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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1918 I would have you be like a fire well kindled, which catches at every thing you throw in, and turns it into flame and brightness. —MAßOUS AURELIUS. WISCONSIN AND US WISCONSIN has redeemed itself to some degree in the eyes of citizens of other common wealths by taking Senator Lafol lette to account for his unpatriotic course in Congress. But even the professional reformers, who a few years back were wont to point to Wisconsin as the ne plus ultra of democratic thought and the world's leading exponent of "new freedom," will be compelled to revise their opinions and concede that a State where the Legislature is divided 53 to 32 on the advisability of censur ing such a friend of the Kaiser as Lafollette must have a tincture of something stronger than advanced sociology in its system. Once upon a time we were wont to sit with bowed head while the admirers of Wisconsin sang its praises continually in our ears and derided poor, old, slow-going, con servative Pennsylvania because her people declined to be stampeded into adopting such radical governmental measures as the wild-eyed disciples of Lafollette were writing by the score upon the statute books of their commonwealth. There were times when many of us wondered if, after all, we of the Keystone State might not be a bit more pre cipitate in our revision of long-ac cepted governmental formulas. It looked just a little as though Wis consin might be going to get so far ahead in the matter of advanced democracy that nobody would want to live in slow-going Pennsylvania. But now we are quite content. We perceive that there is some vir tue In stability. We begin tQ under stand that a people who are not rushed off their feet by every new promise of Heaven-on-earth byway of the State Legislature may also be slow to change their ideas as to what constitutes patriotism. We, in Pennsylvania, may not be very strong for the recall and ref erendum, but we have a mighty re spect for the Spirit of Seventy-Six, the sacrifice of Valley Forge and the courage of Gettysburg. The difference between Wisconsin and Pennsylvania is that the Pennsyl vania Legislature wouldn't ever have an opportunity of voting to censure a Senator so utterly at vari ance with the thought of the country as is Lafollette, for the very simple reason that there would be crepe on his door long before the assem bly could be called into special ses sion. We may be a bit oldfashioned as to our belief in law as the pana cea for all public ills, but we who live in the State of Wayne and Muhlenburg are pretty quick on the trigger when anybody begins to shy rocks at the Stars and Stripes. One believer in the Darwinian the ory of evolution thinks the Kaiser is a "throw back toward an ancient type," but why cast reflections upon the lives of those poor, old dead-and gone gorillas, who are supposed to have been our forebears? DR. MONTGOMERY REAPPOINTMENT of THOMAS Lynch Montgomery as State Librarian was not surprising. Dr. Montgomery has so many quali fications for the position and so much experience in its duties that Governor Brumbaugh, himself t a scholar and lover of books, readily saw, as did Governors Stuart and Tener before him, the wisdom of Governor Pennypacker's selection of the Phlladclphian as custodian of Pennsylvania's literary collections. Dr. Montgomery has been one of the leading figures in raising money for the establishment of camp li braries for soldiers and has done a great work for the Army in help ing provide good books for many studious young men Jaken away from school or desk by the call of the draft. He has hundreds of friends in Harristnirg who will re- . . ' ■ M ' " " 'T?? 1 " '? THURSDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! MARCH 7, 1918. joice that he is to continue in the office he has gracved for so many, years. The Kaiser must be a constant reader of Dickens, despite his hate for the English, else explain why he speaks so often in the Pickwickian sense. PRUSSIAN PEACE THE Bolsheviki professed to be lieve that their "brother work men" in Germany could not be induced to fight them if they, the Russians, declined to continue the war with Germany. Thousands of ill-advised Ameri cans agreCa with them ahd wasted silly sentimentalities on the "brotherhood of nations" that was to be inaugurated when German So cialists threw dowp their guns and rushed to embrace the peaceful Russians. These were the same foolish folks j who believed William Jennings Bryan's doctrine that no nation would fight us whom we refused to fight. And now observe the course of the German Socialists with Russia! Has any one of them laid down his rifle? Not one! He is too busy trying to reach Petrograd to give the Bolsheviki more than a fraternal bullet or an affectionate jab with his bayonet as he goose , steps along. Thesfe events should provide food for th&ught on the par# of Ameri cans who may have leanings to ward an inconclusive peace. The only good German is a beaten Ger man and the only road to Teutonic repentance is byway of a smashing military defeat and the utter rout of the Potsdam gang. The appear to be learning some things about Lenine and Trotzky that some other folks have long sus pected. MURDEROUS RLASPHEMER THE Kaiser praises God for ''vic tory over Russia" the while he winks at the Turks busily murdering Armenian women and children. The spectacle of Wilhelm the Murderer holding hands with Abdul the Dammed is one to set Satan wondering if hell's fire is really hot enough. The Japs ought to have an easy time taking over the government of . Siberia —there's so little of it. ACTION JUSTIFIED THE Federal authorities are jus tified in holding Prof. Liebig, the Technical high school teacher, dismissed for pro-Gsrman sentiments. The public wiK heartily approve of a thorough probing of the whole incident. Before Lleblg is released it should be shown that his skirts are absolutely clear, not because anybody has any antago nism for the man himself, but be cause, as the Providence Journal says, "Every German or Austrian in the United States, unless known by years of association to be absolutely loyal, should be treated as a poten tial spy." Liebig may be innocent. Again he may be guilty. We must take no chances. It is for all of us to keep eyes and ears open and whenever we note a suspicious act or hear a dis loyal word it is our duty to com municate at once with the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, care of the Harrisburg post office. We are at war with the most merciless and inhuman government the world has ever known. Men without honor and without con science, whose savagery and dis regard for human life would put a hungry crocodile to shame, are try ing to undermine our nation and so get us at their mercy. .Hundreds and thousands of these people in this country want to see America humil iated and beaten to her knees and they are doing and will do, every thing in their power to bring this about. Take nothing for granted. Energy and alertness in this direction may, save the life of your son, your hus band or your brother. Help the au thorities all you can, by reporting every disloyal act or word. • About the only thing we know of the Russian situation is that we don't know anything about it. HELP THE FARMERS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FRANK B. McCLAIN, who has been appointed chairman of the Farm Labor Committee in this State, sounds a warning note when he says that it may be necessary for some townspeople to give up their work or their businesses temporarily to go into the country to help the farmers. The labor shortage on the farms is serious. At a time when the nation is begging them to raise more provisions than ever before the farmers are left without suffi cient men to do the work. Either this lack must be supplied or the country will suffer severely next winter. The purchase of $50,000 worth of farm tractors by the State i 3 a step in the right direction, but this is merely a drop In the bucket. Mr. McClain will be pleased to re ceive the names of men and boys willing to give the whole or part of theft time for farm work, with pay, the coming summer. ————— Fishermen are going to have a good excuse this year. Somebody has to help Mr. Hoover keep up the fresh flsh supply. There's this about It—the man who loans money doesn't have to borrow trouble. fcK . pouvCijurcuvca By the Ex-Commlttccman I - The first nominating' petition for the May primary to reach the State Capitol this year arrived at the De partment of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to-day, having been sent by Representative Frederick C. Relchenbacher, Honesdale, candi date for Republican renomination for the House In the Wayne county district. Ordinarily the first petition is received within forty-eight hours after the time for circulating begins. Saturday was the first day to circu late papers. The State Department has sent out hundreds of nominating petitions to men who have asked for papers to permit them to become legislative candidates and there has also been a brisk demand for congressional papers. Lieutenant Governor McClain will shortly issue the writs for special elections to fill vacancies in the dis tricts formerly represented by Audi tor General Charles A. Snyder and the late Senators J. P. McNlchol, Philadelphia, and Charles J. Magee, Pittsburgh. —The prohibition amendment is sue, which has been seriously dis cussed by Senator Penrose with a number of influential Republicans, many of whom have advised him that it is going to be the big thing this campaign, is assuming shape in Philadelphia and the Vares are talk ing about it far more earnestly than ever before. There are signs of dis tinct alignments on the subject in many counties among both Repub licans and Democrats and between now and the first of May there will be numerous conferences to discuss the trend of sentiment 1 which' is growing in favor of the amendment every day. The liquor people are now planning to concentrate upon legislative elections, recognizing that the Governor will not have anything at all to do with the amendment which will be before the Legislature solply. —Just as an indication of the at tention being given to the prohibi tion amendment the following from the Philadelphia Record is inter esting: '• 'The prohibition amend ment looks as though it is going to be a big issue and probably the only issue,' was the answer which Sena tor Vare gave yesterday -frhen asked whether he thought the amendment would figure as an issue in the com ing campaign. His brother, Con gressman Vare, subscribed to the same sentiment. Senator Vare also added that 'the churchgoing people of the state, irrespective of denomi nation,' were going to be a factor in naming the next gubernatorial can didate of the Republican party. The Senator declared that information he h<vl received from over the state showed that the church people were organizing their forces to support candidates committed to the amend ment." —The Record is furnishing much entertainment for Republicans and concern for Democrats by its edi torials insisting that the Democrats nominate a big man for governor. It takes this whack to-day at the party bosses who have been making Acting State Chairman Joe Guffey trot around like a candidate. "The election of a Democrat fit to be gov ernor of Pennsylvania at the No vember election is not likely, to be aided by the fact that the nominee of the party is the choice of those who have been selected to_ hold Fed eral jobs under President Wilson's administration. This is not to ques tion the fact that some able Penn sylvanians have been honored by appointment by the President, but they as well as the others have enough to do to attend to the busi ness for which they are paid with out trying to bluff their fellow- Democrats into the belief that their choice of a candidate for governor carries the conviction that they rep resent the President's personal views as to the best nominee for the gov ernorship of Pennsylvania." —Treatment accorded John M. Nobre, the Philadelphia city sur veyor, who made the charges against Senator E. H. VSre, when the Phila delphia policemen arrested him on a warrant charging libel, was de nounced by newspapers last night and this morning as "brutal." Sena tor Vare remonstrated with officials about it and after he had told the people at City Hall what he thought of their performances Director Wil liam H. Wilson issued this state ment: "The treatment accorded Mr. Nobre after his arrest was entirely uncalled for. Had I known about it it never would have taken place. I did not even know of his arrest un til long after he was taken into cus tody, He should have been treated with every courtesy jvhich is usually extended to a person under similar circumstances and similar charges." —Among members who sat in the last House and who are candidates this year with a strictly prohibition standing in addition to Robert S. Spangler,. of York, are expected to be Samuel McCurdy, Blair; Harry B. Scott, Centre; Allan D. Miller, Sus quehanna; George W. Williams, Tioga and C. G. Corbin, Mifflin. —Two Juniata county legislators —J. G. Dill, Huntingdon county, and C. C. Corbin, Mifflin county, are candidates for re-election. —Clark M. Bower is preparing a lively legislative campaign in Perry County. He is a permanent member of the State Board of Agriculture. —Western Pennsylvania Demo crats have just awakened to the fact that the bill to create a third fed eral judge for that part of the state is about to become a law and that W. A. Griffith of Pittsburgh, has many papers started for his ap pointment to the place. Griffith is a great friend to the powers that rule the Democracy in western counties. —Allegheny county commission ers, says the Pittsburgh Post, are going to Washington to offer hospi tals and sites to the government. The commissioners seem to be some travelers, since O'Neil got out. —Considerable interest is being manifested throughout the state in what will happen 15 months from now, when the Perry-Juniata judi cial primaries are held. Perry has the most-votes, but the "dry" major ity In Juniata is proportionately greater. —A Bellefonte dispatch says: "Congressman Charles H Rowland has publicly stated (hat he will not be a candidate for another term, and the result is that five Republic an aspirants are In the field, in the persons of H. M. MeCreight. of Du- Bois; Evan Jones, of Bradford; Dr. Richelson, of Bradford; Dr. Jonath an Currier and W. I. Swoope, of Clearfield. W. A. Tobias, of Clear field. will make another run for the Democratic nomination." —J. Purdy Cope, head of the Mon roe County Hotelmen's Association, will be a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for senator against Senator K. P. Watner. of Carbon. J. E. Tiffany. Democrat committee man from Wayne county, also as pires to run. Warner says he will be a candidate anyway. AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'T BYBRIGGS " " 1 1 I'm''. ■ i ■ WHEN You ARRtv/e AT -AMD YOUR FRIEND PHONES - AMD IAJHEN V OO GO TO. THE OFHCE OUT OF THB • YoU HE WILL CW.L FOrYgu VbUR BAG To <SET YoUR RAINJ-YOUR HAIR ALL AMD TAKE, I PONDER AND PUFF - I VAJOPSV AND Youra I-A ce \AJHH YOU —• oe-i HAPPY PAY. IT ISN T | HERE ' ALL •> A^ D ~~~ -AMD AS "TO BE ANJ) JUST AS YoO 'dEGIM TO , THE" ONLV LADY E>AP LOYEC THIISK OF? CALLING OFF THE / \ AIMT IT A IN THE OFF'CE You FRANTICAUY DATE - You THINK OP A CERTAIM O O DAWFT S&"ABCH THE gjjL *OTHER PLACE U/HERE. You v pePTHS OF • HASTIL-Y PUT - 'l\ [if nxp m lT H j , .Soldier j HE p EOpi s I— KICEI* J l'K IIOME FIRES "DRINKING" SOLDIERS BURNING To the Editor of the Telegraph: They wore summoned from the hill- , sid e> atop Eating Soldiers'." says Thev we're called in from the clen Herbe >" t Kaufman in February Cos iney were canea inrrom tne glen, mo politan. To quote further, he And the country found them ready says: At the stirring call for men. "The flag out front signifies noth- Let no tears add to their hardship, {"f b "" less lt s also han S'"S In the As the soldiers pass along. ""Democracy is equally menaced And although your heart is break- by gluttony and Germany. Don't ing, crucify Civilization on a cross of Make it sing this cheery song. knives and f0rk5....... Extravagant Americans are hold- CHORUS. ing whole regiments from the Keep the home fires burning, sort's of submarines threat hm hearts are yearning, en tlle a jjj es — t jj e U-boat isn't a ?w 8 5™ r ? I £„m2. faP y whlt more effective than the slacker They dream of home. garbage-pall." 1 here s a sih er lining Quite true, we all admit. nnf' Stop Drinking Soldiers! Can't we , l >.!? a himi as Consistently say this? % till the bojs come home. In the Telegraph of March 1, we n,™ „„„„ read that a list of the names of 6,- SL tfo,f " 000,000 American women, headed by izr?srJ2sn. ss Pnr 1 rn! n riwrtnm Wilson, requesting him to make a To the* tyrant yoke will bend. "Tlnks °' A, To Yhe* acred c"l This grain would niake noo ' ooo ' tne saciea can irienas. yeg four m jm on> i oaV es of bread' a day. How many in a year? Mul- SMILE' tlply by 365 and you have —what? 1,450,000,000 —one billion, four hun- There are millions of American dred and sixty million loaves of citizens to-day, chiefly mothers, sis- bread in one year. . .. * _. And the world is coming to a ters, wives and sweethearts, who are starvation Diet helping to Germanize this country The Rev. Ailen C. Shue, Ridge as effectively as though they har- Avenue Methodist Church, York, bored German spies and set off Ger- p a „ preached a sermon on Sunday, man bombs. How? By weeping, rebelling, pining, wining or com- plaining when their boy sets out as T . n s\ n nmTrc a knight of old, to slay the Prussian , LtAtSUti dr MUlions of Americans who Im- Tt ls Predicted that in a sfiort time, agine themselves loyal are guilty of the eight-hour day will be universal mental desertion and emotional in Finland. treason. They have sent their boy to the front with a heavy.heart, a Metal working unions in the Blr sad memory, a mind full of worry m lngham (Ala.) district have form and the poison of dejection thinning . „ _ .. and cooling his blood. Then they metal trades council, write him weak, whimpering'letters, perhaps not knowing that when a Government grading of butter is soldier gets a downhearted letter recomended by the Canadian Fro from home his fighting power drops duce Men's Association, 30 to 60 per cent, according to the temperament of the soldier and the Organized papermakers demand a contents of the letter. What differ- general increase in pay. ence does it make whether an American soldier is wounded by a New York city bindery girls are German missile or by an American waging a higher wage campaign. missive? He is wounded just the same, isnt's he? —E. E. Purinton in Mattress ipakers at Dallas, Tex., the Indpenedent, (N. Y.) have organized a union. ft irn t*t a n pm iif do nt TXT 1 nverness (Scotland) joiners have •WHAI WAli ol AMl J S BUY been increased four cents an hour. Most all of the"barbers In Ger tent pole or five tent pins, a waist m now are women . belt or hat cord, shoe laces or iden- tiflcfttion tags; two will buy one phone Klrl „ at Jacksonville. Fla., trench tool or a pair of woolen t. nvp n rcanizd for t.iv gloves. Four Thrift Stamps will have or k anl/ed ror '"creased pay. buy two pairs of canvas leggins; six There are 5 000 women farme rs in will buy five pairs of woolen socks jij ssour i or three suits of summer underwear; ' twelve will buy a steel helmet. Boilermakers at Lorain, Ohio, One War-Saving Stamp will buy have organized. one hundred cartridges or a car- tridge belt or a scabbard for a bay- Sacramento bartenders ask ln onet, two will purchase two pairs of crease( j pa y an( j a nine-hour day. woolen breeches or two flannel shirts; two and a half will buy a gas Butcher workmen at Blooming mask. Three War Savings Stamps ton jjj have a 100 per cent, organ will buy an overcoat or two woolen i z ..tion servltfe coats: three and a half will ' (buy three pairs of woolen blankets; CFVTRV CC% four will buy a rifle. . &C.IV I il X-UU , I used to be so lonely when I waked In the I riming Office at night and couldn't sleep, j „ lt _ „ „ But since my father went to war, I I can not read it, father father, think Perhaps he has to see! keep I can not read It; spell it out for me. The wa tch to-night, and up and I thought that surely I my letters down he marches, marches knew, with his gun! a 'lvi'llrf y n tVtn IE ♦ v, d ° So then 1 walk in step wlth hlm the So spake a child who, at his fathers whole night long—we had 8 ■ such fun Walked through a printing room, Q , for walks . .. when he was and vainly tried here.... and when it's cold, To read the type. The printer, smil- I wonder whether ■.T ing, laid f Perhaps he doesn't mind the cold so Upon the press a sheet, and kindly much, if we're on guard to. said. *, gether " Come 'Ji" le ° n *' and tr y t0 reafl —By Amelia Josephine Burr, once more These letters; for they were reversed before. But now they're plain." The clouds from that fair brow . Till? Soon passed away, for he can fead * -"Jl it now. 1 So with our Father's' dealings; day by day * No Mitigation We try to read, and puzzled turn j n 1917 "A" purchased a prope away. f eot ty #i an a i n order to straight Why this was done, or that allowed attorney and resorted to court „ A . .. . duction to cover the fee paid But in the world to come, through No. such items are held to his clear light, erty" and therefore not allowat We, too, shall read the mystery aright.—Herald E. Presbyter. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM THE INCOME TAX No Mitigation For Litigation— In 1917 "A" purchased a property, the title to which proved "de fective, and in order to straighten the matter out he employed an attorney and resorted to court proceedings. Can he claim a de duction to cover the fee paid the attorney and the court cost? No. Such items are held to be a part of the cost of the prop erty" and therefore not allowable as deduction. from which I quote the following, printed in the York Daily, March 4: "It takes a pound of coal to bu-ew a pint of beer, 60,000,000 barrels of beer were brewed last year. Think of this waste of coal while people were freezing, and ships with sup plies for the Allies had to wait be cause they had no coal to fire their boilers." William Kuhlkopf, president of the York Brewing Company is re ported to have said: "The maltsters have enough material on hand to keep us going a few years yet." Last year 135,000,000 bushels of grain were used in the manufacture of liquor. If this grain had been converted into bread, there would have.been a loaf every day of the year to 15,000,000 of families. In addition to that, great Britain wasted 600,000 tons of grain in brewing 10,000,000 barrels of beer. Cattle feed is both high and scarce. Where is our meat to come from? Does Great Britain prefer beer to beef? Do we? How much (or how little) cattle feed can a stock raiser, farmer, dairyman, or poultry raiser, buy for a five-dollar bill? The past summer has shown that women unaccustomed to hoe and rake have proved their earnestness in their efforts to produce more food. Our men can be as self-sacrificing if they try. How about it, Men of America? Shall it be said of you that you are Drinking Soldiers as well as Eating Soldiers. CONSISTENCY. EDITORIAL COMMENT "None but legislators are privi leged to act on ratilication of the Federal Prohibition Amendment. The Governor can neither approve nor veto the ratification resolution. It does not go to him at all. It is important that there be no confu sion about this. Advocates of rati fication will advance the cause in just one way; by nominating in the primaries Republican candidates who are pledged ta vote In the affirmative and then electing them at the November elections. It should not be necessary to warn those concerned against scattering their} fire. Pittsburgh Gazette- Times. For many, many montbs, the Re publican press of the country pro tested against the policy of needless secrecy maintained by the Adminis tration. Now comes the Secretary of War with the order that "here after the practice be adopted of freely making public the names of all contractors for military supplies" and it is intimated that prices and other Information regarding pur chases will also be made public. Having finally acknowledged that the Republican press of the country was right, the Secretary ought to make due apologies in behalf of those of his partisan supporters who were so ready to accuse their neigh bors of near-treasen. —Franklin (Chambersburg) Repository. Resignation Why, Why repine, my pensive friend, At pleasure slipped away? Some the stern fates will never lend. And all refuse to stay. I see the rainbow in the sky, The dew upon the grass; I see them, and I ask not why They glimmer or they pass. J With folded arms I linger not To call them back; 'twere vain; In this, or in some other spot, I know they'll shine again. —Walter Savage Landor. / ; Otfer tfo L\i "~pc>uvcu The Government has sent to France as superintendent .of the American railways over there the man who was recently conspicuous for moving a coal car 268 miles in 23 days. Hope he don't use that car traveling to France. Leave it to Sousa to spring some thing new in the music line. He has just knocked off a brand new march to boost ship building and the brass instruments are sprinkled with sirens, anvito and air riveters, to lend realism. It is said to be a corker. Over in London they have slamm ed Bertrand Russell into gaol for saying derogatory things about America. Foolish Bertrand! Why don't you come over here and be safe? "Did your new dressmaker give you a good fit?" "Did she? They had two doctors working on me when I saw how I looked in it." No matter how loyal an American, sometimes any one of us is likely to be peeved at the methods* in Washington, as reported in the press. "If the Germans could be licked like the Philistines, with the jaw-bone of an ass," exclaims a grouchy country editor, "You could get a bunch of handy weapons down in our Congress." OUR DAILY LAUGH I '/ //it/Z/, HUNGRY. Poker: Why / 50 sa( *' 'yfe. Coal Scuttle: y 1 can't help It, E~ I've been empty // most all winter. ■ SO DO WE. wi6h the sugar bowl was not J empty all the | ,1"', Umi. . REAL/LY OLD- _ FASHIONED. Oh, he never talks about what's going to t happen after the war; keeps right on trying to tell the smart things his younget k i d . aavs and does. fl FOULOIVTNO A \ DIRECTIONS. Bug Co?: fVILLS Hey, come back fcfcJ here with that. 1 Bug: I won't. _ , v - The doctor told me to take a Biwrtng (Mjat "I sincerely hope that the gov ernment works out some plan where by the farmers can get help. This kind of weather is causing things to move on the farm and we want to increase the foodstuffs and do lots of things after the hard winter which wo have passed, but we need help" declared William T. Creasy, former Master of the State Grange and boss farmer generally. Mr. Creasy estimates that tlie supply of farm labor in Pennsylvania was short about seventy-five per cent be cause of the war. "I don't mean that so many farmer lads have gone to the Army. Plenty of them are under arms, but there has been many who left before the war be gan to go to the industrial centers, on the railroads and to other lines of work. The farms have been hit and stable farm labor is needed," con tinued the farmer. "Pennsylvania is getting to be a big food-raising state and we have important work to do feed our people. But we need help on the farms, that is all there is to it. The subject is one which must be worked out and that right ,early." * * * Col. George Nox McCain, who will be in charge of the news end of the State FQod Administrator, at a salary of nothing a year at his own request, is well known to many Harrisburgers. The colonel was for years the political editor of the Philadelphia Press and was a col nel on the staff of Governor Hast ings. Few men in Pennsylvania know the state better and few are better known. The colonel has been in every county and although re tired he has a grasp of affairs equaled by few. He is noted not only as a writer and observer, but as traveler and lecturer. The col nel's good hard sense and apprecia tion of nws values will simplify things for the Food Administration. * There are some very practical ideas being spread regarding ad dresses to be made here by men who are out of tune with the times or relative to any proposed meet ings by organizations not in sym pathy with the struggle in which we are all engaged. A couple of men engaged a policeman in con versation about the matter and the officer when asked what he would do if any speaker got violent, was terse. "Wait," was what he said. "Guess not," muttered one of the men, "I can throw eggs and run faster than you." • • * Linwood W. Wanbaugh, Harris burg boy serving his country in France, writes to his father, Linwood B. Wanbaugh, a member of the Tele graph Family, that the captain of the company of which he is acting mess sergeant is not going to be without "garden sass" the coming summer if he knows it. The com pany is attached to a supply base and likely to remain at its present headquarters indefinitely. The cap tain has instructed Wanbaugh to skirmish about for garden seeds and to see that a big plot nearby and available for the purpose is planted. The soldiers of the company will do the cultivating and the harvesting. • • Little Kathryne Frick, the mar velous deaf and blind girl— she is no longer dumb, having learned to talk —has knitted two pair of wristlets for soldiers and is now at work on a sweater. The little girl's parents live in Harrisburg but she is a stu dent .at Mt. Airy School, near Phila delphia. "This is a fine example fot girls more fortunate than Miss Frick," says one of her teachers commenting on her talent and in dustry. • • While there has been no notice able decrease in the number of mar riage licenses issued in Dauphin county, the clerks of this'bureau for the first time In months are having dull days. Since the first of Jan uary on a number of days no li censes were issued —an unusual rec ord—as last year during the entire twelve months there were only one or two days on which no certificates were given out. • • ♦ , Highway Commissioner O'Neil was being waited upon by some folks tho other day who wanted a road built and according to Capitol gossip the commissioner was given some grat uitous information about construct ion. His caller evidently was well versed, but he did not think the com missioner was. So he rambled on and on and used technical terms and much inside road stuff. Suddenly the commissioner remarked that the methods were old and proceeded to lay out the argument. Then some one told tho caller that Mr. O'Neil had been tho main factor in the con struction of Allegheny's road system and knew the subject better than anything else. Capitol Park attaches are sweep ing the grass. This is not a joke but a fact. Every spring there is found, when the snow passes away, an accumulation of cigar ends, nut shells and what not, all thrown up on the snow. The only way to get rid of it is to sweep it up. * • • Mayor Daniel L. Keister, who is urging the people to sit down and work out their war garden plans, in tends to do so himself. "I'm going to sacrifice some flower beds and what's more I'm going to do some woiTt myself" said he. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Morris Knowles, Pittsburgh engineer, has been named as chief engineer of the National Housing department's work. —Col. J. Granville Leach, well known here, has been chosen as head of the Philadelphia Genealog ical society. —Warden Edward Lewis, of the Allegheny county prison, was start led the other night when they filled up the prison with slackers. He said the prison was filled for the first time and he insisted that armories be used. —Thomas S. Gates, prominent lif state banking, has resigned as head of one of the Philadelphia Trust Companies to enter Drexel & Com pany. —Ex-Attorney General Hampton L. Carson presented the potrait of Congressman George S. Graham to the Philadelphia Law Association. DO YOU KNOW ~ —That Harrisburg is mak ing several kinds of special steels for war purposes? This city has been a center for that kind of work for years. HISTORIC HARRINBURG The first big stprm that ever hit the city was back in 1790 when it cleared the river front of many | storage sheds.
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