8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POH TH>. HOME Founded iSjt Published evening's except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Butldln*, Federal Square. "E. J. ST A CK POLE, Pns't & Bditor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER. Business Monager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, JlaHaging Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press la exclusively en titlert to the use for republl .ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited tn 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 § llshers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn at-d Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley, Fifth Avenue Building, Western office, Finley, _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second rlass matter. , nr T T" r Tr carriers, ten cents a "week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, APRIL 0, 1018 Be strong and quit yourselves like k men. —SAMUEL 4:9. MOB LAW AND REMEDY expected has happened. Mobj law has called into use to i punish offensive pro-Germans in j the United States. Americans are a law-abiding people, patient and long- i Buffering. But when they are finally | goaded to the point of meteing out justice for themselves they do their -.vork swiftly and with little mercy. For the present outbreak Congress i is very largely responsible. A strin- : gent and drastic loyalty law should ( have been written on the statute | books at the very outstart of the war ; and vigorously enforced. If that had; been done pro-Germanism would | have been kept in restraint, many crimes against individuals and the government would have been pre vented or punished and order would ' have been preserved. But with law courts offering no means of getting ' at the alien enemies who have been insulting patriotic citizens by their utterances and holding back the pro gress of the war by their acts, it wag not difficult to see that when the feelings of the people had been suf- flciently aroused they would them-! selves assume the role of prosecutor, court, judge and jury—nnd some times executioner. The remedy lies with the law makers at 'Washington, who at last appear to be approaching a realiza tion of the gravity of the situation, j Regrettable as it is that mob-law has been forced upon patriotic Americans, the recent chastisement of disloyal residents at the hands of outraged citizens is not without its pleasing side. It shows that we are taking the war seriously, determined to see it through and to permit noth ing to stand in the way of its prose-: cution. All loyal Germans are no doubt re- j *:clng that none of the Kaiser's sons t , *ot near enough to the French front ! to be wounded. A YEAR OF WAR TO-DAY one year ago the United i States entered the world war— forced into it by Germany's • greed for dominion, the Kaiser's lust i for power and the murderous brutal- ! tty of his war methods. It is not j longer necessary to explain why wc I are at war. The whole country knows ' that either we must fight it out "over there" op "over here." So the war i has come home to each of us and s on the anniversary of our entrance into the conflict it is natural that we ' should look back over the tumul tous, tempestuous twelve months just ended and ask ourselves, "what have we as a nation done, and has it been more or less than we have a right to expect of so great a people?" The answer to the last half of the question is yes and no. Yes, in that we have without hesitation staked our all for the attainment of a great ideal; 110, for the reason that we might have accomplished more in a material way than we have. Per haps history will be more kindly in its Judgment of our first year of the war than we of the present, anxious to do our full part and impatient to bring our overwhelming resources quickly to bear against the foe, find possible, for with all our delays, and failures and shortcomings, we really have accomplished marvels. And we have this satisfaction—that what we have done has proved the deciding factor in the war for the year, for —-without our billions, our ships, our food, our men and our moral sup port, the cause of the Allies would be most precariously near the brink of grave*disaster at this moment. In the year we have put the nation on a war basts without seriously dis tressing business. We have over subscribed two Liberty Loans of nearly seven and three-quarter bil lions; we have expended for war pur ' -ptoses nearly ten billions: we have loaned to our Allies nearly five bil lions; we have given several hundred million ti> the lied Cross and nearly hi as much to other lines of war work; W we have entered upon the most gigantic ship building program the t s world has ever known and despite many blunders are getting on with it; we have increased our naval force from 55,000 men to 300,000 and our SATURDAY EVENING, HAKRISBUTtG TTXEGROTI* 'APRIL 6, 1918. army from a llttlo over 100,000, not] counting National Guardsmen, to j more than a million and a half, the ! Guardspien included. We have ap-; proximately 500,000 men in France; and in addition to holding several ! sections of the line have 100,000 j trained soldiers ready for a part in the great spring drive now under I way. We have voluntarily placed our selves on restricted diet of wheat and meat until the recent cancellation of the "wheatless day" recommen dation and have gone seriou.-'y to work to produce much of our own food that our Allies may not go hungry. Possibly no feature of the year's activities will attract more at tention in history than this will to sacrifice on the part of the American people, who, in a land of plenty, went "wheatless" and "meatless" that j millions of other people, thousands of miles away, might have their three meals a day. What we have done the past year has been full of faults and justly sub ject at times to severe criticism, but nevertheless it will prove the turn ing point of the war —it will provide the balance that will bring down the scales in favor of democracy. The Germans realize the weight of the bolt we are forging more fully than we ourselves. That is the reason they have thrown their all Into the spring offensive now under way. They know i that they must win before our blow falls; that it is now or never. For we shall do much more the coming twelve months than we did in those just closed. With our shipping pro gram in full swing and the subma rine campaign nullified; with a steady stream of supplies and soldiers pour ing across the Atlantic; with our re sources steadily growing and those of Germany gradually ebbing, an- : other anniversary will bring us much | nearer to victory than now appears. We are just getting under way; by t\nd by we shall sweep forward with j resistless force. What has happened on the battle- ' fields during the year is of small con- ; sequence to us. Our eyes are on the \ future and if.we pause to look back for a moment it is only that we may < take courage from our successes and lessons from our failures. The big thing is that while we have done a mighty work we are not content wfth it; which is a most encouraging sign. The Philadelphian who refused to support his German wife for fear of j giving "aid and comfort to the en- j eniy," ought to be made captain of a | "camouflage" company. TEACHERS' SALARIES WHETHER or not the school I teachers of Harrisburg are j entitled to all of the increased j pay for which they ask, under the j circumstances, is a matter for the j School Board to decide on the basiirl of the financial status of the school f district, but certainly they plead a just cause. . Something must be done for the j teachers if they are not to go into ' other lines of work. Living has gone up much more rapidly than pay for ! teaching school and unskilled labor- j ers are now receiving twice and three times as much as men and I women who have spent years of time I and much money in preparing them- I selves for their work. There can be j but one result if this continues —the! lowering of the standards of our i I schools at a time when the greatest! i urgency exists for increasing their j ; efficiency. Hundreds of school teachers are going into war work. Others are en listing. School teachers are at a 'premium and something must be ! done to keep those who remain in j the profession contented and in posi ! tion to meet their growing financial I obligations, as well as to encourage well qualified young men and women , to consider teaching as a life "work. STICK TO THE JOB THE TELEGRAPH is in receipt' of the following letter from the i manager of a large local in-1 i dustry: ! lam writing to ask you if 1 you will not, through your news- | paper, urge upon the working- , i men of Harrisburg to stick to ' ' their Jobs. The concern of which I lam the head is paying mechan- I | ics from S4O to JTiO a week. Wo i will hire men at that figure. AVe are engaged In i ush work for the Government—work that means much in the prosecution of the war and without which our men over there would be helpless. Yet. our men —many of them, not all. I am thankful to say—will not work on an average of more than five days a week, some of them four, and when I protest they san they can make enough in four or five days to keep them, so why not have a little leisure? I do not believe these men realize that it is just as important for us in this country to stay at our posts day by day and hour by hour as it is for the men in the trenches to stick to their posts, holding the line in the face of the enemy. Keeping everlastingly at it is the only way to win the war, both at I home and abroad. The soldier at ! the front works very long hours for j very low pay. and he must keep i going to full capacity. We at home : work reasonable hours for higher j pay than we ever before received, ! and we too must keep constantly at our tasks. This does not mean that there should b© no days of rest and no holidays. Both are essential to the morale of the industrial army, just as the furlough is for the well being of the soldier. But the man who works only four or five days a week in these days of stress because he can "make enough to live" and wants a "little leisure" is not a good citizen. The only way we can keep our men in the field supplied with all the things that go to the making of a winning army is to work just as hard as we can, every day we can. After the war we shall have no quarrel with the men who work only five days a week if they can "make enough to keep them" by so doing, but just now i is a matter of pa triotism for everybody to put in as many hours a week ns he can with out injury to himself. fdUlct U ' By the Ex-Committeeman j —Elections for county superinten dents of schools will be held In every county of Pennsylvania. except Philadelphia, next Tuesday and all of the cities, except Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will select city school superintendents. These elections will be held under the school code by accredited directors meeting either at the county seats, as in the case of county elections, or at city school otllces. According to what has been heard here, there are a number of interesting contests for the superintendents and in some of the large counties big conventions will be held. The superintendents elected will be commissioned by the State Su perintendent of Public Instruction for four year periods. The term used to be three years, until the adoption of the school code which added a year. —Over twenty per cent, of the nominating petitions presented at the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, for filing this week, were returned for corrections not being in legal shape to file for the May primary. Dozens of papers have been rejected in the last month. The time for filing petitions expires April 11 and less than 30 were on file at the Capitol when the depart ment opened to-day. Saturday is a holiday at the Capitol, but the de partment was kept open to receive papers. It is believed that between 2,500 and 3,000 will be field, so that a rush will take place next week. George D. Thorn, chief clerk of the department, says that if there is a rush at the close, many papers may go down as it will be impossible to go over all of the min time. The greater part of defects are in lack of affidavits, omissions of declarations j of office or district, failure of signers to give residence, occupation or date I of signing. • —The development of the Demo-j cratic state machine slate Is com-! ing rapidly now. After having been j held off so long that it would pre vent the opponents of the steam- . roller from perfecting an organi zation it is being put forth with the sanction of all the bosses. Acting State Chairman Joseph F. Guitey, of Pittsburgh, utility and Oklahoma oil field fame, the rubber-stamped candidate for the gubernatorial nomination is running? the whole | ( slio\y and has undertaken to give out I the names. He announced Asher R. | Johnson's room for secretary of in ternal affairs and smiled over J. ' Washington Logue's announcement fcr lieutenant governor. Johnson is a McKean county Democrat of the machine type and Logue is one of the Democratic congressmen elected by accident in Philadelphia a few years ago and since defeated with regularity. J. Calvin Strayer, of j York, and S. R. Tarner of Pitts-j burgh, are two of the candidates! fr>r eonjrress-at-large. The other j two will be announced by Mr. Guf-j fey with the sanction of A. Mitchell i Palmer and his pals in twenty-four j hours. —The gepublican leaders are busy perfecting fences. There is talk of a compromise in some newspapers aligned with the state administra tion, notably the .Pittsburgh Dis patch, but the Philadelphia Inquir er is belligerently the other way. It looks as though there would be some stir over the vice revelations in Philadelphia and that the city administration would have its hands full. —Regarding the Guffey announce ment, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: "No better indication of the strong prohibition sentiment in the state is needed than is found in the declaration of Mr. Guffey. Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, Sen ator William C. Sproul and Robert P. Habgood, three of the Republi can candidates for the gubernatorial nomination, have announced their candidacies, all standing on prohi bition planks. Mr. Guffey's announ cement has been hanging fire for the last six weeks, it being generally un derstood that the delay was occas ioned by failure to a decision as to whether he would run as a "wet" or "dry" candidate. In some quarters he was being urged to take the middle of the road course, in the hope that in the fall the liquor vote could be attracted to his candidacy. Sounding the sentiment of the Dem- I ocrats of the state it was found they demanded a "dry" gubernatorial candidate." —John Bowen, West Scranton, yesterday announced his withdrawal las a candidate for the Republican nomintion for state senator from ! Lackawanna. Although Mr. Bowen | did not say who he will support In ! the coming primary, his friends say ! that he has decided to stand back of i Prof. David W. Phillips. —At Williamsport, Byron C. I Houck, was re-elected city clerk j without opposition and N. Boyd Wil son. George S. Simcox and Robert B. Staver were elected members of the poor board. The successful can didates each received four votes and John S. Leinbach, F. X. Kane and Rev. Theodore Beck, each received one vote. —C. Fred Kreamer, manager of the Lock Haven Fire Brick Company has announced his candidacy as a member of the Republican state committee to represent Clinton coun ty. Mr. Kreamer is one of the prom inent business men of Clinton coun ty. —The Reading Eagle prints the following: "Coming out flatly and unreservedly for State Senator Wil liam C. Sproul, of Chester, for the Republican nomination for gover nor. former Judge Robert Grey Rushong. county chairman in Berks and party leader for several years, dropped a veritable bomb into the camp of the Brumbaugh-O'Nell forces in this community.' —John B. Taylor, former head of Philadelphia police, may run against Senator E. W. Patton. Philip C. Johnson, brother-in-law of the late Israel W. Durham, will likely run against Senator "Sam" Salus. —Thomas Kennedy, of Hazleton, president of District 7, United Mine Workers of America, who had been mentioned as a probable candidate for Congress from the Eleventh Con gressional district, last night made a definite answer to the Wilkes- Barre Record refusing to enter the contest at this time. His numerous duties as head of the mine workers in the Hazleton district and his con nection with the government as a member of several committees, are given as his main reasons for refus ing to enter a political campaign. —The Altoona Tribune is out In.an editorial calling upon every school director to attend the convention for election of county school superinten dent next week. Blair must be hav ing a contest. —George R. Fryslnßer, for years associate editor of the Gazette, has retired at the age of 77. He remained with the paper for ov>r GO years and many men in po litics knew him. THE CONVALESCENT .... .... BY BRIGGS ffou COME vajhth] p)o~Ba~cAßeFuiTT* - THCRC'S I KMOVAJ OF HIM ©OCTOP- A 'P KASCnL iHERfc i mattGP I You kmovaJ h£ iSn T EDITORIAL COMMENT Japan is probably afraid that the Russians will retreat across her bor der.—Atlanta Journal. What are you going to do with your extra hour of daylight?— New York Sun. Sometimes It looks as if the Bol shevik government has adopted de lirium tremens as its national policy. —Dallas News. The "ideal generals" whom the Kaiser praised for the "great victor ies" in Russia are obviously Lenlne and Trotzky.—Boston Herald. The way Russia is now situated she does not need a minister of for eign affairs. All she needs is a Ger man interpreter.—Rochester Post- Express. • $2,000,000 For Advertising "The direct way to the attention and good-will of the public lies along the path of advertising and service, the inseparable forces of successful modern merchandising," says Earl D. Babst, president of the American Sugar Refining Company, in his an nual report made this week. Ad dressing the stockholders, Mr. Babst continues: "Your company has unexcelled quality, uniformity, and variety of products, the advantage of highly organized service, to which we are now adding an increasing volume of sugars packed in household units and identiiled by trade-marks and trade-names, thus providing the op portunity for national advertising to build an enduring good-will of as much advantage to the public as to the company. "We are adding the sum of sl.- 000,000 to our trade-mark advertis ing reserve, bringing that item up to $2,000,000. It is the purpose of this reserve to make certain a continuous advertising policy, through good and poor years." The American Sugar Refining Company is probably the largest manufacturer and distributor in the world of a single food product. A VICTORY TO WIN Go back to the simple life. Be contented with simple food, simple pleasures, simple clothes. Work hard, pray hard, play hard. Work, eat, recreate and sleep. Do it all courageously. We have a victory to win.—Herbert Hoover. Sound Body—Sound Business What are the requirements in making oneself lit for business life? First: A sound bodily condition such as will not permit of the break ing down of any part, because loss of time through sickness means loss of money, demoralization of bus iness and lessened production, not to mention the possible loss of life. Second: Strength and endurance in the form of working capacity. Energy is essential in concentration. It is the factor back of a man's character that makes him capable of persistense. Energy and endur ance are the vital qualiies back of initiative, ambition and "push." Third: The ability t oendure the strain and tension of civilized life. This is nnt in the form of exposure to cold and wet. It is of a different kind. It involves nervous strain, often emotional strain. The excite ment of business life may be Just as wearing as the strain of battle. One never knows when he will meet some crisis which will tax his sys tem, his heart, his nerves, his pow ers of resistance generally, to the breaking point. The first requirement In harden ing and conditioning the body is exercise. Remember that it is not a case of strengthening the large ex ternal muscles merely . Exercise is chiefly valuable because it builds constitutional strength, because it means exercise for the Internal or gans as well as for the muscles. And because the constitutional strength so built up and the improved quality of the blood so acquired are the basis of that nervous strength which I* necessary to endure strain of any kind. No one who is soft is fit for peace, any more than for war. And there Is only one way by which one can build bodily vigor. An Ideal mental attitude will not do It, Important as that may be. Good food, sleep, cleanliness, fresh a'r, and other health factors, important as they all are. will not make one strong unless he takes a. certain amount of exercise.—From "Harden Yovr Body for War or Business." by Bernarr Macfadden in April Physical Culture. Japan and M. TOGO TX THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW THE attitude of Japan in the Great War has not been hid under a bushel. Brom the very first our people have not only talked about doing their duty, but they have done it to the best of their ability. Perhaps no stronger declaration of this purpose and resolution has been made than that contained in the contribution made by Viscount Ishii to the book issued on behalf of the Allies. In this carefully pre pared utterance he said: "As we see our duty, and the duty of the world, only one thing is left to do. It is to fight out this war which neither we nor any otiher peo ple or nation, other than the ag gressors, have sought. It must be fought to the end without wavering, without thought of national or indi vidual advantage. The victors are to be victors for civilization and the world; not for themselves. The con test upon which we are unitedly en gaged will not only end this war, upon its result will depend the ex- A MAN'S DUTY The woman who stands beside her man to urge him on to victory over self and over the enemy is heroic in his eyes, and the memory of her courage, of her understanding and sympathy, will go with him even unto death. A woman can- make or break the man who loves her, and women are doing it all the time. The men they make are the men who are encouraged and helped to do their duty as they see it. The men they break are the men whose right to fulfill their duty is dented them or interfered With. U- Just as the greatest pleasure in j life is the satisfaction in duty well done, so there Is no greater joy pos sible to a woman than the knowl edge that she has helped the man she loves, in the supreme test, not to falter but to do what he knows to be his duty. And the reason why no punish ment is named in the category of crimes for the modern Jezebel who effects the distortion of a man's sense of duty is because the penalty always fits the crime. That there are not many thou sands more suicides among women Is accounted for by the fact that few will ever admit that they are re sponsible for any other than a help ful influence. —George E. Cook in The Mother's Magazine for April. King Cotton The Council of National Defense has created a committee on price tix )ng. But we see no signs that King Cotton, heretofore immune, while steel, copper, aluminum, wheat and other staples have been put under regulation, is shaking in his shoes perceptlt^y. THE INCOME TAX Fifteen Per Cent, of Net Income Most You Can Deduct Account Charities To determine to what extent contributions or gifts made to corporations or associations (organized exclusively for religious, char itable, scientific or educational purposes, and societies for the pre vention ef cruelty to children or animals) may be claimed as a. deduction — You should first ascertain what your taxable net income would be were you not entitled to a deduction on account of contributions or girts made to these charities, and then if the aggregate of your con tributions and gifts made during the year to such organizations docs not exceed 15 per cent, of your taxable net income so computed the amount, may be entered in the space provided therefor under "Gen eral Deductions" on the personal return form. If such aggregate amount exceeds 15 per cent, of your taxable net Income so computed the excess cannot be claimed. For example, your taxable net Income amounts to $20,000. Dur ing the year you have contributed to the National Red Cross SI,OOO, to the Young Men's Christian Association SI,OOO, toward the con struction of a new church SI,OOO, and to the Associated Charities of your home city SSOO, a total of $5,300. Fifteen per cent, of your total net Income amounts to $3,000. therefore this latter amount may be claimed as a deduction and the balance of your contributions and gifts may not be claimed. In claiming a deduction on account of such contributions or gifts there should be shown on the return of income (a) the name and address of each organization to which a contribution or gift was made and (b) the date and amount of each such contribution or gift. Where the contribution or gift was other than money, the basis for calculation , of its value shall be the fair market value of the property given at the time of contribution or gift. tinction of all wars of aggression. No opportunity must ever come again for' any nation or people, or any com bination of nations or peoples, how ever strong or numerous, to seek that universal domination shown by ex perience to be impossible, which, if it were possible would mean the destruction of human progress. "We are proud to be associated with America as Allies in so great a cause. Our duty thus keeps pace with our obligation and both are guided by our highest desires. We, like you, have enlisted until the war is settled and settled right; you, like ourselves, have no favors to ask, and neither seeks conquests or in demnities; both merely ask that they may live their own lives, settle their own problems, smooth out their common differences or difficulties, and do their best, along with all other peoples, to make the world a better, not a worse, place to live in." In our relations with the United States we have tried to do our duty, not only in the war, but in everything else that shows our friendship. LABOR NOTES San Francisco shovel and dredge men have signed a new agreement, effective April 1. The following monthly increases have been secur ed: Dredge men, S2O; firemen, sls; engineers, $25; watchmen, sls. Under the Ohio plan of exclusive state fund insurance for workmen's compensation, insured workers and their widows and children received last year $8,000,000 in compensation benefits, at an administrative cost to the state of only $312,279. To properly distribute labor avail able for farm work is the purpose of the new State Committee on Ag ricultural Labor which is effecting an organization throughout Pennsyl vania to back up the farirler this summer with the best labor service that can be recruited. The Massachusetts House of Rep resentatives refused to accept an ad verse committee report on a bill for one day off in seven for employes of hotels and restaurants in this state. The committee's recommend ation was rejected on a rollcall vote of 142 to 76. Tacoma (Wash.) Building Labor ers' Union has secured a new wage scale which raises rates from $4 to $5 a day and in some instances $5.50. A feature of the agreement provides that hereafter the contrac tor must furnish tools for these workers, who formerly brought their own tools to each job. The report of the State Industrial Commission shows that the number of industrial accidents in Wisconsin increased from 11,006 in the indus trial, year 1914-15 to 16,015 in 1915- 16 and 20,560 in 1916-17. This in crease in accidents was much more rapid than the Increase in the num ber of employes, which is about 20 per cent. Arbor Day in Pennsylvania Governor Brumbaugh has set aside Friday, April 12, and Friday, April 26, as arbor days. City people as a rule cannot do much in the way of tree planting. In the suburbs and the country the two days designated in the Gov ernor's proclamation should be very generally observed. Now is the time to make two blades of grass where but one grew before; now is the time to do something useful, and it must be admitted that the man who plants a tree has performed an act that will live after him. The Governor, in his announce ment, says that we cannot look upon a treeless country as a great country, and this is a literal truth. A coun try without trees is little better than a desert, and a desert is not a desir able place for anyone to live. Penn sylvania is one of the great agricul tural states, and it would be a good thing if tree planting, both by indi viduals and by the public authori ties, should add to its reputation for forestry.—Philadelphia Inquirer. "OUR DAILY LAUGH HELP THE BLIND. Rabbit—How long have you been blind? Owl—Since sunrise. rgj | MOVE ON. BUB Cop I * ey you buna * keep off thta block, or I'll run —tgCS 5o <-tVNOMK* . AT THE CORN POPPING. "Run for your life, it's an explosion | f dynamite!" ! ! ||x JUST LIKE US. IIey ' y°u' r * *wJ\Q flno carrier \ p ' Beon y°u —z. havent mailed i that ' etter yet! i m ' DESPERATE DESMOND. "Be mine, or I will plunge front this lofty precipice Into the dasiJu oi rm Jafc*. 1 * Ebening (Eljal One of the ironies about .politics on Capitol Hill Just at present in that there never has been a time in the last twenty years when so many of the places in the state government were as unattractive from a financial standpoint as at present. Removals and dismissals of men are taking place on political grounds, although in some cases it is stated that incom petence is the cause for summary separation from the state payroll, but the fact remains that there is no rush to take the jobs and it is even possible that unless some arrange ments are made that the state may have trouble of its own to hold Its skilled men. It is one of the care fully nurtured traditions of the Cap itol, or rather of the people who ap portion the places of minor impor tance, that there is always a long _ list of men or women just awaiting p. a chance to connect with a statf place. In times of stress that is true, but for the last few years there has been no such waiting list ana often men have come here to tak places which they have refused to consider for a moment after look ing over the scene. As a rule the division of tabor is so marked at the Capitol that failure to do the work assigned is apparent and attaches are commencing more and more to resent doing some other fellow's work when he is absent "political - ing." The chairmen, among whom some removals are being made, can get better jobs anywhere than tlio state pays them. They get S6O a month. It is a fact that enginerooni men have taken state jobs and quit to go into factories within a week because the pay is better. Carpen ters, painters and other skilled men can double their pay at jobs outside of the Capitol. Hence all the talk about "firing" does not scare so much. Another interesting thing is that the state is on a fair way to have to buck a labor union. There are some men working for the state in the jobs which aro trades who are members of unions. The unions are demanding more money. The salar ies of the men are fixed by law. The state dare not go over the appropria tion for any job. • * • "We will be unable to get quail •from Mexico to propagate in Penn sylvania so it is up to us to take care of what we have and I am glad to be able to say that the reports I am getting show that the quail have come through the winter better than t many of us dared hope," said Dr. , Joseph Kalbfus, discussing the quail , prospects at the offices of the State Game Commission. "We have got to ' protect the quail and I wish you would call attention of the sports men and the farmers to the situa t tion. This is the season of the year - when we must look after the game r if we are going to have any hunting 5 in the fall and not only the hawks J but the bipeds who hunt illegally aro s the dangers." Dr. Kalbfus has is t sued a circular to the state gamo > wardens calling their notice to tho t situation which has risen because of the inability of the men who con - tracted to trap the quail in Mexico i to get them because of weather and , banditry and to the atMtude taken by - the United States Biological Survey i in forbidding importation this month. - Dr. Kalbfus had contracted for 10.000 - quail from Mexican highlands ex - pecting them to be delivered this ' spring when climatic and insect con - ditions would bo favorable for their - living and diet. One of the steps pro r posed for protection of the quail next winter is to trap them and keep them in preserves or places where it is known they will be well cared for. it is believed this plan Will result in fine birds to be turned loose in tho spring. In other words, the stato will go more extensively into the propagating business itself. The re ports made by game wardens on the ; condition of the quail are distinctly favorable. In some counties where it was feared the severely cold wea ther and deep snows had wiped them out tho birds have been reported as lively and far more numerous than expected. In some western counties scores were seen. The most favor able reports come from counties where sportsmen and farmers fed the birds. In some of the central counties organized efforts to look after "Bob White" wgre made and as a result there will be birds next I fall. The best records come from the eastern counties. Wild turkeys and pheasants are also reported to have wintered fairly well. * * • "They asked us to eat new kinds of bread and we did it. They asked us to cut d6wn on meat.and we have been doing It. They asked us to turn the clock forward and we have done it," said one of the city's prominent businessmen to-day. "The point I want to make is that Harrisburg doi>i it. It does what is ordered and I do not care what some people say there is not a city in the country that lines up faster than Harrisburg. Na tional officers give orders and we do it as a matter of course. In the lan guage of the late Henry Houck nichts aus." It has to be don&; we do it and forget all about It. That Is -the Harrisburg spirit in war time." • * Superintendent Shrelner is going to sow some seed. Mr. Shreiner in herited the title of "farmer" when he got the office and it has been passed on to him. He now proposes to go into the farming business ac tively in Capitol park extension, some of the ground will be plowed up and grass seed sowed. The park is to be gotten ready for the big transition. * * * David E. Tracy, president of the Harrisburg Pipe Bending Company, one of the directors of tho State Chamber of Commerce, and Paul Littlefield, secretary of the chamber, 1 have gone to Chicago to attend tho meeting of the national chamber. Many prominent men will be speak ers at tho sessions. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Jesse C. Greene, West Chester's grand old man, has just celebrated his 101 st birthday. —W. L. Stevenson, chief of the Pottsvllle tiro department, bellfeves In action. When people did not re move fire traps ho ordered, ho took them down. —A. E. Turner, prominent Phlla delphlan. Is home from Hawaii with many interesting stories of life in the islands. —Prof. H. H. Wells, of the Wash ington and Jefferson faculty, has been appointed a captain in the army and assigned to chemical work. —Barclay Warburton, commander of old Battery A, Is now a major in the army. . —George L. Omwake, president of Ursinus, Is out making speeches for. * the Liberty Loan. 1 DO YOU KNOW ~ —That Harrisburg was one of the high spots wlicn it came to taking Civil War loans? HISTORIC HAKRISBCRG —Camp Curtln was one of the bia supply camps of the Civil War days, but It was small coihpared to the mammoth depots now being built.
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