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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
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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."
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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
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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.