8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH .4 NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Foundtd 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBSU9GRAPH riUNTIXG CO., Telegraph llulldlnK, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE, Pres't 6- Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub >l—-r lishers' Assocla- I ®®SBSsls* tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn "Suii *4 j,n sylvanla Assocl ggSpilis H ated Dailies. Eastern office, #s!' SI 'jsfl Story, Brooks & Sa Finley. Fifth Eb? ti M Avenue Building, JfffcWllinr Iff New York City; ■gSSSESSgK Western office, ©£! t -19 Story, Brooks He Finley, People's t "**- 1 - yy Clas Building, Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Br carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1917 And, having thus chosen our course, let us renew our trust in Qod and go foricardAcitliout fear and icith manly hearts. — ABRAHAM LIN COLN. THE STATE'S SCHOOL FCND WHEN the School Code Com mission presented its monu mental compilation of the school laws of Pennsylvania a few years ago there were students of public affairs, and some legislators, too. who were inclined to be skep . tical about the plan of establishing a permanent school fund. There were some who thought that Penn sylvania was too late in providing such a fund and that having allowed tlie coal and oil and timber to be taken without levying a tithe for education it should provide a special tax to create an endowment. The Stale had the example of Texas, Minnesota and other commonwealths which made provision for schools out of natural resources, and the frnmers of the school code deter mined to provide against tho day when the great corporations and the little corporations which give this State its "princely revenues would no longer be paying because of exhaus- Hon of what nature has given so lavishly. The State's forest domain of a million acres, escheated estates and public property sold were designated as the chief sources for the per manent fund. Thanks to the man agement of the forests, they are an nually turning In a fine income to the permanent fund and when the kinks are straightened out of the escheat law the wealth of unclaimed estates will go to the cause of edu cation in the future. In half a decade the State of Pennsylvania, without knowing it, has amassed over $300,000 in a per manent school tund and if the ex ample of the State Fire Insurance Fund, which has grown to be a third of a million In two years, is anything to go by it will not be many years until the School Fund of the Keystone State will be something to brag of. if undertaken rather late. DRAFT ALIENS FOR THE HOE BY the time comes to plant po tatoes next spring the ranks of the farm laborers of Pennsylva nia may be so depleted by the de mands of military service and the pressure for labor in industries and transportation eo severe that we may be confronted with the alterna tive of drafting men to use the hoe. There have been many volunteers who have been benefited in health by farm labor and while farmers have out" the high school boy like Greeley used to denounce the college graduate in the newspa per office, the students will be a mighty help when the pinch comes. However, if an emergency arises and food instead of mill products becomes paramount, there are within this State thousands of men who are getting out or military service by pleading allegiance to a foreign power. Mills and factories and rail roads can afford to give up such men for work in the fields and while we may bo inffinging upon treaty parchments, yet the Allied countries are so bound up with us that they can afford to disregard lacerations of their sovereign dignity and even urge their nationals to bend their backs in the field. OCR BOYS IN FRANCE SOLDIERS who go from this country to fight democracy's battle in Franco will not find immense cantonments similar to tho great camps maintained in this coun try. On the contrary, our soldiers upon their arrival in France are di vided into groups of from 600 to 2,000 persons. Most of these groups are located in small villages. Hero the French mothers, many of whom have given sons, a husband or a brother in defense of their sunny homeland, literally adopt the Ameri can boys into their homes. While this plan of locating our boys in small units possesses obvious advantages, it also has its drawbacks. The center of interest in every camp, large or small, is the Young WEDNESDAY EVENING, Men's Christian Association hut—as suredly the "llvest men's club" in town! For the Y. M. C. A., in keep ing with its policy to place "zonea s>f safety" where most needed, is plan ning to provide a trained secretary and a suitable building for every camp which has 500 or more men. This costs money. The place these "zones of safety" occupy in the affections of American soldiers is indicated by letters which are being received here. The boys seldom fail to mention the Y. M. C. A. and its activities In their behalf. War, even when presented in its most favorable aspects, is far from beautiful. It has remained for this great Christian organization, world wide in its scope, to bear aloft the torch of humanity. Through this organization, war has been robbed of many of its terrors. Because of the Y. M. C. A., the home-tie will always be present to help our boys preserve the ideals of American manhood and clean living which they take with them to the "other side." ANYTHING FOR RELIEF people of the city, long suf -®- ferlng and impatient for relief, will back up Council solidly on any thing It may do to relieve the almost intolerable ash and garbage condi tions in Harrisburg. Anything that offers permanent relief at reasonable cost will bo acceptable. Commissioner Dunkle should,- have the thanks of the voters for his reso lution of yesterday, turning over the ash and garbage collections to Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, city health officer, and charging the expense to the bondsman of the contracting com pany, which has fallen down lament ably on Its job. It is a step In the right direction. Beyond question, the company is having troubles of its own, as all em ployers of labor are at this time, but it has been so long neglectful of the work It Is under contract to per form that the public will have small sympathy with it In Its present diffi culties. What the taxpayers want and must have, is prompt and efficient collection of refuse. Just now the householder who Is not burdened with an accumulation of ashes and garbage has paid to have it carted away by small boys, or others, who arc none too careful as to how they dispose of it, and this with the city paying thousands of dollars each year to the contracving company to do the work. Paying twice for a service Is irksome at anytime, but it is doubly objectionable at a time like this, when living costs are tre mendously high and there is need for every spare penny for aid in one or another of the many branches of war work. Eventually, it must be apparent to all, we must do what we now pro pose as a temporary expedient—col lect both ashes and garbage through the city's own agency, or bureau. The health bureau may do this work very well, for the emergency, but It would be against the welfare of the people to divide its energies in this manner. It is undermanned at best, and In case of epidemic has more work than it can woll perform. A separate bureau Is desirable, if not actually necessary, to a proper con duct of any system that the city must adopt. However, the people at this time are ready to support any move Council may make in the direction of relief during the winter months, and if those In authority work out a plan that will result in prompt and efficient collections during the win ter. when ashes especially accumu late very rapidly, the people will ac cept It without much question as to rr f.thods. REFORMATION ANNIVERSARY* ONLY the thorough student of history appreciates fully the significance of the Luther Ref ormation, the qundrlcentennlal of which will be observed In Chestnut Street hall to-night. The devastating thirty years' war, on of the bloodiest and bitterest ever fought, is a mere chapter in the long chronicle of the great move ment of which it was a part. But that conflict marked the assurance ot religious liberty in Central Europe and paved the way for the freedom of religion which now prevails and which every man, of any faith what soever, regards as his unquestion able right. The vigor with which both sides in the controversy held to their be liefs and contended for them is evi dence ot the sincerity of each. The re'lgtcus devotee of to-day can look back calmly and dispassionately upon the events of those early times and rejoice without bitterness over I the religious liberty which Is one of the keystones upon which the nation is founded, willing to grant to his neighbor the same rights and priv ileges he demands for himself. "Politic* Ck IVIVKQi^CCUCta By the Ex-Committee man. Commissioners to take the votes of Pennsylvania soldiers in the various camps will receive their election sup plies from Secretary of the Com monwealth Woods *the latter part of j the week. The supplies will Include 1 the ballots, lists of candidates, poll 1 books and other paraphernalia, in- I eluding considerable material which , was not required last year, but which has been provided this year because of the different conditions. As each of the commissioners who took the oath yesterday is personally respon sible for the supplies, the Secretary has arranged to hold them until the vote takers are ready to start. Mr. Woods said to-day that all questions seemed to have been dis posed of and that the commissioners would all be at their camps at least a day before election day. —Governor Brumbaugh, who Is speaking at Carlisle to-day, leaves late to-day for New York and will go thence to Philadelphia, remaining in that vicinity until after election day. The plans for the Governor are for him to leave Philadelphia the day following election to visit in the camps in the South. Members of the Governor's staff will accompany him. —Officials and attaches of the State Capitol departments began to start for their homes yesterday and to-day to take part In the election, although some of the Phiiadelphians left earlier in the week. The Capitol departments will practically close! Friday until after election in ac cordance with custom. —Philadelphia and Harrisburg are not the only .places on the Pennsyl vania political map where there are lively lights and where the state ad ministratibn is taking a hand. In Pittsburgh the lines are closely drawn and the battle between Bab cock and Magee is raging fiercely with friends of the Governor aiding Magee, although one or two men high up in the state administration have refused to help. In Scranton there is a battle royal on for mayor between Connell and Durkan which has developed into a straight party fight. Altoona is in the thick of the hottest light in years with city man agership as the burning issue. Erie, Johnstown and York have strenu ous councilmanic battles, too. —ln Pittsburgh Magee has been .assailing Babcock's business plans and his supporters have been attack ing Babcock with a virulence that Is attracting national attention. In a speech City Solicitor Charles A. O'Brien called attention to some ex travagant statements Magee has been making and gave the public correct information, says the Gazette-Times He also reminded the taxpayers of Pittsburgh that if Mr. Magee is elect ed mayor he will try to put through a big bond issue for his Lake Erie ship canal. —Senator Charles H. Kline has withdrawn as a candidate for Com mon Pleas Court judge, In Allegheny. This leaves the live sitting Judges with but three opponents, James B. Drew, W. A. Griffith and N, R. Daugherty, as Joliu N. Dunn, the other nominee, took himself out of the contest some time ago and Is working hard for the re-election of the present judges. Mr. Kline last night issued this statement: "After canvassing the political situation since the primaries, I have decided to discontinue my campaign for judge. I desire to thank my mny thousands of friends who have supported and assisted me up to the present time. I keenly appreciate their confidence in me, and in the future shall con tinue to serve them as I have in the past." There were fifteen candi dates in the primaries for the ten nominations for Common Pleas Court judge. The aspirants elimi nated in the primaries were James H. Harrison, Stephen H. Huselton, Charles P. Lang, Albert T. Morgan and* Edwin J. Smail. With- the ex ception of Mr. Morgan, these men have declared In favor of the elec tion of the live sitting judges. —The election fight in Philadel phia, which Is ot state-wiuc import ance. is being fought in th ) ( WCM T VOO \ -J- ELU - EFVA J-V/E ) \ ) t*S| | Y J " | GCNJE OUT-J il \ f I m ~ ( ( Ausweß IT / it / ' ,T LAST time mr-TTV- % ) r . VJjv &, I its You*. . 6§_ L\MY DLOWT r —\ \ USE OP ME (201N16 NO MR? FOP To The PHOME- He ISWT HOm£ I J ) That Sm ( T H - I Vi_AC.£?J waS LAWD I IT'6 ALWAV.S FOR ~HE \A'CK' T OUT ( 0L TH£ ~~S HANIK 6MITH ISAK£- I Y OU A(NJ YU>AY I'M OW T hi HAV/e | WO T ExPF.CTIvJG r A Me&SAGe ' / n ) ' O,Se | Y o UR ! t o ®O 1 lawy call To"- ALL / ? I ®s|f I Head'!? I EVERY-/ V v£S/ Y Senator Edwin H. Vare has profited by having his friend, Thomas B. Smith, in the mayor's office, is shown by a list of the contracts for city work which he has performed. In the last sixteen years 'the little fellow* has taken more than $20,- 000,000 out of the city treasury, and more than one-fifth of that cum in contracts was awarded to him dur ing the first nine months of this year." —While the Philadelphia Ledger and the Evening Bulletin are editorially pounding the Vare organ ization the Philadelphia Record, Democratic newspaper, is devoting its attention to observing conditions in the wards. It says that men and women are aroused and that if meet ings count the Town Meeting party is in good shape. The newspapers all give much space to the attacks made by A. Merritt Taylor and others on the Smith 'administration, while the Philadelphia Press simply flays the mayor and his director of public safety. —The Scranton Republican and Scranton Times are having a ham mer and tongs fight over the mayor, the Republican being behind Con nell, while the Times is making a drive for Durkan. —Deputy Auditor General Harry S. McDevitt, who returned from Easton to-day, said that people In that city want the Governor to be prompt about naming a registrar of wills. Mr. McDevitt. who went to Easton to examine the accounts of the late Asher V. Stauffer. register of wills, issued a statement in which he denied that politics was at the bottom of the investigation. Mr. Mc- Devitt asserts neither he nor his col leagues knew that Stauffer was a candidate for re-election and that the answer to Stauffer's guilt is his own act. It has been-learned that Stauffer's estate is valued at about $30,000. RIGHT-ABOUT FACE We do not know that the Presi dent of the United States finally has had the cat of the Interstate Com merce Commission and has urged the co-operation of that body in secur ing the highest possible degree of efficiency in the operation of the railroads, but there is a tone of ap preciation in the announcement of a rehearing on the rate increase plea of the Eastern railroads that implies a marked change from the attitude which has characterized the mem bers of the commission and their predecessors for several years past. There is frank acknowledgment that since the outbreak of the war carriers and shippers alike have co operated with "praiseworthy alac rity," and there is a renewal of promises previously made to deal justly with the railroads in the mat ter of rates and their adjustment to increasing costs of operation. But the main point deserving commenda tion is the declared purpose to expe dite consideration of the case and to make the? relief which it is within the power of the commission to grant, effective when it is needed.— Philadelphia Bulletin. THE RAINBOW DIVISION The boys are now In fighting trim. Their hearts are filled with cheer; The llrsh of health is on their cheeks. Their eyes are bright and clear; The# onlr 1 'wait the bugle call To send them b'er the line; Then loud and high will be their cry— The Rainbow on the Rhine! The Rainbow on the Rhine! Then loud and high will be their cry— The Rainbow on the Rhine! They leave behind their loving ones, Their sweethearts and their wives; They heard their country's clarion call And answered with their lives: Their task to aid that noble land Of blighted home and shrine Till time shall show a vanquished foe The Rainbow on the Rhine. The Rainbow on the Rhine! The Rainbow on the Rhine! Till time shall show a van quished foe The Rainbow on the Rhine. And how they long to see their flag Triumphant in the fray, , For memories of the Huns' misdeeds Are in their hearts to-day; When Belgian orphans greet them soon Their tearwet eyes shall shine And hearts that bleed shall say "Godspeed The Rainbow on the Rhine." The Rainbow on the Rhine, The Rainbow on the Rhine. And hearts that bleed shall say "Godspeed The Rainbow on the Rhine." —James W. McGeo in New York 1 Herald, THE PEOPLE'S FORUM WHAT THB Y. M. C. A. DID T> the Ed.lor of the Telegraph: I appreciate the assistance of the Army Y. M. C. A. Without it we would be lost. I know through experience. I took Jesus into my heart through the means of the Army Y. M. C. A. As I have beejn a gambler for a year or two and sold my shoes and shirts for money to gamble, and most of the time broke; and when the boys would see me coming they would cay, "Here comes the Gambler now." The first day when I picked a Bible up the boys laughed and hissed for they said, "Another fool he is and he will not keep it; he onlv wants a job in the Y. M. C. A. And I told them I shall keep it until I see my mother's darling face in Heaven, where we can sit and talk together face to face. My mother sang three songs before she passed the worldly things aside and went into Glory. One of the songs was "Where Is My Wandering Boy To night," and I, guess at that time he was in a game, but from that time on something seemed to say I must quit it and live to meet my mother. I used to go out of town and gamble AGAINST GERMANY Both the Mexican Senate and Chamber of Deputies manifest the purpose of committing the govern ment to a declaration of benevolent neutrality toward the United States and its Allies. Before a decision is reached they may even go further and urge a complete break in the relations of' Mexico with Germany. The pending legislative measure, of which the text in part has been transmitted by the World correspond ent in Mexico- City, is a terrillc in dictment of the German autocracy. It is an appeal to the heart and conscience of the new Mexico not to stand by in an attitude of indiffer ence in the face of the "gigantic tragedy that stirs all civilization." German guile and German gold have been called into play to keep alive old animosities in certain quar ters in Mexico against the United States. German propagandists are desperately active to-day in the hope of defeating the move to enlist Mex ico in sympathy on the side of the Entente Allies. They are stupidly forced to make it appear that the United States is the enemy of the Latin-American republics and plans to reduce them to the position of subject nations. It is not in that belief that the leading powers of South America have pronounced judgment upon Germany in tills war, and smaller republics of Central America have anticipated Mexico.— Xew York World. OUR ACCOUNT To whatever extent Germany may belittle the military power of tlijc United States, it musj soon recog nize our resourcesas a custodian.' We found many fine German ships in our harbors and we have put them In warpaint and will use them as naval auxiliaries. On taking account of stock, we also discover hundreds ot millions of German property here, of which we are to take possession. Every ship once German will carry troops and munitions to Europe and every dollar that can be raised on property or credits once German will be put in Liberty bonds. In this we exhibit almost Teutonic efficiency in adapting means to ends. We are not a military nation and it will take us quite a while to land 5,000,000 men in Europe, but even the most doubtful member of the general staff in Berlin will appre ciate the celerity with which we have put to the best possible military em ployment such German property as was within our reach. If the U-boats do not sink the ships they will be faithfully returned, somewhat the worse for wear, at the end of the war, and If the fight ends as we think it will, the other property, in vested in the safest of all securities, will be honestly carried on our books to the credit of a nation against which we already have a big debit balance. Thus .our military power, before as well as after the decision at arms, will have been materially reinforced by our short-sighted friend the enemy. —New York World. WOULD BE SAFER Having given the matter consider ation for something like three years, It's just possible that our enemies now regret that they didn't keep on preparing for another forty years.— Marion Star. OCTOBER 31, 1917. with the boys ju&t so that my mother did not find it out. Mother found it out in the end, but I am going to stick to our Lord Jesus and walk those Golden street in Heaven and from now on will be a soldier of .lesus Christ our Mighty Teacher, the One we can take wherever we go. He is with us all the time. I will close this, from a friend of Christ. J. E. H. Private in Co. G, 112 th U. S. Inf., Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Telegraph Quoted Abroad To the Editor of the Telegraph: I was reading the Havana Post and came across an editorial that was clipped from your paper. It certainly made me feel good to see something from your paper and I felt that I had to write and tell you about it. I am here in Havana, Cuba. Have been sent by the Bald win Locomotive Works to design and install oil burning equipment on a number of locomotives for the Cuba Cane Sugar Company. They have about 20 plantations all over the is land. I will try to send you the pa per that I spoke about. Sincerely yours, EDWARD C. SILK. DRAFT LAW UPHELD Pending a hearing before the Su preme Court, which has or will soon have the question pf the constitution ality of the Selective Draft Act be fore it, courts In different parts of the country continue to affirm it. A New York case, carried to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, now •results satisfactorily, Justice Henry Wade Rogers reading the opinion in which all his associates concur. It appears that, in this instance, the appellant of record is an Austrian subject, and so would be entitled to exemption. Nevertheless, he has sought to have a draft board en joined from certifying him for mili tary service on the ground that the law violates the Constitution. The opinion reviews precedents bearing on the matter—though they are few they are effective—and de clares that pertinent constitutional clauses confer in "plain and distinct terms" the authority which Congress has used. It in pointed out that if the petitioner is an alien, as he claims to lie. he could and should seek exemption in some other man ner than by attacking tlio founda tio" of the stntut**. The favorable decision, of course, was to have been expected. Up to this lime the courts have invariably sustained the law, without the slight est reservation. —Providence Jour nal. i BEFORE THE GATE They gave the whole long day to Idle laughter. To fitful song and jest, To moods of soberness as idle, after, And silences, as idle a.'s the rest. But when at last upon their way returning, Taciturn, late and loth. Through the broad meadow in the sunset burning, They reached the gate, one sweet spell hindereth both. Her heart was troubled with a subtle anguish, Such as but women know That wait, and lest love speak or speak not languish, And what they would, would rath er they would not so. Till he said—man-like nothing com prehending Of all the wondrous guile That women soon win themselves with, and bending Eyes of relentless asking on her the while. "Ah, if beyond this ga'te the path united Our steps as far as death, And I might open it!" —his voice af frighted At his own daring, faltered under his breath. Then she—whom both his faith and fear enchanted Far beyond words to tell. Feeding, her woman's wit and wanted The art he had that knew to blun der so well, — Shyly drew near a little step, and mocking "Shall we not be too late For tea'.'" she said. "I'm quite worn out with walking. Yes, thanks—your arm. And will you open the gate?" —William Dean Howells. LABOR NOTES Unskilled workers In some factor ies in Kngland are earning from SSO to S9O a week. The cost of ' living in Winnipeg, Canada, is from 20 to 30 per cent, higher than it was a year ago. A minister in the'Buchan district, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is earning 16 cents an hour as a peat caster in a moss. If the proposed fusion of the Brit ish Trades Union Congress and the British Co-Operattve Movement takes place, the greatest combination of workers in the world, involving 6,- 000,000 workers, will come into ex istence. The United States Government will conscript labor to handle ships in port if the dock strike on the At lantic coast assumes serious propor tions. Two hundred farm laborers in the Raphoe (Ireland) district went on strike when their demand for 2 5 shillings a week was not acceded to. Two million farmers will me morialize President Wilson, asking him to secure a more perfect opera tion of the selective draft act, which they claim is depriving them of nec essary labor. Officers and seamen of British merchant ships who, by reason of wounds or illness due to the war, are compelled to give up-their employ ment are to receive the silver war badge. At Vancouver a conference of la bor organizations affiliated with the British Columbia Federation of La bor voted that power to call a gen eral strike be placed in the hands of the executive of the B. C. Federa tion of Labor. foOiT dailylaughl DIDN'T FIG- jXSp ) 4" 'fa UKE ON COST. Cpy' Before we f \ \ were married Sx * /& V X you used to say r~Sj\ / *) i4B i should never • now the cost fl •)f living was —(f j J kyscraping act. vNjF is! ■ I I f , THE LAST I WORD. U|[y 1 Old Mrs. Gay I lost part of her camouflage while dancing Lost what. | Her wig! ITer wl s! of course. No' DOUBT. I see Mr. // TIA Smith is out of \ i f \// Jail,'how did he AVI Lo/ manage It? * Oh, ho put up 11 — 4 Must have /TJ T \ been Liberty ft |\ I ,3onds. " | fA RARE CASE. You remem ber Johnny Jones, the bad boy everybody said would sure ly come to a Yes; what of Nothing, ex cept that in his case for once everybody wag l&nttng fflljai Less treating is being done at thi bars of Harrisburg hotels and sa-< loons and, If one may write it with out breaking: confidences, in tha' clubs of this city now than ever. It is one result of the war prohibition. Ihe amount of foodstuffs used foil intoxicants, the economic loss re sulting from continued used of stim ulants and the effect upon producn tlon, business and life of the abnor mal indulgence which comes from Joysome gatherings, added to tha military and industrial policy against liquor have caused many people who used to "call 'em up" to buy for themselves. It Is becoming increas ingly noticeable in Harrisburg. IPhia city being a transportation, commer -0 1.. ® overnmen ta.l and more or lesa military center has been noted for conviviality for many years. Ijiko Washington, which becomes "dry'* to-night at midnight, Harrisburg has been a capital a long time and has its festive landmarks. There are many places where hilarity has reigned amid music and song and libations poured from tin mugs and champagne glasses and which are re called by people all over Pennsylva nia. Indeed, it Is often the Harris burger at a national convention some place where he runs Into peo ple from around the state hears about the Jovial time that marked the last visit to the capital of tha Commonwealth. It is nice to hail from a city of cheer, but when the recollection is of bibulous times like everything with which liquor is con nected it has a "kick." Hence, if what the white-aproned men behind the bars, very few of whom ever take a drink themselves, have observed In regard to treating it is the beginning of a realiza' ion of what every stu dent of Aro'Slcan life, even in indus trial Pennsylvania, well knows,* that it is only a question of time until alcohol will be medicinal or mechani cal in its use. It was not so many years ago that the man at the lunch counter who did not drink had to fight with the waiter because ho refused to partake of liquor when some one was burning money and wanted to buy drinks for the whola house and the man who declined to accept a Jovial hail to "hit one" wa-s counted "a quitter." Wholesale treating is now a rarity and the man "who drinks alone," anything but popular not so long ago, is more or less the rule even among wassailing groups. Similarly, it may be said, upon the authority of a couple of former bartenders, who have been watching the trend of things in their former business, that there is a marked change in-the treatment accorded people who go into saloons to sell tracts or even to talk temperance. These two former bar experts, one of whom won a great reputation in his day for "tossing" the fancy mix tures which still have the call in some places and whose skill with the gin fizz would be recalled with feel ing by many Harrisburgers if his name were mentioned, both agree that there is less treating. They say that the man who "buys his own" is no longer an object of sneers and epi thets. If there is such a thing a.-; a moral atmosphere about a place where drinks are sold, it has advanc ed of very recent years, according to these men. One man recalled how Salvation Army lassies used to be in sulted when they went into beer sa loons to sell "the War Cry" and how a man who formerly ran a gin mill in the central part of this city woke up after ho had hustled "a temper ance talker" into the street when ho endeavored to "disturb trade" in liis bar. Now the "army worker" can sell to her heart's content and dis tribution of prohibition tracts and cards beside steins is no longer a signal for the bouncer. The whole point of these observations is (hat rum Is on the sliding board in Har rlsburg and the fact that beverages low in alcoholic content are being pushed and that some of the alert wholesalers carry big stocks qf lin ger ale an.d the like and even grapo juice as well as more mineral wa ters than ever before shows it. J. Herman Knisely, Chief of the Bureau of Municipalities in the De partment of Labor and Industry, is home from St- Louis where ho at i tended the convention of the Amori 'can Civic Association. Mr. Knisely was the solo representative of his kind at the important gathering. No other state in the Union has recog nized the importance ot the munici pality as a factor in the Common wealth. Pennsylvania alone, of all the Union, stands out as the one state in which town planning has reached the dignity of a state institu tion. Not only that, but Pennsyl vania alone has a town planning en gineer who ia at the disposal of towns and cities who desire to plan intelligently for their future or to oytline public improvements. "The representatives of Texas at the convention were so well pleased with what we are doing in Pennsyl vania," said Mr. Knisely, "that they procured from mo copies of our laws, an outline of our working plans and started back home to be gin a rainpaign tor such a bureau in Texas." Mr. Knisfcly met at the convention many of the leaders of civic thought in America and said that it is the consensus of opinion registered there that one of the important duties of those in authority is to see to it that the spirit of municipal development is not allowed to be eclipsed entirely by war activities. By the time Weather Observer De main adds up the various brands of weather that have come upon Har risburg in October he will have a list that will be remarkable indeed. Thunderstorms in the last half dozen days of the month, some on the same day as snow squalls. Rains and sunshine of intensity within an hour. White frosts and high temperature on the same morning are only a few of the varieties. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —David Barry, who was chairman of the Liberty Loan committee in Cambria estimates that 15,000 in dividuals in that county took bonds. —Thomas F. Hodges. editor of tha Pennsylvania Elk, will deliver tha address at Meadville on Memorial Day. —Dr. A. R. Wentz, of Gettysbuog, In an address at Pittsburgh, said that there was danger of religion get ting more into the social uplift class —John V. Cullincy, formerly con nected with Iron and steol mills al Reading and Lebanon, has gone ta Cleveland to become connected witD —Noah Swayne, 2d. who will b representative of soft coal comes of a family long prominent In iron business up the state ( DO YOU KNOW Hint Harrlsburs silk is being used fop Army purposes? HISTORIC HARRISBXJRG Two of the early public librariel were in Market Square.