6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBLEORAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F.- U. 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 credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American 1 _ Newspaper Pub- USknrrTOSm Ushers' Assocla tion > the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- BtcfyjansßßrO sylvania Asaoci fijj $55 W ated Dailies. Klldiii MBast> rn office, "" rn ?" [3l Story, Brooks & SSBHESS KB Finley, Fifth ! £22 ess MB Avenue Building, LflßßgiNew York City; "Western office, story. Brooks & l*- J 3 Finley, People's Chicago, 111. nB " Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAT, AUGUST 8, 1818 The mole would Jive beneath the ground and Nature closed its eyes.— Henby Drummosd. n ~ LET US HAVE A GUN MAYOR KEISTER wasted no time in applying to the "War Department for one of the German field-pieces captured in such large numbers by American troops recently in France and which Gen eral Pershing proposes to send to this country as trpphies of the war. It is to be hoped that his re quest will be granted. Harrisburg was the first city to be exempt from the first draft call by reason of its volunteers. It has an unusually large proportion of its young men in the service. It has given more to the Red Cross, the y. M. C. A. and the Knights of Columbus than was asked. It has been an honor city in every one of the Liberty Loan drives. It would be a flno Inspira tion to further patriotic service to have in front of the federal build ing a German cannon taken from the Prussian Guard by Pennsylvania J boys. The Kaiser may not get his place in the sun, but It's certain there is a fine hot spot being prepared for him. COAL LAND ASSESSMENTS E ITHER the coal companies are or they are not paying their share of the taxes In this coun ty and years of debate ought not toj be required to decide the facts in j the case. So much dust has been] raised over the issue that the County Commissioners would be Justified In the expenditure of a reasonable amount for an unbiased expert re port on the subject. If the assessments are reasonable and fair to all concerned the old bugaboo will have been laid to rest for all time. If the land assessments are too low it is we know about it. Dauphin county people get small enough returns on the vast de posits of anthracite with which na ture has so bountifully endowed them. They should not in addition be deprived of any taxes that may be equitably levied against the own ers of coal lands. Let us have a decision on the subject, learn the truth and end the profitless debate. Thank goodness that "no sugar" order didn't go into effect until after the raspberry pie season ended. A Wj\STE OF PAPER RULINGS and more rulings have been made by the War Indus- tries Board regarding the vari ous grades of papers and • paper products. It is stated that the board's experts believe that the sav ings which banks, stores and busi ness offices could make In their pa per bills by eliminating wasteful and uneconomical uses and substituting less expensive for heavier and more expensive grades would amount In the aggregate to an enormous sum, But not a word la said about the enormous waste by the government Itself In printed matter and extrava gant use of paper of all grades. Fewer rulings and more efficiency would help a lot. There Is one thing you've got to ad mit about the Kaiser's family; they are all great believers In the principle of "Safety First." MADE IN AMERICA MADE In America" will be a slogan and purchasing guide most faithfully followed In this country after the war. Whether tt Is a paper of pins, pen knife, silk hat or carton of sugar, the purchaser will look for the copyrighted trade mark or brand for identification. I.abel, sealed carton, stnmp or plate, or whatever may bo appropriately used to carry evidence of origina tion, will be used wherever possible. The bulk goods offered in the re tail store may or may not have been produced lu this country. The pack- SATURDAY EVENING, age is the only m*ai of labeling goods of tbla class, so that the pro ducer may be Identified. All manufacturers and produoers should be urged to label their goods In some unmistakable way so M to protect the Interests of American products against the advance In our midst of any German product, with its origination cleverly concealed or merely lacking any evidence of Ger man Identification. Labeled or de clared goods will be In demand as never before. The unnamed or un identified goods will be looked on with suspicion and classed as doubt ful. "Prussian Guarda smashed by U. S. troops," says a headline. All Huns look alike to the Americans. A HOUSING ORDINANCE THE Telegraph publishes else where to-day the outline of a housing law that is to be made the basis of an ordinance to govern housing conditions in Harrisburg. Dr. Raunlck and City Solicitor Fox, with the advice of the State's hous ing expert, will undertake to make such changes In the State's model ordinance as will fit It to local con ditions. In doing so, they should be sure that they have the best possible regulative measures before sub- mitting it to council for action. A good ordinance would work a vast change for the better; a poor and Inadequate ordinance would be worse than none, for its enactment might easily block further considera tion of the subject without material ly Improving the situation. The officers may expect to hear ob jections. There will be property owners who will try to convince them that the regulations proposed are too stringent. As Dr. R&unick Bays, the Immediate and vital need Is for legal power In the hands of the Health Department to force careless landlords or dirty tenants to clean up their premises. Of course, we need new houses; need them badly, but a thorough renovation of all the dwellings In Harrisburg that are not now fit for human habitation woul4 go a very long way toward remedy ing a situation that is fraught with peril for us as a community and Is bound to become worse unless some legal restrictions are placed upon both owner and renter. A few old buildings may have to give way as a result of the proposed new law, but if they are beyond re pair their loss to the owners would bo small and the whole city would be the better for their removal. Houses that have outlived their usefulness are breeders of crime and disease. They make possible the growth of the slum In cities the size of Harris burg, and every such building even tually becomes the center of a group of its kind until whole districts are affected by the deadly virus and Blnk from respectability into the depths of shabbiness and fifth, which rob the dwellers there in turn of their own prkde and self-respect. That Is the worst feature, perhaps, of the many which are associated with the run-down house. To prevent one residence from be coming down-at-tho-heel or to keep It from going unrepaired bo long that it becomes a menace to Its occupants and to its neighborhood is to halt the encroachment of the slum before it gets started. Regulations of this kind are pro posed in the housing ordinance now under consideration. Council no doubt will accept the recommenda tions of the experts interested, per haps with some trifling changes, but if the committee of three now at work on the measure gives us regula tions that meet with the approval of housing experts, the men who make up the city legislative body will do well to turn deaf ears on the pleas of purely selfish persons whose in dividual interests may be affected. In the end good houses will pay for themselves and owners who believe there is more money in letting dwell ings go to pieces than In keeping them in good repair will learn their mistake. After a good housing ordi nance is put into operation even those who may stand in its way at this time will become its most hearty supporters. Berlin may break with Ukraine, says a dispatch. Very likely, and then we're going to break Berlin. THE SEMAPHORES THE Klwanls Club, in offering to purchase semaphores for the guidance of vehicular and pe destrian street traffic in the con gested districts of Harrlsburg has performed & very distinct service which council should not be slow to accept The opinion of the Klwanls Club that these semaphores will go & long way toward* making the streets safe is shared by a very large number of Harrlsburgers, no matter what certain police officers may think about it. The Klwanis Club is composed of businessmen of standing in the community, and in making this offer the members arq prompted only by a desire to serve the city. It is to be hoped that the proffer will not be permitted to go begging. Semaphores marked "Go" and "Stop" In letters that may he rul > , a black away are the signposts that guide hundreds of thousand* of peo ple- In cities all over the land where trafflo problems are much greater than they are here. There la no lea son why they cannot be used as sat isfactorily In Harrlßburg, The club has undertaken a good work and It will have the support of the public in what it is endeavoring to do. "Politica IK By the Ex-Commlttenuui Present plans are for the quarters of the Republican state committee In Philadelphia to be re opened in September, when the cam paign will start The Democratic campaign started the Instant Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell was nominated for governor against the wishes of the Democratic machine and there will be two Democratic headquarters in full swing as the windmill here Is running already and Judge Bonnl well will form his own committee. E. J. Pithian, the cold water candi date for governor, has begun his tour of the state by truck and the state headquarters here is very busy Is suing trumpet calls. It may only be the beginning of August but state politics is under way. —W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Republican state committee, who was in Philadelphia yesterday, t>aid the headquarters of the state com mittee will be opened in the first week In September and that mean while correspondence will be carried on with the various county chair men relative to the perfection of the local organizations and to sugges tions for meetings to be held when the campaign gets well under way. There will be no formal program mapped out for meetings to be held under auspices of the state commit tee until September,when an itiner ary will be arranged for the vistts of the candidates on the state ticket to different localities. —Senator Sproul has accepted an invitation to make an address at a meeting of Western Pennsylvania firemen at Myersdale, Somerset county, on Wednesday, and he Is also booked to speak at a meeting of poultrymen at Morton, Delaware county, next Thursday. Monday he will be in Lancaster with Senator Beidleman. —According to a study of the lists of members of the various boards having to do with the administration of the draft in Pennsylvania one can didate for Congress and seven nomi nees for the lower house of the leg islature are members of district or local boards. In addition one 's a state factory inspector and others are connected with the city govern ment in Philadelphia. There is noth ing in the law forbidding men who are candidates from serving as mem bers of draft boards, but the discov ery that there were nine candidates caused some comment here when it was made this week. Milton W. Shreve, of Erie, a member of the dis trict appeal board for the northwest ern part of the state, is a candidate for Congress and by an odd coinci dence, the man whom he defeated for the nomination, James M. Dick ey, was a member of a local board in Erie, but resigned before the pri mary. James E. Norton, candidate for the Legislature in Reading. Is a member of one of the eastern Penn sylvania district appeal boards, while the following candidates for assem bly are members of local boards: Dr. H. W. Day. Westmoreland, No. 8; Dr. Charles H. Clifford, Allegheny, No. 11; W. L. Metzenbacher, Craw ford county; J. T. Evans, Lancaster county No. 2; F. A. Bell, Altoona No. 2; H. A. Fricke, Philadelphia No. 45, while S. Ephraim, appeal agent for Philadelphia No. 36, Is also a legislative candidate. —Terms of twelve Common Pleas judges and two Orphans Court judges will expire early in 1920 and from what has been heard here there are already numerous booms for seats on the bench to be launched early in the coming year. The names of some of the judges whose terms "nd with the coming year have been heard possible candidates for Su preme Court this year or in 1920 when a successor to Chief Justice J. Hay Brown will be chosen. —The Common Pleas judges whose terms expire with the coming year are: John C. Haymaker, John A. Evans and Henry G. Wasson, the latter a gubernatorial appointee, Al legheny; Gustave A. Endlich and George W. Wagner, Berks; Charles I. Landis, Lancaster; John M. Gar man, Luzerne; James J. Neill, Lacka wanna; James I. Brownson, Wash ington, appointed this year.; Sam uel E. Shull, Monroe-Pike district, appointed thiri vear: Jeremiah N. Keller. Perry-Juniata district, ap pointed this year. —There will also be a successor elected to succeed the late L. W. Doty in Westmoreland county, where an appointment is expected soon. —The Orphans Court judges whose terms will end early in 1920 are Mac Henry Wilhelm, Schuylkill, and George Henderson, Philadelphia, the latter an appointee this yeaV. —The time for filing nomination papers for the Supreme Court vacan cies to be filled in November of this year expires in a little over five weeks. About a dozen sets of pa pers have been taken out. —Senator William C. Sproul, tho gubernatorial nominee who passed through here to-day on his way to Shade Gap, where he spoke this aft ernoon with Senator Beidleman and Auditor General Snyder, is Just home from a vacation spent at Hot Springs. He is in prime condition and warmly greeted friends. —Wilkes-Barre people say that the only way to thoroughly try out the police graft is for the matter to go to court The charges being made now are denied and explained and then reiterated. —Congressman B. K. Pocht, of Lewlsburg, opened his campaign for re-election at the Shape Gap meet ing to-day. He was given a notable reception by the people of that dis trict. —William A. Gray, chief of coun sel for the defense in the Fifth ward cases, is indignant at the newspa pers. He railed at them in court yes terday. according to the Public Ledgef, but does not seem to have gotten very far. —Word was received yesterday from Senator William E. Crow, chairman of the State Committee, who was operated upon last week for appendicitis, and who is in the hospital at his home In Uniontown, that he is steadily improving. y Fine Chance These are Kreat days for the ulti mate consumer. He Is being pro tected against extortion on the one hand and against his own appetites on the other.—From the Chicago New* HARRISMJRG TISSFUTE, TELEGRAPH THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST . ... ..... By BRIGGS ^ Y — WAM ▼ IVOUTHT \ <SO"*" TB~\ f% , T*TOG><3MF~~) • **** \ \ To P *'* JT You 4A.0- ) TVT4 ) W ®"7*V / UJC M. MAUE A I 1 MV COL*' B<\LLS V. •SAID I I TOU SAO COOD T>~, C TOOAV I UWLT I R H IW X —. / JV" A. , / BUL' OLD <S.OC- / I OF IT R / S_ 1 1 C V / VBU F ' TMOO€.MT I GOLTV- LUC GOT )/| TMOOSHT I T H£ FIR3T HUJCRSD I /-V "" I TNEVSE SOCF ) V OLD WHIP ( V6O SAID- V 5" M ARC TW Y F H'LO \ V TR005605 PT>R I Y ' I'LL LI J \ M 6 9 , TOC, \ BET I COOLO I I !R ?~"T SETO'O 1 -** HAVRE PUT P JL G J HOUR BY HOUR One single day Is not so much to look upon. There is somo way Of passing hours of such a limit. We can face A single day; but place Too many years before sad eyes— Too many days for smothered sighs And we lose heart Just at the start. Years really are not long, nor lives— The longest that survives—- And yet, to look across A future we must tread, bowed by a sense of loss, Bearing some burden, weighing down so low That we can scarcely go One step ahead, this is so hard A view so stern to face; unstarred Untouched by light, so masked with I dread If we would take a step ahead, I Be brave and keep The feet quite steady, feel the breath 1 of life sweep Ever on our face again. We must not look across, looking in! vain. But downward to the next close step, i And up. Eyes which have wept Must look a little way, not far. God broke our years to hours and; days That hour by hour And day by day Just going on a little way, We might be able all along To keep quite strong. Should al! the weight of life Be laid across our shoulder, and the future rife With woe and struggle, meet us face to face At just one place, We could not go; Our feet would stop; and so God lays a little.on us every day. And never, I believe, on all the wayi Will burdans bear so deep, Or pathways lie so threatening and so steep, But we can go, if by God's power We only bear the burden of the hour. GEORGE KLINGLE. OWN YOUR OWN HOME [From the Real Estate Journal.] A noted sociologist has said, "Give every family a home, with lawn and flowers and trees In front and a garden in the rear, and crime will disappear in two generations." Dark, crowded and insanitary housing conditions are among the most prolific sources and causes of immorality and crime, and consti tute a most serious menace to so ciety. In every crowded city it will lie found that the dark, unsightly, illy-ventilated, repellant conditions ot tenement-house life drive the boys of families thus housed to the saloon and the gambling den, and the girls to the public dancehall and the wineroom for amusement and recreation; and the rest of the road to immorality and crime Is a short path which is too often quickly trav eled. Unfit housing conditions quickly undermine the physical fitness of a people. The plan on which our Army has been selected was In fact making an Inventory an<l appraise ment of the value of the physical of our young men, as a national asset. In many communities the result was disheartening. . One of the of ilcers after some weeks' service in examining the selected soldiers In New' York, and appalled by the high ratio that had to be rejected, said: "These men are round-shouldered, flat-chested, flat-footed, slab-sided and suffering from hernia, weak lungs, kidney trouble, defective hearts and a dozen other maladies tliat are the result of wrong living. "If the nation wishes healthy, up standing citizens to fight its battles, let it produce such citizens; but if It denies millions of poor children pure air, proper food, decent home surroundings, everything that chil dren ought to have, It must expect .lust such a harvest of defective hu manity as we are now reaping." The slogan, "Own Your Home" is a rallying cry calling for a reform of all these great •vile, and should rouse every loyal citizen to the need for vigorous co-operation to aid In the work of making the movement a success. >1 Continuous Celebration (From the Chicago News) There are, at this writing, twenty four ot us Allied nations, and this column looks forward with Joy to the future celebration of .all na tional holidays. Wo flguro about three hundred holidays, not courit lng Sundays. The Lord's Promise Turn ye unto me, salth the Lord of hosts, and I will turn unto you.— Zech&rlah, i, I, Germans in Spain Angry at Tirpitz WRITING from Madrid on' June] 1 to Die Freie Zeitung, the' semlweekly paper published; In Berne by German political refu gees, Hans August Bailthoff, a Ger-j man engineer, formerly employed in; Sao Paulo, Brazil, complains bitterly of the hardships to which he and : many of his fellow Germans making, a forced sojourn in Spain are being subjected because of the hatred to-> ward everything German created all; over the world by the ruthless war-; fare carried on by the German Army; and N|tvy. Herr Balthoff begins by! saying: "Here we have sat for nearly four | years now—the one of two hundred j thousand, or perhaps more, Germans! who have been driven by this un-1 happy war to Spain from all parts of i the world. We sit here as if we were In a mousetrap, for although our movements are unrestricted, we! are nevertheless chained to this country until the still undiscernible end of tho war. Thousands and thousands of us, most of us with wives and children, are leading a ; life of misery and privation here and i think with pensive melancholy of the! countries that afforded us employ-1 ment, an assured existence, eveni prosperity and wealth, and had be-| come our second home, and which: we will hardly see again. Of course. I there is no lack of relief work and! the furnishing of shelter and em-! ployment to the many Germans whoi ■have sought refuge here, but the i great majority of the refugees are| sunk in the mire of a desolate, hope-' less existence, plagued by sad' thoughts and serious anxiety for thei future. "For our 'victorious' Fatherland has, with its ruthless methods of warfare, caused all ,the civilized na-j tlons of the world, both great and' small, to come out more or less open-! ly against the German people. Al-! though there are still a few neutral' governments, there rules, neverthc-j less, In the case of the majori ?.s of their peoples, wrath and bitterness! over the misdeeds of German mili tarism find the horror of the 'unro- j strlcted"" submarine" warfare. Heri von Tirpitz and his fellows—better! named his accomplices—are follow-1 Red Cross Official A correspondent In Norton, Va., reports a current rumor that "only ten per cent, of the money collected by the Red Cross goes to the relief and benefit of the persons for whom subscriptions are taken." The credit so often given to such charges agajnst tho Red Cross is probably due to the general ignor ance of the way in which the organi zation is managed. It is taken for granted that because subscriptions to the society are voluntary that it Is a pri%'ate charitable association. That is not the case. The Red Cross 'is the Govern ment's agency for war relief. Presi dent Wilson is its president. The Secretary of the Treasury is the treasurer of its war relief fund. Among its officers are the Secretary of State the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, the Comptroller of tho Cur rency and the Solicitor General of the United States. Moreover, it reports to Congress, and its accounts are audited by the War Department. It would bo as impossible for the Red Cross to misuse the jnoney it collects as It would bo for the War Department itself to devote oftly "ten per cent." of its funds "for the relief and benefit" of the Army. All these stories of waste and extrava gance !n the management of the Red Cross are pro-German slanders de signed to discourage loyal citizens in supporting a necessary war work.— From the Committee on Public In formation. A Silent Joker Wandering over a field one day, a man came across a large stone In scribed: "Turn me over." After much difficulty he succeed ed In turning It over and found on the under side of the stone the words: "Now turn me back again, so I can catch some other idiot."— From the Pittsburgh* Chronicle- Telegraph. In the Bush League The Hartford Courant voices a gentle protest at beini? addressed in two letters from the Department of Agriculture as the Hartford Cur rant. Probably the department has long been recommending it as among the hardiest of its species.—From the New York Evening Post, I lng the best road to alienate and de j stroy the last sympathies for the . German people that may still exist I some place in the world.", ! The writer than gives an account of the holding up some six weeks before of a Spanish steamer by a German submarine, which compelled H military mission from Uruguay bound for France to board the Ü boat, and only put Its members aboard a neutral ship en route for a Spanish port after having extorted a promise from them not to visit the French front, which promise was af terward annulled by the German government under pressure from Uruguay, and continues: "But here In Madrid, where the j mission from Uruguay is still stopp ing, the nffair is the leading topic of conversation, also in German cir cles. If the German Embassy were to transmit to Berlin all the 'compli ments' that t*e Germans in Madrid would like to send to Herr von Tir pitz and his fellows, Prince Ratibor. the always 'intoxicated' with victory ambassador, would be called home i at once. ! "Furthermore, our diplomatic rep- I resentatives In Madrid don't earn | any compliments from the military lof the Germans living In Spain. Hi 3 , Highness Ratibor and his worship -1 ful spouse only swarm about the Austrian star of the Court, the Queen Mother, something which, in view of j the pro-Entente sentiments of the king and his wife, often occasions ; quite unpleasant discords. A particu lar disgrace for us Germans in Spain was th<? involuntary departure of the German naval nttache. Captain von ! Konlg, which occurred under the unfortunate circumstances general ly known, his passage through France having been,'you might say, obtained by begging. | "In conclusion, let me say that Die I Freie Zeltung Is, as you are In a posi ; tion to know, constantly being read j by more Germans here and in Rar | celonia. We Germans abroad believe ; with you that Germany will only re gain the. sympathies of the world when it frees itself from the clutch es of its wild militarism and returns I to pure democracy and respect for i international law." GOVERNMENT WIRES [New York Sun.] Since midnight the United States Government has been managing the telephone and telegraph lines of the country with the Postmaster Gen eral, Mr. Burleson, p.a its active agent. President Theodore N. aVi> of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, who has con ferred with Mr. Burleson at length concerning this new application of Federal authority, is satisfied that Mr. Burleson Intends "to maintain the wire service at the highest pos sible efficiency, conserve and pro tect the property that It may be re turned to the owners in as good con dition aa received, and to pay a compensation that will be Just and fair." Mr. Vail knows more about the wire communication system of the country than anybody else; he would rot use the words "highest possible efficiency" loosely; and his optimism should comfort a_ll those who have dreaded the intrusion of politics in an industry that has been notably efficient in tho past. Mr. Burleson receives from the officers of the telephone company one of the most, if not the most, skilfully organized Industries In the world. Nowhere outside of the United States has the telephone in dustry been developed as it has been here. In no other country is the use of the telephone as common; in no other country is the service as good as it is here. Every American returning from abroad to his home has rejoiced on being able to make use of the superior fr#l lilies pro vided by the telephone companies here, after his patience has been wo r nthin by foreign system. The telephone service , in the United States has been a £rlumph of Initia tive, Intelligent direction and public spirit. The telegraph companies, in a different field, have also provided a good service. If their success In winning public approval has not been as conspicuous as that of hte telephone corporations, they have certainly shone by comparison with the Post Office. Should Mr. Burle son be able to keep all the services up to th estandard they have set for Lhemselves he will not be assailed. Mr. Burleson will not be able to do this if the methods of accounting l In force In the Post Office Depart ment are Introduced Into the offices of the telephone and telegraph com panies. AUGUST 3, 1918. T*> ' Mr. Lenine Laments In ordinary times the loquacious Mr. Trotzky Is entrusted with the not uncongenial task of doing the talking for the proletariat revolution now in operation In Russia. But there are periods of stress when the Veiled Prophet, Lenine himself, must come out and rfeassure his wor ried devotees. Such times are these, and such words of assurance were those which he gave to the Govern ment Conference of Factory Com mittees at Moscow. "It was easy for Russia to begin a revolution," he told the committeemen, "but ex traordinarily difficult to continue and conclude It." Any German bat tery commander can knock down a Gothis cathedral, but to put up some thing of equal merit in its place Is a difficult task. And, while the old Russian edifice was no masterpiece, there is little admiration in the tem porary shelter which Lenine has knocked together over Its ruins.— N. Y. Times. Encouragement Dey so many folks 'magin' dey's all in wen all dey needs is a li'l 'couragement. Mah folks turnt a ole mule loose in de wood lot t' dle> en she got'n a hawnet's nes' 'en to' down fo' panels o' fence! —From the Louisville Courier-Journal. OUR DAILY LAUGH NOT IDENTIFIED. Teacher—When did Horatlus hold the bridge? Pupil—Nobody of that name has given any bridge parties In our neighborhood for fCVer&l yeara. HIS WISH. Bore—TVmo Is money. Troubled Man—Yes, and 1 w:sl go somewhere else to spent yourc. SYMPATHY. "Do you believe marriage brings lympethy?" "Most assurodly. X believe evory woman feels sorry for some other woman's husband." is DIFFERENT. •'l'd ask you to dance only you old me you were tired." "But i'm not to* U*9& to <Uao*>' Qtyat Men who have been going through. Harrisburg on the truck train* of the army the last two or three week* are giving this section of the Btate a fine name In eastern towns and cltlea where they stop and the reason Is they are being' extended welcomes and the best that the land affords. Probably a thousand trucks have* passed through Harrisburg the last month or so, virtually every one of them being on its way right to tho dock to be "loaded on transports tor France. The truck companies ar®" trained at camps and sent to the factories where they are given their vehicles and started on the way. Of late truck companies have been go ing into camp for the night at Camj* Hill or near Hummelstown, but a number have taken to the clrcu* grounds at Twenty-first and Derry streets, where they have bivouaced to the joy of the kids of the East End. These men have made them selves at home and have been given, many an addition to their mess by tho hospltaJble people of that sec tion of the city, Vhile the members of the. Royal Fire Company have not only tendered them the use of bath rooms, but allowed their hose to wash down the trucks. However, it is of the farmers that the boys of the truck companies speak. They are strong for the farmers who have stood out on the roads as they went by and tossed them apples and peaches and other things. "Penn sylvania farmers are all right; 1 hope they make a lot of money. They're not stingy." said fine raw boned western soldier as he told of the way the men had been given things to eat while coming through the Cumberland and Juniata valleys. The bulk of the truck trains come up from the Lincoln highway at Cham bersburg or come down the William Penn byway of Lewistown and then move through Harrisburg byway of Reading and Easton to New York. They are keen about Harrlsfourg streets, but sore on the highways in some of its neighboring boroughs. * • • State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery, David E. Tracy and John Armstrong Herman have been appointed the committee in charge of the "nineteenth" at the Country v Club of Harrisburg. It should, bo understood that each hole on the golf course of the new establish ment of the club has a committee. Chairman "Sam" Todd, of the * grounds committee, decided recently to name men to look after each hole. In this way he sidetracked some of the kicks and at the same time gavo some of the observers and commen tators on the condition of the course something to think about, and per chance, to defend. Fuel Adminis trator Ross A. Hickok, Manager Frank A. Robbins, Jr., of the Beth lehem Steel; Frank Payne, Walter H. Gaither, Dr. William E. Wright, Frank M. Eastman, "Bofe" McCreath, John Hoffer, Jr., "Judge" Nauman, Food Administrator Donald McCor- > mick and lots of others have greens to fuss with. However, when the committee on the "nineteenth" was named they promptly held a meet ing and sent word that it was in bad condition, very dry. and woul% require at least SSOO to be put Into proper shape for a successful au tumn season. • • • "Joe" LeCompte, the assistant cashier of the State Treasury, who has been running the finances of the State, does not look like a man who hands out millions. The other day the man from Bradford sat down and figured up a few things. When he got through ho discovered that i he had signed checks calling for about $2,000,000. "Well, I'm glad it was the State's money. I'd have trouble getting enough to meet that call myself," said he. * ♦ • Building and loan associations of Pennsylvania are believed to hold nearly a million dollars' worth of liberty bonds, according to men at the State Capitol and they will be called upon to dispose of them un der the opinion of the attorney gen eral that such bonds are not a legal investment for such organization un der the statutes of this State. Re ports made by building and loan associations at the close of last year * showed over half a million dollars' worth of such bonds owned and a number of organizations, notably in Philadelphia, are said to have in vested funds in such securities since the first of the year. Associations will be notified of the attorney gen eral's decision. * * • Sportsmen who write letters to people at the Capitol declare this year should furnish a good second test for the game code of 1917 and there have been few objections made to it. Some men in the northern * part of the State are not disposed to speak kindly about arrangement of seasons owing to the difterence between the climatic conditions of • Potter, for instance, and the Bed ford district, but the balance seems to be fair in the eyes of people here and the fact that the bird season is over before the deer hunters get into the woods is important. • * • In the story of the battling on the Marne by the 110 th regiment In which the men who went out as members of the famous "Fighting Tenth Pennsylvania" are numbered, occur the names of men well known * to residents of Dauphin county. Ma jor Joseph H. Thompson Is none other than ex-Senator "Joe" Thomp son, who has many friends here, while Major Thomas Anderson, Latrobe, Is known to many former t Guardsmen. Lieutenant Marshall Barron, who captured sixty-seven prisoners, is Barron the old football olayer who fought Steelton's elev en some-years ago on the gridiron. Sergeant Blake Leighton, of Al toonn, Is a well-known young man In the Mountain City. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Paul H. Krauss, a chaplain In the army, and lately at Pitts- * burgh, has been chosen as pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, Allen town. —Col. Herbert R. Laird, a member * of the Governor's staff, has been appointed to take charge of all dem onstrations to be held In Williams port- for drafted men. —Ernest T. Trigg, president of the Philadelphia Chahiber of Com merce, was chosen as president of the National Association of Build ers. DO YOU KNOW [ f —That one hundred years ago a dozen toll roads converged on Hnrrlflhnrg? There are none near the city now. HISTORIC HARRISBURG Creation of the river front &a a park and for wharflng was one of the first ideas of John Harriji In lay- * ing out tb town.
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