10 HARRISBUKG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELTXILLAPII PRINTING CO., Tcltcrap'a Bulldlns, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE./Vw'f <S- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Manjfin* Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en tltlert to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. - Member American Newspaper Pub lishers" Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & r Finley, Fifth Avenue P.uildl^ng, _ OYilll. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. CxT"V~i. By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mail. J'.OO a year in advance. THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918 To be everywhere and everything in sympathy, and yet content to re main where and what you are—is not this to know both wisdom and ] virtue and to dwell with happiness —R. L. STEVENSON. PROPHETIC? WAS it a prophetic vision Mc- Cauley had when he drew the cartoon which appeared in yesterday's Telegraph? You noticed it, of course; a strik- i inf sequel to the famous cartoon in Punch of when the Kaiser - dropped his pilot, Bismarck, and himself took over the captaincy of the German ship of state. You also have noted, no doubt, the almost total absence of the Kaiser from the news these past few I weeks. He has ceased to talk. He <s no longer the subject of discus sion. He is not just now assuming responsibility for Germany in the. war. In short, he has slunk quiet- ! lv out of the limelight. Does this indicate that he is try-' ing to shift his burden to other j shoulders? Does it mean that he is fearsome that the aroused Ger- I wan people will "drop their pilot?" j Certainly it is not like Emperor William or his upstart son to avoid t publicity for so long a period. President Edwin S. Herman and his far-seeing colleagues of the City Planning Commission are doing the wise and constructive thing in pre- ! paring now for the rapid real estate ! development that is certain to follow ! the conclusion of the war. No pre liminary work of this kind should be neglected. Maps and profiles and j grades ought to be on file ready fori the next big step forward when the horn blows. OUR SECRET SERVICE SCORE another to the credit of the United States secret serv ice. Publication of the corre spondence between Count Yon Bern storff and former Premier Caillaux, j not only brands Caillaux as the Benedict Arnold of France, but is another startling revelation of the vast knowledge the United States government has. and has had. of the insidious plotting and treacherous methods of the German military : ring. Just how many more revelations of the kind are to come probably no body but President Wilson and Sec retary of State Lansing know, but it is certain that they will be given to the public Pt times calculated to do the most injury to Germany and the most good to the allied cause. Ev ery time Germany assumes her favorite role of the snowy lambkin the President lets loose another shower of soot and the public sees her for the very black sheep she is. The effect is to keep the enemy con stantly in a state of "nerves" and to discourage any more traitorous deal ings. If you haven't yet determined In your own mind whether it's the eighth, ninth or tenth floor of the Penn-Harris Hotel that is now under construction, take it from President Wallower, who knows how many bricks and stone's and nails will go into the big building, that there are still two floors and the roof to con struct It's going to be a regular hotel, and one that will be a credit to the greater Harrisburg. More power to the contractors and their plucky force. THE PRESIDENT FIRST GRADUALLY it is dawning upon the diplomats of England and France that President Wilson' 3 treatment of the Bolsheviki and their peace aims was wise and far seeing. The President first of all the statesmen of the world recognized the fact that Trotzky's propaganda would be a powerful instrument I with which to discredit the German I government at home, if properly I used. No doubt now exists that his generous reference to Russia, her I trials and the sincerity of those who are trying to build a new govern- I nient on the ruins of the old was B framed for the express purpose of Ttrengthening Trotzky's skillful of- .. s . THURSDAY EYEXIN& [ tensive against German militarism, I which may yet do far more toward | bringing the war to an end desired by the allies than all the fighting that lias ber.n done on sea or land j up to this time. The President has not only dis | played keen vision, in divining the true state of affairs between Ger many and Russia, but statecraft of the first order in his handling of the situation. WE MUST COMPLY ADMINISTRATOR GARFIELD'S astounding order restricting in- J dustry in the interest of an increased : coal supply comes too suddenly and' has too many ramifications to per- ; mit of a hasty analysis. We are too | close to it to get a true perspective, j This much is certain, however, that business will receive a serious set-, - back thereby and wage earners, it would seem, will be hit to the tune, of millions of dollars a day. Never-; theless, the new regulations must be obeved, and obeved without quibble I or attempt to sidestep their provis iens. We may ask ourselves how work men are to purchase the coal that is to be provided by the shutdown if they lack the funds, and with prices | | ar high as they now are mar gin between living expenses and in come is in the average family so; small that five days of idleness will leave thousands upon thousands with empty pocketbooks. We may fall to understand many of the ap parent inconsistencies of the order. We may not agree that it will work [ out as well as the administration hopes. But whatever our own pri vate opinions or conclusions, we must accept the order at its face value and "see it through," con-, fronting whatever hardships are to be entailed with as good a grace a.* our individual dispositions will per-! mit. Unquestionably, we are suffering from governmental stupidity of years standing which has resulted in star-1 vation of the railroads, but that is neither here nor there. The govern ment has invoked the power of the j most drastic of its war measures and , Dr. Garfield is backed by Congres sional endorsement and the approval of the President. We have nothing to do but comply, with the hore that future interpretations may some what lessen the force pf the ruling. That was a stiff body-blow the Harrisburg Clearing House officials | gave the pro-German gents who ; started the fool story that the Gov- ; ernment would grab all bank de- 1 posits. Somebody in authority should : set apart a day for ridding the coun try of the snakes in the grass. THE PENNSYLVANIA PLAN ONCE more the Pennsylvania: plan of defense is being j praised as the best in concep tion and superior to others in re sults. When hostilities broke out and the National Guardsmen were summoned to the colors, the War Department urged the formation of new militia organizations, home de- j fense units and similar bodies. The men of every State responded. And the government had no guns, no ammunition, no bayonets, not even a hat to give them. This State Capitol was asked to ; hurry up the formation of a militia to replace the trained men who had just come back from the border and were ready to go to France or any where else. So the late Adjutant General Stewart sat down ar.U evolved a plan. The legislature passed the bill authorizing the for mation of the Reserve Militia of Pennsylvania. Then the same legis lature made an appropriation of sufficient size to provide the equip ment. While other states were bom barding Washington with appeals for equipment Pennsylvania's offi cials placed contracts and paid cash. Some of the materials are in Har risburg, some are on the way; the whole outfit required is in hand. 1 1 Now the governor is naming the offi-j cers for the Reserve Militia, recruit l ! are being asked, medical examina tions held and experienced officers forming units. And when they are 1 ready the guns, the uniforms, the canteens, the mess kits and every-! thing will be ready, all paid for by the State of Pennsylvania. It is small wonder that the army officers are showing such a big in j terest in our new Reserve Militia and ! commending the men who planned \ |it and the legislators who voted j I the money. This State preferred to ' do things in its own way and with-' out being aided by the federal gov-1 ' ernment emulates the example of Curtin and the Pennsylvania Re serves, placing a trained force with in its borders for defense and to back up the government with that rpirit which animates every Penn sylvanian. Placing some of the overhead wires under ground this year may be in terfered with by your Uncle Samuel commandeering the big cables or- dcred for Harrisburg, but the poles In the central business district have not lone to stay. All the huge masts on both sides of Walnut street and In Third street arc marked to so. Ross A. Hickok has had SOME job wished on him as Fuel Administrator, but he could make the game popula. by starting a little train movement of his own in this neighborhood and releasing cars now loatliiK on sidings and full of coal that Is needed right here. Cut the red tape. Major Augustus Peabody Gardner will live long: in the memories of pa triotic Americans. Pity 'tis that there were not more like him at Washing ton in the early days of our national preparation for war. folltlct U Ry the Kx-Conmiittocmaii Some idea of the fraternal feel ing that prevails among the Demo crats of Pennsylvania is given by the Bellefonte Democratic Watchman, one of the newspapers that has been Democratic in season and out and that is looked up to by readers in many parts of the state. The \\ atchman has seen in the distance some signs of a party disturbance and issues a warning as well as com ment. Discussing the recent move of the Harrisburg Democratic association in calling for a restoration of the old-time "unbossed" Democratic state convention it styles it "a de mand." And it commends the idea of a general discussion of party af fairs, the formulating of a platform in open meeting and discussion of merits of candidates in advance of the primary, which is the very last tiling that the ruling class of the autocracy styling itself the Pennsyl vania Democracy wants In this year. The Watchman shouts this abroad: "Party conventions are not only use ful but essential for the purposes ex pressed by the Harrisburg associa tion and they are equally valuable as a medium of developing party leaders. Since the abandonment of party conventions there has been no way of getting acquainted with local party workers. Under the conven tion system nearly every year de veloped some talented young man who was encouraged into political activity by the older party managers and thus new blood was supplied to the organization and new zest given to the labor of promulgating party principles and promoting party suc cess. For five years a bunch of of fice holders, assembled in a distant city, have monopolized party man agement." —Still further evidence of the big factional tight brewing in the State Democracy was furnished to-day by the Philadelphia Record, the big Democratic organ of the state, which while taking much pleasure in the Republican family differences finds time to note trouble in its own party. Some days ago the Pittsburgh Post had an article which called upon Democrats to present a united front and other Democratic papers show that their heads are out of the sand and that they see a factional fight looming up. —The Record's article is rather startling in the way it presents the attitude of the Democratic bosses. It says: "Bitter factional troubles are again threatened in Democratic ranks in the Berks-Lehigh Congress ional district, the Democratic strong hold of the state, as the result of an attempt by A. Mitchell Palmer, Dem ocratic national committeeman from Pennsylvania, to dictate the nomina tion of a Congressional candidate. Palmer and his friends, according to information received from Wash ington. have slated William M. Croll, of Reading, na. 1 officer of the port here. As, soon . s the news of the Washington conference leaked out, Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt, of Allentown, announced his candidacy for a renomination. Dewalt claims that he did so at the signed request of 600 of his Berks county constitu ents. To further add to the complica tions, Charles B. Spatz,.the Bover town editor, who has had the Con gressional bee for many years, an nounces that he is a candidate and is in the field to stay. Dewalt defeated Congressman Rothermel, of Read ing, four years ago. although Rother mel at that time had the active sup port of Palmer." —While Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil was here last night in consultation with Governor Brum baugh and Attorney General Brown regarding his ambition to succeed the Governor, Senator William C. Sproul was making statements at Philadelphia indicative of his de sire to be a harmony candidate against jvhom no stones can be thrown. ' The Governor is opposed to Sproul, but the Senator hopes to win him. Senator Sproul came as near to announcing that he is a can didate as he could without a for mal statement. "I am the candidate ot no faction' 1 was the way he put it He said he is about to tour the state. Mr. O'Neil is to be guest of honor at a big dinner in Pittsburgh next week and will likely make an announcement then. —To add to the joys of the time a conference of men from northeast ern counties friendly to the state administration such as C. D. Cough lin and L. R. Holcomb, of Luzerne, and George W. Maxey, of Scranton, held a meeting last night at Wilkes- Rarre and launched a boom for Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commission. Mr. Ainey is in Pittsburgh and his views hpve not been announced. Under the law he cannot be a candidate for any romination and be a commis sioner. so unless he is an out and out candidate he will not say much. —The Ainey conference stirred up friends of Congressman L. T. Me- Fadden, of Bradford; Col. H. C. Trexler, of Lehigh, and Col. I. A. Watres, of Scranton. and to-day from messages coming here it looks as though more favorite sons would come in. The Watres boomers plan to have a meeting next week. —Considerable comment was evoked about the Capitol to-day at the ardent press agenting being done for Highway Commissioner O'Neil by the McCormlck newspapers. Some of the administration men were in clined to be critical as one day the Governor is slammed and the next day O'Neil boomed. To-morrow it may be Commissioner Ainey's turn. Support from such a quarter is rath er indicative of Democratic hopes. —ln view of the apparent inten tion of Messrs. Sproul and O'Neil to run, which means a fight, harmony advocates have been getting very busy and the name of George E. Alter, former Speaker, who is a local optionist and Identified with neither side, is being mentioned as one be hind whom all can line up and be sure of a square deal. —The appointment of Richard V. Farley, the former Democratic Sen ator from Philadelphia, to a place on HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH! AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN-? .... .... WHST,J rou AM APPOIMTMEMT I AMD DlDkl'T MtET Voo R -Am D Vou BF TIOFD I77rT™ To Neer A CjrRT.N Youk* law. E„ SASe „ eNT uVni _ 3 . ;50 hS/we",,'™" Aw d T.r*f? BETwJeENI TvUC AMD AMD THE AFoRCSAID WERE WJORRtED HALF SICK &^ D A ? u T „T Re & lrpv wmm ' t 5r. 8 r A :j ß^s" - AwO waited amd WJAITED A AND waited - hb***H.C s e T her conwT Toward "G^^VJTAPO^G.^S GET iinlG AMD Yov amc EVER'THiNS — AT 5 O'CLOCK HAD ABOUT Xg. OH -„_ H . got.® DECIDED TO GO \WMCTW - Aiw-T rr A the State Industrial Hoard made some of the Democrats writhe last night. Farley was one of the worst critics of the ruling class of the Democracy in 1914. —lnsurance Commissioner Ambler j appears to have put a personal friend ■ into the Montgomery treasurership. ■ John H. Hex, named by the Governor j yesterday, is a former legislator and: aligned with the Ambler faction in | that county. —Ex-State Treasurer John O. | Sheatz. of Germantown, is being ; boomed by a group of llarrisburgj residents for the nomination for I Leiutenant Governor," says the] Philadelphia Record. "Letters urging ; support for Sheatz and for the can- ! dldacy of State Highway Commis ioner J. Denny O'Neil, were received ' yesterday by State Senator Edwin li. j Vare. O'Neil seems to huve a well- j organized letter-writing campaign j under way." BILLY SUNDAY ISMS "It was greed and avarice that j caused the war, and greed and avar- i ice came right out of the pit of dam nation. Look at Germany when she ! stole Schleswig-Holstein from Den- j mark. What did she do to France— I took Alsace-Lorraine because she | needed the iron mines for her army, I and then forced France to pay an in- j demnity of a billion dollars—that's < what, it was pure greed—human j greed and avarice. "Oh! I'm an old-fashioned preach- . er of the old-time religion that has 1 warmed the cold heart of the world for the past 2,000 years, and has j made life worth living in this sin- j swept world of ours. "If I could tear from the hearts of ; men those two evils—human greed ; and avarice, you might as well bank the fires down below and rent Hell. "I'll tell you what's the matter. | It's the way we raise our boys. It's i the mode of life we live. It's the in creasing demand of the public for' amusement; it's the untrained ohil- j dren. What we need is more evan- ■ gelism—and a rebuilding of the fam- ' ily order." I have stopped trying to please i everybody—Jesus couldn't do it, and | I know well enough I can't. I am trying to make it easier for you to go to Heaven and harder for you to go to Hell. The only use they have for gold in Heaven is to pave the streets with. The most priceless thing on earth in the sight of God is a penitential tear. If all the tombstones on the face of the earth told the truth there wouldn't be anybody in Hell. Enthusiasm for Jesus Christ is like measles or smallpox—it's catching. There is no place for a loafer be neath the Stars and Stripes in these days—for every man on the firing line it takes ten at home to keep him there. Germany's international piracy is'n't new—old Bismarck started it. Of the 19,000,000,000 tons of iron and steel required annually by the German war machine 7,000,000,000 tons of it come from Alsace-Lorraine. That is the reason she stole those provinces. The Kaiser and the German mili tarists lie so much they make old Ananias look like a Sunday school superintendent. The principles of democracy are in direct antagonism to the principles of Prussian aristocracy which has the audacity to lie to God and say that they are in the divine partnership. . VINDICATING CRITICS We are paying on the Texas bor | tier now for the folly of not having settled the Mexican situation two or three years ago when our hands were free, or for ever having allowed it to develop. There has been some growth of wisdom at Washington, however. American cavalry now forget the boundary and pursue Mexican ban dits well across their own side of the line. And the judgment of those who urged this course three years and more ago Is fully borne out. The same Mexican government which at tacked some of Pershing's men at Carrizal now offers to co-operate in catching the bandits. It makes a lot of difference whether the men in control at Mexico City know that the United States Government is reso lute and determined or whether It is conducting diplomacy under the pa cifist delusion that any display of strength means "war."—Ltuualo Ex press. Answering the Wise Guy AVilliam Sloven* McNutt in Colllcr'n Wffkl.T. YOU'KE not setting paid for t this, you know," sneers the | Wise Guy to the War Worker, j to the Home Defense man, the nurse, j and the knitter, to the woman who' waits for a son in arms, and the : boy in uniform training to meet his moment in this crucial hour of time, when man is proving himself lord of the beast. "What do you want to go out of your way to be patriotic for? Why risk your life or lend your money or give your time? You re not getting paid for it, and only a; fool gives for nothing." * * The War Worker, man or woman,' soldier or civilian, on or behind the battle lines, has been too busy giv ing to think of service in terms of reward. • • • We went into this war after en during for nearly three years a verbal bombardment descriptive of its horrors and the staggering cost in lives and money of our possible participation. In spite of the long continued drum lire of warning! words—most of it as German in its l origin as poison gas—we .went over 1 the top with Conscience, andwe're in the thing to the finish. We didn't get into it for land or money, glory or power. But we're going to get something out of it, Mr. Wise Guy. We're going to be paid, and paid well; paid as individuals and as a! Nation; paid in the most genuine coin that's been in common olrcu-; lation in this country for some con siderable time. • I asked Secretary Lane for a gen eral summary of the good things we may expect to gain from our effort. "More than ever a realization of what democracy is," he said emph.it-; ieally. "We arc beginning to give definite purpose to things that we have hitherto only talked about nn the Fourth of July. There will be many by-products of this war, and I WOOD AS A FUEL Present conditions offer unusual opportunities to many of the 80,000 to 100,000 farm woodlot owners of Pennsylvania to sell cordwood, in the opinion of C. R. Anderson, of the forestry department of the Pennsyl vania State College. The scarcity of coal and its present cost favor theso farmers. Indications are that conditions will not grow much better during the winter. A heavy demand for lumber, ties, and forest products for the mines, coupled with our present fuel situa tion. can be used to advantage by many wood owners. The demand and the situation may make it pos sible to market any and all mate rial, while in the past some mate rial had to remain unsold owin-i to a poor market. Farmers *having cordwood for sale should look into the marketing possibilities soon, if they have not already done so, in order that they may have some time for work be fore the usual spring work begins. Inquiry among village or town friends and acquaintances will fre quently bring all the orders the farmer can till in the time he lias remaining from his other work. Those who wish to sell larger amounts may find it wise to adver i tise their woofl in local newspapers. Those who do not wish to do a re tail business may tind good buyers in their local coal dealers. SAVING CREDIT In its New Year's appeal to the people to practice economy, the Fed eral Reserve Board said: "Nobody should draw upon the credit re sources of the country, except to finance transactions which are es , sential for a nation at war. Credit i should be saved as much as goods. I Conservation bf credit as regards \ nonessential enterprises is necessary : in order to provide, without undue expansion, the credit required by . the Government and by business es . sential to the success of the war and I the well-being of the country." One would think that the saving ! of credit would be more or less auto matically carried on. As economy I increases, buying is reduced more j and more to necessities and the credit operations of those manufac | turing nonessentials and of those dealing in them automatically are reduced. The man who makes or deals in nonessentials certainly Is not likely to borrow money mere ly for the sake of borrowing.—Buf talo Express. | they will all react for the health of | the Nation, physically, socially, coni l mercially and morally. "We regard a man now as greater i for what he gives than for what he has. Every one of the 10 million | people who have bought Liberty lionds is using his or her money for the prosecution of the war, which is. in its ultimate purpose, equivalent to a religious crusade. Its purpose is to free the world from rear, as well as that can be done, and elevate man to a realization of his own no bility." "Bunk!" sneers the Wise Guy. "A lot of line words. Can't eat words, can you?" No. Mr. Wise Guy. You can't cat fine word 3, and you can't digest love. Neither can you fry it in a .skillet, nor pick it up and find out how much it weighs. Yet love has a rea sonably well-founded reputation as the greatest thing in the world; and words that are tine because they are expressive of genuine sentiments may be worth more than a cut of steak. Wo are achieving a greater perfec tion of democracy, Mr. Wise Guy. That's the payment. Throughout history brave men have died by the million to gain it. More than a million of American men in service! Probably other mil lions soon! The proud men who of fer all! To those who give tha most, the most must be given. Everything but the carrion food of the Wise Guy is yours for the win ning, you men in uniforms. A man's full courage and strength are ,- our common portion. To you it is given to damn fear and win love; the love for and of this country that is be come to you as intimate a personal possession as a member of your own family. The tear you conquer is j man's greatest enemy, and the love you win his greatest reward. Yours I is the kingdom! PA TIM OTIC PA Y ENVELOPE The income tax adds yearly to the! people It directly reaches. For 1915 | three hundred thirty-six thousand j persons made returns of income' ranging upwatri from $3,000 a year, j For 1916 the number was 428,000.' If the increase is proportionately as: great in 1917 the number will this; year be 545,000. As the exemption from income! tax has been materially reduced, the: number of returns this year will run ; well into the millions. The persons who for the lirst time become sub-, ject to the tax may number six mil- | lion or more. When the totals are; added up these new payers of in- j come tax together with the persons, who have paid in earlier years may. have twelve billion dollars of net income to report. With the net in-! come of corporations this year DOS- I sibly in the neighborhood of four-i teen billion, and reckoning to be! made for at least thirty million per- j sons who are gainfully occupied and' not subject to income tax, the 1 figures \\ould seem to indicate some- I thing like thirty-five billion dol-1 lars ao the net income of the people! of the United States in 1917—the] sum ou.' of which they meet their household expenses, provide their raiment, buy their luxuries, make contributions to charity, and put by their savings.—The Nation's Busi ness. LABOR NOTES American women are actually handling, or being trained to handle, what were formerly considered tasks exclusively for males in a long list of industries in every section of the country. Peoria (111.) Journeymen Plaster ers' Union has served notice on the contractors that on and after March 1 the scale will be $7 per day for eight hours, with Saturday half holi day. The present wage is $6 per day. In England to-day there are about 1.25 C.OOO women who have under taken work formerly done almost wholly by men, raising their em ployment total from about 3,282,000 to 4,538,000. This total employ ment, the report says, does not in clude domestic servants, women in small shops or on farms or nurses in military, naval or Red Cross hos pitals. In. the last three years file num ber of women employed In the Ger man metal trade has increased 32a I per cent. TANUARY 17. 191& Otter tfa I}t ""peruuu V , Come on now. you hog- raisers and see who can beat this. Jacob Jones, near Startown, on the Leltersburg pike, has just killed his pet hog and it netted him 800 pounds. Jones "allowed" that the hog could have been fatter by 200 pounds, but it was feared he might get tired of life. There was enough lard in him to run the American Army a day or sb. Did you ever meditate on the la bors of a mail carrier? Out in Indi ana, Pa., lives George M. Allison, who entered the service twenty years ago and in that time estimates that he walked 68,640 miles, carrying 312 tons of mail. * * . * Hazing should be rooted out everywhere as it. was at Annapolis. In Hagerstown the other day Harlan 11. Rowe, 21 years ol:>, a student at Gettjsburp, died as the lesult of :i hazing adr.-ini-.lered to him last fall. I('.' was ttudying to De j. minister. * • • The pro-German gets short shrift in New England. Other day one named Maximilian von Hoegan wrote across his questionnaire in New Haven: "Deutschland Über Alles" and also interpolated in the text that he hoped Germany would win the war. When they got through with Max that evening he was too. bruised and weak to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" but he made the motions. I OUR DAILY LAUGH MANY HOMES. Where have you been. dfi' v*v /Ci Back in the Jr / country to visit Vv A my old home. Ever visit your old home? ' SI My dear , v ' f chap, I was ' jKU raised in a WB series of city 1 remember half 1 the places I x ; w£- HER PREDTO- j He: When in doubt play a T ■|J| She: The trou- OP<y—, *"7 02 ble is, I'm in doubt most of J- the time. And C~I seldom get —_ more than four < or five trumps. HIS ALIBI. Well, my chil- < drea can't /"[ \\) > blame ;ne if I don't leave ■ them a fortune. No, all they've pRv- got to do is to | look back and —. j ree the prices I j had to pay for /yI 1 food and cloth- ■ THE INIQUI @TOUS COL LEGE. | fife Pa—Rudolph X>®si -writes' that he \L V\~yj has learned to , Play a guitar, that's enough to ■ ruin any young pose next thing \\\ we kn °w he'll 1 \ bo wearlr >£ his \ \ \VT\ I handkerchief up bia fctottag Otyat| All the optimists are not dead. No indoed, there are even those who believe that there will come an end to winter and that spring is not so tar oit that it is not worth thinking about and planning for. For ex ample, after the meeting of the Ko tary club at the Y. M. C. A. tlje other evening a little party of mem bers boon companions of many a. former fishing trip got together and arranged to go out for sucker-, a* the very first opportunity. VOM they did, and they were just as et> thusiastic about it as though th date had already been set. Hut that's nothing to compare to tho faith of a well-known Harrisburg fisherman who has been carefully nurturing a fine largo colony of earthworms, commonly known ua fishing bait, all through the win ter in a corner of his cellar, lie has tliem in a big, deep box well filled with earth which ho keeps damp ened and ho feeds them a combina tion of cornmeal and coffee grounds, why the coffee grounds nobody knows. They are said to be thriv ing well on the diet and under the •aro of the fisherman they will be In fine form for the lirst day warm enough for a ilshing expedition. • • Dr. F. E. Downes, superintendent of the city schools, says that the -;veatost supporters of the Thrift 'tamp campaign will be pupils ot the city schools. The supcrintcit lent has given much thought, lots of time and considerable labor to ieveloping the school savings sys tem. "The youngsters save," said lie in talking about it. "They bring in pennies and nickels and hand them to the teachers on the days that the banking business is done and often they walk in with money out of the time to give to the teach ers to take care of. And when you consider the candy stores and places where children can buy and the way they pass them by to save it strikes me they are setting some examples. The Thrift Stamp will give a fur ther incentive. I think we shall be mighty proud of Harrisburg's school children when we reach the end of the term and see how many stamps they have bought." •* * * Jacob R. Missemer, who died a day or so ago at Mt. Joj', will be well remembered by many residents of this county as a publisher of newspapers. For years ho had .a chain in Dauphin and county towns and while some of them were not successes at all ho was never discouraged. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Missemer essayed to give Steeiton a daily newspaper. It lasted several months and was spry enough, but the steel borough in those days had a rather larger per centage of non-English speaking or I reading people than now and Mis semer went back to the Weekly Advocate. lie met a businessman who expressed regret that the ven ture had gone by the boards. ! "Thanks," said Missemer. "You'ra I down for two years for the weekly." • • • | Some of the foreigners appear to I lie having troubles of their own in finding where to go to seek informa tion on questionnaires and a few ! have been going to the State Cap- I ito.l and with that singular persist ence in getting part of what they go after, which distinguishes the average foreigner, they land in the Supreme Court room. Last week Capitol policemen were busy telling men that it was the county court room that they wanted and not a room in the Capitol. How the for eigners found out that there was a courtroom in the Capitol, which is used about six days in 365, no one seems to know. Court records would seeni to Indicate that the courthouso was well known to many foreigners. • • • Ex-President William Howard Taft had a good chance to look about the beautiful rotunda of the State Capitol while here on Satur day and remarked to State Li brarian Thomas Lynch Montgom ery, who accompanied him, that |be admired it very much. One i thing which also attracted Mr. Taft's attention was the Quay statue. He asked Mr. Montgomery all about it and spoke in most appreciative man ner of the Senator. * • WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I • —Charles S. Havard, who retired as Lebanon's assistant postmaster, held that place seventeen years. —Senator Charles W. Sones, and Joseph Cochran, of Williamsport, have sent a giant pushball to the Lveoming boys at Camp Hancock. They are going down to see how they like it. —Ex-Sheriff John Glass, of North umberland county, was an interest- I ing visitor here yesterday. He asked I questions mostly. , —Alba B. Johnson, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, will be the speaker at the Allentown Chamber of Commerce dinner. —Clarence Starr, prominent in Chester business, has been made a majo- of engineers in the Army. —Horace M. Lippincott, who op ! peses entrance of women into the | University of Pennsylvania, is gen | oral secretary of the Alumni. | DO YOU KNOW —Tlint ITarrislmrg is making machinery to manufacture parts of aeroplanes? HISTORIC HA KRIS BURG Balloons used to be tried out here before being sent to federal armies in the Civil war. BRING IT ALONG! Some poets are impelled to sing The joys of so-called Gentle Spring, While others find in Summer's heat A fruitful theme on which to bleat. Still others hear tho Muses' call And ululate about the Fall; And there are even those that crow When burled to their necks in snow. But I am not disposed to yip Until the eaves begin to drip; Then,, then my ten-cent lyro I claw, And sing the January Thaw! —Chicago News GERMAN'ZIONISTS A sensation has been caused in Germany, according to a cable to the Jewish Morning Journal, by tho publication of an article written by Herr Cohen-Reis, a member of the Reichstag and an adherent of th> majority socialist party advising Germany and Turkey to issue a declaration in favor of the establish ment of a Jewish National lHme land In Palestine, along the lines of the famous British declaration, which ho endorses In tho strongest terms. Kind They Deserve A London dispatch frfom Petro grad says the Russian people aro so dispirited they don't care what kind of a peace they get. If that is so, that is the kind of peace they wiU get.—Kansas City Times.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers