10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH .1 NEWSPAPER FOR THE . HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Televrnph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE,/>r'< <5- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. 3US M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of nil news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office in vHarrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week;' by mail, $5.00 vk&if'' a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22 We feel the thing ice ought to be, beating behind the thing u-e are.— PniLrs Bbooks. IN OTHER CRISES IN* another part of this page there have appeared nightly brief sen tences designed to remind Harris burg people of the standing of their city and what is their duty in order to make it advance and to stimulate by reference to this community in other days the enterprise and pa triotism of its residents to-day. In the researches necessary to ascer tain the facts set down rrom day to day; from reading in books labori ously penned, study of records and comments by travelers; perusal of reminiscences and autobiographies and the scanning of newspapers of one whole century and part of that which went before, it has never been found where Harris burg lagged. Those lines in John E. Barrett's "Pennsylvania" song "Faithful in the crucial morning of the young Republic's life" are singularly applicable to Harris burg. It was the boast of the men of Harris Ferry and Paxton during the Revolution that there were no Tories here. Farmer-flghters who held the Blue Ridge and kept the In dians of the northern country out of the lower Susquehanna valley laid down their lives on Long Island and before Quebec and it was long said of John Harris that he got rich be cause he had faith to take in ex change for grain and cattle and skins the continental currency. When the Revolution ended there was hardly u house In this section that did not have paper for gold or silver or sup plies furnished the Congress. In the War of 1812 the people here advanced money to the govern ment when the British were burn ing Washington and the sons of Dauphin were marching to York. The first bank in Harrisburg was a big supporter of the government and among its first investments were na tural securities. From that day until the outbreak of the Civil War no call by federal authorities ever found a deaf ear in Harrisburg, and during the war of the rebellion it was in this city that Jay Cooke found staunch friends and banks were proud to show how many of their customers had bought gov ernment bonds. Money came from stockings and chimney corners to buy and the faith that shone in the dark hours of the Revolution bright ened the weary months of the war for the Union. Harrisburg's record in giving men is high in the list of patriotic mu nicipalities. Its spirit has been com mented upon in many States. It will not be "more sparing of its dol lars than of its sons" in 1917. His tory shows that it has never failed in any crisis. "Coal prices here too high," says Potter. We have had a lingering sus picion of this for some years back. PLAYING WITH FIRE PLAYING with fire is a costly business. Carelessness in permit ting rubbish to accumulate and reckless* handling of fire started the blaze that, spreading to the adjoining garage of the Harrisburg Automo bile Company, caused the blameless owners of that building and its con tents heavy loss in money and incon venience due to the destruction of many business and pleasure cars stored there. We are not strict enough in our fire precaution requirements. State Fire Marshal Port is doing an ex cellent educational work. He is teach ing the people the folly of trifling with fire. But his authority is limit ed and the force at his command cannot be expected to patrol the whole State. What we need in Har risburg, for example, is an ordinance that would give the fire chief wider powers than he nows enjoys. There should be no deterrent fear of too severe punishment for neglectful property owners. Stiff fines, with Im prisonment for repeated offenses, would do much to induce careless tenants to mend their ways. It wouldn't be so bad if the property of the offenders only were at stake, but, unfortunately, the man respon sible for a Are is often the smallest loser, while wholly blameless persons MONDAY EVENING. tre put to much expense and Incon venience, to say nothing of the risk ti life and the loss of property at a time when the world c.n 111-afford to lose a penny's worth. CRUEL, CRUEL WARt CUUEL, cruel war! Having threatened our liberties and as sailed our institutions it now butts unceremoniously into the sa cred precincts of our own private preserves. We use the word advis edly, for has not the Draft Board just stepped in and deprived the community of Its champion apple butter boiler? Hearing no vote in the negative, we arise to affirm that it has. And a few thoughtless—if not heartless—reporters, who, doubt less, take their three a day from the bars of the quick-lunch parlors, and therefore know not the delights and blessings of applebutter, have dared to jeer. We tell you it's mighty serious, this intruding of the mere business of soldier-making upon the rights and privileges of the applebutter boilers at this, the very height of their busy season. Almost anybody can be a soldier, but how many of us can boil applebutter; we ask you that? And yet, along comes the Draft Board and says the champion applebutter maker of the York County applebutter belt must fore sake his bin black kettle, lay aside his long-handled stirrer, let his crocks yawn with emptiness and his cider turn to vinegar, while he goes hence to a training camp to hike up and down the livelong day at the be hest of an arbitrary top sergeant, to whom, in his gay and careless young life, the best applebutter ever boiled means nothing, absolutely nothing. No wonder the America?! people are wroth with the Kaiser. No won der they are buying Liberty Bonds by ever-increasing millions. We know now why Edison is working overtime on inventions designed to blow Germany over the Alps. It's because the Prussians have begun to trifle with our bread and butter. Things have reached a pretty pass when the German Imperial govern ment comes between us and our ap plebutter supply. Emperor "Bill" is due to learn that there are some things we simply won't stand, and this is one of them. A HOME FOR INEBRIATES THE STATE is about to build a home for inebriates. This home, where drunkards may go to be cured of their intem perate habits, will cost a lot of money to erect. Likewise it will cost a lot more money to maintain. This money will come out of your pocket and the pockets of all other taxpayers of the State. If there were no saloons there would be no inebriates. If there were no inebriates we wouldn't have to spend this money to save the hulks of humanity wrecked by booze. What's the answer? THRIFT AMONG CHILDREN DR. J. GEORGE BECHT, Secre tary of the State Board of Edu cation, is authority for the statement that pupils of the public schools of Pennsylvania are learning how to save money and that the habit of thrift in the schools Is grow ing rapidly. The necessities of the times are having their effect. The hardships of the war period are doing what peace and prosperity failed to do. If this war teaches thrift to the coming generation It will not have been without its bless ing. THK HEART OP TIIK WHEAT IF you take a map of Pennsylva vania and, with Harrisburg as a center, draw a circle to show a sixty-mile radius from Pennsylva nia's capital, you will find that the counties which the line will touch or enclose raised about half of the wheat grown in Pennsylvania this year. And the crop of this iron and steel, coal and oil, lumber and cement-producing Commonwealth was over 26.000,000 bushels. Bearing in mind that the students of food conditions are urging us to learn to eat what we raise at home, there is a great chance for us to do more. The figures show where we can refrain in order to furnish of our abundance for our neighbors and friends in the trenches and the camps. Quite aside from this viewpoint, it is a matter of pride to know that within a day's journey by steam or gasoline we can find the heart of the wheat belt of Pennsylvania. Lan caster and York, which border our county, iead, and Franklin and Berks, which come next in order, are only one county away. Next door neighbors, Cumberland and I.banon, are fifth and eighth, respectively, in the wheat list, and our county stands twelfth. Perry and Northumberland are in the first twenty. We raised half a million bushels alone and Cumberland over a million. The Central Pennsylvania counties, notably those to the south, are the granary of Pennsylvania, and if re ports are correct, will give many more acres to wheat for 1918 in spite of the shortage of men who have gone into war or answered the call for service in the munition plants or on the railroads to keep the fight ing line supplied. NO TIME FOR INFLATION NOW IV a statement addressed to Na tional Banks the Comptroller of the Currency points out that the Fedora. Reserve Banks have an un exercised note-issuing power of near ly two billion dollars and that they are, therefore, in a position to ex tend any accommodations that may be needed to assist banks who may wish to help their customers in mak ing subscriptions to the Liberty Loan. The use of Federal Ileser\ notes, however, should be among the last and not among the first of the agent les Invoked to help float the loans of the war. There will be plenty of occasion to consider infla tion, even In the modified form of reserve notes, when the third or fourth or fifth Liberty Loans become necessary. "PottitCO- ov I>th,jvoij(caKla.l > th,jvoij(caKla. By the Es-Commltteeman United States Senator Boles Pen rose last night formally repudiated the "flfty-flfty" ticket set up by the Republican organization leaders in Philadelphia and declared in favor of the Town Meeting ticket as one more nearly representing the senti ment of Philadelphia and the feel ing of people throughout the state. The Senator's statement Is one of the most vigorous documents he has ever issued and may have moment ous consequences in next year's cam paign for the election of a state ticket. The statement makes a clean break between the Senator and his friends, who constitute a good part of the Republican organization in Philadelphia, and the Vares and their allies who have control of the city committee, on municipal affairs and it is presumed that the anti- Penrose elements throughout the state will endeavor to make the most of it throughout the state, although the Senator says distinctly that It Is important to start liousecleanlng In Philadelphia in advance of the gubernatorial election. The Penrose statement, which is given wide publicity all over the state to-day, refers to the fact that he has been in Washington in na tional affairs until a week or so ago and that he feels called upon to de clare for the Town Meeting ticket as more representative than that of the Vares. The conditions in Philadelphia are denounced. *tho Senator saying: "My position is not new. 1 success fully opposed the attempt of the chief street cleaning contractor in Philadelphia to nominate his brother as Mayor because the proposition seemed to me indefensible from any point of view. I expressed my views fully on contractor government in May, 1916, at a meeting of independ ent Republicans anxious to help in the election of a Republican Presi dent. I am glad now to be able to say that the death knell of contrac tor rule has been rung. The limit of desperate, vicious and criminal polit ical methods has been reached. "Government and party control by a contractor in Philadelphia has re solved itself into government by murder. No greater shame could be inflicted upon this city, the cradle of American liberty, than that at this war crisis, when the United States Is engaged In a world struggle for democracy, the very shadow of In dependence Hall should be polluted with murder, foully done in the in terest of contractor politics." DIED —"I have received very many per sonal visits and letters from all over Pennsylvania urging me to make a public statement defining my posi tion and condemning and repudiut a g the shameful situation in Phila delphia, so that the party in the state, approaching next year an im portant ■ gubernatorial election, may be relieved of disgraceful stigma. Tnat crime, an.d the corrupt system o: cqntractor rule whlcn caused it makes clear the duty of every right minded citizen. Republicans of state and nation look to the voters of Philadelphia to purge the parte in this city of the contractor control which has brought disgrace and shame to the party name. "This can be done by the election of the Town Meeting candidates, and by the defeat of contractor controlled candidate for City Coun cils. For the good name of Phila delphia. and for the honor of the Republican party, I earnestly hope to see the contractor candidates overwhelmed by defeat at the polls. I trust that this contest is only the beginning and that it will be carried out until the next Mayoralty elec tion. The police must be as absolutely taken out of politics as the state constabulary, and the city government must be amended and revised, even if It Is necessary to call an extra session of the Legislature." —The North American says the Senator "bolted the murder ticket" and "scathingly arraigns govern ment by murder and contractor '■ontrol." The Inquirer emphasizes the fact that the Senator was called upon by people all over the state to speak. The Press says he makes "a formidable reinforcement" for good government forces and tlio Uotlg.-.' says: "Penrose's 'bolt' was the dramatic climax to the recent series of 'bolts' of Penrose and McNichol ward and division leaders from the Vare-controlled city organization. In this regard it was announced that the independent organization will be allied with a Republican league about to be formed, representative of every division and ward In the city." The Record gives this Democratic view: "Once again has United States Senator Boies Penrose raised his voice in vigorous protest against contractor control of mu nicipal affairs, and to this he added sweeping condemnation of 'govern ment by murder.' " —Ex-Mayor Joseph Cufflel, of Johnstown, has a force of detectives investigating what he alleges to be a nlot to destroy him and his family. His children, burning corn husks, had a narrow escape from being blown to pieces by a stick of dvnamite that had been in the husks. Planks placed from the ground to a porch roof in dicated an attempt to get into his home. —Another move in the plan to unite all the independent forces of Philadelphia In the war against con tractor control of the municipal gov ernment, was made yesterday, when Clarence D. Antrim, Washington party nominee for City Treasurer, formally withdrew in favor of Wil liam R. Nicholson. Town Meeting candidate for the same office. —B. V. Hosterman has been ap pointed District Attorney of Lan caster county, in place of Cleon N. Berntheizel, of Columbia, who is an Adjutant General in the United States Army, having left with the Fourth Regiment. Hosterman has named H. Edgar Sherts as his assist ant. —Bitterly denouncing William A. Magee, the Brumbaugb-Vare candi date for Mayor, as "untrustworthy, unreliable and not worthy of the con fidence of the people," Dr. J. P. Kerr, president of City .Council, and recent candidate for Mayor of Pittsburgh, issued a statement last night declar ing in favor of E. V. Babcock. As a result of Kerr's statement, the Bab cock supporters are confident of a sweeping victory next month. —The Philadelphia Press printed an interesting story in its editorial page comment on the passing show to the effect that A. Mitchell Palmer, the engineer of the Democratic state machine, undertook to order Walter George Smith, the eminent Philadel phia lawyer, oft the Town Meeting ticket and was opposed by Charles P. Donnelly, the leader of the Old HAJETRISBURG QAM* TELEGRAPH! ONE MAY QUARREL ON ANY SUBJECT BY BRIGGS HELLO BILL- / HELLO ~ /WO^T^V I-IOOJ'S THE FINE. ■ FIME (~[WE CAMELFLA'ZM J INo I MEAN \ ■BUT YOWOI OLD oov 6LAO To SEE \ HAT ? v (.WHAT 1 • SALT \: / BETTFR / TH*** <O / RBO OU> TOP- ZTISJ') L L V V UIELL IW6OC- , <J . C !R ° FL £FI? H 7 N > FREMCH/ |3 THAT S_O.? ■ , VJ'PE OWE OF / FVJEUER VBU MIN/O CAMFLFLAJE THOSE, GOVS THATT //.' / ABOUT MY EDUCATION, AH~H-H KEEP LET .MB TELL KMOVAJ-S EV6R THINKI-/\ -JELL a / Voo KIsIOU/ IT ALL VoOR. MOUTH You F LL "KIO°- U \ SOOL fou Do- - ye-* AW- .SHUT THATT \S I'LL MAKE. YOU f V Y A THIMG- NO \ ij 06 HOW Vrvi-RE fiREAT All_ I A>K— / A LITTLE BET) y You KMOUJ ITNJJ /Voo * ™*T / IALL-! * / RIC.UT MOWJ 7 • 1 Vsr-cu / IPRONOUWCCT \ KID IN YOUR I \ Guard element, who said such an ac tion would be an Insult to Mr. Smith. The Press says: "Washington was called on the long distance telephone and Mr. Palmer was called oft with satisfying emphasis." A good many things are being done these days in the name of men in high places who are too busy to know what is going on in cellars. —Reading's municipal campaign, which is now one of state-wide inter est has assumed a stage where for the first time in its history,' the Berks capital is witnessing the novel spectacle of leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, fighting side by side under the banner of a newly organized fusion American Party, for the election of tour members to the next City Council and for the defeat of four Socialists. The result of the re cent primary election makes it a clean-cut tight for control of the municipal government. —The Philadelphia Inquirer prints this dispatch from Wilkes-Barre: "With Judge John Garman and his followers devoting their time and en ergy solely to the campaign of Thom as D. Shea for Judge and the Palmer wing of the party unconcerned in either the success of Shea or the nominees for prothonotary and clerk courts to determine whether candi is very much on the rocks in Lu zerne." —A new third class city tost case has been sprung by candidates for council in the city of Pittston. They have started an action in the Luzerne courts to determine whether candi dates who receive fifty per cent, of the votes cast in a primary election, are entitled to an exclusive place on the ballot at the general election. John McGarry, E. L. Kearney, M. N. Donnelly and W. H. Rosencrans, Pittston candidates, have mandamus ed the county commissioners, with the hope of keeping the names of other candidates off the ballot. The petitioners set forth that there were 3,514 votes cast in the primary elec tion, and that they received more than fifty per cent, of the number. Each of the candidates who are in terested In the action received from 50 to 450 votes, more than fifty per cent, of the number cast. —Luzerne Is to the front again. In a recount of the votes in the West District of Plymouth township. Judge John M. Garman declared that era sures on the ballots showed that Nicholas Logue had received six votes for the Republican nomination of tax collector. The returns gave him no votes. The nomination was close according to official returns, Thomas Delaney winning by two votes. The order of court directing that Logue be given credit for six votes means that he wins the party nomination. —According to the Philadelphia Press, "A suit that will stir the em ployes in all state departments will be instituted soon by Attorney Gen eral Brown, according to present in dications. It will test the constitu tionality of a law passed at the last session of the Legislature committing the state o the payment of half sal ary to all state employes who shall enter the military or naval service of the Federal government, and pledg ing the state to restore their positions to these enlisted or drafted persons. Acclaim followed the passage of the patriotic statute, but now some one, delving into court decisions, finds or thinks he finds that the law Is un constitutional. If the court shall sus tain this view it will work especial hardship to those who, counting upon the assurance of half pay and guar antee of their old Jobs, hastened to I enlist for the national defense." —The campaign for the election of a judge for the Delaware county courtH at the November election Is now in full swing, and the two can didates, Judge William B. Broomall and former District Attorney Albert Dutton MacDade, who are to be voted for on a nonpartisan ballot for the first time in the history of this county, are being supported by pow erful influences. During the week the William B. Broomall judicial committee opened the campaign with public meetings and the MacDade Judicial committee will open the cam paign in MacDade's behalf in Media on next Tuesday night. The speakers will be Collector of the Port William H. Berry, and Ex-Representative V. Gilpin Robinson. THE FALL Give me the old October woods When the leaves are turning brown; The smell o' pine Is finer wine Than any in the town. Give me the old December snow That turns the world to white Up there in Mich.— Oh, Dord, I wish Tfcat I was there to-n..^ht. —Douglas Mulloch In "Tote Road and Trail." ii- . * To Head Army Railway >5. > [William Wallace Atterbury be gan his education in railroad management at the bottom of the ladder. Upon receiving his de gre of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1886 from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, he entered the em ploy of the Pennsylvania Rail road as an apprentice in the Al toona shops. With his technical education and his close applica tion to the job of learning rail roading, his promotion was rapid, and in 1896 he was made general superintendent of motive power of the Pennsylvania Lines Kast of Pittsburgh. In 1903 he became general manager, and In 1909 he was promoted to the vice-presi dency. The Washington corre spondent of the Philadelphia North American writes of the part he is to,play In the war:] MR. ATTERBURY,who has been operating vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been requested by the Secretary of War to assume the important du ties of director general of railways in France for service of the great American army in the world war. As director general of railways in France for American service Mr. Atterbury will report directly to the commander-in-chief of the Ameri can forces and operations in that country. The big proposition is to be worked out in quick time. It means the creation of additional railroad facilities in France from chosen sea ports to the battle front to transport American troops, equipment and supplies. The existing French rail roads are now pressed to their capa city. Therefore, the work set for Mr. Atterbury is first to create and equip a railroad system, equal to the task It must perform, then to operate and maintain it. Fitted For the Task It is pointed out that upon the dispatch and effectiveness with which the work is performed de pends very largely the success or failure of the American war opera tions in co-operation with the Allied forces to crush German militarism. Mr. Atterbury is a man of decision SEASON OF PROMISE^ The season swells with promise. Time has placed A pillar of bright fire before our eyes. Our manhood answers, lifting to the skies Uncompromising foreheads strangely graced With starry luster. Turning from the waste Of slothful deserts and of easy life, We bear the sword and march into the strife To fight for goals on rocks of justice based. Though we have often fallen by the way And laughed at things that should have started tears. And turned our dreams to figures, wan and gray, That faded with the weight of many fears — We are regenerated, for to-day We give the world our future and our years. HERBERT S. GERMAN. •EFFECT OF THE WAR [Omaha Bee] One of the incidental and unex pected effects of the war has been the restoration of the American mer chant marine. Old glory again flies over ocean commerce to the extent that 26 per cent, of the exports for July were carried in American bot toms. A steady increase in shipping under the American flaf£ has been noted since the war commenced. This change wjs unquestionably stimu lated If not entirely brought about by circumstances which removed the great fleet of German commerce car riers from the sea, creating a de mand thdt only American vessels could fill. At present the larger part of our ocean traffic is carried between North and South American ports, al though the flag once more flies over ships bound for all part of the world. The reawakening of this In dustry promises much for the future. As efforts will be made to hold for eign trade after the war, so will ship ping be fostered and not be permit ted to fall out of American control again. Ship owners have learned one great lesson of patriotism and may be expected to apply It, to the end that America will. Indeed, become | the greatest among maritime as among commercial and industrial na tions. and action, demonstrated in his handling of many difficult problems in the conduct of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Atterbury is a little more than 51 years old and in . the prime of physical and mental vigor. When A. J. Cassatt jumped him over others to the position of general manager it was to clear the Pennsylvania Railroad of such congestion as was seriously troubling travelers and in terrupting the operations of indus tries dependent upon the company for transportation. Mr. Atterbury quickly brought order out of chaos. He is now scheduled to undertake in France probably the biggest job any railroad man ever had to con front. His training and knowledge will stand him In good stead. Mr. Atterbury knows a railroad and its operating functions from the ground up. He understands all about loco motives, cars, tracks, signal systems and operating practice. He knows exactly what can be got out of given facilities, over a railroad line, whether single or double tracked. Will Spend Millions. Our government has hacked con tracts for three hundred locomotives to be rushed to France. It is about to issue rush orders for 150,000 tons of steel rails to go there. Contracts have been placed for spikes. Many other things will be needed. When they get to France they will have to be put together. Repair shops, loco motive roundhouses and coaling sta tions must be built to make tlie sys tem complete. The understanding Is that tlie American engineer corps, now in France, will be greatly augmented and put tinder the American director general of railroads. Probably fur ther necessary supplies from the United States will be ordered by him, and certainly upon his requisi tion. As matters appear now he will have supervision of the expendi turp of tens of millions of dollars in side of a few months, and coinci dently of the organization of a com plete operating force for the Ameri can service railroad system, to be created in France for the TO SAVE RAILROADS Unless the Interstate Commerce Commission has become a nuisanco to the country instead of a benefit. It will this week, without haggling over trivialities, order an increase in freight rates. This is one of the big questions of the hour—one of the vital measures for keeping our coun try intact while it wages a great for eign war. Strangling the railroads means eventually suffocating all trade and commerce. Crippling transportation lines to the point of making thorn in capable of hauling the nation's traf fic is such utter folly that tlierc can be no defense for it. The I. C. ('. has all the figures in its own office unless the I. <\ C. has neglected its own business. It knows exactly what the roads have earned, what they have taken in, and what they ha\e paid out. What, then. Is the use of unwinding miles of red tape in order to come at these ver> statistics from another source? The country is in no humor Cor trifling. It sees now the ruination from a policy of strangling the rail roads, because to-day the railroads have not sufficient equipment, owing to that strangling process, to handle the nation's business. So unless the I. C. C. is to be l classed among the forces that art helping Germany in its war upon the! rest of the world, it will immediately j enable the American railroads to do! what the American people demand! of them—which is to carry their! shipments quickly, safely, and as ; cheaply as possible, after making a | fair profit. Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia. JOHN THE GREEK I never felt so small in all my life as I did when I read of John pas, a young Greek of California. Lampas gave the Red Cross his touring car, his gold watch, his bank deposit of $521. and all that he had left in his pockets—about 125. This disposed of all Ills worldly possessions, and then he enlisted in th, American Army with this sen tence on his lips: "That's all 1 hate, and I'm glad to give it." If this Greek ever lives to return, and God knows 1 hope he will, lie will reap a reward from the Ameri can people that will prove the depth, the breadth, the wealth of true pa triotism.— The Silent Partner. OCTOBER 22, 1917. LABOR NOTES Ironinolders at Galesburg, 111., have organized. Plumbers at Casper, Wyo., are paid $7 a day. Organized patternmakers now pa> their dues quarterly. Daljas (Texas) hodcarriers now get 35 cents an hour. Waiters at Memphis, Tenn., de mand a minimum of sl4 a week. El Paso (Texas) printers have been increased $3 a week. Butcher workmen at Kansas City, Mo., have secured union recognition. Massachusetts unions will demand a woman's 4 8-hour work week. Washington (D. C.) Painters' Union has a membership of over 658. Amalgamated Lithographers of America have a membership of 4.- 659. Boston and Maine shopmen have increased wages live cents an hour. Seattle, Wash., has a new butcher workmen's union with 400 members. It is estimated that 70 per cent, of all industrial casualties are prevent [ able. Pressmen at Winnipeg, Canada, | have signed a three-year agreement. | Millmen in Seattle, Wash., have se i cured tfoe eight-hour day with ten | hours' pay. ' OUR TOWN NAMES j It is interesting to discover, from I an examination of the United States I Official Postal Guide, that among , our public men after whom towns I have been named Franklin seems to ] lead in popularity, there being thirty | one Franklins in the country, as : against thirty Clintons, twenty-eight j Washlngtons, twenty-six Hamiltons, j twenty-five Madisons and twenty-five ! Monroes, twenty-three Lincolns, i twenty-one Jacksons, twenty Jeffer sons, eighteen Websters and fifteen I Roosevelts. The name which has ap pealed most to the town founders, however, is Union, which, with its congeners, Unionville, Uniontown, etc., is applied to ninety-six towns in the United States. —From the Out { look. FAST LIVING | You can never catch up with the | fleeing moments by fast living.— j From the Youth's Companion. "OUR DAILY LAUGH] ; ! W more blea- S&ifi A se(l 10 Kive a(^v ' c * ifflalp than to receiv* --Car -^*4" fig) l-S The social jwlm \^ is too deep water j *| for some folks.. < AFTER VAC A- „ „ Who steals my purse steal? 7 \ ini; \ trash— f ) That Is no idle \ J I have no ready I'm just back from my trip. OVER II E A nl> r ~ ... AT THE u. ii. □ Vgggg ::::j The (ilddle : ! '| cakes here always '. ; -K; remind me of a ~J\' I baseball game. n,ow o? The hatter docs not always make ■,,, a hit. ' osttutg QU|Bt If there is any approved method of calling attention to the Liberty Loan that has not been tried in Har risburgand its neighbor towns the last week it is not known on the boards. Ink and paint, object lessons and word of mouth have all been em ployed and the have been so well advertised that there is rivalry between people to see how much each will take of the loan. One thin? which must have impressed the average person in Harrlsburg is tho manner in which some of the staid financial institutions, banks which have been the backbone of the com munity and which have rigidly re frained from advertising invest ments, have come out with posters lor the Liberty Loan, Not even when the city was selling its bonds and when other out of the ordinary is sues were involved did any of the banks ever place a poster on outer walls. Now they are standing out beckoning to people buy the na tional bonds. Then, too, the way in which some of the older stores, the big conservative establishments of this- community, have given up win dows and stock space to boost tho loan must have been brought home to every one. Delivery wagons are showing the Liberty Loan posters in a way they have never done even in the heat of a public improvement campaign. But most striking of all is the fact that there are many pri vately owned automobiles, family conveyances, which show Liberty Loan posters. It is the only time that such a thing has ever been done in this rather settled city. But tho Liberty Loan is striking home and the city that led the state that led the nation in recruiting bids fair to make a week of it that will be talked of for a long time to come. Reports of the approaching short apte of sugar have had a curious ef fect in some of the stores of the city, according to what has been heard llie last few days. In some stores peo ple have been quietly buying sup plies ahead, although the merchants have refused to sell very large quan tities. Some people have accepted this dictum very quietly and taken what they could pet—passing on to another store where they bought some more. However, the most curious result was reported Saturday l>y a couple of men who professed as tonishment at the course taken by n couple of their older customers "This man, who is one of the think ing kind, came in and asked for a substitute for sugar. I told him that. we were not yet in Germany's class' where we had to turn to chemistry for the ordinary things and that Un law had banned coal tar derivatives," said one man. Then he came back this way. "Well, I have been buying oleo for trials and can't tell it from butter. I have tested some of the chemical flavors and don't know them from the real thing. I have my suspicions about some of the canned things and the dried out and desiccated articles and yet I like them. Now, in a pinch why can't we beat the sugar people and try a substitute." • • Speaking about oleo it is rather astonishing that In spite of the high price asked for butter at the stores and at the markets the farmers who have been brinßing butter to market for years say that they have 110 let lip in demand. A couple of farm ers who attend Chestnut street mar ket declared that they had every pound of butter sold when they camp to market. The customers growl over the advance in prices, they say. However, there is a greater grow! it any one fails to get. his pound o!i cither market day of the week. • Manager Gus OatUerman of the local Western Union Company's of fice is studying out a camouflage plan for the protection of his clerk at the Pennsylvania Railroad station branch. Have you ever watched passenßers hurrying from a train to send a telegram? Some overlook the obliging little lady back of the desk who is ready to take care of all business promptly. They grab .1 pen, dip it into the ink well, and without looking give the pen a sud >den jerk to remove the surplus ink. The girl behind that desk gets the ink. and sometimes all over a silk waist. The customer has paid for his message, is off to the train, anil never knows what damage he ha? done. Recently lead pencils have 1 been substituted for pen and ink, but I there are customers who must write their messages in ink. Manager I Cathcrman Is of the opinion that I with some camouflage arrangement 1 the ink showers will not do much damage. • ♦ * In some of the rural counties the men in charge of the Liberty Loan campaign have found tlje farmers to be most mightily interested in the bonds which we are buying to pre vent this country from getting into the Prussian system, where agricul ture is a fine art and a source of profit to the few. The farmers have had a good year and a ready sale for all they can raise and inclusion of representative farmers 011 commit tees for the selling of the second loan shows that in many sections they are going to be big helpers this month. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" James P. MeNlchol has been moved to the house of a friend in the suburbs of Philadelphia and stood the trip fairly well. —Senator Charles H. Kline writes to friends in this city that he ex ports to win the Allegheny county .judgeship fight in which he is en gaged. Senator E. E. Jones, who has a son in the Lafayette air squadron in France, says he wishes he knew how 1o fly himself as he would like to he in the fight. -—Senator W. M. Lynch, who has been re-elicited superintendent of Karview, says that he plans to finish new buildings next year and to do the work well in spite of high prices. —Senator H. L. Haldeman, who has served in the National Gua r d since It was reorganized, plans to visit some of the southern canton ments this fall. —Senator Frank E. Baldwin is making Liberty Loan speeches in U>e northern tier. —Senator C. W. Sones says he is too busy with his big enterprises to run for governor. DO YOU KNOW ~"[ Tlint Harrlshurg's Iron and stool pay roll Is the greatest In It* history and this place Itns been making Iron for over a cen tury? HISTORIC HAKRISBITRG John Harris Kerry was given frea to move soldiers and supplies during the dark days of the Revolution,
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