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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. >
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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. •]
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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.
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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,