6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPER I'OR THS HOMB Founded ttjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELECRAriI PRINTING CO., Ttltiriph Building, Federal SUK. E. J. ST.* CKPOLE, Pre ft & BditorAn-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OVS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press la exclusively en tttlel to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. j Member American llshers' Aasocta ||| jQ| Eaitern office. Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrla burg, Pa., as second clasa matter. . en—ftr . By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mall. J5.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1918 Keep your face tcith sunshine lit, Laugh a little bit. Gloomy shadows oft will flit 4 lf you have the wit and grit Just to laugh a little bit. —J. E. V. COOK. ■ WAR REORGANIZATION ANNOUNCEMENT of radical re organization of the antiquated machinery of the War Depart ment to meet the demands of Con gress for greater efficiency in the prosecution of America's part in the j war indtcates that Secretary Baker: Is at last awake to the deficiencies of I his administration. This is a good j sign. All patriotic Americans will; join in the hope that the proposed concentration of authority andj co-ordination of activity will have j the desired effect of speeding up the country's preparations, and result in j the elimination of red tape and the errors both of ommission and com mission that have retarded the na tion and held back our efforts to get actively and effectively into the war. But much will depend upon the caliber of the men to be placed In charge of the various divisions about to be created. The President has not been any too successful in his] choice of assistants. Perhaps his Secretary of War, if he consults those best qualified to Judge, will do better. At all events, the probing and de bating and criticising of the House and Senate the past few months are hearing fruit, and the very fact that reorganizations have beeta under taken by Secretary Baker is proof positive that his department needed the attention it has received. It is also an evidence of the value of Congressional criticism, since with out Chamberlain, Hitchcock, Lodg6 and Wadsworth speaking their minds clearly and forcefully, Secre tary Baker might have gone along indefinitely in the self-satisfied man r.er his optimistic speeches indi cated. No further comment is need ed on the folly of Congress surren dering its powers almost entirely to the President, as it has been asked to do. PROTECTING THE GROUSE THE prompt response of hunters individually and sportsmen's as sociations generally, in coming to the rescue of the sorely belea guered ruffed grouse in Pennsylvania, Is gladdening to the heart of every lover of game birds in the State. The Game Commission should be grati fied by the support it is receiving. The ruffed grouse is next to the wild turkey in the list of game birds. That is not the opinion of any mere tyro, but of the great naturalist Audubon himself, who says in one of hla numerous works that this "specie of grouse, in my humble opinion, far surpasses as an article of food every other land bird which we have In the United States, ex cept the wild turkey, when In good condition." and this definition ap plies equally to the grouse as an ob ject of the hunter's search in the •woods. There are few birds with so wide n range of habitat—from Texas to the 56th degree North latitude and clear across the continent. In former years the woods of Pennsylvania swarmed with them and there re main thousands of acres of good cover and ample feeding ground for great numbers of the birds. But in recent years they have been shot off In such large numbers that their only apparent salvation lies in clos ing whole counties to huntsmen for B period of years to permit the grouse to multiply unmolested. This the sportsmen In many counties are planning to do. ON THE TUSCANIA THE conduct of th& men on the Tuscania after the torpedoing of that vessel is in full accord with the best traditions of the Amer ican Army and Navy. With death staring them in the face and the icy sea threatening to engulf them any jnoment, it Is reported that they TUESDAY EVENING, "atood about calmly chatting or amoklng." But they must have done more than that, for it 1* re corded, alio, that eoldlera Buffering with typhoid and pneumonia "were landed none the worse tor their ex perience." Can you imagine what is groins to happen when this party of American soldiers gets a chance at the Ger mans? They have had a taste of German ruthlessness and they may be expected to give the Hun a taste of the American variety that will cause him to sit up and take notice. Fritz set a torpedo oft under a hor net's nest that time. A DOUBLE BLOW PRESIDENT WILSON'S address before Congress yesterday struck a double blow at the aspirations of Germany. With one powerful stroke the President drove a wedge between Austria and Germany and with another he drove a second be tween the Socialists of Germany and the ruling imperial powers. He made it clear that America has no quarrel with the peace alms of Austria, but that this nation stands ready to spend its last dollar and its last drop of blood defending itself from the despoiling hand of the blonde beast of Berlin. The President rises to no great heights of emotionalism. He is calm and Incisive in all his arguments. He talks boldly to Austria in reply to Czernln, the Austrian foreign minister, bidding for her friend ship and assuring the people of the dual monarchy that our quarrel is not with them, but with the imperial istic, military party of Germany. Al most in the same breath he sr>eaKs to the reasonable, liberal elements in Germany itself, letting them know that the United States stands for precisely the same ideals as they themselves; that they have aothing but our heartfelt sympathy arid support in their efforts to set up a democracy In Germany, or at least rob the present government of its autocratic powers. The President talks freely rnd openly in language scarcely, if ever, before used between hostile powers. But that he Is playing the game with all the cards on the table and with the whole world as an audience robs his. method of any of the weaknesses It might have had if conducted under the rules of secret diplomacy, now happily dead for all time so far as a majority of the great nations of the earth are con cerned. He has served notice on Germany that peace may be brought about now, or soon, by means that wculd save countless lives and bil lions of wealth, or that if delayed will be wrought on American terms by the unmeasured resources ot this continent which the people stand ready to pour out in behalf c! their great ideal. In this it Is well the whole world should understand that Americans RS a whole are solidly behind the President. They will go willingly down deep into the valley of blood sacrifice with them, that In the end they may stand on the mount of transfiguration when the deadly damps shall have rolled away to reveal the sun of a new day shining in all its splendor upon a purged and liberated world. They have fought many wars, each for some large humanitarian ideal. They have never faltered. They will not do t>o now. Germany my profess to be lieve that America will not count for much In this conflict, but soon she will begin to understand that we can fight as well as talk and that In the last analysis we shall throw the deciding weight into the scales. The President's address was as timely as it was forceful. Coming at the moment of the utter collapse of Russia It was designed to have a sobering effect on the ruling class In Germany. It is at once an appeal for popular sympathy within the Central Powers and bold defiance of the Kaiser and his fellow plotters. ADVENT OF LENT THE advent of Lent will have very little effect on the life of the community this year. The season will open on Wednesday without any of the formality society attached to it in former years. The war has put such a damper on so cial affairs this winter that there is little frivolity to be eliminated and as for simplification of diet, why the forehanded and energetic Mr. Hoover has stepped in to put lenten regulations Into effect this year os practical conservation measures long before religious observance .required them. Most Americans know little about restraint of appetite. It has been said that we have been "digging our graves with our teeth." Those who have observed Lent strictly have been benefited physically as well as spiritually. This year all of us will have to restrain our table desires and no doubt we will be the better for it. If the war diet re duces a few waistlines and remover a few paunches it will not have beani in vain. I fottfict Ck j By the Ex-Committeeman So much Tesentment has been aroused among the Democratic leaders of counties where the or ganization bosses of Pennsylvania's Democracy have never had any too secure a hold at best over the drift ing policy of the machine that It is probable that a conference will be called at Philadelphia for a more or less open discussion of the state situation instead of holding a star chamber meeting to make a slate on the banks of the Potomac. There are signs that the old, old row over the liquor issue is about to break out inside of the Democracy, the announcement of the gubernatorial ambitions of District Attorney E. Lowry Humes being taken as the notice of the dry element that it proposes to run things. In this connection the Philadel phia Record, the bis Democratic or gan of Pennsylvania, says: "Demo cratic leaders are understood to be planning a meeting in the near fu ture to discuss the gubernatorial situation in Pennsylvania. Acting State Chairman Joseph S. Guffey, of Pittsburgh, has been mentioned most frequently as the probable candidate for the Democratic nomination, but it was generally believed that Guf fey was only a stalking horse for a later candidate. Reports from Wash ington show that Vance C. McCor mick, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Demo cratic candidate in 1914,, Is being urged to run again. Close advisers from Pennsylvania of the President are said to have urged upon him the necessity for McCormick making the run. These same advisers are re ported to have told Administration leaders that the Democrats have a good chance of carrying Pennsylva nia next fall if a strong candidate is put before the people. They count on the discord in the Republican ranks, even in the event of a truce between the Penrose and Vare- Brumbaugh factions, throwing many votes to the Democratic cause." —Few Prohibition state gather ings in years have been watched with the interest given to the con vention being held in Pittsburgh to day and all sorts of speculation are being indulged in. The Democratic machine and the O'Neil committee have both been busy with the cold water people. —lndications are that the Sproul announcement will come next week, but the O'Neil people are planning to take the edge off of it as much as possible. O'Neil is expected to have a couple of interesting statements between now and Monday. —Philadelphia newspapers attach much importance to the visit to be paid to that city in the ne,xt few days by State Chairman Crow: They believe' that the final line up on the Republican state ticket will be work ed out. —Most newspapers of the state j appear to think that it is only a question of time until more favor-, ite sons join Judge John Eaber Mil ler, of Montgomery; Representative A. A. Weimer, of Lebanon, and R. P. ] Habgood, of McKean, in their de- i mand to be considered candidates. j dome people are also of the opinion that Gifford Pinchot may yet de cide that there is a chance for a grand little harmonizer. —The Philadelphia war has be come acute again. This time it is the Vare contingent that is being hit. Every time the Mayor throws out some Penrose men the courts or some state official throws out some Vare men. And the rest of the state is expected to shed tears. —When Robert G. Kay, former Controller of Chester county, retired from office, he filed with the Court his report of the financial condition of the county, and surcharged George E. Wilson, treasurer, $377.05, alleged to be due as interest on coun ty funds on deposit with the Farm ers' and Mechanics' Trust Company, yesterday. Ex-Judge Robert S. Gaw throp, counsel for Treasurer Wilson, filed a petition for a rule to appeal from Kay's report, and for a rule to show cause why an issue shall not be granted and heard by the Court. Argument on the rule wa3 fixed for Monday. March 11. —State Senator Edward W. Pat ton. the father of West Philadel phia politics, gives some interesting views in regard to forty-two years in the "game" to the Philadelphia Press and he incidentally remarks "My belief In the ultimate success of the party is grounded on the fact that factional differences will cease.'' Ho believes that with intelligent leadership and harmony the Repub licans will be invincible. —Clarence D. Coughlin, Luzerne county Republican chairman, and T. J. Heffernan are given the credit for putting over the appointment of Chief of Mines Button. An in teresting fact in connection with J. J. Walsh, the mine inspector who was backed by the Mine Workers leaders, is that he was one of the strongest advocates of the Gover nor's plan to utilize mine gases in industry. One of the objections to him was that he is a Democrat. —Button was last employed by a subsidiary of the Temple Coal Com pany and is said to be a well-quali fied man. He will come here with wide knowledge of anthracite condi tions and at the same time keep the appointment in Luzerne county whence hailed the late James E. Roderick, chief for seventeen or eighteen years. Joseph J. Welsh, backed by the Mine Workers, is said to have taken the selection of But ton with good grace. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says that attention has been attracted in western Pennsylvania to the coming visit of Senator Sproul and Chairman Mackey to that city to speak at the Native Sons' dinner. —Scranton has dropped Its coal •inspector because that work can hereafter be taken charge of by the Federal Fuel Administration. New Words to Old Tune The lad who eats fine wheaten bread, And will not have corn muffin. Resembles far too much the pig, That's in the trough a-puffln'. Take another model, lad. Nor waste your tlmo in stuffln"! The lass that spends her idle day, In eating sugar candy. And while she reads, declares that she Must have a package handy,— Such a lass should banished be To any desert sandy! The children who lament for meat And frown at beans and fishes, Are like to have much less to eat Before they have their wishes. Skip their supper now and then. And serve them empty dishes! For the orphan child acittss the sea Has need of all of saving. While dress he lacks and food he lacks And hunger he is braving. Hold, to him a helping hand, lake brothers true behaving! —By Nora Archibald Smith of the Vigilantes. RARJRISBURG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... BY BRIGGS IP YOU HAD LINGERED H S °'^ UMTIL. l2> BELLS WHILE v A sMov*J 53/nmk wnit6 vv/\TtNC vow i nDUUi id. 30 You CAUUNG ON -YOUR E NT.. W CLOCI< FRIEND SUNDAY EV/EMING „ A " UAU R X - >- . F HO-\ ~~~ IITI T AMD ABOUT TO ~ \VS/AKGMS YOU H /WISE IM 'RIGHTEOUS WRATH KG TOR YOUY— ■ J '£ATFCIFID SJDIMG REVEILLE ■ T * THAT CLOC.tr ~§G OH N-H ■ ••• - - (AET6T) BY - YB*J 19 AIN'T IT A-GR R RMJ) H§| SODDCNLY IT IS . D GIQD.VUS FEFLIM'? Seven Sentences By Abraham Lincoln Faith In God is indispensable to suc cessful Statesmanship. This Nation should be on the Lord's side. With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Gold is good in its place, but lov ing, brave, patriotic men are bet ter than gold. God bless my mother, and all I am or hope to bo I owe to her. I want it said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower. With malice toward none, with charity for all. Changeless Temperament Mental temperament is inborn, and little susceptible of being alter ed. A person is born with a cer tain temperament for which he is no more responsible than for the shape of his nose, and this inborn temperament tends to remain fun damentally the same throughout life, resisting almost completely all attempts, educational or psycho therapeutical, to modify it. No doubt some of his emotional disposition can be modified by train ing—an artistic aptitude can be de veloped by constant exercise, a bad temper bettered by systematic con trol—yet the native temperament remains fundamentally unchanged. A person's temperament never in fact, undergoes a decided change except as the result of the normal cyclical changes, such as puberty and senility, or in consequence of disease, such as Grave's disease, myxodema, or actual insanity. We meet a man we have not seen for years, and when we come to speak to him it is as if we were car rying on a conversation of yester day, so conscious are we of his un altered temperament; and it is this which constitutes the essence of the man, or, as we say, his personality. There "are the same old gestures, the same old tricks of speech, the same old play of facial expression, all Indicative of the same tempera ment. Contact with the world, his successes, his failures, his troubles, have no doubt left their impress. Youthful ardor may have been damped: the optimist may have lost some of his hopefulness: the shy man may have grown bolder; the genial man may have become some what soured, the cheery nature more subdued; but all such changes are on the surface only. When we come to probe below the surface we shall find that the temperament remains fundamental ly the same; the very sensitive, the very shy, the very timid, the irre pressibly self confident, remain sen sitive, shy, timid, self confident to the end of the chapter.—Harry Campbell in Lancet (London). LABOR NOTES It is predicted that at the close of the war women will replace men as stewards on the large ocean lin ers. A record production of Portland cement was established last year, the production being 9,544,000 barrels. Women are to be employed as "rush hour" streetcar conductors by [ the trolley company In St. Louis, Mo. j Telegraphers and station agents employed by the Chicago and North western Railroad have secured short er hours and wage increases of 13 % per cent. Organlied labor will ask the Wash ington State Legislature to pnss a law permitting picketing, which has been denied by the courts of that state. The new war insurance system for soldiers, sailors and members of the nurses' corps has been extended to 1.100 officers and employes of the Federal lighthouse service. Rochester. N. Y.. organized paint ers and paperhangers have prepared a new wage scale to take effect April 1, 1918. Rates are |5.20 a day with a work week of forty-four hours. On March 11. at Tacoma, Wash., International Union Timber Work ers will convene. Commissions as second lieuten ants in the Massachusetts Guard will be given to 100 nurses in that state. English women have undertaken ■Wprk In every Industry which has any bearing on munitions. Abraham Lincoln's Faith By the Rev. H. C. Holloway, D. D SOME years ago, in a public ad dress, Colonel Robert G. Inger soll said Abraham Lincoln's religion was the religion of Voltaire and Tom Paine. General Charles H. Collis was present on the occasion, and it led to an interesting corres pondence between these two distin guished men. General Collis, in a letter to the famous Ingersoli, among other things, said: Dear Colonel Ingersoli:— "I have just returned home from listening: to your most entertaining lecture upon the life of Abraham Lincoln. I thank you sincerely for all that was good in it, and that en titles me to be frank in condemning what I consider* was bad. You said that Lincqjn's religion was the reli gion of Voltaire and of Tom Paine. I know not where you get your au thority for this, but if the statement bo true Lincoln himself was untrue, for no man invoked 'the gracious favor of Almighty God' in every effort of his life with more apparent fervor than did he, and this God was not the Deist's God but the God whom he worshiped under the forms of the Christian Church... I do not write this in defense of his religion or as objecting to yours, but I think it were better for the truth of history that you should blame him for what he was than commend him for what he was not." To this Ingersoli roplled, saying, that "Voltaire was not only a be liever in God but even in Special Providence." And that "Tom Paine was also a believer in God, and wrote his creed as follows: 'I be lieve in one God and no more, and hope for immortality.' " This Gen eral Collis answered: "Voltaire called himself a 'Master Deist.' You have publicly made the broad state ment that Mr. Lincoln's religion was that of Voltaire and Thomas Paine— this you do not deny. I say that Mr. Lincoln is not a Deist." There is abundant evidence of this. When we find that Mr. Lincoln professed Christianity, worshiped at a Christian Church, admitted his belief in the Divinity of Christ, and boldly asserted the doctrine of the inspiration of the Scriptures, we are compelled to deny that his religion was the religion of Voltaire and Torn- Paine. Mr. Lincoln regularly at tended a Christian Church In Wash ington is a historical fact. Though not a member as we technically un derstand it, he was a constant at tendant of Dr. Gurley's Presbyterian Church. He also frequently attended Dr. Sutherland's Church. Dr. Gur ley was his pastor and was present at his deathbed. A Christian at Heart. That he was a Christian at heart, as well as in form, and believed in the efficacy of the prayers and sup port of Christian denominations—let a few extracts from his addresses verify: Leaving his home at Spring field with a full—a sorrowful appre ciation of the awful responsibility devolving upon him, surrounded by a Christian community with whom ho had lived a quarter of a century, he thus addressed them: "I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task be fore me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I can not fall. Trusting in Him, who can go with me and remain with you and be everywhere for good, let us con fidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affection ate farewell." To committees of the different churches that came to the White T WO-CENT PA PERS BEST MEDIUMS The penny newspaper is no longer a commercial institution, and people know that tho business that is conducted on a losing basis is grinding the ax of its owners in some other way. Likewise they know that the business that Is operated on a sound, commercial basis must look for success wholly upon the honesty and Integrity of the service which it renders to the public whom It serves. That Is why the public has confidence in the two-cent news paper. Three out of four homes in Harrlsburg and Central Penn sylvania PREFER the Harrlsburg Telegraph—PßEFEß—because they pay more to get It than other papers in its field cost. The paper in which the people have confidence, Is the best paper In which the adverlser can print his message. That is why the Harrlsburg Telegraph leads In advertising—that Is why It is pro ducing the biggest returns to advertisers. House to give expression of confi dence to him, Mr. Lincoln always very positively declared his faith in God and invoked God's blessing on the churches. To Mrs. Gurney, the wife of an eminent Quaker preacher, he wrote: "I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations.' Believed in the Lord's Day. He went so far even as to differ with those people who believed Sun day to have been instituted for the "ease of creation." Lincoln believed it was the Lord's Day. On Novem ber 18, 1862, he promulgated the fol lowing military order: "The Presi dent desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the mili tary and naval service, and a due re gard for the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The discipline and character of the national forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperiled, by the profan ation of the day or name of the Most High." . lie Believed in the Bible and Divi nity of Christ. To the colored men of Baltimore who presented him with, a Bible Mr. Lincoln said: "In regard to the Great Book, J have only to say that it is the best gift which God has given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communi cated in this book." What an ex quisite epitome of the inspiration of the Scriptures and the Atonement! And six montha 'later in*his second inaugural address, see how he bor rowed the words of the Son of God to illustrate the justice of the Father. "Woe unto the world be cause of offenses." General Collis said to Ingersoll, "From all this it appears that you can no more eAily make Lincoln a Deist than I "an make Voltaire a Christian. Mankind will estimate the life of Abraham Lincoln for what it was, and not for what you or I would have it." Surely not by a scintilla of evidence can it be made to appear that Abraham Lincoln's religion was the religion of Tom Paine and Voltaire. Only a man like Colonel Ingersoll could venture to say such a thing. From Springfield, 111., to Ford's Theater in Wushington, in all that Mr. Lincoln said or wrote can a sen tence or a word he traced that would incline any one to think that he ever had even for a moment entertained the religion of Paine or Ingersoll. It was all the other way, of which there is abundant evidence. "The Atonement"! What did he mean by the expression "the Saviour of the world?" "The ispiration of the Bible!" Was he fooling the negroes of Baltimore when he called the Great Book "God's best gift to man?" Abraham Lincoln holds too largo a place in the history of the world and affections of men to be affected by the accusations of Ingersoll or helped by my defense, yet ephemeral as is what one may say of him wrongfully, no one has the right to take a liberty with his character simply because his Illustrious ex ample would be useful to him In making converts. The memory of the dead may be libeled Just as grossly as the reputation of the liv ing. * No man can make mankind be lieve that Abraham Lincoln was a hypocrite, and unless they do, an as sertion that "his religion was the religion of Voltaire and Tom Paine" Is of no Importance. "The divinity of Christ! Did Mr. Lincoln go to Dr. Gurley's Presby i teri-an Church for four years for mere appearance?" FEBRUARY 12, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT That noise is Washington in 1920 trying out its siege-guns.—Brooklyn Eagle. Thrift! She wants hut little fur below, nor wants that little long.— Wall Street Journal. Remember, if you are careless about observing meatless day now, every day'll be Tuesday by and by. —Kansas City Star. Bolsheviki are so terribly in earn est about liberty that whoever differs from the Bolsheviki gets supprest. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hon. Joe Caillaux, of Prance, ap pears to have done so much travel ing he is suspected of having been a commercial traveler. —Dallas News. Carson has quit the British Cabi net. He must have heard of the pur pose of the lady from Montana to free Ireland.—Brooklyn Eagle. Pershing Overcomes Great Diffi culties to Make Our Troops Effec tive—Newspaper head-line. Not mentioning any names.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. The various war-industries of the country are now busily engaged in composing a fitting reply to the latest German peace terms. —Chic- ago Herald. Stock answer to peace terms while the present German Government •continues in power: Isaiah 49:22 There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.—Kansas City Star. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ECONOMICAL I vitations out to |3r dinner that w i TWO SORTS / OF WIVES. '-ff f There arc two f % types of wives. LViVj ,f )l 1 lj Those who [!|l(\\ r Mr df ••r •make him wear jw J rubbers and vy/' those who make J V him wear even- // lng clothes. I // wli COLD TO BE GIN WITH. I I Mrs. Hard ° A\M/1 hart: If th,a o / V~VH/N/\ cold weather o I \ keeps up 1 I —* think I'll freeze, —r' \ I Mr - Warm in I / spot: Yes, you !_/ certainly are MILLION- I AIRES SPORT. VVj Fresh (jss and T"| IrM v real honey L l/ IWll Pouiess a deal NJfl k , ; If I h\d rafts of ' ?i operate a BiPtttug (EJjat After the weather opens up it Is likely that Harrisburg will stand a good chance of seeing some of tho huge truck trains which are being sent from the automobile manufac turing centers to the seaboard tor Afmy use. Few people know that the National Government has con tracted for close to 40.000 trucks and that the bulk of them will have to Pass through some part of Penn syhania to get to the coast. Freight congestion has caused the authori ties to combine tests and movement '.l sp ! e of lhe terrible winter \N<.ather which the urgency of the occasion has demanded it is said that PowlWv ! Krtft 6 too , d "" splendidly, possibly 2,500 trucks have oaseri through this state to the sea mm ins over the Lincoln highway from i n ** eaver county "to the Sf nd o" ne " ear Llttlestown, the state of Pennsylvania doing its nan • spending thpusands and tliou sands of dollars to keep the i stand tho c. i" h| Khway cannot stand the strain ot such heavv movement and as soon as the weV ther conditions are favorable move ments will begin over other \ouU inc uding the William Penn highway which passes through Harrfsburu and after the birds begin to h£ ing anV Un? 2?*? Up morn* UIM, TJ (l Market Square tilled With Army trucks, recalling in -i way to the older resident" the days ; h ;.r,L ln ! ins "'lod the streets L '^ ar it is an inter eating fact in connection with this pM e ?v. ent tlmt the man who will de theetruekß°\o 0S .h tO ti,k ° n l ° * et Hie II 111 K 8 to the seacoast ift nrn ( * other than Major W. I). Uhler, the chief engineer of the State High way Department, who is now on Mr T?hlor'wn° e r° Sorvo the Nation. with MLI J. formerly connected with Mainlands highway depart- P, ,e -. an ?l ifi n 'so familiar with the New system. In company with a number of truck builders, "motor vehicle experts and engineers of the Pennsylvania and Ohio highwav de partments is now planning routes whereby cars can he moved from Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michi gan and Ohio in big trains compare.! to which the truck lines that have been passing over the Lincoln high way will be small. It is possible that four routes across Pennsyl vania. two of which will piss through Harrisburg. may be chosen One will be the William Penn which comes down the Juniata valley and the other from New York state by way of the Susquehanna trail which goes through Wllliamsport and Harrisburg. The stato is already preparing to meet the heavy main tenance costs for this movement and it is up to counties, cities and boroughs to make preparations, too • • • "Working on freight is like war service" said a railroad man who went through the Spanish war, last evening. "The railroads are being called upon to move every car thev can and men who are willing to work overtime can do it. The traf fic that has accumulated is some thing awful and there Is more com ing up behind it every minute. I.et me make you a prediction. The movement through Harrisburg is gcing to be the greatest ever known this spring. You can see it starting now. Every man who can make re pairs is being called in so that the engines will be ready." Ehrman B. Mitchell, Jr., of this city, was one of the members of the committee which devised the stand ard poultry feed which is to lie recommended to poultry feed manu facturers at the meeting at the Capi tol on Wednesday as part of the grain conservation movement. With him were several men who had given attention to the scientific raising of cattle and poultry and it is believed that by-products of farms and mills can be combined in a way to give a feed for hens which will meet all nutriment requirements and at the same time permit the saving of the maximum amount of grains of all kinds for food. • * • More milk bottles have been lost In the last month than in an ordi nary year, declare the milkmen. One big up-town firm puts its loss in the hundreds alone and there ara a number of distributors who say that another month will force them to charge for bottles. The intensely cold weather made the milk freeze and the glass becoming brittle was easily broken. More than one in stance has been known where people picked up bottles of milk to find the bottom falling out and the milk a solid mass which had to be thawed out. Such a thing as a foot of milk was not unknown in Harrisburg this winter. Fortunately it was In convenieht form for handling after the broken glass had been gotten rid of. Harrisburg peoplo who recall the activities of R. Nelson Bennett, one of Wilkes-Barre's councilmen, at the third class city conventions an l in legislative hearings in recent years will be interested to know that he is the controlling factor in the councils of that city just now. There are two factions and Bennett's vote seems to have decided some things. He is the type of the well-to-do man in municipal affairs and the way he works out the problems in his city will be noted in many parts of the state. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin, of Philadelphia, is about to begirt a second tour of the state in the move ment to "slam sedition." •—J. Henry Scattergood, formerly Philadelphia registration commis sioner and lately Y. M. G. A. com missioner to France, will givo a series of talks on the conditions. —Dr. Charles M. Wharton, the former University of Pennsylvania foootball star, is in charge of im portant work among medical men In Delaware. —James Henry, prominent Ches ter man, has been elected head of the citizens corps in that city. | DO YOU KNOW —That llarrislmrß Is armdimc socks to half the states in the Union? HISTORIC IIARRISBURO The first railroad bridge over the Susquehanna here cost only a fifth ol tlio last to be built. Speeding Up Worthy companion to the cele brated painter who, when the paint got low. hastened to finish the floor before the paint gave out, has been found in the jwomait" knitter who sat up late to finish a scarf because she had so little yarn.—From the Chi cago News. Not So Bad Of course there are exceptions, but as a general thing girls are not as red as they are painted.—Fiom the Galveston News,
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