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WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 12
The greater our dread of crosses
the more necessary they are for us.
—Fenei.on.
THE SOLDIER ANSWERS
ADJUTANT GENERAL, THOMAS
J. STEWART answered tho last
call yesterday. The man who
made the Pennsylvania soldiers of
this generation worthy of the tradi
tions of their forefathers in the
Revolution and gave him an un
equalled standing in -the organized
militia of the American republio died
In the midst of the work to which
he had given the best years of nis
life and which is the Montgomery
county soldier's monument. He
■would not have had it otherwise. The
call came to him on duty and he an
swered with a record of things well
done.
General Stewart held the office of
adjutant general longer than any man
in the history of the State. *There
have been some distinguished men in
that place and the Keystone State
has been high In military matters, as
in industry, finance, philanthropy
and other activities which make up
our life. But Stewart's record will
shine beside them. Thrice he was
called upon to send the citizen sol
diers into the service of the nation,
and he was summoned to reorganize
and re-equip change and relo
cate the organizations with a fre
quency that would have disheartened
a man with only an ordinary sense
of duty. He was the heart of the
Pennsylvania National Guard,*whose
position to-day in the armed frces
of the land is a matter of pride
to all.
The place of General Stewart in
the social, fraternal and political
life of Pennsylvania was a notable
one, because he had a personality all
his own. Ho was welcomed every
where and he will be missed every
where.
WHAT ABOUT COAL/
WHEN President Wilson ap
pointed Dr. Garfield fuel ad
ministrator the public under
stood that it was for the purpose of
reducing coal prices to the consumer,
as well as for the institution of re
forms for fuel conservation. In
stead, retail prices in Harrisburg and
elsewhere have been increased
sharply. Dr. Garfield has promised
regulation in Philadelphia, where
similar conditions prevail. Harris
burg would be obliged, indeed, If
the Federal administrator turned his
attention to this city. "VVe should lfke
very much to know why prices have
not been reduced and, if the retailers
are justified in the advances they
have imposed, just what benefit
Federal regulation is to the con
sumer.
ANOTHER CREEL, MASCO
SECRETARY DANIELS needs a
new press agent. The Crecllzed
reports of naval successes are
more in need of a censor than the
uncensored press reports which Mr.
Creel was appointed to curb. Fol
lowing the Fourth of July "battle"
story, a "typographical error" In the
Navy publicity department yesterday
thrilled the country with the report
that six German submarines had been
sunk by United States warships. Sev
eral hours later, after early editions
of the newspapers had published
news of the "great victory," Secre
tary Daniels himself was forced to
the embarrassment of a public de
nial. Isn't it about time that some
body censored the censor?
THE CHARITY*REPORT
THE report of Secretary Mc-
Candlas, of the Associated
Aids, shows very clearly the
eeope of work this organization is
doing in the community and v its
need of hearty public support. An
Interesting feature is the varied lines
of activity undertaken by this clear
ing house of charitable work in Har
risburg.
Time was when a charity meant
merely the giving of relief in cases
where families or Individuals hart
not the means of keeping soul and
body together. A bucket of coal
and a loaf of bread were considered
,a generous response to a request for
.aid. But charity Is no longer ad
fjnlnistered with such an Inadequate
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WEDNESDAY EVENINGr ' HAIttUSBURG trfBBV TELEGRAPH! SEPTEMBER 12, 1917*
conception of the duty of the pros
perous member of community
'to the "down-and-outer;"
The Harrlsburg Associated Aids Is
no mere temporary relief society.
It ia devoted largely to construc
tive family service, the advising of
the unfortunate! putting the Jobless
in the Way t>f the Job, solving Indi
vidual problems, straightening out
tangled family skeins, the giving of
a loaf where needed—ln short, the
mobilisation of the resources of Har
rlsburg In the interest of those who
stand in need of aid.
The society is encountering Just
how what it* secretary is pleased
to term "genteel poverty"'—persons
in distress for tho first time, soroly
in need of assistance and too proud
to ask for it. To thoso the society
wishes to bring homo the fact that
It standq as tho expert adviser for
the man or woman who cannot
make ends meot or who has troubles
of a family nature he or Bhe
as an individual does not know how
to overcome. Tho society would
like to %e approached tn tills spirit.
It would have peoplo .4n general
understand that no stigma attaches
to such applications for assistance.
Jpst as the troubled city official goes
for advice to the city solicitor, so- the
distressed cltlzeM Is invited to lay
his problem before the sociological
experts in charge of the Associated
Aids. The society Is simply an in
strument for the use of the com
munity and the more frequently it
is used- the better for those who
neod its kindly guiding hand.
TOBACCO FOR SOLDIERS
nn HE Telegraph to-day opens a
campaign to raise funds for the
purchase of tobacco for Our
Bdys in France.
Nearly every mfh who goes into
the Army is a smoker. Those who
do not smoke when they enlist al
most invariably become smokers in
a short time. There is something in
the sedative influence of tobacco
fumes and the chumminess of a well
seasoned pipe that appeals mightily
to the man who spends most of his
time in hard exercise outdoors and
for whom %, smoke betimes is an
otaly luxury.
Physicians who have been at the
front recommend the use of to
bacco by soldiers. Nothing, they say,
so quiets the nerves under the stress
of trench life as tobacco. Nothing
the soldier does byway of diversion
is so harmless under the circum
stances. The Red Cross, whose chief
aim is to provide for the health and
comfort of the soldier, backs up the
doctors in this and endorses the to
bacco fund which the Telegraph has
undertaken to sponsor in Harris
burg.
An outdoor man may smoke much
without injury to his health, but
there is no danger that the soldier
in France will overstep in his use of
tobacco—he does not get enough.
There is nothing a smoker craves
0
so much as a "pipeful" or "the mak
ings" after a hard day's toll. Our
Boys in France must look to their
smoker friends in America to meet
this need —for French tobacco is al
most as bad as none to American
taste. The Telegraph fund offers the
public a means of making every
penny contributed count almost
double. For every quarter dollar
contributed the Telegraph guaran
tees that a package of the very finest
grade tobacco, retailing at forty-five
cents the country over, will be sent
to an American soldier in France.
In each package will be a stamped
postcard addressed to the donor
which the soldier receiving the pack
age will sign and mail back to him.
This will be at once a souvenir of
the war, a sign that you are doing
your bit and an assurance that your
gift has reached Its intended destina
tion.
The Telegraph has never asked in
vain for contributions. Who will be
the first to buy a smoke for Our
Boys in France?
HIGH OCEAN FREIGHTS
High ocean freights account for
the enormous amount of ship
building that is going on, and
that shipbuilding is about the
most important single element in
the conduct of the' war against
Germany. If the Shipping Hoard
is going to reduce freight charges
75 per cent., It will destroy the
stimulus to private enterprise In
replacing the vessels destroyed by
the submarines, and it. will leave
the shipowners with property
that cost them abnormal amounts,
but on whieh they can earn
only normal sums.—Philadelphia
Record. •
That's precisely what some people
are beginning to the
fixing of coal prices. If the estab
lishing of a certain price means an
increase in retail prices as in Har
risburg, and a reduction of the out
put at the mines as Indicated, then
there Is something wrong in the
whole soheme.
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""pttotoi^aiua
By the Fx-Committeeman
Registration in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and Scranton yesterday
Jumped with a vigor that surprised
everyone when It was taken Into ac
count that it was only the second
registration day. In some wards of
the cities the figures wore far beyond
expectations and indicate the man
ner ' n which the campaigns are be
ing waged for municipal honors.
The Pittsburgh figures will not
be complete until to-day because of
the heavy listing, while in some sec-
o{ Philadelphia to workers re
ported high llgures. Scrdnton'a
mayoralty contest stimulated regis
tration in every ward.
Saturday will be the last regis,
tration in all cities.
■ —The Pittsburgh mayoralty con
test lias gotten down to as many
meetings and speecnes a day as in
the closing week of a November
campaign. Not In years has the city
been as stirred up and the whole
state is watching the result. The
contest of four years ago between
Armstrong and Porter was mere play
compared to this battle.
—Governor Brumbaugh will be
home in time to vote at the Phila
delphia primary. He will meet a
number of friends in Philadelphia
early next week and come here later.
—Senator Vare says that the Jump
ii? registration shows that people are
taking a big interest in politics. They
certainly are.
—lnsurance Commissioner O'Neil
has written a letter to the Governor
pledging him his best efforts in the
time at his disposal to make the
Highway Department a credit to the
state In every way.
—State suffragists and antlsuffrag
ists have passed up the Maine elec
tion. No ono seems to want to com
ment upon it.
—Garrett B. Cochran, one of the
Willlamsport guardsmen. Is being
boomed to run for Congress on the
Democratic ticket. He is a son of
the late Senator J. Henry Cochran.
—Representative Thomas F.
McNlchol is in line for the next
Judicial vacancy in Philadelphia after
his term as a legislator expires.
—Chester courtty's three-cornered
county controller fight is said to
be anyone's battle now. In Mont
gomery Prothonotary Fredericks la
now assured of a clear field.
—Owing to the absence of Major
C. N. Bernthelzel, who is judge ad
vocate ol the Pennsylvania division,
the Lancaster county court has
named Sumner V. Hosterman to be
distr:ci attorney ad interim. Mr.
lierntneizel is the district attorney
and must personally pass on all in
dictments.
—Senator Boies Penrose has been
aslied by Senator McNich(l to start
an investigation into alleged draft
frands in Philadelphia, which are
said to have been uncovered by the
v/urd fights in Philadelphia. An
other thing interesting about the sit
uation in Philadelphia is that
ex-Judge James Gay Gordon has
gotten into the prosecutions and is
after some men "higher up."
—Wilkea-Barre's city council yes
terday voted money to pay for a
demonstration on September 19 in
honor of the drafted men from that
section of the state. This is the first
city to take such action officially, as
all other demonstrations have been
met by contributions or private ex
pense, as in this city.
—The hearing on the mandamus
proceedings brought by the four State
officials against Auditor General Sny
der will be called up in the Dauphin
county court on Monday and will be
the first round. The Auditor Gen
eral's motion t!rquash will be argued.
PIONEER GOLD MINER
On his way to Livingston, Mont.,
to attend a meeting of the Society
of Mountain Pioneers, David B.
Weaver, seventy-eight years old,
of Saxton, Bedford county, paid
Altoona a visit. Ho is one of
the two survivors of the prosperous
who discovered the first placer gold
mines in Montana. He was one of
threo men who discovered the placer
mines in the Yellowstone Valley,
August 30, 18U4, and later he un
covered the rich fields of Emigrant
Gulch, out of which millions of
dollars were taken. He was born
in Hopewell, Huntingdon county
and was twenty-three years old when
he went west.
FUNDS IN SLIPPERS
That every woman can do her own
little "bit" in her own particular
way is asserted, by Tom L. Johnson,
Spanish-American war veteran, who
proves it with an incident that oc
curred on the train speeding to
Camp Douglas from Milwaukee the
other night.
A soldier found himself entirely
without funds to pay his fare and
faced removal from the train and
consequent report as "absent with
out leave," when a young married
v oman, on iter way to visit her hus
band at the camp, realizing his po
sition, removed a dainty white slip
per from lier foot and passed it
through the car amid the applause of
the passengers. When the slipper
had made the rounds it contained
}3.15. —Milwaukee Sentinel.
WHOLE DUTY OF KINGS
Kings are not responsible to God,
but to their people, whose will keeps
them on their thrones. We want
kings who, bowing to this principle,
are willing to give an account of
their actions in this world and not in
the next. If they also have special
accounts to erttle with God, they can
do so after their deaths if they reach
Heaven. If kings, are to succeed In
remaining and reigning after the
present maelstrom that is visiting the
world has passed they will do so
only If they respect and meekly sub
mit to the will of the people over
whom they reign. Kings nowadays
are but presidents of republics who,
instead of being elected every four
or five years, receive their offices
hereditarily. From a speech of
Elentherios Venizelos In the Athens
Hestia.
A TRIBUTE TO WOMAN
I have observed among all nations
that the woman ornament them
selves more >han the men; that,
wherever found, they are the same
kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender
beings; that they are ever inclined
to pe gay and cheerful, timorous
and n\odest. They do not hesitate,
like men, to perform a hospitable
or generous action; not haughty, nor
arrogant, nor supercilious, but full
of courtesy and fond of society; In
dustrious. economical. Ingenious;
more liable in general, to err, than
man, but In general also, more vir
tuous, and- performing more good
actions than he.—John Ledyard.
A GREAT LIGHT SEEN
The people that walked in dark
ness have seen a great light; they
dwell In the land of the shadow of
death, upon them hath the light
shlned.—lsaiah lx, 2.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Beyond thtf Alps leaps Italy.—New
York Sun,
We might stand for a peace with
out victory, but not for a war with
out victory.—Boston Transcript.
Pacifists always have to live In a
land where other men will fight or
they would be wiped out.—St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Young lady, how would you like to
bo a bride in Germany and go to Jail
every time you spoiled the biscuits':
—Kansas City Star.
No American is against this war.
If anybody opposes it that opposition
is sufficient proof of that person's
un-Americanlsm. Chicago Dally
News.
A German navy officer said the
other day that "God has called us by
name." Now, we're curlouto know
by what name.—Atlanta Constitu
tion.
"Mike," says the Kaiser, "take
the reins, will yez?" "Bill," says
Mike, "I can't drive." Never mind,"
says Bill, "I'm here."—Columbia'
When the Russians read about the
riot at Camp Logan they will be
tempted to despair' of the stability of
our republic.—Chicago Tribune.
CRIME OF CARELESSNESS
Sup'pose that when we get well In
to the war there should be in ono
year thirty-five thousand of our
soldiers killed; seven hundred thous
and seriously wounded; and 2 mil
lion slightly Injured in battle, what
a pall of mourning wodld hang over
this country!
But that many deaths and casu
alties occur by accident to workmen
in the industries of the United States
each year, end we scarcely hear It
mentioned. The worst of it is that
tho great majority of all these deaths
and injuries are the results of care
lessness. They are preventable ac
cidents. Three-fourths of thoae
thirty-five thousand dekd might Just
as well be alive, earning a living
for their families.
A workman tosses a burning cig
aret stub into a pile of scrap material
in a shirtwaist factory in New York
and one hundred and forty-live em
ployes are burned to death.
"Taking a short* cut through the
railroad yards to 'get home, John
Jones was struck by a switch engino
and killed,' says a news item; and
there were five thousand deaths from
that cause alone in this country last
year.
A workman cuts his finger and
goes on working. Germs infect the
wound, blood poison sets in, he dies.
There are thousands of deaths eaen
year from that cause alone. A wash
ing of the wounds and then a dash
of iodine upon each one would have
prevented all those deaths.
And so it goes; nearly 3 million
casualities-a year through careless
ness.
"Do people fall over this precipice
often?" asked a woman passenger
as the stage coach careened toward
the edge of a 30t)-foot cliff.
"No ma'm, they never fall but
once," answer the driver.
Carelessness is one crime whore
punishment is swift and sure.—Kan
sas City Times.
MR. HOOVER OH MEATS
Food Administrator Hoover's ad
dress to the National Livestock Con
ference oj* the subject of meat sup
ply and prices must have surprised
his hearers, as It undoubtedly will
startle consumers. Food control as
recommended and to some exteut
practiced has contemplated the sus
pension of customary business meth
ods and even of economic law. If
government was not actually to fix
prices it was to regulate production
and distribution as to pr.event extor
tion. V
Now Mr. Hoover says that in view
of the\ world-wide shortage of food
animals and the insistent demand
for meats, prices must continue to
soar, and that the only remedy,
aside from selfdenial, is to increase
production. Prlcefixing is not pos
sible and seizure of the packing
houses will not do, he says. Stock
growers must have prices that will
stimulate their Industry.
Wherein, then, does that program
differ from the usages responsible
for the conditions as to food which
the government's elaborate plan of
was designed to correct? The
first principle of economic law is that
scarcity expresses itself in high
prices, and that high prices in turn
not only restrict consumption and
prevent waste but encourage pro
duction so that normal relations be
tween producers and consumers may
be restored. Voluntary agreements
as to prices to be paid stockgrowers
have been entered into by the Dig
packers fo? many years and have
been the basis of more than one
Federal prosecution.
If Mr. Hoover means that he can
do nothing more than this, his ad
dress was less a dissertation on food
control than a panegyric on the im
mutability of the law of supply and
demand.—New York World.
SON OF THE SEA
I was born for deep-sea faring;
I was bred # to put to sea;
Stories of my father's daring s
Filled me at my mother's knee
I was sired among the surges;
I was cubbed beside the foam;
All my heart is in its verges,
<Wnd the sea wind is my home.
All myfboyhood, from far vernal
Bourns of being, came to me,
Dream-like, plangent, and sternal
Memories of the plunging sea.
—Bliss Carman.
THE WAITING
1 wait and watch, before by eyes
"Methlnks the night grows thin
and gray;
I wait and watch the eastern skies
To see the golden spears uprise
Beneath the orlflamme of day!
Like one whose limbs are bound in
trance
I hear the day-sounds swell and
grow,
And see across the twilight glance.
Troop after troop, in swift advance,
The shining ones with- plumes and
snow.
I know the errand of their feet,
I know what mighty work is
theirs;
I can but lift up hands unmeet
The thrashing floors of God to beat,
And speed them with unworthy
prayers.
I will not dream In vain despair
The steps of progress wait for me;
The puny leverage of 'a hair.
The planet's impulse well may spare,
A drop of dew the tided sea.
The loss, if loss there be, Is mine,
And yet not mine if understood;
For one shall grasp and one resign.
One drink life's rue, and one Its
wine,
And God shall make the balance
vgood.
O power to do! O baffled will!
O prayer and action! ye are one/
"Who may not strive, may yet fulfill
The harder task of standing still, 1
And good but wished with <3od la
done. —Whtttier, u
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND
Soldiers Must Have Tobacco
AMERICAN' soldiers are now in
France. More are going every
week. They'll soon be up in
the front trenches fighting. They
need a smoke r.ow and then to maka
things a little more comfortable for
themf to ease their nerves after a
terrible day under terrific bombard
ment
"Our Boys In France Tobacco
Fund," 25 West Forty-fourth street,
New York city, has been organized
to furnish tobacco to the soldiers.
Every dollar you contribute buys
four packages of tobacco, each with
a retail value of 45 cents. In each
package is a postcard addressed to
the person who paid for It. The sol
dier accepting the package will send
his thanks on the card to his friend
back home.
, The Medical Journal, writing of
tobacco, says in a recent issue:
"Some of the clergymen of Loa
Angeles object to the distribution of
tobacco among the soldiers at the
front by the Red Cross Society.
While the grounds for this objection
—y
CORRECTED MORTALITY
(From the New York Herald)
Some time ago the "Herald" noted
that the impression apparently so
prevalent among the friends of
American soldiers that a large pro
portion of the American expedition
ary forces cannot look forward to a
safe return home was entirely un
supported by the actual experiences
of tjve war and utterly unjustified by
the official satistlcs. The French,
who have suffered the most, have
a mortality of scarcely more than
114 per cent, for the six months of
strenuous fighting from January to
July of the present year.
But the whole story of the lighting
in the west of Europe shows more
favorable results even than that. The
statistics carefully collected from
official sources show a mortality for
all the allies on the western front ot
not more than II per I,o<K> of those
engaged. This ilgure includes also
those Who died subsequently, some
times eren long after, from battle
wounds.
In splto of another prevalent im
pression to the contrary, carefully
fostered In some quarters, the mor
tality of recent months is not high
er than it was at the beginning of
the war, Dut much lower. It was
the first million men from France
and the first hundred thousand from
England who had to bear the brunt
Of German preparedness and their
own comparative unreadiness. TUe
lesson of war has been learned. The
mortality of British and French
forces now is not much more than
one-filth what it was at the Marne
and in Flanders.
APPEALS FROM WEST
Two appeals from the West were
made to Senator La Follette this
week. One came from a former mem
ber of the Socialist party, Charles
Edward Russell, who pleaded, or
rather demanded, La Follette's
resignation. That was vain. Bob has
five years and five months to server
more than MO, OOO and mileage to
draw from the Treasury. It he con
serves his health by refusing to walk
In patriotic processions he will con
tinue to gum up the Senate until
March. 1923, unless his colleagues
kick him out.
The other message to the Prune
of Primrose, was sent by a seditious
Socialist:
"The Hon. Robert La Follette, United
State Senator, Wisconsin, Wash
ington, D. C.:
"United States Marshals are In
office now with warrants to seize
property.
"ADOLPH GERMER,"
The German creature has been one
of the most venomous of the pro-
German publicists. When at last the
machinery of the law nipped nlm it
was natural that he should turn to
the Senator from Wisconsin.
We shall be Interested to see what j
stepa La Follette takes to protect
Herr Adolph Germer, who evidently
believes that his hero has some pow
ers the law.— New York. Sua. J
| are not stated in the newspaper re
| ports, they can easily be Inferred. It
is hardly likely that they will carry
j any weight with the Red Cross au
thorities. The intense nervous strain
I itn P9 He( * by conditions at the
front in the present war requires
I that everything possible should be
done to allay nervous Irritation.
"Amusements for the men when
| relieved of duty at the inimldlate
front are recognized as an important
factor in preventing neurosis. Many
of the men In the army are con
firmed smokers, and to deny these
men tobacco is to induce a degree
of nervous Irritation which will ma
terially militate against their ef
ficiency.
"It would be the height of folly,
both from a medical and a military
standpoint, to deny tobacco to the
men at the front. Much to their
credit, the women of Los Angeles
who are prominent in relief work
practically unanimously favor pro
viding tobacco along with other com
forts for men at the front."
JUST PLAIN CURS
To those misguided persons,
largely of foreign birth, who in this
hour of the nation's peril seek to
stab it in the back by resisting
its laws and giving aid and comfort
to the enemy we commend a few
words spoken before the American
Bar Association by Andrew Alex
ander Bruce, an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of North Da
kota. This gentleman, a native of
India, came to this country as an
English alien and received his edu
cation here. In his new home he
ha# prospered and made an honor
able name for himself. He expresses
his loyalty to the United States in
these words:
"I and millions of others like me
came to this country alone and with
out friends. We sponged on all that
America had, her free lands, her
free schools, and above all, her spirit
of openhearted comradeship. She
owed us nothing, but she gave us
all. We should bo ingrates, wo
should be curs, if In this hour of
her need we counseled with her
enemies or were disloyal to her
cause." •
Contrast this utterance with that
of the wretched creatures who caine
to America from Russia, found an
asylum from oppression here and
prospered, but who have since gftne
back to their native land to slander
the United States and spread demor
alization and anarchy among the
people and the army. Many of these
ingrates still linger here #nd strive
to scatter sedition and distrust. In
the language of Justicp Bruce, they
are curs. Fortunately, their number
is few as compared with the grate
ful millions who share the views of
the North Dakota Judge as to their
duty to the country that has given
them everything. Philadelphia
Record.
HEROISM
No truer patrotlsm, no loftier
heroism can be found than that
which is often • displayed on a sliip's
deck, and to my mind there is
scarcely any other position which is
so manly and grand, and which
makes such demands on the noble
quaytles of a true man, as the com
mand of a Urge vessel. Selfcontrol,
fortitude, quickness of perception,
knowledge of men. enterprise,
presence of mind In action and ex
alted courage and fidelity to trust
are but a few of the qualities' re
quisite to the good seaman and ship
piaster, and they are qualities which
are often displayed at sea, not only
in the navy In the time of war, but
In the ordinary merchant service.
Nor are the great deeds of seamen
the less, noble and valuable, as ex
amples of what man Is capable of in
the hour of trial, because eo often
unrecorded, or rewarded at most by
a few obscure lines in the marine
columns of the dally newspapers, or
by a gold chronometer or service of
silver. —8. G. W. Benjamin.
DUST TO DUST
All ko unto one place; all are of
the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth tho spirit of man that
goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that poeth downward to thu
jaaxUj.?—JEcclealaates 11L 20 and. 21,
LABOR NOTES
A strike of Scotland
dressmakers was successfully arbi
trated.
Over 30.000 of the half-million
working: girls in Japan are under ZA
years of age.
Six hundred young women carpen
ters are at work building army huts
for the British soldiers.
There was a slight decrease in the
cost of living in Canada in July, as
compared with June last.
Hundreds of women are being
trained for telegraph service by the
Santa Fe Railroad Company.
Henry L. Slobodln, chairman of the
New York State Socialist party, sails
on labor to support the war.
Nine thousand miners in Tredegar
Valley, Monmouthshire. Wales, struck
owing to several alleged grievances.
Railway employes of Leeds, Eng
land. are asking for double the pay
they were receiving before the war.
South Wales steel and tinplate op
eratives demand 100 per cent, bonus,
They now get 37% to 57% per cent.
The 141 savings banks In New Tork
State show a gain of over $100,000,000
in resources during the past year.
Special series of courses have been
organized in Columbia University for
training women for banking positions.
Pennsylvania's mining laws require
to mule to be gi\#n 700 cubic feet of
air a minute and a miner 200 cubic
feet.
A call has come from France for a
volunteer unit of 100 women workers
to be recruited immediately and sent
to France for service in cAnteen sta
tions.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
| HIS REASON.
| "Why do you call Da Short a bad
! egg?"
"Oh, It's so unpleasant to have him
! around when |ie's broke/'
COMPLIMENT FOR COMPLI
MENT.
She—Alas, we never see m2 Ilka
those the novellet deecribes.
He—Alas, no—nor glrla like thoqe
the Illustrators draw.
THE BEST stON.
"In he honest ?"
"I think he muat be. I haven I
heard, him brajglajr (Pusut IC*.
lEbnthtg Ctp
From all accounts Pennsyl'
peaches seem to have been apj
ated In Ohio. The new burea
markets, which has been stu<
supply and demand nd their 1
maiden, the railroads, succeed!
doing better than. expected,
bureau started out on the theory
it could get markets for carUa*
and that every peach could be p
good use and the growers get
prices. It did well. It seems tha
bureau located some peach gr(
who had peaches "to burn and
got Into touch with some cars,
it started out to get markets
large lots. Some of tTie peaches
■old-up In New England where
know what fine peaches
what fine apples, Pennsylvania
duces. They*brought some fine i
and in the northern part of the
•some markets were also found.
Youngstown woke up. Youngs
is a steel city and money is abun
They paid $3 a basket for the I
sylvania peaches and wanted m
* *
Death of Adjutant General Th
J. Stewart has caused a post]
ment of consideration of pla
take the votes of the Pennsyl
soldiers in November and will
ably retard the formation o
Pennsylvania Reserve Militia
which the general had been WOT
Attorney General Brown, who w
the Capitol on Monday night to
first time after an illness of o
month, planned to take up wit'
Adjutant General the problem
tending the .taking of the sol
votes this week and had been
paring some data on the su
Just what will be done about th
dier votes is not known at the
•to', but It is possible that \
there are Pennsylvania organlzt
intact and not scattered by batti
through other divisions commii
ers may be sent to take their vo
was done at El Paso last year,
what wjll be done about orgs
tions abroad or about the men i
National Army camps and scat
through the various branches c
military service no one is able t
at the Capitol. Pennsylvania
furnished so many men to the
ular Army that the mere listii
them would be a big task. The
tion will be taken up after th
turn *>f Governor Brumbaugh
month.
• • •
Some Interesting fiction fs
received at the Harrisburg I
• Library for the soldiers' cantor
libraries, which the Red Cross
International Y. M. C. A. and
organizations are undertakin
provide with the American LI
Association in direct charge,
library is the central point foi
district and the books are mat
into bundles here preparatory t
ing shipped. The committei
charge is making an appeal for
live, up-to-date books, not
shelf-worn books unless they 1
standard fiction or classics.
*
People who have marched ov
streets of Harrisburg in the
,well demonstrations the last
days have opinions of their ow
garding the various highways
up for new mains and other tl
Some of the work under way i
central part of the city is in ;
the same shape as It was a n
ago and members of bands say t
to their horns when they strik
spots. The approach of the r
period for the paved streets is
eagerly awaited.
* • •
The guidons of the Harrlsburi
serves .have' been deposited a
Harrisßurg Public Library v
they will be displayed until the
comes for them to be used lr
rades and for special drills,
are the first Harrlsbur.T flags i
placed in the library.
• •
The Harrisburg Rifle Club, v
moving spirit is Cassius A. Duni
executive- officer, is arranging to
a shoot for beginners only on
urday. The marksman course, \
is 200 yards, will be used, am
man making 150 points or bette
have scores certified to Washin
This club ts moving to boost
shooting and defense game in
lisburg and has been increasir
membership.
Considerable interest has
aroused here by the moves
taken by insurance comp
throughout the state to run
autoVnobile thieves. Harrisburj
suffered from the depredatlor
such gentry and the insurance p
and police have been getting tog
to "spot" (he men who have n
property'on wheels.
The meeting of the Dai
County Historical Society to-mc
night will be the annual au
home coming, an occasion whei
members gather after the sun
and it is always an Interesting e
The paper of the evening will be
by Dr. Hugh Hamilton on J
Peacock, a native of Dauphin co
former postmaster of Harris
president of one of the early p
libraries here and long iden
with the newspaper enterprisi
the state.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPI
—The Rev. Daniel I. McDer
Philadelphia priest, who has
after Mayor Smith over certain
ditlons, has frequently crusadi
that city.
—Dr. J. P. Kerr and E. V.
cock, two of the candidate)
Mayor of Pittsburgh, are sa
have developed Into real or
since tho campaign started.
—lsadore Stern, who was pi
nent in thfe last Legislature, li
with serious charges about ex
tions in Philadelphia.
—Franklin Spencer Edm
Philadelphia lawyer well k
here, is taking an active part ii
formation of tho school moblltz
movement.
—Col. L. A. Watres, former :
tenant Governor, is head •ol
Home Guard at Scranton.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
That Harrisbur* will n
send detachments to sanlt
and signal troops?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Sixty years ago Harrisburg I
holding State fairs.
SEEKS LOST GRAVE
In search of the graves of he
ther and mother, who were killi
the Scott Indian massacre. Mr
Kitchen, of Walla Walla, Wasl
tn Baker county, Oregon, but s
has had no success. She was a
at the time of her parents' dee
The massacre was In the 'Bos
timers tell how Scott and his
were ambushed and shot on ]
Creek, when they were retui
from a dance. Tho father wai
stantly killed and two shots pli
Mrs. Scott's bocjy.
Their children, a boy of 8. a
baby girl, were asleep In the ho
of the wagon and escaped. Th<
was Mrs. Kltcbo> —Portland
gonlan, ■ t
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