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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.
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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
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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."
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To Head Army Railway
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[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,