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THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918 And fie ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as Ood also in Christ forgave you.— EPH. 4:32. GET AWAKE ONE tragedy after" another is gradually arousing the Amer ican people to the fact that we are in the midst of a great war and that directly and indirectly we are suffering from a too general indif ference to matters and things which result from such a conflict. We are too apt to jump to con clusions as to immediate causes, lather than to the greater things that control all these minor results. One accident after another on steam railroads, due to intense con gestion and the lack of sufficient equipment; a waterless city, due to impaired equipment, growing out of failure to promptly secure machin ery owing to the war demands; com mon use of street railway tracks by all kinds of vehicular traffic, owing to the unprecedented weather con ditions; lack of fuel as the result of failure to seo ahead and the con gestion of the railroad lines; short age of wheat, owing to the demands of our Allies in Europe, and general upset conditions growing out of the failure of the people to realize the situation and their inability thus far to adapt themselves to extra ordinary conditions. We must get awake. We must understand that the individual should conform his own activities to tho necessities of a situation never before known in the history of the •world. Safety first has been the slogan for several years, but even now we do not understand the mean ing of the appeal. Wo must get awake. It is the duty of every individual, whether on foot or horseback, whether driving a trol ley car or a truck; whether on a steam engine or patroling the track; whether operating a machine or v,-astlng fuel and water; whether supplied with food and fuel and wa ter or suffering for want of them— it is the paramount duty and obli gation of every citizen to so order liis own conduct as to aid in the ad justment of present conditions. It will not do to blame this or that Individual. We are all more or less responsible, and instead of repining let us get awake and pull together for the good of all. But above all else, we must get AWAKE! President Wilson's peace nlfessage ftppears to have been widely read In Austria. CITY WATER SUPPLY CITY Council at last has awakened to the necessity of an expert to conduct the city water ment. Council has been slow in this matter, but council itself Is less to blame for present deplorable condi tions than is the system of govern ment under which Harrisburg operates. Back of the trouble lie the deficiencies and inadequacies of the Clark act, which places a handicap upon municipal efficiency and encourages men to become can didates for council merely for the *2,400 salary that goes with the office. Unquestionably Harrisburg is suf fering because a former commis sioner in charge of the water de partment chose unwisely to reduce the water rates at a time when Harrisburg rates already were among the lowest in the country. Instead of using the surplus under the old rates to Increase the capacity of the plant to meet in creased consumption the rate was cut and the machinecy of the de partment permitted to deteriorate. As this newspaper frequently has pointed out. It is folly to try to run the city water works without an expert in charge. Dr. S. V. Hassler, for example. Is neither trained nor by experience qualified for the work assigned him. That is no reflection €l> Dr Hassler. Nobody CJUIJ ix peec him to step Into the writer department and learn nil Its needs •find lntrlcacli-s in a few week 3. That realizes this, his endorsement cf THURSDAY EVENING, the Telegraph's proposal to put trained water works engineer In charge Indicates. Indeed, it is a very hopeful sign that Dr. Haseler thus recognizes his need of help In t.ie technical part of his work. It is a commentary upon the slovenly methods the Clark act per mits, that the water department, of all branches of municipal activity, most requiring experienced direc tion, has been permitted to slop along almost any old way ever since the dismissal of the very excellent board of commissioners which passed out when the small Council law became operative. v Mayor Keister, whose practical I mind suggested yesterday's confer- I enco of manufacturers, understands that the need for an expert is not merely for the present emergency but for all time, may be counted upon to support the water depart ment superintendent, and doubtless a trained man will be put In charge by full vote of Council. Certainly, we must never have a repetition of the present inexcusable state of affairs and the way to be sure of protection at all times against any emergency the possibility of which can be foreseen is to place the re sponsibility upon the shoulders of a trained and experienced water supply expert, not dependent upon political preferment for the contin uance of his job. This is the solu tion of the whole troubKl, out it is toe bad that the whole city should have to suffer to bring it about. "You never miss the water until the well goes dry." FAIR PLAY ATR play to our industries and Jp our people who have been thrown out of work by the compul sory shutdown of the city water works demands that every possible effort be made to procure from the Federal Fuel Administration a ruling permitting all industries so closed to operate on as many Mondays as they are idle now by reason of the water! famine. Harrisburg manufacturers are saving as much fuel every day they are idle as they would on any one i Monday. They are conserving coal at a time when it is most needed. To excuse them from the hardships of enforced idleness on other days would be a reasonable and proper course, it would seem. THE FARMERS' KICK FROM all accounts there were some pretty sharp things said about the way the National Administration has handled things relating to the farmer, especially in regard to his labor, but the farmer has something on his side. Indeed, he has so much on his side that the draft officials had better consider what may happen and whether cir cumstances such as forced the Gar- Held order may not require some thing else. To be brief, the embattled farmers assembled here at meetings held an nually declared that they had been asked to speed up food production and wanted to do it, just like us city folks are willing to forego some kinds of food—because the boys are at the colors or in the field. But because of the attractiveness of industrial pay and opportunities in the city the farms were short of young people before we went to war. And when the draft came it took or lined up half the young labor. And the far mers ask how are they to increase acreage in foodstuffs this year when they did not have enough hands to dig potatoes or cut corn before the draft got fairly working last year and another draft call Fs staring them in the face. Farmers also complain that they have to sell wheat at $2.20 In some sections, say, and yet there is no limit on what a man may charge them for fertilizer or a plough, and they declare that they are upbraid ed when they are hearkening to the call to raise more cattle and swine for the market and have to feed them In winter with corn that seems about to be fixed at $1.50 a bushel. It's no wonder that the farmers are getting sore when told to speed up production without being given the hands to do it. ' An agricultural show that ends up with a Red Cross benefit ought to at tract all patriotic Harrlsburgers. FIXING STANDARDS ONE can always find some com fort In the thought that some good must come out of tho war. Terrible as it seems, yet we can not fail but realize that If we can learn to be less extravagant and save our money, be more conserving of resources of food, of life, we will have something to count over when the struggle ends. The* effort has been to call In science and experi- ■ ence to get the best at the least cost and it is surprising what is being done In the way of standards. It has been figured out what a soldier needs and men are now figur ing out what people require in the way of nourishment in various call ings. Such standards, if carefully followed, will have a good ultimate effect. Only recently the AVar Com mission in charge of livestock com pleted a set of standards for feed ing of horses and then of cattle. It has been ascertained what was needed, and fortunately the ingredi ents are not hard to get. And now we are glad to note that a commit tee of the same commission has un dertaken to safeguard our breakfast eggs and our Sunday chicken. This commission was composed of men who have studied the great Penn sylvania hen and one of our own townsmen is a member. It has cal culated what is needed to feed a good laying hen. And what is more to the point it has not contented itsolf with just adopting a standard, as was done in New York and New Jersey, but has asked the State Bu reau of Markets to see that the millers make up the standard and sell it. Fixing standards is a good thing. It gives us the Information. It dis ciplines us, and It teaches us to save. "P t KKC H tcCi,vJuX By the Ex-Committcemqn Congressman John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, is.to-dliy dividing in terest in state politics with High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil because of his announcement that he is a candidate for Lieutenant Covernor and the prompt declara tion of Senator Edwin 11. Vare in his behalf. The impression in Phil adelphia appears to be that it is an indirect movement against Senator William C. Sproul, generally re garded as a candidate for Governor, who is regarded as a Philadelphia, but how closely it is tied up to the O'Neil candidacy is not yet dis closed. Scott has been congressman at large for two terms and recently declared that he wanted a place which would put him Into closer touch with state politics, but his an nouncement of candidacy for sec ond place created surprise. It Is said that he has all of his plans made to tour the state. In fact, they were made long ago as until the failure to land Representative Edwin R. Cox as speaker of the last House of Representatives the Phila delphia lawyer was ambitious to run for Governor. —The Philadelphia Record says of the Scott boom to-day: "The an nouncement that Congressman Scott would bo a candidate for Lieutenant Governor dropped into Republican circles like a bolt out of a clear sky. There had been a general feeling that in due time Senator Vare would declare himself in favor of Senator Sproul. Although he has kept silent on the gubernatorial question, Sen ator Vare did not hesitate to speak quickly in behalf of Scott. Con gressman Scott' he announced, 'is the equal of the ablest man in this state, and I have no doubt that by the time the regular Republican or ganization conferences are called to pass upon the Republican ticket sentiment will be all one way in thts city, and that will be for Mr. Scott for Lieutenant Governor. —Some of the Philadelphia news papers indicate that Scott's candi dacy may be the basis of a compro mise and that a harmony candidate be picked for Governor. The Phil adelphia North American, •which was very friendly to Scott for a while, merely gives him mention. —Friends of Senator Edward E. Beidleman, of this city, who has been talked of as a possible candi date for lieutenant Governor, de clined to discuss the advent of Scott as a candidate to-day. The Senator had never announced any candidacy and has not even gone as far as Sprt jl. He and Scott were col leagues in the legislature, but on opposite sides of the fence lately. Friends of ex-Speaker George E. Alter, of Allegheny, also mentioned for lieutenant Governor, said to day that Alter was in no sense a candidate for Lieutenant Governor. They Intimated that lie would be a good harmony candidate for Gov ernor. —Friends of Senator Sproul, who have firmly believed that he means to be a candidate, have been more or less mystified why he has made no announcement and the state ad ministration men are insisting that he will not be a candidate. What is causing the speculation here Is why Sproul remains silent when Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil is an nouncing ambitions with a flourish of trumpets and Scott is hopping in as a Philadelphia candidate. —There is a growing suspicion here that the candidate who may be agreed upon for Governor has not announced any ambitions, but may be some big, upstanding man not lately identified with any faction. —Attorney General Brown start ed for Pittsburgh last night to at tend a series of conferences in Pitts burgh to-day and to make the big speech at the O'Neil dinner to-night. Mr. Brown was in high good humor when he left. "I am going to take a day off and I'm going to make a speech," said he. When asked if his speech would be fireworks, he re plied: "Well, no, I will say some things that are on my mind. During to-day Mr. O'Neil will have a num ber of state administration men from western counties and his own friends demonstrate to Mr. Brown tho way things look. —While Governor Brumbaugh re mains silent as to O'Neil there are plenty of administration men getting active for him, although friends of Chairman Ainey suggest that things may take such a turn as to make him a logical candidate. Paul N. Furman, who was the headquarters manager In the Brumbaugh presi dential campaign a few years ago, is buzzing around again and report ed to be telling Capitol Hill people that they will all "line up." ■—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times prints this Interesting bit of politi cal news: "There was a story In circulation yesterday that the recent visit of Mr. Magee to Harrisburg was to induce Governor M. G. Brum baugh to get behind the guberna torial candidacy of William D. B. Ainey, chairman of the Public Serv ice Commission, instead of support ing Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil. Mr. Ainey has been Indi cating his desire to become the suc cessor of Governor Brumbaugh, but Harrisburg reports indicate his am bitions have not found approval in the executive department or more particularly In the ollice of Attor ney General Francis Shunk Brown. In the recent Mayoralty contest Mr. Magee was anxious to have the ac tive support of Mr. O'Neil, but the Highway Commissioner gave more concern to the management of his department than he did to the Pitta burgh campaign. If the reports are correct that Mr. Magee is now en deavoring to discourage the O'Neil boom by encouraging the Ainey boom, the inference would be that he Is desirous of tossing a monkey • \ HARRISBURG: TELEGRAPH! OH, MAN! BYBRIGGS - * I —' ' * ) WHERE \>YA ( ONLY FIVYE LUMPS I WANT YOUR \ "SR^RR^E |NJFORTV\^X(OW. (T„.S ,S MASTER THE/VV SWEE.TEST VM / . I H£"C WOROS liliffl gioru)us f ""Q fMM/Mjg wrench into the machinery of the home candidate." —Failure of Gifford Pinchot to appear last night at the big farmers' meeting to discuss the labor problem, caused much comment. He sent iu word, but just did not arrive. Tie O'Neil men were looking for some word in support of the commissioner and one of the Democratic news papers which have been boosting O'Neil suggests that maybe Pinchot will speak in Pittsburgh to-night. —Another interesting thing about last night's meeting was that John A. McSparran, master of the State Grange, who assailed the national administration last night in unmeas ured terms, has Democratic ten dencies. He is a personal friend of "Farmer" Creasy, Democratic wheel horse. —Notwithstanding Governor Brumbaugh's efforts yesterday it is said that he is by no means certain that the Commissioner of Agricul ture will confirm his friend E. B. Dorsett, Mansfield, as chief of markets. Several members of the commission are said to bo opposed to doing anything unless given a larger measure of authority in the department of agriculture, which. Secretary Patton will not stand for. —Wilson McGraw, Warren coun ty banker, named as Game Commis sioner last night to succeed John S. Speer, Elk county manufacturer, who had been fought for reappoint ment by a number of state adminis tration men up the state, is a per sonal friends of the Governor. Mr. Speer served one term, but declined to recognize some of the men who wanted to run politics and pretty nearly everything else in the name of the Governor. t Ovxer tfwe iw "~pe>uau V Mrs. Selma Tlghe, at the trial of her divorce in Vandenburg county, Indiana, testified that her husband, a Pennsylvania man, was wont to amuse himself by placing lighted cigarettes between her toes while she was asleep, burlng her so that she could not walk. "You're free" said the judge, giving her an uncondi tional divorce. ' * * "Sam Cutchon," says the Old Wil- , low Local, "has quit staying over night when he drives into town, since | one night last December they gave him a rubber bottle to take to bed with him and when he opened it | there was nothing but hot water, he ' claims." WHEN THE PEOPLE SPEAK (New York Times) President Wilsoni can sharply re prove Senator Chamberlain for say ing that the war service of the Ad ministration has "fallen down," but he cannot reprove the people of the United States, who are very much of Senator Chamberlain's opinion. The people are saying what Senator Chamberlain said, not in his words, but in words of like import. No President can tell the people that they have been guilty of "an aston ishing and absolutely unjustifiable distortion of the truth." Does the President know what the people are thinking and saying? It is always a matter of doubt whether a Presi dent of the United States can really know what is in the minds of the people; so few of those attout him are willing to tell him the whole truth, if it be unpleasant, and so rarely do his unofficial visitors put aside commonplace courtesies and venture to acquaint him with un favorable opinion. If Mr. Wilson knows, if he is permitted to know, what the people are saying, he will understand why his rebuke to Sena tor Chamberlain has been received with faint public approval. A Correspondent's Troubles It does seem pathetic that the written and stamped approval, in all colors of the rainbow, of the Paris chief of police, the American con sul, the British military control, the British consul, the French consul in New York, and nearly everybody else in the world, including our own Secretary of State, eufflceth not to convince a minor league official that an innocent native of Niles, Mich., isn't related by marriage to the Hohenzollerns. —Ring W. Lard ner in Collier's Weekly. All They Need Is Time Some day it may dawn on the common people of Germany that they are doing all the starving and most of the dying.—Toledo Blade. | THE PEOPLE'S FORUM OUR WAR DUTY 1o the Editor of the Telegraph: 1 feel certain that the below facts should be put before the Harris burg public. The real seriousness of, the situation does not yet seem to have taken a grip on the people. During the past year we have had two large Liberty loans, and the present day Baby bond. Harris burg has far oversubscribed its amount in both the previous cam paigns, but has everyone done his share, or has the burden fallen more heavy on a percentage? The Baby bonds are selling in Harris burg, but THEY ARE NOT SELL ING like moving picture tickets are selling every night at our movie theaters, and until the people of this city and all over this country can be brought face to face with the seriousness of the present day strife, Kaiser Bill has a mighty good chance to win. For twenty-five cents a week a person can buy a Baby bond and there is not five per cent of the peo ple in Harrisburg who cannot af ford that. Our government needs money, our soldiers, our Red Cross, and what they don't need should be saved to a far larger extent than the people of this town are saving. If we give our money with perfect freedom now and deny ourselves our government and soldiers will win this war and when peace comes we can take up our pleasures with a free heart and a clear conscience, but if we do not, we must bow to autocracy. Why not start a campfelgn and pledge ourselves in helping our gov ernment? Movies once a week dur- Corn Meal Mush [From the New York Herald] Many housekeepers have trouble with lumping when making this breakfast dish. Try the following way: Take half a cup of cornmeal and a teaspoon of salt and pour in to it half a cup of cold water. Stir well and put in a saucepan or in a double boiler. Pour over this a cup of boiling water; set over direct heat and stir constantly until the meal thickens. There is small danger of lumping. Here are various ways of making cornmeal acceptable even as a steady article of diet: Serve hot with milk or cream, with syrup, with butter and a sprinkle of maple su gar. Let cool, cut in slices (pour in a round can to cool and attractive round slices can be cut) and fry and you will have the fried mush such as American pioneers served so often on their tables. Ground cooked meat may be added to the mush before it is let to cool; half a cupful of grat ed cheese is another addition that will increase the food value. Half a cupful of tomato sauce and a chopped green pepper also make a tasty combination with cornmeal mush. Still another way of prepar ing cold mush for the table is to cut it into small cubes or diamonds and fry these, after dipping Into flour and batter, in deep fat. Serve with syrup or with honey or soft maple sugar. Too Many Theoiists We haye had altogether too many lawyers and school teachers trying to till the shoes of big men and ex pert men in Washington. That is why we are bound with red tape and subjected to costly and blun dering experiments. Philadelphia Inquirer. Two-Cent Papers Carry Most Advertising All over the country two-cent jiewspapers carAed the great est volume of advertising during the year 1917. And that is as it should be. The paper that people are will ing to pay more to get is most assuredly the paper they most want, and the paper the people most want Is the paper most val uable to the advertiser. What is true of the country is true of Harrisburg. During 1917 the Telegraph-—the only two-cent paper in Harrisburg— led Its nearest penny competitor by more than 50,000 inches. The Harrisburg Telegraph's circulation—covering three out of four homes in Central Pennsylvania—at a higher price than other papers cost—with no duplication—offers to the advertiser practically 100 per cent, of the money-spending homes in its Held. ing the crisis that we are now pass ing through is enough. We walk into our picture houses in this city and they are packed. The same peo ple going three and tour times a week. Find out as each persons goes in how many has a Baby bond, and 1 am afraid that the percentage would have a hard time in reaching two figures. If we walk into our candy stores, we see hundreds of pounds of sugar, yet our tables have to go without, and the price so high that our poor people- cannot buy it. If we all cut down the amount of candy we eat, we cut down the con sumption. Do not make a Red Cross can vasser come after you for your dol lar; do not make It necessary for a campaign to be started to get Har risburgers to take their share of the Baby Bonds. Go down and give it like you walk into a movie theater, or like you will go weekly and spend fifty cents or more for a pound of candy. Do not think because we have an immense country; do not think that because the war is over three thou sand miles away that we are safe and will win. America must win this war, and your co-operation will help. G. C. HEATHCOTE. Letters From Front To tl<€ Editor of the Telegraph: Thank you for the letters you print from the boys at the front and in the camps. They are better than magazine articles, for they give the war reports and experiences from the boys' views, and that's what we want. A SOLDIER S MOTHER. What Austrians Want A dispatch on the Austrian situa tion to the New York Times quotes a man just from Vienna as follows: "I have been in Austria four months. During that time I never spoke to a single person who did not ridicule the idea of Austria going on lighting for Alsace-Lorraine, for the German annexation of Belgium, and for various items of the German jin goes' program. Such things as colo nies and freedom of the seas simply don't enter the people's minds. They want an Austrian peace, regardless of Germany or any other factor, and they want it at practically any price." " 'What will Germany do in case you make your own peace?' I often asked the people. The invariable re ply was: 'Let Germany do what she likes. Things cannot be any worse than they are.' " Duty Duty, be it a small matter or a great, is duty still, the command of heaven, the eldest voice God. And it is only they who are faithful in a few things, who will be faith ful over many things.—Charles Kingsley. Qut The late news has a stab in it For Kaiser Willie's house. Bang, goes the Austrian Cabinet With the accent on the "kus." —Philadelphia Evening Ledger. Happy Householder While cold wyndes howl and whistle I dance and shout "Hooray!" I do npt have to mow my lawn Again until next May! —Kansas City Star. JANUARY 24, T9TB. OUR WAR PREPARATIONS. With the introduction of the War Cabinet bill by Senator Chamber lain of Oregon in the shadow of ex ecutive disapproval a crisis has come in our preparations for war. We are still, and shall be for a long time, preparing to take our place in the line with our hard-pressed al lies. In fact, until the end of the struggle the Government will be en gaged with the conduct of military operations and with the training and equipment of troops and the up keep of the navy. It will be a gi gantic undertaking, with which no single man has the strength to cope. There are no precedents in our his tory to guide the Government; there is no experience to draw upon. It is the part of wisdom, there fore, to profit by the mistakes of our allies, who after more than three years of war have an organizatibn and a policy which should at least serve as an example. Perhaps the United States can Improve upon it; certainly it should not be disregard! Ed, unless the machinery we are using is properly adjusted to assure co-operation with our allies with the least possible delay. But if that is plainly not the case, then the parts should be re-assembled to give us the war machine and the direction of it that are indispensable and Im perative. Unfortunately, there is too much evidence in the record that things are not going well at Washington; that, in fact, we are muddling along with old forms, methods, and proce dure that are obsolete, when no time is to be lost, not a day or an hour in planning right and executing swiftly. If we fail our allies in 1918, we may have got ihto the war too late. The question has been on the lips of a great many anxious men, and more and more of late as the Senate Military Affair* Com mittee has pursued its inquiry into the preparations made by the Gov ernment to arm and equip and clothe and _ transport our troops overseas. Woe betide any man who assumes the responsibility of belit tling the mistakes that have been made and of opposing reform and reorganization from partisan mo tives or for reasons personal to him self. —Exchange. OUR DAILY LAUGH SUSPECTED IT. "The people in the flat below bought their piano at auction." "I suapeclcd as much; it's going g-oingr, going all the time." ALAfil Turtle—Oh dear. I hope that isn't what became of my poor lost brother! FEMININE ARCHITECTURE. "My -wife has planned a gem of place." "What's her Idea?" "An eight room house with 12! closet*-" ' / Htentng (Efyal n Harrlsburg's present -water sup ply dilemma recalls the experience of the city In the winter of January, 22, 1904, when the great sup-, ply pipes that run from the pump ing station to the Reservoir broke at Paxton creek. It was In winter time and the creek had been on a rampage and washed dirt from the supports of the pipes, allowing them to sag. The result was a break at 4 o'clock In the afternoon and for over twenty-four hours Harrlsburg was without water. The linemen and repairmen worked all night and everyone sat up waiting for a firs which never came or else walked down to see the break. The result was that a police line had to be es tablished to keep people back and in the course of the excitement a number of people fell Into the creek while trying to see what was going on. Vance C. McCormlck, then mayor, went Into six feet of water himself while trying to keep other people out. When 'daylight came and there was no water In the pipes all sorts of expedient were tried. The river was frozen over and the water was not fit to drink raw anyway so telephones were worked and by noon all sorts of "spring water" was ♦ being sold about the streets. One enterprising firm mounted barrels tilled with water from a spring some where up the county In wagons and sold the water at ten cents a pall. In a short time the wagon was fol lowed by crowds of people with all sorts of containers and the supply was sold out in short order. It tran spired that the firm had gone to a liquor store and bought the first empty barrels that hands could b put on and there was a flavor about the water taken from the barrels that seemed to have a "morelsh" taste for many folks. Another part nership composed of young men sold the water from a sprlngwater plant by bugle and there was a fun on i seltzer, ginger ale and every other kind of bottled water to say nothing of what would be called by our en gineering friends "a rise to a peak" in the demand for beer. It was also a grand excuse for boys to avoid tak ing baths or getting "washed up;" for postponing of laundry work and other things. We were all more or less apprehensive about what might happen that waterless day, but we had a lot of a laughing about it when it was all over. .* • Talking about that winter, which was the time of the great ice flood that nearly took part of Middle town off the map and ruined some islands whose fertile soli had escap ed the flood of 1889, the ice In the Susquehanna was two feet thick and the cold weather fingered until March. No one can forget the time the ice broke and the way it plied up against piers and crowded the banks. It was weeks before the lco melted and the islands opposite the city looked as though they had been gone over with a currycomb. Po lice were on duty for days ami nights and it was a period of anxiety for many. Fortunately the river was high and the ice was carried by the bridges and made trouble down around Mlddletown. The average railroad man of experience shudders yet when you recall the memorable "ice flood" and what happened along the line, especially the Colufti bla branch which had to be blasted out by gangs of men working for days and days. • • Richard W. Williamson, of Hunt- > lngdon, who has been put in charge • of the work of the Attorney Gen- 1 eral's Department relative to collec tion of costs of maintenance of the insane persons in state institutions whoso families or estates are ablo to care for them, is well known to many Harrisburg people, as he spent a couple of years here with the La bor and Industry Department The work which he will handle Is of great importance and Involves mil lions of dollars. * * *. Edgar A. Wrimer, of Lebanon, who is a manufacturer, bee raiser, experimenter, farmer and other things, told a good story yesterday lat the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture meeting. He was tald ing about the way people boosted pWces and blamed the war. "I raise bees and sell honey; have sold it for twenty cents or so for years. I went to market one day and asked a wo man the price of the honey on her stall. She said thirty-five cents. It was not a pound such as I have been selling at the old price and 1 asked her why. 'Oh,' said she, 'Everything else has gone up.' To my mind other increases are as un. reasonable." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —C. B. Prltchard, Pittsburgh's new safety director, used to be an assistant district attorney, and a good one. —Edmund K. Trent, another as sistant district attorney, is now u deputy attorney general. —Louis Piolet, of Bradford county, here for the farmers' meet ings, says he can plow or plant with any of them. He has not miss- > ed a meeting here in years. -M —Warren K. Miller, appointed on the old age pension commission, is a former legislator. —Mayor Babcock ts making Thrift Stamp speeches in Pitts burgh. He is much interested. DO YOU KNOW —Tliat Harrisburg Is an ideal place to store food from sur rounding towns and needs n commercial cold storage plant. HISTORIC HAKHISBCRG This city had a merchants' asso ciation back in the twenties and it dealt mainly with lighting of stores in the evening. War Times (Contributed) There's wheatless ways and meatlesi days and non-alcohlic beer. There's coalless bins and doubtlcsi whims to rob the world ol cheer — There's sugarless meals and soups of peels, fend mankind has lost his rights, There's boozeless days and indus trial stays and chilly lightless nights. But the bosses say it's the only way that we can win our fight, Close down the mill and sit right rtill, will put the Huns to flight. ' It's a beauUful scheme, this scholar ly dream, a peaceful way to-, scrap; _ A. But over the Tthlne there's another kind that's changing Europe's map. H. O. H. Elizabethtown
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