10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XBWSPAPHR POR THE lIO.UIi Pcunded it)l i■| . - = \ Published evenings except Sunday by ; THH HU.Mllttl'll I'RINTINU CO, I Teler*ft Bulldlnct Federal Nqunre. mi., -i ■ . J. BT ACK POWSi Pmt & tUttor-tn-Chte/ R, OTSTER, Bttefcrt* Man*ttr x erg M. 3TRINMKTH, Managing fijt'for. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en- ' tltle-1 t the ue for republication of | all news dispatches credited to It r > not otherwise credited In this paper , • nil also the local news published I herein, ▲ll rights of republication of special | dispatches herein are al*o reserved. ■ . Member American ■On 5 iHil Avenue Building, —— ! Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. Bv carriers, ten cents a week; bv mall, $6.00 - till a year iu advance. IfSMY, DECEMBER 11, I#l7 If otily we strive to 6P pure and true, To each -of us there will come an hour When the tree of life will burst into flower, And rain at our feet a glorious rloirer (If something grander than ever we knew. —ANON. THE Ml I)-WINTER SHOW THE project announced from Cap itol Hill to-day for the holding of a mid-winter food and farm products show in Harrisburg under the patronage of the State Depart ment of Agriculture and a dozen or so agricultural, horticultural and similar allied bodies, ought to receive hearty support from Harrisburg peo ple. It Will be held coincidently with meetings of a number of organiza tions. including the State Board of Agriculture, and will bring together j the best of Pennsylvania's corn, j Wool, dairy and poultry products, po tatoes. fruits, apples and vegetables. ! They will be here for all people to see and the diversity and quality of I Keystone State products can be view ed. The show will be the second to be. 1 held in Harrisburg. One ought to i be held every year. The various or ganizations have been holding meet ings here regularly.' Now the plan Is to aroup their sessions -and to have the show at the same time. The idea of "Agricultural show week" ought to be taken up seriously by Harrisburg. Mid-winter is the time to plan the next year's crops. Har- j risburg is a center of many activi ties and "Agricultural week" can be made important for the State as "well as the city. DRAFT FAKES " IT is hard enough to buck against the insidious pro-German propa ganda when aided by .rumor and its thousand tongues, and when it oones down to discussing such a subject as the draft every person ought to be in a position to state the facts. Unfortunately, there was more or less difficulty in getting ex act Information about the operation of the selective service law for a while, but of late things have been ironed out and there Is small excuse for the crazy stories which have been going the rounds. A little time, a call on a telephone and a sensible inquiry will speedily bring facts. The tfraft affects manS - homes and naturally disturbs the affairs of many young men. People can obtain in formation as to requirements and movements of men to camps from the headquarters here or from local boarfl-s. 1 here should be no guess ing and no spreading around of un verified reports. Only a few days ago it was declared men in this sec tion would start for camp on a cer tain day and scores of them ar ranged to give up their jobs. No date had been fixed at all. Such reports are as reprehensible as those that men are not well taken care of at Camp Meade. In this time it is everyone's busi ness to get the facts and to face them. THE WESTERN FRONT NEW b that the Germans are about to try again for a decis ion on the western front eftOuld be encouraging to friends of the allied cause. After the awful failure at Verdun another German smash at the allies in France can be prompted by nothing but sheer desperation. The Germans have made no serious attempts against this line since the French foiled their swing/it Paris by the southern route. The offensive has lain alto gether with the allies, and both Eng lish and French slowing but surely have been pushing tfie invaders back toward the Rhine. A success, even f a moderate nature, on the .west front no doubt would be followed by fresh peace proposals on the part of Berlin. But that is scarcely to be considered. The allies, with their tremendous reserves and gigantic transportation systems, will be able, chances are, to stave off any as sault no matter how great, and then Germany will have to fa<ce the fact that there is no hope for her along the French front, which would nul lify at home all the popular sentl- TUESDAY EVENING, HAJtRISBURO TELEGRAPH •' DECEMBER 11, 1917. I nient engendered ly the successes ln| ! Italy and the Russian peac propos als. I, j If, as lias been suggested, the plan | of the Germans is to smash the i American sector, as an object lesson i to the United States, whatever may j happen there will be only a stimulus j to war preparations in this country, if pur acmies hold the Hun, we shall be mightily pleased and doubly anx ious to return the blow, If our men fall by the hundreds, such a wave of wrath Will sweep the country as 1 | will make Us more determined to '■ put an end to Kaiserlsm forever, BUSINESS AND THE WAR CHARLES W. MEARS, writing in Judicious Advertising, on the toplo "Are Business Men a Time Menace?-" Hives expression to the fear that over-efonomy may be come as great an evil as extrava gance. "Personally," he says, "it would be no surprise to me If this stop spending money cry is part of the Kaiser's German-made plans to has ten our defeat. Business activity sup ports and keeps alive the home, the church, the school, the State, the Nation and the world," and to stifle [ business would be to choke oft the supply of war revenues at their very j source, he believes, j There Rre two kinds of economy, the writer points out —that which 1 means prosperity and success In the war and that which means poverty and defeat, and he continues, "the only kind of economy we need is of the products of nature. When you j throw away an uneaten potato or an j uneaten piece of bread, you are wasting something that nature has! given you and that cannot be restor- ' ed. We must not waste food products.] But money is quite a different thing. You may spend your money for ' whatever you like, whenever you |, like, as you like, and it has not been J destroyed. It is intact. It has passed 1 ] on to other hands, and by those other J hands will be passed on to still other j ( hands. And it is precisely this pro- { cess of passing money from hand to ' i hand that puts lifeblood Into busj- j ( ness. And business in turn is the j i thing—and the only thing—that i , gives employment to men and worn- 1 ' en, and enables them to buy bread and the other necessities of life. Sit ' tight on your nickels, squeeze your < pennies, get the tight-wad habit with ' ; money and you are deadening the j i 'world. You are withholding from j' i some one a chance to live. When you ! '.butcher a cow you butcher the cow's j, j milk supply and the milk supply of j i her progeny to the end of the world. ~ i When you pinch your dollars and re-! fuse to spend, you murder the power of that money to huy, not only for J you, but for every other person to j whom that money might pass, were !, you to give it a start." There is nothing new or phantastic j in these views. They are founded on | • the fact that earning and spending j depend upon each other—that you j can safely spend as long as you can earn, but that if all of us continue to earn without spending much it will not be long before we are not able to Jearn so much. In short, we spend he | cause we are able to earn and tve ; are able to earn because we spend. The government, as the writer savs, can take care of itself. It will < be able to commandeer money and materials wherever they are and the | higher the prosperity of the coun-1 try the easier for the government to j acquire either or both of these. In ! other words, over-economy is as bad j as reckless extravagance. Taxation j on business is going to win this[ war and to provide the revenues as ] sessed against it business must be < | kept as nearly normal as war condi- j tions will permit. The chronic money hoarder is quite as bad as the spend thrift. OVR BOYS TY',. J. W. ELLENBEItGEK, lieu- II tenant in- the medical arm of } I the United States military ser ; I vice, brings words of cheer to anx - j ious parents concerning the condi ; | tion of their sons in the training ■ camps. He finds them healthy, hap py and mostly better men physically ■ than when they enlisted. This con ! cerning Camp Upton is in full accord ! with what Telegraph correspondents : have written about the other great i training camps. Generally speaking, j "! it is the folks back home who are ' j worrying; not the soldiers M Here and there is to be found a grumbler. Here and there is one; who was a reprobate in private life, j 1 and here and there a shirker. The ; 1 mere donning of a soldier's'uniform i r does not change the character of a e man. That the fault-finders, the I rascals, the weaklings and the dod-1 3 gers are so few speaks well for the | II young manhood of America. It is j - this high-spirited, vigorously consti- ! - tuted, clean-minded, intelligent citi- j y zenship that is to throw its force k against the Hun on the plains of n France, and who can doubt the re it suit? The end is written before y a gun has been fired by the National Army. e Never fear; dark days may be r ahead, but it will be an American c column that will "go through" the s famous Hlndenburg line and it will be "our boys" who will stack arms, after the grand review, before , t the Kaiser's palace. May be that g sort of talk has a bit of the spread _ eagle in It, but it's gospel truth, L- nevertheless. i folittct U By the Rx-Commlttfeiuau J| Action of Congress on the propos ed prohibition amendment to the federal constitution will be awaited by Governor Martin (1, Brumbaugh and his advisers before any further discussion of the Idea of calling an extra session of the Pennsylvania Legislature. Governor Brumbaugh has declined to comment on the re ports that the subject has been taken up at his state councils, hut last night's statement that no one had asked him to call an extra session is taken to mean that it haa been talked of. The Governor evidently deems further discussion now as in opportune. Several of the Governor's close friends have advised against an extra session unless Congress passes a "dry" amendment early in the new year. If Congress should pass such an amendment late In Uw> spring or the summer, they argue that the matter should be left to the legislators to be elected In November. An extra session would coat many thousands of dollars and while the work would be limited to the subjects In the Governor's call It would be hard to forecast what political moves might be made. Capital Hill is awaiting with much interest the outcome of the defiance of Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Pat ton by four members of the State Commission of Agriculture when they rejected appointment of E. B. Dorsett, of Mansfield, as chief of the bureau of markets and rung up the selection of J. Wallace Hal lowell, Jr., of Philadelphia, as as sistant chief. It does not matter much ns the men are not being paid by Auditor General Charles A. Sny der, pending decision in the "recess appointments" case, but the four members of the commission took up the two appointments which had been on the table for over two months, In the absence of the secre tary and also of Chairman H. V. White. For some time the commis sion and the secretary have been at odds and the matter will now go to the Governor, who will doubtless j support Mr. Patton. Then some com- i missloners may resign. —According to the Philadelphia Public Ledger, which some time ago j printed a dispatch from Atlantic | City to the effect that Public Service Commissioner Michael J. Ryan had endorsed Vance C. McCormick for Governor, some one got an erroneous impression out of the commission er's remarks. It seems that during a conversation Mr. Ryan was asked about numerous men suggested for nominations and smilingly said everyone was a good man. His inter viewer picked out McCormick. The Ledger prints a statement by Mr. Ryan in which he says, "I did not dream thut I was talking for publica tion and as I had no acquaintance with the gentleman I spoke favor agly of all the names he mentioned except my own. Please correct the Impression that I am endorsing any one for gubernatorial honors." —The publication created much stir, but friends of Mr. Ryan say that endorsement of any one for Govern or just at present would be about the I last thing he would do. There is no | question but what the machine Dem- I ocrats led by Palmer and his pals, would welcome a friendly deelara- I tion by the commissioner, who really represents a powerful faction among I the state democracy. —The Philadelphia Record says three postmasters in Eastern Penn syivania have been fined for being short in accounts. —The threatened discussion of the powers of the Governor and his col leagues on the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings to make ap pointments, which is now likely to furnish Capitol Hill with another theme, has been Brewing for some time. The subject was broached a year ago when it looked like the election of Messrs. Snyder and Kep hart and It is understood that the Governor fortified himself with opin ions. —Many congratulations are being received by Secretary of the Com monwealth Cyrus E. Woods on his recovery from his recent operation. The secretary is at his residence in this city. —Scranton has a new problem. It is held that city funds cannot be used for a soldiers' banquet. —-Judges Ferguson and McMichael yesterday acceded to the demand of Vare lawyers and increased the bond of the Town Meeting candidates con testing the November t! election from $15,000 to a total of $i25.000, there by setting aside the ruling made by Judge Carr," says to-day's North American. "In further effort to ham per and obstruct the contest which will show up fraud, bribery, intimi dation and stuffing of ballotboxes in strong Vare wards, according to the Town Meeting attorneys, the Vare lawyers immediately sought to have the court require a single bond of $225,000, instead, of three for $75,000 each. Town Mee'ting attorneys indi cted last night that an appeal from the decision of Judges Ferguson and McMichael may be taken to the Su preme .Court on the ground that the bond now called for is exorbitant and unnecessary." —Judge S. E. Shull, appointed by the Governor when he was formally welcomed to the Jiench at the open ing of the cfgular December term of the court of Monroe county, de clared that an erroneous impression had gotten abroad to the effect that in dealing with the liquor question he would be more inclined to leni ency than was his predecessor, the late Judge Staples. He stated that he wanted it thoroughly understood that this court would in future, as in the past, adhere to the strict let ter of this law. —Four hundred police and fire men were disappointed at Scranton yesterday when City Solicitor H. M. Streeter submitted to council an opinion holding the Burke .salary raising act to be unconstitutional. Council says It will be guided by the opinion and will not grant in creases of $l5O a year to employes receiving $1,500 or less. The City Solicitor says the act is class legisla tion. and also that the matter of raising city employes' salaries is not subject to legislative control. Police and firemen are threatening man damus proceedings to test the .act which was passed last spring with a flourish of trumpets. —John F. Whalen, attorney for George M. Krell. who claims to have been elected tax collector of Tama qua at the last election, presented a petition to the Schuylkill county court to quash the movement to con test Krell's election and open the ballotboxes of the East and Middle wards of Tamaqua. Whalen charges that eight persons who signed the I contest petition* are not qualified electors, which would invalidate the proceedings, if true. The court de cided to hear testimony next Mon day. Meanwhile, the ballotjboxes. which have been seized, remain in k the custody of court. IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES -- BY BRIGGS / | 0 \ V / ITF^F — c, i ' '[ m *w,. T i soT - \ ,v tvs& OLt> Owe OP Voußi LOOKS) JML, to \ _y. . < J Wear VlCTuf^f ( PERFECT in THE | ARE VI VeiSiß - vuee I There. ! ~~~T 0 T ' ' I Owr tfwe LYI *"PFC)V)UU I J I "I'm very sorry, madam, but will' you kindly remove your list from j that sugar bowl?" This in a Phila-! delphia restaurant, where tlie fairj guest has ordered 13 cents' worth o£| food and concealed a pound of loaf | sugar in her muff. Sugar swiping j has become common. • * * From the standpoint of actual cash, Norristown will have the best' Christmas in its history, according j to the announcement of the Penn Trust Company that $142,500 will lie distributed to the members of the 191" Christmas Clubs, conducted by that progressive financial institu- i tion, on December 10th. * * Berks cdunty reduced the area of j forest tires from 15,000 acres to fifty | acres in turee years, cutting down j fire losses from $45,000 to $l3O. To; the Boy Scouts and their leader,: Solon Parks, most of the credit be-: tongs. THE PRICE SHE PAYS "I want to see the housewife j pleased and happy when she pays an increased price for what she buys." is the astonishing statement made by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, in his article. "Paying for the War," in the current Good housekeeping. He soes on to explain for what staples it is neces sary to pay more, and why. Speak ing of milk, he writes: •Fortunately for the housewife, but unfortunately for the farmer, the consumption of milk and butter have suttered the least increase, be fore the war the price of milk was nine and ten cents a quart to the consumer to-day it is not much above twelve cents a quart. I paid last week sixty dollars a ton for cottonseed meal to feed my dairy cattle. Three years ago I carload for twenty-one dollars fi ton. Cottonseed meal affords more pro tein per pound for the milch cow than any other common concentrat ed food." In proportion to the pj-o tein. it is therefore the cheapest concentrate which the dairjmatt can use. When he pays three times as much for his concentrates and gets onlv thirtv per cent, more for his product, the women should realize that in this particular industry the producer is at a decided disadvan tage. in order to preserve the pro portions. the dairyman should get 'not less than eight cents a quart for his milk and not less than fUty rtve cents a pound for his butter. Thus in buying milk and butter at the present rates, the housewife is getting the cheapest food in so far as an increase in price is concerned, that she can buy. Milk, cream and butter are not luxuries. They are indi&pensible foods in every family with children. "The tendency at the present time to slaughter dairy cows on account of the hiirh nrice of feed is perfectly justifiable from an economic point of view, unless the price of milk is Increased. The number of persons who are abandoning the dairy in dustry at the present time is so large "as to be threatening. It would be a dietetic disaster so to diminish the dairx* supplies in this country a to interfere with the proper feeding of our children. To ward off this possibility we must be willing to pay war prices." LOVING A CHILD Moving a child is key To Heaven's mystery. Loving a child, Jind giving It knowledge, tnis lq living. Jiving a child brings pain, And is life's greatest gain. "Loving a child is knowing The li'erce joy of a sowing That shall cause mighty reap ing. Loving a child is weeping. And fearing, too, and praying; This, there is no gainsaying. Loving a child is being , A part of God, and seeing The world beneath one's hand Enlarge, expand. Be different, and grow To one's thought. Even so. Loving a child is key To every mystery. a child is lauxliter And heartache after. — Heartache and grief and pain, But always Joy again. —Mary Carolyn Davies, in Good . Housekeeping. INTER VIEWS WITH EMPEY-Jfo.4 Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am erican Soldiers "War Not Nearly So Bad as It's Cracked Up to Be" THERE is some abominable Ger man propaganda," said Ser geant Empey, "to the effect that when the American soldier gets to France he is thrown into evil as sociations. Nothing," he declared | with the utmost emphasis, "could be further from the truth. In no place | is there drawn a stricter line for good j conduct than in France. Soldiers in I French villages are not allowed toj roam about at will. The question able civilian population, what is! more, is segregated in strictly pa-, trolled quarters. And any man, no j matter what his rank, who is found : in the vicinity of these districts with-; out a written permit detailing him to I some specitic duty there is arrested and severely dealt with. "I'd like to tell every mother in| America," he added, "that, no mat-i ter what her boy is when he goes; into the war, he'll be a manlier man when he comes out of it'. He will be more self-reliant, more coura geous; a great quantity of justice and fair play will have been instilled into him. And the army is a great leveler; the highbrow, the roughneck, the wise and the otherwise are all on the same plane, lighting for the same cause, and all fighting for you. The coal heaver's son and the mil lionaire's son, marching side by side, sharing the same life, are in just the same danger together; a German bullet is no respecter of social po sition. "Then," he went on with a change of tone, and with admiration in his voice that showed how he felt before he had got to the end of his sen tence, "there is the Y. M. C. A. You people in America ought to do every thing you can to help the Y. M. C. A. It Is the real home of the American soldier in France. It can't give him his loved ones, but it gives him the comforts and interests and pleasures of home. It brings home to him there in the mud of the trenches. And those Y. M. C. A. men aren't drawing any wonderful salaries, either; they are volunteers, and they are in the midst of the mud and the firing, as the soldiers are, to make the soldier comfortable and help him maintain the religion and the manliness that he had when he went Into the war. The Y. M. C. A. doesn't make any distinction in any way—Protestant, Catholic, Jew, atheist, everyone is welcome. (To Be Continued) EDITORIAL COMMENT "| j Apropos of the Liberty Loan, it costs money to win a war, but it costs a sight more to lose it.— Chicago Herald. Russia is said to need education badly. New York has some Bolshe vik teachers it could spare.—New York World. Darn 'era, ladies, •as well as knit 'em.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The British have taken Jaffa, Joffa or Joppa. The Germans would have claimed the capture of all three Post. At this distance it looks as if it Is no trouble to get heads for the var ious Russian movements, but impos sible .to get brains.—Dallas News. Patriotism was once defined as the i last refuge of a scoundrel, but it !K the first camouflage of traitors and neartraitors. Springfield Repub lican. German autocracy remains as brutally assertive as ever, but the German Army on a certain part of the West front Is shoWing a more re tiring disposition.—Chicago Herald. Our respects to General the Hon orable Sir Julian Byng, and the hope that, if the war must g< that far, the final operations will find him byngln" on the Rhine.—Newark News. • V How in the world could those New : York school authorities think of ina i king charges of disloyalty against teachers who are known by the good old Anglo-Sanxon names of Schneer, Mufson and Schmalhausen ?—Phila delphia Inquirer. "Show me the soldier who makes a disparaging remark about the Y. M. C. A. or its work," he said, "and I'll show you a soldier who is a det riment to the army, who is constaht ly in trouble, and who has lost the respect of officers .and Viates. It's i up to you people here at home to 1 help the Y. M. C. A. | "And help the Red Cross. Every ; thing you do for the Red Cross helps !us in this war. Every bandage and ' | sock helps. And every Liberty bond, no matter how small, is not only ,x i! good Investment, but may directly ! benefit your own son or sweetheart i i or brother in the front-line trench. I With every dollar you put in Lib | erty bonds, you also go over the top ' | against Germany." The soldier was talking directly to the people at home now. , But he i(hadn't finished his advice to them, j He had something to say about let !! ters. i "When you people at homo writ*. i to your soldiers in the trenches," ha said, "forget your own petty troubles; 1 ; don't tell them that some one is ail t i ing and the weather is bad. Noth : ing disgusts a man more than to read , whining letters from home, when I he's sitting on the fire-step of the i trench, in the mud! But, on the ■ other hand, don't tell him what a ■; good dinner you had on Sunday, and .' how John Doe took his best girl to t; the movies yesterday. Like as not i he'll tear upon your letter with a • 1 hand that he cut trying to open a , bully beef tin! And as for John > Doe. the soldier is likely to ask why * he isn't over there, too, instead of i' taking girls to movies back in Amer ■ ica! And don't have the sewing eir- II ole write him letters about obeying • i the Golden Rule and being good to .! the German prisoners! It'll be a ' I long time before he so much as sees tj a German, you know! And don't ask tj him to ask General Pershing for his autograph! <| "And don't ask hint questions > about personal family affairs that he •! must answer. The soldier's letters ii are censored by his platoon officers , lor officers in his own command; ; and it will be embarrassing for him s' if he has to write home in too per -3 sonal a tone. The thing to do when l! you write to your hoys in the i trenches is to slap them on the back! . I As for presents—don't send them a l lot of useless junk. If you are in , doubt, send money, and let them I buy what they want themselves. LABOR NOTES Girl bootblacks in Boston earn from $25 to 130 per week and urge the mayor not to prohibit their working. Fort Smith (Ark.) Street Car Men's ITnion has compromised its wage de mand with the local traction com pany. Wages are increased 4 cents an hour for eighteen months. The union refused to accept a longer con tract. The recent A. !•'. of L. convention approved two resolutions relating to increased pay for letter carriers and post office clerks and asking for the right to appeal from the Judgment of officials In disciplinary cases in volving reduction in position or dis missal. Since January 1 more than 300 lo cal unions—one-third of the member ship of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhnngers—have gained an increase in wages or a shorter workday—some both. The New Jersey State Agricultural College announces a three-months' course In practical agriculture with out cost to residents of tlis state. The course includes fruit growing, mar ket gardening, poultry raising and liomc economics. The railroad companies of the Ar gentine Republic have openly accused the government of playing politics - and permitting the widespread de s struction of property which has char , acterlsed the railroad strike move i ment in order to obtain the votes of : the 70,000 railroad employes. There has been 100,531 accidents rc • ported since tlio Washington State . Industrial Insurance Commission law t went into effect in October, 19tl. Out I of the above number of accidents, , 1,851 have been fatal. In October . there were 2,078 • accidents, twenty , eight ot which were fatal. LETTERS~TO THE EDITOR | BLAMES RAILROADS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Now I don't care whether you print this or not, but I know you won't. "What about the railroad?" If you want to know about the railroads, speak to the railroaders, men who know and see conditions, poor trainmasters, train runners, yardmasters, worthless special duty men, that never earn a dollar, but cost the Pennsylvania railroad a mil lion a year on their lines. There's where the money goes. Too many corporals and not enough of men to do the work. Why I could tell enough to fill a book, and you people think you are wise. Let the railroads keep house right and they don't need to ask for alms. They can't fool "Wilson," for he was put wise by the railroad men. Why everybody is crying for cars at the mines and other places. Look at these yards stored with cars and they won't attempt to move them. They are playing a game. RAILROADER. OLD LAWS OF THE JEWS Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sort as of woolen and linen together. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture.—Deu-| teronomy xxii, 10 to 12. I OUR DAILY LAUGH | | I uj GENEROSITY Tightwad told j 'f// J[ S his wife to sc lect her own v Bfl < " hristmas pr< v /fljt very generous Y j j And then, he , m/p I Ij gave her half a I' dollar to pay for WWSa wAjgf IT i Bird (in new home): My, I y don't see how I ' all that water got in there! A NATURAL MISTAKE. \c/T 1 > R, P Van Wln- YbY r kle Locust—My, /*/ l\ how lar B e tn * J dragon fliea (jf/yvL W havi gotten, 111 i Yf/l l-mMI sine* I aalMp! LOTS OF US DO. Turtle—My, there are a lot of terrible things In the world. Rabbit—Pull In yonr head and yo* won't am tbaL Bmting QUjat Early freezing over of the Sus quehanna river which has occurred under the Influence of the cold snap which began on the night of Decem ber 8 has attracted much attention and records show that only a few times has the river closed before the middle of December and only one time in the last forty years has it frozen over before December 10. The river froze over in December, 1913, 1914 and 1915, closing on the sixteenth in 1914, which will long bo remembered as a severe winter, which started early. In 1910 the Susquehanna was icebound on the thirteenth and in 1903, one of the worst winters ever known here, it closed on December 17. The follow ing year it closed on December 16, but did not remain closed the length of time as the previous winter. The earliest closing of the river in fortv years was December 8, 1882. This was a cold snap equaling anything wo have had here the last few days. In 1876 and 1880 the river closed on December 10, which date has not been touched until yesterday. In th J nineties there were a number of December freezings, but they were mainly around Christmas time. The records show that In most instances the Susquehanna closed in January and there were very few years In half a century that it did not freeze over. • • • Announcement that New Jersey is about to establish a State Police force is interesting here because the Pennsylvania State Police, the first organization of its kind, was created in 1903 and there was nothing la this country upon which to model It. Massachusetts had a police force, but it was a plain clothes organization. The Irish Constabulary, the North- I west Mounted Police and the Texas Hangers with the French rural po lice were all the state had to go on. Since then Nevada and New York have taken our model and Ohio and Indiana have been making inquiries here. • • Peregrinations of parts of the old office building of the Greenawalt tannery, which stood for many years on the north side of Derry street be tween Seventeenth and the Heading's branch to the Allison Hill manufac turing district, are attracting atten tion. The building is now in four pieces and threatens to go into more from natural causes or the machin ations of builders. When the tanners was burned the old office building, which was originally a quaint struc ture and a landmark became the office of the Bnsminger Lumber Company, which occupied the obi tannery site. Then it descended to the manufacture of potato chips and next was used as a motorcycle emporium. Now one part of the structure has migrated to the east about 150 feet and the western en<l has retired up Seventeenth street, leaving the other parts standing. • * * The plan to sell carloads of Lake Erie tish here in carload lots recalls the days when the shad-fishermen from Columbia used to send the tish up here in cars. They were gen erally sold from the old Meadow Dane siding, although a couple of times they were run up to North street and even further up town. In recent years there have been car sales at Market street delivery tracks of the Pennsylvania. • • Adjutant General Frank D. Bearv, who is at Camp Hancock visiting the Pennsylvania soldiers has been con gratulated by National Guardsmen from a number of states upon being named as successor to Adjutant Gen eral Stewart. The importance of the work of the general is much rew ferred to among officers of the or ganized militia and the army. Gen eral Beary was the onf man who knew what was under way. 4 Good stories are being told from the camps where the drafted men i have gone. At one of the camps a i iieytenant from this section had • been out in a distant part of the cantonment and on his return one night to his regiment, which is com posed of colored men, received a very sharp command to "halt." The officer recognized the soldier ami thought he would have some fun. He made the proper response and the soldier told him to advance, asking who he was. "Officer of the day," replied the of ficer. Silence ensued. Finally the officer asked testily: "How long are you go ing to hold me up?" The silence grew. Then the ex asperated officer repeated his ques tion and drew this remark: "Deed, I doan know. 'Specks until I kin remembah what I'se got ter say next." * • "There is more pig iron being made In Dauphin county today than ever before in the history of tills county and it has been making iron for over a century and a quarter," declared a man familiar with the iron ad steel industry of this coun ty yesterday. "If the figures could only be obtained and it is not pos sible now because of the war, it would be found that Steelton i." making twice what it did ten years ago and that the production at Lochiel and Paxton has been speeded up until the output would surprise men familiar with those stacks ol a quarter of a century ago." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —The Rev. Lynn Bowman. wh< formerly resided here, has been at trading much attention by a* serle of war sermons being preached it Philadelphia. W. G. Whildln, new general su perintendent of the Lehigh Coal an. Navigation company's mines, is wel known to many people here. He ha long been connected with mlnin operations in the Lfehlgh basin, A. t>. Fretz, head of the Doyles town Electric Light Company, who i well known here, has issued a no tice that because of several letter 1 from tlio Government tbout conset vation, ho will be unable to furnls current for a community tree. , Warren M. Beidler, who ha stlrrec. up the contest over the ele< tion of a school superintendent i Berks county, is head of the schoo of Bethel township and active 1 county school affairs. ... Major Baird llalborstadt, lor , connected wl|h the National Guar is at the head of the movement I , srhuylkill county to list names i all soldiers and sailors from thi countv In the war. < Charles K. Melvillo, of Cheste president of the State Magistrate Association, is to be given a dlnm by 1,000 friends at Philadelphia ne: week. . j" DO YOU KNOW ' That Harrlsburg Is supplying large quantities of meat for Amij .mil Navy stores? HISTORIC HARRIBBUKG • This city raised almost a regime to help repel Lee's Invasion of 18t It was the first Horn* Guard.
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