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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1918
Make my mortal dreams conic true I
With the work I fain would do;
Clothe with life the weak intent,
Let me be the thing I meant.
—John Greem.eaf Whittieb.
CLEAN THEM UP
NOW that the Highway and tha
Park Departments have united
in putting a stop to the crazy
practice of dumping filthy snow and
winter street accumulations in the
public parks, we suppose the Park
Department will begin an early cam
paign for the cleaning up of the park
areas. There are indications that'
spring may be in the immediate I
prospect and the people will want f
to get out into the parks as soon as :
is possible, after having been cooped
up in houses the whole of a long, i
hard winter. The fact that much j
added expense will be necessary this ,
spring by reason of the use of the
River Front as a public dump should
not deter the Park Department from
spending the necessary money, al
though If justice were done this
added sum should come from the
appropriation for street cleaning.
And while he is about the matter,
Mr. Gross might see to it that the
unsightly poles which he has per
mitted to be erected along the river
near Seneca street be transferred to
the east side of the street, where
they belong. The river curb of that
thoroughfare has been kept free
from poles, as it should be, until the
erection of three up town, and the
danger is that these will be used as
n precedent for further encroach
ments. They should be removed as
soon as possible.
With 5,000.000 soldiers in the field,
that story of France having been
"bled white" may be safely attributed
to German propaganda.
FOR "DRY" MEMBERS
THE York County Republican
Club has the distinction of
being the first political club in
Pennsylvania to go on record as
refusing to support any candidate
for House or Senate who does not
pledge himself to vote in favor of
local option and the adoption of the
prohibition amendment. This, doubt
less, will be an example to others
throughout the State. The York
club is as large and as Influential
as any outside of Philadelphia or
Pittsburgh. Four years ago it en
tertained the State League of Re
publican Clubs during that organi
zation's annual convention and it
has made itself felt in many cam
paigns. The growth of the tem
perance sentiment may be judged
when a purely party organization
takes such an advanced stand.
The York club's resolutions throw
a very clear light on the situation
in that district. In full they follow:
Whereas. The York County Re
publican Club is desirous ot see
ing nominated for these positions
by the Republican party only
such candidates as will reflect
the real feeling of the community
on the impending legislation
dealing with the liquor interests
that is certain to come before the
next session of the Legislature
lor consideration; and.
Whereas. We confidently be
lieve the best interest of all the
people demand the passage of a
local option measure and the
adoption by the legislature of
Pennsylvania of the dry amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States,
Therefore, be it Resolved, That
this club indorse the candidacy of
only those aspirants for the Re
publican nomination for the State
Senate and the General Assembly
who favor the passage of a local
option law and the adoption by
the State Legislature of the dry
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States.
This is precisely the position the
Telegraph has taken in Dauphin
county.
HATS OFF TO McKEAN
WITHOUT In any way detract
ing from the splendid service
rendered to the Nation by
the members of the local draft
boards and the district appeal boards
of Pennsylvania 1n assembling
the Nation's selected army in its
hour of need, and bearing in mind
the sacrifice of time, disorder of
personal affairs. Interference with
business, the abuse endured and the
inconveniences suffered by these de
moted men, we nevertheless desire to
compliment McKean county., Lester
, MONDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH , FEBRUARY 18, 101£.
IH. Simons, chairman of local board
No. 1 of that county, has telegraph
, ed to the State Draft Headquarters
! permission for the board to con
i tinue to pay its own expenses. For
! tunate, indeed, is McKean county to
I have men available who can give
' of their time and services and re
j fuse even remuneration for ex
j penses. Wo have complimented the
j men of the draft boards of our part
I of the State upon their work, every
j whit as important as that of men
I in higher station, dnd we are glad
I to know that they are about to be
J paid the long, long delayed bills for
! services and expenses. We wish all
counties were as favorably situated
as McKean, whose men can afford to
give their time and services and
thank Uncle Sam for the oppor
tunity.
But in rising to salute McKean
county in behalf of its board we
wish its spirit of self-sacrifice could
i be heralded to some places' in this
broad land of ours where various
I things are being done for the Xa
! tion and prolit, not patriotism, seems
to be the guiding thought. We are
on the eve of congressional investi
gations, but in the sadness which i
comes from such unpleasant pros-j
pects we are cheered by the knowl
edge that the draft boards have
done their duty, although they have
gotten mighty little credit, and that 1
all circumstances being equal many '
of them would have stood up with;
McKean as an example to liners of I
pockets when the call of the houri
j is to back up the Government even I
if it hurts in heart or bank account, j
While the backbone of winter may
not be broken, at least the old villain
appears to be suffering from a severe
attack of lumbago.
WE MUST HELP
THE Jewish Relief committee
has arranged a mass meet
ing to be held at the Orpheum
Theater this evening, at which Dr.
Nathan Krass, a noted authority,
will tell of the war work of the Jews
and the suffering of those of that
faith caught between the upper
and the nether millstones of the
contestants in the war zone.
YOU are invited to this meeting
and it is YOUR DUTY to attend.
The Jews of Harrisburg are ask
ing for $15,000 with which tc* pro
vide places of entertainment for
Jewish boys in the training camps
and at the front and for Jewish vic
tims of the war who must have re
lief from this country or perish
miserably of privation and starva
tion. This is part of a great na
tional campaign. Thos<> who are at
the head of the movement here are
being assisted by men of all creeds
and faiths. This is as it should be,
for the Jewish people of Harrisburg
have taken foremost part in every
campaign that has preceeded this
since the United States entered the
war. They have sold—and bought
as well—Liberty Bonds of both is
sues, they have solicited and given
liberally toward the Red Cross, Y.
M. C. A., Knights of Columbus and
other funds raised here for war serv
ice purposes. They have sent their
own boys to the front. For ex
ample, with one exception, all of
the lads of Ohev Sholom congre
gation voluteered for army service
long before the draft went into ef
fect, and the sole remaining one is
exempt. In the armies of the Unit
ed States, there are more than 60,-
000 Jewish youths, representing all
branches of the service.
The Jews have done everything
that patriotic citizens could be ask
ed to do. They have won their right
to seek popular support in the very
proper and necessary work they
have now undertaken to' finance.
They should find the men and wo
men of other faiths just as ready
to respond to this call as they them
selves have been to every demand
that has been made upon them.
Particularly does the plea for as
sistance of the sufferers of the war
zone appeal to tender-hearted
Americans. Millions—so many that
the human mind can scarcely grasp
the magnitude of the tragedy—have
been done to death by German and
Turk in the war zone or have starved
to death in the wake of devastating
armies. At this moment countless
little ones are sobbing out their last
sad moments, moaning in vain for
the few mouthfuls of food that
would stave olt the grim reaper;
myriads of aged persons have fallen
by the wayside in their efforts to
reach places where food and shelter
might be had, and thousands upon
thousands of men and women are
wandering about searching in vain
for a means of livelihood. The
frightful conditions are beyond des
cription. There is but one ray of
hope for this suffering, famishing
throng—and that is America. Help
must come from here or they will
die. Shall we sit by and see the
tragedy enacted to its last grue
sonre scene? The Jews of this coun
try say not. It is for the remainder
of us to second their motion and
back up our sympathy with our
gifts.
"The German offensive may be
started April 1." The Kaiser never
did have any humor. You know what
day the first of April is.
"Politic* U
By the Ex-Conunitteeman
Democratic Stale machine bosses
who have sent out the summons for
various "safe" county and district
leaders to meet them in Philadel
phia the latter part of this week to
discuss the welfare of the party and
to cautiously consider candidates for
State nominations are said to be
divided themselves as to the men to
1 run. Some of the big bosses would
like to see certain men candidates
knowing that this is not going to be
a Democratic year and that they
would kill them off automatically
before they get too strong. Others
would like to name mere figure
heads whom they could dominate if
they should win the 1,000 to 1 shot
or whose defeat would not hurt.
A. Mitchell Palmer, national com
mitteeman, will run the meeting and
has let it be known that the respon
sibilities of the custodianship of
alien property will not permit him
to embark in any campaign this year
although he will make speeches
whenever he gets a chance. Palmer
is also said to feel that he sacrificed
enough four years ago. As to Vance
C. McCormick, national chairman,
he feels that he should remain with
the Trade Board because of the vital
importance of its work and that his
reward will come when the presi
dent names him on the peace corp
mlssion to represent America at the
table of the nations. James I. Blak
slee, assistant postmaster general,
William H. Berry, collector of Phila
delphia port and Roland S. Morris,
ambassador to Japan, are not con
sidered available for one reason or
another.
This leaves Joseph F. Guffey, act
ing State chairman, and E. Lowry
Humes, United States district at
torney. as the offerings in the west,
with Humes very much in earnest,
and elements antagonists to him
favorable to Guffey, and General C.
How Dougherty in the East. De
spite the general's denial that he
knows much about it his name has
been heard in more than one place.
—ln commenting upon the pro
posed Democratic meeting, the
North American says that the bosses
are by no means decided upon whom
to concentrate and intimates that
Humes' candidacy is a lightning rod.
It also says that if Guffey runs he
will have to be "introduced" to the
people of the state.
-—Some of the newspapers say
that the name of William A. Glas
gow, Jr., who has been trotted out
with regularity every two years for
some thing or other, is being again
considered. Glasgow is a former resi
dent of Virginia, it may be remarked
in parsing and for whatever that
may be worth this year.
—The Republican leaders appar
ently did not make much headway
in adjusting matters in Philadelphia
over the weekend. The Vares con
tinue their masterly silence and the
Sproul men are going ahead getting
their headquarters ready. The decla
ration of three important men styled
by the Inquirer "middle of the road
men" for Sproul, is significant.
—Pittsburgh newspapers profess
to see an attempt to carry the war
into O'Neil's home district in the
Sproul visit to Pittsburgh. They pre
dict he will get a big welcome in
the western section.
—While the Sproul people at Phil
adelphia are getting ready for the
launching of the Delaware man's
campaign and the O'Neil people are
conferring and organizing in West
ern Pennsylvania. where Private
Secretary Ball visited over the week
end to make observations for the
Governor when he returns next
week from Florida, friends of other
men talked of for the Republican
nomination are also busy. In the
northern tier Habgood partisans
have begun organizing and Asa A.
Weimer has started his workers
from Lebanon and to let it be known
that he is a sure enough candidate
he has renounced any legislative as
pirations.
—Wilkes-Barr ".hlch is the capital
of the Ainey boi . i, sends a story to
the Philadelphia Press that people
in the northeastern section say that
conditions are almost ripe for Com
missioner W. D. B. .Ainey to enter
the field as a real harmony candi
date. The Wilkes-Barre article says
there is "a growing demand that
Ainey become a candidate" and then
goes on to present these views:
—"Prominent Republicans in this
section do not believe there is a
common ground by which the Pen
rose and Vare forces can meet to
get behind the Sproul candidacy.
If there has been any evidence of
harmony among these two factions,
it has not manifested itself so as to
be discernible in this section. The
feeling is strong that the Vares and
Penrose will not get together and
that there is sure to be friction from
that source. The candidacy of J.
Denny O'Neil has failed to make any
impression in the northeastern coun
ties. It is known that O'Neil count
ed on certain support coming out
openly for him just as soon as he
formally threw his hat into the ring,
but it is no secret that this looked
for support has not materialized.
—Leaders of this section do not be
lieve that It is possible for O'Neil to
get the support of Magee. and they
also figure it out that if Humes gets
into action on the Democratic side
of the fence O'Neil will be pretty
much of a hopeless candidate."
—This week Mr. O'Neil will sneak
in four counties, having a big meet
ing scheduled for Altoona Thursday.
To-morrow he will be at Downing
town.
—Accorijing to the Philadelphia
Public Ledger, Governor Brum
baugh is "puzzled" over what to do
about an extra session. It will be
recalled that the Harrisburg Tele
graph said two weeks ago the sub
ject was being talked over with
visitors by the Governor.
FIGHTING WITII HOE
In an article on war gardens in
the March Woman's Home Compan
ion appears this call to arms—or to
hoes:
"To make a garden this spring and
summer is truly a stern necessity, as
well as a patriotic duty—and privi
lege. The efforts of the small gar
dener, the home gardener, are go
ing to be of still greater importance
than they were last year; actual
famine menaces all creation, and
we are face to face with a situation
that stirs every instinct of self-.pres
ervation, as well as to the nobler
impulses of patriotism and human
ity. Let me urge, indeed, that this
is no exaggeration, but barely the
truth.
to the garden implements
now; set everything ready for use,
so that when the time comes to Use
it there may not be an instant's de
lay. Have labels whittled out and
bunched, ready for 'planting' at the
end of every row when the seed is
sown; have such charts as may be
needed for daily reference pasted on
cardboard and tacked up in the most
convenient place; make sure that
every mechanical device is ready,
that spray materials are on hand,
and powders and fertilizers—and
make sure that you yourself are
ready with a good general knowledge
of how to use all of these things."
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WAR NEWS IN CHINA
As I watch the hurrying
my memory flashes back to a night
in a mud walled inn beyond the
Great Wall of China, when the news
of the war came creeping in to
caravaners there on the fringe of
things, like rumors of the Judgment
Day: a messenger splashed the white
dust of the road, dispatches in his
bag for the living Buddha in Urga,
but no idea in flat Mongol head of
who was friend and who was foe.
All along the road the next day
It was the same tale; the Chinese
hawkers with cages swung on poles
across their shoulders had no news
beyond the price of thrushes; the
Russian tea merchant, too, was un
informed —but the canny merchant
was folding his blue summer tent
and stealing away to the north! In
the sun baked border city, .Kalgan.
the tobacco men—young Britishers
and Americans —announced, "Der
Tag." Adventists missionaries prop
hesied the coming of Christ, and
prepared to ascend in chariots of
tire, while we scurried for the first
train to Peking.
In Peking the storm broke; Pe
king seething with chaos such as
dazed us, children of the desert.
The banks, the legation, the wagon
lits swarmed angrily; knots of
French, Germans, British, Austrians
gathered on the corners. Over there,
across Asia, the world was breaking
up. Legation street, where rick
shas passed to afternoon tea, clat
tered with the horses of the French
guard in red and blue capes—off
to Europe; Sikhs at the gates of the
British legation tightened their red
turbans and caressed their carbines
with lustrous eyes; and the indus
trious little browns, under cover of
a legation guard, poured in sufficient
troops to take the Chinese capital.
Peking is a mountain top; but the
old gray city has seen few finer spec
tacles in the valleys below than the
first records of the cosmic earth
quake—all under the apricot tiled
and tilted roofs in the sunny August
weather'.—Olive Gilbreath in Har
per's Magazine.
"We Find God in Trenches"
Private Peat, the famous soldier
who after two years of the worst
part of the war has come back to
this country, says the March Amer>
ican Magazine:
"If you had taken the biggest op
portunity life ever held out to a man,
wouldn't you smile? If you had
gone down into hell' for the sake of
people who were there already,
wouldn't you come back —if you
were lucky enough to get back —
with a smile? If you had learned
more in the past two years about
life and all that makes it worth liv
ing than you. had found out in the
previous twenty, wouldn't you be
glad as you had never before dream
ed of being glad?
"I've got a right arm that may
never be good even for a hand
shake —though I hope it will. In
stead of a pair of lungs, I've got one
and a fraction. But what of that!
I notice that people care a lot more
about gripping my left hand now
than they ever used to care about
getting hold of my right. I get all
the air with one lung that 1 seem
to need, and it isn't hot air, either.
"And suppose 1 hadn't come back
at all? I know I'd be smiling now
—and I wouldn't be doing it in hell,
either. That's what you don't real
ize, you who are here at home. You
don't know how things get clear and
plain to us in the trenches. Talk
about finding himself! We find
more than ourselves. We find God."
JUST LYING
When I talk in my sleep and good
wife overhears
And arises to query: "What's
that?
Some secret you're hiding from me,
is appears—
The worst let us quickly get at?"
I soothingly answer: "Have never a
fear.
My sleep talk In mind you should
keep.
It's not hidden truths I reveal then,
ray dear —
Instead, I Just lie here asleep."
—Joshua Lott.
To Advertise Is to Make Known
What you tell abouW your store in to-day's advertising is what
the readers of this newspaper KNOW about your store as it is
NOW. What you made known a week or a month ago was the
store's story of a week or a month ago—now history.
All of the advertising of the partt has served, according to its
adequacy—and its fruitage is seen in the goodwill enjoyed by your
store now. But past advertising doeo not MAKE KNOWN the
offerings sOW READY for your customers.
People do not feel fully Informed about the events of the war
unless they have read the LATEST NEWS of the war. They may
know what HAS HAPPENED —but they wunt to know WHAT IS
HAPPENING NOW.
The same principle applies to store advertising!
The Telegraph will take your message Into three out of every
four homes in Central* Pennsylvania, and costs lesa.
THE PEOPLE'S
COMMUNITY SONG
To the Editor of tlic Telegraph :
Your hearty support of the idea
of a Community Chorus for this city
has the thanks of the music-loving
public.
It is most unfortunate that such
an organization has not been form
ed before now, then we could cele
brate Song Week which will be ob
served all over the United States.
If a popular leader could be
found, say Mr. Frank McCarrell,
whose ability has been proved in
the success of the Harrisburg Choral
Union, which he lias directed for a
number of years, there can be no
question of a live and enduring en
thusiasm which will result in a
Community Chorus of which Har
risburg would be justly proud.
Places of meeting might be hard
to find but that seems hardly pos
sible when there are so many pub
lic spirited citizens who are inter
ested in the common welfare. Then,
too, the School Board might lend a
helping hand by permitting the use
of the Technical High School Au
ditorium. or the Central High As
sembly Hall, or some large room in
some other school buildings, easy
of access. If no larger room can be
found the Conservatory of Music
Hall is at the disposal of the Chorus
until it outgrows the seating capa
city.
Some one may say. "why all this
effort to get people to sins?" Mr.
Editor, the reason American music
has no distinctive national charac
teristic, is because we have never
learned to express ourselves in song.
Every nation upon the earth—ex
cept our own —has a folk-song, a
*ong that has grown out of the
emotions of the race. War time is
the time to give such expression a
chance when hearts are filled to
overflowing with feelings that lie too
deep for words. Hoping some de
cided action will be taken and pledg
ing it unfailing interest and support,
I am.
Very truly yours,
ANNA M. P. DECEVEE.
(Mrs. E. J.)
JOKING OR SERIOUS?
Tc the Editor of the Telegraph:
At least one use that "Hardscrab
ble" might be put to not named at
the trial for damages recently, is
one that would give to our city
great commercial importance. It has
had and I believe still has some po
litical significance. It did not ma
terialize during the lifetime of our
late lamented congressman, Mar
lin E. Olmsted, but its use for
Piers might yet obtain when
"Hampy" Moore succeeds in htiving
the Susquehanna river made navi
gable, so that our great Atlantic
ocean transports can dock at Har
risburg.
J. W. MILLER.
TREATIES
Russia has signed- a treaty agree
ing not to make a separate peace.
Yet one was made this week by a
government which did not recognize
the pledges of Its predecessor.
Greece had a treaty pledging it to
go to Serbia's aid in the event of an
attack. It didn't go. Prussia's
treaty guaranteenig Belgium became
a scrap of paper.
Events of the last few years have
been a warning to nations to exer
cise caution not to enter upon en
gagements which they may not
carry out. —Kansas City Star.
Complete Reversal of Feeling
When it came to the ninth inning
with the score tied President Wilson
didn't call on some one to do the
batting for Baker. He let Newt go
In and bat for himself and Newt re
paid the confidence of his manager
by hitting out a home run. We have
about concluded that Mr. Baker
makes about as good a secretary of
war as we would have made ourself.
—Libefty Press.
THE RACE QUESTION
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I wish to make a few remarks
to the public through your paper
about one of the most prejudiced
race motion pictures ever put on
the screen, The Birth of a Nation.
Could you be surprised if riots equal
to the hunger riots of Russia should
arise from such pictures. Why
should the black man always bei
shown in a bad light? Why can:
not the truth be told? Why is the
wrong-doing of the colored mat)
painted so red? Why is it the black
man must always appear so black
in nature? Why Is it so wrong for
the black man to join by marriage
the two races that the white man
joined by blood? Did it seem so
wrong to a blooded southern white
gentleman in the dark days of slav
ery, when he intermingled his
blood with the blood of the ne
gress held a slave and forced
to receive his embraces? Was it
God who made all races or man?
God made all men free and equal,
what right has man to break the
will of God? 1 would have to show
a little picture that I can often in
my visions, see. Why not put on I
the screen first, the negro brought
to this country by the white man.
Then continue and show the cruel
treatments imposed, children sold 1
from their mothers, husbands joined
to their wives by broom sticks, sep
arated for gold and moqey. Their
backs cut and bruised for trying to
find and offer a prayer to. the God
who made them. The little black
tots under the same shelter with her
mulatto sisters and brothers. The
little white child on the hill, heir of
its aristocratic parents and brother
to the little mulatto children in the
one-room cabin. The white child
born of a white mother is honored,
educated and worshiped, while the
little mulatto child born of a negro
mother, yet in whose blood flows the
blood of the same father. Is ill fed,
ragged and sold as a slave that the
white child might be left rich and
mighty.
Then show these same children
now blossomed into man and wo
men. The white heir attracted by
the face and form of his mulatto sis
ter. She must yield to his passion
or else be beaten worse thun a
beast and then conquered. The ne-|
gro mother must stand by and look,
unable Ho save her offspring by
word or deed. Then is the aristo
cratic gentlemen made grandfather
to the children of his own flesh and
blood. How then can they be stop
ped by forbiddance of a marriage,
the joining of two races the white
man of the south joined by blood?
Why does not some dramatic author
put' to print or on the screen the
truth, entitled the origin of the mu
latto and see if there would be such
thunderous applause as greeted the
lie about the negro entitled The
Birth of a Nation. I am not edu
cated and may not be able to ex
press myself as I should. But as a
staunch and true friend of the
colored race, originally the American
negro before intermingling of the
white man, I hope you will accept
my poor attempt to support his
rlßhtß ' A READER.
LABOR NOTES
United Mine Workers have almost
20,000 members in the service.
Madras, India, has 460 factories
employing 91,415 operatives.
Labor unions in Australia have a
membership of 546,5i>6.
Over 54,000 women are now em
ployed in England's banks.
Austria has a total of 2,346 local
labor unions.
Of the international labor unions,
ninety-one have branches in Canada.
Cigarmakers' international Union
has a strong organization in • > orto
Rico.
All miners may be conscripted, to
gether with the mines, by Federal
authorities.
Day nurseries arc to be provided
for the children of women employed
in British munitions works.
Women in Germany are doing the
work formerly done by horses —being
harnessed to a plow.
It will take $35,000,000 to provide
temporary housing for the Emergency
Fleet Corporation's employes.
Female operatives In the shirt and
collar industry at Derby, England,
are demanding a war bonus.
Under the new wage scale for an
thracite miners In the Pennsylvania
fields men can make S7O a week.
Over tfee
Ik ""peKiau
Last summer a man named Hoag
in Duchess county, X. Y., nearly lost
his life lighting bees which nested
in a hole in his house wall. Recently
his young son, snooping around like
a boy will, discovered sixty pounds
of delicious honey, and now "pop"
can forget the time he couldn't sit
down for some weeks.
"The Germans protest too much,"
says Senator Overman, "trying to
prove they did not start the war.
"They're like the hired man who
was helping his boss pump a. cask of
whisky into some barrels. The boss,
being called away, told the hired
man he'd chalk liis lips—then, oil
his return, he could be sure that 110
Whisky had been drunk.
"The hired man agreed, the farm
er took up a piece of chalk, but only
pretented to chalk the man's lips.
Then he went off on his errand.
"When he returned an hour later, I
the hired man was pumping away.
He hadn't touched a drop of the !
whisky, of course, but his lips were
now very thoroughly chalked."
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HOW DOCTOR PILLS LOST A
WEALTHY PATIENT,
Q Some rascal
has stolen my
■7 door mat!
I'll fix the next
? They won't
steal this one.
riM
• "sW
A I 'A
Ah, here comes UK I 9
1 patient.
* Im
|o| I'll open the
Jrfyi 0 door and let him
Burning ffllfat
"Ministers of this conference ot
the United Evangelical Church are*
disturbed over the possibility of be
ing transferred from one pulpit to
another this spring on account of
inability to procure transportation
of their household goods. I would
n't be surprised if conference is call
ed upon to discuss the matter," said
former Bishop H. B. Hartzler, editor
of the Evangelical in conversation
with a Telegraph man the other
day. This bit of information devel
oped over the matter of pulpit
changes this spring. The railroad
embargo as at present applied in
cludes household goods and even if
cars could be procured there is no
guarantee that the shipment might
be on the load three or four
weeks. It is said that the confer
ence will be asked to set aside tho
ruling requiring changes of minis
ters at the expiration of certain per
iods by some of the denominations
and that practically all ministers
may be returned tq their present
Y 1,10 spring conferences
until the close of the war or at least
until railroad facilities are so im
proved as to permit of prompt ship
meiTts of their belongings from one
place to another.
Indications are that lengthy va
cations are not going to be very pop
ular the coming summer. Men are
too busy, for one reason, nnd for an
other many do not believe it the
part of patriotism to spend large
sums on purely pleasure outings
when there are so many calls for
funds. The short, week-end trip,
however, is going to gain a lot in
popularity and hundreds of men will
And their outings in the woods and
along the streams of Central Penn
sylvania the coming summer who
used to go to Canada or the seashore
for longer periods. At least this is
what men engaged in the sporting
goods trade say is indicated by the
advance inquiries for fishing and
camping goods. Owners of automo
biles are equipping their cars with
tents, air-mattresses and other com
forts and are preparing to use them
on the excursions roundabout in
which many of them will engage.
• • *
I lie course of the Susquehanna
river this year is being followed
with more than ordinary interest bv
people throughout the State who are
not immediately concerned, because
of residence along the stream. The
Susquehanna has long been an ob
ject of interest to many folks liv
ing miles away from it, some of
\vhom do not know it except in pass
ing. For years it has been noted
toi* vagaries of currents and wealth
of products as well as volume of
water, which compensate in a way
for its lack of valuable commercial
depth. Thefact that if the lower
Susquehanna carries off the ice and
floods which come after a hard win
ter is of interest in many places.
Important railroads cross the
stream, people in many states use
products ' manufactured along its
banks and the farms by its side arc
among the most fertile in the land,
while Jlarrisburg is a governmental
center which may be disturbed by a
flood." The ease with which the ice
has moved off and the escape from
flood have eased many fears of peo
ple who recall the conditions creat
ed by the winter of 1904 and in a
lesser measure by that of 1912.
Concentration of the offices of the
State headquarters for the draft 011
the first floor of the Board of Trade
"Gilding has done much to promote
efficiency in that bureau, whose im
portance will be still further en
hanced this year because of the im
minence of another call of men for
national army service. The offices
were widely scattered, the natural
result of unexpected growth, and de
lays due to a new system developed.
with the offices and bureaus
centralized and everything being
(lone at Washington to iron out tile
kinks due to strain on the red tape
which is inseparable from govern
ment there should be less trouble
Assurance is given that bills will be
paid promptly and things move as
expected.
There is a melancholy coincidence
about the funeral of Lieutenant Col
onel Frank E. Zeigler on Saturday
and a funeral that took place soon
after the start of the Civil War
In the latter part of March, 1861'.
there was buried here Colonel Wil
liam G. Murray, who lived at Sec
ond and Pine streets, and who was
killed at Winchester, Va. The First
City Zouaves, under command of
the late F. Asbury Awl. were the
escort on that day. Col. Murray was
a prominent and well liked resident
of Harrisburg and his death was
mourned by many friends as was
that of the lamented Frank Zeigler.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Hampton L. Carson, former at
torney general and an authority on
Washington, spoke on the first pre
sident at Woodland Church, Phila
delphia, yesterday.
—'Daniel M. Clemson, the Pitts
burgher who married Christina Mil
ler, the singer, is a director of the
Carnegie Steel Co., and head of big
gas enterprises.
—The Rev. 11. Con well received
SIO,OOO in gifts for his church on
his recent birthday.
—The Rev. Dr. William J. *Dal
lou, the first of the Catholic chap
lains at Camp Hancock, has been
named to a restorate at Phoenix
ville.
—Archbishop Prendergast, who
'has been ill, is improving rapidly.
—Charles W. Kiser, of Wilkins
burg, treaimrer of the O'Neil cam
paign committee, is active in reli
gious affairs in Allegheny county
—Augustus K. Oliver has been
elected head of the Pittsburgh Red
Cross.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg contributes
considerable amounts to the
food supply of the navy?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Back in the days of Washing
ton's army Harrisburg was a depot
for assembling supplies.
Novel Buying
How many readers buy novels and
buy them to keep? How many mo
dern novels does, one find well
bound, and placed on the shelves
devoted to "standard reading?" In
these Olympian fields a mediocre bi
ography, a volume of second rato
poems, a rehash of history, will And
their way before the novels that in
the last decade have equaled, if not.
outranked, the rest of our creative
literature.—Henry Scidel Canby in
tha Century Ma.trsL7.ina.
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