14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iS.u Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. B. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't Sr Editor-in-Chief F, R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GTJS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —Tho 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. j. Member American |!| Hft Eastern office, sjl|i * Avenue Building, (-j ag • jjulld'lng, —— Chicago, 111. 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. FRIDAY EVENING, SETT. 14 The smaller our world the larger its ears. —MAABTEN MAABTEXS. AN OUTLAW GOVERNMENT EVERY day brings fresh reasons why we cannot make peace with the German government as it is at present constituted. The fresh evidence of Swedish treachery and German plotting in Mexico astounds nobody, but it provides another proof of the utter depravity of Prus sianism. There is no crime too low, no plot too vile for German diplo macy. The only sin it knows is that of being found out, and fortunately for the justification of the cause in which we light and for the good opinion of the world at large, inso far as it concerns us, American se cret service is proving equal to the task of exposing German intrigue in all its blackness. MORE AHOI T COAI. FOLLOWING is an extract from a letter far too lengthy and violent in its tone to be publish ed in its entirety here: And I am glad to note that the Telegraph has gotten after the local coal dealers and the Federal authorities for imposing these high prices on the people. Our correspondent has misunder stood the attitude of this newspaper. The Telegraph has not "gotten after" either the local dealers or the federal authorities, for the simple reason that it does not know which, if either. Is at fault. The Telegraph has pointed out that the President's "maximum coal price order," instead of bringing promised relief to the people of Har risburg, was followed immediately by sharp advances of prices in all grades of anthracite and by all dealers. The Telegraph has publish ed what the dealers have to say about it and is now in correspond ence with Dr. Garfield, federal fuel Administrator, seeking an explana tion, and if possible, a remedy. Until Dr. Garfield shall have re plied and all the facts are known the Telegraph will be in no position to "get after" anybody. There ought to be some interesting developments In the coal situation here in a very few days. BOROI'GHS AND HUGH WAYS STATE Highway Commissioner O'Neil is on an absolutely solid fcround in his statement as to the policy which is to be pursued by his department in the development of the road system of the Common wealth. Especially interesting is his suggestion of immediate co operation of the State with the boroughs in the building of roads through these lesser municipalities. All motorists know how utterly in defensible has been the policy of building a fine State highway up to the limits of a borough and there by creating within the bounderies thereof a stretch of road destructive of vehicles and the last vestige of self control in all who use these intol erable borough links. We trust that Commissioner O'Neil will immediately make a survey of all the boroughs which constitute in tolerable sections of the State high ways which enter the Capital of the Commonwealth. Several times pro gressive citizens have volunteered to raise funds for the improvement of these pieces of roadway and in at least two instances the funds were provided too late to make available the State aid appropriation for boroughs. If the new Highway Commissioner can induce the borough authorities to co-operate with him in improving the streets under their jurisdiction and which are parts of the main highway system, he will have ac complished much in completion of a road system that will be creditable to Pennsylvania. With the disappearance of toll roads anji toll gates, the relics of another day, this State is going to have a thousand invitations—in the most picturesque highways o{ the country—to the tourists of the world. No work of the present ad ministration is more appealing than the development of the main high ways. Here's hoping that Commissioner O'Neil will stick to his announced purpose of bringing into harmony all of the municipalities with the big department on Capitol Hill, so FRIDAY EVENING, that there may bo no unnecessary delay in completing the main system of roads. SALUTE THE FLAG W3EREVER you are, what ever your occupation, pauso a moment before sunset and salute the Flag. To-day Is the anniversary of the birth of The Star Spangled Banner. I Francis Scott Key wrote his im mortal anthem 104 years ago to-day. A handful of hastily fathered mili tia was defending Baltimore. The fate of the young nation hung in the balance. The troops lay in their posi tions in the darkness and strained their weary eyes for a glimpse of the flag they loved over Fort McHenry, and from the travail of that night of battle burst full blown the in spiration that prompted Key to put to paper those stanzas that since have been sung the world around and which Americans sing and will sing whenever and wherever the spirit of patriotism manifests itself among the people. To-day in a hun dred camps American boys stand hands to cap when the band plays tho stirring air. In a few more months they and thousands of others will be following that banner to vic tory in the cause of democracy over the bloodstained fields of France, Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen < shall slant! Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven rescued land Praise the Power that has made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it Is just. And this be our motto: "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of tile free and the home of the brave. Show your loyalty. Salute the flag to-day. 1 THE READ THING HERE A PHILADELPHIA professor has taught a monkey to kiss him, according to the Evening Led- j ger. There's something to be ex plained here. Is the professor so homely no girl will kiss him, is he blind or is he in condition to have somebody call the coroner? If he feels so keenly the need of being kissed we suggest he enlist, i don an army uniform and attend a j soldiers' farewell in Harrisburg some | day soon. It's certainly the open j season for the kissing bug here and I there's no limit to the number that' may be taken. Chain up your j "munk" and come on up to little j old Harrisburg, professor. A PARTISAN DIFFERENCE SECRETARY McXDOO is said to be giving "consideration" to a plan submitted to him by a New York banker whereby the govern ment may save a lot of interest money by issuing the next lot of Lib erty bonds in serial form, maturing in from six' to thirty ypars. There is no doubt that money can be saved that way—as was shown to the Senate some months ago In a tpeech by Senator Weeks, of Massa chusetts, who tried to establish the serial bond as a matter of law. THIS IS THE TEST IN a recent message to the man back home, Daniel Willard, one of the great railroad leaders of the country, said: If you are about to undertake an enterprise stop and ask your self this question: "Will this'help America win the war?" This is the crux of the whole matter. The business of the United States at the present time is war and the energy of the people must be devoted to a successful prosecu tion of the big enterprise upon which we have entered as a nation. Already a great army has been mo bilized, but we are going forward in the creation of such force as will definitely determine the con flict which has set the world on fire. There can be no doubt of the ulti mate outcome of the struggle, but the American people are now realiz ing as never before the stupendous character of the task which they have undertaken. There are two reasons why we should have this test applied. The immediate one is the necessity for conservation of every ounce of America's power in production, transportation and distribution. Not only must America meet her own wartime economic problems, but she must assist in meeting those of England, France, Russia and Italy —for the protection of America. For example, it will be seen that the number of American lives sac rificed on the western front may be influenced, in a measure, by the number of American locomotives furnished Russia—the more locomo tives to Russia, the less men to the western front, the less men to death. The second reason is that rich America may need every dollar of Its almost incalculable wealth. As is further suggested by Mr. Wlllard, everybody Is a soldier in this war. Either we are fighting at the front or back of the lines, but we are fighting notwithstanding and It is the duty of every Individual to give the full force of his or her energy to the successful consumma tion of the cause which represents the peace and happiness and con tentment of millions of human be ings. This Is the time when ambition and the seeking after pleasure and the doing of things which may well be postponed must be subordinated to the greater duty involved in per forming our part in bringing about permanent peace. "PEXKOIFCCAKUI, By the Kx-Comiuittccmnn The liveliest collection of munici pal and county primary contests known in Pennsylvania in recent years will approach the beginning of the end to-morrow when the final registration time will be at hand in cities of all classes in the Com monwealth. It is expected that the registration will go to record figures in some of the cities, notably those where there are mayoralty contests, but that will not be the sole reason because in many counties there are stiff judicial or county nomination battles on, and Philadelphia, har monized as regards it main ticket by the action of Mayor Smith, has ward fights galore. According to Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the State Department, all registration places will close to morrow night and the only way to get on the lists will be by applica tion to county commissioners. The enrollment of voters in the boroughs and townships is about over. Men not registered will not be able to vote at primaries or general elections in cities. —The windup of the contests for ward honors in Philadelphia bids fair to be more or less tame, as the Republican leaders are commencing lo put on the soft pedals and Mayor Smith is Insisting that the transit lease be kept out of politics. The Philadelphia Police Association is commencing to obey to assessments. Friends of candidates for judge are making things lively with nonparti san appeals. —Pittsburgh dispatches tell of strenuous times in the mayoralty contest in that city and there are intimations that Lackawanna and Luzerne counties will be furnishing interesting situations. In Scranton the mayoralty battle is growing very brisk and in Luzerne Thomas D. Shea, who is running for Judge against his old rival, Judge H. A. Fuller, is charging use of a slush fund. —Concerning the Pittsburgh con test the following is told in dis patches: "Every available effort is being put forth by the three mayor alty candidates here now. Demo cratic aid was thrown toward Dr. J. P. Kerr when Democratic State Chairman- Joseph F. Guffey took the stump for the Independent candidate at a noonday meeting. Guffey asked for support for Kerr, he said, be cause he wants to see a patriotic, capable and nonpartisan mayor fot* the next four years. Notwithstand ing the progress which Kerr is mak ing. supporters of William A. Ma gee were carrying money around to day and offering to bet that Magoe gets the biggest vote. There is no question but that Kerr has cut Into the vote of both his opponents, but it is puzzling all sides just how big a swath he has ripped." —The Philadelphia Ledger prints an interesting view of the national importance of the Pittsburgh mayor alty contest from its Washington bu reau: "Pennsylvania politicians in the national capital are watching, with the greatest interest the prog ress of the campaign for mayor ofj Pittsburgh. The outcome of this, fight has more than a municipal in- j terest, because it will decide the po-i litical control, to some extent, in : state politics of Senator Penrose. Nu- | morons congressmen who have been drawn slightly into factional poli-i tics having been forced against their! wishes at times to line up with Pen-! rose or the Varc faction, are hopeful I that this contest will eliminate fac-j tionalism in Pennsylvania for some i time. Reports coming here to-day j to the Penrose faction from Pitts burgh are to the effect that the di-1 vided opposition, with a decided; trend among labor toward BabcockJ gives hope that the Penrose candi-' date for mayor may capture more than half of the vote at the primar ies. The most certain thing, despite the favorable reports coming to Penrose, is that the fight will not end in the primaries. Conservative mem bers of both factions, who have dis cussed the situation here, say the bitter struggle will bo carried into the general election. The Penrose leaders are counting upon the bulk of the trading Democrats to aid them in the general election, as well as the dissatisfied followers of Kerr. Seriously viewed, neither Babcock nor Magee has any certainty of suc cess at this time. A few thousand votes probably will decide the con 'test." —The Philadelphia Record prints the following to-day: "With the re turn of Governor Brumbaugh from his vacation in Maine to the Execu tive Mansion in Harrisburg to-day some action is expected soon in the appointment of a successor to the late Judge Dallett, whose death lefia vacancy on the Orphans' Court bench. The Vares are said to have favored the appointment of Joseph A. Magee, an assistant city solicitor, but considerable objection has been expressed to Magee because he is comparatively unknown. Among those mentioned for the place are Representative Thomas F. McNichol, D. Webster Dougherty, David J. Smyth, who was a director under Mayor Weaver; Joseph P. McCullen, George R. McCurdy, former presi dent of Common Council and a can didate against Judge Dallett when he ran for re-election, and Michael McCullough, an assistant in the dis trict attorney's office. Of the num ber Representative McNichol is be lieved to have the best chance. Mc- Nichol is strong with the Yores and made a good impression on the Gov ernor during the recent session of the legislature when he led the Vare- Brumbaugh forces in the House." —The only unfortunate thing about the Record's prediction anent the genial Thomas McNichol is that he is a member of the L.egislatura and can not take office until his term ends next year. The constitution stands in the way. —Regarding the appointment pf men to fill vacancies in the state government it was said authorita tively to-day that Governor Brum baugh will not consider such mat ters until late in the month. Dis cussion of successors to men who died this week has been deprecated at the Capitol. That the Governor should appoint before the primary Is not regarded as likely In any event. —No one at the Capitol would talk about the possibility of retirement of Chief of Mines James E. Roderick to-day. —W. J. Benham. a Philadelphia Common Councilman, well known here, has been appointed deputy re corder of deeds in that city. —The appointment of one Smith to be chief of the bureau of statis tics appears to have been one of the thlnta lost in the draft ' HARRISBURG CTSFFV TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? WMGM Y©<J HAV/E. L/V/ED -AMD TEMD TO AND .SWEEP AND STILL. AILOME POR A MORVTTH YOUR LAUNDRY CAN'T MAKE THE AND TRIED TO SEW HOUSE LOOK -AMD HAV/E. M OUT - ANO TFEO SET A OH H H * BABY ? RE3T/ ' KUR^RLT LETT6R PROM PREMT> WIFE AN'T |T A I 1 V ° H °^ E GOOD-BY WHISKY We doubt very much if, at the end of two years, or one year, there will be any loud wailing throughout the land for the re-establishment of the whisky supply. There will be no Coxey army of consumers marching on AVashington crying for whisky. The habit is not so universal to-day that any numerous chorus is heard in protest against high prices or prospective drought. The situation when war shall have lifted its ban depends much more on what shall happen to the whisky producing industry in the meantime than on the effect of the temporary prohibition on the consumers. The whisky l ing is not badly hurt by this proceeding, and. particularly if it shall be allowed to dispose of its present stock, it may fairly be con sidered that it has been compensated for such interference as the govern ment has decreed. If. following upon this act, its plants can bo converted to other profitable \ees, If commer cial alcohol can be distilled from cornstalks in quantities sufficient to furnish cheap fuel for farmers' trac tors and the automobiles of the rest of us,- if whisky capital can be in duced to seek other means of earn ing, the problem of the prohibition ists will be far easier. The whisky stills are to be closed to-night. It will be a mistake to permit them to re main closed. The practical oppor tunity lies in finding profitable work for them to do, so tnat there will be less incentive for them to resume their objectionable enterprise.—The Evening Bulletin. PATRIOTIC BOYS Theodore Roosevelt praises the I patriotic spirit which is being shown ! by American boys and young men not ordinarily engaged In productive I labor who are stepping in to fill the | gaps caused by shortage of labor j on the farms and in industry. In a ' letter to William K. Hall, national director of the United States Boys' j Working Reserve, Department of Labor, the former President declares that the boy's patriotism can he counted on to make him stick where needed in this time of emergency, even when higher wages at times tempt him to go elsewhere. Mr. Roosevelt expresses his pleasure over the prospect of having boys trained for essential industries to take th? places of men called to the front. Speaking of the value of the Boys' Working Reserve, he says: "One of the great benefits you confer is ihat of making the boy I realize that he is part of Uncle ! Sam's team; that he is doing his | sliare in this great war; that he holds I his services in trust for the nation, and that though it Is proper to con- I sider the question of material gain ' and the question of his own desires, j yet that what he must most strong j iy consider at this time is where his i services will do most good to our people as a whole." I earnestly wish I you every success in your wise and ! patriotic effort." RECLAIM DRUNKARDS An elaborate plan for the re clamation of drunkards and victims of various perverting vices is being formulated in Ripon, Wis., not with the workhouse idea predominating, but with the purpose of an actual cure as the incentive. No longer will the tippler have to topple his way down ihe street to the sewer gutter to find a place for tho night, only to awake the next morning with nothing more nor less to do than to get drunk all over again. The organization which has taken the problem in hand and is now working out a solution is the Ripon commercial club. it is planned that all men brought i tip before the court and charged j with drunk and disorderly conduct, : instead of receiving a prison or ! workhouse sentence, will be given i their choice of ;ircr>tine a sentence to some penal Institution or going to some appropriate. established pla<*e devoted to treatment for the elimination of the alcohol poison from the human system. After the poison has been re moved ant' the cravinir squelched, they will be dicharged from the re clamation institution and as thew become able in spirit, vigor, courase and ambition to recompense their benefactors, they are requested to do so to the entent of the suin ex pended for their redemption. The commercial club is a pioneer in this field of endeavor and as such is blazing a trail In an untrodden area of the forest of charity.—From the Milwaukee Sentinel. CAN'T BE DRIVEN "Oadsbur has plenty 0t backbone." "A courageous chap, eh?" "That's just what he is. He says he's Koing to look over the new dances and If ho doosn't like them he's simply not golnsr to learn them. —Birmingham Age-Herald. Last Chance to Can Peaches NEXT week the peach growers i of New York State and New' England especially Con-1 necticut—will be sending to cities' throughout New York and New England, and as far south as Wash- j ington and as far west as Chicago, l one of the largest crops of this fruit | that they have ever harvested, from i eight to nine thousand cars, and i for three weeks from September j 20th to October 10th—New York State peaches will be abundant | throughout that territory. A battalion of housewives is wait ing in every city and town, organized; under the banner of the Food Ad-j ministration, ready to do their duty to family and country by canning] and preserving this crop. In the past there lias been so little co- j operation between fruit growers and | housewife that very often a bumper | crop came into the .market un- j noticed, and hundreds of ears spoiled! for lack of purchasers. But tjiis year the Food Admin- j istration is warning the housewives' in advance that peaches are coming, j These are the last peaches of the) season and the housewife who has j empty Jars or glasses will do well to fill them with canned peaches, | peach preserves, peach butter, j pickled peaches and other, good! things which next winter will re-j duce the cost of living and conserve] IT WAS THE WOMAN According to a dispatch from Lon don, the Swedes lay' upon their Queen, Victoria, a Baden princess, the chief responsibility for Sweden's treacherous and underhand conduct as it has been disclosed in the Swe dish-Argentine revelations. They liken her influence over the power ful "inner circle" which controls the political affairs of their country to that of Queen Sophie over Con stantino, and predict as a result the end of the reign of the present Swedish rulers. Again it is the woman! Poor Henrietta Maria and her | Catholicism have been compelled ic | boar much of the burden of the i overthrow of the Stuarts and the be heading of her husband, Charles I, | Marie Antoinette was the object of I the Parisians' greatest animosity, a hatred that found its bitterest eK i pression in the epithet "l'Autri | oliienne." She and not her weak willed, weak kneed husband was the ! victim most demanded for the guil- I lotine. It was Empress Eugene upon I whom the responsibilities for tho ' reverses of the Franco-Prussian war I were laid. And so 011 with women j who had less opportunities for mis i chief than queens have. They have been credited with overthrowing I ministries, defeating great reforms and destroying armies. But in seeking a comparison *n j the present time between Queen Vic ! toria and Sophie, it is only just to say that Constantlne, according to the disclosure recently made In Cireece, did not learn all of his tricks from his wife, and in the same way Swedish authorities may not have i learned all of their underhandedness I from Queen Victoria. In fact, there is so much appearance of tho bung ling masculine hand In Swedish at- j ! fairs that the om-e little Baden prin- | ! cess should be cleared of responsi- 1 ' bility until more evidence of her; ' guilt is produced.—New York Sufi. GERMS The current issue of the United States Public Health reports con firm the news Item of some days ago with regard the finning of tetanus germs in specimens of courtplastcr taken from original packages as thV.v I are bought at drug stores, but adds j that there Is no ground for believing j that the contamination was inten- 1 tlonal. There is no reason for any j war scare in the matter. The investigation has shown that j eourtplaster is not "clean" in tho surgical sense, and that therefore ! Instead of protecting open wounds from contamination, as is often thought, it rather favors that pro cess. This authoritative opinion prob- | ably will not prevent the use by j the fair sex of tabs of courtnlaster as "beauty spots," but it should act l as an effective warning against the use of the material on open wounds Its employment Is a relic of the time j when sticking plaster and salves and external applications of various kinds i were supposed to he curative. Abso lute cleanliness is the one all im portant element in tho treatment of wounds, small or large. The less ex ternal Interference with them the i batter. —New York Herald. 1 I food for our army and allies by ! saving meat and butter. The size | of the crop is such that houswives | may get ample supplies at reason able prices, and to make certain j that the public will have the full I benefit of this last shipment of l peaches the women's organizations 1 throughout New York State anil i New England are co-operating with J the growers and produce men to j see that the supply keeps up with] the demand in every community. It Is suggested that housewives j make their preparations this week, : find out what quantity of peaches j they can put up, and then place ian order in advance with their grocers, or at least tell the grocer what quantity they are prepared toj handle.' This will enable the grocer J to order from the wholesaler and the j wholesaler in turn to order from thoj j wholesaler and the wholesaler In I turn to order from the growers. I Thus every community will get an j adequate supply and there will be |no waste. In past years when grow ers have lacked this co-operation | with women's organizations, the (tendency has been to ship too many j peaches to the large cities and not I enough to the smaller communities. I But this year the housewives are ) working to utilize every . scrap of ; food available and through their j help it Is hoped the fruit will be j conserved by even distribution. GOING SOUTH Singing, singing, singing as the miles I click out behind; Blended voices flinging out their mes sage to the wind; Lolling in the windows while the troop train southward rolls, Gloriously idle, with full comfort in our souls. Sped by smiling strangers and by kiddies wild with glee, Leaving, as we rumble on, a wake of melody:— I I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is hending low; I hear those angel voices calling Old Black Joe. Singing, singing, singing in the vel vet Southern night; i Mocking birds go winging, for we put them all to flight; I Over wide, black rivers, winding whither no one knows. Past the doors of cabins where the lam plight redly glows. Lusty bugles sounding till each sleep ing valley fills. Ringing with the mellow notes that die among the hills:— So weep no more, my lady; weep no more to-day. We will sing one song for my old Kentucky home. For my old Kentucky home, far away. Singing, singing, singing all the old time songs we love. Saddle bags a-swinging to the rhythm up above; Through Virginia's foothills and the Carolinas 1 " pines, By the land of cotton and of water melon vines. v Over Georgia's uplands, with their slopes ranked deep in corn, Singing through tho sunlit South, where half our songs were born:— Carry mo back to old Virginny, There's where the cotton, corn and sweet potatoes grow; There's where tho birds warble sweetly in the springtime. There's where this poor old dark ey's heart am long' to go. STEWART M. EMEiIY, Troop A, First New Jersey Cavalry. En route to Anniston, Ala., Sept. 6, 1917. VITAL STATISTICS Jesse Owens is employed as driver for an ice and coal company In Frankfort, Ind. He has worked for the same firm fourteen year.. During that time he has driven ice wagons a total distance of 51,424 miles, walked 24,970 miles, moved 500,000 bottles of milk off ice, moved twelve carloads of groceries and six carloads of watermelons and cantaloupes off Ice, hitched and unhitched horses 14,000 times, and said "Good morn ing" 1,350,000 times.—lndianapolis News. A FAMILIAR "SUPER" "Just saw a performance of 'Julius and Cesar.' " "How was the mob scene?" "Not very realistic." "No?" "It destroys the illusion to rec ognize your butcher's boy in a crowd of Roman citizens." SEPTEMBER 14, 1917.' LABOR NOTES Chicago elevator contractors get 68.8 cents an hour. Glass Bottle Blowers' International has over 10,000 members. New Jersey has 10-hour workday for bakeries. France lia3 a coal production of 200 tons per miner a year. Civil service retirement legislation is in operation in China. Vancouver (1!. C.) electrical work ers are paid G2'.<• cents an hour. Canadian unionists demand 11 censes for stationary engineers. Of 108,170 wage-earners in our silk Industry almost 60 per cent, are women. There are 1,359 railway cars In Bolivia, of which 112 are for pas senger use. Arkansas City street cars must be vcstibuled in winter. Labor unions in Virginia demand a woman's minimum wage law. Chinese contract laborers In France work ten hours a day. Japan's Industries employ 320,00 D boys under 11 years old. South Australia employs 20,000 operatives In its factories. Carpenters in Porto Rico are paid from 93 cents to $2.09 a day. Laborers on sugar plantations in Hawaii are paid under the bonus sys tem. I OIIR DAILY LAUGH I fJOME DREAM Mike. Phwat? Xy {H- I was Just O f thinkin' after _ C&inb "V l|! wo get out of the trenches an' back homo Z?' I again how nice | a n ' peaceful | that old boiler - jfactory will j sound to us. " ' . wrm&k There Is soma wl \ WA place Jffl • W® "Where you MfMli • wmm: Will ill m Go seek It out m And do your IJI ft CHANGING fagrQ THE ORDER. £▼ 7 .) ~^jwi Will there be K any more hen bands when the ||F)rM MKI suffrage ttes y , .ill M have thc-ir way |III [ ll and women i[ : | .'varj take the place jjl||M 1 No, but there lUI will be rooster- M pecked wives. 1[ EH your country? plven up buying for myself any of the luxuries ■■ and got my wlf* Ifl JmR l&ntbtg ®lfHt If any person Is of the opinion that Harrlsburg is not an important rail road center during war times he or she has another guess. Passenger Trainmaster E. F. Dunlap. of th Philadelphia division of the Penn sylvania railroad, with his forces have been working night and day to keep up the supply of cars for trans portation of soldiers. At present with troops moving all over the United States, and passenger traffic breaking records, getting cars for troops is no easy task. Just where the cars for the 200 trains to haul drafted men to training camps will be secured is a question. However, it is a safe bet that most of those cars will bo handled through Ilarrisburg. Pitts burgh. Harrisburg and Philadelphia will be the busy points when the drafted men start to move. The bulk cf them will go through this city. Pittsburgh will handle those ordered to Camp Sherman. Drafted men for Camp will pass through this city and Philadelphia, and those for Camp I.ee will be taken care of at this point. Cars to be used in haul ing these soldiers will be gathered from all over the Pnnsylvanta rail road system and sent here for distrl. bution. This means more strenuous times for the local passenger depart ment. Each division will notify Har risburg daily as to the number of available cars, and a close watch will be kept to prevent equipment from getting far away. Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew art, who died a few days ago, prac tically while directing the organiza tion of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia, had a wonderful memory. He knew the history of every Penn sylvania volunteer organization of the Civil War and could give the regiment in which many otticers in the great struggle served. Time and again he would be asked by newspa per friends for the war service of some veteran who answered the last call and would invariably respond with the regiment and facts about the service. It was often a subject of remark that he knew the battles in which the regiments participated and when asked about it ho would laugh and tell inquirers to "go read up." Up until the time when the changes began to be made so rapidly in the National Guard during Mexi can border service, the genera) not only knew all of the officers of the guard and where they belonged but most of them by their first names. It is not generally known that if ex-State Treasurer Robert K. Young had lived he would have established a law office with the firm of which the late Frederic W. FUetz was the head and which is now composed of N. E. llause and J. Ralph Baker. Mr. Fleitz and Mr. Young were close friends as they came from the same county and singularly enough In juries of almost similar character caused their deaths. A short time ago Mr. llause received a letter from Mr. Young in answer to one con cerning some business matters and in which the Tioga man with a flash of his old humor said. "I am fight ing in too close a ring to make much noise now." Mrs. Edna Groff Delhi, Paxtang, writing in a recent issue of The Etude, the well-known musical mag azine, says: "Every thoughtful nfiother will agree that the story hour has been a great blessing in the training and development of children. It is an indisputable fact ■ that there Is nothing which so well teaches the child the lessons—the. Joys, the temptations, the battles, the achievements at>d victories —of life, the while it. amuses and interests him. But the story hour can be improved. How? By setting its libretto to music; by writing cheer ful tunes about the tales of Joy; heart-touching ones about the sad talcs; soul-stirring ones about the victorious lives; and by bringing rythm into the child's life, by mak ing his fairies danoe and his sol diers march." Mrs. Delhi has told her idea of starting—yes—the veritable babe in the cradlo on a musical pathway. The article is illustrated with one of her "baby tunes" —which is so simple it appeals to the child when he is only learning to gurgle. Mrs.'Deihl has written quite a few child songs for various magazines, her latest development of what she calls her Song Story idea having Just appeared in sheet music form, "The Fairy Ring." a little fairy tale by Elizabeth Keller set to music by herself, and published by the Song Story Publishing Company. The song was sung first in public In manu script form by Mrs. Arthur Hull be fore the Wednesday Club last spring. The new golf course of the Coun trv Club of Hat-risburg is being vis ited by many golfers and almost ev ery afternoon there are men trying out the various holes. The up hill and down <lale layout and the fine natural hazards have quite a repu tation about the State and some of the players wax enthusiastic about them. The other day a well-known educator was invited to play on the new course. "I've heard a good bit about that course. Now what had I better take along?" he asked. An old hand at golf was nearby and smiled a slow smile. "You had better take along a pair of telegraph pole climbers," quoth he. • • • Franlj H. Scliell, a grandson of the late W. O. Hickok, is one of the in structor officers at the Plattsburgr camp. Mr. Schell attended the camp and has been placed in charge of a number of the student officers. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Captain T. D. Boal, who will rep resent General Clement at the fu neral of General Stewart, organized the Machine Gun Troop of the First Cavalry. —Col. Frank G. Sweeney, State draft headquarters officer, went to Chester to see his old company start for Camp Hancock. —Chairman W. D. B. Ainey. of the Public Service Commission, who was to have represented the State at the Fort Meigs celebration, has can celed the visit because of the death of Commissioner Young. —Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods has been spending the week at Virginia Hot Springs. —Bishop U. H. Swengel presided at the opening of the Johnstown meeting of the United Evangelical Church conference. DO YOU KNOW That Harrishurg bookkeeping mneliines arc in use in national government offices? HISTORIC IIAHRISBI7RO Curb markets used to be a feature of Harrlsburg 100 years ago. A CLERICAL ADVANTAGE The preacher has this advantage over the layman. He not only is poor but he knows he is going to he poor all his life. —From Capper'i Weekly
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