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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
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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.
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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.