8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KEU!SPAJ>ER POR THB HOME Foundid itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO„ Telegraph Building, Federal Stuic, E. J. STACK POLE, Prts"l <S- Editor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMKTZ. 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. o Member American (r Newspaper Pub- E o(le| Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second Mass matter, By carriers, ten cent* a tWeftr> week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918 Happy and strong and brave shall' ■we be—able to endure all things, and i do all things—if ice believe that every j tlay. every hour, every moment, of our life is in His hands. HENRY 1 VANDTKE. I WOODWARD DECISION THE decision of Judge Kunkel throwing out the nominating petitions of James Woodward, [ of Ashland, as a candidate for Sec- J retary of Internal Affairs, ought to provide a lesson for those who trifle j with the State nominating system J either in procuring signatures of; doubtful character or of setting up ' candidates for purposes not strictly ! •within the intent of the law. There appears to be little ques tion that the Ashland man; was placed in the race by reason of the similarity of his name to that of Jam.es F. Woodward, of McKees port, and that the thought was to split the Woodward vote in favor of some other candidate by confusing the minds of voters. This is dis ronutable practice and, while Judge Nlmkel was not required to rule on that si£e of the case, unquestion ably his opinion was influenced by the facts as they appeared. Almost as bad was the manner in •which names were solicited for the Ashland man's petitions, little at tempt being made to verify them or to procure the signatures of those really favoring the nomination. The •whole thought appears to have been i to get enough signers to allow the j petitions to come within the law end the most reckless use of the affi davit was made to legalize many' that were shown to be false or pro- | cured under circumstances that re- ' fleet no credit upon those respon-1 Bible. Judge Kunkel's decision is brief, but it is forcefully written and dis plays the court's utter contempt for methods of the kind employed. V - You can get more gloom on one street car than you can In all the war letters the boys "over there" are writ ing back home. POOR HOLLAND HOLLAND is between the Ger man devil and the deep North Sea. To bow to German will would place her out of sympathy ■with the allies who are destined in the end to be victorious and such a step would be at variance with the sentiment of the Dutch themselves. To defy the beast of Berlin is to in vite such disaster as little Belgium differed when her army stood so Valiantly in the path of the Kaiser's gray-backs in 1914, It is a poor choice. But Holland has stood at the crossing of the ways on more than one occasion and the Kaiser is not the only international bully who has tried his hand against Dutch cour l age and independent spirit. Holland lias a well trained army and the open door in Holland would be but a standing invitation to America to f fiend her troops against the Germans through that country, thus compel ling the Germans to meet them on new ground and a large number of . Americans and British going in through Holland might easily turn the German campaign lntb a despe rate effort to defend the home-land against an invasion that accomplish ed without the withdrawal of the German lines in France and Bel , glum would threaten a catastrophe for German arms of the first magni tude. There is an old saying that "whom the gods would destroy they first >nake mad" and it would seem sheer jmadness for Germany to start war on Holland, while the allies control the sea. Rather it would appear ■jthjU Germany Is playing a deep di plomatic game in the hope of forc ing Holland into the Germanic al liance, to become after the war, if {conditions permit, a vassal state con. -trolled by Berlin the German Junkers. At all events, the recent (interruption of frlendty relations be tween the two nations is the most SATURDAY KVENTNTG, ' HXHRISBT7RG TELEGRAPH 'APRTi; 27; 1915. > significant development of the Euro pean situation recently and will be watched with intense interest. The French say our men don't speak their language very well, but the Ger mans have no difficulty in understand ing what they are driving at. AN HONOR DISTRICT HARRISBURG is an "Honor Flag Town" and the Harrisburg dis trict, embracing Dauphin, Perry, Cumberland and Juniata counties, is an "Honor Flag District." We have gone "over the top" splendidly In the Third Liberty Loan drive and the campaign is not yet closed. And this Is true not because of any very large subscriptions in any part of the district, but because the work was well organized, the cam paigners energetic and the people generous and enthusiastic in their support of the government. It is not too much to say that we could ha%e raised a million more here had we been put to it. Two things were apparent in the campaign—that the farmers are be ginning to feel very* substantially the effects of war prosperity and are able J to buy bonds much more extensively 1 than formerly, and that mechanics and wage-earners in general are not j spending all of tlieir increased earn ings, but are saving and are more than ever disposed to put their money into Liberty Bonds. This is a good augury for the success of the next Liberty Loan drive, for the sav ing habit grows and the more we in vest the more we want to invest. | The smaller towns and the rural districts showed up above expecta tions this time and in a manner that reflects great credit both upon the workers in charge and their people as a whole. Sixteen honor flag towns throughout Dauphin county outside of the city show how patriotically the people of these outlying com munities subscribed: and in this re spect it may not be amiss to make special mention of Steelton, wlilch bids fair to go fifty per cent, above its quota, iH order to give help to some of the smaller communities that however generously they sub scribed because of population and wealth, might not be able to do as much as they would have liked. Steelton In the lower end and Mil lersburg, Elizabethville, Lykens, Wlconisco and Williamstown in the upper end are not only loyally pa triotic but they give evidence of be ing highly prosperous as well. The same may be said in a general way for the counties outside of Dau phin. Cumberland simply outdid herself and the great rolled up there is a tribute to the effectiveness of the war service organization for which that county has become fa mous. Perry, with its string of honor towns, has run beyond its quota.and JiAiiata more than doubled " the amount subscribed In ( the second loan. , News of this kind is floating in from all over the country, and it is going to prove mighty discouraging reading in Berlin. The great hope of the German military gang was that America would make only a pretense of entering the war, and that her people would not subscribe heavily to the bond issues and so make it Impossible to utilize the im mense resources of the country for the construction of a military ma chine with which to crush the Ger man autocracy. But each loan makes it more and more evident that America is very much in earnest and means to stand by the President and the government even to the fast man has been won. It is a cheering message that the Harrisburg district has to send to President Wilson to-day. It Is the kind of message he expected of us. There may be many more calls from Washington before thjs wretched business is completed, but always we of the Harrisburg district at this close of the campaign shall stand ready to claim our "Honor Flag." We want not only one of them, but a whole standard of colors. They will be our proudest possession when the war has gene won. U "PtKHgifCrfutXa By the Kx-Oommitteeman ; H —According to Philadelphia, news i papers, the Vares have been unable J to withstand the pressure from men | who want them to declare theip." ! selves on the question of the Repub-* lican nomination for governor and will httva a meeting of the Repub lican city committee next week, at which the subject will bo discussed "freely." The whole Vare organiza tion in the Quaker City is said to ge "Up in the air" over the demands of Governor Brumbaugh and state administration leaders that the Phil adelphia committee declare for J. Denny O'Neil and the ardor with which some influential men inside of the Vare organization are press ing the Sproul campaign.. —The ward leaders were given the ,tip in Philadelphia some time n?o that 'ho Vares were going to allow each one to decide for him self whom to support for governor. The two Vares themselves were planning to declare for O'Neil and to allow Lane, Martin, Mackey and others to go for Sproul, but this does not satisfy the Governor or the Sproul people and it is believed that the Vares will be forced out into the open. State administration men were jubilant over these reports to day and claimed that it meant en dorsement for O'Neil. —The Philadelphia Record, which j gives considerable space to the in- ' vestigation made by the ward lead- ! ,ers in an effort to lind out the senti- ! nient of their people on governor. | reaches a conclusion similar to what has been found by representative newspapers of Pittsburgh and Scran- j ton. namely, that the people are not | bothering very much about politics. j but are interested in winning the' war and the success of the Liberty ] Loan. „ —The Record says: "Taking the i Vares at their word, many of the! ward leaders sent their division j workers out yesterdav to learn the I strength of Sta.t Senator William C. Sproul and Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, and the results as announced last night were surpris ing. Scores of political investigators i eported that comparatively few voters are interested in the cam paign for the Republican nomina tion, and that, instead of following the movements of the candidates, the voters are more intereste/1 in the progress of the war and the sue- ! cess of the Liberty Loan. Despite I their denials, it is known that more j than one-half of the Vare ward ] leaders of the city favor Senator Sproul for the nomination." —Pittsburgh newspapers tell of the activities of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell and John R. K. Scott in that city, but it is very evident that people are much more Interested In the war and the Liberty Loan than in those two worthies. —The decision iq the Woodward nomination case yesterday caused much comment upon the manner In •which similar tricks have been em ployed the last few years. Few peo ple have a good word to say for them. —Predictions of a substantial In crease in registration in all third class cities on Wednesday are being made by newspapers. —The Philadelphia Press to-day gives much space to an investigation of police conditions by the Business Men's Association. It shows much political interference. —United States Senator Penrose, who returned to Philadelphia yester day, declared that there is no doubt over the nomination of Senator Sproul for Governor and Senator Ed ward E. Beidleman for Lieutenant 'Governor. , "The campaign is pro gressing very favorably," Senator Penrose said, "and it looks'more fa vorable for Senator Beidleman every j day. In fact, every one now knows that Senator Sproul and Senator Beidleman will be nominated." —Organized labor opened its guns last night on Congressman Stephen G. Porter, who is trying to secure the Republican and Democratic nomina tions in the Twenty-ninth Congres sional district, says the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. It cited specific in stances where he had failed to sup port important legislation. Incident ally It brought out the fact that Mr. Porter had voted to conscript the voting men of America, but gave rtf> heed to the bill which insured the lives of the soldiers. The candidacy of William S. Bigger for the Re publican Congressional nomination in the district was indorsed. —State officers of the Protective I'nion of Pennsylvania, who are con ducting an independent canvass of i heir own among their associates, in haling businessmen and profession al men. manufacturers and others throughout the Commonwealth, favor Sproul. Branch organizations of the Protective Union are being formed in every county in the state and leading citizens in the various communities are being enrolled as members to in sure the polling of a large vote for Senator Sproul for Governor not only at the primaries on May 21, but at the election in November. This move ment is based upon the thought that the next Governor of Pennsylvania must be a man of character, of force, of experience, of ability and of pa triotic impulse, regardless of his political affiliations or activities, and upon this platform not a few well- Jtnown Democrats have joined the Patriotic Union to insure the election of Senator Sproul as Governor to meet the inevitable nnd mighty prob lems with which the state will be confronted at the termination of the war. —Announcement was made yester day of the organization of the Wil liam C. Sproul Roosevelt Republican League of Philadelphia, through the circulation of an indorsement of the candidacy of Senator Sprout for the Republican nomination for Gover nor, signed by over fifty former Roosevelt delegates and committee men, who were leaders in the Pro gressive moment when 'the Roose velt men captured the Republican State convention in 1912, the last Republican State convention held in Pennsylvania, and elected their en tire state ticket. The indorsement reads as follows: "The undersigned Republicans, sup porters of Theodore Roosevelt, dele gates from Philadelphia districts to the Republican State and national conventions of 1912, delegates <o the Progressive national convention of 1912. officers and members of the Washington Party City Committee, hereby indorse the candidacy of State Senator William C. Sproui for nomination and election as Gover nor of Pennsylvania." Over tiw * Mt p&IUUU - I Abe Buzzard, Lancaster-Chester 1 I county outlaw, is now li the West j Cheater jail awaiting trial on the ! charge of chicken stealing. Abe Is I 66 years old and has spent 35 of ! them In jail. He had a period of re , form but got into huckstering busi ness near Kennett Square and Just , could not make his old twisted hands behave. Caught with a whole wagon load of poultry he surrendered game ly. saying he could not help it but ; asked for no mercy. Abe comes from j a good family. He was leader of the notorious Welsh Mountain gang which two decades ago was as fam ous as the band led by Jesse James. One of the rules of the Waukegan (111.) community dance hall Is: "la dles are forbidden to place arms around their partner's neck." Same old story; always some killjoy butting In. This Is from a Boston paper, dear old Boston where the kiddies lisp Ibsen. "What Is the meaning of 'alter ego, Horace?' Horace an swered, "the other I." "Give me a sentence containing the phrase," re quested the schoolteacher, whom we fancy as wearing four-ply spectacles and a linsey-woolsey jersey. Horace took an awful skid, answering: "He winked his other ego. "It Is to gur gltate." Husbaad (reading telegram) Heavens! My rich Unci* Ben has fal len and broken his neck while put ting up an American flag on his porch. Wife —Three cheers for the red, white and bljie!—Akron Times. ' 'So much is made of man-under ! the-bed tragedies in the movies and ! elsewhere that it is helpful to read I occasionally of the genuine thing as I It happened to Mrs. A. R Jackson, !of Willlamsport, recently. Entering ! her chamber she thought she saw a I man's foot sticking out. It was some ! dreadnaught, too. What did she do. | Why. she yelled; screamed so shrilly that the man plunged out the win | dow, so agitiated that he is running | yet. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT i Remember that every dollar you I have is of draft age.—Boston Herald. After pro-Germans have been made to kiss the flag, it should be sent to the laundry.—Toledo Blade. Dillon declares authoritatively that Ireland is unanimous against the draft. A unanimous Ireland at least has the merit of novelty.—Philadel phia North American. Austrian allegations awfully array ed are advancing, attacking, artfully, arrogantly; arrows of asseveration ! till the air. France stands, mall-clad i against them all. —Brooklyn Eagle. _ High as the cost of living in Ger many is conceded to be, it doesn t compare with the expense of moving into France.—Topeka Journal. It's all perfectly simple. Instead of permitting the war to drag on another two years, Hindenburg is go ing to finish it yp in a single battle lasting not more than forty-eight months.—New York Evening Post. Director-General McAdoo has served notice that railroad folders in the future mt\st be "purely in formative." Why not apply the same rule, too, to Mr. Creel's literary efforts? —Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Browning Gun Inventor John M. Browning, inventor of the Browning machine gun and the Browning automatic rifle which Uncle Sam is producing by thou sands for use against the Boche, is turning back to the government some three and a half million dollars in disclaimed royalties. Normal royalty payments to Browning for guns now under order would be approximately $5,000,000. But— "Whatever the government says is a fair price, I am willing to ac cept," he told the officials sent to negotiate with him. He agreed with out question to a flat price of sl,- 000,000 plus an expense allowance and signed to Uncle Sam the right to produce as many of his guns as might be needed. Browning is 62; of Mormon stock; slender; slightly stooped; bald ex cept for a narrow fringe of gray hair; wears a closely clipped mus tache; face'ls network of fine lines and between his two eyes two verti cal lines cut deeply Into the flesh; dresses simply In pepper and salt gray, or blue serge; wears no jew elry; hates publicity; affects no | "front"; salts away his royalties; still keeps up Utah home, where he was born* [From the Philadelphia Telegraph.:] At the Kaiser's Dictation The news is received that the Crown Princess of Germany answer ed coldly, almost brutally, an appeal from women of Geneva for the par don of a young woman friend of Edith Cavell, sentenced to, long im prisonment. But the Crown Prin cess should not be too hastily blam ed for unwomanly lack of feeling. It is likely that she Is entirely pow erless In the matter. The Kaiser, with hls well-known views on the subjection of women, would feel It his duty to his subjects to give them an example of not'being Influenced on the side of mercy and justice by the womenfolk of his family.—Bal timore American. Cannot Dictate if Whipped Fully as much on potash as on her military forces is Germany relying for her victory peace, and in the certainty of her potash supply she listens with equanimity to all threats of trade boycotts after the war. If the United States refuses cotton to Germany, very well, Germany will refuse potash to the United States. We need a potash Independence If we are to gain the sort of peace we are fighting for. Otherwise the Kaiser is going to have a lot to say about the ternhs.—Seattle Post-In telllgencer. Correctly Described "America's participation In the war," whistles the Minister of the German Navy, "is comparatively small." "Comparatively" is the word—comparative with what It Is going to be—From the Liouisville Courier-Journal. A Worm That Never Turns Since the war begain Germany has sunk 745 Norwegian vessels, valued at $10,500,000, drowning 968 Nor wegian seamen. In addition, 53 ves sels currying 700 men are missing— and still Norway Is finding other cheeks to turn.— Boston Glob*. Since There Are Those Among Us Who Still Love German Rule WIIY NOT ACCOMODATE THEM? l 'M' j}fg Business Must Fii\ance the War By THI MAX A. DrWEESE, Buffalo, Jr. Y. , MORE business than usual" — that's the slogan that will win tlte war. It Is the bus iness of advertising to keep the dollar at work. How are we going >to keep dollars at work at a time when the industrial resources and busirtess energies of the people are ! being drafted for the war? Adver i tising is the answer. The Govern ernment has shown its faith in the power of advertising by making use of it on a scale of magnitude never beifore attempted in this or any other country. It is the business of advertising to pull idle dollars out of their hiding places and put them to work. If this is the business of advertising in normal times, then advertising has a job now that is colossal in its proportions. Adver tising must not only sell the Liberty Bonds, the war stamps and the Red Cross, but must keep business from languishing, for, after all, it Is big business and little business that must "finance" the war. If there is no business how can we "finance" the war? We cannot "finance" it out of our savings; that idea Is fallacious. We can only make money by spending money. If we stop producing things, and sell ing things, and buying things, and merely depend upon our savings we will soon reach the bottom of the box and the next Government loan will find us without any money with which to buy bonds. THE STATE PRESS We are looking eagerly forward to the time when, instead of "Some where in France," the letters from our boys will be dated from "Some where in Germany." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Germany is not only using paper clothes but also paper mattresses. Comfort is evidently being reduced in the empire to a mere scrap of paper just like its treaties. —Baltimore American. In a speech delivered in Cleve'and in behalf of the Liberty Loan Sam uel Gompere, head of the American Federation of Labor, declared that socialism in this country was nothing short of poisonous German prop aganda. Here was condemnation from the highest laborite in the Unit ed States, and his denunciation wns in plain words that carried no equivocation.—Pittsburgh Suh. —When a man advertises freely in the newspapers, it shows that he has confidence in his goods.' be lieves in them through and through. He is willing to back that faith with the money spent in advertising. . He feels sure that if the public only knows about his offerings, it will want them. The man who does not advertise lacks that confidence. Sometimes this is because in his heart he does not feel that he has anything any better than any one else. And sometimes he feels or claims to feel that the public would not read his notice nor be interested in it, even if his proposition were good.—Easton Free Press. Our government sends thousands of boys to France to stand up before German- firing squads, but it hag gles over a measure to place before American firing squads the spies and traitors who increase the sacrifice o$ American lives. Wilkes-Barre Record. Socialism in the United States has been deflected from ag educational propaganda to an anti-war, if not pro-German, propaganda. Thousands of men and women who were at tracted to and believed in the gen eral principle of Socialism, but who were, nevertheless, thoroughgoing Americans, have severed their con nection with the Socialist party. Thus, it is that Socialism and the So cialist party are two different af fairs. "But," says the economist fresh from the cloistered monasteries of learning, "if all the productive en ergies and resources of the country are diverted to the business of war, it is impossible for business to go on as usual." We don't want business to go on as usual. We must do more business than usual. As a matter of fact, we have only scratched the surface, so far as the productive power of this country is concerned. Wo could actually make everything needed for the war and at the same time in crease our productive capacity in all other lines a hundredfold. Don't put up the shutters or pull down the sign. Business must go right on or we will lose the war — and then Germany will take up bus iness where we left off. And if business must go right on, advertising must go right on, for advertising is the most important factor in merchandising. Every dollar must be kept at work. We must save, but not hoard. An idle dollar in the bank is a lazy, un productive dollar. It is the function of advertising to pull these idle dol lars out of the bank and put them to work. It is the business of ad vertising to increase the earning power of every dollar in all lines of Industry to the end that the people may finance the 'war with the least drain upon the country's resources and with the least interruption to normal activities. LABOR NOTES Sailors and stokers on the Drog heda, Ireland, steamers have secured an increase in wages. It Is proposed that the government will erect a memorial monument in Washington to the members of the various orders of sisters who served as nurses during the Civil War. Three bills, advocating the exten sion of the eight-hour principle to employes in or about any coal mine, metal mine or smelter, are 'tiefqre the British Columbia Legislature. Provincial labor offices at Winni peg. Canada, are able to supply only half the applications for men re ceived from Manitoba farmers. Wages for farm help are $45 lo S6O per month for the season's work. Figures made public show that more than 150,000 men are engaged in the sale or manufacture of intox icants in London district. The figures include all male employes in hotels and restaurants. There Is already a very well-or ganized and well-disciplined Labor j party in England, with forty-two members in the House of Commons. That the next general election will give labor a very strong or even a dominant position in the government is probable. The mortality from tuberculosis during the last ten years in British Columbia has Increased 100 per cent, and the government intends taking active steps of a remedial nature to combat the white plague Inroads on public health. Toronto (Can.) stationary firemen are asking the Dominion govern ment for a Board of Conciliation to arbitrate the wage question between their members and the city—that is, the members of their organization working for the city in pumping sta tions. Canadian labor unions are making a special effort to establish a labor party in order that they may have proper representation In Parliament. I At the present time the trades union ists are represented by only one man in the Province of Ontario. In the Dominion House of Commons and Senate the Railway Brotherhoods have two. THE AWAKENING Here, where the Summer talked with bird and bee Through golden day and evening dim and long-. Where aisle on aisle was tremu lous with song. The dreamless Winter slept full rest fully. Well might one think of death and his decree That sends to exile far the roses' throng. And dooms their knight, the Sum mer, brave and strong, To' wander long beside a southern sea. The haunt of death? Nay. as one sees the dawn Dim-glowing 'mid the embers of the night, So through the *>ea.ce of garden close and lawn Shall softly burn the upward flaminfc light Of nearing Spring, and when chill winds have gone. The aisles shall thrill with song bird's lyric flight. —Arthur Wallace Peach in Boston Transcript. fOUR DAILY LAUGH Nhis turn. / I I've decided / not to get an / I opera cloak or a jjjj new ball gown MBF) this year. I ItoiraSPi Why not? I My husband Is looking so shab v V by I think too simply must have a new suit. AN EXCUSE. W• V I a I love to make . love said / \ Miss Chic, / JV-i\ It's really con- j \ serving of For ti girl, if A she's hum- ■/ ble and / \ Can always Pjffll make love lAI/ on her face. M luff REFERENCE. jjjptllllSß during courtship §' cheer up. Cheer up! tho sun will shine again i And broken ' heads will , mend, And some day, though we k'now not The war will surely end. iEbemng Olljai Harrisburg was certainly on Its toes yesterday afternoon about the time that the final reports were being made on the Liberty Loan subscrip-t Hons and the way telephone bells rang and peoplo asked questions was worth noting- as well as the com ments made upon some people of ample means who had slacked In their buying. Between 12 and i o'clock yesterday telephone bells rang in newspaper offices and all over the city and the question was "Have they gone over the top?" Sel dom has as much interest, been mani fested as yesterday. It was far more than in the first and second loans. The people were keenly interested not only in Harrisburgi but In Steel- % ton and other towns, judging from the Inquiries. The calling of the half holiday impressed upon everyone what the day meant and the ener getic manner In which the indus trial and house-to-house canvasses were made by the committees had created a sentiment for the success of the loan here that was extremely gratifying. ** • ■ The towering structure of the new Penn-Harris Hotel Is, one of the best advertisements Harrisburg has. The experience of two men coming into Harrisburg on trains Saturday shows it. One Harrisburger says that as his train came down from the Northern Central a couple traveling men spied the high build ing and one asked: "Say, what's that going up?" "That's the new hotel we're building," said the Harrisburger with some pride. "Real thing? Well, guess more of us will be stopping over in Harris burg instead of ducking out as soon as business is done," said the com mercial man. The other incident as told by a Harrisburg traveling man consisted of a well-dressed man peering out of a Pullman at the building and inquiring what it was. When told it was a big hotel he simply said, "At last." • • * Dauphin and Cumberland streams which have been in the "fished out" class for years are coming back in to their own again as a result of stocking with brook and brown trout by the State Fisheries Commission and the game fish has been taken in places where it has been unknown for a long time. This stocking work was undertaken three or four years ago after a survey of the numerous creeks and brooks of the two coun ties. Dauphin years ago had a great reputation for the trout that swam in its waters, but between industrial drainage and unsystematic fishing the fish disappeared just as the Sus quehanna salmon, which used to be so abundant about this city, have diminished. Agreements were made by land owners and fishermen where by the trout were not to be disturbed and as a result there are now trout streams Which have furnished good sport this year in spite of the weath er conditions. • • * Capitol Hill flower beds which have been a delight for children for generations in Harrisburg are bloom ing this spring with a brilliancy that seems to have been inspired by the fact that this is the last year that there will be flowers in the State House grounds, the dictum having gone forth that the flowers are to be replaced with ornamental Pennsyl vania shrubbery this summer. TJii order was given during the winter and the thousands of tulip, hyacinths and other plants are now in bloom. One of the finest displays is in front of the Capitol where there are two line of red tulips, each over 250 feet long. The tulips are of a deep red f and in striking contrasts to the blue and white circular beds on either side of the Hartranft statue and the red," white and blue keystone near the State Library. The flower dis play this year has attracted much attention from visitors. • • ■> "People must have a change of thoughts these days, or they'll be crazy" said a prominent business man yesterday. "The other after noon I went into the office of one of Harrisburg's big corporations. I wanted to see the manager. In the { outer office were a boy and a girl, presumably clerks in the office. They had taken a sheet of typewrit er paper, made a checkerboard from it, and were playing checkers with thumbtacks and paperclips." "How under the sun do you crown a king; you can't put one thumbtack on an other ?" queried the visitor. "Oh, we just assume that," was the girl's rejoiner. • • • High water in the Susquehanna has caused the river coal fleet to tie up for repairs. Owing to the great demand for river coal the coal gatherers got out unusually early, risking the ice and the March fresh ets. The rains and snows of the last ten days have chased them from work and the dredges and barges are now tied up along the Dauphin and Cumberland shores being patched up and prepared for a long and busy season. | W£LL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —William Fulton Kurtz, of Phila delphia, has been elected president of the Colonial Trust Company. He is a well-known banker. —Captain Leon F. Pitcher, new deputy superintendent of state po lice, is a Spanish War veteran. —George Harrison Frazier has been elected president of the Hunt ingdon Valley Country Club, of PhlN adelplila. —W. M. Donley, Allegheny county road engineer, has been commission ed as a captain of engineers and will go to Camp Lee. —J. S. Herbert, Cambria steel man, well known here, has been chosen as president of the Johnstown Rifle Club. —Judge J. C. Work, of Uniontown has strongly urged buying of Liberty Bonds by -estates. —The Rev. Dr. F. G. Coan, of Pittsburgh, well known to many Harrisburgers, Is delivering a series talks in Pittsburgh on his war ex periences in Persia. | DO YOU KNOW ~ —That Harrisburg Is right In tlio, middle of the Pennsylvania iron and steel region on which the Germans would be first to - pounce? HISTORIC HARRISBURG There were no Tories In Harris Ferry in the Revolution. There was a reason, too. The Place For the Irish [From Toronto Mall and Empire.l It is suggested that If conscription Is applied to Ireland the forces thus raised should be brigaded with either the French or the Americans. They ought to be put where they will do the most harm to the enemy, and no other consideration should have weight.
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