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THURSDAY EVENING, AEG. 23
But if any of you lack wisdom, let
?iim ask of God, who giveh to all
liberally and vpbraideth not; and it
shall be given him. —JAMES 1:5.
Ol'R OFFICIAL GUESTS
WHEN officials of other cities of
the third class come to Har
risburg for the League conven
tion next week let's all endeavor to
put our best foot foremost. Every de
partment should make it a point to 1
have all appertaining to the parti
cular department in first-class shape.
Our parks should be trim and neat,
especially the walks and drives. The
paved highways ought to justify our
reputation as a clean and wholesome
city. Everything under municipal
control should Invite special com
mendation and it remains for the
authorities to maintain and increase
the good opinion of all visitors,
especially those who will come with
seeing eyes.
We must hand it to Mayor Smith,
of Philadelphia. He seems to have
tamed the foolish Republican factions
in that city so that they now enter
his presence as fierce foes only to
emerge a few minutes later arm-in
arm whistling "We are a band of
brothers."
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HIGH SCHOOL SITES
PUBLIC confidence in the motives
and purposes of the members of
the present board of school di- ;
rectors has been shaken by an ap
parent disregard of the sentiment of 1
the people. This was manifest in the (
upsetting of the building program,
and the school district will not re- '
cover from the mistakes of last win- j
ter for years to come.
But there ought to be a limit to
the blundering or worse that is re
sponsible for the present attitude of
the people towards those respon
sible for present conditions. Ever
since a new high school building was
proposed the question of site has
been uppermost In the thought of
those who are interested in the har
monious development of Harrisburg,
Of course, there will always be wide
differences of opinion as to the loca
tion of public buildings, but where
a civic center is being created
through co-operation of the State
and the city there should be no dif
ficulty in reaching a proper conclu
sion as to the most available site for
the new school building. It is un
derstood, however, that a committee
of the school board having proposed
two locations—one on North street,
fronting the Capitol Park zone, and
the other at Front and Boas streets
—the site on Front street may be
chosen, ignoring the more central lo
cation.
No particular reason has been ad
vanced for the selection of the site
on the river front, and as official
action will not be taken until Sep
tember we believe the board should
give full consideration to all the rea
sons which would seem to determine
the choice of a location facing the
Capitol Park. Already the Tech
nical high school occupies a com
manding position on Walnut street
facing the park, and it would be an
admirable arrangement to choose as
a site for Lhe new educational in
stitution the plot on the opposite
side of the beautiful stretch of park
now in the progress of creation.
Several imposing semi-public
buildings already* occupy a frontage
on the inevitable civic center which
is bound to result from the extension
of the State grounds. But all this
aside, it would appear that accessi
bility to the new school building Is
even more important. With street
car lines passing over a monumental
\laduct at State street to the Allison
Hill district of the city, and with
other street railway lines making the
proposed location on North street
convenient to all parts of Harrisburg,
to iNlace the building on Front street
•would result in very general com
plaint on account of Inconvenience.
W® cannot believe that the school
directors would deliberately interfere
with a great civic plan such as Is em
braced within the extension of the
Capitol Park area, and there is still
ample time to give full consideration
to all phases of the question. At
least, the final decision should be
postponed until full investigation
shall have been made of the compre
henatve scheme of treatment noj? b*.
THURSDAY EVENING,
lng worked out by distinguished
landscape architects and planners,
with a view to conserving the best
Interests of the State and the city.
Every argument In favor of the
two sites under discussion should be
presented and then a conclusion
ought to be reached that will be sat
isfactory to all the people. Let us
make no more mistakes In the work
ing out of our educational problems
here.
Could any stories of the doings of
our soldiers In France be more graphic
than those of Walter Shaffer, of Dau
phin; Franklin Etter, of Harrisburg,
and the other boys who are doing
their bit on the other side of the At
lantic. The Telegraph is greatly
pleased to print these letters to the
home folks, because they are so full
of human interest and lack the stilted
style of the professional war cor
respondent.
YOUR DUTY. MR. CITIZEN
FOR sixteen > ears Harrisburg has
been going ahead in a way to
command the admiration of all
the municipalities of Pennsylvania.
We must not move backward. We
are sending our men to the battle
line for the liberties of the world and
those of us who remain at home
should not in the slighest degree lose
our Interest or our zeal in the mak
ing of a city fit for the people of
this day and those to follow us.
There are some weaknesses In our
present municipal organization which
must be overcome. To an extent that
is sometimes discouraging the men
of vision in this community are los
ing interest In the administration of
local affairs. Discouragement has
followed the ascendency of Uttlb men
here and there to places of power,
and unless there shall be a quick
right about face we are certain to '
see the progress of Harrisburg take
the backward track.
It Is sometimes the unpleasant func
tion of a newspaper devoted to the
public welfare to point out defects
of administration in those charged
with public duties, but it is much
more pleasant to applaud good and
consistent public service rather than
criticise shortcomings. This news
paper has striven in every way pos
sible to aid the local administration
through commendation of good
work, but we fear the time is not
far away when there must be a dif
ferent course towards those who ap
pear wholly indifferent to responsible
duties and public opinion.
We are about to choose a new
group of public officials, a consider
able number of names of well-known
citizens having been submitted for
the consideration of voters. These
are the stockholders of the munici
pality who must determine those best ;
qualified to serve as directors of the
municipal corporation. Mere good
will and good fellowship and all that
sort of thing should not count In
making the choice. Fitness for the 1
public service, devotion to the inter
ests of the people of Harrisburg in
all walks of life and a desire to con
tinue in every possible way the city's
development ought to be the prime
requisites of every man chosen to
public place. But this will not hap
pen unless and until the voters them
selves become aroused to the Im
portance of their own duty in the
premises. They liave no right to per
mit an election to go by default In
any particular and then rise in pro
test when it Is too late. Now is the
time to investigate the qualifications
of every candidate In the field.
It Is up to you, Mr. Tax Payer,
to go over the list and discover for
yourself and through proper Inquiry
of your neighbor how this or that in
dividual is qualified for disinterested
public service.
Riverside must inevitably become
part of Harrisburg, and In view of the
past experience in annexation mat
ters the sooner the nuptials take place
the better. What may seem a big bill
for existing utilities In the suburban
district now, will look reasonable in
the light of greater expenditures for
other things in the event of further
postponement. The time for taking
Riverside Into the Harrisburg family
Is to-day.
Meanwhile, the particular kind of
garbage disposal system can wait a
proper decision. It Is not clear that
we want the present antique plant of
the private contractor, or even an In
cinerating plant. There njay be other
and more modern ways of disposing of
the waste of the city which will be
In the nature of conservation and
economy at one and the same time.
Those pretty "Motor Messengers"
of Harrisburg, who are among our
most willing workers, should organ
ize a flying squadron for the collection
of magazines In the homes of the city
for shipment to the army camps.
It may not be amiss to suggest that
should you have more of one kind of
vegetable than you need, your neigh
bor might be willing to exchange for
your excess supply hli surplus of an
flUwr TtctUU* trwllr nutrlttoju.
"Politic* Ck
By the Ex-Committeeman
Thousands upon thousands of
nominating petitions for county and
municipal nominations were filed In
Pennsylvania's sixty-seven counties
yesterday, which was the last day
upon which such papers could be put
1 upon record for the primary elec
tion on September 19. In some coun
ties the filing of petitions was greater
than ever known under the present
law and is taken to mean that there
will be many lively contests this year
with a view to getting things lined up
for the great tights of 1918.
To-day men active in politics were
looking over lists in an effort to find
out Just who had filed papers and
what the effect would be and it will
require a couple of days for the lines
will be definitely drawn. In some
counties Republicans and Democrats
are split and the "wet" and "dry"
issue, which was so prominent In the
filing of the judicial nominating peti
tions, looms up in many places.
The time for withdrawing petitions
will close r.ext week and it is the
hope of Republicans In many coun
ties that there will be steps taken to
harmonize local differences on the
Philadelphia plan of getting to
gether.
-—The Philadelphia Inquirer sums
up the situation in Philadelphia to
day by saying that the candidates
are pledged to party loyalty and the
Democratic Philadelphia Record ad
mits the success of the efforts of
Mayor Thomas B. Smith by saying
that "the slate of the bosses goes to
the voters" and confesses that "the
hoped for opposition" did not appear
until very late. The independents
and the Washington party put up
tickets and the Democrats also filed
enough to insure a healthy fight in
their own party. The Philadelphia
North American is not paying as
much attention to local politics as
usual.
—The Inquirer says in its review
of the Philadelphia situation, which
Is of importance to the whole state:
"The record of the filing of nomina
tion papers for candidates to be vot-
I ed for at the primaries on Septem
ber 19, yesterday being the last day
upon which such papers could be
received, insures the keeping of the
agreement for harmony among the
local Republican leaders. There will
be no serious contest for any of the
city offices and the councilmanic sit
uation is such that few if any of the
candidates whose papers were filed
through the Republican city com
mittee, will be at any time in danger
of defeat. All talk of possible fu
sion has been disposed of since it be
came known that every candidate for
a city nomination supported by the
Republican leaders Is pledged to de
cline any nomination other than that
from the Republican party. This
condition gives assurance to the Vare
forces that neither District Attorney
Rotan nor James B. Sheehan, the
Penrose-McNichol choice for regis
ter of wills, will do otherwise than
"stand or fall" with the Republican
colors, and at the same time the
Penrose-McNichol cohorts realize
that Receiver of Taxes W. Freeland
Kendrick and Frederick J. Shoyer, a
Vare favorite, who will be the nom
inee for city treasurer, will decline
to allow their names on any other
ticket than that of the Republican
party."
—Mayor Smith has asked that the
critics of his transit plan hold off a
little until some explanations caa
be made.
—The burgess of South Bethlehem,
whose joy will be gone soon, has
stirred up a lot of trouble by veto
ing an ordinance providing for car
nivals. It was backed by many peo
ple who resent his action.
—Captain W. W. Vanßaman, who
is In the Eighth Regiment, has de
cided he will not run for district at
torney in York county.
—The Philadelphia Press says of
the Pittsburgh political situation in
an editorial: "The liveliest place on
the political map of Pennsylvania
this year is Pittsburgh, where a
mayor is to be elected. Singularly
enough the choice will be made on a
nonpartisan ticket, but a factional
controversy will furnish all the ex
citement anybody will need. The
factions have been less successful
in fixing up their troubles there than
In Philadelphia. The result, however,
which will be largely determined at
the primaries next month, will have
its effect on Western Pennsylvania
politics, and is expected to be some
thing of a pointer for next year's gu
bernatorial contest."
•—Among the interesting facts in
connection with filing of papers is
that D. Clarence Gibboney, the old
crusader, is a candidate for district
attorney on the Republican ticket in
Philadelphia because his friends put
in papers for him. Gibboney has led
some hot lights in the past. The
Philadelphia Democrats will run
Richard T. McSorley, who withdrew
as a candidate for Judge a short time
ago and the Washington party men
will run Samuel J. Houston. The
Record calls the Washington party
"a Vare annex."
—Delaware county has eleven can
didates for sheriff and Montgomery
several for each office.
—lt is said that In Schuylkill, Lu
zerne and Lackawanna counties the
crop of candidates breaks records.
—ln a decision handed down at
Wilkes-Barre yesterday Judge Wood
ward, of Luzerne county, declares
constitutional an act of the Legis
lature passed during the recent ses
sion which increased the terms of
township commissioners of the first
class from two to four years. The
act was attacked by James Camp
bell, of Hanover township, who
sought a mandamus to force the
county commissioners to accept his
nomination papers as a candidate af
ter he had been refused on the
grounds that no vacancies existed by
virtue of the act extending the terms
of the incumbents. Judgt. Woodward
clares in his opinion that the act
abolished the office of township com
missioners elected for two terms, and
established four-year commissioners.
Teach Them English
It Is enough to enlist the Interest
of the public In the movement to put
It on the common-sense basis that
as English is the language of the
country all who come hero to make
their homes should be compelled to
learn it. The foreign-language press,
if it held to be necessary to help
ing the foreign-born to become ad-
Justed to the country, should be held
strictly to that object, and what
could be more in line with it than
requiring such newspapers to aid In
teaching them the language of the
land? Those that would not do this,
that would not consent to carry
English translations of some of
their articles, should be suppressed
as being concerned more for the In
terests of a foreign language.
America must tighten up every
where In guarding Itself against in
roads being made In It by foreign in
terests. Those who will not enter
whole-heartedly into the study of the
language of the country should be
sent back to where they speak the
language they do approve.—Pltts
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XL. E
EDITORIAL COMMENT
The thing thut most conscientious
objectors object to is being shot.—
Mason Telegraph.
Germany is entirely willing to
make another peace if somebody will
kindly furnish the scrap of paper.—
Boston Transcript.
"Kaiser Scoffs at Fart United
States Will Play in the World War."
—Headline. Perhaps he reads The
Congressional Record. —Chicago Tri
bune.
A Canadian statesman calls for a
"thorough ventilation" of conditions
in the Dominion. Perhaps it will be
done by the draft. —Pittsburgh
Chronicle Telegraph.
By virtue of being chairman of .the
Red Cross General Committee, Wil
liam H. Taft is made a Major Gen
oral. Oyster Bay papers, please copy.
—New York World.
Though they hate us more, the
Germans really respect us more, now
that we are belligerent, than when
we were neutrals too proud to tight.
—San Francisco Chronicle.
The American pacifists are the
only persons in the history of the
world who prefer to have a war
fought on their own territory in
stead of on the other fellow's. —Bos-
ton Transcript.
Activity Ahead
The weekly review of Chicago
trade published by R. G. Dun & Co.
says:
"While there are cross currents
and factors which increase the feel
ing of caution in some business chan
nels, the development mainly are fa
vorable, and it becomes more clearly
evident that production,in the lead
ing industries upon a greater scale
than heretofore is imperative.
"Despite the uncertainty existing,
the outlook favors a prolonged per
iod of unprecedented activity. The
need of greater capacity in this dis
trict urgently appeals to investment,
and with the necessary financing
manufacturing outputs would sub
stantially expand. Decline in unfilled
iron and steel orders does not direct
ly affect operations in this district;
In fact, all available plants are ex
erted to the limit and the forward
bookings assure day and night acti
vity running well Into next year.
Glory
I knew that hamlet well: a single
Bordered with cottages, where faces
Wives at their household tasks, and
mild old men
Dreaming their younger yesterdays
again
In silent sunshine —smiled at every
one;
Where, with the setting of the gentle
sun,
The husbands from the fields came
singing home.
And when their cnildren all day long
would roam
Till evening, when the whispering
poplar boughs
Echoed the music of young lovers'
vows.
A hundred years it had been so—
and so
1 knew that hamlet one brief month
ago.
Then I came back; a single house
stood there;
The rest were smoke upon the Au
gust air
And ruins in the obliterated road.
A gray-garbed sentry through the
ashes strode;
An old man's body, white hair
splashed with red,
Vay in the gutter; toward a black
ened shed.
Flushed face aglow and savage lip
a-curl,
A death-grimed soldier dragged a lit
tle girl;
A strangled baby lay beside the
stream;
Far in the dusk I heard a woman
scream,
And from the inn-porch, dark with
blood and wine,
Roared forth the chorus of the
Wacht Am Rhein.
—Reginald Wright Kauffman, of the
Vigilantes.
On His Mettle
Many a young man Is claiming ex.
eimptlon from military duty now
who will regret that action for the
whole remainder of his natural life.
This is the finest opportunity he will
likely ever have to prove his mettle.
Those who show the right spirit will
not only have the respect of their
fellows as long as they live, but will
always enjoy that which Is vastly
better their own respect.—Punx
putawney-fipirlt
ATROCITIES IN THE
GERMAN RETREAT
j
WATCHERS from the French
lines before St. Quentin have
seen the great cathedral of
that hapless tcjwn put to the torch
and reduced to ruins. The Germans
are getting ready to retreat once
more, to abandon the town and its
vicinage. The houses pt the peace
ful inhabitants are blown up or fired.
The smoke of blazing villages rises
from the surrounding plain. But it
was with chief satisfaction that the
Boches set fire to the cathedral. They
know that no work of architecture in
Germany could compare with it, and
that in destroying it they were in
flicting upon France an irreparable
injury, even though it had no mili
tary excuse. What they apparently
did not appreciate was that the
whole world shares the injury with
France and will Join in her resent
ment.
The devastation now being perpe
trated at St. Quentin is in accord
ance with the fixed military policy
of Germany. It is done merely with
malignant purpose and without
hope of military advantage. In
March, 1917, the military correspon
dent of the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger de
scribed with gusto the process:
"In the course of these last months
great stretches of French territory
have been turned by us into a dead
country. It varies in width from ten
to twelve or fifteen kilometers (six
and a quarter to seven and a half
or eight miles), and extends along
the whole of our new position, pre
senting a terrible barrier of desola
tion to an enemy hardy enough to
advance against our new lines. No
village or farm was left standing on
this glacis, no road was left passable,
no railroad track or embankment
was left in being. Where once were
woods there are gaunt rows of
stumps; the wells have been blown
W. J. Bryan, American
[New York Herald.]
"Before our nation enters a war
it is perfectly proper to discuss the
wisdom of gcing to war, but the dis
cussion is closed when Congress acts.
After that no one should be per
mitted to cloak attacks upon this
government or aid the enemy under
the claim that he Is exercising free
dom of speech.
"No sympathy, therefore, will be
wasted upon those who have been
arrested for unpatriotic utterances.
They abuse tree speech, and this ap
plies to attacks upon the Allies as
as to attacks upon the United States.
Wo can no more allow our allies to
be crushed than we can afford to be
crushed ourselves. The defeat of our
allies would throw the whole burden
of the.war upon us. We must stand
together and fight It through. There
are only two sides to a war. Every
American must be on the side of the
United States."
Since we entered the war no words
have better expressed the first duty
of an American citizen than these,
which are quoted from an article in
the Commoner written by William J.
Brvan. Creditable to his political
vision, his common sense and his
patriotism, tliey may furnish light t£
some doubting souls bewildered by
mocking voices and traitorous sug
gestions of sedition.
Pennsylvania
We love thee, Pennsylvania, thy
rocks and hills and dells,
The smiling, verdant valleys, where
sweet contentment dwells.
We breathe the air of freedom, and
pray God it may last.
And nothing mar the greatness, or
the glory of thy past.
We love thee. Pennsylvania, we
gladly sing thy praise,
We pledge to thee devotion, through
all the coming days.
Thy fame we proudly cherish, thy
honor we'll uphold.
We'll play our part with courage, as
our fathers did of old.
Chortis
Dear Pennsylvania, grand old Key
stone State,
Steadfast and loyal to all that's
truly great;
When duty calls thee, thou hast led
the way.
We love thee and we'd die for thee,
Dear old Penn-syl-va-nl-a.
[Words and music by Frank Hall,
Harrlsbunft. Deoartment of
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up, wires, cables and pipe lines de
stroyed. In front of our new posi
tion runs, like a gigantic ribbon, an
empire of death."
And the Berlin Tageblatt gloats
over this destruction of the dwellings
and property of helpless peasants in
this burst of fine writing:
"And the desert, a pitiful desert
leagues wide, bare of trees and un
dergrowth and houses! They sawed
and hacked; trees fell and bushes
sank; It was days and days beforo
they had cleared the ground. la
this war zone there was to be 110
shelter, no cover. The enemy's mouth
must stay dry, his eyes turn In vain
to the wells—they are buried lp rub
ble. No four walls for him to set
tle down into; all leveled and burnt
out, the villages turned into dumpa
of rubbish, churches and church tow
ers laid out in ruins athwart the
roads."
All this was done in the territory
which the French armies had to cross
before reaching their present posi
tion before St. Quentin. It checked
them not a bit. Across the desert
waste they built highways and re
built roads. The wells were poison
ed. The armies laid water pipes for
their supply. Every farmhouse and
peasant's cot was reduced to dust.
They carried their own shelter. The
"terrible barrier of death" was to
them no barrier, only a reason why
they must push forward with renew
ed strength and determination to
hew down the vandals guilty of the
barbarous destruction. Now In front
of St. Quentin they see the Boches
engaged in the same work prepara
tory to their next flight.
How in the face of this continued
practice of frightfulness in retreat
can the world receive respectfully
the dictum that "The honor of the
armies of both sides is safe"? —New
York Sun.
If
(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.)
If you car. hoid your tongue when
German backers
Are loosing theirs and damning
Uncle Sam;
If you can keep from cussing out the
slackers
And flaying smug hypocrisy and
6ham;
If you can wait and not be tired by
waiting,
While reptile papers keep us on
the rack;
If you can stand the paclflstlc prat
ing.
And never have a yearning to strike
back.
i
If you can see your country's cities
plastered
Wlthsychophantic warnings against
war;
If you can watch a yellow livered
dastard
Refusing to confront things as
they are;
If you can see a swarm of crawling
lizards.
Squirming through the marriage
license door—
Men with atom souls and smaller
gizzards.
Disgracing those whose honored
names they bore.
If you can hear an orator denouncing
The liberty for/which our nation
bled;
If you can let him go without a
trouncing
Or punching In the bally traitor's
head;
If you can smile when lying propa
ganda
Seduces men who ought to know
the truth;
If you can tolerate their rotten
slander
And bear it with an idle fist, for
sooth—
If you can sneer at men who wear
the khaki.
Or jeer at those who wear the
. navy blue;
If you can whisper like a skulking
lackey.
About the men who have the nerve
to do;
If vanqulshment of brutal foes
appalls you,
If you can't prove your right to be
a man,
You may bo everything mother
calls you,
But, believe me, you are not
American.
—Edwin Carty Ranck, la the Brook- I
Jtyn. JEftgl*
ATTGUST 23, rg!7
Where Does U. S. Get Off?
There's a question that is pressing
And it surety keeps one guessing,
I'll state it as it now appears to me
England, Russia, Italy, France
Each and all have had their chance
To slay the Prussian Beast and make
men free.
The submarine still takes its toll
And, might the Huns not reach their
goal
Where men and women, starving, die
like flies?
Their millions strong along the West
Might crush the French and all the
rest
Then, there is where the big for
U. S. lies.
Have you ever thought about It
Or, if so, do you still doubt it
And treat it with an ordinary BCOIT?
Now list—lf Huns can pull their
trick
And both the French and English
lick
Pray, tell me, where does XJ. S. A
get off?
Brother, what you and I 'most need
Is to drop pleasure, ease and greed
And get down to brass tacks and win
this war;
While the safety of the nation
May be arms, bombs, aviation,
You and I must be loyal to the core.
R. I. DEIHL,
Paxtang, Pa.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
YOU CAN'T FOOL 'EM.
"Do you allow your husband to
go to the beach by himself?"
"Certainly not! I wouldn't trust
him behind a screen door."
THAT WILL HELP.
*1 love the heroes, all of them.
Each day for them I pray,
Altho they're many miles from hep
I do my "bit" that way."
THE SITUATION.
"How are yon making of wttll
jrour chicken firming?"
"I find it bard aoratchlnc."
QUALIFIED.
She (romantically)— The man I
/carry must be willing to go through
fire for me.
He —Then I'm your man. The boss
ha* flrod me tor telephonist you M
Ebnttnn Cttljai
A friend commenting upon the nr.
tide in this column the other even
ing on the recognition given to Wil
liam Maclay, one of the two .first
United States senators from Penn
sylvania and one of the men who
made Harrisburg, says that Mr. Ma
clay never agreed with his father
in-law, John Harris, about the Sus
quehanna river front. Mr. Harris
was an Intensely practical man and
looked for the river front to become
a commercial highway, as it was for
many years after his death when
"arks" and "flats" brought down
coal, grain, hides and other things
from up the Susquehanna and the
Juniata. Mr. Harris held to the be
lief that the stream in spite of its
shallowness would be an artery of
bo tho a , that , the r ' ver front would
The tmvn <° r , ront of a busy ,own
irnfio fi busy, all right, but tho
in tho v W m ,hr °'"< h °n the railroads
valley of Paxton creek. Mr
that riv°V h0 otller hand - "aid that
conio th nt wolll d eventually be-
P°ace of ?r. Pr ? , ] lenado and Pleasure
bard h!,,i ,' r burK - He waa J ust as
counts but v, aS Harrls - from all ac
as shown . W . as a better Pinner,
Canftol wii i ho location of the
the fact tl!nt°*. designated it and
tlonaf LVifni a 'most got tho na-
SuqmLhAn w on tho banks of the
among tho o. , T -\ cro are Dorics told
hunf nf w,,? r , f:lln,Ues of Harris
and down V am Macla >' walking up
after hTa 3® , rlver generally
urlnh ,i lns meal - almost In
nHwi jlone - one of the most dig
height and°bi r ? feet three inchea of
what ? in Proportion, some
*.? '° handsome clothes
opinionated to a. dccrpp k.,* '
rinhi" Ch be,l ®i er "'at some day Hart
risburg would be the queen city 0 f
the Susquehanna and that his favor
nf would be the strolling place
°L th °^ Sands who would like him
enjoy the splendors of tho sunsets
• • •
observation by State agricul
tural experts on the opportunities for
raising more foodstuffs in this part
of the state by changing the rotation
S ra '"„ "OPS calls to mind that
y '2 a^ out ns rigorously ad
hered to about hero as in any part
of the country. The initials mean
corn, oats, wheat, and while there
are some who add "G R", or Brass
and rye, to their list, the bulk of the
farmers raise the three staples, occa
sionally turning some sections of
fields into potatoes. Dauphin county
farmers have been successful with
noth wheat and corn, far moro with
the corn than some of their more
northern neighbors, but they have
never raised very much rye. Al
lalfa has been very successfully
raised in several townships and Is
coming into general favor. The rec
ommendations of the State experts
will not strike the Elauphin farmers.
The drills of the Harrlsburg Re
serves are attended by quite a few
businessmen for the exercise as well
as for the military training that is
given by the energetic captains and
their young lieutenants on the island
twice a week. It happens that there
is one man who Is keenly interested
and a good soldier, too. But he has a
hankering for knowledge of just
what he does. He knows the man
ual of arms and to complete all data
J 1 ® t??® 8 a Pedometer with him on
the drill nights and when Major Por
ter puts the men through battalion
drill several times around the big
Held he has quite a score to show.
Announcement that the national
Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and the
American Library Association were
planning co-operation to raise
$1,000,000 for libraries In each of
the thirty-two army cantonments has
brought many assurances of support
already. In this city a number of
people have telephoned to know what
will be Harrisburg's share and giv
ing notice that they meant to give
their dollar. The idea of a dollar for
books for soldiers bids fair to be very
popular.
• • •
Samuel T. Bodlne, president of the
U. G. I. and head of one of tho
Philadelphia district appeal boards
made an interesting observation yes
terday at tho meeting in the Senate
chamber. He said that his Company
has sent word to every plant asking
how the draft would hit them and
was informed that seventy-two men
could not bo spared. He then asked
what would be done if each of the
seventy-two fell dead. Out of the
whole list it looks like one exemp
tion will be asked.
• • •
Did you ever see a mountain start
to move at you? That is the way
people who saw the giant blast fired
at Steelton say the great hillside of
stone looked. The blast was remark
able in that it did not make much
noise. There was a roar and then
the hill seemed to be moving; then
the rattle of stones, the crash of
larger ones settling and a cloud of
dust. Thene have been some great
blasts fired hereabouts, but nothing
like that at. Highspire quarries yes
terday.
•
Among the Pennsylvania officers
who have gone up the ladder Is
Edgar T. Collins, brother of Deputy
Attorney General Emerson Collins.
He is now a lieutenant colonel and
chief of the division which will be
formed of Michigan and Wisconsin
troops at Waco, Texas. He graduated
from West Point In 1897 and was in
command at Plattsburg, where his
brother just visited him.
♦ •
A. Mitchell Palmer sat in the front
row of the Senate chamber yesterday
during tho district board meetings
and seemed to enjoy the place. When
someone suggested that he might
take a notion to try for one of ths>se
front seats he observed that he had
trouble enough.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
—Auditor General Snyder plans to
visit the ambulance troops at Allen
town this month. One of the units Is
named for him.
—C. E. Carothers,.chairman of the
milk commission, is a. practical
farmer and has raised his own cattle
in Western Pennsylvania, so that ho
knows the game.
—Sheriff G. W. Richards, of Alle
gheny, has been arresting draft dodg
ers himself. Ho is a former legis
lator and well known here.
—William J. Berkey, prominent In
Johnstown nfYalrs, has been appointed
treasurer of one of the big secret
orders.
—W. T. Tllden. Jr., son of the late
Philadelphia manufacturer, has been
winning fame as a golfer in national
events.
DO YOU KNOW [
That ITarris burg's WUdwood
Park treatment has been copied
In several eastern cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBTTRO
The first movement for a home
for the Governors was started by
Harrlsburg people during the Civil
Wax and the State then, fpt j| ■