HARRISBUXG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTIXG CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal .Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Pres't Sr Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manacer. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managinc Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Chicago, S ' Entered at the Port Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail. 15.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1918 Xaturc is but the name for an ef fect, whose cause,is God. — COWPKR. "OVER THE TOP AGAIN" HARRISBURG has aquired a praiseworthy habit. It always gets more than it gues after when a war movement is inaugu rated. The Jewish war fund is an example. Fifteen thousand dollars was the amount fixed, and more than eighteen thousand was sub scribed. That was for the reason that the cause was a good one which appealed strongly to the sympathies of an ever-generous public and also because the movement was well or ganized and supervised by able and experienced men, who knew how to get their message before the people and to follow it up. No matter how : worthy the project it can reach full success only when it is conducted in a businesslike manner. Harris- ] burg is happy to have such an or- j ganization of volunteers to call upon ■ in time of need; just as proved or that, indeed, as it is of % people who may be depended n|on to do their part when properly approach- Wisconsin profess**! n* to know exactly what to do about LaFollette, nnd we arise to suggest that Wiscon sin has a very long lake frontage with very deep water just off shore. "THE SUPREME LAW" THERE is in this country an an cient document known as the Constitution of the United States. It is in full force and vigor. In it. in its Fifth Amendment, arc to bo found these words: "No per son shall be deprived of life, liber ty or property without due process of law. nor shall private property be tqken for public use without just compensation," The steel makers of the country undoubtedly had these words in mind when they agreed to the program which is to release the entire steel production of America for the use of the government: and President Wilson undoubtedly was thinking of the same words when he proclaim ed to the country that "a just price" shall be paid for everything which the government will buy during the war. They are reassuring words for every manufacturer and for every workingman in the United States. They make it certain that wages and profits shall be maintained at an equitable level, no matter what may happen. They make capital and labor partners in our industrial en terprise to a greater extent than ever before. They establish the doctrine that must share in the burden of war. Prices, profits and wages will rise and fall all together while the war is in progress. If Government ownership of rail- ] roads should work out as well as Gov- ' ernment coal control, we'd be back to ! ox carts in about one year. GOVERNMENT FINANCING COMPARATIVELY little Is being said in a public way concern ing the proposed War Finance Corporation, but it is nevertheless one of the most important, as well as one of the most revolutionary, steps taken by the United States Gov ernment since its entrance into the war and bids fair to have a very lasting effect on the country long after the'conflict ends. * If Congress enacts the bill as it has been outlined this new corpora tion will be one of the most power ful financial organizations in the whole world and could be made a mighty instrument for the benefit of American business during the hard ships of the war period. It would have a capital of $500,000,000 sub scribed by the Government and would be in control of the Secre tary of Treasury and four men to be chosen by him. The Idea is to provide finances for Industries which may require Gov ernment or other aid In turning out work necessary to the prosecution of the war or of importance to the public interest. With federal re- WEDNESDAY EVENING, strictions In force as to private in vestment of bank funds and the re quest of the Secretary of tho Treas ury to hold up bond Issues for prl \ ate purposes, some such step as that proposed Is necessary if the business of the country essential to war activity is to be carried on along the lines desired by the Government, and while financiers are slow to adopt new methods and Government dabbling in private affairs is not in ordinary times to be advocated, in the present instance business will not want to stand in the way of the creation of such a corporation as is proposed. The pacifists continue to lecture three hours at a time on what term the Government's denial of free speech. HEADING FOR IT THE lack of co-operation between departments that resulted in the recent disfigurement of the parks by the dumping of snow and filth on them and the careless de struction of shrubbery along the river are heading the municipal gov ernment straight toward municipal managership. No city manager would permit one department of the city to encroach upon another. No manager worth the name would al low filth from one part of town to be dumped in another, from which . it would have to be carted again at the expense of the taxpayers. Something like the river park In cident occurred last summer when for the lack of a road roller, that could have been spared for one day, a valuable piece of new road con struction was almost obliterated be cause the head of one department would not loan it to the head of an other. These are examples of de partmental friction that cost the peo ple dearly. J. William Bowman, upon his re tirement after a very brief term as mayor, expressed the belief that gov ernment by city management is highly desirable, and recommended that the taxpayers give the matter careful study in order to be prepared to consider it at the municipal elec tions next year. Since that time Altoona has successfully inaugurat ed the plan, and, while it has been in force too brief a period to analyze! results for the year, indications are that it will prove so desirable that f'ne city will never go back to the old hit-or-miss plan. Here is opportunity for the Cham ber of Commerce to do a big work. If a special comftiittee f that body were created for the purpose of studying the situation and planning ahead with the idea of . placing a program before the voters next spring, when candidates for council come before the people and when the Legislature is perhaps in a re ceptive mood, we might get some where with Mr. Bowman's idea. Otherwise, there is no telling howl long we may continue to blunder j along with five heads instead of one in the city government. Not that the present councilmen are not doing what they believe to be for the best Interests of the city, but that the whole system is wrong. As things stand, it is perhaps too much to hope that the head of the park de partment, for example, should not take advantage of an opportunity to benefit his own branch of the gov ernment at the expense of the water department, or that the head of the highway department should not look to his own interests before those of the park or some other depart ment. But with a city manager in charge all departments would look alike to him; each would get a square deal and the whole govern ment would be operated on a busi ness basis. The Crown Prince is happy over the 100 th attack on London. The Crown Prince does well to take his happi ness now. RUSSIA MUCH is being written about the "Russian situation," but the only fact that all of the writers make perfectly clear is that not one of them knows more than the other about conditions over there and all are very much at sea. Life there appears to be about as stable as mer cury on a marbletop table and buy ing lottery tickets is a safe and pro fitable amusement as compared with betting on how long the Russian status quo, if there is such a thing, can be maintained. . Nothing appears certain in Russia to-day except uncertainty. The "mar. of the hour," If he is to appear, is not yet on the scene. Russia may suddenly develop Iron strength un der-the German attack, or It may literally go to pieces. There is no telling, and anything that may be written regarding conditions there at this time is mere guess-work. The news dispatches of the day reflect the light there is and even they must be taken with a grain of salt and due consideration for their origin and the contaminating channels through which they are apt to flow before reaching the American public. "Germans ready for surprise drive in the West," and she'll get the sur- I prise, all right. tn. By the Ex-Coinmittccman - —' Possibilities of an .extra session of the legislature appear to have sup planted gubernatorial ambitions as a topic of conversation among peo ple interested in State politics and there are more ideas for subjects to be acted upon being heard of than ever expected. In fact, the sug gestion being made for inclusion in the call have been an unexpected development of the sounding of sen timent announced from the Gover nor's office in the absence of Dr. Brumbaugh in Florida. In addition to the mine cave pro position which was submitted at the Executive Department and which will be a burning them among legis lators from the anthracite regions,if a call is issued, the question of a larger measure of home, rule for third class cities, numerous changes in the second class city governmen tal scheme and the reform of the Philadelphia government will be asked. It may also be possible that the volunteer police idea may be extended as was done in New York State and even an increase of State Police boomed. In regard to apportionment it will have to be made upon the results of the 1910 census which showed that the gains in population were all in Philadelphia and Allegheny coun ties. The figures of 1910 as worked out in the session of 1915 showed Philadelphia and Allegheny each gained a congressman and that Philadelphia would gain a senator, the latter at lie expense of some other part of the State. As to the legislaive re-apportlonment under the figures for 1910 Philadelphia and Allegheny would be gainers again and some counties, Tioga, Cumberland, several others stood to lose one member of the two they now have. Re-apportionment is at best a fruitful source of contention and if complicated with an effort to change things to insure the rati fication of the dry amendment would make an extremely interesting sit uation. —The marked contrast between the positive declaration of a morn- j ing newspaper in I-larrisbarg on the j subject of an extra session of the Legislature and the flat statement by Senator Edwin H. Vare, one of the potential figures in Pennsylva nia politics that he was opposed to any such proposition was much com mented upon at the Capitol to-day. —The Philadelphia Record, the big Democratic newspaper of the state, says to-day that the extra ses- i sion talk is being used for political j effect. In Pittsburgh newspapers do I not look upon the matter seriously. | —ln Philadelphia it is sjiid to be j uncertain whether Philip H. John- , son. brother-in-law of the late j Israel H. Durham, will run for the : Senate or not, but Congressional contests seem to be certain. -—Auditor General Snyder has ap pointed Selectman Ellas Abrams, leader of the Sixteenth ward of Phil adelphia, one of the special auditors in the office of the Mercantile Ap praisers at a salary of $2,500 a year. John A. Voorhees, secretary of the Republican Alliance, is reported to have landed a similar plum, but says j that he has received no official word i of his appointment. The dry amendment is making i headway rapidly in Pennsylvania j and it is generally recognized that it j will be supported by many people ' not a bit interested in who runs j either the Republican or Democratic i or Socialist parties, and who, by the 1 way, are not members of the Prohi- . bition party. It is an interesting fact that there i has been a dec! - e in the number of ; liquor licenses i iked for in many ; counties of the State, even in the | anthracite region. The coal regions ! generally declare men who I been keeping tabs on the situation I show a decrease in licenses and ) many of the coal companies are en- J couraging prohibition from good j sound business principles and with ; no political leanings. —With Highway Commissioner j O'Neil running for governor and ex- j Highway Commissioner Frank B. | Black running for congress at large ; if there would be anything about the j State road system that would not be j told it would be remarkable. —Representative Samuel A. Whi- j taker, of Phoenixville, who is a cap- j tain in one of the Pennsylvania ar- . tillery regiments, is to be run for re-election by his Chester county | friends although he may be In ! France when election takes place. | Representatives Hollingsworth j Graham may also run. —Thomas Foster, the Philadel phia policeman who resigned be cause he had some "run-ins" with Isaac Deutsch, has become a Read ing railway officer. He was not out of a job long. —Thomas Forcey, a Lansdowne man, has been chosen by council to till four borough offices at a com bined salary of SI,BOO. He comes close to being ji borough manager. —Allan D. Miller, of Susquehanna t who represent Susquehanna county j in the lower House of the general ' assembly, will be a candidate fos a j second term according to an an- i nouncement that appeared in Sus quehanna papers during the week. Mr. Miller is a Republican and prominent in the State Grange. —Representative • Fred Ehrhardt, who has represented the Third leg islative district in the lower house for many years, is being urged by many of his friends to enter the race for the Republican nomination ! for state senator says the Seranton I Republican. So far Mr. Ehrhardt j has reached no decision and it is i said that should he decide to stay out of the senatorial tight he will again be a candidate to succeed himself In the lower house. In that event Mr. Ehrhardt will have oppo sition for the Republican nomination in the person of J. Henry Schwenk er, of the Tenth ward, Seranton. Might Get Impatient A placard hung in German railway I stations now bears this notice, ali. of course, in German: Speak German! Do not use ene my language! "Adieu" is French, say instead— GoVf deschutze Dich. Gott segne Dlch. Auf weidersehen. Auf baldigeswiedersehen. Auf sehrbaldigeswiedersehen. Auf eln Rechtherzigesfrohesbaldi geswiedersehen. But how long will the conductor wait? —From the Boston Globe. The Mother Many n mother Is like a randle, lighting the whole house, but con suming herself. —From the Youth's Companion. HARRISBUBG ITSFTTTTELEGRAPH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE .... .... .... .... BY BRIGGS ' C"R T '| SGTGFL ! AND Fl< THAI • |M RT-TC ' 1 "*'' TA~TY A TVV I FAUCET FOB MC - IIAJEF-CE-T- \ FIR AWO BV \ \NS I /• W.LL VOU IQUVCK C CR:R' R / . FETCH MF' TM£ '/// A PLUMBF" / ) ALL THE \ HAMMCP ? I SEE /// ~, / j TmiS W-DC IWHFRTI TT-V; MAT TER / Y O U AT*£. WITH ,-T • ./ TH * AB LW-RE —' " ' f 'P' "''" Over tfwe "joja uv '"P&ktuu The York County Republican' Club has adopted a resolution In which it is announced that only such candidates for the state legis lature who favor a local option law and the adoption of the "dry" i amendment to the United States constitution will be endorsed by this organization. The resolution states that it is the opinion of the club, that the best interests of all the people demand that liquor tratfis in this country be abolished. The Republican Club controls the G. O. P. interest in this county and it is believed that only "dry" candidates for the legislature will be selected by the party. • • • Hotel and restaurant men are boasting that their establishments are saving more food than the homes. From our observation this is correct. Every time we eat in a restaurant we wonder who mislaid the food-. * • * York county raised 53,165 hogs Jast year, beating every county in the state. Lancastei - * was next, with 50,019. These statistics refer ex clusively to lour-legged hogs; not the biped, which oozes all over jv trolley car. PASS THE LIBERTY BONDS Bruce Barton, popular editor and author, says in an editorial in the March Woman's Home Companion: "They say this war is not popular. And they are right. It Is not popu lar with me. Not any more popu lar than life insurance; not any more popular than fire insurance on my home. "I hate to pay out money for any of thes§ things. But I go right on ' paying it out. Because my insur-1 ance policies, unpopular with me as they are. stand between me and something far more unpopular. "And the Liberty Loan and the British fleet, and our own fleet, and our boys in brown are standing now between my little home and what to me is just now the most unpopular thing in the world —a powerful, bit ter old man who intends to 'stand no nonsense from America after the war.' "No amount of waving the flag or urging on the band IS going to fill me chuck full of enthusiasm. I just don't seem to be built tnat way. But quietly, doggedly. I go along putting all X can gather together into Lib erty bonds. "Not because the war is popular with me. Not because I expect to make any,money doing it. Not be cause the pretty girl at the counter asked me to, nor because I'm afraid of being called a slacker if I don't. "No, the real underground reason, if you want to know it, is found in the person of a man whose mail ad dress Is Lock Box. 1, Berlin. "A man who sinks hospital ships and lies about It; who sends a ship like the 'Lusitania' to the bottom loaded with women and children, nnd gives his own children a half holiday in celebration; a man who speaks of treaties as 'scraps of pa per.' " 'He showed great bitterness against the United States,* Mr. Ger ard reports. "•I've had a pretty good chance the past three years to see what his bitterness means, and if Liberty bonds can ;wotect me against that bitterness, and my home and wife and my boy and girl, then PLEASE PASS THE LIBERTY BONDS." A Meat Economy A cooking-srthool pupil in the I March Woman's Home Companion | writes: "Paradoxical as it sounds, a fillet lof beef, larded, at sixty cents a I pound is a cheaper roast of beef j than sirloin at tliirty-flve cents for I a family o'f two or three. They | weigh generally not over three pounds, but there Is no waste." The Average Test A shell snipped off A soldier's head Where shrapnel was A-splatter. But still he fought ' • Most bravely on Amid the fiendish Clatter. He was a Teuton Soldier, so It really didn't Matter! . —St. Louis Star. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM COMMUNITY SONG | J 7c the Editor of the Telegraph: The movement for community ; singing is a praiseworthy one. Har risburg, the state's capital city,! j should follow Philadelphia's lead I ; and enlist her citizens in the move-! i ment. l'ahnestock Mall would be a suit able place for the community slng- I '"£• There is also Grace Methodist j c liurch, or the Market Squafe Pres ] byterian Church. Both would be | splendid places for the singing. In j the summer, a municipal bandstand I should be erected in Capitol Park, ! where all might sing to their heart's I content, while our own good band j would accompany them. The reasons for advocating the j community songs, are not entirely | idealistic. There is nothing which | stirs the people to greater patriot ism, to higher and to better work, than the simple power |of music. If anyone ever doubts , this, let him hear the great New : York chorus, or the Philadelphia ■, songsters. Young and old, rich and! poor, gather for an hour or two ! and sing. It gives us a more cheer ful outlook on life, and helps ma- I teriaily to better the next days'! work. May your movement be reward-! ; ed with the greatest success, and i may we have the pleasure of joining I with the thousands of others in a I great community singing festival up in Capitol Park, or down along the river, or at some other suitable I place. | AN HUMBLE LOVER OP MUSIC. ASIIES NEGLECTED j Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: A few days ago I saw a number i of the Pennsylvania Reduction ash I carts hauling away the snow from our city streets where it was easily seen it was not impeding traffic anil where in a few days time the rising temperature would soon melt it away. Don't you think the property own ers and renters should be given a little more consideration than city streets a-nd have these carts haul away the ashes, which condition is assuming a disgraceful shape'.' ! Council refuses to do its duty and j it is next to impossible to get an | BOOKS AND MAGAZINES THE JOLLY EARTHQUAKE, Dr. Russel Conwell (Temple Review, Philadelphia.) In the latest volume from the pen of Dr. Conwell, the famous lecturer, the possibilities of the smile ar em phasized. Dr. Conwell tells of an earthquake which buried a barren tableland and changed the country to a fertile land. He compares this with the trials of life and says that cur earthquakes are like the "Jolly Earthquake." Each trial is for the best; each cloud has a silver lining. A vein of cheerfulness and helpful ness run? through the entire vol | ume, written in Dr. Conwell's ini i mitable style. Jt is a book which will bring Joy to many a gloom laden soul. How It Happened "The stage drivers in Yellowstone Park," says a Denver man, "are bothered by many foolish questions from their passengers, and often re sort to satirical replies. Once a lady tourfet who seemed deeply in terested in the hot springs inquired: " 'Driver, do these springs freeze over in winter?' " 'Yes, ma'am.' was the response. A lady was skating here last winter land broke through and got her foot ' scalded." " —From Harpers Mag*- ' zine. Get the Message to the People Hints of the new thlrtgs for Spring are beginning to creep into the advertisements of local merchants and milady is scrutinizing . store messages every day in an eagerness to learn what prepara tion is being made for her wants. The store that has a Spring message to give, and wishes to do so economically and effectively will find the advertising columns of the Telegraph invaluable. It is the preferred paper In three out of every four homes In Central Pennsylvania and its advertising space costs less. individual to haul the ashes away. I A little editorial byway of en lightment on this very disgraceful situation to "This Fair City of Har risburg" might serve to do some good. Very truly yours, A Resident of this city for 3T years. A property owner and there fore a taxpayer who deserves bet-, ter consideration, also a Reader for 27 years of The Harrisburg Tele graph. JUNIOR RED CROSS SOXG Tc the Editor of the Telegraph: I enclose a Junior Red Cross song which I have written for the campaign now on. Through the many schools and be used by them. Hoping that you may deem it worthy a place in the columns of your publication: (Tune —Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, The Boys Are Marching) Here we come—a million strong And. you know, we all belong To the Red Cross of our dear Ameri ca ; We're the Juniors, and with might. We'll uphold the red and white Till the sufferings of this war shall: have an end. CHORUS Let us help the Belgian children, Help the little Frencliies, too; Let us do out bit to save. Those who make Old Glory wave. O'er the countries fighting hard for freedom, true. Now we bring our little bit, Will you please accept of it Tho' tis given from a very tiny hand; i It may help our Boys in France J As so nobly they advance To defend with life the honor of our land. Brothers, dear, are 6ver there. And for these we say a prayer,' j May God bless and guide and guard you every day; Make your cause victorious, Speed a peace all glorious, That o'er all the world shall reign with fullest sway. When the fighting all is o'e?. And you reach the homeland shore We'll be there to greet you with a hearty cheer. We will bear your standards high, Those for which you dared to die, While we march and sing your praises loud and clear. MYRTLE MAYBERRY, Dillsburg, Pa. SOLDIERS MUCH SAFER Surgeon-General Gorgas says in the March American Magazine; "General Gorgas's reply was quick, clear and confident. " 'There seems to be an impres sion in this country that to fight In the present war means almost sure death to a soldier. As a matter of fact, both in the danger from dis ease and in the deadliness of the actual fighting there is no compari son between the war in Europe to day and our Civil War. " 'ln the Civil War our mortality was something over five per cent, for the four years. It is true that the French armies suffered almost exactly the same death losses during the first five months of this war. But people must not forget that those first five months were the most disastrous period, especially for the Allies, who were unprepared in every way. "'By 191G the French had re duced their mortality to only about two per aent. for twelve months! That is a rate of only twenty per thousand. EveA in civil life a rate of thirteen to fifteen per thousand is usual. Therefore it is evident that the additional war risk Is sur prisingly low. " 'After a three days' battle in our Civil War —such a battle as Get tysburg, for instance—a third of t'.v men engaged were left on the field. You cannot find in the present con flict any three days as disastrous as that.' " FEBRUARY 20, 19T& LABOR NOTES Increases of 13 to 40 per cent. In compensation for workmen, less trouble in conciliation, doing away with all litigation anil the appoint ment of a board to administer the proposed act are the chief recom mendations of a committee to the Alberta, Canada, government. Washington ranks first in the pro duction of lumber, which is its chief industry. In 1015 the total produc tion was 6,973,801,821 board feet, and for the period of October, lIIIS, to July, 1915, the number employed in the saw. planing and single mills, •sash and door factories, cabinet and woodworking shops and kindred In dustries was 20,183 males and 7 4 females. These figures do not include thousands engaged in the logging in dustry and shipbuilding plants over which the Bureau of Labor has no jurisdiction. England contemplates the estab lishment of industrial councils rep resenting the trade unions and em ployers' associations in each indus try. The councils will deal among other. things, with the means of procuring for the workmen a greater share in controlling the conditions of labor, and with a readjustment of wages so that the workers will ob tain a share in the increased pros perity of industry. The establishment of regular methods of settling dif ferences and other means of insur ing closer co-operation between em ployers and employes, with a view to obtaining better conditions of em ployment and a higher standard of comfort for the workers, are also aimed at. OUR DAILY LAUGH A SAFER. MS) It is customary I p° sa ' a k' Bs M M but nowadays H Vis considered best ▼ K ■ ■to have a witness. SOME ARE 7 LIKE THAT. I don't in automobiles. They discourage \ \ walking. iMK Mine don't. I've ' " ' • ' \ done more walk- KSg '.'X' ing sinco I bought ST f that machine H [| | than 1 ever did in ,rny life before. " SIMILAR. h °' w ' B ' when a piano is l( I Some women / I 1 1 |~|il Sjjf H do that, too, DIDN'T WANT f | TO BE ODD. I p.i/u/lj Maude Why '' did you wear a ZM V |l topcoat on a wL.fl \Uwl warm night like pected you would Ij wear your fox !■ - I furs and I didn't TTJIT ZJW waist to be odd. ['{ >4 I QUITE A FEW. ((Sfmmi ** 1 have just been reading th# constitution of I \ nlted S,atcs /I tt ** u And I was sur- H/<y?m p rise^to flna oH ' how man y rights a fellow really reminds me of No. There's no MS llklihood of your hitting the same Bmting CMptt Quail are being fed in the woodsl back of old Paxton Church this win ter by Paxtang men who have been instrumental in keeping the coveys heard in the summer time alive and tliere will probably be a couple of dozens to be seen, after the snowa go away. One or two pheasants have also been seen in the wooded sections a couple of miles from that historic place. The Paxtang quail have been nursed along for years and are the most elusive in the coun ty. There have been very few shot and last fall It was declared by some hunters that the birds knew that the newly opened Paxtang parkway leading from the old red school house on the Reading pike to the Reservoir was closed. The birds have been known for the last ten years or more in the hollow through which the parkway winds and in summer time have been heard in Paxtang .Park and up around the Reservoir. But where they go in the fall no one seems to know. They are around in the spring and in tho summer and are to be found in winter time. This year the terriblo weather drove some of the birds clear Into the woods right behind the old church and some lovers of winter walking saw them in the parkway, where rabbits were also to be .seen. Grain was scattered back of the church and near the parkway to keep them alive. It is remark able how quickly a crow will spot grain put out for quail. There have been some big crows, which come from the roost out toward Llngles town, to be seen on the outskirts of the city and they have invaded chicken yards and been around where quail are fed. Perhaps a few doses of that strychnine-treated corn • ol' Dr. Kalbfus would do them good, o * It is not often even in Pennsyl vania's Capitol where the govern mental ends of immense interests are handled that men representing so many millions of invested capi tal get together in such number as yesterday. During the sessions of the L,abor and Industry conference last November men who were active in direction of many millions of capital invested in manufacturing gathered here. Yesterday at the ar gument heard by the Public Ser vice Commission on the five-cent fare ordinances representatives of thirty companies, whose tv/.ftfcined capital would go over the $100,000,- 000. were assembled. Practically every system of any size except half a dozen was represented and their official organization looked after those who did not have men here. Judging from the manner in which the last game season "bags ' and the plans for protection and propagation of game, animals and birds, are being discussed in news papers of the State there are more people interested in hunting than ever before. The issuance of hunters' licenses, in spita of the thousands of men who form erly hunted regularly who have gone into the army or navy or been drafted Into military bodies, was greater in 1917 than in any year since the enactment of the license law. State Game officers have re ceived many reports of how quail and other game were fed and when the weather improves will have the wardens take a general look around to soe how the game stood the win ter. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary of the Commission, Is Interested in some reports that the kill of bear during the season was larger than reported. The kill in the northern counties where bruin was active and a nuisance will be looked up. Thern have also been some claims made that more deer were killed than known, one reason for the lack of complete data being that the snows came on so early that all reports could not be had. Commissioner of Forestry, Robert S. Conklin, who keeps in touch with the woods, thinks the kill in the South Moun tain region was better than reported. "The plan of publicity for game law violators Is going to be follow ed," said Dr. Kalbfus, discussing winter work of his men. "There have been quite a few game law vio lators and we are running them down. When we get the list made up we are going to give them a dose of publicity by sending names to the papers in their home communities. We have pretty good lines on the lawless fellows and we are going to show them up." Copy of a December 2 4 newspaper of Canton, China, baa reached' Har rish\irg,* bearing what missionaries in tiiat city say is the lirst recogni tion of the Christmas holiday by a Chinese journal. The paper carries a picture of Mary and the Christ Child and the Canton man who sent it to bis friend, here makes this ex planation: "On Christmas eve the reporter of one of the Canton Chinese papers came to the South China Mission/Book Store and ask ed whether he might borrow the cut they bad recently printed of Mary and the Child Jesus. This was will ingly given and thus for the first time there appeared the symbol, the Christian Religion, the Babe in the Manger, in a heathen newspaper. The inscription was the only thing in English in the whole sheet." The significant thing about it was that the editor did not think it necessary to accompany the picture with a Chinese explanation—bis readers being acquainted with the symbol. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Roger W. Babson, the statisti cian, well known here, has been named to an important committee of defence work at Washington. —Major G. W. Coxe, of Wilkcs- Barro,, who has been ill, has returned to bis home from the southern camps. —Judge W. B. Broomall, of the Delaware courts, has gone to Flori da for a vacation. —Judge J. B. Woodward, of Wilkes-Barre, a class mate of ex- President Taft. will welcome him at the Hazleton demonstration. —W. S. Pilling, iron manufactur er, has gone to Palm Beach for Feb ruary and March. —Ex-Burgess J. Elmer Saul, of Xorristown, not into trouble because be bad coal bought for his residence put into his business place. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsbnrg hns many sons In the aviation training camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first canal boats came here in the early thirties. What Hath God Wrought! According to this time It shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, Whnt hath Ood wrought!— Numbers, xidii, 23.
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