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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918
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With God go over the sea; with
out Him, not over the threshold.—
RUSSIAN PROVERB.
A REBI'KE TO STRIKERS
THE firm declaration of the
American Federation of Labor
that this war is labor's war
and must be fought through to a
successful conclusion for the sake
of labor's future in a world made
>-afe for democracy is a stinging re
buke to the striking ship-builders.
Labor is justly entitled to be paid
as well on the Atlantic as on the
Pacific coast and beyond doubt the
Hog Island workmen have grlev-!
ances that should be given attention]
at the hands of a board of arbi
tration. but that they should hold
up the work of the whole Nation
is unthinkable.
The organized labor of the coun- j
try has been standing loyally by the I
Government. Early in the contest;
it divorced itself entirely from the
1. W. W. and Socialistic elements
that had been trying to dominate it
for their own purposes. The Ameri
can Federation repeatedly has en
dorsed the acts of Congress and the
President. The time has come when
such mistaken leaders as those at
the head of the shipping strike must
answer to both their own fellows In
the ranks of labor and to the United
State Government, and they need
expect little sympathy from either.
If the charge 'hat CMeigo pai.kers
are hoarding hides to push up the
price <f leather is proved, the Gov
ernment will l;o justified in any
mearure it may take to breik up the
1 ractice and punish the offender:*.
GOOD POLICY
THE public will agree absolutely
with the policy laid down by
Fuel Administrator Potter urg
ing that next winter's coal be laid
in by domestic consumers between
April 1 and autumn. Some fears
have been expressed that hoarders'
might take advantage of this to!
buy more than they need for the!
winter months, but with coal at its'
present price and the local fuel ad-1
mlnistrators standing between the]
dealer and the purchaser there is
very little chance of abuse in this'
direction. Few people have money j
to invest in coal they may not need!
for more than a year, which may
drop in price if the war should come
to a sudden close. i
And It is a good thing to nil i
the coal bins in summer it will be!
equally good to fill the potato binsj
next fall for the winter. The ideal
of purchasing more than thirty!
days' supply of wheat, with wheat;
scarce and in great demand, may
be all right, but the Food Adminis
tration must be careful that it does
not discourage the spirit of thrift
, tha prompts hundreds of thousands
of persons to, save a few pennies
here and a few more there by pur-}
• basing their household supplies in!
quantities. Wherever possible the!
housekeeper should be urged toj
adopt this cheaper method of living.]
The meal-time trip to the corner j
grocery is an extravagance that
many families could forego with'
benefit to both their poeketbooksl
and their stomachs.
Those who wondered why Scott I
Nearing was dismissed by '.he Ur>i- I
• orally of Pennsylvania will now |
l>i\e to admit that tha directors j
knew what they were about.
WAR AND BUILDING
THE war is going to have a bad i
effect on new building opera
tions this year. Building as- j
sociations report that the demand;
for money for this sort of enterprise 1
is not nearly up to normal and some
of them have decided to put out
no new series until the Government
restrictions against unnecessary con
struction are lifted. The building
associations are suffering in mem
bership as a result, for home-build
ers are no mean fraction of their
total.
The first building association was
organized in America in 1831 and
at the annual meeting of representa
tives of these organizations last week
it was reported that the number Is
MOW 7,000, with a membership of
500,000. and with total assets of
51,898,000,000. It is to be hoped that]
TUESDAY EVENING, HAKRJSBURG TELEGRAPH -8161 '6l AHYHHaHtf
the lapse In building will not dis
turb the normal growth, which Is
about >114,000,000 yearly, for home
building and home ownership make
for good citizenship, and there is no
greater promoter of either than the
building association.
Germany wants a "peace by under
standing"—and she is going to get
it. when she comes to understand that
Kaiserism is a dead issue.
SAVE COAL; USE WATER
WITH Congress discussing the
conservation of the Nation's
water resources on the heels
of the recent coal famine, we are
in a mood to listen more attentively
than usual to the proposal of the
scientists who would save coal by
the use of water in generating heat
and power. Even the statistician
is not so dry as usual. By intelli
gent conservation or natural re
sources, says Prof. Elizabeth P.
Fisher, of "Wellesley, $342,000,000
of coal could be saved a year to
the United States, $300,000,000 in
land resources, $100,000,000 could
be saved by flood prevention, and
$1,000,000,000 by the prevention of
insect pests. This makes a total ol
$1,942,000,000. Quite a tidy little
sum, these war times. Here are a
few of the facts she cites in the
Boston Teachers' New Letter to
show the necessity for Government
legislation for the protection of ourj
lands and waters. She says:
We find that our streams are to
a large extent allowed to go to
waste. Five years ago the
unused water. power then
capable of economic de
velopment was estimated at
nineteen millions of horsepower.
Probably there is a greater
amount now available, owing to
the fact that hydro-electric pow
er is now transmitted to great
distances. In Colorado this pow
er is transmitted 309 miles;
Continually to fail to Use this
water power means a drain on
our non-rerewable resources,
and particularly on the coal re
source. The use of the
same amount of horsepower
from the burning of coal .costs
the United States per year $342,-
000,000.
This waste of water is espe
cially regrettable, since it could
easily be used to save coal and
other mineral fuels, which are
non-renewable. The safety of
this country for the future is
closely tied up with this ques
tion. We should at the present
time have-water power sites de
veloped for nitrogen fixation
plants, for nitric acid is a ne
cessity in the manufacture of
ammunition. Their absolute ne
cessity should have been fore
seen. Recently between s.*o.-
000,000 and $75,000,000 of Amer
ican money was seeking invest
ment in Canada in connection
with hydro-electric power. Why
was not this money Invested
similarly in the United States'.'
We know something of the use
of "river coal" in Harrisburg, but
here is "river coal", of another color. |
Tt is possible that we are right on
the dawn of a smokeless age, with
households drawing their heat, light
and power all from the same wire,
and factories runhing full time with
out the accustomed accompaniment
of showers of soot. It's worth striv
ing for.
SUCKER FISHING
TIE Telegraph delights in re
ceiving letters like the fol
lowing, because brickbats
appear to be more popular in
this town than boquets and our
backyard is full of them. So, when
a boquet does come along we just
naturally put it in the front window
where the neighbors can see it
and its perfume can permeate the
whole shop. But, to get back to the
letter, here it is:
"That certainly was a joyous
dispatch the Telegraph published
the other day from up-State
about the early opening of suck
er fishing coming soon on the
heels of the big February thaw.
One of the things 1 like about j
the Telegraph is its optimism •
What if a blizzard should come
along neNt week and blast our
hopes, we've had the pleasure of
anticipation, anyway, and anti
cipation is half of the sport of
fishing or hunting. , Hut, for the
sake of the other half of it I
hope your correspondent is right.
Have you. Mr. Kditor, ever gone
black sucker fishing in the
spring? Well, there's fun in it
enough to make any angler want
to shoulder his rod and take to
the big eddies where the early
fish love to lie on the bottom and
fatten on the food the freshets
have brought down."
Have we ever gone black sucker
fishing? Why, friend, spring without
a trip or two would be like buck
wheat cakes without maple syrup or
eggs without salt. There's nothing
like it to whet the fisherman's appe
tite for the opening of the trout sea
son a month later, or to "put him
wise" to the kinks and currents of
the streams he will be Jater casting
k for bass.
There is nothing more enjoyable
than catching suckers in the spring
time unless it is the eating of them
that same evening, fried to a golden
brown, with fried potatoes, bread
and butter and black coffee on the
side to make the repast complete.
Somebody has said that "there is a
sucker born every minute," but no- 1
body who knows anything about
black sucker fishing would make any
such light assertion about the catch
ing of them. Catching suckers Is just
as much a fine art and almost as
much fun as whipping the streams
for trout. The man who doesn't
know their habits may fish all over
them and around about them and
: never get a nibble. The fellow who
I does know comes home with a fine
string.
It's like almost every other game
jin life. Good fortune and a fine
| meal in the evening are for the fel
j low who knows how. Luck may
i have its part, but It's a very small
part and the chap who counts 'on
it when he goes sucker fishing may,
and very likely will, find the sucker
on the wrong end of his line. But,
Friend Correspondent, we're just
longing for a try at them, the soon'
er the better.
A GARFIELD SUGGESTION
IF DR. GARFIELD will And a
process whereby some millions
of tons of "press agent dope"
that find their way to the desks of
long suffering editors in the course
of a year can be turned Into house
hold fuel there will be no "heatless
Mondays" next winter. Paper brl
quettes would be far more practical
than some of the suggestions con
tained in much of this valuable "lit
erature." when any man,
organization or branch of the gov
ernment with a "bug," a bit of prop
aganda or a conservation Idea has
money enough for the purpose he
at once hires a "publicity man" who
sends it out In multigraph and
multitudinous form. Dr. Garfield
ought to be able to raise at least a
regiment of ablebodied men for
the mines from among the press
agents of Washington alone.
fslltict. I*.
By the Ex-Committceman jj
While a number of newspapers
j and some men active in politics
throughout the state express the
opinion that the reports that Gov
ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh is ser
iously considering a call of an extra
session of the legislature to act on
the long delayed reapportionment of
the state for congressional and legis
lative purposes, there are some who
declare that what the Governor and
his political friends are thinking
about is to head oft the Penrose
plans for reforms in Philadelphia.
It is an open secret that the Pen
rose people propose to ask the gen
eral assembly of 1919 to enact laws
to radically change the Philadelphia
city government and to make cer
tain happenings, impossible in fu
ture. It is equally well known that
the Governor and his up-state
friends would like to force a show
by the Penrose people and if in the
wood make a breach between the
Penrose leaders and the Vares
which would smash any chance of
harmony in advance of the primary.
The Governor and his friends here
are committed to the O'Neil candi
dacy, but if an extra session in
which Senator Sproul would have td
sit would get into a row over Phila
delphia it might make uncertain the
support of the Vares for Sproul,
which is commonly reported and
which is disturbing administration
men.
Operating against this plan for an
extra session would be the cost,
which would be easily $300,000 or
$400,000, according to the length of
the period and the fact that the leg
islature would be the same as last
year in regard to the Governor and
liquor legislation, and possibly the
amendment. However, a showdown
011 the amendment this year in spe
cial session would make much trou
ble for many legislators who desire
to come back.
—According to the Philadelphia
I-edger Governor Brumbaugh said
when asked about the extra session
reports in Florida, that he would
attend to that matter when he re
turns. Sunday the Ledger said the
Governor was "puzzled" over the
situation.
—Highway Commissioner O'Neil
and his friends are cheered over the
situation in Western Pennsylvania
as they see it. The Pittsburgh Dis
patch gave almost a column to tell
ing of the O'Neil strength in Mercer
and other western counties. The
commissioner is planning a number
of trips about the western end of
the state. To-day he will leave for
Downlngtown to make an address
to-night.
—Representative Jim Maurer's de
termination to attend the Socialist
meeting in England and the state
ment that he fnay not get a passport
are being followed with much inter
est at the Capitol.
—Mayor Fibert, of Reading, does
not stand for any nonsense and his
example will probably be followed
in other sections. An alderman who
did not hold a man charged with
disloyal conduct, was refused per
mission to-preside in the mayor's
court.
—Philadelphia firemen will get
some sort of an increase in pay. It is
said that the two platoon system will
be postponed for a year.
—Senator W. C. MeConnell, of
Shamokin, who is being urged by
Northumberland county friends as a
dignified and worthy candidate for
lieutenant governor, is said to be
entirely willing to run if he will not
get into a rough and tumble light.
The Senator is a native of Dauphin
county, having been born at Halifax.
Major K. X. Carpenter, of Wil
kes-Barre, will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Con
gress in the Luzerne county district
Col. Frank G. Darte's decision to
take a trip south for several weeks
being taken to mean that he will
not run. Thomas Kennedy, the
Hazleton miners' leader, is being
urged to run. but there are some
Democrats who would like the au
burn-haired John J. Casey to make
another try.
—One of the jokes in Chester
county is the fact that Fix-Controller
Hobert Kay, who stirred up the an
imals and made all kinds of sur
charges, paid $1,886 too much to
Montgomery county on a bridge bill.
He insisted he was right, but Mont
gomery county commissioners sent
a check for the difference. Kay was
appointed by the Governor to fill a
vucancy caused by death, but did
net run for re-election.
—D. J. Stevens and B. M. Arthur,
who have been fussing over who is
to be burgess of Lansford, have tak
en their troubles to court.
—Chester city Are companies are
all divided up over the Question of
whether the fire chief should be
paid.
—Representative Conrad G. Mil
ler, of Hazleton, has sent word to
friends in this city that he proposes
to be a candidate for re-election.
—General Charles M. clement has
informed men who urged him to
run for Congress that when he said
he had no ambitions in that direc
tion, he meant it.
—L. R. Goshorn, political writer
of the Pittsburgh Dispatch and well
known as legislative correspondent,
hns been confined to his home in
Pittsburgh by an accident due to a
fall upon an icy pavement.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer which
has been reviewing the counties, says
the hard coal region is for Sproul
and that Carbon county will give
him "a large majority." In North
•umberland, says the Inquirer, the
Sproul boom has been given "a de
cided impetus during the past week"
.more Sproul sentiment than is now
realized.
—A Lebanon dispatch says I. Say
lor Zimmerman, of Lebanon, will
run for the Legislature in place of
Asa A. Weimer and adds:
—"Considerable interest was in
jected into the Republican nomina
tion for county treasurer by the for
mal announcement made dujing the
week of the following list of can
didates. Harry G. Louser, Frank
P. Hammer, Dr. John J. Light, John
Himmelberger, John B. Oberholtzer.,
Harry R. Heilman, Paul Grittingtfr
and Harvey Steckbeck. All the as
pirants are residents of this city.','
Owr ttu"Jo|9
Ik ""pMuuu
Gladys, the twenty-foot python in
Lincoln Park, Chicago, received her
semiannual meal recently. Twelve
keepers, with the aid of a sausage
stuffing machine and a five-foot pole,
treated her to thirty pounds of
ground beef, followed by a twelve
pound piece of beef. We know some
people who wouldn't mind being a
python. ,
"Wanted —.1 am going to New-
York next Monday partly loaded.
Would like to pick up enough to in
sure a full load," Is the rather con
fusing advertisement of a produce
shipper in a north county paper.
Mary was playing on the floor
with her doll. She couldn't get the
doll to sit in a certain position she
desired and so she banged It on the
floor with great Impatience and
yelled at the top- of her voice, "I
wish I belonged to a family that
sweared."
To these days of industry no one
thinks much of Doctor Osier and his
theory that no man Is worth his salt
after reaching the age of forty. How
about Mrs. George Jenkins, aged 80,
who holds the vecord for Red Cross
output: 30 sweaters, 9 helmets, lt>
pairs of socks, 8 pairs of wristlets
and a dozen scarfs. In addition to
these she knitted in the last month
mittens for all her grandchildren.
Would you Oslerlze Mother Jen
kins? ,
The schoolgirl was sitting with
her feet stretched far out into the
aisle and was busily chewing gum,
when the teacher espied her.
"Mary!" called the teacher, sharp.
1 v,
"Yes. ma'am?" questioned the
pupil.
"Take that gum out of your
mouth and put your feet in!"
A young man in Altoona, employ
ed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in
a responsible job, has the distinc
tion of having no relatives what
ever. His family died before he was
seven years old and neither of his
parents had brother or sister. What
he lacks in relatives he makes up
for in friends, of whom he has
plenty: and we have heard of people
who would envy him.
ConsidefUte Little Girl —"Please,
Mr. Keeper, will it hurt the elephant
if I give him a currant out of my
bun?"
Real Road to Success
In the March American Magazine
the famous lecture of Frederick
Wlnslow Taylor is printed, in which
Mr. Taylor says:
"Quite a large proportion of young
men set out deliberately to t\o bare
1> enough to satisfy their employer
—ln fact, many of them would feel
happy to do as little as they ran and
still satisfy their employer. Another
set of men propose to do just what
their employer wants. They, how
ever, are at all times exceedingly
careful to guard their own rights
fUid not to give a single thing in the
way of service that they are not paid
for. About one man, however, in
twenty, takes the real, quick road to
success. He makes up his mind de
liberately that in all cases he will
not only give his employer all that he
wants but that he will surprise him
with something unexpected, some
thing beyond what his employer has
any right to ask or expect, and it is
astonishing how fast this line of ac
tion leads to success."
Sunday Prayed For T. R.
Billy Sunday prayed at the taber
nacle the other night that the life of
Colonel Roosevelt be spared for his
country.
The prayer was interrupted by the
applause of the audience and a wave
of "amen's" came from the minis
ters' section.
"Lord, send an angel down from
heaven to whisper in the ears of
Teddy's doctors a way to save him,"
urged Billy. "We don't want him
to go now. Lord. Lean over the
battlements of heaven. Lord, and tell
the doctors haw to stay the ravages
of that malignancy.
"Please spare him. Lord, and
keep our President, and help ' our
friend who has been sick."
—From the Washington Post.
Path of the Han
Only a ravaged earth
Where the grass runs wild.
And an old bent woman there
With a little child.
Only a shattered tower
Bereft of its bells.
Where, with itg sealed
Gray silence dwells.
Only a fresh heaped mound
, With its grim pathos,
And a titled soldier's cap
I On a wooden cross.
v
Only the creeping wind '
And the shrouded sun:
Only the pale gloom;—this
Was the path of Hun!
—Clinton Scollard of the Vigilantes.
CUSSEDNESS CROPS OUT
The Mayor of Bethany has learn
ed something about the selfishness
of human nature. A few weeks ago
he announced that the city might
have to cut off the water supply in
the service mains in order to main
tain sufficient pressure for fire pro
tection, and requested that everyone
aid in consrving the water supply.
Immediately a lot of patriotic citi
zents secured hose and began filling
their cisterns with city water. Last
week Bethany had to cut off the
service mains—and the mayor didn't
issue any warning that time, —Kan-
sas City Times.
Defensive Alliance Formed
Wayne county lawyers have form
ed an association and the Greenville
Journal fears that means it will cost
more than formerly to steal a pig.—
Kansas City Star.
SULTAN SACCHAItf\ 7 E
Abdul is dead! That kindly soul's
At rest somewhere in Asia Minor.
On hist'ry's most affecting rolls
Has tragedy with subtler, finer
Or more pathetic artistry
Inscribed a tale so broken-hearted
As this of frail humanity.
Exampled by the dear departed?
Alas for Abdul, impotent
To make his voice ring down the
ages
The milk of human kindness went
And clove a channel through his
rages
How soft, benevolent his crimes.
How uninformed with Kultur's
teaching.
A. Hamid lived beyond his times
And childish was his overreaching.
• • •
Toll for the Sultan Saccharine,
Outmatched by Berlin and Vienna,
Reposing in his infantine
And unsensatlonal Gehenna!
H. L. C.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... By Brigg,
—————.
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
_ , risHW.ws"
1 o the Editor of the Telegraph:
There is much said and printed
about food conservation, of which
the writer approves very heartily.
1 believe everybody should do his
bit, if food, as it is said, will win
the war, I believe more should be
said, printed and done toward that
end. One special and very impor
tant item has been sadly neglected.
We all know that fish are a good
food, and that they would be plenti
ful. If migratory fish were given a
chance to migrate for spawning pur
poses, our inland streams would be
well supplied with all kinds of fish,
as they were years ago, and no re
strictions would need be put on fish
ing. Any one could go and catch a
mess of fish at any time they felt
like it. What we want is adequate
Hsliways at all water power plants.
Adequate lishways, to allow all fish
to move up streams into shallow
waters, can easily be built. We have
state laws requiring lishways, why
not enforce k the law, and give the
fish a chance to propagate in the
natural way? I believe I am voic
ing the sentiment of the majority of !
our Pennsylvania people, when 1 '
plead for fishways that will answer |
the purpose. Those who know the'
conditions existing at the McCall'sl
Ferry dam that the eels and all |
kinds of fish die in the attempt to
MEN AS FOOD SLACKERS
A woman writing in the March
Woman's Home Companion asks
meij to stop scolding her sex and
look to their own faults, and she
says:
"I'd like to see a count taken of
the mfh who've given up eating but
ter and sweets to help win this war,
and the women who have given up
i these two things! It might check
I some of these persistent scolders of
i the American housewife and her i
| patriotism. Only a few days ago a
I friend of mine said to me: 'lt would
all be so easy if it were not for Ar
thur. He does so love heavy, sweet
deserts, and he wants to have steak
or roast beef every night for dinner
and bacon every morning for break
fast. I can't make hini see that it
does matter, even if we have the
money to buy these things. I try to
tell him that it's a matter of honor
not to eat them all the time, so that
there'll be/ enough to go round for
everybody. But he only acts peevish
and wants to increase my house al
lowance.'
"It's incidents like this 1 that have
brought me to the profound belief
that after the Food Administration
has shown the women what they can
do to save food and check waste,
then, then, the real work will begin,
for they'll have to make all the
heavy middle-aged men with long
indulged appetites come up to the
scratch, too."
THE RARREYSHORE
Full many sing to me and thee
Their riches gathered by the sea:
But I will sing, for I'm footsore,
The burthen of the barren shore!
The hue of love how lively shown
In this sole found cerulean stone
By twenty leagues of ocean roar,
Oh burthen of the barren shore!
And these fed crystal fragments
bright,
As clear us truth, as strong as right,
I found In footing twenty more,
Oh burthen of the barren shore!
And how far did I go for this
Small, precious piece of ambergris?
Of weary leagues I went three
score,
Oh burthen of the barren shore!
The sand is poor, the sea is rich,
And I, I am 1 know not which i
And well It were to know* no more
The burthen of the barren shore!
—Coventry Patmore in the Ohio
{State Journal.
ascend that obstruction, will agree
with me that It is a sin and a shame,
not to have a fishway there that
would allow all fish, including shad,
to go up to the head waters of the
Susquehanna, and its tributaries,
when we know it can be put there
at a nominal coot. We are approach
ing another shad season without
provisions being made for hundreds o
tons of food fish to do the natural
act of multiplying and keeping up
the supply of food fish. Let us hope
and pray, that the high officials of
this great commonwealth will see to
it that an efficient fishway be in
stalled at the McCall's Ferry dam,
in time for the shad season in 1919.
If this cause can be helped by the
press, let every newspaper in Penn
sylvania print this and other arti
cles on this subject, and let able
writers who can make stronger
pleas get busy to do their bit.
A great many people are led to
believe that it is impossible to build
fishways that will answer the pur
pose, but that is a mistaken idea,
notwithstanding the fact that sev
eral futile efforts have been made,
and a good deal of money has been
spent, without any results. If the
masses demand ■efficient fishways,
J dare say their wishes will be grati
fied.
Lancaster. Feb. 16, 1918.
JNO. It. BURKIiOLDER.
Cannot Contend With God
i
How should man be just with
God? If he will contend with him,
he cannot answer him one of a
thousand.—Job ix, 2 and 3.
VOLUN TEERS MO THER
He was so beautiful—my baby son!
His sun-kissed curls citing; close
around his head.
His deep blue eyes looked trusting
ly in mine.
I did my best to keep his beauty
fair
And fresh and clean and dainty, for
1 knew
I never could be satisfied with less.
j He was so strong and well, my little
son!
I gave my days and nights to keep
him so—
I Called in fresh air and sunlight to
my aid,
| Good food and play, all healthful
things of life.
j I wanted physical perfection, for
I never could be satisfied with less.
I He was so bright and clever, my big
son!
II sent him to the very best of
schools,
j Denying self that he might know no
lack
Of opportunity to do his best.
Or feel no door of progress closed to
him.
I never could be satisfied with less.
And yet—but now—my well-loved
son,
For your perfection can I pay the
price?
Or would I have you play the cow
ard's part,
With selbsh. shriveled soul too small
to dwell
Within so fair a frame? Is that my
choice?
I sought the best! Khali I be satig
fled with less?
Nay, I would have you honorable,
my son—
Just loyal, brave and truthful, scorn
ing fear
And lifcs and meanness—ready to
defend
Your home, your mother, your
country's (las,
He's gone! Dear Qod! With bleeding
heart I know
I still could not be satisfied with
less!
—Kansas City Slap.
LABOR NOTES
There are over 700 local trade
union bodies in Australia.
Ten of the eleven states having
no workmen's compensation laws
are in the South.
In 1916 Germany had 240 strikes,
effecting 124,183 workers.
Over a million workers are em
ployed in British mines and quar
ries.
Venezuela has enacted legislation
declaring eight and one-half hours
a day's work.
In Madras, India, twenty-five per
cent, of the factory workers are wo
men end children.
Women employed in the Chicago
stockyards work ten hours a day.
There are 10,000 organized metal
workers in San Francisco.
Over 4,76G,000 women are em
ployed in the various trades in Eng
land.
France has a million and a half
widows on the Government pension
list.
The number of married women
in industry has increased since the
war began.
Women as crossing watchers are
being employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
More than 3,000,000 men have
been withdrawn from industry in
Britain to serve with the colors.
The Kansas City Railways Com
pany is trying to develop a senti
ment in fav.or of women conductors.
Operative bakers of Edinburgh,
Scotland, have been given an ad
vance of wages of $2.25 a week.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
JUST SO.
I " tl Women's
'iJvMr clothes will not
"hang so loosely
V noxt season.
SUSPICIOUS. "O
Mrs. Bilton—l
think you're the f" >,/®t
dearest, sweetest IB
man that ever -b Ky
Bilton (suspi
ciously) —Were f X \
you at some fall . Jf'f /'
millinery opening |
ALWAYS TO
| '' -i-A THE RESCUE.
I Science states
j that girls are get
ting taller year
What if girls
| get so tall that
can't walk
Fashion will
Introduce soma
W-'■ - kln(1 of a bend.
ENTIRELY _____
DIFFERENT.
What's this
kiss me, I mere- tT jK|i
ly let him try. n f
Bmttng (Slfat
James McLaurie. formerly a resi
dent of Middletown and now In
charge of maple sugar operations in
New York state and along the
northern border of Pennsylvania,
was in Harrisburg yesterday on liis
way from Baltimore to the sugar
camps. McLaurie is an expert. He
kii( ws maple sugar as most men
know their alphabet, and he says
that maple sugar is going to be more
plentiful the coming year than ever
before, but that the price will not
bij much more or less than it hats
been for the past several years.
"The present prolonged thaw has
been a great thing for the maple
sugar industry," said Mr. McLaurie
to a Telegraph reporter yesterday.
"Few people realize that New York
and Pennsylvania alone manufacture
hundreds of thousands of pounds
of this dainty and that the industry
has grown greatly during the past
few years. I think it has a great
future."
"Maple sugar making is one of the
few industries the early settlers
learned from the Indians which has
been handed down to us," said the
speaker. "When the settlers came
into Pennsylvania and New York
state they found the Indians making
maple sugar cakes and maple syrup.
Their methods were very crude but
the results were so satisfactory that
the settlers soon learned the art and
thereby made themselves indepen
dent of the sugar imports. Of
course 'store sugar' was just as
eagerly sought then as now by the
folks who have more than enough
maple sugar to meet their wants,
but there was no hardship if per
chance the settler and his family
were caught far from the settle
ments or one or another of the nu
merous wars of those days cut off
the imported sugar supply for the
season. Of .course, we do not make
maple sugar commercially the way
the Indians made it, or even after
the manner of the early settlers,
uho spoiled about as much as they
made and ruined hundreds of trees.
Our work is all done with the idea
of conserving the trees and making
them produce only so much sap
each us they can spare witlf safety
to themselves. We bore the trees
on one side where the sun is sure to
strike the incision, with a half-inch
bore to about two-inches in depth,
and keeping the hole clean so that
the sap flows freely, and this we
catch in metal buckets and evapo
rate partly and finally boil until we
get syrup, following the usual
method of 'reducing the residue to
sugar when sugar is desired. It is
a complicated process and must be
done with great care to get the best
results. One tree will yield from
ten to forty gallons of sap a season,
depending upon its size and the rich
ness Of the soil about it. I venture
to say that two-thirds of the farms
of Pennsylvania contain sugar
maple trees and 1 anv surprised that
more farmers do not utilize them.
You might pass this along to the
Slate Agricultural Department,
which I understand already has done
something along this line."
The Juniata valley counties are
taking an interest in the forthcom
ing awiird of the State College
scholarships named in honor of
Hugh Nelson McAllister, one of the
famous ones of that part of the
ftate, by his daughter, Mrs. T. It.
lays, of Bellefonte. The scholar
ships this year go to Center Juni
ata, Mi/flin, Wyoming and Cameron
counties, which show the highest
ratio of students enrolled in the col
lege to the total population of the
counties. ,
It Takes more than a shutdown of
the water department to stop C. Lin
ford Scott, superintendent of tlio
llarrisburg Manufacturing and Boil
er Works. When the order came a
few weeks ago to shut down all in
dustrial plans using city water the
boiler works was busy turning out
1 important government orders and
! then as your Uncle Samuel is a ratli
i er insistent gentleman he informed
the management it mustn't let a
little thing like a water famine stand
in the way. On the other hand the
City Council was just as insistent that
it would cause the arrest of anybody
violating the order. Then it was up
to Mr. Scott, who sat down to think
the puzzle over instead of goinghomn
to his evening meal. Suddenly it
dawned upon him that there once
had been a skating pond near the
works known as Eastmere and he
knew the water that formerly was
impounded to produce the pond
must be still flowing somewhere.
A scouting party brought the infor
mation that the stream was flowing
past the plant about 500 feet to the
cast. After that it was a mere mat
ter of pipes and a hastily Improvised
pump—and presto, the factory was
in operation while all other were
idle.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~
—Philip V. Staples, who becomes
head of the Hell system at Pitts
burgh, was for some time head of
the publicity department and well
known here.
—E. f. Warner, the Carbon coun
ty fuel administrator, has taken coal
which he has found on sidings for
t,ny length of time and not seem
ingly needed.
—Tudor Aston, a Luzerne mining
man, has succeeded Chief of Mines
Seward Uutton as superintendent of
the Mt. Lookout Mine of the Temple
Co:, i Co'.
—George Wharton Pepper, who
is to speak here on food conserva
tion, will address a meeting in
Scranton.
—John M. Freeman, who appear
ed here yesterday in the escheat
case, is one of the prominent law
yers of Pittsburgh.
—Rudolph Hfankenburg, seventy
flve years old last week, says he' Is
still in battle for reform.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
—That Harrlshurg got away
with the snow a groat deal hot
ter than dhl some larger cities?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
As many as fifty rafts used to ar
rive at Harrisburg during the spring
floods years ago.
LIP-SERVICE .
"The Germans talk about their
love of peace," but such talk is only
from the Hps" said Senator Lodge
at a dinner in Boston.
"When I hear a German talking
about his defensive war, about this
war which was forced upon him, I
am reminded of the married man
whose wife said one evening to him,
sadly,
"George, you do not speak as af
fectionately rs you used to do. I fear
you have ceased to love me."
"'Ceased to love you?' growled
George from behind his paper.
Ceased to love you? Why, T love you
more than life itaelf. Now shut' up
and let me read the football dope.' "
—Washington star.