12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER POR THE HOME Poundtd Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. •a. J. STACK POLE, Prts"i 6r Editor-tn-Chirf P. R. OYSTER, Busineu Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. ' Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Member American Newspaper Pub iVi!^ 1 "^ Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. _ nHTTTa carriers, ten cent* % week; by mail, *5.00 a year in advance, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918 ' ——————————— ======== rzr Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, 0 Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears. With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! — LONGIELLOW. PUBLIC UTILITIES THE country is passing through a period of Increasing costs in every direction and the fel low who pays the freight is not in a happy frame of mind. Whether he be manufacturer, merchant or the head of a public utility his troubles are never ceasing. Also, the con sumer is perturbed and his protests rise upon every breeze. Harrisburg has been fortunate for many years in its large supply of river coal, a cheap product that has made it possible for the manufac turer and consumer here to get through an unusual fuel complica tion. By reason of this fact the public utilities have been aided in large measure, but the pinch is now at hand and advancing charges to the consumer are bulletined with great frequency. Consumers of steam heat in Har risburg have just been notified of a proposed increase of rates and the schedule will come before the Public Service Commission within the month. If the increased charges are justified on the score of costs, then there can be no reasonable ob jection on the part of the consumer; but should the charge be excessive or unreasonable from any cause, it will be the duty of the Public Ser vice Commission to refuse the in crease. Conditions elsewhere as to cost do not in all cases affect the Harrisburg situation. There is general complaint over arbitrary price-fixing and it is a common remark that many in creases are without justification. It is the duty of those charged with the supervision of all public utilities to see to it that the service corpora tions and the consumer alike get a square deal. This is no time for profiteering in any direction. Wonder what old Bat Face, other wise known as the Crown Prince, thinks of the brave Prussians now. DR. TRIEMAN ENLISTS THE enlistment of Dr. George A. Trieman, who sails for France shortly as a lieutenant in the medical corps, has set a fine example for the vounger physicians of Penn sylvania. He is fifty-four years old, almost beyond the age of accept ance, but he felt the call of coun try and forsook a very good practice to serve the lads overseas. His de cision Is in keeping with his excel lent record while a citizen of Har risburg, he having given liberally of his time and money to the work of the Y. M. H. A. and other welfare projects. Being sent to Siberia is going to have a new significance shortly. A GOOD SUGGESTION MRS. J. G. Sanders, whose leadership In the local Com munity Singing movement nus been of great service, writes the Telegraph'concerning an American ization Idea that might be worked out very successfully during the re mainder of the summer. "The Americanization movement could be greatly furthered, I believe, through the medium of Community Song," writes Mrs. Sanders. "Our committee, had we the funds, would be very glad to arrange for a series of Sunday afternoon concerts in Capitol Park, especially designed to reach the foreign-born element, at which the - band, engaged for the oc casion, would lead in patriotic songs. I have read much Interest re cent articles in the Telegraph con cerning the community efforts of other cities and sincerely wish that a way could be found to finance auch a plan here." The Sunday afternoon sacred and patriotic song idea is good. It Is entirely in accord with the customs FRIDAY EVENING, ' of Europeans, especially those of the Southern part of the continent, where public concerts are part .nd parcel of municipal life. If the Public Welfare Committee could see its way to lake up the idea in Har risburg it would be doing much to ward bringing our people together, especially those of foreign birth. Our regards to the Italians, with the message that now we know how they felt a few weeks back. GLORIOUS NEWS GLORIOUS news from France! The whole country thrills with it. Our soldiers have done what we knew they would do. The Hun has been "taken on" at his own game and beaten. The Americans have proved that the best kind of a de fensive is an offensive. Pershing's boys didn't play the game according to Hun rules. In stead of waiting for the Germans to hop into the Yankee trenches, the Americans went right out to meet them, which was disconcerting to the haughty Hun, to say the least. But the fruits of this victory are not all of a military character. They are both moral and political as well. German morale In the army and at home is bound to suffer as a re sult. The people of Austria, disheart ened by recent defeat at the hands of the Italians and war-weary, will be carried a step farther along the road to revolt against Prussian dom ination. Bulgaria and Turkey will be gin to wonder if the game is worth the candle and the wavering ones of Russia, who have been watching which way the cat is likely to jump, will form new conclusions as to the possibilities of a Prussian victory. The whole war enters upon a new phase as a result of this overwhelm ing defeat of what started out to be a great offensive. The Allies will be tremendously heartened. The wisdom of a supreme command has been justified and the much-boasted in vincibility of German arms has been given a terrible jolt. We must not, in our enthusiasm over the splendid achievement, ex pect too much. If our men stop where they are and hold the ground taken, the Germans will have been terribly punished. If they manage to eject the Germans from the Marne salient, or force large bodies of them to sur render, the victory will have been of overwhelming proportions and be yond the expectations of anybody. Jt must not be thought that suc cesses like those of yesterday can be continued indefinitely. Immediate gains are not nearly so important as that our men have taken the measure of the Germans in open field fighting and found the Prus sian veterans inferior to even our untrained troops. The end of the war may be still far in the future, but we know now definitely and finally that man for man we can whip the best the Germans can pit against us, and that is half the battle. A little more delay, and Harrisburg I people would have forgotten the I meaning of the word housing. REER AND SHIPS FOR the benefit of those who fear that there may be some truth in the nonsensical chatter of those who tell us that ship-produc tion will be curtailed if beer is denied the workers, the following quotations are reproduced from the report of the Senate committee hear ing on that subject: TVe have no hesitancy in saying that when intoxicants nre used there is a decrease in the effi ciency of workmen.—E. B. Pugh, general superintendent Newcomb Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany, Hampton. Va. Going dry May 21 has improv ed the situation and the output of our yard.—Former President Ste vens, of the Merrill Stevens Ship building Company, Jacksonville. Fla. We believe the effect of the dry law lias been most beneficial. E. Ketcham, secretary Detroit Shipbuilding Company, Detroit, Mich. More ship tonnage in given time in Seattle than anywhere else in world: Portland also good record. (Both are dry.)— Robert Dollar. Prohibition great blessing in this ship-building community.— E. T. Welford, Newport News. These are but a few of many simi lar letters and telegrams. In addi tion, Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, Balti more, writing of conditions at Spar rows Point, wired the committee: "In connection with statement made by Mr. Bainbridge Colby that the elimination of beer would lessen the efficiency of ship workmen. It may interest you to know that Spar rows Point, the great iron and steel and shipbuilding community con trolled by Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion, was established more than a quarter of a century ago as a strict prohibition territory, its charter for bidding the sale of alcoholic drinks within three miles of the center of the town, which at that time was a small village. 1 have never heard that this prohibition has in any way les eened the efficiency of the workmen there, nor did Mr. Schwab, (go far as is known, ever consider prohibition a disadvantage when, a few year? ago, he purchased the great plants then in operation at that point and since then has spent more than $50,- 000,000 in enlarging these plants for the building of ships and the mak ing of steel rails." In the face of all this it begins to look as though Colby's Judgment is bad with respect to prohibition, as it is with regard to politics. EXPERIENCE VS. THEORY AMERICA is tightening her belt for the war. Some are doing it voluntarily and with a patriotic impulse; others are doing it under compulsion. The Food Administra tion asks us to eat fish two days a week and to limit our consumption of beef to a pound and ,a quarter a week. We are advised to eat more pork and pork products—which is all very well except that pork is not especial ly well regarded as a midsummer diet and there are large numbers of our people who do not eat pork at all for religious reasons. The Fuel Administration also comes forward with an announce ment that the supply of coal to cer tain industries is to be materially reduced, the makers of passenger au tomobiles being the first to feel the curtailment. There is reason for the Food Administration's course. There is none for Dr. Garfield's. We have plenty of coal In this country. All we need is production. But the false system of price-fixing into which the government plunged a year ago has borne its fruits and the output of coal has not kept pace with the increasing demands of the country, because the coal miner is not willing to do business at a loss. We seem to be able to learn noth ing from the experience of our Allies. None of them is curtailing or ham pering business along any line; they are encouraging everything to run at peak. We, bn the contrary, are seek ing to misplace the emphasis of our efforts. TsiitLct. ut By the Ex-t'ommittccman Politicians and public officeholders who attempt, or who are likely to attempt, to favor their friends by handing out contract "plums" short ly before their terms of office ex pire were given a jolt in the Penn sylvania Supreme Court yesterday when Justice Simpson decided that the courts cannot blin<l its eyes to such favoritism, and that public pol icy requires honesty and fair dealing where there is a suspicion of office holders yielding to such temptation. While the ruling reverses the judg ment of Common Pleas of Luzerne county, the decision will act as a precedent in this city and through out the state. The decision was the result of a suit brought by M. C. Moore against the county of Luzerne, to recover a six per cent, commission on a con tract amounting to 1129,226.31. On December 11, 1911, Moore entered into a written contract with the County Commissioners, under which he agreed to furnish plans, etc., for the construction of a county road. This agreement was revoked by a later board of commissioners that came into office a month later, or January, 1912, on the ground that It was not made according to law, and that the plans drawn by Moore and others would result in a serious prejudice to the county. An affidavit of defense to the suit was then filed by the commissioners which averred, in part, that Moore had attempted to tie Its hands in the agreement by conspiring with the old board to prevent the com. missioners from selecting an en gineer in whom they had confidence. Justice Simpson, in holding that the affidavit was sufficient in law, said; "The court cannot blind Its eyes to the fact that In public and pri vate life alone an official or agent whose term of office is about to ex pire might be tempted to favor his friends and retainers at the expense of his principal. Because thereof public policy requires the courts in furtherance of public and private honesty and fair dealing shall apply such procedural rules as will pre vent or limit summary recovery upon agreements that possibly may result from yielding to such temptation." —Colonel Roosevelt's text, "A Re publican Congress," strikes a re sponsive chord in Pennsylvania. The state Republican committee is c,o ing to wage a most vigorous Con gressional campaign in all but two or three of the hopelessly Demo cratic districts. The Republican leaders have hopes of winning out in all but a couple of districts which are conceded to the opposition. —Upstate newspapers continue to comment on the possibility of Mich ael J. Ryan, public service commis sioner, becoming a candidate for Supreme Court judge. —Senator Sproul's Fourth of July speech made such a hit that news papers over the state continue to re print paragraphs from it. —The public declines to become excited over the resignation of the latest Democratic state chail-man, or who is to be his successor. How ever, it is expected that a big row will occur when the actual naming takes place at the hands of the Mc- Cormick taction, and against the wishes of Bonniwell. Motive For Christian Life • When I was a boy, the main rea son urged for being a Christian was! a selfish reason. It was insurance against loss; it was the personal gain, the personal happiness, the fu-' ture blessedness of which it put you in possession, that were constantly kept before your mind. That mo tive has been steadily retreating in to the background; the motive of un selfish service has been increasingly emphasized. Because the Christian life is the noblest life, because it is more blessed to give than to receive, and better to minister than to be ministered unto; because the good of life Is not found by separating yourself from your fellows, but by Identifying yourself with them—* therefore, let us be Christians. This Is what U means to follow Christ to day, as trie wisest preachers explain it; and this is the appeal which, when we learn how to use it will have convincing Dower.—Washington Gladded , HAJRJEtISBTJRG TELEGRAPH! MOVIE OF A MAN READING A DISLOYAL NEWSPAPER .... BYBRICGS CARR.es -PAPen OPEN.KJS .x BUT SLamCEJ amsaO ,/ car KfCVAjiTAKIO AT A OWDER ARM £ 066 - 50 WrrM PeR To SEE .P AMY OTMCR. TIME VAJMCNJ LEA4T T|6HTLV FOLDEO \ TORM<!O >SO MO owe MAY B>H. PCAOiMC. OBScwbd FKLSGJXT? N A e ,6^ e T>^,J ees KJO °' v " 3 OO riL S FoR 3)ece Aics "Readies ev/snvniiNtii. Does so as Q.<J>C.LY PC/RPOJE . 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That the blessed super men who make up the population of that sublimely efficient empire of sweetness and light, kultur and other unmentionable things, over which the ultimate Hohenzollern now holds his sway, may enjoy to the utmost all their manifold ad vantages as his subjects, he now ex tends to them the great boon of go-- ing barefoot, that they may save paper to make foot covering against another winter. Leather in Germany has long been saored to the soldier, and one great, but unooasted, result of recent experience in France is found in the fact that the German Army has not so, many feet to clothe as it contained in March. This is a most practical economy, doubtless much appreciated by Herr von Lu dcndorff, quartermaster general of the empire, although not publicly re ferred to by him. A Few Harveyized Shots TFrom the N. A. Review War Weekly] "While there may have been a touch of friendly exaggeration in Mr. Schwab's reference to Mr. Bain bridge Colby at the San Francisco launching fete as "an incomparable orator," we have no doubt that the Commissioner spoke eloquently and convincingly, as usual, but It was Mr. Schwab himself who gave the punch and won the enthusiastic co operation of his fellow-workers when he told them with forceful earnest ness that "the credit for winning this war will be shared equally by the workmen of America and the fighters of America." 8010 Pasha Is dead, but his malign spirit seems to be marching on; in our own country. Have we no firing squads here? Josephus manfully declares that this war shall be won If it takes every man up to sixty years; while Newton perkily pipes: "Not even to forty-five if I can help it." As for us, we say, Good old Josephus! Philip Scheldemann, the German Socialist leader, demands "peace with honor." That means, then, that it is not to be a German peace. Might Weaken the Firm Two brothers once ran a store in a small Western town, where they had quite a large trade in wool on barter. One of the brothers became convert ed at a revival and urged the other to follow In his footsteps. "You ought to join, Jake, said the converted one. "You ddn't know how helpful and comforting f it is to be a member of the church. "I know, Bill," admitted Jake, thoughtfully, "an' I would like to join but I don't see how I can. "Why not?" persisted the first. "What is to prevent you?" , "Well It's jes' this way, Bill, de clared Jake. "There has got to be somebody in the firm to weigh this here wool." Philadelphia Tele graph. Col. Harvey's Good Intentions It is kind of George Harvey to suggest elimination of Congressional elections in all sure Republican or Democratic districts, but he could earn more gratitude from a long suffering public If he could put the kibosh on the oppressive burden of campaign oratory. lndianapolis Star. . , . A . We did our best to achieve both re sults, but Vance McCormlck's boss, whoever he may be. wouldn't have it. North American Review's War Weekly. Remember,lt's Kansas Society [From the New Orleans States.] The announcement that society women of Kansas are volunteering to cook for harvest hands will prob ably result in the scarcity of farm labor becoming still more acute. This Is a Cheerful Thought [From tho Philadelphia Record.] Just because you don't get what you do want don't Jump to the con clusion th it you are not going to get what you don't vant. England Nearly Self-Supporting LOVERS of white bread, who have been patriotically stifl ing their murmurs and heroi cally swallowing war-bread, may now see the dawn ot hope upon the hori zon. One, at leajst, of our allies is nearly self-supporting, and next year we shall be able to keep millions of bushels of wheat at home which, un der the conditions of previous years, would have been exported to feed England. What agricultural strides have been made there since the war began can be seen from a paragraph in the London New Statesman: "In 1918, as against 1916, the acreage (England and Wales) under oats is up by 35 per cent.; that un der wheat by 38 per cent.; that un der barley by 11 per cent.; that un der other grain by 69 per cent.; that under potatoes by 50 per cent. The number of allotments (1,300,- 000) has increased by 140 per cent. The Report of the Food-Production Department is as satisfactory as we could wish; the number of acres under cultivation in the United Kingdom has gone up by over four millions in two years, all records be ing broken. "This figure ignores the great in crease in gardens and allotments,! and it is estimated that, on the present scale of consumption, this year's home harvest will be sufficient to feed the population for forty j weeks. The supply before the war was only enough to meet a ten weeks' consumption. Breadstuifs are not everything; and even of them one-fifth still has to be provided. But granted that we can keep this rate of production up, and—in spite of the drains of the army upon our labor—can, with the help of women and prisoners, save what we produce, the wolf has now been driven a considerable distance from the door. With sinkings diminish ing and ship building on the in crease. we can, we thnk, congratu- The President's Masterpiece [Col. Harvey's War Weekly] Altogether one of the most im pressive utterances that ever fell from the lips or pen of an American statesman; a document which we be lieve future generations will rank as among the most finished and mo mentous in our history. And yet, strangely enough, it has attracted really less attention both here and abroad than have several other of President Wilson's addresses, which, to our thinking, were far less satis factory Just as they were far less firm and less unqualified in tone and suggestion. Why this remarkable address should have been so almost stolidly would be hard to fathom. Perhaps the uproar of the day Itself, combined vy'th the dash ins little victory of our men at the front, may have blanketed it. But it is only a temporary obscuration. As long as generations to come read the history of our share In the great world war, just so long will that 1918 Fourth of July address of Presi dent Wilson at Washington's tomb be read and admired as a docu mentary monument in our history. Deep Gloom in Spots [From the Kansas City Tlme3.] As was to be expected, the mo ment to educate our singers at home instead of abroad suits everybody except the singers and the neigh bors. LABOR NOTES It is officially denied that Canada contemplates the conscription of la bor, masculine or feminine. Charges are now made that the in ternational union movement waa sub sidized by powerful German enemies. Union labor is represented in the South Australian Parliament by 17 members—an increase of 13. Colored laborers of a paper mill at Orangey Texas, have organized a union. A bill is under consideration for a minimum wage for women workers In the District of Columbia. Liquor men in New York state are anxious for the right to employ bar maids. Practically the whole of the straw berry crop in Missouri was picked by women workers. Cleveland taxlcab companies have dispensed with men chauffeurs and now depend exclusively upon women to run their machines. late ourselves on the final failure of the German attempt to starve us out." Much of the increased cultivation has been done by women, we are told, and Mr. Prothero, the British minister of agriculture, had a cheer ful picture to paint when appealing for recruits lor "the Women's Land Army." As reported by the London Morning Post his speech ran: "To-day the acreage under wheat, barley and oats is the highest ever recorded In the history of our agri culture. That is one of the finest achievements of the war. In the same period the number of allot ments has been increased by 800,000, which means something like 800,000 tons of produce raised additionally, a big saving in transport, and an im provement socially and morally. This advance has been effected in spite of the fict that there are 500,000 fewer laborers on the land. It is because of that decrease of labor that the appeal is being made for more wo men. I do not believe that any as sembly of British farmers will hold back men who can possibly be spar ed when the alternative is our troops being driven back by over whelming numbers and butchered on the beach by German guns. The promise of the harvest is not yet fulfilled, and there is much to be done. Women's work on the land is a vital necessity. I know the work they are asked to do-is hard, bring ing with it discomforts, and, com paratively speaking, is poorly paid. Life on the land is not luxurious, but it brings health with it, and the wo men have the conviction that they are doing something in one of tlie most important fields to make vic tory sure." Dispatches from Rome and Paris also tell of splendid food crops in Italy and France. Italy, in fact, may need no grain imports after the har vest. SAME THING HERE [From the Ohio State Journal] Next Monday the newspapers will cut off their exchanges, by order of the government. This is done to save pulp and expense of transporta tion. We do not kick, but we don't know what we will do without these regular visits of our old friends. We won't miss the metropolitan press so much, but the absence of these exchanges from the provinces will be a loss that we will feel. How will we run a paper without them? How will we get any fresh ideas ex cept from the fields, the woods and the rural places, where Ideas grow on bushes like blackberries? It will seem like a great bereavement to sit 'down to edit a paper without a pile of exchanges on the table. We are alarmed at the prospect. We will have to fall back on our Plato, our Cervantes, and our Bergson in order to serve our patron* with a savory dish. And so. if our sub scribers will observe more philoso phy than news In our columns after thlf, they will understand It Is be cause our exchange list is taken from us. j AMERICA'S GUARANTEE [Kansas City Star] The German is getting a hint of what Is in store for him next year when a powerful American Army will be ready to take the offensive. The American force engaged yester day was not large, by modern stand ards, but It showed once more the superb quality that the Nation has come to expect in Its soldiers. Courage is taken for granted in armies to-day. But In addition to courage, the Americans displayed the initiative, the resourcefulness, the high Individual Intelligence that are a guarantee of the success of the great enterprise which this country has undertaken. What a blow to German hopes the result of the first day's fighting in the great offensive must have been! Campmeeting, Not a Camp Old Caesar thought he knew some thing about the tented field, having followed his master as body-servant through the war between the states, but Camp Jackson was a revelation to him. "Yer mean, Maus" Jeems," he cross-examined his young maussa, "dat dese young gem'n can't drink nothin' stronger'n spring water " "That's all." "And no frollcktn wld de gals?" "None whatever." "An' no swearin' at de mules?" "Against regulations." "Lor", Maus' Jeems. dtsher ain't no camp. Disher's a camp-meetln'!"— The Columbia State, JULY 19, 1918. EDITORIAL COMMENT Dollars may not go as far as form erly, but they go faster.—Florida Times-Union. Talking of safety-zones, the kais er's family seems well supplied.— Wall Street Journal. Keep the dinner horn blowing, and the rest of the Austrians will flock in.—Chicago Tribune. It can be little consolation now to Austria to reflect that she started it all.—Baltimore American. If anybody wants to raise the price of anything and get away with it, now seems to be the time. —Brook- lyn Eagle. It is estimated that since April 6, 1917, 483,000 poems have been writ ten bearing the line "sadder and wiser" to rhyme with "kaiser."— Kansas City Star. Maybe these German drives are just a cunning German trick to make the population of Germany fit the food supply.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. We all know upon whom Henry Ford is depending for the votes to get him into the Senate, and there is no denying that there are enough of them, if they'll just take the time to drive around to the polls.—Kan sas City Star. I OUR DAILY LAUGH (I—7l LI HI EfMV ' vfwstit 'fc_ EXTRA ttJkMKCTJ THESE COOL NIGHTS. The fall wind makes us feel like bi* Vacation days are o'er. And now the mighty question is— Where is that blanket store? CAUSE AND EFFECT. "Say Sis, do you sing to your baby when he cries?" "No, he cries when I sing to him.* BAD COMPANY. Ist Street Lamp: He's in pretty bad shape thia morning. 2nd Street Lamp: Yes, he was in the midst of a street fight and got a fractured skull! A VISIT TO NEW YORK. Hiram Bug—Now I wonder which one of these tubes goes to the Jarsey •UUI Etetttng (Mjat Xhe Harrisburg T. M. C. A. camp near Liverpool, which breaks up to day, has been so successful that It will be continued next year on a much larger scale and there is much talk of establishing this sea son near Harrlsburg, a camp for older boys who worked during the daytime and who would like to get a little taste of the open by remain ing in camp at night, taking supper and breakfast there while going to work during the day as usual. If this is carried out two weeks will be set aside for the purpose and two weeks more will be devoted to a similar camp for men. The season is far advanced and it may. be found impossible to find a proper site and make the necessary arrangements tlm summer, but next year the camp will open early for boys and close late for men. All those who attend ed the Liverpool camp were delight ed with it and J. William Bowman, chairman of the Boys Work Com mittee of the Y. M. C. A., after whom the camp was named will be leader in the camp movement for the com ing summer. The camp site at Liverpool is beautifully located and ample for this year's campers and the Liver pool people are hospitable and gen erous. The campers like Liverpool and Liverpool likes the campers, but those at the head of the project feel that next year's camp should be nearer Harrisburg, within reach of the trolleys, if possible, in order that those who do not possess auto mobiles and who have boys in the camp may go to see them occasion ally during the week. The Y. M. C. A. is fortunate in having two such men as Arch Dins more, boys work secretary, and Physical Director Miller to lead the camp movement. They are thor oughly experienced campers and good out doors men in every way. They know how to look after both the pleasure and the welfare of the lads in their care and while exer cising strict discipline have the con fidence of their young charges and their affection and respect. Miller leads the lads in all manner of physical exercises tending to make them stronger and better able to care for themselves under any cir cumstances and Mr. Dinsmore keeps them in order and looks after the camp arrangements. He also is the camp fire leader and has taught the boys a lot of "stunts" they will not soon forget. Chief of these is the little Indian prayer song which the boys sing in Indian language as fhey stand hand in hand in a big circle about the camp fire just before the bugle sounds taps. Another favorite "stunt" is the giant sneeze, in which the lads unite, by the Hussion of certain given sounds, a noise that sounds like one of the old time giants of our boyhood fairy tales sneezing his head off. The whole camp has been run by military rule. From bugle call at rising hour to late evening the lads arc kept under the watchful eye of the disciplinarians, although they are given ample time in which to have good times in the water, on the . water and in the woods in whatso ever way they like best. The only time they have been entrusted to look out for themselves entirely oc curred the other night when as a test of courage the management an nounced that any boys who desired might go two by two into the woods and spend the night with their blan kets in the open. A majority of the lads responded and all returned in the morning reporting that "they had never slept better in their lives." The management was highly pleased with this good showing. All the lads who return next year will be ac corded a bandana to be worn in camp signifying their second year and every boy who comes back to day is enthusiastic about next year. And now will come the big Boys' Scout camp along the creek in Cum berland county, where during Au gust several hundred boys will be constantly in camp. This also is the first camp of its kind in the his tory of the city and Scout Executive Virgin says it is going to be one of the most popular institutions in the whole year of Scouting: institution Is (he word, he declares, for it too is to be an annual affair. A full carnp equipment is being purchased from the general fund raised by the Rotary Club campaign a year ago and the boys will be under the vei-y best leadership and will have every care in camp they could expect at home. It is a question whether or not there will be room in camp for All who will desire to come, but a big tentage is being prepared to meet the demand. • • • There have been fewer butterflies fluttering around the parks and gar dens and the fields of Harrlsburg this year than known for a long time. Even the pretty brown "milkweed" butterfly has been few in numbers and as for the Ajax and the "swallowtails" they have been mighty scarce. The luna and other moths which used to bat their heads against electric light globes havo not been seen to any extent. Men who observe such insects say that the weather conditions have pre vented the usual number getting very far away and that many of the young have been so weak that they fell easy prey to enemies. About the only butterflies that seem to be as abundant as usual are the pest known as the cabbage, the familiar white or yellow butterfly that costs us so much money. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —A. C. Shand, who retains hi* , post of chief engineer under thtf'* Federal management of Pennsylva nia, Is one of the veterans of railroad engineering in the eastern part of the country. —The Rev. E. H. Ward, prominent Pittsburgh Episcopal clergyman, has retired after twenty-one years of ser vice. —George IJ. Patterson, well-known western tier man, has been elected head of the New Castle Board of Trade. —Judge Russell C. Stewart, of Northampton county, has given no tice that persons who damage war gardens can expect no leniency from him when they come up for sen tence. —The Rev. Robert A. Jamison, Presbyterian clergyman at Apollo, has just retired after a service of forty-one years In the ministry in Western Pennsylvania In which part of the state he was born. Protest From Those Affected [From the Kansas City Star.] General Crowder has ruled that moving picture actors are essential workers. This coincides with the view several notable movie actori have held all along. Indeed, a few of them, if cornered and questioned closely, would confess that they art Indispensable.
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