8 ittUUSBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1881 ssssssgss-ssssxssteacassßss Published evenings except Sundey by THE TKLBORAPB raijrnwQ co. Telegraph lUMIig. Federal Maare K. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. *. OYSTER, SuJlneit Manager OVB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. . MICHBNER. Circulation Manager Executive Beard 3. P. MeCULLOUOH, BOYD M. OOELSBY. P. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Member of the Aseociated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all newe dispatches credited to It .or net otherwise credited In this paper and also the local ndWe published herein. . . . All rlghte of republication of ep-Hel dispatches herein are also reserved. 4 Member American fishers' Asso'-la- Bureau of Clrcu latton and^Penn lUl C St* * * r B k ff ' C & J Avenue Building. Story. B'soks A OTSHWRX Flnlsy, Peoale's 0s Building, Entered si the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall. 18.00 a year In tdvance. ~ - ' The measure of life is not length, but honesty.—Lyle. MONDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1918 : r" , j GROCERY PROFITEERING j IT is greatly to be feared that | profiteering In provisions will not be greatly checked by the expressed intention of the Food Ad ministration to close all grocery stores where excessive prices are asked. The evil does not He so near the surface that it may be removed by an operation so superficial. To be sure, there are grocers who hold out for the last penny, and who do seek profits beyond gll reason. But their number is few as compared to the anji they are not re sponsible for the high prices now BO generally prevalent. The retail grocer is paying more for the goods he sells than before. The san>e applies to the wholesaler. Both must charge more because they pay more. Local regulation doubtless will check some profiteer ing of a minor nature, but to get to the root of the trouble we shall -have to go back all the way to the producer—and even beyond. Government regulation generally "has been followed by advanced prices to the consumer. The more we experience it the less we like It. Until some way is found to give the producer a decent profit, to eliminate ■the excessive toll many middlemen (exact and t'o deliver the goods to the final purchaser at a fair price, government control will not be very popular. The local Food Adminis tration, which has done a very good piece of work since it came Into being, is doing all It can in Its at tempt to prevent local profiteering, but its powers are limited to that and too much should not be ex pected of it In the way of reduced prices. Indeed, It is likely that Its efforts will be more in the direction of preventing further advances than In bringing prices down. Remember the mail carrier, and do j your 'Chrlstmos mailing early, too. THE CAPITOL PLANS • RXOLD W. BRUNNER and) J\ those associated with him In the development of the Cap itol Park Extension Zone have dreamed a great dream. It is for the people, through their represen tatives In the State government, to . make it oome true. The photographic illustrations Setting forth the contemplated im provements, as given to the public by this newspaper Saturday evening, are attractive in appearance and noble In design. Carried Into ac tuality they will give the Capitol of Pennsylvania a setting of classic out line and of a beauty and dignity not surpassed anywhere in the whole World. The program is ambitious. It is not Intended to be completed in e year. The development Is to be gradual aiid the foundations are to l>s so enduring that they shall stand for all time to come as a monument to the ability of the builders, the grandeur of Pennsylvania and of the wealth, genius and vision of the peoplo of the period that shall pro duce them. Every move has been mnde with greatest care. Every Item has been considered not only in the light of its own excellenct, but with reepect to Its relation to the scheme as a whole. There Is not a false note apparent anywhere. Mr. Brunner has done a good Job and he has had the hearty co-operation of the State officials In whose employ he Is, all of whom have displayed keen Inteteet In the work and deep appreciation of lta Importance from the viewpoint of the Commonwealth. Vertnnately In the ehaaea a Mtmpjcr gve.mm, iatratfoiui we are eeroretf ef * con tinuance of thia broad-minded pol icy, ao that thtra la no danger of •Ithar dalay or tntarfaranoa with tha plana ao wall begun. It haa baan euggeeted that tha proposed city hall and courthouaa bo erected on a plot frontlnc tha Capitol zone, preferably on tha Technical High Bchool side. This Is altogether appropriate from the esthetic point of view. It la desir able, also, from the city's viewpoint, for the proposed State atreet viaduct will divert much traffic from Market to Walnut eereeta and to some extent change the strain of travel from what Is now the main thoroughfare to the street fronting on tha park. At nil events, the Capitol Extension should become the heart of a elvle center and no better beginning could be made than the location thereon of such a county and municipal building as is contemplated. There by we could show the peqple of the State that we are ready them half way in their plans for Capitol improvement* and exten sions. Every Christmas we make a stern resolve to cut down our expenditures next year, and when next year comes we go right out and spend our heads off. PRESIDENTS GREETING PRESIDENT WILSON has re ceived a most flattering re ception In Europe. The wel come he has been accorded at the hands of the French people might be calculated to turn the head of any statesman, did he not realize that the warmth of their enthusi asm Is as much for the great na tion he represents as for himself. Unquestionably, the President is popular with the pcqple of the al lied countries. He Is spokesman for America, and it was American sol diers who turned the tide of battle In France, saved Paris and took a decisive part In the campaign that brought the Hun to his knees and freed Europe from the menace of serfdom. He Is to tho grateful French a heroic figure to whom hom age should be paid in full measure for the glorious part America played in the final months of the war. Nobody grudges the President this rare experience. He went to Euope against the Judgment of many of his countrymen, but being they will .hope that he will acquit himself well In the trying experi ences ahead and conduct himself In a manner both to his own credit and that of the nation. Certainly, the opportunities to that end are well nigh limitless; but, then, so also are the responsibil ities. The excess of emotion-witlj which Paris greeted Mr. Wilson Indicates that America is on the top wave of popularity in France. We are in a position difficult to maintain. If we come out of the peace confer ence as well liked abroad as we are now, little less than a miracle in diplomacy will have been accom plished. All good Americans will pray for that. We have no selfish aims, we seek no territory, we ask no indemnities. Justice and a last ing peace are our only desires. Our place at the peace table should be that of arbitrator rather than dicta tor. Our representatives must be careful that they do not overplay their part. They should not mis understand the temper of the French people. They must not read Into their vociferous welcome mean ings that do not He there. AN ARCHAIC PAYROLL SECRETARY OF THE COM MONWEALTH WOODS is ex actly right when he recom mends in his annual report to the Governor that the Department of State of Pennsylvania should be re organized "with special reference to modern business conditions and to facilitate the work." This branch of the State government is operating under a series of laws, the youngest of which is more than a dozen years old. There are other departments of the State government almost as much hampered, but not quite, and that of the secretary, which turned almost $2,000,000 into the State Treasury as the revenue from, its business for two years, may be fairly cited. It does seem strange that the State of Pennsylvania, which is a business corporation with an ip come, free from tax, of over $40,- 000,000 a year, can not pay its peo ple what they would get as man agers of branches of a department store, foreman # -Jn a foundry or me chanics or carpenters on ordinary construction work. The legislatures of the past specified the jobs and fixed the pay. It was good pay in those days and the hours made "a Job on the Hill" much sought after. But times have changed and the pay of a bricklayer and the hours of a railroader have the emoluments and time of a State government attache, especially in the war-time rush of work at the Capitol, much faded for attractiveness. The truth is that the State govern ment pay system has been an an achronism. Good men and women have gone to other places and left Important public work for the same reason that teachers have been do ing the same thing. There is no flex ibility about the payrolls in public service. A plan was devised when the effect of war began to be felt at the Capitol whereby salaries could be adjusted, but it was petulently thrown Into a waste basket. There should be a means of "adjusting sal aries in the State government Just as In the Bethlebam St** l Camnur, —, ... . fotitUoU fa By the Ex-Committccman | While no formal announcement has been made, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers yesterday de clared that Lewis S. Sadler, of Car lisle, well known throughout the state for his services on the Penn sylvania Council of National De fense, had been selected to be state Highway Commissioner In the Sproul administration. The selec tion generally met with approval, as Mr. Sadler's talents are every where recognized. The Philadel phia Ledger says he Is a personal friend and business associate of the new governor, while other newspa pers speak of him In high terms. The Philfftelphia Press says re garding the appointments: "Gov ernor-elect William C. Sproul will shortly announce the appointment of Lewis C. Sadler, of Carlisle, as Highways Commissioner. Senator Sproul has not yet authorized the announcement, but it was learned In authoritative quarters that the post has been offered to Mr. Sadler, who will accept. It is also known now that the Governor-elect has asked Dr. Edward Martin to be his Health Commissioner and that Dr. Martin hns accepted, conditional only on his release from the army, which It is believed there will be little difficulty In securing. "Another important appointment that is likely to come Is that of Judge John A. Evans, of the Com mon Pleas Court of Allegheny Coun ty, to All the vacancy In the Super ior Court created by the election of Judge Kephart to the Supreme Court." —ln Philadelphia the re-appoint ment of Chairman Harry A. M&ck ey, Compensation Board; Nathan R. Duller, Commissioner of Fisheries; and one or two others are expected soon. —Late figures show that Justice elect John W. Kephart carried six ty-three of the sixty-seven counties over all of his opponents and scored a majority of 64,150. over Iris nearest competitor, Justice Alex ander Simpson, Jr.,of Philadelphia, who was also elected Justice and 136,463 majority over Charles B. Lcnahan, of Luzerne, and 142.806 majority over Justice Edward J. Fox, of Northampton. Justice Simpson received 72,313 more votes than Mr. Lenahan and 76,65'* more than Justice Fox. Lenahan and Fox are Democrats. It is estimated that Delaware county will send close to 5,000 men to Harrlsburg to help Inaugurate William C. Sproul Governor of Pennsylvania, say Chdkter papers. Many will go as representatives of clubs throughout the city of Ches ter and Delaware county, while there will be several thousand go as Individual friends of Governor Sproul. Probably no county Fi the state, outside of Philadelphia, has been represented at the inaugura tion of a Governor by nearly as many people who will go from Del aware county to the State Capitol to give Sproul the sort of "send-off" that he, himself, never dreamed of. —There will probably be a contest in the Lackawanna district as well as In Luzerne. These two districts went to Democrats by narrow mar gins and in Lackawanna Congress man John R. Farr says that there were frauds of flagrant character, while It is also charged openly that the.liquor people spent money to beat Farr. The Luzerne contest is oveF the Soldier vote and will have a far-reaching effect. The Philadelphia Inquirer re marks that all of the counties of the I7th and 18th congressional dis tricts have Republican legislators In the lower house of the legisla ture for the first time in years and that Adams is Republican with all but one of Ybrk's four members also Republican. —'Squire Lewis F. Holtzman, a figure in Allegheny county politics for years and a Justice of the peace at Braddock, has been selected as mercantile appraiser of Allegheny to succeed S. J. Grenet. He has been in politics for thirty-five years. —Harry A. Meiser, Lebanon's new appraiser, is a cigar manufacturer at Millbach. —Daniel Connell, one of the Pitts ton councilmen, has just returned to his home after serving in the student army training corps at State College. —The final papers in the suit of Philadelphia against the state over four years' primary expense bills have been placed in the hands pf the courts. Over $400,000 is in volved. The state refused to pay because of charges of extravagance. —Philadelphia newspapers say that Ex-Speaker Richard J. Bald win is commencing to loom up as a formidable senatorial candidate to take the seat of the Governor-elect in the upper house after his inaugu ration. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says that the suggestion that Sena tor Vare now wants to take the po lice out of politics is "much too seri ous" to be joked about. -—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says editorially: "The Director of Public Safety argues for more police men because he sees trouble when the saloons close. That Is a superflu ous contention: we need more policemen right now, while the sa loons are open." The President in Europe [From the New York Herald] To-day President. Wilson arrives In France to enter upon his self imposed diplomatic mission to Eu rope. Of the cordiality of his recep tion there can be no doubt. The dif ferent allied and also neutral coun tries which he may elect to visit will vie in doing him honor. The attention he will receive will In a sense be a tribute to the leading part he has taken in the war and is about to take in the peace, and in large measure also a tribute to the United States, which has shown its unselfish aims and idealism not only in entering the war but also in de priving itself in order to help coun tries less bountifully supplied with the necessaries of life. During his voyage the President has had time to consider the situa tion which he will find at Paris and Versailles. Doubtless, also, he has had opportunity to learn the ( opinions of the allied leaders with respect to some of the problems with which the governments have to deal, it may be that he has modified some of tfio views he was understood to hold with respect to the "fourteen points" which he laid down, and also regarding the'amount of Indem nification to be demanded from Ger many and the punishment to be im posed on the nation as well as on the actual makers of the war. It also may be expected tha he Is how ready with his own interpretation of the "freedom of the seas" and all its Implications and corollaries, though he may be expected to discuss the question with the governmental, na val and military heads In Paris be p ** 1 fiornl*'f'i—i " ' f fiXSUUBBURO iSifil 'itmMUErt WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND * By BRIGGS OF COORSE. S* <3LAO TO sea-Ybu BACK / RS Thomases 3©M \ 3AFC 'M SOUWD HOQFRT / FctCHCD J-IOMF A LOT \ Whether Yoo-ve Got of truck -uev-veRY \ AMY • SOUV/'NIM Oft IWTKBSTIW' B° T * OOM'T 3'Far as That ® _ care s'much about -it / I "Tfco'T P'RAPS You - wC'Ac 50 / HAve Got a Piece of , happy TO haug Y£y / J ' Mfpi , COPYRIGHT 1918. NEW YORK . TRIBUNE^INC. THE TOAST The Christmas goose, that fowl sub lime. Bring hither, decked with holly. That e'en the wise at Christmas time May have their taste of folly. Bring forth the pie of mince so good, The pride of skilled concocters, That all may prove their hardihood And high disdain of doctors. Bring in the pudding, flaming still, "Whose fragrancy all surpasses; And" bring the bowl of what-you-will Wherewith to charge the glasses. And drink no other toast but this: "To those our hearts remember— Oh, may the Lads whom now we miss r Be with us next December!" —Arthur Gulterman. "HE", OR "HIM?" A moot point in English grammar is discussed in "Expressive English," by James C. Fernald, Shall we say, The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled, or, Whence all but him had fled? The line, says Doctor Fernald, is printed differently in different edi tions of the poet's works that seem of equal authority. "Some one." ho says, "has edited it. But which way? All events, the present ten dency is to treat but in such use as a conjunction, talking the same case after it us before it: No #.ie escaped (the wreck but he; The wreck was fatal to all but him."—From the Outlook. Had a Reason Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, Paymaster of the navy, said the oth er day: "Graft disappears from army and navy contracts- with the disappear ance of the grafting middleman. Of course, most middlemen are honest, but the grafting ones we warn off. "We take up the position of Smith who cut an extract from, his paper one morning. " 'What are you cuffing out?" Smith's partner asked. " 'An Item,' ho answered, 'about a chap who secured a divorce be cause his wife went through his pockets. " 'What are you going to do with it?' v " 'Put it in my pocket,' said Smith. From the Washington Btar. Easy "Talking about getting help, I know a man who enguged a woman to cook, wash, iron, clean up and keep house for him, Just for her board." "How did he manage it?" "He married her."— From the Baltimore American. ON CHRISTMAS DAY On Christmas day the tots will prance About the house and laugh and ' dance • And shout hnd sing until 'the place Shall seem a fairyland, where grace and Joy are mingled in romance. And neither time nor circumstance Will have the slightest sort of chance To mar their pleasures as they race On Christmas day. But, boy, while I may often glance On each ecstatic countenance. And whtlo each little one's embrace May bring the sunshine to my face My heart will be with you in France On Christmas day. '< . , P.I~U U Tkonuua. BRITONS ARE 'REG'FELLERS' An American Gob Pays Tribute to His Pals of England's Navy Lewis R. Freeman In the Outlook MOST profound of all emotionsj stirred in the brest of the American salior by the war and the now knowledge the war has brought him in undoubtedly his awakening sympathy and admiration for the British and Great Britain. The picture the most of him brought over of the Brition was a sort of hazy composite built up of what his school histories told him about George the Third's soldiers and of what he himself had seen of the Briton —as represented on the Ameri can stage and in the funny papers. It goes without saying that the incarnation of that kind of a com posite didn't seem a very promising individual' for the Yankee saildr to make friends with. This creature of fancy was a male, ot course. What the female of the species was ho had an even hazier idea, and that there was really nothing to speak of to differentiate her from the girl, sister or mother he had left behind him he never drtgimed. Considering that this is the way things looked to him at the outset —and the picture is not in the least exaggerated—one cannot but feel that the American sailor has made most gratifying progress in correcting his perspective in a com paratively limited time and with few opportunities. I cannot refrain from setting down the personal tribute of one "gob" in particular to British bluejackets in Off With Green; on With Blue (From the New York Sun.) The treasury program for the War Saving Stamps is of interest to everybody who has a partly tilled, card. The current cards, which are redeemable in 1923, will not carry over into the next year, it is an nounced. For instance, a stamp buyer who has bought one savings stamp a month this year and who now has twelve of the twenty spaces tilled with green stickers, will not be able to complete the card unless he buys the eight lacking stumps this month —and not everybody has $34 to spare at the holiday season. However, the card as it stands will be honored by the Government in 1923 and the holder will receive S6O. Btamp collectors will start afresh with the nevfr year, when the new cards will appear and the 1919 issue of savings and thrift stamps—both blue —will be on sale. In January the savings stamps will cost $4.12, and as heretofore one cent will be added to the price each month. These stamps will mature on Janu ary 1, 1924, when each stamp will be redeemed at $5. The stamp sav ers will do well to clean up the slate as far as possible this month, at least to the extent of completing their thrift stamp cards and getting savings stamps for them. These assiduous stamp buyers have been of great assistance to the Govern ment in war, their total purchases this year amounting to perhaps more than a billion dollars. Monkeys Die of Influenza An epidemic of influenza is rav aging the coast of West Africa. In Sierra Leone the deaths are said to average one thousand a week. It is reported that the malady has spread to the Interior and has at tacked chimpanzees and monkeys, which are dying in numbers of the disease, From the Rocky Moun- i general. The "gob" in question had been born on or very near the , Bowery, but seven years in the navy , had obliterated all traces but the ac ' I cent. He was a stroker, and as the J champion "light-heavy" of the i American squadron was being put on in an occasional special bout in the ; course of the British squadron eli minations. In spite of the fact that the Br.tish box only three rounds, where the' American Navy had been ■ boxing six, and a number of other j variatons in rules, he had done I trcmely well, having lost but a single ! bout, and that by being slightly out | pointed. I He was still nursing a black eye ! from this lutter contest—in which I his sportsmanlike conduct no less ' that his cleverness had won the ad ' miration of every one present—when ■ I asked him if he had been satistied ] with the decision. "Poiflckly," was ! the instant reply. "He had too much 1 steam for me from the first gong; i but I'll do better when I've woiked ! out a 11*1" longer to go the three I 'stead o' the six round course.- Wot do I t'ink o' the British as sport? j Say, they's the best ever. They's ' more than just it from me, and wot i more can you ask than that?" j If the Yankee sailor has any | superlative beyond "regular feller" I to npply to a mate who has met with his approval, I have yet to learn what . I it is. HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS May I now hope, gentlemen of the Con gress, that in the delicate tasks I shall have to perform on the other side of the pea, in my efforts truly and faithfully to interpret the prin ciples and purposes of the country we love, > I may have the encouragement and the added strength of your united support? I realize the magnitude and diffi culty of the duty I am undertaking I am polgnnntly aware of Its grave responsibilities I am the servant of the nation. I can have no private, thought or purpose of my own in performing such un errand. I go to give the best that is in me to the common settlement which I must now assist Tn arriving at in conference with the other working heads of the associated governments. I shall count upon your friendly countenance and encouragement. I shall not bo inaccessible. The cables and wireless will render me available for any counsel or serv ice you may desire of me. and I ahull be happy in the thought-that 1 am constantly In touch with the weighty matters of domestic policy with which we shall have to deal. I shall make my abgence as brief as possible. .. New Ue For k-Minute Men Four-Minute Men under the dhec tion of the fire marshal's office open ed up fire prevention week In Port land by appearing at all the leudlng theaters to make brief addresses on the subject of fire prevention. This feature was continued through the week, the speakers appearing every afternoon and night.—From the ilrasm Jau—A ""PE'CKMBEg T6, T9TB. " Sir Thomas Returns to Cup [From the New York World.] "As we were saving," Sir Thomas Upton might remark in prelude to his message concerning a post-bel lum race for the America's Cup. For really the Irish Baronet's new chal lenge is only n renewal of that which was to have been met in 1914. What we were all saying more than four years ago was that Shumrock IV and Resolute ought to nuike a pretty race of it. Then war Intervened. A fine contest for the famous cup in 1919 would bring a great sport; back very happily to a sea upon ; which for the last four summers . there has bpen no place for play things. U-boats and piracy having done their worst and vanished, i white wings and sportsmanship may ! return, and in doing so furnlßh by I no. means one of the least striking ! features of a lingering celebration of peace. It will not be forgotten by 1 those watching the delicately turned racers that other members of the big yacht family, not sailing craft but boats built with a first altn.to pleuure, turned themselves to use ful purpose In tfie world conflict. America has agreed generally that no cup challenger lins ever met more signally and manfully than Sir Thomas Lipton the requirements of sportsmanship. Three times he has attempted the feat of l lifting the America's trophy and carrying it back to the Old World, His qualities as a loser and his pluck as a sailor are sufficiently In evidence in vhe speed with which, uh war's echoes begin to die away, he returns to the challenge. An American of the full percentage may becomingly wish for him, with his Shamrock of the fourth leaf, the very" Seat of good fortune —oven to the point of almost grabbing the cup! CHRISTMAS MAGIC Deep hidden in the Woods of Yule There lies a magic Christmas pool. And every year, with love and care, I carry all my friendships there. For somo are worn and knocked about, And some have long been crowded out, And some are forced and over grown, And some aro simply skin and bone! And some of course are true and fond; But all must go within the pond. I dip them to my deepest range, And, heavens, if you say the change! The new como out as good as old, The faded take the shine of gold, The halt go leaping up the path All glowing from their magic bath. I wish that I could say with truth It docs the same for looks or youth. There may be ponds for other endß; I only know the one of friends. Deep hidden in the Woods of Yule — The heart-renewing Christmas pool. —Juliet Wilbur Tompkins. IS ROSCHERES CEMETERY [James Hopper in Collier's Weekly.] We saw in the cemetery of the village of Roncheres (Soissons- Rhelms salient) the grave of seven French tirailleurs who had fallen here at the first battle of the Marne in September, 1914. Then across one of the walls which had crumbled, the cemetery spread into the new German cemetery, with huge wooden crosses made of trunks and limbs of trees unbarked. And hero I saw what I had seen in the town of Vermelles, In Artois, as far back as early 1915 —showing that the Boche, though he may change when he re-' treats, is nlways the same when he thinks himself conqueror. As in Vermelles, four years ago, so lately in Roncheres, he had stolen the pious ornaments of the village tombs, and had placed them upon j his own. He had placed on his graves little Virgin - Maries and rosaries stolen from the village dead, and those naive wreaths of wired beads and of artificial flowers with which the French villager expresses the immortality of his grief. The wreaths borh inscriptions; he had heavily ignored their incongruity when applied to his dead, and one felt the last sacrilege consummated, and one felt there was something indeed wrong with that race, when, over the mound which delineated the form of some burly invader, one read, in black letter among the shimmering white beads;- "To our mother," or 'To my little baby girl." or "To our beloved little school mate." 200 Million Wasted Acres [From the Philadelphia Press.] Secretary Lane estimates that there are two hundred million acres of waste land in the United States which can be made into farms. And he is In favor of doing It for the good of tho returning soldiers. The plan merits approval for its own sake. Whether the returning soldiers reap the benefits of it or not—and none In the United States is better entitled to then!—those millions of wasted acres should be reclaimed. They represent Incalcul able potential wealth, and the very process of reclaiming them offers a part solution of our present labor problems. Sooner or later the thing will have to be done. The experience of older nations indicates it. Common busi ness Judgment demands it. The in crease of the national population will in time make it imperative. And Mr. Lane is right in urging that it be done now. The war has developed the American natural geuiuq for great projects, has taught us the value of agricultural re sources and has charged us with a great national • debt which may the more speedily be discharged if we make our waste lands productive and fruitful. The Profitable Nickel [From the Youth's Companion.] Like the humble cent, the increas ed coinage of which was recently mentioned in this column, the nickel Is in greater demand than ever. That is fortunate, for the face value of those "taken coins" is so much greater than the value of the metal they contain that the profit in manu facturing them, together with a slight profit in manufacturing the minor silver coins, more than meets the entire running expenses of the mint. THE GALLANT 28TH . Had It not been for the 28th, Of soldiers true And tried; The tyrant might have won the day And all the world defied. But no, 'twas Pennsylvania's sons That fought e'en to a man, That swept the Huns like chaff aside, From the Marne to famed Sedan. May glory, honor, laud be theirs. As they their march begin. Through Teuton lunds our flag to wave, And even In Berlin. —LK(A JA- BM.CT.r.HA,BP. lEiienuuj (Eljat Urgent recommendations for a general readjustment of salaries of skilled men connected with the state government will probably be made to the Incoming Governor ear ly In Ills term as a result of cond l tionH which have prevailed on Cap itol Hill the past year. Some of tM carpenters and mechanics connect ed with the Department of Publie Grounds and Buildings, which has charge /if the maintenance of the Capitol, for Instance, are receiving 1 considerably less than the pay of their trades, while in the state de-,. partment where men have charge of important records they are belL* paid under a scale adopted a qua?- ter of a century ago. During the army construction near here a num ber of men left the state govern ment because they could make far more than the state salary acts specified. For the first time Jobs at tho Capitol went begging, and in more than one department men whs had been in charge of certain lines of work for years went to munitions and other plants and will not try to come back. It has been one of the ' oddities of the war that places In the state government, which have been much sought after for years, have not been attractive cither from tho standpoint of pay or hours, while in most of the departments war brought an increase of work with no more provision for enlarg ing forces than raising pay. For a long Jimc pay at the Capitol was specified by act. Then the contin gent fund began to be drawn upon for Jobs and in most cases such items have been worked so hafid that there is nothing left and tho state will face a deficit In some lines especially postage. "Some pro vision should be made promptly to put the pay of skilled men, mecban- < ics and the like on a par with what Is paid In the city," said George A. Hhrelncr, superintendent of public grounds and buildings. "We have had trouble at times to hold our people together and like in other departments, men have stayed from a sense of duty or in hope that something would be done. The state ought to bo In a position to pay at least the prevailing wages." * • * Officials of the state government will go to Pittsburgh Thursday to t attend the Game Conservation din ner to be held under the auspices of the Wild Life Leugue of Western Pennsylvania, at which a legislative policy for the coming session can J be outlined. One of the projects is for the establishment of a game or bird preserve for every county in tho state, and another is Increase of the forest reserves in Western Pennsylvania counties. The pur chase of the Cook tract is also.to be urged again and its conversion into a state park to be boomed at tho approaching legislative session. The League will also urge more atten tion to Instruction in the care of the birds and game and trees in the schools of the state and extension of the activities of the Department of Fisheries. Dr. William T. Horn aday, head of the Bronx Zoo; Nor man MCClintock and Game Com missioner John M. Phillips will bo among the speakers. • • ♦ Too many pigs are going to mar ket in Pennsylvania for the stock yards to take care of and farmers are being asked to hold them on their farms for a time. The farm ers of the state were urged a year ago to raise all the hogs possible, and tho result is that there aro 1 probably thousands of swine in the |none (han, £ I ]his and with the same conditions ail other states the situation is much like what it has been all fall in the J matter of wheat—not enough places to store it. In some sections farm ers have had to arrange to feed their hogs longer and acme dealers have refused to buy except for ship ment at the time specified. • • * "From a weather standpoint this is quite a contrast," remarked a deer hunter front near Philadelphia at Union Station Saturday. "Last | year I hustled home from Franklin ] county two days before the season | closed, half frozen, covered with , snow and with a bad memory for jmy 1917 hunting. Other hunters i felt the same way. In my opinion, this was a banner year for 'bucks * in the South Mountain." | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —ss* Pusey Passntore, the gover nor of the Reserve bank, is working on the plans for the Victory Loan. —Dr. 11. H. Baish, secretary of the Teachers' Retirement Board, is making a series of addresses on the retirement plan in Western Penn sylvania. —General P. C. March used lo be , one of Lafayette's star drop kickers when he went to college. —Dr. John A. Brashner, the Pittsburgh scientist, took an active part in the presentation of the flags j of the allies to the Memorial Hall in that city. —General Charles T. Menoher, who commanded the Italnbow di vision in the final campnigns, is a native of Ligonier and will be given a reception at Johnstown, where .he formerly resided, when he returns to America. —The Rev. Dr. Robert Hunter, re-elected stated clerk' of the Pres byterian • Synod, is a Philadelphia clergyman arffl well known all oyer the state as an authority on Pres byterian .activities. DO YOU KNOW K * —Tlint Hsrrisburg's treatment of tho big island as a city play, ground lues been much com mented upon in IVanaas Citf and St. Paul? HISTORIC HARRISBVRG —Harrisburg began to .make cut nails about 1800, War Bread of the Romans k [From the Detroit News] Suetonius, a Roman historian, in his "Life of Julius Caesar," describes the war bread of the Roman soldiers in 48 B. C. as follows; "When Caesar began tho Civil War every centurion of each legion proposed to supply from his own allowance, "*0 and all the soldiers offered their services without pay and without , rations, the Ticher assuming the carta / of the poorer. Throughout the long struggle not one deserted, and malny who were captured refused to accept thetr lives when offered them on , the condition of serving agglnst Cae sar. They bore hunger and other hardships, both when in a state of siege and when 'besieging others, with such fortitude that when Pota pey saw In the works at Dyrrachum, a kind of bread of herbs, on which they were living, he said that he w&b fighting wild beasts, and he gaive orders that Jit be put out of sight quickly and shown to none of his men, for fear that the endurance ahd I resolution of the foe would break * ! their ahlci*-" .
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