10 HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH I'IUXTING CO., Tclcftrnph Ilillldinn. Federal Square. "E. J. STACKPOLE.PreW & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en titlerl 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 Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa te' tion. the Audit sg-sCrb';? ~Bureau of Circu- TBggnaHai lation and Penn " ' iSi* sylvania Assoct ated Dailies. 'PilPa ' Story, Brooks ,111 llSi M Firfley, Fifth I fat S Ssf m Avenue Building, LMUi-ißi K New York City; , ft Western office. Story. Brooks >.V Finley, People's JW-r—"yy Gas Building, - Chicago, 111. Entered nt the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a i week; by mall. 55.00 a. year in advance. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. 1917 ~[Yhen all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death —the brave live on. — MARTIAL, A STANDING COMMITTEE THE proposal to organize a com mittee of 1,500 Harrlsburg peo ple for war work, Including Liberty Loan, Bed Cross and other -campaigns of the kind, is a step in the right direction. By keeping such a body Intact for the period of the war much duplica tion of effort In the choice of workers for various lines, the preparation of card index systems and similar work of a preliminary nature will be avoided. Also, it will prevent the calling of, one set of citizens only to the public service to the exclusion of j others just as able and just as de sirous of contributing their efforts, j ■because front 1,50(0 workers can be j chosen a sufficient number for any j one task, with regard to previous j service, as well as adaptability, at the (same time giving all an opportunity eventually for work. GOOD SELECTIONS THE appointment of Donald Mc- Cormick as food administrator for this district, is a particularly happy selection, Mr. McCormick having been at the head of this work in the Chamber of Commerce for the past year and having organized the very successful home-garden move ment in this city last summer. Mr. McCormick has given hundreds of dollars from his own pocket to the l'ood conservation program in Har rishurg and vicinity. He has made a careful study of the situation, under stands its importance from the standpoint of a patriotic citizen and practical businessman and should be able to give valuable services both to the people and the government. The choice of Mr. McCormick for this post follows fast upon the naming of Ross A. Hickok as fuel ad ministrator, which was eminently satisfactory and which Is working out well in supplying consumers through a system of coal cards de signed to prevent duplication and in jure fair play for everybody. MILLIONS FOR ROADS FSW States in the Union are in a position to say to the national government that they will maintain open roads on great cross country highways all winter, come •what may in the shape of weather, to relieve the congestion of traffic on the railroads because of war or to pour out thousands of dollars for construction of roads to enable coal operators to put their output within reach of cars. Yet that is exactly what Pennsylvania is doing now. It Is only a few short weeks since an nouncement was made in this news paper that main highways, such as tho William Penn and the Lincoln, were to be put into shape so that squadrons of motor trucks and auto mobiles could speed from the fac tory towns of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana to the seaboard and that the passes of the Blue Ridge would be kept free from snow. Work is al ready under way to perfect working forces, while every man and boy who can be procured in some sec tions is working on new roads to tap the mines. It is work which the national government and the people nt large will more than appreciate when winter comes and the assist ance of the Keystone State govern ment reaches its full measure. Not only Is the State fortunate in that It has the organization to swing ip on this work for the nation, but It is blessed 'with an ever-flowing revenue to meet the expense. Un der the law, which a few foolish men sought to nulify some years ego, all of the revenue' from motor vehicle licenses goes automatically to the maintenance of the main highways. The wisdom of creation of the great system of main roads to connect the Important towns and to afford means of communication to relieve the railroads Is becoming apparent, while the plans laid half fL dozen years ago are commencing MONDAY EVENING. to bear fruit In a system that Is ready to meet the strain of co-opera tion with the government in war time. RAISE MOKE I'IGS I IEUT. GOVERNOR FRANK B. J . McCLAIN, who is reckoned as one of the livestock experts of the country, has issued a call to the fnrmers of the State to raise more pigs. He points out the adaptability of pork as army food which when salted and cured keeps in all climates without refrigeration. This Is in line with the proposal now before council for the feeding of the city's garbage to pigs. Aside from being the lowest bidder, the piggery concern plans to be an aid to the government by helping in crease the food supply in a really big j way. Council will so to Lancaster to-j dav to see how the plan is working out there. Sirtce the company which conducts the piggeries of that city ptoposes to extend its system to Harrisburg. it must And the project profitable, and since it is by far the lowest bidder on the surface, there appears no reason why the plan should not be given a trial here. One thing that Council should insist upon lis that the piggeries be located far i enough from frequented roads or ' residential districts to prevent them | from being the nuisance the garbage ! disposal plant in the West End long has been. By the reduction method of dis posal. while large quantities of fats are recovered, other large quantities j of organic matter go to waste. Feed to pigs and nothing is wasted, even the residue being sold to farmers for fertilizer. It amounts only to this— that what the human consumer re jects the hog eats and this refuse Is turned into animal fat and meat, both of which are needed by the world now as never before. Beside, the collector who has a large number of pip's to feed will make prompt collections in order to j be able to give his porkers food that ; is still fresh. PHEASANT PROTECTION ONE of two things must happen ! —either the pheasants of Penn- j sylvania must be better pro tected or they will be exterminated. Pheasant shofttlng is one of the gamest sports- known to the hvinter of small game. The forests of this State have been prime gunning ground ever since the white men came. But of late years the birds have been shot off in very large num bers. The repeating shotgun has been their worst enemy, and men who evade the law or openly break it by shooting more than the legal limit are also largely responsible for the rapid depletion of the pheasant sup ply. The man who takes more than two shots at a pheasant doesn't de serve to have his bird, yet the woods are full of those who bang away sometimes a half dozen times be fore they finally bring down their tird and by others who kill their own limit and then fill the bag of a companion. If this wanton slaugh ter JL not stopped in a few years the pheasant will be as extinct as the passenger pigeon A JOINT HOSPITAL THE always Inadequate smallpox quarantine building, which the city has been pleased to term the Municipal Hospital, has long j since outlived whatever usefulness itj ever may have had. It is neither j .large enough to meet the kind of an epidemic with which we are threat ened nor such a place as the com munity should provide for persons who are forced to go there whether they will or no. The time has arrived when the city and the county should join fortes looking toward the erection of a modern contagious disease hos pital to be operated in conjunction with the county home. The burden of caring for the smallpox victims j of the county has been largely on Harrisburg's shoulders for many years, outside towns contributing only when they had patients in quarantine. The investment and j tip-keep have been borne by the tax- i payers of the city. This is scarcely j fair and the time may come when | the city, by the very nature of condi. j tlons* may find It necessary to turn! away patients from other parts of the county, In which case distress ing results might follow. The protection of all concerned and the Interests of general econ omy demand that the city and county should join In the building of a suit able hospital, at least the project should be financed so that in an arising emergency could be met even If the conclusion, should be reached that the scarcity of labor and high cost of materials make building at | this particular time Inadvisable. CHANCE FOR VOLUNTEERS WHAT probably will be the last chance of the man of draft age to go into the Army as a volunteer Is afforded by the exten sion of time announced by the Har risburg recruiting office to-day under orders from Washington permitting conscripts, even though called to the colors, to jolh the Army through the regular channels. This gives the recruit opportunity to choose his own branch of the ser vice. It is likely that the new order will take into the Army a large number of young men whose enlist ments will count heat-ily against the next draft for this district. 'ptKKOijfccanXa By the Ex-Committeeman The Philadelphia Public Ledger, which a few days ago said that the choice of the leaders of the Demo cratic state machine for the Demo cratic nomination for governor was Acting Htate Chairman "Joe" Gut fey, state petroleum administrator, 1 and that Secretary of Labor W. B.: Wilson, Chairman Vance C. McCor-l inick, of the War Trade Board, and] A. Mitchell Palmer, who also has a federal place, would not consider the ; nomination, to-day says that the scheme of the Democratic leaders is to run McCormick for governor next year and for president in 1920, if he 1 is elected governor. , The Ledger's story harks back to, the days when Robert E. Patton was elected governor of Pennsylvania and! was re-elected. When Pattison was elected for the second time In 1890! the Pennsylvania Democracy's lead- 1 er, William F. Harrlty, became na tional chairman. Cleveland was elected president in 1892. When Pattison was nominated for the third time in 1902 it was proclaimed that if he won Pennsylvania he would be candidate for president in 1904.: A week ago Michael J. Ryan, pub-' lie service commissioner, defeated for the nomination by McCormick after a bitter fight in 1914, set up a loud shout in Atlantic City and be gan waving an olive branch at Mc- Cormick, proclaiming him as the logical Democratic candidate for governor next year. Mr. McCormick is "somewhere in I Europe." —Echoes of Reading's strenuous 1 municipal campaign are still being! heard along the Schuylkill and one of the city assessors uccused of help ing the Socialists in their drlvo will be dropped. • —Connellsvllle's chief of police, j Barthold Rottler, has handed in his! resignation as he was accused of be- j ing too pro-German for an Amer-! lean municipal officer. It is said that some of the policemen threat- i ened to strike If he remained. —The name of the Town Meet-1 ing party was to-day pre-empted for Adams county. —Pittsburgh's school board has. thrown out the school books in which ' the Kaiser is praised. The city's books will be censored. —Democrats throughout the state are wondering what things are com ing to. Men desiring to be Income tax Inspectors must take examina tions. What's the use of being a party worker, ask somo of the ma chine men. Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin, of j Philadelphia, will join the party of! speakers to go through the state to combat the German propaganda. —The Supreme Court has refused i to grant a supersedeas In the Dick- j son City election case. The case Willl now be heard by the Supremo Court j the fourth Monday In January. This! is the case in which Thomas Thomas, \ a member of the faction in Dickson 1 city that lost out in the recent elec-1 tion, came into court a few days! alter election, alleging fraud in the First ward and asking that the bal-j lot boxes from tho entire borough be opened. A dispatch from Coatesville saysi that city's auditorship is in a mud- j die and Attorney General Francis j Sliunk Brown may be called upon to! straighten It out. George G. Myer was elected In November for thoi seventh consecutive term as the city's j single alderman. At the same time Myer was re-elected, the electors voted to divide the city into five wards. Under the third-class city j act, each ward is entitled to an al-1 derntan and a constable, but these | officers could not be voted for until i the measure to divide the city into! wards was decided upon. Two years' hence,.candidates will be voted for. | As soon as the ward measure pass-1 ed, numbers of citizens desired to be- j come aldermen and constables fori the various wards. Petitions wero forwarded to Governor Brumbaugh,; to make appointments. —An Interchange of broadsides between Senators Penrose and Vare enlivened Philadelphia last night. The Senator stirred up the city with ; the declaration that he feared that] beforo the Smith administration closed tho city would face a $3 tax| rate and after assailing what he termed wasting of the people's money said that he would stay in the tight with tho independents until the city was freed of "contractor rule." The Senator also said that he would insist on a bill taking police out of politics in Philadelphia. Senator Vara countered by again reading Senator Penrose out of the party and assertirtg that he is not inter ested in garbage contracts. He also announced that the Republican party oommittee favored a bill to take police out of politics. —The offices of the late Senator McNichol in Philadelphia have been closed. They were on the same floor of the Lincoln building as those of Senator Vare. —D. T. McKelvey, city detective of Hazleton, has resigned and the city council will not fill the place because of economy. —Speaking at Philadelphia Sena tor Penrose said: "Fraud was reck lessly and systematically practiced in the recent election against the Town Meeting candidates, more so than ever before in the history of Phila delphia. Even in the face of the avalanche of fraud the Town Meet ing ticket would have been electe.l on the police returns had there been a proper interpretation of the mark ing of the ballot. 1 intend to adhere steadfastly to the resolution an nounced by me on several occasions to co-operate with any body of citi zens until contractor rulo shall be exterminated from the councils of the Republican party in Philadel phia. And in this connection I may add that scores of up-state l{publi cans have called on me In the last few days and have expressed hearty commendation of my course in this important situation. These leaders and their friends are glad to be re lieved of the stigma of rule by street cleaners and garbage collectors and they are happy that tliev will be backed up by a majority of the qual ified electors of this city." —The Philadelphia Inquirer in a Chester County political review says: "Evidently assuming that Superin tendent McDowell was too closely re lated and altogether too useful to the Penrose-Eyre wing of the parly, Governor Brumbaugh, through Highway Commissioner O'Neil, last week asked for the resignation of the ministcr-roadbuilder. The action of the eighteen foremen was in the nature of a walkout. The summary action of the miffed officials in no way affected the Exalted Broadaxe of the Great White Palace along the Susquehanna, who promptly ap pointed to be county superintendent, AVilliam H. Clark, of Denape. The latter, whose official regime begins December 1, states that he neither had desire nor intention of dismiss- the 'li<;runtlpd officials. The citizens of the county, 1 however, re gard the removal of McDowell as purely a move in the came of poli tics." p HAHRISBURG CjSKS& TELEGRAPH / \ Owr Owe uv ""pejvKCU v, j The promotion of honey as a food product has been taken up by bee keepers in this state with the object of using it instead of sugar. Last week proprietors of restaurants in Providence, R. 1., utilized SI,OOO worth of honey in this way and the customers said they liked it. • • * What a change in twenty years! The City of London celebrated Field Marshal Haigr's victory, in France with "ringing of bells, flying of! flags and sober thanksgiving." Dur-' ing the Boer War when Mafeking I fell all London was drunk for one I week." • • • Here is the very last word in draft! escaping, comes from New York I stfite, Just over the Keystone bound ary. A woman married her step son so that he might evade service. The secret was discovered by her husband who was the father of the newly-wed son by a former mar riage. Even Solomon might have been puzzled. • • • Only the man who handles one knows the inconvenience of traveling with a cello. Thus bitterly spoke a musician the other day when he tumbled, 'cello and all, off a train platform in Philadelphia. Reminds one of the Irishman, somewhat in toxicated, who saw a gentleman, a connoiseur who would trust the valuable thing to no express wagon, lugging home a grandfather's clock from a sale. '"Scuse me" suggested Pat soulfully, "but, sorr, why don't ye buy yourself a watch?" • • • In letters written home from Pennsylvania lads with the flying corps in France.it appears that the aviators have an uncommon attach ment for their machines. A recent one tells a thrilling story of a mere boy who refused to descend to Ger-I man territory and save himself, pre-1 ferring to land on friendly soil though it cost him death. "I'm aw ful sorry, Doctor, I couldn't bring the old bus back intact," were his last words. ♦ • • Writer's cramp affects the wrist, Informs a local cure-all doctor in answer to an anxious inquirer. Not l always, though. Sometimes it hits the stomach. MAYOR KEISTER "C. W. Fink, of 1716 West Phila- 1 delphia street, who has been at work 1 on the buildings at the Middletown Aviation Camp, and a member of the! Carpenters' Union, has returned to' his home, the Middletown work be-' ing completed. "George M. Weigle, of local 242, i Typographical Union, was in Harris- i burg last Saturday shaking hands with Jiro. Dan L. Keister, of Harris-! burg local, who was elevated from the case o th.-t of Mayor of th Capital City. The new Mayor told George that he came to Harrisburg from Altoona in 1885 to work for two weeks and they wouldn't let : him go back to the Mountain City. 1 Keister has been councilman, state assemblyman, representative to the International Typographical Union and now Mayor. He thinks of run ning for governor later on. The beauty of Dan is that he never con siders himself more than a working man or a volunteer fireman, being president of Friendship, No. 1. for years."—York Labor Advocate. JUDGE HALL'S DEATH The death of Judge Harry Alvin Hall of this city on Saturday, re moved the youngest and the last of a notable trio of the Hall family of Elk County, all of whom were in their time prominent in the Demo cratic politics of the state. John G. Hall, the eldest and ablest, was a leader for his party in the State Sen ate a nu'i of learning and IK:I1 acumen. Later James Knox Polk Hall was a member of the as well as at another time a member of Congress. He was very active in politics, and was a valuable financial assistant to Colonel Guffey during the time the Colonel was conducting the operations of the Democratic party in the state. Harry Alvin Hall also served in the State Senate, but resigned and was chosen to the Judgeship in the Clinton-Cameron- Elk district. They were all men of ability and were popular in Elk county where the Democrats could always turn up a majority and were ever ready to give it to one of the Hall family.—-Philadelphia Press. INSPIRATIONS Every life has its potentialities of greatness. Renounce yourself, accept the cup given you, with its honey and its gall as it comes. Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the llesh. Heroism is the dazzling and glor ious concentration of courage. Duty has the virtue of making ws feel the reality of a positive world while at the same time detaching us from it. Action is but coarsened thought. Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself; it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence. Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement: Life is but a tissue of habits.— Amiel. BETSY S BATTLE FLAG From dusk till dawn the livelong night Sho kept the tallow dips alight, And fast her nimble fingers flew To sew the stars upon the blue. With weary eyes and aching head She stitched the stripes of white and red, .And when the day came up the stair Complete across a carven chair Hung Betsy's battle flag. Like shadows in the evening gray The Continentals filed away. With broken boots and ragged coats, But hoarse defiance in their throats; They bore the marks of want and cold, And some were lame and some were old, And some with wounds untended bled, But floating bravely overhead Was Betsy's battle flag. When fell the battle's leaden rain The soldier hushed his moans of pain And raised his dying head to see King George's troopers turn and flee Their charging column reeled and broke, * And vanished in the rolling smoke, Before the glory of the stars The snowy stripes and scarlet bars Of Betsy's battle flag. The simple stone of Betsy Ross Is covered now with mold and moss, But still her deathless banner files. And keeps the color of the skies, A nation thrills, a nation bleeds, A nation follows where it leads. And every man is proud to yield His life upon a crimson field For Betsy's battle flag. I -—Minna Irving. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By Briggs ' [LOOK H'emweth- ///// LOOK WHAT'S PAPA X '//// \got- KeoJMerw 9 Kultur—The Law of the Hive Editorial Reprinted from The Chris, ian Science Monitor FOR three years the world has heard the word Kultur used with a frequency which has caused it to accept it almost as a matter of course. Yet it is doubtful if even yet it attaches to it the meaning with which it is weighted: in Bonn or Jena. In the English language culture means simply the 1 cultivation of the human mind so as to produce a certain intellectual refinement. And this is the mean ing the ordinary speaker of English is apt mentally to read into the word Kultur. But the meaning of Kultur to the German mind is something entirely different. It may be summed up almost as the law of the hive. In other words it is the the ory that the state is the manifesta tion of the divine idea. No man ever put this more clear ly than Heinrich von Treitschke, the very high priest of Kultur. The es sence of the state, he insists, is pow er. As a result, it follows that the ideal of self-sacrifice ends with the individual, and does not apply to tne state, since there is nothing higher than the state to which the stute can sacrifice itselt. l'nus the highest duty of the state, like that of the hive, is one of self-conservation. Out of this, then, inevitably grows the distinction. Treitschke himself insists upon, between private and public morality. The moral law in cumbent on the individual is abro gated in the person of the state, tor the state, being power, lias no law save that of sell-preservation or self assertion. Owing to this the arch political crimo is weakness. Weak ness in the name of the state is the sin against the Holy Ghost. Mystery of i'rightfulness Unveiled Anybody who grasps what' this means will have no difficulty what ever in unveiling the mystery of the German exhibition of frightfulness during the present war. The individual must not repudiate his signature to a lease or a bond, but the stato may regard a treaty, as in the case of the Belgian guar antee. as "a scrap of paper." The Individual must not ignore tlio law of property or trespass, but the state may invade a country, as in the case of Belgium, which it is pledged to defend, and seize thu property of the nation for its own purposes. The individual must not commit murder, but the state is entirely ex empt from such restrictions, and may take life individually, as in the case of Miss Cavell, or in the mass, as in the case of the passengers on the Lusitania, without compunction. This does not, of course, mean that the people of Germany are pe culiarly cruel, or that they are troubled with a double dose of what the world terms original sin. But it does mean thay they have delivered themselves over to a political philos ophy which Is immoral in its theory and inhuman in its practice. The apostle of Kultur, however, does not view it from this stand point at all. He has worked out his theory with the exactness of a quadratic equation. In time of war the one mind is the General Staff. If the General Staff says, "Sink with out trace," sink without trace.it must be. Just as. If the General Staff decides on deportations, deportations there must be. The idea must be right and must bo obeyed, even if the world perishes under the demon stration of it, because thp. General Staff has so decided. German Theory of Survival Now, In practice, Kultur.is the ap plication of the neo-Darwinlsm to politics. It was the apostle of Kul tur who first dreamed of applymp the law of natural selection to the state. Natural selection is the the ory that nature eventually chooses and preserves the types best adapted to her purpose. Mankind, to the be liever In Kultur, is entirely subject to the law of evolution. It is divided up into races and organizations all committed to the law of struggle. Since, however, both the types and nre irreconcilable, the re morseless and pitiless struggle must continue until nature selects, through victory over the others, the fittest type and the moat goctool of ganizatlon. J The theory of the German profes sors, then, is that the German race is the fittest to survive, and as such has been selected by nature, and that this being so, its Kultur or form of political organization must, by the will of nature, be imposed, with the same ruthlessness with which the animal or the plant struggles for supremacy, upon the rest of the world. Such a struggle is to the death, and just as physical nature knows no mercy nor compromise, so no mercy nor compromise must be shown by the state. Mercy, com promise, these are evidences of weakness, and as such, in the words of Treitschke, the sin, in politics, against the Holy Ghost. It is easy tc see from this how the professor as well as, even more than, the soldier, and the merchant equally with the Junker, have been able to acc?pt and justify scraps of paper, Lusitania sinkings, deporta tions, and even the most sanguinary holocaust of German battalions on the battlefield. War is brutal, but it is nature's way of conducting the struggle. The fittest must survive, and to achieve the right to survive the hive must send its battalions, if necessary, in dense formations up to the muzzle of the machine guns in the trenches. Germans the Chosen People If there is this mercilessness for the German variety of the species destined to prevail for the purpose of saving the species by impressing Kultur on the other varieties, how can it be expected that mercy should be shown to those varieties. It is na ture's method of selection, and really needs no defense from men. It is the law of the hive, and because of this it is futile and unjust to blame the Queen Bee. That . promised land of the new dispensation, then, is to be Mittel- Kuropa. and the chosen people the German inhabitants thereof. The puro Germans would not be suffi cient to impose Kultur upon man kind, and therefore the first step is to bring the other hives in its neigh borhood under the Influence of Kul tur. Friedric Naumann in his well k'nown book, "Mittel-Europa," ex plains how this is to be done. "All the traditional separatism of these lands," he writes, "must be so. ef faced in the stress of the great war as to make the idea of union tol erable." There will, he admits, no doubt be strong opposition to the new stato in Austria and Hungary, but the un ion, in spite of this, is inevitable. In plain English, just as the Mo hammedan started out from Mecca to impose the religion of the Prophet on humanity with a scimitar, so the German is to start out from Pots da to impose the religion of Kultur on humanity with a machine gun. Kultur a Religion in Itself For be it remarked, Kultur is a religion in itself. Herr Naumann makes this plain enough. "When Bismarck's empire made its peace with the Pope and the party of the Center," he writes, "the Protestant character of the Hohenzollern Em perors became an unofficial private affair of those who, as wearers of of the crown were above creeds." In other words, the state being superior to the human sense of mor ality, being in sort, a religion In it self, the ruler of the state, thougn he may continue in an unofficial way to describe himself as a Protestant, is placed above the creed. In precisely the same way there Is no reasoning with the hive. Given such premises, there is only one ar gument which has a chance of be ing listened to in reply. It is that "Wayland Smith" can swing a heav ier hammer than Thor. No man foresaw more clearly what was coming, or understood more thoroughly the Inevitable result of the new philosophy, than that won derful Jew, Heine. Long ago, in the past century, he warned France, in particular, of what would happen in the days when the gods of the Stone Age were revived In the scien tific philosopher. In thnt day, lie declared, Thor, with his coiossal (hammer, would leap across the DECEMBER 3, 1917. Rhine to smash in pieces the Gothic cathedrals. Often, in the past few years, as they have watched the German shells dropping through the roof or splintering the carvings of the great Church of St. Itemi, in Rheims, must the people of Champagne have thought of this warning, and have realized that there was nothing for it but to accent t.hR advice of the poet, and to remain on guard with their rifles on their shoulders. LABOR NOTES Tokio, Japan has 800 public baths, Of Canada's unionists 30.5 per cent are railroad employes. Texas railroads are hampered for want of skilled labor. The British postal department employs 40,000 women. British co-operative societies have a membership of 3,310,724. Edinburgh, Scotland, will experi ment with women scavengers. Grent efforts nre being made to revive shipbuilding in Wales. Virginia unions demand the regu lation of injunctions in labor dis putes. I.i some German cities 30 per cent of the metal workers are women. Mexico makes the maximum limit of night work seven hours. Over 75.000 wnn-ion now are em ployed in the British Civil Service. New South Wales, Australia, has a new workmen's compensation act in operation. The tribunal of Frankford-au-Main recently decided that a woman who was taking the place of a man was entitled to receive the same pay. At the convention of Pennsylvania organized bookbinders it was decided to include New Jersey and Maryland in the next conference. Barbers at Fort Wayne, Ind„ are asking for increased pay. The corn production bill (which provides among other things for a minimum weakly wage of 25 shil lings—s6.oß—for farm labor) be ;cHii" In"' hefi" - e the adjournment of tile British Parliament. I I OUR DAILY LAUGH WHAT CHANGES TIME HATH WROUGHT. Customer— What kind of a ring la his Mr. Giffany? Mr. Giffany—That is a genuine lugar solitaire, cut from select loaf uigar. and very popular, 1 might i(Jd BESS EXPENSIVE. "Edith says she would rather dance than eat. "Well, she'll find plenty of men who would rather sign a dance pro gramma than a dinner check.'* Bfftttng ffllpt Harrisburg'a unique situation in regard to its supply of river coal, which instead o£ becoming exhausted seems to be increasing in extent every year, is commencing to attract statewide attention, especially among the people of the North branch of the Susquehanna whose mining methods have been the means of furnishing the state's capital with fuel for the effort. Only a few weeks ago a couple of men from Lacka wanna and l-itizerne coCinties took oc casion while here to make extensive inquiries regarding the amount of coal dredged from the SusquehannaA| v and expressed the opinion that if the%. communities up the stream took the proper precautions there would not be so much. They agreed, however, with some folks from Northumber land county, who made some obser vations here last summer, that Har risburg was sure of river coal for years to come because the bed of the stream is lined with coal for many miles north of Harrisburg and that each succeeding freshet would bring to the doors ot the capital re newal of its store. Rivermen say that thte sanitary dam docs not amount to very much as a coal catcher. Sand bars are said to be the great means of forming deposits. The rocky ledges which extend across the stream at Dauphin and the "falls" at Kockville do not seem to hold as much fine coal as the shal low places near McCormick's island or the grass patches between Inde pendence Island and the Harrisburg Academy. And, oddly enough, the rivermen say that down around Steelton and Higlispire there is the b®st coal dredging to he found' in the whole Harrisburg district every now and then. The coal see'lis to go with currents, which, as everyone familiar with the vagaries of the Susquehanna knows, swing and switch around every year and move sand bars and great trees with ease. * • • Daniel P. Gerberich. former presi dent pro tem. of the State Senate and long senator from Lebanon county, who was buried today, had a host of friends among men prominent in affairs of Pennsylvania for the last quarter century and was one of the most traveled men in the Legislature in a long time. He had been in prac tically every state and after the Spanish War made a point of visiting the insular possessions. He was a warm friend of Secretary of Internal Affairs Henry Houck, who was also a wide traveler, and the two used to like to exchange impressions of places they had visited. Dr. Ger berich practiced medicine all his life in Lebanon county and was known to thousands of its people, while ho enjoyed as large an acquaintance in eastern Dauphin county as any one. It la not generally known but Dr. Gerberich was sponsor for most of the pure food laws enacted here in the last deeude. * The fine weather prevailing in the middle of the last few days, a re minder of the glorious Indian sum mer weather we had before Thanks giving day, has had the effect of causing many people to go out for runs in automobiles and they have been well repaid, for the scenery around Harrisburg in the bright early winter sunlight is particularly fine. Reservoir Park's knobs offer a fine place for a view about noon and any one who walks up will be well repaid. • • • Harrisburg weather conditions, which have been more than once r# ferred to as unusual this fall, have seldom produced a finer December day than yesterday. The sunshine was bright from early morning and the sunset was one of the kind that people visiting here have loved to go home and tell of. The colors in the western sky when the sun sank be hind the first spurs of the Blue Ridge wei'e brilliant as they were varied and the paling from red to pink and then to the lightest green speedily giving way to the darkness of evening attracted much attention. * Casper Dull, president of the board of trustees of the Harrisburg Public Library, is on his annual hunting trip to North Carolina. Mr. Dull has visited that state for years in the hunting season. • Edgar C. Felton's plan for distrib ution of labor in this state, which has been endorsed by the Public Ser vice Commission and will be put into effect soon, has attracted attention from other states. In a number of instances letters have come to tho state authorities making inquiry as to the methods to be followed. Pennsylvania has such a varied in dustrial system that anything which may be worked out to provide the labor necessary to keep mines and mills, factories and shipyards, farms and railroads, to say nothing of stores, going will be of vital impor tance to every other state. 0 • • £ • Governor Brumbaugh, who visited Secretary of the Commonwealth Woods and Commissioner of Health Dixon while in Philadelphia, reports both of them improving rapidly. Dr. Dixon is now at his home in the Bryn Mawr district. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Representative Josiah How ard has taken charge of the stamp sales for Cameron county. —Horace A. Beale, active in behalf of the soldiers' aid committee in Chester county, used to be connected with tho works at Steelton years ago. —Attorney General Brown is one of the attorneys engaged in the Nix on-Schubert battle in Philadelphia. —Charles M. Schwab has agreed to be one of the speakers at the Greater Bethlehem Chamber of Com merce meeting. —Ambassador Roland S. Morris is making addresses on Democracy In the capital of tho Mikados. —C. H. Muir. one of the new United States Army generals, is a Pennsyivanian. | DO YOU KNOW ~ That Ilarrisburu's new hotel is already commencing to attract comment from traveling men?. HISTORIC HARRISBTTRG t One hundred years ago there were* two tanneries and a brewery in the district which is now known as the Fourth ward. Chaplain Bassler's Post Captain Bassler, formerly of the old Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and one of the foremost chaplains in the division, has been attached to the Ammunition Train. Services are held regularly at 9 a. m. Sundays.—, From Camp and Trenclj, HERE'S XNFWTSDISON Jim Jacobs has Invented a collar with roller bearings inside the foli, BO that the necktie may be slipped without stretching it in two or bend ing the collar all out of shape.—Coi , feyvllle (Kaa) Journal.
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