8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4 NEWSPAPER POR THB HOHB Poundtd itjl Published evening? excapt Sunday by THE] TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Teleffrapli Building, Federal Sqanre. JJ.J. STACK POLE, Prtft Or jr. K, OYSTER, Busmtss Managtr. OUS M. STEINMICTZ, Monotint Editor. t 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 publlahed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American $ Newspaper Pub- I llshers' Assocla- Eastern office. Sintered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ By carriers, ten cent* 3 week; by mall. $6.00 a year In advance. =■- —? TUESDAY. JUNE 25, 1018 '■ i The noblest mind the best content ment has. —SPENCEB. OUR DUTY THE determination of the Rotary Club to enter actively Into the sale of War Saving Stamps in Harrisburg comes at a particularly , appropriate time—on the eve of the pledge day, June 28, proclaimed by i President Wilson. We in Harrisburg have not taken the War Saving Stamps seriously enough. We are | just beginning to get awake. During the present intensive War Savings campaign we are asked by the President and by Secretary Mc- Adoo to pledge ourselves to save and with our savings to buy at definite times a specific amount of War Sav | ings Stamps. Why should we be called upon to do this and why should we do It? We are called upon to do it be | cause, as President Wilson says, this I is a war of nations, not of armies, and everyone in the land must do his share. So far more than 2,000,000 : men have gone into the Army and Navy and 1,000,000 more are to join before August 1. These 3,000,000 men give themselves as their dona tion to the war. The remaining Hj t poo,ooo people left at home must give something else as their share. This savings pledge gives the stay at-*homes an opportunity for service. We are asked to pledge ourselves to save and economize, to use labor and materials only as necessity demands, and to invest our savings In War Savings Stamps. The government asks us to do this : because the amount of labor and materials in the country is limited; there is not enough of either to per mit us to use it In the same free way as we did in peace times and at the same time to leave enough in the markets for the use of the government. It is purely a question of supply and demand. If we use the supply the government does not have It for war needs. And the smaller the amount the government has for use the longer will the war last. That is the primary reason for the savings campaign. But there is another side to the question. The government asks us to pledge ourselves to save to help win the war. It does not ask us to give it anything except our co-operation. In return for our help we receive a government security wnich pays us a good rate of Interest. If we do as the government asks, and as we should, this, then, will be the result: We shall buy only those things necessary to maintain us In the best of health and spirits; by re fraining from buying unnecesary /things we shall leave in the markets for government use a greater supply of labor and material with which to win a quicker victory; by not fritter ing our money away on things that do not make for efficiency we shall keep ourselves in better health and increase our powers of production; by Investing our savings in War Sav ings Stamps we shall be putting aside for those days which Inevitably come, if we live long enough, the means to greater happiness. When so much can be accomplish ed by joining in this War Savings campaign, why should we not do it? The Rotary Club is to be commended for striking the iron while it is hot. Harrisburg is going to co-operate with the Commonwealth in the work ing out of the Capitol Park exten 4lon plans. This city has been doing its part admirably for many years, and there is no danger of any failure in this Important matter. It Is fortu nate that the present Board of Pub- Ikl Grounds and Buildings Is composed of men of vision and State pride, who will build largely for the future gen erations. RUSSIAN SITUATION THE Russian situation continues to become more and more puz gGjf zllng as conflicting reports con cerning conditions within that coun try are received. Almost every day brings a different story, and there are Indications that those In control of the telegraph lines and the cables are withholding more information than we are receiving. Indeed, It ■ r appear that Uttle of import-j ip o * except what the Bolshevik < TUESDAY EVENING, government wants the world to have is getting through. This would In dicate that rumors of discontent, rioting'and open revolution which we have been hearing through round about sources are not without foun dation. Evidently, the President himself is very much In the dark, although naturally possessing lines of in formation more direct and reliable than the public In general. Former President Taft believes that the time for allied intervention in Rus sia -is at hand, If we are to prevent Russia from falling Into the hands of Germany, which is striving hard to weld her into a toll of war on the side of the Central Powers. This view is held by the leaders of the Cadet party in Russia, who have is sued a formal request to the United States government for aid in over throwing the Bolshveki. Either President Wilson doubts the wisdom of armed force against Germany through Russia at this time or he is waiting the proper moment. If, as appears on the sur face, the Lenlne administration is on the wane and the Bolshevik gov ernment about to fall, the moment of the transfer would appear to be opportune for offering the new gov ernment the full power of the United States in any way that may be neces sary to strengthen its hands, and to suggest that a vital blow might be struck by allied troops operating through Siberia and Russia. It Is said that a half-million Jap anese troops are in constant resdl ness for transportation into Siberia and these, with a division of Ameri cans, a regiment or two from Eng land, France and Italy could be made so formidable a force that to prevent It from Invading western Germany enough troops would have to be withdrawn by the Germans from the west front to relieve the pressure there and give the allies a decided advantage in man-power. If such an expedition can be en gineered without arousing the enmity of the people of Russia, which would be fatal to its success, it might easily prove the decisive factor in the win ning of the war and would provide a wall behind which the Russian peo ple could go about building a new and stable form of government with out fear of the undermining Influ ences of German Intrigue and treach ery. Preparations should be made to put such a move into hasty execu tion with the arrival of a propitious moment. WITH ALL OUR FAULTS WITH all our faults, our blun ders and our shortcomings of omission and commission we are getting fairly along with the war, thank you. We have 900,000 men in France and are promised a million by the Fourth of July. We are nine months ahead of our schedule and going fast. We mean to have two mil lions instead of one in the fighting line by Christmas. The German drive has had an ad mirable effect upon us. We havo felt the spur and responded after the manner of a spirited horse to the goad. We are In this war to the finish, and that finish will be also the Kaiser's. We are not proud of some of the things we as a nation have done and we condemn most heartily some of the tragedies of government at Washington, but as a whole the country rejoices that it has done so well and that we mean to do much more. Waiting fields of grain invito the reaper throughout the Cumberland Valley and all the other fertile sec tions of Pennsylvania. Enormous crops are promised and only the har vester is needed. A JOINT CELEBRATION DON'T get it into your head that we native-born Americans have invited the foreign-born element of our citizenship to parade with us on the Fourth of July and that we are doing a very generous thing in putting them at the head of the line. r Not so! This big demonstration Is being planned at the express request of the foreign-born citizens of the country, who in a letter addressed to Presi dent Wilson, petitiored him to ask all native Americans to join with them in a nation-wide jubilee as a mark of their joy in being counted citizens of a republic which stands not alone for Its own freedom, but for the freedom of oppressed peoples everywhere. So it will be a joint celebration, and most appropriate, too. With our aviators fighting valor ously with the 'victorious Italian hosts beyond the Piave, and our men mingling their blood with those of the French, the English and their other allies on the battlefields of France, what Is more fitting than that we at home, either of the second line of defense or awaiting the call of the nation to military service, join on this, the nation's birthday, in a great demonstration of our loyalty and devovion to those principles em braced by tho Declaration of Inde pendence and the Constitution of the United States. On that day we shall meet our foreign-born fellow citizens In com mon fellowship and accord them the right of line in the parade as a token of our welcome to these shores and of our appreciation of their aid in the crisis through which we are now passing. Have you ever thought how helpless we would be in our war preparations but for the assist ance of the foreign-born element? Have you ever thought how fortu nate we have been to attract so many physically aßle, mentally alert men and women from other lands to this country, and how great their part has been in our growth and development as a nation? We owe them more than moat of us realize 1 and we will do honor to ourselves as well as to them in joining with them tn the great Americanization parade { on the Fourth of July. "PtKKOlftotUtla I By the m— 1 Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, the Democratic nominee for governor, last night carried out the policy he laid down when the Democratic state committee was flouted by him last Wednesday, by refusing to take] j any note of the Philadelphia Demo cratic city committee. The commit-1 tee went ahead and organized re gardless of him and re-elected Chair- ] man Edgar W. .Lank, whose removal was demanded by Bonnlwell. Lank; promptly proceeded to make his po sition sound by a speecji calling up on every Democrat to loyally sup port the state ticket. The next move is up to the judge who is expected to issue a number of statements about what he is going to do and to then await action by State Chairman McLean, who is in consultation with party chiefs about the best way to deal with the recalclntrant nominee for governor. In regard to last night's meeting the Philadelphia Ledger says: "Af ter approving the Bonnlwell endorse ment resolution the committee pro ceeded to re-elect as chairman Ed gar W. Lank, the man whom Judge Bonnlwell opposed for that office. Immediately after his re-election Mr. Lank delivered an address in which he expressed the hope that, despite the differences which existed prior to the primary election, friendship, peace and harmony would reign in the Democracy of the state. He as serted his belief that the city com mittee would earnestly support Judge Bonnlwell and the entire state ticket. In addition to Mr. Lank's re-election,, the old officers of the committee were re-elected. They are: Edwin K. Borie, vice-chair man; G. Frank Lever and James J. Gillespie, secretaries; Edward F. Bennis, treasurer." —The Philadelphia Record,, which has been reviewing Democratic his tory in Pennsylvania in recent years to support the Bonniwell demand for control of the organization, says in the course of an article: "George McGowen was city chairman when Pattison was first nominated for Governor and he was not acceptable to the nominee. Requests that he should withdraw as head of the com mittee were made and finally Wil liam F. Harrity, a close friend of Pattison. was elected chairman. This was the beginning of Harrity's politi cal career. By a peculiar coincident, an almost analogous situation con fronted the voters of the state this year. Judge Bonniwell opposed the election of George R. McLean as chairman of the Democratic State Committee, but the Luzerne county man was put across by the Donnelly- Palmer outfit. Judge Bonniwell has already announced that he will or ganize an independent state commit tee to take charge of his campaign outside of Philadelphia." —ln court at Scranton yesterday counsel for David Phillips, whose nomination for State Senator has been under probe for the past week, were virtually told, says the North American, by Judge E. C. Newcomb, that Phillips is out of court, so far as having considered a petition for the opening of ballotboxes to show fraud in districts that returned ma jorities for his opponent, Albert Davis. Judge Newcomb stated his appeal should have been taken with in ten days, and eighteen days have elapsed since the County Commis sioners completed the official count, which gave the nomination to Phil lips by 234 votes. —Bishop J. F. Berry, of the Meth odist Church, who has his residence in Philadelphia and who took a con spicuous part in the recent primary, is reported by the Ledger to have become ill from overwork. It is said that he took a prominent share in the work of a dozen conferences* and was very active otherwise. He has gone away to rest. —The State Bar Association meet ing at Bedford this week Is expected to devote much attention outside of the sessions to the Supreme Court situation. There are probably a dozen men named as possible candidates in addition to the two recently appoint ed justices. —The Northampton bar yesterday lauded Justice Fox in a series of res- I olutions. —According to Chester countians the control of the county machine by the McCormick-Palmer element is over. Dr. Bayard Kane is the new head. In Montgomery Harvey Christ mas, the Democratic chairman, is also disposed to greet the rising sun. —More charges that dead men voted in the primaries, that local residents now in France with sol diers are noted on the lists as hav ing received ballots on May 21, and allegations of other glaring frauds in Scranton have been made in pro ceedings in which Albert Davis is trying tp have the nomination for state senator on the Republican ticket of Prof. David Phillips set aside. —Democrats in the Berks-Lehigh and Bucks-Montgomery district are said to be worried over effects of the Democratic row on congressional elections. —Luzerne personal property tax return Is $30,000,000. —Chester county according to the Philadelphia Inquirer's West Chester correspondent is this way: "Sproul sentiment, always strong, continues to gain momentum as the days go by. In like manner will be swept along the three candidates for As sembly, Messrs. Hollingsworth, 'Gra ham and Captain Whitaker. The latter Is still commanding his battery either in France or on the Texas training field. This will have no bearing on the result as he will be elected to Legislature and time will develop the result. Smooth sailing for the G. O. P. craft along the gubernatorial and legislative sea, the congressiorval fortunes of Thomas S. Butler develop no cloud in this, his eleventh consecutive term." MUSICAL CRITICISM An old newspaper clipping, bear ing no marks of Identification, found its way recently into the office of the Musical Courier, which reprinted it with this brief statement. It fol lows: "I sat through one of these song recitals by an ambitious lady vocalist the other evening. Her voice was artificial and metallic and not a single blessed one of us enjqyed a note of it. Yet we all clapped polite ly after each of her ten songs and she was absolutely radiant with tri umphal achievement. And we all went up and shook hands with her afterwards and talked polite idiocies about her voice—licking the hand that thrashed us, a bunch of sorry, weak hypocrites, encouraging an otherwise innocent damsel to a ca reer of tyranny and cruelty." ELARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By Briggt AFTER rou v/e COME ON. ' ; WW'VE ee EN BE *~ D THE FARRV* FROM THE CITY DOOT A VUEE OW A XMET MORNIWG FROM 5 TO I*. COMSI-STING MOSTLY OF Hftrt \ B£rtimj> A HOC -AMC VOO MOP £ AROUKJD -JF ALL OF A SUJ)DEM THI 7 OM-H* RT- BOY*'" THE fev£N!KJ6 - BLUE POSTMAN BRINGS YOU ARSJ EIGHT ALM'T IT A GX* Q.'o DAMH AMP HOMESICK HMOVAHMC? PAGE LETTER AK*P A BOX OP - NC> z'T* K , IV* WU You WONT GEIT A LETTER COOKIES HOME *** D V 3 J-UK~ R- R - >OO S ■BECAUSE VOO HAD #NE FEELIM 7 MO, /WFR /S THIS YEAR'S STATE ISSUE [From the Philadelphia Press.] i Judge Bonniwell beat Mr. Guffeyj for tfte Democratic nomination for; governor on the prohibition issue I and now he hopes to win the elec- I tion by reaffirming his devotion to | the right of all men to sell intoxi cants to their fellow creatures. That is the vital plank in his platform. He opposes the ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment not! only because he thinks each state "should act for itself in all matters affecting its internal morality" but becausa the proposed amendment denies a heretofore unchallenged personal right which personal right we take from the context to mean liberty to be drunk or make others drunk without interference. As Senator Sproul takes the op posite ground and favors the ratifica tion of the prohibition amendment by the Legislature the issue is squarely drawn between the two can didates. Those who vote for Judge Bonniwell will vote for whisky and those who vote for Senator Sproul will vote against whisky. It is true: that the Legislature and not the Governor will pass upon the prohibl- I tion amendment but as the two can didates for governor stand commit ted to the support of opposing prin-| ciples a vote for the Republican can didate is a dry vote, while a vote for the Democratic candidate is unquali fiedly wet. The people of Pennsylvania ha\-e thus the issue of wet and dry square ly put before them. The other is sues enumerated by Judge Bonniwell do not count. To most of them there is no organized opposition. To near ly all of them there is no Republi can opposition. But on the question of national prohibition the two par ties are now for the first time in di rect opposition and the people will be called upon in November to de l cide between them on that vital issue. Way to Help Kultur How would It do to sanctify French hospitals In the eyes of Hun bombers by painting beersigns on the roofs. —From the Dallas News. What It Is All About [From Collier's Weekly] Perhaps the reasoned explanations of this war are too high for many of us. These great generalizations as to freedom, liberty and democracy are true; they hark back to Magna Charta and have the ring of Wash ington and Lincoln in every syllable, but sometimes they are a bit over our head. There is a more direct appeal than that. A British poet— we don't even know his name— tells about • crippled cockney sol dier who was creeping out of Fleet street on his crutches one day when over on the Law Courts side three laughing Frenchmen passed in uni form: For the houses all grew misty with a faint horizon blue, While I thought o' cornflowers peepln' from a blackened har vest land, With many a weary Frenchy flghtin' where those cornflowers grew; An' I've got a kind o' homesick ness I cannot understand Since I saw those little Blueys goin' laughin' down the Strand. Oh, cottages with gapin' roofs a starln' at the sKy, Oh, ruined gardens on the Somme an' trampled banks of Alsne, There's little left the Frenchies but to beat the Boche op die, I'd go back to all we hated so, the noise an' filth an' pain. Jest to help those cheery Blueys win their tittle homes again! For many of those who have been there that is exactly what this war is about. That is one reason why wo will fight it and win it. RASTUS AND THE HAM Some folks dey lubs de brown po'k chops, An' yuthah cyahs fo' lam': But chile, jes' listen w'lle Ah talks, Ah's sho' some fool 'bout ham. Jes' han' hit tuh me 'long wld algs, Er b'tl an' slice hit col'. Hit sho do mek mah stomach glad, An' happlfles mah soul. Hesh talkln' 'bout yo' beef an' lam', Dey alnt no meat kin class wld ham. Talk erbout yo' lan'scapes bright Yo" 'splrln' sights on sea an" lan'; Dah haint no place kin hoi' er light Tuh dat 'ah kitchen, man— Dat alt no time tuh aligahfy, Nuh stan' eroun' an' preach; Jes' put yo' mouf an' teef tuh wuck, Caize ham am hits own speech, W'en Dinah piles mah plate, ah means. Wld steamin' ham an' mustahd greens.—Theophllus Bolden Steward. Put an End (From the Kansas City Star.) [From the Kansas City Star] ' TO every proposed legislative policy the test should be ap plied: Will it help win the war? The Star has been forced to con clude that the liquor traffic is a de moralizing: business, it naa favored every • measure taken for its repres sion. When the prohibition amend ment was offered to the Emergency Agricultural Appropriation Bill this newspaper, however, delayed com ment in the hope of enlightenment on the probable effect of the meas ure on war preparations. If there was reasonable evidence that the adoption of the amendment would hamper the government in the conduct of the war. The Star was ready to disregard its own judgment on the advisability of immediately doing away with a bad business. So far that evidence has not been forth coming, and a Washington dispatch indicates that the President is not prepared to ask Congress to defeat the amendment. Under the circumstances The Star believes the adoption of prohibition for the period of the war would be as effective a war measure as this government could take. The cessation of brewing would save approximately 40 million bushels of grain a year for food pur poses. This amount saved in the last year would have been of great importance. At a time when every household is called on to save food it seems absurd to permit the use of grain for beer. There could be no greater absurdity than to tell a man who eats in a public restaur ant that he cannot eat more than two small rolls at a meal, but that Tall Men in Olive Drab [From the North American Review's War Weekly] The editor of the New York Tri bune tells this in his most precious column: Recently we sat in a refreshment room of a railroad station convers ing casually with a foreign officer. Suddenly tall men in olive drab be gan to come in by groups to wash up. They were on their way. The officer, though he tried to go 09 talk ing, couldn't keep his eyes off the men, and his responses became more and more absent as they continued to crowd in. 1 "My God!" he exclaimed, "where do they come from?" Then we looked at them. Not one seemed less than six feet tall. They were a thin, hard, big fisted, crag faced lot of men, the color of new bronze, each with two deep lines aroifnd the mouth, gentle with each other, speaking softly, but certainly the most formidable German killers you could find in all the world. We should not have noticed them par ticularly but for the officer's dazed appreciation. They are probably from some where in the mountains, we said, at last. The officer gave us a strange look. Such men as these, and we took them so much for granted that we couldn't tell where they came from! Yet there they wero, clean, strong and wholesome, straight from the mountains, no doubt, for all the world like their grandfathers from the White and the Green who fol lowed Baldy Smith to glory years and years ago. "Them Damned Germans" [From the Kansas City Star] At a railroad station in Kansas a young Mennonite got on the train. The tears were running down his cheeks as he sat down next to a. traveler, who inquired what the trouble was. The story came out frankly between gulps. Dad had eighty acres of fine wheat and no body to get it In. Just at a time when the boy's services were must necessary "them damned Germans" were dragging him oft to war. Give him a gun and let him get over to France and he'd pay "tljem damned Germans" for what they had done to dad's eighty acres. There was no blame for the gov ernment or the selective draft. In stinctively the young man had put tjie responsibility precisely where It belonged. Might Get Some News It Is notable that at his first week ly conference with newspaper men, General Peyton C. March said some thing. Perhaps the Official Bulletin would do well to have a representa tive at these meetings In the future. —From the Kansas City Star, he can drink as much beer as he likes. Beer making certainly cannot be called an essential industry. Yet we permit an army of able-bodied men to engage in it. We permit it to consume millions of tons of coal at a time when war industries can hardly get enough, and when schools are obliged to close for lack of fuel. We permit the industry to consume ice when private households are go ing on half rations. We permit it to use railroad facilities that ought to be devoted to useful work. Is it too much of a sacrifice to ask men to go without their beer? . Why is it more of a sacrifice to go without beer than to go without wheat bread or sugar? We are all of us called on to make sacrifices, even if we do not make the great sacrifice of going to fight or sending our sons. What a trivial sacrifice to go without beer? This is the best time in history to close an undesirable industry. The demand for labor cannot nearly be met. The men who are now working in breweries and saloons would never find a more favorable occas sion to be absorbed into other indus tries, They could make the transi tion now with the least possible in convenience and hardship. The whole booze business is not merely nonessential. It is destruc tive. It weakens the national effi ciency. It is a bad influence in the community. It is the basis of vicious politics in Kansas City and in every other city. It has brought distress and ruin to a multitude of victims. What reasons can offset these? As a war emergency measure Congress is wholly justified in putting an end to booze. Not if He's a Potato Bug One enemy alien In a war garden is worth two on the tennis court.— From the Wall Street Journal. Way to Redeem Russia We have a theory that an enter prising man who could go to Russia and establish a string of free lunch counters could be elected czar with out opposition.—From the Emporia Gazette. Hou> Long Since You [From the Detroit News] Saw a "canopy top" buggy? Marched in a torchlight proces sion? Received a pamphlet from the party's national committee declaring the tariff to be the paramount issue? Ate any homemade sausage? Heard the claim that "this trouble in Europe is none of our affair?" Chewed any spruce gum? Saw a middle aged woman riding a bicycle? A 20-year-old girl blush? Drank an old-fashioned milk shake? Listened to "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier?" JANUARY IN JUNE The weather's cold, so cold and chilly. Cold as the heart (?) of "Kaiser Billy," This summer's "winter", seems so silly, I'll—be—durned. There's spring and fall and summer freez'n Sunstrokes have gone out of season, Get on your "heavies" —"there's a reason," B. V. D.'s—are—spurned. Heatless summers are In fashion. To the coal-yard we are dasli'ln, Freezing folks their checks are cash'in, • To —buy—coal. • Overcoats "yanked" from the "hock house." Ice men go'ln to the poor house. The weather-man has gone clear "bug house," Bless—my—soul. Roses bloom'ln 'long the wayside. While snow drifts upon the hillside, I'm full of "gooze-flesh" on the out side, Of—my—frame. Outside of war, there's noth'in worse. Than heatless summers. What n curse. To have to "flirt" with *Graham's hearse, But —I'm —game. JAYEFFEMSEE. Birmingham, Pa. *or any Harrisburg undertaker. JUNE 25, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT The rime for Huns is guns.—Boston Globe. U. S. will trust foe not to sink hos pital vessel—will send the Comfort through U-boat zone without armed convoy.— Headline. Bombs kill" nurses and men in German raid on hospitals—enemy fliers deliberately drop flares to identify Red Cross buildings before throwing down their missiles on wounded.—Another head line on the same page <of the same paper.—New York Evening Sun. I'd hate to be a Russian And with the Russians stand, A Prussian pistol at my head And a treaty in my hand. —Brooklyn Eagle. We are pained to report that the condition of von Hindenburg at this writing is no worse.—Detroit Times. Congressman Kitchin's soreness at ye editor may be due to the fact that he has at some time or other offered a poem which was rejected.—-St. Jo seph News-Press. Creel has denied he is a Socialist, but that isn't what was worrying the public.—Pittsburgh Gagette-Tlmes. First General Foch took over the French army, then the British, then the American, then the Italian. Now he's getting ready to annex the Ger man. —New York Evening Post. Coffee Pot For Soldiers [From the Railway Age] What is believed to be the largest coffee pot in the world has Just been completed at the power house of the Pennsylvania railroad at Front and Third streets, Long Isfand City. In the pot 418 gallons of coffee may be made every half hour. It is for the use of the canteen section of the Long Island City branch of the Red Cross, which has taken upon itself the work of serving coffee and sand wiches to the soldiers entraining and detraining there every day. I OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT MATED. Wlfey: Is there \--- = ■uch a thing as j soul mates? /VjllL/il \\ Hubby (cynical- I HHnll M V\ ly: If there Is, \ \\v/V--4 we made a terri- \j'' "\| v"l ble botch of Wl j Ok STRANGE. tf Strange things k .mHL happen In life. I titjsgmt- Indeed. I even | IBjy know a man who ' jHT actually thinks —his landlord Is a CONTENT MENT. .'i ""* mmp Pa, what is contentment? Co nt entment, jfc X/W my boy, Is the art mtrJ [A cV of being happy Av with what you've sn\ got even if your m J^V) neighbor has a l™^- : II! little more. lyTWeprSßj ONE'S HOMO ilinii \ |J You have a ivery pretty city L} 9 I—-J/ here—l like the #\il way It's laid out. ffvfl [ \ k Huh and after B vM I I th ®y sr®t through I \YSIJJ laying it out, it 1 \I ought to ba HE HAD _ She: I'm going He: Can you —jl) V{] | He:, Please wait till I get in the bath house—l al- j&J | most drowned Ssi I "SmBBBB hero this morn- - "7? lag. Stoning Qlljat Just imagine being asked to se lect the three or four books which you would like to read best during July. That la what Is happening to the thousands of young and old persons who use the Harrisburg Pub lic Library owing to the fact that the library has to be closed tor K. month to make repairs to the waflfcr and celling as the material wlt£ which they are covered has show* a tendency to curl up and drop ott The library is now one of the bus" places because of the demands of people who want to take out books for July reading and the arranging for the close. Everyone of the twenty some thousand books In the library has to be handled and got ten out of the way of the repairmen and the library kept going at th® same time. The library has lately been specializing in books of mili tary training value and for men who are particularly interested In some branch of industry having to d© with war. Many of these are read by people who can only get to tt Front and Walnut streets Institu tion in the evening and the plan la to have them take the books home for study. The same Is to be done with the Boy Scout books, which are in marked demand, while the young sters will be given several books for July. And the serious way the kids go about picking out the books they want is worth watching. • • The five communities having the highest rating In the Third Liberty Loan drive and receiving stars for exceeding quotas in the Third Fed eral Reserve district portion of Pennsylvania are stated by Banking Commissioner Daniel F. Lafean to have been York Haven which sub scribed for twenty times its quota and won twenty stars, Janesvllle which pot 17 stars; Irvona with IB; Heckscnersvllle, Schuylkill county, which won fourteen and Glen Carbon w(th thirteen. They lead the 871 communities In the third district which won stars. The honors In the western part of the state which Is in the Fourth Federal Reserve dis trict went to Thornburg which won thirteen stars, followed by Edge worth with 12; Etna and Ben Avon with ten each, all of these being In Allegheny county. Glen Campbell with nine stars and Cherry Tree with eight are in Indiana. • * • Fish pirates who can not wait for the opening of the new date of the start of the bass season next Monday and some who have not patience to fish for trout have been causing con siderable trouble for state fish wardens and state policemen, game protectors and forest rangers who are working with them. In a num ber of instances foreigners have been dynamiting streams and In other places building dams across trout streams and using big nets. On the Susquehanna there have been some explosives used and a close watch has to be kept in Industrial communities. • • • Dr. John I. Woodruff, of Susque hanna University, Selinsgrove, who visited Harrisburg friends the other day, is president of the Snyder County Sunday School Association, manufacturer of a patent washing machine which Is his own Invention, professor of English, and a public speaker of prominence. Dr. Wood ruff has had a number of unique and Interesting experiences in his oratorical career and it Is the custom for his friends to draw him out and have- his narrate some of these tales. He was formerly president of a southern college and later moved to Sellnsgrove where he began the manufacture of the washing ma chine, and accepted the chair of English. He has had a long ex perience on the Chautauqua and lyceum platforms. * • It is not generally known that the famous cantor tenor singer, Joseph Rosenblat, who sang at the dedica tion of Kesher Israel Synagogue* Sunday, was once offered a thousand dollars an hour for singing on the operatic stage. The famous singer will not sing except in a Jewish church or for the benefit of some patriotic cause. His voice has been recorded on the phonograph and members of the Jewish faith throughout the nation accord him the honor of being their greatest vocalist. He has a voice which com bines dramatic and lyric qualltie* in a great measure. • • Col. Marlborough Churchill, who has just been made chief censor of the armv, Is a West Pointer, in spite of his English name, which has puzzled more than one man here. It happens that he was here a couple of years ago as the guest of Captain George F. Lumb, Superintendent of the State Police, and was immensely interested in the organization of which Captain Lumb has been a very vital part and in Harrisburg. When Captain Lumb was In the Regulat Army at Fort McHenry, Col. Church hill was a second lieutenant of ar tillery. • • * • Another regular army colonel of artillery, well known here who spent a few hours in Harrisburg a day or so ago while on his way some where, is Col. Roderick Carmichael. He was on recruiting duty here during the Spanish War. [_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j —D. I. McCahlll. one of the promi nent attorneys of Pittsburgh, was here yesterday for public service business. —Lieutenant Governor McClaln has half a dozen Invitations to make addresses on July 4. • —Emll P. Albrecht, head of the Philadelphia Bourse. Is active In the move for a change In Income tax regulations. —Will Irwin, the correspondent who has been lecturing In Pittsburgh sees the collapse of Austria before long. —Charles M. Schwab Is finding time to make speeches at flagrala- Ings and other ceremonies In spite of the rush of his big job. [ DO YOU KNOW -—That almost every manufactured product of Harrlsbnrg now goes tarn some war use? HISTORIC HARRISBrRO The first appeals from taxation were held for this vicinity at Job* Harris house about 1740. SPRUCE FOR AIRPLANES It was recently announced in Washington that 30 million of the 60 million feet of spruce timber re quired for the construction of air planes this year has been cut; and that the total amount required would be delivered to the government air plane building plants before July t, —From the Scientific American,
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