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SATURDAY, MARCTI 9, 1018
It is not a lucky word, this same
'impossible"; no good comes of
those that have it so often in their
mouths. — CABLYLE.
"THUNDERS OF SILENCE"
THE Saturday Evening Post a
■week or two ago published a
story by Irvin Cobb, entitled
"The Thunders of Silence," in which
a thinly veiled picture was presented
of a notoriously disloyal United
States Senator and what happened
to him after the newspapers of the
United States had refused to publish
his name. The final paragraph left
him a nerve-wrecked suicide in the
waters of Lake Michigan. He had
lived by publicity; when St was de
nied him he died.
It Is so with marty of his kind.
Newspaper and magazine advertis
ing, whether published in praise or
censure, is the very breath of life
to them. They cannot ply their ne
farious trade without it The traitor
to his country loves to masquerade
in the garb of the martyr. It gives
him the ear of shallow-thinkers and
the sympathy of those whose mental
eyesight is too dim to see the horns
and the hoofs beneath the cloak of
injured virtue.
The Telegraph, with other right
thinking newspapers, believes that
there is no room outside of a deten
tion camp for men of this stripe in
these critical times. It is helping to
fight a powerful, unscrupulous foe
from without: it has no time to
waste with parasites within. It has
closed its columns, first page to last
page, to publicity for men of this
type.
Every time you lick a Thrift Stamp
you give the ICalser a lick, too.
"FOUR MINUTE MEN"
LISTEN" to the "Four Minute
Men." They have a message for
every American. These patriots
have volunteered to spread the gos
pel of loyal Americanism by word of
mouth wherever people gather to
gether. Their next campaign will
be to inform every wage-earner, or
salaried or propertied man that he
must make an income tax report
April 1.
The "Four Minute Men" have un
dertaken to perform an ungrateful
task, for this of their message
should not be necessary. The news
papers have printed columns upon
columns of warnings ort this sub
ject. The man who does not know
that he is required to file an in
come tax report is grossly careless
or he is trying to dodge his share
of the war tax.
But the "Four Minute Men" will
have something also for the patriot
who Is seeking information as to
what he is required to do in help
ing Uncle Sam find out about the
slackers and the duty of each man
In seeing that there are no income
tax dodgers in his neighborhood.
Listen to the "Four Minute Men"
wherever and whenever they speak.
They are Uncle Sam's official mouth
pieces.
pown with the Potsdam gang, with
special emphasis on the second syl
lable of the qualifying noun.
Bryan and Charley Chaplin are
to speak for the new Liberty Loan
and if they appear in Harrisburg
we know which meeting we're going
to attend.
GET OUT THE VOTE
QEVEUAL weeks ago the Penn
sylvania Anti-Saloon League
launched a campaign of agita
tion for a more complete enroll
ment of voters for the May pri
maries, pointing out that the man
who fails to name his party i ref
erence in the spring enrollment will
have no voice in the primaries.
Every organization working for
prohibition or other forms of good
government throughout the State
should be interested in this good
work. If the "dry" amendment is
in danger it is not from those who
drink or who have pronounced
"wet" inclinations, but because of
men who do not drink and who
SATURDAY EVENING, HARJUHBUHG OfsifS!& TELEGRAPH . MARCH % T9T&.
favor the adoption of prohibition'
nationally, remaining away from the
polla In May.
Be sure that the "wet" cam
paigner will see that the "wet"
vote, so far as he knows It, is fully
enrolled. He will take no chances
on his side and it is necessary that
the prohibition forces be equally
vigilant.
If you want to help nominate a
"dry" candidate for the Legislature
in your district be sure to see that
you are properly enrolled with this
or that party and then go out and
vote at the primaries. It is very
likely that thtf prohibition issue may
be decided for the next session of
the , Legislature at the nominating
elections in May.
Pennsylvania leads in the sale of
War Stamps, and now to make Har
risburg lead Pennsylvania.
THE HOUSING PROBLEM
ANDREW S. PATTERSON lets
it be known that the Chamber
of Commerce, of which he is
the head, is prepared to give Harris
burg's housing problem the prompt
attention the urgency of the situa
tion demands. This quick response
to the Telegraph's plea for early
consideration of the biggest prob
lem now confronting the city, indi
cates that the officials of the
Chamber are keenly alive to the
importance! of providing properly
and adequately for our rapidly-grow
ing population.
Mr. Patterson and his colleagues
understand very well the import
ance of keeping as permanent resi
dents a majority of the workmen
who will be attracted here shortly
by Government construction pro
jects. They know that laboring
people will no longer work in a
town that does not provida them
with comfortable, attractive, health
ful homes at reasonable rental.
Four walls no longer constitute a
home. The American workman is
a self-respecting individual, and he
earns wages sufficient to provide for
his family the type of house they
can be proud to occupy, and such
as they are entitled to have. The
city which meets this demand at-
tracts and holds -workmen. The
labor turnover in such a town is
small and the economy of proper
housing in this item alone "would
make such a movement as is con
templated well worth while, from a
dollar-and-cent standpoint, fo say
nothing of the humanitarian side,
which is a factor very properly re
ceiving more thought now than ever
before.
The employment of an expert to
make a survey and tell us what we
need as a prelude to asking the
Government to assist in meeting con
ditions which war and War Depart
ment developments hereabout have
brought forth is proper work for
the Chamber of Commerce. It was
lor just such community servioe
as this that it was organized. Its
leadership in the housing movement
should be of inestimable value.
"The Spanish premier has re
signed," which is to say, another
Spanish premier ha 3 resigned.
ENOUGH FOR ALL
NEWS that Middletown and New
Cumberland both are to have
shares of the big Government
depots to be erected in this locality
will be good tidings to partisans of
both sites.
So far as Harrisburg people are
concerned it mattered nothing to
them whether the warehouses were
placed at New Cumberland or
Middletown. This city will get its
share of the benefit in either case
and it is not jealous of the good
fortune of any of its neighbors.
The Chamber of Commerce made
representations in favor of the
Middletown site because its officials
believed that it presented the most
advantages. They acted from a
purely patriotic standpoint. They
would have been entirely willing to
see some city other than Harrisburg
selected if the country would be
better served thereby. But it was
their conviction that of the two sites,
that at Middletown was best adapted,
They held no brief for Middletown
and they had no animosity for New
Cumberland.
Engineering experts of the Army
concluded that the Middletown
site is best suited for one type of
depot and that at New Cumberland
for the other. They bow to the de->.
cision and rejoice with New Cum
berland that her devoted and pa
triotic people have been so well able
to present the advantages of that
locality to the Government. There
is glory enough for all concerned In
this, and if the Nation Is best served
by the arrangement that appears to
hava been d:ecided upon, Harris
burg is quite content.
March 13, 14 and 15 Harrisburg
women will attend the big style show
Hsrrlsburg merchants will put cn, and
it is understood they may take their
knitting with them.
The Germans have captured Jam
burg, thereby encroaching further
upon Russian preserves.
The Finnish Government, having
invited a son of the Kaiser to be
come king, might change the spell
ing a little by dropping an "n."
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Close to 10,000 nominating peti
tion blanks for the May primary
have been sent out by the Depart
ment of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth, to committees in charge
of candidates' campaigns and candi
dates or their friends. The demand
has', been very heavy, but as yet
there have been scarcely any peti
tions tiled. In some instances re
quests were made for ten times as
many papers as would be required
for the making of any man a candi
date, while in others, committees
sent in from various parts of a dis
trict.
Some gubernatorial candidates
have had their own papers printed
at private expense and from all ac
counts they will file many thousands
of names. Four years ago the De
partment of the Secretary was over
whelmed by petitions which come
in bundles* Some of the state can
didates filed enough names to have
qualified the whole list of candidates
for the state senate at the time.
The bulk of the papers is demand
are those for the House of Repre
sentatives, whose entire membership
of 207 will be elected this year.
There will be three special elections
to fill vacancies in the state senate
—People who follow state politics
were considerably interested to-day
in a declaration made by Democratic
City Chairman Edgar W. Lank, of
Philadelphia, and given much prom
inence by the Philadelphia Record,
that Vance C. McCormick is the man
who should lead the Pennsylvania
Democracy's ticket this fall. For
several days the Record has been
printing editorials expressing dis
satisfaction with Guffey. To-day it
says that McCormick is the "logical"
candidate for Governor and remarks
that leaders are "urging" incorpor
ation of a "dry" plank in the party
platform.
—The Record has this to say
about the Philadelphia chairman's
attitude: "Mr. Lank said that per
sonally he liked State Chairman
Guffey. who has been mentioned in
connection with the Governorship,
but thought that it was up to the
Democrats to put forward their
strongest candidate at this time. In
saying that McCormick -was the
strongest man who could be put for
ward he emphasized the fact that
he did not want to cast any reflec
tions on the State Chairman's
strength. Lank also added that he
considered it to be McCormick's duty
to consent to bo the party'si candi
date at this time, when the prospects
of victory were good. Charles - P.
Donnelly, Robert S. Bright and
others active in local Democratic af
fairs are known to hold the same
sentiments on the Gubernatorial sit
uation."
—Senator Sproul is putting the
finishing touches to his declaration
of principles which will be issued in
a few days and Highway Commis
sioner-O'Xeil last night at Johnstown
made a blistering speech against
rum in politics. He made his cus
tomary attack on the state organiza
tion. Representative Robert P.
Habgood is starting -a series of
speeches in northern tier towns.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
to-day announces in a first page
story that a general consolidation of
all "dry" forces in Western Penn
sylvania is under way and that the
most formidable movement in years
in temperance circles has been or
ganized in behlaf of the "dry"
amendment. It will have its head
quarters in Pittsburgh.
—An attack upon dual offlcehold
ing in Philadelphia was launched
to-day by the Public Ledger which
announces that nineteen councilmen
In dual offices reap $66,000 in yearly
salaries, accompanying it by a bitter
attack on what it terms "Vareism."
The Record says that the recent po
lice carryings-on, especially in the
automobile thefts and the Nobre af
fair, have forced a shakeup which
will shear Captain Tate of power,
while the North American continues
Its • attack on Senator Vare with
whom it used to be on more or less
friendly terms. The Inquirer says
the action of councilmen in passing
certain ordinances under suspension
of rules will likely be taken into
court on a "taxpayer's suit."
—Pittsburgh city fathers are
discussing with considerable inter
est propositions which may cause
more experts to be secured to han
dle transit and other problems.
Pittsburgh has been the happy hunt
ing ground for experts of various
kinds.
—Captain H. B. Fetterolf, of Col
legeville, according to Montgomery
county newspapers, has aspirations
to run for the Legislature in that
county. He will be a candidate for
the Republican nomination in the
Third district, where Representa
tive I. T. Haldeman will run again.
—Senator W. M. Lynch, of Scran
ton, has not yet indicated whether
he will be a candidate or not. Al
bert Davis is out for the honor.
John F. Durkan may become the
Democratic Senatorial candidate.
-—Leighton H. Campbell, of
Pittsburgh, has been endorsed as a
"dry" legislative candidate in the
Fourth Allegheny district. He is an
attorney and prominent Repub
lican.
—F. E. .Weist, a Chester lawyer,
may run against Representative W.
T. Ramsey, chairman of the Rules
Committee in the last House, for
Republican honors.
—Senator Sproul will be the chief
speaker at the Swarthmore cele
bration late this month.
—According to Ea6ton people,
Assistant Postmastet General James
I. Blakslee is going to make a great
fight to defeat Congressman H. J.
Steele for renomination. Blakslee
is said to claim that he can swing
Carbon county for Calvin F. Smith,
the choice of A. Mitchell Palmer
and liis pals for the Democratic
nomination, to which Steele aspires.
—Willard Bunnell, former Lack
awanna Protlionotary, is being
boomed for the Democratic Con
gressional nomination in that coun
ty, with E. A. Ammorman as a pos
sibility.
—A PqUsville dispatch to the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: "Ed
ward S. Silliman, of Mahanoy City,
a banker and manager of the Ma
hanoy City Water Company, is out
in the open for the nomination by
the Republicans for State Senator,
to succeed to-' the vacancy made by
the resignation of Charles A. Sny
der, of this city, who assumed the
office of Auditor General in April
last. John Reber, of this city, has
been making a campaign for some
months and his cards, with his pho
tograph, have been posted in every
nook and corner in the county.
Cyrus M. Palmer, of this city, a
member from this, the Fourth dis
trict, In the Legislature, has also
entered the race for the nomiila
tion for Senator.
—W. M. Benninger, Walnutport;
Oliver VV. Smith, Bethlehem, and R.
A. Stofflet, Kastou, Representatives
from Northampton county, are all
candidates for renomination at the
Democratic primaries.
THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT BYBRICGS
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' EDITORIAL COMMENT
The war, into which the country
was plunged unprepared after Wil
son had won on the slogan "he kept
us out of the war," staved off for a
time the disaster threatened by the
Democratic free trade policy, but
the dangers to which the split of
1912 had subjected the country were
known to all Republicans, and has
brought the conviction that the re
turn of Republicanism to power is
essential to the well being of the re
public. That is why the Republic
ans have already got together. And
that is why the task of William
H. Hays, the new chairman of the
Republican national committee
should be an easy one in preparing
for the coming congressional elec
tions. —York Despatch.
The entomologist who declares
that the farmer seldom, If ever, gives
the crow credit ttir hisgood deeds
probably is right. Who ever heard
a farmer say that the crow on a
plowed field picks up hundreds of
cut worms, wire worms and white
grubs? Yet men who understand
birds declare that the destruction
of insect pests by the crow more
than offsets the value of the sprouted
corn taken later in the season. All
the expert testimony indicates that
the stories of the misdeeds of the
crow might well be revised. —Johns-
town Democrat.
RATS ALLIES OF HUNS
Government experts are urging
that the rat be exterminated as a
war measure for saving food. The
waste each year due to the rodent is
estimated at $200,000,000. A full
grown rat consumes more food than
a baby. In addition, the animal is
a menace to health.
The terrible scourge of the bub
onic plague in Europe and Asia was
spread by rats and their parasites.
When the plague was carried by the
animals in ships to our Pacific coast
a campaign for their extermination
was conducted in the seaports at
much cost. The disease was thus
stamped out as it had i)een in the
Orient, by the pound of cure instead
of the ounce of prevention.
The plague returns at intervals
from its breeding places in the over
crowded and filthy cities of Asia.
War, pestilence and famine .travel
hand in hand. A recurrence may be
expected as a result of the depriva
tions of war among the impoverished
eastern people.
Sweetly Turned
Helen—You are about the most
conceited man I ever knew, and
that's saying a great deal.
Ernest —How can I help it when
you admire me so?—Estelle Win
wood and Shelley Hull in "Why Not
Marry?"
JOHN REDMOND
"Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear
the naws that's going round?"
They're hollowing another grave in
Ireland's holy ground.
A banner long with honor borne,
Now battle- scarred and torn.
Awaits another hand, and droops
above that new-made mound.
" 'Tis the most distressful country
the world has ever seen."
Her heroes long have fought for her,
their own, their rightful
queen,
And, dying, lifted baffled eyes
To see the light arise •
Of Freedom's glorious sunburst
above the see-washed green.
—Tom Daly.
THRIFT STAMP ARMY
Out of the poor man's strain and
stress.
Out of the rich man's fruitfulness,
Millions and millions of little me
Assert the might of democracy.
We come in squads, platoons and
files;
Our ranks stretch out for many
miles;
Proclaimed by neither fife nor drum.
But sure as Loyalty we come!
We come! We come! ' .
Our silent army plods ahead.
Our bugles never blow retreat;
Our ranks defy the whizzing lead.
We fear v not frost, we fear not
heat,
But grim as Death and like him
dumb •
We march ahead. We come) We
come!
The rich man's feast, the poor man's
crumb
Alike give life to us. We come!
We come! We cbme!
—Elias Ueberman in the Nation's
Business.
SCIENCE CUTS DEATH RATE
Now Only One Soldier Dies From Disease to
Twenty in Battle—Lowest Record in History
THE mortality rate from all
causes in this jvar has been less
than that of all great wars of
the past, of which we have records,
according to Edward A. Woods, a
well-know statistician of Pittsburgh.
Wide repetition of a false statement
to the effect that an American sol
dier sent to France has only one
chance in two of returning Indicates,
according to Mr. Woods, that its
spread is largely pro-German propa
ganda, assisted by thoughtless
Americans with the object of caus
ing discouragement among Ameri
can parents. The fact is, according
to Mr. Woods, who has made an ex
haustive study of the subject in a
statement for The New York Times,
that the American soldier of 20
years of age who is now in the
trenches has the same chance of
being alive at the end of the war, If
It last a year or so longer, as a man
of 60 in civil life has of living the
same length of time. Mr. Woods
wrote:
"As a matter of fact, strange as it
may seem, the total mortality rate
of this war is the lowest of any great
war ever fought; less than one-half
that of our Civil War, where there
were seven deaths out of every hun
dred per annum, whereas on the
western battle front there are less
than three per annum.
"The most reliable data on the
war mortality is that of the French
Army, which has certainly not lack
ed exposure to all kinds of danger,
and is suffering particularly from
the enormous spread of tuberculosis
before the war very prevalent in
France, which was behind In tuber
culosis work. The definitive casu
alties —including not only deaths
from battle, but from wounds re
ceived in battle—in the French
Army have been officially stated as
follows:
Per Cent.
First five months of 1914, . . 5.41
Whole of 1915 4.07
Whole of 1916 2.75
"Assuming that the American
Army, certainly more free from tu
berculosis, has as great mortality as
the last available figures from the
French Army, profiting by the ex
perience of the British and French
Armies, and after far more prelimi
nary training, it means that the
chances of dying from battle or
from wounds received In battle by
the average American soldier are
about the same as the chance of the
average man of 60, dying during the
next twelve months. It is about
three times the normal mortality of
the average man at ages, say SO or
40. It is not greater than the mor
tality of many hazardous civilian oc
cupations. To put it another way,
the chances are greater that a man
of 40 will die in the next three years
than that his son In the service will
die from the casualties of war in
one year.
"The average soldier In the Ameri
can Army runs very little more risk,
if any, of dying Jhan the average
coal miner, city fireman, electric
lineman, brewer or stonecutter of
the same age. One explanation of
this is the successful effort of the
French and British Armies, and it
will certainly be at least as true of
the American Army, to obliterate
abnormal deaths from disease, which
formerly was the greatest cause of
war mortality. In the Civil War,
THE INCOME TAX
BUSINESS AND PERSONAL LOSSES
Losses, for Income Tax purposes, are divided into two classes:
(a) Those incurred in business or trade, and (b) those result
ing from transactions entered Into for profit but not connected
with the taxpayer's regular business or trade.
For example: "A" is regularly engaged in buying improved
or unimproved real property with the intention of selling tho
same as early as possible at a profit. In one or more instances
the property purchased may be sold at a loss, and that loss may
bo claimed by him as a deduction for the reason that he is
regularly engaged in buying and selling real estate. Now "B"
buys a home or, perhaps, he buys two or three pieces of property
In the course of several years. Ho is not regularly engaged in
buying and selling real estate. Only so much of his losses as
does not exceed the amount of gain or profit derived during the
same year from other transactions entered Into for profit, but
not connected with his regular business or trade, can be claimed.
If "B" in 1917 sold one property at a loss of $2,000 and another
property at a gain of SI,OOO, he must report the gain o'f SI,OOO
under "Gross Income" and can claim only that amount as a los.
This same rule Is applicable in the case of losses arising from
purchases ,and sales of stocks and bonds. If the taxpayer
regularly engaged In buying and selling such securities, any loss
he may suffer may be claimed under the provisions of tho law.
If he is not so engaged it may only be claimed tinder certain
other provisions.
there were about twice as many
deaths from disease as there were
killed in action or died from wounds
received in action. The following
are the official figures:
Killed in action 67,058
Died from wounds received
in action 43,012
Total 110,070
Died from disease 224,586
"In the French-Madagascar war
there were fifteen deaths from dis
ease to one in battle. The Japa
nese in the Japanese-Russian war
first taught the world how a pre
pared country by the aid of modern
science and medicine could reduce
qiortallty from disease. They did
it so successfully that the disease
mortality of the Japanese Army was
reduced from fifteen from disease
to one in battle to two and a half
from disease to one in battle.
"In the present war among the
British and French troops there
have been twenty deaths in battle
to one from disease. Dr. Woods
Hutchinson has said the doctor's
control over wound infections in the
present war is so masterly that of
the wounded who survive six hours,
90 per cent, recover; of those who
reach the field or base hospitals, 95
per cent, get well. Anaesthetics and
antiseptics have not only enormous
ly diminished pain and agony, but
made amputations rarer and grave
cripplings fewer than ever before in
war history. Barely 5 per cent, of
the wounded are crippled or disabl
ed. We have, therefore, reversed
the mortality from disease, chang
ing it from fifteen from disease to
one in battle, to one from disease
to twenty in battle."
BILLY SUNDAY SAYINGS
Too many are Invincible in peace,
invisible in war. '
Right depends upon the sword as
well as upon prayer.
The Kaiser says God is liis part
ner. Why, he's got the devil hang
ing to the ropes and gasping for air.
The hell the Kaiser's raised makes
the old original hell look like a side
show.
I tell you it is Bill against Wood
row, Germany against America, hell
against heaven. Germany lost out
when she turned from Christ to
Krupp and from the Cross of Cal
vary to the Iron Cross.
A pacifist is a Judas Iscariot.
Dead men and dead women of
America, get up! Our country's as
saulted. Let's put it over for Lib
erty and for Jesus Christ. —Billy
Sunday.
Expert Testimony
Dernburg gives good advice to the
German diplomatic staff when tell
ing Its to show some respect for the
probabilities in telling a lie. "Our
lies," he complains, "are clumsy
and Improbable," which statement
may be taken as expert testimony.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
Reckless Reasoning
"Don't you know that man is the
only animal that uses tobacco?"
"That's no argument," replied the
incorrigible person. "Man is the only
animal that uses soap and towels."
—From the Washington Star.
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GOOD-BY, GOOD LUCK, GOD
BLESS YOU
Good-by, good luck, God bless you,
is all that I can say;
But when you leave, my heart 'will
grieve forever and a day.
Though other arms caress you, I
cannot bid you stay.
Good-by, good luck, God bless you, Is
all that I 'can say,
LABOR NOTES
Japan now has women chauffeurs.
Plasterers at Phoenix, Ariz., de
mand $7 a day.
"Winston-Salem, N. C., carpenters
ask a 9-hour day.
Machinists at St. Louis, Mo., will
demand an eight-hour day May 1
next.
Practically all the harvesting in
Illinois was done by women and
girls.
Portland, Ore., cooks and their as
sistants have formed a new union.
Wages of women workers in Ger
many have increased 54 per cent,
since 1914.
At Port Arthur, Texas, a new
union of inside electrical workers
has been completed.
An arbitration board raises wages
of Seattle and Tacoma street car
employes four cents an hour.
Toronto carpenters will ask C 5
cents an hour on May 1.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
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an umbrella.
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her clubs and \
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Hitmtng OUyal
State Improvement of the area
bought In tho heart of Harrisburg
for the extension of the Capitol park ! >
is not to be halted by the war and
will be carried on this summer dur
ing pendency of the appeal of the
condemnation proceedings of one of
tho properties on a technicality to
the supreme court. Superintendent
George A. Shreiner. of tho Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings, the
executive officer of the state in such
matters, returned to-day from New
York where he had been in consul
tation with Arnold W. Bruner, the
landscape architect in charge, and
detailed Information regarding the
work will be laid before the Board
on Tuesday. Mr. Bruner is the
architect who designed the Cleveland
and Denver civic centers and mueh
of the landscape planning in New
York city and in collaboration with
Warren H. Manning, who laid out
the Harrisburg city park system, is
planning the state's Improvements.
The first work will be done on the
old park and the streets will be
widened and then the extension dis
trict will be cleared of every build- .
ing not used by the state for tem
porary offices and filled in. The
present condition is unsightly, but
the arrangements have been 'made
for clearing the whole twenty-nine
acres which will mean tearing up
paved streets and alleys, taking out
foundations and covering the whole
with soil. It will cost thousands of
dollars, but advance the work of
parking several years. The land
scape plam is said by Mr. Shreiner to
be one of the most elaborate pre
pared for any state capitol's sur
roundings and every move will fit
in on a general plan. When the fill
ing is done a quadruple line of oaks
will be planted east of the Capitol,
while arrangements for special
planting will be made in other sec
tions of the extension. Every tree
to be planted in the extension will
be a Pennsylvania species and they
will be named for governors, emi
nent Pennsylvanians. counties and
cities.
"It Is an odd thing" remarked a
Ilarrisburger, who has a fondness
for looking up historic sites, yester
day, "that the State draft headquar
ters should occupy the Board of
Trade building, which I am inform
ed stands on the site of the provost
marshal's office during the Civil War.
The draft this war is directed by
the provost marshal general and
such an officer had charge of It in
the Civil War. The office was in a
brick building which stood in Mar
ket street at the corner of River
, street. The draft wheel which was
operated in our city during the war
[ is preserved in the Dauphjn County
Historical Society rooms."
[•* *
Considerable interest has been at
i traded among lawyers and those
who follow corporation laws to the
proceedings to annul the charter of
the Dale Light, Heat and Power
Company, a Cambria county con
cern. The suit is really against an
individual, who bought in the com
■ pany at a Judicial sale and failed to
have a reorganization within the
time specified by law. The action
1 Is one of the first of the kind known
in a long time.
• • •
The Stroller in the Scranton Re
publican writes of an Interesting
state of affairs in the northeastern
counties, a condition which will
have Its appeal to Dauphin county.
This is what he says: "The citizen of
Honesdale notes a most unusual con
dition of affairs in Wayne county.
It sayst The grand jury had a work
less session Monday afternoon. For
the first time in twenty-five years
there were no cases to come before
that body. Court convened at 2
o'clock and heard the constables'
returns. Judge Searle Instructed the
, members of Wayne's county-wide
police force to keep a close watch
on unliaensed dogs at all times,
3 and to dispose of them wherever
, found. Also licensed dogs prowling
around at night vrere to be dealt
with in a sumfffary manner. He
; said the sheep were more important
'than dogs, and as the new 'law
makes new provisions, he hoped the
I constables would all make an effort
to protect the sheep industry by
getting rid of sheepkilling dogs at
the first opportunity. Evidently the
war is presenting problems that
keep people busy with other matters
than those that bring them into con
flict with the law. I note that a
Tunkhannock newspaper recently
noted that tl*e 'Wyoming county
Jail contained not a single prisoner."
4 • *
"People seem to recognize the fact
that prohibition is going to come and
they are not drinking—just cutting
it out" said the bartender at one of
the hotels, who does not take a drop
nnd who does a lot in preaching
temperance. "You would think that
people would be stocking up and
buying some to lay away. Well,
they're not. The people in Harris
burg, and this has been a 'wet' town,
havo made up their minds that rum
in passing and they're passing it
up. Take it from me. I've seen
sales dropping right along."
• * •
"Saturday seems to be our big
Thrift Stamp day and it shows that
the appeals to people to start sav
ing and buying stamps when they
get their envelopes Is all right" said
Postmaster Sites to-day. "I think
when the Boy Scouts get on the
job that Harrisburg will have a
Thrift Stamp movement that will be
worth watching.'
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Frank J. Harris, Allegheny
county commissioner, toastmaster
at a banquet, gave all of the guests
Thrift Stamps as what he termed
"a reminder."
—Chancellor McCormick, of Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, made a speech
' for military training at Greensburg
and the borough school board un
k animously approved It..
' —Norman S. Grubbs, Allegheny
' county farm agent, says that many
> peach trees In Western Pennsylvania
t have been killed by the zero wea
ther.
—Christian A. Small, former dis
trict attorney of Columbia county,
has legislative aspirations.
—H. G. Hlnkle, the new city man
ager of Altoona, Is kept busy an
swering letters from people who
want to know how he does It.
—D. J. Drlscoll, member of the
Public Safety Committee of Elk
county, has been clearing out men
suspected of not being loyal.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrtsbnrg soldiers liar©
very largely taken out war in
surance?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
For many years after the town
was laid out, people had farms with
in the limits.