12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ll]l Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELIMiRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Prest & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en title* to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- Eastern office, Finley, j P^j, jj lp ® Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a rrfatffiMyotrirf'.i> week; by mail. $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1!)I8 As soon as a man becomes satis fied with himself and what he has done, he has ceased to improve and has begun to degenerate. — Georcb Laiot. GOOD DIPLOMACY PRESIDENT WILSON apparent ly waited deliberately lor the right moment to make his mes 6.\Re of encouragement to the Rus sian government count for most. The dispatch of this greeting of the American people to the people of Russia, which sums up most admir ably American thought with respect to the Russian situation, w-as timed to the hour almost, for Its simultan eous submission to the Russian Con gress of Soviets along with the peace treaty signed by Trotzy and Lenine, robbing Russia of vast prov inces, was scheduled to come up for a v ote. The effect could not be other than highly beneficial to the Allies. Russia has always looked with friendly eyes toward America. The Russian people, democratic in spirit, )T)Ut living under the yoke of czar •<lom, gazed longingly toward the 'United States as the realization of •the hope of the downtrodden masses of the earth. It was only with the return of pro-Germans and radical. Socialists and anarchists from these chores, after the overthrow of the Czar, that seeds of mistrust were sown in the minds of the peasants i&nd working people. These, how ever, have had no deep root and the President's words of cheer and good •will should go far toward cement ing forever the friendship of the two igreat peoples. If Russia declines the false peace • Germany offers and shows that her people are ready for a sane and sen sible democratic form of govern ment, the unlimited resources of the United States wi.ll be pledged with out a murmur to help her realize lier dream. If the Congress of the Soviets listens to the song of the siren in Berlin the future of Rus sia Is dark, indeed. But what e'er betide, the President has cleared the skirts of America. We cannot be blamed for standing by and silently seeing untoward events taking their course without effort to stay them. Just as a message of spring cheer. President Wilson passes along to Ber lin the fact that America is calling 600.000 more men to the colors. PRUSSIAN PIFFLE OK all the egotistical tommyrot with which the royal popin jays of the ages have been •wont to regale their admiring sub jects the recent utterances of Wil li elm the Murderer—with respect to happenings in Russia —are the most ridiculous. He chatters about his "ideal generals" and "victory by the German sword" and how they havfe "broken the Russian power." The truth is, as everybody knows, that Germany never was able to win a decisive victory over Russia when the armies of the t\jo met on any thing like equal terms. The "ideal generals" were unable to break the Russian armies even when they were falling back in disorder because they had only one gun for two soldiers end scarcely any ammunition. Al ways tji® stolid Russians managed to halt the Hun forces and many a time inflicted crushing defeat upon them. No, German arms didn't whip Russia, the Russians did that for themselves. Their trouble has been Internal, not external. The Kaiser's "ideal generals" simply ate the pie the Bolshevik! served in such gener ous slices. Raise a pig and laugh at the pork phortage next winter. DRAFT REGULATIONS CAREFUL reading of the new draft regulations would indi cate that they were framed pnly after the most careful consid eration of all Interests. "This is a war of mechanics," says the state ment accompanying the rules, and It is pointed ->ut that the farmer in the field is just as important as the poldier in the trench. "Food will "WEDNESDAY EVENING, win the war," says Mr. Hoover, and evidently those in charge of the draft believe it to be true, for they have been careful J.o eliminate as far as possible the farmer from military duty, at least during the coming J summer and* fall. But going even i farther, the regulations call for the I teking both from the new quotas and from the ranks of the armies already in training, men skilled In particular lines who can be more useful to the army back of the trenches than in the fighting forces. This Is wisdom. We are avoiding the pitfalls into which all the war | ring nations, not omitting even well | organized Germany, fell at the be ' ginning of the war. No matter how much a young man may want to get into the fighting, if he be better suit ed to another branch of the service, the needs of the nation should be put above individual desire, and he should be assigned to the place where he can accomplish most, The war has become a great en gineering enterprise. We shall win it only as we apply to it the Intel ligence, force, ingenuity and enter prise that have made America a leader in the world of industry and business. Having realized this the War Department is adjusting its draft machinery to meet the condi tions, and this is precisely what the people would have. The result promises to be an army of special ists and experts, from rifle lire to the manufacture of those compll [ cated engines of war, the tank and the submarine killer. Brains and brawn, the old combination that has made America successful on every field upon which she has taken up arms, will do the trick again. The revised methods of the draft board bid fair to put each in Its allotted place. The "dry" workers are moving along proper lines when they urge the enrollment or registration of all voters favoring prohibition. ONE REASON WHY are we fighting the Kaiser? Here's one reason. The Associated Press dis patches from Holland the other day brought the story of the death of Adolph Friedrieh, a German noble man, Grandduke of Mecklenburg gtrelitz. It is a pretty story—the first chap ter. The Duke chose to foresake his title and married for love. He and his wife lived on one of the ducal estates very happily together, until the war brought such deaths and changes in the family as made it desirable, in the estimation of the ruling powers, that the Duke wed a Royal Princess. So the Kaiser ordered him to put away the woman who had been his sweetheart and who was his beloved wife and take unto himself a bride he had never seen. This the Duke, who by some strange chance seems to have escaped the virus of beast liness with which most German nobles of the present day appear to have been most generously innocu lated, in most manly fashion refused to do. To give the tale a pleasant end ing the King should have praised the Duke for his courage and good ness of heart and rewarded him with high office and jewels of great price. But that is not the Kaiser's way. Oh, no! What this self-pronounced Lord of All Creation and paragon of all the virtues did was to banish the Duke in disgrace. What other punishments were held in store for hjm one may only Imagine, for a few days ago the good Duke bade farewell to his dear ones, walked into the woods and killed himself. This is what the Kaiser did to one of his own friends and kinsmen. What do you suppose he would do to us, his enemies? Here is one reason why we are fighting the Potsdam murderer. It is only one of many, but it is a very personal reason and it comes home to each of us. NO TIME TO TALK PEACE BONAR LAW in his address be fore the House of Commons the other day, among other things, To me all this meticulous talk about what Von Hertling (the German Chancellor) means is simply ridiculous. 'We must judge the German intentions, not by what is being said, but by what Germany is doing. What is the use of talking about Von Hert ling accepting President Wilson's principles when at the same mo ment the Gel-mans have taken Li vonia, Ksthonia and Courland, and are making conditions of peace by which Rumania is giving up Dobrudja and other parts of Ru mania?. Happily, in this country the dis position to talk of the possibility of an early peace is passing. Peace without a decisive victory would be a German peace, a German peace would be a defeat for America and her Allies, and such a defeat would mean the imposition of the German will upon the United States. We may as well face the facts. The outlook is for four or five years of war. At least we ought to view it in that light, and lay our course accord ingly. Germany would be only too hapjSy to make peace now, because for the moment she holds as the spoils of conflict vast territory to which she aspires. But peace now would mean war again as soon as Germany could get ready to launch a drive" against the United States. Mr. Law has the correct view. "We must Judge German Intentions by what Germany is doing" and pre pare to exert every effort and strain every nerve for the knockout blow that America is destined to give to Prussianism. This is no time to talk peace; It is a time to fight, and that's the way the American people feel about it. They are impatie.it to be up and at it. T>oOUC4 U ""ptKKOljkKttua, By the Ex-Coinmlttccman I Declarations that signs Indicate | that the next Pennsylvania Leglsla j ture will be "dry" have been made I by a number of the newspapers of ithe state, the Philadelphia Evening I Telegraph expressing its belief in that such a situation will be found when the lawmakers gather in Har risburg next January. The Pitts burgh Gazette-Times is issuing clarion calls to work for the ratifi cation of the amendment, which means the same thing and the Al toona Tribune and other up-state papers are working along the same lines. The various organizations op posed to liquor influences In politics are commencing to be very sure of such a condition and the Dry Fed eration reports show plans to have "dry" candidates in every district. Some of the Philadelphia news papers and clergymen insist that Senator Sproul must be more definite in his declaration for prohibition than he has been, the Public Ledger and the Rev. Dr. C. F. Swift, of the Anti-Saloon League, being among them. On the other hand the Phila delphia North American, which has been fighting liquor it) politics for years, accepts the Senator's state ment as satisfactory, especially that made on Monday, which was re printed in the Harrisburg Telegraph yesterday. It commences to look as though the Philadelphia Evening Ledger has it sized up about right when It says editorially: "Senator Sproul has denounced J. Denny O'Neil and J. D'enny O'Neil has de nounced Senator Sproul. So an anx ious world may be assured that though the chief Issue at the next election may be a dry one, the gen eral discussion of it will be other wise." —The Evening Telegraph in dis cussing the prohibition outlook, says: "The unqualified declaration by State Senator William C. Sproul, candidate for the Republican nom ination for Governor, that he is In favor of the amendment is bound, these same leaders explain, not only to greatly strengthen his candidacy, but to have a widespread effect upon the candidacies of prospective mem bers of the next State Senate and House of Representatives in the ap proaching campaign." —The Philadelphia Bulletin came out last night in an editorial prais ing Senator Sproul for his prohibition declaration and asserting that he was well qualified to be Governor. —Representative J. A. Walker, Vare leader in Philadelphia. Is a can didate for renomination on a "dry" platform. —The Ledger to-day prints a story to the effect that Flinn, Lewis and other Progressives have joined in a letter in behalf of O'Neil as a blow at Penrose. —The Philadelphia Press and Record to-day give prominence to the suggestion that has been going in political circles for a couple of days to the effect that ex-Commissioner William A. Magee may become the compromise choice for lieutenant governor. These papers say that the Penrose people will not accept Congressman John R. K. Scott un der any circumstances and that the Vares will not accept a Penrose man in preference to Scott. —According the the Philadelphia Record the Penrose leaders are wor ried by O'Neil's strength up the state and that is a reason why Senator Sproul Is going to make a tour. O'Neil is a busy bee at all times and has the western end of the state in good shape, say his friends. He is in Washington county to-day. The Record remarks: "The declaration ,of Senator Sproul that he favored national prohibition has caused somewhat- of a shock in the 'wet' camp. The 'wets' were totally up prepared for his straightforward as sertion. With Sproul and O'Neil both pledged to national prohibi tion and with the Democratic party committed to a similar policy by A. Mitchell Palmer, Democratic na tional committeemen, the 'wets' are left without a candidate." —Thomas L. Hicks, former stale chairman of the Washington party, who with Colonel George E. Map's incurred the displeasure of A. Kev in Detrich, state chairman of the late Washington party, for their open letter to Progressive voters, urging support for Senator Sproul, replied to Detrich yesterday. Hicks said he had "no ammunition to waste on 'Tom Tits' and 'Pee Wees.' " He de clared that Senator Sproul would " take care of O'Neil," and announc ed that Colonel Mapes and himself had fought in the independent ranks long before Detrich was heard of. —Representative Charles A. Shaf fer, of Bloomsburg, who was here yesterday, will run again for Demo cratic legislative nomination in Co lumbia county. Another member of the last House who will run again will be Representative "Dick" Powell, of Luzerne. —Senator Joseph Stewart, of Greene county, is going to try for renomination in the Washington- Greene district. It is reported that Representative T. B. H. Brownlee, of Washington, will be a contender for the Republican senatorial nomi nation. Stewart is a Democrat and is remembered as the author of the bill to make the quaii a song bird, for which they called him "Bob White" at the last session. —Scranton councilmen have been asked to consider an ordinance to permit the city to own its own power plant. Connellsville is asking the Public Service Commission for the right to acquire the Connells ville water company. —Monroe county politicians pre wondering how strong A. Mitchell Palmer will figure against Congress man Steele. There will be strenu ous Democratic politics in the 2Cth district this year, with all of the Shull faction fighting Palmer. —lt looks as though the row in Philadelphia councils will side-track the League Island claim and that nothing further will be done about it. until after the Nobre trial. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in calling for a decision says: "It may be that Senator Vare can retrieve himself in this League Island Park mess, as Senator Porter did after the scandal over the Queen Lane reser voir, and Senator McNichol, after the uproar over the Tor'resdale filter plant. It is to be hoped for the credit of the city that he wilf. But in the meantime, spring and summer, it is not improbable that there will be plenty of business for both Councils and the courts in threshing- out the issue, while it is certain that there will be an im mense amount of the liveliest kind of razzle-dazzle music by the full brass and strinsr band on either side of th# Philadelphia factional line up. together witn a tremendous eruption of sewer-rats and stlnk ipots." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A BUSY MAN WRITING TO FRIEND WIFE ... BY BRIGGS (JH- Miss SMITW • ~ *J M " MRS. JOHN J. - fsJO - VAJAIT A VOOR LETTER OF THAT THE MFTTTER TAKE A TETTFR JONE S, AUBURW MIrJUTE - CHAISE RECENT DATE. _ STOPPING MIL< PLEA.se YoRK Y THAT please - ReceiVED AkjD IM °f?',!Z' OeAH MADAM \_ (jm - MY DEAR REPLY BEG TO STATe UJSSS TO 6 E^RDTMG YO,J " THK T ° WEATHER ALL THAT VAJI"M BEST W.SHES ADD p. s. —IM MJUR ' SHIPmInT OF MOMEV o PHoJ.OfO CaM BF TO tt>uß ESTEgMED reply KInJDLY GIV/6 QnpER, WHILE THLS Y AI i nui A £>ri "7 HERE. THINJ6& QUIET FAMILY AMWJiTw yc, |nJFORMAT(OM A^> TOT AT OFFICE AMD AT HIGHEST PERMNAL g i HE RE POK OS AS UWREASOW- FOR ~ s SsldUr ©ioK^a- AMERICA I IX)VE YOU America I love you— You're like a sweetheart to me. From ocean to ocean, For you my devotion Is touching each bound'ry line; Just like a little baby Climbing its mother's knee, America I love you— And there's a hundred million oth ers like me. LABOR NOTES Bothwell (Scotland) Parish School Board has granted to all the teach ers in its employment a flat increase of S9O per annum. John Bohen, president of Brick layers' International, who was elect ed one of the A. F. of L. delegates to the British Trades Congress, was voted $3,000 in order that he might while in England make a study of the labor movement in the Euro pean countries and especially the bricklayers and stonemasons' in terests. Congressman Hayes of California has introduced a retirement bill which would allow any employe who had served the Government 30 years or more and who is 60 years or over to retire and draw an annuity of 75 per cent, of the average salary that employe received during the yast two years of service. Matthew Woll, president of the International Photo Engravers' Union, and Mary McEnerney of the Bindery Women's Union are includ ed in Governor Lowden's appointees as members of a Health Insurance Commission created by the last Ill inois Legislature to investigate and report on the question of state health insurance. The report of the State Industrial Commission shows that the number of industrial accidents in Wisconsin increased from 11.006 in the Indus trial year 1914-1915 to 16,015 in 1916-17. This increase in accidents was much more rapid than the in crease in the number ofemployes, which is estimated at about 20 per cent. Enemy Aliens in Camps? If we understand a recent decision by Judge Tuttle in the local Federal Court, a situation exists in the American Army that calls for imme diate correction. In the first draft Austrians were conscripted, a proceeding entirely proper at the time, as they were not then enemy aliens. But their status has changed since, war having been declared on the country of their na tionality, and there appears to be no machinery for removing them from our forces. The courts are impotent, we gather from the decision, because the subject is one for the legislative branch of the government, and Con gress has, apparently, neglected to make provision for these cases. If this is the situation, It should be rectified. This nation cannot af ford to set an example of barbarism by compelling men to fight against their fellow-countrymen, even if there were any necessity for doing so, while the manpower of the United States remains adequate. To draft Austrians and send them to our trenches will, furthermore, invite reprisals by the Teutonic Pow ers, and it would be a vivid illumi nation of our .course if we should find Americans In German and Aus trian armies opposed to our own sons and their brothers.—Detroit Free Press. UKRAINIA The writer of the accompanying verse is a native of Kiev, a Ukrainian city. He has been in America four and a half years: Land of the innocent peasant. Fields bent with corn and wheat. Memories ever so pleasant. Scenes of my childhood so sweet. Land of the swift flowing Dneiper, Land of Vladimir the Great, Shall a brute of a Hun be your keeper? Would you trust to the Junkers thy fate? To arms! ! To arms! moujik; Like the waves of the Dneiper arise, Like your cornfields, proud and thick, Sons of Ukrainla, arise. —Jamea Pine. Doubts German Strategy Will Continue Political, Says New Republic MANY doubts are beginning to be heard whether the much advertised German offensive will ever take place, says the New Republic. These doubts the New Republic has always shared and has frequent ly expressed. To be sure the Ger mans have been able to concentrate in the west a sufficient number of soldiers and a sufficient amount of material tp make an offensive pos sible. If political conditions look favorable they are willing and ready to attack. But except in the wholly improb able contingency of the invention by the high command of some weapon or tactics which promise a consid erable victory, the Germans will continue as they have done for eigh teen months to subordinate military THE PROHIBITION ISSUE Senator Sproul sees the signs of the times and links his candidacy for the Republican nomination with the cause of prohibition. He believes that the sentiment of the country is in favor of the probihition amend ment and he approves it. His com petitor, Highway Commissioner O'Meil, is also for prohibition. It lookt as though the oppents of pho hibition will have to make their fight ¥ in the legislative district, be cause of the ditttculty of making it a State issue. It is of the first importance that the next Legislature shall have a majority favoring the prohibition amendment. The decision on that question rests on the members of the Legislature and not on the Gov ernor though his influence for or against the amendment would no doubt have influence on the deci sion. The politicians as a class are shy about taking a positive stand though the more progressive element in each party is striving for such at titude, and in each case,are fighting for an open and unqualified support for the amendment. Both parties believe, the question will be decided in the cities. They recognize that in the rural districts the voters will favor prohibition, and that the fight will come in the larger cities, where not only are there large bodies of labor voters, considered unfavorable to prohibi tion, but well-organized associations of retail liquor dealers. The church people as a class will be for this amendment. There Is no doubt Philadelphia's example will be followed up every where by the church forces—a great movement independent of partisan ship ia to be brought behind the pro position that prohibition, is the is sue of the hour.—From the Phila delphia Press. [ EDITORIAL COMMENT King George, in his message to Parliament, speaks of "my army," "my dominions," "my empire," and "my Allies," which gives the Impres sion that Mary must be away from home.—Seattle Post-Intelli gencer. Trotzky is now learning that it takes two to withdraw from a war. —Wall Street Journal. Germany is a country bounded by war on one side and by anarchy on the other.—Florida Times-Union. As one result of Bolshevik devo tion to "the self-determination of nations." Turkish marauders are again massacreing Armenians in re gions where the Russian arms for a time meant mercy and safety.—New York World. THE INCOME TAX MUST PAY TAX BEFORE JUNE 15 The tax Is to be paid upon receipt of a notice from the Collector of Internal Revenue of the amount of tax due, and at all events not later than June 15. If the tax is not paid by June 15, the Collector will issue a second notice and demand therefor, and if, at the expiration of ten days from date of this notice the tax remains unpaid, it becomes delinquent.. The penalty for such delinquency is 5 per cent, of tho amount of tax unpaid and interest at the rate of 1 per cent, per month upon such 'tax from the time the same became due to date of payment. to politial strategy. At present their political strategy is so success ful that they do not need to use up their reserves in an offensive on the strongest part of the allied line. They can afford to wait and consoli date their recent political and eco nomic victories. Rut of course they will not for long pursue merely a waiting policy. They are holding themselves ready to attack any part of the allied line where the opportunities of military anfl political advantage outweigh the cost in men and munitions. Rut the attack when it comes will be sud den, and will probably be preceded by an elaborate feint in some other direction. It may be the French and English, however, rather than the Germans, who will actually be gin the fighting this spring. ALL FOR AMENDMENT If all the parties in the state shall declare in favor of the ratification of th'j prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution, and if all the candidates for Governor shall be pledged to support of the' amend ment. it might be assumed that the vexed question would thereby be re moved from the coming political campaign in Pennsylvania—a con summation devoutly to be wished. But that assumption, it is to be feared, would be too hasty. For politicians sometimes do protest too much, and voters will have to decide what party and what candidate can best be trusted to speak fairlx and to act in accord with their promises. Words before election have a differ ent -value from action afterward. Hence not only is there little pros pect of the elimination pf prohibi tion from the coming campaign, even so far as the governorship is concerned, but it is certain that it is bound to become of necessity the leading issue in the selection of the Senators and Representatives who will have to vote on ratification. It is important, therefore, that candidates shall be precise and def inite in their declarations of policy. Friends of prohibition are not going to take anything for granted, nor will they be satisfied with anything short of specific pledges, not only of "ap proval" of the principle, but of in tention to labor to secure its adop tion. Fot this reason State Senator Sproul, who aspires to succeed Brumbaugh, will have to be a good deal more specific on the subject than he has been before he shall dis arm suspicion of the depth and sin cerity of his conversion to prohibi tion, or disarm the openly expressed skepticism of his chief opponent Highway Commissioner O'Neil. It is hardly enough to say that "Penn sylvania may be depended upon to act promptly and favorably on this question." What voters want to learn from Mr. Sproul is, whether he has finally cut loose from that hitherto dominant element in the party management which has long been in close alliance with the liquor interests, and whether he not only "favors" the amendment, but is pre pared to work for its ratification.— from the Philadelphia Ledger. Old-Time Prices Ninety-three years ago (1825) veal was 4 cents a pound; flour, $2 per 100; butter, 6 cents; coffee, 3 cents: eighteen cigars cost 16 cents, and whisky sold for 25 cents a gallon. Suppose they did; every fellow who had the benefit of those low prices is as dead as Noah, while we fellows, who pay 25 cents for veal, sl6 for flour, 50 cents for butter, 35 cents for coffee, 10 cents for a cigar and $6 a gallon for whisky, are alive and have more money to spend and more fun to enjoy in a day than our grand daddies had in a year. v MARCH 13, 1918 Oirer tfa Ijo|o ut "~pe>t)uu Shouting "Down with the Kaiser," "Kill the Kaiser," more than 200 women in Scranton, including many school teachers, and headed by the Rev. G. W. Wellburn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, ex pressed their sentiments in a court room the other day in approval of Judge Edward's decision. He dis charged from the Insane Asylum the wife of Louis Breswitz, a- German and alien enemy. They had quar reled over war topics and Breswitz had enough influence to have bis wife declared insane. Dealers in Pottstown sold more than 200 safety razors within a tew days because of a rise by barbers of shaving prices. \* • • "I sure* am the patriotic kid," writes a Camp Meade boy who is in the hospital with a broken leg. "I am so patriotic that even my broken bone is knitting." * * * Little grains of powder, Little dabs of paint, Make a girl of forty Look like what she ain't. OUR DAILY LAUGH \xWvTAU*Airr| CAUSE FOR JOT. Bug Walter—Why 60 happy, Mr. Spider? Guest—l just found a fly in my soup. NOT SO BAD. "This is a terrible business." "Oh, I don't know. I've lived with my wife's relatives for the last four years." THE BETTER WAY. "I'll sue him for alienating your affections." "Why don*t you Just get out an injunction against him?" OR GOES WITHOUT. Maude—Oh, dear! I wonder who puts up the price of things? Hirry—The person who want! them. litotttmj (Hptf Reverting again to the subject of condemnation of turnpikes in the counties that are neighbors to Dau phin and noting what the effect will be on travel to Harrisburg, It Is In teresting to note that the longest stretches of turnpike to be con demned by Father Penn, were right in our own district, the longest be ing the thirty-six mile stretch known as the Waynesboro, Greencastle and Mercersburg, which rid Franklin county of one of the worst holdups and the other was the thirty-four and a half Berks and Dauphin, which began just east of Hummels town. The Berks and Dauphin was • i reed last year, after one hundred i ears of toll taking. The Lancaster roads which will, be taken over will aggregate twenty-nine miles, seven teen between ISlizabethtown and Lancaster, and the balance between 1 Lancaster and Williamstown. The section between Klizabethtown and Mlddletcwn, Deputy Highway Com missioner Joseph W. Hunter in forms me, having been free for some time. Jlr. Hunter took part in the final ceremonies that freed the Old lork road from the Philadelphia city line- to the Bucks county line, through Willow Grove and Jenkin town and passed over $105,000. This road is eleven miles long and has been a source of complaint from motorists for years. Mr. Hunter, who has been giving much atten tion to the freeing of turnpikes, ex- I P ec^, s Set two toil roads abolished in York county soon. Baseball Is in the minds of the lads in the training camps. The other day, J. William Bowman, re ceived a letter from Ordnance Ser geant P. AV. Gerdes, of this city, now stationed at the ordnance warehouse at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mass , in which he says: "I can't hen® tat give way to my feeling to-day. TM* weather is wonderful— real Jiltie days and nights. And the best part of Jt is that it has been this way the while you folks, in the North have been having all kinds of winter wea er. We are placing real baseball games, according to a schedule for the camp, and I want to say they are , snappy—real mid-season form; and as I sit here writing I can hear cheering from spectators and play ers on the various ball fields." The Sergeant thinks the soldiers quart eretu in the Sunny South should thank their stars, after hearing the news of the past winter in the North. Sergeant Gerdes says the men are all willing to do and anxious to learn and their spirit is excellent. They wan <- to Bet to Fr ance as soon as possib e, and have responded won derfully to the training of the Eng lish officers sent to give them point ers on Hun practices in Europe. Sergeant Gerdes is a Harrisburg boy. He has been promoted from the ranks and is making good. Hal White, president of the Coun ty Fairs Association, which embraces all the county fairs of Pennsylvania, during a visit at the Telegraph office 5 esterday said he is a strong be liever in the possibilities of the county or community fairs as pro moters of better farming. "I am glad to note the .encouragement the Telegraph has given to this move ment recently," said Mr. White and I can only ask for continued ™;?. Pe !T. tior V The Federal and State authorities have offered us encour agement and we are ready to do whatever is necessary to meet their desires. We believe the fair asso ciations can do much for the im provement of agricultural conditions and we are particularly desirous of making every available acre grow grain this year. He is a poor farm er who will let available land lie Kile, because of the high price of spring wheat seed." You ve got the right Idea" re nVU!^ed / o}ln A - McSparran, master or the State Grange, yesterday, in commenting upon an editorial in the Harrisburg Telegraph, in which it was declared that the way to get farm labor, was to send men home from camps and industrial plants, the men who are qualified to work on farms through experience and training. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Charles B. Stevens, former leg islative correspondent, may be chos en as clerk of district court for the Scranton district. R. M. Dravo, big Pittsburgh contractor, has taken charge of some of Uncle Sam's work in that district —lsaac Newton Camp, appointed Governor of Bethlehem by the Brit ish commander, is a son-in-law of the Rev. Dr. McClenahan. of Pitts burgh. ' , —S. D. "Warriner, the Lehigh coal man, has been placed in charge of coal distribution in eastern 'Penn sylvania by the fuel administration. He will act with "W. J. Richards, of the Reading. , ' —Guy H. Tripp, formerly of the Westinghouse, and widely known in Pennsylvania afTalrs, has been made a colonel in the ordnance corps. —Major James Crosby Brown former Philadelphia banker, who has been connected with the Red Cross work in France, is home from abroad. —Alba B. Johnson, head of the Baldwin locomotive Works is at Camp Hancock. | DO YOU KNOW —That Ilarrisburg is furnishing scores of varieties of supplies to the Govc-nuuent? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Post offices have been located In, but four locations in Ilarrisburg. MISTRESS OF~THE SKIES The War Department has asked Congress for a further appropriation of $450,000,000 for the air navy. Of this sum $200,000,000 is said to be required for completing the program undertaken under the original ap propriation of $640,000,000, largely because of the high cost of materi als. The rest of the new amQjint is for extension of the cohstruc tion program. We used to be shocked at "bllllon dollar" Congresses, but new occa sions breed new needs. We are will ing now to spend billions upon bil lions for victory over the Hun, and not one cent for tribute. The'coun try where the airplane originated Is huildlng machines to-day on a qual ity basis that will give America the leadership once more in the con quest of the air. The war Is getting back to first principles—air, land and water. Su premacy on the seas, supremacy on the land, supremacv In the -lr: these are the, conditions of victory! —Philadelphia Telegraph.
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