8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELOGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E.J. STACKPpLE./Vcfj't <5• Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American lishers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Avenue Building, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ijiyran By carriers, ten cents a" week; by mall. $5.00 ~ a year in advance, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1918 Between the great things that tee cannot do and the small things ice will not do, the danger is that tee shall do nothing. —Adolph Monod. BACK TO THE PEOPLE THE wa' bids fair to return to th<; masses of the people much of the land of Europe that has been held for generations in great estates by the nobility and titled gentry of those countries. What is happening Inside Germany in this respect cannot >be told, but in Rus-1 sia the aim of the whole revolu tionary movement is toward the re turn of the lands to the people. Each peasant wants his share of the great acreage of the empire. To own for himself a farm sufficient to meet his needs is the ambition of millions of Russians. The common ownership of the radical Socialists has no place in the doctrines of the simpl6 Rus- 1 sian ruralite. What he wants Is a ' piece of land for his very own. The ' Bolshevlki owe their hold upon the people to this fundamental of party principle. But extreme Russia differs little from conservative- England in this respect, although the red flag Is less in evidence there and the miracle is being wrought by other means. The immense landed estates of England have been looked upon for centuries as part and parcel of the empire, an 1 unchanging and unchangeable con ♦ ditlon. But the war has brought a vast difference. The nobility has been impoverished and many old families have been blotted out completely, j New millionaires have sprung up and the old aristocracy is losing its pow er and influence. Some of tho large estates that have been sacrificed by . families that have owned them for generations have fallen into the hands of the new rich, it is true, but the vast majority have been broken up and sold oft into small farms to be tilled as American farms are cul tivated, by the owners themselves. This should make for a more pros perous country, bigger crops and a more contented populace. The great est foe Sofcialism has is the man who owns his own bit of soil. The tenant farm is not good for any country or community. The ten dency of the tenant farmer in many cases is to get as much off the place as possible. Absentee ownership makes for discontentment. It places a premium on inefficiency and en- i courages solvenly and wasteful meth ods on the farm. The thing has fail ed in Russia and in England. It is rapidly gaining a foothold in some sections of the United States, but it will never become popular here. The farmer who tills his own farm, or at least oversees its cultivation, will al ways be an outstanding factor in American life. The spirit of Ameri can independence is too strong for anything else. Dr. Garfield said he expected public criticism, and. we Judge, he has not been disappointed. A "COLLARLESS" SUNDAY THE laundries are closed, thanks to the kindly intervention of Dr. Garfield, and a "collarless" Sun day is about to be added to our "meatless" Tuesdays and "wheat, less" Wednesdays." Here is a catas trophe not unmixed with blessing, tor though the linen collar stands high—in more ways than one among the articles of polite dress, it' Vtands low in the estimation of most men, who would rejoice to see it relegated to the limbo of discarded styles, along with "spring bottom pants," knee trousers, powdered wigs and calfskin boots. Nobody knows the why of the starched linen collar. There Is a rumor afloat that a man up in Troy, N. Y./invented it. If so, he must have been a member of the German hate squad, with a deep and abiding abomination for the peace of mind of his fellow man. But be that as it may, the only present excuse for the starched collar is that it pro vides large dividends for sundry cor poration i and fat pay enveldpes, for other sundry workers who reside in and about the aforesaid Troy and 'who wax prosperous through the SATURDAY EVENING, HAJRRISBtJRG TEUEX3RAPHI • * JANUARY 19, 1918. propensities of the aforementioned starched collars to grow crops of saw teeth about their business edges or to tear out at the front button holes. Nobody likes linen collars but, on the other hand, nobody cares to appear without one of the hor rors about his neck. The collar is the yoke Dame Fashion has wrought to confound mere man wont to laugh at his better half's abject obedience to the dictates of style. It marks him for the rank hypocrite he is. for down in his heart he yearns for a flannel shirt a.id a Windsor tie, but because some Troy manufacturer has Induced the haberdasher to believe that men will buy the stiff linen bands that mas querade as collars, jind because the haberdashery clerk appears horri 'fled when he mildly suggests that he "might take an attached collar this time," he buys < a half dozen more of the little whitewashed fences and goes on with his self-tor ture. Linen collars are cold in win ter and hot in summer. They are neither comfortable nor pleasing to the eye. If a "collarless" Sunday were the only evil of the "coalless" order and as a result man were emancipated from the slavery of the collar we venture the guess that Dr. Garfield could be elected President in 1920 by the flannel shirt vote alone and nobody ask his politics. It does not always follow that a perfectly good college president knows a coal wharf from a culm bank. POPULAR HARMONY ■* y OT forgetting that the admin l\l istration is face to face with the biggest task in the world and that it is making some head way in it, the time has come when Congress must take a hand in the conduct of the war. The progress that has been made has been marred by grievous errors. The game has been played too much from the partisan standpoint The President j i has not looked beyond the limited; confines of his own party. The country has supported him I loyally. It has gone stolidly along, j plodding and determined. It has no | thought other than to see the thing! through. But there is a woeful lack! of popular enthusiasm. We are very much in earnest, but in a cold- j blooded, businesslike way. We lack | fire, spirit and eagerness. What is j needed more than any other one j thing is a red-blooded leadership at j Washington of the "come on boys, up and at 'em" type that would lead | us to our tasks with a cheer and get the work on hand done to the' enlivening tune of the "Star Spang'.ed j Banner," or stirring notes of "Tramp, j Tramp, the Boys Are Marching." We | need a man of the. cheerleader stamp. A man of fire and personal magnetism. We need a Roosevelt. The Senate is at work on a bill creating a war council. The chair man should be the Colonel. Say what you will of him, he inspires confi dence and typifies action. He knows how to get things done in a hurry and how to do them. himself. He would be an outstanding figure in the war—probably too outstanding to suit those who are conducting the war with one hand and build ing a big Democratic machine with the other. The President is fearsome of the effect of a coalition cabinet on the voters of the country, not cealizmg that nothing would-strengthen him more in the opinion of the people as prompt recognition of both Roose velt and Taft. But whether the President feels that way or not, eventually he will come to the place where the need will bo so urgent as to cause him to throw party interests to the winds and to surround himself with really big men regardless of party. Isn't it strange ho insists on being forced Into that state of mind? Here is where Congress has its innings. At least, nobody can accuse Dr! Garfleld of being "crazy with the heat." WHEN THE BOYS RETURN ENGLAND is witnessing the or ganization of a society to be known as the Comrades of the Great War, made up of those who have served in the Army and Navy since Germany tried to over-run the earth. A similar organization, no doubt, will be formed in America "when the boys come home'/ and it will be as influential in the affrairs of the nation as the Grand Army of the Republic has been since the Civil War. Also, it will cherish as dearly as has the Grand Army those ideal% of loyalty and patriotism which have called so many of our young men to the colors in the pres ent crisis. The Grand Army has set a fine example which the younger warriors no doubt will not be slow to follow. There is in the experience of a common danger a tie of fellow ship that time cannot dissolve. Senator Stone is said to be prepar ing to attack Colonel Roosevelt, and we arise to ask the Senator if he has his cyclone cellar all ready. "High heels on women's shoes to go," says a Washington dispatch. That's the trouble with most high heels; they go too much. The Kaiser will no doubt be tickled to learn that Mrs. Von Bernstorff Is the proud possessor of $850,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. The proposal to have each Monday a legal holiday during the coal short age will have the solid support of the school boy vote. It begins to seem that the worst thing about the Bolshoviki Is their name. .Something not to worry about—n shortage of fly paper next summer. Lk By the Ex-Committceman Thousands of blank nominating petitions to be filed by candidates for* state, congressional and legisla tive offices in advance of the May Primary are being printed by the State Printer for the department of the secretary of the commonwealth, the order being In accord with tho decision of President Judge George Kunkel, of the Dauphin county court in the test cases brought last spring. The blanks set forth that tho petitions must be filed on the day Uxed by law and that office hours will be observed. The sug gestion is also contained that peti tions should be filed early, prefer ubly a week ahead, so that they may be examined for defects and correct ed before being invalidated by ex piration of time limit. The first day upon which peti tions may be circulated is March 2, and they must be tiled by April 11. Candidates to be nominated in clude governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of internal affairs, four congressmen at large, thirty two district congressmen; twenty eight senators aryi 207 members ot the House of Representatives. The outstanding thing in state politics at the end of_>this rather eventful week Is that while Senator Penrose is popularly supposed to be the big factor behind Senator Wil liam C. Sproul's candidacy for gov ernor and Governor Brumbaugh to be the man whose colors Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil will carry in the primary contest, neith er one of them has directly endors ed any aspirant. Governor Brum baugh has contented himself by say ing that Mr. O'Neil's statement meets views of many persons, but lie does not say that he is for him,, although he will be. The supposi tion is that the Highway Commis sioner, having determined to run long, long ago, put out his an nouncement the other day without awaiting the formal approval of an j administration war council. —.-Senator Penrose instead of en dorsing Sproul yesterday, as many expected he would after the O'Neil ' announcement, made a . declaration ' for an open light at the primary. He paid little attention to the at tacks made upon him by the High way Commissioner, Who says he will make more next week, and went ahead with preparations for an active campaign, talking things over with Philadelphia, Allegheny and up-state leaders. —The Penrose statement on the openness of the primary is so broad j and free that it is the subject of much comment in the state to-day. It is the very opposite of what the administration people have been contending is the Penrose attitude. "The spirit of the popular primary," remarked Senator Penrose when asked as to the O'Neil candidacy, "is to give the opportunity to those so inclined to submit their candidates to the people of the state. The days' of slating candidates have passed by if they ever existed to any ex tent. Every candidate must come forth on his own merits and submit his claims to the people. I sup pose there will likely be a number of candidates for the different state officer, to be voted for in May. Full and free discussion among the Re publicans of the state is to be in vited and encouraged." —Mr. O'Neil left here last night after saying that he would have more to say on the moral and economic issues at Pittsburgh. He will come here Monday and go home for tho dinner In his honor on Thursday. He is supposed to be in Philadelphia to day where efforts are being made by Brumbaugh men to line up the Vares for him. Similar work is being done with William A. Magee, but up to date the Highway Commissioner has not gotten either element. —lt is said by frends of Chairman W. D. B. Ainey that he will not an nounce any candidacy. He is being boomed in many sections, but de clines to talk politics. —Gifford Pinchot, who said last week that Sproul would have opposi tion, has not yet said anything in support of O'Neil. It is suspected that the ex-forester, who. is very much for Pinchot, will hold back in the hope that things may take a turn whereby he might be called upon to lead an army of protest. —One of the significant things about the gubernatorial situation is that Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain, who lias been much men tioned as a possible candidate, joked about the O'Neil candidacy. "What was it begun for if it was so soon to be done for" he is quoted as saying at Philadelphia. Mr. McClain is for Sproul, it is generally believed, and if he is, that means a good deal. • —Senator Penrose yesterday rap ped Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, for the manner in which people are be ing "llred" from the city hall in Philadelphia on the score of econo my. He said: "The wholesale dis charges now being made in City Hall are without precedent. Efficient em ployes of long service with the city under different administrations seem to be ruthlessly discharged without sufficient reason. The efficiency of the municipal service is likely to be completely shattered, and unless some legal remedy can be devised the civil service law is not worth the paper it is written on. Of course, in the end this and other phases of mu nicipal maladministration will be repudiated by the people at the earliest opportunity and react on those responsible therefor." LABOR NOTES At the convention of the Interna tional Union of United Brewery Workmen It was voted to change the name of that organization to the In ternational Union of the United Brewery and .Soft Drink Workers or America. The Legislative Committee of the Seattle Central Labor Council re ports that the women's wage law, in Washington, is used by employers to hold these workers to a bare mini mum, while living costs have in creased over thirty per cent., ac cording to government figures. In eight cities Investigated by the Federal Children's bureau, 28 per cent, of the fathers earned less than $550 a year and the death rate for their babies wag 162.5, or one in every six. Only about one-eighth, or 13.1 per cent., of all the fathers earned $1,250 or more, and the death rate for their babies was 62.5, or 1 in 16. • In Great Britain, when war was declared, the government called on the organized labor movement of that country. Labor's interests were protected, mqp from their ranks were takqn into the Cabinet and War Councils, a Ministry of Munitions was appointed to handle the problem of supplies and labor and an eight hour day recognized as the proper standard to secure the greatest pro ductivity during this period of stress. THERE ARE GOLF MEDALS—AND THEN THERE ARE JUST—MEDALS BY BRIGGS "WELL -WI6LL- A VOIRE I DAY) "(Th* NEVr (ANO THS MEXTj FROM BILL MY OLD RBhT Tli r ?i D ? o "There MVJST BE "WHOW! <*AYS. Gotr P *u play.MG „ b H V P.^LS INI THE suwkjy SOOTH HIS match ArJD SAYS HE won HIS h *= akIC . - HE -SAYS HE W J"* SEMI " *7VCH BY T*o ONE. . qualified 110 The finals.. Finals he most This 'S OPenJ<N>G ROUKJT> - 8E TRY/AJG TO JOSH.. Good vajork Bill I fvie or somethimG. OLD BOY- Keep IT . , " l OON' T 1 UNDERSTAND (* LATEFO jV < ' .r ft-tall—wr (HA-h* ha! -I Bill, only Took vjP mice time 7 /Z CHAmpiom<Shi P of GOLF LAST YEAR - I * Ee THAV V THE |6TH DIV.SIOM! V' amT E ,££.*£7 ) ' j WAS The OMLY chap I —. __ \ HERE'S The / TflwJ B c c ,," I I Vou'D BE'. ) COULP BEAT --BUT NOVM \P BIG MEDAL- 816 LOAD OFF / JEALOUS! / ' SuPPtose HE'LL be Too Y , OH ,BO Y*J / mimp / I S GOOD TO play me -rr ' I J , / \ —— r THE STATE PRESS Germany may not believe much in rights for women* but Germany is perfectly willing to accept the de votion and sacrifices of Jts women spies. All accounts agree that lots of them are on the job. The motive is pot always money. Social favors at home, and chance for advance ment in rank or imperial notice, are bait enough. It is the duty of worn f-n spies to establish themselves In Important cities, and create social relations with prominent people, particularly with influential men. As to how far they are to go, the gov ernment would not ask questions. After the war if results had been achieved, the greater the audacity, even the shamelessness, the higher the honors to be assigned.—Easton Free Press. It is quite likely that Wllkes- Earre will be pushed out of its place as the second third class city in the state when the next census is taken, two years hence. At present Read ing- is the first city of the third class, but Its population in the next cen sus will be over 100,000 and it will, therefore, become a city of the sec ond class. So if Wilkes-Barre could maintain its relative position it would in a few years be the first third class city in the Common wealth. The city of Chester, which had a population of 38,537 in the last census, has grown so rapidly that it expects to exceed 150,000 in 1920 and' will go ahead of Wilkes- Barre, Erie and Harrisburg, which were only a few thousand below Wilkes-Barre, had plenty of room in which to grow, and Erie particular ly has had a healthy industrial boost twing to the war. Both cities are likely to go ahead of Wilkes-Barre in the next census.—Wilkes-Barre liCecord. * • • Gilford Pinchot is making a bid for the support of the state grange as a candidate for governor. What ticket he would run on is not stated and it would be hard to imagine. Pinchot is independent in politics, but that is about all that can be said in his favor as a candidate. — Carlisle Sentinel. , MUST BE REORGANIZED (Prom the New York World.) Editorial extracts from different newspapers on the Garfield fuel or der are reproduced here. The New York World, the most steadfast Wil son organ in the land, says: "In spite of the tempest of protests which shook Washington yesterday, in spite of the Senate, which, by a vote of 50 to 19, urged that action be deferred for five days, the Garfield coal order was issued last evening and took effect at midnight. "Thus must be recorded the first American defeat in the war; a defeat that cannot fail to be disastrous. The economic loss must be reckoned in hundreds of millions. The suffering and privation that must follow as a result of the suspension of wages cannot yet be calculated. But worse than the economic loss, worse than the individual suffering from .cur tailment of wage income, is the moral effect of Mr. Garfield's action. "Public confidence in the conduct of the war has suddenly been shat tered, and can be restored only by the long and tedious process of re building. Some of the consequences are already apparent. Others will be felt later when it is again necessary for the government to appeal to pop ular trust for support. The whole country has received a blow from which It will not soon recover. "Testifying before the Senate com mittee yesterday, Mr. Garfield insist ed that the transportation situation made the order necessary. The trans poratlon situation is unquestionably bad, but the way to remedy it is by increased effort, not by closing down the industries of the country until the railroads can catch up with their obligations. This war is not go ing to be won by shutting up shop. It can be won only by doing more work. "Regardless of any excuses that Mr. Garfield may offer, the simple explanation of his order is that the federal fuel administration has col lapsed. It never mastered Its Job, and finally the difficulties appeared insurmountable. When that stage was reached, Mr. Garfield and his as sociates could see no way out except to stop trade and industry until they could qvertake their task. "There is no use of crying over spilt milk, and the country must now proceed to make the best of a bad business. But even the President, whose loyalty to his subordinates Is often an embarrassment to him and a detriment to the nation, must per ceive that Mr. Garfield's usefulness as fuel administrator Is ended and that the department must be reorganized from top to bottom." [_ A Blow at the WorlcTj By OTTO H. KAHN THE World has been hurt within these last three years as It was never hurt before. In the gloomy and accusing procession of Infinite sorrow and pain which has started on •'ft thrice accursed day of July, 1914. the hurt Inflicted on Americans of German descent takes its trag ically rightful place. The iron has entered our souls. "We have been wantonb' robbed of invaluable possessions which have come down to us through the ccntu 6S'>.we .' lave been rendered ashamed of that in which we took pride; we have been made the enemies of those of our own blood; our very names carry the sound of a challenge to the world. Surely we have all too valid a title to rank amopgst those most bitterly aggrieved by Pruseianlsm, and to align ourselves in the very forefront of those who in word and deed are fighting to rid the world forever pt that malignant growth. "Heaven knows I do not want, by anything I may be saying or doing, to add one ounce to the burden of the world's execration which rests already with crushing weight upon the rulers of Germany and their mis guided people. Nor do I seek for giveness for my- German birth by de monstrative zeal In action or speech. I was and am proud of the great in heritance .which came to me as a birthright, and of the illustrious con tributions which the German people have made to the imperishable assets of the world. "Until the outbreak of the war, in 1914, I maintained close and active personal and business relations with Uerinany. I was well acquainted with some of the leading personages of the country. I |ierved in the German army thirty years ago. I took an active interest in furthering German art in America. I'olHon of I'ruiMiniilam "I do not apologize for, nor am I ashamed of, my German birth. But 1 am ashamed—bitterly and greviously ashamed—of the Germany which stands convicted before the high tribunal of the world's public opinion of,having planned and willed war, of the revolting deeds committed In Bel gium and northern France, of the in famy of the iAisitania murders, of in numerable violations of The Hague conventions and the law of nations, of abominable and pertldious abuse of tlieiv hospitality, of crime heaped upon crime in hideous defiance of the laws of God and men. "I cherish the memories of my youth, but these very memories make me cry out in pain and wrath against those who have befouled and discred ited the spiritual soil of the old Ger many in which they Vere rooted. "Long before the war I had come to look upon Prussianism as among the deadliest poison growths that ever sprang from the soil of the spirit of man. "Now, America, the never-defeated, has thrown her sword into the scale, because to do so was indispensable lor our honor and our safety, the preservation of our institutions and our very destiny. To co-operate to wards the successful conclusion of PIES AND TARTS It has been told of Ralph Waldo Emerson that when asked why he ate pie for breakfast he replied: "What is pie for?" Now It appears that the form of pastry so dear to the philosopher and poet, and to all New Englanders of whatever de gree, must yield to the Inexorable demands of the hour. At least this seems probable from a recent dis cussion In the comraittee-room of the Massachusetts Women's Section of the Council of National Defense, These Massachusetts women, and Massachusetts is In the very heart of the Great American Pie Belt, have urged that pie be sacrificed as an aid to public economy. The New England pie, as the ex perts will tell you, is a creation of two crusts with a tilling between. It is a food staple in all well-regulated New England families. .To give it up will wrench both New England patriotism and the New England palate. \ In Its place, which is a hollow phrase, the tart is to be substituted. The committee recommends the tart as a saver of wheat. It calls attention to the fact that a tart is now necessarily a mouthful of thin pastry, with a dab of Jam, accord ing to a widespread conception, but can be enlarged to the dimensions of the displaced pastry, when it be comes, in fact, an open-face or one crust pie.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. the war Is the one and supreme duty of every American, regardless of birth, of sympathies, and of •political views. "There came upon the German peo ple a whole train of new and bane ful influences and impulses, formida bly stimulating as a powerful drug. There came, among other evils, ma terialism and covetousness and irre ligion; overweening arrogance, an im patient contempt for the rights of the weak, a mania for world domin ion, and a veritable lunacy of power worship. "Truly, history affords no parallel to the spiritual poisoning and the re sulting horrible transmutation of a whole people such as Prussianism wrought in the incredibly short period of one generation. Nor would I be lieve that such a dreadful phenome non could possibly take place were it not for the evidence of my own eyes and my own ears. "To deceive the German people and steel them to patriotic determination and sacrifice, the Prussian rulers and their spokesmen affirmed at the be ginning of the war, and have kept reaffirming ever since with nauseat ing reiteration and disgusting hypoc risy, that theirs was a defensive war, forced upon them by wicked and en vious neighbors. A defensive war indeed." Not the Germany of Old "There are some of you, probably, who will still find it hard to believe that the Germany you knew can be guilty of the crimes which have made it an outlaw among the nations. , "But do you know modern Ger many. Unless you have been there within the last twenty-flve years, not once or twice, but at regular inter vals; unless you have looked below the glittering surface of the marvel ous material progress and achieve ment and seen how the soul of Ger many was being eaten away by tho virulent poison of Prussianism unless you have watohed and followed the appalling transformation of German mentality and morality under the ne farious and puissant influence of the priesthood of power worship, you do not know the Germans of this day and generation. It is not the Ger many of old, the land of our affec tionate remembrance. . "The Germany which brought upon the world the immeasurable disaster of this war, and at whose monstrous deeds and doctrines the civilized na tions of the earth stand aghast, start ed Into definite being less than thirty years ago. I can almost lay my fin ger upon the date and circumstance of its ill-omened advent. The spirit of Prussianism and the spirit of Americanism cannot live ill the same world. One or the other must conquer. In the mad pride of its contempt for democracy, Prus sianism has thrown down the gaunt let to us. "We have taken up the challenge and now stand arrayed by the side of the other freedom-loving nations of the world, giving fresh strength and our boundless resources to them who, heroically striving, have borne the heat and burden of a dreadfully long and exhausting struggle, yet stand unwearied, erect and resolute." President and Confidence (From the Philadelphia Public Ledger). By a vote of fifty to nineteen the Unitod States Senate passed a resolu tion in favor of postponement of the carrying out of the order of the fuel administration. The vote cannot be called partisan, for weighty Senators of. the Democratic side generally aligned themselves with leading He publicans in this condemnation of President Wilson's administration. As to the fuel administrator anc} his fan tastic remedy tor a situation due td gross inefficiency on the part of the executive government at Washing ton, It may be that that gross inef ficiency conceivably brought about a situation so grotesque as to need a grotesque cure. Wo are not just here dealing with that question. The stu pendous interest of the Senate's vote is in the fact that it cannot be re garded as anything less than a clear cut vote of lack of confidence in President Wilson's administration. There seems no doubt that but for technical intervention by one Repre sentative a similar voto would have been ,cast in the lower house. Playing Safe [From the Minneapolis Tribune] While there has been a good deal Of guesswork on the subject. It is pretty well agreed that unless peace is declared sooner or later the war will be continued. / 1 Otfer tftc "foja in ""peiuau -A The Government demand for meat less days has so increased the con sumption of chicken and oysters that a Cleveland bard has been moved to tell the following sad story: "Said the chicken to the oyster, I am feel ing mighty blue; all my folks are disappearing and I fear that your's are too. Now, I lay the blame en tirely upon Hoover, who, they say, started all this fearful bloodshed with his doggone meatless day. "In the days before the Kaiser took the Allies by the throat. Sunday was the only day they could get a chicken's goat; now that Tuesday has been added, every feather friend I've got is a victim of conscription—cold in death, they serve him hot." "I believe you," sobbed the bivalve, "we are dying by the score. 14,000,- 000 lovely oysters beckon from the other shore. Moral fiber in us weak ens, Chanticleer, I get the blues when I think how many comrades on their dying day were stews. "Soon I'll go to join my fellows," and ho shivered in his shell, 'with his meatless day, this Hoover gives 50 kinds of misfortune. He's the author of our troubles —man's his gorman dizing dupe—they may serve you baked or roasted; chances* are that I'll be soup." A man named Solomon Jones, Maine woodsman, came down into the settlement last week and for the first time heard that America was at war. As a namesake of The Sol omon Woodsman Jones casts little luster. He tailed to get by the Army exactions for enlistment. That funerals are a "wasto of time" was the contention recently of an Allentown man whose wife is suing him for divorce. He objected to his wife attending the funeral of her grandmother and upon return ing from the obsequies he threaten ed to "knock her block off" accord ing to the woman's testimony. OUR L^UGH THE DAT AFTER. "Well, did Saint Nick put anything In your stocking?" "No, but he put an awful nick In my bank account." HABILIMENTS OP HUMANIIy. "There Is no reason for putting on sackcloth and ashes." "Not exactly. But Just the same I'm wearing mended clothes and tending my furnace." PROHIBITIVE. "Do you cast your bread wp the waters." "Not sine* It's 10 cents a loaf,'* i&wtfraj fflljat Important matters concerning the ownership of islands in the rivers or Pennsylvania may be determined y the State Board of Property wi(F 'n the next few months as the suit of surveys made in the ware and examinations of the ords regarding the Susquehanna. and ot her streams. For InjT beforn ?" e8 ons have been cora fr. o " e * or ® the Board regarding title the searched lalands som" of tury PrlL ? K°ne back a cen up and sve5 ve been looked ,0 V will be adopted becaus^of P the Power a wni°b a when wa?er construcUo'n''i """" f separitl 8 uf® !>' was clalme d that coun?Pr nfo. and existed, but the counter claim was that it was part ?hanl nf i Island. The constant MMctaflv th lslands in the streams, era ■ ihwJ ♦ Susquehanna and oth- i i floods have caused similai claims. State officials who notion?" 6 i ntQ the ma tter say that PP' only should it be settled how to deal with such matters, but that ,uturo grants for aco nn dOWn " Somo V* sß -™ ago an effort was made to take nn numerous islands in the lower SuJ? quehanna because of prospective power development, but nothing to'own th* i i Th H Btate may decl(io lslands or exact a large y f ° r theh ' uso or • * • State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port /h?™ ne people t0 look after their tbi^ ney M", u The Marsh al says that there will be extensive use of bitu minous coal or wood as the result anthra clte shortage and as fuel n °, t |, 41 l ed l ° that klnd ot ther ® WI, I b e an outbre'ak of j " res unless steps are taken A to keep flues clean. 1 T * . 0 e-CaPtain George F. StaTl B Su P erlnt endent of the Police, are giving him the glad hand on the way he acted about ten Pn^ M T° \, In the Saturday Evening Post Miss Mayo, who wrote the book on the State Police, tells tho storv of how Lumb, then a "top sergeant " T C UP the ou tlawa at Florence, oif*. of count y town where the „fi Po,lce Proved their mettle for e r a , L umb won advance ment. It is a fascinating story of " ory or ,he Congressman Fess, the Ohio statesman who spoke here a week tgo, was the man who brought Gov ernor Brumbaugh and Chairman Ainey, of the Public Service Com mission together. The Congressman ana the Governor are both educa tors and old friends. One day Mr Fess wrote a letter to the Governor and mentioned Mr. Ainey, who served with him in Congress and Had offices across a corridor. Tho Governor looked up the man from susquehanna and a warm friendship Slew. Mr. Fess, who has spoken here before, is one of the best post ed men in Congress, especially in foreign matters. Paul I.ittlefield, secretary of the Slate Chamber of Commerce, was among those who heard the debate in the United States Senate Thurs day over the "shut down order." Mr. Llttlefield says that it was with out a dull moment. People who recall the battle made# in tlje House of Representatives last T winter by Representative Charles Walter, of Franklin county, for changes in the Pennsylvania laws relative to liens, will read with in terest the success of his work as bor ough solicitor of Chambersburg. Tho Philadelphia North American says of it: "It is doubtful if there is another town in the country that can point to an achievement such as that performed by Solicitor Wal ter in the matter of sewer assess ments. Just five years ago the sew er system was completed. The cost of the entire system was $250,000 Of this amount, $125,000 was taken care of by a bond issue and tho other $125,000 was levied against property owners on a perfoot front basis, before a single lien was filed approximately $97,000 had been paid, by property owners. Then in 1913 liens were filed . for approximately $02,000. In all, there were 831 liens. By December 1, 1917, all of these sewer liens had been paid with tho exception of 140. and of this lat ter amount not more than three or four will be made the subject of litigation. Fifty-three liens were amicably renewed and theso repre sent, with interest for five years, *5,400. Thirty of the liens, securing about $2,000, were renewed, which in most cases were made necessary because of the properties being owned by estates. Since December I fifty liens, securing $2,800, have been paid, and'seven dropped because of errors, which leaves few for court aetion, not Involving more than SSOO. During the eight years of Mr. Walter's incumbency of the office of solicitor his legal advice was re quired In the expenditure of ap proximately $600,000, which went for permanent public improve ments." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —h. N. Spencer, postmaster at Lancaster, has been reappointed af ter serving a four-year term. —J. Denny O'Neil, the state high way commissioner, Is Just fifty-one years old and runs a newspaper, a store and a bank in addition to the state roads. —Charles T. Davles, the new Reading food administrator, Is a hosiery manufacturer and promi nent in business affairs. • —J. Harry Brown, Lebanon's new assistant treasurer, is a retired busi nessman who does not need .the job, but likes to work. —II. G. Hinkle, Altoona's city manager, says he is going to stir up some of the people who think a day's work should be done by look ing on. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That HarrlsburfC if* making leggings for the Army? HISTORIC HARRISnrRG Canal boats used to bring coat here back In the forties and the fifties. "When Do We Leave?* "When are we to leave?" is question that Is often asked In thft soldiers' camps. One of the camp papers, the "Wadsworth Gas At tack," treats , this ever recurring question humorously. After a col umn of bogus interviews and rumoa It prints this summary: , \ "Number of persons 9,781; number who know exactly when we are going to leave, 9,781;, number of persons who agreed on I the date of departure."—From the [Outlook s . .
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers