8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded tSjt Published evening's except Sunday by THE TELGGRArH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E.J. STACK POLE, Pres"t & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS It 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. I Member American Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- office. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a t week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY DECEMBER 1, 1017 Pity and need make all flesh kin, — EDWIN ARNOLD. HIGH SCHOOL LOCATION WITH the reorganization of the School Board next Monday the question of a site for the proposed new liigh school ought to ■be settled. There seems to be a very general sentiment in favor of locat ing this important educational insti tution on the Capitol Park plaza and most of the arguments advanced in behalf of other sites have disap peared in face of the logic of the Capitol Park frontage. It is unfortunately true, perhaps, that many citizens cannot visualize the park area as it will be under the comprehensive and artistic plans practically adopted by the State authorities. They seem to see the park extension district as it is today and fail to realize what it will be in the years to come. There should be no reasonable objection to placing the building where it will have such an attractive setting. Quite a num ber of the directors are already com mitted in favor of the site on Norh street and it is an open secret that the school authorities believe this location is ideal in every paricular. Any mistake in the placing of this important structure will only em phasize the criticism which has fol lowed the more or less mixed build ing program of the year. We be lieve that there were honest dif. ferences of opinion from the start and it would seem now to be a good thing to reconcile tliege differences and start afresh, with a view only to providing the best buildings and the best educational system that can be had for Harrisburg. Our boys and girls merit every, thing that is Rood in the way of edu cation and the quality of the city's future citizenry will depend in large measure upon the intelligent treat ment of the questions which are now uppermost in the local school dis trict. 1 ;.\\SHOW XTC'S LETTER Loan I.A.VSDOWNE S letter sug gesting a restatement of the peace terms of the allies before the civilized world is brought to ruin by war, is untimely only with re spect to the fact that it was made public at an inauspicious moment. Lord Lansdowne must know that the United States, for one, cannot quit this conflict until it is that 1 lie menace of Prussianism is for all time removed, and while we have no desire, as he says, to dic tate the form of government Ger mans shall choose for themselves, we must insist that it be not' such a government as would put women and children before the lines of its soldiery advancing on an enemy, as did the Germans in Italy the other day. What Lord Lansdowne meant to accomplish by his letter probably was to impress upon the German people the wisdom and importance of reforms at hohie which auto matically, so to speak, would bring about a permanent and lasting peacfc for the very simple reason that the allies would be left without excuse for fighting. But the great dangei is that the German government will choose to misunderstand and the juggling editors of Germany will use the letter to make the public believe England is weakening. For this rea son. as well as to Impress upon Ber liji that the allies have no thought of quitting the war short of the ends at which they aim, it is propei that the Lansdowne letter be stamp ed as unofficial and as expressing merely individual opinion. COAL CARDS NOW that we are using the card index system as applied to orders for household supplies of coal, with sugar and bread cards scarcely hull-down In the offing, we begin to have a faint understanding of the hardships which It is possible for war to bring to us and the necessity of self-sacrifice and the submisson of the individual to such governmental regulation and dis cipline as we have not known in more than a half century. They do things a bit more systematically now than they did then, when they cut down the demand by the simple but SATURDAY EVENING, painful expedient of running prices so high the average person bad to get along with or none, depend ing entirely upoil the bulk of his purse. Mr. Hoover and his colleague, Dr. Garfield, are putting on the pressure so gently that we scarcely know it is being applied. As Frank Daniels once sang: "They kicked him and they poked him; they .lumped on him and choked him. but they did it so politely that the little man was charmed,. really charmed,'' so with the Messrs. Hoover and Garfield. They are doing it also so politely, and with so many protestations of their deep and abiding regard for the public welfare that most of us are tickled to death to get a to"n of coal under the card system and we lug home our two-pound allotment of sugar with all the lordly proprietor ship of the owner of a Kimberly diamond mine. It's a great game. And when the coal finally does arrive how we cherish it. How fondly we contemplate its grimy grains. Wo never ' before realized just how good a ton of coal could look. Having the dealer deliver a load of coal used to be a nuisance; now it is sufficient cause for a cele bration. In the good old days we used to shovel coal grumblingly into the furnace by the scoopful nor look to see where the pieces fell. Now we count 'out the number of chunks we calculate will bank the fire over night and carefully place each bit where it will do the most good, prayerfully grateful o a beneficent government for its bounty. But if buying and using coal has | been elevated from lowly drudgery | to the place of a popular indoor sport, what shall we say of the exciting life of the man who sells the coal? Our conception of a coal dealer used to be that of a large, prosperous-look ing gentleman, whose principal oc cupation was sitting in an office chair with his feet on a nearby desk smok ing quarter cigars and watching the money roll in. Now we know ho is a poor, hunted wretch whose only desire in life is to escape the pack of coal hunters that night and day are camped in front of his doors or are close on his heels the moment he leaves his lair. Between the govern ment on one side and the consumers on the other, he is in about as enviable a position as the historic personage who got between the upper and the nether millstones, and he has just about as much chance of escape. Chickens come home to roost, and if the coal dealer committed a tenth of the sins he was accused of in the halcyon days of yore, when coal con trollers were undreamed of and $5 a ton was regarded as highway rob bery, he is paying for 'em now. We used to call them the coal barons; now they claim to be coal barrens, and have the evidence to prove it. A coal yard at this season once was as full as a Christmas stocking; now it is as bare as old Mother Hubbard's cupboard the morning the dog starved to death. But there's one thing for which to be thankful, it's been a mild fall, and at all events every time we are cold we have simply to think of the Kaiser and get hot all over. IHBIjKS FOR SOT,T)iri{S PnESTDKNT WILSON'S formal endorsement of the movement to put a Bible into the hands of every American soldier is an ex pression of his belief in the value of militant religion as a factor in the development of high morale in the troops we are sending to France. The Bible always has played a large part in the lives of our soldiers and the conduct of our wars. It is the mainstay of society in times of peace and it should be the soldiers' text book in time of war. Popular sup port will be forthcoming for the ef fort of the American Bible Society to raise $4 00,000 with which to pur chase a khaki bound copy for every man in the ranks. Persons accus tomed to think of Christianity as a milk and water affair will be inter ested in reports from the front. The Y. M. C. A., which will be one of the prlnclpul distributing agencies for the testaments, reoorts that the Bible is* the most popular book in the trenches, and that the demand far outdistances the present supply. The trials and temptations of war make a demand on the spiritual stamina of men, and everywhere there is a turning toward old values and old virtues. It is perhaps the emphasis on sac rifice, on the trivial values of life, as compared with great principles, which makes the Christian religion so comforting and sustaining to the man in the trenches. "He that lov eth his life shall lose it," says the Book; "And he that hateth his life in this world shall keep It to life eternal." Confidence In immortality, belief fn a force stronger than our selves, "which makes for righteous ness," purity, courage, and loyalty —these are the things which make armies formidable, 'preserve morale, win wars. • A recent number of the Literary Digest reports Admiral Sir John Jelllco to have sent these words to the British navy: "Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed; for the I.iOrd thy God will keep thee whithersoever thou goest. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Hon. or the king." Commander-in-Chief Pershing clearly recognizes the significance of religion as a force for the preser vation of morale among the troops. "Hardships will be your lot," he writes to an American soldier. "But trust in God will give you comfort. Temptations will befall you, but faith In our Saviour will give you strength." Men facing danger and death feel no flippancy about religion. In stead, there is everywhere a groping toward light, a demand for further understanding of life's paradoxes and sacrifices. If the church can meet that demand, it will perform a service for the lighting forces of Uncle Sam not second to that which satisfies physical needs. This cam paign, which is to be concentrated into the period between Docember 1 and ill, should have the sup port of every patriotic Christian American. lb* "pCKKOljitfaHia Dy the Ex-Committccman || Refusal of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to stop the opening of ballotboxes in the contest of the Philadelphia election inaugurated by the Town Meeting party and the Re publican Alliance meeting to launch the state campaign attracted the at tention of the state to Philadelphia yesterday. The action of the Supreme Court, which was, technically, to re fuse to have an appeal act as a super sedeas, was a blow to the Vares, but the down town Senator came, back with a blast which read out of the Republican party men aligned with the new alliance. A more serious incident of the day for the Vares was the action of the Philadelphia City Council in boosting the city tax rate to $1.75. When the Smith administration took hold the city rate was sl. When tha school tax is added it means $2.35. Observ ers say that with all of the anti-con tractor fire concentrated upon the Vares and an increased tax rate, it means difficult work for the down town people not only in their own city, but in the state at large. In addition to the Supreme Court decision yesterday the Philadelphia judges decided to have ballotboxes opened in divisions where more votes -were found than were on the check list. Senator Penrose took up with counsel charges that the "Fifty fifty" ticket people bought 25,000 tax receipts for voters; and Thomas W. Cunningham was enosen head >f the Philadelphia Republican Alliance which will tight the Vares every where and which will be aligned with the Town Meeting party in the state. The session of council at which the tax rate was passed was stormy and sharp things were said about the city administration. —Twenty-two affidavits pre-empt ing the name of the Town Meeting party for all of the Allegheny county congressional, senatorial and legis lative districts were field in the Dduphin county court and at the State Department to-day. They were the largest single lot of pre-emptions of the new party name to be filed. Allegheny has four congressional, six senatorial and twelve legislative dis tricts and elections will be held next year in all but three senatorial dis tricts. —B. Dawson Coleman, well known here, has been placed at the head of the county vigilance board. -—The Norristown Register, the only Democratic paper in Montgom ery county, was placed in the hands of receivers yesterday. —The Philadelphia Record charges that State administration toffieials are "gumshoeing" the state to frame up the selection of a Governor next year. Just what federal officials have been doing for some time is not explained. —At least one fourth of the coun ties of the state have to file their returns of the election held on No vember 6 for county and municipal officers. The returns were held up by the soldier vote, which could not be computed until November 23, but in spite of the w.eelt that has elapsed there are still some to be presented for record at the Depart ment of the Secretary of the Com monwealth. Some of them are small counties. The Philadelphia, returns are held up by the contest in the courts and those from other counties have been made late by re turning boards. Allegheny, Luzerne, Lackawanna and other large coun ties have filed their returns, those from Lackawanna being on one huge sheet which resembles a bedspread. Others are on smaller blanks which will be easier to file. As soon as the returns are received official nota tions will be made on the records and commissions issued to the judges. A commission will be is sued to the congressman elected in the 28th district lmmediatai.v so that he can proceed to Washington for the opening of congress. —Payment of the expenses of the commissioners to take the votes of the soldiers in the various camps where there were Pennsylvania sol diers on election day has about been completed at the Capitol and it ia not expected that the total will be much over $7,000 if that. The com missioners were allowed ten cents a mile and the printing and postage bills being paid by the state. The latter bills have not been computed. —The future status of the State Board of Agriculture is going to be one of the big questions when the Hoard holds its annual meeting here late in January, and a number of the older members of the Board think that it should be something more) active in direction of official agricultural affairs and that the idea of a debating society twice a year was neither what it was created for or in line with the times. The State Commission of Agriculture is not considered by professional farmers as meeting the needs, and has al ready cost the state a couple of thousands of dollars. —The money spent on the com mission if put at the disposal of the Board would stir up considerable more interest, argue men who think the functions of the Board should be enlarged. It is likely that there will be framed a demand for abol ition of the commission and substi tution therefor of a commission to be made up of representatives of the Board to help run the depart ment, study specialized branches and boss the Institutes and other activi ties. —Governor Martin G. Brum baugh's delay in reappointment of State Game Commissioners John M. Phillips, of Pittsburgh, and John S. Speer, of St. Mary's, is causing much comment, as the terms of both men expire this year. When the Gov ernor did not promptly announce their reappointment It cropped out that the Governor wanted the places for some other pi-ople, rot withstanding the service of Mr. Phil lips over many years and the activ ity of Mr. Speer. At one time it was reported that the Governor had decided to make the change, but re monstrances were made. It is now said that Mr*. Phillips may be re appointed, hut the Governor's par tisans in the central counties have been fighting Mr. Speer. Soon after the legislature adjourned Repre sentative "Joo" Phillips, of Clear- Held, who wanted to be chairman of the Gamo Committee, but backed the wrong horse, was on the war path for the scalps of the two Com missioners. He is said to be miffed because he has not succeeded and will be along here soon to make an other try. HARRISBXJHG TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A CERTAIN KIND OF PATRIOT BY BRIGGS — . _ "WE CAM SENO A 1 LIST6MS TO 50M8 ' HOME- G WITH " OH" I OOM-T CAR _FEW RECORDS TO RECODDS WJITM A THE ® UED ™ SO M Y CH FOR THAT WDJS™™ V'V TO PA-RH.OT.C; OWE. APT6R ALL" - "ILL SEMP THAT "THAT ONJE IBEMS "IT WILL o>O FOR "OH- ALICE - HERE'S "THESE ARC GOOC OK IE LB THE TO HAVE A CRACK A BUWCM OF A COUPLA RECORDS 6C ®**®FL GUESS SOLDIERS'' IKJ IT- T S NO SO-DI6**S" YOU CA*J PUT I\J ™ EM I - OOOT> AKJV HO*A)' DON'T BE PUFFED UP [Detroit Free Press.] To those of us who have a ten dency to be overconfident of the su perior ability of our soldiers there is a valuable warning in the fate of the first American skirmish detach ihent on the west front. The men who composed the detachment were good men, brave men and within the limits of their expedience capa ble men, but they became an easy prey to the German veterans of three years. We must expect a great deal of this sort of thing at first. Every nation now in the war has had the same experience as long as its sol diers were raw recruits, and there is no innate superiority, no special God-given dash of genius with us which will magically render our men immune from the ordinary vic issitudes of battle. Until the sol diers of the republic are seasoned to modern warfare they must re main more or less in tutelage and be content to learn humbly and care fully of the French and British ex perts, who are assisting both officers and men to become proficient in the big game. The jeers of the Ger mans must also be accepted with set teeth until the time comes for mak ing the Germans laugh out of the other corners of their mouths. If in the end our troops and our offi cers and our artillery arrive at a de- , Ti agriculture, of industry, and of town traffic. In the first line came, of course, the needs of the army and the niaintenance of agri cultural production. A sufficient supply of fodder for agricultural draft horses must be secured. It seemed probable that when this re quirement had been fulfilled there would not be fodder sufficient for fattening swine and for sustaining horned cattle in their present num bers. Should that prove to be the case measures must be taken in time; that is, before the beginning of the winter, to bring about a systematic reduction of the number of swine and horned cattle. This would, of course, have an effect upon the meat supply as well as upon thpt of milk and fat. In the case of milk there would be a temporary increase of the ration followed by a subsequent de crease. The preservation of the supplies of milk and butter during the win ter would be difficult. It would be necessary to extend the system of collecting places to receive the dairy produce in the districts where milk was produced. With this problem the imperial fat office was Incessant ly grappling. PAY CHEERFULLY Don't begrudge the government the war taxes it is charging you.. Re member other Americans are pay ing their share of their obligation to the country with their lives. —St. Lbuls Post Dispatch. POSITIVE PROOF "How fast was this man going?" "Easily forty miles an hour." "What makes you think so?" "He admitted that he was going twenty."—From the Detroit Free Press. LABOR NOTES Portland, Ore., cooks and their as sistants have organized and joined the bona fide trade union movement. Hoquiam, Wash., tailors' union has succeeded in negotiating a higher wage scale with improved working conditions. In France a ministerial decree requisitioning all the shoe factories, effective November 15, has been an nounced. In Australia holiday work must be paid for at one and a half rate, with a minimum payment of about 12 cents per hour. Sioux City, (Iowa) Packing-House Union has broken one organized 'la bor record in that city. In the last two meetings its membership has In creased 402. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM SAFETY ON BRIDGE to the Editor of the Telegraph: I desire space in your columns to say a word in favor of protection to pedestrians on the sidewalks of the Mulberry street bridge. 1 am one OL the thousands of pedestrians who are daily using the bridge in going! to and returning from the city,! though for fifteen years I jjsed the bridge, operating an automobile, and | hence know whereof I am speaking.] In canvassing this subject of safety! on the Mulberry street bridge the I question at once arises, Why are not the pedestrians on the sidewalks of this viaduct as well protected and as safe as those on the sidewalks of our streets in any part of our city? The driveway on the bridge is as wide as most of our streets. It is unobstructed from end to end by the parking of automobiles or by inter secting streets. There are no street railway tracks or cars on the bridge. There are no piles of lumber or stone or brick or boxes of merchan dise on it. No loading or unloading of merchandise, building material nor even delivery teams. No auto mobiles or jitneys stop ajong the sidewalks on the bridge to receive or discharge passengers. The curbs j are as high as any in the city. The traffic regulations are as clear, as stringent and as easily obeyed as those enforced in other parts of the city. In view of these unquestioned facts, why is it not as safe for pe destrians on the sidewalks of the bridge as on any sidewalks in Har risburg? Why do the pedestrians on this viaduct need any special pro tection, other than they have else where, in order to make it as safe to walk over the bridge as to walk on any pavement in the ity? The answer is evident. They need great er protection simply because of the constant disregard and violation oil traffic regulations. This was the case in the recent fatal accident on the bridge. And so far as the pub lic knows, no arrests have been made and no one has been punished for | that crime. If the ordirfances ap plicable to vehicular traffic on the bridge were rigidly enforced und | violators of them were arrested and | | summarily punished, the sidewalks i on the bridge should be safer than I those on any street of the city. The [ bridge can be made perfectly safe | for pedestrians by the strict enforce ment of existing traffic regulations. If not, let more stringent regulations be adopted and impartially enforced Higher curbs on the bridge are not needed to make it perfectly safe for uny child on its sidewalks. It is the reckless speeding, the running ahead of other vehicles on high gear, and the passing of overtaken vehicles which endanger the lives of pedes trians on the bridge. Our city au thorities know how to prevent these infractions of ordinances. Let them fearlessly do their whole duty In this particular, and the end desired will bo attained. Obedience to law is our highest security. Why should it be necessary to erect physical bar riers to force the lawless to obey the law or to prevent the conse quences of their law-defying acts? The law and its penalties rigidly en forced will give us the protection we need. Our earnest plea is for such protection, for which there Is, we believe, ample provision. EUDIA. WE STAND FOR VICTORY President Wilson's instructions 'to 1 Colonel House in Paris have the true ring. Thero must be unity of ac tion on the part of all Allied armies on the battlefronts. There must be unity of purpose on the part of all Alied forces behind the armies. America's matchlesß food supplies and other resources must be regard ed hereafter as belonging to our Al lies who are lighting our battles for us. The armies of France and Eng land and Italy must in the same way be looked upon as American armies which must go on fighting for us. We are all fighting one enemy. We are all defeated when any one of the Allies is defetaed by Germany. Wo all win when one of the Allied armies crumples up a Teutonic foe. A final triumph for the Kaiser is a catastrophe alike for all the Allies and the United States, while a final defeat for the Kaiser Is an everlast ing benefit. So there must be unity of action In all the armies and unity of purpose behind them. One great council must dominate all and direct all while every nation contributes to its uttermost what It has to give. That is the quickest and by far the cheapest way to win the war. Thi! very thing the Kaiser dreads most is ?. solid, determined front, moved by one will and resolved aa one man to smash him at any cost.—Philadel phia Telegraph. DESERVES HELP To the Editor of the Telegraph: I note that Pat Nellsen, head of the Salvation Army here, is asking for Christmas dinner donations. Ho should have them. He is doing a good work. Thursday, while most of us were eating our Thanksgiving dinners, Pat was preparing one for the poor folks of the city, to which many sat down. But that was not enough for this hard worker. Re ceiving word in the morning that the Russ Fish Ma meet had left over three barrels of fish that the firm wished to give to the poor for Thanksgiving use, Neilsen hauled these three barrels, by hand, into the poorer quarters of the city and distributed them where they were most needed. Tha ought to be proof sufficient that his Christmas dinner fund is worthv. OBSERVER. NO SURPRISE IN IT Union labor is loyal! The great convention of unionists at Buffalo voted, almost solidly, for indorsement of the war. Hut there is nothing remarkable about it, if you concede unionists to bo the possessors of ordinary com mon sense. Unless German autocracy is put down, to stay down, there will be no unionism worth while in this country, or any other labor rights to speak of. No intelligent workman is fool enough to believe that, master of tho world, German autocracy would per mit millions of workmen, to organ ize for any purpose likely to get them anywhere. Popular organization, the getting of the people together to think and act by, for and of themselves is, al ways has been and always will be fatal to autocracy. Our best men are going to fight, suffer, die if needs be, for unionism—labor unionism, church unionism, political unionism, civic, domestic;, economic unionism. Unionism is the soul of democracy and one of the most precious God given rights of human freedom. A triumphant German autocracy will collect huge indemnity from the United States and U. S. labor will pay that indemnity in the sweat of its brow. Well may American labor indorse this wnr, not only moved by the high sentiment of patriotism anil humaneness but also by the convic tion that it is the proposed victim of " brutal foreign autocracy. Glorious is the vision of world wide democracy. But this war is also for the homes, the wages, tho rights, the liberties of the American workmen. United for the great cause, Amer ican union labor will stand; divided, it will crawl as the kept slave of Prussian militarism. Union labor is loyal, of course.— Washington Herald. PUBLIC OPINION [New York World] The outstanding 1 feature of the agreement just entered into by the United States and Japan is the rec ognition of Japan's "special inter ests" in China. When we add to this admission the fact that both nations guarantee the independence and the territory of China and stand together in upholding the open door for commerce, we have, as Secre tary Lansing says, a policy "which is the very foundation of Pan-Ameri cdnism as interpreted by this gov ernment." Glorious as have been the conse quences of the Monroe Doctrine for peace, justice' and democracy in America, the compact now made be tween the dominant powers of the Pacific must be even more momen tous for Asia. We accept in princi ple Japan's claim of particular rights in relation to its great neighbor. Japan in return binds itself wltlv our reservation to pursue as to that republic the same lofty idealism with which President Wilson clothed our own Monroo Doctrine when he pledged the United States never to acquire another foot of territory by conquest. This understanding, which em braces also military measures or im portance, was made possible by Vis count Jshil's sincere and highly tact ful efforts to remove prejudices and suspicions fostered largely by Ger man intrigue and viciously aided by American and Japanese demagogues. Arrived at on terms of mutual re spect. for truth and right In the midst of the greatest of world con flicts, it splendidly manifests the spirit with which a chastened earth must one day approach the council board. It is a victory of peace whose renown will increase as wars become only an abhorrent memory' DECEMBER 1, 1917. Over the IK ""peiuau L_ J "Pardon me, but may I ask how you were hurt?" It was after tho railroad wreck at Royal City, Pa., nine months ago. A gentleman named Murphy addressed his neigh bor in the hospital, a charming young woman, who will be called May and she confided to him that she had lost her right leg. In this sim ple manner did cursory interest ripen into genuine love. "That's my trouble, too," heartfully replied Mr. Murphy, and now they are happily married. Adams county has shown her war time enterprise in seeding one thou sand more acres in wheat this fall than last year. A zealous hunter in the northern part of the state had his valuable dog fitted with spectacles for astig matism. The examiner who fitted tho animal must rely entirely upon the findings of the delicate instru ments, without asking any questions, but it is possible to improve a dog's sight, just like a human being's. Of course if tho lenses got crossed it might make trouble for some one. Look out now for souvenirs of the great war. America will teem with them shortly. A German three-inch shell fired at Verdun and made into a beautiful vase by a wounded French soldier is tho object of tremendous interest in South Bethlehem. Lieu tenant Miles Kresge, a member of Pershing's expedition sent it to his parents In that city. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH! E T 4 had to / fly J quit. \ ® aW a WOman ' K /I J ln a real l uan * j K 11 m dary this time. I IV A Where did il .. ( \ happen ? S Sit il On a oar. She /Y 7 couldn't hang I Jh on a strap and I A kniu Silvertone has I er a in make a success n witness Mgrjf you positive the ft prlsoner 18 JlfatimSi ™ an Wh ° Bt ° le XgIMM or, till that law- HH B . tI'I. yer cross-ex ! i "23 He's made me feel I stole It MODERN I 111 IT |/ I ITT IMPROVE- I MBNTS. / Hiram writes / I I from school ■ I that they ara liLII L putting in an If" H electric switch. / i,y"\| There's no jj' new fongled L Ideas. The birch rod was good Bmttrtg (Mptf Requests for reservation of scored of numbers of automobile and dozens of applications for cer* tain numbers have-been made at thg State Highway Department, but th^ department officers are not sayino much about what they are going t