10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPAPBR FOR TIIE HOME Founded iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEURAPII PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building;. Federal S*are. "E. J. ST A.CKPOLE, Fres't 6r Editor-in-Chief R. OYSTER, Business Manager. DUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American astern ofnee^ ChfcagoPlll. K ' Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. SATIRDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1017 Possession is vine points of the law; self-possession is ten. —Asox. THE HARRISBVRG RESERVES ANNOUNCEMENT that the Har rlsburg Reserves have decided upon an intermission In drills from December 21 to January 4 only emphasizes the fact that the mem bership of the four companies which constitute this organization have been drilling one and two nights a week ever since June 5, without let up, and under conditions that might liavo discouraged a less devoted body of men. The Reserves have a very distinct aim and a very useful and practical purpose in view. Made up for the most part of men wY<o are past draft age, they are preparing themselves either to take their place in the field should the emergency arise or more especially to protect the public at home from any local outbreaks or disorders that may develop. Even with the new Reserve Militia in the field, a distinct and separate organi sation being formed to take the place of the National Guard, there is room for the Home Guard organizations. In the first place, the Reserves are bting trained to a knowledge of mil itary drill, guard duty and rifie prac tice. Some of the younger members who have enlisted in the regular service have been so well prepared that they have found advancement to petty offlcerships easy. The older men are taught how to act In mili tary units and in time of stress would give good account of themselves. Th§ir uniform is simple, not designed for parade purposes especially, but ot practical pattern and made for service. The men who make up, the Re serves represent -all walks of life. They are for the most part busy men* But they have given up their work, their lodges, the theater, the church, society and what not to attend drills and some of them have not missed a night. They worked without guns until recently and without sftpport where they should have received it without the asking. All told, the Re serves have displayed a splendid spirit and they are rapidly being whipped into an efficient unit for which the community may be thank ful any day. These food administrators are get ting worse and worse; some of them no doubt think we ought to have a cookiless and mlncemeatless Christ mas. Why not suggest that we hiber nate during the holiday season, and be done with it. ENGLAND'S SELECT COMMITTEE THE Select Committee on National Expenditures in Great Britain recently has made u report which should be of interest in this country. According to press dis patches, "after stating that schemes and programs are most effectively examined from the point of view of linance, the committee is satisfied that full linancial consideration of any proposal at the proper stage will not only tend to economy, but also, so far from delaying the provision of munitions of war, will, in fact, ac celerate it by preventing waste of ef fort, material and labor.'* When the creation of a special joint congressional committee on war expenditures was suggested and was approved by the Senate of the United States, the plan was elimi nated from the bill upon the Insist ence of the President. The statemeat was made by the President that he could not construe such a measure as other than an effort to hamper the prosecution of the war. Here, as in England, a select committee, composed of the ablest members of Congress, of both parties, would help and not hinder. It would promote both economy and efficiency. It would speed the war. , The if is one thing can be said of Russia—life there knows no mo notonous round. XO STIGMA TO DRAFT NEWSPAPERS criticise the pos ter which urges that young men volunteer for the United Slates Army and thus "avoid the stigma of being drafted." There is not and ought not to be any stigma in connection with the draft, so long as a man doea not Uy dishonorably to evade it. The purpose Of the law was to place upon every citizen within the specified ages as equal liability to military service. To wait until he lias been legally called is as much the right of the citizen as it is his right to wait until the specified time to pay his taxes. The man who volunteers is de serving of special commendation, but there is no stigma upon the man who waits his turn In the selective draft, especially since the .War De partment la not prepared to house, equip and train the men II they volunteer in numbers in excess of the draft. This much for the drafted man; nevertheless there is honey and so lace in the word volunteer and pride for the man and his descendents who bears the title. MARY RUSSELL tt _E Imagine that Mary Russell yy is somewhat surprised that her name and her picture Jiave got into the newspapers—all because she had a heart and a dol lar. and gave that dollar to the Red Cross for a membership. The little girl who answers catls for the Pos tal Telegraph Company probably thinks she did nothing remarkable, but the truth of the matter Is that if Dauphin county people generally would follow the example of Mary Russell —would match Mary Rus sell's dollar—the Harrisburg Chapter of the Red Cross would have 130,000 members. To a great many people a dollar is nothing. It Is lunch money or candy money. It will buy a tie or pay the milkman for a week. But this little girl when she gave a dol lar gave what Charles M. Schwab would give if he gave several million dollars. Proportionately, Mary Rus sell gave more titan Charley Schwab has ever given to any charity. She gave all she h#d. How many of us will match Mary Russell's dollar'.' The thoughtless Cossacks went and destroyed the Bolsheviki headquar ters just as the Bolsheviki were plan ning to capture them. KEEP Ol'T COO I,IE LABOR THERE are several good reasons why it would be unwise to ad mit, cither in limited numbers or for a limited time, laborers of Chi nese or Japanese nationality. The first and decisive reason Is that the people of those races can not be assimilated by intermarriage. We ought not add to the number of people in this country that cannot be merged in the composite Amer ican citizenship. Furthermore, even though we are experiencing temporary labor short age, we ought not admit a class of laborers whose standard of living makes them unfair competitors with the American workman. To admit the Chinese or Japanese for a limited period Of timfe, with an agreement that they would return to their own countries later, would arouse a feeling of antagonism that would be injurious to our future re lations with the nations across the Pacific. We can consistently defend a policy which prohibits immigration of any except members of the white race, and no other nation can take offense so long as we adhere to that policy. If we once depart from the prin ciple, we shall be in the attitude of endeavoring to use other nations our selfish purposes and assuming that we can do so at our pleasure. Such an attitude would, of course, be as distasteful to them as it would be to us if the situation were reversed. CENSORSHIP AND PUBLICITY NOBODY can object reasonably to an effective censorship de signed to prevent information useful to the £nemy from finding its way out of the country. But the public will not receive kindly the announcement that a secret censor ship has been in existence for sev eral months, even though by this means some information may have fallen into the hands of the govern ment of a very useful nature. The public has a right to know what is going on and secret censorships smack entirely too much of I'rus sianistn to be very popular in the United States. At the same time, tli? people learn that the Creel Public Information Committee has received $1,350,000 to keep the public informed con cerning the war. A better way of putting it might be, perhaps, that this appropriation was made for the purpose of giving the public only such information as the adminis tration desired it to have, and for the coloring of that. WHO IS TO BLAME WHO is to blame for the inex cusable loss of 160 tons of beef that spoiled when it was forgotten in the hold of an American supply ship which was to have left it for American troops in France, but which brought it bq£k rotten on the return trip? Such gross r,egli gence should be punished. The country is not enduring a "meatless day" once a week in order that the beef thus Bated shall be allowed to spoil because of the rank careless ness of some incompetent quarter master assistant, appointed through "pull" at Washington. ""poitttc* tH. By tlic Ex-Commlttecman Capitol I-lill has passed to the front as the interesting point In state politics at present because of the at titude of Auditor General Charles A. Snyder in regard to extra em ployes and recent increases in salary and the chances are that the mat ters in dispute may come to a show down next week. The auditor gen eral says it is simply an effort to secure some economy and to stop practices which been denounced in successive reports of experts v/ho have gone into the system of admin istration at the Capitol. Men aligned with the state administration resent the notices given bythe auditor gen eral as interference and are about to appeal to the governor and attor ney general. However, under old nets the auditor general has authority to make inquiries and even to refuse to pay salaries where they are not fixed by law. The question of expediency is as much a matter for the auditor general as the head of a department, It is argued by men familiar with the acts. Mr. Snyder will be here next week and will meet the governor in the matter of authority to make appoint ments In the department of public grounds and buildings. Tlib situa tion is Interesting as the state ad ministration leaders have been plan ning some moves for January 1 and the unexpected action by the auditor general has upset arrangements 1o a certain extent. —The appointment of E. A. Dev lin, Penrose leader of the Eighth ward in Philadelphia, to the office of special auditor for the Auditor Gen eral's Department, vlas announced last night by Auditor General Charles A. Snyder. "Devlin's ap pointment is regarded as a prepared ness movement by the Penrose forces for the coming gubernatorial battle, which is expected to be waged to the bitter end," says ihe Record. "Devlin's main duties in his new of fice will be in connection of the mer cantile taxes In this city and his sal ary is 'expected to be the same us that received by the mercantile ap praisers. who average about $7,000 a year. Devlin was a mercantile ap praiser until about a year ago, when Auditor General Powell and City Treasurer McCoacli, who jointly have the power of appointment of mer cantile appraisers, deposed Devlin to make a place for Selectman Frank J. Ryan, the Vare leader of the Thirty sixth ward." —Although it will Vost $200,000 to open a municipal coal mine on Pittsburgh's city farm at Mayvlew, the Councilmanic Finance Commit tee affirmed a motion to authorize a sale of $200,000 bonds to finance the project, says the Gazette-Times. Directors John J. McKelvey. Fi P. Booth and John Swan reported in fpvor of proceeding with the plan, which was originally proposed by .Mr. Booth. According to Jheir fig ures of cost, tho crty will save on cost of fuel the very first year of operation of the mine $75,000 more than the expense of opening, equip ping and operating the pit. Council already had authorized a bond Issue of SIOO,OOO for the mine, but since then the cost of labor, supplies and machinery has gone up. —Lawyers representing the Phil adelphia Totfn Meeting party are ex pected to appeal to the Supreme Court to-day to set aside the action of Judges McMichael and Ferguson in fixing the bond for the independ ent candidates for row offices, who are contesting the election of their Republican rivals, on the ground that the two Common Pleas Judges had no jurisdiction in the matter. The decision to take such action is said to have been reached yesterday at a conference of the Town Meeting party counsel and the sub-committee in charge of the contest. As the law requires the bond for the contest to be filed Monday, some action must be taken to-day by the independents if they desire to make any move for a reduction in the amount of bond. —The Philadelphia Press In a signed article by Charles R. Michael from Washington discusses the men tion of Philander C. Knox as a pos sible candidate for Governor on whom people could unite. He quotes Congressmen Moore, Kiess and Gar land as favoring him. Concerning the Penrose attitude he says: "Sen ator Penrose was in Philadelphia but before leaving yesterday he had been informed of the Knox movement. It is evident that he will continue to champion the candidacy of Senator Sproul. of Chester, for the Governor ship. unless Convinced that public sentiment will not support the slat ing of a candidate by either faction. In that event it is believed he will swing into line for Knox. Leaders of the Varc faction are expected to take the same view of the matter. They wili support the candidacy of Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown or another man of their se lection unless they lind it impossible to make a factional nomination, in which e -ent they will get barck of Knox. Both factions supported him in his Senatorial campaign last fall." —From all accounts inquiries con ducted by men connected with the bureau of municipalities of the State Department ■of Labor and Industry into the liscal affairs of the two Bethlehems, which furnished sonic sensational disclosures a week ago, have been under way in some of the smaller cities and boroughs of the state and their officials are due for a jolt early in the new year. The re mark was made by a man active in the municipal investigations, which are a new line of state work, that Bethlehem will be a "mild case." The state began taking a fatherly interest in the affairs of its smaller municipalities a few years ago and one of the subjects was taxation. Another was paving, while police and tire protection were also touched upon. All four led to bond issues and the amount of money raised by ! bond issues and devoted to payment of current expenses is said to be amazing. The state is without any corrective authority in Such matters. Borough officials need not even ac knowledge calling attention to such matters, but where state experts have beencalled in to advise regard ing new systems of bookkeeoing or !to give opinions they have been j handing out some criticism on fiscal affairs which have made ears burn. It is now intimated at the Capitoi that some of the information collec ted will be issued to show the way things have been run in various -places and the data will be Inter esting reading, according to men at the Capitol. —Similarly some Inquiries have been under way by the country bu reau force of the auditor general into the way state interests have been handled in counties other than Northampton. Insistence upon prompt payment of state funds is now the rule and if returns are not made by January 1 there will be ; some public "hauling over the coals." HXRHISBtmO 666e TELBORXPH A GOLFER IS A NATURALLY TRAINED SOLDIER . 1 , _- 33g =/ S " / M FKBJY IT TOOK Me \ - —/ / , TJ GET OUT - tmat'SN Mifr ri > ■ n '' tEBB^HDfp AKip KVBpVTUiMC H L MIS 3Cor*e :=: " fl"T \jJAS / 4W; >Jr I NO tHIU6-/ '-—-J j~~r TfHerJCM °S>Vc<itMG - bSm)W\ n/f X V iHv WORRY A Mlfer • gg&gBWM fpg/ [ ' To Be " EA,Sy /-N SHoOt-O -A • GOLPeR a to-r.7 \ PICKING SolFer ee_ MIND 7H • R A>l*-l ofc 0 OP OAS ' X < i He6^. Pl "v AFrfR He 6CWMAN SULIBTj f CONFLICT WHAT SHALL WE DO, MR. SECRETARY? [ Detroit Free Press] Secretary Baker in his weekly re view of the war situation calls upon the United States to speed up its military preparation, with the warn ing that the enemy is getting ready to put into execution plans which have been maturing since the defeat of the Russian armies. The Free Press has thought for some time that the secretary might better be pushing preparation rather than writing a weekly letter to the people on how well the situation is proceeding. It Is now pertinent to ask Mr. Baker what he desires the American public to do to speed preparation? Have they failed in any partcular to ful fill the obligation resting upon them? Have they not met the purposes of the selective law? Have they not come forward •willingly within the ages specified to fill the required ranks? Have they not properly fl r nanced the Bed Cross and the Y. M. C. A. And have they not willingly subscribed to the two bond issues? What is now left for them to do that does not fall within tho secretary's department to accomplish? The American people have no ex ecutive power; that is lodged in Mr. Baker and his assistants. The Amer ican people are called upon to fur nish the men, the money and the moral support. They have and are furnishing all three of these requi sites in a manner that has been a marvel to behold. No man in Secre tary-Baker's position ever liad great er backing in any country in history. But the American people have gone further than tills; they have offered from out of their number trained businessmen ready to surrender their Interests and devote their full time to aiding Mr. Baker In making his department ready for war. If he has failed to take advantage of every opportunity to strengthen his forces that is his fault, not the fault of the people. Secretary Baker should have with held his weekly letter tills week. It should have been addressed merely to himself. TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL Just what happened in Portugal the dispatches, no doubt censored, do not make quite clear. The coun try has been in a state of unrest since tho monarchy was overthrown and a republic established. It does not appear that the royalists had any hand in the present uprising. The statement that the revolution aries hi.ve been successful is rather vague. All that has apparently been accomplished is the resignation of one government and the formation of another. Nor is it known why the old government has become un popular. The troubles seem to be social and economic, not political. Only two months ago there was a general strike of workmen, and three months before that there were food riots in Lisbon, Portugal, but it did not produce them. A pacifist agi tation may have contributed to this latest outburst, although there is no proof of that. War has aggravated unfortunate conditions in Portugal, but it did not produce them. B is likely to be a long time before the little nation emerges from the diffi culties years of extravagant and dis honest administration have brought about.—Philadelphia Ledger. KEEP HOME FIRES BURNING Paris correspondence of a Phila delphia paper tells of a rush s of American women to l'Yance which is proving not only vexatious but ham pering to the military authorities. It Is said that women both with wealth and without it, with vision ary schemes for "doing their bit" are somehow getting across the At lantic only to llnd their hopes and plans impossible of realization and themselves in the way of those do ing the really necessary things. It is said that one rich woman went recently to France with a plan to build houses for American sol diers at the front; another came to gather food supplies for American aviators; still another sailed across the sea to present bouquets to wounded soldiers in hospitals, all without previous preparations for supplies, expecting to And them on the scene ready for assembling on request. Other women have bee going over to be near their hus bands or friends who may be injured In the fighting, or to act as nurses in hospitals, though utterly ignorant of the simplest duties of the nurse. Now that the United States is in I the war, the lesson must be learned | by American women which came to so many Knglish and Canadian women —that to keep the home lires burning is one excellent way of do- I ing one's bit. —Detroit Free Press. —— „ THE PEOPLE'S FORUM MORE ABOUT BARROWS Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 14, 1917. 1o Bditor of lite Telegraph: Were it not that it's war time and a superfluity of souls appearing be fore St. Peter, I would feel like going to your place In search of the man who published that correspond ence of qiine with the Mayor, in reference to the Wheelbarrow Bri gade, and accused me of giving it out. Not that 1 should have objected to the publication, under other cir cumstances than now exist and make it almost charitable to withhold the wheelbarrow expedient from the peo ple for a few days longer. These are they: Christmas "pie" at the State Print ery, holds His Honor, the Mayor, from his barrow for the present, till all the "delectable" has been cleaned up. "Chiefy," up to the eyes in snow these days, can hardly be expected to run liis barrow on any more reg ular schedule than the Reduction Company, bilt when the snow is gone he may be relied upon to make the dust fly like a storm on the Sahara. Brother Gorgas, better adapted to LIKE GOOD MUSIC It is curious to think that the gov ernment Is sending American soldiers to Europe to get a musical education, but that is just what is happening, according to Samuel Lellouche, lance corporal of the 328 th Infantry, Army of France, who is in New York on sickleave. The orchestra had Just played the overture from "I Pagllacci," an* the corporal had listened to it with rapt attention. "Ah, but I love that kind of music," he said. "I never cared for it much before 1 left my home in West Haven, Conn., about three years ago, and joined the French army, but there in France I heard nothing else. I grew to love fine music, and now X detest the other kind—ragtime and all that sort of thing. It will be so with the American soldiers in France. You see they admit the American soldiers free to the opera there, and they soon learn to love it. 1 saw how it was before I left Paris. The musical taste of tho boys was being improved rapidly and the longer they stay over there the more critical they will be come, so that eventually it will help music in this country when they get back to their homes, for they will in sist upon having wh.at is good."— New York Herald. LABOR NOTES Packers affiliated with tho Frisco Glass Bottle Blowers' Association have secured recognition of their branch for the first time and in creased wages 20 per cent. The Lehigh Valley Railroad has raised wages of its machinists 6 cents an hour, making the rate 42 cents an hour, or 12 cents more than when they were unorganized. Printers employed on English newspapers in Montreal, Canada, have raised wages $3 a week for day work and $4.60 for night work. Piece work has been abolished. Dayton (Ohio) Street Railway company has accepted the Street Car Men's union's interpretations of a contract between the two parties and will hereafter pay time for over time. California State Industrial Acci dent Commission has ruled that "tips" are part of a waiter's pay and that compensation benefits must be figured on wages paid and "tips" received. A considerable share of labor on the farms is taken by the Servian women, who also weave the material for their home clothes. Ohio workers demand amendment to the workmep'fi compensation act to provide for the protection of vic tims of occupational diseases. Boston coal teamsters and chauf feurs have raised wages )2 a week, this being in addition to a $1 In crease last May. Western -Canadian farmers are anxious about next year's help and an effort is being made in Winni peg to secure farm labor now for next season. The Athy-Wolfhill (Ireland) Rail way strike has been settled, the men to receive an advance of 12 cents a day and a reduction in the work ing hours. [counting than wheeling, should, reasonably, be excused for a week of gentle practice, till his hands get adapted to the peculiarities of Snaking change in dust nnd ashes. Druggist Gross, 1 am doubtfully in formed, has risen to a point of order against the Mayor's wheelbarrow rule, alleging that, in the science of drugs, effects always follow causes, and declaring that it is unreasonable to put a druggist in a position be hind a wheelbarrow where the cause follows the effect. As for neophyte. Moi%anthaler, it has been said that he is so exhausted by his tremendous wrestle with the piggery, which involves both grunts and odors, that he is in no condi tion to wheel a barrow and, in his weakened condition, unless he quick ly improves, will have to cast off the weight of the last two syllables in his patronymic and go forth, in poverty, to unofflcialdoni, at the end of his term, briefly as Morgan, with out a coin to his name. Now, sir, being which and so, do you think it was right for your man to wheel Mr. Keister's Innovation so .suddenly into the light of the eyes of a clamoring public? C. F. QUINN. GRE/TEST CRIMES Some prominent men in Kurope were asked the question, "What is the greatest crime committed dur ing the war?" One answered, "The torpedoing of hospital ships." An other thought "the declaration of war" included all the crimes. A third regarded (he destruction of the cathedral at Hheims as the greatest crime. A fourth said the murder of sailors whose vessel had been tor pedoed. A fifth, that the invasion of Belgium was the most abomina ble deed of the war. A sixth thought the greatest crime was "the trou bling of the course of human thought and proclaiming tho superiority of war over justice." Another said "the murder of thousands of inno cent Armenians with the tacit con sent of Germany." James Bryce is quoted as saying the most abject crime thus far is that of the Ger man government carrying hundreds of French and Belgian girls into Germany to work against their stricken countries. Another, a pro fessor of international law, says the ruin of the moral foundation of in ternational relations in setting up the right of the strongest to violate pledged faith with other nations. Another that the war itself is the most atrocious act. That was brought on by the Germans, and so the hor rors, the cruelties, the pillage and the assassinations lie at Germany's door. It will be noted that all horrible crimes of the great war have been committed by Germany. That is why there Is so much hatred among other nations for that country, and why the Kaiser is so despised.— Ohio State Journal. EVIL IS COME UPON US. As it is written in tho law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.—Daniel ix, 13. DOING THEIR BITES The bedbugs held a couhcil At which it was decided, By conservation's principle They also would be guided, And once a week throughout the war A hiteless night provided. —Kansas City Star. A TOAST TO THE FLAG Here to the Ked of it— There's not a thread of it. No, nor a shred of it In all the spread of it Frbm foot to head, But heroes bled for it, Faced steel and lead for it, Precious blood shed for it, Bathing -it Red. Here's to the White of it- Thrilled by the sight of it, Who knows the right of it But feels the might of it Through day arid night; Womanhood's care for It Made manhood dare for It; Purltyle pray'r for It Kept It so White. Here's to \he Blue of it — Heavenly view of It, Star-Spangled J.ue of it. Honesty's due of it. Constant and true. Here's to the whole of it. Here's to the soul of it, Red, White and Blue. —New Britain (Conn.) Herald. DECEMBER 15, 1917. Over the uv Vfc- j Lehigh Valley Brakoman Tony Robertshaw, of Indian Ridge, found a young doe weighing 100 pounds near his house which had been killed by a passing train. How many peo ple would. have been as honest as Mr. Robertshaw. who carried the luscious venison to the game warden to legally dispose of it? How far has the service gono''" asked a man of Thomas Lawson ar ming i a te at f unera j a m j]_ lionaire financier. "Just opening for w , his I P erp <l Lawson and Idlng toward the clergyman. THREE CLASSES this time on there can be sIILO A o ® c ' assea in the United states—Americans, pro-Germans and w° n W .i f' Many people would lump the two last, but wrongly, be cause in the third group there are many who, once awakened to a class consciousness of their yellow doggi ness, may .be saved. We refer, of course, to the men who are seeking Party and partisan advantage in this crisis; to the red tapers and incom pe tents who are obstructing l and muddling everything they touch; to the grandstanders and lime lighters who see nothing but an opportunity for personal advertising and aggran dizement in the national peril; and to the proiiteers, to whom all dollars look alike, even those that are blood stained. —Saturday Evening Post. OUR DAILY LAUGH HOME, SWEET home. Iwl'vJ (O) Where do you J/LbL j spend your A '■/BJ evenings, since . J ||/ _ M your wife is out J // u\ 1 spend them fit home—slnco my wife is out ! $1.17 Air Now I'm selling A BIG MAN. Her husband Is a big man in the show busl- In a burlesqut v 111 \ """ in •' HER PARTT. damsel -r / To e accept E The girl she fairly hated -jCT While those ' i" . thought flno Had to sweetly Bmttttg (Mprt Pennsylvania's first season under the new game code of 1917 ends to night at sundown to all intents and purposes, the only game which it will be legal to kill after tonight being raccoons on which the season will end with the year. Opinions ex pressed today at the office of the State Game Commission were to the effect that the new code had been successful and that there was a gen eral sentiment that it should be per mitted to stand the test of several years. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, the sec retary of the commission, said that there had been an abundance of all kinds of game except the ruffled grouse and that sentiment was rap idly gathering in favor of closing counties to the hunting of that bird in order to prevent extermination. "The good hunting has been possi ble through the hunters' license law revenue, the aid of the sportsmen' and the fact that people have fed the birds during winter. I hope they will feed them this winter," said he. The seasons closing today are deer, bear, hare and rabbits. Tho quail, wild turkey and pheasant seasons closed on November 30. Spring shooting of water fowl is forbidden. 'We think that the State Game preserves have more than proved their usefulness and'we will open more next year if we can get the land. About 3,200 acres are needed for a game preserve and we have half a dozen localities in view, but we are uncertain what the outcome will be," said 13r. Joseph Kalbfus. state game commission secretary, in talk ing about plans for the new year. "Some of these preserves arc pro jected for state lands, but the ma jority of them are for leased lands, if we can get them. There will be some in the western counties and some along the Delaware river counties while we would like to put one in the upper end of Dauphin county if the coal and water compan ies would lease us the land. This is a typical case." The veteran sportsman is enthusiastic about the value of the preserves and says that much of the good deer hunting which has marked this fall has been not far front preserves. The pre serves have enabled the wild turkey propagation to be handled with ease, while it is believed that the schemes to replenish the pheasants can bo worked out on these reservations "After the hunting season work is ended and the wardens lile their re ports oil the kills they will go to the reserves anil we will take up the propagation work" said Dr. Kalbfus. "We have wild turkeys and pheas ants coming along and in the spring we will have some mature quail which will be distributed. "I believe that we are going to have a record dfcer season. It closes to-day and 1 have heard of some tine bucks beinp killed. All of the wardens have beer asked to make reports and we wil show that not only did probably 300,- 000 sportsmen have recreation, bui that the state furnished a big fooci supply in tlje form of game. Unlesi 1 miss my guess we will kill mor< deer and bear and rabbits this yeai than ever before." It is an interesting fact that man; of the hunters who went after dec in the South Mountain region cami back early with their kill. In i number of instances men visited thl city within a few days after th opening of the season who regrettei that they had been lucky so early The law allows only one deer to b shot by each person and these mei said that they did not like to stay ii the woods when they had finishec their sport to all intents and put* poses. One of the men said thul the day after he had shot his deel a great big buck came out of thl woods and stood looking at him witl a most supercilious air, seeming t be aware of the fact that he ha! nothing to fear. Several handsom bucks have been brought throuJ this city by hunters and more thai one home in Harrlsburg will dis play antlers next year. The averag resident of this city has little ide of the central point that Harrisbur is to hunters. It is the place whei men come to go up the Juniata an Cumberland valleys and every yea the number is increasing. The Cumberland woods and vale are to be used as places for experl ments in propagation of quail an pheasants next year. In years gon by this county was noted for fill hunting and there are still man birds in the valleys of its creek One of the plans of the state gam authorities is to place sfome pheasani in Cumberland woods and alio them to establish residences an families. The same will probably t done with the Swatara valley if sui' abe arrangements can be made. In spite of the heavy snowfall an the terrible cold in the woods tl deer season did not end for sonr sportsmen in the South Mountair region until today. The fail'of sno early in the week was hailed by hut ters because it enabled them to ti deer with greater ease and while th winds were more like January tha th first half of December they stuc to the woods and quite a few dej were killed during the week. Tl big storm of Thursday night, ever, caused considerable sufferii among hunters who were not with reach of cabins and there was hu ried packing up yesterday. Tl snowfall on some of the mountall in southern counties was great than known at this season of tl year for a long time. Informatli has been brought to the office of t' State Game Commission which it expected will lead to the arrest a number of persons charged wi having killed does.. • • When returns are all in from tl counties it Is believed that incoi from hunters' licenses will break i records even that of 305,000 licens the first year of the law. This mo ey, less the collection allowance, w be used for propagation and proU tion of game. Forestry Commissioner Robert Conklln says that more hunters c joyed the state reserve camp sli this year than ever before. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —H. Hlnrlchs, the Erie fish o thority, says this year's lake cat established records. —Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Co; missioner of Health, has been rap ly recovering his health and is c< ducting departmental affairs byte phone. —Representative 11. Atlee Rru baugh, of Blair county, thinks writing a history of his county. —Edwin Wolf, president of 1 Philadelphia board of education, 1 started a move to edit German "k tur" out of school books. DO YOU KNOW Tluit Harrisburg Rtecl is us©i in making lino sum-eying | n st rumen ts? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In old days hunters used to h shooting matches here for <atl and pelts of deer when the jea , ended.
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