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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.
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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.