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FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918
Holy truth, eternal right,
Let them break upon my sight.
Let them, shine unclouded, still,
'And with light my being fill.
WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS.
MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS
THE gentlemen of the City Coun
cil are called upon to consider
many problems and when they
realize that the community is al
ways ready to co-operate in every
thing that will aid in the making of
a more wholesome and comfortable
city they will have less difficulty in
correcting some of the things which
are now giving them pause.
For instance, the enforcement of
traffic regulations. Mayor Kelster
has decided to send one of the im
portant officials of the police depart
ment to Kew York City to make a
study of the traffic conditions there
find to utilize what he gathers in
correcting whatever is necessary to
correct in our own city. Through
experience we shall overcome many
of the things which now detract from
our municipal administration, but so
long as" those charged with these
responsibilities manifest a disposi
t.on to study what is best in other
cities, there is hope of material and
j prmanent improvement.
The same thing applies to the care
of shade trees and -the other matters
v hich are now pressing for solu
tion. There is no occasion to wait
until many trees shall have been de
stroyed before definite steps are
taken to protect the remainder. A
Shade Tree Commission ought to
have been created years ago and
some definite plan ought to be con
sidered for the conservation of the
trees we now have and the planting
of thousands more which are needed.
It should also be remembered that
in the difficulties growing out of the
break down in the pumping station
last winter it was understood an
operating superintendent was to be
employed who would give his whole
time to the care of the water supply
of the city. This has not been done
and no reasonable explanation has
ever been made as to why months
have passed without some such ex
pert direction.
So, in the park management and
all matters affecting the welfare of
the community, care must be taken
that in the administration of these
public trusts efficiency is the first
and important factor. As in the in
spection in the ash collection sys
tem, so there might be a proper re
view of all departments from time
to time, that those to whom the peo
ple have entrusted the management
of the city shall have first hand in
formation as to how things are be
ing done and whether all is well.
In the matter of the ash-collection
system, the important thing for the
people who pay the bill is to know
that the plan is efficient and no more
expensive than necessary. If Chief
Inspector Sheesley, as has been inti
mated, Is doing most of his inspecting
*n a telephone at lI.SOO year, his use
fulness may be properly questioned.
THAT FARM TOUR
THE automobile farm tour con
ducted yesterday under the di
rection of County Farm Agent
Niesley was an inspiration to all
who participated. Not only did the
tourists find the crops in good con
dition, but they were impressed by
the serious attitude of the farmers
as to their part in winning the war.
They found the men who are re
sponsible for the food production
of the county keenly alive to their
duty and more than anxious to do
their full part. Scarcity of labor has
had the effect of driving every
farmer to greater efforts than ever
before and the result will be In
creased yields of almost every kind
of farm produce this season.
The day of hlt-or-miss farming
la over In Dauphin county. Mr.
Niesley, the farm agent, has had his
part in putting tradition to flight and
substituting therefor scientific
methods. The farmers recognize in
him an expert in his line, and he in
turn admits that he never falls to
learn something of practical value
from the farmer with whom he
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FRIDAY EVENTS^
talks. Dauphin county farmers are,
as a-whole, prosperous and for years
Jiave conducted their farms along
modern lines. Co-operating with the
farm agent, this efficiency has been |
greatly increased.
Still no explanation of the refusal
to send Major-General Wood to the
fighting front. Perhaps he Is being
kept at home to make a lot of his
countrymen fighting mad.
HOOVER AND BEER
.-ATIONAL Food Administrator
Hoover may have convinced
President Wilson that it would
be unwise to save millions of bushels
of grain by closing the breweries
the United States, but that does not
mean he has convinced the country.
The American people have fol
lowed the lead of Mr. Hoover to
great lengths. They have denied
themselves when he told them it
was necessary and they are willing
to continue a policy of volunteer
rationing that astonishes the food
controllers of European countries.
There Is no limit to their self-de
nial. But when Mr. Hoover begs
them to go without bread and to eat
less grain with one breath and with
the next authorizes the beer makers
of the country to pour millions of
bushels of grains into liquid poison,
even the most zealous and patriotic
citizen will pause for thought.
Mr. Hoover, in a public statement,
explains that if beer-making is
stopped, the drinking public will
turn to whiskey and much harm
will be done. But It remains a fact,
as has been brought out on the floor
of Congress, that since the making
of whiskey has been stopped and the
supply on hand is steadily decreas
ing, the price a few months after
beer went out would become so high
as to prohibitive to any but million
aires. And it remains also a fact
that since a very large number of
saloons are controlled by brewers
these would be closed because traffic
in whiskey alone would not keep
them alive. Mr. Hoover has de
deceived himself, or has been de
ceived, concerning this situation, but
a very large proportion of the peo
ple of the nation have not been de
ceived and they will resent deeply
this robbing of the family kitchen
for the sake of keeping the saloons
open.
"Eat less bread; eat less grain, but
drink just as much beer as you
want."
That in effect is the order from
Washington and it cannot be ex
pected that the housewife, who is
denying her children their usual
ration of bread and is saving grain
wherever possible, will receive it
with any degree of enthusiasm.
If a few people insist upon poison
ing themselves quickly by the use of
whisky because they cannot do it
more slowly by getting beer, that Is
their concern, but to say that the
working people of the nation will be
ruined by an anti-beer order at this
time is an insult to the intelligence
of thinking men who know that the
vast majority of workmen are sober
and industrious.
The liquor traffic, root and branch,
sooner or later must be abolished
and if that can be accomnllshed and
a great saving of foodstuffs afTected
at one and the same time It is fool
ish to delay the ordrr.
Just so long as the Democratic
administration at Washington stands
behind the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages during wartimes and ad
vocates the use of vast quantities of
grain in their making, so long will
a great many' people suspect that
polities as, well as patriotism has a
part in the consideration of those
responsible for the policy.
The gubernatorial situation would
be greatly simplified if Judge Bonni
well would, like Highway Commis
sioner O'Neil, advise all his friends to
support Senator Sproul. It might just
as well be unanimous.
Washington is at last realizing that
this is the people's war, and that they
have a right to know all that is
proper they should know regarding
what is transpiring in the combat
area, especially as to the State troops
and where engaged.
More than 75 per cent, of the young
men who registered Wednesday, hav
ing reached their majority since last
June, are married. Many have de
pendent wives and children.
Those young chaps of 21 years who
registered this week will fill the de
pleted lists of registrants of the first
class subject to draft.
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By the Ex- Committee irf I
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With returns from Allegheny.
Lackawanna and Luzerne counties
not filed, Judge William D. Porter,
of Allegheny, has 254,566 votes for
renomination for superior court, and
Stephen H. Huselton 122,317. The
unofficial returns of Allegheny coun
ty increase Judge Porter's vote- to
319,214 and that of his rival t0*142,-
727.
There is considerable interest in
whether the judge will be the sole
nominee and the State Department
officials are sending out requests for
statements on the total number of
'ballots issued and cast.
Official computation of the votes
cast for the state-wide nominee will
not be started until all of the returns
are in hand and requests have been
made to authorities of counties
which have not filed to expedite the
[ returns.
The statement of J. Denny O'Neil
declaring that he will support Sen
ator William C. Sproul for Governor,
has been considerably commented
upon. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
says that it "fulfills the moral obliga
tion which rested upon him to accept
the result of the Republican pri
mary" and shares the hope of Mr.
O'Neil that Pennsylvania will ratify
the amendment. The Philadelphia
Ledger which was expected to sup
port O'Neil and did not, says: "An
external harmony for the purposes
of the campaign for itate officers
will mean little if no attention is paid
to the complexion of the Legislature.
It is there that the crucial battle will
have to be fought .whether the Gov
ernor be for or against the prohibl-
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
about the declaration: "It is not
surprising that J. Denny O'Neil. who
was the chief competitor of Wiyiam
C. Sproul for the Republican nomi
nation for Governor, should oome out
in a statement announcing his in
tention of supporting Senator Sproul
for the election, and of urging his
friends to do likewise. In doing this
he is simply bowing to the force of
public opinion, which is so strongly
in favor of the Senator from Dela
ware county that any fight against
him would be wasted powder. Mr.
O'Neil, as well as Mr. Hapgood, who
contested the primaries with Senator
Sproul, realize that he won in a
fair battle, and both naturally pledge
their support to his candidacy."
The Philadelphia Bulletin says
that the vote for Huselton is a
"dunce vote," declaring: "It is a
highly notable illustration of the
loose, slovenly and ignorant fashion
in which a large portion of the elec
torate may exefcise their rights at
the polls when a man who is al
most unknown in the greater part
of the Commonwealth and who had
expressly declared that he was not a
candidate, has been voted for by' one
hundred and twenty-five thousand
of his fellow citizens.
—Senator Sproul carried Alle
gheny county by 5772 majority over
O'Neil.
The Republican State Commit*
tee meeting will be notable for
harmony.
—Prospects that the exemption
from payment of Income tax of per
sons deriving their living from sal
aries of public office whether nation
al, state, county or municipal, from
Governors to police officers, has
caused more or less perturbation
throughout this city and the state as
well. The plan at Washington is said
to be to tax the incomes of Congress
men and state legislators and all
clerks and attaches. The result of
this would be that over 1,000 persons
in Harrisburg alone would be affect
ed, v,Salle the total number of persons
on the state payroll, salaried or
otherwise, who would oome under the
law would run about 3,500. One by
one the attractions of public office
in these days of the high cost of
living and numerous appeals for
funds are fading.
—Senator Edward E. Beidleman's
address to the men comprising the
State League of Boroughs at Pitts
burgh is considered to be very signi
ficant. The Senator has taken an ad
vanced stand on the problems at
tending home rule for municipalities
and while he did not make any spe
cific declaration his address in" favor
of a greater measure of such govern
ment was well received. The Senator
iong ago took the position that what
suited Meadeville or Corry did not
suit Harrisburg and that often times
what suited this city did not fit
Wilkes-Barre or Lancaster. Briefly
stated, the Senator favors a code that
would enable third class cities and
boroughs to make their own laws for
local self-government within certain
well defined limits.
—John R. Halsey will probably be
the next Republican county chair
man of Luzerne. The state commit
teemen from that county are Con
gressman T. W. Templeton and Ex-
Senator E. F. James from the Twen
tieth district, and C. D. Coughlin and
Mr. Halsey from the Twenty-first.
—The situation in Lackawanna
county's Republican Senatorial battle
is attracting much attention. Both
•Phillips and Davis claim they have
won and it may be a matter of a few
hundred votes.
—George P. Brumm, who asserts
that he was defrauded of the Repub
lican Congressional nomination by
ballotbox stuffing, yesterday at Potts
ville, filed a statement with the
courts declaring that the County
Commissioners computed false re
turns, and that one of the commis
sioners knew the returns were false.
The commissioner referred to is not
named. W . S. Leib, Republican
ty chairman, is chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, and the
other members are E. C. Brobst, of
Shenandoah, and Thomas McDonald
of Girardville.
'"FIRSTCOURA GE"
[W. Beach Thomas in Current
Opinion],
A comment by the first of our
warriQr politicians will illustrate, if
it may interrupt, my argument. Dur
ing breakfast in Amiens, at the very
height of the Somme battle in 1916
I was inveigled into a discussion on
the morale of soldiers by my im
mediate neighbor, Mr. Lloyd George
"Military men," I said, "unite in say
ing that 'there is no courage like the
first courage.' " "Aha," he answered
with the quickness to develop an
idea that is his leading character
istic, "that Is yet another reason
why we must win." His point is
much stronger to-day than when it
was made. One of the many in
estimable gifts that America will
bring the Allies is a constant supply
of this "first courage." and it will
pertiaps Include new courage in the
domain of general strategy as well
as on the stricken field.
A Close Contest
As hospital bombers the Huns are
beating their own worst records. Air
pirates are running neck and neck
with submarine pirates for the in
humanity stakes.—From the Boston
Traveler.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT
The yellow peril is the yellow
streak.—Memphis Commercial Ap
peal.
Beans and peas and garden-sass,
they tell the Boche he shall not pass.
—Baltimore Sun.
The railroads of the country never
had a more distinguished list of
deadheads.—Boston Herald.
If the Kaiser builds bigger U-boats
the American gunners will find them
easier to hit.—Des Moines Register.
In christening an irshlp we sug
gest the young lady imash a bottle
of liquid air on Its nose.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
For twenty-five years the Kaiser
drilled for war. and now he can't
control the geyser he struck. —Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
One general says the side with the
last reserves will win; and America
is raising 5,000,000 reserves.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Corn bread properly made Is an
ambrosial delight. Corn bread im
properly made tastes like German
propaganda.—Chicago Daily News.
Mr. McAdoo may feel that it is
necessary to fire a railroad president
occasionally to show who is boss.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
O Mme. Breshkovskaya, grand
mother of the Russian revolution,
Jiave you any idea where your wan
dering grandson is to-night?— Ka
nsas City Star.
The "Almighty Dollar" is no longer
the potentate of other days. A dol
lar doesn't get much of anywhere
nowadays without a partner.—Kan
sas City Times.
"Accidental Superfliioiisness"
[From the Wall Street Journal.]
An all too fast disappearig gene
ration of older railroad executives
are accustomed when recalling Gen.
James C. Clarke, for many years be
fore his death president of the Illi
nois Central, to speak of his stately
courtliness, the warm Southern tinge
of his hospitality and the depth and
breadth of his personal charity,
which ever kept him in lean purse.
But the general was also a live rail
roader, no respecter of mere custom,
and well to the fore in the era which
transferred Chicago from a Michigan
port to the largest interior continen
tal city in the world.
General Clarke was fond of telling
how in the poßt-bellum days an order
was issued from the head offlc?e of
one southern system that no more
personal valets sliould be carried on
the payrolls, and that the name of
the bureau of which it was part
should be painted on the door of
each room.
Shortly after the president, on a
personal inspection tour, opened the
door of a very small room and con
fronted an ancient negro of eminent
ly respectable and respectful . mien.
Said the president:
"Tou black rebel, are you still
here?"
"I shoa is," he bowed.
"And what payroll are you on?"
"I doan't know what payroll, Gin
eral, but I bresh de colonel's coat,
black his shoes, comb his haid and
sech. He says to me jes like dis:
Major, he say, ef dat damned fool old
Gineral come roun hyar axin whut
youah honah's pardon, I'm in de de
yoah air doin hyar jes tell 'im, axin
partment of accidental superfluous
ness."
~~SERVIA
When the heroic deeds that mark
our time
Shall, in far days to come, re
corded be,
Men, much forgetting, shall re
member thee,
Thou central martyr of the Monster-
Crime,
Who kept thy soul clear of the ooze
and slime—
The quicksands of deceit and per
jury—
A living thing, unconquered still
and free.
Through superhuman sacrifice sub
lime.
O Servia! amid thy ruins great.
Love is immortal; there's an end to
hate.
Always there will be dawn, tho
dark the night.
Look up, thou tragic Glory! Even
now.
The thorny round that binds thy
bleeding brow
Is as a crown Irradiating light! '
—Florence Earle (Joates.
Wartime Prohibition
THE following facts are taken]
from an article dated April 61
by Walter F. Ballinger, mem
ber of the firm of Ballinger and Per
rot, architects and engineers. Seven
teenth and Arch streets, Philadel
phia, and sent out widely over the
state. The war is becoming serious
business with all of us. We simply
must save every last possible pound
of foodstuff, coal and transportation
power which is now being used by
the liquor traffic.
Food Shortage
Million
bushels.
Shortage of crops in France,
the United Kingdom, Italy
and Belgium in 1917
(wheat) 196
Shortage of crops in France,
the United Kingdom, Italy
and Belgium in 1917 (other
cereals) • 380
Annual grain exports to Uiose
countries from the United
States before the war ... 102
Grain to be sent to Allies be
fore harvest 75
Grain sunk by submarines
last year 8
Grain used in America by
breweries 68
Grain used in England by
breweries ?
Germany has recently forbidden
the use of foodstuffs to make beer.
Sixty-eight million bushels at an
average of 4 5 pounds per bushel
equals over three billion pounds
which would bit sufficient for as
many one-pound loaves of bread an
nually or divided by three hundred
sixty-five days (3,000,000,0Q0 pounds
divided by 365 days equals 8,219,000
loaves) equals over eight million
loaves of bread per day, probably
enough bread for the armies at the
front of the United States, France
and England with considerable over,
but not enough for the starving peo
ple of Belgium, Armenia and Syria.
If drink were abolished, labor con
ditions on farms as well as with farm
machinery, fertilizers and transpor
tation, would be so improved as to
increase production at least five per
TO HIS SOLDIER SON
[From the Atlantic Monthly.]
How shall I speak of the tempta
tions that you are sure to meet, my
son? Don't think that lam going to
preach to you. My little homilies
have been spread pretty thickly over
the brief years of your past life, and
if they have not been woven into the
fabric of your unphrased philosophy,
they cannot now be abruptly gather
ed into the pattern. But we who are
older and a bit scar worn would so
gladly enlist in a sort of moral sig
nal service that would warn you of
the presence of lurking enemies.
I need not specify them you
know we have talked them all over.
You in your own way are the only
one who can conquer them. I have
faith in your strength. Are you not
strong enough to give you? soul its
orders and see to it that each sepa
rate command is implicitly obeyed?
It is only thus that strong and en
during character is developed. It is
only through this experience and
triumph that you can return to
your home, your mother, and your
friends, and carry in your soul the
sweet satisfaction of knowing your
self to have been valiant, pure and
reli.ant<
I I learn from your mother's letter
j your single blue service star now
| hangs In the window of our lonely
home. Another, amid many more,
hangs in the vestry of the church.
In fancy I shall select the one I call
yours; and I shall have faith that,
in the midst of the red, which sym
bolizes carnage, and the white, which
symbolizes purity, your period of en
listment, will but deepen the blue,
which symbolizes loyalty.
RULES FOR GARDENER
In tools for gardening, you require
a wheel-hoe, with cultivator, rake,
plow, side-hoe, seed-dropper and all
the wrinkles, about $14.35; miscella
neous hand-hoes, rakes, cultivators,
pushers, pullers, persuaders, and
grabbers. $27.56. Total about $41.91.1
These tools are not to use on youri
own garden, but to lend to your
neighbors. You do your own work
with tools borrowed from one neigh
bor while another is using the ones
you bought. Garden tools are like a
circulating library, only very few of
the things come back. You must also
have a large supply of monkey
wrenches, Stilson wrenches, ham
mers, saws, screw-drivers, etc., be
cause the neighbors who borrow your
garden tools will naturally hesitate
to ask you to come over and fix 'em
when they get out of whack, but will
cent. This would add thirty-four
million bushels of wheat or two hun
dred thirty-two million bushels of all
kinds of grain. When we set our
own house in order we may ask Great
Britain and France to do likewise.
Coal Shortage
Tons.
The breweries of the
country used, in 1917,
over three million tons
of coal 3,000,000
Anthracite coal mine op
erators estimate that
the decreased produc
tion of anthracite alone
by reason of alcoholic
drink is seven and one
half million tons per
year 7,500,000
Or about 11 per cent.
(11 per cent.) of the
total production.
If the same conditions
prevail with bitumin
ous, the lessened pro
duction of bituminous
is fifty-six million tons 56,000,000
The production of bi
tuminous coal to an
thracite being seven
and one-half to one.
The total additional coal
available without em
ploying one more man
or investing one more
dollar for plant is over
sixty-six million tons. . 66,000,000
And your factory, or busi
ness or home needs coal.
Transportation
Required by breweries. Tons.
Raw material, 3,000,000,-
000 lbs. foodstuffs .... 1,500.000
Require coal, tons 3,000,000
Product, 60,000,000 bar
re's , 9,000,000
Total on teams and cars 13,500,000
All of which require hauling and
over one-ttalf of which require rail
road transportation. This requires
over 200,000 freight cars during the
year, and uses several hundred lo
comotives constantly, and increases
freight congestion. The shortage of
labor due to drink is a big factor in
the freight tie-up.
be glad to borrow the tools to fix 'em
with. So you just gotta have plenty of
implements and tools. —Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
The Vital Facts
Regarding the case of the Kansan
whose home was raided for booze
and seven hundred pounds of hoard
ed flour was found instead, a thirsty
reader from Oklahoma inuires
whether the flour has been thorough
ly sifted.—Pittsburgh Leader.
• Somehow or Other
Somehow or other, I'believe
W're paid about what we should
receive,
For what Life sets on the credit side
To the debtor Death is not denied.
And Someone sets the balance right
With seven stars for His candle
light. • • •
I'll not much care for anything
When it comes to that final reckon
ing.
Somehow or other, I believe
There is utter rest for hearts that
grieve,
And Peace with a cool green coverlet
Will tuck us in when the time is set,
On a little hill, and we shall not miss
The toys of day for her goodnight
kiss,
And Love will come like a weary
thing
Home at last from the watjdering.
Somehow or other. I believe
There's a Plan beneath that we don't
perceive.
For a thought that's low or a life
that's foul
Set their sign in belly or Jowl,
And little faith or a withered soul
Will weazen a face like a shriveled
Scroll. • * •
Travel the path that the doubters
trod,
But find at the end of the Journey—
God.
Somehow or other, I believe
He is strong like a brother to relieve;
And when I'm gone like a puff of
wind,
The good I've done, and the evil
sinned,
The hopes I've lost, and the soul I've
made,
The loves I've known, and the pray
ers I've prayed,
Will seem like a strangely futile
thing
In the light of His face at the bal
ancing.—Wiliard Wattles In the New
York Independent
JUNE 7, 1918.
LABOR NOTES
Queen's County (Iceland) National
Teachers' Association has strongly
protested the inadequacy of the gov
ernment grant for Irish primary edu
cation.
Union painters and paperhangers
at MiVphis, Tenn., have increased
wages 2V6 cents an hour. The new
rates are $5 and |5.20 a day, respect
ively.
Five hundred journeymen tailors
at Winnipeg, Canada, demand a
wage increase of approximately 15
per cent., Saturday half-holiday and
time and one-half for overtime.
Masons, carpenters and plasterers
of Wexford. Ireland, went on strike
when their demand for a $lO-a-week
minimum wage was refused by the
employers.
Within the last year there have
been twenty-four unions organized
in the Cumberland district, which in
cludes Western Maryland and that
part of West Virginia.
Three thousand strikers in the em
ploy of the Great Central Railway
(British) Works resumed work when
their wages were increaser 12 1-2 per
cent.
On May 13 at Chicago, 111., Ameri
can Federation of Musicians will
convene.
OUR DAILY LAUCH
§ ROMANCE VS.
REALISM.
How did Tom
Come to break
with Miss Sweet?
He used to say
that she was as
good as gold.
Yes, but you
see he's got ac
quainted with a
girl who has gold.
A CONSIDER- f ————|
ATE HUSBAND. fr-
band isn't good to
you apply for a
separate mainte- El
What's the use J lj
home as it is.
A UOMPU
p-yLW: rV"| MENT.
r~ i r| hi How are you
fejp-1'• '' getting along
with your auto,
m A constable
■\W cautioned me last
night about daz
i )j' \1 zling lamps.
5- I frjfcriig Ah, he mus*
have gotten
glimpse of your
eyes.
HOW CRUEL!
Hubby (from^^^
nobody will ever
suspect you.
■ So the great ac
tor was Invited
Yes, but I don't
believe he en-
called a good
A PROSPECT f, f
IVE CROP. .
Doing any gar- rfHk Jpßj-r
denlng this year? J
A little in that j
line. I'm train- I j
lng a neighbor's |i |
bean vine to grow
over on my side -jL
of the fence.
• t
tEtonuu} CHjal
Dauphin county farmers and poul
try raisers have killed more roosters
in the last fortnight than ever known
in any similar period ani 1 still the
number roaming about tne barn
yards and the poultry fens is de
clared to be far in excess of the'
needs. Last month the state, farm
advisers, who had been observing
poultry conditions closely. Issued the*
suggestion that farmers "who had
kept roosters through the winter and
fed them up in spite of the high
price of grain had better realize
now and that It would be a mistake
to carry roosters through the sum
mer when there is a tremendous
crop of spring chickeps coming on
because of the very extensive man
ner in which people have taken up
the hint from Hoover to raise poul
try for food purposes. The conse
quence has been that the markets
here and the poultry shipping crates
have been filled with roosters. The
number has been so large that It
has attracted attention and the sug
gestion was made at one of the
markets here on Wednesday that In
war years there are more males
born than females probably caused
many roosters to enter life. Other
farmers declared that it was due to
the urging of national and state au
thorities two years ago that poultry
be increased. In any event in spite
of the fact that farmers' dinners are
being graced by chicken more than
usual in Dauphin and Cumberland
townships the markets are filled with
the chanticleers.
Members of the Lemoyne troop
of Boy Scouts ore covering tjje lower
end of Cumberland county In the
service of Uncle Sam to-day locating
black walnut trees and filing reports
concerning where they are located.
The boys were in uniform and are
equipped with the proper credentials,
asking farmers to admit them to
their premises and to give them as
much information as possible con
cerning the available supply of black
walnut in the district. While the
request for this work is not accom
panied by any reason it is presumed
that the government wants this in
formation in order to have its hand
on the available supply of black wal
nut for the manufacture of gun
stocks, for which purpose it has
proved to be ideal. The boys ride
up to a farmhouse door and politely
ask for fhe owner or his representa
tive, state their purpose, show their
credentials and ask for the informa
tion needed. The report as to loca
tion, owner, number of trees and
shipping facilities is then made out.
The Scouts of the bicycle patrol are
doing the work and expect to com
plete it by this evening.
Ed son J. Hockenbury, when he com
nlets the Annville college campaign
for the raising of $550,000 for that
institution among the United Breth
ren Church people of the state, will
go to "Wildwood Crest for a rest. Mr.
Hockenbury has conducted numer
ous campaigns the past year in many
parts of this country and Canada
and all of them havo been success
ful. He has just purchased a hand
some home at Bellevue Park and the
family will remain here until Im
provements completed there are
finished and will then go to the slWre
for the summer. Mr. Hockenbury is
an enthusiastic and successful fish
erman and is secretary of. the Wild
wood Crest Fishing Club, which he
helped organize last season. Ho
landed two big channel bass last
summer, one nearly 40 pounds in
weight, and will try for more of
this rare and gamey fish this year.
• • •
Another ardent fisherman who
nrefers his vacations in the open to
the pleasures of the big resorts is
former Mayor J. William Bowman,
who is never happier than when he
,'s helping entertain his own and
nther boys along the streams and
n the woods of this section. Mr.
bowman's numerous duties—he is
■onnected with practically every one
of the war activities of the city—
orevent any prolonged fieriods of
■ecreation this summer, hut the day
light saving statute has enabled him
to slip off occasionally for an hour
ir two on the creeks and a supper
■ooked in the open.. When friends
it Mr. Bowman, George P. Reinoehl
ir Norris Longaker fail to locate
hem at any of their accustomed
■iaunts they lay a bet that the trio
| has gone fishing—and nine times
out of ten they win.
♦ • •
The life of a stockbroker Isn't all
'rills and laughter. Even the ma
nipulator of the markets has his
rials and troubles. A. H. Gorney,
manager of Howard A. Riley and
n ompany's branch office hero, tells
i tale of his being called to the
country to see some stock and ap
praise its value. "I hoarded a jerk
water train, -and after two hours
>f agony, reached the town. I went
o widow's house and after a
•-ant chat, asked to see the stock.
Whereupon she took me to the barn
• nrl showed me the farm stock. She
maglned that T appraised the horses
nd cows, and not gilt-edged secur
tics."
! WELLJCNOWN fEOPLE_J
—Dr. Thomas S. March, head of
•lie Greenshurg schools and hlstor
:in, was here yesterday to see
p riends at the Capitol.
—Charles H. Bean, new president
of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange,
s a director in a number of street
ailways.
—John C. Frazee. who was here
vesterday for the War Board meet
!ng\ Is active In the campaign to get
boys to work on farms.
—Ellsha Kent Kane, prominent
Prohibitionist, who was here for the
annual meeting, Is a member of a
f :imtly with large interests In Me-
Kean county.
—Prof. W. W. Elster is the new
principal of the Shamokin High
School.
—John D. Mishler, of Altoona, Is
•aklng a prominent part In the
meeting of the State Posters conven
tion at York.
[ DO YOU KNOW *~]
—That Harrisburg is selling more
of Its products to the government
now than ever before?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Recruiting places were in Market
Square where the speakers stand t
now located. a 18
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Also Applies to the Athletics
An expert presents the opinion that
the Detroit baseball club will win
,'ames as soon as it begins to hit
ind score more runs. That- anrt
hutting out the opposition would
iccomplish wonders.—From the nil
'.roit News, e ~
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