HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, /Vrj"! & Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en title'' to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Xewspaper Pub- K Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. n jpr^ r Bv carriers, ten cents a "week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1018 Oh, wonderful story of deathless tore.' Each child is dear to that Heart above; He fights for me ichen I cannot fight. He comforts me in the gloom of night. He lifts the burden, for He is strong, He stills the sigh, and awakens the t song; The burdens that bow me down He ' i bears, . And loves and pardons because He 1 cares. — ANON. ' 'i' ELECTION OF LENROOT THE election of Irvine L. Lenroot i' to the United States Senate by]\ the voters of Wisconsin will bo 1 1 received with delight by patriotic] people everywhere throughout the; country as proving beyond question | the loyalty of Wisconsin t0 t * le Union f and the failure of its pro-German | clement to swing it to the cause of |. Kaiserism. Lenroot is first of all a thorough patriot. Like President Wil son he was very slow in making up , his mind, as a member of Congress, that it was necessary for America \ tTT enter the war as a belligerent, but once in none has been more valiant than he in his defense of the Union nor more energetic in his efforts to help the President in getting the war program quickly under way. Not only did he make no plea for pro- German support in the campaign in his own State, but he distinctly re pudiated it and openly said that he wanted no votes but those of loyal Americans. Evidently, judging from the re turns, the pro-Germanism of Wiscon sin has more noise than substance, although it is serious enough. Un questionably, both Lenroot and Jo seph E. Davies, the Democratic can didate, polled the votes of loyalists, j while the pro-Germans concentrated j on Berger, the Socialist, who took | no pains to hide his un-American views. The preponderance of the true American voters over the hyphenates in the State may be judged from the | fact that Lenroot had at least 143,- 000, Davies, 133,000, and Berger, 97,000 votes. Another element in the campaign was the repudiation of the national administration's effort to inject politics into patriotism by appealing j to the voters on the ground that only j by the election of Davies, President ! Wilson's personal choice for fho j place, could Germany be convinced j that Wisconsin was loyal. The man ner in which the voters placed their disapproval on this questionable method of mustering Democratic majorities at Washington will prob ably have the effect of causing the Democratic bosses to go slow in em ploying that foolish argument again. "Wheat will win the war," says Mr. Hoover, and "$2.50 wheat will win the elections," say the Western Con gressmen. WOOD AND WILSON A DEMOCRATIC newspaper cor-' respondent of some prominence i tries to make it appear that by j permitting General Wood to return to the government is grant- i ing a favor to that very excellent | soldier and implies that some time ; in his past the general had been] guilty of "habits of political intri- 1 gue." The local subsidized newspaper organ of the administration, follow ing out a persistent effort of the President's supporters everywhere, makes much of this lie and publishes It as a vindication of the charge that the President has been unfav orably disposed toward Wood largely on account of the soldier's outspoken nature, if not his party politics. Wood needs no defense. All Europe pronounces him "America's ablest officer." But evidently the na tional administration does not share that opinion. When the war broke out an effort was made to shelve the General by removing him from the command of the important Depart ment of the East and giving him the minor command of the South. He was too big for that small berth and went to France. Returning wounded, lie was summoned as an expert on war and a witness fresh from the ecena of the conflict to testify be THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBUR3 TEtEGRJIPH APRIL 4,1918. tore a senatorial committee. The Senators regarded his testimony as so important that they sought to have the President summon him for an Interview. Here was an opportunity for the White House to receive first hand In formation of vital import to the whole nation from one well qualified to speak. But the President, instead of glad ly availing himself of it, declined to receive General Wood—an American officer, just back from the front, bearing the unhealed wounds of con flict. Why? Philadelphia used to become indig nant when folks called it a slow town, and now it is downright angry because Secretary Daniels accuses it of being fast. "SMILING PAT" O'BRIEN THERE is no more picturesque character in the war than "Smiling Pat" O'Brien, who comes to address the Liberty Loan mass meeting In Chestnut street au ditorium Monday morning. Shot down in France from a height of ten thousand feet, with a bullet through his face, "Pat" was reported by his comrades as dead and his friends in America so notified. But "Pat" was made of sterner stuff. The fall didn't kill him and he managed to survive his wound in a German base hospital. Then he was started off for a reprisal camp in Germany, aboard a prison train, but the name of the camp didn't sound good to him, and one night as the train was speeding along in the darkness "Pat" batted the heads of two of his guards together so violently that they were unable to oppose when he leap ed through a window and ran off, hidden by the night. There was "Pat" in the midst an enemy country and determined to get back to London. How he did it is a wonderful story of thrills and adventure, far outrivaling the most hair-raising episodes of dime novel heroes. Because he will have oppor tunity to tell only a part of his ad ventures in the limited time at his i disposal Monday evening, the Tele- j graph has arranged with him for I the publication of his story in full in this newspaper, daily instalments to start to-morrow. You won't want to miss a chapter of this remarkable tale of the great war. Two of the I. W. W members, on trial at Chieasro yesterday, kissed each other when they met in court. The newspapers, strangely enftugli, report no fatalities. YOl'R FISHIN* DUTY A WELL-KNOWN Harrisburger, whose fondness for fishing is not dulled by the fact that the wilfulness of capricious fishes declin ing his most tempting lures ofttimes sends him home after a day along the streams in this vicinity with creel as empty as his stomach, mails the Telegraph the following stanza: Yonder goes old Winter From a sky o' blue, An' old Spring Fever Is a-creepin' clost to you! An' you hear the River Answerin' yer wish "TTie Lord made fishin'. An' a feller orter fish." We don't know whether our cor respondent meant it for merely pri vate consumption, or if he desired to have it published, but at all events the sentiment is too good to be lost on a limited audience. Any fisher man will tell you it is "good talk." It is at once an alibi and an excuse. It is both gospel and philosophy. "The Lord made fishin', an' a feller orter fish." After this, when the blue of the spring skies begins to obtrude itself between our eyes and the copy-paper, when the rattle of the typewriter and the click of the. telegraph receiver resolve themselves into the hum of early insects and the chatter of the robins in the trees and shrubbery; when the swish of the wind through budding boughs outside our office window is reminiscent only of the swirl of white water where the stream runs swift, and that still, small voice that comes only to the inveterate fisherman whispers insist ently, "they sure would bite to-day. you'd better take your rod and go," we're no longer going to resist on the score of pressing duty, for who are we that we should set ourselves up against the promptings of provi dence. Thanks, indeed, friend correspon dent. No more will duty prod or scruple bar when to fish or not to fish is the question before the house. "The Lord made fishin' an' a feller orter fish." It's a grand sentiment. We recommend it to such lovers of the rod and reel who have not by frequently Indulged habit s seered their conscience to the call of work left undone as to no longer feel the need of some such justification as our poetic friend propounds. Again, in the name of all anglers of tender sen sibilities, we extend profound thanks. There Is a strange coincidence in the discontinuance of "meatless days" and an advance In the price of beef. PULLING THE BELL ROPE PULLING the bell-rope in a trol ley car may be fine sport for facetious passengers, but it has its serious drawbacks from a "safe ty-first" standpoint. Yesterday a con ductor narrowly escaped being dragged to death when a passenger signaled' the niotormun to go ahead while the conductor was adjusting the trolley rope in the rear of the car. His foot caught In the fender and only good fortune saved him from being killed. When In a street car confine your signals to pushing the "stop" bell or notifying the conductor. Leave your hands off the ropes. You have no business touching any of them and the laws of the State are such as to make you liable to fine or Im prisonment for offenses of the kind. Say, you sixteen-year-old patriot, you can't fight, but you can larm. 1 " 1 I Lk By the Ei-Committeeman The primary campaign in Penn sylvania was dwarfed as a topic of discussion last night and to-day by the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the right of the Governor to make "recess appontuients" of state officials rejected by the Sen ate. The decision is the end of the controversy and it is expected that after some statements that the state administration will continue on its way and the Auditor General will make payment of about $24,000 in salaries and expenses of the officials who were held up pending the de termination of the question. The state administration peoplp were highly, gratified at the out come, even though it was by a mar gin of one vote, while the opponents of the Governor made no efforts to conceal their disappointment. The effect of the decision will be to make some strenuous times in state circles in the next half-dozen years. It is not likely that the decision will cause Auditor General Snyder to abate the zeal of his "investiga tions" into expenditures by branches of the state government and meth ods of corporations in filing reports, while he said to-day he was going right ahead in his effort to stop duplication of work by the State Department of Agriculture and State College and did not propose to be deterred by hints that he was at tacking the administration through its farming department. —Highway Commissioner O'Neil used the disclosures at Washington regarding activities of the German- American Alliance to make a terrific onslaught upon that organization, which he charged for his defeat in Allegheny county politics and which ho called upon the state to extermi nate as "a political factor. Mr. O'Neil's attack was one of the sharp est he has made and he took occa sion in the course of it to attack Penrose and Sproul. —Mr. O'Xeil, after meeting with his Dry Federation people here to day will go to McKean county to make some speeches. Senator Sproul will make some addresses next week. —State administration men were to-day voicing the belief that the systematic attacks which appear to be starting on the Vares in Philadel phia and the energetic manner in which the Republican Alliance. Town Meeting and independents are getting ready to assail the South Philadelphia leaders, the city ad ministration and the state adminis tration's people in that city would result in the plan to have the Phila delphia City Republican Committee blow up and the ward leaders .be permitted to endorse whom they pleased. They took much comfort out of the situation, although few really expressed any belief that the Vares would be for O'Xeil. On the other hand. Sproul men were claim ing the Vares out and out. —Ex -ept for remarking upon the closeness of the vote of the Supreme Court judges in deciding the "recess appointments" case, newspapers of the state refrain from comment upon the matter to-day. —Withdrawal of the Presidential nomination of W. M. Croll, of Read ing, to be naval officer at Philadel phia. is taken as disapproval of his course in his congressional nomina tion contest with Congressman A. G. Dewalt, of Allentown, by the Phila delphia Inquirer. —Senator P. W. Snyder, of Blair county, was here yesterday to file his papers and appeared to be very confident of his ability to pull througH without trouble this year. —Mayor Smith has promised Sec retary Daniels that he will clean up Philadelphia, but in a statement is sued he ridicules the report made on the conditions. —M. B. Rich, of Woolrich, Clinton county, is the first candidate for a state-wide nomination at the May primary to file a nominating petition. He filed to-day to be a candidate for Congress-at-Large on the Republican ticket, presenting petitions from Clinton, Center, Potter, Tioga, Ly coming and other counties. Mr. Rich served as a member of the House from Clinton county in the last two sessions. —"State Senator William C. Sproul, candidate for the Republi-; can nomination for governor, saw many visitors yesterday at his Head quarters in the Bellevue Court Build ing," says the North American to day. "Organizations in the inter est of the Sproul candidacy have been formed in {ill of the coi'ntics. and, according to the reports re ceived at thtf headquarters yester day there is a strong demand in all sections of the state for the nomi nation of the Chester county sena tor. The Sproul Club, of Chester, to night is to give a reception for rheir candidate, at which it is expected 5,000 guests will attend. Ex-Gov ernor Edwin S. Stuart and Lieuten ant Governor Frank B. McClain are to be among the speakers. A large banner bearing a picture of Sena tor Sproul is to be unfurled. Rob ert P. Habgood, of McKean county, was a caller yesterday at the office of Senator Vare." —The rule or ruin policy of Dem ocratic National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer and his pais has heartened the Republicans of the Berks-Lehigh and Monroe-Carbon- Pike-Northampton districts amaz ingly. Palmer and his pals have started out to defeat the two sitting congressmen, Dewalt and Steele, be cause they do not like them, but the methods employed have resulted in such a back-fire, that the National Congressional Committee has heard of it, and there are fears that the row may continue after the pri maries. Efforts to soothe the feel ings of the two men assailed, have been under way for a few days. In cidentally. it is said that the scheme of some independent Republicans to lino up behind the two Democratic congressmen in Allegheny has caus ed some Republicans in western Pennsylvania to grow indignant. —High Constable Frank Ambrose, of Old Forge, was arrested in a I gambling joint raid, personally con- I ducted by the burgess. Harrisburg, Pa.. April 2. 1918. Statement of the ownership, man agement. circulation, etc., of the Har rlnburg Telegraph, required by act of Congress, August,24. 1912. Editor. E. J. Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa.; managing editor, Gus M. Stein inetz, Harrisburg, Pa.; business man ager, Frank R. Oyster. Harrisburg, Pa.; publisher, The Telegraph Print ing Company, Harrisburg, Pa.. E. J. Stackpole. president. Stockholders: E. J. Stackpole, K. H. Stackpole. F. R. Oyster, Harrisburg, Pa. No bonds or mortgages. Average number of copies of each issue sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date of this statement. -2.HKS. P. R. Oyster, Business Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2d day of Afrril, 1918. (Signed) H. B. MUMMA, Notary Public. (My commission expires March 9. 1919). OH, MAN! BY BRIGGS nXsTChPTH.sTS 1( \ \ u „ „ _ OUR ANNIVERSARY | T ) TaTA | ' ALtce J M jSfMPL Y AMD YOU AMD I jOH JIM/ , y v Tva / IICKLEP 10 3>£AiH, ARE Go IMG OUT 11 lov/ELY!/ V J JIM IS /AK(kJG ME. IdM IfiHT _^to / MV FRIEND MS. BIMP V-, / / HE. Goimg "to H/We I |( . I'LL PLAY THE PIANJO DINNER US HERF HOO-ROO ) UNTIL CTLFM D6AR 1 A- HOIVAE IM-STCAO OFJ VU H HO °. EDITORIAL COMMENT Kindness pays. "Boiled potatoes," \ says an authority on culinary mat- I ters, "are ever so much better if I they are gently boiled." —New York!" Morning Telegraph. The Germans have put one over on Luther Burbank, for they hand- i ' c ed the Russians a perfectly good ] t olive-branch bearing full-grown j r lemons.—Hickory (N. C.) Record, Mr. Hearst is opposed to the Jap- | * anese plan for sending troops into | 1 Siberia. On the other hand, there ! are a number of arguments against J the project.—San Francisco Bulletin. | \ I ii The Bolshevik government looked ' t for the German proletariat to help j s them, but unfortunately that pro- ! f letariat arrived in uniform and in | a high state of discipline.—Chicago r Herald. c Rumania has ceded wide terri- c tories to Germany in a peace agree- t ment. It is a hard matter to tell i just now which war Germany is | i fighting—the one "for fche liberation I I of small peoples" or the one "solely ] lor the defense of the Fatherland.— j 1 Kansas City Times. ! i America Goes in Singing < [Philadelphia Ledger.] j s "The American troops will fight j i side by side with the British and ; j French troops and the Star Spangled I c Banner jvill float beside the French ! 1 and English flags in the plains ol i < Picardy." I < This is the official answer to Gen- j > eral Pershing's words to General j Foch: "All that we have are yours, to ; dispose of them as you will." When Pershing stood at the tomb I of Lafayette and uttered the briefest j and finest war address that has been ! delivered, "Lafayette, we are here!" • I he spoke for the American spirit, to \ l the soul of the French people. Our j , country front soa to sea ratified the j I message of a soldier unafraid. It j' was I "The voice of one for millions. ] ( j In whom the millions rejoice For giving their one spirit, voice." | j Even so with Pershing's offer of our j I whole armed force at once, to beat|! | back the tidal wave of the flagellated i 'myrmidons of Prussia. The conn-j | try that we love will send into No '. | Man's Land, to reclaim it for God ! and from the Devil, its first hun- 1 j dred thousand, its million, and then ! j its millions more, if they are need- I ed, to assure the triumph of the right and the salvation of the world from the glutted maw of the Beast of , Beasts, of Moloch in a death's-head helmet. Our men. our sons and brothers, march on singing toward the fray, j The Irish poet Arthur O'Shaugh- j nessy has told us that "Three with a new song's measure Can trample an empire down." Terrible indeed is the striking power ! of a singing army—as Cromwell's psalm-singing Ironsides proved. Mile after mile of men in khaki, tramp ing the measured cadence down the miry highways to the front, are lift ing in lyric unison their battle an thems—"Where Do We Go From j Here, Boys?" and "Over There" and "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag." These swarming car avans moving toward the firing line like inspired clock-work, without confusion—these rumbling guns out landishly bespotted to hide them from the prying eyes aloft—these . mptor-trucks and rocking, rumbling wagons roofed with brown, and above all and before all, these marching columns of men pressing j forward to relieve the war-worn i thousands in the trenches with their irrepressible youtl and strength and high, joking courage—all this means for us at home and for us who are ■ over there a shining dream brought true, a great day dawning for Ame rica, a saving grace for our country where liberty, so dearly bought by I the blood of our fathers, is forever cherished and forever sanctified. | America is in the fight because ; she "can do no other." Our men j could not endure to wait an hour | longer. "Watchman, what of the | night?" was the interrogation that j ran from armed camp to armed j camp. Their brothers beneath the I Union Jack and the Tricolor were in j the thick of the hardest battle ever | waged on earth, and were falling ' ! and dying. With a righteous indig- j nation burning in their heart, and on their lips the song of the happy war rior who vindicates the right, our men march forward into battle— their faces to the enemy—their love ; with us at home —their glory safe i with God. German Menace to American Labor BY JOHN R. COMMONS, TIIK UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN THERE is one thing that will set labor back permanently, and that is a German victory. Twenty years ago the Czar of Rus sia proposed that all nations should , cut down their standing armies, but they could not do It because Ger- ( many refused. Later Great Britain offered to join with Germany and cut down their navies, but the Kaiser , would not even talk about it. Ger-! many was preparing for something \' like this war. If Germany defeats Great Britain, j she will take over the British Navy. | She will then be far and away the! most powerful cpuntry in the world, j and we Americans will be compelled j' to have a permanent standing army and a huge navy to defend ourselves from sudden attack. About every hundred years some nation of Europe starts out to con quer the others and rule the world. First it was Spain, which in Ameri ca owned everything from California j to Patagonia. Then it was France, and Napoleon, who took Louisiana and the great country west of the Mississippi away from Spain. But though Spain conquered near ly every nation of Europe, and Na poleon conquered every nation on the continent, they could not reach Great Britain. The British Navy compelled Spain and France to let go of America; and such democracy as we have in North and South America is possible because no one country in Europe could permanent ly conquer the others as long as it could not conquer Great Britain. Our country has been big and free and unarmed because Europe was THE STATE PRESS The Kaiser's presence, not exact ly on the field, but at proper distance behind it, may be designed to stimu late the loyalty of his jaded troops, but it is probably for the purpose of investing him with all the credit if the Germans should win, while the blame of defeat will fall on non imperial commanders. Thus was the prestige of the younger Hohenzollcrn ; saved at Verdun.—Columbia Spy. I • • Nick Romanoff is to be moved again. Nick got one thing through the revolution —a chance to see Rus sia.—Allentown Chronicle. • The member of the German par liament who declared that the Unit ed States was the only nation that could pay a war indemnity and he wanted to know how the United States could be forced to pay one, has propounded the prize conundrum !of the times. Even German effici ency is unequal to its solution. It i is on a par with the famous though I still unsolved question of who shall bell the cat? —Pottsville Republican. • • President Wilson is to be heartily commended for his action which re sulted in the naming of a supreme commander for the field forces of Great Britain, France, and the Unit ed States. It is understood that from the day of the entry of the United States the President lias been insist ent upon the centralizing of author ity in the field. His influence has overcome the traditional point of view of the English and French army men. —Johnstown Tribune. • General Foch and Field Marshal von Hindenburg are men of about I the same age—not far from 70. I Gallic acuteness and dash will now be pitted against. Teutonic brute strength. In such a contest victory generally goes to brains.—Philadel phia Record. , i THE INCOME TAX GREAT EX One Sort of Bad Debt Not Deductible s\ ,/PA*M#W Great thlngc "A" loaned "B" SIO,OOO, the debt being secured by a mortgage J Jfll f|| ■ are expected i on a farm. Foreclosure proceedings were resorted to and "A," \S jfflf VWJ r „ m y, lrn I .to protect his interest, purchased the farm for *B,OOO. Can the V difference between these two amounts be claimed as a deduction? Hy ](![■ HO • No. Where, under foreclosure, the mortgagee buys in the mort- yy Yes. Any guged property, the difference between the purchase price and the K ■K. number of men debt will not be allowed as a deduction, the property which was expect that security for the debt being in the possession and ownership of the *y { Ir snmp rt-iv he mortgagee, is, for purposes of the income tax, held to be sufficient f ' to justify the disallowance of a claim for bad debts. But where l*-" wl " P ay " the purchaser of the property upon foreclosure is another than the Jf tl,c mon ®y he I mortgagee, the latter may claim the difference between the amount _i I has borrowed, of the debt and tlfe net amount paid to the mortgagee as a _ bad debt divided among equal powers. Na- ; poleon did not have a submarine with which to destroy Great Britain's , power. But Germany is willing to tight the whole world if only she can succeed in her attempt to wipe out the British Navy. Then she con quers not only Europe, as Napoleon did, but Asia, Africa, and America. If America had not come into the war, or if America had refused to sell food and munitions to the Allies, Europe would already have been conquered. It' Germany wins, then there is nothing for North and South America to do but to build up their navies and standing armies as big as possible, for when Germany strikes she hits suddenly and fright fully. Nations must look ahead. Individ uals can be short-sighted, because they die anyhow. But not nations. If we do not win now, while Great Britain and France are able to light, we shall have to be armed to the ( teeth for years and centuries ahead, as long as Germany rules the world. A huge and permanent army and navy, besides taking our boys and workingmen every year for military service, means low wages, long hours of labor, suppression of labor un ions, suppression of free speech, re peal ol' labor legislation on behalf of women and children, and all the hardships that millions of working men have come to America to escape. It is bad enough to be compelled to make this one tremendous effort right now to win the war. It will be far worse to be compelled to be I ready all the time for another like it. LABOR NOTES Ninety factories are engaged in the production of the new Liberty motor truck. Allegheny County. Md., Teachers' Association has voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. j Organized beer bottlers employed | in Baltimore have secured wage in- j . creases of $2 a week. I Chicago unions claim that the, Swift Packing Company pays eleven' men a total of $272,000 annually. Passaic, N. J., wool workers have granted a third wage increase to workers amounting to $500,000 a year. Subordinate typographical unions and individual members have taken $2,000,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. Applicants 'for work in Michigan were over 2,000 in excess of vacant jobs last month. New Mexico and Maryland have t adopted the state-wide referendum, but not the initiative or recall. Nebraska has "declined with thanks" the offer of Eastern college girls to work on farms in that state. During the last six years organized ' 1 street car men in Chicago have re ceived over $750,000 in benefits. Stokers at the St. Thomas, Can., Municipal Gas Works demand 43 1-2 cents per hour. Organized labor is protesting ' against the attempted employment of women by the Kenosha, Wis., Street Railway. Following a representative confer ence at Kalamazoo, Mich., women have offered their aid on state farms. A bill has been introduced in the British Columbia Legislature limiting - the hours of coal and metal miners to eight a day. i — I Otfer tfwc Lk ""pouuu O, Rhythmic hum of merry, swirling blades, You have a song; of summer morns that pass In click and whir and evanescent shades. And magic odors born of bleed ing grass. An older man's gay substitute for golf; Parabolas of greening sparks and rays; Infernal engine, though, of boyhood shame— You always fell to me on circus days. • ♦ Good old Pennsylvania! She leads the nation in the small number of slackers, and that, too, with a great foreign population. General Bear.v reports that fewer than 100 willful offenders have been detected out of 600,000 registrants. * * • "Dear Social Editor: I write to you for a little advice. I am a young man of IS. I am very much in love with a girl of 17. We go to dances now and then. Is it any harm if her parents do not object? Do you think she is pretty? She has very light red hair and steel blue eyes, and weighs 115, even. Henry G." We can't say anything definite, Henry, but it would seem wise to con her periscope a little closely be fore closing in. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH Bird These j periscope things " [or whatever i they are, are feci j great. 1 dis- ft tinctly see a [ cherry! HIS ORDER. (" \*r Waiter \C2~7 % What will you iM bave ' slr? 1 /WW'S bring me an as sortment o I . and carbohy /I O drates —1 leave ' ' 1?! *° you ' Henrs ' say about ®a elKh '- hundred B calories SURE! 11^ Bird Well, well, if it isn't jSjj one of those cute little Bungalows. lEbeutng Qlljat Plans whereby the national, state, county, and city governments to gether with big corporations and railroads, plan to rid the munitions and shipbuilding district of the Delaware below Philadelphia of mosquitoes, have not only attracted wide attention, but recall that the late Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, when Com missioner of Health, urged that Har risburg adopt means to get rid of the pests. In this line of work, just as in the proposed municipal se\v ase disposal plant. Dr. Dixon want ed the State Capitol to set the pace for the rest of the state. Unfor tunately, lack of local support pre vented much being done here. Dr. Dixon, was of tho opinion that go. comparatively small expenditure would have rid liarrisburg of th 6 "skeetcrs" that come around in summer time. In his walks about the city, the commissioner located a number of ponds, shallow places in the Susquehanna and spots along the Paxton and other creeks which were favorable to breeding. Once they were eliminated, said he, the chances of Harrisburg being annoy ed would be reduced. Dr. Dixon did not think that the Susquehanna was the big source of mosquitoes here. He thought that the ponds and swamps and similar places about Harrisburg were to blame. In the big suburban Philadelphia operation refuse o,f powder plants will be used, which will materially cut down tho cost. On the success of this experi ment will depend similar moves about the state and possibly Harris burg. Captain Harrie A. Douglas. of the quartermaster's construction bureau. United States Army, is now a full fledged commissioned officer. He ap peared in uniform to-day. Captain Douglas has been assigned to duty with Major William B. Gray, ill charge of the government work in this vicinity. Captain Douglas was formerly connected with the State Highway Department. This is not the first time he has been associated with Major Gray. When the latter was chief engineer, and director gen eral for Contractors Kerbaugh and Company, directing the construc tion of the Rockvilie bridge, Marys ville and Knola yards and the low grade line of the Pennsy, Ilarrlo Douglas was disbursing officer, and in charge of other important work. He is the one person, who in a very short time, can tell how much stone, 1 concrete, steCl reinforcements, cln j der and other material were used in the construction of the Rockvilie i bridge. He still has the records in j his possession, lie can also give the number of rails, ties, spikes, and amount of ballast used in building the low grade line from lOnola to Shock's Mill bridge, crossing the Susquehanna river. Captain Doug las is considered a valuable acquisi tion to Major Gray's forces. In the opinion of F. S. Stevens, the agricultural expert of the State Chamber of Commerce, the farmers of Pennsylvania will not fn.U do" in raising of potatoes this year. lit. Stevens was at Allentown where lie ''addressed a big meeting and lie also got among the farmers in that coun ty's famous potato belt, where he is well known. "The farmers are in terested in the prices of course, but I do not think there is anything to the stories that they contemplate abandoning potatoes," said he. • • * One of the funniest of the stories which are coming to ear about the experiences of Harrisburg people with the "daylight saving'' was told last evening to a group of hilariously unsympathetic men. This man the idea that the saving plan meant turning the clock back. He did so when the whistles blew, but he did not tell his wife that he had done so, although he had carefully explained his theory earlier In the day. Sim day morning Mrs. Wife turned the clock back herself. The family then proceeded to run on a schedule three hours late. * • Dr. Sheldon W. Funk, the Boyer town fruit expert, who is well known here because of the frequent ad dresses he has made in this section, has written an article for the Penn sylvania Farmer on pruning, in which the veteran grower makes some observations which are well worth reading just now, when the annual tree cutting frenzy is upon people. It is also interesting be cause of the characteristic way in which the fruit grower says expert s are not needed. This is what he says: "My experience has been that the ordinary pruner spends twice as much time considering what should come out as he does in the actual cutting. This is where nine out of every ten growers get into trouble. They cut away at their young trees for several years without, any fixed idea as to what the tree should look like, and all at once they are simply tip against a stone wall and do not know how to proceed. In other words, they have a tree that the or dinary man can no longer handle and an expert is required to start it over again. Wo do not want trees that require an expert, but trees that can be pruned by any ordinary man with good common sense:" 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Carl E. Grammar, noted Philadelphia clergyman, is writing a series of articles on patriotic effort^. —M. B. Rich, the Clinton countv legislator, who is out for Congress-at- T>arge, is a manufacturer and well known in his county. —M. W. Swabb, Johnstown's chief of police, believes that if there were more playgrounds, there would bo more good boys. —R. B. Dorsett. former state chief of markets, says that community buying and selling is getting more and more attention from farmers. —D. C. Scoti, prominent Weather ly attorney, has been elected solici tor for the Middle Coal field poor district. He is well known to many here. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg has shipped many thousands of bushels of wheat this winter? HISTORIC HAtUUSBURG The first town hall was In Secpnd street near Walnut, and a fire pio it out of business. How Many? How many Germans are driven into the grave In this latest Kaiser "drive?" The military experts estimate that at least two hundred thou sand must have been killed on the German side in forty-eight hours. A good deal of useful work could have been done by those two hun dred thousand men, whose death has supplied the Kaiser and his six healthy, unwounded sons with In teresting reading matter. Ex change.
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