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WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 22
In what concerns you much, do
not think j/ou have companions;
know that you are alone in the
world. —Thobeau.
ARE YOU OX GUARD ?
WITH to-day the lists close for
all who would submit them
selves for the consideration
of tha voters In the primary cam
paign in the city and the surround
ing districts. When the names are
made public Ve shall all have an
opportunity of going over the roster
and making up minds
respecting the qualifications of each.
Elsewhere on this page to-day a
correspondent urges that the per-j
sonal habits also of those suggested
for the mayoralty be inquired into
that there may be no mistake In the
final choice of the citizen who shall
represent in his person and conduct
the people of no mean city.
Since the adoption of the commis
sion form of government there has
been a growing disposition to "let
George do it" in the sense of shirk
ing all responsibility for municipal
administration. As a result of this
unfortunate attitude on the part of
the people men admirably qualified
for the public service, whose names
have been canvassed from time to
time, have declined to enter the
arena because of the widespread in
difference to the management of our
local affairs. This is regrettable from
every standpoint and unless the tax
payers get awake we shall drift back
to the deplorable condition out of
which the community was yanked
by the force of an aroused publla
sentiment in 1901 and the years im
'• mediately following the great public
protest against the old order.
It Is the duty of every citizen to
look about him in this preliminary
campaign and to act intelligently for
the welfare of the city and the peo
ple In all walks of life.
GOOD LUCK TO THE CONNER
HARRISBURG has more than the
patriotic Interest which every
resident of the Stato Capital
district has in the Increase of the
fighting forces of the nation In the
launching of the destroyer Conner
on the "Clyde of America" yesterday.
This Pennsylvanla-bullt unit of the
United States Navy Is the first to be
called after a native of Harrlsburg In
many years, possibly the very first.
It was named for Commodore David
Conner, whose squadron covered the
landing of the American soldiers
when Vera Cruz was taken to afford
a base for the armies of General
Winfleld Scott in the Mexican War.
David Conner was born on either
Market street or Market Square
when the republic was young and
was one of the early graduates of the
Naval Academy. He served with dis
tinction in the War of 1812 and the
Mdxlcan War and was even called
from a retired life by the nation to
fcelp in emergency.
Although in following the flag he
was not much in the place of his
birth, his achievements are part of
! that record of patriotic service in
which Harrlsburg can take tjhe great
vat pride.
A SOLDIER TO SOLDIERS
IF the luncheon deception _of the
Rotary Club In honor of the
young officers of the Reserve
Corps was nothing more than a
oourteous recognition of the patriotic
service of the special guests It was
worth while. But It meant much
mora In that It furnished an
ex-soldier of the regular army an
opportunity to give the youthful
officers the benefit of his experi
ence' in the everyday routine of a
soldier.
Captain George F. Lumb was the
speaker and he discussed with frank-
Bess the attitude of the officer to the
toldler and that of the private to his
superior. It was such an address as
Blight be repeated with profit in
• every camp of the army. Doubtless
Other soldiers of long training and
experience In actual service are in
structing the men who will com
mand our boys in the camp and the
Held, but no more practical presen
tation of the relation of officer and
jnan could have been given than
that contained in Captain Lumb'a
address.
Now that we are going to war it la
highly Important that the officers
JbaU understand tbat the soldiers
WEDNESDAY EVENING, HXRRXSBURG TELEGRAPH A^^JST22^l9l7.
whom they will lead are human and
possessed of average Intelligence;
that they are serving their country
quite as patriotically as the officers,
and that they will appraise the one
In command at his true worth only
when he shall have demonstrated his
fitness to issue orders by carefully
looking after the health, the comfort
and the lives of those who serve In
the ranks.
Self-control, personal courage, con
sideration for subordinates, firm
ness, promptness In action and
humane treatment of those under
him, said Captain Lumb, are the
characteristics of a good officer and
one who will have the support and
confidence of the men in the hour of
battle.
In the further discussion of the
attitude of the private toward the
officer placed over him it was made
clear that temperaments differ and
scarcely two soldiers are alike, but
the average man soon learns to re
spect and render faithful service
when he realizes that the officer Is
direct, considerate and knows what
he is about. In short, there must be
a constant study of his men by the
officer and of the officer by his men
that there may be co-operation and
willing obedience under all circum
stances.
Now that our boys are going
toward the front it will be a comfort
to those whom they leave behind to
realize that the officers who will
have authority over them are being
trained to do their full duty under all
circumstances.
THE "SQUARE DEALT BOARDS
THE meeting being held at the
Capitol tills afternoon for dis
cussion of draft and exemption
problems by the members of the
district appe&l boards and a repre
sentative of the Judge advocate gen
eral Is tha final step in the organ
ization of the draft system in Penn
sylvania. These boards are the ones
to whom appeals will be taken from
action by local boards on applications
for exemption. They are made up ot
the men who will have to apply the
"square deal" to the Individual, to
families, to the business of tile State
and to the nation Itself. There are
no more Important organizations In
the whole draft system. The men
named are of high type and their
task is one which will be great and
tax their abilities. They will give
freely and cheerfully of their time
and experience and knowledge.
A nation casting aside a traditional
policy of military organization strikes
many homes and business establish
ments. National defense now rises
supreme and these Boards will en
deavor to obtain what Columbia asks
with the least possible disturbance,
compatible with public interest, of
home and business ties.
WHAT A DOLLAR CAN DO
HARRISBURG was yesterday se
lected as the place of prepara
tory activity of the movement
launched by the War Department, the
Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the
American Library Association to pro
vide wholesome reading for the
young men who will go into the
thirty-two army cantonments this
fall. This Is a program which will
call for one million dollars from the
American people and it Is proposed
to raise It by asking contributions of
one dollar. More will be accepted, of
course, but the Idea as outlined yes
terday at the meeting held In our
city's library by representatives of
the State, libraries In other cities and
representatives of organizations which
are helping is to get as many people
interested as possible. Everyone is
concerned in the soldiers and their
welfare. /Books are essentials of life
in this generation. The War Depart
ment recognizes it and has asked the
American Library Association, of
which our State and city libraries
are a part, to take charge.
Briefly oulllned, the plan is
as many people as will to give a dol
lar. The million will establish and
maintain libraries at each of the
thirty-two cantonments for three
years, it is figured out. This means
that the people back of this splendid
movement will not have to come
around again.
One dollar will help get a first class
library, in charge of trained people,
at each cantonment and the best of
reading for the young men who are
going from our fcomes a t their na
tion's call. It is something which
should appeal to every one.
MEATLESS GERMANY
JUST how hard hit and how near
to total exhaustion. Germany at
the present moment is, the re
cently promulgated order for two
mreatless weeks each month illus
trates. Germans before the war were
a nation of heavy eaters. No meal
was complete without meat in some
form. All manner of sausages were
In great demand. American pork by
the steamer load arrived dally In
regular Instalments at German ports.
Previously, the hardships of war
diet had not extended to the army.
Now comes the command that even
soldiers must save wherever pos
sible.
Two meatless weeks a month for
Germany are worth two million more
men for the allies along the west
ff-ont. The desperate attempt of the
Kaiser to break the British blockade
and the tremendous efforts of the
Crown Prince to reach a decision
along the west front can be better
understood in the light of this fail
ing meat and fat supply.
THE JAI'S AND COTTON
TWO Japanese spinning com
panies, the Amagasakl and the
Settsu, have combined into a
new company with a capital of $15,-
000,000 in 1,220,000 shares. The new
company will operate 547,514 spin
dles. It will be one of the largest
spinning companies In the world and
it Is going to do Its utmost to root
American textile competition out of
the Orient and follow that up with a
drive on our home market. And our
present tariff law encourages tliem in
their purpose
foUtic* U
Br the Ex-Committecmen
—Prom all accounts appearing In
the Philadelphia newspapers Mayor
Thomas B. Smith, of that city, ap
pears to be "getting away with" his
harmony idea among the Republi
cans and has not only succeeded in
getting agreements on city and
county nominations, but Is also
tronlng out some of the ward con
tests. There are outbreaks here and
there but they are not regarded by
the newspapers as serious and even
the Democratic Philadelphia Record
admits that the mayor has suc
ceeded In getting the factions to be
good, although It charges him with
"acting like a real boss."
—The belief is that if the mayor
gets harmony that will last out of
the primary campaign In his city
that It will go far toward composing
fights in other counties and place the
Republicans in good shape for next
year's gubernatorial campaign, a
condition toward which State Chair
man William E. Crow has been
laboring for months In the face of
many discouragements including
some from friends of the Philadel
phia mayor.
—The Philadelphia North Ameri
can is a bit skeptical about the future
of the Smith harmony agreement,
but the Press says: "Party harmony
under the leadership of the Mayor,
which already has taken the form
of a ticket for the county offices
which will be supported by the
united Republican Organization, was
established by him yesterday in al.
most all the wards where factional
clashes were Imminent."
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says of the day's events: "Mayor
Smith announced last night from
his Atlantic City residence, following
a busy day of conferences in Phila
delphia, that the "harmony program
was going along most satisfactorily."
The Mayor put in much of his time
in arranging for a councilmanic
ticket, which, when elected, "would
support the progressive measures to
be placed before Councils by the
administration." In short, the
Mayor acted like a real "political
boss," and had ward leaders who
ordinarily report to Senators Mc-
Nichol and Vare hurrying In and out
of his office. His final piece of poli
tical work was to call In Senators
Vare and McNichol, and it was an
interesting sight to see the harmony
Senators walking out of the Mayor's
private office together."
Senator Bois Penrose returned ti
Washington from Philadelphia last
night after a perilous experience
near Baltimore, when the Senator
and two friends were compelled to
leap from a blazing automobile. The
car Is believed to have taken fire
from a lighted cigar, which had
been tossed from a passing car and
which lodged in the top, wbtch was
down. In an Instant the car and
ablaze in the rear and directly over
the gasoline tank. The Senator and
his friends" escaped Injury owing to
j prompt action by the chauffeur,
Walter DeHaven, of Philadelphia,
who brought into play an acetylene
extinguisher and put out the blaze.
The body of the car was badly
scorched and the top entirely de
stroyed. This is the second experi
ence of this kind Senator Penrose
has encountered in the past two
years. In 1915, while motoring from
Pittsburgh, headfed for Washington,
his car caught fire near Greensburg.
When the residents of Overbrook,
the Thirty-fourth ward and Lower
Merlon township, Montgomery
county, learned of the order of the
Post Office Department, instructing
Postmaster J. B. Conner to close
the Post Office at that point and to
discontinue all sarvlce after August
31, they immediately sent a letter,
posthaste, to Washington, terming
the order an outrage.
—A Stroudsburg dispatch says:
"It is generally believed In political
circles here that former Judge Wil
ton A. Erdman will be appointed
Judge of the Monroe-Pike District
to succeed the late Judge Charles B.
Staples. The appointment Is expected
to be made some time this week,
as pressing court business requires
an early appointment. Judge Erd
man at first was not inclined to per
mit his name to be used for the
vacancy.' For years he has been
the recognized Republican leader of
Monroe County. He has never en
tered Into factional State politics.
Sixteen years ago he was appointed
by Governor Stone to fill the vacancy
-nused by the death of the late
Judge Craig.
—ln many sections of Pennsyl
vania Army men or private citizens
conversant with the manual of arms
and military regulations have In
stituted intensive training for the
drafted men who are to report In
September at the various moblltza.
tion camps. Judge John W. Kep
hart of Ebensburg, a member of
tho Superior Court of Pennsylvania,
has a squad of twenty drafted men
from Ebensburg and vicinity which
he drills every evening. The Judge
received his early training at M'c-
Alistervllle Soldiers' Orphan school,
as did his brothers Col. Samuel
Kephart, of the Coast Artillery, and
State Treasurer H. M. Kephart. In
Harrlsburg those in qharge of the
home defense have offered their
assistance to drafted men of
Dauphin county who may wish to
get preliminary training and drill
before reporting at Army canton
ments.
—There are a couple of Interesting
sidelights for the Philadelphia situa
tion. Friends of Senator E. W. Pat
ton Insist on filing a paper for him
for city treasurer and. the Mayor has
forced Congressman John R. K.
Scott and John F Flaherty to quit
fighting. The Press says *they left
the Mayor's office "arm in arm."
—Thomas Hughes and John
Hays, both well known in Scran
ton politics have retired from the
race for mayor In that city.
—The Rev. Lafayette • Maxwell,
Wllllamsport preachor, Is a candi
date for mayor of the Lumber city.
—The crop of candidates for
council and other nominations in
Pennsylvania third class cities breaks
all records. ,
—Sheriff George DeForest has re
signed from the Warren Corfnty ex
emption board or thinks he has. The
president may not accept it.
Mrs. W. L. Hill and Miss Mary
E. Fay are candidates tor' school
<UrstO£ in Scranton,
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Six Rules For Economy
In an article In the September
Woman's Home Companion, a writer
gives Herbert Hoover's six rules tor
food economy. They are:
"First —To save the wheat. If we
eat as usual from our harvest this
year we shall have little more than
enough for our own supply, but we
can divide with our allies if each in
dividual makes some sacrifice by eat
ing at least one wheatless meal a
day. •
"Second —We want to save the
meat, for our cattle and hogs are de
creasing, and we must send meat to
our allies.
"Third—We wish to save the fats.
We wish no butter used in cooking,
less served on the table; we want less
lard, bacon and other pork products
used.
"Fourth—Deficiencies in food sup
ply can be amply covered by Increas
ing the use of fish, potatoes, beans,
turnips, cabbages and vegetables
generally, corn, buckwheat, rye and
rice, which we will have In abund
ance this harvest.
"Fifth—We want to save trans
portation. To meet the war pressure
for munitions, men and coal, every
one should consume products of lo
cal origin so far as possible.
"Sixth—We want all to preach the
'gospel of the clean plate;' to see
that nothing of value goes into the
garbage can.
"Aside from eating an increased
proportion of these commodities m
order to save on the staples, it is ex
tremely important that any surplus
of these commodities shall be pre
served or well stored for winter use."
How to Keep Friends
An editorial in the September
Woman's Home Companion says:
"It is almost Impossible to be gen
uinely friendly with a person who In
sists on being too close to you, on
knowing all your thoughts, feelings
and affairs, and on claiming your
time and attention on the excuse of
affection alone.
"The bonds of true friendship must
be easy and its demands must be
for something real and vital. The
woman who calls on you perpetually
because she has taken a sudden
fancy to you is a blind and selfish
egotist, in a mild way. Her calls may
Interrupt your work and bore you
intensely, but if you are a polite and
courteous person you bear with her
until she directs her attention else
where. She will probably tell the
new friend that you are 'very unre
sponsive.' Some women clutch at ev
ery new acquaintance and then com
plain that they have so few friends.
The reason Is that friendship Is not
built on trivialities and whims, but
by giving such valuable things as
true consideration, real Interest, and
manifesting a decent reserve as to
the other person's confidences and
nonconfidences."
Why We Fight
There is a good deal being said
Just now about the necessity of the
entente allies telling what they are
fighting for. The "war aims" of the
nations battling with autocracy prob
ably will be stated In due time and
In the formal language of statesman
ship. Until that time comes we cap
be pretty well content with the
statement of democracy's war aims
made jjy a French soldier *nd re
ported to Premier Lloyd George by
General Gouroud. It Is here given In
Mr. Lloyd George's own words In his
recent speedh in Glasgow.
"In France last year I went along
the French front, and I met one of
the finest generals In the French
army. General Gouroud, and he said:
'One of my soldiers a few days ago
did one of the most daring things
any soldier has ever done. It was
reckless, but. he managed to come
back alive, and someone said to
him, "Why did you do that? You
have got four children, and you
might have left It to one of the
young fellows In the army. What
would have happened to your chil
dren?" And his answer was, "It was
for them I did It.' "
Can statesmanship put in better
words the objects for which democ
racy Is fighting?— Kansas City Star.
Grounds For Exemption
[From the Kansas City Star.]
"On what grounds did you claim
exemption?"
"I am a conscientious objector. I
believe that If they were called for a
million men would spring to arms In
a single night, and I object to being
dragged to arms In the daytime."
German Denials
The German papers are denying
the reports of poisoned courtplaster
and bandages circulated by German
agency in the United States. Ordin
arily, such reports would not require
specific denial, but denials of any
form of atrocity made In Germany
require a great deal of corroborative
detail to be Accepted as final by the
rest of the world. —Baltimore Amer
ican.
CITY MARKETS URGED
AS A PRIME NECESSITY
IMMEDIATE establishment of
municipal markets In every city
of twenty thousand or more in
habitants is urged by Secretary of
Agriculture Charles E. Patton as a
means of bringing tho growers of
farm products in direct contact with
the .purchasing and consuming
public. In a statement Just Issued
Secretary Patton says:
"Any town or city of twenty thou
sand or more Inhabitants can well af
ford and should take Immediate steps
for the establishment of municipal or
local markets that will bring the
farmers of the community In direct
touch .with the consumer and thus
reduce the cost of handling articles
of food. In cities where markets
have been an established custom for
years their success has been proved
beyond all doubt, and with the ad
vent of the war garden on small and
large scales, some avenue for the
overproduction to reach the consum
er must be provided.
"Municipal authorities should at
once consider the establishment of
curbstone markets and encourage the
farmers to attend this market on a
certain day or certain days each
week by offering free parking space
rental for a period long enough to
test t.he worth of the market to the
persons who will bring their products
for sale. In Home cities market build
ings might be available or might be
constructed by municipal funds, but
by whatever means are at hand these
markets should at once find their
The Raising of Rye
It is possible that the acreage of
wheat here in the east might be
profitably Increased somewhat, but
we believe that greater care in the
preparation of the seed bed, careful
selection and grading of seed and
more intelligent fertilization will pro
duce more bushels of Increase than
will an extensive Increase In acreage
without these better methods. It
seems to us that the greatest oppor
tunity for Increasing the amount of
bread-making grain Is In Increasing
the rye crop. Rye Is already much
In demand and the price lias been
steadily increasing with that of
wheat. Rye bread has for years been
the chief bread grain of many of the
country of Europe, and It is likely
that the call for export grain will
include a great deal of rye.
There are several reasons why rye
should appeal to many eastern farm
ers rather than wheat. First, it will
succeed on soils and In localities
where wheat 1b not profitable; sec
ond, It may be seeded two or three
weeks later and make relatively as
good a crop; third, it is too late In a
large part of our section to sow
wheat after harvesting -"age corn
while ryo will frequently succeed
well; fourth, rye straw is in good
demand In the market and rye will
yield more straw to the acre than
wheat. These are some of the rea
sons why It will pay farmers to ser
iqtisly consider sowing rye, rather
than to make a general and Indis
criminate increase In the acreage of'
wheat.—The Pennsylvania Farmer.
Union Pacific Pensions
There are 365 old employes on the
pension rolls of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company. They held a
meeting recently In Omaha and, aft
er Mr. Calvin, president of that rail
road system, had spoken, several
others who were with the road when
It was built from the Missouri river
to the Pacific, gave reminiscences of
those early days when buffaloes and
wild Indians roamed the plains.
One of them recalled that It Is fifty
years ago this summer that General
Dodge staked out the rlfftit of way
for the Union Pacific across the
Rocky Mountains.
Only fifty years ago. Just the
length of life of a man of middle
nge, the country west of Central
Kansas wis mostly desert terrorized
by savages, the grazing ground of
herds of buffalo.
What changes since then; not only
In the face of the country, now blos
soming in fields of growing grain;
but what vast changes in the appli
cation of the golden rule and the
brotherhood of man. In that day
the man who would suggest that a
corporation ought to pension the
employes who had grown old In its
service would have been thought a
radical of extreme type. But here
is this railroad now with 365 men
already on Its pension list.
The Union Pacific has done great
things in the past half century, but
nothing has ben done that brouKht
It better returns on the Investment
than its pension to old employes —
Kansas City Star. 1
way Into every city "in our Comnyn
wealth.
"In cities where no buildings are
available there is nothing better than
reverting to the old curbstone mar
ket. City officials or Interested citi
zens can arrange for shelter sheds
which can be removed to a storage
place at the close of the market
hours, or the farmers can be allowed
to park their teams along the curb
and sell direct from their wagons.
If the farmers can attend such mar
ket centers for a period long enough
to establish their confidence, without
any fees, there Is no question that the
consumer will gain fresher and
cheaper products. A nominal fpe can
be charged for stall or curbstone ren
tal after a certain period when the
value of the market is established.
"Such markets would be an outlet
for the overproduction of vegetables
grown In the thousands of war gar
dens which abound In every •com
munity. There Is no reason why
these gardeners should not be en
couraged to attend such markets and
have a method of direct sale for
their products. This will encourage
the children to greater efforts next
year and will show them that care
ful practice In agricultural pursuits
bring results In money crops. It wtll
prove a source In some cases of start
ing accounts for many chil
dren /and will tend to make them bet
ter citizens. The Pennsylvania De
partment of Agriculture will gladly
outline plans for the establishment
of such markets in any municipalities
where there is an interest."
Germany's Bill
A prediction that the businessmen
of Germany will force a peace in the
near future is made by Clarence W.
Barron, publisher of a financial Jour
nal In Boston.
Mr. Barron declares that he has
private information from Germany
that businessmen of all classes ore
demanding peace, even if the terms
must be the same that might be ex
pected after German defeat, because
defeat, they realize, Is Inevitable and
to prolong the war simply means fur
ther loss of manpower and a heavier
war debt to carry. If peace were
to come to-morrow Germany would
be staggering under a war debt of
many billions of dollars.
Germany was great in chemistry,
potash dyes, fabricated steel and
merchant marine. Now her ships
are forefelted, at home they rust in
harbors; vast dye and chemistry
works have been set up in other
countries; the world outside has
doubled Its production of steel and
Germany Is Industrially Isolated. The
big men of Germany see to-day that
all Germany has been building for
a generation in the trade of the
world Is absolutely lost If she fights
much longer. There Is no longer
hope of a victorious Germany. Amer
ica puts financial backbone into the
Allies. England's food supply is se
cure for another year. The whole
world Is building ships. German
shipping will be outclassed. Mort
gaged by war for more than one
third of her value Germany faces
financial bankruptcy. Another year
of war would make Germany's loss of
manpower so great that she would
be counted out of the financial and
Industrial race of the modern econo
mic world. She must give up, and
the sooner the better.
All of which will be bad news to
the pro-German pacifists in Amer
ica.—Kansas City Star.
How to Store Vegetables
In an article on gardening in tho
September Woman's Home Compan
ion, a writer says:
"The ideal storage place for veg
etables that grow, under the ground
Is an underground room, without
heat, that will not freeze, otherwise
a cold cellar. The temperature must
be between 33 and 38 degrees
Fahrenheit; that is, from just above
freezing to what is technically known
as 'cold;' and it if can be maintained
at one point evenly, so much the bet
ter. All the root crops except salsify
and parsnips, and Irish potatoes,
Btored in boxes into which they have
been packed In alternate layers with
dry earth or sand, in such a cellar,
will come out next spring as fresh ah
the day they went in.
"Salsify and parsnips require
freezing to bring them to proper
flavor; and so it Is better to leave
these two vegetables in the ground,
digging direct from the garden as
weather permits. If the severity of
the winter makes such opportunities
too Tare, leave them out until they j
have frozen up once, then dig a part I
of the crop and store In sand, as
directed above. The balance will be
all right for early spring use direct
rom tho garden."
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Wants Candidates Probed
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
That portion of your editorial un
der date of August 20th concern
ing the mayoralty is absolutely true.
Our city must not take a step back
ward.
The mayor of Harrisburg should
be a man of energy, executive abil
ity, and whoso character is above re
proach. He must bo free from alco
hol at all times.
It would not be amiss for the
voters to acquaint themselves with
the personal habits of those who
are candidates for mayor that they
may vote intelligently.
Do not take the word of Interested
parties. Let your investigation be
thorough. Harrisburg must not be
"a wide open city."
CITIZEN.
Harrisburg, Aug. 22.
Lan Hay Becomes Playwright
lan Hay (Captain Beith) author of
"Getting Together," "The First Hun
dred Thousand," and the just pub
lished "The Oppressed English," is
about to make his debut as a play
wright. He has Just completed the
dramatization of an earlier novel,
"Happy-Go-Lucky" which will —be
presented in London in September.
OUR DAILY LAUGH J
ONWARD AND UPWARDS.
•'What has become of the man
who used to rock the boat?"
"He has progressed with the times.
He is not satisfied now unless he is
mussing up the eaulllbrium of an
Aeroplane."
MODERATE.
"Does your wife belong to all the
afternoon clubs?"
"Not all of them. She thinks six
afternoon clubs per week Is about
enough."
WE NEVEJR THO'T Or THAT.
She—You must have caught your
cold at the game last week when It
rained.
He—Oh, no, X get It In the draft
Jmtr It."
MISANTHROPIC.
"When Brown is happy ho tries t
*ing."
"Yes. Some of us dota't csre bow
miserable we make others, so lens
s we're oomfortable.
Brnttag (£ljat
"I' Harrisburg ever had cause to
be thankful for the public Improve
ments which have given it fame
throughout the land and security and
pleasure at home it has been within
the last fortnight," remarked a man
who pays a right fair amount of
taxes yestorday as he stood on the
Mulberry street, bridge. "I have the
flood control in my mind most of all,
but Reservoir Park and the river
front, this bridge, the system
that takes up the drainage that used
to pollute the Susquehanna all along
the city, the paved streets and the
niter plant are riot to be forgotten.
I do not think the average Harris- A
burger realizes what the flood control
works, planned by Engineer Fuertes.
insisted upon by the committee in
charge of the public works campaign
and carried out by the public-spirited
board, means to this city. Reduced
to the simplest expression, it means
dollars and health. In the last fort
night we have had seven storms that
brought down tremendous quantities
of water. Except for the Market
street subway, which was planned
before we launched our scheme for
comprehensive general improve
ments, nothing was seriously affected.
When X was a boy, after every thun
derstorm such as we have had lately
or prolonged rain we used, to go over
to State street bridge or Mulberry
street bridge, after it was extended
to the Hill at the old Mount Pleas
ant schoolhouye, or Paxton' street
bridge, to see the creek. You have
seen the creek back up when there is
a flood in the Susquehanna? Well,
we used to have that several times a
year and I have seen a solid sheet of
water fom the Pennsylvania railroad
to the base of the hill. The creek
valley had a lot of brickyards and
other establishments that could stand
such treatment and when the coffin
factory was built and other indus
tries began to locate in the valuable
valley of the creek the men who
worked in them got tired of being
made to lose money. That started
the agitation and when X look alons
Tenth and Cameron streets and see
the garages, factories, warehouses
and other plants and see up above
State street the big pipe bending and
steel plant, the Hickok and other
works, I wonder what the misguided
citizens who fought the item in the
loan for improvement of the creek
valley had in their minds. I recall
some citizens who lambasted the
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH be
cause It advocated such a wild thing
as making a lako in Wetzel's swamp
to catch the water and prevent it
from flooding the creek valley and
who declared that the Interceptor
was a scheme to make money for a
contractor, who I believe lost money
on It. The plan to concrete the bot
tom of the creek was assailed by
citizens who had caught bullfrogs in
it when young and who insisted that
the springs in the bottom would pre
vent walling it up. If there is any
place next to the river front where
the common sense and the esthetic
and the pleasure features were com
bined It was the making of a flood
control lake and a park out of old
Wetzel's swamp."
♦ • *
Father Penn is now advising his
farmer sons and the folks who raise
chickens to get rid of t{ie roosters.
The rooster has received more or less
attention from the farmers' institute
lecturers and other men who lecture
to the farmers, but the State has
officially taken up the Velation of
chanticleer to daily life, especially
during war time, and the feathered
Mormon has been ordered thinned
out. In spite of the campaigns
waged recently against the useless
rooster, the State agricultural experts
have lots of them eating their
heads off and calculate that as it
costs about 20 cents a month to feed
a rooster that someone is losing
money. Tho calculators have also
decided that to keep every rooster
between September and New Year's
Day will cost approximately a dollar
and the advice has been given to eat
or ship the roosters, keeping only
fine young healthy birds. Another
Miggestlon being made by the State's
poultry experts is that the hens
should be taken better care of in the
dog days. Too many poultry houses,
it is claimed have all the glass fronts
in during tho hot months and that
no change is made in summer or
winter.
•
State officials, who have been ap
pealed to for some aid to overcome
the shortage of teachers in some of
the rural districts of the state be
cause of teachers leaving such work
to go into more profitable occupations
in towns, have run against a new
state of affairs due to the entrance of
teachers into army officers training
camps and the draft. Some of the
counties have given up eight or ten
teachers, quite a few of whom have
appjied for admlsston to training
camps, while others have been sum
moned before draft boards and will
go to mobilization camps. State
officials are puzzling how to meet
the demand for teachers.
* * *
Troop I of the First Cavalry, which
won the coveted honor of being
designated as the headquarters troop
of the Seventh or Twenty-eighth Di
vision, as the Pennsylvania troops
will be known, was formerly an in
fantry company and is the successor
of the company commanded years
ago by Major General C. M. Clement,
who made the selection. Its place in
the First will be taken by the new
Danville troop.
f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
—Elisha Leo, operating vice-presi
dent of the Pennsylvania, has been
connected with the company from
the time he left school.
Dr. Harry B. Roshon, Reading's
food inspector, has resigned to go
into the army medical corps. He has
been detailed to Gettysburg.
G. .T, F. Falkenstieln, journal
clerk of the House and former mayor
of McKeesport, was here on his way
to the Elks' convention at Sunbury.
He is a past state president.
—Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo, who is spending the sum
mer in the Blue Ridge mounjain dis
trict. has been motoring through
southern counties.
E. J. Ccttell, Philadelphia sta
tistician, has been averaging two
speeches a day since the war began.
R. G. Kay. the new Chester
county controller, may not be a can
didate for a full term.
1 DO YOU KNOW | t
That Harrisburg sell* largo
amounts of lumber, although
I
little of It CTer comes here?
HISTORIC HARRISBFRO
The first lodge of Masons here was
formed Just after the close of the
Revolution.
Wiser and Sadder Men
The businessmen of Germany are
powerless to be peacemakers over
the heads of the war lords. But the
course of events may bring the war
lords to a stage where they will
listen to the captains of industry*— I
Buffalo Courier. . I