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bor. — STEVENSON.
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT
EVERY American worthy the
name mourns most sincerely
with Colonel and Mrs. Roose
elt the untimely death of their
oungest son, Quentln. The heroic
icrjfice of this most worthy son of
Worthy father comes to each one
f us in the sense of a personal be
eavement and brings home to us
lost forcefully tho horror of the
reat conflict In which we are en
i)ged.
Lieutenant Roosevelt died as his
ather would have had him go, if
eath were inevitable, fighting gal
mtly against odds the foes of his
>untry. The young man's name will
I another bright page In the his
ry of the Roosevelt family, but
Wit will not assuage the grief of a
oving father who is denied, by an
mgrateful government, the privilege
>f going to France to avenge the
eath of his gallant son.
Young Roosevelt might have had
I captaincy of infantry had he so
(sired. He had the training and
,e qualifications for that, if not for
majorship. But he chose more
izardous service with the lowly
.nk of lieutenant. He recked not
t personal danger, but went, like
housands more of his fellow Amer
:ans, where duty called. All honor
o him. If some other financially
ndependent gentlemen who sit
bout Washington, camouflaged by
ligh sounding titles and private of-
Ices, were to follow his example, the
\;iuse of patriotism would profit and
Itbllc affairs would suffer little.
A GOOD EXAMPLE
iRANCE has set America another
W good example by punishing with
death M. Duval, editor of the
sftlnnet Rouge, a French newspaper
sold Itself to Germany. Re
cently much has been published of
pro-German newspapers in the
United States. One arrest has been
niade 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
lully camouflaged treachery of a
faithless journalist in control of an
influential publication is capable of
irreparable damage to the morale
of the people. Such an editor is a
Judas Iscarlot 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.
MEX WHO would serve
IN' every community there are
young men of service ape who
have been rejected for physical
disability and these are frequently
misunderstood j n their several com
munities, inasmuch as no provision
has been made f or the wearing of
any Insignia would Indicate
that they are wiii. nK to serve, but
heen.nc je pted by the gov-
C'nine'rit I .^
Harrisburg is not an exception in
this 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
from time to time that
1 Bome 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
•erve. This would also differentiate
"fiten of this 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 re%l
•Sort to enlist, as many have done
yepatedly, and is told that he does
not jmeet the requirements, should
liavi some way of demonstrating to
eveifbody that he is not Indifferent
to hfc duty. Under the circumstances,
it *|>uld seem to be only Just that
menlof this class should be given
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, dine, 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
tho 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 trade, which Mr.
Hoover says must be diverted to
legitimate uses if disaster is to be
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 taxableibeer?
The answer to the demand for
greater revenues lies in the tariff.
Republicans would have turned to it
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 iteta
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-Aldflch 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.
Wllllamstown 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
mining town are going to see to it
that their community is a good place
In which to live and a fit place to
which the boys will return after the
war. Every town should follow the
example of Willlamstown in this re
spect.
SAFE PLAYGROUNDS
THE police dt(paj<ment 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 boys who use them. Some
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"
BARON BURIAN, Austrian for
eign minister, expresses the be
lief that the war "might be
ended the moment the Allies again
manifest feelings of humanity."
"Feelings of humanity," forsooth!
What "feelings of humanity" did the
Hohenzollern-Hapsburg twin devils
exhibit when together they conspir
ed to the rape of Serbia and Bel
gium? What "feelings of humanity"
did they display toward the women
and babies of the Lusitania, or for
Edith Cavell, or for the innocent
maidens and wives of Belgium, or
for the soldiers they tortured to
death by gas and flame, or for the
helpless inmates of Red Cross hos
pitals and homes of noncombatants
they have bombed?
"Feelings of humanity?" So far
as the Hohenzollerns and the Hap.i
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
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
speaking, the success of the
Italian resistance and counterattack,
have given rise once more to the
hope that Trlest may be taken and
the road to Berlin opened from the
east and via Vienna.
This is an old Napoleon
once had' it; probably every advo
cate of the restoration of Italia Irre
denta has thought to push his le
gions beyond the Trentlno and to
take deserved revenge ui*>n
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
pushed out of the limelight now.
NEWS VALUES SHRINK
ONE 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 Baturday 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
oft the wire and the biggest type in
the office would have been necessary
to herald the disaster. The incident
would have been a nine dayß' 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 ?
By tlie Ex-Committeeman
■ *
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
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 he do
that?"
The belief here Is that Judge Bon
niwell will either demand a meeting
of the state comfnittee or the execu
tive committee, which is composed of
the division chairmen, and renew his
effort to name the chairman. The
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
committed or to designate a day
when he would meet with the plat
form committee.
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
yesterday summarily removed from
the board of Recreation the three
members whose resignations he had
demanded because they refused to
support 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
pay, 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 money.
—ln discussing the boom launch
ed by Lancaster countians for Rep
resentative Michael R. Hoffman, for
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 Griqst, 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 the advocacy of timely legislation
or there may be a hero of the war
with Germany who may loom upon
the political horizon and be acclaim
ed the successor to State Treasurer
Harmon M. Kcptoart. 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
I 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 what stuff we are turn
ins? 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&i in this critical hour of the
struggle between mutually an
tagonistic forces on earth we should
have strength and youth to give on
the side of right; and we give it in
on unlimited spirit. People are
never surprised by their own des
tiny. That Americans should be
counterattacks on the Marne is in
credible news, if you stop to reflect
upon it. Yet, how inevitable the
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 k 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
desolate, seem to entertain the same
hupe as those in whom hope has al
wnys been alive.—ln The Red Cross
Magazine for August.
, What a Sad Waste
[From the Grand Rapids Press. 1
,Bpeaking of the futility of wealth.
Andrew Carnfgie has given away
his seven thousandth pipe organ and
can play ragtime. 1
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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
for the war and the public.—Na
tional Coal Association.
There will 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 id 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
covert friends of "booze" to hide be
hind technicalities of legislative pro
cedure. The country as a whole will
not hesitate for a moment about the
sacrifice of that "personal liberty"
which figure* so largely in the pro
hibition discussion, once it is con
vinced that the necessity is gen
uine, and that the alternative pointed
out by the coal operators is inevit
able. There can be only one answer
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 of 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
choice 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 Tork
Evening Journal" exhorted its read
ers 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 puzzle 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
fFrom 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 wheart, are not
profiteers. As 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 Dos Angeles, Cal.,
ask increased wages and recognition
of the union.
Berlin, Germany, had 302,000
union workers in 1913. It now has
but 130,000.
A 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 ceAts
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
similar work Is advocated by the
American Federation of Labor.
Representatives of the British Sea
men's Union 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
glum.
With charming audacity the man
agers see that the privileges of their
journal are extended to the governor
general. Whenever a new number is
printed he % always 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 o 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.
One famous number, smuggled as
usual to the official desk, displayed
a halftone portrait of his excellency,
the Baron von Bissing, 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."
All 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 Secretary
of War did not enable him to get
beyond this generality. He had no
complaints to make. He upecified
no instance of work in the War De
partment having been hampered by
defective 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
the discussion by expressing a desire
to put the telegraph and telephone
service in the same class of efficiency
with the mail service under his ad
ministration of the Post Office De
partment. From which may the
Ijord in 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 that It exists. As the
Director General of Telegraphs and
Te4ephones, naturally Mr. Burleson
would bl ambitious to reduce the
wire service to the same level of In
efficiency as the mail service.
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
gique.
No one knows where it is printed.
Its habitat is fantastically referred
to as "une cave automobile," which
might perhaps be translated as a
migratory cellar or cellar on wheels,
and its telegraph address is "The
Governorship, Brussels." The price
js indefinite, varying "from zero to
infinity," nnd 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 upon him, but the printing and
distribution of the paper goes on just
the same.
The German authorities, in their
rase 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 2 5,000
francs but later raised to 75,000 —
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 spirit 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 Übre Belgique is its
monthly air supplement, giving in
Flemish and French the news of the
i 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 lio here and list to the wild
churning seas
Sweeter seems;
And I sail yellow leaves down the
swift autumn breeze —
Dreaming dreams!
If I would I could grasp in my hand
half the earth,
Make them mirthful or sad as I
laughed, as I cried;
I could guess at the where of the
wofld before birth,
At the infinite whence, and the
whither beside—
If I would!
But I wonder and watch as the
small, busy world
small, ousy woria
Past me streams;
And I shepherd my woolly white
clouds, wind unfurled, dream
ing dreams!
—Baail 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 j
who can take a drink or let it alohe, j
"nuin 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 beating the grain
now sacrificed to making the world
safe for democracy into something
I 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
family tree bears at least one lemon.
I
JULY 18, 1918.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT
l
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
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my hand?
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and courteous. Bui )fl§M
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pletely by sur- Mm
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you used to be B|
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lEtottttnij QHfal
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 gained by the fact that a year
ago the whole force in charge of tho
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 wag
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 securedaon
Second and Court streets to handlo
the supplies and the force over
flowed tho,two upper floors. Then
Major W. G. Murdock and later Col.
Howard S. Williams, now in Franco
came along, and a floor in the Frank
lin building was annexed. By cold
weather the headquarters was a hlv:
and finally in the winter time tho
first floor of the Board of Trade was
secured and Major Murdock pub in
cliaEge. The whole force moved and
now the place fairly hums. Of the
original force only Miss Grace Wad
-I' n. 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 telegraph operating
room no exception. The headquar
ters not only has to handle the calls
and the reports, but to keep record
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 thtry
ran be sent to the University of
Pittsburgh, Lafayete, State and 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 ami
behind the lines and will bo 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 roaching state headquarters
shows how highly the chance la 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 io
other use, and which come after the
yellow of the wild mustard and the
dandelion. These weeds have in
creased amazingly in and aHbut Har
risburg and are exceedingly sturdy
and hard on soil. Just to show how
they can be carried it may be caid
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 the
State House, but only about one-hnlf
of the people who enter the building
on sightseeing bent take the trouble
to put down their names. In the
last week there have been people
from over a dozen states and from
Cuba and Mexico at the Capitol.
It is nothing unusual for Chinese and
Japanese and 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 oi blackberries, raspberries
aid ether small fruits which are
short in supply this year because
there ait so few hands to gather
them. TJgfv< have been developing
some startling midsummer prices
and the preserving of them for win
ter use in that chemical known as
"liquid glass' Is now a household ac
tivity in Reglna street, as well as
Front.
[_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—N. S. Grubbs, the county farm
agent of Allegheny, secured 143
sheep for one of the Pittsburgh golf
clubs which will have its links kept
shqrt by sheep and 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. Alderdlce, superintendent
of the Pittsburgh police, has under
taken a crusade to round up the
slackers In that city.
—Seward E. -Button, state chief
of mines, has been given leave from
ht3 duties as Luzerne draft board
member, while he is working to
speed up production.
—The Rev. Edward C. Ifunkel,
Want Chester minister, will become
a chaplain In the army.
—Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the
University of Pennsylvania, received
a letter frpm the Commandant at
Plattsburg complimenting him fcpon
the spirit of the university boyß In
camp.
DO YOU KNOW
-—That Harrfsburjc loses industries
because of the larlc of homes for
workmen?
HISTTORIC HARRISBTTRO
The flrst businessmen's organiza
tion was formed her* about 100
years ago to urge on ths Improve
ment of the Susquehanna.