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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."
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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.
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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
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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.