8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.EGR.' PH miN'TING CO., Trlearrnph Building, Federal Squrf. E.J. ST A CK POLE, Prest & Editor-in-Chirf 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 n'ews 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 f Newspaper Pub nirflff Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn -5i Eastern office, KBgHf M Story. Brooks & SmIMbSK wt Avenue Building, SEssgfeSifiß Western office, ®®S2ii3£s2 Story, Brooks & Chicago, 111. g ' Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. gjywroift- By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY, NOYEMBKR 24, 1917 He's true to God who's true to many wherever wrong is done To the humblest and the weakest, 'neath the all-beholding sun. That wrong is also done to us: and they are slaves most base i Whose love of right is for them- , selves and not for all their race. —Lowei.l,. CITY MANAGERSHIP MAYOR BOWMAN, in his state- 1 mcnt given to the public to day, relating to the city man agership plan of government for Har- 1 risburg, has given the people some thing big to think about during the next two years and which ought to be productive of better and more ef ficient conduct of municipal affairs. The mayor is careful to make clear that by advocating city manager ship he is not reflecting upon the men who constitute city council, i whom he has found to be hard- j working, painstaking officials, fully 1 awake to their responsibilities. His | only reason for offering the sugges tion is that he believes it would rf ford the city a more businesslike ad ministration of its public afTairs. This conclusion of Mayor Bow mar., made after a close study of municipal government from the standpoint of a practical and suc cessful business man on the inside, is In full accord with the findings of similar investigations in other c4ties. For example, Altoona and Bethlehem have gone in for the plan after careful examination of results attained elsewhere. In both these Pennsylvania cities the councilmen and mayors elected will contribute all but a few hundred dollars of their salaries to provide pay for a "high caliber city manager, who will have charge of all the details of the city government and administer It purely from a business standpoint. This, commission-manager plan has worked out well elsewhere. The lines of responsibility are left clear end straight. They never fork or> leave one wondering who is respon- j sible. Tho plan gives a strong | single-headed executive presiding over all departments, co-ordinating their activities and acting as a court! of appeal In cases where depart mental rivulries or frictions develop. The people are left free to elect the vHI tru representatives, unhampered by any considerations of the busi ness experience or salary earning capacities of their favorites, and, moreover, these representatives after election have in turn a surer grip on the government through the man ager than if they were individually ■ compelled to assume departmental direction. Membership in the com mission thereby is made attractive to the ablest citizens, since it offers opportunity for high usefulness without Interruption of their private \ careers. Mayor Bowman' has hit upon a big and vital subject for public con sideration. This newspaper from time to time has dwelt in a news way and editorially upon the city managership plan, but this is the first time that it has been given serious consideration by a city offi cial. Harrlsburg should give care ful sti'dy to the operation of the plan elsewhere in order to be able to act intelligently two yearn hence, at the next municipal elections. ! IJ2T ITSl T S HAVE IT THE residents of Devon—shrink ing, sensitive souls that they must be—have made it so un pleasant for the gqvernment that the War Department Is looking else where for a home for crippled and incapacitated soldiers it had proposed to locate there. The sight of an arm less, legless or sightless soldier, It was decided, would be so terribly shocking to the delicate, hothouse natures of Devon folks that It really would bo best not to have them near, so Devon begged Washington to be excused. And right here It may be . said that If a new site has not al ready been chosen Harrlsburg would like to have that hospital. We think we know how our people would feel about having wounded soldiers as their guests. Besides, where is there pleasanter, more picturesque country SATURDAY EVENING, than that surrounding Harrlsburg— or more healthful or bracing climatic conditions than are to be found In the mountains roundabout, or even right here In town. What Devon re jects Harrlsburg would be glad to have, and wo venture the opinion that the change would not be the soldiers' loss. ROBBING THE SOLDIER TRYING to deprive the soldier of his vote Is small and despicable business. The Democratic candidate for coroner, the Democratic City, County and State Committees in making themselves parties to an effort to disfranchise Dauphin county sol diers have placed themselves In an unefivlable light. Taking advantage of a technicality to rob absent pa triots of their rights as citizens 1s a crime that might well put a sec ond-story man to shame and Is un thinkable as the act of a decent citi zen. The situation is this: Hundreds of Harrlsburg and Dauphin county citizens during the past summer and early fall laid aside their own af fairs and went out to fight for the preservation of the nation. Being unavoidably absent at election time, Governor Brumbaugh ordered the State government to provide a means by which they and all other Penn sylvania soldiers might register their votes, and Secretary of the Common wealth Woods and Attorney General Brown found that means In the sol diers' vote act of 1864—the same act, by the way, through which Pennsylvania soldiers at the border cast their votes last fall —and com missioners were named to hold the elections. All this was widely pub lished. Not one candidate of any party raised an objection. Appar ently all were content to abide by the results. I Now. when it Is discovered that ! Dr. Hartman. Democratic candidate j for coroner, would have a majority, and John K. Royal, Democratic ma chine lieutenant and chronic office- | holder, would, perhaps, defeat j I Charles W. Burtnett for City Coun- ' cil, if the soldiers are robbed of j their votes, an' outrageous attempt \ to disfranchise the most patriotic I element of the city and county is I proposed. That this step actually will be taken is incomprehensible. No won der Judge Kunkel protested against >1 the lateness of the proposed action. The very Idea of depriving our sol diers of their right to participate in the affairs of the community they are | ready to lay down their lives to pro- I tect Is abhorrent to anybody with a I scintilla of patriotism in his soul. If the soldier is to be cheated out of his vote who of us may consider j himself safe? If the volunteer In the j service of his country Is to be robbed I of his of citizenship what j heart will he have to risk his life on j the battlefield In order that the bal- j lot thieves back home may live in I safety to repeat their theft at an- j other election? No! The thing cannot, must not be allowed. Democrats as well as j Republicans will make It warm next election for the party management that places a tawdry political office above the rights of citizenship. It Is fair to assume that the man who took the trouble to vote In camp would have voted had he re mained at home. It Is also apparent that he would have voted at home for the same candidates he did in ! camp. The only effect, then, of set ting aside the soldier vote would be to place minority candidates In office where the soldier vote omitted w<'ld change results. This would be to legalize political Jugglery of the most vicious type, and if the Demo cratic machine has the temerity to attempt this piece of highway rob bery, it Is not likely that it will get 1 beyond a brief hearing In court. The rights of the absent soldier are abo\je the selfish desires of any group of , politicians or the ambitions of any | candidate, and It will go hard with ' thoso who trifle with them. *Po&tccs Lk By the lix-Couimltt<i\inaii State wide attention has been at tracted to the proceedings launched In the Dauphin county court yes terday by James A. Stranahan, coun sel for prominent Democrats, to test the right of the soldiers to vote. The returns from the camps were the big thing in state politics yesterday as they were opened in the sixty seven courts and in many instances surprises were found. Incidentally, there appears to be more or less complaint about the way the re turns were made. The Dauphin county court is the court wherein ballot laws are tested and 13 naturally the place where a move to question legality of the vot ing by the soldiers would be taken. AY hat is done here will have state wide effect and the developments were closely watched to-day. At the State Capitol it is declared that the state will not take part in any proceedings unless made a party to the test when the Attorney General's Department would natur ally defend the procedure which was worked out after careful considera tion of the act of 1864 under whose provisions the soldiers voted In 1898 and 1899 and at the Mexican border last year. —ln Philadelphia to-day the sol dier vote was .brought into question because of tho manner in which men voted. There were claims that things did not look well, especially where some negro regiments voted almost solidly, for the Vare candi dates. In reply it was stated that this was the result of crystallized sentiment. , •—Humors of a general shake-up in the State Highway Department force of engineers and superinten dents, were rife on Capitol Hill to day and reports were current that ten or twelve men carried over from the former administration of the department were to be let go on December 1. Men connected with the department refused to discuss the reports, saying that they were under orders not to talk to any one > n the absence of the commissioner, who has been away most of the week on a tour of roads in western and northwestern couaties. For a couple of weeks prior to the elec lton there were reports that Mr O Neil, who is generally considered a candidate for Governor, would make a sweeping change in his de partment and since he is agent it is generally believed that things will start and he will not be around to receive the indignant backers of placeholders. The name of the American I party was to-day pre-empted for the nomination of a complete state ticket! in Pennsylvania for next vear to-1 day by L. L. Coyle. W. F. ltoden-1 w A " s P? tts > J - D - Moreland, )} • ?• Mowry, M. 1.. Hay and C. R! .urd, of this city. The same men I also pre-empted the name for the highteenth congressional district, ihei name was pre-empted a couple SL-fi? aS ,°. fol ' the Flrs t Dauphin d strict and to-day pre-emption was also ''led for the second Dauphin. —Governor Brumbaugh's visit to day to Pittsburgh will probably have considerable effect. The Governor is to meet there men from Washing lon county who will urge appoint ment of Norman Clark, H. 13. Hughes ! and others and will also meet Wil liam A. Magee, former public service! commissioner, and the Western Pennsylvania element that was aligned with William Flinn in the Bull Moose campaigns. This eie-l ment is hostile to Highway Com missioner O'Neil, who has been mak ing a rather triumphal tour of coun ties while inspecting roads and meet ing local officials. —State administration men arc commencing to voice the belief that Gifford Pinchot will not bo a candi date for governor and that when the nomination time comes around Ma jor John Price Jackson will be away off in France. It is notable that there has been a recurrence of talk booming Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown lately. Mr. Brown, if he should become a candidate, would be backed to the limit by the state administration. The Philadelphia Ledger says regarding the death of ex-Mayor Smith, well known here: "fVilliam B. Snuth was a prominent exponent of the after-dinner speech. Almost every night while he was in office he was the honored guest at one or more banquets, always making an address that "took the crowd." But while liis popularity was still on the rising tide charges were made against him and his administration, chiefly founded, it was admitted bv the publication iffider his sanction of a history of the police department. The charges Anally led Councils to make an investigation and the mayor was impeached. After he re-1 tired from office, at the end of his' term, he began suit against the Philadelphia Times for $40,000 for alleged libel. The judge instructed the jury to bring in a verdict for the plaintiff for $40,000, and the case it was paid, was subsequently set tled for $20,000. Mr. Smith won his name of "Dandy Mayor" at the end ing of a twentv-year controversy with the lat j Co ) net Alexander Mo- Clure. At a celebration by the Clover Club Colon jl McClure proclaimed him, after all, as a "dandy mayor," and the name continued. During the Spanish-American war he becamo colonel of a provisional regiment of volunteers and in 1901 was ap pointed assistant flre marshal of this city, which office he held until his death." —J. Denny O'Neil, State Highway Commissioner, directed a letter to the Rev. Thomas R. McDowell, su pervisor of the highways in Chester county, requesting his resignation to take effect December 1, "on. account of changes that the State Commis sioner desired to make." says a West Chester dispatch. O'NeU'a action oc casioned considerable comment, for It was believed here that McDowell was doing good work, as he was en dorsed by the Road Supervisors' As sociation of Chester County, of which he haa been president for eleven years. For some years he was supervisor in Upper Oxford township, has been a member of the Legislature and road supervisor of the county for four years. Ho is a Presbyterian preacher. Supervisor McDowell wrote Commissioner O'Neil that he was gratified to know he had not been "fired," but had been asked to leave because the department de slrd a "change." He declined to take a "vacation" from November 15 to December 1. William H. Clark, the owner of a 250-acre farm near Lenape, In Pocopson township, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Mc- Dowell at a salary of $1,500; and he assumes his new duties December 15, having disposed of his dairy cows. Clark represents the independent Republican faction in the county. McDowell is a local option man. —Town Meeting party leaders, fig uring on the basis of the official com putation of the November election, ftARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE n=- ~ts], ,ts ] •/ —%' >r —- —v OF re L A Girl. I /\ \ WH r Te .„/ HAVE TO WISHTS E - S THC 1 ( UCK HARD LUCK?, TAKE A BACK cllo FLOOR/" (f \ HARD / I— y oEAT e BEer4,"THR<MJ6H r ( LOCK / r The micu -yoo i IT " t- \ fT 6uߣ- vSoRRy I C *fficu66 c f J —another ihinG- y so oP [ / * , jprr ft \IT COSTS So MUCH I ' 10 6EE „ Y t ;,J C . / 1/M \ more ro RAise A V against * \ s J\ fy)l\A '1 \ CaIRL- YbU'LL N6EO 1 ! J>ON - I <SAY \ f\ CU U//W/ \ YOUR SALARY DOUBLED) TH.MSS TO DISCOURAGE! VI V , / J - A OOY UJOULDM'T J \ %u-' A TIP f \ S C / S HAv/g TiegNi BAOy A I completed yesterday, declared last night that the Smlth-Vare ticket wlll'i be shown to have been defeated by I 10,000 majority without the usualj recourse to a contest in the Court of Quarter Sessions, says the Phila delphia Ledger this morning. This statement was subscribed to by How ard R. Sheppard, chairman of the campaign committee; Robert S. Bright, chairman of the legal com mittee. and by the trained lieuten ants of Senator Penrose. Senator Vare quickly countered with the dec- | laration that the "flfty-flfty" ticket; had been elected by a majority of 9,-j 000 for W. Freeland Kendrlck, can didate for re-election as receiver of | taxes, and by a majority of about | 2,000 for the other candidates, Reg-| ister ofWill: Sheelian and Frederick | J.. Shover, the selection for city, treasurer. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to day says: "No sinking fund surplus exists and the $1.25 city tax rate must be increased, probably to $1.51. Communicating to Select and Com mon Councils yesterday the decision of the sinking fund commissioners, announced the day before, that no surplus of $4,000,000, or of even one dollar, is In its hands, and that $4,- 000,000 more must be appropriated, Controller John M. Walton yesterday knocked out what has been called the 'ante-election political camou flage tax rate bill'of $1.25.' " GAMBLER QUIT CRAP [Camp and Trench] One of the Y. M. C. A. men was approached at the counter recently by a young fellow, who said: "I want to send S4O home. Do j'ou have express money order?" The secretary at. once flashed th 4 money order book on the counter and said: "That's fine. I'm glad you're send ing your money home, old man." The younr fellow replied: "Gad, tf I don't send it home now, I'll lose it all in crap. I lost $ ten minutes ago." Then the man opened his heart to the secretary and said: "Do vou know I never worked in my life until I joined the Army. I've been a gambler all my life. I never wer.t to church in my life. My father was a gambler and never did any thing else all bis life, so you se the gambling instinct is strong In me. I Hut the other night 1 was passing vour Y. M. C. A. and heard Uhe sing ing and went In. It was the lirst time 1 had ever been at a religious service and it was so different from what I had expected, I went again. I'm going to try to cut out the craps and poker and live straight." The secretary encouraged the man and a few days later the former gambler met him in the building and Sa '"Bay I'm still holding out. and on Sunday night I went to church In Augusta—the first time I was in church In my life. I'm going down town to church every Sunday after this." . . . . And the secretary expects to lead that confessed gambler to a Power greater than himself. LABOR NOTES Between 7,000 and 8,000 persons are employed In and about mines, quarries and dredges In Alaska, about 50 per cent of whom are in the lode mines. It is stated that 1,2 84 local branch unions in Canada reported 21,599 en listments since the declaration of war to June 30, 1917. The question of increasing the pay of soldiers and sailors of Great Brit ain has been taken up by the Gen eral Federation of Trade Unions. Mayor Mitchell of New York is seeking the right for the metropolis to buy, store and self food to Its In habitants under the new state legis lation. Because of the helplessness of dual and seceding labor organiza tions, British trade unionists refer to these institutions as "goose club" un ions. Halibut fishing in Alaska waters Is becoming more profitable under pres ent conditions than working in the munition factories and steel mills of the Fast. Tacoma (Wash.) Janitors and win dow cleaners have organised and are attempting to enforce an eight-hour wage schedule ot $3 and $3.50 a day, respectively.' The president of the Idaho Btate Federation of Labor has been ap pointed one of the commissioners to enforce the workmen's compensation act, passed by the last legislature. Norway proposes legislation which accepts the principle of the minimum wage by law and extends the protec tion ot the factory code to home work. We Might Be Prussians, But AreWe? By EDMUND VANCE COOKE v yj BUT for the grace of God, there i goes Isaac Watts." The statement has been at tributed to several theologians, but Watts will serve, The story is that the speaker saw a drunken vagabond pass by on his way to the gallows, and, though the speaker had never been ' accused of criminal tenden cies, he recognized the essential unity of the human ra,ce in his char itable exclamation. Similarly, some charitable people are still excusing the heinous of fenses of Prussian autocracy and militarism by shying that German civilization is as high as ours, and that therefore we would do the same the Germans have done had we been in the same situation as Germany was and is. Now, there is a deep truth In the assertion of Dr. Watts and of the German apologists. Given the heredity and the environment of the vagabond, and Dr. Watts might have been on his way to the gallons. Given an emperor "by-Divine right," a Keichstag without any actual gov erning power, a Bundesrath with the real governing power, and the Kai ser in control of that, a militaristic, training of generations until respect for authority and the impulse to obey were second nature; given a philosophy carefully fostered by ev ery educational influence (from primer class to university) that the state is supreme and is beyond all moral law, and that therefore the orders of the state expressed through its army are to be carried out Implicitly; given the training of child, father and grandfather that war is man's natural state and Is God's way in the world, that our Kultur is supreme and must be en forced upon the world for its bet terment and ours —given this back ground, there is no reasonable doubt that you and I would be Prussian ized that the Kaiser would appear to us like the leading Member of, the Trinity and that Schrecklichkeit THE PEOPLE'S GARBAGE FOR PIGS I To the Editor of the Telegraph: The people have read so much of the garbage question that they are utterly tired of the whole proposi tion, and I believe that City Council should get on the Job and do some thing. The Telegraph editorial on tho question of raising pigs from the city's garbage is right. Other places have tried it and proved it success ful, and why not Harrisburg? Let City Council get on tho Job and do something. them try out the pig question. There is plenty of availa ble ground close to Harrisburg that could be readily used for this pur pose. For years we have read of a shortage of pork and when one stops to think why this shortage we can remember some years back whon Hundreds of people living on tho outskirts of the city raised their own hogs and when Thanksgiving came around there was butchering day all around and on up until Christmas, not only In Harrisburg but In all the cities and towns throughout the United States. Then came along the great wave of sanitation and jjeople were not allowed to keep hog* in the cities and towns, and can you grasp the enormous loss of pork from this source? Now comes the proposition for the cities and towns to turn <helr waste Into a paying proposition. Will Clt#' Council grasp this opportunity or wIU they drag and haggle over this question all wirftsr and put the peo ple up against the- same proposition that they were up against all of last summer? Do something, Council. 1 .believe that the intelligent people of Harrisburg would back yop In any thing that you would do to lower the cost of living. TAXPAYER. UNREASONABLE Willie was playing in the door yard with his little brother. "Ma," he shouted, "I wish you'd come out here and make Bob behave himself. Every time I hit him on the head with tire hammer he bawls."—Atchi son Globe. THIS IS HIS RIGHT NAME The Oakley Graphic adorns Wil liam II also with the unique title of William the Last.—Kansas City Star. would be his prophet and his Instru ment. The answer to this is that Dr. Watts was not the vagabond and that we are not. as yet. a Prussian ized people. If the German!) had had a struggle toward personal and political liberty from the time of Magna Charta, a Declaration of In dependence and a century and a third of self-expression in govern ment, with an absence of militarism all the time except in rare cases of extreme national peril, the Germans might very likely have surpassed us, for we have been shamefully negligent of some of the opportuni ties of democracy. Unfortunately for them and for us, this has not been their history, and so to-day there is apparently no oath too sol emn not to be disregarded, no bar barism too heartless not to be com mitted, no decency too established not to be violated by the German nation, provided only that it furthers the immediate aim of that nation. If you and I are walking down the street and a child obstructs our path and I thrust it into the gutter and trample upon It, shall I be allowed to continue as free as you from con trol because I assert that I am "as civilized" as you are and that my psychology is the same? Well, Germany has gone down the highway of the nations and, •'civ ilized" though she be, she has acted like some sort of a maniac. We might have done the same, but we didn't. Watts might have been the gallows bird, but he wasn't. When we shoot Nurse Cavells, when ye execute Captain Fryes, when wo bomb schoolhouses and hospitals, when we use our diplo mats stationed under the protection of a friendly power to hatch schemes to burn and slay, and while profess ing friendship in words plot to array enemies against her, when we adopt the watchword "Spurles versenkt" — when we do these things, not as in dividual criminals, but as expres sions of governmental policy, then maybe there will be some democra tized Germany to call us to account. ROCKPIIiK FOR SONS OF REST To the Editor of the Telegraph: To the Chief of Police and Council of Harrisburg, also — My attention has been called to an article which appeared in The Pa triot, November 19, 1917. That the chief of police Is anxious for council to enact an ordinance making it pos sible to take care of the sons of res.t over the city, and a city rockplle or a municipal workhouse or an ordi nance permitting the city to press hoboes and panhandlers into service; that hundreds of Jobs are begging for men to 1111. I have read it carefully. In reply will state why is not the chief of police anxious for council to enact an ordinance making It pos sible to take care of those women that are to-day operating houses of prostitution throughout this city? Look at the city papers to-day with hundreds of Jobs begging for women to till and with wages higher than ever before, why can not the women get work In place of operating such houses? I cannot seo why an effort is not made by the incoming council to enact legislation that will permit the chief of police to close up every house of prostitution and make those women go to work. Council should put them to work on a city rockplle or in a workhouse. For I cannot see why one evil is always knocked and to another evil no attention iB given. So wake up council and make the sons of rest and those women oper ating houses of prostitution go to work or put them on a rockplle or In a workhouse. _ A CITIZEN. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT In such a time as this the Presi dent should set the example of non partlsanshlp. And It should be no hardship to practice Impartiality.— Altoona Tribune. If Germany planned the Italian campaign with the idea of diverting attention tjrom the failure of the submarine campaign, her camou flage has failed. She made good headway, but at the expense of the much more important western front. When It comes to camouflaging the Allies know a trick or two them selves.—Philadelphia Record. ' NOVEMBER 24, 1917. Over tfu Ik ""P^KTOU Mark Twain, who, when alive, had to emphasize that fact by an announcement that -the "rumors of his death were exaggerated," had a comparatively easy job proving it, when one meditates upon the hard ships of Henry Laubach, a Ritters ville youth, now at Camp Meade. Dame Rumor first circulated the re port that Henry was ill of blood poisoning; next that he was worse; then that his arm would have to be amputated. Finally on Sunday morning the village grieved to hear that Henry was dead and his body on the way home. This was the limit. Some of his warmest friends hopped a high-power touring car and rushed to Camp Meade to see the last of Henry, and they saw it, just as he was turning the comer In regi mental drill to the tune of "The Old Gray Mare." Snapping a full-length picture of Henry, his friends hurried back to> Rittersvllle, only to have the village hum with the new rumor that a guard of honor had arrived with Henry Laubach. Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, of the Governor's staff, says in the Al toona Tribune: "Watch the Nation al Army. It is going to perform some prodigies of valor and effici ency in the battle to make the world free, and very soon. A visit to the southern training camp is enough to arouse the most conservative on looker to the highest pitch of en thusiasm. The giant 'hopper' which receives the raw recruits from fac tory, office, mill, mine and farm grinds them out tolerably good sol diers in a week's time; they drill like veterans in a month. Even after twenty-four hours' sojourn at the cantonments the training life comes apparent." Here was an enterprising man. He lives In West Chester and he dug over 200 bushels of potatoes by se curing permission of owners of patches who had gathered their crops to again plow over the ground. German papers may copy if they please. OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT A PLEASANT PASSENGER. "Don't you ever take your wife out In your automobile?" "Not very often. Whenever 1 run over anybody shft scream# so It makes me nervous." ENVIOUS. Bugs (In background)—My, she', •tuck up, slpce she's had that net Caterpillar neck piece! GRATITUDE. "What did Mrs. Cutting say when the was informed that her husband had deserted herT" "All she could say was, "Henry U so thoughtful!" [Butting ffllprt Pennsylvania should have close to 30,000 men and women and young people knitting in Its penal and state charitable institutions If Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh's idea of BU P e . rln tendents Putting the ln -0 such Places to work with, needles and yarns is carried out. f^°. n v es comin S to Harrlaburg irom the men in charge of these places are to the effect that in some ° r „„ th , em knitting has been under ZVL Bot P e time - wh,le others will A number of county ♦hiv v. ° , a!s hav e sent word that* i,v d jT? been furnished with yarn Viorltf ° I S ?, or Kanizations and that ™°fore ldle hands are working on socks, scarfs and sweaters. From all accounts the practice of knitting" hospitals has been a big fea- GnniA the daily life of inmates tor some months. It is estimated that there are between 29,000 and 30.00U persons in the various institutions, state and county with some in cities, ♦v. r ® port of the population of the State Insane hospitals was 10,- , there were 4,250 in the # u 8 and reformatories, some of whom were at work in other lines. The feeble-minded population is gi\en as 3,750 while 8,750 are in county insane hospitals. Over 2,000 "?- e ., arC believ , ed to be in other in stitutions, penal and charitable, not under state control, but where knit ting has been started or will be In augurated. • • * Pennsylvania's National Guard la growing again. According to rec ords in the Adjutant General's De partment a few days ago it consisted of four men. Now it is up around ten, or rather will be when Col. H. C. Trexler, quartermaster general and some of his aids return to state service, and Col. Frank G. Sweeney, Inspector general, retires from duty at the state draft headquarters. Cols. H. L. Haldeman and J. G. El liott are classed as in the Guard. Until the changes are made, how ever, Col. Jere M. Leaman, deputy adjutant general, is the ranking offi cer after Adjutant General Beary. • • If the demands for hunters' li cense tags at the office of the State Oame Commission from big agricul tural and industrial counties are any thing to go by there will be more hunters this fall than known in the last half dozen. Over twenty coun ties have already exceeded their sales of hunters' licenses last year. The banner mark was 303,000 in the first year of the licenses, but last year 292,000 was the approximate total. This year it is possible that 300,000 may be the goal. This will furnish an abundance of funds for the establishing of additional game preserves and to continue propaga tion. It is not believed the Governor will make material changes In the personnel of the State Game Com mission which will administer the funds. Allegheny, Berks, Lancaster, Dauphin and Lehigh counties have gone"closc to 1,000 above the num ber of licenses issued last year. Some of them have estimated that they will go 1,500 ahead. Fayette, Wash ington and Westmoreland are 500 ahead of last year. The smaller counties have been showing propor tionate increases. • • • The fact that a number of farmers In Dauphin and Cumberland coun ties have put up silos this year rather leads to the hope that more atten tion is to be given to cattle raising in this section. For a long time it has been the hope of men who re member the days when Dauphin was a county with cattle on every farm to see it revive and the Interest In 'ieep raising has braced up such people. The silos have been increas ing slowly, but gradually. They being built of tile and even of bi*k. • * A state official who gets about a great deal and who uses his eyes while traveling, remarked the other ; day that he was inclined to think that the custom of railroads to burn 1 old ties was sheer waste now. "Gn a trip the other day I passed through some sections where tracks were be ing fixed up and I passed pile after pile of ties being burned. Tell me why the wood in them could not be given to the workers on the section gang or thrown upon adjoining land for owners to use for firewood, if the railroads did not want it. Wood is wood and when coal is hard to get. especially in the country, I think that conservation could be put into prac .ice." Burgess David McCormick, of Lc hlghton, was here yesterday for the discussion of ways of utilizing mine gas for power at the Executive De partment. The burgess was elpcted recently, and Buys that smiles did it. He also runs a newspaper and is ac tive in the Chamber of Commerce. Likewise he Is some six feet anil built accordingly. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~] —Dr. August Stelmle, Allentown minister, has accepted a call to New York. —Gifford Pinchot is planning to spend several months at his Pike county home —General W. M. Black, Chief of Engineers of the Army, paid a flying visit to his Lancaster county homo. —John R. Saylor, Pottstown man ufacturer, has designed a huge flanging -machine for his own works. —Daniel Post, president of tho State Carpenters, who spoke here this week, says he can do as much work with his tools as the next man. | DO YOU KNOW ~[ That Harrislmrg Rod Dross methods have been highly com plimented by vfcltors from other states ? HISTORIC HARRISHCRG During the Civil War regiments used to march from Camp Curtln to the trains for the front and be es corted by the bands of the city and committees of citizens. THE FIGHT The battles that we win are forgot ten as we go, But the battles that we lose are forever on our mind. The races that we win from the memory early flow, But we always can remember when we were left behind. The roses that we raised fade soonest on the stem, But the roses of the battle ltve a long, long while. The diamond that we find Is a very common gem, But the diamond that we dig la aa lovely as a smile. Nothing ever counts with the pur pose and the zeal Like the thing wo cannot have or the thing we have to win With a strugglo and a service that may turn us Into steel. And that feivo the gods around us such a chance to Jeer and grin. —Folger McKlnsey In Baltimore Sun.
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