6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VEHSPAPEH FOR THE HOUZ Pounded tl]l Published evening* except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO- Telegraph Bulldlas, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE, PreSt 6r Editertn-Chirf F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Mtnafing Edifr. 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 m Newspaper Pub- I lishers' Assocla- Ja|gj>sfiEpS®L Bureau of Circu latlon and Penn- SSaIBE fl Eastern office. llßlSf B Story, Brooks & 111 j!! jrf Avenue F.ulldlng. J - - _ Ch'cago, ill. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ajnfcte Bv carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 * year in advance, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1918 He knoics not his own strength that has not met adversity. —BEX JOHN SON. 1 | WHY WE SHALL WIN ONE of the reasons why we ac- : cept, with no opposition and 1 little remark, the tremendous j demands of the war is because we | are so much in earnest. Within the j year we have given up vast sums in I taxes, purchased billions of dollars worth of Liberty Bonds and millions more of War Savings Stamps. We have raised a hundred million dol lars for the Red Cross and more than duplicated the same. We have given more millions to the Y. M. C. A.. Knights of Columbus and otlierfornis of war work. We have enacted a draft law and put it into effective opera tion. We talk of extending its provi sions to men of greater age, and everybody agrees that If the coun try's needs demand It our last man and our last dollar must be sacri ficed. That is what will make us a win ning Nation. We are the richest people in the world—in man-power, money, natural'resources and manu facturing capacity. But all that would be as nothing without the will to do—without the determina tion to go through with this Job if it takes all we are and all we have. But that, combined with our other vast possessions constitute us an invincible force against which all the arms and deviltry ever "made in Germany" will strive in vain. "The U-boat menace is fading." says the French Minister of Marine, and, he might have added, along with it th hopes of Germany. A SCHOOL "RIGHT THERE" ACTION of the Central High School in presenting to the Harrisburg Public Library a SIOO Liberty Bond for its permanent endowment not only inaugurates a movement which will be of import ance to the library whose circula tion is rapidly growing, but it evi dences the patriotism and spirit ot the school. The money was raised among the students and accom plishes the three-fold purpose of helping the government, assisting the library and giving the school a membership in the association which administers the institution. This action of the school alone would entitle it to praise for its spirit, but when the record of the school in the last half year or so is given the whole city can take pride in the student body in the building in Forster street over which Prof. H. G. Dibble presides. The students of Central High, as they are called, subscribed $12,500 to the second Liberty Loan and $12,300 to the third. When it is considered that these subscriptions come out of allowances or represent money for which students work, some of the rest of us have to take off our hats. And yet this splendid showing, which means a real sacrifice on the part of boys and girls, is not all. The stu dents gave over S6OO in cash or pledges to the Red Cross and have agreed to buy $5,500 of War Stamps. Harrisburg has been doing mighty well each time asked and the part played by Central High is something worth while. Prof. Dibble has every reason to feel proud of his school. In the language of the day, "It is right there with the goods." If It is true that packer* are ship ping unfit meat to soldiers, the best punishment would be to send the meat back and force those responsible to do the eating of it. BABY-CARRIAGE FAMINE BETTER think twice before con signing the battered family baby-coach to the junkheap. Even with the ear-marks of hard usage upon it and sagged the springs by the athletic efforts of a generation of ambitious toddlers. It may be worth a lot of money; the reason being that the government has decided to curtail the perambu lator supply in the interests of war material production. Experienced married men will see In this order a German conspiracy to ruin their place of mind and wreck the muscles MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 27, 1915. of their carrying arms. Young and bashful married ' men will seize up6n it eargerly as an excuse for "leaving baby at home." There is a difference between baby carriages just as there is between the pushers of the same, and com parative prosperity has nothing whatsoever to do with It. The first usually costs from $25 to SSO and is bedecked with all manner of laces, frills and fancy painting, after the manner of a royal coach or a circus bandwagon. The fifth or sixth is of the col lapsible variety and the head of the house complains bitterly if it costs a penny over $3.50. So do we pro gress In our economies as our fam ilies grow. The first baby is as wonderful as it's carriage, and its father stands ready to shamelessly admit the fact; yea to bawl forth the news on the slightest provocation, that ali niay hear. But even the proudest parent is a poor, timorous soul as he ven tures forth behind the baby-carriage for the first time, and the gaudier the cerriage, the deeper iis em barrassment. The eyes of the world are upon him, he feels. He 13 a marked man. The weight of his responsibility bears heavily upon him. He shrinks in his own estima tion until In comparison the baby carriage attains the dimensions of an Ice-wagon. But let a passing friend pay a compliment to the baby within; let a pretty girl tell the riding cherub it ought to be proud of such a father —and presto, the situation changes and the baby-cart pusher takes on the dignity of a Mexican general and the importance of a traffic policeman. All i*"ds out of the way, there! Clear the street, the baby carriage approaches! Good r*;*s for the railroad men means good news for Harrisburg. which is prosperous only as railroad men are psosperous. CHEERING NEWS TWO Items in Saturday's Tele graph will bear repetition. The first is from a report to Con gress on the progress of our prepara tions for war. and it is so filled with optimism and encouragement that it ought to be kept handy for ready reference when the "wet-blanket citizen comes around, with his long face and sad countenance, to relate the latest short-comings of the American people and the hopeless ness of the country ever becoming a real fighting factor in the war. Says the report In part: Quantity production of the heavy. Browning machine gun JtftS been reached; more than '•"'J 1 ' Liberty motors have been built and found satisfactory; fast pur suit planes are now being built in the United States, with Lib erty motors for their power; French 75s are being built in this country in large numbers, rifle production has reached the point where a division of la,ooo men can be equipped in three days. , _ Of the 600 Brownings manufac tured here during the last month, more than 100 are now in trance being given their tests under ac tual field conditions. Work on the light Browning is getting under headway, although the completed gun is "not being turned out in qu*itities. It is understood that a particular part for 20.000 light Brownings has been completed, and many other parts are nearly as well along, but under the quantity production system com pleted guns are not turned out rapidly until all the parts are ready for assembly. More than one hundred Pe- Haviland combat planes have been built in the t'nited States, and have been delivered to the Army. Quantity production on these is just getting under headway. Slightly more than half of the 1,000 Liberty motors of the army airplane tvpe have been turned over to the War Department. Nearly 200 of these Liberty en gines have been sent to Kngland for installation in planes there, ajid more than 100 others are either on the way overseas or are enroute to American ports for shipment. Doesn't that make you want to cheer? Don't you feel the old boy hood pride in the Stars and Stripes ar.d the belief that "America can lick the world" well up again within you? "But," the "wet-blanket" citizen will remind you, "how about ship ping; what's the good of all this without ships?" And then you will read him this dispatch from Washington: Steel ships completed thus far in May exceed the output of any previous month in the history of the shipping board. The total output, up to and including May 23, was 29 vessels, of 17 4,661 tons. Four steel steamships, totaling 28.200 tons, were delivered on Thursday. We have the men, we have the money, we have the ships—and we are going to get the Kaiser. Mis takes of administration may have held us up for a time, but nothing is going to stop us now. WAR-TIME DECISIONS OBSERVERS of decisions which | are being given these days by courts and bodies like the Pub lic Service Commission in dealing with such delicate subjects as liabil ity to taxation and rates for service can hardly help being struck with the manner in which they are ac cepted by the public. They are not; only taken without comment, in spite of the wide effect they may have, but their justice is being recognized. For some years there has been a disposition to fight taxation and ad vantage has been taken of techni calities to raise questions which have puzzled Judges and called for deci sions which were criticised, some times without cause. Now the feel ing that the government, national, State or municipal, is entitled to what the framers of taxing legisla tion meant it to get is uppermost and there is less effort tp contest, and where litigation is brought there is a hewing to the line of elemental justice that is striking. In the matter of rates, the thought that a public utility company would dare to raise its schedule of charges a cent above an amount specified in an ordinance or franchise or eon tract would have caused a howl from the locality affected and echoes from every part of the State. And yet the Public Service Commission takes the position, backed by the chief law of licer of the Commonwealth, that] where a utility is shown by extraor dinary- conditions to be entitled, In ] order to make a living, to charge | more than specified in its franchise j grant, the Commission will permit | tho advance. And similarly, valuable ! trackage and other rights, suggestion j of which would have met storms of j protest only a year or so ago. are now granted. The Commission nat-| urally provides that these allow-1 ances shall be for the period of the | war only, or until conditions become j normal, but the fact that they are j | authorized and the authorization ac- j j cepted by the public is one of the in j teresting signs of these times. T>ofct£c*£* By the Ex-Committeeiw— ■ Discovery that although announce-| ment was made in advance of the, primary election that Stephen H. Huselton, of Pittsburgh, would not j ask friends to vote for him for the : superior court nomination, Mr. 1 Huselton polled many votes, which will require the Secre tary of the Commonwealth to make inquiry of the counties as to the total number of nonpartisan ballots handed out. It was expected, in view of the situation, that Judge William D. Porter would be the sole nominee for the court, of which he I has been a member, and that he j would be elected at the primary. | The very first county to tile a return, i I Bucks, showed a large poll for Mr. I | Huselton. Under the circumstances letters! will be addressed to each county' ■ asking for information as to the to-. 1 tal number of nonpartisan ballots 1 handed out and the vote for superior i I court judge. The compilation of the official re turns of last Tuesday's primary has' been started at the Capitol and will j probably take two weeks. Candidates for state-wide nomina- j tions must tile their statements of I expenses at the Capitol and numer-1 ous blanks have already been asked. I Seward E. Button, this year's ap pointee as chief of the Department! of Mines to succeed the late James I E. Roderick, is going to have rough sledding next winter, according to re-j ports which are being heard about j the State Capitol. Mr. Button was named just before the primary fight warmed up and his advent was made the occasion for some administration j demonstrations, while charges were made but denied that he had been; using influence with mine inspectors for O'Xeil. Button's name will have J to go to the Senate for confirmation i and because of his attitude he will be opposed by a number of senators I who hold over. In this connection i it is interesting to note that all of j the men rejected last June, reap pointed in July by the Governor and; declared legal appointees by the su preme court, will have to go before the Senate for action. Some of them j will probably be rejected unless they ask to have their names withdrawn. I All of the Brumbaugh appointees will be in the position of Tener ap pointees in January, 1915. From all accounts the Governor has had some declinations of proffers of public service commissionerships as the men invited refused to give up their practices or business for an uncer tain half year or year as commis sioners. —A Pottsville dispatch says: "The revelation that George F. Brumm has been nominated by the Wash ington party for Congress, along with Samuel P. Wagner, of Tamaqua, for the Senate, led friends of Brumm to change their plans as the way is open for another tight. All of the legislative candidates backed by Houck, Leib and Snyder, won except in this district where Horace Reber, pledged to prohibition, defeated Jo seph Denning. Results of the Montgomery county battle are given this way at Norris town: "That Charles Johnson re mains the Republican leader after a longer sway than any other man in Montgomery county, for he suc ceeded Judge J. B. Holland nearly twenty years ago; that Charles A. Ambler still has a $7,000 job as State Insurance Commissioner, in stead of a $750 job as State Senator; that James S. Boyd will occupy a seat in the Senate instead of the House; that Montgomery county will have one of its four assemblymen pledged to vote for the Sheppard prohibition amindmeßt." —Asa A. Weimer, who announced he would run on an independent ticket if denied the Republican nomination for Governor at the pri maries, says he has abandoned the idea, because there is a candidate who can champion the cause of the proponents of personal liberty. —Senator Asa K. DeWitt and Rep resentative Conrad C. Miller, of the Hazieton district, got on all tickets. They may have independent rivals. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says of the report that Bonniwell may head a "bob-tall" ticket. "In com menting upon this report a close friend o£ Judge Bonniwell said last night that the Judge expects to have a conference with President Wilson as soon as the result of the official count shall be announced and he is proclaimed the nominee of the parjty for Governor, with a view to getting the support of the national administration in his fight to win the Governorship. Judge Bonni well's intimates insist that as the result of the vote at the primary election he is the logical head of the Democratic party organization in the state and that it will be a great advantage to the Democratic na tional organization to have a Demo cratic Governor of Pennsylvania while the next Presidential campaign is on." —According to Pittsburgh reports Joseph F. GufTey is getting ready to retire as state chairman of the Dem ocrats as soon as possible. He may n6t serve until the state committee meets. —Among the humors of the after math is the visit paid by "Butch" McDevitt to Allentown to personally thank 100 supporters. —Three bills to take Philadelphia police out of politics are being pre pared and the Yare contracts may be attacked. These are strenuous days —lt cost Chester county $6,000 to hold the primary. —William H. Berry is said to be considerably concerned over the costs imposed in the Eyre case. The damages were little, but the costs seem to have risen rapidly. —J. J. Moran been declared the Democratic Congressional candi date in Schuylkill. -—The Sunday seashore period of politics is on again. Senators Pen rose and Vare and other leaders are now receiving where the surf breaks. —C. H. Kramer has been appoint ed plumbing inspector for Allen town. —Pottstown's tax collector haa quit in a huff over remuneration. —The Fifth ward cases will be tried in West Chester, July 15. MOVIE OF A MAN ARRIVING HOME EARLY (FOR ONCE) , BY BRIGGS (woo woo!/ J_ISTei>JS. M 0 ArtSvAieß. f" \ no AkJSuWK, (.OOK-S /l WOmOEr] £ALIIU6 V * FoCJ CAtt.4 AGaiM / 0M- \ liSTCeJS OUT Of 1 VNMEBI: / { AWittlCH, A LITTLE MIJCY / MOKE yHIIsIDOVAJ ,S / | I Fo '* q- _ c ! r\ COM- R " luva\ I I've Mev/est wears - i HERC tv& BeeN " f CAN ij Tiuiiirc 1 MtW# I Uftoc N \ TR6ATGD hbr r \ BOOT • FLOOR I U^-P e R 1 A PACIMS ( SM6 T 56eJT| _ 1 <3I<SKT- / HOO \ I AN HOUR I > T 4 ANP \ S O / AN p \ . OE6M MU* T MewTAL \ RBR- IM ( HOO J V , A UiONDER Otfer the Mv p&)VIUU Snakes, say the state zoologist, are j a valuable asset as rodent destroyers, i which ruin crops at a percentage of) $5 for each citizen. At the same tltnej there are only seventeen of the many! vaiieties of snakes in America thatj are poisonous, and none of them willl attack a human being except in self defense. Long live the rattler! "Chauvinism" pronounced sho viu-isni—is originally a French term, derived from the name of Nicholas Chauvin, a soldier in the army of Napoleon, noted for his unreasoning patriotism. Hence the term came to] be applied to anyone exhibiting blind, and unreasoning "patriotism." The; American and English equivalent of! the word is "jingoism." The bill compelling the reading of j the Bible each day in the public schools of the whole state of Mary-| land has been advanced to third; reading in the House, and a test vote! indicates that it will pass, the vote: being 57-36. , "I. Lang, the well-known fur rier of Altoona. met with an accident on Catfish Ridge yesterday, plunging; his new "8" tourfng car into a fence." Better try the Sunflsh Ridge next time, old boy. "Do you really go to church every Sunday morning to pray?" "Well, i to watch and pray." Playwrights have their troubles, j "You'll have to compose a small part for Tottie Pinktights," ordered the manager. "I promised it to her." "O Fudge!" howled the author. "Just the line," agreed the manager. "Short, and about all she can man age." Abolish All That Is German [Editor and Publisher] In his address to the Town Coun cil of Aachen, a few days ago, the German Kaiser is reported to have said: "I believe it is now time to abolish all that is foreign. We must cease to talk French." If Germany had a considerable population of English-speaking peo ple, some of them born in Germany, others naturalized citizens, and still others openly hostile to the German Government, and war aims and re taining their national allegiance abroad — And if there had grown up in Germany an English-language press, catering to all of these ele ments, preaching either a divided loyalty or frank opposition to Ger manism— And if the publishers of these newspapers should contend to the Kaiser that they were performing a service to the "Fatherland" through catering to the people living within his empire who had no use for the German language— The Kaiser would not be likely to enthuse over the proposition, do you think? If "it is now time" for Germany "to abolish all that is foreign," as the Kaiser says, it 1* surely time for us to abolish all that is German. It Is time for us to accord to German language newspapers the same sort of treatment which would be ac corded in Germany to English-lan guage newspapers. THE PRUSSIAN SWORD By Kenneth L. Roberts. "Answer Wilson with the sword!" —Koelnische Volks-Zeitung. What is the Prussian sword? A flaming blade That leaps untarnished from Its Jew eled sheath And strikes for truth, and honor's laurel wreath— A glorloiis weanon, strong and un afraid ! Ah no! The Prussian sword is but a name For tactic® foul and agencies ob scene: ■"For poison gas and ruthless sub marine! For cowards' blows and deeds of burning shame; For nurses smitten down at Mercy's post; Polluted wells and sunken Red Cross ships. And food snatched out of starving children's lips. And crimes that hell would hesitate to boast! The Prussian sword is treachery and lust: God grant that it be trampled in the dust Bottling U-Boats Big Feat of War THE following is an extract from a private letter received by a British naval attache located in New York from a brother officer in the service: "Great excitement has prevailed I over that show the other night, j Kvery one in it was simply delighted over it. and say it was a huge suc cess. They were prepared to lose as many men again as they did, so the casualties were not heavy. Any way, when you think that those men stormed the land guns and landed and fought 'he Huns, it is only natural that a good many could not get back. "The Vindictive was tied up along side the Mole for one hour and for ty-five minutes, during which time she was being heavily shelled. You can imagine what she looks like now. Herbert's was the boat that towed the submarine alongside the Mole and which blew the Mole up. All the men got away safely. Most of them were wounded from ma chine gun fire. Some of the escapes were simply wonderful and some of the stories of the things the men did make one's hair stand on end. Their bravery is beyond belief. "They say 'tis a huge success. It ought to make a great change in the food in a few months' time. Photographs from airplanes show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BEER AND COAL To the Editor of the Telegraph: I wish respectfully to call your attention to the fact that you forgot to put the brewers and saloonkoep ers at the head of the useless em ployment list. It is Germany's prin ciple to abuse women and children. Thousands of us are proud of Old Glory and the principle o'er which it floats. We don't want German prin ciple mixed in with it. Tear out those kettles and make respectable workf out of the building. Clean out the! saloons so when coal is scarce othijr places there is no rendezvous fori husbands to so when their wives i and children are freezing. Give those poor wives and babies the coal to burn that the brewers consume. With a soul of patriotism for true principle. MRS. E. B. SCHLOSSER. HER FIRST SILK DRESS Arthur Brisbane, the famous edi torial writer, says in the June Amer ican Magazine: J "The Editor every day must an swer the question, 'What interests people?' or he must fail. "The question can be answered In thousands of ways. "This story is told of Cyrus H. K. Curtis: In days when he paid close attenflon to his magazines, before he became publisher of the 'ledger,' Mr. Curtis saw on his desk a picture of Miss Alice Roosevelt as a very young girl. The line under it read 'Miss Alice Roosevelt." "That did not satisfy Mr. Curtis. It was not sufficiently interesting to the millions of women reading that particular publication. He added ilve words: 'in her first sill* dress.' "The line read then, 'Miss Alice Roosevelt In her first silk dress.' "Young women and girls looked at the picture with sympathetic inter est. older women studied it with memories of other years. "Those five words in that particu lar edition of the Curtis publication were worth a good many hundred dollars for each word. "Needless to say, it was Miss Alice Roosevelt's first silk dress, other wise the Curtis passion for accuracy would have forbidden the addition al five words." TURKISH, YET GENTLE (E. Nelson Fell in Asia) Wben the Boliheviki threw Russia into the scrapheap they certainly had no thought for the Kirghiz and kindred races; perhaps they had never heard of them; probably very few people are thinking of them now. But they are there; millions of them, and their condition la very precarious. It la sad to think of this happy, gentle people thrown in to the .seething struggle and, unless re-fortified Russia or Great Britain comes to their rescue, it is hard to see what they can do to save their existence, except to fall into the hands of Germany, who will protect | how perfectly everything was car ried out, and that they did exactly what they set out to do, in the way of blocking the entrances, etc. It really is considered one of the feats of the war, and down here every one is frightfully 'bucked' over it. "I went into Dover with Herbert the next ilay and we were taken to see the Vindictive. No one can con ceive what it looks like. I could not describe it. Of course it was absolutely untouched below the waterHne, but from there up, there seems very little of it left. The decks are ripped up and the place is like iacework, with machine gun bullets and hits —how anyone ever lived for one second on it is beyond belief. It seems so wonderful to think that Captain Carpenter, after fighting on the Mole one hour and forty-five minutes, calmly went on board again and steamed her back to Dover. "I believe they never expected to see any of the destroyer people back again. The admiral was quite excit ed when Herbert went in to see him after it all, as he said he thought he had said "Good-by" to him. "Of course, the Huns are making out that nothing has been done, but the photographs which Herbert saw yesterday prove that story to be an absolute lie." ■ ! them as she is protecting Belgium I to-day. Whatever faults the Im perial regime had, it cannot be de nied that the Turanian races were happy under its paternal indolence. Tts yoke was easy and its burden light. Its fall was a calamity for the Kirghiz. SAM AND 1 I met Sam Brown, a friend of mine. And took him home with me to dine. We talked at length of this and that, As friends will do in random chat. Sam says to me, "How comes it, Joe, You're not arrayed agin the foe?" And I replied with rising heat, "Flat feet." The talk veered 'round to safer ground, We spoke of Sammies kaiser bound. • They'll git him, too," says Sam to me, His fat sides shakin' in his glee. "Well, Sam," says I, "Why ain't you in? I thought you would be, sure as sin." He sighed and rubbed his shining pate, "Over weight." Flat feet and over weight, indeed. We both had long since gone to seed, But each, in vanity, ignored The real cause —in our conscience stored — Of why we'd failed to qualify To "tote" a gun or learn to fly Along with younger men enrolled, "Too old." The night wore on. The fire was low. 'Twas gittln' time for Sam to go, When "Sam," say* I, "let's jine the ranks Of those who serve with scanty thanks. We both can do our bit at home k As well as those across the foam. Let's you and me help pay the price, "In sacrifice." "Let's bind the wounds the guns have wrought, , Ry plankin' down our last 10-spot. For some must work as well as fight, To win for freedom and the right. And, every nurse we send to France, Will give the boys a better chance. Let but one thought our hearts engross, "Re 4 Cross." Now Sam and me work side by side, To check that rising crimson tide. And on Picardy's shell swept plain We strive to hush the cries of pain. No matter if the gruesome fray Is some three thousand miles away, Old Sam and me we pitch right in "And grin." God help the cause, God help the men Who fight that right shall live again. God bless the noble Red Cross nurse, God bless the man with ready purse. Get out upon the working line And let your latent talents shine. What if we fill a pauper's grave? What if we suffer, starve and slave? If but a single boy wa save, "Git busy!" —Will Ferrell. LABOR NOTES Immigration to the United States last year totaled 40Q.000, a decrease of a million under 1916. Farmerettes are likely to provide a partial solution of the farm labor shortage in Canada. A bill signed at Albany prohibits the employment of girls under 21 as messengers in large cities. Krupps' German gun and munition factory employs over 125,000 work ers, of whom 30,000 are women. Two municipal butcher shops have been opened in Paris. Meat will be sold without bone and prices fixed weekly. Pennsylvania teachers are urging that teachers who reach the age of 62 years should be retired on annu ities. The Farmers' Union of Gloucester shire, England, will run a farmers' candidate for the Cirencester and Tewkesbury division. Jesse Martin, an 83-year-old farm worker of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, England, has twenty-one children and 100 grandchildren. ' OUR DAILY LAUGH gjgn ANYTHING BUT THAT. Mrs. Fussbody—lf I don't get a letter from you every day I'll feel so lonely I'll come right back home. Hubby—Never fear. I'll write t.wire's d.v*" A PATRIOT. "What Is a patriot?" "A patriot Is one who does all that he can for his country without ex pecting the other fellow to do more than he can." TABLE SCENE. "I kicked to the landlady about my helping of chicken and today 1 didn't geit any portion." "Ah, I see! It was neck or noth ing!" • WHEN DADDT HAS THE DOUGH "Singular tjng about eelf-mad* men." "What'a that?" "They seldom have daughters car* for self-made gowna." lEbettittg (Eljal Realization on the part of numer ous Dauphin county property own ers, especially farmers, that the in surance policies they have carried on buildings and contents no longer call for amounts which would afford them protection against loss or re placements costs because the ad vance in the price of materials has resulted in more business for fire In surance people than known at this season for a long time. People living in the towns had been watching the advance in cost of materials and had kept their policies In shape, lSft somo public institutions have been forced to increase the amount of their insurance while corporations have been taking precaution# amounting to many thousands of dollars in the same way in the Har risburg districts. The situation ap pears to have struck many of the farmers in Dauphin and Cumberland counties rather suddenly because they have been making many inquir ies the last few days. The farmers in this section are insured in the mu tual companies to a considerable ex lent and there appears to be a gen eral disposition to increase the amounts carried so that there will •be no danger of severe loss in event of tire. Another interesting side light is that there has been a marked increase in number of purchases of lightning rods in rural districts lately. Status of Harrisburg dogs and dogs belonging to Steelton and other boroughs and Susquehanna and Swatara townships is a subject which is commencing to interest constables and may get to the county* authori ties for determination. Constables in the townships claim ttiat there are dogs owned in Harrisburg which have not been licensed and which the city authorities have not been taking up. They blame these dogs for trouble in the farming districts. Unlicensed dogs have also turned up in boroughs which, it is claimed, are owned in Harrisburg. The question of how to give notice to Harrisburg owners in event that dogs are caught in townships without licenses is a mooted one. Reorganization of the Harrisburg Reserves, the State Capital's home defense organization, .which has been proceeding under Major Henry M. Stine, will be completed in a short time. Two companies have been formed under command of Captains F. H. Hoy, Jr., and L. V. Harvey, and they are being recruited from former members of the Reserves, while a number of men who served with Ma jor Stine and a "shotgun" squad with the National Guard and vet erans of the city's infantry and cav alry companies have joined. These men are proving valuable in tho training of the two units and the full strength of the companies is almost attained. The Reserves are uni formed with gray shirts and hats and plans are being made to add to this equipment. Their appearance in the Italian war anniversary parade elic ited very favorable comment. The Reserves have been specializing in street work and riot duty under Ma jor Stine and a "shot gun" squad has been organized, composed of men in the organization who are thoroughly familiar with shot guns, including some who are experts. A number of the Reserves are members of the Harrisburg Rifle Club and handy at the targets. Capitol Hill officials have short ened up the historic "ICeep Oft the Grass" signs which have ornament*! the trees in Capitol Park and been a feature of the line of the old "Boardwalk" for forty years. In lay ing out the ground in the Capitol Park Extension some plots were given a dressing of top soil and seeded, one of them being at a prom inent corner. Instead of signs order ing or warning people to stay off the growing grass the four corners bear I signs painted in the Capitol work shop and bearing Just the word "Please." The grass has not been disturbed. • • • Alexander Simpson, who sits for the first time to-day as a Justice of the state's highest court, is well known here as he has frequently ap peared at hearings at the Capitol and in the Dauphin county court. He succeeds Justice W. P. Potter, who was law partner of William A. Stone, .who named him. Justice Simpson is the first Justice to assume his seat here in a long time. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Henry K. Boyer, former State Treasurer, is again actively directing the Montgomery county fuel and food administration work. —John Crooks, well-known min ing engineer, will direct the Pardee mines. —The Rev. Isaac T. Williams has been elected head of the Congrega tional denomination meetings in this state. —The Rev. J. A. Maxwell, Wll liamsport minister, will assume a charge in Chester. —Hugo It. Thomas becomes su perintendent of Johnstown city parks. DO YOU KNOW —That pun carriage steel made in llarriHburg is on the firing Une In Europe? HISTORIC IIAftKI Sit I'KG The first state arsenal was estab lished here soon after the Capitol was built. He Couldn't Get a Drink Prohibition is going to do many things. It will probably stop many men from going through experi ences such as this one. This is an extract from the June American Magazine, in which a man says: " "Night after night I'd wake up about three o'clock, nervous. No whisky in the room for a bracer, because a man when he's drunk has no heed for the morrow. I couldn't get any outside, all the saloons closed; I knew that. I'd lie star ing up at the ceiling in positive agony, physical and mental. " 'When I could neither get drink nor any other kind of solace, I ust#| to go mad. Once I was in the coun try with a friend. I'd been on a prolonged debauch. There was no liquor in the house. We'd drunk up everything the night before, I start ed out alone, early iri the morning, and walked along the main street. Presently I came to a country road. I kept on walking, straight ahead. 'I had no money. I walked all day. I didn't know where. I didn't care. I Just wanted to go on and on, keep moving, trying to get away from the devil that I knew was fol lowing me. I felt him at my heels, and I didn't dare turn. Now and then I would stop at a farm and get a drink of water."
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