HARRISBUXG TELEGRAPH
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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.
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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.