14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TKI.VjIIAI'H PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGELSBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. i 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 ntfcvs published herein. . , i >ll rights of republication of special I dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Associa 'tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu ■> lation and Penn sylvania Assoei- JfiljSPiiW at6d Dailics ' • PllHl i <228 <S 83A LAI Eastern office, ?!?911§85851 Story, Brooks & i sSS 2? f™9 Avenue Building. [IMJiSbi g New York City. Western office, Jgfila rffisraP Finley, People's W Gas Building, Chicago. 111. 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. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1018 ~ To he alive only to appetite, pleas ure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, }lowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to be all but dead. —Maltbie D. Babcock. RIGHT, MR. LANSING SECRETARY LANSING struck a popular chord yesterday when he said there could be no peace with the Kaiser or any of the Hohenzollerns on the throne of Ger many. For those who read doubt into the President's note to Prince Max and who feared that the administration might be venturing discussion of ; peace terms with the military au thors of the war, Mr. Lansing's declarations, unquestionably bearing the stamp of Presidential approval, will clear the atmosphere and ren der further explanations unneces sary. The Lansing speech is a clear-cut statement to the world as to how and with whom we shall talk # peace. Either Germany must dethrone the Kaiser and all his ilk, or we shall dictate peace on German soil, from the very throne of the Hohenzol lerns, and with our troops holding all the main cities and strongholds of the empire. These are strong words and a few months ago might bpve sounded much like what Europe used to be fond of calling "American bluff." Now they are the solemn statements not only of' what we desire to do, but what, with the assistance of our Allies, we are well able to do. Germany's fate is in her own hands. She may stay the bloody hand of doom by complete sur render now. not only of her armies j end her loot, but of her Kaiser and I his villainous family as well, or she may go on sowing the wind to reap | the whirlwind that is gathering to | encompass her. In the excitement of what is hap pening in France, we had almost' for gotten that to-morrow marks another anniversary of the discovery of America, and we can imagine the Kaiser now looks upon Columbus as another enemy. NO "OPPOSITION" WHETHER or not Senator Lodge spoke hastily upon . the President's note to Prince Max, his strong p'.ra for continua tion of the struggle ue*il the attain ment of a strong Aw'i&u is a striking illustration of the unity of American statesmen on the prosecu tion of the war. The significance of the Senator's speech is that it clearly shows the minority party in Congress is a party which is stand ing by the war and backing the Government and the President to he limit in the prosecution of a virile war policy. In other governments "the minor ity" during a national war, is syn onymous with being "the party of the opposition"—the party which, if it could get control, would reverse the war policies of the government. Throughout this war the United States has furnished a striking ex ception to this rule. It has given foreign countries an exhibition of a government where the minority party instead of being the party in opposition to the prosecution of a foreign war, was the party which vied with the majority party in sup porting every measure which had for its object the vigorous prosecu tion of the war to a victorious con clusion, and in upholding the head of the nation in his policy of using force to the utmost arid in setting his face against tho compromising peace. The public press of the various allied nations has frequently com mented upon this exhibition of standing by the war which t.he mi nority party in the American Con gress has so frequently given. The morale of America's allies has been FRIDAY EVENING. Immeasurably strengthened, while that of Germany has been percept ibly weakened by the knowledge that in the United States there is no such factor in the halls of national legislation as "the party of opposi tion." The school boy is having all the best of the influenza argument. THAT SSO BOND THE fifty-dollar Liberty Bond was designed to meet the needs .of the man or woman in very poor circumstances, or the boy or girl of small income, who desired to contribute something toward the winning of the war, but whose lim ited means made large investment impossible. But it was NOT intended as a SALVE for CONSCIENCE. The fifty-dollar Liberty Bond has its place in mighty few houses in Harrisburg these days of high wages j jnnd general prosperity. To be sure, there are those who ! are dipping as deeply into their in- ! comes as it is safe to go when they | put down their names for one bond j —but they are not many. A great majority of Harrisburgers ! who have subscribed only SSO worth I toward the Fourth Loan should go j Immediately to the nearest bank or j | headquarters and sign up for at least I one more bond of the same denonti- j nation. TWICE AS MUCH should be'sub scribed this time as last. We simply must give Uncle Sam this money. Failure at home would be as bad as I defeat abroad. But we will fail un- I less every man and woman in the | land does his and her level best. J Somehow, somewhere we ought to be able to rake and scrape together double the amount we raised last spring. One way is for every man who bought a SSO bond last time to buy SIOO worth of bonds now. • You don't need to pay cash. The banks will let you have the money at 4 14 per cent., the same as you re ceive on your bonds, so that it will cost you nothing for interest. Or you may pay for your bonds at the rate of $1 a week on each SSO bond. Nothing could be simpler, nor more liberal. The only thing to which you have to make up your mind is that you must sacrifice. That is essential. But for every dollar's worth of goods you do not buy now, in order to put money into Liberty Bonds, you will be able to buy two dollars' worth in the years of peace and lower prices that are to come. Every patriotic impulse, every eco nomic principle urges you to buy Liberty Bonds, and the necessity of the moment demands that you buy at least fll0& worth, and as much jmore "as the Lord has prospered |thee." [ Turkey appears to be getting ready to hid a tearful farewell to the only ally in the world bearing a worse reputation than herself. PLANT A TREE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH has again called attention to the | importance of tree planting in a proclamation fixing October 18 as a day for the special planting of black and white walnut trees, espe cially the former. Since the begin ning of the war and several years | previous thereto, the walnut trees j of this country and throughout the world have disappeared rapidly in furnishing stocks for rifles. It is up to the people to look after the future supply and this can only be done by immediate planting. Not only walnut trees, but every species of fine shade and ornamental trees ought to be planted now, and unless the municipal authorities of Harrisburg choose to take a hand in this important work it will be neces sary for the people themselves to undertake the planting of trees with out further discussion. At the ] Island Nursery of the city there are scores and scores of finest trees iwhtch should have been transplanted long ago, but which are permitted to remain where they are not needed while wo talk about tree planting and wait for some careless or Indif ferent official to make up his mind (regarding the importance of a Shade | Tree Commission. j In his address ti the Senate, the | President said: "1 tell you plainly | that this measure (llie equal suffrage j amendment) is vital to the winning of the war." And forthwith twenty Democrats, Including nearly all the | Democratic leaders, proceeded to vote against It. Later, they will undoubt edly bo out. on the stump asking the people of the country to return a Democratic majority In both houses of Congress In order to "stand by the President," and the President will probably be Joining with them In the request. It's a virtue to contract a big debt —for Liberty Bonds £k "^t-KK^^CLKta By the Ex-Commlttccman Members of the Democratic state executive committee art to be call ed together for filling of vancancies and discussion of the manner in which the state Democratic organi zation should conduct the campaign next week. J. Washington Logue and Asher R. Johnson, two of the state candidates, may attend 'the meeting. The meeting was to have been held this week, nut owing to the difficulty attending the discov ery of any Democrat willing to be a candidate for Congress in the Dau phin-Lebanon-Cumberland district, where H. H. Mercer withdrew at the last minute and without warning, it has been postponed until Democratic National Chairman Vance C. Mc- Cormick can be heard from as it is naturally expected that he will take an interest in securing a congres sional candidate in his home dis trict. The Thomas bill to forbid large campaign contributions was dis cussed with something akin to panic • about the Democratic windmill to | day. The fact that the Democratic | national chairman's newspaper does I not pay much attention to it is rather interesting. Herman F. Anders, Socialist can ■ didate for Congress in the Sixth dis- I triet; John R. Elliott, Washington candidate for the House in the Sec ond Blair, and Godfrey Springer, | Prohibition candidate in the Sixth | Senatorial district tiled withdrawals ; to-day. j —The Wilkes-Barre Record ra ! marks: "Reports from the three | cities of the county as to the light | ness of registration last Saturday I are not surprising. It was expected :that the figures would be consider ably below normal, due to well-un derstood causes. The absorbing in terests of the war, the business of the I Liberty Loan campaign, worry over I the epidemic of influenza and gen eral listlessness due to the extra ordinary political situation in re gard to state affairs—all these ele ments combined to put a quietus upon accustomed activity. It is evi dent from the reports that there has been less interest in registration in Democratic than in Republican cir cles. —Senator Edwin H. Vare has .given it as his opinion that there will he a quarter of a million voters in Philadelphia's election this fall. | I He looks for a big Kepublican ma jority in the city. The York city registration this ! [year aggregates 7,914 against 8,960 j last year, the decline being due to i the war and lack of interest in the election. The Democrats show the worst slump having only 3,713 reg istered, while 3,853 Republicans have listed their names. —Altoona city registration is i given as 5,943, which the Altoona Tribune says is "light" and is ac counted for by failure of citizens to realize that they had to register per sonally. The second precinct of the Third ward leads the list with 293. —Allentown, Rethlehem and Eas ton all report a drop in registration. Capitol Hill is going to have its first real observance of the legal holiday of Columbus Day to-mor row. This holiday was the latest of the list of legal holidays in the Key stone State to be adopted, Charles A. Snyder, the present auditor gen eral, having been active in behalf of its enactment when in the State Sen ate. The plan is for all departments when they close to-night to remain closed until Monday. People con nected with the State government will be urged to devote their time to working for the Liberty Loan. —Appointment of A. G. Costello, of Philadelphia, to be examiner-in chief of the State Insurance Depart ment, is taken here to mean that the connection of A. Nevin Detrich with that department has ceased. Detrich is now oh the state leave list being in the Army and entitled to half pay of the post of chief exam iner which is $4,000. It is pretty certain that he will not return to the ("bpitol during the present adminis tration and equally certain that he will have no connection with the next. In a number of other depart ments acting officials have been named to places of men who have gone to war, but it is understood that Costello gets an out and out appointment. —The United States Senate had confirmed the appointment of John F. Shert, of Clearfield county, to succeed Joseph Howley as United States Marshal for the western dis trict of Pennsylvania and it is un derstood that Mr. Short will appear before the United States Court here within the next few days and take the oath of office. He will be re quired to file a bond of $25,000. I Marshal Howley would not comment I upon the change. The appointment of Mr. Short was made by President |TVilson several weeks ago. Mr. (Short is a widely-known Democrat. He was a Pittsburgh newspaperman and for years has published the |Clearfield Republican, in Clearfield. | —An item of political interest' is jthe wedding of Revenue Collector C. G. Llewellyn, of the Pittsburgh dis trict. and Miss Jane Kissinger, sister lof County Controller Kissinger, of (Fayette county. I —lt is said that federal judges in [Philadelphia may throw out mote of the draft case indictments which have been found defective. Some of the men indicted by District Attor ney Kane's office may Insist upon be ing cleared which will make more trouble for the Palmer-McCormick appointee in the Quaker City. I —Fayette county has registered • almost 28,000 voters. I —Lenahan men are organizing (committees to work for his success j all through the anthracite region. Lee Holeomh will be chairman for Luzerne. ; UPPITY WID HIS FOLKS [From the Birmingham Age Herald] Roland YVinn, who is in a base hospital at Mars-sur-Allier with a wounded knee, which he got in the fighting around Chateau Thierry, has sent to relatives, here a translation from a French paper of an incident wherein an Alabama negro attempt- I ed- to fraternize with an Algerian trooper whom he piistook for an "uppity" member of his race. It rea.ds: "Hoy, whah you com' from?" asked the smoked Yankee, pleas antly. "Blarjrhy andhausj whutdugsy," the Algerian answered, or words to that effect. The American negro • frowned. "Niggah, you listen to me. I'se frum Bummingham. Alabuma. Just 'case y'all got heah fust an' done learn this heah monkey talk, don't you go pretendln' to me that you done fergot how to talk y'own lan guage. Y'all keep on acting uppity wld me an' Ah'm goin' to bust you right on th jaw, Wheh y'li com' frum, niggah?" "Kahbd shemfww vbgeucf," the BAARISBtmG TELEGItXPH MOVIE OF A MAN AND HI S QUESTIONNAIRE ■ By Brim '■COT My __ ■"" l£,,i SSS '-. • J QUEST'ohma ins " ' —■ - After-War Adjustments All European countries are build ing for the after war period. At the drop of the peace hat Germany is ready to start the next race, just as she began the present one—pre pared. France is giving serious offi cial thought to this problem. Eng land has what practically amounts to a Reconstruction Ministry, head ed by Lord Balfour. The- United States alon'e has ignored it. This nation is as unprepared for peace as it was unprepared for war. Senator John W. Weeks of Mass achusetts has just introduced in Con gress a joint resolution calling for j the creation of a Committee ol Re- , construction. It provides 'for a committee of twelve, six from each j house of Congress, the appointees to be equally divided among the Rpublicans and the Democrats. It then apportions the reconstruction problems in twelve departments. The shortest way to glimpse the magnitude of the problems is to enumerate the Weeks classification of them as follows: 1. Problems affecting labor, in cluding: (a) Unemployment which may follow war. v (b) Utilization of discharged soldiers and sailors in civil employments. ' (c) Conciliation and arbitration of labor • disputes. (d) The relation of men and , women in similar employ ments. (e) Substitution of female em ployes for male, and vice versa. (f) Feasibility of organizing per manent employment agencies. (g) Requirements for labor af ter the war, both in Agri cultural and industrial oc cupations. (1i) Distribution of labor, (i) Employment of surplus la bor on public works that may be constructed or com pleted. 2. Problems affecting capital and credit, including: (a) All matters relating to trusts and combinations. (b) Federal loans to private en terprises. (c) Federal supervision o? cap ital issues. 3. Problems afffecttng public util ities, including: (a) The establishment of a rail , road policy after the war, and the relation of the In terstate Commerce Commis sion to the railroads. (b) All questions relating to communication by wire. 4. Problems resulting from the de mobilization of our industrial and military war resources, in cluding: (a) The d i s p o sfa 1 of surplus Government properties and supplies in this country and abroad. <b) The conversion of munition industries into those of peace. (c) The demobilization of the war strength of the army and navy, and the disposl- Algerian replied, so far as any one knows. The American negro sighed in the manner of one confronted with a disagreeable duty and sadly shook his head. "Boy, Ah done warned you," he said mournfully, and put all he had into a righthand swing to the Jaw. The Algerian dropped and lay quiet. "Ah done warned him," the American negro justified himself as he walked on, nursing his knuckles. "Actin' uppity wid his home folks!" THE PRESIDENT TO MAX [New York Sun] "We are ready to accept your well known terms of peace as the basis of negotiations," said Prince Maxi milian. "Do you mean that you ac cept those well known terms?" re plies the President. "We propose an armistice while the negotiations are golnji on," said Prince Maximilian. "There can be no armistice," replies the President, "while your troops uro in the terri tory you have invaded." "We are ready for parley with a view to peace," said Prince Maximil ian. "Of whom are you speaking?" replies the President. "It Is vital that we should know whether we are parleying with the German people or with the criminals who Involved the civilized world in this awful war. With them, devoid ,of honor, us I have remr.rkcrt before, we have no tion of the men who have i been in the sendee. 5. Problems, affecting our foreign ' trade, including: (a) The development of new j markets. (b) Combinations for the pur pose of increasing our sell ing facilities. (c) Changes in our banking facilities necessary to co operate with such trade. 6. Problems affecting the continu ance of existing industries and j the establishment of new Indus- I tries, including: (a) The supply and control of raw materials. (b) The encouragement of the | production in the United States of articles that have not been made in this country heretofore. (c) The encouragement of pri vate enterprise in the devel ment of the resources of the public domain. (d) The utilization of a tariff on imports as a means to protect and encourage home industries. 7. Problems relating to agriculture, including: (a) Price fixing of food pro- ] ducts. , (b) Federal loans to farmers. (c) Distribution of food pro ducts. (d) The allotment of lands to returned soldiers and sail- j ors, and their establishment In new homes on the public domain. 8. Problems affecting the adequate production and effective distri bution of coal, gasoline and. other fuels. 9. Problems relating to shipping, including shipyards, especially those bearing on the sale, con tinuance of ownership or leas ing of both yards and ships. 10. Housing conditions and the dis position of houses constructed by the Government during the war. 11. War legislation now on the sta tute books, with reference to its repeal, extension or amendment. 12. And in general all matters nec essarily arising during the change from the activities of waV to the pursuits of peace, including those that may be re ferred to it by the Senate or House of Representatives. "The United States can no longer ignore the construction problem," said Senator Weeks, when interview ed on his bill. Even if the major ity of the people do not visualize the important necessity they cer tainly can have no (food reason for opposing the projected forethought of those whose business It is to pre- I pare for the immediate future. When peace comes it will not give us any more time for preparation. ! If history repeats itself, as it doubt less will, peace may be upon us with dramatic suddenness slmtlur to that which forced the war upon us. In one day tho whole world scene will change. | UNITED WE STAND " [New York Times] | The country has rejoiced that In [the loyal determination of both par ] ties to support the war policies of I the Government, politics has been ! laid aside. The Republicans in Con- I gress, who in time of peace would i have been called the opposition J party, have Joined the Democrats in forming a great united Government ! party since we entered the war. | Their conduct has deserved and 're ceived unstinted praise. They have been actuated by a noble spirit of patriotism. We cannot believe jthat they will show any different spirit now. ' Handwriting on the Wall [Front The Gazette-Times] The Germans must now either force the Inauguration of a German Government responsible to the peo ple and thus, setting aside the Ho henzollerns, put themselves In a po sition to accept the Allies' terms honestly, or go on with the war un der the oppression of their Prussian masters. There are no two roads open. The President asks for informa tion und the next act" in the greut drama will show whether the Prus sians are determined t tight It out against the world and against the j German people or recognize the h ndwrltlng on the wall. Belgians Slaves of Germany ! The Belgian government has issu ed a statement that from the coast Ito beyond the City of Bruges the jmaie population between the ages of j 15 to 4 5 have been brutally torn] .from their homes and forced to j i labor on German military whrks. The j jtext of the statement reads: "The Belgian government has j i been conferring for several weeks past with the allied governments on i the subject of measures which are i necessitated by methods of systemat- j ic destruction and pillage which the i enemy is employing in territory he j is obliged to evacuate. "Belgium has been from the be ginning of the war exposed to the outrages of the German armies. At the very moment the new imperial (chancellor is proclaiming his anxiety for the happiness of peoples and" his will to work for the deliverance of humanity, the Belgian government receives news of fresh excesses on the part of the German armies in oc cupied Belgium. From the. coast to beyond Bruges the male population from 15 to 45 years is being torn from their homes and subjected to the most brutal treatment. These men are compelled to work at forced labor for the military needs of the enemy. "A vengeful clamotr would rise i from the whole world if at the mo rtient of leaving Belgian soil, the I German armies renewed with re- | doubled cruelty the excesses which marked the invasion of Belgium, und |if they undertook to consummate the | ruin of the country by pillage, arson land the wholesale deportation of tho people."—Exchange. THE WRONG MA X Henrietta S. Lleber, writing to the New York Times, says; "The new German Chancellor seems to have sailed into the good graces of the Allies on the recommendation of Ambassador Gerard, who, however, distinctly named Prince Max of Sax ony, brother of the reigning King of Saxony, having met him in con nection with his work i:i the prison camps and found hint "a very hu man person." Gerard himself does not seem to realize that these two are not one and the same person, for in his Interview at Los Angeles he ngatn recommends Prince Max of Baden on account of his intercourse with Prince of Saxony in the prison camps. "Prince Max of Saxony is brother of the present King, and is a prelate of the Catholic Church." ONEBONDMORE When Pershing's men come sailing home. They will not ask If you Went through tho ' war in khaki dress Or In the navy's blue. They will not envy you the job That brought you plenteous pay. While for a pittance they went forth On their death-haunted way, With Just this blunt und simple test Your mettle they will try— "When bonds were sold to help us fight, How many did you buy?" When Pershing's men come sailing home. Beware of camouflage When they inquire how much you poured Into the gold barrage! If you desire the knightly hearts To count you one of those Through whom, upon a night-wrap ped world. The star of freedom rose, Prepare to say: "I could not plunge Through shells, and gas, nn.l gore— But when I'd bought bonds till it hurt, I signed for one bond more! DANIEL HENDERSON. Scripture For the Kaiser [Kansas City Star] The Kaiser, in his speech to the Krupp workers, showed himself something of a student of the Scrip tures. Has he happened lately to turn to Ezekiel vil. 2 5 and 27? He might learn something to his ad vantage by doing so: Destruction cometh. and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none. The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desola tion and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I Judge them; and they shall know Jhat I am the Lord. LKJTUtSEK. 11, 1918. The Shotgun in the Civil War A recent note of mine In your pa per, (the New York Times), under the above caption, has brought me a | number of inquiries, and I blame | myself for inexactness. | I said that both Northerners and j Southerners came to the field with These were but temporary | expedients, and abandoned as soon as military arms could be secured, j As to the .89 caliber musket carry ing a ball and three buckshot; at [the outset there were both Union [and Confederate regiments so arm jed. This musket soon disappeared, I giving place to the then modern [Springfield and Enfield, (English) rifle, caliber 58. But I never saw or iheard of a soldier, Northerner or Southerner, who reprobated the shotgun or the "buck-and-ball," (as lit was called), gun on any conscien tious or humanitarian grounds. FENWICK Y. HEDLEY, jNew York, Oct. 7, 1918. Generous to Bulgaria—Huh! Correspondent writing to a New York contemporary says: "A section of the American and 1 English press are saying a good deal about the need for "generosity" to | Bulgaria. May I suggest that it is | easy to be generous at the expense !of others, and that these "liberals" j might well show their liberality by their concern 'for the rights, not only of Serbia, Greece and Rumania, but of justice itself, which demands the punishment of Bulgaria for the unspeakable outrages committed against her neighbors?" I OUR DAILY LAUGH CONTINUE, HOWEVER. fjK\ Cast thy bread I upon the That Is Scrip ture advice; / Yet it seems one BBP hadn't Iffl try oughter jWj At the pres- UNKIND. 2 ijf A fool and his \ pf money are soon i I si ,T/\. parted. \'l / I Yep. Who got J l|f C 3 yours away *L I from you? UNANIMOUS. "Who stood up for Jack when hi married Miss De Flirt?" "No one. Everybody called him ■ : fool." A NEW ADVERTISING SCHEME. "When did you get the new fliv ver?" '"Oh, it was given to me with five gallon purchase of gasoline." iEufttittg Cljat John M. Phillips, the State Gams Commissioner whose interest in the movement for people to plant blade walnut trees has attracted national attention and brought out an Exe cutive proclamation designating Oc tober 18 as "walnut planting day,'"" is getting letters from people all over Pennsylvania endorsing th® movement and expressing the hop® that it will be an annual affair. Out in Allegheny county, where Mr. Phillips lives, the Boy Scouts have , been planting trees on Sundays anil have their elders considerably In terested in the plans. Erasmus Wil son, of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, "Chief White Pine" of the Boy Scouts, has written some very inter esting things in his column about the walnut planting in which h® points out that forty years ago Ger many began buying up all the black walnut timber that could be found for alleged veneering, but j n reality for gunstocks. Mr. Wilson writes very entertainingly about the work done in planting walnut and hickory trees in Lebanon county by the Wei mer family mentioning the fact that the father of Edgar A. Weimer, former mayor of Lebanon and scien tist, used to make a practice of. planting walnut trees whenever a tree was to be cut. He always re placed it by a walnut. "The son," says Mr. Wilson, "still follows tho* example set by the father and can. point to trees planted by him that have been tagged and reported as tit for gunstock timber." Interest in the movement for re foresting the woods of the state with black walnut,* hickory and other hard woods is extending to the beech and other nut bearing trees which have rapidly been passing from the extensive woods of the state and attention is at last being given to the problems attending the destruction of the hemlock forests which formerly covered counties. The Wild Life League and other or ganizations have taken hold of the walnut proposition, which has been strongly urged by such men as John M. Phillips, the State Game Com missioner. and have urged that boys everywhere plant black walnut trees and attempts have been made to bring the importance of replenish ment of the state with black wal nut timber to farmers. It has taken the war to wake up the state to the loss it has sustained by the failure to replace the hardwoods and now there is a demand for walnuts with the hulls on for planting which is sweeping all over the state and there have been many inquiries made at the State Department of Forestry and the Department of Agriculture as to where seedling trees can be secured not only of the black wal nut, but the hickory, beech and chestnut varieties. Many of the in quirers seem to want to plant on walnut day, October 18. Newspapermen throughout the I state and people at the Capitol will I be interested to know that Ed Hart, | the legislative correspondent 01 Scranton Times and now acting pres ident of the Legislative Cor respond ents' Association, has been appoint ed district deputy of the Elks fot northeastern Pennsylvania. The Times says: "Pittston Elks receive recognition from the new head of the Elks' organization in the coun try. Exalted Ruler Campbell an nounced the appointment of E. J. Hart, past exalted ruler of Pitts ton lodge. No. 382, as his personal representative in northeastern Penn sylvania. As district deputy Mr. Hart will look after the interests of the grand lodge in the territory extend ing from Easton to New York state line. The new deputy is well known in Elkdom. He has been active in the affairs of the Elks of his home city since attaining his majority, and has been prominently identified with, the work of the Pennsylvania Asso ciation B. P. O. of Elks. Just re cently he was named a member and secretary of the war relief com mission created at the reunion held in Shamokin a year ago. This com mission, headed by ex-Senator Ed ward F. Blewitt. of this city, is making every effort to have the government establish a hospital for returned soldiers in this end of Pennsylvania." • • * The number of Liberty Loan but tons being displayed on Capitol Hill is greater than in any preceding loans. There are very few depart ments or bureaus which afe not 100 per cent. * * * Cassius A. Dunn, acting secretary of Ahe Harrisburg Rifle Club, has calred the members of the club to come into the open air and shoot on Saturday. Mr. Dunn has announced the annual members' match for to morrow, starting at 9.30 a. m. and there will be a free issue of Krag ammunition as a means of keeping influenza germs off the range. Thir ty-eight members of the Harrisburg Rifle Club have gone into the serv ice, of whom twenty-one are now commissioned ottteers. The old question of whether men receiving commissions as mem. bers of the volpnter state police by appointment of the Governor should pay a fee to the recorder of the county wherein they reside or not has bobbed up at the Capitol. The state has no control over.the mat ter, but as it Is commissioning the men with heavy paper sheets bear ing the seal of the state and some official signature's and not charg ing the silver dollar which the law provides shall be the fee for aflix- Ing the great seal, it has been held by the Attorney General's oflice that the recorder's of deeds should not charge the fees. However, the stato and the Council of Defense have left it up to the members of the police, who get no salaries and the record ers who depend on fees to settle it.. | WELL KNOWN PEQfjg~ | —John P. Forbes, former Hunt ingdon newspaperman, is now on tlio staff of the Stars and Stripes, the American Army newspaper in France. —General S. W. Miller, formerly commandant at Fort Niagara and well known by reason of recruit ing service here, has been trans ferred from Fort Sill to Columbus. Ga. —John Wanamaker, the oldest member of the Philadelphia Board of Education, stirred up the mem bers of the board by a demand for an overhauling of the school finan cial system. —John H. Dniley, Pittsburgh, councilman. Is protesting against the use of pleasure cars in that city saying there Is too much of it. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg Is turning out machinery to make rifles ami big guns? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This place was the council site for chiefs of half a dozen clans of Indians for yeurs before John Har ris built hiq store and established the ferry
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