10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEIAiR.tFH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKrOLE President and Editor-in-Chief 1 P. R- OYSTER, Business Manager OVS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER. Circulation Manager Exeeutlve Board J. P. McCULLOUGH. 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 r.tkvs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- J Eastern W Avenue Building Chicago, 111. j 8 ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a • * week: by mail. $5.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918 I All thoughts of ill; —all evil deeds. That have their roots in thoughts of illy- Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will; — All these must first be trampled down Beneath our feet, if ice would gain In the bright fields of fair renown The right of eminent domain-.' —Longfellow. WISE OLD SANTA SANTA CLAUS is taking no chances this year. A little while ago the jolly old fellow was frightened almost to death when the War Industries Board threaten ed to put the ban on Christmas giv ing and frowned darkly upon holi day shopping. So when the embargo was lifted and the learned gentle men at Washington decided that, after all, perhaps, we could have a war and Christmas all in the same year, Santa got right busy and laid in a full supply of gifts suitable for bvery member in the family. That's how it happens that all the stores of Harrisburg are now show ing Christmas goods and asking you to shop early. And if you are as wise as Old Santa and the merchants aforementioned, you too will do your Christmas shopping early. There's no telling what kind of a govern ment order may come along any day. so it's just as well to do your Christmas shopping while the shop ping is good. An apple costs almost as much these days as a whole crock of applebutter did years ago. THE REPUBLIC FIRST PENNSYLVANIA'S tradlt i on a 1 readiness to forego even con stitutional rights when the re public is in peril is splendidly set forth in the opinion given to Sec retary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods by William H. Keller, the Commonwealth's able first deputy 'attorney general, to the efTect that in time of war the Inherent right of soldiers to vote at a general election can be set aside when it might in terfere with military measures for the national defense. In these days we are hearing much from little men about patriotism and some ut terances emanating from individuals cloaked with a little brief authority sound like veriest squeaks beside the lofty sentiments coming from the great President at Washington. Pennsylvania, within whose borders lie Valley Forge and Gettysburg, has not been free from noisy patriots, some of whom talk with the ballot In mind and the fear of loss of of fice In retrospect We have heard *a whole lot about protecting the inalienable rights of the men at the front who are busy with a gigantic task and not bothering about elec tion, and we have been treated to disgraceful factional fighting by leaders of a party which called for adjournment of politics. In short, we have some times wondered whether some men did not think more about what effect the war might have on elections than about ways to win the titanic struggle. But Mr. Keller sums up the spirit of the Pennsylvanian at the front j and the right thinking man at home when he sayß: "That right (the right to vote), as well as many others, must be enjoyed in such a manner as not to endanger the existence of the republic. If military operations In which the soldiers from this State are engaged are of such a nature that, in the Judgment of the supreme command, their success would be in terfered with or imperiled by an attempt to take the soldier vote, then this right will have to be. for the time, foregone. It. as well as many other constitutional rights, is i subordinate to the supreme duty of the nation in time of Mr. Keller scarcely needed THURSDAY EVENIN' to hark back to the days of the Roman republic for a rule. He could have found It in the mouth of any plain citizen. In time of national peril it does not matter whether Pennsylvania has the right to send commissioners over seas to take ttye votes of soldiers in trench and camp. The cargo space is far more important, and as for the men in khaki they are out to win the war. not an election. ) If the War Department ruling I that sending commissioners to ; France is "impracticable" that ends I it, even if some favored individual : does not get a hoped-for free trip to the battlefields •of France. Mr. Keller not only interprets the law, but states the thought of the people. The Sick Man of Europe now be : comes the Dead Man. UNTIL SUN GOES DOWN THIS war must go on. whether or not Germany asks for peace. We cannot quit fighting while the Kaiser's armies are on allied soil, or before our soldiers reach Ger many. James W. Gerard, former ambas : sador to Berlin, voiced popular con viction when he said in a Liberty Loan address in New York Tuesday: "The United States and her allies must force their way well into en emy territory, despite all attempts at peace, and must keep on going until Germany bows to their will." i • The war must be carried to Ger many. "Brutes can understand nothing but brutality," declared Cap tain Vint before the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, and while no body in allied lands favors the rav aging of Germany as Germans have ravaged Belgium, yet it is felt that Germans must have a taste of what war means at home. They must be taught the meaning of the thing they have done to France. They must be punished in the only way they can understand. So the war must go on. And we who are supporting it must continue to buy Liberty Bonds. "I fear pre mature peace more thin I fear Ger many." sai4 Captain Vint, and we feel the same way. We must, there fore, lend our money to the Govern ment to provide the means of carry ing the war into Germany and the American armies into Berlin. "There is an old belief that a snake does not die until the sun goes down, and I think it is nearly half past four for the Kaiser," observed Captain Vint. Yes, that's it; half past four for the Kaiser. But we must keep right on buy ing bonds until the sun goes down. One victory won't win this war; neither will one Liberty Bond. TREES AS MEMORIALS DR. C. E. L. KEENE has done a fine bit of patriotic work in of fering to bear all expenses of planting a tree marked with a spe cially designed and properly inscrib ed tablet to the memory of every soldier of the Thirteenth Ward who is killed or dies in the service. Dr. Keene is a resident of that district ■ and has had a big share in its> af -1 fairs, but he has done nothing more praiseworthy than that which he ' now proposes. What a fine thing It would have been if Park Commissioner E. Z. Gross would have fallen In with the Telegraph's plan to observe Ar bor Day this month by the planting and inscribing of one tree for each gold star on Harrisburg*s roll of honor. The cost v ould have been small and the effect upon the minds of the participating school children in a patriotic way would have been marked. A stately elm to the mem ory of each dead Harrisburg sol died would be no mean memorial. It is a pity the interest of the city could not be aroused. Perhaps some broad-minded official may come for ward at a later day to do for Har risburg in this respect what is being done in a small way by Dr. Keene in the Thirteenth Ward of our own city and by many progressive com munities throughout the land. SOUTHERN PREJUDICE SO Senator Williams, of the Sunny South, objects to universal suf frage for the reason that colored women would then be allowed the ballot! And why should that be an argu ment against suffrage? Have not colored women as much right to vote as white women? It is to be suspected that the Sena tor is thinking more about the safety of his Democratic majority than he is of the sensitive natures of his iy white constituents. Perhaps Mr. Williams might compromise on sepa rate ballot boxes for whites and blacks. Southern racial prejudices sometimes cease to be tragic and become funny. Senator Williams has simply made himself ridiculous. fUUlct CnUQ. By The Ex-Committeeman =J The state of Pennsylvania will not be able to stnd commissioners to France to take the votes of Key tone state citizens now in the army because .of the ruling of the War Department that it is not considered practicable to permit such officers to go abroad to take the votes and should submit cheerfully to the sit uation according to an opinion given to-day to Secretary of the Common wealth Cyrus E. Woods by William H. Keller, first deputy attorney gen eral. When Adjutant General Beary was informed that the War Depart ment did not deem it practicable to have commissioners take the votes of the soldiers in the field and that it could not permit "the sending of election commissioners abroad as re quested by the state of Pennsyl vania" Mr. Woods asked the Attor ney General's Department for ad vice. • Mr. Keller says that it amounts to "a definite refusal" to the proposition to send commission ers. While soldiers have the right to vote he says that right "must be enjoyed in such manner as not to en danger the existence of the repub lic." Mr. Keller further says "if mili tary operations in which the soldiers from this state are engaged are of such a nature that in the judgment of the supreme command their suc cess would be interfered with or imperiled by an attempt to take the soldier vote, then this right will have to be, for the time, foregone. It as well as many other constitutional rights, is subordinate to the supreme duty of defending the nation in time of peril." "The state of Pennsylvania" con tinues Mr. Keller "even if it so de sired, has no means to force those in command of the army of the United States to permit its soldiers overseas to vote. Even if it had such power it should not exercise it if those in charge of our military forces state it as their deliberate judgment that it is not practicable to secure the votes of" soldiers until military conditions have considerably changed." The appointment of commissioners is in the hands of the Governor. There is nothing to interfere with naming men to take the votes of the soldiers from Pennsylvania in camps and cantonments and sta tions in this country. 1 —Heads of political, committees in every city of the state are starting to call attention of voters and work ers to the fact that Saturday is the last day to register, and in more than one place the men in charge of political organizations have ex pressed their dismay at the fact that voters seem to be more inter ested in the war than in the election and that the Liberty Loan seems to fill men's minds to the exclusion of politics this week. However. It, is to be noted that men in sympathy with the "wet" Interests are finding some time to urge men to get reg istered and that they are boasting that they will control the next Leg islature. • —Meetings are to be held to morrow in most of the cities to arrange for Saturday to be devoted to registration work. The first two registration days were marked by very light registration in almost every city, so light in some places as to disturb political leaders. —Governor Brumbaugh's decla ration as to what he regards as the qualifications a man must possess to be selected by him to be a judge is given much prominence in the newspapers to-day. It is generally believed that the Governor's re marks. which were made at the conclusion of the Westmoreland county judgeship hearing at the j Capitol yesterday, Indicate that Rep-1 resentative D. J. Snyder will be ap pointed judge and that the Gov-, ernor will not make any appoint ment until December, when Snyder's terms as a legislator will expire and he can legally take the place. The : Governor said that from what he had heard the business of the courts was not suffering by the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Doty remaining unfilled. —Appearance of the Rev. C. D. Scanlon. of Pittsburgh, national sec cretary of the Dry Federation and active in the "dry" cause, friend of Highway Commissioner J. D. O'Neil, and well known as a temperance man, as an advocate of C. E. Whit ten. yesterday caused perturbation among the Snyder men and some annoyance in the Governor's depart ment. Mr. Scanlon made a strong plea for Mr. Whitten, who is a man of marked ability. —State Chairman Crow yesterday put his thoughts in regard to the danger of apathy into writing and warned committeemen to get busy after the Liberty Loan drive. —Judge Bonniwell made'a speech at Lancaster fair yesterday. It had some Liberty Loan flavor, but the Jiidge took good care of himself. He has some other Liberty Loan county fair dates this week. —Members of district appeal board No. 2 pleaded guilty yesterday at the start of their trial in federal court at Philadelphia. —According to Philadelphia news papers there will be more arrests in the controversy between Mayor Thomas B. Smith and a number of citizens of the Quaker City over the way the Mayor handled the selec tion of Edward R. Gudehus as head of the playground recreation di vision. The newspapers give prom inence to the fact that ex-Judge James Gay Gordon is the counsel in charge of the prosecution and from their accounts there was consider able feeling displayed at yesterday's hearing. The Philadelphia Press says regarding the developments of the day: "Mayor Smith was held yesterday by Magistrate Carson in his own recognizance in the sum of $2,000 to dnswer in the Court of Quarter Sessions the charge of "mis behavior and malfeasance in office." The case is in connection with the examination and certification of Ed ward R. Gudehus for supervisor of playgrounds and the Xlayor's re moval of one set of members and appointment of another set to do his bidding by the appointment of Gudehus. In producing evidence against the Mayor's desire to waive a hearing, former Judge James Gay Gordon representing Otto T. Mal lery. treasurer of the Playgrounds Association, who swore out the war rant for Mayor Smith's arrest, ex plained to the magistrate that his purpose was to secure possession of documentary evidence with a view to preventing its destruction or disap pearance." • Not Much Difference [From the Dallas News.] As a general thing, it takes a mnr rled man.a long time to get over the idea that buying rugs isn't about the same as wasting money. HARIUSBURO TELEGRAPH! AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELWT , fit ST Btj JOHM- WE ARE \ J ' R TZTL YOVI \ CTV IMUITED OUT TOM.GHT- ( • / LOOK M6RIS-DONT—) F) |'\J£ lOT NBUR BRESI. SUIT- \ I y-,. _ |/S|QMJ - VUG" / ONN# PRSS VJ / I "DRESS SfURT-Tie- COLLAR- J LOU •% ,J> / SUITS ATOO INJ FACT \VR, SHOES-SILK HAT AU. LALD/ \ ARB * • J / UU O,SPLAY OP \ V^\ V OUT FOR TTOU J . V . FINERY IS TABOO J ( "' ~ " \ R, PRISEO A - AioD AFTER. YOU HAUC PUT - /-AND FURTHER WORE \. V„ AT VN3 I ' NT ~== OH-H-H BOY.' DON'T-TOO HNO ™ N A'. T O .FFISS ? THAT L WOULD BE A I AME> URSE THE \AJEAIMC / J? ULOR-R-R ,E " S FCELIN • SUBJECT FOR SCORA* \OF A DRESS SUIT Y IF IN I AMD RIDICULE IF I WERE! —<s ' TM, TVTA 1 Tinkering the Constitution l Philadelphia Public Ledger] ! At the election in November, now ; little more than five weeks distant. : the voters of Pennsylvania will be ! called upon to pass upon two im portant amendments to the state . constitution. Both of these pro- 1 posed changes have been acted upon affirmatively by the Legislature at ' two successive sessions, and the vote < to be taken in November will finally ■ determine their ratification or rejec- I tion. One involves a radical change in the financial policy of the stute. the other concerns the city of Phil adelphia alone and is in the nature of an amendment to an amendment I adopted in 1915, which in turn was an amendment to the original con stitution! It is not the present purpose to consider either of these pending proposals on their merits, but to call attention to them as evidence of the pressing need of a general review jof the state's fundamental law in stead of the piecemeal method of tinkering to which we have been forced by the defects in that instru ment and by the changed condi tions since its adoption forty-five .years ago. Since 1901, when the. process of patching was begun, no j , less than twenty-four separate j amendments have been submitted to the people, two more awaiting rati- j fication, and at the last session of the Legislature four additional changes were passed on for action by the Legislature of 1919. And as already stated, one of the latter proposals is to tinker still further one of the two to be voted upon next month: Thig record alone would indicate • that the time is more than ripe I for a general revision of the con stitution. The politicians, however, have preferred to dodge the issue, raising the pretext when the issue was last mooted that "the radical spirit of change progressiveness in the land > made the time for revision inappropriate!" Yet it is freely ad , mitted that the present constitu \ tion has long outlived its usefulness, that it abounds in restrictions and limitations that are a bar to pro ; gress, and that it is an obstacle to that effectiveness in administration which 1s the measure of good gov ; ernment. The state government as i now existing is a hopeless jumble of ! divided authority and responsibility; j it lacks the first principles of modern | efficiency in action and is hope ] lessly behind the times, i The need for a careful and delib | erate study of the needs of the state and for the formulation of a new basis of fundamental law is grow ing more urgent every year, and the Legislature cannot long defer the calling of a convention of the j state's wisest and best minds to un ! dertake the task. The very fre i quency of the amendments is con ! vincing proof of the pressing need for action: but another reason is i found in the unsatisfactory condi j tions under which most of the recent amendments have been acted upon. The majority of the voters as a rule take little interest in referenda of this sort, and too often fail to mark their ballots on the amendments. | But a general revision and the pub : lie discussions that would attend the | process would concentrate the public , mind upon the subject and insure ' greater interest and more attention to the merits of the questions as they shall be presented when the draft of revision, shall have been completed. The question ought to receive the immediate attention of the state and local bar associations, of the Judiciary, and of all good citizens to whom the present unsat isfactory conditions in the state ad ministration are a reproach. LABOR NOTES Arizona's governor vetoed a pro posed work-cr-flght law. Job printers at Winnipeg, Can., now get }2S a week. Peoria fill.) carpenters have been increased to 75 cents an hour. ' Steam and operating engineers at Eureka. Cal , have organized. A number of expert French girl ammunition workers have been Metal lathers at Vancouver, B. C., get 81% cents an hour. The New York State Industrial Commission corrects the claim that employers on government work in that state are not subject to New York's labor laws. Thef commission has instructed its legal department and Its inspectors 'to enforce the state law where women are employ ed by private eontra"tor on ment work | Lauder Makes Report Tells Britons Americans Say It's As Much Their War as Great Britain's Harry Lauder, the Scotch come-i dian who toured America with a war message from Great Britain, is back home in John Bull's tight little is land with the following written re port to his fellow countrymen, which has just been reprinted in the New York American: Ye mind the tale of the train jumper who said he'was for Frisco if only his trousers held out. Well, when the folks in New York asked me how much ground I was covering I said: "The continent of North America, if my voice holds out." And it has held out. But my arm's sore with the handshakes. I think that every man and boy in the United States over 10. must have had a go at my paw. If I'm a bit dis jointed the day, you must pit it all down to the wedden. There's been a wedden the morn. It's my wife's niece, Mary Kerr Valtance (and a bonny lassie she is). She's married a braw soldier laddie of the name of Hamilton. And a fine name,, too. Well, I'm writing these casual notes in momentary expectation of being called out to form part of a family group in the back garden. Och! There they go. Will you just ex cuse me for a minute? Voice—Look pleasant, please. Lauder—How can I look pleasant with a crick in my Click! Well, thank goodness, that's over. It was a wonder my voice held out. for in traveling thirty-three thousand miles I addressed two million people. It seems to me that every British propagandist in America should first undergo voice training on the hills. THE LONG ROAD It took so long to part that day! The door, the gate were both too soon, And so went a little way Along the road Where the still, autumn afternoon About us glowed- With slow steps and little said We climbed the hill and stood a while Amid the gold and purple spread About its crest. And saw the road run mile on mile Into the west. And then said I, "I might have known— There is no place for us to part, I cannot bear to tread alone A road* so long. For one grows faint and sick atjieart Where two are strong. "See how the road now runs between The sunny meadows, green and gold. But plunges soon below a screen Of forest night. And last those strange, far hills enfold Its course from sight. "So looking forward we may guess Of hope and joy, of fear and woe. But joy is greater, sorrow less If shared, sweetheart. Ah, may wc not together go And never part?" **•• • • . • Close to the hills —the Hills of Rest— I trace the road that now we know In deep content, to that bright crest Where once we two Stood gazing, and she answered low— "I go with you." —Gorton Cr.rruth in the Youth's Companion. WE DO NOT NEED HIM [From the Xew York Evening Sun] The truth of the pertinent and keen observation by a correspondent, whose letter we published the other day, that the experience of the past four years has proved that Amertca does not need anything the German makes, is well illustrated by the glass, porcelain and fire brick indus tries. Formerly we imported most of these things, but, as it was shown at the Chemical Industries Exhibi tion, we now make, them here, of as good quality as any the German once sold us. The same thing is true of dyes and a score of minor necessities. There is nothing "made in Germany" that we cannot make ourselves p.r buy from our friends. We do not need the Bcche. Room For Ben Davis And we often wonder if the time will come when apples are sold the same as flour and we have to take Ben Davis as a substitute.—From the Chula, Kan., News. | Still, I niay mention that when 11 started out you got'the best of every- 1 thing at the ljotels, and only a hy- ] phenated waiter, who has since been; interned, seemed to know there was i a war on. When I came back six; j months later I lived on brown bread, j and attempted thefts of sugar, j In money the results of the cam-' paign were eleven million dollars for, i the various war loans. The effects don't end there. The i Americans. like the Scots, are as pru- I dent in the cash department as they' i are reckless in the charge, and. hav-j | ing put their money into the war.i i they decided it was their war and put; themselves in,' too —right in. And j they're for keeps there. You may take it from me, and I j know, for I've been all over America,! j that this is the spirit of the states: ' This is as much our war as yours. | ! It is more our war than yours, be-j j cause there is more of us." Yes, and I have another message—, ! a message of friendship—signed and' sealed, and to endure forever. All the| .| mists of prejudice between us and ; our cousins have been blown away l jby the great guns of the war. The j mist was the poison gas of German; ! propaganda. It was the Germans tailght the | Americans that we were all "Haw, I haw. Johnnies." It was the Germans Itaughtlus that the Americans were Sail spseadeagle. cock-a-doodle, get oif-the-earth hustlers. We know better now. And the re ception a simple Scottish comedian : got from the American people is a sign. PUBLICITY AND WASTE [From the Ohio State Journal] The country will be well served if the report that the Congressional Record is to be printed in a way ! that will save paper proves to be true. And if Congress really gets I virtuous in this issue and shuts down j on printing speeches never delivered i and lumbering up the record with I matter never read, it will be doing its bit to wiu the war along its own special and peculiar "gasless" lines. At the same lime, if it takes up this question of waste of paper it might look into some of the publicity move ments in the various Federal bu reaus and departments which, de spite all warning as to a paper scar city, seem to have been galvanized into a war activity of unusual pro portions. Congressman Moore has just called attention to the swollen and plethoric character of much of this publicity, and if he should ever go in for physical exhibits on the floor of Congress he can find some choice examples immediately to his hand thaf. will enforce any argument against waste that he may make. For instance, attention has been called to activities of one bu reau, that of Education, which sports "School Life," a twenty-four-page bimonthly, which is a rival to "School Service," a sixteen-page periodical issuing from the com mittee on public information; and now, with the inks scarcely dry on these new Government periodicals, out comes a twelve-page educational bulletin devoted to "Americaniza tion," which, of necessity, covers a great deal of the ground normal to "School Life," "School Service" .nd the regular bulletins of the Educa tional Bureau and Mr., Creel's com mittee. It seems to be a very merrv battle of the types indeed, with white paper handy and lots of ink in the pot, But the "why" of it all is some thing that Congress might well look into. RISE OF GENERAL JONES TFrorn the Youth's Cwnpanlon] The career of Godfrey Jones, who at 32 was a mine laborer In South Wales and at 36 is a brigadier gen eral in the British Army, is one of the most surprising incidents of the) war. What makes it especially re-' markable is the fact that Jones, as| a young man. was given a chance as mine foreman, but failed -in that position front apparent inability to manage men! His experience reminds us of our cwn General Grant, who was a fail ure in civilian life before the war. but a successfui soldier from the first. The rise of General Jones is also a striking proof of the extent to which the British Army organiza tion. which has always been aristo cratic In character, has been demo cratized by the war. OCTOBER 3, 1918. MEMORIAL TREES [From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger] Narberth has adopted in a modified form the plan of honoring its sol diers suggested by a correspondent of this newspaper, who proposes that a memorial tree be planted in Broad street for o\vry Philadelphia soidier who falls in the war. Narberth has set out planting a tree for every man who has gone into the army, the navy of the marine corps from the borough. A begin ning has been made with four trees, for the first man to enlist in each of the three branches of the service and one tor the first man to be killed. The plan is good. It keeps green the memory of worthy Americans. It also keep 3 before each of those who return the example of a tree, which grows with the years and extends its protecting shade over the weary in the heat of the day. A Strong Argument When we consider what we have done with the money already spent on the war, aren't we glad to invest more? We are. —From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Royally Recognized When representatives of labor hob nob with kings and queens, then is democracy lifting up its head in the world.—From the Baltimore Amer ican. . Got to Beg for Them i The kaiser has the wrong idea. The war will end when he asks for peace terms, not when he proposes them.—From the Chicago News. i OUR DAILY LAUGH HER TACTICS. \ much money foolishly on to- j J \ Hubby: What's r \ the trouble —do you want a new -> \ lR l ONE EXCEP- I I everything has | cheap as ever. 1 WHAT DID HE j MEAN? **f f Monk —lf I * I thought I r \ wouldn't drown, / , I take a dip. I Come on in, you won't || ' xMjraSß Harrisburg, Pa., October 3, 19X8. Statement of the ownership, man agement, circulation, etc., of the Har risburg Telegraph, required by act of Congress, August 24, 19X2. Editor, E. J. Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa.; managing editor, Gus M. Stein metz, Harrisburg, Pa.; business man ager, Frank R. Oyster, Harrisburg, Pa.; publisher, The Telegraph Print ing Company, Harrisburg. Pa., E. J. Stackpole. president. Stockholders: E. J. Stackpole. K. H. Stackpole, F. R. Oyst#r. Harrisburg. Pa. No bonds or mortgages. Average number of copies of each issue sold or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date of this statement. 20.4.11. F. R. Oyster, Business Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2d day of October. 1918. (Signed) H. B. MOMMA, Notary Public. (My commission expires March 9, 1919). lEimttng (Ehat Hundreds of High school boys from cities and boroughs in tho southern und central counties of tho state are out helping the orchard owners of the "apple belt" in the South Mountuin region of Pennsyl vania to save their apple crops this week. Scores have been passing through Harrisburg every day the last week, some of themcoming from as far as the northern tier, while the agents of the State Department of Agriculture say that but for the help the boys are giving many thousands of dollars worth of fruit would have been lost. All reports indicate that there has been a big yield of apples in the southern ap ple district of the stnte. where ex tensive planting of orchards has been going on for the last decade and in some sections owners were con fronted with prospects of serious loss until the appeal was made for boys from high schools to give help. The educational authorities have arranged that the boys will be able to make up their studies and for them to do a certain amount of work at .their books while in tho apple district. This is the first year in which boys have volunteered in such numbers to help in the or chards. • • • Perhaps the oddest of the letters which have been received at the Capitol since the general bracing up of police service which followed the outbreak of the war has just been received by Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods. Mr. Woods' department has charge of the records of the state and is sues the official copies of the laws of the Commonwealth. A few days ago the newly-appointed cheif of police of Hustontown. a hamlet in one of the southern tier of counties, wrote for information as to the duties of his office. Copies of sta tutes were sent to him and in ac knowledging them he stated that he had desired to know the law so that he could do right. Then he added to his letter to Mr. Woods "X wish you would send me at once some handcuffs. I have only a billy. • J * State and county police author ities have had turned over to them from the State Game Commission's protectors in northern counties a ser ies of reports of disloyal conduct which are surprising even in the list of those which have come to this city lately. In one in stance a man was reported as having torn down an American flag three times, but the game official in seeking instructions suggested that he be allowed to deal with him him self. In another instance a woman was reported as covering young plants with an American flag to pre vent them from being damaged by ! frost. An abundance of nuts, especially walnut and chestnuts is reported by men who have been visiting I he woods and mountains In this section preparatory to the opening of the hunting season and farmers have also reported that the old Susque hanna Valley saying that when there are lots of horse chestnuts there are to be found plenty of others seems to be well founded. This fall was marked by an immense quantity of wild granes seen in the woods and along .the foothills, according to game officials, who also say that their observation is that there will be plenty of hickory, walnut, beech, chestnut and other nuts where such trees are to be found, although in many sections they have been thin ned out. Experiments with kaffir corn for game have also been suc cessful in many sections. The big corn crop has been an attraction for gray sqirrels which are very nu merous and inclined to be predatory on a greater scale than usual. The twelfth anniversary of the dedication of the State Capitol, which falls on tomorrow, will be marked by the lining out of some of the new shrubbery plots which will take the place of the flower designs which have been such fea tures of the park for the last forty years. It is expected that the whole decorative scheme of the state's domain will be rearranged when the extension of the park is laid out and meanwhile the flower beds will be replaced by native shrubbery. The conservatories have been re moved and the growing of flowers except on a limited scale in space leased in a greenhouse has been abandoned. The ornamental plants which have to be taken care of dur ing the winter will be sold or put in safe keeping. Dr. Deo S. Rowe. who spoke yes terday before the Chamber of Com merce and who is now an assistant secretary of the Treasury, used to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a number of Har risburg students listened to him. "Rowser" as they used to irrevently call him,was always noted for plain sper';ing. He got to know the Latin countries thoroughly and. of course, a bunch in his class promptly stud ied them up. When hts mid year examination papers were given out he had specialized in United States stuff and proceeded to flunk a bunch for trying ,to play to the galleries. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —E. B. Mills, acting superinten dent of Philadelphia police, has opened a school for policemen. —Senator Charles H. Kline is much mentioned as a possible can didate for Judge in Allegheny county next year. —Provost E. F. Smith, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, says the. American soliders are "crusaders in the last crusade." Col. L. W. Kolb, who has been visiting the Governor this week, says that this state needs considerable rain to get the grain fields into shape. —Joseph Swain, president of Swarthmore, presided at the induc tion of the student body at the opening exercises at the famous col- C. Frick's big bond sub scription sent to Pittsburgh has caused Pittsburgh newspapers to say that he still considers himself a Pittsburgh man. —B. Dawson Coleman, who Is in charge of supervision of expenditures on improvements for the Council ol National Defense, used to be head of big Lebanon iron Industries. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Dauphin County pota toes are being bought for tho army camps? HISTORIC HARRISBURG When it was proposed to estab lish a water works here many people who owned pumps along the river I objected strenuously to the expense.
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