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SATURDAY, MARCH 10. 1018
Sorroic and silence are strong and
patient endurance is'Godlike.—LONG
rtixow.
CO-OPERATION
\ • "IDEALIZING the futility of try
ing to conduct the war without
the aid of everybody able to
help and with the stinging rebukes
-of Senator Chamberlain and other
Congressional critics fresh In their
memories, leaders of the administra
tion have concluded to seek the co
operation of both Senators and Con
gressman. Much of the bickering and
quarreling that have marked recent
months at the Capitol might have
been avoided If this course had been
adopted earlier.
Congress is worthy of the trust and
confidence of the President and his
cabinet. It has a very important
part to play in the conduct of the
war and it will be efficient only to
the extent of its understanding of the
general scope of the plans as they
are formulated and the emergencies
as they arise.
No American wants to know any
thing concerning the war that should
be concealed for military reasons,
but every American, Congressman
aiKl Senators included, wants very
rail to know what is being done
anil what is in prospeyt. The pro-
German propagandist and the rumor
monger arc as prolific with stories
of what Is not being done as the gov
ernment has been reticent about
what has been done. Congress has
been almost as much In the dark as
the country. But now that important
committees of House and Senate
have been called Into weekly consul
tation with administration heads to
discuss war plans, all parties and fac
tions being represented, the public
will feel easier in its mind and settle
down to work harder than ever tot
victory, firm in the conviction that all
is going well, or. If mistakes are
made, they are being quickly cor
rected.
A weekly newspaper statement fol
lowing these newly-instituted confer
ences would have a tremendously
beneficial effect upon the people and
would greatly hearten them for the
grueling days ahead.
We wonder why the war, having
caused so many kinds of famine,
didn't produce a scarcity of Easter
hats.
SCORE ONE FOR CREEL
THE TELEGRAPH holds no brief
for Mr. Creel, the administra
tion's publicity agent, but he
lias taken a most sensible course in
protesting aauinst the "War Depart
ment's decision not to give to news
papers the addresses as well as the
names of men killed or wounded in
France. The names are of small
value, except in isolated cases, for
they may be and likely will be du
plicated and cause all manner of
uncalled-for fear and apprehension.
The War Department withholds
t!:ia information for the reason that
the Germans may learn something
from these printed lists concerning
the numerals of the American regi
ments or divisions in front of them.
The Idea is little less than absurd.
In the first place, the Regular Army
is not sectional. Its membership
comes from all parts of the United
States. Neither is the Rainbow Di
vision, which embraces troops from
every State. . The new National
Army is almost as diverse in its
make up, and the p ld National
Guard has been so torn up and put
together again that little could be
learned of Its identity by a perusal
of casualty lists.
Jfo American wants to know any
thing that would givo aid to the
enemy, but every American insists
upon being informed upon every
question that can be answered with
out endangering our troops. The
lay mind can think of no good rea
son for withholding these addresses
and it is to be hoped that Mr. Creel
""'lll win his fight for intelligent pub
licity.
Harrisburg's draft of twenty-two
men marks the first who have gone
into military service from this city
other than as volunteers. This is a
record of which the community may
well be proud. Rut it is no disgrace
to awaited tbo call of the draft.
SATURDAY .EVENING, HAXtRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 16, 1918.
The men who are about to
leave for training: camp served their
country equally well during the
period of waiting In shop or office.
They will go out with the good wishes
of all their townspeople for the "best
of luck" and a safe return.
"Coal operator found guilty- of
murder." Some of them have done
worse than that.
PIGS AND CHICKENS
RAISE a pig and be patriotic!"
"Keep chickens in your
backyard and help lick the
Kaiser:"
How circumstances do alter cases,
to be sure!
Unless we err greatly, it was only
a short time ago that the Board of
Health would have been hot on the
trail of anybody who even hinted at
"keeping- a pig." Hogpens and porlc
diet occupied front page places as
joint horrors in the bright lexicons of
the professional "up-lifters." And
the man who fed his table scraps to
a half dozen hens that occupied a
small section of the backyard was
only pne stratum higher than his
benighted neighbor who insisted
upon raisins his own hams and ba
con.
And now we are told that bacon
is one of the most nutritious of foods
and must be considered, the
raiser of pigs and chickens is look
ed up to as a model member of tho
community. There was a time when
the suburban rear lot not decorated
with a pig-sty was the mark of a
shiftless resident. This was during
the period of our national life when
the chickencoop was as much a part
of the household furniture as the
cook stove, and almost as Important.
It looks as though history might be
about to repeat itself.
I Von Hindenburg is "prepared to
I lose 300,000 men." Some of those
I American gunners will have to re-
I duce their percentage of hits if the
I number is not to be increased.
F 00 DEVALUES
F 1 OOD COMMISSIONER JAMES
FOUST sizes up the food situa
tion pretty accurately In a re
cent issue of the monthly bulletin of
the Pennsylvania Department of)
Agriculture. Says Commissioner
Foust:
People engaged in Belgian re
lief work say that one of the
hardest things they had to over
come was the fixed habit of eat
ing certain kinds of food. The
Belgian people had to be taught
to eat cornmeal flour. They ob
jected to corn in any form. It was
new to them and they considered
it hog- feed—unfit for human con
sumption. They would not eat it
until driven by necessity, and this
feelins made it very hard to feed
the hungry. The same thing has
been observed in other countries,
and in our large cities. People
form the habit of eating certain <
foods and will not change, even j
though it is easy to prove that the
new ration is "balanced" and
cheaper. In Germany the neces
sities of war and the stern na
tional discipline have made it pos
sible to substitute new forms of
food but, in general, people will
demand the kind of food they un
derstand and like. There are
many families who consider such
food as cornmeal. beans and
rice as fit only for "Chinamen and
slaves," as one of them put it.
Most people eat with their mind
and eyes, and "bread riots" start
not so much from scarcity of
nourishing food as because peo
ple cannot get the kind of food
they like. That man is happy
and wise who knows the prdtein
in baked beans will keep him
going as well as the similar sub
stance in terrapin or roast duck.
Atl men will not admit that, and
thus the food distributor has his
problems.
Mr. Hoover Is authority for the
statement that this country cannot
be starred out and that we can con
tinue to supply ourselves and our
allies with food for fifteen years or
more. But he is careful to say, also,
that -we cannot do this and eat the
quantities of wheat, beef and bacon
we formerly consumed. We have got
to change our diet. We must accept
cornmeal and rice and other sub
stitutes for wheat and cut down our
meat consumption. We are already
doing these things, but we must in
crease our efforts. No, we are not
going to starve, but, as Mr. Foust
says, we ara. about to learn a few
things about food values we never
before knew or thought about.
A CALITTO PRAYER
THE Methodist Bishops have Is
sued a formal call to prayer
throughout the church during
the Easter season. In the trying
days of the Revolution Washington,
it is recorded, frequently invoked
divine aid. During the critical per
iods of the Civil War Lincoln Is pic
tured as laying his trials and trou
bles before God in humble supplica
tion. "In God We Trust" is a na
tional motto. If ever there was a
time -when divine aid was needed In
guiding the hands of those in whose
trust the fatjß of the nation reposes,
it is the present. Prayer Is a weapon
the Kaiser does not know how
to wield and against which such has
he have no defense. Prayer, earnest,
.believing, consistent prayer, was part
and parcel of the war programs of
Washington and Lincoln. It ought
to be good enough for us.
LET THE JAPS GO IN
RUSSIA having demonstrated
that It is a willing party to the
kind of peaco Germany pro
poses for those upon whom it can
force its will, the time has come
when the interests of tho entente
demand that Japan be permitted to
enter Siberia.
We have the choice of Russian
domination or Japanese occupation,
and of the two the latter Is by far
the more desirable. Japan has every
thing to gain and nothing to lose by
standing to her agreement with the
Allies and In fighting to bring Qor
many to her knees. A victorious
Germany would crowd her out of
Asia entirely. A beaten Germany'
will, not be in position to contend
with the Island" Empire vigorously
for the Far Eastern trade without
which Japan cannot continue her
ambltiouH program of power and In
fluence.
Wc must choose between Japan
anJ Germany in China and Siberia.
All our interests demand that the
Japs be permitted to take a hand In;
shaping affairs over which Russia
herself appears to be entirely too
much engrossed with playing sec
ond fiddle to the Kaiser to care much
about. The vast treasures of the
Orient cannot long remain scatter
ed about with a robber power
abroad. Better let Japan become
temporary custodian.
'PtKKOifftfCUUG,
By the Ex-Committeeman
Seldom, even In the last half doz
en strenuous years in Pennsylvania
politics, has Philadelphia held as
much attention among men vNio fol
low the development of partisan and
factional political affairs as just now.
For weeks the Vare brothers have
been keeping the state guessing as
to what they Intend to do In the Re
publican gubernatorial primary and
the elements opposed to the South
; Philadelphia leaders have been mak
ing life more or less stirring for
them, especially lp regard 10 con
tracts and conduct of municipal af
fairs. The situation in the Quaker
City is believed to bo on the point
of developing and the next ten days
will probably be as momentous in
state politics as any In the last doz
en years. Indeed, so serious has it
become that national Republican
leaders are now reported as about to
take a hand and on orders from the
highest Democratic leaders the
Pennsylvania Democrats have held
back all booms for Governor until it
is seen what comes out of Philadel
phia.
In other words, the whole state
campaign of all parties has been held
up and even efforts oil behalf of the
"dry" amendment retarded until some
squabbles about politics In Philadel
phia are either ironed out or given
fresh animation.
—What appears to have been a
well-arranged assault upon Senator
Van's neutrality position occurred
yesterday when Governor Brum
baugh and Attorney General Brown,
recipients of the favor of Senator
Vare and the leading advocates of
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil as the successor of Dr. Brum
baugh, joined Mr. O'Neil in pleading
with the Senator to come out for
O'Neil. Attorney General Brown Is
personal counsel for Senator Vare,
but even that fact and the presence
of Congressman John R. K. Scott
at the conference with Mr. O'Neil
failed to result in any change that
was announced or even intimated to
the throng of officials and minor of
ficeholders of the state administra
tion who appeared to have business
in Philadelphia yesterday. The move
on Vare was evidently expected to
bring forth something definite be
cause the Capitol was on tiptoe with
expectancy last night and Mr. O'Neil
was in hopes when he left th city
that he would have something by
which to steer.
—While .the administration blg ;
chiefs were at Varo's tepee and the 1
braves were wandering about hotels
and sitting in "movies," State Chair- ,
man William E. Crow was discuss- j
ing the situation with the Penrose I
leaders from all parts of the state j
and Senator William C. Sproul was i
meeting men and lining up his cam
paign which will become active
about April 1. ,
—Democratic leaders and scouts
were pussyfooting it all over Phila
delphia and th'e wires to Washington
buzzed with reports of inability to
get a line on things.
—The whole thing is now resolved
down to the meeting of the Repub
lican city committee of Philadelphia,
which is to be made the vehicle of
the Vare declaration. The commit
tee is controlled by the Vares who
will have the mayor, district attor
ney and other officials sit with it in
making up tne choice. Some of the
state administration men are jubi
lant at this plan after ruminating
over it for a week. It Is generally
suspected that Senator Sproul has
Senator Vare's promise. Vare is a
wise general. He gets the drift of
sentiment and gets ahead of it. Now.
if through the efforts of the Attorney
General and others, enough Vare
leaders, who are more or less willing,
should declare that O'Neil should
be the man Vare might come out
for the man from McKeesport.
the other hand, Sproul men claim
that the majority of the Philadel
phia ward leaders are for Sproul
and that they realize that the state
administration can not put m
more appointments in Philadelphia
•without upsetting the balance in the'
rest of the state. They also argue,
these friends of Sproul, that Hie
Brumbaugh administration will end
in nine months and that the Vases j
may have to fight to held their con
trol in Philadelphia again, to say
nothing of facing a demand in the
state when the General Assembly
meets for legislation that will cure
Philadelphia's political distemper.
Speaker Richard J. Baldwin, of
the last House, will probably be a
candidate for re-nomination in Dela
ware county's second district, ac
cording to friends. The speaker had
been sawing wood and contemplat
ing the historic spots along the
Brandy wine,, but as he rejoices in a
record of seven sessions, he will
probably run again.
—Another veteran who may re
turn is Thomas F. McNlchol. floor
leader of the administration in the
last House, clever, witty and genial,
with friends in every party and fac
tion. McNichol's ambitions lie to
ward the bench, but in Philadelphia
many people are anxious to have him
bnclc in the House and he may yield.
—-Clem Chestnut, tho Fulton
county member, has sent word to the
folks here that the Democrats and
'most everybody else are for him In
his baiywick and that he is coming
back to the Legislature, but does not
intend to s!t in any back row seat
next time. Chestnut, however, can
individualize any seat which may be
bestowed upon him In legislative
halls.
—An interesting piece of political
gossip from W'estern Pennsylvania
Is that George Plunimer Baker, one
of the Washington county delega
tion. Is thinking of trying for the Re
publican senatorial nomination in
the Greene-Washington district. Dr.
J. C/ McKay, of Waynesburg, and T.
B. H. Brownlee, of Washington, also
have aspirations. They are both
"dry." but Mr. Baker has not de
clared himself.
—John A. Bolard, an attorney of
Cambridge Springs, twice defeated
for the Legislature from Crawford,
says a Meadvllle dispatch, U willing
to try his luck again on the Repub
lican ticket. Ex-Representative L.
O. MoLane,' of Wnesville. is leaning
toward the race course as a Repub
lican, and Fred J. Shattuck, of the
same place, present assemblyman,
will probably be In the field for re
nomlnatlon. The Hon. John P. Wil
liams. of Meade, tl|e ot'.uer as
semblyman from Crawfprd county,
does not expect to try for renotnlna
tlon. Both 'Shattuck oiid Williams
voted against the proposed prohibi
tion amendment. On the Democra
tic side for assemblyman, William L.
MeUenbacher, who was defeated for
re-election in 1916, .and J. C. McKay,
who had the same fate, are expect
ed to be in line for renomination on
the Democratic ticket
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PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES
Pack up your troubles in your old
kit bag and
Smile—Smile—Smile.
If you've a luclfer to light your
fag-
Smile—Boys, that's the style.
What's the use of worrying.
It never was worth while,
So—pack up your troubles in your
old kit bag
And smile—smile—smile.
THE STATE PRESS
Germany never yet beaten the
aJlies when she has gone (ip against
anything like equal numbers and
equal aquipment. The French beat
the Germans on the Marne with In
ferior forces. The French and Eng
lish whipped them on the Somme.
For three years they have been
steadily beaten back on the western
front. And it is the western front
that is going to count in the end.
These successes of the enemy else
where are Irritating, but they are
not of first importance.-—York Ga
zette.
Some of our people who celebrate
German victories are the sons of the
men who came to this country to
escape from German military serv
ice.—Reading News-Times.
The war has taught us much. It
has taught that youthful energy Is
essential to some things. But it has
also taught that maturity brings
with it an equilibrium, a poise,
which likewise has its advantages.—
Johnstown Democrat.
The insult of woman's suffrage In
New York neither disappointed or
displeased anyone. The women vot
ed with their husbands and fathers
The usual Democratic results were
given in usual Democratic strong
holds. True there was nothing emo
tional In the issue. There was no
religious or sectarian or conflsca
tional movement to call forth the
frenzies of sensationalism, so noth
ing can be said as to what would bo
done when such are injected, as they
will be later.—Hagerstown Mail.
When we consider the enormous
frauds which were perpetrated on
the federal government In the mak
ing and execution of all kinds of
contracts for supplies during the
Civil War, and which were contin
uous from the beginning of that war
to the end, we should not feel dis
mayed at the disclosure of the plot
to rob the government of millions for
which clothing manufacturers, their
employes and a clerk in the quarter
muster's department have been in
dicted. By comparison, we are en
titled to be surprised and to con
gratulate ourselves that there has
been so little of this kind of dis
honesty in connection with this war.
—Lancaster New Era.
Verne Not Far Wrong
Dr. C. H. Bedell, who has had over
twenty years' experience with sub
marines. observes, in the Journal of
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. that as far as the hand
ling of a submarine is concerned, the
boats of the present day are as per
feet as the Nautilus of Jules Verne's
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea." They make his fancy fact.
We may even, if we so desire,
make our boat so that when It Is at
rest submerged a man with a diving
helmet may pass from it into the
sea and, entirely disconnected from
the Submarine or the surface, ex
plore the ocean lioor for an hour or
more, as Captain Nemo of the Nauti
lus did. That such construction is
not used Is due to the fact that there
seems to be no material need for
such operations.
The Nautilus was driven by elec
tricity. We also use electricity when
running submerged, but we obtain
our electricity from storage batteries
whereas Captain Nemo obtained his
from the sea. The great difference
between Action and reality in this
case is that the Nautilus was able
to go around the world with one
supply of energy, while we are ob
liged to come to the surface after
one or two hundred miles for the
purpose of recharging our storage
batteries.
The men on the Nautilus are sup
posed to have bpen able, to see ob
jects at up to one-half'or
three-quarters of a mile by the light
of the sun or by powerful electric
lamps. While we at this time prob
ably have more powerful electric
lamps. It Is Impossible for us to see
any great distance through water,
no matter what method of lighting
I Is used.
The Religious Side of the War,
By FRANK 0. LOW DEN. Governor of Illinois.
FOR half a century before the
war we heard many impossible
claims made by the universities
and statesmen of the German Em
pire. We did not realize that these
universities and these professors
were a part of the state, established
by tho state, receiving their appoint
ments from the state, and therefore
not members of free educational in
stitutions as we know them In Amer
ica.
Not only were they made servants j
of this conspiracy, but as time went
on we found that the German clergy,
as well, lent themselves to this mon
strous doctrine that might makes
right, that the cannon and the sword
are the only argument as between
nations, and that whatever is for
the material benefit of the Nation
itself, it is her duty to seize and
hold if she can.
I quote here a statement bearing
upon this question, made by a long
time resident of Germany, one who
had in the past loved Germany well.
This testimony is contained in a re
cent issue of the Atlantic Monthly, j
and it quotes from a leading German
divine:
"The German God —the God of the
Old Testament; a God that dealt In
realities, stern, severe, uncompromis
ing; the God of the warrior, favor
ing Zabadiah, the Son of Ishmael,
Joshua and Judas Maccabaeus."
Think of such language coming
from the pulpit of a great nation in
the twentieth century. When 1 re
flect upon this, I also reflect that
these ministers of Germany receive
their appointment, too, from the
state, and I thank God that in my
land, church and state are absolute
ly divorced."
I quote from the same authority
the oath of fidelity, which all who
seek to enter the German minis
try must take:
"I will be submissive, faithful and
obedient to His Royal Majesty—and
his lawful successors in the govern
ment —as my most gracious King
and Sovereign; promote his welfare
according to my ability; prevent in
jury and detriment to him; and
particularly endeavor carefully to
cultivate in the minds of the people
under my care a sense of reverence
and fidelity toward the King, love
for the fatherland, obeditence to the
laws, and all those virtues which in
a Christian denote a good citizen;
and I will not suffer any man to
teach or act in a contrary spirit. In
particular, 1 vow that I will not
support any society or association,
either at home or abroad, which
might endanger the public security,
and will inform ills Majesty of any
proposals made, either in my dio
cese oi; elsewhere, which might
prove injurious to the state. I will
preach the Word as His Gracious
Majesty dictates." That is the oath
which the ministers of religion of
this Imperial State must take if
I they would preach the Word of God.
No wonder that for half a cen
tury, In pursuance of this conspiracy
by the military autocracy to become
the master of the world, the church
from day to day has coupled the
name of Deity with the name of the
German Kaiser, until to-day the
Kaiser himself speaks of Deity as
though He were upon the same level
as himself.
The German God Is not the God
of the Old Testament. The God of
Joshua a God that believed In
law, believed In keeping the Com
mandments, and Joshua spent his
last years in trying to bring his peo
ple back to a realization of and obe
dience to the law as It had been writ
ten.
Some one has said that this Ger
man God was the God of the pagans.
He was not, because even the pagan
THE INCOME TAX
•
Price Paid For Stocks or Bonds Is Tax Basis
We will say that In 1916 you bought certain stocks and .bonds
for $5,000, and in 1917 the value of these securities dropped to $4,000.
You cannot claim the difference of SI,OOO as a loss In computing
your income tax liability.
Under the provisions of the law only such losses as have actu
ally been sustained during the year can be claimed; that is, the loss
must have resulted from a completed and closed transaction. In
your case, you still own the securities. They may go up In value dur
ing 1918, and until they are sold on otherwise disposed of you are
unable to determine whether you will .suffer a loss or derive a gain
from your Investment. In words, no account is to be taken,
for incomo*tax purposes, of fluctuations in the market value or arbi
trary changes In the book value of securities.or other property.
NOTE —This .ruling has been modified In the case of securi
ties owned by brokers or others regularly engaged in buying and sell
ing securities. See Treasury Decision 2609.
gods had qualities of mercy, of jus
tice, of gentleness. The Gorman God
is that old savage god called Woden,
who, it was supposed, was dethroned
In the German forests 2,000 years
ago.
Across the brow of that German
God should be written in letters of
flaming light, "Made in Germany,"
because he has no existence any
where else.
And so 1 say that while It is a war
of democracy, a war for liberty, a
war for righteousness, a war for
mercy, it is more than all this. It
Is a war between the hosts of Heaven
and tho evil powers that have al
ways threatened righteousness since
the first dawning of time.
In the old wars, the defeated pa
triot, the defeated lover of liberty,
che defeated Christian could seek
some land somewhere else—maybe
our own beloved land—where liberty
of conscience reigned supreme, and
where he could find an exile from
tyranny and oppression. But if this
war goes against us there will be no
nook or cranny in all the world big
enough for the .defeated lover of lib
erty, big enough for the defeated
lover of justice and gentleness and
right.
Do you realize that Germany, the
home of the divinest music which
has ever entranced the ear, has not
written any beautiful music of late
years'.' Do you realize that when
hate enters the human heart and
dominates the human life there are
no notes in all the gamut with which
lo weave divine harmony? Do you
realize that years ago beautiful, ex
alted and inspiring poetry came in
volumes from the German pen?
But of fete years the only German
poem of which X know that has gain
ed fame is a poem called "The
Hymn of Hate." And the German
Emperor decorated its author!
If there ever was a war in which
the clergy should be united and
should be vigilant, it is this war in
which we are engaged. Every boy
who is wearing the American uni
form, whether he be in camp in our
own country or in the trenches on
the other side, or on the high seas,
is your comrade, my friends, because
he is helping you to win an everlast
ing victory for the forces of right
eousness. which are involved more
than aught else in this war. They
are your comrades. They are the
comrades of all who believe that
there is a God above, who holds this
old planet in the hollow of fI Is hand,
and who has said "Righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is a re
proach to any people."
LABOR NOTES
Negotiations with ,the Foundry
men's Club has resulted in wages for
Philadelphia iron molders being in
creased $1 a day. Nearly 2.000 or
ganized employes are affected.
Birmingham (Ala.) trade union
ists are orgt'nlzing negro workers
and predict that they will establish
the largest union of these workers in
Alabama.
Utah State Free Employment Bu
reau reports that during the first
half of January 502 persons made
application for work and 264 se
cured employment.
San Francisco Laundry. Wagon
Drivers' Union has secured a two
year union shop agreement, which
provides for wage increases and im
proved working conditions.
| Quebec's compensation law has
I been amended. Compensation Is to
be paid monthly instead of every
three months.
Over tfwe
MV 'pMUUU
The highest prices ever paid, in
the neighborhood of Lebanon for
mules were realised at a recent sa'.e
by Harry Shearer, near I<awn. Four
pairs of mules were sold at $725,
$705, $760 and S7BO.
There is one verse in the Bible that
draft board officials in Pennsylvania
will never forget: it has been so over
worked by members of certain creeds
who do not believe in war, namely,
the fifth verse, twenty-fourth chapter
of Deuteronomy, which says: When
a man hath taken a new wife he shall
not go out to war, neither shall ho
be charged with any business.
Every back yard in Germany has
a little fish pond says S. Chester
Lloyd, president of the National
Aquarium Society, and he goes on:
"If you want to help Uncle Sam win
the war keep ten tlsh in your back
yard." Mr. Lloyd states that he
raised 20,000 tish last year in three
500-gallon pools. With little care, he
! urges, the average city dweller with
back yard space can raise all She
fish he needs for his table.
Yep, He Got the Girl!
"I am amazed that you should
propose to my daughter. You have
not known her a week."
"Yes, but I have known you for
some time, and everybody says your
daughter takes after you."
—From the Oregon Journal.
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bought several BSk. j
| haven't bought
' I'm flat "broke,
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The new state dog license law
which was enacted primarily to pro
tect sheep and encourage raising oti
such animals for wool and meat and
by regulating ownership and control
of animals eliminate the ownerless
and worthless curs, is making all
kinds of troublo. More questions
have arisen under it and the Statu
Department of Agriculture has be
come a regular inquirer at the offlca
of the Attorney General for rulings.
Farmers, hunters and plain folks
have been having their
while the authority, or liability, aS
the case may be, of officers to shoot
ownerless unimals has been called
into dispute, to say nothing of the
manner In which country treasurpft t
must issue the licenses. COupty
commissioners appear reluctant to
enforce the act In many counties.
The chief source of trouble appears
to bo farmers themselves, and
next the residents of cities who live
near limits and whose dogs stray into
townships. The farmers are requir
ed to pen dogs up at night and not
allow them to run at large off their
own properties. This is where the
sheep are to bo protected, but the
farmers' dogs are as much given to
roaming as those of the city dwell
ers, and conflicts of authority have
arisen. Hunters have raised the
question whether In training dogs,
they must have them always In leasli
and also what effect the act's strict
requirements as to control is going
to have next fall when the bird sea
son Is on. The situation appears to
bo that no one wants to have the
dogs running around at large and
no one wants tho obligation to kill
them.
The movement to close Pennsyl
vania to hunting of the ruffed grouse
for two years is going to be success
ful, It was predicted here to-day. In
all but two counties petitions are in
circulation to the Game Commis
sion to close the counties to such
hunting, so that the birds may be
saved from extermination, and in
those tw: counties the project will bo
started soon. The campaign is
backed by many representative men
and while someobJectlon is expected
to be made, it is considered that
popular sentiment will be so strong
that there will be little doing. Tho
experience of the state with wild
turkeys a few years ago, when the
number increased materially under
a two-year closed season by legisla
tive enactment and the example of
New York and other states in clos
ing shooting to ruffed grouse are ex
pected to have great weight. It is
an interesting fact that ruffed grouse
cannot bo bought for propagation.
More trap shooting is going to bo
done in Pennsylvania this year than
ever before. The sport has had a
notable revival and the number of
shot gun owners has grown so rap
idly that some people say it has
doubled in Pennsylvania in a couple
of years. Fred A. Godcharles, dep
uty Secretary of the Commonwealth,,
who is a crack shot and officer of
the state association, says that trap
shooting is going to be popular in
j every county this year, and that he
I has heard of numerous matches.
"One of the things which has im
pressed me is the number of persons
who ha\e been asking experienced
trap shooters, to show them how to
handle their guns and to demon
strate the gieatest sport of all," said
Mr. Godcharles. "Because when you
come down to it, trap shooting not
only* teaches - important elements rjf
defense, which everyone ought to
know Mow. but steadiness. I look
for a great year in trap shooting. In
Pennsylvania. The early matches
havi been attended by more sports
men than I have, known and the in
terest generally has run high."
In just another month trout fish
ing is going to bo under way in
Pennsylvania and while Nathan R.
Buller, the State Commissioner of
Fisheries, says that it is a little early
to make prognostications, as many
reports on condition of streams have
not come in, he looks for a great sea
son. "Spring has come in nicely and
the reports show that the severe
winter did not hurt our fish. In
fact, the reports I have gotten have
been favorable," said he. "We are
now having things looked over, get
ting reports on the fish conditions,
checking up pollution and arranging
for distribution of young flsh. Last
year we broke records In putting out
trout, that is trout able to take care
of themselves, and if we can get the
cars we will do some things this year.i
We have large numbers of adult
hrook and brown trout to send out,
and the sportsmen are writing in for
them. I have been going about the
hatcheries arranging for start of the
spring work. Owing to the war we
lost some of our experienced men
and have had to readjust the force, _
but that is working out and when the
time comes we will be ready to send
out plenty of fish. State Policemen,
game and forest wardens are going*
to help us enforce the fish laws."
• • •
The unusual fact that most of the *
big passenger wrecks that have oc
curred near Harrlsburg have taken
place between 1 and 3 o'clock in the
morning was much comniented up'-
on yesterday. The only exception
appears to have been the Dock street
wreck, which occurred shortly before
midnight. The Trimmef'S
Rock, Docklow and Glen Rock
wrecks all occurred after 1 o'clock,
while the train which figures in'the
I.ochiel and Ellzabethtown wrecks
ln.d two mishaps west of Harris
turg In the early morning.
:— . j ■
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
—Senator Charles H. Kline, of
Pittsburgh, rejoices in Christma? for
his birthday and Senator James B.
Weaver, of Westmoreland, has
Memorial day for his natal day.
—Galen R. Hanley, connected
with the Susquehanna Collieries Co.,
at Mt. Carmel, as chief clerk and
paymaster, for thirty years, has re- .
tired.
—William A. Barber, Reading
fish fancier, who gave many gold flsh
to the city, has found hundreds of
them killed by chemicals used In the
water when the city filter plant was
out of business.
—Samuel O. Wynne, Just promot.
Ed to be major and assigned to the
War College at Washington, is a,
Phoenlxville man.
—Albert E. Turner, prominent
Phlladelphian, is returning from a
trip to Hawaii for his health.
—C. J. Tyson, Adams county fruit '
grower, is urging general growing of
fruit as a patriotic duty.
[ DO YOU KNOW
—That is a big dis
tribution point for bakery prod- •
nets made hero and elsewhere.
HISTORIC IIAKKISBriUi
The ferry across the Susquehanna
I which really started was
operated continuously for almost
1100 years.