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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
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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.
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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
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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
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[or whatever
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j great. 1 dis- ft
tinctly see a
[ cherry!
HIS ORDER.
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sortment o I
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say about
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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.