10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JBSI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGItAPH PIUN'TING 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 V J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, ,F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members 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 news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are ulso reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Avenue Building. New York City; Western office. Story. Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ..jSffiEEßv. By carrier, ten cents a tf,lTiweek; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. On the mud and scum of things There always, always, something sings. v —Emerson. THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1910 TWO SIDES TO IT THROUGH the courtesy of Di rectors Keen and Witman and Secretary Hammelbaugh, all members of the organization, the Rotary Club last evening got first hand working knowledge of Harris burg's open air school. Many of the guests, who include some of the most active business and profes sional men of the city, were aston ished at the completeness of the building and its many conveniences. They learned that It is regarded as one of the model schools of the United States, that it bears the ap proval of the state and. national health authorities and that photo graphs and descriptions of it have been published with favorable com ment in many of the architectural, medical and school Journals of the United States. Knowledge of this kind is highly beneficial. The school board has done much good work in recent yours and some method of bringing the taxpayer into Closer touch with it ought to be found. An annual public inspection of buildings might bo a good thing. We are all prone to adverse criti cism. It is so easy to condemn School directors when things happen to be not to our liking, and nobody questions that there has been room for criticism, but just the same the school directors have done a lot of mighty hard work of an advanced and constructive nature in recent years. They deserve the commen dation of their fellows for what they have done along this line just as much as they deserve the censure for mistakes with which we are so free. THE FARM SHOWS SUCH farm exhibitions as the State Department of Agricul cure and the allied societies of the state have staged in Harrisburg this week are highly beneficial to all concerned. They promote friend ly rivalry and are a constant en couragement to the agriculturist to grow more and better products. They bring together farmers, stock men and fruit and corn growers from all parts of the Commonwealth for discussion of methods and com parison of results. They, teach the farm boy his rightful place in the scheme of things and help to keep him on the land. They are good for producer and deserve good treat ment at the hands of the budget makers of the Legislature. LOP OFF THE SURPLUS IT develops that instead of scarc ity of clothing materials there is a vast surplus in the hands of manufacturers. The makers of men's suits will favor double-breast ed coats in order to use up the cloth on hand. But they will find that the public is not so much interested in double-breasted coats as In single breasted prices. RUM AND BOLSHEVISM SAYS Lloyd Osbourne, of San Francisco, asserting that pro hibition is going to help Bolshe vism, referring to the vineyard owners of California: "At a time when the nation must brace itself to meet the terrific Im pact of Bolshevism, how foolish it does seem to give the enemy these tens of thousands of recruits." And so the grape growers of Cali fornia are ready to turn Bolshevik if they can't continue to sell "booze." A pretty state of affairs, if true, but it is not. The vineyards of the Golden State can be put to hotter uses than the making of wine. There Is grape juice, for example. A sober nntion is not nearly so liable to turn Bolshevik than one driven mad by rum. Mr. Osbourne simply gives a new turn to the time-worn argu ment that a few men ought ,to be WENINV7. permitted to sell poison to the many because there Is more profit J In poison than In some other fotw of mercantile activity. UNTO THE LEAST OF THEM HE little folks of the Children's I Industrial Home and the Day Nursery are In need. They extend their little hands to the people of Harrlsburg and ask for a few of the crumbs that fall from the tables spread in homes where there Is plenty and to spare. They do not ask for much —Just enough to pay their debts contract ed during their illness of Influenza,, with enough left over to buy some warm blankets, a few simple clothes and some groceries. Groceries, yes, and clothing, also, for you may not think It, you folks who have been giving nothing to these worthy charities, but It Is a fact beyond dispute that these chil dren actually do have robust appe tites, Just like your own boys and girls, and they must have clothing fit to keep them clean and pre sentable. You may never have thought about the matter, but we assure you, good folks, that It Is true. And more than that, they have no fond parents making good wages or salaries to provide for their wants. They are the wards of the city. That means they look to you for for support, because they have no body else to whom they can look. • Will you turn them away cold and hungry? Will you refuse to give them a little of your plenty? Remember it was the Master him self who said that even as you do It unto the least of these, ye do it also unto Him. And who are you that you should turn HIM away empty handed? ENOUGH FOR PRESENT GOVERNOR SPROUL and Frank Morrison, Secretary of the American Federation of La bor, are of one mind as to the ne cessity of limiting immigration dur ing the reconstruction period. Ad dressing the House Immigration Committee at Washington on this subject Mr. Morrison said that fur ther proof is being obtained * daily of the increasing extent of unem ployment, and that action must be taken immediately if serious labor troubles are to be avoided. He ad ded that two things should be done by Congress; first, that the legisla tion providing for the employment of returning soldiers be passed, and second, that immigration be stopped until normal times are again reached. These are reasonable suggestions. There is much work pressing for at tention in this country, and proba bly in the next four months we shall be almost as busy as during the war period. But Congress can do much to relieve conditions now develop ing that if not corrected will result in more or less distress in some dis tricts. With regard to restriction of im migration, it needs no proof to argue that where idleness exists it is folly to add to the population by increas ing the number clamoring for em ployment. Europe needs all her people Just now, and we for the present need none of them. Gover nor Sproul recognized this in his inaugural address and Mr. Morrison emphasizes the condition. TIRED OF LIFE * ACCOUNT of the suicide of a hundred years old man killed himself because he was "tired of life" Is one of the most unusual items that has turned up in the newspapers in a year. He was weary of being a "back number" friends, he thought, hid their scorn for his bent and tottering steps. It is strange that a man who had been content to accept the buffet ings of life for a century should suddenly decide that the "game is not worth the candle." We may hold life lightly enough In our youth, but usually the older we be come the more we pfize it. We are careless of the criticisms of younger folks who are not so wise and agree with the poet who sang— And if I should live to be The last leaf on the tree, Let them laugh as I do now At the old, forsaken bough. Where I cling. WELL RECEIVED The newspapers of Pennsylvania have received with favor the inaug ural address of Governor Sproul. Even the Democratic press teems with editorial approval. The Phila delphia Record, leading minority newspaper of Pennsylvania, sums up tho thought of the editors of tho state when it says: The new Governor's program Is broad enough to keep the Legislature busy, and is thoroughly constructive. He can count upon the co-operation of the public in putting most of it through. This is high praise from a source that it ordinarily is chary of its com plimentary references to Pennsylva- I nla Republicans and party policies. It lahowf what a Hold Sproul hs.'j upw tiw or part* the breadth lof his legislative program. "Politic* £* By the Ex-Committeeman Governor William C. Sproul's very evident intention to get down to bus iness right away and to push along his plans for reorganization of the state government Is winning favora ble comment from legislators and they have been calling at his offices ,to tender their support. The new Governor made a most striking Im pression upon the lawmakers and there have been few governors in years who have been able to com mand so much strength In the two houses. Very general commendation has followed his expression In favor of every action on the prohibition amendment and the Law and Order Committee of the House will likely meet Tuesday to dispose of the measure. I will be given a promi nent place In the calendars. —-It was said to-day that Governor Sproul woul,d send a number of names of appointees to the Senate Monday and that by Tuesday he would make up his mind regarding most of the hold-over appointees of the Brumbaugh administration. The names of Fire Marshal Howard E. B>itz, Huntingdon, and Commissioner of Fisheries Than R. Buller, Wayne, will go to the Senate soon, It is said. The men whose appointments were withdrawn will serve until the end of the Senate unless their successors are named in the meantime. This means that the Public Service Com mission will have three "temporary" commissioners, only one of whom, Judge H. B. McClure, of Lewisburg, Is any way sure of retention. Wil liam A. Mngec and Michael J. Ryan will go, it is said. The snarl over the clerkships and attaches of the House is easing up. William S'. Lelb, of Pottsville, is not a candidate for resident clerk of the House and some shifts will be made between now and Monday night, when the announce ments will be made. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin contains this interesting com ment upon the Sproul cabinet selec tions as announced and qualified— which, by the way, seems to reflect the general view of the officials: "It is pretty generally conceded that those whom Sproul has called around him as the heads of the executive departments form an able and cred itable outfit. Their average of expe rience and capacity is high. Every one of them has the reputation of clean handedness and of having made good in his previous profes sional of official pursuits. In respect to most of them, the new Governor has had the benefit of knowing them well either in long personal friend ship or in the intimacies of official contact on 'the Hill.' At least two, if not three, of them are either of gubernatorial timber or are not un likely to grow into samples of that material before the end of the next four years. 'The next Republican nomination will probably be consid ered as due to the interior of the state,' said a veteran in public life as we were scanning the names of the new appointees, 'and it is possible that John S. Fisher or Lewis S. Sad ler may eventually catch the public eye in that direction.' " —Tho Governor's office last night announced the appointment of the following deputies attorney general: Robert S. Gawthrop, West Chester, first deputy attorney general, and ad ditional deputies: William M. Har dest, Harrisburg; Emerson Collins, Wllllamsport; Bernard J. Myers, Lancaster, and William I. Swope, Clearfield. —The Pennsylvania State Legisla tive Correspondents Association, one of the oldest organizations of the kind in the country, held its four teenth biennial meeting to-day and elected John R. Ball, of the Pitts burgh Post and Sun, as president. Newspapermen from half a dozen cities and representing the big press associations and newspapers of the state are members. Hiram G. An drews, Harrisburg correspondent for the North American, was elected vice-president; A. Boyd Hamilton, of the Harrisburg Telegraph and As sociated Press, secretary for the sixth time; John H. Reitinger, of the Phil adelphia office of The Associated Press, treasurer, and E. J. Hart, of the Scranton Times, sergeant-at arms. Appropriate action was taken on the deaths of Thomas M. Jones, Harrisburg, president of the associ ation, and Samuel E. Hudson, Phila delphia, both charter members, and Senator George T. Oliver, as honor ary member. Governor William C. Sproul, who owns the Chester Times, was elected to honorary member ship. Harry S. McDevltt, his secre tary, is also a member, having earned his spurs while with the Philadelphia Press. Several correspondents who have come here for the 1919 session presented their credentials nnd were accorded newspaper privileges. A RADICAL OUTRAGE (From Ohio State Journal) The Bolsheviks over in Petrograd have issued un order that husbands shall be selected for all women who are between 18 and 4 5 years of age and that the women will be com pelled to marry these men; and that the children which may result from these marriages shall be the prop erty of the state, to be supported and educated by It. Thus the home and filial love and duty are abol ished by this red radicalism. The very mention of it ought to excite horror in the human breast. And yet it is only one radical step in the perversion of the social status of humanity that we see bubbling forth from every crevice of our clviliza tfon. It Is time to take a determined stand against this Insidious attack upon the fairest aspirations of tho people; this attack that changes in dividualism into machinery and makes every man and woman and child a mere rivet, bolt, pinion, lever, pulley, winch, screw and wheel a part of the government ma chine operated by Ignorance, sel- Ishness, prejudice and politics. The very thought of It is enough to call for bloodshed. His Possible Hope Probably the kaiser feels that jus tice is not wholly dead yet and on | this theory Is looking forward hope | fully to being able to bribe one I member of the Jury.—From the Ohio State Journal. 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It was spectacu lar, but not inherently surprising. With the implacability of a tax col lector the Supreme War Council drafted the armistice terms hard by the famous chateau. They were forecast as drastic. Advance notices proved fully Justified. . So do they at Versailles almost in variably. When events of .the French Revolution outran the pace of prbphetlc assurance and no man could foresee the pranks of destiny, the whole scene shifted to the French capital.' The character of national or international dramas at Versailles is ever established at the outset. Chances often pulls the strings at Paris. Tho action may be comic, trugic, ironic, sentimental, salutary, malign, vivid or merely nebulous, but programming definitely ahead is traditionally of experimental value only. The historic fitness of the transfer j of the Peace Congress to Paris is hence obvious. The nature of the conference shatters precedent. Man kind passionately desires that acts and hopes will be in accord. Rut the possible interplay of circum- I stances rebukes prophecy. Each day of the sessions must necessarily develop tendencies, moods, currents, uncharted reefs, unforeseen harbors, with history so unrehearsed. For Versailles could not possibly cope centuries its swirl at Paris has been dizzying, but never so awesome as now. Ebb Tide of Bolshevism (From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger) Recently in these columns, when Senator Uorah and Senator Kenyon were solemnly warning the United States of "the menace of Bolshe vism," we reviewed the evidence, which shows plainly that the wave of ultra-radicalism is alrdady reced ing even in Russia. Since then Lenine and Trotsky have sought conferences with Allied j representatives. They express a. willingness to cease their propa- ] ganda. Liebknecht has been killed in Berlin. Germans in other cities are making war on the Bolshevists. \ Leaders of the troublesome cult are confessing despair. Passion is transient. It is upon the passion of crowds that the Bolsheviki leaders depend, and sooner or later reason and a desire for peace must bring peace. Those who talk of a spread of, Bolshevism have, been talking rather! wildly. And It would be better if, instead of indulging hysteria, they turned in with a desire to help elim inate war and misery—the two cen tral causes of the recent tumult in , Europe. LABOR NOTES The Policemen's Federation of To ronto, Can., is demanding an eight hour day and that ull promotions shall be made by seniority, merit and ability. Women workers in Great Britain are making a vigorous fight to secure the same wages paid men for the The production of soft coal now ex ceeds the demand, and during the last week in November an Increase of 11,- 000,000 was mined. Foundrymen in Japan receive only $1 per day. Norway has nearly 400,000 per sons engaged in agriculture. Thousands of women are em ployed in the silk filatures in China. Stone workers and pottery work cs in Germany receive $1.07 a day. Gun carriage makers in Worces ter, Mass., now receive 78 cents an I hour AND JESUS SAID From The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919 IF ye shall ask anything of the Father in my name, He will give It you." For nineteen centuries this glori ous promise has been a source of comfort and of strength to count less millions of the opprest, the sick, the suffering, the troubled, and the grievously burdened. Theso burning words have been a pillar of lire by night and a pillar of cloud by day to the heavily laden and the sore distrest and to those multitudes who have passed through tho Valley of the Shadow of affliction or death. And now in this latter day—nay, at this very hour—millions of women and children in and near those lands, those hills and rivers made holy by the sacred memories of our Lord, are claiming this promise and are crying out to Him in an agony of spirit and body beseeching Him that He will save them from starva tion, from death, and from horrors worse than death. Four million Armenians, Syrians, and other war-sufferers in western Asia are practically without food, clothing, or shelter, the vast major ity helpless women and' children. More than a million and h half have been deported. Nearly a million have been murdered and massacred. Four hundred thousand children are orphaned. It can be said that there are practically no more children left nnder the age of five, all having perished from ex posure and disease. For every hun dred births there are from two to three hundred deaths. The newiy born children die almost immediate ly, the mothers having nothing to give them but tears. Deaths from dysentery, typhus, tuberculosis, and famine are increasing front day to day with appalling rapidity. The homeless—a pitiful stream of wom en and children —wander aimlessly through the streets of their wrecked villages. If you stop a child toward evening and ask him where he is going he will tell you, "I am search ing for a place to seep." All winter long they have slept in nooks and corners, in alleys and by the roadsides, with no blankets, no covering whatever, their clothing the merest rags. The women clasp their wan-faced children to their breasts and on their faces is written the pitiful story of their utter de spair. The scenes in theso lands of grief and suffering are beyond the power of imagination to conceive or of words to describe. Throughout the length and breadth of these coun ti les there is no food save bread the dry crusts of bread that they re ceive at the hands of charity. No meats, no soups, no vegetables, no sugar, less than a pound of bread dally, and even this poor morsel has often to be shared with others "A poor old woman faint with hunger said to me today," writes one of the devoted workers, " Sahib, the bread won't go down. I soak it in water but it sticks in my throat.' " "Wheresoever I go," a missionary reports. "I see men or women fallen on the street dead or dying, and little emaciated children stretching out their wasted hands 'for Just one shahie for bread,' tears running down their cliceks, and still more awful arc the little ones sitting propt against a wall, listless and torpid, indifferent even to food wait ing quietly for death." "Just now," says another worker, "I have been interrupted in my writing. A Jewess has come to toll me of a woman who staggered to her door begging late last evening She was allowed to spend the night in a corner of the house and this morning she was dead. 'Won't you please send,some one to bury her," implored my caller." Such pleas are frequent now. There arc more dead than burled in Armenia. Men and women once in good circumstances and self-re specting, now hungry, helpless, friendless, crawl away, like animals, out of sight, die unseen, and lie un buried. There is no Joy of victory in these distraught lands; but only the cries of an agonized people to whom peace has brought neithor benedic tion nor blessing; neither rest nor respite; lands where the war has left an awful human wreckage in its wake; a great Kingdom of Grief 11 led with the cries of mothers and orphans, a distrest people prostrate with desolation, numbed with suf fering, having no partnership in tho great Joy of a liberated world. No sons, no fathers, no brothers I are returning victorious to their homes in Armenia or Syria, for their villages and their cities have been razed and ruined and lie in dust and ashes, and the men by the thou sands and hundreds of thousands have been pitilessly murdered or barbarously deported. Deported? Yes, but what a euph emism for the most heartless and relentless cruelty. Deportation means the loss of home, business property, and every personal possession. It means being driven into desert places, forced to march at the point of the bayonet until strength is ex hausted; it means being refused shelter, food, drink; it means being subjected to outrage and calculated cruelty. Many such scenes of terrible and tragic suffering are in the very lands where Jesus walked with his dis ciples; where He had compassion on the needy multitudes, and fed them and healed them and comforted them. Many of these awful sights are even in the very shadow of the Mount of Olives, where Christ said: "Suffer the littlo children and forbid them not to come unto me: for such is the kingdom of Heaven." Millions of "the least of these my brethren" are hungry and naked and sick and in terrible prisons without walls. In them and through them the King of Pity and of Love is calling to you to minister to them Just as you would do if you saw Him lying at your feet. You, to whom the Christmas Just past has meant a time of reunion, a time of feasting and happiness; you whose homes are war* and whose children are well fed, think now of these your brothers and sisters who are perishing. The cries of these children must reach your ears. The prayers of these mothers must touch your hearts. These homeless and starving millions are dependent on charity—your charity—for Turkish charity provides lor no one—it be gins and ends at home. lender German Consciences (From the New York Times) Deep is the horror of the tender houled Berlin press at the unlawful tumultuous killing of Liebknecht ?i ?°f a . Lux emburg. -What will they think of us in the rest of the world. asks Vorwaerts, which, through all the multiform innumer able cruelties and crimes done by the Germans in the war, was as placid as a Hausfrau knitting. "Why must they justify the names of Hun? it asks plaintively. Edifying if rather late, is this faint tiek-tock of the German con science run down so long; and how curiously German! It is unfortu nate, of course, and the enemies of Germany have said so, that these torchbearers of class-supremacy by means of rapine and murder, the Bolshevist gospel, perished sum marily and not by due process of law; but nobody blames the Ger mans for that or fails to allow for the furious justified hatred which this man and this woman had earned. What is singular to the foreigner is the tremendous pother over these lynchings, which, com pared with' the habitual proceed ings of Germany toward her foes, are as a sheep-shearing to the Massacre of the Innocents. Looking into the German mind, one understands a little the sorrow of Vorwaerts and its brethren. Two Germans have been killed. Front Armenians to Ukrainians, how many millions of how many races have fallen by the fire and sword of Ger many and her accomplices! The killing of Germans In Germany Is another thing. It is the business of Germans to kill, not to ko killed, and the population shouldn't bo de creased unnecessarily. Besides, the brisk German business of massacre was done by order. The General Staff, the Kaiser, all Olympus of the old regime, commanded. Cheerfully und joyfully was the command obeyed. But to slay Germans with out order and all the formalities how dreadful What will the world think? Air, earth and sea drip with the guilt of Germany. She is afraid that a domestic murder or two will hurt her reputation. Did Eccelina da Romano toward his end torment his soul because In youth he had robbed a bird's nest. An Artful Dodger Our Idea of a man dodging brick bats with transcendent skill centers upon the personality of Postmastei General Bur'eson. —Oklahoma Aro moroite. ,£NUARY 23, 1919. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR~| VOICE FROM OKLAHOMA To the Editor of the Telegraph: Whlteagle, Okla., Jan. 15, 1919, As a physician and former resi dent of Pennsylvania, I have been watching with a great deal of inter est the proposed action of the State Legislature on the ratification of the prohibition amendment. There prob ably has been and will bo much written regarding this question, but there has been up to date a no ticeable lack of interest, displayed by the medical profession: especltlly in view of the action of the Ameri can Medical Association convention in Chicago when there was adopted a resolution strongly condemning the use of alcoholic liquor. Physicians from the nature of their work are daily brought in con tact with the end results of the use and abuse of intoxicating liquor. That it breaks down the natural re sisting powers and incapacitates the body has been forcibly impressed upon all medical men during the ep idemic of Spanish Influenza when a noticeable increased mortality was shown among those addicted to the use of alcohol. Patients who for a number of years had used liquor were unable to withstand the at tack of the disease and were much more susceptible to the infection than those not so addicted. In con nection with this lack of immunity and breaking down of the natural body defenses from the use of alco hol I desire to refer to an article, Behold a Man." in Hearst's Maga zine in which occurs a remark of ueorge Clemeneeau, Premier of France, himself a physician who re plied to what he attributed his us ual vitality at such an advanced age, "That in his youth he had not applied hot liquor to his blood." This in a country whore the use of intoxicating liquors is a national obit. As a resident physician at the Harrlsburg Hospital and as a news paper reporter covering the Harris burg Police station I have witnessed more of the harmful effects of the use of liquor probably than have many residents of the city. In strik ing contrast to this has been my experience the past four years as a physician in a prohibition state on an Indian reservation, where one would naturally expect considerable drinking and yet where it is conspic uous by its absence for so strong has been the campaign for "the sup pression of the liquor traffic among the Indians been waged that despite the presence of bootleggers and whiskey runners little finds an en trance. If. therefore, the Govern ment has the power to suppress this liquor traffic among the Indians, why not also suppress It among the sup posedly more law abiding "white man." If the use of liquor is harm ful and deleterious to one race why Is it not Just as much so to an other. No man should require artificial stimulation to do good work, and If he does require stimulation when he is not stimulated he must be work ing at a lower standard. To be ef ficient, physically or mentally, the human body should require nothing to drive it on, nnd anything which does drive It is doing more harm than it is good. I sincerely believe that if this question of the harmfulness of liquor is properly placed before the people of Pennsylvania as it has been in this state that Pennsylvania citizens will ratify the amendment; not as a matter of duty, but as a matter of their own self protection. Yours very sincerely, Charles L. Zimmerman, M. D. — Germany's Moral Sense (From the Philadelphia Record.) The moral education of Germany is proceeding rapidly. If we are not mistaken it was Prince Maximilian In the Chancellorship who remarked on the fact that the war had opened the eyes of the Germans to the fact that might was not right. Presum ably that was an Implication that might was on the side of the Allies -tnd right was on the side of Ger many, but in recognizing that might is*not the same thing ns right Ger nqany gave evidence of an hitherto dormant capacity for making moral distinctions. And now Gustave Norlce, In charge of the Berlin de fensive measures, says: "It Is im possible to restore order at the fron tiers while in the capital might is going before right." We welcome tblr. additional Indication of an ,awakenlng moral sense in Germany, lEiittitttg (Efja "How "Agricultural Week,' of the big seasons of the yea men Interested in farming an branches and for politicians whi in rural districts, has had a cv development. It has brought dreds of farmers, live stock ra fruit growers and others to city this week, and they are t not only a big interest In the lng of the ten organizations ho annual sessions hero, but are manifesting concern as to the f of the Department of Agricu The selection of Prof. Frederic mussen to be secretary seen havo met approval generally. ' ago this week was devoted t State Hoard of Agriculture, the State Horticultural society to meeting here at the same and then one or two other orgs tions. Four years ago the Products show was Started, ir to stimulate the corn growing tests and it soon became more ular than the meetings. Nov week is an established instituti Pennsylvania, and bids fair to to greater things because H burg is not pnly the oillcial, a a certain transportation extent graphical center of the state, I the midst of a rich agricultun gion. The people here this are farmers of the prosperous and they are all talking of th portunities for a greater mid-v display of the best of the ex at the summer and autumn The state board itself was cr in 1876 and has been meeting annually. • * Propositions for restriction weights and tires of trucks state highways will obtain ct erable report among people win to and from this city. Kectlo important state highways for about Harrisburg show the e of heavy truck traffic, espe where the trucks have had to out. There the side road is c pieces and big ruts show what 1 cars can do in "soft" weather will cost many dollars to repai damage done by trucks this la weeks on state highways. * • Belgium and France, which furnished quantities of shru and ornamental plants to Per vnnia in years gone by will be hundreds of thousands of shadi roadside trees by the Keystone this year if ways can be foui ship them. The State Depart of Forestry's nurseries, establ some ten years have prot immense quantities "of "trees i valuable for reforestation and were made through the t States Government to war str countries, including Italy ant countries on the western front, rangements have been made t( for the trees when the time < and they will be made availat a contribution for this state, lions of young trees have been ed at the state nurseries the two years and all the trees could be set out were plantet spring and fall in State Res Many were also taken to plant state highways and for woo* development on farms and M sheds, but the labor situ prevented anything like what hoped to set out. There arp left over which will be sent a as soon as ships can take them is probable that the State Cor sion of Forestry will ask for t crease in the appropriation foi forest reserves this year in to acquire some of the lands i have been in negotiation. If are available there will be i expansion of the reserves. In considering the work o Department of Parks for the ent year many people belive some consideration might be with profit to encouragement c song birds in Wildwood and parks of the city. These birds been driven away during the yenrs and some attention oughl to be given to coaxing them Too often the park employes in round of planting, pruning or rating the rest spots of the p says an authority, neglect birt The sure result of this ncgh the increase of insects so that i end the hard-worked park su] tendent has his duties multiplie to mention the loss In charrr attractiveness that follows th parture of wild birds. Squirrel the Inveterate foe of the birdi it might be better to dispose c squirrels rather than the birds, ver has conducted a wild bird paign with surprising results, i and hundreds of birds that hac viously disappeared, owing to n and their natural foes, have returned to the parks of Colo: chief city. The Invitations too form of small boxes tacked ai the trunks of trees in which placed lumps of suet so that th travelers going south in the fa. the early arrivals in the sprin only might be saved from the b sonable snowstorm but the 1 birds might survive starvation, I" WELL KNOWN PEOPL -—Lewis S. Sadler, the new way commissioner, has been c the most consistent movers fo: ter highways in the Cumbt valley for over a dozen years. —John S. Fisher, the new ing commissioner and one o noted lawyers of the state, s life on a farm and taught sch —Prof. Frederick Kasmusse new secretary of agriculture wanted by New Hampshire to its official farming activities. HOW IT IJAPPENEI (From the Kansas City SU "Pardon me," said the army for military chefs are prone dress their underlings courti "but I prithee tell me whei learned to peel potatoes so i ally? I notice that you do n off the cuticle in great hunk alas, too many do, but loosen of the skin of the tuber am deftly strip it all off. You mus had much experience in sk e'er entering upon a soldier'*'] "I did, thank you, sir," repli accomplished member of the en police. "Before I decldi make the world safe lor dem I was a country bunker." Speaking of Fruit A man never ascertains w he married a peach or a lemoi he happens to open a family From Cassell's Saturday Jouri A Popular Wish President Paderewski! Mi administration be a perfect r —From the Philadelphia Rec
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