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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,