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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1918
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7 wish you not few cares, hut capo- j
city for many; not easy tasks, but i
strength to master all of them; not
freedom from temptations, but grace i
sufficient to wrestle with them; not (
absence of sorrow, but faith where- <
with to see beyond, it; not exemption
from perplexities, but confidence in
Ood to work them out. — Anow.
AFTER THE NEXT DRAFT j
THE business of the country has j
been seriously affected by the,
transfer of manpower under;,
the first draft act from Industry to
the military service, but the hard-j
ships of the present are as nothing
by comparison with those of the fu
ture. The new draft, from eighteen!
to forty-five, will hit every line of
endeavor from farming to munitions 1
at a time when all branches of in- j
dustry are crying for workers. The
situation we face Is serious. Wajr In-j
dustries and "essentials" must be|
kept up. There can be no letting;
down there. Farming must not be:
neglected. If we are to win the war. j
Shipbuilding must go ahead. Mlncj
production must be kept at top- j
notch. Railroad traffic must not be j
permitted to lag. There Is but one
answer. If men must fight, women
must work. I ]
According to the census of 1910,|
the total number of women in the
United States at that time was 45,-
259.871. Of tfiis number there were
employed in the industrial world
3,647,865, including clerks and sales
women. but not domestic help, leav
ing a total of 41,6^1,806, These
figures have been considerably
changed, both as to totals and the
numbers employed, but they are suf
ficiently accurate to serve as exam
ples. Uslhg them as a basis, if only
one of every eight of the unemployed
would take the place of a man, it
would m< an that we can put an
army of 5,000,000 men under arms,
replacing them with women, and if
one of every four of the unemployed
would volunteer for work, the prob
lem of filling the Jobs vacated by
men would be well nigh solved.
This, of • course, presumes that
every woman now at work remain
at work, for that is their duty, and
especially those who are trained
along any particular line. While
brother, or husband, or father may
be earning enough to keep the erst
while working woman in ease at
home, the call of country should
keep her on the Job. Victory or de
feat may hinge on whether or not
our girls and women will answer the
call of factory and mill as their sis
ters In France and England have
done.
This is Ihe condition we are about
to face and women In every walk of
life will be called upon to do far
more next year than knit for the
Red Cross, worthy and necessary
though that be. They must take
the places of the men who are going
away. They must become the wage
earners—the producers of the coun
try.
NOT TO BE BLUFFED
THERE has arisen the fear in
the minds' of some that back
of the War Department's an
nouncement of an army of 6,000,000
there may be the hope that this news
may Induce German leaders to sue
for peace at an early date. It Is to
be hoped that no such thought is m
the minds of those at the head of
the government. Germany Is not to
be bluffed. That has bsen very well
demonstrated. Force, and force
alone, will bring a decision In Eu
rope and the big army proposed
must turn the triok.
At all events, the oountry is la no
mood to listen to talk of pease In
which the present German govern
ment would hav.e a voice. Germany
must be brought to her knees Ger
many, to paraphrase the Kaiser's
own words in referring to Amerloa,
"must be punished for her actions"'
MONDAY EVENING.
To that the people of thta country'
have made up their minds. Nobody
In the army, and few outside, have
any other thought We are devoted
to that principle and we are ready
to stake ourselves, to the last man,
and our all In material possessions
to that end.
It Is pointed out by fearful ones
that President Wilson has reversed
himself on other Issues and might
under some conditions agree to dis
cuss terms of peace before a military
decision has been reached, hut it Is
unthinkable that there should ' be
such a change of front at Washing
ton. If the President has one virtue
above another, It la singleness of
purpose and once as fully committed
to a course as he Is to the present
war may be depended upon to stick
until his purpose has been accom
plished. He will have all true
Americans back of him In this. Ger
many must bo punished and this is
no time to talk peace.
MJLNING BY STATUTE
PERSONS who have observed the
qperatlon of the "daylight sav
ing" law In Harrlsburg have
come to the conclusion that you can
not legislate children to bed. We
are all so much In favor of the sum
mer daylight utilization that we
would not go back to the old plan
If we could, but the truth Is that as
long as there is a sunbeam In the
western sky It Is hard work to make
the "kids" quiet down and "turn
over and go to sleep."
"Cutting ooal" Is hard work and
conditions In the mining regions of
Pennsylvania, admittedly different
from those of Alabama and Ar
kansas, have been such that miners
want all the recreation they can get,
while the foreign element has
brought with It various church days
with which some large cities and
governmental centers are not famiL
lar. And miners are also making
much money. Where there Is money I
there are always to be found means j
of amusement
It Is proposed by the F*uel Admin
istration that agricultural fairs be
"discouraged" so that the miners
will not be attracted from their
work. This suggestion, we are
happy to say, does not come from
the level-headed, hard-working Fuel
Administrator of Dauphin county
and some of the other men who are
cheerfully filling the same exacting
post of war-time duty In many coun
ties of our State.
The truth Is that you can not make
men "cut coal," run cars, man
pumps, load trains and do other
work about coal mines by statute
any more than you can legislate
children to sleep. When It comes
down to suspending fairs which last
two or three days a year as a means
of keeping miners at work we
humbly suggest to the Wilson ad
ministration, and the distinguished
Pennsylvania Democrats which are
a part, that a better way to keep
miners at work-would be to study
conditions in the coal regions close
ly, even inspecting housing, or per
chance scanning the list of saloons
in some communities.
THEY WILL RESPOND
THE farmers of Dauphin and
surrounding counties have been
asked to plant at least three
per cent, more of wheat the coming
season than they had in the ground
this year. Beyond doubt, they will
respond. No class has done better
in. the food crisis than the farmer.
He has come forward with increased
crops at a time when farm labor is
scarcer than ever in the history of
the country and he Is preparing to
duplicate that worthy performance
under conditions that promise to be
even more adverse.
But the time has come when the
farmer cannot be expected to carry
his load alone. He must look to the
towns and villages for aid during his
very busy seasons. He is receiving
high prices for his produce and he
will have to pay corresponding
wages for workers, who, if they do
not come forward voluntarily, will
have to be induced by patriotic com
munity efforts to give a few days
each to the work of garnering the
crops the farmers have put out. The
farmer cannot afford to be independ
ent in this crisis any more than can
other employers of help. He must
make his wants known and be con
tent with the quality of labor the
condition of the market affords.
NOT PARTISAN, PATRIOTIC
DEMOCRATIC organs are angry
because Washington newspa
per correspondents have com
plained that while Southern rice and
cotton go scot trie under the rulings
of the War Board, rice from abroad
is banned, and accuses them of stir
ring up factionalism during war
times. If anybody is stirring up fac
tionalism it is the biased members
of this same War Board, who have
ruled out of the country vast quan
tities of rice at a time when rice is
of the utmost importance as a wheat
substitute. If the supply from over
seas is depleted what will happen?
Nothing more or less than that our
own Southern planters,who have been
getting rich because the War Board
refuses to place a restrictive price on
their cotton, as has been done with
Northern wheat, will put up the
price of rice also in the United
States and the people will pay the
bill.
If there is any sectionalism, any
playing of one part of the country
against another, the fault doe# not
lie with newspaper writers who set
forth the facts as they exist, but
with those who are responsible for
the conditions set forth, and no
amount of Democratic dust throwing
or mud-tossing will explain away the
truth that the War Board's conduct
is regarded "by many"people aa botu
injurious to the people as a whole
and discriminatory so far as the
farmers of the North are concerned.
If the War Board has a reasonable
explanation the people will be happy
to hear It and all newspapers will be
pleased to set the members right be
fore the publto. Until that Ume the
yapping of & -pack of subsidised
Democratic political publicity pur
veyors masquerading under the guise
of newspapers will only Increase the
suspicion that rests In the minds of
those who are accused of being par
tisan when they are only patriotic.
'PO&TTC* LK
By the Ex-Commlttccman
I While Senator William 0. Sproul
; was shaking hands with the folks
i and talking crops at the big Path
Valley picnic In Franklin county on
Soturday afternoop, Judge Eugene C.
Bonniwell, Democratic nominee for
Governor In spite of the bosses, open
ed his campaign with a bang. To
day nieq connected with the Demo
cratic state windmill In this city were
wondering what they were going to
do with such a dreadful candidate
as the Judge.
Senator Sproul had a notable wel
come in the Cumberland Valley and
spent a delightful day. It was hardly
a political excursion as the people
wanted to meet him and were de
lighted with his personality. Senator
E. E. Beidleman was at the Killing
er picnic and other Republican can
didates were out visiting the people.
Secretary W. Harry Baker, of the
Republican state committee, upon
whom has devolved the work of ar
ranging for the campaign because of
the illness of State Chairman William
E. Crow, came back from Philadel
phia after getting things ready for
the formal opening of headquarters
on September 3. Senator Sproul will
speak at Lehigh county's Republican
gathering Saturday and then speak
at the Erie Grange meeting where
Judge Bonniwell is also to speak.
—The committee appointed by the
William C. Sproul club to arrange for
a reception to State Senator Sprpul,
Republican candidate for Governor
I of Pennsylvania, met Saturday and
made preliminary plans for the
event, fixing the date for Tuesday
evening, August 27. Senator Sprou'
told the committee that date would
be agreeable to him and that he
would be on hand to greet his
friends and neighbors. His home
folks want to be first in line to boost
his fall campaign.
—Judge Bonnlwell's campaign
opening was attended by a number
of the scouts of the Democratic state
machine and while they found some
glee In the fact that the attendance
at the historic Lehigh gathering was
not what It used to be this Joy was
dimmed by the realization that the
drop in the crowds was due to the
cutting out of the beer attraction. In
years gone by beer was free and the
people numerous. The Judge was vit
riolic as usual and while he did got
mention any of the leaders of the
faction opposed to him by name he
left no doubt about whom he meant.
Congressmen Steele and Dewalt.
whom the Palmer-McCormick ma
chine tried to defeat for renomina
tlon, were big figures at the meeting,
which endorsed the whole ticket.
—Much attention is given by the
Philadelphia Record to-day to the
refusal of the Judge to have any
thing to do with the resolutions com
mittee of the state committee, which
will have a powwow at Philadelphia
to-day.
—Discussing the Bonniwell plans
for a "wet" ticket, the Pittsburgh
Gazette-Times says: "Judge Bonni
well Is appealing for votes for Gov
ernor on a platform the principal
plank of which is opposition to pro
hibition. What he is endeavoring
to do is to break down party lines
and make the contest a 'wet' and
'dry' • one. Senator William G.
Sproul, the Republican nominee, has
declared In favor of the ratification
of the prohibition amendment to the
Federal Constitution. By abandon
ing party lines Judge Bonniwell
hopes to draw the 'wets' of all par
ties to his support. * * * This ticket
will be headed by Judge Bonniwell
and it may be that no candidates
will,be put up for either Lieutenant-
Governor or Secretary of Internal
Affairs. Asher Johnson, of McKean
county, the Democratic nominee for
Secretary of Internal Affairs, is
classed as a 'dry.' The new ticket
will carry the names, of the four
Democratic candidates for Congress
men-at-Large, Joseph F. Gorman,
Allentown; Fred Ikeler, Bloomsburg;
J. Calvin Strayer, York, and Samuel
R. Tarner, Pittsburgh."
—One result of the way Altoona
has been operating under the city
manager system may be some bills
to change the Clark act for a greater
measure of self-government. Some
of the third class city experts are
of the opinion that additional
Wre needed to adapt the Clark act
to the city manager idea, but Al
•Uoria has gone on ahead without
bothering about detail. Greater
freedom of government by the small
er municipalities is regarded in the
state as bound to come.
—-Judge Bonniwell when in Pitts
burgh last week visited Col. James
M. Guffey, who is said to have had
la hanffin thrashing his nephew, Ex-
State Chairman Joe Guffey, when he
ran for the Democratic gubernator
ial nomination. He saw other Old
Guard leaders and will return to
Pittsburgh late pext week to spend
four or five days in Western Penn
sylvania, Including Washington and
Greene counties.
Feel Like Doing Something
No doubt the kaiser will soon think
of exempting the crown prince from
military service on the ground that
ho has a dependent wife and chil
dren.—From tho Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Still, They Don't Seem Happy
Whenever the Germans are badly
defeated in battle they have a happy
way of explaining It to the people at
home by saying that "the retreat was
a complete success."—From the New
Orleans States.
•
A National Game
Mrs. Kicker—Do you approve of
your husband's poker games?
Mrs. Bocker —Yes; he gives me
thrift stamps when he loses and war
stamps when he wins.
May Just Let It Wear Off
Paper underwear Is a new inven
tion said to be serviceable. Is It re
moved with a hose each Sgening.—
From the Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Poor Weak Womanhood
Some married women are so weak
that they allow their husbands to
keep part of their salaries.—From
the Idaho Statesman.
HAJUUSBCRG aSSBfI TELEGRAPH
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND BYBRIGCS
%
lBlB, ky ?be Trfbana (New York Tribam)
"FIRST TO FIGHT"
He's lusty and lightsome.
And say—he can fight some! i
At home, ori the foam, or in far j
tropic scenes
Just watch for that helmet—
They can't overwhelm it—
The globe-eagle-anchor that marks
the Marines!
Though dusty, not crusty—
He's tried, true and trusty—
He'll sleep on a plank, can the
Kaiser on beansr
A sea-boy, an air-boy—
You're certainly there, boy!—
The Hun's on the run when his
scouts say,
"Marines!"
Their story of glory
Is gorgeous and gory—
Too proud not to fight, they'll show
Fritz what "fight" means!
Not theirs to be waiting
At home, hesitating—
Undrafted, undaunted—the unlicked
Marines!
—Luelia Stewart in N. Y. Times.
Yanks Have Tank Wrecker
One-pound armor-piercing shells
fired at the rate of one per second
are dealing with the German tanks
as effectively, we are told, as the
depth bombs are dealing with the
submarine. The new tank wrecker
is an American development. It is
a 3 7-millimeter gun, weighing about
175 pounds, and has a detachable
tripod mounting, which makes it
possible to store the parts in a dug
out, from which it can be taken and
assembled in less than two minutes.
The gun is handled and manned
by a crew of four men. "'lt has an
unusually low trajectory and a muz
zle velocity of 1,312 feet per second.
As the gun is employed at compara
tively short ranges, it is not usually
aimed —that is, the men Ire by
"dead reckoning"—which permits o#
the rapid delivery of fire; when
sights are used the action Is reduced ,
to about- twenty-five shots per min
ute. Without the trail, which is long
and "straddled," the gun measures
only thirty-two inches; it has a bell
like contrivance over the muzzle,
reminiscent of the old-fashipned
blunderbuss; this is a flash hider
for use in night firing.
At a hundred yards the tank
wrecker is said to deliver a knock
out blow. French factories are be
ing worked overtime to turn out the
new gun and it is also now being
made in America.
And That Isn't the Worst
The Crown Prince and Prince
Rupprecht are now on equal terms.
Each has suffered defeat. But they
are not on the best of terms of
friendship, and what they are saying
about the Allies they may soon be
saying about each other. —Wilkes-
Barre Record.
LABOR NOTES
England's National Union of Rail
way men has 490,000 members.
Kansas has succeeded in recruit
ing over 80,000 harvesters.
Cramps' shipyards at Philadelphia
are 100 per cent, organized.
pay has been granted
York (Pa.) school teachers.
Practically every woman in Italy
from 16 to 60 years of age is a war
nurse of a volunteer war worker.
Trade union organisations at
Bielefeld. Germany, have refused to
join a local patriotic committee In
the collection of money for the
"Ludendorff Fund" for wounded sol
diers.
Baltimore, Md.. has one woman
barber.
In England all private employment
agencies have been discontinued since
the outbreak of war.
The Busy Friends of Booze
[From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-
Telegraph]
WHILE the friends of booze
must realize they are fighting:
a losing battle, they are coti
disposed to throw up their hands:
and surrender. They are not going!
to quit until they receive the Knock-j
out Mow .which, from present indi-1
catiofts, is likely to take the form i
of the Federal constitutional amend- j
ment so steadily gathering its neces-1
sary indorsements from the ftates. {
Organized renewal of the agitation)
for the restoration of liquor to our
fighting forces is seen in the starting
of a new publication at Washington
entitled the American Army Gazette.
In its first issue it declares that "No
military reasons exist for the dry
law and the stringent prohibition
regulations which have been clamped
upon the Army."
The General Staff, It says, does not
approve the abolition of booze. On
the contrary, it would, if consulted,
probably have restored "the old, well
regulated canteen, with its light
wines and beer."
The American Army Gazette as-
Country "General Store"
The 1,200 Y. M. C. A. huts in
France, where our soldiers buy rAany
things not furnished by the Govern
ment, are like the old-time country
store in the variety of things carried,
aside from clothing and meats and
groceries. Besides cigars, cigarets,
smoking and chewing tobacco, the
toldier may obtain at these huts
soap, safety razors and blades, shoe
laces, candles, all kinds of brushes,
shoe polish, canned- jams, jellies and
fruits, chocolate, sweet crackers and
many other articles.
IN NO HURRY
"All the little boys and girls who
wish to go to heaven," said a Sun
day school superintendent, "will
please rise."
Whereupon all, with the excep
tion of Sammy Scruggs, rose,
"And doesn't this little boy want
to go to heaven?" asked the super
intendent in surprise.
"Not yet!" said Sammy.
—From Harper's Magazine.
THE WORLD'S COAL AREA
A good authority gives the coal
area of the world in square miles as
follows: United States, 192,000;
British America, 18,000; Great Brit
ain, 12,000; Spain, 4,000; France,
2,000; Germany, 1,800; Belgium,
518; rest of Europe 100,000; China,
2,000; Japan, 5,000. Coal is fourfd
in commercial quantities in twenty
seven of the states and territories of
the United States and Alaska.—
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
• THE BLIMP
When I was through my training for
The service of the air,
I thought I'd get a biplane fast
In which to do and dare.
But my ambitious dreams of fame
Received an awful crimp
When orders from headquarters
came
And tied me to a blimp.,
The little old dirigible
Was not so very bad.
But nothing to the busses that
My fellow fliers had.
They flashed above, me out of sight.
And I was forced to limp
Along in lower altitudes
And cuss.the lagging blimp.
But slnee I spied a sniper's nest
Concoaled among the hay,
And mapped a hidden battery.
All in a single day.
And got a Cross de Guerre to wear
When I'm inclined to primp,
I wouldn't take a battle bird
For my beloved blimp.
—MINNA IRVING.
serts that Russia's army might be in
the war to-day if it hadn't been de
prived of its beloved vodka. "It was
too great a chock to the war-weary
Russian army to deprive It entirely
of stimulants. It could not stand
such a radical change in its diet,
and modo of living. Prohibition
doubtless did much to crush the mo
rale of the Russian troops."
| The inference from the American
1 Army Gazette's remarks is that,
j given plenty of booze, our Boldiers'
morale would be preserved and
I strengthened and they would put up
■ a kind of fighting worth while. The
i American Army Gazette can't have
| been reading the news from Europe
,of the last few weeks. It couldn't
[ have chosen a worse time for urging
I the need of stimulants by our soi
i diers. Instead of giving them stimu
j lants, their officers are more con-
I cerned about restraining their im
petuosity. The American fighting
man doesn't require any "Dutch
courage," thank you. He's going to
show the world that booze isn't
needed to send the Germans goose
stepping back to Berlin.
PICNIC DINNERS
[Pennsylvania Farmer]
We are getting many suggestions
on wholesome conservation in picnic
dinners, club meeting lunches, feed
ing the threshing crews, etc. All of
these indicate a conscientious effort
on the part of farm men and women
do live up to every letter of the Food
Administration regulations, and sup
ply many commonsense local regu
lations to the same end. Of course,
the picnic dinner is the soul of the
picnic gathering and has been from
time Immemorial. This is true with
all people, city as well as country,
except, of course, that country pic
nics always have better food and
more of It. But there is no reason
why we cannot sacrifice just a little
in our picpics in these war 't/mes
Just as we do in our everyday liv
ing. The real inspiration, rest and
diversion in picnic occasions come
from meeting and visiting with
neighbors and friends. Real neigh
bors and real friends can "make
merry" over a real war-time lunch
eon as well as over an ante-bellum
banquet if the good ladies preparing
the luncheon only think so. There -
is considerable voluntary autocracy
in the present phases of our democ
racy, and if the ladles will exercise
just a bit more autocratic power in
dictating what shall and what shall
not be eaten on picnic occasions
they may be trusted to save food
without serious interference with the
success of the occasion.
Threshing is not exastly a picnic
diversion, but we well remember our
boyhood days when we would a lit
tle gather help thresh than do the
other; work on the farm —and that
heavily-loaded threshers' dinner
table was the chief inducement.
Numerous suggestions are being
made on how the threshers can be
more economically and mora sen
sibly fed. Every farm woman can
draw helpful hints from these sug
gestions, but from the Washington
County Fkrm Bureau comes a plan
that will require a community un
derstanding. The plan is for farm
ers to carry their midday meal to
the threshing jobs. This plan will
avoid waste of much food and will
save a lot "of work for farm women,
which is no small item in these days
of scarcity of help. Agan, a little
farm woman autocracy can readily
put It into force.
How Many For You?'
A number of prominent and near
prominent men will write "ads" for
the next Liberty Loan campaign.
Every citizen should do likewise.
Here's a sample: "Wanted —(So
many) bonds of the Fourth Liberty
Loan of the United States Govern
ment. (Name and address.)*'—
Pittsburgh Sun.
AUGUST 19, 1918.
INFORMATION WANTED
[From the Kansas City Times]
Pan-German and Liberal factions
In Germany are now engaged In a
controversy as to which Is respon
sible for bringing America Into the
war. Neither side, It appears, la
willing to be It
question 1* one that may be
left to Germans to settle for them
selves. There will be a number of
such questions waiting adjustment,
we imagine, as soon as the German
people get a little more time to be
stow on them. It is conceivable that
when the war is over and they find
themselves without a job, without
markets, without a neighbor who will
speak to them, when they find them
selves thus cut off from the world
with nothing to show for their spree
but a broken head and a war debt,
it is conceivable they may want to
know a number of things. It is even
possible they may apply for the In
formation to the right quarter. Hav
ing been taught that all wisdom re
sides in the Kaiser they may ask
him. in case he is still to be found
at the old address, who it wts> that
started the quest for a place In the
sun. They may want to know where
the tradition of the mailed fist orig
inated, who is responsible for the
shining sword theory of rational
progress, who gave his personal
word that Gott had approved the
teaching that the Gerpian was the
elect of the earth.
Perhaps the Kaiser, If ho Is not
too much shaken, can think of
soothing and convincing answers
quickly enough. But we imagine he
may be put to It. We imagine the
old recitation about his ancestor
placing the crown on his own head
and daring anybody to knock it off.
the old tall talk about it being a
German's highest pleasure and duty
to shoot II|B father if his emperor
tells him to, will hardly fill the bill.
The Kaiser would do well to be
thinking up something new. for he
is going to need it. His faithful sub
jects are going to be of an inquiring
turn of mind after they get through
seeing stars, and the question of
who brought America into the war
will only be the opening of the dance.
A Peculiar Habit
Americans detailed to the rear to
work have been borrowing uniforms
from Australian soldiers and going
into the thick of the light. The
German generals, convinced with
the Katser that the Americans
wouldn't fight, might take notice
that deserting to the front Is a pe
culiarly American military fault. —
Baltimore Arperlcan.
Watch the. Next Loan
The Kaiser remarked, once upon
a time, that "There can be nothing
stable in a nation that changes Its
leaders every four years." Maybe
so, but Just now we'll back our gov
ernmental stability against his with
every cent we've got in our jeans.—
Erie Dispatch.
Useless Argument
What Is the use of all this argu
ment over the kind of histories we
shall have in our schools? We're
making history these days, not read
ing it. —Rochester Post.Express.
Wait Until 3,000,000 Are Over
"The smile has almost vanished
from German faces," says a Stock
holm newspaper. And it'll be an
cient history in Germany before
long.—Altoona Mirror.
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Indications are that the first big
convention for Harrlaburg's new
hotel, the Penn-Harrls, will be what
Is expected to constitute the most
Important gathering of the educa
tors of the state Blnce the adoption
of the school code of 1911. It
be the meeting of the State Educa
tional Association the last week In
December this year and the program
already being made up calls for gen
eral discussion of the school situa
tion in Pennsylvania, which has be
come serious In dozens of districts
because of the shortage of teachers
nnd the rising cost of supplies. The
cumpalgn for consolidation of rural
schools has been halted in some
districts because of Inability to get
building materials or the expense
under present prices, while In others
cost of transportation is causing
worry to the officials in charge. The
State Board of Education recently
launched a movement for an in
crease in state appropriations which
would make the state aid about one
fourth of the cost of conducting
certain branches, which will be
taken up at various county and city
educational meetings this fall, while
a renewed agitation for the state to
pny the minimum salary has been
started in rural districts. The State
Association has been meeting for
more than fifty years and some of
the leading educators have been
among its presidents. The sessions
just before the legislative years are
held in Harrisburg and this year
bills to be introduced to the General
Assembly convening in January will
be the principal themes of discus
sion. There will also be numerous
meetings held by educators who ape
connected with specialized branches
which are organized under depart
ments and representatives of school
directors and officials will attend.
One of the signs of the times
which can not be overlooked tn the
farming regions of Dauphin and
Cumberland counties ig that farm
ers, and even their wives and fami
lies. are ut work until late on Sat
urday afternoons. Saturday after
noon has generally been regarded on t
the farm as a time to slack up and
to get ready for Sunday, but the
shortage of labor and conditions call
for more and more work and on
many a farm on Saturday men were *
working and boys were doing their
share. The farmers say that they
are going to be hard put to gather
apples and peaches this year without
help from cities and towns. Some
have profited by the loss of berries
and are willing to have city folks
pick "on shares" for the gathering.
• • •
The extent to which the Thrift
Stamp has entered into the money
affairs of the average American may
not meet with approval of some
churchmen, but It seems to be rath
er deeply rooted. Saturday after- .
noon at a ball game two young men,
and not of the type that bets on
various incidents in a ball game,
watched two nines contending and
instead of wagering a quarter or a
dollar that a run would be scored
or a fellow would "die at second"
bet Thrift Stamps. And both of
them had plenty of them in
pocketbooks. There are some poker
games known in town talk where
Thrift Stamps constitute the mgdium
and the, gentle pastime of betttng on
whether passing cars have odd or
even terminal numbers with Stamps
as the stake is said to be practiced.
• • * *.
At the State Legislative Reference
Bureau they are speculating on
whether "Jim" Moore, the erudite
chief parliamentary adviser to the
legislators and court of last resort
on statutory enactments, will make
good on his vacation. Mr. Moore
has been taking cat-nap vacations
for some years, which means that
he has been around most of the
time. This year he started away to
take what he called "a real vaca
tion" and has been gone ten whole
days. They are wondering whether
he can stand the strain of two weeks
I or even three.
* * *
Harrisburg Is commencing to get
some idea of the extent of the war
preparations by the long trains of
trucks which pass through the city
almost every day. It is said that
over 2,000 have passed over thp
bridges and out the Derry street
pike in the last two months. Fifty
in one day is not uncommon. Yes
terday one of the largest seen and
made up mostly of officers' cars and
cars for moving headquarters went
through and gave some people an
excuse for "cutting church." The
train came from one of the southern
camps for the most part, with a '
number of new cars sandwiched in
to be broken in.
• • •
The advice of Fuel Administrator
Ross A. Hickok to people to give '
attention to the woodpile for use
in emergencies this winter is being
heeded by many people very literal
ly. 'And the wood-cutting industries
in the mountains north of the city
are benefiting. There is a lot of cut
ting going on -en various tracts and
some of the material not being used
in the mill operations is being gath
ered up and sent to the city's deal
ers in wagonlimds. The supply
seems almost inexhaustible, but the
price will probably go up.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Edward Thompson, the Will.
tamBport librarian named to look af.
ter books for soldiers In Pennsylva
nia, has long been active in llbrarj
work and has visited Btate Librarlai
Montgomery here.
—The Rev. Charles R. Llchte, ol
Philadelphia, will go to one of tht
Army camps to be trained as a chap,
lain.
—The Rev. Dr. J. Frank Bucher,
of Milton, is home on a furlough
from China, where he has been en
gaged in missionary work.
—Auditor General Charles A. Sny.
der made a speech when the Holj
Family Church of New PhlladqlL,
phta unveiled its service flag. ,
—Dr. Charles Aumlller, ol
Bloomsburg, has suspended his two
newspapers In that county. He eays
that he desires to meet the Govern
ment policy of conservation for ona
thin*.
—Francis H. Bohlen, whose title
t6 part of Hog Island has been up
held by the Philadelphia courts, la
connected with the state compensa
tion board counsel.
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg has spe
cial railroad can assigned to It
to haul munitions It manufac
tures?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Even In the Revolution, this v
place was a center for recruiting
and supplies for the Army.