6 iIARSISBUKG TELEGRAM A X EH'S PAPER FOR THS Founded 1&3 1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEUHAI'H PBIJiTWQ CO.. Trlesrnph Building. Federal Squ*r. = ======== :: = E.J. ST.* CK POLE. Pres't &Editor-in-Chief S\ R. OYSTER. Business Manager. 3CS M. STEINMKTZ. Manat>n t Editor. Memaer of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en title'' 'o the use for republi ,-ation of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper nnd also the local news published herein. Ml risrhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American ,4i Newspaper Pub- j ■m ,inm' iiShers' Assocla tion, the Audit Jpjfe- Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn jfii 8 '-or sated Dailies. 1^11215$ r® RB *® r n office, JS6 7S H? Finley, Fifth JK Avenue Building. " -Jte New York City; rTTgsLi w< Western office, > '-3 2S*3a Story. Brooks & Finley. People's t _ JJ" Gas Building. _ Chicago. 111. Entered at the Post Of flee in Harris- i bu; Pa., as second class matter. j jOBs,. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY. MAY I. 1918 / If 1 live/my politics into the rhetoric of prayer, 1 cannot cast a j partisan vote. — JOWETT. A WORTHY CAUSE BEFORE you go home to-day be i sure to see one of the boys or j girls who are well supplied with Red Crags tags. Wear a tag before you retire to-night. It is a badge of honor and by so doing—ami making: the necessary contribution —you will | help the members of the Junior Red J ;Cross raise funds with which to i (purchase material for the work they ! are doing in knitting apparel for the soldiers. The Junior Red Cross is a very | "business-like organization of the I boys and girls of 1 larrisburg. They raise money and they invest what they raise in yarn and other sup- 1 plies which, under proper direction, j are changed into thousands of use ful articles for the men at the front. Those at Red Cross headquarters' say the handiwork of the young knit-1 ters is simply wonderful and that 1 hundreds upon hundreds of well knitted, comfortable garments have; been turned in there by the Juniors j which would not have beer, made! but for the enthusiasm, skill and j jjKitrlotlc devotion of the boys and v glrls. But these young folks must have 1 funds. They earn much for them selves. but not enough. They must i have more. Therefore the "tag day," : and your part of the ceremony is to, be properly tagged. You should con-, skier it a patriotic duty. ' Newly engaged couples are said to see absolutely no advantage In the ! daylight saving plan. COMING PEACE DRIVE THE clearest evidence that the j German high command has lost faith in the success of the west- ■ ern offensive as a decisive contest ' i. that another "peace drive" Is about to be inaugurated. Every Teutonic effort toward . peace has been dictated by an ip- j ' ternal crisis—hunger, discontent or j a divided belief as to the ultimate 1 superiority of German arms. Dis- | . content and a growing revolutionary j • movement unquestionably caused the German military party to risk all upon the great drive which now ap- j pears to be slowing up in Pleardy and Flanders. "We will take Paris ; by Arrll 1. destroy the British Arm; i p..-; a fighting force and then will ' fume peace." Hindenburg told the : Socialist leaders who approached him previous to the opening of the .offensive, and none of those objec ti es appears within the possibility of realization by the German com imander. What will be the result when tfie drive settles down again to trench warfare? Nobody at 'this time can guess with anything like certainty, but that the German military party is greatly disturbed over possibilities | is indicated by the effort towafcd ' peace which is intended, if it does hot produce a cessation of hostilities on terms favorable to the Central Empires, shall place the burden of ; continuing the war upon the should ers of the allies. This in times past l:as teen effective in quieting public < lamor for peace and reform within .the erppire. but it cannot lie ex pected to produce results indefi nitely. The liberal element of Ger many has had its eyes opened by -the Russian peace negotiations. No body in Germany any longer believes that Germany Is waging a war of de fense. The Socialists and other lib erals now know full well that this is a war of conquest and that their sacrifices have all been and will con tinue to be for the benefit of the ruling classes and the aggrandize ment of the Hohenzollern dynasty. •This has stirred them mightily and greatly strengthened their steadily growing forces. These being the conditions, allied diplomacy must move carefully in the peace proposals about to be in augurated. There must be no fool ish talk of "crushing Germany," but a firm and positive repetition of President Wilson's well-known peace program. The liberals and the revo lutionaries of Germany and Aua i SATURDAY EVENING, ! trlu should be made to understand that we have no quarrel with therti, tut that we sympathize with them in their efforts to rid themselves of the incubus of militarism under which they are being dragged to ruin. We must not pause for a moment, however," in our war preparations because of the possibility of a break up of the German empire. The power of the ruling classes is at present too strong for a very early demonstration in that direction. Rather, these signs of internal dis turbance should lead us on to new efforts. An army of several million Americans on the West Front will be one of the best arguments the German advocates of democracy could have as a reason for conclud ing that all hope of German victory in the tield is_ at mi end. We must prepare to wage a wUming campaign against Germany from without and then we can hope, with the aid of a wisely framed diplomatic program, to blow the spark of revolution in the t'entral Umpires into a flame that shall consume the Kaiser and his hosts. • "May make shoes of felt." says a scientific note. The small boy has known for a long time that slippers are often felt. GLIMPSING THE FUTURE THERE appears to be as great danger that we will come to the end of the war unprepared for peace as we came to the war unpre pared for lighting. The signing of the new peace pact will find the world facing conditions as different from those of the old armed truce as day differs from night. The world will have been made safe for de mocracy and there then must fol low the greatest effort to make de mocracy safe for the \forld. Labor and capital will be alike intensely interested in the process, And labor in particular will be ac tively engaged in a campaign * for the betterment of living add work ing conditions for the masses. Senator Sproul. in his platform as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania, takes note of this prospect when he says: "Industrial j changes of the most sweeping char- acter have accompanied the present j war, breaking down the standards of other days and operpng up a new era for labor," and he adds: "It must be plain to all that It Is of the greatest importance to so shape official and other affairs that the highest possible results will follow this great industrial effort." ' Old plans, practices and condi tions no longer prevail," observes the Senator. "The ushering in of ( the new industrial day has realized j to the fullest extent many of the cherished hopes and aspirations of the workers, and it is the first duty | of those in ofticial place here to so surround the situation with legisla tive and other aids as to render labor so effective in this war work that the efforts of Pennsylvania's sons will ever stand forth among the greatest and best in our na-1 tional life. Every legislative pro-' gram calculated to advance the In-! terests of our army of workers now j and in the • times of readjustment I which must follow the war, should j and will receive the approbation and j support of all patriotic men in offl- ' cial station." Here is a leaf for the notebook of other aspirants for office. The next four years are going to be noted in Pennsylvania for the humanitarian legislation to be presented and it is highly important that our executive chairs and our legislative seats be ! tilled by men keen to the issues of I the hour and in sympathy with pop- ! ular interests. Just as in time of. peace wo should have prepared for j j war, so in time of war we should be preparing for peace. The difference between an allied of [ fleer and a German officer is that the allied officer goes before his troops i with a revolver and the German i comes after his with a revolver. Also, j that is the difference between allied i and German soldiers. ROSE SHOW FOR CITY THE Rose Show to be given by the Woman's Advisory Board of the Y. M. C. A. In tl>e associa tion building June 21 and 22, coin ing at the very height of the rose season, ought to be so well patron ized that it can be made an annual event. There are more than 100 amateur growers In Harrisburg and vicinity who give serious attention to the production of roses, and this i number should be enlarged by rose lovprs of the surrounding district, as far as Lebanon.. York and Carlisle. Reports of rose shows held In New York and other American cities, 1 as well as those of England and even ' France, show tremendous increase in popularity during the past year. This itself is proof of the real Value of holding such shows during war j times, and inasmuch as the proceeds ■of the sliow will devoted to the upkeep of the dormitories of the Y. M. C. A., which are in these days largely used by soldiers, it is not a misstatement to say that the show I will be a real patriotic affair. You will observe that the men whoc rise highest in the world never wasted much tlmo debating the necessity of shorter working hours. ENFORCE THE LAW NOW that the drastic Chamber lain bill providing for the court martial of alleged spies Is afc good as dead by reason of the President having announced that W would not sign it should it go through Congress, a more comprehensive and stringent civil law should be en acted without dplay and rigidly en forced. No good American would enforce military government unnec essarily upon the country and the President has taken a broad-minded view of the situation in opposing a measure that would have permitted the military courts to supercede civil I law in h manner'that, while it might not have been offensive for the mo ment, would establish a bad prece dent in a free democracy. But since this incipient menace of mili tarism has been removed, patriotic citizens will demand that powers of the ciyil authorities be enlarged and more prompt and vigorous action be taken against all disloyal .persons. TolCUc* Lk 'Pt7v>vCt|CcanXa By the Ex-Commit tee man | Completion of certification of the petitions tiled for the primary his been followed by preparation for ad vertising the constitutional amend ments to be voted upon in Novem ber. the fact that the state will be called upon to vote again on the proposition to borrow $50,000,000 for road building having been generally lost sight of| It is estimated that in the neighborhood of a.OOO nominat ing petitions were certified and the returns of all of them will be record ed at the State Capitol through of ficial returns from counties. Big sheet# for the computing of the vote on state-wide candidates have been prepared. There will be two constitutional amendments to be voted upon for the last time and four for the" first time. The two were voted upon at the hist general election. One pro vides for the issuance of $50,000,000 of road-building: bonds and the other for the increase of the debt of Phila delphia under certain conditions. 'The bond issue is In line with that which was issued in 1913 but de feated. Advertisement of those amendments will be made thirteen weeks before the November election and the payments are to be made by the Auditor General under a general plan which has been worked out ac cording to circulation. It is likely that because of the uncertainty of movements of Pennsylvania soldiers no steps will be taken toward the elections for soldiers until late in the summer and then commissioners will be sent to the cantonments. | —As soon as the Dauphin county I court disposes of the mandamus ' case brought by George Woodward, a Philadelphia chauffeur, backed by Vare men to run for a Senatorial " nomination in a district where Dr. George Woodward is also a con tender. is out of the way, steps will probably be taken in the proceed ings growing out of the tlrst Wood- | ward case, which involved interfer- | ence with a subpena of the Dauphin county court. The latest Woodward case will .go on again on Monday before Judge S. J. M. McCarrell when the court will rule on the motion of Dr. George Woodward to intervene. The petitioner is suing to compel the Secretary of the Com monwealth to certify his name and the Secretary's Department holds that enough names were not tiled for him. Woodward himself has never appeared in the proceedings. The whole thing seems to be similar to the first Woodward case wherein a man of similar name sought to fun as "camouflage" and was knock ed out because of irregularities in papers. The Dauphin county court hus been busy this week with crim inal court and the chances are that the testimony in the first Woodward case wherein interference with a witness was charged will be certified by the Court or District Attorney to the Berks county court as the of fense is alleged to have been com mitted in that county. —Men in this city who have been predicting that the Vares would swing in for J. Denny O'Neil were somewhat astonished to-day to read the statement in the Philadelphia North American to-day that Mayor E. V. Habcock. of Pittsburgh, had declajed in a speech that among the men in Eastern Pennsylvania for Sproul was Mayor Smith, of Phila delphia. —The rival Republican candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Gov ernor are very much in action just now and will be more so in the next ' ten days. Mr. O'Neil with Governor t | Brumbaugh and Attorney General Brown, will be in Philadelphia over ! the weekend while Senator Sproul i will be in Pittsburgh. ; —While Joseph P. Guffey has 'ibeen busy with .the Liberty Loan in | Pittsburgh. Judge Eugene C. Bonni i well, his rival for the Democratic ! nomination, has been busy working j in the anthracite region. He was in I Scranton yesterday and will be this way before long. It looks as though i the old Ryan organization which j gave the Democratic state machine 1 such a tussle in the Democratic i gubernatorial primary four years ; ago was being reconstructed. Guf ! fey, however, is ba"ked by the whole '■ force of the National Democratic i administration and believes • that with .the state machine in his grip, i as is still state chairman, he can | win without trouble. | —lt commences to look very much as though the state was going to ' suffer another outbreak of Philadel ; phia factional politics as the Vares I are getting ready to charge Penrose J with the responsibility for some of i the legislation that did not get { through. Governor Brumbaugh says ■ he vetoed some as "unfair." j —No one seems to be getting very much satisfaction out of the regis '■ traUon in third class oities. It was of i a kind that shows people are not ex j cited over this campaign, j —The Committee of Seventy last i night made public the names and! i addresses of city employes who, it is| I alleged, are politically active in vio- i lation of the act of June 1. 1885, re-j lative to Philadelphia. The names j were sent to Mayor Smith with a let ter 1 calling his attention to the fact | that in a statement which he issued | recently the assertion was made that I political activity among municipal j employes would be prevented. The i committee declares that in its in vestigation it has found that city em i ployes often are responsible for elec tion offenses. —The burgess and other officers of Luzerne appear to have been get ting into trouble. They are accused of having caused arrests and then keeping certain sums which it is i contended are public property. NO COAL CARS YET [From the New York Sun.] It was good news some days ago to hear that the Railroad Adminis tration in Washington was alive to , the fact that the orfly solution for the coal shortage was to get plenty of cars and locomotives to haul the coal, there being plenty of coal if i only there was some way to move it.. And yet, to the best of our in formation not a single order has been placed for a locomotive or a car up to 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. It takes months, after orders are placed, to build locomo tives and cars in any quantity. Are we to wait for those necessary loco motives and cars until the snow ties, the rivers freezo and the fur | naces inside thousands of dreary (homes are as chill as the icy streets outside ? HAKRISBURO TELEGRAPH MOVIE OF A POOR STORY TELLER BY BRIGGS F " ~ _ """N ~ / KTH -HEX HSH • \ ( *** E ° 1/ KLRT / WELL IT SE€MS THERE \ (- THST / ITH - - . I J VUERE IT? L-SHLVIEFV) 1 P ' PT'AYLK)B~ U M / THE <—> EW ANJD LETS ARJD IM A ) PO'./ V_ ' ' I77~T~A V TH£ ~ f ( GUESS IV/E "\ Z' X I T2C* BULLET SES MO- THAT T ) ( FOR GO TTEO \ Y E „ -) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | SCHOOL TAX ADVANCE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Kindly publish the following in | your paper: Does the public know, that the in-1 crease in the tax will be used partly to pay off a fifty-thousand dol- j lar debj instead of all for increase in j salaries as is generally supposed? Does the public also know that j the senior training girls have been j substituting all year without pay'.' | The absent teacher pets no pay or if j any only half. How about the money thus saved? If the money wTlich was spent' sometime within the last year or so for concrete work around Camp Curtin schoolbuilding had been put toward a bonus for the teachers, perhaps a few of the best teachers would remain instead of leaving as they are doing. As it is the concrete was torn up shortly after it was put down. It was known at the time of construction that the building would have to be enlarged. Was it absolutely necessary at this | time that the Hamilton school build- | ing should have its playground en-j larged? Could not the money thus j spent be used to help pay off the t fifty-thousand dollar debt instead of j increasing the tax? Do the people realize that some, of the teachers who have taught j four, five and six years are getting an average monthly salary of lessj than $45? You may say there is to be a sub- j stantial increase in salaries for the. coming year but by that time the i I cost of living will not have ceased its! soaring so what good will it do? At; any rate it will not benefit any one ! this year. How can you trust your -children to people whom you rate lower than your ashman? A Friend of the Teachers. MORE GERMAN LIES To the Editor of the Telegraph: Here are three absurd things 11 have heard this week. First. That the! government planned to take all our| [canned fruit, etc., (this from an old | scrub-lady). This is a pro-German liel Second, That the government | sent to France from Camp Hancock, a man with a wooden leg and a man with only one eye. Can you imagine the degree of commonsense the per son has who actually passed that on as "official stuff?" Third, That next month tlie government intends tak ing to France the wives of all the American sohiiers to see their hus band" who are fighting there. Com monsense here, (and the wife of aj soldier in France told this as abso-i lute truth and is preparing to go j across) is absolutely lacking. When I our government is making super human efforts to build and obtain ships to rush our men to the assist ance of our allies and to even cut our wheat shipment to France — which shows that we actually mean business —can you, by the greatest stretch of a most vivid imagination,! | picture our government sendihg! ! thousands of women to France for a visit to their husbands in the trench- \ es. No dou'bt they expect the Ger- j | mans to cease fighting till these j I wives can have a chat with friend, ; husband, and where, oh, where, will, I the food come from to feed these I thousands of wives? These three tories were told by , three different people who actually j ; believe them. Please Vint this letter that these j wives • may not be-disappointed and , that there is no need to dig caves for one's supply of fruit and vegetables, and that one-legged and one-eyed | men may rest easily for awhile yet. Yours for America, "A SUBSCRIBER." A STUPID PRACTICE [From the Chicago Evening Post.] The practice of compelling per sons charged with disloyalty to kii-.s the Stars and Stripes is a silly dis play of patriotism insulting to the flag. The kiss is the snlute of affec tion. It is a travesty to enforce it from those who have no real love for Old Glory in their hearts and whose lips have spoken words that awak ened the anger of loyal men. ' If the kiss Is required as a penalty, then the use to which the flag U) put is whol ly wrong. You would not punish a man who has insulted your wife by compelling him to kiss her. Let the offender be made to apologize publicly and humbly in the presence of the flag, but" reserve the salute of affection for those who really love it and whose love has been proven by service. II "Halt the Hun" ONE of the strongest posters which has made its appear ance in the Third liberty Loan campaign is undoubtedly the one en- titled "Halt the Hun," by Raleigh. It calls to mind vividly the many re ports brought by the daily press and in books written by eyewitnesses of the devastation wrought in Belgium, France and Poland by the Germans, of the wanton destruction of property and of the atrocities—cruel almost beyond description—committed on the legions of the Kaiser, now almost universally referred to as Huns, whose relentless onslaught for a time apparently nothing could with stand. It seems a strange coincidence i that, when finally stopped by the French soldiers under the able lead ership of the great Joffre, they should have been halted in a battle fought on the Marne, for it was also on the Marne, to be exact at Chal ons-sur-Marne that the original Huns were brought to a halt, though that was quite a few centuries ago. About 375 A. D. the original Huns, an ug*y warlike race of nomadic tendencies and of Mongolian or Tar tar origin, left the steppes of Middle Asia, where they had been roaming for six or seven centuries and cross ed the Cral mountains, then the Volga 'and also the Don. They sub dued first the Alani, forced what re mained of their tribe into their own ranks, next defeated the East Goths and finally settled in Hungaria at that time called Pamonia. About the middle of the following century At tila, then their king gathered his hordes, said to have been over half a million, most of "them excellent horsemen and well mounted, and swept on through Austria, Bavaria, Burgundia and across the Rhine until reaching the Marne. Attila Defeated Here in the year 451, at Chalons sur-Marne, they were met by the united forces of the Romans, Franks, DRAMA IS FRANCE .[From the Cincinnati Times Star.] We must not play Germany's game j by overindulgence in pessimism con- j cernipg the situation on the West-] ern front. The English army is u magnificent fighting organization. 1 And it is particularly important in the present situation to remember that the Britisher's particular genius in war lies in his capacity for stub- j born defense. No thinking Amcri-1 can can look unmoved upon t+ie tre- j inendous drama that is being unfold-i ed in France. The British and | French armies, and our own brave boys at the front, will not be carried, off their feA by German warfare; and German bluster. If they are abiei to play their part on the field ofj battle, surely we should not become: panic-stricken, four thousand milejJj behind the line. Reacted Physically Judge Flubdub doesn't seem to know half the time whether he is going or coming. That may be because has 1 been reversed so much by the high- I er courts. — Kansas City Journal. .J Apropos of Bonds A Philadelphia man spent SSOO on a funeral for his dog. How much is he spending on the funeral of Kaiserism ?—From the Cleveland Plain Healer. INTERNATIONAL Confidently I struck a 'safety match' made in Japan, on an "impregna ted" box , made by special process in Swed en and the match ifcnited, and I lighted with it tobacco blended in England, in a pipe from Italy, thereby kindling an entente cor diale ! Ended in smoke ? The Idea The spirit ot the thing lives; the pipe is the pipe of peace, and the spirit of the red man prtsldes at the council. While the Anti-tobacco League throws a conniption fit • in the middle distance, adding to the Joy ot' the occasion' Burgundians and the West Goths who under the able General Aetius not only succeeded in stemming the tide, but in one of the bloodiest bat tles in history, Attila and his savages were defeated and obliged to retire beyond the Rhine and finally back to Pamonia. So fierce was the con flict that, as tradition has it, over 160,000 fighters were left dead on the field, and this at a time when powder and guns were unknown and the battle was practically throughout a hand-to-hand combat. Thus ended the tirst attempt of the Huns to in vade Europe. However, just as the modern Huns, after having ibeen halted on the M-arne, turned to the south and are endeavoring to subdue Italy, so did the original Huns likewise, after their defeat at Chalons-sur-Marne, start out to conquer Italy, for in the following year; viz., in 452, Attila again sallied forth with his hordes, crossed the Alps, and with Hun thoroughness destroyed Milan, Pavia, Verona and Padua and laid waste the fertile lands traversed by the river I Po. Terror-stricken, the helpless in-1 habitants sought refuge on the other-1 wise uninviting and barren islands in l the lagoons of the Adriatic, thus laying the foundation of what later developed into the city of Venice. It was only due to the entreaties of the then Bishop Lee I that Attila was persuaded to desist from con tinuing his march on Rome, and to enter a peace with the Roman Em j peror Valentinian 111. He died the following year, his empire soon went ' to pieces and the Huns betook them se4ves back to the steppes of South ern Russia and Middle Asia from whence they had come, finally dis appearing entirely as a nation and existing to-day only in history. Let us hope that the power of the modern Huns will likewise be so thoroughly broken that never again will they be able to constitute a men ace to peace and civilization. "Halt the Hun by buying a Liberty Bond." When Trickery Is Crime [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] When trickery in the manipulation of the ballot laws results, as it is plainly intended, in confusing voters as to the identity of candidates and in defeating the purpose of the 'a'vs to guarantee to the voters a free aiid untrammeled choice at the polls, it becomes a crime that ought to be punished without mercy. A favorite trick of politicians of a certain low order is to put in nomination some unknown person whose name hap pens to be Identical with or wliloh closely resembles that of a genuine candidate possessing a real back ing. Within the last few days one such attempt to foist upon the pri mary ballot such a fake nomination has been frustrated by a court rul ing, and still another similar case is awaiting judication before the courts in Philadelphia. In both cases the appeal to the court was made possible only through the violation of some tech nical requirement of the election law on the part of the perpetrators of the trick. This is unfortunate, f or the question was not raised upon Ms merits at all, but upon a narrow in terpretation of details which left a loophole bjet bci.ipr to raise '.t, i EASY TO DODGE. O'Brien —Mike married a woman that weighs three hundred pounds. O'Toole —The sly devil! He knows that nobody can fight at that weight I.AKCOWIC. "Shots." "Vn, sir. What number?" "A "oupic. Think I im't centl i Abetting (Eljat Whoever Invented "Tag Day" cer tainly save Harrisburg something to think about because of all the days devoted to that form of collect ing for various objects the Junior Tag Day has been one of the most* Interesting. For many of the youngsters of the city, the experi ence is the first and the way the youngsters went at it was amusing, i I Sash fulness soon wore off and the novices were as eager to till up their boxes ami cans, as the veterans In the game. Tag Day is taking on a new significance this year. It used to be employed for almost anytfling, but since the war began it Has been more or less devoted to the Red Cross, an object in which everyone is interested and the pre-emption of the Spring Tag Day for the Juniors 13 something which seems to have won popular approval. The steamboats in the Susque hanna have been thoroughly enjoy ing the movement of soldier trains across the Susquehanna. There have been a good many and the men In charge of the hollers on the sand and coal dredges have made it a practice to whoop things up each time a train load of drafted men or soldiers in khaki goes by. As a result the city has been startled upon a number of occasions by toot ing of the whistles and by a din from the river which has caused them tcf think there was a big fire or some kind of a riot. But the soldiers appreciate It and the river •men enjoy it. These are the days when anyone with an eye to flowers of the Held can find all that they desire within half an hour's ride from Market Square. The fields on the edges of the cHy are bright with the pestifer ous dandelion and filled with the rapidly spreading violet. Indeed, it would seem that the violet is trying to rate with the dandelion to see which can spread the quickest. The dog-toothed violet has also appeared and some of the old-time variety of white violets are to be found. Speaking albout flowers and the. fields the manner in .which some of the vacant squares in the Capitol Park Extension are being turned to use as grass plots is worth noting. Whole sections which were formerly filled with houses and which are re tailed by many a policeman as scenes of revelry and near riot are now be ing turned up and sown with seed with the hope that they will raise grass instead of something else. It does seem odd to think of blocks about Short and South streets and what were once lots fronting on Tan ner's alley and Cowden street being devoted to lawns and that the site of that classic structure once known to police as the "Bucket of Blood? should be sown with timothy. And similarly the idea of North and South alley being converted to grass patches strikes one as odd, as odd as the proposition to have East State street with all its memories furnish the Ifnes for rows of trees. Some day there will be native Pennsylvania shrubbery to mark the location of Lafayette Hall and geraniums where "hop joints" once flourished. • • c State Game and Fish Wardens who have been co-operating with the State Police and Forest Rangers in enforcement of the new fish code have been having their own troubles with the alien element which has been inclined to regard war time as a period in which tu disregard laws. Not only have the foreigners been shooting insect eat inß birds, which is a double infrac tion of the law, but they have been fishing wi|h nets and throwing dy namite into streams. Owing to the industrial activities and the pres ence of many foreigners in the State in labor camps the task of the wardens has been anything but easy this spring and the combined forc es have been co-operating. Weath er conditions have spoiled the fish ing for many fishermen who ma|je it a point to get out in the first ten days of the trout season and they have also been bothered over the interpretation of what shall con stitute a day's catch, a question which is to be submitted to the courts. But the foreigners have not' been held back by any scruples and charges of catching trout and other fish with nets and setting out lines have been made, while in some of the eastern counties it was found that dynamite was being exploded in streams. t • • The State's tractor?, which are now working in various sections of the southern aad central counties on a day and night schedule, seem to be attractig no end of attention from farmers, many of whom drive miles to see them in action. The purchase of tractors this year in this part of the state has gone beyond ail expectation and there is so much trouble in getting deliveries that even the state cannot get machines fast enough. .The way the tractors have performed on the hilly farms in this section has been enlighten ing to a good many men. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —W. T. Colburn, Philadelphia councilman, would bat Gerrftan at all public meetings in that city. —Stacy B. Lloyd, Philadelphian, well known here, will spend the summer In Rhode Island. —A. C.> Bigelow, active in the movement for more wool in Penn sylvania, is naming committees of wool men to help the government in its plans. . —John C. McClain, prominent Liberty Loan worker, has protested against the government buying land for a post office from a man vho will not buy Liberty bends or Thrift Stamps. —A. M. Taylor, dirfrtor of pas senger transportation for the big Delaware river shipyards Is demand ing better facilities from railroads and trolleys. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrishurg lias over subsorilH'd every l.ilx'rt.v Ixwit , Rel Cross Cull ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Fifty years ago this was a oenter of tho cut nail Industry. His Life Object Senator "Jim" Reed is not greatly interested in the war. He has con secrated his life to hating Hoover. —From the Chicago News. What She Meant Rose Pastor Stokes pleads not guilty to a charge of violating the Espionage Act. In other words, she means that she didn't mean what she said.—Front the Fort Wayne News. i ,j