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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.
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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.
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blind?
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"Be mine, or I will plunge front
this lofty precipice Into the dasiJu oi
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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.