6 •ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER. BuMnest Manager ODS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEJfER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCCLLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. K. 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 publlßhed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American 'J Newspaper Pub te tion, the Audit V*/ Bureau of Circu- Istion and^Penn ggjj §3 jJ3| nj Eastern office, Sfi9 5 £55 $3 Pinley. Fifth I I- jf Avenue Building ►JffILSSES IS New York City; IfmjgKSESsaß Western office, -Mf Story. Brooks & >S3B|iiEWrK Finley, People's CZ s Building, Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents n *''> week; by mail. J5.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1918 Shines the last age, the next icltfc hope is seen. To-day slinks off unmarked between Future or past no richer secret holds, O friendless Present! than thy bosom folds. —Emekson. OLD-TDIE •'MUSTER DAT' THE people of upper Dauphin county, who have been right up to the mark in every line of patriotic effort from sending first class soldiers to subscrib ing for Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps, furnished the rest of the county, Harrisburg included, with an example of practical work ' for the nation on Saturday at Eliza bcthville. Responding to the call of Provost Marshal Crowder to see that the men within the draft age receive instruction in what the war is about I and how to fight it, the energetic people of half a dozen communities revived old-fashioned "Muster Day" and Elizabethville, the headquarters of Dauphin Draft Board. No. 3, and ' a center of war activity, had the honor of being chosen as the place for the demonstration. And splen- | didly did the people of that progres sive borough do their part. Under the orders of the board of \ instrucflon, which was named consid- . erably before some city boards throughout the State got into action, men of draft age from Lykens, Wil liamstown, Wiconlsco and Gratz and j the adjoining countryside to the east; from Millersburg, Halifax, | Paxton and other towns along the I Susquehanna and from the villages' to the north as far as the Mahan- j tongo were mobilized in Elizabeth-j ville Saturday morning. It was a j pretty husky bunch, it may be said. But it was not the appearance of these young men in response to the call that stands out. It was the way everyone in that section took part. The whole district seemed to have come around. Patriotic addresses, community singing and prayers car ried home the lesson of the hour to the young men and then they were ' given rudimentary instruction in military matters with the band play- i 1 Ing and the folks all looking on. : Seventy years ago patriotism nnd ' readiness to spring to arms for the I cation were kept steaming by "Mus- 1 tei Day" throughout the country. The rapid formation of regiment; after regiment and the respouse of young men for war duty in the Civil 1 War demonstrated the value of these | i periodical assemblages for military, 1 instruction. And now, without know- | lng it, we have come around to the 1 same thing and the people of the 1 ' upper end of the county have given \ ' the rest of us something to think 1 about. WHERE THE MONEY GOES THE Y. M. C. A. Will ask for nearly three times as much money for war work purposes the coming year as it found need for during the,twelve months which will come to an end in November. There Is reason for this —the Army will be three times the size It was a year ago, and It costs more to operate overseas, where the men are quartered In small detachments, than in the large camps in this country. Many T. M. C. A. huts ere required in France to perform the service of ono in America. Then, too, the French and English must be cared for when they come to the huts as well as our own boys, and the Italian high command has Just asked for T. M. C. A. workers for the Italian army, asserting that jhus only can the high morale of the troops be maintained. This is a high compliment to the American y. M. C, A.; also, it adds heavily to iU> already weighty load. The Standard Oil Company is a •mall business organization as com pared with the Y. M. C. A. overseas. The Literary Digest quotes some ln fforce ting phases ot the work, as out by. £. Jobs ft. Me u, MONDAY EVENING, r the general secretary, at the annual [ meeting of the National War Work , Council In New York, showing In the following details the immensity of the operations of the association In * its war activities: From May 1. 1917, to March 81, 1918, the Y. M. C. A. distributed > among the American Expedition ary Forces . 115,135,500 cigarets, 9,913,000 cigars. 2.040,000 pack ages of chewing gum and SO.- 000.000 cans of preserved fruit. In addition to these, the Y. M. C. A. had shipped thousands of tons of biscuits, cocoa, coffee, flour, cough drops, chocolate, suaar. jam. etc. Athletic goods by the ton were sent over; also 1.000.000 feet of motion picture film with project ing machines. up to March 31 this year, th% Y. M. C. A. had sent 8,138 men and 102 women overseas for work in the war zone. as well as appointing 2.959 secretaries to home cantonments and camps. To 1 house this force. 538 huts were built in training camps in this country at a cost of J5.914.481.75, with an operating expense of $4,- $333,385.67. In the war zone 505 centers had been built or leased outside of Paris, while twelve buildings were used In the French capital. The T. M. C. A will ask for a huge sum of money to provide for the little comforts and luxuries that mean so much to the soldier. But if we all give as we should there will be no trouble In raising It. If any one of us saw a soldier thirsty, we would spend our lasrt nickel to buy him a soda. If we saw him hungry, we would spend our last cent to satisfy him. If we found him tired, we would seek rest and recreation for him. Well, there are hundreds of thousands of thirsty, hungry, tired soldiers in France. We must send them tha share of our own soda, smoke, candy and movie money we would be happy to give them were they right here in Harrisburg. The "Y" workers must be our agents. SOISSONS FINALLY FALLS THE Associated Press on Sat urday announced the fall of Solssons. Sensational newspapers served by less accurate news associations an nounced the capture of Solssons, to gether with 30,000 troops, the even ing of the second day of the big allied drive. There is this difference between the Associated Press and some other news gathering organizations, that the Associated Press never exagger ates, never anticipates the fact, never reports rumor for truth, never "take a chance," but Is always prompt with the news when it really is news. Telegraph readers get the full As sociated Press reports every even ing, supplemented by the dispatches of reliable correspondents with the American armies. WAGES AND CARFARE THE War Labor Board has , reached the conclusion that street railway employes are en titled to higher pay in many cities and there Is little worthy of comment . in merely that, for the tendency of t wages is upward in all lines of work, i But that the Board should have ex- ' pressed the opinion that to pay more wages the companies must have more ] money is remarkable, indeed. The ' general tendency of government reg- \ uiation has been to regulate pay up ward and receipts downward. The public objects strenuously to any interference with Its nickel car fare and an advance to six or seven cents would work a hardship on many. But the public wants the rao tormen well paid and, the War Board says, the companies must meet the increased wage scales by , collecting more money. There is but one way to do this—charge six cents for a ride, instead of five, as at pres ent The government is forcing wages up, the employes are getting the benefit and the public, as usual, pays the freight. THE FIRST LAW ABOUT the first thing that the Pennsylvania Legislature of 1919 should do after getting down to business, ought to be to pass a law permitting any concern oper ating under a State charter to Invest its cash In Liberty Bonds. It Is re grettable that we have to wait so ' long as January to have this done. When the General Assembly , passed a series of bills last year facilitating investments in Liberty ■ Bonds it was thought that building , and loan associations were given (ull i powers. But Attorney General Brown, after a of the statutes, finds that the peculiar organization , of the building and loan association i does not bring it within the statutes 1 enacted to aid in absorption of the national securities. With manifest ■ reluctance, the chief law officer rules I that they may not buy such bonds. Some associations have bbught war bonds and maybe they will not be sued If they hang on to them. Ami ; no one would object very much If they continued to buy them. The , defect of the statute is so apparent an oversight in drafting that there is no need for excitement. But there should be no time lost in correcting it after January. PAINFULLY DRY THE editor of the Duluth News Tribune places to the credit of "4ry humor" President Wilson's "politics Is adjourned" pronuncla mento. That Is certainly a very charitable view of the President's perplexing political peregrinations. The scribe who holds sway In the sanctum of the News Tribune Is cer tainly an optimist—we had almo6t said a hopeless optimist. Perhaps It Is an entire absence of suspicion of the motives of his fellow men that induces in him the belief that what most people look upon as carefully planned, partisan, political manipu lation. is merely humor. But what ever the explanation, our contem porary in the town that made Proc tot Kaou, tamou* em be acquitted of any Intention to ascribe to the President motives that would be In consistent with the <Jlgnlty of that high office especially In time of war. How fine It would be If we could all attribute the President's multi tudinous political moves to a desire to entertain his fellow citizens by a display of humor, dry or otherwise. How much more respect we should have for the office, and how much more confidence In the occupant. If we could feel that It was mere hu mor and not glaring Inconsistency that prompted him to say that "poli tics Is adjourned." at the same time that he was scheming to control Senatorial elections In behalj of hip own party or his political supporters In other parties. We wish we could look upon it as humor only, but It Is too serious to be so regarded when the prestige of the highest office In the land is used to put the brand of disloyalty on as tried and true a man as Irvine Lenroot, and to save the falling political fortunes of a man like James Hamilton Lewis. CK fcKK^IcCLIUXI By the Ex-Committee-man The enthusiastic welcome extend ed to Senator William C. Sproul and Senator E. E .Beidleman and their party at Shade Gap, in Huntingdon county on Saturday seems to have stirred up the Democrats because It is now announced that this week Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, the candidate nominated for Governor over the wishes of the Democratic state machine bosses, will work out his campaign plans and the plat form committee of the Democracy will have a star chamber session. Incidentally, there has been a re vival of interest In the Supreme Court election due to a vigorous boom launched for Henry Budd, of Philadelphia, one of the old time Democrats. The Philadelphia Record is close to Judge Bonniwell and It is regarded as very significant that it is boosting the eminent Philadelphia lawyer instead of backing Justice Edward J. Fox, the Easton Democrat named by Governor Brumbaugh aft er National Chairman Vance C. M&- Cormlck and National Committee man A. Mitchell Palmer had looked pleasant. —The Budd boom was launched by a committee of prominent law yers, among whom Is B. Gordon Bromley, former city chairman of Philadelphia, and others who sup ported Mr. Budd when he ran against Palmer for the empty honor of the United States Senatorial nom ination. The Record says: "Up tq the present the Democrats who are believed willing to become candidates are Mr. Budd, Justice Fox. Charles B. Lenahan, of Luzerne; A. T. Dively, of Blair, and Public Service Commis sioner Michael J. Ryan, of this city. Mr. Ryan has not announced his candidacy, but It is said by his friends that he is in a receptive mood if he should be placed in the field. Leaders who have at heart the interests of the Democratic party in the state believe that there should be only one candidate Jjlir the Su preme Court bench this year. Should this condition be brought about, the defeat of either Judge Kephart or Justice Simpson would be a cer tainty. It is declared that strenuous efforts will be made later In the cam paign to determine the identity of the strongest Democratic candidate and have him be the sole nominee against the two Republicans." —Members of the usual disgrun tled element among Republicans of Montgomery county are busy circu lating reports that there is an or ganization contemplated to oppose the successful candidates on the Re publican ticket at the recent primar ies and that an attempt will be made to bring about unison with Democrats with the hope of insur ing their defeat, says the" Philadel phia Inquirer. —There does not appear, however, to be any likelihood of this scheme being successful. Shortly after his defeat by James Boyd, of Norris town, for the Republican state sena torial nomination. Insurance Com missioner Charles A. Ambler, of Am bier, announced that he accepted of the majority and that he woffld support Mr. Boyd for elec tion in the fall. Mr. Ambler won the nomination of the Washington party, but he is expected to file an affidavit of withdrawal before the, ballots shall be printed. -—Johnstown's chief of police, M. W. Swabb, has made a sugges tion which amounts to municipal drafting of citizens for police duty when city authorities are unable to get officers. Johnstown, which is a sttel city, is having the same trouble as Harrisburg and other places with industrial establishments because police force Jobs are not in it with places in mills in these days. He urges a law under which cities and other municipalities could retain the normal quota of officers during tha war times by induction of suitable men and declared that if conditions similar to those in Johnstown exist elsewhere the Legislature should be called in extra session and statutes provided. That city has had a short age oft policemen for months. In spite of the fact that council has granted substantial Increases of sal aries, there are few applicants for places on the force and of the quota of 58, based upon population, only 46 men are now on the roster. As a consequence, parts of the city have little or no police protection, even at right. The situation Is serious, Chief Swabb declares, and something must be done. The city's right to commandeer citizens for police duty, under Its charter, is insufficient —Ex-Senator S. P. White, of Bea ver, well known to many here and long active In the Legislature, is dead at the age of seventy-one. • He was a wealthy manufacturer. —Pittsburgh police have been or dered to salute the flag when carried In parades. —Westmoreland and Cambria county commissioners have con cluded that they must defer im provement of a pike Jointly owned as they can hardly get loans by bond issues at this time. —The Bonnlwell men will be very busy this week on their plans. When the Philadelphia Inquirer asked last night if he had heard from the chairman of the committee on reso lutions of the state committee. Judge Bonnlwell indicated by his manner rather than what he said that he did not give a rap what the chairman or his committee win do." —Mayor Smith is said to be both ered about development* in tM* Philadelphia Recreation Board tan gle. Several men are said to have refused to accept places as mem bf, i HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND ... FCJ MY / "BIRTHDAV /SJVJO X / REEU <^^?A7WO I SPACE f^l^OhJ'' T KVJOW"HOOU^ I MOME H FOR / FEU ARE SUT WJHAT- , V /\ AGED AWO / EV/6R , T , S . OT/ I K J A New World Is Born On the westorn front two lines are drawn Prom the Alps up to the sea; Two surging lines—great human walls, And the weight of carnage upon each falls, As upon other, equally. But are they equals? Who are they Were they not friends of yesterday? They are men in whom is best and worst, Who by their deeds are blest or curst. But can such men be best and blest? I say!—how can they stand the test? Who by their willful murder plots. And cruelly planned barrage. Have strewn their victims on the fields Like human camouflage. And surely they are not the worst. The Innocent —the strong— Who've taken arms against the brutes Who planned to do the wrong. Are they the worst who bind the wounds Of the broken and shell torn? Are they—the fatherless, motherless And homeless poor, forlorn. Are they the curst who've sacrificed To vengeance and rapine. All they were and loved and had And all they might have been? Who say you then are best and blest? Who are the worst and curst? 'Tis not for us to judge that way! There is best in all —and worst! For it's the right you think, And the wrong you don't And the good you do, And the evil you won't. That tells what's In a man: So you may do wrong If you judge' too strong. For the best may fall the lowest of all, If they fall as the villains plan. On the Western front, two world Ideals— An Old world and a New; But the "Old" must fall for the good of all. Then to arms! Let's see It through! Now listen, you men who've turned the clod For a competence of gold; Then finding it, lost fear of God, And to mankind have grown cold: For God has a way of His own to repay All the wrong that is done by man; So the "Old" must go, can we gain say That it falls far short'of His plan? Now unto us a World is born, It brings a meaning new; So If you love your fellow man Join the ranks! I%ls "up to you!" —Ray S. Brown, in The Rotarian. "Another Little War," Is It? (Philadelphia Inquirer) German newspapers are quoted as ridiculing the break of Honduras with Germany. "Another little war," they sneeringly remark. Doe* Germany never learn any thing? One by one nations have severed all relation* with her, even if they are in no position to fight. Why Is thl? AU the world save Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey knows why. The Prussian maniacs have appealed to the judg ment of the world and the verdict is overwhelmingly against them. Men In Insane asylums are apt to believe that they alone are sane. That's what'* the matter with Ger- England's Ap (Harold Begbie In the London Chronicle.) AMERICA Is sending to these islands almost two-thirds of our fool supply. Sixty-five per cent of the essential foodstuffs eaten by the British citizen comes to him from the American continent This in Itself is something which calls for our lively gratitude. But there is a quality In the ac tion of America which should inten sify our gratitude. For these Amer ican supplies, essential to our health and safety, represent in a very large measure the personal and voluntary self-sacrifice of the individual Amer ican citizen. They are not crumbs from the table of Dives. They are not the commandeered supplies of an autocratic government. They No Longer Village Pest [Kansas City Star.] Remember the village pest of other days that delivish Pick Smith, as freckled as a turkey egg, with his brickdust hair sprangllng every which-a-way, and his bare feet as warty as toads' backs; impu dent little cuss that used to raid your pet pear tree and sass you when you chided htm? Only kid in the old home town, you recollect, that had the nerve to graD up a snake by the tall and pop his head off. Somebody was forever aiming a brick at him. and usually missing him; and then he'd grin a lopsided grin, and go and do it again. Well, he is up to his old tricks yet. He is an aviator "over there,"' and is giving the Huns as much trouble as he used to give us here. We saw him the other evening in' a news reel at the Palace Theater, j There he stood, straight and stiff In j his uniform, and a fussy old French | general with whiskers pinned a War Cross on his chest and kissed htm on both cheeks. And when the general got through his spooning and went away Pick flipped his head around and winked right at us for a second and 1 cracked his queer twisted grin. L Tape, us folks that he used to pes-t ter so are mighty proud now of; Lieutenant Pickering Smith. LARGER TEAMS [From the Pennsylvania Farmer] j Almost every farmer can use; larger teams or more horses per man. In the fertile sections of southeastern Pennsylvania, where i the Pennsylvania Dutch know how: to do things, four, five and six or! even seven horses are commonly' used to haul heavy loads.. The sin gle line, a good lead horse, and a : man who knows how to drive such, a team are of course, essentials, and ' it is doubtful if this practice could! be followed to any extent where the single line., is not used. Three and four horses abreast, driven with check lines will, however, help cut considerably and will serve the same purpose. In preparing the seed bed on these! Pennsylvania' farm* It Is a very! common practice for one man to! handle two harrows, driving one! team ahead with a single line on the lead horse and leadinV the other team behind the first harrow, thus doing the work of two men. but with no greater effort than is required to drive the one team. This sounds strange to men who have not seen 1 or practiced it, and common to those; who have, It Is a great labor saver .J represent, rather, the kindly, diffi cult, and entirely willing self sacri fice of a whole nation, the vast ma jority of whom are working, people. There is only one altar for this act of sacrifice—it is the table of the American working classes. And the rite is performed by men. women and children, at every meal of the day, day after day, week after week. It should, be known out there, in the farmhouses and cottages of the American continent, that the people of this country, tightening their belts and confronting the future with an indestructible confidence, are mindful of America's self-sacrifice, and are grateful to her men and women and children for their self sacrifice—self-sacrifice which will save the world. Fourth Year of the War [New Tork Times] t "There is nothing more to be i dreaJed in war," said the late Colo , nel G. F. R. Henderson in one of his ' masterly essays, "than the combined s labors of a thoroughly well-trained . general start, except the intellect . audacity of a great strategist." However efficient the German Gen ' ™ stalt is in tli e present war, the Western Allies have in Ferdinand *°ch the great strategist. As the inth year of the conflict opens the enemy realizes as never before why J the intellect and audacity of the eminent Frenchman are to be dreaded Again, as in the first bat tle of the Marne, the Germans, baf fled and defeated, are falling hack upon the line Fismes-Rheims, p.nd again they are succumbing to the craft and energy of General Foeh. in the presence of the ablest strategist the war has produced the , Herman General Staff, still a model ! of organization, is at its wit's end to guess what disposition shall be made of its resources to second the mlnrf V tr " Ie v y of the ht * h com - ? 0W "J* 11 the initiative be wrested from General Foch? dhall an offensive be started in Flanders to halt his advance and divert him ; from an objective which has not (.been revealed? The problem is one ! for vs Ke I nl, ' s - for Bme one more I subtle than Ludendorff, or than all ; the adepts of the General Staff in I council. ; The fifth year of the war begins , with a fair prospect that the landing of British and American troops at I A ladivostok and on the Murman !l coast, to be followed in Siberia by ,1 Japanese disembarkations, will vally ■j patriotic Russians to Join with the J Alllrs and tho heroic Caeoho-Slovaks |in a campaign to redeem Russia r ! from the German oppression. Thore may even yet be a Russian front in Europe, for it would be taking coun sel with foolish optimism to exnect '| an early ending of the war. ij | German-Americans May Help il, When communications were open t four years ago, it would have been it easy for German-Americans to j reach tho minds of the Germans at i home. It may not be impossible ■ | r.cw. We hope at least they will II make the effort to ihow to their kin and friends in the old country that i, the crime* of their government have • estranged the sons of Germany in i ether lands, that the view of Ger i rnany's olood-guiltiness expressed by i tho / . 'U'nc is tho view that i has Imprefsed Itself upon the minds' i and hearts of the great mass of Ger >l man-Americans as the true view, J tho only one.—New Jork r rim> AUGUST 5, 1918 Foch's Triumph Complete • [New York Times] General Koch has practically dis posed of the Rheims-Soissonß sal ient, flattened it out, effaced it. In the form of a horseshoe It ran for eighty miles, little more than a fort night ago; at its furthest sweep al most reaching Conde, south of tho Murne. EDemay was in dauger, Verdun likSly to be cut oft. It was remarkaole how the Franco-Ameri can front held without breaking on the lonif exterior line. One cannot help thinking now that if General Foch had been operating on the in ner side of the salient German tac tics would not have availed agJl'nst him—he would have disrupted the enemy's front and poured his forces through. It was a supreme test of his geheralship when he turned im pending disaster into a signal suc cess that expanded with every day of fighting. He has taught .he enemy that when they have to deal with him a salient can be stretcned too far. General Foch more than any one else knows how great his debt to the Americans is for their obstinate stand at Chateau Thierry and tor the vigor and fierceness of their counterattacks. "Thou shalt not pass!" the watchword at Verdun, was adopted by the Americans. Con fident that they would hold that key position. General Foch could afford to risk an assault in force at the western side of the salient. Had it failed, the fifth phase of the great German offensive would obviously have been such a triumph as might not have stopped short of the gates ot Paris, and in all probability it would have isolated Verdun. * * * It was rot possible to draw fast the strings of the bag, but late dis patches report the Allies as having reached tho line of the Alsne and tho Vesle from Soissons to Fismes. A stand by the enemy on the Vesle cannot be of long duration, if it be attempted at all. On that part of the neck of the salient left to them towns are burning, and the signs are that a retreat to the Aisne, over ground fairly level and unforested, has been planned. It is to be noted, however, that the terrain lends it self to pursuit, and the enemy will be in difficulties while trying to reach the banks of the Aisne. "DRY" PENNSYLVANIA [From the Scranton Tribune] The Dry Federation of Pennsyl vania announces its belief that the coming session of the General As sembly will ratify the federal prohi bition amendment. Reason for this belief is given in the publication of the names of those who are de pended upon to vote "dry." The list includes two representatives from Cambria county, Mr. Home, of the city district, and Mr. Griffith, of the county district. The election of these candidates is regarded as a foregone conclusion. In the list Senator Tcmpkins is placed as likely to vote against ratification. The statement of the Dry Federa tion indidcates that the real battle for ratification will come in the State Senate. There is scarcely a doubt but that the House will favor rati fication. Tho Senate holdover "drys" are given as Vare. Eyre, Jones, Leiby, Graff, Weaver, Craig, Nason and Beales. The federation urges that pressure be brought on holdover senators to bring them into the "dry" fold. The battle promises to be most interesting, with party lines entirely demolished. EVEN AT THEIR BEST A 17-year-old Boston girl who Is described as a highly refined vision in three colors —blue overalls, golden hair and a complexion no palette ever held —is helping in war work by keeping a pig, which she washes every day. They are bad enough clean, she says.—From the Portland Press. OUR DAILY LAUGH JUMPING THEM. I'm kept on the Jump all tho time. Owe as many board bills as that? INSIDE IN- W\)(z£!Pv FORMATION. LVIiA Do you be- fc Heve marriages MlrJiy are made In gf^\ Probably. ■{] B Heaven only *— fPj knows why g___N L some are made. B 1 LIGHT V*Qg WEIGHT. Hk w^y you "P® aJ ■A MTOB so slightingly o: ■H jl mfWSm George. I thlnl H > he's pretty wel l: 1 Inf Posted, hi hel 111 iKH-fS Well, ru bet h< tfiy KOes M ' ourtt ■lf ii _Mt class swatter. OBLIGING. P Did you ask I, / < ! Miss Brown to j j j ji Yes, and she ij' AS M| / refused. Good. She ?*, leemi to be get- j / ting more oblig- / / k lag every day. ' ' §NATURAi RESULT. I understand Brown doesn't stammer so much since he got married. Of course not and he get* fewer chances to talk than h* lEumttg (Mjat People who start out from Harria burg on automobile rides or runs or trips, as the case may be, on market mornings can not help but be im- > pressed with the few number of horses seen on the roads. This sec tion of the lower Susquehanna val ley has long been noted as one of tho most progressive from an agrlcul i tural standpoint and its horses havo I averaged well with Uiose of other ' j sections and in many instances been • superior. Thanks to efTorts made some twenty years ago attention has been given hereabouts to breeding of good farm work horses and Dauphin county mules , have been good ones. It is not so many years ago that the roads leading to Harrisburg used to be filled with processions of farm wasons coming to the city for mar ket twice a week, some coming la eerly on the night before. Now the horse-drawn farm wagon is much reduced in numbers and the aufo , mobile seems to have been crowding it clear to the side of the road The ' Saturday afternoon buggy riding In the country is now automobile rid ing. The horse, if there is one, la either working or out in a field, al though just at present the chances are rather in favor of pulling a cul tivator or plow. One man who has attended Verbeke street market for >ears and who runs an auto market wagon, said that if automobile prices u I°' too as ' there would bl, y ln £ by farmers as soon as they got their harvest money this month and that a team of horses was as valuable as a car and cost more to keep. Ar. eastern Dauphin county farmer who went in for stock raising some years ago said that without people being aware of it scores of farm horses had been bought up from farms and sent to the Army. He was of the opinion that with the automobilo and truck factories work ing to the limit on vehicles for the Army that there would be a demand ror horses again this winter. "But,•• he added, "the farmer knows that a car don t eat its head off in winter time and that gasoline and oats dlf nn/J 1 ? rICB /!* i? Harrisburg one has A visit the neighborhoods of the Chestnut, Verbeke or Fourteenth street markets to see that the small cars have displaced the old black covered market wagon with the glass doors and the feed box for the horses. • • • ~.J V . h t n ,4 . comes down to knowing * what housing conditions are like in an industrial community such as Harrisburg is growing to be. Dr. J. M. J. Raunick, the city health of nrf£ . 0U 0 know - Raunick prior to his service in combatting the various ills to which flesh is heir n Harrisburg which has taken him into every part of the city, was for years In surgical work at Steelton. He has probably seen the Inside of as many houses in this district as anyone. • • * .u W^ en comes to demonstrations, • the Dauphin County Farm Bureau seems to be strictly on the Job. Agent Niesley has been working lately to get people interested in the • money to be made in hogs and var ious farms in the county have beerf placarded with signs telling where the information is to be had. The i farm agent has been rewarded by seeing that there has been a notable increase in the number of swine on Pennsylvania farms and the demon- ' strations have attracted whole farm ers families, which means that there will be money in the bank for some one next year. •• • , "By the way," remarked a busi- ' nessman last evening, "have you got ten any gold lately at the banks? °u have not. The way the federal authorities are quietly gathering in the gold in circulation is interesting. It s a wise move, too, although I im nV£er^ be fewer S°ld Pieces year Christmas envelopes this • * * a™?l a "° I ther P'ace to get the time in Harrisburg has gone. The Western Union telegraph office. TPiL c ,!V,f av V he tlme when the HeU lelephone Company discontinued the practice, has become too busy it does seem strange that in a city the I size of Harrisburg one has to rely on the whistles to get the time just as in the country the bell rings for dinner time. The kaiser is to blame ror much. • • • An interesting advancement in rank announced in the last few days was that of Captain Rudolph P. Kelker, Jr., to be major in the engi neer corps. The new major was a /rnll or w Cl "K. week on hia return from Washington to Camp Grant. Rockford, 111., where he has been stationed as captain and adjutant of ' the engineer regiments. In aaaltfon to being promoted to major he becomes camp adjutant and £7 p . ™" °' ih ° ' I WELL KNOVN PEQPUE | electricity. '° r U "'" S " p < —Congressman John M. Morln biparado clergy man* "has "g, ven up" a chaplain in the Army. the 'ffzars? sa& ' summer for training of soldiers. Terr * who succeeds I,oean Z aS B ® cret ary of the Pittsburgh no u 0 Commerce, started as a newsboy and has for years been dis trict superintendent of the Western Union at Pittsburgh. western n , J " p - Caffney, who is in charee of appropriations for PhiladelnhTa city council, has told heads of ,ii! partments that they must decide be rr" 41 ' clt - v government . getfT Peace In making up bud —E. S. Bayard, the ?n£ auth orlty and writer, Is urg more sheep in Pennsylvania. . * rt O °odall, just elected I^®"P re *J a ent of one of the Phila delphia trust companies, is one of Un"ted Ü Bfa e tes bank execuUves ln the subsidiary companies "of'*he* Pe™™ sylvania, since he entered the gov ernment railroad service. DO YOU KNOW —— —J f —That Harrisburg has praotio *"7 gone oat of basin ess an a brick making center and that with construction materials In demand everywhere? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The River Front was Harrisburg'i 4 first amusement plac and It wu used for horse and boat races and [ shooting match•,
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