14 IARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded l&SI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Televaph Building, Federal Square. EB. J. STACKPOLE.Prrr'f &■ Editor-in-Chief '. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. HJS M. STEINMETZ, .A/atiofinj Editor. (ember 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. 11l rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. < Member American Newspaper Pub __JJ Ushers' Assocla -stt Bureau of Circu "jjkgi lation and Penn || ated Dailies. BSD R?' Eastern office, ES Si Story, lirooks & M| W Finl'ey, Fifth £ Avenue Building, —■ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 " a year in advance. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ft, 1917 Absorption in trifles, attention nly to the meaner aspects of life, is illinff more faith than is killed by ggressive unbelief. — GEORGE ADAM mith. rill-: KREISLER CANCELLATION rvKOMPT cancellation of the Fritz KreiS<ler concert when it became known that Kreisler is in officer in the Austrian army will ' >e approved by patriotic Harrisburg teople, who feel that they should j ■efrain from patronizing one whoj las taken ijp arms - against their j lilies, and may do so again. Art nay be above international dissen- ! ion, and il should be generally so egarded, but there is a difference letween art and artists. Kreisler is 'ro-Teuton. His sympathies na- j urally lie with his former comrades j n arms, lie is in America only be- ; a use there are dollars to be gar lered here. It is not his fault that j ic is not in the United States lie- j lind a German general, for that is J he direction in which he was headed Fhen he was in the Teutonic armies, j But in approving the cancellation ' lo harsh criticism should be offered ! he Keystone Concert Company for! jerking him. This organization has >rought many world-famous musi-1 sal artists to this city and when i t signed up Kreisler the 'country as not at war and the management | lid not know Kreisler was an Aus- ! rian officer. It has called off the! :oncert at a cost of hundreds of, loilars. It is to be commended for ! ■edifying promptly the error into! rhlch it had unwittingly stumbled. ! THE NEW ASYLUM HEAD rHE board of trustees of the State) Lunatic Asylum in Harrisburg: lias done well in choosing o nan of countrywide fame to succeed I )r. H. L. Orth as superintendent' f that institution. Dr. E. M. Green' omes with the highest recommenda ions of leaders of the medical pro ession. Dr. Green must be a man of more han ordinary ability if he is to till ropcrly the shoes of the men who iave been superintendents of the lo al hospital for the insane. Dr. Orth's ervice of of twenty-seven years has >een marked by wonderful improve aents and developments. The plant as been almost reconstructed and reatly enlarged under his adminis ration. The old white dome and the ntiquated administration building it heltered are gone and in their place tands a group of buildings of the lost modern construction. To be sure, the trustees have had heir part in these changes, but it as been the superintendent who has tood as the directing and inspiring orce. This big institution on the out kirts of the city is managed so uietly and efficiently that the peo le scarcely realize't is there. Never heless, the city is jealous of its good ame and it is pleased that the re- Iring executive, who leaves active luty as the ruling factor in more han 3,000 lives for a well-earned est, is to be followed by a man well ualifled to take up the work where le lays its down and to continue it n the same high plane. FOR THE SAKE OF THESE DURING the early (lays of the ti tanic world-struggle, conditions that were unspeakable existed 1 tho prison caii ps of Europe. In lany instances thousands of men rere herded like cattle into a space apable of accommodating decently a ew hundred at the best. The men rere poorly clothed and badly fed. "ew opportunities for the practice of lersonal cleanliness were afforded, md English-speaking: prisoners who rere fortunate enough to secure a ook published In a language they ould understand would separate the olume into parts and pass the sec lons or pages around the camp In rder that everyone might have an opportunity to "kill" a few of the lever-ending hours of hopeless walt- g. With the organization of the "Prls lers of War Work" department of ie Young Men's Christtan Assocla i>n, all this was changed. Prisoners ! every tongue will* owe a lasting ibt of gratitude to the unselfish la- FRIDAY EVENING, bors of this great Christian organ ization. In describing conditions ex isting in a German camp which con tained thousands of Englishmen, Dr. • T olin R. Mott tells what happened when a consignment of books was received late one afternoon: "Every book was taken within a few moments. Everything else was forgotten. Men gathered in little companies, a member of each knot reading aloud to those who did not secure books. "When it was quite dark, we quiet ly made our way to a low narrow loft under the eaves. Here, in a cor ner, one hundred and fifty men lis tened with rapt attention, while the reader, with his volume close by a mean flickering lamp with one wick, unfolded the mysteries of the printed page." , When the prisoners draw books, concluded Dr. Mott, the procession resembles a bread line in time of famine. When you give to the War Work Council fund, to be raised in this country next week, you will give to relieve such conditions as this. WATCH ALTOONA TT EEP your eyes on Altoona. They are about to try the ex periment there of applying the city manager plan to the adminis tration of municipal government un der the Clark act, and Harrisburg is mightily interested. No city in the State has been so beset by religious bigotry and class antagonism as has Altoona in the past ten years. The new Chamber of Commerce inherited, rather unjustly, we imagine, the antagonisms of the old merchants' associations which the shopmen accused of interfering with their railroad pass privileges, and the result has been a political jumble in local politics that brought all good thinking people of the town to the point of despair of ever pro curing efficiency in city offices. At least that is what one gathers of the situation from a distance. Last summer a few of the leaders of the discordant factions got their heads together, with the result that there was nominated a ticket for city council which anybody could support wholeheartedly, with perfect assurance of fair, play and honest government, and these four candi dates for council one and all pledged $2,000 a year each of their salaries for the employment of a high-class businessman to be city manager, they to hire him for two years and he to be subordinate only to their au thority. They were all elected by de cisive votes. The agreement is that they shall go about performing their usual duties and devoting, no more time to the city than would be re quired of directors on the board of a Ic.rge corporation which employed a manager to do the active work of operating the enterprise. Thus, while placing the city on a business basis, they yield nothing of the authority vested in them or the responsibility required of them by the Clark act. Harrisburg will watch with keen interest the development of this plan in Altoona. If It works well perhaps it may be possible to inaugurate a similar scheme of government here. Altoona is to be congratulated upon having the courage of her convictions and the hardihood to try the experi ment. DIG OUT THE SPIES AN Italian diplomat declares bluntly that treachery in the ranks of his army, treachery in duced by German money, was re sponsible for a large share in von Mackensen's drive upon the Isonzo. There Is no doubt that the German spy system penetrates everywhere. Well informed people at Washington believe that the executive depart ments and every branch of our serv ice are infested with German agents. If there is any substantial basis for this belief, it is the duty of the secret service to be getting busy in antici pation of furnishing employment for a few firing squads. AN UNENVIED DISTINCTION BRAZIL'S declaration of war against Germany was made by unanimous vote of the Senate and by a vote of 149 to 1 In the Chamber of Deputies. The one man who made up the minority was doubtless for a day or two the most talked of man in the Republic of Brazil; but his fame will hardly be alluring. Up in New England there was a man who was known to the end of his days as "the man who had the fight with the minister." When the whole story was told, it developed that the minister walloped him good and plenty—but his title remained. By the Ex-Committeeman T>oezuc 'pe.KKOtjfcccutZa While it will take a week to ana- i lyze the results of Tuesday's elec tion because of the soldier vote and the close contests in almost every place where a mayor was to be elect ed on a nonpartisan ticket and there were two candidates, the figures in hand indicate pretty plainly that most of the Democratic bosses were given jolts from which they will not recover. Except in Philadelphia where the Democratic organization is dominated by the Old Guard and where it joined forces with the re formers and Penrose Republicans in locking the Town Meeting ticket, the chiefs of the Democratic machine seem to have been trimmed. In Pittsburgh Acting State Chair man Joe Guffey espoused the cause of William A. Magee for mayor and Magee was defeated; in Scranton the Democratic organization made a game fight, but went down; in Har risburg the Democracy was not a factor; in Lehigh county the Re publicans captured county offices and in that other Democratic citadel of Berks they won scattering offices, making breaches in places where Democrats have held place for years. In Schuylkill. Delaware, Carbon and Lancaster counties, the homes of men who hold Federal jobs of prom inence, the Republicans got most of the things they went after and Demo crats were deposed from places long possessed. The Democratic county and city organizations seemed to be wandering around hunting a place to go in most parts of the state. —Things are growing strenuous in the Philadelphia contest and Sena tor Penrose's remarks here yesterday that the fight has only begun may have much meaning soon. The In quirer to-day says; "A gigantic jug glery of the ballots cast at the elec tion on Tuesday with a city-wide con spiracy to block the will of the in dependent voters in favor of the Vare-Smith combine has been un covered. When the evidence which is being gathered in every ward shall be submitted to the court and a recount shall be ordered Town Meeting party leaders predict the en tire Town Meeting party city ticket will be declared elected. Unquestion ed proof that thousands of ballots were not counted upon the score that they were improperly marked, it is declared, will be presented upon oath of reliable citizens." —The Philadelphia Ledger says pre-emution ofc the Town Meeting name for the state election is "taken by politicians to mean that a state wide battle between the Penrose- MeNichol-independent forces and the Vares will surely develop next year over the nomination and election of a governor to succeed Governor Brumbaugh. Necessarily it was be lieved the Penrose and independent leaders will pay no attention to any I harmony understanding, more or j less, reached in the past as to the' Republican nomination for gover- 1 nor, just as the "fifty-fifty" ticket agreed upon at the mayor's shore conferences was ignored in the pres ent municipal campaign. And, by the way, looking forward the year fol lowing, when the Philadelphia ma yoralty will come up for considera tion, it was likewise agreed that there also a factional fight would break cut. Vare leaders looked yesterday upon W. Freeland Kendrick, re ceiver of taxes, as a logical candi date of the Vares for the mayoralty, because of the fact that he ran ahead of the rest of the Vare-Smith ticket." —A typical case wherein the sol dier vote turns things upside down is furnished by Lebanon. A dispatch says: "George F. Krause, superin tendent of the Department of City Highways, won his fight for re-elec tion for a third term in Council, the soldier vote received from Camp Hancock and Camp Meade determin ing the result in his favor after he was seemingly defeated on the face of the local returns. The soldier vote elects Krause by a majority of thirty-two over C. J. Baiy and keeps intact the present makeup of Council, J. Herbert Manbeck, James E. Fish er and C. Dorsey Mish having been re-elected by good margins. It is not thought that the official compu tation of the soldier vote November 23 will change the result. The same soldier vote apparently wrests from John H. Hurst, Republican, the $!,- 400-a-year job of tax collector in North Lebanon township. The vote here gave Hurst a majority of two over E. E. Rohland, his Democratic opponent, but Rohland received three votes at Camp Meade, while Hurst failed to Improve his showing. Here, too, the official computation of the soldier vote will decide the out come." —The Philadelphia newspapers Rive much prominence to charges by Robert S. Bright, Philadelphia Dem ocratic lawyer, that commissioners to take soldier votes electioneered at camps. Similar charges have been made on a number of occasions. W. \V. Roper, of Philadelphia, has made out an affidavit charging the com missioners appointed by Governor Brumbaugh to take the Camp Han cock figures with illegal activity in* taking the vote. Mr. Roper said that of 2,000 votes cast in Camp Han cock the Town Meeting party had a majority of from 300 to 500. "The commissioners with the exception of General Coryell and General Good and possibly one other were extreme partisans of the Republican organ ization ticket and did everything pos sible to elect their candidates. Their actions were so partial that many officers and enlisted men commented on and protested against their con duct," said he. —Under conditions unprecedented in the history of Scrantoiv politics. Miss Mary K. Fay and Mrs. Walter L. Hill have been elected members of the Scranton school board, both by safe pluralities. In a field of six candidates. Miss Fay led all with a total of 9.317. and Mrs. Hill was third, with 9,2 25. George B. Carson, president of the board, is re-elected by a vote of 9,273. Virgil Crisman, John T. Davis and P. M. Messett were the losing candidates. The elec tion of Miss Fay and sirs. Hill is re garded as remarkable in the light of the handicaps they faced. Run ning as nonpartisan candidates on. a partisan ticket, the Democratic, their election required a general cutting of the Republican ticket. AMERICA HAS WAR GAS In all this remarkable develop ment of our chemical industries since the war it has been necessary to overcome numerous obstacles. In sidious diseases may develop from handling chemicals. Intensive study of occupational diseases in the chem ical trades has resulted in discover ing some sad instances, but numer ous life-saving devices have been worked out to the welfare of em. ploye and employer. The information gained has been of value in solving the problems, of fensive and defensive, in connection with the iniquitous gas warfare in augurated by the Germans. We must wait until the end of the war before makinr public, what has been done in this direction, but it will not be long before the results will speak, and in no small voice.—Charles Baskerville in the American Review of Reviews. * - s . HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH EDITORIAL COMMENT Republican Congressmen complain that if they praise tbe Government they are thought to l>e praising the Democrats and If they criticize it they are called pro-German.—Chi cago Daily News. Aside from the patriotic side of the case, where could a man secure a better business proposition than getting paid 4 per cent Interest an nually for utilizing his money to pro tect himself.—Marion Star. Germany has not won a solitary victory on land when met man for man and gun for gun since "this war began, and anybody not a mental de fective knows by this time she never will.—New York Telegraph. Nicholas Romanoff, in his pleas ant, steam-heated Tobolsk flat, looks out over that comparatively peace able town.and murmurs, "Poor Ker ensky!"—Chicago Daily News. GARFIELD A MISFIT The government's fuel administra tion has been badly bungled. In the summer when people normally put in coal for the next winter the govern ment advised them not to stock up because prices would be lower. Now winter finds them without coal and unable to get it. Early in September Doctor Gar field, fuel administrator, gave out a statement which was published in The Star, in which he N said: "Don't stock up on the fresent high priced coal more than you ac tually need • • the upward trend in prices that always comes with war and which has been in pro gress and still is in progress in this country in coal up until the present time will be stopped. I will be tre mendously disappointed if the meas ures we put into effect October 1 do not bring a positive reduction from present prices of coal in practically every American city." The immediate and direct effect of this was to cause people in Kansas City and elsewhere to put oft buying their coal in the expectation of get ting a better price. Dr. Garfield re enforced his statement by his an nouncement on September 30 that the government had taken complete control of the fuel situation "limiting the profits of retail coal and coke dealers throughout the country to a basis that is expected to bring about a reduction in prices to the consum er." "The consumer in every com munity," the statement continued, "should be able to get coal of any de scription at approximately the price he paid in 1915." People took the fuel administra tor's advice, with the consequence of being out of coal and unable to set any now that cold weather has come. The outcome has made it evident that Doctor Garfield was lacking in information and in judgment. lie undertook to advise the people of the I'nited States and now they are suf fering for following his advice. He has been an excellent college presi dent. But he has proved himself a misfit as a fuel administrator. This is not his fault. The fault was in selecting him for a position for which he was not qualified. For fuel administrator there was need of a man of wide business experience and great executive capacity. The presi dent of Williams College did not hap pen to have those qualifications. Under the circumstances there should be no hesitation in asking him to give way to a man adapted to the job.—Kansas City Times. SHOOT AND SHOUT Theodore Roosevelt has long been I Vnown as an apt phrasemaker— I "speak softly, but carry a big stick," "malefactors of great wealth," "race suicide," and many others come to mind as his contribution to the ver- j natular strength of what we may' perhaps be permitted to call the American language. At a recent meeting in New York he coined an other epigrammatic sentence which should be added to the list. A great audience gathered in Madison Square Garden at a public meeting under the auspices or the mayor's commit tee on national defense. The crowd shouted its approval of the patriotic speeches to which it listened. The speech of a captain in the Australian army who has been wounded twenty times in the war was received with especial enthusiasm. When Mr. Roosevelt's turn came he referred to this Australian soldier's speech as the best address of the evening, and said to the audience that they did well to applaud him, but added: "I want to see you shoot the way you 6hout." The country must realize this more fully than perhaps It does now if the United States and its Allies are to be victorious in the war. "Shoot the way you shout" is a =rood motto for these war times. —From the Outlook. Y. M. C. A. WAR WORK ILewistown Gazette! It is the nearest thing possible to the home and actually becomes such to the boy who has been called to defend his country and were it lack ing he would be largely without com fort and a place for recreation when not on duty. But for this institution many would be deprived of even a place to write a letter or opportunity to read a paper and the people at home whether they have a boy in the service or not may well pon-ler the result were not such a place pro vided for our soldiers. It not only looks after the boys In a material way but many are being converted through its efforts at the front, where the heart, if guided in the right chan nel is susceptible to better influence, whert if left to seek unquestionable recreation there would be shipwreck of both character and life. The sum allotted to county is ten thousand dollars. This is one of the sections of our land which has prospered largely through the present war prosperity. Already over three hundred of our young men are In the service and surely our people will not consider it too much to provide about thirty cents per capita of our population for their comfort and the possible salvation of their souls. We ought to provide double the sum asked of us and we will be disappointed if "'e do not speedily secure at least the amount that is asked. TRUE DOCTRINE PURITY Perverse dlsputings of men of cor rupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godli ness; from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For wo brought noth ing into this world, and it is cer tain we can carry nothing out.—l Timothy VI, 5-7. SOME SPRINTER It Is a happy husband whose earn intr rapaeitv can keep Dace with his wife's yearning' capacity.—From the Birmingham Age-Herald. VIGOROUS BUTTER The only butter obtainable! in Ber lin is canned, and it Is one of the few German institutions that is still very strong.—From the St. Louis Star. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND \I ALWAYS LIKET) HIS PAPA WANTS \ OR To CALL HIM OILL I VKINJF / ORJIF S/ >~'BUT THOSE \ " J ARE SUCH ROUGH ~ NAMES- I THIN* V ' PeRCIV/AL SEPTUS , AFTER HIS GREAT 1 * UNJCL E IS SUCH A I THINK CLIFFORD I NOBLE SOUNDI^J OR CLARFWCE _J <RF\\ RV/AME J THE PEOPLE'S MR. HAND'S COURSE 1 o the Ei/.tqr of the Telegraph: I regretted to see the name of Fred C. Hand mentioned yesterday in connection with the Fritz Kreisler concert and rejoiced that Mr. Hand had taken time by the forelock and had canceled the Kreisler engage ment. Mr. Hand has brought many world famous artists to this city and 1 know he is a man of patriotic prin ciples as well as of artistic tastes. The Keystone Concert Course it was which brought Madame Schumann- Heink to this city and introduced her to the people at the big patriotic meeting which she addressed. Mr. Hand's course in Harrisburg has al ways been one of good faith with the public. MUSIC LOVER. PRAYER FOR OI K NATION' To the Ui'itor of the Telegraph: On October 21 the New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company held its annual meeting. At its opening Di rector Harry Leigh raised the point of order that all large bodies hold ing meetings customarily open with prayer, adding: "I believe that the New Haven and Hartford road meet ings need to be opened with prayer." President Pearson replied, "We will follow the order of business." In spite of persistent urging on the part of Mr. Leigh that "this is a time when the company needs the assist ance of Almighty God," and his sug gestion that President Hadley, who had just come in, would offer grayer. President Pearson again said, "Pray er is not on the order of business," and then proceeded to read the state ment of the physical and financial needs of the road. There is significance ii\ this action. Our Supreme Court has asserted that this is a Christian nation. Has God in Christ Jesus anything to do with us as a people? Does he concern Himself with our business affairs as individuals, as business concerns, as a nation'.' If He does, then prayer ought to be on "the order of busi ness" all along the line; and will He not look upon this action 'of Presi dent Pearson as defiance of Him self? In this clay of world-wide war, | when only a very smaff fraction of the earth is not occupied by nations' that have declared war, and when no part of the earth is exempt from the! horrors of war, the nations are turn- 1 ing in prayer to the God of nations.! In those nations feeling most heavily; the horrors of actual warfare, wei learn that the tide of the populace has turned to His house as not be fore for many years. This represents the innate longing of the human heart in time of stress for the deliv erance which it realizes that only an Almighty Hand can bring. It Is a repetition of the turning of Israel to; God for deliverance when He was chastising them through their ene mies. On October 4 the House concur ring with the Senate of the United States passed a resolution asking Ihe President to issue a proclamation | for a day of prayer for victory for American arms. This resolution did not in any way recognize the sins of our nation nor call for humiliation, confession, and repentance toward God on the part of the people, r.s a necessary antecedent to acceptable approach to God. T_<ong ago the Psalmist wrote, "If I regard iniquity in my part, the I,ord will not hear me." Speaking to the Jewish nation, Isaiah said. "The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neith er His ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have sepa rated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear." Since God is the unchangeable God these are solemn words. For more than fifty years our na tion has been in wicked partnership with the iniquitous liquor traffic, con senting to it and protecting It in its onslaught upon the body politic. We have trampled upon God's holy day, our Congress using its hours for leg islation and then validating this leg islation by the fiction of a "Saturday legislative Pay." Our government has carried its mails on the Sabbnt'n, compelling its employes to serve dur inc Its sacred hours. And in this time of trials lie has compelled "our boys" to entrain oftentimes and start on their journeys to the training camps on that day, when another day would have done just as well. In many ways we live as if there were no God. We have now entered upon "a righteour war" while we ourselves have not yet sought to "get right | with God." Our President has given utterance to lofty sentiments,in great state papers that will live through | the years. In compliance with ha j Senate's request he issued the call for "concerted prayer to' Almighty God for His devine aid in the succes.i of our arms." The churches all over our land observed the day and earn est supplication went up to God. But, oh, why can we not learn, as a na tion, that the heavens above As must' be brass if we do not remove from J between us and our God the things which will hide His face from us and I hinder His hearing our prayer? In many cases the prayers offered con tained confession, but the nation through its rirfers must confess for the nation, and why did this call not embrace a call for humiliation and confession according to God's ap pointed way? Why did it not openly confess that God must bo approach ed through Christ to Whom He has given all power? Is religion after nil only a sentimental thing? and is the call to prayer only a concession to a religious superstition more or less widely prevalent? We do not for a moment make such a charge, but we do feel that a grave error has been made by failure to call for humilia tion and confession as well as prayer for success for our arms. It was not so with the Senate of] 18G3. The resolution offered by Sen ator Harlan, of lowa, in that time of stress, and unanimously adopted reads: "Resolved, That devoutly recog | nizing the supreme authority and just government of Almighty God in the affairs of men and nations, and ! sincerely tielieving that no people, } however great in numbers and re sources or however strong in the justice of their cause, can prosper without His favor, and at the same time deploring the national offenses which provoked His righteous judg ment. yet encouraged, in this day of trouble, by the assurance of His word to seek Him for succor accord ing to His appointed way. through i Jesus Christ, the Senate of the United | States do hereby request the Presi ; dent of the United States by his I proclamation to designate and set I apart a day for national prayer and I humiliation, requesting all the peo • pie of the land to suspend their secu ' lar pursuits and unite In keeping the day in solemn communion with the Lord of Hosts, supplicating Him to enlighten the counsels and direct the policies of the rulers of the nations and to support the soldiers, sailors, and marines and whole people in the I firm discharge of duty, until the ex isting rebellion shall be overthrown and the blessing of peace be restored to our bleeding fcountry." Have we, as a nation, not entered too boastfully upon this war? and are we not relying too much upon our own strength and resources? God heard this cry of the '6os. May He grant that we may not wait so long I at this time before we shall "be obe j dlent to the divine teachings" con ! cerning the way of access to the Throne. B. E. P. PRUGH, Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 5, 1917. ANOTHER HITCH What if the Italian defeat proves a complete disaster? What if the worst should happen and Italy should be put out of the war? Well, then It would be up to us to take another hitch In our belt and go to it harder than ever. For Britain, France and the United States can win this war—and will win it, if need be—without help from any other na tion —-Kansas City Times, BEGIN RIGHT—SMILE . If you are a fellow-worker It is your human duty to begin the day with a smile. If you are an em ployer it is ten times mftre your duty to smile —In your own interest as well as in the Interest of those whom you employ. Begin the day right. Smile. —Buffalo News. ttCrVT-MBKR 9, T9T7. ' LABOR NOTES The Brotherhood of Carpenters has 255.675 members. County councils in the Midlands and West of Ireland released their employes to help save the harvest. Women employed in restaurants in Nexv York are not allowed by law to work more than fifty-four hours a week. Russian radicals demand complete and supreme responsibility of em ployers for any violation of the law governing labor. As the result of the shortage of boys the United States Government at Washington Is now employing messenger girls. The secretary of the Irish Railway Clerks' Association has applied to the Board of Trade for a further advance on the war bonus. It is estimated that 20.000 women have been employed in the Wall Street district of New York since the beginning of the war. New Haven (Conn.) Corset Workers Union is conducting a vigorous or ganizing campaign among women employed in this industry. About sixty men of the electrical department of the Belfast, Ireland, tramway went on strike over the question of rates of pay. Striking telegraphers employed by the Great Northwestern Telegraph Company have forced this concern to accept an arbitration award rendered under the Canadian industrial dis putes investigation act. The Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators has increased a member ship of 85.221 on August 1, last year, to 93.320 on August i.vthis year. I OUR DAILY LAUGH CREDIT. "It's fine to have credit." "Yes, but it's better never to have to ask for it." TRUE. "I believe charity should begin at home." "Yes, and I believe that's the weakest excuse ever thought of for not giving." ()NE MORE SCALP * He —I've a motion to propose to rou. She—Please do. I'm trying for l record. fcirratng (ttlfal Elk appear to have become aa much of a nuisance in some parts of Pennsylvania as deer are to the farmers of the southern counties and the bear to the people of the northern tier according to reports which have been coming here from central counties. The State Game Com mission has dispatched wardens to Blair county to investigate damage done to fields and reports that as high as thirty elk are in one h"d. Report of damage done to fields and orchards in Snyder, Center and Hunt ingdon counties have also been re ceived, while there have been stor ies brought here of orchards in southern counties wrecked by deer rubbing their horns against young trees. These reports are being In vestigated by the state authorities. The increase of elk has been rather a surprise to sportsmen and the re ports on file show that the animals have traveled long distances in the mountain counties. The deer have multiplied rapidly since the killing of does and young deer without horns has been forbidden, but it was not thought that elk would become so plentiful as reports indicate. They have been traveling in herds and in summer have been seen in the north ern tier, while in the winter they have been clear down to Mason and Dixon's line. They have become fairly common in the upper Susque hanna valley. It is believed that there are over 300 in the state at present. The most elaborate plana ever made by the State Forestry depart ment to prevent spread of forest fires have been worked out by the fire service bureau and telephones and wigwag signals will be employ ed to give notice of blazes which may occur in the woods. In addi tion to companies owning large tracts of forest land the state is now co operating witli an organization of the anthracite coal companies in Schuylkill, Carbon and other coun ties which have extensive woodland properties. The plans call for mob ilization of forces to light fires on a system of alarms. Operation of the draft law in Penn sylvania has resulted in so many letters in which the writers threat en to do all kinds of things that a special file has been established at the state draft headquarters to keep such communications for study. Thus far only wrath and no deep seated intention to grow destructive lias been discovered. Most of the let ters are regarded as more in na ture of desire to Hpeak minds plainly. Some of them are frankly profane and others threaten to take the national government into the courts. The draft officers come in for a pret ty large share of the blame. Many of the letters are pitiful and as far as possible where cases of actual distress are indicated the situation has been brought to the attention of the local boards. Thus far com paratively few. cases have been re opened and then only where it has been shown that dependency was a serious matter. Payment of state corporation cap ital stock and loan taxes is com mencing to show the approach of the close of the fiscal year of the com monwealth and there is a big in crease in the number of checks reaching the Capitol. The checks range all the way from $5 or $lO up to SIOO,OOO. Generally the lasl two weeks in November the state revenue jumps into the millions and there are signs that it is going to be something impress again. With the departure of the Signal corps contingent to-night Harrisburg will have sent men to practically every branch of the United States military service. It is already rep resented in tlie 'navy and marine corps quite extensively and It has men in the cavalry, infantry, artil lery, the medical , quartermasters ordnance, signal, aviation, engineers, railway, forestry gas and flame, elec trical and every other branch. The number of Dauphin county men is shown by the places wl|pre they turned up to vote" on Tuesday throughout the country's camps. The closeness of the contest for the mayoralty recalls some days when there were fights which hinged on & score of votes, but no one seems to remember when the chief magis tracy of the city hung in the balance so long as it has this year. Of course, the country has never been up against the same situation in regard to the voting of its men as at pres ent and llarrisburg suffers along with the rest in uncertainty. Yes terday afternoon a man long familial with elections here remarked us he looked out over the cleared part ol the Eighth ward so soon to be a park: "Well, maybe the uncertainty would not have been so prolonged If the houses wero still standing ovei there." • * • Senator Boies Penrose, who Was here yesterday on his way to Penn's Creek to be guest of Judge Witmei on a hunting trip, sajifi that he will hardly get a chance to go west tc hunt in the RocKies, but that he has found Pennsylvania to be a prett.v good hunting state. The Senator is anxious to get a bear. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —H. E. Bodine, manager of the Altoona Chamber of Commerce, who formerly lived here, was one of the prime movers for the city managei campaign in that city. —Judge H. C. Qulgley. of Belle fonte, Is enjoying his annual hunt ing trip. —John H. Dailey, re-elected te Pittsburgh Council, is a formel newspaper editor. —Stephen Sousley, elected Bur gess of Hamburg, is the first Repub. lican to hold that office in the Berki county town in many years. —W. H. Tomlmve. State College professor, is conducting a series ol addresses to tell farmers how to butcher cattle properly. DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg's eliancefl of becoming a cattle distribut ing center arc not ptoperly realized? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One hundred years ago they used to celebrate elections by publli dinners at which each man paid liii own plate charge
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