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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1917
Satisfaction, even after one has
dined well, is not so interesting and
eager a feeling as hunger. — Saraii
Obxe Jewett.
HELPING ITALY
ITALY has had a large nnd Impor
tant part in the war and her pres
ent reverses, unless the judgment
of many authorities is at fault, are
due largely to the neglect of the
allies. Italy lias been short of coal,
food and munitions, and has repeat
edy said so. But the allies have been
so intent upon making war along
the French front and in bolstering
up the flagging Russian forces, that
they have neglected their southern
comrades in arms most shamefully.
Now that disaster has overtaken
Cadorna they must, prepare to give
him quick and effective aid, not only
for Italy's sake, bus for their own,
for with Italy completely dominated
by Germany, there might be danger
of a southern Invasion of France.
However, slow though they have
been to help, now that the need has
been driven home, the allies are in
excellent position to come quickly
and effectively to the rescue In time,
at least, to prevent the utter defeat
of the courageous Italians, who have
been battling from the very begin
ning under tremendous difficulties.
WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
A3 the leaders in the Second Lib
erty Loan campaign in this sec
tion Donald McCormick and
William Jennings have generously
tendered in a public statement their
thanks and congratulations to all
who had a part In the successful can
vass In behalf of Uncle Sam. It
would now seem to be the graceful
thing for all the people of this com
munity to give these two indefatigible
managers a rising vote of thanks for
their Intelligent and earnest efforts
in raising the allotment apportioned
to this territory. They have won the
good will of all patriotic citizens for
disinterested and important public
service.
When the history of the war, so
far as this community is concerned,
shall have been written, one of the
most Important chapvers will have to
do with the raising of funds for the
prosecution of the wa\ As chairmen
of the district and county forces, Mr.
McCormick and Mi-, Jennings met
the expectations of all Interested in
this remarkable campaign for the
mobilization of the funds of the peo
ple, and they had the co-operation
of as able a body of committeemen
as ever campaigned in Harrisburg.
PATRIOTIC STUDENTS
of Harrisburg, Steel
ton and Duncannon contributed
thousands of dollars to the Lib
erty Loan campaign, Central, of this
city, coming forward with more than
SII,OOO, and Tech with more than
SB,OOO. The bulk of these bonds were
bought by the students with their
own money. No better evidence is
required that the boys and girls of
the nation are taking the war se
riously and are willing to deny them
selves little luxuries and pleasures of
school life to help beat the Germans.*
THE BUREAU OF MARKETS
ONE of the arguments raised
against the creation of the
State Bureau of Alarkets as a
branch of the Stato Department of
Agriculture during the recent legis
lature was that it had never been
possible to buck the eternal law of
supply and demand with a statute.
However, the Oeneral Assembly of
Pennsylvania saw fit to establish the
bureau, giving it almost plenary
powers and the Governor accepted
the recommendation of an experi
enced farmer and agricultural ux
pert as its first chief. The bureau
seems to have been successful in
getting peaches and other fruits dis
tributed. and is endeavoring to get
100,000 busheU or so of potatoes 30
lined up that it can distribute them.
It has been doing other things from
time to time which Indicate that it is
in running order.
Just now the charge is being made
newspapers and in the market
placcShat farmers are holding back
their produce. The old cry is heard
that the farmer, seeing that his time
is coming, sitting with his back
against the barn waiting for higher
TUESDAY EVENING,
prices. There have been some pretty
open charges made that farmers are
not following the suggestion of the
Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington and at Harrlsburg to get their
produce into the han|ds of their own
neighbors of the cities and towns.
If ever there was a time for the
new Bureau of Markets to prove its
■value ft is right now. Thanks to an
admirable system of reports the folks
at tho„ State Department of Agricul
ture know where the produce was
raised and can tell ho\v much re
mains unsold. The bureau can make
a few wholesome demonstrations of
its power without much trouble.
There ought not to be any dearth of
foodstuffs this winter in this rich
agricultural community and we
ought not to pay more than any
similarly situated city. If the State
Bureau can get the farmers to send
their products to the markets it can
benefit both producer and consumer
In the long run and make itself an
invaluable part of the State Govern
ment.
STOP THESE DYING STORIES !
THE Telegraph has heard repeat
edly a tale that has been In
circulation recently throughout
Central Pennsylvania, the essentials
of which are these: That a poor
woman made a sweater for her sol
dier son and gave it to a member of
the Harrisburg Red Cross chapter
to forward to him. When the lad
failed to receive the garment, so the
story goes, the mother visited the
chapter headquarters and found the
garment being worn Jay one of the
women there and identified It by a
ten dollar bill which she had sfewed
Into a pocket.
The story is a lie.
There is not one word of truth
In it. '
It is like many others of the kind
which have been started by pro-Ger
mans to discourage contributions to
the Red Cross.
The Red Cross would be very glad
to know who startefl this falsehood.
If you know, you will confer a great
favor upon the devoted women of
Harrisburg and all Central Pennsyl
vania who have given of their money
and hours of labor so generously to
the Red Cross movement by telling.
The man or woman who repeats
such a story without proof of its
truth is wittingly or unwittingly a
tool of the Kaiser and Is giving aid
to Germany. . y
THE VAI.I'K OF EXPERIENCE
STATEMENTS which we have
heard in court and in public
buildings lately to the effect
that judges who have behaved them
selves well and shown that ability
and highmindedness for which the
bench of the Keystone State is noted
should bo re-elected, especially in
Philadelphia, would seem to apply
to State Commissions on whose rolls
are men who have given of their
time and best thought to advance the
affairs of the Commonwealth. Com
missions such as those supervising
the activities of the State in the line
of fisheries, schools, game, water,
charities and the like have men
whose experience has helped im
mensely and who by reason of their
service have become valuable to the
public.
Governor Brumbaugh has recently
announced appointment of a number
of commissioners to make reports to
the next legislature on a variety of
subjects affecting almost everyone
in Pennsylvania and his selections, in
many cases, were notably fit. Men
were chosen for their knowledge of
certain matters and for their interest i
in the projects, in other words for'
their experience. Sportsmen and
others have become concerned over
reports that some experienced com
missioners are being assailed before
the Governor on political grounds.
Names of men who have spent their
own money as well as given of their
time without compensation have been
made targets of enemies who have
not advanced anything against their
public service. They just want them
out, not on State, but on purely local
or private grounds.
Experience, counts on a State com
mission or board or committee of a
Commonwealth's Government just
as it does at the directors' table of a
corporation, or a bank of a society.
TIIEIR PROUD HISTORY
THE farewell demonstration cf
the colored people of the city
yesterday in honor of the de
parture of the first body of their
fellows for the training'camps was
worthy of the occasion and remind
ful of the proud place the colored
man has had in the history of the
country since its earliest days.
It was a colored man's blood that
stained the streets of Boston and
helped to fertilize the seeds of na
tional liberty that, springing up,
brought into full fruitage the Amer
ican Revolution. Colored men fought
with Washington and in the War of
1812. Colored men performed some
of the most valorous deeds for the
freedom of their less fortunate fel
i lows in the Civil War, and notably
those of the famous Tenth Cavalry,
gave excellent account of themselves
in the Indian Wars which followed,
and colored men came to the rescue
of their white comrades on the
bloody slopes of San Juan Hill. Col
ored men took part In the Mexican
invasion last year and suffered be
fore the withering ambush fire of
hidden bandits. A colored man, It
was—one "Hercules" —who went to
the rescue of John Harris when he
was captured by Indians. A colored
man was with Peary when he pene
trated to the North Pole.
The colored people have no reason
| to feel other than proud of their
place in the history of the country
and they have no cause to doubt that
what their did in the
past the young men who went away
yesterday will repeat.
Dr. Charles Crampton, at the fare
well service Sunday night, spoke a
great truth, which both whites and
colored are too apt to forgot, when
. he caid that "he who digs the trench
I is quite as important to the success
I of the military operation as he who
holds It against the enemy." We
cannot all be generals, but we ran
all be faithful soldiers In the ranks
and If each of us lives up to the
great traditions of our best heri
tage we shall come through this war
In a manner which will make our
children proud to be called Amer
icans.
Ck
"^e-KKOifkrtUua
By the Ex-Committeeman
—The Town Meeting party ticket
will appear on the official ballot of
the election in Philadelphia next
Tuesday, in spite of the efforts re
sorted to by the Smith-Vare organi
zation to keep it off. This was as
sured yesterday by a decision of
Judge Davis, \yho heard the suit
brought by the Republican City
committee in an attempt to prove the
nomination petitions of the new
party fraudulent. Thus far the papers
of only two wards, the
and Fortieth, have been dismissed.
Judge Davis' decision was in accord
ance with his ruling of last week,
in which he stated plainly he would
protect the privilege of .gvery ,ciUzen
to exercise the right of franchise as
he saw,tit, permitting amendments
to petitions incorrectly drawn, but in
which no l'raud could be proved. The
ticket of the Town Meeting party
as It will appear in all except a few
wards Is as follows:
For City Treasurer
William It. Nicholson.
For Receiver of Taxes,
Thomas F. Armstrong.
For Register of Wills,
Walter George Smith.
I Owing to the great amount of evi
dence in the case. Judge Davis was
unable to give his final decision until
late in the evening. He made a state
ment at the close of the hearing in
the morning which was equivalent to
a decision indicating the stand he
would take. After he had closed the
case in his own court with the hear
ing of arguments of counsel, the
hearing of objections to couneilmanic
and divsionul petitions was continued
by Judge Wessels in Court of Com
mon Pleas No. 2 and Judge Carr in
Court of Common Pleas No. 4, re
spectively.
—Until Governor Brumbaugh
names a successor to the late Asher
V. Stauffer, who committed suicide
at Easton last Tuesday while his ac
counts as register were being investi
gated, the probe into Stauffer's af
fairs cannot begin. A conference was
held yesterday between attorneys,
representing the Auditor General and
the executors and bondsmen of
Stauffer. Special Deputy Auditor
General Harry McDevitt announced
that the state would send on an ex
pert accountant to go over Stauffer's
books from July, 1914, to last week.
It was in 1914 that Stauffer paid the
state SII,OOO when a shortage was
found in his collateral and direct in
surance tax account. Stauffer's es
tate, it was said to-day, amounts to
about $30,000. McDevitt said the
state would expect to be fully re
imbursed.
—The legal and official feud be
tween Controller Kay and County
Treasurer Wilson at West Chester,
Chester county, over the right of the
controller to have information as to
the balances the treasurer main
tains on deposit in banks, was con
tinued by court declining to issue an
injunction against Kay or to grant
the hearing to force out the infor
mation Kay desires. The action was
taken without prejudice to either
party, and a final hearing will be
held December 10. Counsel for
Treasurer Wilson reserved the right
to renew the petition for a prelimin
ary injunction.
—The Supreme Court yesterday
allowed the petition for the appeal
in the suit of the various state offi
cials against the Auditor General
and the State Treasurer to act -us a
supersedeas, and ordered the case at
the head of the list for argument on
January 1. The plaintiffs are the
officials reappointed by the Gover
nor after being rejected by the Sen
ate. They are D. Edward Long, Su
perintendent of Public Printing and
Binding; Nathan R. Buller, Com
missioner of Fisheries; Daniel F. La
fean, Commissioner of Banking, and
Charles E. Patton, Secretary of Agri
culture.
—The fight over the question of
whether or not the city of Johns
town is to issue $77/5,000 for sewage
and street improvements is warming
up and there is much speculation as
to what reception the voters will
give the Issue when It is placed be
fore them at the coming general
election. Those In favor of the bond
issue believe that It will "win in a
walk." The State Health Depart
ment has given Johnstown just one
more year to establish a sanitary
sewer system, and the paving pro
gram mapped out by the Highway
Department will cost, many thous
ands of dollars. There is only one
logical way in which this work in
be done, argue those back of the
bond issue, and they believe that the
plan of increasing the indebtedness
to complete this work will be fav
ored by the voters.
A MISFIT ELECTION LAW
The decision of the Dauphin Coun
ty Court in adhering to the letter of
4he nonpartisan judicial ballot law
and thus actually nullifying the pur
pose of its "sole nominee" clauses
as applied to several contests in the
recent primaries, serves to empha
size the incongruity of the law as a
part of our electoral system.
The text of the law is faulty in
tl\at it does not follow with exact
ness the original conception of the
primary election, as distinguished
from the preliminary process of
nomination. The theory of the in
novation is that the primary, or
earlier voting, should bo on a par In
formality and effectiveness with the
second or general election, but that
it is in substance a sifting process,
by which the number of candidates
voluntarily appearing or nominated
by the acts of the electors may be
reduced to a group capable of com
parative selection. And, consistently
with that idea, it is held that if any
one of the primary group of candi
dates shall be endorsed by a majority
of the electors, there is no necessity
for a second consideration of his
name.
But the primary, as it has been a
part of the American electoral sys
tem, has been an entirely different
function, and strictly a process of
nomination, rather than of election.
Its solo purpose has been the selec
tion of candidates, preliminary to a
campaign, during which these as
pirants for electoral favor should be
subject to closer and more critical
examination and consideration. It Is
conceivable, and in fact has many
times been subject to demonstration,
that a successful candidate for a
nomination may be found unfit in
the interim preceding the election
and that the earlier derision would
be reversed, a situation for which
the sole nominee clause of the pri
mary election plan affords no re
course.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
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South American Progress
[Cleveland Plain Dealer!
Four South American republics,
Bra2il Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay,
have delinitely taken their stand in
opposition to Germany. A fifth, Ar
gentina, Is restrained from similar
action only by the obstinate obpo
sit ion of a pacifist chief executive,
and Argentina has taken the pre
liminary step of expelling an un
welcome German minister.
Five nations, Chile, Paraguay,
Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia,
remain strictly neutral. In popula
tion. area and wealth the five neu
trals are far inferior to the five na
tions hostile to Germany.
No South American state has as
yet formally declared war. The
breaking of diplomatic relations and
the open assurance of sympathy with
Germany's enemies may be taken as
an unofficial declaration. Were Ger
niny less preoccupied with nearer
troubles she would certainly #esent
the action of the South American
states and thunderously declare war
as she did in the case of Portugal In
the spring of 1916. The Portuguese
attitude at that time was precisely
the same as the Brazilian. Peruvian
and Uruguayan attitude to-day. In
191fi Germafty still had sufficient
prids and sufficient leisure to fulmi
noie.
By officially excluding Germany
from their lists of friends the Scu'h
American nations ar all that
can be asked. Actual belligerency
would not be much more valuable
to this allies. Already Brazil is pa
trolling; the South Atlantic and thu.3
relieving the Allied navies. Uru
guay offers the Allied warships the
use of their ports. On the Pacific
side Peru is equally useful.
TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT
Of price-fixing generally it must
be said that it has not made good
in history. The plan has been tried
many times, but invariably ways
have been found to evade the regu
lations. As an experiment in gov
ernment it Is faulty because, among
other reasons, it -falls to allow for
human nature, which is basically
selfish and does not long adapt It
self to schemes for making it do
what Is undesirable.
In times like the present, however,
price-fixing may be feasible because
the public is with and not against
the policy. The element of patriot
ism enters into the situation. People
vant to do their share in winning
the war, and they not only submit
to regulations they would at other
times resent, but they actively try
to assist the regulations by doing
e\en more than is required.
As a temporary expedient in an
emergency price-fixing may accom
plish the purposes for which it is
being used, although its failure
would be assured if it were to be
continued after the emergency had
ended. At least it will receive the
earnest co-operation of practically all
the people of the country, and if they
cun't make it a winner nothing can.
—Detroit Free Press.
DRIED UP THE JORDAN
For the Lord your God dried up
the waters of Jordan from before
you, until ye were passed over, as
the Lord your God did to the Bed
Sea, which he dried up from before
us, until we were gone over: That
all the people of the earth might
know the hand of the Lord, that it Is
mighty: That ye might fear the
Lord your God forever.—Joshua iv,
23 and 24.
THE ANJOOU^IfeAD
O guns, fall silent till the dead men
hear
Above their heads the legions
pressing on:
(These fought their fight in time of
bitteV fear
And died not knowing how the day
had gone).
O flashing muzzles, pause, and let
them see
The coming dawn that streaks the
Bky afar; .
Then let your mighty chorus witness
be
To them, and Caesar, that we still
make war.
Tell them, O guns, that we have
heard their call,
That we have sworn, and will not
turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or
fall,
That we will keep the faith for
which they died.
Bid them be patient, and some day,
anon
They shall feel earth enwrapt In
silence deep.
Shall greet, in wonderment, the
quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to
their sleep.
—John McCrae In the Spectator.
[ GERMANY TO HEATHEN GODS ]|
v ' Jl
ANEW objective of the Pan-Ger
man propaganda is revealed by
a widely known German pub
licist. Writing in the Suddeutsehe
Konservative Korrespondenz of
Karlsruhe, of which he is publisher
and editor-in-chief, Adam Itoder
gives it as his opinion that the Pan-
Germans aim to wipe out Christian
ity in Germany and establish a pecu
liar, made-in-Germany religion. He
accuses the Pan-Germanists of bit
ter hatred of "Semitic Christianity,"
and quotes from their writings to
prove his contention. Then he ar
rives at this conclusion:
"The Pan-German view of the
world is consciously aimed at the
rooting out of the Christian religion
and the system of ethics derived
from it. A German religion is to
arise, linked to the belief in Wotan of
our ancestors, which, in turn, is to
be so "refined" by the results of the
modern theory of races and the
teachings of the Darwinian theory of
evolution that what remains will be
atheism, framed in high sounding
phrases. The German people, as the
noblest and most favored of all races,
as the highest manifestation of hu
"NEVER AGAIN"
Brilliant, successful and logical as
the great Hohenzollern experiment in
statecraft undoubtedly was, it failed,
oddly enough, even during Its bright
est years, to bring satisfaction to its
beneficiaries. There was a fatal de
fect concealed in all its perfections,
the defect probably of leaving all
that was illogical, incalculable and
human out of the precise organiza
tion.
With its over regulation, Ms rult
of thumb dally life, its Impersonal
justice and Its mechanieal Ideals, It
weighed as heavily upon its citizens
br it did upon unacclimated visitors
True, there was a cold beauty about
this scientific state that compelled
admiration, but it awoke no affec
tion. Bedraggled, tarnished, impov
erished, the war has worked havoc
wifli the bewildered admiration of
the German masses for the Franken
stein creation of their rulers; and
with the ebbing of their admiration
their allegiance ebbs.
To the old official or semiofficial
slogan. "Der Tae." the German peo
ple are to-day opposing a new unof
ficial slosrnn " v lmmer wieder!"—
Never again! There is a world of
meaning in this new slogan; but, in
the end, after the declaration of
peace, it will be the requiescat In
pace of the .old r^srimn —A. C"rtis
Both in the Saturday Evening Post.
SOUNDS HIGHER NOTE
President Viera, of Uruguay, in
bis message to his Congress asking
that relations with Germany be
broken off, sounds a higher note of
republicanism than has been heard
lately. Uruguay has not as yet re
ceived particular offense from Ger
many, hut the President deems it
a national duty to join with the de
fenders of democracy and small na
tions. This is a strong indorsement
of the attitude of the American peo
ple. Our fight is against despotism
and tyranny for the people and for
freedom, and on this basis the re
publics of the new world are uniting.
Peru has just joined In the phalanx
against Germany, thus making the
three Americas almost solidly ar
tayed in opposition to kaiserism. It
Is unthinkable that those not already
so aligned are not favorable to our
cause, which is the cause of all. Ger
many is left without friends in the
world, save its allies, who are as
badly off. We are witnessing the
rapid and complete disintegration of
their external commercial and polit
ical fabric, so carefully and method
ically built up and so desperately
sacrificed. The Kaiser's dream of
dominion is dissipated and his only
hope now seems to 4ie to save what
ho can from the wreck of his ambi
tions.—From the Omaha Bee.
STATE ABBREVIATIONS
A book about the United States
post office says that letter-writers
when addressing an envelope should
write out the name of the state in
full, on account of the similarity
ol' certain abbreviations —"Ind." and
"Md.," "Me." and "M 0.," "Penn."
and "Tenn.," for example. An ad
ditional reason is found in the repe
tition of the name of many towns
in different states —there being elev
en Bostons besides the one in Massa
chusetts, twenty-six Kingston be
sides the one in New York, twenty
five Sprlngflelds besides the one in
Illinois, etc.—From the Outlook.
manity, will have become its own
god.
"Christianity will be done away
with according to the ideas of Nietz
sche as the great awakening and en
ervating influence. The only great
person is he who has power and uses
it. Sin, redemption, repentance, the
greatest and most profound things
that human thought tries to fathom,
do not exist for this company of
heartless bullies, whose members,
with monocles in their left eyes and
rattling sabers in their right hands,
challenge the woHd In order to place
the Gferman heel upon its neck In
"ancient Roman fashion."
Some light may be thrown upon
this movement by the open confes
sion of atheism made by Count von
Bernstorff just before his deprfrture
from our shores. The Christian
Evangelist refers to his quoted
words as exhibiting a symptom of
modern Germany. As a contrast to
the not remote past it recalls that
the late ambassador's father "was a
deeply religious man, and one of the
evangelical leaders of the Germany
of the last generation—the Germany
that so many people love and rever
ence and believe in." —From the lit
erary Digest.
UNIVERSITY FUNCTIONS
What is the matter with our uni
versities is that all the students are
schoolboys, whereas it is of the very
essence of university education that
they should be men. The function
of a university is not to teach things
that can now be taught as well or
better by university extension lec
turers or by private tutors or mod
ern correspondence classes with
gramophones. We go to them to be
socialized; to acquire the hallmark
of communal training; to become
citizens of the world instead of In
mates of the enlarged rabbit hutches
we call homes; to learn manners and
become unchallengeable ladies and
gentlemen. The social pressure
which effects these changes should
be that of persons who have faced
the full responsibilities of adults as
working members of the general
community, not that of barbarous
rabble of hclf-emaclated schoolboys
and unemancipable pedants. —G.
Bernard Shaw.
REVERSED JUDGMENT
I can beat the fellers runnin', I can
climb the slickest tree,
'And our best baseball performer
hasn't got no cinch on me.
There's a dozen stunts and trick
> plays I could beat the blazes
at
If It wasn't I'm so hindered cause
my ma's a 'fraldy-cat.
She won't let me go in swimmin'
where Deephole Is clear and
cool,
'Cause a little boy got drowned there
playing hookey oncet from
school.
She won't let me make explosions,
though I've got the science
pat,
Oh, there's, lots o' fun I'm missing
cause she's such a 'fraidy-cat.
When that sllde-for-llfe was runnin'
In our nearest neighbor's
yard,
All the guys jest dared me try It, but
I fought temptation hard
'Til Len Haskins yelled out tauntin',
"I know what yer balking at,
You could do this jest as easy, but
your ma's a 'fraldy-cat."
I was promisin' to smash him "til he
couldn't hardly see,
When that slide-for-life got busted
and It did the work for me.
When Doc Sp>ith had sewed Ills side
up and had patched a broken
slat,
Len says real apologizln', "Wisht my
ma's a 'fraidy-cat."
When our oldest brother William,
that we used to call Jest
"Bill"
Joined the army and went marchin'
with the soldiers to Fort Sill,
I thought ma'd Jest take on awful,
like Jim's mother, Mia Sprat,
Wring 'er hands and look all tearie,
but she fooled us good on
that.
She's the bravest of the whole bunch;
said life wasn't worth while
If folks couldn't do their duty to
their country with a smile.
I went out behind the grapevines
and I Jest throwed up my hat
And hollered, "Rah for our ma! She
ain't no "fraldy-cat."
—By Emma Clark Karr.
OCTOBER 30, 1917.
LABOR NOTES
Frisco butcher shops now close?
Saturday, 7 p. m.
Russian railroad employes demand
tetter conditions.
There are 100.000 miles of railways
in the British Kmpire.
Coopers International has not lost
a strike in two years.
The women of Poland do the work
that is usually done by men in other
countries.
A plan for encouraging the emi
gration of native laborers from .In
dia to British Guiana, Trinidad, Ja
maica and Fiji, announced by the
British Government, is expected to
result in the permanent settlement
of many thousands of East Indians
in each of these four colonies.
Radical Russian labor leaders de
mand the prohibition of night labor
(from 9 o'clock in the evening until
6 o'clock in the morning) in every
branch of national industry, with the
exception of those occupations where
It is made obligatory by technical
considerations and in such cases only
with the approval of the labor or
ganizations involved.
For some years there lias been
joint machinery between the British
trade unions and the co-operative
movement to prevent labor disputes
in co-operative societies, and it is
proposed to improve and extend this
so as to deal with the questions of
wages and conditions of work of the
army of co-operative employes.
The Italian Minister of Agriculture
recently compelled the award of 12,-
713 prizes to women workers on
farms. In Italy, owing to the scarc
ity of agricultural machinery, the
lack of labor since the war has been
felt more than in any other country.
|"OUR DAILY LAUGH]
Ji he ti st
I C sdf £ watch* has done
yMli V" much for eur
ifift *111(11 % Where Is your
1m! M aln 1 y In
Afrlca - For
wffl mer 1 y we
couldn't sell a
/ r-*~ native a watch
~xS|||||||l because he wore
no pockets fo
ca-rry it In.
SION6. M
Why did you I I
pass up that Vl jJ
boarding house \yV
I recommend-
Because there r ( I
w :m a sign on J
the front door f I
that said, A
Boarders taken L
tlX+Uptf'" ' A NATURAL
j 0 o 4| QUERY.
Duck Now
}—<- wonder what
kind of a bird
- S3pi laid those funny
vIL yellow
EVEN WHEN
IT WAS HOPE- ft
LESS. W*T Ml A
I dreamed * f s /
last night I had r-' \/jA
a million dol- K
That was nice. ujijl \ \ V
No, It wasn't H /jfl
When 1 checked HH
up I found that HfelW ®
I was still S4B KB ~L\_
short, of having |r
enough to buy [|
•11 that you } U
wanted. 1 *
i&nttng (lip!
"Notwithstanding the fact that
the newspapers have been printing
yards and yards about the new post
"v? e ratpß niade necessary because of
the war there are a lot of people
here in Harrisburg who do not real
ize that letters sent to other places
after November will have to bear
three cents in stamps," said one of
the men at the post office. "I have
been calling it to the attention of
people, but they do not appear to
have waked up and there are going
to be lots of letters sent back or heM
up and some penalties paid. The
other day one of the live men in this
community came in and started to
buy a stock of stamps. When I sug
gested he lay in some three center's
he asked mo why and seemed sur
prised. Then along comes another
man who is supposed to be up with
the times and suggests that the gov
ernment sell two and one cent
stamps in books for greater con
venience. We've been doing that
for a year and although he buys lota
or books he was not next to it. The
wise Harrisburger is going to watch
the regulations."
I-iarge Quantities of chestnuts are
going to waste in mountain counties
of Pennsylvania, especially those in
the southern section of the state ac
cording to reports which are reach
ing the Capitol. This part of the
state, which is also the big apple
producing district, has been handi
capped by lack of people to pick the
apple crp and the chestnuts are
falling without care and are not get
ting to markets, although prices are
higher than for years. Sections of
the state forest reserves where ef
forts have been made to check the
inroads of the chestnut blight have
produced largely of chestnuts this
year and there have been very few
requests for permission to gather
them. In some tracts game has been
attracted to the chestnut groves and
hunters have found Immense quanti
ties of nuts on the ground. Ordina
rily this section of the state supplies
the general market with large
amounts of chestnuts, but the ship
ments have been small this year. In
other counties many nut trees have
not been visited and the game will
be well provided with food for
winter.
Arrangements are being made by
the State Public Service Commission
to group all cases involving allega
tions of violation of the full crew
law for hearing on November 21 and
the next day if necessary. There are
now in hand two specific complaints
and a number of allegations of viola
tions covering four distinct features
of train operation against the Penn
sylvania and Reading systems. This
plan was followed over a year ago
and decisions handed down in all ,
presented.
The average man has little idea of
what it costs a man who has to
make addresses to keep engage
ments or the tremendous nervous
strain that a public speaker has to
undergo to keep fit and fresh and
have his ideas ready to roll out. A
couple of men were chatting about
the traveling necessary to keep en
gagements in a restricted area like
Pennsylvania and some one told of
the experience of Dr. J. George Becht,
secretary of the State Board of Edu
cation, last week. Dr. Becht landed
in Milford, ye county seat of Pike
County, early in the week as the top
liner in the Pike County institute.
He was due for four speeches which
were distributed over two days. On
the afternoon of the second day at
4:35 he started for Dushore, the me
tropolis of Sullivan County, when
Eaglesmere is not running. lie went
from Milford to Port Jervis, N. Y., *
thence to Susquehanna and thence
to Binghamton, moving on to Owe
go and then to Waverly, where he
took an early morning trolley to
Sayre and caught a local train to To
wanda where he boarded a train on
the Bowman's creek branch of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, turning -up
bright and early at Dushore at 8:05
a. m. without a wink of sleep. Insti
tute starts early In the country and
the doctor had just finished wiping
the cinders out of his eyes when he
was summoned to breakfast and then
rushed to face a battery of keen
country schoolteachers. And they
had him down for five speeohes
that day. As he had to be in Will-
I iamsport next day and there was no
train he took an automobile at Du
shore when the shades of night were
falling and drove over the mountain
to the Lycoming County seat, meet
ing, among other things, six inches
of snow in a howling storm. He got
some sleep when he got back to
liarrisburg.
The oaks in the "Row of the Gov
ernors" are going to grow straight
and righteous as becomes trees
named for such illustrious person
ages. The saplings planted with
such formal ceremonies last Friday
have all been roped and wired so
that they shall be inclined toward
Heaven, as well as an example to
other trees In the Capitol Park.
Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the au
thor and publisher, who was here
yesterday to see the Governor, was
much interested in the plan to have
a row of trees named for the Execu
tives of the State. Col. Shoemaker
is one of the authorities on Pennsyl.
vania trees.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
— A. H. Fosdlck, well known here,
has been made safety engineer of the
Bethlehem steel parent plant, suc
ceeding George T. Fonda, who is In
charge of safety at all of the Bethle
hem plants.
—E. B. Morris, the Philadelphia
banker, is giving a couple of after
noons a week to the work of the
Public Safety Committee.
—C. Gregg Llewellyn, Western
Pennsylvania Revenue Collector, who
comes from Fayette County, has
been made chief of all deputy rev
enue collectors and goes to the Paci
fic coast on his first duty.
—J. S. Herbert, in charge of safety
at the Cambria plants, Is having ar
rangements made for a public meet
ing to boom safety in Johnstown.
—General Tasker H. Bliss, chief
of staff, likes to take a trip up to hid
old home In Lewlsburg every now
and then.
DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Harrlshnrg machinery '
Is beinjc U8l In many plants
making munitions for the armies
"over there?"
mSTOIUC HARRIS BURG
The volunteers for the War of
1812 practiced shooting on the hi*.
Island opposite the city.
A LEAN BEQUEST
"I understand your late uncle re-,
membered you quite handsomely ltl
his wili."
"He paid me a handsome compli
ment."
"How was that?"
"In cutting me off without n
penny he stated that he knew I waui
too unselfish to want any of his
money." From the Birmingham
Age-Herald.