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SATURDAY, JANUARY St, 1918
If I can mm om life the aching,
Or cool one pain, i
Or help one fainting robin
Unto hit nest again,
1 shall not live in rain.
— Emilt Dickinson.
LIGHTNING RODS UP
POLITICAL lightning rods are
being erected here and there In
a general testing of these
safety-first appliances with a view to
determining which particular rod is
mast likely to prove efficient in the
primaries and in the later political
storms of the present year. Many of
these lightning arresters are likely
to prove defective and will promptly
find their way to the junk heap;
others will give more or less satis
faction for a period, but will be dis
carded for the two or three which
must stand the final test in the pres
ence of the voters of Pennsylvania.
All parties and factions have a
superabundance of material, If we
may judge from the various pro
nouncements and demonstration* of
the last two or three weeks, but up
to the present time the voters have
not manifested any great enthu
siasm in the preliminary contests.
appears to he a sort of trylng-out
demonstration, with an apparent
tendency in all directions to await
developments.
The trend of events Is in the direc
tion of the Republican party, provid
ing its leaders will compose theii
differences and instead of fighting
each other unite for a general as
sault upon the entrenchments of the
natural adversary. Here and there
is a disposition to appropriate the
prohibition issue as the particular
. campaign thunder of Individuals or
factions, but the feeling is becoming
widespread that this question will be
largely eliminated by affirmative ac
tion of all parties before the cam- !
paign Is much older.
Republicans and Democrats sup
ported the measure In Congress and
they will do so In the State cam
paign this year. It Is going to be a
very difficult matter for any party
to take over this Issue as Its partic
ular property. Individual candidates
must stand or fall upon their own
attitude on this question. The Tele
graph believes that an open decla
ration by the Republican State Com
mittee in favor of the amendment
would clear the political atmosphere
at once and permit of the selection
cf a ticket that would be invincible
at the November election.
Events are crowding each other in
HUch fashion as never before In the
history of the Nation and the people
are going to vote their convictions
this year with due regard for the
welfare of the people and with a de
termination to do anything and
everything that will aid In the win
ning of the war.
Piffling factional or individual po
litical activities will c&unt for little
either In the primary contest or the
general campagn to follow. The sit
uation demands, men of character
and ability and the Republican party
will grow stronger and atrotiger only
as it clearly Indicates Its purpose to
vitalize and make potential tho prin
ciple* upon which the party was
founded and our great National in
stitutions were built.
The ingratitude of Republics! Wo
have already forgotten Funston, who
died of a broken heart on tho Mexican
frontier. Shall we forget Gardner as
quickly?
OUR DUTY
THERE are signs hero and there
of a more responsive attitude
on the part of thoso in author
ity at Washington toward the pro
* tests of the country growing out of
indifference to the manifest will of
the people. The average patriotic
citizen has a reasonable conception
of the enormous difficulties which
confront the Government at this
time and he is disposed to be pa
tient most of the time, but the time
has come when silence may be con
strued as approval of anything and
verythlng which is done under the
spur of water necessity.
Organising a great army Is a tre
menilou* Job and the fact of the
' SATURDAY EVENING, A H3CRRISBURO Wtf TELEGRAM , 'JANUARY 26. T9IS.
task being' eo enormous Is as argu
ment In favor of the most liberal
action by those charged with these
unparalleled tasks.
All political considerations must
be cast aside. Men of pre-eminent
fitness -without regard to party or
political preference must be sum
moned to the places of authority
and power. Little men bobbing
about in big places must be dis
missed for the good of the Nation.
President Wilson must begin to
see that the unlimited backing of
inefficient men is not tho best evi
dence of executive ability. Tho de
mands of the hour are so great that
individuals do not count. Personal
loyalty has nothing whatever to do
with the case.
Theodore H. Price, in a recent ar
ticle on "Optimism and Economy,
the Duties of the New Tear," re
ferred to the suggested removal of in
competents in the Government war
machine and observed that the num
ber Is so small is really remarkable
when we consider how rapidly the
barnacles gather upon a ship that
is not in motion and that our ship
of state has been lying in the an
chorage of peace for half a century
or more.
Mr. Price also observes that ever
since the Pilgrims landed from tho
Mayflower our housecleaning has
been conducted in a sensational
manner. "The carpets," he adds,
"are pulled up and beaten with
much noise. A great deal of dust
is unnecessarily raised. The furni
ture Is put in the yard. The pic
tures are taken down and the house
generally looks like lightning had
struck it. In the end, however, it
Is well cleaned and we are all bet
ter oft for the agony to which wa
have been subjected. In politics
and governmental matters gener
ally we pursue much tho same
course and it is to be hoped that
our idiosyncrasy in this respect will
be understood and not misunder
stood abroad, especially In Ger
many."
There is undoubtedly much of
truth In what Mr. Price says and
the flareup over the Garfield decree
and tho Chamborlain charges
may in tho end prove a blessing if
it stirs our people to a full appre
ciation of the responsibilities of
the United States in this war.
Regarding the fuel situation the
same writer says:
As to coal, we are now produc
ing more of It than ever before
in our history, but we are trying
to run our factories and our rail
roads upon the theory that they
can produce and transport the
twenty-lite billion dollars worth
of goods that we consumed in
peace times and the additional
fifteen billons worth of war equip
ment that we suddenly find our
selves in need of. We simply
can't do it. That is all.
Manifestly, it is going to be neces
sary for the American people to
quit theorizing about the war and
place themselves squarely on a war
basis, doing their utmost to achieve
the victory which is inevitable, but
which may be long deferred unless
[our own people prepare back of the
[line to do the things which their
boys at the front are ready to do.
There Is no use getting cither too
optimistic or too pessimistic. We
must simply grit our teeth and go
into this war with a full determin
ation to win a just and righteous
peace.
Austria lias grown weary of the
tyrannical domination of tho dual
monarchy by tire Prussian autocracy.
Austrians In this country are likewise
tired of the way their country has
been exploited by the Pottsdam gang
GOOD WORK
BY all means read the annual
report of the Harrlsburg Young
Women's Christian Association
on another page of the Telegraph
this evening. It is a record of social
service unsurpassed in the history of
the 1 city. To go into all the various
useful activities of the organization
would be to take up more space than
Is permissible here. The big point
is that the large building erected
only a few years ago—when some of
the managers feared it was so large
that it could not be financed —Is al
ready filled to overflowing, with
those interested looking longingly
toward the vacant property adjoin
ing and hoping for the time when
financial conditions will permit an
to provide much-needed
space for additional work.
It is Interesting to note that the
management has found it possible,
through careful supervision and the
receipts of the dlnlngroom, to close
a most trying year with a small sur
plus and all bills paid.
Perhaps no department is so In
teresting in its results as th*s in
dustrial branch, which reaches into
all parts of the city and has knit the
industrial workers together in all
manner of useful and pleasure-giv
ing pursuits. This branch operates
so quietly and with so little stir that
Its exlstcnco Is unknown to thou
sands of Harrisburgers, but Its re
sults speak for themselves in a hun
dred factories and stores from which
tho workers look toward the Y. W.
C. A. as a chery house of hospitality,
where the latchstrlng is always out
and welcome is written on tho door
mat. The Y. W. C. A. has become
the Olrls' Club of Harrlsburg.
The Democratic party whip shows
signs of fraying at the ends.
GERMAN "PEACE TALK"
THE outstanding feature of Von
Hertling's address as published
yesterday is that he imagines ho
will be able to talk peace terms with
one enemy nation at a time. He
speaks of discussing Alsace-Lorraine
with France alone. He would have
the United States make paace sep
arately with Auptrla-HungAry. But
he will do nothing of the sort. He,
or his successor, for the ax Is al
ready being sharpened for Van Hert
ling's head, will deal with the allies
as Germany is fighting them —all to
together. America and England will
stand by France And France will
stand by us. It will be one for all
and all for one. We shall fight to
gether and we shall make peace to
gether.
Germany would like nothing bet
ter than to discuss peace with one
of her enemies at a time, but the
trap she has set is clumsily baited
and nobody Is fooled. Germany, It
becomes more and more apparent,
has forsaken for the time her
thought of world conquest and has
turned her attention toward a peace
that will leave the did military ring
still In control, with enough prestige
to start all over again to plan for
world control at a later and more
propitious time. That is what all this
so-called Prussian "peace talk" at
this time means.
A GROTESQUE SPECTACLE
THE grotesque spectacle of a j
petty officeholder forbidding the I
Governor of the Commonwealth
to perform a charitable act because
it conflicted with his Interpretation
of a local ordinance ought never to
be repeated in Harnsburg. The
whoie city Is ashamed of Thursday
night's occurrence at the agricul
tural show. It feels that It owes the
Governor an apology. A repetition
of such conduct should be followed
by Instant dismissal of the offender.
foiiUct Ck
By tlia Ex-Committeeman
1L „ , . J
Official announcement of the
"political calendar" of Pennsylvania
for 1918 wan Issued to-day by George
D. Thorn, chief clerk of the depart
ment of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth, in pamphlet form giving
the following list of parties which
are entitled to nominate candidates
at tho May primary: Republican,
Democratic, Socialist, Prohibition,
Washington and Roosevelt Progres
sives. This order of precedence was
established for Pennsylvania at the
presidential election of 1916.
The spring primary is announced
for May 21 and the general election
for November 5. Registration days
for the general election are given as
follows: September 5, September 17
and October 5. All previous regis
trations have expired.
The primary registration days are
first and second class cities, April
17; third class. May 1: boroughs and
townships, under enrollment act,
March 19 and 20.
Tho voters will nominate candi
dates for governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of Internal affairs
and congressmen at large; thirty-two
district congressmen; twenty-five
senators for four-year terms and
three to fill vacancies and 207 repre
sentatives on party tickets and one
judge of the superior court on the
non-partisan ticket. Petitions can
not be circulated before March 2 and
must be filed in the offico of the sec
retary of the Commonwealth April
11. Tho last day to file nomination
papers by independent bodies is Sep
tember 6.
Candidates may withdraw peti
tions until April 12. Tho last day
for filing expense accounts for the
prlmai*y is June 6 and for the gen
eral election December 5.
—While highway Commissioner
J." Denny O'Neil conferred with
friends in Western Pennsylvania
about pushing his gubernatorial
boom after the big dinner in Pitts
burgh, which all agree was a notable
event and made a great Impression,
Attorney General Brown, Insurance
Commissioner Ambler and other ad
ministration men who attended hast
ened to Philadelphia to urge upon
Senator-Vare that the lineup for tho
McKeesport man. Governor Brum
baugh is in Philadelphia to-day and
it is said will seek to have the Vares
make an alignment. However, thrt-e
are many Vare men In Philadelphia
and some in the counties nearby
who oppose O'Neil for various rea
sons.
—The Penrose men are having a
weekend meeting in Philadelphia to
discuss the situation, which they say
they have discounted and that there
will be no change In plans because
of the dinn>r. State Chairman Wil
liam E. Crow, of Unlontown, who
is much mentioned as a possible
harmony candidate and who is
strong among certain elements In
the western counties. Is In Philadel
phia and there has been a revival of
Crow talk. Many say he would suit
everyone. Whether O'Neil would
quit for Crow la debatable. He will
fight if the whole administration
force leaves him, say his friends.
•—Friends of Chairman W. D. B.
Ainey, in the northeastern counties,
have declined to accept the appear
ance of Attorney General Brown
at the O'Neil dinner as any evidence
that the stale administration is irre
vocably hitched to O'Neil. They be
lieve that O'Nell's style of campaign
will make things so unpleasant that
a man lined up with the administra
tion, but not offensive to the other
side, will be demanded. And the
chairman is to be kept In the pub
lic eye as the available candidate.
Meanwhile he is industriously saw
ing wood, but maintaining a silence
as profound as the northern tier
woods at this season.
—The mourning Democratic organs,
which have been very busy boosting
O'Neil as a means of helping on any
scrap In the Reiftiblican party are
.having .a hard time to explain whyl
Pinchot and Lewis have failed to
declare for O'Neil as they claimed
they would do. O'NeJl has not claim
ed either of them but would like to
have them. The Democratic wind
jammers here predicted Pinchot
would go to the O'Neil dinner. He
did not. They predicted he would de
clare for O'Neil here. He did not.
They declared he would get into the
fight for O'Neil at once. He did iu>t
Now they say that Lewis' statement
against factionalism is a sign that
he is for O'Neil. Anything to attract
attention to a fight In another fel
low's house when they are breaking
up the furniture In your own, ap
pears to be the Democratic machine
attitude.
What Is really giving the O'Neil
men concern is not the former pro
gressive element, but the refusal of
William A. Magee to come under the
tent. Magoe went away from Pitts
burgh when the O'Neil dinner was
being held ind has been boosting
Alney. It Is believed that he has more
of the inside of the Vare plans than
some other men.
—O'Nell's friends ar# busy send
ing letters to the V&res and other
big men In that wing to get them to
come out for O'Neil. The same plan
was successful with the Governor and
Attorney General.
—Belief Is that Congressman John
R. K. Scott'i boom for Lieutenant
Governor is In reality for renomlna
tlon for Congress-at-large, and that
It Is all part of a vare plan which
A CERTAIN TYPE OF A SPORT BYBRICGS
AND IN THC |Vie/Sf4Tli^e
> _ UP north
will work out a scheme of "appor
tionment. "
—Sproul men say that the Dela
ware Senator is making headway
with an occasional speech and no
excitement. However, there are many
who await a formal announcement.
• —Men connected with the state
government who are ever on the
lookout for places for friends and
folk* at the State Fire Marshal's of
fice, were given a rude surprise to
day because of a story printed that
the fire marshal was making 3,000
appointments. Under the fire mar
shal act of 1913 burgesses, fire chiefs
and other officers are ex-oftlcio spe
cial deputies to report fires and have
to be given a card of authority every
year as well as notice to attend to
business and get fifty cents for each
lire report. This year there were
many new men elected to municipal
offices and the list had to be revised.
The story that jobs were being hand
ed out caused a demand which em
barrassed not only men importuned
to land places for friends, but the
folks who had no jobs to hand out.
—A North American story from
Johnstown says: "Ex-Congreßsman
W. W. Bailey will be a Democratic
candidate for Congress again in the
Cambria-Blair-Bedford district, but
Robert E. Cresswell Is acting a bit
like a man who does not believe in
signs. Cresswell and Bailey were
political buddies In the old days.
Both were 'original Bryan men.'
When Wilson named Bryan secretary
of state Cresswell spent considerable
time thumbing an atlas and pick
ing out the country that he thought
was best suited to the health of an
American ambassador from the In
terior of Pennsylvania. It turned
out eventually that President Wil
son was not naming Bryan men as
ambassadors. Cresswell failed to
land, and charged the failure up
against Bailey. The wound was re
opened and some salt rubbed in
when Cresswell failed to land a fed
eral judgeship. That was charged
up against Bailey also."
-—A notable state convention is
expected by Dr. B. E. P. Prugh,
chairman of the Prohibition state
committee, who has called a Prohi
bition state convention to meet In
Pittsburgh on February 12 to con
sider suggestions for the state tick
et to be nominated next spring and
delegates to the Prohibition Nation
al convention next May, and the ta
titudo of Prohibitionists toward the
proposed union of their party with
the new National party and toward
other parties in Pennsylvania in the
matter of selection o# legislators
pledged to ratification of the "dry"
amendment. The character of the
coming state campaign and means
of financing it will be considered.
HAVING EARS TO HEAR
Is It heyfmd their knowledge that
Philadelphia is the second port in
the United States? It cannot be,
for it has been brought to their at
tention —or at least to the attention
of some of the authorities —that
magnificent wharves are at their
disposal. And yet they harken not.
What sense Is there in crowdthg
the tracks around Philadelphia with
goods for New York to add to the
piles upon plies already there when
these same goods can be shipped
abroad directly from this port?
Can thev satisfactorily answer
that question?— Philadelphia Inquir
er.
INTERIOR DECORATIONS
An Irish soldier coming out of
ether in the hospital ward after an
operation exclaimed audibly: "Thank
God! That is over!"
"Don't be so sure," said the man
in the next cot, "they left a sponge
In me and had to cut me open
again.' And the patient on the
other side said: "Why, they had to
open me, too, to find one of their
instruments."
Just then the surgeon who had
operated on the Irishman stuck his
head in the door and yelled: "Has
anybody seen my hat?" —From Illus
trated World.
AIN'T IT, THOUGH?
When you live in the city of Xew
York, a lii have had leisure eniinrh
to be depressed every day since
election at tho prospect of Tammany
running the police department, and
have been wondering Whether your
street will have a gambling; hall or
something worse in it, and have been
asking people whether the police
will drop 4n on you and collect ths
Tine >ou must pay for running a legi
timate business or whether you must
enfl at headquarter* and shove "our
money under the door, and at last
you wake up on January 2 and find
Mayor Hylan has appointed Freder
ick H. Bugher police commissioner,
and the newspapers tell you Mr,
Fusher is not half bad and likely
10 do te'erably well*—"ain't it a
Kruntl and glorlou* feeling?"— t'rom
tbe ivcw Reflubtlj. • ,
Smileage Book Catechism
w
QWHAT IS n "SMLLCA#® Hoolt?" J
A. A "Smileage Book" is a|
book containing coupons entit
ling the holder to admission and seat
tickets at Liberty Theatofcs, Liberty
Tents and auditoriums under the
management of the Commission on
Training Camp Activities in Nation
al Army Cantonments and National
Guard Camps.
Q. By whom are they issued?
A. By the Military Entertain
ment Council of the Commission on
Training Camp Activities, Washing
ton, D. C.
Q. What do "Smlleage Books"
cost?
A. "Smileaec Books" are of two
kinds: The first costs $1; the second
$5.
Q. How many tickets docs each
book contain?
A. The $1 "Smileage Book con
tains 20 coupons; the $5 book con
tains 100 coupons.
G. Where are they good?
A. In all Liberty Entertain
ments, in all National Army Canton
ments and National Guard Camps
under the management of the Com
mission on Training Camp Activi
ties.
Q. Are they good in Naval sta
tions and other camps?
A. No. At present they are good
only in Army cantonments and Na
tional Guard camps.
Q. Where will "KmHonse Books"
be on sale?
A. The books will he placed on
sale by local entertainment councils
throughout the country and in de
partment stores, drug stores, clubs
ahd various central places of busi
ness.
Q. Are Uto IxKiks to be inscribed
by name to Soldiers?
A. There is space for an inscrip
tion to soldiers by name, but this is
not necessary.
THE CAUSE FIRST
It is R matter for rcgrftt that a
conflict has come about between
I President Wilson and Congress. But
' the country should have no fear of
, such a conflict. Out of it Is certain
. to come the truth about war condi
tions, and what the people want
Just now is the truth.
There has been no fight on Pi-ooi
'jent Wilson. The friends o:' the ad-
C ministration who cannot distinguish
utween the earnest desire of patri
otic mon In Congress and in privalo
life to speed up our preparation for
war and a political flght on Presi
dent Wilson as a Democrat, are lack
ing in vision.
There is fear for tho countiy, nl
most everywhere. The people know
tnly that after practically ten
months since we declared war we
Ut not yet in the war. Not only
are we not prepared for war, but
our Allies have despaired of our be
ing able to do our part in tilt war
during the year 1918.
There is only one heart an*l one
nlnd In the United State* to-day,
and that Is ior the safety of tho Na
tion. There is only one ilesire, and
that,ls to win the war. President
Wilson's anger at Congrei? for sug
gesting a war counc'l •°.oos not
change the condition in the least;
dots not allay the fear that we have
failed to meet, the emergency that
confronts us. It does not explain
why we are not ready for war.
President Wilson is willing to as
sume all the responsibility for the
conduct of the war, and for the
pieparation for It. But there Is
itomethlng for more important than
the Wishes oi the administration, and
that It) tho desire of the country that
such a grave responsibility be placed
In the strongest, most capable, effi
cient and effective agency that can
b(■ formed by the Government. For
the responsibility for the triumph of
a Natiofl that is to be brought about
only by the sacrifice of tb* blood of
its young men and the cost of bll
l ons of its wealth, is not a respon
sibility to be lightly pliocl or as
sumed.
For that reason, Benatijr Lodge
yeMerday expressed the vary soul of
' the country when he said;
"We all owe to the President of
i the United States, who it! charged
i with these terrible responsibilities,
all the support we can give him, tird
we have done It evee since the end
' of April. But our allegiance Is not
• to the President. Our Kr.it allegl-
I anew Is to creater things than Pres
idents or Government". Our hlgh
. est allegiance is to the country and
i the cause; and U ire see things going
' wrong we shall call the attention of
the country to them if we cin. We
i shall vote the President all powers,
J all money, as we have In the past;
Q. Are they transferable?
A. Yes, to soldiers in uniform.
Q. How many theaters have been
built?
A. One permanent theater seat
ing 3,000 has been built in each Na
tional Army Cantonment. Two Chau
tauqua Tents seating 1,800 each have
been erected in each National Guard
Camp.
<}. Are "Smllcngc Books" avail
able for use h,v civilians?
A. Civilians are allowed in these
entertainments only when accom
panied by o soldier friend with
"Smileage" coupons.
Q. How lmicli money does the
Military Entertainment Council hope
to raise from the sale of "Sinllrage
Books?"
A. The goal for the drive of the
week of January 28tli has bVen set
at 1,000,000 "Smileage Books," but
if a million dollars worth of smiles
are good for our soldier boys, why
won't two million dollars' worth be
much better?
Q. How can I get these "Smlle
agc Books" to tho soldiers?
A. Send them by mall. Let the
next letter you send to any camp
contain a $5 or $1 book; think of the
laughter in those coupons. And, of
course. If you have a, boy, son, bro
ther, sweetheart or husband of your
own, in camp, you will see that he
gets one.
Q. Is there any "red tape" In
getting' "Smllengc Books" to sol
diers?
A. No. Books can be bought from
members of Local Military Enter
tainment Council, or at Clubs, stores
and other places where notices ap
pear as follows: "Smileage Books
On Sale Here." There is nothing you
tan send that requires as little time
and labor. No wrapping, no weigh
ing. Five $1 or two $5 Books can
be mailed first class for three cents.
but if the money Is wasted and the
war delayed, if the powers are inef
fective, we should be traitors indeed
if we sat silent and allowed the coun
try to drift to disaster because we
were afraid that somebody would
call us treasonable."—From the Kan
sas City Star.
ANY WOMAN TO ANY MAN
I cannot use tho bayonet, or swoi
Nor take the life that It Is mine to
give;
My spirit dares —but ah, my flesh is
weak/ \
And you—you would not have it.
otherwise.
A woman's strength lies not in force
of arms;
In loving mo, you love my weakness,
too,
That challenges the manhood of the
race
To fierce protection of its womankind.
So you must go, and I must' stay.
For you
The mighty exultation of the flght,
The wild exhilaration of tho fray;
For me, to ply the task that once
was yours.
And fill your place, as best I can, at
home.
But, now that you are gone, all men
should go—
All, all! My heart Is filled With bitter
hate
To see a man still young enough to
fight
Doing the work a woman well might
do.
Away! away! and let us drive the car,
And run the engine—yes, and mine
the coal!
Think not that when white Peace
shall come again.
Like morning'"after nightmare, we
shall wish
To keep the places only held for you.
Ah, never, never shall our homes af
ford
A sweeter shelter than when war
shall cease;
The household tasks, once tiresome,
then shall he
As altar service in a sanctuary,
Where you and I, and many more,
please God,
Shall break the bread of life with
tremulous hands .
Ana taste the wine of life with trem
ulous Hps,
Remembering those who left a h<vne
like ours,
Ar.d now have gone to the great
Home of aIL
8o speed you. speed you, hero of my
heart,
Upon the mightiest quest tho world
has known:
And I, If T be cold or hungry here
Shall smile to think I share the loaf
with you,
And warm your body with my meager
Are.
—FLORENCE VAN CLEVE.
Times Have Changed
Wo miss that usual winter story
about the Kansaas burning com in
their parlor stores.—From the Ro
chester (N. Y.) Herald.
LABOR NOTES
A letter carrier in Altoona, Pa.,
has completed thirty-five years' serv
ice, during he walked 153,-
400 miles.
Through the eo-operatlon of
state labor ageii(s and the Federal
Department of the
problem of farm labor is well on
its way to solution.
Laborers employed at the Cough
lan & Son's shipyard at Vancouver,
B. C., are joining the union of this
calling, following an all-union
agreement with this concern.
A million women to act as home
guards and take the places of men
who are in tho Army is the aim of
the Women's National Homo Guard
of America, organised in St. Louis.
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men reports that 44 new lodges
were established during the month
of October, being more than In any
preceding month in its history.
The 5,500 members of the Gran-
Ite Cutters' Union In the Barre, Vt.,
district will be advanced twenty per
cent, in wages beginning April 1.
Aberdeen, Wash., Typographical
Union has raised Wages fifty cents
ft day for Ita members employed on
newspapers. The new rates are 5
for day work and fG.SO for night
work.
Wages for women engaged In the
fish canning Industry In California
have been tixed by the State Indus
trial "Welfare Cohimission at a min
imum of $lO a week for forty-eight
hours.
Protection for labor after the
war, by a policy of brepftredness
against foreign competition, was de
manded by the American Federation
in convention in Buffalo.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
~~~ NO TIME tO
RJfflFOftM.
I' tall you, you'
will* have to cut
down on your
extravagance
11 WE t^ils pac *
N\ >r Grouch
fEFljtr-l J (pouting)— You
II " ' might h'a v e
i L waited till after
XmM t0 mcn "
XMPOHBIBL.E
NOT TO.
I want to get >r Yi
Into some bust- / \ Jm
ness where I am \ JB
•ure to get a •<£ \ IAH
That's easy, | \
Dtpome a chlr- \ | V
opodist. ' I
f*. r Jjk A HARD JOB.
Bug: Geo. thl*
ci*a*
*t Is some
hafd Jb!
tJl'-TO-DATB. igJ|
Bag" Hey BUI
If yon wfcot
torn* JsnUTotfll si r3- ]
har to go "over 3ya^~
! Bmttng (Eljat
1'
Although scarcely realized by tli#
hurrying passerby and almost un
noticed by tho people who live next
door there are many places in Hart
risburg with historical significant;!
and which in days gone by played
a notable part in the life of the
state's capital. Very few of the men
and women who go by the Harris
and Maclay mansions know tot
what they stand in the history no|
only of our city, but of the
and similarly dozens of buildings, o
Sites in llarrisburg, which go un
marked In rather striking contrast
to the custom in New England, Nov*
York and Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh and Scranton, have stori
les ol' their own which are very in*
teresting. The way time passes and
occasionally brings around building*
to uses akin to those of years aga
was strikingly illustrated the otheV
day by one of our friends. She had
been working along with other good
ladies of Harrisburg at tho Red
Cross headquarters and while in this
potr'otic duty recalled that the Fa
ger „iiilditig, which is now the eeu
ler of this activity for mercy and
comfort of the young men of Har
ripburg, was one of the improvised
hospitals for soldiers during th
Civil War. She told most interest
ingly of how with girl companion#
the had in at thj windows
of almost tho'very room in whlcH
the women of present day Harris
burg were working to see the
wounded soldiers, fti the number
in the Fager building Were Confed
erates, two of them she recalled,
from away down in Florida. It
seems odd that after this laps® o*
years that the building which had
been given up to tho care of th
wounded in the war to Save th
country should now be devoted to
preparations for the welfare of th
soldiers in the world-war for free
dom. i
• • •
Major W. G. Murdock, in charge
of the state draft headquarters, say*
that the way it looks now the dis
tricts in this part of the state wiß 4
be called upon to send what are m
termed their "shortages" to Camps
Meade and Let. in the week of Feb
ruary 4. The shortages are what are
needed to replace men rejected. The
district in this section still owes .
Camp Meade about twelvo per cent,
of its first call and these men will
not go until later in February or
maybe not until March.
♦ *
Some idea of the manner in which
the inmates of the state's new west
ern penitentiary in Center county
have been striving to keep the wolf
from the door and raise their own
food was furnished here to-day by
the statement filed by Warden John
Fr&ncles with the Governor. It
shows that in 1917 the prisoners
raised crops valued at $93,883 and
weighing many a ton, all available
for use In the Institution. The c °rn
aggregated 11,436 bushels, hay 306
tons, wheat 4 383 bushels, oats. 4908
bushels, rye 132 bushels, fodder 14J
tons And straw 250 tons, with pota
toes as a banner crop with 10, on
bushels. The orchard produced 2,-
058 bushels of apples, 11 bushels of
peaches and 532 quarts of cherries
with many berries. The beef aggre
gated 15,700 pounds: pork 25,740 and
lard 7390 and milk was 234,592
pounds with 2512 pounds of butter.
The men gathered in 125 tons of ice
and 284 shoats, 21 colts and
calves were registered as born on the
farm. Over a dozen kinds of vege
tables were grown, one item being
96.685 spring onions and 209 tons oC
cabbage. , •
"There are fewer revivals being
lield in this county now than at any
time in twenty years," said a man
who follows religious movements.
"For years January has been tho
time for tho revivals in this, city
and in tho smaller towns, while pro
tracted meetings have been usual in
country churches. Now they are
lucky to have enough coal for orai- m
nary
Commenting upon Sergeant Hus
ton's weather observations on Sun
days, a friend goes the RockVlUe
man some better. He says that the
mercury, by a singular coincidence,
has gone below sero on the last fou*
consecutive Sundays. This friend
says that, beginning with the record
cold day in February, 1912, when
temperature went to twelve below
Hero, R li of the really cold days since,
h% least the zero days, have been ;
Sundays, with one or two excep
tions.
• • •
The state authorities have decided
that the preparation of the Capitol
park extension for tile landscapo
work will not intefere with any war
work and filling, nt the rate of 200
cubic yards a day is to be ordered
shortly, the filling to be cinder from
millet. Meanwhile the detailed plans
will be pushed along and filling mado
the big Object this summer. The
appropriations are available and as
! soon as weather improves any men
i made idle in industries can be taken
j tare of.
] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
William D. I-Teebner, the Mont
gomery county controlled will spend
a eouplo of weeks ih Florida.
—>■%. L. Nopple, head of the United
Pusiness Men's Association of Phila
delphia, is getting after the Philay g
delphia post office department be-
cause of disappearance of packages
from mails. . ..
—Mayor Filbert, of Reading, is
trying to break up coal car raids
ahd is finding it some Job.
, p. r. Stevens, of the State
Chamber of Commerce, made an ad
dress to the State Lumbermen at
Philadelphia on business legislation.
—Congressman J. Hampton Moore * ,
says that Pennsylvania's Republican
congressmen aro all working fop i
Philadelphia as a greater exporting
place.
x
| DO YQU KNOW
—Tliat Sontli Harrisburg is
making steel for many lines of
governmental activity?
HISTORIC HAKRISBtTIWi
South Becohd street used to be
the center for printing and leather
& century ago.
Revised
[Memphis Commercial-Appeal]
The coal famine changed the ol<t
Adage to "early to bed and late to
get up.'
A Young Lady's Rise
She was standing at
, The counter, ~ j
The young lady was,
And her purse.
She had left
• On the chair.
She sat down,
flitting, of course, w
On the purse. J&-
But she rose suddenly
•With an exclamation.
Her purse, you see,
Contained her
Pin money.
| • —Detroit Free Pm,