8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iln Published evening* except Sunday by TIIE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telearaph Butldtnc, Federal Square. E.J. ST AQKPOLE, Pres't <5- Editor-in-Chief 3\ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. aVS M. STEIN&TETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to It or not other wise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Western office. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a *- week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 6 Reliction is the most economical police service rendered in the State. —WILLIAM JENNINGS BBYAN. September 6 IX the year 1770, the Dnke of Gloucester (ell Into disgrace by marrying eontrnry to the wishes of his roynl brother. King George 111. At a dinner given at Straasbnrg, In order to get even with his autocratic brother, the Duke regaled the guests with a humorous account of how certain rebels had thrown a cargo of tea over board In Boston Harbor. It was a good Joke and the lauich was certainly on George. At the close of the dinner, n lean, red-headed French offlcer, still In his 'teens, went np to the Duke apd exclaimed, "I will Join the Americans. I will help them light for freedom. Tell me how to set about It." This young man was I.afayette. In all her wars, Liberty never enlisted a better recruit. Overcoming great ob stacles, he Anally appeared before Congress and was given a commission as in the American Army—a volunteer serving without pay. Then he reported fb the Com mander-in-Chief at the old house still standing on York Road, near Hatboro town. It was a great day In world's history when Lafayette, the liberty loving youth of twenty-one and Wash. Ington, the liberty-winning man of forty-flve, Joined handa and hearts In the struggle for the further liberation of the race. The world knows the atory* but not all, a* Liberty's story Is never fully told. A great chapter Is being written In 1917, when men from the land of Lafayette have reminded us of their early friendship and thou sands of Amerlean soldiers are OB the soil of France to repay the debt cre ated seven-seore years ago. So, on September 0 we celebrate with renewed gTatltude the birthday of Lafayette, whose lifelong adher ence to keeping everlastingly at It did so much to bring liberty to as, to France and to the world.—THE FOCRTH ESTATE. ASHES AGAIN NOW that Council has voted unanimously not to adopt the curb system of ash and gar bage collections It will be up to the people to see that the municipal regulations are obeyed. Council has said to the ash and garbage collectors that they must go intb the rear yards of householders 'for the refuse to be removed. It will say to the householders that they must provide certain kinds of retain ers and place their asdies and garbage In certain positions. These rules are necessary to the efficiency of the system. Council will be justified In providing penalties for violations and in seeing that they are imposed. The resident must co operate with the city to make any collection system a success. WHERE LABOR STANDS WHERE organized labor stands In respect to the wkr was amply Illustrated yesterday. While President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, was delivering an address pledging the united support of union labor to the government. President Hayward, the kaiser* of the I. W. W., was being arrested as a dangerous citizen. Too many people have confused the American Federation of Labor with the I. W W. The two are as far apart as the poles. President THURSDAY EVENING, Gompers, since tho very outbreak of the war, ha* done heroic work for the mobilisation of labor In the cause of the nation. Hayward, on the other hand, has been doing every thing* possible to embarrass the gov ernment and to assist the Kaiser. If he Is not In the pay of tha German government ho ought to be. He Is a tit candidate for the Iron Cross. The wonder Is that ho was not arrested long ago, and'with him hundreds ofi those who have been misled by his j blandishments or who are simply! wicked apostles of the traitorous and | anarchistic doctrines he has taught. It is a fortunato circumstance that the public is given this opportunity to judge between the loyal, patriotic follower of Gompers and the traitor ous disciple of Hayward. The patriotism of American labor ?annot be questioned. * It is an out rage that Hayward should havcv tried i to create the impression that he anil his Ilk represent the workers of the nation. THE PROPER SPIRIT LIEUTENANT Governor Frank B. McClain, addressing a great I Republican gathering at Allen- i town the other day, voiced the sentl- I ments of thousands of Republicans | when he said: Under the circumstances, though I am a pronounced partisan, a consistent, persistent follower of the Republican political faith, and firmly believe that the welfare of our Commonwealth and our nation is safest when in the hands of those of the Republican faith. 1 have come here to-day not to talk partisan politics, but to talk Americanism, being firmly of ihe [ belief that at th? present June- | ture in our national affairs "he serves his party best, who serves Ins country best." To my mind the present moment is no time for making distlnc- - tions, or drawing comparisons. • No time to attempt to excite prejudice, even tfte criticism be I deserved, against those charged with tile conduct of our Govern ment's affairs. Far better in the exigencies of this hour is to help j the President of the United States and those associated with him in i executive and administrative ca pacity to make good. If they can't make good, or don't make good, criticism of their failure will be all the more effective after the crisis has passed. Criticism of Congress, of the Presi dent and of the Government in gen eral is helpful and productive of beneficial results at any time, wheth er the nation be at war or at peace, providing it is made in good faith and Is of purely constructive nature. Purely partisan criticism is bad at any time and perilously near to treason during war. The politician, the ordinary citizen or the newspaper that profssses to see nothing good in the President or the administra tion, who find insincerity where there is no more than the human tendency to err, who call black white and white black purely for partisan pur poses, or to salve their owti mistaken party zeal, are dangerous influences in the country at this time. Not all the President does will be pleasing to Republicans. Not all that Republican leaders do will be satis factory to Democrats. Even within their own parties Republican and Democratic representatives of the people at Washington have been and will be subject to adverse criticisul. But if we are good Americans we will look for the good at this time and believe that every man in Washing ton, barring of course the self-proved German sympathizers who are openly antagonistic to every thing that is being done for the successful prose cutin of the war, is as sincere as the humble citizen who marches into the recruiting station and offers his services as a private in the ranks. He would be a foolish man. In deed, who would accuse president Wilson of doing anything but what he sincerely believes is for the best interests of the nation at this crisis. This is not a Democratic war nor a Republican war, it is not a rich man's war nor a poor man's war. Some hundreds of thousands of poor men and the sons of poor men have volunteered for service in the army and navy. Hundreds Of thousands pf others of their kind are laboring faithfully In mills and factories that the needs of the government may be met. On the other hand, men of wealth also are making their sacrifices. Thousands of their boys are In the army and more are going. Love of money has not caused these youths to stay at home. Scores of very rich men, beyond military age, but of wide experience in business and skiH ed In organization, are working at a dollar a year ii> Washington, help ing to put the country in shape to meet the terrific strain of war. Of these, many of whom have been the subject of just such criticism as Lieutenant Governor McClain so vigorously condemns, a TELE GRAPH correspondent in Washing ton writes: Incidentally, there are many big men here in Washington now. There never were so many mil lionaires floating around, and some are acting as chief clerks of busy offices, their principal anckln fact only compensation being an occa sional swat by some Senator of the Reed or Vardaman type in Con gress—a swat that goes farther than an ordinary swat because it impugns their motives and in sinuates that they are down here for ulterior purposes, one being that of so directing contracts that large sums of Government money may go to firms with which they are connected, for Government supplies and at high prices. I den t for a minute believe that those are the facts. I believe thtt a man can be a rich man and still be a patriot. Seriously, I sometimes wonder if the Cabinet, when more than a year ago they heartily joined in aiding the creation of the Coun cil of National Defense, would have been so cordial In their sup port If they could have known to lust what extent the Council of National Defense and its advisory committees were coming to Wash ington to throw ginger, "pep" and system Into the operations of the departmental machinery. I have a feeling that several Secre taries now chafe under the situa tion. but thv can't get out from under. This is no time for criticism that is not constructive. Give the President your whole-hearted support and If he or his lieutenunts do those things of which you cannot approve, at least let your objections be couched In reasonable language, so that the public opinion which you as an in dividual help to create may be tol erant and helpfuV, even If It Is not always In accord with what Is trans piring. I GETTING TOGETHER THE street car company and the Public 6ervlce Commission ap pear to bo getting together, with the result that the people will benefit. Ilarrlsburg and Its suburbs are en titled to the best trolley service that the sum of their patronage will buy, and there are indications that such changes are forthcoming as will Im prove greatly the whole transpor tation system of this district. The negotiations now under way show a willingness on the part of the company to comply In every way possible with requests of the Public Service Commission, which Is a step toward bringing the company and the traveling public into moro har monious relations than have existed for the past few years. T> o £itxC4 U By the Kx-Committeeman Pennsylvania soldiers who are at their homes on September 19 will have an opportunity to vote at the primary elections, but those who are I on trains or in cantonments will not have any primary votes. The drafted men will be In the same situation. The law makes no provision for taking the primary votes of soldiers. Just what will be done about the votes of the soldiers at the Novem ber election, is a very grave question and will be taken up by the Governor and State officials this month. Last year when the Pennsylvania soldiers were at El Paso commissioners were sent for about each thousand men, but this November no one can tell what will be done. There are Penn fylvanians scattered through every branch of the Army and Navy and whereas It would have been possible under the old system of having Penn sylvania troops in regimental organ izations to get the votes all taken to gether the chances are that m6re men will be detached from Keystone State Regiments and detailed to other organizations as was done with a battalion of the Fourth Infantry. Where Pennsylvania troops are to gether in camp, such as Camp Han cock, voting will not be difficult, but the rest of the Pennsylvanians pre sent a problem. —Dr. J. P. Kerr, one of the can didates for mayor in Pittsburgh, has created a sensation by suggesting that his rivals name committees to scan names of men for appointments. The big issue against W. A. Mage* on the part of Dr. Kerr is that he has made deals in advance on appoint ments, which the former mayor de nies. Mr. Magee has said that he will name W. 11. Stevenson, presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the ill-fated canal board, as director of safety. Dr. Kerr has offered in advertisements to post a $40,000 bond that he will carry out his committee plan. He has chal lenged E. V. Babcoek and Mr. Magee to take him up. The campaign is rap- Idly getting to a point in wljich per sonalties are heard more than argu ments. It is attracting attention all over the country because of the ef fect it will have on State politics. —Scranton's mayoralty contest, which. Is strenuous enough, is mild compared to that being waged in Pittsburgh. —Philadelphia except for Instances where ward fights are on has tamed down through Mayor Smith's vigor ous action. —Practically no men went from departments of the State government to register in Philadelphia, Pitts burgh or Scranton to-day as a State law allows men absent on State or federal business to make affidavits and send them by mail. —The Philadelphia Record to-day says: "The muddle in the State Con-! stitution due to careless drafting of j the 1909 amendments, was yesterday made the basis of a taxpayer's suit to determine when a successor to the late Judge Dallett, on the Orphans' Court bench, shall be chosen. Pro ceedings were brought in the name of F. Pierce Buckley and the petition asking that the county commission ers be enjoined from printing on the official ballot the name of any can didate for the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Dallett was filed by William A. Hayes, of the office of Simpson, Brown & Williams. The petition and a formal answer were both submitted to Judge Patterson and after looking into the law bear ing on the subject he formally dis missed the petition, thereby clear ing the way for an immediate ap peal to the Supreme Court. The latter tribunal is not scheduled to meet until September 24, in Pittsburgh, bu an effort may be piade to have the court hold a special session to hear the appeal because of its bear ing on the coming election." —United States District Attorney Francis Fisher Kane, one of the principal reorganizers, seems to have attracted national attention because of his failure to move actively in draft frauds in Philadelphia. He summoned John P. D*vyer. the Phila delphia newspaperman who Is serv ing as a member of a draft board, before the Grand Jury very much as though Mr. Dwyer was indicted, but when the newspaperman got through Mr. Kane was blustering and whirl ing about The Philadelphia North American scores Kane for his line of conduct. —Senator J. P. McNichol has four sons in the Army. All are plain pri vate soldiers. —Wilkes-Barre Is having one of those old-fashioned fights for coun cllmen that you read about. But it is nothing compared to the judicial nomination contest between Judge Fuller and his old rival. —Judicial candidates in Delaware county have taken to the stump. —A Scranton dispatch says: "Aft ernoon teas are the latest in political circles here. The teas are being given by the Woman Suffrage party, in support of the candidacy of Mrs. Wil liam Hill and Miss Mary Fay, for the school board. Each afternoon meet ings are held at headquarters, fol lowed by tfcas, at which men and women are served. A speechmaking tour of the city is aIBO being made in the interest of the women can didates." —The Philadelphia Press- prints this interesting sidelight on politics to-day: "A human side to factional political squabbles was presented to Judge Barratt yesterday when J. Lee Patton, counsel for the Repub lican City Committee, granted per mission to F. B. Frankenfield to withdraw his name as candidate for Select Council In the Forty-fourth ward. His brother, David G. Frank MABMSBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE By Briggs enfield, Is the Vare leader of the ward, and the city committeeman, lmving defeated Select Councilman Dr. William D. Bacon. Bacon is a candidate for re-election. Followers of David Frankenfleld alleged that the brother had been Induced to per mit the use of his name and that the real purpose of those who urged him to run was to cause confusion and to divide the Franken4ield vote so that Dr. Bacon would nave an easier time. F. B. Frankenfleld then decided to withdraw." —Steps to arrange for hearing by the Dauphin county court late this month of the motion of Auditor General Charles A. Snyder to quash the petitions for mandamus brought agpinst him by four State officials whose appointments he refused to recognise, will be taken within a week. Deputy Attorney General W. M. Hargest, who has been looking after the cases for the Attorney General's Department, returned to dav from his vacation and will have a talk with Attorney General Brown, who has been ill in Philadelphia. Harry S. McDevitt, of Mr. Snyder's counsel, has also returned from his vacation and suggestions for a date will be made to the Dauphin county court. The motion to quash will be disposed of first and then there may bes. other proceedings Injected which would Inquire by what right certain officials hold office. Mr. Snyder is holding court at Pottsville this week. Education of Germany Every policy of the German gov ernment for more than three years has been based upon the belief that might alone could prevail. The atrocities committed In Belgium and France, the wanton destruction of cities, the Lusltanla massacre, the air raids on unfortified cities, the murder of noncombatants, the at tacks on hospitals and hospital ships, ruthless submarine warfare, the driving of French and Belgian civil ians into exile, the conspiracies against the peace and-safety of neu trals —every act of the German gov ernment has been a deification of the doctrine of might. It is only because might has fail ed to prevail that the Imperial for eign secretary begins to realize that It was doomed to fall from the start and that right also must be consid ered in shaping the policies of gov ernment. The education of Germany Is a painful and costly process, but now that Junkertum is beginning to learn, there is all the more reason why the instruction should be thor ough. When Germany has been com pelled by crushing defeat to under stand that It Is right that makes might and not might that makes right, there will be security In the world for honest people.—New York World. ' Road to Laughtertown Oh, show me the road to Laughter town. For I have lost the way! I wandered out of the path one day, When my heart was broken, my hair turned gray. And I can't remember how to play; I've quite forgotten how to be gay; It s all through sighing and weeping they say. Oh show me the road to Laughter town, For I have lost the way. Would ye learn the road to Laugh tertown, Oh. ye who have lost the way? Would ye have young heart though your hair be gray Go learn from a little child each day. Go serve his wants and play his play. And catch the lilt of his laughter gay, And follow his dancing feet as they stray: For he knows the road to Laughter town, Oh ye who have lost the way! —Katherine D. Blake. A Statement of Facts America only entered the war to deprive Germany of victory.—Frank furter Zeitung. It is a delight to quote from a German newspaper an exact statement of fact.—Syracuse Post-Standard. The Rainbow Now in the West, the heavy clouds Scattered and fell asunder, While feebler came the rush of rain. And fainter growled the thunder. O, beautiful! that rainbow span. O'er dim Crane-neck was bended; One bright foot touched the eastern hills. And one with ocean blended. The glory of the sunset heaven On land and water lay— On the steep hills and Agawam, On cape, and bluff and bay. •—WHITTIER. GERMANS SET WOLF TRAPS TO CATCH WHAT do you think made that wound?" asked an officer who was conducting mo through one of the advanced hos pitals on the Somme, pointing to the badly swollen and lacerated ankle of a soldier that was Just being dressed. The puffy and discolored tissh might have come from a severe sprain, but two or three black -pun ctures on either side indicated that the injury was a more aggravated one. "If there were a tropical river about," J. replied finally, "I should hazard a guess that tne man had stepped into the mouth of an alliga tor, or had been nipped by one wnile swimming. As 1 iiave never heard of alligators in the Somme, I tear 1 shall have to up. What did do it?" "Trench trap," was the laconic re ply; "or, to be more exact, a wolf trap. Ever since the steady pressure of our advance began to tell—since the Boche began to realize that he would have to continue backing up before our attacks. The Germans have been leaving them behind in the trenches, or laid in inviting little runways through the wire entangle ments. Few Were Caught "Not many of dur men were caught after the first day or two— we have only had two or three cases here—but several scores of traps have been discovered, along with a lot fore of diabolically ingenious contrivances designed to hamper our advance or to give us pause in the matter of occupying abandoned dug outs. In fact, the doling of the trench traps has added%juite a new interest and zest to our latest at tacks." Scientific "trench trappery" is In deed a new development of modern warfare, and, like so many othsr things. It has taken the methodical and thorough Teuton to bring out its refinements, to make a fine art of it. Ever since the discovery of gunpowder the practice of mining i position about to be abandoned, the mine to be exploded when the ad vancing enemy came over it, lias been resorted to, and that, indeed, was just about as far as it had gone —even in the present war—up to the time that it became apparent that the French and British pressure on the Somnie was likely to go on indefinitely and increasingly. The wolf traps are only the first of a series of many devilish little devices left behind by the ousted Germans to titliver a last blow at the victorious Tommy or Pollu, a rsot of modernization of the famous Parthian shot. Obviously, "trench trappery" is only practicable in the face of a slowl^and steadily advancing move ment; Just such a one as the present drive is. Obviously, too, since the proverb that a once burned child is twice shy applies with equal force to the French and British soldier —It must show a progressive develop ment to stand any chance of suc cess, must be constantly varied, con stantly carried on in a new way. That the general scheme has been a fiat failure is principally due to tho fact that the Germans have not been able to vary their devices sufficiently to baffle their wary quarry, who, meeting guile with guile, have as often as not trapped the genulty of the Germans concentrated upon subtler btit more deadly contrivanc es, mostly of the mine or grenade order. An abomination of creased steel has evidently been manufactured In considerable quantities for no other purpose than to furnish unpleasant surprises *to precipitate Tommies. The latter have nicknamed It the 'tortoise," and until they learned that, like its slow moving animal prototype, It was unsafe to take lib erties with, several of them paid the penalty of their curiosity by being Injured when It blew up as a con sequence of their friendly prods of investigation. In that its very strangeness of ap pearance Invites attention, the tor toise is like the famous Trojan horse, and the consequences of In vestigation are, likewise, disastrous. The least touch to the wobbly thing established a contact. doubtless through fulminate of mercury, which detonated twenty or thirty pounds of explosive with a force that shattered tho thick steel shell— creased as it was like the casing of a hand grenade—and scattered the fragments ever a wide area. The menace of the tortoise was over as soon as Tommy learned to curb his curiosity. On my visit to a collecting depot I was allowed to "play" with one of them, .fro*n which the "teeth" had been drawn, and I must confess that thf weird roly-poly thing might well exercise considerable fascination upon one encountering it for the first time. One feels that he simply has to go up and give it a shove with the toe of his boot, jyst tb watch it wobble, the very action calculated to make it "put up back" and "fly to pieces." The usefulness of the tortoise was over just as soon as the wary Tom my ceased stroking its back with his bayonet and instead began hail ing its appearance with hand gre nades hurled from a respectful dis tance, and the wjly Teuton was forced to rack his brain to devise still deeper "subtlety." Souvenirs Which Kxplode Something of the direction of his latest effort has taken was revealed by a Tommy who was exhibiting to me some of the treasures he had gathered in cleaning up a recently occupied German dugout. One of these, carefully preserved between the leaves of a magazine, was the photograph of what was evidently a German girl, punctured with not less than a dozen bullet holes. "Did you take it from a German soldier?" I asked. "No, sir," was the reply; "only from the wall of a dugout." 'But how did she come to get so shot to pieces?" I asked adding banteringly: "I have never heard that the British soldier makes war on women." "But this lady was making war on us, sir," he answered with a smile: "or leastways, one of 'er friends three or four dugouts down the lino tried to strafe us, and we had orders to strafe back." Then he went on to explain that the Tommies had always vied with each other in collecting photographs from the walls of the captured dug outs as souvenirs,- a circumstance which the Germans, who appeared to have got wind of it In some way. endeavored to take advantage of by running a wire from the back of some of these mural decorations to mines concealed beneath the floor. The Tommies had already learned to avoid stepping on the loose ends of boards, and to refrain from rock ing tortoises and picking up incon sequential odds and ends from the floor; but the "mined", photograph was something new, and before the ruse was discovered several "clean 'ing up" parties were made to pay rather heavily for the desire of cer tain of their members to add another "Un fraulein" to their picture gal leries. \" Photo collecting languished for ' some little time after the "deslgn i ing" nature of some of these aban ! cloned Gretchens and Hildas had ! lieen disclosed, and It Is still the cus tom to ive any picture with a sus picious bulge behind It—lf thero in room to do It In safety—a few propitiatory shots before seeking closer acquaintance—Popular Me chanics. Labor Notes A large piano manufacturing firm in the United States maintains a school In salesmanship for women In which they are trained to sell pianos. A bonus ft/ $1 a week to the male employes and 50 cents to the female employes of the tramways depart ment htt been granted by the Glas gow (Scotland) City Council. Cranemen employed in Frisco ship yards have completed their organiza tion and will be affiliated with the Stationary Engineers' Union. Officers of the Missouri State Fed eration of Labor have issued a call for the twenty-sixth annual conven tion to be held In Jefferson City be ginning September 17. The Kansas Retailers' Association has lost Its fight against the nine hour day for women, which has been established by the State Industrial Welfare Commission, The State University Is prepare Ing to establish a four-year course in city management, the first of the kind In the country. It Is said. Steel hooks carried on a revolving drum pulverize the soil to a consid erable depth below a gasoline-driven plow that has been Invented In France. # Stupidity Street I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold In the shops For people to eat Sold in the shops of Stupidity, Street. t paw In vision The worm in the wheat. And in the shops jiothing For people to cat; r n i e j n Stupidity Street. Ralph Hodgson, "Poems," (Muc mtllan.) SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT A food bonus—double rations for six weeks—is the German govern ment's latest way of encouraging Just-married couples; at the end of six weeks the material, like the sent mental. honeymoon is over, and the bride and groom return to turnips. —New York Evening Post. Russian soldiers are paid six cents a day. But lots of them are not earning it. —Macon Telegraph. ' A grand total of 943,141 volunteers actually under arms for the defense of the United States will go far to offset the pacifist declaration that "the war is not popular."—New York Sun. If a majority of German-Ameri cans are not pro-German at heart now the German language press may succeed In converting them to Kalserism before the war is over.— New York Morning Telegraph. There's no chance of the Teutonic allies falling out over the spoils for two good reasons: First, there will not be any; and, secondly, if there were, Berlin would take them all. —Pittsburgh Dispatch. This how Shanghai's North China Herald has been prefacing Its Berlin dispatches ror some time bnclt: "The editor takes no responsi bility for the assertions of German reports." There is a lot of meat in this terse "aside" from the Orient.— Collier's Weekly. The Adjutant General of Louisi ana wants "Jim Crow" trains for ne gro soldiers. Will there be "Jim Crow" trenches also on the firing line?—New York World. j OUR DAILY LAUGH . VN . . FOOLISH. T* l6 pen ' 3 might lcr than the sword a Yct no oao needs a lens To clearly see we can't afford I To artn 0u r pens. 'TWAS EVER Were they all drowned In that All but the fel low who rocked Yjf A_ff> *4 ■ (3 /L) CARELESS. V / Hubby: I "ft 111 breamed I had \ .'v. 181 uncounted gold. i , _ Wifey: That's 1 i like you. i| n \ s You never even Jl L I ' take the trouble to % count your {A I&i. change, BUTCH E ft A SHOP EPISODE. ( (s<!£% "Take back your hear t," we hear her say In scomfu: . "This heart I got It wasn't good." f MADE'IT EASY. How do you suppose Dubbins could afford to apo n d his va cation at that swell aum ma r I know; he worked for his board and room. DEAD STUCK. A smllo will pay, j^lks] Make business You can't sell lEixnttng (Hlpt A good many people have remark cd tliat the war has turned people' thoughts to serious things, the frivo lous has given way to the useful am church attendance has been atlmu lilted. People are saving and work ing where before they were incllnei to wastefulness, both In materia and time. But one of the strlklni signs of the times Is shown in th character of the books called for a the Harrisburg Public Library. Thcr has been a decline in the demand fo fiction and a noticeable increase ii the requests for books dealing wit: history, world movements, deacrip tton, government and tho like. Th figures of the library for the thro tumrner months show the circulatio to have been 28,587. a slight increas in total over the circulation of th corresponding monthp of 19to Tha period was a record breaker, so tha this year goes ahead again. Accord lug to a study made of (lie tiKure by Miss Alice R. Eaton, the ilbrarlar last summer eighty per cent, of th books taken out were fiction. In th snme three months this summer th percentage of fiction was seventy-si: There was a gain of 81f> in what ar known as "class" books, those deal ing with history, travel, descriptio and the like as contrasted with flc tion. Another notable fact about th library's circulation this summer we that in the three months 6,849 chi dren's books were taken out and rca by the youngsters, which is a clefl gain of 583 over the same thre months of 1916. Summer is alwaj a slack period at libraries, but th circulation this year in spite of th manifold activities of the people dn to war has held up very well. Closing up of tlio records of til last Legislature has brought to ligl the fact that some of the bills whlo attracted much attention "had to 1 reprinted more than a half a doze times. One bill was printed nin times before all of the changj which had to be made to it were pi into shape. Other bills were printe seven times. In numerous cases bi? were reprinted to take out typJ graphical errors, although in a "mi jority of cases reprinting was ordel ed because of change of provisior or phraseology. In one instance bill was reprinted because the nan] Pennsylvania was short one n. Tr bill which was recalled from tr Governor most times was the BeyJ bill providing for payment of ha of salaries to men in State servh who go to war. It was recalled thr< times. The question of whether State pi licemen are to be exempted fro the operation of the draft law bl< fair to occupy considerable attentU of Federal and State authoritlc The Federal authorities have he that all policemen are subject to tl law and that tinless it can be show that they are essential to the mail tenance of the military ostablis] ment they must go to mobilizatic camps. On the other hand the A torney General's Department hol( that the State policemen are Sta executive officers, not purejy Sta employes. Therefore, say the Sta officials the policemen are exemi It is probable that local boards w have to wrestle ♦ith claims for e emption from each State policem: they take. • • • Fixing of a price for wheat f next year has already had the effe of causing farmers to plan increasi wheat acreage, according to repor which are coming to the State Ca Itol. In several of the southe counties farmers will plow flel for wheat to greater extent than ev and there is brisk fertilizing woi under way already. Just one month ago there was cornfield on the upper edge of Ml illetown. Now there is a bulldii nine hundred feet long rapidly a proaching completion and formii the center of the group which w be the big aviation storehouse this part of the country. The bull tng Of this structure, which Is larg lv of concrete, has attracted atte lion from all over this part of tl State and the work has gone ahei day and night, not even storms i terfering with It. The constructs of the smaller buildings is to be tak up rapidly. Farley Gannett, of tl city, the engineer in charge, h been spending all day and most of t nights there. The whole plant to be surrounded with a high fenc • This is the month when t cannas are in their glory on ma lawns and in yards and the red ai white blooms are to De seen in i most every part of ahe city. Sor of the cannas on Capitol Hill ha reached great heights and have £ tracted much attention. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE' —General W. A. Mann, who w command the National Guard dlvlsli going to France from Mineola, lik !o tell of old days In Huntingdi county. —J. Denny O'Nell, the new Sta Highway Commissioner, got his fli job in a store at fifteen. He owns big one now. —Jacob L. Druck. the new head the Young Men's Hebrew Assoc) tlon, is prominent in Scranton i fairs. , —William M. Doulln. the n< treasurer of the Pittsburgh and La Erie railroad, has a long record wl the company. —Senator P. C. Knox marched t whole line of parade In the Washlr ton demonstration, but then he la dally golfer. —Col. Edgar Jadwin. formerly charge of United States engineer! work at Pittsburgh, commands t regiment of American engineers tl has aroused admiration in France. DO YOU KNOW * Tlint twelve State roads ccnte* right iii Harrlsburg? * HISTORIC HARRISBITRG Tht-eo roads to this place w( laid out before the town came lr being. The roads led to John Har ferry. Book Week For Soldiers We used to think of a soldier some strange being that we did know anything about and were particularly interested In. Now soldier is our son or brother friend. It never would have < curred t*> us that a soldier wo care for books to read. But course we know that sem or brotl ought to hive a library handy. That Is why we are going to : spond. and respond liberally, to t appeal of Purd Wright, the Kani City librarian, for several thousa books to be collected this week use In branch libraries at Fort Rl and. Fort Sill. The soldiers to at those posts are "our boys." C tainly they must have good readi: So we are going to pick out bof we know they will want to read. T Baxter's "Saint's Rest," but "Sh lock Holmes' and Kipling a Stevenson and John Flske and tl sort of thing. We are going to sn the public library under this we It Is one of the least things we c do.—Kansas City Times.
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