12 HARRISBURG 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, Bueineta Manager QUB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, P. R. OYSTER, GU& M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of ali 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. m Member American vjl Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa- GSs'> _' , Vi! tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu- SgBMlgCEUra lation and Penn- CiitidlCf l-665 9 ABB IVI Eastern office, BeISISssN Story, Brooks & SS®E!SSBI Finley, Fifth " B ""B TM Avenue Building JSLRfifiß If New York City; Western office, rMB ffaWWfflß Story, Brooks & j-Vr-T!; jMrWflc Finley, People's s Building. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a TUMifeglcfli jil * week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918 Make up your mind what you want and then go alter it, and keep after it until you get it. —JOHN W. GATES. SUFFRAGE AND THE WAR BEYOND doubt equal suffrage Is on the way and cannot be long delayed, but Just why the Presi dent should feel that it is necessary to the winning of the war is not ap parent. English suffrage leaders, even the most violent of them, have refrained from active campaigning during the war. There are bigger is sues to be decided now than suf frage, and wothen can do more for their country In Red Cross and other patriotic work than by making po litical addresses on street corners. Women are sacrificing much and suffering much and one of their re wards will be the ballot, buf the granting of votes to women Is not an essential to the winning of the war. If it can be accomplished as an In cidental without seriously conflicting with war legislation in Congress, well and good, if not It should wait. Reform does not necessarily fol low fast on the wings of woman suf frage. New York, the only State to siAestep the national prohibition Is sue, but recently granted its women the right to vote. . We have been told that "ships will win the war," that "food will win the war," that "War Stamps will win the war," and now that "equal suf frage is essential to the winning of the war." We should go slow in pro nouncing any element essential to success that really is not, lest we thereby cheapen public regard for the things that actually do count heavily and confuse public thought as to what are and are not essen tials. Under the caption, "Where'll we send Kaiser Bill?" the Washington Herald prints a map giving a few island suggestions for his future ban ishment. The place where we intend to send Kaiser Bill has never been located by cartographers, but it is where his iron crosses and his badges will be resolved to molten tears. PARKING DOWNTOWN THE parking of automobiles In Market street has become a public nuisance. This Is not so much the fault of those who operate cars as it Is of those who should regulate traffic In the congested dis tricts. The city has reached the place where something must be done to relieve the situation. Public parking places may be provided where cars can be left under police protection or streets set apart where cars could be parked temporarily while their owners are transacting business or are attending the the aters or moving picture shows. It may be that the municipality will have to purchase a block of houses in some hack street, remove the buildings and provide a plot for public parking purposes, or the erec tion of garages where cars may be stored over short periods for a nomi nal ram may provide the necessary room. But, at all events, the situa tion demands immediate attention. DEMOCRATIC THEORIES SEVENTY-FIVE per cent, of our lmporta for 1918 paid not a red cent of duty, as against fifty four per cent, of free goods in 191S, consisting of raw materials and foodstuffs, such as coffee, tea, cocoa, etc., not produced in this country, hence not competing with American industries. This was one fatal blunder of the Democratic party in its tariff legis lation of 1913. It gav tl!e farmer increased competition, but it failed to reduce the cost of living, as we all remember, and it increased our de pendence on foreign countries for wool. There are other blunder in which the party still persists, in fact, with respect to the tariff the party has no fixed or definite policy whatever. Within the last year at v FRIDAY EVENING, least a dozen Democratic leaders have each given utterance to views on what should be our future tariff policy, each one differing from the others. At the same time the coun tries of Europe are reinforcing their tariff walls, and England, particu larly, has quite repudiated her free trade policy and is drafting protec tion legislation. If the Western pioneers of '49 were writing a slogan for this war. It would probably be "Berlin or Bust." And that is what we are up against. We shall dictate terms of peace In Ber lin or the peace will be of doubtful value. THE HOUSING NEED ANNOUNCEMENT Is made that the big quartermaster's depot at Marsh Run will be operated main ly by civilians. This is verified by the fact that provision has been made for the quartering of only on the ground. The warehouses are ten In number, more than 1,000 feet in length and 100 feet wide. Eleven miles of track will be required for the railroad yards. This means a large number of men constantly at work both in the warehouses and in the yards. It means more workmen for this vicin ity, and more workmen means more families. Harrlsburg can have the majority of these newcomers if It has room for them. Most of them will want to live In this city in order to avail themselves of the schools and other advantages. But they won't come unless we provide houses for them. The whole countryside roundabout will bid for them. They will find quarters elsewhere if we have no houses In Harrlsburg. More than ever before the hous ing problem looms up as one that must be solved. We lost one war Industry fliat would have given work to 6,000 people because the State Department of Labor and Industry was not able to report an abundance of housing facilities here. We will lose many more if we do not do something about it. Whole towns are being erected elsewhere while we sit idly by twiddling our thumbs and watching opportunity after oppor tunity knock at our door, ask in vain for a place to lay its head and then go on to more hospitable cities. It will be our own fault if the next census finds us far in the rear of many communities that were our inferiors in population a few years ago. The Chamber of Commerce is moving along lines designed to ascer tain the best means of meeting the situation. But the whole city must become Interested if real results are to be obtained. We must have more houses if we are to grow. What's a fw million bushels of wheat, more or less, when the crop's going to be the biggest we ever had. anyway? "HOLD FAST!" HOLD FAST!" is Premier Lloyd George's declaration to Brit ains In the beginning of the new year of war. And "Hold Fast" is the slogan of millions of American citizens who will not quit until the Hun has been crushed for all time. As suggested in a recent review of the war causes, "there is absolutely no doubt that commercial enslave ment of the world Is the desire and purpose of Germany, that if she won the war the whole world will be clamped in the iron vise of slavery. There is but one way to meet In a race of people such inborn, brutal lust for spoils, booty and power. It can be permanently cured only by dismemberment of the nation in the very soul and marrow guilty of It War must never again be the na tional Industry of any country. Some suggested that Germany is nothing more than a huge state founded on force, cemented by fear amd financed on speculative gains to be derived from the great gamble of war. Once for all must we set tle the right of nations to work, out their own destiny without fear of some great national brute Interfer ing at every point. Ex-President Taft has given much thought to the proposed League of Nations to Enforce Peace and the more we see of this war and Its ter rible consequences the more we are Impressed with the Importance of some such International agreement as will secure hereafter the happi ness and prosperity and peace of all nations. Ludendorf will now explain that he really didn't want to keep the ground he sacrificed 300,000 men to win last spring. , fMtletU By the Ex-Commlttecman Well-defined symptoms of worrl ment among the leaders of the Pal mer-McCormlck faction of the Penn sylvania Democracy over the situa tion in the party in the state which they had promised to turn over to President Wilson, and did not, are commencing to be noticed not only in this city where the windmill Is lo cated but in other parts of the state. The present titular leaders got Into power at a time when carrying on the party organization was very ex pensive and took advantage of a se vere defeat, in which some of the present high lights took a part, to charge treachery and force reorgani zation. They are afraid some other people hav'e learned the way and may start something next winter. And they are also afraid that they are going to be called to account by the schoolmaster because of the way the congressional outlook is shaping up. When the Palmer-McCormlck peo ple dethroned the Colonel Guffey regime the fuss was made so great that it was overlooked that the pres ent national chairman had bolted the Democratic state ticket in 1910. Lately some men have been reviving that memory. And they are talking about it in advance of a state cam paign in which the standard bearer was named in opposition to the wishes of the bosses of the state machine. —Not only are the men who sit about the council board in Washing ton and frame the official destinies of the Democratic party in Pennsyl vania worried over the refusal of the Democratic voters of the state to carry out their orders, but they are afraid that there will be a party sit uation created by Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell which will force them Into a position such as they alleged the old leaders to be after the campaign of 1910. Judge Bonniwell says he means to name his own committee to carry on his campaign for Governor independently of the State Commit tee or any committee which may be named by other candidates. This is tantamount to a declaration of "no cSonfidence." The Judge is also creat ing a situation by his demand for retirement of J. Washington Logue. the reorganizer who won second place on the ticket by a few hun dred votes. The upshot may be that the Bonniwell Democrats will play a lone hand and the Palmer-McCor mick Democrats will have to stand by Logue. There are all sorts of possibilities for a grand old party row next winter when folks have leisure to review what happens this fall, but no possibility of any Dem ocrat being elected to state office. It is predicted that the present leaders will have to stand trial next win ter and that the game the Palmer- McCormick people worked In forcing a meeting of the State Committee early in 1911 may be repeated to their' disadvantage. —Not only is this condition dis turbing the leaders who make Wash ington their headquarters but there is the great probability that right when the President wants all t#2 Democratic Congressmen he can get they may see the Keystone Demo cratic congressional delegation ma terially reduced. There are now seven Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania. It is said in some quarters that in November there will be only three or at most four to be re-elected. Men who have been closely observing conditions in many parts of the state say that the Democrats are in bad because of their family quarrels and that the Donnybrook Fair may result In men voting Republican out of disgust. —The only Congressmen of Dem ocratic faith sure of re-election are Dewait and Steele, both of whom were renominated against the Pal mer-McCormick faction's opposition, and some sanguine folks think that the row may result in defeat of one of them. However, they live in strong Democratic districts. In one Allegheny district Congressman Guy E. Campbell got on the Republican ticket because of some fighting among Republicans in that county. He will win, but it is claimed by well posted men that the chances are excellent for defeat of Congressmen Lesher, Brodheck, Beshlin and Ster ling. —Lesher is the Northumberland district Congressman and has a fam ily fight in his district, while the perennial racket among the York- Adame Democrats is sta.rting again. 3eshlin is claimed to have been an iccident against repetition of which i safe and sane policy has been aken out. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, s an interesting figrure for men who follow politics in Pennsylvania, in flew of his testimony yesterday. He fleclartd he was not a real Vare man, but a friend of McNichol. —The county commissioners' con tention at Pittsburgh seems to have been a love feast as men of all shades of politics got together and talked over their problems. J. Den ny O'Neil and Charles A. Snyder were the big speakers yesterday. —A St. Louis newspaper writing about what may happen after the war makes this reference to politics: "It is altogether likely that the elec tion next November will be the last election., far many years.to come, in which civilian candidates will be a predominating element. By 1920. whether the war Is over or not, the candidates with a war record will be in evidence. Officers and men who are invalided home will recover sufficiently to be qualified for various public • duties," from con stable to Congressman, and the in cumbents will have to make a very definite showing of service to stand any chance against them in the pri maries. —When the war does end. and the soldier voters get home, the civilian officeholder and the civilian candi date will have hard running against soldier candidates. There can be no doubt that the history of the period after the Civil War will repeat it self." THE SINGLE SIN He walked for years In ways of righteousness, Good deeds unnumbered dropping from his hand; Then, lo! a single sin he must con fess, That bruited was far up and down the land. And all the people drew a solemn face, And called him trickster, whispered , his disgrace. —RICHARD E. BURTON. It's a Vital Spot All Right (From the New Orleans Sta es) The Ansonia. Conn., Sentinel says: "Mrs. Fannie Booth, who la confined to her home with Illness in the Cen ter, Is doing as well as could be ex pected.". Probably a case of cu cumbers. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES BRI j f* • •! IP 1 / fi£Nl?Y .1 WISH / . \ r if' / You vnjoolJ> Re/st) C , / \ fCAz-fct*?] TVie war toevjs To | '/3<J*€ \ I Z MC *<uea Jmasm | / Mfe *>HLE IDo MY V( wu, , J I GERMAN J I OKJ TVm* J f FoR HCAVetJ?> M6mDim6 r<jo | \ / \ Flank oio TUe r . ./ uh< / | S/"*Xe *SPeiX vjteAO so iMTBuuiaeMTLV I V y \ OUCH'- Z'\ \ OOOH- / I W Hcnßv , ■ 1 - V ~ • / .*•>) V y V "THE. KJEXT* EveMiNJG /~7~ /O-U- R~C"Q. / meam OUCH- The J *?ive -5? ! Q" s PROtSABuy / !• iiirreKiDeo TOR AA / . "H W fc *T HEMRY-lT'S' ✓""" I HA HA J OUCH/ \ Be A y PROWOUWC6D / \ 1 OH HBWRY- . V ~ 1/ __ . bich Chester's Housing Problem (From the Chester Times) Should the government officials give their sanction to the building operations planned for Chester, a great step will be taken toward solv ing the housing problem. There ex ists a keen race between the con struction and enlargement of busi ness plants in this city, and the building of homes for the employes. The thousand houses included by the new development from the P. M. C. to the city line; the six hundred houses In the Second and Fifth wards between Morton avenue and Ninth street; and the four hundred homes being built by the William G. Price Company, should make a con siderable difference to the stress of finding lodgment within this mu nicipality. We have as yet by no means struck the balance as be tween our industrial plants and civic homesteads; but construction is be ing hurried in view of present and future needs. The Sun Shipbuilding Company is setting a laudable ex ample in making provisions for the lodgment of ten thousand workers who will trek this way g.s the new wharfs and boiler shops and other business extensions begin to show their shell on the landscape. The builders have struck on the right track. Rooming can only be at best a temporary and utterly in adequate expedient. The increase of trolley facilities in and out of town might give some relief, but it fails to meet the emergency and is itself but a questionable advantage. The experiments in this direction reckoned in their summation are a costly mode of enterprise in that they deprive the city itself of thou sands of families which might other wise be residential here, and spend their wages mostly within the salient where the money is warned. Hous. ing the workers in decent fashion will tend to make them better sat isfied, and help to arrest the shifty migration of employes who are con stantly tempted by better housing conditions to move elsewhere. This means a vast saving to the big com panies now engaged in scheming house accommodation for their workmen. In a Wider circle still, it means increased prosperity through out all business sections of the city itself. Let the good work continue until we have again found our poise. The work should be rushed as much as possible ere the winter sets in. The more workmen we can Jbdge between now and the time snow again flies, the better it will be all around. Building of homes does not stand a complete program by itself. It in volves the building of schools and many other auxiliaries necessary to the welfare and comfort of the fam ilies newly settled in Chester. The due provision of these assets will present big problems that must be tackled in the immediate future. Yet there is no section of the coun try wherein conditions of stable in dustries are more promising. In this fact lies the justification of the new developments under way. With their completion we shall realize the pru dence of the venture and all par take of the benefits of the larger Chester now looming into sight. The Ardor of Hearst • [New York Evening Post] When the Hearst papers increased their price 100 per cent., some won dered what they would do when a public utility corporation increased its price ten per cent. But little did these innocent persons under stand Hearst's noble ardor In be half of the public. That anybody 1 except himself should" charge it more is necessarily intolerable to him. Accordingly, he opens up on the "rascally" and "scoundrelly" cor porations which make the plea that hl,s newspapers did—namely, that higher wages and Increased cost of materials compel an aflvance in the price of the commodity sold. The particular occasion is the finding of Mr. Hughes, as referee, that the rates fixed by law for gas In parts of Brooklyn must be allowed to raise the price. Mr. Hughes established his leputatlon as an expert in the production-cost of gas, and also as a champion of the public Interests, when he was counsel to the legisla tive committee which investigated the gas business In New York years ago: but that does not prevent the Hearst papers from stigmatizing him as "a 100 per cent, reactionary." Into the merits of the Brooklyn gas controversy we cannot now go, but the splendid rage of the Hearst news papers In the matter of price-rais ins ought to begin somewhere near I home. Another Step Toward Universal Training • From the Boston Transcript. AN encouraging thing about the plan for introducing military training into all colleges next autumn, to which the' War Depart ment has finally been forced by the pressure of public opinion at home and events abroad to give the ap proval it had withheld when Gen eral Wood first proposed it several years ago, is that a systematic means is provided for training officers. We shall be short of officers before the year is out, unless much more is done in the next three months than has been done in the last three for training. But all the forces which are working on the problem of In troducing military training into the college curriculum are wisely insist ing that their efforts shall not be limited to the duration of the war. They have established the condition that what they shall do shall be re garded as the forerunner of that universal military training for which the country has been calling almost ever since the war began and against which the opposition, even in high places, Is slowly but surely disap pearing. If the problem of to-morrow is to see to it that every American has a certain amount of physical and mili tary training before he reaches his majority, the problem of to-day is to devise ways and means to get eligible young men into college, THE GULF STREAM There's a brown stream that is flow ing through the blue Atlantic waters, • There's a warm stream that is crossing from the new world to the old. And the way of it is silent in a broad, majestic passage. And its mighty course is hidden from the eyes that would be hold. Deep the springs are that have fed it, from the centuries up welling. From the pioneers who labored that the nation should be free, From the prophets and the martyrs, from the soldiers and the mothers, And the host of them that per ished for the sake of liberty. So the brown stream cleaves the ocean to effect a transforma tion, That the world shall be delivered from the Icy bonds of death; And within the stricken countries joy shall be again upspring ing, And the lands once more shall blossom in the fervor of its breath. —McLandburgh Wilson. Better Do What We Can Now [From the Houston Post] Making careful computations from the progress of an Idea dur ing the past twenty-five years, we have figured that by the year 67,- 987,654,234 A. D., the theory that kissing communicates deadly dis eases will be universally accepted and the custom abolished. They'll Be Vinced Some More [From Louisville Courier-Journel] "The Kaiser's crack troops have been considerably cracked, and his shock troops have been considerably shocked." observes the New York Telegraph. Moreover, his Invincible troops have been somewhat vinced. LABOR NOTES Butte (Mont.) plumbers ask $9 a day. Journeymen barbers in Milwaukee plan thorough organization. Leavenworth (Kan.) teamsters de mand >3 a day of 9 hours. Railway Workers In Bessarabia de mand higher pay. Spokane (Wash.) retail clerks have formed a union. Paperhangers at New Orleans have received increased wages. Copper miners to Germany average 1271 a year. where they will receive at one and the same time a cultural, and tech nical training, now more necessary than ever before, as well as a pre liminary military training which will stand them in good stead when it comes their time to enter the service of the nation. In the per formance of this immediate task the National Council of Defense, the War Department and the American Coun cil of Education are co-operating. In the next month every 1918 high school graduate in the land will receive a letter from the Wstr De partment, telling him why his coun try wishes and expects him to go to college if it is possible for him to do so. He will be told that in col lege he will be enrolled as a mem ber of the Army, but not expected to be called until he becomes of age, unless the draft age has in the meantime been lowered; that he will be given military training un der the direction of Army officers, possibly of officers returned from the war zone; that he will be able at the same time to prepare himself to take part in the great reconstruc tion work which will make up the aftermath. The hope will be held out to him that by responding to that appeal he can best do his duty by himself and by his country. Here is another step toward universal training.—From the Boston Tran script. Hindenburg and His Dupes [N. A. Reviev's War Weekly] Hindenburg has been resurrected from the dead again. He is risen. Not only that, hq is strong enough to sit up and take notice and to talk. The Kaiser's Boswell, Ros ner, found him. He was at the Hun General Headquarters and, appar ently, cheerfully loquacious, consid ering how recently he was a corpse. "The fighting is proceeding again," said the recent remains, "and it is to be hoped that those at home will have confidence. But they have not yet learned to wait." Considering that they have been waiting four years for that triumphal entry into Paris which was all ar ranged for September. 1914, with the dinner there which the Kaiser had ordered, the Hun spiked helmet wherewith to crown the Eiffel Tower picked out. the Hun mayor and sub ordinates in the government of the conquered French capital all desig nated—considering that the snows of four winters and the suns of four summers have projected themselves into the interval between the date fixed for that program and the pres ent moment, it does seem a little like overdrawing the thing to say that "those at home" have not yet learned to wait. Especially as Hindenburg himself, in one of his casual emerg ences from the grave, last winter stilled the unreasonable impatience of "those at home"*with the assur ance that "we shall be in Paris by April Ist." And here it is four months past April Ist and "we" are approaching Paris by traveling in the opposite direction! Surely if "those at home" do not know how to wait it is not for lack of practice. Good Way to Save Money After a country editor has spent the better part of a day compiling information for the post office de partment so that the postmaster gen eral can raise the rates of newspaper postage to as much as three certts a pound. It is rather provoking to re ceive a franked letter from one of our Senators with three typewritten pages entirely devoted to boosting that Senator's political activities. If the government Is really in need of more revenue, and feels that the ad vertising in newspapers should pay more postage, why not eliminate a lot of this franked matter sent out from Washington and let it pay reg ular postage also?—Wellsvllle, Kan., Globe. 'Tino Not on Rations The Geneva Sentinelle reports that former King Constantino, of Greece, his court at Zurich, his ser vants and his mother and her suite are living entirely free from the re straint of ration cards. The King's servants consume more In one day. according to the paper, than is at the disposal of twenty citizens dur ing a jnonth. Fresh white bread is always abundant at the royal villa. AUGUST 9, 1918. From a Scout Patrol: Irish Station For a day and a night there was storm on the waters, And white as the snowflake the hair of the sea; And we knew then the anguish of Lir's banished daughters. Alone in our ship in the trough of the sea. The wind shrieked a gale with the howl of a war-cry, And dark in the sea-gulf a shadow swept past; The voice of the watch was the sound of a far cry, And the boom of our gun well nigh lost in the blast. But the submarine sank, and we glided to harbor, Behind the white house on the green of tn® hill. Where the sunshine is bright on the vine of the arbor, And the clouds in the sunset lie huddled and still. NORREYS JEPHSON O'CONNOR OUR DAILY LAUGH l M FEW DO. I That after* dinner speaker ) & L seems to know Jay Yes > but one thing he doesn't /i What's that? — When t0 quK * She—Pardon me, but can you 1 He (butting T/ \ 'fetiT in): Certainly y AeHj I'll pardon you. */ I Lll but this is no 1 J off > tima for frivoK lty. I promised / my wife I would be home / show her I can. ./ /> f JM NO AMATEUR W^-\/)(' jf STUFF. p' *( ci!i j The Browns, '^ aVe lnvlte< * ul rather eat ther than anywher# KM jII j All vegetables they serve were raised by pro ll'rl fessionals. . JUDGING flUijljKjl FROM THE NAME. • , jgV T As I thought, ( r % Cjl Irown is flirt- \jtpf /vX A| ing, not Ashing. -Jt"y Where do you f From his let- ters. He men- ml Uons nothing but a girl named Tuna. And a long way YOU Can lea ™ a ißßis=^^^^===== 1 ■"—"111 * [Ettetttng (Eljat Edward Wilson, one of the Har risburg young men who have gone out and made good, was in Harris burg yesterday on work for the State Board of Public Charities, of which he is a special agent, and told some interesting accounts of the way citierf and counties are utilizing short-term prisoners to relieve the labor situa tion. "The labor shortage is seri ous, far more so than many people realize, and we will commence to feel it m6re and more," said Mr. Wilson. "Now what we are trying to do Is to get the prison authorities to make Inmates work instead of being kept in prison. They can thus be useful and earn at the same time." Mr. Wilson discussed the matter with Mayor Daniel L. Kelster while here and also took up the subject with Warden William A. Mcllhenny at the Dauphin County Prison. "Dauphin county has made a start with pris oners and inmates at the county farms at the Almshouse. All you have to do is to look at the way they harvested," said he. "The point Is that the warden can put men out In charge of certain persons who are bound to see that they return when wanted. The whole matter Is one for the prison authorities and the intent of the legislation was to re lieve the labor situation. Suppose men could be sent from the prison< to help fix up roads in the county." Mr. Wilson said that In Bloomsbnrg. prisoners were used to unload coalt and made more money than they had In years as well as performing a. service which was much appreciated. In Wilkes-Barre they chopped up-, ties and the money went to the Red! Cross, while In Wllliamsport they have worked on streets. In Reading! men were needed on some hurry up work at an electric plant which: supplied the whole community. Men could not be had. but they were sent' from the prison and they did excel-j lent work and were well paid. "I understand that In Wllliamsport the men did not come back to the Jail," he concluded. "The man in charge gave them meal tickets and a place to sleep and saw that they worked. And then they were paid. What some of the people In prisons need is a chance to work with some one to make them take the chance. This Is the time to try it, when every pair of hands has a place waiting for the owner." • • • Major William G. Murdoefc. who met Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson in the middle of the hottest part of yesterday afternoon In MaN ket street, remarked he and the labor member of the Presidential Cabinet always seemed to meet up when the weatherman was doing business. "The first I ever met the Secretary, who comes from up my way, was on a broiling hot afternoon at Wllliamsport. We were together for some time. Then I met him on a very, very cold day in Washington and then I ran up against him one day in Philadelphia when It was raining cats' and dogs and no one could go out. And now I meet him when the weather is around 100 de grees." • • • P. D. Calhoun, the Western Un ion's wireman in these parts, is sleeping with one ear open theso y days. Mr. Calhoun has to keep the lines in shape and this is the season of the year when the thunderstorms are sudden, numerous and severe. Often things will be nice and hot, such as we have been having the last few days, and there will be a glorious sunset and then about mid "night a storm that will have a su- I perabundance of lightning and trou ble for every one having to do with wires. Between wind and lightning, things are apt to be strenuous fct linemen at any hour these days. • • • If Ex-Mayor Maurice C. Eby were living, he would be getting after men who drive horses over asphalt streets these hot days without pro tecting their heads. There are not as many horses to be seen In Mar ket and Third streets these days but It does seem hard to see the animals going through the blistering heat without even a handful of leaves to shade their heads. The old horse sunbonnet ought to come back again. • • • "If the war lasts many monthi longer, we will not have any but girl elevator operators. There are not many men running elevators now and they will be less in a few weeks," said a man interested in building op erations to-day. "There are girl ele vator operators In a number of build ings and colored girl operators, too. They all do very well, I am told, and are alert and obliging. We have not yet come to the women on street cars, but the women Jitney operators who have been In the streets are' a sign of what may come." • • • Sergeant Philip German, who will be in charge of the scorers at tho Mount Gretna rifle matches next week, has a record of over a quarter of a century connected with military organizations here and is one of the men active in expanding the old City Grays Association as an organization to have handy in case of need. Mr. German has been in touch with over 100 of the former members and Is planning to have them uniformed and armed. • • • J. O. Hauser, of the Philadelphia Press, formerly connected with the State Department of Health, was among visitors to Harrlsburg yester day. He was at the Capitol, where he iriet a number of old friends. \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —R. H. Wilbur, well known here, has resigned from the Lehigh Coal Interests, to become head of the Le high and New England Railroad un der the federal Vnanuagement. —James N. Lightner, wounded In France, was captain of the Lancaster company of the old Fourth Infantry. —Dr. C. B. Penrose, president of the State Game Commission, Is vis iting along Long Island Sound. —G. R. Fleming, Y. M. C. A. sec retary at Wllliamsport, writes from France that many more secretaries are needed. —Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scran ton, Is urging an advAnce of sls In the monthly pay of policemen to hold his force together. —George B. Harley, publicity chief of the Pennsylvania railroad whose office has been abolished, will remain with th company In another capacity. —Elam Spahr, president of the State Bricklayers, says that the duty of the men is to co-operate with the government now. [ DO YOU KNOW l—That HarHsburg will noon have men on all tho battle fronts and fn Siberia, too? HISTORIC 'HARRISBURG —ln old days two churches were located In the "short length of Lo cust street.
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