16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.SORAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief Y. R. OYSTER, Satinets Manager Ol'S M. BTEINMETZ. .Venaffinji Editor A. R. MICHE.VER, Circulation Manager Executive Board X P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGELSBT. 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 net otherwise credited in this paper and also the local nf*vs published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. M ■ Member American! Newspaper Pub- : lation and Penn- ! sylvan Associ- i jjgg jgj ggji a Eastern office. | BlcU Sf Avenue Building j \Ve stern office. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Bv carrier, ten cents a -> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. ■ | I ant persuaded, that neither death.; nor life, nor angels, nor principali- j tics, nor power, nor thing present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Ood, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans B:3S, 39. - ; ■c FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918 M'ADOO'S PROPOSAL SECRETARY McADOO will have to produce more convincing' arguments if he wants to induce 1 Congress to accept his plan for a | continuation of government control i of the railroads beyond the twenty- ; one-month period prescribed by j law. The only reasonable excuse ■ the Secretary gives is that he de- ! sires to preserve the morale of the j men by keeping their wages at a high standard and to see complet- 1 ed many improvements now un- j day way or contemplated. With all i due regard for the wisdom of the! director general, if may be said l without stretching the truth that the 1 railroadmen have showed their abil- j ity to look after their own wage: contracts and that they got their eigltt-hour day only after President \Vilon yielded to the threat of a general strike. And as to improve ments, the railroads under private direction have never displayed any inability or lack of desire to spend money on changes and extensions where the need exists. Senator Kellogg struck a popular note yesterday when he said he be lieved the roads should be returned to their owners "under strong Fed eral control," and with railroad se curities kept under the watchful eye of the government to prevent any possibility of manipulation. We are paying to much for too little service from the railroads at pres ent. Rates have been advanced enormously and the service reduced. The public is paying far more for railroad transportation now than ever before. That is one of the reasons for the high cost of living, for on everything, practically, we eat, wear or use, we pay higher freight rates than ever before, and these rates enter into the retail price of the article. Vet we are told that the "roads are being managed more economically than ever under government control," notwithstand ing that even with the Increased rates the government is footing a big deficiency bill. To continue gov ernment management is to continue these conditions. On the other hand, the country does not want a return of the old "public be damned" days of the Vanderbilts, the Goulds and the Har rimans, when railroads were bought, sold and wrecked over night to en rich the pockets of a few Wall Street dealers. Nor does a return to pri vate ownership entail any such dan ger. Congress is well able to erect the proper safeguards In that direc tion. Mr. McAdoo's proposal comes as a surprise, in view of President Wilson's recent assurance that the administration had no program. Evidently the Secretary is acting in accord with presidential wishes, and it may be that he is doing so to "square himself" with his father-in law," thinking that no such measure will be passed this session, or in the hope to remove the issue of gov ernment ownership from his own presidential campaign in 1920. MR. HILLEARY GOES UP THE hundreds of Harrisburg people who have learned to love and admire E. D. Htlleary dur ing his nine years of residence In Harrisburg as division freight agent of the Philadelphia and Heading Railway, will be glad to hear that he has been promoted to be assist ant general freight agent of the FRIDAY EVENING. I Reading system, the Atlantic City Railroad and the Port Reading Rail road. Mr. Hllleary has been Iden tified with alt of the big progressive civic movements since ho came to HarriBburgantl, despite extraordinary activities in a railroad way since the declaration of war, has been prominent In all the Liberty Loan and war work campaigns. As some body said In introducing him at a dinner recently: "He put the Read ing on the map in Harrlsburg." He has been a good citizen In every sense of the word and Harrlsburg is sorry that his good fortune neees- j sitates his removal front this com-! m unity. ! HARRISBURG PICTURES NO COMMUNITY anywhere in the United States has had a moie creditable record in all war ac- I tivities than Harrisburg and now that we are approaching the stage of recorded historv those who are concerned about an accurate record of the events of the last year or two must co-operate in every possible way with the recognized historical agencies. Colonel C. W. Weeks, with the general staff of the War Depart ment and chief of the Historical Branch, has been .in communica tion with Mayor Keister regarding a compilation of the pictorial rec ords of the war so far as this com munity is concerned. He wants to obtain photographs representing all the important phases of war activ ity and Harrisburg must be ade quately represented with pictures ( showing the valuable work which j it has done and is doing during the \ time of war. Unfortunately, the material Colo nel Weeks so far has received from i this city is not adequately repre sentative and his letter to Mayor Keister is an invitation to appoint some energetic individual or asso ciation to collect and forward to the War Department, Pictorial Section, the photographs that would prop erly portray Harrisburg's activities from city campaigns or 'celebrations to the simplest home work. , Pursuant to this request, William C. Alexander, sales manager of the Moorhead Knitting Company, has been appointed chairman of a com mittee to collect the photographs that are desired and he has invited the co-operation' of citizens gener ally. Now is the time to look af er these matters of historic interest. Months later it will be more diffi cult to collect the pictorial and other historical data of importance. Pic tures of the imposing and patriotic celebrations, Red Cross, the Na tional War Aid and all other activ ities ought to be included. A PRACTICAL STUDY THE natural law which causes water to seek a level has its counterpart in an economic law influencing the flow of labor and the leveling of wages. You cart raise the water of one part of a stream higher than that of another part by building a dam, but when you break down the dam the water rushes to a level. So it is with wages. We can maintain wages in this country higher than in other coun tries so long as we maintain a dam in the form of a protective . tariff law which limits the importation of competing goods made by work men who are paid lower wages. Break down that economic dam and the result is a flood of cheap goods that forces the establishment of a practical wage equality. It is still uncertain just what President Wil son meant by "removal so far as possible of all economic barriers," but any interpretation that can be placed upon it does not encourage the hope that he stands for a policy which will tend to maintain .wages higher in America than elsewhere. If President Wilson, while he is in Europe, wHI spend the time com paring wage scales in the United States and European countries, he may see reason to change his ideas of economic equalijy. If he had ever been a producer of any Amer ican commodity that came into com petition with a foreign commodity, he. would have no need to study comparative wage statistics. But, having had no practical experience in actual production, he should make up in some measure his lack of personal knowledge by studying vital and easily substantiated facts regarding the conditions of produc tive industry here and abroad. And he should relinquish for the time being his partisan ideas against a protective tariff. ALREADY FORGOTTEN IS IT not about time that some attention was paid to our cas ualty lists, that some effort was made to relieve the anxiety of thou sands of wives and mothers whose husbands and sorts have been in the thick of the fighting, that some of ficial acknowledgment should be forthconiing of the debt the nation owes the brave men who have given their lives or their health that othete might be spared? At the present rate it may be over three months before all of the 265,000 killed, wounded and miss ing are named, and their relatives notified. Senator Chamberlain has given notice that he will have an imme diate investigation of the delay made by the Military Committee, of which he is chairman. We hope he will succeed tn bringing about at least a partial improvement. Meanwhile the President has it -in his' power to look into the matter on the other Bide of the water and stimulate cas ualty tabulations at that end of the line By the Ex-Oommittceman While fhe Republican leaders of Pennsylvania have - been getting to- ■ | sclher on the speakership and dis- j j cussing the fine points of Repre j sentatlve Robert S. Spangler, of! j York, the chieftains of the Old { j Guard of the Pennsylvania Denioe- | | racy have been quietly getting hold i iof what members the Democrats i may have in the General Assembly; | which will meet here next month., j home time ago it was remarked that j the attention of such heretofore- j i busy Pennsylvania bosses as Vance }C.-McCormick, A. Mitchell Palmer, j Joseph F. Guffey, Roland S. Morris • ant * James 1. Blakslee was so ab- j | sorbed by their federal offices that j l a e y did not have time to spare for j | a " a irs of the party which gave ; j them prominence in their native' I state. The party machine got mixed j JP. an awful smash and in the' ' disturbance the number of Demo- j crats returned to the Legislature, I sank to the lowest figure known in ! a generation. AVhile the bosses were busy furl-: ing sails at Washington to prepare ! for the storm and the windmill ' force here preparing for some ad- ! verse currents from the Bonniwell faction, the leaders of the Old Guard j i quietly went out and sewed up what ' legislators the Democrats will have. I It was not hard to do. Many of the candidates who did get elected felt that they had been neglected by the , titular powers and that tho bosses who had smiled on them were now too big to bother with their home i state any more and were ready to line up. It is now said along the line that' the six Senators in the upper House have decided to support Senator W. Clayton Haekett, of Kaston, tor pres ident pro tern, and that the twentv three members in the House are fa vorable to Harry E. Lanius, the I bind member from York county, as the party candidate for speaker against Robert S. Spangler, who seems to be rapid!* - getting the tre- ! mendous Republican strength of 184 i behind him. —Some of the Philadelphia news papers. notably the Democratic Rec ord and the Public Ledger, devote considerable space to-day to denials of any harmony plan on mayor as a result of the Moore dinner. Sena tor \ are is quoted by other news papers as saying that there were no olive branches passed around at the national capital and gave the im pression to some interviewers that he did not want the idea of peace to be too strong. The '.lnquirer says there were "no evidences locally" of any harmony plan'and says that since 'N are has seen the demand for a new charter for Philadelphia he has evolved one of his own. —The Public Ledger considers the speakership settled. After much .dis cussion of the subject it says to day: "It had_been known for some time that the Penrose and Vare forces regarded Mr. Spangler's can didacy with favor, and it now can be said that he is acceptable to the dry federation and other antiliquor organizations throughout the state. Mr. Spangler, known as a wet at pervious sessions of the Legislature, was elected upon his pledge to sup port the national prohibition amend ment. The dry forces believe he will keep his pledge, and the liquor peo pje are confident he will give them a square deal. Representative George Willigmfs, of Tioga, who was gen erally favored early in the race, will be but a passive candidate. So strong is the sentiment for Mr. Spangler that several western Penn sylvania politicians returned to Pittsburgh yesterday prepared to in form their followers in Allegheny county that the speakership question virtually was settled and that Mr. Spangler would be elected at the Republican caucus in Harrisburg January 6." —The Philadelphia Press says: "The charter reform idea is attract ing attention growing in strength. It will come before the incoming Legis lature under better auspices than met these proposed reforms two years ago, and we have faith that something of value in charter changes will be accomplished at the session." —Liberal propositions for new city jobs and activities, requiring about $135,000, are contained in de partmental estimates which Mayor E. V. Babcock submitted to Pitts burgh councilmen. Besides 100 new policemen and 100 new firemen which are asked for, Mr. Babcock wants several new appointments in his own department. He asked for the installation of an historical bu reau of two members, at $3,000 a yaar each, who are to make up a history of the Pittsburgh men who are in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps; an assistant secretary to the mayor, at $3,000; an information clerk at $l,BOO, two new police mag istrates, at $2,500 each; a steno grapher-clerk, at $1,590, and a' clerk at $1,980, are proposed for the Morals Court. v ___ —Completion of the official count of the votes polled In all the coun ties of Pennsylvania at the lust elec tion will not be possible until next week, according to officers at the State Department, the official re turns from Luzerne county will not be ready for several days, it was stated in a message received by George D. Thorn, acting Deputy Secretary of the Commonweath, as the return of votes of soldiers and sailors from certain camps have been thrown out. —State authorities have asked for a complete statement of the pro ceedings in the courts at Wilkes- Barre and they will be studies with a view of making any recommenda tions which may be asked when the time comes to draw up a new act to govern such voting. The votes were taken in 1916, 1917 and 1918, under the act of 1864. —The bills of the more than 125 commissioners who took the votes this year have been audited and the checks will be issued next Week. A Wilkeß-Barre dispatch says: "At the direction of the county Judges soldiers' votes from six of the sev enty-three military camps were certi fied and formally added to the totals of the county, giving John J. Casey, Democrat, the election to Congress over E. N. Carpenter, Republican, by 4 2 votes. Votes from Camps Dix, Greenleaf, Lee, Hancock and John son and Puget Sound were certified. These gave £asey 97 and Carpenter 37. Exclusive of the sol dier vote, official returns in the county gave Carpenter a lend of 18, but the soldier returns reversed the result." Tt Is believed Carpenter will make • .fovmiM contest hjlrri6burg telegrape: MOVIE OF A BRIDEGROOM OF TWO DAYS ByBRIGGS i'*"'' ' ' • . ARRIVCS AT PHOMES HI-S PET AT HLEVEN PHONES /ST OME PHONCS OFFICE HALF HE HAS ARRIVED I HER THAT HER HER THAT HER hour late „ Safely /\ndy is workiog Little andrevjo *3 J HARD FOR -at two Tells at Three he is -at four he jays -at five of f-ive her he is Just concerned "Just Think Your Beats 17- \ DYIIU6 T ter a most respectful but most em -1 phatic protest against the proposed j course so far as our son Quenttn is I concerned. We have always be- I lieved that 'Where the tree" falls, I there let it lie.' | "We know that many good per- I sons feel entirely different, but to | us it is painful and harrowing long ' after death to move the poor body I from which the soul has fled. We i greutly prefer that Quenttn shall continue to lie on the spot where he . fell in battle and whe(e the foemen buried him." In reply General March says he is , in entire sympathy with Mr. Roose- I velt's attitude and that General Per | shing has authority to pursue the same course in cases where the rela tives express a similar wish. We hope that most of them, will join the ex-President in this protest, for the transportation of corpses long dis tances is ~a heathenish custom. We I think it absurd in the Chinese that 1 on traveling abroad they insist on providing for the return of their re mains to the Celestial Kingdom, in which they were born. Our boys who have made the su preme sacrifice have earned the right to rest in peace in the land they helped to free. The idea of disinterment is equally repugnant to sense and sentiment. The money it would cost were better spent in saving the starving children of Eu rope. The truer feeling about this was voiced in the sonnet written by Rupert Brooke shortly before he sailed with the British Mediterran ean Expeditionary Force in Febru ary, 1915, and died in the Aegean: If I shoul4 die, think only this of , me: , Thut there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways roam. A body of England's, breathing Eng lish air, , Washed by the rivers," blessed by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, i A pulse In the eternal mind, no less I Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given: Her sights and sounds; dreamt happy as her day; And laughter learned of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an Eng lish heaven. LABOR NOTES Portland. Oregon, is the only city on the Pacific coast that still clings to the old 24-hour idea of working its firefighters. Enployes.at th 3 grain elevators at Midland, Canada, demand 80 'entsj an hour, time and half for ovef- < time and double tune for Sundays. The Manitoba (Can.) Minimum Wage Board has set its first wage for working women in the prov ince in the cause of laundry work ers. The board has figured that $9.48 a week is necessary for a girl | to live decently, and for good meas ure an adaitloiial two cents a week ft added. President Wilson and President Carranza of Mexico have been in vited by President Gompers, in the ' name of the American Federation of Labor, to attend the internation al labor congress to be held in La redo, Texas, commencing November 13 next. Governors of all border states of tie two republics have also received invitations to attend. Officers of the International La dies' Garment Workers' Union are preparing to make effective the dec laration of their last convention for an educational campaign to bs con ducted by five members appointed by the president of the interna tional. It was voted to appropriate $lO,OOO annually for thg work. This movement will include popular edu cation through lectures, the study of the English language, public speaking and all subjects pertain ing to trade unionism and the labor movement Literature will be dis tributed to the membership with out cost or at nominal cost. Farms For Returning Soldiers (From the New York Herald) VITAL national questions are discussed in the annual re port of Secretary of the In terior Lane, a summary of which is published this morning, and some vital questions are asked, the an swers to which are not flattering to us as a nation. 'Mr. Lane discusses the problems with which the country is confront ed. and in particular the neesstty for education of the foreign newcom ers, the negroes and even the na tive-born whites in the lessdevel oVed parts of the country. The tens of thousands of men who speak in the language of Shakespeare are, after three centuries in this coun try, unable to read one line of Shakespeare or to sign their names. And yet, he adds. "they have fought for this country through every war, and have died as heroes for a land that did not con cern itself enough about them to see that they were educated. These people have not had their chance — their condition is a reproach to the Republic." On the duty of educat-, ing and Americuntzing the new comers the Secretary waxes elo quent. Indeed, his report a whole is so far removed from the ordinary routine and dry-ns-dust of ficial document that it is nearly lit erature. What should be said, he asks, of a democracy which calls upon its citizens to consider the forming of a league of nations, of passing Judg ment on a code which will insure the freedom of the seas or of sac- Fighting Off an Extra Session {From the Philadelphia Inquirer] Senator Simmons has let the cut out of the bag. The administration wants tuxes raised for next year in order to avoid an extra session of Congress. That was pretty well known, but is is interesting to have it avowed. Republican opposition so fixing the tax rate for next year is based on many sound considera tions. In the first place, the people have just given the Republican Party a mandate which it ought to carry out without a year of delay. In the second place the Republican Party ought to participate in the recon struction program ot' the coming months, instead of leaving it en tirely to administrative action, which the President evidently desires. The Democratic Party wishes to get such credit as may come from lowering taxes by 12,000,000,000. Unfortunately there is reason to be lieve that it wants to lower them be yond the limit of safety, so as to discredit Republicans when they must be increased. Xo one knows what the cost of running the govern ment will be for the next four years. Under our present laws the admin istration ould use ull it needed out of the coming loan to carry on until the Republicans would be told to raise more money. That is a sample of the very sort of "petty partisan politics" of which the Democrats are continually accusing Republicans ut Washington. The Republican position is that it will raise the taxes for next year when, as is essential, it is called In extra session. The Democratic Party wants to get ull the credit for winning the war and restoration of normal conditions and making Republicans 'responsible for any conditions which may nriHe. The work ahead for this country is suf ficient to call for a continuous ses sion of Congress. It is no longer necessary that we be governed by dictatorial methods. The legislative department of the government pro poses to come into its own. That is precisely what the Democrats are trying to prevent. If there is no tax bill passed this session, the Democrats will be to blame. Republicans unanimously agree to the bill for the current year, and that is enough. The Highwayman Within The threatened hotel workers' strike in New York involves only waiters, cooks and storeroom help. You never hear of a checkroom em ploye walking oft his Job, except to retire to a mansion on Riverside Drive, or else to the hospital when some ruined patron attacks him.— From the Kansas City Star. rificing the daily stint of wheat or meat for benctit of the Rumanians or the Jugo-Sluvs when eighteen per cent, of the coming citizens of that democracy do not go to school? Hut already he notes "there have been devised methods by which these con ditions may be remedied in large part and these methods have been worked otit practically by experi ment and in no little detail." The most timely and practical part of Air. Lane's report is that which deals with the matter of farms for returning soldiers, but the broad outlines of his plan were made known in his letter to the President on the subject last June. "The era of free or cheap land," he notes, "has passed. We must meet the new conditions of developing lands in advance —security must to a degree displace speculation." The irrigation of arid lands, the reclaim ing of swamp lt.nd, the clearing of lands that have been cut over mean immediate employment for a great army of workers before the lands are offered to the soldier to build a home for himself with money ad vanced by the gbverament and which he would repay in instal ments. While the county no longer has the former bountiful public do main, Mr. Lane shows that there are tens of tyillions of acres that can be made available. As Mr. Lane sees it, the United States, lending its credit, can in crease its resources and its popula tion and the happiness of its people with a cost of no more than the few hundred thousand dollars required to study the problem through com petent men. Playing Better Politics. (Front the New York World.) TThe change in the attitude of the Republican side of the Senate to ward the Revenue Bill seems to be further reflective of a change in the advisory councils of the party which began to be manifested about two weeks ago. Obstructive tactics against the bill are to be abandoned. There will be no insistence, as here tofore, on a revision of the bill to exclude an extension of tux provis ions to 1920. Viewed even in the narrowest sense, this is vastly better politics than the course now given up. It may soon begin to appear that the Democrats have only succeeded in playing into Republican hands with their attempt to tie the next and a Republican Congress to a tax pro gram for which the Democrats can be held responsible if it does not fit conditions now unforseeable and whose amendment in many ways will almost certainly be -compelled. Let the bill, therefore, be passed at once and started for the President's signature in France or elsewhere. So far the the bill has been made a game of politics, the Democrats started it and the Republicans arc now beating them at if. THE SUBTLE MINISTRIES. The murmur of a waterfall A mile away, The rustle when a robbln lights Upon a spray, The lapping of a lowland stream on dipping boughs, The sound of a grazing from a herd of gentle cows, The echo from a wooded hill Of cuckoo's call. The quiver through the meadow grass At evening fall — Too subtle arf these harmonies For pen and rule. Such music is not understood By any school; But when the brain is overwrought It hath a spell Beyond all human skill und power To make it well. The memory of a kindly word For long gone by, The fragrance of a fading flower Sent lovingly, The gleaming of a sudden smile Or sudden tear, The warm pressure of the hand, The tone of cheer. The hush that means "I cannot speak. But 1 have heard!" The note that only hears a verse From God's own Word — Such tiny things we hardly count As ministry. The givers deeming they have shown Scant sympathy; But when the heart is overwrought, Oh;- who can tell The power of such tiny things To make it well! —Frances Ridley ftavergal. DECEMBER 13, 1918. AMERICA'S HOMECOMING. Tramp, tj-anip of men, Men of the East and West. Men of the North and South, Erom Maine and New Mexico, (They had said Jhat we were dead at heart!)" Tramp, tramp of. men Back from the pits of France, Back from the shamble towns — Out of the rain of blood. Humble and lunge of guns Blundering down the ways, Sounding in avenues. Guns that had dragged tlje roads Of France of the million,scars, Sloughing and suck ing through the mud, Strainin. on theiy chains With thi ,'Wishing trucks./ * • • Guns triumphant from France, Sullen and grim—long stilled, Men pouring back from Frunce. (They had suid we were cravens all!) Tramp, tramp of men. * * * Men— and more of them after! Back to the Western woods, Back to New Hampshire hills. Southerners, Georgia bred Soft in their speech and eyes, Coming—coming—and coming— Men, and more of them after! Men that Manhattan gave— Men from Chicago and Butte. Men copiing 'back to their dafka-S But never more blind to the stars. * * * ,Men of blood and dreams, Men of purpose and pride. * The march of a million men. And a million more of theni after! Flooding the Eastern coast Is American vision and strength, Tanned from the suns of the step pes. Ruddy cheeks from Verdun, Muscles made at Mlhiel. ♦ (And they'd said we were soft from gold!) Tramp, trump of men, Men and the smell of men. Swinging shoulders of men, The sun of their bayonets, ; Sun of their Hag ♦ • and scars! I Songs and the laughs of men, ' Thoughtful eyes of men. ■ And the crude, board jests of the male. ! Tramp, tramp of men I Fresh from the Flemish hell, ! Hot racing blood from the West, lted with the ffame of Youth, I Red with success and joy. [ Glory, of American men, I America's heart full of song; I America's head in the stars! j America's thundering force ; Wreathed and victorious grand! I —Archie Austin Coates, Braith ! waite's Anthology, Boston Tran | script. i SLOW TO GIVE VP JOBS [From the Omaha News] Miss Kathleen O'Brien, director | of the woman's department of the , federal labor bureau In the court j house, and Mrs. Mabel Walker, women war workers' agent of the ; Omaha Chamber of Commerce, are of one opinion regarding the duty of married women in giving up their positions in business or Industry. "If the married women and well to-do girls do not give up their po sitions, they will bring about a great Unrest in leaving great num bers of returning soldiers without means of livelihood," said Miss O'Brien. "A few days ago I tried hard to place a soldier who was a book keeper. but there was not a worftan ready to let him have her place." Mrs. Walker says the need of women withdrawing front business is not immediate, but must come within the next few months. "Our greatest trouble so far has been to get outdoor positions for the men. They scented perfectly will ing to let the women do the office work while they want town jobs that keep theni out In the air. Not one, however, wanted the farm, even the country boys." A Profiteer "I was endeavoring," says the teacher of a night -Vhool in a coun try town, "to Instill into the minds of certain of my discouraged pupils some notions of ambition. " 'Do you know?' I asked of a disreputable looking lad of nine teen. 'that every boy in this country has a chance to be president?" "'ls that so?' asked the boy. re flectively. Then he added, 'Say, teacher, I'll sell my chance for a quarter.' " From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, I fining (Cfyat Hundreds of abandoned or dis used limekilns throughout this part of Pennsylvania will be lired up again and made paying enterprises this winter and noxt spring, accord ing to expressions ef opinion made at tho December meeting of the State, Commission of Agriculture by men who have been studying the fertilizer situation. From reports reaching here there will be a great demand for fertilisers of all kinds in the spring us thousands of acres are being prepared for seeding next spring and as the supply and price of agricultural lfriio have been re ported us unsatisfactory, steps to bring about a revival of the busi ness will be taken, lri some of the limestone sections of the state, not ably the Mgsquehanna Valley, pcarc ity of labor has reduced the output and farmers having quarries and kilns on their properties were un able to get men to work them. The use of lime as a fertilizer has in creased enormously in Pennsylva nia in the lust two years and bids fair to be cnlurged. Tho limekiln is a familiar object all through Dauphin county, but especially in the lower end. There is hardly a mile that one can go along the Heading pike or tho high ways that meet it every now and then ami roam off to reunite a little further on that a kiln is not to bo seen. Clear into Lebanon county the farms contain kilns and tliero are quarries, many of them far re moved from railroads and operated only for lime for burning for the farm, Tho Cumberland V'ulley is also rich in limestone and there* are sections of York and Lancaster county which are in sight of the boundaries of Dauphin which have many lsilns ; Many of these kilns tyc big, modern affairs, which have in niuny cases produced valuable lime, but the lack of men has caus ed the Dauphin county farmer to buy where ho could and the result hus been that with stone and Kilns men in charge of farms are unuble to get what they need so much. It is characteristic of this rich agricul tural region that it has the soil and all that makes it rich, but that its sons are either in their country's service or-engaged in war industries to an extent I hat hampers food pro duction. If was so in the Civil War, too, they say. * This is the period of the year when the small checks and money orders are reaching the State Treasury in such quantities as to fairly clog it. The activity of the Auditor Gen eral's department in collecting taxes and tHe rush for automobile regis trations is causing a big increase in the volume of money handled and a big jump in the number of items (hat must be carried. A consider able amount of money'is being han dled in'cash. * \ * Harrisburg friends of Joseph N. Mackrcli, Pittsburgh newsimper man, who is known to many people in this section of Pennsyl vania, will be interested to learn that he has been chosen illustrious po tentate of Syria temple of the Shrin ers at Pittsourgh, one of the most influential organizations of the An cient Arabic Order. It has over 7,000 members. The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph says of the election of Mr.' Mackreil: "His ele vation comes from the position of e"hief rabban. It Was a night of un usual interest to Sliriners and was accompanied by some unusual fea tures. The new potentate is possi bly. tljc man selected for that e.vtUlod position among the "sons of the desert in many years, and in addition to that every station in the fez wearers was filled without a single content. Syria has been ac customed to interesting balloting in past, elections, and that led Imperial Treasurer W. S. Brown to remark that the name of the temple should be changed to "Harmony." " In spite of all that Is said by men who affect - indifference there is con siderable uneasiness hereabouts over a possible recurrence of influ enza and It Is showing its effects in the energetic manner in which qui nine is being bought up and taken. When the stdryof the epidemic comes to be written in this community it is going to have its humorous as well as its tragic side. Men who never drank before learned the lure of the highball and some who had trodden the primrose path with cocktails and champagne gave it up, while quinine and other drugs won devotees who had considered tham as excuses before. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Ex-Senator Francis S. Mcll herny. of Germantown, has- been nominated for trustee of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. —The Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexan der, of Pittsburgh, has been chosen to direct religious work among the American troops in the Army of* O ccupation. —Ex-Senator E. F. James is di recting the War Chest Campaign in Hazleton. —The Rev. J. Shane Nichols, prominent Pittsburgh Presbyterian, has been called to a big church in Cincinnati. —-Arch Johnston, Bethlehem's mayor, is said to have -worked out plans for city Improvements and business methods In government that will make it a model municipal ity in a few years. —Mayor W. S. McDowell, Of Chester, has been giving personal attention to the housing extensions In his city. —Louis Franke, mayor of Johns town, is now thinking out ways and means to better health conditions In his community. ' t \ DO YOU KNOW ) —That llnrrisburg had a store in utmost every house along Front street 100 years ago, nnd those which were not stores • were taverns? HISTORIC HARKISBIRG —The provost marshal general's office during one period of the Civil War was close to where the State Draft headquarters stands. Remarkable Remarks [From the Independent (N. T.)J President Masaryk—l'm only an unspoiled boy. Colonel House —I always have a happy appearance. The ex-Kaiser —Wouldn't ' Teddjr look funny In a gab mask? H/ L., Mencken —A wife is almost .always the moro intelligent of ths pair. Sir Arthur'Conan Doyle—The vil lage was full of Americans and Aus. traltans extraordinarily alike In type-