6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTIXO CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOL.E President and Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYBTER, Businets Manager OCS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Eiltor A.. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 3, P. McCTTLfcOUGH, 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. Jl Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa tion. the Audit ~.ffk Bureau of Circu- EISsrSES"*® lation and Penn- PlSSaßaanl n sylvanla Associ i ICS 5 Sw*' Hated Bailies. I §£§ SBB M ® | 8 * • r g k ff ' c & 'sSbSSh Avenue Building IJtSLESBS MS New York City; 0.3F Western office, '®BrTrSSrSS Story, Brooks & Finley, People's — Chicago, IU. ' mK ' Entered at the Post Office In .Harris burg. Pa, as second class matter % By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1918 Be tcho cannot „-miie ought not to keep a shop. — CHINESE PROVERB. THE NEW DRAFT LAW SECRETARY BAKER'S proposal to place all men with dependents ■ in deferred classifications under the new draft law was doubtless prompted by the fact that age limit extended from eighteen to forty-five, inclusive, there will be plenty of effectives without depend ents to meet all apparent demands. The Secretary's plan is fair and will save a vast amount of work on the part of local boards, who will not be required thereafter to make deci sions of a delicate nature and -nen who have dependents and who are intended by the terms of the law to remain at homo will not be put to the embarrassment of having to ap ply for deferred classification. In so far the Secretary is doing a good stroke of work. But there are other matters to consider in the new draft well worthy of attention. Our armies in France are quick on their feet and hard of fist because they are com posed of young and vigorous men. To brigade men of forty-five with men of twenty and twenty-one can have but one effect, which would be to slow up the whole military machine, for a regiment is no stronger than its weakest soldier and men of forty-five cannot compete as soldiers with Jads just come of age. Not that men of forty-five should be kept outside the fighting zone; they would be the first to protest against such a course, but that it would seem the part of wisdom to keep men under thirty-one in or ganizations separate from those be yond that age, for the sake of effi ciency as well as in Justice to older men, who would break trying to keep up with their younger and more vig orous comrades. There is also in this recommenda tion the consideration that younger men can be brought into first class physical form in much shorter time than can men approaching middle age, and speed of preparation is one of the chief demands of the moment. "Food controllers aim to bring down prices," says the New York Times. The food controller who can do that can have our vote for Presi dent. He'll be some statesman. THE TIME IS RIPE PRESIDENT WILSON'S decision to act in Siberia and Russia proper came none too soon. In a few days or a few weeks the op portunity would have passed. The Bolshevikl are on their last legs and Germany has been bending every ef fort to become the dominating fac tor, If no longer through the Bolshe vik leadership, then through other agencies, and countless Prussian rep resentatives are already at work throughout the empire, trying to turn sentiment away from the allies by lies and to convince the people they would be better under the wing of Germany. Russians have come to the plape where they are demanding a change from present intolerable conditions, and no matter how antagonistic the Bolsheviki may be to intervention, "great masses of people In private life are ready to turn to the allies as their only hope. Pe&sants who believed the stories of the Bolshevik leaders that they could have more land by taking it away from richer neighbors have found that increase of property by mere appropriation is t anything but easy or profitable. In some cases, says William Franklin Sands in writing of conditions within Russia, the peasant has attempted to take the land and has come into con flict with other neighbors who also wanted the farm he coveted, and there have been fights and murders as a consequence. Marauding sol diers have made the lives of others miserable. Countless adventurers and criminals are going about look ing for victims. The government of , fers any Russian anything he wants. SATHD-DAY EVENING, providing he can go out and take It, but can glvo him no protection from the next man who happens along and wants what the first has got. The common people are terrorised, de jected and confused. It tho allies can convince them that tho expe ditionary soldiers are kindly dis posed and In earnest, their armed forces doubtless will find them selves In high favor, particularly when they begin to restore order, provide food for the hungry and medicine for the suffering. America has always been held,ln high esteem by the Russians. Our great effort now must be to persuade the people of that stricken country that what the Bolshevik have told them of us are so many German made lies and then demonstrate by onn deeds the friendly spirit we en tertain. Russia is capable of great things, but she is like a man in the critical stages of fever—too weak to throw oft the disease that holds him and greatly in need of the ministrations of a physician. America, In this case, must be the doctor. The time is here and the opportunity is ripe for a great stroke of statesmanship in freeing the former domain of the Czar from the slimy clutch of the Prussian beast. "Conservation of clothes must be the next move." says a textile maga zine correspondent. But we're already doing it in Harrisburg. Some of our girls are conserving below, above and on both sides, to say nothing of the arms. LABOR AND TEMPERANCE THE oft-repeated assertion that labor is opposed to national pro hibition is refused by the mem bers of Lodge No. 574, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who, in a series of resolutions adopted recently, roundly condemn those at Washing ton who have been trying to line them up with booze. The railroad brotherhoods are high type labor organizations. They have been recognized as such for many years. The members of lodge No. 574 say they are patriotic citi zens. Tho proof of this needs no further demonstration than the num ber of railroad men who have gone from Harrisburg to France, a very large number of them as volunteers and many beyond draft age. They feel that they have been misrepre sented by both union officials and government agents at Washington who have held that labor in general is opposed to prohibition and would resent interference with the sale of intoxicants. The resolutions, in part as follows, clearly set forth the position of the lodge with respect to "dry" regu lations by Congress: Resolved, That we. Lodge 574. Brotherhood of Railway Train men, commend highly the effici ent service of President Samuel Gompers along labor lines and his loyalty and intense American ism in the present national crisis, yet we emphatically condemn his mistaken judgment in his so called "testimony" before the Agricultural Committee of the l-nited States Senate as untrue to the real attitude of labor as a whole towards the use of intoxi cating liquors. While he prob ably expresses the sentiments of the 60.000 brewery workers, he did not express the sentiments of the 400,000 railroad employes engaged in the transportation ser vice alone, all of whom are for bidden by rule even to frequent places where liquors are sold. Resolved, That we are amazed at the "testimony" of Postmaster General Burleson, and wonder whether he would accept for failure in the performance of duty on the part of any employe the excuse that he was "an old time Democrat" simply exercising his right of "personal liberty" to take a drink. Resolved, That we rejoice in our American citizenship, and we pledge ourselves to live up to our motto of "benevolence, sobriety and industry," and further pledge our all. both physically and finan cially. to our Government for the successful prosecution of the war to the end that liberty shall not die. Resolved. That we urge the United States Senate and the House of Representatives speed ily to unite in passing a law en acting nation-wide prohibition during the war. Labor is no untutored child, that its opinions must be pronounced ready-made for It by this or that union leader or party politician. Laboring men have learned to speak for themselves. They are very will ing to be led by President Gompers or anybody else, so long as the lead ing is done in conformity with the wishes of the majority, but they bit terly resent being lined up as advo cates of the bar room and its asso ciated evils. There are Just as many good thinking labor union men as there are in any other walk of life and the members of lodge No.' 574 have voiced the sentiments of vast numbers of such by asserting their independence of opinion and action. The ultimatum of Lcnlne Is about as frightful as a political threat by William Jennings Bryan. NO TIME FOR PEAC/, AGAIN the word comes from Europe that Germany is about to launch a new peace offensive. If so, Lloyd George has replied for ttye Allies before the peace movement could get under way. "No quarter" must bo the allied watchword now. This is no time for peace. It Is a time to concentrate on giving the Hun the beating he so richly deserves. We cannot honor ably enter into peace negotiations with the present German govern ment ajiy more than a judge In court could discuss with the mur derer upon whom he is to pass sen tence the terms of his punishment. Germany has become an outlaw. She has chosen the path of crime, rapine and murder. Falsehoods, blood, loot, the lives of babies and the honor of women have been her stock in trade. The present German government has decided to live by the sword and it must die by the sword. We shall talk peace with Germany when her armies are shat tered and the allies are speaking in the terms of force upon which the Kaiser has staked the fate of his empire and his own worthless neck. Nor are the German people to be held blameless. Countless of them are held undor the thumb of the ruling class, It Is true, fearsome to voice the hate they hold in their hearts for the present system, but countless others have bartered peace for the hope of participating In the booty that German armies were to wrest from helpless peoples. These must be punished. They must be made to feel the strong arm of the police powers of the nations. They must be made to understand that no one people is strong enough to rule the world and that the International criminal must serve sentnnnn for hi crimes even as the individual of fender against the laws of society Is forced to do. Liquor consumption Is falling oft, according to the report of the Audi tor General's Department, which may or may not be traceable to the fact that the size of the glass has gone down as the size of the price has gone up. foUUctU "~Pc-n.it4AjCtfa.iua By the Ex-Committeeman Sets of nominating petitions for the Supreme Court were taken out at the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth to-day for Charfes B. Lenahan, of Wllkes- Barre, and F. B. Gallup, of Smeth port. Papers had been previously taken out by friends of Justices Alexander Simpson, Jr., and Edward J. Fox and inquiri*; had been made by men Interested In campaigns of half a doaen other men, including O. H. Bechtel. of Pottsville, and A. V. Dively, of Altoona. The „ctivity of Judge John W. Kephart, of the Superior Court, in visiting various sections, has aroused considerable interest here and it Is expected that it will disturb the midsummer calm. President Judge George Kunkel, of this city, who has been urged to be a candidate, has declined to indicate what he is going to do. Every indication is that the wind up of the period for filing papers will be very interesting. —William S. Aaron, of Altoona, one of the candidates for Republican nomination for Congress-at-Large ar.d who was named on the Wash ington ticket, has filed his with drawal as a candidate at the State Department. —Formal retirement this week of J. Denny O'Neil as the nominee of I the Roosevelt Progressive party for Governor of Pennsylvania clears the state ticket lists of candidates named by scattering votes who did not re ceive Republican nominations, with a single exception. Mr. O'Neil be came candidate of the Roosevelt Progressive party for Governor be cause a couple score of men who voted under the caption of that rem nant of the campaign of 1912 cast their ballots for him Just as Fred E. Lewis became the candidate of the same party, as far as it amounts to anything, for Secretary of Internal Affair's. Both have withdrawn and in all probability the same course will be taken by M. B. Rich, of Clin ton county, who is a candidate for Congressman-at-Large through the same scattering votes. Senator Ed ward E. Beidleman. who won the nomination of the Roosevelt Pro gressives for Lieutenant Governor, will retain it, so that he is Repub lican, Washington and Roosevelt Progressive nominee, as are Congres sional Candidates Anderson H. Wal ters and Thomas S. Crago. M. M. Garland is candidate on the Repub lican and Roosevelt Progressive tick ets. Senator William C. Sproul is 1 Washington as well as Republican' nominee for Governor, James F. Woodward having tho same nomina tions for Secretary of Internal Af fairs. None of the Democratic or Prohibition candidates is on any oth er ticket. The Roosevelt Progres sive and possibly the Washington party names will disappear after this fall's election. —lt is becoming increasingly ap parent that there will be some "gumshoe" candidates for Supreme Court Justice and that it will be hard to tell who will be aspirants until the nomination papers are filed on Sep tember 26. President Judge George Kunkel, of the Dauphin courts, who was here this week on a trip from his summer home, declined to say what he is going to do. Friends of Judges John W. Kephart and 0. H. Bechtol have been getting busy in this dis trict. —Mayor George M. Baily, of Uniontown, has gone to the people with the troubles he has been hav ing with the councilmen of the Fay ette capital. In a statement he aays the members are cowards for placing the blame of non-appointment of a woman policeman on him, while he was absent. Mayor Baily, after ad mitting that he had failed to provide for such an officer in the budget when he was told by the city solicitor that the matter could be adjusted any time, stated: "For the benefit of all the Uniontown people I want to say that the mayor of this city Is a fig urehead. He cannot select or appoint a policeman or even a janitor for the police station. It Is all done by a vote of council. Wc have some men on the police force who are utterly un fit, I asked the council to drop them, hut political expediency kept them on the force. The taxpayers will have to pay about $2,000,000 to get out of debt. The bonded indebtedness is sl,- 000.000, and before it is paid the In terest will run it up to $2,000,000." Out With All Pacifists [Col.- Harvey's War Weekly] , Four years of war, and how much more God only knows. The blood guiltiness of it rests in awful meas ure upon us, for our stubborn un willingness to prepare for it, for our neglect of moral obligations, for our crass persistency in dreaming of be ing too proud to fight, in thinking that we had no interest in the causes and motives of the war, in pretend ing that we had no quarrel with the Hunnish nation, in hoping for peace without victory, ad in laying to our souls the flattering unction that the war was 3,000 miles away. These are the reasons why the war is so prolonged, and why after nearly a year and a half in It ourselves the end still seems so wearily far away. It is a fearful lesson that we are' learning, at a fearful cost; perhaps yet to be prolonged for years. But the part of a man, of a nation, is to learn it at whatever cost; #.nd let htm who In smug stupidity or smirk- j ins smartness-would try even now to ignore it and to meddle with the le'arning and the application to which the nation is at last coming—let him be ground between the upper and nether millstones of contempt and I wrath. , HAJRRISBTXRG TELEGRAPH THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST I Boys- as cmaißtaam • thb I COMMITTOO- WUI.CO**O 1 I Ybvj To OUR COUftSO- Thcs MO4T , ' I -BtAurrFvu J THU COUMTKY-/ I ftAtfa vboßStLves at . Hnie. FIRST HUWORBO") [ YeARS Afie THF / —/ The Kaiser's Six Boys [St. Louis Globe-Democrat] Pastor Drysander, founder of the German-American journal named The Peace Call, published at Zur ich, in Switzerland, has asked the German Kaiser how many sons he has lost since the beginning of the war. He even goes further and prints: "In the event there have been no casualties in the imperial family, we demand an immediate explanation." After publishing the inquiry and demand, both wore sent by Pastor Drysander in a telegram adressed to the Kaiser. The report concludes with the sentence: "Emperor "William has not replied." He may be impressed, as was that young member of Con gress who, in the midst of a heated speech during the reconstruction period, was asked if he had served as a soldier in the Civil war. "Mr. Speaker," said he, "I am willing to answer all proper questions, but I do not want to be interrupted by mere technicalities." Pastor Drysander may not realize that he has been highly technical, but from the Kais er's point of view he must seem to be so. The Kaiser longs to appear medieval. He has approved the methods of Attila the Hun. with the exception of leading his troops into action, as Attila did, or of placing any of his own flesh and blood in places of actual leadership which can be filled by Captains, Lieuten ants, and noncoms. The Kaiser is medieval in war with these few ex ceptions, which probably he only re serves for the purpose of proving the rule. In Medieval wars Kings led their armies. Noblesse oblige! History shows us a long list of names of Kings slain in battle. Harold of England fell at Hastings, James of Scotland at Flodden Field, Hard rada of Norway at Stamford. Rich ard at Bosworth. The history of Germany shows a bright galaxy of names of royal Germans dying with their boots on at the front of bat tle lines. Before we condemn the Kaiser utterly as an atavistic rever sionist we must credit him and all of his princelings with that degree of modernity moving them to exer cise the modern royal prerogative of staying behind and urging their men forward. For all practical intents and pur poses in hard fighting the Hohen zollerns are only drafted for the war In class 23-Z. Let the record stand and mark the rating of al presump tious royalty hereafter, not only in military but political life. If, there fore, blue blood should want to boll red In combat, let the world rest at that wise point in philosophy of the old ballad: If Kings would show THEIR might. Let those who make the quarrels Be the only ones to fight —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Ole'-Clo's Man [Kansas City Star.] The German government has called for all the old clothes In Ger many, everybody being expected to give up at least one suit. The Crown Prince has a uniform he apparently has no use for. And what has tie come of Hindenburg's shoes? Another Forward Step (From the Newark News) A 20 per cent, tax on musical in struments has been suggested. At last a means of discouraging the second-story corntetplayer has been found. MOTHER Sometimes young mothers press their babies close And lavish kisses on a rosy cheek- In Just this wiy you surely fondled me. Who could not understand or even speak. When wondrous women through the early years Do Joyfully a thousand little tasks That childhood needs and only moth ers know, I must remember that you labored so. Ambttlous youths go out when school days end To seek adventure or success In life. You watched me reach this gate and carry through No grander lessons than were taught by you. And now forever In that dim beyond You see and understand and always wait Till He shall call together you and me. Keeping the best things for eternity. MARIE C. HIGGINS. —ln the Catholic Standard and Times Heroines of [St. Louis Star] WHO will be this war's heroine in trousers? A Deborah Sampson in 1776 laid aside her petticoats for a Min ute Man's uniform without any of the stern Puritans being any the wiser, and a Lucy Brewer, in 1812, donned a Jackie's costume, enlisted in the Marine Corps, and after a thrilling career in naval battles, where she conducted herself as a "hero," returned home, rysumed her hoops and brocades and married a perfectly respectable man. Up to the present, so far as is known, there are no "fellows" wear ing the olive drab or the navy blue who should be attired in Georgette crepe waists and serge skirts. Adventurous damsels who might be tempted to emulate the example of either of these early feminine fighters will find the entire details of Lucy's adventures and her meth ods of masculine camouflage in her own account of her experiences. This historical document is given in part in The Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution Magazine. Like many a man patriot. Miss Brewster entered the war to escape the unhappy life at home. At 17 years old she had an unfortunate love affair, and her unfeeling father ordered her out of her home. Her parents were well-to-do, living in a small town in Plymouth County, about forty miles from Boston. She took the name of "Louisa Baker" and went to Boston. When war broke out between the United States and Great Britain she induced an officer of an American privateer, then lying in the Port of Boston, to obtain for Her a sailor's suit. She cropped her hair and don ned it. Lucy must have been what would be called in these days "a mighty America Finding Her Strength The War Department's decision to ask for an extension of the age lim its in the new Army legislation to include the 18 and 4 5-year-old classes, discloses a right apprecia tion both of the size of our war job and the obligation of every physical ly fit American to bear a part in it. The problem, when all else is said, remains one of manpower, and America has the men. How much of our manpower we shall be com pelled to put into the battle before the enemy breaks nobody can ven ture to estimate, but the first part of wisdom is to have it ready to put in when it is needed. That means the whole population of fighting age must be trained. Our national business now is war, and every American who can carry a gun, hammer a ship rivet, cut down a tree or produce a food crop must become a soldier. No matter how many millions are required, they must be made ready, they must be made ready even beyond the needs so far as we can now see them. No commander in battle uses up his last division of reserves if he can possibly help It until he sees where one is coming to take its place, nor ought we as a nation to stop in the process of raising and training armies, either front line or industrial armies, on a mere guess that we may have provided enough. We must keep on raising and train ing them as long as the war lasts, right up to the limit of our re sources. If we don't have to use them, so much the better: we can turn them back into our civil life as a leaven. But we must have them ready as long as the calls come, for we are the reserves, and reserves win the battle. The new age limits are the notice to the enemy that we are putting our full manpower In. He will know what that means. He knows it means his utter defeat as an Inexor able and mathematical certainty, for he has America's war strength down on his private card Index system in the minutest detail. But his hope had been that America wouldn't use Its full strength, wouldn't consider it necessary. Just as America In the old Jogging peace times wasted more food than it ate and threw away more money than It spent usefully, so would America make war Ineffi ciently, he thought, sending one army In without providing another to replace it, skimming tthe surface but never getting down to the bed rock of our strength. That was the German view of America. But the German was wrong about that as he has been on other things. America has taken the war on as a business, and from the moment It viewed it as such and prepared for It as such Germany never had ' a chance. good sport," for she immediately started out to see if she could "get by" as a man. In the pamphlet which she issued after her discharge from the navy she details her first day's adventures thus: "Being garbed completely In a sailor's suit, I quit, unnoticed, my lodgings and passed into the public street. From my awkward appear ance in attempting to assume the character of a man I was not with out my fears that I should be sus pected. Nor were my apprehen sions relieved until, passtng through Court street, I ventured to accost one of my own sex. She answered with a ready 'Yes, sir," which strengthened my confidence that I should pass for a man. "I then bent my course to the old market, where, entering a victualing cellar, I procured my breakfact. "The remainder of the day I spent pleased in being enabled to visit public places where women would not have been admitted." The young woman "sailor" then obtained lodgings, "without difficul ty," and the next morning sought a passage southward. But the harbor was closely blockaded and no vessels ventured abroad, so she had to give" up the idea of a southern cruise, ghe says: "Passing through Fish street, I entered a house where there was a public rendezvous for the enlistment of men to go aboard one of the .United States frigates then lying in the harbor, and shortly bound on a cruise. I viewed this as a favor able opportunity to try my fortune in the public service of my country, provided I could avoid the search which new recruits generally under go. This I succeeded in doing by an artful stratagem and entered as a marine, receiving my advance money and clothing, and the next 1 day I was taken aboard." Guiseppe the Guide [Public Ledger] The "Tonys," Pasquales and Gui seppes who are returning to their native land or that of their fathers in American Army contingents which have reached Italy are capable of performing valuable services for Al lied unity. Happily Bilingual, they can not only converse with their co workers, but solve many perplexing problems for the solely English speaking "doughboy." Immediate solution of the sort of riddles which have baffled many of our soldiers in France is thus at hand. Piloted by companions In arms who rattle oft opera libretto talk with comforting volubility, many a private may learn that an article marked "soldo" has not been sold, but is purchasable at the modest equivalent of one American cent; that a "chiesa" is not a cheese, as Mark Twain confessed to believing it, but a church, and that "caffe caldo" is not distressing cold cof fee, but the welcome hot variety. Thus cleared of complications, for eign air can be congenially breathed and pangs of homesickness percept ibly relieved. Half of our troops now in Italy are said to be of Italian or origin. Their Americanism of spirit is not in the least impugned by this fact, while their usefulness in bring ing two liberty-loving nations closer together is greatly enhanced. A stranger in a strange land will ex change a dictionary for a pal who is also an enthusiastic Interpreter any day In the week. Gas Mask and All (From the New York Sun) Those who have wondered over the fate of the Dove of Peace will be relieved to learn that she has put on a uniform and Is serving Uncle Sam as a carrier pigeon on the western front. LABOR NOTES • Civil servants at Ottawa, Canada, will work dally until 6 cfclock In stead of 4 during the summer, as in previous years. Publicans of Dublin. Ireland, and their assistants, having settled their difficulties, the public houses have been reopened. On the payroll of the city of New ton, Mass. is a cat which dVaws $29.20 a year as "offcial rat and mouse catcher." Working at certain jobs out of which men formerly made from $3 to $4 a day. women are now earning from $S to (13 at the same rate of lpa. AUGUST 10, 1918. AUGUST ON THE RIVER The swooning heat of August Swims along the valley s bed. The tall reeds burn and blacken, While the gray elm droops Its head. And the smoky sun above the hills is glaring hot and red. Along the shrinking river. Where the salmon-nets hang brown Piles the driftwood of the freshets, And the naked logs move down To the clanking chains and shrieking saws of the mills above the town. M Outside the booms of cedar. The fish-hawks drop at noon; When night comes trailing up the stars. We hear the ghostly loon; And watch the herons swing their flight against the crimson moon. —Lloyd Roberts. Editors'll Always Be Around (From the New York World) The war which could not possibly last four months because no nation could longer endure the physical and financial strain has lasted four years —yet there will always be proph ets' As Our Pastor Might Say (From the Kansas City Star) It probably will be unnecessary for the German war office to offer a higher position to General Hell. He is what the American soldiers have been raising already. | OUR DAILY LAUGH IN DANGER. "They say women are to wear trousers this winter." "Aha! I thought I noticed my ■wife viewing my best panU wlt> speculative eye." THAT'S DIFFERENT. She (desperately): When did y•-. learn to dance? He: I didn't. 1 Just took it up. CONSIDERATE GIRL. "Did you scream when he tried to kiss you?". "No, there's a poor man In tho next flat who is very sick." POSTPONED. "Have you started your divorce ult yet?" "No—hubby's Just had a tremen dous run luck with * war-bride.", lEuwiraj (Clfat Adjutant General Frank D. Beary, who has been following the develop ment of the War Department's greaty depots near Harrlsburg with tho greatest interest and who has been expanding the State Arsenal, says that few people realize that It will make Harrlsburg more or less of a garrison city. The activities of tho State Arsenal have created a pei>- manent force which has to do en tirely with the military property of the state and the coming of the depots to the vicinity of this city and they are of permanent construction* means that there will be soldiers la force stationed here. The three sup ply depots, all of which will be la full operation before people realize it, will handle an Immense amount of material of all sorts and in ad dition to the soldiers and civilians who will man the great warehouses there will be garrisons of soldiers to guard the reservations. Each of the three places Is a government reser vation, Just the same as a fort, and. under martial regulations. The pres ence of the soldiers near Harrlsburg; permanently after the war will be a novelty. While the war lasts the warehouses will receive materials from factories and store them until needed to go overseas. These estab lishments, which cannot be fully de scribed in war time, are a notable addition to the Harrisburg district. • • At least 1,000 miles through Penn sylvania forests and along the val leys and over the mountains will be traveled .in the next two weeks by Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chairman of the State Game Commission; Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, the secretary, and proba"bly one other member of the commission on the annual tour of the game preserves. Dr. Penrose, who provides the automobile and pays most of the expenses of the tour, is a keen sportsman, and next to Dr. Kalbfus probably knows more about the game conditions in the state than anyone else. Ho has personally vis ited everyone of the game preserves except a few established this year and some of those he knows by rea son of Inspections of the tracts pro posed In Dauphin, Huntingdon and Union counties. The state has twen ty-four of its own and three aux iliaries. Work on the sew preserve in Forest county started this weelc. The plan is to Inspect the conditions in the preserves and study -what has been done in the way of propagation during the last year and the pros pects for the coming fall. Some tracts which have been suggested for game preserves will be visited and first-hand information of value in advance of the fall hunting sea son will be compiled by Dr. Kalbfus. Meetings will be held with the game protectors and the special l men'who are going on duty. • • • Will the blackbirds stick around for the opening of the first stage of the hunting season, Is the question which many men who like to hunt In™ ttfe farming sections of the state have been asking here. Immense flocks of the blackcoats have been observed lately and reports made to t/he State Game Commission indicate that the larger flocks began forming rather earlier than usual. Southern Pennsylvania counties report enor mous numbers of blackbirds follow ing the oats harvest. It has always been a guessing game in this section of the state whether the blackbirds would be here when the season open ed and some years they have left only some rear guards to tease the hunters. Under the Pennsylvarva law the blackbird may he shot by the owner of a farm when destroy ing crops or fruit or doing dam age to wild life of a valuable char acter to farmers and some have been > shot. The Game Commission has authority to direct killing of the blackbirds when they become a nuis ance, but as yet no complaints that would justify any killing order havo come here. The birds have been in large flocks, but have been no more of an annoyance than usual. The season for hunting opens on Sep tember 1 and runs until the end of November,the number to be shot be ing unlimited. If the blackbirds stay in anything like the numbers they have ben reported there will be some potpies this fall. • * * Senator Edward E. Beidleman Is having quite a time to get any Sat urday afternoons for himself. The Senator is in demand for the various farmers' picnics which are generally held on Saturdays in August and as he has to go out on tho stumn in September he has not much l rie_ left. Some of the picnic events the Senator has attended for years. • ♦ • According to some well-posted people who have been observing In sect life there will be visitations by the locusts next summer. Some ol the wings are now appearing with out the "W" which meant war which will soon be taken as a sign oi peace. Some well developed lo rusts have been found near the sur face of the ground In Derry town ship which is taken as confirmation of the 1910 visitation. In the up per end o the county locusts have been a nuisance in several localities, f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Commissioner A. C. Gumbert, of Allegheny county, elected president of the County Commissioners of the state, used to play baseball years ago. —Ralph D. Paine, the author. Is giving his time to publicity to speed up production In Pennsylvania coal mines. —Jacob E. Weaver, who made one of the addresses at the Pen Mar Odd Fellows' gathering, has long been a member of that organization. —William S. McKee, lawyer, has been appointed a major of Infantry in the army. —Doga.n McKee, secretary of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, has taken up war work. —Senator P. C. Knox will occupy his Valley Forge residence this fall. It is now being renovated. r DO YOU KNOW —That Harrlsburg Is making some special steels used for manufacture of heavy ordnance? This city is helping win the war In fifty ways and with a variety of products. HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first markets were held along the river front and about 1.800 wagons used to gather in Market Square.
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