8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Poundtd itjt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Televraph Building, Federal Square, -* ' B. J. STACK POLE, Br Editor-in-Chirf F. R. OYSTER, 'Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press —The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. * Member American ► (in Newspaper Pub- East en flce^ Sintered at the Post Offlce in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ < tiT*F T By carriers, ten cents * tTfatj'.r.'.:*!> week; by mail, $5.00 a year In advancs, TUESDAY, MAY 14, IBIS And if I may, I'd have this day Strength from above To set my heart In heavenly art Not to be loved, but to love. — Maltbie D. Babcock. THE SCHOOL PARADE WHAT a pity It was that the school parade of yesterday k was marred by a downpour of Run. But what an Inspiring sight 'the procession afforded while it was in full swing with flags flying, bands playing and thousands cheering. It was indeed a great war service dem onstration. The number of Thrift Stamps dis played iVi the parade and the num ber of 100 per cent, schools in line illustrated the extent of the schools' investment in these popular govern ment securities and attested the pa triotism of the pupils. But the boys and girls marched not alone for themselves. Liberal investment in War Saving Stamps, it is true, will aid materially in keeping the Hun from our door, but Tt will do more than that—lt will help free the children of Belgium, and Northern France, and Serbia, and northern Italy and of a half dozen other prostrate states from the awful slavery of the unspeak able Beast of Berlin. So our boys and girls marching yesterday repre sented the childhood and the young manhood and womanhood of all the world and our hearts went out to them as they trudged sturdily by and we thought how much our suc cess in this war means to them and to young folks everywhere. All that we have taught them to hold dear, all there is of good cheer, of happi ness and the chance to work and be of service in the world hang in the balance. Either we of adult years, at-home and in the trenches, must destroy root and branch the mur derous forces W autocracy or the wave of frightfulness which has en gulfed the childhood of Europe will roll over us—and our children. That is what yesterday's parade meant. That is what the marchers told us as they passed, though they did not put the thought into words, and they steeled the souls of all be holders to the task before us, with its suffering and its sacrifices, even as they melted our hearts in love for the little paraderswho so confidently entrust their future to our will and ability to win. With the increase of the wheat crop and the decrease of U-boat sink ings the food problem takes on a brighter appearance. HIGHWAY WORK THE State of Pennsylvania has more money on hand for the maintenance of Its State High ways than ever'known and it is distributing to second-class town ships some arrears of aid under what is known as the cash road tax bonus act in some circles and as sen timental legislation in others. Coun ties and first-class townships are go ing ahead levying the usual sums for roads. And in the face of this situation, we hear criticisms that some much traveled roads, the Lincoln highway for Instance, are not being well maintained. Allegheny county com missioners declare that they can not secure materials for road improve ments through the national govern ment, which refers them to the State Highway authorities on ear priority orders. Township officials claim that cost of maintenance work Is pro hibitive. The Commonwealth is letting con tracts for construction of roads, some at State cost entirely; some on tha "share and share alike" agree ment with counties and some otk the Btate-ald principle. It is contefced that certain of these roads dotiot connect with much traveled rdites and are Isolated pieces of highway, a survival of the very policy that we tried to get away from some years ago. This is denied at the Capitol. And in defense of award of contracts lot highway construction at aa high TUESDAY EVENING, HAHMSBURG !&&&&& TELEGRAPH ' MAY 14, 1918. I at $30,000 a mile, it is contended that the people of the locality to be benefited Wanted the enterprise and are bearing their share out of local taxation, a situation in which it is : held that the Commonwealth should r certainly extend its help. It wotAd seem that the time has come when something should fre de ; termlned about the highway policy ( of Pennsylvania during the war. Commissioner O'Neil announced i some time ago that attention would . j be concentrated on maintenance and i the State Defense Commission made t an emergency appropriation of half ' a million to help him out. Granted ■ that it is hard to get men and ma- I terials, the Increasing needs of Na tional defense and of motor traffic simply demand a greater effort. Summer, with its augmented travel, will be upon us before long. If it is good policy to let contracts for . construction at war prices, It cer tainly must be good policy to keep up what we have, when we have the money and public opinion is favor able. v HARRISBURG TREES HAT are the people of Harris yy burg going to do about their shade and ornamental trees? Twice within the year violent -windstorms have resulted In great damage, es pecially in the parks and along the sidewalks, but this loss has only em phasized the growing indifference of the people generally to the planting and care of trees. All over the city they have been neglected and It. Is a common experience of to have hats their heads by low-hanging branches. In many i places automobiles and other vehicles i cannot approach the curbllnes with out encountering the overhanging limbs and there is general neglect of even rudimentary attention. But worse than all this is the van- ' dalism that is permitted in all sec tions, resulting in widespread dam age to many fine trees, especially in j the parks and around school bufld ings. Unchecked by janitors or teach- j ers trees are being broken limb from , limb by boys, a striking example be- 1 ing a fine shade tree at the Maclay \ building which has been almost ruin- j ed by the breaking of the branches. Why should it be necessary to ap peal over aijd over again to dkty ( Council to create a shade tree com- , mission, whose business It would to look after the trees, supervise their j planting and care and protect them \ against vandalism? j The city-wide damage of the latest J storm should be sufficient, without ' further argument, to get action. 1 There is every reason for the ap- 1 pointment of a shade tree commis- 1 sion under an set of the Legislature J and no valid objection. What has become of the old fellow who used to go whitewashing the i back fences? There are some in Har- i risburg that would look better for I his attention. > _ 1 OUR GUESTS TODAY 1 HARRISBURG to-day welcomes 1 with joy and affection the sol- ' diers of France who have come ' to assure us of the steadfastness of j the Franch in the face of the Ger- 1 man hordes and to bring us The ' word that they will hold the line j until we can throw our millions into \ the field with French and British, ' Italian and Belgian in the final great J push that shall start the Germans on ] the retreat that will end in a rout beyond the Rhine. Most of these Blue Devils who J come to Harrisburg to-day have been \ in the war since its start in 1911, 1 and every one of them has been * wounded, some of them a half dozen ] times or more. They have been, as' J one writes puts it,- "three years in J hell and back with a smile." They f have earned their brief vacation In i this country and they are worthy of ( all the attention they are |feceiving. { They have stood between us and i German frightfulness and the grati- 1 tude we show them to-day is no J less sincere than the gratitude with t which the Frefech people received the first detachment of American troops £ as they marched through Paris | on their way to stake their places \ in the fighting line. There has been always a tie of deep T understanding and affection between 3 France and the United States which s will be strengthened by such inter- change of compliments a that which f brought the Blue Devils on their pil- t grimage of patriotism to this coun- J try. They vlsuallz* the war for us. They prove to any wllo may be doubting that the smllln|r, fconfident courage of'the French is unbroken, f that there fight beside our own boys t in France not the dregs of a I nation "bled white," as the Germans J would have us believe, but some mil- t lions of fine, up-standing, vigorous, \ hard-fighting Frenchmen, who are I well able to give good account of ' t-hemselves under any circumstances . and who will be shoulder to shoulder \ with the lads in khaki when the 1 triumphant march to Berlin is bo- \ gun. •] Lk "PtKKOijttfcuua By ttie Ex-Committee man H Foi* the hioment the situation ex isting: between Governor Brum baugh and the members of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has detracted attention of men inter ested in politics from even the final week of the strenuous campaign for the state nominations. There have been few instances in the recent his tory of the state when the relations between the executive and judicial branches of the government have been so strained and it is said that the condition now prevailing will be reflected in the coming general campaign. The Supreme Court adjourned last week until the Governor made ap pointments to the two vacancies ex isting and . newspapers hiive been filled with statements that the court is behind with work and needs the places filled at once. On the other hand friends of the Governor say that it was an attempt to force his hand before the primary in which he has espoused the cause of High way Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil and that only a few cases are to be cleared up. What happened yesterday was that the Supreme Court Cancelled the sitting which was to have been held here May 27, in accordance with the custom cf a generation and arranged ."or a meeting in Phila delphia on the morning of May 28 notwithstanding the fact that the Governor had issued invitations to a dinner in honor of the court at the executive mansion on. May 27. At the same time a committee of emi nent Philadelphia lawyers asked the Governor to name Alexander Simp son as justice. Mr. Simpson is law partner of Attorney General Brown and no one kTfcws whether he would accept if tendered the place or what the Penrose people would do in the general election if he should be ap pointed. Last night Governor Brumbaugh said there were no signs of an early appointment and that he had "called oft" the dinner. —The names of Judges H. O. Beehtel, Schuylkill; ex-Judge Voris Auten, who served on the Northum berland bench for ten years and one of the well-known central lawyers; C. Leßue Munson, of Williamsport, and J. J. Kelly, of Scranton, are be ing prominently mentioned for the Democratic appointment to the Su preme Court. It should not be for gotten that under the constitution one of the justices to be named must be a Democrat as the nonpar tisan* idea was not highly thought of when the constitution convention provided for the judiciary. It Is doubtful whether either John S. Ril ing or M. J. Ryan will be named to the Supreme Court, but it seems probable that they will stay where they are. —Both of the deceased justices came from Western Pennsylvania, which has men for both places. Phil adelphia, however, is pulling hard for one of them. —The will of Justice Mestrezat, just probated, disposes of $300,000. —The candidates began their final week yesterday *nd until the primary one week from to-day most of them will be busy. Mr. O'Neil plans to speak in some churches on Sunday. Plans of the others have not been announced. Senator Sproul started from Philadelphia last night and is in Berks and Lebanon counties to day. To-morrow he goes to Adams and adjoining counties. Mr. O'Neil, who was here last night for con sultation with people at his head quarters, is in Fayette county to day and to-morrow will join Gover nor Brumbaugh in Pittsburgh. They will speak together in Reading and vicinity Thursday. —There is a lot of guessing about what John R. K. Scott is going to do and his plans are being as care fully guarded a3 those of the Vares. —Senator Beidleman Is In the an thracite region where he is getting ovations that are worth while. The Guffey campaign party will be in the same section to-morrow. Judge Bon niwell has been visiting the vicinity of Philadelphia and his friends say he is getting many pledges. Judge Bonniwell will leave Philadelphia to night for another week of campaign ing. He will spend to-morrow in Altoona and vicinity, Thursday at Dußois, Brookville pnd Clarion. Fri day in Oil City, Franklin and Mead ville, and Saturday in Erie. —"J. Denny O'Neil, on leaving Philadelphia yesterday for Fayette county, where he will spend to-day campaigning, gave out another anti- Penrose statement," says the Phil adelphia Press. "It was in his fami liar style, with no new notes sounded. He again repudiated Senator Pen rose's charge, made in an exclusive Interview for the Press on Sunday, that Ire had derived profits from brewery stock. He predicted that his election as governor would put an end to Senator Penrose as the party leader." —Two election cases got into the courts of Philadelphia yesterday in volving the Vare faction, in one of which they won and In the other lost. The Town Meeting men filed a bill in equity to prevent the ap pearance of the names of the Vare Republican legislative candidates, James A. Walker and James Frank lin, on the Democratic primary bal lot. which they had sought. The allegation was made th< their nom inating petitions did not contain enough genuine signatures, and that many of the names appearing on them were forged. The bill was dis missed on the ground that the ir regularities, if any, should have been discovered earlier, for the bal lots have been printed and it was too late to keep the names off. —John R. K. Scott is maintaining a very active press burestu in Phila delphia and its output Is lnterettm' He promises great reforms, some of which would be difficult to work out in the Senate indeed. He also an nounces that he is a farmer. —McKean county granted licenses yesterday. Some of Its neighbors are very "dry." —Pittsburgh is having a lively windup to the campaign. Noon-day and nightly meetings are being held and the congressional and legislative contests are attracting much atten tion. Must Speed Up to End War The great trouble with our prepa rations last year was that we failed to realize the size of our Job. We pre pared on a relatively small scale when we should have prepared on e large scale. We went forward leis urely as if we had all the time in the world. That mistake must not be re peated. The War Department need have no fear that It may adopt a program too large for the nation to approve. America wants to end this war. It knows it can do the business only by gigantic effort. Let the gov ernment call for this effort! America will answer, "Ready!"— Kansas City Times. MOVIE OF A MAN AND A HAT .... ... .... .... .... .BY BRIGGS Goimc DOVAJNJ FLAG PROCeeDS ' e . I rsv/ MOST" ANJV s\ np . Tfiy AiOOTHEFi OG£S LA Y STRC£T GOES "BLOCK FR.CMO AKJOTHER. BLOCK Tue STAR SPANJ6IEO amother BLOCK GOO v SAS/E * 7H6 Kinj<S" AWOTHER BLOCK Tne MAP5eiLi-Ais6" \ ' " OH WSLL 1 DIDWT , _ I KJ6SD IT AMYWAY LET VT " v Over tta *To|a iw ""peitfuu A m Soldier boys at Camp Meade are writing home in great praise of Annie Oakley, woman champion shot, formerly with Buffalo Bill, who has been visiting there. After clip ping the ashes oil a cigaret held in the teeth of a husky private she related that when In Berlin some years ago the" crown prince asked her to shoot one out of his moi/th. "Geie," said Miss Oakley with keenest regret, "if he'd only let me try it now !" , \ Out in Cambria County they are telling a good one pn two well-known physicians who insisted that a cer tain society belle' 3 rheumatism was caused by her teeth. She protest ed madly and could only convince the eminent authorities by confess ing that she hadn't had a tooth of her own in her head for ten years. We read In an Allentown paper with vast appreciation the wonder ful record of Jeremiah S. Hess, ex state senator. For fifty continuous years he had been superintendent of a Union Sunday School In—Heller-1 town. Dittman Joins Liebknecht Dittman. a Socialist member of ths German Reichstag, is now in as sociation with Liebknecht, another Socialist member of the German Reichstag. Both are making shoe 3 in >i convict pen. Tne crime for which the Kaiser's government sent Dittman to pris on w;is Vrat. cf n-aking a speech to 12,000 workmen who had ceased work as a irotts. against the war policy of >he Germs n government toward the Russian people and the people of the Baltic provinces. The trial of Ditiman was of the drum head variety. Two of his colleagues ia the Reichstag were permitted, however, to present arguments in his defense. Then th&> Prussian of ficers co.'Kii ituting the eourt sentenc ed Dittman to prison without re course. This incident is one of the many that have aroused men of all liberal minds to iidive hostility against the German cc\ernment. The details of the incident have come to America only through German newspapers. The foc.r'.is' press of the United f.ti'tes hns made no issue of the pf fr.ir. which eppears to interest little or not at "ill the pro-Germans con trolling the American Socialist par ty.—From the Chicago News. Raising the Draft Age There can be no valid opposition to the proposed raising of the draft age from 31 to 40 years. Men be tween those ages are as capable of taking part-in the fight to save the nation as their younger brothers. It is their war as much as it is the war of the younger men. Let them do their share in the winning of It. Sec retary Baker is expected to ask Con gress for an arniy of 5,000,000 men. His recommendation should be ap proved. The Allies will win or lose on man power, and there is no other source tjian the United States. It must be give, give, give, and that willingly, or all that has been given may prove a useless sacrifice. —Rich- mond Times-Dispatch. Grandma's Little Worry Village Pedagog—"Darwin says we're descended from monk'eys." His Auditor —"Well, what about It? My grandfather may 'ave bin a gorilla, but it doesn't worry me." Voice From the Fireside— "P'raps not, but it must have wor ried yer grandmother."—London Opinion. Pretty Near Time, Now Down where the water Ripples with a song. Ain't a-wastin' daylight When you're catchin' fish—that long! They'd pull you in the river If you wasn't mighty strong; You're helpin' out the country When you're catchin' fish—that long! —Atlanta Constitution. THE GHOSTLY GALLEY When comes the ghostly galley Whose rowers dip the oar Without a sound to startle us Unheeding on the shore— If they should beckon you abroad Before they beckon me, How could I bear the waiting time Till I should put to sea! —Jessie B. Rlttenhouse. "The Door of Dreams," Houghton-Mifflin. THE PEOPLE'S USE THE UMBRELLA To the ■ Editor of the Telegraph: It seems too had that the thunder showers yesterday afternoon inter fered so seriously with the school children's parade, but is it not pos sible that we may learn some lessons from the uncomfortable experience that will make the "next" time more successful? "We all hope to see the bays and girls repeating the attempt, "'ther for the same purpose, or for other patriotic occasions, like com munity singing, marching and the like. The "drowned rat" conditions are deplorable I'or obvious reasons, even though one admiring observer was heard to remark that the pa raders breasting the storm showed patriotism." Thare is a limit to such love of country." Had the weather conditions approximated last Fri day s, very probably the enthusiastic citizen would not have been where he could have been overheard. A patriotic demonstration about a year ago, accompanied by similar showers, resulted in at least one death, and many serious cases of illness—to hardier adults, besides. J believe no one protected by an um brella on that occasion experienced any unpleasant effects from the "gen tle dew from heaven." But, alas, there seems to be a strong sentiment against the innocent umbrella, and especially among the school children during marching. Two boys were sent to their respective schoolrooms yesterday at 12.30 under a lowering sky. Their patriotic parent, sooner than deny them the privilege of marching, tied their flags to ■ the handles of their umbrellas, bidding them carry them like muskets, unless THE STATE PRESS American pacifists are urging that a peace propaganda be undertaken among the people of Austria and Germany. We know of no better persons for the job than some of our American pacifists. They should be detailed at once to enter Austria and Germany, carrying with them their soap boxes and from every corner and cross roads preach the blessings of peace. Of course, the barbarous rulers of Germany and Austria havs an unreasonable prejudice against professional pacifism within their own territory, but, as they have dis tinctly favored it in America, they might be converted. Even if they do not permit our pacifists to speak to their people, all that will happen to our missionaries will be to be stood up against a wall and shot at. Who will volunteer?— Johnstown Tribune. After congratulating the people of the country upon the success of the Liberty loan Secretary McAdoo makes a request. The man who does his full duty as a patriotic cit izen is he who retains his Liberty bonds, maintains the market value of the Nation's obligations and pro tects the country's credit. "Keep your Liberty bond!" is the slogan he suggests the country take ujl, and only dire necessity should induce a purchaser to part with the Govern ment's promise to pay.—Pittsburgh Sun. . The Prussian autocrats are the greatest menace the world has ever known. They builded for years for their grand purpose. Nothing, ab solutely nothing, that the human mind could think of was overlooked. They were prepared as no one had ever been prepared before. They lost only bcause freedom cannot be conquered. They have made the same old mistake that autocrats have been making for years. Free dom is inextinguishable. It cannot be destroyed. Those who would de stroy It but destroy themselves. — York Gazette. A bill aimed at tYie I. W. W. out fit has gone through the Senate and is expected to be put'through the House at express rate speed. It does not refer to the so-called Industrial Workers of the World by name, but those are.the traitors, treasonmong ers and general nuisances that It is after. It outlaws organizations that use or advocate vlolenci to bring about "any government, social, in dustrial of economic change" during the war. That hits these T. W. W. scoundrels right between the eyes. It Is an infernal organization that sails under the pirate flag of the I. W. W. It is found on violence. During this war members of It have been burning, plundering and de stroying. Hundreds of them ought to have been hanged long ago, but nuder the slow process of existing law it Is difficult to bring them to trial, and once the trial Is on there arc technicalities Innumerable.— Philadelphia Inquirer. needed for protection. One boy was derided, and kicked by his classmates until he hid the offending emblem .of civilization in the school closet, and marched to the "drowned rat" limit. The other braved a similar re ception from his patriotic (?) school friends, nnd walked Market street beneath the friendly shelter. But public sentiment was finally triumph ant, for the hoots and jeers of half u hundred throats made him lower the bit of civilization, protecting him against a thousand possible calami ties, _and with the plaudits of his learned (?) companions ringing in his childish ears, he marched on in the drenching fctorm. It is too early to record any deleterious effects. It is not possible to educate our high-spirited boys girls to th,e foolishness of risking their health unnecessarily? Were the adults in charge of the youngsters to instruct them regarding sensible protection in our future par-ides, were the um brellas to serve as long staffs lor their flags on unsettled days like yesterday, ana were their adult cap tains to set an example of com.non sense in the matter, would we not all enjoy the exhibit of patriotism more? There always will bo children to spurn every product of civilization in "Tarzan of the Apes" fashion, but they do not comprise the element on which we of this generation base our hopes for the luture of our be loved country. Let the juvenile ad mirers of our braves at the "front" know that they would be only t.oo glad to hold iron, adamant or any other shield-like umbrellas between them and the Roches' rain of fire, were it practicable. A HARRISBURG PATRIOT. \ LABOR NOTES Conductors, motormen and other employes of the Montreal (Can.) Tramways Company are asking for Increased wages of x from 5 to 11 cents an hour, according to the length of service. In his last report on gains made by various ironmoldcrs' unions, In ternational President Valentine says that fifty-nine locals have secured wage increases, reduced hours and improved working conditions. A bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts State Legislature which provides that all persons be tween 18 and 50 years of age who fail to work at least thirty-six hours a week shall be liable to a fine of SIOO and imprisonment for three months. If New Jersey farmers will co operate, Governor Edge believes that the shortage of farm labor will be overcome. He declares that this state will form a partnership with the farmers in an effort to have crops harvested on time, despite war con ditions. OUR CHAPLAIN I have sat In stately churches, Built of costly wood and stone, Listened to the mighty organs Pealing forth in mellow tone; Heard ministers whose eloquence Made dome and arches ring; Sat enraptured while I listened To some noted choir sing.— But the holy benediction Never rested on me there As when listening to our chaplain As he prayed in open air. For my soul is lifted upward From the sordid things of earth, And I seem to catch a vision Of life and Its true worth. Oh, the soldier in the army v Is but a mixture quaint— For some of him is sinner And some of him is saint. But the bigger, better portion (I tell It to you square) Comes right up to the surface When our chaplain leads in prayer. For he rouses all our manhood And we're anxious for the cttance To join the allied forces Who are fighting now in France I know not what will be my lot When on the other side, For Fate has many card to play And this old world is wide; But if, when victory Is won, They leave me sleeping "over there,' In, heaven I'll wake In answer To Chaplain Bassler's prayer —H. F. K. Company E. One Hundred Third Ammunition Train, Camp Han cock, Augusta, Ga. (The above refers to the Rev. H. X. Bassler, formerly of Harrls burg and formerly chaplain of the Kighth Regiment, N. o. PROPHETIAL [From the Boston Transcript.! In springtime, when the buds were red. And bees droned in the poppy-bed, And zephyrs called—l knew not where— The hungry heart to realdoms rare, I caught the tunc, and caroled soft A lyric to the Bard aloft; Who, answering, in transport trilled Love's outlet to the flame that fast his spirit filled. A summer evening's golden glow Heightened the hills in ruddy flow. Deep in a Delphic glade I stood, 'Mid clustered cloisters of the wood. And bathed in ever-purpling mist Of fleeting day, with dewdrops kissed. Fair was that bower, full its breast, Yet ceaselessly on high the Hand of vast unrest • • * * * Shifted the scene to somber hue; Darkling, the vineyard; dull, the blue Of skies o'vercast; the full-blown Heart, Living-wine red, pure in white art, Bled its frail teeauty, ere men's eyes Lingered too long in Paradise. the Tree-God's gorgeous might! Autumn of Years, how swift, how bitter-sweet thy fling! Ere long, the homing feathered troop Shed their soft down. In silver droop. And wltitened clear with crystal crust The earth-abode of wanderlust. As angel choirs, myriad, sing Each advent of a deathless Spring. All Heaven a glad triumphal urged. While holy hairs bent low, and snow with snow converged. —H. E. PERRY. OUR DAILY LAUGH a SERIOUS f \ I MISTAKE. YV / / What's th • \\)| matter with \\ I / him? (( \\ He swallowed a hairpin! DIFFERENT SPHERES sMtljßSf "Alas, our inter- IK I n different spheres," BnLn said Nan. JNBM For she was a MM Ww golfing girl {rffn And he was a r/l IffiftMi baseball 'WJR SERVITUDE, \5 Would you j. ,i X marry a ma® who wou,d tr 7 \\ w JM&f* to use matri mony to avoid \ military serv >"~[\ Sure, that's vh t^lo kln< ' of man Jj \n you could soon i. iL- irtll teach to maks VvLM up beds and wash dishes. DOING GOOD. _Sl_ Have you a civlo L Improvement so should say wo ery pleasure the common people ! -g" lEbptttttg (tttjat Final steps to give Dauphin the state game preserve which her sportsmen have long desired are being taken by attaches of the Game "Commission and it is expected to stock the preserve this summer and fall with deer and wild turkeys and probably some other game. The pre serve has been located on the state forestry preserve in Williams town ship, which was placed at th® disposal of the game authorities. It will make about a score of game preserves in the state. The Williams township tract is known as the preserve in honor of a noted Central Pennsylvania fam ily. It comprises about 3,600 acres and 1,700 will be used for the game "sanctuary," us the places are termed. The .tract is being marked out and a force of men is blazing the way for the men who will fol low with the single wire which. * marks such places and tack up the notices. It was the hope of the state authorities to get leases of ad joining land owned by the Susque hanna and other coal companies and some water companies, but it could not be arranged. If this could have been done the preserve would have been one of the largest and most compact. In any event, it will make the Lykens Valley region once more a fine h un t'ng section, which it was many years ago. The location is not very far away from Schuylkill and Northumberland counties, and across the Susquehanna from Perry county, at whose other end Is the Pennypacker reserve, one of the best maintained by the Game Commis sion. One bird seems to have aroused state-wide interest in its protection, judging from the manner in which petitions for the closing of counties for the hunting of ruffed grouse for two years are reaching the State Game Commission. Under the law the commission has authority to close for periods of two or five years counties to hunting of various sorts of game and a score of counties are now closed for hunting of deer, quail, wild turkeys and other game so that they may propagate. Discovery that the ruffed grouse had been almost exterminated by weather, vermin and hunting in a number of counties last year caused a movement to have every county petition for the pro hibition of such hunting. Several years ago the whole state was closed by the Legislature for wild turkey hunting for two years, resulting in big increases in numbers, but in or der to save time It was determined to invoke aid of the Game Commis sion. Fully fifty counties have tiled petitions to close for hunting, some of the petitions being in complete form, while there are papers in circulation in practically every other county. Preparation of the train schedules for the movement of the 17,500 men summoned under the draft to go to Camps Meade, I.ee, Humphreys and Greenleaf commencing May 25 is under way, and it is expected that a score of special trains will be re quired. The examination of the men under this call is proceeding and it is that the bulk of the boards will have their quotas ready soon. At State Draft Headquarters it is pointed out that the exemptions announced In the last week will ap ply only to this call, as far as in formation now in hand is concerned. The time and destinations of the 2,556 colored men called at the same time as the above call have not been announced. Notices have been re ceived which point out that regis trants are not to be considered as physically unfit or delinquent In physical matters until cases are finally disposed of and such exam inations as are needed are dis posed of. Governor Brumbaugh has gotten in his trout fishing this year after* 4 all. Last week he was regretting that he had been unable to get out for the opening days of the trout fishing, but Friday he slipped away, met with Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. Buller and whipped streams in the Pocono region. The sport was good, but the Governor vows he went right to the limit and stopped there. • • • The plucky march of the pupils of the city's schools in the War Sav ings parade yesterday in spite of the driving rain recalls the way they marched along in the big parades last year. The patriotic parade of last April was the biggest demon stration ever known in this city and the young folks stuck to the finish. • • Among visitors to the city yester day was Colonel Lewis E. Beitler, secretary of the State Committea of Public Safety and former deputy secretary of the Commonwealth. Colonel 'Beitler was here arranging financial matters for the committee and looking after details. He stayed long enough to see the War Savings parade and to get wet. • • WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. John Wenrich, well known to many here, has contributed some animals from the southern states for Reading's proposed zoo. —Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin is urging that President Wilson be in vited to make the Fourth of July address at Philadelphia this yean. —J. H. Hoffman, Bucks county school superintendent, is making an effort to have every school pupil in his county save for Baby Bonds be fore school reopens in the fall. —George E. Tracy, of Consho hocken, has been elected secretary of the Germantown and Norristown Railway Company'. —Bishop MoCort preached the ser mon at the dedication of the new Catholic church at Easton. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg really ought to have fine state armory fronting on Capitol Park Exten sion? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The manufacture of nails wa one of the early industries In Har risburg. A Soldier Viceroy Lord French's appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland does not Indicate that the government intends to let the Irish off on the conscrip tion. Of course the chief secretary for Ireland controls all Irish admin istration, and it will in no sense de volve upon Lord French as viceroy l ' to say whether or not the conscrip tion shall be enforced, but he will be a good man to enforce it if it is to be enforced. There is no indication that Lloyd George is getting weak kneed. Lord French himself, though a soldier always, has not the temper ament of aidragoon, and at the head of the Irish executive he is not likely to practice any Prussianism. It is certainly a time for wisdom all around in Irish aftfti" Boston Taweript,
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