8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.VJItAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKI'OLE President and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board 0. 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 ndtvs published herein. >ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. m, Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa tion, the Audit mana Bureau of Circu- PfE] lation and Penn ' sylvania Associ ißß B BBS Hated Dailies. B&i 6 flSf HI Eastern office, ISiSSsSiQI Story. Brooks & SSS£!i SES KM Finley, Fifth SjSjSgSS, W Building '-Jnt Western office, XEsjlf Story. Brooks & Finley, People's - Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a * " week; by mail, 15.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1918 There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased withozt pains and labour. —Addison. SENTIMENT WHAT a tremendous thing is sentiment. The government' pauses in its war preparations to order several million labels print ed and several million cartons made for distribution among the families of soldiers; and it has ar ranged for ships to carry the car tons to France and it will burden the land transportation "over there" with the task of delivery—all that each American soldier may have his Christmas box on Christmas morn ing. Senator Scott Leiby seems to have stepped on a loose board in his cam paign attack upon Congressman Ben jamin K. Focht, whose seat in the House at Washington he aspires to filL Quick as lightning the thing flew up and hit him between the eyes. Having been accused of "mean parti sanship and narrowness of soul" the Lewisburg statesman, who never seeks a fight, but by the same token never avoids one, places the Perry county lawyer carefully over his knee and administers a spanking that will continue to smart for some time. Mr. Focht suggests that Senator Leiby can best fight for his country by taking a musket and going to war, instead of misrepresenting Republicans who have made possible the war measures of President Wilson. PUBLIC OFFICE A SNAP? THIS newspaper has earnestly urged the planting of shade trees in Harrisburg for several years and while there has been some response by the people as individ uals there has been no real interest manifested by the municipal author ities. Commissioner Gross, for instance, promised that a Shade Tree ordi nance would be introduced weeks ago. but like other promised im provements the matter has been per mitted to drop. Many persons sug gested the planting of memorial trees in honor of our soldiers, but again the City Council has- treat ed the matter with supreme indif ference, Mayor Keister observing that a more enduring memorial should be erected for the soldiers. Granting th#t the people of Har risburg and Dauphin county should erect a victory shaft in honor of the men in the sendee —nobody ever supposed for a moment that this pa triotic community would not do such a thing at the proper time—is that any reason why splendid oaks and elms and other longllfe trees should not be planted In honor of the boys who are now fighting the battles of humanity overseas? It is no wonder that the people of Harrisburg are losing interest In the things for which the city has so long stood. Public office, in too many cases, is being regarded as a private job. Any extra duties are apparently looked upon as a sort of personal imposition, but it would seem that tho responsibilities with which our municipal officials are charged ought to have first consideration. We fear that in two or three instances, how ever, these public servants are con cerned more about their re-election a year hence than about any obliga tion of a municipal nature resting upon thqm. It is not a pleasant duty at any time to call attention to official der eliction, especially when such things are unpleasant revelations to a community and its visitors, but in the midst of the tremendous pres sure of war activities, there has de veloped a slip-shod administration of Harrlsburg's affairs to which the attention of the people must be called, and this newspaper does not propose to eldestep Its duty In this respect. There has been an enormous in. crease of expenditure under the commission form of government and the people have a right to know bow the money is being expended SATURDAY EVENING. v HAWUSBURG TELEGRXPK OCTOBER 5, 1918. and whether the results are com mensurate with the outlay. It is only fair to state that at least two of the present commissioners are believed to be giving careful at ! tentlon to their duties, but with re spect to others in the administration I the community must be shown. The (time has come when "war neces sity" will not serve as an excuse for j every failure. | If your hat is knocked off or your | face is riped by the low-hanging limbs of shade trees, blame it on the City j Council. There is wh'ere the responsi bility rests. A Shade Tree Commis sion should have been created months ago. LET'S DO IT "|" ET'S send the boys "over there" j 1 i the kind of news they are sending to us over here. Every issue of the Telegraph tells of fresh victories, of the German lines thrown back here or smashed there. We owe thosfe lads something In the way of good news from home. They are looking back to us for moral and financial support. "We can win the fights in France if you can win the campaigns at home—but if YOU fail qs. the war is lost," they say. They want to feel that the tre mendous, concentrated might of the whole United States is back of them —that the folks at home are with them, to a man. And what better tidings to send back than that the country has gone "over the top" in another big Lib erty Loan. The day the word "over subscribed" goes from camp to camp and trench to trench through out the American armies will be a happy one for the lads in olive drab. They will know then that the food, ' and the munitions, and the clothing, and the guns will continue to pour across the Atlantic in a steady stream and that back home the peo ple are as determined that the war shall be won quickly as are the sol diers themselves. And right her,e is where YOU come in. Your part—everybody's part— just now is to buy bonds—twice as many as last time. Let's do it. Dr. Raunick is trying his best to make the "flu" fly. , UP TO THE VOTER THIS is the final registration day for the present year and all voters must qualify or be dis franchised at the November elec tion. There are many things to di vert tlio voter from his usual thoughtful attitude in the closing weeks of the campaign, but the im portance of the approaching election cannot be over-stated. Republicans are not overlooking the fact that a strenuous effort is being by the party in power to continue its control of the government. Under the circumstances, therefore, they are going to give full attention to the election of members of Congress. Of coufse, in our own district, Mr. Kreider will be re-elected by a great majority. He deserves re-election if for no other reasons than his con structive patriotism and great good sense manifested in the considera tion of many important measures. There will Sllso be elected four members of Congress-at-large in this State, and it will be the duty of Re publicans to see to it that they are registered to-day so that they may be ready to cast their votes for Re publican representatives at Wash ington. in November. It will not be forgotten, also, that in the hurly-burly of the closing weeks the liquor interests of the State will do their level best to elect members of the Legislature who will vote against the proposed prohibi tion amendment to the national constitution. It has too often been the case in the past that the very persons most concerned about such measures as prohibition are those most neglectful about the ordinary duties of citizenship, especially as these are related to registration and similar qualifications for the ballot. These matters are now up to the people and it depends upon the voter whether or not the next Congress shall be controlled by the construc tive Republican element of the country and also whether prohibi tion shall be voted up or voted down. Rumania is coming back into the war because the entire nation hates Germany. The Prussian hymn of hate has acted as a boomerang and all the nations of the earth execrate the very name of Germany. Exercise and fresh air keep off in fluenza- Take a long walk to-morrow. Chauncey M. Depew was present at the unvetllng of a statue in his honor at Peekskill, his. home town. This is an unusual honor, but here in Har risburg there seems to be hesitation about planting even a tree in honot of an absent soldier. Most of those in official life at, least believe in keep ing the home fires burning by cut ting down the trees. £k By the Ex-Commlttccman Commanders of every camp and cantonment, training camp, station and garrison where Pennsylvanians are serving in the army or in course of training and naval stations will be asked by Adjutant General Frank* D. Beary to furnish him as of Octo ber 15, the number of men from the Keystone state under their com mand. This step is to obtain infor mation upon which the Governor may base his selections of commis sioners to take the votes of the sol diers. As soon as the information is in hand the commissioners will be appointed and given instructions and supplies. They will be paid ten cents a mile for traveling, but noth ing else. It is possible that some commis sioners may be named to take the votes of soldiers in France, Russia and other countries in the event that the War Department finds it prac ticable for them to go. Officials at the Capitol say that it is not likely that any will cross the seas. —This will be the third successive year wherein the state has named commissioners to take the votes of Pennsylvanians in active service. In 1916 commissioners went to Camp Stewart at El Paso to take the votes of the division and last year they went to various camps and sta tions in this country. —Special ballots will have to be provided for the soldiers to vote and commissioners will have to see that polling places are organized and ballots made available for men from various Congressional and Legisla tive districts. The pollbooks have been printed. They are half the size of those used last year. Estimates made at the Capitol are that it will take a quarter of a million dollars a year to adjust the salaries of men connected with the state government who have been struck by the high cost of living and who are subsisting on salaries fixed years ago when it did not cost much in Harrisburg and when they were well placed. The situation at the Capitol has become very unpleasant for many of the attaches and they are being paid less than what men in the building trades are earning and quite a few have left state em i ploy for better paid positions; no tably in the State Highway De partment where men on roads get more than superintendents. When the conditions became acute Auditor General Charles A. Snyder started an investigation and it developed that Increases which could be considered "justifiable" would aggregate $275,000. This was scaled down. At the same time it was made known that if these ad vances were* granted by the con troller under existing laws or au thorized by legislative action that they wpuld be subject to review when conditions become normal. In some cases men were told that in 'years gone by they had pleasant berths and that it should be taken into consideration. —Senator William C. Sproul and his colleagues on the Republican state! ticket have abandoned all campaign plans until the influenza situation clears up. It was the intention of the gubernatorial nominee and some Of his colleagues to make only speeches in behalf of the Liberty loan next week, but even these have been given up owing to the situa tion which has arisen because of in fluenza and the precautions taken by the State Department of Health. —From all 'accounts the Influenza' epidemic put a crop in the "recep tion" planned for Judge Eugene C- Bonniwell at Scranton last night. The judge toured Lackawanna coun ty. but between the Liberty Loan rallies and work and the influenza precautions he did not meet as many people as he had planned. —Congressman B. K. Focht's broadside in answer to the chirp of Senator S. S. Leiby, who was recent ly put on the Democratic ticket as a stopgap !n the Seventeenth district has set people smiling everywhere. Leiby seems to have gotten it into his head since he has the approval of the Democratic national chairman that he has become a statesman. Focht has taken a very effective means of answering the ambitious young man from Marysville, whose speech against an investigation of various matters at the Capitol last year has not 'been forgotten. —From all accounts the board of judges in Philadelphia seems to have "passed up" the Vares in the mat ter of naming a county commission er to succeed Robrt J. Moore. It was generally believed that the judges would name Senator E. W. Patton, the Vare leader of West Philadelphia, but as Moore was a Penrose man it seemed to be the idea that the Vares having George L. Holmes as a commissioner should be satisfied and that the Penrose people should be recognized. Hence James H. Gay. a retired carpet man ufacturer and prominent business man was chosen. The Philadelphia Record says: "Mr. Gay's appoint ment was a distinct surprise to the politicians and. it is claimed, the lineup of the judges in their voting to fill the vacancy, shows conclusive ly that the Vare brothers are not in control of the board. Senator Ed ward W. Patton, who enjoyed the backing of the contractors, was able to muster only six of the fifteen votes cast bjr the judges. Mr. Gay re ceived eight votes on the third ballot and was declared the appointee. Those who were applicants for the $5,000 job, besides Senator Patton and Mr. Gay were Henry Scatter good, Thomas W. Hicks and "John C % McAvoy. k —"We are certifying the nomina tions for the November election to the various counties to-day "and if there are any substitutions coming they will have to go to the counties. We cannot wait any longer. Whether the nominations made by substitu tion get on the ballot will depend upon the progress of the printing of the ballots in the counties," said George D. Thorn, deputy secretary of the commonwealth to-day. Word reached the Capitol' to-day that some changes in nominations were being discussed in certain districts, but Mr. Thorn held-that the time for certifying has arrived and must be obeyed. • —Warren VanDyke, secretary of the Democratic State Committee, said that no meeting of the Democratic executive committee, had been called to act on the vacancies on the Dem ocratic tickets in the Eighteenth Congressional and Forty-first Sena torial districts. —C. V. Adams, nominee of the Pro hibitionists for the House in Lycom ing county, filed a withdrawal to day, as did Clellan A. Bowman, Washington and Prohibition nomi nee for the House In Lebanon county. —Reports coming to the State Cap itol to-day were that registration of voters was under way in all of the cities of the state and that the influ enza orders of the State Department of Health did not Interfere with party activity. In some cities, nota bly Harrisburg, committeemen were assisted by high school students who were employed as messengers to notify voters to register. THAT GUILTIEST FEELING By BRIGGS M ,'l . \I/ /, U/HEM YOU <<WI T£ YouftietF IMTO *LL A AL/ JT' 1 TUM\W/FFT * WL 11\J VILLI/*// FOORSONVE AINJU puts You* =IRST R&E SHOT J ' I A&W'^4//////Mi^"° r<> T " e WOUGM— AMD YOUR THREE COM 'L/'TW "W/ VJFLWMV'JY ' V PAMIOWI) HAVE ALL MAUE GOOD UOMG DRIVES '' L, <SVV \V \) \i LIR DOVAJN THE FAIKWAV - AND r 5 A SUNDAY Y MORMIIV6 ON A CROvuDeo COUHSB , Turkey Out on a Limb [From the Kansas City Times] If there is any country so situated as to see more clearly than Germany the effects of Bulgaria's surrender that country is Turkey. •Biflgaria in the hands of the Allies is a door slammed shut between Germany and Turkey. Turkey's aid to Germany as a mil itary ally has been small and much of it indirect. She was to have kept the road to India open and has fail ed to do it. She was to have been the bridge upon which Germany's Mittel Europa was to march to the East. England tried to break down that bridge at Gallipoli and,failed. She tried again in Palestine and Mesopo tamia and succeeded. Now a fresh and fatal gap has been made in the Balkans, the backbone of Mittel Europa has been severed, and Tur key isolated. Turkey's isolation is a blow to Germany in that it looks to a sepa rate peace. Large British armies, made up chiefly of men from India, are engaged on the Turkish front Whether these could be used in France or not, their transfer from Palestine and Mesopotamia would releaae an enormous amount of Brit ish' transport that is now engaged in supplying chem. This shipping is badly needed elsewhere. Further, the chances are now greatly impair ed that Turkey will be, able or will ing to play Germany's game after the war. • Turkey has no love for Germany. Nobody has. Germany has ruled her vassals with menaces and rewards. Turkey was forced into her role through German financial and com mercial domination, followed up by the Germanization of her army. These inroads and the hope of profit through German victory and Ger man penetration of Asia brought the Turk into line. But his vision has now faded. He knows the Mittel Europa scheme in which he was to have an important place is lost. The war has no more attractions for him, viewed from the place out on g. limb from which he now contemplates It. It is a dizzy place to cling to. No help can come to him from Germany even if Germany had help to give. The British are coming up in the rear and a victorious Allied army in Macedonia, freed from the neces sity of holding the Bulgars in check, controls the approaches to Constan tinople from the European side. Christmas Sales • It appears that the restrictions as I to Christmas shopping advocated by the Council of National Defense will have considerable effect upon the Christmas advertising carried by the newspapers. Edward A. Filene. of Boston, a di rector of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, commenting favorably on the restrictions, calls the attention especially of the retail stores that advertise to. the details of the arrangement and urges them to publish in their advertising at once the important points of the proposed plan. . The point of special interest to advertisers is that every effort is to be made to spread the period for holiday purchasing over the months of October, November and Decem ber. Logically the adverjtising, usu ally crowded into the month of De cember, will also be spread, to some extent at least, over the three months. Time to Start Furnaces In the face of the fuel adminis tration's impassioned plea to the public not to light fires before Nov. 1, the advent of cool weather was cele brated in its building in Washington by turning on the steam. Is the joke on the administration or on the public? From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. LABOR NOTES The National War Labor Board has appointed three members of or ganized labor on a St. Louis local committee of mediation. Illinois has 1800 State chairmen of the city, town and county women's section of the Council of National Defense. Women of Argentina have finally achieved official recognition In all the professions, Including engineer ing and the law, % - ■ Women are being employed along the docks In New York city, Check ers are paid 28 cents an hour and delivery clerks 21 cents, Negro Red Cross nurses are pro testing the fact that they have not been sent to France along with col ored regiments. British radicals forecast the crea tion of an industrial chamber in the Government, with the total abolition of the House of Lords and all titles. SENATOR CROW WARNS AGAINST REPUBLICAN OVER-CONFIDENCE STATE CHAIRMAN WILLIAM E. CROW has sent the follow ing letter to the Republican workers of the State, urging them against over-confidence in the com ing campaign: "Permit me to call your attention to the propaganda being circulated that Senator Sproul and other Re publican state nominees are posi tively sure of a big victory and that it is unnecessary for any Republican in the present campaign to exert himself. This is the most dangerous opposition that could confront an or ganization. "Such stories and reports are spread broadcast by enepiies of the Republican party in the hope that you and every other active Repub lican will be lulled to sleep, thus per mitting the Democrats to take ad vantage of your overconfidence. This is a most serious situation and TO DAD [From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger] [The following poem was inclosed in a letter sent by Corporal S. Nor ntan Perry, 2320 West Tioga street, a marine in the Fifth Regiment, Forty-fifth Company, who obtained it from a mortally wounded soldier occupying a bed next to his in a hos pital in France. Unfortunately Cor poral Perry did not give the name of the writer.] They think of us soldiers as heroes And praise our names to the skies; They have tears for the one who is wounded. And prayers for the one dies. They write songs of our pals and our sweethearts, And Mothers so brave and sad; But name a great singer or poet Who's mentioned a word about Dad. Poor Dad with* his check-book and troubles, He hasn't a look-in at all— It's Mother and pal and sweetheart And Samfny who answered the call. But Dad must be thinking and working In a store, or mine, or a mill, To get the old round iron dollars To pay the big family bill. He buys the new bonds by the dozen. Though his run down at the heel And his overcoat old and looks shabby, But you never hear old Daddy squeal. ' • He doesn't write much of a letter To his boy who is going to France, But sends him a crisp five or ten spot Whenever he has a good chance: And evenings when reading his paper. And smoking his pipe or cigar, He thinks of his boy clad in khaki— Says, "I hope it is well where you are." Now I think just a lot of my Mother, She's written, each day I've been gone: And my pals and my friends and my sweetheart Have all helped to cheer me alqng: But my Dad la as good and as human, And sometimes I certainly feel That as my Dad has to pay and work every day, I don't think he gets a square deal. Why Germany Must Be Beat E. G. Plpp, Detroit: Every German, whether he wills or not, is trained to kill. Every German submits or dies. Every German is out to force civ. lllzatlon to submit to the will of the German rulers. Every German must be beaten. every American must take part in the conflict. If needed at the front, he must flght. 4 If he cannot serve in the army or navy, he must help supply ships and munitions and food and money. If he cannot toll, he must give and lend. The ships must be had; the muni tions must be had; the food must be had; the money must be had. They must be had in abundance, and they must be had speedily. Turned to God From Idols Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.- 1 -! Thess&lonians i, 9. / should not exist, and I am writing you now so that you will not be ; caught unawares. "I would suggest that you visit every Republican voter in your dis trict and urge upon him the neces sity of putting forth his best efforts ' on election day on behalf of the , Republican candidates. If this is done, 1 have no fear of the result. "'There is another important mat- , ter that should have your Imme- . diate attention at this time—the ; Fourth Liberty Loan. Every Repub lican should take an active part in j the Liberty Loan Campaign. "The Republican party has never failed in its patriotism and I urge upon you as the representative of the Republican party to do every tning possible to make the present drive iri* your district a huge success. "Yours for the Fourth Liberty Loan. "W. E. CROW, ' 1 "Chairman." ! USKUB WILL BE SKOPLJE [ From the New York Sun. ] Uskub, which the allied forces in , Macedonia have entered and which 1 reports from the front indicate tho j 1 I Bulgars nave been forced to leave, ! is one of the strongest strategic I • points of the Balkaas. It is the! gateway of the road westward through the mountains to Albania and the Adriatic, to the highway northward from the Vardar valley i to Austria and the head of the val | leys south to Saloniki and Greece | and eastward to Bulgaria and Con- I utantinople. Every claimant of Mac edonia iias struggled for its posses ! sion and every Balkan Czar or King has won and lost it. The piers of the fine old bridge over the Vardar at Uskub were built by the Romans, the superstructure by the ancient Serbs, the plank road way and the wooden railing by the ' Turks. Thus briefly is told the ! history of aricient Scupi, mediaeval Skoplje and modern Uskub. To com-, plete, the details are mosques and ba.ths of which -the domes are over j grown with grass and weeds, and | minarets from which the woodwork j tumbled a half century ago in decay. There is a great caravansary with walls thick enough to repel armed attacks, with a gateway bearing Ve netian inscriptions and a / courtyard In the center of which is a fountain ornamented with the lions of St. i Mark. There are ruins of Turkish villas with latticed windows along ' the river bank, a wide street where tlie tradesmen speak French, and a dark bazaar quarter of narrow a!~ ■ leys that once swarmed with Serbs, ■ Bulgars, Greeks, Spanish Jews, Al banians and Turks. Uskub in the fifteenth century wis . called a city of marble; "so beauti ful it was," said the Austrian com ■ inander who destroyed it, "that I 1 hated to burn it." According to a Macedonian legend it could never be ■ restored to its former beauty because - It. was "a city of tragedy." The hiil i side at the foot of the towering Shar Dagli is a vast cemetery, and here ' are buried thousands of victims of racial strife. Turk, Serb, Bulgar and Albanian met in Uskub and strug ' gled for mastery; personal differ ences increased by those of politics and race led to turmoils in which ' death reaped heavily to fill hillside graves. But to the Serb Uskub is the fair city of his dreams and ambitions. In the great castle on the rocky peak dominating the town his ancestors held sway for a century. At Uskub Dushan, his great Czar, was crooned and drew up the magna charta of the Serb people; and here was the ancient capital of the Serb race. In all this he finds inspiration to fight for its recovery. Once within its walls it will not be tho Bulgar or Turkish Uskub but the Serb Skoplje. THE KEYS TO METZ Two thousand years the forts of Metz All foemen have defied. And fell but once, and then, behold! To treachery Inside. Full thirty miles of steel and stone, The portals of the Rhine, Confront the Allies as they weave Their triple battle line. But It Is m the Book of Fate This ancient seat of Mars Will soon surrender to the free Victorious stripes and stars. For lo! the U. S. A.—the land. That overlooks no bets, With Liberty bonds will now unlock The mighty gates of Metz. Minna Irving. Saluting the Flag [From the Philadelphia Bulletin] Dr. Schaeffer, State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, has in formed a delegation of Montgom ery county Mennonites who wanted to know whether their children should should be required to salute the flag, that they must do so. The superintendent rightly insists that saluting the flag is not simply a war measure, but that it is an act of pure patriotism—something that every one should do as a matter of course in every day life. We cannot have too much of this sterling habit in both young and old. Just as a good churchman rever ences the sign of the cross, and just as a gentleman instinctively raises his hat to a gentlewoman, so should an American always salute with un covered head the flag of his country whenever and wherever he may see it in formal or distinctive display. Shuffling the Cards There is bound to be a lively shuf fling of cards in Germany under the stress of the news that is coming day by day. Ministers are likely to resign and new ones to be appoint ed. The Reichstag is likely to adopt resolutions declaring that parlia mentary govetnment is established and the chancellor is responsible to it alone and not to the kaiser. The constitution is likely to be amended, ballot reform granted, and self-gov'- ernment held out to Alsace-Lorraine. But through it all will be the same old deck of cagds and the shuffling won't change a single spot.—From | the Kansas City Star. [OUR DAILY LAUGH JUST LIKE A aa ~ woman. | Jmt - Jff Mrs. Smith (as . BP* 1 - she waves to her departlngfriend): (VSVV, Huh, Mrs. Jones /rrV\\ ' 8 qu ' te 6tuc k UP / I aXX over their new / J 1\ \ car ' * wonder I IJ 1 what she'd say if \ JBVr — she knew her \ husband proposed / \ \ t0 before he / / —\ —yn ever thought of ' her? SAME THING. *\ | I punctuated my tire the oth i P u nctuated ? . \ You mean iJf pun c tured-, I 1 ; suppose. j I Per'aps I do; I ' MI I but, anyway, I I W , | came to a full < f QUITE A , //"# DIFFERENCE. • If you didn't 1 tutl love y° ur wi '®> t j / 'why did you 1 marr y her? ■ 'I didn't marry HM- Iher, she married i VERBOSE. Did Ce Boore Aw \//\ have anything Ipf \ > to say when tho fl 1 A toastmas ter lay j|, ? / J j J \ called on him at | w HI ' the banquet. y ff <£*7 \ No, and It H took him nearly j SFI an hour to say | U 1 HANGERS. that every strap MXsjGV hanger should T \j/j[ have fifty cubla And what are A yj&fif J, your rights if ® f I 7 'HIM some one sticks m **' / U fill noße over Into your air? V f . ' * •„ iEiietttttg (Efyat Officials of the State Department of Mines are making an effort to get a line upon the number of abandoned mines or workings In both the anthracite and bituminous fields which have been reopened or which it is planned to put back into the producing line this winter. The number is believed to be greatest in the soft coal field and there have been reports received here of mines which have been so long idle that weeds and brush grown up the openings have had to be cut away to enable examinations to be made. Some of these are to be start ed again. In the anthracite field there have been some surveys on to determine how soon certain veins can be reached. If all of the plans that have been heard of at the Cap ital materialize there will be a ma terial increase in the production of coal the next year, it is believed here. Samples of cider taken by agents of Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust in up state counties and used as a basis for prosecutions by District Attorneys have been found to contain no less than 7.59 per cent, of alcohol. This cider, to gether with various other samples, was sold as a "soft drink," but has been officially classed as "hard." Another sample, which was labeled "apple cider" was found on analysis to contain 8.06 per cent. A drink called "cherry eider" was discover ed by the official test to contain 3.75 per cent, of alcohol. One sample of alleged apple cider was discovered by the state chemists to contain 7.07 per cent, of alcohol and to be artificially colored by a coal tar dye in the bargain. • • One of the interesting things about the registers of the hotels of Harrisburg these days is that many of the guests are army officers. These men come here on duty at some of the numerous plgnts man ufacturing munitions in Harrisburg or vicinity and to visit the garrisons. The number of them has been re tnarkably large and they seem to like to come here, although many of them do look longingly at the new Penn-Harris and wonder when it will be finished. * • • Salmon fishermen are waiting with considerable impatience for the Susquehanna river to subside. This is the season of the year when the big fellows bite easily and there are many men who are seeking a chance to get out with their rods. The water has been unusually high for this season of the year and bet ter for duck hunting than salmon trolling. • • Closing of the Harrisburg Public Library will interfere with the es tablishment of the school libraries in various sections of the city. The library authorities have been work ing for some time to get the school libraries Into shape and the influ enza order came along just in time to force suspension of some of the outdoor work. * • • According to reports to the State Game Commission headquarters the squirrels are becoming as much of a nuisance as the blackbirds and movements to advance the season to shoot them are to be ejected when the next Legislature meets. The blackbird situation in some of the counties in the and eastern parts of the state got" to such a pass that men appealed to game protectors to thin out the nuisances. The sentiment seems to be growing to make the black bird season start on August 1 in stead of September 1. As for squir rel many of the sportsmen are writ ing here that the prohibition on the reds should be taken off for a few years to let them be cleared out and that the date of October 20 for shooting the grays is too late. The squirrel complaints have come mainly from farmers who protest against the red squirrel on general principles and who are sore on his gray cousin because of his depre dations in the corn fields. Northern counties seem to have been hit harder than other sections of the state by the squirrels. * • • Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, is get ting letters from sportsmen sup porting his stand against the federal woodcock season. The United States regulations on reedbirds have caused much dissatisfaction and some gunners are not disposed to submit kindly to the federal bag ( limit when the state game code" places no bar on the number of ducks which can be shot. In the woodcock case the United States season starts on October 1 and the state game code opens the wood cock season on October 20. State game protectors will arrest men shooting woodcock in Pennsylvania before October 20, says the doctor and he seems to mean it. This is an other of the points where federal and state laws come into collision and a cajl for a revision is likely next year. • The passing of Henry J. Shoe maker, for years the secretary of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, will be regretted by many residents of this city, to • whtch he was a frequent visitor, especially during sessions of the Legislature. Mr. Shoemaker took a big interest in the advancement of Harrisburg and often referred to its unusual advantages as a distri bution and transportation center. For years he seldom missed an Im portant commercial meeting here and was at the Capitol watching legislation from end to end of ses sions. He was well liked by many friends and had a fund of informa tion about the state which was a pleasure for him to tell. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —General M. A. Ireland, the new surgeon general, was formerly sta tioned In this state on army work, —David Main, long active in Sal vation Army work in Philadelphia, has been detailed to southern states. —A Mitchell Palmer, custodllh of alien property, will take a house in Washington for the winter. —Joseph A. Hanley, the new postmaster of Erie, succeeds John T. Brue and is an undertaker. DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel Is used to manufacture bolts for naval vessels? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —When John Harris built hli stockade here it was the first fortl fled place on the Susquehanna and people promptly came here to set-* I tie.
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