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SATURDAY EVENING. SEPT. 22
Charge once more then and be dumb,
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall.'
—MATTHEW ARNOLD.
MUKLI GERMAN TREACHERY
SECRETARY LANSING'S expo
ourc of Von Bernstorff's efforts
to buy peaqe with the United
Stales through improper influences
brought to bear upon Congress is not
surprising, but it is impressive.
Every revelation of the kind In
crease? the indignation of the Ameri
can people and makes them more
determined to dethrone the power
that lias plotted their undoing, even
in their own halls of legislation.
It is ai all thinking people believed
—Von BernstorfT wept not because
th-3 United States had severed re
lations with Germany, but because
Ms own efforts to prevent war until
Germany was ready to meet us alone
and unprepared had failed. He was
going home a discredited diplomat,
that was all, and his tears were for
himself aijd his shattered career
rather than for the broken friendship
between the two peoples.
Another fact that is being pressed
home upon the American public by
the repealed exposures of German
diplomatic duplicity is the efficiency
of the United States Secret Service.
Evidences accumulate that it has
been able to outwit even the ad
mittedly clever German spy system
and that, as a result, Washington has
known far more about Prussian in
ternational intrigue than the Von
Beri.s:torffs a.i.l the Boy-Eds sus
pected.
A CONGRESSIONAL, WAR DEBT
THE New York World voices a
demand for a war budget which
shall present a clear and classi
fied statement of department esti
mates; and It criticises the process
whereby Mr. McAdoo has been go
ing up to the Capitol at Intervals
and each time with a marked in
crease in the estimates which he
Lad previously offered as covering
the needs of the government.
Yet a departmental budget in it
self will not be sufficient. Just be
cause the head of a bureau can con
vince Mr. McAdoo that he needs
puch and such a sum of money is
no valid proof that such a sum is
really required—and the only way
to secure an efficient and under
standable system of estimating and
appropriating for government neces
sities—and, what is of equal im
portance, seeing to it that the money
is properly expended—is by means
of the joint Congressional commit
tee on war expenditures, which the
Senate voted for, which Mr. Wilson
summarily rejected, and which we
do not remember the New York
World to have advocated with em
phasis.
CLOTURE IN PRACTICE
TAVICE have preparations been
made to apply the Senate's new
rule for cloture, but each time
it has been rendered unnecessary by
a unanimous-consent agreement. It
would seem that the cloture rule was
efficacious in the same way as start
ing for the dentist's is with the small
boy with an aching tooth.
VOICES WITH TRUE RING
THE Seven Arts, a critical peri
odical, discovers an unconvinc
ing quality in the writings of
American novelists who, after a
term at ambulance driving in France,
have come home to interpret "the
real meaning" of the war to the
American mind.
The reason, according to the Seven
Arts, Is that these men possessed an
unstirred moral sense prior to their
going abroad, where they secured
only a superficial stimulus because
they had never before "cared very
particularly about great creative
American ideas."
The lesson is not to be confined to
this group of writers. It pertains to
official interpreters of the "real
meaning" of the war. Men whose
chief care, up to a short time ago.
was to keep us out of war cajinot at
once become convincing as to the
reasons which impelled them to
lead us into war. The American
SATURDAY EVENING,
voices which ring the truest in this
juncture are those which rang true
before election day, last November.
Theodore Roosevelt, Ellhu Root,
Leonard Wood and others readily
to be named are speaking now, as
they have always spoken, when the
war was the theme. In terms of hon
esty and clear vision and of national
duty. And the people hear them
gladly.
J. WM. BOWMAN, MAYOR
APPOINTMENT of J. winiam
Bowman to be Mayor of Har
risburg reflects credit not only
upon me judgmeot of Judges Kunkel
and McCarrell, but upon the city as
well. The only regret Is the brevity
of the term. The great value to the
city In Mr. Bowman's selection Is not
what he will be able to do in the six
weeks that Intervene between now
and the time his successor will take
office, but in the lesson that lies in
his appointment as to the type of
man who should be at the head of
public affairs in Harrisburg.
Mr. Bowman Is a successful busi
ness man of long experience. But he
Is more than that. He is an honest,
rmblic-spirlted, patriotic citizen, who
has been identified with every for
ward movement the city has taken in
the past fifteen years and whose
greatest personal interest is the Im
provement and development of Har
risburg along lines that will make
the city a better place in which to
live. As member and chairman of
the Board of Public Works he served,
without pay, during part of the
strenuous period when the great pub
lic improvements of the past decade
and a half were in process of con
struction and when service on that
board required as much time, on
many days, as the private business of
its members. He was one of those
who directed the expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in such
manner as to win the confidence and
applause of all familiar with the cir
cumstances. Under his adminlsr
tration scores of economies were
effected and the savings to the peo
ple amounted to many thousands of
dollars, while the work was of the
highest character.
Mr. Bowman was one of the or
ganizers and a former president of
the Chamber of Commerce. He is a
heavy subscriber to the new hotel
fund. He has taken part and done
his share in a financial way in the
Liberty Loan, the Red Cross, the Boy
Scout and every other campaign of
the kind that has been conducted in
Harrisburg in recent years. His
puroe has always been open. He is
a progressive merchant and was one
of the pioneers for shorter hours and
better working conditions in the
stores of Harrisburg. He is a quiet,
home-loving man of simple habits, a
good citizen in every sense the word
implies and he Is a Mayor of whom
Harrisburg may be proud.
The Telegraph extends Its con
gratulations to the city upon his ap
pointment, to the court upon its se
lection and to Mr. Bowman upon the
honor conferred upon him, with the
wish that the term were for as many
years as it is for weeks.
—
I CONGRESS IS NECESSARY
THERE is certainly a lack of sense
of humor in the editor who
says that the country would be
glad if Congress would adjourn and
give the administration a "free hand"
in the prosecution of the war. Sup
pose Congress had passed the bills
the administration wanted and had
adjourned two months ago.
What, then, would have become of
all these new estimates and addi
tional requests for appropriations and
revenues the administration has been
making? The presence of Con#ress
in Washington ready to do business
has been necessary from the day the
epecial session convened. And if
Congress takes any considerable va
cation the country will be sorry.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
MILLIONS of dollars have been
voted for the establishment or
the extension of the govern
ment's own factories for the pro
duction of war materials.
The chief result thus far has been
the shipment to our men in France
of defective cartridges for their
rifles, Which would have left them at
the mercy of the Hun whenever he
chose to "come over the top" In the
sector of the line held by Ameri
can troops.
Government ownership is gener
ally faulty and extravagant. It is
now evident also that it Is some
times almost criminal.
ToUtLc&
lkkq if CcanXa
By the Ex-Committeeman •
According to the gossip which has
followed the informal and inconclu
sive conference of the Democratic
congressmen, Federal jobholders of
high degree, state Democratic ma
chine big wheels and little cogs at
Philadelphia on the occasion of the
dinner to Ambassador-designate Ro
land S. Morris, the Democratic lead
ers of the state are* turning lovingly
toward Domocratic National Chair
man Vance C. McCormick as the
candidate for governor again. Pleas
ant memories of the lavish pace set
In Mr. MdCormtck's campaign of
1914 seem to'linger and there are
some men who recall the way the
state was made to sit up in 1902
when Mr. McCormick ran for mayor
of Harrisburg.
Ever since President Wllsdh set
a precedent by Democrats in Janu
ary 1914 by designating Mr. Mc-
Cormick as the man the Democracy
of the Keystone State should run
for governor the Democratic leaders
of this state have been awaiting word
from the White House. For a time
there was talk of A. Mitchell Pal
mer and later of Secretary of Labor
William B. Wilson, but both were
shot full of holes by people who did
not follow the Wilson leadership in
purely Democratic affairs. Just
whether the President has swung to
McCormick or the Democratic lead
ers for making suggestions remains
to be seen.
—The Philadelphia Ledger in a
Washington dispatch has this to
say of the matter: '"Democratic
leaders in Pennsylvania are virtually
(Unanimous in their demand that
National Chairman Vance McCor
mick stand as the party's candidate
for governor next year. This was
learned from men who attended the
Democratic conference in Philadel
phia yesterday. It also is known that
Mr. McCormick does not wish the
honor and will sidestep if he can,
but the party workers will endeavor
to force him to run. There was some
talk of Secretary of Labor William
B. Wilson as the gubernatorial can
didate, but it is understood that he
was not considered the most favor
able man. In the discussion it de
veloped that Joseph O'Brien, of
Seranton, was the choice for lieu
tenant governor and will be urged to
make the race. air. O'Brien said he
would not be a candidate and did
not want the place, but, like Mr. Mc-
Cormick, he may be forced into tha
fight. Joseph F. Guffey, acting state
chairman, is being quietly talked
about as a possible candidate for
governor, but he has made no move
in that direction. It'was the general
opinion of those present at the con
ference that the campaign should be
waged principally upon national is
sues, especially upon the record of
the Wilson administration in han
dling the war."
—Newspapers are generally pretty
wary .■•bout taking the McCormick
boom \ery seriously in view of the
fact that McCormick is very busy at
Washington with retails of the ex
port board and some men in politics
are inclined to regard the over
the Harrisburger as an effort to hide
some moves beH g made on behalf of
Wilson. It is well known that the
national administration a week ago
meant to have a candidate for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania who could be
d'stinctly considered as a labor can
didate.
The newspapers of Philadelphia
have been commenting rather se
verely on Mayor Smith and It com
mences to look as though there
would be some support for the calls
for mass meetings to protest against
the course of the city admlnitetration
in politics.
—Philadelphia newspapers gen
erally denounce the conditions which
brought about the disorder in the
Fifth ward of that city and the de
velopments have for the time being
overshadowed every other incident In
political affairs. The independent
movement is reported to-day to be
showing strength and the men be
hind it to be bent OT getting Into the
fight.
—ln Pittsburgh the belief is that
the bulk of the Keir strength will go
to Gabcock; although Magee men
Intimate that the former mayor will
have some surprises. Both sides are
preparing for a very strenuous cam
paign and it will start without much
loss of time.
The Scranton situation indicates
that the battle between Durkan and
Connell will be fought out at the
polls, lust as in Pittsburgh.
—Luzerne mav have two candi
dates on the ballot after all because
Shea men assert that Judge Fuller
does not have bl per cent, of the
vote.
—lt it. going to take the official
count in half a nozen counties to
decide who will be judicial nominees.
THE HORSE, HIS DREAM
When the automobile and the tin
Lizzie shall at last have relegated
the "hoss" to the limbo of things
obsolete, will the noble animal de
generate and hark back to his an
cestral types, or will be simply dis
appear like tho dodo? It has taken
a lot of time and patience to develop
Dobbin from the primitive models
such as the hydracotherium, the
pachynolophus and the eohippus, to
make him "whoa," back and "git
ap," and take his meals out of a
nosebag. In the process of civiliza
tion he has gradually lost his toes,
has had to accommodate his feet to
tho horseshoes. Does he still dream,
perhaps, of the delights of having
toes—of sinking them down into the
green sqush of the tertiary era and
feeling the cool goo trickle up be
tween them? If so, how glad he will
be some day to look down and see
his long-forgotten toes beginning to
sprout once again! His will be the
thrill of the small boy on the first
warm day of spring when he can
cast off his shoes and go barefoot.
When the "hoss" discovers for the
first time that he can again wiggle
his toes he will, doubtless, radiate
a smile of solid comfort.—From Car
toons Magazine.
UNCERTAIN WEATHER
The sun is now climbing up to the
autumnal equinox nnd gathering -\n
assortment of chills as he climbs.
The equinox is a sort of ticklish
bender between frost and flowers,
where one hardly knows which it
will be from one day to another.
Yesterday was one of those days,
when the morning broke and mul
titudinous innnirles arose, was there
frost last night? And there was yes
and no. wherever one turned his
head. It was such an important
question, for there was the corn crop
and the tomato crop hanging in the
balance. When our huckster came
around he said "corn is not hurt,
but the tomatoes," and he shook his
head sadly. But think what an
escape we had! Only two or three
little degrees of temperature to pass
and then to cornpone and
Johnny cake. We never could see
the divine economy In bringing the
frost so early. It ought never to
come until after the tomatoes are
ripe; but then, see what a leeway
nature gives, for our "green tomatoes
ripen beautifully in the cellar by
Christmas, after Jnrv Frost, has had
his ears frozen while climbing 'he
heights of Capricorn.—From the
Ohio state Journal.
HARBISBURG TELEGRAPH
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PLEASftNT^LOOK
EDITORIAL COMMENT
German currency is approaching
a scrap-of-paper basis. —Wall Street
Journal.
The ex-Czar of Russia and his
family are now living in a fourteen
room flat in Tobolsk, Siberia. It Is
understood that after bne or two en
counters with the janitor he sadly
admitted that he never did know
anything about czaring anyway.—
New York Morning Telegraph.
Venizelos does not think the time
is opportune for Greece to become a
republic, but the fact that the mem
bers of the Chamber of Deputies
have taken to fist fighting to settle
parliamentary questions would seem
to indicate that that body at least
has tfie true republican spirit.—Dal
las News.
WORLD GROWS BETTER
Last week's Log Cabin told of a
chicken thief taking fifty-two hens
and spring chickens from the poul
try yard of Mr. E. M. Kennedy of
near Sunrise. Either the thief's con
science got the better of his cupidity
or he was afraid to dispose of the
stolen property, for on Wednesday
night he took thirty-two of the
stolen chicken/* and turned them
loose near the Kennedy home.
This is another proof that the
world is getting better, for nobody
ever before heard of a chicken thief
returning stolen poultry.—From the
Cynthiana Log Cabin.
A WISCONSIN DAY
To say they had a good time is
merely an expression without the
proper meaning. Arriving ,at this
beautiful, entrancing pleasure resort,
and after gazing upon the laughing
waters for a short time, watching
the laughjng, ripping waves chase
each other from bank to bank
which is always calculated to carry
the soul of man into dreamland
dinner the most important feature
for the sustenance of life, was an
nounced. The afternoon was spent
in boating, etc. And when the sun
was gently sinking behind the west
ern clouds casting its shadowy forms
over the face of mother earth, warn
ing the happy circle that the day was
done, supper was announced and
partaken of: Then, as the moon
shone forth in all its splendor, home
ward was next. Space forbids
us to dwell further upon this de
lightful day, but suffice to say that it
will long be remembered by all who
attended its pleasures.—From the
West Bend Pilot.
HOUSEWIFE'S PART
The following poem, written
twelve years ago by Susie M. Best,
and recently republished by the
Pittsburgh Gazette Times, while
composed in answer to frequent al
lusions to "woman's easy lot," 1s es
pecially applicable in these war days
of economy, for It is the women of
the Nation who are asked to do the
saving, and the great burden of con
serving the resources of America de
volves upon the housewife. The poem
reads:
Oh, men, and oh, brothers, and all
of you others,
I beg of you pause and listen a bit,
And I'll tell you without altering any
of it.
The tale of the housewife's part.
Mixing and fixing.
Brewing and stewing,
Pasting and tasting.
Lifting and sifting,
etoning and boning,
Toasting and roasting.
Kneading and seeding,
Straining and draining.
Poking and soaking,
Choosing and using,
Reasoning and seasoning.
Paring and sharing—
This Is the housewife's part.
Filling and spilling,
Pounding and sounding,
Creaming and steaming,
Skimming and trimming,
Mopping and chopping,
Corning and poring,
Shelling and smelling.
Grinding and minding.
Firing and tiring,
Carving and serving—
This is the housewife's part.
Oiling and boiling and broiling.
Buying and trying and frying,
Burning and turning and churning,
Pricing and Icing and spicing.
Hashing and mashing and splashing,
Scanning and planning and canning,
Greasing and squeezing and freez
ing—
This is the housewife's part.
Aching and baking and making and
shaking,
Beating nnd heating and seating and
treating, "
Oh, mejd, and oh, brothers, and all
fit you others—
Do you envy the housewife's part?
THE PEOPLE'S
THE THREE HAIRS
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
This is the story about the story
of the three hairs.
No doubt many of the readers of
the Telegraph are familiar with the
story of the three hairs( in which a
man bragged so much of the skill
of his cook that his friend determin
ed to dine with him to stop his ever
lasting talk on high living, on tho
same principle that a courted girl
marries her suitor in order to get
rid of him. A time is appointed and
the guest after seeming to enjoy the
dinner, was asked by the host for
his verdict as to whether he had said
too much In praise of his cook, the
answer came that he had enjoyed the
tasty meal but was surprised to find
three hairs in as many dishes—ln the
apple sauce, honey and Ice cream.
The host upon thinking, answers that
the hair in the honey came from the
honey comb, the Ice was shaved in
making the Ice cream, but the apple
sauce puzzled him for he carefully
selected the apples and they were
all bald ones (Baldwins). In meeting
a crowd of boys one evening I told
the story and challenged them to
produce another prepared dish con
taining a hair and sure enough they
said roast pork was on the menu and
the hair was there on account of the
pork coming from a razor-back hog.
THEY SIGNED UP
I was in and out among the sol
diers of the first convoy on the way
across. I had a curiosity to know
the individual attitude among them
toward this expedition to France.
Here were regulars who were in the
service before 1914 sprang its cata
clysmic surprise on the world, re
cruits who enlisted six mopths be
fore our own declaration of war last
April, recruits who signed up after
the declaration. All the teens and
the twenties and early thirties were
represented and all grades from
men of the college and other well
bred types to men representing our
least excellent American citizenship.
I ran on people from every part of
the country except New England
and the Pacific Norhwest. All offer
ed themselves to the army. Why did
they? And of those who did it after
our declaration of war, what was
their idea of our reason for being in
the war and their reason for wishing
to take part in it at the outset?
The main answer to all these ques
tions—and many more that might
come up regarding the origins and
progress and outcomes of the war —
was astoundingly simple. They un
derstood their country had to go to
war, was forced into it because
•there was no other resource that
had not been exhausted, and so
they signed up. That seemed an all
sufficient reason, and once offered
naively as all sufficient, it did seem
so. One private, 19 years old, from
the open pit iron ore mines of
Northern Michigan, stated the stark
proposition:
"I figured I was born an Ameri
can, I'd had my schooling and got
my first Job in Michigan, and that
it was up to me to quit and fight. • If
1 was good enough lor all I had had
from the counti-y, the country was
good enough for me to fight for. I
have a brother who was earning $7
a day running a winch at one of the
mines. He quit, too, feeling the
same way. He's In the navy. I've
got another brother in the cavalry.
My first brother would have gone,
too, first crack off the bat, only he's
married: and so he'll watt awhile.
My mother's German, and my fa
ther's French. No wonder I got a
boil on my neck. They're both dead.
I don't kiiow either language."
So far as the justification of the
war is concerned, these soldiers
jeemed to accept President Wilson's
phrase "making* the world safe for
democracy" at its full face value.
There Is a general acceptance of the
fact that Germany has "gone the
push that same limit a little further
In war or peace.—Nelson Collins in
the Century Magazine.
"HONEYED FABRIC"
He plucks from the cerulean blue
the shining stars of rhetoric, and.
while thousands exclaim and admire,
arranges them in a spangled,
splendid galaxy of shining marshall
ed words. To him old Noah Web
ster's great collection is a fascinating
storeroom from which, like a bee in
search for sweets, he flits from word
to word, selecting an adjective here,
culling there a verb or noun or ad
verb. and then combining them Into
a honeyed fabric which startles even
while it charms. —From the Blng
hamton Republican-Herald.
A few days after I met some boys
and again told the story and issued
the challenge. This time the dish
was stewed rabbit and the guest had
a mouthful of hare.
I concluded that now was the time
to stop the challenges.
It's rather a delicate thing to stait
story telling or jokes in a crowd of
men. Even though the company
contains clergymen, you will find per
haps fifty per cent, of the jokes
couldn't be printed or told in the
presence of ladies. There are cer
tain men In this town who cause a
stampede among respectable gen
tlemen when they appear with their
filthy tongues. There are a certain
class of so-called respectable gentle
men who think that is only a good
story which has a double meaning.
So as I said It's a dangerous thing to
start telling jokes. The only stories
that should be told are the ones that
can be proclaimed from house tops
and where one of these vile mouth
carriers beckons you to a corner to
hear something very rich —don't go
and if circumstances compel you to
hear it don't encourage it by laugh
ing. The drummer who begins his
visit to me by telling a string of dirty
stories receives from me a little card
on which Is printed, "In Conversation
Kindly Omit All Smut," and he
thanks me for it for he says the
majority of the doctors enjoy his
Jokes BO very much.
J. H. FAGER, Sr.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
Stay-at-homes who read a book
occasionally should not fail to do
their part in the raising of a million
dollars for the use of the Library
War Council, in conjunction with
the American Library Association, in
furnishing reading for our fighting
men abroad. It is a small sum com
pared with the $100,000,000 given
for the Red Cross and other sums
being raised for the Y. M. C. A.,
the tobacco fund and other things.
It is estimated that $1 contributed
to the fund, which is being directed
by Frank A. Vanderlip, will send a
book to Europe, to be read no one
knows how many times or by how
many men. These books will be dis
tributed among the camps and can
tonments in the United States, the
field hospitals, troop ships and
among American military establish
ments abroad.—New York Tribune.
HEART OF A MAN,
Our Padre, 'e says I'm a sinner.
And John Bull says I'm a saint,
And tliey'a both of 'em bound to ba
liars.
For I'm neither of them, I ain't
I'm a man, and a man's a mixture.
Right down from 'is very birth.
For part ov 'im comes from 'eaven.
For part ov 'lm comes from earth.
There's nothing in man that's per
fect,
And nothing that's all complete;
H's nobbut a big beginning.
From 'is 'ead to the soles of 'is
feet,
There's summat as draws 'im up
pards,
And summat as drags 'im down,
And the consekence is 'e wobbles,
'Twixt muck and a golden crown.
Ye remember old Billy Bugglns,
That sargint what lorst 'ls stripes?
Well, 'e were a bloomin' 'ero,
A daisy to scrap, but cripes!
That bloke were a bllnkin' mixture,
Of all that were good and bad.
For 'e fairly broke 'is mother's 'eart,
The best friend 'e 'ad.
But 'e died at Loos to save a pal,
And that were the other side;
'E killed 'is mother and saved 'is
pal.
That's 'ow 'e lived and died.
And that's 'ow it is, it's 'uman,
It's 'eaven and 'ell in one.
There's the 'ell of a scrap in the
'eart of a man,
And that scrap's never done.
The Good and the Bad's at war, ye
see,
Just same as us boys and the
Boche,
And when both gets goln' with all
their guns,
There's the Saturday night of a
squash.
And it's Just the same wi' the na
tions,
As it Is wl' a single man,
There's 'eaven and 'ell In their vitals,
A scrappln' as 'ard as they can.
—G. A. Studdert Kennedy, C. F.
SEPTEMBER 22, 1917.
LABOR NOTES
The automobile Industry dates
back to 1885.
California requires labels on pris
on-made goods
Labor unions in Virginia demand
more factory Inspectors.
Forty-four per cent, of Moscow's
industrial workers are females.
Russian radicals demand the rigid
prohibition of overtime labor.
Germany is employing 750,000
war prisoners as farm laborers.
Women workers making uniforms
for the Mexican soldiers receive $3
per day.
Only union carpenters will be em.
ployed on government work In Great
er New York.
Toronto (Canada) musicians have
secured an Increase of four dollars
a man a week. t
High school girls of Loyalton/
Cal., have donned overalls and gone
to work in the harvest fields.
Before the war there were three
British factories working for thj
land service; to-day there are 95.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH I
HE COULDN'T.
"I suppose King Solomon wasn't
much of a traveler."
"Why not?"
"How could & man get anywhere
when he had to kiss a thousand
wives goodbye."
IMPORTANT POINT.
She—Would you marry - a woman
who has sued another man for
breach of promise?
H*—-How much did the court
BOTH CAN'T BE AHEAD.
"His wife dresses right up to th
minute."
"Yes, but she keeps him three
months behind on his bills,"
c>'
A POOR COUNTER.
"He's an expert accountant."
"I don't believe It. I played golf
with him the other day and the
■core he handed in convinced me
that ho had never studied arith
metic."-
lEbontbtg (£tyat
I It there Is any doubt about
Pennsylvania railroad not doing
bit in taking care of Uncle Sam, 1
spend a day along the Middle
vision and watch the trains go
First you will see a fast express r
past you. This train will be made
of all sleeping cars, and two
more freight cars. Hauling frei
on a fast passenger train is a r
feature since the war broke out
must be done in order to keep ft
with.Uncle Sam. Those freight <
carrjf valuable government si
ments. Next comes a freight tri
mostly gondola cars on which
large shipments boxed up. Ther
nothing on them to indicate wh
these big boxes are going. The r
road company knows and all
trainmen must do is to see that th
is no delay in getting the train
the various terminals. While
are watching this long train of lo
eel cars a fast train brushes by
the main passenger track. It i
preference freight. There are pi
ably twenty or more refrigen
cars. Do they all contain perishi
freight? Not all of them. Cars
scarce these days, and every
available is pressed into ser
when a government shipment li
stake. This big rush of war
driven many shipments to the
press companies. Just now they
shipping anything and everything
express, in order to make time. '
other day a chemical fire enf
passed through Harrisburg as
express shipment. That engine
to be delivered at a certain time,
it was impossible to fulllll the c
tract by sending it by freight,
cently part of a contract fron
western munition plant was sch
uled for delivery at a seaport wit
twenty-four hours. No passen
crew was available at one of
terminals. A passenger engine '
ordered out to haul the train, an
freight crew placed in charge. '
cabin car was attached and the ti
came to the Pennsylvania rallr
station just like a regular passer
train. Similar activity is in evlde
on other lines.
• • •
Cabbage appears to be the vi
table most in demand in the's
Judging from the number of
quiries being made at the State C
tol as to how to get it in large 1
Owing to the partial failure of
crop in the "sauerkraut" belt
Pennsylvania last year and the ei
mous demand that grew up beci
of the war many people "set c
'young cabbage this year but did
take proper care of it and the (
bage worms and insect pests did
rest. Consequently there have I
heavy orders given and many
quiries for carload lots have c
to State departments which ar<
touch with the farmers. Everyb
seems to have potatoes on the o
hand.
• * *
Considerable speculation is b
indulged in by State officials
i others who have been following
operation of the selective service
whether the district boards of
i State will be able to get certlfte<
time the forty per cent, of dra
men from Pennsylvania who an
start for the mobilization camp!
or about October 3. The local boa
. which have to examine and
upon the men, will complete t
forwarding of the first men called
i morrow and it will take some <
i to finish up the details attache
moving over 25,000 men from t
homes to three camps. The m<
ment which will end to-morrow
complete forty-five per cent, of tJ
going to Camp Meade and sma
percentages to Camps Lee and SI
man. The next call is to be f<
per cent, and the railroads h
worked out their schedules for
movement.
• • •
Golf has again become the offi
game of the State government i
there are more people divert
themselves on one of the three 11
about Harrisburg when hours
over at the Capitol than ever kn<
before. Ex-Governor John K. Te
popularized golf with people on C
itol Hill because he became a
votee of the driver and putter In
first year and played at every
portunity, but when he went out
office people on the Hill sort
dropped the game. Governor Bri
baugh showed himself a golf fie
but as he did not join in matches
game did not become official. I
spring he spent every aftern
when In Harrisburg on the 11
and this summer the attaches t
to golf again in earnest. Now th
are golf "bugs" in every departm
and the Governor has been trying
the new links of the Harrisb
Country Club, where a number
State officials have taken up
game.
• • •
This has been one of the w<
summers for grasshoppers and crl
ets known in years in the south
counties of Pennsylvania, accord
to reports coming to the State ]
partment of Agriculture. The
sects have been destroying vegetal
and farmers are almost at their w
ends in some of the counties to ell
inate the hoppers. Those who hi
turkeys and other fowls have turi
them into the -fields, but the hi
have been getting indigestion fr
working overtime. All sorts of rer
dies have been suggested in lett
to the department as every fresh o
break of insect pests causes peo
to rack their brains for means
find out ways to get rid -of th<
Hence the active correspondence.
• •
Representative Charles Walter,
Chambersburg. who was here yest
dav, looked after matters in conn
tion with the freeing of some tu
pikes in the Cumberland Valley,
want to see the day when the val
won't have a tollgate and I th
it is coming pretty soon." said h
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
General J. E. Kuhn. comman
of Camp Meade, is a Philadelphi
General Richard Coulter,
has gone back to a western ca
after visiting his home In Gree
k Elkus, who Is j
• home from Europe, will speak
Pittsburgh next week.
i j, Louis Breitinger, fori
chief of the moving picture cens<
is taking an active part in the r
Independent movement in Philac
phla.^osc 00 Custer, nominee
sheriff of Cambria, is county det
tive now aj\d well known here.
[ DO YOU KNOW
That llnrrtsburg people hav
become noted for the warmt
of their demnstratlons In bono
of jotuic soldiers and drafted
j men?
> HISTORIC HARRISBURG
> One hundred years ago the m
■ troubled place when It rained '
Market Square.