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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
'
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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.
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—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.