8 HARRISBDRG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Poundtd 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. I.J. ST ACKPOLE, Prts"t 6r Editor-inChirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINME'ra, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper Mid also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Pean- Eastern office, Story, Brooks & Avenue Building, Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 ' a year in advance, MONDAY MARCH 11, 1918 One, harboring ambition, goes To tasks the lazy man would, shun, And if he governs men or hoes, The days are all too short; he knoios A'o peace until his work is done. Until the goal he seeks is won. —S. E. Kiser. ONLY ONE SOLUTION PERRY county is again entirely "dry" and there is none to ob ject save only those who are financially interested. Prohibition by judicial decree is the "joker" in the Brooks high license law, which leaves the question of saloon or no saloon entirely within the discre tionary powers of the judiciary. But it is scarcely a fair statute that would permit a "dry" judge in a "wet" county to override popular sentiment by ruling out the liquor selling privilege, or for a "wet" Judge in a county where a prepon derance of temperance sentiment exists to flaunt the barroom in the face of an opposing public. There is only one way to correct •£he evil of drink, and that is by national prohibition. Few poker players will worry over tlie decision recently rendered in New York that gamblers must pay an in come tax on their winnings. ONLY A BEGINNING CITY COMMISSIONER HASS LER is quite right in saying that the clean-up now under way Is at best but a make-shift. The relief from ash accumulations will be but temporary. Not all cellars and backyards will be cleaned by the men now engaged In making the rounds of the city. So many ashes accumulated during the winter that many families could not find recep tacles for them. The collectors can take only what they find ready for them. At least one more trip will be required to fully relieve the con gestion. After that, as Dr. Hassler ■ays, regular collections of one kind or another must be rtiade. Council has made a good begin ning, but it is only a beginning. To ■top now would be to repeat a con dition that has been well nigh in tolerable for weeks. Doubless the councilmen are fully aware of this and will take the necessary precau tions. By and by we are going to discover that three severe slaps on the wrist must be supplemented by a noose or a bullet in dealing with pro-Germans in this country. READY FOR A NEW SCENE LEON TROTZKY, having acted his brief part on the stage of world events, has disappeared in the wings, much to the relief of everybody, and the likelihood is we Shall hear of him no more. Trotzky essayed a role entirely unfitted for him. In the topsyturvy of a nation turned upside down he suddenly Sound himself cast for a heroic part and he snatched eagerly at the op portunity. It was as though the ■pear-carrying "super" of a Shake, ■pearlan play had, without warning, attempted the part of chief tra gedian. Trotzky —his real name is Leber Braunstein—was either a foolish Idealist or a tool of Germany, and It is not Just now apparent which. As the former, he offered the child like peasants of Russia anything and everything they asked, and more •—all to be realized by the Bolshe vik government of which he was the head, within the year. None but an Ignorant man or a knave would h&ve attempted any such program as that With which Tratzky endeavored to Uppease the liberty-crazed, land hungry Russian peasantry. A school boy student of Political economy could have foresein its failure. So much for Trotzky as a patriot. If, on the other hand, he was a hireling of the Kaiser he overplayed his part, for, strange as it may seem, it was •Trotzky's diplomacy which fomented the recent great strikes in the Ger munition factories and which gerealed to the German people the truth of the allied charge that the MONDAY EVENING, imperial government is fighting a war of conquest and not of self-de fense. Trotzky is gone and Kerensky is gone, but it would not be surprising if the latter appeared again, for of all the figures that have had their brief place- in the Russian drama, he was the sanest and most con vincing. He presented a reasonable program that could have been work ed out. But he was ahead of his time. The Russian people didn't want reason just then. They desired promises. They wanted a magician with a faity wand to- wave them into the enchanted land of a Utopia where peasants wore the purple and kings milked the cows and harvested the grain. They didn't want to work out their salvation, they wanted their heaven on earth all ready-made for them, and Kerensky was no wonder worker. Then came Trotzky and his crowd and the people believed their nonsense. New the pendulum has begun to swing back and it may be that at last reason is to have its inning at Moscow. The price of some of the new spring hats is enough to make a silver dollar feel like a plugged dime. SEND THEM HOME TIE farm labor proposition in Pennsylvania is simply a mat ter of mathematics. There are approximately 217,000 farms In the Keystone State. In tjie last few years a number of farms have been abandoned. To be frank about it, it was because the farmers could not make ends meet. Whether they were poor business men, badly io cated or got tired, does not matter. This year more farms may be given up. The reason assigned is that they are too big a job for one man. The women in the farming districts of Pennsylvania have been doing their share for years. It is not un common to see women working in fields, and we respect them for it, just as we welcome the women who have gone into other lines of work because of war. But the fact re mains that the farmers and their families cannot do all of the work on the farms. Reports from Washington Indi cate that the next call under the draft will be made for men accord ing to occupations. That will pre vent further drain upon the men on the farms, but not meet the diffi culty. There are several months In the year when every hand that can be secured is needed on Penn sylvania farms, and they are needed more than ever in 1918 because of the demand for an increased food production. In the camps this summer there will be many trained soldiers whom the Government will not be able to utilize in foreign fields or on other duty. They can be fur loughed for certain periods to work in the fields. Probably much of the demand for farm hands can be met by leaves to farm-bred men. In the industries and on the rail roads there are many men who can farm, who come from farm, and who like to farm. They can be given leave at harvest or such other time. These are unusual conditions, and if Uncle Sam and the manufac turers act, the farmers should meet them in the way of pay. There are some people who think that farmers have made mistakes in holding back wheat and potatoes and in not buy ing Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps. To meet farming conditions It will be necessary to play tag with the law of supply and demand. But the main point is to get the men. The way to secure them for the farms is to send them there. New York women object to voting in barbershops and saloons, and if they are patient a little while they will have only the barbershops to rave about. TAX IN~INSTALMENTS GENERAL support should be given by every Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade and businessmen's organization in Pennsylvania to the bill now pend ing in Congress authorizing pay ment of the "excess profit" war tax in instalments. jThe average businessman is Just now waking up to what the "excess profit" tax means. Before long the business world will be sitting up and yelling. The State Chamber of Commerce, which has taken the lead in warn ing what the effect Is going to be in banking, remarks in a circular issued a day or so ago that the burden can not be cared for with out the calling of many loans under the present plan. Industrial com munities such as ours will be hard hit right at the beginning of summer. In suggesting that Cotigress pass an act to make the tax payable in in stalments in June, August, October and December, the State Chamber remarks very pertinently: "Do you realize what it will mean if most of the money to meet these taxes be paid on one day, necessi tating a disturbance of the banking business of the country and an in convenience to the public becauei great numbers of taxpayers must necessarily seek for banking accom modations at the same time, result ing in many being unable easily to secure such accommodations on or before June 15, the last day for payment of the taxes. "Realizing the Impending strin gency, large concerns must com mence to withdraw working capital and reduce the value of their busi ness and earnings. "The effect of the payment of ex cess profits taxes at one time on the banking community has been care fully estimated. A typical manufac turing city was selected. Banking deposits in this city on January l, 1918, were $50,000,000. The re serves on the same day were |12,- 000,000. The building and loan as i soclations were loaned up on that data. Tha total •■tlmatad local tax, individual and corporate, which this city will hav to pay to the Govern ment on or before June 18, 1913, !• from $11,000,000 to |20,000A>00." foCUCc* Lk "PeKXOij&rcuua By the Ex-Committeeman II Information coming to Harris burg to-day is to tho effect that Senator William C. Sproul will am plify the declaration in favor of the national prohibition amendment which he made Saturday before the Chester County Republican commit tee at West Chester and friends say that he will take a positive stand, one that cannot be question. The Senator's formal announcement of candidacy for the Republican guber natorial nomination will be made within a week. It was intended to issue it to-day, but the death of the Senator's father and some engage ments prevented completion of the document. The Sproul declaration was bit terly assailed by Highway Commis sioner J. Oenny O'Neil, the Senator's rival for the Republican nomination for Governor, at Pittsburgh last night. Mr. O'Neil said that he "challenged" Senator Sproul's sin cerity, charged "false pretence," "chicanery," and other things and asserted that the Sproul candidacy was put forward to defeat the Pro hibition amendment. The Public Ledger to-day devotes about half a page to discussion of the situation caused by the Sproul statement, one dispatch from Wash ington saying that national prohibi tion leaders saw the amendment be ing taken out of politics and made a matter of course. It also prints a series of dispatches from various cit ies like Wilkes-Barre, Pottsville, York and other places in which or ganization Republican leaders com mended the Sproul stand as tending to make the amendment something for which the Republican party as a who.le should stand. A. Mitchell Palmer, speaking for the Democrats, assails Sproul and says his stand will have to be more positive. Newspapers generally give promi-' nence to what Senator Sproul said and the O'Neil reply, but do not comment to any extent editorially. —Congressman Arthur G. Dev/alt, of the Berks-Lehigh district, has challenged his rivals, W. M. Croll and C. B. Spatz, to debate the issues of the campaign, but they will hardly do so, as Dewalt may say some things about the bosses which would not sound well. —Mayor A. T. Connell. is said by Scranton papers to have telephoned to the Governor's office that ho would resign as a registration com missioner, when the governor named Ambrose Altemus, his private sec retary, as commissioner in his place. —Representatives W. T. Ramsey and Harry Heyburn, of Delaware county, will be candidates for re election. —Warren Van Dyke, secretary of the Democratic State Committee, iS to be a candidate for the House'in the Carbon county district, accord ins to a Mauch Chunk dispatch in the Philadelphia Press yesterday. He used to bo recorder of deeds of that county, and was chief clerk to the county commissioners. Repre sentative Harry Zanders, will be a candidate for Republican renomina tion and will give the genial Van an awful fight. —Ex-Representative Mandus W. Reeser, of Sullivan, will be a can didate again. —The Blair county Anti-Saloon League has endorsed Senator P. W. Snyder for re-nomination. Senator James W. Endsley, of Somerset, will not run again. Senator E. F. James, of Hazleton, will not be a candidate for the State Senate, but Ex-Senator E. B. Hardenburg, of Wayne, will be in ftis district. —Albert W. Duy, Columbia coun ty's first Republican district attor ney, is a candidate for the Republi can nomination for congress in the Sixteenth District, which is taken to mean that General C. M. Clement will not run. Congressman John V. Lesher, has opposition in his own party for re-nominatlon. —Attention among people who have been following license courts, will be directed this week to Alle gheny county, where there are 1,347 applications. It is said that as in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Dauphin and other "wet" counties, there will be no new licenses granted. In Lack awanna, aboiut 900 licenses were al lowed during last week, while Bea ver, Warren and Perry went "dry." again. ■ Cambria had fhe usual num ber of licenses. —Allegheny county "drys" are organizing in every district and a complete set of "dry" candidates will be set up In the county. —H. E. Mitchell, sealer of weights and measures in Johnstown, since the place was created, has resigned the place, to work for a scale com pany. —Jonathan Mould, well known in | third class city affairs, has been re j elected chairman of the Reading city planning commission. —Lester H. Huber, new deputy sheriff of Franklin, is widely known among Pennsylvania Guardsmen, as he served in the old Eighth Infantry for years and rose to be a major. —State Senator Raymond E. Smith is the only candidate thus far in Crawford county for State Senator. Dr. B. A. Montgomery, of Grove City, Mercer county, will be a candidate for the Republican nom ination for that office. —Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts burgh, has reappointed as members of the Civil Service Commission the three officials who served under the Armstrong administration, the only change made being in the selection of a chairman. The Commission as now constituted is: Dr. F. H. Fred erick, chairman; Joseph F. Joyce and Homer E. Leslie. The Commis sion at its first meeting re-elected William Ball secretary and placed the recently-created position of as sistant to the Director of the De partment of Public Safety in the ex empt class. This latter ruling paves the way for the appointment of Daniel Winters, Jr., to that posi tion. —Reading dispatches say that O'Neil headquarters have been opened in that city, with H. J. Hay den, as chairman. Governor Brum baugh, it is added, is to speak at meetings for O'Neil. Republicans and Democrats, are uniting in Read ing to defeat Representative James H. Maurer, Socialist member, if he runs for the Legislature again. They propose to revive the American party, which defeated Socialist can didates for the city council. —Representative Harry C. Gra ham, of Chester county, is out for re-nominatlon on a "dry" platfArm. HAIMISBTLFTG GFISSF TELEGRAPH! THE CONVALESCED BY BRIGGS 7 THIMK' \ V TTJJ /%/ OUT sooiv/- \ F HE K Vyyy/ •DoESM'T IMPROVE JIL-- —V/ / / LET KNOWi AiMD / / / I IXL CALL HO IMV 1 PARTFT vr. A\PRIL J // / EDITORIAL COMMENT | A war-expert is a man who knows as little about the Russian situation as you do and admits it.—Brooklyn Eagle. Well, anyway, we don't believe many babies were named for Trotz ky.—New York Sun. , Russia gets a crimson light on peace without a victory.—Boston Herald. Germany is willing to swallow four of the President's peace, terms. The other ten will be rubbed in.—Pitts burgh Post. A casket for the Bolsheviki in Rus sia may as well be ordered. It has tackled the Church question.—Atchi son Weekly Globe. After some of our blowhards have talked for an hour qt the big things they would do to can the kaiser if they were younger, it is apprppriate for them to walk up to, the post office and buy a War Savings stamp. —Reading New-Times. A six-hour working day is pre dicted by a labor leader. Some owners ot plants now wor'k 18 hours a day and no doubt soon will either have to work the entire 24 or get a job somewhere and work for some other person.—Newcastle News. The death of Dr. Dixon, the state health and water authority, iu the greatest blow that could be given to Pennsylvania at this time. He never allowed politics to be used in hia department, and his work was always in the interests of the people as against the labor and capitalistic interference. . He did many great things for Schuylkill county that were never made public. Now the position will very likely be tilled by a political schemer instead of an unpolitical philanthropist. Here was a wealthy man who killed himself in laboring for the good of man kind. —Pottsville Republican. CROWDED JAPAN When wo grasp the smallness of Japan and the size of its population we readily understand why the land is so crowded. Japan proper is a narrow and diminutive country. Its area of roughly 150,000 square miles is somewhat smaller than that of California, while its population is twenty time as great. Moreover, like Italy, Japan is chiefly a country of mountains, and its arable land under cultivation amounts to only some 25,000 square miles, a, farm area less than one half of that of the single State ot lowa. It follows that Japan is the classic land of intentive argiculture. Its dwarf %arms are not really farms at all in our sense of the word, but gardens. There are no pastures, no barnyards, but merely little squares of land, now covered with water, now tilled with mud drying in the sun, and now vividly green with the beautiful rice plants. These little patches ol' terraced and irrigated land have nothing In common with with aur ICO-acro farms. In Japan the average agricultural family (and thero are five and a half millions of them) occupy only tw and three-quarters acres each. Only one family in ten has as much as five acres (two cho) and over one third of all rural families have farms of less than one and one-quarter acres. It is morcellement carried to a tragic absurdity.—From Asia. FRIENDS KNEW HIM Speaking aW a political gathering, Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, referred to the bad breaks we sometimes unthinkingly make, and told the following story: Recently a noted physician was a guest at a social affair. At the din ner he was placed beside an elderly lady whom he had not previously met. Almost at once the lady be gan to talk. "By the way, doctor," she smil ingly remarked, "I am undecided whether I should call you -"doctor' or 'professor.' " "You may call me what you wish, madame," replied the physician. I m frank enough to admit, how ever, that some of my friends call me an old fossil." "I see, doctor," was the rather startling response of the woman, "but, of Course, they must be people who know you intimately." Where Did He Get It? Trotsky is now said to be worth $500,000. Probably it is meant that he has picked up that amount some where. However, we take back the Implication—Trotzky is probably worth $500,000 to the Kaiser.—Chi cago Dally News. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM I*. . FAMINES AM) FAMINES To the Editor of the Telegraph : Dear Sir—Of all the famines that we have passed through the past nine months, the worst one is yet to come and will come before this war is over. Amos 8:11-12-13—"Behold the days come saith the Lord God, that will send a famine in the land." Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water tout of hearing the words of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord and shall not And it, in that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst." Respectfully yours, SHORTY MUMMA, •• A Reader. PEOPLE ARE SA VING Evidences are accumulating that the habit of saving among the American people, especially among the patrons of savings banks and postal savings, is outstripping the fi nancial demands made upon them by the Government. While no exact figures are avail able at present, it is known that postal savings deposits have steadily gained during the year 1917, and notably since the Ist of July of that year, which was after the first issue of the Liberty Loan. The reports from savings banks also show a steady gain, and the same is true of co-operative building and loan associations. Nor have the people of small means been the only savers. It is estimated that the savings of the whole people of the United States, ordinarily 15,000,000,000 t0.56,000,- 000,000 annually, were increased to $14,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 in 1917. The response of the people to the natidnal need of economy and sav ing has been general and generous. YPRES If where an Englishman is buried on foreign soil is called "a little bit of England," then we may call the Ypres salient a mighty bit of Can ada. If anyone were to inquire what is the most important city of Can ada, we might answer unhesitating ly, "The City of Ypres." The hosts of our young men who have fallen in battle round that city have hal lowed the name for all Canadian hearts, and rendered the place ours in the deepest sense. Montreal, and Halifax, and Van. couver are among our lesser cities, but Ypres. where so many of our brave are buried, shall remain for us the city of everlasting possessions. In years to come, the touchstone for the Maple I.af will not be "Queens town Heights and Lundy's Lane," but "Ypres and Lagemark." I stood one night on a certain hill that commands the firing line in an almost boundless panorama. Beside me was an officer of the Second Canadian Division, who had Just come out. There that' night, by its white trail of iridescent light, we could trace the course of the firing line for many miles through France and Flanders. Just to our left the line of light Jutted far out, like a lone cape into the sea, "What is that putting out place?' my friend Inquired. "That," I answered, "is the Ypres salient, the bloody angle of the British line." To mention the name of Ypres is to have one's memory awakened With a 'ertlable kaleidoscope of pic tures. That trail of light that jutted out into the night looked like a cape, and an iron cape it has been through months and years of war. But the holding of that cape has been at an awful cost .and there was not an inch along that trailing line of light that had not cost its trailing line of hlood.—Arthur Hunt Chute in the North American Review. THE INCOME TAX SAT4ARY, pOMMISSIONS, AIJJOWANCES, ETC., MUST AI/IJ BE REPORTED Where a person receives a cash compensation for services ren dered and in addition theceto commissions, living; expenses or other allowances, the aireregrate amount of cash, plus the valuo to such person of the allowances, is to be returned. A return under Section 28 is required in each case where" the cash compensation, plus the value of the allowances, equals or I exceeds SBOO for the tax year. WILHELM'S SONS AS KINGS To the Editor of the Telegraph: t This horrible war should not be, i but as it is we must awaken and - arise to the issue, yes the paramount ; issue, of winning it from our ruth t less, haughty, imperial enemy. Fellow citizens, how do you like 1 the idea of Wilhelm's sons as kings, I each respectively of Europe, ' Asia, i Africa, North America and South > America, the five continents, with I the father lord over all? ' The thought is quite inspiring, 1 isn't it? Well if you don't want it, you must get to work with determi nation and enthusiasm to prevent it. Respectfully, JO. W. MILLER. LABOR NOTES The Brotherhood of American "Lo comotive Engineers has been asked to furnish 50 men for service on United States "tanks." - ■ New York magistrates are urging that chauffeurs be forced to pass a competency test before being li censed. The average wage increase of 33 1-3 per cent, asked by railroad men in this country would amount to $82,000,000 annually. Women workers in New York are combining to resist low war wages which they claim will bo forced up on them. . A Senate bill proposes that each Government employe to whom a child is born should automatically have his pay increased. During January 30,000 applied for work to the New York State Bureau and posts were found for 8,000 of them. Following Maryland's example, the State of New Jersey has passed a law compelling male idlers to turn their hand to useful work. The Adler bill, forcing employers to allow employes two hours at all elections, has been passed by the New York State Assembly. A mass-meeting of Ulster farm ers has been held in Belfast, Ire land, for the purpose of consolidat ing the agriculturists of the northern provinces. Timothy Shea, acting president of the Brothehood of Firemen, claims that colored members of his organi zation are paid less than white men. Every village school In New York State is to have a pig-raising class with 50 porkers. This means an ad ditional 50,000 hogs in the State. Employes of the Edinburgh and Lelth (Scotland) Commission have been refused their request for an advance In wages of 10 shillings per week. School teachers throughout Utah are to be put through an efficiency test embracing their knowledge not only of books, hut of such matters as school sanitation. Because Scotch fishermen will not go fishing on Stindays, the choice of Tuesday as London's official meat less day is declared by London (Eng land) fish dealers to be an official blunder. The New York City Board of Al dermen has introduced -a law giving the employes of the Street Cleaning Department the same advantage as well-organized trade unions. The Canadian Government will not conscript mep for farm labor under the military service agt, but will take immedlato steps to secure a registration and Inventory of the man-power of the Dominion. MARCH 11, 1918. j ©>o ldltr £>o*^o. TENTING TONIGHT .Were tenting to-night on the old camp grounds, Give jis a song to cheer Our weary hearts, a song of home, And friends we love so dear. CHORUS. Many aro the hearts that are weary to-night, Wishing for the war to cease: Many are the hearts looking for the right, To se# the dawn of peace. Tenting to-night, tenting to-night, Tenting on the old camp grounds. We've been tenting to-night on the old camp ground, Thinking of days gone by. Of the loved ones at home that gave the hand, . And the tear that said "good-by!" Blessing Upon Church And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord. —Joel ill, 18. Hoarding in the Zoo A careful survey of the local ele phant convinces one that it is hoard ing more hide than it can possibly use.—From the Chicago News. OUR DAILY LAUGH I UNDER A WAR REGIME. lift' "Did your daughter learn mudh at tho cooking school." "Wett, she learned how to make a lot of dishes wo can't afford to eat." DURING THE COLD SPELL. Mrs. Bug: Hurry Mr. Plumber *nd fix my broken pipe. A NATURAL CONCLUSION. Toy Soldier: My, there must be t party going on in that house, ADRIFT. "I see Newpop at the club quite often since his baby camo. I thought he was anchored to k home life." "He was, but at the first squall he began to drag his anchor." Ebntbtg (Eljal If the plans now being worked out by officials of the State Highway and Attorney General's Departments are consummated, it may be possible to on July 4, from Harrisburg to Lancaster for the first time in over a century without paying toll. Last year the state made possible a ride from Harrisburg to Lebanon and on to Reading without having to pay toll, the gates which had been main tained since 1816 disappearing, after an existence of a little more than 101 years. The toll gates to the north and west of Harrisburg have gone, although there are many of us who recall the days of the old river road, with its toll houses and whiskered toll takers at Division street and Flickinger's lane and the Carlisle pike with the toll house just at the western or rather southwest ern end of Camp Hill. Now York and Lancaster are the only counties that adjoin us and are on our lines of travel that have the medieval gates. Highway Commissioner i. says that he plans to free about four Lancaster toll roads this summer. The West Chester, Willow Grove and Old York turnpikes near Philadelphia are just about being freed and the last toll gates in Blair and Westmoreland have gone. The Cumberland and Juniata valleys are nearly free of them and Harrisburg, the hub of thirteen or fourteen state highway routes will soon be access ible from any part of the slxty-neven counties without the hold-up. The plans are now to free the Lancaster Elizabethtown and Middletown turn pike, which gathers shekels from ancient Middletown. practically speaking, to the city line of Lancas ter. The price to be paid is $68,- 000 aud the meeting of the company shareholders will be held Saturdav to end the matter. The freeing of this turnpike, whoso owning corpo ration has been attacked before the Public Service Commission, will be hailed all over the state, for it will make clear of hold-ups what Gov ernor* Brumbaugh calls the Penn- Lin highway, the link between the William Penn highway in Harris burg and the Lincoln Highway at Lancaster. • * * Notwithstanding the warm rays of the sun the last week or so, and the high winds, there are still patches of snow and ice to be seen in ra vines and gullies in the fields round about Harrisburg. In some of the county districts, especially the wood ed valleys of creeks and runs there are masses of snow, which defy the rains and sunshine. Just what it must have been like during the real ly cold weather can be imagined. There are some roads in shaded sec tions which are also covered with strips of snow. • * • Sundays appear to have become the big days for moving of freight trains through Harrisburg, The Pennsylvania and Reading lines yes terday fairly hummed with traffic and it seemed as though the trains were as numerous and as long as those moved on the two preceding Sundays when records for movement went by the boards. Members of crews say that indications are that the movement the last two or three weeks will be worth comparing with previous years. • • • Another matter which is attract ive- attention at the Capitol is the refusal of a trolleymen's union in the Mt. Carmel district to issue cer tifleates for a six cent fare, when the company operating the line was or dered to do so, by the Public Serv ice Commission. The comoany gave orders, but the Union flatly refused to do so. It is the first time a Union has bucked the state. • * * The manner in which the Bell Telephone Company is boosting the War Savings in Harrisburg should be an inspiration to other concerns. The Bell Company put up the first W. S. S. sign and every letter con tains a circular of vest pocket size on why the government wants those spare quarters. Moreover, the com pany sells Thrift Stamps at its offi ces. If other public utility com panies would follow the example of the Bell, there would be greater pop ularity for the stamps. • • • The Lackawanna Good Roads As sociation, which is to be reorganized at a meeting to-morrow, has deter mined upon a line of policy which could be adopted here. It has sent a letter to every supervisor, advising him of a sign post either out of or der or down in his district. There will not be a cross roads in Lacka wanna that does not have a sign tlii3 summer, it is said. * • * The question of whether the wea ther can be considered as having . barred making of a payment in timo to obtain advantage of a rebato has arisen in some informal complaints made at the Public Service Commis sion. It seems that during the severe winter weather experienced in Jan uary and February, the mail collec tions were interrupted and that let ters mailed if! time to get advan tage of the rebate were not gather ed up until such time as to make their delivery a day after the period for discount had expired. The same proposition has come from other sections, and it looks as though Old Man Fact would have to determine it | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —J. S. Cursler, Lawrence county steel manufacturer, has started a movement to buy tractors to rent for community use. —The Revs. R. W. Veach, Phila delphia Presbyterian clergyman, and D. E. Marsh, Pittsburgh Metho dist minister, will go to France on religious work among the soldiers. —A. L. Sahm, former mayor of Carbondale, thought his city needed some food savings signs. He put them up himself. —Fire Marshal G. Chal Port, who has gone to Florida, has not had a vacation in ten years. —Alexander F. Smith, secretary of the Reading city planning com. mission, was the designer of the Reading station in this city. —The Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, is mak ing a series of addresses in Phila delphia. one of the coal distributors, has long been vice president of the Reading coal inter ests in Schuylkill county. | DO you know J —That Harrisburg has become a great center for men to be especially inducted ( into the United States Army? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Governor Curtin used to make re crultirfg speeches in this city's square early in the Civil War.
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