12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. "E. J. STACK POLE, Prist & Editorin-ChUf F. R. OYSTER, Business i!ati.i£cr. QUS M. STEINMETZ. 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 eS * c a gof 3 I l'l!^'" 8 ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burgr, Pa., as second class matter. , r. BJ' carriers, ten cents a | iTOr''?.--g t TO week; by mall. J5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1917 He maketh the storm a calm, so ■Vhat the waves thereof are stilt. — Ps. 107:29. ■ RECKLESS GUNNERS THE Park Department was wise in placing special officers in Wlldwood Park to protect city property and those who use it legiti mately from the reckless gunners who formerly slew the game that found refuge there and endangered their own lives and the lives of pe destrians and automobllists by the careless use of firearms. There is another class of gunners, nlso, who need attention. They are the "pot hunters" who invade pri vate property in the suburbs and about school houses. No real sports man would be guilty of such conduct and the penalties of the law are too mild for them. There is just about as much real sport in shooting a cat, as ■in firing pointblank at the half-tame "bunnies" wjjich frequent the home .pardens of suburban residents. There 'is all the excitement of firing at a chicken in running to earth the rab bit that has liis home in a drain pipe by the side of a house and by long observance of people has learn ed to be about as fearsome of hu mans as is the rooster in the adjacent poultry yard. Yet there are hunters to whom a rabbit is a rabbit and who will run any risk of damaging property or hilling pedestrians in order to get a shot at one of these. The true 'sportsman takes his pleasure in the open, where the game has at least an equal chance, and where he may discharge his gun without fear of stray shots finding human marks. Beware of the backyard gunner. '"Usually he knows nothing about unting and very little about a gun. 'He is a person to be shunned. FROM BAD TO WORSE T -IE Kaiser goes from bad to worse. His appointment of Count Von Hertling to be Imperial chancellor is a slap at those of the Jieichstag who have been demanding reforms of a democratic character. *This will he discouraging to those 'who have looked for some sincere effort on the part of the Emperor to meet the public desires for more liberal government, but it will be ag gravating also. There is an old say tng that those "whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." and it Is also true that the autocrat almost snvariably holds on to all his power (until an enraged populace, that in the arly stages of discontent would ■have accepted and been satisfied •with a little yielding, rises up and takes everything from the stubborn S-uler. A glance back over the narty Dilatory of the United States reveals that tendency very strongly. Per haps in the long run this may happen In Germany. We shall be able to ftrin and hear the Michaellses and the von Hertlings the more grace tfully with that hope In view. CHILDREN DID WELL THE boys and girls of this local ity, at least, did very well last night when they refrained from scattering corn and flour in their Hallowe'en revels, as has been the custom for years. On the West Shore *he school pupils took their corn to Bchool and gave it to their teachers to be ground into meal, and the pro ceeds used for charitable purposes or Hvar work. Many bushels of grain twere thus saved that otherwise (would have been wasted. Here is an (example of the way the young peo jple of the country may help win the •war when their efforts are properly Mirected. SWEDEN'S ANCIENT GRUDGE ,Q| WEDEN has a real grievance against Great Britain for the holding up at Washington of (diplomatic pouches and for denying )lhe use of cables in cipher. Great Britain has an adequate rejoinder in paying that the von Luxburg incident •warrants the most drastic of meas ures to prevent further abuse of the privileges of neutrality. It Is not likely that the incident * n itself will cause Sweden to enter •the war on the Teutonic side, but it may serve as a make-weight in such m move. If Sweden should join Ger- F ■ fenany it would be as much because THURSDAY EVENING, of her "hereditary enemy" as any thing else. Most nations have an "hereditary enemy," and Russia is Sweden's, dating from the days of Charles XII and Peter the Great. The Swedes were the early victors in those distant combats; and It was a shrewd counsellor of the Swedish King who advised Charles to be care ful not to punish Peter too severely, "lest he learn how to fight." Grow ing Russia at length vanquished the Swede and an age-long enmity re sulted. Sweden has always since feared Russia. But that menace has disappeared in fact, even though its mental shadow remains. Sweden has nothing to fear from Russia now: and if her ancient grudge sends her into the war it will be a reversion to type such as this war has been producing every where. I'RniE AND KFUICIENCY O\E of the subjects which the J conference of State Factory In- . spectors specializing in Indus- j trial accident investigation, held here j the other day, seemed to consider of much importance, was the workman who, from a sense of pride, fails to ask attention for an Injury which ap pears to be slight. It Is one of the finest examples of what we call the Pennsylvania workers' spirit to stick to the job and not let a little cut <• r a bruise, or something like that, in terfere with work. It may be all right In going "over the top" In war j or in the intensive training which is part of the task of the hour In the cantonment, and we applaud It on the football field, while those who remain at posts, although injured, to prevent harm to others or to save property are rightly lauded. But the inspectors have made the rather startling discovery that ef ficiency of a good many workers has been impaired by their failure to se cure attention for slight accidents, and that the advantage to their f<*l low workmen of the accident lias been lost. This may sound like a cold-blooded statement, but the cut or 'crush which a high-spirited worker will not have properly treat ed because of possibility of being called "a quitter," has been shown by figures to have resulted in infec tion, loss of productive capacity, which means wages, and even death, llence, reluctance to run the gamut of ridicule or "kidding" can be proved to lower efficiency. Industrial history Is tilled with instances where a series of trifling accidents or injuries of the same kind occurring, one after the other, lias pointed the way to a defect speedily remedied by a safe guard. The operative who gets hurt, by reporting the injury when having It dressed, may be the means of sav ing loss to himself or herself, and also of preventing harm to the next door neighbor. In these days of high pressure in Industry we want to maintain the standard of product, but we want more than that to keep the worker i safe and sound. A rise in accident j rate is as significant to the safety j ( man as the jump in temperature is to j the doctor. The man who gets a tern- I perature of 101 and doesn't hunt a j doctor is apt to be called foolish. The man who suffers little accidents con- I tinually and does not get cared for | and call attention to the mishaps i needs another job. He reduces his I own efficiency and he endangers I others. THE CONSUMER AGAIN ACCORDING to the report ot the State Milk Commission, which 1 made an exhaustive investiga [ tion into the milk situations in Phll j adelphia last winter and in Pitts burgh last summer, the consumer can bring down the price of milk by following a few simple rules. , The consumer is urged to — Drink more milk Urge neighbors to do so, Learn the food properties of milk. Return the milk bottles promptly. These are four of the ways where by the Pittsburgh consumer can re duce the price of milk, according to the report of the commission in this particular case. Pittsburgh prices are higher than we are accustomed to here, but, as consumers, we have a kindly feeling toward the Smoky City wage-earner, and we can appreciate the effort made by the commission to help him out. But we fail to understand the reasoning that prompts the state ment that If the people will drink moro milk the farmers will raise more cows. The farmer can get more gold coin for "bossy" now than at any time In recent years. While we are very sorry that he can not make ends meet in milk production, we would like to know a place where the price of milk or any other agri cultural or allied product has come down when everybody started using more of It. And we may say, in illus tration, we all need and want more coal, and more of it after that, and yet the price has a Fourth of July rocket beaten to a faint glow. As for the dealer, he ought to get his bottles back promptly, but he ought also to see that we do not get some other dealer's bottles. And we also voice the fear that if we start to drink more milk to help out the farmer, the dealer will tack on another cent because of the increased work required In handling the prod uct of the speeded-up cow. Likewise, we are inclined to view I the statement that the saving to the dealer, the dealer will then turn over to the farmer as more or less academic. FIAT BOND VALUES. JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS' instructions to National Bank Examiners to disregard current market quotations for bonds in mak ing up-schedules of resources and "to exercise an intelligent and conser vative discretion as to the prices at which the banks shall continue to carry such securities" will have the effect to "peg" bond prices and to steady conditions in the financial world to an appreciable extent. But it will set up an artificial and | arbitrary standard of value for book- keeping purposes which may for a long time affect the fluidity ot bank ing assets, which has always been re garded as of prime importance. If the result should be that banks are to take bonds as collateral at the same price which Mr. Williams' "ln , telllgent* and conservative" subordi nates have put upon them for the purposes of the balance sheet, the plan may prove to be doubly bene ficial. And if it works well with bonds, why should it not be tried with stocks? Like every other kind of price-flx lng, there Is no limit to this sort of thing. By the Ex-Committerman II Between the general objections be ing voiced to the operation of the nonpartisan law as it now stands in regard to judicial elections and those in second and third class cities and the developments of the Philadelphia campaign it commences to look as though a formidable {novement of state-wide character would be start ed soon to secure clearer election laws from the next general assembly. There is also a strong movement un der way to take the police out of politics in cities and the state gov ernment civil service propaganda is being revived. In Philadelphia these movements have been given a great measure of popular attention because of the de velopments since the primary, but up the state and in western counties the general dissatisfaction with 'he primary and general election laws has given force to objections which did not command much hearing when the general assembly was in session. The hearing in the Supreme Court to-day on the Philadelphia ballot cases, in which the right of men al ready nominated or already defeated to go on the ballot through nomina tion papers is to be tested out, will be of importance in every county and the result will be awaited with'great interest. —Newspapers outside of Philadel phia are seemingly watching the de-| velopments In tlie Supreme Court! with the greatest interest, realizing tlie effect of the decision. Some of the papers call for prompt action and others regret that the crux of the light 011 the value of nomination papers had to come so close to elec tion day. —The Philadelphia Record gives this plain statement of the issue as raised in the Supreme Court: "The specific appeal was taken in the Forty-sixth ward case, but the prin cipal will apply to a number of other wards. It is not known, however, whether any effort will be made to hold up action in any ward beside the Forty-sixth and Twenty-second to await the court's decision. The tight in the Supreme Court will hinge on the interpretation put by Judge Wessel on the act of 1897 and its amendments, as to the right of citi zens, by nominating petitions, to place on the ballot names already on It as candidates of a regular party, nominated at the primary election. Judge Wessel based his action almost entirely on the opinion of Justice Stewart, while specially presiding as president judge of the Thirty-ninth judicial district, in Commonwealth vs. Martin, in 1898, and sustained the objection to the nomination papers of Francis E. Burch, I. Walter Thompson, Karstaedt and W. T. CoVburn, on the ground that their names were already on the ballot in the Washington party column." —While in Philadelphia the city administration is being assailed and defended with a vehemence not known since 1905, there are strenu ous municipal and judicial battles being fought in a dozen other coun ties. Pittsburgh and Scranton have mayoralty battles that would ne headline affairs if Philadelphia's fight was not of such state-wide signifi cance. In Luzerne there is a judicial battle on which is paralleled in Dela ware, while in a dozen small coun ties the "wet" and "dry" issue is giv ing an unwonted importance to the election of associate judges. —Democratic newspapers in North ampton do not take kindly to the elec tion of C. S. Messinger as Register of Wills of that county to succeed the late Asher V. Stauffer. An Easton dispatch to the Philadelphia Record says: "His appointment was received with smiles. It was recommended by his son, Dr. Victor S. Messinger, of Kaston, the Brumbaugh 'leader' in Northampton county. When Harry G. Seip, the Penrose leader, was ask ed if he had recommended anyone for the job, replied: 'Why should I recommend anyone? Brumbaugh isn't a Republican.' Messinger will serve until January 7, next. In 1907 he was the Republican candidate for county treasurer and four years later he was a candidate for his party's nomination for the same office. He received a trimming each time." —An estimated increase of $lO,- 000,000 in the annual charges for operating the Philadelphia city gov ernment and an increase in the tax rate are forecast in some of the speeches being made in Phlladeljfhia. The annual budget making seems to have gotten some of the taxpayers stirred up. —According to people who have been in Reading there is about the hottest campaign possible on in that city. The Socialists have organized very strongly and are making a drive to get control of council, while men active in the two old parties* have united to prevent it. The new party, which is working under the non partisan law, is known as the Ameri can. It is explained that the course was necessary because of the open Socialist movement. < —Magistrate George A. Persch was arrested and held under $5,000 bail yesterday on charges of embezzle ment, misbehavior in office and illeg ally releasing prisoners, in Philadel phia. The arrest of Persch, a Vare magistrate, was brought about by District Attorney Rotan as the first result of his probe into the city mag istrates. With Persch under arrest, Mr. Rotan announced that his next move would be against Magistrate Harry J. Imber. ANOINTING OF DAVID Jesse made seven of his song pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chos en these. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said. There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold lie keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, send and fetch him; for w e will not sit dtown till he come hither. And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of beauti ful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said. Arise, anoint: for this is he.—l Samuel xvi, 10 to 12. HAHJUSBTJRG TELEGKXPBS AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN"? .. .. ... BY BRIGGS WHEN THE LAUNDRV AND YOU HAVE A ANT> ALL THE. SOCKS iS RRni)fiHT UP Tn. VOU MENTAL PICTURE OK= THAT NEED DARNING DROUGHT UP TO rou All the THAT NEEL> SEVAJING ON IF You UNION "AMO NOT A SoCK * OH-H-H-H GIRL- ** SUIT- VMtTH ITS FULL iMITM A HOLE. A| N'T. ||NJ IT R NOTICE—3-CENT POSTAGE, "I am preparing for a hard No-J vember," remarked a post office of ficial recently. On inquiry it devel oped that long experience had taught him that a large percentage of the people of this country will fail to obey the law which, beginning No vember 2, requires three cents post age on first-class mail, and two cents on postal cards, except when the lat ter are printed only. The law does not apply to letters to be delivered in the city of mailing. Now this law has been published widely. Every newspaper has men tioned it a number of times. There would seem to be no excuse for ig norance or forgetfulness, but the of ficial in question is so well versed in human psychology that he is going ahead making preparations for the deficiences certain to occur. The failure to stamp letters properly is going to affect unfavorably the effi ciency of the postal service. It will take men from other duties to look after the letters which are under paid. It is going to make serious de lays in the delivery of such mail. If you understamp your letters the Government will send you a bill in the event of finding you; otherwise the addressee must pay it and this is something that will not please busi ness or personal correspondents. The plain duty of every person is to keep in mind that on November 2 an extra cent is required. You don't need a three-cent stamp, as many suppose, but any combination which makes three cents is sufficient. Gentle reader, without wishing to indulge in unlawful proceedings, it i Is safe to say that It is dollars lo doughnuts that many of you will,* <n spite of this warning, and many others, send out letters and postals at the old rate—and be sorry.—Phil adelphia Evening Bulletin. U-BOAT FAILURE [New York World] Tt is more likely that the resigna tion of Vice-Admiral Capelle, the German minister of marine, was due to tho failure of the submarine cam paign than to any mutiny among the men of the grand fleet. By his at tempt to fasten on the Socialists the responsibility for' the outbreak he precipitated a ouarrel that merely haftened the day of his retirement. After more than eight months of desperate efforts to starve Groat Britain it has been brought home to the German people that the U-boat warfare leads nowhere. It has not lessened the Entente Allies' strength; it has not relieved the crushing pressure against the Teuton lines in the west. The promises made last winter that the submarines would make certain victory for Germany have proved to be spurious. Tirpitz finds it expedient to explain that he did not make the statement that the U-boats would win by August X. That date is long past, and Lloyd George officially announces that the losses of British shipping during September were the lowest in any month since February 1. The facts as they are cannot fall to affect profoundly sentiment among the German masses. MEADOW FAIRIES When twilight falls and all is still O'er woodland, meadow, dale and hill. When moonlight silvers grass and brook, There is a rustling in each nook, There is a stirring in each flower, For 'tis the fairies' waking-up hour, A faintest chiming as of bells Drifts far and near in field and dells. Each fairy fay with shining face, In dress of dew-bright, cobweb lace, And little elves in silvery sheen. Then circling, dance out on the green; To music that is tinkling sweet. And then on tops o' thistles go A-riding where'er breezes blow. And so the elves and fairies play Out in tlie meadows till it's day. At the first pink sunrise hour. They hide again in fern and flower. —Grace May North in St. Nicholas. HEARSAY EVIDENCE A group of old ladies were talking and knitting on a veranda. The con versation got around to how much each weighed at birth. One old lady said: "Well, I weighed just three and a half pounds." The others gasped and one of them asked: "And did you live?" "They say I did," answered the other woman, "and done well."— From the Boston Transcript. THE OUTLOOK With a great harvest ahead — great in bushels and in dollars—and with prices of stocks at very low levels, it would seem as though ,-al ues must assert themselves when the pressure of our greatest financial operation thus far is lifted, especially as the placing of the Liberty Loan as a brilliant and im pressive Success.—The Bache Re- I view. f Barnard Under Fire J ENGLAND, through the three years of the war, has been cry ing for a Lincoln to lead it to victory. The acts and speeches of the railsplitter who rose to be Presi dent have been studied. A famous peer lately wrote a new life of Lin coln and everybody read it. Then Charles P. Taft decided to give a statute of Lincoln to the Eng lish. A site was picked out in Lon don near Westminster Abbey. His proposal was to erect a duplicate of llie Lincoln statute by George Barn ard (creator of the statuary in front of tlie Pennsylvania Capitol in this city) which was given to the citv qf Cincinnati by Mr. Taft. lie is also willing lo pay for a duplicate for Paris. For tlie critics who were startled by the first view of the sculptor's Lincoln a few months ago this was a bombshell. The editor of the Art World called it a libel in bronze and protested against giving foreigners a distorted impression of the mar tyred President. ltobert Lincoln, the millionaire son, also was perturbed. He did not know < 'haries P. Taft,. so he wrote to his brother, William H. Taft, pro testing that Hie rough and ready qualities are far beyond the*family conception, or the generally accepted embodiment of Lincoln made famil iar by the poetically studied figure by Saint Gaudens. Mr. Barnard, who is by many con sidered the foremost American sculp tor, is said to be enjoying the con troversy without joining in it. From his boyhood days in Muscatine, la., through his struggle with poverty in a basement room near a Chicago art school, and his final triumph in the salons of Paris, he has been filled to the brim with unconventionality. In some symbolic way his Lincoln is sup nosed to svmbolize democracy. The figure is standing, sixteen feet high, and is intended to show the President as a typical American of his day, a pioneer who mastered the forces of Nature. The huge feet, the coarse shoes and the slouehiness of pose are among the things the objectors point out. Their case is thus presented by a famous Oxford VILIFYING RED CROSS It is the part of every good citizen and every Red Cross worker to de nounce the vicious reports of Red Cross commercialism that are circu lated by Prussian spies to deceive ignorant or thoughtless persons. There are a dozen varieties of slan der, every story palpably false but all maliciously persistent, and all in tended to undermine confidence in the Red Cross. The reports now persistently put in circulation here have been abso lutely disproved elsewhere after care ful investigation. A Boston newspa per searched every corner of New i England for verification of tales re lating the sales of sweaters and socks which were made as gifts for sol diers, and found not a line of evi dence. Some one had "heard it from a friend;" the friend had heard it from anothter friend, but nowhere could the scandal be traced to its ori gin. A few soldiers, oversupplied. had sold their sweaters, but the Red Cross always had given freely and with surprisingly little duplication of its effort. It is a natural development of Prussian falseness and duplicity that the Red Cross, the greatest and al most the only remaining humanita rian institution in the world, should be attacked by Prussian agents in this hateful spirit. For the sake of our soldiers and in honor of the ef forts of the thousands of generous Red Cross workers let these dirty lit tle whisperings cease and their au thors be punished. Squelch the scandalmonger—and keep on knitting.—New York Sun. WAS APPREHENSIVE Bandy McTavish was a highly skilled workman in a new aircraft factory. Therefore, it happened one day that Sandy was asked if he would care to accompany the works avia tor on one of his trial (lights in a machine. Sandy, after some hesitation, agreed to do so. During the flight the aviator asked how he was enjoying it. "To tell the truth," answered the Scot, "t wad rather be on the groun'." "Tut, tut," replied the flying man. "I'm just thinking of looping the loop." ■ "For Heaven's sake don't dae that!" yelled the now McTavish. "I've some sill# in ray vest pocket."—Tit-Bits. archaeologist, who does not hesitate to look a gift statue over closely: "Barnard** statue certainly exaggerates Lincoln's awkward ness of bearing and angularity. and caricatures the size of his hands and feet and the troubled expression of his face. The pho tographs show that he was care ful in dress and by no means wanting in dignity. The face shows far more repose and force than are depicted in Barnard's travesty." The late Joseph H. Choate, who had seen Sir. Lincoln in the flesh, spent some of his last days in an effort to prevent, as he expressed it,j "the sending of a triplicate of the horrible status to Russia." Mr. Barnard is conceded to be an artist customarily with a dashing and brilliant manner. AVhat could have been his purpose in creating this bronze controversy? Upon the com pletion of the statue he gave his view, saying "that an imaginary Lin coln is an insult to the American people, a thwarting of democracy." He did not accept the guidance of photographs, because, he says, the takers retouched his face, "fearing its ugly lines might lose him the presidency." He studied instead the life mask and casts of his hands from life. "Out of the study of Lincoln's life mask," he said, "grew the entire pose of his figure. He must have stood as the republic should stand, strong, simple, carrying its weight unconsciously, without pride in rank or culture. He is clothed with cloth worn, the history of labor. The rec ords of labor in Lincoln's coltlies are the wings of victory. The 'Winged Victory' of Hamothrace was an alle gory of what Lincoln lived. His wings were acts, his fields of flight the hearts of men, their laughter, their life. Tradition is he stood bent at the knees. This is not true. Worn, batrgy trousers, forgotten, un thought of, honored their history." That sounds a bit like Whitman. Europe sees America as a land of Wliitmanesque magnitude, brute en ergy and crude virility. Is it pos sible that it would accept the Bar nard conception as its own?— Kansas City Times. GET SEED CORN NOW We wish we could impress firmly upon the mind of every farmer tlie necessity of securing next year's seed corn this fall. It has been prophe sied that seed next spring will be ten dollars per bushel. Whether it is that much or not, it is sure to be very scarce and many farmers will feel under the necessity of using poor seed. In spite of the overdrawn statements to the contrary, first class crops of corn—that is, well grown, fully-matured crops are scarce when compared with the world's needs. Although the number of bushels may total billions, but a small percentage will make first class seed. The late, wet spring and early frosts have seriously injured a great deal of corn so that it is Im mature, lience germination will be uncertain. In all probability enough corn suitable for seed may be secured if careful selection is made now. If those who must buy from others will bespeak it from farmers whose corn fully matured, and have them pick it out this fall, then take it home and carefully dry and car& for it, a serious situation next spring may be avoided. It is usually best to secure seed in your own locality if possible. Do it Now. —Pennsylvania Farmer. LOVE LIGHTS THE WAY Dream a little dream of love, some times, Don't fret and toil all day; Some dash in hand's a splendid thing, But love nlust light the way. Throughout the changing years let's leave Some trace of love and song, And count it well if we achieve Some Joy as we go along. Dream a little dream of love, my friend; Somewhere along your way;" Treading a lovelit path through life You cannot go astray. So when the fever and the fret Darken the clouds above Into the troubled moments let One little ray of love. Dream a little dream of love, and then When life is near the close In the cool shades of evening, love Will blossom as a rose. And round the dreamer's heart shall fall A radiance of cheer, For love will triumph over all, If we but dream it here. —Jay B. Iden. NOVEMBER 1, 1917. LABOR NOTES Over 50,000 women in the United States are making surgical dressings for the Allied armies. There are more than 6,000 female cooks and waitresses in the 200 or more army camps located in various parts of Kngland. The United States Steel Company has granted another 10 per cent, wage increase to its men. This is the fourth since the war. Kbbw Vale (Wales) by-product workers, who struck twice in the Inst month, have been granted 50 per cent, extra pay for the week-end work. The members of the American Fed eration of Musicians have increased their purchase of Liberty bonds in the United States. At a recent con vt lit ion the treasurer was authorized to purchase $25,000. Recently the amount was increased to $60,000 in the second series, which means the purchase of $83,000 worth. The Cotton Control Board recom mendations, approved by the (Kngland) Board of Trade, include a week's notice to all cotton-spinning firms ordering a stoppage of all but (10 per cent of their total spindleage. This to be in force for a period of three months. Overalled women and gills are no lcnger a novelty in the state of Washington, reports the State De partment of Labor. They are em ployed in the mills, furniturp fac tories, box factories and other indus tries. Two shingle mills report that women between tlie ages of 35 and 40 make the best workers. More than 30.000 workmen are killed and 300,000 are seriously in jured each year in United States in dustries alone. Then, too, each of the 30,000,000 workers in the country loses approximately nine days each year due to sickness. This is a wage loss of more than $500,000,000. and does not include the loss suffered by industry. The new education bill Introduced in the British Commons introduces important and far-reaehing reforms ir element^.y school life. Summar ized briefly, they are: Nursery schools for young children: attendance at school not compulsory before six years old (new five); age for leaving school raised to 14; "half time" to end with- the war; children's work before and after school severely re stricted; full time education up to or attendance at continuation schools (in the employer's time) compulsory up to 18; physical training in contin uation schools. OUR DAILY LAUGH THOSE WALK. v INO BKIRTS (f 'mS. Let's take in a ifirSg aflk |} burlesque show this afternoon, vfe- The best.seats are WW only a half a dol /■ 111 JJtA No ' let " ■tlok 'lt H i a |m\ around here in itfii Ik r]' the shopping dla tr'ct- It coata ON THE JOB. Eminent Artist . jS —Here is my latest picture, ' jc Jf The Soul Kiss! Film Censor— \/ if Very fine. But V you musn't allow visitors to look at It more than four Ij I seconds at a time. SUMMER GIRL OF TODAY. ,fTBt The summer girl This year it may She wears an awning for a 1 4 screen upon tVit' w her head, 1 r TIP* COME DOWN.' Mr ' flivver ' 1 suppose I'm ar rested for speed fer 1n g with j&attttg (flfralj Lawyers not only in Dauphin, but In Cumberland and other counties are awaiting with interest the in quiry which has been inaugurated at the Capitol as a result of agitation for replacement of the Lemoyne bridge, the \vooden structure span ning the Cumberland Valley railroad tracks where tlio Valley Hallways line to New Cumberland begins and which it carries. The bridgo is one of the most traveled in that part of Cumberland County, touching as it does on the state highway to Carllsla and forming a part of a main high way of the Commonwealth itself. When the state authorities started to look into the matter of repairs T or replacement as a result of tlio complaints there was about as In teresting a problem as could 1)8 found and no one seemed "to know much about the history of the bridgo or the obligations to maintain it. The Highway Department people scratched their heads and took it to the Public Service Commission and now it is understood to be in the At torney General's Department, law yers in this city and Carlisle are looking up the matter. It is possible that the state authorities if they are unablo to find a solution may adoj* the plan pursued at Butler. In that city there was more than doubts or uncertainties about who should pay for a new J#idge. There was a con troversy. So the Public Service and Highway ends of the Government adopted the Gordian policy of assess ing the cost and letting a contract for a bridge. It seems to have been effective. There are said to bo other bridge problems beside that at raoyne which came down from other days when people were not as'care ful about contracts to maintain as they are in this day and generation. C. Harry Kain, the well-known ar chitect, who has been doing war work for the government in recent months, has just finished passing upon the final plans for a 1,500-ton ice making and cold storage plant for the expeditionary force to France. "This plant," said he dur ing a brief visit home the other day. "is large enough to take care of one million men. Its capacity is 800 tons of ice and practically 1,000 tons of refrigeration per day. The beef storaga is 100 feet wide and over 900 feet long, with a capacity of 5,000 tons of beef. Six boilers of 72 Inches diameter will be installed, using 100 tons of coal a day. The buildings are divided into two groups, those of the plant proper and those of the officers' quarters. All are built of frame construction. The canton ment construction will be used for the officers' quarters, going one bet ter in several cases. Modern plumb ing fixtures will be installed through out, as well as steam heat furnished from a central plant. Both hospi tal and laundry are equipped with modern apparatus and machinery; everything, In fact, was planned to secure the most sanitary surround ings for the men. Practically all materials are to be shipped across from this country, and this is why the work of getting out the lists of materials is tedious. "Following are a few items that might interest you to know. To equip and run the plant will require 400 tons of salt; 75 tons of am monia; half a million square feet of roofing paper, and a like amount of asbestos. Over five million feet of lumber will be needed together with nearly a billion and a half of nails, ranging in sizes from 8-inch spikes down to six-penny. "It, took nearly 65 carloads of wood shavings for the insulation, not counting the granulated cork. Re garding' the mill work, I understand the government is drawing on forty planing mills." Benjamin W. Demming, chief clerk to the Adjutant General, sets about twenty-seven interesting ques tions a day, especially since the war began. The other day he was ad dressed by an officer of a club in Berks County, where clubs are part of life to a greater extent than even in York, who desired to know if the club could serve liquor to men in uniform. The letter specifically mentioned officers. Yesterday Mr. Demming was addressed by a woman in Pittsburgh who was indignant over the operation of the draft law in taking her "man." The manner of her interrogatory to Mr. Demming was as follows: "What's a marriage license worth, if it don't keep my man to take care of me?" Col. Frank G. Sweeney, officer in charge of state draft headquarters, receives many letters of like tenor. The other day he was addressed by a woman who appealed to him by the heavens, the skies and the constella tion for relief of her son, her one 'amb, from the draft. The day after she wrote the letter the Colonel was called on the telephone and given fits because the aforesaid son was not exempted. Folks are not sure whether the lamb would not just as soon be at camp learning real discipline and having instilled into him the qualities Uncle Sam puts into his soldiers if they are not dis covered in the course of training camp developments. • * * Commissioner of Fisheries Buller went on a tour of fish hatcheries the other day and found the superin tendent at Bellefonte had an auto mobile, a new one. "Humph, making so much money you can buy a car, eh? Guess I'll have to reduce your salary," he ob served. • "Well, that car's my wife's," re plied the superintendent. Next day he found another super intendent had bought a car. He sprung the same remark and the man replied that it belonged to his wife. Not long after he met another owner of a new car. When he asked who owned it the man said with per fect candor: "1 think the bank do " * * • Col. Charles T. Cresswell, formt. commander of the Third Infantry of the National Guard, was here yester day: The Colonel has been named as a member of the State Armory Board and is much mentioned in con nection with the Reserve Militia. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge R. H. Koch, who was here yesterday, takes a big interest in state normal schools. —Judge T. J. Baldridge, of Blair County, has been so husv with court that he has not had time to hunt. Speaker Richard J. Baldwin -A likes to break In bird dogs and often travels miles on his hunting trips. —Senator E. H. Vare rides to school with his children almost every morning. | DO YOU KNOW —Tlmt Hnrrislnirg ships tons J of printed matter to big cities J every day? HISTORIC HARRISBURG A General Zachary Taylor once a speech in the Sta}e Capitol but refused to wear a uniform he called on the state official*,
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