10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A S'EH'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEURAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Uiillding, Federal Square. E.J. ST ACKPOLiE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The j Associated Press is exclusively en- 1 titled to the use for republication of j ell 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 lation and Penn - -j r * sylvania Assoc!- d! i! flafi ill Flnley. ' Fifth SSSSIi'V Avenue Building, -Cjjjß va ABB K New York City; ifegßaßl? ift Western office, '"IB Story, Brooks & ( j a " ' Building, —- Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week: by mall, $5.00 " a year in advance. i Till RSB.YY, NOVEMBER 8. 1917 Tlicre arc no bad herbs or bad •men; there are only bad cultivators. •—Huao. FOH ALL SECTS THE Young Men's Christian Asso ciation has made it possible for men in prison camps of the war ring countries to observe religious services according to the desires of the different groups. As a part of the magnificent educational work being carried on through the "Prisoners of War" department, religious services are held regularly for the men. On one Sunday morning, in a lit tle building in a detention camp, a| priest came in and held services for ! the Homan Catholic prisoners. A little later a young man with strong! leanings toward the "cloth" who| had heard the call of his country j conducted services for the Protestant J boys. Following this was a service | lor members of the Greek Orthodox Church, concluding with a Jewish' Synagogue service. Prisoners in the camps respond! quickly to the appeal to their better! natures, and not the least important! of the Y. M. C. A. activities arc ihe| religious services which carry the! soldiers, for a few hours each week, back to the scenes of their child hood. This is only a part of the great work to be carried on by the fund now being raised in the United States] for War Work by the Y. M. C. A. and j the Y. W. C- A. and in which Dauphin I county is playing a leading part. Other purposes are to provide re creation centers where healthful amusement will be at hand for the! soldiers while tlicy are off duty. EVERYBODY HEI.PS THE ten million people who in-' vested in the Second Liberty Bond issue mean just that j many more people with a direct in-I terest in the war. To these add the] more than live million people who will have to pay an income tax, | though never having paid one before,' and the numerous other millions who will put the extra cent of postage on their letters, pay the tax on their railroad and theater tickets, and meet the other exactions which the new revenue bill establishes. The number of people who will gain a direct in terest in the war because it touches the sensitive pocket nerve may prove to be coextensive with the population of the country. STACK I P SEED CORN Jt'ST at present everyone seems to be giving advice to the farmer, who also appears to be now de finitely approaching that condition expressed by the line of the song about the farmer "coming into his own." Just at present the men who till the soil and roam the fields have the bulk of the spare change and while there is criticism of the fail ure of agricultural communities to invest in Liberty Bonds as us folks in the cities and towns have done, there Is also more or less sharpness in the way people are referring to farmers holding back produce, boost ing prices of potatoes and claim ing exemptions. The farmer is rapid ly getting into that class which re quires some defenders. The State Department of Agricul ture, which has hitherto been the staunch advocate of the farmer and quick to rush to the aid of agricu tural element when assailed, has made a couple of rather significant recommendations. As a matter of fact, they can scarcely be called recommendations: they are urgent messages, and the wonder is that it is necessary that they shauld have been mad e. Farmers have been asked with considerable emphasis to: * Send their potatoes and other pro duce to tlio local markets and not to hoard them, but to sell in their home districts und notify the State Bureau of Markots, which is a sort of general state clearing house for produce, how much Is left, so that it can put them into touch with big buyers. v Save double the amount of seed corn this year, because the farmers must not only provide corn for their own fields next year, but also have enough on hand to furnish seed corn lor the hundreds and hundreds of THURSDAY EVENING, farmers who's corn was killed early by frosts and who have had to buy for their cattle. Both of these recommendations strike us as decidedly pertinent. The first so Important that there should be no hesitancy in complying with it. As for the second, probably few farmers realize the e\tent of the damage done by September frosts. Providing double the usual amount of seed corn is a plain duty for the farmers. INEFFICIENT ANl> STUPID WHEN sch a prominent newspa per publication as the Fourth Estate linds it necessary to carry at the head of its editorial col umns a notice like the following, it is time for all publishers and the reading public to ask what is the matter with the postal department: Subscribers who do not receive their paper through the mails In the proper time are hereby ad vised that it is no fault of the publishers. You are requested, therefore, to write a personal letter to the Postmaster General at Washing ton each and every time there is delay—so that the head of the department may realize" what the. conditions are—ln the hope that they may he improved. By pursuing this course you will not only help yourself but will help the publishers. It is expected that the Post Office Department will welcome definite knowledge of present un satisfactory service. This advice applies quite as much to readers of the Telegraph as to subscribers to the Fourth Estate. Conditions in the mail service out of Harrisburg are well-nigh intolerable. Delays are so frequent that they are the rule rather than the exception. There is on the desk of the writer the envelope of a letter addressed to a subscriber in Sunbury in reply to a question as to why his newspaper did not arrive on time. This letter re quired something like four days to make the trip. The fault does not lie with the postal clerks, but with the crass stupidity and rank inefficiency of the department heads at Wash ington. What happened to the Sunbury letter, so far as the Telegraph has been able to find from an outside in vestigation—inside investigations be ing mostly conducted for the purpose of covering up delinquencies—was this: The letter went into a pouch 011 a full car: the clerks employed are so few that they could not reach this letter until after the Sunbury bag was closed. Then this letter was toss ed into a pouch that went to Wil liamsport. There the letter was put into a local train and started back toward Harrisburg. The same thing happened, evidently, again nnd the letter came back to Harrisburg. Bye and bye it apparently worked to. the top and eventually reached its desti nation. What inexcusable and expensive inefficiency is developed when the | department cuts its clerical force to | the minimum and then wastes money hauling letters back and forward and back and forward again along the main lines. What happens 011 the branches if this happens on a piece of railroad like that between here and Williamsport? And if this occurs to first class mail to what delays is second class mail put when crews are overworked and cars overcrowded? The mail service heads forget that newspapers are as perishable prod ucts as fruits. They are valuable to day and utterly worthless to-morrow. To be of profit to their publishers and of service to the reader they must be delivered immediately. Yet time after time they are tossed into the discard, and this during a period when the very government which is abusing them is pleading for whole hearted and unreserved newspaper support. Instead of planning to raise second class mail rates. Postmaster General Burleson, for the fault is traceable directly back to him and to his as sistants at Washington, should give attention to improvement of the serv-: ice. An occasional flash of intelli gence, instead of the customary stu pidity, and the replacing of efficiency for the inefficiency now so general throughout the department would be refreshing and beneficial. A few more years of the present kind of mail service and the once proud name of the United States Post Office Depart ment will be little more than a "fond memory. THE VALUE OF THE BOARD PROBABLY there are not very many people who would give more than passing notice to an announcement that the State Indus trial Board has framed a code of safety for brewery workers or the promulgation of a code of safety and sanitation for foundries, while the framing of rules for operation of cranes does not interest many, but when it is announced' that a code is to be enacted which will govern not only the installation, but the opera tion of elevators we all have to sit This code, which is being discuss ed to-day before the State Indus trial Board, will be issued about the end of the year and govern existing elevators and those to be put in. Certain definite, established rules will be laid down and given the finality of law. In this phase of work the State Industrial Hoard was designed to fur nish a tribunal which could deal with various problems of industry as they arose and systematize the regula tions. It war recognized that if every time it was proposed to improve con ditions about a blast furnace or a shipyard the subject had to go to the legislature it would mean talk, ex pense and maybe a snarl. So the Board was created and in the main the plan has worked well. There have been criticisms of regulations made In some lines of industry, but they have been accepted and it is fair to say that some have been rescinded. The value of the Board is that it can regulate a thing of such import ance to everyone as elevators and do it without getting a whole State Capitol heated up. f>ofcKc U "~p e-KKC I By the Ex-Committeeman I 1 Official count of the votes cast by Pennsylvania citizens at their homes or in camps and cantonments on Tuesday began to-day before judges of the courts of the several counties and from reports reaching here the ballots of the soldiers will have even greater influence upon results than anticipated pn election day. The strenuous nature of the Mayoralty and other lights in a number of the big counties and the closeness of the figures in the unofficial returns have made doubtful elections to some im portant offices. Some, of the counts will require over a week to complete and there are prospects of contests being launched. The fact that the commissioners to take the votes of the soldiers have until the latter part of next week to complete tiling of returns may cause some delays, but owing to the general interest it is believed that practically all of the commissioners will file their figures promptly. The returns are made out in duplicate and sealed, to be opened only by con stituted , officials. One copy goes to the court and the other to Secre tary of the Commonwealth. The lat ter copy is to be held for verification or to replace returns which may be lost. Over a score of flic seventy-live or eighty commissioners have filed their duplicate returns with the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who has placed the envelopes under lock and key. The commissioners will be paid ten cents a mile for each mile ac tually traveled. —Considerable irritation was man ifested about the State Capitol to-da> by reports that charges were to be made that commissioners appointed by Governor Brumbaugh to take the votes of soldiers had engaged in elec tioneering among the soldiers instead of confining themselves to merely re ceiving votes, supervising election or furnishing information as to ways to vote. The only place where such charges could be made would be at the Governor's office, and it is held that such serious allegations would have to be supported by affidavits. Some of the officials declared with emphasis that they would have to be shown that commissioners so far for got themselves as to engage in elec tioneering nnd said that giving of in formation may have been distorted. No one appears to know what pen alty would be provided for anyone that was caught electioneering. All of the commissioners named were partisans of the Governor or his Tlic Governor is away on his tour of the southern camps and is not ex pected to be here until next week. Attorney General Brown and Secre tarv of the Commonwealth \\ oocls are the only t;o high state officials here. The name of the Town Meeting partv has been pre-empted for use in the stale election next year. With in twentv-four hours after the Tues day election, the pre-emption papers for the use of the appellation in nominating candidates for Governor and other state offices to be filled hi 1918 werfi put on flic. rhe\ were Med bv Philadelphians who are un derstood to have been original pre eniptors of the name some weeks ago. The filing gives the absolute right to the name for state candi dates. including congrcss-at-large. The name has also pre-empted for •1 number of congressional, senatorial ami legislative districts in Philadel phia. Everyone at the State Capitol who has been following the election 100 ks for a series of court contests, FhiU adelphia pointing the way- lh ® greatest interest is being manifested everywhere in the outcome at Phil adelphia. as the defeat of tho vares would seriously damage their prcs tire up the state, already seriously sh'tl-on by the reduction of i Re publican majority from over 100,000 to less than 9 000. Senator Penrose s declaration is taken to mean c partment has been asked to vacate and he goes because his home mem ber did not line up for Cox, out instead voted for Speaker Baldwin. The only reason assigned is That the place is wanted. —The significance of the'fact that so many of the interior counties of the state voted "dry" is rather en hanced when it is to be noted that because of the line weather many farmers did not go out to vote at all, but remained at work. The farmer sentiment is "dry" and this mean* that the results would have been more emphatic. —State suffragists are jubilant over New York and inclined to lie happy over Ohio. The meeting at Philadelphia, next week will be marked by somo gathering of the clans. —The elections of Babcock as mayor of Pittsburgh and Connell as mayor of Soranton were close, but sufficiently strong to permit, of no question. —Lehigh and Carbon counties, strong Democratic centers, h.ivo elected Republicans. The fact I.e high went Republican a few years ago makes an interesting fight next year certain. —Carbon is the home of Tames I. Bljkslee, State Democratic boss and Assistant Postmaster General. It has been going Republican every now and then to show the genial Jim that ho had better sT,ay at home instead of gallivanting around in a government job. —Lebanon's councilmanlo contest will be settled by the soldier vote. —George A. Mock is the new as sociate judge of Fulton. —Lancaster's only Democratic ward Is Republican this trip. A. Mitchell Palmer seems to be the only Democratic boss to have any things to brag of. —Tamaqua voted a loan of $125,- 000 for new schools. —This interesting story aboat a man much in evidence on Capitol Hill these days comes from Read ing, which has just gone through a fight which seems destined to have some after results. The dispatch says: "A sequel to the American party's triumph over the Socialist candidates for city council yesterday developed to-day when, at tho in stance of Mayor Pilbert, leaders of HARRISBURG QTELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BY BRIGGS f 1 M ,r ° R ' _ r Tne Grand Rally " ' " V '-^ the Republican and Democratic fusion movement started arrange ments to continue it, although it had been expected that the American party would pass out of existence wlh yestmrday's election. The fusion is to be maintained for the purpose of "getting" .Tamos H. Maurer, the local Socialist leader, when he runs for re-election as Stale Legislator next year. Maurer who is president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, and received the second highest vote as a can didate for (he Socialist nomination for president last year, has been very bitter in his criticism of the govern ment's war policies. He is the only Socialist Legislator in the state, and the American party leaders havo de cided th->.t it is time to eliminate him. The embrvo plans call for nominat ing one Democrat and one Repub lican on both Republican and Dem ocratic tickets." —Mayor Smith says that the re-| suit vindicated his administration. | —Miss Mary Fay, a reporter, leads the Seranton school board. —Senator W, J. Burke is one ofi Pittsburgh's new councilmen. He succeeds Dr. 0., A. Dlllingor. —Charles E. Berger and H. O. Bechtcl have been elected judges of the Schuylkill County Courts by this! vote: Berger, 19,487: Bechlel, 17,997; John Robert Jones, 11,625; James J. Bell, fi.257. Jones carried Ashland. Schuylkill Haven. Orwics burg, St. Clair, Port Carbon and many* townships. The vote for' Sheriff was: Joseph Wvatt. Re publican, 18 758; P. J. Murphy liemocrat," 11,669. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"], A MISTAKEN READER To the lUUtor of the Telegraph: As arrangements are being made] for the next National Army draft, do >ou think the same unfair thing will' be done by drafting the same terri tory as before The boys from the surrounding districts, Steelton, Pax-1 tang and Elizabethville included, are requested and urged to enlist: of course, at the recruiting station in Harrisburg, and giving Harrisburg the credit. Then when the draft takes place, it hits the same territory, leaving Harrisburg boys doing practically nothing. Kor instance, ninety-two enlistments in Harrisburg on Novem ber Ist, but how many were from Harrisburg? Not six. There are many, many boys in Harrisburg who are more capable of being drafted rather than tearing homes to pieces by taking two and three from one home in Nos. 1, 2 and | 3 districts. The same remark has been made by a very prominent Har risburger, already In military service, and states it very wrong, as these three districts have done th
the Editor of the Telegraph: 1 see by yesterday morning's Jssue of the Patriot that Fritz Kreisler is booked for December Bth. Can It be possible that Harrisburg would or could patronize him? To be sure, he is a wonderful artist, but he is also an officer in the Austrian army, on sick leave, and the money he makes, a great part of it, is sent to Austria to help kill our boys. Could it be called patriotism for any town in our country to patronize him? And especially Harrisburg, which has ltd the country in giving of her splen did sons to the maw of German mili tarism. The town of Sewiclsley, near Pittsburgh, awoke to the fact that he was not an American citizen and an officer in the Austrian army, and would not allow him to appear. Let us not be less patriotic. Fritz Kreis ler last January or February, on his return to this country, was given a dinner in New York by some promi nent men and when speaking of his war experiences he boasted that aft er the Germans and Austrians had devastated a certain town "there was not a virgin left in the place." Can it be possible that we will pay to hear a man, however great his art and kultur, who would boast of such things? No! A thousand times no! A Patriot. Auto Makers' Offer Accepted AS a result of the conferences in Washington last week between War Industries Board and the makers of automobiles, parts and ac cessories, the motorcar makers were officially recognized by the govern ment officials, who requested that a committee lie appointed to assist at Washington in co-ordinating the war needs of the government with the vast production facilities of the in dustry whose leadership in standardi zation and scientific manufacturing is e\ idenced by the quantity production of the modern passenger car and truck. . General satisfaction has been ex pressed at the outcome, which is the final result of otYers by the makers, the first on March 8. when a definite offer was made to place their facili ties at the disposal of the govern '"\Vhen the plan becomes operative, it is expected that great. quantities of munitions will be made in many of the 455 automobile plants, in or der to do which, it will be necessary to -educe the output of passenger cars., although no specific reduction lias been ordered or planned. Tiuck production will increase because of the need to assist the railroads in short haul business. \t the Washington conference, Judge Lovett and his associates on I the War Industries Board. expressed in the automobile representatives, their appreciation of the wide ram ifications of the automobile industry with Its 455 makers of automobiles. ! with a production of cars and trucks I list vear exceeding 1,800.000 ve ! hides;' the 2H.70U dealers and the l> (; 000 garages and machine shops selling and caring for them; the 1.- OfC makers of parts and accessories, and the fact that there were 4.242,- 000 motor vehicles registered in the various states on July 1. lncident lv it was sho\ fi by President Cllf [ ton, of the National Automobile I Chamber of Commerce, and Howard TOWARD ANNIHILATION [New York World.] There is no reason for questioning the reports that the German, birth rate is now lower by over 40 per cent, than for the pre-war period. Nor 1,500,000 a year, and the rate of de-, eline is necessarily increasing. If th war were to end to-morrow, Germany would face an e jonotnic ] ruin which would take decades toj overcome, and with a population ab- j normally heavy 'for the ages past maturity and making for a general. deathrate abnormally high and :n- j creasing for many years. If the war is to go on these con ditions of improvement in new blood and a rising disproportion of old age and natural deathrate must expand at an accelerated pace. Ger many would then face not merely the , ruin now in sight but a situation por- j tending annihilation. These are certainties which no; amount of blinking can modify or avert. The Allied Powers have but to keep the sea and stand fast and forward on the French and Flanders front, without panic or costly haste, to force upon the German govern ment and German people the choice of agreeing to terms of a nonvlctor ious peace or of proceeding beyond ruin toward annihilation. UNLUCKY NUMBERS Our Only unlucky number Is 13. In Japan they have two unlucky numbers —42 and 4U. Nobody wants either of these numbers for a tele phone call, simply because the for mer is pronounced "shini," which means "to die" and the latter is pro nounced "shiku," which means "death." The luckiest telephone number in the estimation of the Japanese business man is eight, which suggests prosperity.—Popular Science Monthly. A COSTLY JOKE When Mrs. Ellen Butler, of Man chester, being about to embark at Douglas, Isle of Man. for Liverpool, was asked what nationality she was, she replied three times in a loud voice, "German." She afterwards said she did it for fun, but the mag istrates fined her a guinea ($5) and costs. —From London Observer. K. Collin, who spoke for the motor car makers and the motor and ac cessory manufacturers, that the greatest sales during the past yeai and li half have been in agricultural states where the need for material and individual transportation Is ever present. Government officials freely admit that next to steel and ships, the au tomobile industry is the most im portant in the war. It embraces N90.000 workers, including many of the best engineers and mechanics trained in gas engine design and construction. The gas engine is con sidered one of the greatest, if not the greatest, factor in the conduct of the present war,for use in trucks, tractors, ambulances, airplanes and boats. The government has felt that while many of the automobile plants have been producing munition*, more of them could be utilized and the plan is to operate in the direction of working every automobile factory at top speed. In the discussion of steel, at the conferences, it developed that of an annual production of 42,000,000 tons, the automobile industry uses approx imately five per cent of 2,000,000 tons. Charles M. Schwab, president ol" the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, has stated that the steel producing capacity will prove equal to the full demands of the war and believes there will be ample steel for all needs. l-resident Charles Clifton, of the< National Automobile Chamber of i Commerce, and President C. W. Stiger. of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers, were authorized to appoint a committee, the members of which will be announced in a few ! days. With all the varied interests working as a unit under the direction of the committee at Washington, which will co-operate with the War Industries Board, the new plans will effectually remove all uncertainty as to the future of the automobile in dustry. GERMAN TO GERMANS "The deluded German people Is fighting: not for its existence, and not for its proper place in the council of nations," says Dr. Herman Itose meier, former editor of the Berliji Morgenpost, now in Switzerland, in an open letter to his countrymen. "It is fighting for the phantom of the foremost position in the world, of which a whole host of unfortunately only too influential persons think tliay have caught a glimpse—dream ers, fortune hunters, speculators and adventurers. It is likewise fighting for the very practical object of the setting up of a relentless and unscrup ulous reign of brute force in its own country. The first object has well nigh vanished. In reality the period of visions of world-domination was already over when the battle of the Marne was fought, and the 'Go for them, boys' Crown Prince, who in his haste to attack had forgotten his am munition, was woefully thrashed, when in September, 1914, his grotes quely grandiose plan of brutality falling upon France and crushing her to death fell to pieces, like a house of I cards, and old Ilascier had to spend j the anniversary of Sedan not in the : Cafe de la Paix in Paris, but in a I little 'pub' in an out-of-the-way Ar ! gonne village. The war party, how jever, is as yet unhappily a long way i from abandoning the hopes and plans which it built upon the out- I break of the world war. "German people, when will you j awake from your sleep ' When will I your eyes be opened pnd when will | you cease to be patient as lambs? I * * * You are lighting for a | frown Prince of Prussia for whom I the war is a pleasant excitement; for j a Crown Prince of Bavaria who is | not ashamed to utter scarcely veiled l hints that defenseless prisoners I should be murdered; and for a whole | pack of princely families who are a useless burden upon the country's | purse. You are fighting for a general j staff and an admiralty whose cruel | and barbarous methods of warfare | in flagrant violation of international law, have made your once good name | abhorred by all the world of to-day jand will make it abhorred by that of to-morrow. You are fighting that I the rule of the Prussian iunker may be strengthened anew, and that the Prussian corporal's stick may thrash ■ out of the men of southern and west ern Germany what little freedom and individuality they have with difficulty succeeded In preserving. In brief, you are fighting for the perpetuation ot your own slavery."—Philadelphia Record. NOVEMBER 8, 1917. LABOR NOTES Packing plants in St. Joseph, Mo., are being organized following the successful strikes of butcher work men in Kansas City and Omaha. At the request of its federated shopmen to pay wages prevailing in its territory, the Wabash Railroad announces a 50-cent hourly rate for mechanics and 33 cents for helpers. The Swiss labor Journal Mettalur giste gives official statistics showing that 63,137 munitionworkers from nineteen factories in Germany went out on strike during the first three months of 1917. One million two hundred and fifty six thousand women are to-day doing work in Kngiand which was done lirmerly by men who have joined the army or been set free for other forms of war service. Philadelphia Boiler Makers Union is successfully enforcing its new wage scale, which calls for union recognition, a 50-cent minimum for journeymen and 37 , / & cents for help ers. St. Joseph, Mo., bookbinders have secured a one-year agreement, which calls for higher wages and improved working conditions. Coal Hoisting Kngineers Union, whose members are employed on the Boston and Maine Railroad, have se cured a two-year agreement which provides for a nine-hour day anH wage increases. Tho recently-organized union of fur workers at Washington, I>. C,, has succeeded in establishing the union shop, a 48-hour week, equal distribu tion of work and extra time for overtime and holidays. A bill lias been introduced in tlie United States Senate to put the lum ber industry on an eight-hour-day basis. OUR DAILY LAUGH A NEW KIND 1 I OF SALE. IN | I Hubby—Were ,M, j iJ. J] I I you at Marshall M-EOTI : 11 Eros., special L sale today? Wife Why, TWL no, I'm always £ missing those JBf special sales — what were they // ] V iTJxJ selling? f/ iNjtra Hubby Lib- 11 / 11 All erty Bonds. If / f j/Ji/Xj /V CLEVER. WW He can Hf only paint pic- Hk tures, but sells them also. HE SHOULD WORRY. | The price of k —t turbs him ( Just let him jf soar away; Jffern ff* He's in a nice steam heat- With contract |T| good till ' (J tA GOOD MAN TO TACKLE. He believes | everything he Oood. Per haps I can get 1 him to believe . that If he'll lend me 10.00, I'll return It next Saturday, tbentug (Eljat Not only did the record of circu lation of books at the Harrlsburg Public Library during the month just passed establish a new record for October, but it emphasized the fact that Harrlsburg people are reading more serious books than ever before. The crop in the percentage of Action that has been circulated has been going on for some time, but it i now between ten and fifteen per cent, as compared with six months ago. This is accounted for by the war ac tivities and the fact that people are reading useful books and seeking less amusement. The circulation of books from the Library during Oc tober went over the 10,000 mark for the lirst time in that month and was over UoO above the circulation for September. An interesting feature of work at the Library is the making of a special table of war uooks. Some of these have just been pub lished. A special table of new fall books has also been arranged. The Library has established its winter schedule and ia now open from !> Vintil si witli special Saturday lea tures for the children. ♦ V * The scarcity of pennies is work ing both ways. Merchants are ask ing people to pay out pennies unci small coins as rapidly as they can so that the circulation is kept up, but some of the buyers complain that some stores do not have tile pennies for the change and they have to buy more of an article to make the even sum. Another in teresting thing about the small change situation is that for the lirst time in years old two and three-cent, pieces are to be seen again. Some of the three-centers look as though they had been in the bottom vt tu sock. * • • Wendall Fackler, local manager for the Union News Company, woukl like to see the war end to-morrow. He has subscribed for two Liberty Bonds and has done his bit when ever called upon. One thing ho objects to, however, and that is the daily change in prices. Unless ho gets a new price list when he starts duty in the morning, he is sure to lie out of pocket before the day is over. The other day a new confec tion arrived. It was an attractive package. The yize indicated that i£ would sell for ten cents. Here is where Wendall made a mistake. Ho had not received a price list. After he had sold out the new confection, the price list e/ime. He was out of pocket just forty-eight cents. In stead of selling the packages at ten cents each he should have asked twelve. There was a war tax added. Now fhe local manager is thinking seriously of having a large card printed and inscribed, "prices to-day only". For the first time in probably 100 vears reports have reached the State Capitol of a raid made by elk in force. The reports have been sent to the State Game Commission from Blair county to the elfect that a herd of probably thirty elk had come clown into the lields and were tearing up corn and damaging trees State protectors have been detailed to make an immediate investigation into the raids and if necessary will shoot the elk if they cannot drive them off. The elk are some ot those which were placed in tho woods ol the state some half dozen years ago and which are protected until 1921. Tliey have been migrating about the state and as they are protected they have grown reckless and have raided lields. The number reported from Blair county Is the largest known in one herd since the elk were dis tributed. m, Traveling men who have been m some up-state counties are talking of some of the alleged "soft drinks being sold, especially in counties which have been made Judicially "dry". There is seemingly no uni formity about the drinks. There are drinks which are refreshing and which ahe really, "soft." but other drinks which look like them and taste like them have a "kick which is something terrillc. One man told of drinking cider which made him sleep from near 1-ock Haven to York when he planned to leave 'lie train at Harrisburg and another man came down from Punxsutawney and had to be almost shaken out of his car at Bellwnod. From all accounts some of the can didates in Pennsylvania cities were fully awake to the advantages of southern advertising. The news papers at Augusta and other cities which sell largely in the cantonments contained large spaces devoted to merits of candidates and demerits ot onnonents. H was a pretty clever niece of work and it answered. ** * * English as "she is writ" certainly appeared at a polling place up town. The voters cast their ballots in a gar age. As the garage was working part of it was partitioned otf. So ii kind-hearted man put up a sign for convenience. This is the way it read: „ ... SIDE WAY IN * * James P. McCullough and A. Boyd Hamilton, of the Harrisburg Tele graph, to-day celebrated twenty-five vears In active newspaper work in this city, having D. A. Orr and men connected with the Harrisburg Pa triot in 1892 anil others who have been prominent in newspaper affairs here ns their guests at a dinner at the new Country Club of Hanis burg. 1 WELL. KNOWN PEOPLE John P. Emery, elected mayor of Franklin, is a former legislator. James B. Sheehan, Philadelphia re-'ister of wills who was a storm center in the present campaign, is „ ne of the best-known story tellers in the state. _ , . . —Congressman B. K. 1< ocht, who, was here yesterday on his way to Washington, prides himself that he is still an active newspaner editor and correspondent as well. E c. Hlgbee. who has been named as Palmer's assistant in oar 'nu for alien property, is aUniontown lawyer. ,\. c. Welclians, elected record er of Lancaser, is well known to many Harrisburgerrs. —Congressman U. O. Lyons, of Warren, was formerly In the Nation al Guard. j DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes parts * of typewriters used in the Army camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The Academy stood for a time In Walnut street near Third, the plot being loaned by the state. CONSTANT REMINDERS Lies of diplomats remind us German spies around us snoop. Striving to sneak up behind us And drop microbes in our soup. —Tennyson J. Daft,.