8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Founded lt}l Published evenings except Sunday by i THE TGLGGRAFH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Square. A E.J. STACK POLE,/V'< & F.ditor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. 1 GUS M. ST.EINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper ' ■:* and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American Newspaper Pub-^ Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1918 If thou art master, be sometimes blind: if a servant, sometimes deaf. — Fulleb. BUT WHY WASTE IT? PRESIDENT WILSON persists in dodging the issue of war-time prohibition. By a stroke of his (jpen he could, under the law, stop the manufacture of beer during the duration of the war. Yesterday, when a party of distinguished Methodist ministers called upon him at the j White House to plead with him to j save to the people the millions of bushels of grain now going into the manufacture of malt liquors, he i talked at length upon the necessity of producing the maximum amount of food to keep ourselves and our allies I in provisions during the period of hostilities and said that any steps necessary to this end will be taken. But we are not interested in pro duction alone. Man-power is the gravest problem now confronting the nation. Why, then, waste in the making of liquor both the grain ■which the farmers have worked to produce and the man-power required to make and deliver liquor, even though there be enough remaining to keep us from starving if we eat sparingly? Why not turn this sur plus man-power to something use ,ful? With tha government weeding ■ out "unessential" Industries why con , tlnue one that is both unnecessary and wasteful? With this uncertain attitude of the President on the prohibition question, it is little wonder that Judge Bonniwell has found courage to run as a candidate for Governor on the Democratic ticket on a "wet" plat form and that he has found no in considerable following within the ranks of that party. When leader ship hesitates it is easy to under stand how it happens that the rank and file are divided. It Is becoming more and more evi dent that unless and until the admin istration at Washington issues a defi nite and final edict against the con sumption of wheat in the United States, there will be constant Infrac * (ions of the rules of the food authori ties. At least until the new crop of this year, wheat ought to be prac tically eliminated as an article of food, so that our allies and our sol- Jiers may be abundantly supplied. If people will not voluntarily conform their appetites to the needs of the nation they should be compelled to flo so. There Is abundance of food other than wheat, and now Is the time to divert all that we have to those who need it worse overseas. MISQUOTED? GAZING distractedly upon the heaps of German dead scat tered all about the battlefield of Plcardy, the Kaiser is reported as having said: "What have I not done to preserve i the world from these horrors?" Perhaps the Kaiser was misquoted. Very likely he was asking him aelf: What HAVE I done to preserve the world from these horrors?" With Schwab building ships and Edison inventing ways of sinking submarines, the V-boat commanders ■will soon be looking for other Jobs. TOO LATE THE hint comes from Berlin that Germany is ready to forego the Zeppelin and the aeroplane raids upon which she has laid so much Stress if the allies will stop drop ping bombs on German soli. Germany, in recent months, has keen getting a taste of her own hrand of "frightfulness," and her people have no stomach for it. It was all very fine when German raid ers were murdering women and babies in French and English cities and on American ships at sea, but when the allies began to return the s compliment by blowing up munition faCtdries, industrial centers and rail road depots in the precious father-' land, the rejoicing turns to yelps of dismay and the "repentent" Germans l>eg to be permitted to reform. The cry comes too late. It is like the German hint that the Kaiser would not be averse to stopping the use of gas in battle. The Germans have had their turn, and now It is ours. We are going to out-gas them SATURDAY EVENING. HARRISBTTRG TEXEGK3LPHT APRIL' 20, 1918. anil out-bomb them. We're going to | carry this war to GSrman-SDil. We | are going to make the home-staying German people understand In a way what this war has meant to France, although allied soldiers never will do in Germany what the German beasts have done in Belgium and France. We are going to use German weapons against Germany until her people are made to understand that us one sows so also shall he reap, and that the harvest of the wind is the whirlwind. NO TfitfE FOR RANTING AN OUTBURST from Highway Commissioner O'Neil agaihst J Senator Sproul, his leading competi tor in the Republican primary for the gubernatorial nomination, con strains us once again to appeal for a more sane attitude on the part of the political forces in' this crisis of the nation. From the very gen eral approval of a recent Telegraph editorial on the subject of "Politics and Patriotism," we are justified in believing that the people as a whole j are disposed to resent the bitter controversies which to-day are in cidental to the campaign in Penn sylvania. Partisan and factional considerations are having mighty little weight with the average citi zen. Mr. O'Neil charges Senator Sproul with being "afraid to go on the stump" v>d indulges in a fusil lade of invective wholly foreign to a contest involving the highest office in the state and which should be conducted with dignity. There is likely to follow a widespread protest among Republicans and citizens generally who oppose political meth ods at variance with the fitness of things in official and political ac tivities. This latest outbreak of the State Highway Commissioner is not likely to strengthen his cause among the people. He is making his appeal on a great' issue and the lack tof poise which is too often manifest ir. his public statements is bound to shake public confidence In his qualifications for the office of gov ernor. Heroics and charges of in sincerity against his chief competitor will do Mr. O'Neil no good and Sen ator Sproul no harm, especially if the latter pursues his policy of dig rified silence with respect to these occasional ill-tempered outbursts of the Highway Commissioner. What Mr. O'Neil may think of Senator Sproul or Senator Sproul think of Mr. O'Neil is of very little importance. What the people ar6 particularly anxious to know is, which of the several candidates is best qualified by experience and training for the executive office on Capitol Hill. Republican voters are j not going to be stampeded into the support of any candidate through assaults upon others seeking the nomination. It were better for all candidates to keep in mind con stantly that the voters are largely occupied with the great issues or the war and the vital things which have to do with the titanic*struggle that now confronts the nation and the world, rather than with personal ambitions or petty resentments. Mr. O'Neil has many admirable personal qualities, but his principal weakness seems to be a disposition to engage In rough-and-tumble en counters with all who happen to differ with him. Just now self control and a conservative attitude on all public questions are the things which will commend tho3e seeking public office to the people. If it is not possible for the Re publicans of Pennsylvania to sub merge their factional differences for the -welfare of the party as a whole, then it may be reasonably demanded of all candidates that they observe a dignified course In the prosecution of their respective* campaigns. Wo suspect that in the last analysis the voters will determine for themselves without the illuminating propaganda of the candidates who of those In the field are the better equipped for public service. One thing is certain, the people are not going to bo impressed or influenced by superheated denuncia tion of one candidate by another • nor by the appeals of those who place factional or party triumph above the graver and more vital prob lems now engaging the thought and attention of all the people. MAYOR AND CURFEW CURFEW mustnot ring to-night" seems to have been the slogan in different parts of Harrlsburg during recent months. Thanks to Mayor Keister, the neglect of a very wise ordinance is to cease. Too many children arc permitted to run wild at night without let or hindrance from parents or guardians. Mayor Keister will be doing a good thing for the' city, the children and indifferent; parents and guardians when he com- \ pels girls and boys of tender years to| be off the streets at the hour fixed by the curfew law. If parents and those responsible for the proper rearing of children will not give the supervision to the youth which their responsibility en tails, then, as the father of the city, Mayor Keister" must do that little job himself. More power to him! liberty Bond advice: "Come across or the Kaiser will." When you get down in the mouth, remember the smiles of the boys on the other side and ask yourself what you have to worry about. Schwab evidently does not believe in absent treatment for shipbuilding troubles. TollUct oc By the Ex- Committeeman Just one month from to-morrow Pennsylvania's primaries for the nomination of state, congressional and legislative tickets will be held and if the enrollment in the town ships and boroughs and in Philadel phia are anything to go by there will be a large poll by the Independent voters. Indications are that the third-class city registration on May 1 will add materially to the list of those qualified to vote and in these stirring times the person qualified will probably vote. The campaign for the nominations bids fair to open earlier than usual, and while some of the aspirants are adopting methods ordinarily not em ployed until the wind up of general elections, it is questionable whether the people are going to get heated up over much of the talk, especially when it is based on topics which have been mulled overand over again in the last half dozen years. It seems .to be pretty generally believed that the prohibition amendment is going to be ratified in Pennsylvania, and while the "wets" are starting fights in both the Republican and Demo cratic parties, they will not succeed In making nominations for state of fices. The contests of poniinating peti tions whose hearings will be con-' tinued in the Dauphin county, court next week are developing some in teresting things, especially the way nominating petitions are gotten up. For a long time there has been much talk among thonghtful men of the need of a complete change of the primary system and it will likely be discussed in the next Legislature. In cidents such as have been coming out in court from time to time about the papers filed by a Schuylkill Wood ward more advantageously named, from an alphabetical standpoint than an Allegheny Woodward, are not sur prising. —The campaign plans of J. Denny O'Neil, which are being announced, indicate that he intends to make a rather more vigorous primary offen sive than is usual and there are sus picions that the impetus he may get may cause some of his friends to advise that he run after the primary in the event that he fails to land the Republican nomination. Mr. O'Neil, however, has not indicated any such intention. To-day the Highway Com missioner is in Philadelphia after a tour of the eastern counties and to-, day and to-morrow he will make fourteen speeches, returning to this city on Monday. Governor Brum baugh will speak with him. —Concerning the plans of the can didates the Philadelphia Press says to-day:* "Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, who has the O'Neil boom for Governor' under his wing, said yesterday that Billy Sunday, the evangelist, would take the stump for the McKeesport man between now and the primaries. O'Neil forces plan a series of forty-two meetings before May 21 and Mr. Brown said that other speakers who would espouse O'Neil's cause as temperance work ers would include ex-Governor J. Frank Hanley, of Indiana, and ex- United States Senator William S. Kenyon, of lowa. Governor Brum baugh also will be " among the speakers. Senator Sproul, who op poses O'Neil's candidacy, said that although he would make several speeches before the primaries, they would not be factional political ad dresses." —"Vare leaders were willing to ad mit yesterday that Wednesday's reg istration would not be more than 50,- 000," says the Philadelphia Record. "Wednesday they claimed the enroll ment would not before than 30,000, but reports from their own workers have caused them to materially in crease their first estimates. Town Meeting party leaders are confident that 70,000 voters, registered Wed nesday and that the result spells the defeat at the primaries of Congress man John R. K. Scott, candidate for Lieutenant Governor." —The Philadelphia Public Ledger to-day gives much prominence to a conclusion it has reached that the Vares will back O'Neil. It says this was "forecast" by Attorney General Brown, but its article does not have much else to support its assertion. The Ledger says in part: "State of ficials, it has been rumored, recently told the Vares that unless the Phila delphia organization supported Mr. O'Neil in the city the administration would knife Representative John R. K. Scott, the Vare choice for Lieu tenant Governor, in the country dis tricts. "Asked directly if the Vares would support O'Neil, Attorney ' General Brown said: 'You can say for me that Mr. O'Neil will receive in Phila delphia one of the largest votes ever cast for any candidate for any office. He will sweep Pennsylvania.' "Meanwhile not a word can be ob tained from the Vares as to when they will call the city committee to gether to make a public selection be tween the Republican gubernatorial candidates, and Vare leaders are re ported to be getting anxious because of the delay." —State Chairman Crow is In Phil adelphia to confer with Republican leaders over the situation and a num ber of western and up state Repub licans are also in Philadelphia. —Pittsburgh and Scranton seem to be more interested in the progress of local legislative fights 4han In the state contests. —Democratic state windmill men were Inclined to snort to-day at the remarks of Judge Eugene C- Bonni well that his campaign for the Dem ocratic nomination for Governor was in such good shape that he did not need to campaign. They said that Joseph F. Guffey would start his campaign after the Liberty I>oan is sold and wiU show the Judge a few things. . THE CONVALESCENT Copyright. 1918. by The Tribune Association (New York Tribune) Offer tfa Tojo i Ik ""pewuu Tom Sharkey's wife has sued for i divorce, charging that he beat her. Must be a satisfaction for Tom to know there is somebody he can lick. Somebody writes to expostulate: "In the midst of a violent storm, sure you wouldn't expect Ireland to give up her Ulster?" A trainload, twenty cars, of sol diers slowed up on the Pennsy where the soldiers could, see the Capitol. "Where are you from?" begged a citizen. The Sammes touched finger to iips. "Where are you going?" Again the same silent answer. "Well, you're on yer way, anyhow," was the only satisfaction the inquisitive party could have. The Sams grinned. Portland, Ore., is patriotic in ital ics. She has changed Frederick street to Haig; Karl street to Per shing; Rhine to Foch; Bismarck to Emmanuel, in honor of the King of Italy. TRADEBRIEFS A pamphlet describing the shoe and leather trade in the Philippines, and which will be of. interest to shoe ex porters and tanners, has been pre pared by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and can be obtained at the New York office in the Customs House. Children's shoes of American make are needed in Chile. The most popular styles are patent colt, black vici kid and gun metal calf. At the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Customs House, this city, can be ex amined styles of shoes that have found favor in the Chilean market. Experiments with alimentary sea weed as a substitute for oats in feed ing horses seem to prove conclusively the worth of the seaweed. The tests were conducted in France under the supervision of government narians, and horses fed with the sea weed fattened more rapidly than those having regular rations of oats. The seaweed, it is said, grows in abundance on the Brittany coast. Lies There is no such thing as a white lie; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.—Henry Ward Beeclier. CONSENT Oh, It is hard to bear, to have him go, when his Joy is at its noon. It wouid be harder still To bear if he should be a coward, a poltroon, And did not want to go. That burden I should never dare Disclose, but lock it in my heart; the other Glorious sorrow I may share With all the world. And, most of all, with any mother That into a like sorrowing this war has hurled. He never tells me, but I know He feels the thrill Of conflict quickening his soul; He hears the roll Of guns Innumerable—the flood Of battle rages 'round him as he stands. He holds his rifle steady in his hands; Or, no—it is a sword. Fiercely he rides Into the thickest fray; his armor gleams Dull bronze beneath his purple cloak. The blood' Of a long line of fighting men throbs In his veins and colors all his dreams. But I, his mother, come not of a fighting line. My people prayed for peace, Endured and suffered all without re pine, So that all wars might cease. If, then, I freely let him go (I swear he shall not hear my wo man's sobs), Shall I renounce my kindred? No, And no again. This is a war for peace, A peace so that this war at least shall ( cease. Yes, he may go, to meet his pountry's need. , > T send him. God, if it be thy will — I pray, while he is gone, I may not read Of the fierce fighting on Dead Man's Hill. —Helen Rhoda Hoopes. LABOR HAS NEW STATUS War Speed in Production Brings an Industrial Reconstruction WITHIN the twplve months during which we have been at war the foundations of labor have been relaid, writes Wil liam L. Chenery, in the Chicago Herald. Radical chages have come to pass; precedents have been estab lished; new attitudes have been quietly accepted. Industrial recon struction has advanced to an aston ishing degree. Democracy is more nearly a reality in industry than would have, seemed possible a short time ago. Never has a single year brought so much of progress to the working people of the country. The basis of society has been changed. The new status of labor is re fleeted in the changes recorded at Washington. Here are some of the salient characteristics of the pres ent situation: For the first time in our hlstorv the government itself has definitely sponsored liberal labor policies. For the first time a clear-cut pol icy assuring decent standards to all the private establishments of the country has been determined. For the first time the principle of trade unionism as such has been accepted by the country. For the first time hours and wages have become matters of rec ognized national importance. For the first time the nation' has assumed responsibility for the kind of houses in < which some of its .workers live. v For the first time the condition of labor has been transferred from the realm of private interest to that of national concern. ProducUon Heart of Revolution The heart of the revolution through which we are passing is to be found in production. The war necessitated production, immediate production, the largest possible pro duction. Forthwith the country dis covered that the wage-earners were inseparably connected with produc tion. Previously there had alwavs been more workers than jobs. Con sequently the importance of the in dividual worker was not always ap parent.. When strikebreakers were always obtainable on short notice THE SPROUL PLATFORM [Philadelphia Bulletin] The formal address in which Sen ator William C. Sproul has an* nouned his views and purposes as a candidate for the Republican nomi nation for Governor, is a frank, clear and direct statement. It be tokens a wide-awake man who keeps himself abreast of the ques tions of the day, who prepares him self to meet the rapidly developing issues of the near future, and who is ready to go before the people without any dA-eit or evasion in ex plaining his position. In the entire address there is hardly a word that is suggestive of the political clap-trap which ordi narily enters into such avowals. Its author fully realizes the great, over shadowing duties of the hour in sinking the customary concerns of partisanship for the sake of the na tion in its crisis. In what he says on the affairs of our own Common wealth he speaks the language of ! a citizen rather than that of a Re j publican alone. On the questions of Prohibition and Woman Suffrage there is no hesitation or obscurity in Senator Sproul's opinions. He distinctly de clares that he favors the adoption by this State of the Federal Pro hibition amendment, believes it to he a "patriotic duty" on his part to help in procuring ratification of the amendment, and thinks that it will be a blessing when this question is at last rem6ved from the politics of the State. At the same time he also announces, with not less empha sis, that he is in "full sympathy with the cause of equal suffrage" and ex presses the hope that it will be his privilege to assist in the adoption of a like amendment. Nothing quite so notable in the effects which It will produce on Republican senti ment and attitude In Pennsylvania as regards both these questions has thus far been heard from anybody, and there is something like a strong anj positive note of leadership in the manner in which < the /Senator from Delaware county makes known exactly, how he stands qn them. ° • SP Now that wej no longer have state conventions, candidates are Usually expected tcr make their own platforms, and Senator Sproul and at low prices, employers did not regard strikes tragic. Now it does not matter how will ing employers might be to dispense with the services of uneasy, ambi tious or turbulent workers. The na tion demands that production be not interrupted. Patriotism insists that neither employe nor employer do anything to cause a cessation of pro duction. Hence the worker's indis soluble relation with the vital proc esses of the country's existence has been understood in a novel manner. That reality is responsible for the most of the revolution of the fac tory. Democracy Has Advanced The same impelling motive is to be fotlnd in the record of the me diation commission. The repeated grants of higher wages have been someWhat Inspired by a recognition of this force. Production must be kept up. Production must be accel erated. Nothing must retard the fabrication of the commodities es sential to a triumph. Therefore labor must be kept in the frame of mind where strikes are not the ob vious recourse and employers must be kept in the mood where their class Interests do not lead to trou ble. That is not the whole story. Dur ing the last twelve months men and women of all classes have learned new things willingly. The continu ous emphasis which the government has given democracy, which the ac tualities of the war have given dem ocracy, have liberalized the minds of men. If political democracy, if self-government, were the prize worthy of sacrifices being made, then the suggestion naturally was born, why is not democracy in in- i dustry also good? The answer to any fairly open minded person is all too plain. That mood of concession, that temper of being willing to concede something to the democratic idea has also play-* ed its important role in the great industrial revolution. If every change had been jealously opposed, If every concession had been grudg inglv granted, self government in production would be much more re mote. I has put out one which, on the whole, will make a favorable im pression as to its enlightened shrewdness, Candor and foresight, in indicating what he would do in guiding the policy of his party if he shall receive its nomination. PERRYMORAIN (Perry Morain, a Bowling Green. Mo., lad, went to England four years ago and enlisted in the English army. He fought at the front three years, then was so severely wound ed that he was of no military serv ice, and has returned to his old home a physical wreck, with prom ise of only a few years of life. "He is only 20," says the Pike County Post, "but is age old In experiences of horror.") Perry Morain Is home from tha war— Only twenty, and yet age old! Through summer's heat and win ter's cold Three years he served In France afar. Fighting the fight of his fellow men— Twenty, and never can fight again! His conscience was his inquisitor. He did not hold life a thing to save. But a thing to spend, gay hearted, brave, For the things worth living and dy ing for! When Liberty called from far away He went to England to Join the fray. Three years he battled across the sea. Willing of heart and strong of hand, Then came to die in his own loved land — He had given his all for Liberty! He had given his all for his fellow men— He had fought till he never can' fight again. "Only twenty, and yet age old! He will die a boy, yet the way he spent His all for honor and high intent Should make him live till the stars are cold! . He has lived little, but not in vain— Ah, few have lived.like Perry Mo rain! —-Lee Shippey. LABOR NOTES Concord, N. H., has a union-labor mayor. Carpenters at Lindsay, Canada, have organized. Unions at Aurora, 111., publish a labor paper. Seattle, Wash., electrical workers ask $7 a day. ficketiivg has been declared legal in Arizona. Browery workers in Milwaukee have secured increased p^y. Los Angeles leather workers have union recognition. Operative plasterers may establish a pension fund. Houston, Tex., carpenters now re ceive $6 a day. '. Coopers in New Yortk City have secured $5 for a 9-houf day. Toronto, Can., civic ask an 8-hour day. The Convention of the American Federation of Musicians will be held in Chicago next month. Chicago street railway men have dedicated their new half-mtllion-dol lar building. Retail clerks at Wingham, Can., have secured an early closing agree ment. fOUR DAILY LAUGH HE EXPLAINS. J "Doctor, why don't you cure more 1 people with your advice?" "Because c. lot of then don't fol low it, my friend." THE PROUD MOTHER. Mrs. W.—So your son is in the artillery? With one of the big guns, I presume? Mrs. B.—With one of them? Ha is one of them. TOO EXPENSIVE. Cheese Mites we can never afford an apartment in that oxpensive place. IbuyXl 53L> stamt- /. c 1 • VUHjIOUS. "He's a stamp collector." "Ppst&g• or thrift." ' lEbentttg (Eljal | This is magnolia time in Harris- a burgr. The numerous magnolia trees ■ which have been planted in various 5 gardens and yards of homes in this J city are commencing to show their ' blooms and some of the flowers will be at their prettiest about the period of the Honor March to T morrow. The number of magnolia trees in Harris burg has increased very rapidly in the last half doien years. It is not so long ago that the magnolias could be counted on the lingers of your two hands and when they Wloomed they were objects of as much interest as the night blooming cereus, which by the way, has also materially increas ed numbers in the last year or so. Now there are magnolia trees in many of the yards in the newer resi dential sections of the city and in North Front street several superb specimens are showing their Joy at the coming of the spring. There are few prettier trees than the magnolia and the soil of Harrisburg seems to be well adapted for making them blossom abundantly, although the time in which they flower appears all too short. When the magnolias have gone we will have the wistaria, which vines have also increased in numbers about Harrisburg homes In the last few years. These vines are noted as among the prettiest flowers of the late spring In our city, and some of them are over fifty years old, notably one or two in Front street. • • • From all accounts the big snows of last week did not cause much loss of quail, although hundreds of rob ins. bluebirds and other insectivor ous birds were killed by starvation or cold. The quail which \yent through last winter did not suffer much from the "onion snow" which came down so generally, although for a time conditions were so grave that sportsmen and farmers scatter ed grain for them as they did In some sections for the insect eating binds. "My reports show that while the severe winter killed some quail the loss was not as great as we fear- said J)r. Joseph Kalbfus, secre tary of tHe State Game Commission. "The wardens have gone over the field pretty well and while here and there we hear of some birds being killed we find there are many left and that they are lively. The quail will get along and more than repay by their activity in killing bugs for what food is given them in winter time." Since the coming of spring in the neighborhood of 3,000 pheasants have been put out in the state game preserves or in the woods by tho game wardens. This lot of birds rep resents those kept in captivity dur -1 ing the winter or purchased during the spring. Some of them are fine birds and it is believed this means " well be more successful in propa gation than the distribution of eggs for hatching. The wardens who were engaged on this work have Joined with the fish wardens in enforcing I the new fish code, but have their hands full with the alien pistol and dog laws. Unfortunately there has , been the usual reckless killing of in ' sect eating birds in districts where there are many foreigners." • • * "Don't have more than twenty-five trout at one time and be on the safe , side," said Commissioner of Fisher ies Nathan R. Buller In answer to the question of how many trout can a . man legally catch. "This question has been .coming in on me by mail, over the telephone and by telegraph ever > since 'Monday," laughed the pommis sioner. "It really is a matter on which we will hav6 to secure a court ; decision. The question has come from so many angles that I think we should get a test in court." Commis i sioner Buller said that in many sec -1 tions men considered that they could take trout as long as they did not. exceed the twenty-five a day, but lie 5 has declined to give advice and fish - ermen have been saying things about the new fish code. Otherwise the new law sefrms to be working fairly well. , "The pnows in the northern and - mountain countries prevented a good opening of the trout fishing season and the stream conditions have not yet cleared up well," said the Com missioner in talking about the open ing of the trout season. "We have not received any reports from Western Pennsylvania counties that indicate what the opening was like, but I fear i that stream conditions were not What we hoped. However, in the southern counties we are hearing of £ood catches in spite of the recent snows. There were many fishermen out in the southern tier and in the Juniata and Cumberland" Valleys. Next week ought to bring us some good reports." Staid Capitol Hill, where tradition rules and precedent has its habitat, has been doing a good many things since the war began, but the way the signs have blossomed out lor the liberty Loan is worth mention ing. Up to this time the Capitol was free from signs of any sort except when some one ran for Speaker or when a hearing or a state safety con fe-ence was scheduled. Then the marble stairway showed some signs of admonition or promise. But now there are Liberty Loan signs hung in the corridors, placed against stat uary, ornamenting doors ana on benches and chairs, all making their silent, but colorful appeals to buy and buy again. And it may be added, the Hill is doing it* pact. Gilbert H. Hassler, the commis sion clerk of the State Department, gets almost as many freak inquiries as "Judge" George D. Thorn, who presides over the destinies of pardons and nominating petitions. But tne oddest he has received came from a justice up the state who demanded how he was to administer law with out the laws. He wanted the statutes of the last half dozen sessions and did not see the humor in the sugges tion that he buy a digest. |__ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ • —Judge H. W. Whitehead, of the Lycoming county courts, is an ardent nature lover and likes to fish and hunt. —Governor Brumbaugh missed his ((favorite trout fishing in the first week this year. —Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. - Buller says that he has not been able to fish this week for the first open ing week in a long time. —William Fllnn, the Pittsburgh leader, who used to be fond of out door life and fishing, has given up the sport because of his health. —James Scarlet, the noted Dan ville lawyer, was away from c°urt this week. He has not missed the opening trout week in a long time. | DO YOU KNOW That Harri.sburg Is in the midst of a big fruit raising dis trict and has to get ita cold storage fruit from Philadelphia? HISTORIC HAHRISBtTRO Indian council fires used to be kindled along the river near Paxton fuma.cOM and th<re white men met th*J chiefs U> talk orer tofeißflpk
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