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•THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1918
By my tasks of every day,
By the little words I say,
My allegiance I proclaim,
Prove my right to bear His name.
— George Klinqle.
HOW LONG?
THE immense outpouring of peo
ple at Chestnut Street Auditor
ium Monday night probably
the greatest In the history of the city
—shows how earnestly Harrisburg Is
taking its part in the war and the
frequent outbursts of approval dur
ing Mr. Heinz's appeal for conser
vation of food clearly indicated that
the people of this city mean to do
their full share In saving provisions,
that our soldiers and our allies may
—•have enough to eat.
We are a patriotic people, willing
to go as far as any to help win the
war and passionately desirous of per
forming our full measure of duty to
the Government. But many of us
have been wondering why, with a
grain famine In prospect and the
ration card more than a probability.
President Wilson .continues to per
mit millions of bushels of grain to be
wasted in the manufacture of beer.
Buy a single stroke of the pen he
oould save all this food for the hun
gry people of the world, for Con
gress at his own request has placed
that authority in his hands. How
long are we to see our dinner tables
robbed? It is passing strange that
the restaurant keeper who is lim
ited in the amount of grain prod
ucts he may serve a customer may
dole out to the same man unlimit
ed quantities of beer, in the making
Of which grain is the principal in
gredient, and which has little or no
food value.
Smallpox, quarantine and vaccina
tion, and there are those of us be
nighted enough to feel that the worst
of these Is vaccination.
THE $2,000 DRIVE
+1 "\HK Kiwanis club having under
jJL written the $2,000 which the
Salvation Army is seeking to
mise in Harrisburg for war work
there la no question about the mon
ey being subscribed. The object is
■worthy and the club was justified in
fathering it.
The Salvation-Army is doing very
much the same kind of work in
Franco for the English Army as the
Y. M. C. A is doing for Americans.
Jt is BO well established there that
Jts officers rank with the army offi
cers, mess with them and are quar
tered with them, and the men and
•women in the ranks are under gov
ernment orders and are part and
parcel of the military establishment.
The Army can and is prepared to do
Just as Important work for the
United States, although of a little
different character. The sum asked
la modest, in comparison with other
war service demands, but it 1B all
"the Army leaders believe Is needed
at this time, BO they have limited
their requests.
Three years from now we shall be
pondering how we ever for a moment
doubted that Germany would be
Whipped out of her boots.
' A GREAT~RAIJLY
TIE appearance hero, March 8,
of the English Labor Commis
sioners, under the direction of
the Harrisburg Central Labor Union,
promises to be a notable event. It
should be. These English commis
sioners come to this country as kin#
for our support and sympathy, and
to tell us that no matter what Ger
man propagandists may tell us, Eng
lish labor la solidly behind the gov
ernment and determined that the
war shall not end until German
■militarism has been laid low.
The English labor leaders have
"been at crips with this autocracy
ever since the war started. They
know that if the allied line breaks
there will be no place in the allied
world for a labor union—the Kaiser
Vill see to that. They also know
thwX labor's one great chance for
.Advancement Ilea in a victory for
•democracy.
There English leaders have gone
{through their days of uncertainty
THURSDAY EVENING.
and cfoubt, but they have decided
right, for they have come to realize
that If they stand fast and help win
the war they will be in position to
reap their share of the benefits that
will come to humanity from the vic
tory. They are looking to a new
order of things in Europe after the
war, in which labor and capital will
work side by side as partners, not
as bitter rivals.
This Is the message the English
visitors will bring. It will be worth
any man's time to hear it from their
own lips. And if those who are ar
ranging for the meeting succeed in
bringing to the city Howard Heinz
for an address from the same plat
form, the rally will be a remarkable
gathering, indeed.
These Englishmen are far from
the "peace-at-any-price" stripe of
delegates who have been misrep
resenting labor here and elsewhere.
They are of the Gompers type, and
Gompers it was who sent this mes
sage to the German element who re
cently wanted him to meet them in
an international conference: "You
can't talk peace with us now. You
can't talk international conferences
with us now. Either you smash
your autocracy, or, by the gods, we
will smash it for you. Before you
talk peace terms, get back from
France,' get back from Belgium, In
to Germany, and then we will talk
peace."
This is the voice of American
'labor, which is standing loyal and
sturdy in the trying times through
which we are passing. But any man
is the stronger for being told by
competent authorities that his
course is right and patriotic, and
American workmen wherever
these Englishmen speak will be the
better for their visit.
l-iieutenant Sutton says "the Turks
fought like civilized beings," but it's
just possible this was before they met
up with any Germans.
THE SOUTHERN SLAVS
ELSEWHERE on this page ap
pears the letter of a Steelton
Croatian, explaining why the
Southern Slavs, the Slovenes, the
Croats and the Serbs are hoping for
an allied victory that will free
Austria from the dominion of Ger
many, and givo them the freedom
to which they are entitled. The
position is not without justification.
According to the official statistics of
1910, which are said to have been
touched up very considerably to the
detriment of the Slavs, more than 45
per cent, of the population of Aus
tria-Hungary are -Slavs, numerically
exceeding the Germans and Mag
yars put together; but in spite of
this, the Dual Monarchy has as
signed a dominant position to the
Germans and Magyars. The South
ern Slavs number seven and one
half millions and inhabit a contin
uous block of territory stretching
from the Istrian shores to the Drina,
and they have absolutely nothing in
common with German imperial as
pirations and long for the day when
they shall be fre# and independent
to decide their own fate in theit tiUti
way. So they are hoping and fight
ing, tpo, where opportunity offers,
for the allies and many of them have
joined the American army.
The Croatians, as we have known
them in Steelton, have always been
proud, prosperous and thoroughly
desirable neighbors, ready to serve
in all manner of neighborhood and
national movements for the better
ment of conditions, and they are as
one with American people when
they stand for liberty and a free
government.
We ought to be endeavoring to
make these people understand that
we appreciate their feelings and sym
pathize with them. They are in no
sense "alien enemies" and should
not be treated as such. They are
first class material for American
citizenship and we should set about
showing them that we want them
as such.
Too often we think of the new
comer from Europe as a "foreign
workman," a cog in the big indus
trial machine, and let it go at that,
forgetful of the fact that our own
ancestors were in his place not so
many generations back that their
coming has been lost in the anti
quities of history. The foreigner in
general, and the Croatian in parti
ciflar, is an American citizen In the
making. All that he requires is at
tention, direction along proper chan
nels, sympathy and a carefully cul
tivated feeling that he is a part of
this big country, and that we want
him to be one of us, not merely one
amongst us. Americanization of the
! newcomers from Europe is one of
1 the biggest services any community
I ran render the nation.
THE Y. M. C. A.
CAREFUL perusal of the annual
report of the Harrisburg Y. M
C. A. indicate that it will not
| be very long before the association
! building will be too small to meet
I the demands of a rapidly-growing
Under the direction of
General Secretary Reeves the or
ganization has enjoyed wonderful
prosperity and as the members have
increased the plant has been im
proved and made more attractive.
But there is a limit to what can
be done In this direction and after
the war, when the return of the sol
diers will take hundreds into the
association, big additions will have
to be made to the present structure.
It must have a new gymnasium, a
new boys' department and a swim
ming pool, at least I
These enlargements are for the
moment out of the question. . But
they are matters for the manage
ment to consider md no doubt the
new president, Arthur D. Bacon, will
see to It that steps are taken when
the time is ripe.
After noting the thickness of the
ice coming down the river, we are
ready to admit that the "old-fashioned
winter" was no mere local affair.
£k
By the Ex-Commltteeman
"It is just barely possible that
old man Berry may get it into his
head that he has been called this
year and in spite of the comfortable
federal Job he holds as collecfor of
the port of Philadelphia, decide to
run for the Democratic nomination
for governor" was the rather sur
prising statement made here this
morning by one of the best-posted
men on the currents that run and
run into the Pennsylvania Democ
racy. "You see this is a peculiar
year. The Democrats are split up
the back over the liquor issue, and
Berry has never yet gotten away
from the idea that he should be gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. McCormick
was one of his chief backers in 1910
and Berry thinks this is his year
again. Whether he will buck Mc-
Cormick is what is Interesting the
folks."
—The Denjocracy of Pennsylvania
Is split and the reorganization crowd
seems to have a subdivision. The
machine elements want Acting State
Chairman and Petroleum Admini
strator, Joseph F. Guffey, Pittsburgh
gas magnate in private life, for
gubernational nomination, but some
of the fellows who run the machine
have misgivings about what the act
ing chairman thinks of the prohibi
tion amendment and would prefer
to have an out and out "dry" man as
their choice. This- division of opin
ion prevented any decided action at
the week-end powwow in Philadel
phia. Men like DeWalt and Sarig,
who hail from anti-prohibition dis
tricts, shid that the question of pro
hibition had to be met and the voci
ferous "dry" man began to shout.
There must bo considered, too, the
Old Guard element with such men
as Col. "Jim" Guffey. uncle of the
acting chairman; Judge John M.
Garman, of Wilkes-Barre; Charles
P. Donnelly, of Philadelphia, and
other skillful men of another day
who have seen many changes and
been changed and short changed.
They have been on the outside grind
ing their teetli for some years; but
are reported to be grinding axes
now.
—Berry is said to hope that he will
be loudly called by the "dry" people.
He is strong with some elements and
his friends are saying that he can
make better combinations than Guf
fey and that he is an old and ex
perienced campaigner, better known
and has his own organization to
supplement that of the state ma
chine. The bosses want Guffey, but
fear to make Berry lukewarm, and
they certainly don't want to get thei
Old Guard out again.
■ —The contest for the vacancy in
the prothonotaryshop in York county
has narrowed down to McClean
Stock and Ffx-Representatlve Robert
S. Frey. The appointee will serve
three years. J. J. Gerry, deputy
prothonotary, is not a candidate and
there does not appear to be much
support for Jacob Hay. Banking
Commissioner Lafean will name the
man to get the plum.
—Things are going to be interest
ing in Montgomery county this
spring. With Representative James
S. Boyd and Insurance Commis
sioner Ambler, contending for the
senatorial nomination, the 'county
will be pretty nearly a storm cen
ter of state-wide interest and Charles
Johnson's organization will be
put to the test. The entrance of
Representative F. W. Stites into the
contest for Congress against Con
gressman H. W. Watson, means an
other battle royal. Mr. Johnson
said this week that he expected a
very lively spring and was ready
for it.
—in Lebanon there -are rumors
that E. E. McCordy, former district
attorney of Lebanon and noted
"dry" advocate man, enter a legisla
tive contest. He has long been a
"dry" man and his friends would
like to see him in the battle in the
great year. Prof. H. H. Shenk, is
also talked of, but it is hard to be
lieve he would forsake his congenial
place on the Hill. I. S. Zimmerman
and Representative I. H. Urich are
candidates already. There is some
interest in Asa A. Winer's prohi
bition attitude.
—The coming primaries will de
termine whether the Old Guard or
the Brumbaugh forces are to hold
control of the Republican organiza
tion in Luzerne county, and it prom
ises to be an open battle between
the forces led by County Chairman
Clarence D. Coughlin and the lead
ers of the Penrose people. Since
Coughlin was named chairman three
years ago, there has never been a
very friendly feeling between his fol
lowers and the organization men.
Coughlin was at one time a Roosevelt
follower and he joined the reform
forces in Luzerne and made a cam
paign for Congress some years back.
When he was placed in the chair
manship the purpose was to bring
all forces together in a spirit of har
mony, but that went the way of an
other celebrated harmony place.
—The appropriation resolution
providing for a salary of $6,000 an
nually for a Councilmanic investi
gator" became a law in Pittsburgh
when six members of Council, in
cluding Maj. J. P. Kerr, voted to
override the Mayor's veto on
j this particular measure. City Soli
citor Stephen Stone, in an In
terview yesterday, said he had as
signed an assistant city solicitor to
the task of ascertaining whether or
not Major Kerr was eligible to vote
at yesterday's session in view of his
enrollment on Saturday as an officer
in the United States Army.
COUNTRY AND MOTHER
Patriotism and pathos, love of
country and of kin are appealing
ly manifested in an extract from the
letter of ' a young soldier that is
given in the Galesville, Wis., Re
publican. Writing to his younger
brother, who had stayed at home
with their widowed mother, he said:
"Don't think I enlisted because I
did not want to help you in caring
for mother. You "Know both of us
have the spirit that every loyal
American should have—our country
first. While I am in the army, learn
ing to do my bit, you fere doing Just
as much as I, and you will be bless
ed for it.
"It's just like this: I am fighting
for our country and you are taking
care of mother, and the twq impor
tant things are our country and our
mother. So it is up to us to do it.
By this I don't mean that you are
to bear all the expense, for I airi
going to send you all I can. You
stay close to mother now, and. If
the good Lord wills it, I will come
back, and then you can go out into
the world, and I will stay at home
with mother until the end."—From
the Youth's Companion.
Tools and the Man
The proper epic of this world is
not now "Arms and the Man;" how
much less, "Shirt Frills and the
Man;" no, it is now "Tools and the
Man;" that henceforth to all time
is now our epic.—Carlyle.
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BRIGHTEN THE CORNER I
■Do not wait until some deed of great
ness you may do.
Do not wait to shed your light afar.
To the many duties ever near you
now be true,
Brighten the corner where you
are.
CHORUS.
Brighten the corner where you are!
Brighten the corner where you!
are,
Someone far from harbor you may
guide across the bar,
Brighten the corner where you are.
Just above are clouded skies that
you may help to clear,
Let not narrow self your way debar,
Tho' Into one heart alone may fall
your song of cheer,
Brighten the corner where you are.
• f LABOR NOTES
The servant question in England
has become very acute, owing to the I
fact that over 300,000 female domes
tics have turned their attention to
munition work.
Officers of the Retail Clerks' In
ternational Protective Association!
report that eighty charters have
been issued during the last twelve
months.
The Bricklayers', Plasterers' and
Masons' International Union at its bi
ennial convention selected Akron,
Ohio, as the next convention city.
Members of the United Mine Work
ers must raise SBOO,OOO for bonds to
appeal a $600,000 verdict against
them in an Arkansas federal court.
At Toronto, Canada, all retail gro
cery, butcher and fruit stores will
close at 7 p. m. on weekdays, except I
Saturdays and evenings preceding
public holidays.
The shipbuilding industry of Can
ada is growing rapidly, and with It
the growth of organization and a
demand for an Increase of wages and
for better conditions.
Dr. John Dewey, of Columbia Uni
versity, New York City, urges com
pulsory vocational education for all
persons between the ages of 18 and
20, together with military training.
Who Wakes the Bugler?
Philosophers who piped in rosy
peace days on "Which arrived first,
the egg or the chicken?" might well
train all their wits, now that war is
about us, upon the cantonment
mystery: Who wakes the bugler?
Have you considered the problems
wjhich his job entails? He isn't
even allowed an alarm clock. His
only harbor is the guard. And the
guard is human. What if he should
forget the bugler! It Is more hor
rible to contemplate than what
would have happened had there
■been no one around when the stars
and the suns and earths were wait
ing in the wings for the call boy to
warn them when their act was due.
And, too. If you wish to push the
discussion back and back beyond
stars and suns, who wakes the
guard!— From the New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
Song of the Pantry Shelf
"Who'll win the war?"
"I" said the wheait,
"I'll put men on their feet."
'T'said the wheat.
"Who'll win the waV?"
"I"sald the corn
"If man will not me scorn."
"If said the corn.
"Who'll win the war?"
"I" said the rye,
"Just eat me and try,"
'T'said the rye.
"Who'll win the war?"
"I" said the rice,
"Wheat's not half as nlcs!"
"I" said the rice.
"Who'll win the war?"
'T'said the fruit,
"Would you my worth dispute?"
"I"said the fruit.
All the cereals on the shelf.
Sent a song In the air.
When they heard that the wheat
would be shipped "over there"
And they all rattled their bags and
cried
"Billy! Beware!"
—Edna Groft Delhi, Paxtangr, pa.
THE PEOPLE'S
COMMUNITY SINGING
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The gradual petering out, the slow
lingering death of choral societies
and of formal choral organizations
over all the country has caused
much discussion and has brought
forward many conjectures as to the
reasons for the lethargy and decay
of these singing societies. Frank
Damrosch, America's most prom
inent director, gave the writer a
few days ago as his opinion, the re
markable circulation among all
classes, of music making machines.
The having at all times "ready
made" music on tap, so to speak,
obviating the necessity of making
it! However much opinions may
differ, the essential thing is that
choral organizations of the old type
are dying or are dead and from their
remains, arises the more democratic
community singing. May I lend my
voice in the appeal to Harrisburg to
organize choruses of this kind?
Opinions of their artistic merit
may and do differ, but the necessity
for expression In humans finds a
legitimate'and line means in these
so called "sings."
The appointment of specialists to
train and direct the vocal efforts of
the men in army cantonments is
significant in that it is a recognition
by the government of the value of
mass singing as a means of creating <
unity and solidarity.
The meeting together of people in
all walks of life and their co-opera
tion in song, causes a condition of
mind well known to students of
"mob" psychology which can be
made a most potent force in civic
life. According to Emerson, one of
the offices of this age is to annul the
divorce between the lovers of truth
and the lovers of goodness. Let us
hope that it will also succeed in ana
nulling the divorce between all th*
higher interests of life, and make
us vividly realize that they belong
together; that they are at their best
only when they function together;
and that wo can neither do without
them, nor with any one of them
alone. An art that is only for art's
sake isolates itself, becomes unin
telligible, fantastic, irrele% - ant and
repellant. Community singing is a
step In these divorce proceedings
and anything which will make
music part of the life of the average
individual ia assuredly worth try
ing.
NEWELL ALBRIGHT.
WAR ON DINNER PAIL
To the Editor cf the Telegraph:
I listened with deen concern to
the addresses delivered at the great
mass meeting In the Chestnut street
auditorium.
I sincerely trust and pray that the
vast assembly may have its con
science incited as was its consciou
ness, and that the speeches may be
come living flesh and pure red blood
to every one who was present.
My soul was thrilled to its very
tender spot; but not nearly so deep
ly as it was yesterday morning while
listening to an humble employe . of
one of the iron industries of Harris
burg.
He said, "I get angry when I see
the awful waste of food in the place
I work. At lunch time many of the
employes eat their meals in a hurry.
Some take a bite or two of a sand
wich and then throw the rest away,
and some throw under the benches
whole huns, rolls, sandwiches and
slices of bread. What is thrown
away would feed many hungry
ones."
No doubt, what many so wantonly
waste what Is so desperately needed
do so without thinking what it
means to starving thousands.
Those who have charge of the
great movement to fight in this war
this side of the trenches should at
once begin war against tho willful
waste of the contents of the dinner
pail.
Wives and boardlnghouse mis
tresses should consult the men con
cerning the food, and ask whether
less wheat food and meat food
would suffice. If they had more than
was absolutely necessary not to
waste it, but leave It in the pail, or
to share it to other men whose pails
may have a deplorable lacking.
C. D. RISHEL,
Pastor, Beal Avenue Church ot God.
Enola, Pa., February 26, 1918.
Precautionary
"My!" said Mrs. Cornier, Inspect
ing her friend's house, "why do you
have such a high bed for your little
boy?"
"So we can hear him if he falls
out," replied Mrs. Housler. "You
have no Idea what heavy sleepers my
I husband and I are."—From Truth.
WHERE CROATIANS STAND
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Recent developments in Austria-
Hungary as brought to light by the
press of this country have again
proved the fact that that nation can
not much longer endure In its pres
ent form of tyrannous ruling over a
multitude of Slavs, who compose the
bulk of her population.
AVe find in these brief news items,
which happen to "slide by" the offi
cial censor that the entire Slav pop
ulation is not merely asking, but de
manding liberation from the dual
monarchy.
There is a people ruled by Aus
tria-Hungary, which now sufllers,
unknown to the world, such perse
cutions and extermination as have
never yet been found in the civilized
world. These are not common, every
day persecutions and imprisonments
such as are daily perpetuated upon
other Slavic people In the Austria-
Hungarian monarchy. They are
systematic and ruthless extermina
tions, carried out according to a
specific plan upon a gifted race.
These unknown sufferers are the
Southern Slavs, of Austria, the
Croatians, Serbs and Slovenians,
whose only crime in the eyes of the
Austro-Hungarian administration is
that they desire justice, freedom,
I progress and civilization, and that
they love their own national lang
uage and their own national tradi
tions.
The hopes of the Southern Slavs
are that the end of this great war
will find them united in a country
of their own desire, that never again
shall a known foe rule upon them.
The history of the Southern Slavs
from the most ancient times prove
the fact that they are one and the
same people, that their desires are
• one, that the downfall of one would
be the ruination of the other.
Those of the Southern Slavs who
are at present in Austria are unable
to express their wishes in regard to
their unity, but there is no doubt
this wish Is in their hearts, and for
this they are enduring every imagin
able outrage at the hands of the
Austro-Hungarian authorities. They
are being robbed, hanged, shot and
thrust into the forefront of the bat
tle against the brothers of their own 1
race.
This unparalleled suffering of the
whole Southern Slav nation has
done more than anything else to
create the moral unity of all the
Southern Slavs.
And, therefore, all of the South
ern Slavs hope and trust that when
the day of victory dawns for the
Allies over the Central powers, it
will also be the moment of victory
for all that they most ardently de
sire for the Southern Slav unity will
be realized and the Southern Slav
state created, and this has been
their dearest dream for many cen
turies.
I am writing this message to the
people of Harrisburg so they can
easily see where the Croatlons stand
in the war.
A STEELTON CROATIAN.
THANKS THE TELEGRAPH
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Permit me to express our deepest
appreciation for the generous way in
which you have given your space in
furtherance of the Jewish War Suf
ferers Campaign in Harrisburg.
American Jewry is under a great
obligation to you for this noble serv
ice.
Cordially yours,
LOUIS MARSHALL,
Chairman.
A Sneer
I declare to you I think a sneer is
the worst thing Ood has not made.
—George Mac Donald.
THE SOLDIERS
Who is a soldier of Old Uncle Sam?
Not the man in the trenches alone.
But the boy and the girl who'll save
the wheat bread,
And fill up on good old corfc pone.
Who is the fellow who's true to his
flag.
Not only the man wh<f will fight.
But the kid who will cut out the
pies and the cakes.
And on cereal eating unite.
Who is the chap who will kill Kaiser
Bill.
And make the world happy once
more?
Not only the chap who goes "over
the top"
But the kid who for candy won't
roar!
—Edna Grolt Delhi, Pax tang, Pa.
•' FEBRUARY 28, T*ra
Over the
Ik ""pwtiuu
Waynesboro. Pa., Feb. 27. —"The
elements were In a very riot of pan
demonium. early yesterday morning.
The heavens opened and the earth
rocked on its foundations. Follow
ing the mad carnival of Jupiter Plu
vius; Aeolus emerged from his cave
and broke loose in an awful satur
halia of tumult and disorder." The
Telegraph doffs Its chapeau to its
Waynesboro correspondent. When
the Homeric gods get on a spree no
human words avail to describe it.
His dilemma reminds of the Chicago
reporter who was sent out to get
about ten columns of a flood which
drowned some four hundred per
sons. "Can get no news," he wired
back, "all in confusion."
Social Editor:—-"Dear Madame, I
am engaged to the dearest man in
the world, and I Just want to know
from you, whether or not It would
be proper to ask him for my en
gagement ring." Our own notion
about this is that the lady should,
because a Harrisburg judge has just
decided that the maid is entitled to
the ring, even if the engagement ia
broken, so that an engagement
sparkler is always a first class in
vestment.
• •
"Hazel Dyke was on the rampage
again, tearing things up and getting
residents of the southern section of
the city into a frenzy of alarm." The
Lebanon paper had us guessing until
we discovered that Hazel is not that
sort at all, but a very respectable
dam, temporarily upset by melting
snow and heavy rainfall.
Warning to the Kaiser
If the Kaiser doesn't make haste
and lead with his divine right, the
Allies may swing on him with" their
left.—Chicago Tribune..
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
' fp 5 " ON THE
' \ A. BOARDWALK.
L. The Baby
==== J. Gee! The way
r things look
around here I've
£ fcr 4Plm \ KOt to be P ushod
! übCW'APb around in one of
017 them things all
P my life.
UQRANGt-ADEL|
NOT BY THE jCr 1
SKIRT. j&P
Saw a girl on
the street today jl h
In a bathing suit. ifrij
How could you ■rKT T j ]) s
tell it was a bath- W vPI J
lng suit ? E—M 3.11
n~T"lag. How Ou your
l n employers stand
on qu®® 110 " 1
mk, t l preparedness.
{lll yjl LJ They're for It,
P , /7 77 aII rlght - They
s ' c ®p a 'i ay at
jf ' F HH the office so they
* Hb c&n danco nt
■NOUGEt SAID, /til] T\\i\
Does the world
owe you & living?
Oh, no—l col-
lected mine! 7) B ( 1 TJ I
Why, I'm a
batik president. / w _
HIS LATEST
TRICK.
What became
p of the rock the
J) boat fool friend
He's got a new
trick now. He
ri- rUes a motor-
cycle and tries t
see how small a
break In the
traffic he can
dash through.
Birotag Cgtyalj
The Income tax appears to have
come as a good bit of a shock to
many people, and It was probably
a good thing that Uncle Sam ex
tended the time for filing reports.
Otherwise, the offices of the revenue
collectors would have been swamped
with requests for extensions and a
lot of people would have faced fines.
The average man appears not yet te
have grasped the fact that he owes
a report to the government on what
ho maltes. Judging from what peo
ple say in the trolley cars, the in
come tax is still regarded as some
thing which pertains only to the
wealthy, and the fact that every
single man who makes SI,OOO and
every married man who makes $2,-
000 a year have to pay taxes, has •
not permeated. Neither has the very
important provision of the law that
every corporation or firm that em
ploys a man or woman, who makes
SBOO or over, must file a statement,
been generally grasped. When men
who would have considered it a
compliment a few years ago to have
been put in the income tax paying
class, realize that they have arrived
it Is rifther amusing. In the last
year, the earnings of many men,
especially those engaged in piece
work, have advanced materially and
there are mechanics, who would
have snorted at the suggestion of
their ever having to pay a tax on
Incomes, who are now well within
the class. One of tho men connected
with the Revenue Service said yes
terday in talking about the income
tax, that he sincerely hoped that
every man would make It his busi
ness to find out what the law requir
ed of him. "Tho government has
provided places for asking questions
and is anxious to help in every
way," said he.
* •
One of the most amusing inci
dents with the "awakening" of men
to the fact that they are in the plu
tocratic class that must file returns
came the other day in a trolley car.
It was filled with railroad men and
they have been doing pretty well in
the earning line. As most of those
on the car were married men they
did not worry, but there was one
man who was single and who had
been making pretty fair pay. He
"Joshed" about incomo tax.
"I ain't in that class. What's
wrong with you fellows?" said lis.
The crowd began to quiz him on
what he made and he gave some
figures.
Then ready mathematicians in
the crowd added it up and showed
the engineer where he landed. His
terminal was within the taxing zone
and well within It.
"Say, old scout, what did you
make?" suddenly demanded the
plutocrat of a man near him.
The man carefully scanned a book
and told him.
"Now add what you said you got
from that farm you brag abput and
come on in: the water's fine" shout
ed the plutocrat.
And the whole car roared.
It turned out afterwards that only
two or three in the car knew what
they had made last year, but they
did some shrewd guessing.
• • *
The State Department of Agricul
ture has completed a series of In
teresting studies about plowing
and gives this data: "The average
depth of plowing in Pennsylvania is
6.7 inches in fall work and 6.5 Inches
in spring. Only In four other states
Is the average depth of fall plow
ing as great as that of the Pennsyl
vanian and seven states show deeper
plowing in the spring."
•
It is not generally known that Dr.
Samuel G. Dixon, the state's la
mented commissioner of health, at
one time thought seriously of buy
ing a residence in Harrisburg. Dr.
Dixon made his home for a time in
the Harrisburg club, and later at a
private residence in Front street,
taking rooms after he had given up
the idea of removing to this city.
The commissioner, who was a splen
did type of the wealthy scholar in
public service, was also a very keen
businessman and realized the value
of property in Harrisburg. lie was
thoroughly well posted on the pos
sibilities of this city and the region
round about and often remarked
upon the fact that this city was
bound to grow. "When Harrisburg
starts to expand" said he upon one
occasion, when he had taken a walk
over the upper part of the city and
had covered enough ground to make
his companion wish that he would
stop and rest "look out for the
growth. It will grow rapidly and
make a lot of money, for the people
who have the ground. Both fides of
the river to the mountain will be
taken up some day."
• •
Dr. Dixon loved to work, but he
also loved to walk. He would be at
his office in the Capitol until late at
night, long after everyone had goie
home and be around the first thing
in the morning, often embarrassing
ly early. The commissioner walked
systematically. He would start out
In the morning to take a walk over
some feection of the city he had not
visited before and arrive at the office
glowing and filled with energy. And
in the afternoon after .doing about
twice an ordinary man's work, he
would walk a couple of miles and
then go back In tho evening and do
another day's work. A friend who
used to drop In and visit the com
missioner in the evenings and chat
with him, once remarked upon the
remarkable knowledge he had of
Harrisburg. "Well, I know the
country around my home, and I re
gard Harrisburg as a' home, too. A
know what it is going to be an<
want to help it to be a model in
sanitary way and to watch its other
Improvements by the best for tli*
conservation of life and health."
said the commissioner. "When the
time comes, I am going to know Just
what Is needed and how It caa h#
done."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Ex-Speaker George E. Alter Is
rejoicing in the advent of a new son.
—Tho Hev. Alexander McClurg,
new Presbyterian clergyman at
Washington, comes from Toronto.
• —A. R. Hamilton, Pittsburgh coal
man, has been elected head of one
of tho big producers associations In
western Pennsylvania.
—Major W. I. Forbes, Philadel
phia Guardsman who went from the
Reserve Militia into tho Army Cav
alry, will go to Fort Sam Houston.
—-C. F. Cralne, Wilkes-Barre trac
tion man, has resigned to go Into
business in the South.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg sells steel
products to Cuba?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first almshouse in this county
was a model of the kind for coun
ties hereabouts.