6 .HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME ' Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGHAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Prts't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. BTEINMET22, Managing Editor. Member of tho 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 the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. - Member American Newspaper Pub rriiiT Ushers' Assocla tlon, the Audit Bureau of Oircu lation and Penn rSSaißir W sylvania Associ ated Dailies. ! SftS S ffßa 31 Eastern office, W, IBJ Story, Brooks & 1 Rgh m ijag m Finley, Fifth SsSBBBi W Avenue Building. 0. New York City; Western office, iStory. Brooks & •* 4C25M? F'.nley, People's ■ ' S!S)F fjas Building, " ~ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a rrfefSyaSSfc"* "week; by mail, 15.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, li!7 To have had one em-otion that was bigger than you or your universe is to hare had life. —Ellen Glasgow. WHAT IS ROTARY? UNLESS to-day's conference of Rotary Club leaders in this city differs from all others, some delegate will respond to the question of "What is Rotary?" Everybody knows what a Rotary Club Is. but not oven the founders of the organ ization are sure about Rotary. Their knowledge is about as definite as that of scientists concerning elec tricity. They know It for a tremendous dynamic force, capable of Immense energy for good if properly applied, and that is about all. They know that it makes men think of each other more kindly and work more harmoniously together for the wel fare of their city and their country. They know that its principles are universal and that once the ma chinery for its transmission over the entire world is perfected, it will go u long way toward the preparation of the mind of mankind for a peace propaganda that will make war as unpopular as piracy. They know there is much truth in the saying that "when anything is pronounced impossible, watch some Rotarian rise up and do it." They believe, with very good reason, that It Is destined to he. if it is not already so, the ultima thule of business organiza tions. But as for defining Rotary, fhat is quite a different matter. The Federal Trade Commission in tends to see to it that newspapers a.re not charged more for white paper; but what many of them that have been forced to two desire is that the Trade Commission arrange it so that they may be charged less. , GOOD WORK OF FIREMEN THOSE who witnessed Saturday's fire at Steelton know that the town was seriously threatened on several occasions when flying sparks set fire to houses in remote parts of the borough. They know also that had It not been for the efficiency of the Steelton firemen, aided by com panies from Harrisburg.'the threat ■would have become a reality. The Steelton department had not the ghost of a chance to put out the flour mill fire, the building being doomed from the very first, but the men did wonderfully well in keeping down the smaller' fires that oc curred with discouraking frequency throughout the period of the larger blaze. The heavy property loss is regret able. but the big flouring mills will be replace#! at once and the saddest part of the fire is the loss of so many thousands of bushels of grain at a time when wheat is at premium throughout the world. Peru has come to a realization that her bread Is spread with American butter. LAFOLLETTE'S DEFENSE SENATOR LAFOLLETTE'S self defense lacks the ring of sin cerity. He pictures himself as a persecuted patriot martyred for devotion to a Just but unpopular cause. Maybe he really believes that to be true, but the text of his speech does not tend to convince the doubt ing mind. It teems with subtlo in ferences of insincerity on the part of the United States, and the needless ness of the war, all designed to fur ther the false doctrines LaFollette has been teaching. If he is not pro- German, his address in his own be half at least paints him as a citizen dangerous to the community in time of war and wholly unfitted for a seat In the United States Senate. General abor and Democracy Is labor's fighting or ganization for that job. Americanism is the answer to Ger manism. No American can remain idle while the nefarious work of the German agents in this country con tinues. No American soldier in the trenches would lie down and .remain quiet while German hordes walked over him. No American in America can fall to get into action to crush the enemy within. That is tlio reason why the Amer ican Alliance for Labor and Democ racy has taken up cudgels against the agents of Prussianlsm who would defeat the soldiers in the fighting line by creating discord and lack of confidence in the great army of workingmen who are doing their bit at home just as effectively as though they had donned uniforms and gone to the front. It is a good work and one that is bound to redound to the credit of labor during the great re construction period that is to follow the war. An obscure Mark Twain thus ad vertises in his paper at Mounds, 111.: "Wanted—A printer to take entire charge of my paper while I go to war. The Job may be permanent." PEOPLE TAKING NOTICE THESE are days of unrest for in dividuals and society generally. There is more or less demorali zation growing out of the world war atmosphere. Men and women are upset and it is with Sifflculty that the average citizen goes about his us ual occupation. There is a groping and a speculation as to the future which interferes with peace of irrind. As illustrating this thought the fol lowing from the editorial page of the Kansas City Star is interesting: I We wonder what effect these heavy war taxes are going to have on the industry of politics in America. Taxes haven't both ered us much in this country heretofore. We never have felt them sufficiently to make us realize the relation that public revenue bears to public office or the relation that either bears to us as taxpayers and voters. We shouldn't be surprised if we took a closer look at these matters now. The Government is coming down on us pretty nearly every day now with something new in the way of taxes. We are beginning to feel the weight of them quite plainly and we're go ing to feel them more before we feel them less. Americans who never before knew the dizzy sen sation of paying an income tax are going to feel it now and are going to get so acustomed to it that thoy will feel no lifbre honored by tho circumstance than they do now when the grocery bill comes in. Taxes of all kinds are going to be common and very, very heavy. When we get to paying these real taxes we wonder if we aren't going t know what Dacomes of his own money. Right here in Harrisburg and Cen tra! Pennsylvania It would be well for nil citiaens to give attention to the matters which are of direct per sonal. interest to them. We must giv? more thought to the conduct of our public aftairs and unless we do wi! shall have r disagreeable awak ening Rome day and nobody will be 1 to blame save the citizen who gen- j erally assumes an attitude of indif-l ferenee on eloct'or. day and then j spends the rest of the year criticizing j what his more cp.retul and interested i neighbor has done. General Haig has not only smashed up the German defenses, but he has smashed a military precedent by at tacking the enemy's lines where they were strongest. UNCLE SAM AND BUSINESS NOW that the great war reve nue measure has been ap- j proved by the President, the! business of the country can and must] adjust itself to the new conditions. While this measure was pending in Congress there was more or less un certainty and to some extent the nat ural development of trade was re tarded. It is expected now, however, that the ordinary channels of activ ity will become more energetic, inas much as businessmen can look for ward with something like an intelli gent understanding of what is ahead of them. At the recent great war confer ence of businessmen at Atlantic City | resolutions were adopted pledging every facility of the nation to the support of the Government in this crisis. It is contended now that the Government at Washington must 1 also realize its duty to business. If there is to be any hamstringing of the ordinary activities. of the nation as represented in commerce and In dustry, then the Government is bound to be hampered In the prose ■ cution of the war. There should be no nagging of in dustry. Patriotic support has char acterized the attitude of the business world from the start of the war and It is absolutely necessary for the Gov ernment and business to co-operate to the end that there shall be no weakening of the forces of the nation at this time. Capital and labor must go hand In hand so that there shall be no fric tion or lost motion or waste of ef fort In any direction. Those who in any way interfere with the harmoni ous working out of the great plans for the nation's defense must be regarded in the light of enemies and no high-sounding name will serve to conceal the real character of such individuals. If the Government keeps- on creat ing bureaus in Washington. New York will have to look to her census laurels. GOOD WORK AT SMALL COST REPORTS of Lieutenant Govern-1 or McClain and others of the State Defense Commission who have been keeping track of the ac tivities of the Public Safety Commit tee indicate that much good work has been done by both bodies at a very small expense to the people. Big men are giving freely of their time to the organization of the vari ous industries and interests of the State for effective co-operation irt case of emergency and a great deal in the way of public education along the lines of conservation is being done. The Marines in France have sent out a hurry call for heavy woolen socks, but that's no sign they have cold feet. Ot, "PtKKOij&rcuua By the Ex-Coinmlttceman Senator "William E. Crow's blunt statement in Washington that he would not be a candidate for the Re publican nomination for governor and the mention of names of half a dozen or more men in addition to Senator William C. Sproul as possi bilities have given the Republican gubernatorial situation a turn tha,t makes it almost as interesting as the Democratic. In fhe case of the Democracy it is a puzzle of who will be tagged by the President to lead the forlorn hope. In the case of the Republicans It is a question of who can muster the most strength to lead the victorious column. The Republican leaders on Satur day carefully canvassed the situation and numerous names have been sug gested. The Democratic leaders liaVe been running around in rings and even suggesting Joseph F. Guffey, the representative of the public util ity magnates of Western Pennsylva nia, now the petroleum administra tor at Washington, acting Democra tic state chairman and boss of the Allegheny county machine. National Chairman McCormick and Secretary 0/ Labor Wilson are said to have trouble with their eyesight when told to look at gubernatorial nominations. —Governor Brumbaugh broke his silence on the Philadelphia situation yesterday. The Governor refused to discuss the matter after his return to this city from Maine and during tho hearing last week was llrm in his declination to comment. -He went to Philadelphia Friday and yester day afternoon made a statement In the course of which he said: "It is the mayor's duty to preserve law and order. The matter is now in the bands of the courts and truWh and justice are bound to prevail. Ido not know enough of this case to help wofk it out —and 1 am glad I It looks rotten. I could not act un less I had been asked to act and the National Guard, as you know, is down in Georgia. But if I had been asked to act I certainly would have sent troops down to the Fifth ward." [ —Representative Isadore Stern, a prominent figure in the last Legis lature, issued a statement on the Philadelphia situation, in which he said: "I am fighting this thing, not to put people in jail, not to see peo ple sent to the electric chair, but to bring about a revolution of the cor rupt politics in this city, to remove the police from politics and to es tablish absolute freedom for the Philadelphia voter. I have no petty prejudices. I have been struggling since 1 was twenty-one years old against the police in politics down there, and I am willing to fight till I am eighty-one if It is necessary. 'Jim' Carey has never employed the hand of the police in any of his political moves, and that is the reason I am standing up for him. If he had act ed as Deutsch I would be against him as much as I am against Deutsch now." —This week promises to be an ex tremely interesting one in Philadel phia as District Attorney Rotan plans to go after Director of Safety Wilson regarding reports on Fifth ward conditions and the hearing will be resumed with the coroner's in quest coming, along to add fresh thrills. —Senator McNlchol issued a state ment from his sick bed yesterday In which he declared that he would testify as soon as he was able and that he would tell what he could to clear up Fifth ward conditions. The Senator said that he wanted fair play and that he would back Carey to the limit. When Senator Vare was shown the McNlchol statement he promptly issued one, too, saying that he thought it a pity politics was be ing injected into the situation. Judge Brown's remarks on Jews, which he rett-acted, were condemned by a meeting which threatens to bring the matter to the Governor's office. —The town meeting committee is looking around for suitable candi dates to make up a ticket. The nomi nation of District Attorney Rotan by the committee is considered likely, but there will be some independents put on the rest of the ticket. The Philadelphia Ledger to-day says that the call to take a place on the ticket is one which no citizen can evade. Other newspapers make appeals to have the right kind of men for such a situation named and insist that self-seekers be put into the back ground. The Vare men say that no matter what Is done they will elect the councils again. —ln Pittsburgh there is consider able "scrapping" going on over the registration and charges and counter charges are being made. Some of the Babcock leaders say that because of the backing of William A. Ma gee by the state administration and his friendship with the Vares, that Babcock will be a sure winner. —From Wellsboro comes the in teresting story that Colonel H. M. Foots, of Tioga county, has congres sional aspirations. As ex-Senator Wulter T. Merrick, ex-Representa tive A. B. Dunsmore and Represen tative G. W. Williams, also of Tioga, are also reported to be aspirants it does not look as though Congressman Kless would have to worry much about the vote of Tioga. Kless de feated no less a person than Secre tary of Labor Wilson, much talked of for governor now and cleaned up a coalition in 1912 and In 1914. —Senator W. M. L,ynoh, of Lacka wanna, is a Rood prophet. He was re-elected superintendent of Farvlew institution on Saturday without a tight. —The United' States Senate failed to take seriously Collector of tho OVER THERE I Port Berry, Surveyor Kurtz and Naval Officer Crull. It "adjourned without acting on their nominations. But they will remain on the payroll. —-Senator McNichol's twelfth child was born Saturday. He now has ten sons, four of them in the Army. —John C. Arnold, Republican can didate for district attorney of Clear field, is said to have a good lead for election. —The Philadelphia Inquirer in a dispatch from Wilkes-Barre says Luzerne county Republican leaders backed by a thoroughly united party, have determined to make a strong fight in the next election for the pur pose of keeping Judge Henry A. Full er on the county bench. This decision has been reached because Democrats lined up solidly behind Thomas D. Shea in the primaries and because the present Democratic organization has been handing out orders to all the big and little fry to carry Shea along. Judge Fuller lacked just thir ty-eight votes of winning the election in the primaries. The vote given did not fall short of expectations, but the surprise came in the fact that the primary vote was larger than antici pated, the increased vote coming in the strong Democratic districts. D. O. Coughlin, who was unquestionably in the primary tight to aid the Shea candidacy, got less than 3,000 votes and the support he got Is certain to go to Judge Fuller. The primary re turns figures would indicate that Judge Fuller should win by-a plur ality of 5,000 votes in the November election. —Our old friend Chief Clerk Thomas H. Garvin, of the House of Representatives, is still the great pacifier. This is the evidence from .Media: "The Republican County Ex ecutive Committee at its meeting a few days ago, succeeded in bringing about complete harmony so far as suppuort for the county ticket Is con cerned. The meeting was presided over by Thomas H. Garvin, chairman of the committee, who, in an address made a special plea for the re-elec tion of Judge William B. Broomall. Harmony talks were also given by Isaac E. Johnson, Richard J. Bald win, Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives,. and Deputy Coroner Eugene F. White. White was defeat ed for sheriff at the recent primary, and has accepted his defeat grace fully. White made a speech for har mony." . SHOULD WIN Folks at Washington undertake to explain Claude Kltchin'e opposition to the Senate draft of the revenue bill as an element in the political rivalry which he feels toward Sena tor Simmons. Both Simmons and Kitchln hail from North Carolina, and, by a curious chance, that #ne state has the .chairmen of the revenue committee In the two houses of Congress. Kitcliin would like to succeed Simmons in the Senate when the latter'a term expires In 1919; and he is said to feel that he must impress his ideas upon the revenue bill as it finally becomes law in such wise as to deprive Simmons of the credit and to award the praise to Kitchin. In politics there have al ways been ambitious men whose theory of success is that It must proceed .by tearing someone else down. These men generally are of small caliber; and In this respect Kitchln does not transgress the rule. It is unlikely that he will be able to defeat Senator Simmons for re nomination; and in any event there Is more than a chance that neither Simmons nor Kitchln will represent North Carolina In the Senate after the fourth of March, 1919. The revenue bill, over which they are both quarreling, Is not of a type to be popular in their state, where the recent growth of manufacturing in terests has led to a corresponding development -of political opinion in favor of a protective tariff, against which both Simmons and Kitchin have steadfastly fought. The Re publicans of North Carolina, with a good nomination —such as we learn they are inclined to make—together with the protection Democrats of the state, may be able, next year, to get rid of both Simmons and Kitchin at one fell swoop. And a good job It would be, too. DRAGON OF THE RHINE The draßon of the lihine begins to writhe and twist in agony. It has been wounded, and wounded deep. But. you' know, the tail will live until the sun goes down. The entire Old World Is alive with agony. The insane blood of Fred erick is coursing through the veins of the Teuton. We Americans' better lose every dollar that ,we have than lose our liberty, and' at the end of the rope lose our lives. Put your dollars into service if you can't go yourself. Service means doing things In so many ways. Germany Is a ruthless hypocrisy, a menace to manhood, a devilish raper of womanhood. —Silent Part ineiv Rooseveltisms Slackers and Others It is not well for a nation to im port its art and its literature; but it is fatal for a nation to import its babies. The philosophy of the belly will never get a community very far. ' I know not how philosophers may ultimately define religion; but from Mlcah to James it has been defined as service to one's fellow man ren dered by following the great rule of justice and mercy, of wisdom and righteousness. The woman who keeps the house has exactly the same right to a say in the disposal of the money as tho man who earns the money, t Am I my brother's keppcr? You certainly are if you are a member of a credit union and htfve gone on his note for money to buy a hog with. The right to vote no more implies that a woman will neglect her home than that a man will neglect his bus iness. Let us pay with our bodies for our souls' desire! If a man is too conscientious to light, then the rest of us ought to be too conscientious to let him vote. —From Theodore Roosevelt's Household." PREVENTABLE LOSS Six years ago It was suggested by a number of Interested men that October 9, the fortieth anniversary of the great Chicago fire, should be celebrated as "Fire Prevention Day." The idea met with favor and that date has been observed with increas ing interest each year since, When it was formerly observed in sixty-eight cities in thirty states in this country. The governors of the majority of states have issued proclamations con cerning the work, and President Wilson issued the following: "Preventable fire is more than a private misfortune. It Is a public dereliction. At a time like this of emergency and of manifest necessity tor the conservation of national re sources, it is more than ever a mat ter of deep and pressing consequence that every means should be taken to prevent this evil." Careful investigation has proved that the majority of tires is entirely preventable and. that the immense annual loss is due to nothing less than criminal carelessness. The spirit of fire prevention day should become firmly fixed in the minds pf every one so that greater caution would be exercised every day of the year and upon every occasion. Parents and teachers should consider it a part of their duty to impress lessons of care in regard to Are upon those in their charge. Factory managers, farpiers and others may do much by precept and example to Inculcate care on the part of others. Everyone realizes that war is waste and deprecates the great loss occas ioned by it, but fire destruction is also absolute waste of the products of effort, which loss (like that of war) is finally levied upon all. Fire, however, may be prevented, even If war cannot. —Pennsylvania Farmer. I SCRANTON NEWSPAPERS Scranton, capital of the Realm of Anthracite, was for many years over blessed with newspapers. They were strong numerically—not otherwise. As always happens when three or four newspapers contest a field which could be served amnly and admir ably by two, the Scranton papers did not prosper. To-day the Scranton newspaper situation is ideal. The Republican occupies the morning field alone, and the Times the evening field alone. Both newspapers are • prosperous. Fair and reasonable advertising rates prevail. The papers sell for two cents a copy. The Republican and the Timee are good neighbors, liv ing in amity, each serving the Scran ton public The competition between them is of the constructive kind which yields dividends to the people as well as to the newspapers. The Scranton rivalry now is a contest for public approval based upon the measure which each newspaper finds It possible to render. —From Editor and Publisher. BAGS FOR THEATER Knitting bags to be carried to the theater often match the coat and are of silk with trimming-of gold lace or galloon, and at all theaters wom en are seen knitting between the acta. —Exchange. Pawnbroker patriotism is a poor substitute for fighting patriotism. We can have no flfty-flfty alle giance in this country. A man has no right to the things that do not belong to him; and this country does not belong to the men who- will not defend her. The parlor pacifist represents de cadence. There is no more contemptible form of privilege than the privilege of existing In smug, self-righteous, peaceful safety because other, brav er, more self-sacrificing men give up safety and go to war to preserve the nation. The man who feels that the coun try owes him everything and that he owes the country nothing will pay the country Just what he thinks he owes—nothing. There was never yet a service worth rendering that did not entail sacrifice; and no man renders the highest service if he thinks over much of the sacrifice. The average doctor's wife has more time for the performance of political duties than the average doc tor himself. lew book, "The Foes of Our Own ARMY RECREATION One of the things we have learned In the last generation is that the "don't-do-that" policy isn't effective by itself. Tell a boy to keep out of a certain kind of mischief and he is likely to get into some other kind. But give him something interesting to do and he is all right. The Government is applying this principle to the soldiers in the train ing camps. It recognizes that de moralizing conditions are likely to arise in the neighborhood of such large bodies of young men away from home influences. 80 it pro poses that wholesome recreation shall be provided. The libraries, for which a fund is now being raised, constitute one phase of this recreation. The war camp community recreation fund, for which the country is to be asked now to contribute, is directed to the same end. We have asked these young fel lows to go and do our fighting. As a preliminary they are now leaving home to enter the big training camps. We must see that they have amuse ment there. That is the least we (•an do. There will not be the slight est trouble in raising the fund if every person who stays at home rec ognizes his duty to the boys who are going.—Kansas City. Star. MEMORIES AT PARTING The ineffaceable memory of part ing, the soldier's last farewell at honve, never once leaves him. Tn the din of conflict in the damp and dirty trenches filled with gloom, in his lonely watch, or on the long march, the soldier's dream and the vision of his good-by all come back, either to encourage or discourage him. This is what prompted the author of the new song to say: "Send me away with a smile, little girl, Brush the tears from your eyes of brown; It's all for the best, and I'm off with the rest Of the boys from my home town." How Important it is for the women of America to know the psychology of parting, an.d how well women do know the value of And how brave most women are when they come to say "Good-hy!" The mind that holds, the picture of a good girl at home will make some soldier, believe me "There Is a word, of grief the sound ing token; There is a word bejeweled with bright tears, The saddest word fond lips have ever spoken, A little word that breaks the chain of years. Its utterance must ever bring emotion. The memories It crystals cannot die; 'Tls known in every land, on every ocean; 'Tls called 'Good-by.' " —Exchange. DEFILING THE VINEYARD Tliou shnlt no*, sow thy vineyard with diver*, seed; lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and tho fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. I—Deuteronomy 1 —Deuteronomy XXIX, ft. THE MAD SISTERS [Baltimore American.] The woman from New York who; in a Baltimore speech urged jvomen j not to support the Liberty Loan as ai protest against the refusal of the j United States government to give un-1 limited suffrage to her sex came very j close to the border line of sedition if j she did not pass it, and the local or- 1 gan of these militants has given cir-1 culation to articles that may bar it from the mails as a disloyal publica- | tion. Whether it is worth the while j of the Federal authorities to bother with these unbalanced women is a question, us any public prosecution | of them would only give them more of the notoriety they long for. There is apparently no possible way to muzzle them except by giving them long terms in prison, and the govern • ment is not yet quite ready to do that. Baltimore's Liberty Loan commit tee has declared that never was the name of woman so disgraced as byj this little. group of mad sisters of Lai Follette. * Mud sisters they are in! truth, a disgrace to American wo-! manhood, but nothing they can say I or do will interfere with the success of the second Liberty Loan. * TALK IS CHEAP And now Herb Hoover wants us to cut down our candy and sugar con sumption by one-third. If this sort of thing continues, we suppose he will soon ask us to be more sparing of our mellifluous words.—From the Manchester Union. | OUR DAILY LAUGH I A MIXED PROVERB. "If two birds in the well known bush. Are worth one in proverbial hand, Why we let them remain lrt thi bush Is a mystery I can't understand.' AFRAID TO RISK IT. "What made your wife decide to give up that auto trip to California?" "She happened to hear somebody ■ay that travel broadened one." , HOSPITALITY. "Do you mean to say your father in-law invited you to visit him?" "Same thing. When I suggested H over the telephone he told me to come if I dared." TOO SOON. "Paid for your Liberty Ponds "No. My lawyers only filed papers In my dlvorM suit laat wk." Brnttng OHptt State Highway Commissionei O'Nell's announcement that he wil: sell the tollhouses along the old Berks and Dauphin turnpike between this city and the Berks county capi tal on October 30, calls attention ta the fact that the turnpike which was bought recently by the state and th counties of Berks, Lebanon and Dau phin, dates from 1816. But the turn pike was a road long, long prior to that date. Back in the time of the 1' rench and Indian War the road that led from the outpost on the upper Delaware that grew to be Easton, on through what was later Heading to John Harris' Ferry was the high way which the Indians urged on by the far-seeing French officers were trying to cut. The reason was that it to the Blue Ridge, being between the elevated land i„ We kllow locally as the North and South mountains. Along this highway there flowed one of the two streams of immigrants who converg ed at Harris* Ferry to cross into the Cumberland Valley and into the promised lands of Southern Pennsyl vania, Maryland, the Virginias and Kentucky, men and women destined to found families of eminence in American history. The other stream of people came from Philadelphia byway of Lancaster and Middle town. When one considers these facts the importance of what State Librarian Montgomery wrote for the marker at the site of Harris* Ferry strikes home. Harrisburg was a cen tral point in the days of trails, of early highways and of roads as it is to-day of railroads. When Reading, Lebanon and Hum melstown begun to develop and the trade and travel to Harris Ferry grew there were local attempts to "make road." From what early travelers write these attempts were will meant, but not productive ot easy riding even in a time when roads were by no means comfortable. The tollhouses Mr. O'Nell will sell, like those he sold last week on the Lan caster pike near Paoli, date back more than a century. The road from Harrisburg to Hummelstown was ap proved by the court in the very first official year of Harrisburg and Dau phin county, probably at the first ot second session o£ court held here in 1785.. This section was bought bv the county of Dauphin years ago I-ong before 1800, the period when ; the turnpikes boomed in this part o! j Pennsylvania, there had been pub lic roads and turnpikes between Har- I rlsburg, Carlisle, Midtlletown and | Lancaster, the settlements which be came Columbia and Marietta, Sun I bury and York, the latter byway of I the west bank of the Susquehanna j There Is a curious record about th< latter road to be found in Lancaster courthouse. By 1734 John Harris' Ferry had become an fmportant point and as Lancaster and Carlisle set | tlements had roads or trails to if j there was a demand for a road ti I Baltimore. This was part of Lan caster county in those days and ir November, 1736, a jury was named tc lay out the road. The jury reported the next year that the proposition was violently opposed by resident.' of the west bank of the Susquehanna. When the turnpike era came the people were willing; to pay toll if given good roads just ljke the auto- I mobile owner is now willing to pa> I a state license if the Commonwealth j will provide better highways. So in i 1816 the Berks and Dauphin com | pany was chartered, the sixth turn pike company to be incorporated for this county. The state gave a sub sidy of $29,000 and about $75,00(1 was raised among the shareholders The state got the last of the shares a short time ago and the tollgut>" which used toi make it cost $1.03 ♦.<: go from this city to Reading and a third of that to go to Lebanon, dis appeared. Now Mr. O'Nell will sell the last vestiges of the old Berks and Dauphin turnpike, but its rut> and holes, - its bumps and smooth stretches and Its exorbitant rates of toll will linger long in our memor ies. • • * No men will be commissioned as members of the; volunteer police of Pennsylvania without the approval of the Public Safety Committee, whfch has confided the work of or ganizing that body to Major John C. Groome, Superintendent of the State Police. Every one of the 475 men whose applications have been sent to the Governor for commissioning as volunteer police under the Sproul act, must make a statement of wil lingness to serve and furnish much personal data. This then goes to the local safety committee and thence to the state committee and if the name gets by Major Groome a commission will issue. * • • Persons who saw the fire which destroyed the Hoffer flouring mill a( Steelton from a distance on Satur day afternoon commented upon do lack of smoke which attended the blaze. This fact was especially noted from points on the hills back ot this city and Steelton and from Cum berland county, there being com paratively little smoke observable when the fire was at its height. This is Attributed to the intense heat and to the fact that part of the fire was In the grain stored within the mill Experienced firemen say that the fire was one of the hottest they have evei known and that the measures taken to protect the adjoining properties were prompt and valuable. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —District Attorney Rotan, who Is In the limelight at Philadelphia, takes his recreation by fishing. —Rembrandt Peale, whose advice has been asked by the government In coal matters, is one of the biggest operators in Centhil Pennsylvania. —Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt, who served on the Heflin probe com mittee In Congress, is said to be after another term in Congress. —The Rev. Dr. Robert MacGowan. formerly of Lancaster, and well known here, has been making a series of addresses to students )n Pittsburgh in which he Is stirring up patriotic work. —The Rev. George E. Hoverter, who presided at the Atlanta confer ence, of the Church of God, Is a for mer Harrisburg pastor. —William C. Noel, nominated for Congress In Maryland, is a Pennsyl vanian by birth. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg lias men In every roffiment of the marine corps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The old White Hall Hotel served as the courthouse In the days when the Legislature met in the county building right after Harrisburg be came the state capital. ORATORY NOT LIMITED Since Viscount Ishil came to the United States it has become apparent that oratory is not an exclusively Caucasian gift.—lndianapolis Mtira.