6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XBIVSPAPER rOR THE HOME Founded list Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlac, Federal Saaare. E.J. STA CK POLE, Pris't & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GCS M. STEINMETZ. 'Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American llshers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and p ® nt |" Eastern 0^ flce> Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second rlasji matter. SgBB By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918 Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 1 thank whatever gods there be, For my unconquerable soul. —WM. HENLEY. TIME FOR JOINT ACTION THE man in the audience cannot always know what is passing behind the scenes, and for that reason criticism of the administra tion's policy of delay in agreeing to co-operate with Japan for military operations in Siberia may be out of place, but judging from what ap pears on the surface it is difficult to understand why the government is not ready and willing to shift some of its Philippine reserves to Siberia to co-operate toward ridding that territory of Germans who are now threatening the huge depots of American military stores at several points along the trans-Siberian rail road. It would appear that we have everything to gain and nothing to lose by such a policy. It is true that the Bolsheviki might not relish such a course, but the occupation of the territory might easily be placed on the basis of a friendly effort to protect the inter ests of a former ally threatened by the armies of a hostile power. At all events, Russia would be divided on the subject. While the German sympathizers and those who favor peace at any price might object, countless staunch Russians would be only too happy to have the Japanese and an allied army come in from the east to stay the triumphant march of the Germans into their country. Doubtless such an expedition as the Japanese propose would attract to it large detachments of Russian troops now looking in vain for an anchor age. At all events, if the allies do not go into Siberia with the Japanese, the Japanese may be expected to go alone, and once in on their own ac count there may be some trouble getting them out. Xo, Maude, dear, not all the sausage balloons belong to the Germans. TRAINING THE IDEA MEN who have been following the home defense organiza tions throughout this State have expressed considerable admi ration for the manner in which the majority of the men in the Harris burg Reserves have maintained their work, especially in view of the dis couragements encountered through lack of heat and light in the Armory. In about half of the towns where these organizations were formed, drills were suspended when reai winter started and in Philadelphia, ■where 5,000 men were enrolled, fur nished with uniforms and rifles, there is a howl going up because the attendance at drills has been irreg ular. Some Philadelphians have expressed doubts as to what to do with the organization upon which so much money was spent, now that the police force is up td its max imum and the Reserve Militia is be ing mustered in. These home defense organizations sprang yp through the desire of citizens to be ready for any call for home service, whether at the sum- mons of the sheriff or the chief of police." They Worked hard and in many cases spent much money; authorities encouraged them and promptly forgot them. The Reserve Militia is getting ready for home de fense and to suppress possible dis order. Cut the Reserve Militia can not train the drafted men and neither does it hurt to have a line behind the men who wear the State's green uniform. It would seem that there is a very definite place for these defense organiza tions which came into being when the country was unprepared* They can keep on training the men with gray in their hair and youngsters at home and at the same time fur nish good wholesome exercise. They can instruct the young men of draft age in the "rudiments," so that they will not go to camps "greenhorns." Furthermore, these Home Guard or ganizations are made up of men who are in earnest, many of them SATURDAY EVENING, HABIUSBURG fgfrtTO TELEGRAPH STARCH 2, 191?. property owners, and they have gone through a lot of "kidding," too. What they can do to help authority in a quiet way when disloyalty starts to mutter should not be overlooked. i If Mr. Hindenburg wonts to make i good his promise to be in Paris by 'April 1, he might have some German j aviator drop him from an airplane J some dark night. BUY JUST ONE STAMP a quarter, go to the post | • office or some store having a Trift Stamp card in the window and buy just one Stamp. Take it home. Show it to the family. Tell them that you have just provided Uncle Sam with the money to buy a few machine gun cartridges for the boys at the front. Look that stamp carefully In the face. Think that it represents your contribution ■ toward keeping this war going. Think that if nobody buys Liberty Bonds and nobody buys Thrift Stamps, the war is going to end in a German victory—and a German victory means that life wouldn't be worth living for any of us. Think, also, that when the war i 3 over—or before, if you need the j money—Uncle Sam will pay back all i you have put into these stamps with interest. Thus, every time you buy a Thrift Stamp you take a crack at the Kais er and feather your own nest, both at the same time. Think of these things! Think of what America means to you I Then we know exactly what you'll do. You'll go out and buy another stamp. And once you have two, there'll be no stopping you until the card is full. Every time you get a fresh "grouch" at the Germans go around and buy a War Savings Stamp. That means five more cartridges for the American sol diers to send over the top. HARDER DAYS COMING DON'T for a moment think that "50-50" ■ flour, and Liberty Bread, and days" are to be the extent of our sacrifices in this war. Speaking in the United States Senate the other day, Senator Smoot gave voice to this warning: Notwithstanding all that has been done, and as some people say, sacrificed, the work has only begun. If this war should con tinue two years longer. I am afraid there will be a world scar city of food and many of our people will be compelled to go short to assist in feeding our army and navy and the armies and navies and people of other coun tries engaged with us. There are several reasons for this shortage. First, the submarine, which sinks weekly thousands of tons of food. Secondly, deficient transportation, both rail and water; third, failure of the world to raise food sufficient to keep armies in the field and the civilian population well fed. If we can conquer the subma rine, as there is some hint that we are likely to do within the next six months, the wastage in that direc tion will be stopped. Or if we can increase our shipping facilities, we may be able to carry food to Europe and at the same time bring some from more distant points such as Australia. An improvement in our railroad systems will be another great help, and this is 'certain to come within the next twelve months. But the farmer and the house holder cannot trust to any of these chances. Each family must raise food for itself. Each family must in the vegetable season, can and pre serve more for winter than ever be fore. We must cut down on grains and eat more fruits and other green things. The home-garden is going to be the most popular institution in the land next summer. Thousands of people who grew vegetables last year will know more about garden ing this year and countless others will take to cultivation who never handled a hoe. Now is the time to get busy. If you have a plot of ground fit to cultivate—or can get one for the season—and you do not do it, let the blame fall on your head if you go hungry next winter. HAS A GOOD RECORD ANNOUNCEMENT that Aaron s. Kreider is to be a candidate for re-election will be good news to thousands of his friends throughout the district. It goes without saying that he will have no opposition for the nomination, and, as usual, he may expect nothing more than nominal opposition at the polls. Congressman Kreider was elected first during the trying campaign of 1912 in a three-cornered fight. #le has served his constituency admir ably ever since. This is a Republi can district and it is proper that- it should be represented by a high type man, thoroughly acquainted with its interests and one who can be depended upon at the same time to vote also for the best interests of the country in measures of larger import. Such a man is Congressman Kreider, He has the confidence of Republicans and Democrats alike both at Washington and at home. It is gratifying that he is to have no opposition at the primaries and the likelihood is that Democrats will make no serious effort to defeat him at the general elections. T>o 'PtKKOIf&KUtUv By the Kx-Committeeman This is the first day upon which nominating petitions for the May primary can be circulated in Penn sylvania for signatures and accord ing to officers of the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth hundreds will be started around be fore nightfall. For the last ten days many petitions have been sent out from the state capitol and in ad dition it has been learned candi dates who will have many petitions have their own papers printed, as has been done in previous yeard. A number of requests for the style of the official papers have been made. Signers must be qualified electors and no voter may sign for more candidates for an office than he can vote for, while affidavits as to sig natures must be made by men in charge of the papers. The papers must be filed by April 11 and an of ficial suggestion is contained on papers that they be entered at the Capitol before that date so that er rors may be corrected. Ordinarily there is a jam of such papers on the last day, which it is desired to avoid so that all papers may be gone over before doors close. The dates for registration for the spring primary, which will be held May 21, will be April 17 in first and second-class cities and May 1 in third-class cities, while the enroll ment dates in boroughs and town ships are March 19 and 20. In addition to the state ticket there will be nominated this year candidates for Superior Court and Congress at large, all district Con gress seats, twenty-eight senatorial seats and the whole "House of Rep resentatives. —Governor Brumbaugh In Phila delphia yesterday came out flatly in favor of J. Denny O'Neil for Gover nor. "I aril for O'Neil,'' he Raid. "I believe this has been well known for some time. I am surprised that any particular stress should be laid on it at this time." The Governor added that he thought the ques tion of prohibition is more im portant now than ever. As for an extra session of the Legislature, he repeated that' he is considering it but has reached no conclusion. At the same time Democrats in Phila delphia were said to be re-opening the movement to have Yance*C. Mc- Cormick reconsider his decision not to be a candidate for Governor at this time and run with prohibition as a distinct issue. —Dr. B. E. P. Prugh state chair man of the Prohibition party of Pennsylvania, and one of the two members of the Prohibition national committee from the state, left last night for Chicago, where he will at tend a meeting of the national com mittee on Monday and the national convention on Tuesday. Among the matters to be considered at the na tional convention wil be the election of members of Congress next Novem ber that will stand unequivocally for immediate nation-wide prohibition without waiting for the adoption of the amendment. But the matter of chief importance to be considered will be the proposed merger of the Prohibition party and the new Na tional party. Dr. Prugh says he feels sure there will be strong sentiment both for and against the merger. The late Pennsylvania state convention seemed to be strongly against it, though in favor of the closest kind of co-operation at the polls. The delegation, however, goes unin structed. The conditions existing in Pennsylvania are such that the Pro hibition party feels compelled to go straight forward, as in the past, re gardless of the action at Chicago; but the action both by the state committee and the state convention provides for active co-operation with any man or body of men that will stand squarely for the things which the Prohibition party stands for. Dr. Prugh also stated that he believes that it would be a good strategic move of the Governor to call a spe cial meeting of the Legislature of Pennsylvania to act on ratification of the prohibition amendment spe cifically. The next Legislature will approve the Prohibition amendment, he believes, and says the only thing to fear is overconlidence. —AVhilc there is a marked drift in the Republican party toward backing up the prohibition amend ment the indecision which caused the conference of Democratic state leaders in Philadelphia tho other day to duck the problem seems to prevail generally in the party. Fail ure of some of the Democratic state bosses who have been very loud in years gone by in their advocacy of local option to demand that-'the or ganization, in which they are big factors, should declare for the amendment, has produced unfavor able impression. Republican state and county leaders are wVestling with the proposition, but the at titude of the majority of the Demo cratic leaders, state and county, seems Xo be to sit on the fence. —And in spite of all the outgiv ings of the Democratic windmill and the peace pipings of the Democratic organs here, the big Democratic newspapers of the state, look for a new fight within the party. The nomination of acting state chairman And petroleum administration Joseph F. Guffey. manager of Pittsburgh public utilities in private life, is not taking well among the "dry" ele ment of the Democrats. The ma chine bosses are thinking of vacci nating the party again. —One of the humors of the Dem ocratic situation is that the bosses who steam rollered Lowry Humes and other candidates and handed out Guffey as the -party candidate for governor indulged in the very same sort of procedure as that which they denounced so vehemently when practiced by Col. "Jim" Guffey, uncle of the acting chairman. In deed, it was the shrieking in the market places against such things by the present bosses that enabled them to tear the colonel from the high seats of the party. Guffey uncle's machine ideas are now the standard of the group in which Guf fey's nephew plays a stellar role. —Newspaper editorials on the death of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, late State Commissioner of Health, are extraordinary in that without regard to party, they praise his splendid public service and show that when it came to duty and politics he knew no divided allegiance. The commis sioner's adherence to duty made him one of the monumental figures of the state. —The controversy over the right of the Allegheny county salary board to review salaries fixed by the board of judges, is now in judi cial hand to be settled. —Carl G. Busse. who resigned a 52.500 Luzerne place to go into the THE CONVALESCENT ~ By BRIGGS ... „ , army, is a son of the sheriff of that f county. —Highway Commissioner O'Neil's invasion of Luzerne county this ! weekend is interesting. Luzerne is ] one of the headquarters of the group which is insisting upon Com- | missioner W. D. B. Aainey for gov ernor. , It will be interesting to note the effect of O'Neil's visit upon the i Ainey men, who are numerous and i influential and seem determined to I back the Commissioner despite some I frowns from high places. §otditr I ' FLAG FALL Stars and Stripes, the emblem of our Nation, Grand old flag of strength and Unity— Best old flag that waves in all crea tion Our Stars and Stripes, the flag of Liberty— Stars and Stripes, our flag of grace and beauty. Each brave heart will answer to thy call. '•Hand in hand we stand to do our i duty. I And we'll never let the old flag fall. CHORUS. We'll never let the old flag fall, For we love it the best of all. We don't want to flght to show our might, But when we fight, we'll fight, fight, fight. In peace or war, our voices ring. "My country 'Tis of Thee" we sing. At the sound of her call, we'll show them all We'll never let the old flag fall. CAMOUFLAGE [From the Brooklyn Eagle] Hang the crayon portrait of Aunt Anastacia over the bad place in the living room wallpaper. Back the sideboard up against the place where the wainscoting was blistered during a chafing dish party given by your predecessor. By keeping the player piano going you can easily overcome the bang ing of the family radiator in the liv ing room. The temperature may be made agreeable with constant exercise with wall weights, dumbbells and rowing machines. On heatless days you can thus fool your landlord and yourself at the same time. Place a large Japanese umbrella up against the ceiling in the library where the radiator upstairs has leaked through. Where you have too many pic tures, hang them one over the other —the pictures of your relatives on the bottom and those of your wife's relatives on top. NAMED NOT NOMINATED In these (lays of food conserva tion and with some pretended ef forts to choose or "slate" a Demo cratic candidate for governor who represented the "policies of the president" a party of self-selected "representative" Democrats of Penn sylvania gathered in the inner cham bers of Philadelphia's highest priced eating-house the other day and nam ed a candidate to defeat the hand picked one of Republic in bosses. According to the censored an nouncement handed out to the pub lic the a Pittsburgh office holder was chosen \/,r the Demo crats to vote for to set up in turn in opposition to either one chosen personally by Brumbaugh and the Vares or an abler one who has the cordial approval of Penrose, or both. Quite naturally enough the one picked by these self-labeled repre sentatives was an official of one of the worst-managed and most inso lent corporations of the state, a per son of no known party standing out side of his own locality and presum ably a gentleman of abounding wealth. v If the purpose of the "representa tive" Democrats was to slate a can didate with the marks fjt defeat stamped Indelibly upon him they won. The late Mr. Harrlty wys used to make selections for the Dem ocrltic party in the same way. We had hoped that tbis sort gf */eak imitation had, in at least these ✓-•r --ilous times, gone out of fashion.— Cliambersburg Valley Spirit The Circumlocution Office David Lawrence in the Saturday Evening Post. SOME instances of red tape In ,the Government are amusing; others are pathetic. Not long ago a National Guard regiment was being mobilized in a Southern train ing camp. Its lieutenant colonel was ordered to Washington for In struction in certain staff duties. Three months later the regiment was ready to sail for Prance as a part of the Rainbow Division. The colonel wired Washington for his lieutenant colonel. For days he re ceived no answer. Finally came a telegram: "Where did you hear from Jones last?" The colonel promptly telegraphed back he supposed his lieutenant colonel was in Washington. The War Department finally said it couldn't locate the lieutenant colonel, and the regiment sailed for France without that officer, who had been at work every day in the War Department building, from which very place somebody had been tele graphing. He was at a desk not more than two hundred feet from the officer who couldn't locate him! Why did this happen? Because'no real system of registration had been devised at the time. Think of a business institution that didn't know where to locate its employes—and especially a man who corresponded in importance to a lieutenant colonel! • The fact that divisional and bu reau duties are so carefully deline ated by red tape makes men do what they are asked to do and noth ing more. It is the system which makes one man believe that some one else is attending to everything else. To interfere in the affairs of another bureau and suggest that perhaps somebody may not have thought of a certain thing would be in military or naval circles a rank intrusion—or rather an intrusion on rank. Here is a case in point: A certain officers in the quartermaster's corps at an Atlantic port had twenty-five stenographers. They had very little work to do and were getting anxious about their Jobs. On the same pier, WILHELM'S WILL One of the latest souvenirs of the war to make its appearance in var ious cities throughout the country is an official-looking document bear ing a big red stamp and entitled "The Last Will and Testament of the Kaiser." The wording of the will is as follows: "This is the last will and testa ment of me, Wilhelm, the super swanker and ruler of the sausage eaters, recognizing that I am fairly up against it, and expecting to meet with a violent death at any minute at the hands of brave Sammies, here by mak? my last will and testament. "I appoint the Emperor of Aus tria to be my sole executor (by kind permission of the Allies). "1 —I give and bequeath to France the territories of Alsace and Lor raine (as this is only a case of re turning stolen property, I don't de serve any credit for it, and am not likely to get it either). "2 —To Serbia 1 give Austria. "3 —To Russia I give Turkey. "4—To Belgium I should like to give all the thick ears, black eyes, and broken noses that she presented me with when I politely trespassed on her territory. "s—To your Uncle Sam I give all my dreadnaughts, submarines, tor pedo-boat destroyers and fleet of Funkers generally, what's left of them. He's bound to have them In the end, so this is only anticipat ing events. "g—xo John Bull I give what's left of my army, as his General Haig seems so handy at'turning my men into sausage meat. "7—To the College of Science and Museum I leave my famous mus tache as a souvenir of the greatest swanker in this or any other age. "8-—TO Mrs. Pankhurst and the wild women I leave my mailed fist; they'll find it useful, no doubt, when they resume their militant tactics. ••9 —To Sir Ernest Shackleton I leave the pole I've been up for so long that I regard it as my own property. "(Signed) H. I. M. Wilhelm, "Lord of the Land, Sea and Air, "Not forgetting the Sausages and Lager Beer." not more than one hundred yards away, was a branch of the ordnance department. The. employes of the 11 ?st ofllcer heard that the neighbor ins: bureau had telegraphed to; Washington for permission to hire| extra clerical help. They sent a delegation to see whether they couldn't bo employed; they feared I their work in the quartermaster's] corps might end abruptly. But the ordnance captain told them he was sorry, but he couldn't avail himself of their kind offer. He couldn't say to an officer in another branch of the service that he believed he had too many idle employes about, and wouldn't he transfer them to a place where they were urgently needed! "That would not be proper," add ed the captain. "I must ask Wash ington and receive help through the War Department." So for nearly a month the ord nance officer struggled along with insufficient assistance. His employes were forced to work overtime every day. and it was with difficulty he obtained the extra stenographers; and at last reports there were twen ty-five still idle within stone's throw of his office, hired by Uncle Sam, paid by Uncle Sam, but not being used by Uncle Sam. Why? Red tape that forbids business inter course between divisions or bureaus in the Army, but insists on round about communication that consumes weeks of time, money and patience. One of the most amusing instances heard in Washington is that of two bureau chiefs, with offices just across the corridor from each other in a certain building. One had to obtain supplies in a hurry, but he couldn't get them without the neces sary authorization from the other. The office where the request ulti mately would have to be filed was only a few yards away, accessible by telephone or by half a minute's walk; but those two bureaus main tained a correspondence with each other for nearly three weeks. Their papers went through half a dozen other bureaus, traveled all round Washington, and Anally were hon ored by the man across the corri dor! War-Song of the Women Death! Thou who takest double toll Of living hearts and dying men (O graves in which our hearts went j down Never in joy to rise again). Hark the song we sing to thee— Gray women who are left behind. Bereft of all we treasured most; Destroyer pitiless and blind! You hushed my lover's voice for me, A&4 •'•'oze the breast whereon my head Once found warm shelter from the world. You laid my heart beside the dead. And did you think your task was done? That lover's speech forevermore Was silenced, that our stricken souls Were dumb beneath the lead they bore? Dark death! and if thy reddened hands Outstretched for more, and more again, Should take our uttermost and best, Grim Slayer, yet they are not slain. For we, gray jnburners who are left. Now serve and love and strive and yearn. As never women did before. And from flheir dust such ardors burn As never flamed within this world. Yea, we whose joy died with our dead, We, stern-baptized in bitter seas. Beyond the shores of anquish led By they dread hand, our eyes have seen A vision only grief-purged sight Can look upon. We thank thee, Death, For deathless love and quenchless light! —By G. O. Warren. Rich and Poor It is not by a man's purse, but by his character, that he is rich or poor.—R. L. Stevenson. \ LABOR NOTES Austria's trade union membership includes 30,000 women. Hungars' has 100,000 organized workers in its industries. The British Amalgamated So ciety of Engineers has decided that unless the government meets the society in consultation It will resist any action on the part of the gov ernment to take skilled men for the army before all the lit men who had entered the trade since the outbreak of the war had been enrolled. As a result of the amalgamation of the Federation of Flour Mill Work ers in Austria, with that of the brewery workers and all of the liqui dation of the federations of the Brickmakers, Umbrellamakers and Paperbox Makers, the number of central federations has been reduced from 52 to 48. The number of inde pendent local unions has fallen from 22 to 21. As a means of meeting the Increas ed cost of living a law has been pass ed which grants an increase in the salaries of the civil employes of France and which provides for fur ther allowances to cover family ex penses by making specific increases, according to the number of children living with such employes and de pendent upon them. OUR DAILY LAUGH IX THESE DATS. "It's as useless as the fifth wheel lo a ■wagon." "That adage is out of date. All automobiles carry extra tires." FOLLOWED THE COLORS. "And I suppose like a brave sol eJior you'followed tho colors." "Sure! Whenever there was a bat tle I noticed the colors -were flying and I fled, too." WHERE IT FAILS. 'Two heads are better than ons. 1 * "Not for wi army." HER OPINION OF THEM. "1 thought the army was supposed to be dry." "It Is." "Well, why do they continue those setting up exercises I read about." ttomntg Qlljul If the building materials being de livered about the city, especially in the newly-opened sections of Har risburg and its suburbs, are anything to go by the state's capitol is nhe counted in his service in the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth could be one of the patriarchs of Capitol Hill in point of years spent in work for Father Penn, but there ij nothing patriarchial about the way he works or travels over the state. Dr. Schaeffer became Super intendent on June 1, 1893, and Dr. Kalbfus began his service October 1, 1895. He will celebrate a quar ter of a century in the Game Com mission secretaryship on that day and under the stimulation of the in terest he has taken and the support given by commissioners the Penn sylvania system has attracted inter national attention for conservation propagation and protection of game When he went into the commission's service, right after the conimissior had been put on a definite basis the game work was handled as side line of the State Economii Zoologist's bureau. It was startei so that the insectivorous birds could be preserved because of their valui to the farmer and Dr. Kalbfus has never lost sight of that underlying idea. One of the most lmpressiv* things about the railroad situation and it is the thing which loom! largest in our community, is th< manner in which the railroads art rushing "empties" to the West Every day there are trains of empts coal cars on the way back to th( mines and the length is such as tc naturally suggest counting the cars The passing of these huge train! gives an idea of what the situatior must be like at the ports. And i 1 is also giving Harrisburg railroac men a lot to do. "Lancaster county farmers are eW dently wide awake to the farm la bor shortage and to the necessity of increasing their grain yields this years," said Herbert K. Curll, genera manager for the International Har vester Company in the eastern dis trict, with headquarters in this city, "For the first time in the history oi the state we have booked orders for two combination reapers and thresh ers for Lancaster farms. When it is considered that we have difficulty showing the western farmer the ad visability of reaping and threshing his wheat all in one operation, the adoption by Pennsylvania farmers whose grain tracts are usually much smaller than those of the west, the innovation in Lancaster county is al! the more remarkable. These big ma chines cover the fields once. At one operation they cut the wheat, sweel It up into the machine, thresh it ami pour the grain into bags, casting the straw aside to be baled or stackec all while the horses or tractors pul the apparatus along. The saving in labor is beyond belief." ♦• * v Mr. Curll has been busier thi spring holding farm schools than h< has been selling implements. The schools for farmers held here were well attended and during the pasi week hundreds of Lancaster counts farmers have been attending those held in that district. "Gradually the farmer is geting awake to the faci that it is not only profitable to raise big crops when prices are high, bu that it is his patriotic duty to do sc at this time when the whole countr: is dependent upon him for a fooe supply, and far across the water: hungry men, women and childrei are looking to the farmers of thi: country to save them from starva tion. Our schools have been very wel attended and much interest has beer shown." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Congressman W. S. Vare say that he had a fine February flshtn! trip in Florida waters. —C. J. Clark, a Philadelpliian, ha been elected president of the ga companies that supply Panama an Colon. —S. P. Kennedy, of Braddock prominent manufacturer, is serious ly ill with smallpox. —Frederick Gllkison, the new ad jutant general of New Jersey, usei to be a frequent visitor to Pennsyl vania camps. —Willis F. McCook, prominen Pittsburgher, is home from a roum of visits to southwestern camps. —Lew R. Palmer, the state* Commissioner of Labor and Indus try, Is summoned to Washingto about once a week on national de fense matters. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrtaburg is now one of tlio big midway places for lo comotive repairs? HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG Blackberry alley was for year after Harrisburg started lined wit stagecoach stables.