6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NBWSPAFBR POR THE HO MB Pounded lljx Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Teltgrtlh Building, Federal Square. IS. J. STACK POLE), Pre/t r BdUor-tnChirf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the u*e for republljation 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 Newspaper Pub t Ushers' Assocla- Eastern Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. jjfrwpw-. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, IE.OO a year In advance. MONDAY, JUNE 3. 1918 Merit and pood-breeding will make their way everywhere. —LOßD CHES TERFIELD. SHIPS WHILE YOU WAIT EIGHTEEN ships in one week? That surely is a record of which the country may be proud. "Just like turning out Ford cars," comments one editorial writer. Some thing of that kind, yes, or like the old lady who did nothing but knit day and night, until she became so expert she could knit in her sleep and at night used to wake up every five minutes and toss out of bed an other pair of socks. The Ukrainians are now learning the worth of German promises. Says a news dispatch; yes. and what Is more Important, so are we. PRO-PENNSYLV ANIAN SAUERKRAUT is' neutral," the National Food Administrator announces. This is an astounding statement, Mr. Hoover, but we'll toe charitable enough to recall that it was made on the hottest day of the season and the heat may have caused the slip. Now everybody in Pennsylvania, at least, knows that sauerkraut is no more neutral than Limburger cheese. What the administrator means is that it is not pro-Oerman, and with that we agree. Sordid German ef ficiency never evolved anything like sauerkraut. Sauerkraut is a thing of sentiment, and there is no sentiment in the Teuton soul. Sauerkraut Is a dish to entrance a poet. A platter of It might offer a theme for a painter— if he could restrain his appetite long enough to utilize the model. A na tion might grow sturdy on a sauer kraut diet; it might wax happy, fat and contented on sauerkraut—but there is no room for frightfulness in the heart of a man well-fed up on this greatest Pennsylvania delicacy. Under the benign and'soporific in fluence of a plentitude of well-cooked kraut the Kaiser and Von Hinden burg would become docile as fattened hogs and peace would be restored throughout 'the world. Sauerkraut is not neutral; It Is pro-ally and pro-American and above all else pro-Pennsylvanian. In the language of the Berks county bard: Sauerkraut is good. Sauerkraut is line, I thinks I ought to know it. For I eats ft ail the time. And not for a moment should its loyal Americanism have been ques tioned. Be a little more careful how you talk about old friends of ours, Mr. Hoover, a little more tareful. You will kindly note that the Ger man attack on the American front has resulted in a net gain of about a mile for the Americans. OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY THERE is an unfortunate ten dency in municipal official circles to "pass the buck;" to * shift individual responsibility from one department to another. This is one of the great weaknesses of the present form of government. In stead of the promised concentration of authority in a small body, the ap portionment of duties among five men has too often resulted in the general condition best described by the old phrase "what is everybody's business is nobody's business." It Is quite a common thing to hear that one commissioner will excuse ■y his own shortcomings by Insisting that another tfcmmlssloner was re sponsible; that the particular thing to be done did not belong to his de partment; that, therefore, it was not up to him, but to his colleague or colleagues. The people of Harrlsburg have chosen five men to conduct the af fair* of the city. They are not par ticularly concerned as to how the business is apportioned among these five. They have a right to expect that the business of a large muni cipal corporation, however, will be conducted In precisely the same way as a successful business enterprise. It would be about as reasonable for directors of a large industrial cor poration to divide important duties among themselves and allow the business to go op the rocka because MONDAY EVENING, of the lndlfferenoe or carelessness of Individual members of the board. So much Is Involved In the proper maintenance of the city that the city council must co-operate In the discharge of Important public duties. It Is undoubtedly necessary to di vide the work, but this fact will not relieve any one of the live of per sonal responsibility for general re sults. "Weekly reports in brief form from each head of a' department might help the city council to co ordinate its activities and avoid failure here and there. In formulating a new revenue meas ure, let's have a large Item of prac tical, common sense as to its provi sions and the manner of its opera tion. LOOK US OVER THIS week Harrisburg merchants are demonstrating the "Monito" hosiery, the product of one of the city's leading industries. This Is a splendid thing from every stand point and It might be well in some definite way to continue the display of local Interest InJocal products by calling attention to other manufac turing concerns of Harrisburg, whose products are known far and wide. This city Is becoming more and more an Industrial and manufac turing center and with Its unrivaled distributing facilities it Is bound to develop into one of the great indus trial and manufacturing centers of the country. The Bolshevik! rule of Russia can not be Introduced In this country under the name of the I. W. W. or any other appellation. Americans are becoming more and more impatient as they see the efforts to undermine our Institutions. WHEN SIMS SPEAKS VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS may not realize his pow er to hearten his countrymen, but it is a fact that Americans are more inspired by his occasional state ments than by the utterances of any other outstanding figure in the great world war. He seems to sense the vital facts in the changing panorama of the tragedy of the ages and the optimism which characterizes his messages is always tempered with rare good sense and an appreciation of actual conditions. Also, his presence at a recent base ball game in England, staged as a benefit for the charity fund of the Army and Navy, showed the human side of this popular officer, whose great part in the elimination of the submarine menace will not be fully understood until the end of the war. Saloonmen are preparing their cus tomers for prohibition by cutting in half the size of the five-cent glass of beer. By repeating this operation a few times, the country will scarcely realize the difference between being "wet" and being "dry." LOAFERS AND THE*WAR IN a proclamation of Governor Whitman, of New York, it is de clared that public exigency re quires that every ablebodied male person between the ages of eighteen and fifty years should be habitually and regularly engaged In some law ful, useful and recognized business, profession, occupation, trade or em ployment until the termination of the war. Under the proclamation penalties are Imposed providing fines and imprisonment, and sheriffs and others charged with the en forcement of \ law are directed to hunt out all ablebodied males be tween the ages mentioned and who are no't employed. It is said that there are still in Harrisburg a considerable number of husky individuals who are suffering from that tired feeling which mani fests itself about locust blossom time and who have no visible employ ment. There are also in this city hundreds of boys under twenty who find ample time for the exercisa of their destructive tendencies In the parks and elsewhere. These should be rounded up and be required to expend their energies In some use ful fashion. A police census of Harrisburg, which would show the occupants of every house and how and where these occupants are employed, would furnish a basis for practical effort in eliminating the loafer. It 1? no secret that a large number of men and women are bluffing through this war period without doing anything that can be construed as of aid in winning the war. These are per fectly willing to let George do it, and when the great struggle is ended they are likely to be the first to inarch in the victorious parado well up to the front. It is time that Harrlsburg should know who are helping and who are loafing in this crisis of the world. "Habits form character," observes an exchange, and it might also have added with equal truth that charac ter forms habits. Ten years for Mrs. Stokes; and not one day tcf< many. Why not put some of the interned Germans at work on the farms; a ball and chain on the leg would not prevent them from picking vegetables or weeding gardens. The acquittal of the lynchers of Prager may not be in full accord with the highest standards, but it Is certainly going to make pro-Germans a bit more careful. The American* in France appear to have adopted a new and improved version of the French watchword, "They shall not pass;" it is; "We shall pass." And that's the thing that Is going to win this war. If the honl cui down the* size of the meat orders, as Mr. Hoover sug gests, will t(iey reduce prices as well? folitici C% T > ttutaijtcaiua | By (he Ex-OonmUOWM | Pennsylvania's Democratic ejtate committee will' hold Its biennial re organization meeting here probably on June 18, four days after the meet ing of the Republican state commit tee in Philadelphia. State Demo cratic leaders are expected to an nounce thq date for the meeting to morrow, but It was stated to-day that it would not be held before the seventeenth. Selection of a chair man will be up to Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, the gubernatorial candi date and prospects are that there will be a contest over the platform as some of the reorganization leaders while willing to go along and sup port Bonniwell, object to the fur ther humiliation of having a "wet" plank in the platfOrm. The Republican state committee will re-elect Chairman Crow and Secretary Baker, hear an address by National Chairman Will H. Hays and the state candidates at the meeting ill Philadelphia. Senator Penrose, the national committeeman, will like ly speak, too. The Prohibition state committee will meet here Wednesday to outline its course of campaign. These are the days of reorganiza tion of county committees and it Is noticed that while the Republican committees are generally endorsing Sproul, Beidleman and Woodward, the Democratic committees in reor ganization counties are not showing much anxiety to go on record in fa vor of the Bonniwell ticket. Every one of the Republican committees which met Saturday gave ringing en dorsement to the state ticket and the Philadelphia city committee is ex pected to do the same thing In a short time. People here look for Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil to issue his statement this week. Governor Brumbaugh may speak nfter O'Neil makes a state ment, but the Governor Is said to be disinclined to do any talking. -r-Some prominent Republicans were re-elected at meetings of coun ty committees. Among them were Fred T. McDonald, chairman of the Chester county committee, who was unanimously re-elected, although the state administration worked hard to accomplish his overthrow at the primary; Caleb S. Brinton, as chair man of the Cumberland committee, with George D. Frey and Harvey Line as secretaries, this being an other county where tne state admin istration made a drive; Joseph P. McClay, of the Franklin committee, who was re-elected although he Is just going into the Army; William H. Orr, of the Blair county committee, and Horace W. Schantz, of Lehigh. W. C. Alexander took the place of the veteran, Thomas H. Garvin, in Delaware county, where J. Harvey Smith succeeds J. Lord Rigby as vice-chairman. —Lancaster's county committee will re-elect Samuel Diller. —There was no bloodshed at the Cumberland Democratic meeting, H. G. Zullinger, of Mt. Holly, taking up the thankless task of chairman which R. W. Peffer laid down with a sense of relief. There is the old fight on for control of the Democratic ma chine in Lancaster county. W. J. Coulter and P. Edward Clark are the opposing candidates. Revenue Collec tor B. F. Davis is the storm center as usual. —Tlio Lackawanna official returns show that David Phillips was nom inated for Senator by the Republic ans. He is a brother of Roswell Phillips, newspaperman and also a school principal. —lt is said that some of Mayor Smith's retrenchment is aimed at Superintendent Mills, but this is denied. —Snyder county is on the crest of an election contest that may in volve every ballotbox in the county says a dispatch. Judge Johnson and Associate Judges Keller and Field issued a rule Friday upon C. W. Knight, Democrat, and John I. Woodruff, Republican, to appear be fore the court Thursday of next week and show cause why the ballotbox in Selinsgrovo borough should not be opened and the votes on the Democratic ticket recounted. —Berks Democratic County Com mittee has elected Roy S. Mabry, of Longrwamp township, as chairman over Joseph F. Morris, of Reading, by a vote of 34 to 17. Ralph Mat thews was elected secretary to suc ceed Alfred Gunkel, and Howard Koch was re-elected treasurer. Res olutions were adopted indorsing the national administration and state and local tickets. —Asher Seip, who was the man ager of Henry J. Steele's successful campaign for the Democratic re nomination for Congress in this district, was elected chairman of the Democratic County Committee with out a dissenting voice at Easton on Saturday. The Palmer faction find ing it did not control the committee, decided not to put up a candidate. Congressman Steele made an ad dress. —Senator Horace W. Schantz, who at the May primaries was re nominated without opposition, at the biennial meeting of the County com mittee was re-elected the Lehigh Re publican county chairman tot the fourth term on Saturday. The meet ing of the new County committee was held in the rooms of the John Hay Republican Association whose headquarters are the official home of the Republican party of Lehigh county. The May primaries produced less than a score of changes among the committeemen. Prominent among the gathering was Samuel Mitchell, of Catasauqua, the nestor of the Lehigh Republican County Committee, who has served for thir ty-eight years with energy and fi delity and never lost a war ticket. George P. Psotta, of Allentown; Aaron J. Harter, of Heldelburg, and Harvey J. Wenner, of Fogelsville, were unanimously re-elected the secretaries. Slidwers of Blessings "However, thank heaven, at the very moment when bomhs were fall ing upon the Red Cross hospitals in France, the money was falling upon the Red Cross altar in America and the rain was falling upon our wheat fields.—Kansas City Star. Coal Miners as Selectives Several hundred miners have been taken from the anthracite region by the draft within a day or two. This is a mistake. We cannot get coal without miners. The English learned this early in the war and. they had to send over to France and sort out of their armies thou sands of miners who had been put in uniform. It is about time a sys tem was worked out for exempting from the draft the men engaged In occupations necessary to the conduct of the war. At present there seems to be no system.—Philadelphia Eve ning Public Ledger, &AHRISBURG #SB& TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'? BY BRIGGS XfJHCtJ Yvo ARE PIWCMCD CCURT^LB^FI'MA U^Y 1 !)6C. TD£ JI FOR PARKIKJ6 YOUR CAR IUTCKUTII MKBHT _ ' HALF .M THC COURTROOM HCAS-T C TXR ADA~! A BE ARSJD YBUR (Tl -L L LOftlOuS FCSUN . YOURI *©OT IT- S &XCU6E BRINW HOME TH A NP . F? FR £ Floe DOLLARS AroD CoJ>TS B^co " J * T R A U R A COA% LINE UP BEHIND SPROUL Dr. Homer W. Tope, Philadelphia, district superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League, has Issued a state ment in which he declares that tem perance workers must line up be hind Sproul for Governor. "With victory in sight," his letter reads, "it would be a fatal mistake to divide our forces and support any inde pendent movement." On it the Phil adelphia Record sayS: "The state ment is regarded as significant be cause of the fact that it was be lieved in many quarters that O'Neil would refuse to accept the decision of the primaries and would launch out as the candidate of a third party. The bottom feii out of the O'Neil plans, however, when tabulation of the state vote showed he was de feated by Senator Sproul by a ma jority of more than 210,000 votes. UNCLE SAM'S HELPERS A Bit of Rhyme For the Inspiration of the Junior Red Cross (Written For Them by Aunt Este) A little boy sat on the root of a tree, Sighing and sighing as sad as could be; His chin In his hands, his arm on his knee, Oh, never was kiddie unhappy as he. "What' 3 wrong, little boy?" sang a bird overhead, "Oh, dear!"said the boy, "I Just wish I were dead! "The big folks can help Uncle Sam such a lot "To help win this war, but dear! I cannot! "My mother says just eat plain corn mush and such, "That's not quite enough! I want money, BO much! "I want to buy Thrift Stamps and Baby Bonds too, "But when you've no money, pray, what can you do? "ThereJs mother, she works at the Red Cross all day, "And sister keeps knitting on sweat ers so gray, "I can't sew nor knit to help the Red Cross, "And without any money I'm quite at a loss." The little bird hopped on the branch overhead. And he shook out his feathery cap bright and red, He looked at the boy, then he looked at the ground, Then sang, "Kiddie dear, won't you please look around. "You want to make money to help Uncle Sam? "Well, I have a perfectly beautiful plan! "Just look at those daisies, why not pick a bunch? "That yoij can make good I've a wonderful hunch! The little boy glanced up—the bird winked his eye And said, "You will make money, If you try." "Just think of the folks who want flowers around, "And haven't the time to hunt over the ground. "There are mothers who work at the Red Cross all day, "And sisters who always knit sweat ers so gray; "They'd love to have flowers all over the place, To wear, or stick round in each bowl and small vase." The little boy Jumped from the root of the tree, And began to pick flowers as fast as could be. His fingers BO nimble, his heart all atune, Oh, he would have money, he knew, very soon! And as he was picking, the flowers seemed to say, "We're helping now too, and we're glad that we may; "We violets and daisies and butter cups bright, "Want to help Uncle Sam to stand up for the right!'.' The long evening shadows stretched up to the tree, And there found the boy sorting flowers with glee; Then the shadows followed him way do#n the street. And watched him sell flowers to all he could meet. Next morn when the little boy opened his eyes. He took to the Red Cross his glor ious surprise. "It's & dollar! I earned It!" the bird flew by And he looked at the boy with a wink of his eye. "Don't forget that I tipped you. The flowers helped too! "We three are working for the Red, White and Blue." EDNA GROFF DBIHL, Victory [From the Boche Review.] I IT becomes necessary to watch the progress of the German drive with what fortitude can be com manded. An attainment of its ob ject is Germany's last chance. But if the object is attained, it means for us and the Allies only a longer war. It is because of the desperate eco nomic situation in Germany>that she must have a victory this time, to save her. In an article on Ger many's financial condition, in the Magazine of Wall Street, Frederick W. Gehle says: "Germany is plunging over the brink of ruin and bankruptcy, self hypnotized by her cry, 'Annexations and Indemnities!' The eager gamb ler who plays for big stakes is no more insane than Germany. With him. too, the end must justify every thing, or all is lost. Germany's whole mad scheme, from first to last, has made no provision against de feat. Victory only is considered; loot is counted on to offset the blood and iron cost of war, indemnities are relied on' to make up the money cost. "Germany's only salvation from bankruptcy and economic destruc tion is complete victory. Missing the mark, she faces a future in which she herself must bear a back breaking, impossible burden. Her financiers and businessmen see this, and were they permitted to speak they would tell to the people what PERILS OF BABYHOOD According to an official govern ment statement made in connection with the federal campaign to save the lives of babies during war time, it is six times safer to be a soldier in the trenches than to be a baby in its cradle in the United States. In the first three years of the war the total number of men In the English Army killed in action or dy ing from wounds amounted to seven out of every 100, which is less than two per cent, a year. At the same time in the United States twelve babies under one year of age died out of every 100 born. This statement has so aroused New York women that they are making a systematic campaign to reduce the infant death rate. Interest in the campaign has spread to all classes of women. Girls in business offices, shops and factories are promising to devote their evenings to furthering the campaign which is being carried on by the Babies Welfare Associa tion in connection with the Health division of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense. France Flickerings [F. P. A. in Stars ahd Stripes, France] Lots of news this week in these environs. Straw hats are beginning to be seen on the boulevards of Paris, but most of our boys forbear to rush the season and stick to the more con servative tin derby. A warm spell of weather is ex pected next month. —tf. Quite a little rain fell yesterday, and it was pretty cold. —tf. It is pleasant to report that our art department is oft the sick list and is almost as merry as he was when he was in the hospital. Some of the houses hereabouts would look better with a new coat of paint is the opinion of ye scribe. Charley Hindenburg, the w.k. night editor, of the Potsdam Offen sive, has a little cold. Gossip has it that Charley is suffering fVom in somnia also. Lieut. of handed in a pair of spcks for three mos. sub scription last Wednesday. Come again . Ye scribe enjoyed his April bath yesterday afternoon. Isn't It the Tuith? That the critic knocks Your stuff to bits, And turns It wrong side out. After you've had Seven fits, ■ Then you begin to doubt, And when you've worried, Day and night. And overworked your fretter, You figure maybe He was right, And you strive to do better? —From the Fargo Courier News. they see. Up to now their protests! have been gagged in their throats by the military party, and' their con cern over the fearful price of all that is going on has been laughed to scorn by those who count no cost too great for the accomplishments of an army in the field. "Sooner or later all things end, and for Germany's wild financial fling payment will sooner or later be demanded. With her finances weakened, her credit destroyed, her international trade gone, she will be a bloodless Germany, the dead ember of a nation. In anticipation, are we not. then, entitled to count upon the fear of such a catastrophe, in con junction with apprehension over military results, as a factor likely to so weaken the German people's pur pose to go on, that they themselves will hasten the inevitable break?" Germany's only hope is in mili tary successes. The financial fabric is hollow and rotten; it will fall in to dust at the moment when mili tary efforts fail. The failure is bound to come, whether now on the West ern front or later when the American millions have reinforced the Allies. "The troop movement," says Secre tary Daniels, in an impromptu speech this week, "will reach the million mark in a few weeks; in a few months the two million mark will have been reached, and ten million or more men will be sent, if need be, to win the war." LABOR NOTES Eleven million women and girls are at work In our industries. Various organizations federated un der the Council of Civic Employes at Winnipeg, Canada, decided to refuse any war bonus as offered by the City Council. Mine fatalities in British Colum bia for the first quarter of the pres ent year totaled flVo, compared with seven in the corresponding months in 1917. All printers among the Russian prisoners in Germany are being kept busy on propaganda books In Rus sian, to popularize the Kaiser and everything German. Miss Eva Fenton, who organized the women workers in Britain's mu nition factories, has been asked by the American Government to under take the same work In this country. Wage Increases have been granted to Halifax (N. S.) workmen In the building trades. Plasterers will re ceive 60 cents an hour, painters, 55 cents and carpenters 50 cents. Six of our labor-union Congress men are printers, namely, Sherwood, of Ohio; Farr, of Pennsylvania; John son, of Washington; Keetlng, of Col orado. and Charles B. Smith, of Now York City. The British labor unions are or ganized industrially In the British Labor Congress with 2,500,000 mem bers. They are orgar-ized politically in the Labor party with 2,500,000 members. Together, these two or ganizations Include about 6,000,000 members. MATER DOLOROSA "You know the love that made us even as brothers, How firm youth forged tho links of full years shared. You know my heartache," —"Ah, but what of his mother's If all her wounds were barest" We must bow down before you, see ing your sorrow, Mother of him who was our dear est friend. Mother of soldiers still to-day, to morrow Standing to face their end. Yea, women of England, each of you that hath given Or gives for England's sake a aon to bear War's crushing cross of sacrifice, yet hath striven And strives against despair. We reverence you, and lnyour griefs proud fashion Find faith through Britain's bit terest hour of pain. That beyond all the darkness of hor \ Passion She will arise again —Msr Aubrey Attwater. JUNE 3, 1918, EDITORIAL COMMENT It is chronicled that United States troops at the frtyit "return the enemy's fire two to one and Rive him back a double dose of whatever he sends over." American prodigality in Europe was always notorious.— New York World. After proclaiming the president the greatest living statesman. Colonel House is quoted as modestly adding that his mind and that of the presi dent "run parallel on most sub jects."—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As the German press put it, Ger many and Austria are "fighting shoulder to shoulder until peace is won," which is a tactful way of say ing that neither dares to turn its back on the other.—Newark News. And when it comes to the delirium tremens of optimism, what do you think of that Irishman who said that if the Germans win the Sinn Fein intend to turn in and lick the conquering Kaiser? New York Morning Telegraph. It was desirable, of course, to in scribe the new. Russian flag with something short, simple, and easy to read at a distance. So after mature deliberation they settled upon this: "Rossiskaya Sotzialyitscheskaya Fed erativnaya Sovletslcaya Respublika." —Kansas City Star. OUR DAILY LAUGH MORE DATA LATER. He (after proposing)—l'm getting $2,000 a year. Now, dear, what la •the least you think you can live on yearly? She —Well, how much credit can ALT, THERE. "Why don'.t you learn to punetu" ate?" "The Idea. Why I put more comas and dashes In what X write than any one else I know of." A HAIR STORE BLONDE. "Isn't Maude's hair light?" "Yea, she can llflt it on an oft IN BUGLAND. "Well good t>ye. Come to see. mo loon." "Do you live far away?" "Oh, no, only over on Cho next frfrwf. i"- " Bmtttuj GUjal Have you ever stopped to think of the money represented by the auto mobiles which are parked In Market Square any afternoon or evening, especially Saturday? Motor vehicles have become so common and horses so scarce that we seldom think of the difference lfi the value of the ( two means of transportation. This city was for many years noted for the good quality of its horses. It was not BO much on fast horses, al though In the old days there were some prominent men who had good nags that used to figure In brushes on the river road and occasionally on the tracks. But it had a good grade of working horses and the prices werq around SIOO. Now the horse Is gradually disappearing be fore the gasoline-driven car and no where Is It more strikingly shown than In the business and market house sections. Startling evidence of the displacement of the horse as a means of getting around in the coun try appeared at the Grangers' picnic at Williams Grove five years ago and the hundreds of farmers' auto mobiles that were parked there showed that the change was coming where it would be most noticeable. Now where ten years ago we used to have farmers lined tip end to end on Chestnut and Verbeke and Market streets we find automobiles of every make. And the women are able to run them as well as the men. But to return to Market Square. Saturday afternoon there were ap proximately twenty cars parked on each of the four stretches allowed for such purpose. In the evening there were more. Taking eighty as the number of cars wedged into that space and allowing SBOO as the average price, because there were not so many of the less expensive cars as there were In the morning and afternoon, it menns $64,000 worth of cars. And think of the many more on other streets and the hundreds of others that were not out. Harrishurg certainly has a lot of money invested in the pneumatic tired vehicles without counting In the trucks. • • • Speaking of motor cars the odd contrasts that are to be seen on market day nre just as striking in their way as they used to be twenty five years ago. In the line of vehicles that jmssed down the street Satur ! day afternoon were any number of pleasure cars and motor trucks, de livery wagons and roasters and sand wiched in between were old-fash ioned farm wagons, one or two "buggies" and a buckboard, a hearse, a milk wagon and an automobile with mule tied to the rear. ♦ • • The rose show to,be held this week call attention to the manner in which the most loved of flowers is culti vated in Harrishurg. This city has for many years been the home of rose fanciers and the show should bring out some specimens from places little thought of. The adage that many a rose grows unseen, and unappreciated, is very true, because there are backyards In Harrisburg which yield choice flowers and some of them from bushes which are a quarter of a century old. There are bushes of the good old "Jack" and "Marchlelnell" varieties in this city, which are as vigorous as a dozen # years ago. The city has a well de served reputation for Its peonies, al though Mrs. Arthur H. Bailey has heen endeavoring to move the peony center to her ancestral heath of Paxtang and Its iris collections are as beautiful as nurtierous. A little 1 competition In the blowers of Har -1 risburg. such as the rose show will bring about, will give us something ; to talk about and glory In a few years hence if nopularly encouraged. • • * "We have had many people com ing here in connection with Liberty Bond matters and it would surprise you the number who are not cllp ning off their coupons, but letting Uncle Sam have the money," said a man active In banking yesterday. "This is a safe and sane form of patriotism. They evidently don't need the money and they do not want Uncle Sam to have to pay it out now. Some people have been following the injunction to use cou nons to buy Thrift Stamps and I know of some coupons from the first issue that were used to pay for Vonds for tho third. It's a new thing for a lot of people to own bonds and it is interesting to watch the way they act about them." • • • It's a rather odd thing how the warm wave caught this city unpre pared. There was so much rain and so many cool days during May almost until within four days of the close of the month that very fe.v neople were really ready for summer • weather, and the result was that there was a rush for light weight cratments, to the ice cream pla-'e? ar.il for palm leaf fans. Tt br.iuant to people living within sight of tho dome of Pennsylvania's State Capi tol those words of the great hu t-rorist, who wrote in the vicinity of Boston State House The folJ