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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1018
Love teareth all things, belicveth
all things, hopeth all things, endur
eth all things. —l COB. 13: 7.
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SIGNS OF DISTRESS
IXTO Von Ilertllng's address to
the German Reichstag may be
read very distinct signs of dis
tress. He bewails the determination
of the allies to continue the war,
terms them hypocrites and "places
his trust" in German military lead
erships and the German armies.
There is no more talk of "bringing
the enemies to their knees," no more
foolish chatter about "German vic
tory by the sword." The Chancellor
changes his tune and sheds tears of
anguish over what he declares to
be the allied intention to "destroy"
Germany.
It is difficult to see beyond the
German border at this time or to
read the truth in the German mind,
but it is not difficult to understand
that the government is sorely dis
tressed over the failure of the allies
to enter into peace negotiations on
the basis of Germany's present mili
tary position. Germany wants noth
ing now so much as to end the war
and be allowed to keep as much of
her spoils as those around the peace
table would allow. This Indicates
but one thing—that German officials
know they cannot win the war on
the West Front. If they had the
faintest notion that they would be
able to smash the western line as
they did the armed forces of the
weaker nations there would be no
talk of peace. If the Kaiser saw
any possibility of winning the world
dominion for which he went to war
by continuing hostilities a year or
two he would be the last man in the
world to talk of ending the conflict.
All the indications are, and Von
Hertling's address is merely one of
them, that Germany knows she can
not win and is desirous of "quitting
while the quitting is good," to quote
an officer recently returned from
Europe.
This does not mean that Ger
many's fighting spirit is on the wane,
but that her resources are no longer
equal to the strain put upon them,
while the strength of the allies is
growing in proportion to the devel
opment of the American war ma
chine. All we have to do is to put
every ounce of effort, energy and en
thusiasm into the task that is at our
command and Von Hertling's very
apparent fears will be brought to an
early realization. When still mili
tant Germany talks peace the time
is at hand when we must fight harder
than ever. This is no time to think
of stopping. We have just begun
to fight.
Say, boy, you over 16 years of ago,
are you going to a farm in vacation?
If not, why not. Remember what Cap
tain John Smith said of the man who
will not work.
CITY PARK WALKS
FEW cities anywhere have more
beautiful park scenery than
Harrisburg. It is varied in its
character, both pretty and pictur
esque, wild and cultivated —any-
thing and everything to appeal to
the eye of the nature-lover. It is at
tractive at any season, but most,
possibly, In the spring time when all
mankind feels the stir of the open
and walking is stimulating and in
vigorating. We are fast appraching
the period when the golden bells, the
silver bells and the bulb flowers will
be in bloom; when the trees and
shrubbery will begin to shoot leaves,
and all nature will be waving her
banners in welcome to the visitor to
sylvan scenes.
But only a very few of all the
people of Harrisburg know how to
reach the most beautiful parts of
the park system. If the Park De
partment would issue, during the
coming few a series of short
talks on park walks it might en
courage thousands to go into the
parks where now there are scores.
These talks might be given the news
papers as hints for Sunday after
noon tramps in the open. No better
way could bo devised to tell Har
rixburg folks what they are missing
fight at their doors and to induce
WEDNESDAY EVENING, KABJRISBURG TELEGRAPH! ' MARCH 20, 1918,
them to go out and enjoy the beau
ties that have been purchased and
developed for their especial benefit.
SCHOOL GARDEN ARMY
THE United States Government
desires the Telegraph to talk to
the people of Central Pennsyl
vania concerning the United States
School Garden Army which is just
beginning to mobilize.
The whole plan has been carefully
worked out and so far there hasn't
been a single hitch In the program.
The .Secretary of the Interior,
through the Bureau of Education, is
calling upon State and county super
intendents and also upon the gover
nors of the different States, the
mayors of the different cities and
school superintendents in cities,
towns, villages and suburban com
munities, and asking everyone of
these people to fall in line and get to
work in the greatest practical vol
unteer campaign that has been start
ed since the war began.
The Germans organized their gar
den arihy years ago and just because
they did do that very thing they have
been able to stave off starvation for
so long.
For back of every bullet and be
hind every shell, and under and o*er
every cloud of poisonous gas and
running every submarine and direct
ing every aeroplane is a man who
must keep up his energies with food.
We might as well send our men
to the trenches to face cannon and
airships and poison gas and explo
sives dressed in suits of pajamas,
with nothing but their bare hands
for weapons, as to send our army J
overseas without enough provisionsj
to keep them not only alive but in
fighting trim when they get there.
Where are we going to get the
food to send them?
We have just one storehouse from
which to draw, and that storehouse
is in the fertile fields and the rich
harvests of our own country.
Our troops abroad need flour and
sugar and coffee and tea and corn
and meat—we must send them these
things or be ready to bow our heads
under the German heel.
There is no use blinking the fact
a minute longer; the whole thing
comes right down to the question of
bread and meat, and enough of it.
If we send all that we raise abroad i
what shall we do here at home?
This is the time to begin to con
sider these things. We have been
blind and dull of wit, and deaf and
indifferent long enough.
From one end of this country to
the other the people are beginning
to realize what this question of food
means. No wonder that the United
States School Garden Army idea has
taken such a splendid hold, not onlj j
in the imagination, but of the stern,
practical faculties of this whole
country.
Five million school children mo
bilized into an army, with officers
and privates and sergeants with
drill and hard work and great re
wards and splendid service.
What child is there on the face
of the globe who would not be proud
and eager to be one of such an
army?
Have the schools in your district
begun to organize?
Have you obtained vacant land in
your town to use for the garden?
Who is going to be captain of the
First Regiment In your town?
You don't know. Why not?
Aren't you interested?
Tou will be interested some day
when that boy of yours comes home
with a chevron on his sleeve or your
girl is made a first sergeant and
wears a badge which tells the world
that she Is ready to do her bit for her
country and her country's flag.
Why not interest yourself person
ally in this matter to-day?
Why not make this a part of your
duty to Uncle Sam?
Secretary Balcer says he has been
taking the American Army apart like
a small boy does a watch. For good
ness sake, Mr. Raker, don't you know
the boy never gets it together again?
This Invitation of the Kaiser to
newspapermen to go out to view the
opening of the German offensive re
minds one of Washington society
going out to view the Union forces
putting the Johnny Rebs at Bull Run
—and what happened.
That was a graceful thing City
Council did yesterday in passing a
resolution congratulating the City of
Lancaster on its 100 th anniversary as
a municipality. Mayor Keister has an
eye to the encouragement of neigh
borly sentiment.
It's not unlikely that on of- these
days the Kaiser's cry of "God with
us" will be changed to "God help us."
The President having signed tho
daylight saving bill, egg-hunting
boys and girls will be entitled to get
up an hour earlier than usual on
Easter morning.
Catterpillar tractors In municipal
gardens are far more desirable than
catterpillars later in the season.
Raise a chicken and liclp increase
the meat supply.
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'~p tKKO iftcanZa
By tlic *Kx-Committccman
In the language of one of the
keenest and most experienced ob
servers of politics in the state the
situation in the Republican party in
Pennsylvania may be pretty well
summed to-day by the phrase "Scott
or a fight." In the last half dozen
years the Vares have managed to so
work things about that they have
hold the key to the Republican sit
uation in the Keystone state on al
most every occasion worth while.
They have it to-day in the shape of
the endorsement which the Republi
can city committee of Philadelphia
can give to any candidate. This en
dorsement has been widely advertis
ed, although as a matter of fact, it
may not be as valuable as people
think because the war on Vare's con
tracts may be resumed at any minute
and the close call of the Republi
can organization in Philadelphia last
fall is remembered generally. Still,
up the state, there are many who be
lieve that the moral effect of the en
dorsement of the Vare organization
would be great.
The Vares insist upon Congress
man John R. K. Scott heing accepted
by fhe Penrose organization as the
main condition of endorsement of
Senator William C. Sproul for gov
ernor. The city committee may be
called at any time to act in the mat
ter.
—The state administration forces
which are backing Highway Com
missioner O'Neil, stake much on this
proposition. It is believed that the
Scott candidacy, which is most re
pugnant to Senator Penrose, was en
gineered by men back of O'Neil, who
saw a chance to fish up something
from troubled waters. They have
even started O'Neil and Scott papers
around together. Scott is strong,
but whether his strength would
stand up under the lire which would
come at' a general election, a vastly
different thing from a primary, as
the above mentioned observer point
ed out, is a question.
—Meanwhile, the talk that the
Republican "wets," angered Ivy
Sproul's declaration for prohibition,
may have a candidate of their own
to pit against Sproul, O'Neil and
Habgood is going around with much
advertisement. It is even declared
by some of the noisy "wets' that it
will not be Weimer, but a man of
greater state prominence.
—ln the language of the Philadel
phia Evening Ledger the Pennsylva
nia Democratic leaders, like the Bol
shevik, continue to be "entranced by
conversation."
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny
der's drastic action in issuing a letter
of warning to heads of departments
that continued absence of state em
ployes from their posts on other than
state business will result in holdup
of their pay, has attracted much at
tention. It has been foreshadowed
for some time and the Auditor Gen
eral says he has heard some reports
of glaring absence from posts. The
state administration people denounce
the action, but the Auditor General's
friends say the course of the admin
istration warrants such curbing.
—The O'Neil headquarters last
night came out with a claim that the
enrollment in the boroughs and
townships was progressing rapidly
and that O'Neil was making gains.
Joseph N. Mackrell, secretary of the
committee, said:
"We have received a great many
long-distance telephone calls and
telegrams to-day from various parts
of the state, all dealing with the
question of registration and enroll
ment. Reports that I have gotten
from the counties that have been in
touch with the headquarters to-day
show that the campaign we have
made for increased registration and
enrollment, is already a success, and
we still have to-day on which the
boroughs and townships will have an
opportunity to egister and enroll,
or if necessary, to change their en
rollment. We had inquiries from
several parts of the state from par
ties who wanted to know if they
could vote for Mr. O'Neil at the
primaries on the Republican ticket
and still enroll in the column of
some other party, and we told them
'no,' and the answer that came back
was 'well, then I will enroll in the
Republican party.' "
—The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
editorially makes a sharp attack 011
the factional fighting in the Repub
lican party. It passes up the Demo
crats apparently, as not worth both
ering about, but calls for some har
mony in the majority party saying:
"What is needed is an awakening
among real Republicans to the ser
iousness of tho situation and to the
need of candidates who will of their
own intrinsic worth command re
spect and support irrespective of
Vareism or of Penroseism, candi
dates who can be themselves and not
the puppets of a power that cares
nothing for Pennsylvania and its
honor but only for political power or
for personal profit."
—The "Insider" writing in the
Philadelphia Press, says of the state
situation:
"The week just past has witnessed
the start of the state campaign and
has exceeded in political activity any
seven days since the coming guber
natorial struggle first took shape. Its
two big events were the disturbance
of the status quo which Governor
Brumbaugh brought about by open
ing his expected attack on Senator
Sproul, and the translation into fact
of the possibility considered in this
column two weeks ago, that prohi
bition would be taken out of politics
by all candidates declaring support
of it.
"Aside from the prohibition ques- 1
tion, the principal political event of J
the week just past, has been the gen
eral upset which the Governor has
caused, by the manner of his at
tacks on Senator Sproul. He has
come out with an attack on
the Senator's sincerity and has
Intimated that when he takes
the stump, more of the same sort of
thing may be expected. Governor
Brumbaugh, of course, cherishes a
particular animosity against Senator
Sproul, because the Senator offered
the resolution at the beginning of
the last Legislative session, which
sought to Investigate certain of the
Governor's expenses paid by the
state. The result will be a rebirth
of the bitter factional strife which
the cooler heads In the organization
have been working so hard to kill.
If the Governor fulfills his threat, he
will put matters just where they
were when the proposed investiga
tion was allowed to lapse. The Pen
rose people will have one obvious
weapon against the,attacks on their
candidate, and that will be to press
for an answer to the questions about
tho executive expenditures which
were never answered."
—W. Edwin ltuber. connected
with the fuel administrator, will be
a contender against Representatives
Fred C. lOhrhardt. oldest Republican
House member, for the nomination
in Scranton.
AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? BY BRIGGS
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Some night at Mountville next Sat
urday night! Goin'to have an old
fashioned spelling bee. Every one
present is expected to "spell out."
Good night! Wonder if any of them
will gag on hemorrhage.
*
Here is a timely hint for women
who use a sewing machine. If you
have difficulty threading it, lay a
piece of white cloth 01* paper under
the needle. The reflection shows
where the needle's eye is.
What would an old-time farmer
say now about live stock prices! At
the sale of William T. McCoy, in
Granville township, near Lewlstown,
the other day, Holstein cows brought
as high as $247.00 each. A pair of
black horses sold for $435; a four
year old colt went for slßl.
LABOR NOTES
A. F. of L. has alhiost 2,400,000
members.
Germany had 24 0 strikes, involv
ing 124,188, in 1916.
Toronto cement workers have a
100 per cent, organization.
There are 5,000 women farmers in
Missouri.
Hawaii's compensation act has
been declared valid.
Vocational re-education will be or
ganized in France.
Our Army needs men in fifty dif
ferent trades.
Toronto machinists' union has 2,-
000 members.
Factories in Chile employ over
50,000 workers.
Almost 67,000 women are employ
ed in India's mines.
Finland has introduced an eight
hour day in certain industries.
Great Britain has 383 public em
ployment officers.
The war has cost Austrian trade
unions 248,258 members.
Massachusetts has 1,42 7 local
trade union bodies.
French munion works employ
girls o*er 13 years old.
Australian factories employ about
325,000 workers.
There arc no tradfe unions in the
Dominican Republic.
Farm laborers in Holland can
make $3 a day.
FRIENDSHIP A LA GERMAN
John Taintor Foote has a wonder
ful story in the April American
Magazine called "Otto." Otto and
the soldier who tells the story used
to be friends. The American at
tacks a trench and finds Otto in it.
The end of the story is:
"' "Otto!" I says, an' all but
dropped my rifle.-
" 'He was half laying,' half settin'
against the trench wall. Them blue
1 eyes of his was big an' round like a
child that's seein' somethin' new an'
strange. He blinked when I said
his name but never spoke.
" ' "Otto." I says again, "don't you
I know me? I'm BUI Stigers! Don't
you know me?"
" ' "Ya," he says, "I know you."
" • "Listen," I says. "We got to
have a talk. I'll see you later. We'll
have a talk about old times —eh,
Otto?"
" ' "Ya," says Otto.
" • "Well, look-a-here!" I says.
"They're trompln' on your sore lalif
whet-e you're a-layin*. I'll lift you
up on the fire step, here, out of the
way, an' you'll rest more easy."'
" 'I laid down my rifle an" stooped
over to get a-holt of him, an*—
Here, I'll show you.'
"BUI turned to me and lifted the
patch from his eye,- or rather from
his eye socket—for the eye and tart
of the lid were gone.
"I gave a shocked exclamation.
"Bill replaced the patch. 'Otto
had got a-holt of a trench kr.ife,
somehow, an' I hadn't noticed it,' he
said."
THE PEOPLE'S
COMMUNITY
'Jo the Editor of tlic Telegraph:
May I kindly call your attention
to several rather caustic aspersions
anent the community singing in the
"Staccato Notes" colnmn of Satur
day's issue (March 16.) Knowing
the Telegraph is one of the prime
leaders and giving its most generous
support in this laudable movement.
It seems much out of place to have
your contributing musician, giving
it so decided an uncalled for "slam."
In the first place the propaganda
for community singing is not a local
one by any means, and much is be
ing done and accomplished all over
the country through its influence,
and it could be made highly success
ful here, even though on a smaller
scale.
Your contributor already presages
its early demise and is bemoaning
its fate.
It is also very true Harrisburg at
present, is without a choral society
doing "big things" but why single
out Harrisburg, when the same con
dition exists throughout the land?
It is not so much a lack of interest
as one can readily see, such situa
tions obtain in time of war and of
course can be attributed to natural
causes, such as, loss of men, lack of
finances and attention devoted to war
work.
I may also state there are few
choirs to-day, up to their normal effi
ciency.
This movement in bringing people
together is to develop a love for
American home songs and there is
nothing so inspiring as to hear
masses singing the simple melodies,
if you please, and singing is the fore
most means of expressing the feel
ings of the heart.
It seems to me this movement
PROHIBITION AND CRIME
For the first time on record the
County Court of Richmond county
has no prisoners in jail. More than
that, for three days past not a single
warrant has been Issued and turned
over to the county court authori
ties. There is but one explanation
of this unprecedented condition of
affairs, and that is the result of
prohibition and of war. County
authorities who have studied the
situation can attribute <lO other rea
son for this unexampled situation.
The elimination of whisky from
this section has unquestionably con
tributed more to the prosperity and
progress of the South than anything
e!se that has been consumnated
within the past half century.
Economic students and men well
versed In business affairs are agreed
(hat there is unquestioned opportun
ity for development and expansion in
all lines of endeavor in Augusta and
the Augusta territory under present
conditions, and prospects are much
brighter for the future.
The operation of the Georgia pro
hibition law Is proving very efficient,
and with the right kind of co-opera
tion, backed by public sentiment and
the enforcement of the law through
out the state, continued advance
ment will be witnessed in every
section. —Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
AFTER THE WAR
On whom will the form and
character of our life depend in the
coming future? Who will govern
us? The heroes who return from
the front, where they have set an
example of the very qualities and
virtues that will be needed. They
will prove equal to the tasks await
ing them. Remain ever confident:
they will build up for our land a
destiny worthy of her sacrifices.
Through trials and dangers trans
cending the power of .imagination
to conceive, they have become, as
it were, the living incarnation of
two of our most inspiring French
mottoes: "Fals ce que dois;" "Quand
meme!" —Emllie Boutroux.
THE INCOME TAX
"The Widower or Widow"
A widower, or widow, whose wife, or husband, died during the
latter part of the tax year, say, December 26, cannot claim the full
amount of personal exemption allowed to a married person?
The marital status on December 31st of the person rendering
the return for the tax year determines the amount of exemption
which may be claimed.
should be given the utmost support
by the musicians.
A musician In an active capacity
and who must depend on the public
for his livelihood, virtually becomes
a publje official, and he should feel
It his duty to do what he can for
the uplift of humanity in a musical
way.
In that respect he can not remain
on neutral grounds, he must either
be a "booster" or a "slacker."
"We may be starting all over
again" but I believe if the people
can be made interested, musically,
greater things will follow for Harris
burg.
That can best be accomplished by
co-operation.
Very truly,
ALFRED C. KUSCHWA.
Do You Know Him?
To the Editor of the Telegraph:.
Do you know this man?
He professes to be a good Ameri
can and Christian.
He has not bought one Liberty
bond and stated that he would not.
He has not contributed one cent to
the Red Cross.
He has not contributed one cent
to the Y. M. C. A.
He has not contributed one cent
to any thing that will help win the
war.
He does not believe in war; he is
too good a Christian for that; at the
same time—
He has not hesitated to make
enormous profits out of his mer
chandise, the prices of which were
raised directly due to the war.
lie has violated the law of the
United States, and he was caught.
This man lives in Harrisburg. I
hope he is the only one of his kind,
because this town is not big enough
for more than one of this kind.
Do you know this "MAN?"
A PRIVATE CITIZEN.
THE STATE PRESS
President Wilson does not like the
idea of Japan sending troops to Si
beria to prevent the country falling
into the bands of Germans. Possibly
the President has information bear
ing on the situation, that is not in
possession of the public. But surely
we owe no tender consideration for
the feelings of Russian Socialists.
Only one principle should govern the
decision regarding participation by
Japan, in Asia or anywhere. That
is: What action will hamper Ger
many the most? Resistance to Ger
many is the only thing that counts
now.—York Dispatch.
This year the Kaiser will be lucky
i he eats his Christmas dinner in
Berlin.—Columbia Spy.
Those advance notices to the effect
that the new acting chief of staff
Intends to get rid of some incompe
tents in the war department, need
occasion no alarm. There are plenty
to fill their places.—Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times.
The Democratic Congressional
Committee has reorganized, not as a
non-partisan "stand-by-the-Presi
dent' committee, but as a regular
"Democratic" "get-on-the-jobs" af
fair. The new chairman is the Hon.
Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, an ami
able gentleman who Is in entire ac
cord with a definition of nonparti
sanship which gives all the offices
to Democrats. —Johnstown Tribune.
With every man and woman do
ing he can to win the war, the
national vice of America of "keep
ing up appearances" Is likely to go
into the discard. The old bluff of
looking and acting and living as if
we were financially worth about
three times our actual value Is be
coming less fashionable. We are
beginning to learn the rudiments of
national thrift and wo will be the
better oft for it.—Lebanon Valley
News.
( EDITORIAL COMMENT
Germany is 'entirely agreeable to
the idea of an international tribunal,
If permitted entire control of the
court.—Newark News.
New honors are being thrust upon
the women at a rate that must al
most be cmbarassing. They are now
eligible to membership in Tammany
Mall.—Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle.
Chairman Hays says that he will
confer with "Boies Penrose and Col
onel Roosevelt, Reed Smoot, and Hi
Johnson." Not, we hope, all at once.
—Syracuse Post-Standard.
If Russia surrenders much more,
she will be known as Eastern Ger
many.—Atlanta Journal.
The humiliation Russia is now
undergoing is a fair sample of what
Germany wants to impose on the
rest of the world.—Chicago Herald.
Speaking of academic freedom,
the Kaiser insists that he yields to
no one in his respect for freedom,
in an academic sense.—New York
Evening Post.'
A London cable says 38,000 peti
tions for divorce have been filed in
Petrograd. Can't any two persons
in Russia agree on anything?—
Knoxville Sentinel.
Sugar is still dealt out to house
wives in small quantities, evidently
in order that the candy-shop next
door may enjoy business as usual.
—Kansas City Star.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
UNDERSEA
Why so sad,
I've just been
reading one of L
those "eat more
flsb" posters. t?) A.V?Sy 1
A GREAT HEAD.
Ist Carrot —Bright chap, isn't he?
2nd Carrot—Tes, that's Mr. Cab
bage. Ho has a great head on him.
JUST SO.
Screwdriver —'Who's that dolefti
looking Individual?
Hammer —That's Mr. Sad Iron.
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fronting Cttljal
According to data gathered by F
R. Stevens, director of the agricul
tural bureau of the State Chamber
of Commerce and long experienced
in farming matters, potatoes have
been raised at an expense of a little
over forty-two cents a bushel in some
instances, and at a little more than
seventy-nine in others in New York
state. Mr. Stevens has been giving
particular attention to cost of po
tatoes the last few months, holding
the opinion that some of the posts
reported are exaggerated and that
fears of farmers that this year a po
tato crop will not pay, are not well
founded. Mr. Stevens made careful
inquiry in large potato raising dis
tricts and quotes K. R. Smith, presi
dent of the New York State Potato
Growers Association, as giving the
figures mentioned. Even with the
price of potatoes around $1.50 a
bushel, the farmer made money out
of such a crop, he contends. Mr.
Stevens has issued a letter calling 1
attention to these matters and saying
farmers must stick to fundamentals
in raising potatoes.
According to plans being made
here, truck trains from western
states will move over a number oC
highway routes In Pennsylvania tl)is
spring and summer, instead of oiily
over the Lincoln Highway, and that
from Trenton to Philadelphia. One
movement will be over the Lin
coln Highway, which goes from
Pittsburgh across the state anil
through the Juniata Valley to Ilar
risburg; another will be through
Scranton from New York state, while
another will be down the Susque
hanna valley from Williamsport to
York and thence to Baltimore. Hun
dreds of trucks will be moved In the
next two months.
Friends of Prof. R. M. McNeal,
the new deputy Superintendent of
Public Instruction, sent him many
congratulations to-day. Prof. Mc-
Neal, who was superintendent of
Dauphin county schools by appoint-'
inent of Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer
years ago, is well known to many
residents of this county and through
out this state. It is an interesting
coincidence that Prof. McNeal suc
ceeds the late A. D. Glenn, who for
yearn held the position of financial
clerk, which Prof. McNeal has tilled
I for the last twelve years.
• •
The cannon at the State Museum,
whose physical condition has excited
the wonderment of a great many
visitors, is to be fitted up in real first
class style. Between Superintendent
of Public Grounds and Buildings,
Shreiner, and Adjutant General
Beary, the government has been in
duced to give an iron base l'or prop
er mounting of the gun. It will
then be fixed for all time.
• * •
People who have been down the
Susquehanna river between this city
and Middletown, have noticed the
numbers of gulls which have been
seen on the Susquehanna. The gulls
are large and lively and appear to be
having a large time, snapping up the
bugs and young fish along the
stream. More wild ducks have also
been seen than usual along the Sus
quehanna. The ducks have como
from the south and linger here a
length of time that is much com
mented upon.
•
Under the terms of the draft rules
which have been issued for the call"
'effective next month, the Harrisburg
men will have Faster at home. They
will probably leave either on April
1 or 2, and will go on a train with
the rest of the drafted men from
Dauphin county, together with those
from Cumberland, Perry and Juniata
valley counties. They will constitute
the largest movement since last fall.
• *
What looks like a gigantic spider
web over the western side of the
Federal building, is not an octopus
although many of the comments
l heard about It the last few days
| have caused suspicions in that direc
tion. Until the building is complet
ed, the' telephone wires have to be
run into the building by the windows
and they have been assembled on the
end of a pipe and then distributed.
The Federal building is about half
occupied.
• •
Sales of potatoes and wheat by
farmers who had held them during
the winter, are being made at a rate
which has surprised men who have
been observing supply and price con
ditions, and the State Department
of Agriculture, looks for a material
reduction of the supplies of both in
the hands of the growers by the end
of the month. Much of the wheat
was held back by farmers, because
of uncertainty over the government
price regulations and by the weather
conditions, which prevented move
ment over country roads until this
spring. It is believed here, that a
large amount of the wheat will be
sold this month and sales in carload
lots by farmers who have been go
ing together have been reported.
The potato situation was entirely
dilTerent, say people at the Capitol.
The crop was a large one, but on
March 1, over a quarter of the crop
was in growers" hands and a consid
erable portion of the potatoes held
back were frosted. State officials
have been making a strenuous effort
to get farmers to sell potatoes, and
the price has been going down rap
idly in some sections. In several
counties farmers started to unload
# • •
It is not safe to mention the
speaking training: class at the T. M.
C. A. to a prominent young attache
of the state government. He liaa
been working sincerely at this class
and has attained some force as a
debater. But something is always
happening at home. The other night
he started out and the young hope
ful piped up, "where you goin'. Dad
dy? Goin' to the public squeakin'
club?"
| WEIL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—John Meise, prominent Johns
town man, has erected a tablet in
that city, to the people who
ed the celebration in honor of the
founder of Johnstown.
—Representative A. E. Rinn, of
Lehigh county, who was here yester
day, will be a candidate for re-nom
ination.
—D. Edward Long, Superinten
dent of Public Printing, Is a lawyer
and newspaper owner.
—George H. Rowley, new federal
official for western Pennsylvania, is
a prominent Tale alumnus.
—Congressman E. E. Robins, of
Greensburg, who made the speech
for the memory of James Buchanan,
says that Pennsylvania people do
not appreciate the services of Penn
sylvania's only president.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburg has railroad
men In tl>o army service in
France uudcr Atterbury?
HISTORIC lIARRISBUKG
The Northern Central and Cum
berland Valley were two big lines of
travel for soldiers out of Harrisburg
In Civil War days.