8 i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER rOR THB HOUB Ptuniti list Published evenings exeept Sunday by THE TELBGRAFH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Balldlag, Federal 9ura. 58. J. STACK POLE, Prtt't & Bditor-xn-Chirf p. R. OTSTER. Business Manager. BUS U. STEINMETZ. Uanapnc Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press la 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. 4 Member American Newspaper Pub na llshers" Assocla- JBMSeBSL Bureau of Circu lation andPenn |j*j> 3 Eastern office, JgjSSgß |g Avenue Building, Finl'ey. ■ Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. , iiliryv~] By carriers, ten centa a dftEi .Vweek; by mall. 15.00 a year in advance, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1918 Every thought and feeling i o painting stroke, in the darkness, of our likeness that is to be; and our whole life is but a chamber, which ire are frescoing with colors that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth after wards. when finished and dry.— Henkt Ward Beecheb. UP TO THE POLICE UN'LESS and until the police de partment rigidly enforces the present traffic regulations addi tional provisions will have little or no effect. When all Is said and done, the only way to bring about better conditions with respect to the use of the streets and highways by all manner of vehicles Is through a strict and uncompromising enforce ment of every provision of the sev eral ordinances. If these regulations should happen to be onerous or in any manner un necessary, their enforcement woud develop these facts and amendment could easily be made. But the en actment of ordinances without effi cient enforcement amounts to little more than an aggravation of pres ent conditions. Police officers should be given to understand that their first duty Is to study the regulations and then eee to it that nothing Interferes with .their enforcement. Harrisburg has long since ceased (to be a village, and because Tom, Dick or Harry protests against in terference with his alleged personal rights is no reason why the police officials should not do their duty under all circumstances. Parking of automobiles along congested busi ness streets and the main driveways of the city is little less than an out rage, as is also the failure of the de partment to compel obedience of that provision of the ordinance which prohibits the use of the cutout and unnecessary blowing of horns. We have no doubt that the Motor Club of Harrisburg would co-operate heartily with the police department in correcting present conditions, but It ought not to be necessary for any organization to aid those charged with the enforcement of the laws and ordinances of the city. A few simple regulations, rigidly enforced, would soon cure existing evils. Having utilized the party ladder discarded by the "Old Guard" leaders' of the Democratic party to climb to power, the present bosses of the Democracy In Pennsylvania have evidently determined to kick the lad der from under their present perch, with the thought that, having reached a place of safety, they are not in further need of the organization which has recently repudiated them. THE READING, TOO ANYTHING that the men of the Pennsylvania and Reading sys tems do in the furtherance of the interests of the Keystone State, of which thla la one of the vital centers. Interests thous aanda of people in Harrisburg. Thla city and its environs hive a popu lation directly concerned with rail roading that numbers thousands, and when one sits down and figures out how intimately connected railroad work is with the very life of the State's capital district it may easily be realized how great pride we all take in the hanging up of new rec . ords for car movements. Railroad work Is hazardous and any accident strikes home to our hearts. We rejoice when there has been "a big month" and we are all glad when some huge Improvement is authorized here. Harrisburg rail- j road men have given demonstrations of their loyalty to Uncle Sam in stick ing to their work in the face of the worst winter ever known In this State only a few months ago and In moving coal when they bad to back snowdrifts to do it Our own rail road men have given of their beat to the railway battaliona in Prance and Harrisburg railroad workera are laboring on repairs, tracks and other work close to the front line. One TUESDAY EVENING, SAJRJUSBURG frfSj& TELEGRAPH TUNE 4. 1918. hundred par cent, crewa wore the rule In this section on Liberty Loans and for the Red Cross. And the rail road men are the backbone of the War Savings. And when Superintendent F. W. Smith announced that hla men have moved a quarter of a million cars over the Philadelphia division In a month and smashed alt records we throw up our hats. And now when Superintendent R. Boone Abbott comes along and tells that his men have broken all records for hustling cars over the Reading and out of Rutherford yards It's cheers fpr the Reading, too. It is a splendid ex ample of service to the nation that the railroad men of the two big sys tems are gtving in the Harrisburg district. THE U-BOAT A SPUR •-n HE appearance of German sub marines in American waters should cause no surprise; the won der is that they did not turn up here months ago. Naval circles have ex pected raids of the kind ever since the United States entered the war. That they did not develop sooner Is doubtless due to the fact that every German submarine available was In use on the European side; that they come at this time, when allied sink ings are at their lowest ebb on the far side of the Atlantic, Is a very strong indication that the waters there are now so carefully guarded that no longer find It pos sible to operate with any degree of success along the Irish coast or in the North Sea. Two purposes may be assigned to the raid. Either the Germans were bent upon attacking transports and found them too carefully guarded, or they were sent to harrass shipping of all kinds and spread terror of German arms in America. In either case they wtfte not successful. The American Navy may be relied upon to look after the submarine menace as effectively In these waters as our chasers are doing under Admiral Sims abroad. While we have sent a very considerable portion of our Navy to the other side, the number of vessels at home is ample to meet all likely requirements, and we may expect the sea arm of the service to give good account of Itself If the raiders persist In their activities, which does not seem probable. If Germany hoped to frighten America into slackening our war preparations, she has missed the mark. The American people were not born in the woods to be frighten ed by an owl. The U-boats have brought home the war to us as never before, but the only result has been a tightening of the belt, a squaring of the shoulders and a deeper de termination than ever to rid the earth once and for all time of the Ger man beast. The more active the U-boats on this side of the ocean, the angrier the American people will become, and the more they will cen centrate their efforts toward bring ing their overwhelming might to bear effectively against the disciples of frightfulness and their war ma chine. We in America are more than ■100,000,000 strong. We have most of the money in the world, resources beyond the estimate of man, the brains and the energy to make our treasure and our raw materials avail able for any purpose, and the de termination to win this war if it cost us our last dollar and our last man. U-boat raids will not diminish our fighting spirit, which, as of old, grows and becomes more intense under pro vocation. We may lost many boats. Sub marines may come from hidden bases in Mexico or the Bahamas, which afforded so secure retreats for blockade runners during the Civil War. or they may traverse the broad Atlantic for a necessarily brief foray on side, but the oftener they come and the heavier our losses,'the more vigorous will become our war activities. The visiting U-boat la to the American people merely what a sharp sjjur is to a spirited horse. FIREHOUSE STORAGE COMMISSIONER GROSS doesn't know whether Alderman Mur ray's car may be stored free of coat la a city flrehouse. The commissioner ought to know that flrehousea aupported by the city are not maintained for use as private garages. Beside, the city owns quite a-number of automobiles and if there is room In the flrehouses for storage, by all means let the city use It, as its does now to a limited extent. Aldermaa Murray la an officer of tha law and he ought to know, If Mr. Gross does not, that a flrehouse Is no place for a privately owned car •If he is to have free storage the same privilege should be extended to the public in general. ' i tii in M—ac , i. i■ r mtit tfi ' ' *'i j| *poftttC4 tK I'PucKOiftrtuua By Hie [ Leaders of the new Democracy of Pennsylvania, which displaced the Palmer-Mc'Cormick clique in control of the party machine in the Key stone state by the. popular will ex pressed at the primary, are planning to take complete charge of affairs this year and will likely make it so unpleasant for candidates supported by the reorganlzers' faction who may have won places that they will withdraw. At the same time It is likely that the new Democracy will put a candidate for Supreme Court in the field and make an earnest? fight. The first move to be made by the new bosses of the Democracy will be a trial heat In Philadelphia where they will throw out Edgar W. Lank, the Democratic city chairman, giving •the reorganize™ a dose of their own medicine. John J. Breen. the Bon niwell campaign manager, who out generaled the Democratic national chairman, state chairman and na tional committeeman, will be named In his place. When the state com mittee meets here on June 18 or 19, as the reorganizers have had to defer to Bonniwell about the date there will be other steps taken and Talmer, McCormlck and others will have to go along or get out. —The Philadelphia Record, which is now the official Democratic organ, as it has been the Democratic popu lar organ for a long time, has this to say: "As soon as the official vote Is announced, J. Washington Logue will withdraw from the ticket. His place will be filled by the State Com mittee at the Harrisburg meeting on June 19. Logue also won the nom ination for Congress from the Sixth district, and it is said he is eager to devote all his time to contesting for a seat at Washington. It Is be lieved a Democrat from the western end of the state will be selected as a running mate for Judge Bonniwell. "Henry Budd, well-known attor ney and former chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, is expected to be a candidate for one of the vacancies on the Supreme Court bench. Mr. Budd was one of Judge Bonniwell's earnest support ers, and he is expected to have the loyal support of many of the nom inee's friends next November. Under the constitution, an elector can vote for only one candidate for the Su preme Court, and Mr. Budd's friends are confident he will be chosen. They declared yesterday that Superior Court Judge John W. Kephart. of Ebensburg, and Supreme Court Jus tice Alexander Simpson, Jr., wi'l also be candidates and they argued that the Republicans of the state would divide their yotes between the two men." —Friends of Governor Brumbaugh in the western part of the state are urging him to name a justice to suc ceed the late Judge Mestrezat from that section, pointing out that Jus tice Simpson succeeded a Pittsburgh man. The name of Judge John D. Evans has been urged in Pittsburgh very strongly. It Is believed that Commissioner Magee will be con sulted about the appointment and that it will go either to the central or western section. —Writing in the Philadelphia In quirer, George J. Brennan has this to say about a man well known In state politics: "The Old Guard of the Republicans of the Twenty-third district, which is composed of > Greene. Fayette and Somen . coun- r ties, will rally to the support of for- | iner State Representative Samuel i Austin Kendall, of Somerset, who | has been given the Congressional j nomination. It is recalled that when I In the House at Harrisburg, Kendall | stood loyally by the colors of the j late Matthew Stanley Quay and I voted for his return to the United States Senate the bitter fire j of the old-time Insurgents. Kendall, who Is a former schoolmaster, is ex- ! tensively engaged tn the lumber j business, both in his home county and in Fayette and Is known | throughout the district by all of the 1 active Republicans." —ln an order handed down by Judge H. M. Edwards, at Scranton, the Lackawanna county commis sioners are directed to recount the vote cast for State Senator on the Republican ticket in twelve districts in which Albert Davis, defeated on the face of the official returns f*>r the Senatorial nomination by 23 4 votes, charges that the ballotboxes were "stuffed" In the Interest of David W, Phillips. The County Com missioners are to make the recount forthwith and are also to take an inventory of the contents of the boxes and the return envelopes in each district attacked. They are di rected to report back to court not later than June 10." —Edward E. Beidleman, candi date for lieutenant governor, left last night for Pittsburgh to attend ; the convention of Pennsylvania bor oughs. He made an address at the j Allegheny Boroughs' Association, dinner and was invited because of i his interest in municipal legislation to meet with the state organization. —The Republican committee of Montgomery county reorganized at Norristown yesterday with no change in officers. The anti-Penrose fac tion, led by Charles A. Ambler as a candidate for State Senator, did not muster sufficient strength in com-1 mitteemen at the primaries to make: a showing at the meeting, hence i went along with the program of j County Leader Charles Johnson,' who favored Freas Styer for chair- ] man, who has served for more than i a dozen years, and Walter F. Chllds j and Aaron S. Swartz as secretaries, were elected. Resolutions were adopted congratulating the voters for the interest taken at the primar ies and upon the men selected from the Governor down. Styer made a speech of thanks and James S. Boyd, nominee for State Senator, gave a "harmony*" talk. —At a meeting of the Pittsburgh Ministerial Association, resolutions were adopted, submitting to Mayor Babcock that further delay in mak ing new appointees as police magis trates is "detrimental to the beat In terests of the country," calling upon him to immediately send iq five new names to city council. This move re vives the old fight between the mayor and council that began with Me. Babcock's Induction Into office on January 1. —Senator William C. Sproul, who is resting this week, will speak at the Republican state committee meeting on Flag Day in Philadel phia. —J. Denny O'Nell says he Is not yet ready to make his statement about the campaign and that he la still, studying returns. YOUR DISPOSITION DOES NOT IMPROVE WITH YOUR SCORE I HOT A KICK in TKsl /;•' I I n JHO'S ReSPONSIBLe 11 (TBSiS) - SENT FOR THIS OOU= COO!J "If It Takes Twenty Years" On one occasion, during my stay at the front, I sang "The Wee Hoose Amang the Heather' to an audience of 15,000 Scottish soldiers at Arras. I was watching those lads —some of them were seated, looking up into the sky, others with their elbows on their knees, others with their arms folded, all deep In thought. What were they thinking about? I will tell you. They were thinking of the folks at home and of the "hoose amang the heather." . After the con cert I had a chance of speaking to many of them, and I asked, "How are you getting on, boys?" They an swered: "We are getting on all right, but how are the folks at home getting on?" I said, "They are get ting on all right, but are anxious about you out here." The spirit of these men was shown in the message which they gave to me. "You tell the folks at home," they said, "not to be anxious about us. This is our place out here. This is where the best men in the world are. Tell them that we're going to stay here, even If It takes twenty years."—Harry Lauder, in The Chris tian Herald. - •- Of One Mind President Wilson would doubtless concede that it is erfbeedingly diffi cult to please all Americans, but his words to France accomplished that unusual effect. No matter bow men may differ on other subjects, as to the heroism of France, the intelli gence of France and the debt of civilization to France they are of one mind.—New York Sun. BE NOT AFRAID When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest! horses, and chariots, and a people! more than thou, be not afraid of them, for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And it bhall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people. And shall say unto them. Hear, 0 Israel; ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies; let not your hearts faint; fear not, and do "not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.— Deuteronomy 20, 1-5. THE AWAKENING . War didn't interest Thaddeus Brown, The laziest man in a lazy man's town. ' The only ambition astir in his breast Was a "big chaw o' twist" and a place to rest. The latter he found at the village store. Where along with some others —a dozen or more— Discussing the war—all but Thad deus, mind. Who to purpose was dumb and to justice was blind. And, when asked how he stood In these matters of state. He'd drawl his reply as a verdict of weight And a final decree of the daily de bate, "Mighty foolish." The seasons passed on with their tid ings of woe. Good men and brave were at grips with the foe, Tet, Thaddeus sat in the shade by the store ' • Along with a couple of others—not more. For the old crowd had dwindled, some wearing *the brown, 1 Had honored the flag with the troops from the town. , Like a barnacle glued at an old rot ten pier, Thaddeus grunted to all who would . hear. . "Mighty foolish." At last came the edict which fell like a flash. And Its horrors hit Thaddeus Brown with a crash. For Crowder had said —find Crowder was right— That if man would not work, man man go out and fight. And Thaddeus Ward, when the grim warning fell. Like the saddening tones of a fu neral bell, "What think you now. Brown?" said his host with a frown To the laziest man in a lazy man's town. And Thaddeus groaned as he shifted , hie chair And nervously fondled a lock of hair And croaked like a drowning man gasping for air, "Mighty ser'yous." WILL FERRELL, Under the Ge ONE of the most amazing mani festations of the Germanic Bplrlt, In invaded France, says C. Journelle in the Atlantic Monthly. Is the compulsory saluta tion which the officers impose upon all males, and by a refinement of tyranny, upon the women and girls. Even in ancient Latium, at the Cau dine Porks, only the men were made to pass under the yoke, and that but once. But the Teuton. In his sen sibility to human dignity, is never weary of trampling upon other men's souls and of treating man like a 'beast of the field. This enforced tragi-comlc salute to the Invaders and Intruders naturally wounded to the quick the high sense of their own dignity and of the truth characteristic of Frenchmen. Resist ance appeared on all sides. Force was necessary to gratify a caprice that Gessler might have delighted in. At Noyon, at Vergnier, in hun dreds of places, those who infringed the regulation were thrown into Jail. Sexagenarian priests who had neg lected to bare their heads before sublieutenants were dragged away to prison beyond the Rhine. Officers WHAT ABOUT WOOD [Kansas City Star] The country has waited with anx iety the announcing of a military reason for the failure to make use of the unusualvabilities of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood at the front. General Wood showed his capacity as a com mander in Cuba and in the Philip pines. In his service in the' United States he was distinguished for his resourcefulness and grasp of affairs. Before America got into the war he was one of the few public officials who appreciated the seriousness of the situation and tried to arouse the country to the danger. Men of his experience and known ability are few. The Nation can ill afford to lose the service of any of them. But now, without explana tion, General Wood Is refused assign ment to active service to which other men not in his class are being sent. Fair minded men are reluctant to believe that any considerations save those of a military nature are being permitted to count in the conduct of the war. Only a few days ago they applauded the President's an nouncement that politics was tem porarily adjourned. Bat they can not forsret the common gossip that General Wood was In bad In Wash ington* on account of his advocacy of preparedness. They cannot forget the r>norts current for a long time that he was to be barred from active service for reasons unconnected with his military ability. There is universal belief In Gen eral Wood's competency as a com mander. If there are any valid rea sons against this belief the Nation has a right to know them. Unless a satisfactory explanation is forthcoming will It be possible to avoid the conclusion that considera tions other than those of the na tional welfare have been decisive in the case of General Wood? LABOR NOTES Painters at Lincoln, 111., have se cured an Increase of $1 a day. Mobile (Ala.) Central Trades Coun cil has thirty-eight affiliated unions. Fire Fighters' International Union has sixty-six local branches. The British Trade-Union Congress has met regularly since 1871. Congressman Nolan, of California, la a molder by trade. Minnesota is the latest state %o bar alien teachers. Toolmakers at Brantford, Can., ask 56 cents an hour. On January 1 next Toronto brick layers will get 72 cents an hour. A great number of Portuguese la borers are working In the munition factories of France and England to release men needed at the front. One million, eight hundred thou sand women are engaged In our agri cultural pursuits and dairying; 750- 000 of these are under 21 years. Announcement is made by Can ada's Food Board that as a result of the enrollment week for the soldiers of the soil over 20,000 boys have been secured in Ontario and the four western province* did not blush to horsewhip passers-by who did not salute them or who did not bow low enough. At Etreaux & blind man was struck by a colonel whom he could not see. Above all, the salute extorted from women displays to the full an Innate vulgarity peculiar to the German. We recall our own Louis XIV, always the first to salute the women in his service, absolute master as he was. Our secular French tradition of cour tesy and chivalry rises in revolt. But nothing is more German than to lay the heavy hand of oppression on women. Why, at Saint Quentin, in 1918, an elderly woman. In her ter rified haste to salute an officer and make her way for him on the side walk /ell and broke her leg. Sometimes this female salute Is elaborated; women are compelled to smile when bowing. These enxlous and brief-stricken women, torn from their husbands and children and brothers, these women who are robbed and whose homes are con stantly searched and tossed and turned over like the bedding of cat tle, are commanded to femile upon the invaders! Anent Needless Criticism "Think of the incident that oc curred in 1864 in the administration of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States. The political as pect of the whole country was that of a seething, boiling Niagara. Some gentlemen from the West were ex cited about the commissions or omis sions of the administration. Presi dent Lincoln heard them patiently and then replied: "Gentlemen, sup pose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it In the hands of Blondln to carry across the Niagara river on a rope; would you shake the cable or keep shout ing out to him, "Blondin, stand up a little straighter!' 'Blindon, stoop a little more!' "Go a little faster!' Lean a little more to the south.' 'Blondin, lean a little more to the north!' No, you would hold your breath, as well as your tongue, and keep your hand off until ho was safe over. The government is carrying an immense weight. Untold treas ures are in our hands. Keep silence, and we'll get you safe across." AN EDUCATIONAL DEFECT [Kansas City Star.] German prisoners who have glimpsed the size of America's force In France are reported as amazed. They had been told that the U-boats had kept America out, and that a few thousand English soldiers hdd been dressed up in American uni forms to make a. showing. Even educated German officers believed this invention of the general staff. Thus we may begin to see the re sults of the once much lauded system of state education in Germany. THE SOLDIER'S MOTHER By Lai la Gerahty She stands alone, wrapt in the man tle of her pride: He Soul, a living flame of white ✓ hot love; Her Heart, a place of desolation, . where the great tide Of longing, hideous with fear, for ever moves In waves of anguish through the long, dark nights. Only within the mirror of her eyes we see The silent agony of one who fights Against the dreadful thought of what may be. For Courage rises Is her, free and strong, That Snartan spirit gamed from the past; And t*"-'-'-ilne"ss for bearing such a son To frown her Motherhood with Joy so vast. Thus she bears her woman's part. Praising her God with all her might For gift so precious as that brave young heart Who counts his life as naught be side the cause of right, Where craven fear has no abiding place From mothers such as this our noble race Springs forth in splendid manhood, round Which the glory of old England SUeds her grace. EDITORIAL COMMENT Nicaragua, the twentieth country to declare war on the Kaiser, is dis creet enough not to say how many of anything ges with the declaration in the next twelve months. —St. Louis Post-Di3patch. Slowly Russia learns that Germany does not mean to let It have even an abject peace.—Springfield Republi can. General Foch is a living demon stration of the fact that a man some times can worry along. without a press-agent.—Emporia Gazette. Von Hindenburg's promise of peace by August is evidently given as a promissory note with right of indefinite renewals. New York World. Fighting has begun between Bol shevlki and anarchists in Moscow, and you can't tell the players with out a score-card.T—Chicago Tribune. Another thing we're going to show Germany is that the Roumanian peace treaty is a scrap of paper that is a scrap of paper.—Kansas City Star. Retired businessmen under fifty classed as "loafers" can enroll as law students, with an interesting problem in constitutional law for a starter.—Wall Street Journal. When the Kaiser hears that the French War-Cross hfs been awarded to Lieutenant Meyer, of Milwaukee, he will almost despair of the Repub lic. —New York World. OUR DAILY LAUGH ALAS. 1/ Kmk Yes, I'm B afraid I'll have jftHNw ' to go to the hos- MklXNv 7 pital, two of my are broken. pCL | J DEAD EASY. CD JeV I don't see ! '.LfisSJv why they make r% 50 much fuss W 1L about those alr- P' 81163 - anybody \V- BP can fly. LUJ l e. wm •W. ONE OF THE GEt NCA)fe.>-&. LUCKY RICH. WWC A i Why Mary had a little lamb 2 We'll tell you - Ky' in a trice, nk You see it KfiL •wasn't meatless jfScWt ff And Mary had the - price. K WHO HE 'WAS. \ aV' '///fy Cop: Move on bum, or I'll run Bum: Who fcre yomf Cop: I'm the officer on this 1 beat, that's who Ebening (Ehat Men In touch with the trend of education In Pennsylvania say that military training, which has been op posed by many men for the sake of principle and because of expense, will likely be a feature of work next fall at most of the high schools, many of the grammar schools and virtually all of the private schools except some of those which are against It on religious grounds. And even in some of the latter the rudi ments of marching and taking care of self in the fields and woods <vlli be given attention. This is one of the striking results of the great war and It is all the more significant be | cause of the fact that Philadelphia, which furnishes the lead for much of the educational work in the state, is pre-eminently the place where the men who abhorred military ideas left their impress. Now there are well defined moves to have military train ing made a part of the course in every high school In that city, while In Pittsburgh, where schools have been gradually taking it up, it is a foregone conclusion that it will be a feature next fall. And the same may be said of other cities, because where directors opposo they will likely hear from their people in no uncertain terms. In speaking about the moves for military training a prominent educator said yesterday: "It's been coming ever since the war started and It's no use dodging it. Many men oposo It, but they will have to go along. It la the popular desire and you can no more stand against that than you can Introduce Ger man as a course." Another man said that he had been wondering why something was not started long ago. "Ever since we got Into the war and we had those parades of everyone last spring and summer the boys have been taking to marching and the girls, too. I saw that it would lead to military training and have been thinking about It. There will be some expense, but, as was said by a prominent man in Philadel phia, boards can cut out 'frills' now." it may be added that one state official made this terse comment "Submarines oft the coast will make this a state of soldiers faster than anything else the kaiser could have done." Wonder \t- the average Harris burger has noted the increasing number of conventions and confer ences which have agreed upon this city for their annual sessions during 1918. This is a direct result of the building of the Pcnn-Harris hotel. Harrisburg has always, been a great convention city, but owing to inade quate hotel facilities during recent years organizations which desired to 'meet here were compelled to go else where. Now they are swinging back. • • • Only those who are familiar with the conditions which have confronted the builders of the Penn-Harris hotel can have any real conception of the difficulties which have been over come during the last few months. Not only the severe winter, but also a shortage of labor, has conspired to i tard the building activities, but tho contractors are quite confident that they will finish the structure during the early fall. Already the furniture and equipment have been ordered and during the next two or three weeks the exterior work will have been completed. S • • • The coming* of the quarter-million a month movement of cars on the Philadelphia division of the Pennsyl vania railroad, just reported to the men by Superintendent N. W. Smith, Jr., has caused much congratulation among the railroad men In this vicin ity For a long time the men have considered that figure a matter of pride and the record of last May was beaten over 18,000 cars. What la particularly pleasing to the men In the Harrisburg and Enola yard sec tions is the announcement that in May 265,929 cars were handled on all humps in the yards. Yardmen have been struggling to make records nnd succeeded, as notices posted In the yards tell them. An effort will be made to beat the record in June. ♦ • • Production in the iron and steel mills in Harrisburg is said to have reached, the highest figures in the history of the city during May, but the data will not be made public, as practically all of it is going into mu nitions or material for war. The steel production in the city was greater than ever and is to he con siderably increased by the firing up of a newly built open hearth steel furnace at the Central The two furnaces in blast produced close to dally records. • • • William A. Magee, who was sworn in for another term as Public Serv ice Commissioner yesterday, has adopted an outdoor study. The com missioner took the books and papers in a case assigned to him to a bench in a shaded part of Capitol Park and proceeded'to study up in a cool spot. He had only children, squirrels and pigeons to distract his attention. [_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. J. Drexel Blddle, of Philadel phia, is home from Europe, where he spent several weeks studying war conditions. —A. B. Mcintosh, prominent Nor ristown man, has gone to France to work among soldiers. —A. M. Eby, Hazleton banker, well known here, has retired after twenty-four years of service. —M. J. Barker, Uniontown clergy man, will engage in Y. M. C. A. work in the army. —Fred Zimmerman, Philadelphia theatrical man, celebrated his sev enty-fourth birthday. —Recorder P. S. Kift, of Clinton county, has been made chairman of the speaker's bureau of the Public Safety Committee in his county. —General C. T. O'Neil has been elected secretary of the Allentown Chamber of Commerce. —Evan C. Jones is the new presi dent of the Lafayette College alumni. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg lrnlt grVrxls are being sold all over the east ern state? HISTORIC HARRISBURG As late as 1795 wolves used to an noy people on the outskirts of Har risburg. The Lord Rebuketh a King Ahaziah fell down through a lat tice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria; and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover. But tho angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tlshbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is It not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub Uumi of Ekron?—ll Kings, 1.
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