8 HARRISBUKG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HO MB Founded 113' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH FRI.NTING CO., Tclesrapk Building, Federal Sqaare. E. J. STAC K POLE, Prts't Sr F.ditor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, 'Business Manager. 3US M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all riews dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All riEhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub * _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. jHyirti By barriers, ten cent* a week; by mall, 15.00 a year in advanc*. MONDAY, Al'ifUL 22, 1918 Xert to a sound rule of faith, there is nothing of so much consequence as a sober standard of feeling in the matters o f practical religion. —John KEBLE. IN AUSTRIA MAY DAY' in Austria will indi cate more or less accurately what may be expected of that country In the next year of the war. The report has leaked out through Switzerland that leaders of labor or ganizations and Socialist societies have ordered a general strike for that date, in the interest of imme-j diate peace. Strenuous efforts, it is said, are he-1 ing made by the unions to induce! e\ery wage earner to lay down his j tools at that time as a protest against! continuance of the war, and if this! bo true it may also be believed that j the government is taking just as en- j crgetic steps to keep the men at work. If the walkout is general and covers a protracted period we may conclude that the Austrian masses are not only tired of the war, but de termined to stop it if public protest can be made to count in that direc tion. On the other hand, if the strike is a failure or lasts only for a day or two, we may conclude that while there is much unrest and a very real desire for peace in Austria, the peo ple are not aroused to the extent of making it impossible for the govern ment to run counter to their wishes. There is very good reason for the desire of the Austrians to get out of war at this time. They have made a showing—with German help —against Italy and their western borders are not seriously threatened and will not be until the coming of America into the conflict requires the full attention of Germany to the western front and gives the Ital ians fresh men and munitions to throw into the struggle. On the east, also, the Russian menace has been removed and if Austria can get out of the conflict now the allies may be expected to look more kindly upon her claims than if she waits until the general peace conferences are begun.. If Austria remains a true and constant ally of Germany she tan hope for nothing at the hands of the allies, and, even though Ger many should win, Austria would be no more than a vassal state subser vient to Berlin. These facts, together with a great weariness of war and exhaustion from hardship, are having their ef fect on the Austrian mind and the Socialist leaders, always on the look out for a vehicle with which to ride into power, have joined with the la bor element in the May Day strike call as a means of impressing their views upon the government and gaining new prestige in their long, hard fight against autocracy and German influence in the empire. The fellow who goes fishing these days has something more in mind than food conservation. BETTER UNDERSTANDING JUST now the public utilities, in cluding the street railway cor porations, are having a hard time maintaining their efficiency through difficulty in securing neces sary equipment. The Harrisburg Rail ways Company has properly taken the people into its #bnfldence in a. series of public statements and this is the only way for semi-public con cerns to retain the support of the people. The day has passed when utilities which hold franchises granted by the people can disregard the wishes of the public and it is a good sign when they submit their problems for popular consideration. In an opinion recently handed down by the New York Public Ser vice Commission there appears this r f statement: "Driving private cap ital from the work of extending and improving the transit facilities our people now enjoy would be deplor uble." It is obvious, of course, that car riders are given more for their nick i* els and the company gets less By treason of war conditions and the ■ enormous increase of operating ex pense. Many public utilities are MONDAY EVENING, earning not even their fixed charges. It is explained that It takes nearly twice as many nickels to pay the street railways' supply bills as It did three years ago. Harrisburg realizes that the elec tric street railway lines made the growth of the city possible and while some things have bepn done con trary to what is agreed to have been public policy, upon the whole the street railway systerh has been a real benefit to the people. It Is reason able to hope that out of the war con ditions will come a better relation ship between the public utilities and the people. It must be a mutual in terest We are going to see things differently after the war. The superintendent of the schools of Philadelphia, responding to the ap peal of Harry Lauder that mothers write a protest against the further teaching of German, declared that German will be dropped from the pub lic schools Judt as soon as the pupils elect to drop it. This is going to rapidly become the attitude of the stu dents all over the country. Those who do not want to study German will not be forced to do so. and as It looks now the number who will want to /include German among their studies will become less and still less. It ap pears that the most serious opposition to German text books is the fact that through these books there has been carried on for years the propaganda that is now responsible in a large measure for an attitude in this coun try that is widely condemned. THAT CENTRAL PARADE WHEN a single industry can turn out 1,000 strong, each man a holder of one or more Liberty Bonds, and thirty nationali ties represented, in support of the war, who shall say that the great bulk of our foreign population is not doing its part? The Central Iron and Steel Com pany's demonstration Saturday after noon to advertise the sale of bonds and celebrate the company's 100 per cent, record, was a great credit to the whole organization, from president down to water boy. The parade was all the more re markable because there marched in the ranks men of Germany and Aus tria, who could scarcely speak the English language, so imbued with the principles of democracy that they are willing to take up weapons against the troops of their homelands in an effort to help the people of the Central Empires to throw off the autocratic yoke they now wear and will wear until the rulers who now drive them at will to the shambles are beaten and dethroned. When little Dauphin comes across with $23,000 in Liberty Loan pledges, there ought to be no trouble for Har risburg to go over the top. GERMANY'S DEFEAT WITH utter disregard for the lives of their soldiers, the German High Command has been endeavoring for a month to force a decision in the awful theater of war in Europe. The great drive that has been going on since the 21st of March has been little less than a massacre for the German troops, but saving their own precious hides was the real motive of the unexam pled ferocity of the attack on the western front by the Berlin gang. These brutes in human form care nothing for the lives of the unfor tunates they are using as pawns in their game of world power. But that they have lost must be evident to the most hopeful of the group. Gaining a few miles of ter ritory and losing hundreds of thou sands of men can with no stretch of the imagination be construed as a victory and now that the drive has been checked the finish of their game is in sight. For months the German people were assured that this was to be the last great battle and that victory was sure to result. What they will do when they real ize how grievously they have been deceived remains to be seen, but it is hard to believe that even the hoodwinked populace will much longer submit to the horrible cruel ties which have been imposed upon them by their autocratic masters. It may be possible—that even the army will refuse to longer become a hu man sacrifice for the Moloch of Ger many. As Gettysburg was the decisive battle of the Civil "War, so is the present struggle on the western front the decisive engagement of the world war. There may be other battles of importance, but never again will the German army be able to strike with anything like the force of the pres ent drive. With the increasing Amer ican strength on the fighting front, the balance of man power is going to pass to the Allies and then will come the beginning of the end. Having staked all on the last throw and lost, the German government must realize the truth and it is only a question of a short time until their dupes at home understand the situation. The inevitable disillusion ment will be the tragedy of ages. This week the third loan drive will reach into the homes of Harrisburg, and the work of the committee ought to be made easy with the preparation that has been going forward since the beginning of the campaign. Our peo ple should be ready to subscribe to the limit of their ability and it ought to be understood that the size of the loan and the response of the people will have a tremendous effect upon the predatory Pottsdam gang. Senator Beidleman is naturally much gratified over the spontaneous en dorsement of his candidacy for Lieu tenant Governor by the labor and mining forces of the State. These me* have a keen appreciation of the con sistent friendship of the Senator throughout his public career and are now showing it In practical support of his campaign. As has been fre quently indicated in these columns, the people are giving more attention to the war than to political activi ties, but it doea not follow that In telligent study of the campaign is neglected by the average citlsen. I 7>clUU* CK PtKKCIjUKUUa By the Rx-Oonimltteemaa Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil took his campaign for the Governorship of Pennsylvania into four churches of Philadelphia yester j day and made an attack of unusual vigor, even for him, upon the liquor i interests which have dominated the ! politics of the Keystone State for a | quarter of a century. The Highway I Commissioner's tour of Philadelphia, j which began on Saturday when he : spoke at several meetings and ha-d a J conference with Attorney General j Brown, closed last night when the j McKeesport man had spoken to sev eral thousand persons. He said that : he wanted to be Governor to make • the state "drv." Senator 'William C. Sproul. who j has been arranging for a tour of the I state, will go to the western counties | the latter part of this week, accora ] ing to plans made for him. j Senator Penrose in a statement is i sued Saturday declared that he had ; no doubt whatever of the nomination | of Senator Edward E. Beldleman for Lieutenant Governor and James F. I Woodward for Secretary of Internal ! Affairs. The Philadelphia Press in a j review of the Lieutenant Governor j tight to-day says that it is only a question of a short time until John R. K. Scott, the only real rival Sen ator Beidleman has for the nomina tion, comes out for J. Denny O'Neil for Governor. The Public Ledger in an article by James S. Chambers says that the reason why the Vares are working so hard for Scott is so that they can control the State Senate. This is taken in Harrisburg to mean that they want to see Governor Brumbaugh's recess appointments, upheld by the Supreme Court recent ly, confirmed next winter. —The action of the United States Navy Department in virtually taking the control of the Philadelphia police department out of the hands of Mayor Smith has created a state wide Sensation and it is possible that it may have a grave political effect. As yet the full effect of the move has not developed. The North American to-day says that the Smith adminis tration is trying to camouflage the situation and denounces Director- William H. Wilson as an "obstruc tor." —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell opened his campaign with a "per sonal Liberty" speech in Philadel phia on Saturday and arrangements are being made for an energetic campaign in his behalf. The Judge is given considerable publicity in the Philadelphia Record. —According to the newspapers yesterday Senator Penrose declared for Anderson 11. Walters, the Johns town progressive, for Republican nomination for Congress-at-Large. He is out for renomination of Con gressman McLaughlin, Crago and Garland with Walters as the fourth man. —The Philadelphia Record is charging that the Vares are holding back the report of the registration in Philadelphia because it means the "puncturing of the Scott boom." It also says that the Vares may have to line up behind O'Neil to save Scott. —Pittsburgh Republicans have re vived the "Straight Republican" committee to work for the nomina tion of Sproul. Senator Charles H. Kline is in charge. The Northwest ern Republican League, of Reading, one of the big Republican clubs of that county, has endorsed Sproul. —The Philadelphia Inquirer makes the charge in a dispatch from Wilkes-Barre that "there Is to-day more political activity attached to the office of the mine chief than ati any time in the past decade." It recalls that Chief Button said on tak ing office that he would not use It for political purposes and asserts he has been travel'""? about extensively and "his trail i; plainly marked by political effort." —Friends of Representative Harry Zanders, the omega of the House roll, are making a hard fight for him for renomination, against Fred Brenckman who has declared "dry." Brenekman is planning a tour of the county. —Reading people may unite to op pose Representative James H. Maurer for renomination as they did to block the Socialist move to gain control of city council. Maurer has always been able to win because of division of the older parties. —An organization meeting for Al legheny county' officials to back the Sproul ticket was perfected at a meeting in the office of District At torney H. H. Rowand and attended, among others, by County Treasurer E. B. Friebertshauser, Clerk of Courts W. R. Bailey, Sheriff W. S. Haddock, Register of Wills William Conner, Recorder John D. Graham, Coroner Samuel Jamison and Mr. Rowand. It showed county officials united for Sproul. Monday evening a meeting to perfect an organization of the chairmen of the ward com mittees of Pittsburgh will be held at which Mayor E. V. Babcock and city department heads will launch a city campaign. —The Dry Federation opened its fight for "dry" legislators at Bethle hem on Saturday and in Delaware county Sproul speakers attacked the McClure liquor ring. —An Altoona dispatch in the Philadelphia Ledger says: "Union labor is opposing Plymouth W. Sny der, of Hollldaysburg, for State Sen ator. T..J. Forbes, of this city, Is a candidate for nomination on both the Republican and Democratic tickets. He is president of United Lodge, No. 17*, Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen." —The Philadelphia Press gives some figures on enrollment in var ious counties and says the registra tion in the third class cities should be interesting on May 1. Lancaster county enrollment is given as nor mal. The Republican list is 12,000 and Democratic only 5,000. In Mif flin county the list is Republican, 3,701; Democratic, 2,119; in Potter county. Republican, 2,136; Demo cratic, 1,189, and in Northumberland county, Republican, 12,057; Demo cratic. 10,759. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR REPEAT THE PARADE To the' Editor of the Tdezraph: Sir—Why not have the "Honor March", again. The rain yesterday spoiled, what would have been one of the most impressive demonstrations ever held in Harrisburg. As it was, It was an inspiration. My suggestion is that Harrisburg observe Flag Day, June 14, with a procession of service flags and that it take place at 6.30 in the evening. We have an extra hour of daylight. Please call this to the at tention of the committee in charge and let everyone join in. .NATIVE SON. HATUFUSBTTRG MAT TELEGRAPH! IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES ... BYBRIGGS C T WA4 EOIJG PAST \('OH • VOY s~ f\ V>E JUST\| / ~ [ H -5 BOUFIHT EMN / A CAMDV STOKE AMD [ DEAR HEAP (F 5£ ENI T^A ( FTM I THOUGHT . D OUY I V F FX \ JGMT OUT AOD fOn He TRPATS HER ' (T THIAJK HE'S AM I Ltwe A HUEEW- ALU/AW I MAM AAJYHOUJ -HE TREATS EUGRV AJ3HT AmD IP DoeSM'T KMOukl 1 FI(V/(N6 HER IOME \ HTS FAMIUR \WOWDERFYT.- HE HAS "To &O OUT OF THE TASTC Of \ EXPEIOSLUC FURS, OR . \ HE'-S EXCEPTIONAL TBUJO HE. TAKES HER LIQOOR"AWD \ SOAA<S.THIVJG - _7 V ~_-R- — AL OtJG /W£> TR* HE V E -R NE'S 5O ' ■ • " T\ \ CAWT H(= ATAAVAYS POPUUCKR - HE F7\ (.CY CALLS. HER UP LOM6 .S ®T%UEH ? ) , PLITARTCE MATTER A F.ME TVPE U \ NE KS - ' '~~ R,:^''^''" THE STATE PRESS By landing marines at Vladivostok the United States has given assur ance to Russia that the fear of Japanese invasion is nothing more than a chimera aroused by the Ger man influences in the distraught re public. As soon as American and British soldiers landed at the Rus sian port and divided with the Jap anese the work of guarding the vast .stores and munitions that are piled high on the wharves and along the railroad, dange # r of permanent oc cupation by the* Mikado faded away. —Pittsburgh Sun. The contrast between the way the presence of the German Crown Prince on the battlefield was herald ed and the modest announcement that the Prince of Wales had return to# to the front was not lost upon people who think. A line or so was sufficient to let the public know the heir to the British throne was back with the fighters byt the usual ful some ,praise and flattery was neces sary in the German dispatches to proclaim that the Kaiser's eldest was again ready to lead the armies of the empire to victory. "Again" in proper deference to his stupendous achievement at Verdun! This dif ference in attitude toward the hereditary process is one of the rea sons why it would not be safe to al low Germans the fruits of conquest. They are dynasty worshipers, the willing tools of the greatest crim inals of all. time. They seem to be without desire for popular sov ereignty or even * reasonable control over the Kaiser through constitu* tional limitation. Their constitution is a mere sham; it fetters the mon arch no more now than if it never had been granted.—Pittsburgh Ga zette. Americans Excel [New Orleans Times-Picayune] Although French bomb throwing experts consider sixty yards a good distance to hurl a hand grenade with accuracy, large numbers of American soldiers in the trenches have dem onstrated their ability to throw them ninety yards and hit the ob jective three times out of five. Shot putting and throwing the discus ma terially aids soldiers in hurling gren ades and these two field events prob ably will be given prominence on the athletic programs in the various training camps in the United States during the spring and summer. YOU CAN'T REFUSE (By Strickland Gillilan, the man who wrote "Oft agin', On agin', Finnigin") TheSammee came in from the trench, and says he: "There's too many calls on the cour- age of me. I answered the call when they ask- Ed me to come To fight that my countrymen might: have a home. I've fought ever since we've been quartered in France; I've gone every time I was told to advance, This order you give, to go over the top To-day, is too much —I am going to stop. There's a limit to what I can rightly afford To give to my country with cheerful accord." The officer's eyes stuck a foot from I his face To hear this subaltern who courted disgrace. And the private was sent where all mutineers go> To be shot the next sunrise he hadn't a show. I think that with me you will promptly agree That a firing squad's right for such quitters as he, But hasn't he just as much right to declare His whole duty done and fyis job to forswear As you in your home that he fight 3 to protect. When you're told that there still Is some coin to collect? He's sworn to obey every call that is given; To risk his existence without being driven. You, safe at home, take advantage of this, And claim no disgrace when a duty you miss. You seem to believe you've a right to refuse To lend of your hoard for the Allies to use In saving your land and the land of all others Who claim human rights for them selves and their brothers. You have no such right! In stern duty you're bound To GIVE while a coin In your cof fer a U found The Colonel Mushy Sentimentalists [From Courier-Journal.] THE official bulletin issued by the Creel Committee on Public In formation recently published conspicuously a letter by P. P. Clax ton, United States Commissioner of Education, to the president of a west ern college protesting against the discontinuance of teaching German in our schools. The argument against that, which is sufficiently strong, is not strength ened by Dr. Claxton's appeal that we love the Germans instead of hate them. "The President has tried to make it plain to all the people," he writes, "that we are not at war with the people of Germany as a people— that we have in our hearts no hatred or bitterness toward them. For our own sake and for the sake of the future of the world, let us hope that we may finish this task for the es tablishment of freedom and the safety of democracy without learn ing to chant any hymn of hate. * * We cannot as a people afford to put ourselves in the attitude of regard ing as evil everything about any people with whom we may happen to be at war. We cannot afford to assume this attitude toward the Ger man people simply because thy happen now to be under the control of an autocratic, militaristic govern ment with purposes and aims that have brought us into conflict with it. The fewer hatreds and antagonisms that get themselves embodied in in stitutions and policies, the better it will be for us when the days of peace return." This sort of mush at this stage of the war is nauseating. Claxton con cludes his screed with the assurance that "I have reason to believe that the views and sentiment expressed In this letter are fully in harmony with those of the administration at Wash ington." and the fact that the letter is given publicity through the Offi cial Bulletin confirms that assurance. The President in earlier stages of the war has several times drawn this dis tinction between the German peopje and the German government. The l Courier- Journal has done the same j thing. It long held out that we had no quarrel with the German people —only with their imperial masters. But it Is too late now to cling to that> illusion. The masters of the Ger man people started the war; they inaugurated the policies of brutality, of piracy, of "frightfulness," of mur der, of bestiality, rapine and vandal Died As He Had Lived [New York Times] In his death 8010 Pasha did not show even the courage which the majority of criminals can summon up and display when they confront the executioner. To have saved his (orfeiteS life he was eager to betray the other members of his sordid conspiracies, and it is more than likely that he would have been will ing to Implicate the innocent, too, in his revelations, if thereby he could have lengthened his worthless days. Of the honor supposed to exist among thieves 8010 Pasha showed not a trace, but even in the agonies of his fear he could still give thought to the careful dressing that had served as his disguise and permitted him to pass as a gentleman of sorts. In his new suit and white gloves he might have attracted something of the admiration that fed his vanity, but even traitors and criminals have scorn for one of their class who must be tied to a post in order that the firing squad might do its task. Pity that might have been earned by the man's hard fate his weakness transfers to the soldiers who had to shoot him and to the Lieutenant whom duty and old custom com pelled to give with a revolver what may or may not have been the "blow of mercy." He is well out of the way. It is as a warning to other traitors that he renders his one service. They will be wise to heed it. Rouse a Fighting Spirit The Trenton Republican offers this proof that thrift stamps rouse light ing spirit: One Trenton kid had 13 cents, another 12 cents. They bought a thrift stamp together and then fought to see in which one's book it should be pasted.—Kansas City Times. ism with which they have made the very word "German"- odious and in famous, but they could not have kept up those policies all these four years if the German people had not been with them; had not been blood of their blood, bone of their bone, muck of their muck. The war would have ended long ago if it had been a war only of the masters of the German people. No body who is lighting the Germans face to face has any such illusion as obsesses the visionary Commissioner of Education. The French know the German people and hate them; the British in France know the German people and hate them; the Ameri cans who have seen the German peo ple in the war zone know them and hate them. Everybody who comes from that war zone to America—■ everybody who is not himself a Ger man partisan, spy or propagandist —knows the Germans and hates them. And right here in our own coun try do not we who have never been in the war zorie know something of the Germans? Do we not know something of the sneaks who are de stroying our factories; who fire kill ing our stock; who are poisoning our food; who are plying their devil ish arts in the plants which must supply our ships, our airplanes, our munitions; who are stealthily alert and active whenever there may be a chance to obstruct or cripple our preparations for the war, and who are everywhere on our own soil seeking to undermine our national efficiency and morale by every man ner of sinister intrigue and lying propaganda? Are these Germans German people or merely the impe rial masters of the dear German people? And these are among the people whom the mushy Claxtons would have us hedge about with our dis criminating tenderness —these among the people whom It would be a hor ror to hate! The German people who have abandoned the German empire and the German system for our own Re public and who are loyal to the land of their adoption command our highest respect, confidence and ad miration, but other German people we hate, and we shall express that hate with all the power that we can put into the men and guns that we send to our brothers in France. As George Harvey forcibly expressed it the other night at the dinner to BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS! Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows through doors —burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation; Into the school where the scholar is studying; Leave not the bridegroom quiet—no happiness must he have with his bride; Nor the peaceful farmer any peace, plowing his field or gathering his grain; So fierce you whirr and pound, you drums—so shrill you bugles blow. Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles! blow! Over the traffic ff cities—over the rumble of wheels in the street. Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses. No sleepers must sleep in those beds; No bargainers' bargains by day—no brokers or spectators. Would they continue? Would the talkers be talking? Would the singer attempt to sing? Would the lawyer rise in the court to state his case before the judge? Then rattle quicker, heavier —you bugles wilder blow. Beat! beat! drums! Blow! bugles! blow! Make no parley—stop for no expos tulation; Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer; Mind not the old man beseeching the young man: Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entries: Make even the treaties to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump, O terrible drums —so loud you bugles blow. —Walt Whitman. APRIL 22, 1918. Lord Reading:, "Let us tnako.no more I futile attempts to differentiate be tween Huns who command and Huns who murder. Let us put aside every compassionate thought and crush under heel every kindly sentiment. Let ur one and only motto be:—Kill Germans; kill them in the greatest numbers possible and by every con ceivable honorable means, not as fel low beings, but as mad dogs who must be made to realize that they who take the sword must perish by the sword. It is the only way." LABORWnTES Over 5,000 union musicians are serving in the Army. Winnipeg, Can., street car men have received increased pay. Canada's new parliament has 39 farmer members. The American Red Cross wants 30,000 women nurses for France. The average wage earned in New York State is J17.66 a week. Bricklayers at Memphis, rTenn., get J7 for an 8-hour day. , Portland. Maine, painters have in creased wages from 41 to 55 cents an hour. OUR DAILY LAUGH IN UNIFORM ALL RIGHT. "You say you are In the army. Chen -why aren't you dressed as * loldier?" "It's de army of de unemployed, ady, an' dis is me fatigue uniform.** ■ m B X m c JUST THE THING. Bu( Salesman —There Is a. beau tlJ ruf —Just tb thing for a den! IN LUCK. "Have any luck with your gar den?" "Oure thing, we got two or thrs# tomatoes the neighbor's cbickeM Wouldn't quite reach." SOMETHING LEARNED EVERY DAY. Frank—Poor Jones! He has lost 'ill Ms money in a' wild-cat mining •ompany. Ethel—Mercy! I didn't know you *ul to mine for wild c&U, £btttittg Ctjat It only takes a few trips about the city, and Harrisburg has ex panded a good bit both as to length and breadth in the last few years, to surprise the average dweller here with the numerous fruit trees in town. The development of the "war gardens" last year amazed many Harrisburgers, but the cultivation of vacant plots such as is to be seen on the outlying portions of Cameron. Derry, Second, Third, Sixth and other streets this year, is really noth ing compared to the gardens that have been planted in backyards and it is only when the fruit trees are In bloom that some idea is gained as to the number that survive the-early days. Many of these trees are ten. twelve, fifteen, maybe more yearsf old. Some of them started from slips from still older trees which were set out a long time ago in Har risburg because fifty years ago when Harrisburg was a rather overgrown village every house had its yard and competition In fruit raised, especially ■cherries and peaches, was as keen as is now the rivalry for the largest ear of corn or the biggest tomato raised in a block or in a parcel of land devoted to "war gardening." There are still some patriarchs among fruit trees about the older part of Harrisburg, trees whose choicest yields were won't to be shown with pride and even put in the window of the grocery store. But that was a long time ago when we knew who had the prize fruit trees up in the big part of town we used to know as the Sixth ward or out on the "Hill" when Nineteenth street was away out. Fortunately, Harris burg people are commencing to real ize that the men who twelve years ago were urging that houses be built with a little ground to the sides anil to the back of them, and a little in front, too, would be better for health and appearances, knew what they were talking about and some of the "yard" is being used for gardening when ,it conies in mighty handy, while fruit trees are being planted more than ever? The fruit tree is certainly not showing any signs of dying out in Harrisburg. • • a But if we still have fruit trees that yield res' old-time fruit we do not have those fire big shad that ' used to adorn every table about this time of the year. Ed Halbert, wlio is a Fifth warder still, was talking the other day about the old shad days. "Nowadays you pay for one roe what we used to pay for a whole fish," said he. And then he recalled the days when the boys, who were always good buyers, used to be sent out with a half dollar and told to make a bargain for a fine roe shad. As it was part of the that all left above the purchase, provided the fish filled the bill, was to be com mission. the bargains were generally good. Until the McCall's Ferry dam spread its bulk across the Susque hanna and did what experts testified in court that it would never do. shad fishing used to be a big matter around here. For a long time the Columbia dam kept the fish down the river and we used to go to the cars down along the old canal for the fish* but'when the dam went away shad began to come up and there were fine batteries around- McCor mick's Hess' and other .islands. Some shad were even caught up around Independence Island, hut they did not like the drainage from the city and kept mainly to the Cum berland side of the stream. ■ .% "I do not think that the signifi cance of the patriotic services held in every house of worship in Harris burg yesterday struck the average resident of this city, but I think it is one of the signs of an awakening that is going to leave an impress upon our life here," said a man ac tive in religious movements yester day. "When you consider that prac tically every church in Harrisburg gave over its services yesterday to services in which Christian patriot ism was the paramount thought It is remarkable. The prayers, the sermons and the singing were all elevating. This is a patriotic com munity, but it needs to be aroused. The • churches are going to do it I think." • • • Hardly a day passes hut what strings of automoViler pass through Harrisburg on their way to some eastern city. Tnese cars Are run in bunches of anywhere from six to thirty-six and the sight of car after car speeding along all of the same pattern, all mud spattered and all giving an air of having no time to linger is an interesting one. If Har risburg only stirred itself it could get some of the trains of Army trucks that pass over tbe Lincoln highway and through Chambersburg to come down the William Penn highway ami give us a sight of the means by which the Army is to be supplied. [_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —David Barry, Johnstown banker, is directing the Liberty Loan cam paign in Cambria county. —J. W. Gardiner, Pittsburgh coal man, is naming men to inspect coal at mines to be sure people get what they buy. C. B. Pritchard, Pittsburgh di rector of safety, makes personal in vestigations of charges against po licemen. —James M. Beck, former assistant attorney general, Is making £peeche. i for the Liberty Loan and says he will do so all month, if necessary- Dr. J. D. Erdman, the head' ol the Allentown school board, Is actina to have German taken from the ctt> schools. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg can make better use of Its sclioolhouscs for community purposes, espe cially in war times? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —A century ago swimming con tests in the Susquehanna ranked next to shooting matches and hors races as forms of amusement here according to the Harrisburg news papers. THE WORD The fairest page in history Will hold a single word, A word inscribed by Uncle Sam, * Too deep e'er to be blurred- v In all the ages yet to come That page will shine supreme: Its single word's the sesame Whence all our blessings stream. Then forward, onward, Uncle Sam! The battleficld's the page Whereon that mighty word you'll write The woes of man to assuage. Your bayonet Is the gleaming pen; Oh, let its work not cease, Until with Teuton blood for ink YoU've written the word "Peace." —lrving R. Bacon.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers