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SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918
T*e essence of love is kindness.—
J STEVE .N"80N.
BULLY FOR LYNCH!
THOSE contractors and Indi
viduals who vainly imagine that
they can "put anything over"
City Commissioner Lynch should
, pinch themselves and get awake to
the fact that the head of the Depart
ment of Public Works has been on
earth a few years and knows most
of the curves which have relation to
his big Job.
He is inclined to be lenient most
of the time —too lenient some of the
time—but It must not be thought
that, there is any lack of backbone in
this particular official.
The other day a certain individual
deliberately disregarded the orders
of Commissioner Lynch's department
In the matter of cutting through pri- 1
vate property for service pipe con
nection. This particular offender will
think twice before he tries that sort
of game again. Inasmuch as he found
It quite expensive,
r In another case one of the public
i utilities treated with Indifference
certain street regulations and Com-
missloner Lynch used the big stick
with promptness and efficiency. In
'Still another case, just after a con
siderable section of street had been
nicely covered with sheet asphalt,
a certain corporation ripped open
the street without a permit and with
no decent regard for the rights of
the people. Again Commissioner
Lynch bore down heavily and it Is
not considered likely that this same
.corporation will soon Invite the de
partment's righteous wrath.
b These instances of a growing in
difference to legitimate and neces
sary municipal regulation illustrate
what the Telegraph has so frequent
ly discussed—a growing disposition
to assume the attitude of a certain
famous New Yorker who on one oc
casion observed "The public be
damned!"
Mr. Lynch will have the approval
of every good citizen in his deter
mination to insist upon a decent ob
servance of proper rules and regu
lations for the protection of the
■ property of the taxpayer. More
r power to his good right arm. Har-
J rlsburg is not going into the discard
j if all the officials will pursue the
• same course.
It Is a quite common remark that
f the present form of commission gov
ernment leads to a tendency to court
public favor by failure to enforce
proper ordinances or to insist upon
observance of the rights of all the
people. Officials will always do well
to remember that votes are never
made in this way; that for every
| vote thus acquired hundreds are lost
r
When Captain Thompson goes to
( New York to study traffic regulations
I let us hope that he will come back
• with a definite determination to use
k the semaphore signals at the im
r portant street intersections. It is an
outrage to expect a policeman to wave
his arms from morning until night
: like an animated scarecrow, when he
could be giving proper attention to
p the traffic by use of "Go" and "Stop"
( signals.
"TREAT 'EM ROUGH"
' 'Em Rough" Is the name
!" I of the Tank Corps' newspaper
r at Camp Colt, Gettysburg,
Which seemed odd enough when we
Heard it. But after a half-day spent
in camp we are convinced that the
k title is well conceived and that It Is
f merely a condensation of the entire
course of training which the scrappy
members of the corps are daily re
ceiving. Their looks also indicate
that the lesson isn't hard to learn
and that something in the way of
I canned chain lightning Is being
stored up at Gettysburg this sum
mer for certain Germans who ought
to have had a taste of It long ago.
"Treat 'em Rough," Is more than a
Journalistic title. It Is a bit of ad
vice, an Instruction, part of the
corps' education, a command, a wish
and a prayer.
[ German propaganda is the last hope
ft of the Berlin gang. Here and there
fc the Insidious suggestion of over
■ whelming Prussian strength Is being
n made and wherevtr the morale of the
American people can be weakened the
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SATURDAY EVENING,
sly sympathizer with Germany gets
In his work. Fortunately for the Ameri
can soldier he is not easily deceived.
Word comes from the other side that
the foolish circulars dropped from
German airplanes among American sol
diers are .treated as silly Jokes and
never taken seriously. Letters from
the boys at the fighting front all in
dicate a desire to crush the Hun, and
It is not at all likely the propaganda
inspired at Berlin will have any ef
fect upon the fighting forces.
It is beginning to dawn upon the
flour hoarder that your Uncle Sam
means just what he says.
AFTER THE WAR, WHAT?
WITH the lifting o£ the cloud
that has hung for more than
eight months over the Italian
front, the steady Increase of allied
man-power in France and the evi
dent distress of the Central Powers
within, we may begin to think a little
more about what we shall be called
to face when the war is over. An
allied victory is more certain to-da?
than ever, and then will come the
great trade war which has been
foreseen ever since the combat of
arms settled down to a period of
years. What, we may ask, are we
preparing to do with the gigantic in
dustries we have brought into being
since the war started? What are we
doing toward providing work at high
wages for the millions now employed
so steadily and for those other mil
lions coming home? Are we to leave
them in worse condition in peace
than' they were during war? Is our
much-discussed guarantee of per
sonal and national freedom to be
accompanied by the pangs of an in
dustrial depression? Yes, unless we
prepare for peace now, as the na
tions of Europe have been doing for
the past year.
The Foreign Trade Convention,
held some time ago in Boston, com
plained that the government "is
making practically no study of trade
recovery after the war as a means
of insuring the stability of the terms
of peace," and that the Department
of Commerce has "little vision of the
work of preparing for peace." The
convention found the government
"rather setting up new and compli
cated restrictions for the purpose of
winning the war, yet without organ
ized consideration of their effect on
trade recovery and keeping this war
won," and this was contrasted with
the preparations which other coun
tries, even Germany, are making to
meet after-war conditions. This is
the complaint which Is so general
throughout the American business
world.
Business men point out that the
federal payroll at least shows that
there are a sufficient number of
agencies employed to handle not only
the immediate questions of trade and
war, but to suggest something con
structive with regard to the future.
The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, for instance, has a large
force at Its command, which might
be used for that purpose. "It is all
right to have a War Trade Board and
a War Board," said a big
New York trader, the other day, "buf
a 'Trade Expansion Board' would do
a great deal to 'can the Kaiser,' in
the opinion of some of us who have
a chance to test the sentiment and
movements of world trade." To show
how post-war considerations might
be harnessed .with present war
measures, he continued: "This war
would never have been launched if
the German military clique and the
German trade clique had not gotten
together, buried their differences and
concluded that the time was ripe for
seizing the world for Germany. The
military faction promised to the
mercantile forces world domination,
and this has been the one thing
1 that retained the support of Ger
many's business men for the war.
Nothing will wean it away so fast as
to force upon those same business
men a realization that they are los
ing their grip; that their trade roots
are being ripped out and displaced
by American products, American
trade names and American firms;
that such new connections are mak
ing strides towards permanence.
Once let that idea take hold and
commercial support for the war and
the German governmental policies
will vanish and bring about a speedy
peace."
But the procrastination with which
we, as a nation, have so many years
been cursed, has not yet been en
tirely shaken off, and the agency for
trade expansion and permanent com
mercial connections apparently has
ceased to function, whilst all Europe
is commercially consolidating.
Ten thousard dollars for a Fourth
of July demonstration! And somebody
thought we hadn't money enough for
our Liberty Loan quota.
THEY DON'T MIX
WE can appreciate the thought
which prompted the writing
of the following, clipped from
The Stars and Stripes in Prance, the
official newspaper of the American
Army abroad:
Somehow or other, we'd appre
ciate the sie-ht of the papers and
magazines from home a lot more
if they weren't so full of adys
saying "Soon somebody higher up
than you are will be called away
to war. FIT YOURSELF TO
TAKE HIS PLACE!"
Commercial advertising and the war
don't mix well. Occasionally some
happy thinker combines the two in a
pleasing and convincing manner. hut
usually the wise advertiser keeps his
copy out of the trenches.
Gabriel H. Moyer is proving to pro-
Germans that ho Is some little propo
gandist himself.
Anyway, Mr. Hoover didn't put his
1 nntibeef regulations into force until
steak had become to expensive few
of us could afford It.
We'll stand a lot from Food Ad
ministrator McCormlck. but we don't
want him to come fooling around our
huckleberry pie ration.
Popular topic of conversation:
>l"Haa your coal order been filled?"
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Action of the State Bar Associa
tion at its annual meeting in Bed
ford in calling for the repeal of the
law providing for nonpartisan elec
tion of judges seems to be meeting
with general approval throughout
the state, even people who urged the
nonpartisan system as the cure for
all evils being now almost convinced
that it has not proved what they
hoped. Some neewspapers regret
that it is not possible to make a
change this year because dt the im
portant judicial election in Novem
ber and others urge that the defects
which have been manifest for the
last three years and which have been
'so much discussed on Capitol Hill
be brought to the attention of the
General Assembly as soon as it
meets.
The Philadelphia Bulletin in the
course of an editorial on the subject,
says: "However well-intentioned, the
law has not worked well, and even if
no seriously unfortunate results have
occurred, there has been enough con
fusion and difficulty in its applica
tion to make amendment necessary,
and complete repeal advisable. The
purpose of the law was to separate
more distinctly the process of ju
dicial nomination from the organized
politics incident to the ordinary steps
of nomination and election. The law
failed to do that, as might have been
expected, but in addition to that neg
ative disappointment, its operation
has developed positive faults which
are its chief condemnation. ♦ • •
The effect of the law Is to put a pre
mium on the self-seeking ambitious
lawyer who is capable of smart cam
paigning, and to force the judicial
candidate who has respect for the
dignity of his profession and of the
ermine to stoop to an appeal for
votes that would be regarded as un
worthy if it were not necessary to
prevent an undesirable election."
—ln an opinion filed at Scranton
excoriating the ballot box crooks
whose work in the May primaries
has aroused the indignation of de
cent citizens. Judge Newcomb has
decided in the election contest of
Albert Davis against Professor Da
vid Phillips. The vote In six dis
tricts is set aside and Davis made the
Republican nominee for state sena
tor by a lead of 409 votes. On the
face of the returns as certified to
by the county commissioners after
the primaries, Phillips was leading
by 234 votes. Judges Edwards and
O'Neill concur in the decision of
Judge Newcomb. Mr. Phillips re
fuses to say whether the decision
will be taken to a "higher court.
—Democratic circles yesterday
seemed to accept it as a settled fact
that United States Marshal Joseph
Howley is to be ousted to make room
for James Houlahen, who Is now ap
praiser of customs, says the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times. It has been
reported for a long time that the
local organization intended to bring
about the selection of Mr. Houlahen
as marshal. Mr. Howley incurred
the displeasure of the organization
soon after he took office because he
would not remove Joseph Irons, chief
clerk, to make room for a Democrat.
Mr. Irons is a Republican, who has
been connected with the office for
over a quarter of a century.
—Justice Edward J. Fox, of Eas
ton the newly-appointed member
of the state's highest court was at
the State Department for a time yes
terday afternoon making inquiries as
to the steps to be taken to file nom
ination papers for the supreme court
elections this year. He secured nom
ination papers and a committee of
his friends will take charge of his
canvass. Justice Alexander Simpson,
Jr., of Philadelphia, was also here
for a short time on his way home
from the State Bar Association meet
ing at Bedford. He will also file
nomination papers.
-—Representative George W. "Wil
liams, of Tioga, who has been re
nominated for the House on several
times, was here yesterday afternoon
looking up matters. Mr. Williams,
who served in the Senate, is being
mentioned as a possible candidate
for speaker.
—Practically all of the men who
were elected members of the Pro
hibition State Committee at the re
cent primary and who are members
of other parties have filed with
drawals or resignations with State
Chairman B. E. P. Prugh. Those
who do not will be asked again to
withdraw.
—Some good ideas are contained
in the resolutions adopted by the
Northampton Republican County
Committee. They were: "We com
mend to the Republicans of Penn
sylvania the leadership of our Senior
United States Senator. Head of the
Republican organization in the state
and Republican leader In the United
States Senate, Boies Penrose is
Pennsylvania's foremost public man.
His record in the service of Penn
sylvania >and the nation is a record
of sanity, patriotism and the broad
est and best statesmanship exem
plified by any representative of this
Commonwealth in half a century.
Senator Penrose occupies a position
distinctive from that of any other
man in the lustrous annals of Penn
sylvania's statesmanship. Ho has
been in public life continuously for
more than 33 years, a service un
equalled by that of any other renn
sylvanian. His service in the United
States Senate extends through a
longer period than that of any other
man Pennsyft'ania has sent to that
body. He is the only man this state
has elected for four full terms in
the Senate and he alone of all our
public men! has attained the leader
ship of his party there. He is the
only Pennsylvania Senator who
held the chairmanship of the com
mittee on finance, the most power
ful committee of the Senate, and he
was the first Pennsylvanian to be
elected to the Senate by the votes
of the people. He has been honored
by this Commonwealth for his worth
as a citizen and his recognized ability
and he has be#n retained In public
life because of his value as a prac
tic, Influential and effective legisla
tor for Pennsylvania and the entire
country.
"We endorse the course of our
state committeemen In supporting
Hon. William E. Crow for chairman
of the Republican State Committee
and Hon. W. Harry Baker for secre
tary of that body. We congratulate
the Republican party that In the
work of organizing the voters and
marshalling them at the polls it
again will have the effective co-oper
ation of Mr. Baker. In the organiza
tion of the Republicans of Penn
sylvania in other campaigns he has
rendered a remarkable service to the
party. He has the regard and con
fidence of the active Republicans of
the state and his wide acquaintance,
his knowledge of poetical conditions
in every county, with his resource
fulness as a political leader com-
Imend him as pre-eminently fitted for
the position to which he has been
re-elected. Mr. Baker Is distinctly
a. narty asset.
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BOLSHEVISM EXPOSED
[Kansas City Star]
More than ordinary significance
attaches to the conclusion reached
by Herman Bernstein after personal
investigation of the working of the
Bolshevist system in Russia. Mr.
Bernstein himself is a Tolstoyan,
and until he went to Russia six
months ago he believed the Bolshe
vist government was a fulfillment of
the long looked for brotherhood that
Russian liberalism had foretold as
the corner stone of a new social
order.
Mr. Bernstein is back now with a
changed mind. Ho has seen Bol
shevism face to face, and has rec
ognized it for what it is, a sham, a
tool of German militarism, and im
position upon the credulity of the
Russian people. So open. Indeed,
has its purposes become that even
credulity has now rejected it and
nine-tenths of the Russian people,
Mr. Bernstein says, would welcome
Japanese and Allied intervention to
overthrow Lenine and Trotzky. The
Soviet government Is mere anarchy.
It Is following the terrorist theory
of the French Jacobins, seizing what
money and property it needs, im
prisoning and shooting persons who
stand in its way, ruling through fear,
corruption and the manipulation of
mobs.
Reports like and from such
sources undoubtedly deserve the con
sideration of the American govern
ment and people in view of the grow
ing insistence of the whole Russian
situation. Germany must not be
permitted to use the Bolshevist gov
ernment to organize and exploit Rus
sia. It Is not a matter that concerns
the Russian people alone. It con
cerns the Entente Vowers and the
whole world. We know Bolshevism
is against the interests of the Rus
sians and of world democracy's war
aims, and if it now appears that a
large part of the Russian people
♦hemselves are convinced of it that
fact ought to have great weight in
determining our action in connection
with proposed plans for intervention.
May as Well Draft Him
The physical director at Harvard
finds that every great athlete in
herits his physical perfection from
his mother. Father seems to be get
ting less necessary every year.—
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Utopia Still in Distance 1
People like to talk about their
respect for law and the rights of
others. Nevertheless it is necessary
to retain a traffic officer to every
busy corner.—From the Toledo
Blade.
SAMMIE IN THE AIR
You may talk about your Navy men
at war
You may talk about your Coast
Artillery Corps.
You may talk about your Infantry
and lots of other things,
Lo! the most Important one. you've
missed;
Our soldier boys with wings.
The Boche is oft' a crafty stubborn
man,
And our puzzle is to best him If
we can;
Get your bayonets and your guns
tuned up and seek him In his
lair, /
But the one that's going to turn
the tide.
Is "Sammie" in the air.
We are sending forth a load of brand
new planes,
And we're going to turn our losses
Into gains;
So be sure to understand that If you
want to win the war,
The only way to do it is to join
a Flying Corps.
'Tis the squadron of the air that
takes the bun.
They are using every scheme to
catch the Hun;
When our energetic Sammees take
to flying o'er the place,
You'll never need a doubt as who
will surely win the race.
You may talk about your soldiers of
the soil.
They are lauded and commended
for their toll,
And whate'er they give In service
now, you'll never see them
lag.
For whate'er they do for Hoover,
they are doing for the Flag.
But our soldiers of ttte air will take
first place,
They are flocking In from every
port and base;
If you ask me tho", I'll tell you who
will win the Honor Rate,
'Tis the men In Aero squadrons,
from our dear old Keystone
State.
JAMES FILBERT,,
i Pine Grove. Pa.
Call For Women to Volunteer
-
PRACTICALLY every trained
nurse in the country is includ
ed In the call of the Red Cross
for the enrollment of 25,000 trained
nurses this year. The physically fit
among them will go to do actual
war-work while the rest will be as
signed to hospitals and other insti
tutions where nurses are needed.
This is a call that foresees the needs
of this country in a future perhaps
not very remote. Miss Jane A. De
lano, chairman of the National Com
mittee on Red Cross Nursing Service,
urges it as of "the greatest import
ance that able and educated young
women should be urged to enter
regular training schools and take
the usual course in order to fit them
selves fully." In the entire United
States there are said to be only 98,-
000 registered nurses, which shows
that one of every four qualified wo
men must volunteer if the American
wounded are to be cared for. Sur
geon General Gorgas' letter to the
Red" Cross thus puts the Army's
need of nurses:.
"No other urgent need exists to
day and no factor can be more im-1
portant in the winning of this wan
than adequate care of our sick and!
wounded. Nurses who respond will
have the infinite satisfaction of
knowing that they are lessening the
sufferings of the men of their own
country; those bound by ties of
blood, friendship and brotherhood.
Nurses of America, your country
calls you."
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, act
ing upon this suggestion, brings to
bear its strongest persuasive powers,
saying:
"While the men of the nation
have consented to legal compulsion
and are going to the front by the
thousands to win this righteous war,
they re looking to those among the
women who are competent and fit,
to second their efforts voluntarily
by giving that vital aid and comfort
to the wounded which only such wo
men can give. Without a sufficient
number of trained nurses, America's
young men will languish and die.
This will have the effect of prolong
ing the war, and thus robbing the
Our Own "Soldats Noirs"
[From Stars And Stripes, France]
In many a house back home there
was jubilation when the cables
brought the news that two Ameri
can negroes had won the Croix de
Guerre for their great valor in
France. Of Johnson, the French
citation said: "He gave a magnifi
cent example of courage and en
ergy." Of Roberts, the phrase is
simpler and more eloquent. This Is
their tribute to him; "A good and
brave soldier."
Anyone who knew American his
tory, onyone who had pondered the
records of the Civil War and the
Spanish-American War, could have
predicted that the American blacks
would fight the new battles with all
the fierceness and dash and exal
tation of the old.
Now the slaves of a century ago
are defending their American citi
zenship on a larger battlefield. Now
\ is their first chance to show them
selves before the whole world as
good and brave soldiers, all. *
LABOR NOTES
Pittsburgh, Pa., firemen ask an
increase of SIBO a year.
Japan does not limit the working
hours of railroad employes.
Teachera In Montreal, Canada,
Catholic schools ask Increased pay.
Firemen at Gait, Canada, demand
1100 a'year increase in pay.
Thousands of railroad shopmen
have been lured by high shipyard
pay.
Dublin, Ireland, master builders
have conceded their employes in
creased wages.
A Trades Council has been form
ed by Mulllnger, Ireland, laboring
men.
Metal workers at Montreal, Can
ada, have secured a rate of 60 cents
an hour.
Trade unions in Germany are de
manding the creation of labor
boards. *
Wages of coal miners In Germany
range from $297 to $834 a year.
Denmark has almost 200.000 trade
unionists, enrolled In 1930 local
unions. {
country of thousands of men who
otherwise might not have to be
sacrificed.
"It is believed that, when the need
is known, trained nurses will gladly
volunteer for this most honorable,
patriotic duty. The responsibility
lies directly upon the registered
nurses to enroll themselves, and up
on the graduate nursfes to make
themselves eligible for enrollmert. It
is a privilege offered to women
greater than any that has ever beeni
offered. Every possible protection
will be given them, including a spe
cial provision for insurance.
"The public can help in making
this call effective. There are thou
sands of persons who can dispense
with trained nurses, now retained
partly in the capacity of compan
ions. Other individuals who have
been in the habit of employing train
ed nurses where their services were
really not needed can help by dis
continuing the practice. But, in or
der to encourage the patriotic nurse,
it is urged that, when a trained
nurse is really needed, an enrolled
Red Cross nurse be employed, if
available.
"Physicians and hospital organi
zations can also be of great help in
this movement by releasing as many
of their graduate nurses as can be
spared, substituting competent wo
men not specially fitted for war
work, or beyond the service age."
It is not attempted to imply that
women have not already made sacri
fices aside from what they share in
the losses that come to their men.
Mrs. Inez Hayes Irwin is reported by
the New York Times as saying at
the Washington headquarters of the
National Women's party that be
tween 500,000 and 760,000 women
have been killed in the war. She
particularizes:
"They have been killed in muni
tion factories, have met with acci
dents directly behind thfe French and
British lines, have been killed by
submarines, by bombs, and by other
causes. This is the first war in which
women have been mobilized as a
sex behind their men in the fight,
and the first time, therefore, they
have been exposed to such risks."
Slandering the Workman
[From the Kansas City Star.]
The American workman is likely
to resent the defence of beer in his
behalf. After the nation has shown
its willingness to sacrifice its sons,
to give up its property in taxes, to
go without meat and wheat bread,
to accept any rationing that the
Food Administration suggests, it is
a little difficult for it to accept the
theory of Mr. Hurley and Mr. Gomp
ers that the workman won't work
unless he has beer as usual.
• A rather poor estimate these gen
tlemen seem to have of the patriot
ism of the workman—an estimate
that the country has abundant rea
son to believe Is wholly unjust.
Charity Out of a Pure Heart
Now the end of the commandment
is charity out of a pure heart, and
of a good conscience, and of faith
unfeigned.—l Timothy, I, 5.
Song Of A Thousand Years
Lift up your eyes, desponding free
men!
Fling to the winds your needless
fears.
He who unfurled your beauteous
banner
Said it shall wave a thousand
years.
CHORUS
A thousand years, my own Columbia!
'Tis the glad day so long foretold
'Tis the glad morn whose early twi
light
Washington saw In days of old.
| What if the clouds one little moment,
Hide the blue sky when morn ap
pears,
When the bright sun that tints them
crimson.
Rises to shine a thousand years.
Envious foes beyond the ocean,
Little we heed your threatening
sneers;
Little will they our Children's chil
dren—
When you are gone a thousand
years.
Haste thee along, thy glorious noon
• day! v
Oh, for the eyes of ancient Seers —
Oh! for the faith of Him that rec
kons
Each of His days a thousand
years.
—By Henry C. Work.
JUNE 29, 1918.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Kultur is materialism's reductio
ad absurdum.—Chicago Daily News.
The Yankee idea of holding a line
is to advance it.—Chicago Tribune.
As watchful waiters the marines
seem to foe a failure.—Philadelphia
North American.
This Is a solemn thought. If
Hlndenburg's army bites off more
than It can chow It may choke to
death. —Detroit Journal.
Wouln't It be awful if the "war
expert" industry should 'be classed
as non-essential?— New York Morn
ing Telegraph.
When our boys sing "Yankee
Doodle" the Huns are the ones that
stick a white feather in their caps.
—St. Louis Star.
It seems to have escaped the at
tention of striking workmen that
the men who are fighting for them
get no raise.—Philadelphia North
American..
It will cost more to travel this
year than it has in many years, -but
then it will also cost more to stay
at home.—Florida Times-Union.
Germany Is already talking afoout
"the next war." That is reasonable,
as it seems to have mussed up this
one beyond repair.—Chicago Daily
News.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
A MONOTON
OUS JOB.
A fan, who to |]| |T|||
keep score
essayed,
In a game where •
no runs had ! *
been made,
Said, This Job is
so fraught „Jl
With the inak- /
ing of naught /Ay
That a rubber ' /ffi' v
stamp woul£
be an aid.
J T °° BAD
fA I never hear
#£• _,you talk about
%) your old college
i days.
Our class didn't
produce anybody
big enough for
b ra ff about.
IT MAKES A
DIFFERENCE. < J
She: Do you '<• . N -^|
think It Is wrong \A\
He: If you lose, \\
HIS AUTO.
I Jones lose
AXJIN control of his
i Completely; the
cook uses It all
DID SHE MEAN rVT) |
Husband I /
have a bad head y f
this morning. /, ; -if*
Wife—l'm very t "" -
sorry, dear, but I \
do hope you will \
be able to shake
r ' ttiiiTn thb modkrn
1 APARTMENT.
—y Are children
allowed where
you live?
Oh, my no! But
wW ||Mj\Jeach tenant Is
permitted to keep
Ibettlttg (Jttfal
Inside of forty days the whoU
Capitol Park extension district,
which tho boys have already begun
to call "the park lot," will be cleared
of buildings except for the old Rusa
residence at Fourth and North
streets, now used for the offices of
the State Livestock Sanitary Board,
and the Day school building, which
is the laboratory of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and their occu
pancy of those structures is a mat
ter of only a short time. And it is
very probable that the Capitol Park
Conservatory, kno\tfn variously as
the "forcing house," the "rose
house" and the "green house," ac
cording to the age and mental atti
tude of the speaker, will have gone
before August. In the last few days
more real progress toward removal
of the last remnants of buildings has
been made than for a long time.
Workmen have been tearing down
the Paxton Flour and Feed ware
house in big chunks and picks have
been punk into the classic propor
tions of tho Matterhorn, to which
the state has taken title at last. Tho
demolition of the Lee properties in
Walnut street near the Technical
High school is proceeding rapidly
and the last refuge of the "wet" In
the Capitol Park extension, tho
"lighthouse," in Fourth street Just
above Cranberry is now a ruin. Tho
old Free Will Baptist Church, lately
the Kesher Israel Synagogue, will
soon be a memory as Is the Bethel
Church, which stood beside it In
State street. All the landmarks of
East State street have gone and be
fore long the state will commence to
rip up the pavements and the pipes
and to get things in shape for the
graders and the fillers and in time
the whirr jot the lawn mowers will bo
beard where the click of the dice
and the rattle of the beer glass used
to be the sounds of the day and
often until far into the night.
• • >
The Harrisburg Public Library is
taking its first vacation since It was
opened half a dozen years ago. Tho
Library's interior has been taken
charge o{ by a corps of painters who
will repaint the ceiling and the walls
which have been going through that
Interesting process known as "peel
ing." The work will require a month
during which time the Library stock
will be added to and an immense
amount of binding done. The Li
brary will be reopened on August 1.
During the closed period Miss Alico
R. Eaton, the librarian, will attend
the meeting of the American Li
brary Association at Saratoga. All
patrons of the Library desiring them
have been given three books during
July.
• •
"The signs are right for a good
bass season and I think that tho
fishermen of Pennsylvania will en
joy the change in the season which
is effective this year for the first
time," is the opinion expressed by
Nathan R. Buller, the state com
missioner of fisheries, who has been
on a "tour of Inspection of hatch
eries and the main streams of the
state, some of which he has been
observing because of allegations of
pollution. The new bass season was
outlined in the fish code of 1917 and
runs from July 1 to December 30,
both dates Inclusive. Mr. Buller
says that he has had no protests
against it and that he thinks tho
fixing of the July 1 date as against
the middle of June will suit many
people better, while the limiting of
the catch will be a good thing for
lish conservation. The state* has
liberally stocked many streams with
small mouthed black bass in tho
last few years and some which had
been pretty well fished out have been
reported to contain good specimens
again. The Susquehanna salmon or
wall eyed pike, which was almost
unknown In some streams five years
ago, has been Successfully propa
gated and the big cebtral river has
been stocked in several places. "The
weather has enabled some trout fish
ing to be carried on later than usual
in certain parts of the state," re
-1 marked Mr. Buller in talking of the
general situation, "and I think this
year will come close to having a very
fine catch. The results of the syste
matic stocking of streams with fish
able to take care of themselves la
commencing to be apparent." The
State Commission of Fisheries at Its
meeting at to-day will
consider plans for very extensive
trout "planting" this fall and will
also arrange for bass propagation
on a very extensive scale. Appro
priations for enlargement of hatch
eries will be asked next year.
• • •
Here are two kid stories:
A small boy who developed a fond
ness for music was allowed to roam
about in a Sunday' school room
while the school was assembling and
his elders were busy preparing for
the session. The child had a knowl
edge of some tunes and suddenly
there burst tipon the startled ears
of his immediate family the air of
"The Old Gray Mare."
A small boy immaculately dressed
in white duck was sitting in the
street Sunday playing with coal dirt,
when a young lieutenant spick and
span came along. "Sonny," said the
man "you'll get your Sunday suit
all dirty and yourself as well if you
don't come out of that." The young
ster looked up beamingly: "Say,
1 who's doing this?" ho queried.
• * *
Among visitors to the city wt
Robert M. Glnter, managing editor
of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times,
who stopped here on his way to
Pittsburgh from New York. He wm
formerly Washington correspondent
for the Gazette-Times and has a wide
acquaintance among prominent men.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Senator Boles Penrose says he Is
willing to stay In Washington all
summer to work on legislation.
—Dr. Howard Woodhead, a Pitts
burgh Instructor, who Is now a Y.
M. O. A. secretary, was mentioned
In dispatches for bravery In action.
—Deputy Secretary of Internal
Affairs James H. Craig, of Altoona,
has been elected a vice-president of
tho State Bar Association.
Dr. John Royal Harris, well
known here because of "dry" meas
ures. Is working on tho commission
investigating mixed races at Pltts
burgh.
—George H. Schwann, architect
and city planner, has been invited by
Mayor Babcock to become housing
bureau secretary for that city.
—Colonel James F. Brady, of the
812 th Artll.ery, a Pennsylvania
regiment, may not go from Camp
Meade with his regiment because
-he is Just recovering from an opera
tion for appendicitis.
| DO YOU KNOW ~|
—That Harrisburg steel billets
have passed the highest chemi
-1 cnl tests for munitions?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG '
In old times South street used to
' run through Capitol Park.