8 HARRISBMG TELEGRAPH A SBWSPAPER FOR TUB HOUB Poundtd lljt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Tflfgrapb Building, Federal Sur*. S.J. ST ACK POLE, Prts't tr Edit*-Chi*f F. R. OTSTER. Businttt Manager. GUS M. STEINMfcTZ, Manorial 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. m - Member American Newspaper Pub gSS § jjjli 3* Eastern office, Finley. _ Chicago^*iVl'. ln *' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. - arrTTa _ By carriers, ten cents a week; by mall, J5.00 ' v irkv a year in advance, TUESDAY, JCTiY 16, 1918 It costs much to be capable of real friendship, but those tcho are would be ashamed to be othertcise and I rather suffer than be incapable.— j FENTLOX. I NOT BURLESON, PLEASE THE President is said to be hesi tating about making Postmaster General Burleson chief of the telegraph and telephone lines about to be taken over by the Govern-1 ment, and well he may. If the Post- | master General makes as lamenta- j ble a showing with the wire lines as he has with the mail service. Heaven help the country. There was no finer organization i/i the world than the postal department when Burleson took charge. To-day It is a wreck of its former self, and efficiency means no more to the Postmaster General than does fair treatment of employes. Organized labor has Burleson sized up correctly, and if the Presi dent listens to his advisers among the labor leaders he will save him self from one of the worst blunders of his administration. THE LATEST DRIVE WHILE It is too early to foresee the end of the latest German drive, there is every indication that it has met with little success. Most interesting of all the news that has been cabled concerning it is the terrific drubbing the Americans gave the Germans at Vaux and at every other point where American infan try clashed with the Hun forces. From all accounts the Americans in most sectors played the old Bun ker Hill game all over again on a massive scale—waiting until they could see the whites of the German eyes before firing. Dispatches in dicate that they punished the on lushing enemy severely and then let them come up close enough to make good targets. After that they coun terattacked and what was left of the enemy went back whence it had come even more quickly than it had advanced. All America thrills with the news. We have met and defeated the Hun in its most tremendous effort. Americans are better than Germans, man for man. Even green troops have displayed their superiority over German veterans. We know now beyond peradventure of a doubt that all we need in France to beat the Kaiser back across the Rhine is men. and still more men. The allies have not looked to us in vain. Our armies are the cream of the earth. Crossing swords with our adversary, we have forced him to his knees at every point of contact, and men who have not yet been to the front will now go into battle firm in the con viction that the best Hun brigade in the whole of Europe would have a difficult time with a single Amer ican regiment. W e have taken the enemy's measure and he is not shoulder high to our boys. Whatever shall come of the big drive, this much we know—that American troops are all we thought them and much more. The whole nation rejoices. •X THE ALBANIAN FRONT NO .WONDER the allied troops are being welcomed by the Albanians with "open arms," as the press reports put It Albania understands as well as any other country In Europe what Prusslanlsm means to a free people. Manhan dled by the Turks and the constant prey of Hohenzollern and Hapsburg plotters, the Albanians have clung desperately to their own customs and to a measure of independence. Living In & wild, rough country and under conditions that date back un changed for centuries, they never theless hold the key to control of the Adriatic and an opening to the Balkans that, in possession of the French and Italians, will prove a constant and Increasing menace to the Bulgarians, who are reporteA to be pretty well tired with the war and, for one* in their tempestuous 1 i TUESDAY EVENING, lives, have had about enough of fighting. With Albania safely In the hands of the allies, there is every reason to hope for the early redemption of Montenegro and Serbia, with a well-defined threat against the Aus trian! in their most Important posi tions. Give the allies Albania and the Macedonian situation will be greatly Improved and a general breakdown in Austria and Bulgaria brought that much nearer. But it is not the allies alone who will benefit by such a series of vic tories as the French and Italians are now scoring. The Albanians themselves can hope for independ ence and freedom of action only if the allies win the war. They will be made tributary to Germany and *\ustria if the Central Powers should come out ahead. President Wilson's doctrine of the Independ ence and protection of the small states is their only hope. A VITAL FACTOR CORRECTION of the housing conditions in Harrisburg goes, beyond mere increase in thej j number of good houses to rent at! j reasonable figures. That is essen-| • tial, and should be attended to as ( soon as possible to meet the exist ing emergency. But the problem is bigger than that. To reach a solution we must have a State law backed up by city ordinance. It; will be easy, comparatively, to pro-j cure such legislation at this time. The moment is ripe for It. We should have State regulations establishing definite minimum standards for lpt occupancy, together with enforced requirements for open space, and fixing regulations for light and ventilation, water supply, sanitary accommodations, privacy, protection against fires, maintenance of dwellings and the use of the same. And it should be made com pulsory that each city adopt a hous ing ordinance in conformity with this law in general outline and elaborat ed to meet local conditions. Part and parcel cf these regulations, of course, would be a zoning system, such as is being worked out in many progressive cities. Zoning is now very properly re garded as a prime requisite to good housing. "Zoning" is the term town planners use for laying the city out into districts for the protection of the residents against obnoxious in dustries. Zoning is designed to give stability to property values, to pre vent deterioration of neighborhoods, allow for necessary changes and pre vent conditions of a Shifting char acter. It is intended to prevent the intrusion of obnoxious trades, pre serve the character of residential areas and stimulate the use of na tural advantages for the purposes for which they are best adapted. Zoning also is useful in simplify ing traffic regulations and expediting traffic, and by scientific distribution of homes tend to the eventual elimi nation of congestion. Likewise, it segregates factories along natural or artificial traffic lines, and while providing for the general well-being of the public it also improves the living conditions of workers and aids in reducing the cost pf living. It reduces insanita tion to a minimum and establishes more equitable housing standards, while contributing to the beauty of the community and aiding in the ad ministration of municipal problems. is far behind other cities in respect to these regulations, just as Pennsylvania is in its general housing laws. But public sentiment is awake to the needs of the hour and the Chamber of Commerce should add housing legislation to its program. THEY ARE LOOKING TO US DISCUSSION" of the situation In Russia gives emphasis to the Importance of reorganizing the east as a condition precedent to the winning of the war on the west ern front. A few days ago the Chris tian Science Monitor went Into the matter rather fully and concludes that Intervention in Russia will in evitably have to comj. "It may be peaceable intervention or it may be military intervention," says the Mon itor, "but it is inevitable in one form or the other." More and more the thoughtful minds of the world are being led to the conviction that Russia is largely the key to world peace and that un less this great chaotic nation is re stored to something like order and its proper relation to other nations the war which we are now fighting may be lost in the end. The editorial in question argues that the Untted States l s the only country with sufficient surplus man power to undertake the task of re storing Russia to its proper place In the family of nations. This must be done through an alliance with the allies on the east so that in the final settlement of the myriad problems growing out of the war there may be left no place where a fresh as sault upon the peace of the world can be inaugurated. Out of the chaos of to-day may emerge a sensible and practical solu tion of the difficulties In the east. Germany realizes the menace to her own ambitions and is to-day striving quite as hard to overwhelm and take possession of Russia as she is to defeat the allies on the western front. All the cunning of the Pots dim oligarchy is being exercised to deceive and defeat the Russian peo ple, to the end that Germany may be in a position to demand her "place in the sun" in the eastern zona rather than the north of Europe. While we are awaiting with all the patience that a great people can summon for something to turn up that will show us the way out of the Russian muddle, things are happen ing which may yet result in a per manent adjustment of the rights of the millions of people now occupying the great areas covered by Russia apd the adjoining countries. As the Monitor suggests, Germany cannot be permitted to become the arbiter of the fate of Russian commerce and Industry, as she Is now proposing to do, unless the democracies of the world are prepared to fight aether tremendous war in the future with the advantage more than ever on the side of autocracy. Our .government is being fofced every day Into' the place where we must Intervene for the salvation of Russia in one way or another. Russians, Bohemians, Rumanians, Slavonians and thousands of Aus trlans are looking to us and we must not fail them In this crucial hour. By the Ex-Committoenmn ' ■ I State Chairman William E. Crow, of the Republican State Committee. ! to-day announced the names of the : men who will draft the platform for the Republican state campaign of j 191S and the special committee on | changes in rules. Notices were sent to each of the men selected and the chairmen will call the meetings. The platform committee is headed by John R. Halsey, of Wilkes-Barre and is composed of the j following: Charles H. Hetzel, Pitts- , i burgh: Elwood W. Minster, Bristol; iR. Earl Penrod, Johnstown; Harry I B. Scott, Philllpsburg; C. Victor j Johnson, Meadville: John H. Myers. Lancaster; Fred B. Gernerd, Allen-1 town; Harry G. Seip, Easton; Wil- | liam E. Finley, Philadelphia; Wil- i liam S. Rial. Greensburg; with j the state candidates: Senator! William C. Sproul. of Chester: Senator E. E. Beidleman, Harris- j burg: Representative James F. Woodward, McKeesport; Thomas S. i Crago, Waynesburg; M. M. Garland, Edgewood; William J. Burke, Pitts- j burgh, and Anderson H. Walters, S Johnstown. The rules committee is composed of B. Harry Warren, West Chester; Representative William T. Ramsey, Chester, and Henry T. Albee. Gale ton, Potter county. —Officials at the* executive and state departments at the State Capi tol declare that nothing has been determined upon as yet as to the measures for taking the votes of the Pennsylvania soldiers in France. Governor Brumbaugh, who will be at the Reserve Militia encampment at Mt. Gretna this week, will prob ably consult with Adjutant General Beary," who was at the War De partment in regard to the matter. —George J. Brennan, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, says thati Congressman W. W. Griest is bentl on having the next State Treasurer from Lancaster county. He says there aro signs that Represen tative Michael R. Hoffman, of May town. is the roan who is being much mentioned and prints an interesting story of which this is a part: "Ches ter W. Hill, former collector of -;us toms at this port, who is secretary of the Patriotic Union of Pennsylvania, an organization formed by men of affairs 'throughout the state, primar ily to insure the nomination and election of William Cameron Sproul to the governorship and which, when it appeared that the Vare favorite, John R. K. Scott, was becoming a formidable candidate for lieutenant governor, swung its influence to Sen ator Edward E. Beidleman for sec ond place on the ticket, remarked to a friend juSt after the primaries, "If the Penrose leaders had assured Griest that they would support Mich ael Hoffman, of Lancaster, for State Treasurer, Beidleman would not have had to bother about Lancaster county's vote." Griest turned the full power of his organization to Scott in a combination with the Vares and the Brumbaugh adminis tration, but Scott's friends were dis appointed upon his getting but a lit tle more than 3,000 majority over Beidleman when they were counting upon nearer 6,000. Beidleman com ing from the neighboring county of Dauphin made a surprisingly good run In view of the opposition to his candidacy by the leader of the or ganization." —The strenuous Chamber of Com merce of Wllkes-Barre, which made a report on police conditions in the Luzerne capital that started a coun cilmanic investigation and a public upheaval has given intimations that it has been looking into other mat ters in the city. Yesterday Mayor Kosek, was served with formal no tice that the Chamber and the Dis trict Attorney are not in favor of his presiding, but the mayor flatly an swered that under the law he is com pelled to sit and that he does not In tend to violate his oath by neglect ing the duties of his office. The Chamber of Commerce officials and the District Attorney allege that jus tice will be best served if the mayor has no official part in the investiga tion, but the mayor has fired back that he is determined to sit to see that justice is done. —Joseph F. Guffey, late chairman of the Democratic state committee and candidate of the Palmer-McCor mick faction for Governor without results of a satisfactory character, seemp to have been well taken care of by the national administration. He has been put in charge of vast properties by Custodian Palmer. —Westmoreland county people have started to speculate about the next judge for that county. Judge McConnell will be commissioned as president judge and the Governor will name an additional law judge soon. Half a dozen men are being mentioned, but it is believed that the Governor will do as he did in the McClure appointment—follow his own inclinations. —The Philadelphia Ledger is not inclined to sit quietly under the criticism of the State Bar Associa tion for its action in favor of a change in the judicial election. The Ledger thinks that there should be a change and that the present law is a failure, which even critics of the State Association must realize. —Chester city council took a short way of dealing with a housing prob lem. The fleet corporation wanted some housing arrangements made and a land company did not. Council enacted ordinances which the land company did not want. —From all accounts Clinton Rog ers WoodrufT, named as a member of a local draft board ttt Philadelphia, was appointed by Washington. It is said that Oovernor Brumbaugh op posed him. —The Altoona Tribune makes these observations on politics in the state: "The RepubliMn leaders must present a constructWe platform if they wish to win the confidence of the majority of the voters. • • • President Wilson H expected by Judge Bonniwell to render valuable aid during the coming campaign. Perhaps the Judge will not be disap pointed." j H-AJEIRISBURG TELEGRAPH -=================S====:^^========^=^=3 AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN'?-;. .... . FTFH y M H „ ve -AMD You FI6HT T„e g"®* ~ V '' 'I *' WKD3 ALL ' D*6 PRO M THC /" \ 6ROK6N YOUR BACK SUMMER / EXTREME HEAT I \ THAT \ ,K J UUAU GARDEM >-* „ ._ _ _ ,' -IF AFTER ALL YOU HAVE OWE "AMD WORTHY ALUC) THE FOOL) *AJMALE OF A BUMPER CROP ABOUT Tne SITUAT.OM Q H - H . H . M BOY*!? A.NTT LACK; OF , T A (SR-R. R . R^ AF*T> . ■R^ lnJ ' GLOR-R-R-RouS "^®° D V£ GABLES if V __gs^' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)' A PUBLIC PARK PASTURE | To th* Editor of the Telegraph: Srr—When. Mr. Editor, did 1 the people of Harrisburg consent to the pasturing of cattle in the parks I of the city? My inquiry is prompted j by the presence of eight or ten. cows on the city property along the Jones- ; town Road at the northeast corner J of Reservoir Park. We've had i some peculiar things happen under I this "Don't Blame Me" administra- I tion, but somebody must be respon- . sibie tor this latest bid for votes. j AN OBSERyER. | HELPING WIN THE WAR Steamers running out of Tacoma, Wash., are employing -women as oilers. The average rate or pay paid women time workers In England Is $6.08 per week. Over 1,000 women are now at work on the surface and subway systems in New York City. Several women are employed as draftsmen by the lowa State High way Department. The further drafting of clergymen in England makes women preachers a possibility. The Quartermaster's Department in Milwaukee has four passenger automobiles operated by women. A unit of Stanford University girls are going to France to care for fath erless babies. Among the possibilities of the fu ture is the employment of women as railway mail clerks. Only women with men folks In the service are allowed to make gas masks for the American Army. It is estimated that during the present year over 500,000 women will act as farm managers. Unlike our women, the women In Germany are kept at home and are not allowed to do any work near the war front. The Baltimore division of the Pennsylvania railroad has 247 wom en doing work exclusively done by men a year ago. The latest field for women's work in England is helping to provide eyes for the army and navy by making lenses and prisms. The large estate in Ireland owned by the Countess of Drogheada is be ing farmed m by her and her young son. She does all the plowing. When her brother was called away •to war. Miss Eunice Maloney, of Ladysmith, Wis., took his job as a linotype operator in a newspaper office. The women members of the Sioux Indian tribe, located in the Stand ing Rock reservation in North Da kota, have organized a Red Cross auxiliary.—Exchange. HEAL YANKEE LANGUAGE [From the London Opinion] A French soldier who came proud ly up to an American in a certain headquarters town the other day asked: "You spik French?" "Nope," answered the American, "not yet. • The Frenchman smiled compla cently. "Aye spik Eengleesh," he said. The American grinned and .the Frenchman looked about for some means to show his prowess in the (foreign tongue. At that moment a French girl, very neat and trim in her peaked hat, long coat, and high laced boots, came along. The Frenchman jprked his head toward her, looked knowingly at the Amer ican, and said triumphantly: "Chicken." The American roared. "Shake," he said, extending his hand. "You don't speak English; you speak American." Banks and Certificates [From the New York Sun.] "The marvelous manner in which the banks of the United States did their allotted work in meeting Fed eral tax requirements has relieved public and banking anxiety as well with reference to the ability of the institutions to take care of the bil lions of dollars' worth of Treasury certificates which must be sold prior to the issue of the fourth Liberty l Loan Ift September or October," ob serves the Financier. "Whether we figure the national income at J50,- 000,000,000 or a larger sum, It Is still true that the certificates to be disposed of in the next four months will take an uncomfortably large percentage of the national surplus. The demand will be met willingly. Probably if its meaning were bet-1 ter understood, people would appra clate just what must happen be tween now and October If the cer tificates are to be absorbed, as they must be." Says Trotzky Rides in Nicholas IPs Herman Bernstein's Report on Conditions in Russia Shows tlio Nobility Forced to Menial Labor While the Bol shevik! Indulge in Various Excesses WHEN Herman Bernstein ar rived in America after spend ing six months in Russia for the New York Herald, that newspa per devoted nearly its entire front page to the first instalment of Mr. Bernstein's vivid report. Mr. Bernstein, who said that chaos under the sway of the Bol sheviki grew steadily, found Russia "practically transformed into a Ger man colony, the people betrayed, humiliated, disheartened, the coun try dismembered—a smaller Russia than Ivan the Terrible left behind." He went on: "Petrograd was filled with wild, fantastic rumors, with fears and forebodings. Strange legends were circulated freely. The people in the streets looked ghastly, palefaced both from hunger and from fear, haunted by the horrors of German invasion. • • • "I have seen the equality imposed by the dictatorship of the proletar-i iat. Student girls and cultured, once' wealthy, women were cleaning the streets or selling newspapers: officers of high rank, professors and teach ers, to keep from starving, also sold newspapers or carried bundles at railroad stations. Anarchists and Bolsheviki were riding about in mo tor cars, dining in fashionable res taurants, feasting and amusing them selves, while Russia was experienc ing her most tragic period in his tory. Trotzky was riding about In the A WAR-LULLABY [By Emilc Cammaerts.] Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep, Baby will soon be asleep. The fire dwindles and the wind moans. The rain lashes the window-panes... Is it blowing end raining there? Hailing or thundering, perhap^? Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep... Is he well? Is he warm? . Is he lacking naught? Has he all he wants? His coat, his matches, and his gloves, And, in his pocket, next his heart, I My last letter And all its love? Baby scon will be asleep... The lamp burns low, the fire dwindles. We shall have to go to bed. The child Is clasping its wee fista... Is niy big child sleeping, too? Sleeping peacefully before the battle? I Is he running madly j Through the shells? Or is he lying in some hole, j With open mouth and with closed I eyes ? Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep... The child moans and the wind swells the curtains. The wick upltters. The child turns In Its cot. The rain ceases, the night shivers, The sadness of it is fearful... Baby soon will be asleep. .. From the Germans' fury Deliver us. O God! MOBILIZING GIRLS Abbe Wetterle, the Alsatian priest, whose 'book, "Behind the Scenes In the Reichstag," has Just been pub lished by Doran Company, writes re vealingly of the German Colonial League, its hopes and its activities. "If the enterprise of 1914 had suc ceeded. as its organizers hoped it would," he says, "the whole world would have been In servitude. The League provided all articles required by colonists, even housekeepers. It assumed, in fact, the mission of mobilizing a large number of big. strong girls of Brandenburg, and sent them, carriage paid, to the Cam eroons and East Africa fo rthe Ger man farmers, who were requested to choose their legltimaA 'collaborators' from among them. The lordly race must not. Indeed, prostitute itself by cross-breeding. German blood in the colonies, as in Wurone, must remain free from .t.uie." motor car of Nicholas 11. The Bol shevist leaders requisitioned food, wines, chocolates and various deli cacies for themselves, while the Rus sian population, even the women and the children of the proletariat, were starving. "I have seen tyranny such as Nicholas never dared impose upon his people, graft such as even Rus sia could not equal in the past. Go gol's masterpiece. 'The Inspector,' is antiquated now. It is too mild a pic ture of the art of grafting.'.' All Russia needed, he declared, was "another master to produce a new epic of graft under the regime pf the so-called liberators of the Russian working people." In the second instalment Mr. Bernstein declared that "the Bol sheviki have removed their mask of socialism and style themselves com munists now. But they are enslaving Russia more thoroughly than the kaiser could have done without their aid, for they are posing as Russians and as liberators of the proletarat." He quoted a letter from Vladimir Bourtseff, "one of Russia's foremost champions of li'lerty," in which ap peared this paragraph: "For Russia is actually helping now the Germans against the allies, and if nothing is done to offset this perhaps to-morrow Russian armies under the command of Lenine and' Trotsky, Hindenburg and Ilertling, may be forced to advance against the allies." THE LIBERTY MOTOR [Tho Literary Digest.] The cheerful news that "recent tests of a seaplane equipped with the Liberty motor resulted in 'better* than similar airplanes equipped with one of the best types of European engines," is contained in adispatch to Secretary Daniels from Admiral Sims, who commands our naval forces In European waters. This an nouncement gives a fitting climax to what we are assured is the whole story of the Liberty motor as con tributed to the New York Tribune by Theodore M. Knappen. It should be of interest to timid souls. Accord ing to Mr. Knappen the much-be rated delay in motor-production was due to necessary changes in the mo tor, made at the advice of an official committee, who were unwilling that we should turn out anything but the very best work, "program or no pro gram." Final tests were not made until April last, and thereafter the motors began to be turned out fif teen or twenty a day. At the date of Mr. Knappen's writing they were being produced fifty per day, and lie assures us that the rate is rapidly rising. The whole trouble has. been, he thanks, "premature official pub licity." We now have a good mo tor with delayed production, which very properly gives that publicity the lie; we might have made good in the publicity program and lost the lives of our aviators by thousands. Who is sorry for what we actually did? SOMEHOW Seliehow I never thought that you would go. Not even when red war swept through the land—• I somehow thought, because I loved you so. That you would stay. I did not understand That something stronger than my love could come. To draw you, half-reluctant, from my heart: . I never thought the call of fife and drum Would rend our cloak of happi ness apart! * And yet. you went. . , And I—l did not weep— I smiled, instead, and brushed the . tears aside. And yet. when night-time comes, I cannot sleep But silent lie. while longing fights with pride— You are my man. the foe you fight my foe. And yet—l never thought that you would go! — B " ' SfcßssUr la ce< JULY 15, *NW. LABOR NOTES New Brunswick, Canada, has pass ed a workmen's compensation law. Street railway employes at Mon treal have a union with 3,500 mem bers. Casper painters have se cured a wage scale of 90 cents an hour. Union membership in Manitowoc, Mich., has increased from 600 to 1,- 700 in a year. Clarksburg, W. Va., has elected a union man as mayor of that city. A daily labor paper is now pub lished by labor unions at Seattle, Washington. A union plumbing inspector has been appointed by the city at Allen town, Pa. There are now 52 organization® af filiated with the Dayton (Ohio) Cen tral Labor Union. All factories and building trades at Coffeyville, Kan., have the eight-hour day. ' Des Moines (Iowa) Trades Assem bly is now managing a local labor paper. Plasterers at Richmond, Cal., are now getting $1 an hour. Molders' International Union has a membership of over 60,000 in 422 locals. Virginia City (Nev.) Miners' Union, organized in 1867, has never gone out on strike. I OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT BEING CONSULTED. if How does /m --your .boy like jjUKK® '/'/ f army life ? 14/ M Fairly well. 1 J He has one arit- KWmjST y . icism to make v , though. The j cfllcers don't LVI take him into ||j|jjj|MH ly their confidence. , / NO HURRY. iO„ 1 When is the proper time to congratulate a J bride and bride- I B After they 7 have lived to- flfll A, • gether for at ■ ®j| fj least a year and are still happy. AT THE MUSIC COUNTER. "Have you Mendelssohn's brook song?" "'Do you mean his spring song?" "That's it. I know it was some thing wiii runnlss water mixed up in It." i ■ £totttng (tttfal Survey of the housing situation In Harrlsburg proposed by the Cham ber of Commerce will result In the bringing to light of conditions cf living within sight of the State Capi tol dome which will surprise a good many people whose knowledge of the city wherein they live Is re stricted to half a dozen streots add as many highways leadtng out of the municipal gates. There were doubtless quite a few residents of Harrlsburg, who got the idea that when the state wiped out the sec tion of the Etghth ward which fig ured extensively in police court and which had stagnated awaiting tho day when the capltol park had to bo extended that the worst section of tho city would be eliminated. North and South alley and various buildings in the portion which used to bo known as "de ward" had &. notoriety that extended beyond the city limits. In some respects con ditions were simply moved further north into the Seventh ward and North Seventh street, the part that used {o be known years ago as "Pennsylvania Avenue" replaced East State street as the thorough fare that never sleeps. And it alSo began to furnish examples of con gested living. Slbletpwn is a sec tion of Harrisburg which has been some time called the "piano box tract" because boards taken from piano boxes were found useful for building of shacks. The portion of Sibletown known as "Brooklyn," be cause years ago it was beyond the Herr street creek and canal bridges, and the locality known in police par lance as "Ant Hill Terrace" will still furnish some opportunities for study by the Harrisburg sociologist even if Lochiel and the old nail work? district have been changed materially by removal of old established iron works and the denizens of "Cinder" and "Furnace" rows have been scat tered to the four corners of the city and become memories like the "Seven Bleeders" and the "Cinder , Bank Sliders." • • .. It is interesting in this connection to note that several of the most pro gressive of the third class cities have undertaken special studies of hous ing conditions impelled by the scar city of homes and the miserable ac commodations offered for skilled workmen who flock to these towns because of the war industries. Ches ter, for instance, when confronted with a situation worse than our own organized several companies md proceeded to build houses, getting tho jump on the rest of the state. There is scarcely a city of any size which is not troubled about how to house its new residents and in Johns town the city fathers have taken up the matter and asked citizens to give all the help possible. Ex-Sen itor George T. Weingartner, of New Castlo, who is well known here, has been making the inquiry for the people of his city and reported to the Board of Trade of New Castle, which saw what wag coming months ago, that from 800 to 1,000 families are living in two or three rooms be cause they could not get homes. Quoting his report the New Castle News says: "Many of these fam ilies have their furniture stored. In fact every storehouse in the city is tilled. Houses that are needed are four, five and six rooms. There have been practically none built for rent ing purposes of late years owing to low rents. In a majority of cases owners "have been unable to realize six per cent, on their investments and the result is the present house shortage. While it is estimated that there are nearly 200 houses -under construction at the present time they are being built for sale or for homes by the owners of the lots." • • • The newspapers of the state tell of many interesting movements be ing undertaken on a county basis and of various municipal advances. Bethlehem, which was formed of the two boroughs, is moving along half a dozen lines under the stimulus of Mayor Arch Johnston and will set a pretty hot pace for the other cities of the state soon. York has added to that remarkable diversity of small industries for which it has been famous and is pushing Its house building as rapidly as the materials permit. Easton, which has had an in dustrial development such as this part of the state scarcely realizes, has spent thousands of dollars to improve living and housing condi tions, while many smaller places have taken their problems into daily life and,moved to better them. An Interesting move In Schuylkill county is the'formation of a county chafn ber of commerce to bring the coal county's numerous boroughs and big townships closer together. • • • Demolition of the old Capitol con servatory appears to hold a tremen dous interest for the unofficial com mittee which sits daily in Capitol Park. The workmen engaged in wrecking the place have about fifty watchers all day long. And they pre not all children or nurse girls, eith er. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Major W. W. Babcock, well known Philadelphian, has been pro moted to be a lieutenant colonel. —Ralph A. Ammerman, of Scran ton, who went to France with the Y. M. C, A. a couple of years ago, haj been given charge of a district of the American sector. —Major R. F. Campbell, the new camp adjutant at Camp Lee, comes from Jenkintown and has lately been stationed at Charleston. —U. G. Lyons, former guardsman and oil refiner, who figured In & re cent congressional contest, has gone into the Army as a lieutenant colonel In charge of oil matters. —Altoona people gavq a reception a few nights ago in honor of ex-Con-*, pressman J. D. Hicks, commander of the State G. A. R. —V. M. Stevenson, noted Penn football player, has become a T. M. C. A. military secretary. —The "Rev. Luther LeYoe, for merly of this city, will be one of the daily speakers at the Mt. Airy Lu theran conference of ministers. 1 DO YOU KNOW —That this city la one of the points where moat la prepared to be shipped to men on the fighting front? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Tho first Dauphin county court la believed to have been held In Front street near Washington. IT COMES OFF This is a grouchy world. Ah, me! A fellow seldom 'laughs. Why don't we wear the smile that we Use In our photographs? —Cincinnati En<julrr,
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