10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. TB. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. 3US 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 al-o reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office, Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Bunding, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24 Yea, I have found thee, Ood! Thy breath doth fill me w<th a fire divine— A.nd were a thousand worlds like this my foes. The battle v;ould be brief —the victory mine.' — ANON. EXEMPT THE STATE POLICE IT does seem that the action of local boards in drafting mem bers of the State Police force to fill up their quotas for the new National Army, when the Provost Marshal General has ruled that the question of exempting them is one for such boards to determine, has been taken without much thought as to the result to the State. From all accounts, the Provost Marshal Gen eral has clearly indicated that the local boards must be the judges of •whether such men should be taken and the draft officials, bearing in mind the recent ruling that munici pal policemen are not exempt, have placed the State policemen in the same list and when they have been accepted have ordered them to mo bilization camps. Right hero it would seem that there was a chance for the boards organized under the conscription law to exercise that discretion which Major C. B. Warren said in the con ference at the Capitol must govern them in deciding what men should be taken for national defense. Penn sylvania has made its State police force known throughout the coun try for efficiency and fearlessness. It has invested millions of dollars In examining, training and equipping men and it nas established a system to which people in many districts are accustomed and on which, espe cially in rural communities, they rely for protection. The National Guard is about to leave the State and it would seem poor policy, scarcely compatible with public in terest, national defense and general welfare, to disrupt the organization which has been built up with ex penditure of so much time and money and which certainly has a > clear and well defined field at this j time. MANAGER PLAN ENDORSED DAYTON has demonstrated its confidence In the city mana ger form of municipal admin- istration. Having just emerged from • a red-hot contest over the re-elec tion of those who inaugurated the manager system with an overwhelm ing majority In favor of the new plan, Dayton has given practical notice to all other cities that a con centration of authority means eco nomical and efficient administration. Harfisburg must eventually do one of two things—either adopt the sys tem now in successful operation In the Ohio city, or demand that our local government be organized on such a basis as will provide for personal supervision of the city's several departments. Steps are being taken through many organizations to safeguard the morals of citizen soldiers who are making up the population of the various camps now being establish ed. No work is more worthy of support and of the best thought of those who are devoting their ener gies to it. SOMETHING TO SHOW THE visit being paid to the State Highway Department offices and the Inspection of the highways under way by State road officials from Maryland and Virginia this week calls to mind that it is not so many years ago, one might almost say months, that officials of other Commonwealths were urging the people of the Keystone State to visit them to see some real roads. We re call some playful Jibes from New York editors about the edification awaiting Pennsylvanians when they struck the network of highways for which the sons of Father Knicker bocker were bonding themselves so liberally and we distinctly remember the way we were twitted by Jersey men about the preference expressed by Philadelphianb for roads leading from Camden to Atlantio. City over FRIDAY EVENING, those in their own fair neighborhood. Folks coming from Ohio and sister Commonwealths in the Middle West used to tell at Saratoga and at the New England resorts how they hated to even cross Erio county to get IJrom the Ruckeye State to New York. The roads in Pennsylvania were so ter rible, you know. And now, just now, without a cent of debt, the erstwhile derided Com monwealth of Pennsylvania has es tablished a State road system of over 11,000 miles, rebuilt many miles of it and maintained all of it in a man ner that attracts the attention of the men from the other States who used -o go to New York and Massachu setts to learn about making roads and keeping them up. We have just appropriated in the midst of war over $10,000,000 for road purposes, nnd notwithstanding flare-ups in the Staet government in which roads are at least nominally involved, we mean to place Pennsylvania right at the top when highways are considered. We have the money, the men and the brains and we are not going to let anything interfere with our plans. VETERAN'S AT BOSTON IT is inspiring to know that the G. A. R. heroes' are standing so firmly behind and all associated with him in author ity in this crisis. During the great encampment of the old soldiers of the republic at Boston this week there was much enthusiasm over the part which has been taken by this nation to safeguard the liberties of the world. Each reference to the unselfish motives which have prompted the United States to enter the struggle for the freedom of the world without hope or thought of reward brought the veterans to their feet, cheering and waving battle worn flags and pledging anew their allegiance to the Stars and Stripes. These men who wore the blue of the former great conflict realize bet ter than any other class of our peo ple what war means and when they declare, as they did through their commander-in-chief, that "our lives, our property and our sacred honor are pledged in support of liberty in the titanic struggle now waged be tween autocracy and democracy," those of a younger generation should be ready, every man, to stand shoulder to shoulder with these veterans in unflinching support of every measure which will furnish the cause of peace through an effi cient prosecution of the war. WE MUST FIGHT FOR PKACE THERE will always be more or less criticism of military train ing, but the people of the United States are at -least realizing that peace will come sooner when this country has demonstrated its lighting power. We have heard much of the pacifist, but those who are sending their sons and husbands and fathers into battle will not endure with patience tactics in the rear which will tend to weaken the forges in the field. We are reaping as a nation what we have sowed in other years. Men in high places perished in the foolish attitude of men who, having eyes to see, saw not, and continued to as sure an indifferent and careless people that preparedness for the nation's defense was simply an in. vitation to war. They told us we could raise a million men over night; that military preparedness was <he propaganda of munition makers and millionaires; that we had nothing to fear from any foreign foe; that we were a powerful and invincible peo ple, whose ability to take care of themselves would make any enemy hesitate to attack-us. Thus the natio.n was lulled into a false security. Thoughtless men and worsen were led to believe that no war would come to our shores. Those who advocated preparedness and military training of our young men were condemned as jingoes and fire-eaters who would plunge their country into the vortex of war. Many national leaders who are now denouncing the mischief-makers, who would weaken our own forces by insisting upon a statement of our aims and purposes in the war, which aims have been stated over and over again, were among the most active propagandists of the theory that this country should do nothing to pre cipitate war with Germany. But the day of theorizing is past. We are now in the midst of war. It is our business to make the Amer ican war machine as efficient and powerful as is possible, to the end that the peace which we are now fighting for may be secured in the form that will be permanent and which will assure to those who come after us the opportunities and bless ings for which our forefathers gave their lives. RICHES FROM BARREN LAND THE discovery that ganister rock has an important place in brick production has turned the mountainside barrens of certain In terior counties from worthless pieces of unproductive property, the bane of farmers and lumbermen, into won derfully profitable land. Just the other day 15,000 acres of these rock deposits were leased and operations started that will continue for fifty years at least, or so long as the deposits hold out. It used be that cleaning land of rocks was dif. Scult and expensive. Now, if Jt is gunhster, the farmer not only gets his land cleaned, but receives pay for t.ho privilege. BUT NO COMMITTEE A BILLION more in taxes, and new bond issues to the tune of nine billions more. These are the inconsequential sums which Mr. McAdoo says Congress must provide for before it takes any adjournment. We assume that ih e Secretary of the Treasury will remain firm in his op position to having any Joint commit tee of Congress clothed with the right to know what is being done with &U this money. I "~PoCt£cC4- Ck By the Ex-Oommltteoman I _ As Philadelphia seems to be pretty well tamed down because of the vigor with which Mayor Thomas B. Smith took hold of the situation and en forced an agreement upon candidates many Republicans are now looking toward Pittsburgh to see what effect Its factional fight, which has grown out of the nonpartisan election law's operation, will have on State politics. Pittsburgh seems to be due for one of those old-time primary battles that attracted attention of the State before Philadelphia started to have internal troubles. It is believed that Scranton and other cities will not have as fierce rows as expected be cause of the influence of the har mony at Philadelphia, but at Pitts burgh there Is every sign of a con tent that will be memorable. State Republican leaders have been making inquiries about the Pittsburgh situation and have decid ed to wait until the primary is over. Pittsburgh has eight candidates for mayor. There will bo two men nominated as no one can got en ough votes to be sole nominee. E. V. Babcock, W. A. Magee and Dr. J. P. Kerr are the three leaders. M. J. Caton, long prominent in Democratic affairs, is also one of the octet. In cidentally McKeesport has four can didates for mayor, including Mayor Lysle. Pittsburgh's array of council candidates is impressive. There are over a score, including most of the present members. Senator W. J. Burke, William J. Brennen, the old Democratic warhorse; Dr. C. B. Con nelly, the University of Pittsburgh professor; Ex-Representative O. M. Letzkus, Robert J. McGrath, labor leader, and John W. Slayton, prom inent Socialist, are also candidates. —Allegheny county has eleven Republican candidates for Sheriff with Franklin P. Booth leading and Samuel R. Tamer, well known among railroad men and prominent as a legislative committeeman of tire brotherhoods, as the Democratic candidate. Joseph N. Mackrell, the newspaperman, is a candidate for coroner against Coroner Samuel C. Jamison. Thomas O'Shell, ex-legis lator, is running for sheriff on sev eral tickets. —The Philadelphia Record says that the independent element which has been deprived of a chance to make a roar because of the harmony agreement in Philadelphia, will start something after the primary election. Meanwhile the Democrats are getting ready to flght among themselves. The Record admits this by saying: "Democratic factions in the Forty sixth ward promise to stage a fight over magistrates which will center in their ward alone. John J. Mc- Quaid and John J. Howard, leaders of rival factions in the big independ ent ward, have both filed for one of the Democratic places on the ticket." —D. Clarence Gibboney may re tire as a candidate for district at torney in Philadelphia. —County Controller Kay, just named for Chester county, is start ing things by holding up various warrants., —Governor Brumbaugh is expect ed to return about the middle of September. —Scranton is right up to the mark in adhering to its old reputa tion for hot politics. It has eight candidates for mayor and twenty two for council with four women among candidates for school direc tors. There are 1,600 petitions on file for offices in the county of Lack wanna. —Death of Judge Morris Dallett, of the Philadelphia orphans' court bench at Hot Springs yesterday, means that Governor Brumbaugh will have another Judicial appoint ment to make. It is doubtful wheth er he will name any one for some time. As in the case of the succes sor to Judge Staples, of Monroe county, who died a few days ago, the man to be named will hold office for two years or so. —Democrats In Luzerne county are getting ready for a beautiful pri mary fight. There will be a bitter judicial contest in that county, too. International Slackers There are plenty of alien born who will loyally serve this country. There are others who, on "high moral grounds"—meaning treason of a pe culiarly dirty sort —will be asking exemption from the draft, or if not that, then "optional service." Born abroad, they cannot find it in their noble herts to fight aganist anything European. Rubbish! They were untrue to some European country, before coming here. That is why they came. Now, on "high moral grdunds," they propose to be untrue to America. Corner an alien of that stripe. Ask him why he cam.e The first answer is usually "I didn't want to serve in the army." .Remarks on the "land of opportunity" follow. There are additional remarks on "the land of freedom." Mere footnotes, these. The ruling motive was his desire to shirk military service. The fellow wants to nab all the benefits a coun try bestows and not pay for them, as Major Chiperfield told one of them Monday. No matter where you put him, he has the same determination; he had it at home, he has it here. He is an international slacker. Ono explanation of the superb fighting spirit displayed by European armies Is that many h European shirker had left his country for his country's good and emigrated to America, not to become an American and assume Americaft responsibilities, but to es cape paying the price of loyal citi zenship. Talk all you like about the "melt ing pot." International slackerdo.il won't melt. No gentle treatment affects It. You can reason.or wheedle or sentimentalize until the cows come home, but only harsh measures avail. Give an International slacker the very dose he flees from country to country to dodge. Draft him. Drill him. Make him serve. In that way you will pound Into him the first rudiments of manhood. Chicago Tribune. Worked It Out Himself After all, the ordinary citizen knows more than his self-appointed advisers. Immediately after the Unit ed States went into war, a number of people took it upon themselves to urge everybody, ever/where, to econ omize. Then within a month other people started a movement for "business as usual." In the mean time the common citizen went about his business, neither making a specialty of economizing nor trying to do "business as usual," but ad- Justing himself to the unusual con ditions and economizing in a reason, able manner wlierft changed circum stances required. The "composite citizen" Is a pretty level-headed In dividual HARRISBURG TELEGRAPIf ONE OF THE JOYS OF GOLF IS GETTING OUT IN THE OPEN By Briggs ' J - V, I I HOPE I WOl£T I LISTED &U. I QoT 1/ Vou s*l P [OH- HUM-. , HM>K. J PROMISED ,S if • // _ -T3- The golf club riUl/;>])//ii)iiUMi(' l Mi<l<'.li'.|^. fTIL hA\>£ "Tb HURRY 1 fT VAJON'T HAW 6 TwvaE. I j Y<H> YOU'D/ A RMETX I To Gst "Th/vt 5-io | BILU- I've Got "to y Solely Be home J / Ot_P "DAY AT —■*> —— ~ i EDITORIAL COMMENT A Providence, R. I„ man married to escape the draft and enlisted to escape his wife.—Franklin Even ing News. Mr. Nicholas Romanoff, a well known resident of Petrograd, has gone to Siberia, where he will remain indefinitely in the hope that his visit may have a quieting effect upon the nerves of the revolutionary govern ment of Russia.—Pittsburgh Post. The National Army According to the official bulletin of the Committee on Public Information on Saturday last, there are now 943,141 men in fhe volunteer armed forces of the United States. Since war was declared 1,300,000 men - in round numbers have offered them selves. The forces are thus divided: In the land forces there are 65,541 officers and 654,483 enlisted men, a total of 710,024. In the sea forces there are 9,040 officers and 224,077 enlisted men, a total of 233,117. Since war was declared the enlist ments have been: For the naval forces, 121,514,. and for the land land forces, 327,345, giving a total of 448,859. The present enrollment of nearly a million fighting men is the best answer to the sneering belittle ment of our ability to prosecute the war which Berlin industriously cir culates. Uncle Sam has millions more where these stalwart Americans came from. To the officers reserve corps from the training camps 27,- 341 officers have come. From other sources 10,500 have been added to the corps. This showing more than justifies all the labor of years on the part of General Leonard Wood and others in establishing training camps and maintaining them, often in the face of the most stubborn official op position.—Philadelphia Ledger. Hats Off to Flag In "glorious France" every hat comes off in honor of their Tri-Color. Are we Americans less appreciative of what the Stars and Stripes means to us than the gallant French? We love the flag as well as they love theirs, but we do not show it. It is not suggested that every American flag should be saluted as one passes it, but when our common country's emblem is carried in line as our country's standard, then every man on the street as the standard goes by should uncover. The city policemen would be the proper examples to start with. They are in uniform and represent the city's authority. Usually they are stationed at given intervals along all parade routes, and if at the approach of the color-bearer the city's police officers should set the example and follow It by an order, "Hats Off to the American Flag," It would soon become the custom and practice of everyone. It would become our sec ond nature, and not to salute the flag would then be so noticeable that no one weuld desire to be in that class. —W. T. Kerr in Pittsburgh Gazette Times. In Belgium's Name Our laat visitors of state from an allied country, the Belgian commis sioners, make-the fitting climax. In their restrained but poignant mes sage on behalf of their devastated country they sum up for Americans the whole meaning of the war. Their late pictures more forcibly than any words that peril to civilization which we have joined hands with our allies to destroy. Theirs is a striking banner, indi vidual and beautiful. It is good for us Americans to become familial with it. For it symbolizes aptly all that individuality and beauty of a small nation which the German idea held as less than cannon fodder when It obstructed for a day the German way to power. By her de votion to her national Ideals, by her swift decision to die on the battle field rather than sell herself into slavery. Belgium earned the right to rank with the great nations of all time. Her fame stands secure. We of America are proud to do her honor. Wo are thankful that at last wo have the right to greet her as an filly and that in tendering our sym pathy we are making ready to back our emotion with the sterner stuff or deeds. • Belgium must and shall be free. Belgium must and shall be restored. Such is the pledge which this Repub lic devoutly makes to the greatest of small nations.—New York Tribune. Safe in Berlin In spite of alarmist reports that American citizens are being pressed into the German army, the general belief Is that, considering how many Germans there are in this country, our nationals will be about as safe on the Wilhelmstrasse as on Broad -1 way.—New York Evening Pott, COMMANDING OFFICER MUST BE A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER . SO much has been printed about the training camps that (V- sol dier boys scarcely know what to expect when they leave the hills of Pennsylvania for intensive training in some far-away state. Some of the camps are good, some are bad, and many are indifferent, lor a number of the camps were in herited by the War Department, and many of the posts have little to rec ommend them. Of the camps claim ing a large share of attention l'rom Harrlsburg people at this time, Camp Hancock, which is now the home of Company D, and within a short time will be the training place for Com pany I and the Machine Gun Com pany, stands in high favor with both officers and men. Augusta is not far from the fa mous peach belt, and in the spring and early summer there is great fish ing in the rivers and lakes of Geor gia. Quiet, sleepy, historic old Sa vannah is a comparatively short dis tance away, and there the church in which John Wesley preached is still standing and is used for services each Sabbath. The orange and citrus groves are just over the line in Flor ida. Camp Hancock is less than twenty minutes' time from the Sa vannah river, which is one of the best-known stretches of water In the southland. It is claimed by those in position] to know the facts that the Pennsyl vania boys in the quaint old suburb of aristocratic Augusta will enjoy both good housekeeping and sensi ble, all-around training. in some of the camps, the com plaint has been made that the com manding officer is not a good house keeper; that there is a laxity about the tents and about the kitchen that is not conducive to the highest degree of comfort, and where the menus are poor and badly arranged, in some Instances the officer is a poor housekeeper but a splendid fighting man, and the men are kept in fine trim despite the drawbacks of the culinary department. Occasionally, there is that perfect combination —a commander who is an ideal housekeeper and a good fighter. It is said that the boys at A Pound of Flour Food Administrator Hoover asks everybody to save each week one pound of flour in every Ave. The economy is made necessary by the wheat deficit in the United States and Canada of 400,000,000 bushels in the amount required for the al lied nations and neutrals of Europe. There is an indicated surplus of corn of 470,000,000 bushels and of cats of 304,000,000 bushels in this country. What is asked of the con sumer is not to reduce his allow ance of cereals but to save wheat by substituting twenty per cent, ofr oth er grains. , To do this ought not to involve much self-denial. Not to do it may mean distress or starvation for our allies. This and similar official rec ommendations of food economy should be taken seriously and applied at home, not passed on for some body else to do. Fighting may be done by proxy. Other persons may be called on to buy Liberty bonds and make Red Cross supplies. But food conservation must be personal and all must co-operate. It will not do to make light or serious condi tions and to belittle precautions for husbanding the nation s food supply which must be observed if we are to win the war.—New York World. The Mcnnonites The Mennonltes are named for Menno Simons, of Friesland (1492- 1559). There are about 60,000 in thi* country, most of them in Eastern Pennsylvania. They are divided Into twelve sects. They believe that war is always wrong, and in this belief they refuse to take the oath and to enage in mili tary Bervice. The Dunkards. whose doctrines are similar, make the same refusal. At the time of the Revolution a Mennonite preacher, Henry Funck, fought for his country and was ex pelled from the Church. But the Mennonltes did furnish money and provisions, and furnished them gladly. Lancaster. York, Berks and Northampton counties, were tho sources of food supply on which Congress 4)lefly depended to keep the Continental Army in the field. From every Pennsylvania German neighborhood to-day many soldiers are going forth to fight Germany.— Philadelphia Ledger, Camp Hancock have drawn this prize. In all likelihood the boys of Com pany D will fall in love with the Georgia climate, for balmy breezes and odors of the fragrant pines may be expected throughout the sum mer. Contrary to a prevailing im pression in this section, the weather is not likely to become extremely hot in Georgia during the month of Sep tiynber. It is possible that the fall of the year may bo warm and wet, for as a rule there is plentiful rainfall in Georgia and Florida during the au tumn months. The winters are, ol course, the greatest charm of South ern life. At any rafe, a stay of a few months in Georgia is not likely to move the camp poet to the composition of an effort similar to that written by Regi nald Wright Kauffman, the author, who spent the spring of this year at Niagara. The spring of 1917 was cold and wet, and this is the poem which oc cupies a place of honor In the camp Y. M. C. A.: AN OLD SOLDIER Talk not to me of Valley Forge, and frozen heroes there, Of icicles suspended aglitter in mid air; Oh, speak not of that water as the dampest ever seen; I slept at Fort Niag'ra in the May of *l7! The troops of old Napoleon from Moscow to Paree Had something on the Esquimos, but not a thing on me; Those Russian snows were warm ing, those Russian fields were g reCn Compared with Fort Niag're In the May of *l7! Oh, May is a balmy month, some times—perhaps—somewhere, With underwear all fluttering and rose scents In the air; But if you want to Bee it as It no where else is seen Just come to Fort Niag'ra In the i spring of 'l7! Bryan Welcomes Taft [From the Commoner] Having, I believe, been upon the Chautauqua platform longer than any other man lr> public life, it falls to my lot to extend a welcome to former President Taft, who is mak ing an extended Chautauqua tour through the central west. He has a message to deliver and he is finding the Chautauqua audi ence worth speaking to. Witli an cx- President, the present Vice-Presi dent and Speaker of the National House of Representatives (when they have leisure) among the Chautauqua attx-actlons, it will be hard for the metropolitan press to class the Chau tauqua any longer with the circus. These papers will have to cease re viling the great educational move ment which, starting a generation ago on Chautauqua Lake, has spread to over six thousand communities. The ex-President may find it In convenient to snatch a lunch at depot restaurants and to change cars at all times of the day and night, but the pleasures outweigh the hardships. Would that more of our public men would avail them selves of the Chautauqua platform as a means of communing with the masses. W. J. BRYAN Slackerism, Not Power Of all the slackers under the Stars and Stripes the most censurable are those who received training at West Point or Annapolis, at government expense, later resigned and now fail to respond to their country's need. There has always been an excessive demand for appointments to the Military and Naval Academies. Ev ery man who received an appoint ment kept out seme other aspirant. He who fails to devote his training to the service of his country now Is In the position of having kept some patriot out of the academies and thus deprived the nation of the help of a trained soldier at a time when trained men are most needed. The Overshadowing Fact Do not try to guess how long the war Is going to last—guesses are of no value. Here Is a fact which is more valuable than any guess, pre diction or prophecy—namely, that we must stand together and fight It through, no matter whether the war be long or short. —W. J. Bryan's Commoner. AUGUST 24, 1917. Too Many Names A woman entered a Chicago sav ings bank and placed SSO in front of the teller. He pushed out the book for her signature and said, "Sign on this line." "My whole name?" "Yes, ma'am." "Before I was married?" "No. Just as it is now." "An' my husband's name, too? Why, the man has been dead seven years." "You should sign your name Mrs., followed by your husband's name, or Mrs., your Christian name and then your husband's name, or Mrs., your husband's full name, or you might simply sign your Christian name and your husband's surname. Write it as you are in tho habit of signing it." "Oh, but I can't write."—Pitts burgh Chronical Telegraph. They Will Pull Together Our imports from Canada for the first fiscal year 1913, under protec tion, totaled $121,000,000; exports to Canada totaled $415,000,000. For 1914, nine months Democratic law, imports jumped to $161,000,000, ex ports fell to $3 4 5,000,000. This fiscal year we imported approximately $320,000,000 worth of goods from Canada, of which fully ninety per cent, came In free, and sold her about $750,000,000 worth, a huge proportion of which was war ma terial. The proposal of the Western Canadians will not fool our farmers nor will it cajole our manufacturers. This country has passed through the stage in which Canada is now enter ing. The end of the war will find our agriculturists and manufacturers pulling together for protection. OUR DAILY LAUGH] HISTORT RE- P EATING IT- y "What beautl. Y \ OjJ ful hands your IJm daughters KK/ v j "Yes. They're y iSsT *" VOM Just like mine JA used to be when wfj I had a mother mil to wash the \ \\ NSI || L dishes for me." \ | WITH uncle. W y° ur en ; Eftßement -" Vhat's be- J come of the en / Jt\ Jfi gagrementrlng?" SK "That's up, OVERWEIGHT He'd like to Join - * And flshti would Jim, nW '• But He's so fat His chance is \ ) _ slim. / A STRONG W T\ , RESEM- V * BLANCE. wJWIIM W\ Little Bin: Qoe, that fcllo TJv W must be at tl) —' head of a 1' corporator. Bmtitui Cttljat Dauphin county is not bothered with race suicide according to tha first annual report to be issued by the United States Bureau of the Cen sus on birth reports. This is a new enterprise in which Uncle Sam ha embarked and ho is going to gather together the information for cities, big boroughs and rural communities, The first report is for 1915, a little late, but interesting. Harrisburg if given a population or 70.754 and the At u 8 some in the popula tion lino since that time, so we must be around that 75,000 that F. Her bert Snow demonstrated by means ol circles the other evening. Harris burgs birthrate that year was 141 °r 10 - 3 P er thousand, and only 137 children under a year In age diecß Eric and Wilkes-Barre, whlcl have a few thousand more popula tion than the State capital, each hac over 2,100 births, as did Johnstown which had but 66,000 population Beading, with 107,594, had only 2,- 401 births reported. Lancaster, witl 50,269 population, beat, its old rival lork, which is given 50,543 popula tion, reporting 1,124 Infantile par. tisans of the red rose, while thi Yorkists reported but 889 to weai the white rose. McKeesport, Soutl Bethlehem, Shenandoah Newcastli and Chester were all over the thou sand mark while Allentown with 61. 901 population, shows 1,692 and A 1 toona with 57,000 population report ed 1,466. Steelton reported 411. Nov taking the rural parts of the coun ties, Dauphin is credited with 61,51( population, and excluding Harrisburf and bteelton, showed 1,595 births rather a lead on its county seat Cumberland county, exclusive of Car lisle with 189, show 993 births Perry 488, Lebanon city 393 an< county outside of the citV 929. Yori outside the city of York showed 2, 283. Mifflin had 707 and Juniati 326\ Chambersburg reported 29' and the rest of Franklin county 1, 215. Adams county reported 793 They say that when there is wa there are more boys born. In Penn sylvania in that year there were 111, 849 new little boys and 106,13 girls. This city had 714 and 652 fo its division of new residents, an. Steelton 226 and 185. Lebanon, Sun bury, Shenandoah, Columbia an Bethlehem are among the few tha had more girls born than boys. Ru ral Dauphin reported 835 boys am 760 girls, Cumberland, outside o Carlisle, 515 and 478, and Perry 25 and 253. One of the interesting table is on nativity of parents, it belni shown that two-thirds of the birth in Harrisburg were of native bori parents, while in Steelton it is th other way, the bulk of the births be ing of foreign parents. In both rura Dauphin and Cumberland countie the great bulk of the births were o native parentage and Perry report less than half a dozen born of for eign parentage on either side. Leb anon, Lancaster and York show very large proportion of fiative bor parents as well. The Philadelphia Evening Bullet! contains this interesting paragrap in discussion of some of the earl iiterary lights of that city: "Wit ihe opening of the nineteenth cen tury, a new stimulus was given t literary endeavor In our city by th publication of the Portfolio, edite by Joseph Dennie, the first numbe appearing in the year 1801. Dennl was a Bostonian, a Harvard grad uate, who had previously followe journalism in Massachusetts, and h came to Philndelphia in 1799 as sec retary to Timothy Pickering. A editor of the Portfolio he showe much prejudice in his literary critl cisms. He found German books t be particularly abhorrent, and said 'The rage for German literature i one of the foolish and uncouth whim of the time artd deserves all th acrimony of the lampooner. We ar sick, heart sick, of the rambljn bombast, infamous sentiments an distempered sensibility of the Teu tonic tribe'." The State Capitol is being prett well visited by automobile partic these days and there Is hardly a da passes that the guides do not hav to double up in order to get thei parties through the big structun The visitors are coming at the rat of a couple of thousands a week an are from all parts of the State. O one day fifteen States were repre sented. Unfortunately not all of th visitors take the trouble to registe and complete data about the visitor cannot be obtained. The Harrisburg Rifle Club, com posed of a number of well-know joung men of this city and which i doing a good bit to instruct peopl in the way to handle arms, will tr conclusions with the Keystone Rlfl Club of the Pennsylvania Railroa Company in a series of three matche which will bo well worth watchinf The announcement of tlm Harris burg Rifle Club, issued ly Cassiu A. Dunn, the executlle office shows that the first match will t shot on that club's range on Labc Day and that the applicants fo places on the team must have the! scores In hand on or before Thuri day, August 30, and that all merr bers should go out .and practlc "No favorites will be played," adc Mr. Dunn. Some amusing incidents are core menclng to turn up at the Auditc General's Department where the ir heritance tax is commencing; to com in under the direct inheritance ta act of 1917. In one estate which ws worth less than SSOO the execute solemnly figured out exactly ho much discount could be allowed. I another case a man found the dis count would be a matter of ceni and asked that a warrant he dli patchod to him for it. Considerab' interest is being shown In the wa the reports are coming in, especial] from the blsr counties. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. V. Dively, prominent Altoor lawyer, is a candidate for scho board. The Rev. J. W. Cochrane, Ji well-known Philadelphia clergyma will go to Detroit. —lsaac Sharpless, prominei among Quakers, Is taking part In tl presentation of the Friends' positic on the war. —A. I-ido Weil, Pittsburgh atto ney, is taking a prominent part the Thompson estato settlement. —Colonel David J. Davis, adjutai of tho Pennsylvania division, is el solicitor of Scranton and has be< given an Indefinite leave of absenc —J. 8. W. Holton, Philadelph maritime and business expert, is ur, ing that Philadelphia be given oi of the export agencies of the go' ernment. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has been making steel used for heavy ord nance purposes? HISTORIC HARRIsm RG The ground about the first arsen 'n Capitol Park was used as a dri: ing place by militaj-v companies c i summer evening*
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers