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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, lt7
"The three TV's is my maxim;
plenty of wor\% plenty of tcittles, and
plenty of traces." — THACKERAY.
A WAR TIME CONFERENCE
HOW Industry and its owners,
managers and workers are
standing up under the strain
now that the business of the United
States Is war, and in what way the
lessons learned in protecting work
ers and speeding up product under
the forced draft conditions which the
manufacturing establishments of
Pennsylvania have been sustaining j
lor well nigh half a year, will bo
told at the annual Welfare and Effi
ciency conference to be held at the
Capitol next month. Originally
planned in flic Tener administration
by the State Department of Labor
and Industry and the Engineers So
ciety of Pennsylvania these confer
ences have become of importance to
the State in the last few years, when
so much legislation relative to work
and workers was placed upon the
books.
Representatives o£ the largest in
dustries of the Keystone State, the
big railroads, mercantile establish
ments, organizations of labor and
capital, have met with national and
State experts and talked over sug
gestions and orders, not always
agreeing, but ascertaining view
points of others. The conferences
have been gradually passing from a
purely State Government proposition,
although the Commonwealth has
been liberal in making provision
for the sessions, and have been as
suming a form which will make
them of great value in straighten
ing put conditions after the war. At
the meetings this fall industries un
der pressure will be the theme and
thought can he directed to plans for
the readjustment which will Tiave to
follow in order to handle the great
business which will come with or
ders to rebuild war wrecked coun
tries. Politics has been minimized
in these gatherings and If excluded
entirely they can be made of still
greater importance to the Keystone
State.
STARTING AT HONK
WHEN one comes to think about
it there is a good bit of force
in the suggestion of State
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil that counties should take the
initiative in moving to abolish the
toll gates. The State made a liberal
appropriation this summer to assist
in buying up stretches, but it should
be borne in mind that prior to this
year the Commonwealth had been
rather stingy in such grants and the
demand for assistance from the State
Treasury was considerably greater
than expected when the appropria
tion was approved. Even with a
hhare-and-share-alike policy gener
ally recognized the requests for pur
chase of toll roads called for more
money than the Highway Depart
ment had available on October 1.
Mr. O'Neil has suggested to the
people of Lancaster, where a rather
tardy agitation for abolishing the
toll roads under which the county
lias groaned for a century has
sprung up, that they designate the
roads and begin proceedings to con
demn If they ban not agree upon a
price, promising the support of the
Stnte in the matter. Dauphin, Cum
berland and other Central Pennsyl
vania Counties started twenty years
ago 1o free toll roads and the State
has only paid for a comparatively
few niilen in this county. York and
Lancaster have a web of turnpikes
and. Judging from complaints filed
at the State Capitol, some of them
are not maintained as they should
he.
State aid will he forthcoming in
I another year. Meanwhile, the people
who would benefit by abolition of
toll gates should get busy.
MOTIF nr.KF—I;ESS GRAIN
YOU cannot eat your cake and
have It too," Is an old saying
that has many practical ap
plications.
Recently the Department of Agrl
culturei urged farmers not to kill
their young livestock, but to raise
the animals to maturity so that the
supply of meat shall be greater. The
only reason farmers had been killing
stock while young was because they
TUESDAY EVENING,
found that practice more profitable
than feeding the stock until It had
put on more weight:
Later, people were urged to eat
more corn In order to conserve the
supply of wheat; but now people find
wheat a cheaper food than corn, and
it 1s estimated that In Oklahoma
alone 500,008 bushels of wheat will
be fed to livestock this fall; in
other States the feed that is deemed
cheapest will be used; regardless of
the protests of people who are not
and never have been engaged in the
production of either livestock or the
feed with which they are to be
grown and fattened-.'
We cannot raise stock and also
save the feed-. Price-fixing and food
control may make some minor varia
tions In food production and eon
sumption-, but there will not be any
material deviation front the usual ef
fects of supply and demand-.
Ron WISE SPECULATORS
ARE United States Government
bonds in the second Liberty
Loan good? "They are, Objec
tion was raised by a farmer the
other day to the three and one-half
per cent, and four per cent, rates.
But American Investors have bought
the Government's securities with a
return less than is now being paid.
The Spanish War, while small In
itself, has had a far-reaching effect
on the policy and economics of the
United States, bringing as It did a
large and for the first time colonial
Increase In territory, A $2,000,000,-
000 three per cent, war loan offered
at par was subscribed seven times
over, and went to 106 inside of three
months.
In 1897, before the war began, the
national debt was $986,656,0861 and
In 1899, when the war was over. It
was $1,155,320,235. A steady reduc
tion took place through the years to
1908, and this was accompanied by
a great expansion in commerce and
trade.
The war had brought no percept
ible drop In the prices at which the
Government securities were selling
and In this subsequent period they
rose to a maximum of 139% for the
4s and 103% for the new 3s issued
to finance'the Panama Canal. These
latter were Issued at or above par,
which shows the high credit stand
ing of the country. They caused an
increase in the national indebted
ness, and since then there has been
no decrease, the 1916 net indebted
ness of the United States standing at
$1,132,639,195; and having interest
rates of four per cent., three per
cent., two and one-half per cent, and
two per cent. Sixty-six per cent, of
the gross debt was non-interest-bear
ing and twenty-four per cent, was
bearing interest at two per cent., the
lowest rate. The high level of prices
maintained by United States bonds
is partly due to the circulation privi
lege attached to some of them.
Tlarrisburg people have been urged
to buy Liberty Bonds to show their
patriotism—to aid in the defeat of
the Germans —to back the boys in
France. These are all good reasons.
To them may be added a fourth —
United States Government bonds are
a good investment. The second Lib
erty Loan bonds are the best invest
ment offered by any government
since the loan made by Carthage to
finance her struggle with Rome for
the supremacy of the Mediterran
i ean, two thousand years ago. That,
I by the way, was the first foreign
I stale loan ever made.
THE NEWSPAPER'S SIIE
THE Dillsburg Bulletin points out,
for the benefit of some folks
down that way who have been
"knocking" the newspaper, that it
j has given $30.90 worth of advertis
ing, as follows, to the various govern
ment and other war service move
ments the past week:
Local Red Cross, 10 lines,. $0 50
York County Ked Cross, 72
lines 3 60
Farmers' Day, 11 lines 55
Liberty Bond campaign, 48
lines 2 4U
Dr. Dixon, knitting socks,
79 lines 3 95
Public Safety Committee
of York County, 47 lines, 2 35
State Public Safety Com
mittee, 351 lines 17 55
Total j:to oo
Just think of it, friends, S3O 90
in a single week, from the, only
thins we have to sell—advertis
ing space—to further the alma
of the Government, the Cross
and kindred objects. We were
astonished when we learned the
total, and this was not an excep
tional week, either. We ask that
the recipients of these gratuities
show their appreciation by not
knocking this paper.
The Bulletin lias the sincere and
heartfelt sympathy of the Telegraph.
Smile, If you feel that way. but don't
laugh. It Is not a laughing matter,
unless you, yourself, have given as
much service and have spent as
much money In patriotic effort each
week as does the average newspaper.
MII/T.S IDI.K HERE, ALSO
CHARLES L. HOOVER, United
States consul at Sao Paulo. Bra
ail, reijorts that In the territory
which he Is studying almost every
branch of manufacturing prospered]
during 1916.
"This was especially true of the
cotton mills which did not work at
more than fifty per cent, capacity
before the war."
Mr. Hoover represents a nation
whose cotton mills were working at
far less than full capacity before the
war began, due largely to the fact
that our markets were open to the
cotton manufactures of Europe.
We are all wondering what the
situation will be when the war no
longer exerts a beneficial Influence
upon our cotton factories.
in.
"puotcijttfuua
By the Ex-Committeeman
Senator Bols Penrose's repudiation
of the Republican ''fifty-fifty'' ticket
in Philadelphia and his endorsement
of the Town Meeting ticket as more
representative ef the sentiment of
the community at the present time
and Senator Edwin H: Vare's com
ments thereon have attracted atten
tion all over the state and will' 3 as
yet newspapers have not commenced
to discuss the situation editorially
outside of Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh, there Is a disposition to re
gard the Philadelphia election as one
which will have much tx> do with the
results in the Keystone State next
yean
Senator Penrose makes it plain
that his move la to purge the Re
publican organization In Philadel
phia, as was done in other years, and
Senator Vare contends that men who
vote the Town Meeting ticket ca
not take part In the Republican pri
mary in 118, However, there have
been so many returns to the party
In the last four or five years that
the Vare position probably sounds
better now than It will next April, ,
• on the Philadel
phia ticket between the Town Meet
ing party and the Democratic party,
with the district attorneyship re
garded as assured In the re-election
of Samuel P. Rotan, was accomplish
ed yesterday with the withdrawal of
all of the nominees of the Demo
cratic party excepting that for dis
trict attorney, and the substitution
of the names of the candidates of the
Town Meeting party for the men
who were named at the Democratic
primorles,
The fusion city nominees of the
Town Meeting party and the Demo
cratic party are as follows:
City Treasurer WILLIAM R.
NICHOLSON.
Receiver of Taxes —THOMAS F.
ARMSTRONG.
Register of Wills WALTER
GEORGE SMITH.
Magistrates—E. K. BORIE, JOHN
J. GRELIS, WILLIAM EISEN
BROWN and JOSEPH S. BOYLE.
Samuel P. Rotan carried out Ills
pledge and declined to run on any
other than the Republican ticket,
says the Philadelphia Inquirer. He
yesterday afternoon, a short time be
fore what was then regarded as the
last minute for withdrawal, sent af
fidavits to the county commissioners'
office, which automatically took his
name from both the Town Meeting
party and the Prohibition party col
umns on the official ballot. In a
three line statement, Mr. Rotan said
he adhered to his original position.
—Other developments of the day
in addition to the Vare statement
■tfere a aeries of Town Meeting party
speeches in which the Vares were
bitterly attacked: refusal of Richard
McSorley, Democratic candidate for
district attorney, to withdraw: state
ments by Mayor Smith that Senator
Penrose can not boss Phiadelphta
and that he was often offered
chances to make money improperly,
but declined, together with an as
sault on Walter George Smith;
threats of more arrests by Rotan and
an alleged offer of a city job to a
Town Meeting worker.
—Senator McNichol will probably
not be able to testify in the Phila
delphia cases until late In Novem
ber. His recovery is very slo%V and
there is a disposition to let him
alone. He has made no declaration
in regard to the Town Meeting ticket.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to
day says editorially that Senator
Vare tried to reply with "bird shot"
to the "explosion bomb" of Senator
Penrose. The Ledger says: "Sena
tor Vare's rejoinder to the Penrose
pronunciamento is a confession in
effect of every indictment that has
been drawn against him and his
faction. It is no valid defense to call
your opponent 'another,' and that is
all the Vare statement amounts to."
The Press declares, "The Republican
ticket with Senator Penrose asks the
people of Philadelphia to oppose
represents no Republican principle.
The New York gunmen brought to
its aid have made it represent gov
ernment by violence and murder. All
good Republicans should refuse to
support it. An excellent ticket of
high class men, all of them well
known and highly esteemed citizens
of Philadelphia, is presented for the
approval of the people. Its success
wil! place the administration of city
affairs in the best possible hands and
rebuke and condemn at the same
time the attempted "government by
murder."
—The Pittsburgh Dispatch gives
William A. Magee credit of having
forced _u general town meeting in
Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times ilays the Magee parti
sans' charges against Babcock. The
Dispatch says: "A 'trade meeting,'
at which not only the two candidates
for mayor, but the nine of the can
didates for council will speak from
the same platform, will l>e held at
the Sclienley High school, to-night
under the auspices of the Allied
Hoard of Trade. Councilman John
11. Dailey, in the hospital with pneu
monia, cannot appear. It will be
the first and possibly the only occa
sion on which all the other candi
dates will appear at the same place
on the same evening. It will be
the second time the two candidates
for mayor have spoken from the
same platform on the same night,
the other occasion being the meeting
of the Pittsburgh Board of Trade a
week ago iMonday night."
—Commenting upon the decision
of Judge Kunkel in the "sole nom
inee" case, the Philadelphia Bulletin
says the nonpartisan judicial elec
tion law is a "misfit."
—Reading's councilmanic election
is attracting national attention be
cause of the effort to down the So
cialists.
—Speaker R. J. Baldwin, who was
here yesterday, says Delaware coun
ty is furnishing enough excitement
for him in Its judgeship battle.
—lt is regarded as very improb
able that any test of constitutionality
of the half pay for state attaches in
war service will be made. Audi
tor General Snyder and Attorney
General Brown say they have no
idea of doing It.
—Reports that plain and definite
orders are to go out to Harrisburg
men in employ of various depart
ments of the state government un
der Governor Brumbaugh on the sub
ject of the mayoralty were heard
about the Capitol again to-day.
—Auditor General Snyder said to
day that "in due season" he would be
ready to take his appeal in the ap
pointments case. The Auditor Gen
eral to-day reiterated that he
thought It up to him to get the law
on the subject.
ONE THING CERTAIN
At least It Is certain that the
French aviators didn't Inconvenience
any Germans at Baden-Baden who
were taking the cure there for gout.
—New York Evening Post.
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A LESSON IN LOYALTY
To some persons it may be surpris
ing: that there are men in Milwaukee
who do not realize that this country
is the United States, not Germany;
who do not understand that, the
United States • being at war with
Germany, Milwaukee stands and
must stand with the United States,
and who do not comprehend the sim
ple, obvious facts that they cannot
and not oppose the United
States by endeavoring to advance by
word or act the cause and interests
.of Germany.
However, the action of the postal
authorities in barring from the mails
a Socialist newspaper published in
Milwaukee did not surprise intelli
gent men who know what war
means, who know what a nation's
duties and powers are when it is
waging war. American Socialists,
who have shown a true sense of loy
alty to their country, have with
drawn from the Socialist party and
have, repudiated its organ, because
party and paper have shown them
selves to be pro-German, even as
against Socialism itself. Many who
have read what the paper has said
against the nation's cause and the
prosecution of the war are some
what at a loss as to why the Govern
ment did not proceed against it
sooner. The explanation, of course,
is that the Government has a million
or more urgent things on its hands
and cannot do all at once. When it
takes action, however, it takes ade
quate action.
The, Government talks little, but it
works' overtime and it Is keenly on
the trail. Men known to be disloyal
are under constant scrutiny. Much
is known about them and more is he
re learned. Exposure of them
only a matter of time. —From the
Milwaukee Journal.
SAVE THE CORN CROP
There is more waste in the corn
crop through careless harvesting
than in any other crop grown in the
east. A drive through almost any
farming community in the late fall or
early winter will show shocked corn
or shocked fodder standing in the
fields. Wheat and oats are carefully
housed or stacked for early thresh
ing. because injury to both grain and
straw is rapid and complete. Fruits
and vegetables are carefully stored
for the same reasons. Corn will
stand well into the winter without
complete loss of the fodder and with
comparatively little external evidence
of injury to the grain. But both
corn and fodder must suffer when
long exposed in the field. Both suf
fer in feeding quality and any undue
exposure means loss to the grower.
Labor Is scarce on the farms this
fall, and there will be many cold fin
gers before the corn crop Is husked
and stored. But a corn crop was
never more precious than this fall.
It never paid better in the markets
of the country than it promises to
pay through the coming winter, and
It was never so much needed in the
diet of the world as it will be through
the coming year. It will cost an ef
fort to get It safely under cover, but
it will be an effort worth while
where labor can be secured at any
thing like a reasonable price.—Penn
sylvania Farmer.
VALUE OF EDUCATION
The American Boy, a periodical
whose title indicates its purpose,
makes an effort to warn the youth
who is in a hurry to leave school
and go to work.
It Is pointed out that the untrained
boy will make $8 a week his first
year, $lO the second year, sl2 the
third, sls the fourth and fifth, $lB
the sixth, seventh and eighth years,
S2O from the eighth to the thirteenth
year and thereafter $25 a week will
be the maximum. The total earn
ings for 23 years are figured at $24,-
388.
For the trained boy who finishes
his high school course these figures
are given: Three years the boy
draws nothing, as he Is finishing
his school work. But he starts at
sls a week, where the untralhed lad
got but SB. Ten years later he Is
drawing SIOO a week, having stepped
up on the salary list from sls to
$lB, from $22 to $25, from S3O to
$35, from S4O to SSO and from $75
to SIOQ. From his fourteenth to his
twenty-third working years he Is
rated at $l5O a week. His total
earnings In the 23 years amount to
$99,320, a difference In favor of the
trained over the untrained of $74,-
932.—Loulsvllle Courier-Journal.
GLAD TO HAVE 'EM
Congress has passed a bill the
President will doubtless sign tB re
patriate Americans now serving in
the Allied armies upon their appli
cation after the war. They are the
sort of citizens Uncle Sam will be
glad to get back.—From the Boston
Traveler.
THE PEOPLE'S
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MINISTERS IX POLITICS.
To te I. Jit 01 of the Telegraph:
"The Prince of this world" is wise
and cunning and always ready to
adapt himself to the conditions he
finds surrounding him. When our
forefathers came across the seas to
secure for themselves the right to
worship God according to the dic
tates of their own consciences as
enlightened by the open Bible, and
when in the course of the erection
of a new government for a people of
diverse practices in the evangelical
religious world they found it neces
sary to give voice to the fundamental
principle of separation of the church
(ecclesiastical forms of government)
trom the state, he was not slow to
put forth his efforts to make the
people believe that in our country
religion and politics must be abso
lutely divorced. Senator Ingalls at
his suggestion openly declared that
"the moral law and the decalogue
have no place in politics," but this
was a case of overreaching himself.
Some have gone so far as to say that
the individual voter has no right to
take a man's religious convictions
into consideration in determining
whether that man shall receive his
vote, and that to do so was to do an
unconstitutional thing. More than
once in the history of our nation has
this prince of evil been given backset
in his endeavors to establish this
false basis of action, which fails to
distinguish between "the church" as
a human organization and religion
as a Divine regulation for men in
everything.
During the Civil War the "preach
ing of politics," which was almost
synonymous with denunciation of
the iniquity of human slavery, was a
burning; problem in many congrega
tions. At the time it was the great
est of "moral" questions before tho
people and at the same time the
greatest political problem. To-day
it is the liquor traffic that assumes
this role. Can any man tell me how
any professed follower of the Lord
Jesus Christ can be indifferent or
neutral on this problem? Or be
guiltless if he use not his whole In
fluence and power for its over
throw? And if so with every Chris
tian man, lidw much more must it
be so of the man who is called to
be the direct leader of men by liis
Master! It would seem that the
minister is especially called to enter
every field where he can wield in
fluence against the foe.
But what is "politics?" The word
comes from the Greek word for
"citizen." Politics, then, is that
which has to do with the welfare of
the citizen, or at least that is what
ought to be the aim of every politi
cian. Unfortunately, the average
"politician" is so much taken up
with seeking ways and means to line
his own pocket with sold or his
pathway with power, and scruples so
little, if at all, over the means to be
employed to attain his aim, that the
term "politician" has come to have a
sort of stench about it, and the aver
age man has come to look upon poli
tics as "a necessary evil;" and, un
fortunately, the people who ought to
be taking prime interest in politics
are usually too busy with their own
little Sordid enterprises to spend
time on these more important things.
"Politician" ought to be one of the
most honorable terms to be applied
to a man, a Wrm on a par with
"statesmen," but it will never bo
come so by keeping the men who
are supposed to be leaders in the
uplift of the citizenship of the na
tion out of that which primarily
deals with the welfare of its citizens.
If politics are of the right kind,
what harm can come to the preach
er more than to any other man from
taking part in them? If they are
not of the right stamp, why should
not the man whose business is to lift
up humanity not take a hand in
making them right? Of course-this J
has reference to questions that are
moral as well as political. Questions
that do not have a moral side he may
well let be, but how can he let be
any Question that Involves morality
and be guiltless? Some one may
answer, as has often been done, "But
moral questions have no place in
politics." Such a statement shows
lack of penetration. Recurring to
our definition of politics ns that
which has to do with the welfare of
the citizen, we readily see that moral
questions have to do with this, and
that In so far as they are of greater
Importance to tho welfare of the
citizen than any other, they are of
first, place. Indeed all parties ought
to be on the same side of all moral
questions; and It Is Just because they
are not that the obligation lies upon
the minister to give forth no uncer
tain Bound when their settlement Is
brought Into the political arena. It
Is by those who are chosen at the
ballot box that all laws relating to
moral as well as every ottyer problem
are both made and executed.
It is a sad commentary upon the
Christian ministry that during the
period of our national life those who
ought to have led have so often fol
lowed instead, when such Questions
were to the fore. If it were a mat
ter of taking part in the kind of poli
tics the average politician practices,
the man who objects to the minis
ter's taking part in politics might
have valid ground for his objection;
but the very fact that his taking part
in such politics would put a stigma
upon his office only emphasizes the
importance of his putting forth his
best efforts in advancing the kind of
politics that will be in harmony
with his still greater work of fitting'
men for eternity. To do less would j
seem to be disloyalty to the King of]
Kings, who has taught to pray "Thv |
kingdom come. Thy will be done on;
earth as it is in Heaven." In the
fight for the destruction of the
liquor traffic, the servant of Jesus
Christ should keep everlastingly at
it, and may more of the leaders of
men come to see the necessity of
living up to the highest obligation
of the patriotic citizen of both this
world and the next.
B. E. P. PRUGH.
HAD MA XT FRIENDS HERE
To l' - H I>tor of the Telcgruph:
Dear Sir: News that will sadden
many hearts comes from Greene,
New York, telling of the death there
last Tuesday of Mrs. Anne Willard
Connely, mother of Mrs. John Oen
slager of this city, of Mrs. Howard B.
Rathbone of New York, and of Wil
lard Connely of the United States
Navy, now stationed at Minneapolis.
For many year 3 Mrs. Connely spent
her winters with her daughter in this
city, and a wide circle of friends will
feel genuine sorrow at the news of
her passing. A lovely, gracious,
magnetic personality, she possessed a
force of character, a rlear judgment,
and a fine intellect that elicited ad
miration and affection. The world
is poorer to-day because of her ab
sonee from us. M. C. J.
Harrisburg, Oct. 23, 1317.
HUNKA TIN
The late Charles Battell Loomis
was the author of a side-splitting
parody upon Tennyson's "Lady
j Clare." George Moore, the haughty
novelist, after hearing Loomis recite
: it, wiped the tears of mirth from his
I eyes and remarked: "After all. Ten
nyson did not live in vain. I've al
ways sneered at his work, but it's
something to have provoked this
parody."
Kipling's "Gunga Din" rises a
notch or two with us because of this,
from the American Field Service
Bulletin, published in Paris:
You may talk about your voltures
When you're sitting round the quar
ters,
But when It comes to getting
blesses In,
Take a little tip from me,
Let those heavy motors be.
Pin your faith to Henry F.'s old
Hunka Tin.
Give her essence and l'eau.
Crank her up and let her go,
You baek-firin', spark-plug-foulln'
Hunka Tin.
The paint is not so good.
And no doubt you'll find the hood
Will rattle like a boiler shop en
route;
The cooler's sure to boll,
And perhaps she leak the oil.
Then oftentimes the horn declines
to toot.
But when the night is black,
And there's blesses to take back,
And they hardly give you time to
take a smoke.
It's mighty good to feel.
When you're sitting at the wheel,
She'll be running when the bigger
cars are broke.
After all the wars are past,
And we're taken home at last.
To our reward of which the
preacher sings,
When these ukulele sharps
Will bo strumming golden harps,
And the aviators all have reg'lar
wings,
When the Kaiser la in hell.
With the furnace drawing well.
Paying for his million different
kinds of sin,
If they're running short of coal.
Show me how to reach the hole,
And I'll cast a few loads down
with Hunka Tin.
Yes, Tin, Tin, Tin,
You exasperating puzzle, Hunka Tin,
I've abused you and I've flayed
you,
But, by Henry Ford who made
you,
You are better than a Packard, Hun
ka Tin.
OCTOBER 23, 1917;
LABOR NOTES
•Since the Washington State Indus
trial Commission started its compen
sation benefits a total of $8,297,888
lias been collected in premiums and
$5,401,111 has been paid out in claims
while $-,636,929 is held in reserve.
Scarcity of homes in many indus
trial localities can only be remedied
ty Government action, was the dec
laration of a conference called by
President Gompers to discuss the
question of housing workers.
Following favorable action by the
recent Dallas convention of the Na
tional Association of Letter Carriers,
tho Americafi Federation of Labor
has issued a charter to this organiza
tion, which is now enrolled !n the
trade union family.
Montana State Industrial Accident
Board reports that during the last
two years there were 443 fatal acci
dents in Montana, 13 were totally
disabled and 273 partially disabled.
The grand total fcf all sorts of acci
dents on this industrial battletield is
15,127.
Fourteen thousand telegraphers,
telephone operators, station agents
and signalmen employed by the Erie
and the New York, Susquehanna and
Western Railroad Companies will re
ceive an IS per cent, increase In
wages.
Plans to unionize all city employes
are being arranged by Boston union
ists. A mass meet ng will be held
on Sunday, November 4, in the larg
est hall that can be secured to devise
ways and means to interest all mu
nicipal workers.
OUR DAILY LAUGH!
I (TTfk LOOK'j IvfiJl I
|tu
GAME OF LIFE.
Pleasure bals in manner tame,
Kuns a base or two and quits.
Trouble most wins tho game;
Trouble plays io bunch its hltn.
VviWAX
1 Mown •wiTMOj.n
\\MMfaUWCNT V
A LUCKY
MAN.
§Wifey —I can't
find words to
express my con
tempt for you.
Hubby—Good!
Now perhaps I
shall h a v •
AS TO BORES.
He—Do you f
believe in the HKjßy
nurvival of the
When several HjELgjrT W,'
men call on the MbH\ 77
same evening, if /jjp
th e greatest J W
bore is .always j ft v / j
the last to go 1
f 1 \
' f | OlMl.
OLD SLOGAN BOBS UP.
•'I don't see what he aaw In her
to marry,"
"Don't yon understand? She kept
bltn out ot war,**
Bxntbig QUfttt
People who have been coming lnttf
J"® fc'ty on automobile trips and
rolks who have been out on the main
highways that radiate from Harris
burg; like spokes from a wheel de
clare that seldom have they known
the mountains and hills in the Ju
niata, and Cumberland val
leys to be so beautiful and those who
have gone down the Susquehanna on
the western bank and observed the
York hilla are enthusiastic in their
delight at the coloring. One has
only to go to Reservoir Park or
climb old Fort Washington or take
?■ ? al to a P o ' n t above th<*
city limits in Riverside or out arouncP
Progress to get views of the Blue
Ridge that will long l>e remembered.
} ! rst Mountain is covered with
a patchwork of autumnal tints, rus
set, brown, yellow, red, light green
and green. The real yellow of late
October is commencing to predomi
"ate - but there are still enough of'
the other colors left in the foliage tjy
make that marvelous color scheme'
which seems to be accentuated by
the haze of Indian summer in the
Blue Ridge country. Some of the
hardy trees are just commencing to
turn and thero are places where red
and yellow have commenced to run
up the branches like flames, while
the evergreens stand out as in pro
test. at the activities of Jack Frost.
This is the time of the year to make
trips up through Wildwood park or'
if you have the time to take tho ride
out Linglestown road to see First
Mountain or to go along the road
that, skirts the mountain from near
Knola. Fishing Creek, Stony Creek
and Clark's Creek valleys are in all
their glory now and the valley of
Sherman's creek, up in Ferry Coun
ty, is well worth rambling.
It may be said that the value of
making Wildwood park a natural
park, where the wildwood would re
main wild, is commencing to be ap
preciated now even by those mate
rialists who wanted to turn the park
into tracks or bone factory sites.-
Wildwood is declared to contain
most of the trees indigenous to'
Pennsylvania with a few exceptions
which were singled out by boys or
tramps for burning down before the
city authorities got the tract. There'
are some oaks, in that reservation
which Warren 11. Manning says
were there when Columbus started to
interview King Ferdinand. A couplo
of hemlocks and cypress trees used
to be in the park years ago, but were
ruined. The fruit trees survive in a
few places and may amount to some
thing again as in Monroe County
they have cut back thirty-year-old
apple trees and have them bearing
agaiti. However, a municipal or
chard would require a special police
force just as watchful eyes have to
be kept on the chestnut and walnut
trees in public domains.
When ft comes down to pretty
stretches of way to walk or to drive
the city's two parkways offer tho
place for a delightful hour or two,
if one cjyes to take the whole ram
ble. Starting in at Lochiel, which
seems to be regaining its old indus
trial prominence and which borders
a pretty residential suburb, the Cam
eron parkway is bright with the fall
hues of the trees anil shrubbery of
the Spring Creek valley. Mid-after
noon is the time for this walk for
then the air is warm and tho foliage
has the autumn odors and rabbits
and squirrels are to be seen back in
the trees. The new roadway winds
around Paxtang park after passing
the almshouse and municipal hospi
tal and crossing the histv...ic Cham
bers hill road and then dips down be
side the big spring at Paxtang park
where the first Rutherford settli •{
almost 175 years ago, going througn
the subway to the William Penn
highway to Reading and New York,
some times called the Derry Street!
pike. If one can survive the bountj
ing of a badly maintained borough
street in Paxtang the Paxtang parkJ
way is reached and It twists beside
the old Rutherford Ice dam up
through the hollow by the Dull and
Hale farms to. Paxtang. Most of the
time you are beside the beginnings
of Spring creek and trees on the
sides af the ravine almost meet over
head. Quail call to you from the
brush, rabbits duck into the tali
grass and squirrels chatter annoy
ance at the disturbance of the glade.
Fortunately, the city has extended
its rules to this parkway and hunt
ing is forbidden within the stretch
as is the spoiling of trees or shrub
bery. A few hundred yards beyond
the ravine you are out where Harris
burg is going to be before long and
shooting up an easy grade you are
in Reservoir park overlooking Pen
brook and with the Rockville gap
before you.
B. F. Umberger, well-known attor-j
ney, and former councilman and
former member of the City Planning
Commission, is also founder of the
Order of the Pig Potato. As a con
servationist Mr. Umberger differs
with Mr. Hoover and Mr. Umberger!
lias all the better of the argument.]
Whereas Hoover believes in eating
less, Mr. Umberger believes in rais
ing more, and thereby putting one
self in the satisfying and satisfactory
position of being able to eat more.
Last year he went to live in his, new
country home near Duncannon' and
as a starter he proceeded to astound
the natives by raising a potato crop
nuch us Perry county never had
known before. "How does he do it?"
asked one of the aforesaid native.-!.
And others replied: "Oh, just lucl;."
Therefore it became the bounden
duty of the former Harrisburger to
demonstrate again this year, lie has
done so. His potato crop yielded 220
bushels to the acre—oh, honest it did
—and as for size, well, the judges at
the Perry county fair gave the Um
berger potatoes the blue ribbon and
their owner a handsome bonus in
cash. Therefore the Order of th
Big Potato* Yes, anybody can join
Ten dollars Initiation and no dues,
Place, the Umberger farm any after
noon; time, any afternoon aftei
4.30. if you happen to have twe
hours spare time to talk potatoes
Now don't push, take your turn. on
at a time please, don't crowd th<
ticket office man.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"*
—Judge H. <\ Qutgley. of Centei
County, who fs a former Guard offi
cer, is helping along the recruiting
movement tn his county.
Judge James C, Work, of Fay
•** Orphans Court, who is a can
didate for re-election. Is one of th
authorities in the state on sue]
court affairs.
—Judge F. B, Moser. of Northum
berland courts, likes to hunt, bu
does not get much time,
—Judge Charles E. Berger, o
Schuylkill, was for years one of th
most ardent workers to clean u'
ballot frauds in that county ani
helped materially to bring about bet
ter conditions.
f DO YOU KNOW
That the number of visitor*
attracted to Harrisburg h v
State Capitol is steadily increas
ing every month?
HISTORIC HARRISBITRO
The first landscape work wm AC% t*
In Capitol Park in 1827.