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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1918
He that will not reason is a ligot;
he that cannot reason is a fool; and
lie that dares not reason is a slave.
—A . DBVMMOND.
WITH DUE DILIGENCE
AUDITOR GENERAL Charles A.
Snyder, seems to have started
upon a fair way to make a rec
ord in collection of revenue for the
State of Pennsylvania, by exercise of
an oft-abused phrase—with due dili
gence. This expression is commonly
used and commonly disregarded, in
official as well as private business.
Following it, to judge from state
ments made at tho Capitol, seems to
have put the State on line to obtain
an income approximately $40,000,-
000 this year. The fact that our
Commonwealth has even that mag
nificent sum in sight is a cause for
congratulation, and the fact that the
fiscal officer in charge of the reve.
nuc has gone after it is pleasing in
deed. It is not going to oppress
any one or interfere with any busi
ness to get this sum in hand. It is
the revenue which the State ordi
narily gets from corjiorations and
other sources and the first fruits of
the direct inheritance tax law. There
are some who consider that the di
rect inheritance act was not needed,
but that exercise of due diligence
would supply the revenue needed
even for the lavish appropriations
authorized last year. But that is
nere nor there.
When Mr. Snyder took office,
there were unadjusted tax matters
In the files of the Auditor General's
Department, and the condition in
which papers were found by him,
was a bad reflection upon his pre
decessor. It required months of
work to straighten out the accumu
lated tax settlements, as they are
officially known, but although Mr.
Snyder has been in office less than a
year, he is able to state that the
back cases, some covering a period
of years, have been virtually cleared
up and the money passed over to
State Treasurer H. M. Kephart, and
that current business is in hand.
The plain statement of the finances
ehows what can be done, not by
f trass band methods, but by due dili
gence.
BOMBAST
THE bombast of General von
Ludendorf, who boasts that the
German armies are stronger
than their opponents on the West
Front and calmly await the allied
attack, sounds suspiciously like tho
utterances of the small boy who
loudly proclai.ns that he can lick
anybody on the block, but who takes
It out In talking. He. goes about
v/itli a chip on his shoulder Inviting
his comrades to knock it off, all the
time hoping they won't.
The views of von Ludendorf and
von Hindenburg are strangely kt
variance. Hindenburg says the
"great offensive must continue,"
while von Ludendorf would be con
tent to mark time and let the allies
try Issues in an attack. It would
seem to be the tactics of Germany
at this time to confuse her enemies
t>y wilful misstatements of her in
tentions. But whatever the pur
pose, Germany's one hope lied in an
early peace, rather than a military
Victory. The Kaiser knows his
dream of world contest Is at an end,
even though for the moment his
hosts are marching In triumph
throughout vast conquered terri
tories *to the East) Ha knows he
**nnot win this wai 1 until he
Prance, Italy, England aud
Atnerica and he knows, also, that
(this Is an impossible task* 8a he
Slopes to arrange things tot an ln-
Xsonclustve peace so that he cannot
[lose. He would like to call it a
tdraw: He weuld be eontent to fix
matters up almost any way, until he
could get ready to renew hostilities
under more favorable circumstance*.
Sq his generals resort to bltiator
and bluff, hoping to throw fear into
,the hearts of tfce people of the allied
reentries. He is perfectly awaro
Jtait 4MB wltt bars no effect on the
imtahlß the field. They are oon
to jnwt the Hun on tonal
MONDAY EVENING,
terms any time he chooses to light. ]
They know that; man for man, they
can whip the German soldiers off
their Jfeet. But back homo is where
the Kaiser hopes to shatter the
morale. He would like to have us
fear that 'what he says about the
invincibility of his troops Is true.
He would like to liavo us believe
that perhaps, after all, we shall notf
DO able to win, and therefore should
make peace while we can.
But he will find the will of the
people as firm as his own. Ameri
cans at home are just as much "out
to win" as Americans in Prance. We
have the men, we have the guns, we
have the food and all the other re
sources necessary, and we have the
courage and the will to win victory,
and we shall continue hammering
away until the Kaiser's forces shall
give way before the all-conquering
allies. We are hot near the end of
the war. Far from It; we have just
begun to fight.
•WHY?
THE public is reliably informed
that 549,810,000 pounds of
sugar went into the making .of
beer last year.
That 44,363,133 gallons of molasses
were wasted in the same way.
And that 1,080,000 cars were uaed
to transport beer and beer products.
This In addition to millions of
bushels of grain used and thousands
of men employed, while the country
is suffering a sugar, grain and labor
famine.
The rapid spread of the prohi
bition wave indicates that the public
is overwhelmingly opposed to the
waste of food prducts in the mak
ing of liquor.
President Wilson has tho power
to put a stop to the manufacture
of beer. Congress at his own request
gave it to him. But he displays
no sign of exercising his authority.
Why?
TIME TO CLEAN UP
THE public will heartily approve
the cleaning up campaign in
augurated by Mayor Keister.
It Is especially Important at this time
that disorderly places be suppressed
and bad characters of both sexes
made to understand that they must
behave or get out of Harrisburg.
Wo are on the verge of a great
increase in population. The govern
ment work in this vicinity will bring
to the city thousands of men, among
whom will be many looking for the
kind of excitement found mostly in
places where little or no attention
is paid to law regulating drink (
gambling and social relations. Unless
the lid is clamped down tight now,
vice will run rampant and the police
will have as much trouble as in the
days of old Camp Meade. Doubtless
It is the mayor's desire to forestall
such a condition, as well as a wish
to put down crime of all kinds, that
has caused him to take the vigorous
action that has resulted in sc> many
raids recently.
We want no such disgraceful
state of affairs -here as has been
allowed to develop in Philadelphia.
The men who come here, 'either as
civilians or soldiers, must be pro
tected. We owe them all the health
ful, wholesome means of recreation
at our command —and this is a
matter that should have early and
earnept attention—but we would dis
grace ourselves and the country if
we offered the newcomers the kind
of amusement too often the only
type that presents Itself under such
circumstances.
CRIME OF PROFITEERING
HERE and there over the state
food and fuel administrators
are receiving complaints of
profiteering. There have been whis
pers of violations of this kind in
Harrlsburg and vicinity by persons
who allege that a few coal and food
merchants have taken advantage of
unsettled conditions to wrest un
reasonable prices from customers
who were more or less at their
mercy. In some places this practice
has been so extensive that news-,
papers have felt justified in publish
ing blank complaint coupons for the
benefit of their subscribers. It is to
be hoped no such step will be neces
sary here.
*lt is but fair to say that a
majority of the local merchants have
conducted their business in a man
ner above reproach under very try
ing circumstances and that most coal
dealers have come through the win
ter with losses where there sheuld
have been profits. That being true
it is all the more important that
these honest dealers be protected, as
well as consumers. It is not fair
that all should be placed under
suspicion for the crimes of the few.
Next to the pro-German, the pro
fiteer is the most dangerous member
of the community in these critical
times. He is not only a robber but
an enemy to social order atid public
confidence. No matter how high his
station or what his connections, he
should be singled out and punished
to the full extent of the law. If
there are any such in Harrjsburg or
vicinity it is the duty of those who
have the evidence to lay it before
tlio local food or fuel administrator,
as the case may be.
A NAVIGARLE RIVER
THE Pennsylvania Canal Boat
men's Association has renewed
the oft-discussed project for a
navigable Susquehanna from the an
thracite fields to Baltimore. Every
resident of the territory contributory
to the great enterprise would be
pleased to see It carried to success
and doubtless in time it would pay
for itself. But there are groat dif
ficulties In the way, and not all of
them of an engineering nature.
Italsing the river ten feet by dams,
for example, would involve im
mense damages to land and property
and years of negotiations. Possibly
some day we may come to the
i place where we can combine
electrical water power dams and the
navigation scheme, and so work It
out. But the outlook for early se
rious consideration of the subject is
not bright I We havef too many im
mediate problems of great' impor
tance' confronting us.
"~Po£ttcc& in,
"PtKKOijCaaKta
By the Ex-Commltteeman
While Republicans throughout
Pennsylvania are waiting for the
Philadelphia situation to clear up,
and the Republican gubernatorial
candidates are going through the
warming up canter, Democrats are
watching to see whether National
Chairman Vance C. McCormick or
Acting State Chairman, Joseph F.
Guffey, is going to win in the quiet
struggle going on in the Pennsyl
vania Democracy, to see who is boss.
McCormick wants to name tho can
didate, but refuses to heed the re
quest that he undertake the bur
dens of a campaign. GuHey wants
to run, himself.
It is commonly believed that Mc-
Cormick wants tq put up a "dry"
candidate, as he would run on a
"dry" platform, if he ran himself,
and Guffey wants to either avoid any
declaration and make national serv
ice and "win the war" the issues or
else be "wet" either openly or not
belligerently. The federal office
holders are with McCormick, as are
many of the wise leaders in the
counties, while the machine work
ers and the liquor men are inclined
to be friendly with Guffey. Guffey
Is strong in a way and a good poli
tician. McCormick is considered
strong, but not a good politician.
National Committeeman A. Mit
chell Palmer, Is talking about Wll-
Jiam H. Berry, collector of the port
"of Philadelphia, occasionally, while
some of the McCormick men talk of
Humes.
Some Democrats are willing to bet
that McCormick will run if he sees
a chance to win, but that If lie
thinks It a losing contest, he will
back Humes. The President will
bless whatever McCormick does.
—One of the interesting features
about the Democratic situation is the
fact that the Democratic newspapers
have ceased to talk about their own
party woes and are devoting yards
and yards to playing up Republican
troubles.
—The North American to-day says
that William H. Berry awaits word
from McCormick whether he should
bo a candidate. It sayy he wrote the
national chairman, telling him he
would run If McCormick did not.
The North American says Berry's
letter puts the question squarely at
McCormick whether he Is going to
run. It also notes the fact that West
ern Pennsylvanlans who do not like
Guffey and are not enthusiastic over
Berry are boosting Judge Singleton
Bell, of. Clearfield, for governor.
—This Interesting remark is made
by Robert P. Habgood, candidate for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor in a letter to the Pittsburgh-
Gazette-Times: "It seems to me
that the candidate for governor, who
declares in behalf of the national
prohibition amendment, and who
does not strongly support candidates
in his county in the primaries who
will vote in the Legislature for such
ratification, fails to give his approval
the necessary and convincing fopee."
—Nominating petitions of Ander
son 11. Walters, Johnstown; Lex N.
Mitchell, Punxsutawney, and Fred
E. Lewis, Allentown, all Progressives
have bloomed, each aspiring to be
congressman-at-lafge. Congressmen
McLaughlin and Crago, are candi
dates' for re-election. Lewis and
Mitchell will be state administration
candidates as bqth are friendly to
O'Neil.
—Lewis' entry into the contest is
interesting, as he has been a strong
Bull Mooser. The Progressives are
badly split and the effort to have
them go in a block will be a failure.
Thomas Robins and other big factors
will be for Sproul; Pinchot and pos
sibly William Draper Lewis and Wil
liam Fllnn, will be for O'Neil, but
not get heart failure over it. The
lesser leaders will divide and some
are already making faces at each
other over their preferences. ™
—Robert C. Shaw, prominent in
Democratic affairs years ago, candi
date for congress at large and Dem
ocratic member of the State Board
of Education, faces a contest to suc
ceed himself as county school sup
erintendent of Westmoreland.
—Samuel Castles, prominent in
Scranton, is a candidate for the Re
publican senatorial nomination.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
is printing an interesting series of
editorials from various newspapers
of the state, showing the rising tide
for the ratification of the prohibition
amendment, a battle in which the
big Western Pennsylvania paper is
taking a leading part. Prom the
positive character of most of the
editorials, the amendment is strong
in every county.
—Armstrong has nineteen less
licenses than a year ago. '
—The Philadelphia Inquirer's Al
toona correspondent says that the
candidacy of Senator Sproul in Blair
county "is being met with the high
est favor by the rank and file of the
Republicans of that county." It
claims the county for Sproul.
—J, Purdy Cope, Monroe county
hotel owner, who is a candidate for
senator, styles himself a "Wilson
Democrat." He Is strong for "stock
ing of our streams with trout and
bass."
—Samuel Wagner, of Tamaqua, Is
a candidate for the Republican sen
atorial nomination in Schuylkill on
a "dry" platform.
—Bethlehem's new council, has
passed a building ordinance covering
about 19,000 words. It is said to be
a model compilation.
—Robert W. Homan, who is a
candidate for the Legislature from
Mifflin county, lives in Lewistown,
and says that he will look after the
interests of the workman, although
he is no Socialist. He works for the
Standard Steel Co., and Is an Al
bright graduate.
—Representative R. A. Ringler,
Democratic member from Reading,
is out for re-nomination. Represen
tative James H. Maurer. the Social
ist member, is also a candidate in
that city.
The Blessings-
The real blessing, mercy, satisfac
tion, is not tn the having or the lack
of merely outward things, but in the
consciousness that the true sources
of life and happiness are deeper
than all these.—John "White Chad
wick.
Glorify God
Now the God of patience and con
solation grant yon to be
one toward another according to
Christ Jesus! that ye n\ay with one
mind and one mouth glorify God,
even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. — Romans xv. 5 and 6,
BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
EDITORIAL COMMENT"]
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German invaders wlio came to
Pskof remained to prey. —'Wall
Street Journal.
We will continue to have Victory
Sread, but the Garfield Loaf on
Mondays will not be done any more.
—Columbia Record.
Allfcnby, on the road to Jericho,
fell among thieves—and the thieves
| had the surprise of their lives —
j Wall Street Journal.
The most courageous slacker was-
I the fellow who married his mother-
I in-law in order to evade military ser-
I vice.—Newark News.
The Kaiser warns his people to
prepare for new and greater sacri
fices; and we trust his warning is
well founded. —Syracuse Post-Stand
ard.
Jericho joins Jerusalem in jump
ing from Biblical to modern promi
nence.—Syracuse Post-Standard.
President should ask some politi
cians the same questions as the car
penters. "Will you co-operate or will
you obstruct?"— Wall StfeeY Journ
al.
The situation in Russia is summed
up in the brief statement that the
Germans aro getting the booty and
the Russians the boot. —Chicago
Herald.
LABOR NOTES
As late as the Eighteenth Cen
tury coal miners and salt workers
in Scotland, were bound up by law
to their employers.
Venzuela recently enacted legis
lature providing for the safety and
■health of industrial laborers.
East Peoria claims to be better
organized for its size than* any other
city in the state of Illinois.
A survey is being made of the in
dustries and resources of Canada
with a view to placing returned sol
diers in proper employment.
| At the Kansas State Agricultural
College there are 150 women study
ing to become electrical engineers.
Industrial workers of the World
are barred from membership in the
United Mine workers' organization.
Twelve thousand women are
working as stenographers, typists
and clerks in the government offices
in the United States.
The Daylight Saving Bill
.[Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Getting up with the sun has ad
vantages that are not to be denied.
Most of us readjus.t our schedules in
some degree to the seasonal changes
of the sun. The waste of the addi
tional hours of morning daylight is
I not near as great as has been esti
! mated, by the lightning calculators
.who have multiplied the hour by the
number of days in the mid-year
period and then by the total number
of men, women and children in the i
country.* The race is not universally
j slothful and the diligent have found
| use, in one way or another, for their
! mornings.
I Opposition to the daylight saving j
till, which now seems likely tp be- j
j come law, has not been as to its un- 1
1 deriving theory, but rather as to its !
; practical application through the
j mandate of the government. There I
arc advantages to. pe admitted in the
uniformity of practice which will be
| gained. If all the manifold activities
j within each of the time zones are to
be simultaneously adjusted to the
| new schedule, those who already rise
early will experience little difficulty
lin meeting the new requirements, <
land those who have neglected their
opportunity will have the assistance j
of the clock and the call of the shop
land store and office in acquiring the
habit. And all will quickly appre
ciate the benefit of the added hour
of the afternoon for rest or recrea
tion.
According to-the prospectus of the
new day, the transition is a very
siihple matter. You lose an hour of
sleep on the morning of Sunday,
March 31—unless you go to bed an
hour earlier the night previous—and
thereafter the daily rounds of twen
ty-four hours come regularly, with
the usual apportionment of time for
work and meals and recreation and
rest until the last Sunday in Octo
ber, when you can turn over and
take an extra hour's nap and wake
up and find yourself on the ordinary
train of action again. Nevertheless,
it will be in the line of preparedness
to set the alarm clock' every night
for a while and insure against the
consequerfces of lost trains and be
lated appearances at work, for the
human is not generally a mere auto
maton. run by the clock and govern
ment decree.
Senator Spronl's Pledge
Senator William C. Sproul, one of
the candidates for the Republican
nomination for Governor, lias cut the
the ground from under the feet of
political opponents who would im
pugn his good faith in publicly ad
vocating ratification of the Federal
prohibition amendment. In the Ches
ter Times, which he owns the Senator
calls for the election of a legislative
delegation from Delaware county that
will work and vote for ratification
and pledges himself to give all assist
ance to accomplish that end. And
that is the only practical way in
which any citizen of Pennsylvania,
no "matter what his political station,
can advance the cause of ratification
by this state. The evidence of sin
cerity is work. The only possibility
of success lies in converting to sup
port of this great moral issue, as
Senator Sproul says, "on grounds of
patriotism, economy and loyalty to
the country," those who have not
heretofore been sympathetic with
the prohibition movement. Though
the Governor will have no official
duty to perform in connection with
ratification, assuredly Senator
Sproul's support of it will be of
much-desired consummation. It
should be welcomed and will He wel
comed by all sincere advocates of
national prohibition. Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times.
Keep Your Liberty Bo'nds
Secretary McAdoo recently warn
ed the patriotic owners of Liberty
bonds to beware of agents who are
going about buying up these bonds or
offering in exchange other securities
some of which are of doubtful value.
Except from necessity no owner of
a Liberty Bond should part with it.
Not only Is It an excellent Invest
ment, but Americans should regard
it as a patriotic service to retain
possession, so as to prevent large
amounts of these securities from
falling Into the hands of German
agents who wish to use them for tile
purpose of depreciating their value
on the market. *
If the government Is for.-eil to
raise a special fund for the protec
tion of these bonds on the market,
It. can readily bo seen how expensive
the German agents can make that
protection—unless they are caught
and punished.—Philadelphia Tele
graph.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By Briggi
-
ft =
The Hun at the Door
By A. O. STANLEY, Governor of Kentucky
I deeply regret that people still
harbor that pernicious delusion
that this war is 3,000 or 4,000
miles away. Have you heard that?
Some foolish people are saying that
It is .a war between England, France
and Italy and Germany and Austria
—away across the Atlantic Ocean, in
the mud and snow of. Flanders and
in the passes of the Alps, around
Verdun and that great sector at
Cambral. Oh, no, it is not there. It
is here—right here. It is in the streets
of Louisville; It is all over the blue
grass of Kentucky and in the moun
tains and in the •plains and in the
Pcnnyrile; it is up and down the
Mississippi River. They would be
here but for that splendid and al
most shattered line into which every
ablebodied Frenchman has gone;
that line to which every • home in
England has contributed; that line
for which Australia and Canada have
been drained. Because that line still
stands they are not here. Let that
Going Beyond Objectives
'•There was some criticism of the
fact that the Americans were so en
thusiastic that they went beyond the
objectives;" a significant statement
which appeared in the story of the
daring raid in which 2 6 picked
Americans share honors with the
French. And that is the spirit
which, at home here, should charac
terize all of our efforts in this war,
whether military or civilian. Our
men in France have shown it more
than once in more than one way.
They showed it incidentally when the
26 raiders were being chosen—for
the selections were made from a
solid battalion of volunteers. Every
man was ready to go.
It Is not for us to do our bit mere
ly; that should be the absolute mini
mum. And so with all of the stated
objectives- which are set before us—
let them be the points which we
must not under any consideration
fail to reach, not the points at whibh
we shall feel content to slacken on
the theory that we have done what
was required. To go beyond the ob
jectives is not always a wise thing
in battle and sometimes causes se
rious trouble; but It is a manifesta
tion of the right stuff just the same
and a splendid example for us hers
at home.—Savannah Ne^vs.
Maximum of Safety
'I see where an'aviator carried his
prospective bride to their wedding in
his airplane and after the ceremony
flew home with her.' '
"Now, that's a plan that appeals
to me."
"Yes?"
"It stands to reason that a fool
friend coudn't hit an airplane with
an old shoe when expert marksmen
can't do It with machine guns.'
—From the Birmingham Age-
Herald.
THE INCOME TAX
Property Purchased, Sold, Inherited, Etc
How you determine what amount of gain, or profit, derived from
a sale of property Is returnable for Income-tax purposes—
If you acquired the property sold prior to March 1, 1913, you
should take its fair market price or value as of that date, add there
to all amounts subsequently expended In making permanent Improve
ments, then deduct the aggregate of all claims for depreciation in
value of property claimed as deductions on previous returns, and the
difference between the result thus obtained and the selling price is
the amount to be reported under "Gross income."
•If you purchased the property on or pfter March 1, 1913, the dif
ference between Its cost, plus a'.l amounts subsequently expended for
permanent Improvements, less depredation previously claimed, and
its selling price. Is to lie returned.
If the property came to you on or after March 1. 1913.
inheritance, the difference between the appraised value placed upon
it at that time, plus ull amounts subsequently expended for perma
nent purposes, loss depreciation previously claimed, and its sell
ing price, is to be. returned.
line break, let the Hun go over that
westerrt front as he did over the
Isonzo in Italy, as he swept over the
eastern front in Russia and through
Serbia and Rumania, and his mil
lions will be here.
Will our patriotism and vigilance
sleep, sleep, sleep until we are
aroused at midnight by the red glare
of the holocaust? Will we wait till
the air is thick with the smoke of
burning buildings and the skies are
black with the conflagration of great
cities? Will we wait until the soil is
drenched by the red blood of our
own sons and the shrieking of out
raged women fills the palpitating air?
These Huns would Invade our homes,
would lay their foul and desecrating
hands upon the white throats of
American women, only over the dead
bodies of the last of this land's de
fenders.
We shall not wait until they land
here. We will meet them there. The
destiny of the world depends upon
the puissant arm of America.
Passing Out Crowns
The Finnish government, whatever
that may be, is reported to havo
offered the throne of Finland to
Prince Oscar, fifth son of the Kaiser.
If the report be true, the otter dis
plays a due appreciation, an .honest
gratitude, for the service which the
Kaiser has graciously rendered in re
lieving Finland from Russian op
pression and offering It the full
measure of self-determination which
the good German sword is winning
for all people.
Like a true knight errant, Ger
many had gone to Finland's rescue,
bringing order out of disorder, lay
ing a truly Roman peace on the
land. never a thought of re
ward. And now, 10, a throne is of
tered. True, the throne of Lithu
ania had hitherto been promised for
Prince < Oscar, but another son will
do as well for that. After all, what
is a throne between princes.
Two thrones, even half a dozen
thrones, are no more than a just re
ward for such thrift as th# Kaiser
has shown. Sftc sons he had In 1914,
and six he has to-day. Every one of
them from Frederick William down
to Joachim, has been saved for the
German people. Not another father
in all Germany can say as much.—
From the , Boston Globe.
Congestion of Traffic
The nation's railroad train will
stand on the siding another week,
.so the Senate and House conferees
may finish their game of pinochle
in the parlor car.—Grand Rapids
Pr^ss.
Not Much Quality
The men who are doing the lying
for Germany In this country are get
ting paid for quantity, and not
quality, apparently, as there is much
quantity and hardly any quality at
all.—Houston Post.
MARCH 18, 1918.
Soldier e>o}uj4
AMERICA, TIIE BEAUTIFUIi
(Tune—Materna)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain;
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brother
hood,
From sea to shining sea.
0 beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimm'd by human tears;
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brother
hood, *
From sea to shining sea.
Tuesday Reflections
"Mother, may I eat meat to-day?"
"Yes, my darling daughter,
But spare the cow and spare the
lamb
And spare the pig from slaugh
ter."
f —Philadelphia Public Ledger
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
couldn't "make a
success of a vzflgE
munition fac- jfijXt
lory In war
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wfl to ciit the chll
, dren down to
fifty worm
in
IMMUNE.
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serve the meat- /"""n—^
to, I'm a vege
£/}> Z GAME.
At playln* canl
In a oonstrva "
I lEtamtng (Etprt
Disappearance of the winter's
snows, has -revealed the fact that
hundreds of bushels worth of pota
toes, turnips and other root-foods
and many stalks of corn were wast
ed in the so-called "war gardens" of
Harrisburg and vicinity. Indeed, to
look at some of the plots, is to real
ize the failure or Inability to give at
tention to the gardens, lack of whose >
produce probably caused many a
penny to be spent that need not have
otherwise been expended by house
keepers. In some gardens about the
city, potatoes have been turned up,
which were not gathered, because
they -were small, while there are
other gardens where numerous tur
nips and rows of cabbage are to be
seen, small, shrivelled, killed by frost
and eloquent of neglect. Not only
was It a regrettable circumstance
that Harrisburg, which prided itself
upon It gardens last year, lost this
valuable produce, which would come
in handy now, but the fact that the
decaying remains of the plants were
not taken out. Such things are
breeding places for enemies of vege
tables and there will have to be
hard work done this spring to over
come the pests, because the remains
were not taken out and burned last
fall. It is not too late to avoid this
trouble, say the men who understand
such things, but it will take prompt
action.
• • *
"Plane News," is the latest
"tj-ench" paper to reach this coun
try. It is issued by the boys of the
aviation section of the American Ex
peditionary Forces in France, and is
as bright a little publication as one
would want to see. If you have any
notion that our lads across the water
are afflicted with the blues, you
ought to read "Plane News," which
shows that they are full of fun and
frolic, and enjoying their adventure
to the limit, no matter how much
of peril may lie along the front for
them. "Plane News" is a two sheet
paper with a two sheet "Feature
Section," most of which is given
over to the publication of original
cartoons and the "funny strips"
would put many an American metro
politan daily to shame.
Thews is one cartoon of a band
playing before an officers' barracks
at daybreak, to which are Inscribed
the following verses:
"Orders is orders," the sergeant said.
And bravely forth his band he led,
Up to the barracks at break of day
To where the officers peacefully lay,
Dreaming of home and mother,
"Orders were orders, their duty
plain.
And play they did with might and
main
'Til the Sunday sleepers from blank*-
ets rolled
(Oh the air was damp, and raw, and
cold)-
And forbade them to play another."
"Plane News" hears that this pic
ture had some foundation in fact.
And this is the way the editor sizes
up the international situation:
"The War Game—Last inning,
score tied; England, France and
Italy on bases; Russia out; America
at bat; Germany praying for the
Ump. to call the game on account of
darkness."
• •
What is believed to be the record
for payment of direct inheritance
tax, has just been reported here. It
was a receipt for two cents, direct
tax under the act of 1917, and does
. net cover the postage costs in filing
the report at the Capitol. The pay
ment was made by the husband oC
Grace Firth Robinson, late of Ches
ter, who left $1 of an estate valued
at $565.75 to the husband, the rest
fcoing to collateral relatives, on whoso
shares tax will also have to be paid.
* • •
Harrisburg has no complaint to
. make, this year, of lack of attention
from robins. There are scores of
them to be seen about the city and
the Capitol and Riverside parks have
numbers of the redbreasts. They are
somewhat perplexed at the lack of
warmth, but seem to be making the
best of It.
t • •
! Providing one realizes that It is
all in honor of St. Patrick or rather
• as a tribute to the part played in up
building our city, state and nation
• by the Irish, one can overlook jiome
of the Incongruities in the wearing
I of the green. Many Harrisburg resi
dents of North of Ireland descent,
' yesterday, wore green ties or ros
ettes in honor of St. Patrick and it
was not surprising to see some whose
forefathers hailed from Africa sport
ing a knot.,, The interesting thing
about it was that a couple of Greeks
wore green ties and some men t of
unodubted Slavic lineage were keen
to honor the man who chased the
snakes and made the kerns behave
by noisy green ribbons.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Ex-Congressman James Francis
Burke, of Pittsburgh, has been mak
ing a tour of the camps.
—Secretary of Agriculture Patton
will take up his home in Chester
county next month.
—Lieutenant Governor McClain is
spending four days a week on the
State Defense Commission business.
—The Rev. Dr. John Royal Har
ris. head of the Dry Federation, says
1 liquor gives a dollar to every sixteen
i from taxpayers in spite of claims
that it gives more.
—George Creel, addressing St.
1 Patrick's Sons, in Philadelphia, said
there would be no letup until the
war is won.
1 Dr. H. A. Surface, former state
t zoologist, has again been elected
president of the State Beekeepers
Association, which he helped found.
Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Philadel
phia health director, has banned
raising chickens or livestock In
backyards within that city for sani
tary reasons.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg lias many
acres that can be put into war
gardens, but are not used be
cause tlicy are for sale?
•HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In Civil War days, government
bond clubs were organized here to
make the loan, when Jay Cooke got
started. Harrisburg was a loyal co
operator.
Miss Home Ways
Probably the Interned German
spies would like us all the better If
they were kicked around their
camps a little In the homelike Our
man manner.—Newark Advocate.
Success
The men whom I have seen suc
ceed have always been cheerful and
hopeful, who went about their busi
ness with a smile on their faces, and
took the changes and chance* of
this mortal life Ilk* men.—ITlineUi