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THURSDAY, APRIL, 11, 1918
The Life of God is not to be dig*'
covered by reasoning but by obey*'
ing. — RUSK is-
PRECISELY RIGHT j
THE executive committee of the j
Dauphin County Ratification \
Committee hit the nail right on
the head when, at a meeting held
last evening, it passed the following
resolution urging its members to
concentrate on the election of legis
lators pledged to the "dry" amend
ment:
As legally, the votes of legist
lators alone can ratify the na
tional prohibition amendment,
though there may be the possi
bility of influencing of votes by
other officers, it is the judgment
of this committee, thnt under pres
ent conditions, it will be wise for
the temperance organizations of
Dauphin county to concentrate all
efforts in the campaign before the
primary election to secure the
defeat of wet candidates and the
nomination of dry candidates for
the Legislature.
With every candidate for Gov
ernor worthy of consideration
pledged to support the prohibition
amendment and some of them going
to even greater lengths for the
abolition of the liquor traffic in
Pennsylvania, the Governorship, as
far as the liquor problem is con
cerned, is removed from the primary
(ontest. The big issue now before
the people is the adoption of the
federal amendment by the next Leg
islature. The Governor is not re
quired to sign the resolution. The
question is in the hands-of the Leg
islature. The liquor people know
this and are working tooth and nail
for the election of legislators and
Senators. Nothing would please
them more than that the temperance
forces should become involved in a
partisan or factional controversy
over the Governorship and lost sight
of the Legislature, as they did in
1914, when local option w?s at stake.
The Dauphin county committee's
example should be followed by sim
ilar committees elsewhere. It Is
working along sane and practical
lines designed to give the people the
l.ind of a Legislature, regardless of
party, that will vote for the "dry"
amendment.
A ROOX FOR ROYIIOOD
AMERICAN* boyhood -win hail as]
a heaven-sent boon the an- !
nouncemont that due to the;
need of castor oil as a lubricant for j
ir craft machinery there will be a J
scarcity of that product during the
remainder of the war.
Do you remember how the horror
of castor oil hung constantly over
your otherwise blithe and youth
ful spirits during the feasting
of Thanksgiving and Christmastide;
of those days when mother's reme
dies so often seemed far more to be
dreaded than the stomachaches that
usuaJly followed our holiday indul
gences? First, the turkey, the fruit
cake, the mince pie, the candy—and
then mother with the castor oil bot
tle, as inexorable and inevitable as
fate. We shuddered, we squirmed,
we protested, we wept, but we swal
lowed —and then we shuddered
ii gain-
And the same nemesis of the bot
tle hung between us and many a |
green apple laden branch and
danced across the table cloth in gob
lin glee when we shyly proposed a
second piece of strawberry short
cake. It arose to haunt our pleasant
dreams of a day in bed when, on a
cold, rainy morning, we timidly re
marked that we had headache and
"felt queer all over" and hinted that
school was no place for a boy whose
lover might rise dangerously at any
moment or might he suddenly over
taken by a chill. Then It was that the
castor oil bottle came down from its
shelf and without further debate we
became martyrs to our imagined
maladies or showed such sudden
signs of remarkable recovery that
the bottle went back, to be held in
readiness for any return of the
symptoms.
Once we found a place in the
natural history book where it said
that castor beans were rejected even
by hogs and that not even the most
degraded savages would consider
them M an article of diet, and we
i rushed to show mother, with the
argument that what pigs refuse was
certainly no fit medicine for boys.
But such are the prejudices of wom
ankind, deep-set by parental injunc
tion and supported by household ex
perience, that the argument was
wasted;
The Avar, however, bids fair to re
lieve the small boy of to-day from
the bondage of castor oIU Now, if
only somebody can find use for those
other old stand-bys—melted goose
greasei camomile and yarrow tea,
powdered quinine and sulphur and
molasses, we shall consider that all
the fighting has not been In vain.
Down with tyranny of all kinds;
freedom for our friends, the boys, is
our battle cry-.
The Kaiser Is beginning to tell the
folks back home Just how it happens
that he didn't win the big victory that
was to have ended the war. But as
yet he hasn't told them the truth—
which is that the allies are better
soldiers than the Germans*
THE ALDERMANIC EVfL
j HE police court-aldermanic mud
die, involving the collection of
I costs that bear the suspicion
i of being excessive, is the direct out-
I come of a situation that ought to
i have been corrected by the Leglsla
\ ture long ago* Evil masquerading
j under the guise of law is far more
j to be feared than evil that operates
i outside the law, for it is much more
( difficult to reach. It Is so with the
j aldermanic system in force here and
in other third-class cities, and it Is j
time serious attention is given to |
the matter.
Under the legal provisions, each j
ward is entitled to an alderman, who,;
in addition to the authority usually
vested in a notary, has among other
powers those of a committing mag
istrate, and It is this phase of aider
manic activities that is most open to
criticism. It is well known that certain |
aldermen have grown rich on the re- j
turns of the criminal cases passing j
through their offices. It has been j
charged, and not denied, that some j
constables acting for case-hunting j
aldermen, have stirred up trouble in j
their districts in order to provide j
material upon which to base suits, j
and it is a notorious fact that ignor- |
ant colored people and foreigners j
for years have been "held up" In j
these aldermanic courts and made j
to pay excessive fines and costs.:
Trivial cases that ought to have been
dismissed, others in which there was
lack of evidence and still others
based upon ulterior motives, have
been reported to criminal court in
such numbers —purely for the pur
pose of piling up aldermanic court
fees—that the judges frequently
have protested to the aldermen
against cluttering the dockets with
them.
The alderman -has outlived his
usefulness, at least in Harrisburg.
There is proper and really necessary
work for about four in the city, at
living pay. The number should he
reduced to some such figure and
they should he confined to civil work.
Their present police duties ought to j
be performed by municipally em-1
ployed police magistrates and per- j
haps one such—certainly not more |
than three, all told —could look after \
all the legitimate police court work j
developing in the city, and thus put;
down the "farming" of crime as it,
has been practiced here for years.
There are honest, honorable alder
men, many of them, but they, un
fortunately, must suffer with the
guilty.
A cleaning up of the whole crime
detecting and prevention system of
the city is needed. There is much to
j be corrected both within aldermanic
circles and without. Civil Servioe has
not corrected all the defects of the
police system by any manner of
means, even though it has added
greatly to the burden of the taxpayer
and has to some extent removed the
police force from politics. Mayor
Keister Is correct in his views as to
the desirability of having a commit
ting magistrate for police court
hearings, but the way to do this is
by act of Legislature, which at the
same time would eliminate the al
derman's office, or at least reduce
the number of aldermen and limit
their power.
LIGHT FILTERS THROUGH
IT HAS taken the Democratic
press a long time to come Into
agreement with the Republican
and independent press on the sub
ject of reasonable publicity concern
ing the conduct of the war, but it is
evident that the more influential of
the Democratic editors are seeing
the light, Says the New York
Times:
The plain error of too many de
partments, boards, all sorts of
bureaucrats or authorities, has
been to dangle rainbows before
the country, to daub rich pigment
of imagination on the facts, to
take the future for the present,
to represent hopes as realities.
The country wants the truth, no
matter how disagreeable, about
the America share In the prose
cution of the war.
That is Just exactly what the Re
publican presa has been saying for
a year, but it has taken a long
time for the leader of the Demo
cratic'press to admit that the de
mand for honest and full publicity
was in accordance with the best in
terests of the nation. There has
never been any reasonable doubt
that the American people can be
trusted. We have not been keeping
anything away from the Kaiser by
people.
By the
'PoCtfZc* £k
Men were waiting outside the State
Capitol to-day for the opening of
the Department of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to file nominat
ing petitions for the May primary,
this being the last day upon which
such papers may be entered. Over
675 petitions were filed yesterday,
fifty being rejected because of lack
of affidavits or other defects, and it
is expected that at least 1,000 pe
titions will be presented to-day. In
the first hour of business over 100
were presented by candidates or
messengers and registered letters
containing papers were in mounds on
the desks. The rush In the last forty
eight hours of the period for filing
papers is the worst ever known in
the opinion of men at the Capitol.
The Prohibitionists and Socialists
are the first to get their complete
state tickets on record, comparative
ly few Republicans and scarcely any
Democrats having entered their pa
pers for state-wide nominations up
to noon to-day. The whole list of
Democratic candidates will be filed
by Democratic State headQuarters,
according to word telephoned to the
Capitol, while the Sproul petitions
will be brought from Philadelphia
and the O'Neil petitions filed from
the headquarters here. The candi
dates for state-wide nominations will
file only a small part of the peti
tions circulated in their interest.
—The filing of petitions late yes
terday developed some very interest
ing situations. In the Hazleton sena
torial district Senator DeWitt filed
papers for about all the nominations
he could get and in the Luzerne Con
gressional district John J. Casey is
on three tickets for the primary.
Congressman Edgar R, Kiess, of the
Williamsport district, filed Republi
can, Democratic and Prohibition pa
pers. Big fights were forecast in the
York-Adams, Berks-Lehigh, llc-
Keesport and "Shoestring'' districts
by the filing of Congressional papers.
—One of the interesting things
things which has turned up is the
resentment shown in Pittsburgh
against Acting State Chairman Jo
seph F, Guffey, the slated Demo
cratic candidate for governor, be
cause he assailed the intention of
Max Leslie to run for senator on Re
publican and Democratic tickets.
Guffey is one of the grand chief mo
guls in the effort to have Congress
man Guy E. Campbell, an accidental
Democratic Congressman, get on all
tickets this year.
—The filing of the Democratic
Slate will be attempted by much
flapping of the windmill to-day. The
papers are being run through the
rolls and the result will be presented
with the approval not only of Pal
mer and his pals, but of the Presi
dent and the whole Democratic hier
archy.
—J. Denny O'Neil left Harrisburg
last night for McKeesport where he
will open his campaign for Govern
or, announce his platform and add
to his attacks upon Penrose and
Sproul. Governor Brumbaugh and
Gifford Pinch ot are expected to
speak with him, but Attorney Gen
eral Brown, who was stated some
time ago to be one of the speakers,
will not be able to attend.
—Senator Sproul will start to
make some speeches next week as he
has been compelled to refuse requests
this week owing to an attack of grip.
—The time for filing papers is
closing, but the row in Philadelphia
seems to be just reopening. It is
hinted that the federal authorities
and the District Attorney may have
some surprises in store on the vice
situation in Philadelphia. The anti-
Vare forces will put up opposition
to Congressman Vare and Vare j
leaders. The reformers last night I
continued their attacks on John R. I
K. Scott.
—While the Republican Alliance
in Philadelphia, will have papers
filed from practically every district
in Philadelphia the Town Meeting
party executive committee unani
mously decided last night not to file
any papers for nominations on the
Town Meeting party ticket for the
spring primaries. Several nominating
papers which have already been filed
for members of the Legislature will
be withdrawn. This action was de
cided upon as a result of the decision
of the Dauphin county court restrict
ing Town Meeting party nominations
to Philadelphia county, thereby ex
eluding the party from making nom
inations for state offices. It was de
cided to make the contest for Con
gressional, Senatorial and legislative
nominees exclusively in the Repub
lican primary. All independents are
urged by the committee to enroll on
April 17 and roll up an overwhelm
ing majority at the primaries.
—Senator Penrose has defied the|
Vare effort to prevent him voting at
the Republican primary, according to ;
the Philadelphia North American I
and Bulletin. "I fully expect tol
vote," he said to the North American!
representative. Incidentally, Se:i-|
ator Penrose pointed out that
during the Warwick administra
tion in Philadelphia, the Varos
themselves joined in smashing party
regularity and were prominent in the
movement that elected Alexander
Crow sheriff on an independent
ticket. He referred to the support
given former Mayor Mitchell, run
ning on a fusion ticket.
—lt seems to be regarded as cer
tain that neither Gifford Pinchot or
William Flinn will accept places on
the State Commission of Agricul
ture.
.4 Dig Subject
Farm school commencement ora
tors will attempt to explain the ex
act reasons for the high cost of liv
ing. Is there nothing too difficult for
a graduate to tackle? —St. Paul Dis
patch.
VACCINATION TIME
My dad is touchy as can be,
My ma is too, you bet:
And brother Chris, and Nell, my sis
Just fume and fuss and fret.
Its struck our neighbors, too, I guess,
guess,
I heard them all day long,
Disputin' and complanin'
As If eTerythin' was wrong.
And me! you bet I'm grouchy, too.
Its got to be admitted—
But you may be—Just wait and see!
When you've been vaccinated.
Tou feel day or so.
But then —my gracious sakes!
Tou go to bed —wish you was dead
And every bone just aches!
There sure Is nothing got it beat
To spoil your callalation—
It's mighty hot when we all got
A brand, new vaccination.—Marian
M. Piatt, 3113 Front St., Harriaburg,
Penn*.
AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? .... BY BRIGGS
WHEN YOU'VE BEEN AN, ° YOVJ WONDER IF AND ALL OF A
WORKING IN am YOU'LL HAUE To PUSH A Anj ORDERLY BRI)J<3-S
OFFICE AS ASSISTANT PEN FOR DURATION), y ou A GAS MA-SK A
ADJUTANT ( "THE. COLOWGL A A
STICKLER FOR "PAPER
I AITPP uc u ' YOU Tb vJO INJ , -
T?S HAT YOUR BATTERY UP /N THE AIN'T IT A
y OUR T.M HAT LIMES AT osce GRRR-RNND
ENFORCEMENT OF LAW !
[Florida Times-Union.]
in the eyes of the law there is no
such thing as a prominent man and
no such thing as an insignificant
one. Our government is founded
on the idea that all men are born i
free and equal. There may be privi- j
ileged classes In other countries—, :
there are In many other countries—!
r.nd yet even these are amenable to'(
the general operations of the law. j
Jn this country one man has no more; j
rights under the law than another. | j
But how about law enforcement.!,
If it is enforced as to some and ig-i t
nored as to others law is made an' ,
instrument of tyranny. No man has' f
reason to object to obeying a law' t
that all are required to obey, but if
he is required to obey a law thati j
others are exempted from obeying he! j
is treated outrageously and if such j '
treatment does not make him an an-; j
archist it Is not to the credit of the; a
men who so treat him that he does, .
not become one. If it does drive him 1 1
into a hatred of all law it is more .
the fault of those whose oppression i
embittered him than it is a fault of \
his own. j *
In the enforcement of law socialj .
condition should not be considered, ; .
Not even race should be considered.
If a public official entrusted with '
the enforcement of the law fails to),
enforce it evenly he should not hold,'
his position and he is not even an-1 *
titled to the respect of his fellow-'
men. A public official who wilfully '
refuses to do his duty violates his.; 1
oath.
COMMON SENSE AT LAST j,
[Buffalo Express.] j 1
A press dispatch from Moscow rep- i
resents M. Podvolsky, the assistant;'
minister of war, as saying "Russians '
must take a rifle in one hand and a|l
hammer in the other, submit to the; i
most strict discipline and work 16 it
hours a day if they hope to combat l 1
the menace threatening them." He'l
advocated the immediate creation of}]
a regular army. He ridiculed the,
idea of guerilla warfare, and said i
thnt such an effort would only be a .
"flea bite." Russia, he said, wants ;
dictators and business organization ; ,
instead of pious intentions. He urged ;
compulsory training and commercial;,
as well as military mobilization.
This is the first sensible speech thati
has been spoken by a member of the
Russian government since the 801-j,
sheviki government obtained control. |
When the workmen and peasants ofi
Russia begin to follow that kind ofi
advice, they will cease to be Rolshev- j
iki or will give to the world a radi- j
caliy different meaning. The recap
ture of Odessa may indicate that they i
have caught the spirit of M. Podvol-j
sky already. It is more probable;
that this really Is the of sovoej
local leader among the remnants ofi
the army in Southern Russia, who!
has acted independently of any order:
from Moscow.
PATRIOTIC ACTION
[Savannah News.]
Men rave at befuddled and decelv- j
ed Russia, and yet some of them are]
doing about as much to help defeat;
Germany as is the average Bolshevik, j
They do not yet seem to understand;
that patriotism, to be worth anything)
right now. has to be translated into!
action. You have to do something j
for your country, and you ought to!
he willing and ready and anxious to
do anything you can. Furthermore, j
you ought not to sit back and waiti
until your country hunts you up per- j
sonally to suggest a course of action. I
but you should get busy and hunt up!
things to do for your country. Don t;
profiteer. Don't strike. Buy Liberty
Ronds and Thrift Stamps. Give sonvj
books for the soldiers t.o read. If;
some of your property is needed for:
the public welfare let the public have
It quickly. If your nation calls you to
the colors to risk your life In its ser
vice, go gladly In the knowledge that
you are enjoying a privilege in the
performance of that ckuty.
Tar and Feathers Also Good
As compared to making pro-Ger
mans kiss the flag, smearing them
with yellow paint is highly prefer
able. Nobody has much objection to
the desecration of yellow paint.—
Kansas City Star.
Know Whom to Fear
Tf the Swiss government has pur-'
chased .TOO,OOO gas masks It has re-|
vealed the quarter from which it;
fears aggression. The Allies are not|
the powers that make a specialty ofi
gas.—Buffalo Enquirer.
Faith Without Works
Yea n man may sav. Thou hast ;
faith, and I have works: shew me
thy faith without thy works, and I
will shew thee my faith by my
works.-—Jamea U, 18.
THE PEOPLE'S
FOCH AND GRANT
1 o the Editor of the Telegraph:
Is Ferdi Foch a second General
Qrant?
Just as Grant could instantly com
prehend a military situation, pierce
its very core, saw what to do and
did it better and quicker than any |
other general of his day; so Foch, 1
our new chief of all the Allies, is j
endowed with this same super luili- I
tarv genius.
Since Grant's day, is Foch the !
first foreign general to match the
invincible American?
Let's match them. In narrating I
his lirst day of his battle at Ft. Don
aldson, Grant in his memoirs, says:
"I turned to Col. Webster of my
staff who was with, me and said:
'Some of our men are badly demor
alized, but the enemy must be more
so, the one who attacks first will be
victorious and the enemy will have
to be in hurry to get ahead of me.'
lie ordered an assult at once, storm
ed the fort and captured an army.
It is said of Foch that in the bat
tle of the Somme when a subordinate
general came explaining to him that
his division was too exhausted by
the prolonged fighting to advance,
Foch replied: "Tired are they; well
so are the Germans: attack." And
they cycloned the trenches.
Note even how Grant's battle
methods arc being identically re
fought and paralleled by Foch.
On page 2GO of his memoirs Grant
says: "On the road to Richmond
while General Wright on our left
flank was being driven back by Early,
as the best means of re-enforcing
the left, I ordered Hancock, who was
holding the center, to attack on his
front. He carried and held the rifle
pits and Early was driven back."
At the critical hour of the battle i
of the Ma me, Foch dispatched to !
Joffre: "My right has been driven !
in, my left has been driven In, conse- ]
quently I shall attack with what is I
left of my center." He struck, j
crumbled the Prussian Guard and |
routed Von Kluck.
Again Grant would always collect
the most men where most needed ■
and hold the fewest men where j
! least needed. That is what Foch did |
1 his very first day as general-ln-chief. j
, He is always ready. Is ready now.
His impassable wall of men is now
! built. Ficardy will not break.
Grant believed in victory himself.
| and acted so that others would be
ilieve in it too. Foch says: "Amiens
; will not fall," and every Allied gen
eral now believes and is acting it!
> too.
Destiny lias given to us a second I
; Grant. Hurry. America, and back j
i him up. Don't wait. Remember
j Grant never nsked for more troops,
but always just fought, with what
j Halleek gave him. .Foch is likewise,
j modest in asking us. We must rush
I our troops to him. Speed up our
s fighting stuff and get It to him. Once
j there, Foch knows how to win.
H. E. BUFFTNGTON.
Lykens. Pa. 1
LABOR NOTES
I Women who arc able to qualify as
' draughtsmen will be employed as
| ship draughtsmen by the United
I States Navy. Their pay will range
! from $4 to $6.38 a day.
There are about 125.000 Chinese
' serving In France as farmers, trench
I diggers and laborers. The French
j government began importing them
last summer. It contracts to pay
I each man $lO a month and to send
j another $lO to his family at home.
Sacramento (Cal.) Typographical
Union's wage scale for newspaper
members provides for a work-day of
seven and a half hours and an In
crease of 50 cents a day. The rates
are now $31.50 for day work and
$34.50 for night work.
Stamford (Conn.) Sheet Me*.al
Workers' Union lias secured a wage
Increase of 45 cents a day. The union
h.s an agreement with employers
which does not expire until June 1
next, but the employers accepted the
claim that continued increases in the
cost of living made a higher rate nec
essary.
There are eighteen states which
have adopted the state-wide initiative
and referendum, In their ordr of
adoption, ns follows: South Dakota,
Oregon, Nevada. Montana. Okki
liome, Maine, Missouri, Michigan.
Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona. Califor
nia. Ohio, Nebraska, Washington.
North Dakota, Mississippi and Utah.
OSTEOPATHIC
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you do your part to help cor
rect a mistake which is quite com
monly held by the public, as to the
nature of the bill which osteopaths
are trying to have passed by Con
gress ?
Many people think that we are
asking for a special favor, but the
osteopaths are not. What we want
is the privilege of taking the same
examination which drug doctors take
to get into the Army and Navy; to
be graded on their examinations by
the same examiners; to go into serv
ice with the same rank and pay as
the drug doctors; to take orders the
same as other men of the same rank
and to save the lives of the nation's
heroes.
The osteopaths can pass the same
examinations which other doctors
pass; which was proven by the fact
that the drug doctors promised us a
chance at their examinations last
summer. Twenty-five osteopaths
took the examination and were
graded by the medical men and not
one of them failed to pass. After
the drug doctors found that we could
pass their examinations, they craw
fished and our men were not given
the commissions which they earned.
I would consider It a personal fa
vor If you will publish, as a matter
of news to your readers, the com
parison of the courses of study in
our schools with that of two well
known medical schools, which shows
that we are given thorough training
to treat human ailments. This in
cludes surgery, which is used to a
great extent in the Army and Navy;
as well as the general care and treat
ment of all acute and chronic con
ditions; and that an osteopath would
no more try to set a broken bone by
spinal manipulation than a drug
j doctor would attempt the same re-
I suit by giving a pill.
Yours very truly,
MORRIS G. REIGART,
435 Lincoln St.,
Steelton, Pa.
TOO EARLY GARDENS
To the Hditor of the Telegraph:
This Is a little warning to those
wlio are making gardens for the first
or second time. The temptation al
ways is to get the seed in too early.
My experience over a period is
that gardens planted late grow better
than those planted too early. This
applies even to such hardy seeds as
lettuce, peas, radishes and onions,
which are not hurt much by ex
posure but which do not grow when
the ground is cold. A good time to
plant is when there is just sufficient
water in the soil to keep it moist
\nd when the earth feels warm to
he hand. This does not apply to
weetpeas or annual poppies which
hould be planted verv early.
GARDEN CRANK.
Why Trust Them?
Why, it may be asked again,
should it be necessary to catch a sus
pected German spy in the act in or
der to prove that he is a dangerous
enemy nlien? Is the United States in
a position to trust suspected spies
until they do something to confirm
suspicion? Is it, or is it not? if it is,
why not close the internment camps?
If It Is not, why not enlarge and fill
them ? —Christian Science Monitor.
AFTER THE WAR
•
All of our wrongs shall be righted
After the war;
None of our tasks will be slighted
After the war;
Women will all be gay.
Children will sing and play,
| All will pay
After the war.
I
[Nothing at sixes and sevens
After the war;
All of our hells will be heavens
After the war;
Weary will get a rest,
Misery will be blest,
Worst will become the best
After the war.
What If, readier-hearted
During the war.
Some of these good things were
started
During the war?
Wouldn't we multiply
The chances that you and I
Might be happy by and by,
After the war? —Life.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Most of the Kaiser's spies have
titles before and aliases after arrest.
—New York World.
..Trotzky is now in favor of iron
discipline for the Russian Army, but
we fear it's pretty rusty.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
The infant Bolshevik government
18 a precocious child. Inside of two
months it began to crawl.—Brooklyn
Kagle.
Baker Under Fire.—Head-line. He
got used to it before going over.—
New York World.
Every time von Hindenburg calls
for Victory, Central gives him the
wrong number.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Among the compensations of war
in England is the reduction of three
thousand in the annual output of new
books.—Boston Herald.
The refusal of Servia to submit to
a discussion of peace must make the
admirers of Russia sick. Philadel
phia North American.
New York, which haw-haws every
time Kansas is mentioned, has only
one motorcar for every thirty-flve in
habitants, while Kansas has one for
every t^n. —Clianute Tribune.
The announcement that the birth
rate in Germany has decreased near,
ly one-half in the last, three years
ought to go a long way toward mak
inKt>}e war Popular everywhere else
—Philadelphia North American.
If New Yorkers are to cultivate
12.000 farm gardens this summer, as
Mr. Hoover asks, they will have to
arrange a schedule by which thnir
roof gardening won't interfere with
World WUr eardening - New York
The ''wets" are recalling that Ru.
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lEbemttg CHljat
1 The fact that In a number of In
stances no colored men were spe
cified to be sent to Camp Meade this
month in the quotas announced by
state draft headquarters, under the
call of last Saturday, Is explained
here, by the statement that those
[ boards did not send information re
garding colored registrants. One of
these boards was in Harrisburg. The
siate headquarters, weeks ago asked
local boards to furnish complete
information as to classification of
men, especially as to occupations
and color and a number have only
furnished part of the data requested '
or else not sent any. These boards
are now being urged to complete
their information cards. Inquiries
are being made of local boards as to
reasons for variations of registra
tions In the first class, there having
been some districts where there are
not many aliens which have low fig
ures compared to other districts.
Plans are being made here to put the
farm furlough plans for drafted men
now in camp or who may be drafted
between now and the busy season on
farms, into effect. The federal au
thorities will send the blanks here
and the state headquarters and Statu
i Commission of Agriculture will facil
itate distribution, although local
draft boards will have to pass upon
the application and decide whether
the drafted man is really a farm
worker. Railroad men have begun
the big task of preparing to move
the 10,900 men called to be sent to
the three camps commencing April
26. Owing to the heavy calls made
upon what has hitherto been Camp
Meade territory, there will be more
trains run as both Camps Lee and
Meade are to get men and the Meade
contingent will be made up of white
and colored men. Probably a score
of special' trains will be run.
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If you are a weather sharp, you
can get a job as Army weather man.
State draft headquarters has receiv
ed telegrams from Washington, pro
viding for the special Induction of
meteorologists into the service. That
is the polite name for weather man.
This war is bringing out a good
many new things in Army matters
and weather men are among the lat
est to be called for. There are also
special calls on Major Murdoch's
desk for tailors and photographers.
Some of the latter to be trained to
take pictures from aeroplanes.
• • •
The cool snap and snow of this
week caused a run on places where
oysters are sold, and some of the
oyster bars were kept busy filling
family pails. It seems that this city
is one of the best oyster towns in the
country, and the warm weather ex
isting for a time prior to the snow
of Tuesday, caused many to give up
the bivalves. But the return of
snow, caused the oyster lovers to get.
back on the job, and in the language
of one of the city's noted oyster
men "Dey eat by da barrel." One
dealer said that the rush was caused
by a desire to make the "last call"
before the month without an R.
• • •
Just how Harrisburg is keeping
house is being watched by many
students of municipal affairs. Har
risburg, as is well known, was one
of the few cities in the state t<>
make a success under the old third
class city act and the way it spends
its money and the results it gets as
well as its methods of handling,
everything from finances to streets,
health, police, wires, vice, sewers
and playgrounds, is going to be
checked up by the men in authority
in a number of the cities of Penn
sylvania. and not only of the third
class either.
• •
These are the days for those
husky fellows known as "trouble
shooters." The Bell and the two
telegraph companies have squads of
these industrially strong-armed men
whose business it is to find trouble
and "shoot" it away. The snow
storm caused much work for these
men, and they have been scouring
the country round, putting up new
poles, fixing wires and getting things
to rights. These "trouble" men are
used to more midnight calls than a
doctor and get up and out in all sorts
of weather. They have to be abb'
to climb anything from the. side of
a house to a manager fighting over
expense costs and it is astonishing
how quickly they can get things to
rights, even when the trouble is
miles and miles away in the country
and has to be reached over roads
which no self-respecting automobile
would take and a motorcycle with
bathtub attachment could not ne
gotiate.
• • •
Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery's
address before the Dauphin County
Historical Society to-night, which
will be on "A Harrisburg Commo
dore," will be probably the first au
thoritative sketch of the first native
of this city to rise to flag rank. He
will tell of David Connor, command
er of the squadron which attacked
Vera Cruz, to enable Scott to land
his army. Commodore Connor, was
born in this city about 1791 of par
ents who were refugees from the
Wyoming troubles. He grew to boy
hood in the village of Harrisburg,
and when it had reached the dig
nity of a state capitol, he was a mid
shipmite in Uncle Sam's Navy.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Dr. Francis D. Patterson, of the
k Department of Labor and Industry,
is speaking before Philadelphia doc
tors to-day on the work of the state
for disabled soldlern and workers.
—General C. M. Clement, open
ed Mt. Carmel's Liberty Loan cru
sade.
—John W. Snoke, the Lebanon
county school superintendent, enters
upon his thirtieth year and gets a
raise in salary.
• —A. O. C. Smith, superintendent
of Delaware schools, is another vet
eran in the ranks of the county
school men. He starts his thirty
first year.
—Eugene H. Fellows, of Sernn
ton, who lost out in the superin
tendency contest in Lackawanna, is
a son-in-law of Judge H. M. Ed
wards.
—David H. Lane, the
school director, says some of the*
survey plans are "fiddle-faddle."
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg is being
watched by neighbors to see
how it goes with the Third
I/oan?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
John Harris made a fortune by
•accepting . Continental Congress
money and holding on to it. He had
faith in the government. •
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