8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded iljl Published evenings except Bunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telerraph Bulldlnff, Federal Square. IS. J. STACK POLE, PreSt tr Editorin-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Busintts Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of tho 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 also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Avenue Building, Fiiiley, Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1918 The mattock will make a deeper \tiolc in the ground than lightning.— IHokace MAXX. ii . - MORE THAN HIS BIT EDISON seventy-one years old and too busy serving his coun try to celebrate the day! There Is patriotic service for you! Edison's time is worth millions in money. He can command any price lie chooses to ask. When great me chanical problems are to be solved the masters of Industry who guide the operations of America's great mills and factories would not quibble over pay could they but call Edison to help them in their difficulties. But when Uncle Sam asked Edison to enlist for the war he offered the preat inventor only a dollar a year— less than a private soldier in the ranks is paid for a single day—and Edison responded as quickly and as enthusiastically as any young volun teer. He is not content with "doing his bit;" he is giving his all and working eighteen hours a day at a time of life when most men feel that they have earned a rest. If all of us devoted the effort to helping Uncle Sam win tho war that Mr. Edison Is doing wo would be much farther along toward victory 'than we are. But we are not all Edisons and because we are not will ing to sacrifice pleasure and leisure in order to devote our time to work, the Edisons outstrip us in every walk of life—and yet sometimes we wonder why. The death of Lieutenant-Colonel JCeigler removes from the service of the United States as gallant a soldier ever wore the shouderstraps. Colonel Zelgler was as good a citizen tin he was a soldier, which is saying much, and he leaves a host of friends In Uarrisburg to mourn his passing. He died for his country just as truly end as bravely as though on the field of battle, and his fellow-citizens will cherish his memory as the first Har risburg officer to give his life for the great cause for which we are all lighting. He died that we might live in peace and comfort. "Greater love hath no man than this, that he giveth liis life for his brother." A PATRIOTIC DUTY THE man or woman with suffi cient ground for the purpose is expected to raise a few chick ens this year. Chicken-raising has become a patriotic duty. Unless eggs are to go beyond the purses of or dinary folks next winter chicken raising must be made as popular the coming summer as home-gardening was last year and will be again. The feeding of a flock of hens Is less a problem for the private fam ily than it is for the professional poultryman, for the home-raised chickens eat what would ordinarily fro into the garbage can. thus keep ing down to a minimum the expense of feed, which becomes serious when the flocks run into the hundreds and the amount of grain required is large. The city is turning its garbage Into pork at the piggery above the city. You are asked to turn a portion of your household refuse into chicken meat and eggs. Young chickens may be purchased from dealers or from the State Department of Agriculture, thus doing away with the trouble of Hatching. If you are interested con sult Ehrman B. Mitchell, the expert named by the government to help Jiarrisburg and Dauphin county peo ple solve their chicken problems. We are beginning: to revise our opinion of the Weather Man. REAL FOOD SHOWS GENERAL, commendation will follow the decision of the men who control the county and district fairs of the State to de vote more attention during the com ing summer and autumn to exhibi tions of the foodstuffs raised in their communities, and to subordinate amusements to displays of agricul tural products. The great trouble with many of the fairs the last twenty years has been that they have been run more for tho Kate receipts than for the encourage ment of agriculture or stock breed- WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 13, 1918 lng. Many of the horses run In the races, primarily designed to show off the best horseflesh of the county, have had no more local connection than a locomotive from the Santa Fe railroad would have on the Pepnsy and the amusements have not only been provided by troupes which go the circuit, but have oc casionally, according to records of the Auditor General's Department, been chiefly devoted to the opera tion of gambling devices. What this State wants now and has been wanting for years, al though It took the war to bring it to our minds, Is a return to the county fair that will show the big ear of corn raised bj; Jim Jones' boy and the prize "punkin" from the Smith yard. We want competition in the best of the food. We want the Robinson apples to be up against the pippins from the Brown orchard, and we want the wheat from the Babbling Brook farm to be judged against the choice grain from Old Hickory farm. We would like to see Mitchell's chickens contend for blue ribbons against those from the Boyd estate. We want people who are raising foodstuffs to speed it up, both as to quality and quantity, and we will all turn out to see the ex hibits. It is Infinitely more profitable to the public to have people work for months to get the best of agricul tural and horticultural and dairy and other farm products and to as semble the best, than it is to see horses from New Jersey go round a track and laugh at the antics of an entertainer from Broadway dressed in a "rube" suit. If the county fair people will bring back the real county fair they will got a lot of substantial encour agement from the State. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY THE pen is mightier than the sword, and love is mightier than either of them. Youth is always youth, though kingdoms totter and thrones crumble; and romance rises phoenixlike from the ashes of the ages. The glory that was Rome's de parts and the pomp and circum stance with which great personages so oft surround themselves are soon forgotten. Who, for example, re members that Claudius the Cruel was emporer of Rome, once upon a time long ago, and that he enjoyed a rep utation which might have been the envy of the Kaiser himself? Who, on the other hand, does not know something of the good St. Valentine? Yet Claudius in his day was powerful enough to send the dear old Bishop to the headsman's block. How the shade of St. Valentine must laugh at the puny efforts of the half-for gotten, wholly despised wraith who thought to kill the eternal spirit of love and lovers on earth by lopping off the head of their exponent and champion. To-morrow we pause a moment to pay our meed of homage to the ven erated Saint, whose heart-and-cupid strewn path most of us have been treading since our knlckerbocker days. Yet he asks nothing for him self. Would you honor St. Valentine you must write a verse, or send a flower, or a box of candy, or a lacy packet of hearts and sentiment to her whose smile means more to you than riches or fame, or both. Maybe you are not so young in years as you once were. Neverthe less, The world Is full of roses. And the roses full of dew, And the dew is full of heavenly love. That drips for me and you— and so. If we listen to the prompt ings of our heaFts we will all go a vaientinlng to-morrow. There's sure ly some girl—even though her hair be sprinkled with gray and from whose cheek the roses have depart ed—who would smile, or weep, over your valentine. And if such there be, it is your duty to see that she is properly remembered. Don't admit even to yourself that you are any older in spirit than you were when the big ten-cent valentine, with the lace around the edges and the two bleeding hearts in the center, bore your message of youthful affection to the little golden-haired beauty be fore whom you poured out all the full devotion of a lad in love's first sweet raptures. Don't be a Claudius. St. Valentine has put an emperor of Rome to shame. Who are you that you should neglect him on his natal day? HEAVEN AND HELL AN EXCHANGE quotes the fol lowing paragraph from the Jung Deucliland, a German magazine, published for German lads of twelve years and older: War is the noblest and holiest expression of human activity. For us, too, the glad, groat hour of battle will strike. Still and deep in the German heart must live the joy of battle and the longing for it. Let us ridicule to the utmost the old women in breeches who fear war and de plore it as cruel and revolting. No; war is beautiful. In the cloud palace above sit the heroes, Frederick the Great, and Blucher. and all the men of action —the great emperor, Mol tke, Roon, Bismarck, are there as well, but not the old women who would take away our Joy in war. When here on earth u battle is won by German arms and the faithful dead ascend to heaven, a Potsdam lance corporal will call the guard to the door and "Old Fritz" (Frederick the Great), springing from his golden throne, ■will give the command to present arms. That is the heaven of young Germany. There are no Boy Scouts in Ger many, but the Jung Deuchland is read by the German boys of Scout age, and its teachings are all of the kind quoted. In America we have the Scouts, who preach love and service and whose motto is "Do a good turn daily." In Germany they have a horde of youngsters taught to despoil others, taught to Ijolieve that "war is heaven." How sad the contrast! How frightful for the German youth to awake from his dream of "beauty" and romance to learn that instead of heaven, war ia indeed hell. ""poCvtutf- uv |j By the Ex-Commltteeman Auditor General Charles A. Sny der's rather plain statement of the position he means to take in regard to payrolls of various departments on Capitol Hill in which men have been politically active in the last six months and his assertion that within working hours they must work for the state and not for any man's political or personal ends, did not tend to make him popular in some branches of the state government to-day. It has rather served to ac centuate the situation which is de veloping about the state house. The opening of the headquarters here to-day for the J. Denny O'Neil Republican committee is expected to be followed by some strenuous dem onstrations that the state adminis tration is behind the man from Mc- Keesport, even though tho Governor has not publicly stated his position, but only intimated it. Hence admin istration men to-day said that Sny der's holding up of payrolls and re fusal to pay increases might get him into court, a prospect which the state's controller appeared to re gard as entirely pleasant. Mr. Snyder said that he had information that In creases of pay were promised peo ple in the state government by in dividuals not connected therewith. "There is no occasion for any fuss. You newspapermen must understand that all I am doing is to see that the state gets the worth of the money I am called on to pay out," said Mr. Snyder. "I certainly am not going to pay any man for running around this state playing politics, and neither am I going to stand for Increases unless I am shown they are justilied." The Auditor General has given a good many people cause for thinking. There may be "wholesale removals," but the men who take the places will certainly have to work the full of flcial hours to get any pay and the men who have been going without pay are wondering how long it is go ing to last. —The Prohibition state conven tion at Pittsburgh yesterday was tho first real convention since the days of the Bull Moose campaign and while the selections made are not legally binding on the voters of the party, there is no doubt but what they are considered so by the rank and file of the party which has never swerved from its object. Men active! in politics say that the decision to | place a ticket before the party is I notice from the middle of the road element that it docs not propose to allow the party to become tail to any kite in its greatest year. Tho men selected arc noted cold water men and some are said to have de clared that they are well aware that endorsement of McCormick by the Washington party in 1914 meant the passing of the Bull Moose and that they do not Intend to bo caught thej same way after years of effort. —All the same there was consider-; able sentiment for O'Neil in the con-| vention and if the dry federation formally nominates him at the con vention here to-morrow it may shake the strength of the people who want to maintain the Prohibition organi zation and have its own candidates. There is little question but what the dry federation will be called upon, as was the Prohibition meeting yester day, to name O'Neil for governor. —ln the event that Major E. Lowry Humes, dry aspirant for the Democratic nomination for gover nor, comes along to attend the fede ration there may be sum embarrass ment. Humes is as insistent that he is the man to carry the dry ban ner in the gubernatorial campaign as is O'Neil. And Humes is in just the same situation in his party as O'Neil is in the Republican party. There are men who claim that neither one has a monopoly of dry leadership. —lt may be added that the silence of Acting State Chairman and Pet roleum Administrator Joseph F. Guffey, prominent in Pittsburgh's distressed public utilities, and his coterie on Humes' ambitions is as interesting as the failure of Mc- Cormick, Palmer, Blakslee and oth ers to say anything about the major's ambitions. —To digress a moment from the turmoil of state politics. Could any thing be more interesting than the fact that William T. Creasy, repre senative of the embittered farmers and Democratic chieftain in blizzard and sunshine, and Fred Brenckman, irreconcilable Bull Mooser, who pre fers being off the reservation to be ing warm and comfortable, "bunk ed" together at the Bolton last night? —By the time E. B. Dorsett gets through with the two classes of op ponents he has on Capitol Hill, the men inside the administration who want to get rid of him and the Com missioner of Agriculture who do not like either his bureau or its activities, he will be able to write some chap ters of political history almost as interesting as the Pennypacker mem oirs. —And in the midst of it all Attor ney General Francis Shunk Brown insists that he loves that-farm down in the Elk River country more than all the political maneuvering from the high seats. That certainly must bo a busy farm when the Attorney General goes down there to look things over and to toss hay and help get in the crops. —The Philadelphia Record says that Mr. O'Neil had a long talk with William Draper Lewis yesterday. The commissioner has been anxious to get Lewis to declare for him now th.it he has been given the glad hand by Gifford Pinchot in his own cau tious way. The Record says: "In political circles tho announcement by Commissioner O'Neil of the appoint ment of his campaign manager is being i waited with great interest. Reports have been current that At torney General Brown might be se lected for the task of piloting the O'Neil boom through the campaign. Brown, however, is not expected to make any such move without tho sanction of the Vares, and so far they have persistently refused to show their hand." Drop the Partisan Chatter Let us have done with all this chatter about partisan attacks on the administration. There is no such thing as partisan attacks. What has been said, and is being said, is main ly by the party friends of the admin istration.. The fact is understood and appre ciated by all that the enormous amount of work required by the war has put upon tho shoulders of some ofiicials burdens which one man could not be expected to bear. That the best course has been pursued in dividing the duties among so many commissions and bureaus, from which conflicting action has sprung, is questioned. The criticism voiced has not been directed at individuals. It Is con ceded that the Secretary of War, whose departmenthas been the storm center, has done all that could well be expected of a man working under his disadvantages. It is the system, >ind not the individuals, that is under lire. The system has not permitted a proper co-ordination of energies. 1 —Philadelphia Telegraph. IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES BY BRIGCS Vou I " HaThy- uh- / If|Ve THS MS. NOVsl I 1 GOT A BARREL //M FPU J ' V-," J fWAT A MINUTfT) fl've'<3oT To" [viltL You OR \ $ j-p >joT \WAT A MINUTE-/ IN MER ? I CLUB / REFRESHMENTS T do not believe that sugar anil wheat are used to any better purpose in providing "refreshments" for so cial functions than they would be in ordinary meals for families. 1 do not think that ice cream is less likely to deplete our resources in a way unfair to our soldiers and our allies when served by charming girls to their mammas and the mammas of other charming girls than if pur chased at the sordid marts of the ice cream trade, retail. little cakes with pink icing on them appear to me to be as free from all patriotic traits or even from a natural tendency of tlio human. race to self preservation when served in drawing rooms to women thrilled by bridge or books as when noted through shop windows and taken home in a paper sack. You may if you desire give a little dinner to friends without in any way abusing the rights of others to food or infringing upon the requests of our government for conservation of resources. This is the way the people of the British Isles have kept up a tiny bit of social life. But "refresh ments" in the middle of the after noon to a lot of well fed women? It is not right. Months ago it was announced that certain organizations of women had agreed to refrain from serving any foods at their meetings. This was heralded as being patriotic. It was plain, self-preservative common sense of course. But it was the right thing to do. Yet our club women, women many of them affiliated with organizations which stand for intelligence and the better things of life seem in many instances not to have followed this course but to be pursuing the even tenor of their ways before the war, not for a few of them once in a while but for all of them every week. \Ye object to patroniztng hotels and restaurants at which the food regulations are ignored, and rightly so. How about the social functions at which "refreshments were served?" Rich food in the middle of the afternoon for a group of already well fed women? Their very food cards ought to climb down out of their windows in shame at such in consistency.—Betty Tansey, of the Vigilantes. Facing Fate Here's a sight to those who love me, And a smili to those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. —Byron. Human/Nature The profiteer I do not trust, I look at htm askance, Because he does what I would do, If I but had his chance. •—Tennyson J. Daft. IN FLANDERS- A million men have bravely died In Flanders where the poppies grow; And millions more to win have tried In Flanders where the poppies grow. But sure as fate, democracy That fight to free both you and me Will set the slaves of Europe free In Flanders where the popples grow At midnight hours the Kaiser dreamed In Flanders where the poppies grow. As round him hell's grim fire It * gleamed In Flanders where the poppies grow. The Imps of Hell they danced with glee To hear him murmur Gott an' me. When Satan handed him the key In Flanders where the poppies grow. Could we put all who cry "please quit" In Flanders where the poppies gTow. To test how tyrants' hands have hit In Flanders where the poppies grow. Twould hearten ev'ry patriot here. Twould purify the atmosphere And freedom's light would shine out clear In Flanders where the poppies grow. Our boys are there, to fight and dare In Flanders where the poppies grow. To crush the Huns, with steel and guns In Flanders where the poppies grow. Arise, arise, ye free men rise And fight through land, and seas and skies Till Belgium's llag in freedom flies In Flanders whero the poppies grow. A million men today they sleep In Flanders where the poppies grow. A million hearts today they weep In Flanders where the poppies grow. I jet not your swords in silence rust. Awake and fight for win we must. To God above our cause we trust In Flanders where the popples grow. ROBT. H. BRENNEN. /^ =:=l:=== ~ Gardeners. i FEBRUARY is the best month I for garden planning. Before March is out we must be up and doing, and he who has no well formulated plans will surely be a I laggard in the spring campaign. Let I us consider the need of the situa tion. The war garden that fulfills its mission should supply vegetable food for the family during the sum mer and a surplus to can, and should' produce many varieties for storage over the winter. Heretofore in mak ing up our seed lists we have prob ably allowed ourselves much liberty of choice. It is interesting and ex citing to experiment with Japanese novelties, and to try tho handsome ly heralded newest varieties of corn and beans; but in our 1918 war gar dens these unproven allurements should find small space. Far wiser is it to follow the highway of cer tainty, leaving the devious if fasci nating path of experiment for less troublous times. As a shrewd far mer neighbor said to me the other day, "this ain't no time for lemon crops," and it isn't. We want fail results from every seed, we want to grow enough vegetables to supply the family for a whole year, we want to make each square foot of ground attain tho maximum of pro ductiveness. To these ends let us apply our wits. In just a few words this should be the gardener's program: Send for seed catalogs to-day and get in your orders as soon as pos sible.' Seeds are scarce this year. Look over your tools and garden accessories; repair what Is out of "50 SHELLS AND A GUN" peasant is a hated bourgeois. The . I. W. W. doctrines are coming to full A tavarish, or comrade, as the fruition in Russia Just now. Russian soldier now calls himself, occupied the upper berth in a first class compartment between Rostoff LABOR NDTF. home, without saying "By your ederation of T^abor leave" to anybody. Now ho has an ' 1017 5,000 members since July argument the force of which he can • understand and wield. He has been . , _ bewildered and befuddled by count- _ omen workers In Porto Rico less strange pleas. All parties have " ave a minimum wage law. appealed to him as If he were a ra- ... . ~ 7 sonable being. He has been tossed bank at Orlando, Ha., employs about on a sea of rhetoric, each a female as teller. latest wave carrying off his frail mental craft. For tavarish is, after all, only an embruted peasant, the Time workers' wages in the Brit victims of generations of autocratic munitions industries have been tyranny and injustice. He is not increased 12V2 per cent. responsible for his inability to think. His Ignorance of such big words as American women in various parts patriotism, honor, loyalty, demo- of the country are operating farm cracy, must be laid at the door of tractors. the powers that denied him the pri- vilege of a rational human. The Canadian Pacific has intro- He was ruled by force —and now duced a semi-monthly payday. that he finds force in his own hands he will rule in the same way. The Hindus in the Cowichan district rich oppressed him; now he will of Canada are proving themselves make the rich pay—and to him to be successful lumber mill opera - every man who is not a soldier or a tors. BIG BUSINESS AT HAND Business received no setback as a result of this country's entrance into the big war. As a matter of fact, 1917 proved a banner business year for the merchant in all parts of the United Stfttflll It's true that things cost more than under ordinary circum, stances, but the wage-earner is making more money than he ever made, and his living requirements have grown no less. There's just as big—bigger, in fact—business to be had during 1918. The merchant who will reap the most bountiful harvest is the one who keeps his store message constantly before the public by advertising. The Harrisburg Telegraph is the PREFERRED paper in three out of four homes in Central Pennsylvania. 'Nough said. ibrder and buy what Is missing. Prune and spray your fruit trees be fore this month is out. Lime-sul phur solution is a good winter spray. If you have only one fruit tree it is worth giving the best of care. Add a cold-frame to your belongings iC you have not this valuable adjunct already. Grapevines should be cut back this month to within a few inches of last year's growth. Spray Japanese quince bushes and orna mental plums and cherries as well as orchard fruits. if yout house plants are troubled with mites spray with kerosene emulsion, being care ful to reach the under sides of the leaves. Daily syringing with water will generally destroy red spider if applied to the under surface of the leaves. It will also keep the plants in fine condition. Tobacco water or dust is the most destructive to aph ides. Give your house plants plenty of fresh air. When watering, do it thoroughly, and do not repeat until the plants require it.—Louise Beebe Wilder in February Good House keeping. How About Your Orchard The February Farm and Fireside says: "Have you some long, strong sun flower stalks? If so, save and store them carefully and use next year for bean poles. They work well. "If your orchard, or any part of it, Is old, neglected, and unprofitable and beyond successful renovation, get rid of it root and branch as a cumberer of the land that may be putto more profitable use. Do the job now or else begin on its reno vation." [ EDITORIAL COMMENT | Toryism would "maintain the establisheel oreler"; democracy would invite the maid of all work to the family councils and the com mon table; Bolshevilcism would put the maiel in the parlor and relegate the family to the kitchen and the coal-bin.—Chicago Daily News. The Coal Administration isn't pro- German. but it's certainly in Dutch. —Brooklyn Eagle. World-conquerors seem to forget that the fleas never quite capture the pig.—Cleveland Ohio Farmer. Some day a German spy is going to get the surprize of his career by having his wrist slapped-—Boston Herald. "No indemnity or annexations"— that is, no indemnity by Germany and no annexations by the Allies.— Wall Street Journal. Political partizanshlp in this country is one of the ships no Ger man submarine would torpedo even if it had the chance.—Chicago Herald. The Next Chancellor Rumors are increasingly persist ent that Count Luxburg, formerly German minister to Argentina, has become insane. If the unhappy report is confirmed, it would appear to suggest a fitting successor to Count HertUng in the next German chancellor crisis.—From the North American Review's War Weekly. ~FINERY Finery rare for her to wear I seek In shop or mart all day; Her bills for sweets and movie seats 1 barely scan, I gladly pay. But X can't see for life of me Why I should try In part or whole When things are high from A to Z, Why X should buy her old man's coal. | OUR DAILY LAUGH A FEARFUL MISTAKE. Worried? Of course. I'm worried! I think I addressed my nice ten-cent valentine to teacher, an' that bun comic t.o me best girl! I CAUSE FOR GRIEF. iloppy love valentines an' not a d sent funny one In the bunch. l&nting (Hljol It would be surprising if evoryon could learn just, how heads of fam llles in Harrislxurg have observei what is known as "Father and Soi Week." It began with Sunday am the manner in which notice wa; taken was far more extensive tha; most people imagine. Of course, few sinners took advantage of th week to turn over to their boys th responsibilities of cleaning the snoT from the pavement or choppin down the icicles or even clearing ol the porch roof and hiaybe some gav their sons earnest Instruction i: methods of operating furnaces. I they did it Is to be hoped that th boys were properly paid either i cash at the time or that they will b remunerated in the form of Thrif Stamps at the end of the week, j few boys were also noticed at mar ket, taking up the family burden an if they were somewhat shy in chang they brought home, as most of u were in boyhood days on more tha seven occasions,. it is to be truste that rigid accounting was not d manded. One man has taken hi son to shows in tho evenings and an other took an afternoon off to tak his boy through the State Museun which by the way, he did not himself. A third man had his so sit at the head of the table and ru the principal meal, while he sat 1 the seat of his son and took wht was passed to him. "Father an Son Week" has a lot of possibilitic and as it has a few days still to ru it is to be hoped that the spirit b hind it may be impressed upon som heads of families whose name beai ers are growing up without any to much intimate knowledge of th companiable side of their male pai ents. Kven such things as a vis to the movies, a ride, a walk, a buj ing trip in which tho boy can pic what he wants within a limit, a gi: of something that will bring fathe and son closer together or mayb just a plain half hour's talk will d lots toward developing that undei standing between father and so which is more priceless than crown. Alumni of the University of Penr sylvania and State College wei pretty keenly interested to-day i the reports that there was a poss bility of the Commonwealth takiti over those two institutions and th University of Pittsburgh and form ing one great establishment fe higher education. This idea, whic was printed in -ho unusually wel informed Alumni Register of tt University of Pennsylvania, is sa to be growing imperative because c the increasing demands upon tl state of the colleges. Some six yea ago there was a sort of gencr agreement reached to have the sta limit its appropriations for higli education to four institutions, tl three mentioned and Temnle Un verslty. This plan was disregard": and now- with increased maint nance costs threatening decline standards and difficulty of raisir endowments the scheme of puttii the state in absolute control has bee broached. It is also figured th; National aid in large volume can 1 secured by providing for militai training, which will bo an essenti part of education hereafter. Sta educational officials were wai about expressing opinions to-day. • • • Dr. IJ. P. Davis, of Philadelphi chief of the medical advisory boan of the state, was here yesterday consultation with Major W. G. Mu dock, state draft officer. The do tor, who is a college mate of Pre! dr-nt Wilson, has been giving h time and thought to development the medical boards and to expedlth their work. Through his Influen many of the leading medical m< of the state have volunteered the services. • • • Samuel B. Scott, a Germantovi lawyer whoso independent tendenci and theories make him an Interes ing figure in several legislative .-.c sions, has written a book on tl state government of Pennsylvani He- calls it a manual of practic citizenship and his chapter e "breaking Into politics will attra attention. Those who recall tl fights made by Scott and his persi* ence in spite of defeats will apptec ate his statements. The Pennypac er autobiography now appearing the Evening Public ledger and tl Scott review in the Philadelph Press should furnish much entertar ing reading for Hanrisburg peopl ♦ "One of the reasons why this tha is taking off the snow so well ai we are not having trouble Is due the fact that the frost is out of tl ground or almost out and the wat is going straight down," said a doct< who was raised in the country ai who is glad of it "You see tl snows came early In December b fore the ground got a chance J freeze very deep and during the si zero weather we had a good coverli of snow. Of course, there are li stances where the ground was froz a couple of feet but that was whe there was not much snow. Now tl frost has been coming out and the snows melt the water goes rig down into the earth, which will a good thing for agriculture, I mi say/' 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Hugh Dolan, Pottsvllle's fu administrator, is a former memb of council and his aim will be keep the mining town from freezlr —James Scarlet, whose comme upon Senator Eyre's attire, is som what noted for sarcastic remarks court and seems to enjoy it. Dr.' B. P. Bachelor, th© ne head of Palmerton Hospital, com from Johns Hopkins. W. T. Wittman, the poultry e pert, says that considering prices feeds, chickens and eggs are cheaj —Judge H. A. Fuller, of Wilke Barre, has a way of dealing with fu slackers. He closes up their plac for a week or ten days. | DO YOU KNOW —That Ilarrlsburg lues many points of advantage for Army truck trains? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —This city was a center for tral Ing men with rifles in the war 1812. "Pay" in Patriot J. P. Campbell, the Doniph poet, says a lot in these few lines: You'd like to don the uniform And march with fife and drum To where the battle line is drawn, To where the bullets hum. You'd like to be a Held hero — But maybe you cannot; But either put the "I" in fight Or the "nay" In patriot. According to His Promise We, according to his promise, lo for a new heaven and a new ear wherein dwelleth righteousness. IX Peter 111. 13.