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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.
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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 *
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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\
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during courtship
§' cheer up.
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sun will
shine again
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' heads will
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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.