to Cpmmons and the men who are fighting every phase of home rule except absolute independence for Ireland are corre spondingly elated. Britain is reaping In a modified way the political whirlwind that fol lowed the sow.ing of bitter seeds of unrelenting hatred in the unwise handling of the grave Issues involved in the Dublin riots, Syracuse Journal. Augusta. During the Revolution it was alternately occupied by the Con tinentals and Loyalists; at one time it was the scene of one of the worst atrocities of the Revolution, com mitted by a British free-booter who sequestrated the property of its peo ple, drove theni out and submitted them to all sorts of indignities at the hands of the Indians and renegades who had associated with him. This proceeding roused intense angor throughout Georgia and the Caro linas, and, in 1781, Augusta was be sieged by "Light Horse" Harry Lee for twelve days until, after severe fighting, the garrisons of Forts Grler son and Cornwallis surrendered. The United States Arsenal, which is now the center of military affairs in the city, was established in 182 7, as the chief southern depot of tho Army. When Georgia seceded from the Union, early in 1861, an imme diate demand was made upon the force of eighty men in the Arsenal that they should retire, to relieve the sovereign state from the ignominy of having foreign troops on its soil. The commander of the Arsenal at first refused, but when the Augustans raised 800 "minute men," on the ad vice of Buchanan's Secretary of War, the captain of the Arsenal retired, surrendering valuable stores, includ ing twenty thousand rifles, to the Georgians. During the Civil War the arsenal was developed into the chief gun factory of the Confederacy and was said to have been one of the finest and largest of its type in the world. After the war, the property was taken over by the United States, and In recent years has been used for overhauling the big guns of the Army, manufacturing shells and serving as the chief supply depot south of Philadelphia and east of San Antonio. Patriotism and local pride run high in Augusta which claims a rec ord of having furnished thirteen generals to the Confederate cause, including old "Joe" Wheeler, the South's hero of the Spanish-Amer ican war; It was the home of the first cotton mill in the South and is the largest cotton manufacturing city of the South to-day. The Au gusta convention ratified the Con stitution of the United States and two of Georgia's signers of the Dec laration of Independence are burled under a monument which the city has erected in one of Its central thoroughfares. With good hotels and plentiful amusements, numerous churches, clubs and social organizations, the wide reaches of the Savannah river at hand for boating and bathing, and all the conveniences of a lively city within twenty minutes ride of the camp, the Pennsylvanians ought to be well and comfortably situated during their stay In the South. Chaplain Versus Medico A curious discussion has just been sprung between Dr. G. Wilds Linn, a '72 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chaplain Curtia H. Dickins, of the League Island Navy yard at Philadelphia. The chaplain instituted weekly smokers for the boys at League Island who work on war vessels or who go down to the sea In ships. Dr. Linn protest ed, making the gratuitous assevera tion that tobacco in any form is in jurious. Chaplain Dickins asserts that it has been admitted that to bacco Intelligently used in a good thing, appealing to the palate, de lightful to the nerves, soothing to the temper, Inviting perfect ocn tent and sven semicelestlal visions. He didn't exactly say this, but that is what his argument means, and if the young men of the Army and Navy want tobacco for solace in the new and sudden phenomena which beset them they shall have it as a nepenthe which shall be more ap pealing and less harmful than the leaves of the lotus. The man who does not use tobacco in some form in this age Is a rare exception. The favorite forms are the pipe, cigar, stogie or clgaret. No human habit ever spread throughout the world ol mankind so rapidly and so irrevocably. Almost with the first of the transatlantic peoples to visit America the primitive pipe of the North American Indians became an obsession with the hardly less primi tive but more adventurous and ag gressive Europeans. Pittsburgh Dispatch. To Win His Discharge The youth who tries to avoid con scription with the plea that he has seven cousins in the German army should bo assured that he will be dis charged after he has captured six of i these cousins,—New York Sun. . J AUGUST 21,1917. Raising of Crops Formerly one who raised half a crop of fruit or vegetables upon soil capable of producing a full crop was considered by his more thrifty neigh bors merely aa a individual. Now he Is recognized as something of a national liability. For his lack of skill or energy curtails the na tion's effectiveness. War is teaching the close connec tion between the activities of the people as a whole. That a nation could be no ■ stronger than the strength of the men, women and children who make up its people is, of course, a truism. But it has taken the greatest war of history to im press upon the minds of the millions a truth that formerly interested only a few. The farmer who gets part? of a crop from hiss garden or his harvest field reduces tho total food produc tion of the United States by the amount of his shortage. In addition, he sets a bad example and perhaps influences his neighbors to relax their efforts. The orchardist who permits his fruit trees to produce,but half a crop, who fails to use his best ef fort to find a market for his prod uct, who neglects to prune and spray and cultivate, in putting upon others a part of burden which he should carry himself. He is cutting down the obligation that circumstances put upon him.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. QUR DAILY LAUGH AN IMPROVEMENT. "This critic describes your new 000k as droll." "I guess I must be Improving. Ho alluded to my last book as utter rot." y —jfrj (/ 2jJs £y\ \ Jm ij&srL 42.22. ' HIS LITTLE JOKE. Goat—Ha, Ha! I guess I mi~>.' .-all myself a "two-dollar Bill"! A GOOD SUBSTITUTE. Bug Fireman— How lucky I found his box of macaroni when our hose GOT MONOTONOUS. "Why don't you call your hotel Tho Breakers" any more?" "Aw, everybody had to crack an alleged Joke ae he paid hit bin,". Bmrtttg Cttljat Surveys preliminary to the land scaping of the extension to Capitol Park and the big changes contem plated by the Board ot Publla Grounds and Buildings for the old park are under way and engineers aro running lines establishing boun daries and the new walks and high ways. Tho park extension, which comprises twenty-nine and a hall acres, is almost cleared of buildings and by the end of the year all ex. cept those needed for military pur poses, will be removed. The old park contains something over fifteen acres. The' surveys will be to estab. lish not only the walks and drives, A but also sites for the four new build ings projected for years to come and which are to form a court on th east front of the Capitol which is to be extended and embellished. The general plan was made by Arnold W. Brunner, who worked out the plans for the Colorado State capitol surroundings and the Cleveland civic center with the assistance of Warren H. Manning, of Boston, who was also engaged by the city of Harris burg to plan street changes to con form with the general scheme ol park improvement outlined by the State. One of the notable features of the new park will be four rows ol Pennsylvania varieties of oak trees, whilo in front of the Capitol will be a broad terrace which Will be ap. proached by a large stairway of a stylo suitable for ceremonies and reviews. "Well It la going to pet worse," said a man who looks after one of the big utility companies in this city yesterday when he was the ob ject of a life-sized kick against the service that was being furnished. "This Is rotten, what do you mean worse?" demanded the man who waa kicking. "Uncle Sam comes first, and vou are second, Mr. Individual," replied the utility man. "The government has taken some of our best trained men and has Ofked us to bo ready to send more. Every telephone, rail road, telegraph, electric and other utility company is in the same boat. The government has need for theso men for national defense and that is whereyou will have to indirectly con tribute your share. It looks now as though by the time winter comes we will be breaking in new people all along the line because by that tima the armies will be in training and things will be doing. Wo have been looking around for men who have been rejected or who are over at;c. We want to get them into the way of doing things. Most of the young fellows are mighty willing to jump in and work and we are glad to liavo them but they % will have to go soon. People in Harrisburg have had good public utility service and although a fellow like you gets up and roars every now and then, especially when he has to wait a few minutes, this city has good utilities. But the point is that along with the rest of the country you wilt have to put vip with poorer service for a little while un til you can get new forces working. You can't take a couple of thousand men out of a community like Har risburg and not upset things." • ♦ Samuel C. Todd, the executive con troller, hastlust finished a task which is about as bad as any he encount ers in the state government. Mr. Todd is chairman of the grounds committee of the CQuntrv Club of Harrlsburg and he has completed a score card for the new golf course which is about three miles long, up hill and down dale, with allowances for strokes and everything else. It is a complicated system playing golf according to the card, but Mr. Todd * has worked it out. . • * "Cross at right angles and you will not get hurt. You will see where you are going and can get out Of the road while others will see you and get out of your road," said one of the traffic policemen this morning. "This is the sum total. Watch your step and cross at right angles. Many people are hurt taking diagonal cuts across streets. Stick to the right angle." • • • Even the men who decide in the destinies of the great transportation facilities which have made Pennsyl vania famous can not always have things the way the public gets them. The other Say four members of the Public Service Commission, which has jurisdiction over the railroads and all manner of utilities, the high and the low, corporations and even individuals, stood in front of one of the Capitol elevators and rang and rang. There was no response and finally the august commissioners went to another elevator and waited until some stenographers were taken to the top floor. ♦ • • Major General C. M. Clement, who was here yesterday on his "way to Camp Hancock to take command of that camp of the Pcnnsylvanlans, will celebrate forty years in the National Guard of Pennsylvania on September 3. He enlisted in 1877 In Company E, of the Eighth regiment and began his service as a private soldier. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE^- —R. L. O'Donnell, who goes up the ladder in the Pennsylvania serv ice, began his railrflad career as a rodman. —Allen W. Hagenbtich, prominent Allentown man, is chairman of the district appeal board In that sec tion. He served in the Spanish War. —President E. E. Sparks, of State College, is visiting in eastern cities. —Michael Hartneady, just elected president of the Panther creek mine workers, is sheriff of Carbon county. Dr. S. W. Morton, prominent Philadelphia physician, is spending August in Maine. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat Harrisburg Is getting to be a great center for assembling parts of machinery? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Troops went out to war from Har- • risburg in the Whisky Insurrection escorted by committees of citizens on horseback. Speaking Out [David Grayson.] I keep learning that there Is nothing which reaches men's hearts like talking straight out the convic tions and emotions of your Innermost soul. Those who hear you may not agree with you, or they may not understand you fully, but something incalculable, something vital, passes. And as for a hoy or a girl It Is onq 4 of the sorriest of mistakes to talk down to them: almost always your lad of 15 thinks more simply, more fundamentally, than you do; and what he accepts as good coin Is not facts or precepts, but feelings and convictions —life. And why shouldn't we speak out?
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