6 HAP.RISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Ptuniti its' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELBGRAPH PHINTISO CO, ivirgrnfh Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE.Prrr'f tr Bditor in Chirf F. B. OYSTER, Mill Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press— Tha : Associated Press is exclusively en- J titled to the use for repnblljatlon of | all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American j Newspaper Pub- i fE ast er n office. Avenue Building, Entered at the Post Office In llarris burg, Pa., as second matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advanc*. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1018 We have a perfect right to ask our heavenly Father for strength equal to the day; but we have no right to ask Him for one extra ounce of strength for anything beyond it. —CUYLEB. A COUNTY MATTER ELECTIONS of legislators are purely county matters. In the case of senators there are sometimes more than one county In a district. In the case of members v oC the lower house they are wholly v.ithin counties. The returns of such elections, primary and general, go to county officers and are passed upon by county officers. The certificates as to the votes are made by county officers to the State. Notwithstanding this very plain system of local self-government, the State cf Pennsylvania is again wit nessing the biennial rush to crowd Into one department of the State Capitol in less than a week a couple of thousands of petitions of men to be candidates for primary ballots so tfcdt the officials of a department of the State government can certify their names back to the counties or districts wherein they live and they ran be candidates in law as well, as in name. Just because senators and legis lators are held to be State officers, a lot of elaborate bookkeeping must be maintained here; men forced to send petitions to Harrisburg, by reg istered mail, if they wish to be ab solutely safe, or by messenger and have other things done so that there can be solemnly certified back to their home counties the fact, al ready well known, that they aspire to office. The whole thing is a coun- ' ty matter. The papers should be ' filed in the counties and so that con stitutional provisions may be techni cally obeyed due notice sent to the State authorities, who can then certi fy, if It is at all necessary, the names back again. After all about all that the State is really concerned with Is. what vote the men receive. Every thing else is a county matter. Every time you buy a Liberty Bond you drive a nail in the Kaiser's coffin, and who wouldri"t pay SSO for that? DIXON BUILDED WELL IT MUST be a source of great grat ification to the friends of the late Commissioner of Health, Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, and to the devoted band of men who labored with him for more than a decade, to read that the death rate from typhoid fever during the first month of this year was down to 45 in the whole State of Pennsylvania. This is the lowest ever known in any month since the present system of keeping track of causes of deaths was devised. Dr. Dixon died when the results of his campaign to eliminate typhoid began to shine. This remarkable showing, which cuts the death rate for a month to what it used to be in less than a week before Dr. Dixon began his labors, Is possible because he insti tuted a system of statistics which has been a target, but which has proved its value over and over again; because he made municipalities and individuals take precautions; be cause he disregarded attacks open and behind his back, from many persons who shouid have known bet ter; because he enlisted the co-ope ration of his professional brethren and because governors and legisla tors backed him up. But most of all, because he persevered. Dr. I Dixon had the Imagination to con ceive a state free from a disease which has filled many graves and tho courage to put through his plan. Almost up to the closing months of his life, Dr. Dixon had to fight dis belief, prejudice, political influences and hesitancy. But his ideas have triumphed and consistent following of "Dixon's way" will make the campaign against tuberculosis and other diseases now recognized as preventable Just as usccessful as that against typhoid has been prov ed by figures from sixty-seven coun ties to bfc The people of Pennsylvania are determined to get and to keep good health, just like good roads, and they MONDAY EVENING, are not going to tolerate any non sense about securing or maintaining either. If the next year sees an Improve ment in our war preparations com mensurate witli the improvement of the past six months over the six months preceding, the anniversary will be worth celebrating. THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH IF the Kaiser can get any conso lation from President Wilson's liberty Loan speech at Balti- more Saturday night he is welcome to It. Never has the President struck more clearly the national note in a war address. Never has he been so forceful; never so clearly convincing. If Germans have been doubtful as to how far we In the United States are ready to go in this war they ought to understand now that we mean to fight until we win, no matter what the cost. The great, unfailing inexhaustible reservoir of the United States is the well from which must be drawn the resources of men, materials and money that, thrown against the Ger man lines In France, will gradually wear them down and open the road to Berlin. The President recognizes this and Germany also must realize it. The only doubt In Berlin ap pears to have been whether or not we would "stick." After the Presi dential address at Baltimore even the Prussian war lords must be con vinced". It is a lorffe way from the Presi dent's "Too proud to fight" senti ment to the text of "right by might,." on which Saturday's speech was based. But Mr. Wilson has learned that there is no brooking the Berlin beast by pleas of justice. Force Is the only factor he recognizes and force is what the President and the United States are going to give him. Force—force to do the utmost, force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of 'he world and <-ast every selfish dominion down in the dust. These are heartening words. They are what the nation expected from its Chief Executive in the crisis. They voice public opinion as no other speech he has made since the war began and has reflected the ccyi victlons of the people; they set forth the thought of men everywhere; they register the- determination of the soldiers in the cantonments and in the trenches. Every wind that has blown from Berlin for months has borne the question: "Are you ready to con sider peace?" And the President, in effect, has flung back the reply of the whole American people, "We have not begun to fight." With that as our war cry, we are ready to oversubscribe the Liberty Loan to keep the war going full tilt. There are 1,373 Germans Interned at Fort McPherson. Multiply by five and avoid a lot of fires and lynchlngs. A CAMPAIGN OF TRUTH WE cannot have impressed up on us too often" or too for cibly the aims of America in the war. The false peace moves of Germany follow each other with kaleidoscopic variety and rapidity. We must not be confused by them nor led away from our main pur poses and aims which, briefly, are to win the war against autocracy, to make the world safe for democracy and democracy safe for the world; to secure for nations small and great safety, justice and equal economic opportunity; and, finally, to estab lish a league of peace, to the end that there may never be a repetition of the present frightful slaughter. As a part of the campaign un dertaken In conjunction with the speaking division of the Committee on Public Information appointed by President Wilson, and conducted by the Church Peace Union and the League to Enforce Peace, with the the co-operation of the Commission on International Justice and Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches and the World Alliance For International Friendship Through the Churches, to keep the public fully informed as to otjr war aims and policies, a big meeting will be held in Harrisburg April 22. The men to speak are of international reputation. They have an Import ant duty to perform. Much of Ger many's strength hds lain in the suc cess of her propaganda. It is the purpose of the speakers to meet ihe insidious pro-German arguments and supplant them with the truth. We cannot hear too much of that kind of talk. Your Uncle Samuel says: "Give me SSO to help win the war and I will pay it all back to you with interest." Kaiser Bill says: "Don't buy Liberty Bonds. Walt until I come over and you*can give me the money without either return or interest. It belongs to me by divine right." To whom are you going to entrust the money?. "During the next few weeks America will give the Prussian junta the surprise of their lives," says Lloyd George. Let's help by oversubscrib ing the Liberty Loan. For some reason we can't work up any indignation against the Japs for putting an armed force in Vladl vostock without the permission of Washington. His pro-German activities have turned up to mock Muck. T>otaxc* Ck [ By the Ex-Committeeman It Is not probable that any Idea exists at Democratic State head quarters of putting Into effect the plan set forth last January by the llarrisburg Democratic Association calling for a state convention to give best candidates for state officers to be elected in the state at large." The nominating petitions for Ac t State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey, of Pittsburgh public utilities and Oklahoma oil fields, slated months ago by the Democratic bosses on the banks of the Potomac, have been circulating while a pretense of-con sidering his availability was being maintained and he is now before the state as one of President Wilson's college boys and with the support of the Democratic machine leaders. Guffey's slating is on illustration that the machine methods of slat ing of Vance C. McCorrnick four years ago, repudiated by the voters of the state in his case, are still dear to the hearts of the reorgani zation faction bosses. About all that Guffey's candidacy has done has been to take the liquor question out. of the gubernatorial fight. All the can didates are favorable tQ the pro hibition amendment except one from Lebanon who will not be a factor. . . —According to the Democratic Philadelphia Record, Joseph F. Guf fey, the acting Democratic state state chairman and slated candi date of the bosses for '.he Democrat ic gubernatorial nomination, saved the Democrats of the s'aie the trou ble of picking a ticket for Congress at-Large on Saturday by announcing that in addition to S. R. Tamer, Al legheny, and J. Calvin Strayer, York, the. candidates for the seats at large would be Fred Ikeler, former Colum bia county legislator, lawyer and as pirant for the Lesher seat, and Jo sepii F. Gorman, Allonrown, lawyer, bank ditector and real esYater. The Record announces that Mr. Guffey is taking much of the work ori himself and that he will make a tour of the state. —To-day it is announced that Mr. Guffey will retire a 9 acting state chairman when the Democratic state committee meets, as division chair man at the same time and as Alle gheny county chairman pi once. John W. Robinson will succeed him in No. 3 job. —While various maneuvers to get a harmony deal on the Republican state ticket were under way Satur day and yesterday nothing came of them and indications are that 'he at tacks on the Vares and the Smith administration in Philadelphia will be kept up. Senator Sproul spent a few quiet days at his headquarters, while at Pittsburgh yesterday J. Denny O'Neil made a savage attack on Penrose and again paid his re spects to the German-American al liance. —The Philadelphia Record says that Ambler Republicans tried to ar range fusion with Democrats in Montgomery county, but that over tures were rejected. —Edwin T. Kunkle, former Demp cratic representative from Monroe, has upset calculations, by deciding to run again. He will run "dry." —Following the announcement of former Congressman Warren Worth Bailey, of Johnstown, that he would not be a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Congress this year, Bernard J. Clark, of Altoona, former chief of police, has entered the race. It is understood that Dr. Americus Enfield, of Bedford, also will be in the ring. The district is overwhelmingly Republican although Bailey was elected twice because of the split Republican vote when the Washington party was active. —Senator Penrose, who is not a candidate in this campaign, was at tacked yesterday in Philadelphia pulpits. The sharpest attaSk came from advocates of the "dry" amend ment. —William Ward, Jr., former legis lator and former mayor of Chester, is out as a candidate for the Chester city legislative seat now held by W. T Ramsey, chairman of the rules committee of the last House. Ward is oti a "dry" platform. —Sunday newspapers have stories from Reading and Allentown to the effect tnat Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, is favoring Congressman Dewalt's candidacy for another term. J. Wilmer Fisher, Reading business man, will be the Republican con gressional candidate in the Berks- Lehigh district. —The Altoona Tribune is indig nant at the fight being mhde against Congressman John M. Rose and Is demanding thht Republican leaders get together. —Reading's move to unite the parties to fignt the Socialists seems to have fallen through, .Tames H. Maurer, chairman of the State Old Age Commission and state labor leader, is a candidate foT renomina tion on the Socialist ticket. —Lackawanna county is indulging in a real old-fashioned fight over the county school superintendency. It. will be settled tomorrow. There are battles on in a score of counties. •—Register of Wilis. William Con ner, a former legislator, has just won an interesting fight in Allegheny county, when the quarter sessions judges named William L. Callahan as burgess of Braddock. He fills a vacancy and was picked out of six candidates. The chief candidate against the new burgess was W. J. Tracey, backed by L. F. Holtzman, long a leader in Braddock. In the Republican primaries of last Septem ber, when the late Burgess Shallen berger was nominated, he had Mr. Callahan for his opponent. The con test was close. When the office be came vacant Mr. Callahan became a candidate for the appointment. Mr. Conner and his friends in Braddock got behind him and for the last three weeks the contest has been the absorbing topic of conversation in Braddock. —District Attorney George W. Maxey, of Lackawanna, has appoint ed Con Moroslnl. Scranton, to the county detective force, to take the place which has been vacant since Thomas Reese resigned early In July. Along with announcing the appointment of Moroslnl,, Mr. Maxey named Plill Rlnsland, who has been a county detective for four years, ns chief of the bureau. Rlns land will be In direct charge of the operations of the detectives. Under the law, the district attorneys of Lackawanna and Luzerne counties are each entitled to appoint four county detectives. —Bishop Joseph F. Berry, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an nounced yesterday that l> e intends to "fight to a finish" to have /Penn sylvania ratify the federal prohibi tion amendment. He will go on tho stump. If necessary, to secure the candidates for the Legislature who 1 favor' ratification. HARRISBURG flftjgV TELEGRAPH THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT .;. .... BY BRIGGS - f h f T *> ** *• - ' -z== 1 J? '' Vs/HEM OUR CELLAR SPLENDID While unfortunately the number of American troops available for re serve against the enemy's offensive cannot be large, it goes without say ing that the men who are called on will act in a way to make their country proud. There is a tempta tion to spQak of American soldiers in a way that might impress neutral observers as extravagant—of their physique, their initiative, their in telligence, their dash and courage, and of that combination of qualities that we call character. Men of that sort, properly trained and equipped, certainly cannot be surpassed as soldiers. "Cannot be equaled as soldiers" would have been the natural expres sion before 1914. But since the world has what the French and British have done in the fiery ordeal of the last four years, all Americans can say is that they expect Ameri can troops to prove worthy to fight shoulder to shoulder with the splen did men of the allied democracies. —Kansas City Star. GOD'S FIRST TEMPLES An American poet who is now fighting on the scarred, treeless battlefields of sings: I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. His conviction is the conviction of all of us. From the beginning of I things, trees have had the reverence I of mapkind. "To early peoples they were things of thought and feeling, of desire and will. In the trees ac cording to the ancient Greek beliefs, dwelt some of the happiest, most beautiful spirits that blessed the earth. Even today, to us, there is no object in nature which reveals the divine more effectually than does a symmetrical, green-leafed tree. When we plant trees in our yards, therefore, we are surrounding our houses wUh constant revelations of the beauty and goodness of God. Arbor Day—"Mother Earth's Christ mas" it has been called—means more to us than simply one of a number of interesting holidays. It brings home to us, in a way in which no other holiday does, the beauty and the holtness of nature. Arbor Day is celebrated this year for the forty-sixth time. Established in Nebraska in 1872, it has been adopted by state after state: until it now'amounts to a national insti tution. It is a day for observance in schoolyard, in churchyard, in park, in orchard, on the home ground. Tnere is no place where trees will not add beauty. Of course, the planting of trees is the funda mental purpose of the day, but there should be more than this..Commu nity programs, with perhaps a bit of dignified ceremonial accompany ing the tree-planting, will make a permanent impression, especially on the minds and hearts of the young. There are few things that help more in the development of sound, straightforward character than a love for nature and its beauties. "The groves wete God's first temples," and many of us have learned to know that He 'Still loves them. —Farm and Fireside. COEURDELEON "We hope, by God's grace, to re ceive the Holy City of Jerusalem."— Richard Coeur de Leon, A. D. 1191. "Wake from thy slumbering, Heart of the Lion! Rise from the dream of It, cen turies old, Look ye from Ascalon eastward to Zlon Where In the dawning our ban ners unfold! "Over the domes of the infidel enemy Blows the Red Cross of the Cru saders' might! Over the Sepulcher, over Geth semane. Ay, over Calvary, glowing with light! "Godfrey de Bouillon speeds with the tidings, Stirred, too, from dreams of yon Holiest Crypt, High In his stirrups, the dust of his ntrldings. Staining the Crescent from Sal adln stripped! "Nay, royal sire!—no mirage of hope dying. Fruit of the Dead Sea or figment of sleep!— Saladin's slain and his Saracens fly ing! God and St. George o'er Jeru salem sweep!" Stephen Chalmers, in the Living i Church. Just For Exercise It seems that when the critics have i nothing else to do they knock Wood. —From the Baltimore American. AMERICANS! ANSWER, WITH ALL GOD HAS GIVEN YOU! From The Literary Digest For April 6 AMERICANS! WHAT does it moan to you—this anniversary of our entering the Great War? What does it mean to you the President's call to the nation to fight tor its honor, for its rights, and for the rights and freedom of hu manity? When he said, "there may be many months of ilery trial and sacrifice ahead of us"—when he said, "to such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything we are and everything we have," how djd hi 3 words come home to you? Now, after a year, ut this serious crisis of the war, do they burn their way to the heart with a meaning more real, with a more imperative challenge? "Stern, terrible facts are driving us to actin. The fury and cruel cunning of the enemy are unquench ed. Russia Is under his heel, be deviled and plundered. Rumania has been crushed and forced to sur render. Fresh lioruen of Huns are being hurled against the western front. The greatest battle of the war is raging. The lußt of conquest and world-dominion is growing, a.s it feeds itself with first one helpless victim and then another. New olots are ready, and new agents of devilish propaganda are being sent Into France, and Britain, and Italy, and America to destroy them from with-, in as Russia was destroyed. We must win, or our fate will be as Rus sia's. We must win, or our high professions of service to humanity will be a mockery to the name of America through the ages to come. America is awakening; its heart Is on fire; it has revealed its soul to a world that did not know it before and now Is 'dazzled by the light. A deathless purpose to win this war is i gripping the American ' people. The Third Liberty Loan will test this pur pose—will give expression this month. Already the young men of America I have "dedicated theitl lives," and | have gone to meet their "fiery trial and sacrifice" on the battleline in France. Hundreds of thousands of our own boys are now facing the cruel foe. Into the trenches, filled with mud and blood; into the clouds of poison-gas and the streams of liquid-fire, into the iron hail, and the whirlwind of destruction, thev have gone with shining eyes and shouts of defiance, to fight for us, and for a world of brothers. They'll drive the enemy back with our nelp. Now the sternest summons of duty, the holiest call of patriotism, comes to us for immediate answer. We mHt now, we can not, evade it. What are we at home going to do, this year, this month, to match the heroißm and sacrifice of our boys !n France? How are we, safe and snug at home, going to "dedicate our fortunes—everything that we have," to this supremo task, as we are call ed now, to subscribe the Third I.ib- I erty Loan? We are expecting tj read of American heroism In battle, ! of the invincible strength and cour age of our armies as they meet the foe. But heroism and strength, and sacrifice are not enough. They, alone, can never win the war. While we are looking eagerly to our ar mies, they are looking eagerly to us. They are expecting us to do our part with as complete devotion and sac rifice as they are doing theirs. If we at home fail our armies on the bettiellne. they will—they must—fall us, and be swept away In defeat nnd disaster. This Third Liberty Loan means not the mere preparation of our armies, but their preservation on the battleline, their very lives, and the victory they must have if Amer ica ond the whole cause of freedom are to escape unspeakable ruin. Day by day we shall scan with throbbing hearts the casualty lists cabled from the American Army in the field. The length of that casual ty list depends <UHBIH Every one of us is Third Liberty Loan is to keep that casualty list down. Every Liberty Bond you buy this month is a life-saver sent ly 1 you to the boys In France. This loan must not fall; It must not even drag. Quick, eager over subscription is our only possible ac tion. Buying a few Liberty Bonds with money that can easily be spar ed will not now be enough. We must go deeper and lend until it hurts. We must square the should ers, brace the back, grit the teeth, and lift until It strains evei*y nerve and muscle. Every man's money • must burn as hotly with love of coun try bs does the Are in some men's blood. The Nathan Hales of to-dny ! will go Into the banks and the safe ty-deposit rooms and count their money and securities with eager, Jealous thought of what they can do of heroic service, and then will ex claim, "I only regret that I have but one fortune to give for my coun try." Then "this nation, under God, will have a new birth of freedom." Then will our armies be invincible and victorious. Then will this war end with the triumph of justice and human liberty, and peace will come to stay forever. Now we must buy Liberty Bonds.] Now, with our own boys lighting in the trenches, we must support them to the utmost with our cash and our credit. What good will our money be to us if we allow them to lose? What shall our bank account, or our income, or our borrowing ability profit us if the Huns set their heels on our shores and fasten cheir clutches In our throats, as 1 they have boasted they will do? The best time to protect our free land and our homes is now, while we can. The best time to support our own* armies, and our allies, with ships, and food, and ammunition, and re-enforcements is now, when they will mean victory. Miracles of mobilization, equipment, transpor tation, and supples for our own ar mies and help for our Allies have been wrought by means of the First and Second Liberty Loans. But the greatest needs, the most imperative, must now be met by this Third Lib erty Loan. More and more urgent, the appeals are coming to us from "over there." Afew days ago, this message was flashed across the ocean from one of the high military au thorities of France: "It is not enough that your sol-1 diers are fighting and shedding their I blood at our side: not enough that!, you are moving splendidly with your! , limitless resources in men and ma-j! terial. You must do better still. YOU MUST COME WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT AND SPEED. "Think of yourselves as under an immediate, terrible, and personal menace, as if a barbarous, cruel in vasion were coming to occupy your land as it has already devastated ours. That is what it means, andj you will not be doing your utmost | until you see and feel it in those; precise terms." i Make no mistake; just such a ter-> rihle and cruel invasion, with all its' barbarity and destruction, actually threatens us if we do not insfire the victory of our armies in France. Plans are ready and waiting, and insolent have made again and again by the Kaiser and his Prussians. They need the wealth of America to pay their own huge war costs, and they will seize It if we do not prevent them. Billions tor ourour armies and our allies, but not a dollar for the Hun! Refusal, neglect, insufficient effort to sub-! scribe now for the Third Liberty will be an invitation to the Hun to ravish and loot American cities and homes. President Wilson spoke straight to each one of us when he said, "The supreme test of the nation has come." Subscription, to the point of sacrifice, for the Third Liberty Loan is "a public duty, a dictate of pa triotism, which no one can now ex pect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring." The Literary Digest has no mess age of its own so serious, so vital, on this war anniversary, to put be fore its millions of American read ers as this call of the nation's su preme need for patriotism and un selfish service in the purchase of Liberty Bonds. Now is the time to feel the red blood of manhood and womanhood beating hot in our veins with a single compelling purpose, a single mastering love, a spirit of sacrifice, that gives all to America. Heroes at home must stand behind the heroes in France to win this war. No Stupid Censorship [New Tork Times] To keep the American people, who are thousands of miles away from the battle zone, in complete Ignorance of what is happening to the units of their army would be shortsighted and incredibly foolish policy. It would prove, as time went on, something of a strain on patriotism. That would be most unfortunate, for It should be he judicious endeavor of the adminis tration to see that the interest of the people in the war and their concern about the fortunes of their armies were always maintained. To suppreses legitimate news and to hide or withhold losses, denying relatives even the names of those who foil in battle, would be to foster apathy about the cause for which America is fighting, to provoke sedl t'on among enemy aliens, and to en courage the pacifists to renew their agitation for a negotiated peace. There is one thlngr that the most patriotic Americans will not stand— an arbitrary and stupid censorship. APRIL 8, 1918. LABOR NOTES Forty thousand New York civil service employes protest against the Murphy bill ostensibly giving them power to appeal to the courts for reinstatement when dismissed. Kentucky State Workmen's Com pensation Board has ruled that where an employe is injured dur ing the lunch hour the accident o rises "out of and in the, course of employment." The Federal Board for Vocation al Education has prepared a plan to increase, by vocational education, the earning power of injured sol diers and thereby rendfr them econ omically independent. Atlanta (Ga.) plumbers and pipe fitters have secured a union-shop agreement which calls for a minim um rate of $5.50 for an eight-hour day and the Saturday half holiday. Wisconsin State Industrial Com mission has ruled that an employe need not submit to a dangerous sur gical operation in order to receive benefits under the Wisconsin work men's compensation act. Ottawa local letter-carriers have petitioned the Dominion Government for an increase in • wages. They asked that the increase be such that permanent carriers receive an in come of SI4OO. At present the high est pay is $2.85 per day. "Equal pay exists only on the statute books," said Miss Florence Etheridge, fourth vice-president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, in urging a House com mittee to raise wages of women Government employes. The general executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Em ployes of America has issued a cir cular to its entire membership urg ing them to be loyal in supporting the Government In the war. [OUR DAILY LAUGH RATHER /I DEEP AT T* THAT. ZN. _ P GirafTe—Come on in monk, it's & d&vi only up to my s wMst. BRIEF SPELL OF CONFI " ) She believes ./ every word he a tclls her -iv jti How long ■cfof 1 have they been married ? They're not 11ill JY married. They're Jlf }/ going to be. MISMATED. Are they well L A nated? [l N /%V^V' No. She can P W \|\v* ipend the / . \ poney much \\ I faster than he n I V yan make it. V\ I t SCANTILY Hubby, how do you like this I hardly know. Are you boycot ting dress ma terials? If so the gown is a success. £b?nittg (fMfat Experience of officials In the State Department the last week during the filing of nominating petitions lias shown that nine-tenths at the causes for which petitions are rejected are lack of affidavits. In former years papers were found defective be cause signers either did not give oc cupations or residences, but the pro vision that not only such informa tion but also the date of signing must be included has tended to make signers more careful. Most of the defective papers have been without affidavits or an incomplete state ment of what the afllant swore |.o. Last week five papers were returned, one of them to a man who had trav eled over 100 miles to tile the paper, because the name and notarial knowledgement had been put on thn papers, but. nothing else. In another instance a bundle of papers came In with one affidavit and it was on a petition which did not contain enough names to make the filing legal. One man traveled all the way from Altoona under the impression that the acknowledgement to peti tions had to be made at the Capitol. Examination of papers has shown that in many instances all signers were obtained in one or two days, while the occupations given by sign ers are of a very wide range and some of thorn never heard of here because they are either local or else the shop name of some calling. As the result of Judge Kunkel's opinion last year when judicial nominating petitions were filed there will bo definite rules for filing papers and such attempts to file papers as throwing them over a transom when the limit had been reached will not bie countenanced. Judge Kunkel's opinion made the time for receiving papers the ordinary office hours. Many of the pheasants which the State Game Commission has kept at preserves during the winter are now being put out in counties near Har risburg and are reported to be pret ty lively birds. This method will be adopted in western counties as being preferable to the egg distribution plan. If the spring is free from for est iires the pheasants ought to thjve in the South mountain, say the' game officers. Reports on deer are to the effect that in the Pike county district they have been raid ing farms and orchards and some reports of like nature have como from Blair county and the Cumber land valley. The central county deer have been reported as having stood the winter well. The elk have not been heard from. The next ten days will see*marked activity among the men who wish to close the state to ruffed grouse hunting for two years as it is hoped to get the pe titions in hand by the middle of the month. There are papers out in practically every county, even some where grouse have not been known so that the movement may be gen eral. • ♦ • Trolley companies throughout this section are handicapped not only by the labor shortage, but by govern ment orders as well. The United States authorities have sent circu lars to the heads of all such corpora tions to make no improvements re quiring any considerable expendi ture of money or labor without ap proval from Washington. The com panies will be permitted to make such repairs as are necessary to keep their lines in good condition, but no- extension of lines except to take care of government enterprises or industries engaged in war work will be allowed. The same is true of the erection of new depots, sta tions, office buildings and the like. This will hold up thousands of dollars worth of improvement throughout this state alone, plafls for which have been made for some time. Among the delays will be that of the new terminal to have been built in Walnut street, near Secctd, this city. • • • Mayor D. L. Keister is one of tho most enthusiastic Liberty Loan workers In Harrisburg. He got len der way so effectively a week ago that already the results of his ef forts have turned into the Harris burg fund many thousands of dol lars in subscriptions and the total ' amount will be tremendously swelled I before the drive ends. "Just part of | the day's work," said the Mayor to a man who complimented him the | other dav. "He's a poor citizen who I won't help sell Liberty Bonds." • • * Dr. John C. Freur.d. compliment ing the venerable Prof. JCurzen knabe as a leader of music for the masses at the meeting in Chestnut street auditorium Saturday evening, knew whereof he spoke. Prof. Kur zenknabe, now living retired, after manv years as a teacher and music merchant in Harrisburg, was in his younger days one of the most active figures in the state. He did much to popularize music in the public schools and several of his textbooks are still regarded as models of their kind. He was a publisher and pub lic speaker as well as a teacher and dealer end in his leisure organized classes of young people in schools and churches and taught them to sing. Many a Harrisburg man and woman now well along in years re members the kindly interest or Prof. Kurzenknabe during their childhood study of the rudiments of music. He was, and is, greatly be loved by musical people everywhere. As ono man put It after the meeting Friday evening: "If oil the Ger mans were like Prof. Kurzenknabe, there never would have been a war.' WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Sterling Eyre, who marshalled Wilkes-Barre's Liberty parade, is colonel of the regiment of the Re serve Militia to which Harrisburg belongs. —Senator W. C. Hackett, of Eas ton, who filed papers to run again, is the son of a former legislator and is forty-four this month. —General C. Bow Dougherty is the head of Wilkes-Barre's lively Patriotic and Security League. —Frank Duffy, former National Guardsman, has been made a lieu tenant colonel of engineer* at Camp Hancock. He comes from Scranton. —The Rev. Allan Gormly, a per sonal friend of Charles M. Schwab, has been placed at the head of the college at Loretto. —Judge Isaac Johnson, of the Delaware courts, Is taking a big in terest In the freeing of turnpikes in his Bectlon of the state. DO YOU KNOW. f —That lU&Tisbtirg Is one of tW big points for distribution of farm tractors and that scores are liandled here every few clays? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first project for Capitol Park was to extend to the river, but leg islators thought the price too bigh because of the brier patches the tract contained.
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