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RID.VY, FEBRUARY I, 1918 or none of us lire to hirftself, and e dieth to himself. —ROM 14:7. OOK OUT FOR FLOOD ▼ ITH twenty-two inches of / snow on the ground and al most that thickness of ice he river the chances are that we 1 add to the hardships of winter ood of seme proportions before bluebirds come north again. The ditlons are much the same all r the Juniata and the Susque na watersheds and a sudden i may add another burden to the sly tried transportation systems the State. The only hope of iding what threatens to be a ster lies in a long period of clear, m weather, with melting tem ktures during the day and slight >elow freezing at night. ily two more chances to see the >mobile Show, and. of course, you 't miss both of them. PUBLIC SPEAKING HE Harrisburg Young Men's Christian Association has or ganized a class in public speak and it is becoming one of the ;t popular branches of or izatlon. This is by no means nge. Nothing is mora helpful these days of community effort, i to be able to appear to good intage before an assemblage of s fellows. Public speaking Jty Is sometimes a gift, but more uently it is the result of careful' ivation. The man with a mes i is trebly forceful If he dje r it well. The man suddenly ed upon to speak is at a loss and tea an appearance often greatly lis own disadvantage if he is a ready talker. The Young Men's Istian Association class will offer ny the opportunity for which r have been seeking. it possible that closing the brew- R has been the means of bringing German population to its sober les'T More power to the strikers. BEEFSTEAK IFE is no longer just one dis- I agreeable thing after another; it's come to be a whole lot of greeable things all jumbled up sther. For example, last winter j >ln steak and French fried po- i es were impossible because po- I s were worth on market about i each. Now, with potatoes itlful, along comes Mr. Hoover to o" us away from the butcher p with the cry of beef famine, i time It is not the "crool, Crool it trust" that has the supply tered. The Katser and winter ther are Jointly to blame, and don't know which we hate most, nyway, friend beeksteak threat soon to be about as plentiful as ih dodo eggs and nobody lias it brash enough to suggest a sub ite. That is the sad part of Not even the renowned food statists who garner fame —and lets —at Battle Creek have been i to make a "mock beefsteak." re ts mock turtle soup, coffeeless ee, nut turkey (it should be led; with an o), meatless mince ,t and sugarless candy, all more less palatable (most of them a d deal less than more), but no ?k beefsteak. The reason is sim lt can't be done. Beefsteak is in lass by itself. Tender, juicy and party broiled as a delicacy It has ittturkey penned In the oven and igpng- for mercy. Tough, pounded fried, it has wrecked the for es of many a prosperous board house and shattered many a itlng bride's fond faith in her band's temper and religion, lut nothing like that Is apt to nr for some time, if the usually urate Mr. Hoover is to be be ed. Beefsteaks, It would seem, rapidly getting Into the class 4 terrapin and lobster, and the e appears at hand when we shall reading of the "gay young rox who squanders his father's llobs on cherus girls, diamonds ; beefsteak." That's bow bad this ■'s getting to be. And at the iot i of It all is the Kaiser. i jolly well, right if he bad to FRIDAY EVENING, spend eternity broiling steaks for other folks and getting none for himself. It you can think of any worse punishment let's hear about it. AN IMPORTANT LINK THE roadway between Harrisburg and Lebanon is an Important link of a great 'cross State high way, in addition to being a section .of a proposed government post road, and some means should be found whereby the Dauphin county com missioners, the Lebanon county com missioners and the State Highway Department may reach an under standing as to its immediate im-i provement. The State is willing to meet the counties half way with regard to expense and with the coun ty debt only a little more than SIOO,- 000 Dauphin county should consider well before it concludes to reject the offer of the Commonwealth. The local commissioners are said to entertain the belief that the State's flrst proposal was that if the county purchased the turnpike the State would improve it, and an ef fort should be made to clear up this point on both sides. But at all events, the commissioners doubtless understand that while it is all very well to keep down the tax rate and reduce expenses wherever possible, records for progressi*-' administra tion are not made in that way. The public servant, who leaves behind him a well constructed, permanent public improvement is remembered long after the official who shaved a quarter mill off the tax rate is for gotten. The Lebanon pike comes under this heading. There's one fine thing about this kind of winter —we have a perfectly good excuse for not getting up early to attend markets Saturday mornings. OUT WITH THEM DR. RICHARD C. SCHEIDT has resigned from the faculty of Franklin and Marshall College, a position he held with much credit to himself and the school for many years, rather than have a commit tee inquire into his pro-German leanings. Dr. Schiedt, if the evi dence is to be believed, has merely saved the trustees the trouble of dismissing him. There Is no place in any American institution of learn ing these days for the .nan whose heart Is with the Kaiser, no matter how able or renowned he may be. The place for all pro-Germans is in a detention camp for the period cf the war, although there are those among us who doubtless would like to see them in the first line trenches of France, where their much vaunted belief in "kultur" might be put to a real test. Out with, them all. We reserve our opinion of the Groundhog until to-morrow evening. PRACTICAL SUGGESTION KEISTER'S snow re moval proclamation is a prac tical measure and doubtless will meet with a hearty response on the part of the public. Everybody is inconvenienced by the snow on the streets, from the merchant -who operates a delivery wagon to the man or- woman who has occasion to use the tralley cars. The city is like a train on a single track road— running behind time, stopping at switches and with no Immediate prospect of catching up to schedule. Remove the snow and we get back to normal. The result in sight is well worth the effort the mayor would have us make. The American forces having taken over a section of the line In France, we may expect any day the sad news of numerous casualties. That is the reason we are so anxious to have war preparations at home speeded up. TVe want to get It all over with as soon as possible. OUR LATIN TRADE IMPORTS from the Spanish-Am erican countries during the first nine months of the current year reached a total of $858,287,000, or about 38 per cent, of our entire im port trade for the period. Exports to those countries reached a total for the period of $497,000,000, or about 11 per cent, of our total ex port trade. The countries included are British Honduras, the Central American States, Mexico, the West Indies, (including Cuba) and South America. During the first nine months of 1913, our total Import trade from these countries aggregated $340,000,- 000, or 25.6 per cent, of our grand total, and exports to them totaled $254,000,000, or about 15 per cent, of the grand total of our export trade with all the world. During the first nine months of 1914, under the low tariff law, and consequent depression at home, Imports from these countries jumped to $401,300,- 000, or nearly 30 per cent, of the total, while exports fell off to $197,- 500,000, or nearly 14 per cent, of the total. Such trade as we have now worked up with these countries' thanks to the war, we should like to keep after the war, but that can not be done unless we return to the policy of protection which guaran tees us our own home market and puch maximum operation as wilt cheapen production to a point where we can compete with our foreign trade rivals in Spanish-American markets. We're glad to hear that the biggest corn crop in history Is moving east. Just at the time the fried mush sea son is at Its height. , The President doubtless felt the farmer needed a little advice, but he shouldn't forget that he also needs labor. Only slackers will present the ex cuse of "no snow shovel." IK 'PtKKOlfttfCUua By the Ex-Committeeman Senator William C. Sproul Mil an nounce his candidacy for the Repub lican nomination for Governor in a loruial statement the latter pari ot next weeK ana will immediately open headquarters in Pniiadeipnia. ine {senator will make an active campaign and it is slated oy men close to tne man from .Delaware mat nis declarations will be in line wun tne most advanced thought of tne day and that his position on tne big economic and moral issues will be ciear enougn for all. {simultaneously comes the an nouncement tnat Hignway Commis sioner J. Denny O'Nieil will open nis Headquarters in Harrisburg witnin a weeK ami will uiso nave orancnes in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. He nas also announced tnat he will se lect a chairman of his state cam paign committee and that he will soon name county cnairmen to di rect matters In nis benalf in tlie various counties. Tne Highway commissioner went home lasL nigui and will spend the week-end IOOK mg atter things in Pittsburgh and go to Philadelphia tor a -Monday conference witn Anti-suloon league men. lie will combine business una pleasure by addressing Cumberland and York supervisors conventions next weeK. ->n. U'rwii spent, yesier day arranging lor tiie opening of his headquarters in tnis city and is seeking a suite ot offices near tlie State Capitol. He will have tne ac tive aid of Attorney General Brown m making his campaign plans. —Speaking of the Sproul plans the Pniladelphia Press says: Actual campaigning in con nection with the state election of next November will be start ed next week, and Senator Wil liam C. Sproul, candidate for Governor, will be the man to do it. Early next week he will open campaign headquarters and will put out the personal platform on which he seeks the nomina tion from the Republican party. Senator Sprout's headquarters will be near Broad and Chest nut or Walnut streets, probably in one of the hotels, but if ar rangements along this line can not be made, he will take a suite In one of the nearby office buildings. The Senator will vis ,it the headquarters every day when he is not campaigning on the road, and a staff of secre taries and clerks will be in con stant charge to receive visitors from all parts of the state who want to obtain or impart infor mation concerning the Sproul candidacy. His platform decla ration is expected to take the form of a statement to the newspapers, although it may be brought out in another way. In it, the Senator will define his viewpoint on ihe issues he be lieves involved In the campaign. It is thought that the issue of patriotic support of the federal government through all possible state sources will be one of the principal notes sounded. Some of the men who think they know the Senator's ideas believe ! he will make the statement that Pennsylvania's attitude on the prohibition and woman's suf- 1 ?rage amendments during the coming campaign is not a proper subject for the candi- 1 date for Governor to take up, since the law provides that the projected amendments to the i federal constitution are to be 1 voted upon by the State Legis lature and will not come to the 1 Governor's desk in any way, not even for his signature. —The Altoona Tribune has come out for O'Neil with considerable vig or and in the next county the Johns town Tribune is for Sproul. The Altoona Tribune is owned by Col. Harry W. Shoemaker, of the Gov ernor's staff, while the Johnstown Tribune is owned by Ex-Congres man Anderson H. Walters, the for mer Bull Mooser. —Montgomery is going to be a storm center. "Noticing that Charles A. Ambler acknowledged that he is being strongly urged to become a candidate for State Senator and that he is holding the matter under ad visement, prompted me to come to a decision that numerous friends have been urging me to make—to be a candidate for the Republican nom ination for State Senator of the Twelfth district," said James S. Boyd, Assemblyman from the Second legislative district, to-day at Nor rlstown. —Postmaster Raker, of Shamokin, was yesterday appointed Assistant District Attorney of Northumber land county, by District Attorney Strouss, of Mount Carmel. The post office pays {3,000 a year and the county appointment $1,250 annually. Raker, it is understood, will resign the postmastership in favor of E. B. Zimmerman, ex-county treasurer and Democratic chairman of Northum berland county. —lt was stated that Roger L. Bur nett, of Stroudsburg, who took the oath of office for another four-year term as U. S. District Attorney for the middle district of Pennsylvania, will reappoint his present assistants, John McCourt and Robert O'Brien, of Scranton. -—Pittsburgh City Council took a vote on the ratification of Mayor Babcock's nominations for city mag istrates yesterday, and by a vote of 5 to 4 refused to confirm the nomi nations. A peculiar feature of the vote was the fact that P. J. McArdle, a Magee adherenj, who has been against the mayor in nearly every measure sent to City Council since his-lnauguration. voted to confirm the nominations, but Dr. James A. Kerr, who has been a supporter of the ad ministration, voted with the noes. A proclamation issued by Mayor Bab cock calls on every man thrown out of work on Mondays to report for work cleaning the snow and slush off city streets. Tired Being the Goat (New York Times) Austria, war-weary and worse, is thus told plainly by her Foreign Min ister what she already suspected— that every life she loses from now on, all the money she spends from now on, all the hardship she under goes from now on, is lost, spent, and undergone for Germany, not for her self. Take this in connection wHh his statement that he tried to get in touch with the President, and that the differences between Austria and America "do not appear to be so great" that they cannot be discussed, and it seems possible that Count Czernin may have meant for other ears than those of the Socialists his hint that "those who wish to under stand must have understood." Of course he could neither have intend ed nor hoped for separate peace ne gotiations with the United States. He evidently felt that all the Allies would see in his utterance a peace overture, and that together with the United States they might make some encouraging response that would be helpful tt> Austria. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH fIT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ~ ~ . ; . .... BYBRIGGS f"rY/r - IJ I /^op~aTT \ /_PLE AV-SE iS-e mcvusl Vvom rc PAV U5 a sW !4 h £ MA3 T U°|^ M r I [&■>*•) Wms\ # : SOME wewjsi /7~ \\/i3IT '; ; / 'J eeei\J here roR / \*E6M ] A6eeAßcej P we W'T>H 5 Va,,o fiDftMO" /VT^ AND &OME- / ', v V —- — ~rxPCii.~~^ V &t'/r\- Yours uuu The war appears to inspire those who go into service with poetic fancy. A big, husky policeman of Philadelphia, now in an engineer corps, expresses himself thusly: My name is Albert Bowman, My age is twenty-eight; A Reserve at Fourth and Chestnut, With Montgomery as my mate. My heart was light, spirits gay, , Life seemed just like a dream— O! what a change this "traffic work" To driving a heavy team! Xow "conscription" it became a law, My number being called With my six feet two and avoirdu pois I thought they had me stalled. To the "exemption board" I sum moned was, • The doctor looked me o'ei^ — He says, "Young man, I wish like you That we had millions more!" • • • The anxiety of folks to know when the winter will ease up re calls the story of the Kansas far mer who dreamed that he visited the infernal regions. As he watched the vat of boiling lava, supposed to contain old friends and others, air bubbles began to come to the top,' and finally the head of a man emerged. As he blew the boiling lava from his mouth the man ex claimed: "Dc you think it's going to rain in time to save the corn crop?" OUR DAILY LAUGH RJSI NO WONDER. Snail: Ha, ha! 'i Those fool bugs think I'm a „ lank! U & f t POOR FIDO. "Well, how's conservation at your nouse." "We're doipg our bit. But tbes* meatless days are pretty rough on the