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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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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:
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"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.'
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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• •
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.