10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH i A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME | Founded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by , THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telefrafk Building. Federal Saare. E.J. ST A CK POLE, Prts'i & Editcr-in-Chirf J F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GCS M. STEIXMETZ, ifa>ia*nir Editor. , Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en- | titled to the use for republication of t all news dispatches credited to it or I not otherwise credited in this paper j and also the local news published i herein. All rights of republication of special j dispatches herein are also reserved. , . Member American ' I Entered at the Post Office in Harris- j burg, Pa., as second elass matter. , 1 By carriers, ten cents a "week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. . • j THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918 Christ living in us is the root and j strength of Christ's acting and speak ing through us, shining out from us so as to be seen by the world. — j Andrew Murray. GERMAN IN SCHOOLS j; DU. PHILANDER P. CLAXTOX, United States Commissioner of j ; Education, says President Wil- . son is strongly opposed to the elim ination of German from the high ; schools and colleges of the nation. The President takes the correct view. By all means we should con- , tinue the study of !e organized by having at least one i company of the battalion at each of j the four institutions —the Technical j High school, the Central High \ r.'hool, the Harrisburg Academy and j the Parochial schools. Some months ago, this newspaper j turned o". er to Superintendent! Downes the data which it has col- j lcted, with a view to intelligent i consideration of the matter, and no | difflculy should be encountered in j organising such a military body by ! the institutions mentioned. Each iompanv would control its own af- j lairs and co-operate in the battalion ' 1 organization. Working out the details would be ■; simple matter. The benefits of !=uch training arc obvious in peace or war. The drill would teach self-con trol. improve the physical being of the boys and break down the super ficial tarriers which too often sepa rate American youth. We are com ing to a day when there must be a better understanding of our institu tions and this can be best brought übout through a better understand ing of themselves and their fellows Ly the men of the future. It is hoped that some definite steps will be taken toward the organiza tion of sr.ch a battalion, and a con ference of all concerned might easily Get the '.-a!! rolling. LaFollette is beginning to under stand how Americans regard political bosses who dilute patriotism with politics. SEED PROFITEERING THE United States Department of Agriculture issues a warn ing against profiteering by seed dealers. Information la being re ceived constantly at the Department that abnormally high prices are < harged tor* seeds In some sec tions. The need for Increased crop !>roduction is apparent and it must not be curtailed by the desire of ycedmen to take more than a fair re turn on sales. If acreage is reduced on this account the seedmen respon THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 21, 1918. sible will have a serious charge to face in the court of public opinion next Fall. Profiteering at this time is not only criminal and unpatriotic, but it may result disastrously for dealers themselves, for they may rest assur ed that regulations drastic enough to prevent a repetition will be en acted in that case before another year rolls around. Higher prices for seeds are natur ally to be expected and there will be slight complaint on that account, but there is a difference between legitimate increases and deliberate attempts to hold up the farmer and the home gardener. The program of the Bolsheviki was to grab everything for the people, but the Germans are saving theui the trouble of carrying it into effect. AMERICANIZATION £LAN THE government has taken no more important step since the outbreak of the war than that which has for its purpose the Ameri canization of foreign residents, as proposed by the Department of the Interior. Dr. Becht, of the State Board of Education, emphasized the need before the Rotary Club, a few weeks ago, and it has been the theme of numerous addresses and writings of thoughtful observers everywhere. The "melting pot" may be boiling, but its contents do not appear to be fusing. ! The Department of the Interior ; has recently entered into a joint ar rangement with the Council of Xa j tional Defense, whereby the national i plan of Americanization is put into ; effect all over the United States I through the medium of the forty eight State Defense Councils and a 1 great number of county and local committees on defense. "English the language of the United States" is the slogan adopted under thif plan. Americanization is to be dealt with as a measure of war, for the purpose j of counteracting the anti-American j propaganda among aliens, a large , proportion of which is being carried ; on insiduously within industrial plants. The entire plan will be sub- ; mitted to the industrial men at a j meeting to be held shortly, and will cover not only this feature, but others involving the human side of industry. It has been found that 1.275,000 aliens were registered under the se lective draft law. Many of these have been accepted for military service, but on account of inability to speak English and illiteracy, are unable to understand military orders in English and therefore make train ing exceedingly difficult in the can tonments. Fires in grain elevators alone have increased four hundred per cent, since the United States entered the war, while fires and explosions, wil ful damaging of machinery, ham pering the production of war mater ials and other acts Impeding the government's activities have fre quently been traced to aliens. Their ignorance of English makes them easy prey for German propagandists and plotters, who are stirring up in dustrial difficulties and misunder standings in various sections of the country. The Department has ob served how many otherwise friendly aliens have been made tools of the enemy. The government's investigations, through the Bureau of Education, show that five million persons of foreign birth do not speak the Eng lish language; while three million males of military age, that is from eighteen to forty-five years, are un naturalized. and owe no obligations of loyalty and support to the United States. The new movement is de signed to safeguard our national unity and further to insure a unified people back of the fighting line. In telligently directed, it ought to be of immense good. ROTTEN POLITICS A PHILADELPHIA LEDGER correspondent, writing to that newspaper from Washington, | says: ! The President is eager that a I Democratic House of Represen- I tatives shall be elected next fall. | He is said to fear that Germany might misconstrue the election of j a Republican House as a repudia- I tion of America's entry or policy I in the war. This view has been I urged upon the President by 1 Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate, and they have franklv told him that his personal aid is "needed to bring about the victories at the polls the Demo crats desire next November. This is rotten politics. To be sure, 'the correspondent qualifies the para- I graph with the following; The President realizes that manv of the Republican members of the House have been among; his staunchest supporters in all matters pertaining to the war. His sense of fairness is such that on a question of loyalty he prob ablv recognizes that many Repub lican Congressmen will have nn equal if not better claim to the patriotic voters' consideration than some of the Democrats. Just the same, the issue will be resented by millions of good Repub licans throughout the country. There is no question as to the loyalty of American Congressmen and Sena tors. Democratic or Republican. With remarkably few exceptions they are standing solidly back of the Government. The President knows that in the early stages of I the war some of his pet measures would have been lost had it not been I for Republican votes. He knows that when members of his own party wavered over the stringent regula tions of the draft and other bills of a radical nature which he urged as war necessities, it was Republican votes that were counted in for them without question. There has never been a question where the-Repub lican members and Senators stood on any war measure of importance to the country. They have backed the President to the limit and it is a shameful thing to have their loy alty hurled back in their faces and to be told that Germany would con strue the election of Republicans ti Congress ns a pro-German victory in the United States. The Telegraph does not believe the President means to mix politics and patriotism in the coming cam paign. but whether or not he does Democrats attempting such a pro gram in this district will get short shrift. We are going to re-elect Congressman Kreider and all the dust-throwing, mistaken or unscru pulous Democrats may attempt will be without elTect. We know him for a broad-minded, honest, patriotic Congressman, and that's the kind we want at Washington just now. Diluting patriotism with politics is bad business. If the Democratic campaign committee knows what it is about it will leave hands off. Voters are not going to be misled by any such propaganda. No party has a monopoly on loyalty. By the Ex-Commlttccman Democratic "scouts" who have been going through Central Penn sylvania counties sounding out sen timent for ex-State Treasurer Wil liam H. Berry, now collector of the port of Philadelphia, as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for governor have run up against "scouts" from Western I Pennsylvania who have been busy j among "dry" Democrats urging ex i Judge William E. Porter, and have struck a pronounced sentiment among the old machine element and | many of the reorganizers of a prac tical turn of mind for Acting State | Chairman Joseph F. Guftey. These ! "scouts" have been passing through Harrisburg the lust few days and while Democratic state headquarters denifs all knowledge of any feeling out of sentiment it is apparent that some very active work is being done in a hurry on behalf of the Demo cratic "state leaders. Democrats who have been getting] about have reported a general favor ; for National Chairman Vance C. Mo- j Cormick, 'out it is not believed that j he will run. In Western Pennsyl- i \ania nominating petitions are be-j ins: circulated in behalf of the Dent- | ocratic gubernatorial candidacy of, ex-Judge Porter, who made Law- j rence,county "dry" and who is pres- 1 ident of the Dry Federation. Por- | ter's friends wanted to endorse him j as Democratic candidate for gov-1 ernnr when the federation endorsed Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Xeil for governor without respect to party at the meeting here on St. I Valentine's Day. United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes has not abandoned gubernatorial aspirations, it is also stated, and William X. McXalr. of Pittsburgh, candidate for secretarv of intern li affairs four years r>gr>. ! s developing ambitions. Papers in his interest are being circulated in Pittsburgh. —The state primary will be held < just sixty days from to-day. Accord- J ing to reports which have come to headquarters of various parties and | candidates here the enrollment in j boroughs and townships yesterday was not marked by any rush and no general move to change registrations occurred. In fact, the conditions in many small towns were as usual, while in the country farmers were too busy to go to the polls. As the Philadelphia Ledger remarks to-day, "apathy is general." while the com ment of that newspaper on the in activity of independents is something which has ben heard about the State ! Capitol for some time. Both Sproul ! and O'Neil men haye been expressing , surprise at the general lack of in- I terest In the campaign outside of 1 strictly political and official circles, j The truth is that the country is at | war and not much interested in fac-I tional squabbles and the men, and') the women, too, are busy in many 1 lines and not particularly concerned | as to what one in office or out of j office thinks of declarations of men I in regard to the "dry" amendment i or criticisms directed against those I in high station. The bulk of the j voters of Pennsylvania would like to j get this primary election over as j soon as possible. —Gifford Pinchot will probably become a member of the State Com mission of Agriculture in April. Gov ernor Brumbaugh has maintained si- i ience as to the offer to Mr. Pinchot, • although Mr. Pinchot says the place was tendered him, and the Governor J has also refused to say who he will ! remove to make way for the former j forester. However, Chairman H. V. j White, of Bloomsburg, who locked ! horns with the Governor over the j flour bill may retire. —The meeting of the Philadelphia i city committee has been put off until j next week. Saturday Senator Sproul J makes his formal statement at | Swarthmore, nd meanwhile Mr. j O'Neil is swinging around the circle, making speeches. —A Pittsburgh dispatch to the ! Philadelphia Press says: "Mayor Babcock and the City Council have again locked horns over political ap pointments. and a statement made] to-day by the Mayor is that he in-' tends to oust all city employes Who supported William A. Magee in the ! mayoralty fight last November. The trouble began with the dismissal | from the force of City Solicitors of j C. Elmer Bown by City Solicitor' Stone, and which the Council con- j demned by a vote of 7 to 2, asking | the Mayor to reinstate Bown. Here's j the Mayor's answer made to-day: | 'I am for Babcock men, not Magee; men, and if I go into conference with 1 City Council, Jarrett (Magee man) ! might also go out of the law depart ment. I believe in appointing people who were for Babcoclj and not people who were for Magee. It Is no use to have a conference with Council for I wouldn't change my mind.' " —At the Williamsport meeting of the Prohibition county committee of Lycoming, Congressman Edgar R. Kiess was endorsed for re-election, and Charles V. Adams and Charles F. Bidelspacher for the Legislature, j All are candidates for Republican nomination. H. T. Ames was elected chairman, Dr. C. W. Huntingtoh, secretary and Henry Meade, state committeeman. —Both C. A. Bowman and Calvin J. Rhen have heretofore sought the Republican House nominations in Lebanon and may be expected to make good use of the knowledge they gained at that time, in the pro motion of their present aspirations. Harvey S. Bomberger, of Palmyra, has taken out papers as a candidate for the Assembly on the. Republican, Democratic and Prohibition tickets. He is more or less well known on the Hill. —The Altoona Tribune indulges on this editorial; "The assumption that any man carries the Republican voters of Pennsylvania or of Blair county in his vest, pocket, is likely to be disproved by the primary results." AHANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE y - p g^^Lc>. EDITORIAL COMMENT The Germans do not want peace with Russia. They want Russia.— Xew York Evening Sun. That was a nice speech Chancellor von Hertling made in the Reichstag. But how could he keep his face straight?— Kansas City Times. If this were a fight for points Ger many might now be declared winner. This is why Germany is anxious to quit and avoid the inevitable knock out that a finish fight will bring.— Chicago Daily News. PARTY ORGAN IZA TION The spirit of American govern ment contemplates the existence of political parties, advocates of defi nite policies by which the govern ment is shaped. In times of intense excitement there is little room for more than two parties. When poli tical sentiment is at a rather low ebb and partisanship is out of favor with thousands of voters, other part ies are organized and contend with the established and historic orga nizations for public favor. At thq present moment the old Democratic and Republican parties are confront ed by the Prohibition party, the Socialist party and the newly orga nized National party, to name no others. There is no reason to sup pose that any of the political side shows will develop sufficient strength in Pennsylvania during the present year, or in the country to affect the result. The contest \WU continue to be chiefly between the two old part ies and one or the other will win.— Altoona Tribune. THIS YEAR'S ELECTION Two months from next Thursday j the primaries take place. At that j time candidates for state offices and • Congress will be nominated. If you ! have moved into another election j district since last fall you will have ! an opportunity to register in the new j place on the first of May, in third i class cities. The issues are already will defined. | In the election for members of the , Legislature prohibition will loom up above all else and the people will de- • mand that the candidates declare | themselves explicitly. There can be | no beating about the bush or strad dling the fence. Heretofore, when local option seemed to have some ln portance most of the candidates sidetracked the issue and appealed to the people on their personal rec ords, but this time the Legislature will be confronted with the duty of ratifying or rejecting the constitu tional amendment and the issue can not be evaded. The people will want to know what their representatives are going to do. They will not per mit slipping in on false pretense.— j Wilkes-Barre Record. SELL WHEAT There is desperate need' of early marketing of all the wheat now on ] hand in this country. The available j supply is short. The needs of the ' allied armies are great; greater than most of us know. From now until harvest time those armies must be fed from the wheat in this country. There will not be enough to meet the full demands and the man who with holds his grain will not only be giv ing aid to the enemy, but will be In creasing the suffering and hardship of our allied army. To hold wheat now, is to increase human suffering. To hold it for possible, but very im probable gain is to ask additional dollars at the expense of human life. It must be more and more evident to all that the allieo armfes on the western front are defending America just as truly as they are defending France or England or Belgium. Our young men are contributing their lives to the holding of that line. Olir share Is the contribution of the sup plies and the equipment needed to keep the armies in the best condition for their work. Wheat is now the most urgent need. To hold wheat under the existing conditions is little less than criminal. To feed it to live stock, when it is so badly needed not only means the weakening of our line of defense, but the sacrifice of our men at the front. Sell your wheat. —Pennsylvania Farmer. Ataboy, Hennery Henry Ford is building boats to get the submarines, which shows he has got the right idea of a peace ship this time. —From the Kansis City Times. j| Tell of Miracle j V- JJ Maude Radford Warren writes in the April Woman's Home Companion about the stories of English soldiers that a miracle saved the outnumber ed British at the retreat of Mons: "There was a lance-corporal of excellent character for truthfulness who swore that on August the twen ty-eighth, when the English were painfully retreating, he saw a strange luminous cloud, and in it were three shapes, one larger than the others. It was ab'ove the Ger mans and facing the British; the corporal said other men with him saw it. The German cavalry, who were pushing back the British, were put in confusion; their horses plung ed and reared. "A private, one Robert Cleaver, deposed that when the British sol diers were lying without cover, op posed to the German cavalry, a vision on a luminous cloud came like a Hash between them and the Ger mans, and the Germans scattered. This vision has been called the Angel of Mons. In Berlin, too, there were reports of supernatural intervention. When the German soldiers were asked why, in that particular attack, since their numbers were over whelming, they had not entirely de molished the British, they replied that the escape of their enemies were due to witchcraft. A German officer is reported to have said that there was no reasonable explana tion. The horses were going full speed, when, all of a sudden, some invisible power stopped ' them. It was, he said, like going rushing ahead and being pulled up on the verge of a precipice." One soldier, a Scot, whose two brothers had lu3t been killed in the red horror relates: " 'lt was in the twilight when I came to full grief for my brothers. We were marching, drooping like tired beasts. Once some German snipers shot at us, and killed the man just behind me. 1 fell t> thinking what if that had been me and how would my mother fare, FOR SAMMIE IN FRANCE When you make up a box for Sam mie, Who's lighting "somewhere In France;" When ycJu've packed the socks from Mary, And the smokes from Uncle Lance Add one thing more for your soldier. Before you nail up the crate— Send him a snapshot of Rover, Waiting for him at the gate. The comfort kit will please him, The candy bring him cheer; The roll of local papers Will bring the home folks near. But let him see you miss him. — ' That one watches early and late, — I Send him a snapshot of Rover, Waiting for him at the gate. When you make up a box for Sam mie. Who's fighting "somewhere in France;" Gifts to warm his body. Socks and wristlets, perchance; Warm the heart of him also, — 'Tis cold work waiting on Fate; Send him a snapshot of Rover, Waiting for him at the gate.— Florence Page in Our Dumb Ani mals. THE RIVER OF DAY Out of the Eastern mountains The river of day is drawn. And the shadows of the mountains March downward from the dawn— The shadows of the ancient hills, Shortening as they go, Down beside the dancing rills. Wearily and slow; The morning wind the mead hath kissed; It leads in narrow lines The shadows of the silver mist. To pause among the pines.—Rus- kin. THE INCOME TAX Charity, or Gifts to Individuals Not Deductible— If. during 1917, you contributed money toward the support of a needy family this contribution cannot be claimed as a deduction. Contributions, or gifts, made to Individuals. do not constitute allowable deductions. wi' all three of her sons gone? I began to wish for my own life then, far my mother's sake. " 'That twilight was full of terrors. Germans everywhere, and if not' Germans, then fear and wonder andj distress. I could see men falling down—struck, who knew how? No! one dared stop to see if it were a I bullet, or just sleep that overcame; them. And it seemed to me ns it'j the Germans were sweeping up on us| like a tide. I heard myself cryingi 011 my elder brother Dougal, andj crying on my mother, too. " 'Then all suddenly I found my- j self walking backwards, and look-; ing—looking into the dark. Against : the sky behind I felt there was something. I looked—and then the blackness shaped itsel' into dim j figures. Men have said that it was the angels helping us that night! against the Germans. It may have; been, but that is not what I saw. Those who helped us appeared to, my eyes like the men that had fallen j 011 our side in the battle of Mons.; They had fallen because we .vere outnumbered and unprepared. They; had died too soon, before all their] work for their country was done. I And now they had risen in the dark I to hold back the Germans. That I they fought with weapons I do not believe, but that they were helping] us. I know. Dougal!" I cried. "Aleck!" " 'And though I couldn't see them, I knew my brothers were there, guarding me. They couldn'a go back to my mother again, but they would protect me, for her sake. " ' "Do you see?" I said to the cor poral. " 'He saw nothing, but he listened: and he said he could hear the Ger mans shouting. I heard them, too: cries of surprise, ami fear. The corporal thought they were the shouts of victors, but I knew who the victors were. I was filled wi" a great peace, like the sense of rest after pain. It is not defeat when men come back from the dead to help.' " LABOR NOTES An advance of 10 per cent, has j been granted in the wages of the Dlnorwic (Wales) quarrymen. Im portant concessions have also been decided upon In relation to the ap prentices. In future the apprentice ship will be for one year instead of two years. For the first time in many years Boston Electrotypers' Union No. 11 has an understanding with all of the commercial and book printing offi ces of that city and vicinity. Wages are increased and working condi tions improved. Xotices have been posted in Pen rhyn (Wales) Slate Quarry that the workment will be granted 10 per cent, advance in their wages, com mencing next month. This increase, which follows a similar advance in March last, has been granted volun tarily. The annual report of fhe United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund shows that the sum of $712,- 506.65 was distributed last year to 2,933 retired employes of the Steel Trust. The average pension was $21.10 a month. Wage increase of 5, 10 or 20 per cent, are insignificant when com pared with increased living cost that are acknowledged in the first report of a committee of economists ap pointed by the Government to study the purchasing power of money in war time. To make two cigars each working day for American soldiers in France is the task which 2,soo'members of Boston Clgarmakers' Union No. 97 has set for themselves. In order that the SIO,OOO soldiers' cigar and to bacco fund, being raised by the Union, may go as far as possible. / V ! oo*r tfwc Ut, 'peiVKa* V j Sing a song of Hoover, The conservation man! You'd better toe the mark in style— He'll catch you if he can. Conserve the fats, preserve the crusts, Don't melt the soap away; Be tender with the sugar. Observe each porkless day. Thus let us Hooverize our bit. Conserve in Hoover's way— So that we soon may celebrate A Kaiser Bill-less day! Washington notifies us that house- ] holders ordering next winter's coal, i must tell how much they have had ! this winter. That ought not to take i long. • * * They should call this family the Stars and Stripes Ryans. Live in Erie, do Mr. and Mrs. John Ryan and their house flaunts six service stars. Three sons are in the navy; two in the army and one in the avia tion service. Won't there be some stories to tell, when that family gathers about the fireside in after days! [OUR DAILY LAUGH GOING TOO FAR. "The cook puts a lot of herself into everything she does." "I wish she'd keejj her hair out ot the Soup." STRENUOUS WORK. Bug—My that Alpine climbing is dangerous. PRETTY. "Is she very pretty?" "Very. She keeps her father broke I buying gowns to equal her face." A CYNIC. "Is that old chap in the corner always so glum as now?" •"By no means. He laughs enough twice a year, prlr and fall, when !he women's h at s come In." lEtotting (dipt One of the older physicians of the city, was talking; about changed conditions in Harrisburg in regard to quarantines for smallpox. He re called the days when smallpox did not bother people any more than chickenpox now, even though the mortality was far higher. Early in the seventies, Harrisburg had a re currence of smallpox which had been here off and on during the Civil War. The disease appeared among some of the less thrifty folks and the tlrst few cases attracted much atten tion. A couple of young physicians, just out of college, put up signs that people should keep out of the in fected houses. The people, how ever, went in and Harrisburg had one of the grandest outbreaks of smallpox it has ever had. In conse quence, everyone got vaccinated, those who would not, being made to despite protests. In the eighties there were a couple of cases, but they were isolated and not serious, in the early nineties, several cases appeared uptown, and in a short* lime there were a dozen or more. T his resulted in the construction of the municipal hospital about 18!).". and smallpox was fought hard. Mar tin (!. Stoner, was then chairman of the city couneilmanic sanitary committee, with the late Charles A. Miller, as clerk, and by dint of work, amid much criticism, they succeeded in heading oil' a more serious state of affairs. After the Spanish War, some of the "Immunes" from regi ments mustered out here, scattered i around a form of smallpox, but since then, the disease has been growing less and less, until within the last year. Even now, however, in spite of the diverse elements entering into the population of Harrisburg and Steelton, the number of cases is not much greater, proportionately, than in the nineties when. Dr. "Chris" Jauss, was the official smallpox doc tor, and people used to regard the municipal hospital at first as a place to be shunned and then as a summer resort. ♦ * • Stand anywhere along the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad, or the Philadelphia and Reading Hail way lines near Rutherford yards, and you will see some long freight trains. It is not only a further evi dence that the railroads are doing | their best to help win the war, but that traffic conditions are again nor mal. It was not very long ago that a coal train with .10 cars was con sidered the average haul for one engine. Now trains with SO, 90 and 100 cars are a frequent sight. Just now coal trains are given the pref erence. The Reading is doing a record business in hauling anthra cite, and also holding good in the . movement of soft coal trains from the west. On the Pennsy lines, soft coal leads in traffic. Instead of one train every half hour or sometimes two in an hour as was the case a few weeks ago, coal traffic is now taxing the freight crews and there is almost a continuous movement be tween Pittsburgh and New York. Kail road officials look for a new record in car movement for March. The daily movement of cars just now is above normal and vary from 5,000 to 7,000 cars a day. • • • Decision of the Public Service Commission in the full crew cases is being awaited with much interest among railroad men in many sec tions of the state, as the case is the lirst complaint to be pushed since the federal government took over the railroads. The charges were pre ferred last year, before Uncle Sam began to run things, but the hear ings were held later. The commis sion in deciding the case will rule I as to its conception of its authority ; in such matters now. *' * * I The big U. S. A. engines which are I running on the Reading, between I this city and Rutherford, are mater ially different in details from those J in use on the railroad's regular serv ice. The engines have the bell right j behind the smokestack and have I enough places on the front end for 1 a corporal's squad. There is a pro tection behind the cab and sufficient sheet iron about the place for the engineer to warrant the belief that the Russians wanted to make sure that the men running the engines were not hurt by bullets. * * * Some patches of snow can just be | traced on the sides of the cut where the parkway winds from Paxtang's old red schoolhouse to the Reser voir. The snow is to be seen in the i seams where the ground was cut down and is discolored and hard. Yet it is snow just the same, and 1 boys were able to throw snowballs with the mercury above seventy I the other day. * * * It is very probable that when the members of the Harrisburg Reserves hold their meeting to-morrow night that they will vote to continue the organization, but that a reorganiza tion will follow. The four companies will be abolished and one unit form ed, to be divided later when outdoor work is taken up. The whole sys tem of training will likely be chang ed and such exercises ag will be of service to the men, if ever called out or to train men of draft age will be worked out. , 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —H. L. Meermans, physical direc tor of the Pittsburgh Central Y. M. C. A. and well known here, will go into war work. —Judge Charles I. Landis. of the Lancaster courts, who presided at the Lancaster celebration. is an au thority on the history oFthe count.,-. —General C. M. Clement, who will run for congress at large, spent thirty years in the National Guard and used to be Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth. —Director C. B. Prltchard, of Pittsburgh, is getting after the auto mobile speeders as the most dan gerous men these days in his city. —Federal Judge W. H. S. Thomp son, speaking at Erie, says that in war time laws become different. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburjr is selling more steel than ever known be fore? ft HISTORIC HARRISBURG The lirst car shops in Harrisburg, were located near Paxton street. They'll Give Him the Credit The way the Russians have been fighting lately, even the crown prince probably could whip them.—Kansas City Star. Their Birthplace , It is said that a sucker is born every minute, but it should be r.dded that speaking generally he Is born in Russia — Louisville Courier-Journal.