HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded il3t Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Sqoare. E.J. STACK POLE, Prrr'f 6■ Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Manage Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en title'! 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 Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. nflTTt: By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. 15.00 a year in advance, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918 For a3 the heavens are high above the earth. So great is his loving kindness to ward them that fear him. —Ps. 103:11. NEVER A DOUBT NEWS dispatches from Washing ton to the effect that the War Department is not likely to chaiige from its original site near Middletown for the location of the great army supply depots to be erected this spring is not surprising. To those who have given the subject careful study it would seem that there never could have been any ser ious consideration of any other in this immediate vicinity, and since the Harrisburg district was selected from the entire eastern seaboard territory as the best adapted from the standpoint of transportation fa cilities there could be little debate over the wisdom of the original se lection of the particular plot upon which to locate the buildings. Army engineers who made the original survey chose Harrisburg be cause of its admirable railroad con nections, with main lines intersect ing to all points of the compass, short hauls to most of the large shipping centers and the coast, its gigantic ready-made railroad yards, its healthful surroundings and its great provision producing resources in the Immediate locality. That set tled. they next picked out the Mid dletown site because of its adaptabil ity. It had all ready for tapping main line railroad frontage, big classification yards within easy reach, a big labor population to draw from and trolley, electric, gas and telephone service of a metro politan character. These things doubtless counted heavily in a situation of which time is the prime essence. Harrisburg had to give in this nearby site all the essentials demanded by the govern ment for quick action. There was no need for anything but the filling up of the land along the river, a small thing considering the nearby slag and cinder dumps of the steel companies which may be had for the asking, and the erection of the buildings themselves. It is safe to say that nowhere- else in the United States Is there a combination of con ditions so favorable to a quick de velopment of the magnitude contem plated by the War Department. It reflects credit upon Secretary of War Baker and those acting with him that this ground was chosen, despite the efforts of those interest ed deeply in other tracts in other parts of this and nearby States, and that they were influenced only by the advantages of the location, into which they examined with utmost care, refraining from signing the leases for the ground until they had satisfied themselves fully that they had reached the best possible solu tion of their problem. Easter comes early this year, but that only means the Kaster bonnet touch a little sooner than usual. THE AMERICAN WAY LLOYD GEORGE pays a splendid compliment to President Wil son when he says that it was he who insisted upon a supreme al lied war council in which should be concentrated full authority for the prosecution of the war. Lack of centralized control has .been the greatest weakness of the allies on every front since the war began. Perfect co-ordination of purpose and effort has been the Central Powers' greatest asset. With it, no such catastrophe as overtook Italy last fall would have occurred. Without it Germany would not have been able to withstand the hammer blows of the allies in the west. With It the allies will be able to hold out ngalnst all the pressure the Germans can bring to bear In the west. With out It there is no telling what might happen. The conditions demanded it as a first essential to allied suc cess. This is not England's war, nor France's war, nor Italy's war, nor America's war, but the war of all of them together and the interests and THURSDAY EVENING, ' HJLRRISBTJRG THLEGRXFHI FEBRUARY 21, 1018. personal ambitions of each must be sunk for the good ot all. The allied peoples care little for the nationality of the general or the army to whose prowess the Kaiser must finally kneel. What they want is victory by the shortest, easiest route and neVer mind who leads the charge. So, if President Wilson made the recommendation and insisted upon its adoption, the more credit to him. Petty European politics and army jealousies must give place to Amer ican efficiency and the allied war council is a good place to begin. Early strawberries have arrived, but we are not in position to say any thing concerning their flavor. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE SECRETARY BAKER informs us in his weekly review that the much discussed German offen sive on the West Front is about to be started. We are told that the Ger man forces are being mobilized for a "crushing blow." The attack is to be a "supreme effort." So be it, and the sooner the better. So far from hop ing that the Kaiser will make a half hearted effort to get through it should be the prayer of every friend of the allied cause that the Central Powers put every ounce of energy at their disposal into the attack. At all events, the French, the English and the American lines will hold them and the greater force put Into the blow the greater the reaction of failure will be upon the German armies and upon the muttering mass es back of the lighting lines. Here and there at the outstart the German onrush may dent the allied front. Here and there a hole may be punched in the first line defences. Our losses may, and probably will be. heavy. But the campaign will end just as Verdun ended, with the allied j lines tight and firm and the attack-1 ing forces battered and breathless. So let the German battering ram do its worst. Let its blow be as mighty as German power can make It. For after It has failed,-after the German armies have been pounded into a recognition of the fact that victory is hopeless, after the German workmen learn that there is nothing in sight but a long and losing war, then will come our turn> About the time his wife begins to talk houseeleaning, the average man commences to wonder why he didn't join a submarine crew last fall. MIX IT AT THE MILL THE American housewife is sore ly puzzled just now by the newly-enforced grain regula tions. How to use up the grain sub stitutes that must be purchased in equal quantities with white flour is causing her no end of worriment. For the most part she has not bought less flour, but has purchased the same amount of flour as formerly and the other meals, too. She has not yet learned the art of mixing and she is much distressed by conflicting desires to be patriotic and to serve her table with the accustomed tasty loaf of well baked bread. The answer to the difficulty Is not hard to find. It Is so simple that one wonders how Mr. Hoover missed it at the very outstart. It lies in mix ing the wheat flour with the substi tutes at the mills. Thus grain "slack ing" would be eliminated, for with nothing except mixed flours on the market there could be no opportu nity for dodging the food regulations. Our idea is that Scott Xearing is to the United States about the same thing as 8010 Pasha was to France— just before the verdict came in. SMART AND SNAPPY HARRISBURG policemen, for the first time in history, are to be properly clothed. The baggy blue uniforms with the big brass buttons are antiquated. They be long to the "rube constable" of the vaudeville stage. They never were in keeping with the dignity that ought to go with the office and they are a handicap to policemen trying to handle unruly prisoners. Mayor Keister has had the courage to depart from the established or der and the new dark gray whip cord uniforms, with leggings, will give the force a smart, snappy ap pearance that will make for self confidence, public respect and effi ciency. The wonder is that it was so long in coming. The Y. M. C. A. convention dele gates will find a real "Y" in Harris burg this year. YARNS ABOUT YARNS IT IS only a short time since that we scotched that He about the! ten dollar bill and the sweater. You remember the story. It told of a devoted mother sewing a green back in a sweater she had made for a soldier and of the sweater being sold and the money discovered in Steelton, Shickshinny or Shingle house, the place according to the geographical impulse of the repeater of the all-wool, whole-cloth, yard wide lie. It was an artful piece of German propaganda and a good many worthy people were fooled. These are not pleasant words, but that damnable story got wide cir culation and it took some plain speaking to down it. And now we are confronted with a story from Venango, county that anthrax is carried in yarns. An thrax has heretofore been trans mitted mainly through steer hidee. Yarn is made out of wool. Wool comes from sheep. Therefore, we are told, there is danger. The fact that yarn goes through numerous processes and is treated various ways, to say nothing of being dyed with chemicals that would slaught er more bacteria than a Hun could kill defenceless women and children in a year's campaign, is disregarded by,the credulous. Oh, stop the telN ing and writing of such stories. When the next disseminator of a story that would make some heart ache or start tongues buzzMig comes around use reason and tell the teller to cease from troubling. But the point is that this lie about the yarns is only a sample. There are lies galore. Not as many as we had to endure last fall. But still a superabundance. Employ common sense and ridicule the tel ler. If that will not stop the chat ter and the story is vicious or harm ful or the disseminator is persistent, use your telephone. You can figure out who to call up. in. *PtKKO ulc&HUi By the Ex-Committceman Democratic leaders who are rec ognized by the half dozen men who j run the Democratic machine in Pennsylvania will gather in Phila delphia to-morrow night for a gen eral powwow 011 Saturday about what to do in regard to a state ticket this year. Some of the leaders are said to be urging that names of men suggested be listed and that the con ference then adjourn to see how the contest lor the Republican nomina tion for Governor develops and what Governor Brumbaugh is going to say about the proposition for an extra session of the General Assembly when he gets home. It is intimated that some of the Democrats want nothing better than an extra session on apportionment because they figure no more prolific subject for a row could be Imagined, others are hoping against it for it will force some Democrats to go on record in regard to the liquor issue and widen the breach already exist ing in' the Pennsylvania Democracy on that proposition. One prominent Democrat is urging that the liquor question be soft pedalled In his party until the tip comes from the White House. There Is enough trouble In the Democratic party In the Key stone state over conflicting ambitions and distribution of patronage. —When the Democratic chieftains get together there will be a demand made by a number of influential up state leaders that National Chairman Vance C. McCormick be a candidate and he will be hailed as a Moses. It j is likely that Mr. McCormick will thcui announce that his nation needs him and the conference will pro- I ceed to pick some one else. The machine element is said to want Act ing State Chairman Joseph F. Guf- J fey, of Pittsburgh: the dry element District Attorney E. Lowry Humes with a few advocating ex-Judge W. E. Porter, of Lawrence county, who is, however, opposed as too close to J. Denny O'Nell to be safe for Democracy in case of some possi bilities; the highbrows would like to run William A. Glasgow, Jr., the eminent Philadelphia lawyer, while others seeking a spectacular candi date have been suggesting General C. Bow Dougherty. The support for the general seems to be mostly out side of his own county. —According to the Philadelphia Record there has been an effort made to get ex-State Treasurer Wil liam H. Berry back into the list of the politically active. This advo cacy of Berry comes chiefly from the dry element, which according to the Record, is still much Impressed with his value. The Record also says that as Berry comes from the same coun ty as Sproul. whom It considers as the likely Republican nominee, it would make an interesting contest. Secretary Wilson, says the Record, has been as firm in refusing to run as McCormick. —Senator Vare has sent word to his lieutenants that no man who voted Town Meeting will be permit ted to register or vote Republican at the primary. The Senator is as firm on this point as he is against an ex tra session. —Charges against Warden G. H. Schwartz, of the Berks prison, have stirred up the Democracy of that county. It can be depended upon to have a row as regularly as Phila delphia Republicans. . —Opposition to the plan for call ing an extra sessionof the Legisla ture for the purpose of acting on re apportionment or the dry amend ment seems to be dividing itself into four or five groups, although to be caftdid, the project is getting a lot of support among friends of the Govern or. The chief opposition is that it would not be good business to spend half a million dollars of state money at this time without larger objects, from a public standpoint, than sug gested; that reapportionment would start the old fight between country and city members because the 1910 census figures would give the two large counties more' representation; that it would force some men to go on record on the amendment, who would rather not be embarrassed and who would resent it; that it would call for votes on the liquor issue from men elected two years ago and who will be candidates again this year; that the subjects suggested for inclusion in the call would be numer ous and to leave out some would arouse antagonisms; that it might reopen the row between the Senate and the Governor over appointments and that it would make the Repub lican party divided when the national tendency is to get together. —One hard coal region man said whimsically last night; "Let them have that extra session. It would mean SSOO apiece and that would pay many a man's primary expenses. It would be like finding it." —The fact that there has been no hurrahing from the O'Neil camp for an extra session, is attracting com ment. If there should be an extra session William C. Sproul would vote dry and there would not be much to talk about. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin declares the extra session has "fallen Hat." The Bulletin, which is well informed on both the Penrose and Vare sides, pours an editorial broadside into the suggestion. The Altoona Tribune, owned by Colonel lleniA' W. Shoemake-, a member of the Governor's staff and one of Ills staunchest supporters warns the Governor against calling an extra session. Part of this editorial is re printed on this page. —Newspapers generally consider the Idea as ill conceived. There has been no support for it from any of the big newspapers of the state. —Departure of Chairman W. D. 15. Ainey, of the Public Service Com mission, for a two weeks' rest at Augusta has caused considerable speculation. The chairman has a number of devoted friends who still believe that the situation will come to a pass when the man from Sus quehanna will be recognized. They point out that he was confirmed without opposition last summer and that he represents elements which are bound to be heard from. Mr. Aincy and his friends have not been heard from on the extra session. —To-night's dinner of the Native Sons at Pittsburgh will be a dinner as Interesting as the recent O'Neil dinner In that city. Senator Sproul will be there and Congressman John It. K. Scott and Chairman Harry A. Mackey, of the Compensation Hoard, are also announced to at tend. THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT .... .... BYBRIGGS Ovrer tfu Ik ""pouau A Perfnsylvania boy with Per shing's expedition writes home that the French language greatly fasci nates the intelligent Yank and pre dicts that many a country boy will come back home with a good work ing knowledge of it. "For one thing it is so handy," says this enthusiast. "Only the other day one of the flying men sprung a new one, calls a chap that drives a tank, "tankeur," and that is catching on everywhere." Heck —"Yes, I have met your wife. In fact, I knew her before you mar ried her." Peck—"Ah! That's where you had the advantage of me—l didn't." It is to laugh when you hear this talk from pro-Germans that Ameri cans have no power of resistance. Out in the western part of the state an old man died who had lived in one hotel for forty-two years! Nature is wise and kind. A codfish lays 8,000,000 eggs in silence. If it cackled every time like a hen every body would have to wear ear muffs. For Prohibition Amendment Unusual significance attaches to the approaching primary election in Pennsylvania because of the question of overshadowing importance to come before the next Legislature: that of ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the manufacturer and sale of intoxicat ing liquor. The Chronicle Tele graph believes that amendment should be ratified, even though in taking this position it may seem to depart from its consistent ad vocacy of the right of each state to settle matters of this character for itself. The prohibition question, however, obviously has become u broadly national issue, a fact which, while accentuated by conditions aris ing from the war has been steadily impressing itself upon the intelli gence and conscience of the Ameri can people even in time of peace. The Chronicle Telegraph, therefore, admits no inconsistency in announc ing its vigorous support of the pro hibition amendment which is in keeping with its traditional hostility to the liquor traffic and accompany ing long train of evils. Advocates of prohibition should realize clearly that there is but one way in which to make their support effective and that is in the election of members of the Legislature who are pledged to vote for the amend ment. This may sound like a tru ism, but the warning is justified by the fact that in the past opponents of the liquor traffic have often failed to display practical common sense when they have had the chance to secure substantial reforms, sub stituting rhetoric for action. This question should be decided at the primaries. The Chronicle Tele graph will give its support to those candidates at the primaries who have declared themselves in favor of the prohibition amendment, will abide by the decision of the pri maries and urge the election of the nominees of the Republican party. The time for unite'd action of the prohibition forces is before the pri maries. Let us choose candidates pledged to prohibition an"d victory will be assurred.—Pittsburgh Chron icle Telegraph. AGAINST A SESSION The Tribune believes it vqices the opinion of a large majority of the citizens of Blair county, regardless of party affiliations, when it declares itself strongly opposed to an ex tra session at this time. No emerg ency of sufficient gravity exists to demand the imposition of such an expense upon the people who pay the taxes. There is little l likelihood that the session would be in any way fruitful of results. We all re member the last regular session, the general character of the majority, their antipathy to any really patrio tic, humanitarian and constructive work and the unsavory record they made. Why the Governor should wish to reassemble such a body wo do not understand. His faith in the inherent goodness of human na ture is a very lovely and benignant thing, but it is not shared by his fellow citizens of this Commonwealth and it would be a pity if he shou'.d call tgether this singular organiza tion only that he might be ridiculed and abused and his exalted views of the goodly possibilities of legislative human nature cruelty shattered. In the language of Punch, Governor Brumbaugh, "Don't!"—Altoona Trl , bune. LIARS MAGNIFICENT By MEREDITH NICHOLSON By Meredith Nicholson When we fought the Apaches it was always a problem for our sol diers to find them. They were enor mously cunning in hiding themselves in the hills; they were masters of camouflage before the word was in troduced into the military vocabu lary. The country is now beset by great numbers of Apaches who <lo not tight in the open but use weapons that range from casual innuendo to brazen lying. It is the business of all loyal Americans to protect the men who have valiantly undertaken to fight for us by land and sea from the consequences of the malicious speech of the Insidious enemies. The Kaiser has a long arm. His fingers tickle first one group in America and then another. Those who respond to his seductive arts will find money ready to aid them in their purposes. As in the old melodramas, it will be hidden In the roots of a certain tree down by the old bridge. Persons of German ancestry or birth who, not being against the Kaiser are against America; pacifists who advocate peace at any price; malevolent gos sips who lie about the Red Cross and its work; other liars who ait tempt to impede the success of Lib erty Loans under one pretext or another; all such are enlisted in the Kaiser's army of mendacity that is now at work to destroy the effect iveness of American arms irt the most righteous of all wars. Reports have lately been circulat ed that the American Government "GO AHEAD AND KNIT" It has often been rumored that the Navy Department does not wel come knitted garments for the sailors. Secretary Daniels denies the charge in a letter In the March Wo man's Home Companion. He says: "The Navy Department does, of courtse, furnish necessary clothing for the sailors, but the additional comforts which are provided by the women, working through the Red Cross Naval Auxiliary, are very ac ceptable to the men in the service and, in addition to the comfort which they afford, the men are cheered by the knowledge that the women at home have them in re membrance and are anxious to send these articles for their comfort. The Department is very glad indeed to have them and they are of real service and satisfaction to the men and are greatly prized by them." HOW EDISOtf JUDGES MEN If you have been regarding Edison as a genius and nothing else, you have been mistaken. The Vice- President of Thomas Edison, Inc., says in an article about Mr. Edison in the February American Maga zine: "No one knows or probably ever will know exactly what standards of judgment Mr. Edison employs in forming his preliminary Judgment of a man. There are treatises on the subject of character reading, but Edison would scorn to adopt the rules expounded in any of them. Whatever rules he uses are drawn from his own experience. Although partially deaf, Mr. Kdison has not cultivated the faculty of lip read ing. However, he is an expert read er of human faces. Very .possibly, he long ago decided that it is less im portant to read a man's words than to divine the intent behind them. lie is a close observer of men's eyes. Also, he appears to entertain a col lateral Interest in ears, chins, fore heads, and heads. "Thomas A. Edison's activities have brought him in contact with many men in various walks of life. He has sat at countless conferences, deaf and indifferent to the conver sational camouflage which most men use to mask their motives, and has studied faces, cataloguing each type, I think, and thus arrived at the standards of judgment which he now uses. This is merely my opinion. Perhaps Mr. Edison would not ad mit that his opinions of men are based on any such classification of his observations. Perhaps he is not even conscious of having made ob servations of this kind; but if you will cultivate reticence, study the faces of all the men you meet, and classify them by t>pes in the light of their subsequent acts. I am pretty sure that you will ultimately ac quire the habit of forming your preliminary estimate of a man very much as Mr. Edison gains his first impressions." is discriminating against the Catho lic Church. This is a typical lie. In my own city (Indianapolis) the Catholic Cathedral flies over its door daily a much-bestarred serv ice flag, and Catholic boys of my acquaintance have won commissions on their merits without any consid eration whatever of their religious belief. They themselves never thought of fetich a thing. But the Kaisers' agents have hit upon this as a means of spreading dissension. In Indianapolis we have had repeated evidence of the spiteful industry of tlje Red Cross liar. The Red Cross liar is the man or woman who says that money contributed to the Red Cross is? wasted; that somebody is making money out of Red Cross con tributions, or that hospital supplies are improperly or wastefully made. Another liar in the Kaiser's Ameri can army of liars spreads reports that our men in the cantonments are dying by thousands for lack of proper attention. The reports of the chief medical officer of the army are published constantly and are ac cessible to all. There is no foun dation, whatever for such stories. Watch for the Kaiser's liars'. Am erica has not yet been honeycombed with sedition as Russia was, but the work is going on. There is a great work to do in America to maintain its domestic security while the war proceeds to its triumphant conclus ion—futility of any red-handed war lord's attempt to world domination, and incidentally destroy lying as a fine art as it is directed from the high councils of Berlin. LITTLE TUBERCULOSIS Colonel Charles Dercle, French Medical Military Attache of the United States Surgeon-General's Of fice, has prepared a statement for the March American Magazine in which he says:' "Americans have been told that tuberculosis has ravaged the French troops, and that It will spread to the United States Army. The truth is that there is less tuberculosis in the French army to-day than there was among the French people before the war. > "When our soldiers were mobil ized in 1914 they hud been sleep ing, as was the custom in France, with closed windows. They had been working in shops and offices, where fresh air was a thing to be afraid of. They almost never took outdoor exercise. "The result was that some of them were tubercular. We took these men and put them into special hospitals. But the number of such cases has been exaggerated by Ger man propagandists. More than this, we soon found that a good many of them didn't have tuberculosis at all. They were merely below par physic ally. With proper treatment, they were soon fit to be put in the fight ing ranks. "Tuberculosis has steadily de creased in the French troops. Life in the open, plenty of exercise, regu larity in eating, and wholesome food have improved their health in this respect, as in others." Usury Forbidden Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother.—Deuteronomy, xxiii, 19. HE BEAT ME HOME When for a little walk we went. On errand or on pleasure bent, As we drew near our vine-clad gate, My alway-present walking mate Would slip his chubby hand from mine And, toddling on past shrub and vine, ' Would turn and say, with baby wit, "I beat 'oo home, a 'ittle bit." God was- so good to him and me As to permit our lives to be Like those of two frank, boyhood chums , ' Together solving life's hard sums. I, as the elder, sometimes knew Where in his path lay bog or slough So I might point It out in time To save him from the fall and grime. To-day some kind friends came and spoke Gently to me. And then awoke A slumbering memory of Then: 1 dreamed he was a babe again; That he before my feet had sped To reach our door a step ahead— Through trembling lips I whisper it, "He beat >m home —a little bit." —By Strickland Glllilan. LABOR NOTES Jamestown (N. Y.) Typographical Union lias secured an agreement which increases wages $3 a week. Trade union recognition is the first essential if employers would as sist in the minimizing of industrial dissatisfaction, says the Committee on Industry and Employment in New York City, affiliated with the Mayor's Committee on National Defense. To live as comfortably now as in 1914, working people in Philadel phia and vicinity are obligted to spend for bare necessities alone per cent, more than was need ed before the war, according to sta tistics by investigators for the Fed eral Department of Labor. Surveys in 15 states for the Na tional League of Women's Service showed that there were approxi mately 1.266,061 women in the United States engaged in essen tial war industrial work. Tn muni tions factories the estimates show 1.00,000 are employed as against 3,- GOO in 1910. When the United States entered the war one of the first acts of the President was to call the rep resentatives of labor in consultation, and on all the important Govern ment boards and commissions, as well as on numerous minor commit tees, labor is represented. The re sult is that all the forces of organ ized labor are with the President and backing him up in winning the war. OUR DAILY LAUGH i jfjjll IX HIS CLASS. •"I'm a man of few words." "Same here, I'm married, too." HOT "WATER. "Mr. Brown is ahvaya got ?'.Bgr into hot water." "Yes. He is so cold-blooded I sup pose it is a kind of relief." A POOR INVESTMENT. "Ho* did Gibson lose his money?" "He put It In his wife's name and then she divorced him." THERE'S A REASON. Hubby: I never realized you were •o tall before. Wife: I'm supposed to be—am I not your better half ? Butting (Sljat It is interesting to recall to-day when the state organization of the Young Men's Christian Association meets in our midst In commemora tion of its golden anniversary that Harrisburg has had a flourishing branch of the great international body for uplifting of the young men for sixty-four years. And one of the facts about the Harrisburg as sociation is that in all that period it has had but three locations. Many men prominent in affairs founded it and men active in the daily life ol' the city have always been prominent in its management as they a; - e to day. The association has lately en tered upon what is proving to be the most useful time of its existence and in its extension more people aro concerned to-day than ever before. The association was organized here four years after the first association was formed in Montreal. It is said to be the sixth oldest association in the world, a rather unioue distinc tion for the institution. It was rc/ni ed here on December 12. 18r>4 and its first home was in the Kelker building on Market Square. l'roni inent in its foundation was a num ber of men who have gone betftre, among them being Judge .John W. Simonton, who was an early secre tary; H. Murray Graydon, president; Dr. Jacob F. Seller, James McCOr mick, H. C. Fahestock, Uudolph f. Kelker, Henry A. Kelker, the Kev. Dr. Charles A. Hay, prominent in. Lutheran church affairs for years; J. Wesley Awl, the Rev. R. A. Catt leman, who was Episcopal rector; George Cunkle, the Rev. William Mooney, of the Church of God; Robert McElwee, Jeremiah Uhler, Charles Conner, K. S. German and A. W. Young. Among its secretaries were the two McConaughys, James and William, John Lynch, William Crow and Homer Black. After leav ing the Kelker building the associa tion was domiciled for a time in College Block and in 1877 it bought the Pennsylvania House at Second and Chestnut Streets, one of the famous hotels of the middle part of the century, and ten or twelve years later added to it the old residence in Second street. In 190- the present line home was started and dedicated in the fall of the fol lowing year. It has a record of good service in Harrisburg and has still better service to come for this com munity. • • Howard Markle Hoke, the short story writer, has written a story which appears in the March Ameri can and is so good that the editor goes out of his way to say that peo ple ought to read it and take the message to heart. Mr. Hoke has for the second time in the long series of stories he has written, and had pul>- | lished. used the Capitol as part of | the scene. It is a story of faith. While some would not expect to find I that spirit always strong in public j.service, it tells how Julie was, uncon querable in her love for the young j clerk who became a famous aviator [ in France, and in her belief that her ! prayers, that she might find h<!r alive i would be answered from on Illgli. There is quite a picture of life in a I State Capitol and maybe there is ! some fluttering over identifications j of the characters in the story among the folks on Capitol Hill. Julie goes ! from her typewriter to England anil | then to France to hunt her aviator, j who has not written for ever so long j and whom she feels she will find. The Capitol folks send her the I money to travel and when she al- I most fails in England, notwithstand ing some doubters, they send her on to France. Julie writes letter after letter, telling of her search, sub lime in her faith and telling of her long and after dispiriting hunt. It. is not hard to identify the kindly "chief" to whom she writes of her troubles nor the genorous spirits | that contribute to help her on. Fi | nally in Bordeaux, through an American family, she finds her wounded aviator. He has become famous —and crippled— but Julie signs herself as married. It's rather odd how quickly people get on the job when there is any thing new in sight. The other day it was announced that farm tractors are to be bought by the state for renting to farmers who have been embarrassed by shortage of labor and whose ilelds may run a chance of not being cultivated to the extent desired this summer. In the last twenty-four hours a number of calls have been made at the Capitol by men who want the tractors and want them as soon as the snow lias gone away. There will be a bigger demand for tractors than the state or any commercial or community organizations can supply inside of the next six weeks. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Col. Asher Miner, commander of the old Ninth Pennsylvania regi ment, is home from Camp Hancock on sick leave. —llarry K. Lathy, a Philadelphia government service man. has just celebrated forty-nine years in gov ernment service. —John Wanamaker. who has been in Florida, will start north in a short time. —Levi Li. Rue, Philadelphia bank president, has been spending a short vacation at the seashore. —G. W. A. Reichard, of Lehigh - ton, has been named as supervisor of war gardens for Carbon county. —B. A. Weisberger, prominent in Jewish circles in Scranton, will give up his business and go to France as an army clerk. DO YOU KNOW —That 'Harrisburg will be a headquarters for distribution of tractors by the big wnrcliouscs tills year? HISTORIC HARKISBTOG The first telegrams to come into Harrisburg were addressed to the Governor and Burgess and came from Philadelphia. The Line in Lorraine Lorraine means "Lotlialr's King dom," but certainly its most famous figure was that Duke of Lorraine. Godfrey of Bouillon, the hero of many fabled exploits, who was said to have cloven asunder the borlv of a Moslem emir with one stroke of his good sword, who was leader of the First Crusade, who saw the deliverance of Jerusalem and be came the. ruler of that Holy City wrested from paynim hands. Tho American soldier might do worso than swear "By Godfrey!" Whether we now hold a mile or five miles will presently be of no importance, for our expeditionary forces havo hut. made a beginning. A look at the map will satisfy any American how inlleh of the front line our men should be defending before very many months have passed.—From I the New Tork Sun.
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