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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918
Little minds are tamed and sub
dued by misfortune but great minds
rise above it. — WASHINGTON IRVING.
COMMUNITY SINGING
IT GOES without saying that Dr.
John C. Freund, editor of Mu
sical America ar.d Music Trades
and president of the Musical Al
liance, will be given a great recep
tion when he comes to Harrisburg
during the three days of the city's
initial community singing festival
the first week of April. Community
singing is sweeping the country. It
is recneational and elevating. It
has been very helpful in cementing
community ties and drawing the
people more closely together in
many cities, and doubtless it will
have that result here.
Some writers deplore the growth
of community singing at th© expense
of the choral societies that flourished
here and in countless cities the
country over for many years, but
there is really very little justification
for such misgivings. The com
munity chorus is merely the primary
class from which the more talented
singers should be graduated into the
more advanced music of the choral
societies and kindred bodies. So
far from being! a demeaning in
fluence, community song should be
distinctly the opposite. Thousands
upon thousands of people who could
not meet the requirements of a
choral or concert society would
readily take part in community sing
ing. In that way scores and hun
dreds would "find themselves" and
be led to the serious study of music
and the development of voices they
had not previously realized they pos
sessed.
But that is only one phase of
community song. The greater bene
fit lies in bringing the people to
gether to sing. Band concerts are
all very well, in their way—enter
taining, elevating and educational,
but merely listening to music can
not have the inspirational effect
upon the Individual that participa
tion by the very nature of the case
must have.
The Telegraph believes that com
munity singing will do much for
Harrisburg. It has offered to bear
the expenses of a band at Reservoir
Park next summer to lead one of
the open-air concerts that are being
planned. It renews that proffer and
promises whatever support it can
give to make the coming festival an
unqualified success. Those who are
supporting the movement are en
titled to whole-hearted assistance.
Dauphin county registration is
tverwhelmingly Republican, indicating
very clearly what is going to happen
In this county next fall.
Susquehanna shad have begun to
run—as far as the McCall's Ferry dam.
PERFECTING FLOOD BILL
REPRESENTATIVE FLOOD, of
Virginia, has introduced a bill
in Congress which looks to
ward depriving aliens of the right
to vote, which they now possess in
certain states in virtue of local leg
islation. There are ten such States;
and in them the possession of first
papers only is sufficient to enable
a prospective citizen—though he is,
In reality, an alien—to take part
In elections. Mr. Flood's bill, of
course, cannot curtail this right, so
far as it relates to voting for State
officers, and it will apply only to
the right to vote for Senators and
Representatives in Congress, and for
electors of President and Vice
President. The proposal is, of
course, eminently proper. The
right of franchise should be granted
only to full-fledged American citi
zens who owe no divided allegiance!
But Mr. Flood's bill does not go
far enough. It is not sufficient for
the protection of the ballot in Con
gressional elections that the right
to vote should be withdrawn from
those who have no clear title to
It. If the ballot is to be safeguarded
by Federal statute, proposed by a
Southern member of Congress, so ns
to take the vote away from those
who ure not fully entitled to it, there
should be provision made aliio to
ensure that those who are entitled I
FRIDAY EVENING,
to vote may exercise that privilege,
without hindrance from local legis-!
lation.
The number of States where
voters of undoubted right are pre
vented from exercising the franchise
which Congress has granted them
and which has been confirmed to
them by Constitutional amendment
is as large as the number of States
where partly naturalized aliens are
permitted to vote; and the number
of voters who are not permitted to
go to the polls probably exceeds by
far the number of aliens who vote.
We refer, of course, to the negro
vote in the Southern States, where
ingenious local legislation has suc
ceeded in nullifying provisions of
the Constitution; and we hope that
Mr. Flood's bill will pass and that
it will be amended so as to correct
oil the evils which local legislation
has thrust upon the ballot in any
State. Northern Republicans In
Congress should join with the emi
nent Southern Democrat who has
opened this subject for discussion
and they should help him take the
ballot away from men who are not
entitled to it: while he should help
them restore the ballot to men whose
privilege it is to have it.
Help the Boy Scouts, yourself and
Uncle Sam all at the same time by
purchasing Thrift Stamps when they
call.
THE GERMAN DRIVE
WHETHER or not the German
attack, launched yesterday,
is the much-heralded "offen
sive" has not yet developed, but all
friends of the allied cause will
hope that it is. It is to be hoped
that Germany will put every ounce
of effort into this attack that she
has started. If the British are not
ready to meet such a drive now they
never will be. Every military ob
server on the west front expresses
the belief that the allied line will
hold, and that being true, Germany's
last chance of victory in the west
will have faded with the failure of
a grand offensive such as appears
to be at issue. Therefore, the more
Germany puts into this fight the
greater her loss by failure.
Washington observers are not in
clined to believe that the great mo
ment of the war has come, but th*re
are some reasons to suspect that the
military leaders of the Central Pow
ers are much nearer the end of their
string than appears on the surface
and that after all they may be will
ing to take a gambler's chance of
breaking through the almost impreg
nable line in France.
For example, late reports from
the interior of Germany indicate that
the masses are more at odds with
the government than at any time
since the war began. The expecta
tions of the people for food relief
from Russia have not materialized.
Austria is known to be bankrupt
and unable to contihue the war many
months on her own resources. Ja-
pan is becoming impatient, condi
tions in Russia despite the peace
treaty are chaotic and America is
getting into the war more vigorously
every day. These unpleasant facts
may be driving the Germans to one
final great offensive, designed to
smash the west front and, as the
Kaiser says, clear the way for peace.
If this decision has been reached,
therefore, it is important that the
Germans play their top cards. If
the allies are able to draw from
them their last trumps on the west
front they will continue thereafter to
play a steadily losing game to the
end of the war. Whether they real-
ize it or not, the "supreme moment
of the war" is at hand, and this
irrespective of whether the grand
offensive develops at this time or
not. They must win soon or be
beaten. It was never so true as at
the present that "time fights on the
side of the allies."
We must not lose heart over a few
German gains. As war is conducted
in France to-day any attack on a
large scale is bound to result in
some gains, no matter which side
launches it, but as the allies them
selves have found to their sorrow, it
is next door to impossible to break
through entirely. The allied lines will
hold at last, never fear of that, as
they held before Paris, at Ypres and
at Verdun, and if the Germans push
their attack to the Inevitable con
clusion they will have played their
last trump card.
Philadelphia has taken the "bar'
out of cabaret.
CURTIS-GALLINGER RULE
THERE is now a new rule in the
United States Senate—proposed
by Senator Curtis, of Kansas,
and sponsored on the floor by Sena
tor Gallinger, of New Hampshire. It
.provides that hereafter no confer
ence committee may take from a
bill matter which has received the
approval of both Houses of Congress
or insert matter which has never
been passed upon in either branch.
The new rule was promptly in
voked to attack p provision in the
railroad bill whereby State laws
were overridden which enable State
boards of one kind or another to
fix valuations of railroad property
for purposes of taxation within State
lines; but the fine point was made
that the conference committee had
submitted its report before the rule!
was adopted.
Regardless of the niceties of this
situation, we can see where the new
rule will prove valuable. It will
prevent a handful of men from
overriding the opinion of a majority
of both Houses, as has often been
the case; and It will apply pitiless
publicity to legislation in a very
helpful manner.
If the new rule had been in force
earlier the country might have es
caped some legislation which has not
proven of great value.
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By the Ex-Committeeman
Action of "dry" Democrats in
Western Pennsylvania in starting
nominating petitions for Ex-Judge
William E. Porter, of New Castle and
William N. MoNair, of Pittsburgh,
for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination while United States Dis
trict Attorney E. Lowry Humes, In
the West and Ex-State Treasurer and
present Collector of the Port William
H. Berry, in the East, are being ap
praised by the high Democratic
bosses, has given evidence of the
split condition of the party for which
so much was claimed a few years
ago. The cool manner in which the
state bosses have shelved Acting
State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey, of
Pittsburgh, after he had been prac
tically slated at the conference in
Pittsburgh, has caused a mutual ad
miration society movement between
the remnants of the Old Guard, the
"wet" Democrats and the practical
machine element.
Berry is telling it around Phila
delphia that he expects to be a can
didate and is already thinking up
some phrases, while Humes is main
taining the dignified position of a
man waiting to be called. Porter is
president of the Dry Federation
which endorsed Highway Commis
sioner J. Denny O'Neil and the fact
is recalled that when the federation
met some of the folks wanted to en
dorse both a Republican and a Dem
ocrat, but the O'Neil men insisted on
taking the endorsement and got it.
Then it was stated that it was non
partisan and meant that the man en
dorsed was to be backed regardless
of what might happen between Feb
ruary and November. Now Porter's
friends seem to be starting to make
something happen.
—While the Philadelphia Record
of to-day backs up the Philadelphia
Bulletin statement of yesterday that
the Penrose leaders have come
around to tacit acceptance of Con
gressman John R. K. Scott for lieu
tenant governorship honors because
the Vares will not support Sproul
unless Penrose accepts Scott, the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times heads a
movement to put up William Price,
a big banker and churchman, for
second place. There was a move
ment for ex-Speaker George E. Al
ter for the nomination, but he de
clined. Mr. Price was urged for
mayor of Pittsburgh some years ago.
Concerning one of his traits the Ga
zette-Times says: "For many years
he has been a strict observer of
the Biblical injunction ithat one
tenth of Ijis income go to the Uord.
It has been done In a systematic,
but unostentious way. One of his
favorite methods of giving is to
aid in lifting mortgages on Metho
dist Episcopal Churches in the'
Pittsburgh conference. Each year
he pays one-fourth of the debt on a
number of churches of this denomi
nation."
—Thomas Robins, prominent Pro
gressive, may be a candidate for
comrress-at-large. He lives in Phil
a>**phia and is a friend of Sproul.
Anderson H. Walters is keeping the
home fires burning in Cambria coun
ty, while General C. M. Clement.
Northumberland, and M. B. Rich,
member of the House from Clinton,
are also getting busy for this honor.
—The fight in Pittsburgh over
Elmer Brown's place is now the
big issue in that city and the mayor
and the Magee faction are at It as
bad as the Vare and Penrose men
at the other end of the state.
—William A. Magee, former
mayor of Pittsburgh, went io Phil
adelphia last evening and declared
for Scott for lieutenant governor. He
laughed about the reports that he
might run for governor.
—Auditor General Snyder left bore
last evening with the parting shot
that he was going to have "some
action" next week in regard to men
who ask for pay as state employes
if he finds that they haw been
playing politics instead of work
ing.
—Governor Brumbaugh will spend
the wxekend in Philadelphia. He
will not be here to-morrow, it is
said.
—ln spite of all reports it is said
that no agreement has been made
on secretary of internal affairs on
the Republican ticket. The situation
is as bad as the Democratic row over
the governorship.
—Uncle Dave Lane's declaration
that as far as he is concerned, and
he really is a spokesman for the
Vares, the Philadelphia Republican
City Committee will not endorse a
man who does not agree to abide by
the Republican gubernatorial pri
mary cut two ways. It is a slap at
the Penrose men who boltad the
"fifty-fifty" ticket last fall in Phila
delphia and at the same tiiiie puts
Commissioner O'Neil in the position
of having to declare for party regu
larity or get out of joint with some
of the ardent "drys" who insist' on
him beint; a candidate to *he gen
eral election on a "dry" platform.
Senator Sproul will declare that he
wi.l abide by the primary.
—Mr. O'Neil said this -morning
that he might have something to
say later jn the day. Ho. said he did
not want to make a statement of
such Importance on the 'spur of
the moment" Mr. O'Neil got the
endorsement of the b'.g meeting in
Pittsburgh of representatives of all
"dry" organizations in Allegheny
county last night and is naturally
elated by this action lie will go
to Philadelphia to-morrow to meet
his friends and endeavor to line up
the Vares again. Sunday he will
speak at five big meetings in Phila
delphia churches on the moral is
sues of the campaign.
—Senator Sproul will tomorrow
r.ight announce his program. The
Philadelphia newspapers say that
the reception to be given him at
Strath Haven Inn will be one of the
biggest events of the year and that
men from a dozen counties will be
there. Concerning the announce
ment, the Inquirer says: "Particular
Interest is centered in this recep
tion for the single reason that Sen
ator Sproul has agreed to address
the gathering, making fully clear
his position regarding all matters of
state- and incidentally make his first
complete announcement of the plat
form upon which he has agreed to
become a candidate for governor of
Pennsylvania."
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I EDITORIAL COMMENT
We are waiting to hear Germany
say that she invaded Russia to pro
tect the Bolsheviki from Japan.—
St. Louis Star.
The Germans continue to indicate
that in their opinion a lootless peace
would be a bootless peace.—Omaha
World-Herald.
In the saving of daylight we can
set the clocks ahead, but what are
we going to do with the sun-dials?—
Arkansas Gazette.
It has long ceased to be remark
able that so small a country as Japan
could be victorious over so big a
country as Russia. Washington
Star.
Investor Hohenzollern, Emperor
and King, purchases five million dol
lars' worth more of Krupp securi
ties. Who wants war? —Wall Street
Journal.
DOLLARS OR BUSHELS
Secretary Houston, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has called my
attention to how we all are fooling
ourselves to-day. The newspaperb
are boasting that the corn crop is
the greatest in history, when in
bushels it is less than in 1915. The
South think they are rolling in
wealth, when in bales its cotton crop
is less than in 1915. Paper prices
are no good. It's more bushels and
bales that we need in order to reduce
the cost of living.
Some people pretend that our na
tional debt is small by comparing it
to the crops. "What is $20,000,000,-
000," they say, "why, that is less
than the value of one single crop of
the farms of America!" This is true;
but we eat up most of these crops in
a year, while the debt remains with
us—s2oo for every man, woman, and
child in the United States.
As the farmers are fooling them
selves by thinking of prices and dol
lars, instead of bushels and bales, so
industry is fooling itself by looking
to profits and wages instead of pro
duction and saving.
The ending of this war and our
future prosperity after the war de
pends upon producing more and
wasting less. Only in this way can
Kaiser Bill be put out of business
and will the workers of America
come to their own.—Roger W. Bab
son.
Household Management
In the task ahead of us of pro
ducing and using foodstuffs so as
best to conserve health and mater
ials, this country needs the help of
the humblest householders. But how
is that help to be enlisted? Every
one who goes in and out of small
income homes on any social service
errand can repeat the message. It
muse be clearly prepared, however,
in advance. , Florence Nesbitt does
this very thing with telling force and
a wealth of practical illustrations in
a small book of attractive appear
ance entitled Household Manage
ment, just issued by the Kussell Sage
Foundation (cloth, 172 pages, price
75 cents). This is the second vol
ume in their new Social Work Series,
edited by Mary E. Richmond.
There are many books on the gen
eral subject of homemaking, but
none like this one, which is written
from intimate knowledge of the
drawbacks and inconveniences of
housekeeping in cramped quarters
and with cramped means. Those
who are far removed from depend
ence can take this little volume's
lessons to heart, hut to the social
worker, the Red Cross visitor, the
public health nurse, or any volunteer
visitor in city neighborhoods, it will
be indispensable.
Hunnishness of the Hun
It is now and then worth while to
recall a bit of history, to point a
present moral. We now and then
meet with someone, "good, easy
man," who is so forgetful of the
not distant past that he regards the
present perversity of Germany as
Quite a new thing, and the moral
degeneracy of William the Damned
as an unprecedented phenomenon;
and without being unduly pessimistic
we are inclined to fear that a great
many of our complacent and more
or less oblivious fellow citizens cher
ish that some delusion; the fact be
ing that the turpitude of the Kaiser
and his Huns in our day Is nothing
but the logical and consistent cul
mination of a policy which had its
origin at least as far back as that
Great Frederick who, with his
grandfather and himself constitutes
the trinity of the Kaiser's adoration.
—North American Review. ,
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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FARMERS ANI) POTATOES
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
We see so much about conserving
food and iwe farmqrs have been
wondering why there is no govern
ment agent buying the potatoes at a
living price and shipping them to
the Allies. Here is my experience
in the potato proposition: I paid
four dollars per bushel for my seed
potatoes, and went to extra efforts
to get a good crop. I ran short of
help and left the weeds and tubers
grow together, and so got* about one
fourth m£ crop. I offered three
dollars and board for help to
take them out in the falU but
failed to get the help, so had to get
them out as best I could, without
help. With the ground freezing at
night we hustled them into the cel
lar. I had no time to even think
about selling them, although I'd
have been very glad to do so. There
was no one who seemed to want to
buy potatoes so I waited, as thous
ands of other farmers did, and am
still waiting until the government
buys them. Will the government
buy them or will we throw them
out? And if we cannot sell them,
will the farmers raise more? Would
you?
Will potatoes be cheap next fall?
If they are scarce will you blame
the farmer? These are vital ques
tions. Suffice it to say, the farmers
are getting a slap, the sting of which
will be felt for some time to come.
One thing is sure, the potato ques
tion does not seem to be in the line
of "food conservation." Are potatoes
not food? The farmers are paying
$2.50 a hundred for cow feed. What
a pity potatoes are not good for
*ows. Will some one please say
what we should have done instead of
what we did?
U. G. LEEDT,
Newville.
SAVING FT>OI>
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
It is an astounding fact, that
many people in Harrisburg and vi-
Icinity who are patriotic enough to
i give up their loved ones, for the
front-line trenches, are neverthless
tiring German bullets themselves.
We must pray earnestly to win
this war, but God works through
human agencies—so we must do our
part also, and surely; and one iriost
LABOR NOTES
Almost simultaneously with the
organization of the firemen, Joplin
(Mo.) City Council raised wages of
these municipal employes.
Belleville (Hi.) City Council has
raised wages of municipal firemen
and policemen $lO a month, to be
come effective May 1 next.
The California Metal Trades As
sociation has granted a 10 per cent,
wage increase which was requested
by the Frisco Iron Trades Council.
A report of the State Industrial
Accident Commission says there
were approximately 100.000 indus
trial injuries in California during
1916.
The Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks will ask the .Virginia State
Legislature to amend the semi
monthly pay day by having it include
clerical employes.
Seventy-nine per cent, of the wom
en employed in the large establish
ments of Germany are being made to
work from eleven to thirteen hours
a day.
Laborers employed in the mines in
the Rathmines and Kingstown (Ire
land) districts threaten a strike If
their wages are not increased.
A movement Is on foot through
out Ireland at present to form an
Irish Labor party.
THE INCOME TAX
"A Parted Partnership"
A partnership was organized in July, 1913, and in 1917 one of
its individual members sold his interest therein and retired. How
is he to determine the amount of gain or profit derived fromthe
transaction which is returnable for income tax purposes?
From the selling price should be deducted the amount of capital
he has actually invested in the partnership's assets and the differ
once reported under "gross Income."
important point is: we must release
food, especially Wheat for the Allies.
It is absolutely wrorlg and un
patriotic for the churches, the var
ious clubs and other social affairs
to serve sandwiches or cake at their
social meetings, unless the meetings
are taking the place of a regular
meal, for every mouthful we take
more than we need, is a German
bullet against ourselves.'
IJB us abolish at once the unne
cessary eating.
"EARNEST ONE."
REPLIES TO MR. KI" SCHWA
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Just what does Mr. Alfred C.
Kuschwa object to in last Saturday's
Swicatto notes?
What was suggested there, and
what was meant to be suggested
there, is that Harrisburg is sacrific
ing its support of the better things
in music and being turned toward
community singing—and the turning
is being done by musicians. Now,
if we were still supporting a choral
society, and furnishing good au
diences for every good concert that
is presented, community singing
would not be taking the place of
better things musically, and it would
have a more legitimate field of oper
ation.
New York has not given up any of
its choral societies or glee clubs, for
the sake of community singing.
Community singing primarily, was
meant to help the poor people in
settlement and tenement; those who
had neither the money or the op
portunity to hear good music.
If Mr. Kuschwa will convince me
that the movement here is a sincere
desire to "uplift humanity" and not
to exploit a few individuals, I will
Kive it my hearty support. Yes, the
Telegraph is a "prime leader" and
fair, and also knows there are two
sides to every question. I am not
"bemoaning the fate" of community
singing—I am predicting it. The
community singing that is heard
every Sunday in Church and Sunday
School, is the thing to develop. Here
is the worthy Held. Here is the op
portunity for service. Mr. Kuschwa's
use of the word slacker is ill-advised
and weakens his own argument. I
was very much afraid Staccato Notes
were not being read, but Mr.
Kuschwa's letter cheers me up.
Sincerely,
JOHN W. PHILLIPS,
(Contributor of Staccato Notes.)
Prohibition at the Quarter
Delaware is the ninth state to rati
fy the Federal prohibition amend
ment. Its Senate acted affirmative
tively yesterday, the House having
passed the resolution last week.
Thus one fourth of the necessary 36
states have ratified the amendment.
Of the nine, four are at present
"wet," so there is nothing in the
situation to encourage tho liquor in
terests.
Three more states whose legisla
tures meet in regular session this
year may act on the amendment.
The Massachusetts, lawmakers are
still in session. The Louisiana Leg
islature assembles in May and that
of Georgia in June. Special ses
sions will be held in some states. In
South Dakota one opened yesterday
and the Governor of Nebraska has
called one for his state. It is reason
able to believe affirmative action will
be taken by Georgia, South Dakota,
and Nebraska, they being "dry."
But without speculating on what may
be done in the future, we can feel
certain of ratification within a year.
At the quarter-post prohibition has
i such a lead it cannot be headed off.
Pennsylvania will have a share in
the great victory if its voters are
careful to nominate for state sena
tors and representatives in the May
primaries, candidates pledged to rat
ification. —Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Von Hertllng is putting It mildly
when he says the world merely is
"prejudiced against Germany.
Newark News.
MARCH 22, 1918.
Otfer the
MV PCKIUU
"Most men do not regard marri
age seriously" says Professor Elkus.
He might change his mind, if he put
a day in the divorce court of Dau.
pljin cdunty.
Your modern schoolboy is as
smart as the grown man of a few
years ago. Asked who was the
"first man" by his school teacher a
lad In a western Pennsylvania school
Insisted that it was George Wash
ington. "Try to get this once for
all" rasped the teacher. "Adam was
the first man." "Oh, you're talk
in' about foreigners," grinned Ros
coe.
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We have some slight suspicion
about the genuineness of this com
munication, although the hand writ
ing indicates sincerity. "Dear edi
tor," asks a love-lorn youth "please
tell me why a girl always closes her
eyes when a fellow kisses her." One
could, no doubt, answer this at
length, but the quickest way would
be to get a peek at the guy's photo
graph.
If all the hot air wasted over
telephones was done away with,
there would be time saved to raise
an additional billion bushels of po
tatoes in the Keystone State alone.
OUR DAILY LAUGH I
HER NOTION,
"Going to have' a vegetable garden
this year?"
"Well I thought I'd plant a little
succotash."
NO WORK FOR HER.
"So you've discharged the oook?"
"Yes. It seemed, silly to retain, her
when I can't get food enough In the
house to keep her busy."
NOT VERY WARM.
"What system of heating have you
In your flat?"
"The solar system, just at present,?
REJECTED.
He—How'd yot> Mke a pfct dog?
She—'Now, George, haven't I told
you that 1 don't intend to marry?
Ibming (Etjal
Anyone scanning the list of men
Injured by tlje explosion at one of
the Paxton furnaces of the Central
Iron and Steel Company's plant the
other day must have been impressed
by the fact that so many of the
workers mentioned gave residences
outside of Harrisburg. The accident
was a remarkable one in that no one
was really seriously hurt. Gener
ally when a blast furnace gets bad
it causes much damage and a cas
ualty list results. In this case the
furnace seems to have had some in
digestion and while it caught a doz
en or more men none was badly hurt.
Hut the interesting thing about the
accident was that of a dozen men
live lived outside of Harrisburg. As
a rule the men who work in Harris
burg iron and steel establishments
live in this city. In this list one man
lived in Steelton, another at Lochiel,
one at Knola, another at Penbrook
and another in the county outside of
any borough. It is a commentary
upon the way men are commencing
to scatter about the city. Men who
work at Steelton live in a score or
more communities in this section,
some of them as far up as Lucknow
and as far out as Hummelstown,
while many live in Cumberland coun
ty and some in the upper end of
York county.
The blasting season is on in full
force just at present and there must
be a tremendous amount of stone be
ing used in this section, judging from
the rapid lire practice heard in the
mornlpgs. It used to be the custom
to "tire the shots" in the evenings
so that things would be ready for
work in the morning. Now 8 to 9
o'clock in the morning seems to be
about the time to tire all along, tho
hills from Htghsplre to Hummels
town. The firing sounds like a bom
bardment or practice with big guns
far away.
The Rev. C. D. Kishel, pastor of
South Enola and Mechanicaburg
churches, bills fair to rival Henry
W. Shoemaker as a writer on sub
jects having to do with the history
of Pennsylvania. His latest boon,
"Which —Barbara or the Indian?" is
meeting with a ready sale, it is an
exciting story of Benjamin Brown
and his sweetheart, Barbara Elder,
and the scene is laid in Morrison's
Cove, Bedford county, during the
perilous period of 1776-82, when the
Indians made frequent raids down
the Kittanning Path, where now is
the famous horse-shoe bend of the
Pennsylvania railroad. During these
raids the Indians murdered, scalped
and plundered. Young Brown was
a "conscientious objector" and did
not believe in the use of force under
any circumstances, but when the
great test canle and his sweetheart
was under the scalping knife of a
big buck Indian, Brown let go with
the Indian's own .rifle and shot the
savage In the hand. There is no
telling what else he would have
done had not the Indian decided to
run away. The story is replete with
historical data and the element of
"peace at any price" and the final
sad fate of pacific scruples in the
final trial make the story very ap
plicable to present-day conditions.
The writer is also the author of "The
Life and Adventures of David Lew
is," and of many other books and
short stories. Also he has given the
government some pointers recently
on combatting the submarine and
has been in correspondence with the
Navy Department on this subject for
some time.
• • •
The State Forestry Department
has failed to find the evidences of
the labor famine other employers
are complaining about. Not lonK
ago the department put out a small
newspaper item to the effect that
300 men were needed for the spring
planting camps. The item brought
responses to the number of 650 from
men who wanted to enter the state's
service, of which 575 were from this
state. With the men at hand it
would be easy to recruit a force of
1,000 if necessary. Of course the
outdoor life in the woods may have
had something to do with the gen
erous responses, but the pay is not
so large as to induce a man to leave
steady employment for this tempor
ary work.
Residents along Derry street, es
pecially west of Twenty-fourth are
inclined to sleep with buckets of
water and old brooms handy because
the Reading railroad engines have a
habit of throwing sparks around
mighty careless like. The grass and
brush along the railroad right of way
is dry and the sparks start fires in
the lots and fields. In the last few
weeks there have been numerous
(ires which have crept close to
buildings and fences and people
have been called out many times to
light flames when too close for com
fort. On one occasion the Royal
lire company had to turn out to save
a garage. The railroad men say they
can't help it.
The early man gets the dandelion
appears to be the rule this year as
alw.-vs because up on the lots in the
Tt ..h ward men are out hunting the
teader stalks of the weed which Is
so much prized when cooked with
a little bacon and vinegar dressing.
It is a little early for dandelion, but
from all accounts the unusual wea
ther has brought it out amazingly.
Friends of C. E. Frltcher, the stat
ute clerk at the State Department
and one of the best-posted men in
Pennsylvania on the laws and the
way they are made, will be glad to
know that he is recovering rapidly
and will soon be able to be back at
his desk. Mr. Frltcher is missed at
the Capitol.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—W. Fred Reynolds, prominent
Bellefonte man, is the brigade ord
nance officer of the new Reserve Mil
itia and in charge of the rifle prac
tice. /
—W. T. Ramsey, the Chester legis
lator who has decided to run again,
is one of the .veterans of the Legis
lature.
—Rear Admiral Bowles settled
matters relating to transit to Hog
Island by walking over the streets
of Philadelphia and the suburbs.
Then ho gave orders.
—Mayor Louis Frank, of Johns
town, has called a conference to
prevent any more big fires In his
city.
—Superintendent W. M. David
son, of the Pittsburgh schools, was
the speaker when Latrobe raised its
service flag.
-—General A. J. Logan has been
named as chairman of Pittsburgh's
smileage committee.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrlisburg steel plates
nro used in Japanese factories?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Some of the first successful steel
making experiments la the country
were made here.