12 HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded its' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELGCRAPH PRI>TI>G CO- Ttltcrtpk Building* Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, Prrj'f 6- Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business itancter. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Manuring Editor. Member cf the Associated Press —The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper end also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub- E Entered at the Post Office in Harris burs. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance, THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1918 It's them as take advantage that gets advantage in this world. — GEORGE ELIOT. A RIGID INVESTIGATION COUNCIL, as Dr. Hassler recom mends, must make a rigid in vestigation of the charge that conditions are not as they should l?o at the municipal smallpox hospital. Health Officer Raunick has been in-j sistent in his demands for the erec- j tion of a new building and is on I record many times as saying that the structure now in use is not fitted for the purpose to which it is put. But that would not excuse either carelessness or neglect In adminis tration. Fair play for the health board and justice to those who are compelled to take treatment at the ! hospital both demand u vigorous probe of the whole matter, so that the public may know the truth or; falsity of the charges. A correspondent ot the Telegraph ! writes to suggest that all candidates for the Legislature should not only be pledged to support the prohibition amendment, but also local option as well, so that in the event of the failure of the amendment State prohibition or local option could be adopted. This suggestion, and many others having to do with the whole matter, shows the interest in the anti-liquor issue j this year. PUBLISHING CASUALTIES GENERAL MARCH makes out a very good case for those who j favor withholding the ad dresses of men killed and injured in the war zone, and not the least of the very good reasons he gives is that which pertains to the efforts of shyster lawyers to foist their serv ices upon the parents and depend ents who were killed or died in the service, to whom the government must pay insurance. There is not the least intention upon the part of Uncle Sam to dodge his responsibilities in this respect, but on numerous occasions, General March says, unscrupulous lawyers have convinced beneficiaries that theil services were necessary and have collected large fees unjustly from gullible clients. If for no other reason, we must be content with meager information concerning the addresses of our dead or wounded, but when the Gen eral backs this up with proof that the publication of such information would be bad from a military standpoint we must submit as grace fully as possible to a necessity of the war. • Newspapers naturally de sire all the news they can procure, but no loyal editor would publish a single item transgressing in the slightest wise military regulations. Get your garden ready, but don't plant your tender seeds too early. "Kaiser grieved by ruin," says a dispatch. He's due for a lot moi\e grieving before It is all over. WHEAT AND LIBERTY THE self-restraint and the pa triotism of the American peo ple, are on trial. Food Admin istrator Hoover has asked bakers, grocers, eating house proprietors and private consumers to cut more deeply into their use of wheat and flour. The necessities of the occa sion demand that we send far more than we have been sending to our al lies in Europe. We are going to do this whether or not the American people consent. It remains to be seen whether they will stand loyally by the government and cut down the consumption of wheat at home or be forced to the use of bread cards. The cause of democracy is at! stake and the man who will not curb his appetite to the extent of eating less of wheat and more of some other product is not a good citizen. If people place their stom achs above the lives of hungry peo ple in Europe and above their own souls, they must be prepared for enforced food regulations—bread cards, in short, issued by the gov ernment and limiting each consumer to a reasonable allotment. It is to be hoped the American people will arise fully to the occa sion, but if they do not, Mr. Hoover, THURSDAY EVENING. • will have the support of all worthy l of consideration in putting bread rationing rules into effect. He should not hesitate should the need arise. Those who will not sacrifice voluntarily must be made to do so. l The safety of the nation is not to be endangered by a selfish minority.' A PEACE DRIVE NEXT? THERE are strong indications that the German offensive, if it attains anything approaching a German su-cess, will be followed by an even stronger drive for peace. Short of going through the whole al lied armies and winning a really de cisive victory, Germany must make another peace bluff, both with the hope of winning peace while a Ger man peace may yet be had and to keep the people at home keyed to the sticking point. Colonel Harvey, writing in his War Weekly just be fore the present campaign opened, summed the situation up very ad mirably in this way: With ultimate victory held out to them as the sure reward of un failing constancy under their privations, the German people are precisely in the state of mind of the population of a beleagured city in any or the famous crucial sieges of history. They are hold ing out just as the people of Lon donderry or L/eyden held out, be cause of the great stake whose winning or losing turns on their constancy and fortitude. But they will not suffer hunger and want and disease and slow death for nothing. At whatever time the situation in the field shall become such that the only thing that holding out can possibly mean is a putting off of the evil day— and the longer it is put off the more evil—they will refuse to hold out. A defeat in the field that in itself would be far from ' fatal will suffice to show the hopelessness of the outlook; and the suffering that hope made en durable will be found too great to bear when no motive exists to continue the agony. At what time a sudden col lapse of German morale may be brought about in this way it would be idle to attempt to pre dict. The time will come as sure as there is a God in heaven and an American on earth. That the German Government Is itself con scious of the danger, the charac ter of its present overtures suf ficiently indicates. It wants to negotiate peace while yet its power shows no clear signs of breaking. When these signs do become manifest, its overtures will be different in substance, and above all different in tone. So long as Germany can use the language of an invincible, but more or less magnanimous, ipnemy it will be impossible to negotiate with her. When defeat has come, or when the shadow of defeat is unmistakably upon her. she can be dealt with upon a basis that will make possible a righteous and a lasting peace. And that time will come if we firmly refuse —as I President Wilson, like the heads of the British and French Gov ernments. has thus far unwaver ingly done —to countenance any attempt of an undefeated Ger many to forestall the day of a just and permanent settlement. This is no time to talk peace. The enemy will propose that the fighting end, but we in America must be firm in our refusal to treat with Ger many until her armies are hopelessly defeated or her people are up in arms against the ruling classes. This may require one year, two years, five \ years, but whatever the time we | must fight on. , According to German reports, that ! American counter-offensive appears | to have been very offensive. GOOD FRIDAY TO-MORROW the world will ob serve another Good Friday. As on that day preceding the first Easter, when the hope of hu- i manity hung in the balance and the future seenied dark indeed to doubt ing souls, the dawn of Good Friday this year will bring again its fears ! and its misgivings and the fate of ! civilization, even of Christianity it- j self for centuries to come, lies in the ! outcome of the contest between good i and evil now waged on the J bloody fields of France. "And it was about the sixth hour, ■ and there Was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour," we read j of that day when Christianity was first on trial in the world, "And the , sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." But a little later doubt and darkness were dispelled. The sun broke forth on a new day, the stone was rolled I from the tomb, and the powers of night were banished by the glory j and the splendor that shone round about. And so, to-morrow, may we not look forward, past the welter of blood and the sacrifice, beyond the temporary triumph of the agencies of Satan, to the coming of that new Easter for a world saved and de livered free of shackles to genera tions who shall have learned the lesson that right is eternal, that love is greater than hate and that no great sacrifice is ever In vain. There is a strange absence of men tion of "Gott" in the Kaiser's more recent dispatches to Germany. CLEAN, WHOLESOME CITY IT IS the duty of Harrlsburg, through its officials, to "keep the home fires burning" by a close supervision of everything which makes for a clean and wholesome city, so that when the boys return they will come back to a home town which is fit for the heroes of a great war. At no point should the public spirit of our citizenry be allowed to break down. Everything that is worth while should be maintained efficiently and with a view to sub stantial betterment in every direc tion. VERY GOOD WORK RECORD of the fire that yester day swept one of the largest garages in the city would not be complete without a word of praise for the very admirable manner in which the department conducted It self. The wonder is not that the building should have been destroyed, but that, with the conditions pre vailing. many surrounding structures were not burned. Good judgment and courageous work combined to save the heart of the city from a very disastrous fire./ i CK 'Pouvoilttfcuua By the Ex-Committeeman I Information from Pittsburgh is that the resuscitation of the guberna torial boom of United States District Attorney E. Lowry Humes is com plete and that the activity of Coun ty Chairman H. B. Cutshall, of Craw ford county, the Humes habitat, is inspired. The statement is also made in Pittsburgh that Acting Chair man Joseph F. Guffey, of public utility fame, is getting ready to make an announcement and that ?x- State Treasurer William 11. Berry, of Philadelphia and Chester, has stopped packing up his canvas and inclined to get into the fight In the hope of winning something. All signs are favorable to a real nice Democratic tight, rather more extended than the Republicans, if that were possible. The Democrats are split over the liquor issue and the machine managers, appear to have some differences themselves. Perhaps, after all. things may get In to such a pass that the President may be forced to take a hand Hint designate a candidate whom all must support. Stranger things have hap pened. —While the rival Democrats are clawing each other the Republican aspirants are busy. Senator Sproul is getting his things in shape to start his tour of the state next month and his headquarters in charge of William I. Shaffer, of Media, will be a busy place. Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, who spoke in Ebpns burg yesterday, will be in Phila delphia to-night and probably to morrow see his friends. Mean while Attorney General Brown is moving things to get the Vares lined up for O'Neil. but indications are that the Philadelphia city commit tee, if it does not endorse Snroul, will decide that each leader may go his own way. A demand on all Re publican candidates to state In writ ing whether th,ey will abide by de cision of the Republican primary is to be made. Asa A. Weimer. of Leb anon. is pushing his candidacy by means of advertising and Robert P. Habgood. of McKean, is makms? headway in the northern tier with his harmony propaganda. —The newspapers are commenc ing to sit up and take note of the fuss in the Democratic front yard. The Philadelphia Ledger cautiously notes some indications of conflicting ambitions, while the North Ameri can says that Western Democrats are not taking to Guffey. "Most Dem ocrats," says the North American, "want a candidate who doesn't have to be introduced." —The Philadelphia Record. Dem ocratic organ, says frankly that it looks like a Democratic fight, and that it looks as though Humes had "disregarded wishes" of McCormick and Palmer in deciding to run. It says that Guffey and Berry booms met with such frosts that Humes' friends concluded he would be the best candidate and says: "Because of his prosecution of the brewers for their contributions to the Repub lican organization, Humes is expect ed to make a strong showing among the 'dry' element. He is known to favor a 'dry' platform and would make his fight largely on that issue. Should Humes show any consider able strength over the state the lead ers might consider it necessary to try and bring about a compromise. While at the conference here some weeks ago Humes declared that Vance C: McCormick was the log ical candidate and it is not believed he would enter the race if McCor mick should allow the use of his name, which is not now thought likely." —One of the humors of the cam paign is t"he offer of John R. K. Scott to debate the issues with Senator Penrose. • —Magistrate Campbell, thrown out of the Philadelphia city committee by the Vares, was re-elected by his ward committee last night. —Town njeeting men in Philadel phia have endorsed Representative Theodore Campbell. —William J. Thomas, Kulpmont editor, is a legislative candidate in Northumberland. —Although the time for filing nominating petitions for the May primary will expire in two weeks, there are less than 100 filed for all of the nominations to be made. Ordinarily there are from 500 to 800 on file at this time. Officials at the State Department say that in dications are that there will be from 2,500 to 3,000 filed in the last ten days and if they are delayed some may fail, because of defects which it will be unable to discover or cor rect in time. The time expires April 11. —James J. Moran, Democrat, filed a petition to run for Congress in the Schuylkill county district, and Henry M. Foote, a petition to be a candi date for the Republic congressional nomination in the Lycoming-Tioga- Clinton-Potter district. Other peti tions filed were for the House by Adam C. Schaeffer, present member. Republican, first Senuylkill, and James Donnelley, Democrat, second Schuylkill. —The orders of the Philadelphia city authorities to cut down im provements, not absolutely neces sary during the war. have resulted in numerous reductions of forces of some bureaus and consequent grumbling. A couple of the district engineers have also resigned to en ter federal service. —Swissvale will have a special election Saturday on the question of whether to be annexed to Pitts burgh. —Chester has several vacancies in its police force and Pittsburgh has 100 places on its police force open. The war seems to have taken away the popularity of the Jobs. —Things are being stirred up in that part of Lackawanna county known as the Mid-Valley, by the ac tivities of a priest, the Rev. F. J. Murphy. He has gone after the gamblers and threatens to impeach a burgess, for failing to do his duty. District Attorney Maxey will prose cute with him. —Francis J. Noonan, United States marshal, has declined to enter the Democratic congressional contest in Schuylkill county. —Edward A. Solellac, prominent Allentown manufacturer, is being boomed for Congress-at-Large on the Republican ticket. —lnterest in the dontest for the Republican nomination for state senator in the Lackawanna district is growing very keen. Former Mayor E. B. Jermyn, whose name was frequently linked with the office, has made no definite announcement,' but there Is a growing impression in political circles that he will not ■be a candidate, says the Scranton Republican. —During the week the name of Prof. D. "W. Phillips, of the Technical High school -faculty, has come to the fore in connection with the senator ship and a number of his friends are trying to induce him to run. He is a resident of West Scranton and was campaign manager for Hon. A. T. Connell last fall. HABBISBURG HFFLMU' TELEGRAPHS I AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? BY BRIGGS |l ==■ Tiiwig- +!l6 4'3o T"M£ 4 46" WHEN You ARE .VTTING AT - AMD TH£NJ ' THE ©OSS AMO "THE BO3S HCTAT6S Vcxjß. DESK CO*jfet*ATULATING AMD SAYS ' TAKE TMIS LOM6 LETTER AMD "TAI<ES YOU<?SELF THAT THE BOSS WILL LETTER- MUST GO TOMIGMX'" a uOT of TI~\E TM'^K<NG NOT Be BACK AMO TH*T YOU CAJVI AMD YOO SCOVAJL ANO PIDGfcT SET THE 6'.20 TRAIINI WITHOUT AND Ev/ERY ANY TROOOLe BECAUSE YOU * GET H ° <nE EARLY TIME ' 4-: 6 S TIME 4. *"8 ~ . OHM- -M -H - GIRLS!.'} AND FINALLY" THE "OOSS -AND SOOAJ THE BOSS IT A A • STOPS AM D YOU RUSHES ANJO SAYS N*.K T^A FURIOUSLY ** "KTEEDM T \URTE THAT __ YRRR KAMO \ ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Freight Embargoes To the Editor of the Telegraph: Reverting to the question of | freight embargoes in my letter of | March 25th. I omitted an important part, nameiy, that no material under this heading should bt accepted for shipment and thus prevent loaded cars standing idle in consequence of these embargoes. The trouble is the inability to un load them at their destination as at present there are not sufficient ships to meet the demand. The government will no doubt en deavor to obviate this general con gestion of cars by putting up large temporary sheds as repositories at these shipping centers, where loaded freight cars can be easily unloaded and released for further service and keep the tracks clear. Your sincerely, BRUCE GREEN. Collars For Cutworms A gardening expert writes in the . April Woman's Home Companion; "About the first thing on the ground is the cutworm —and about the meanest! These creatures chew off the young, freshly set-out plants of tomatoes, cabbage and, Indeed, anything, the very night after your transplanting has been accom plished. "Many use a poison bait; but my preference, especially where there are pests to get at, such things as sweetened poisoned bran, is for paper collars. As the worms crawl along the ground and eat right at the surface, a stiff paper or card board rolled Into a 'collar' and se curely pinned, and then pressed into the earth for perhaps a half-inch around the plant, is about as good a defense as can be devised. It must be put in place when the transplant ing Is done." MILITARY MORALS One of the uses of the proceeds of the Liberty Loan that will appeal strongly to the great mass of Ameri can people, is the care and atten tion given to the moral welfare and protection.of the American soldiers. Heretofore, with the American I Army and even now, with some of the armies of our allies, the moral welfare of the soldier was and is a matter largely ignored. In the Ger man armies provision is even made for immortality. It is to the glory of American arms and American national charac ter that of the men who wear the United States uniform a high stand ard of conduct is expected and de manded, and provided for. Kipling's "Single men in barracks" are not to find their prototypes in the Ameri can Army. Gen. Pershing says there Is no cleaner-living body of men in the world than the American Army in France. TREASON [Philadelphia Public Ledger] Is It not about time that the offi cials of the federal government in Philadelphia, and elsewhere, for the matter of that, came to a realiza tion of the fact that the United States is at war with an enemy des perately in earnest and with the fur ther fact that spies and traitors are at work among us striving to ham string the nation in its preparations to meet that enemy? That they at present fail to appreciate the se riousness ot the situation, that they are dealing supinely with a deadly menace, is shown in many ways, in the leniency that is shown to sus pects, in the lack of vigor with which clues are followed up and in the utter failure to take those ordinary precautions which common pre dence and forethought would dictate as a primary duty. JUSTIFIABTE~CURIOSITY It happened last night that Occy Wattles dropped into the same seat he held the night before at the movie show. But the gum he left sticking undfer the seat the first night was gone last night. Mr. Wat tles doesn't want the gum, but he does confess to a very natural curi osity to know who did get it.—Kan sas City Star. An Easier Hat Mary bought her Easter hat, With a nineteen-eighteen flop; Said Mary. "Sure, I'm doln' my bit, "With a hat that goes 'over the top.' " RALPH I. DEIHL, Paxtang, Pa. A mericans in LLOYD GIBBONS, writing for a Baltimore newspaper from the American front In France, tells of an underground city, once a Hun refuge, which is now occupied by Uncle Sam's representatives abroad. He says one of the biggest tasks of their commanding officers is to re strain the dangerous eagerness of the men to get into battle. The entire region in which the men are located is one long occupied by Germans and almost every inch of it has at one time or another been part of the shifting neutral slip between the changing front lines. Mr. Gibbons described a visit through the underground city which w-as a sudden transformation from the dead world aboye to this live one below. There was a huge rock-hewn chamber, glowing electric bulbs, ponderous rounded pillars, rudely fashioned with maul and chisel. From this chamber galleries branch out in all directions. Standing out from the walls of these spacious cor ridors were rows of roughly con structed seats on which Americans were reclining,, reading or singing. Others walked arm in arm through the galleries. They seemed perfect- LABOR NOTES Brush makers at Dallas, Texas, have organized. ' Employers have granted the re quest of Reading (Pa.) organized plumbers for a wage increase of 10 cents an hour. The Department of Labor is con ducting a drive to enlist 250,000 men for future needs of shipbuilding yards. Large numbers of rubber workers are joining the Akron (Ohio) Rubber Workers' Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. Duncan McCallum, of Vancouver, was elected president of the British Columbia Federation of Labor for ISIB. Miss Caroline Manning of the Minnesota State Labor Bureau claims that women who have replac ed men in war work do from 50 to 75 per cent, more work than the men. At the biennial convention of Dis trict No. 5, United Mine Workers, at Pittsburgh, it was stated that 76 new locals have been established and 52 coal companies unionized in this dis trict. Even the grandmothers in Great Britain are now wearing overalls and doing their bit to win the war by going into the munition plants and doing odd jobs, such as their physical powers will permit. New York City waist and dress makers, affiliated with the Interna tional Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, are jubilant over an organiz ing campaign which has doubled their membership. The Federal Census Bureau has issued its census of cotton manu factures, taken in 1914. It shows that 393,404 wage earners were em ployed that year and the average wage was $387 a year. Chief Justice Brown of the Penn sylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a dining car conductor is not a brakeman and that railroads must not include him wljen they are com plying with the full crew law. American Federation of Labor, has rejected an invitation sent him by Karl Legien, head of the Federated Trade Unions of Germany, to attend Samuel Gompers, president of the a workers' peace meeting. THE INCOME TAX Guardians Must Report The duly appointed guardian of a minor, or the conservator of an estate of an incompetent person, is required to render personal returns for and in behalf of his ward. Under the same conditions as would the ward if competent to act, and in so doing the personal exemption to which the ward is entitled may be claimed: ly accustomed to their surroundings. The khaki-clad youngsters were a dapting themselves to this under ground life with the ease of bats or the sightless creatures which crawl beneath the earth. Candlelighted transparencies set in rooky niches indicated the location of company headqarters, guardhous es, military police, or direction of various exits, each of which bore the name of some city, state or river back home. At times in our pro gress over the uneven floor of rock it was necessary to bend heads to escape bumps in places where the ceiling was low. Slanting runways branching from the main level indicated there were other tiers below. Wanderiing through this maze of galleries one soon lost his sense of direction, and it was not with surprise that we learned the officers restricted men to company areas because of ease with which one became lost in the labryinth. The walls of this subterranean city were decorated with sketches and portraits in chalk. There were also mural decorations. The men exercised in the corridors and are taken out in small working parties at night. THE STATE PRESS "Idlers," says Henry Ford, "caus ed the war—idlers of so-called roy alty, who made others obey them, and capitalistic idlers, who made fortunes and sought greater fortunes by forcing others to do their bid ding. But, work will beat them all! The mechanism turned out by our strong, intelligent wage-earners will triumph over the idlers." Henry's right. It Is a battle between those who work intelligently and those who idle brutally. It, moreover, is a truth set forth by one who knows. Mr. Ford is a capitalist and about as near royalty as anyone can get in our democracy. In addition, he is doing more, perhaps, than any other individual in the country to produce mechanical war contrivances. — Bradford Record. Senator Vardaman, of Louisiana, has apparently been taking lessons from the spltball artists in the big leagues and has adopted a new style of delivery. He used to sputter like a broken trolley wire as he railed over his pet aversion "predatory wealth" and conducted his own cru sade for Socialism. Now he has adopted a new senatorial delivery from which all denunciation is ob literated, radiant as a Lebanon county landscape in spring-time, to judge by this sentence from his speech on the railway bill: "War is the pregnant of perplexing prob lems which come forth with fearful fecundity, and the attempted solu tion of which will lead the states man in his investigations into all the avenues and ramifications of human actualities.—Lebanon News. SUPPLY ~OF~CHAPLA INS The war will need one chaplain for every 1,200 men, says Chaplain F. J. Prettyman of the United States Senate. Where are they to come from? There are 150,000 churches and 170,000 ministers in this country. Four thousand new ministers a year are needed. The seminaries turn out about 3,- 000. Of the fTrst ten classes from Yale three-quarters of the members en tered the ministry; and half of the Princeton graduates of the first de cade became ministers. But of 32 5 students in the class of 1916 at Yale only nine were preparing for the pulpit; at Princeton eleven expected to preach.—From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. MARCH 28, 1018. t —~ ~ ' Otfer tfa Jo jo p New York with the lid on and cabarets closed, manages to have a little playfulness once in a while. Boxing is stopped, but wrestling may be lively, as Strangler Lewis can testify, and as a local sporting writes recounts: "Wladek Zbyszko, Polish flinger, butted Strangler into a knockout at Madison Square Gar den. Some kind-hearted gentleman at the ringside then showed his politeness by busting a chair over Zby's head and a few compatriots began hurling the rest of the furni-t ture around. One of the stettees took a policeman in the face. Billy Roche gave the scrap to Lewis on a foul while the melee was at its height." * * • Lieutenant Governor McClain said "Crooks who He awake at night thinking up schemes to de fraud people of money need expect no consideration from this board." • After the garden is spaded don't forget to carry out last winter's ashes; then hang those screens up and help friend wife clean house and beat carpet. You'll need that extra hour of daylight. | OUR DAILY LAUGH I ONE-SIDED, He—l suppose we are to consldei the engagement broken. She—You are, not me—l'm stit j engaged to someone else. THOROUGH. "Is Highbrow observing: meatless days?" "Strictly. He won't even read Lamb or Bacon." MAKING SURE. "Why didn't you call for help when he kissed you?" "I was afraid some one would POOR THING. The Little One—Whatcha beefln' about? The Big One—Boo hoo, my mis tress never kisses me good-bye when •he goes out like yours doeal lEbgtitttg (Efrtt Men active in business affairs In Harrisburg, have been studying out how the change in hours, due to the enactment of the "daylight sav ing" law, will become effective in this city, and It seems to be the gen eral Impression that If It came a month later it would not be so hard. Among the suggestions made to-day, were that whistles which now blow for people to come to work, blow an hour earlier by the clock or two hours earlier by the sun. This idea comes from Reading, where there is a large industrial population anil seems also to have been discussed in Philadelphia. What it would mean in Harrisburg, would be that whistles which blow for seven o'clock would blow at six and seven, clock time, but which would be live and six o'clock by the sun. There are a number of whistles in this city and Steelton which regulate the lives of thousands of people, but unfortun ately, many peopde can not hear them. One whistle at Steelton blows every morning at live and starts many a home going. Another Steel ton whistle blows at six and then there is the general whistle at seven. In this city, there are a couple of whistles in Cameron street and on the railroads which blow for six, bvt generally they blow for seven. The suggestion is that for a time, at least until people get accustomed to the new regulations, that the whist les blow at six and seven, clock time and that every one proceed to for get sun time, until next fall, when we will all have another hour to sleep. The "round house bell," which regulates the hours for the big railroad population up town, will get in tune with the new ar rangement on the railroad plan. This bell nightly rings every hour after six o'clock. Sunday night it will ring midnight and then one. but at two. in accord with the new arrangement it will go forward with its strokes and ring three, skipping two. • • • Another interesting problem in connection with the new hours, will be the curfew. The whistles blow in five sections of Harrisburg at 8.4!> for the youngsters to get off the streets and at nine for them to be indoors. As the boys and girls have been figuring it out, this in reality means 7.45 under the time to which they have been accustomed, and all in the house at 8. There are apt to be some protests heard, but the city fathers show no signs of a new ordinance at present. • • Some pretty wild scrambling has been rroing on among people who have suddenly realized that there is an incomt tax. A day or so ago a man who had never kept books and did not know much about how much he made, suddenly discovered that he was within, and well within, the reporting limit. But yesterday a man made a discovery that he was perilously close to a BUT tax and had notes in bank. TTe had not filed a report, either. The sights about the office of Harry A. Vollmer, who is in charge of the information bu reau of the Reventie service, in the federal building, are of the kind that I indicate that a good many people • are perturbed and Mr. Vollmer seems to be able to meet all comers with a smile, although between the questions and the calculations it must be a job. The Are which swept the City Garage yesterday' morning, at tracted much attention among old Harrisburgers, because the site is one which has been conducted with transportation of some form or an other in Harrisburg for close to a century. Years and years ago, It was the stable where the horses of the various Calder lines were kept. Tradition has it, that horses for stages were kept there a long time ago, tyut it Is certain that It was the stables for the Calder lines and also for some teams which hauled packet boats. It was the headquar ters for the live stock and teams of the bus lines in this city for a long time and the stable of vehicles which used to haul people from the stations, those omnibuses with the trailers on behind, which our grand fathers used to jump. Then it was the Calder cab line stables and then the City Transfer Company's stable. Some seven or eight years ago, it be came a garage, and th© next trans formation will be into a station or trackage place for the Valley Rail way's trolley cars. It's odd the way transportation sticks to a locality. • • • Lew R. Palmer, the state's acting Commissioner of Labor and In dustry, will be a speaker on what Pennsylvania, is doing for safety and .defense, during war time, at the big safety meeting in Chicago this week. He will discuss the various activities which have been undertaken in the last year, notably the State Defense Commission. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —J. King McClenahan, the grand old man of Hollidaysburg, celebrated his ninetieth birthday, with a not able reception and was congratulat ed by men in half the counties of the —Cyrus J. Rhode, county con troller of Berks, has issued a general Invitation to taxpayers to visit his office and look over the books. —Richardson Hand, prominent Wilkes-Barre man, has left the serv ice of that city, for that of the gov ernment. —James D. Ayers, Pittsburgh banker, has been named one of thirty to visit the troops in France. —Col. H. P. Bope, long identified with the Carnegie Steel Co., and partner of Carnegie and Schwab, has retired as vice-presidtent and sales manager. —Col. Asher Miner, commander of the old Ninth Infantry and now head of the Luzerne county artil lery, has recovered from Illness and will go direct to Camp Hancock. —William S. Leib, new Schuylkill county commissioner, began life In Ashland, and formerly held the of fice of deputy prothonotary. | DO YOU KNOW —'Tliat Ilurrlsburg-'s water puri fication syntom lias been copied b.v many cities of the country? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One of the first state conventions held, was in this city about 1825. Gone, but Not Forgotten The old-fashioned party who choked on a piece of beefsteak. The good cook who used to fry the fish in butter. The man who used to give his boy a bean bag to play with. The fighter who used to cure a black eye with fresh pork.—Pitts burgh Leader.
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