8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded ISJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph lliilldlitg, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STACKPOLiE, Pres't & Editorin-Chirf P. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titlert 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. A Member American Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu ' lation and Penn ing m ijip fit sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office, siß RBI M Story, Brooks & RIMuSk Avenue Building, Western office, week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. SATTRADY, DECEMBER 8, 1917 We are tempted, not in order to be ruined, but in order to be made. Temptation is just moil's chance of flying his coIors. — THOMAS PHILLIPS, WAR wrrn AUSTRIA CONGRESS lost no time in com plying with President Wilson's recommendation for declaration of a state of war with Austria. There was no other way out of it. Germany dictates every Austrian move. Aus trians are fighting our allies shoulder to shoulder with Germans. If they submit to the German yoke they must submit also to the whip-lash of the power that is destined to drive German militarism and all that stands with it into oblivion. Every member of the Senate voted for this just and necessary course. Every member of the House support ed the resolution save one—Meyer London,• Socialist, whose speech in his own defense sounds much like a plea for clemency based on a con fession of guilt. ONE FLAG FOR COLORED RACE ROSCOE CONKLING SIMMONS, the noted negro speaker, said something last evening, during his address at the armory, that should be food for thought on the part of some white men. He pointed out that there is but one flag for the colored race, and that is the flag of America. He might have gone on and said that there never was a question of negro loyalty and that in all the history of the country there never was a negro traitor. Colored men have fought and died for the flag, but they have never betrayed it. Some of the foreign-born residents of this coun try, who owe all they have to the blessings of American government and who cherish disloyalty in their hearts, could take a lesson in patriot ism from the nerroes of the I'nited States. THE WAR IN AFRICA THE colossal magnitude of this war is realized when one binder stands that the very small part of it in Africa is a far greater con flict than the entire Boer war. more soldiers involved, more casualties, more territory- at stake, wider car nage. The promise of President Kruger, patriot Oom Paul, that the price would "stagger humanity," sounds trifling in this cataclysm. England loses as many men In one day as she lost in the whole series of Boer battles and skirmishes. Curiously enough, Boer officers are iri great measure responsiblo for what has Just happened, the com plete clearing of the Hun from East Africa. The last remnant of German force on the Dark Continent has now taken refuge in Portugese Africa, whence it will soon be driven. This African campaign of the Brit ish will go down In history as a model for military enterprise. No glaring mistakes were made. To be gin with, England realized that the Pocr is a natural strategist and brave, so Sir Dorian-Smith was quickly relieved and the Job given to General Jan Christian Smuts. Re cently General Vandeventer, another Boer strategist, has been In charge. Many ex-Boer soldiers are with the English, and like the American pioneers who learned how to fight the Indians, these men know how to inflict the most damage while little endangering their own bodies. That Germany earnestly desired to hold her African colonies goes with out saying. Each of them. German East Africa and German Southwest Africa are one-third bigger than the State of Texas, and the first one, at least, has extraordinary resources. Impressing many thousands of na tives, German officers, with a good number of regular and powerful ar tillery, invaded British East Africa and here the bulk of the campaign was fought. This part of Africa is exceedingly wild and exotic, teeming with disease and pests. The sting of the tsetse fly kills all domestic ani mals; malaria and sleeping sickness are rampant. Yet despite these and myriad other obstacles the British - Boer expedition kept boring In ovor almost impassable terrain. They fought clear up on Mt. Kilmanjaro, which rises to nearly 20,000 feet; some of their encounters were semi naval, on the chain of great African SATURDAY EVENING, lakes, Nyanza. Navassa and Tan ganyika. The Germans were nearly always on the defense, but with their powerful artillery and 100,000 train ed blacks accustomed to the climate it was indeed a task. In the Boer war Oom Paul's little army had only four big puns, the Long Toms. One was blown up In Natal and the other three removed to Pretoria and never used again. In this campaign hundreds of high centimeter guns thundered in the dense forests, along the squdgy creeks- and on the mountain tops of Central Africa. To one who has studied affairs In the Dark Continent this turn of events is of consuming interest. When the British were about to cap ture Pretoria a party of resolute Boer generals took oath In General Botha's front yard that they would sieze the first opportunity to again fight England. Most of them are now with England. A reason for this Is that the Boers lost confidence in the Germans during their war for survival. On his solemn word. Kaiser Wilhelm promised Mr. Kru ger to send men, artillery and ships, then changed his mind. In the opin ion of many statesmen this was Ger man's stupendous blunder. England was In no shape then to fight a great power and, moreover, the world was against her in sentiment. Again, after Germany secured ter ritory in the Dark Continent, she immediately demonstrated that she was not a good colonizer. In East Africa the German Imperial officers personally conducted slave markets, and mutilation was not unknown. Germany now does not possess one square inch of the African continent, when three years ago she owned ovei one million square miles, with a population of fourteen millions, including 25,000 whites. FROM THE CHRISTMAS FUNDS THRIFTY men and women of Harrlsburg during the next week or ten days will reap the fruits of eleven months of saving, when the banks pay out the Christ mas savings fund deposits. There are many thousands of dol lars In these funds—and perhaps no single fund is under S2O, while others are many times greater. Harrlsburg has a heart—and a heart that Is big as all creation. And it has the dollars. A heart and a dollar are all one needs to become a member of Har risburg Chapter of the Red Cross. A heart and a single dollar! Why not couple them —all of us— I in our Christmas giving? Let's all have Red Cross member ships in our homes this Christmas. HIGH SCHOOIi PROGRAM THE suggestion has been made that the School Eoard postpone its high school building pro gram until the end of the war. in order that men and materials may be concentrated upon government contracts of a military nature. In short, as Director Stamm put It, the Harrisburg school district should not compete against the government for workers and materials at a time when the nation is sorely pre'ssed for both. There is room for discussion here. Certainly, the School Board has no desire to hinder the country in the prosecution of the war and there is just now a scarcity of labor and some kinds of materials in war in dustries. Private and public work of a local character must give way, in large degree, to the more important demands of the nation. But there is something to be said the other side. also. The rev enues by which tliu country hopes to finance the war are based upon business receipts, and if private en terprise is to be utterly discouraged for the period of the war, ruin is just around the corner and bank ruptcy is not far away. It is not an easy thing to draw the line, but draw it we must, some where. Not all new building should be abandoned because of the war. By the very fact of the war some busi nessmen have found it absolutely essential to the operation of their establishments to carry on exten sive enlargement programs, despite the extremely high cost of all t>e fac tors entering into construction work. The Penn-Harris hotel may be cited as an illustration. In this case the plans were made and contract let be fore the declaration of war. but even so the hotel needs of the city are so urgent that postponement could not have been considered. Some busi nessmen of the city found them selves in like position and as a re sult contractors have been busy all year. Perhaps the school district, if the full program is not at once neces sary at this time, may be able to strike a "fifty-fifty" bargain with the government; in other words, erect the absolutely essential buildings now, letting the others go to a more pr.opltious time. OUTLAW HUNTING IT is to be hoped that officers of the State Game Commission will be able to run down and make examples before the law of the hunters who have been not only shooting does, and even fawns, con tuary to the well-established provi sions of the State game code, and against all the rules of sportsman ship. There are some people who can not resist the temptation to blaze away at anything In the shape of a bird or animal they meet in the woodland. Mistakes occur, of course, but the average hunter has enough time to see what he Is shooting at. The fellows who bang away without thinking are not only the men who will break the game laws, but endan ger life, for the modern high power ed hunting rifle in the hands of a reckless hunter has powers of mis chief that extend for miles. Thx; State is spending thousands ct' dollars to maintain game pre serves and hundreds to buy- game in other States to stock the sections of woodland which have been cleared [ of animals and birds by pot hunters or flres. Representative sportsmen are /(riving of their time and monoy to help and the general public senti ment supports the work of the com-, mission. Yet in the face of this all year provision for sport that lasts two weeks there have been reports of game killed out of season, and from the Caledonia district alone of seven does shot within a few miles since the opening of the season. In other sections does and fawns have been killed and allowed to lie. Prosecution and publicity is what these outlaw hunters need. fdUUt-U Ry the Ex-Committoeßum ,j Scores of commissions of men elected to judgeships and various county offices at last month's elec tion are being prepared at the de partment of the secretary of the commonwealth for Issue the latter part of this month so that they may qualify the first Monday in Janu ary. Some of the judges will also be commissioned president judges and in the case of Robert B. McCor mick, judge-elect of the Clinton- Cameron-Elk district, he will get an other as he has been appointed to fill out twenty-five days of the term of tho late Judge Harry Alvan Hall. Commissions will be issued to twenty-six common pleas judges, twenty-two associate judges and three orphans court judges. This is the largest number of judicial offi cers to be commissioned for some time. County officers will be commission ed as follows: Prothonotaries 20: registers of wills 10; recorders of deeds 11: sheriffs 23 and coroners 19. There are one or two vacan cies among such officers and they may be filed in addition, while com missions as dedimus potestatum will be Issued to recorders. The com missions for the three classes of court clerks will he issued as fol lows: Quarter sessions 16; oyer' and terminer 17 and orphans court 11. Some of the county returns sent here for the making out of commis sions have been returned as Incom plete. —Filing of expense accounts con tinues to attract attention generally. The Philadelphia and Scranton state ments being recorded, Pittsburgh is now to the front. A dispatch from that city says: "E. V. Babcock. elected Mayor of Pittsburgh,' spent $122,- 421.60. and former Mayor William. A. Magee, defeated candidate, spent $57,531.39, in the November election campaign, according to the expense accounts of the treasurers of their campaigns, filed here. Babcock's ac count, showing contributions of $77,- 450, indicates a deficit of $44,971.60 to be made up. Magee's account, list ing contributions of $35,068.48 with a balance from the primary cam paign of $4,023.40, shows a deficit of $18,733.51. Large as the Babcock ac count appears, the multimillionaire lumber baron who will serve Pitts burgh the next four years as mayor, probably will find it one of the cheapest of his many investments, for his own contribution to the cam paign is listed at $5,000. Other large contributors were: Former Senator George T. Oliver, $1,500; Henry Rea, $5,000; F. R. Babcock, brother of the Mayor-elect, $2,700; B. F. Jones, Jr., head of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, $4,000. There were thirty six contributors of over S3OO. Wil liam Flinn, chief contributor to the Magee campaign, gave $7,500 in two contributions." —The Philadelphia Record to-day charges that the move by counsel for the Vare organization in Phila delphia courts to have the bond to cover expenses of the contest in augurated by the Town Meeting party, is an effort to hamper and de lay. The North American Also charges a holdup. The Inquirer says it is an attempt to "block." —The Philadelphia Ledger is giv ing considerable space to the move in behalf of Highway Commissioner O'Neil for Governor. It thinks that he may make an announcement soon. —Presence of Ex-Spealter George E. Alter, of Allegheny, here yester day on business at the Capitol stimu lated talk of the former Speaker as an available man lor Governor. Mr. Alter is being much spoken of among railroad men because of the position he took in the public service law en actment and in hearings on it. There is considerable quiet sentiment for him about the state. —Philadelphia's politics have been further affected by the arrangement made to end free trolley transfers and by the police protest against Di rector Wilson and conditions in the management of the force in that city. Councilman James A. Garey says he will champion the cause of the police in council. —Prof. Eugene Fellows, well known to many here, is stirring up things as a candidate for county schools superintendent in Lacka wanna. —Coatesville lias cut down its po lice force from thirteen to eight and raised the pay of the eight retained. —Altoona city fathers are strug gling with demands for increase of policemen's salaries. —The ' Insider" writing In the Philadelphia Press yesterday made this observation: "The chance of peaco in the Republican party in Philadelphia is ended. The prof fers for an armistice or even for a permanent agreement were consid ered by leaders on either side in the last week, and even insisted upon by some as a necessity for the safety of the pnrtv in Pennsylvania. Sen ator Penrose and the circle of Town Meeting and Republican Alliance leaders surrounding him considered the terms and turned them down. They had the alternative suggested to them of leaving Philadelphia en tirely to the Varea and doing what they pleased throughout the state, or of going into desperate battle In this city, and they chose the latter course. Action, of course, was de cided on Friday at the two meetings, one of the Kepublican Alliance, In the office of Senator Penrose, and the other a secret session of the real leaders of the anti-Vare .movement on that night. The decision of those meetings was: Contest the election and organize everywhere in the city to wipe out Vare control. The plans of these leaders do not even end with the borders of "Vare ville," that south of Sopth street ter ritory regarded as the Vare citidal of strength. Men have been named to make the fight in every ward, or elne will be decided upon shortly, and they will gather forces to go on the firing line immediately." —Representative William Ramsey Is anxious to return to the legisla ture from Chester, says the Ledger. He is a follower of the McClures, and he will naturally be opposed by potential forces. His opponent will probably be William Ward, Jr., who was recently defeated for City Coun cil by twenty-seven votes. It looks as though Isaac Sharpless, presi dent of Haverford College, and V. Gilpin Robinson, of Clifton Heights, will be candidates to oppose Speak er Hichiird -I. HaMwi" and Marry Heyburn. Henry F. Miller, of Up per Darby township, is another man who is being groomed for the Leg islature. I HAKUfiBCRG fjfUßg TELEGRAPH THE REAL BOGIE BY BRIGGS ' * ■ dmrritbty TX Tribune EDITORIAL COMMENT Complaints are growing that Ger man agents have too much leeway in this country. The fact is, they haven't been given enough rope.—Brooklyn Eagle. "Quiz Follows $2,000,000 Blaze,'' runs a headline. Yes; but isn't it a pity that the quiz always follows and never precedes the blaze? —New York Morning Telegraph. "Would Colonel House consider a nomination for the Presidency in 1920?" asks an exchange. In all probability not. The sentiment of the country seems to be against threo terms. —Philadelphia Inquirer. The Kaiser shall not press down upon the brow of labor his iron cross.—Boston Transcript. There are indications that the German peace dove is about to scream again.—New York Sun. TEN COMMANDMENTS ••First. Don't lie; it wastes my time and yours. I'm sure to catch you in the end, and that's the wrong end. "Second. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short and a short day's work makes my face long. "Three. Give me more than I expect and I'll pay you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. "Four. \ou owe so much to your self that you can't afford to owe any body else. Keep out of debt or keep out of my shops. "Five. Dishonesty is never an ac cident. Good men, like good women, can't see temptation when they meet "Six. Mind your own business and in time you'll have a business of your own to mind. "Seven. Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect The employe who is willing to steal for me is capable of stealing from me. "Eight. It's none of my business what you do at night, but if dissi pation" affects what you do next day and you do half as much as I de mand, you'll last half as long as you hoped. "Nine. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear but what I ought to hear. I don't want a valet for my vanity, but I need one for my dollars. "Ten Don't kick if I kick. If you're worth while correcting you'ra worth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples." The f.iregolng mandates are framed and occupy a conspicuous place in the office of a big Philadel phia wholesale house. AS HINDENBURG SEES US In an interview with a corre spondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse Field Marshall von Hlnden burjr is quoted as saying. "It is certain that the United States is making efforts to create a big army, and the war is an oppor tune pretext for this, as in peace times the difficulties would be too great. Japan too would not have looked on with indifference." The statement is interesting prin cipally because it is so characteris tically German and expresses so completely the inability of the Ger man load rs tn undestand the reac tion of any other nation than their own to the present world crisis. That the United States needed a pretext for the formation of a "big army" and that it found an "oppor tune pretext" in the war is the atti tude of a military nation and an autocratic Government. That the army came as an inspiration from the people themselves and that the only pretext which was urged for its formation was a defense of democ racy and the rights of civilization is incomprehensible to the men who are wielding and directing the pow ers of Hohenzollernism. —New York Sun. LORD PROMISED NOAH And God spake unto Noah, saying, go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. And Noah wont forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. And Noah huilded an altar unto the Lord. And the Lord said tn his heart, I will not again curse the ground for man's sake. While the hearth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and sum mer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.—Genesis viil, 15 to 22. INTER VIEWSWITHEMPEY-N0.2 Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am erican Soldiers "War Not Nearly So Bad as It's Cracked Up to Be" THE French are looking to the Americans as the saviours of their cause, and the Americans must be careful to preserve that sen timent. The French, are tempera mental," said Sergeant Empeyj au thor of 'Over the Top.' If a French man, kisses an American soldier, the American mustn't poke him in the chin: he must kiss him back. And the French are—the American must Just remember this —exceedingly po lite. Tou must never poke fun at a Frenchman; that is a mortal Insult. And the American must remember that the careful French politeness does not mean that the Frenchman is afraid of anything in the world. Why, a Frenchman will apologize to a German when he sticks his bayonet into him! "But, after all the Americans are going over there in the Frenchman's backyard. They are fighting togeth er to keep a common enemy from climbing the back fence. But it is the Frenchman's yard. And the American must keep to the paths, and not step on the flower beds. "Not," he added quickly, "that there are any regular customs or ways of doing and saying things that the American must adhere to. That was the case before the war, but things are changed now—both the Frenchman and the Englishman are changed with them; they are good fellows together now. and they excuse each other's mistakes. The thing for the American to do In France is to be and act always as a good American. He'll get a wonder ful reception if he is just a real, straight Yankee. "When he gets to his billet or vil lage, the American soldier will find that prices will slightly rise. He mustn't consider that as an injury or an insult, but really as a compli ment. To the French people every American is a millionaire; they set the best before him and he is expec ted to pay the price. The American tourists in France have given that impression. And when you throw a hall against a wall, It is sure to re bound. The harder you throw it," he remarked reflectively, "the hard er it will hit you when it comes back. "When the American Soldier first gets to France," he went on, "he will have a fine time enjoying new scenes for about two days. Then he will begin to be anxious to get up (lie line, to Investigate, to see just what Is going on, to get into things. He'll have to curb his patience for awhile. But while he is going through his training period he will be an ardent souvenir collector. lie will get all the souvenirs that he can possibly buy and steal. He will load (To Be Continued) TROTZKY "REVELATIONS" There must be a good deal of drawing on the imagination b.v writers of the cabled news dispatches from Paris which depict officials of the French government as "an noyed" at Herr Trotzky because he has seen fit to suppress the diplo matic correspondence of Germany while making pu'olic some of the diplomatic correspondence of gov ernments which have been trying to aid Russia. Why should anything else be expected of the Bolsheviki agents of Germany than that they work for Germany? Why should anybody take Trotz ky or his alleged revelations seri ously, anyway? In these there Is absolutely nothing new—nothing that had not been known to the world long before Trotzky and Le nine appeared on the scene at Pe trograd. No "official documents" were necessary to show that France expects the return of the provinces filched from her by Prussia or that the Russian people and their gov ernment have looked forward to the day when Russia would control Con stantinople and the Bosphorus; nor is there any news in the fact that the government of her allies urged Rus- j sla to stand Arm in this war. If Herr Trotzky's act in making public those documents proves any thing at all, it Is that he and his associates are willing to go to any length to discredit Russia and that their own subservience to Germany is complete. Even that, however, is not news.—New York Herald. himself down like a camel —and he won't realize that he can't take those souvenirs home, and that lie will have to carry them all about with him for months and months and months. When he has sweated through a few route marches with liis load of souvenirs, he'll begin to throw away the least precious of them; and pretty soon the gems of his collection will follow the others into the ditcli. "Before he gets within the sound \ of the guns he will see a good many: airplane fights, and this will in-! crease his desire to get to the linej itself. Then when he actually hears j the guns he will be all enthusiasm,! full of questions. By gradual stages | the sound will get louder, until at| last he sees the great flare in thei sky, hear the tremendous noise j right at his ear, and is close to thei line. And then what he feels is noti fear, but a strange, vacant, lonely feeling, a restlessness and longing, not for home, but to be in the front i lino with the men who are in dan-! ger, because what he feels most is I a tremendous pity for them. It isj the psychology of the soldier that I what he is conscious of then is not | any danger for himself, but an in-1 tense pity for the men who are on the front line, the sense of their danger and the wish to share it with them. "But sooner or later he will be under shellfire "himself. And the| lirst time that happens to the volun- j teer he will feel a great regret tliatj he didn't wait for the draft! It will be only momentary, but for the in stant he will feel a great desire to run—not at the Germans! He will want to run away, but somehow lie doesn't; somehow he can't; and he and all his comrades. BM feelinir thej same way, go on steadily moving— ; forward! "It is when he comes to his first I ruined village that the awfulness of war will hit him face to face, and, he will feel lonely and deserted him-1 self, and very small. He gets used to shellfire very soOn, and he comes to think that the German guns are pretty rotten! But when, going into the communication trench, he sees his first wounded being carried out on stretchers—well, you can't de scribe the feeling it gives him. He is pretty well unnerved at first, and then he is flooded with a tremen dous pity for these men. Then his pity changes to admiration, and he begins to feel a kind of envy of theni; if he could go through it without suffering all that they are supposed to, he'd like to be one of those wounded men himself; it's like what the drafted man who has been exempted must feel when he sees I the regiments marching away." LABOR NOTES Musicians at St. John, N. 8., have organized. The Legislatures of Ave states pro vided during the current year for various lines of Investigation In so cial insurance. The states taking such action are Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. In France a law >ia been uassed setting up a special fund for pay ment of compensation for industrial accidents to men employed in indus try who have been previously dis abled in the war. Lynn, (Mass.) coal teamsters have raised wages $2 a week and secured Saturday half-holidays throughout the year. Nine h.ours shall consti tute a day's work except on Satur days. Of the available water power In Sweden, estimated at 0,000,000 horsepower, about 15 per cent is In use. The number of plants In oper ation or in process of construction in 1915 was 453. It will cost approximately $34,260 a year more to install tho double platoon or two-shift system in the Calgary (Canada) Fire Department. For this reason the new project will be shelved. Electrotypors' Union at Spring field, Mass., has secured a two-year agreement. Wages are increased 12 a week the first year and an addi tional |1 a week the second year. DECEMBER, 8, 1917. Over tfa uv *~p&>v}uu "How did I meet de bride?' grin ned Joseph Coyne when applying for a marriage license in Allentown the other day. "Why it was jest two years ago at Wheeling, West Virginia, after a stiff tight in which I puts out a gink with a left hook in de bread basket. When 1 piped her off here after two years I t'ought she was handcuffed to that soldier boy, but soon as we cross our lamps I knowed the spark of love was all t' th' acety lene, so here we are." Coyne is a mid dleweight pugilist of some renown, and his little speech so affected the bride-to-be that she paid the license fee. No cloud without a silver lining:. The adventures of Constable "Jim" Martin, of Darby, near Philadelphia, should comfort any soldier who con templates losing a leg in the war. Mr. Martin was currying a horse the other day when the animal suddenly uncorked an awful kick which car ried the constable's wooden leg ten feet away. It was somewhat dam aged, but still sound enough to con vince the horse that a one-legged man is dangerous to fool with. Mr. Martin has been inflicted in this same leu with two gunshot wounds, been bitten by a mad dog and endured scalding by boiling water which give whole legged persons intense suffer ing. OUR DAILY LAUGH [/;;;• ; |L* THE METHOD. WZ- To write a m ./H ' \ s~~ Chr istma.o On anything .] Take any tale \\ date & IFEFPROBABLY V ' A TIGHTWAD. VjfSSSi ' et ' me /gggglove to you if it was hopeless? I didn't know less until I saw I your method of | Bass That ~ fisherman sent i down a hook V only half baited, must be playing / ifjL a Joke on us. Well we can see, the point all ' MISUNDER SING STANDINGS. I'/ With such a #/V > " peculiar lan guoge it must § be difficult for ' he i ' nese ,o T understand oncv another. '(iP 1 Judging from their numerous ■dP: revolutions they !■' occasionally lEtaratng ffllfat i It is probable that in spite of th war and its curtailment of much of [the time of people to read that the Circulation of books at the Harrls burg Public Library will run close to 5,000 more than In 1916. Last year the circulation for the twelve months was 130,000, which estab lished a high water mark and was notable for the fine work done arooiig children. It was the year when the school libraries were opened. This year in spite of the delays in opening the school libra ries the demand for books has been growing steadily. An interesting fea ture is that the percentage of fiction runs about seventy-two, showing that people are devoting themselvcA to the more serious reading. In No vember the circulation at the li brary was a few short of 11,000, If the Harrisburg district is U9.000, hLt ed '? y some . this means a book for each nine persons, big and lltt'e, native and foreign. There are • i? s , which make the show- Harrisburg when it is consid ered that there are so many peopfc from other lands. The Pennsylvania Hailroad Com pany has been having some difli cuitj In getting laborers for the shops and roundhouses, and just now there are many working who are far above the age limit of the Pennsy for hiring men. Not a few who are physically able to till a po sition are signed up on sight. Not a few pensioners who have been retired within the past three years are back at work. The same'rule holds good with all local industries. Experience is no longer necessary. If you look good, a jot> is a certainty. Some men are working who have tak ' n Jf life for some time. \Y bile not idlers In every sense the word implies, they have not been up against real hard work for a long time. A story was told yesterdav of one man who had not been up real work for twenty years, up to a week ago. He was num bered among the employes of the Puddling mill at Herr street and the Pennsylvania Canal, which was abandoned many years ago. It was known as the "Hot Pot," and was a part of the old Chesapeake Nail works. When the puddling mill was abandoned, this particular em. ploye, who had saved his money and had some property, decided to take i./, aSV ', , B } n S* thflt tlme lie has Tilled odd jobs, but only worked when he wanted to. For some time he has been living the life of a pen sioner. The other tlav several friends told him the United States Government was hunting up idle men. and. regardless of age. would force them to Army duty. "They'll not get me," was -the remark. On the following- day lie applied for work at a local industry and is now on a regular job. "I am proing to stay on that job as lon# as they'll let me, *ho toM friend last night. Mexican quail are to be tried again in state game preserves next spring by .State Game Commission authorities under arrangements just being made, and it is intended to profit by former experiences and to use only mature birds and to turn them loose at a time when they can stand the climate. The first Mexi can birds brought here arrived in the middle of winter and, being ?• , om tho w armer climate of the Mexican highlands and changed Y^ m *1" insect t0 a gram diet, thev f,| d not stand " well. The new plan, which is expected to result in some successful propagation work, is to buy mature birds in Mexico, where they are abundant, durinir the win ter and have them arrive here in tha i spring. By that Jime the weatjUr will be suitable and the birds will find plenty of bugs, to eat and not be dependent upon grain. Tests have been made which it is believed demonstrate the way to handle n".',; >?ng-necked pheasants from Pacific Coast states are to be intro duced to the woods and fields of Pennsylvania next spring. These purchases have been arranged and some prime birds have been secured. In addition, pheasants have been nought in New York and New .Tersev for storking purposes. Wild turkevs are being bought in half a dozen states. While it is not the intention to engage in any extensive deer propagation because deer are plenti ful, yet some Michigan bucks may be bought for state preserves and to replenish stock where there have been many kills. The state has beer very successful with northern buck" at preserves. Here is the prize story about a public service complaint. A one man concern up the Cumberland v alley raised rates and objection* were made nn the part of some con sumers. When the man was askec about it and attention was called to the fact that he had not given no tice as required, he said: "Oh, well nobody kicked: thev paid." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —C. Laßue Munson who was her yesterday attending a hearing at thi office of the Public Service Commis sion, has been named as a mem he of the State Committee for Wa Savine. • —Postmaster A. S. Guftey, ofPitts burgh, says people should sent money to soldiers to help them bu; things In France. —J. P. Bryan, sheriff of Reaver has mndp a census of all aliens ii his county on his own account. —Frank A. Vanderllp, the banker is to be the speaker at the big Pitts burgh meeting to-night. —T. A. Wright, head of th Wilkes-Barre railways, says that hi company will be compelled to rais rates. 1 DO YOU KNOW That ITarrisbtirg soldiers have l>cen among the first to enlist In every war of the Re public? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The courthouse was the recruitin headquarters in the War of 1812. theT newspaper "I believe in the power of new paper advertising," writes J. Ogd< Armour. "The press has made itse a great economic factor in the cor merclal activity of this age. It h demonstrated its worth to a poi where I can say, without hesitanc that newspaper advertising w create, intensify and broaden bui ness." This is a pretty convincii statement from the president of concern that does a business annul ly of a half billion dollars. "f 0 tunate is that community which h a good live newspaper," says IV Armour, "for Its editorial and a vertislng activities are second to ■ forco in tiuilding up and develop! Un territory."—Newspaperdom.