14 KAP.RISMG TELEGRAPH .. EIYSPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded it3l Published evenings except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't &■ Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMLTZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republl jation of ail 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 Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. fljirwyi.j By carriers, ten cent* a t week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1918 Too late ice learn a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. —JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY. | ■ i "IT'S THE YANKEES" IT'S the Americans." "It's the Yankees." Thus the British naval forces were greeted by the Germans as they fled from the guns of SCeebrugge mole before the landing parties that ' swept down upon them from the > attacking ships. There is a bit of psychology here j that corresponds very closely with a I recent display of "nerves" on the | part of the German populace when.! 3 particularly daring party of British • aviators swept far toward BerHn! Hid began the bombardment of Ger- ' man munition works. "It's the i Americans. I told you it would be j Duly a question of time until the Yankees came," was the cry Dutch observers told newspaper corre spondents the Germans set up as they took hurriedly to cellars and oiHe .' places of shelter. These two incHfents, along with other hints that have crept *ut of Germany, in dicate that Germans in general have a wholesome and abiding re •pect for the and courage of American fighters, despite all that the government has done to min imize America as a military force in the eyes of the people. The wonderfully executed and j highly successful raid on the refuges' of the U-boats on the Belgian coast was so characteristically J American in plan and operation, and I so at variance with British naval j methods since the outbreak of the war, that it was little wonder the 1 Germans thought the Yankees were j at their old Santiago game. This German belief in American superiority must be encouraged. We can understand better now the pain ful efforts of the Kaiser to turn German reverses against the Amer ican forces in France into German "victories." A few exploits of the Heebrugge type by our own forces would be wonderfully helpful In spreading this very desirable propa ganda of the invincible Yankee. The Government having taken over ill raw wool, we have a ready-made explanation as to why we intend to wear our last year's overcoat next winter-. THE TEXAS COLONEL THE biography of Col. House which some newspapers are publishing contains many aston ishing things about its hero. The Colonel has thus far been shown to be the man who .foresaw the European war, who discerned our entrance into it, who read aright the minds of all European pub licists, who planned the campaign which re-elected Wilson; and we daily expect to be told that he also knows who struck Billy Patterson. In one instalment of this biograph ical thriller we are told that it was "Col. House's evenly balanced mind'' which counseled Wilson to maintain partisanship in the conduct of the war; his argument being that "the voters had elected a Democratic President after four years of trial of him • • and that it was for this same President and this tame Cabinet to steer the country through the mazes of war." Yet, if Col. House really planned llie campaign which produced this flection of Wilson "after four years uf trial of him," he must have known lhat Mr. Wilson was elected upon the theory that he had "kepit us out cl' war" and that he was going to rontlue to do so. And nobody knows better than Col. House that right now, If the country should be permit lcil to name, by popular vote, the Cabinet which it would prefer "to •teer the country through the mazes of war" a very small percentage of the present group which gathers so Infrequently at Mr. Wilson's council table would be at all in the run ning. The Colonel may have counseled Wilson to keep the Cabinet as it THURSDAY EVENING f was and isi but lie could never have : done so upon the theory which his | biographer here advances, 1 J "Are you going to buy bonds or j wear them?" LIBERTY DAY TO-MORROW, by proclamation of the President and the Governor, j i is to be observed as Liberty Day— ' celebrating the first anniversary of | our entry into the war. The holiday—at least from noon ; until evening—will be marked by the closing of stores and business pfaces in general, but the occasion is not designed to be one for individual jollification. The plan is to utilize tlio time for the sale of Liberty Bonds. We are too busy, all of us, with pre parations for the war and in keeping industry running full tide, to waste a whole half-day in useless occupation. It was not the President's thought nor yet the Governor's that we should this year celebrate Liberty Day as we do the Fourth of July, each in his own way, but that we should con centrate on the sale of bonds, each of which bought is a blow in the face of the Kaiser, and thus each of us "do our bit" for the cause. Very likely by noon trf-morrow Harrisburg will go over the top, so far as OUB own subscriptions are con cerned, but we are only a part of the district as a whole, and we must help this county and surrounding coun- from which, no doubt, quite a considerable amount of the subscrip-1 tlons credited to the city itself have I come. We must not stop until the end I of the campaign, May 4, however much we may subscribe in Harris burg. Probably you know of somebody who can buy a bond and has not. Make a list of your friends who do not wear Liberty Bond buttons and I I to-morrow afternoon constitute your self a volunteer worker to call upon all such and ask them to subscribe. Tell them that if they have not suf ficient money now you can make ar rangements with any bank to pay for the bond vn the instalment plan, at the rate of $1 or more a week. Then take your subscriptions to Lib erty Bond headquarters in the Cham ber of Commerce rooms in the old Commonwealth Hotel building, Mar-' ket Square and Market street, and get buttons and flags for those you ' | have induced to buy bonds. i I After that you will be entitled to spend the remainder of the holiday as you please, and will go tp bed i with the consciousness of having; done something to help win the war. j THE BOARDOF DELAY LOOKING back over the record! one might very reasonably con- | elude that the Shipping Board should have been designated the i "Board of Delay." The act creating the Board and I authorizing the President to appoint ! its members was passed by Congress ! September 7, 1916. The President appointed the mem- j bers of the Board December 22. 1916, ; after a delay of 106 days. The Board organized January 31, 191.7, after a delay of 40 days. The Emergency Fleet Corporation was organized April 17, 1917, or 76 days after the Shipping Board was organized. During the year following April 17, 1917, the Emergeney Fleet cor poration had four managers. Goe thals, Capps, Harris and Piez, and a fifth, Schwab, was then named, after a delay of a year from the date of the creation of the corporation. Altogether, this makes a total of 586 days delay in getting the right man at the head of the ship-bulding job. The Weatherly, Pa.. Choral Society is going to burn all of its German songs next week, but that's not the only way Americans are making it hot for the Kaiser. Most of them are buying Liberty Bonds. AFTER THE WAR THE President has told Colonel House to prepare data for America's part in the peace parleys % that shall follow the .war, and it is to be hoped that business as well as politics will enter into the Colonel's calculations. Two things he should bear in mind: Europe must recoup herself through the sale of her manufactures, selling at the smallest possible margin of profit In order to keep her vast army of la borers employed, and to pay even the interest on her debts, and except for raw and structural materials Europe will not be a very good cus tomer for us. Second, If the Dars are down to European competition In this coun try, it will result in such a crippling of our mills us greatly to Increase the J unit cost of production, which re quires full time at maximum pro duction to reduce to a minimum. if, added to our high wage scale, we have production costs Increased by curtailed operation, how can we develop foreign markets in compe tion with Europe? The best assur ance of post-war prosperity is the simplest one—a protective tariff which will preserve to us our own markets from which we can extend into the other fields. ftKKOifitfaTua By the Ex-Committee man . Joseph F. Guffey, candidate of the Democratic state machine for the gubernatorial nomination, and his colleagues on the Washington made slate will make no active cam paign for the honors of the Penn sylvania Democracy until after the Liberty Loan campaign is ended, re gardless of what may be done by Judge Kugene C. Bonniwell and his "personal liberty" backers, and as to the future of the Guffey cam paign, it was stated this morning, that will depend upon whether the people of the state are much con cerned with politics this spring. The Democratic aspirants went home last night after arranging for bring ing the question of finances for the campaign to the attention of the Federal jobholders in a thorough manner. The naming of A. Mitchell Palmer to be chairman of a fac tional campaign committee is to be notice that the national admin istration is behind Guffey and the rest of the machine slate, and that if necessary the President may take a hand. In the face of this move by Guffey and his people. Judge Bonniwell will spend the latter part of this week in Pittsburgh. Arrangements have been made for a gathering of west ern Pennsylvanians interested in the cause of "personal liberty," or whatever else the movement of the liquor men inside of the Democracy may be termed, to be held in Pitts burgh, along the lines of that in Philadelphia last Saturday. Tlie row inside the Democracy is on, but the Guffev people seem to be so confident that they are not going to get any more excited than the general public. —Both Senator William C. Sproul and Highway Commissioner J. Den ny O'Neil, the leading rivals for the Republican nomination for gov ernor. were in the northeastern sec tion yesterday. . The Commissioner J went to Susquehanna and adjoining) counties to look over his political fences, and is said to be confident of a strong vote as the insurgents, who abound in that section, will likely be for him. The Senator's visit was a trip to Scranton. where he has many friends and where lie held' a reception. There was no meet'ng scheduled or anv demon stration. His visit, like that of O'Neil to the nprthern tier, was to meet people. —Tt is an interesting thing In con nection with the Sproul visdt to Scranton. where Mayor A. T. Con f nell a few days ago declared for O'Neil. that W. L. Connell, the in fluential chief of the same family and twice mayor of Scranton, de clared that he was with Sproul to the finish and for Beidleman, too. —While these two candidates were husv in oio corner of the state. Robert P. Habgood -was fixing fences in the other end and seeding a few fields where he hopes to make a harvest. —Congressman John R. K. Scott came to town last night on his way to Pittsburgh where he will consult with William A Magee and other friends the rem "ider of the week and hobnobbed so much with O'Neil and Magee men who were here that the idea got abroad that the time was coming when the Vares would be out for O'Neil. It is an interest ing fact that Scott got the dates for O'Neil's visits and speeches from O'Neil headquarters men yes terday and will probably be found speaking from the same platform with him soon. Whether Scott will declare "dry" or not is therefore the interesting question. The Phila delphia Press thinks that eventually the Vares and Magee will be for O'Neil, but the Philadelphia Record to-day gives prominence to the much discussed reports from Philadelphia that the Vares, who will be busy enough at home because of the Smith administration and the vice and other disclosures, have a divi sion among their own leaders about governor. It points out that Lane and Mackey are classed for Sproul and that Martin, Kriight, Soger and other men are for the Delaware man either openly or because he has declared he will abide the de'- cision of the primaries. O'Neil has not made a positive declaration, but intimates that his friends will settle that for him, if he is defeated. —While Scott was here last night lie met Mayor Daniel L. Keister, of this city, an old legislative colleague who being antagonistic to Senator Beidleman because of local politics announced that he was for Scott for lieutenant governor. The Mayor re marked upon the cordiality which always prevailed between himself and the Congressman. —ONeil men, and Attorney Gen eral Brown, too, maintain that Audi tor General Snyder's inquiry into the truck purchase for the Highway De partment is a scheme to annoy and harass, but the Auditor General list night said that it did not look that way when he was continuing the matter. He said that he did not tnink he would have all he wanted with which to go CKI for a month.' —The North American gives con siderable space to-day to the asser tion that Senator David Martin had served notice on Senator Vare that he was for SproUl and that othe men. including Lane, has done the •same thing. Tt also plays up the cru sade being made by some upstate O.'Nell men to get the Governor to "fire" Samuel T. Spyker, of Hunting don, as counsel of the Compensation Bureau. The raid on Spyker has hsen engineered by some small fry who are insisting that the Governor will have to dismiss even his per sonal appointees. —ln regard to the movement for Sproul among Vare leaders the North American says: "Senator Vare repeated his much-discussed state ment that he intends to let members of the Republican city committee and the ward leaders upon whom he depends for support share the re sponsibility of selecting a candidate for whom the Vare organization in Philadelphia will work at the uri maries. *At the proper time.' Sen ator Vare said, a meeting of the city committee will be held, when a can didate for governor will be indors ed." HARRISBURG ftfiipfift TELEGRAPH v Otfer tta U)v 'P^TVTUU -— A Pennsylvania corporal at Camp Wadsworth writes home he will nev er talk pigeon Chinese to a China man. Celestials have set up laun ! dries near most of the big camps , and, by all tokens, they are high ; class. "Very dirty washee; how ' long takee; two weekee?" the sol dier asked. "I will endeavor to have It for you then, sir, but you ; know that the shortage of colored ; labor hampers our efficiency consid erably" was the response that sent , Sam to the hospital for one week. • • • Did you ever stop to watch THE i CRANE MAN, that chap who drifts | about 400 feet in the air, hanging on j to a cob-web, his nerves steady, his brain clear? One of these hardy fel -1 lows has sung a little song in the American Machinist, like this: j I'm the "man way up" at the very top | Where a wise guy ought to be, I'm tV• ' >• that's over the bloomln' ■hop An' . ,jttu look up to me; For 1 rides in my carriage to an' fro Like a millionaire's private train, An' we sure looks down on the gang below, —Me an' my trav'lin' crane! There ain't no burdens too large for us. Me an' this crane of mine, We lifts the biggest without no fuss For that is th§ way we shine; We takes 'em any old shape or size An' juggles 'em through the air, An' lowers 'em careful, easywise— When it comes to the job—we're there! Old Hercules is an also ran An' Samson's a piker, too. They was pretty good on a small sized plan. But to-day they'd never do; We've got 'em faded, we've got 'em stung, They never could stand the strain Of the stunts we do an* the loads we've swung— . —Me an' my trav'ln' crane! BEIDLEMAN AND LABOR Whenever labor during the last fourteen years had occasion to BO to Harrisburg for legislative redress or relief for working men, women or children, there was one man whom • labor always could rely upon as a friend. That one man is Senator Edward E. Beidleman, of Dauphin county. From the day Senator Beidleman was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1904, he has worked unceasingly in the inter est of labor. In his first session, the legislative session of 1905, Senator Beidleman introduced a bill regulating the em ployment of women and children in manufacturing establishments and fixing a minimum age for child la- i bor. This was the beginning of Senator Beidleman's long, consistent and un deviating record as a lawmaker for labor. Any workingman in Pennsylvania may readily learn to what extent Senator Beidleman has been his friend during the last fourteen years. He can learn the facts from any of ficial of any labor organization any where in the state or from any mem ber of any committee which went to Harrisburg during the last fourteen years for the purpose of improving the working conditions of Pennsyl vania labor. All of them, every representative of labor, every pleader that labor ever sent to Harrisburg for redress of relief can testify to the same fact that all of them at all times found Senator Beidleman ready, willing and anxious to serve labor and se cure for it any legislation it wanted. It was so when labor opposed con tract prison labor. Senator Beidle man introduced a bill to stop it. It was so every time the mine workers of the state sought legisla tive protection for their hazardous trade. Senator Beidleman took up one miners' grievance after another and introduced legislative bills for the relief of the miners. It was so when the electric railway employes of the state sought relief from their exposure to wind and weather. They petitioned the rail way corporations in vain for proper protection against exposure. Senator Beidleman prepared a bill compelling the railways to enclose the trolley car platforms and the trolley car crews then were protected. It was so when the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen wanted to compel the railroads to pay them semi-monthly Instead of monthly. One of Senator Beidleman's many labor bilts fixed it. It was so when the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen wanted an em ployers' liability bill for their pro tection. Senator Beidleman prompt ly prepared and introduced the re quired liability bill. It was so when the combined rail road brotherhoods wanted a full crew law. Senator Beidleman pre pared the full crew bill and saw to it that it became lav*. The labor record of Senator Beldle- I man is almost endless. When he was elected to the Senate in 1912, it made no difference in his labor attitude. He was as active in the Interests of labor in the Senate as he had been in the House. When he was elected president pro tempore of the Senate in 1915, he remained as loyal to la bor in the president's chair as he had been on the flopr of the Senate. His loyalty to labor is, indeed, the outstanding feature of Senator' Bei dleman's record as a state lawmaker during the last fourteen years. Now labor has an opportunity to prove its loyalty to Senator Beidle man. In the Republican primaries this year. Senator Beidleman will be a candidate for the nomination of Lieutenant Governor. He will pre-eminently be labor's candidate for Lieutenant Governor. His long and honorable legislative j 1 areer has branded him as a friend ! and'champlon of labor. If he wins or he loses, he wins or loses as the champion of labor and no champion of labor must lose. Labor owes it not only to Its leg islative champion but far more to itself to demonstrate it conclusively by an overwhelming majority in the Republican primaries for Edward B. Beidleman that no champion of la bor can lose. The call Is out. the challenge to labor's loyalty to its champion is there. From the mills and thn mines, f*om the two-story homes and the steel mills, from the railroad bhops j and the brickvards, from the wharves and from the coke ovens, Ihe farms and the cities, labor must j pour out on the. day of the Repub i iican primaries and flood the ballot boxes with loyal labor votes for la- I bor's loyal champion, Edward E. ! Beidleman for Lieutenant Governor. I--From the Progressive World. WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND - BY BRICCS < i ***■ - -" " ( 70/, '"' ft The Silent Call OUT yonder on the misty waters oft the Irish Coast, the spirits of the Lusitania's dead are call ing for justice. The Sussex victims are making their silent appeal. Edith Cavell is calling. Captain Fry att is silently pleading for justice. The crucified women and children of Belgium are calling. The dead of Armenia are calling. The many, many plain wooden crosses in tor tured France are calling. The still, gray, upturned face, the sightless eyes, the mutilated body lying out yonder in No Man's Land is calling. The dead speak to us more startllng ly than the living. The great spirit army is growing larger daily. Its call is eloquent, definite and impera tive. In justice to the dead; in justice to the living. GERMANY—the Red Light District of Europe, the Under world of Europe, where campaigns ANOTHER BELGIUM? (From the New York World) When Germany seeks a pretext for war it always finds one. It can forge a telegram, as In 1870 when tt wanted war with France, or dis cover a conspiracy justifying it in making a scrap of paper of a treaty, as in Belgium in 1914, or see in local disorders a reason for new conquests after peace is proclaimed, as in Rus sia in 1918. If Holland has now been selected as the next victim of imperial ag gression we may be sure that a weighty excuse will be forthcoming. Holland happens to be first on the list of small nations no longer use ful to Germany as neutrals. It is near England. It has spacious har bors suitable for naval and especial ly for submarine bases. What right has such a state that cannot be swept aside by a German indictment of some kind ? Holland's crime against Germany is its present helplessness to assist autocracy. Until the United States entered the war, Holland was a kind of a clearing house for German com merce. Its neutrality, supported by our own, made it a thoroughfare for supplies sorely needed in Germany. Xow that this traffic has been stop ped by ourselves and the Allies, why should not imperialism discover In the little kingdom some outrageous imposition upon the elect of the Prussian war god—some almost In conceivable villainy, justifying. If need be, the desolation of another Belgium ? GERMAN ETHICS "One of our men escaped from the Germans nd returned to our lines. He had been shot through the hand," says R. D. In La d'es From Hell. "This, In itself, is an inconsiderable wound, and on pliowlng it to the German surgeon he had expected nothing more than a casual bandage. The German, however, told him that an opera tion would be necessary, and they lifted him upon the operating table without further do, " 'Ton will give me an anesthetic, pf course, won't you?' said my friend. " 'What!' replied the German sur geon. "An anesthetic for a schweln hund?' and forthwith the operation continued, while mv friend was held down by a group of grinning Teuton soldiers. "What do you suppose that Ger man surgeon did for a simple nhot through the hand? Tn the first nlice he cut all the tendons of my friend's hnnd. Then he removed the bone from the middle finger In such a manner that the entire hand been me absolutely useless and might as well have been entirely removed." of lust, deceit, thievery and murder are planned; where paganism flour ishes, and Christian doctrines are de fied; GERMANY—ruIed by one who is trying to be the world's pagan schoolmaster, has, instead, become the world's most notorious grave digger, must be surrounded, subdued and cleansed. A new curriculum must be injected and firmly estab lished. Our weapons of offense at homo are Liberty Bonds. Liberty Bonds mean the last of the Bodies. Liberty Bonds will dry the tears of the world. Every Liberty Bond in creases the power of the great hu man dynamo that will dissipate the sickening war cloud in Europe, and replace it with liberty and justice emblazoned across the sky. There can be no peace without justice. The mighty, silent army of the dead aj-e listening for our response. They are I waiting. They have been calling and calling. Are they calling in I vain? JOHN W. PHILLIPS. ONWARD BOYS, GO (Dedicated to the Selective Col ored Boys of the Great World war. Composed by Mrs. Susan Tinsley.) Bravo deeds are often recorded Brave hearts doth always beat true, So onward to battle my brothers And cherish the red, white and blue. Our race has always.been loyal In aiding the country's cause; We have never been found wanting And never did we pause. Many are our heroes Nick Biddle of '6l Shed the first blood for the Union On the Capitol floor 'twas done. If history could remind us Of the noble deeds we have wrought. Our hearts would swell with joy For the battles our fathers fought. Press onward to battle my brothers Raise high the American flag With courage, will, and honor Ever let her wave—not drag. Our hearts will ever be with you When you have crossed the sea; Let victory be your motto, For sweet peace and liberty. Unpatriotic Discrimination The problem of employment for the young men of the draft age who have not yet been called to the col ors is one of increasing importance. Many advertisements of situations wanted carry the statement that the applicants must not be included in the draft. Gradually there has come about discrimination against the man of conscription age. And this is the kind of young man who, sooner or later. Is going to be called upon to fight to make the world safe for the men who now refuse to give him a job.—lndianapolis News. The Scout Drive The Scouts are soon. to have 4 "drive" On the 27th Inst, they will arrive. When approached by one—don't pause and say, I just bought a bond the other day Suppose you bought one, two and three, You must give lots more for liber ty. N This bond will go right after the other It may save a friend —perhaps a brother. So dig deep down—if your heart Is right You'll be able to give with all your might. When your boy comes back some fu ture day. You'll look him straight In the face and say— My Son, I waa with you all the way ! E. M. APRTL 25. 1918. Anti-Sabotage Law Minnesota was the first state to enact a law against syndicalism and sabotage. The Supreme Court of the state has decided, in a test case, that •penalties prescribed arc not exces sive or unjust. Under this law the preaching or practice of syndicalism and sabotage are prohibited and drastic penalties are provided for violators of the act. The measure is broad enough in its scope to pre vent the seditious preachings of the I. W. W. agitators and the distri bution of their anti-American . lit erature. Minneapolis for nearly : two years has been a headquarters of these open enemies of law and a distribution center for their publi cations. —Minneapolis Tribune. !l OUR DAILY LAUGH TOO BRAVE. Walter—What's the matter witl | the omelet? Customer —The eggs didn't knon j when they were beaten. BY MACHINERY. "Those jatfk* are pretty handy for aoisting a car." "You bet." i "Too bad you can't lift a mortgage I with one of^'em." HIS CHOICE. "What do you like best about going to school. Johnny?" "The coming home." RUINED THAT. "Tom makes a success of anything ! he touches." | "That so! He didn't seem to lm l prove the fresh paint on our wood* work any." iEbpning d|at Men connected with state, city and county governments have "passed up" the question whether it Is an offense against the statutes to work in a "war garden." Most of them are of the opinion that a "war garden" is something that everyone who has a piece of land in fee, by lease or on' loan should have and work at, "iut when it cornet down to passing upon the question of whether one can work in them on the Sabbath in a state which i 3 noted for a set of "Blue law" statutes they are inclined to comment upon the war. This city has scores of I "war gardens," some of them of ex# i tensive character, but some are sma!' backyard ones, \VSile others are in vacant plots. They are being in dustriously cultivated, especially dur ing the extra hours of daylight which are given in the evening. A short time ago a Harrisburg citizen who was doing a little spading, one Sun day afternoon was asked by a police man who was passing whether he thought he was offending against the law. The policeman merely asked for information. He was not sure himself. So the two of them referred it to the police station. The police station passed it on up. The city authorities ignored the proposition and the policemen have been passing by on the other side when rakes or hoes show the sunlight of Sundays. Some one then plunged the law library at the courthouse into dis cussion, but the lawyers smiled and refused to say anything. Finally it got up to the Capitol, unofficially, but when the learned counselors in the attorney general's office were given it, they suggested that possibly the moral law might be invoked, but that no one would like to hark back to "Blue Laws" in days of food conservation and race for pro duction. • • * A good story is told about Fred eric A. Godcharles, deputy secretary of the commonwealth, when he went up for his examination for a com mission. It happens that he is a philatelic expert, which means that he knows more about stamps than 999 out of every 1,000 persons and that colors are easy for him. When he was given his examination he was shown about 100 hanks of yarn of all colors. Then they told him to pick out red. He picked out one. and called it red. The officer in charge looked puzzled and asked why he had not picked another which he indicated. "Oh, that's magenta," said God charles. "But isn't red?" "No, not true red. That's magenta, that's Vermillion, that's cerise, that's scarlet, that's crimson, that's mar oon, that's carmine, that's "said God charles. "Hey, stop. Tou know more than I do about that. Try the greens." Godcharles suggested that he di vide the colors and promptly pro ceeded to pick out the primary colors, violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Then he started: "Green, grass green, sea green—" "All right; don't do any more'' said the officer. A contract made for the sale of the material in the old brick ware house of the Paxton Flour and Feed Co., in Capitol Park extension is the cause of an order being given for demolition of the big brick struc ture. The thought was to maintain the warehouse for military purposes in event that It would be needed as much of the equipment of the Nv tional Guard was stored there until the men mobilized for war last summer., Since that time the ware house has been utilized for storage of automobile tags and similar ar ticles and it was thought that it would be kept indefinitely. How ever the advance in the price of building materials and the heavy de mand for all kinds of building ac cessories caused numerous inquiries to be made of the wrecking firm which had bought the building for the material it contained last year before the war began and it sent word to the state authorities that it desired to carry out the contract., As the government had not com mandeered the building the contract was good and the wreckers have be gun to remove the top floors, the bricks and other parts being sold be fore they reach the ground. Formation of members of the Harrisburg Reserves, both of the ac tive and associate classes, into a general vigilance committee which is to have charge of running down complaints of disloyalty and inter ference with Liberty Bond, War Sav ings or any other movements for the nation is to be undertaken at once. Many of the mornbers not on the active list have expressed a desire to serve and the committee will be divided according to sections o#*the city. As soon as >the Liberty Loan drive ends active drilling on the big island playground will be started. A preliminary drill to outdoor woTk will be held Friday night at the City Grays Armory with some street work if the weather permits. • • • The importance of the prelimina ries to the primary campaign is evi denced by the numerous newspaper men who have been visiting here this week. There have been half a dozen of the keenest on politics. And they have all be'en more inter ested in what Dauphin county thinks about Senatpr Beidleman than in the heads of the ticket con tests. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. J. Richards, prominent coal man of Schuylkill county, is urging war gardens, offering land for them. —Congressman L. T. McFadden, of Bradford county, has been re elected a trustee of State College by the alumni. —Secretary of Internal Affairs ITouck will celebrate his fifty-second birthday next month. —State Treasurer Kephart. who has been ill for some weeks, says It Is no fun being penned up —J. D. Callery, one of the receiv ers of the Pittsburgh Railways Co has been president of that company for some years. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is rapidly be coming a center fop assembling of supplies for Army cainps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city furnished a company to fill up a regiment at Camp Curtin. A Hint For Creel Director General McAdoo hns , served notice that railroad folders In the near future must be "purely informative." Why not apply the same rule, too, to Mr. Creel's literary ' efforts ?—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
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