8 [HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR FOR THB HOMB Fcwndfd lf]l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBORAPII PRINTING CO., Tlearrab Building, Federal Sqmare. 18. J. ST A CKPOLE, Prt/t & BdHor-in-Chirf .P. R- OYSTER, Business Manager. OUB M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Prese—The Associated Press is exclusively en title* to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. £lll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. >I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit • Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Avenue Building, New York City; Western Flnl'ey, ogle's Sintered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa, as second class matter. ———————— —————— By carriers, ten cents a C week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance, \ TUESDAY .JANUARY 29, 1018 It may be a tittle farther around the corners of a square deal, but the foad is better. — Axon. GOOD FORTUNE ANNOUNCEMENT that the War Department has planned a great supply depot for the vi cinity of Middletown. to be continued I ji active operation with some 5,000 workmen even after the war, means a, very great deal for Harrisburg. It s a stroke of rare good fortune for :hls city and vicinity, however much e regret the tragedy of war that ( has brought It about. A permanent addition of 6,000 workmen to the population of this Immediate district means an actual ( addition of some 10,000 or 15,000, at least, for a large number of the workmen who will be brought here will bring with them their families. 1 no doubt Local business will feel the stimulus of additional cash in the community as soon as the payrolls in to assume proportions, and this ' id prosperity 'will help out ma illy at a time when businessmen looking for signs of brightness he horizon of the year, ijt If the new enterprise brings i it good fortune it also adds to responsibilities. The sudden com of thousands of people will add lendously to the already serious ling problem of the community, itest care should be taken to see it is properly solved. The time is when "mushroom" growth is to >ermltted. The hasty erection of :ks for the accommodation of ract workers may be all right, permanent construction of a sub tial and attractive character for permanent working forces and r families must follow. Doubtless ly of these people will want to :le in Harrlsburg and no doubt need of houses will be keenly before tho year Is over, he whole project, as outlined n Washington, Is of such vast portions that It Is not easily ipeil and its Importance to the will not be fully apparent until building program has developed the material effects begin to le themselves felt. The city owes ethlng V Hord & Co., w-hose rep intatlves first drew attention of United States government to the e Fair site. Likewise, the choice his point for the big plant, after irve'y of the entire eastern part he country by army experts, is a ute to the desirability of Harris g as a shipping center and its srlorlty In this respect. "ho cares for a meatless day so r as he has a winesap apple to eat before going to bed. UP TO HARRISBURG HE mid-winter display of Penn sylvania farm products held last week in the Emerson ntlngham building as a feature the annual meeting of the State ird of Agriculture and allied ies was a success. It assembled largest number of specimens of duce of the farms of this State r known within Pennsylvania In uary and when the number and lety is considered and the severe ither taken into account it was arkable. Furthermore, It brought ÜBands of people to Harrisburg, less than 3,000 being farmers ) were also interested In one or ther of the various meetings held e during the week. In spite of fact that there were three-foot wbanks outside of the exhibition idlng there wer& 800 apple ex its and 250 of corn, for the judg of which 132 boys and girls were ught here from forty counties, 'his gathering turned the State's mtlon to Harrisburg in an un al manner. The people in every nty's rural districts were looking i way to see how the corn prizes it; whether their potatoes took award and whether their apples ribbons. And the people who le here went home and told about significance of the show smd y und their neighbors will be ling: to come again. One firm over $17,000 worth of business, I it was not a Harrisburg firm or i with an agency here, either. TUESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG lAIuRW TELEGRAPH JANUARY 29, 1918. Farm tractors were sold for cash as they were given demonstrations in snow in Tenth street. This mid-winter show is going to be held again next year. There will be more people here. The boys and girls who came to Judge corn and went home to tell of the fine time they had in Harrlsburg, our Harris burg, traveled because funds were raised in their home communities to pay their fare. State offlci Is passed the hat for the cash to pay for tjjelr meals, while the Y. M. C. A. gener ously gave sleeping space foi* the boys. The money for thj pfemiums was given by men from all over the State. The city of Harrisburg did not even hire a hall. The Chamber of Commerce did llftld more than bestow a blessing on the show. Other organizations let it go by. It looks as though something Is up to Harrlsburg. For the laist twenty years we have been trying to revive the old State fair which was such a great feature of our town life In the sixties. Some of us lost a lot of time and suffered under the steam roller when an ef fort was made to put through a bill for re-establishing a State fair here a few legislative sessions ago. And here is a real State-wide fair growing right up under our noses and the city and its alert business people are not paying any attention to it, while its commercial organiza tions are verymildly interested. Why, the talk among the farmers who were here last week and even among some of the small fair men, who now realize that a State show at Harrlsburg, where the prize winners of their own exhibitions can be gathered, was that they "hoped these mid-winter shows would lead to a real State fair." Bethlehem appro priated the name of the State fair that went around hunting for a home when the Harrisburg fair was given up and kept It until Col. Trexler and those other Allentown business men made the Allentown fair a colossal exhibit. The Tork folks pegged along until their show became the great event of October. We say nothing of the way the Grangers' picnic developed out of very little but nerve. A Pennsylvania fair, timed so that it will get the best exhibits of the other fairs for real State-wide com petition, located on ground which could be bought by the State and on which the city of Harrlsburg could erect the buildings, or vice versa, la right in sight. But it can not be gotten by looking out of a second story window and wjshing for it. To-day the city gets the Hoover "wheatless loaf." Yesterday it had the Garfield heatless loaf. FOR HOUSEKEEPERS OCAL Food Administrator Don- I x aid McCormick says that the latest food regulation* are addressed primarily to housekeepers, for the reason that restaurants and other! dealers in foods have been trying to follow the recommendations of the Federal authorities from the beginning, while in many families little or no attention has been paid to food saving. Housekeepers should understand that they must conserve now vol untarily or later under compulsion. We are going to send wheat to France and England and Belgium in sufficient quantities to prevent star vation there, no matter what hap pens at home, for hero we have other foods that can be pressed In to service, but which cannot be shipped abroad. So it behooves us j to save wheat wherever possible. ' The democracy of the United States was never put to greater test. We are trying out now the spirit of the people. Will they volunteer to do what they know should be done or must they be drafted? Will they follow the wise regulations of Mr. Hoover or will Congress be com pelled to pass laws making them do so? On the answer hinges the ex tent of our patriotism and our fit ness for self-government. Mayor Kelster has a practical mind, and he will doubtless lose no time in directing the policemen to report at once the indifferent owners of vacant lots and other properties where side walks are Impassable. If you are a good citizen, clean your sidewalk! That murder In a saloon at 4 o'clock in the morning Is another argument against booze. Every dollar of reve nue from rum means ten dollars In court costs and other expense which the taxpayer must meet. Manifestly, the anti-liquor forces are not going to be caught again as they assert they were caught In the last great campaign for members of the Legislature. They propose to take a hand In the primaries this year, hav ing grown wiser with the flight of time. The Kaiser was 69 years old Sunday, but we didn't notice anything about Berlin burning any fireworks byway of celebration. In a clarion call as president of the State Association, Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell urges the 150,000 volunteer firemen of Pennsylvania to aid na tional, State and municipal authori ties to combat Incendiaries, apparently German sympathizers, who are de stroying munition plants and other nmnftrty throughout the country. Who can doubt Ou*t Oi*e tU will rally to their Wader** oall and that every effort wil be put forth to crush an Insidious foe. According to newspaper reports, a sergeant and patrolman of the Har rlsburg police force do not speak as they pan by and the sergeant has ac cused the patrolman of insubordina tion in refusing to salute. Mayor Kelster is right In demanding a show down. Dfscipline is absolutely neces sary if we are to have a force worthy the name, but we confess to a little curiosity as to how the best results are possible when the sergeant and the officer on his beat do not speak to each othpr. It begins to look as though the *\is trians prefer to trust their erttemles at Washington rather than their friends In Berlin. Germany fears the loss of "her only friend, Austria." Whatdeye mean friend? The only difference we know be tween the Devil and the Kaiser Is that the Devil was once an angel. Thank heaven, the day of boardln house breadpuddlng appears to be passing. Trust General Wood to be about when there Is something doing. Eat "Victory Bread," and show the Kaiser you mean It. Lk By the Ki-Committeeman Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Nell's declaration yesterday that he was in the fight for the guber natorial chair in earnest and to the finish and that as far as he Is con cerned there will Le no harmony ?s taken to mean that the McKeesport man is getting ready to make a cam paign that will be worth watching. From intimations reaching here yes terday it lias been learned that the pressure from up-state and westarn Pennsylvania leaders on the Phila delphia chieftains has been of such A character as to effect a peace pro tocol with the candidates to be agreed upon later. Mr. O'Nell's statement was rend with the greatest interest at the Capitol and the fact that he issued it when the Governor and Attorney General were out of the city was taken to mean that he proposes to make his battle regardless of what the Vares, Magee or other friends of the state administration may Jo or say. Certain Democratic newspapers, which have been cheering O'Neil on are insisting now that the Philadel phia North American and the Vares will line up for O'Neil. On the other hand the Philadelphia Record the big Democratic organ, says: "There is a Krowlng sentiment that the rival factions will unite on Senator W. C. Sproul of Chester as the guberna torial candidate. , Pressure is said to have been brought to bear by up-state Republicans to have the factions here bury the hatchet if only until after the gubernatorial campaign Is over." —United States Senator Penrose spent yesterday in his office, but re mained noncommittal on the gu bernatorial situation. Most of the upstate leaders who were in Philadelphia over the weekend to confer with Penrose have left the city. Representative James F. Woodward, of Allegheny, who has announced himself as the candi date for Secretary of Internal Af fairs, went to New York, as also did Statu Senator W. E. Crow, of Union town, the Republican state chair man, but the latter is expected to return to labor in the Interest of a harmony program. —Mr. O'Neii's statement is given prominence by some of the Phila delphia newspapers as confirmatory to their first impression that O'Neil would not stUy out of the race no matter what happened. The com missioner left to-day for Philadel phia where ho will address the an nual meeting of the Anti-Saloon League and which h's friends are working to get to endorse him. To night he will carry the war into Chester city, the home of Senator Sproul, and make a speech. —The O'Neil statement set forth that as far as he is concerned there will be no harmony. The Phila delphia Ledger in its discussion of it says: "Mr. O'Neil said there Is no harmony now and will be none, and that the state is to see the big gest campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination since 1912. He said he is in the fight to the finish and that this fight will be for principle. He said: 'lt is right against wrong, the home against that which would destroy it. Why cry peace when there Is no peace? This is an irreconcilable conflict which must be settled now. The re ports of conferences In Philadelphia have no effect on my candidacy be cause my bark has been laanched on the political seas and will remain there until the battle of ballots is de cided. It would be well for the al leged to scrutinize the rest of the state before attempting to speak for the millions in the Keystone Commonwealth.' " —Fire Marshal G. Chal Port's ef fort to stiffen up his service by call ing upon the men whom the law re quires shall act as deputies is eager ly seized upon by certain Democratic newspapers as an effort to create a machine by 3,000 appointments. Most of the criticism comes directly from machine Democratic sources and Democrats have the Federal administration's performance in us ing appointments to make a ma chine to hide. Hence the attention given to Port for carrying out the law's demands. —The' Philadelphia Press, which has been paying considerable atten tion to the situation among the Dem ocrats, has this to say about Phila delphia Democratic affairs: "A ru mor has developed in the Democratic ranks that Postmaster John A. Thornton would be refused re-ap pointment and be succeeded by James X. Blakslee, now Fourth As sistant Postmaster General. Mr. Thornton's new commission has not yet been received, and this has given impetus to the talk, which has been heard for some time. The action is supposed to be in line with the pur pose of A. Mitchell Palmer, dispen ser of Federal patronage, to strength en the lines of the Wilson Democrats In their hope of naming and elect ing a Governor in the noact cam paign. It was also announced yes terday that Collector of Internal Rev enue Ijederer, whose politics are of the Palmer brand, had appointed William H. Belcher, a former magis trate, as Deputy Collector. Mr. Belcher is u leader among'the Pal mer Democrats in the northwestern section of the city." —W. S. Aaron, Altoona merchant, Aim IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'T AMD TOSS DAY You - Amd WEDM£SOAY FS A _ AFSJT> THURSDAY WHEISJ ONJ MONDAY OBSERVE THE COAIL COUDER I >AV THANL USUAL . Y OU CALL UP AGA/N) YOU CALL OP THE P "-E SLOWLY GOIMG YOU HAVE. TB T>lL£ RN/\L • COAL MAM AND HE V I>OWM |W AM EXTRA AMOUMT or ru ' SAYS NOTHING COAL AMD FRIDAY YOU SEE -AMD SATURDAY A.M. " - AMD AT X H E MOST WOMDERFXX L OMLY A FEW SHOVELS - Y OU H AWE USED "TVTE LAST HAMDSOME AND IWTELL' <SEMT PEF)SOW FIO FULL LEFT M SHOVEL-FULL - AMD IN) "TME WORLD APPEARS - THE COAL MAN J)ESPERATIOIVJ YOU CALL. WITH AM HOMEST-7©-GOODNESS TBOJ OF U ? THE COAL CO. A&AIM —O— A —L-' OH" H"H- H - — s ! R OS ! AIN'T IT A GR-R-R-RAND AND Is said to be developing Congression al ambitions. He was a Brumbaugh presidential delegate. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times gives considerable space to the ef forts of friends.of William Flinn to organize what is called the "Uhcle Sam Association," which the news paper says is the name of an organ ization to send back the present four congressmen from Allegheny county, two being Republican and two Dem ocratic. The Democrats are heartily in favor of it. The Gazette-Times says: "It is understood that Con gressman Campbell does not like the Magee-Guffey-Fllnn plan of having the four congressmen In this county speak in all districts during the cam paign. He does not consider it ad visable for him to go into the Thir tieth District to talk for Mr. Kelly, as he and the representative took opposite sides in the prohibition amendment vote in Congress. Mr. Campbell is 'wet' and Mr. Kelly voted 'dry.' " —Three Luzerne Representatives will not run again. David Thomas and Richard Aston, Wilkes-Barre, are tired of the game and "Dick Powell is planning to run for sher iff. A battle is brewing against Rep resentative John McKay, but he in tends to fight. G. B. Flute and Bruce Good, both former members, are said to have ambitions to re turn. Jere Boner, of Heglns, is a legis lative candidate in Schuylkill. Rep resentatives Sones and Graeff will be candidates for re-election. GERMAN SHOE OUTPUT The Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger, Octo ber 13, writes: "The supervisory committee of the shoe trade has made representations to the authorities regarding the se rious scarcity of leather and all kinds of materials for the manufacture of shoes for civilians. "The result of the proceedings is that large* quantities of substitute materials, such as old ships' sails, tent awnings, and cuttings of cloth, are to be used for shoe uppers. The supply of thread is to be increased as much as possible, but no greater supply of upper and sole leather can be applied to civilian needs. "The supervisory committee has been assured that no more workmen shall be withdrawn from the fac tories, and men of military age al ready occupied in the factories, shall be released from army service as long as they are fit only for labor or gar rison duty. "As regards food, it is probable that men doing heavy, work may be allowed the same privileges as muni tion workers. With respect to coal, the committee has arranged that the supply to factories doing extra work shall not be curtailed." MONGOLIA WAYSIDE INN [Olive Gilbreath in Asia] The inn (in Mongolia) was a typical northern inn such as soon became familiar to us. On three sides of the courtyard animals were feeding in open mud stalls, as they fed in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago. On the fourth side, men's quarters were scarcely dif ferent from those of the animals, except in being closed. Our camp beds had been put up In the innyard, and we ate our evening meal under thatched eaves. Wool caravans had driven in and stood bulklly blotting the dusk, pointing toward the gateway for a start in the first white dawn. Chinese Interiors are the finest Rembrandts in the world, and this innu was a particularly mellow, in gratiating study. From the open door of the Chinese stove streamed a ruddy light, which threw into deep shadow the broad k'ang where men sat or squatted over pipes and bowls of tea. Our carters had Joined the group about the flickering candles and in the yellow light their faces shone out like old portraits—strong, simple, Oriental. A saisen player began his plaintive note, and from the inn door poured a steady babble of voices. On every side the plain swept menacingly lit from the horizon, threatening to blot out the one infinitesimal point of life daring to violate its solitude. But still the note of the saisen player sounded and above the walls of the com pound shone the deep Oriental stars. It was a vagabond's night. Our cots had been made up In the courtyard; consequently we opened our eyes with the tfawn. The wool caravans had already disappeared: we saw them, soft blurs In the half light, descending the road toward China which we had climbed the evening before. We paid our inn bill —fourteen tungtze* (about ten cents gold) for Ave travelers, two servants, three carters, two horses, two mules and the donkey—and we were oft again into Mongolia! PROGRESS OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO By DR. ROBERT R. MOTON President of Tuskegee Institute WE as farmers, teachers, preachers, and leaders gener ally, should keep clearly and definitely in mind the fact, that tho race problem in America is going to be worked out South of the Ma son and Dixon line, and I firmly be lieve, that eventually, we are going to have an amicable adjustment of all of the fundamental phases of race relationships in our country North and South, and who knows, but, that God is using America ns his great luboratory from which he will teach the rest of the world, that it is possible for peoples of different races, creeds, colors and shades of opinion, political and otherwise, to adjust their economic, civic and so cial in such a way as will make each respect and strive to help the others rather than hate and endeavor to hinder the others' progress. Armstrong, Cravath, Ware, Frissell and others as well as our Great Leader, the founder of this institution have made notable con tributions towards the adjustment of these problems, and we as negro farmers, must play a very import ant part." "Notwithstanding the great diffi culties through which our country is passing and which we as a peo ple share, the negroes in America, and especially, the negro farmers, have more to be thankful for just now than ever before in our his tory. Any negro anywhere within the confines of our country. North and South, can find work at good wages, and while a great many have for reasons are obvious, left the South, and some are still going, many for reasons are equally ob vious, are returning. "HAKRISGRAD ?" NEVER! In the pamphlet. "American Loy alty by Citizens of German Descent," which the Committee on Public In formation has issued, both in the American language and in a German translation, Franz Slgel, son of the Civil War general; Judge Leo Ras sieur, commander-in->chief of the G. A. R., 1900-1; Judge F. W. Lehman, Solicitor General under President Taft; Otto Kahn and others express unexceptionable sentiments of loy alty to this country. Mr. Kahn says: "To-day Ameri cans of German birth are called upon to rise, together with their fellow citizens of all races, to free not only this country but the whole world from the oppression of the rulers of Germany." This pamphlet should prove useful In combating the subtle and insid ious propaganda that tries to poison the wells of public Information In this country. In discussing the quaint proposal to change the name of Gormantown —which Is on a par with the sugges tion of Harrisgrad for Harrlsburg and Pittsgrad for- Pittsburgh—some one reminded me of Carl Pohlig's answer when he first came from Germany to lead the Philadelphia Orchestra: "You might find Germantown a pleasant place to live," It was sug gested. "Germantown? Ach, no!" he vig orously rejoined. "I vlsh everytlng American, if you blease!"—Philadel phia Public Ledger. JANUARY GARDENS The dayß of catalogs have come, the best of all the year, When every mail its quota brings of books from far and near. With gorgeous blossoms on their fronts and cabbage on their backs. Their insides filled with fruits and flowers all tabled neat as wax. We reckless grow, extravagant—no cost too hlfh we flnd For this Januasy garden we are planting In our mind. • • • But, mercy me! while we have dreamed, there is no sign of doubt, , That" miserable furnace has gone completely out! —Mrs. W. E. Bwlng In the Odessa Ledger. "With such a clear interpretation of the fundamentals of Christian de mocracy and with such strong ex pressions of faith in its ultimate triumph as President Wilson is giv ing to the world, we believe, that the war is going to be successfully waged by America and her allies, and we can approach the future with renewed hope that right and justice will inevitably prevail. This triumph of democracy cannot but mean for the negro an equal share with other citizens in tho blessings and privileges that it offers, but the negro will only share in proportion to the measure of his merit. The thing then about which we should be most concerned, is that we shall be prepared to use in its best and most useful sense, the privileges which democracy will offer. This will mean for you and for me, more conscience, more regularity, more system, more reliability, more in telligence in the work which we have to perform. It will mean greater economy: it will mean buy ing of more land and more intelli gent cultivation of that land; more diversification of crops; more atten tion to the soil and to the raising of a better grade of livestock and more attention to the care of live stock. It will mean better homes with more attractive surroundings, greater inducement for our boys to remain on the farms, better schools, better churches, better teachers, and more earnest religious leader ship. In other words, it means that if the negro hopes to share, as un doubtedly he must In the blessings of democracy, he must measure up In these simple everyday activities. The negro must exhibit the very highest citizenship, including intelli gent, self-respecting, clean moral I manhood and womanhood." EFFECT OF WAR FEEDING In the Sozlale Praxis, Dr. _ Thiele, municipal school physician in Chem nitz, publishes some results of in vestigations as to the health of Ger man school children during the war. A general increase in cases of illness has not taken place; the well-known infectious ailments do not appear more frequently than before. Certain skin diseases have increased. The in fluence of war food is clearly to be recognized. In grownup people a curious new variety of disease has appeared, the so-called oedema dis ease, characterized by dropiscal swellings of the skin in different parts of the body without apparent lesions in the Heart or kidneys. These swellings are directly attributable to the present watery diet. There are, moreover, complaints as to the In crease of heart and kidney diseases, of strangulated hernia and prolapsus, these two last are connected with the general decrease of fatty tissue. The chief complaints made, however, re fer to the increased number of pull monary tuberculosis cases and the high mortality from this disease. The general power of bodily resistance In old people has greatly diminished; In the case of children, tuberculosis, the most serious children's disease, has increased. Children under sus picion of tuberculosis are counted as tuberculosis for statistical purposes. In the opinion of experienced school physicians the majority of the ex tremely pale, anaemic children be come the subjects of tuberculosis in later life. The increase in the num ber of tuberculous children coin cides with the beginning of the diffi culties, as to food. The extent to which children's bodies are weak ened in resisting power by inade quate nourishment is well known. MY nOSARY The hours I spent In sweater art Are as a string of purls; I sigh To count them over every one < apart, My rows awry—my rows awry; Each hour a purl—each purl take care To drop no stitehi lest I be stung. I count, yes count unto the end And there a sleeve Is hung> 0 memories tjiat bless and burn Of raveling out a bitter loss, 1 drop a purl yet strive at last To learn to knit tcross Sweet art, —to knit across. LABOR NOTES St. Louis. Mo., organized bakers rejected their employers' offer to raise wages $2 a week, providing the union abandons its label. Women track workers are wield ing picks and shovels on the roadbed of the Pennsylvania railroad be tween New York and Pittsburgh. The German government has is sued an order that girls under 17 years of age who are being made to do manual labor shall be liberat ed at once. A farm for every soldier of the United States who returns from the war is a proposal made by Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. Wages paid women workers in the French munition factories are grad ual, according to the character of the jvork and to their Papacity. Six thousand women are employed in combing the battlefields in France, where everything is being saved, even old boots are being picked up and made to do duty again. Urtity between organized labor and the farmers is urged by A. C. Townley, president of the New York Farmers' Nonpartisan League. I OUR DAILY LAUGH AWFUL. Wooden Soldier: No 'uae talking, this life in the trenches Is something fierce! MOKTHATION. "For a pessimist, you *re qult< cheerful." "I'm what is known as an optl mlstic pessimist" HOT DOG& The Rookie: I'd like to see some 0' them dogs of war I've heard KbOUt. The Regimental Cook: Here y*are! Red hot! Want mustardT LUCKY. , Tramp Bird: I J:now what kind porson dropped this 1 easing glass here, but It. certainly la nice and warm under It. Bmtbtg ffllptt I Two-foot Ice and two-bushel coa! orders are new experiences for thin community and the experiences of the State Capital In the .first two months of the winter we are now enduring will lie Interesting reading next summer when, according to the farmers and scientists, the ground will be in fine shape because of the heavy snows. Icemen say that they have seldom known such thick and fine Ice as Is being harvested, but that unless some means are to obtain additional hands the cltf win fall short of tlio supply needeu for next summer. This rather amaz ing prediction is made when the Sus quehanna bears the greatest Ice since 1904 and every stream and pond In this part of the State is Tast in win try fetters. The people who deal tr Ice declare that it takes twice as much ice to care for this commun ity than it did two years ago, be-, cause of the Increase in population and the growiug demands for ice for purposes and by people which, did not require it in 1908. Then, too it is pointed out that the distrle* will have to supply more men wht will come here because of Govern mental affairs, especially the great supply station near Middletown and the proposed expansion of the rail road facilities and the Bethlehem steel works, which are now being talked of at Washington. The coal men hafvo already begun to figure how to get the coal for next sum mer's demands because they believe that as soon as the weather moder ates the forehanded Harrisburgers will start to lay in full for next win ter. This interesting prophecy was made by a man long in the coal busi ness in these words: "About the time that people got their incoms tax paid you will find they will be ordering coal for next winter. I have been bothering about how to hold the customers I have had, but X think that they will be trying to hold me. When people run up against conditions such as they have struck this year they are not going to make any mistakes next trip. They win bo saving money this spring and putting it into coal. Some will get it because I bellove that the mines will be speeded up and precautions taken against a repetition of what wo have gone through. It will be a good thing because it will help us and help the public. Some saving next summer to buy coal will save suffering in the winter." However, there is something which the coal men will have to explain before they can re-establish them selves in our good graces and that is the scale of prices for small lots. Sales in small quantities have been required in many instances, but the prices asked for the bushel, two bushel, quarter or half ton lots mer it inquiry. The retailors pass It back along the line and declare that costs of delivery make them do it, but the fact that the charges were high for small sales for which people call with sleds is something which should be regulated, in opinion of many people. The Federal Fuel Adminis tration is limited to distribution, which is unfortunate. Another mat ter of much complaint about the coal is the quantity of slate and rock which is sold. In some sections of the city the failure to secure heat, led to examinations and the data se cured will be heard from. Here again the retailers go back along the line and say with more grounds than they have for their scale of charges that- they are being hit too. "We are charged for that rock Just the same as you and 30 arc the wholesalers. The trouble is back at the mines," was the explanation of fered by one man. When It comes down to ideas about easy money no one appears to even associate them with Thrift Stamps and Baby Bonds. In fact, many of the questions asked by the very peo ple for whom the plan of the stamps was created are so contrary as to be laughable, while others arc pathetic. One man who stood in front of a poster in the Harrtsburg post office read it carefully and when asked by some one interested in boosting the stamps if ho wanted any informa tion, shook his head and said that he could not afford to Invest in thtt stamps as he was saving his money. In another instance a man who was putting his money in a savings ac count in a bank asked a clerk very confidentially whether the Thrift stamps were a safe investment. Ho was very much surprised when the clerk promptly offered to turn his account into stamps and said he could cash them in on short notice. The number of people who are buy ing a couple of stamps a week is in creasing . rapidly and more "kids" have been putting money into stamps than the average person realizes. • * * The hot coffee brigade had a good many appreciated stations along the trolley lines yesterday. The men in charge of the cars were up against it because of the blizzard and '.he way the snow drifted and people vlio were forced to stay in doors had a kindly feeling for the men working with the cars and called them in. "This is mighty fine, not only for the coffee, but because it shows ihat people realize us fellows are trying to do our part toward keeping things moving. It isn't our fault," said one man. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. L. A. Watres has been re elected president of two bai.k and Irvst companies at Scranton. —E. E. Ludlow and other officers of the Lehigh coal interests, are de voting evenings to making addresses at patriotic meetings in tho anthra cite region. —H. M. Carson, feneral superin tendent of the Pennsylvania at Wll llamsport and Dietrich Lamade, the publisher, have been named on the board to manag the Willlamsport Foundation. —A. T. Dice, president of the Reading, has been spending days in the coal region in an effort to un tangle the coal traffic situation. H* first won his spurs In that section. —James C. Chaplain, Pittsburgh banker, is chairman of the bank&M committee In charge of the boosting of the Thrift Stamps in that city # | DO YOU KNOW ~ That Harrisburg steel Is be ing usetl for the manufacture of • army trucks? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The present courthouse is the third to be erecte fof this county. The present site i., th original do nation of John Harris for the pur pose. Bread and Stones JUST the other day I saw a big, fat, OVERFED person talking TO A slim, bony individual AND LECTURING him about FOOD conservation THE little man listened PATIENTLY until ho was FINISHED, then he said: I "PEOPLE who have bay windows SHOULDN'T throw stones!" [ ■ —St. Louis Star,
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