8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH •A NEWSPAPER FOii ZHE HOME Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTDfO CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GCS M. STFELNMBTZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY. F. R 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 ] Newspaper Pub . ' ATTZffB lishers" Associa- ISfaSSafeW tion. the Audit AM Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn- sylvania Associ ■ {Jj ated Dailies. CSBSC3B H Eastern office. *" 21 Story. Brooks & SSS 2 938 IB Finley. Fifth !fa23S™" A Avenue Building. "®vSie! ** New York City ; Western office. illlßi™ Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Entered at the Post Office in Harrls * burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a Vr.*r week; by mail. 15.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 7. 1918 He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus Men o'er him wept. —BTBOS. SPROUL OX THE STUMP SENATOR SPROUL Is striking right at the heart of things in the few speeches that he has been making since his nomination as Republican candidate for Gov ernor. He is not bothering about personalities and as for himself is submitting his candidacy to the peo ple with the assurance ofhls friends that there is little for him to worry about. He doesn't mince words, however, as to the Importance of sending to Washington strong and able Repub licans, who will in the next Congress have an important part in the shap ing of legislation BO vital to the win ning of the war. Like other pa triotic Americans, he is not permit ting politics to disturb In the slight est degree his support of the gov ernment. but he believes the splen did senice already rendered the na tion in this crisis by such men as ex- Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and scores of other distinguished states men and leaders of the party Is suf ficient answer to the occasional fling that Republicans should "support the President." when the truth is that the President has been more con sistently supported in all Important war measures by Republicans, in both the Senate and House, than by many of his own party. In the next Congress, however, Republicans are going to have a larger share In determining the things which are \ltal and necessary to the end that there maybe no hesi tation anywhere in prosecuting the war with full force and power. As the next Governor, the disln guished Senator from Delaware will also be in position to lead in the work that Pennsylvania is doing and will continue to do until a triumph ant peace shall have been achieved. It's our opinion that if Hindenburg had been wise he would have re mained dead. A LITTLE LATE NECESSITY, it is said, is the mother of Invention, but what, we wonder, possessed Mrs. Augus Stura, of Chlllicothe, to invent a luminous keyhole, which. w e are told, anybody can find? It would seem in this case that invention must take the role of a posthumous child. Necessity is dead. Prohibition killed her in Chillicothe, where the key hole hunters all went out of business when the booze emporiums were closed by public decree. But think what a benefactor of the bibulous Mrs. Stura would have been had she put her device on the market In the days before good old General Public declared relentless war on King Al cohol. TAKING A VACATION IS IT PATRIOTIC to take a vaca tion this summer?" This question has been asked ,by readers of the Telegraph repeat edly In the last few weeks, and the answer Is: Certainly, if you actually feel the need of a rest. A tired worker Is not up to mark to production and he is In danger of becoming sick. Rest and recrea tion are the only known remedies. Medicine is in most cases of the kind nothing more than a spur to a tired horse. Change of scene and occupation is the essential. Even the hard-muscled, carefully trained soldier requires his vacaion periods. He "goes stale," to use a camp term, if he is kept under strain too long. So with the man or woman to any occupation. If you are to fine physical trim, *o cheerfully to work and enjoy your duties; you don't need a pro tracted vacation. If you lag and potter over your tasks or are to- WEDNESDAY EVENING, cllned to lose your temper over trifles, by all means try to take a few days away from the Job, even though physically you may think yourself fit. He Is a wise roan who knows how and when to play, and he who plays well is nearly always an Intelligent and effective workman. "No powder la being used during working hours by girls at the shell plant In Hasleton," says the Philadel phia Record; but what, we wonder, do they put in the shells? A MIGHTY TASK AHEAD OPPORTUNITY win present it self In the next month or so for some 20,000 Pennsylva nlans to render valuable assistance :o the United States government by acting as registrars when the men who will be called upon by the new draft law to sign their names for the national defense appear at their home polling places. In this State It will be only a part of the might iest enrollment of man-power ever known on this continent and prob ably will surpass even that In the British Isles. As the enrollment of some 825,000 young stalwarts last year was our defiance to the Hun, this tremendous listing of names of men ready to go where the national government bids will be the voice of encouragement to the men at the front and notice that the whole country stands behind them. Plans being made atthe State Draft Headquarters call for every one of the several thousand polling places in the Keystone State to be an enrollment place. It would be beyond the power of the draft boards, or even of election boards, to reg ister the army that will respond in our Commonwealth alone. Hence, It is the patriotic duty of men who know the people of their home dis tricts and who have the time to volunteer their services to their lo cal authorities as registrars, and, similarly, persons or concerns hav ing buildings used for polling places should give them free of charge. There is real work ahead. The man power of a wonderful country is to be mobilized and everyone will have a part to do. DOWN WITH THE REST Jt'ST about a year ago It was es timated that there were half a thousand miles of highway In Pennsylvania, many of them upon the main traveled roads, for which toll was collected and the majority of the stretches which drivers and owners of vehicles were taxed to pass over were in a state of repair as out of date as the toll road Idea Itself. Men who had control of stock of the companies looked long ingly at the half million dollars voted by the Legislature to buy the roads and prices stayed up even after negotiations had started. State authorities wisely adopted a plan of insisting that one-half of the cost of buying up these roads be borne by the county wherein they were located, and although Highway Commissioner O'Neil's ears weTe as sailed by wails, he adhered to this scheme. The result lias been that there has freed 200 miles of road from "the man at the gate." The Commissioner has not much money left, but he has aroused a deal of sentiment. The next Legislature ought to lose no time in appropriating enough money to enable the Commonwealth to Join with counties in getting rid of the rest of these anachronisms. The automobile owners are provid ing millions in licenses and some of it could be made available If neces sary. Cheer up. think of the Kaiser; he 1 has more to worry him than the hot weather. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY WE ARE proceeding blithely along in our reckless career of Government control. Having taken over the railroads, the tele graph lines and the telephone plants, j the administration is now consider ing the street car systems of the country. Perhaps there is a good reason for this latest proposal, but if so it has not been ma'e public. It is easy in war 'jmes to scramble up the railroads, the trolleys and the lines of wire communication, but the real difficulty will come with effort at restoration. Very likely we shall never go back to the old order of things entirely. But public own ership Is another thing from public control, and it is doubful in the sober moments that follow the war If a majority of Americans will vote to bring into being the vast gov ernmental machine, with Its multi tude of political Jobs, that would be involved in the operation of our public utilities as public property. That being true, statesmen should begin to cast about for an Intelligent means of meeting the problem when It shall arise. Perhaps here above all others lies the constructive Re publican party's best opportunity for great public service. THE FIGHT NOT OVER FRIENDS of the Federal prohib itory amendment will hope that the leaders of the Dry Federa tion have facta to substantiate their claim that 100 members and twenty seven Senators in the next Pennsyl vania Legislature—enough to turn the State into the "dry" column, pledged to vote against rum, are cer tain of election. But this Is no time for overconfldence. Advocates of prohibition will remember equally optimistic forecasts In recent local option campaigns. This fight will not be over until the vote Is an nounced in House and Senate, and those interested will do well' to leave no stone unturned to bring about the end desired. Nothing would please the liquor leaders more than to think that the "dry" element had become overconfident. TollUct Ck By the Ex-Oommltteeman Notwithstanding a manifest effort on the part of a number of men ac tive in politics and by some of the larger newspapers to discourage op position to the campaigns for elec tion to the full term of the two Jus tices of the Supreme Court appointed by Governor Martin O. Brumbaugh, it is predicted here to-day that it will not be known until the time for filing nomination papers expires Just who will be the candidates. Not even papers have 'been taken out for some of the men, whom It is declared, will be candidates, In opinion of people at the Capitol. In the Democratic party a real old-fashioned fight is pending,. al though as a matter of fact, the Dem ocracy has no cinch on one seat ex cept through a custom. Henry Budd, of Philadelphia, will probably con sent to run and that will make five Democrats in the field, while there will probably be half a dozen Re publicans. —The Wilkes-Barre police Inves tigation, which has been followed with the greatest attention by men in politics all over the state, as sumed a new phase yesterday when Mayor Kosek declared that if things went on he would bring some prose cutions against men>bers of the Chamber of Commerce of Wilkes- Barre active in the matter. The whole mess seems to have gotten into a state where charges and counter charges are making every one tired. —lt is interesting to people here to read of denials of "Sam" Ma loney's testimony by "Bill" Finley in the Fifth ward case. However, the trial at West Chester is not at tracting much attention beyond the confines of Philadelphia. —Mayor Heidenrelch. of Hazle ton, has undertaken to clean house in his city without waiting for the county authorities. His latest moves have attracted attention because of their thoroughness and the Mayor is getting much support. —Announcing In the newspapers that he'll "make them sit up and take notice this fall." William J. Coulter, the youthful Democratic county chairman of Lancaster, yes terday announced his organization completed, headed by the following two committees: Erecutire, D. F. Magee, Dr. H. F. Myers. John A. Myers, Jacob Pontz. William P. Schneitman, Levi B. Smith, Dr. W. B. Irwin, W. S. Hastings, George W. Hensel, Jr., and B. F. Davis, Jr., and finance, George B. Wilson, Dr. M. L. Chadman, E. R. Ebersole. Dr. J. A. Biever, M. F. Donnelly and Amos S. Hess. —The meeting of the county com missioners of the state at Pittsburgh this week will be one which will have much bearing upon legislative matters next winter and is being fol lowed closely. Auditor General Sny der's address is expected to be very interesting because of the Ideas the man from Schuylkill has about the Federal government and its relation to the state. —The probabilities are that John T. Carpenter, of Potter county, who was dropped at the State Treasury, and Angus Cameron, of Jefferson county, who was separated from his Job as chief of guides, will be taken care of in other departments. For every man who is "fired" on orders from the Governor's office. It is said another man will walk the plank in another department not tinder the Governor and the tenure of new ap pointees is uncertain after January 21, anyway. —The way eminent Democrats are being put into the Judge advocate general's department of the army it would seem that there will not be many left to fight the good fight for purity in politics in Pennsylvania this November. With McLean and Humes and the other stars away we may tremble for the safety of Democratic plans to mak Pennsylvania safe. —With the Legislature six months off changes in city government laws are now much under discussion and a new charter for Philadelphia, so sweeping in its scope that it would not resemble a revision of the pres ent arrangement, and the appoint ment of a small board of managers to conduct the affairs of the city, is the recommendation advanced by the Bureau of Municipal Research, which has made an exhaustive study of government. The Ledger says: "The new method of government recently [ adopted by the city of Detroit, is pre i sented by the bureau as the model which should be adopted as a cure for the civic ills which have placed the present form of administration in the limelight of public criticism." The Vast Difference [From the Syracuse Journal.] The telegraph and telephone sys tems have been managed under the most scientific methods of modern 1 ; business qualifications. Whatever i else might have been the criticism ; directed against the wire concerns, i business inefficiency was not one of i them. The same cannot be said about the j management of the Postofflce De partment. Its unbusinesslike meth ods are probably kfcown in some measure to the lowliest employe. To a great extent these official sins of omission and commission have been kept from public scrutiny, and deficits have been met by Congress I appropriations. But the telegraph and telephone systems have private i money invested In them and they I have been dependent upon their | revenues for operation and to pay ; dividends. If the same style of management that made that of the Postofflce Dt>- I partment a public reproach is to be i transferred to these concerns, what will be the answer to the American people? Unlettered in Music [Christian Science Monitor] It is almost proverbial that, when ever a writer of books makes ref erence to musical composition, he falls into some blunder which re duces the musical fraternity to tears or laughter. An instance of this is quoted by a writer in a recent Notes and Queries as a typical case. The sinner is Charles Dickens, who, in •TJombey and Son." makes a plaVer on the viqloncello say: "I have whistled, hummed tunes, gone accurately through the whole of Beethoven's sonata in B." Now of all the twelve keys, B Is the only one in which Beethoven did not write a sonata, re marks Notes and Queries' corres pondent and adds that there are even stranger blunders about Gounod's "Foust" In Reade's "Woman-Hater," and about Wagner's "Tristan" in "Ann Veronica." For the comfort of authors, who have or may commit "howlers" in the musical line an apparent contradiction of terms—let It be said that the immortal William himself Is by no means free from blunders concerning music. , HAHWSBURG cSS6i TELEGRXPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS j All Ro** I 7v €oeR M 6e0B6e-]l I&S A 7 ! ? C T p= HOTTEST.-L^K-DAY I ** f*<& "Trier Got W Tm£ Ve*R- WHO A>SK£D \ Twey WENT ►JE*-#-) Jscwse„ * EM HCRE - Kls/OU> V • Rebellion in Cambria [From the Johnstown Democrat.] It is understood that ex-Congress man Bailey has handed over the Cambria county Democratic organ-; ization, rank, tile and assets of all j sorts and descriptions, to the Bonni- i well rebels. Judge. Bonniwell is] forming 1 a Democr&ic state com mittee and effecting county organ isations in opposition to the Wilson administration leaders of the state —A. Mitchell Palmer, custodian of j alien property, and Vance McCor mick, chairman of the Democratic national committee and also chair man of the War Trade Board. Of course, the Wilson administra tion leaders will expect the Cambria county Democratic postmasters to | take up the cudgels for its side of > the party fracas. Neither side has; the faintest hope of electing the! Democratic state ticket, in fact, it; may be gathered that th<_ Wilson-1 Paimer-McCormick faction will do i its best to see that Bonniwell is not elected, while the Bonniwell rebels will have their knives and pencils out to administer a more sounding defeat to J. Washington Logue. "dry," who is the Democratic nom inee for lieutenant governor and re fuses to obey the Bonniwell dictum to get off the ticket and give the place to a real "wet" candidate. With the President cutting off the political heads of members of Con gress on the ground that they have not been "supporters" of the admin istration, is it not a foregone con clusion that the same discipline may be administered to Democratic post masters who fail at this juncture "to come to the aid of the party." Although ex-Congressman Bailey has publicly avowed that he does not know why the Wilson-Palmer-Mc- Cormick crowd are refusing to per mit Bonniwell to name a state chair man, others do know and we more; than suspect that the ex-Congress-" man knows. We believe he has been fully informed. Palmer and,: McCormick are not such tyros in politics as to fail to re alize that there is no chance at all for the election of a Democrat as Governor of Pennsylvania. They care not a snap for the result of the state election in November. The job of the administration forces is to secure and retain control of the Democratic party organization for use in the next presidential year— -1920. The Cambria county Demo cratic organization is to be placed In the hands of those who oppose the course of the administration's authorized representatives in Penn sylvania. No use trying to fool the Cambria county Democrats as to the real issue. Father of Quentin Roosevelt [Kansas City Star] Theodore Roosevelt's contribution to The Star yesterday came with the earnestness and solemnity of the man who has made the supreme sacrifice for his country. It was the father of Quentin Roosevelt who write: Nothing that we can do will light en the bitter sorrow of those who have lost the men they loved; stern pride in the courage and gallant de votion of are dead is the only staff that will help to' carry that burden for the living. But there is one thing the fathers and mothers who have lost their sons do insist on—more strenuously per haps than those whose souls have not been thus awakened. They in sist that the Nation at once take the steps necessary to guarantee that the sacrifice shall not have been in vain. We must now help the Army as a whole by straining every nerve with out a day's delay immensely to In crease our strength, our numbers and our resources at the front. We should provide now, and as a matter of fact we ought to have provided six months ago, for an army of six or seven million men, so that when next spring oftens we may have at least four million fighting . men at the front. All America must echo this insist ence. The pne job is to smash Ger many and smash it as early as pos sible. We know how to do it. We cdn do It. The only thing required is an overwhelming preponderance in men and equipment. America can supply thai preponderance. By an overwhelming effort we should be able to end the war next year. Without such an effort it might go on for two or three years longer. Can anybody doubt that a long drawn out war fought by smaller forces will be far more costly in the end both In men and money than a short war fought with all our resources? The most alluring and most fatal error that besets us Is to underesti mate the size of our Job. We ought to prepare and prepare at once to have an army of four million men in France next spring. To fill to make our greatest effort wiU be uselessly [to sacrifice men's lived. Advertising Gain Part of Capital From the Editor and Publisher. ROGER W. Babson, the famous 1 statistician, who is now chief of the Information and Edu cation Service of the Department of Labor, strongly advocates that good will in business, created by advertis ing, should be allowed for by the Government In taxing capital. Tes tifying before the House Ways" and Means Committee. Mr. Babson said: "If I hire a carpenter to erect a sign, and a painter to advertise my business thereon, I can charge the service of this carpenter and painter as capital invested. If, however, I invest the same amount of money In paper and ink. the Government re fuses to consider it capital invest ed. This is absolutely unjust and a distinct discrimination. "The work and the services of ad vertisingmen are Just as valuable to this country as the services of any mechanic. In many ways the serv ices of the advertising expert are more valuable because the demand for goods 'must come before goods are manufactured. Trade marks and brands are as important in develop ing domestic Industry and In A CHRISTIAN CAROL "You are old. Father William," the Krown Prince remarked, "And your waistline shows signs of distress; But a churchful of women at sev enty miles x ls a very good score, I confess." "Four years back, Friedrich Wil helm," the Kaiser replied, "We began shooting girls by the lot; And thus by sub-caliber practice grew fit For this last striking tribute to Gott." "You are old. Father William," the Krown Prince observed, "And your wind is not all it might Yet that littil Slav tango you did at Litovsk Was a joy and a pleasure to see." "Four years back," said the mon arch and smiled on his heir, "1 took up paper scraps as my line; And the pieces from Belgium Just made up a nice Little treaty for Mr. Lenine." "You are old. Father William," the Krown Prince declared, "Or at least you are well in your prime; And yet you're some distance away from Paree. Do you think you will get there In time?" "Now that," sobbed old William, oh, pride of Verdun. Is just what I fear from the map. Though an expert at scrapping of papers, I'm not Quite up to the French kind of scrap." —From "Little Journeys Toward Paris," by Simeon Strunsky. No Sun For Us How different wo are from Wil helm —we are well content wfth a modest place In the shade.—From £he St. Louis Star. LABOR NOTES New York hotel proprietors predict the possibility of having to close their diiffng-rooma if present labor troubles continue. Thousands of Austrian women of all classes are serving behind the lines as members of the Woman's Battalion driven thereto by hunger. More than 1000 employes at the Missouri Pacific shops have started working 10 hours a day and will work seven Instead of six days a week. One of the important .resolution* passed at the American Federation of Labor convention instructed Pres ident Gompers to visit England, France and Italy In the Interests of labor. " Arthur Yeager, Governor of Porto Rico, is charged with violating the rights of assemblage in refusing to permit Porto Ric&n workers to meet for organisation purposes. standardizing manufacturing as are buildings and machinery. "To refuse to consider money spent upon advertising as capital in vested, and to allow it in the second instance, is distinctly handicapping American industry. Such discrimi nation not only affects the manufac turer and businessman, but the wageearner as well. Advertising has done more than any one other thing, to create work f#r and help the in terests of the wageearners of the United States. "In the development of foreign trade the value of brands and trade marks is tremendous. The success of German, English and French ex porters has been largely due to the encouragement of the development of brands by the representative Gov ernment. If the United States Gov ernment recognizes the value of trade marks to the extent of protecting them by legislation, it certainly should recognize their value in con nection with taxation. "The nation which has the great est foreign trade after the war will be the one whose manufacturers have the greatest good will. Cer tainly Congress should do everything to encourage manufacturers in the development of this good will." The Galled Jade Winces [Col. Harvey's War Weekly] The Huns are protesting against "man's inhumanity to man." The al lied air raids upon German cities have evoked a wail of woe. There are Hun pleas and protests against any aerial bombardments of places back of the line of >battle; because, says a Parliamentary Deputy in Baden, they "serve no military purpose, and cause only innocent women and chil dren to suffer." We might perhaps dismiss such representations with a paraphrase of the apt reply to the proposal to stop capital punishment: "Let the assassins begin!" But some further comment will be profitable. We say, then, that such utterances are both cowardly and false. This Hunnish Deputy,' or his fellow Huns, went into hysterics of joy and rap ture over the destruction of the Lusi tania, apd over the bombardment of residence towns and schools and hos pitals in England, and of churches on Corpus Chrlsti in Paris. It seemed to then\ a great and glorious triumph of Kultur to make innocent women and children suffer. The protests and pleas of the allied nations and of all the civilized world against those things were an object of scornful laughter to the Huns. But now when a taste of similar—not identi cal—treatment is applied to them selves, how the Huns whine and yelp with pain! When they murdered American women and children in operations which served no military purpose, their Old German Gott was with them, and he who did not from his inmost heart approve the deeds was "accounted no true German." But now when German railroads and munition factories antf military camps are bombarded from the air, "Gott im Himmel! but war is Hell!" they squeal. There Are Many Lampposts [N. A. Review's War Weekly.] Two men were caught in the very act of lighting a bomb in a powder factory in the outskirts of Newark, N. J. If the bomb had exploded, the vast works would have been de stroyed and hundreds of lives in the densely populated district might have been lost. The men pleaded guilty to violation of the espionage and sabotage acts, and therefore made themselves liable to fine and imprisonment. It should be incon ceivable that they be kept many days from confronting a firing squad. If such disposition is not made of them what becomes of the President's fine plea for the vindication of law and order? Longest Days Vary The longest and shortest day of the year varies. In 1918 the longest day was June 19, 15 hours and 18 minutes from sunrise to sunset. In 1917 from June 16 to June 22. in clusive, each day was IB hours and 17 minutes long. In 1918, December 19, 21, 23 and 25, will each be eight hours and four minutes from sunrise to sunset, while the Intervening dnys, December 20, 22 and 24, will each be one minute longer. In 194 7 enly December 21 and 23 were the shortest days, each containing 9ight hours and four minutes. AUGUST 7, 1918. Our Motherland America! Dear motherlandV From homes across the sea. With eager longing to be free. We came and cast our lot with thee. And thou, with outstretched, loving hand. Didst welcome us, dear motherland! America! Dear motherland! Beneath the foreign skies. With trembling lips and tear dimm'd eyes. We severed precious kindred ties. Then hither came—and so we planned To be thy children, motherland! America! My motherland! The light that spanned the sea. And made us pin our faith to thee. Was the right star of destiny. For equal freedom thou dost.stand— For truth and justice, motherland! America! Our motherland! Now foes thy peace assail. Their barbarous deeds shall not avail To make thy valiant children quail. With accord, we'll take onr stand — If need be, die for motherland! —Frank B. Thomas, in The Ro tarian. OUR DAILY LAUGH Sowes me ten dollars, and ev ery time ho sees me he dodgtts the trouble bo tween Millie and "'Arthur? Have they had I jf|H a new quarrel? iy '( iSfc patch came oft I L, f their old one. ■L''! ©KOigf nnm „ FURTHER, wheatless mea 11 ess We might go tlTl 1 I I|-1M institute som ® eat- THE WRONG T DOSE. ■ Did you take the medicine the doctor pre ecribed for you ? Certainly not. il - fV I haven't ague. It said on the I / bottle "Shake w before taking." OUT OF THE 7 LOT* MOUTH OF I L>jZ (y~-A BABES. I U Paoa built me jo wagon today. 1 18 that 80 * He must be (\ I L/' Q 1 smarter than he Eumttg (Eljat Dry weather of the Uat month haa cost farmers of PoniflTMila thousands of dollars according to reports coming to the State Depart ment of Agriculture. Early pota toes, pasture fields and corn have been the most seriously affected, while in some sections the ground has been so dry that It could not be sown for buckwheat, which Is the latest crop. The driest periods were In June and July and It la stuted at the department that they "prevented the largest acreage in buckwheat that was ever sown In this state." Blight and the dry weather combined injured the early potato crop and where buckwheat was sown the dry weather prevented satisfactory Btalk growth. This Is the first time In years that dry weather has caused much damage to the buckwheat. There are hopes for the late potato crop and many reports show the corn to be In fair shape. • • • The spry young men who comprise the military police detail at Unio* station have been getting experiences the last week and so have many of the drafted men who have passed through Harrisburg station. The military police are detailed from Mlddletown garrisons and wear a blue arm band or brassard, as it is called, with the letters "MP" and they have regular "cop clubs." They have to keep soldiers In order and it Is not much of a task except when some of them want to frolic. It is the drafted men, who have not yet met army discipline who give tho bother and furnish the excitement. Monday some of the colored men coming through from eastern coun ties got the idea that they could leave trains when they pleased, but wero put on with celerity and dis patch. while others who got the no tion that they could take their things and go' when they reached Harris burg or else had the idea that it was Battle Creek, stepped to the plat forms with satchels and bundles and looked Into the faces of a couple of determined young soldiers. One carload gave so much trouble that the sergeant had to show that he had a real automatic on his hip. It only takes a hot afternoon to send dignity even in some of the state offices and in some of the most representative business establish ments to the ceiling. In Capitol of fices heads of departments ran around yesterday in shirt sleeves and without collars and some of the pillars of the financial communities transacted business in shirt sleeves # and did not apologize for it. One big merchant sent as many of his clerks home as he dared and waited on customers himself without a coat saying the change made him feel cooler than sitting in his office. But where dignity had to swelter was on the Pennsylvania railroad where the conductors wore their broadcloth coats which are warm and comfort able even in winter time. Just why this dignity is needed In 103 degree** weather and in war time with Uncle Sam running the railroads many asked the trainmen, but got no an swers. • • • With only a few more weeks to complete the revision of assessments of properties in the city, James C. Thompson, city assessor, and his three assistants have a large part of the work done and are now about to start working in the business sec tions and in the Ninth ward, one of the larger residential districts. Mr. Thompson recently attended a con vention in Wilmington, Delaware, and absorbed a number of import ant things in connection with city assessment work. In Wilmington the city assessor has a complete .record of each city property to gether with a description of all Im provements on any plot of ground. While Harrisburg's assessment plan is not so general as this the city has taken a step forward in the regis tration of all real estate so that in the future there can be no dupli cate assessments and no question about the owner any lot or build ing. The task of carefully revising figures on the valuations of more than 18,000 properties no small one Mr. Thompson claims but ho also assures members of City Council that when his time limit ends the work will be completed. • • • County Commissioners and other county officials are in Pittsburgh for the week learning developments in various counties during the year. In a week or two city commissioners will attend a convention of officials of third class cities in the state to be held at Erie. City Engineer M. B. Cowden is listed for a talk on the Harrlsburg method of making paving assessments. - •• • • Farriers In the eastern end of the county are wondering if the crojvs will come back to the big crow ro<#ts which the black coated fliers established out beyond Penbrook and toward Linglestown. Last year there were hundreds of birds seen in that section and some Judiciously treated corn was spread for them with direr results. There have not been many crows around thlf year and what have visited have been wary. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Charles S. Caiwell, the Philadel phia banker, is on a motor trip through New England. —Senator William C. Sproul, who will talk to Delaware county poultry men to-morrow, owns a dozen farms including some In thts section and runs them like a factory. —J. Lee Plummer. Blair county lawyer, is on. an automobile trip to Kentucky. —Dr. Leon C. Prince, who is rrfakv lng up a list of Cumberland men the service, Is a historian of note and professor In Dickinson College. —E. T. Parker is the new head of the Bethlehem Merchants Associa tion. —Col. E. M. Young, of the gover nor's staff, Is the chairman of the executive committee of the Lehigh' Country Club. —"Dick" Marshi£, the old Uni versity of Pennsylvania football player. Is now In the army. —Congressman W. W. driest, who had been 111 during the early part of the summer, has recovered and is back .at Washington. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg steel Is In mu nitions landed •In Siberia and Archangel? • HISTORIC HARRISBURG A century ago Harrlsburg had five military companies and most of the 'men ware marksmen.
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