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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1918
The mattock will make a deeper
\tiolc in the ground than lightning.—
IHokace MAXX.
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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.
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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.
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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<?
and Alexandrovsk, a few days ago. "
He had paid no fare of course; and a A union of stenographers and
lady who had been in the compart- bookkeepers is planned at Charles
men t had been forced to leave and ton, S. C.
stand in the aisle; for his comrade,
a husky peasant with muddy boots, California oil workers now have
whose vermin infested clothes -had an eight-hour day and a minimum
not been off his back for months, lay wage of |4 a day.
at full length on the red velvet cush-
ion of the lower berth, his head pil- In Armenia women are encourag-
L fl , We , ~o n dirty burlap rag holding ed to work in the industries
his kit. llow he gloated over the
unwonted luxury in the conscious- There are 70,000 women hospital
ness that tavarish has come to his workers in England.
own, while the bourgeois are cast '
out into desolation! Tusla (Okla.) -unions ask an elght
asked the man in the uppei hour day for employes on citv work
berth about his plans. "There will worn.
be peace within a month. If not. Unite{i Mine Workers contemplate
s. ssfis i.s'iojrs ..astth." .ss,™ .s? <n-Yr n *
we will show them!" ' the lntloductl °n of Chinese
That is the big fact about Russia
to-day—bigger Perhaps than the Serb , had 40 000 unionists
revolution itself, of which it is the n n n unionists
most Important expression. Tava- in 1914 " ° n,y 12 - Qo ° now survive.
rish is taking his gun and going T q,„.„ T >.
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.