10 TELEGRAPH A \ SUSP.-I PER FOR THS HOME Foundtd :iu Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.KCBAPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Building. Federal Sqaara. E. J. STACKPOLE.Prw'I Sr E4itrtn-Chitf F. R. OTSTER. Bujintss Manofrr. GL'S M. STEINMI3TZ, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—Tha Associated Press is exclusively En titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American & Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- Eastern office, - Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. _ By carriers, ten cents a -p.?-> week; by mall, <6.00 a year In advance. TUESDAY. JULY 9, 1918 Those who say they will forgive but can't forget an injury simply bury the hatchet while they leave the handle out ready for immediate use. —DWIGHT L. MOODY. NEEDS OF THE Y. M. C. A. THE Harrisburg Y. M. C. A. is asking for money for its next annual budget and it should have what it needs. The plant has been rehabilitated and under the new management the association is fast taking its proper place in the life of the community. It is the home of every soldier who comes to Har risburg, cots having been provided for the many who cannot be accom modated in the dormitories, and the rest and reading rooms and the gymnasium and bathing facilities be ing at the disposal of the men in uniform without cost. With the j.nn ing of at least 1,200 soldiers to gar rison the two large war sut ply depots at New Cumberland and Shd dletown. the war work of the IS.C ciation will be greatly increased. Then, too, there is the purely local work of the organiEation. This must be kept up during the war for the sake of our boys and young men and the industrial activities must be continued on a larger and more ex tended scale. But that is not all. The T. M. C. A., which is the soldier's home while in the service, must be his refuge when he returns. The association must be ready to receive him with open arms. It must be his club dur ing the reconstruction period follow ing the war and it must be ready to receive him when he comes back. He must feel that he can go to it as freely in civil life as in the military and that, if necessary, it will assist him in procuring suitable employ ment. Now is the time for the "Y" or ganizations everywhere to lay the foundations for this work, and money is a prime essential. "One never knows what the Russian mind will conceive or what the Rus sian will execute," says Kerensky, but we suspect he meant WHOM the Russian* will execute. THE RIGHT TREATMENT MAYOR KEISTER has been a worker all his life and he has small sympathy for loafers. "Work or fight" means just that with him and the people of the city will endorse most heartily his cru sade against those who would do neither. The arrest yesterday of a dozen or more men without visible means of support is a proper step. It will provide an incentive to those worse than useless members of the community who will neither work nor go into the army. Keep it up, Mayor, you have the right idea. In planning your vacation, it is well to remember that there is an other Liberty Loan coming along next fail. THE RUSSIAN CRISIS ANEW crisis has arisen in Rus sia, taxing all the sagacity of allied statesmanship. Such great issues hinge on the outcome and so little is known of the true conditions within the country that President Wilson, to whom has been assigned leadership among the en tente spokesmen, is very properly moving slowly in the matter. His ■ decision to back up England and France in "protecting the Arctic port of Kola and the Railway line to Pet rograd, indicates his willingness to use armed force to repel the Ger mans when the proper moment ar rives. There are indications that, while the White House deprecates any talk of intervention, preparations to that end have gone much farther than appears on the surface and that once the step is finally decided upon it will be carried out promptly and . in force sufficient to make a formid able showing against any opposition that may develop. The fact that Americans have been in Russia for fcoiue time is Just now made known TUESDAY EVENING, , and the news that an armed expedi tion has landed would come with little surprise to those who have been studying the situation. This much in the Russian muddle is clear —that within the next few weeks the allies are going to lose the the possibility of Russian help or they are going to checkmate Ger many in the east, and much depends upon the skill and tact with which the immediate situation ts handled. Two colored men put forty Germans to flight the other day. What would happen, we wonder, if we had three million colored troops in France. GOOD ROADS AGAIN the Grange of Pennsyl vania has gone on record against the proposed State loan for the permanent improvement of the highways. It will be noted that from time to time the group of men in control of the State organization of farmers has consistently opposed improvement of the roads through a loan. Notwithstanding the great need of improved highways through out Pennsylvania, especially in the farming community, this attitude of the Grange persists and it would seem to be about time for the im portant interests which require easy communication on account of pres ent day conditions u> organize against this unaccountable opposi- ! tion. The current number of "Farm and Fireside" declares, in an editorial, that good roads have twice saved France in the present war. Had it not been for the radiating road sys tem maintained by the French gov ernment the Germans would have won the battle of the Marne and reached Paris. The Germans had calculated on only three divisions being sent out from Paris to stop the invasion. Instead, the excellent system of highways made it possible for five divisions to be sent to this front. t Again, shortly after the battle of Verdun started, the French railroad, which was to furnish many of the supplies to the troops, was destroyed. The French Government, however, had a ma cadam road thirty-two feet wide, on which four lines of traffic, two in either direction, were maintained. Day and night H.- 00U motor trucks carried men and equipment. The traffic never stopped. When a hole was made in the road, a man with a shovelful of rock slipped in between the line of trucks and threw the rock into the hole, then jumped aside to let the trucks roll the rock down. The farmers of Pennsylvania are too intelligent a cla3s to be swerved from a proper course of action by the little group that gets together j from time to time and adopts reso lutions against the proposed loan on the pretense that it would be an im position and all that sort of thing. How Pennsylvania is going to get good roads from current revenues is hard to conceive and it- is ob viously unfair to expect the people of the present generation to do all the road building for years to come. Farmers who hfive studied the problem realize that prompt trans portation means fnuch to them in the marketing of their crops and conducting general farm operations. Good roads will help win the battles of industry' in war time as well as in peace time and the "Farm and Fireside" evidently expresses the opinion of the intelligent farming j class. In the same magazine for July, from the pen of H. J. Krier, appears this little poem, which il lustrates the value and importance of good highways. I am the road That carries the load From countryside to town. If you drag me true 1 will pull for you. And never mire you down. IT WORKS AT SAN JOSE MANIFESTLY the test of city manager administration has been a success at San Jose, which California city has just ended a year and a half under the plan. The list of accomplishments is im pressive. Among these are saving the salary of a treasurer by having a bank act as treasurer, which at the same time pays 2Vt per cent, on city deposits; improved accounting system installed; health activities quadrupled; vigorous milk inspec tion, which has reduced the bacteria in milk from 800,000 to 93,000 per cubic centimeter; meat Inspection, which has modernized the slaughter houses of the city, formerly very bad; all but sixty-five houses in the city connected with sewers: a fine bathhouse built 'and in operation; fire service improved until loss per capita is the lowest in California; better street lighting at less cost; I street railway company required to observe its paving contract; central j purchasing established. With all these improvements the government ended its first year and a half with an unencumbered balance of J23,- 000 and with a tax rate reduced from $ 1.22 to *1.20. There is nothing in this list of things accomplished which would reflect in any way upon Harrisburg, but there is a growing conviction among all who are interested in civic administration that the failure of the city commission plan is the division of responsibility among several heads and the frequent shift ing of obligation of one department chief to another. Some of the modern poets appear to use typ*ewriters that flat in the whole upper register. Having regulated the price of wheat downward, will not the President please do something similar to cotton? "For the good of the service" is the only reason given in response to the demand of the American people that the administration explain the shelv ing of General Wood.' Then, if the present ostracism of Wood is for the good of the service, are we to assume that it was also for the good of the service that he was ridiculed when he made his pleas for preparedness four years ago? Was It for the good of the service thHt he reprimanded for some of his conduct at the Platta burg camp? Was it for the good of the service that he was practically snubbed when he returned from France? The military service of the United States seems to make some very strange demands for its own good. T>o uuau 'PoiKOifftfOiua Br tbm Kx-Oommttteenum I All signs are that the Democracy of Pennsylvania, so much heralded as reorganized, purified, harmonized | and united through the influence of I men now holding conspicuous pub | lie office, will have a fight over how j its voters shall ballot for Supreme | Court justice in addition to the in | ternal pains caused by the refusal of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, gu | bernatorial nominee, to regard the j ruling clique as sincere in its pro | fessions of support for him. There j was an effort made at the meeting of i the Democratic state committee to secure an endorsement of Justice Ed ward J. Fox, of Easton, the Gover nor's appointee, but it developed in five minutes three distinct booms among Democrats for the same place and since that time the aspirants have been as busy as war gardeners during a potato bug raid. | It has been learned that Justice l'ox was not named until after Gov ernor Brumbaugh and Attorney Gen eral Brown had gotten into com munication with National Chairman \ ance C. McCormick and National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer, who are declared by some newspa pers to hold the majority of the stock in the Demooratic state ma chine. This was not made known when the state committee met or things would have been still mora lively. In any event the state com mittee refused to pledge support to Justice Fox for election to the full term and on top of the announce ments of the candidates of C. B. Lenahan, Luzerne; A. V. Dively. Blair, and O. H. Bechtel, Schuylkill, there are reports of other Democrats intending to enter the field. With Judge Bonniwell standing aloof from] the leaders of the Democracy antfj State Chairman McLean trying to! harmonize the warring elements the' Democracy is an interesting study, j —Appointment of Warren Van- Dyke, secretary of the Democratic i state committee for two years, while j praised by many because of the per sonality of the appointee, is not' meeting with much hat throwing byi the Bonniwell faction. The judge i and his friends wanted control ofi the state headquarters and Van Dyke' being a Palmer man. is not going to! turn anything ovfer to the guberna-' torial candidate that the machine! can use. i —lndiations ate that things about! the Democratic windmill will rest until the end of the month. By that! time the Bonniwell stand will be] more positive and the Supreme Court j row well developed. —Another thing which is causing trouble among Democrats is an ef fort to move the office of the Ninth Internal Revenue district from Lan caster. For years this has been in Lancaster and attempts were made to move it to Harrisburg, but they were unsuccessful, largely because the collector preferred to keep it away from here. Now York Demo crats are demanding that it be mov ed to that city. Collector B. F. Da vis, the boss of the Lancaster ma chine, wants to keep the office in his home city, but York has a long pull. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day] says: "When some time ago it was reported that the Rev. Dr. John Howard Harris would retire from the presidency of Bucknell Univer sity next year. Governor Martin- (J. Brumbaugh's name was mentioned as among those likely to be consid ered for election as his successor. When the Governor's appointment of former Judge Harold M. McClure, of Union county, to the State Public Service Commission was announced last week gossip was again directed t this college presidency. Judge McClure being one of the most influ ential members of the board of trus tees of Bucknell. The selection of Judge McClure was a surprise to the political associates of the Governor, and it is claimed that the appoint ment was made regardless of politi cal recommendations." —The Pittsburgh Post is protest ing against any change in the Pitts burgh tire department which would impair its efficiency. —After announcing he soon would go to France, where he will do war work for the Knights of Columbus, John P. Connelly, Philadelphia city solicitor, said yesterday he would give attention while there to the perfection of the new city charter to be presented to the next session of the Legislature. In a letter to Mayor Smith, Mr. Connelly stated the law department is thoroughly organized, and recommended his first assistant] Ernest Lowengrund, as capable of acting as head of the department during his absence. Mr. Connelly will not draw any salary while he is abroad. —York is not the only county wheh is likely to have the State Board of Public Charities on its back. Right on top of the refusal of Hie York authorities to build a new almshouse as called for by the State Board, the Lancaster county au thorities have declined to build a new prison. A dispatch from Lan caster says: "Lancaster county com missioners in conference with the prison authorities decided not to erect a new building for juvenile of fenders and women prisoners. They will provide a detention room at the almshouse, but cannot find anw law compelling them to erect a woman's prison. All such offenders must be sentenced by the court to the county jail. All the requests from the prison inspectors to make the institution secure from escape were granted. The State Board of Chari ties requested a new building for women and juveniles and probably may endeavor to force the issue." —War on speakeasies in the sub urban districts was declared by- Mayor Alex T. Connell, at Scranton. Asserting that complaints have been made that mine workers spent their Sundays drinking i„ these unlicensed places, and in consequence are unfit for work next day, the mayor said that he already has sufficient evi dtnce to start criminal prosecutions ngainst the proprietors. As coal pro duction is a most vitad war idustry. Mayor Connell says the speakeasies are a menace to maximum produc tion and they must go. They Are So Careless Hippopotamus meat is said to be as good as pork, but the chances are that a lot of hippopotamuses running about would muss up a back yard al most as much as chickens.—Marlon (Ohio) Star. IT ARRTSTiVRG 898@6 TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AW GLORIOUS FEEUN'T j i • | The —-Ao_T„r* ££ Too , r b.S*I?T^' THOOT f n r~~~ (OwTT PORGOt) F Yoo ASK 1 A ~ **6 MOvxJ ALL You \ \ ALL A BOOT / / t THIM" HE'D 'voOwee haoe To Do is \ -rv, AT FmrT y ( ©me ,t mttgr £ I MAN IM TO *SK PAPA'S/ \ xT y \ A SRAVS / T I - *?y y ft?. rr W,TH I H, f,, • ' oh-h-h w Boy !!! muster (~~~~ —— —\ S-S Ul t ... AIM"T IT A flp' Cfu"*6P J ' Come t"„ \ —>- 6RA ? BRA " Tmg IZoT* WELCOME MV GLO-R-^-R-RICUS. ThS o£-t> \ Yooß FAU6HTER / \ "BOV AMD <Sot> r Pc , (K| *? *? ? -BOV V -bless YOO I jsty L- Jmr% ) 3 ,A MTA LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AT NEW CUMBERLAND To the Editor of the Telegraph: I do not think it will be out of place to give you a few facts con cerning the government work at New Cumberland. Though this one de partment. may be but a small item in the aggregate of such industries now in execution in the country, yet I will presume to say that if they are all engineered on the principles of New Cumberland, the nation's ef forts must surely spell success. As I am not familiar enough with all the departments to give correct data concerning them, I will, there fore, give only some little informa tion concerning the department in which I am employed, the concret ing, directly under the supervision of Messrs. Brown and Snyder. Our mainspring, Mr. Copeland, vice-president, and his corps of su perintendents. Messrs. Weston, Hor-. ton, Ross and others, do not allow Superintendent Brown to want any thing necessary to expedite the work, hence Mr. Brown will not condone any "slacking." He seems to give his: entire energy to backing the "boys in, the trenches." Sometimes he had toj mark time for a few minutes to give; the carpenters and excavators a lit- j tie more show, but Superintendents Horton and Mullen see to it that the! interim is measured by second-3. 1 Sometimes the order, "Hit the Kaiser a lick, boys," is passed; then, Mr. i Editor, you ought to see the concrete run. Past records are broken byi from ten to twenty cubic yards per day. The I, Blue Devils" have gone; back to France and possibly carried I some "Black Devils" or caused some! to go. but we have some left behind > the lines. When the word was passed along j the other day to "hit the Kaiser | a hard one," it was noted that we 1 did not have a fHll corps of "Black | Devils." I replied that Mr. Hoover | said that we must learn to obtain In | these war times the best results in i everything possible with 50-50; sg j our 50-50 company just "cracke 1 ( down" on the concrete foundation of! warehouse No. 3 which will later hold that which will make the Kai ser feel exceedingly uncomfortable. We broke our own record by etgh-j teen cubic yards for the day. I just imagined I could see the heart of our president. Mr. L,anahan, swell with approval during his rounds of inspection especially when he came to Mr. Brown's De- J. I. GREENHOW, B. and R. Employe. Some Hints on Canning The July Farm and Fireside says: "Keep the water at a Jumping boil and do not allow the fire to die down for an instant while cans are in the canner. "Keep the cover on the canner during every moment of the pro cessing time. Steam plays a large part in cooking. "Greens or green vegetables are most satisfactorily blanched in steam instead of hot water. Use a steam cooker or put the products In a colander and set them over a ves sel of boiling water, covered tightly. "To prevent bleaching or darken ing of products packed in glass jars, wrap jars in paper. ' Examine jars and cans occa sionally during the summer to de tect any sign of fermentation, leak ing. or swelling. ' The flavor is injured by letting peeled fruit stand too long before cooking." LABOR NOTES Laborers from Porto Rico are be ing imported for work on Govern ment contracts. Thousands of women are being employed in France to make war balloons. On July 8, at Chicago, 111., Inter national Rroom and Whisk Makers' Union will convene. The Farmers' party in New York state thaetens to put a ticket of its own into the political field. The annual convention of the American Federation of Labor will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa., July 10. The commission form of goven ment for New York city is suggested for the duration of the war. Family cooks at New Orleans have organized and demand a wage rate of $25 a month and their keep. I The Call From France "Nurses and Surgeons Should Come Quickly" l M I HAVE no hesitation in saying that it (the American Red Cross) has done work in these last few days that would justify its existence and the support given to it if it never did anything else." The "last few days" were the days following the second battle of the Marne when thousands of wounded were being rushed into Paris. Charles H. Grastv, special corres pondent of the New York Times, writes of the horrors of these days and the superb work of the Amer ican Red Cross in Paris, yt words that should make every graduate nurse in the United States beg to be allowed to go over to France and help in the noblest service it has ever been in the power of human being to render. In his cable story published in the New York Times, Mr. Grasty says: "Paris, June 9. —Although I have been at all the fronts and in many of the first-line trenches, I feel that I have h#en real war to-day lor the first time. 1 made a round of visits to the Red Cross hospitals, to which have been rushed the casual ties from the various fronts where the American troops are engaged. "Paris is headquarters now for taking care of our wounded. At all the surgical lhospitals to-day tlie facilities were taxed to the utmost. 1 found wards filled with American casualty cases, halls filled with men lying on cots, in courtyards, and even outside in the streets, waiting until the surgeons, working forty-eight hours straight without sleep, could take them into the operating room." Then follows an account of his visits to the five great hospitals con ducted by the American Red Cross in Paris, and he, adds: Getting on German Nerves [Kansas City Times] A report from Geneva furnishes additional evidence of the effective ness of the Allied bombing opera tions over the Rhine Valley. The populations of the industrial towns that have been the targets of the Allied airmen are leaving, house rents have fallen 35 per cent and the war industry of these places is greatly demoralized. These are the results expected aiu! their importance can hardly be overestimated. When a working population is kept from working, not only by the destruction of plants as occurred at Mannheim and Karls ruhe, but by sleeplessness and shattered nerves, which effects have been amply testified to. an appreci able slowing down of war activity is bound to be marked. One other result that was less expected is as gratifying and per haps as important. The people of the Rhine towns are reported to be indignant at the German government for failing to protect them from bombing. They had felt themselves secure and had been taught to be lieve that Germany had the mastery of the air as well as of the sea and the land. The discovery that they have been deceived and that so far from bringing England to terms by ttriking terror from the air. Ger many has now become the victim of the same weapon, has not in creased their faith in German pre dictions of victory. Rombing was a great game when Germany held the weapons, but now that the Allies have demonstrated their superiority in the air the Rhine towns are ready to try enough. They will cry louder soon. The Amtrlcan air program is just get ting into swing and it has a special department on bombing of which German war industrial centers will learn something before many months. Workers In these plants are going to have an efficiency test no training has prepared them for. The best workmen's output will suf fer when he has his ear attuned for the warning of approaching bomb ers, even without counting the loss of the time he will spend in the cellar. The Rhine towns and all Germany are going to learn some thing of war that wasn't 'in the books they have read. Dad's Confession "Father," said the small boy, "what is constructive criticism?" "Constructive criticism, my son, is your own line of talk which, if of fered by some one else, would be called ordinary faultfinding."— Washington Star. "One comes away from such scenes too deeply affected for de scriptive details. Everybody given a dollar for this work of mercy for our own may feel fully rewarded for this generosity. How much more can be said for those who are giving their personal service! "I hear that 20,000 military nurs es have been called for from Amer ica. and after seeing what 1 have to-day, 1 hop'* fiat American women who are in a position to do so will not miss this unequaled opportunity for the noblest service it has ever been in the power of human beings to render. Nurses and surgeon 3 should come quickly. "What the percentage of efficiency in the American Ked Cross organi zation is 1 am unable to estimate, but 1 have no hesitation in saying that it has done work in these last few days that would justify its exis tence and the support given to it if it did anything else. The, Red Cross has been getting ready. It has been collecting money and spending it, tilling warehouses and accumulating medical and other sup plies for months past. It has mil lions of surgical dressings in stock in Paris alone. It has 600 or 700 camions and motor vehicles, 300 of them in Paris. Its personnel in France numbers 2,700. "Many people have looked askance of these huge preparations. In the early operations in Lorraine the Red Cross furnished considerable sup plies, but the army could have got ten along anyway. Then came Can tigny and the Red Cross was at hand with a hospital. And now the or ganization is ready at Paris to tftke the wounded American heroes of the second Marne battle." JUST LIKE HOME . [From the the Stars and Stripes in | France.] We get American food. We hear j "American" talked all about us, in i billets and in line. We get letters j from America sometimes and j American papers occasionally. We rename the streets of our billet vil | lages after those in our home 1 towns. In short, we have made our selves at home. No, we are at home. It is right that the people who are really at home in our old home should know this. They have an idea, some of .them, that we're en tirely marooned, surrounded by "fur- , riners," and that we'll come back unable to speak the English lan guage as it is spoken in the United States, unable to digest American "vittles" and hopelessly wedded to nothing else that is French. It is up to us to write and tell them that we are at home, and thijt, being so at home, we are happy. Harry Lauder summed it up pretty well when he made the young Scots volunteer overseas write back to his old mother in the Highlands: "Sure, there's piperrs a-playin' in the morrnin', An auld Scotch chunes is fine; There's a tartan plaidle buckled on each laddie As they, all wheel into line! I can hearrr them praisln' bonny Scotlan", And singin' o' Scotlan's fame— So don't greet, dearr, I'm a' richt herrre— It's just like bein" at haJm!" What goes for Scotland in that song goes for America with us. If; we only open our eyes to what is about us, we will see that it is "unco like halm." And having opened our eyes, it is up to us to see that the pood folks we left are kept no longer in the dark about it. What Ya Mean—Attics? Poets in the olden Times used to live Up in attics, but Nowadays the attics Of many poets are Unoccupied. —St. Louis Star. Cheeerless Future We sometimes wonder ff ft ever occurs to Austria that all she has to hope for even in the event of glori ous and complete ultimate victory is to pe bossed around for the rest of" her natural life by a beery megalo-1 maniac.—Ohio Stale Journal. JULY 9. 1918. | EDITORIAL COMMENT ~| More food-riots In Austria!; What's the matter with those peo ple? Always thinking of their stomach when the fate of the Ger-I man Emperor is at stake! —Pitts-1 burgh Gazette-Times. Koch says the way to win is toj attack. The Kaiser tries Koeh'sl strategy and loses half a million I men. The real strategy seeni.s to; be in giving the advice to an enemy, fool enough to act upon it.—Brook lyn Eagle. William the Last has reigned thir ty years at an average cost to hu manity of ?5.000,000.000 a year. It is no joke to call him Dill.—Brook lyn Eagle. The Limit of Brutality If we needed anything to make more positive the determination to carry on the war until Germany sur rendered unconditionally, the sink ing of the Elandovery Castle would furnish it. The abhorrent brutality of a nation which deliberately tor pedoes hospital ships without warn ing in the blackness of night, slaugh tering surgeons and nurses, ram ming the boats of survivors in en deavor to completely destroy all traces and evidences of the dastardly deed —such brutality sinks Germany and all her people to the level of outlawed brigands, to whom the other nations of the world should show no more quarter than to dan gerous wild beasts. It should make certain, once for all, that no peace will be extended except on terms of full damages and reparations and the limit of punish ment. —The Bache Review. OUR DAILY LAUGH —t IT DOES. Money makes t * le mare go, Yep, and nowa days wlth the cost nf gasoline where | X5 U ls il take* I money to make ! the little old four v cylinder go, too. | FATE'S SUEBTI- "\ , jjft Optimist: Thel"jPc J<S ' things we fea'r must never hap- Pessimist: Yes, VMS' < but we generally UK get something Jfpi equally bad- .. fi f c —, ADD IN. I ii 77 That was a ter i '' ii'mM rll}le session we L. M|i had last night. Do \ ® I look very bad? ) ■ Bad? You loolc a Palm | Jf Beach suit that's v>... 1 been out in the I II } 1 rain. A WONDER. That's a bright II A*/ looking office boy /Tr> \\W^ you've got. a |V<T Bright! Why, that boy has seen every double header and he J hasn't given me the same excuse t twice. v ~— A fJuRTj sivr?<. IrADlurH I Pl a y Carmen I I And lo ° k llk ° She knew that were carmine SUSPICIOUS. What ls pollti cal economy, To bo perfectly candid, my son, I jWdf g W can't tell you. Sometimes I think fim Yi there Isn't any gj yfoKVi ■ucb thin*. | ji| Ebetttttg ©lptf] ■ | The portrait of John K. Tener painted for the gallery of the gov ernors in the reception room of the executive department at the State Capitol will be placed within a few days and the likenesses of the gover nors from the days of William Penn with a single exception will be com plete. Ex-Governor Tener's picture will be placed beside that of Edwin S. Stuart. * ls\eiiv®^ r portralt to be placed .iT . e secon <l to be painted f' r ~e flrst canvas was too smalt for the space in the woodwork in room - ft was return- who executed a new 7, 1,0 P° r tratt of John M. ii ™ " "eutenant governor with Mr. Tener, was placed in the lieu tenant governor's suite some time 'if 0, ■ fine portrait of Dr. Henry Houck, the late secretary of in ternal affairs, was also placed n short time ago in his department. The portrait of the governor and lieutenant governor who will retire next January will be painted next year. • • • Reports coming to the State De partment of Health indicate that there was very little if any tetanus reported in Pennsylymia following the Fourth of July. The reports are not complete, but all signs arc [tnat there was less observance of the day by means of explosives of I various kinds than for a long time. • • • It is not generally known that Me- Connellsburg, the Pulton county seat, which has Invoked the aid of the State Public Service Commis sion to prevent the closing of the Western Union telegraph office in that town, has been a station on telegraph lines for almost three quarters of a century. Its location at the foot of the Tuscarora range, which is over 2,200 feet high In sight of the county town, made it a good place to go through and for a station. In fact when storms rang ed the Alleghennies the linemen al ways kept an eye on McConnclls burg. • • ♦ The busiest hour these days In Western Union office in Harrisburg is Just about dawn. The order of the Hell Telephone Company sus pending its information service on the hour of the day or the time has filed it up for the long suffering j Western Union. The men at the of fice, who arc rushed with an enor mous increase of business, mainly government, have to hustle to the telephone to give people the time, many times between midnight and t> a. nj. The Pennsylvania railroad people are also getting their share of the inquiries. * * • i Mayor Daniel Li. Keister's idea of observing Dastile Day next Sunday is interesting because over 100 years aso this day was given notice here. There were faw parts of Pennsyl vania in which gratitude for French aid in the Revolution was stronger than right around here, the distil which was noted for not having any Tories. The county was named for the son of the French king and the. city almost became Liouisburg. When the French revolution oc curred the sympathies here were na turally with the people and the fall 4 of the Bastlle was celebrated for.a number of years. * * * It's a pretty far cry until the next legislature meets and it will be a good six months before the law makers to be elected in November come here again for business, but there are already steps being taken to prepare bills for the general as sembly of 1918. This is Indicated by the inquiries coming here and it. would seem that there are a number of men who have ideas of regulating things. However, there will not be many laws next year and the big legislation will be that recommended by the new governor and the com missions which are at work. When Judge H. M. McClure be comes Public Service Commissioner, he will And an old baseball friend. George A. Wood as assistant marshal of the commission. The two never played on the same teams In years gone by, but they played against each other. In his day Wood was somewhat noted as a speedy base runner and he was noted for the way he stole second. The other day Wood was asked If Jie knew the new com missioner. "Yes," quoth he, "for long time. He was one of those who used to nail me at second." Judge McClure caught for some famous teams In his younger days and* used the money he earned to study law and some of the old timers recall how active he used to be be hind the bat. • • * The Capitol plaza and the Mul berry Street bridge were put into the discard last night as the windiest places In Harrisburg. They have divided that honor for a long time and many a man and woman is dis posed to accept such judgment with out further contest. Ttfe new place was registered lpy a man who had been working on top of the Penn- Harris. He said that to his certain knowledge there* had been more wind In the valley of the Susque hanna the last month than he hail ever known and It seemed to center about the new hotel. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —William H. Smith, the former banking commissioner, who Is very ill In Philadelphia, was formerly a newspaperman. —State Zoologist J. C. Sanders'* is just home from a series of visits to conventions In the middle west. —Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell, Democratic candidate for governor, has been resting In the Poconos. —D. A. Post, who is named on the labor safety committee, is a Wllkes-Barre carpenter and has been prominent In labor affairs. —Ex-Governor John K. Tener is visiting the Elks convention at At lantic City. „ —Congressman Thomas S. Crago is ut the seashore. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is making spe cial metals for government muni tions? HISTORIC HARRISBURG In 1800 Harrisburg had two fer ries crossing the Susquehanna and the Middletown ferry was also in operation. Coming of the Gospel Our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also In power, and In the Holy Ghost, and in much as surance.—rl Thessalonjans i, 5.
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