8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded jJfjl Published evenings excent Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telesraph Building, Federal Squire. B.J. ST ACKPOLE, Prer't & Editorin-Chirf P\ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. Hkll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocta- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Avenue Building, Western office, Finley, 3 Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a CrEgSKSSSKiO week; by mail. $6.00 a year in advance, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1018 No man can get a blessing and keep it an to himself without having It like stagnant water in his soul; tut if it overflows to others it shall become a perennial spring to him self and to the worId. —WILTON MERLE BMITH. GOOD SELECTION SELECTION of Andrew S. Pat terson, president of the Cham ber of Commerce, to lead the new Liberty Loan drive in Harris burg is to be commended. Mr. Pat terson had a prominent part in the first two campaigns and the Cham ber of Commerce is prominently Identified with all manner of war service work. Liberty Loans, Thrift Stamp sales, food and fuel adminis tration, farm agency work and home-gardening—all these and oth ers have been fostered by the Cham ber of Commerce. Its activities have been important and admirably con ducted. The next Liberty Loan will be •bout twice the size of the laA. The neiw chairman has his job cut out for him. Much advance work must be done. The whole territory, with Its capabilities and its financial re sources, must be plotted for the cam paigners. Fortunately there is com ing into being in this city a perma nent war service campaign commit tee. Thlf will be of vast assistance to Mr. Patterson and those, who will be actively engaged with him. But If the campaign is to be a success and Harrisburg is to go "over the top" again everybody must help. All who have fifty dollars or can buy a bond on the instalment plan roust be on the subscription list. Our idea is that if the Japs want to take a crack at Germany we should be the last to interpose. It's better to have Japs ip Siberia than Germans in Russia. SHOVE THE CLOCK AHEAD AFTER reading the fifty reasons of the United States Chamber of Commerce committee on daylight saving in its report to Congress, one wonders why the House to adopt the meas ure, of which the country thoroughly approves and for which most of us are anxiously waiting.. The report of the committee is painstakingly thorough and very interesting. Three of the most important reas ons given by the committee are: 1 Expediting the training of the na tional forces, speeding up the pro duction of the plants making war material, and increasing the produc tion of the shipbuilding yards. The substitution of a work hour at the beginning of the working day tor & dark hour of artificial light at the end of the day brings advantages that are self-evident in the mere statement, continues the report. It Trill relieve the strain at the time of frreatest fatigue, says the report, im prove working conditions, particu larly in industries where accurate eyesight is essential, and materially ut down the number of industrial accidents which statistics show have most frequently occurred in the late afternoon when human efficiency is at low ebb. The lessened risk of accidents in transportation and local traffic han dling, by moving the afternoon rush forward into daylight, is in itself more than sufficient Justification for the passage of the measure, the Chamber believes. Other points in its favor are that working girls will go home by daylight, parents will have a new hour to spend with their children, bills for gas and electric light will be cut down, and outdoor recreation ■will stimulated. In this connec tion the possible increased garden ing production through daylight sav ing Is worthy of serious considera tion. Daylight saving means also an im mediate reduction in the use of light and heat, with its attendant conser vation of coal. More than 1,500,000 tons of coal a year is the estimated saving even if the measure is in ef feot only for the shortest period that Jiaa been suggested; and the saving MONDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 4, MS. In fu?l oils is equally impressive. A. Lincoln Fllene, of Boston, chairman of the committee making the report, says of the plan: ', Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and eight other nations have adopted daylight saving since the outbreak of the war, and in all of them it is a great ■success. In England the saving in the use of artificial light and fuel is estimated at $2,500,000 for the summer months alone. In France the saving has been esti mated to be 10 per cent, of the coal ordinarily consumed by the gas and electric undertakings. Adopted as a war measure it has resulted in such increased effici ency and such marked economy that there is no question of a're turn to the old ways after the war. The bill ought to pass. Sup porting the measure are the Pres ident of the United States, Her bert C. Hoover, the United States food administrator; Dr. Harry A. Garfield, the United States fuel ad ministrator; E. N. Hurley, chairman of the shipping board; the council of national defense, literally scores of state and municipal civic bodies and the more than 1,000 chambers of commerce and commercial organiza tions comprising the membership of the chamber of commerce of the United States. It begins to look as though those German "shock" troops now know a little more about the definition of the word. OUT WITH THEM! LOYAL Americans will hail with delight the announcement that President Wilson intends to de port all persons guilty of sabotage or other forms of pro-Germanism. No doubt Germany, with her man power at low ebb, would be happy to shove these enthusiastic supporters of frightfulness right up in the first line trenches where they could get their fill of it. At all events, Amer ica doesn't want them and the best place for all such is in the land they profess to love so ardently. They can be of little service to the Kaiser and we would be well rid of them. The idea of shipping them back to the "Fatherland" is much more like ly to produce a quieting affect on all of their kind than the standing of a few of them before a wall at sunrise would have. McADOO'S APPEAL SECRETARY McADOO in a war appeal to the American people on Saturday among other things The average citizen is draw ing on the general store of sup plies with almost the same free dom as before the war. This cannot continue without serious hurt to the nation and to the world. Everything wasted now is nothing short of criminal. Business as usual is a wholly wrong theory. Business must be readjusted to the war-making function of the nation. The war savings camgaign is the most direct incentive to econ omize and save ever offered to the people. We cannot keep drawing on our supplies at the present rate without so seriously depleting them that we shall pay for our folly in hunger and suffering next Winter. We must eat less than what we have and what we grow next summer will last the longer. The Secretary speaks words of wisdom when he says that "any thing wasted now is nothing short of criminal" and it is equally true that "business as usual" is an impos sibility. Most manufacturers and mer chants already are making their business meet the new conditions. We must do away to some degree with some of the unessentials" in or der that our restricted resources and our sorely pressed labor supply shall be adequate to the needs of the mo ment. Economy of everything, from dollars to doughnuts, is an urgent necessity. And to that end the petition of some 6,000,000 American women that the foodstuffs, the fuel and the labor that are now going into the manufacture of beer should t be otherwise employed, ought to have the ear of the President, who has it within his power to stop the biggest waste in the country, if he chooses to exercise the powers vested in him by Congress. All unconsciously Sec retary McAdoo has taken a crack at this bit of Presidential negligence. The country is rushing headlong to ward national prohibition. The ex ecutive need not be timid about anti cipating the popular mandate by a few months. A CHANCE FOR THE BOYS /TVHE boys of the Nation must help [_ their big brothers at the front by working the coming sum mer on the farms and in the shops that their big brothers have left. Crops must be planted in the Spring and harvested in the summer and autumn, and the boys at home must help in this important work. To mobilize the boys who are 16 years and over, and under 21 years, the United States Boys' Working Reserve has been organized and has been made a War Emergency Bu reau of the Department of Labor. Beginning Monday, March 18, and continuing for six days, National En rollment Wsek will be observed, when a great drive will be made to enroll every boy of fit age and phy sical condition in thfe United States Boys' Working Reserve, chiefly for work upon the farms, and second arily for work In the shops in some industry, not of a hazardous charac ter, essential to winning the war. Dr. Charles B. Fager, who is head of the movement here, will see to It that boys are placed only where they will be properly treated and In healthful surroundings. Farmers who have vacancies would do well to get Into touch with him. Most of the boys enrolled will 'be big. alth letlc high school students, and while many of them have no farm training, it is reasonable to suppose that If they are bright enough to master a technical_ and mechanical course In school, they will not be long In learning how to plow a straight furrow or milk a c<A. TOEAZC. C*. 'Pt-KlvOljtoa.HUv By the Ex-Commltteemaii Declaration by Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh in favor of the can didacy of Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil for the Republican nomination for Governor, has been followed by prompt distribution of nominating petitions for the Com missioner's candidacy among people on Capitol Hill and willingness to circulate them may prove to be the test whether some of the attaches of departments will remain in their jobs. Ordinarily, people at the Capi tol are active in circulation of pe titions and many men not in sym pathy with the presidential aspira tions in 1916 passed theirv around and secured impressive lists of signers. Abotit tha Capitol it is intimated that the coming campaign will not be characterized by the methods employed two years ago and that attaches who fail to circulate peti tions when ordered to do so will be let out. The state administration has apparently made up its mind to light with patronage and place. At the same time there were signs to-day that Capitol Hill people would not have a m&nopoly of the petition circulation business because friends of Senator William C. Sproul were preparing to become active in his behalf as soon as the word came. Owing to his frequent visits here the Delaware county senator is even better known than Mr. O'Neil and has many friends, especially among the independent element. —ln an exhaustive review of the Republican situation "The Insider" writing in the Phialdelphia Press yesterday said: "It is almost a fore gone conclusion that Senator Sproul will come out in his personal plat form definitely for the ratification of the amendment, whatever the party decides. His problem is a different one from" theirs. He has J. Denny O'Neil to meet. The Highway Com missioner generally is believed to be gaining strength among the dry ele ment and there are fearful tales being told of the unprecedented ef forts this force is makipg to get out the voters who ordinarily do not go to the polls. If Senator Sproul meets him on his own ground of un qualified support of prohibition, he will be cutting* away a good deal of ground from under his feet. Inci dentally it may be said that from the best information available, Senator Sproul believes thoroughly in the party's putting itself on record at once for prohibition and he is one of the principal supporters of the battle being waged with that end in view. In connection wHth J. Denny O'Neil's candidacy, a new an gle has been injected by the ma terialization of Governor Brum baugh's expected declaration in his favor. The question of the hour is: Was it done with the assent of the Vares and will they follow suit? If they do not, it means a break between'the Governor and the Vares, who for some time have been political bed-fellows." —The Philadelphia Public Ledger yesterday printed the following: "Coincident with the intimations which the Vares allowed to go out yesterday that they were in nowise affected in their attitude toward the gubernatorial situation by the in dorsement of J. Denny O'Neil as the Republican candidate by Governor Brumbaugh came the announcement from Washington that Senator Sproul had attended a secret con ference of Penrose followers in that city on Thursday, at which prohibi tion, on which O'Neil has announc ed he will make his fight, was the subjpet of heated discussion." —The movement for renomina tion of Congressman Kreider seems to be popular everywhere in the three counties of the district except on the east side of Market Square. Naturally the Congressman will be re-elected. —lra G. Kutz, the Berks Demo cratic organist whom A. Mitchell Palmer and his pals set as the "stop" signal will be a candidate for re election to the Democratic State Committee against Palmer's slate. —Re-election of Judge William D. Porter, of Allegheny county, to the Superior Court of Pennsylvania was urged Saturday by the committee on judicial vacancies of the Law As sociation of Philadelphia. In a statement issued by the committee of which Hampton L. Carson is chairman, the high judicial quali ties of Judge Porter are praised. Judge Porter was appointed in June, 1898, was elected in November of the same year and was re-elected in November, 1908. —At a meeting of the Republican Committee of Center county Satur daj\ J. Linn Harris resigned as coun ty chairman, and David Chambers was elected to succeed him for the unexpired term. Mr. % llarris holds the position of bond clerk in the Treas ury Department in tills city and his duties require so much of his time that hje felt he could not give his urdivided attention to politics during the ensuing campaign, when a Con gressman and member of the Legis lature are to be elected. Mr. Cham ber*, who succeeds him, Is now treas urer of Center county. He lives in Snew Shoe, where he Is largely In terested in coal operations. —A nonpartisan meeting for the ratification of the national prohibi tion amendment by the next Legisla ture of Pennsylvania was held In Media Saturday night, under the aus pices of the Delaware county ratifi cation committee, of which Charles F. Eggleston, of Glenolden, who pre sided, is chairman. This was the first meeting in the interest of the federal prohibition amendment in this state and it was attended by men of all parties from all over Delaware ccunty. John W> Zlegler, of Lans downe, secretary of the committee, announced that the committee was nonpartisan for the purpose of en dorsing candidates for the Legisla ture, either Republicans, Democrats or Prohibitionists, who will favor the ratification of the federal prohibi tion amendment. —Former Congressman and Custo dian of Allen Property A. Mitchell Palmer, tne Democratic State Com mitteeman of Pennsylvania, paid a hurried visit to his home in Strouds burg Saturday. The Democratic leader was in conference with his friends for several hours after liis arrival. It is admitted that the Democratic situation in this Con gressional district was under discus sion. but It Ik said Palmer won't run. The Difference "Papa," asked little Percy, "what is the difference between a city and a village?" "A city, my son," replied the port ly piute, "is a large body of boobs entirely bound up In franchises, while a village is a small collection of yaps who possess so little of value that it is not worth taking away from them." —From the Kansas City Star. £>oldlir o>o?icj4- THi: OLD FLAG NEVER TOUCHED THE GROUND The old flag never touch'd the ground, boys. The old flag never touch'd the ground. Tho' shot and shell fell all around, boys, The dear old flag was never down'd. The old flag never' touch'd . the ground, boys, Far to the front 'twas ever found; She's been in many a fix Since Seventeen seventy-six, But the old flag has never touch'd the ground. BIBLES AND FRENCH American soldiers who have braved the submarines and have landed safely in France, will be as sisted in the mastery of the French language and at the same time read the Gospel owing to the enterprise of the American Bible Society. As the mastery of the French languages is almost as important to the sol diers who are fighting for democracy as going "over the top," the Bible Society has issued a pocket edition of the Gospel of St. Mark, con taining the Gospel in French on one side and its counterpart in English on the page opposite. The Rev. Frank P. Parkin, D. D., Secretary of the American Bible So ciety, • Atlantic Agency, with head quarters at 701 Walnut street, Phila delphia, reports that there is a large demand for the Testaments already. Fifty thousand dollars will be raised in tho area including Penn sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, in connection with the campaign for #400,000 that is being conducted by the American Bible Society. Al ready 1,000,000 have been issued for distribution to the National Army and the Bible Society stands ready to duplicate that order. The campaign will close about April 1. Doctor Parkin visited Trenton last Tuesday, and at a meeting of church leaders in the Trenton Y. M. C. A., it was decided to raise $5,000 in Trenton and Mercer county. The Rev. Heber D. Ketcham presided; Judge Hallstab, who was present, declared that the movement to fur nish Testaments to the Army' and Navy was calculated to keep the morale of Uncle Sam's fighting forces at the highest standard, and there fore was as worthy a cause as could be presented to the American peo ple. Similar campaigns will be organ ized in Harrisburg, Johnstown, Reading, Pottsville, Allentown, Beth lehem, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Lan caster, Newark, N. J.; Montclair, N. J., and Wilmington, Delaware. EDITORIAL COMMENT It is, of course, useless to point out that the Lenines and Trotzkys have left little power of "self-de termination" to the stricken Rou manians.—New York World. It is Impossible to say whether Russia is an ally, a neutral, or an enemy.—-Lord Cecil. There is this advantage, that Germany Is in the same state of ignorance.—New York Sun. The papers say Secretary Baker Is planning a trip tp the trenches. That will give him a nice, quiet place to rest after the past few weeks in Washington.— Nashville Southern Lumberman. The sherifr of Mekka has admin istered a whipping to a Turkish Army near the Dead Sea. Inasmuch .is Mekka and the Dead Sea are a long way apart, the home-office is probably in charge of a deputy sheijjff.—Galvestin News. Remember the wheatless day and keep it wholly.—Chicago Trib une. The big offensive on the West front of the war is to begin in March. That Is appropriately the month of great blows.—Baltimore American. With Russia out of the war, the pe&ce-lovlng Bolshevik! can now de vote their entire time to the humane work of murdering the Finns.—New York AVorld. Glasses For the Stork, Please A near-sighted stork who saw a sign "Boy Wanted" on our drug gist's store window left a girl at his house by mistake. From the Brooklyn Eagle. THE NEW DEATH "Greater than thou art dead; fear not. But die thou, too." "Greater than thou art dead; fear not. But die thou, too." ....I can die, too — They die, who have a record got That Homer's heroes never knew. I am of those so very ill Who touch no more the solid day, Nor know what time I have to fill', If soon to go—or longer stay. So, my free thoughts can wing afar; And turn they will—and turn again. Where the red fields of battle are, And Glory can not count her men! In daily and in nightly death I die with those who greatly die. As tho 'twere naught to yield this breath. And turn their faces from tfle sky! With most high passion, passing love, ' They rush into the Terror's arms As tho around, beneath, above. Immortal proof met mortal harms! And, sometimes, they to me draw near— Bright shades of youth for country slain! I cY-y! "How went ye without fear. As though great joy excluded pain?" They look at each and other—and At me they look, and smile, be side; "It was—if thou couldst under stand— Because in the New Death we died!" "What New Death in the World can be?" T cry—They answer not my call. (But some one soothly says to me, "You have been dreaming—that is all.") • • "Greater than thou are dead; fear not, Rut die thou, too.". . . .Then, shall I, too, Though humblest sharer in their lot. Know what Was that New Death they know! —By Edith M. Thomas WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND - By Briggt H oramma-5 \ / { hold [ Aim THE | -g 0 y - yes HG- | J ONE BOY'S BIT IN ONE of our attacks on the Somme, all the observers up forward were uncertain as to what had happened. We didn't know whether our infantry had cap tured their objective, failed, or gone beyond it. The battle-fleld, as far as eye could reach, was a bath of mud. It is extremely easy, in the excitement of an offensive, when all landmarks are blotted out, for our storming parties to lose their sense of direction. If this happens, a number of dangers may result. A battalion may find itself "up in the air," which means that it has failed, to connect .with the battalions on its right and left; its flanks are then exposed to the enemy. It may ad vance too far, and start digging itself in at a point where it was previously arranged that our artillery should place their protective wall of fire. We, being up forward as artillery observers, are the eyes of the army. It is our business to watch for such contingencies, to keep in touch with the situation as it progresses, and to send our information back as quickly as possible. We were peer ing through our glasses from our point of vantage when, far away in the thickest of the battle-smoke, we saw a white flag wagging, sending back messages. The flag-wagging was repeated desperately; it was evi dent that no one had replied, and probable that no one had picked up tlje messages. A signaler who was with us, read the language for us. A company of infantry had advanced too far; most of them were wounded, very many of them dead, and they were in danger of being surrounded. They asked for our artillery to place a curtain of Are in front of them, and for reinforcements to be sent up. We at once phoned the orders How a Tank pehaves l-'rom the depths of the wood op posite came a crackling, crunching sound, as of some prehistoric beast forcing its way through tropical undergrowth. And then, suddenly, out from the thinning edge there loomed a monster—a monstrosity. It dia not glide, it did not walk. It wallowed. It lurched, with now and then a. laborious heave of its should ers. It fumbled its way over a low bank matted with scrub. It crossed a ditch by the simple expedient of rolling the ditch out flat, and wad dled forward. In its path stood a young tree. The monster arrived at the tree and laid its chin lovingly I against the stem. The tree leaned back, crackled and assumed a hori zontal position. In the middle of the cleariWg, twenty yards further on, gaped an enormous shell crater, a present from the Kaiser. Into this the creature plunged blindly, to emerge, panting and puffing on the further side. Then it stopped. A magic opening appeared in its stomach, from which emerged, grin ning, a British subaltern and his grimy associates. —lan Hay, in "All in It." Reversing the Theory Although some people may not accept Secretary McAdoo's theory that Germans have been depressing Liberty Bonds in the market, the prevailing opinion in this country is that in due time Liberty Bonds are going to depress the Germans. —New York World. Win/ Put It Off? One cannot wholly agree with W. H. Taft that spies, incendiaries, bomb-droppers and munition tam perers should be backed up against a blank wall at sunrise. As the late Thomas Jefferson once remarked, never put ofT until to-morrow what you can do to-day.—From the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times. through to our artillery and notified the infantry headquarters of the division that was holding that front. But it was necesary to let those chaps know that we were aware of their predicament. They'd hang on if they knew that; otherwise — Without orders our signaler was getting his flags ready. If he hop ped out of the trench on to the par apet, he didn't stand a fifty-fifty chance. The Hun was familiar with our observation station and strafed it with persistent regularity. The signaler turned to the senior officer present, "What will I send them, sir?" "Tell them their messages have been received and that help is com ing." Out the chap scrambled, a flag in either hand — he was nothing but a boy. Ha ran crouching like a rabbit to a hump of mud where his figure would show up against the sky. His flags commenced wagging. "Mes sages received. Help coming." They didn't see him at first. He had to repeat the words. We watched him breathlessly. We knew what would happen; at last it happened. A Hun observer had spotted him and flashed the target back to his guns. All about him the mud commenced to leap and bubble. He went on sig naling the good word to those stranded men up font. "Messages received. Help coming." At last they'd seen liim. They were signal ing, "O. K." It was at that moment that a whizz-bang lifted him off his feet and landed him all of a huddle. His "bitl" It was what he'd volun teered to do, when he came from Canada. The signaled "O. K." in the battle-smoke was like a testimony to his character.—Coningsby Daw son. Lieutenant in the Canadian Field Artillery, in Good Housekeep ing. No Dodging In Wisconsin The battle to decide whether Wis consin is with America or with Ger many in this war has begun. Gov ernor Phillip's attempt to avert the fight failed. He proposed to have the legislature give him power to appoint a Senator to succeed Mr. Busting, promising to appoint a loyalist. This request he made for the purpose of saving Wisconsin from being brought to the test. The legislature refused to shirk the fight and defeated the Governor's pro posal. There will be, in conse quence, a special election .for Sena tor in April.—From the New York Times. THE STARS AND STRIPES We who in the old days— l -the easy days of pleasuring— Loitered in the distant lands—we know the thrill that came When in far, foreign places, above the stranger faces. The sight of it the might of it, would wake us like a flame, Our own flag, the one flag, it stirred our blood to claim. We who in these new days—these days of all confusion— Look upon it with the eyes of one long blind who sees. We know at last its beauty—it mag r nitude of duty— Dear God! if thus it seems to us, what will it mean to these Who stay for it. who pray for it, our kindred overseas? These who face the red days—the white nights of fury, • Where death like some mad reaper hacks down the living grain— They shall see our flag arise like a glory in the likies— The stars of it. the ba'-s of it, that f>rove it once again The new flag, the true flag, that does not come in vain! —By Theodosia Garrison. LABOR NOTES Toronto (Can.) structural iron workers ask 60 cents an hour. Fifty per cent, of the munition workers in Lyons, France, are women. Practically all the agricultural work in Italy is being done by women. Eighty-three thousand women are employed in the British government offices. Women compose one-third of the employes in the chemical industry in Sweden. .' Musicians at Belleville, Can., have organized. This country now employs 150,- 000 shipyard workers. Germany's textile workers de mand a minimum wage. Cigarmalters at Bo'ston /have se cured increased pay. Wisconsin sawmills employ hun dreds of girls. Wages are rising rapidly In Japan's industries. Laborers in Ireland now command $lO a week. Bricklayers in Berlin, Germany, get 33Vfc cents an hour. OUR DAILY LAUGH WELL. FIXED. "How are you fixed for coal at your house?" "Fine. "We've got a couple of shovelfuls in the bin and the prom of more in a week or two." PAT NAME. "What do you think of Scribbler* •lew story, 'The Boundary Line?'" "It is well named, anyiway, for it's Vhe limit." THE PROPER CAPER. Mr. Top—Ah, good afternoon, Miss Top, won't you Join me in a •pin on th* boulvmr4f lEhnrtng <Elpit Although the fact Is not generally known, It was March 4 which saw the birth of Dauphin county. This coun ty was a part of Lancaster county from erection of that county on May 10, 1729, until March 4, 1785, when the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, then sitting In Philadelphia, established our county and named it for the Dauphin of France. About the same time there was a move on foot to further signalize the debt of the infant republic to France by calling the county seat Loulsburg, in honor of the king. John Harris, who had settled at this place before even the county of Lancaster was formed, however, left a son by the same name who laid out the town at Harrisburg and refused to sell lots except by that name. As John Har ris' ferry had grown to a fairly siz able village and its possibilities were obvious because of the ford and the meeting of the valleys here, Mr. Harris had his way. Thus he be came the Founder, as his father was known as *the Settler. Dauphin county included Lebanon, when the old fathers passed the act this day 133 years ago, and some one whose name has not come down to ua, but who is suspected as having been In fluenced by William Maclay, one o( the state's first United States senators and a son-in-law of Harris, very carefully extended the county line to the west bank of the Susquehanna river. This city has become famil iar with Interesting legislative pro visions in the last hundred years and can appreciate the provisions of th words in that old act of March 4 1785, which read "Then down th Susquehanna, on the west side there of, by the line of Cumberland counts and that part of the line of Tori county, to the place of beginning or the west side df the river Susque* lianna." Perry county was then t part of Cumberland county, whicV was erected 1750, and York counj.3 dated from 1749, both older coun ties than Dauphin. Lebanon waj detached from Dauphin, Februar; 16, 1813, while Perry was created March 22, 1820, so that It will havi a centennial in two years or so Oddly enough, while Harrisburg wa designated as the county seat o Dauphin and was the home of abou GOO persons and a well-known plaa for fifty years, it was not incorpo rated until April 13, 1791. Then i became a borough and was the sub ject of several other acts before i became a city in 1860. March 4, ii therefore the county day for Dau phin to celebrate. • • • "This fair city of your is up-to date in a good many things, but am Sorry to say that I have foum some fire hazards which ought no to be permitted to exist a minut and I have given some orders on m: own hook that abated some o them," said Fire Marshal Chal Por the other day. "I took a wall around some of the back streets th other day after lunch and I'm afrai< I jolted some people. Why, in on place between two dwellings ther was a lot of packing material, an excelsior among it, and what on clgaret or old match would hav done to that pile, I would hate t say. The people of this city tak quickly to suggestion, and I hop they will clear up the backyard and help cut down risks. Th mayor's got the right Idea abou cleaning up. Back him up." "If what I heard among farmer on Saturday, is anything to go bj there will be a drop in the price o potatoes before long, that will mak us wonder why things are so high, said a man who deals in provision to-day. "I believe that over a thir of the potato crop raised within fift miles of Harrlsburg is now hel back from the public. This may b going it strong, but you will find th big potato raisers held back in De cember and the weather hit their They could not move the potatoe and some of them were waiting fo higher prices anyway? Now the have got to unload. And I hop some of them get stung. Think o us paying close to |2 a bushel fo potatoes last winter and hundred being held in barns, almost in sight c the Capitol. I was among thos ready to buy at market rates a those that were offered. I gran you that some could not get out be ca\ise of the snow, but that sort o affliction did not fall on all of them. • • "I'm sorry those engines built fo Russia, that Uncle Sam took ove and loaned to the Heading for us about Rutherford yards, did not gc over there. They make so muc racket, they would have drowne out the Bolshevik! speeches. The are the noisiest I ever knew," sai a railroad man who lives along th Reading. ."But they're doing goo work here, even if you can hea them a quarter of a mile. And does good to see 'U. S. A.' on an er gine. It's a sign that Uncle Sam on the job." • State librarian, Thomas L.ync Montgomery's telephone Is ringin to-day in honor of his birthday. M Montgomery selected Dauphin com ty's natal day to be born in at Qei mantown, and if they carried out tt old custom of offering the baby book or gold, there is no doubt abot which he peached for. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*"" —Mayor A. T. Connell. of Sewn ton, has stirred, up the folks in h county, by demanding a cleaner olt —T. A. Wright, Wllkea-Bar tractlon man, says the trolley con panies of the state need the s cent fare to save them from banl ruptey. —Judge A. B. Smith, of Susqu hanna county, presented that coui ty's historical society with the fls flown by the Union league of Su quehanna, in the Civil War. —Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitt burgh, has been visiting the cam] where Pittsburgh men are In trail ing. —F. Jt, Flood, Pittsburg banlD in charge of the War Saving! woi in Pittsburgh, Is arranging for a pi rade and mass meeting on April to boost the stamps. DO YOU KNOW —That more coal Is being mo-r --ed through Harrisburg now than for years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first telegraph offices in Ha rlsburg were on Third street not fi from where they are now. Poor Form Another chauffeur wed**an hel r-ss, snd in Chicago again, too. 1 the way, what ,would become of chauffeur who merely married coi fortably, say $50,000? Would he lo his standing and the benefits of. t brotherhood? —From th* Kans City Star.
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