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— JOHN BOYI.K O'REILLT. \
1.l (ii r.HUtVS MR. CUTLER
BURWELL S. CUTLER, the new
chief of the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce, sounds |
funereal note in his annual report!
when he says, speaking of the for-;
ign trade we have won during the]
Mar. "Important as it is that we;
1 old our advantage in these and >
ether markets, we must not lose:
right of the fact that all such ad
vantages are likely to disappear if;
we do not come out of the war vie-J
toriously."
The losing of trade advantages)
would be but one of a chain of evils
\ hlcli would, not "unlikely," but'
i ositively. encompass us if we did
rot tome out of this war victorious- 1
ly. For instance, Germany would
squeesc us with an indemnity which
would reimburse her for the entire j
cost of her war. She would also ex
i<ct such assurances from us in the i
■<; aj of treatment of her manufac-!
t ir<s as would make her an undis-1
puted arbiter in our<market.
In short, the things Germany
would do to us make it unthinkable
that she should win, and it is as
tonishing that an officeholder should
even hint at such an outcome.
The father of Earl Aurand. the
first Harrisburg soldier killed in
France, is a worthy man and in need
i>f employment. Surely, it ought not
to be necessary to more than state ;
the fact in patriotic Harrisburg.
COOl) NEWS. INDEED
HOWARD COFFIN'S confident J
assertion that the American air 1
campaign will be launched on
time with 100 per cent, of the J
mated machines and aviators in the
field is the best news that the Amer
ican people has had in many a day.
President Wilson, in this Instance,
selected the biggest men in their
line in the country for the task as- \
signed—by far the most difficult of j
the entire military preparedness j
program—and they went at it as j
business men. Politics had no part !
in their activities. Their one thought j
was the accomplishment of the work ;
before them. Now. six months ahead I
of schedule, they are able to say
that they are traveling on time and
that there is every prospect of put
ting ten thousand American aviators
in the field the coming summer.
Would that there were more air i
boards and more Howard Coffins in
the national service!
Just how difficult the task as
signed was may be realized fully
only by a careful perusal of Mr.
• "offin's own article on the subject.
The air board started out without
even an engine and faced with the I
necessity of designing a motor that j
could be turned out in a score of I
factories and the parts assembled
anywhere, or changed from one ma- j
chine to another in an hour's time, i
Simplicity of pattern, speed, econ- '
omy of fuel and ability to stand up i
under the grueling wear and tear of j
war were essential. Two years and 1
more the allies had been laboring i
and had not an entirely satisfactory j
engine. Yet the American air board, !
locked in its rooms at a Washington
hotel, and summoning all holders
of patents and all automobile en
gineers of note in the country, put
down on paper the plans for the
Great Liberty motor that in twenty
eight days thereafter was spinning
1 ehind an aeroplane and pronounced
ny European aircraft experts to be
the superior of anything in service
against Germany and better than
any German 'plane.
After such an accomplishment and
the gigantic task of manufacturing
this machine and aeroplanes for its
Installation, came the training of a
ast army of workmen and ten thod
sand artisans for this special line of
■work, in addition to the making in
large quantities of all the delicate
instruments with which military
machines are equipped. And here is
where the great automobile industry
of the United States was brought
Into the gam# and proved the sav
ing factor of the situation. But even
(,lie"n the difficulties were not solved,
m
FRIDAY EVENING,
for there remained to be cut and
wrought whole foreßts of spruce and
practically the entire linen Industry
of Ireland had to be requisitioned.
All this is being dime, Mr. Coffin
says, the planes are being made, the
engines are being turned out in a
steady stream and by the middle of
the summer an American air force
of 100,000, including 10,000 trained
fliers, will give the allies a tre
mendous advantage all along the
French front'.
I Here is an accomplishment of
| which all America may be proud.
' Xobody is asking the politics of Mr.
[ Coffin and his associates. Xobody
cares. The President Is praised for
having picked men who have gotten
the work assigned them well under
way. How much more to the admin
istration's credit it would have been
had it acted as wisely in all of its
selections —the Shipping Board for
example.
But this is not merely a wartime
triumph. After the conflict the
American aeroplane industry will be
on a firm footing, the sphere of the
aeroplane as an adjunct to pleasure
and business will be greatly enlarged
and we shall be able to take the
place of leadership in the industry
which we never should have lost.
All railroads have a "Black Dia
mond" flyer, now that everj- coal
train is given preference in the move
ment of traffic.
56,000.000 OF FOODSTUFFS
DAUPHIN county has been mak
ing iron, . mining coal and
j manufacturing so many things
| that we seldom think of it as
| one of the notable counties of
i Pennsylvania, even as we often fail to
realize that the Keystone State is one
of the Commonwealths which raises
a large part of the food it consumes.
It was not until the State Depart
ment of Agriculture began to system
atically arrange the data about the
crops of the State that the import- j
ance of Pennsylvania appeared in the '
big scheme of food raising and con-"?
servation. And the same work has j
brought Dauphin county to the at
tention of the students because of its'
place in agriculture.
To bring it home, we may say that'
the corn and wheat crops of Dauphin j
county aggregated in value a quarter \
of a million dollars more than the 1
receipts of the State of Pennsylvania |
from automobile licenses during j
1917, the banner year for motor ve
hicle registration in this State, which ;
produced three and a quarter million |
dollars for road maintenance. Ourj
corn was worth $2,581,794.60 and;
our wheat $1,165,148 this year alone. I
The value of the hay crop of Dau- j
phin county for 1917 was $1,054,-
597.80. in itself an aggregate con- :
siderably greater than Harrisburg's •
budget for 1918, quite the largest
ever framed. While the value of
seven staple crops alone, not includ
ing fruit or any vegetables except po
tatoes, was $6,072,834.56, or about
one-ninth the assessed valuation of
the city of Harrisburg.
Not counting in what was raised
in the war gardens, which can hard
ly be estimated, the farmers of this
iron and steel, coal and quarrying,
manufacturing and railroading coun
ty. dug potatoes worth $612,198 and
our oats crop, of which the average
man knows mighty little, aggregated
the handsome value *>f $">45,458.32.
Our rye was worth over $75,000 and
the buckwheat, which few know we
raise in Dauphin county, was valued
at $7,673.60.
Dauphin county is not only send
ing forth the tlower of its youth
and making its industries do their
utmost to help win the war, mobiliz
ing its money to buy Liberty Bonds
and to support the agencies for the
welfare of soldiers and sailors and
maintaining its railroad forces, but
it is doing a very substantial part to
ward helping produce food along
with the other sixty-seven counties of
Pennsylvania.
We have to travel some to catch
up with the great agricultural coun
ties of Lancaster, York and Berks,
but we feel, after scanning the 'fig
ures of our crops for 1917, that we
are on our way.
Mayor Keister is right in Ills dec
laration that Harrisburg will keep
step with the State in everything
that has to do with the permanent im
provement of the Capitol Park area.
A REEL EXAMPLE
JVPANESE silk reelers have com
bined to hold up the price of
raw silk to $6 48 per bale, or
$175 higher than the average price
for the past 15 years.
The outcome of this action will
not be lost upon the Southern cot
ton growers, who asked charity from
the Nation when cotton prices were
low, but who show no disposition to
treat fairly with the world in its
travail today.
Private business must be second to
the public business in municipal ad
ministration. and this fact should be
kept in mind in the reorganization of
the City Council.
THE CUE THAT MIS-CUED
RIFLE manufacturers have told
the Senate investigating com
mittee that they went to the
War Department last, winter sug
gesting that war was bound to come
and that they should speed up prep
arations to provide the necessary
equipment. They were told that
there would be no trouble and that
the War Department was not Inter
ested.
As a result, we are lacking about
40,000 machine guns which could
have been delivered by this time if
the foresighted and forehanded man
ufacturers had been listened to. And
yet the War Department was clear
ly following the lead of the White
House. From the opening of the
war in Europe, in August. 1914, down
to the days Just prior to the dis
missal of von Bernstorff in February,
1917, there was never an intimation
from President Wilson that we would
not continue to be kept out of war.
There never was a syllable from him
,to indicate that the advocates of pre
paredness had ceased to be "nervous
and hysterical." There never was
the faintest gesture to show that he
did not continue to "turn away from
the subject" of the national defense,
as he did In December. 191-1.
The War Department had receiv
ed but one cue; and that was fol
lowed.
! City Council must provide for a
real collection of ashes, or be pre
pared for the increasing protests of
an outraged public.
7>oiiUc*u
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By the Kx-Committcciuaii
( r - -1
I While state administration leaders
! will not figure to any extent in the
! dinner to be tendered to Mayor
| Joseph O. Armstrong . next Thurs
-1 day at Pittsburgh, it is not iniprob
j able that some of them will be in
| touch with the Penrose chieftains
■ who will accompany the Senator to
j that city for his Western Pennsyl
, vania war council next week. For
i weeks the Penrose people have been
| gathering the sentiment of the state
lin regard to the Governbrship and
j their activity has stirred tip admin
istration men until by the middle of
1 next week both sides ought to be
pretty nearly ready to outline what
they will do.
Many of the men active in both
factions are urging an agreement
1 upon a harmony candidate for Gov
' ernor. but It is said that the an
tipathy of Governor Brumbaugh and
, some of his close personal friends
to Senator Sproul will cause the ad
ministration .to make a contest at
i the primary in the event that the
: Penrose people determine upon the
1 Delaware county Senator. The gen-
I era I belief is that Attorney General
; Brown will be the standard bearer
| for the administration.
1 Efforts are now being bent to se
; cure an agreement whereby no raat
i ter who is nominated at the primary
! the loser will support the winner
, and thus block the Democratic
scheme to elect Vance C. McCormick J
or some other Democrat hand '
picked on the banks of the Potomac j
to be a candidate 011 behalf of the I
Democrats of Pennsylvania. It is ;
generally believed that if Mr. Brown '
becomes a candidate that Highway
Commissioner O'Xeil. Chairman i
Ainey and other receptive candidates !
would fold their tents and line up ]
behind him.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to- j
day says: "Senator William C.
Sproul. of Delaware countv, who is !
expected to shortly formally an
nounce his candidacy for the Kepub- '
lican nomination for Governor, has j
accepted an invitation to attend a '
dinner to be given in honor of j
retiring Mayor Armstrong, in i
Pittsburgh, on January 10. The i
presence of Senator Sproul at tiiis j
function will l regarded by many
as inaugurating his canvass for the I
Republican nominittion for Gov- I
ernor in_ the western section of the j
state. Xone of his friends in the I
east has for some time had any
doubt about his being a real candi- j
date for succession to Governor 1
Brumbaugh."
—Just what would become of the
candidacies of Gilford Pinchot and
other men who have been moving
about putting up lightning roads In
the event of a straight out battle be
tween Sproul and Brown is com
mencing to b<* talked of. It is gen
erally believed that Pinchot, who
was here yesterday, lias added to the
ex-Bull Moose and labor elements
which put him into the field the
labor leaders who were boosting Ma
jor John Price Jackson until he went
to war.
—Pinchot has been getting about
th? state lining up labor leaders
and grangers and has been here an
average of once a week. What makes
his visit so interesting is that vester
day he had a conversation with At
torney General Brown. It is doubt
ful whether Pinchot got out of the
lace as a result of that interchange
of views.
—The Somerset Standard has
come out with a picture and a dis
cussion of Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder as good timber for govcr
ncr. "Pennsylvania," says this in
teresting newspaper, "needs a man
of learning, not alone iu business
and professional training:, but one
who is wise to the schemes of poli
ticians who have ever in mind self
interest. Such a man is the Hon.
Charles A. Snyder, of Schuylkill, any
of his acquaintances know and many
of his political opponents will ad
mit."
—Mr. Snyder has never Riven any
intimation of such ambitions,, but
hi.i life history would indicate 'hat
his entrance would make the con
test strenuous and that if he was
governor he would be very positive
in his handling of affairs.
—Charles A. Caldwell, Sunbury
manufacturer, has been appointed
mercantile appraiser of Northumber
land.
—After a stormy conference with
the county commissioners at West
Chester, Robert G. Kay, county con
troller, whose term eStpires next
Monday, fixed the surcharge against
them at $6,541. It is said that harsh
words were used at the conference
and the officials gave notice that they
would appeal to the courts. The con
troller notified the commissioners,
I>. M. Golden. John E. Baldwin and
Trank J. Elston, some weeks ago
that he intended to surcharge them
the amount of all bills for bridge
work done during 1917 on contracts
for more than $250 for which bids
were not advertised, as provided by
law.
—George E. Lyman, connected
with the United States Treasury De
partment, with headquarters in
Philadelphia, has been appointed
chief income tax collector for
Schuylkill county and the following
deputy collectors were appointed to
help: C. J. Stack, Shenandoah; Ray
mono Beckett, Girardville; Harold
Kingsbury. Pottsville, and Thomus
Dixon, Lost Creek.
—Harry L. Sullivan, for nineteen
years assistant postmaster at Xor
rlstown, has tendered his resigna
tion to Postmaster Kneule, giving as
hts reason "extra #ind exacting du
ties, demanding considerable more
time and arduous labor."
—There will be no interference with
tlfe business of the State Insurance
Fund as a consequence of the con
troversy over Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder's desire to make an audit
with a view to ascertaining whether
It can be self-sustaining. Arrange-
have been made whereby the
clerks employed for the last year and
the extra clerks whose appointment
started the Auditor General on his
inquiry as to what appropriations
would reach will be provided for in
order to handle the mail connected
with the issuance of some 18,000
policies. Mr. Snyder said this morn
ing that he had no desire to em
barrass the fund or to retard the
business in any way, but that ho did
think that the money in sight to run
It would not reach. Just what will
be done about the pay of extrp. clerks
who may be named in the futuro Is
ah interesting problem at the Cap!-,
RAARISBURG TELEGRAPH
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tol. Mr. Snyder says he will refuse
to pay any more until satisfied that
they are needed.
For some time there have been
rumors that a change might he made
in the oftice of the fund. One report
was that Albert L. Allen, assistant
manager, who has been at 'Washing
ton cn national compensation mat
ters, intended to resign this winter
and go to the national capital.
—Appointment of Harry E. Klugh,
of this city, as chief clerk of the
State Department of Agriculture,
seems to have caused some heart
burnings as several men in western
counties got the idea that because
the late Dr. M. D. Lichliter, for
years chief clerk, came from Alle
gheny county, that the successor
would be named from that section.
Secretary Putton says that the ap
pointment was made on the ground
of efficiency and in recognition of
KUigh's service in the department
for a dozen years.
—People at the State Capitol are
indulging in considerable amusement
o\er the ardent manner in which
Scranton leaders are working for the
appointment of a registration com
missioner to succeed Mayor-elect A.
T. Connell. Notwithstanding the fact
that a commissioner will have noth
ing to do for many months there has
been such activity as has not been
known for a long time. Mr. Connell,
Senator Lynch and ex-Senator Mc-
Nichols have been here day after day,
l'airly camping on the Governor's trail
while Sheriff Schlager and Commis
sioner Von Bergen have been keep
ing the wires hot. So much feeling
has been aroused over the appoint
ment that the Governor is going to
take his own good time.
—The Governor has also been tak
ing his time in the matter of the
Public Service Commissionerships
una one of his friends remarked to
day that "the state has been saving
money by the Governor not filling
the places. The present commis
sioners are all working hard and
keeping right up with the mass of
business so that the state is .lot
losing so much by the Governor's
careful consideration of the men
suggested for the places."
—Governor Brumbaugh is mo
mentarily expected to name a judge
for Washington county. He has
been in consultation with many men
about the place.
—Congressman B. K. Foeht, of
Lewisburg, is getting his fences ready
for renomination. The Union coun
tian says that he will be willing to
enter the lists with all comers. As
he has won the flglit in the face of
Democratic opposition of the
staunchest kind and against covert
enemies he ought to make it very
interesting.
—James J. Gerry, deputy pro
thonotary of York county, and Coun
ty Treasurer A. F. Fix are preparing
to sail as rivals to Congressman A. R.
Prodbeck. of Hanover, for the Demo
cratic nomination for Congress in the
Yolk-Adams district. Brodbeck does
not like the idea of opposition and
some of the Democratic state ma
chine leaders may look into ork
conditions. Banking Commissioner
D. F. Lafean. S. Iy McCall and John
C. Schmidt, of York, are being sug
gested as Republican candidates.
GOV'T CRITICISMS
[Washington Post]
Criticisms of the government,
based upon facts, put forward in
good faith and for the purpose of
correcting existing evils, are not only
proper, hut helpful.
Criticisms of the carping variety,
intended to discredit public officials
or to influence political issues, and
especially criticisms placing the
blame for sins of omission in the !
past upon some individual, are not
proper or helpful, but are harmfuf :
and in some instances disloyal.
The distinction should be drawn i
very rigidly. This is no time for |
making wild charges against high
officials, it is futile, and only aids (
those small bands of traitors who ;
persistently are trying to fan the :
fires of sedition in the land.
Congressional investigations which ■
expose the incapacity or incompe
tency of high government officials,
intrusted with important duties, are ,i
quite helpful. They give the public >
definite Information which it has a
right to know, and out of the ex- I
posures come reforms which are '
greatly in the public interest. The
mistakes are rectified or their repe- I
titlon made impossible. When the !
government Intrusts un official with
a duty it expects htm to attend to it,
and if he fails the facts should be
niade known to the people. Expo
sures of that sort and the criticism
which follows justifiable.
WAY OF INVESTIGATION
Very few investigations hold up
in a way that makes them as inter
esting at the finish as they were at
the start.—Washington Star.
"Passive Loyalty."
Rudolph Heinrichs in the Atlantic Monthly
• From a (ieimfnr l.rtter)
YOU and I, Felix, are both of the
same German blood. There is
not a drop of any other blood
in us. so far as I know. You feel the
tug of'this blood drawing your sym
pathies toward Germany. Perhaps
1 am hard hearted. 1 often wonder
whether that is it. I think, however,
that I feel as deep affection for
father and the others in Germany as
you do. And yet there does not st em
to me to be the smallest corner of
me that is not for America, first and
last, and against Germany. 1 do not
hate Germany, but I want to see her
defeated, and I deeply hope that
America will have a part in defeat
ing her and that 1 may have a small
part in helping to defeat her. • • *
You say that you are loyal if you
are merely passive, and some fool in
Washington, some official or other,
said the other day that the Go\em
inent demanded no more than pas
sive loyalty from its citizens of Ger
man birth or origin. I tell you, that
passive loyalty today is disloyalty.
You are needed, and 1 am needed,
*nd every American of German
blood, who considers himself an
American and nothing else is needed,
to symbolize to the rest of Americans
NEWSPAPERS QUITTING
The Fourth Estate, a leading mag
azine of the newspaper industry,
says that at least 1,200 publications
in the United States and Canada quit
publishing during the year 191".
These approximate 925 suspensions
and 250 consolidations, each of
which, of course, eliminated at least
one publication. The principal de
crease was furnished by the weekly,
daily and semiweekly papers. The
falling oft' has been general through
out the country.
The forthcoming 1918 American
Newspaper Annual and Directory
will show that at the close of the
year there are 24.252 publications of
all kinds in the United States and
Canada, of which the United States
has 22,842.
Of the total number, the weekly
papers showed the greatest falling
oft" during 1917. The daily papers
ranked second. The net loss of the
dailies was 62.
Discussing the serious conditions
which now confront the newspapers,
a trade publication Paper, says:
"The failure of 1,200 newspapers
in the United States in the compara
tively short period of ten months is
an alarming announcement without
any explanation of the reasons why
it is so.
"An editorial from the Saturday
Evening Post, which is quoted by the
Wisconsin State Journal, suggests the
real answer, it is that the tendency
of tlie times Is consolidation and that
many paper*, are being eliminated in
those lo<-alltles where tliey have
been too numerous to thrive. From
this article w6 quote as follows:
"'A contemporary reports that,
though the population of the four
teen largest cities in Michigan has
doubled in the last ten years, the
number of daily papers has fallen
from forty-two to twenty-one.
"\\'o donbt like causes have pro-
Muced a like effect elsewhere. Quite
recently consolidations of dailies in
first class cities have attracted at
tention. The number of consider
able cities with no morning paper
and of still bigger places with only
one morning paper appears to in
crease.'
"If the Saturday Evening Post is
correct in its analysis, an attempt
has been made by some publishers
at least to overcome this difficulty
by the consolidation of journals, and
the elimination of those that are
useless. Instead of Ita being an evi
den<*e of demoralization In the puh
lisliiug world that certain |tapcrs go
out of existence, it may indeed often
be an evidence of a more intelligent
understanding of the situation and
the installation of a policy based on
a l>etter judgment."
BOND OF PERFECTNESS
And above all these things put on
charity, which is the bond of per
fectness. —Colossians, 111, 14.
SAFETY FIRST
A kaiser sings a happy song,
Although, In quest of pelf.
He gets his people In alt wrong.
He always saves himself.
Washington Star,
* /.
of alien origin, the working of the
American crucible.
We have boasted in the past that
the American people was not merely
a hodge-podge of lifty or a hundred
races, but a new race, looking not to
the past but to the future. Here is
your chance to prove it, to prove that
no temptation, however great, no
lure, however insistent, can turn us
who have received the benefits of
American citizenship, who have lived
and grown and prospered and been
happy under American institutions,
back to the land that our fathers
left, bapk to the kings they re
nounced. We dare not Vie passive.
• •
Instead of being passive, instead
of sitting in armchairs at hontc,
grumblingly nursing our resentment
as you would have us to do, you and
I should be out on the housetops,
declaring to the German-Americans
our faith in the American democ
racy and the American people. See
ing how much we are willing to sac
rifice for the privilege of claiming
full American citizenship, other Ger
man-Americans. who have less to
sacrifice, may value American citi
zenship higher than they do now.—
THIN SKIN. THICK SKULL
DefAulers of the administration,
most of them politically sympathetic,
are given to much shouting of trea
son! and traitor! when it is intimat
ed by Americans interested in the
outcome of the war that more could
have been and can be done by the
United States Government toward
licking Germany. Pitiless publicity
evidently does not make as good a
watchword as it made a catch
phrase. Friends of tlie present ad
ministration, Who elected it upon a
campaign of criticism, have since
become peculiarly thin-skinned, in
inverse ratio to the thick skulls of
some of those whom they undertake
to defend. They resent anybody's
interference with what the Govern
ment is doing, and have set up a
postulate that the king is doing the
best he can and therefore can do
no wrong.
That sort of thing worked for a
while in England—and worked
harm. It never did work in France,
which has borne the heaviest bur
den of the war. Changes in the con
duct of the war made by both coun
tries undoubtedly have resulted In
improvement. Ijloyd George saw a
light when his ship was heading for
the rocks, fie threw out the Jonahs
and steered clear. Persuaded by
I capable critics that certain gentle-
I men were unfitted for their jobs, he
' replaced them. He did not stub-
I bornly hold to a course clearly prov
en to be in error. If his pride of
judgment was hurt, he made the
I best of it, realizing that the war was
' not a war of party, by a party and
for a party. He realized something
j that is seen but dimly over here as
yet; that a nation which is spending
its blood has a rightful interest in
the process of that expenditure, to
the end that as little of it as pos
sible be spent—and not wasted.
Historians have often disagreed
on the lessons of history, but most of
them have agreed on one proposi
tion: that when a people, even easy
going, loyal people, become con
vinced that their leaders are not
leading, they act suddenly and un
mistakably, and they get what they
go after, sticking through thick and
thin to get it. —The Daily Iron
Trade.
War Time Wit in London
Three years and four months of
war have speeded up agood many
things in England. As to whether
jokes have been accelerated along
with other things the reader may
fcrm his own judgment after running
through these examples from an is
sue of the Bystander, London.
The German people are going to
vary their diet by eating earth. This
is good news, for, as everyone knows,
you cannot have the earth and eat it.
A contemporary wit points out that
there- is a German prisoner of war in
this country who has not yet escaped.
We are informed that the poor fel
low suffers from gout.
Among: his colleagues. In tho-new-
French government, M. Clemenceau
hao included M. Nail. If the latter
helps the ministry to hold on to office
longer than its recent predecessors,
he will be well worth his "screw."
JANUARY 4, 1918.
LABOR NOTES
Kederated shopmen employed on
the Western Maryland Railway have
received wage increases the last few
months that total 10 cents an hour.
The rate is now 50 cents for boHer
makers, machinists anil blacksmiths.
These workers are 100 per cent, or
ganized.
At the last convention of the Metal
Polishers. Buffer*, Brass and Silver
Workers' Union of North America, it
was voted to relinquish jurisdiction
of the silver workers. Beginning with
the first of the year this interna
tional organization will be known as
the Metal Polishers' International
Union.
The members of Stockton (Cal.)
Typographical Union have secured
the acceptance of a new scale which
adds 50 cents per day to their wages.
Beginning January 1, 1918, the news
paper printers work seven hours and
forty-flve minutes. April 1, 191S, ftf
teen minutes more will be taken off.
According' to data found in a re
cent issue of the Gewerkschaft, the
official organ of the Austrian Trade
Union Commission, on January 1,
191", the members numbered 1 G0,907,
of whom 25.907 were women, as
ttgainst 372,216 men and 42.979 wom
en members on January 1, 1914.
Because of the fairness of Justice
Higgins, president of the Common
wealth Arbitration Court, and the an
tagonism of the New South Wales
(Australia) government to organized
labor, sortie workers urge that the
state industrial laws be ignored Snd
that unions register under the Com
monwealth act.
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Hhmtng (Eljal
If there Is one thing which seems
to I'avo come with the finusually
frigid weather which has afflicted
the State's capital It is the care
manifested for horses. When the
cold wave came in during the middle
of December there were to bo seen
the usual number of horses which
wi re not rough-shod and which
were slipping and sliding all over
the street. Now every horse seems
to be not only rough shod, but well
rough shod. It Is what the late Ex-
Mayor Maurice C. Eby tried to bring
about for a long time. He argued
that it was not only humane, but
good business. Now there are few
horses which are not ready for all
kinds of weather. Then, too, horses
are blanketed now with the greatest,
of care. There arc horses which
have blankets about them all tlio
time they are out in the weather,
while others have their harness over
blankets. The horse may bo giving
way to the automobile, but there
are a good many people who are
taking mighty good care of him.
Down around the courthouse there
are signs of the cold weather eVen
when the steam does not give out
and court has to be adjourned owing
to low temperature in the court
rooms. The courtroom rotunda is
a pleasant place for some people to
linger until one of the tipstaves
comes around and the amount of
time some people will spend in the
court room listening to the discus
sion of questionnaires is rather signi
ficant. Outside of the courthouse,
in the recess formed by the alley be
tween the building and the Common
wealth Trust Company there is a
mobilization of street sweepers
equipment that makes one shiver. It
recalls days when the "white wing"
gets out with the sun to clean the
streets before tho mercury rises.
A'OW the dirt cans with their upright
brooms stand around like captured
artillery, hemmed in by mounds of
snow and ice on which by the very
irony of things the dirt and refuse
of the neighborhood seem to have
blown.
Those who intend to travel not
withstanding: the war will have to
take Ichancas on train accommoda
tions. Since the United States Gov
ernment assumed control of the rail
roads the traveling public has been
having some difficult in knowing
what train to board even in well
reculated Harrisburg stations. Along
with their many troubles, ushers
and ticket examiners are having no
little amusement at the expense of
travelers. Yesterday a locai travel
ing man rushe.d through the Penn
sylvania railroad station to an open
gate.
"Where are you going?" asked the
man at the gate.
"To Lancaster," was the reply.
"Not on that train," said the
ticket puncher. "The train you
want was annulled one week ago."
Until the new schedule on the
Pennsylvania Railroad is issued
travelers will have to take chances
and, above all be patient. The other
day a traveler asked an usher how
late tho 12.40 train for Pittsburgh
would be. "You will have to wait, four
hours for that train. The 8 o'clock
trhin Just came in. You can go on
that." It was then 12.20 p. m.
Several passengers who had sleep
ing car reservations on a western
train heard the usher call: "Train
for Altoona, Pittsburgh and the West,
gate No. 4." Those who held Pull
man tickets started to go through the
gate but were stopped. The gate
man said: "Your train has not left.
New York. You will not need any
sleeping cars when it gets here. If
you do not care to wait, the train
down there has several coaches but
no sleeping cars." The answer that
came back was: "Sherman was
right."
A wild cat that must have been
the wildest of the wild in its day
landed in the offices of the State
Game Commission yesterday morn
ing in the form of a pelt. It was
sixty-three inches from tip to tip and
in life must have weighed forty
pounds. The pelt was perfect, in
fact, it was one of the finest ever
seen here. The cat was killed on
what is known as Cove Mountain,
Franklin county, a point consider
ably further south than cats are
usually known to come. The skin
attracted much attention and there
were a number of men who were
glad that the cat came in the form
of a pelt.
• • •
From all accounts there will be
some brisk competition for honors in
corn at the mid-winter agricultural
show here late this month between
boys' and girls' corn clubs. The re
quests for information which have
been reaching the State Department
of Agriculture indicate that there
will be some struggles worth watch
ing between clubs and that the very
finest of the corn will be shown here.
Already numerous local exhibitions
have been held which have settled
rivalries in townships and counties
and the winners will come here with
their golden products.
• • •
The meetings of the allied agricul
tural organizations to be held here
this month are of far greater im
portance than any similar meetings
held in years and it is interesting to
note that the number of associations
meeting here in the third week,
"Agricultural Week," as it is known.
Is double what it was four or five
years ago. Hundreds of representa
tive farmers and specialists In fruit,
cattle, poultry, cheese and other
lines, will be in Harrisburg for the
greater part of the week.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—The Rev. John T. Reeve, who
takes charge of the First Presby
terian Church, I-iancaster, was given
n farewell reception by his church
in Philadelphia.
—Joseph Pennell, the Philadelphia
artist, says when people think about
It the Quaker City's Mummers ought
to suspend for the war at least.
—E. B. Dorsett, chief of the
Bureau of Markets, has been Invited
to York county farmers on
marketing work.
—Howard A. Butcher, prominent
Ardmore resident and well known to
many, will go abroad for Y. M. C. A.
work among soldiers
—S. B. TrafTord, the warden of
Lebanon prison, who has Just been
reappointed, is the oldest warden In #
the state. He is seventy-eight.
-■— Adjutant General Beary was In
Washington on draft matters yester
day.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg steel Is being
used for making locomotives?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Admiral Farragut was a visitor to
Harrisburg Just after the Civil War
and was given a great reception by
the veterans and citizen*