10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A \EUSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded it II Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEXiRAPH TRIXTISG CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Saare, K.J. ST.* CKPOLE,Pr'f 6- Editor-in-Chiff F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GL'S M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en title'' to the use for republi.ation 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. jc Member American fr. Newspaper Pub- _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Office in Harris burg, Pa.. a second rlass matter. .ril*T'*T*a By carriers, ten cents a > week; by mall. $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918 ~~ '" j Joy s not in things, it is IM tw>.— , CHABI.ES Wwxtn =========== j THOSE POLES CITY PARK COMMISSIONER j GROSS anounces that he means to take immediate steps for the removal of poles marring the beauty • of the River Front park. The poles j never should have gone up. but being up no time should be lost in bring ing them down. It would serve no good purpose to try to fix blame for the error which permitted the ' electric company to place the poles | where they are. but it is very im- 1 T'ortant that they be ordered out be- i lore the precedent has been estab- ! lished of permitting poles on the ! est Side of Front street. City Electrician Deihl is putting 'he wires under ground throughout ; the business section of the city as rapidly as possible and when this is completed the work of ridding Harrisburg streets in general of needless poles must be commenced Poles that can be replaced by con- duits have no right to places on public thoroughfares. They are both unsightly and dangerous. The Department of Justice is not going to escape just censure for its leniency in handling the disloval helpers of the Kaiser in this counlrv Ex-Justice Charles E. Hughes recently declared, in an impressive speech be fore the American publishers, that there is ample law for the apprehen sion and punishment of the sneak ing pro-Germans masquerading as citizens of the United States. Too many "worthy Democrats" may have been catapulted into places they were not qualified to fill, perhaps, for the good of the Secret Service. GERMAN IX SCHOOLS THE school board doubtless was actuated by principles of pa triotism and loyalty to country when it abolished the study of ilie German language in the schools of Harrisburg. and at first thought the temptation is strong to add a word of commendation. Certainly, the manner in which German imperial propaganda has been injected into textbooks in general use tends to make one susoieious of anything written in German and the crimes that' have been committed in the name of Germany are strongly con ducive to condemnation of anything and everything German, liut we mu*t not permit our common sense and good judgment to be warped or mis led by our war-time- emotions. Under existing circumstances, no boy or girl should be forced to the study of the German language. Sut. with General Pershing calling in ' ain for 1,200 telephone exchange op erators who can speak German, it appears as though we may be decid ing a little hastily. The bigger our army in France the more valuable a knowledge of German will be to our men. The more Americans in France who can speak German the better we shall be equipped to learn what !S happening back of the German lines. We expect cur men will be marching into Berlin one of these days, and the joke would be on us surely, if none of them could speak German. After the war, doubtless, we shall compete with German sales men in sections of the world where German is the spoken language. Shall we send out our young men handicapped by inability to meet un scrupulous traders on their own ground? America must beat the Hun on the battlefield and afterward in busi ness, and a little knowledge of Ger man might not come amiss in either < ase. But If our school boards are de termined to root our German, verb and noun, they should at least sub stitute French or Spanish, both of which will be of great practical value during and following the war. Amer ican schools are notoriously weak In modern languages, as compared with those abroad, and the elimi nation of one should be followed by the introduction of another. The best thing the Third Lib erty Loan It that many people who had not bought bonds previously became BO wrought up over the failure of ■ ~ . 1 ♦ - THURSDAY EVENING, HJLKRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 9, 1918. others to subscribe this time that they threatened lynching. There could be no better comment upon our national solidarity or earnestness than that one out of every six people, young and old, in the country, bought a bond under the new loan. Great war garden weather. LABOR LEGISLATION SENATOR SPROUL.. whose can didacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination has been closely linked with that of Senator Beidleman for Lieu tenant Governor by reason of the alignment of ,T. Denny O'Neil and John R. K. Scott for the same nom inations, like Senator Beidleman, has taken an advanced stand on labor and humanitarian legislation. The period immediately following the war will be marked by the enact ment of many laws along these !ine.| and it is highly important that there should be then in the executive field of the government men famil iar with the State's achievements in this field and in sympathy with the extension of new benefits througn the adoption of wise and liberal j measures. In his platform Senator Sproul ; outlines his views and purposes in i this respect in the following very clear and positive language: Pennsylvania, with her natural advantages, material resources and nearness to markets, is in stronger position industrially than any equal area on the face of the earth, and with such blessings she should be a leader in progres sive enactments in the direction of complete justice and oppor tunity for men and women to work with their hands and minds to make the Commonwealth sreat and prosperous and con tented. The humant! laws upon our books are working well and we cannot afford to take a single step backward, but. on the other hand, we should progress steadily toward amplifying those laws and expanding their beneficent influ ences. We have already Seen the benefits of our care of our work ers and our women and children and these benefits will be more marked in another generation. Pennsylvania can and must take an advanced position among the States of the world in social legis lation. not only because she can afTord to, but because she wants to. In my service in the Legisla ture I have seen the development of our policy In social and hu manitarian lines as far as it has been developed and my record will show that I have uniformly supported these policies. 1 reiter ate my full sympathy with these laws and I pledge myself, to aid in further progress along these lines. Senator Sproul foresees what I other trained observers have noted — that the man who works, whether with brain or muscle, is going to have an ever-increasing voice in the affairs of the State and the regula tion of business methods and work ing conditions. Wise leadership is highly important in such a period. Men of experience, sympathy, un derstanding and unquestioned per-: sonal integrity are essential in places j like the governorship when prob lems of vital importance to millions j of people are tinder consideration; | else *?ith perhaps the best of in tentions great injustice may be done and irreparable mistakes ' made. ! Senator Sproul has visioned the future clearly and there is no mis taking his attitude on the great. questions of social progress that will arise for settlement in Pennsylva-j nia in the next few years. His | views strongly recommend him for the high office he is seeking. Every time we see a little man with . tortoise-shell spectacles, we think of a l-'ord wearing Packard tires. GOOD ADVICE SPEAKING in the House yester day, Congressman Mann, Repub lican floor leader, gave his col leagues and people of the country in general a bit of good advice when I he said: ■ We are appropriating unbeliev- i able sums and mistakes will oc- | cur. We have made mistakes. ] both oersonally and legislatively. | but in war there is no such thing | as partisanship. What we all | need, what the administration j needs, what the country needs is . determination and patience. Perhaps we have been too anxious! for immediate results. May be we have been too quick to censure. Certainly, as Mr. Mann Intimates, nothing is to be gained by appeals to partisanship as opposed to pa triotism, or by wholesale denuncia tion before the facts have been de veloped. Constructive criticism is one thing: uncalled for abuse or ex aggeration is another. In this respect it may be well for| the public to suspend judgment of the aircraft program failure until the truth is developed. On the face of it the situation looks ex-i tremely bad. There should be thor ough investigation and if the ugly! appearances develop into facts Pun ishment should rot be withheld from those responsible. Only by such means can we keep the govern ment free from repetitions of such conditions and our war efforts speeded to the utmost. But we should not jump at con clusions. The aircraft muddle is no darker than the Hog Island "scan dal" looked last winter, and we have forgotten already much of the Hog Island excitement and are be ginning to point with pride to the achievements of that yard as a ship building center. It is likely that the aircraft program is through the rap ids and approaching calmer waters. I It is a gigantic undertaking at best and when it is considered that nearly 4,000 planes actually have been built and much of the required equipment of other kinds standard ized and beginning to be produced in quantities, it may happen that the aircraft board will come out of! the investigation in much better | light than would now appear. At' all events, it Is not fair, as some writers have done, to charge that the whole of the air program appropri ation has been wasted. The error of such a conclusion is apparent without going intt> details and will soon begin to make itself manifest. The billion-dollar wheat crop indi cates that ihe farmers are doing their bit. CK • By the Ex-Commltteenuui I ' 1 | Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil, Just in from a tour of three I counties in the Northumberland re | gion, declared to-day that he could ; not see any evidence of lack of popu [ lar interest in the primary election. The commissioner was optimistic and said that the people were turning out and were going to vote. On the other hand it has been the experi ence of certain other candidates this spring that the voters of the state aro not as fnuch interested as usual land that they regard this campaign jas more or less of a "politicians' tight" not only in the Republican, but in the Democratic party. It Is I generally recognized that upon the result of the primary will hang the control of the organizations of the major parties in the Keystone State carrying with it the advantages of being in good position In advance of the presidential election. The enrollment in the rural dis tricts and then the registration in the cities, with the exception of 1 where the reform move caused a heavy increase, demon strated that people will be hard to interest in politics this spring with a war on and young men going to camps almost every week. —Mr. O'Neil toured Northumber land and adjoining counties yester day. "I had good crowds every where. I was surprised to see so many people out and it shows that the people are interested," said he. ' 1 had 150 businessmen at a morn ing meeting in Watsontown and big evening crowds in Shamokin and Mt. Carmel." Mr. O'Neil will be here to-day and to-morrow will be in the Pittsburgh region where he has planned a number of tours. Senator Sproul, who has been touring western counties with Pitts burgh as his headquarters is work ing his way eastward and vesterday began the tour of the Cambria- Blair district. The senator will fin ish up his western tour Saturday and then concentrate in the east. Me had a notable tour of Blair countv >esterday and met many of the r ennsylvania shopmen, going later to Johnstown where he met promi nent Cambria men last night and will tour that county all of to-day. Next Tuesday the senator will be in I.ebanon. In twitting the Vares about not calling the meeting of the Philadel phia City* Republican committee to take a stand on the gubernatorial situation, the Philadelphia Press says: "Suffice it for plain people to know that the politicians are in some sort of trouble and extract therefrom that malicious delight that is about all we get out of politics for ourselves. In the meantime we can wait the calling of that meeting >vith mixed emotions." Heading men who formed the Patriotic Union organization in that city have come out with a strong en dorsement for Sproul and Beidle man. There is much stir in Reading because there is a nonpartisan move ment on to prevent election of So cialist legislators. —Lebanon city councils have le electcd Warren G. Light as citv so licitor. —Suffragist leaders of the state are making a determined effort to day to line up both the Republican and Democratic party leaders in Philadelphia. A meeting of the Re publican city committee will he held to-day on the subject. —Homestead borough council raised salaries of all employes and so did the borough school board. —Pottsville will issue $23,000 of municipal bonds for various equip ment. —Patrick Kearney will be chosen as city commissioner of Pittston to succeed his brother. well-known Democrat. —Harry Hunter, who swung one of the old Democratic wards of Phil adelphia over to the Republicans, has resigned as a real estate assessor, which he held for years. —Representative citizens of North ampton county, who have signed a pape rendorsing Senator William C. Sproul, Chester, for Governor, and Senator Edward E .Beidleman, of Harrisburg, for Lieutenant Govern or, met at Easton last night and formed a county branch of the Penn sylvania Patriotic Union. O. D. Senator Edward E. Beidleman, of William F. O'Brien, secretary, and Charles Magee, treasurer. —Mr. O'Neil at Mt. Carmel, yes terday, announced his purpose to prosecute the members of the Phila delphia Patriotic League for alleged desecration of the American flag by using it as the background in posters exploiting the candidates backed by the league. —Confident of being successful at the primaries, Joseph F. Guffey, candidate for the Democratic gub ernatorial nomination, landed in Philadelphia yesterday and a short time later was busy conferring with local leaders. Mr. Guffey came here from Montgomery county where he and the candidates working with him met many voters and discussed the issues of the campaign. A threat to appeal to President Wilson to ex ercise in Pennsylvania the power of prohibition given him by Congress if the liquor interests of the state con tribute money for the support of any candidate in the present guberna torial campaign was made by Mr. Guffey soon ufter his arrival, 'f'he candidate declared that, if he can procure legal proof that liquormoney is being used to corrupt voters, he will personally push the prosecution of the offenders. Mr. Guffey is in Bucks to-day and the Democrats are fussing over a proposed meeting of the Democratic City Committee to endorse him. PRO-GERMAN EDUCATORS It would be interesting to laarn in how many other educational in stitutions besides Vassar is sedition talked by teachers without the offi cial cognizance of the respective faculties. And, ty the way, is it not high time that college faculties gen erally were being sharpened, by col lege trustees, to a point where they would be more quickly cognizant of such matters ? The fact that Ger many deliberately planned to carry on her propaganda through the higher educational institutions of the country has not Just been brought to light. It has been pret ty well known for nearly four years. How it so long escaped the atten tion of the faculty of Vassar, which included an instructor In the Ger man language named Agathe Wil helmlna Richrath, is a wonder.— From the Christian Science Monitor. m ' 1.1 SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OVT OF UFE BY BRICCS < ' \\ \ 11 . fk i In The. \*jholc uwRLD I | HAWv' TA WOKf ife\V !&**/ Ti , wxnxz-i iw i^y)\ 0 tfer tta Ik 'pewuu Robbing powder magazines of coal companies in the Lehigh field to get explosives to burn in bonfires was the hazardous sport that brought a dozen ten-year-old boys before a Hazleton court. Statistics compiled at the State Capitol show that the farmer in this state should count himself lucky, for he lives longer than all others. 58 years being the average span of life. Bookkeepers and office, assist ants live the shortest lives, 36 years being their average limit of endur ance. Among the office workers tuberculosis is the worst enemy of life, thirty-five per cent, of them having died at that disease. Among tue farmers heart disease causes the most deaths, sixteen per cent, of the total. After stealing a wallet containing S4O from a Shamokln City Council man, a boy named Joe Yoncoskie, was lured to a bakery. He said that he never had enough peach pie in his life and he bought such a quan tity that suspicions were aroused and the money was found on him. Sentenced to Glen Mills, Joseph ob served: "I'll have sumpun to think about, anyhow; them eight peach pies." Lancaster's first military funeral was that of Private Emanuel D. Greene, who died last week at Camp Green, N. C. Services were held in the First Reformed Church. A de tachment of the machine gun com pany, Second Regiment Reserve Militia, furnished pallbearers and a guard of honor. THE AWAKENING [From the New York Times.] The most encouraging thing about] the tremendous success of the Third! Liberty Loan is not the oversubscrip tion. even though that should run to a billion; it is the increase in the number of subscribers. It appears thai 17,000,000 Americans bought these bonds; and that is 12,500,000 more than the number of those who took the First Liberty Loan; it is 7,- 000,000 more than the number of those who took the Second. Not in any oversubscription though the loan is splendidly oversubscribed, too—but in this proof that America is at last aroused, at last feels that it is her war, lies the cause for that deep thankfulness which men -.vho love their country feel to-day. No Disguise Needed Drop that "Victory bread" and "Libertv bread.' and call It what, it is—"War bread." We are not chil dren, that need to have unpleasant things disguised for them.—Albany Journal. A GAINST THE A'ALL With the poem reprinted below, Theodore Roosevelt sent the follow ing note to the editors of the Out look: "I have just read 'Against the Wall,' a stern and notable poem by Theresa Virginia Beard, which has recently been published in the Min neapolis Journal. Mrs. Beard is the wife of a professor in the University of Minnesota. She is fit to be u fellow-countrywoman of Julia Ward Howe." • By Theresa Virginia Beard "With our backs to the wall."— Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, April 13, 1918. God spare thee not, America, This penitential day ! Against the wall, in Flanders, The nations stand at bay; And thou, the strong, the mighty, A laggard at the fray ! God drive thee hard, America, So hesitant, so slow; God smite thee in his anger. And fling thee at the foe; The last black dregs of sacrifice May it be thine to know ! God save thee, O America ! The glory and the fame. Once thy fathers', be thy children's; Not thine the deathless shame That freedom fell in Flanders Calling upon thy name ! Hymns and Songs of Soldiers THERE are no patriotic songs at the front. The Germans have been reported to go up to j the battlefront singing "Deutsch ! land, Deutschland übcr Allcs"; but jby the word of Chaplain Tiplady, I "the soldier's patriotism calls for no | expression in song. They are ex pressing it night and day in the en durance of hardship and wounds— in the risking of their lives. . . .They never think of singing a patriotic song as they march into battle. It would be painting the lily and slid ing refined gold." And no General I Staff "has mapped out for them the j proper expression of their emo j tions." We have many times heard I of the songs they like and sing in j their moments of relaxation; but j Chaplain Tiplady in his book on | "The Soul of the Soldier" tells us 1 what hymns they like best and what : serious songs will be on their lips ; when the moment calls for somc i thing other than the nonsense (songs or the of soldier phil-i i osophy." We read: I "The soldiers are extremely fond ;of hymns in their services. Vou i cannot give them too many. 'Rock ; of Ages." 'Jesus I.cver of My Soul.' i 'Fight the Good Fight," 'There Is a | Green Hill,' 'At Even Ere the Sun I Was Set,' 'O God, Our Help in Ages I Past.' and 'Eternal Father Strpng to I Save' cannot be chosen too often. ! But there are two hymns which have ! stood out above ail others; they are ! 'Abide With Me' and 'When I Sur ! vey the Wondrous Cross.' "There is nothing written by ihe| hand of man which can compete, with thesa> two in the blessing and j strength which they have brought to our soldiers, especially during! an offensive when death has cast his shadow over the hearts of all. Dur ing the bitterest weeks in the! Somme fighting there was scarcely j a service in which we did not slngj 'When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.'! With its assurance of redemption! it gave comfort in the face of death.j It also gave, for an example, the Supreme Sacrifice." Home, as we have read often, be comes a religion with the soldier separated from those nearest and dearest to him, and the home songs he turns to express that religion: THE STATE PRESS In subscribing for SIOO,OOO worth of Liberty Bonds Shah of Per sia has a better appreciation of a good investment than many Ameri cans who lack both in business judg ment and in patriotism.—Wllkes- Barre Record. United States District Judge Van Fleet, of San Francisco, has trimmed j three German whelps to suit our j taste. There never was a viler nest i •f conspirators than the German consulate at San Francisco. Not only was revolution in India seriously promoted but there's no question but in that office plans were promoted for dynamiting of public and private works, and other schemes for whole sale murder. Judge Van Fleet gave Bopp, Von Brincken and Von Schack, the leaders, all the law al lows—two years in prison and $lO.- 000 fine. The punishment hardly fits the crime but there's some cheer in seeing our internal enemies get the limit, even If the limit is too low.— Sharon Telegraph. We are fully familiar with the old I saying that he who laughs last, i laughs besti but nevertheless Ameri ! cans will be unable to suppress a ! smile over the announcement from ; Germany that the newspapers have ! been given to understand that this is | not the Kaiser's battle. This does not ; mean that the German effort is over for blows just as heavy will fall and new gains will be made by the ene my but it is pleasing to see that the old cooksureness has been eliminated from the official announcement.— Pottsville Republican. It is to be hoped that the men who I are chosen as the successors to the ! late Justices Potter and Mestrezat to the Supreme Court of this state will be lawyers or judges who are en tirely free from any faction or par tisanship, but who stand high among the people and the members of the bar for their integrity and ability. Judge Mestrezat himself in a speech before the Bar Association said: "The system—that of playing par tisan politics in the selection of judges—is not confined to any state or political pp.rty. It is wrong in theory and worse In practice. It in vites distrust in the Judiciary and has a tendency to make servile and de pendent courts."—Beaver Times. "The men's thoughts pass easily from the sweetheart to the mother who bore them, and we have a third class, the Home Song. I have been awakened in the night by men, going up to the line, singing Keep the Home Fires Burning.' It is very thrilling to hear it in the dead of night, when every singer is within range of the enemy's gunus. "On the eve of one big battle a soldier handed me a letter in which he gave me the addresses of his father and his sweetheart, so that I could write to them if he fell. " "In the last battle.' he said, 'one of my brothers was killed and an other wounded. If I fall I shall d'.c without regrets and with a heart content; but it will be hard with those at home: and I want you to break the news gently. These are terrible times for those at home.' 'These are terrible times for those at home." That is their constant re frain, and it finds an echo in the songs sung by them. "But the chief favorite of all Home Songs is, I think, the follow ing: There's an old-fashioned house in an old-fashioned street, In a quaint, little old-fashioned town; There's a street where the cobble stones harass the feet. As it straggles up-hill then down; And, tho to and fro through the world I must go. My heart while it beats in my breast, Where'er I may roam, to that old fashioned home Will fly like a bird to its nest. In that old-fashioned house in that old-fashioned street, Dwell a dear little old-fashioned pair: I can see their two faces so tender and sweet. And I love every wrinkle that's there, I love ev'ry mouse in that old-fash ioned house Tn the street that runs up-hill and down. Each stone and each stick, ev'ry cobble and brick. In that quaint little old-fashioned town. LABOR bOTFS England will soon have 2,000 mu nlcipal kitchens in operation. Wages for women and minors are regulated by law in Oregon. Labor unions, in Sweden will at tempt to organize rural workers. Women employed in this country have increased by 1,413,000 since 1914. Wages of organized waiters at Seattle, Wash., have been increased 13 a week. Organized painters have made At lanta, Ga„ a union shop town. ' Many of the tanks used by the British armies are manufactured by women, Baltimore stationary engineers an nounce a wage increase of 10 cents ah hour. Women are entering the glass blowing industry in some parts of the country. I>ast year the public employment bureaus of the state of California successfully filled 92,959 positions. The State Supreme Court has up held the Washington women's mini mum wage law. The reserve trenches for the ar mies of Italy are being dug by the women of that nation. Every year about 200,000 children leave the Engiißh elementary schools at 13 years of age to go to work. The Seamen's Union, which op erates in three great divisions—the Pacific, Atlantic and L*ke districts— comprises a membership of about 38,000. By making the bakers' bread as unpalatable as possible, the English government has forced the women to do their own baking. Drugclerks in the Wheeling (W. Va.) district have organized and are now affiliated with the Retail Clerks' international Protective As sociation. EDITORIAL COMMENT We seem to be getting fewer paci fists and more pass-the-fists.—ln dianapolis News. The Kaiser is the only German , who has six living sons in the army, j —New York Morning Telegraph. | Poor democratic Germany is now j defending herself against autocratic i Finland. —Wall Street Journal. j Swat the fly, shoot the spy, cut out | the lie, swear off on pie, quit drinking ■ rye, and never say die.—Fort Wayne News. Lloyd George at last took the Irish bull by the horns, but it remains to be seen what the bull will do.—Chi cago Herald. Kaiser Karl lies very poorly for a i Teutonic monarch, but one must rei member that he is still a fairly young man.—Chicago Herald. Philadelphia's Modesty As both judges Potter and Mes trezat, whose recent deaths make two vacancies on the Supreme Court bench, came from the Western end of the state a claim is made that their successors should be chosen from there. It is well that .tho judgeships should be generally dis tributed, but the selection is not one of geography so much as it is of fit men. The Western part of the state has been very regularly recognized in naming men for the Supreme Court, but it is a fact that they have mostly become settled residents of Philadelphia before they have got very far along in their term.' Like some two millions of other peo ple they find this is a good city to live in.—From the Philadelphia Tel egraph. OUR DAILY LAUGH I THE FIRST worms are not a bit like mother TWO KINDS. a' ' . > I think I am k\—' —\/ becoming a veg- Which kind? Are there two / ° es - those I /° 0 'who don't like ifC < meat and thosa L® who can't afford CONTROL I NEEDED. J 'My kettle of S, VfvH preserves has I exploded and is sprouting a 1 1 1 over tho kit- ~jJSB chen. What had I better do? Send for one /Oyy/fflEfirJH of those experts / Jj B on food control,' It A MERCIFUL, jPlf I say, Pat, that's the worst "JP 110 looking horse I've over seen in harness. Why yf- \{ IT"©! don't you fatten • * 7/ "Fatten him up, is it? Sfhure, the poor baste can hardly carry the little H mate's that on •CC him now. JJhl* I Ibetttng <El?at Universality of the service whl< Harrisburg and its districts roum about are rendering to the nation I sending its young men to fight in tl army and navjj and the murii corps is only realized when one se the number of service flags that ai flying and the stars that they beu Taking into consideration that th city has been only lightly touchJ by the draft the homes flying tl service flags show that there we many Harrlsburgers who did n wait to be summoned and this seen: to have been the rule in some oth places in this section. But tl striking thing about the service fit display is that the red border ar the blue star shine alike from tentious homes and plain, unptttn cd weatherboardod country hom There is a small house up nei Kockville bridge which shows a Hi with two stars and out beyond tl city toward Linglestown and dow near Steelton there arc some humb homes which have three stai Front. Seventh. Fourteenth at Twenty-first streets all show tl service flags and the cross-tow highways are the same way. Tl flags are something which anvoi who can display ought to show a stimulus to patriotism. It Is n a matter of pride, the homes whii can .show Service (lags should p them out as a duty. • • ♦ ♦ If there is one thing in which tl people of this section of the sta happen to be showing an abiding i terest just now It is not politics the* primary or rents or any of t other things that are getting hea lines, it is the size of the quotas co under the next draft call. T draft is commencing to got to ill stage when it is affecting men almost every walk of life and t departure of the men for the cam is no longer of the demonstrati character. It is a solemn occasi< in which the spirit of folks detc mined to see a thing through manifested. • • The vigorous manner in which t engineers in charge of the constri tion of the big depot operatio Hereabouts have been push! things is one of the topics of ec vera&tlon about hotels. Travelii men who "make" Harrisburg ev< week or so have !"ome here with quiries as to what is going on a commenting upon the way t buildings have sprung up. A coui of men who were at The Bolt yesterday had time on their har and took an automobile ride just se how things were moving at t depots. • * * Major Henry M. Stine's plans 1 the Harrisburg Reserves to oper: to check up on disloyalty reports this section will commence to wc out in a few days. The membi of the organization will he giv some preliminary information the subject at the drill tomorr night. If the weather is good I drill will be held out of doors. • • • It's a rather odd commentary the condition of farming arou here that in a number of places Saturday cornstalks were bei taken in from fields and burned. ( dinarlly cornstalks are used for t cows, but the reason given for t failure to gather them and util what they contain is that there v literally no labor last year, male female, the demands of Harrisbi industries being so great, and in dentally, so attractive. • • • Two Greeks and another m from somewhere In the Balkn were engaged in a strenuous arj ment in one of the Market str candy stores on Saturday night a one of the Greeks in answer to wl seemed to be a taunt from rnotl Hshed out a pocketbook and <1 played two SSO liberty Bonds, wh seemed to be brand new and a C£ with four Baby Bonds. The oth could not match him, but they seemed to have bonds. Demands for seed corn for T. planting have fairly swamped bureau of markets at the State t purtment pf Agriculture accord to statements that the acreage be devoted to corn this year (n Pei "sylvania will be the greatest years, it not the greatest. One the reasons why so much corn is ing to be planted, it is said here, because of the price and the t certainty regarding wheat. In number of counties there will b< drop in the acreage to be seeded wheat and the potato acreage is t near where It was at this time 1917. The reports indicate that shortage of good seed corn \ greater last winter than suspec and that a considerable quantity the seed sold lately has failed meet germination tests. These U are being made at country schc in some localities. The state I been the means in accomplish sales of thousands of bushels of a< corn and in addition the repc show immense private sales. * * According to reports which hi come to the State Capitol many the municipalities of Pennsylva inverted their sinking funds in Third Liberty Loan bonds, especis where the funds have some time run before the bonds for whose demption they were created si mature. The State Bureau of & nicipalities sent a letter to aim 1.000 boroughs and cities just bf< the Third Loan Drive began urg them to make investments in Libe bonds and a few reports made sli that subscriptions were made. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Leo S. ROWP, who is mentioi as a possible ambassador 'o CI was formerly a professor at the CJ versity of Pennsylvania. —Reuben J. Butz, chairman the Liberty Loan work for Leh county, has been making addrei at towns which won Honor flag! —Harry J. Trainer, one of experienced politicians of Philac phia, says that voters should pens in voting thia month beca of chances that some election •: cers, wh might be crooked, sho employ pencils to invalidate ball —Judge C. B. Witmer, of United States court, has been m a doctor of laws by Franklin I Marshall. —Col. John Grlbbel will make commencement address at Junl College this year. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg is furnish lug many men for the rat pot branches of military service ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG William Maclay had an idea t some day Harrisburg would takf both sides of the river and he pi ned accordingly.
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