6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A S&WSFAPER FOR THS HOUR Founiti lis' Published evenings except Sunday br THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building, Federal Mau*. E.J. STACK POLE,Pr#j'l & BdUortnCkitf F. R. OTSTER. Btuintu Uanatrr. 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 i and also the local news published ? herein. ' All rights of republication of special | dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American & Newspaper Pub- I lishers' Assocla latlon and Penn- Ea st ern Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cent* a week; by mall. IS.OO ™ a year In advance, SATURDAY, JCVE 1, 1918 To try things oft, and never to give over, doth tconders. — BACON. THE "BOOZE BUGABOO" THE eld plavedout '"Booze Buga boo" is being poked up again < year in an effort to frighten political leaders and candi dates into compliance with the 'wishes of the liquor Interests. But the "Booze Bugaboo" has lost its power to scare. Its graveyard clothes are tattered and scant and the hand that waves It in the faces of those to be terrorized by its dreadful ap , pearance is plainly discernable through .the frayed fabric of its flimsy structure. There never was a more cold blooded band of buccaneers than the men who used to throw a scare into the political leaders of all parties in Pennsylvania eafh year by declaring that "if you don't support our business we will throw the whole liquor vote against you and your candidates," and then in a tone de signed to imply pertain defeat—"you know what that means." And the Btrange part of It was that they used to get away with it. Politicians ac tually catered to the wishes of the men supposed to control the "liquor whatever that may have mant. The whiskey crowd reward ed them after the manner of the Germans In Russia —turned non partisan at the polls and worked for • -the election of purely liquor can didates. The liquor lobby never has cared for anything but itself; it has been overrated for years, and It is weaker at this moment than ever before. The whiskey crowd takes credit for nominating Bonniwell. Nothing bf the sort. Bonniwell's nomination was not so much an endorsement of a "wet" candidate as a protest against intolerable dictatorship by the Palmer-McCormlck faction within the Democratic party. But granted the liquor element did use its best efforts for the Philadelphia judge, what does that prove in face of the fact that Senator Sproul, a distinctly "dry" candidate, received five times as many votes as Bonnl ' well? The "Booze Bugaboo" is being waved again before the Republican v organization just as it is before that of the Democrats. But it no longer ' gives anybody the shivers. It has be come about as frightful as a last year's scarecrow to a flock of wise old crows. ONE OF A THOUSAND HAVE you noticed that the Americans at Cantigny didn't wait for the expected German attack? Instead, they let the Germans prepare and then played the "low down" trick of themselves taking the offensive—with disastrous results for the Germans. And have you noted that the Americans have retained Cantigny despite all the enemy's counterat tacks? After a while there will be a thou sand Cantigny's and the power of [ . the Kaiser will have been smashed. Keep your eyes on the boys of the T r nited States. Disloyal citizens who continue to weaken the fabric of American pa ' triotism by circulating impossible lies and lessening the morale of the • people by suggestions of failure in our {forces abroad, are going to learn, 'without much delay, that they are traitors to their country and deserve mighty little consideration at the hands of the authorities. Uncle Sam has been patient to the last degree in dealing with this class of individuals, and drastic methods must be intro duced to free the country of German propaganda of this sort. NOT PBACTICAL ENOUGH? SAMUEL REA left school forty eight years ago and began to earn his ltving-as a minor em ploye In the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He worked up through various positions until, five years ago, he became pres ident of the road, a post in which he has been continued by the confi dence of the more than 100,000 Stockholders who own the property and in which he has had the re- SATURDAY EVENING, spect and co-operation of the thou sands of employes who have made the Pennsylvania the premier rail road of the world. He is now summarily - removed from his position as operating .head of his railroad by order of Director General McAdoo, who has given no reason for his drastic course. Mr. Rea is one of the best railroad operators In the United States, or in the world for that matter. He particularly knows his own railroad system—knows It. as one great rail road president in New England once said of the road which he managed, "as a man knows his bedroom In the dark." Yet his road, his stockholders — the country, even—are suddenly and without warning deprived of his services. It Is intended, maybe, to demonstrate Mr. McAdoo's power. Let us hope it will not also demon strate his folly. With a total vote of three to one over the Democratic candidates in the primary election, the Republican nominees for the Legislature In this county have nothing to lose and everything to gain in a prompt dec laration in favor of the proposed pro hibition amendment. Most of the Re publican nominees for the House in this section of Pennsylvania have al ready pledged themselves to vote tor the amendment in the event of their election, and the Dauphin county candidates should rally to the ban ner of Senator Sproul, the_ party stan dard-bearer. who declared months ago the time had come to eliminate the liquor question as a political issue. NO NORTH, NO SOUTH PENNSYLVANIA soldiers at Augusta, Ga., have conquered the hearts of the southerners and have completed the conquest of love begun when Georgia veterans some years ago were lavishly enter tained by this Commonwealth upon the occasion of the fiftieth anniver sary of the Battleof Gettysburg. At that Pennsylvania people re ceded with open arms the gray clad men who once invaded the State by fotce of arms and came wlthlu a stne's throw of the capital as well. And now Georgia returns the com pliment in kind by paying tribu'.e to the character and patriotism of the Pennsylvania division which is moving out from there to take its place along the fighting front in France. The high regard Augusta people have for the Pennsylvania lads is shown by newspaper comment. Speaking of the Memorial Day cele* bration there the Chronicle says: Memorial Day Is always a great occasion in Augusta, but the gen eral opinion is that this last oc casion was the greatest celebra tion of Memorial Day that has ever been held in this city. It was not only a most impressive sight, but it was a most signifi cant one, to see four thousand young Pennsylvania soldiers marching in parade in honor of the Confederate dead. To see the boys of the Keystone division sa luting the faded Confederate flag and tJie Confederate monument was calculated to arouse the deep est feeling in the heart of every southerner, for it proved beyond the power or words to express that at last we are a united coun try a country with no sec tional feeling, no North, no South. East or West, but a nation melt ed in the fires of a common peril and a common purpose, into one great country. The courtesy of the Pennsvlyanians in turning out in such numbers and march ing thirteen miles in a Confeder ate parade, was certainly some thing to be appreciated, and noth ing could have so demonstrated the appreciation felt by the Penn sylvanians of the hospitality they have received here. Now that is pretty reading, but ?t I*3 not *ll. The confederate veterans themselves and the few remainirs "unreconstrifcted rebels" also have cipitulated to the Keystone boys'ln khaki. Continuing its account the iChronnle says: Speaking of familiar faces and speaking of striking features of the parade, what was so striking in the entire line of march as the sight of the familiar form of Miss Mary Hall in her Confederate uni form so well-known by the Augusta public that has*a'iways seen Miss Mary whenever the old veterans appear In public—but this time Miss Mary was walk ing between two khaki-clad sol diers of the Keystone division! Whoever would have thought to see Miss Mary leading a Mem orial Day parade with two north ern soldiers! Miss Mary has al ways boasted of being the most "unreconstructed rebel" in the South, and has never ceased to wear a Confederate flag since the last days of the Civil War. She has always led the procession, proudly escorted bv two old vet erans. but yesterday she walked between two young soldiers from the 28th Division and the public cheered and applauded wherever she appeared. Nothing on earth could have been .such an object lesson of the truth that this nation has for ever forgotten its differences, that th> grass has grown over the old battlefields and the white flower of peace blooms over th"e land. It also suggested tbe way this war against Oermsnv has brought to gether the manhood and woman hood of the nation, has united age and youth in a common cause. It was an object lesson all around and one that made a picture that will never be forgotten. And the old soldiers of the con federacy added their mede of thanks and appreciation in these words: We desire to express our thanks and appreciation to the Pennsyl vania troops at Camp Hancock for uniting with us in the parade on Memorial Day, anil In making the occasion th* most successful and memorable day we have ever experienced in decorating the graves of our Confederate dead. No words can express our grate ful appreciation of the honor con ferred upon us. It will be a day long remembered by every Con federate veteran and citizen of Augusta when the old men in gray marched down Broad street, es corted by the Pennsylvania troops. This is a striking instance, and proof that we are a united nation, with every section working to gether for our country. We con gratulate the State of Pennsylva nia for having -:uch fine troops as we had amongst us. and we re gret that they are going to leave us. We will ever remember all of them and their stay at Camp Han cock. May God bless them and take care of them. It ts easy for the winning side to foigive and forget We in the nor'h bold no grudge against the south. The war was over with the tiring of the last shot. The Mason and Dixon 11-ie has come to mean only the piare where the good roads of Mary, land begin, and Augusta is a lovely c"v that has made life pleasant for thousands of our soldier 'joy-j. Hut the south had wounds *o heal and scars to hide and none too kindlv remembrance of the visitations of northern troops. The south has had the harder part. But slowly wo ore ail coming to understand that both sides won In the Civil War; that the result was a victory for all Americans and we may -ount It a blessing of the present conflict that our northern boys having had their part In cementing new friend ships with the people of the south and binding us all together more closely as one great, invincible na tion. Senator Beidlemaa's large primary vote u an j nd „ of th# b)g maJorlty which awaits him in November. As a former President pro tem. of the Sen ate. the Senator will have little to learn when he comes to preside in the same body as Lieutenant Governor next winter. The up-state buckwheat crop Is re ported to be above the average; and now we await with anxiety only to hear about the sausage production. If Doc Garfield could only bottle up a little of this heat for distribu tion next winter, all would .be for given. ""poltitc* Lk "PtHrKOiiCaanZa By the Committer m TT People at the State Capitol appear | to have turned a very cold shoulder j to the National party whose leaders j held a conference at one of the lio , tels here on Memorial Day when 1 everyone else was otherwise engag ; ed. O'Neil men declare that they have no idea that their favorite would take up with the National party even if he decided to run Inde pendently as is most unlikely; the Prohibition state chairman asserts that his party is not aligned with the new organization and other men say that it has no standing in the coming election because it does not even have the right to the name. Friends of Gifford Pinchot say he would not listen to any proposal that he be a candidate for. governor. The National party seems to be chiefly a number of people who are trying to start something and have picked a bad ygar. H. A. Bomberger and H. S. BomDerger, two of the men identilled with the recent confer ence have figured in various crusadas in the last few years. Last year they had a meeting, but not much came of it. —Capitol Hill has become wonder fully quiet since the primary and as the state* administration does not deem it polite to refer to the result, people connected with the depart ments take it as a cue to be regular, and the Sproul-Beidleman-Wood-' ward ticket has a very strong fol-' lowing in the big gray State House. I The administration has given up the i idea of cleaning house and the feari and trembling of a few weeks ago! have given way to straight party talk. Fear that any removals would make martyrs and jeopardise present placeholders who are friends of the Governor caused this change of plans. It is certain, however, that some of the men who were strenu ous for O'Neil will have trouble in January. —Mr. O'Neil is expected to make a statement soon and the idea is that it will refer very much to the legis lative situation and probably enun ciate some of the views the late can didate is known to hold regarding prohibitory legislation in advance of the amendment. Mr. O'Neil was cha grined at the showing made for him in some counties, but intends to keep \ himself in the public eye as much as j possible. —The Philadelphia North Ameri-j can to-day says: "If the National i party operates in Pennsylvania it \ will have to get a new name, as the j "National Party" title has been pre- ! empted by the Beidleman organiza- i tion in Dauphin county. Doctor! Prugh said that the Prohibition party! had no relation with the'conference, I and that he did not know that it was being held to prepare a state; ticket. Chairman Coates was unable | to interest any of the backers of; Highway Commissioner J.' Denny ! O'Neil in his party. They made it 1 plain that the defeat of O'Neil at | the primaries was sufficient, and that: they dot not intend to try to finance ! another state campaign. While; O'Neil's ambitions to be the next j governor have been shattered, he j will have his name on the ballot un- ] less he resigns. He received the i [Washington party nomination, stray; votes having been cast for him in : almost every county." —Expense accounts of candidates for state-wide nominations in the primary of May 21 are commencing to arrive at the State Capitol and with them are a number from aspi rants for district nominations who do not appear to understand that they must file with their county au thorities. W. S. Aaron, candidate for Congress-at-Large. accounted for $1,104.67, of which SI,OOO was given to the O'Neil campaign fund. T. H. Atherton certified to expenditure of $850.07; Fred E. Lewis to $112.97; Lex N. Mitchell to $471.79. Stephen H. Huselton sent an affidavit that he spent less than SSO as did G. P. Aarons and G. R. Bateson, candidates for Republicah nomination for lieu tenant governor; J. Washington Lo gue, F. E. Whlttelsey and Cora M. Bixier, the latter candidate for So cialist nomination for Congress-at- Large. The time for filing expense accounts expires on June 5. —lt is probable that the State De partment will arrange for the first drawing of ties between candidates for leeislatlve nominations on Fri day of next'week. There are quite a number due to the scattering vote. —Judging from what the Philadel phia Record says the Palmer-Mc- Cormick leaders have made up their minds to accept Judge Bonniwell and all he stands for. The judge is going to run the machine and the reorgan izes will step down from the seat because the voters have told them to do so. They will surrender the state headquarters and do everything they forced GufTey and Dewalt to do six or seven years ago. —The expected clash in police management in Philadelphia seems to have arrived and an order of Superintendent Wilson for transfer of a police lieutenant has been torn up by Superintendent Mills. Mayor Smith has refused to stand for sal ary Increases and there is little com fort anywhere. —lt is said that Bowman and Rhen, who lost out for the Repub lican legislative nominations in Leb anon, will run independently. —According to Pittsburgh news papers the friends of Col. J. M.'Guf fey are making no bones about the way they mean to run it In on Joseph F. Gultey and the reorganixers who threw out the colonel some years ago. j ; . RARRISBURG QAHfe TELEGRAPH ■'- l ' ' ■ 1 MOVIE OF A MAN THE DAY BEFORE HE PLAYS GBRI TELLI IAJITC ME HA I ONJ ATTRACTBO IOWWAMO DL -S CO S-S EI MT R ' T _ 5 To MusTi.e Tb oFFice "BY VOIooo\*J TRIES M6\* CLUO. £ , . OKI ACCOOWT OF LOT 3 or- FLOLF TMIXFTS FL\JYS T- <3oLF T3AL.LS Of WORK AKID PL*YIN* Goes Tb OFFice fYtOWB* MAIsJ WITH WHOM GOLF CUJS OeLIVCRetJ. HS EXPECTS To PLAV. * < SUNU&S n AP*RARO6ES MB6TIM6 TIMO VTOLEMTT-Y VJF AMD. AU-SO DI3CuSSEi - AWO BOUMCES LOEVU CAH.& MEDITATES OIVJ GOES HOME EARLY no ORDER GOLF BAU_ ~ ENAC.E CA&DIES AMQ "POSSIBLE TO 6E T '*■> FCW PRACTICE- C Colonel Roosevelt Says "When you go to war you want to go to war. Don't hit a man if you can honestly avoid it: but when you hit him. put him to sleep. I ask for preparedness, not so that we can go to war, but so we may keep out of it. I hope to see a system of uni versal military training for our young men. Americanism and pre paredness are the immediate lessons of to-day. Stand back of the men at the front. Any Old Objective Military opinion differs as to whether the Germans are trying for Paris this time or mean to make their real strike at another objective. Inasmuch as the Crown Prince is in command of the attacking armies, we venture the guess that anything gained anywhere in the attack will prove to be the objective aimed at. —Kansas City Times. Pacifist Logic Triumphs A young man in Kentucky who was opposed to the draft has killed three men to signify his disapproval of the war and in resisting induction into the Army. Particulars are lack ing. but we_ wonder if we may not guess the sort of mental food that produced this indigestion in his un ripe intelligence. We should say he has been read ing that this is a war of the bourgeois to exploit the producers. He probably did not know what the bourgeois was or who the producers are. but these are words having a great vogue just now. and. having been introduced by the horn spec tacled non-producers chiefly engaged in seeking martyrdom and publicity, have great weight with his kind.— Kansas City Star MR. KITCHIX'S~TEUPER [New York Times] Representative Kitchln did not ! want the country to go to war with i Germany, and whenever since then ' he has approached a piece of legis ; tion it has always been in the spirit, "Well, you would shave it, and now ! I'm going to make it just as un- I comfortable for you as I can." He ' seems to speak in this spirit whether |he addressing himself to the news- I papers, to the people, or to the j President of the United States. The ' speech with which he introduced his | last war tax bill might be summar \ ized as follows: "You've got your | war, confound you, and now look at the way I'm going to tax you for it!" That speech was aimed at the people in general; the one he de livered on Tuesday was aimed chiefly at the President of the United States. It, in turn, might be summarized as follows: "The president makes us stay here when I wanted to go home. Well, all right, but see *vhat kind of tax bill he'll get, and see how long it will take us." "But the president of the United States, commander In chief of the larmy and navy of the United States, | has declared otherwise. * * *The House will be In session, and we will have to attend Its sessions, and are subject to rollcalls: we must attend : to departmental duties, and our cor respondence Is three or four times as ' large when the House li in session. : We cannot work as many hours if kthe whole day were given to us In this hot, intolerable summer weather of Washington." And so on. Whatever subject Mr. Kitchen takes up. he always speaks in the same tone, a tone of queru lous protest, the protest of the balky horse forced to the trough and de termined to spill as much water as , possible over the driver, and make him perspire as much as' possible over the Job. • • He tells his hearers that the Secretary of the Treasury was scared — "unduly alarmed" is his expression—by lob byists, and plainly intimates that the secretary in turn scared the presi dent into making his demand that Congress shall so act as to enable the people who are to pay the 'taxes to know what taxes they are to pay. Now, If these mean Insinuations against the president of the United States stood alone, one might be tempted to suspect that Mr. Kitchln's health had been affected ahead of time by that "hot, intoler able summer weather" which he dreads so much. But they are quite in harmony with all Mr. Kitchln's speeches: they reflect an unhappy, disgruntled, querulous spirit, which has been made manifest In all the things he has said since he was forced into supporting a war he dis approved. They are merely a step in advance of the other things he has said, • taken probably because the other things did not call down upon him that thunderous rebuke from public sentiment which this one undoubtedly will. Mr. Kitchln's attitude has been from the first not exactly that of a child who says. •Til play if you make me, but I'll make you sorry." ANOT HER PUZZLE From the Literary Digest HOW the apple got Into the i dumpling was always a mys tery to that thoroughgoing old German, George 111, who was re sponsible for the little unpleasant ness which occurred between our selves and our British cousins in 1776. That monarch would be still more puzzled had he seen American troops marching through London to be reviewed by George V. Yet this has happened, and to-day America is closer to England than she has ever been at any previous period in her existence. This moves the Lon don Times—for the first time during the war—to express sentimenta of gratitude to Wilhelm von Hohenzol lern for what he has done to draw the nations more closely together: "The Kaiser and his advisers brought together English-speaking peoples more closely and more rap idly than the fondest dreamers after more intimate relations between them had dared to hope. That, as we ventured to point out when the President called upon Congress to declare that Germany had made war upon the Republic, is an immense event in the history of the Old World and of the New—the greatest that has happened, except the war itself, since the French revolution. It is having and will have compfex and far-reaching consequences both for the British empire and for the Unit ed States in many spheres of thought and of activity. Its military results upon the great conflict between militarism and democracy promise to turn the scale decisively when once the Republic has placed her armies in the field. '• • • lesson for England and America Is plain, and there is abundant proof that both under stand it. We have to stick it out and the Americans have to hurry up, and they are hurrying up splendidly. "Not one peace note has been heard in Congress. The only criti cisms breathed against the govern ment consist of plaints that it does not get on fast enough with the war. That is the right temper for both sides of the Atlantic." HORIZON BLUE [From Collier's Weekly] The swelling roar of cheers out side made the Little Man drop a paper weight on his ledger leaves and bolt to the nearest window. Down the street came the guard of honor, mounted police preceding some sunburnt regulars from our Mexican border, and behind them swung a half company of real French poilus, the sort that turned back the Boche from Verdun and the Ohemin des Dames. Short, quick stepping, steel built men of France they were, with keen dark faces under the lop ping tam-o-shanter headgear of the Corps Alpin, rolling along with their Noah's Ark packs and bayonets set for action. The cheering pdu ally seemed to shove the buildings back from the street Long ago the Forum must have welcomed thus the legionaries who had saved Ro man civilization from the barbarian in those bitter struggles through Gaul and Dacia. Every man's sleeves showed the stripes that meant wounds, and his breast the decorations that meant valor. "They did make one feel so old and useless and out of it." as the Little Man told his wife next morn ing. So he ground out the day's work with his teeth set hard, bought some more thrift stamps, took the first car for home, spent the rest of the daylight hours in caring for his beans, potatoes and cabbage, got through a war fare dinner, and put in the evening selling SBOO worth of Mr. McAdoo's pet bonds to some boss metal workers whom he h&d met in the lodge last winter. Getting home at 10:50 p. m., he routed out that 1917 model straw hat, cleaned it up for another campaign, and some time later fell Into bed as -it it had been a dugout "If this gets much worse. I'll learn to knit," was his last waking thought, "and if they want to keep me out of this war, they'll have to put bolts on it" The Better World What lightens labor, sanctifies toil and makes a man good and strong, wise and patient, Just and benevo lent. both lowly and great, as well as worthy of Intelligence and free dom, is the perpetual vision before him of a better world beaming through life's shadows. Victor Hugo. The same note of "reunion" is struck by the London Daily Tele graph, which says: "The march through London of American troops with the compli ments paid to King George on the one hand and the splendidly enthusi astic welcome given to the troops by the people of London on the other, signalizes a final wiping out of the old prejudices, an extinction of a lingering memory of old quarrels, a reunion of hearts among English speaking peoples in the service of the most just and most compelling cause that ever ennobled the pursuit of victory. Nothing can ever be the same again as between the British peoples and the great nation which owns common ancestry, tradition, and speech with them. For the first time thoy feel and think and act alike and offer together a supreme sacrifice. It is Indeed a great mo ment in history which sees the flag of Washington borne through Lon don by armed defenders of the honor of the United States in token of friendship and alliance." Turning to practical questions, the London Daily Mail says: "America has had immense and unlooked-for difficulties to contend with. She hasn't overcome all of them, but is fast getting the better of them. There is very much to be done before America's weight is fully felt, but the people of the United States are sparing nothing that will enable them to do it." Writing in his organ, the London British Weekly, Sir William Robert son Nicoll says: "What we need supremely from the United States is food and men. The food is being supplied in a com forting degree, and has done much to relieve the situation. As for men. we want them now. We do not ask that they shall be trained first in America. They are more quickly trained in France, where the actu alities of fighting' are. Nor do we ask that they should be equipped. France and Britain between them can arm, we believe, two million [American soldiers, besides providing for the needs of their own." LABOR NOTES Wage increases and a signed agreement for its members employed In sausage making have been secur ed by Frisco Butchers' Union. In addressing local labor men in Ottawa, Mr. Gompers advised against the formation of a Canadian labor party, holding that the workers should be free to vote for whom they pleased. Street car men of London, Ontario, who are seeking an increase In wages, have decided to accept arbi tration. Thev want an increase in wages from 10 to 12 cents, with im proved conditions. At a labor meeting at Athlone, in Ireland, it was resolved to oppose in dustrial as well as military conscrip tion. Women workers pledged them selves to undertake no work pre viously done by men. Officers of the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' International Alliance report that forty local unions have been chartered within the last sixty days. Of this number twenty-two are railroad shopmen. Government control of factories i and output and concurrently there with conscription and allotment of labor are advocated in a report of a special committee of the British Co lumbia Manufacturers' Association. The MassachuseUs House of Rep resentatives has passed a bill au thorizing cities and towns to provide the common necessaries of life and shelter during the time of war, pub lic exigency, emergency or distress. Painters decorators and paper hangers. of Winnipeg, Canada, have reached an agreement with the Builders' Exchange wherebv they will get 56 cents on hour, an advance of 5 cents an hour over the old scale. French electrical works have ar ranged to employ men who have been blinded in the war to wind armatures after the system of Schuyler Wheeler of New York. It is also understood the system will be introduced In England. Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster ers' International Union has signed a five-year agreement with the Tile and Mantel Contractors' Association. Ar bitration will supplant strikes during this period. For two years wages will be $5.75 for an eight-hour day. JUNE 1, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT However, the Kaiser won't get any farther with his long-range olive branch than he got with his long range guns.—St. Joseph's News- Press. "I intend to stand by Russia as well as France." —President Wilson. Will Russia now please stand up so she can be stood by?— New York World. "All Germany may be forced to marry at nineteen."—Head-line. I always understood that marriages were made in the other place.—New York Magazine Telegraph. Is Germany still of opinion that everybody who doesn't love her and admire her can be converted by the bomb and the torch?—Lowell Cour ier-Citizen. Secretary Baker's plans for an army "without limit;" make one won der how big an army he would plan If he hadn't been raised a pacifist.— Nashville Southern Lumberman. It is understood that the aircraft division is going in for more produc tion and less prediction.—New York Sun. In Petrograd a ham costs S3OO, cheese and butter about $lO a pound, and eggs 75 cents apiece; and see how applied socialism mitigates the lot of the poor!— Wall Street Jour nal. "It is time to abolish all that is foreign," said the Kaiser. Which would include the airplane, tele graph, telephone, submarine, quick firing guns, automobile, anilin dyes, locomotives, gas- and steam-engines and about everything connected with Germany's military and industrial life, except poison-gas and treachery. —Wall Street Journal. OUR DAILY LAUGH GIVE HIM A START. C M Did she really \x \,i / call her chap- /*?/ eron when you V began kissing \ / < Yes, but her Y chaperon was a preMy good ■port. She was long time showing up. Jiirnrr, /y POOR LAUN (// v\ DRY M<^NK \\ Giraffe: What N?2w/^. i ' W y° u kickin" \\ about? The * stgn eays ' "Col lara two cents " LITERALLY. r*V, °t he any dealer. lEbnttttg Qttfat Between reductions of Items In the general appropriation bill for the running of departments of th® state government when acted upon last summer and the increase of letter postage form two to three cents pros pects are that some offl*ces on Capl tol Hill will run short of money be fore the end of this year with the appropriation year not closing until next June. In one or two of the of- flees the situation has become so serious that the proposition of ar ranging with the tlsc&l officers for transfer of funds or allowances for postage will be taken up. Since th* last legislature made up the allow a"ces business in many of the offices of the state government has Increased materially and the advance in postal rates has brought about an unexpected condition. The state government requires hundreds of stamps a day and each department Is now jealously guarding lta sup plies against any "borrowing" to help out another. It is believed that the time all of the election and other matters are handled that a deficit will be found in some departments. The najt legislature will be. asked to make an emergency appropria tion for postage when it meets next January. • • • In opinion of state officials con versant with such matters the hunt ing and Ashing under the two codes the Pennsylvania legislature of 1917 gave to the state will be satisfactory to the great majority of men who follow those forms of recreation. There was some diffi culty last fall because of unfa miliarity with the costs governing hunting, but Dr. Kalbfus, secretary of the Game commission, says that he has heard very little dissatisfac tion expressed. "As a matter of fact," said he. "I have heard much commendation for the code. It could not please everyone, but we felt that it was the best that could he worked out and it needs only a test of time. I have not heard of any moves to bring about changes." "The code is now before the fisher men and I think that it will be ap preciated. All of the laws relative to fishing have been gathered to<- gether and can be easily studied now," Is the view of Commissioner Xathan R. Buller, of the Depart ment of Fisheries. "Fishing is such a general sport that it affects many and I hope the code will be fol lowed and supported. It represents • the best that could be done after long study of the problems." • • * There has been unusual prolonga tion of the agony of men who made bets on the primary. Some of the wagers were on contests which are not yet cleared up and stakeholders aro wondering when they will be. Some of them declare that they want early information. • • • Demolition of the old State Capi tol conservatories, which have been in the Capitol park since the early nineties, will be started in a short time. Preparations are being made for the removal of the tropical plants to greenhouses where the state will have space for such as it is desired to maintain for use on formal oc casions and the others will be sold. Some of the extensive collections of bulbs will also be kept and grown In space In greenhouses, but the great bulk of the plants and bulbs | will be sold. The gardeners have set out very extensive beds this year and the Capitol park will be abloom with summer flowers. It Is figured out that the state can rent such space as It needs and buy flowers when desired at considerably less money than Is spent on the con servatories In the park, which will have to be removed anyway when the park extension improvements are begun. The greenhouses have be came landmarks to a generation, but have been discolored by soot and re cent hail storms have left their mark. • • • Dauphin county farmers say that they are not disturbed about the ac tion of the Federal government in threatening to confiscate wheat if it is held much longer because the bulk of the wheat raised in this section has been sold. "There is compara tively little wheat held about here. Even the mills do not have much" said an authority in such matters. "The farmers here saw chances to sell at good prices and being close to places where they could be quick deliveries they sold last year. The result is that this section Is pretty well cleaned out and some men are wondering about their fall sowing supply. • • • The State Game Commission will join with the State Department of Agriculture in a fair enforcement of the new dog license code. The De partment's bulletin on the dog law, which Is Interesting hunters and farmers, quotes the letter of Secre tary Kalbfus to the wardens and sportsmen explaining the attitude to take. Dr. Kalbfus says that the dog low is needed, but that it should not work a hardship on hunters, while the Agricultural Department officers say that they are after the men who do not license their ani mals and who are careless about letting them run at large. The ave rage hunter prizes his dogs too much to let them roam and It is the roam ing dog, they claim, that kills the sheep. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Clayton G. Brenneman, secretary of the Blaln county fair, says that he had found evidence of horse rac ing back In the days of William Penn. —Banking Commissioner Daniel P. l-afean has been making speeches in behalf of Thrift Stamps. —The Rev. W. P. Sherman, chap lain with the Army in France, writ ing to Bishop Hoban urges that everyone economize. —District Attorney G. W. Maxey, of Lackawanna county, is on a fraud hunt as the' result of the recent pri mary. —Frank Foust, Johnstown teach er, will go to PlttsMlrgh. —General C. M. Clement, new head of the Templars, has been affiliated with the order since boyhood. —E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia banker, will make war speeches In Cambria and other west ern counties. 1 DO YOU KNOW ] —That Harrisborg'a War Bav i lugs record Is growing better? HISTORIC HARRIS BURG Fifty years ago Harrlsburg had several savings banks. An Idle Coal Mine In a good many ways an ldl coal mine Is more disastrous than an idle American gun Just at this tlm®.