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THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918
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Joy s not in things, it is IM tw>.— ,
CHABI.ES Wwxtn
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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
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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.
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By the Ex-Commltteenuui I
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| 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.
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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.