6 j HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A HBWSPAPBR for thb noun Ftundtd itfl Published evenings except Sunday by TUB TBLBGRAPH PRINTING CO, Ttlemih BnlJdlna, Federal Xun. B. J. STACKPOLHJ, PriSt r SdUtr-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER. Bujiniti Managtr. OUS M. STEINMETO, Managing Editor. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- Eastern Avenue Building, Finley, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1918 Nothing is impossible; there are \cays which lead to everything; and if tee had sufficient will we should al ways .have .sufficient .means. — La Rouchefoucauld. ANOTHER VICTIM THE enforced resignation of Dr. Richard von Kuehlmann as German secretary of foreign af fairs, reported from Berlin to-day, brings with It no surprise. Ever since the world turned coldly upon von Kuehlmann's peace speech It was evident that the foreign minis ter would have to go. Not only were his remarks received badly abroad, but even before they had failed to arouse interest in belligerent coun tries they had caused a storm among the pan-Germans at home. Perhaps the speech was put out as a feeler, with the approval of the Kaiser, who is known to be more or less weak kneed as to the outcome of the war and requires constant heartening on the part of the Junkers, but when they fell so flat in the allied coun tries and caused such a storm at home von Kuehlmann's end was plainly in sight. The particular part of the address which proved so offensive to the pan- Germans was that In which von Kuehlmann declared "in view of the| magnitude of the w.ar and the num ber of powers. Including those from overseas, that are engaged, its end , can hardly be expected through purely military decisions alone and without recourse to diplomatic nego tiations." The foreign minister put the hopelessness' of Germany's posi tion so badly that even his friends gasped, for his language was scarce ly what might have been expected for a trained diplomat unless he had deliberately meant to sound out the sentiment abroad with regard to peace negotiations, and there are . many who strongly suspect that even in the face of his resignation by re quest, the speech was inspired by his imperial master and that von Kuehlmann was merely a puppet. Of course, von Kuehlmann's many enemies are pleased. They had been trying hard for years to dethrone him. Like von Bernstorft, von Kuehlmann is a man given to gross immorality in his private life. Even now he is ih the midst of a libel i>uit against certain Berlin newspa pers which accused him of open as sociation with disreputable women and of conduct unbecoming a gentle man while representing the govern ment at Bucharest; but the public paid small attention to this and his retirement cannot be traced to his personal indicretions, which have been no greater than those of many another famous German diplomat who remains in high favor with throne and public. The answer to von Kuehlmann's reported retire ment lies in the necessity of finding another sacrifice to save the face k of the Kaiser. The Fottsville man, • home after twenty years' absence, who hired a band to make his presence known, had no false Ideas about the length of time required to forget a> familiar face. SAVING THE WILD LIFE REAL, sportsmen in every part of Pennsylvania will applaud the action of the State Commission yesterday in closing practically the whole State to the hunting of raffed grouse for a year. This was done by the commissioners, all of whom are lovers of wild life and experienced hunters, at the petition of the sports men, many of whom backed up the prayers by personal letters. For several years grouse has been the pet object of many hunters and If stories are true some pot punters hunted it so closely that the bird was virtually exterminated in locali ties. The severe winters which have fallen upon the Keystone State of late further diminished the numbers of the grouse and about a year ago a movement was started in Pitts burgh to have the whole State closed. Two acts of the Legislature give the commission authority to wwud for certain periods the hunt. WEDNESDAY EVENING, ins of various kinds of Kama In counties. A score or more of counties have been closed to hunting of deer, quail, turkeys and other game for several years and the grouse movement was merely an extension of the idea. There was some opposition, but it failed to materialize yesterday, and Secretary Joseph Kalbfuß was told that if the other counties were going to close the protestants would not push the matter. The effect of the closing of the State to the hunting of the ruffed grouse means that this fall no grouse may 'be shot and that next year when the grouse season opens the supply will have been augmented through two hatching seasons, this year and next. Still more It means that the State is definitely committed to the policy of conservation of wild life when necessary. The Pennsylvania Commission has taken advanced steps with its game preserves, its closed periods and its propagation, and this latest move, the most extensive of the kind taken without a legislative act, is real con servation and will be appreciated by lovers of hunting and wild life. A New York man was sentenced to a year for oleo frauds, but we haven't noticed any arrests recently of those who sell garlic-flavored butter. SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE QO FAR as. the men in uniform are concerned, the country is "dry." National prohibition is in full force so far as they are con cerned. We are gravely told by Govern mental authorities that liquor is not good for the soldier. If not good for the soldier, then, pray, why good for the civilian? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. By all means, let us have national prohibition bill, "rider" or otherwise. Kola sounds suspiciously like the tail-end of a hot-weather drink, and, very properly, it is up among the icebergs. A GOOD SPEECH THAT President Wilson's Fourth of July speech was better even than appeared at first reading is indicated by the furious wrath with which it has been greeted by the sub sidized newspapers of Germany and Austria. The President, expressing the thought of the whole American peo ple, said bluntly that the war must be continued until the peril of Prussianism has been crushed. He left no doubt as to where America stood on that question. He made it perfectly clear that a victory on the field of is the only means Amer ica will consider In the bringing about of a safe and permanent peace. "It's nothing more than a new declaration of war," cries a terribly injured Junker newspaper, and an other adds: "America means to crush the power of the Central Empires." Correct on both counts. That is just what America means to do. The Germans realize tHat nothing but a miracle can save them from defeat. They realize that neither America nor England can be beaten by force of arms. All the striving in Europe this summer has been with the hope of winning such a decisive advan tage in France as to weaken the morale of that people and so bring about peace by negotiation, which would mean a German peace. No wonder, then, that the Ger man press complains so bitterly apainst the President's Fourth of July speech. He has sounded the keynote of the death knell of Ger man imperialism, and they know It. A few hot days would help the corn crop a lot, Mr. Demain. PRO-GERMAN WEATHER CLEVELAND ABBE, JR., of the United States Weather Bureau, has been dropped from the service because of his pro-German sentiments. Now we know what's been the matter with the weather. It's been "doped out" by a pro-German fore caster, who Insisted on cold when It should have been warm, and wet when it should have been dry, and windy when it should have been calm. If only the Secret Service had dis covered this early last winter, what a lot of trouble would have been saved. We always suspected it was pro-German weather we were hav ing, but we didn't know why. The Shipping Board to date has built 223 ships; 223 for us and "23" for the Kaiser. THE ELUSIVE TIME TABLE A CORRESPONDENT writes the New York his request for a railroad time table, and asks therein a pertinent question, as follows: I went to the new Railroad Ad ministration office in the Stewart Building. It won't be ready for the public until July 25. I rushed across the park to a tourist agency. Alas, it was out of business so far as the railroads were concerned- The kindly clerk directed me to the Pennsylvania ticket office at 170 Broadway. There t found the people wait ing three deep at the counter. Not a time table in the racks. , Not a chance to ask for one for at least half an hour. Why did Mr. McA.doo wreck the old machinery before the new was ready^ Why? To impress upon us, we suppose, that Government control of rallt-oads can be quite aa efficient here a* in Europe. MISSED A FEW SENATOR TENROSE objects to the appropriation of a half mllllon dollars by Congress to investigate "squirrels and cottage cheese." V Perhaps the Senator believes the money might be well used la stop ping up a few of the ratholea In Washington, down which public funds have been flowing all too steadily In recent months. But one wonders how the versatile and scientifically curious attaches of the United States Department of Agriculture missed adding another half-million to investigate the rav ages of "cooties'" In Prance and the presence of weavels In limburger. By the gx-Ofwimlttinii—■ ' I Action of the Luzerne county bar, one of the largest in the state, in en dorsing Charles B. Lenahan, Wilkes- Barre attorney, for the Supreme Court at a largely attended meeting yesterday means more trouble inside the works of the Democratic state machine. Not only did the Luzerne bar endorse one of its own members for the bench, but it did so in spite of efforts to have Justice Edward J. Fox, the Democrat appointed by Governor Brumbaugh to succeed the late Justice S. Leslie Mestrezat, given the support of the Democrats of the anthracite region and right in the face of the fact that the Democratic state chairman put Into office by the Palmer-McCormick faction, is also a member of the Luzerne bar and a neighbor of Mr. Lenahan. The situation as regards the Dem ocrats and the Supreme Court is getting almost as interesting as the Democratic gubernatorial situation. When the Democratic state comjnlt tee met here in June an effort to have Justice Fox endorsed was blocked by Lenahan and his friends, aided by A. V. Divcly, of Blair, who has also become a candidate. It will be recalled that Justice Fox was named after the choice had been put up to National Democratic Chairman Vance C. McCormick and National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer, who are reported to have enthusiast ically approved of the Easton at torney. —The endorsement of Lenahan is the first to be given to a Democrat since that meeting and will be fol lowed by endorsement of Judge H. O. Bechtel, in Schuylkill; Mr. Dlvely in Blair, and probably some other Democrats. There is talk of Justice Gustave A. Endlich, of Berks. Just where the Democratic machine is going to head is hard to say. —Chairman McLean is marking time with his campaign plans until he sees what will come out of the fitting of some men who are obsessed with the idea that they can bring peace in the Democratic party in our time. Judge Bonniwell refuses to say anything about his plans, 'but it is said he is working just as quietly as he did before he sprang his primary surprise to perfect his own organiza tion so that if the resolutions com mittee does not give him a say in the platform next month and the candidates hand him only the hon orary selection of a campaign com mittee chairman, which seems likely, he can announce that he will run his own show and the state will be treated to the spectacle of a can didate running his own campaign and a state committee conducting a rival organization. —lt is said that the selection of George G. Paxton, of Washington county, to be a member of the State Commission of Agriculture, was made at the recommendation of Sec retary Patton, who chose him be cause of the activity of the Paxtoh family in real agriculture. The Pax tons have been big stock raisers and are noted as progressive farmers. —Pittsburgh city council has pass ed an ordinance increasing the pay of policemen and has staved off some trouble in that direction. —Members of the Philadelphia Republican city committee who are of independent Inclinations have asked that the contests brought against them by the Vare organiza tion be advanced and not strung along. —Allentown is looking to Harrla burg for information in regard to a municipal paving plant. The city authorities wanted to' establish a plant to save expenses and found that the third class city law allowed it and that Harrisburg was doing pretty well with one. —According to some reports E. B. Dorsett, former chief of the state bureau of markets, has backing for re-election to that post and with most of the commissioners for him. —Members of the State Grange say that they intend to make tne $50,000,000 road bond issue one of the big things of the campaign and will start next month. It is sus lfected that there is more or less of a scheme in the minds of the emi nent Democrats and independents who are running the grange to make it an oblique attack on Senator Sproul who sponsored the amend ment. —Senator William C. Sproul and Senator E. E. Beldleman will be speakers at the Shade Gap picnic in Huntingdon county on August 3. It wi'l be a great gathering of Juni ata Valley folks. —Men in politics all over the state are watching the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, which has demonstrated what a live commer cial organization can do in civic af fairs. The Chamber has made sen sational charges against the police department relative to law and order and stands ready to back them up either in an Investigation or court. The Chamber secured some detec tives and had them get into the in side of the police system in the guise of men who wanted to operate some sort of a show. The Chamber has become one of the biggest factors in the county under its energetic man agement and is being watched all over the state. Yesterday Mayor Kosek said that the Chamber's charges would be taken up and that no one would 'be protected. —Lancaster Democrats believe they can head oft the attempt oT the York Democrats to get the Internal revenue office removed from the White Rose city. The wires to Wash ington are working hard. Treatment of Shell Shock As for the treatment of sufferers from shell shock, the French have found wonderful efficacy, in the sim ple expedient of refusing pensions to men invalided because of this ma lady. This does not prove them to be malingerers. They are not, but re covery is due to the suggestion o®n tained in knowledge that the alter native to recovery is not ease and safety out of the war. Prevention, however, Is better than cure by this or less harsh methods. Company officers with some under standing of the subject, by paying close attention to their men and tak ing with oaeh, at the first appear ance of nervous Instability, Just the tone of encouragement, explanation or reproof suited to individual tem perament, can prevent most of them from breaking down. None of these remarks, of course, applies to cases of real shell shocks —the physical effects of explosions only a few feet away.—New York Time*. i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! BY BRIGGS fclo^To C D l IlroB^M T STARTS F"ir4DJ BUNDLE rbads "TfeL6€RAKUJ I <*£ TWA.Di C£ TOMA-n* .*FSJ3FB&. euiwesi.. uSX\S appss. Re<ST M,r * eisce. / 4 . \ hfarS RAILROAD Dl<SCoueß3 LONG . GBT& OFFICE Dec (PES To Go OM -TRAIN TRAim".N.DSTANCE °3 { J^ C -" PMOMe; 0N M " Re SACK To CITV . HAPP* OUR STATE WILL RATIFY [Dr. B. E. P. Prugh, State Chair man.] Tune —"The King's Business. This is the "Keystone State"— She must ttot hesitate To rise in all her might And Join the glorlotis fight That now is being fought To rid us of the blot Upon Old Glory's Stars and Stripes. , Chorus This Is the war-cry that we raise; To do the right most surely pays; O Pennsylvania men' Just vote you right and then Our state will surely ratify. Let Prohibition man And "dry" Republican Join with "d;-y" Democrat And be true patriot; For if hand Join in hand And we united stand No old "machine" can us defeat. The candidates are named For whom your votes are claimed; Between the "wets" and "drys" The battle must arise; A neutral you can't be, Por surely you must see To try to be lines YOU up "wet." With Legislature "dry," Our state will ratify; We'll ring again the bell That will all captives tell Of liberty to come From the old denion rum. Where'er the Stars and Stripes shall wave. The numbers multiply Of states that ratify; Each one writes down its name Within the Ha'l of Fame; O Pennsylvania hear, And with a mighty cheer, Join "The Immortal Thirty-six." Chorus This Is the war-cry that we raise; To do the right most surely pays; We Pennsylvania men Will vote just righ'- and then She'll Join them in the Hall of Fame. SELECTING CANDIDATES [Kansas City Star] If voters selected candidates with the same care they exercise, say in ordering dinner on a dining car, these primaries might turn out some good tickets. But voters don't, of course. They either don't vote in primaries at all or they vote for rea sons that wouldn't weigh ten cents' worth with the average man In a business deal. Men who pride themselves on their sagacity and are pretty stiff customers to tackle in their stores or offices when the proposition is to sell them something with a profit to yourself or buy something of them without an? for them, sufch men will go into a primary where candidates are to be selected to administer pub lic affairs —spend public money, as sess taxes and run public institutions —and vote for a picture tacked up on a telegraph pole. They don't pre tend to defend this sort of selection. They are usually quite frank In say ing that they don't much care who is nominated. They say politics isn't business anyway, but Just a sport ing proposition and about the only value a vote has is in the use of It to "help out' the friend of a friend. Joy For Geo. and Mary King George and Queen Mary had their first taste of buckwheat cakes a few days ago. This is Important as marking an epoch in the lives of | two prominent persons. But the King and Queen will not be truly democratic until they have consum ed enough buckwheat cakes to give them the doorjam Itch. —From the Toledo Blade. LABOR NOTES Japanese railways are largely op erated" by women. Bookbinders at Rochester, N. Y., secured |3 a week Increase. Nearly one million female clerks are employed In England. Philadelphia shipyards employ over 76,000 workmen. Kansas City, Mo., has conduct resses on its trolley cars. France Is importing 12,000 Chinese coolies a month. Women are employed as coal miners In West Virginia. . Barbers at Independence, Mo., have formed a union. Growing Grass With Wheat? (From the Literary Dlgnt SOMETHING like the discovery that two telegraph messages at once may be sent over the same wire, which startled the scientific world a good many years ago, is the announcement in the London Times (April 20 and May 1) that the same land may be used for raising grass and wheat at the same time. Nature (London, May 2), from which we excerpt the following comments, is somewhat cautious; and doubtless the recent "Americanization" of the London press, which is deplored by all good Britons, makes caution de sirable, and even necessary. Never theless the articles in the Times are described by the reviewer as caus ing "some little excitement In agri cultural circles," as "the method, if well founded, would revolutionize agriculture and overcome some great difficulties in food-production." We read on: "At present It Is impossible to ex press an opinion, as no sufficient statement of detail has yet been made. It was stated in the article that the government experts had been much Imprest by the method, but inquiries of the Food-Production Department put rather a different complexion on the case. According to the article, the method consists in delivering a mixture of wheat, or oat-seed and artificial fertilizers un der the surface of grass land in July. By September or October the cereal Is stated to have grown from eight inches to ten inches high. Live stock aie then run on to the field to eat down the corn and grass; the effect For He's a Jolly Good Fellow In a recent issue of the Lancaster Intelligencer there was printed an appreciation of George W. Hensel, the Quarryville philosopher and opti mist. He contributes "Down Lancas ter Way," to the Philadelphia North American and incidentally, as the Intelligences indicates, is a banker, merchant, writer, student, politician and general good fellow. He banks like a banker, merchants like a mer chant. studies like a student, does not always politic like a politician, but always is a good fellow. "In wandering around this world of care, Mr. Hensel has visited many and devious corners and has observ. Ed carefully'what he has seen. So he talks well on many subjects and writes better on all things connected with Lancaster county and its people." As president of the Quarryville National bank, Mr. Hensel directs one of the banner financial insfitu tions in the county. He Is one of the kind of bankers who would rather accept as collateral a growing Lan caster county bull than he would the "gold bonds" of the Skedunk railroad of B'araway Land even if it is presid ed over by J. Phillipont Forgan. Hence his bank is th® mecca of the Lower Lancastrians who have faith in themselves and their business. As a merchant he sells all the way from pins to tractors, sells them quickly, and Is a terror to "drum <mers." How Autos Are Stolen A writer says in the July Farm and Fireside: "The car-thief system or organi zation has at work a company of spotters whose duty it is to make a note of when and where cars are left by their owners. They soon find out whether the car owners carry any protecting devices, wheth er they lock their ignition switches, and anything else that might pre vent a speedy and safe getaway. "Sometime the engine number Is defaced, or the engine may be trans ferred to a chassis of another num ber. Various things are done when the thief organization is prepared to make changes in a car in a spe cial garage of their o#n. The greater number of cars stolen seem to be taken soon after the owners leave them. "The smooth thief In taking an automobile knows how to get round the ordinary switch. "For this reason the owner should make use of reliable means to foil the thief. Removing some Invalu able rart, like part of the distribu tor. or the conductor bar of the magneto." Sub-Sea Society If the truth could be discovered •probably It would be found that swordtish are as popular with meri malda as lieutenants are with regular girls.—Dallas News. of this Is said to be a strengthening of root-growth. The protection from frost given to the roots of the cereal by the covering of turf is further said to cause an earlier start of nor mal spring growth, more heads to be thrown up, more rapid develop ment of the plant, and earlier ripen ing of the grain. "The harvesting is proposed to be done by means of an ordinary mow ing-machine fitted with an extra knife at the proper height above the grass to cut the heads of the grain. The lower knife is to cut the hay as usual, and the upper knife to act as a 'header.' Special arrangements are proposed for separately collecting the grain and the straw. "It would be easy to enlarge on the advantages of the method if it materialized, but expectations should be represt until a definite trial has been made and seen by competent observers. Agricultural experiments are just as full of pitfalls as any" others, and agricultural literature contairts many proposals for revolu tionizing crop production which, un fortunately, never matured. "There is a great deal of evidence to show that growing grass has a pernicious effect on wheat sown in the ordinary way, as careless farm ers have often learned to their cost. Mr. Pickering's experiments at the Woburn fruit farm further demon strate the incompatibility of grass and crops. It will be well, therefore, to awaH definite and unexceptionable evidence before attaching impor tance to the new claims." FROM THE FRONT LINE Lieutenant Grantland needs no introduction to baseball fans and lovers of sports of all kinds. His comment was ever sound and enter taining and his verse ever attractl\'e. In a letter from behind the fight ing linen in Prance he tells of the part that sports are playing in en leitaining our men and in keeping up their morale. Jn a verse which he Inclosed, wiitten on a drum head, so to speak, he accurately typifies the spirit of ou' men who are fighting the great flgbt for liberty and democracy, and incidentally his own. The verse follows: If It should be we will not come Your way again. When Peace comes with muffled drum Some day again; .If it should be we will not know The old, old ways— The hearth of home—the twilight glow Of waning days If It should be that Fate, at last. Should call us In. Beyond the great shells hurtling past— The endless din— Or If It happens from the hosts. Our time's at hand To leave and Join the haunting ghosts v Of no man's land— Think not of us as scarred, and Beyond the foam— Nor those whom sullen death has claimed So far from home— Think not of us with tears that creep, Nor hearts that ache, But rather as a child asleep ! Till dawn shall break. Yes, an a child who heard the call. Who saw at night The plow of home beyond the wall, The waiting light; Beyond the last and dread alarm* Of steel and lance, Safe now within the sheltering arms Of MOTHER FRANCE. —By Lieut. 'Grantland Rfce. Too Much to Hope The Teuton birth rate Is falling off so rapidly that I'm beginning to hope that maybe, as It were, respectable Germans at home are ashamed to face posterity.—From the New York Telegraph. He Wants Blood, by Gorry! "What Does Wilson Want?" Is the title of a book published In Ger many. If any further Information Is resly desired, there are a million American soldiers, In round num bers. over there to furnish the an swer.—From the New York World, JULY 10, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT Perhaps this, from F. P. Adams' column In The Stars and Stripes, wili help us visualize the war: "The dif ference between American and French automobile driving is this: In America when your tire blows up you say, 'Good Heavens! There goes our tire!' and In France you say, "Hooray! That was only the tire." — Kansas City Star. If those U-boats have a base on this side they'd better stick close to it and not try to steal home.—Nash ville Southern Lumberman. Maybe Mr. McAdoo's health would be better if he hud some sort of work to keep his mind occupied.—Nash ville Southern Lumberman. A small bit of Germany territory is now In the keeping of a small bit of the United States Army. Both bits will grow.—Springfield Repub lican. Under the new control our rail roads are saving everything but time.—Boston Herald. The Proof of War Now we know that our bodies are j mere flimsy shells, in which our souls are paramount. We can fling them aside any minute; they become ignoble the moment the soul has de parted. We have proof. Often at zero hour we have seen whole popu lations of cities go over the top and vanish, leaving behind them their bloody rags. We should go mad if we did not believe in Immortality. We know that the physical is not the essential part. How better can a man shake oft hW flesh than at the hour when his spirit is most shin ing? The exact day when he dies does not matter — or fifty years hence. The vital concern is not when, but how.—Coningsby Dawson, in The Glory of the Trenches. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ( GBATEFUL. { George: Some men, you know, --HH. . mfjtT are born great, 'W\ some achieve SK > 'jf: 'A greatness. ml ac *' y * And om Just grp.te upon COMPREHBN- BIVE DEMANDS. V) Oh, men we meet most every- With ego far from small, C Who don't believe they have their share Unless they've -Cfc- Cot it all. f ANGULAR HIT. tAh, In spring* time I suppose an artist like yo a wanders out to admire the cow slips and the vlo Ssh, I'm a cu _ blst. Just now the thing to admire is a pile of brlcka. TABLES DOWN • TO DATE. P-' fot Do you know the fable of the f sw/ \ grasshopper and *' the ant? "-jV Oh, yes. The grasshopper jjWr danced while the lylr ant tolled to get — M|!II the money to take J a tew leuona •v "|| > yf'J REMARKABLE CWHHLJFLE FORETHOUGHT inJrtJffintSf- Proprietor: Here is a fine cigar, If you like a mild 4[:nl _i_ Customer: No, -|ip¥ Trl give me the I || I strongest brand f iMffljf you have, they're for my mother l i Etattittg (Eljat Some Idea of the extent of Har risburg la furnished by the map In the new Boyd city directory for 1918, which has Just been Issued* This Is the first map to appear with the new Fourteenth ward marked on It and it makes a water front of about five miles, only a small part of which is encumbered by build ings or used for industrial purposes. The buildings will speedily disap pear and the time is coming when even the Industrial plants will con tribute to the ornamental features of the citjr. And while the new ad dition does not add materially to the width of the city the fact that the eastern boundary is out at Poor house lane, or Twenty-ninth street on the city map is impressive. That is nearly three miles from the water front. The city map is something that everyone ought to study be cause Harrifeburg has a good many interesting nooks and corners in It and there are quite a few people who have the street plan of At lantic City in their heads better than the town plot of their own home community, and some day wo will have an official city publication which will show the extent of our | parkway system and how under the Influence of the city planning com- ' mission the layout of developing systems is being harmonized with the parent municipality. • • • Speaking of the Fourteenth ward It is interesting to note that there are streets in that new section which duplicate highways in other parts of Harrisburg. For instance, there is an Arch street away up near Vaughan street, which is about the upper limit and another Arch street In the Cameron extension down in the First ward, the extreme opposite end of the city. And similarly there is a Spring street, while another Spring street exists in the Fourth ward between Second and Myrtle and South and State. • • • When Clark E. Diehl, the superin tendent of the olty's fire and police alrm system finishes his work of en larging the fire alarm system the city will have ninety fire alarm boxes, double the number It had some ten or twelve years ago, a fact Illustrative of the expansion of the city. There will be seven new boxes added and.the Fourteenth ward, the latest addition to the city, will be given five, which Is also Interesting as it shows how large is that municipal baby. A ser ies of changes in the boxes to keep pace with the development of resi dential and industrial sections Is also being made out. As far as fire alarm boxes and electric lights go Harris -1 burg Is well protected. • • Some of the trees which were blown over in the big May storm have refused to stay dead. In a number of parts of the city the trees are commencing to show up small branches, although half of their rocts are out of the ground. Most of the damaged trees have been re moved, but the number was so great that it took a long while to get * around and as trees showed signs of life they were either pulled back to position and filled In or else left for later treatment. Out along Herr street *ne big tree is covered from top to bottom with small branches all growing upright. In Reservoir park some of the trees have "come back," while in the first ward are two . trees which are growing al though almost flat on the ground. • • Just some idea of the hole the war is making In the ranks of the young men and the effect upon men of older age than are called in the draft can be gained by observing the street sweepers about the city. They are for the most part either men well on in age or mere youths. The street sweeping contingents used to be made up of men largely with in the draft age or not so far be yond it. Now the men on Harris burg streets are different. And few of the men who worked last year are now engaged in that line of oc cupation. • • The damage done to the cover ing of the Capitol dome which was discovered when "Steeplejack" Has sler climbed up a day or so ago is supposed to have occurred during the big storm a short time ago. The wind is presumed to have ripped out some of the tile which had become loosened in the course of the last dozen years because some parts of them were found over In Capitol park extension. The work of re pairing the dome will be undertaken at once. * • • James B. Sansom, who came from Pittsburgh to see that the State Game Commission got all the papers in the movement to close the coun ties to hunting of grouse, was one of the sponsers of that campaign. Mr. Sansom Is secretary of the State Wild Life League and very keen about Pennsylvania's native birds. He was one of the men who saw the shortage of the grouse coming and helped organize the crusade to close the counties. \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] Dr. C. S. Foos, the Reading school superintendent, has urged mililary training in the schools of that ctty. —District Attorney Slattery, who engineered the Sunday raid In Wilkes-Barre, did it without con sulting the> mayor. —David McArt, the new president of the State's Post Office Clerks' As sociation, comes from Scranton and is well known in that city. Mayor Heidenrfelch. of Hazle ton. Is planning a celebration of Bas tile' Day in his city. Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chair man of the State Game Commis sion who was here yesterday, spends some time every fall hunting in west. Senator P. C. Knox has return ed from a southern trip. | DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg furnishes many I blanks for army records? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrlsburg's first sanitary im provement and first loan was getting rid of the Landls mill dam*ln Paxton creek. He's a Waste of Money Creel has denied he is a Socialist, but that isn't what was worrying the public.—From the Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times. A Word to Drunkards Awake, ye, drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of tho new wine; for It it cut oft from your mouth.—Joel i, 6.
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