10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELECRAPH PRINTING CO., Ttletraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E.J. STACKPOLE, Pres't Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The | Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. - Member American nSfiSSIiH Eastern office, Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers. tn cents a clffil > week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1917 Have you and I to-day Stood silent as with Christ apart from Joy or fray Of life to see His face: To look if but a moment, on His grace. And grow by brief companionship more true, More nerved to lead, to dare to do for Him at any costf — ANON. FARM TRACTORS THE amazing statement is made in connection with the govern ment's effort to induce farmers to use farm tractors, that the 18,- 000,000 horses on 6,000,000 farms in this country ate in the past year enough grain to feed 40.000,000 peo ple. Of course, some value was re turned to the farms by means of fer tilizer that otherwise must have been applied in some other form, but still the loss of foodstuffs at a time when the world is on the point of starva tion is appalling. These significant figures from the Department of Agriculture at Wash ington assume vast importance in the light of the government's propa gandum to increase the production of food during the war. However, due to many causes, chief among them the tendency of the up-to-date farmer to motorize his farm, horses are becoming fewer and fewer every day of the year, and this seems a blessing. Every horse that gives way to the modern me chanical "beast of burden," the farm tractor, is helping to defeat the enemy by conserving his daily ration of oats, bran and corn. Without food and without the means of producing food, we can*7 t I ■win the war. Hence, the farm tru.- j tor becomes a necessity of war. It is | the farmer's machine gun, long range cannon and airplane. It Is his means of fighting. It does the work of several teams and men, works twenty-four hours a day and every season of the year, never gets tired and does not eat food that should go to the armies in France. The farm tractor, being a neces sity of war, should receive the same consideration that is given to guns, munitions and Liberty motors. Steel must be had for the manufacture of tractors, and unless priority is given, the makers will be unable to pro duce In quantities sufficient to help the far|ner. THE EARLY CROP IT IS refreshing to note the In terest the people of Pennsylva nia and the newspapers which 1 etiect their view are taking In the men suggested for the State tickets next year. It Is not too early to talk about good men. The State needs them. It always does. For some time the Harrisburg Telegraph has been viewing the field, noting the presen tation of favorite sons in the various courlties and discussing the activities of the boomers of men who have not announced themselves and chron icling the movements of those who have bees in their bonnets. By actual count there are thirty three men of more or less promi nence who have been mentioned for the Republican honors and a dozen for the Democratic ticket. Most of them are willing. There are some fine men among them and it is a good plan to let the people talk over them during the winter. The early crop is fine. WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS IT may be said to President Wil son's credit that when he changes his mind and gets on the right track, he drives hard. While that cannot make up for the lost time, it is a feature in his favor. When Roosevelt, Gardner and Leon ard WQOd were clamoring for pre paredness, they were denounced as "nervous and excited." It took the world a long, long time to conyince the President of his error. When he did finally get on the right track, he came out for a conscription plan that assures an equitable distribution of the burdens of war so far as In dividual danger and sacrifices are concerned. But he has not yet changed his mind on partisanship. He is for a TUESDAY EVENING, vigorous prosecution of the war, but Insists upon obscuring the men who have all along been the pioneers in the work to which he has finally given his approval. Roosevelt has been suppressed at every opportunity. Leonard Wood has been put as far as practicable from the firing line. Nobody knows where Gardner is or what he is doing. He quit his office in Congress and went to the colors, but he has been so placed in the service that no one ever hears of him. The wet blanket has been thrown upon Intelligent patriotism. When a Congressman is to be elected to fill a vacancy, the spokes men of the administration go out with the word that the President wants a Democrat elected. The man who declared that "a vote for a Re publican is a vote for Prussianlsm and the Kaiser," Is in favor at the White House.' The cabinet is as solidly Demo- j cratic as ever. The newly-appointed | delegation to the conference of the Allies is Democratic. The Commit-, tee on Public Information Is Demo-| 'cratic. The War Exports Trade] Board is Democratic. The non-par- j tisan tariff commission Is Demo-| cratic. Partisanship rules sijpreme. j There is no sign whatever of any intention of the President to change, his policy in this regard, but if by any chance he should do so, it may be safely predicted that he will go the limit, and, when desperate cir cumstances make such action neces sary, he will even admit Col. Roose velt to active participation In the war. FOR A CLEAN CITY MAYOR KEISTER'S first mes-j sage to the poliqe force has! the proper ring. The Mayor; says he stands for a clean city and begips his program with a strict or der againflt gambling in all its forms. In his effort in that direction he will have the earnest and hearty support j of every good citizen. But he must: be prepared for a long and vigilant! campaign. Ilarrisburg is no worse j in this respect than many cities and j far better than most. But those who have made their living by gambling, or added to their profits by games of chance on the side, will not willing ly cease their activities and it will require more than an order to the | police to stamp out an evil that is for the most part conducted slyly or, entirely behind closed doors. Never- j theless, the Mayor is to be com- j mended for his stand and is entitled to any information that any citizen has concerning gambling in any form In any part of the city. In other years large sums chang ed hands during the Christmas sea son In the form of raffles or "chances" on this or that class of merchandise. As Mayor Keister says, these forms of gambling initiate young boys and men to the vice who otherwise would never acuqire a taste for games of chance and much money Is spent that way which should go into legitimate channels. HELPING THE RED CROSS THANKS to the patriotic co-op eration of Superintendent F. E. Downes and the members of the school board, the Harrisburg Red Cross chapter has been provided with permanent quarters for the re mainder of the war. The owners of the building in which the Red Cross has been lo cated since last winter have been very generous, but it was not to be expected that they should contribute the entire rental expenses for an indefinite time nor that the Red Cross should be required to pay rent if quarters could be procured free of charge. The Fager school building is a happy solution. Old and not up to modern requirements for school pur poses, it nevertheless will serve very well for the Red Cross, and, be sides, it is certainly located and is so constructed as to permit of proper division for the various branches of Red Cross activity. PRESIDENT ENDERS THE election of Robert A. Enders to be president of the school board will do much to give the public confidence in the desire of that body to do its best for the tax payers. Mr. Enders was elected to the board on a reform ticket. He has been a forceful and conscientious school director. He is well known in business circles and is held In high regard, especially in the West End of the city, where he has been identified with ev6ry forward mu nicipal movement for many years. CROWDED OUT THE decision of the Cumberland county court yesterday against the annexation of Washington Heights to Camp Hill not only crowds the district out of Camp Hill, but for the same reasons out of Le ! moyne, for with at least two new bridges to build over the railroad the cost of annexing the Washing ton Heights district to Lemoyne would be greater than would have been entailed through annexation to j Camp Hill. Furthermore, the court holds that | the Enola end of the township would j be damaged by annexation to some | other community. It seems, there- I fore, that the lo>ver end of the town ; ship must continue to peg along as ( it is, with the bulk of the taxes being spent in the upper end and the lower end folks getting along as best I they may without further recourse i o annexation as a means of improv ing their conditions. They, are a progressive people and may be ex pected to evolve some other, plan for the betterment of their com munity. wv By the Ex-Committccman Senator Boies Penrose last night at Washington took advantage of the attention Pennsylvania politics had attracted at the national capital to launch a frontal attack oil the Brumbaugh administration. The as sault was made in the form of a vigorously worded interview in which the Senator referred only casually to the situation in Philadelphia which has been the burden of his vitriolic comments the last few weeks. He gave no intimation as to whom he favored for the gubernator ial nomination, but let it be known that he proposed to contest with the state administration forces every point in next year's primary cam paign. Gathering of the Pennsylvania congressmen and many spectators at Washington has naturally stirred up much comment and it is noticeable that the Republicans are doing all of the talking. The Democrats are sitting back and letting events run their course, hoping to have history repeat its doing in 1882 and 1890 in Pennsylvania. Names of various prominent Pennsylvania Democrats are adroitly mentioned by, leaders to keep the InteVest going and sn addition to Secretary Wilson, who seems to still have the call, the names of McCormick, Joe Guffey, Palmer, Humes, Berry and even William A. Glasgow, who was the only man who could keep the fac tions from fighting in the state con vention in 1912, are being put out. —The Penrose declaration of the last week or so on candidates in Philadelphia were savage enough, but he added to his demands for laws to take police out of politics, which he says were hamstrung by the state administration leaders, a list of bal lot reforms. Concerning the state government the Senator said: "Use less places, wastefulness and ineffi ciency have prevailed so generally in Harrisburg in this administration that the first big thing the next Leg islature will do will be to restore satisfactory business methods and economies. Very many useless places were created by the last Legislature at unjustifiable salaries. which should be abolished. No one famil- j iar with state government has any: doubt that several million dollars could be saved by reasonable econ-' omies. This saving could be applied to the road system and other benefi cial purposes. "The governorship question will have to develop and will not come up for full consideration until after the first of the year. One of the most important issues in the com ing campaign in Pennsylvania will be reform legislation for the city of Republicans of the state, and, in fact, citizens of the state, regardless of party, have for manv years resented the stigma cast upon the party and tl.e state by th*i scandalous conditions existing in Pli'ladelphia. For the good of the city and for the good of the state these conditions must be, eliminated." —Senator Vare is the only one of the opponents of the Senator to make an "comeback." He simply says the Senator is out of the Repub lican party. Other men are keeping quiet. Attorney General Brown, who was mentioned in the Philadelphia Press yesterday as the real adminis tration choice for Governor, is still away on a trip Visiting friends up the state and everyone else is keep ing quiet. The Press to-day revives the mention of General Tasker H. Bliss and Provost Edgar F. Smith as possibilities and adds to the admin istration list General C. M. Clement. However, the general would be will ing to bo Public Service Commis sioner. —Judge Harry C. Quigley, of Rellefonte; Ambassador H. P. Fletcher and ex-Speaker George E. Alter continue to be talked about. —The Philadelphia Ledger says in the course of a rambling discussion of political possibilities: "Much speculation was heard at the Capitol to-day over the dilemma Governor Brumbaugh would be in if the Vares pick Francis Shunk Brown, Attorney General, as their gubernatorial can didate. and J. Denny O'Neil, State Highway Commissioner, a possible candidate who already has received much publicity, decides to run OJI a local option ticket as an independ ent Republican." —Prominent Democrats in this state, who do not have many Wash ington connections, are commencing to declare that Vance C. McCor mick is not likely to run for Gov ernor. —Commenting upon the Repub. lican Alliance organization the Phil adelphia Record says that the lead ers are inclined to "let Penrose do the planning." —The Philadelphia Bulletin an nounced last night that the Smith administration had started to (ire men and intimated that it would be extended to Capitol Hill. John J. Gallagher, of Hazleton. connected with the State Insurance Department until lately, is hoisting a lightning rod for the Republican nomination for Secretary of Internal Allaire. He says the miners will be for him. —The financial arrangements for the formal consolidation of the Beth lehems in January Ijave been start ed by experts. A city manager will be next in order. —Reading is having a great time. Civil sen ice is going into effect &n its police force. This is the way the Reading Eagle puts it: "Another page In the history of the police de partment of Reading was turned, when for the first time applicants for positions on the force were put through a civil service examination. Fourteen well-built men, looking as though they would make excellent guardians of the public, took the ex amination. There had been twenty two applicants, but eight failed to appear." —Pittsburgh is determined to stay on the map. Controller Morrow re fuses to accept his new offices be cause they are too palatial and the Pittsburgh Dispatch is attacking the police force. —Altoona is getting ready for a municipal housecleaningnext month. —The Philadelphia Ledger ex presses the editorial hope that Pen rose and the Vares will eliminate each other. —Sheriff-elect Granger was given a notable dinner in Chester last ni(rht. —The Philadelphia city art gallery and municipal court home are to be Siven up for the present, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. CORRECTED JOHNSON Doctor Johnson's famous diction ary, in its first edition contained the statement that "the letter h seldom, perhaps never, begins any but the first syllable." John Wilkes, wit and politician, fell afoul of this asser tion In this ingenious note: "The author of. this remark must be a man of quick appre-hen-sion and cOmpre-hensive genius, but I can never--Amo-res T . H " M ' H " \ / \/C - THAT MADE X\J / / /A ,TTmV LIFE * ON€ THIN 6 / WEATHER GJv/ES 1/ )A/ ' TIAJO u p - Y//X, -W *4|£^//% /./ \ FAMOUS TELL HARRYA ~V—— / //. / / / ' SXX** THKOU6H) ONE 0 /\ CLIMTOM HS l/|l T <^- trTTL6j /r wrtA X MAKES FKSfER ' '/// V /, /Ac, i- GB " e r,< I wiff ^ xc SOR6/s- i vdAsr t'Yey Fi6ge/ / y.S /' VA F,eLD Vr 'IM OW THE XY~\ J/6l-T -IN fy KT ~ L / FARM LABOR The Pennsylvania Farmer in de scribing the farm labor situation in I this state says: The farm labor situation has gone beyond the discussing and resoluting! stage. It is time to act. Every j farmer knows that unless something is done, farm production must suffer j next year. He knows that he can-j not pay the wages offered by other | lines of industry, by the state and' nation in public work, and he knows that without more labor he must re duce his acreage and reduce the ef fort necessary for maximum produc-; tion next year. It will Aot do to wait until seeding time comes before taking definite action. The farmers : must know this winter what they! can plan and prepare to do next sum mer. Sevgral expedients are sug gested. Some one or more must be adopted soon and acted upon, not by communities alone, but by gov ernment policy. On another page of this issue appears a strong ap peal from Secretary Alva Agee, of the New Jersey Department of Agri culture, asking farmers to write their representatives in Congress to pass laws suspending nonessential industries and liberating men for productive labor. This appeal should meet with ready response from farmers. There are many in dustries that serve the wants of the people in time of peace but which contribute practically nothing to the actual needs of the people or the nation in time of war. If it is un patriotic to waste food and material, it is more unpatriotic to waste labor in the production and serving of things not needed. Men engaged in such industries number into the mil lions. They should be pit into needed, productive labor. But even if such labor is made available where needed and where it can give best service, some system of returning to the farm the skilled farm labor must be devised. Candy makers, tioolroom attendants, dry goods clerks, etc., can give good ser vice under the direction of factory arjd shop managers, but they would be of little value on the farm. If this class of men be turned to pro ductive labor, there must be an ac companying movement to return the men thus replaced to the farms. This means conscription of labor, or the pprolling of labor to certiitn lines of work for the duration of the war. Hut these are details to be worked out by Congress. The im pprtant thing now is for the farmers to make known their needs. There is no better way than the one sug gested by Prof. Agee. BRING CZAR BACK [Charles Edward Russel in Collier's Weekly.] Of course Germany could not af ford to allow a great democratic re public to stretch along her northern border. The Kaiser's opinions of re publics are well known, and he is right about them —from his point of view. Every republic is a menace to the king job everywhere, and the Kaiser's pet dream is to see repub lics extinguished. He is, moreover, bound by the terms of his gentleman's agreement with the Czar and the rules of the Amalgamated Union of Royal Nin compoops of Europe, of which he is the founder and head, to put the czar back on the job if he overruns Rus sia. He would not have to overrun very much, either, to be in virtual control. There is a certain danger point, known to all students of the Russian situation, and if the Kaiser gets that in his claws further resist ance will be essentially fruitless, the revolution will collapse, and Ger many can do as she pleases with the greater part of what is left. The chance for democracy in Rus sia, therefore, depends upon keeping Germany out of it. But if that is at tended to effectively, democracy in Russia will proceed along only one road and that is to industrial no less than political radicalism. It isn't that a few leaders want this; every body wants it. The country is not, as you might agreeably suppose, in the hands of a few theorists and visionaries: it is as thoroughly con vinced that the old industrial system must go as it is that it doesn't want the old political system to come back. GERMAN SECRET SERVICE [Henry Van Dyke in Scribner's The fact is, we have only just be gun to understand the real nature of the German secret service, which works with, and either under or over, the diplomatic service. It is certain ly the most highly organized, syste matic and expensive, and at the same time probably the most bone headed and unscrupulous, secret service in the world. Its powers of falsifica tion and evasion are only exceeded by its capacity for making those mis takes which spring from a congenital contempt for other people. < THE PEOPLE'S MARKET FORESTALING | To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir:—While passing through! Broad street market recently 1 saw a i woman stop at a stand where I; was buying, and ask if the man j, who had the stall, had any more' pans of ponhaus. "Yes," said he. i "Well," said the woman ,"I want 10 i pans. This was taken to her meat stand and sold for 4 cents a pan i more than she paid for it. This, | I am told, is unlawful. Some time ago another butcher woman came to ; a stall where I was buying pork chops. "Have you any more pork: to spare?" she asked. "Yes," said; the farmer. She bought and paid for as much as she could carry, took i it to her stand and sold it for 4 cents to 5 cents more per pound than'she paid for it. This is unfair and should be stopped. TENTH WABD RESIDENT. WHY? To the Editor of the Telegraph: Can anyone tell me why a few suf fragist pickets are put in jail and 1 forced to eat the coarsest kind oft food, while interned Germans are I living on the fat of the land, and! German spies are either acquitted j or receive light sentences and es- \ cape prison? A mere reader, JANE. DOE. North sth St. RUSSIA ANP GERMANY ' A diplomat in a position to knowj the facts, declared today that if the; German Government and the Bol shevikl agree upon an armistice, Germany-Austria-Hungary will de rive not more than a very small part; of the benefits they have expected! from it. Not half of the more than | a million Austro-Hungarians-Ger-j mans held as prisoners of war in | Russia, it was asserted, will consent; to return to tneir countries during the war. Comparatively few German pris oners are held by Russia, the vast majority being subjects of Austria- Hungary, and most of these being composed of Czechs and Jugo-Slavs, who voluntarily surrendered to the Russians in the first months of the war and during the later campaigns in Galicia. The troops of those nationalities have regarded the Rus sians as liberators and, while con-1 senting to light upon the Italian front on account of Italian claims to a part of the territories, they de- j sire to be included within the pro-1 posed enlarged Serbo-Jugo-Slav | Kingdom. The Jugo-Slavs refused! to fight the Russians. The Bohemians, also, are flglrting on the Italian front, but were said to have surrendered invariably when j confronting the Russians. The German and Austro-Hungar ian armistice conditions are expect-! Ed here to be such as to arouse na tional indignation in Russia and to speed the complete overthrow of the Maximalists, who arc militarily help less and who, in order to effect any kind of an armistice, must submit virtually to the extravagant demands of the enemy countries—Exchange. I FLAME THAT BURNS An article in the New Republic has something to say about "The Educa tion of the Future," and in it we find this keynote: "The spirit individual; or social, is a living thing, by Its name and by its nature, a flame that burns, and It must In degree make the world over for itself or it is not spirit." That is to say, it is an ac tive agent for good, and yet in our scheme of education we push it aside, for muscle and style, for "cypherin' and parsin' " and let this grandest of human forces go to waste, because we don't know how to strengthen and train it. Right there is the issue of the coming edu cation, which would turn to the per sonality of citizenship more and to materialism less. The end of education is the mak ing of true men and women, not merely 1 scholarship or learning. These often stand in the way of true education, which looks to the trl-i umph of the soul. We don't know I how it Is done, we are told. But there is where the duty of the real educator comes in. He must be an inspiring, uplifting man or woman. He must get away from the old pro fessional ideas that have everything to do with knowledge, and get into the arena where aspiration, intuition and God's meaning in the world have their appropriate sway. That is thei only way to save this nation and de velop Its potencies in the direction of a noble destiny. To this end we must employ, what the writer quoted says, the "flame that burns." —Ohio State Journal. THANKS NEWSPAPER Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: I wish to thank the Harrisburg Telegraph for the kindness shown me during my campaign for Asso ciate Judge of Perry county. I would like to state through your paper my appreciation lor the voters[ of Perry county for their support. | I will keep my promise to the peo ple. to be guided at all times, and I under all circumstances, according] to law. Signed, GEO E. BOYER. HOW TO SAVE MILK Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: I notice in tonight's Telegraph an "ad." Notice to the Public Retail] Milk Dealers' Association. A quart of milk is V cents. A pint of milk is 7 cents. One-half of 12 equals 7. I wish I could pay for an "ad."— Notice to the Public: Do Not Be Gouged. During cold weather buy a quart of milk every other day, instead of a pint a day; or. Co-operate with your neighbor and get a quart jointly instead of two half pints. People will have to economize, and knowing this the dealers have soaked them to the limit. The quart should ; be 11 or the pint 6. Yours truly, j WARREN B. KEIM. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES |' ■ The Cantonment Manual: By | Major W. G. Kilner, U. S. A., and Lieut. A. J. MacElroy, U. S. A. D. •Vppleton & Co., publishers, 35 West 32nd Street, New York City. This book has been prepared es pecially for the recruits who are to make up the new army, and is the first manual to cover briefly the en tire field of military training from the standpoint of the man who en ters flie service for the tirst time. It describes in detail the setting-up ex ercises, tile Manual of Arms, Squad Drill, Interior Guard Duty, Court- Martial. and the Articles of War. i < >ne chapter is devoted to signals and signaling, including the most recent nug and other signals. A unique feature is the invaluable ad vice it gives on the care of clothing, equipment, the rifle, mess-kit, etc. I There are many practical illustra- I tioivg and tables showing the var | ious drill formations and the execu ] tion ot commands.—Price SI.OO Net. LABOR NOTES Of the 706,000 teachers in the | United States, 537,000 are women. There are 3,000,000 people in the | United States who are actually tu i bercular. There is no restriction on the work which women may do in Great Brit ain. Coal mining regiments may be formed from tha national army for work in France. About 54,000,000 of the subjects of King George are white, and 314,000,- 000 colored. Wages in Norway have increased | 50 to 60 per cent since July, 1914. ; The cost.of living has increased 108 per cent. Carpenters at Peterboro, Can., have established a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour for a nine-hour day. December 21-23, at Yonkers' N. Y., Tunnel and Subway Constructors International Union of North Amer ica will convene. Danville (111.) Bookbinders' Union has estabHehed its first wage scale— and incidentally raised wages — %2 a week. Labor federations among our Al lies in Europe have urged the im l mediate adoption of workmen's 1 health insurance in the United States. Owing to the scarcity of male la bor girls are being taken on for positions at anthracite colleries here tofore filled exclusively by men. Girl bus conductors in .London, England, work 10 hours a day, for which they receive $2, with an ad ditional $1.25 a week as a war bonus. The Women's Industrial Council of Great Britain has founded a Nursery Training School for the training of girla as children's nurses. , DECEMBER 4, 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT Japan apparently wants to love her neighbor, China, as herself —Colum- bia State. Italia has a lot more "Irredenta" now, but the war is still young.- Savannah News. New York has settled that old question—the lady or the tiger. She has taken them both.—St. Louis Star. "Ford will quit making pleasure ears." How do you mean pleasure?— Chicago Tribune. We have increased the postal rates in an effort to stop the "Mailed Fist." —Council Bluffs Nonpareil. In Russia the battle is to the swift —the side which first reaches the telegraph office.—Chicago Tribune. Mob violence will never teach the I. W. W. or anybody else respect for law and order.—lndianapolis Star. The Villa forces creating disorder on the border probably have just heard Pershing is in France. —New York World. If we judge by their conduct, somebody has injected a mighty poor grade of maxims in the Russian Max imalists. —Houston Post. A lot of girls are now getting a business training that will enable them to support husbands after the war.—DesMoines Register. His picture indicates that if Heri Trotzky had not been called by des tiny to be foreign minister at Petro grad, he would have done very well on the road in flowers and feathers or cloaks and suits. —Chicago Trib une. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ' -- ~~~ H A STRATEGIST v\NN Mother -H Y&nl What an awful lIIJJI sITI (,irty face! Go rlght ln the £ a house and wash % it this minute, i j|j Little Jimmio ' *7 3— * don't want ,0 wash niy jtl \ M face. I'm hldin' from some bad l™ir boys ln the next Hffiu block an' this is camouflage. HARMONIOUS you think t^• , .t (\ M | some of he \\ / ' comic pictures S. £'. 1 / are out of all oil. Only peo pie who look as ] I they do could famjSU' possibly make the remarks at tributed to STRONG CHARACTER. /\/ \ She—Oh, he's 'Sffli j~ alright only ho lacks personal -1 ' ty> now ti>ero is I jdnj/U Mr. Mazuma. j|&| II I I He (Inter ||| /1 1 111 jo rupting) Yes tffltfiillijj. j)\ JR r ' Mazuma, writes his per jl§|l )\ ] * sonality with six * flguras, iQI SUSPECTED CAMOUFLAGE, The Pacifist— |!!> jtw What would you |\. i\ "p ts soldiers do if 1\ the Kaiser should suddenly Hgr' <;•:!•/ extend the olive The Colonel —Search for a concealed bomb YL ln the foliage. H Vr iEimtmg CCljat State pure food agents are check ins up reports of deposits of eggs in the cold storage warehouses of Penn sylvania preliminary to a move to force the eggs stored In April to b placed on the market before the end of December when the nine-month limit will expire. Several millions ol dozens of eggs were placed in stor age In the middle of April, It is esti mated here, and the time for cold storage ends on the corresponding day in December. "Every egg that !fi ® ta y® rl Its limit in cold storageu will have to come out. We are taking steps that will result in such eggs being placed on the market we hope,' said Commissioner James i'oust. "There are millions of dozens of eggs in storage which could just as well be put Into the markets and we will not allow an egg to remain a f, a .y o stora B0 beyond the time lim it. btate food agents have been keeping close tabs on the ware houses in Philadelphia and Pitts burgh, where the last reports show ed the bulk of the eggs weie stored and reports have been received on every deposit. Close watch is also be ing kept on the butter in cold storage as the time limit is ten months. • • • "Meatless and wheatless days have some of us restaurant keepers almost crazy, said a well-known Harrlsburg restaurant keeper yesterday. "In some of the larger places where prices are higher and the margin of proiits greater the situation is not so difficult, but it is hard indeed, where there is no liquor license to swell profits and where what money we make is largely through cleverness in handling the foodproducts we sell. "Take for example our wheatless days. I bake my own bread. What is not used one day we use the next. But we have no means of carrying it over in good condition to the third day. If we serve no whitebread on wheatless days we must let what is left over from the day before go to the slop barrel, for it is too stale for our patrons on the third day. This, 1 take it. would be to save at the spigot only to waste at the bunghole and would be bad business from any standpoint. X used to give so much bread with an order that quite a lot went to waste. Now I have cut down on quantity, still giving the buyer all lie requires, and have thereby saved a barrel of flour a week. This is more than I would have saved by one wheatless day, but my patrons do not understand and some of them think I am not patriotic because I do not serve corn bread exclusively on wheatless days. What am I to do? I ask the author ities and get no practical reply." * * • "Meatless days are also a prob lem." continued this same restaurant man. "I intend to solve the diffi culty by suggesting on the menu card that patrons observe meatless days, but if they insist I suppose X will have to give them what they want or lose their patrfcnage. I be lieve the burden of the decision ought not to be put solely upon the dealer but should be shared by the consumer." • • "Perhaps," suggested a layman who had been listening, "the govern ment is making a mistake by not putting all bakers and restaurant men on the same basis by declining to permit any of them to make white bread. This would do away with wheatless days that are not wheat less, would conserve the flour supply, encourage the use "f corn and work no very great hardship to anybody. War bread as served in many of the big restaurants is more appetizii% than -white bread, and I doubt if people get used to eating war bread they will ever be content with the present more or less tasteless white bread." The assemblage thought this a pretty good idea but perhaps too practical and easy a solution for the consideration of the highly technical minds of the food adminis trators. On the subject of food in the ra.mps some visitors who were at a couple of the southern camps say they never saw men look better. "What is happening," sai,d a medical man who saw a camp, "is that these fellows are getting what they should have for the work they are doing. They are not eating any old thing and they are not doing anything. It's business in working and eating. And it's doing a lot of good." * ♦ Some belated payments of capital stock tax running Into the thousands of dollars have been coming to the State Treasury since the close of the fiscal year on Saturday. One check was for over SIO,OOO and others were for over SI,OOO. It is expected that some big payments from railroads will come in within a day or so. The big balance in the State Treasury will not last long as immense pay ments must be made in the next few weeks. • ♦ • From all accounts Dauphin coun ty in spite of the fact that it is an industrial district with varied lines of activity has originated compara tively few compensation cases which ha' been appealed according to people at the State Capitol. Most of thtjui have been adjusted by the ref erees. There has been nothing like claims which have come from small er counties. One of the reasons is the promptness with which claims have been settled. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Dr. J. T. Rothrock, State Forestry Commissioner, has returned from a hunt in the Maine woods. Col. T. W. Griffith, in charge of Army recruiting at Pittsburgh, has started to get after the alien enemies at large in his district. —Judge M. B. Stephens, of Cam bria, who was here a few days ago, went home to be faced with an equity case in which there wgre four differ ent respondents. Dr. W. W. Babcock, just promot ed in the Army at Fort McPherson, was formerly head of the Samaritan Hospital in Philadelphia. —C. C. Zantzinger, sent to Norway to examine into the food situation, is a prominent Philadelphia archi tect. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg's Mulberry street brldjjo, is still visited by ' ciißlnecrs who liavc such proj ects under way. HISTORIC HARRISBtTRG Half a dozen Indian tVaiis con verged at the mouth of Paxton creek and they used to be visited by trad ers. BELGIUM'S ARMY (Bhiladelphia Record) How an official Belgium exists k. a good deal of a mystery. Of course money is supplied by the allies—we have been providing $7,500,000 a month but there is a real Bel gian army. Only 60,000 were left after the battle of the Yser, but It is Baid by the Belgian Minister of War to comprise now 10 divisions. 125,000 to 110,000 men.