HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1 831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELGC.RAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building* Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, & Eiitor-in-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en- j titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or j not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Ml rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. j. Member American $ Newspaper Pub t llshers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ ated Dailies. j Eastern office, I Story, Brooks & I Finley, Fifth I * Avenue Building, ■ IKBffieaa a? New York City; 1 •irarrr 1 itir Western office, ! -SSSJTS Story, Brooks & , Finley, People's , C. "-■JHr Gas Building. ; _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. iijOTys By carriers, ten cents a ! week; by mall, 15.00 a. year in advance, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1918 .We toil as comrades in the night, As laborers in the sun; Grant us the shining of Thy light Until the taslc be done. —ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS. CIVIC CLUB'S WORK fYI HE manifold activities of the I Civic Club are realized by few r.ot closely identified with the organization and a perusal of the club's annual report, as submitted • by the president, Mrs. Henderson, Is a revelation indeed to the un initiated. The club has had a large part in the development and im provement of Harrisburg for the past | decade and more, but it was not un- j til it came into possession of Its beautiful and commodious clubhouse j at North and Front streets that its i efforts were centralized and it took | it.j place as one of the permanent | ir.rtitutions of the city, with its own ! headquarters and its well-defined j radius of effort. The past year has been remark able for the fact that Mie club, while engaged in many war services, did not for a moment lose sight of that other large duty, which is to keep up civic pride and a continuance of civic improvement projects during the period when public! attention through concentration upon the war | Is apt to permit laxity concerting j local matters. The club also has its J eye on the future and the program I BO far as outlined by the president's reports is well worthy of study. | Russia appealing to Germany to rescue the Armenians puts one in mind of a sheep begging a wolf to save a lamb from a bear. WHAT WILL IT BUY? WHAT will the money from one SSO Liberty Bond do? Well, here are a few! things: It will protect 1,000 soldiers from | smallpox and 006 from typhoid. It will assure the safety of 139 wound- j oil soldiers from lockjaw, the germs of which swarm in Belgian soil. lit will render painless 400 opera tions, supply 2 miles of bandages— enough to bandage 555 wounds. It will care for 160 injuries in the way of "first-aid packets." , It will furnish adhesive plaster and surgical gauze enough to bene fit thousands of wounded soldiers. Every purchaser of a Liberty Loan Bond performs a distinct individual service to his country and to our boys fighting in France. SAVING DOES IT NEARLY every bank stands ready to sell you a Liberty Bond on the dollar-down-dollar-a-week plan. Surely you can save enough out of your earnings to make that sacrifice for the Government. You don't want the boys to come homo from the front, where they are fight ing and risking their lives for wuges. less than mere lads receive at home, and have to tell thorn that you thought so little of them over in France that you declined to help them even SSO worth. They'll ask about it, never fear. These boys who are fighting for us are g9ing to find out who stood by them in the crisis and they are not going to feel very kindly toward those who went on spending their money recklessly and carelessly instead of putting it wljere it would help keep the army in munitions and food. The way to get a dollar a week, if you have trouble saving that sum, is to deny yourself and your family one dollar's worth of the things they can do without. When an American citizen. In stead of spending $1 a week or SSO a year for something he wants, de nies himself and lends the money to the Government he performs a double service. First, he furnishes the Govern ment with SSO to use In the prose cution of the war. Second, he has relieved to the ex tent of SSO the drain on our "goods and services;" that is, materials and labor. To make the article or arti cles he would have bought, or to r ' f > j •• i •"•** <r i - ; • . " f* ' ' " / • TUESDAY EVENING, HAimiSBURG &&&£& TELEGRAPH! APRTTJ 16, 1915. manufacture others to take their place in the market, would require materials and labor. In addition, to get the article to him labor and freight space would be required. By doing without the article, he has left free a certain amount of ma terial to be used for war purposes, a certain amount of labor to be used In the same way, and he has also relieved to a certain extent the transportation facilities of the coun try. This may not be much in the indi vidual case, but when hundreds of thousands and millions of Ameri cans pursue this course it means millions and millions of dollars j loaned the Government, tremendous quantities of materials left for uses of the Nation in this war. millions lof hours of labor free to do war | work, and a vast amount of freight space free for national uses. These sacrifices are easy to make; are small and trivial compared to the sacrifices that our soldiers and sailors make daily while they offer constantly, their lives for their coun try, the greatest sacrifice of all. Count Czernin has been forced to resign because he told the wrong va riety of lie. POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM POLITICAL activity that disre gards and Is indifferent to the serious thought of the people in the present world crisis will react upon those who fail to understand the temper of the average American cit izen. Those so obsessed with their own ambitions that they do not grasp the strong undercurrent of protest against purely partisan or 'actional activity are riding for a hard fall. It is as certain as that day follows night the peopie aie toing 'o resent the overplaying of the political game at this time When the heart of the natfon is overseas with the boys who ar? fighting for humanity and our own liberties, it ought to be apparent to noisy and selfish political groups thist they are out of joinr with the spirit and purpose of tho people. Of course, we must observe our civic obligations and discharge to the utmost our civic duties, but it j does not follow that we shall be so engrossed in these things as to fail in the performance of those higher obligations growing out of the struggle in which we as a people are engaged. In the nomination of candidates for public service, partisanship and factional controversy have mighty little place under the circumstances. Thousands of our people are think ing •;! the outcome of the titanic -onfli'-t *cr the preservation c.' our civiil/i- Con; thev ; rr little co*i >.ersj with the bicke-'T, and tnj ham. striniji.'.e and the It sincerity of men who refuse to visualize the vital fac tors involved in the world war. So far as the Republican party is concerned in Pennsylvania—whose traditions justify the hope that out prlltical lea'.crs and the men of all parties will adjust their activities to present-day conditions—it ought to be understood here and now that any aspirant for public preferment who so far forgets the obligations of citizenship as to place his per sonal ambitions ahead of his duty as a patriotic citizen is undeserving the consideration of the people j without regard to party or any affill-' ation whatsoever. It is now our country first, and It is reasonable to expect that all po etical activities will be conformed to the unprecedented conditions which now afreet all thoughtful citizens. Away with all bitter con troversy, personalities and factional or partisan machination! It must be fine to be a son of the Kaiser and have somebody else fight all your battles for you. AFTER-WAR TRADE PRESIDENT WILSON having de clared that force without stint or limit must now be used to suppress the Hun, every ounce of strength should be exercised to bring about a righteous peace. It is strongly intimated that outside the military power that is now being utilized on the part of the United States economical resources are be ing mobilized so that even after the war, Germany must suffer for her horrible crime. There is a wide spread sentiment in favor of dis crimination against after-war Ger man trade. Already the business men of the United States, through the national Chamber of Commerce, have voted almost unanimously in favor of discrimination against Ger man trade so long as the military autocracy exists. In short, unless the German peo ple come out of their obesslon and overturn the war lords they must expect to be outside the pale of civ ilized nations. There is confidence In the final outcome of the great struggle, but we must be patient through an or deal such as has never before con fronted the people of this country. When Germans meet Americans some few of the Germans manage to get back to their trenches. iiiii ■ r fotltlciU 'Ptn.KOijCrtuua By the Ex-Committeeman Keen disappointment was telt by certain up-state leaders who are backing the Vares in support of Congressman John R. K. Scott's can didacy for Lieutenant Governor over the failure of the City Committee to indorse a state ticket whet) it met yesterday. Instead of taking up so delicate a subject as a state ticket, the committee refrained from trans acting any business and adjourned out of respect to the memory of former' Mayor Rudolph Blanken burg. Leaders who are helping the Vares in their effort to "put over" Scott confidently expected that the committee would Indorse a ticket and clarify the situation, which has become much muddled through the circulation of rumors. The reluct* ance of the Vare organization to act on the state situation has added to the complications, and there is a growing suspicion that the commit tee, in spite of the declaration that it would pick the ticket to be sup ported by the local organization, will dodge the issue altogether. One of the most disappointed up-state lead ers when the announcement was made that the committee had ad journed without taking action is said to have been William S. Leib, of Schuylkill, who counted on the in dorsement of the candidacy of Paul W. Houck for Secretary of Internal Affairs to give some impetus to the Houck boom. —These leaders claim that never before in its history has the City Committee indorsed candidates for state office prior to the primary, and to do so now would establish a precedent. The Philadelphia Record says: "Senator William C. Sproul, it was announced yesterday at his campaign headquarters, will not take the stump on a scheduled speaking tour. The candidate for the gubernatorial nomination will make a trip over the state to meet the voters individually and may fill some speaking engage ments. Those in charge of the Sproul campaign believe that a scheduled campaign tour would be greeted with apathy because of the all-absorbing interest in the war at this time. —Senator E. E. Beidleman, who will oppose Congressman Scott for second place on the Republican ticket, was here yesterday and visit ed the Sproul headquarters. The Dauphin county Senator expects to get active in his own behalf within the next few days. He also plans to make a tour of the state to meet the voters. Beidleman is confident that h.e will have a substantial majority over Scott. W. Harry Baker, secre tary of the Republican State Com mittee, also was a visitor at the Sproul headquarters." —The candidacy of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination received the endorsement yesterday of Henry C. Nlles, of York, who for many years has been actively identified with in dependent movements in the state. He is an ex-president of the State Bar Association and led some of the greatest reform fights ever staged in Pennsylvania. —The Philadelphia Press says: "A curious and interesting phase of practical politics is revealed in the consideration of the so-called "Gov ernor's slate" of four candidates for Congressmen-at-Large. When it be came known from Harrisburg that the Administration would work for a ticket of Congressmen-at-Large, to be held aloof from the O'Nell cam paign for the present at least, it was learned that at least three of the men apparently had been chosen be cause their surnames began with the first letters of the alphabet. On the ballot the candidates for each office are printed in alphabetical order. It is recognized among political work ers that the men who fctand at the head of the column receive a certain number of votes on account of that fact alone, the theory being that a certain type of voter is most inter ested in the candidates for higher office, whose names he remembers, but when he approaches the others his mental inertia leads him to mark the required number of candidates from the top of the list down without much regard as to who they are. One experienced observer says their po sition on the ballot will be worth lOO.OQO votes to the "Governor's slate." —Philadelphia newspaper political reviews call attention to the Demo cratic fight in Berks and Luzerne and predict bitter quarrels. There are now five candidates for the Dem ocratic nomination for Senator In the Fourteenth District, comprising the counties of Carbon, Monroe, Wayne and Pike. They are Senator Warner of Weatherly, who is seek ink re-election; J. Purdy Cope, of Delaware Water Gap; Miles Row land. of Milford, Pike County, who filled that office several years ago: E. T. Tiffany, of Honesdale, Wayne County and E. A. Price, of Strouds burg. Mr. Cope is attacking Mr.| Warner for voting to give up the Democrats' right to the first col umn on the official ballot, and also for voting for the repeal of the "full crew law." Mr. Warner explains his action by saying he voted to have the matter placed before the Public Service Commission, which body, hfe says, ought to have the power to decide whether a full-crew law was necessary. "Bryan a Joke as Leader" [From the New York World.] William H. Anderson, state super | intendent of the Anti-Saloon League, i has issued for publication an article i written by him for the forthcom ! ing number of the American Issue, official organ of the league, in which the Dry Federation. William Jen nines Bryan, its president, and Pro fessor Charles Scanlon, one of its founders, are attacked. In this article Mr. Anderson con tends that the Dry Federation was organized in a moment of "sore headedness" and as a partisan body, which facts, he asserts, make it im possible for St to aid in the downfall of the liquor traffic. "As a leader," Mr. Anderson writes, "Mr. Bryan is frankly a joke, so far as the prohibition movement Is con cerned, though as an eloquent speak er in behalf of the prohibition move ment he is a most highly desirable addition to the temperance ranks." Two-cent Papers the Rule All of the five daily newspapers of St. Louis are now on a two-cent basis. The three afternoon newspa pers—Post-Dispatch, Star, and Times —lncreased their price from one to two cents April 1, simultaneous an nouncements of the Increase having been made March 2!K The Globe- Democrat and the Republic, the morning papers, advanced from one to two rents on August 1 and Au gust 2, 1 916. resp jctlvely. The greatly increased cost of pro ducing a newspaper was given as the reason for the new price.—Exchange. 0 <wr jp j Ik ""pMviuu Except the war itself no one topic so concerns a great bulk of Pennsylvania's citizens as the Americanization Conference now in session at Washington. Ex-Senator Lafayette Young, of lowa, represents the faction demanding "total sup pression not only of foreign language newspapers but use of German language, German music and every thing Teutonic." "If I were Presi dent I should to-morrow suppress every German newspaper in Amer ica," Young said. "Ninety per cent, of the German language teachers in elementary schools are traitors." He qualified this by saying it referred to the Northwest —chiefly Minne sota. • • • One of the German big guns with ' a range of eighty miles killed eight chickens in Paris. No, Rastus, this would not pay; better keep to the old style; oft the roost by hand. • • There seems to be something In a name after all. Baltimore papers report the case of a taxicab driver, Ura Hogg, thirty-five-years old, who I has been committed to jail for goug ing a soldier passenger, who had wandered into Baltimore's redlight district. DO IT NOW [New York Times] Subscribing to the Liberty Loan should not be left to the last mo ment. What is wanted is not the taking of the issue by a few, but by the many. It is desired to have so many million subscribers that the mere recital of their numbers will give confidence in us to our allies, and be assurance of America's de termination, not of the determination of a certain percentage of Ameri cans. As many subscribers as pos sible, not merely the subscription of the whole amount, that Is the object. the more subscribers the govern ment seeks the bigger and longer be comes the task, and therefore the man who does most to help the gov ernment is the man who shortens It by getting his subscription in early. The fate of the world is being weighed in smaller scales every day. The future depends, at this moment, not on a great number of campaigns being fought in many quarters of the globe, but on the narrow question whether the troops now engaged in Flanders and Picardy can hurl the Germans back or must themselves succumb. In such a terrific hour as this the question is not whether a pa triotic American should subscribe to his country's war expenses or not, for that question is not be argued. It is whether he should give his answer so quickly that it will bo heard in Flanders and in Picardy. This loan will be taken, but it should be taken with a rush, and the sound of the rush should be heard on the firing line. Memorable Days in History [From Life.] The day he discovered the fire in the lumber yards and turned in the alarm. The day he sat on the seat next to the driver and was allowed to exercise the fire horses for a whole block. The day Uncle Alfred treated him to a box seat at the ball game. The day he made a home run— the ball he hit having landed on the nose of a policeman. The day he was introduced to a beautiful little girl from Belgium, and went right up and kissed her. 1 The day the minister and his w:fi| who were invited to dinner, didn't come—and he was told to eat the'r desert. The day he found a $5 gold piece while shoveling the snow. The day he explained to company that his parents were inclined to quarrel at times. The day he took first prize at school for selling Liberty Bonds. The day Aunt Prudence caught him hltchins onto a brewery truck. The day he tried out his father's corncob. EDITORIAL COMMENT "Every man is born a German be fore he becomes a Christian," a Ber lin professor said to Professor Scho field, of Harvard. And that is as far as most of them get.—Chicago Trib une. "One advantage that comes of the war," savs a commentator, on fash ions, 'is that nowadays you can wear almost anything." Yes, provided you can get it.—New York Morning Tele graph. The Dutch editors say they will re lent the seizure of the Dutch ships ir a dignified manner. That means that they will not call out the army to repel the paymaster when he comes. —Dallas News. "God has been with us," says the Kaiser, using in his latest speech the customary formula implying that the Creator of the univerce is a kind of military attache to the Ger man army. Doubtless Pharaoh was under the same impression when the waters of the Red sea opened and permitted his army to pursue the flee ing Israelites.—San Francisco Bul letin. . LABOR NOTES Montreal (Canada) local union of street railway men has 3,000 mem bers. Surgeon-General Gorgas has ap pealed to American women to begin training as nurses. Drug clerks at Woodstock, Canada, stop work at 8 p. m. every evening except Saturday. A Berlin housewife now has to use 56 different cards When she goes shopping. On May 7 at Joilet, 111., Amalga mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers will convene. Canadian Flaxgrowers' Association, in convention at London, Ontario, deplored the scarcity of labor. Returned Canadian soldiers will constitute a small colony of farmers in Northern Ontario. Commissioner of Education Clax ton urges that married women be called to fill the dearth of teachors. In eight cities classes in banking have been provided for women who have been employed as bank clerks. Many of the United States airplane plants are employing women as fore women. and their efficiency is claim ed to be far better than the men. Experimenters In New Zealand have succeeded In producing pig Iron on a commercial scale from Iron sands found in that country. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND YOU I BOUGHT YOUR \ If You Don't Buy Bonds || IF I DON'T buy a Liberty Bond what may happen? I may be taxed double or treble as much to pay the Kaiser. Is this a joke? It is not a joke but a fact based upon historic precedents. How is it a fact? If America does not win this war Germany will win the war. If Germany wins the war what will the Kaiser do? He will do precisely as his grand father did in 1871 atter he had de feated France. What did old Kaiser William do to France? He made a cash profit of more than 100 per cent, out of that war. Anything else? Yes, the old Kaiser stole from France two valuable provinces, which we would call states in Amer ica. How much were those provinces of Alsace and Lorraine worth? More than a billion dollars. What then was the Kaiser's total profit on the \Var of 1871? Over 100 per cent, in cash and 200 per cent, more in real estate. How did he get 100 per cent, profit in cash ? That war cost Germany, as its own offtcial report shows, about $480,000,000, and the indemnity col lected from France was $1,000,000,- 000. So the Kaiser paid for his war and had over $500,000,000 cash left? Exactly. And the stolen provinces? They were worth more than dou ble Germany's cost of war or over 200 per cent, on the military invest ment. How much has the present war cost Germany? All told, over $30,000,000,000 to date. If Germany won the war from America in another year, how much would the total cost to Germany be? At least $45,000,000,000. If the living Kaiser did to his enemies what his grandfather did to France, how much indemnity will he collect from them? Over $90,000,000,000 In cash and as much more in real estate. What would America's share of this $90,000,000,000 cash indemnity be? • As the United States is the rich est of the Kaiser's foes, he could and would impose the greatest portion upon us. How much? Ho could not very well use out real estate, so that he should un doubtedly take It all out in money. How much money? Not less than $40,000,000,000. By what means would he collect this money? . The same method the old Kaiser used against France. What was that method? Kept an army in France until the very last dollar was paid. How long a time did the old Kaiser give the people of France to pay that billion dollar war tax? Only three years. But If I don't buy a Liberty Bond and help win this war, and Germany does win it, how could Germany reach me personally and force me to pay? Through the United States Gov>- ernment. How would the United States raise $40,000,000,000 of indemnity to pay the Kaiser? As France raised it —by taxes and bond issues. Would our country be forced to pay? It would. Would I ever get any of that money back? Never one cent of It. Would no part of that $40,000,- 000,000 ever come back to the United States? Not a dollar. How then does buying a Liberty Bond differ from buying a bond to pay Germany or paying a tax to Ger many ? When I buy a Liberty Bond I do not give my money to Uncle Sam. I merely lend it to him, and I can get it back any hour of any day I wish to. What is a war indemnity like? It is like the purse stolen from you by a pickpocket. Is the money lost for all time? Absolutely. So if 1 don't buy a Liberty Bond, which is simply lending my money to my country to win the war, the German pickpocket may take fully double as much and never give it back ? That is correct. Is it better then to put all my savings in a Liberty Bond rather than run the risk of losing those savings and as much more? It is far better. Please illustrate. It costs nothing to invest in a bond, because Uncle Sam will pay me interest on my money and give me the cash back any time I want it. The indemnity is a 100 per cent, loss without any hope of recovery. How will Germany levy an indem nity if it wins the war? Bv blockading all our ports and seizing cities as the United States seized Vera Cruz. • Would that bring us to our knees? It would. Why so? Because a blockade would cost us even more than the Indemnity. Even a self-imposed embargo laid by President Thomas Jefferßon cost the United States almost as much Jis the subsequent War of 1812. A Liberty Bond fights for Amer ica. An indefnity bond would pay -for Germany's victory over us. A Liberty Bond adds to our own safety. An indemnity bond would ensure Germany's dominance over us. I A Liherty Bonds feeds and arms an American soldier. An indemnity bond would pay for the gun and food of a German soldier. A Liberty Bond means upholding the glories of our Union handed down to us by Washington and Lin coln. An indemnity bond would fasten upon the world an everlast ing reign of Prussian tryanny from which the ancestors of millions of Americans were once forced to flee in terror. Take your choice. Lend your dollars temporarily to Uncle Sam or give them away outright to Kaiser William. GIRARD. Into the Ranks You will find at the present mo ment that whenever an understand ing of the war penetrates the brain of any man, whether he be laborer. Socialist, banker, reformer, priest or poet, from that moment he steps, willy-nilly, out of his own rank and olass and into the fighting ranks of the Republic.—John Jay Chapman In the Outlook. A PLEA Believe mo, Mr. Hoover, I've been doing as you ask. Though cutting down the meat and wheat has been a painful task; I love a juicy porterhouse and pork chops give to me A gastronomic happiness akin to ec stacy; Yet still I'll heed your least request and hark to every warning. But, leave, oh leave my sausage in the mornjng. I'm cutting down on sugar and on milk and cream as well, I always take my lunches at a Hoov erized hotel. But in this frosty weather when the tempest howls outside There's so much warmth and com fort in a sausage crisply fried; It has a scent ambrosial I cannot think of scorning, I prithee, leave my sausage in the morning. With buckwheat cakes and sirup it's a gorgeous combination Which fills the inner mortal with a sense of vast elation; I've never learned to breakfast on some coffee and a roll, And so I make my plea to you in humbleness of soul; Take, take my wheat and meat and such the dinner board adorning, But leave, on leave, my sausage in the morning! —By Berton Braley, Judge. [OUR DAILY LAUGH \ sK ,a proving iT ,jp ft you know it's wrong for llttl# (y boys to flght? Willie doesn't know It and I'm \ r V)£\ SOMETHING 4 >- 0 GAINED. Oh. gardening Is ja, sport, in vfs |f~ Beneath the I smiling Though you may only // BH raise a 'raw i weed You've had the f exercise. MWlk, PEACE TALK, lfllll llil Little boy, llt- MsVvm \W, i tle boy ' you ' h ° u,dn,t flght fy. i • f&j ft) that way. kyyftLjjt ''iM 1 * Hold off your IVT * peace talk, lady. V I I ' ° n 0 more I U 1 I 1 punch on the (MJL AM nose from me gfflutf'i and I'll have this kid ready to listen to m*. Itontttg (Etjal It is possible that when the nati onal authorities get through passing laws and interpreting them that Harrisburg will have furnished under the draft more men than required. The situation in regard to credits under the draft is the most remark able ever known and has puzzled many*mcn, but those who have work ed it out believe that Harrisburg, Lancaster and some other places have given about all that is required, although when the country calls they are all willing to respond. The pecu liar condition is due to the fact that the Army has not given credit or the draft calls to Harrisburg and the other cities in the same fix for the men they sent into the auxiliary organizations of the National Guard after last Juno and by the same token there have been no credits given for enlistments in the Regular Army. It is argued here that either credits should bo abolished or else that they should be worked out. In Snyder county some of the folks be lieve that the men sent this month will exceed the quota of the county considerably. • The canteen workers of the local Red Cross chapter are doing a most admirable work in meeting the vari ous troop trains from day to day and supplying the soldiers on their way with postcards, magazines, fruit and other evidences of the regard of a patriotic community. These women are doing this work without any ostentation and practically no publicity, but could the story of their unselfish attention to the boys who are going to the front be given in detail it would constitute one of the most interesting chapters of our local war activities. Harrisburg is going to have a warm place in the memories of these soldiers of the Republic, and their appreciation is always voiced in most grateful terms. The Public Service Commission lias made an order for improvement of the trolley service in Pittsburgh which is believed by people at the Capitol to indicate that something like it will be made in other places where companies have refused to reduce number of stops in order to prevent congestion on lines and to keep cars on time. The gist of the order is rather applicable to people who have seen a car going to Rock ville, Lingiestown, Middletown or Hummelstown jammed to the doors with local traffic while cars intended to take caro of such traffic ramble along in the rear, forced to make the same stops as the through car which is doing local work. In Pitts burgh's case the commission gives the number of stops cars are to make on certain routes and the com ments indioato that similar orders can be looked for elsewhere. Ulti mately, in opinion of people at the Capitol, companies will be forced to establish express cars for the welfare of their through passengers al though in this and other cities this idea has been vigorously opposed. Express cars would mean that Rock villc cars, for instance, would not let off passengers until they reached Maclay street, for instance, while Hummelstown cars would not let off passengers until 19th or 21st and Linglestown cars would keey. their out-going doors closed untu 20th street, for example. It might make some trouble with foreigner* on the Steelton line not to stop a Middletown car until Lochiel or Conestoga street in Steelton, but if would be a boon to through gers. It would be a great educator for the trolley traveling public, judging by what has happened in New York, Baltimore and Phila delphia. * • • Miss Resta Runkle. who stands behind the ticket window at the Orpheum theater, meets many strange experiences every day. Yes terday afternoon George Washington called her on the telephone and or dered seats for the show. "Let me have two seats," he said. "One is for George Washington; the other for Sherlock Holmes." Several days ago, a man walked up to the window. "Let me have a whisky seat," he ordered. To the mystified Miss Kunkle he made the explanation that a whisky seat is what is com monly known as an "end" seat. "Guess he wanted it to go out and get a whisky between acts" com mented the young woman. • • "If any more snowstorms come along this city will not have shovels on hand", said a hardware man to day. "We have sold every snow shovel we had and I believe some of our friends in the same business have done the same thing. It seemed to me as though everyone owning a snow shovel had given it away or lost it following the hard winter through which we have just passed when this 'onion snow' came along. Then everyone wanted to buy. Wo had packed ours away and we had to hustle to get them out." * Justice William P. Potter, of the Supremo Court, who died suddenly at Swarthmore, was well known to many residents of Harrisburg as he has been a frequent visitor here since the Stone administration dur ing which he was nominated and elected. Justice Potter was a great admirer of the Harrisburg river front and of the State Capitol. • • * WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. C. McEldowney, the big Pitts burgh banker, has been elected a director of the Chicago and North western. —Bishop Garvey, of Altoona, la taking a vacation at the seashore. —Ernest T. Trigg, president of the Philadelphia chamber of commerce, does not consider that the study of German is important from a com mercial standpoint. —Thomas DeWitt Cuyler. promi nent Philadelphia financier, has been elected a director of the Western Union. —Harry K. Boyer, who resigned as food administrator of Mont gomery county because he found that he had to pay all expenses him self, was formerly State Treasurer. —The Rev. John Baer Stoudy, who organized the Pennsylvania Hugue not Society, has been re-elected pre sident. k —Reed Knox, son of the senator m has enlisted in 'the United States cavalry. | DO YOU KNOW —TJiat Harrisburg enlistments have been keeping larger cities stepping to equal? HISTORIC HAKRISBVRG One hundred years ago there were three ferries crossing the Susque-> hanna here.
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