8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGKAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OTSTER, Business Manager DCS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A- R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCTJLLOUGH, "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 A. Newspaper Pub lißhers' Assocla tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn r® sylvania Associ [iPlffl fig* M ated Dallies. !MBBII 5b Flnloy. Br °FM ft h lEafsEaa. Tim Avenue Building, JSR flB5 Mfc New York City; Western office, |Actl -jijWCT!" Story, Brooks & ;ij frrOrfg Ffnley, People's s >33?—Gas Building, — —- Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. ,<535£HK!9>. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1918 Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there with. — PROVERBS 15: 17. GOOD WORK THE Harrlsburg Civic Club has' done a commendable bit of work in throwing open its build ing at North and Front streets to be used as a recreation place for visit ing soldiers. The clubhouse is one of the handsomest and most beauti fully located structures in the city and ideally adapted for the purposes designed. The members are justly proud, of It and they have dono a generous thing In sharing it with the men in uniform. It is to be hoped that means will be found whereby soldiers coming in at the Reading and Pennsylvania stations may be made aware of the facilities offered. Properly dis played signs might be used as guides. Harrisburg will have more soldiers than ever when the garrisons for the Mlddletown and New Cumberland depots arrive and the clubhouse bids fair to become popular with them. After a while wo shall be able to match up William the Conqueror with William the Conquered. REAL JAP SENTIMENT REPORTS from Japan are to the effect that the Japanese people are enthusiastic over the suc cess of American, troops In France and wildly cheer every American triumph over the Germans. This is in strange contrast with the stories of Japanese antagonism to America with which we have been regaled these many years. This delight of the Japs in Ameri can victories must be taken at face value. Crowds do not cheer unless they feel like it; Newspapers con trolled by a government may be bent in the direction of that government's policies, but the people before the bulletin boards voice their true sen timents and the Japanese mean it when they hurrah for the Yankee soldiers along the Marne. • It begins to look as though much of the "yellow peril" had been made in Germany, for Germany's own foul purposes. Women in England number 121 to every 100 men. And Brlgham Young but a memory. WHY WE FIGHT EVEN at this late day we oc casionally hear a disconsolate parent, bewailing the absence of a son, ask why it was necessary that we go to France to fight the Germans. The other day at Mount Notre Dame, along the Vesle, American troops found under a hill and out of the line of direct Are the charred remains of what was once a 3,000- bed hospital of the French Army previous to the German drive of last Spring, which the Boche burned to the ground after killing most of the doctors and nurses and the 600 pa tients with their machine guns, which they brought up and pointed through the very windows of the one-story wards. That is why our boys are going to France—to keep these hospital as sassins from coming here and to make a repetition of their dastardly crimes impossible anywhere in the future. If only the Germans had another Crown Prince of some sort up around Ostend we'd feel more confident about the next allied attack. AUTOMOBILE TAXES AUTOMOBILE owners and deal ers have been much disturbed over reports from Washington regarding the possibility of exces sive taxes on gasoline and passenger cars, and very properly so, for legis lation of the kind under considera tion would put many, of them out 1 THURSDAY EVENING, HARRBSBTJUQ TELEGRAPH . AUGUST 15, 1918. of business and reduce the number of cars in use by making it impossi ble for owners to operate them and keep out of the bankruptcy courts. But it is not probable that any thing like the drastic provisions thrown out by the tax bill framers at Washington in the nature of feel ers of public sentiment will be en acted. The men who are putting the revenuo bill together know a? well as anybody the Important place the automobile has in the life and industry of the country and while, doubtless, the passenger car owner will be taxed to some extent the as sessment will not be beyond reason. The latest German name for Ameri cans in France is "Satans," and every body in this country knows who is going to get the Germans in the end, so maybe the name is appropriate after all. WORSE THAN EVER ANEW traffic ordinance has been enacted and the only apparent result is that conditions are worse than ever. Cut-outs are still In use, motor cycles run widly through the streets and automobllists regulate their sjeed by their own {lesires.' What are the police going to do about It? Nothing, we suspect, for they have had ample opportunity In the past and have made little or no attempt to break up these unlawful prac tices. But there Is one remedy that even a careless police force cannot dodge, and that Is the personally lodged complaint of the man or woman whose sleep has been disturbed or whose life has been endangered. No such measures should be necessary, but where the paid servants of the people neglect their duties the only thing to be done is for the people to step in and act for themselves. There seems no other way out, of the present dilemma. The Germans who cut down the beautiful trees of France so that the French would have no place in which to hide, are now wishing for those trees as the allied airplane bombers skim close over their shelterless col umns. SHOULD RIDE FREE THE government Is talking of taking from the soldier the cut rate railroad ticket he has been allowed on short furloughs home to "see the folks." Instead of making him pay more, he should bo given a free pass. The United States should take a leaf from the methods of Great Bri tain In this respect. In England not only English, Irish, Canadian and Australian soldiers on leave are per mitted to ride free to and from their homes, but Americans also are al lowed the free use of the railroad trains. Certainly, it would be a small favor for the government to extend to home-going soldiers, sailors and i marines the courtesy of free travel. The men are poorly paid and many of them are prevented from visiting home because of the expense at tached, of which railroad fare is the largest Item. Profiteering by retailers by advanc ing prices to cover war they do not pay is the latest scheme unearthed In New York, but in some other towns ve know about they merely put on the nrices and let it go at that. MORE SURPRISES GENERAL VON HUTIBR. when he was running the Russians oft their feet along the Riga, came to be known as a "General of Surprises." And now, down along the Somme, he is demonstrating that a "General of Surprises" may also be a Sur prised General. KNOWS NO FAVOR GENERAL CROWDER has forced the twenty-eight-year-old son of the late Senator Jeff Davis into the first class of the 'draft. Young Davis had the full force of the Democratic machine in his State behind him, even the Governor appealing to the draft board for de ferred classification. The local board yielded under protest and the case went to Washington. General Crowder, however, knows no politics. Keeping the draft clean and honest is his life-work. So young Davis will go to war. All honor to General Crowder. DOING A*GOOD WORK ANNOUNCEMENT by the Bureau of Municipalities that Harris burg leads all the third-class cities of the State in number of miles of streets paved will be a' spur for even greater efforts in this direcLoh when the tirqe is ripe for a resump tion of street Improvements. Ordi narily, statistics form dry reading, but when they come in the form of comparison of our own achievements with those of our municipal neigh bors they are both instructive and interesting. The Bureau of Municipalities is doing a good work very quietly, but very effectively, and seeing the re sults of its efforts, one wonders why this branch of the government was not brought into being years ago. It is at once a stimulus to those at the head of municipal governments throughout Pennsylvania and a guiding hand for the weak. The next Legislature would do well to enlarge Jts powers for usefulness. Every report from Prance indicates that the late General Stewart was justified In pronouncing the National Guard of Pennsylvania the finest in the country. IK Crania. By the Ex- Commit teeman Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell's pres ence in Pittsburgh for the second time within a fortnight is taken to mean that the Democratic nominee for the Governorship is engaged in building up in Western Pennsylva nia a fine little machine of his own to buck the organization of the Dem ocratic State Committee after the November election is over. The Judge has been getting over the state in a manner which is quite discon certing to the folks 'at the Demo cratic state windmill in this city and they are now of the oeinion that he means to do just what he says and to have his own campaign commit tees where his friends do not control the county committees, as thety do in Dauphin, it may be said. Judge Bonniwell left here last evening for Pittsburgh after having spent the afternoon visiting nearby counties where his friends are be coming active. Howard O. Holstein, of this city, who ran with him on the primary ticket and who is stren uosly opposed to the McCormick domination of the Democratic'organ ization in Pennsylvania, will have charge of much of the organization work hereabouts. The Democratic State Committee leaders are preparing to call the can didates together late next week and will invite the Judge to meet with them. They will have the state plat form committee meet about the same time. —A Philadelphia dispatch says: "Judge Bonniwell still Insists that J. Washington Logue, of Philadelphia, who won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor, should re sign from the ticket.. Logue, who Is dry, was .the running mate of Joseph F. Guffey. Logue was nominated for Congress in the Sixth district of Phil adelphia by any overwhelming ma jority," said the Judge, "and since President Wilson needs Democrats in Congress to uphold him in carrying through his policies, It is Mr. Logue's duty to withdraw from the state ticket and to run for Congress." —The conviction of the Fifth ward defendants did not seem to make as much of a ripple on Capitol Hill as it might have done a year ago. Men connected with the state administra tion and with the regular organiza tion passed it up without comment and as rather to be expected. A year Is a long time In Pennsylvania poll tics. especially when a gubernatorial primary intervenes. —Secretary of tbe Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods is making efforts to And out just what the government would like Pennsylvania to do In the matter of taking votes of the sol diers, but as yet has been unable to obtain anything like definite infor mation. The tax receipt blanks sent out this week to the various camps in this country are rather indicative of what the voting this year will amount to. If there is any voting overseas it will likely be in the hands of the military, say men con nected with the state government. —An inquiry made to-day for copies of Supreme Court petitions from George J. Campbell, of Pitts burgh, caused considerable stir at the Capitol as it Is not known who Mr. Campbell represents. There are now half a dozen groups of petitions being circulated in the state. —Governor Brumbaugh is not ex pected to name the judge for West moreland county for some weeks. The gossip is that the Governor would like to name Representative D. J. Snyder, but the constitution prevents. —Just as an illustration of what cities are up against in the matter of getting men for positions which in ordinary years would be fought over, this from the Philadelphia In quirer is interesting: "As no one appeared yesterday to compete with J. Stanley Urquehart for'the $2,400 position of chief clerk in the Depart ment of Law, he no doubt will be appointed, as he is the personal se lection of City Solicitor Connelly. Only one candidate took the exami nation for the $1,650 post of pay master, Department of Public Works, and only three rook the tests for a SI,OOO clerical position in the De partment of Transit. Except for an examination for hosemen. Bureau of Fire, to be held August 27, there will be no more civil service examinations until late fall, when a new schedule will be made public." —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day attacks Senator E. H. Vare as being responsible for the condition of the streets in that city. An Old-Time Garden 1 know a garden full of old-time bloom, Like stately portraits in a stately room. The little winds run softly from a daisy-sprinkled slope Down upon the asters and the quiet hellotropS. There are many gardens built most gallantly, A-glitter with orchids and with fleur-de-lis; But my heart is in the garden of the quiet heliotrope, Where Love ran down to meet me from the daisy-sprinkled slope. —Nelson Antrim Crawford. Willed Her Smoking Kit [From the New York World.] Mrs. Henrietta S. Doherty in her will filed a few days ago makes dis position of her "smoking things." To a son she leaves her silver mono grammed cigaret case. To a friend now serving in Italy she bequeaths all the rest of her smoking kit. Keepsakes were disposed of which she received in the Civil War. To another son Mrs. Doherty left all th# remainder of her property except a red shawl. This she said was crocheted for her by her son, Francis Henrietta Doherty, now dead. In this she asked to be wrapped for burial. On Reading the Readers Voltaire said, in speaking of so cial revolution: "There is no danger in the 9-volume philosophical ency clopedia. but watch out for the pamphlet that fits Into the side coat pocket and sells for a few soue."— Cottrell's Magazine. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ARE THE HARDEST By Briggs FOR6CTV BE JORO. TO AERTMAA ~ R ~ ~ " " * 7 / TO THB I - YOXU FIWT> J THG9*J RIIHTHANO VOCKST-J 46. tr (&_ " WS< TH \—\ TACKLE F* / * ■ FIG ST LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE MIXER'S SIDE To the Editor of the Telegraph: You published an article In your paper on August 6, 1918, and also August 7, 1918. I do not know If you are misin formed in those statements or not, but I am. going to set the miners straight before you. You may not know, but I know that the state ments are false and tend to poison the public mind against the coal miners at this critical time. Now then, we admit that there are some miners that make a decent wage per month, but you never hear of a coal miner being classed as a mil lionaire? If you did please publish his name, that will be good news for the mine workers. But isn't it a common thing for a coal operator to be a millionaire? You quote one miner on August 5, 1918. Joseph Malachick, who drew $158.38 for two weeks work. The man is 35 years old, five feet six inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. You didn't state what that miner produced for the coal operator; you forgot to give both sides. Now, Mr. Editor. I will ask you this question: If Joseph Malachick would tako the $158.38 cents how many tons of coal could he buy from the operator back again which the operator didn't do an earthly thing for? And at the same time this Joseph Malachick might, as much I know, have a couple of men working for him and they might only get day's wages from him and he might get the lion's share, as is the case in the mines where I am employed. Where lam employ ed I believe I am safe in saying there isn't a single miner that will receive in wages S3OO a month as you state in your August 7 issue. In the same issue you quote a mere slip of a girl fifteen years old, Elda Winkel mann, when, her two brothers gone to war, Elda boldly spoke to the father if he would allow men wages he would take the job ($5 a day). If the coal miner is the main factor in our present crisis of the world war, he is the lowest paid man in the country. You will travel the whole anthracite coal region and if the company miner receives $5 a day T am mistaken. The colliery where I am employed has on its payroll from 1,000 to 1,200 men and boys and there isn't one miner that will re-1 ceive as his pay in two weeks $l5O or S3OO, as you stated; even the foremen are far below the mark. Now then, as secretary of a local connected with Lincoln colliery, op erated under the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and and Iron Com pany. i will send you a wage sheet that the United Mine Workers enter ed in with the above coal company. I hope you will publish same and t:y to show the public that not every thing that the miner touches is gold just now. (Signed) A MINER. LAUDER FOR M. P. Harry Lauder, the famous come dian, is to be a candidate for a seat in Parliament, according to reports that have reached this country from England. Lauder himself, however, is rather non committal on the subject, as is shown by the following, printed recently in the Manchester Guar-, •dian: "It is rumored," Mr. Lauder re plied, with a smile, when the ques tion of his candidacy was put to him in his dressingroom at the Bouthport Palladium. In his speeches at Bouthport each night he had at tacked pacifists with much vigor, and this may have lent color to the statement that he will oppose either Philip iSnowden at Blackburn or Ramsey Mac Donald at Leicester. Of the two constituencies, Mr. Lauder told our reporter that he would pre fer Blackburn, as this, he believed, has the biggest worklngman popula tion. , But it would be immaterial to him whom he went up against. He thought that if all the people of Britain heard his views they would not hesitate in deciding who was right in "this horrible struggle. If there was to be any kid gloie business in any quarter given to the enemy we were going to drag on the end to exhaustion. Mr. Lauder does not intend to bring his stage career to an end even if his political ambition is sat isfied and he is elected to Parlia ment. When this was mentioned to him, he replied: "No, not necessarily. I can reach a far greater audience from my the atrical standpoint.of view than any man in Great Britain can get." Occasionally Occasionally a truthful man goes fishing.—Chicago Dally News. A Little Talk on Thrift By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift rN considering the value of thrift. It must not be looked at from the standpoint of war alone. It will be as necessary and as valuable in America after the war as it Is now when it is playing so substantial a part in hastening the day of victory, for us. Some one has estimated that the war is costing America $41,482 a minute. The human mind cannot grasp the stupendous burden of the war even if we brush aside all con siderations save financial ones alone. If the war lasts until the end of next June, it will have cost America ap proximately $47,700,000,000. Thus with the piling up of a prodigious war debt, it is at once apparent that the American people must be pre pared to practice rigid habits of thrift long after the days of conflict are over. After the war is over, the process of bringing home our millions of troops from Europe will require at least many months of time and addi tional millions of dollars. There is a possibility that It will take as long to get the troops back as it has to get them over. No one knows how long they will be kept under arms before being mustered out of service and allowed to resume the pursuits of peace. Opinions may vary as to the economic conditions that will prevail in America with the dawn of peace, but no one can doubt the ab solute need of continued thrift prac tices. BY THE SOMME RIVER By J. HOWARD WERT Wifd bursts the storm — Dense ranks are riven. Swift as they form, Fierce pressed, fierce driven. And hark! above the battle's swell Of sound, the shrill, spontaneous yell Of charging men for whom no bell, In death, shall ring a parting knell By the Somme river. Still on they sweep; Bugle and fife Rouse not from sleep Those reft of life: Swells high in air the challenge note; An answer comes from the cannon's throat; Dire death and hideous ruin gloat Till darkness veils the flags that float By the Somme river. Again the light; But rages yet The battle's blight. While bayonet Pours deep and full the crimson flood That oozes through the heel-pressed sod— That dyes the waters dark with blood: Must such things be, O Righteous God, By the Somme river! With shrieks and groans:— Borne on the air, In mingled tones, — Revenge, despair— Teutonic hosts are driven back Before our batteries' scathing rack; Death lines the wide cyclonic track That marked the Allied stern attack, By the Somme river. Ah! the guilt, the shame Of the Kaiser's greed! On it the blame . Of this evil deed That mars God's earth with cruel woe, That hurls death in war's red glow Whose master stroke; whose awe some blow Has tinged with ruddier hue the flow Of the Somme river. Harrisburg, Penna. LABOR NOTES Organized potters have been grant ed a IS per cent. Increase. Chattanooga (Tenn.) street railway men have secured the closed shop. A colored union of railroad shop men has been formed at Palestine, Texas. New Brunswick (Can.) has passed an act to provide for vocational edu cation. Structural Iron workers at Chicago ] have received a new scale of 87 % cents ap hour. British unions will demand resto ration of trade union rules and cus toms after the war. The time will never come. In fact, when individual habits of thrift will not be necessary. Lloyd George re cently said, "We have suffered in war through the lack of preparation before we entered it. Do not let us make the same mistake in peace." The present is indeed a most pro pitious time to prepare ourselves for the unusual conditions that will ex ist when peace returns—to adjust ourselves to conditiohs of permanent thrift. We must learn that the days of extravagance In America are gone forever; that waste of all kinds must be eliminated that individual effi ciency must be increased; that there must be an increment of national production; a greater supply of raw materials; more skilful methods of manufacture and distribution. Slip shod methods and lost motion both In the business world and In indi vidual lives must end. The war marks the beginning of a new economic era, and those who are prudent will learn now the truth of this fact. Without thrift there can be no success in the days that lie ahead of us. The man of the future who achieves success will be able to do so only with the elimina tion of all wasteful habits and idle Indulgences. This does not mean that we have now reached the end of so-called luxuries, recreation and sensible pleasures, but It does mean that conditions will make im perative the permanent and constant 1 elimination of waste of every kind. SENATORS TO ORDER [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] While the record of Senator Var daman on matters relating to the war is not enviable, President Wil son's letter to a Mississippian in which ho states that he would ac cept Vardaman's re-election as a condemnation of his administration is an interference with the right of the electors of a state to choose their own representatives that would be surprising were it not for the precedent established by the Presi dent in selecting Henry Ford to be Senator from Michigan and in giv ing the people of Birmingham, Ala., to understand that George Huddle ston had better be dropped as a member of the House. The Wis consin case is also fresh in the pub lic mind. The stand of Senator Vardaman and others who have been wrong In their position toward war measures has been severely condemned in these columns. But we believe that the people of Mississippi are quite competent to pass upon the conduct of their Senators and Representa tives without suggestion from the Executive. It is as their represent atives they must consider them, not merely in the light of their attitude toward Mr. Wilson's administration and that, we believe, Is the profler conception of our Republican sys tem. If we are to accept the theory that the President may select for Sena tors and Representatives men pleas ing to him by the indirect method of influencing electors to reject those who have displeased him, we shall be setting up a new form of govern ment, a form essentially different from the one we have learned to revere. Going the Limit [Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph] A garrulous lawyer wa arguing a case. He had rambled on in such a desultory way that it became very difficult to follow his train of thought and the judge had yawned ominously. Whereupon the long-winded law yer, with a trace of sarcasm, said: VI hope, your honor, I am not unduly trespassing upon the time of the court." "My friend," observed the Judge, "there is a considerable difference between trespassing on time and encroaching on eternity." Experience [Form Cottrell's Magazine.] To some experience is a head light; to others it is merely a stern light, illuminating only the waters of the past. Heat Lyric [From the New York Tribune.] I know a guy Whose head I'll splinter. , He says. "We'll want This heat next winter." To the Bitten [From the New York Tribune.] It id hot weather, and any pest is irritating. The suffragets who are picketing the White House are easily the most irritating pests of a sum mer rich in humidity, mosquitos and every other small annoyance. The most the women of the country can expect of their Senators is that they shall retain enough of their sense of humor and perspective to see how very microscopic are these parading i pickets. They represent nobody ex cept themselves. They grossly mis lepresent the great body of patri otic American women who wish the vote to help their country—not to , peck at it in its hour of need. We don't blame_ajny Senator for getting hot and angry at the parad ers. We only ask him to cool off when the weather moderates, and not visit the sins of a few dozen addleheads lupon one-half of the nation. Another World Series [From the Dallas Morning News.] Of course it is all right for the major leagues to finish their season on September 1, but they must re alize that the world serifs is even now being played off in France. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH HIS EXCUSE. "Is your husband a regular at tendant at lodge?" "I wouldn't say that exactly, bul he takes a night away from homt regularly every week for that pur. Dose." TRUE. "If we live it will be something to tell our children about?" "What?" "That we can remember when the world was war-crazy." AN UNUSUAL. REQUEST. Mrs. Bunny: Oh, Mr. Turtle, wont you come down to our laundry and let us use your back for a washboard! WHY. "Why did Lola break tv e engage ment?" • "Seems Harold mailed her a love f etter in one of those envelopes wttn ( i glass front." lj lEuptting CCljat The state rifle matches which are being closed up at Mt. Gretna range and in which the Harrisburg young militiamen are doing very well, date from very early in the eighties. They were a revival of matches which used ▼ to be held right after the Civil War and before that constituted a pas time that everyone engaged in. After the great rebellion, however, the matches seemed to get more of a military flavor. In this city th river front was for probably half a century after the town started a rifle Cango and then places out on the Hill. During the war soldiers were trained to shoot at Camp Curtln and forty years ago the members of the National Guard had a range in what is known as "Spruce Hollow" neaj the State Hospital. This was given up in favor of the range at the old state fair grounds, better known nt> Italian Park or as "near Hodman's woods." The earliest record of A rifle match in the National Guard at the adjutant general's office shows that the brigade and regimental matches started in 1884, the Thir teenth regiment having a fashion of winning the latter. Nine years later the rapid fire matches started, while the governor's medal matches were established in~iß9l. Since that time the number of trophies has 'been steadily increased. In the Spanish War the matches were interrupted by active service and none was held in 1916 because of Mexican border sersipe and last year the call to arms ended any chance of matches being held. The Reserve Militia has re vived them. Judge Eugene C, Bonnlwell, the Democratic candidate for governor who was here yesterday, and who visited the Capitol and State Cham ber of Commerce, being a director of the latter, had an interesting meet ing with Governor Brumbaugh some time ago. The Governor met the Judge and Mrs. Bonniwell and asked how many there were in the family. "Seven" said Mrs. Bonniwell, "and I think the children would enjoy Harrisburg." "Well, if you come around before January I shall be glad to show you the city and where I live," replied the Governor with a slight laugh. The Judge smiled enigmaticlly. • • Senator Edward E. Beidleman, the Dauphin county candidate for lieu tenant governor, considered he was some marksman until he ran up against Adjutant General Frank D. Beary. They were at a country home recently and shooting at marks. The Senator shot some chips floating on the river and banged a block hung to a tree by a swing. He was quite successful and grew very chesty. The General had watched the Senator and his friends for a time and then went up and shot away the string that held the block. Prof. Arthur E. Brown, head master of the Harrisburg Academy, is keen on getting a flying start for the Academy this fall. Mr. Brown had in idea that the new buildings would not bo all "needed because of the war time. He soon changed his mind and now he is trying to get his boys sorted into forms. The new A buildings are the best advertisement the Academy ever had. Blackbirds do not seem to be as scared of the city as they used to be, to use a homely phrase. Some of the birds have been observed In resi dential sections of the city and the river front parks are as popular with them as the Capitol or Reservoir. The other evening a flock of several hundred alignted in Harris Park and reports from the Tenth ward were that some had taken possession of trees close to a built-up section. The birds seem to be in large num bers in this section and have enjoyed the oats harvest immensely. Inspections made of the Capitol Park extension this week by Warren H. Manning, the city's landscape architect, have convinced him that the Capitol Park will some day be the jewel of a wonderful park sys tem here. "I have been right in the midst of park development here and I think that State street will he a center which will be very beauti ful," said ho. "It will connect up with fine drives and be the way that persons coming to Harrisburg will enter the city. Just look at the location of the Capitol and how the dome is the center of things now." Among visitors to Harrisburg yes terday was Jacob Seldomridge, the active spirit of the Lancaster fair and a prime mover in the State As sociation of Fairs. Mr. Seldomridge has been devoting time, money and energy to having the fairs this year stimulate the government policy of raising more foodstuffs by making the agricultural exhibits greater than ever. He has been preaching •> the showing of the biggest and best products of the farm as a national duty. • • • Many Harrisburg people will bo interested to learn that James R. Whefelock, the leader of the Carlisle Indian School Band who entered the United States service last week, is the same Wheelock who had led the band over Harrisburg streets In re cent parades. He led the band at the head of the great Red Cross parade here this spring. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —lrvin E. Seaman, former Read ing guard officer, who recently re turned from one of the southern camps, is in charge of labor work for Berks county. —Dr.' J. T. Rothrock, the veteran state forestry commissioner, is out with a statement in which he says that Germany must be taught to rec ognize common morality. . —Charles N. Seitzinger, promi nent Reading man, is in charge of the labor bureau for that city. —William Potter, state fuel ad- V mlnistrator, has gone to York Har- • bor, Maine, for a rest —Judge N. Sergeant Ross, of York, is serving as a director of the Boy Scout council for his county. —Captain J. S. Waite, the new Second Regiment rifle practice in spector, lives in Scranton and his hobby is firearms. . —Dr. Arthur Holmes, who goes from State College to be head of Drake University, spent six years at State. —Edgar Scott, son of Thomas A. Scott, is serving on the staff of one of the generals in France. He is a man of great wealth and wide travel. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is rolling tin plate for much government construction work? HISTORIC HARRISBURG One of the first schools in the In fant town of Harrisburg was in one of the Harris warehouses on the > river front.