10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWBPA.PEF FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by | THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Butiness Manager GUB M. 6TEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. n. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I A Member American i Newspaper Pub •jftMptaHi llshers' Assocla- CSgy tion, the Audit '—gfjfl Bureau of Clrcu otS2h3!s'W lation and Penn -SP" '■* sylvania Associ !Bß S3 U ated Dallies. ' 928 S3 |Bii jM Eastern office. Avenue Building 655.51 IJiSj} m New York City; Western office, I tftr iKjpfj* Story, Brooks & jaLaqß* jpwfflg Flnley, People's Gas Building, " _ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a | " " , * week; by mail, $5.001 a year in advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1918 The, heavens declare the glory of God; &nd the firmament showeth his handiwork. —Psalms la: 1. ON EQUAL FOOTING ANNOUNCEMENT that sub-des ignations—such as N. G. for National Guard and N. A. for National Army—are to be abandoned !and all soldiers given badges bearing the letters U. S. A., for United States Army, was bound to come and good Americans will be pleased to learn that Secretary Baker has approved General March's recommendations to that effect. Equally fair and just is the order that all officers in the army shall be eligible to promotion as the call for : more officers comes with the creation of new military units and the en- , largment of the military establish , ment. All our soldiers are fighting for one object. They are sharing common dangers and showing equal bravery. And so with the officers. Men are made by war. Civilians become great military leaders, and trained soldiers sometimes fail and break under the stress. We have no military caste in this country. We rely on citizen soldiers rather than trained professionals, and promotions should go to those who deserve them. If the new order will put everybody on an equal footing where it will be up to the best man to win. It is a good ruling. The Regular cannot then complain and the new man will have his opportunity. Our experience in the Civil War was that many men who enlisted as privates with no mil itary experience became first-class officers. The incentive to promotion is a great help in the development of a military organization. Two million dollars an hour is our expense to beat the Hun—and cheap j at the price. L RECEIVER OF TAXES J a GAIN we hear of an effort on the part of the county commls sioners of Pennsylvania to lm- I prove the system of tax collection. Let us hope that something definite may come out of their conference next month. The archaic system which has been in operation many years outlived its usefulness long ago, and only the mistaken idea that the appointment of a few county tax col lectors means the salvation of the average political organisation has been responsible for continuing the inconvenient and expensive scheme of tax collection through ward and township appointees. Senator Beldleman tried a few years ago to have a law passed creating the office of receiver of taxes, but the political bosses swept down upon the Capitol and suc ceeded in having the measure smoth ered. But the taxpayers are going to have something to say on this question and it ought to be the earn est effort of the State organization of county commissioners to further a proper bill at the next session of jfc the Legislature. Y A receiver of taxes empowered to collect all taxes—municipal, county, j school and State—would be a real reform. Such an official would ren-' der to each taxpayer a complete bill 1 covering all his taxes, thus saving * intolerable vexation and inconveni- j ence every year. The public will decline to get ex cited over the Haviland airplane charges until more is known about the matter. HOME-GROWN PRODUCE THE El Paso Chamber of Com merce recently gave a "home products dinner" at which rinly foodstuffs grown in the El Paso val ley were served. This was done to encourage the consumption of ar ticles grown in the El Paso district in order to lighten the freight bur den* of the railroads. Something like that might be a t> fcood thing for Harrisburg. We are | situated In one of the richest food THURSDAY EVENING, production districts of the country. •We do consume immense of our own farm produce and it | ! would be foolish to limit ourselves! 1 voluntarily to a restricted diet, hut| much might be done toward confin- I lng ourselves more closely to the things our local growers produce, j We eat too many vegetables andi fruits "out of season," thereby dis-1 heartening the local farmer and con-! Besting the railroads. War-time 1 economy bids us give more thought j to our food purchases. Join the "Give 'Em a Lift Club;" let j your patriotism extend beyond words j and Liberty Bonds. NO COMPROMISE THE German army's order to fire j on Red Cross stretcher bearers is on a par with the bombing i of hospitals and the sinking of hos pital ships. It is the very keynote j of the Prussian idea—kill all who i are not Germans, unless they bow to i tlie yoke of German slavery. Kill, kill, kill, is the Prussian ordor. Mercy and weakness are synonymous in the German language. Love is dead in the German heart. Murder is the German equivalent of virtue. The Germans have become worse than beasts. Yet we hear talk of a "peace by understanding," of a "peace by ne- , gotiation." Make peace with a peo ple who kill our boys when they lie , helpless? Make peace with a people who slay Red Cross angels of , mercy? No, a hundred times, no! A writer for "The Bache Review" i summed up the case in a nutshell ! when he said it must be borne in mind that any peace acceptable to | Germany will be a German victory. ] So Kuehimatui, Von Hertllng, ' Rurian, German and Austrian : spokesmen for the Junkers, are be- ! ginning, as was to be expected, to pour into the peace sewers nauseat- j ing statements of what Germany will i accept from the allies. Such ex- | pressions should be treated like any other refuse. To patriots to whom American soldier boys are dear, ' these deceitful feelers are a stench ; in the nostrils, as are the treasonable | appeals of yellow, flighty-brained ' writers like Arnold Bennett, asking . to have them considered. 1 i The blood of that great army of i allied martyrs, including our own ' brave men, who have died for the < cause of Liberty since 1914, cries out against such treason. Shall their < sacrifices, Indeed, have been made in ' vain? l The effrontery and Insolence of at- , titude of these peace mongers is best answered by ignoring them. What right has the murderer who has en- \ tered the home and been mjr rounded, to make terms on which the intended victims shall go about their business and he be allowed to ] carry oft his plunder, and without 1 expiation for the cold-blooded mur- , ders he has committed? Germany, the most abominated criminal in history, must be sen tenced —not allowed to negotiate for peace. There must be no confer ence, no peace table. There must be only unconditional surrender, and, after that, terms of punishment dic tated by the Allies. Life is just one thing after another —we no sooner are allowed wheat for our cakes than they take the sugar away, and by the time sugar is permitted eggs will be too expensive. Hang the Kaiser! FIVE TOWNS IN CANADA < FIVE Canadian cities show an aggregate increase in the value of manufactured products of from $162,000,000 in 1900 to $423,- 500,000 in 1910 and $610,000,000 in 1915. They are: Montreal, $71,000,- 000 i-i 1900 to $243,000,000 in 1915; Toronto, $60,000,000 to $219,000,000; Hamilton, $17,000,000 to $66,000,- 000; Winnipeg, from $8,616,000 to $47,686,000, and Vancouver, $5,000,- 000 to $34,000,000. That is some nice little record for Canadian popu lation centers to chalk up, and it shows what a protective tariff law will do in keeping Canadian mills humming. This growth in manufac turing industries has not slackened with the war. On the contrary, it has developed faster since 1915 than it did the three years previous to that year. The manufacturing out put of these five cities to-day, if set j at considerably in excess of $1,000,- 000,000, would not be far out of the | way. In 1910 our imports from Canada totaled $95,000,000, with manufac tured articles not figuring very prom inently in the list. Those were days of protection. In 1915 they totaled $160,000,000, with manufactured goods cutting a large figure; in 1917 they totaled $204,000,000 and the | fiscal year Just closed about $430,- 000,000. Say like, Canada loves free trade—for the L. S. A. As; for herself, she keeps close watch of her protective tariff wall, laying a new course, now and then, for ( luck, and hitting Uncle Sam a wal , lop In the way of embargoing his exports to her, for commerce and altruism won't mix, even if stirred with the sword. Everywhere the great work of the Y. M. C. A. in this war Is being recog nized as vital and necessary. The Har ■ rlsburg recruiting committee Is urging 1 enlistment in this servive, and already 1 quite a number have MS ifrom this community. With the In-' creasing forces of Americans 6ver | seas the need of more "Y" men is ap i parent. j i IK ""P,KKs.ij£<raKta By the Ex-Committccman I n Men connected with the Demo j erotic state -windmill to-day declined ! to show signs of fear at the mani festo issued a day or so ago at Pitts j burgh by Eugene C. fionniwell, the i candidate for governor who was j nominated when the bosses of the i machine were not looking. The ! judge demanded that the headquar- I ters company be turned over to him | and that J. Washington Logue get off the tioket as Democratic candi- I date for lieutenant-governor. As al- I ternatives he threatened to complete I organization of his own state com i mlttee and to take his troubles to the voters. Intimating that when the | Democrats of Pennsylvania got | through with A. Mitchell Palmer, : Vance C. McCormick and others that they would be mere party memories. About state headquarters there were smiles over the Bonnlwell re marks and plain notice that Mr. Lo gue and other men on the ticket had no intention of retiring. At the same time preparations for th# launch of the campaign were under way and every evidence given that the Demo cracy would stage two shows this year and prepare the way for a fresh and interesting reorganization next year. —The defiance which Judge Bon nlwell hurled at the bosses of the official machine of his party was contained in some statements he made to newspapermen. They were in characteristic style and have not been reprinted in -this city up 1o date. Judge Bonniwell, in answer to a question, said he was "supremely unconcerned" about what the Pal mer-McCormick State Committee, as now constituted might do and that he would go ahead with his own scheme of organization regardless of it. He added that his investiga tion into the subject and his ex perience during the primary cam paign has brought him to the con clusion that the so-called Palmer- McCormick State organization was little short of fiction, or at least a "paper organization." "The state committee," he said In discussing the plans for the organ ization he is building up, "was sup posed to conduct the state cam paigns. while as a matter of fact, the state committeemen held one meeting every two years. Immediate ly after their election they held this meeting at which they delegated all their authority to a state chairman and an executive committee of twelve persons, after which they returned to their homes. I was the state executive committeeman for the big district in which I live, and it is absolutely a fact that In the 1914-16 term, during which I served in that capacity, the executive committee was called to j meet but once. When you stop to think of the lack of organization and co-operation it is little short of re markable that the party in Pennsyl vania was able to poll 350,000 votes." —The scheme on which the helli cose judge is working calls for the designation of an active campaign committee of at least sixty-seven members and certainly to have a rep resentative from each county. For the most part the committee will consist of the county chairmen. Where the county chairman is not active and in complete harmony with his scheme to elect a Democratic Governor, some other Influential per son will be designated. He made it plain that in all cases, however, those persons will be selected with par ticular attention to their activity. —The Pittsburgh Dispatch says the judge "made no effort to conceal his belief that many of the followers of the organization he defeated at the primary election do not wish to see his election. He charged this at the Harrisburg state committee meeting and says he has not changed his mind. "How about the platform commi*- tee appointed toy State Chairman McLean that Is to met early in Au gust—will you co-operate with It?" the judge was asked. "I will give the committee the copyright on my platform already ■submitted to the people of Pennsyl vania," he answered. "The platform incident is closed insofar as 1 am concerned." —William A. Shomo, the Reading lawyer, who was said by people in the Berks county seat to be running for the position of Compensation Keferee, now held by Thomas C. Seidle titular Republican leader of that county, has issued a statement in which he shows a tendency to have fun with Seidle. "My name was injected into this matter in an effort on the part of Mr. Seidle to make political capital in the gushing and deceptive manner which is so char acteristic of him," said Mr. Shomo. He also says that he could not be a candidate for the place about which Seidle is so concerned because he is busy with his law practice and twits Seidle about getting "ruffled" when any one is mentioned for the party leadership and with admitting that he is "a born leader." It is quite a ontribution to the Joy prevailing In Berks county. —Wilkes-Barre's inquiry into po lice affairs continues to involve po licemen. It is almost as interesting as the declaration of Ike Deutsch and Lieutenant' Bennett that they were upholders of the best of civic vir tues in Philadelphia's Fifth ward. —West Chester clergymen have issued a statement calling for ratifi cation of the "dry" amendment and urging Senator Sproul to give it his support next winter. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: "E. Lowry Humes, United States District Attorney for the West ern District of Pennsylvania, has not resigned, as reported from Erie last night,/but he will do so if he can get into active service in the United States Army. Mr. Humes stated to a reporter from The Gazette-Times late last night that he has told United States Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory, that he desires to resign whenever he can be sent into active service in the Army. IN FLANDERS FIELD [An answer to the beautiful poem of the same title by Lieut. Col. Tohn McCrae.] In, Flanders fields the cannon boom And fitful flushes light the gloom. While up above, like eagles, fly The fierce destroyers of the sky; With stains the earth wherein you lie is redder than the poppy bloom • In Flanders fields Sleep on, ye brave. The shrieking shell, The quaking trench, the startled yell, The fury of the battle hell Shall wake you not, for all Is well. Sleep peacefully, for all is well. Your flaming torch aloft we bear, With burning heart an oath we swear To keep the faith, to fight it through, To crush the foe or sleep with you In Flanders fields i —C. B. Gal breath. bakrr™jkg UStAtf telegraph IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES (Do€su' T "n->e mouse L OO" WC6 AMD CLCA.'J . 1 % VU* v/E UJO"-'EC ajl> J ASHES scoueeeo AI.I. DAV. / S\j.<ei\.) ABOUT ( -v x , Be V/SRY CAREPVt- \ / A BOOT VOUR CtGAR \ I Hewrv- 450W t / \ LET Them drop ofo / BUOJK'NC) %WOWIMQ CAfM AMD, ' 6 O AiMSA PvJewv (JIODFR CrtAtfi Chair. * *' ' Newspaper Prices Up [Editor and Publisher] As the forerunner of a genera! price-raising step, in which it seems newspapers everywhere in the United States must Join in the near future, | the Southern Newspaper Publishers . Association as the final act of its six- I teenth annual convention in Ashe- i vilie, N. C., accepted the recommen- j dation of its paper conservation com- | mittee to adopt approximately the j' following subscription rates, effec- j tive as early as possible: Carrier circulation six .week days, 15 cents per week. Carrier circulation seven days, in- |. eluding Sunday, 18 cents per week, j Single copy sales not less than 3 cents daily, nor less than 7 cents Sunday. Mail rates—six week days, not less ■ than $6 per year. Mail rates —seven days per week, ; not less than $9 per year. Mail rates for Sunday paper, not less than $3 per year. Wholesale rates, single copy sales, week days not less than 1 2-3 cents per copy net; Sunday not less than 4V6 cents per copy net. Parkers burg, W. Va.—The pub lishers of the Sentinel have raised the price of their paper on street sales from 2to S cents. Weekly car riers will receive 15 cents instead of 12 cents, and the mail rates will be $5 Instead of $4 per year. New Haven. Conn.—The Union, i the Times-Leader and the Register have increased their price to 2 cents a*copy. As the Journal-Courier has been a S-cent paper, all the dailies now sell at the same figure. Two in a Tower [New York Times] For too long a time the Kaiser and Karl Rosner, his bard and trum peter, had ceased to be in the midst of the film fight. July 15 they re appeared. With his usual benignity, the Kaiser informed his soldiers that j they were to have the happiness of j fighting while he looked on. The j wonted lyric order went forth: "Let • the troops hear that, "in these grave hours, I am near and my wishes go with them." A General Staff officer j promulgated an order on an order, communicating to the delighted German tribesmen that the Kaiser was going to do himself the pleas- ' ure of watching them and sent . them his regards. "His Majesty calls , to them, 'With God for the Kaiser and the Empire,' " which is an anti- | climax. The Kaiser should have been . final, not penultimate, in the pro cession of deities. The Kaiser had | signed this order on "a shaky table," ' no doubt with a firm hand, by a pocket lantern's "flickering light." | Romantic Rosner must have been thinking of "Thfc Burial of Sir John Moore." , . j The prelude is over. The epic be- I gins. Rosner tells how he starts with the Kaiser to see "the Kaiser s bat- I tie." A GERMAN CRIME Captain von Beerfelde, the Junker turned pacifist who gave out the Llchnowsky memorandum, is in Ber lin denouncing the "criminal forg ery" and "abominable swindle' of "Germany's leaders in 1914" and calling them "traitors and crimin als," while Prince Lichnowsky is in exile and expelled from the House of Lords. However, there are loud calls i for locking up this "dangerous lunatic" who tells the truth.—New j York World. LABOR NOTES Company C, Twenty-ninth Regi ment Engineers, at Camp Devens, Mass., Is almost 100 per cent, union ized. Fifty per cent, of the company are members of the International Typographical Union, who enlisted from different parts of the country. Madison (Wis.) Federated Trades Council ha* appointed a special com mittee to "study the various schemes for co-operative stores and other forms of consumers' enterprises which result in reducing the prices of goods to the consumer." general strike on earth iKnow on In Belgium. Rather than submit to Prusslanism and en ter German munition works at good salaries the Belgium workers have starved and suffered for four years. Capt. T. V. O'Connoor, president of the Longshoremen's Union, has been named as director of stevedores and marine workers, and Into his hands has been Intrusted the duty of mobil izing the stevedores, marine workers and longshoremen in every port In the country Deceitful Accounting Methods In The Post Office .Department A Itanscr in Federal Telegraph and Telephone Management Tliat •Must lie Closely Watched H. O. Hopson, In New York Sun I HAVE been much Interested in reading your editorial article in The Sun recently, "The Govern ment Again Putting Itself to the Test." X suggest that you watch this matter very closely. You will note in the article recently printed in your paper that the Post Office De partment proposes to put all the ac counting in the office of the post of fice accounting department and to permit telegrams to be paid for with stamps. This is exactly what hap pened when the government went into the parcel post business. For a brief time separate parcel post stamps were used. Then this was found to be too much trouble, ac cording to the Post Office Depart ment, and patrons were allowed to use any kind of stamps. Even with the separate stamps there has been no method of telling what the disbursements of the gov ernment were for operating and maintaining the parcel post service. With the discontinuance of separate stamps there was also no method of ascertaining the revenue, so now in order to tell anything about parcel post we are compelled to estimate. When the estimate disagrees with what the other man believes, he can always, with a considerable degree of success, denounce the estimators and disbelieve the estimate. If you watch the telegraph and telephone operation carefully, the way it is now developing, you will note that in no time there will be no separation whatever of the ex penses of the telephone and tele graph and of the Post Office Depart ment. My prophecy is that within about a year after the government has taken over the telegraph lines and operates them the use of sepa rate telegraph stamps will likewise be discontinued. Then we shall have the Post Office | Department, the telegraph and prob ably the telephone all wrapped up in one huge ball. It will be impossible to determine separately the revenues |or expenses of any particular de- I partment and all of the revenue as I a whole will be subject to the errors due to the extensive use of the I franking privilege and free use by j other government departments, and ; by the senators and representatives, ! which will doubtless begin right j away. Likewise it will be impossible to show any separation of the expenses of running the particular depart ments due to the lack of any proper accounting system in the Post Of fice Department, notwithstanding the high praise thereof which appears in some Washington correspondents' articles on the subject, perhaps pre pared by the able publicity bureau in the Post Office Department; and the total expenses will be subject to the two difficulties which are in- Jack of All Trades Berton Braley Uncle Sam reached out and took us, so of course we went and ' came To his school of preparation for the military game; We laid down the tools of labor for our rifles and our packs, Wrapped our clothing into bundles and put khaki on our backs; Yes, we left the farm and office and the counter and the mill, And the time clock all behind us, but we hadn't left our skill; And while fighting in the trenches is the work we have lt| view, Any other Job you mention is the kind that we can do. For the farmers and the plumbers And the agents and the drummers And the miners from the tunnel and the shaft, And the puddlers and the tailors And the lumbermen and sailors Have their quota in the Army of the Draft. (From "In Camp and Trench: Songs of the Fighting Forcos," by Berton Braley. George H. Doran Company). The Wise Men and Jesus Now when Jesus was born in Beth lehem of Judea in the days of Her od the king, behold, there came wise rtien from the East to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is <born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East and are come to i worship Mm.—MatUiew ll 1 and. i- herent in anything conducted by the government—first, that they are usually measured by the appropria tion bill without taking into account generally the deficiency appropria tion bills which come along later and are passed with much less pub lic attention upon them, rather than the actual expenditures which, due to the deficiencies of the govern ment accounting, are not ascer tained until about a year after the money has been actually expended. No board of directors would expect to justify its management of the af fairs of a property by exhibiting to the stockholders its uaget of pro posed expenditures like an appro priation bill, instead of its actual ex penditures as shown by its books — in governmental affairs buried in the tomes of the Treasury Department. Second, the accounting of the post office has been severely condemned by numerous committees of account ing and also the Railway Mail Com mittee, headed by Charles E. Hughes. No reckoning is made of a large amount of free service fur nished by other government depart ments, nor is any proper account taken of the cost of accounting or buildings in which post offices are housed, owned by the government and operated by and at the expense of the Treasury Department. Last, of course, and most impor tant, when the Western Union or the American Telephone and Telegraph or the Postal Company renders a re port to its stockholders, the largest I stockholders of the company, at ; least, give the matter careful con i sideration, because It means money | out of their pockety if the affairs of i the company are not well regulated. No one, 1 venture to <ty, except for I political reasons, ever gives any con | sideration to whether or not the Post I Office Department, as it is now run. lis carefully and economically con ducted. With this fact starlr* us in the face, how can we expect efficiency or economy in the administration of the telephone and telegraph by the Post Office Department, which, un der the plans of David J. Lewis, of Maryland, who has been advocating this thing for years, are to be so merged into the post office affairs that it will be absolutely impossible ever to give them back without a complete revolution ?n the manage ment of the affairs of not only the telephone and telegraph companies, but the mail service proper as well? This may sound somewhat bitter, but 1 cannot but feel that the taking over by the government of the tele phone and telegraph services, the one class of public utilities of na tional Importance which has not woefully failed in maintaining pre war' time service (this, be it noted, with no increase in rates) must havo been based on a positively wicked 1 misrepresentation to the President. The Falseness of the Hun fN. A. Reviews War Weekly] Is there a limit to German iying? The question is asked in all serious ness. The world ha.s hitherto ob served and remarked upon the pro fuse, variegated and gratuitous false hoods of the German government, and of the Kaiser himself, concern ing the causes and circumstances of the outbreak of the war. There were lies about the designs of Russia, lies about a French invasion of Germany, lies < about the duplicity of Belgium, lies about the attitude and course of Great Britain. Of all these false hoods, Germany is selfconvicted. Are they not all written in the confes sion of Prince Lichnowsky and othor eminent; and indisputable German authorities? As for the later falsehoods, about German prohibition of munitions trade in 1898, about the guns on the Lusitania, and what not else our own diplomatic records teem' and reek with their shameless dishon esty. But still each day seems to bring new confessions, disclosures or rec ognition of Hoheniollern mendacity. The Germun press itself has now taken to questioning the Kaisers veracity, if not actually to imputing wanton falsehood to his charge. It reproaches him with havjng hidden or at least withheld from the Ger man people at Its beginning the real alms and j>nSpoae* of Ux war. , AUGUST 1, 1918. ALWAYS HURRY! [Kansas City Times] The situation regarding troop movements discloses at once both the strength and the weakness of the War Department. The strength lies in the fact that we can get men to France at a great rate when we set out to; the weakness in the tendency to let down from our largest effort with the comfortable feeling that it won't be needed. Since the German offensive started In March the War Department has done efficient work in transporting troops. A few weeks ago the country learned with disappointment that the troop movement was not to be con tinued on its present scale after August 1, and consequently it would not be necessary to follow General Crowder's advice and at 'once extend the draft ages. Now we •hear from Washington that some thing—presumably word from France —has changed the plans, and that the troop movement is to continue on its present scale. It is expected that this change in program will force the draft oticials to resort to the deferred classification and take men whom the government would prefer not to send so long as there are men of fighting age available who have no dependants. The trouble is due to that lack of foresight on the part of Secretary Baker which always has been his besetting sin. Crowder had a clear view of the requirements of the sit uation last March and made tils rec ommendations accordingly. The Sec i retary underestimated the need, j Fortunately the mistake is not to ! be permitted to retard the sending j of the men to France to meet Foch's 'needs. But it illustrates once'more the necessity of constant pressure to keep Mr. Baker awake to the size of the Job. The more overwhelming the force we put Into the field and the larger its equipment, the sooner will victory come. There can be no let down. We must hurry,' hurry, hurry! 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH f APPRECIA TIVE. What do they say about her fiance? They tell me he is very de voted. he thinks almost as much of her as she thinks of hor ' 'J > I SYMPATHIZE. father frankly I couldn't sup- |SvW II l • P What did he He said that ]H I he had the same <l/ < ' experience. i up t ° thr = k'TT l LEGISL,ATURE • Professor of Psychology ! it What is the ' i \ best method of /fr \ / correcting ln ■ ieHted tenden i V\ Plu to c rat's s —HJ 1 \ Son—A stiff in- I \ heritance tx Ji£> might do it. iwjuai' rj fortune teller I ' [ says I am going Hi •| to marry money. I George—Good, .' Did she say how K| I, I was going to i, make it. j lEuenhtg (Elfat | Between the bass season not open ing until the first of July and the hot wave that usually made felt about Santiago battle sary day failing to arrive it does seem as though there had not been as much summer as usual in Harris burg and vicinity although the ten nis courts at the Reservoir have been working as hard as ever. How ever, there are certain signs that Dame Nature is adhering to her schedule for Dauphin and Cumber land counties and we are entering August with the golden rod bloom ing, the wind commencing to bring cool evenings because it blows over Swatara township oats stubble and the blackbirds passing from platoon and company formations into regl mental and brigade organizations The golden rod always brings tc mind that we must begin to prepare for Labor Day and that Dan Ham. melbaugh's active times are com. mencing around the school board offices. But the blackbirds are the real official warning to the state's j capital that the summer is waning. The birds have been aflocking about here from time out of mind and about the middle of July, according to the bird sharks in Dr. Knlbfus' office they commence to flock. Thers are many huge flights of birds to be observed Just before dusk any evening. They are best seen from Reservoir Park. They seem to come from the farms along Linglestown and Jonestown roads, although there are some men who swear that they come from over in the Cumberland valley as well. In any event they pass over the park and Paxtang and mobilize on the trees in Swatara township back of Steelton, some roosting as far down as Middletown. There are other flocks which have been reported from around Colum bia and Duncannon as of unusual size and it means that they are get ting ready to set sail for the south. They will probably leave about the tirst of September unless it should Su VC J* y niuch cooler than usual. They have even been seen hereabout* in flocks as late as the middle of October. • • • One of the visitors to the city yes terday was Colonel Lewis E. Beitler of the State Council of National De fense. Col. Beitler was secretary to Governor Hastings during the Span v.h„^ar, and , "ever fails on visits here to drop in on state draft head quarters to talk military matters • • • "Where will Major Grav be sent n'f C E 1 l A Cre? J S a Question that many or his friends asked when the Tele fw ,K ann K, uno . efl a few dQ y s since that the big Middletown develop ment is well nigh completed. The answer has not yet come from Wash ington. but it will be wherever there is big and important work of an en gineering and contractural nature to be done. Major Gray is second to General Goetlials in the American V/H/H " S an en * ineer of large and varied experience. He built the wa system of the Croton watershed and this, engineers say, approach rl ,! e ! k not surpass the Panama C anal in the matter of difficult proh- MoV n the , const ructing engineer. Major Gray simply says he is a sol dier and will go wherever he is or dered, but it Is known that he has . * hankering for France and ho 1 nf°hn Ji to take his present force of hustlers with him wherever he goes. * • • Major Morava, the splendid Bohe mian we mean American —in ( charge of the big government opera tion near New Cumberland must , read the story of the Czech-Slovak movement in Russia with real prid*. He left Bohemia when a little bov . and came to the United States, lut the constant strivings of his native country for freedom have naturally appealed to one of his patriotic in stinct': and aspirations. He declared , the other day that the Czechs would r never submit to German domination | because they despise the Hun. , M. N. Clepper, of Columbia, takes' f a fall out of the new fish code in a , letter which he has sent to the Lan ; caster Examiner, the burden of 'nig , complaint being that the code inter feres with eel fishing. He wants the , State Department of Fisheries to set a.ide the code and allow eels to he taken in any way. In years gone by eel fishing used to be great sport here, but there have been few taken | here lately and they figured on many a table as a means of keeping down the cost of living. State Fishery of ficials. however, say that they hava no discretionary powers and that they have to enforce the code which the Legislature laid down. In Philadelphia many socieni women have Joined the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and have put their membership to practical effect by having buckets at water kept on their doorsteps so that thirsty horses may stop there and drink, providing the drivers of the nags have sense enough and human ity enough to bring them to the draught. In one neighborhood, how ever, it is said to have worked out badly for a certain doorstep, well equipped with glistening buckets full to the brim, became such a mecca for thirsty horses that one afternoon a number of them got a thirst all at the same time, and the neighborhood was stampeded. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —William J. Brennen, the Pitts burgh lawyer, has been taking a prominent part in the state conven tion of the Eagles at Pittsburgh. —Col. Henry C. Trcxler has suc ceeded in having wild ducks hatched on his game preserve near Allen town. —The Rev. C. H. Williamson, Pottsvillc clergyman, has gone on an overland trip to his former home in West Virginia. —Major F. E. Humphreys, United., States aviation authority is vislting> eastern Pennsylvania cities. He wi s the first army officer to make flights with the Wright Brothers. —Paul Li.ttlefield, secretary of the State Chamber of Commerce, is in Washington making a study of fixa tion legislation. | DO YOU KNOW ~ —Tluit Ilafrihburg steel is be ing used in spceial experiments b.T the ordnance authorities? HISTORIC HARRISBrnr. —Harrisburg was laid out as a town soon after the Revolutionary War ended, but was a settlement fifty years before that Last One Surely Did The Hermans say the next blew Will surprise the enemy. Meaning erhaps thuf all the others have sur prised the Germans.—From the Cleveland Plain Deale*
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