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TUESDAY, MARCH 20. 1918
Jehovah lift up his countenance
upon thee, and give thee peace.—
NUM. 6:26.
PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN
IT IS regrettable that there is a
disposition here and there among
newspapers and partisans of one
candidate or another to split hairs
in the interpretation of views on the
prohibition issue. When a can
didate has honestly and with
out evasion declared in favor of
the issue without the slightest reser
vation he is entitled to a fair hearing
among honest men.
Supporters of prohibition are not
going to advance this great cause by
questioning the sincerity of those
candidates who have declared in
favor of the amendment after full
consideration of the issues involved I
in the pending campaign.
So far as the Republican party is
concerned, Senator Sprout, Highway
Commissioner O'Neil and Ex-Repre
sentative Habgood have all made
strong declarations in support of the
amendment. This being true the
gubernatorial phase of the anti
liquor campaign is practically elimi
nated and the issue reverts to the se
lection of members of the Senate and
House who will be on the right side
of the measure.
Inasmuch as the leading candi
dates for Governor have all aligned
themselves with the prohibition
forces, the Republican organizations
throughout the State should lose no
time in likewise declaring for pro
hibition and thereby absolutely re
move this issue from further football
tactics in the politics of Pennsylva
nia. It would be utterly absurd for
a party organization to endeavor to
successfully support a standard bear
er on the prohibition issue while at
the same time giving aid and com
fort to the liquor interests by sup
porting candidates for the Senate
and House on the "wet" side. That
sort of a campaign would not appeal
to fair-minded voters. Indeed, it
would be an open invitation to party
disaster.
Many Republican candidates for
the Legislature already have an-1
nounced themselves on prohibition
platforms and those aspirants for the
Senate and House who still believe
that they can be elected on a non
committal or "wet" platform are as
suming that the tremendous senti
ment in favor of prohibition is more
imaginary than real. Of course, all
such candidates must assume respon
sibility for an obsession of that sort.
They would have nobody to blame
for their defeat at the general elec
tion but themselves.
After looking over a list of rents
paid by people in Washington, we
have no doubt there is a lot of conser
vation along other lines practiced
down there.
RIVER COAL
IN VIEW of the serious coal situa
tion of last winter, encourage
ment is given to river operators
and all other coal producers, but in
providing every facility for the en
largement of the river coal industry
our city officials should insist that
the river operators observe care in
the handling of the coal to the end
that the paved streets are not litter
ed in every direction. Trucks that
are not merely sieves should be re
quired for use. River coal is too valu
able to be wasted and the streets are
110 place for it, at all events.
The "daylight saving" order will
not be necessary to get many little
folks up early on Easter morning.
BEIDLEMAN A CANDIDATE
ANNOUNCEMENT by Senator E.
E. Beldleman that he will be
a candidate for Lieutenant
Governor at the Republican
primaries in May does not come un
expectedly. For months it has been
known that many of his friends have
been urging him for either first or
second place on the ticket and be
fore it was certain that Senator
Sproul would get into the field some
of the Sproul supporters were sound
ing out sentiment for the Dauphin
bounty Senator.
Mr. Beidleman bases his candi
dacy largely on the requests rt his
TUESDAY EVENING, BABJR.ISBT7RS TELEGRAPH! MARCH 26, 1918.
| | friends among the laboring element ]
[ I of the State, and it would have been
j strange if labor leaders searching
for a representative 011 the ticket
I had overlooked the Seuator from
• j this district, whose record as a 1
• | champion of their legislation in i
| House and Senate is well known. He I
| has been conspicuously prominent as ]
: 1 an advocate of advanced regulations
, for the safety of miners and the im
provement of working conditions In
the mines, has been an attorney for
• some of the Railroad Brotherhoods
' and a champion of the Full Crew
. law. It is reasonable to expect that
he will get a large vote in that quar
' ter.
' Mr. Beidleman is experienced in
legislative matters, and as an as
pirant for the Lieutenant Governor
ship brings to his campaign the
prestige of having been for one ses
sion president pro tem. of the Sen
ate. Senator Beidleman is personally
popular throughout the State and
his vote in Central Pennsylvania, no
| doubt, will be further increased by
. the fact that he Is the only candi
date for State office from this sec- 1
tion before the Republican voters. |
• A lot of German mothers are not j
, i seeing much of a "victory" in the
| latest German attack.
A GAME YOU CAN PLAY
THREE billion dollars worth of
four and one-quarter per cent.
. 1 Liberty Bonds will be offered
1 1 for sale to the people of America
> j shortly.
This appeal is made to YOU.
You may have wondered how you
can help in this war. You may have
hoped you could have a part in de
throning the Kaiser.
Well, here's how.
One SSO bond will buy trench
knives for a rifle company, or twen
ty-three hand grenades, or fourteen
rifle grenades, or thirty-seven cases
of surgical instruments for enlisted
men's belts, or ten cases of surgical
instruments for officers' belts.
A SIOO bond will clothe a soldier,
or feed a soldier for eight months,
or purchase five rifles, or thirty rifle
grenades, or forty-three hand gren
ades, or twenty-five pounds of ether,
or 145 hot-water bags, or 2,000 sur
gical needles.
A SIOO and a SSO bond will clothe
and equip an infantry soldier for
service overseas, or feed a soldier for
a year.
Two SIOO bonds will purchase a
horse or mule for cavalry, artillery,
or other service.
Three SIOO bonds will clothe a sol
| dier and feed him for one year in
i France, or buy a motorcycle for a
machine gun company.
Four SIOO bonds will buy an X-ray
outfit.
One SSOO bond will supply bicycles
for the headquarters company of an
infantry regiment.
A lonely SSO bond will buy a box
of machine gun cartridges any one
of which may lay low one of the
German officers who drive their men
into the slaughter houses before the
Allied lines.
Here's a game you can play. Dig
up your money for bonds.
The British are not called "bull
dogs" for nothing.
DEMOCRATS IN TROUBLE
IT is interesting to watch the
gyrations of certain Democratic
bosses who are engaged In
ground and lofty tumbling on the
prohibition question. While attempt- j
ing to camouflage their own em- |
barrassment through flimsy efforts
to make it appear that the Repub
licans are playing fast and loose with
this issue, it is notable that no Dem
ocratic candidate has yet appeared
in the open and the bosses them
selves are fervently hoping that
something may yet occur to help
them get a footing in this campaign.
NOOSE FOR PRO-GERMANS
UPON all sides there is a demand
for prompt and energetic treat
ment of the pro-German sym
pathizers who are engaged in
squawking peace at every turn and
bemoaning the awful fate in store
i for the United States because of our
entrance Into the war. It is clearly i
the duty of the government to cease j
temporizing with this class of in- j
i dividuals. Unless the strong hand of
Uncle Sam himself reaches out for
these undesirables, communities
throughout the country will prob
ably do a little elimination on their
1 own account.
INCENDIARY FIRES
RECENT report of. the National
Board of Fire Underwriters
I reveals what many conserva
tive thinkers have long suspected—
, that the number of incendiary flres
! throughout the country due to the
activities of pro-German agents has
, been greatly exaggerated.
The report shows that of seventy
, five large fires, six were of unknown
I but suspicious origin, twenty-three
were of unknown origin, but not in
, condiary, forty-two were known not
to be of incendiary origin, while only
four were known to have been caus
, ed by incendiaries.
As the report says, it will thus be
noted that in nearly 95 per cent, of
1 the fires cited there is no proof of
> an incendiary origin, and in nearly
90 per cent, there is no reason even
> for suspicion. It must also be re
' membered that much incendiarism
• cannot be classed as part of a Ger
-1 man propaganda. There were many
• incendiary flres during every year
1 preceding the outbreak of the war
and doubtless there will be in the
1 years which shall follow Its' close,
' the underwriters believe.
" But the board would not have
■ anybody relax fire-protection pre
f cautions because of these facts and
5 it points out that over-watchfulness
• in such a matter is better than un
-1 der-alertness: and there is a degree
of value in the tendency to view
■ with suspicion every fire causing de
ll struction of munitions or supplies, l
until its cause has been investigated.
But it is necessary to avoid hysteria,
and in this sense, Ihe data obtained
is reassuring.
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'peKKO^tcaKta'
By the En-Committeeman
It seems to be the impression
among: Democratic county leaders
throughout the state that Acting
State Chairman Joseph F. Gutty Was
wdn over National Chairman Vance
C. McCormick and that the Pitts
burgh utility magnate will announce
his candidacy for Democratic guber
natorial nomination honors within a
few days with the blessing of the
national administration. But what
is interesting every leader is how
Guffey managed to get the national
chairman, who has strong ideas
about the prohibition amendment,
in line for him. Guffey has never
made any declaration for or against
the amendment and the general idea
is that he would prefer to sidestep it
in order to reap whatever advantages
may accrue to Democrats because of
division among Republicans on that
subject.
McCormick has reiterated his re
fusal to be a candidate for governor,
much to the disappointment of some
leaders and at the same time comes
to have demolished the booms of
ex-State Treasurer William H. Berry
and United States District Attorney
E. Lowry Humes. It was the belief
among Democrats that McCormick
would designate some oije as his
choice. Instead of that he has
apparently gone along on Guffey,
who is suspected of having been the
real choice of National Congressman
A. Mitchell Palmer and his pals
all along.
Guffey's announcement will be ]
awaited with interest inasmuch as
the men who are really in the race,
for Republican gubernatorial hon
ors, are out flat-footed for the |
amendment. J
-—Speaking of this latest Demo
cratic development the Philadelphia
Ledger says: "A crisis has been
reached in the Democratic guberna
torial situation, and as a result It is
expected that the candidacy of Jo
seph F. Guffev, of Pittsburgh, will
be announced by the middle of the
week. In this connection it was
learned yesterday that unexpected
opposition to Collector of the Port
Berry had developed and that Rob
ert S. Bright, who had been urged
to seek the nomination, persistently
refused to do so. Tt is understood
that the Democratic leaders regard
Mr. Guffey as their strongest possi
bility. It was said yesterday the
President declared Mr. McCormick
was an absolute necessity in his pres
ent post."
—Governor Brumbaugh and state |
administration leaders conferred for 1
an hour or more at the Executive j
Mansion with Commissioner O'Xeil j
last night 011 the situation cret.ted
by the announcements of Sproul and
Beidleman, but refused to make any
statements. The report got abroad
that a state slate was being made
up, but this was denied. O'Neil men
were rather inclined to be insistent
that O'Neil was a candidate for gov
ernor and not going to have a lot
of booms tagged on hint.
—The Philadelphia Press takes
the Ledger to account to-day for
doubting Senator Sproul's prohibi
tion declaration, saying that it
statement about a "sudden conver
sion" if true "would mean nothing
against Senator Sproul." The Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh papers gen
erally regard the Beldleman declara
tion to run for second place as a
war notice on the Vares and Scott
which will involve the state admin- j
istration. 1
—ln the course of events Com
missioner O'Neil will make a state
ment on the Sproul declaration and
some other thi "rs. Mr. O'Neil goes
to Indiana comty to-day and to
Johnstown to-morrow. "I'rji on my
way and things are looking fine,"
was his comment. Tt remains to be
seen what the commissioner will
have to say about the Beidleman
candidacy. If he attacks it' there
will be a general assumption that
he will line up with Seott, but the
commissioner was not saying any
thing about that to-day.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer calls
attention to the endorsements given
to Senator Sproul by three former
governors. After referring to the
strong endorsement given by ex-
Governor Stuart, the Inquirer says:
"As prothonotary of the Supreme
Court, former Governor Stone inva
riably refrains from taking any part
in politics, but he makes no secret
of his personal interest in the can
vass in Senator Snroul's behalf. "I
am heartily in favor of the nomina
tion of Senator Sproul." said former
Governor Tener. "I had an oppor
tunity when 1 was in Harrisburg
to watch his intelligent and con
scientious work in the Legislature
and I believe he is just the man to
meet the extraordinary conditions
with which the next Governor will
inevitably be confronted." It is
planned to have Tener and Stuart
speak from the same platform at an
early Sproul rally."
—The Philadelphia North Amer
ican to-day says that it Is,likely that
the Republican city committee of
Philadelphia will be called together
"this week to endorse a slate of
candidates for state offices."
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
intimates that Ex-Mayor William A.
Magee, may conclude to run for the
state senate in the district represent
ed by his brother, the late Senator
Charles J. Magee. The Leslie peo
ple will run Representative W. W.
Mearkle, and the Magee people have
been talking of Peter J. Donalioe,
who backed Magee in the mayor
alty fight. The Gazette-Times says
"It is within the range of possibili
ties that when the final day for fil
ing nomination papers at Harris
burg arrives, it will be found that
Mr. Donalioe will not put in a paper
and Mr. Magee will appear as the
candidate. The Magee family has
controlled this senatorial seat for
more than 40 years, and will un
doubtedly fight to keep the record
unbroken. Mr. Magee being with
out public office just pow, and hav
ing once held the seat, his candidacy
would not be a surprise."
—Sentiment In Lycoming county
is overwhelming for prohibition, ac
cording to a poll on the liquor ques
tion just closed by the Williamsport
Sun. A ballot entitling readers to
vote for or against the prohibition
cause, was printed daily in the Sun
for ten days. During that period
3,949 votes were received. Of this
number only 4 8 were "wet." The
3,901 ballots in favor of a dry coun
try were about .evenly divided be
tween men and women.
—H. J. Blxler, of Johnsonburg, is
out for Congress in the Twenty
eighth district, where Congressman
Beslilin, of Warren, will run again.
—Ex-Congressman Anderson H.
Walters, of Johnstown, is out for
Sproul for governor 111 the Johns
town Tribune. Walters is a candi
date for congress at large, a place
he formerly held.
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Ovrer the
Lk 'peiuuu
"She spends all her husband's!
salary on her back," informed the j
critical woman at a fashionable j
gathering. "Umph!" said the esti- j
mating male companion. "He must i
'a' lost his job."
A white-liaired G. A. R. veteran j
who had fought with Grant in the!
early days of the war was contend- ;
ing that the American soldier would j
give a mighty good account of him- ]
self even before he was thoroughly j
trained, lie illustrated with an an-|
ecdote telling how Grant had asked i
a colonel of some raw backwoods J
troops to stand at attention, thenj
march with shouldered arms in close |
column to the left flank. "Boys," |
yelled the colonel, who w-as just as j
raw as his men, "look wild thar!
Make ready to thicken and go left
endways. Tote your guns. Git!"
This unit developed into one of the
bravest and cleverest.
A suspicious looking stranger went
and stood a while by the well on the
Hicks farm north of Altoona the
other day and after explaining his
presence by asking for a drink, re
fused to drink alter the water was
drawn from the well. His actions,
the Altoona Tribune says, caused
the family to suspect hefhad dropped
something into the well. Nobody
knows what It was he might have
dropped, but the Tribune says when
the fellow was examined, 'his right
arm was missing and all but two
fingers were missing from his left
hand."
Be good to mom, as you have al
ways been, and try not to let her
worry until I get home." These were
last written words of an American
boy, Private George A. Adkins, kill
ed at the front the other day. Will
this tender hearted boy have his
reward? You know he will.
LABOR AND FREEDOM
The hope of labor lies in the op
portunities for freedom: military
domination, supervision, checks,
bondage, lie in Prussian rule. So de
clares the executive committee of
the American Federation of Labor.
This is a right and clear concep
tion of the issues involved in this
war for the working man. It is not
through a German regime but
through democracy that labor Is to
receive adequate recognition and its
realization of its rightful place in
the world.
All Americans are supremely and
vitally interested in the war agains*
German autocracy and none more
than the working man of America.
To him freedom means everything.
The test is on whether the auto
cratic regime of Germany has bred
better men than the free institutions
of this country has —whether the in
dependent men of America can fight
so well, can manufacture such guns
and aeroplanes and other instru
ments and munitions of war and put
them Into effective use as can the
human product of German rule.
There is 110 doubt of the result,
but it depends upon the whole Amer
ican people and not alone upon our
fighting men. We who remain in
safety at home must do our part,
work, economize, save and support
the finances of the government. In
dustry, saving, tnd lending to the
government are now national needs
and national duties.
THEY ALSO SERVE!
They also serve, who save, and save,
For food must help to win. *
They fight who live on hardy fare—•
As well as they who face the glare
Of battle and the din.
They also serve who toil, and toil,
And bravely meet the foe!
They fight who work In field, on
farm—
Some fight with cannon—some with
arm
And some with plow and hoe.
They also serve who make men
smile—
We'll lose except we laugh—
They fight who keep brave men in
trim —
The Y. M. hut, the games, the gym—
In war a smile is half!
They also serve—aye, you and I
We're traitors If we fall!
While brave men sing and strong
men smile.
And walk with joy their dreary mile.
And face grim death, nor quail.
—Marshall Louis Mertins.
| CAN VENIZELOS SAVE GREECE?
FOR centuries the Greek people
have suffered at the hands of
friends and of foes. To-day
they are poisoned with German lies
and suffering from the treatment of
their friends. Will Venizelos be able
to lire them once more as he used
to of old, or are the odds too great
even for a man like him? My own
opinion is that the odds are too
great, and that the Allies will have
to help him to free his country from
the German propaganda and to
purge the poison from their system.
They can help him if they will, and
if they can only realize that by do
ing so they will be undoing some of
the mistakes they have made. We
are fighting to-day a war which in
intensity and in sincerity surpasses
the wars of the Crusades. We are
fighting, not only to free the world
from autocracy and from militarism,
but to free It from all the aggres
sions and wrongs which sprang from
the old political and diplomatic tra
ditions.
Let us then face facts squarely in
the face. Let not the year 1918
bring about still another catastrophe
on our side. Let the year 1918 be
a year of redemption rather than
the continuation of our blunders In
the Near East thus far.
Through a blundering and hesi
tating policy, 1915 was signalized by
the destruction of Serbia and the
failure to take Constantinople.
191G saw the defeat of Rumania,
and put into the hands of Germany
the wheat-fields and the oil-wells of
that country.
PRAYER FOR OUR MEN
Father, the hour has come! Thou
art glorifying America by permitting
her to go up the Calvary road, bear
ing her cross of sacrifice. These men
of ours, who march to the wars, are
marching in step with Thee on that
road to*a world's redemption. If
they fall under the weight of the
cross, as Thou didst fall, show them
how we at home are near to lift the
heavy wood and bear it with them
to the crest of the hill where victory
is,—the victory of sacrifice for right
eousness' sake. '
Father, glorify every soldier with
this vision. May they know the
nearness of Thy presence by the
rustle of Thy garments and see Thy
calm, confident face, -as with them
Thou dosi march. We love them;
we love Thee. In that love we live.
In that love we leave our men, re
peating to them Thine own great
words of assurance: "Fear thou
not, for I am with thee. . . .1 will up
hold thee with the right hand of my
righteousness."—Salem D. Towne,
► opyright.
Society's Secret Service
Irving Bacheller. the famous au- 1
thor and lecturer, says in the April
American Magazine:
"There's a kind of secret service
among men and women of which
everyone is a member. This secret
service is constantly taking and
comparing notes on the character
of all individuals within the circum
ference of its observation. My young
friend, do not be deceived. They
know all about you. They look as
innocent as you, but they know every
step in your going and coming, even
though you are ' covered by the
darkness of the night. There are a
thouwand eyes and ears and the
keenest wits in this great busy de
tective who lives in your neighbor
hood. He fools himself who thinks
he can fool this all-seeing detective.
Therefore it pays to be sincere and
genuine—to be, in short, just what
we are in public and private, in
talk and action at home and abroad.
The beginning of bigness Is absolute
sincerity and something more. 1
would call It living the truth." 1
THE INCOME TAX
Architects' Fees are "Cost"—Not "Expense"
If I employ an architect to prepare plans for a
building to be used for business purposes, may the
fee paid to the architect be claimed as a business
expense?
No. Amounts expended for an architect's serv
ices are held to be a part of the cost of the building,
and are not such items a& may be claimed as deduc
tions.
1917 will remain memorable foi®
the disintegration of the Russian
Empire, and for Italy's debacle.
America is now in the war, and
we are entering a new year, a year
which must be a winning year for
us, and not another blundering, los
ing one. Let America at least pre
vent the destruction of Greece. Let
the American people never forget
that twd weeks after the war began,
Greece unconditionally and unre
servedly offered her all to the cause
for which America stands. And,
above all, let us remember that in
spite of German gold and German
intrigues, in spite of the colossal mis
takes of the Allies and the fiasco of
the Dardanelles, the Greek people, in
June, 1915, voted for Venizelos and
for war when the Issue was pre
sented to them in the most clear-cut
manner —voted for war on the side
of the Allies even after the Entente
had refused to guarantee their ter
ritorial integrity. And had their
leader been adequately supported by
the Powers which had guaranteed
the Greek Constitution, Serbia need
never have been destroyed.
We have stood aside and seen Ser
bia perish. We have lost the chance
of taking Constantinople. We have
lost Rumania. We hate lost Rus
sia. We have seen the semi-de
moralizatlon of Italy. Let us not
abandon Greece because certain
monarchistic influences have worked
harder to save a rotten little dynasty
in Athens than to win the war —
From In the Heart of German In
trigue, by Demetra Valta (Houghton
'Mifflin Co.) *
LABOR NOTES
| It is proposed to order women em
ployed at the British of
I Munitions to wear a khaki uniform.
1 Terre Haute (Ind.) Brewery Work
ers' Union has raised wages twelve
to twenty per cent.
| An all-Ireland conference is" to be
j held to consider the question of food
j supplies for that country.
| Peat brick are being retailed in
I Dublin at a penny each, instead of
■ three for a penny, the price before
j the war.
! The British Co-Operative Whole
! s. le Society has paid over 400,000
! pounds to its workers who are serv
i ing, except "conscientious objec-
I tors."
All the school boards o£ Caithness
(Scotland) have adopted a minimum
salary for assistant teachers, com
mencing at S4OO.
. The first short course of agronomy
i and animal husbandry at the Univer
i stty of British Columbia is now in
j fuli progress.
| In Germany working hours of all
I plants have been increased from
■ eight hours a day to ten and even
J twelve at the same rate of wages.
i Recent British and French experi
i ments in munitions plants indicate
evertime does not increase maximum
production by women workers.
The anti-prohibition element in the
British Columbia Federation of Labor
failed to put through an amendment
for two and one-half per cent. beer.
St. Louis (Mo.) organized wood
workers are asking for 50 cents an
hour and an eight-hour day. effec
tive April 1 next.
Robert Brown, secretary of the
Scottish Miners, and twenty-one
years a Councillor', has been re-elect
ed Provost of Dalkeith.
EDITORIAL COMMENT ]
Peace propaganda here is only an
other brand of poison-gas—Wall
Street Journal.
We'll say this for Hoover: He's
killed off a lot of incipient cases of
indigestion.—Detroit Free Press.
Deaf in one ear, he can hear his
country calling: blind in one eye,
he can see his duty, and he will do i
it.—New York .Morning Telegraph.
If only the Kaiser and, the rest of
us would talk less about "Trust In
God," and consider* the question of
his trust ill us!— Wall Street Journal.
Washington, with his early an
nounced inability to tell a lie, prob
ably stands out in Berlin as the su
prenle type of American inefficiency.
—Chicago Herald.
That a German' General is pub
lishing lessons of this war to he
learned for the next one is a big
season why this one has to be fought
to a finish.—New York World.
In spite of the scarcity of farm
laborers, this department predicts
that the crop of book-agents selling
complete histories of the war will
be as numerous this year as ever.—
Emporia Gazette.
The German idea seems to be to
both rule and ruin.—Detroit Free
Prces.
TAKING ITT;ASY
The Kaiser is willing to bear the
troubles of his people, but they must
continue to do the fighting.—Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
IQUR DAILY LAUGH
SIC TRANSIT.
The overcoat
that once
wo were
nuisance
grown.
<*y-~ ho u
''■ l the api) ' e ot his
To use that
' ',■/ tk/ . DU W'expresalon
' if rA lT seems fa r -
fetched.
4jfll Not at all.
She'if a. pippin.
ALO
NEEDN'T - IwV**
WORRY. \J|
all, fools make Hk
life amusing. vX [M ,
When all are \J m /,
dead I don't V* /&
want to be alive. JOT
Peggy: Don't AV JHiHf Ml
worry, you |™|
LOW WAGES.
I didn't know
per* that he's
working for the
government for
Jill 111I II a dollar a year.
Ibentttg (Etjal
Every now and thsri someone
rises to throw a shower of verbal
brickbats at our courthouse. It hus :
some shortcomings, but the truth
of the matter is that they are inter
nal. Externally, the Dauphin coun
ty temple of justice, has many good
points and only the other day War
den John Erancles, of the Western
Penitentiary, who has traveled a,
great deal and who is rather plain
spoken, remarked that he always
liked to stop and look at the front of
the courthouse, because to his mind
it embodied some ftne architecture.
State Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery, in the course of some brows
ing among papers at the Capitol,
ran across a letter, showing how the
old courthouse, which had some of
the features of the present building,
was admired in the old days and in
cidentally remarked that about all
that was wrong with the present
building, was the lack of some place
where records would be safe from
lire. He said that, architecturally,
he considered the building a fine one
and had heard other men, some of
them wide traveled, say the same
thing. The letter to which Dr. Mont
gomery referred was addressed to
Hon. John Todd, at Bedford, by
Abram Kers, of Lebanon, who wrote'
on
"The Next, day Doctor Whiteside*
had the politeness to get Me access
to the Harrlsburgh Court House,
which has also been altered Since
the legislature Occupied it —It is
quite a respectable and a Convenient
Court Room—and Made in the right
way as instead of (Most injudicious
ly) elevating the bar and it is placed
on the floor where it ought to be—
The Court Seat is Sufficiently ele
vated above the bar—The Juror
Seats elevated gradually and the
spectators seats elevated on the
back ground still more than the'
Jurors Seats —At Harrisburgh I
heard the Court House at this place
spoken of by Many Gentlemen (and
some of them competent Judges) as
being decidedly the most convenient
and the Most elegant one in our State
and Since I have examined the
building thoroughly X do not hesi
i tate in saying is beyond doubt the
j most Convenient the most any and
the Most elegant Court house I ever
Saw in this State —This court house
is nothing like any of the places that
Mr. Hill laid before the Commis
sioners of our County it was built
in 1815 in deer times and the build
ing Cost $26500 —brick at that time'
Cost here $lO p thousand every load
of sand $3.0 but boards were had at
$lO p thousand from Susquehanna
I am of opinion A court house Could
now be built embracing all the Con
veniences of this one for less than
half the sum Above Stated."
"Daylight saving is going to be a
cinch when you just? figure it out."
said the head of a big industrial es
tablishment yesterday. "Get this.
On June 1. most of us, who can, go
to summer cottages in the country
or else we plan some sort of things,
such as working in a garden before
breakfast, because there is daylight.
Well, just put it \ forward two
months. In other words start your
summer hours long before, you ex
pected to. Only this is my advice
to llarrisburgers: Those who go to
bed a< 9, start to-night at 8; those
who hit the hay at 10, start to-night
at 9: eleven o'clockers go to bed at
10 and midnighters pike up the
wooden hill at 11, And do it all
week and Monday you won't mind
It."
• * *
"When the daylight saving comes
around we- won't mind it" said a
trolleyman yesterday. "We're used
to getting up at 3 and 4 o'clock, you #
know. We start one week about :>
or 4 in the morning and next week
about 11 In the morning. What's an
hour, when you have to swing half
a day, every other week or so?"
* *
One of the most interesting of war
i time exhibits will be made at the
Harrisburg Public Library, when
Miss Alice R. Eaton, the librarian,
has arranged fbr a display of war
posters. Miss Eaton has gone to a
great deal of trouble to obtain gov
ernment, state and national posters,
and some of them are of great merit.
The Liberty Loan and War Savings
posters will be given a prominent
glace in the display. The arrange
ment will probably be completed
Thursday. The poster lias a distinct
appeal for everyone in this war and
some of the most effective calls to'
the people have been made by ink.
* * •
"Being a candidate is an interest
ing experience. I have been a can
didate for all sorts 'of things in my
time, but I must say that being it
candidate for governor is the rarest
of all," said J. Denny O'Neil, the
Highway Commissioner, yesterday..
"I was in Philadelphia two days and
I think I was asked questions on
a hundred matters. And they were
not all by newspaper reporters
either.
* •
The final flowerbeds are being:
prepared on Capitol Hill by Farmer
Shreiner's force of haymakers, who
are engaged in sweeping grass and
sort of "redding up" after the win
ter's feeding of the squirrels. The
flowerbeds have been liberally plant
ed with bulbs and similar plants
and when they have bloomed, Mr.
Shreiner will have some shrubbery
which has been worked out on a
"Pennsylvania only" basis.
* *
It may be of interest to some of
the llarrisburg anglers to know that
among the young trout put out into
the streams, in Cumberland countv
for the benefit of the fishermen,
were some seven and a half Inches,
long. The young fish distributed are
all of a size able to care for them
selves.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
—Representative Ananias David'
Miller, of Westmoreland, who has.
filed a petition for renomination.,
now signs It A. David Miller.
—-The Archbishop of York; who.
spoke here Saturday, will speak in
Pittsburgh on April 4.
—General C. T. O'Neil, who re
tires from the Army, was formerly
head of the state arsenal heae.
—Julian Huff, well-£nown Greene
burg man, has been appointed fuel
administrator for Westmoreland.
—The Rev. Dr. C. F. Swift, former
legislator and now active In the
Anti-Saloon league, made a series of
addresses in Western counties scor
ing the political zeal, of the Ger
man-American Alliance.
—Senator W. C. McConnell, of
Shamokln, is home from a trip .to.
Florida.
—W. J. Richards, -the Reading
coal chief, is lending land for war
gardens at Pottsville.
1 DO YOU KNOW ]
—That Harrisburg l.i starting
off wnr gardens on a more ex
tensive scale than expected?
HISTORIC HARRISRVRG
Harris Ferry furnished grain for
Forbes expedition foe the Indiana,