10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPBH ' CHH HO MB Founatd :lfl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Tdccrifk Building, Federal Sqaar*. K J. STACK POLE, 4- Edifr-*nC hirf ¥". R. OYSTER, Bujintjj Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Mana t ,n t Editor. Member of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all naws dispatches credited to it or i not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m Member American Newspaper Pub ' "***' ChfcagoflVl! lng ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ' •- By carrier*, ten cent* n *mWfejyjUai week; by mall, $6.00 a year in advance, TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1918 Be noble, and the nobleness that lies In other men. sleeping but never dead. Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — LOWELL. WANTED—COAL MINERS BECAUSE of the competitive bid ding of one contractor against another and the wasteful move ment ot' labor from one industry to another the government is arranging to stabilize wages for both skilled and unskilled labor in war work. It is also going to necessary for the administration at Washington, through the proper department, to prevent in some definite way the rob bing of the coal mines of skilled workers. Advices from Pottsville indicate that the anthracite operators and manufacturers are going to appeal to the government to stop the bid ding for workmen by munition fac tories in the anthracite region. These industries are taking men away from the mines by offering an increased daily wage over that now paid by the mine operators. It should not be a question of wages; it ought to be a matter of maintaining a suffi cient supply of coal. It is quite as important to take care of the fuel sit uation as to do anything else for the prosecution of the war. If the operators are not giving the miner the wages which they can obtain elsewhere, then the mine wage scale should be revised upward aut once. It is also a grave question whether the government should not •xempt from the operations of the draft—for the present at least—all miners. Furthermore, it is said the housing conditions in the mining regions are so wretched that the men are leav ing the mines to work under more comfortable conditions elsewhere. Fuel Administrator Garfield is justi fied in appealing to the miners to cut the Fourth of July holiday as short as possible, so that fuel may be pro vided for the country, but it should also be the aim of the administration to . overcome any conditions which fiend to reduce the mining forces at this time. Germany has been bluffing once more. The insincerity of the Potts dam gang is so transparent in every move looking toward peace that it is surprising intelligent people would any longer give heed to the everlast ing hypocrisy of the Berlin Govern -1 ment. There appears to be no doubt • now that Kuehlmann's recent palaver in the Reichstag was nothing more than a bait for pacificist gudgeons. Americans on the firing line give no serious consideration to the German peace talk and they hardly expect the home folks to do differently. WHAT'S IN A NAME? SPLENDID, indeed, is the program which the shipbuilding author ities plan as their part in the celebration of Independence Day and we are confident of their ability to not only carry out the launching of between eighty and ninety ships, and possibly more, but we rise In the center of the State which is furnish ing much of the steel and the men and the yards to build them to ask why and whence some of the names. The names bestowed upon some of them remind us of fishing smacks or the craft that used to be dragged up and down the Pennsylvania canal in the days when we used to diva oft the bridges at Herr or Paxton streets and throw stones at the boat men in the Walnut street lock. Pennsylvania which Is contribut ing so much to the shipbuilding pro gram is certainly entitled to more names in the liat. We find Se wickley, which reminds us of the great Pittsburgh district, and we find William Penn and Brandywine. Like wise in the list we discover the names of Cumberland and Falmouth, but they are English, so endeared to early settlers that they are to be round in a dozen States. Maybe War Compass and Western Comet are names with some association or sentiment attached to them, but we can not help wondering why a ship building program, which Is supposed %o stimulate the war spirit in every TUESDAY EVENING. State and to which every State is contributing, should not contain names which could be made a source of more pride. But the list to be built is long and maybe we will come into our own. AFTER THE WAR ALREADY the Imperial War con ference at London is devoting its attention to the various Phaser of the post-war economic policy of the empire. It is proposed to eliminate British dependence upon j Germany at every point with meas ! ures necessary to obtain for the em 'pile and its allies the command of | | certain essential raw material to en able them to repair the effects of the war as soon as possible and to safe guard their Industrial requirements, ar.d with the appointment of a com mittee to consider possible methods by which these essential raw ma terials might be obtained. As a result of German's inability to procure raw materials many of her industries have been closed down and Great Britain does not intend that the after-war period shall be characterized by confusion through failure to prepare now for what is inevitable in the economic field. Be lore the war Germany imported £250,000,000 pounds worth of raw materials to keep her trade going and here is a lesson for the United States. Unless we, too, prepare for the protection of our own industries we shall suffer untold loss after the war. There Is also a lesson in this sit uation for Harrisburg. With the ex pansion of the city's business in every channel it is highly important that we set about planning for better housing conditions, so that labor may be invited here and the working man as well as the employer may have the consideration which the situa tion demands. Procrastination will get us nowhere. Action is absolutely necessary. Whatever the purpose, the manner of turning back about 1,700 short line railroads to private management by the Railroad Administration a few hours before Congress passed legisla tion intended to prevent the relin quishment of many of.them, makes a bad impression upon the public mind. This thing of "beating Congress to it" by all sorts of administration bureaus and departments has become quite a game at Washington, and it would appear that the so-called "ad journment of politics" might also ap ply to the legislative branch of the Government indefinitely, inasmuch as the present theory of government in certain quarters appears to be a cen tralization of power and all activities without regard to the fundamental division of responsibility and author ity. A BULWARK OF FREEDOM NOTWITHSTANDING the con stant baiting of newspapers by a few persons in official posi tion here and there, there is an in creasing appreciation of the value of an independent press in this coun try. Only the other day Edwin M. Hurley, chairman of the United States Shipping Board and former member of the Federal Trade Com mission, referring to the high price of print paper and the difficulties of the newspaper industry under -war conditions, said: The patriotic newspapers and magazines of this country are in dispensable to victory. Where the cause is right, as ours Is, suc cess depends upon the fullest and fairest statement of the facts to the people. The Government controlled press of Germany has confined itself merely to what the Government wanted it to say. but while the militarists may claim that this has made possible the complete subjection of the Ger man people, it is my firm convic tion that no nation ever grew stronger by being fed on false hoods. Mr. Hurley has given expression to the opinion of many other public men of character and foresight. So long as the newspapers of the United States are free and independent there is little to fear for our institutions, but once the press becomes the mere mouth-piece of the government or subsidized for improper purposes the breaking down of a government of the people, for the people and by the people would not be far away. Owing to the enormously Increased cost of newspaper production there has been a growing tendency toward consolidation and merger of news papers in the interest of conservation of newsprint, labor and other neces sary supplies. Mifflin county's Republican commit tee has endorsed the candidates nomi nated at the recent primary and urges upon the State Committee the use of all honorable efforts to have the Legislature ratify the national prohibition amendment. It would be a good thing for all Republican com mittees to take similar action and meet the rum issue squarely at the November election. STABILIZING LABOR THAT the administration at Wash, ington realizes the Importance of protecting the business In terests of the country is shown in the recent proclamation of tha Presi dent in which he called attiatiou :o the fact that "industry pla>s as es sential a.id honorable a role i:: :his great struggle as do our military armamen'i" Beginning August first there will be inaugurated a movement to cen tralize the recruitment of unskilled labor through agencies established by the government. This plan la Intended to overcome the "stealing" of labor and the and disorgan ization which follow that practice. There has been a tendency for sev eral months to rob one Industry to help another and the conditions have become so Intolerable in many local ities that the government seeks to Intervene so as to stabilize lauor roi.- dltlons. The whole plan contem plates the bringing together of work ers tind employers who need their services It Is the theory of the 3ocr*t*ry of Labor that 'iwe sun no longer leave our labor supply to the unregulated forces of competition nor even to putrlovic efforts of diverse agencies of the government unrelated to a comprehensive policy and unified di rection." In order that there may be no shock to existing conditions the time for the plan to go into effect has been postponed until the first of August. Auditor General Snyder has reached out with the long arm of his department and has collected a half million dollars during the last six months from delinquents. He seems to have touched almost five thousand corporations in clearing up back j taxes, and has set as his mark for the j close of the year one million dollars. That's going some, and Is likewise a j fine record of efficiency. [fotitlcA IK Br h fa-Oomnritt i I The movement to bring about either abolition of a radical change in the nonpartisan judicial selection law has for the moment absorbed the attention of people interested in politics in Pennsylvania and even the row in the Democracy has been lost sight of. The movement for a change in the nonpartisan law was strong last year, but this year's events and the pronounced stand taken by the State Bar Association will probably impress the next Legislature. Three years ago alter one of the superior court elections there were signs of marked activity on Capitol Hill and an inquiry was made of judges as to what they considered should be done about the primary, but it was sud denly dropped and the 1917 Legisla tute had more to do with Philadel phia election and city government fusses than the nonpartisan law. It is understood that the State Bar Association Committee will lose no time in drafting the law recommend ed by the lawyers and men active in politics are inclined to line up with them. It is said that men active in the state organizations of both of the big parties favor some change. The Democrats have quieted down, but there are signs of an outbreak in the Bonniweli camp after the Fourth of July. The judge has been busy getting into touch with his friends in j various parts of the state. He does not intend to make any statement j for a few davs as to his campaign ] plans and meanwhile the peace birds j ar>i fluttering about. —Reappointment of Public Serv ice Commissioner Michael J. Ryan, which means that he will be commis sioned until the end of the next Seri ate. has caused much interesting speculation as to whether he will be come a candidate for Supreme Court. Mr. Ryan was among the Democratic attorneys prominently mentioned for the place. His friends do not believe that he would antagonize Justice Edward J. Fox, of Easton, the Gov ernor's appointee, but at the same time they realize that he may not have easy sailing when the time for confirmation comes in the next Sen ate. —There is also much speculation as to how the Senate will regard the reappointment of Commissioner Wil liam A. Magee. Some people are of the opinion that the former mayor of Pittsburgh would not have ac cepted reappointment if he had not been sure of what would happen after the Brumbaugh administration ends. -—Senator Edward E. Beidleman has declined an invitation to be Fourth of July Americanization ora tor at Pittsburgh in order to speak in Reservoir Park on Thursday. The Senator is being overwhelmed with invitations to speak, but will not do much in that line except in his home district until fall. —The Scranton Republican is de manding that the ballot frauds in Lackawanna be probed and probed vigorously, in an editorial on the outcome of the Davis senatorial nom ination contest the Republican says: "Owing to the legal technicalities in terposed in the case the fraud alleg ed was only partially investigated in the interest of Mr. Davis. His oppo nent for the Republican nomination. Mr. Phillips, has alleged on sworn petition, that fraud equally heinous has been committeed in many dis tricts to which the investigation did not extend. If wrong was done in those suspected districts is it to go unscathed? In the interest of the public, as well as of an honest bal lot, there should be a thorough In vestigation of the entire matter so properly denounced by the local court. The criminality charged was not confined to a few districts, but was so widespread and defiant of de cency as to call for a courageous and comprehensive probe that will leave no part of this serious political evil untouched." —Arrests for fraud at the pri mary have been reported as likely in many sections of the state, but it is believed that most of them will not materialize. —Pittsburgh's answer to automo bile law violators, says the Pitts burgh Uazette-Times, is a strength ening of the motorcycle squad. Nu merous expert wheelmen have been added to that squad to end the com plaints about speeding. —Collector of the Port William H. Berry loses his son, Major Benja min S. Berry, of the Marines, who was seriously wounded in France. —Discussing the election of Con gressmen, the Wilkes-Barre Record says: "A Republican Congressman who is patriotically interested in the prosecution of the war can uphold the present administration, if it is right, as enthusiastically as a Con gressman of another political faith, and many contests will be waged on that basis The present Republican minority in Congress, with few ex ceptions. has stood by the admin istration in essential policies and it would have done so if It had been in the majority." —Seventeen more arrests were made yesterday in connection with the alleged election frauds in the Thirty-ninth ward of Philadelphia. Sixty warrants were sworn out by the Committee of Seventy on infor mation furnished by several electors who claim that many illegal ballots were received by the election offi cers on primary day. The accused men will have a hearing before Mag istrate Renshaw on July 11. Only a few have been held In bail. Old Paper Pants Advising [From the Marlon Star.] The success attained by the Aus trians In their drive on Italy almost Justifies the conclusion that they may have borrowed the crown prince to lead it. Eclipses in Season Austria threatens to follow Russia into retirement.—Omaha Bee. EL AJRRISBURG <£&!*£& TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES-:. By Briggs HOM'C FRotv A - ® _ f Y*-A V" N C ' 1 HAVIMG A V, "ARC?! SUPPOSE YOU I HV)H- / LOT* ABOUT TNE /V avO, / ~—~\F~ \ LE/VVB \ VA/AB -WHAT IS VI/ I 7-R- 2 'NOVO \ t CHArJCe \ Yooß OPtWIOM-? I HCNRV A>\ # Y \ LCAVIKJC. DOWT ROO TMIN / \ *J J Be Mice- | 1 T AWC A PlVk ~T ~~ ~~ "\ ll T T f " ~~ _ 'N RKIULA4 I ] HA HAHAHA / I I.TTLC 7 A < CA*V/ YOU MADS or rqaa- LABOR NOTES Carpentry is said to be the only trade which English women are not entering, Steam shovel and dredge men in the Soo district ask S2OO a month. At the close of 1917 Canada had 1,974 local trades-union bodies. Women are proving to be excellent paperhangers in New York. Alabama coal miners have raised their day wage scale 75 cents. A 20 per cent, increase has been given civilian workers in United States navy yards. At the Woolwich arsenal in Eng-1 land 28,000 women workers are em ployed. The Labor party of Queensland, Australia, has been returned to power. . Over a quarter of a million ship yard workers have enrolled in the last two months. Toronto Iron and Brass Molders' Unions are seeking an increase in wages. A branch of the Canadian inde pendent party will be organ ized in Kitchener. Three thousand six hundred women are now employed on the Great Eastern Railway of England. What the Printers Are Doing [Kansas City Star] i Newspapers, of course, are espe cially interested in the achievements of that large body of their employes organized as the International Typo graphical Union. But the operations of that union under war conditions are so noteworthy that they are mat ters of public interest. Here is an organization that has sent five thousand members into army and navy service, that has paid death benefits of $22,000 to the rela tives of the seventy-five members who have died in the service, and that at the same time kept up Its pension system for members disabled by old age, and its home for printers at Colorado Springs. It has backed its patriotic service at the front with patriotic service at home. Its offi cers .as they put it, "are volunteers in the army for the preservation of industrial peace for the duration of the war at least." and have pledged themselves.to do their "level best to give full effect to the earnest rec ommendations made by President Wilson in his proclamation creating the National War Labor Board; there should be no strikes or lock outs during the war." It is one of the great public achievements of the International Typographical Union that in con junctions with the newspaper pub lishers it has been able to work out a policy of arbitration of Industrial disputes to take the place of indus trial war. Under the machinery which is always in readiness to take up grievances and settle them, the war Involved in a strike has become almost unheard of. In Its comprehension of the prob lems. in its responsibility toward Its own members, in its work for perma nent Industrial peace as well as In It* service to the government In the em ergency of war the International Typographical Union has made an important contribution toward Amer ican life. RIDING FOR A FALL [Philadelphia Record] Of course Kuehlmann will have to go, but equally of course the things he said had to be told to the coun try. No one who understands the nature of the German government believes that the Minister for For eign Affairs, who is merely a bureau chief for the Chancellor, who In turn is solely responsible to the Kaiser, made his speech without the direc tion of his superiors. But then, his business was not only to tell un pleasant truths to the German peo ple. but to stand between them and the Kaiser. The German government knows it cannot conquer the allies this year, and has very little Idea that It ever can. It must ask peace terms, or. If the people will stand It, protract the war through another winter. The people must be prepared for the truth that the German armies can not win a "German peace." and there must be negotiation with the enemy or a prolongation of the war. From a Soldier in France to His Mother Vou have asked me. Mother dearest. Just what our boys have done! Ha\e they snatched their share of glory as the golden moments run? Have they met the great adventure with a smile and passed along Through ths fields of desolation, ever steadfast, ever strong'.' Have the waning fires of freedom burnt Into a brighter flame? Has the spark brought into being a new luster for our name? Have we lent our little effort —made the bid and paid the price? Are the scales of Duty balanced by the weights of Sacrifice? Has the echo of tradition, sounding high above the guns, Found its fullness in the bosoms of our land's heroic sons? I can answer, yes, old sweetheart—l can tell a wondrous tale Of hands that carry on the work and hearts that never fail: And each day has its story, its glory, toll, and pain. Its madness, sadness, gladness, its sunshine, mist, and rain; Its song of blind devotion to the pur pose of our trial. Its hymn of wild emotion, breathing truth or stern denial. Emotion wrought of sorrow, wet with tears of blind despair, Emotion wrought of pity for the widow's empty chair. Emotion wrought of terror in the drum fire's steady roll. Emotion wrought of hunger in the heart, the mind, the soul. Emotion wrought of memories of • children killed in bed. TO THE WEATHER MAN r'or what we surely shall receive, For sultry heat and lightning prankful. For storms you may have up your sleeve. We pray thee, Boss, to make us thankful. Julv and August come apace. The burning days that vex us greatly; The sky will show no April face Such as- our hearts rejoiced in lately. But though we stew wiffj beaded brow. And crave the self-destroying pistol; We shall (we hope) remember how You gave us days so cool and crystal. you send to wilt and grieve— Humidity and heat together— We thank thee, Boss, for this re prieve, This spell of mild and joyous weather! Among useless occupations might he included that of Ludendorff, hastening by special train to Vienna to show Kaiser Karl how to accept defeat more gracefully.—The Even ing Public Ledger, Philadelphia. IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY Mrs. Katherine Killjoy turned around from the telephone and re marked to her friend that the tele phone service was awful; that she had been trying to get Mrs. Nohurry for the past three minutes. The last part of her statement was true. Meanwhile, Mrs. Nohurry was care fully sewing a ribbon on a hat, with in sight and hearing of the tele phone. Why lay aside a new hat to answer the telephone boll? When it became annoying enough, she would answer and probably tell Mrs. Killjoy, "Why, I have been sitting right alongside of the telephone for the last hour!"—which might also be the truth. Henry I Knockemdead was furi ous. The operator had Just given him a don't answer report on a call to his residence. He knew there was somebody at home all the time, and furthermore he was certain his wife was at home at that very min ute. She was—but she was out in the back yard watering the pansies. Charity Toward Each Other We are bound to thank God al ways for you. brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth ex ceedingly; and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.—ll Thessalonians i, I. Of bristling, barren crosses, bearing i witness to our dead, Silent crosses, calling, calling, find- ! ing answer in the breast, Linking up our pulse and passion ! with "the boys who traveled j west." Aye, emotion wrought of memories. ; across the tragic sea, U Of all we know, of all we love, of all", we hope to be— Of parent, wife, and children, of liberties we prize,. Of smiling sweet contentment be neath our sunny skies. Emotion tells the story when life hangs on a hair— 'Tis fed on exaltation or crushed by sheer despair. I*, is not the fear of dying that wears your heart away— It's the weary life you're living, and living every day. It Is not the final shell-burst, bring ing your eternal rest — It's the trying, ever trying, still to do your very best— Carrying on with faith unbroken, when all your pals are gone, For to carry on with smiling face is half of victory won. And we'll carry on. by grace of God, 'gainst all the Imps of Hell, And the place where the savage Hun broke through will be where our last man fell. For the word has traversed the west ern front, and echoed across the shore— "Tht Hun nhall never cross the lines which he could not cross be fore!" WILLIAM V. V. STEPHENS. In New York Times. Dealing With Prussianism [Kansas City Times] A captured German officer, asked if the Germans would quit if this summer failed to bring them victory is quoted by an American corre spondent as replying, "We are going to win or we are all going to hell." Another Germon prisoner on hearing something said about a distinction between the German government and the German people declared, "That is the same thing." While we may hope that the war will teach Germany something in the end, we have got to find some les sons in it too. One of them that ought to be plain by this time is that the poison of Prussianism is absorbed into the blood of the whole German people. They are fighting us, it does not matter whether willingly or un willingly, and we may be sure they will continue to fight us as long as the.v believe, with or without reason, that they have a chance to win. A nation of people impregnated with Prussian teaching and held, through whatever means, to a "win or go to hell" policy can have no place in democratically governed world. Prussianism must be licked out of them before the world can live with them, nor can we stop during the process of licking It out to in quire of each subject whether his is | a baa case of Prussianism or whether Ihe took it lightly. We must as- I sume, as the German boasted, that he and his government are the same tiling. OUR EUGENE FIELD "Was Hoover the first American who thought of saving food?" ques tioned the Boy Scout scribe of the family circle. "Well, I believe Ben Franklin made some thrifty remarks," vol unteered father. Little Ann, loyal Mlssourian that she is, 'hunted busily for her worn book of children's poems and bade the family listen to what Eugene Field said to all children when even Mr. Hoover was quite a little boy. She read proudly, "Inscription For My Little Son's Silver Plate, by Eu gene Field." When thou doest eat from off this plate, I charge thee be thou temperate; Unto thine elders at the board Do thou sweet reverence accord; And, though to dignity Inclined, Unto the servng folk be kind; Be ever mindful of the poor. Nor turn them hungry from the door; And unto God. for health and food And all that in thy life is good. Give thou thy heart in gratitude. —EUGENE FIELD. JULY 2, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT Kcuhlmann's thanks to the Aus trians for having "pinned down large and important enemy forces" in Italy reminds one of the American hu morist wild threw the other man violently down on top of him and fiercely thrust his nose between the fellow's teeth.—New York World. It is a vast pity that Helen of Troy is not still alive. We need her badly for the Fourth of July cele bration. According to the consen sus of opinion of her time, she had a face that launched a thousand ships. —Columbia State. To the Kaiser: Tell your peace stories to our marines.—Chicago Tribune. Riveters are punching holes in the U-Boats.—Wall Street Journal. SIMS ON THE SUBMARINES [New York Times] The last sentence in an informing interview with Vice Admiral Sims printed in The New York Times yes terday was the most pregnant, the most arresting: "Now is the time to hit our hardest." While it is true that "tonnage (allied) is rapidly in creasing and the enemy submarines are decreasing in number and effi ciency," there is a complacent op timism against which we must be on our guard. OUR DAILY LAUGH A REAL AMERICAN. "Do you believe .*.n signs?" "Not In rfeotric signs when coal Is „ • > HE DID! Mrs. Mouse—T must say Henry ] Mouse, I don't see what's so attrao* five about tnat old trunk! AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. "Russia Is outdoing herself tlhia week." "How so?" "Why she's launched a new coun ter-revolution and this Is only Mon- MERELY SKIMMED THE SUBJECT. "Grace Is engaged." "Did be tell you all .t>out It 7" "Mercy, no. I omy spent the aft ernoon with her." I Ebettituj Clfat Search of homes of soma of the aliens In Harrisburg made by officers of the State Game Commission and by agents of the federal food and fuel administration have developed some things which have been brought to the attention of United States authorities for action, being no less than the display of pictures of Kaisers Wilhelm and Carl, and their generals, while it is stated that only recently Austrian flags were in homes in Harrisburg. The discovery of the pictures were made a short time ago when searches were being made for hoards of flour and sugar, which has been going on systematic ally among some of the men from parts of Hungary and eastern prov inces of Austria. The facts were re ported and some of the pictures were taken down, the foreigners declar ing that all had been removed. About a week ago the state game authori ties who are charged with the duty of seeing that unnaturalized foreign born people do not have firearms de scended on the foreign colony in the Sibletown district and found pic tures of the kaiser and German pos ters in front rooms of houses. They were promptly reported and the for eigners again protested that they had been taken down. It has lately been reported that there are some of the Austrians who touch their hats when they pass the pictures of Kaiser Carl on entering their homes. This situation is a new one for Harrisburg und the reports are being investigat ed with the result that some of the men may be interned. • • • Milk shipments from the Harris burg district are reported as having grown to the largest size known this spring and milk is now taken from this section not only to Philadelphia, which formerly secured a consider able part of its supply from South ern Central Pennsylvania but to New York and even to Boston. The number of dairy cows in Dauphin and Cumberland counties which was reported as declining, is said to have materially increased and there has also been an increase in Perry. • • • Bass fishermen were disgusted with the weather of the first day of the season under the new tish code. The rains ot' Sunday had caused the waters of the Susquehanna anil Conodogwinet, noted bass streams, to rise and there was mighty poor sport on the first day. It is hoped that there will be more doing later in the week when the waters are no longer muddy and the streams are down. Commissioner Buller says he is satisfied the new season will be appreciated later on. • • • Another thing which may be men tioned as having won the approba tion of people who have come here from various sections of the state lately on governmental, political or other errands and that is the co operation tendered upon the part of the city in the working out of the plans for Capitol Park. Quite a few men who came here for the Demo cratic state committee meeting last week were aware of the monumental bridge project urged by Arnold W. Brunner and having in mind the way Harrisburg made its public Improve ments when the state began con struction of the new Capitol said they looked forward to this city "going right to it" with the state to make the Capitol and Its park ap proaches an object of state-wide! pride. • • • While it is quite laudable for the officials of the Bell Telephone Com pany to seek elimination of the service which was encouraged in other and less strenuous days in the interest of greater efficiency the fact remains that the time of subscriber and operators now lost in ascertain ing the correct hour of the day or night is greater than before the or der went into effect. Many house holds in Harrisburg have for years been regulated in the morning by getting the time from the telephone exchange and the Bell was always a -eliable source of information and there are many men who have de pended upon the always cheerful re sponse of the girl as a guide to catching cars or trains and even to getting up in the morning or trying to get to sleep on a wakeful night. Now all that is changed and when you want the time you have to ask the Western Union, which is a busy place between its own and govern ment business; call up the Pennsyl vania railroad or if you have a friend in a bank, a store, a public office or some other place where there is standard time take down the receiver and ask for him. Thero were some tests made Saturday morning and yesterday afternoon on "time calls" from these sources and the time consumed by the telephone operators in getting the connections made was triple and many times more than the seconds of service em ployed in giving the hour the old way. Harrisburg has no town clock, but for years it had some of thi brainiest men who helped make the Bell indispensable to help it out. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Ex-Judge Dimner Beeber has gone to the seashore to remain for the week. —William I. Schaffer. the new president of the State Bar Associa tion, and looked upon as the next Attorney General, started in life as a reporter. —Congressman E. E. Bobbins, the Greensburg Congressman, who has the best record of responses to roll calls in the Pennsylvania delegation, has Western Pennsylvania history as a hobby. —Ex-Representative Frank C. Roose, of PottavlUe, who is crusad ing on the coal output, says that bad housing prevents efficient mining. —Robert E. Richardson was re elected secretary of the Reading school board. —T. J. Savage, who has been ac tive in mediation work and well known here, has been assigned to the Midvale strike. —Albert Davis, who wins the sen atorial nomination In Lackawanna, is a former legislator. — 1 DO YOU KNOW —Tliat Harrisburg street par ing prices have been noted as among the lowest obtained in Pennsylvania for years? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first public school was located in Walnut street. Looks Like a Last Resort There being no other way to de stroy Foch's reserves, it appears that old Von Stein has undertaken to do it by word of mouth.—From the "New Orleans States
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