8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I ==================== Published evenings except Sunday by THIS PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlnc, Federal Sqnarc. ■ =1 K. J. STACKPOLE.Prfj'f & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS 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. _ ■ | Member American latlon and I Eastern office, Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1917 Put any burden upon me, only sus tain me; Send me anywhere, only go with me; Sever any tic but this tie, which binds Me to Thy service and Thy heart. —ATCON. I RIFTS IX TIIE CLOUDS THE Russian revolution and the Italian disaster have so be clouded our skies for days that some of us walking along with bowed heads have not seen the rifts in the war clouds that are begin ning to appear. The whole Allied situation Is be ginning to "sweeten up." The road roller tactics of the English in North- ' ern France continues, the French ' are steadily pushing ahead, the Ital ians are showing that they are far from beaten, French and English ' troops are on the Italian front, the death of General Maude has not : prevented his troops from actively ' continuing their campaign in the East, the Russian situation is so difficult and uncertain that even the Kaiser declines to attempt to make peace with the anarchistic party in control, there have been riots In Germany, American war prepara tions are speeding up, and last, but far from least, the German subma rine menance appears to be waning. We are to have a period of blue skies instead of just plain blues. This war has been a series of ups and downs. At one period Paris was just on the verge of fall ing. Then the Russian road roller got to work and it was "on to Ber lin." And so, week after week and month after month, our emotions have see-sawed with the varying tides of conflict, now sodden with foreboding and now buoyant with hope. But two things we should al ways remember in our darkest mo ments. One of them is that however brilliant the achievement and disas trous the result of German attack, the German army always In this war has fallen just short of the object at which it aimed. The other 1 is that we have the money, the guns, the munitions and the men, and that time fights on our side. SUFFRAGE IX XEW YORK NEW YORK newspapers are "all het-up" over the ultimate des tination, so to speak, of the newly created woman suffrage vote, which is on its way apparently with out much idea as to where it is going. The Democrats would like to have it, of course; as witness the hasty appointment of a noted wo man suffrage leader of tho Empire State to be the first deputy attorney general of the United States, and it is just as apparent that the Republicans also are angling for favor with the recently enfran chised voters. It is an interesting situation, but not one over which anybody need become greatly excited. If the two political parties in New York bid ding for suffrage votes are Induced thereby to offer more than they otherwise would in the way of re form legislation, the excitement will have been well worth while, but it has not been the exprience in other suffrage States either that the great bulk of women voters swing to one or the other of the two great parties, or that their influence Is felt in any marked degree, at least during the very early stages of the extended franchise. The certain results are that tho voting machinery and elec tion expenses will be Increased and that there will bo no immediate great turnover politically in New York. PAPERS FOR SOLDIERS NOTHING keeps the soldier In such good humor as frequent and intimate communications from home and no correspondent can be so efficient in this respect as the home newspaper. But the burden of delivery has been so great, dur ing the early days of the big train ing camps, that millions of these pa pers Intended for soldier boys have gone astray. In other cases it has been impossible to parcel them out to individuals at the camps and a WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARJRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH • NOVEMBER 21, 1917. very great force for maintaining and improving the morale of the recruit has been lost. To Harold Craddoclc, of the Com mission on Training Camp Activities, the newspapers owe the opportunity of sending a committee to Wash ington to help frame a code of rules for the prompt and efficient handling of tho vhst number of papers that are daily addressed to the soldiers in camp. What better Christmas present for the lad far from home than a sub- I scriptlon to his favorite home news-! paper? Now that Uncle Sam is nr-j ranging to play Santa Claus all I through the year, by seeing to it that • the newspaper is delivered dally, thisl form of holiday remembrance ought l to be doubly attractive. UTTER FOOLISHNESS TO increase the available food supply the authorities pf New York State have been asked to suspend laws relating to conserva tion of the salt water fisheries and to let down for the period of the war statutes covering the killing of game. The idea Is to permit the tak-- ing of large quantities of fish and the killing of deer and other game out of season. Unquestionably, this would add something to the quantity of pro visions in sight for immediate con sumption, but at what a price! Are we so near the bottom of the larder that we must denude our forests of their game and rob our waters of a' form of foodstuff that is dwindling far too rapidly as it is? We think not. Millions of dollars are being ex pended yearly for the encouragement of the propagation of game and fish and for their protection. A winter of lawless poaching on these supplies would do irreparable damage. We have been thinking all too much of the present and too little of the fu ture. The greatest difficulty the con servationists have to overcome is the education of the public to thought for the morrow. Slowly but surely the lesson 's being forced home, but one month cf reckless squandering of our fish ar.d game reserves would undo all that has been accomplished in this direction through years of painstaking effort. ACROSS THE TABLE TIIE fifth State Welfare and Ef. flciency conference, which beff*n at the State Capitol to-day, ought to be as important in getting employers and enjployes together over conditions prevailing in the war time speeding up of industries as the n>.eetings of previous years were in enabling representatives of these two vital factors in State life to under stand each other's position in re gard to minor labor and workmen's compensation. The events of the last six or eight months have turned the business of Pennsylvania to war. Only three times in the history of this Commonwealth has this situa tion arisen and it is important, nay more, essential to the national de fense that Pennsylvania's great in dustries operatfc with a minimum of friction. When the first conference 1 was held a few years ago there were some misgivings because of the hu mane statutes about to be put into effect. Happily, manufacturers and workers and. State officials and stu dents got together at the Capitol and talked it over. In other words, they discussed across the table the com pensation and other systems whose operation in a State with as complex an industrial problem as Pennsylva nia has attracted international at. tention. There are many things arising out | of the war which call for calm con sideration and study of the other side. This conference should be in valuable as a means of getting peo ple together for discussion of mat ters which should be adjusted now. THE GARDEN COUNTY LANCASTER COUNTY, the gar-' den county of the land, as the poets of the farm and granary like to term it, has once more earned its title. Not only has it led the six tv-seven counties of the common wealth in raising wheat, but it Is over the 3,000,000 bushel mark, and from all accounts its broad acres are so well sown with the great cereal that it bids fair to surpass that splendid yield in 1918. And we notice that Lancaster has wrested from Lehigh the title of first In potato growing. Quietly, but with that careful attention to agri cultural detail that has.made fam ous the farmers of the county, Lan caster has been increasing its acre age In juds. It is not far from 2,- 000,0<* bushels. And there are inti mations that when the corn returns are in that Lancaster will be away up In the van again. It only goes to show that when the prices are right the farmers of this State can be depended upon to do their share. York, Franklin and Cumberland made great yields of wheat and Schuylkill county, which has never been considered an agri cultural county because of its prom inence in coal production, caught the fever and produced twice as many bushels of potatoes as last year. There will be some fat bank ac. counts In the counties hereabouts this winter and when Uncle Sam comes around with another war loan he ought to find abundant support. BACHELORS. POST OBIT THE President of Dartmouth Col lege proposes that college men who join the Army shall have 1 recognition of their service through : a degree of bachelor of military i science, which Is to be granted to i them as of their class. This is in • line with Civil War traditions, when . the colleges of the North gave of their best to save the Union, and i .rewarded them with their degrees as i if they hnd stayed on at their studies ; —some of them, alas, being carried on the folia as bachelors, post obit. folitCct CK ftKH^aiua. By Ki-Commltleomaii • | The decision reached yesterday in Philadelphia by men opposed to the Vare regime to muke a contest of (he election In the Quaker City \yill mark the start of a vigorous cam paign to be extended throughout the state in anticipation of the primary next spring. It is contended that the contest will develop such conditions! that the rest of the counties will turn on the Vare adherents and defeat any attempt they may make to domi nate selection of the next Republi can state ticket. The conferences were held in Sen ator Penrose's office and the Sena tor has assurance from men in many counties that they will give support to a wide movement against the state administration. While the meeting was going on high men in state ad ministration circles were together, planning to meet the attack. It is intimated that the attack will not be awaited, but anticipated and that some appointments to be made by the Governor will weaken the Pen rose side. —Concerning the meeting yester day the Philadelphia Record says: "According to the legal authorities of the Town Meeting party the elections court has established a precedent in the matter of opening ballot boxes, having yielded to the independents' demands for the opening of the boxes in divisions in the Fourth and Kigliteenth wards. They contend that the elections court has full Jur isdiction in the matter, although lawyers for the Republican City Committee have met every attempt to open the boxes with the conten tion that the elections court is mere ly a computing body. Bitter opposi tion from the Republican city com mittee lawyers to the demand for the opening of all the boxes is an ticipated. Town Meeting party law yers, however, contend that the evi dence which will be submitted to the court is sufficient to show that gross frauds or irregularities were com mitted by election boards in counting the vote cast. The evidence, they say, will prove thei assertion that many ballots marked for District At torney Rotan and the fusion candi dates for row offices were considered invalidated, by Republican officers and thrown out." —The Inquirer comments On the participation of the Democrats, say ing: "The most important develop ment yesterday was the fact that both elements of the city Demo cracy decided to join in the applica tion for the opening of the ballot boxes. E. W. Lank, chairman of the Democratic city committee. Which is controlled by the "Old Guard" element, and Robert S. Bright, the Philadelphia leader of the Vance MdCormick organization wing of tho state Democracy, both participated in the conference in Senator Penrose's office. They pledg ed the hearty co-operation of every active Democrat in the city iden tified with.their respective organiza tions in the movement to have elec tion frauds exposed and the guilty men sent to jail." —The annual statement of the •Prohibition state committee filed at the State Capitol to-day by Thomas H. Hamilton, the treasurer of the committee, shows that the party has money in the bank. The state ment reports a balance on November 12, 1916, of $1,282.08 and contribu tions of $4,941.30 since that time. The expenditures during the year amounted to $4,455.95, leaving a bal ance of $1,767.43. —The official count of the votes cast by Pennsylvania soldiers in var ious camps will begin in the courts of the state on Friday, the last day upon which returns are to be made. All of the commissioners have re ported, according to state officials. —Governor Brumbaugh's office to-day denied that any charges had been filed against any of the men who went to camps to take the votes of soldiers, although there have been reports that such action would be taken. State afflcials say that they do not know what would be done in case any were to be preferred. The commissioners arc in many cases out of pocket as the'ten cents a mile allowed for taking the soldier vote will not by any means cover their expenses. —The name of the Town Meet ing party has been taken for North umberland county. —The Sheehan fee case in Phila delphia iti to be appealed to the Supreme Court. —The suffragists' convention at Pittsburgh has taken- on a decided war tinge. The advocates of the amendment are pledging support to the government in every way and men active in politics pay that if they move in that lino they will win in 1921. —The Philadelphia Bulletin is at tacking the Philadelphia financial system in which money is taken from sinking funds to make up tempo rary deficiencies it) revenue. —Representative William Davis, of Cambria, is still in a serious con dition. Round Up the Trotzkys Leon Trotziry, head of the Maxi malist revolt that overthrew Premier Kerensky, and who now issues re ports in the name of the new Rus sian government, is about forty years old. Long identified with revolutionary movements, Trotsky, after being ex pelled from Switzerland, Franco and Spain, came to New York early this year and became a reporter on a Russian newspaper, living in the Bronx. On the overthrow of the Czar he started immediately for Russia. In view of present conditions it migh£ be the part of wisdom for the government to take a census of the other Leon Trotzkys, or kindred fugitives, ready to join with our enemies we are harboring in this land of the free just now.—New York Telegram. FUTILE DISPUTES In stating prudential rules for our government In society, I must not omit the important one of never en tering into dispute or argument with mother. I never saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I havftseen many, on their gettiilg warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. Conviction Is the effect of our own dispassionate reasoning, either in solitude or weighing within ourselves, dispassionately, what we hear from others, standing uncommited in ar gument ourselves. It was one of the rules which, above all others, made Doctor Franklin the most amiable of men in society, "never to contradict anybody." If ho was to an nounce an opinion, he did it rather by asking questions, us if for infor mation, or by suggesting doubts. —- Thomas. Jefferson. i r~ \ Otfer tta tit p The lid is off In Gettysburg. The doors of hotel barrooms which were closed on account of the soldiers have swung open with the Sammies' departure. This,reminds us of recent statistics that the brewers used 68,- <OO,OOO bushels of grain in 1916. This grain would make annually car oes for over a thousand vessels of l.tiOO tons each. According to an estimate of a Highway Departmertt expert the far mers of the United States have al lowed 1300,000,000 In real money to escape .their pockets each year be cause of poor roads. Just when the farmer has the opportunity to mar ket his crops at top prices bad wea ther closes the roads to heavy haul ing and he must wait until another season. The proposed merger of Lutheran churches, of tho country will affect nearly fifty congregations in Lehigh county alone. Maryland papers are giving much space to the punishment meted out to a man imprisoned for terribly beating his wife. With a blaclcsnake whip, four, feet in length the sheriff of Allegheny .county, invoking an an cient law, bestowed twenty lashes on thewifebeater's bare back. While this progressed the other prisoners joined in a chorus of "Nearer My God To Thee." Local critics were much per plexed to understand why this should have been selected. One suggests that a line from Shakespeare would have been more pertinent for this cruel husband, for example that one from Mcßeth: "Lay on, McDuff, lay on, and damned be him who cries hold, enough." GERMAN HUMOR "Rain had fallen steadily for three days and nightfs, and the trenches were in frightful condition," says Major lan Hay Beith in "All In It," the continuation of "The FirsJ Hun dred Thousand" (Houghton Mifflin Company). "The German trenches a few yards distant, were In an even worse state. Suddenly, a plaintive voice cried out: " 'Are you dere, Jock? Haf you whisky? AVe haf plenty water! "Not had for a Boche, the platoon decided," concludes Captain Beith. BARNARD TO CRITICS The Council of the National Acad emy of Design is the latest expert body to protest against the imposi tion upon London and Paris of re plicas of Mr. George Grey Barnard's conception of Lincoln. "To us." the Acaiemlclans say, "this presentation does not convey the recognized characteristics of Lincoln." Neither does it to most laymen. Some time in '63 John Hay went with Mr. Lin coln to look at the statuary of till East pediment of the Capitol. The President, with an eye of an expert objected to the statue of The Wood chooper," by Powers, as he did not make a sufficiently clean 'cut,' " Mr. Lincoln knew how a woodchopper looked or should look. Most Amer icans know how Lincoln looked, how he should look in a monumental ef figy speaking truly the man and his character. Yet there has been some little in justice done to Mr. Barnard's inven tion. Few can see it without recall ing a line of a hymn that was a fav orite with the Jubilee Singers: "Nobody knows what pain I feH." If it's a denotation of physical, and not mental, pain that the statue seems, to portray, yet by a remote as sociation of ideas Mr. Lincoln is re called in one aspect of his achieve ment. The Jubilee Singers bring to mind emancipation and the Emanci pator. This merit should not be for gotten or grudged. Mr. Barnard takes, of course, a dificrent view. In this letter to The Timet, he appears with a grandiosity not unworthy of his genius, of his long solitary thought, and of the form In which he has embodied it. for the marvel of the world: To the Editor of The New York Times: These lines, my only answer, are Worthy, I hope, to be placed on your editorial page: ' For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him. there is no beauty that we should desire him. "Ho i 3 despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and ac quainted with grief, and we hid as it weie our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." --Isaiah, iiil. George Grey Barnard. The comparison which Mr. Barn ard invites, his "answer" to the, crit ics, is perhaps as bizarre and singular as they in their blindness to originality find his statue to be. Athanasius against the world wits not more loftily confident. Yet he seems to admit that there is no form or comeliness or beauty in his Lin coln. Seldom does the criticised agree so thoroughly witli the critics. —New York Times. LABOR NOTES Thousands are idle in different trades in New South Wales, Austra lia, owing to the shortage of coal. All coal mines are working, but there is little shipping to remove the coal. There are two large labor organi zations in England—the British Trades Union Congress, with a mem bership of 3,000,000, and the Gen eral Federation of Trades Unions, with a membership of 1,000,000. Colorado State Federation of La bor's plan to assure sons and daugh ters of labor a college education Is being given enthusiastic support by officials of the Colorado State Uni versity. Women workers are found every where in England. They aiie rapid ly Joining the trade union movement, and while they are not receiving the same wage as men in many cases, the unions are making this battle with pronounced success. Commissioner of Labor Younger will ask the Washington State Leg islature to check the exploitation of workers by Alaska canners. Poor food, worthless checks and a bogus "first-aid", plan are complaints of workers in this industry. Cincinnati Central Labor Council demands that Justice be accorded ne groes who have been lured from the South by unscrupulous employers. The unionists insist that the black man be paid a living wage to support his family and aid him in establish ing new home ties. At a conference of Texas and Louisiana oil field workers, a com mittee was appointed with instruc tions to request oil producers and op- rators of these two states to meet with them to discuss improved work ing conditions. The proposed changes Include union recognition, the eight hour day and increased wages. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By Briggt CwrlKbtd 1911 by Th Tribune Amo*. <Nw Yrk Tribute German Loan Up-Hill Fight EVERY power of persuasion and pressure at the disposition of the German Government was brought into play to make a success of the seventh war loan of 15,000,- 000,000 marks, ($3,570,000,000 at normal exchange.) according to re ports found in German newspapers recently reaching London. The time for the acceptance of subscriptions was scheduled to run thirty dajs Irom September 19. but It was hinted that in case the full amount was not raised by the end of thfet period be lated patriots would still have a chance to subscribe. "Discourage England from contin uing to fight!" was the catch phrase officially adopted by the Government for the' purpose of getting subscrip tions News ami advertisements of the campaign filled late papers to the exclusion of almost all other top ics. The Krupps subscribed $12,500,- 000 the Mendelssohn Bank in Berlin $5,000,000, and the Town of Berlin sls 000,000, making the municipal ity's total war loan investment $90,- 'OOO 000. In general the campaign for the loan was being waged on the lines originated by the Britisn Treas urv authorities last winter. Cabinet Ministers and Deputies addressed meetings, and the magic name of Hindenburg was used for all it was worth. Dutch newspapers contained advertisements reminding German 1 residents abroad of their patriotlo | duty. Poetry, music and the promise of decorations by the Kaiser were some of the methods adopted or suggested for inducing the Germans to ransack their cupboards, stockings, and other savings banks for the new ldan. One AUGUSTE RODIN Someone has extravagantly said that all the art of France seems but a preface to that of Auguste Rodin; but, if we substitute the word sculp ture for art. a closer approximation of the truth is reachetj. Since the early Goths France lias had numer ous- sculptors but few great ones. And Rodin, who died in Paris yesterday, stood head and shoulders above all the sculptors of France as he did above all the contemporary sculptors of all the world. It was Inevitable that an artist of his extreme individuality, one who rejected so contemptously the accu mulated artistic dogma of his time, should have been slow to be recog nized and, even after his genius had been acclaimed, should have had so many bitter detractors. But Rodin lacked neither defenders nor imita tors, once his. pre-emienoe had been established. A whole library of liter ature has been written about him and his mark is indelibly stamped upon the artistic Ideals of today. To obtain comparisons with his strong mastery over the technique of his art, his fresh, unspoiled view point, and bis marvelous fidelity to truth, his critics have had to go back to the early Greek sculptors and to the two dominant figures of the his tory of sculpture. Donatello and Mi chael Angelo. But Rodin was more than faithful to life; he had the rare genius for adding just that touch of exaggeration or emphasis which transforms mere representation Into the very semblance of the thing it self and at the same time brings out, the inner drama, the inner beauty of It. The memorial to Rodin's greatness has already been prepared. The city of Paris has erected a building In which his collected sculptures are housed: and Rodin, in his lifetime, bequeathed his works to the Govern ment on condition that the museum thus created be preserved. At this shrine art lovers from all parts of the world and for generations to come will worship and learn.—Phila delphia Press. MOMENT OF TRIUMPH One never knows when he has won in an argument until he hears his own views advanced by the man j&ho opposed them six months before. '—St. Louis Globe Democrat. Sunday a concert was given in Berlin by the Philharmonic Orchestra, and while the spell.of Wagnerian master pieces was still upon them persuasive orators asked the audience to fill out subscription blanks. A big feature of the propaganda for the loan was the effort to dissi pate pessimism as to the financial position of Germany after the war. In the midst of the loan campaign Rudolf Havenstein. President of the Reichsbank, delivered a speech be fore tho Frankfort Chamber of Com merce summarizing current German arguments. If err Havensteln candidly admitted that pessimism about the linanciai future was widespread. He replied to the pessimists in the first place with generalities about the enor mous strength of Germany, which, ho said, could never become bank rupt unless the empire were broken up. He still held out a vague hope of indemnities, but admitted that such hopes were better left out of the calculation. Germany's financial burden would be undoubtedly heavy, but she would be able to bear it, he said. The whole economic machin ery of the world would move faster after the war, and the Germans would have to work still harder, think still more, and live more mod estly. They would also have to take good care to turn capital into tho most profitable channels. But the main point was that, "when peace had opened a free road, for German work both at home and overseas, and when the German mercnapt was again able to wrestle in free compe tition with other nations in the world market" nothing could permanently paralyse German work, which was "inimitable."—Exchange. THE AGE OF THOUGHT Privateering apd profiteering are closely 'related terms. One repre sents an ocean activity; the other a pursuit on shore. April 16, 1856. the the compact. Europe has abolished vateering, America refused to enter the compast. Europe has abolished war-profiteering. This gives us some thing to think about. Shall we think?— Nebraska State Journal. ♦ BALLAD OF BROKEN THINGS The toy no Bkillful fingers may repair Is dearer far in tearful childish eyes Than all remaining treasures whole and fair, For here is tragedy that beautifies. The broken doll assumes herotc guise— The saints must die before we can nonize— The broken things are the immor tal things! Yea, shattered gods the heart of man ensnare: 'Tis the scarred loveliness we praise and prize; To wreck and ruin fealty we swear— How near one's soul the Coliseum lies! Ere she may know her life's tru wakenings. And see, ere straining flight may scale the skies. Prom ashes must the fabled bird arise— The broken things are the immor tal things! Ruin and dust and ashes of despair— On these we build our shrines: and here our cries Of adoration and exalted prayer. Ascending like the smoke of sacri fice. Halo waste lands and homes. On dying sighs Are wafted seeds of perfect flower ings; The Christ accepted death, and He was wise— The broken things are the Immor tal things! L'ENVOT. O Belgium! There is victory that dies. Power that undermines the thrones of kings; Pear not defeat; disaster glorifies— The broken things are the immor tal things! •—Blanche Weitbrec. ANOTHER EXAMPLE Railroads ask increase of freight rates, because many of the weaker roads are facing ruin. Such increase means higher cost of living and rail road labor justifiably asks higher wages. Then the railroads pray for another increase of rates. This is the American railroad situation, in a nutshell, and it is the situation in respect to many of the great indus tries. It was the railroad situation in Great Britain until the British government took absolute control of the railroads, consolidated them, guaranteed the same dividends as those of 1912, invested in improve ments for which it will be reim bursed when the roads are restored to the owners, and provided for au tomatic increases in wages to meet the rise In cost of living. It is to this British plan that Washington seems inclined to resort in respect of our railroads. —Washington Herald. MY LADY'S HERB GARDEN England found it advisable to resort to the gathering of garden herbs and weeds for medicinal pur poses. The old-fashioned industry had fallen into disuse until tho drug supply from Germany was cut off.— Ohio State Journal. I OUR DAILY LAUGH SOME HOPE. cent postage |S|jtK y \ may be a bless- lng in disguise. creditors won't care to bill us quite so often \ at the Increased X— |f|,i,,„u lalnly must be the Black Sea! f ■ ■ ■ ° fA RARE TREAT. Ostrich I don't know what kind of nuts these ar, but they cer* talnly are licious! r^ssp L^> What did yon camouflage ball Invisible silk! fl| lEbnrtttg (ttljal Notwithstanding the fact that Ilarrisburg is showing considerabla smoke these days there is no com plaint to be heard and most peopl® are glad to see the pillar of cloud by day for the reason that It be tokens a live city. Some ten years ago there would have been consider able complaint about the way that smoke is now spreading over tho community. If one should happen, to sit down on Reservoir Park knoba or over at Fort \\[ashington th smoke pall would b&~round not only extensive, but made up of a good many distinct sources. To begin it there are the railroads that line both sides of the Susquehanna anS which can be traced for miles with the Cumberland Valley and tho Reading at right angles. Ruther ford yards is easy to pick out be cause of the locomotives bustling about and Enola is marked as wit£ a monument while the yards of th Pennsylvania can be traced clear up to Lucknow by the' smoke of the shifters. Steelton seems like a haze with its many stacks and then there is I.,oehiel furnace with a yel low plume, a striking contrast to the black and occasional yellow from. Steelton anil the light colored sul phur from Paxton turnaces. Cen tral chimneys have almost as many colors of smoko as those of tho Har risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending works and the stacks of the electric traction and other companies add their contributions to the cloud that shows the city is busy. Some one has said that a city without smoke is a dead one. If appearances go for anything the Capital city of Pennsylvania is anything buP that. The State Department of Agricul ture is getfing some interesting re ports on the value of the tractor. A year ago Governor Brumbaugh, who was raised on a farm made the sug gestion that the people of Pennsyl vania. plow by night as well as day, saying that tractor plows did not have to sleep and that men could work in shifts. This very thing Is coming to pass because it has been learned that in a couple of places fields were actually plowed by headlights. In one county men" burned brush while having fields plowed by the big machines. • • • State Forestry Commissioner Conklin, who is one of the busiest of conservationists, says that the Idea ol maintaining the forests is not new in this state. In fact, he says it ought never to have been forgot ten because when William Penn sold five acres he stipulated that ono tcre should be in woods, which tho new owners promptly forgot. . It is rather an interesting thing to trace the way things get passed arennd when sold at public sile. Not long ago tho state of Pennsyl vania sold at public sale a quantity cf military clothing. It is now be ing worn by soldiers of another s'.ate. Some equipment which ha-l been ruled out in the maintenance .if the Pennsylvania soldiers at the n-i'ior.al standard was also sold. It. had never been used. It is now worn with pride by the militia of a ctv lain ither state. Notwithstanding the fact ill it statements have been made at venous times '.hat the chestnut crj|i of Pennsylvania is diminishing in .1. saddening manner the fact remains that there have been as many chest nuts on sale in the markets as us ual. In some instances more ha .'a bren found 011 the stalls. The pruts, however, are at a r.tte wbich vf> ,Id lndlcato toat the sellers o< !>Mts had fed a.ul watered the tree* tor tv\ o years. Dr. R. P. Cummins, who was here :>terday for tho conference of Ui iliihtrial surgeon::, >s the chief sue •?eon of the Midvole Steel Compßi/. He had char io of the organization. \l. the. hosp. al >stem of the com pany'*'plants. nr.u is keenly interest.. eO in the work (if the Department ol Labor and Industry for safety. Unless one is thoroughly ac quainted with present railroad con ditions, it requires considerable ex planation to make it plain why cer tain thing's are done. For Instance, there is a train leaving Harrlsburg about 10:15 o'clock in the morning, for the west. This train sometime ago hauled from one to three ex press cars. Since express and mail business have been increasing, a sec ond section is run. hauling mall and express ears only. This greatly lightens the regular train. Now that train is being hauled by one of the heaviest engines in service. When the express and mail cars were in cluded. a small engine was used. Where's the explanation?' The man at the head of the motive power knows, and if you ask him, tho an swer will likely be, "just now wo must run engines when we have them." However, only yesterday a big engine loft here with four cars, and soon after a small engine pulled out of the Pennsylvania railroad sta tion with nine cars. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Samuel B. Scott, former legis lator, is preparing to take a hand in politics in Germantown again, —Charles L, McKeelian, promi nent Philadelphia lawyer and ac tive in University of Pennsylvania affairs, has been' named a major in the United States ordnance corps. He is secretary of the State Board of Law Examiners. —S. D. Warrlner, the Lehigh Coal executive, has been at Washington on anthracite matters. —The Rev. Hugh Robert Orr, Pittsburgh minister, has been made an editor of an Illinois literary mag azine. —The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexan der. former moderator of the Pres byterian church, is preaching at Camp Hancock. DO YOU KNOW ~[ Hint Harrisbu rg's bank clearings liave been steadily climbing and are ahead of* those of sonic cities of larger size? HISTORIC HARRISHURG The first burgess office was located on Market Square near the Market Square churchy THE DARKEST HOUR A letter to tho editor of the Phlla* delphla Public Ledger says: "The German Emperor and his conferees must lie now In the seventh heaven of delight; but if they have read history, they will find that it was In just such times that defeat came to their great prototype a*; progenitor, Attilla, called the Scourge of God, who had almost conquered his enemies whA a new enemy poured down upon him and gave him one of the greatest defeats o( his life. After recovering from this, and when In the height of his great est Joy, on the eve of his marriage or the night of his marriage, he died very suddenly. Right and truth are able to conquer their enemies in th very hour when their enemies seem about to conquer them. So let us take courage and go on, for the fate* have decreed that we must win this war and victory may be nearer than w think."
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