10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • VEII'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by tHE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—Tlie 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. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Clrcu- Sot'MHL lation and Penn jflj B sylvanla Assoel- Mj ] U Eastern office, jW M Story, Brooks & !3j tm Avenue Building, S| |B Western office. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a 4TUffifiifficouMC'i> week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 20 "Our deeds still travel with us from afar. And what we have been makes us xvhat we are. —GEORGI: ELIOT. A PROPER DEMAND DEMANDS of American business men for a properly authorized purchasing commission for the government are not without reason. England found such a step necessary and undoubtedly such a centralized power, if entrusted to proper men, would be of vast benefit to the country in a number of ways. Patriotically us wo may view the efforts of those who have been doing the purchasing for the government since the outbreak of the war, it is not ditllcult to find ground for ad verso criticism, The fault is not so much that of those In charge, pos sibly, as to the system, or lack of system, existing. Until authority shall have been concentrated and responsibility definitely fixed, by the very nature of the thing, delay and extravagance must to some extent prevail. It would be so in private business and it cannot be otherwise with respect to public affairs. There is no reflection upon the honesty or integrity of any of those in charge in the demand for a change. The men who have gathered In Atlantic City this week have been in close touch in a myriad of ways with the government at Washington. They have seen its faults and, as experts in mercantile and manufacturing ac tivities, have not been slow to reach a conclusion as to the reason. They I have suggested the remedy. It is in full accord with the experiences of cur allies abroad. Congress should lose no time in putting the recom mendation into the form of law. American businessmen meeting at the shore this week are not there for any selfish purpose. They have gathered, these representatives of a half-million buyers and sellers, pro ducers and manufacturers, to try to arri\ e at ways and means of being of greater service to the nation in the crisis. They ask nothing for themselves, They have back of them millions in money and great ma terial resources. These they have placed unreservedly at the disposal of the government. All they ask in return is that their efforts be made to count for as much as possible and that there be no lost motion, no de lay, no extravagance In the buying and contracting branch of the gov ernment at Washington. In this they have made a demand In which the people at large, the great taxpaying public, which in cludes all of us—are deeply inter ested. Weeks and months may be allowed to pass without result along lines vital to the success of our arms and the protection of American lives, and millions in money may be frittered away unless the buying end of the government is in expert and honest hands. I,OKI> NORTHCLIFFE'S VIEWS LOUD Northclifte's articles in the Philadelphia Public Ledger on Ills Impressions of the pro press the United States is making In its preparations for the prosecution of the war have done far more than to give us an enlightening glimpse of ourselves as others see us. Written primarily for publication in England, they doubtless have done much to hearten the British, who know North cliffe as anything but a lenient critic, and on the other hand must he a sickening chapter to the men of the high German command, who doubtless ere this have had oppor tunity of studying them, for how ever much they may hate the great British publisher they also know him as a man of splendid judgment and unswayed by r,ny sentiment in his writings save that engendered by absolute truth. The United States, "in its bewilder ing, but effective American way," says Northcllffe, "Is forging the mightiest military machine the world has ever seen." Doubtless, he says, . it will develop faults, but for all that it will prove the sledgehammer that will smash kalserlsm and all Its at tendant evils. The writer believes we have done wonders. We are not always quick to decide, he says. We deliberate to a degree beyond the THURSDAY EVENING, patience of one eager for results, it his opinion, but when we have once come to a conclusion the suddenness with which we put our plans into execution is amazing to the foreign observer. All this is pleasing to us as rij people, and will be good news to England. But the impression upon the German war council will be any thing but either of those. These smashing articles from the pen of Northcliffe are equal to an army corps of Americans on the French front. They will cause a lot of think ing in German imperial circles of the kind that will tend tremendously toward peace. Sweepingly Republican -■-HAT Dauphin county Is over- I whelmlngly Republican in sen timent this fall is the one big fact that stands out clearly and defi nitely from the jumble of yesterday's primary election returns. Early pre dictions of a sweeping victory for the Republican party in November are amply borne out by the vote rolled up in both city and county for Re publican candidates. Take for example the coronership contest. There were two candidates on the Republican ticket and two on the Democratic side. On both sides the campaign was sharp. In the city, where complete figures were at hand when this was written, the total Republican vote for coroner was 6,894, while the total Democratic vote amounted to only 1,201, indi cating that 5,693 more Republicans voted at the primary elections In Ilarrlsburg than there were Demo crats at the polls. Indications are that complete figures from the county will show an even greater difference in numbers. If primary results go for anything, not a single Democrat will have a chance at the November elections and the campaign Is over before it is begun. Even on the nonpartisan ticket, where at least on the Republican side no attempt was made to stick to party lines, six of the eight nomi nated as candidates for full term as councllmen are Republicans. The same overwhelmingly Republican sentiment resulted also in the nomi nation of two Republicans for mayor, a condition unknown heretofore In the history of the city. Even W. L. Gorgas, an admittedly strong Demo crat, twice elected to Council, went down to defeat in the Republican landslide of votes for mayor. And finally, men of all parties united in giving Judge S. J. M. McCarrell, before his elevation to the bench a Republican leader of years standing, an unopposed renominatlon which assures his election in Novem ber as the only candidate on the ticket by a practically unanimous vote. There can be but one reason for tills. Republicans must be satisfied with the conduct of county offices, j.ractically all of which are in Re publican hands, or nominations as important as that for county con troller would not have fallen without opposition to the present incumbents. In the past, when party mismanage ment has disgruntled the voters or when improper men have found their way Into office, the result has been a party upheaval and sometimes the election of Democrats in a county that is normally Republican by large majprlties. That this condition does not exist to-day is evident from a study of yesterday's primary returns. Dauphin county presents a Repub lican ticket that will be elected by overwhelming majorities In Novem ber and Republicans of both city and county districts stand united, with ranks unbroken, fully prepared for the shock of the gubernatorial battle next year. SAFETY FIRST IT Is an old saying that "it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back." And when the back is broken, the camel Is of no further use whatever as a beast of burden. In placing any kind of a load upon any carrier, there comes a time when further increase will bo disastrous. That is true of taxation. Just now we are considering tax burdens upon certain industries that have been making large profits out of war orders. These industries are i ! good taxcarriers. But, in the very nature of things, tliero must be a limit somewhere. If that limit be passed, the last straw will have been added and the back will be broken. It is the part of wisdom to stop on the side of safety. TotLtlci ot By the Ex-Committeeman Immediate steps are to be taken by Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods to work out a plan I for taking the votes of the soldiers from Pennsylvania at the November election, in accordance with the re quest of Governor Brumbaugh, and commissioners will be selected next month. Mr. Woods will be governed by the decisions of the Attorney Gen eral's Department in the case of the taking of the vote at the Mexican border, but it is recognized that the proposition this, year is the greatest that has ever confronted the State. In the Civil War, when the act for taking the soldiers' votes was passed, the men were all in this country and in 1898 they were either in the United States, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The send ing of commissioners was compara tively easy as the greater number of the men were in Pennsylvania organ izations. Now men are scattered through all branches of the United States military service and In addi tion to the men in Keystone State or ganizations at camps, there are the thousands of drafted men and those who are in the Army units in France. The Federal government will prob ably be asked to furnish informa tion as to homes of men, but as this is a year for county and municipal elections the number of different bal lots that will be required will be immense. —Returns of the primary elections held for nomination of all judicial candidates will be certified to the De partment of the Secretary of the Commonwealth by county commis sioners. The returns from the 28th Congressional district, will also come to the Capitol. The figures will be entered here and the nominations certified to the proper counties for the November election. —While here and there over Penn sylvania some notable political fig ure was tumbled in yesterday's prim aries the general results were incon clusive. In Philadelphia the "Fifty fifty" ticket was nominated by the Republicans as outlined by Mayor Smith, but there have been some very unpleasant things said about the mayor because he failed to use the iron hand in compelling har mony in the Fifth ward where blood shed occurred. The Philadelphia judges were all renominated. In Pittsburgh, E. V. Babcock, Penrose candidate, leads for mayor, with Wil liam A. Magee. State administration candidate second. Dr. J. P. Kerr ran third and much of his strength will go to Babcock. Pittsburgh, like Har risburg, must fight it out all over again at the general election. Scran ton had a very close mayoralty fight which will leave some after effects. Lackawanna and Luzerne counties had the usual strenuous politics. —The various judicial fights brought few surprises. Judge C. C. Evans, the "dry" judge of Columbia and Montour, was defeated by John G. Harman, former legislator and well-known Democrat of the old regime. Judge R. C. Stewart won again in Northampton and Judges Bechtel and Berger won in Schyl kill. Nothing has come from Erie where a fight was made on Judge Whitteisey, the Governor's appointee, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Fayette or Allegheny, regarding the judicial fights. —it may take a day to figure who is nominated for associate judge in the seventeen eovnties nominating. The battle between "wets" and "drys" was pretty fierce in many places. —An independent movement Is likely in Philadelphia as a result of the primary. —Candidates favorable to a city manager plan were nominated in Altoona and the rest of the State will watch it work out. —With the primary scarcely over the Democrats have hopped into the limelight with gubernatorial talk. The Philadelphia Inquirer in a Wash ington dispatch says that in Phila delphia there will be held to-day "a conference of State leaders of the party, called by the Democratic State committee. The understanding is that the conference has been call ed for a discussion of plans for the Congressional and gubernatorial campaigns for next year and to con sider candidates for the State ticket. National Chairman A. Mitchell Pal mer and Joseph F. Guffey, acting State chairman, will attend the con ference." The dispatch from the Cap ital also says: "In the discussion of the Democratic Congressmen here to-day Representative M. Clyde Kelly, of Pittsburgh, was suggested as a probable candidate for Lieuten ant Governor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Kelly, who was formerly a Republican and later a Hull Moos er, was elected to Congress last fall as a Progressive, with the Democratic endorsement. Vance C. McCormick is the -choice of nearly all of the Democratic Congressmen for the nomination for Governor. All of the members of the Democratic delega tion in the House will be candidates for re-election. The Democratic members who will attend the Phila delphia conference are Representa tives Guy E. Campbell, of Pittsburgh; A. R. Brodbcck, of Hanover; J. V. Lesher, of Sunbury; Bruce F. Ster ling, of Unlontown; A. G. Dewalt, of Allentown, and H. J. Steele, of Easton." —This is something to bear in mind in connection with the pri mary results: There Is a provision in the primary election ballot which states that under certain conditions a candidate on the nonpartisan ballot can be practically elected if lie polls a sufficient vote at the primaries as his name will be the only one certi fied for the general election ballot. Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the State Department puts it this way: "To be a sole candidate on a ballot for the general election a man must have more than one-half of the vote cast for the office at the primaries and more than one-half of the total number of ballots passed out by the judges. The total number of ballots Is to be ascertained from the voters' check list." —Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh Is not expected to return to the State Capitol until late next week, possibly until October 1. While nothing has been given out at his offices It is un derstood that all engagements for the next four or five days have been set aside and that the Governor goes to-day to Maine to work out some proclamations and to close his sum mer cottage. The Governor came home a week earlier than ho expected because of the death of Adjutant HAHRISBTJRG tSSfta TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT By Briggs . MATCHES VWE KIM \ TH^T CORNJ C/ NXAKE. CIGAROOTS S , LL< OFF GGSJ ' = 5 I'VR OUTA THIS CORM \ gooD* ARTHUR JGJSK R — SILK AM - AM-'- A*- ) ; WS'r&fil/ = £ 0% ( WVIKIT' 1 SMOKE- WE CAN/ S V 1 • I BETCHA . —' T- _ W wffiw'h q// ~~ General Stewart. The departure of the Governor for Maine means that there will he no appointments of any importance announced for a while at least. —Col. Frank D. Beary, of Allen town, who has been entrusted with the task of organizing the Keserve Milllia by Governor Brumbaugh, is regarded as the man mostly likely to be selected for Adjutant General. He has never been active in politics, but devoted his attention entirely to the military end under General Stew art, whose right hand ho was in Guard affairs. Governor Brumbaugh said he would not make any appoint ment for some time. —James E. Roderick, State Chief of Mines, has not yet interviewed Governor Brumbaugh on the Govern or's reported request to him to give way to a young man. The Chief declines to talk and is awaiting the Governor's next move, which is like ly to occur about October 1. —State Commissioner of Health Dixon in a statement sent from Mont Alto last night disposed of the re ports that he would resign. The doc tor will leave to-day or to-morrow for his home at Bryn Mawr and will be back at the Capitol soon. The statement issued says: "Dr. Dixon has. no intention of resigning and never had any. The rumor that he would resign was brought to the at tention of the department several days ago and specifically and emphat ically denied. The facts are that Dr. Dixon believes himself and the Gov ernor's office to be in perfect accord. Only a short time ago the Govern or's private secretary visited Mont Alto and assured Dr. Dixon that he had been instructed in the Govern or's absence from the State to let him know that Governor Brumbaugh was planning a closer co-operation in public health matters than has been possible during the busy days of the legislative session. EDITORIAL COMMENT Pacifists can not hold a meeting, seems, without disturbing the peace —Chicago Daily News. In her negotiations with Germany Argentina is now midway between the Lusitania and'the Arabic stage. —Boston Transcript. Since April, 167,780 Teutons of military age have begun extended vacations in France, England and Italy.—Wall Street Journal. Those who contend that "democ racy is a bad war-maker" are not mailing out such a bad case for de mocracy as they may believe. —Ap- peal to Reason. SAUCE FOR GANDER The car shortage, one of the most vexatious problems with which oper ating and traffic men have to de<l, has been reduced 70 per cent, through the co-operation of the rail roads, according to President Fair fax Harrison of the Southern rail way. This was accomplished as a direct result of the government's appeal to the railway executives to aid ir. solving tho transportation problems of the war, and it was done by eliminating wasteful competition. The effect has been to enable the railroads to haul an enormous .n --creiise tonnage with the same equip ment. It the railroad presidents had been guilty of such a saving a few months ago all of them would have been sent to the penitentiary. The gov ernment permits the railroads to work for it, but not for themselves and their stockholders. That is the leason the country is getting efficient service now, and it is also the reason why the stockholders of many rail road corporations don't know what a dividend looks like. While the wai ts demonstrating other things it ought to emphasize the fact, rec ognized by our ancestors, that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. —From the St. Louis Times. MAKE OWN BARRELS In Farm and Fireside, a writer sr.ys: "For twelve years apple grow ers here in Uwrence county, Ohio, have been buying cooperage to make their own barrels at home before the time for picking. We have them ready when needed, and we save In several ways. Generally the barrels are better than those made in fac tories that are rushed with orders. We also get our barrels for less money. Sometimes as much as 10 or 13 cents is saved on each barrel. The material can be hauled much cheaper than barrels that are set up, and can also be stored In less Hpaee. If one Is short of storage space he can make up his barrels a short time before they are to bo used. Where the orchards are located several miles away from the shipping point, we lind It a great saving to haul the material rather than tho ready-made I barrels." THE PEOPLE'S FORUM A BOY SCOUT 7 o the Editor of the Telegraph: I am a resident of Briggs street and a contributor to the Boy Scout campaign fund. The other day 1 saw a number of youths drag some prop erty away from in front of a neigh bor s houso and leave it in the mid dle of the street. About that time up came a little Boy Scout, in uni form. Immediately he saw what was doing and despite his size compelled the larger boys by sheer force of will to take back the property they were dragging away and gave them a dressing down into the bargain. X thought others who contributed to this fund ought to know to what good purpose their money is being spent. This little lad was filled with the Scout spirit. Doubtless one of these days he will blossom out Into a fine type of citizen. Hut what of the lads who are headed in the other direction? B. R. IGGS. THE CHIEF AND THE THEATER To the Editor of the Telegraph: . I T, n ,^ ,n your Paper that Chief of Police Wetzel, when lie was asked concerning what he thought of the burlesque shows at the Orpheum. said he had seen them and they are all right. Perhaps the show the chief attended was, for I cannot speak from experience, but how about the pictures that advertised it in front of the theater? I do not believe that some of them would be admitted to the mails. If they illus trate the character of the show within, then certain.y the chief and a good many people would not agree as to the character of the burlesque companies appearing in Harrigburg Now I am not a prude. L enjoy a good show as m\ich as Anybody, likewise I detest a poor one as OUR CHILDREN "To the men who are represent ing this country in the Senate, the House of Representatives and the various departments of government: " 'These be our children you are taking from us. The cause is Just. It is only right that they should go. But although they are but units to you, to us they arc life itself. There fore: " 'What will you do for them when they have atone out to light? " ''Will you give them time to train or are you going to send them, undifiplinod. against tho most high ly trained fighting men in the world? " 'We are giving everything we have. You are talking to us about conservation of food. What are you Joins to conserve the lives we are putting in your hands? " 'Are you ready to give our boys a fair chance? " 'That is not only a question. It is a prayer for all the mothers of this rountry. " 'Surely, dear God, it is not too much to ask.' " —Mary'Roberts Rinehart. FOOD SUPPLIES The Department of Agriculture authorizes the following: There is no truth in a widely cir culated statement that the govern ment expects io take food supplies from any family. Hoth the Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture Join in a statement to counteract what seems to be. a deliberate propaganda to the effect that the government intends to take from every family all canned goods put up in excess of 100 quarts. This is only, one of the variations of the rumor, which has been wide ly circulated. Another statement Is that the government has been urging the canning, drying, and preserving of fruits and vegetables so thet they will be In a convenient form for the government to handle and transport when it takes them away from the people. Further elaboration is that these goods are to be taken away from the American homes and shipped to England. NO GOOD Mary had a sweetheart who was not altogether acceptable to her par ents. and she got many quiet hints as to giving him his dismissal. These hints, however, went altogether un heeded, and at length her father took the bull by the horns and spoke out quite plainly on the subject. "Dooke here. Mary. T don;t like that young fellow coming here so much. Next time he pays a visit just give him the cold shoulder." Mary smiled, showed her teeth prettily, laid her hand coaxingly on her father's arm. and said: "13ut, papa, what good would that do? He's a vegetarian."—Cleveland i Plain Dealer. heartily as anybody. And that is the reason 1 protest against the kind of stuff they foist on the public every Thursday night. What I would like to see in Har risburg is a Saturday morning or afternoon moving picture perform ance especially adapted to children. I believe the movies can be made much more appealing to little folks if some such step is taken. C. N. B. THE BURLESQUE SHOWS To the Editor of the Telegraph: I have read with much amusement the provincial letters and editorials appearing in The Patriot and News as to the extremely vicious character of the Thursday shows and conse quently of the equally vicious char acter of the. two thousand young and old men who go to see them, and from their attendance demand their continuance. Are a few cranks or a preacher who maintains a poolroom and bowling alley where the merest boys congregate and annoy the neighbors and working men who need sleep to be given consideration over the overwhelming demands of the majority? None of these writers have ever seen a first-class comic opera, when the first women of the land attend—wives, mothers, sisters and old maids—and no one says a word, and when they wore tights exclusively, their limbs, stuffed and plain, the girls were just about as attractive as those in our Thursday I shows. If you don't like the show, stay away. It won't run after you. The worst enemies this town has are j its editorial and news writers, who are continually writing how immoral I Harrisburg is. When you try to IGibboneyise a city, you fail, as he did in Philadelphia. 1 FAIR PLAY. GERMANY HARD HIT To get some idea of how hard Germany has been hit by the war, imagine about half of the ten mil lions of men called to the colors in ■ the United States as wiped out. | Imagine things as steadily going | against us and with no hope of vic tory after the sacrifice of millions of jour boys and billions of treasure. i Such, as indicated by figures fur inished by the Associated Press, must be the condition of Germany. Since the beginning of the war that coun try has called 10.fi00.000 men into j military service. Of this number 4,- I 000,000 have been killed, permanent- : c J n^l sn! ' led or ,ahen Prisoner, while j 500,000 more wounded ar6 under > treatment in hospitals. Germany's war loans aggregate in the neighbor hood of twelve billions. Under these | conditions, tho Prussian autocracy j finds four-fifths of the people of the world arrayed against it, with a ; wealth of nearly $500,000,000,000, | compared with $134,000,000,000 for i the central allies.—Pittsburgh Post. WHY THE DELAY? Greenberg had taken out an insur ance policy on his stock of Roods, and three hours later a Are broke out which consumed building and contents. The company could find no ground on which to refuse pay ment. but in sending tlio check the following was included in the letter: "We note that your policy was issued at noon on Thursday and the fire did not take place till 3 o'clock tho same day.—Why the delay?"— Ch icago News. SEPTEMBER Whispering winds kiss the hills of September. Thistledown phantoms drive over the lawn. Red glows the ivy like a ghost-light ed ember. Shrouded in mist breaks the slow coming dawn. Sunlighted vistas the woodland dis closes. Sleeping In shadows the still lake reposes. Gone Is the summer, its sweets and its roses. Harvest is past and summer Is , gone. Plaintively sighing the brown leaves are falling. •Sadly the wood dove mourns all the day long. In thp dim starlight the katydid's calling Hushes In slumber the brook and its song. Gone are the sowers find ended their weeping, Gone are the gleaners and finished their renping, Blossoms and bee* with the song birds are sleeping. Harvest Is pnst and tho summer Is gone. —Robert J. Burdette. SEPTEMBER 20, 1917, LABOR NOTES Youngstown (Ohio) factory work ers in one month received $5,795,- 000 in wages. A strike of railway and street railway employes which has been in progress in New South Wales, Aus tralia, now affects 20,000 men, and is seriously hampering the coal mines and other industries. The Pacific-American fisheries has signed an agreement with all crafts and raised wages 16V4 cents an hour for mechanics and 9',4 for helpers. The manager of a Marylebone (London, Kngland) firm of printers told an appeal tribunal that women were being instructed as compositors, but the trade union refused to al low their employment. Two thousand boxmakers of Kan sas City, who went on a strike when one of their number was discharged, have since been organized by union officials and are now demanding a higher rate of pay. Machinists employed in the loco motive department of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad have secured the eight-hour day and raised wages 7V4 cents an hour, making the rate 53 cents. Beer Is the chief industry of Ba varia. Owing to shortage of labor, malt, hops and barley. It has been found necessary to consider the shut ting down of a large number of breweries at the end of the summer. Possibility of important United States government contracts being impeded seriously by labor disputes virtually is eliminated by the crea tion of a special commission with extraordinary powers to settle indus trial troubles. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH I'fra CONSOLATION \ Mrs. Arm ~strong had to P ay eight dol- I lars a day for a C / nurse when her husband war. ill. r< That's a pret stiff sum, but I : a funeral would 1 havc cost her more. THE BATS MAN'S _. i. LAMENT. l l^ f care not where the fielders I'll l \ " Their padded palms In . *li\\ The balls I h a m m e r ' Will always drop right O there. TO BE SURE. This garden ing is hard work. Persevere, old fman, persevere. Somo of your descenda nts may be able to figure as Daugh ters of the Backyard Gar deners of 1917. EVEN IN BIRDVILLE. Parent— No Horace, you can't have any worms until you cat all at your bird seedi iEitratng (Mjat Harrisburg's strenuous primary election yesterday was the first to be held on a Wednesday In the rccoi J lection of some of the oldest voters and tho change made In order to avoid a Jewish holiday appears to have met with more or less favor, although there are still some pcoplo who cling: to the Idea that Satur day is as much the day for a primary as Tuesday for a general election. In years gone by primaries used to ] be held in Harrisburg on the nights | fixed by the political commitees. Old j newspapers tell of town meetings for I nomination of candidates being held in taverns, especially Captain Lee's, i which occupied the site of an old Jones and Commonwealth, now the Dauphin building. Later on open nir caucus meetings were held in Market Square and when Harrlsbur.'j became large enough for tl\e division into two wards," the North and the South, these meetings were held in schoolhouses. Often they were non partisan, regular town meetings, but sixty or seventy years ago the rise ol parties caused separate primaries to be held. Then the use of Saturday came into vogue because the workers could get men who were attendin; fraternal and other meetings or other nights to attend and the bulk ot the population was more apt ti take an interest when the week'? work was done. However, the pri. Mary elections were generally helc by the various parties on different nights and it was not until the tiuw of the uniform primary act of 1901 that one day for all elections wa: fixed. Kven then there were som< who shook heads over the change predicting clashes such as had oc curred in former years or wher Democratic and Republican parade! bumped each other. The uniforn primary advocates started out witl the Saturday idea, but Tuesday wai soon established and continued unti this year. The history of primuij elections in Harrisburg is of immense local interest with occasional law suits, some fights, certain damage, properties and quite a few batterec heads. But now the State runs -pri maries as it does general election 1 and interference with election laws often leads to 223 Walnut street ot Cherry Hill. The use of the term "buddy" meaning a side partner, fellov worker or colleague on a job, ten mate or pal, has been commoi enough in this State, but it lias re mained for Compensation Comis sioner James W. Leech to place i on record in a formal decision o State board. Ordinarily one of tlv more common terms denoting such relationship of men is employed, bu the commissioner comes from a coa mining county himself and to em ploy the word seemed natural in i coal mine compensation case. This is the way lie used it. "The claiman testified that on the first day h worked eight hourH and on the sec ond three and one-half hours, unti he was injured, and that some o the cars he loaded on the second day were credited to his buddy." To-mbrrow's shoot at West Fair view, in which shooters from Harris burg and other places will particl pate, will be one of unusual interes because it will be for blood betweei the marksman of the Cumberlani county town and the Harrisburgers West Fairview is one of the mos remarkable towns in regard to shoot ing in the country. For over i century it has been the home o splendid shots and they say that th< first things boys reach for after the are born is a gun. There are Severn families which have had three gen .ationri of marksmen and Wes Fairview shoots attract attentio from marksmen in many counties. When it comes down to being fool hardy the fellows who rijle moto cycles on the Riverside road withou holding to the handle bars take th prize. In spite of the heavy auto mobile traffic on that highway ever day there are some piebald idots wh persist in riding cycles at high speoi without touching the bars as a sigi of their skill. Attention of Stat Police watching for motor traffl violations could very well be devotei to the River road. Dauphin county sportsmen sa: that the blackbirds must have beer furnished with early copies of th new game code by Dr. Kalbfus bo cause there are fewer blackbird around than usual. Ordinarily abou the first of October the blackbird start south, but this year tlio mobl ligation caught the war spirit am was earlier than usual. The num her of birds being shot is not large The State Public Service Corn mission receives some odd requests hut the record was establish! d a fe\ days ago when a man wrote askini that a hearing be postponed. H said that he was vitally interests! and that it was important for hin to he present. He added that h could not be on hand as lie was I: ,ia 11. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Joseph Pennell, the noted artisi has been engaged by the govern ment to make sketches of the Frank ford arsenal and other military es tftblishments. —Supreme Court Justice Mc Kenna, who may retire soon, is native of Philadelphia. —Dr. Charles B. Penrose, brothe of the Senator, who suffered fractured leg some weeks ago, mad a trip through several hundred mile of woods this month. —Senator Elmer Warner, c Weatherly, has offered the first re ward for an American soldier, wh captures a German. It will b SI,OOO. —Frank R. Shattuck, new head e the State Censor Board, sits in n many of the picture tests himsel preferring personal knowledge aboi reels. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is furnishin numerous boilers for governmer camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Until the railroad came goo<! brought down the river in arks ha to be unloaded here and sent eas and south by stage or mules becaut of the rafrids In the Susquehanna. HERE, TOO A Dartford (England) farmer re cently advertised that he had severe acres of cabbages which could b had "free of charge simply for <h asking." It Is a spirit like this whic will enable England and her allie to win the war. The examnlc of thl English farmer may be cofnmende to some farmers on T/ong Island an elsewhere who plow under vegetable because they could not get what the deemed a reasonable price. York World, ~ ' *
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