14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PHIXTI!G CO., Telmrnph Building:, Federal Sqnnrr. E.J. STACKPOL.E, Prfi'f tr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press -is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper and also th 4 local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. stSfSBSSir-*. By carriers, ten cents a i week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 21 Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition cor rupt thee, no example sway thee, no persuasion move thee to do anything ivhich thou ltnowcst to be evil. — FRANKLIN. WHERE AUTHORITY LIES CONSIDERABLE attention has been given the past few days to the quality and character of theatrical and outdoor amusements, 1 in Harrisburg and apparently with very good reason. But has it oc curred to those who are criticising • tho authorities for permitting such a state of affairs that the man they have been urging for mayor of Harrisburg is acting mayor at this time, and that a word from him would put an end to the trouble? Would Mayor Gorgas be any more careful about the quality of our amusements than Acting Mayor Gorgas? We hope the weather man will trot out ' a few more "melancholy days" like this one. CHEER UP CHEER up, you friends and rela tives of the lads who yesterday marched away to "do their bit" for Uncle Sam. These lads are not going to be led like helpless lambs , to the slaughter. If the statistics of the French army are carried out in our own, nine out of every ten of them will come marching home again all the better for their experi ence. Of course, this Is poor con- j solation for the mother or sweet heart who fears her boy may be the unlucky tenth, but even at home, at least, one out of each ten of them would suffer injury, sickness or death in one form or another, so that the risk of war, under modern condi tions, with disease reduced to a mini mum and hospital care of the most highly developed character lavished upon the soldier who needs it, is not so precarious as in some lines of In dustrial endeavor. Indeed, the health of the man in the ranks will be far more studiously cared for than had ho continued in ' civic life. The dentist, the physician, even the chiropodist, are on his trail continually. The dread of typhoid has been removed. Other diseases have been reduced to a minimum. His food is plentiful and wholesome, carefully devised to meet the neces sities of his healthful outdoor life. The only big chance he takes Is with the death-dealing devices of the enemy and these he will not be called I upon to face until he Is trained to! the point where he can fight under conditions that will make him a bet ter soldier than yiose he must op pose. But even then he will be in danger only a part of the time. The soldier is not always under fire. A brief period at the front and a long rest back of the lines is the order. Knowledge of these conditions, of course, will not fill the vacant place at table nor bring back the lad who has gone away. The thought that the young soldier is happy and healthy in his new life will not cure the ach- Jng heart nor lull the lonely soul, but it ought to go a long way to ward comforting those who have been called upon to send their loved ones to the training camps., One thins is certain, the makers of school geographies are going to have a profitable season after the war is over. . KEEP THE ARMY SUPPLIED CONGRESSMAN KKEIDER, ad dressing the Chamber of Com merce conference in Atlantic City Wednesday, advocated the pas sage of law which would permit the arrest on a charge of treason of any employer who locks out his men en gaged either in the manufacture or shipment of goods designed for the United Stales Army during the war, or any set of men engaged in such wotk who go on strike. Mr. Kreider said that all such disputes should be settled by arbitration, so long as war exists, at least, and that the Fed eral conciliation board should be charged with the work of bringing both parties to an agreement. Congressman Kreider's views will be accepted by most Americans. We have an army in the field, if it is not properly supplied by those of us FRIDAY EVENING, who remain at home It will be de feated. If its munitions do not ar rive on time the soldiers may be left helpless in the face of German attack. The folks back home who are guilty of holding up supplies not only endanger the lives of our sol diers, but they give "aid and com fort" to tho enemy. That being true, (hero must bo no lockouts or strikes during tho war In industries upon which our soldiers are depending. Arbitration should bo made compul sory. Americans would have llttlo sympathy for either employers or employes who would place the lives of our soldiers In Jeopardy In order to thresh out by lockout or strike differences that could settled by arbitration. _Congressman Krelder 4s well able to speak In this vein. He has never had serious labor troubles in the factories of which ho is the head, for the reason that he has been and j is always ready to listen with reason to any proposals that aro made toj him. He had In operation a well- i tried workmen's compensation sys-! tern before the State law enforcing, such a system was enacted. He '• knows the value and the wisdom of' intelligent arbitration. Others le3s wise must learn the lesson during this war. News from the cantonments is that the drafted men are not taking it nearly so hard as the folks back home. PLANT A TREE PLANT a tree this fall. If you have a rear yard sufficiently large, let it be a fruit tree. If your lawn or the curb in front of your house is bare, put in a shade tree. In yesterday's issue the Telegraph published a list of the kinds of trees that are best suited for this climate. They were chosen by an expert. The list provides ample selection to meet any condition or any taste. The recent storm left many oppor tunities for tree planting, both on private property and in public places. Along the River Front a large num ber of our trees were shattered and others badly broken. Young trees must be set out to take the places of these. The same applies to Capitol Park. The beautiful trees that have adorned it for so long are growing old, many of them, and thought for the future should prompt the setting out of saplings. Trees aro a city's cheapest and most beautiful ornament. The street that has none is bare and to some degree unattractive, even though its buildings be most imposing. On the other hand, even the most humble thoroughfare is beautiful and given a "homey" look by a planting of well I cultivated trees. The most attrac tive streets in Harrisburg are those I that have most trees. The opposite is also true. Plant a tree this fall and help make Harrisburg more beautiful and a better place In which to live. According to news dispatches, Em peror Charles has left for the Italian front and the obliging General Co dorna is trying to make his Journey as short as possible. IDIOTIC EXPENDITURES WITH half the world starving, with the Red Cross appealing for funds to carry on its work of mercy, with the nation fac ing its greatest crisis and the cry go ing up for liberal Investments in Lib erty Bonds, we read in a morning i newspaper, under flaring headlines, ai; dispatch from Colorado Springs giv-} ing account of a "fashionable dog! wedding" attended by the "local j smart set and their blue-blooded i canines." Says the account: The ceremony marks the con nubial union of Rufus of Wulmer a blue-blooded Pekinese spaniel' to a young canine lady of equai high degree. Miss IJahlee Winks Chin Chin, daughter of Nowata Li Chee and Pekin Chusan, both of Pekin, China. Covers were laid lor several guests, representing the wealth and fashion of dogf dom In this city. We are gravfcly informed that the "bride" wore "gorgetto crepe Valen ciennes lace, with a bodice cut in the style of Marie Antoinette," and a pearl necklace, while the "bride groom wore a dog collar studded with diamonds." The wedding cards were "expensively engraved." The guests "dined from sliver plates and drank their cream from expensive llaviland china." What rot! Too bad that there are those in America who would squan der their riches in this fashion. Too bad that telegraph tolls and printers' ink should be wasted by any news paper for such a story. It is rubbish of this sort that encourages social ism and furnishes material for the curbstone ranter. Occurrences of this kind bring wealth Into ill-repute and stir up. class feeling. Fortunate, in deed, Is It for America that all of our wealthy people are not of that type and that "dog weddings" and idiotic performances of the kind are the exception and not the rule. Too bad that a law cannot be de vised to relieve such folks of tho riches they do not know how to use. Too bad that Dr. Orth is to retire as head of the State Lunatic Hos pital; he would have made such an ideal custodian for the Colorado Springs idiots and their paretic 'PMUVOIFTACUAA By the Ex-Commlttecman Pennsylvania's primary election bids fair to have far more extensive effects on next year's state elections than predicted by many of the men who have been observing the trend of politics in tho Keystone State for tha last six weeks. Not only will there be movements of Importance In the Republican party, but the tights between Democratic factions in some counties, the refusal of leaders to make even a truce and the collapse of the party organizations In several cities Indicate that the Democracy of Pennsylvania has Internal troubles of Its own. The meeting of the Democratic congressmen and leaders last night in Philadelphia, while estenslbly to honor ex-State Chairman Roland 8. Morris, tho latest Democrat to be I gotten out of tho way by a foreign | appointment; was really to see If tho I party squabbles could not bo ended. Mr. Morris goes as ambassador to | Japan and the distinctly machine element is now in control of the ' party organizations in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In both of those cities, however, as in many of the Interior counties, there aro Demo crats who are on the warpath over tho manner In which federal patron age has been doled out, a state which the leaders consider deplorable in view of the fact that they have been assuring President Wilson that the party is united and contented and just bubbling over with enthusiasm for Secretary of Labor Wilson or whoever the President may pick for gubernatorial candidate and at a time when the headquarters sleuths are hunting funds. From all accounts, the conference was not an amlabU affair, as therfe were some men who couid not be induced to see the appointments in the same light as the slate committee of the inside ring. The warrant issued for Mayor Tliomas B. Smith and other men in Philadelphia in connection with the Fifth ward battle in Philadelphia; the increase of power in councils by the Smith-Vare alliance, and the for mation of the anticontractors party to light certain candidates backed by the Vares, bid fair to give Phila delphia one of the most strenuous fall campaigns for a long time. An interesting feature or the Philadel phia election was the judicial pri mary. —Two of the common pleas Judges whose terms expire and who were candidates for re-election—F. Ama ileu Bregy, president judge of court No. 1, and Charles Y. Audenrled, president judge of court No. 4, were virtually elected. Having received more than 50 per cent, of all votes cast, they are assured under the uni form primary law of a "sole nomi nation" on the November ballot. The otiier judicial aspirants for succes sion to themselves, William C. Fer guson and Charles B. McMichael, court No. 3; William H. Staake and John Monaghan, court No. 5, and Edward A. Anderson and Joseph F. Lamorelle, orphans' court, must face .the electorate in November in com petition with the candidates on the ticket with them at the primary who received the next highest number of votes. These candidates are Fred erick Boyer and J. L. Breitinger, court No. 3; Eugene C. Bonniwell and Frederjck S. Drake, court No. 5, and Robert F. Bonner and William C. Lynch, orphans' court. —The Pittsburgh battle may be called a draw with the Penrose man having a shade the better. Babcock and Magee will fight it out. The Philadelphia Ledger in a special says: "What Kerr will do in the pending fight between Babcock and Magee is not clear. Formerly a close po litical friend of Magee, whose sup port he had while running for coun cil, he now is bitterly resentful be cause of the generally acknowledged fact that Magee had promised to back Kerr for mayor and then sud denly decided to run himself. But Kc-rr is also a political enemy of the present mayor, Joseph G. Armstrong, who is allied with Babcock and Pen rose. Kerr to-day was noncommittal, but persons who know him well ex press the op'nion that his following will be turned fjuietly in Babcock's direction. Persons not interested in factional politics for the most part voted for Kerr in the primary. No man can say where their votes will go in the election." —The vote on the Judiciary fight which gave Allegheny some slrow re ve:vls candidates standing in the fol lowing order: Josiah Cohen, Thomas J. Ford, John D. Shafer, T. D.- Car nishan, J. M. Swearlngen, Jumes B. Drew, Charles H. Kline, John M. Dunn, W. A. Griffith and N. K. Daugherty. The incumbents are Judges Cohen, Carnalian, Ford, Shafer and Swearlngen. The returns indicate that County Court Judge Drew and State Senator Kline are the closest competitors to the pres ent judges, but the five men now occupying seats on the common pleas bench are iio far in the lead that it is not expected that their positions will be materially changed. Little interest was shown in the Demo cratic primaries, as the county Is overwhelmingly Republican. Coro ner S. C. Jamison was renominated and W. S. Haddock is Republican candidate for sheriff. —Other judicial contests resulted as follows: Chester—William Butler, Jr. Clinton, Cameron and Elk—R. B. McCormick. Columbia and Montour—John G. Harman. ;>auphin—S. J. M. McCarrell. Delaware —William B. Broomall and Albert B. MacDade. One to be elected. Fayette—John Q. Van Swearlngen; orphans' court, James C. Work. Luzerne —Henry A. Fuller. Montgomery—Aaron S. Swartz. Northampton—Russell C. Stewart. Susquehanna-—H. A. Denney, who will have opposition. Crawford and Erie are to be heard from. Schuylkill—lTarry O. Bechtel and diaries E. Berger, incumbents; John R. Jones and James Bell. Two to be elected. —Archibald Johnston got 80 per cent, of the votes polled for mayor of Bethlehem. —Bedford and Clinton have dry candidates for associate judge and Union appears to have named "wets." —Alderman A. H. Heldenrlch will be the next mayor of Hazleton. He downed Mayor Harvey. —Senator T. Larry Eyre appears to have nominated G. W. DeWees, his candidate for controller of Ches ter county, in a canter. —Prothonotary Frederick, a Brum ibaogh appointee, was renominated |in Montgomery. —James J. Ferries Is the Demo cratic candidate for Jury commis sioner in Lancaster. —Judge Russel C. Stewart got 8S per cent, of the votes In North ampton. -—Wllkes-Barre appears to have Iliad u fw tlffhtn and so did Scrantnn. HARJUSBURG HfwjglH TTTLEGRAPH CINCHING IT *:■ By Briggs ' /— ——— — *' k° Conyrlcbted Ul? by Th* Tribune Auoe. (N*w York TrlbuM>- The primary was strenuous as usual in the anthracite region. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can says Judge Prather was renomi nated in Crawford. EDITORIAL COHMENT ~ War was not forced on the Kaiser, but peace will be.-4-Wall Street Journal. As a sinecure in weary hot weath er days that of German Minister of the Colonies has its unquestioned charms. Philadelphia Evening Ledger. It is now announced that the Kaiser has decided to wage a more relentless submarine warfare. Let 'er go, Bill. It'll all be in the itemized statement at the end of the war.— New York Morning Telegraph. Of course, we are confident that our Army will ultimately sock it to the Hindenburg hOBt, but so far fif teen citizens of Houston constitute its toll. —Houston Post. ECONOMIC GROPING It is true, as stated by President Rhett, of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, that "business has been groping in the dark because it finds the very foundations of com merce have been upturned, and de mand and supply can no longer he permitted to control prices, because the extraordinary demands of the Government have completely unbal anced the scales.' • With the ordinary laws of com merce suspended, the search for a substitute has necessarily been diffi cult. Such pricefixing as had oc curred iai largely experimental. The great meeting of farmers in Chicago avers that the price fixed for wheat is so low as to discourage produc tion, although a few years ago half the price would have meant an era of abnormal prosperity. The buying power of a dollar changes rapidly in these days. There is a readjust ment in terms rather than in the exchange value of commodities. If six pounds of cotton still buy a bushel of wheat, there is little change in basic relations so far as the cot ton producer and the wheat grower are concerned. But it takes time for the whole Industrial establish ment of the nation, and in the mean time many suffer. The government is attempting to cquullze conditions as fast as possible. Too much should not be expected. It is right and proper, however, to expect from leaders of business help and guidance and the government Is getting both. We are living Indeed in an age of American miracles, the half of which have not been told; and not the least of these miracles will be the employment of fair and equitable rrtlticinl administration as a substi tute for natural laws which have been shaken Into numbness by tho world castrophe.—Evening Ledger, Philadelphia. SEPTEMBER SIGHS September weather, we're agreed. Is nearly Indefectible, Inimitable, and indeed Deliclously delectable; But, since its loveliness contains The signs of summer's decadence. We greet it with lugubrious strains. By all poetic precedents. The color of the turning leaf Outvies ail soft vernalitles, And yet we greet the thing with grief, And marked uncordlallties. The nights are fine for sleep, we know, * • The days are free from tor rid n ess— Then why these wailing words of woe And plaintive howls of horrldness? To treat September thus, betrays An intellectual arldness; Why mourn the season that displays The virtues of preparedness? It is the best of all the year, Nor heat nor cold can pen you In; And when I hear you grieve, I fear Your sorrow Isn't genuine! Now hopes tl>e squirrel to confide His harvest to his granary— Uniess the hunter gets his hide And sends it to the tannery. Now go our apples to the mill, And to the school our progeny: O lovely month! Who hates thee will Plead guilty to misogyny! —Ted Robinson In the Cleveland Plain Deal sr. Full Garbage Can Sign of Waste .[From the literary Digest] A full garbage can is a Rood sign that the family does not know how to make the most of its food supply. The contents of our Cans should be reduced to a minimum. Our food controller, Mr. Herbert Hoover, re cently : ent a letter to several cities, asking for data regarding the com parative amounts of garbage collect ed this year and last. A reduction will be looked upon as Indicating diminution in food waste. Further, after the quantity of garbage has been made as small as possible, it is desirable to dispose of it in such a way as to utilize all the valuable substances that it contains, either for feeding animals or for the extraction of fats and fertilizing materials. The following circular letter, addressed to tho mayors of large cities having no reduction plants, by the United States Department of Agriculture, is quoted by an editorial writer In The Municipal Journal (New York, Au gust ): "This department desires to bring to your attention the matter of the conservation of the garbage in your city. At the present time .there ex ists throughout the world a short age of.both fats and fertilizer ma terials. This situation promises to grow more serious as the war in Europe continues, it is, therefore, a matter of prime Importance that all available sources of both of these materials should be used to the best advantage. Garbage contains on the average about 2 per cent, of grease and about 20 per cent, of tankage, the latter having valuable properties as a fertilizer material. Any method of disposal of garbage In large cities which does not recover both the grease and the tankage Is uneconom ic and particularly deplorable in the present circumstances. We wish, BROKEN EGGS [From the Columbus (Ohio) Dis patch.] A Boston man who is apt at mathematics has figured it out that if greater care were exercised In the matter of handling eggs they would not cost nearly so much as at pres ent. In other words, his calculations show that while we pay for a doi'.en eggs, we get only nine and a half of them, the breakag'e in transit amounting to two and half eggs to the dozen, and, of course, the con sumer of the unbroken eggs, If the expression will be allowed, must pay for the eggs that arc broken before they reach the consumer. There Is a good deal In the con tention. The reckless handling of freight is a heavy burden of expense. Carelessness costs J lot of money in more directions than eggward. All of us are annually called upon to pay for broken crates, and spilled beans, and lost articles of a hundred kinds, just as those who pay their accounts at the grocery must also pay the accounts of those who refuse to pay. Tho foreigners have long com plained at our carelessness In crating and packing. In fact, the attention paid to crating and packing by the foreigners gave them the markets of South America. To this day one can hear the merchants and Importers of South America claiming that they would deal In this country but for the fact that our exporters do not know how to crate and pack goods, with the result that the goodV In variably arrive In bad shape. We are not familiar enough with the egg trade to offer suggestions as to crat ing, but the chances are that im provements could be made In present methods just as costs could he les sened by more care being exercised In handling all kinds of goods. BUSINESS AWOKE Victory in the great struggle In which we are engaged depends large ly' on the power, Intelligence and speed of the industry of the United States; upon our ability to produce faster and better than ever before the things necessary to efficient war fare. .This convention of American businssmen should show, not to our people alcne but to the whole world, In what spirit and with what deter mination business faces tho tasks ahead of us. —R. G. Rhett, presVlent United States Chamber of Com m tor pa. therefore, to urge upon your con sideration the advisability of so treating the garbage from your city as to insure the recovery of its val uable constituents. That this may be made a source of profit to a mu nicipality has been proved by num bers of cities in the United States where municipal rendering plants have.been erected, and in a number of others private plants are now operating and paying dividends on' the investments. We shall be glad to furnish you with any further in formation at our disposal on the sub- ■ ject, upon request." The editor who quotes the above ts of the opinion that the utilization of garbage for animal food, where pos sible, is to be preferred to the meth od advised by the department. He says: "A garbage reduction plant ts a very expensive one to construct, and it requires several months—possibly a year—to build one. It is not, there fore, a matter to be decided upon hastily, and we advise each ctty to give careful consideration to all phases of the subject before it adopts such a plan. For instance, the fact that the amount of garbage is known to have been reduced by 20 to 25 per cent, this year in several cities very probably means that the fats and other matters in the garbage that furnish the valuable products are being reduced by at least double this percentage—enough, possibly, to wipe out all profit from the pro cess. We do not believe that even the Secretary of Agriculture would advise ctties to go into a losing ven ture for the purpose of saving an uncertain amount of food waste, with a possibility (a hope, let us say) that the war will be over before the plant could begin to operate The hog seems to us a more favor able method of utilizing garbage." LITTLE GRAY SHADOWS Fair Is the story that our nursey, Nannie. Tells to the little ones crowding about; Little brown Buzzy and Annie, And Ragsy, the pup, with his ton gue hanging out. Fair Is the story of echoes of laugh ter Iying asloep till the shadows como down, Bringing the drowsy notes following after. Waking the echoes by Slumberland Town. Hunting their silver notes out of the grasses, Weaving them Into a mantle of dreams; Stealing the sleep from the wind as it passes. Gleaning the magic of fairy moon beams. Down the brown hedgerows tho shadows come creeping, Bringing the echoes of laughter, and things Meant to deck cradles where babies are sleeping, Riding as noiseless as butterfly wings. Pausing to rest on the window ledge lightly. Falling where curtains are stirred by the breeze, Little gray shadows oome visiting nightly. Lured by the magic of low melo dies. Falling and spilling their burdens of slumber, Echoes they found where the long grasses creep, Drowsy Motes, telling their dreams without number— That Is why babies go nodding to sleep. This ia the story that our nursey, Nannie, Tells to the little ones, crowding about; Little brown Buster-Lad, Buzzy and Nannie, And Ragsy, the pup, with his ton gue hanging out. itUi tt. Iden. SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. LABOR NOTES In 1861 the first elevator was oper ated. In 1897 International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers had 5,000 members. It now has over 90,000. Melbourne (Australia) high court has ruled that an employer may dis charge a man because of member ship in a trade union. Virden (111.) Co-operative Society paid a dividend of ten per cent, to its membership on the basis of pur chases during the last quarter. Winnipeg (Canada) Typographical Union has increased wages from $22 a week to $25 for members employ ed in commercial shops. The municipal council of Dijon, France, has called upon the Cham ber of Deputies to pass a law requir ing children between 12 and 18 to work. An arbitrator appointed to look into the case of the Lane Harbor (Ireland) dockers and crane men, has advised an increase of three shillings per week in their pay.. The draymen's strike in Dublin, Ireland, has been settled through the intervention of the Lord Mayor, and an Increased wage and war bonus are to be gi.ven the men. j OUR DAILY LAUGH QUITE RIGHT What is tl largest bone in one's body? Well, 1 haven't 9tudied anatomy for a good many years and my V 1 memory isn't of h ;T\ the b ® s t. but 1 should judge if Iwr™ !iH 11 THE OFFICE vjffjjfr ,'!> TOWEL. /J TMFTA MIL, mm|i Come li.idol (his is no place //Iwy U/i I'll/I for us! /M fMW '// in [ HUBBY'S I 1 k?PIiSD. H L>* V? W;i Death gener [X . \j' ail/ o.ertakes a I\Vl' M / man at the pln " hir-a nacle of fame. ilrßlttiA L Well, lf that fi' V 5 is the case, you —r a 10118 \ time to live. CAREFUL. Had your cation yet, old man ? j"" 1 —<Nt* 1# a . Not yet I'm /< \ ; fit going to take J 3 mine the same }2 time the boss / x E. takes his. Then j( jlifil he can't see how U/ a Mfl easily the office 'yn ||jß can get along 'Ju ..vjJuS.. without me. iEbwtfaw (ttlja! "This seems like getting back home," said one of the aviation camp soldiers to a Telegraph reporter yes terday as he sat before a downtown lunch counter and stowed away two large pieces of pie. "We just got Into | town from Texas, you know, and | after what we have endured in Texas | that rough old Held down by the avi 'atlon camp near Jliddletown looks like a carefully mowed front lawn to us. And the people—why they* are as different in their treatment of a soldier,as the bright green fields and the low rolling hills of Penn sylvania are different from the sandy wastes of the Rio Grande, and the difference is just as agreeable, be lieve me. Down there the folks look upon the soldier as a person Inferior to the civilian; up here they meet us half way, with right hand stuck out, and we are made to feel that the uniform of the service is some thing any man may bs proud to wear. Down there they stick a sol dier wherever possible. A five-cent piece of pie, like I am eating here, is ten cents to the soldier, although In many places the civilian gets It for a nickel, and the soldier has no redress. He can take It or leave it alone. Up here the prices are all the same and the waiters hop around right lively to serve the man In uni form. Talk about Southern hospital ity. Why Pennsylvania hospitality has the southern variety, so far as soldiers are concerned, tied fa.st to a ton of pig iron and dropped over board in midocean. And what the soldier said Is true, at least so far as Harrisburg is con cerned. This is a patriotic commun ity. It has always held the uniform of the United States soldier in high regard, and its respect Is enhanced to-day by reason of the fact that the city has about 2,400 men In the service. So far as advancing prices to soldiers above those charged civilians, Harrisburg would not stand for that from any merchant, no merchant would think of trying to Impose any such injustice. Officials of the State draft regis tration headquarters have not yet replied to the inquiry of Provost Marshal General Crowder for their views on the suggestion that the lo cal draft boards proceed as soon as possible a.fter shipments of drafted men to camps,, started this week and to end Sunday, are completed. The subject has been taken up with of ficers of the State government and of district appeal boards and a re ply will be made shortly. Many of the boards have objected to imme diate examinations because of the general disturbance which they fear would result in business and other lines of activity and some letters coming here indicate that they would prefer to have a time fixed for be ginning examinations and that the dates for the next shipments of men to camps be announced far in ad vance. Many inquiries have been made here as to when the colored men are to be sent to camp as many drafted men are in industrial com munities and are inclined to move about from place to place. • • • W. G. Murdock, Uncle Sam's bur den befcrer at the State draft regis tration headquarters, is having his own troubles. The government re quires everyone to pay *p on time and to be good, but it takes Its own time about paying bills. Tho result is that Mr. Murdock gets calls several times a day to know how money is coming along. Nine times out o( ten the vouchers have to be sent back. The other day a set of vouch ers came along with the name of ev ery man signed by a cleric and when it went back most of the men called up on the telephone to protest. • • • Harrisburg bass fishermen an commencing to lose faith in the wide branching Susquehajina as a fishing stream. Time was when men could catch bass off the piers of the bridges or in the stream between the island and the city. The selected spots up and down the river were numerous. But lately because of the rains the fishing,has not been of the kind that is told of in the long winter even ings and an ordinary catch of bass now attracts wide attention. • • ♦ Miss Alice li. Eaton, the librarian of the Harrisburg Public Library, who Is looking after the gathering of books and cash for the libraries for the soldiers' camps, has been vis. iting nearby places in the matter. She spent yesterday at Hershey where the project has been well re ceived, and is to-day explaining the plans at Lancaster. Governor Brum baugh will issue a proclamation urg ing giving of money and good books for the libraries in a few days. The Governor has heartily endorsed the pro3ect. • # • Among visitors to Harrisburg yes terday was Col. T. J. Keenan, one of the prominent businessmen anc independents of Pittsburgh, who if giving his services as a member ol one of the district boards under the draft system. Col. Keenan speni some time at the State headquarteri here. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —R. Scott Ammerman, former member of the Legislature frorr Danville, was In the city yesterdaj In connection with State draf matters. —S. R. Tamer, active in legtsla tlve matters for railroad brother hoods, is Democratic candidate foi Sheriff in Allegheny county. —J. G. Rodgers, who becomes as sistant to the president of the Penn sylvanla railroad, has been connect ed with the company since boyhooc and worked his way up. —Dr. J. W. Murray, prominen Methodist clergyman, may become superintendent of the Erlo district —Dr. George B. Moreland, new president of the State HomeopathW Society, lives in Pittsburgh, where he has practiced for years. DO YOU KNOW ] That Harrteburg machinists have been called to a number . of the big new munition plant* because of their skill? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Harris outlined three street; when he had established the Perry They were what are now Front street, Dcrry street and Jonesatowr road. , WASTE OF BUTTER There are about 64 Individual help Ingsof butter In a pound, each help, ing equaling about one-fourth of ar ounce. If the accumulated "scrap ings" from the butter plates aftei the meal were estimated there would probably be about ont "pat" collected each day, in the terage household But if every one of our 20,000,00< householders should waste one fourth of an ounce of butter dallj it would mean 312,500 pounds a day or 114,062,500 pounds a year. Pod Ular Science Monthly
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