8 9ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR POR THB HOUB Feumdtd it JI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Saare. 10. J. STACKPOLE,Prx'I 6r Editer-in Chirf K\ It. OYSTER, Busintss Hanaftr. BUS M. STEINMETZ, UaMapHg Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en title* 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. Member American Newspaper Pub _ Chicago, 111'. *' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second rlass matter. afl*y"nr*H By carriers, ten cents a dTfagl' week; by mall. 16.00 a year in advance WEDNESDAY, MAY I, 1918 / e======================== Be thou exalted, 0 God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above a/I j the earth. —Ps 57:11 HUM-DINGING THE HUN IT will not be at 511 surprising—in fact it is to be expected—that since the American troops have become a factor in the war and the American officers are in a position. , to make suggestions with the pres tige of participants, there will be some new methods introduced and j some new "stunts" pulled oft. While I it is tjue that Americans have no ! monopoly of imagination, Initiative and inventive genius, yet the board: and varied experience of Americans has been such as to make them prompt in seizing opportunities and resourceful in meeting emergencies. The American soldiers, both offi- ! cers and privates, come from every walk of life. Many of them have / had varied individual experiences—- life in the city, on the plains, in the ! forests, in the mines, on the rail- ( roads, and they have been trained . from youth to meet new situations, ' cope with unusual difficulties, take long chances, form decisions quickly j promptly. No man could [ have ridden bucking bronchos on the prairies without gaining more confi- j dence in himself. No man could j have mingled with the motley 1 throngs of the mining camps with- ' out becoming a better judge of men and how to handle them. Taken by and large, life in America pre sents an almost endless variety of experiences as compared with the j humdrum routine of life in the old, i conservative nations of Europe. In the matter of courage and In willingness to sacrifice, America can not excel the brave men who have | held and are holding the Allied lines ! in France. In the planning of de- | fensive campaigns and in the larger i problems of the war, quite likely the j European commanders are the equal I of any. But we have been pleased j to believe that some of the "stunts" recently consummated were j suggested by Americans, and we ' fondly hope that in the next few J months American genius will direct some brilliantly successful feats that will add "pep" to the Allied cause and greatly hasten the victorious end. "Scrubwomen In the Boston Capitol have struck." Heavens, think of any body letting a State job get away. "Beef goes up In price." Wh9>e have we heard them sad words be fore? THE FEAR OF AMERICA THE same cables bring the news that Germany at last is prepar ing her people for the news of America's growing strength in the war and that for months previous the Germans had been parading fifteen hal/-starved American pris oners throughout the country to prove that Americans cannot stand before German troops. The German government has gone to great pains to make the people believe that America would never amount to much as a fighting factor In the war. Apparently the thing has been over done. There are indications that the people at large, notwithstanding the government's propaganda, have a wholesome and abiding respect for America and American soldiers that in some localities at least is near akin to terror. What was the effect on the Ger man populace when the pitifully small group of American prisoners were paraded for their derision we have no means of knowing, hut the result of this bit of news spread throughout the American forces of France will be anything but con ducive to gentle treatment when the Yankee boys have their next bout with Fritz, imagine for a moment the feelings of the men of the regi ment to whom these poor chaps be long and consider how you would like to come at them from the Ger man side of No Man's Land, as the ■word went down the trenches to "square accounts." Mora and mora it becomes evident that America is obtruding herself as an evar-growlng object of fear In the German mind. All of which is good WEDNESDAY EVENING, news, for fear and uncertainty are I great foes of military as well as civil morale. A TOURING CENTER ORGANIZATION of the South ern Tours Association by the same men under whose direc tion the Empire Tours of New Eng land have become famed throughout the world will make Harrlsburg more than ever an automobile tour ing center and will bring thousands upon thousands of visitors to Har rlsburg yearly. To be the northern terminus of these Southern Tours, which extend as far South as Jacksonville and as far west as St. Louis, is in effect to make this city the junction point for the southern tourist goinr north to New York and New England and the northern tourist going south. The new Penn-Harris hotel is the mag net which has attracted this very desirable patronage to Harrlsburg and all that has been invested in the new hotel would be well worth while if it brought no other benefit. The new tours take the automo bilist over smooth roads through highly interesting and picturesque country of the southland anil are so arranged that they bring one at the end of the day's journey to good hotel accommodations, the assurance of a bath, a palatable dinner and a comfortable bed. The advantages of following the carefully laid out program entour are needless to men tion and those who have devised the present routes have inspected I them from one end to the other, i have made their arrangements with hotel managements for special at i tention to automobile parties and j are getting out literature that will ! be at once a guide to the man at j the wheel and a "bluebook" of in . formation concerning points of in terest along the way. Many persons desiring to tour the south have been deterred from so I doing by lack of reliable knowledge | concerning road and hotel conditions. Unquestionably, these new Southern j Tours will be extensively patronized and the good that will come of them I will not be in pleasure alone, but in the very material benefits that are always derived from closer relations and mAre intimate association of neighboring peoples. As it happens now the great lines of passenger and news communication run largely from east to west across the country and thousands of Americans who know all about the east and the west know little or nothing about the South, with the exception, possibly, of a few of the Florida resorts. With northern tourists going south and southern tourists coming north new ties between individuals and communities will be formed and new ' commercial relations established. All told, the Southern Tours Asso ciation has done a very excellent piece of work in the formation of its organization, the full value of which will not be realized until the ! project has had opportunity to de- ! velop. THE PRICE OF ICE ICE to the small consumer in Harrlsburg is to cost no more this year than last. In this re spect, at least, we are now about to reap some benefit from the hard winter that kept us shivering so long. Mr. Hoover and the local food ad ministrators are entirely justified In their stand against profiteering in Ice. Ice Is so closely allied to the food supply that it may be said to be part and parcel of the food ques tion. It might have happened that prices could not have been kept down this year had it not chanced that local dealers were able last win ter to lay in unusually large sup plies of the natural product. Am monia, which is required in large quantities for the making of artificial Ice, is in great demand for war pur poses. It Is both limited in quantity and high in price, so that localities where the natural Ice supply last winter was below normal will have to pay more than usual for their ice. Modern living conditions demand ice for every family. It is a house hold necessity and the poor cannot afford to pay excessive prices for it. The whole situation has worked out very well for Harrisburg. the ice companies and the food administra tor co-operating to that end. SCHOOL TAXES ROBERT A. EXDERS, president of tlie Harrisburg School Board, takes the very proper view that an advance In the school tax rate Is justified at this time in order to keep the schools up to peace standards and pay the teach ers a living wage. He defends the course of the board as being "good businessr" as indeed it is. To begin wltti, the board must pay more for its supplies, just as all of us must for the things we use, and that means greatly increased ex pense. Also, it is quite true that the school teachers must have more pay if they are to be kept on a par with workers of their class in other lines. Not only is this mere justice, but the board could not hope to hold its highly efficient instructors if It were niggardly in its treatment of them. "War must not be allowed to lower 9ur school standards. It Is not pleas ant to face added burdens of taxa tion, but much better a few more mills on the tax rate than that our children should be cheated of their rightful heritage. So long as the money raised is usel to meet leglti- I mate expenses lncreised by the war and to pay teachers' salaries, the or dinary citizen will pay the taxes without complaint, whatever wry .faces he may make as he contem plates the hole they make In his 'bank balance. f otitic* iK T>.KKC^ua By the Kx-Committeeman About the time that Senator Wil liam C. Sproul was passing through Harrisburg last night on his way to TV illianisport where he begins his campaign tour of two weeks to-night Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil and his chiefs were in con ference with Attorney General Brown and Gilford Pinchot regarding the O'Neil campaign. The Demo cratic rivals were busy at their head quarters at opposite ends of the state and -the state Democratic windmill crew waj looking as though it did not know that Joseph F. Guffey had a headquarters on the floor beneath it in a Market Square office build ing. Senator Sproul and Mr. O'Neil will both be in Pittsburgh to-morrow. TJ}.®,f enator ls touring the vicinity of illianisport .to-day and to-night will attend a big dinner in his honor in the Lumber City. Mr. O'Neil <oft here last night for Pittsburgh. Sena tor E. E. Beidleman opened his cam paign for lieutenant governor 'n estem Pennsylvania last night with some comments upon John R. K.i regularity or rather irregu larity of attendance in Washington l and his attitude on legislation which is much in the public eye. —Governor Brumbaugh and At torney General Brown will leave here to-morrow afternoon for Wllkes- Barre where they will speak with O.Neil and begin an attack on Sen ator Sproul which is to be sproad from the anthracite region all over the state. It is the idea to concen trate the fire upon the Senator and his friends. When this was told Senator Sproul he said that he had already outlined what he thought should be the attitude of candidates in a year when the country is at war. He declined to make any at tacks on the Governor or his chiefs. —Mr. O'Neil will go from the an thracite region to Philadelphia and on Monday will tour Chester county and on Wednesday will be in North umberland. He will he here Tuesday and Thursday for Highway Depart ment affairs. Gifford Pinchot. who was here last night talking over themes for speeches, will start his speech-making tour at Wellsboro on May 9. —The candidates appear to think that the people are vitally interested in politics this year. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger, which has been giving O'Neil the best of it, comments upon the fact that Mr. O'Neil has never said he would abide by the decision of the Republican primary. The Ledger says to-day: "Sproul supporters here spread reports to the effect that the reported intention of J. Denny O'Neil to enter the gubernatorial fight in dependently should he lose the Re publican nomination is causing him some trouble in the western end of the state. Newspapers of that section known to be friendly to O'Neil have taken issue with him on the propo sition that he might not abi(le bv the result of the state primary. When in Pittsburgh recently Mr. O'Neil was quoted as saying that whether he would run independent ly, should he lose the nomination, would depend upon his campaign committee, which, he said, settled all matters of policy.' " —The Philadelphia City Repub lican Committee may not meet this week. In spite of the Governor's in sistence the Vares are not inclined to endorse any candidate for Governor. This is said to be one of the reasons why the Governor has held off on his "firing" program. The Philadel phia Record says most of the Vare leaders are for Sproul, while the Ledger remarks: "Reports persisted yesterday that great pressure had been brought upon the Vares to throw their support in this city to O'Neil. The latest of the many re ports from Vare sources had it that the camp would be 'neutral.' " ' —Coincident with the announce ment by Director of Public Safety Wilson that Philadelphia firemen as well as police must keep out of poli tics, the Republican Alliance in dorsed the "objects and purposes" of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Pro tective Association. This organiza tion is made up of hluecoats of the city, but it has never been recog nized by Mayor Smith and his police officials. It is significant that in or dering the firemen to keep out of politics. Director Wilson leaves the way open for them to "contribute" voluntarily to the campaign fund of the Republican organization. —The Philadelphia Inquirer is go ing after Senator Vare for his re fusal to recognize the Dauphin coun ty court decision in the Town Meet ing voters case. It also savs that the action of Superintendent Mills in throwing politicians out of station houses is what Philadelphia need ed. —This is registration day in the thirty-two third class cities and the indications are that there will be : brisk enrollment, although no one except politicians can foretell what it- is going to be. —The story goes that the Dry Federation endorsement committee will meet next week- to complete its work. The practical O'Keii people are probably wishing thftt it would let well enough alone. —Chester city has just waked up to the appointment of Dr. Charles Lintz as an nldermnn in that city. He was named a week ago and the news duly telegraphed. —H. B. Bartlett, candidate for the House in Scranton, says he Is for the "dry" amendment if elected or de feated. —F. N. Jones, of Pittsburgh, will write the "pieces" for the GufTey windmill. He is a former newspaper man and will run the headquarters with the assistance the Demo cratic state headquarters staff which will maintain a neutral position as long as it does not hurt. Freedom of Labor and Capital The plan to make strikes or boy cotts unlawful during the period of thte war should not be represented as labor's or capital's victory. Conces sions were made by both, resulting in what may be called a victory for the freedom of both. The report submitted by the War Conference appointed by Sec retary of Labor Wilson outlines a program for the prevention of In dustrial troubles during the war. and contains provisions that should insure industrial peace when the war is over. Each side agrees to lay aside its most powertul weapon—the strike and the lockout —for the per iod of hostilities. Employers are not to discharge workers because of union membership, and workers are not to use coercive measures to in duce persons to join their unions or compel employers to bargain with them. All these provisions might well j become a permanent part of the new 'lndustrial order.—Leslie's Weekly. HARRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |,j PATRIOTIC ITALIAN'S \ To tht Editor if the T elf graph : I It was my privilege to be a guest ( ! at a meeting Monday evening at which a scene of Interest occurred. ] j The people at the meeting were j j chiefly a group of our Italian cltl- I tens. The guest of honor was a young man who went out April 30, as a se lected man to Camp Lee. This young man's name is Dominec B. Vellone. As the evening* wore on a piece was put on the Victrola which proved to be the Garlbaldian hymn. Italy na tional song. It Bet the Italians to laughing and singing. Then one went to the piano and they urose, and sang a song to the music of the na tional hymn. It was then that the interesting scene took place. The young man who was to leave In a few hours for Camp L>ee said, "now let us sing 'America.' " And tney sang it and we sang it. Onl£ they Bang it in Italian, and we, who knew none of their language, sang it in English. More Italians were sing ing than Americans, because there were more Italians. The signs of deep enthusiasm and of sincere loy alty to the land of their adoption, were evident in every action, every note. The young man who haft been drafted came to me and said: "I am glad to serve this land where I live. I go to help men become free, and keep men free!" Pine, wasn't it? Sincerely, G. E. HAWES. ] MACHINE GUN !FORTS j It used to be thought that the Bel gian forts of armored steel and con crete, almost completely buried in the ground, would hold out against any artillery. • But when the Ger mans brought up their great ho witzers and hurled undreamed of quantities of high explosives on these forts, they broke and crum : bled to pieces. Then It was predicted that the day of the fort was over. | But the machine gun has developed la new type of warfare. Instead of I great forts mounting huge guns, we now have little machine gun forts, ! and they we far more troublesome ! that the big fellows. To ihe Ger j mans belongs the credit for this type of fort, which consists of a small concrete structure, hidden from view as far as possible, but commanding some important part of the front. 'Pill-boxes' the British call them, be cause the first ones they ran across were round in shape and something like a pill-box in appearance. These pill-boxes are just large enough to house a few men and a couple of machine guns. Conceal- J ment Is of the utmost importance; their safety depends upon it. Air planes are particularly feared, be cause a machine gun emplacement is recognized to be so important that a whole battery of artillery would be turned upon a suspected pill-box. It is claimed that some pill-boxes are built with turrets that rise out of the ground. Normally they are completely buried and covered with turf so that no one would expect their existence. During the bom bardment preceding a charge they would remain hidden, and only a j chance shot could put them out of j business. When the chargq took | place the elevating mechanism ! would be operated, and out of the ! ground would rise the miniature fort, ready to halt the advancing sol diers." —A. Russel Bond in St. Nich olas. No Better Than Bonds There is a rumor going; about that certain persons are hoarding- cur rency in the fear that the exigencies of the war will invalidate ail other forms of credit. It seems to ibe their idea that a 15 note must in the very nature of things maintain the value which the government engraving places on it. For these persons it is worth while saying that the engrav ing offers no greater surety than the surety of the United States govern ment. The use of this currency to purchase Liberty Bonds merely transfers it to another form of gov ernment obligation. If Liberty Bonds should become worthless, currency would become worthless. Govern ment bonds and government notes rest on the same foundation. —Chi- cago Tribune. CLEAR THE WAY [Faugh-a-Ballagh means "Clear the way." It is the Gallic motto of the famous Irish Innisklllin Regi ment. There are many Irishmen in the ranks of the 307 th Infantry of tho National Army, The officers car ry .blackthorn sticks.] There's a Blackthorn Regiment be longs to Uncle Sam. And it's heading out <"jr trouble any day. Be It France, or Greece, or Russia, it doesn't give a damn, Only start it on its way and. Clear the Way! So clear the way before us when our marching orders come ! Can't you hear the fifes a-screaming and the throbbing of the drum. And the roar of marching feet Down the crowded city street. Past the avenues of faces? It's the long good-by for some. It's the price we gladly pay To the Resurrection Day. Let us pay it as we play it—Faugh a-Ballagh ! Clear the Way ! We have never faced a barrage, and we've never shed our blood. Though we've done our duty de cent up to date. But we're strong on stumps and snowflelds, we're hyenas for the mud, We'll be ready when we hear their Hymn of Hate. We've a debt that's due to England. We've a price to give for France. We've a score with God Almighty we would pay. We have talked and we have dallied while the others staked our chance. It Is time we drew our cards—so Clear the Way ! There's length of battery trenches where tne trees are torn and dead, With the reek of rotting horses in the air; When through the blinding fog the shells come wailing overhead. And it's waiting for us now over there. When the yellow mud 1s spattered from the craters In the snow, Where the dice of death are load ed—let us play. We have pledged our word to Free dom and It's there that we would go. With the strength that Freedom gives us—Clear the Way! Clear the way to No Man's I^and, with bugles shrill and high. Clear It to tlie lid of hell, with flags against the sky. Clear the Way to Kingdom Come, and give us glad good-by— We've a blow to strike for Free. dom—Clear the Way ! —Capt. W. Karr Ralnsford, N. A., in the Outlook. Which Would Our Boys Appreciate Most? Our Boasting That Every American Soldier Is Good For Two Germans Or— Our Boosting With Liberty Bonds For an Army of Two Americans For Every German. ft Pity the Poor || THE German people have been led to believe that the Ukrain ian peace meant a full market basket, and in Austria it was de scribed as "a bread peace.'' Now comes along the Berlin Statistisches Korrespondenz, the official organ of the Prussian statistical bureau with a nice little bit of cheerful reading for hungry Germans. It says: "Podolia is so densely populated that it has no grain for export. The crops of the Governments of Kief, Volhynia, Kharkof, Tscherniov, and ! Poltava are just sufficient for the needs of their own population. Ev en in peace time there was scarcely any surplus. The last potato and hay crops were both bad. Conse quently large quantities of corn must be used as fodder. The Ukraine sends forth no produce, the supply being not even .sufficient for the de mands of the town populations. The stocks of cattle In the Ukraine, with the exception of horses, are very small and there is no hope of any cattle being exported." The poignant part of the situation Is that even the Austrian forces sent to plunder Ukrainia have to be fed from home. A cable dispatch tells us: "That Germany and Austria will SACK OF LOUVAIN [Brand Whitlock iir Everybody's.] All over the city the soldiers be gan firing wildly at the facades of the closed houses; the people ran to their cellars in terror; the soldiers beat in the doors, turned the people Vnto the street, shot them down, set fire to the houses. There were rid erless horses galloping about; a mad, a blind, demoniac rage seemed to have laid hold on tho Germans, and they went through the streets, killing, slaying, burning and looting, torturing and massacring, and for three terrible days the vast and aw ful tragedy was enacted. The people were assembled In tragic groups between the totter ing walls of burning houses; march ed through choking, suffocating streets that were strewn with the 'dead bodies of men and of horses, the women and children. weeping, screaming. Imploring, and the sol diers compelling them to walk with their hands up, or making them kneel, or run, or kicking them, or striking them with their flsts or with the butts of their guns, herding them through the streets, in the midst of the smoking ruins; while other sol diers, with wine-bottles under their arms, went reeling past, crying out at the captives: 'Hund! Schweln! SchweinJjund!' And so. for another day and an other night, the madness went on, the murder, the looting, the sacking, the riot and the burning and the lust; with soldiers pillaging the houses, bearing the wine in great baskets out of the cellars, to be guz zled in the street, while men and women and children were shot down ,nd their bodies left to lie In gutters, or on the smoking ruins, or thrown into foul cesspools. Our Hope in Foch ! "Foch is satisfied," a French of ficer of high rank says. That is wholesome reading. Of course, it is a great strain to wait ftfr the cownter ofTensive, but if Foch does not strike, it is evidently because he sees a bet ter moment for it coming. The long er he waits, the more complete con fidence he displays. There is no rea son why anybody at this distance should be anxious while the com mander-in-chief of all the Allied armies is tranquil enough to delay action. —Philadelphia Record. not get their much-needed supnlies of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, de spite the glowing accounts which are used to bolster np the spirits of their hungry peoples, is confirmed by the Berne correspondent of The Morning Post, who telegraphs that the German authorities admit these hopes must remain unfulfilled for the present. "Austria actually Is sending flour to the Ukraine to feed her troops operating there, the correspondent adds. This Information is published in a local newspaper, which received it from its Czernowitz correspondent under date of March 23. The lat ter obtained it from members of the military administration, who ex plained that difficulties had arisen in the export of foodstuffs from the Ukraine, and it was found necessary to send provisions for the Austrian armies in the Ukraine. "Within the last few days one hundred wagon-loads of Austrian flour had been sent in and other con signments were to follow. This condition is confirmed by a recent speech of the president of the Kra kow Municipal Council, who, referr ing to the danger of famine that was menacing that city, said there were wagons full of flour on the trains traversing Galicia, but only on those going from west to east." Comparatively Speaking In Washington there are spas modic attempts on the part of exe cutive departments to pin upon the back of the galloping Congress the charge that Congress has been re sponsible for delays. No doubt in some rare instances the accusation will stick. But, as compared to ex ecutive speed, Congress is an airplane preceding the advance of an apple cart over rough ground. "I am amused when our friends of the shipping board complain that Congress has been slow," said a con tractor to nje. "As you know, we have just finished a shipbuilding yard for the government. Now, here Is the literal truth—it took longer for the executives to read and sign our contracts, even after tho terms were all settled, than it tqok us to build the yard."—Richard Washburn Child in Collier's Weekly. On Judging One's Self But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment; yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing of myself; yet am I not hereby justified; but he that judgeth me is the Lord.—l Corinthians IV, 3 and 4. AFTERWARD Dear eyes, twin limpid glories, Dear tender, honest eyes, That told such wondrous stories— And most of them fcere lies. Dear lips, that promised blisses, That used to pout and quiz, • Lips made for love and kipses, That kissed my lips—and his. I Dear voice like summer weather. That spoke of love and youth And spring, and years together— And never spoke the truth. ( Dear heart, so close to my heart. That answered to its call. That made of love a high art— And never loved at all. Dear mem'rles, ash and ember, Dear things that pain and grieve. And vet I shall remember. And—sometimes still believe. —Channlng Pollock in the Century, MAY 1, 1918. WEST ALWAYS AWAKE Some of us here in the East have bgen wondering whether the West has "waked up" to the war! The West didn't have to wake up to the war or anything else. The West never has been asleep, when it came to national needs or world help. The West always is ready to get on the firing line and give more than is asked of her. She has the spirit as well as the sense of service. She centers the best hopes of that democracy whose fate this day hangs in the balance. Her so-called "fads" of yesterday are to day's foundation stones. She is the Gibraltar of Americanism, and the man v.-ho questions her loyalty only reveals his own ignorance.—Phila- delphia North American. fOUR DAILY LAUGH I HIS PREFERENCE. Bug—What kind of entertainment I do you prefer? Grasshopper—Well I think I like Eroins' to hops best. NOT ON HIS PLANK. ''Hr.-Jo you sees the ne-r ten dollar toll: r* "No. I haven't even seen tho old ♦ALTKBNATING. girt arc yoT" "Thi mouth I'm naj>£* 'Jtrlo ONE WAY. Wife-—How can I keep from walk ingl In lay sleep? Hublfjr—Take carfare to bed with yon. Stoning (jfllfal William M. Donaldson, th chair man of th War Savings work for Dauphin county, is vitally Interest ed In making 1 the sale of stamps a big KO In this county, especially since it has shown up so well on the Liberty Loans. Mr. Donaldson Is working out a plan, which has been tried In other communities, to have people save systematically. "The Idea is to have a pledge week during which people will be asked to pledge themselves to save so much, little or big, just so it is saving" says he. "It will not interfere with weekly payments on Liberty Bonds, but t rather help It because it will be to catch the nickels and quarters that might be spent otherwise. There can be much money saved and peo ple learn how to save if they have something like a pledge to tie to." When Mr. Donaldson's plan is thought over, the strength of it is apparent. There are many Harris burgers who Bpend money each week for something they do not want and do not need. They ride when a walk would do them good itiid they spend money for trips when they do not know the of their own Capitol or the delights of their city parkways. They buy out-of-town and pay the freight when they can get it just as good and cheaper at home. They eat between meals when it hurts their digestion and spoils their temper and some have an idea they have to drink certain beverages now because pretty soon they won't be able to get them. B\* just going down the line and think ing where some clipping can be done and then putting down the sum on a pledge card they can be savers in stead of spenders and the money be ing loaned to Uncle Sam is put back Into circulation right in Harrisburg where there are works and factories making munitions and supplies for the Army and Navy and where the railroad men who haul them live and where the workmen who are building the big depots near here have their homes. Just trace the money you put into a Thrift Stamp or a Baby Bond and watch it come back to your own hand. You buy the Baby Bond and the $4.1 goes to Uncle Sam's credit. An officer pays it out to a Harrisburg firm or to the Pennsylvania railroad or the Central Iron and Steel Company. Either'one pays its men and they go to a store and buy and by and by you get paid something and before you know it the money is back in your pocket and you have the Baby Bond, too. • • • A good story Is told about the ar rival of some colored men from one of the central counties at Camp Meade the latter part of the week. Thfcsc men arrived about noon and the colored men in the Army were sunning themselves against their barracks after the usual Army din ner. Suddenly one of the bucks in uniform spied the draftees toiling up the road and sang out at one of them: "Oh, Henry. Oh, Henry, dey done got you at las'." The man addressed, whose name was not Henry, looked embarrassed but he grinned just the same. "Now say, Henry," said the man in uniform, "You jes answer all de questions and to-night dey'll give you suppah. Real suppah. You'll get all de chicken you can eat—like something." The mention of chicken had In spired grins, but the wlndup seem ed to break their hearts, while the audience in khaki just yelled. 4 "Now what do you think of that for a welcdme," remarked Colonel Hatch, who had come along and heard it. • • • Speaking of music, at the organ recital given Monday night by Charles Heinroth, he transposed the numbers on the program, playing a '"Spring Song" in place of a Bach fugue in D Major. Imagine the per plexity of musiclovers when they heard the note of a bird opening the brilliant Bach composition. But they were happily set aright when they heard the opening notes of the fugue as the next number, and found that McFarlane's "Spring Song" followed. • • • War does not seem to have hit the Harrisburg Public Library circula tion to any extent. The April fig ures will show that it went over 10,- 000. which Is almost a winter month's figure. Generally In March and April reading declines, but thij year, as in many other lines, the cir culation of books has gone ahead and the April figures show up better than any similar month. On one day over 1,000 books wore taken out and on another 958. March was al so ahead of the usual figure for that month. • • • That Harrisburg has some mighty fine musicians, is a fact which needs no note. In the various recitals given by local artists, Harrisburg is being given an opportunity to realize this. The other evening a party of musicians began to invent new ways of amusing themselves. "I'll wager you can't play a sonata with 'Tipper ary' as the theme," said one of the party to an expert pianist. The wager was taken and auditors heard "Tipperary" played with the skill of a Josef Hoffman. "Here's a harder one ! Allen Sangree has made "The Old Gray Mare," a marching tune Can you transpose It to a funeral march ?" Without perceptible ef fort or knitting of the eyebrows, the pianist played a death march, with "The Old Gray Mare" as the theme • * • Among Harrisburg visitors yester day was E. A. Jones of Scranton. formerly second deputy highway commissioner, one of the well-known men of the Lackawanna region. Mr. Jones was warmly greeted by old friends here. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge W. B. Broomall, of Dela ware county, presided at the Chester Liberty Loan meeting. —General L. T. W. Waller of the marine corps. Is helping build up the Home Defense Reserves In Philadel phia. —Dr. John W. Jordon, librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsyl vania, says the society will arrange for aiding in war work. i —Bishop Talbot opened the ses- slons of the Reading Archdeaconry at Hazleton, this week. —Secretary Daniels !■ to speak at the Philadelphia Chamber of Com merce luncheon tomorrow. DO YOU KNOW —(-That Harrisburg steel is be ing used for many bolts for Army buildings. HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg gave all Its school! for hospitals in 186S,
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