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SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 2
For if ye forgive men their tres
passes, your Heavenly Father tciU
also forgive you. — JESUS.
HALLOWE'EN PRANKS
THRIFTY people long have de
plored the custom of throwing
flour and corn about on Hal
lowe'en, and the use of cabbage
as battering rams for front
doors on that occasion of pranks and
horseplay, but this year prohibition
of such waste shoulc tie made man
datory At a time when half the
world Is hungry our plentiful crops
and abundance of garden supplies
should be no excuse for the use of j
provisions in any way except for
fota
Thousands of bushels of corn,
co.uitless poi-nds of flour and hun
dred:- of heads of cabbage will be
ruined by Hallowe'en celebrators un
lets measures are taken to prevent.
7h<- matter should be made the sub
ject of police regulation. It Is seri
ous enough to warrant the attention
of City Council and the adoption of
an ordinance giving the chief of po
lice full authority to arrest and pun
ish violators.
Foreign-language newspapers will
be forbidden to refer to the Govern
ment of the United States or any of
its Allies, international relations or
the war unless they file with the local
postmaster a sworn translation, and
at the head of each article in ques
tion print a statement to this effect.
Why not eliminate foreign-language
newspapers and be done with it. Many
of the pacifists and anti-American
groups in the United States to-day
have been encouraged by the foreign
language press through mistaken
leniency on the part of our Govern- 1
ment After this war there must be
no hyphenated Americans.
BULLY FOR THE COLOVEL
COLONEL ROOSEVELT is talk
ing straight from the shoulder
when he calls LaFollette a "neo
copperhead" and advances the idea
of sending him as a present to the
Kaiser. LaFollette is as disloyal as
the Haywoods and their ilk, how
ever much he protest otherwise. But
LaFollette Is a copperhead with a
rattle. He makes a noise. We know
■where he is. There are thousands of
silent, slippery copperheads whose
presence we know not of until they
strike. It is these we must scotch If
the nation is to escape their venom
ous fangs.
Every community should have its
Vigilance Committee. The American
Defense Society, of New York, is
urging the formation of local bodies
of this kind. The Vigilance Commit
tee will play the part of snake-hunt
ers during the present war. The cop
l perheads must be searched out.
America, with hundreds of thou
sands of her brave young men In
arms, Is no place for traitors, or
• even lukewarm patriots.
Bully for the Colonel! He is
preaching from a popular text and a
doctrine vital to American victory.
"The French and English," says a
Berlin writer, "are on their last legs,"
and judging from recent news from
Flanders, they are the same kind our
own American soldiers possess.
EAT POTATOES
EAT potatoes!" That's the latest
advice from the food conserva
tionists. and gladly we wigwag
back the answer, "You bet your life
we will." There's a reason. Pota
toes arc plentiful and. as compared
with last spring, prices are low.
Therefore, save wheat by eating po
tatoes. It's not such a hard sentence
the court Imposes, now is It?
Somebody has said that the saddest
sight in the world is a fat man eating
a potato, but we know of many fat
men who cheerfully, yea with great
and unconcealed glee, thus daily con
tribute their share of sorry spec
tacles to the world. For what is din- |
r.er without a potato, and what Is I
life, especially to a fat man, without'
dinner?
We don't know what Europe did
before the early explorers brought
In tho first potatoes from South
America, but it's perfectly evident
tliat lack of potatoes 'n Germany \.\
on* iil the factors in the coming de
feat of Prussian auto,t**y. Thus,
f"r lack of a potato |ho Kaiser will
So Is the Importance of tho
SATURDAY EVENING,
potato In the scheme of world affairs
demonstrated.
But above being a' necessity, the
potato is a luxury. We didn't dis
cover that until last spring, when
tho hanks began taking 'em as col
lateral and John p. Rockefeller was
caught one day on Wall street trying
to trade a bunch of Standard Oil
certilicates for a quarter-peck of the
tubers. But we know It now. For
we have found that roast beef and
gravy count for little without mashed
potatoes, that chicken and waffles are
sailly lacking when there are no po
tatoes on the side and that even the
juiciest of tender broiled steak has
lost its flavor when not accompanied
by a dish of French fried. Why, we
even stand for the word German on
the menu when It precedes the words
"fried potatoes."
We used to groan and grumble as
we toted the baskets and bags of
potatoes down cellar to be, stowed
away In the bin for winter use, and
the potato bin was the most despised
place in the whole catalog of winter
rtores. But now we whistle (Cs we
toil and when visitors come of an
evening the first thing we do is to
boast about how many potatoes we
have land away, and then we take
'em down among the dust and cob
webs to show 'em the goods and
prove we are not "spoofing."
City Commissioners Lynch and
Gross will doubtless make every ef
fort to complete the outdoor work be
fore the severe weather of the winter
compels a stoppage of outside opera
tions. There is considerable yet to be
done on the streets and in the parks,
and Commissioner Gross has prom
ised to complete the rlprapping of the
river slope. While we are in war and
our thought and energy are being di
rected in that channel, we must also
understand that the city should have
constant attention. Our boys are com
ing back some day and the old home
town must not go to seed during
their absence.
UP TO THE PRESIDENT
REPRESENTATIVE Dixon, of
Indiana, one of the Democratic
members of the Committee on
W ays and Means, is quoted as saying
that the Democrats of the House aro
"not indisposed" to establish the
Joint Committee on War Expendi
tures which Senator Weeks and Con
gressman Madden have been bat
tling for. The disposition of Congress,
however, on both sides of the politi
cal fence and at either end of the
Capitol, is of little consequence so
long as President Wilson opposes
the creation of the committee and
can use his veto power.
The increasing demands for money
which are being made upon Congress
and the deplorable conditions which
are developing thus early in con
nection with the high cost of the
war—to 6ay nothing of the disclos
ures of defective ammunition which
has been supplied to the troops in
France—make such a committee a
necessity.
MILITARY TRAINING
UNIVERSAL military training is
now pretty generally accepted
as a policy which will become
fixed In our system of government.
There seems to be little doubt that
our entrance into the war might
have been unnecessary had the
United States been prepared for
such an emergency through uni
versal military training of its young
men.
It Is not too late to consider the
subject with relation to our local
institutions. Through the Harris
burg Reserves the citizens of this
community are demonstrating their
faith in proper preparedness. These
are patriotic citizens, giving of their
time and effort to the organization
of a force which is designed for the
home defense. No argument is
needed to prove how important is
this public service. Nor should any
argument be necessary to demon
strate the need of universal mili
tary training, to the end that the
country may always be prepared for
invasion or defense against any foe.
After the war thousands of our
young men will be thoroughly
trained and will constitute of them
selves a great national bulwark, but
the country ought not to drop back
into the old atmosphere of com
placency and indifference as to pre
paredness for any eventuality.
At the recent great conference of
business men at Atlantic City a res
olution was adopted unanimously
favoring military training. Writing
on this subject the other day an
expert declared that we need a lit
tle foresight, a keener appreciation
of the necessity for providing for
future contingencies. He said fur
ther:
Since the boys may at any time
be called upon to depend our
country and our flag, we owe it
to them to provide them with a
careful pre-trainlng so that they
may perform this important na
tional function both efficiently
and as safely as possible. We
must not be asleep at the switch.
Tho responsibility Is up to the
American citizen and the voters
of this country to demand the
passage of the Chamberlain bill or
some similar measure by Congress
at Its next session. It has already
been postponed too long. It's time
now for action.
Let us not delude ourselves wltn
the thought that we may never have
another war and that therefore mil
itary training would be a waste of
time and effort and money. The best
preparation for peace is preparation
for var.
Sleeping cars were more extensively
used last year than at any time in
our history, and strange as It may
seem, the Pullman Company believes
this was due to the fact that business
men were more wide-awake than ever
before.
"You never can tell what a woman
Is knitting," observes an exchange,
and we venture to suggest that in
some cases we're no worse oft in this
respect than some of the women
themselves.
The second Liberty Loan being due,
we will repeat the popular American
sport of loaning ourselves a lot more
money while we sit back and collect
the interest therein. It's a fine game,
till* helping: lick the Kaiser and at the
same time making a profitable Invest
ment.
"Pennsylvania has a law for apple
standard." says the Worcester Even
ing Post. Yes, and standard apples,
too.
*"P otitics tn,
'PtiutOtjtccuua
By the Ex-Committeeman
Word has been received at the De
partment of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth that the bulk of the
counties can furnish lists of nomi
nees for county and city offices to
be supplied together with judicial
candidates the soldiers' voting by
the end of next week. Philadelphia,
it was reported at the Capitol, can
not give the list for ten days. Alle
gheny will be ready before that time.
The pamphlet containing the candi
dates' names will be sent to the
camps with the commissioners to
take the vote who will be named by
Governor Brumbaugh when he re
turns next week.
Over 10,000 blanks containing
powers of attorney for soldiers to
authorize persons at home to pay
their poll taxes so they can vote
will be sent to General W. G. Price
at Camp Hancock. Others will be
sent to mobilization camps.
Thus far only counties which nom
inated candidates for associate judge
have filed their official returns at
the State Capitol. The big counties
are not expected for some days.
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der has gotten most of the Informa
tion requested for the card Index
system which he proposes to estab
lish for the State Capitol and depart
ment heads who do not supply the
cards properly filled out will get a
'second notice to comply with the re
quest on October 1. When the re
quests for the information were
mad£ there was some hesitancy
about filling out the cards, but when
the matter was brought to the at
tention of Attorney General Francis
Shunk Brown he immediately ad
vised compliance with the request
and commended the plan. The In
formation about the appropriations
from which salaries are made up Is
one of the things which Mr. Sny
der desires to have stated. Some
attaches get small salaries made up
from a couple of sources. One set of
the cards is to be put on record
at the office of the guides and an
other at the telephone exchange as
residence addresses and telephone
numbers were requested so that of
ficials or attaches could be reached
any hour of the day or night.
-The I hiladelphia Ledger has this
to say of the aftermath of the town
meeting to protest against political
conditions: "Philadelphia's independ
ents, in the opinion of expert poli
ticians and political observers, have
the greatest opportunity in the his
tory of the city as a result of the
tremendous town meeting, to admin
ister a crushing defeat to the Organ
ization. This was the consensus of
thought among such men as Charles
P. Donnelly, leader of the Democratic
city committee; Thomas F. Arm
strong, chairman of the town meet
ing and head of the committee au
thorized to prepare an independent
ticket; Gecrge D. Porter, who was
director of public safety under Mayor
Blankenburg; Judge Bonniwell and
other leaders."
—The Philadelphia Record gives
the Democratic view: "District At
torney Samuel P. rlotan will not
withdraw his name from the Repub
lican ticket as a candidate to succeed
himself at the November election.
The district attorney -expressed his
determination to keep his name on
the Republican ticket yesterday and
put an end to the speculation as to |
whether or not he would decline the i
Republican nomination to head the !
new independent ticket which will be
put in the field within the next two i
weeks. Neither the leaders of the
new independent movement nor of
the Republican city committee ex
pressed surprise when apprised of
Mr. Rotan's announced intention to
accept the Republican nomination
which he won at the primary elec
tion. Republican leaders declared
that they had known all along that
District Attorney Rotan would not
withdraw from the Organization
ticket."
—While the September grand jury
was making a presentment in open
court in Philadelphia yesterday de
nouncing the Fifth ward conspiracy
and demanding "that all those re
sponsible therefor, either directly or
indirectly, or by intrigue, whether
they be high officials or persons of
low degree," should be brought to
trial. District Attorney Rotan directly
charged Lieutenant David Bennett
with being implicated in the murder
plot and in a convincing letter to
Mayor Smith demanded the removal
of the strong-arm officer from the
Third district.
—The Philadelphia Press in a
special from Washington gives this
Interesting news: "Senator Penrose
will go to Philadelphia when Con
gress adjourns, probably one week
from to-morrow, ready and eager to
do his share in the movement to
clean up F hiladelphia. The Senator
is not giving interviews on the Phila
delphia situation, but he Is keeping
In close touch with all Its develop
ments. It is plain truth to record
that his duties on the Senate finance
committee are keeping him busy all
the time. Senator Lodge's health
and advancing years are keeping him
out of Washington and Senator Pen
rose is the only Republican member
of the finance committee In the capi
tal. Senator Simmons, chairman of
the committee. Is relying upon the
Ptnnsylvanlan for much of the detail
work connected with the war reve
nues and the soldier's insurance bills,
the two most important measures of
the war and the ones carrying the
greatest appropriations In the history
of civilization. Those who know Sen
ator Penrose In his nours of ease In
Philadelphia would be amazed at
the burdens he assumes here at the
industry that takes every minute of
his waking hours."
—The formal announcement* of
the candidacy of Representative Ana
A. Weimer, of Lebanon, for the Re
publican nomination for Governor,
contain a statement of his ambitions
together with some things about his
business career, pointing out his
qualifications for the place of Gov
ernor. Ho sets forth his willingness
to sacrifice private business Interests
for the good of the state. The state
ment also says: "He Is not a Fourth
of July orator, neither does he have
a 'barrel' with which to buy his
nomination, but the reflection of his
energy. Integrity and ability in the
performance of his duties In the ad
ministration of the state's affairs
would be in a conscientious, economic
and businesslike way."
HAR**IEUBURO ifißb TELEGRAPH
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT By Bnggt
TF YA WAWT ME 'FTJNT"I %■Je*s
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
How Wrecks Occur
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I draw your attention to a condi
tion that one of these nights is going
to cause a serious accident. I was
bowling along through the rain
Thursday night on the road between
this city and Reading. Suddenly we
approached a grade crossing. I
siowed up and when I got within
30 feet cf the tracks I was able to
make cut a slowly moving freight
train. 1 stopped quickly and was
n.ot in danger. After the train
passed, the watchman came from his
little office and signaled me to cross
over. Suppose I had been a stran
ger to the locality or had not had
my car under immediate control,
what then? Ought not the watch
nitn have been out to warn me, or,
that being impossible, ought not
some light signal be swung wtien
trains are passing crossings? If this
is not done, fatalities are bound to
occur. .
AUTOMOBILIST.
In Good Hands
Tc the Editor of the Telegraph:
Have you noticed how energet
ically the work on the long delayed
post office building is moving? That
is because the Government has put
n reliable local contractor—Augustus
Wildman—on the job, and Harris
burg workmen are employed. If this
course had been followed from the
iirst, there would have been no de
lay and the post office would have
been completed. Wildman has a
reputation for getting things done on
time.
MAIL MAN.
GIVINGTNOT GETTING
"We are to judge men hencefor
ward." Secretary Lane said in an ad
dress yesterday, "not by what they
have, but by what they give."
Apply that principle in Kansas
city. The men who are riiaking
this city are the fellows who are do
ing things for the town, not taking
things from it; those who devote
themselves to giving, not to getting.
Service is the big word.
The selfish man who is absorbed
in squeezing out dollars for himself
Is no asset to the community. It's
the men who considers service first
of all —how he can serve his cus
tomers, how hr can serve his city,
his state, his nation —that counts.
The city where every man is
simply looking out for Number 1
is in a had way. Natural location
may make it prosper, but it will
prosper in spite of itself. It is im
possible to keep taking out without
V-utting back in. t
A man's citizenship depends, as
Secretary Lane says, on what he
give, not on what he has. —Ex-
change.
SHOULD BE TACTFUL
(Indianapolis Star.)
According to complaints that
reach New York papers information
comes in private letters from some
of our men In France that there is
an unpleasant disposition manifested
by a class of American soldiers, not
excluding officers, to boast that they
have come to "save Krance" the Im
plication, even the direct Intimation,
being that the Allies would be de
feated without us. It is a form of the
old bragging assertion that America
can "lick" the world.
It Is not at all likely that this
boastfulness is general, however, or
that where it is indulged in it Is any
thing more than the careless talk
of boys who do not mean what they
say sorlously and are unconscious
of the offense that may be given in
case their "Jokes" are not under
stood.
The majority of our fighting men
are modest enough. It Is safe to say.
They know they have much to learn
from the French and British armies
and are ready and willing to learn.
They hope to aain the friendship and
respect of these associates, and It
should be the aim to suppress any
individuals of the boastful order,
whose idle talk may make a dis
agreeable Impression that will in
terfere with this friendship.
TOO SYMPATHETIC
This story is told by a man who
has an old negro working round his
place on Ix>ng Island. On the day
after the United States declared war
Uncle Ben came bright and early to
do his chores.
"Well, Mistah John," he said. "I
hope youse gwlne ter be kind to pore
ole Germany now."
"Why, Uncle Ben, what are you
talking about? Don't yon know we're
at war with Germany?"
"I knows It: I knows it," the old
fellow persisted, shaking his head.
"But suttlnly dat country'll ned a
frien' now! "-—Saturday Evening
Post.
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Books For the Soldier Boys
By Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, of New York.
THE national slogan, "A Million
Dollars for a Million Books for
a Million Men," appears by
some to have been misunderstood.
We seek in the nation $1,000,000 to
provide for the young men who have
join,ed our National Army and who
are distributed among the thirty-two
cantonments provided by the Gov
ernment and to provide for the. sol
diers overseas and the sailors of the
Navy suitable, abundant and proper
radir.g matter.
We do not propose to spend sl,-
000,000 fcr 1,000.000 books in the
literal sense. Arrangements lyxve
been made for the purchase of large
quantities of books of the sort ap
proved by the council, for much less
than sl, contrary to some misappre
hension among the general public.
The $1,000,000 Is needed not only
to purchase the books but to provide
temporary library buildings at each
cantonment and elsewhere for them,
and to provide capable persons to
care for the books and to act as li
brarians for the young men of our
Army and Navy, who will be so
sorely in need of both relaxation
aud mental stimulus during their
AGAINST THE WORLD
[Chicago News]
Infatuated apologists for Germany
may well ask themselves why so
many governments, including gov
ernments of the Western Hemisphere
tbat heretofore have consistently
held aloof from European quarrels,
are gradually ranging themselves on
the side of the enemies of that pow
erful empire. The reason is, of
course, that Germany persistently
manifests a ruthless disregard for
the rights of mankind and of neutral
nations, thus making neutrality im
possible to self-respecting peoples
except in certain special cases of
peoples united to the Germans by
close commercial ties and overshad
owed by the remorseless German
sword.
Cuba. In declaring war against
Germany, may have been influenced
largely by the example of the Unit
ed States. But the other countries
of the Western Hemisphere have
their own reasons for disliking and
fearing Germany. Some of them
have no particular fondness for the
United States. <?osta Rtca, which
severed diplomatic relations with
Germany last week, acted because
of the discovery that German resi
dents of that country were conspiring
against the government. The Argen
tine Republic's reasons for consid
ering hostile action against Germany
have been made plain.
Germany and its autocratic allies
stand at bay, facing a world defen
sively armed against them and de
termined to break their arrogant
spirit, because they have exalted
force and greed over justice and hu
manity.
OHIO PROVINCIALISM
Provincialism in the way of pro
nunclatlon are common, the country
over; and are not always easily ac
counted for. We of Ohio are not
guiltless; nine out of ten of us do
not pronounce the name of our State
correctly. We say, "Ohiah"—not
"Ohio." Years ago a backwoods
journalist wrote a doggered rhyme
to illustrate this fact. It ran;
A charming young miss named
Mariah
Lived out In the State of Ohiah;
And she often would sail
Down a banister rail —
When she thought that no ono was
nlgh-ah.
Her impish young brother Joslah
Fixed the rail with a piece of barbed
wlah;
And I never shall tell
What that maiden befell—
For I'm blushing already like flah.
—James Ball Naylon in Marlon (O.)
Star.
POST OFFICE INKWELL
How many humble hearts have
dipped!
In you, and scrawled their manu
script!
Have shared their secrets, told their
cares.
Their curious and quaint affairs!
Tour pool of ink, your scratchy pen.
Have m'oved the lives of unborn
■ men.
And watched young people, breath
ing hard.
Put Heaven on a postal card.
—Christopher Morley in Collier's
Weekly.
leisure hours in the service of the
country.
Large numbers of books undoubt
edly will be given to the council, but
unfortunately it has been found that
many of the books thus dounted by
well-meaning persons have been un
suitable, have represented the Inter
ests of propagandists, have been
works on important subjects so old
as to have lost their value, or have
been of a < liaracter which would fail
to appeal to the men whom the War
Department and the Library War
Council hope to serve.
Besides the desirabilty of provid
ing our valiant youth with appealing
literature for their own entertain
ment, there are tremendous reasons
why these young men should have
placed In their hands books which
will tend to miike them more patri
otic, abler and better citizens upon
their return to civil life. This can
be accomplished only through the
raising cf $1,000,000, which, consid
ering the needs and the purpose, is
a most modest sum for the nation to
raise.
I ani sure that there are thousands
of citzetre who will respond to the
appeal of the War Council once they
understand the full details as •to
what it plans for our young men.
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
[New York Sun.]
The great drive for $1,000,000
with which to provide libraries for
our soldiers in the field, both abroad
end at home, is well launched. It
deserves complete success and the
support of those who, while forced
to stay at home, recognize their ob
ligations to contribute to the com
fort of the soldiers at the front.
Much- of the soldier's time is idle
time. Lack of occupation is his sor
est trial, for it is in the hours of
idleness that homesickness and wor
ry attac.l him most cruelly. A book
that w.:i engross his mind and take
it far from the problems or the sor
rows .of the moment is the surest
antidote.
People are already giving books
by the tens of thousands through
the Y. M. C. A. and other established
helpful organizations. This is a use
ful service and must not be neglect
ed. But the movement to establish
regular libraries of new books for the
soldiers is an official action, author
ized by the Government, and prose
cuted by the American Library War
Council. It will not only supply
books from a carefully prepared
catalog, but will establish library
quarters and supply librarians. The
long professional experience of those
in charge gives assurance that the
nature of thf, books will be suited to
the men who are' to read them.
Those books which Charles Lamb
described as "books which are no
books" and "books which no gentle
man's library should he without"
will be rigidly excluded.
In a time when the demands upon
a patriot's money seem to be Illimit
able this Is one of the causes which
deserve generous support. We call
atfention to Judge O'Hrien's letter
in another column.
SOLDIERS TO DECIDE
[From the Kansas City Star]
What are you knitting, my pretty
maid ?"
She purled, then dropped a stitch,
'A sock or a sweater, sir," she said,
"And darned*lf I know which!"
THREE OF A KIND
[From the Milwaukee Journal.]
Arthur Shattuck, the brilliant Wis
consin pianist, has given his entire
income, $60,000 annually, for the
maintenance of European musicians
pauperized by the war. His private
yacht he has offered to the American
government. His splendid apart
ments in Paris, which he has main
tained for years, he has turned over
to Belgian refugees. He is now liv
ing on what he earns from his work
as a musician.
Wright Patterson, a sailor, whose!
parents live in Chicago, was in Syd
ney, Australia, 10,000 miles away, I
when ho heard of America's entrance
into the war. He started back im
mediately, and has enlisted at the
Great Lakes training station, to do
his bit in the great flght for democ
racy.
O. B. Perry, general manager of
the Yukon Gold Company, Canada,
has just quit a $50,000-a-year Job to
volunteer in Uncle Sam's cause. Ho
is nw serving aa a major in the
United States Army at a salary of
$3,000.
Three of a kind, these men are. It
Is the spirit which rules the breasts
of such patriots as these that will
win the war.
SEPTEMBER 29,-1917.
LABOR NOTES
Mobile (Ala.) machinists have se
cured an eight-hour day.
International Brotherhood ot
Bookbinders has 12,630 members.
Australia has declared the I. AV.
W. an illegal organization.
Textile workers at Chattanooga,
Tenn., have the union shop.
Women have not proved a success
as section hands. .
Los Angles (Cal.) garment work
ers have secured increased pay.
Messenger boys in Kansas City,
Mo., get S4O a month.
Leather workers at Dallas, Tex.,
ask $4 a day.
Women bookbinders in Philadel
phia have rased wages 20 per cent.
Membership of the Brotherhood of
Boilermakers is almost 40,000.
Peasant women are harvesting tho
crops in Italy.
Women are employed as coachmen
in London, England.
TESTING OUR MODESTY
Americans have been too busy
doing it to realize just what they
really have- accomplished since they
determined to go to war, but from
some foreign observers we are learn
ing a little. Giving these friends of
ours, who have looked over the
ground with critical eyes, credit with
sincerity, and we have again aston
ished the world. Such swift celerity
of preparation as we have shown
was not expected; our national ten
dency to muddle and moil over de
tails has been discounted by our
friends, consequently the business
like methods adopted and results
achieved have astounded them. In
live months we have gotten an army
of a million and a half of men Into
preparation, organized and under
going intensive training; have made
provisions on a scale so elaborate
that e\et Kurope accustomed to war
on a gigantic scale, says we have
done wonders, and have brought
public and private enterprise into
close and effective co-operation for
the further prosecution of enter
prise of war. All this has impressed
our friends from abroad, even if it
does not seem so very much to us,
now that we finally have started.
However, they will find our national
modesty equal to the test, Just as
our valour and devotion has been
! proved.—Omaha Bee.
| OUR DAILY LAUCHI
§ DEFINED,
Pa, what's a
specialist?
A man who
has discovered
which of his
talents will
bring him the
most money,
bridge with
And then she
buys a can
of beans
And home
ward hies.
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i WA K. I AND LAST
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* 81 j Did he marry
MSTW in a girl like a
|M|Jm iff "I- magazine cover?
aBIn! If ft ; Yes. and then
t VLr expected her to
|PS Jj§ work like a coo'k
Biwttttn QUftti
This should be a good year for th
big: pumpkin, according to report
which are being made by fari
agents to the State Department c
Agriculture, especially men who llv
in the counties where special atten
tlon Is given to the raising of cori
More reports of big pumpkins ax
coming in than usual and the e*
hiblts at various fairs have show
development of some notable spec'
mens of the basis of the great Amei
lean pie. From all accounts ther
was unusual planting of pumpkin
last spring and because of the actlv
lty In behalf of foodstuffs last fa
seeds from many of the prixewli
ners at 1916 fairs were sold over
wide area. Some of the yields c
these seeds have been followed u
by state agents and very large sped
mens have been reported. If th
early reports are borne out ther
will be plenty of pumpkins, not onl
of the edible variety, but of th
"cow" style.
• • •
Figures at the financial depart
ments of the state government shoi
that the receipts of the State High
way Department for automobile 11
censes have not fallen below $2,00
except on two business days at th
Capitol. The aggregate of the re
ceipts is over $3,00,000 and th
license total over 300,000. On man
days the receipts have been u
around $3,000 and $4,000. On th
two days that the sum went belo\
$2,000 the receipts were around sl,
800 each. The fact that the receipt
are holding up so well when th
year has only about three months t
run Is considered remarkable. Th
half yeur license rate went into ef
feet July 1. All of the revenue fron
automobile licenses goes for highwa
maintenance.
• •
It is not often that three forme
state fiscal officers get to Capitol Hll
together, but yesterday A. E. Slssori
of Erie, former Auditor Genera
and Colonel James E. Barnett, o
Washington, and James S. Reacom
of Greensburg, former State Treas
urers, ull were at the Auditor Gen
eral's Department. They had quite
time recalling days gone by In stat
affairs.
• • •
The sight of British officers er
gaged In recruiting work within slgl
of the dome of the State Capitol <
Pennsylvania attracted considerab!
attention here the latter part of th
week. The officers were a part
the party which has been engage
in this State on recruiting an
secured several men who were sul
Jects of the empire. The officer
wore their uniforms and had th
assistance of American soldiers.
• • •
The outcome of the jitney cases i
being watched with the greatest in
terest In other cities of the Stat
and some of the officials have beei
closely following up developments i
Harrlsburg where the Public Servic
Commission took cognlzapce of th
jitney complaints by establishing j
policy for transportation in the city
In other places jltneymen have bee
required by local authorities to hav
fixed routes and terminals, while i
others the jltneymen made their owi
regulations and sent them to Councl
for approval.
• • •
The raising of sheep, for years on<
of the big adjuncts of farming ii
this sectton of the State, bids fai
to be taken up again because of th<
attractive prices for wool nd th
market offered for the meat. In thi
last few days several Inquiries havi
been made by farm owners In thl:
section for sheep and If prices cat
be fixed there will be some purchase
made. It will mean the penning uj
or killing off of a number of dogs
however.
Perhaps one of the funniest of thi
many funny expressions heard abou
the paintings at the State Capito
occurred yesterday afternoon wher
a couple of hoys were looking
through the hall of the House 01
Representatives. One boy polntec
out the central painting which was
Abbey's conception of the flight 01
the hours.
"Each one of those women ur
there is named for a county," said
A good story was told a few days
ago by a newspaperman of this clt>
i>liout Secretary of War Xewton D
Baker, who is to speak here shortly
While Mr. Baker was mayor 01
Cleveland he was attending th
mayors' convention at Philadelphia
which was attended by many mayors
of the country. Among the speaker:
,vas Mayor Nevin, ot Easton, who dii
r.ot approve of various enterprises li:
which itties engaged.
"Why, In one city," declared the
Easton mayor in reciting the list ol
thitr-'s done by municipalities, "the>
actually had the city sell the ice
cream in the parks."
"Yes," interjected Mr. Baker. "J
was the mayor who did It. We gol
pure ice cream, chased out the fakirs
sold in large quantities and gave th<
children better and more ice cream."
State draft headquarters gets some
funny letters In addition to such as
came last night from a Philadelphia
local hoard threatening to resign 11
some way was not found to check
activities of attorneys who charge
!arg( sums for making affidavits. The
other day a letter came addressed
co "Mr. Governor Brumbaugh." An
other was addressed to the "Head
Drafter" and another correspondent
took liberties with the name of the
provost marshal general, referring to
him as "General Chowder." ,
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"")
—R. K. Shryock, former Altoona
resident, now of California, has pre
sented the Blair County Historical
Society with a portfolio of Pennsyl
vania newspapers dating from 1774,
—Dr. 8. S. Leopold, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, who has
been studying Infantile paralysis,
says that the germ is still baffling
science.
—The Rev. W. N. Schwarta, the
new president of the Moravian His
torical Society, Is one of the promi
nent clergymen of that denomina
tion in this state.
—Highway Commissioner O'Nell
was the chief speaker at the Somer
set fair yesterday.
—Dr. R. IJ. Hayes, superintendent
of Pittsburgh parochial schools. Is
urging children to join the Red
Cross.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrjsburg Is furnishing
skilled men for work on can
tonmcnts?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first bridge here got the man
who built it Into trouble for debt
FORETELLETH CHRIST
As the people were in expectation
and all men mused in their hearts of
John, whether he Vere the Christ or
not; John answered saying unto them
all, I Indeed baptlie you with water;
but one mightier than I Cometh, the
latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to unloose; he shall baptize
you with the Holy Ghost and with
fire. —Luke ill, IS and IS.