8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Pound td itjl Published evening! except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, TtkCltfk BalMlag, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't fr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Busigiu Manager. GUS 51. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member at the Aesoclated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dlu> atc)>e * 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. i Member Ushers' Assocla- Eastern office. Story, Avenue Building, Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a 4buk'l week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. - MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1917 Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of conse quence. —Tenntsox. THE ITALIAN SITUATION THE success of the German drive on Italy will have a mighty in fluence on the future of the war —but It will not be decisive. Germany overran Servla, but Servia is not crushed. Germany overran Roumania, but Roumania Is not crushed. Germany overran Belgium, but Belgium is not crushed. Germany invaded Russia, but Rus sia is not crushed. And the final decision of this war will be along the western front, where the unconquerable French, British and Americans are preparing for the final great drive that will end somewhere beyond the Rhine—pos sibly in Berlin. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come —for the Kaiser. AT THE FRONT TELEGRAPH readers were thrilled Saturday evening by the graphic and complete account of how American troops went into action on the French front. It is a bit of reporting that will go down in history. Nobody who read it could fail to have a clear picture of how the Americans behaved as they start ed for the trenches, nor the manner in which the first American artillery shot of the war on land was fired. Two things stand out clearly— first that the men fully realize the seriousness of the business upon which they have entered and sec ondly, that notwithstanding this they went into action cool as cucumbers and keen to do their part. Calmly it is decided to send the case of the first shell back to the President. With equal deliberation American and French officers indulge in a luncheon on the field near the batteries in celebration of the ad vent of America on the fighting line. The incident reminds one of Dewey's "you may fire when you are ready, Gridley," and of his suspension of the fighting at Manila while his men partook of breakfast. That's the kind of spirit that wins. The Hun is going to lind the Amer icans an entirely new factor, while the Hun himself will be an old story to the Americans. In other words, while the United States troops are called upon to face an enemy whose strength and weaknesses and manner of combat are fully known to every man in khaki, the Germans have yet to discover the mettle and the tac tics of their adversaries. That is a big point in favor of the Americans. Also, the Americans are fresh and keen to fight. Their' support and morale are of the best. The( Ger mans, on the other hand, are tired from the constant pounding of Haig and Petaln, war weary and lacking in adequate support from home. All winter they will be subject to the rattle and bang of the allies' sledge hammer blows and it will be a won der, Indeed, if in the fighting that is to take place all along the western line next spring, when a million Americans are at the front, if the boys from the States do not find some vital weakness in the Ger man line through which the first plunge toward Berlin can be made. "ECONOMY NOT PENURY" UNDER that caption an advertis ing agency writes the Telegraph begging this newspaper, among others, to point out the folly of ruining all legitimate business to make way for war work. There is good horse sense back of this appeal. The war is not going to laat always, and we must be as ready for the great Industrial battles of peace as we are trying to make our selves for the war we are now en gaged in waging. Lack of "prepared ness" has delayed our participation in the war. The French and the Eng lish have stood between ourselves and Germany, but there will be none to stand between us and our rivals In the contest for commercial su premacy which is to follow. Yea, we must be economical, and true economy will be vastly beneficial MONDAY EVENING, to us as a people, but we must not be penurious. We must live our lives as nearly normal as is possible. We must save where ever we can, but we must be careful not to over do it; not to ruin the businesses and indus tries upon which we will have to de pend for prosperity when the war trade ceases. ONE CASK TO APPEAL IF there is anything in the argu ment that one of the reasons the general assembly gave the Public Service Commission authority to regulate utilities was to prevent burdens upon the public either in the form of unjust rates or waste ful competition, it would seem that the decision of the commission that mergers of competing telephone companies can not be approved un der the constitution adopted 4\ years ago, is one which should be reviewed by the superior court. It is a case wherein there is a difference, of opinion among the commissioners themselves and about which law yers disagree. It presents the ques tion whether situations arising out of conditions unforeseen by the framers of the organic law of Penn sylvania are to be regulated by Im plication or whether public interest shall govern. The commissioner in the minority in the case writes that the people in the territory covered by the two telephone companies are confronted with a "twice the pay and half the service" proposition, which the ma jority report of the commission candidly admits when it declares "the operation of the competing lines of telephone in this particular district is uneconomic and wasteful." The majority holds that the consti tution and the acts passed in pur suance thereof prohibit consolida tion of competing telegraph lines and that courts and legislatives have classified the telephone with the telegraph. The minority holds that things coming into existence since 1873 and forming so vital a part of daily life as the telephone should not be arbitrarily placed un der the same restrictions as t.he telegraph. The telegraph was the chief mechanical means of long dis tance transmission of information known when the constitution was adopted and for convenience in In corporation of companies for tele phone development they were classi fied with the telegraph companies by exercise of "latitudinous power." No one can foretell' when thj people of Pennsylvania, who are rather weary of continual attempts to amend the constitution, will or dain a new constitutional conven tion and no one can foresee what new utilities may spring from the minds of Inventors, especially in an hour like the present, when the genius of America has been sum moned to devise new means of na tional defense. Ideas conceived in the crisis of war may be applied in astonishing ways to the arts of peace, just as the Prussian mind perverted the achievements of civil ization to the prosecution of war in its most diabolic form. The pro gress of science in annihilation of distance has been so marvelous that within a decade we may be employing hourly things as little thought of now as was competition in wireless telephoning or aero plane express service in the day of the Columbian Exposition. The habits of economy that the most ex travagant people on earth will have ingrained in them when this war is ended will be such as to refus to stand for what is patently "bad business" in industry, government or utilities. • Quite regardless of whether two telephone companies, two cold stor age companies or two sewage dis posal companies are involved, this case would seem to present a ques tion which should be taken before the appellate court. KEEPING OUR BOYS FIT THE letters from the Harrisburg boys now in the service of their country which have been print ed from time to time in the Tele graph have aroused more general in terest than any matter that has come through regular news sources. These letters are full of picturesque detail and breathe the very atmos phere of the military operations. Above all else is the optimism of these youths who have gone into the service with their eyes open and with patriotic devotion to their country which constitutes one of the bright est phases of the war. Now that our troops are on *.he very firing line in Europe, we shall have a keener appreciation of what these young men who have gone out from the hemes of Central Pennsyl vania and from every other part of the country are doing for the great cause that concerns all civilization. As the real situation is being forced home upon our people the concern of all good citizens In the welfare of the men in camps and at the front grows with the increasing knowledge of the difficulties and the perils and the hardships which en viron them. It ought not to be nec essary, under those conditions to urge the generous support of the great movement under the direction of the War Work Council, which contem plates recreational and other facili ties for the welfare and comfort of our soldier boys who have left com fortable homes In obedience to the call of their country and in pursu ance of a high apd lofty purpose. Harrisburg has been most gener ous in all campaigns for subscrip tions—the necessary campaigns which have been inaugurated since our entrance Into the war. A few men some months ago in this city subscribed over $12,000 for the maintenance of war work activities, but the need is now so great that a fund of <35,000,000 is being raised In the United States for this work and the city of Harrlsburg and Dau phin County together will be .asked for $50,000 of this amount. We believe that what is so ob viously necessary for the mainte nance of the morale of the troops, their comfort and efficiency ought not to require special urging at this time. We must fight this war to a successful finish and to do so we must see to it that our own soldiers are kept fit fMiictU By the Ex-Committeeman Practically the whole state is wait ing for two things growing out of the Philadelphia situation and they are expected to have a big effect not only upon the election of next week in the Quaker City but upon the making of state tickets next year. There are other developments of state-wide interest in that city as a result of the primary but these two are the greatest. The matters referred to are the decision of Judge H. A. Davis on the nominating petitions of the Town Meeting party, which is due to-day. and the request of the leaders of the Town Meeting to the Governor to detail state police to Philadelphia for election day. In the nominating petition battle in the court on Saturday things were rather favorable to the Town Meet ing party and its lawyers claim that Its candidates will be on the ticket. The request for state police is made in a letter which denounces the Philadelphia city police and puts up to the Governor for the first time whether state police should be used in city elections. —While there are many interest ing things going on in Philadelphia and there are signs that citizens are aroused there have been so many crusades undertaken in that city lately that it will take great work to overcome the regular ticket. The Vare organization is on its mettle and working day and night. Dis trict Attorney Rotan has started an investigation into thfe operations of magistrates and has issued a de mand on the mayor that police be taken out of politics, pledging him self to ask the next Legislature for a law which will place the force on a basis as that in London or the state police of Pennsylvania. Senator Pen rose has endorsed Rotan's stand, as have the Philadelphia newspapers. —The Town Meeting party has named candidates for council and prominent men such as A. Merritt Taylor have taken the stump for it. It is recognized that it is going to take hard work to defeat the admin istration in Philadelphia. —Congressman W. S. Yare and other Philadelphians are making an energetic protest to Secretary Baker against the dismemberment of the First and Second City troops of the First Cavalry. They are also pro testing against the dismemberment of the Third Regiment. —People here read with much in terest the merging of newspapers in Hazleton. That city now has one morning and one evening newspaper. The morning paper will be the Standard-Sentinel and the evening paper the Plain Speaker. —The Philadelphia Press has this Interesting editorial reference to the proposition to impeach Mayor Smith: "There is some merit in the 'recall' and its powers can be invoked under our present law by impeachment. If the people of Philadelphia realize as they should the enormity of Mayor Smith's action and shake off the un intelligent superstition that asso ciates national issues and local elec tions and will vote in sufficiently large numbers for the Town Meet ing candidates government by thug gery and murder will secure a much deserved rebuke In this city." —Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, I of the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, has been com pelled to have a reprinting of the list of city and county-wide nominees in the state for the use of the sol diers on election day owing -to late reports made. It is expected to have the newlilts ready to deliver to the commissioners to take the votes who will meet here to-morrow afternoon for instruction and to receive their supplies from Secretary Woods. Gov ernor Brumbaugh will address the commissioners. —Designation of Captain George C. Lumb, deputy superintendent of state police, is expected to be made shortly as acting superintendent dur ing the leave of absence given Colo nel John C. Groome, the superinten dent. The names of several men have been heard as possible selec tions, but it is said to be the inten tion of the Governor to maintain the traditions of the force. —The mayoralty campaigns in Pittsburgh and Scranton, where the state administration people are tak ing as big an interest in the results as in Harrisburg will enter upon the final week with lines tightened. The candidates and their orators are scheduled to make many speeches and various charge# are being made already about the nominees. —"The Insider" in the Philadel phia Press has this to say: "My old friend 'Jimmy' Sheehan, he of the funny stories, is likely to receive the swiftest calldown of his gay life one of these nights when he tells a crowd that Senator McNichol will surely support the entire Republican tick et with all his resources. 'Jimmy' alleges that he has full authority from the Senator for his statement. I have heard men who are closer to McNichol than Sheelian is declare that he has never made any such statement and, as for authorizing any one to speak for hipi, all who know 'Jim' McNichol will agree that he has always talked for himself and never has delegated any person to speak for him politically. —A Philadelphia dispatch from Wilkos-Barre says: "Judge Fuller and his friends have made it per fectly plain to the rank and file of the Republican party that Shea, Emanski and Gallagher have lined up as a Democratic ticket, making the nonpartisan Judgeship campaign nonpartisan in name only. Repub licans have taken notice of this and Judge Fuller is now very properly linked as a candidate of the Repub licans, carried along by all the lead ers and supporters of the party." —Anent the Schuylkill judgeship, a Pottsvllle dispatch says: "Non partisan though the office may be, nevertheless there will be some par tisanship thrown into the campaign. It is conglomeration. Judge H. O. Bechtel is a Democrat. Judge C. E. Berger is a Republican. John Rob ert Jones is a Progressive, and James J. Bell a Democrat. Hence there are two Democrats, a Republican and a Progressive. Judges Bechtel and Berger start out with having the Re publican and Democratic organiza tions with them. That gives them prestige, which was proved at the HARRISBITRG TEEEGKXPH! OH, MAN! ... t • o 1 Herbert! WW- I ti-. v 1 It"* -p __ _ HAVE YOU DONIS . ; FIRONV TMC OOO* " TV,r | "TYA- tva vESSf^TT - * ' 0-V't"°". IYa-V,- W#Lff . " " \ f —I —" ~~ ~ 1 t— '' 1111111 111 (i > | MUST tell \ D'D i TELL \bo I j' I r- l&s&z,/ rs^^L \ DID" lTs A / MUST HCA I — \ YoO ,<s ' e < JuT / '' \ primaries, for they ran away from their opponents, Jones and Bell." —Republican County Chairman J. I. Steel, of Northumberland county, following a meeting: of committee men at Sunbury'on Saturday, an nounced there is little chance for Democratic success at the ensuing general election. Steel looks for big Republican gains throughout the en tire county. He is confident the par ty will record a very big ballot in Watsontown, Milton, Northumber land, Sunbury, Shamokin and Mt. Carmel. If It does, there is little doubt that the ticket will win hands down. Republicans are encouraged this year because of the apathy of Democratic workers, especially in the mine districts. They say they don't care how the election goes and that they will remain away from the polls. —The Philadelphia Ledger says in its political column: "There Is a feeling in political circles that the present situation In, this city—the tight between Penrose and the Vares —indicates that there will be a state wide fight next year between the rival factions over the Republican nomination for Governor. It had been generally understood that Sen ator Sproul, dean of the State Sen ate, would be agreed upon by all elements as the 'harmony' choice for Governor. And, even so, that may develop. But It is learned that Sen ator Penrose is not yet committed to Sproul or any one else for Gov ernor. And this though Penrose and Sproul have discussed the matter in formally betweyi themselves. The Penrose point of view is that the gubernatorial question will be an swered when it is known whether or not the Vares will back a candidate of their own, or 'go along with the Penrose state organization.' Fur thermore, much will depend upon the policy of the Democrats. It may well be that the Republican leaders will have to take the labor move ment into most serious consideration, for Penrose leaders realize that the Democratic National Administration is making friends with the working man. Labor is getting high wages and labor Is being richly recognized by the Federal Administration with numerous political offices. So It is evident that many problems will have to be solved before Senator Penrose and his friends finally commit them selves to a candidate for Governor." NOT ALWAYS "Ambassador Gerard," said a New York broker, "had a happy way In Berlin of chaffing the great war lords and dictators. "A grand duke said to the Am bassador at a reception: " 'Germany will win this war. Then let America look out.' "'How will Germany win?' said Mr. Gerard, calmly. " 'With her submarines, with her gases, and, above all,' said the grand duke, 'with perseverance. Perse verance, Mr. Ambassador, always conquers.' " 'Always?' said Mr. Gerard, wink ing at his second secretary. 'How about the hen on the china egg?' " —Washington Star. A GERMAN PROBLEM One serious economic problem that is going to confront Germany pretty soon is what to do with all the bright young men who have been trained for spy careers.—Ohio State Jour nal. "TWENTY YEARS AGO" Ladles wore bustles. Operations were rare. Nobody swatted the fly. Nobody had seen a silo. Nobody had appendicitis. Nobody wore white shoes. Cream was 5 cents a pint. Cantaloupes were muskmelons. Most young men had "livery bills." You never heard of a "tin lizzie." Doctors wanted to see your tongue. Milk shake was a favorite drink. Advertisers did not tell the truth. Nobody cared for the price of gasoline. Farmers came to town for their mall. The hired girl drew one-fifty a week. The butcher "threw in" a chunk of liver. Folks said pneumatic tires were a Jok*e. Nobody "listened in" on a tele phone. There were no sane Fourths, nor electric meters. Strawstacks were burned Instead of baled. Publishing a country newspaper was not a business. People thought English sparrows were "birds." Jules Verne was the only convert to the submarine. You stuck tubes In your ears to hear a Phonograph, and It cost a dime.—Pike County (111.) Republi can. \ The Belgian Coast Line Perhaps in no other war in mod ern history have a few miles counted for as much in the scales of victory as In the present contest in West Flanders, says a bulletin issued by the Bureau of Geographic Informa tion of the National Geographic So ciety. The distance which separates the Allied forces from full control of the coast of Belgium is only 30 miles. Possession of these 30 miles of coastline would not only wipe out the German submarine bases in Bel glum, but it would also give the Al lies a new front upon which to at tack in an effort to drive the enemy out of Belgium and Northern France. Possession of this coast, therefore, would be a double victory to the Al lies, sorely hampering the enemy's submarine operations and at the same time affording an opportunity to roll up his right flank on land. Nowhere else may be found tl more striking contrast between peace and war than that afforded by the Belgian coast In 1913 and 1917. Practically the entire coastline in normal times is given up to the pleasures of seaside cities and rest resorts. La Panne, Coxyde-Plage, Oost-Duinkerke, Nieuport-Bains, Westende, Middelkerke, Le Coq-sur- Mer, Wenduyne-sur-Mer, Blanken berglie, Heyst-sur-Mer and Knocke sur-Mer are all places which remind one of the seaside cities of New Jer sey. Of these, Ostend, Nieuport- Bains and Blankenberglie are the most pretentious. In these Atlantic Citys, Cape Mays and Asbury Parks of Belgium laugh ter and happiness reigned with a carefree abandon that only Euro pean resorts could know, while to day war, on land, under sea and in the air, harries the souls of/the few STRAWS One after another the brewing companies proclaim with loud en coniums the virtues of new cooling and refreshing drinks which they have begun to manufacture. They are non-alcoholic, but attractive with the peculiar flavor of the hops. The enthusiasm with which their makers launch them upon the world sug gests a strong belief in the perma nency of their use. Wo congratu late the brewers on their new proj ect; it is interesting to speculate on what it means. Brewers are not wont to fail in worldly wisdom. Can it be that they foresee an ap proaching time when they will be forced by public opinion to take the adder's sting out of their brewings? Are they "hedging" against the march of prohibition? Shall We soon see the brewers making drink without the alcohol and the distillers making alcohol without the drink? Blows the wind that way?— From the New York Independent. HIS HOME PAPER What shall you send him when he's in training camp or over there? A letter? By all means, that fore most and oftenest. And after that, what? Some foolish little knick knack which is neither quite orna mental nor entirely serviceable? Or, when in doibt, will you take a lesson from what Richard Henry Dana wrote In "Two Years Before the Mast?" "After all, there is nothing in a strange land like a newspaper from home. Even a letter, In many re spects, Is nothing in comparison with it. Tt carries you bai-K . the spot better than anything else." There is more in this to-day than Dana ever put there.—From Collier's Weekly. HIS CRIME "I have just robbed a clothing store," confessed J. Fflller Gloom. "The salesman assured me, with in nocence In his glance and tears in his voice, that the suit upon which I had fixed my fancy was costing his boss five dollars more to-day than he was selling It for, and that in three months' time it would cost at least ten dollars more. I insisted on taking It, and thus helped the vil lainous salesman to rob the proprie tor of all the money he might have made by keeping the suit." —Kansas City Star. IN riMES OF AFFLICTION If, when evil cometh upon us, ns the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and In thy presence (f6r my name Is In this house), and cry unto thee In our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.—ll Chronicles xx, 9. OCTOBER 29, 1917T brave people who still remain there. Between La Panne a,nd Oost-Duin kerke is the Hooge-Blikker, 105 feet high, the highest point of the Bel gian dunes, and also the widest point. Just outside of Nieuport- Bains, in the village of Lombartzyde, there is a celebrated figure of the Madonna, held in high veneration by Flemish fishermen from time Im memorial, and to which the Flem ings are to-day addressing their ap peal that their land shall be liberated from the iron heel of the invader. Ostend is famous not only as a seaside resort, but for its great fish ing trade in normal times and oyster parks. Oysters in large num bers arc brought here and kept, in clarified sea water. The visitor may order his plate of shellfish right out of the water. Should the Allies get control of the coast of Belgium as far inland as Bruges, they would come into pos session of a splendid system of ca nals extending from France to Fur nes, and thence, byway of .Nieuport, to Ostend and Bruges. There is also a canal from Bruges to the coast near Blankenberghe, another to Ghent, and a third to the waterway connecting Heyst with Ghent. A railroad parallels the coast all the way from the French border to the Dutch frontier. West Flanders, where the big English smash is now on, is gener ally flat and low, and in parts marshy. Under a system of intenive agriculture, tiie province was one of the most productive in Belgium in the years before the war. and 40 per cent of the population was en gaged in manufacturing, the princi pal industry being linen weaving and lacemaking. LINCOLN AND THE WAR "Think of the incident that oc curred in 1864 in the administration of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. The political as pect of the whole country was that of a seething, boiling Niagara. Some gentlemen from the west were ex cited about the commissions or omissions of the Administration. President Lincoln heard them pa tiently, and then replied: "Gentle men, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you bad put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope; would you shake the cable or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter!" Blon din, stoop a little more!' 'Go a little faster!' 'Lean a little more to the south!' 'Blondin, lean a littie more to the north?' No; you would hold your breath, as well as your tongue, and keep your hand off until he was safe over. The Government is carrying an immense weight. Un told treasures are in our hands. Keep silence, and we'll get you safely across." OUR REGULAR JOB Let us then be up and doing, In our old familiar way, Putting off until to-morrow What we ought to do to-day. —Kansas City Star. CHEMIN-DES-DAMES I In silks and satins the ladles went Where the breezes sighed and the poplars bent. Taking the air of a Sunday morn Midst the red of popples and gold of corn— Flowery ladies In gold brocades, With negro pages and serving maids. In scarlet coach or in gilt sedan. With brooch and buckle and flounce and fan. Patch and powder and trailing scent, Under the trees the ladies went— Lovely ladies that gleamed and glowed, As they took the air on th 6 Ladies' y Road. Boom of thunder and lightning flash — The torn earth rocks to the barrage crash; The bullets whine and the bullets sing From the mad machine guns chat tering; Black smoke rolling across the mud. Trenches plastered with llesh and i blood— The blue ranks lock with the ranks of gray, Stob and stagger and sob and sway; The living cringe from the shrapnel bursts, The dying moan of their burning thirsts, Moan and die in the gulping slough— Where are the butterfly ladies now? —Patlander In Punch (London). LABOR NOTES Columbus, Ohio, bookbinders have increased wages $2 a week. There are in the United States more than 80.000 registered nurses. Seattle, Wash., printing pressmen have increased wages $3 a week. Brotherhood of Railway Carmen have ninety Canadian local unions. Sugar growing, next to mining, is the greatest industry in South Africa. Over 120,000 women in Kngland and Wales are working in agricul ture. Every fourth nurse in New York City has volunteered for Red Cross work. Nearly all the printing shops in London, Eng., employ women com positors. Employment of women on the Scot tish railways has doubled since the war began. Of the 680 shipyards in the world. Great Britain has the majority and Holland ranks second. A convention of the United States Brewers Association decided to raise wages of all employes. The wartime demand for dyestuffs has revivified the ancient indigo in dustry of Central America. Journeymen tailors will start an organization campaign throughout Canada's eastern provinces. Stockings were first worn in tho eleventh century. Before that cloth bandages were used on the feet. | OUR DAILY LAUGH] i NOW HE GOES \ / jgfe&f AFTER IT /ffe; ~ Times have JjP <)B changed. What now? ra ' I was Just im f thinking that I can remember WvN ~ the time yhen a <MJ —wrAL- I man bought life I Insurance mere- ™ \ ly to get rid of 1l | the agents. ~jj_ -Jj j fA GUEiS. Why golfing is so popular We can't ex actly see Unless folks take to It It suits thesa fU, JUNGLE JESTS. Snal<e —Old Kangaroo looks kind of seedy. Sort of down and out. Monk—Yes, on his last legs as It were. HtJ fcOT kBOv IM "TMW ./ FAMILY | Dodge seems •11 puffed up with conceit OSjT these days. \ What's the jj reason? I He has a boy fchgntng (Efral It is going to taXe more than th green signs of rales and regulations and the gray clad park policemen to prevent men and boys turning the city's parks and parkways into hunt ing grounds unhappy for the bitn and squirrels and more or less annoj. ing to visitors. Under the regulation* adopted by the city fathers som years ago at the instance of the Park Commission the use of firearms waft forbidden within the park system. Similarly that noiseless, but most effective weapon of boyhood, th slingshot, was also put out of busi ness along with the air rifle. Who wood park is still wild as far as the birds, squirrels, rabbits, quail, bull frogs, snakes and occasional 4 and deer are concerned. The Cam eron and Paxtang parkways are full of charm because about all that has been done has been to fence them in and build roads. Otherwise, they are as natural as the ravines out back of the State Hospital or the valley of Beaver creek. The unfor tunate thing about it appears to bo that this is a season when wild life is frisky and this year it seems to be very abundant. Hence the temp tation of Runners or boys who rout out a rabbit or spy a squirrel is to let drive. What the city needs is a couple of arrests for hunting in tho places set apart for pleasure of all lest in a few years they come to be regarded as a game preserve. • * * Some of the farmers in this sec tion of the state who have not been attending city markets and who showed no interest In tho proposed curb market say that the city folks themselves are to blame for not get things brought to market. Why, I 11 bet I know a dozen far mers that have regular callers in automobiles every week," was the rather surprising statement made by one farmer living in the Cumberland valley, while it is no secret that there are plenty of vegetables bought every time some people go out into the country for an automobile run. Some of those report some interest ing experiences -With farmers who Insist that they have sold all of their produce and that they can't listen to any proposition. When the proposi tions have been made at good prices sales have resulted. • • • The demand for grapes on the part of people of foreign birth in this section, which is accounted for by the lactivity of the foreigners in making their own wine in order to avoid the tax which the government lays upon the wines and liquors sold generally, but which people who make their own are not called upon to meet, is causing some farmers to get good prices for a crop which often yields very little. There are farmers and orchard owners in this section who have grape vines to which they give little attention and some of them raise the grapes for their own use. This fall they have been selling the grapes at a profit for the first time. Some of them sold grapes on the vine. The buyers in almost every instance were for eigners. Incidentally, it may be add ed that brewing companies have been looking closely after their "empties." • • • Men interested in the development of the Susquehanna Trail highway, which is planned to extend from this city to Elmira, have organized ono of the greatest collection of boosters to be found along any road route in the state. It includes many promi nent In affairs in the counties and towns traversed and working from Williamsport they have interested men in practically every town who talk up the historic and sentimental features of the highway, which is said to follow the old Indian trail, f and then urge citizens to work for its permanent improvement. The sam s plan Is being followed in the Sulli van trail, dedicated to the march of Sullivan's expedition against the In dians in reprisal for the Wyoming massacre, and the Perry highway, which will go to Erie. Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain, an offi cer of the Lincoln highway and who helped make it famous, says that these"highways not only bring better roads, but get people interested in local history. It is probable that when the war activities which liavo called the men prominent in tho . 'William Penn highway to directing other and more important work for the nation end that the great central highway project will be revived. It is interesting to note that practically everyone of the directors of the Penn highway is a leader in the Liberty Loan, War Council or other big j things of the day. Farmers are being urged to help out the general food situation bv raising fish in the idle waters on nianv fmms. Some months ago Nathan E. Buller, the State Fish Commissioner, issued a pamphlet on what an acre of water on a farm will raise, giving practical advice about preparing a pond or a brook and stocking it. William E. Meehan, for mer commissioner and now In charge of the Philadelphia city aquarium, is writing a series of arti cles on the same line. One of them appeared last week in the Pennsyl vania Farmer. It would seem from what these two experts are writing and saying as though the farmer was letting a good thing go by. People will buy frfcsh fish off a farmer's stall In a market as speedily as ever they did when "Meeley" Russ used to get up at 2 a. m. to sell fish t pillars of this community who did ihe marketing on Market Square. * • Harrisburg is getting to be very much in the parade class. Traveling men who have been here remark upon the patriotic interest of tho community and say that the fame of the State Capital in not having to send men under the draft has been noised throughout eastern states. The big patriotic parade last spring is held to have materially stimulated things hereabouts. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —General John J. Pershing's fam ily came from Westmoreland County, although he was born in Missouri. —Judge H. A. Davis, who is pre siding In the Philadelphia hearing:, used to be an active National Guardsman. —George H. Earle, Jr., who eajr% that there will be a sugar shortage* after the war. is one of the for** most authorities on sugar turlng on the seaboard. v —Judge W. Rush Gillan marched in Chafmbersburg's parade in of the loan subscription. —lsaac H. Clothier, who planted a tree at Swarthmore on Arbor Day, has been one of the trustees for al most forty year*. | DO YOU KNOW J —That Harrlsburg's Arbor celebration attracted much oorf< mf'nt throughout the state? HISTORIC H.AItRISBURG This city's first park was tha "commons" along the river bank and It was used for everything from horse racing to rifle matches in early days.
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