10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH . A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I Published, evenings except Sunday by THK TELEORAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E.J. ST ACKPOLE, Prei't &■ Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Managir. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —Tho 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 Newspaper Fub Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. efjTTSr- - B J' carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. IVEDNESD A Y.DECEMBER 12.1917 If 1 live my politics into the rhetoric of prayer, I cannot cast a partisan vote. — JOWETT. THE OUTPUT OF COAL THAT the mine operators and the miners of the anthracite region are doing their part to keep the country in coal is shown by official reports just issued. The shipments of anthracite for the month of No vember, 1917, as reported to the Anthracite Bureau of Information, Philadelphia, established a record for that month, amounting to 0,545,- 313 tons, and exceed the shipments ma Jo in November, 1916, by 552,316 tons. For the eleven months ending No vember 30, 1917, the total ship ments aggregated 71,434,360 tons. These figures are 4,057,996 tons greater than the total shipments for the twelve months last year; and are 3.450.061 tons greater than the total shipments for the year 1911, which until now, was the banne-r year in anthracite production. To date this jear, the shipments exceed those of the same period in 1916; by a,C40,- ,743 tons. I.ack of railroad facilities with v.'hich to handle the fuel, exports and the use of hard coal in industry to (in unprecedented extent, and not lack of production at the mines, are responsible for the present coal fa mine, and with the mines going full all winter and next spring and sum met an<f with the car shortage les sened there should be little excuse for a condition approaching the pres ent situation next winter. "OWN YOl'K OWN' HOME" THE "own your'own home" cam paign which President Gipple, of the Harrisburg "Real Estate Board outlined in his recent annual address to that body appears to be taking definite shape and the recom mendations of the committee in charge, to be made at. the next ses sion of the board, will be awaited with interes't. The home-owner has an interest in his city which many who have no property do not display. By the very nature of things he is inclined to study very carefully every municipal development and proposal. His pock etbook is directly touched and that indeed is a sensitive nerve. If the Real Estate Board can get going in Harrisburg a successful "own your own home," campaign it will have done an excellent bit of constructive work for the city. XO TIMS TO WASTE AS Commissioner Lynch has pointed out repeatedly to Coun cil there Is no time to waste in deciding upon a method of garbage collection and disposal. Some deci sion must be reached and that soon, if the city is to be in position to take over the collections upon the expira tion of the present contract. It is no small task the city faces. Even after the contract is let time must be given tbe new contractor to get ready to take up his work, and this will be quite an undertaking, the scarcity of labor and the condition of material [markets considered. IT.CIT.JAR X OX-PARTI SAN SHI I* A PECULIAR feature of neavly every attempt to carry non partisanship into practical ef fect in an election is that the Repub licans are expected to support a Democrat We have Just seen an example of it in New York City! and in Boston a similar situation now exists. In Wisconsin, as re gards the Senatorshlp, we have still a third instance. The Badger Republicans are calmly asked to support a Demo crat to succeed Mr. Ilusting. The boot should be on the other foot. Wisconsin is a Republican State. Almost alone among the states of the Union —certainly alone among states of its slse—it has' not a single Dem ocrat in its delegation In the House of Representatives. Senator Ilust ing was tho minority choice of the voters of his State: and he held his seat by grace of Republican division. 7f the Democrats of Wisconain, who have had in him nearly three years of representation to whfch they were not entitled, now are BO WEDNESDAY EVENING, anxious for non-parttsanship and for patriotism, let them Join "the Re publicans in nominating—as the laws of Wisconsin permit—and In elect ing—as their protestations would in dicate —a sound Republican to fill the vacancy which has so tragically occurred. > STARTING WORK HE purchase of 40,000 yards of L "All" for grading the Capitol Park Extension zone, decision to be-! gin work upon the widening of Third street and the establishment of a circle at Walnut and Third streets are long steps toward beginning de velopment of the enlarged park tract. The Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, all the members of which' are ardent supporters of the park extension plan, voted for the 1 start of the work and to them the I city owes its thanks. The widening I of Third and Walnut streets are mat -1 ters of real importance, for with the I diversion of street car and other ve hicular traffic from the zone east of tho present Capitol grounds, more room will be required on the high ways adjoining. In return, the State will ask the > city to establish a future building line along North street, widening that street to take care of traffic in the years to come. This the city no aoubt will agree to do,, since setting back the building line there would mean that as rapidly as the present structures come down frontage j would be changed to meet the new | requirements of the wider street the cost to the city would be spread < out over a period of years, just as the State plans to carry on its own building and developing program over a long term. Such projects as the Capitol development are not to be accomplished in days, or months, or even a few years. They are de signed to stand for generations. Much money will be required and labor of thousands of men. The 1 members of the present board are intent upon laying the foundations upon firm grounds. They want to make no mistake at the beginning. Upon their decision will rest largely the success of the whole enterprise. After mature deliberation and con sultation with the most expert minds, in the. country, they have decided to ask the city to relocate the bridge authorized for Walnut street and to join with the State and the railroad in the erection of a monumental viaduct at State street, with proper entrances from the Walnut street! section of the Hill and driveways and sidewalks to Walnut street from tho slope of the bridge in the park. This can be accomplished in one of two ways. Either the loan approved for Walnut street can be diverted by popular vote or it can be thrown into the discard and an entirely new loan placed before the people for| the construction of a bridge over the railroad at State street, in confor mity with the desires of those who represent the Commonwealth. The State is giving the municipal ity so much that tije city cannot refuse any reasonable request. In the end the city will be a great gain er and it must meet the Board of Grounds and Buildings, as it has in the past, halfway on any proposal that may be made. STI .i:i.TON'S HOME DEFENSE FORMATION at a town meeting in Steelton last night of a home defense unit along "the lines of the Harrisburg Reserves will not only make the third such organization in Dauphin county, but provide the bor ough with support in case of emer gency for the Reserve Militia and the special policemen of the Public Safe ty Committee and the various indus tries. The plan adopted for Steelton is to have an organisation which can train young men of draft' age for service and at the time put the older men in possession of knowledge of military discipline and what is ex pected when trouble occurs. These home defense organizations are being formed all over the State. In every case public spirit is what has actuated the preliminary meetings and the same thought is behind the work they are doing. In the face of many discouragements these organ izations have been working for months. No aid, not even recogni tion. has come from Washington, and the State authorities have never indicated that they knew such bodies were in existence. * Tho time is coming rapidly, however, when the home defense man will come Into his own. Sheriffs and chiefs of police liavo In many cases complimented the members on what they^have done. Steelton is right In line, as usual. fotltU* U 'ptn-TvOiflU-anxa By the Ex-Committcemuu J While it is apparently the plan of the leaders of the Penrose wing of the Republican party to allow events to shape the next state ticket, certain of the men aligned with the state administration would like td force the fighting: by a declaration. Some of them arc looking for the Gov ernor to give inklings of the policy of his side at the speeches he is ex pected to make at Scranton, York or other planes where he is to talk in the next few weeks. The unanimous election of Senator William C. Sproul as president of the Union league, of Philadelphia, is likely to be followed by some au- I thorltative statement either by the i Senator or his friends, but it is be | lieved that no matter what the Dela ware Senator may decide that High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil will stay in the field into which he really entered some months ago. Gif ford Pinchot is also likely to star. Democrats are going to wait and are artfully switching from man to man every day. ! —ln spite of the Governor's re mark that no one has asked him to call an extra session of the Legisla ture it is the general impression at the Capitol that the subject has been and will be much discussed. The vis its of Attorney General Brown to various parts of the state and the pilgimages of men lined up with the administration to this city, have al ways been followed by reports that sentiment was being sounded out. —According to these reports tho main question js what to include in the call in the event that Congress passes the "dry" amendment before summer begins and signs are right for an extra session. —According to an arrangement made yesterday afternoon the ques tion of reinstatement of Thomas D. tjeidleman in the service of the Hoard of Public Grounds and Build ings will he taken up to-morrow.— Governor Brumbaugh desires to dis cuss with the Attorney General the powers of the Governor in relation to appointments, it is said. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can to-day indicated that it believes the election of Congressman John V. Lesher, of the Sunbury district, as the Pennsylvania member of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, means harmony. Lesher had no opposition and the meeting of the Keystone Democratic congress man, generally stormy, was very peaceful. —The North American says in part: "The split in Republican ranks Is widening daily, while the appoint ment of Mitchell Palmer as custodian of enemy property seems to have narrowed down the probable Demo cratic nominees to Ouffe.v and Mc- Corniick. with accent on McCormick. The Democrats are hopeful that once they have agreed upon a candidate, they may defeat a Republican vote split between the nominees of Pen rose ami the Vares. Guy Campbell, reorganization Democrat, from Alle gheny, is working for Guffey, as also is Earl Beshlin, the new member from Warren county. Mr. Lesher has announced himself for McCormick, but if the national committeeman is unwilling to run because of war duties, it is believed he will line up for Guffey also." —A sensational attack upon the judiciary of Philadelphia, in connec tion with the levying of an alleged exorbitant bond for the contest of the Town Meeting party of the last elec tion in this city was made last night by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, of the Municipal Court, says the Philadel phia Inquirer. "Just as Germany now looks to a corrupted Russia to over throw the cause of the allies," cried Judge Bonniwell, "so now do the or ganization candidates look to a par tisan-controlled bench of common pleas judges to save them from de struction. 3"he people of Philadelphia never ought to forget the spectacle set by these men in their subser viency to the Vares." Judge Bonni well declared that the action of two representatives of the board of Judges that it will cost $225,000 in bonds before they will "permit jus tice to be done in this election" is "prohibitive to honest men and is a judicial approval of crime and fraud in the debauchery of Philadelphia's government." —Physicians believe the crisis has been reached in the illness of Sen ator William E. Crow, Republican | stata chairman, confined to his resi dence at Uniontown, with a malig nant carbuncle. Senator Crow was taken ill ten days ago while on an inspection tour of coal and coke operations. Specialists summoned by Dr. Arthur E. Crow, a brother of the Senator, pronounced the growth to be a dangerous type and. said that immediate surgical relief was im perative. Senator Crow has canceled %.ll of his engagements'for the com ing week. —S tat e Senator Horace W. Schantz, who is Lehigh's Republican county chairman, will be a candidate for re-election. Lehigh is nominally Democratic, but the two best court house oflices fell into Republican hands, Charles H. Schoenly being elected Clerk of Quarter Sessions, and Robert H. Norgang Clerk of the Orphans' Court. Senator Schantz is confident that he will win again. Mayor Reichenbach holds over, and Councilman J. Herbert Kohler was re-elected, while new seats in Coun cil were secured by C. D. Strauss, John Allen and Hi J. Wheeler. Four years ago Wheeler was elected as a Socialist, and he occupies much the same position in Allentown that James 11. Maurer does in Reading. —The selection of H. O. Hinkle for city manager to manage Altoona affairs under the direction of the commissioners-elect and Mayor Charles E. Rhodes has met with popular approval. He has for sev eral years been Road Commissioner for Blair county. There is no ques tion hut what he is considered a competent man, says a dispatch. He has been successfully engaged on contract work for many years and an engineer of recognized -ability. Many well finished contracts in Blair and adjoining counties are monu ments to his efficiency and the county roads constructed under his direction have become famed as among the best highways to be found anywhere. —John Durkan, Scran... i Surface Protective Association candidate for Mayor, spent in his losing campaign against Alex T. Connell. This is about $1,300 less than Mr. CoNretl expended In the regular election. According to the expense accounts for the primaries and regular elec tion. Mr. Connell spent $19.99.ai. This is only eighty-one cents less than the salary he will receive dur ing hia term, m. HARRISBUHG IjftMfl. TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELItT? .... BY BRIGGS > \ lA/HEN you HAV£ 7% - AnjD You &ET MEARt-V y o u HURRY ALONG minut<*s To make A ' To THE station) you wondering what TRA.ro AMD HAVE To To DO AMD You HOPE 15 BCOpKi To vSu torlot TO TRA?SFC-R To rum aio " \ -A rv 1 . YoO 9UT Oh-H-H- x | AN/D- WO LOOK -BAcrr Ymyß HANDS INTO VO<JH FbcireTs aiki'T it A A NV \A)Ot Jt>6R IF Vou DISCOVER A HALT" DOLLAR GH-'R-'R.- R/\MD OOSHT TO RETURN! HAD P<j~r THERC .SOME VUS LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 11 RIGHTEOUS PEACE To th • Editor of the Telegraph: The principles of a righteous peace j is the only peace that the world i craves for. The peaces at any price is and always has been a fraud and a delusion. A compromised peace is always liable to fail and at some fu ture time and invariably with * in creased fury" will be interrupted. Louis Kossvith, the immortal Hun garian patriot, during his triumphant and memorable tour in the United in 1848, delivered some of the mightiest addresses In favor of the rights of humanity that ever; were made. During his American j tour he visited Harrisburg and trav- | eled on a canal boat up the Juniata l river to Ilollidaysburg and on to | Pittsburgh. Hence, a quotation from j his address delivered, if I am not j mistaken, in the Plymouth Church! in Crogjiiyn. It was Ills views of j the "Peace Society," the purity ofj whose aim he did not question. 11 e | said: "But I am told there are men of' peace who say, after all, it is very [ true—very fine, if you please—but they will have peace at any price. Now, I say, there are many things in the world which depend upon true definition —and it is not true that they are men of peace who speak so—they are men who would con serve, at arty" price, the present con dition of things. Is that present condition peace? Is the scaffold peace?—the scaffold, on which, in Lombardy, the blood of 3,74 2 pa triots was spilled during three short years. Is that peace? Are the pris ons of Austria, tilled with patriots, peace? "Or is the blind murmur of dis content from all the nations peace? I believe the Lord has not created the world to bo in such a peaceful condition. I believe He has not cre ated it to be the prison to humanity, or to be the dominion of the Aus trian jailer. No: the present condi tion of the world Is not peace. It Is a condition of oppression on the European continent, and because there is this condition of oppres sion there cannot be peace: for, so long as men and nations are op pressed and discontented, there can not be peace—there can be tran quillity: but it will be the danger ous tranquillity of the volcano, boil ing up constantly, and at the slight est opportunity by breaking out again and again, and sweeping away all the artificial props of tranquillity. Freedom is the condition of peace, and, therefore, I will not say that those who profess to be men of peace, and will not help the op pressed to obtain'their liberty, are really so. Let them tell truly that they are not men of peace, but only desire to conserve the oppression of nations. With me and with my ! principles is peace, because I was al ways a faithful servant of the prin ciples of liberty, and only on the principles of liberty can nations be contented, and only with the con tentment of nations can there be peace on the earth. With me and with my principles there is peace— lasting peace—consistent peace: with the tyrants of the world there is op pression, struggles and war." If the Hungarian patriot Kossuth were alive at the present hour un doubtedly he would view conditions as they were In his thrilling times, only a thousand fold more aggravat ing and enormous. He would hurl his thunder bolts of opposition against any peace at any price. REV. C. D. RISHEL. South Enola, Pa. WISE ACREAGE Medlll McCormick says Germany is not winning the war and neither are the Allies. Perhaps not; but can't he tell us which is not doing it the faster?— Kansas City Star. A NEW YEAR THOUGHT As round the hearth at eve we meet. With Christmas thoughts still lingering near. And wait with anxious hearts to greet The coming of the Glad New Year. Let's take an inventory true And count our faults up oni by one, And from the past bring forward, too. The little good things we have done. Then everybody this coming year Resolved that this shall be our plan, A kindnees shown, a word of cheel\ Be true to self, to God and man. —By H. B. Shatto, Camp Hill, Pa. INTERVIEWSWITH EMPEY-N0.5 Machine Gunner Empey Gives Good Advice to Am erican Soldiers "War Not Nearly So Bad as It's Cracked Up to Be" CHEERFULLY as he looks upon the soldiers' prospects on the whole, Eergeant Empey has no hope of an early end of the fighting. "I can't see any sign of peace for three years," he said. "It will be a long war, and every one will be| needed. About 40 per cent of the! work will be done by the men in thel trenches. The rest must be 1 done ntj home by the women, by those tool old for service, and by those physi- ■ cally unfit for fighting. The sooner j we realize this the better. And we j must realize, too, that we are not; just fighting Prusslanlsm and mili-j tarlsm; we are fighting Germany and! everything that lias to do with Ger-j many. The American soldier in the I trenches fights German soldiers; it] isn't the Kaiser, it's a German sol-| dier, who is aiming a bullet at him.'' i On the ofcher hand, the soldier liasj the most complete confidence in the American troops and llie work that they will do. He went on: "The fighters on the other side are. absolutely wonderful. But my firm! belief after thirteen years of service in the United States Army is that! the American soldiers are going to' (Copyright, Nev OVER THE "Jojo IK ""PEIVIUU i Fred M. Fowl/Pr, of Altoona, a sailor on the U. S. S. Connecticut, is the proud possessor of a sweater made by Miss Cornelia Pickett, of Tampa, Fla., the daughter of Ma jor-General Pickett, of "Pickett's Charge." Fowler nas been offered all kinds of money and exchanges for this precious sweater, but there is "nothing doing." 0 * Here's thrift. "Instead of taking our screen door off this fall," writes a Pennsylvania housewife, "my hus band covered the wire screen by tacking on the outside of the frame over the wire an old window shade, making an inexpensive storm door, for no wind can find Its way in." a • • Cambria county is to have its greatest tree planting campaign next spring, and this year's record Is a hummer. In 1916 the state planted 112,000 and In 1917 148,000 trees. This is to be exceeded in 1918. * • * Disloyalty has been so common in the neighborhood of Hazleton that the following notice has been post ed conspicuously wherever pro-Ger man sentiment exists: • * • "Warning, disloyalists and aliens! To all disloyal in this county a mes sage Will be sounded which they can understand through the criminal courts. May God have mercy on them, for they need expect none from an outraged people and an avenging (Jovei ninent." Vigilantes*, ail of them volunteers, are being or ganized everywhere. LABOR NOTES It is estimated that the wages paid out In the eastern part of this coun try double the amount paid out in 1614. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that seamen are not "la borers'* within the meaning of the United States contract labor law, which makes it illegal to import con ; tract laborers into this country. An official report from the Control ler of Great Britain shows how de pendent England has become upon the farm labor of women, for in one county alone over 1,500 women are employed in farm labor of some sort. A seven-hour day Instead of eight hours is part of a new wage scale submitted to employes by the Sacra mento (Cal.) Typographical Union. Rates are increased 20 per cent., to become effective the first of the year. Nearly 200.000 men in the lumber industries in the western states are on the fence as between the Ameri can Federation of and the I. W. W. They will go to the side that is able to help them secure the right-hour day. make the world sit up and take no tice. They are l'resh, and that means a lot. They'll have a hard time at first, but there's no cause for dis couragement in that; that's what they're going for; they are not in it for parade purposes! "The spirit of the draft camps is wonderful! And the men I've talked with aren't thinking of avoiding ser vice; they are askins, 'What outtit can I get into that will get me there before the rest?" And it's no dis grace to be drafted." Mr. Empey refuses even to call the draft conscription. It isn't that, he says. With a quick, imaginative vis ualization he pictures Uncle Sam tired out by the wrangles of poli ticians, fallen asleep among them all, wakened by the newspapers to the immediate fact of war, and qyickly throwing' an order to all young men in the country to come "over the top for justice and liber ty and self-preservation. Come on." the order added, "we're all go ing. There isn't time to argue. Just get into your uniform." "And that," Gunner Empey added, "was what they called the Conscrip tion bill!" v York Press.) THE STATE PRESS Silk and jewel anklets to be worn above low shoes is a winter style fad of women! There is one sort of slavery that's as low-down as anything: of the political sort. It is the sort that drives some women to freeze, waste, look the fool and kiss I the hand of any fashion that be comes the vogue. And woman alone can put down that form of slavery! —Sharon Telegraph.' * • Often there are fleas on the best of dogs. So it Is that we are wor ried at this time with the chronic pessimist, who may be a patriot who can see nothing but the risks, the obstacles and the mistakes.—Sun bury Daily. . . . i John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says I compulsory immersion in baptism should be abandoned, asserting that it keeps out of the churches good men and women. He calls immer sion a "man-made rule." To a large extent Mr. Rockefeller represents the view of the layman as well as many of the clergy.—Johnstown Tribune. There is no excuse for a coal fam ine. Countless millions of tqns of hard and soft coal developed by the ages are to be found in Pennsylva nia, West Virginia, Illjnois and other states. There must be some thing wrong with the system that causes a diminished supply of coal at a time of greatly increased need. —Scranton Republican. * "Our faithful allies to whom we have been drawn," said Chancellor von Hertllng. It's enough to raake the crowned heads of Austria, Tur key and Bulgaria snicker with glee. The Kaiser "drawn!" Ho! ho! hee! Somebody hold us!— Washington Herald. • * • Next spring we want every avail able acre planted in Pennsylvania, and we need every acre to bear abundantly to its full possibilities, and for this reason our farmers and all others who plant on a smaller scale should make sure to get the proper kind of seed. No corn should be planted unless - it has first been thoroughly tested, while it will pay ■every farmer to purchase corn from neighbors who have good seed, rather than to send jiway to get seed which may not be suited to this climate and soil. —Pottsville Repub lican. • • Our Ounadian* neighbors are the greatest players of politics on earth. Canadians may give up such things as work, love ( religion and schooling, but they will hang on to politics to their last kick. This explains the recent break of Lord Lansdowne, who had long experience In Canadian politics. He stirred the political pot, and was happy.—Erie Herald. # • o Anything that is not straight-out American id the reverse. Keep this fact in mind and judge accordingly of the talk you whether In public or in private.—York Despatch. DECEMBER 12, 1917. EDITORIAL COMMENT Every enemy alien, at lar°-" offsets a soldier at the front.—Wall Street Journal. General Hell is a prominent offic er of the German army. Wonderful how one can inspire an entire na tion.—Pittsburgh Post, Russia apears to b,e making scram bled history.—Chicago Daily News. With no less than 7,000 food sub stitutes, Germans can not complain of the monotony of their menu.— San Francisco Chronicle. Russia will please take note that nothing was ever said by the allies about making the world safe for an archy.—Chicago Herald. The German bishops who have just come out against democracy are helping President Wilson clarify the issues of the war.—New York Even ing Post. The British newspapers that were demanding Lloyd George's resignar tion have calmed down since they have begun to wonder who would take his place.—Kansas City Star. One of the first things the Russian anarchists have discovered in Petro grad is that the worst thing about free food is that there's never enough of it to go around.—New York Morn ing Telegraph. The German imperial chancellor is getting to be a procession.—Albany Journal. Now that Villa is moving, suppose we seurcn 101 iu..> uetu.uii udu.n,. . I Wall Street Journal. IqurdailyLAUGHl ANOTHER •£" / ( ANGLE. V ' get lots of inno married people Igggjill NOT MITCH. ~ —= I can only it's on# of 1hoo plants you hear Jackson told m the state gave ;[| Bwtttag OWjal] The sudden winter weather which has descended on Harrisburg seems to have caused considerable trouble not only in the way of light and heat but also in the way of transporta tion. Delivery wagons nave been having their own difficulties to get around and motor trucks and auto mobiles of hitherto blameless repu tation have developed skidding ten dencies and cut up pranks which have made more or less annoyance for their -drivers. It is also to be noted that the day of the old "butter nox" has not passed. Some real old fashioned sleighs have been showing up on the streets and certain grocers have turned to the use of some sleds or sledges, or whatever anyone may desire to call them which recall old days when they used to be "Jumped" if the driver did not mind and some times if he did. But oddest of all has been the effect on the Capitol clocks. There are something like 300 clocks in the Capitol, nil of which have to be coddled and for whom Joe Pyne is not only nurse, but guide, counselor and friend. Mr. Pyne says that the Weather has Kiven some of the clocks colic. He explains it this way: The clock is delicate; people leave windows open and the clocks take cold. There is no Joke about it. Clocks are Just like people. They have to be kept lubricated. The cold ait chills the oils and the clocks slow up. That is when Dr. Pyne comes i • • Folks up town and out on the Hill have been wandering around in darkess the last few evenings and the combiation- of no lights and much ice on pavements has not been pleasant. Last evening people in Second and Green streets hud their own troubles. Vhey could hardly see to go about. Passing automobiles were hailed to stop and furnish some light in a number of instances. One man had a car stop and throw lights on his front step so that he could get up over the ice and not break his neck. Officers at state draft headquarter* are making efforts to complete be lore the end of the week infonna tfon as to how all local draft boards stand in regard to the number of men ready to meet the call for the last men under the first quota In the selective serviefc from the Army. Considerable difficulty is being ex perienced as in a number of in stances boards (have not only to secure men to make up their full quota, but to replace men who were sent to camp and rejected on phy sical examination. Hundreds have been returned from Camp Meade alone and ctills are coming for men to replace them. It Is said that there are more shortages in Phila delphia boards 'than in some of those up the state. According to estimates there are about I'.'.TOO men to- go to {he three camps— Meade. Lee and Sherman—to com plete the first quota. The 1,000 men for Camp Sherman will go Friday and Saturday, but no date has been fixed for t'he 7,000 to go to Ire (li the 4.700 to go to Meade. Frank G, Sweeney, the officer In charge of draft headquarters, says it depends upon when the Informa tion comes in. They may go the middle of next week, but no late has been set. Action of the State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings yes terday in agreeing to advance cash to Miss Violet Oakley for the paint ings for the Supreme Court cHblll ber assures the completion not only of the Supreme Court series, which 'will be a monumental work, but of < the remaining panels for the Sen ate chamber. The Senate paintings will be completed this year. • * * The deer season about to close lias been very successful in many parts of Pennsylvania noted in past years for deer killed and hunters fresh from the woods say that deer are more plentiful now than they have ever seen them. Strict compliance with game laws Is regarded as largely responsible, but there is some complaint on the part of hunters who say that in some of the deer camps the rule of one buck to a hunter each season is not being observed. It fs said that the plan oT allowing one buck to each man in camp works against the interests of the resident hunters and the men who go into the mountains for a day or two. In some of the camps the entire party hunts, whether or not one or more of those In the drive already have bagged a deer, with the result that one hunter may get two or three deer in a serson. The resident hunter, how ever, as soon as he bags a buck must keep out of the woods there after and the hunter who comes in for a day or two is often prevented from procuring the local man's services as guide. There is talk of suggesting an amendment to the legislature requiring the man who kills a deer to stay out of the moun tains the remainder of the season. • • • Over In the South Mountains the recent snowfall has resulted in hun ters beginning to realize jusf how many deer thereare In the woods, although crust on the snow has made tracking difficult on ac count of the notice the hunter makes when approaching a buck. One hunter returning the other day said that in the course of several hours tramping along the top and slopes of one ridge near Barnitz station, he crossed at least three dozen separate deer trails, nearly all of them fresh and found numerous places where deer had spent the night ip holes they had dug in the snow. Hunters say that the spike buck shot this season are unusually large and that the does they have seen in the woods are large and plump. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General C. M. Clement, who Is back in camp at Augusta, is holding close Inspections of his men. —Frederic Courtland Penfleld, former ambassador to Austria, will make his home in Philadelphia. —Mayor Joseph Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, Is one of the incorpora tors of a big now realty company in that city. —Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustln, of Philadelphia, is making a series of addresses on patriotic subjects in eastern counties. —Dr. J, T. Rothr.ock the veteran forestry commissioner, has been elected president of the State Fores try Association again, 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg in making steel for new government ves sels? HISTORIC HARRIBBURG In every war this place haa fur nished foodstuffs for the Army and often for the Navy.
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