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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918
Our deeds determine us as well
ns vce determine our deeds. — GEORGE
ELIOT.
THE COMING CAMPAIGN
GOVERNOR Brumbaugh's pub
lic statement on the guberna
torial succession is the first
gun in the big campaign which is
about to open. He indicates clearly
that there has been misrepresenta
tion of his administration acts and
policies in certain quarters and that
under no circumstances will he sup
port candidates brought forward by
certain political interests. This
doesn't presage party harmony in
the primaries, at least, but may
mean a red-hot scramble of diverse
elements in the Republican party
for control.
Whatever it may mean, however,
it should be understood by all fac
tional leaders that the Republican
voters expect harmony of action
after the primaries shall have de
clared the party nominees. There
Is no objection to any man or group
of men supporting candidates of
their own choice in the primary
contest, but under no circumstances
should the heated controversies of
the usual primary extend into the
main campaign.
Republicans have a right to ex
pect and will demand co-operation
of all the elements of the party after
the nominations shall have been
made next May. Of course, there
will be personal rivalries, and dif
ferences of opinion will arise on ev
ery hand, but when the standard of
the party shall have been placed in
the hands of the successful guber
natorial candidate it will be the
duty of all factions to rally to the
party colors and give earnest sup
port to the men who have been fair
ly chosen as the Republican nomi
nees.
It is not fair to involve the party
in an unnecessary and hopeless
factional quarrel beyond the date of
the primary. To-day the Demo
cratic party is in power at Wash
ington through Republican division
and it is the hope of the Democratic
bosses in Pennsylvania, through the
aid of this same national adminis
tration, to also take control of the
government in this State. But their
only hope of achieving this result is
through a division of the Republi
can hosts and woe to the leader or
leaders of that faith who may be
responsible for a defeat of the Re
publican party this year in the Key
stone State.
There are signs of sanity here and
the symposium of editorial opin
ion from Republican publishers
throughout the State, as presented in
the columns of the Telegraph re
cently, Indicated the general desire
of the Republican forces to get to
gether and fight the common foe
Instead of fighting each other.
Within the last twenty-four hours
the Republicans in Congress have
Indicated a purpose to reorganize in
eome effective way so as to main
tain a strong alignment against the
encroachment of the party in pow
er. There is an insistent demand
for a restatement of party princi
ples. Straight talk is necessary from
now on and nowhere is the mainte
nance of the principles which have
made the Republican party great so
' Absolutely necessary as in Pennsyl
vania.
With the prospect of eggs going to
$1.25 a dozen operating an Incubator
the coming spring may prove a less
costly form of sport for million
aires than running their steam
yachts.
Those Southern planters appear to
tie finding cotton to be a very soft
thing.
CHILD'S PLAY
WE wonder whether the gentle
men of 'City Council realize
how m6st of their fellow citi
zens regard their backing and filling
ovef - the choice of a City Treasurer.
Surely the business of Harrisburg
is quite as important as the per
sonal ambitions or political interests
of Individuals or parties. Several
names have been canvassed for this
Important municipal position, but
there has been no agreement upon
any one of the aspirants. Isn't It
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FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG I TELEGRAPH JANUARY 11, 1918.
about time to qujt the • playing of
checkers and giving the matter the
serious consideration It deserves?
Perhaps when the next Legisla
ture, as it should have done long
ago, places the City Treasurer on a
salary basis instead of under a fee
arrangement, there will not be <so
much fiddling over the filling of the
place.
A COALITION CABINET
THE time has come for the cre
ation of a coalition cabinet.
If the United States is to win
the war in the shortest possible
time, the best brains and the widest
experience of the nation must be
brought to bear on the problems
before us. Democracy means noth
ing if It does not mean the fullest
representation of the masses in the
government and we are not living
up to the high democratic Ideals to
which the President has asked the
world to subscribe so long as we
permit many of our wisest statesmen
to sit Idly at home when they might
be profitably employed In the prose
cution of the war, solely for the
reason that they do not owe alle
giance to the political party In
power.
Nor need the President be placed
in the embarrassing position of
tearing his own cabinet to pieces to
bring about this very much to be
desired result, although there are
those who easily might be spared.
There is need in England or France
at this time of some one with au
thority to consult with the allied
leaders and to speak for the United
States without the necessity of con
sulting the national capital every
five minutes. No man is better fit
ted for the post of high war com
missioner from this country to Lon
don or Paris than Secretary of State
Lansing and the vacancy that would
be caused In the cabinet by his de
parture on such a mission would
permit the President with the best
of grace to fill the vacancy by the
appointment of Elihu Root, In whom
Mr. Wilson Is known to place much
confidence.
In similar ways, or by creating
special war cabinet seats, places
could be found for the unquestioned
patriotism and great talent of Taft
and Roosevelt. It is shameful that
these men, so well qualified .'o serve
their country in this crisis, should be
allowed to stand in the background
while far less able men, of little or
no experience, are at the helm and
with untrained hands guide the ship
of state In waters rough enough to
daunt the spirit and test the sea
manship of even the oldest and
most skilled of pilots.
A coalition cabinet would strength
en the hands of the President might
ily, would stir the enthusiasm of
the people to unsounded depths and
Inspire such confidence in the Gov
ernment as would have tremendous
effect both at home and abroad.
Are we to take this step or' are
we to "muddle through" along the
purely partisan lines upon which the
President up to this time has in
sisted? It is not too much to say
that the length of the war and the
extent of American sacrifices in men
and money hang upon the answer.
Now is a good time to push the
Americanization of aliens. Those who
want to become citizens of the United
States should have the opportunity;
those who never Intend to become
citizens ought to be given to under
stand that the time is rapidly ap
proaching when their room will be
more desirable than their company.
Thousands of aliens have always in
tended to become citizens of the
United States, but they have neglect
ed their opportunity. There is no ex
cuse now to put off their patriotic
intention.
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
THE adoption of the suffrage
amendment by the lower House
of Congress is in line with the
action of Legislatures in many States
und was inevitable, sooner or later.
It probably forecasts a similar vic
tory in the Senate. It Is in line
with yesterday's Vote In the House
of Lords, England, where by the re
jection of a bill to exclude the votes
of women the advocates of equal
suffrage won a sweeping victory In
what was formerly considered a
citadel of ultra conservatism.
Yesterday's action bears the trade
mark of no political party. Presi
dent Wilson's sudden conversion to
suffrage by national amendment af
ter his repeated assertions that the
right of women to vote was a mat
ter for decision by the States sepa-
rately, was unquestionably assumed
for political reasons. He saw Re
publican Congressmen lined up al
most solidly for the suffrage amend
ment while his own pet Southern
Democrats opposed to it. He knew
this spelled the loss of suffrage votes
to the Democratic party in States
where women already have the bal
lot and to offset it he turned in at
the last minute for the measure.
But the fact remains, nevertheless,
that had not Republican Leader
Mann dragged himself from a bed
in a Baltimore hospital, where he
had been for several months, to vote
for the resolution it would have been
defeated, so that, while Democrats
followed the President's lead and
many of them voted for it, Repub
lican votes carried the measure to
victory.
TolL&Ct tK
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By the Ei-Committeeman
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
not only intends to make his voice
heard in the nomination of a candi
date to run on the Republican
ticket for Governor, but he intends
to have some say in the selection of
Congressional, Senatorial and As
sembly candidates at the May •pri
mary. The Governor started to
show an interest in the legislative
nominations as' soon as the "dry"
amendment was passed and a num
ber of men connected with the state
government and some aligned with
the Governor's faction were re
quested by Private Secretary Wil
liam H. Ball to send at their earliest
convenience names and opinions on
the various aspirants or men talked
of. Some of the men promptly
hunted up candidates and started
them toward Harrisburg. Others
are still seeking information.
When it became apparent that
there were some Republican leaders
for Senator William C. Sproul for
Governor the Executive Department
enlarged its activities and sent let
ters asking about the men under
discussion as timber for Congres
sional and Senatorial nominations.
The Interest of the Governor in the
Senatorial nominations was natural
as he will have quite a number of
appointments to send to the next
Senate for confirmation and if the
Senate is friendly to him the ap
pointees may not be held over until
the incoming Governor takes his
seat, as was done in the 6ase of men
by Governor Tener.
The Congressional selections will
be watched closely because of effect
on legislative contests and also with
an eye to the control of the Key
stone State delegation at Washing
ton.
—Northern tier congressional mat
ters are commencing to heat up, al
though the winter is one of the cold
est. Congressmen Clark, Kiess and
McFadden will all be candidates for
re-election. District Attorney Farr,
of Wyoming, is one of the men who
would like to succeed to the seat of
Mr. McFadden in the Fourteenth
district, while Col. H. M. Foote and
Walter Merrick are thinking about
contesting in the fifteenth. There
have been reports that A. H. Gaffney
of Kane, would enter the contest for
the seat which will be vacated be
cause Congressman C. H. Rowland
will not run again. Center may have
a candidate, too. Congressman K.
H. Beshlin, of Warren, will have to
iight again for the seat which he
won in the special election in No
vember and he may have opposition
in his own party. The Republicans
will have several candidates. In the
Erie district it is expected that Mr.
Clark will not have much trouble.
—Lebanon county's Democratic
committee has elected M. B. Maurer
a hatter of Lebanon city as chair
man to succeed A. I. Hartman,
whose service as chairman was re
warded with the Lebanon post
office. There will also be a division
chairman to elect, but that will be
put off until the time comes to
gather in the shekels.
—lt is expected that before Janu
ary ends there will be something
like one hundred deserving Demo
crats named to positions in the In
come tax service. They pay no tax
themselves and are selected as will
ed by local bosses. It Is said that
some have been well qualified to
serve through the barbering and
other businesses.
—All doubts about Senator Wil
liam C. Sproul becoming a candidate
for Governor were dispelled by his
statements at Pittsburgh last night
and people are now looking toward
Harrisburg for some statement by
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Nell. Whether Governor Brum
baugh will reply to Senator Sproul
seemed to interest many people to
day. The Governor is distinctly fav
orable to Mr. O'Neil and if the man
from McKeesport should announce
his candidacy, the Governor would
likely be prompt to endorse him.
—The Philadelphia Ledger in a
Pittsburgh dispatch says that the
Armstrong dinner was arranged for
a smoothing out of differences on a
state ticket and adds: "And it was
all done under the assumption, rath
er well founded, that the Vares
would endorse a ticket headed by
Sproul."
—Senator Penrose made a tart re-
Joinder to Governor Brumbaugh's
statement of Tuesday night. He de
clared that the Governor's endorse
ment of any candidate would be "a
heavy burden." The Senator also
said that the Governor was thor
oughly discredited and other things
which sound like the interchange of
statements in Harrisburg on the eve
of the election of the Speaker of the
last House of Representatives. The
Senator rather surprised many peo
ple by saying that he had not found
much sentiment in favor of the "dry"
amendment and that both the pro
hibition and suffrage amendments
were state questions.
—On the subject of the Governor
Senator Penrose said: "There is a
general demand that the next Gov
ernor be a competent man who un
derstands the needs of the state and
will introduce that economy and ef
ficiency in administering the affairs
of the state which has been entirely
absent under the administration of
Brumbaugh."
—Commissioner Daniel F. Lafean
savs that there is nothing doing in
the way of , congressional nomina-
I tions for him. t
Announcement that the Anti-
Saloon league would open its cam
paign in Central Pennsylvania in
behalf of the prohibition amend
ment at a meeting here on January
22 was made to-day by Dr. E. V.
Clavpool, the superintendent. The
speakers will include Governor Brum
baugh, Wayne B. Wheeler, Wash
ington, and ex-Representative C. F.
Swift, of Beaver. A series of other
meetings will be held In central
counties.
State Chairman B. E. P. Prugh, of
the Prohibition State Committee,
has announced that the Prohibition
state campaign will be launched at
a state convention in Pittsburgh on
February 12. "There la going to be
a very large attendanca," said he.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ADDED WEIGHT
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Has any retailer the legal right
or authority to charge consumers of
food products the added weight of
the retainers at the same price as
the commodity itself? It is said
that a store has a notice posted, stat
ing that the actual gross weight
would be the base for the charge
when goods were placed in wooden
containers. The habit of including
the weight of wrapping paper,
whether heavy or light, in moderate
or excessive quantity, has already
prevailed too long. This special
source of profits should not be toler
ated In this era of inflated values.
CONSUMER.
Jan. 8, 1918.
LABOR NOTES
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
now pays women who sort scrap Iron
22 cents an hour.
In the famous town of Coventry,
England, the 140,000 Inhabitants
now include 40,000 girl and women
workers.
The working classes in the cities
of Russia are earning enormous
wages, ranging from 600 to 1,000
per cent, over their earnings in nor
mal times.
In Germany, in certain industries
the proportion of total work done by
women has risen from slightly un
der 18 per cent. In 1914 to practi
cally 60 per cent, in 1917.
In England the number of textile
workers. shows a marked decrease.
DIVIDENDS NOT INCOME
The Supreme Court adopts the
homely analogy of Mr. Hughes in
his argument against the taxation of
a stock dividend as income. Mr.
Hughes said that the recapitalization
process was like changing a $2 bill
for two $1 bills. The property rep
resented was not changed by the
words on the bills. Justice Holmes'
way of stating the same thing is this:
"A stock dividend really takes
nothing from the property of the
corporation and adds nothing to the
interest of the shareholders. Its
property is not diminished and their
interests are not increased. In
short, the corporation is no poorer
and the stockholder is no richer than
they were before."
That is Important regarding the
tax payment, but Is more important
In other relations. Some $100,000,-
000 of capital Is freed from the tax,
but that concerns nobody with in
come below $20,000, the minimum
paying the tax. The broader appli
cation of the decision lies in its bear
ing upon prlcemaking. It ought to
end the notion held by many people
and some officials that printing
shares of stock gives power of ex
tortion to corporations.—New York
Times.
TIIE SERVICE FLAG
Border of red for a courage high—
Courage that's stanch and true.
With a field of white for purity,
Where the name-stars glimmer
blue—
Blue for the man who lives and
serves,
Where echo the fierce war cries,
But gold for the one who gives his
life
And dies as a hero die's.
In windows of shops whence the men
went out.
The signal is flung to fate.
In windows of homes whence the
sons went forth.
And the mothers who gave them
wait—
Sired of the nation's Stars and
Stripes,
It tells how a man may flght
And give his blood and his life, per
chance.
For the things that are true and
right.
Border of red for a courage high—
Courage that's sta,nch and true,
With a field of white for purify—
Where the name-stars glimmer
blue
God grant that our men come home
again
Out of war's furious hold:
God grant that the blue stars on the
_ flag
Change not to the stars of gold!
—By Sara Buaumont Kennedy.
What Is a Pro-German?
By Herbert Quick, United States Farm Loan Commissioner.
A 1 PRO-GERMAN is a man who, by
private or public utterances,
stands in the way of a whole
hearted prosecution of this war and
the defeat of the German will to con
quer.
He may do it by impracticable
peace arguments. He may do it
through a mistaken policy. ' He may
do it because he has been befooled
and bamboozled by those who are in
Germany's pay.
The German 'Will to expansion by
conquest must be broken by defeat.
If that rapacious will be not broken,
the war will not give us peace. In
all the history of the world there
never existed a conquering nation
less fit to rule others than are the
Germans. This is true because the Ger
man policy is so brutal, so cruel, so
scientifically exterminating. In the
streets of every town in German Po
land children are falling and dying
of starvation. Children S to 12 years
of age are being carried through the
streets by their parents because they
are too weak to walk—because of
starvation. The Poles are being ex
terminated as fast as possible by the
Germans just as the Armenians—the
oldest Christian nation in the world
—are being exterminated by the Ger
mans and Turks. Why? Because
Germany wants' the property of the
Poles for Germans after the war;
and because they want the property
of the Armenians for the Turks and
Germans after the war.
Their will can and must be broken
by defeat. It is not the will of the
individual German. It is the bloody,
brutal, cruel, devilish will of the Ger
man government and the German rul
ing clasS, miseducated in the school
which believes that war is the sum
mation of human good.
A pro-German is anyone who
stands in the way of our successful
prosecution of the war. Every word
that falls from the tongue of any
American or is written by him car
ried with it a responsibility greater
than ever existed in the hißtory of
this nation. Look well to what you
say or do. .%
Germany has in this country hun
dreds of papers printed in the Ger
man tongue. Whether this ought to
be or not is a grave question. If
any of these papers are loyal, I do
not know of them. Some of them
may be, but I have not heard of them.
These and other papers and many
individuals say they are for Amer
ica, but none of them say they are
against Germany.
ENGLAND ON RATIONS
(Kansas City Times)
Some persons think they are aslcod
to be really self-sacrificing when
they are called on to observe one
wheatless day a week, one meatless
day, one porkless day, and to save |
fats and sugar. And yet they have
plenty to eat. The observance ofj
the suggestions of the Food Ad-1
ministration is merely a matter of
bookkeeping, of buying this thing
instead of that.
Oatmeal bread and corn bread are
Just as good as wheat bread, and as
nourishing. Fish offers a substitute
for meat, and so does skim milk, for
that matter. Molasses and honey
can be substituted for sugar, and if
a person is famishing for candy she
can fall back on molasses taffy.
But now England is going on ra
tions—not a simple little game of
substitution like ours, but real ra
tions. So much of this, so much of
that, can be bad per person, and no
more America is in the same boat
with England. But America hasn't
yet begun to feel the pinch.
Under the circumstances the Am
erican who refuses to live up to the
requests of the Food Administration
is a slacker and a cad.
According to Thy Way 0
And mine eye shall not spare,
neither will I have pity; I will re
compense thee according to thy
ways and thine abominations that
are In the midst of thee; and ye
shall know that I am the Lord that
smiteth. —Ezekiel, vtl, 9.
He who is for us is against Ger
many. He who is not against Ger
many, tooth and nail, in this war is
not for America.
You can tell the pro-German by
another test; If he is against France,
or against Italy, or against Russia,
he Is pro-German.
The armies and navies of these
powers are fighting our fight. They
are dying by thousands every day to
make the world safe for democracy.
If we win, we must win because they
do most of the fighting and dying,
while we only do some of it.
The enemy of Great Britain is pro-
German.
The enemy of Russia is pro-German
and antidemocratic.
The enemy of Italy is against
America.
The enemy of France is lost to
every claim of patriotism.
Do not let these pro-Germans poi
son the atmosphere in your locality
by slandering our allies without chal
lenge. It is time to call down the
man who fights against our armies
with tongue or pen, no matter what
those armies are fighting under.
Words are things. In such a crisis
they are dreadful things, portentous
things, things which cannot be al
lowed to pass as of no account.
Germany is penetrating every coun
try of the world with her hired spies
and traitors. She disorganized the
Russian Army through traitors after
the revolution. She know the plan
of Russian battle beforehand through
traitors. She has filled this country
with spies and traitors. She has
financed the I. W. W., without a
doubt. She has destroyed property
and debauched our citizens.
Is there any American who does
not long for peace? Not one! Neither
is there a Briton or Frenchman or
Italian or Russian. But it must not
be a German peace, leaving the great
spider in the center of hip web wait
ing for another chance. It must be
a real peace. It must be made with
the German people or with a ruined
Hohenzollern—one or the other. Hut
he who talks peace as if he only
longs for it, as if he only were com
missioned to make peace, must want
a different sort of peace from the
scrt we must have. Distrust him. He
may be sincere, but he may not be.
The world has In the past been con
quered by traitors—oftener than It
Mexican people fought each other
into slavery to Spain. Let us not
was ever conquered by arms. The
b e bought by German gold Into slav
ery to Germany.
NONE GENUINE, UNLESS—
"The report that the next Issue of
Liberty Bonds will bo $8,000,000,000
at four and one-half per cent, and
on March 16, 1918, is wholly un
founded," says Secretary McAdoo.
"When a decision has been reached
about the next Liberty loan it will
be officially announced."
The Government is embarrassed
by the dissemination of unauthoriz
ed information in reference to the
next issue of popular war bonds. It
asks the public not to accept any
statement in relation to such an is
sue as authentic unless it is made
officially.
It will be readily perceived that
the dates and amounts of future
Liberty Bond issues have an impor
tant influence on other financing,
private and public. The Govern
ment has sought in the past, and
will continue to seek, to make its
appeals for war funds at such times
as least to interfere with other le
gitimate .financial and business ac
tivities. It is, therefore, important
from the standpoint both of the
Government and of other private
and public enterprises not to have
false reports circulated relative to
future Liberty loans. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
He'd Better Say It
(From the Ohio State Journal)
Tlie latest kind of war soup with
which we have had anything to do
personally is made x>f one potato,
one onion, one pinch of salt and a
vaat volume of water, but under
such circumstances a man who tries
to be pleasant and cheerful around
the house can always say: Well, this
is rood and hot
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Otfer the,
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A prize porker from the George J.
Leyner ranch in Perry Park brought
more than a dollar for each of its
133 pounds when auctioned off for
the Red Cross during the recent
Christmas membership drive in Lit
tleton. Littleton was alloted S4OO to
raise by its drive. The village raised
S6OO, the surplus being largely
brought in by the patriotic pig.
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Kutztown.—A significant feature
of the coal shortage in this borough
is the step taken by local dealers
in refusing coal to farmers. Even
those asking for but 300 to 400
pounds of fuel are turned away.
The position taken by the dealers
is that there is plenty of wood avail
able in the rural districts; therefore
they must supply coal to the town
folks who cannot get wood.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
UNDERSEA HUMOR.
"Our new baby weighs two
pounds."
"How did you weigh him?"
"On my scales!"
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HORRORS.
Bug—Run for your life. It's one of
hose insect-eating hedgehogs.
REVERSAL OF MENU.
Hungry Man —What's on the
nenu.
Walter —Well, ft few articles of
food are mentioned. But most of
the space is taken up with govern
ment Instructions on what not to
tat.
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PATRIOTIC.
"Is your wife conserving food?"
"I should say. so. You could feed
a regiment on the food she isn't let
ting me have."
lEbntituj (ttljat
Some of the big truck trains that
are moving: across Pennsylvania
from the motor vehicle manufactur
ing centers to the seaboard can be
routed so that they will pass
through Harrlsburg. There are
scores of trucks now on thu move
through Pennsylvania, part of a
formidable army of transportation
men who are to form cogs In the
great military machine to down the
Kaiser. They enter this State above
Pittsburgh and proceed over the
Lincoln highway to Chambersburg
where they are diverted to the vari
ous points on the seaboard where
they are wanted. Some find their
way to cantonments and Some to
supply centers. Word came to this
city a few days ago that another
big squadron of trucks was about to
start. It is said that on one day
twelve trains of thirty trucks eacil
started for the seaboard, all pass
ing through Pennsylvania. These
trains are manned by sixty men
each and are loaded with militarv
stores, including parts of trucks
themselves. They serve a triple
purpose in their trip. They relievo
congestion by hauling some freight,
give chance to get into running
order or be broken in, as tho
phrase goes, and they give the men
in charge practice in moving in com
panies. What is more they are a
visible part of what this nation is
doing to build a great war machine
and the very appearance of the
great dun-colored wagons is some
thing to thrill the man or woman
who sees them go by. And that is
why some people thinK that truck
trains should be routed through
Marrisburg. Highway Commissioner
J. Denny O'Neil, whose work to
keep the roads open for this truck
traffic, has been officially com
mended from Washington, said yes
terday "There is no reason why
some of these truck trains could not
be routed through Harrlsburg. If
your Chamber of Commerce gets
busy I think that you can see somo
of these trains passing through
your city on the way to the coast.
I can tell you it is a great sight,
these long trains of trucks, going
day and night, all forming part of
the supply system of a great army."
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Who killed the wild cat in Dau
phin county? The records of the
State Game Commission show that
one wild cat was killed in this coun
ty last year, but the name of the
man who has the honor is not given
out. And it is interesting to note
that sixty-one gray foxes and twelve
of the red variety were killed in this
county. Big Chief of the Pelts
Cleary, of the Game Commission,
says that there are numerous gray
foxes all through this country. They
are chiefly in the sections close to
the farming country and are a nuis
ance to the farmers. But few peo
ple would imagine that sixty-one
would be killed in this county.
The Harrisburg Reserves, who
will resume drills after the holidays
and the coal shortage, will under
take training in guard duty. The
drills will be held by the two com
panies drilling Tuesdays and Fri
day nights at the same time instead
of an hour apart. This will be done
so that they can get the advantage
of training by platoons of a slzo
more nearly approximating those
in the regular service. .
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Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary of
the State Game Commission, will be
the speaker at the January meeting
of the Harrisburg Natural History
Society meeting at Technical High
School to-night. Dr. Kalbfus will
talk on "American frontier days be
tween 1869 and 1875. "It is not
generally known that the state game
protector was a frontier man and
hui>ted all through the Colorado
section and beyond in those lively
days. And it may be added that he
was known as "Antelope Joe." The
lecture should be one worth hear
ing.
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Captain William A. Moore, sur
veyor of the State Department of
Internal Affairs, detailed by Secre
tary Horck to make an investigation
of the lines about Hog Island in the
Delaware which are in dispute, is
home after some interesting experi
ences along the river in winter time.
When Captain Moore reached the
Delaware there was a mild spell and
in going along the shore he went
into mud up to his shoe tops. The
next day he went out in a boat to
determine some lines and when the
day's work ended he had to break
a passageway for the boat to the
shore. Next day the boat was frozen
in. The idea is to determine the
lines as soon as possible so that any
questions about ownership of places
where ships are to be built will be
cleared up.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Thomas Robins, who was Col
onel Roosevelt's host in Philadelphia
on Wednesday, was one of the
prominent men in the Progressive
party.
—Judge Laird H. Barber, who
has been creating terror by revoking
licenses in Carbon county, has been
on the bench just two years and
has visited every part of the county
to observe conditions.
—The Rev. John Baer Stout, the
first president of the Pennsylvania
Huguenot Society, is a minister in
Northampton county.
—Frank W. McAdam, new Are
chief of Lebanon, has been a fireman
most of his life. He is head of the
hook and ladder company.
—Allen P. Perley, prominent
Willlamsport man and well known
here, has been made treasurer of
the Willlamsport Red Cross.
1 DO YOU KNOW ~
—That ITarrishurg In spite of
its coal shortage lias not Ix-eu
as hard hit as some cities closer
to the coal fields?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Juniata valley grain used to bo
floated to this city on flats as lato
as 1845.
THE INCOME TAX DELAY
It is said that the blanks neces
sary for making income tax returns
will be ready "next week." Half of
the first month of the period for
making the returns will have passed
by then before a single return is
made, and the period was none too
long at best. Millions of tax money
is tied up until this uncertainty is
past, and the labors oT taxpayers and
taxcollectors are Increased in inten
sity. None of the various explana
tions are convincing.
It is said that the blanks were pre
pared, and were recalled to correct
errors, and that the work Is all to be
done over again. The suggestion that
,the errors were in tMfc blanks Is less
likely than that they were In the law.
Daily Interpretations are announced
for which there is no basis in the
words of the statute, but without
which the law could neither be
worked nor commend ltaelf to the
taxpayers.—N. T, XUbm.