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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 ?
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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 <W escape for the tricksters
and their trick. It is ,v pity that the
courts do not take a broader view of
their duty and responsibility In such
cases and treat those guilty of this
sort of fraud us they 4 csp rve.
It is not without significance that
the habitual resort to" these fake
nominations is characteristic of cer
tain faction leaders in this state and
is a measure of their low standarls
of political morality, their u.er fail
ure to play the game fairly and
openly. If "politics" in this coun
try has fallen from Its high estate
and too often describes that which
Is dishonorable, and discreditable, it
is not far to seek the cause. A boss
who countenances the substitution
of enndidates the ballot is quite
as guilty of fraud as the heeler who
at his bidding tamper* with the bal
lot or falsifies the count at an elec
tion Kven If the law does not reach
such offenses at present, the courts
rould if they would make the prac
tice o unpopular that it would soon
lit* MionucU
MAY 4, 1918
A Patriotic fit other
All slackers should take to heart
the story of a deserted wife in Kens
ington, with 10 children, who earns
sl2 a week and has subscribed for
a SSO Liberty Bond on payments of
SI.OO a week. With children all the
way from a few weeks old to 14
years, this mother goes to work ev
ery day, and not only cares for her
brood, but is ready to help the gov
ernment. After such an exhibition
of patriotism the evident thing for
all the rest of us to do is to sub
scribe for more bonds—keeping on
until its hurts badly. If the people
of this city will do relatively one
tenth as much as this poor woman
the government will never lack for
money.—From Phila. Bulletin.
His Last Resort, Maybe
There's one New York man who
evidently believes the courts to be
omnipotent. He has trustingly ask
ed that an order be issued compell
ing his wife to keep quiet.-r-From
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A New Brand
Mrs. Leader—l can't do without
my matutinal coffee.
Mrs. Newrich —Is that a good
brand ? We've tried so many that
are poor.—Boston Transcript.
[ OUR DAILY LAUGH
FINE FOR HER.
"In love, eh?"
"Oh, boy. Hands his wife th
check book and tells her to write het
OF COURSE.
"Brown has invented a machine U
.ay the dust.
"His >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
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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
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