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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.
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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