6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A VBWSPAPBR FOR TUB HOMB Pounded jtfl • Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Tdcmrh Building, Federal Sqaare. IE. J. ST ACKPOLE, Prt/t fr Editor-in-CMrf F. R. OYSTER, Busintss Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press— The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- Eastern office, Sintered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. tiTTTT) By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance, SATURDAY, JUXE 22, 1918 V Though life is made up of mere bub bles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole Jot of trou bles, The most of them never occur. — NIXON WATERMAN. HARMONIOUS GATHERING THE meeting of the Dauphin County Republican committee to-day was in marked contrast ■with that of the Democratic commit tee of a few days since. The gather ing, characterized as it was by en tire harmony of thought and action, is the forerunner of a big Repub lican vote at the general elections in the Fall. Dauphin county may be ■ counted upon to do even better by Senator Sproul this year than It did for any of the Republican candidates for Governor In recent contests, which Is saying much. The re-election of William H. Horner as county chairman, puts at the head of the committee a man well-known in all part* of the dis trict and experienced in the con duct of campaigns. Mr. Horner has the respect and confidence of every member of the committee. He is thoroughly competent for the vast detail caused by modern methods of canvassing and has always been a staunch Republican. The same may be said of the two vice-chairmen, James E. Lentz, who has the confi dence of the voters of all parties in the upper end, and Mark Mumma, than whom there Is no better known * Republican in the southern section of the county. The same may be said of Al. S. Cooper who through many changes of political conditions and leadership has been retained for many years by the committee as its efficient secretary. It begins to appear that Von Hin denberg got sick just in time to save his reputation. "WEAR OLD CLOTHES" WEAR old clothes," advises Miss Ruth Fisher, the economic ex pert, who has 'been addressing meetings of women here this week. We're doing it. Miss Fisher, we're doing it; and we suspect there are many more like us. Unless our experienced eye has lost its cunning we decry upon the streets these days many of our aforetime "best dressers" clad in Palm Beaches and other summerweight garments, vintage of 1916 and earlier. "It Is your patriotic duty to wear last year's garments," says Miss Fisher. Yea, and more, it is a grim eco nomic necessity. What with Thrift Stamps and Lib erty Bonds, and Red Cross, and Y. M. C. A., and Knights of Columbus, and tfce ever steadily advancing prices, the man or woman who is fortunate enough to have retained right and title to a "L. Y." garment, hat or pair of oxfords, pats himself on the back and rejoices as a three year-old facing a mangerful of oats. The Senator who believes the effi ciency of the ship yards would be lowered 25 per cent, by prohibition no doubt would be willing to go n step farther and logically argue that if all the ship builders were dead diunk the capacity would be increased at least 100 per cent. HASTE NECESSARY IT Is not surprising to find city councilmen In favor of trans ferring the Walnut street viaduct fund for the erection of the proposed monumental brldgo over the rail road at State street. Every argu ment favors such a course. The Stata street development, through the generosity of the State and the assistance of the Pennsylvania railroad, will be so far superior both as to looks and utility that there can bo no comparison between it and the purely commercial viaduct proposed for Walnut street. The city has also to think of the fact that the $300,000 set aside for a bridge at Walnut street would not now be sufficient for the purpose; at i least $150,000 more would be need k ed, which, If the city were to build at SATURDAY EVENING, Walnut street, the taxpayers would have to meet. There Is, too, to con sider the proposed extensions from the bridge to the Twelfth street play grcund, not possible under the ori ginal plans, and other approaches from the terrace at the top of the hill. Immediate action should be taken by the city authorities looking to ward the transfer of the Walnut street fund. The development of the Capitol extension plan is highly important from Harrisburg's view point. It means the transformation of the heart of the city. The State street viaduct is to be an essential part of this improvement and by every reasonable argument should be the first to be built. The State Is willing and anxious to do its part. J The city should hasten to co-operate, j Emperor Charles will have to ad- ] mit that his Cabinet has some excuse j for quitting. WHERE TO BUY ORDER your Thrift Stamps from your letter carrier, is the ad vice of Postmaster Frank C. Sites, and unless you are pledged to purchase from some other agency, the mall man Is the most conven ient means of supplying yourself with the stamps you owe it to youfself and the government to buy. The letter carrier not only brings the stamps to your door in any quantity you may desire, but he Is striving for a prize to be awarded If he is among the leading postoffice stamp salesmen at the close of the year. Help yourself, help Uncle Sam and help the faithful mail carrier all at the same time. Bulgaria is also getting a taste of the generosity of Germany, and likes it almost as well as Belgium does. HELP THE FARMERS IT was a rule with Captain John Smith in the early days of Eng lish settlement in this country that "he who will not work may not eat," and it may easily happen that next winter, unless we work on the farms this summer we may not eat as much as we need to keep down the pangs of hunger. The farmer is in the midst of his harvest season. He will be a very busy man for the remainder of the summer alld autumn, but from now until the hay, wheat, rye and oats are all safely housed and the corn worked beyond the stage where weeds and grass can retard the crop, he will not only be busy but very anxious as well. For not only has he larger plantings than usual of almost all staples, but his labor sup ply below normal. In short, he has more work than ever to do, and fewer men to do it. We are asked to help him in order that he may provide us with the food we must have. There Is no reason why the plan of those back of the movement for an increase of farm workers cannot be materialized. Thousands of city men came from the farms and many of them could give a day or two to farm work the coming suiiHtfipiUftit the effort must be carefully organ ized and skilfully handled or it may do more harm than good. Volun teers therg will be in plenty if the project is given proper publicity and is well arranged. THE SLAVIC LEGION NEWS that President Wilson has given his approval to the or ganization and training under the War Department of a "Slavic Legion." to be composed of Slavs, Jugo-Slavs, Czech-Slovenes and Poles in this country not subject to draft and who volunteer for the service, will be received with great joy by countless men of Slavic extraction in the United States, whose sympathies are with the allies and who resent being classed as alien enemies. Organization as units of the American Army of men in America belonging to the oppressed races of the Austro-Hungarian and German empires long has been urged by Slav leaders in the United States and the appropriation favored by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, providing money for the organization of such a division no doubt will be adopted as part of the general army appropri ation bill. Italy hus recognized the claims of these oppressed Slavic peoples and has even admitted to her armies a division or two made up of volun teers from the districts she has agreed to protect in a territorial way at the conclusion of the war. These men have no sympathy either with the dual monarchy or with Ger many, their hate of the latter be ing as strong as that of any of the soldiers on the allied side. They are lovers of freedom and independ ence. They want to fight because they have deep convictions as to the right of the allied cause. Such men make good soldiers. They are ready to go to war because they have a principle at stfcke. The proposed Slavic unit will give good account of itself, no doubt. A GRACIOUS ACT THAT was a gracious thing which the Harrisburg Rotary Club did Thursday when it took a num ber of talented Harrisburg people to Gettysburg and gave an entertain ment for the soldiers of the Tank Corps in camp there, and it was very generous of the entertainers to give their time. But the benefit was not all one-sided. The soldiers gave the club members something, too. The visitors brought back to their homes a better understanding of the camp conditions, of the soldier's en thusiasm, self-sacrifice, good cheer and devotion to duty than £hey could have gathered in any other way. They are the better equipped to maintain the second line of defense by keeping up the morale at home than they were before they went. The pity is that all Americans can not have the opportunity of observ ing the soldier under training at short range. •"PolaZc* CK By the Kx-Oommttteemaa | I Men high In the councils of the reorganization faction of the Demo cratic party, who control the state committee and have a majority of the seven state-wide candidates with them, are by no means disposed to pass up unheeded the challenge of their sincerity as party leaders by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the j Democratic nominee for governor. They have recovered from the un deniable shock of the nominee's re fusal to address the state committee and his attack upon the official heads of the party organization and in tend to take steps to place the judge in a position of refusing an offer of particfpation In the campaign. State Chairman George R. Mc- Lean, who has been in Washington the last few days, has been in con ference with leaders and it is ex pected that some men friendly to the judge and the dominant faction chiefs will be busy in the next ten days. The call for the meeting of the candidates to select a campaign com mittee will be deferred until the judge's temper is ascertained and there are hopes expressed here that he will "cool off," as one of the speakers at the Democratic state committee phrased it. In the event that he refuses the candidates will be called to meet and representa tive Democrats from all parts of the state will be asked here at the same time so that the meeting will be more or less of a high party council and the judge by absenting himself will be in the position of twice flout ing his party leaders and the man chosen as chairman by the state committeemen elected by the Demo cratic voters at the primary where he won his own victory. If the judge declines to attend this impres sive meeting there will be another opportunity given for him to pre sent his platform ideas to the reso lutions committee. If he refuses to accept then the state leaders will submit their cause to the voters and wage a campaign in behalf of the state ticket. —Congressman Benjamin K. Focht, of Lewisburg, who 1s always vigorous In his Republicanism, has written a letter full of ginger to a Waynesboro constituent, who had in quired of him as to some signs of the times. The congressman says in his letter: "I wish to say that I am in hearty accord with your view as to the objects and purposes of the Democratic party, and that the only way to frustrate this de sign is to elect Republicans who can be depended upon to look out for the business interests of the people who do business, conserve xbeir earnings nnd pay the war bill. The Repub lican party must come into power in 1920 as the country* * only salvation covering the reconstruction period. Broadly speaking, America must be virtually remade in an way, and to do It right and in a sub stantial and enduring way, the Re publican party, respecting as it does business, vested rights and protec tion to labor and all industry, must be the architect of this new struc ture." —The bulk of the newspapers of Pennsylvania simply regard the row between Judge Bonniwell and his (party chiefs as only another out break of the perennial Democratic illness and are inclined to offer thanks that it has occurred at this time. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says "no consideration of common wealth welfare actuated any of those who engaged In the contest for con trol of the party machinery" and the Philadelphia Public Ledger in a Washington dispatch says there is a growing impression that the general policy of the Democratic party this fall may be "wet," which Is illumi nating when this week's events are considered. The Wilkes-Barre Rec ord declares that Bonniwell's state ments are of a character "not equaled In all the vicarious fluctua tions of Pennsylvania politics." The Scranton Republican says the chasm is "not likely to be bridged over by any diplomatic negotiations." The Philadelphia Press has some fun with the Democrats in its good old fashioned Republican way and says Bonniwell will have "to put up with" Logue, with whom he is reported to have refused to shake hands. Erie and Willlanjsport papers look for a guerilla warfare all fall and the Altoona Tribune remarks: "And so Bonniwell wouldn't play with the reorganizers of his party. What will you bet that the reorganizers do not surrender, after all?" —The Philadelphia city commit tee toeing bent upon re-electing City Chairman Lank as desired by Charles P. Donnelly, Judge' Bonniwell will ignore that committee as represent ing Democracy and name his own. The judge will be in Philadelphia to day to arrange for his new state committee. —The newspapers of the state which are now Democratically in clined, are giving thanks to the Re publicans for nominating Sproul. From an American Port The cautious blue pencil of the cen sor is perhaps reflected in the report of a celebration by the American colony at Shanghai of the seven tieth anniversary of the founding of the Pacific Mail, when one speaker appropriately recalled, according to the official narrative in Commerce Reports, that it was exactly 13 4 years ago that the first American ship, the Empress of China, sailed from "a port of the United States" for Canton. Would mention of the name of the port that the Yankee ship sailed from, more than a cen tury ago, be giving valuable infor mation to the enemy? Eet us trust thnt no confidence is violated in stat ing that according to the historical account of the famous voyage, the Empress of China sailed from N—w Y—k.—Providence Journal. May Close 300 Saloons High cost of intoxicating liquor, war taxes, and reduction of the mas culine population through the opera tion of the draft law, are ascribed as the reason for prediction that Mil waukee's saloons will decrease by three hundred July 1, the renewal date for .licenses;, With 1,980 saloor)s at present, Milwaukee has the great est number of any city in the coun try in proportion to population.— Milwaukee Leader. Another Drive Halted [From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.] Nothing German has any chance thin year; the wheat raisers have licked the Hessian fly. For the Present at Least [From the New Orleans States.] There are only sixteen places in New York where a horse can get a drink, but there are several thousand where a man can get one. HAJRJUSBURG flfWfcftM TELEGRAPH! WHAT HANDICAPPING DOES TO A GOLFER ... .... ... BY BRIGGS (WHY .SHOULD I V LIiTeNJ BlLfc | / WCLL BILL I MOM I / CERTAINLY- t! J( CepT'NLY ! 1 Give. You A ,oI a / without J/ cbrtaimuv!i wl§ wtVw v3Sr Cert-nly b.ll- STROKe. A HOUSr?! Y^R l. | TH HANDICAP- - / AND You YELLIWG 1 HAMDTCAP AIOO J/vm TCU-IIVJ 30- I SHOOLD SaV NOT /AcMi EMT MB I £°£SS I PLAYeP /4ft)R A STROKE I EV/6R'THIWS _ // You OU6HTA fiive, ser/ yi T~ IF H6 r DID i Tei_Ll A-YIP LL '£ y °° HADN ' I "The 19TH K,' a. r i yoh!!?- ano YM HYJuSt Wl JUAWKI~<i FOR*y/ B .TM H! H V K..OP CTBOKFI W STROKE A /" / BILL M/AS >*IAR OU6R / , ~I CERT'IMLV V NIME HOLE- MY HERBS A GO ' - WE ve * <=7,^ LP I |\ _ MXIVE 60T(JH @A2)A HAD A Mice % „ Z, i LABOR NOTES It is expected that the War De partment will establish field training camps for army nurses in order to overcome the shortage. Workingmen in Germany will not strike, even though they are under paid. They are sticking to their work because thfeir country needs their labor. The British Ministry of National Service has authorized the enlistment of 35,500 hitherto exempted men un der 31 engaged in agriculture. Women war workers have proved successful in every occupation ex cept as street car conductors in Ber lin, It being claimed that they are extremely insulting to passengers. Vocational re-education and em ployment of disabled soldiers in France is under the supervision of the Minister of Labor. The great Hog Island shipyard on the Delaware river employs 600 wo men workers in office work, but it is probable they will be called upon to enter the actual laboring field if the war continues long. The women's committee of the Council of National Defense is tak ing up the question of training camps for women, the necessary educational and "recruiting" propaganda, and welfare work for women on farms. In order to meet the shortage of labor in time of high pressure, espe cially of skilled labor in transporta tion and communication, recourse! has lately been had In Germany to j a new method, viz., the establish ment of special labor and distribu tion offices. A law is proposed in Argentina authorizing a commission to prepare a code of national insurance, includ ing maternity, sickness, old age, un employment, widow's and orphans', and accident insurance. In England before the war thej average wage for women employed by time rate, doing 48 hours a week, was 12s. ($2.92). At the present time the lowest rate for time yoric for adult women is 225. ($5.35), and the average rate for .women time workers is 255. ($6.08) a week. A system of State life insurance was organized in Queensland, Aus tralia, by the insurance act, 1916. It has beeVi effective since February 1, 1917. It is administered by the State Insurance Office, which also has taken over the administration of the accident insurance of the state established under the workmen's compensation act, 1916, and a fire and a miscellaneous accident Insur-' ance business. No Blot on Social Scutcheon The rumor that Mrs. Occy Watt es beats the dinner beefsteak is un true. That noise was Mr. Watts cracking ice to make Ice cream.— Kansas City Star. FRANCE By Cecil Chesterton Because for once the sword broke in her hand, The words she apoke seemed per ished for a space; All wrong was brazen, and in every land The tyrants walked abroad with naked face. The waters turned to blood as rose the star Of evil fate denying all release. The rulers smote the feeble, crying "War" The usurers robbed the naked, crying "Peace!" And her own feet were caught in nets of gold. And her own soul profaned by sects that squirm, And little men climbed to high seats, and sold Her honor to the vulture and the worm. And she seemed broken and they called her dead, The Over-Men, so brave against the weak. Has your last word of sophistry been said, O cult of slaves? Then it is here to speak. Clear the slow mists from her half darkened eyes, As slow mists parted over Valmy fell, And once again her hands in high surprise Take hold upon the battlements of Hell, Booze and Pro-Germanism CIARGING that the outstanding enemies in this country to the winning of the war are the brew ers and the German-American Al liance, Wayne B. Wheeler, general oounsel for the Anti-Saloon League of America, in an address at the Illinois Ratification Convention, in the arsenal at Springfield, HI., Fri day, June 4, said that wlieiT the food bill first came up in the House at) Washington, a majority adopted the provision to prevent the waste of food in making liquor during the war. It went to the Senate, the ma jority of the Senate favored it and the nation was oveVwhelmingly for it. A few champions of the beer trade threatened to kill the vital food legislation by a filibuster unless the beer provision was eliminated. Be cause of preliminary advantage which they had, they forced the beer provision out. • Mr. Wheeler continued: "The national food administration tells us that food will win the war. Patriots save it by the crumb, and brewers waste it by the ton. Forty million bushels of food material are wasted every year in making beer. "Transportation facilities should be increased so as to speed up war activities. The brewers use more than 100,000 cars a year to carry on their harmful industry. "Fuel is vital to victory to run the factories and send the ships with supplies. The 'brewers are using at least 5,000,000 tons a year to make beer and it slows down the energy of the people when it is needed to be at high speed. "Field, factory and farm are crip pled for want of labor and man power. The liquor industry had posed for years that it is employing almost a million men. This man-power, if put into useful, productive indus tries, will help instead of hinder the war. "The connection between the brewers and the disloyal German- American Alliance, damaging and conclusive, was revealed ill the hear ing before the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary. "The German Alliance has been ! proved to be pro-German, anti- American and un-American. Its WEDDING GIFT TO POOR (From Lloyd's News, London) The lord maypr has received the following letter from Lord Stam fordham: "Dear Lord Mayor: The king and queen are greatly touched by the generous wish of the city of London to commemorate their majesties' silver wedding by presenting them with a' gift to be devoted to any charity selected by themselves. "Their majesties also much appre ciate the expressed desire at the same time to offer for their accept ance a small individual memento. While the king and queen feel that during this time of war nothing should be diverted from charitable purposes, they are led to make an exception, but only in the case of the capital of the empire. Such a personal gift will be handed down to posterity as a precious token ot the affection of its citizens on the occasion of the twenty-Hfth anniver sary of their majesties' happy mar ried life." The date of their majesties' silver wedding is Saturday, July 6. The silver wedding fund is now open and subscriptions may be sent to the lord mayor at the Mansion House or paid into the account of the fund at the Bank of England. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE Song of a fair May morning. When the sky is bluer than blue And the white clouds floating across It Seem almost too white to be true, When the air is sweet with clover, And hums with the busy bee. And across the gray salt marches. The guns thunder out to the sea, I And the dead lie in rows With their face to the foes Only a mile from me. —By Mulford Doughty Camphire in the Vineyards My beloved Is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En gedi. The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. —Song of Solomon i, 14 to 17. Testing Times A man cannot know himself with out a trial; no one has ever learned what he could do without putting himself to the teat.—Seneca. ■chief purpose, according to the evi dence before the Senate Judiciary Committee, was to promote German Kultur and to protect liquor by or ganizing German citizens into alli ances for political purposes support ing those who favored the aims of the alliance. It tried to force the teaching of German in the public schools for, as they said: "As the root is to the tree, the German lan guage is to the German people." The president of the alliance openly said that our form of government was a failure. "The kaiser decorated the presi dent of the alliance with a cross for the services he rendered Germany in this country. "The official bulletin of the alli ance published articles which con doned those who hold loyalty to Germany first even though they have taken the oath of allegiance to America. "The purpose of our government was to establish a more perfect unit. The purpose of the German- American Alliance in so far as it was successful, prevented a perfect union of those who believe in America and American spirit. "The German Alliance disbanded under fire and Congress will doubt less take from it its national charter. It is a traitor in the home camp and the brewers who have financed it should suffer the same penalty of condemnation. "Several breweries have been seiz ed as alien enemy property and others should be. The Geo. Ehret Brewery of New Jersey is now under the control of the Government. The property of Mrs. Adolphus Busch may be taken over and if all the breweries that were aiding the enemy indirectly were seized, the Government would have control of the whole beer industry. "The Gerrrian-American Alliance and the pro-German brewers of this country have no claim on patriots. The challenge to loyal Americans is to cut off the source of revenue of , the German Alliance by prohibiting the liquor traffic in this nation. When the beer traffic is stopped, the German-American Alliance dries I UP-" FRANCE CALLS TO ME By Harry Webb Forrlngton I Across the sea There comes the call Of France to me. I hear the muffled, tender sound Of little children, underground, Denied, bereft of everything: The right to play, to learn, and sing. Dear little child Across the sea, I'll come to sing And play with thee. II From over there, I hear the call From France in prayer: The women calling for their mate, Now widowed by the Huns of Hate; Brides, homeless, childless, all alone. Are brooding o'er a pile of stone. Heroic souls, I'll come to share Thy bitter grief And blind despair. 111 From over sea. There comes sad sound From France to me: The painful peal of broken bells. Now shattered by Satanic shells; The war-sick wind, that wails and whines Through battered walls of sacred shrines 0 House of Prayer, Where God's yet found I'll help to heal Thy wicked wound. IV Beyond the Seine, 1 hear the cry Of France in pain: The shrieks from shell-hole, trench, and wire, Men crazed by gas and liquid-fire; Dumb agonies from No Man's Land, Low groans beneath the surgeon's hand. O stricken land, Where evils reign, Thy call to me Is not in vain. The Fool's Plight He fled from the beating rain with out. And sat down under the water spout. From the Arabic (Translated by F. R. Marvin in the Christian Science Monitor). JUNE 22, 1918. MET SIR WALTER SCOTT The Rev. John Douglas, said to have 'been the only living person In America who had seen Sir Walter Scott alive, died recently. He was 94 years old and had been a resident of Minnecota for fifty years. On his 93d birthday, September 11, 1916, Mr. Douglas described in detail his seeing the author of the Waverly novels in 1831. With his father, the Minneapolis man was driving in an old-fashioned, high seated, rickety gig along a road near Abbotsford, Scotland, when "a funny looking little man with a queer Scotch bonnet on his head and gnarled stick in his hand," hailed them. Mr. Douglas' father checked his horse and chatted with the man for fifteen minutes. Afterward the youngster was told that the little man was none other than the noted author. During the last twenty years persons who could boast of having seen Scott alive have become fewer. Two years ago it was practically con ceded that Mr. Douglas had sole claim to the distinction.—Minnea polis Tribune. TO THE HERO LEVEL The real troubles of the soldiers are back in America. They are only fighting in France, but they are liv ing at home—in their thoughts and in their hopes and in their affections. To write one of these boys an anx ious worrying letter is almost dis loyalty to the flag. The home folk must rise to the hero level of sol diers afield. If the nation upholds their hearts they will uphold the na tion's honor. Saturday Evening Post. Penally of Good Nature [From the Albany Journal.] The reason why some men never reach the top of the ladder is that they are always willing to stop to hold it steady for some one above. | OUR DAILY LAUGH JUirr THINK OF <=§ Did he marry a girl like a mag azine covier? I Yes, and then 4^^ expected her to \ ■') work like a cook SANDWICHED. AdjJJL kKL Where do • ■ ttujjl ljjsr Smith live? 1 I Below his ideals j ' ! aboV ° "k' S ENOUGH. j'' SF Going on your I innual hunting j J ;rlp this fall? / No. I got my 111 of bloodshed i BWBfcyftg ! - tilling mosquitoes [his summer. STRATEGY. Q (11 What do you mean Mm. -JW nounclng a tariff H on watermelons? I have never '_Jf heard of any ■ "irMT trouble about a watermelon tax. El IM Neither have I X, bu * you see I an """ after the colore'! votes, LENIENT CREDITOR. You owe it to In that case, / s )IB A. there's no hurry. X'w' [ find myself a J ) r very lenient cred- \ f, itor. | j lEbetttttg (Efyat Dauphin county farmers are ask ing their relatives and neighbors who have forsaken the farms to work in the iron and steel mills, in the munition plants and other fac tories and on the railroads in this vicinity to return to the farm to help out with the crops this sum mer. In several rural townships of this county and in some parts of Cumberland and York counties farmers are in despair as to how they will harvest their grain and cul tivate other crops without additional help. The number of boy 3 volun teering for work on farms is not large here and the demands for the mills is greater than ever known. In the upper end of Dauphin county where farming and mining are ihe two chief Industries the operation of the draft has hit the mines and u reduced output is feared and the at tractions of higher pay have tuken farm labor away. Now the farm ers and the mines are after hands. Both are vital and the situation is commencing to worry observers. The railroads and industrial establish ments of this community have many men who come from farms and they are being urged to devote a week or two during the summer to helping out in work to which they are ac customed. The chances of getting much aid from the negroes who have come from the southern states to work in steel works and from the foreigners is slight. * • Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh will not go away for his vacation in the Maine woods until the middle of July. It was the first of August be fore he got started last year owing to the prolonged session of the Legislature, and this year h® will re main in Pennsylvania because of the meeting of the National Educational Association in Pittsburgh and the first encampment of the Reserve Militia at Mt. Gretna. Meanwhile it is anticipated that he will take steps to 111 1 up the various vacancies ex isting on the Public Service Com mission, Stato Board of Public Char ities and other bodies. For some time there have been reports that selection of a Public Service Com mission was imminent, but the Gov ernor refuses to talk about it. Dr. Brumbaugh proposes to take a prominent part among the educa tional meetings in the state the re mainder of the year. He will make an address at the National associ ation meeting and visit certain other meetings of like character while he will make an address at the meet ing of the State Educational Asso ciation here late in the year which it is expected will show a renewed Interest in educational matters and perhaps contain some recommenda tions born of his observations of the critical stage of school finances in the last three years and some recommendations on educational laws. • • • "You can not legislate the children of Harrisburg to bed," remarked a man who had been observing the boys and girls of Harrisburg this first year of daylight saving with the clocks turned ahead. This is corroborated by a policeman who says: "There Is no use talking; the kids are on to the clock turning ahead and they won't go to bed as long as there is daylight. Curfews may blow, but the youngsters are going to stay out" • • • Speaking about the Red Men of the state who are going to meet hero in state council session next year it is interesting to note that three Dau ! phin countians have been great sach ems, or the head of the order in Pennsylvania. They have been Charles E. Pass, the prothonotary, H. O. Burtnett and the late Jerome Hite. Ch~rlos R. Willitts, of the State Department, who is a resident of Reading, also filled that office. Mr. Pass Is the present national rep resentative. • • • Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Mc- Clain, whose observations upon the course of eases before the State Board of Pardons are always inter esting, really knows them as well as the men who present the appeals. The lieutenant governor takes the job Beriously and studies the cases and applies the view of a lay mind, but once in a while he hooks up on legal points with his attorney col leagues, the attorney general and secretary of the commonwealth. "The board," he remarked yester day," is not a stone wall in regard to appeals." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Senator William E. Crow, Re publican state chairman, is spending a couple of weeks on his Fayette county farm. —Fred W. Church, who Is In charge of labor in the Cambria dis trict, says there is need for men to go into mills. —Joseph T. Ailing, the Rochester paper man, is in charge of Y. M. C. A. work at Camp Dix and is making speeches on the great opportunities in various cantonments. —Adam Black, prominent in In diana county affairs, a former County Commissioner and aged eighty, was seriously burned by an explosion when he was helping fu migate a schoolhouse. —Charles P. Donnelly, who is ac tive in Philadelphia Democratic af fairs again, declares he thoroughly enjoys it. He does not look any older. —E. K. Morse, Pittsburgh transit' engineer, is urging improvements of the water front of the steel city, holding that the planning should be done now and the work after the war. —The Rev. Albert Vogel, Penn sylvania's oldfest minister, celebrat ed his 101 st birthday at Jeanette. • He was ordained forty years ago. ————————— ( DO YOU KNOW —That Hnrrlsbnrg steel mak ers arc sending some materials to France for the railroads? And we have railroad men there to handle them. HISTORIC HARRISBURG —lt was John Harris* boast that there were no torles around here. No Time to Talk Germany cannot afford to let Its soldiers remain long idle, lest they begin to ask awkward questions.— Chicago News. A Ford Will Always Run President Wilson In the Michigan Senatorial case, was probably ln-n Huenced by the almost universal conviction that anything bearing the name of Ford, if once started would •iurely run. And so he turned the -rank.—Christian Sclenoe Monitor
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