6 IARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Faun did itil jaw . . ===== 1 Published evenings except Sunday by : THE TBLBGRAFH PRINTING CO., Tabmph Building, Federal Square. ! IS. J. STACK POLE,Pr'< <5- Editor-in-Chirf [T. rC OYSTER, Business Manager. iOUS M. STEINMKTZ, 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 *,lso the local news published herein. iA.ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American lation andPenn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, Finley, Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. mTTma By carriers, ten cents a CTOOTStobfe) week; by mall. *5.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1918 It docs not take a great man to i>e a Christian, hut it takes all there & of him. —Thf: EVANGEL. TWO-CENT PAPERS THE newspapers of New York will sell at two cents the copy here after. Increased cost of white paper, wages and operating expenses generally have forced the advance in price. Because many of them had I long time contracts for white paper or owned their own mills they were able to hold out at one cent longer than smaller papers. But even they finally reached the place where two cents a copy or bankruptcy were the ®nly alternatives. The penny paper of to-day is be ing operated at a loss. Unless it is backed by millions and is being pub lished for reasons best known to its owner, it is heading full tilt for the ■sheriff's hands. At all events the ■reader must either be content with 'p. poor and declining newspaper or Accept the bounty of a wealthy pub lisher who Is not printing newspapers merely for the fun of It and who has something to present beside news. The War Trade Board, through the I Official Bulletin, "calls attention to he fact that the exportation of scrap ron or steel requires an export li ;ense." May we, through the columns pHM.<X"*paper, call attention to 'the ct that the exportation of cotton re lUires no export license? CITY MANAGERSHIP r T has been found that an elec trically driven emergency pump can be procured and put into iperation at the city water house rithin a few days. Why Was not uch a pump purchased early last ummer, when the possibility of the iresent misfortune was foreseen? Whatever the answer may be, it kerely prompts another question, hich is—would not a city manager, rhose job depended upon keeping ip the efficiency of his admlnistra lon, have seen to it that the emer ;epcy apparatus was at hand when e.eded ? The more experience we have with hjs Clark act the more it becomes pparent that the only way to over ome its multitude of deficiencies is t elect a council pledged to the city lanagership plan. And if that 'oesn't work the only thing left Is lie repeal of the Clark law and the doption of home rule. The American steamer Harry Luck pbach, lately torpedoed by the Ger ly name to go under. The name light well be changed to t'nluclfen ftch. THE GERMAN CRISIS J" T required Trotzky, the erstwhile despised leader of the radicals fr of Russia, to throw a bomb of liberalism into Germany that has exploded with such good effect that the benevolent claims of the military £#ate there have been completely ihattered, revealing the Prussian 3overnment in its true light. Even ;he liberals of Germany had been ulled to submission by the pft-re jeated claims of the Junkers that they were waging a purely defensive warfare and that aggrandizement of i. military nature and annexation of prrltory were farthest from German urpose- Allied claims to the con ary were pronounced pure camou- Lge to disguise the ulterior pur ises of the enemies of the central >wera. Then came Trotzky offering to ac ipt the "no annexation, no indem i|" program at its face value and Became necegsary for the Jy<i|ser i thrpw ott hU lambskin and reveal .piself for the wolf he Is or to back on all his carefully laid plans ad forsake all ambjtlons for a prld-dominant Germany with him lif as Ita head. Under the circum ane'es there vyae but one thing to o—tjirowo—tjirow down the gauntlet to the plshevikl and put as good a face on be Russian demands at home as pas possible under the olrcum tances. The effect has been to open the yes of German Socialists and the heral element In general as to the eal objects of the" 1 (German Govern ment la the wac. ami an outburst of mmmmzz- Indignation Si as followed, the cIIHTMt" of which wtas the fiery speech of Philip Sche'Urnan on Saturday, In which that leader of democratic thought In Clermany warned the mil itary chieftains that they must be prepared to make a satisfactory peace with .Russia or be "hurled from power-f' That Is b<ld talk in Berlin, these days, and It (required a bold man to utter them. Scheldman has been outspoken to*the point of revolution, almost, for liuiriy years, but to speak as he just lius Indicates nothing less than a wavetof popular feeling which defies even the autocratic ruling powers of the .empire to deal with Scheidman >as they now no doubt desire. Very likely* after raging through the land for tfew days or weeks, the rebellious' ffemcs will die down as they have beffore. We must not hope for immediate revolution in Germany. Buti gradually the scales are being removed from German eyes. Slowly Germans are coming to see that thleir greatest enemy is within rather' than without. When this knowledge has had time to fer ment and fomient, when another Ger man offensive has been tried and has failed, wthem America begins to make her weteht felt, then and only then may we<.look for a successful revolt within the German empire. But then tit may be too late. A death-bed repentance is not always convincing and it will be difficult to restrain a victorious and vengeful allied army, visionlng the outrages of the murdefrous Hun in France and Belgium, with victory in its grasp and "on to .Berlin" for its battle cry. Now is the .accepted time, but Ger man liberalsi are not strong enough jet t<l'take advantage of the oppor tunity. SAVE FOOD PRESIDENT WILSON and Mr. Hoover have joined In asking the Anieriean-people to save wheat,, and meal and sugar. There Is but one thing for the American people to do*in those cir cumstances, and that lis to support the President and theifood controller to the utmost limits of their ability. XVg are not askrd to go hungry. We are not even requested to eat less in quantity than usual. All that Is desired of usis that we eat less wheat,'iless meat and less sugar. That may be antinconvenience, but it canncut by any possible interpre tation .be-regarded as a hardship. It is not to be compared with going deep down into>our pockets for lib erty Bonds, or Y. M. C. A. funds, or Red Cross contributions, or Knights of Columbus - subscriptions, or for contributions to arty of the other hundred and one war activities which we must finance. 4 Eat a little less white bread, that the French and the English may have enough to stave off starvation. Eat a trifle less meat, that our sol diers in the trenches may be prop erly fed. Eat a spoonful less srgar each day, that our Allies may have just a little for their share. Thus we will show our will to sacrifice- Thus we will display our patriotism. ■, y,f i Thus we will help win the war. It is not that there is a shortage of food in America. We have enough and to spare. But we must keep the other nations going as well. We must save now In order that we shall not go hungry before the next crops are harvested. We must save now because, for all y/e know, the next crpps may be a failure. It is not a question of whether or not we will do it. It is all a matter of doing it voluntarily as patriots, or under compulsion at the hands of the Government. It would be shame ful, indeed, if the President and Mr. Hoover were -compelled to resort to force. Street railway authorities are of one mJnjl respecting the conditions affect ing their transportation systems. It is stated that in one case the income of the company decreased 8 to 10 per cent, and its expense increased 25 per cent. It is quite the common thing nowadays to hear of dividends being passed owing to the increase of op erating costs, and the impossibility of securing equipment needed has further embarrassed these transporta tion agencies. If the Bolsheviki can fight as well as they can argue, the Kaiser better hurry up and surrender while he has the chance. We feel better to discover that there is absolutely no restrictions on the quantity of fried mush and buckwheaj cakes that may be consumed at a single sitting. Strange as It may seem, these "heatless Mondays" certainly are pro ductive of a lot of "hot air." To argue against the wisdom of a war cabinet is to say that one man can do as much as four. Was Mr. Hoover joking when he urged us tg "egt plenty of eggs?" 'PoitttCO- Ut 'fViuvOijttfcutla By the Ex-Committeeman Relative to Saturday's conferences of Republican leaders in Philadel phia Saturday, the Philadelphia Press says: "Upstate political leaders descend ed upon Philadelphia In force and before evening had come the cause of harmony between the local Pen rose and Vare factions had been put under way by positive action, us fore cast and along the lines lndlcatc.l, namely, that the Vares were to be assured a 'hands-off' policy In the city on the part of Senator Penrose, and that, in view of this recogni tion, which would carry with it the right to name one congressman-at large on the state ticket, the Vares would agree to support the organi zation ticket headed by Senator Sproul for governor. "Most of the conferences were held in Senator Penrose's office and the Bellevue-Stratford. In the latter place Senator Vare talked for nearly an hour with Senator Crow, chair man of the Republican state com mittee, who had brought to Philadel phia the message that upstate party leaders Insisted upon the two fac tions In Philadelphia making up their differences in the Interest of presenting a united front against the Democrats. "Among those who participated in the various conferences, in addition to Senators Penrose, Vare and Crow, were Auditor General Snyder, of Pottsvllle; W. Harry Baker, of Har llsburg, secretary of the state com mittee; William P. Gallagher, of Wiikes-Barre, clerk of the Senate, and Representative James F. Wood ward, of McKeesport, candidate for secretary of internal affairs, who will in all probability not be opposed by the Vares, although he is a Pen rose nominee. "Among ail these men of both sides the talk was of harmony be tween the two factions and how it could be brought about. When the upstate men left they took with them assurances that the principle of harmony had been agreed upon, Y'ith only the details left to be work ed out. It is regarded as entirely Improbable that in working out these details any insurmountable obstacles will be encountered." —L. W. Strayer, Washington cor respondent of the Pittsburgh De spatch, in the course of an extended review of Democratic state affairs, says that unless Vance C. McCor mick "positively declines" to run for Governor he will be nominated. The President, says Mr. Strayer, con templates sending McCormiok to Europe again and adds: "Even if his official duties prevent him from making an active campaign in the state, his friends can do this for him, and the fact that he is prevent ed from campaigning because of his War work will be a great asset. If McCormick definitely declines to run, Joseph F. Guffey, of Pitts burgh, is regarded as the most likely man to be the nominee. Mr. Guftey favors McCormick, but his friends say he will make the race If the party wishes him to do it." —The Scranton Republican says Senator W. M. Lynch will be a can didate again. "The majority of pros pective candidates for senator were laying their plans on the assump tion that Dr. Lynch would not be a candidate. As matters now stand the chief names being mentioned for the Republican nomination include former Mayor E. B. Jermyn, Charles P. O'Malley, jUbert Davis, John Bowen and Robert S. Jones, of Dun more. -—William Flinn is not commit ted to O'Neil for Governor says the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. It adds that at the O'Neil dinner "Pledges of support for the candidacy of Mr. O'Neil in their counties were made by the following men: Dr. E. L. Wasson, Butler; T. B. H. Brownlee, Washington: Senator J. Frank Graff, Armstrong; Dr. J. S. Loutham, Bea ver; A. E. Jones, Fayette; Represen tative Daniel J. Snyder, Westmore land; J. I. Miller, Republican county chairman, Somerset; A. R. Hodge, Republican county chairman, Mer cer, and Charles H. Young, Law rence." —When his attention was called to a statement by Senator Penrose In his- reply to Senator Stone that all the Democrats of Pennsylvania had Federal jobs, which explained why Governor Brumbaugh had not ap pointed more of them on state war commissions, A. Mitchell Palmer :-aid, "That was just one of Penrose's jokes. It is true there are a num ber of Democrats in the Federal service, but not an unreasonable number. The Senator is quite a humorist." —The Philadelphia Inqujrer in a scries of reviews of the situation in several counties tells of strong sup port for Senator Sprou|. Delaware and Chester are declared to be very strong. In the Hazleton district it is said he is assured of "almost solid support" and that in Schuylkill since he has become a candidate "there is nothing to the aspirations of any others In Schuylkill county." The Inquirer says regarding Delaware county: "While Senator Sprout has not shown any inclination to this time of resigning d'uring his Guber natorial campaign, and there is no reason why he should, nevertheless the fact remains that J. Lord Rig by, nowln Auditor General Snyder's office at Harrisburg, will be a can didate when the proper time ar rives. The Rlgby sentiment is grow ing stronger every day, and there seems little doubt at this time that the former Recorder of Deeds will have the indorsement of the organi zation whet} the time Is ripe to trot out a Senatorial candidate. Rigby would undoubtedly make a strong and popular candidate as Sprout's successor because of his personality and the fact that he is familiarly known to all of the Republicans in the county, and because he is n iatle up of the timber which make good Senators." —Representative R. W. Lohr, of Somerset, will be a candidate for re-election, it is said. —Dr. John Nutt, now In France, may be Democratic nominee for Congress in the Willjanigport dis trict. —Representative W. G. Sarig, of Berk?/ Is out with an announcement of aspirations for renomlnatiqn, which is as interesting as Sarig him self. —James F. Woodward, of Mc- Keesport, chairman of the appro priations committee in the last House, pame out satnrda* £ar sec retary pf Internal Affaire. Ha says he will be ''candidate of no faction" but will run 4s a ftepubljcan and abide by the result. This, it may f>e said. Is what overy candidate should say. THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT ... BY BRIGCS i wer SNOW- BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Fragments From France, by Bruce Bairnsfather, author of "Bullets and Billets," ($1.76), G. P. Putnam's Sons, publishers, New York. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's sketches set all England chuckling, when they iirst appeared in the By stander, and they have met with as hearty a welcome l>y Americans who have had the luck to see them. Greatest of all commendation, Ger man prisoners have been known to become hilarious over these inde scribable pictures of life ip the trenches, and war-fed '"Tomroys" roar over them. Now, with their amusing captions, they have been gathered into one volume. These pictures have won in Eng land for the author the title "The man who made the Empire laugh," and caused the Literary Digest to refer to him as "A War Lord of I.aughter." They are all war pic tures, but calculated to take a deal of the bitterness out of war. STATE PRESS No one needs to worry seriously about the spread of extreme radi ealjsm in this country. Socialistic measures do no harm if administer ed by men of the able type; men like McAdoo, rather than by such men as Haywood and Debs, whom the extremists wish to put in charge. It is the lack of school education, Jn every country where extreme rad icalism is a menace, that gives the cunning and the sentimental power to upset the orderly course of life. No considerable body of Illiterate exists here and the measures taken for the national defense will con tinue to be administered wholly by levelheaded people. Franklin Evening News. It is stated that the banks in Pennsylvania under the supervision of the State Banking Department, which does not include national banks, have 2,857,581 depositors. Counting those who do business with the national banks, more than one third of the people qf Pennsylvania Jiave money in bank. When it comes to prosperity in any phase, Pennsyl vania is always well to the front.— Wilkes-Barre Record. Congress has received the peti tion of the president and executive cpmmittee of the American Bar As sociation asking for the repeal of the section of the war revenue act which imposes a super tax of eight per cent, on the incomes of profes sional men. In this the har commit tee speaks for all professions and fop all men whose capital is their brain and industry and is subject to the vicissitudes of protracted illness, age or death.—Philadelphia Press. I Indictment of War Dept. No one who reads JVJr. Chamber lain's speech in the Senate oij Thurs day—Mr. Wilson wi)i no doubt ,read it —-can fall to be impressed by the spirit of loyalty to the President that pervades the Senator's remarks. Eyl dently Mr. Wilson must have spoken hastily in his resentment when, in a public statement to the country, he ipferred opposition to the adminis tration's Whole policy rather thai) "any serious intehtiqn to reform its practice from the Senator's declara tion in New York that the military establlshpient "had fallen down * * ? because f inefficiency in every bureau and in every department of the government of the United States." Mr. Chamberlain's rejoinder will cjear the air of personalities, in which the people are but little inter ested. The Senator was not guilty of "an astonishing and absolutely un justifiable distqrtiop of the truth." He went too far, he sppke unguard edly with more fervqr than discre tion, when he extended his indict ment of inefficiency to the whole government. He lias admitted that frankly In his address to the Senate, but ths Poptsjrt shqwed. l)f submit ted, tl}§t hp bad the mTlltaf-y estab lishment in mind. A calm analysis pf his stateipept and of the preceding sentences warranted no other con clusion. Senator Chamberlain, considering his great services tq preparedness and h|s interest of yea?g in the welfare of the army, CoijJd not re main silent Wndgr the imputation frqirt such a high sourae that In charging the War Department with inefficiency and blundering he was actuated by hostility to "the admin istration's whole policy" and had no serjpus intentlpn pf refonplniif its practice. This reflection upon h' Integrity as a public man, rather than the charge that he had distorted tlie truth, justified him in defending his course and in adding poupta to hie previous indiatipent pf the \yr De partment. —sew Yorlf Time*. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM POLITICS AND WAR i 11' the Editor of the Telegraph: Having just read your able edi torial on "Politics and War," I can not refrain from congratulating the writer on the splendid way he has covered the subject. J wish every citizen could read it, and that more such articles could be brought be fore the public. The ad ministration reminds me tpo much of a "One-man band," and it is high time America, wakes up. Respectfully yours, A MERE WOMAN "READER." CHANCE TOR MAYOR To the liditor of the Telegraph: Will you kindly print lu the col umns pf your yaluaJjle paper the fol lowing comineijt op the ejcceptiqnally good work that our HpnQra|}|e Mayor is doing in ridding the city of the worst type of criminals, the tinhorn gaiubler, who preys upon the young men and married men with families, much to the distress of these families? Too much praise cannot be given our worthy cjilef executive for the stand he is tak ing in this crusade, for he has done an endless amount of good to date. Heretofore these places of easy liv ing and "I-wont-work" class of beasts have had full sway within our fair city, unmolested by those in power to make them answer to the courts for ihgjr idleness and crime. Surely, Mayor Keister wjth the abje assistance of Detective Shuler has piven this class of criminals to un derstand that he 'means business and does not intend to show any mercy to them and especially to the re FUTURE OF THE WAR A prominent financial authority j gives this estimate of Allied reseur-1 ce* and the future of the war: "Just at the critical moment, | when the scales were almost even ly balanced between the Entente Allies £r4 the TeutftplK Allies, the United States, with its great wealth and resources, entered the confljct with a possible 22,000,000 men to draw upon, with its National wealth of $225,000,000,000, National |n .come of ?40,0f)0,00Q,000, National Havings estimated ip the neighbor hood of $5,000,000,000 a year, and lias thrown jts weight into the scale, prepared to put behind the entente group effective co-operation to se cure the puccessj pf tnp principles of democracy. The before us is a tremendous one, but the cause is worthy of the fask and the Nation Will meet the obligation which it lias assiuned with its usual energy and resourcefulness, and, therefore, ef fectively. There can be no doubt as to tfte Jjnal outcome, but the v/ar will unquestionably prove to be costly both in men and in property, and if we pre to win it will be nec essary tor all classes of the people to work tpgetljer to that common end and It will also be necessary to work in close co-operation witty our Allies across the sea." PNTHRONE NEW GOP Unless the German people will of their own accord enthrone a more righteous God, this war will have to gp on until we enthrppe a mpre righteous God for theip and replace the divine right pf kings by the di vine right of the people. Alqng this avenue of fiqman progress has marched the ipajeetlc forces of civ ilization, from the fal| of Nero to the rise qf Washington, and will continue to marci), until all natlqns are agreed that righteousness and rightepuspees alone will exalt a na tion. This war and the jjiigfity forces that are arrayed jn it—'the peace ful and liberty-loving Allies on the one side and the military dynasties ot Germany, Austria and Turkey on the other— make clear yat a rightr eous peace cannot be sficurpd "Upd maintained except through a vlctbry far the nrihclnlss a( international good faith under agipn.cratic control, followed by the establishment of a "league of Ifonpr" suipelently pow erful te, guard the future tram % like assault against civilization. Tor gether with her Allies, America Will continue to fight for inch an ont come until, in tha language ol fqr mer President Taft, we "conquer peace," a peace of justiee. not an imposed peace pf might only w|th E out Justice, but -of Justice fortified by the associated might of g league of nations - -By Ogcar 8. Straus. Their Weak nets [From tit# Wlm Newel Sometime# when a wgne first I wife won't drive him to drink be gets another that does. peater who comes back thinking, perhaps, her will try and see if he can call the Mayor's bluff, as he perhaps thinks the Mayor and his department is doing. It is a certainty ths.t His Honor intends to make good his political promise to the people prior to his election that he would ren der them a clean administration and rid the city of all its undesirable citizens. While Mayor ICeister is in this frame of mind let us hope that he will not close an eyfe or turn a deaf ear to the remaining few women who still operate within the very shadow of the Courthouse and within a walking distance of the railroad shops in Seventh htreet, much to the detriment of the workmen, There are still in operation certain houses in South Court street that are run wide open and without fear or shame. It does seem to operate these houses requires a certain amount of shame, but .to run then) within the very shadow of the court house is adding insult to injury and should be stopped immediately, in asmuch as these are about the only houses of this kind running yvide ppen within a short distance of OUF busy Market strpet. Let us hope for good results from our worthy Mayer In this respect and may he give the Seventh street dis trict a cleaning out so that we do not have another Eighth ward as of old. The good people of Harrisburg are proud of their Mayor and his good beginning, and they stand by him in his endeavors to give them that which is best needed in these times of war and economy. A SUBSCRIBER. SLIDIN' Sylvester Hicks an' Clarunce Potts an' me an' Fatty Brown Js gonta have th' finest times of any boys in town: We're gonta git up Corder's Hill an' all down Corder Street We're gonta smooth th' snow around an' stomp it with our feet; An' then we'll git my uncle's pail—■ 'if he don't raise a fuss, , 'Cause it's his street —an' bring some more along from home with us, A' oarrv worter till it's wet an' let 'er freeze up tight, An' then we'll git our bob out an' go up there some night— If we can make our mothers let Up out that late. Tljey won't, I bet! . leastways we ain't decided yet t' ask 'em if they will, like a kid can't never know Wtyat's maybe hot 'r maybe so. But say! you want to see us gq when we start dqwp 'at >)|1I! 1 bet our bob sled goes so fast it almost takes your breath, Ap' there'll be heaps o' gipls an' things t' pester us t' death. Bljt we'll go scootin' down sq slick' an' we won't hear 'em, rn||eh It's walnut sleds, en' longest seat all carpet-ed an' such, An' Fatty's got one runner now t' put on when she's done. An' when they hear my auto horn they better cut an' run, 'Relse they'll git knocked jest galley west. But. °bz I wisht 'at ws Knew where t' go at pretty aiitck t' find some walnut trge. 'Cause we ain't got jjq mqpey flow T' buy boards with, ner (Jnnpq how T' earn none, much- 'cause they won't 'low no skippjp' school, an' so better strive an' never quit An jump up early, so's we'll git Sqnie chance t' earn a little bit a shovelin' someone's snow. We jest can't hardly wait till we git that sled made th' way We want 'er fixed; an' when we do I hope they'll leave us play, An' pot chop wood ner anything; an' maybe Clarunce ffin pit his pop's delivery horse to haul us utj again. 4ft' tye sail} we c'u'd clean his wallj t' buy th' boards an" stuff," A' we've jest got t' fit 1 ten mpfe t' earn pret' near enough; An' then if Fatty jest kin find that runner he ha? got, An* I kin fix my bp#ted Jiorn t' honk th' way It ought,' I bet we make 'at sled, n' slide. An' maybe sometimes let girls ride. But gee! no matter how vou've tried, there's always some* thin' more: 'Cause like as not 'tain't worth one cent • T' strive an' not be ln-do-lent; kpolfj JJfce t' pie it never meant t' """ JANUARY 28, 191$. LABOR NOTES Under the direction of the Local Council of Women free lessons in cookery are to be given in some of the Vancouver (B. C.) city schools. Notts (England) Miners' Associa tion is increasing strike ps.y to $7.50 a week to meet the higher cost of living. The Navy Department recently set the following scale per day: Blacksmiths, $4-96; cranemen, $3.74; drop forgers, $5.20 and SS.UO. One of the most unique charac ters in the labor movement of the old world, Ben Tillett, has just won a seiit in the ISpgJlsh Parliament. Virginia, Minn., authorities have acted favorably op a petition of cit izens to install the two-platoon sys tem in the fire department. An army of girls is now being hired by the government at Wash ington as stenographers at an initial Salary of SI,OOO and $1,200 per an num. A settlement has been effected be tween the Aberdeen (Scotland) oper. ative plumbers and employers by which the former get an increase of two cents per hour. Pittsburg (Kan.) City Commis sion has ordered that the seven-day work week at the city water works be abolished. /Five hundred of the employes of the Stines (England) Linoleum fac tory have gone on strike because six nonunion men were employed. Beer was carried in undertakers' wagons in New Yprk because of a strike of Ijrewery drivers. Co-operative Societies of England have a. movement o"n7for increased wages in lieu of holidays. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH S PROGRESS. actually fatten on BO far tha) I've stopped telling p e p p 1 what to do and am going w'% out a fe\¥ thing; VALUABLE I? Mr#. C M- 1 In a way. She , s positively de- < lghted to And low much more < \ axes she can / J, \ ifford to pay lT / I J \ han other peo- I II CQ&IE BACIC TO H4RTH. . gJI Pqat—Alas, I f - / c#j)not g#t th# proper insplra -1 Practtfiftl On# —Why don't 'M* / >OU try >MHn ,oj J |ng dictionary? Three lumps i, . to •v r y I Ujtf. •up of *•. *ST w [gtentngOHTall Between (4,600 and $5,000 goes out of Harrisburg every month In the form of the war tax on amuse ment tickets. C. Floyd *Hopkins, manager of the Wilmer & Vincent interests, nays that it is nearer the Ave thousand mark and that it is in cash. The average person who pays three sgnts for a letter and war duties in various forms in addition to meeting installments on Liberty Bonds and. laying by a quarter every now and then for Thrift Stamps does not realize how much the theater tax mounts up. The men who de vised the war taxes did not let much go by and people who are puzzling over the income tax forms are con jecturing whether they will be ar rested if they slip a cog. The war tax on amusement tickets is one cent on each ten and the Govern ment thoughtfully added of frac tion thereof. And it hits the "dead heads" just the same as the cash payers. A newspaper pass does n.ot escape and if the owner of a build ing goes in he pays a tax, while the head or an agent of another show, people who from time immemorial have been tendered the courtesy of free admission, have to "come across," too. It's a going-in tax that lets none get by. There are two theaters in Harrisburg, one known as a "legitimate" house, where the real drama is staged; one vaude ville and ten movies. Wilmer & Vincent have one of each and pay about $3,000 tax a month. % The Victoria, Kegent and other man agements pay less, although their tax goes into the hundreds. The people at the ticket windows de clare that customers often "buck,'' but that they soon subside because they don't get in unless they pay. * • "Up in Niagara Kalis yesterday afternoon I passed up a good din ner and I would like breakfast. I had a sandwich at Sunbury," said a man who came off a Northern Cen tral train in mid-afternoon. "And," he added, "please get me to bed. I want to be warm, too. I don't drink, but I'm indignant." This was the story: The man visited a niecs. in Canada and dinner was not ready in time. So he took the trolley for the Falls and then a train for Buf falo. He thought to get dinner on the train that night. There was no diner. The train froze up that night and was no diner for break fast. So, after some delays on the road, h® wired ahead to Williams port for breakfast. When he got to the lumber city he found he had beaten the telegram. He had a cup of coffee and then a sandwich. No wonder he wanted breakfast in mid afternoon, even "tit tlie risk of dam aging his reputation. • < Keep the little ball of yarn well wound up and don't let it slip in the theater, hall or other place. The other day some one knitting in the balcony of a hall allowed the yarn to go over the edge. She went on kpitting from the ball on the floor below. About three times a night some one lets yarn go down the slope of the city theaters. But, worst of all, is the woman who lets the ball fall on floor of a trolley car and then helplessly watches it be tramped off toward the door. Saturday afternoon an automobile went down Market street with a streamer of yarn as a mute evidence of war-time industry with some de tails of management lacking. • • * Some very prominent men appear to be taking part in the annual frolic of the. Pen and Pencil Club, of Philadelphia, the oldest newspa permen's organization in America, which takes place next Wednesday. Frank fj. Knight, "Jim" Chambers, J. 11. B. Campbell, Barran Lewis and other newspapermen are on publicity, while Senator Penrose. Congressman Vare, S. M. Vauelain, Joseph B. McCall and T. E. Mitten are on what is known as the "Army and Navy" and George J. Brennan, naturally, on "Midnight Frolic" com mittee. Sapiuel Rea, District Attor ney Rotan, A. Merritt Taylor and a lot 6f Congressmen, bankers and captains of industry are on the gen eral committee. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Admiral Bowles has warmly praised the Philadelphia port facili ties and is urging that they be used to relieve congestion. —Congressman L. T. McFadden, of the Bradford district, is on tho committee to arranse the Roosevelt dinner in Washington. •—John Fox, New York trolley ex pert, has been engaged by the city of Reading as its man to furnish spgciaj data In Its contest with tlic Bpadlpg Transit and Light Co., be fore _tlie Public Service Commission —Edward W. Bok signed a $1 ,- 000,000 check tho other day for the y. M. C. A. work. —•Alfred M. Collins, president of the Main Line Citizens' Committee and big game hunter, polo player and Bryrt Mawr resident, has been made a major In the Army Reserve. —S. L- Tone, president of the Pittsburgh Railways Co., says it is to maintain a force of trained nien lender present industrial con ditions. He is a type of the utility man who Is not afraid to talk and to the public into his confi dence. | DO YOU KNOW ✓ —That Hnrrisburg ILSC<| to get out und dig paths for stage coaches years ago? It was then a civic duty. HISTORIC lIAKHISBCRG This place had a system of flood warnings 10,0 years ago which in cluded Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury. GAS ENGINES ON FARM E. N. Bates, of the Pennsylvanii fctato College school of engineering, while addressing the farmers attend ing Farmers' Week at the college, taid the dillirult problem confronting the farmer to-day was the produc tion of a maximum amount of food products at a minimum cost of production in man power. In order to accomplish this it is necessary to make careful use of the gasoline (.ngine he asserted. It has been estimated frpm the 1916 census report that there are up wards of 25,000,000 horses and mules In the United States. About Qjie-flfth of our land, now under cultivation, is required to produce the foocj necessary to maintain these animals, and the time ol about 1,000,000 men working twelve hours a day is'consumed in the csre pf these animals. A large part of this food-pro4ucing land and of the lubor Of these men can be released for other purpqsis, by the proper use or (he gasoline tractor and truck. The cgre of a gasoline engine is vpry almn'o. If the directions of the manufacturer are followed closely. Ordinarily the engine only requires to be lubricated and adjusted, Bear ings should pot ho allflWfid t.9 pound, and tba hut oils obtainable should bt ua4.
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