fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER. FOR THE HOME Pounded 1131 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., IVleoritpli Building# Federal Squrt, E.J. ST.A CKPOLE.Prjj'f <S- Editor-in-Cliirf F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of 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 and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. j. Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Eastern office. Avenue Building, F'.nley, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. mf* wr **Ti By carriers, ten cents a COfflSJSSiSsv) week; by mall, 16.00 v <iww?- a year in advance. \ FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918 Those tcho bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from * themselves. — J. M. Babrie. SMOKE THEM OUT IT is time to smoke out the skunks who are against us," said Dr. Bagnell, addressing the indus trial committee of the Liberty Loan campaign Wednesday evening. He was speaking not alone of rank out-and-out pro-German, but of lukewarm Americans who are able but decline to buy war bonds. Dr. Bagnell libels the skunk by comparison, but he is right about smoking the' "do nothings" into the open. "If they are not for us they are against us," the speaker continued, and he is right about that, too. Right here in Harrisburg there are men of means and others in pros perous circumstances who either have bought no bonds or whose sub scriptions have been small in pro portion to their incomes. The names of these ought to be public property. Their fellow towns men ought to know who they are in order to shun them. The man who can and won't put money Into Liberty Bonds is giving aid and comfort to the engmy, whether he intends it or not. The Liberty Loan committee should take drastic steps, if necessary, to make all such laggards subscribe as liberal ly as their means will permit, and failing in that the names of all such should be published. As Dr. Bagnell says, it is time to smoke them out. The Liberty Loan salesmen have been instructed not to take "no" for an answer. SAVING ELBOW GREASE WE are going to be a very busy people the coming summer, with' little time for unneces sary occupations. Fly-swatting al ways has been an irksome and un pleasant duty for the careful house keeper, and this year she has her hands full with a thousand things essential to the conservation of home supplies and the economies incident to war. So the wise course would be to get rid of the flies without the process of "swatting" that has been for years the most popular of indoor •sports in the average American home during the summer months. And this may easily be done. The best way Is to destroy the breeding places of the flies. For this reason no rubbish should be toler ated in backyards or about the prem ises any place. To destroy flies out of doors make a mixture of two ounces of commercial formalin and ten ounces of water, mixed with either sugar or milk, and expose this In flat dishes. If no other fluid is left about flies will drink this, with fatal consequences to themselves. The next best thing is to kill any flies that have entered the house. This can be done by dropping twenty drops of carbolic acid upon a hot shovel or by burning a piece of camphor In the room. A little brainwork now will save a lot of elbow grease after while. Hlndenburg is calling for a "strong peace." and if he is only content to wait a little while he is going to get It, but not the kind he's crying for. FAIR PLAY * WHEN those who favor pro hibition of the liquor traffic split hairs over the public statements of others who favor pro hibition and read Into the declara tions of candidates meanings that the language does not Imply, the cause of temperance is more injured than the individual who happens to b the object ot these attacks. Care must be exercised by over-zealous friends of this great reform that they do not hamper the movement by misguided efforts to promote It. For example, B. E. P. Prugh, state chairman of the Prohibition party, Is out in a newspaper com munication in which he questions the motives of Senator Sproul and the sincerity of his declarations to t favor the federal amendment and to work for its ratification at the hands FRIDAY EVENING, -- of the Legislature. Chairman Prugh indulges in some discussion of Sen ator Sproul's platform and endeav ors to prove to his own satisfaction that the Senator's statements are "mere camouflage;" that he doesn't mean what he says; that his words do not ring true and that Senator Sproul can only prove his sincerity and honesty of purpose by "an Im mediate and emphatic pronounce ment for a State-wide enactment of a prohibition law as one of the first acts of the coming Legislature." Further, Mr. Prugh says: Again, Mr. Sproul can see no farther than ratification of the amendment as calling for imme diate action. He knows that the amendment carries a clause pro vided that it shall itself not be come operative until one year after its ratification by the requisite number of States. He knows this will give the liquor traffic another year's lease of life in all States that do not enact immediate State-wide prohibi tion. It is evident that Mr. Prugh either has not read Senator Sproul's state ment carefully or that he wilfully misrepresents, which the Telegraph does not believe a man of his calling would do. Mr. Sproul does say pre cisely what Mr. Prugh declares he does not. In his platform, following an unqualified declaration in favor of the prohibition amendment. Mr. Sproul says; The question of the enforce ment of the prohibitory amend ment after it shall have become effective is one to which little attention has yet been given. The amendment, as it reads, leaves to Congress and the States, by "concurrent" legisla tion. the carrying out of the will of the people. Many questions will come before our Legisla ture In the next four years as to the regulation of the liquor trade and the interpretation and en forcement of the new funda mental law after It has been rati fied and is in effect. In full ac cord with the purpose of the amendment. I SHALL, IF I AM GOVERNOR, GLADLY APPROVE AND FULLY ENFORCE SUCH LAWS UPON THIS SUBJECT AS THE PEOPLE. THROUGH THEIR LEGISLATURE, MAY ENACT. There is only one meaning to this —which is, that Senator Sproul will favor any anti-liquor legislation to cover the period between the adop tion of the "dry" amendment and its operation as a fundamental law of the land —local option, State-wide prohibition or other regulative meas ures. No other candidate has pub licly gone so far. What more can any prohibition advocate ask? It certainly cannot be that the temperance forces of this State are going to permit themselves to be led Into the trap set for them by the liquor people, with State-wide pro hibition as a bait. Nothing would please the whiskey crowd more than that the coming campaign should be waged on the Issue of State Instead of national prohibition. They are attempting to "camouflage'' the sit uation thus in other States and it must not be permitted in Pennsyl vania. A Legislature pledged to national prohibition may be expected to look kindly upon State-wide prohibition and the issue should be fought out on that ground. National prohibi tion by constitutional amendment will be Irrevocable. State-wide pro hibition would be but a poor make shift, in danger of being wiped off (he books by the first "wet' Legis lature that might slip into power. The Telegraph believes that Sen ator Sproul, J. Denny O'Neil knd Robert B. Habgood. candidates for the Gubernatorial nomination, are all sincere when they announce themselves as favoring the federal amendment. Senator Flinn, the for mer Progressive leader now out for Mr. O'Nell, himself said the other day that Senator Sproul's word Is as good as his bond. Is there any more reason to believe that he is not sin cere than to think that the other candidates will not live up to their pledges? Announcement by Joseph F. Guf fey that he will be a candidate for governor on the Democratic ticket on a "dry" platform removes com pletely and finally prohibition from the gubernatorial contest. All of the candidates worthy of mention have declared themselves favorabe to the amendment and the public in com mon decency must accept their statements at face value. This lin ing up of both Republican and Democratic aspirants for the pro hibitory amendment should permit the "dry" forces to drop the gov ernorship and give their entire time and attention to the election of members of the House and Senate, who will be pledged to vote for the temperance measure. There is no more earnest, advo cate of prohibition anywhere than the Telegraph. This newspaper was the first in Central Pennsylvania, years ago, to bar liquor advertising from its columns. Its position on the liquor question is a matter of record. It believes the next Governor and the next Legislature In Pennsylva nia will both be "dry." It is doing its full share to bring this about. But It declines to permit Its con victions to becloud Its Judgment and It bespeaks for all candidates who pledge themselves to support the amendment fair play and a square deal. The man who stirs up contention in the ranks of temper ance at this critical time plays di rectly into the hands of the liquor forces. The German high command Is anx ious to learn all it can about the American Army, says a dispatch. Patience, patience, Hlndenburg; you're going to learn a lot about it before you're through. The Bolshevik! have granted the ex-Czar and his family SSO a month, which lets him out as a subscriber to the coming Liberty Bond issue. "Guffey for Governor." Well, we'll have to admit that Guffey Is quite a name In Pennsylvania Democratic circles. "Czernln is back In tfft Berlin boat," says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. And not even rocking it 'PoCttXc* iy£ By the Ez-Oommltteeman Announcement by Joseph P. Guf fey, acting: chairman of the Demo cratic State Committee that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomi nation for Governor and that he favors ratification of the prohibition amendment made last night in Phil adelphia and Pittsburgh, takes the liquor question out of the guberna torial contest in Pennsylvania this year. All of the candidates who stand any show of being nominated for the first place on any of the tickets this year have declared un reservedly for prohibition. The only exception, is Asa A. Weimer, of Leb anon, who has had little encourage ment in his campaign for the Re publican nomination for Governor. In many respects Mr. Guffey's an nouncement follows the lines of Senator William C. Sproul. He em phasizes the importance of winning the war and placing all the resources of Pennsylvania behind the nation; calls for a liberal road policy,- de velopment of harbors, woman suf frage and proceeds to go after dis loyalists, whom he says should be interned. J. Denny O'Nell, who left here to day to speak In Bradford and other points in the home county of Robert P. Ilapgood, one of his rivals for the Republican nomination, will shortly announce his platform. O'Nell men say that his first an nouncement and his frequent state ments have been merely setting forth positions as matters arose and that a formal platform will now be is sued. —That Guffey's announcement is part of the State Democratic ma chine's program is shown by the (attention given to it by the Demo cratic national chairman's news paper, which uses old-time phrases, especially one about "entangling al liances." However, the commenda tion given here does not appear in the Philadelphia Record, the big Democratic organ. It is commended in Pittsburgh and Scranton, however. The Record says in part: "Guffey, forced into the .campaign by National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer after positive refusal of National Chairman Vance C. Mc- Cormick to respond to his party's call to be a candidate, is little known outside the limits of Alle gheny county. His friends claim that his candidacy has the personal support of President WBson and will be backed by what is left of the Democratic organization in Phil adelphia. He has recently been in Washington for conferences with McCormick and Palmer. His declar ation for prohibition places him in the same class with Senator Wil liam C. Sproul and Highway Com missioner J. Denny O'Neil, rivals for the Republican nomination, and leaves little.for the "wets'" to hope for." .. —-Independent Republicans and big business leaders of thq city and state yesterday indorsed the candi dacy of Senator William C. Sproul for the Republican gubernatorial nomination and formed an organi zation to be known as the Pennsyl vania Patriotic Union, for the pur pose of supporting Senator Sproul and candidates for the Legislature and Congress qualified to aid the nation to a successful prosecution of the war. says the Philadelphia Led ger to-day. The union was formed at a meeting in the Transportation Building, where the Republican Al liance arid the Town Meeting* party officials are quartered. James Dob son, a prominent manufacturer was elected president. Tlie vice-presi dents include Alba B. Johnson, pres ident of the Ba!dwir£ Locomotive Works, and many other prominent men. —A petition was in circulation yes terday in Pittsburgh, says the Ga zette-Times, to place the name cf M. G. Leslie on the Republican bal lot in the Thirty-eighth Senatorial district for the nomination for sena tor. This seat has been held for a number of years by Senator Charles H. Kline. It is understood that he will not seek a re-election. Mr. Leslie said last night that a num ber of friends had been urging him to become a candidate for senator, but he had not reached a decision in the matter. He said he had not authorized the circulation of the petition. —Following charges of Incomne tency and failure to perform his du ties, made some time ago by County Controller Thomas J. Underwood, J. W. Mathias, chief clerk of the Washington -county commissioners, sent in his resignation. Controller Underwood several months ago ask ed the county commissioners to dis pose of Mathias and when they fail ed to do so he held up the chief clerk's pay voucher. The county commissioners accepted Mathias' resignation and Harry R. Campbell, formerly chief clerk, was elected to fill the vacancy. Campbell was for merly connected with the State Highway Department. —The Dry Federation and other organizations allied with it last night committed the task of endorsing "dry" men on state tickets to a cen tral committee. None of the men now announced for Lieutenant Gov ernor was favored and there will be further conferences when all of the nominations are filed. The central committee will name the men to be endorsed for state nominations. Among men mentioned as possible to be endorsed for Lieuteant Gov ernor on the Republican ticket, ac cording to men who attended the conference, were Thomas H. Ather ton, of Wilkes-Barre, and W. S. Aaron, of Altoona. The endorsement of legislative candidates will be In charge of committees named some time ago at Pittsburgh. The central committee on state candidates is composed of W. E. Porter, New Cas tle, chairman; Dr. John Royal Har ris, Pittsburgh; John W. Vicker sham, Bellevue; Dr. C. F. Swift, Beaver, state superintendent Anti- Saloon League; Dr. B. E. Prugh, this city, a Prohibition state chairman; the Rev. J. J. Curran, Wilkes-Barre; Byron A. Walker, Erie, and Mrs. Leah Cobb Marlon, this city, secre tary. —The campaign committee of the Anti-Saloon League gave out the fol lowing resolution as adopted late yesterday: "That the Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League endorse the ac tion of all local and county organ izations which up to this date have endorsed the candidacy of J. Denny O'Neil for Governor; and we also endorse the candidates reported to us for nomination of Senators and legislators upon whom action has been taken by them, who are pledged to vote and work for the ratifica tion of the federal constitutional prohibition amendment" HARRISBUR3 TELEGRAPH A HANDY MAN'AROUND THE HOUSE .... .... .... BY BRIGGS / oh Luce! Bo You : Mo - I - Oom'T I ".Can't You Gv;£ | KKJOW UJH6R6 MY KrJOWj- COp"V„ - PI.SHIrJ, - *BOU T .? ?•• || POO - IS LOOK 1)(MWIN<( Of nothing THOU6HT IKJ PARTI 1 —" MO - I HAV/6 N'T TH6 'tT USED TO 8£ OH LUCE? Crvtgßel (' v/J*s IOOKIM6 "\| Sj? ) 'j7/6<Z ¥ SU6HTE6T up HER£ " QUICK'?' \ f OB. fishing, -I'VE 60T TROUBLED oP UK twc VROD- "T/mmT oPy /' EDITORIAL COMMENT Bolshevik death-penalties for bur glary seem to be inspired by hatred of the competitive system in indus try under Bolshevik auspices.—New York World. The star humorist of George Creel's staff touches high water marlf when he assures us that Secre tary Baker has gone abroad "to speed up the Allies." —Boston Her ald. Isn't It remarkable how far into Russia the Germans are being carried by this deplorable war of self-de fense which their enemies forced on them? —Nashville Southern Lum berman. Prophecies that the war will last three years longer hold out hope . that by that time all German propa ganda will have been eliminated from American text-books.—Roches ter Democrat and Chronicle. "Dangerous, undemocratic, un- American, and autocratic doctrine," is the way La Follette refers to the measure which gives the President I power to prosecute the war. Oh, for that gentle, humane rule of brother- , ly love —Prussianism! —New York World. Catching Up With Franklin The Outlook calls attention-to the following "implied suggestions in Benjamin Franklin's autobio graphy;" In walking through the Strand and Fleet street one morning at seven o'clock I observed there was not one shop open, though it had been daylight and the sun up above three hours; the inhabitants of Lon don choosing involuntarily to live much by candlelight, and sleep by sunlight, and often complain, a little absurdly, of the duty on candles and the high price of tallow. The passage of the Daylight Sav ing bill and the approval of it by the President, push the nation up nearer to where Poor Richard stood. But where would he be standing to-day if he were alive? Still far in the front, we may believe, for it is the open mind, the spirit hospitable to progress, welcomer of new ideas and ready "to venture on -untried ways that will alone put us abreast of him. Benjamin Franklin, were he living, would be the first to realize the marvelous challenge this hour affords to meet change half-way and to learn the lesson of a true thrift, an enlightened self-interest.—Phila delphia Record. A Tale of the Wild West Don't you just love to read thrill ing stories of the wild and woolly West, like this one from the Ana conda Standard; "After the cere mony the guests repaired to the din ing room, where a wedding dinner was served, replete with the most luscious viands conceivable by the human imagination. The turkey, which had been roasted under the personal supervision of the bride, possessed a delectability of flavor im possible of description. It was the unanimous verdict of the numerous assemblage of appreciative guests that never before in the annals of human history had a turkey more delicious, more savory, more am brosial. been' the object of human consumption. Both the business office and the editorial rooms of The Standard were largely and bril liantly represented, and the colla tion was interspersed with highly intelligent affabilities. Constant streams of sparkling repartee rip pled across the table, jocund anec dotes and refined civilities of every variety abounded, the festivities in every way being characterized by vivacity, suavity, chivalry .and irre proachable respectability." Now's the Time to Advertise "Advertising is the stabilizer of business now more than ever," said James O'Shaughnessy, of New York, secretary of the American Council of Advertising Agenci.es, in a recent address before the Western Council of Advertising Agencies in Chicago. "More and better business must depend now, especially upon more and better advertising. There is no place for 'business as usual;' it can not be as usual under war condi tions. Not business u as usual, but more business; not less advertising, but more advertising, myst be the slogan of the manufacturer. "England was quick to realize that upon the character of advertis ing depended a large portion of the business success which has come to her manufacturers. In spite of war strain, and we must learn the same lesson." Secret Enemies BY JOHN J. CORNWELL, GOVERNOR OF WEST VIRGINIA THE task of this country, in the present war, would be greatly simplified and greatly reduced in its magnitude were all our coun try's enemies in the German and Austrian armies. The fact that there are hundreds of thousands even mil lions, of enemies scattered all over our land, either conspiring to poison our soldiers or to poison public opin ion that supports them; conspiring to dynamite industries making muni tions and supplies for our Army or to demoralize public opinion and de stroy the morale of the people upon whom the men in our Army and Navy must rely for support—these facts and these activities mean not only a prolongation of the war and a larger loss of life, but it means tears otherwise unshed and sorrow other wise unknown. The forces of evil, of disorganiza tion, of disloyalty and of enmity to America and its institutions are man ifesting themselves In many ways. Many good people unconsciously fall victim to those sinister forces when LABOR NOTES Ohio may regulate smoking in factories. Guelph, Cana., street railway em ployes have organized. Ship calkers on Puget Sound ask $lO a day. Frisco bartenders' union scale is $2 4 a week. Bakers at Cincinnati, Ohio, have increased wages $2 a week. Porto Rico cane field laborers de mand $1.50 a day. ' Conscription of labor is urged by Rhode Island Senate. Kansas City, Mo., laundry girls have secured a shorter work day. A railway conductor was elected to the new Canadian Parliament. Timber Workers' and Shingle Weavers' International Unions have amalgamated. Bat.avia, N. Y., school teachers are asking a salary Increase of SIOO. Canadian farmers will run repre sentatives for the Legislature. The Camouflaged Clock You seem very innocent when, from your shelf. You tell men 'tis-time to retire, You're not in the slightest ashamed of yourself. Though, really, you know, you'r® a liar. It lacks sixty minutes of all that you say— With your fraudulent hands o'er your face- But as we need light to prepare for The Day I will pardon your fib with good grace. 'Tis true you curtail, now, the time of the night. And you probably pilfer some fun, But you wake us, you bet, by the "dawn's early light," For a new strangle-hold on the Hun. So, camouflaged clock, here's more speed to your works. Till Judgment Day comes for the Kaiser — Till the Austrians. Bulgars and like wise the Turks, Are sensibly sadder—and wiser! —O. C. A. CHILD. THE INCOME TAX Can't Deduct Carfare and Lunch A man who is employed in a city has his home in a suburb. He pays carfare between his home and place of employment and takes his noon lunch in the city. The amounts expended for carfare and lunch cannot be claimed as a business expense. Such amounts are held to be items of personal expense. they complain of slight inconven iences resulting from war conditions; when they agitate, rail and criticise because their business is suspended for a few days or their profits are lessened by a few dollars-; when they allow the spirit of selfishness and of greed to temporarily outweigh and overbalance the spirit of sacrifice and of service. Greed and gain are not weapons with which we can win this war. They are the motives that inspired it, as manifested and illustrated when Germany undertakes to talk separate peace with Russia, want ing to absorb a large portion of that country and to dominate the rest. We can win the war only with sacri fices, sacrifices yet undreamed of; with service, service greater than we have anticipated. Above all, let us keep watch and guard In order that the enemy may not, by Insidious propaganda, by falsehoods, innuen dos, and agitations, demoralize the people at home upon whose soldierly and patriotic co-operation the men in our Army and Navy are depend ing. Kaiser and People One When at last we got into the war the President, having taken the ground that "the war has entered into a stage in which words are more powerful than bullets," tried to impress upon the German people that we "have no quarrel" with them as such. He did this in the hope that he could drive a wedge between them and their despotic rulers who had plunged them into warfare. That policy had completely fail ed. The German people are now more united than they ever have been. And to-day, because we per mitted ourselves to be insulted, lied to, bullied and scorned by the Kaiser and his band of ambition-mad sav ages, we are only half ready to deal with the Scourage of the Devil. We are not criminating. We have all been more or less inoculated with the poisonous virus of discrimination between the Kaiser and his people. But now the time has come when we should realize clearly the situa tion and declare the truth, which is that there can be no discrimination between the military despots and the people of Germany as a whole, for they are as similar as are peas in the same pod.. How could it be otherwise, consid ering that the German people have been educated in a school of hatred and self-glorification? How could it be otherwise when the people have been taught—and believe —that the Kaiser is the anointed of God to do the Devil's work? The trouble with the German Em pire is, that it is morally rotten to the very core. It is a Godless na tion—Godless because it rejects the God of the Christian, of civilization It has a "good old German Gott" of its own—especially manufactlred for it by the mad men of Berlin and Potsdam.—Philadelphia Inquire! l . In the Hands of His Friends? There can be no doubt that Sena tor John Sharp Williams strikes a popular note when he declares that Robert Marion Da Follette should be expelled from the Senate of the United States. But why should Senator Williams overlook the fact, if he does, that Democrats are in the ' majority on the committee called upon to investigate and pass on the activities of Da Follette?—New York Herald. r- No Slackers There Every child in the Sharon Springs schools has either a Thrift Stamp, a baby bond, a Red Cross membership { or the mumps, and some have them all.—From the Kansas Olty Star. APRIL 5, 1918. I s Over tfwe £)v 'pMuau Howard Kramllch's farm stock sale at Northampton, attended by 1,500 persons from all over Eastern Pennsylvania, netted $18,770. What's the matter with all these farmers; selling their properties, just when farming is getting good! * # Some idea of what it takes to build the William Penn Highway may be had from the recent report that 63,000 barrels of cement were required to lay a two-and-one-half mile section near Allentown. Today, Not Tomorrow It is about time that the Allies took stock of their position, and realized the present, instead of in dulging in dreams of the future. Late last summer it was stated, in these columns, that the war could be brought to an end. and the Cen tral Powers could be defeated, be fore the winter was over. That state ment was made on authority no human being in his senses would dare to question, and from evidence that was incontrovertible. But it was linked to a corollary that each and all of the Allies should do its part with all its ppwer. Let any body review the course of the events of the last half year, and then ask himself how far the Allies have lived up to that standard. The Germans have improved their position im measurably. But they have not im proved it by fighting. It is, indeed, a perfectly fair conclusion to draw that whenever they have fought they have been defeated. They have im proved it by that peculiar type of diplomacy with which they have identified themselves, and to which the President of the United States alluded in such scathing terms, in one of his messages to Congress. Now the soil in which the Germans have planted their seed must not only be generous to the crop it has borne, but must have been capable of being brought to the requisite condition of cultivation. And It is just here that the Allies had better begin to take notice, —Christian Science Monitor. OUR DAILY LAUGH THEN THERE'S A ROW. "Do you have any trouble keep tag a servant?" "No. The trouble usually comes when I undertake to get rid of one." A JOKE ON HER. "Did you hear the Joke I played on *iy wife?" "Not unless you refer to your get- Ung her to marry you." SAME HERE. "There Is one thing I do bettei Uian anybody else." '•What IE that?" "Read iny own writing." Ebpttittg Ollfal Filing of nominating petitions at State Capitol and county court house are always periods when the odd crops out. It is surprising the num ber of persons of intelligence and even legal skill who turn up with papers so manifestly defective that they are rejected at first sight. Yes terday two papers were presented, on by a man of experience, too, with out any affidavits and he stamped around the Capitol in a high state of indignation hunting a notary, only to find that th man who had to do I the swearing was in the town whence he had come. Another paper con tained the trifling omission of a state ment of office to which the candi date aspired, "Judge" George D. Thorn, who has to pass on such mat ters, says that they Illustrate the danger of leaving papers to be fllei/ at the last minute. "Suppose a man has defects like lack of allidavit ami llnds it in the last hour. Why h< simply can't correct it," said he. But the oddest things about the paperu are the way they are signed. Some men grow facetious and put fancy titles on names; others give full names, others only Initials and others part names in the middle home times it is done for camou flage; sometimes to be formal. The other day a man up the state signed his name with "jentelman of lea sure after it and right below an V" on worker signed as "a rougher." M °^ 0ur " t in a Paper with "Bully at the Mill solemnly presented as occupation and another said that he was "a shearer and straitner." An up state paper contained "typist" after the name of a man who signed his name like John Hancock, while another gave his occupation as agent for the best machines. lie sold creamery machinery. "Farmer" W. T. Creasy, who was Here yesterday, rose to the heights or indignation when someone re marked that farmers were not buv ng Liberty Bonds. "The trouble is the banks are not going after the farmers, ' said he.. "I'll venture to say that there aVe many farmers who would buy bonds, even If they do not own safe deposit boxes if bankers would think more about bonds than depewts. No, sir, the farmer is not siting on the bonds. But he should f£ve them explained to him and given facilities to buy " •i * I Philadelphia North American contains th'** interesting note about a man known and admired by manv Harrisbursers: "A host of friends in Lycoming county were pained to hear of the death of Charles E. Pritcher, in Har risburg, last week. For twenty years he was in the service of the state, being statute clerk in the state department. Pritcher was born in Athens, Bradford county, seventy years a ffo. Ik the spring of 1874, after a period of residence in Washington, D. C„ nvhere he was stenographer for the district court, he came to Williamsport to assume management of the Gazette and Bul letin, being associated with Colonel James H. Lambert, later of Phila delphia. The paper was then owned by the late Peter Herdic. In later years Fritcher became proprietor and in 1890 disposed of his holdings to the late S. Brown." • • * Ex-Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds, who was here yesterday attending the meeting of the State Commission to revise the state bank ing laws, of which he is a member, had some fun during the hearing. In discussing the membership ofitho proposed board to act on appeals from refusal to grant bank charters, it was suggested that the lieutenant governor be made a member. "How would that be?" asked some one of Mr. Reynolds. "Oh, very good, it would be some thing for him to do." answered the lieutenant governor of several years ago, who like his successor was al ways willing to bear a share of the work; but could not get a chance to do anything except during a legisla tive session or a Board of Pardons. 1 * O * William M. Hargest, deputy Attor ney General, in the course of the address he made the other day at the State Society dinner, spoke of the idea that people in the state pos sess that the Attorney General is counsel for everyone. He mentioned some questions which had been sent to the office with a very palpable purpose to avoid going to a lawyer or to "put it over" on someone. These letters are returned with the uniform statement that the Attorney General Is counsel for the state gov ernment nnd not the whole people of Pennsylvania. • • • Plans of Commissioner Nathan R. Buller, for "planting" young Susque hanna salmon In the streams of the state are taking form and it looks as though there would be fine fishing in lakes and streams where these game fish have not been known for a long time. "There are no better fish than your salmon," said he. "We are giving much attention to them and hope to furnish a food supply right at your homes." * * * > It is an interesting fact that prac tically every Harrisburg Hotel has been turning people away on Tues days and Wednesdays lately. Of course, this is not the rule, but it has occurred so often that it is much commented upon about the hotels. The facts are that with the meetings of state organizations that are held here weekly, the hearings at the Capitol and other things, the hotels have a couple of strenuous days every week. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —State Treasurer ft. Ai. n.ephnK, who has been 111 at hisTiome in Con nellsvllle, expects to get here new week. —James Scarlet, noted lawyer, says he feels lonesome because no one is using him for conversational purposes in connection with any state office. —John S. Fisher, head of the state organization of, highway associations was one of the state's original good roads boosters when in the Senate. —Howard Lyon, burgess of Hughesville, tried to help arrest a man and has been confined to bed by Injuries received. —Dr. Charles Leonard, WllliaMe port clergyman, Is In France With the troops. DO YOU KNOW —That over 1,000 Harrisborgem will get Mexican border service medals? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Soldiers, who volunteered for the Mexican War, were barracked in a building which atood' on the site of the Telegraph building.
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