10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO* Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare. E.J. STACK POLE, Prfx'f <5- Editor-in-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS 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 Eastern office, Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second rlass matter. ■ayrr-a By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1018 As to the burden, be content to bear it, until thou come to the place of deliverance; for there it will fall from thy back of itself. —Bunyan. BETTER THAN GERMANS THE manner in which American troops, the first time under fire, met and repulsed with great loss the German "shock" troops sent against them sends a glow of pride and a feeling of confidence throughout the nation. It is true that we lost brave soldiers, but no war has ever been conducted with out casualties on both sides and we' must expect greater and greater losses as the action develops on our front. All indications are that a picked body of the very best German troops available were thrown at the American trenches, the aim being to clean them out and strike terror to the remaining Americans. The re sult must have something of the opposite effect, lor the Germans who escaped the murderous fire of the Americans left their accoutrements and weapons for the most part In the trenches they had Invaded and scurried back like frightened rab bits. The American soldier has proved his superiority over the German even under circumstances greatly favoring the latter. Mayor Keister has scored another popular hit. He can do nothing more practically beneficial than to make the coming summer a recordbreaker for War Gardens in Harrisburg. ENGLISH LABOR'S AIMS HARRISBURG people win learn a lot about English war aims and after-the-war program at the meeting in Chestnut street au ditorium next Saturday evening at which British Labor Commissioners to America will speak. This gath ering should be attended not alone by laboring people. Men and wo ment of every walk of life should be present. Issues that will reach far beyond the war will be discussed. English labor is standing loyally be hind its government. English labor sends a message to American labor, urging it to back up President Wil sbn in this crisis. But the English commissioners bring to American workmen more than that. They come with a thought for the im provement of the working people of Great Britain when the war shall have ended in an allied victory, with the hope and belief that {t will find an echo on this side of the Atlantic. The promise is held out every where of a new world after the war —a world in which the masses shall have a greater share In the world's goods and better opportunity for well-being and happiness than ever before. The workers of the world— iboth those who labor with their hands and those who work with their brains—are going to save the world, and very properly they will demand a larger part in the administration of its affairs, after the victory shall have been won. This need not mean Socialism, but it will mean just that if intelligent employment methods are not made universal. Industrial leaders must put their houses in order, and it is for them as well as for laboring people that the English commissioners bring a word of in struction, for England Is much far tner along with a most remarkable after-the-war labor program than most people in this country know. Granted that the proposed radical reconstruction program of the Brit ish Labor Party is in some respects experimental and in others perhaps impossible of realization, there are many points of simlllarlty between it and the ideas advanced thinkers in this country have in mind for the United States, when the world has been made "safe for democracy." This need cause the ultra-conserva tlsts no alarm. There is nothing in it approaching the ideas of either the 1. W. W. or the Bolshevlki. It was Charles M. Schwab, ex plaining what he meant when he de clared that after the war the world TUESDAY EVENING, • HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 5, 1918. will be ruled by ita workers, who said to an audience in South Bethle hem, the other day: The aristocracy of the future is not going to be made up of people born to position and con trol through purple lineage and wealth, but bf people who work. And I here want to correct the misquotations of my remarks that I have been made on this subject i before and to correct impressions formed. I meant by "the people who work" not only those who work with tools and machines, but those who work with hearts, brains and their energies in any form. I regard myself as a work er. It will not conform with the standards of the future to have the enterprises of the world directed by any others than those who work. Justly should such people rule. And no theory of mine could be so ably expounded us by the people of this commu nity who have supplied the men, not one of them born with a sil ver spoon in his mouth, who are to-day responsible for the Beth lehem Steel Company. When the war is over capital and labor will be much nearer than be fore the war was started. Brain workers and manual laborers will have a more equal voice In affairs. There will be plenty of opportunity for Individual advancement, but not quite so much chance of the exploi tation of one class by another. If all of us conduct ourselves properly and are liberal and tolerant in our views, there will arise in America a true democracy, a country in which all shall really have an equal chance, and where happiness and well-being shall be a universal guarantee for the citizen who does his part honest ly, manfully and well. England has been in the war longer and has thought more along this line than we in this country have. That is why-it is important for workers of all kind to hear what the labor com missioners from Great Britain have to tell us. Coal is to be reduced fifty cents a ton April 1, but we're not so much interested in the price as in whether or not there is going to be enough to meet demands. EDUCATING BOARDS THAT school boards generally do not fully understand the ob jects of a democratized educa tion, that they are too busy with politics and with details of business administration to pay proper atten tion to the higher duties of directors, is the indictment of a commit tee of which Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Pennsylva nia, is the ranking member. The striking report of this com mittee was the feature of last week's conference of educators in Atlantic City, gathered there to dis cuss war work and the revision of the school system to meet the high est ideals of the nation following the war. Says the committee: In many localities a fine spirit of co-operation between the offi cial representatives of the people and the active members of the teaching profession has always existed, but there has been as yet no national movement to or ganize the lay leadership consti tuted by the membership of Boards of Education the country over for the purpose of studying the great objectives of public education in a broad way and for the purpose of co-operating with the professional forces so organized. Attempts to organize associa tions of members of Boards of Education have frequently been made upon a State basis; in fact, some dozen or more organiza tions of this kind are now in ex istence either as sections of the Ftate associations or as separate organizations. The history of these organiza tions shows that they have been short lived; that they have been animated by no great common, all pervading purpose, and that their efforts have been directed along the lines of detail of school administration. This committee does not minimize In the least the good that has .been done by these organizations, nor does it fail to recognize them as the be ginnings of a movement that may have great possibilities. But there can be no question of the seriousness of the crisis facing the public education sys tem of tile country; even the im minence of revolution in its gen eral aims and objectives and its relation to a permanent victory for the democracy of this great standard-making nationality of f'urs. This crisis—this revolution is even now upon us and this committee believes an intelligent lay leadership of public opinion can be a potent factor in recon structing the public school sys tem of the country to meet the great needs that are every day more and more apparent to the professional forces engaged in education. An organization of Boards of Education upon a rational basis with such an end in view, ani mated by such a vision of useful ness and of service, and Insti tuted as a co-operative parallel with the reorganized National Education Association—as pro posed by the Committee on Re. organization—could be of im measurable service to the Nation and to civilization. Generally speaking, these criti cisms are fair, although of • course, there are notable excefitions. But, if school directors do not measure up to the ideals of trained educa tors who give their entire time to study and practice of the subject, the fault Is not entirely theirs. The public has been all too prone to put the school director at the bottom of the election ticket, along with ward constables, precinct assessors and judges of elections. Too often the candidates have been mere pawns upon the political chessboard. Not infrequently they have been the creatures of school furniture or textbook representatives. More fre quently they have been just plain office seekers, intent upon making the school board a stepping stone to something higher. Occasionally there i? a director who Is well quali fied to serve and is doing so for pure love of the school system. Harris burg has had such and it also has had the other kind. And for these latter the voters and the taxpayers have themselves solely to blame. If the public were as much inter ested in the election of high-type men to the school board as it is in seeing men of big caliber chosen as superintendents, supervisors and teachers, there would be no such criticism as this special committee has offered. In the long run, public office ad ministration is just as good, and never any better, than the public lt self insists upon it being, and if school boards the country over are not up to the mark, the fault lies with the fact that the voters have not recognized the importance of the office, or, realizing It, have b*u careless. fMUctU "~P(h.K3l|v<ja.MXU. By the Kx-Committeeman —Judging from the manner in which the candidacy of Acting State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey, for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina tion is being swated by many men active in the machine element of the Pennsylvania Democracy and flayed by men who do not partici pate in the conferences of the boss es, it would seem that the use of the Pitsburgh public utility man ager as camouflage had been de tected or that a goodly number of Democrats want National Chair man Vance C. McCormick to come out in the open and either announce or renounce candidacy. Guffey's candidacy has not satis fled the prohibition element of the Democracy, some of whose men would like to run Ex-State Trea surer William H. Berry, and it has irritated the Old Guard faction which remembers how Guffey acted toward his uncle, Col. James Madi son Guffey, and the rest of the old leaders, while the machinists feel that there should be a man with a greater command of ready cash. The next move wil! probably be a concentration of fire on Washing ton, so that the word will have to come from the White House, as it did four years ago, for McCormick to take up the burden and be a can didate. Meanwhile great reluctance will be registered. —Death of Senator William C. Sproul's father prevented announce ment of his can:''dacy this week. The Senator's friends are getting ready the headquarters for the boom in Philadelphia, and it is expected that William I. Schaffer, the noted Delaware county lawyer, will be in charge. The plans for the Sproul candidacy will take the Senator into many counties. —All of to-day's Philadelphia newspapers give considerable space to the charges of John M. Nobre, formerly a Philadelphia city en gineering official, that Senator Vare was paid $74,000 on his claim for certain work and that the evidence wasr destroyed. The Public ledger calls the statement "a bombshell" and the Inquirer charges that rec ords were "falsified" and "conceal ed." The Press says it was "a shock" for Vare. All of the newspapers give considerable space to the Senator's denunciation of Nobre. He calls the engineer "crooked' and asserts that the whole business was "framed up" in a political plot. Attorney General Brown, declared to have known of the matter, declared bluntly to the newspapermen that the whole thing was "a lie." The North American to day assails Senator Vare for failing to keep South Philadelphia streets clean. —Much comment has been caused in state newspapers by the an nouncement that Max Leslie and other Republican leaders in Alle gheny county, will fight any effort to have the Repubican party declare for the prohibition amendment. Ex- Mayor William A. Magee and Leslie are reported to have buried the hat chet. —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day gives much space to the Capitol Hill move to get signatures for O'Neil petitions and says that the alterna tive for not getting signatures is loss of jobs. —Easton papers say Calvin F. Smith, an Easton lawyer, will be the Palmer choice against Congressman H. J. Steele for the congressional nomination in the 26th district. —Philadelphia judges in license court this week have not established any rule for early closing, which it was hinted would be done. In coal region counties the usual procedure seems to be followed in liecenses. Chester county is having its annual struggle with the question and so is Perry. —The Altoona Times says "it is not likely" that Congressman John M. Rose will be opposed for renom ination. It says O'Neil petitions are being circulated in Blair county. —The Media and Cardington Re publican clubs, two of the largest in Delaware county, last night endorsed Senator William C. Sproul for Gov ernor. —Schuylkill county is to the front in to-day's newspapers. The Lost Creek election board judge is being tried and the Mayor of Pottsville has refused to accept an increase in pay. —Representative Wade H. Mer vine, will ru nagain. He will have "dry" opposition. —Lehigh county's two most in teresting members —Representative G. J. A. Miller and A. E. Rinn, will be candidates again. Ira T. Erd man, who represented the Allentown city district, will buck Senator Hor ace W. Sehantz for the Senate. Schantz was the first Republican ever elected to the House from Le high and his friends say he will do it again. In discussing the situation in re gard to the candidacy of Acting State Chairman Guffey, the Phila delphia Record, the really big Dem ocratic newspaper, says: "There is little doubt that before they conferred with other Demo crats hero last week both National Chairman McCormick and National Committeeman Palmer felt that Mr. Guffey could be used to some advan tage as the candidate for Governor. Democrats generally, however, gain ed the impression that the Pitts burgh leader was under favorable consideration largely upon the the ory that he had the money necessary to finance a campaign, and that he might be induced to become a can didate and take a gambler's chance of securing the worth of his invest ment in a campaign only on the pos sibility of a split in the Republican ranks large enough to insure the election of any man on the Demo cratic ticket who could command a fair percentage of the Pennsylvania Democratic vote." GERMAN GEOLOGISTS In his residential address to the Vesey Club, Dr. A. Strahan, F. R. S., stated that the Germans began three years ago to make geologists a part of their army organization. A geo logical staff was created under the direction of a professor of the Uni versity of Grelfswald, and put to work on the western front, where its advice was utilized in connection with the laying of field railways, the water supply of the army, the ex amination of marsh lands, the find-- lng of road metal, and protection against landslides due to gunfire. It is said that much more extensive use was made of geological maps than has thus far been disclosed, and that the Germans, with an eye to possi ble future wars, have been making a very thorough geological study of the occupied territory In neighbor ling countries.—From the Scientific American. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE BY BRIGGS I r PCKee> up a -s\ f ~ \ Keep That \ I GENUIHF CA"ZaiUS)j YE.s_awD WHAT DO RACKAGS AVJAY AH- IT S "fa' 3 MORN/N6 IKJ 1/y OO <p, C tf ep \ You MEAM ? I F" r ONN ™ E ~ _ v \ SEMOIME /i )( U p Sofwe- I I -r* <ni% READy / CA2ILUUS- IM fill \ 22? P " / IThiMG ELSE V J I 3)16 ' v GOOD tcLUr BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful light ning of his terrible quick sword. His truth is marching on CHORUS. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah; His truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; O be swift my soul to answer Him, be jubilant my feet. For God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, eta In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom that trans figures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, etc. LABORNOTES Women ambulance drivers in London wear steel helmets for pro tection against flying fragments of aero bombs. It is the aim of Watertown, N. Y., to have every school child in the city plant a war garden of his own. Demands of the house carpenters of Yancouver (B. C.) have been ac cepted by the employers, and the men receive $5 per eight-hour day. International Bricklayers have as sessed each member ?2 per year to look after men who have gone over seas from Canada and the United States. Ontario (Canada) Department of Agriculture suggests that threshing machines carry a full crew of men instead of farmers depending on neighbors. Officers of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders report that for the month ended January 10, 316 new members were secured. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post says there is absolutely no necessity for the importation of laborers from Mexico and China. Virginia will utilize convict labor to supply wood fuel in an attempt to relieve the coal pressure. A large number of organized bak ery plants at Cincinnati, Ohio, have voluntarily raised wages $2 a week. The United States Department of Labor is planning a national regis tration of women available for farm work. NO HYPHEN The author of this poem is a teacher in the New York public schools. Her parents are Czechs from Praprue, Bohemia. The piece first appeared in the magazine "School." It is said that Colonel Roosevelt, after reading the poem, sent a note to the author in which he expressed his appreciation and a wish that the poem might.be read in every schoolhouse In the country. To these broad shores my fathers came. From lands beyond the sea; They left their homes, they left their friends To breathe an air more free. To them an alien land it seemed, With customs strange and new. Buy my heart knows just one dear flag. The Red, the White, the Blue. Columbia, to me thou'st been A mother fond and true; My heart's best love and loyal trust, I gladly offer you. Let others sing of native lands Far o'er the ocean's foam— The spot where floats the Stars and Stripes Shall ever be my home. There Is no hyphen In my heart; It can't be cut in two. O, flag of bars and silver stars, I've given It all to you. —Josephine M, Fabricant In School. LETTERS TO FARMERS By F. R. STEVENS Agriculaurtl Director, Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce A great many of our farmers are becoming most thoroughly .discour aged at the labor situation. In a re cent meeting of a thousand farmers, resolutions wej-e passed demanding only skilled farm workers as opposed to various types of unskilled labor which it is planned to send to the farms. At another meeting several men expressed the opinion that they would be obliged to sell their stock and close up operations if their sons were drafted or if their help left. Anyone knowing anything of farm life sympathizes with these view points. Farming is hard enough at best. It is harder still with untrain ed help. But Europe is starving. We have sent hundreds of thousands of our own blood and fiber into the trenches over there and they must not go hungry. Our own people must eat. In spite of the discouragements no farmer must give up. Railroads, manufacturers of ammunition and all others are working to disadvan- Politics and Health Dcpt Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, whose death is widely lamented, was the founder of the Department of Health as it exists in Pennsylvania to-day. There had been a health organization be fore he assumed his duties of Health Commissioner, to be sure, but it was run by a secretary and it had little power or influence. Not until the Legislature made ample appro priations and enacted drastic laws and Dr. Dixon was put at the head of the new department to organize and control it, did Pennsylvania as a State, give much attention to health matters. It has now a model department due to the untiring la bors of Dr. Dixon. Administrations at Harrisburg came and went, ( but no Governor ever thought of removing the Com missioner. Could 110 have lived on, no future Governor would contem plate it. He was successful because his heart was in his work. Partisan politics did not enter into his scheme. What Governor Brumbaugji has in mind, regarding Dr. Dixon s suc cessor, we do not know. He has ap pointed temporarily to the position, Dr. B. Franklin Royer, who has been Chief Medical Inspector and vir tually the head of the department during the Commissioner's illness. The Governor may place Dr. Royer in permanent command. He may appoint someone else. He may con tinue existing arrangements and hand the. whole question over to Senator Sproul, who, in all likeli hood, will be the next Governor. But, whatever may be done, one thing must be kept steadily In mind —the freedom of the department from politics. Bring politics into it and the great organization, now re garded everywhere as a splendid ex ample of efficiency, would lose its character and part with nrich of its usefulness. The model organization would retire from its proud position at the head of State health depart ments and sink into the oblivion that has been the fate of so many similar organizations in other states. The hand of the politician must be kept strictly off this department, therefore. —From The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jap Shipyards Speed Up The Canadian trade commissioner at Yokohama states in a recent re port that Japan is launching upon a shipbuilding campaign which will In volve the construction of 250 ships a year. He states that at the end of last September thpro were in Japan 113 shipbuilding slips owned by fcrty-two firms. In each slip a ship of 1,000 tons can be built. This is more than three times the number of shins Japan owned before the war. Many more also are building, and twenty-four slips are expected to be completed before the end of the, war. When all these berths are put into full operation, subject to a supply of steel and iron materials, Japan will be able to build more than 250 'ships, aggregating 1,000,- 000 tons yearly. How to Be Happy in Winter Ah to be a fish, freeze solid in a cake o'f Ice and let the rest of the world worry about coal shortage and loss of wages.—From the St. Paul Pioneer Preßs. tagc on account of untrained help, so must the farmer. If there are ten cows and one hundred acres and the son or herd man is taken, keep five cows and cultivate fifty acres. Don't give up. Every bushel of grain or quart of milk helps. The food sup ply is so serious that the women are preparing to work on the farms and I am not certain but that busi ness institutions of the towns and smaller cities must close their places of business for a portion of the day and go out on the farms to take a hand. There are a great many such who know how to do farm work and while they may not be able to work all day, as they did at the time they love to brag about, they can help a great deal. The time calls for the utmost effort of every American. The opportunity of planting'will not occur again until the spring of 1919, before this history and possi bly our future happiness will be de termined. Now is the time to act. LAUDER ON THRIFT In the memory of his son whose life war has claimed, Harry Lauder, famous Scotch comedian, is making his appearance at Army camps and cantonments throughout the country under the auspices of the Army and Navy Y. M. C. A., and he has dem onstrated again and again that his own personal sorrow has not lessen ed his almost magical power to make other men laugh. Ho always has something to say about thrift and the thrift campaign. As a Scotchman, though a comedian, Harry Lauder has a number of thrift maxims which he insists ought to be observed by everyone. Here are some of them; "Behave toward your purpose as you would to your best friend. "View the reckless spending of money as criminal and shun the company of the reckless spender. "Dress neatly, but not lavishly. A bank pays a higher rate of interest than your back, "Take your amusements judici ously. You will enjoy them better. "Don't throw away the qrusts— eat them. They are nourishing as beef. "It is more exhilarating to feel money in your pocket than beer in your stomach. "Remember it only takes twenty shillings to make a pound and twelve pence to make a shilling. "You can sleep better after a hard day's work than after a hard (lay's idleness. "Get good value from your trades men. They watch out that they get good money from you. "A bank book makes good read ing—better than some novels."— From the Oregon Journal. AD FIN EM —By Jean Brooke Burt. When it is over and the Great Cause won, . Then you can say how hard It was to go. We two together, underneath the sun, Alone, on some far hill where sweet winds blow But now there is not time for talk, just deeds Of sacrifice, made glorious to us all. We will be brave for one another's needs. Answering dry-eyed the country's call. We will be wise, my Love, unto the end When you must leave me. not for lorn, for now I know our hearts ffame as one Are, and blend Like mist that gathers at a steam er's bow. We have had days together, you and X; Memories of these lie fresh with in my heart. So when the hour must come to say good-by. Remembering, I will be brave to part. When It is over, If you come to me, Your clear eyes kind with knowl edge'of the fires Of battle-fields, God grant we two will see Peace, and the waiting dreams of our desires. EDITORIAL COMMENT Von Hindenburg says he will be in Paris by April. Heaven help him if he's caught.—Savannah News. The Russian revolution is nearly a year old and you'd hardly know it for the same baby.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. "Right will eventually prevail," says the Kaiser. So he's getting despondent, is he?— Nashville South ern Lumberman. Revelations of the profits taken by the contractors indicate that the Hog Island navy-yard is rightly named. —Wichita Eagle. That boasted German offensive can not be any more so than the conduct of the nation.—Baltimore \merican. In it dealings with Russia, Ger many is willing to make peace piece by piece.—New York Sun. Not the least confusing thing about the Bolsheviki is the stuff that is being written by people who have just returned from Russia.—Savan nah News. When von Hindenburg gets to Paris next April he might have the Kaiser's 1914 Christmas dinner warmed over for him.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. OUR DAILY LAUGH FOR THE RAINY DAY. Jj Jones ia S. n. y around borrow jxy? in g money / V* again. I r I thought he J # \\m had plenty of / / money. M So he has, but II \ * lle wanta t0 / \ x keop it "w NOTHING TO BAY. "Money talks." "Yes, and all my life I've been a poor conversationalist." A SURE WAY. "What's the surest way to get rich." "Spend less than you mahe." DISAGREEABLE. "I never talk back to my -wife." "How disagreeable you must be at timea." turottig Qipi Officials of the State Boar£ Education have undertaken an In quiry into the chances of the Stat* being able to secure for 1 its per manent School Fund, royalties or taxes on coal which may be taken or v dredged from the beds of streams of Pennsylvania. The subject has been discussed for years, and the authors of the school code incorporated a provision that the Fund should be given all receipts from escheated property and sales of State property and products. The revenue from the Forestry preserves has been a big factor in increasing the Fund and revival of coal dredging on an extensive scale and prospects of some mining in rivers has brought up the question again at the Capitol. In the last few weeks a project has been advanced for municipal taxa tion of coal dredged from the Sus quehanna and Schuylkill by cities and boroughs along the banks. It is probable that where the streams are within the class known as navi gable highways that the matter may be referred to the national govern ment, while the state end will be placed in the hands of the Attorney General's Department for advice. • ♦ Preliminary reports coming to the State Department of Agriculture are to the effect that in many townships peach trees have suffered severely from the extremely cold weather of this winter. The department's tree inspectors have been directed to ten > der advice to owners of orchards which have been affected, so that trees may be treated and made to produce. • • "The biggest service the Arkansas Food Commission has been able to render the people of that state," said Walter M. Ebel. publicity direc tor for that body, during a visit to his old home in this city yesterday, "was to teach the farmers of the Northern part of the state how to make cornbread. We believe we have devised the best recipe for this dainty there is in the country. Hun dreds of people who never knew what cornbread tasted like, are now eating it every day of their lives in Arkansas," he continued. "If any of my old friends in Harris burg would like to have a copy of the recipe I would be glad to for ward it to them from my office in Little Rock." Mr. Ebel brought from Washing ton, a most encouraging message from Food Administrator Hoover, for timid persons who may fear the war will lead to starvation. "No, such thing as starvation for us," Mr. Hoover, told the food delegates gathered, "We are good for fifteen years of the war. But," and the ad ministrator laid stress on the point. ' our people will have to re-construct their ideas as to what constitutes a square meal and they will have to use less of wheat and more of corn and other meals. It is not at all a question of going hungry, but of making the demand for any one kind of food meet the supply." An eatless day was almost a cer tainty on Train 25, westbound on the "Pennsy" Saturday. Trainmen came to the rescue, and with other volunteers, passengers enroute to Pittsburgh and other points west, were prevented from going hungry. When this popular train pulled out of Philadelphia, behind schedule time, it was found that four dining car waiters were not aboard. The cooks were there; also the steward and one waiter. Travelers on the train that day appeared to be un usually hungry and there were early demands for a noonday meal. The "eats" were ready, but the rush was so great that passengers who were to leave the train at Harrisburg, were in danger of losing. The stew ard became a waiter and trainmen helped him out in his regular duties, one taking the orders and delivering them to the kitchen. Later another waiter was secured. Those who were bound for Harrisburg and Altoona were accommodated first. Then came the Pittsburgh passengers. On the arrival of the train in this city, local waiters were sent west with the train. • * • State Librarian Thomas Lvnch Montgomery, who had a birthday yesterday, had a number of very pleasant experiences. However, one telephone message gave him a jolt. "Hello," sang a voice, "This is a newspaper reporter, I want the State Librarian's office." "This is it," answered Dr. Mont gomery, in his blandest, birthday tone. "What's in this story that the State Librarian is dead?" , "Dead?" remarked Dr; Mont gomery. "You don't mean it. Well. I'll tell. It's true. I have known it for some time, but I don't want it to get out." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Leonard Replogle, the former Johnstown man who is in charge of steel purchase for the government, is a great believer in looking up things himself and the terror of clerks and others who make inper fect statements. —Major John O. Kinter, of the Medical Corps of the United States Army, has been placed in charge of the army hospital at Markleton. —The Rev. Dr. John Royal Har ris, active spirit in the Dry Federa tion. ti making a series of speeches in Western Pennsylvania. —The Rev. Kark Grannon, new auxiliary bishop of Erie, was for years rector at Meadville. —George R. Wallace, prominent Pittsburgh lawyer, is making dally speeches for War Savings. | DO YOU KNOW "] —That Harrisburg Is furnish ing sausage for army camps? HISTORIC HARRTSnUBG Paxton creek used to be lined wit brick and wood yards 100 years ago. Almost everyone owned a yard of some kind in that section. The Stamp of Success He bought a little thrift stamp, then He bought a little bond. And next he bought a house and lot Beside a lily pond. He bought a pianola and He bought a diamond pin. A flivver and a portable Garage to keep it in. He also bought a city block. A yacht, a limousine. With two twin chauffeurs up in front Dolled up in Russian green; A railroad and a factory And steamship line, for so Do fortunes in the U. S. A. From little thrift stamps grow. —Minna Irving, in New York Sun,
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