8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KEHSPAPER POR THE HOUB Ptmudid tt}l Published evening* except Sunday by THE TKI.BC.tHPH PRINTING CO, Telegraph Bnlldtag, Federal S|un. E.J. ST A CK POLE, Prts'l Sr Editrr-i-CM*f F. R. OYSTER. Business Manaftr. GUS M. STEINMETZ. Editer. Member of the Associated Press—Th Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the ue 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- llshers' Assocla- Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Avenue F.ulldlng, Flnley, s Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second rlsss matter. By carriers, ten cent* 3 jtygj'•,r - week; by mall. 15.00 A year in advance. THTRSDAY, JTXY 18, HIS To travel hopefuny a tetter thina than to arrive, and the true tvccejs is to labor. — STEVENSON. QUEXTIN ROOSEVELT EVERT American worthy the name mourns most sincerely with Colonel and Mrs. Roose ■velt the uptimelv death of their youngest son, Quentin. The heroic sacrifice cf this most worthy son of a worthy father comes to each one of us in the sense of a personal be reavement and brings home to us most forcefully the horror of the great conflict in which we are en gaged. Lieutenant Roosevelt died as hi? father would have had him go, if death were inevitable, fighting gal lantly against odds the foes of his country. The young man's name will fill another bright page in the his- j tory of the Roosevelt family, but ; thut will not assuage the grief of a ! loving father who is denied, by an ungrateful government, the privilege of going to France to avenge the death of his gallant son. "Voung Roosevelt might have had a captaincy of infantry had he so desired. He had the training and the qualifications for that, if not for j a majorship. But he chose more hazardous sen-ice with the lowly rank of lieutenant. He recked not of persona! danger, but went, like thousands more of his fellow Amer icans. where duty called. All honor to him. If some other financially independent gentlemen who sit about * Washington, camouflaged by high sounding titles and private of fices, were to follow his example, the cau&e of patriotism would profit and public affairs would suffer little. A GOOD EXAMPLE FRANCE has set America another good example by punishing with j death M. Duval, editor of the j Bonnet Rouge, a French newspaper that sold itself to Germany. Re-j cently much has been published ofi pro-German newspapers in the United States. One arrest has been made and there is talk of others. The newspaper editor who trades with the enemies of his country Is worse than a Benedict Arnold. The soldier traitor must necessarily op erate in a limited way, but the care tully camouflaged treachery of a faithless journalist in control of an influential publioation is capable of irreparable damage to the moHUe of the people. Such an editor Is a Judas Iscariot and the noose is too good for him. If we have any of that type in the United States we should give them a dose of the medicine France has prescribed for its Bolos and Duvals. MEN WHO WOULD SERVE IX every community there are young men of service age who have been rejected for physical disability and these are frequently misunderstood in their several com munities, inasmuch as no provision has been made for the wearing of any insignia which would indicate that they are willing to serve, but have not been accepted by the gov ernment. Harrisburg is not an exception In thu matter, some of our well-known young men having been refused op portunity to Enlist in one branch of the service or another. It has been suggested from time to time that some sort of badge should be given to men of this class that they may not be regarded as slackers when they are willing and anxious to serve. This would also differentiate men of thia type from those who are doing their level best In one way or another to avoid serving their country In the fighting forces. The young man who makes a real effort to enlist, as many have done repeatedly, and is told that he does not meet the requirements, should have some way of demonstrating to everybody that he is not indifferent to his duty. Under the circumstances, it would seem to be only just that man of thia class should be given * button or other insignia that would indicate how they stand with THURSDAY EVENING, respect to the national defense and the service. BLOOD MONEY THE Washington report that President Wilson means to take a stand against war-time pro hibition because of the loss In taxes involved is unbelievable. Surely the President does not deem it necessary to traffic in the bodies and souls of countless men and women to find money with which to win the war. This is a conflict of right against wrong, of humanity against Inhumanity, and liquor Is as debasing to the individual as Prus sian Kultur is to a nation. But If the moral issue does not appeal to the leaders of the admin istration, surely the economic side of the question should, especially among officials who breakfast, sup and sleep on "war economies." To be sure, we may be taxed in some other way to take the place of what has been collected from the drinking element, but having spent nothing for booze we shall have all the more money for taxes. Besides, there Is the matter of fuel, food and trans portation involved In the making and sale of drinks, to say nothing of the labor now so badly needed in other lines of {rade, which Mr. Hoover says must be diverted to legitimate uses if disaster is to be i averted. And of what use to save taxes if we are to go cold and hungry next winter in order to put grain and coal into taxable beer? The answer to the demand for greater revenues lies In the tarifT. Republicans would have turned to it j long ago. Democrats will have to come to It sooner or later. There are | already signs that their leaders in [ Congress recognize this. It Is now proposed to increase the sugar tariff "for revenue," albeit there will be a large measure of the heretofore "damnable protection" in the bill, and this time one item will raise a huge sum for war pur purposes. The Democrats also are trifling with tea and coffee, which Republicans always kept on the free list because they did not compete with home-made products—and the Democratic hand-picked tariff com mission has committed heresy by urging a tariff bill higher in its levies than provided by the much-abused Payne-Aldrich act. They will find the country far readier to accept such a means of raising war revenues than by the collection of blood money from saloons. Williamstown is going to keep the home fires burning in the most prac tical way. A Board of Trade has been organized, and the gool people of the j mining town are going to see to it j that their community is a good place I in which to live and a fit place to j which the boys will return after the j war. Every town should follow the j example of Williamstown in this re- I spect. SAFE PLAYGROUNDS THE police dapajtment should : support as vigorously as its | means command the campaign the Park Department has begun against disorder and vandalism on the public playgrounds. If boys and men refuse to obey the rules and regulations they must be punished. These pub'.'" recreation places must be kept safe at all times for the girls and bofs who use them. Some j of the boys arrested a day or two ! ago are old enough to be at work. | But if they won't work at least they ] must be forced to behave. FEELINGS OF HUMANITY" BAROX BURIAX. Austrian for-! eign minister, expresses the be-j lief that the w-ar •'might be j ended the moment the Allies agaiiv \ manifest feelings of humanity." "Feelings of humanity," forsooth:j ! What "feelings of humanity" did the; ! Hohenzollern-Hapsburg twin devj',3 i exhibit when together they consplr-! j ed to the rape of Serbia and Uel- j j gium? What "feelings of humanity "' j did they display toward the women i and babies of the Lusitania, or for' | Edith Cavell, or for the innocent maidens and wives of Bflglum, or for the soldiers they tortured to death by gas and flame, or for the j ; helpless ipmates of Red Cross hos- j ) pitals and homes of noncombataots i they have bombed? "Feelings of humanity?" So far as the Hohenzolterns and the Hapa burgs are concerned we have none. And as for the end of the war, that will come when these two rivals of \ Satan and their imps are safely j caged In the hot little hells now be ing prepared for them. ON FLANDERS FIELDS THE failure of the Austrian drive in Venetia, or, more properly j speaking, the success of the i Italian resistance and counterattack, j have given rise once more to the hope that Triest may be taken and ! the road to Berlin opened from the east and via Vienna. This is an old dream. Xapoleon i once had it; probably every advo cate of the restoration of Italia Irre denta has thought 14 push his le gions beyond the Trentlno and to take deserved revenge upon the Aus trian and the German. But we doubt if It will come to pass, even now. Flanders has been { too often the theater of war to be J pushed out of the limelight now. NEWS VALUES SHRINK OXE of the Interesting effects of the war Is the shrinking of news values. Before Germany went stark mad and started to run amuck an accident like the sinking of an excursion steamer in the Illi nois river Saturday with great loss of life would have been the occasion for tremendous display even in con servative newspapers. Columns upon columns of descriptive matter would have crowded almost everything else off the wire and the biggest type in the office would have been necessary to herald the disaster. The Incident would have been a nine days' sensa tion. But life has been cheapened and the appetite for gruesome detail sa tiated by the frightful happenings in Europe. What, we wonder, will the yellow press do when peace re turns and news events of first mag nitude happen only once or twice a year T u By the Ex-Commit toyman jj The right of Chairman McLean to designate Joseph F. Guffey or any one else to act as chairman of the Democratic state committee during Mr. McLean's absence in the Army, will be questioned by the friends of Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, nom inee for Governor. News of Major McLean's proposed leave created much surprise here, and while peo ple at Democratic state headquarters were like clams in the absence of Secretary Warren VanDyke, who had business at Washington, the partisans, of the judge were not. Howard O. Holstein, who ran for i Lieutenant Governor on the Bonni well ticket, bluntly declared when told of McLean's action and the talk of Guffey as acting chairman, "that means more trouble. How does h£ do that?" The belief here is that Judg Bon niwell will either demand a meeting of the state committee or the execu tive committee, which is composed of the division chairmen, and renew his effort to name the chairman. The I state chairman has not yet succeed ed in mollifying the judge or induc ing him to attend either a meeting of candidates to name a campaign committee or to designate a day wnen he would meet with the plat form committee. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, yesterday summarily removed from the board of Recreation the three membeis whose resignations he had demanded because they refused to s.ipport for the post of supervisor of the city's playgrounds Edward R. Gudehus, a former clerk in the of fice of Senator Edwin H. Vare. —Pittsburgh's council adopted a resolution presented by Enoch Rauh by which the several thousand per diem men employed by the city will be given a two weeks' vacation with P a >\ provided the step does not cost the city any money for substitutes and that the service is not impaired. W. J. Burke, who is the author of a measure to give the men the va cation without restriction, opposed the Rauh resolution, arguing the per diem men were entitled to vaca tions the same as other employes, even if it did cost the city monev. • • • —ln discussing the boom launch ed by Lancaster countlans (or Rep resentative Michael R. Hoffman, .'or State Treasurer, the Philadelphia In quirer says. "While Mr. Hoffman is popular in his home county, he is not well known to the active Repub licans of the state. He is of a mod est, retiring disposition and would probably be handicapped in that respect should he find his competi tors for the State. Treasurership trained campaigners, with potential connections in the different coun ties. "In Congressman Griest, he. how ever would have the support of one of the most experienced and success ful factors in the Republican State organization. Griest has frequently been referred to as "the Sphinx of Pennsylvania politics.' He is not given to public declarations as to his political plans and has for vears frequently acted independently of state leaders. "As to the State Treasurership, a number of months must roll by be fore the issue will be up to a vote. ' The State Legislature will be re convened on the first Monday of Jan uary and during the session some of the members of the General As sembly may strike a popular chord in fhe advocacy of timely legislation or there may be a hero of the war with Germany who may loom upon the political horizon end be acclaim ed the successor to State Tieasurer Harmon M. Keph&rt. In fact, there are So many contingencies that may arise that would effect the situation that speculation at this time as to any one's chances would be mani festly premature." At the Bend of the Marne !From the New York Tribune.] Heavy business at the bend of the Marne. "In their counterattacks" —quoting from the unadorned news narrative—"the Americans took be , tween one thousand and fifteen hun dred German prisoners, including one complete brigade staff." We grimly salute one complete brigade staff. We tuck it in our belt, and leave it to digest its ex perience. It is nothing. "We are thrilled not by the achievement, but by the sense of participation. We know with whit stuff we are turn ing the balance of man power against the enemies of democracy. We know with what shy and valor ous unconcern it will acquit Itself. We know also that from a time immemorial it has been intended th&t in this critical hour of the struggle between two mutually an tagonistic forces on earth we should have strength and youth to give on the side of right; and we give it in an unlimited spirit. People are j never surprised by their own des j tiny. That Americans should be counterattacks on the Marne Is in ' credible news, if you stop to reflect ! upon it. Yet, how inevitable the I reality seems. MOTHERS'IN~WAR TIME A beautiful preface by Maurice Maeterlinck to a series of powerful French war pictures by S. Levy Dhurmer, contains the following: Their sons are taken from them at life's fairest moment, when their own lives are on the decline. And yet, our mothers do not weep as have the mothers of other wars. We know not what sustains them and gives them the strength to bear the remainder of their life. Some, among them have other children, ar.d we can understand how they lavish upon them the love and the future which death has cut short. Many have never lost, or else they try to recover their faith in the eternal promises. But so many others, whose dwelling is forever derolate. seem to entertain the same hope as those in whom hope has al ways been alive. —In The Red Cross Magazine for August. What a Sad Waste [From the Grand Rapids Press.! Speaking of the futility of wealth. Andrew Carnegie has given away his seven thousandth pipe organ and, not on* of them can play ragtime. 1 HARRISBURG QMNSft telegraph SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE ... BY BRIGGS e~7i 1 Vwki DO Vfoo •JMCMSER 1 oc RememQEß THE y T CEMTS < COULD So WTO / DAYS \aJhCni we 2md y 0 Ir?r O u?S Se-r cKeT s USED To STAJOD , -j- J®" I OFRCG AND BUY / TH£ BIG, \ A OWAX A TICKET WITHOUT/ .SCORB *BOKFM> \\ • HAVIMS "to'TPAV J AIOO STAMD There >' A . vuar. TAX: ? / RJR HOURVS f) / y ./ FOR THE ball '— Yes'io lTstsw r*r nj~ Do Vou"""" *\ J • O'YA RGMEMBeR UJE TH6RS / ~fv * COULD QeT OWE OF IA/AS MO JOCW * / |\ II THo.se >jce steaks ThinJg as mca^lessl ll j _ K/MiSeP ! DOIAJNJ AT vJoe -S CAYS - OJHCATLess \ N ,HC i*io&K • FOR 60<t~ A - AM-D } ( Glass OF gceß. ' Bo:Dy p^ JoVeD A / ) ( amp eocß ^ o£> CAt - | j) Shall It Be "Booze" or Coal? [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] It is now up to Congress to make a clear-cut choice between booze for the mining communities and coal lor the war and the public.—Na tional Coal Association. There wi'.l be no disposition on the part of thoughtful patriots to min imize the significance of the delib erate declaration of the National Coal Association that nation-wide prohibition of the liquor traffic is the sole condition under which the coun try can hope for the necessary coal production for next winter. These men, after a careful survey of the subject, have arrived at the con clusion that "the country cannot have both 'booze' and sufficient coal." If their conclusion Is correct there ought to be no hesitation about the choice that must be made. And ] the Issue ought to be presented to Congress by the President and the fuel administration in such a form { that there will be no excuse for the j covert friends of "booze" to hide be-i hind technicalities of 'eg's'.ative pro- ! cedure. The country as a whole will not hesita'.e for a moment about the sacrifice of that "personal liberty'' which figure so largely 'n the pro- ! hibltion discussion, once it is COR- j vinced that the necessity is gen-1 uine, and that the alternative pointed out by the coal operators is 'nevit able. There can be only one answer i to the question, "Shall it be booze ' or coal ?•" Prohibition as a war measure stands on a different footing from prohibition as a permanent social and political policy or the nation. Perhaps the experience of the war may be a determining influence In the" final decision of one of the grav est questions confronting humanity, but the discussion of the one ought not to be permitted to divert atten tion from the other. If it is now a question of "booze" or coal, the cho'ce of the nation will be decisive ly for coal! THEY COST 25 CENTS [From Collier's] On "War Savings Stamp Day" an ! editorial In Mr, Hearst's "New York Evening Journal" exhorted its read ets as follows: Buy your thrift stamps, show them, to the family. Point out the picture of George Washing ton in the middle of the stamp, if the gifted author of those lines had only stopped writing about thrift stamps long enough to buy one —or at least to borrow some one else's —he would have found that it might puzrVe even the own er of "The Journal" to discover a portrait of George Washington in the middle or anywhere else. It is a risky business, this describing ob jects we have never seen. A JUST VETO TFrom the Kansas City Star.] The farmers of America, as The Star has had previous occasion to say In approving the announcement that President Wilson would veto the *2.40 price for wheat, are not profiteers. Aa he has pointed out in his veto message, they have worked in patriotic spirit to meet the food requirements of this country and its allies. The price fixed is generally felt to be adequate. To increase it would be to lay a heavy burden on the consumer and on the Allied na tions. The President has acted wisely and justly in disapproving the advance. LABOR NOTES Union bakers of Los Angeles, Cal., ask increased wages and recognition of the union. Berlin, Germany, had 302.000 union workers In 1913. It now hasj but 130,000. Jt great number of Danish farmers and farm workers are securing em ployment In England. City scavengers at Edmonton, Can ada, ask for an increase to 40 cents an hour. High school boys have been given employment In the Pennsylvania railroad car repair depot at Sunbury, Pennsylvania. By 1920 it Is expected that there will be 1,000,000 men working on our ships and equipment. Equal pay for men and women on 1 similar work is advocated by the American Federation of Labor. Representatives of the British Sea men's TJnlon are endeavoring to form a new international federation. "Belgian Gadfly" Stings Germans ! The forts of Liege are smashed, but La Libre Belgique, the "Belgian gadfly," remains. Material resistance, barriers of steel ond concrete, the German in vader could crush and pass. But the spiritual, impalable, opposition which flowers so perfectly In the lit tle secret newspaper which the Bel gians love and cherish, the German mind is not constituted to overcome. And so long as La Libre Belgique continues to appear Belgium can never be a wholly conquered state. Again and again the German au thorities have announced the sup pression of the paper and the con fiscation of the plant. Fines and im prisonment Invariably follow these announcements. And Invariably La Libre Belgique appears once more— perhaps with new editors and an other staff, undoubtedly from a freshly hidden plant tucked away In some Indomitable patriot's clam my cellar or dust-heaped garret It is still appearing, to-day it is the most popular newspaper in Bel gium. With charming audacity the man- i agers see that the privileges of their journal are extended to the governor general. Whenever a new number is printed he a'.tvays finds two copies, fresh from press, upon his desk. No one knows how they get there —at least no one with whom the secret Is not safe. And no one in the Ger man organization has yet found a way to prevent them getting there. A general who Is exposed to such Irritations long enough would rather lose an army corps. Cne famous number, smuggled as usual to the official desk, displayed a halftone portrait of his excellency, the Baron von Bisslng, holding his "favorite paper." The caption ex plained that "the dear Governor General, weary of reading false hoods In the censored press, was seeking the truth in La Libre Bel gique." A! 1 Journals from outside the country which might carry matter detrimental to German interests were banned absolutely. Neverthe less these managed to circulate through secret channels, sometimes even copied out on typewritten sheets. By and by the Allies learned to drop pamphlets from airplanes. Burleson As Wire Chief [N. A. Review's War Weekly] There has been no definite com plaint by the government as to either the promptness or the secrecy of the wire service. Secretary Daniels, to be sure, did talk In his testimony be fore the Commerce Committee of the desirability of Insuring privacy of wire communications, especially during the presence of submarines on our coast. But he made no spe cific charge of news leakage, still less of any Inefficiency of wire ser vice. Secretary * Baker informed the committee and the country that "it goes without saying that the president ought to have authority to take over these lines." But even the exuberant and unrestrained imaginative powers of the Secretarv of War did not enable him to get beyoryJ this generality. He had no complaints to make. He specified no Instance of work in the War De partment having been hampered by defectives wire service or of War De partment secrets having been re vealed by telegraphic or telephonic carelessness that the companies could have guarded against. Mr. Burleson injected a little humor into r the discussion by expressing a desire to put the telegraph and telephone service In the same class of efficiency with the mall service under his ad ministration of the Post Office De partment. From which may the Lord tn his infinite mercy deliver us! Our present telephone service Is ad mittedly the best In the world. Our mall service under Mr. Burleson has become the worst mall service the country has ever known In all Its history. Perhaps some jungle coun tries. In proportion to their popula tion and Intercommunication equip ment, may" have a viler mail service than that with which Burleson sagacity has saddled these United States. But If there Is such a coun try we have never heard of it or read of It. and we have not the re motest belief th&t It exists. As the Director General of Telegraphs and Telephones, naturally Mr. Burleson would be ambitious to reduce the wire service to the same level of In efficiency as the mail service I Though the Germans devised a shrapnel shell which broke only when near the ground and made it extremely dangerous for any one to be in the vicinity, the journals from the skies were eagerly searched for and passed from hand to hand. And it was not long before un censored papers, printed in Belgium itself, began to appear. Of all the clandestine journals the most vigor ous and defiant was La Libre Bel glque. No one knows where it is printed. Its habitat is fantastically referred to as "une fcave automobile," which might perhaps be translated as a migratory cellar or cellar on wheels, and its telegraph address is "The Governorship, Brussels." The price is Indefinite, varying "from zero to Infinity," and there Is no regular time of issue, but an average of three or four editions a month has been maintained. Not even the carriers know where the paper Is published. If, there fore, the police captures a carrier with these verboten papers In his hands, they may visit the direst pen alties upejn him, but the printing and distribution of the paper goes on just. the same. The German authorities, in their rage at the defiance of this plucky little newspaper operating under their very noses, have made the most savage and elaborate efforts to hunt down the offenders. To handle the paper or even to have It In posses sion is made a serious offense, and a huge reward—originally 25,000 francs but later raised to 76,000 — has been offered for information leading to the apprehension of the editors and proprietors. The tone of the. paper is delight ful. It always keeps its security of temper, and its srlrit is irrepressible. The Belgians enjoy it, and all the copies are carefully treasured. The usual circulation Is about 10,000, but the paper proved so popular that the first five numbers were reprint ed three or four times after their original publication. One of the most interesting fea tures of La Libre Belgique is its monthly air supplement, giving in Flemish and French the news of the war. It is published abroad and scattered in Belgium by aviators. DREAMER OF DREAMS If I would I could move mighty mountains and hills. Uproot them and build me a keep in the air; I could turn teeming river and black, turbid hills To make me a lake plaisance, pla cidly fair. If I would! But to lie here and list to the wild churning seas Sweeter seems; And I sail yellow leaves down the swift autumn brefeze — Dreaming dreams! If I would I could grasp in my hand half the earth, Make them mirthful or sad a£ I laughed, as I cried; I could guess at the where of the world before birth. At the infinite whence, and the whither beside— If I would! But I wonder and watch as the small, busy world Past me streams; And I shepherd my woolly white clouds, wind unfurled, dream ing dreams! —Basil Stephenson of the British Army, In Contemporary Verse. All Waste Must Be Stopped [From the Liberty Press.] "Were It not for looking forward to something brighter," said the man who can take a drink or let it alone, "man would die of despair. Person ally I long for the day when this cruel war wjll be over and the coun try can get back to fceatlng Abe grain now sacrificed to making the world safe for democracy into something to drink." Safeguarding Mother [From the London Answers.] Daisy (10) to Dolly (11) —We must be more careful what we say before mamma. She picks up our slang so readily." Lucky if Not Half a Dozen [From the Memphis Commercial News.] Everybody is not perfect; every rfamiiy tree bears one lessrft. JULY IS, I*7lß. EDITORIAL COMMENT The Austrian offensive indicates that a drive by driven men is not likely to prove a success.—Louisville Post. "The German people is destined for great things," says the kaiser. In cluding the greatest licking in his tory.—Wall Street Journal. The shortage of wool in Germany is fast approaching the stage when the kaiser will no longer be able to pull it over the people's eyes.—New York World. Although they are not of the slightest importance any more, Ger man peace terms are always inter esting, particularly to newspaper paragraphers.—Kansas City Star. Burglary Is increasing at an ap palling rate in Germany, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The na tional policy is being individualized, as it were.—Minneapolis Journal. HEARKEN, O EARTH Hear all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is; and let the Lord God be witness against you.—Micah i, 2. OUR DAILY LAUGH jl | /P&b GONE UP. n V Mamie; 1 i * /'A. wond er what I i has become of U the old-fash 'oned dime (rone up to a H dollar and a i SHE PAVED K jC\ t THE WAY. t J®lfi How did Pa \ act when you kpft > asked him for K) my hand? Very gentle and courteous. All It took me com- JIH pletely by sur- |M ||!l| you used to be J) w/r' \-~Zs dangerous. • v Ist Microbe— I Hun for your i > a 2n( * Microbe -—What is It? Microbe— | A cake of soap I HELP. Drum Stick— i v lp J "tj See here, you quit your fool- 11 Ingr or I'll beat X your head off! I L-o think you would 11 be afraid of be- Ifi -f 4iii 1n g arrested UI with that cos -71 M* f<l Son: Say Dad, // "I" 0 ® you JH- stopped my al iuLi V / Jj ] j lowance nobody 7-y^Jj- —4—4 notices me J Bmttttg (Eljal — ... Some idea of the enormous expan sion of the work of the State Se lective Service headquarters, other wise the center of the army draft organization for Pennsylvania, can be sained by the fact (hat a year ago the whole force in charge of the launching of the draft in the second largest state in the union consisted of seven persons and now there are over sixty. The state draft system was started to work In Pennsyl vania in two rooms on the second floor of the Miller Bros, building at Locust and Court streets, being In charge of Cols. Frank G. Sweeney; Lewis E. Beitler and J. Warner Hutchins. There were a couple of clerks and stenographers, but It was not until a couple of carloads of forms and paper arrived that any idea of the scope of the work could be .obtained. Then more people were added and rooms were securedon Second and Court streets to handle the supplies and the force over flowed the two upper floors. Then Major W. G. Murdock and later Col. Howard S. Williams, now In France came along, and a floor in the Frank lin building was annexed. By cold weather tho headquarters was a hive and Anally in the winter time the first floor of the Board of Trade was secured pnd Major Murdock put in charge. The whole force moved and now the place fairly hums. Of the original force only Miss Grace Wad lin, who is in charge of the shipping division, is the only one now on tho list. J. Hillary Keenan, of Greens burg, became chief clerk when the new headquarters was opened and Leßoy K. Lafean, of York, took up the strenuous job of handling the In ductions. It Is only a question of time until the headquarters will need more room as the supplies are scattered and the lower hall where the force is grouped is one of the busiest places In Harrisburg, the Western Union tetegraph operating room no exception. The headquar ters not only has to handle the calls and the reports, Kut to keep redord without end. In spite of the rapid expansion of the system and the un certainties of what was coming next the headquarters has made the draft in Pennsylvania a success In the highest sense of the word and mainly by working fourteen hours a day and taking no Sunday rest. ♦ • Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods, who has been spending a fortnight in western Pennsylvania, was here yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Woods on the way to the Reserve Militia encamp ment at Mt. Gretna. He will at tend the review to-day and visit several of the eastern counties the remainder of the week. • • Quite a number of young men In this section of the state have been taking advantage of the special in duction calls announced at state draft headquarters, whereby thoy can be sent to the University of Pittsburgh, Lafayete, State an<J other colleges for training of a mechani cal kind. The calls are open until next' Monday to registrants of 1917 and 1918 and grammar school and high school graduates who are avail able for general military duty, es pecially those with a mechanical turn can be sent. They are being trained for all sorts of service in and behind the lines and will be quar tered in the colleges while being trained. Probably a dozen from this city have been specially inducted .In the last week and the number of in quiries reaching state headquarters shows how highly the chance Is re garded. • • • Harrisburg gardeners are going to have a lovely crop of weeds to buck against next summer if the signs are right. Just now the fields are bright with the blue of the chicory, the white of the wild parsnip, the brown of the burdock and other plants which may have medicinal, but no other use, and which come after the yellow of the wild mustard and the dandelion. These weeds have In creased amazingly in and about Har risburg and are exceedingly sturdy and hard on soil. Just to show how they can be carried it may be cald there are seven different varieties of pestiferous weeds in the federal building lawn. * • • The register of visitors to the State Capitol is always very inter esting to the Harrisburg man who likes to go and see what is in tho State House, but only about one-half of the people who enter the building on sightseeing bent take the trouble to put down their names. In tho last week there have been people from over a dozen stiftes and from Cuba and Mexico at the Capitol. It is nothing unusual for Chinese and Japanese nml even Hindus to register on Capitol Hill and before the war Europe was represented several times a week. • • • "Putting up" eggs seems to have become a popular pastime in Har risburg homes and is to a certain extent taking the place of the pre serving of blackberries, raspberries and ether small fruits which aro short in supply this year because there ait so few hands to gather them. Eggs have been developing some startling midsummer prices and tho preserving of them for win ter use in that chemical known as "liquid glass' is now a household ac tivity in Reglna street, as we'l as Front. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE • —N. H. Grubbs, the county farm agent of Allegheny, secured 143 sheep for one of the Pittsburgh golf clubs which will have its links kept short by sheep aiid at the same time help along the food supply. —John Glass, treasurer of North umberland county, was a visitor here yesterday on an automobile trip. .—R. J. Alderdice, superintendent of the Pittsburgh police, has under taken a crusade to round up the sla'ckcrs In that city. —Seward E. Button, state chief* of mines, has been given leave from his duties as Luzerne draft board member, while he is working to speed up production. —The Rev. Edward C. Ifilnkel, West Chester minister, -will become a chaplain in the army. —Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania, received a letter from the commandant at Plattsburg complimenting him ftpon the spirit of the university boys in camp. |' DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg loses industries because of the lark of homes for workmen? IITBTORIC HARRISBURG The first businessmen's organisa tion was formed here about 100 years ago to urge on the improve lament of the Susquehanna.
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