8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Founded Jijl Published evening's except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPOLE, Pres't & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t. Member American Newspaper Pub- If—rjj Ushers' Assocla gggsjt tion, the Audit Sfilft Bureau of Circu lation and Penn mTm) sylvania Associ ated Dailies. SB fl| Eastern of flee, ggffl Story, HBIBF Avenue Building, Syt-Mf New York City; Western office, RSIIE Story. Brooks & JQQB F!nley People's ~ -W Gas 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. MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 12, 1917 I am old and have had many j troubles, but most of them never happened. — ANON. ONLY HANDS NEEDED FUOM what traveling men whose business takes them among farmers say and from remarks of men from all "parts of the State who conic to the Capitol on matters of various liinds, it is only the scar city of farm labor that is preventing Pennsylvania from developing agri culture upon a scale that would daze the rest of the country. These men say that literally thousands of acres could be added to the land now in wheat or put out in foodstuffs next spring if men could bo had. Land which has been lying fallow will probably not be put in seed next year; brushland will not be cleared and that corner of every farm which the owner or tenant has been waiting l'or "a few slack days" to put in shape for corn or potatoes will stay the way it is-—all because there is not a quarter of the farm labor that there ought to be in Pennsylvania. It is naturally regrettable that when the national government, is calling for increased production of food that the summons to the colors, the de mands of the vital shipbuilding in dustry, the necessities of the muni tions plants, the iron and steel mills and the railroads should interfere with the working out of what we all would like to see. Perhaps some way may be found to distribute labor next spring. Such splendid examples of patriotic service have been furnished in the Keystone State that possibly farmers will be given help by city folks on work. Until that comes we will have to think what a splendid thing it would be if Pennsylvania was among the agricultural leaders of the union as well as a. leader in iron and coa, ai, J K>tt and manufactures. There are tremendous areas in this State which only await farming to become fruit ful. Stern as is the experience of war it may show us a way to support our millions from our own soil, es pecially if the chemistry that now feeds big guns is called to provide the nitrogenous products needed to main tain fertility and the inventive genius mobilized for war machinery is de voted for a time to helping earth yield that increase upon which man depends. BEATING rs TO IT THE people of the upper end of the county are beating Harris burg to it in the matter of rais ing their Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. quotasj. Some of the towns already have given more than asked and the campaign is not yet started. This is patriotism of the practical sort. The upper end folks have not only sent their young men to the ' front but they are backing their soldiers to the limit. The Red* Cross fund, the Lib- 1 erty Loan response and now the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. .W. C. A. con tributions prove this. Let Harrisburg and the rest of the county follow this splendid example. ENFORCE THE LAW THIRTY-TWO suspicious Arcs have taken place along the water front of New York with in the last six months. The other night five million dollars' worth of munitions for the Allies were burned on the docks at Baltimore. How many other pieces of destruc tion may be recorded we do not know; but it is welcome news to learn that the United States marshal at New York is at length to apply rigorously the law which forbids Germans to live or to enter within a zone half a mile from the wharves and military reservations. If the fires, explosions and other actt of sabotage are of enemy origin —as many of them Burely must be— it ts high time that some more dras tic measures of protection should be taken. The administration d<es not lack for the power of law, it does not lack for money to put the law into execution, and it will not shrink from the task of finding deserving Demo crats to go on the payroll. In consequence, the exclusion of Germans from the zones of war ac- r MONDAY EVENING, tivity should be accompanied by a, much more stringent guard upon property in such localities. THE HALF-WAY HOUSE ! THE Y. M. C. A. "hut" of the Army encampment is the Half way House between home and the trench. In it the soldier finds wholesome recreation, reading matter, writing materials, music, candy and those other little luxuries which the man in uniform craves; but above all, he finds there men who take a per sonal Interest in him. - The Y. M. C. A. "hut" is really a great, big home-like building, warm, well-lighted and provided with all manner of amusements for the sol dier back from the trenches or at leisure after a period of hard work In the training camps. It is his haven, his place of rest, his sub stitute for home. With the Y. M. C. A. "hut" at hand the soldier need look no farther for means of relaxa tion and social enjoyment. Without it he must find his "fun" elsewhere, and not always where he Is bene fitted. More than 2 00,0t) 0 French and) English soldiers have " been sentj home, physical wrecks, because In the early days of the war, before the Y. M. C. A. "hut" provided the neces sary link between home and army life, they fell into the clutches of the harpies who are awaiting them behind the lines of every battlefront. YOUR boy is in one of the train ing camps. If not your very own son, at least a lad who has taken up his rifle that YOU may stay at home, and he needs the Y. M. C. A. "hut" to keep him out of temptation and physically fit, that he may fight the -battles of his country efficiently and return home strong and clean to take up life anew in a community made stronger and cleaner by his un selfish service. In turn, the Y. M. C. A. needs funds that it may provide these "huts," and it is asking YOU to give your share. Yes, we know that you have bought Liberty Bonds and have given to the Red Cross. We know, too, that prices are high and living conditions hard. But we know also that whoever you are who reads this, you now are making higher wages or salary than ever before in your life. We know also that unless this war Is won the money you now count so precious will be absolutely worth less. We MUST win this war, and YOU must help. Just.now it is the Y. M. C. A. fund. To-morrow It will be something else. Make ho mistake about it, you must give, give, give until peace is declared and you might as well get used to It now. Hundreds of men In this and the nine other counties of the district be gin to-day their canvass for funds. They are not only giving their money, but their time and service as well. They will ask you only for your cash contribution. Give as generously as you can, both for the sake of the boys at tfie front and for your own sake, for God help you and all of us if our iarmies fall before the German hosts. A CHANGE OF FRONT A FEW weeks ago the shipyards were being robbed of men who were being coscrlpted for the Army. Now comes the proposal of the Fleet Corporation that men who pledge themselves to go into ship building shall be exempted from army service. In view of the an nouncement that our part in the war must be delayed until we have the ships to transport the men, this would seem a wise decision very readily reached. It is to be hoped that changes in the Fleet Corpora tion management, as announced last week, will be followed by other In dications of concentrated energy and common sense. AGREEMENT WITH A SERPENT THE United States is very prop erly solicitous for the treatment of such American soldiers as may become prisoners of the Ger mans and to that epd is seeking an agreement with Germany that Unit ed States soldier prisoners of that country shall be as well treated as Germans shall be by the United States. This is all very well and as it should be, but can we place any con fidence in German agreements? Can we make a contract with a serpent and hope to bav* it kept By the Ex-Commltteeman With most of the counties of the, state trying to l'orget the election, j Philadelphia will to-day have two very interesting events. One will be the attempt of the regular organiza tion to have ballot boxes opened as a counter move to the demand of the Town Meeting party that boxes be taken into court, and the other will be the Maloney hearing into which it is planned to take Congressman Vare. Senator Penrose, who passed through this city late Saturday on his return to Philadelphia from a hunt ing trip in Snyder county, is expected to meet prominent Republican lead ers this week in Philadelphia. State Chairman W. E. Crow went to Phil adelphia yesterday. Numerous close contests will have to be settled by the soldiers' votes and there have been outbreaks of charges that commissioners election eered at camps, which are denied. Some of the commissioners say that Town. Meeting party agents fairly buzzed with political activity at camps. However, the Town Meet ing men were not commissioners. The commissioners say that their talks to give instructions were dis torted. | —-Edwin Wolf, prominent Phlla | delphia banker, is to succeed Henry |R. Edmunds as president of tlie I Philadelphia School Board. Inei i dentally, there is a row on because it Is proposed to drop John C. Fra zee, director of vocational education,- on the score of economy. —W. H. Hoffa, coroner and acting sheriff of Columbia county, is dead and the county has neither sheriff nor coroner. Unless the Governor appoints there will be vacancies un til January 1 when newly-elected men will take charge. —Among other things that Demo cratic state machine leaders are thinking about is that the Demo cratic candidate for sheriff of Berks was elected by a greatly reduced ma jority. —lt will take the official count to settle who has been elected county treasurer of Mercer. The Governor made an appointment in that county last winter and there was a hot cam paign. —The Philadelphia North Amer ican comments upon the fact that the election takes the last of the Democrats out of the Schuylkill county offices. —There is mourning in the streets of Stroudsburg and the hills of Mon roe are echoing with the indignation of A. Mitchell Palmer, Democratic state machine boss. Samuel E. Shall, appointed judge of Monroe county, is the leader of the Monroe county Democratic faction that has earnest ly fought Palmer and the "handsome boss," as he is called here, in flay ing the Governor with bitter words and wailing over the slight put upon him. Mr. Shull was a candidate for Congress-at-large on the Democratic ticket in 1014 and made his fight with Palmer as an issue. And what he said is well remembered here. Mr. Palmer is writing pieces about the Governor's selection that read like the book of lamentations. —The Philadelphia Record calls for the police because the Johnstown Democrat takes Senator Edwin H. Vare seriously as a political factor. It also is inclined to make merry over reports that Senator Vare is be hind the boom for Highway Commis sioner J. Denny O'Neil for governor. —Politics has been pretty well crowded off the first page by the war and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. drive and even at Scranton they have quit fussing and are trying to take the rriine cave problem out of poll tics. —A Pittsburgh dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer sums up the | situation in that city as follows: J "With the election of a mayor and ] five members of city council now a matter of political history, political | leaders of this city are now con cerned with the prospects of co operation between the chief execu tive and council in the future con nluc- of the affairs of the city Pen rose lieutenants look for complete control of the Republican party or ganization in both the city and county. Despite the fact that, in the election of E. V. Babcock as mayor, the incoming administration failed to elect the full councilmanlc ticket or enough councilmen to give it a majority In that body, political leaders are predicting that the mayor-elect will have little or no difficulty in getting the council to co-operate with him. Another thing that seems to portend a council In harmony with the mayor-elect, al though four of the reorganized council have be'fen elected as Magee candidates, is the desire expressed by W. Y. English, Magee candidate, who was re-elected, that Mayor elect Babcock sit in with the pres ent council in the consideration of the appropriations for the various departments of city government at the councilmanlc budget sessions which will convene shortly." —Carbon county Republican leaders are jubilant over the fact that Carbon county is safely back in the Republican colunin as is shown by last Tuesday's election, when tlie entire Republican ticket was elected. Klmer S. Levan, of Lehighton, the Republican candidate for sheriff, had a walkover. His Democratic opponent was John Ilartneady, brother of Carbon county's present sheriff, Michael Hartneady. Mr. Levan's majority is nearly 1900 votes, the largest majority received by any recent candidate for office in Jim Blakslee's county. —The Philadelphia Ledger says in its political review column: "No matter what the courts decide in the matter of the case of the Town Meeting party versus the Smitli- Vare combination, ail agree that it would have been better had the full strength of the independents been qualified to vote by registration. When the registration was being taken no one, not even the sagest political leaders, anticipatied that there would be any such real fight as occurred on last Tuesday. Hence many thousand Independents saw "no use" in registering. All of yhich suggests that it would be worth the while of civic bodies in the future, irrespective of the out lqok, to carry on a vigorous cam paign for a large registration. The present situation well Illustrates what an election machinery In the control of factlonallats can do, when the independent registration is small..-" —W. B. Stewart, burgess-elect of Monessen, was sworn In Friday as postmaster of that town. He won out Tuesday over P. C. Duvall, the Republican candidate, by 53 votes. On January 1, when Postmaster Stewart takes the- oath as burgess he will likely resign one or other of the positions. Dr. Stewart was ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... BY BRIGGS WHEN YOU PLMO ON ANID YOU RE AFRAID TO -AND VOVJ HAVE VISIORSTA YOUR DESK A LONG OPENJ IT BECAU.S€ VOL> . OF "#IOOO °-° FINES WHTH NTERNM. "FORGOT- A FE - SMALL THE ATLANTA PEN* .M DEPARTMEWT MARKED ITEMS UJHE-N YOU MADE THE OF* FIR> G . V, - ,J- AND Ftrsio THAT YOU HAVE HU-U-U-U- Rnv ' OVERPAID T,GMH 2U. T IT . G °-RMRI> To REM THE #>4.65. WHICH YOU CAN GET AND GLOR E YU S CONTENTS BACK BY FILING T H e FEEUN' ? REQUIRED PAPERS \\ the first Democrat ever elected bur gess in Monesson. —Charges of fraud against elec tion boards in Plains, Nanticoke and Plymouth were not sustained and Judge Strauss dismissed the cases at Wilkes-Barre. In Plains it was charged there were more votes than there were voters at the rolls. This charge was not proved. No irregu larities v.cre found in the Naini coke and Plymouth counts. —Says the Pittsburgh Gazette- Times: "Theodore Morgan, a mem ber of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and one of Sharon's most progressive c'tizens, was elected burgess of <his place I;.' a large majority last Tues day. lie conducted vigorous cam paign through the newspapers end says the newspapers presented the 'cheapest and most effective method of getting ideas before the people; which was merely the applying of modern business methods .o a poli ty al campaign.' John H. Moody was re-elected burgess of by an o ervlmlming majority. He is advocating a municipal coal yard. —Congressman Guy E. Campbell, Democrat accident in Allegheny, is not sorry he backed Magee. Babcock carried the Pittsburgh wards which are in Campbell's dis trict. —Just what the Governor meant by naming Magee on the Free Library Commission, is interesting many men who follow State poli tics. THROUGH DARKNESS 0 God! our way through darkness leadß, Rut thine is living- light; Teach us to feel that day succeeds To each slow wearing night. Make us to know, though pain and woe Beset our mortal lives. And only good survives. Too long the oppressor's iron heel The saintly brow has pressed; Too oft the tyrant's murderous steel Has pierced the guiltless breast. Yet in our souls the seed shall lie, Till thou shalt bid it thrive, Or steadfast faith that wrong shall die And only right survive. We walk in shadow; thickest wails Do man from man divide, Our brothers spurn our tenderest calls, Our holiest aims deride. Vet though felt craft which fiendish thought Its subtle web contrives, Still falsehood's textures shrink to naught. And only truth survives. Wrath clouds our sky, war lifts on high His flag of crimson stain; Each monstrous birth o'erspreads the earth, In battle's gory train. Yet still we trust in God the just, Still keep our faith alive, That 'neath thine eye all hate shall die, And only love survive. —Horace Greeley (1863).' CONCEALED WEAPONS "Did you hear? The Crosbys were so generous as to give their sedan to the Red Cross. I wonder what was the matter with it." "My dear, you do knit bee-utifully, but what is It?" "The major looks so formidable In his uniform, doesn't he? Too bad, the poor man never wore it at home." "Here comes Miss Veriplain in her red-white-and-blue hat. Who would have thought anything could become her so well!" "You will go from house to house canvassing for the Liberty Loan, Miss Stout. My dear, you have the right Idea." "You put down twenty quarts of beans? Splendid! Splendid! 1 do so hope they'll keep for you this time." "The Red Cross is to be congratu lated, my dear, in securing the serv ices of a woman of your years and loug experience."—Edmund J. Kief er in Life. Lessons in Contentment It's a trite old saying but true that lots of times we are well oft and don't know it. Just think what an 18-k soft snap the Kaiser went out of his way to get himself jerked loose from.—Macon NOBODY CARES General Pershing's brother says he does not know whether the General is a Democrat or a Republican. Neither do the rest of us, and we 1 can think of no reason for wanting 1 to know.—Omaha World. How Bill Cured the Blues Bill's brother went to Piattsburg, And his father helped the loan; . His mother turned out sweaters For the Aviation zone. Bill's sister had a. membership In everything in town That had for its objective To put the Kaiser down. Her nerves were getting raspy But she said, before she flopped. That she'd do a little something To get the Kaiser stopped. His best girl took to knitting In a wild and feverish way, And was serving on committees At least forty times a day. What really was the hardest. And gave Bill the fiercest rub, Was his cousin, keeping U-boats From stealing England's grub. Bill's mother said it would be, fine If he should learn to knit; But husky Bill thought of his chums— And almost threw a fit. He couldn't think of anything A youth like him could do, And ho was getting grumpy, And desperately blue. Here the Kaiser v;as, a-sitting On little Belgium's chest. And he not at a living thing To shake him off the nest. SOLE DUTY OF THE HOUR Stern times are ahead of this country, but there is only one way iuCC* then* dud 1 a 'o<i[ifo' Yellow may call to yellow, but equally courage calls to courage. The reasons that led to our entry into the war have been intensified and multiplied by what has occurred in Italy and Uussia. For more clearly than ever before Is it re vealed what sort of world will exist if Germany as at present dominated is able to impose its will. A danger hitherto considered imaginary now faces us. If we would avert a late whose nature need not be described we must put every ounce of our power into the fighting line. Words and talk will not save to us our freedom and our right to develop further, n pacific civilization. Foolishness should cease. Idle wrang.'ing over minor matters must stop. Bifl one business is before US. unil that is to get behind the government and do everything in our power to help In the Rreat struggle pnd to make sure that our aid does not arrive too late.—New York Globe. PUT AWAY ILLUSIONS What has happened In Russia f.hbultl serve to dispel the lasc illu sion that may exist anywhere among the Allies as to the possibility of ef ftctive co-opeia'.'on with Russix in the present war. There ms prob ably been no chance of -a Russian contribution since last June, uv'ien Russian soldiers ran away from the fe.tl of victory in Gallcia, shouting th! battle cry of anarchy as they ilod. It is not, pet haps, surprising that the Russian people, with their dum- Ofrtlc grievarcefc. with the intßonal atli-es ail! evilu which suivjimd Uitvr.. shot.ll fx their attenllon upon tbo home pioblera and should sard any external circumstance as <•1 r.inor importance. Perhans his tory AM'I judge those Russians r.'jrht who believe that the salvation of the Russian revolution h more Import ant for Russia, than the defeat of the German autocracy. The time is not one, therefore, to indulge in recrimination. It is not the moment to accuse Russians of betraying a common cause, because the cause as such was never adopted by the Russian people and the peo ple have repudiated the government \yhich was allied with the nations fighting Germany. The best and worst that one can say of is that she has chosen her own path way—whether with supreme wisdom or ultimate madness no one can foretell. On the other hand, there should be an end to all illusion. Russia is out of the York Tribune. A PATRIOTIC GIRL Said the pretty girl To her sweetheart: "Son. For goodness" wake Don't call me Hun." —Florida Times-Union. Put Bill got glorious-happy When his chum came 'round to say That boys couid help the Army Through the great Y. M. C. A. They keep ttie soldier happy, And they help him save his pay; And help him be a fighting man, The highest kind of way. The Y-man's up there with him In the very foremost trench, A-sharing all the shot and shell. And rats, and mud, and stench. "We can stop the Kaiser coming, And hand to him his till, If a hundred thousand Y-boys Earn a crisp ten dollar t>il 1. "A million bucks, Old Top," he said, "What do you think of that?" Said Bill, "To that same nifty scheme I'll sure take off my hat." So Bill cut out some movie shows, And got himself a job By working after schoo.l, you know, And helping swell the mob. Who now omit "the foolish stuff" And are saving up their "mon," To help the boys acrorfs the seas To save us from the Hun. Now here the tale diverges, For Bill's father says, he can At last discern some hopeful signs That Bill wiil be a man. —By Clarence C. Robinson, in The American Youth. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH AN * AJI UNFAMILIXR Y .SUBJECT L%I /VI FLLTT /£' "HAMO there IK SO muc * l money 1,1 So they wero , married an d g!*/'' over which side spend their first INDISPUTABLE I ' T ' 'rue of man) things beside - JkLj The game that Is the na ft" tlon's pride, -.ij' -*■ He knows the '/ywmw least about /h th ® g&me ' '/*• Who gives the / / umpire loud* ' *'>vJ est blame. ■ ■ DIFFERENT times. Mottoes differ ALL IN THE P _J 'POINT OF / VIEW, (x S (I n unison) She; My what a \Y*Lj Yi" funny little man I . i\\ |l He: My what Vw I \ !\\ >X ~NI. a lar B 0 and cum > i V\v\ beraome female! NOVEMBER 12, 1917. Otfer tfwe tit J P —Among the thousands at Camp Meade there are forty-six men from Annville who have something \ery particular to think of every night, namely that a little blind girl in their native town is praying for them. These recruits when about to depart from Annville were tender ed the usual reception, but it was the loyalty and kindness of this 7-year old girl, blind from her birth, which made the hardy soldiers gulp in the throat and pass a rough hand Qver moist eyes. Isabelle May Ray Lund gren-is the name of the little Ann ville heroine. She gave each sol dier a package of candy and tobacco, and presented a beautiful flag to the company, the flag which she liaa never seen. Her last wordsthe departing troops were, "YouTThear me pray for you every night. God won't let anything evil happen to you." —A cruel story of enlistment comes from Doylestown, whence a 16-year-old lad named Joseph Gor man smuggled himself into the Army by saying he was of age. As a mem ber of the Sixtieth Regiment, United States Navy, he reached Gettysburg and no soldier boy was so keen to get abroad and go over the top. Joe was even heard to promise that he would be the first to lay a hand on. Kaiser Bill. One day the skies felt when it was discovered that Joe was only sixteen, and a relentless father insisted on his coming home. It was such a terrible disappointment that the Army officers at Gettysburg al lowed Joe to wear his uniform back off" nnr> rfov rft**r which he had to ship the spangles back to camp. —An invention of such far-reach ing importance that it will tend to revolutionize aviation has been re vised by a young Eastonian and is re garded of such extreme value that the United Slates will not permit the details to become public. The in ventor is Vincent P. Galle, about 30 years of age, of No. 1219 Ferry street. It is claimed that it will absolutely control the flight of an airship in case of accident or injury to the aviator. —This is a tough time for booze fighters. In Uehigh county court the other day Judge Gromjfti added six months extra sentence to a chicken thief who pleaded Intoxication as an excuse. The criminal no doubt hop ed to asphyxiate the unfortunate hen with his booze breath. —Refusal to pay war tax amount ing to five cents on a trolley trip from Greensburg to Uniontown cost Charles Harrison, aged 60, of Brownsville, $7.05 when ho came before an alderman. I've been payin' enough war tax t'day," said he, ".and by heck I wasn't going to give up to that sassy conductor." —Over in Waynesboro they It now what the soldiers like. A local bank thero has just shipped to Company K, One Hundred and Tenth Infantry, encamped in Georgia the largest pumpkin ever grown in the country. It is a sugar pumpkin weighing sev enty-five pounds. It was grown by Guy M. Jones, living near Waynea burg. •—Hert is what an Allentown com pany, machine gun battalion, went through the other day at Camp Han cock, the test being to disqualify sol diers who are mfhus a nerve system to battle. Every soldier was com pelled to place his heelft and toes together, open his mouth, stick out his tongue, close his eyes and ratse his arms forward in front of the body. The nerve power is deter mined by the tremble of the bands so stretched out. Try it anjl see whether you are cool enough to ogle a Hun with his dander up. TO WHOM GOOD IS DUE Withhold not good from them to whom It is due when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.—Pro verbs ill, 27. A GERMAN ADMISSION [From Koelnische Volkeszeltung] A year ago we could only contend with our enemies as to whether Bel gium and the north of France should come into Germany's hands and in what form. Today, after a alow ste" by nte retreat and pfter all the various peace offers, we have got so far that we must discuss with oi>r enemies whether Alsace -Lorraine I shall still remain with Germany or not. Bmttttg (ttlfat Now that Harrisburg has had a! week or ten day to get accustomedJ to the war taxes there Is a crop of. interesting stories to be told about! the way they are being taken how the new means to help flnanc®( the great conflict are working outj Naturally, the place where the new! law hits oftenest is in the mails andj the number of letters held up be-' cause of neglect to put on the extra* stamp is proof that there are very.l forgetful people. It is comical to' see a busy man get a paper to "call! at the window" and then be con-: fronted by a demand for one cenM more on a letter addressed to hin^ and then open it to find some choice ! advertising matter or to hunt all' through his pockets for one cent to pay on a postal card announcing a* meeting which he would not attend if ( he could. The men at the stamp win-t dows are helping out by stamp buyers of the new rates. The* railroad ticket proposition and the) validating of mileage form a pair of' procedures which are apt to be an noying if one puts off waiting until just beforo train time. And the wise person is the one who will have a supply of pennies and small change in hand when the ticket is bought. The situation about the theaters solves Itself. People want to go to shows and will pay. It is a form of! amusement which Is legitimately tax-] able, but which patrons of show*' can speedily correct-if unjust by go ing somewhere else. The course lia brought more than one gouger to time in other places. The rise of the ordinary five-cent cigar to six cents has caused the stogy to regain some of the favor which it lost last winter when the "three-fers" were abolish ed and all were made "two-fers." Tobacco men admit that ft does come hard and men accustomed to paying five cents for their favorite "smokes"' for years to have to produce an ex tra cent and recitals of incidents are more sulphurous than the smoke of the finest York county product. An other effect has been to decrease sales of high-priced cigars. That has had a good local Influence because there are some fine cigars made right here in Harrisbnrg and they are much better for the average smoker than the heavy goods that retail for eleven and sixteen and twenty-six cents. There are two other places where the new taxes are making: thm selves felt. One is In Hhe cafes where people are commencing to get down to "meatless" and "wheatless" days as part of the game. The breaking- away from eggs and biit'on for breakfast in favor of sausage and cakes has been somewhat soft ened by prices. retailing at a nickel apiece and bacon a luxury the average man soon wonders why he passed up the sausage and buck wheats which he used to enjoy so much when he was young- for llio other diet which is so much written about in the fashionable novel. And it may be added that a good many people who discarded corn bread and other corn products some years ago because thpy saw other folks doing it, have been getting back now joys from what is made from Dauphin or Cumberland county rolled corn meal and there is none better than that from our century-old mills. "It's all true that people are get ting down to simpler, more whole some things," said the steward of a. club the other day. "There have been few dinners at five a plate for a long time and a whole lot of peoplo are finding filet of beef fancy enough to take the place of birds. X know oC two dinners the other day at which the only meat was the stock in tie rich vegetable soup served and thJy enjoyed it. The cost was a difference, too." The man in charge of one oC the downtown places which special ize in oysters declares that the addi tion of a nickel for a "stew" or a. "fry" has not cut down the de mand. Instead, more people are eating oysters because meat is high. Men who deal in fish say they have had a demand that Indicates the win ter is going to he a busy one for them and that the way people are taking to fish they never knew about is going to put a dent in the price of meat, if it ever does come down again. More macaroni is being eaten in Steelton now than ever. As for the effect of the war in the banks, it is shown by the activity oi people who invested in the Liberfv Loan, who are putting by extra cash to meet their payments. But the place wherfe the immediate ef fects of the war tax is most notice able is at the desks of the officers who are posted on the income tax. These men are now being askecKan average of a dozen questions an hour about the effect of the tax and what should bo done. "This is only warm ing up," said one man connected with one of the trust companies as he finished three conversations, one after the other, with customers of the bank on the subject of income taxes. "In the next three months r will do mighty little else. I havo been studying the law from all an gles and considering Harrisburg's chief investments and the various slants,. We have to give this ad vice. People look to us for it and we are glad to help our customers, but it is going to put a strain on us for a time that few people will realiee. What people should do ia to study the income tax law now and be ready toicount up their in come on January 1." WELL KNC)WN PEOPLE —Judge H. A. Hall, of Elk county, who retires next month, is seriously ill in Philadelphia. —Judge J. Willis Martin, presid ing in the Philadelphia election cases, is one of the most experienced, judges in such matters outsido oC the Dauphin county court. -Judge-elect A. B. Smith, of Sus, quehanna county, is one of the mo*"; active members of the bar o county. —Judge J. O. VanSwearingen, re elected In Fayette, was the head and front of the J. V. Thompson boom for governor in 1906 and the promi nence he won then made him % judge. —Judge Eugene C. Conniwell, who was highest of candidates for judge in Philadelphia without being elect* ed, plans to visit a number of coun-> ties to address firemen this winter* He is president of the state asaocla-. tlon. —Judge W. N. Seibert, of the Perry-Juniata district, is expected to make Perry "dry" again this win ter. DO YOU KNOW 1 Tliat Hnrrisburg is furnish ing largo quantities of hay from Its district for Army use? HISTORIC HAHHISBI'RG About the second Industry In Ha* risburg after the place was laid oul was making bricks. Transportation [was the first business.
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