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The glory of life is to love, not to
he loved; to give, not to get; to serve,
not to be served.—Hugh Black.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1910
A FREE SERVICE BASIS
FIGURES published by the State
Board of Public Charities show
ing tho free service rendered by
hospitals of the State in definite
statements of dollars and cents
should prove both illuminative and
instructive. They will serve to en
lighten the public as to what free
service is being given In return for
money from the treasury of the Com
monwealth, and also to demonstrate
to the people running such institu
tions where they must Improve. It
is the first time that the Board has
published such figures, and it was in
response to a request from Pennsyl
vania's business Governor that Its
agents assembled the data.
The fact is that the time has come
when the State should not be asked
to give a cent except in return for
free service, not partially free, but
wholly free. Neither should Institu
tions not under State control come
around year after year with requests
for buildings and Improvements
when the policy announced is against
such grants. The communities
wherein the hospitals are located and
whom they serve should support the
hospitals. The idea of State aid, ex
cept in return for very definite free
service, is all wrong. This does not
apply to any one institution; it af
fects a hundred.
There is no reason for our county
city officials to hesitate on the
plans for the proposed city and county
building-. The project has unanimous
public approval. We cannot talk em
ployment for the returning soldiers
and others made idle by the sudden
cessation of the war and do nothing
to solve the problem. Governor
Bproul is showing how to do it.
GENERAL SNYDER'S PLAN
AUDITOR GENERAL CHARLES
A. SNYDER'S plan to in
crease the pay of teachers in
proportion to the salaries they now
receive is practical, meets the
needs of the case and doubtless will
have the approval of the public.
The teachers have proposed a lump
advance of twenty-five per cent. Mr.
Snyder feels that the poorly-paid
rural teachers should receive an in
crease of larger percentage than the
more generously, paid city instructor,
and he Is right. The money avail
able ought to be so divided as to
give the most benefit to the largest
number. The State is going to ap
propriate these millions primarily
for the benefit and Improvement of
the school system, and to do that
most effectively it must make the
schoolhouse of the tiny rural com
munity attractive to teachers of
ability.
The pay of country teachers Is
pitifully small. It will remain small
by comparison if a general Increase
of twenty-fivp per cent., regardless of
present rate of pay, should be
granted.
Governor Sproul threw out this
Idea in his inaugural address and
General Snyder has enlarged upon
it and amplified it in an extremely
helpful and practical way.
GERMAN GUILE
HOW to develop peace orders
and get back on a normal
business basis is what is chal
lenging the commercial and indus
trial leaders of the United States. An
authority suggests that "in passing
from the activities of a great war,
when a very large part of our whole
Industry was devoted to war work
Only a few months agd, to the new
conditions of peace, when the ma
chinery must be dismantled or re
adjusted and the wheels set running
on peace ' orders, we arc bound to
encounter difficulties and to meet
problems of a character heretofore
unknown. But these problems by
themselve consist mainly of how to
develop it sufficient volume of peace
MONDAY EVENING,
orders essential to keep the wheels
running-, while prices generally must
decline, and buyers everywhere are
disposed to delay purchases until this
decline seems really to have reach
ed bottom. While this Is a Urge task.
It Is being accomplished with great
energy, ability and caution, up to
the present without mishap, and, as
the decline in prices has very for
tunately thus far been gradual and
not precipitous, the transition may
after all be accomplished with a
minimum of fridtion and distress."
But It is not only the economic
adjustment that is bothering many
thoughtful citizens. What Is troub
ling them even more is the grtat
burden of debt thrust upon this
country by the German autocracy In
its wild race for world dominion and
its effort now as a vanquished nation
to demand terms of settlement that
will relievo these culprits of thelc.
Just punishment. Senator Harding,
of Ohio, lias recently given tongue to
the real sentiments of many Ameri
can citizens In this forceful state
ment/
The point I want to make is
that we proclaimed to the world
that we were making a war for
democracy, and we never would
have proclaimed It for a single
minute if it had not been for the
politics of the moment, when most
men in public life were fearful of
offending the so-called German
vote in the United States of
America; and Instead of announc
ing that we were making war on
Germany, which had trespassed
upon American national rights,
we made the excuse that we were
making war for democracy, and It
has been a lie from the beginning.
It has recently been developed In
an Inquiry at Washington that an
effort was made in the 1916 cam
paign to throw the German vote to
Wilson and machinations of propa
gandists to keep America out of war
have been revealed before & Senate
committee. Democratic leaders make
no secret of their hypocritical cam
paign "Wilson kept us out of war,"
when they must have known that in
the very midst of this deception of
the American people the United
States was already being engulfed
without the slightest effort on the
part of the Washington admlnistra-!
tlon to prepare for our inevitable
and vital part In the world struggle.
Under the circumstances It is not
a matter of wonder that suspicion
should be directed toward the pa
clfistlc and inexplicable attitude of
the peace conference In the Ameri
can sector toward the German pen
alties. Ever 6ince President Wilson
declared for "peace without victory"
there has been an indefinable
he might forget even justice In the
making of peace terms. It Is believed
that the Hun deviltry is still at work
and that the American people must
guard against an actual defeat at
Paris. We are dealing with an un
regenerate and unmoral people who
have no for covenants, and
Germany Is to employ any
device to accomplish now In divided
council what she failed to achieve
on the field of battle. He must pay
to the limit and President Wilson
nor any other will be able, to defeat
the will of the red-blooded men who
forced our participation in the war
and who will see to It that those
who died Bhall not have died in vain.
There must be no compromise with
Germany and no "nonsense after the
war."
No American workingman who has
any conception of his own future in
terest will waste a minute on the
vaporings of the half-baked theorists
of Russia and their wild-eyed imita
tors on this side of the Atlantic.
A AVEATHER OPTIMIST
WE read that John Hartman, of
York county, has dug his
garden and is about to plant
corn and potatoes.
Our advice in this case, if we were
asked for It, would be to paraphrase
that of Quay to Beaver, and say:
"Dear John —don't."
Two swallows do not make a sum
mer. Neither does a mild winter al
ways presage an early spring. Our
old friend, the weather wise Grant
Forrer, is authority for the informa
tion that all signs in Wildwood Park
indicate an extremely open Febru
ary, but even such a warm weather
optimist as he has not as yet begun
to think of spring planting.
The first robin nearly always gets
stuck in a snowstorm, the man who
takes oft his winter underclothing
too soon catches the "flu," but the
man who plants corn and potatoes In
February is daring beyond endur
ance the providence that regulates
the blizzards. In the technical lan
guage of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, his crop pros
pects are about one-half of one per
cent.—minus
FOREST POLITICS
EVERY clear thinking resident
of Pennsylvania is a conserva
tionist and will hail any legis
lation tending to increase the acer
age of the State's forest reserves
and provide adequate men to handle
them. The time Is coming when the
Keystone State will find its woods
a very Important revenue raiser for
educational purposes, for Instance,
and when the people by means of
automobile facilities will get much
pleasuro from them for camping,
picnics and recreation. This State
has made a most commendable
start and bills are In han£ to ad
vance the cause not only rf forestry,
but of water supply ind general
conservation.
But It would be unfortunate If
these valuable activities in behalf
of saving resources should be tied
to any individual's coat tail and
made to serve political ends. The
general scheme for conservation Is
excellent and we are-for It, but we
do not want It to be any one man
affair foresty and politics should
not mix.
foUUct Ik
ftKK^oaruK
By the Ex-Oommltteemaa
Governor William C. Sproul seems
| to have struck a responsive chord in
I his declarations that the time has
come for tho men running the var
ious activities of the federal govefn
m®pt to take heed of the mayner in
which they are transgressing upon
States rights. The governor lias said
a number °' things which express
the attitude of the average Pennsyl
vanan against the course of the
! southerners in command at Wash
, tngton who have been as regardless
t BUb Jects within State control
las they were resentful of any Inter
rerenco some decades ago,
The attention of many men in
Pennsylvania and lnl other States as
J 1 been attracted to the action
started by Attorney General Schaffer
in me Dauphin county court recent
l^*„ asainst j be le sa>'ty of the federal
increase of telephone rates without
at recognition of the
fati the sta te over a corpo
operating under a Pennsyl
charter and within the com-
UnifT The Dauphin decision
Prn ba > ve a wide effect not only in
Pennsylvania, but in the nation.
Saturday at Pittsburgh Gover-
blunt,y charged that the
thw l sovernment had "invaded
of thlf T f, the st ates." Members
Legislature were discussing
, the speech to-day.
abltJrf he !i? Uo ,u int erests have rather
farive JSLtii threats t0 t'e up legis
cerned h and are more con-
Uon than 7s ,° Ut re Bru' a tory legisla
in the Senitn the a mcndment
ctte Tlm The Pittsburgh Gaz
bo adorned S ? ys .. the resolution will
monih Lith in the Senate late this
pkpem 7iv h° to spare and other
papers say the same thing.
PhlladTlnhin 1 "!? the ratification the
ate ,i l , P r ess says: "The Sen
resoU.tion and U^ edly concur the
ing so rnntfi? ! ® reason for think
cant commenf U the mos t signifi-
WM a I7 on the action that
s<£ tho llouse - This rea-
DubliPi i } inner circle of Re
gard ess of'h * rS 'l 88 decree d it. Re-
svmnatm° W C . lose or how distant
With ! of the members were
Tain n " P , to Prohibition, a cer
to vote °U h . em told off
mm S. "T 01 1 m>
The motive was to avoid re
fom S" ? Governor Sprouls plat-
WhHe d t e h C i aration 'or ratification,
had no Governpr theoretically
of the W?^ n , BibllUy for the ac t'on
nicallv J ure> and would tech
the a ' e been involved in
nr!hika e s negative action on
prohibition, yet in actual fact his
feader m th ft Campai * n m ade him the
and th e 6 ratification movement
wttf ? ° f the Legislature to
presUgo°"t ? h baVe been a blow to his
mlnisfraUon." ° UtSCt of his ad *
♦„r Senator are will be in Porida
lsts wilTn-o 8 w thC cha rter revision-
work to complete their draft
fair to hi lerS sala ry increases bid
session The® ♦ biff things this
i 7 ed to k , teachers have organ-
aCk the Weaver bill and
ton £ th n n r i al i Snyder , tho ohamp
190i n,m minimum salary act of
exn l Jbere will be serious difficulty
experienced in locating the, source
of revenue to meet these largely in
tlTfho f Chansres ; 11 tvould not do to
thd aud^tn7 e e . thls pur Pose, said
uie auditor, for he is tho mn„,
interesL° me ° f aU Cit,2enß hts
interests are menaced. The taxing
Ues C °He S ,>f lSO "tvolvTd
ties. He said there are 17,000 teaeh
1600° State who receive less than
who, f year ' He onthned a plan
would he nlw , State appropriation
would be paid to any district wherp
u"c"T*" - "55
th ~Jb® Philadelphia Inquirer says
dat t ♦ a , re men arranged Satur
day to start a campaign in everv
ward to defeat any Vare candidate
for Mayor. The Public Ledger an!
nounced at the same time: "The first
move of the Vare leadership prepar
bl°mad°e hv S iay °/ a,ty contest will
atel7 after shi 5 hi nator Vare immedi- 1
mto thi 1 return from Florida
Hu KHU Then he will have
a police bill introduced in the Legis
lature, which he said VcsterfiaO
would be so drastic in its provisions
tnke *7 p . , ce ™an or fireman could
take part in factional politics and
keep his place on the city's pavroll "
afiy- Pb Th de \f h ' a PreSS Pays editor i-
Mayor of Seattle is giv
ng a demonstration of the real thing
the 0rS ' which is refreshing when
there are so many imitations."
Scranton dispatch savs: "On
nt e f,o ee ] 3 . bf the sfart ""S revelations
t* n connection with the vote
tor Congress in Archbald came the
report that Congressman-elect Pat
rick McDane. whose right to a seat
]P CongTess is being contested, has
decided ngt to go through with the
contest proceedings. Reports are
cu " eat that tho liquor dnterests,
which supported McLane in the Nov
ember camnaign, have deserted him
and refused to finance the contest.
It is said the liquor men can see no
good reason why they should con
tinue spending money trying to re
tain McLane's seat when it is con
sidered the country is going-dry."
—The Philade'phia Record's an
nouncement that Governor Sproul
will throw some fake Democrats off
State Boards of various kinds is be
ing much discussed. There is little
doubt about it being "notice" and
some think it was "inspired."
—The new Philadelphia municipal
court Judges took their seats on Sat
urday.
—Mayor McDowell, of Chester, is
also determined to take po'ice out of
politics. Ho is putting soldiers in
the police department to do it.
Announcement of the candidacy of
David P. Mauger for district attor
neys of Berks and a statement of
John A. .Rieser, one of the younger
members of the bar, that he is seri
ously thinking of entering the race
combined with the fact that H. Rob
ert Mays has been a candidate ever
since he was nosed out in the elec
tions four years ago, make it evident
that there will be another red-hot
fight for this $6,000 Job among the
Democrats of Berks at the Septem
ber primary.
—One of the effects of the ratifica
tion vpte is a boom for Representa
tive James E. Norton for mayor of
Reading. Norton, who is a Repub
lican, and who trained for a time
with the Brumbaugh wing, voted
"dry." last Tuesday. Since the May
primary the Reading Republicans
have been decidedly regular.
—Westmoreland county has de
cided to erect a memorial hall to its
soldiers, being the first county to so
determine since the war.
—Reading school directors are be
,ing asked to provide better school
facilities. Harrisburg is not the only
I place with an increasing population
HAJRJUSBURG TELEGRAPH!
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Dreaming OF. VIWTING TO AIMD "CXP6CTD
"7 To MARRY
that must face a shortage of facili
ties.
—H. B. Eppley, burgess of York
Haven, will quit. Ho is going to move
io Goldsboro.
"BOOKS AND MAGAZINES 1
The sad and untimely death of
Colonel Roosevelt has brought out
many interesting anecdotes of his
career and character. But perhaps
there is none more amusing and
revelatory of his personality than
the one told by Charles G. Wash
burn in his "Theodore Roosevelt—
the Logic of His Career." Mr.
Washburn writes:
He had, I think, more genuine
sympathy with more classes of peo
ple than any man ever in public, life
in thre country. I can best illustrate
what I mean by two stories, both of
which I heard him tell.
It se£ms that when he was hunt
ing in Colorado several years ago, he
l inet a cowboy jvho had been with
him with the Rough Riders in Cuba.
The man came up to speak to
Roosevelt, and said, "Mr. President,
I have been in jail a year for killing
a gentleman."
"How did you do it?" asked the
President, meaning to inquire the
circumstances.
"Thirty-eight on a ferty-five
frame," replied the man, thinking
that the only interest the President
had was that of a comrade who
wanted to know with what kind of
a tool the trick was done. Now, I
will venture to say that to no other
President, from Washington down
to and including Wilson, would the
man-killer have made that response.
Another old comrade, suro of his
sxmpathy, wrote from a jail in
Arizona:
"Dear Colonel: I am in trouble.
I shot a lady in the eye, but I did
not intend to hit the lady; I was
shooting at my wife."
"Dear Charley: Of the various
books written of me this is the one
I hope my grandchildren will accept
as giving the real motive and pur
pose of my career. You are over
partial to me, old friend; but you
have sketched the ideal to which,
with many, many failings and short
comings on my part, I have yet
tried to be true, I am very proud of
what you" say in this book, and very
thankful to you for having written
it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roose
velt."
"Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic
of His CareeiT by Charles G. Wash
burn. (Hough\on Miiflin Company.)
HIS HANDICAP
"Look here, Holler!" severly be
gan Constable Sam T. Slackputter,
the well known sleuth of Petunia,
addressing the chief of the fire de
partment, "tho mayor and council
are kicking a good deal about your
everlasting chess playing, S'pose a
fire was to break out right now;
you'd hang back and fool around till
by the time you got there the holo
caust would prob'ly be all burn up."
"It wouldn't make any difference,
for i couldn't go to a fire nohow be
fore day after to-morrow," replied
Chief Holler. "My red shirt Is in the
wash." —From the Kansas City Star.
Thrift-Day Note
Another, good bet is that the
happy-go-lucky young man isn't go
ing to act that way when he gets old.
—Cincinnati Enquire.
One Can Always Worry
Mrs. Peavlsh says another thought
that keeps her uneasy is that If the
time should ever return when she
can buy a steak for 10 cents she
probably won't have the money.—
[Dallas News.
Cited in a Private's Dispatch
HE had been shot to pieces.
Broken-bodied, he was un
conscious when his journey
towards the base hospital began. He
was lifted and dropped, shaken by
the inevitable difficulties of the be
ginning of the blesse's progress
homeward.
Finally, awakened to conscious
ness, he felt himself raised into a
railway coach. The train started.
Again the wounded boy was tossed
by the stiff springs of the little
coach, as it rattled over the lightly
built roadbed, jerked forward and
backward by the hesitant progress
of the under-sized locomotive on
ahead. It was a foreign train on a
foreign roadbed.
Then one night there was a
change. The wounded young
American was put into another
coach —a larger, heavier one. It
started. He felt beneath him the
solidity of rock, the smooth rolling
of wheels not to bp mistaken; the
steady and powerful pull of the lo
comotive. At last—an American
train on American roadbed.
Now was he comforted by heavy
steel rails, stoutly timbered roadbed.
The Mental Alarm Clock
[From the Boston Clobe]
We have in our brains a little
alarm clock. Just as we often set
that mental alarm clock to wake us
at a certain hour, it can be set to
remind us to do or not to do certain
acts next day. Before going to sleep
one says to the alarm clock, "If
anything happens to make me lose
my temper to-morrow, I want you
to remind me to hang on to it." The
thing happens. The temper is all
ready to lose when the little alarm
clock of one's subconscious mind
rings up on an inside telephone and
says, "By the way, you asked me
to remind you to keep your tem
per," and the odd part of it is that
you reply, "So I did. Thanks." After
that a person would look silly
going back to his rage. There is
nothing to do but cool down.
A little practice with this interior
alarm clock works wonders. It
acts like a silent touch on the sleeve
from a wise old friend in a moment
of rashness. "Go slow, go slow.
Steady." And one goes slow.
DREAMS
It I come to speak of dreams con
cerning the dead, it must be with a
tenderness and awe that all who have
had them will share with me. Noth
ing is more remarkable in them than
the fact that the dead, though they
are dead, yet live, and are, to our
commerce with them, quite like all
other living persons. We may recog
nize, and they may recognize, that
they are no longer in the body, but
they are verily living as we are.
This may be merely an effect from
the doctrine of Immortality, which
we ail hold or have held, and yet I
would fain believe that it may be
something like proof of it. Some
times those who have died come back
in dreams as parts of a common life,
which seems never to have been
broken. Tho old circle is restored
without a flaw.—W. D. liowclls.
Peace, One With Another
Salt is good; but if the salt have
lost Its saltncss, wherewith will ye
season it? Have salt in yourselves,
and have poace one with another.
—Mark Ix, CO.
Simply Can't Pay 'Em Back
Justice will have to be merciful in
dealing with the central powers.
Justice has not punishment enougn
in tier whole bag to give them their
due.—Buffalo Enquirer.
rock ballast steel clatnped, perfect
ly graded—and every ounce of that
metal was dug out of American bills,
smelted, forged, rolled, and beaten
by Americans, and laid down in this
strange, far-off land to wage free
dom's war and to comfort him on his
bitter Journey away from the roar
ing guns.
Beneath and around his tortured
body he sensed the incarnated soul
of America in unbending rails be
neath the mighty engine and the
swiftly, smoothly flying car. He
knew that lva was being conveyed
by ponderous drive wheels which
dwarfed every locomotive in that
foreign land of wars.
The soldier's sufferings lessened.
He thrilled. As he explained it
"something got hold of me." The
vision, the daring, the epic labor
that conquered the wilderness,
swept through the prairies, climbed
the mountains, and lined with steel
the sunrise of the Atlantic with the
suiiset of the Pacific —that sonte
thing had got hold of him. And
that something has got hold of the
world.—An American soldier's ex
perience, as reported in tho Man
chester (England) Union.
ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL
They closed the eyes and laid away
to sleep
In nature's bosom but the flesh
he wore,
Dust unto dust; for while the angels
keep
Celestial records, he lives ever
more!
Lives, moves and has his being in
the hearts
Of all who knew and cherished
him before!
Star-high, sea-low, the fame of him
shall spread
From Orient to the coast of set
ting sun.
How dare ye say a man like. this is
dead?
Tho pulse be stilled, his work has
but begun!
Thru history making epochs shall
he lead
With unseen hand until sweet
rest be won!
And little children standing at our
knee
With wondering eyes shall ask
concerning him,
A prince of men, who faced Eter
nity
Unflinching, as he faced war's
scarlet sin; ,
Unmoved, as thru the tides of
calumny
He fought his way to Justify—
and win!
Bend low the knee for Roosevelt
rides by
In chariot of fire and clothed In
light /
Transcending all the glories of the
earth.
Illumining the blackness of onr
night!
God made him, sent him, saved him.
He is ours!
Friend, counsellor, apostle of the
right.
—ANNA HAMILTON WOOD.
Written For the Telegraph.
Gets Use of the Money
Evidence continues to accumulate.
A couple of weeks before the Ger
mans started for Paris the kaiser
transferred $80,000,000 of his private
fortune from London banks to Hol
land. And that accounts for Hol
land.—Rochester Herald.
He Takes a Chance Hiniself
The robin, however, w&ntta it dis
tinctly understood that his appear
ance guarantees nothing.—lndiana
polis News. , |
FEBRUARY 10, 1919.
Day of the Motor Truck
When the pink primordial pride and
joy
Of our antediluvian hoi polioi
Had ichthyosaurlan steak to tote
He dragged it along on an old stone
boat;
Or when his congenial mate and he
Would lug their luggage along the
lea
Or/ down to a gloomy and glacial
shore.
They found their burden consider
able chore.
Oh, tough was their lot and sad
their luck.
For they had no Gazimpikus motor '
truck.
When Hannibal scampered across an
Alp
The rollicking Romans hollered
"halp!"
For they had been told that it
couldn't be done
And Hannibal fooled them, the sqn
of-a-gun!
Some stunt for those Carthaginian
geeks
Was peregrinating across the peaks
For all of their baggage rode all the
way
Upon their cervical vertebrae
And into the ruck poor Carthage
• snuck
For she had no Galumplcal motor
truck.
And tres unfortunate, too, the fate
Of Alexander, the so-called great.
Of Kid Vespasian, Brian Boru,
Napoleon Bone and Stonewall, too,
Copernicus, Newton and Peter and
Paul,
Solomon, Satan, Salome and Saul.
They limped along in their feeble
way
Without the aid of the beneine shay,
While you and I have superlative
luck—
We have the Gazootlcal motor truck.
Then halt to the cam and the cog
and wheel.
The brass and copper, the wood and
steel!
And hail the dominant speed and
style,
And super service of gas and ile!
No more need the proletariat pine
That the load must lean on the sag
ging spine,
For now it can lope o'er the loamy
lea
On a Packard, Fierce, or a Moon.
stone T;
Gosh a'mighty, we're all in luck;
We have the. Gazzamlkus motor
truck.
—J. P. McEvoy in the Chicago
Tribune.
Burleson One-Hoss Shay
(Apologies to Oliver Wendell Homes)
"ONE-HOSS SHAY"TO BURLESON
With Secretary Glass. He Objects to
Motor Car For Personal Use
—Newspaper Headline.
Have you heard of the postoffice one
hoss shay,
That was built in-such a logical way
It ran lik a charm to the present
day,
And then of a sudden it faded away?
I'll tell you how happened tho mail
delay,
Doing the soldiers out of home news,
Frightening parents out of their
shoes, \
In spite of a three-cent stamp, I say:
Now in our postal service chaise—
telll you what—
There was always somewhere a trou
ble spot
In zone laws, railways, the army ban.
Outside competition, how things ran.
Unusual congestion, catch as catch
can.
Or maybe the Postmaster General
man;
Above or below, within or without.
And that's the reason, beyond a
doubt,
Our chaise broke down, but dld'nt
wear out.
Let someone else drive the postal
chaise.
Logic is logic—that's what I say.
THE SECRE T
You silly, frilly lady of the century
anterior,
What charm had you that makes
men deem the modern girl
inferior?
What sweet, disarming, charming
trait beneath your prim ex
terior,
Oh whisper, was it that you made
the men feel so superior?
—Ethel Blair.
Too Much For Ilcr
"What's happened next door?"
"The Jibbleby cook failed to show
up and Gladys Jibbleby, who holds
the local long distance tango record,
fainted from exhaustion after wash
ing the breakfast dishes."—From
the Birmingham Age-Herald.
We Simply Can't Please 'Em
If America starts to feed Germany
it will be just like the Huns to kick
about the cooking.—Detroit Free
Press.
Still We Send Missionaries
Ergs are said to be selling for six
cents a dozen in China. That is one
advantage of the primitive coniza
tion, —Baltimore American.
\LABOR NOTES
To release men for other work..
Hog Island shipyards now employ
women chauffeurs.
The world's richest iron mine. In
Lapland, has been equipped with
electrical machinery.
1 Women engaged in munition work
throughout the countries at war
number 1,302,000,
Oakland, (Cal.) Typographical
Union has secured a war bonus of
$2 a week for its members.
Repair work absorbs about 40 per
cent, of the labor and machinery of
British shipyards.
It has to hold the
next meeting of the British Co
operative Congress at Bath in 1920.
The war labor board is to make
an investigation into traction prob
lems in New Yofk City.
Three thousand women employed
in the Belfast, (Ireland) linen trade
are on strike for higher wages.
A Sheffield (Eng.) hairdhesser who
volunteered for munition work in
one week of 03 hours earned over
' SBS.
, i /
The Augusta, (Ga.) Builders' As
sociation has recognized trade union
ism for the first time in its history.
Telegraphers who have been more
than a year and a half in the ner
vine of the telegraph companies
taken over by the government will
receive an increase of 10 per cent,
in wages, while those employed lessj
, than a year will get 5 per cent.
lEorttfttg Qtyat
First steps to secure for the Com*
monweulth the colors ot Pennsyl
vanla regiments in the' war with
Germany and Austria so that th!
llags may be displayed beside th.4
, an , ds of the Clvl l and SpaßWfc
Wars have been taken by Adjutaau
General Frank D. Beary. Letter?
I.i? aoen sent to people connected
with the regiments of the old Na
'tlonal Guard which were later
merged into regiments of the Twen
ty-eighth division and also to of
ficers or friends of the First Cavalrj
and other units which were disband
ed or whose identity was changed
at Camp Hancock. The adjutant
general has asked the whereabout!
of the colors which the command!
carried when mobilized at the south
ern training camp and which wer!
given up when tho federal com
mands were formed. He has ex
plained the desire to have thess
tlags placed in the rotunda of th!
Capitol. The colors of the Eighth
Pennsylvania, tho Harrisburg dis
trict regiment, have already been
reported upon and will likely bs
the ilrst to be turned over to th
State. It is believed that other!
will soon bo heard of and the col
lection made. General Peary is also
taking steps to ascertain the plan!
of the War Department regarding
the disposition of the colors of th!
109 th, 110 th, 111 th and 112 th In
fantry regiments, which were form
ed out of the Pennsylvania National
Guard Infantry and of tho colors o!
the three artillery regiments of the
Keystone division which were used
in France. If possible the State
would like to display them in the
Capitol beside tho battleflags of
other _ wars. Similar inquiries will
be made regarding the colors of
units of the divisions formed of
Pennsylvania called out under the
selective service laws. Members of
the Legislature have been showing
much interest in the history plans
for tho Pennsylvania organizations.
• • •
People in this county, which was
one of the first to take up the prop
osition of working prisoners and
almshouse inmates on the county
farms and which produced good re- .
suits both for the farms and the
persons who got a chance to work,
will be interested in the State plan
to have prisoners handle mosquito
eradlction projects. This proposi
tion comes from New Jersey and
while "skecters" do not grow as
vicious beside the Susquehanna as
along the Delaware, there are some
spots about Harrisburg which could
be v eliminated. In fact, it is a
rather remarkable thing that the
live real estate men have not got
ten after the mosquito breeding
places long ago. Some sections
which have been undergoing devel
opment and which have possibili
ties are close to low places and the
presence of cato'ninetails is some
thing which doctors and people in
terested in sanitation can afford to
watch. These places can be located
in one day's automobile trip and re
moval of a source ot annoyance
would be cheap. This county suc
cessfully used prisoners on farms
and roads last year and some work
for sanitation could be undertaken
advantageously.
• • •
The fact that the Philadelphia
Press yesterday devoted a page to
telling of the activities of Pennsyl
vania cities and towns in regard to
memorials and other work for per
petuation of the services of their
sons and daughters in the war
brought to minds of some Harris
burgers the situation here. There
has been much talk about honor
ing the men who fought, as befit
ted a city which had such a large
number in the army and navy, but
beyond service flags and speeches
we have had very little done. The
Chamber of Commerce and Dauphin
County Historical Society have
started to gather the history of the
sons of Dauphin in the war, and it
will be a fine thing for us to read
twenty years from now, but as far
as public recognition goes in a roll
of honor for the dead in the court
house or in a city park we are be
hind York and some other cities
who didn't have near as many men
in service as the capital of a
State which was the very keystone
of the Union in war.
• • •
People who have been at the
State Capitol in the evenings have
been wondering whether a music
room has been established In the
building and also wondering how
such an enterprise came to escape
being launched in the uplift days of
the last two or three years. Al
most every evening music, which is
Improving nightly, is heard echoing
i through the rotunda and along tho
corridors. It is not of the rag time,
war time or winter time variety,
but of real classical stuff. It comes
from the Capitol orchestra which
Is composed of young men in the
State offices, some of whom are
very good. There are over a score
of men in the orchestra and it is the
most popular thing on Capitol Hill.
[ VEIL KNOWN PEOPLE |
—The Rev. J. J. Curran, the
Wilkes-Barre priest, who was a
close friend of Roosevelt, will maka
several addresses about him this
month.
—Judge Albert W. Johnson, of
Lcwlsburg. will be one of the speak
ers at the Washington's birthday
exercises in Philadelphia.
—General John W. Heavey, chief
of militia affairs at the War De
partment and well-known here, has
returned to his work as a colonel
in the regular army.
—William Jennings Bryan Is to
be a speaker In Philadelphia thin
week
—Dr. J. P. Kerr, Pittsburgh coun
cilman and major in the medicaji
corps, is being highly praised 1m
letters home for his work in the
hospitals.
—E. C. Higbee, Uniontown lawv
yer, has started a battle with, the
Thompson estate creditors commit
tee over the delays in the lltigatloiS,
, —The Rev. W. E. McCulloch*
Pittsburgh minister, is home froia
France where he did war work anj
is making a series of addresses fla
Allegheny county.
—Congressman S. D. Fees, men
tioned for speaker, has been fc
teachers' institute lecturer in Al
most every county in Pennsylvania.
—J. T. Cortelyon, the PhiladeW
phia district postal inspector vth*
has Just resigned has been in tfc—
service twenty years and halls r+m
Brooklyn.
[ DO YOU KNOT |
—Harrisburg products an used
to make soldiers' clothings tor over
sea service?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
As high as a dozen "arks" oe
"broadhorns" used to come down
the Susquehanna in a week one hun
dred years ago. They brought
coal, produce and lumber,