10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEOUAPH PRINTING CO. TelegTaph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OTSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Clrculalion Manager Executive Beard 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 also reserved. t Member American Associa- g' a' e s ' BdUdVng ■i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail, $3.00 a "AsrjgavS- year in advance. It is for young men to gather knowl edge, and for old men to use it.— —Setieco. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1019 NEEDLESS INCREASE DOMESTIC coal by all the laws of supply and demand ought to be going down in price, but yesterday's news dispatches an nounced the intention of the New York State fuel administration to add seventy-five cents more a ton for anthracite. Why this advance is necessary docs not seem clear. It is no secret that the mines have an over-abun dance of hard coal at the mines and don't know what to do with it. Last year the dealers were pressing the operators for as many tons as they could buy. To-day, thanks to the mild winter, the coal business, so far as the domestic side is con cerned, is almost at a standstill. Soft coal, on the other hand, is away below war prices and getting back rapidly toward prices we en joyed just before we went into the conflict. Penn Gas has been offered in Harrisburg as low as J2 a ton, carload lots at the mines, and con sumers believe it will fall to even 'ower levels. Why, under these conditions, is it necessary that a uniform price of eventy-five cents above war prices >e lixed for New York? Isn't it ibout time the New York admin istration follows the lead of that in Harrisburg, and goes out of busi ness? THE SUFFRAGE VOTE AFTER marshaling the utmost resources of their party the Democrats of the Senate have been unable to put through the reso ution proposing an amendment to he constitution giving suffrage to women. On October Ist of last year, fter the President had appeared i the Senate chamber and told his ■ lithcrto faithful lieutenants that the assage of the suffrage resolution as vital to our success in the war, ■i vote was taken that resulted in 'wo less than the necessary majority i a pass it. When%he result of the ■ ote became evident, but before it i ad been officially announced, one •■f the Senators who had voted in he affirmative changed his vote to he negative for the purpose of mov •ig a reconsideration of the whole natter, and paving the way for an other trial of strength after the . lections of November last. But even •■hat extreme legislative resort failed 0 accomplish what a very few of the President's friends apparently really vished to see brought about. Every | ffort was made in the pre election campaign last fall to fill the acuncies in the Senate with men vlio would obey the command of the >arty leader and vole for woman iuffrage. But the Democrats were •till unable to muster sufficient trength, and in the final test the resolution lacked one vote of success. An analysis of that vote is in tructive as showing to which politi al party the women must look for he ballot. The roil call show d 55 Senators for the resolution and :9 opposed, one less than the re tuired two-thirds of those voting. Twelve Senators were recorded as "iot voting, but were paired. Thlrty •ne of the affirmative votes were ,-iven by Republicans, and two of the •airs held similar views. Eleven Re •ublican votes and one Republican •air registered their opposition. Twenty-four Democrats voted tor he resolution and six were paired n its favor. Eighteen voted against t and three were paired in opposl lon. Those figures account for the total membership of the Senate, and show hat the views of the Republicans /ere 37 for and 12 against, and of he Democrats 30 for and 21 against. 1 n other words the Republicans had dne votes more than twice their op •osition, while the Democrats lacked '.2 votes to equal twice their op position. .Even with the assistance of the '.jurplua Republican votes the Demo- THURSDAY EVENING. crats were still unable to put through the measure that means to much to the women of the country. Ever since the struggle started in the Senate the Republicans have been ready at all times to muster for the proposition far more than two-thirds of their number, but the Democrats have alvvuys fallen short by several votes of the requisite support in their own party. The women of the country realize the true state of af fairs, and know where to place the responsibility for the delay in giving them the vote. And just as we figure the end of the furnace season is in sight, they begin to advertise spring millinery. PROMPT ACTION THE promptness with which the Chamber of Commerce, City Council and the County Commission ers seized upon the suggestions made by Governor Sproul for the improvement of Harrisburg is an excellent indication of the readi ness of Harrisburg to go along on the big program the Governor has outlined. Charles E. Covert, as chairman of the Chamber of Commerce com mittee on joint city hall and court house, is a happy choice. Mr. Co vert is a man of broad vision and big undertakings. He is influen tial and ambitious to see Harris burg take its place as the foremost capital city of the nation. He may be depended upon to use the offices of the committee of which he is the head to promote the good feeling that now exists between City Coun cil and the County Commissioners on the subject, to help smooth out any difficulties that may arise and get the project going so rapidly that we shall be in position to vote on a bond issue for the building at the November elections. City Councilmen and the County Commissioners need no urging in the matter, however. They are keenly srlive to the needs of the occasion and ready to do their part to make it a success. They realize that what Gov ernor Sproul said with regard to our lack of courthouse and city hall is true. Indeed, they came to that real ization months ago and would have moved much more rapidly with the undertaking had it not been for war conditions and the necessity of leg islation to give them the necessary permission to build jointly. Now that City Solicitor John E. Fox is hurry ing forward the bill that Lieutenant- Governor Bcidlcman will push through the Legislature extending the powers of the local authorities in this respect, the city and county officials may go forward without misgiving as to the outcome of their plans. A fine public spirit is being shown by all concerned. Both County Commissioners and City Councilmen are measuring up to their respon sibilities in a manner that promises great things for the contemplated improvement. They realize that to be of most benefit to the great body of working men now uneasy over the prospect of unemployment, pub lic work should be gotten under way at the earliest possible moment, and that if they do their part and Governor Sproul moves as fast as it now seems he will with the State's part of the program, the prosperity of Harrisburg during the recon struction period will be assured and instead of an oversupply of labor here, we shall be able to take care of all our own people and many from the outside. We think better of the League or Nations now. Germany is opposed to it. GET OUT THE VOTE REPUBLICAN party workers throughout • the county should be as keen to get out the vote at the special senatorial election next Tuesday as they would at a general election. To be sure, it is a. foregone con clusion that Frank A. Smith, the Republican candidate, will win. That is not the point. He should have a big majority, both because he is well fitted for the place and had the full support of the party organization for the nomination, but for the sake of party prestige as well. Every election has some bearing on that to follow. By failure to go to the polls next Tuesday Republi cans might encourage Democrats to make a real campaign for office in the fall. The best way to discourage the opposition 1s to keep on piling up Republican majorities like that by which Lieutenant Governor Beidleman was elected in his home district last autumn. i LK {IvCLIUQ, By the Kx-Committeeman The way the Houso of Represunta- I tlves is working is one of the in teresting things in Pennsylvania politics Just now. According to men who have followed the Legislature the activity of the lower branch of the Legislature at this period of a session is something not only un heard of but very much to be de sired. Whether it will be produc tive of many laws, however, depends i upon the way the senators view the | strenuous program of the House. The senators have been holding the i usual two sessions a week with cus i tomary recesses, while the House actually passed third reading bills in , number before the twentieth of Feb ruary. Speaker Spangler takes the posi tion that if bills in which members have a more or less individual in terest are gotten out of the way now there will be less work to do when the big bills come along and he is urging not ofily from the rostrum, but privately that chairmen expedite matters and keep the committee pigeonholes cleared out. Governor Sproul's big bills will be not be ready for about ten days. The Banking department bills will be gone over by the Commissioner John S. Fisher next week and Sec retary of Agriculture Rasmussen will have his ideas in concrete form in a Short time. It is not believed that much legislation relative to the Pub lic Service Commission will be en acted and the peculiar condition pre vailing regarding the headship of the Labor and Industry department makes it improbable that much will be done outside of detaching the Compensation Bureau ' from that branch and erecting it into a depart ment with Harry A. Mackey as chief. —Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods will have thp first law relative to a slate department reorganization to record in a few days and it will change the pre-Co lumbian system upon which the de partment has been compelled to operate. There ar salaries being paid in that department which were established in the early eighties and for a branch that handles much important matter it has had to labor under old laws for years. Notwithstanding some reports Ex- Senator John M. Jamison, of Greens burg, is the Republican nominee for congress in the Westmoreland-Butler district without any contest. He was named at Pittsburgh after a long discussion, John H. Wise, a Butler lawyer, being put forward by that county. • A brief love feast was then held and Mr. Wise and Mr. Jamison both made short addresses. Mr. Wise as sured the candidate of his loyal sup port and urged to come soon to But ler county that he might assist him in campaigning. Mr. Jamison thank ed Mr. Wise for his sacrifice and pledged his efforts to secure in the near future a reapportionment of the state which will make Westmore land county a separate congressional district and unite with some county or counties, giving a position in which it will have an equal chance. The candidates received the warm congratulations and pledges of sup port of all at the meeting. The presentation of the repealer for the non partisan judicial and second class city law of 1913 yester day will be followed by legislation establishing new councils for Pitts burgh and Scrgnton. The election of judges will be on the old party system, nominations being made at the direct primary. Governor Sproul is understood to be agreeable to the plan to abolish the non partisan system for judges and. the two sec ond class cities, but there is no indi cation of how be feels on third class city non partisan elections. The Al legheny and Lackawanna delega tions are said to be favorble to the change for second class cltiep. The plan is for councils to be composed of five men with one each for 35,000 population additional, all membrs to be elected at large on party tickets. —From all accounts the Philadel phia charter revision bill will appear in the Legislature next Monday and then things will start. The meas ure will be the big subject for dis cussion because the factions In Phila delphia are working to make th£ir combinations for the crucial time. The interest in the controversy over the bill is commencing to grow among rural members. —Senator Edwin N. Vare will be back from Florida next week and will personally direct the fight against the charter people. The fight in the House will be handled by John R. K. Scott. —There are the "makings" of a first class legislative fuss in the Various bills relative to automobile and some of the far seeing men are trying to harmonize differences be fore they get the point of making trouble. —The Smoky City Council will not send an agent to Harrisburg to keep in touch with legislation affecting Pittsburgh. Says the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. This announcement was made yes terday by President John H. Herron. and his decision had the approval Council. A resolution authorizing the President to appoint such an agent was adopted by Council a week ago, but such complete information as to all bills introduced in the Legislature is coming regularly that Mr. Herron decided it was not at all necessary to send an agent to the Capital. TRADE BRIEFS Vice-Consul Davis B. Lewis at Kingston, Jamaica, reports that lumber and shingles valued at $250,- 000 were imported into Jamaica in 1917, all of which came from the United States. The import duty is $2.10 per 1000 feet on rough or sawed wood and $3.40 per 1000 on lumber planned, smoothed, grooved and tongued, ceiling and flooring boards, clinker and beaded boards, not otherwise manufactured; the duty on shingles is $1.44 per 1000. The crop of sour oranges in the province of Seville, Spain, is con sidered to be much larger and of better quality than last year's, it is estimated that the present crop will be about 240,000 boxes of 130 to 140 pounds each, as against 129,- 000 boxes picked last year. The Wtlemun's Brazilian Review recently contained a notice to the effect that the Brazilian govern ment has withdrawn authorization for operation in Brazil of three large German banks, namely, the Deutsche Sudamerikanische Bank, the Deutsche Ueberseeische Bank and the Braslllanlsche Bank fur Deutschland. * Introducing the New Marshal Bud Oldham of Black Rock is the new marshal. Boys, look out for Bud. He is all right, but will stand for no infractions of the law—From the Walnut Ridge Blade. 'fV<liT~M' • ■ i&ii ■ !z*\ HARJRISBTJRG TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEUN7 By BRIGGS ■/z &r *~i \ Hi r^T^rpiecE^p\ / PCAR M 6! ) / ™ | \ \ THIS CAKE-IT .3 I lunjch TlN\€ ( / )® • ; "J. \ SETTER Than NOTHING / ALReAOfJ I'LL W e <-V- I WMNTy / ✓ GET A SITE V SO HUM<3RY /\tt i. u SZiDi el L.UCY • /""" \ liANDWICHEi AMD OTHER J OH"H"H VJIKLS. /HTkI i THOUGHT hi *ll \ To EA"*>/ AIM'T •IT - A •M &? pp GR-rrßand |, AMO G^LO^R-RIOUS Congress on Its Last Legs [From the New York World.] With only a fortnight more of life, the Congress faces a re cord, so far as its closing session is j concerned, that is unexampled in j dilatoriness. Not one of the great appropriation bills is yet out of its hands, and there is reason to be lieve that some of them will fail of passage. For this delinquency both parties are responsible. The ilrst duty of Congress being legislation, it has devoted itself to oratory,' to denun ciation, to investigation, to assaults upon the executive department, to a presumptuous attenfpt to command the army and navy, to interference with diplomacy and to -a vast amount of cheap politics in other directions supposed to have a bear ing upon the Presidential election next year. If the present eleventh-hour status of a dozen of the greatest money bills - ever known is not enough to condemn this body in both branches and on both sides, there is another indictment even more serious. The Sixty-flfth Con gress is the only democratic parlia mentary body in the world that has given no serious attention during, the past winter to problems of peace and reconstruction. It has dallied and drivelled with its own business, it has made many ridiculous ex cursions into the business of. other people, and now it is seeking in a wild closing rush t© pass appropria tions of thousands of millions. We have heard a great deal from this Congress about the failure of other departments of government. Where else in all the tremendous activities of the last two years has there been such a complete break down? The Girl With the Torch I waved goodby when I steamed down the bay And out in the fog that was heavy and gray. Red battlenelds waited the end of the trip, And danger attended the path of the ship. The khukl 1 *wore was still new to my back, I had barely got used to a rifle's sharp crack. My comrades had sweethearts in plenty, but I Had none but the girl I was bidding goodby. I am speeding today up the same busy bay With New York right ahead of us, noisy and gay; I am blowing a kiss to the same strapping girl Who lighted me forth to the battle's wild whirl, The girl with the torch and her feet in the foam. The first one to welcome the soldier boy home; The glorious girl we fought for in France When we halted forever the Prus sian advance. As our forefathers carried the fire, behold! From the hearth of a neighbor in winters of old, So we carried the flame from her torch o'er the wave And bore it knee deep In the blood of the brave To kindle new fires on new altars to be The beacons of nations we helped to set free. Miss Liberty hail! and oh! how do you do? Not a girl in the world stands com paring with you. . MINNA IRVING. —From the New York Sun. LABOR NOTES The Sun Shipbuilding Company of Chester, Pa., is still purchasing ad ditional ground upon which they will build homes for their employes. Sixty industrial plants In Lima, Peru, have been compelled to cease work because of a walkout among the weavers and their sympathizers. There is an Scute shortage of car penters in Rexburg, Idaho, where many large granaries, are being con structed for the immense crop of grain. An extensive shipbuilding plant will" be operated at Oronocto, New Brunswick, and in the near future the building of wooden ships will be commenced. Streator, 111., trade unionists are forming a handlemaker's union and it Is their intention to engage re- I tiirnoH HtunHlaH cmlriiara nnrf aaHnrn We Defend Josephus From COI.. HARVEY'S WAR WEEKLY WE have sympathy with the as saults upon Joscphus Dan iels because he advocated building "incomparable the greatest navy in the world." Especially do we deplore the particularly bitter attack of the Washington Post upon Josephus in this connection. In this, to be sure,' the post merely follows the traditional policy of Washington newspapers. They always stand by the President. If they have occa sion to castigate the Chief Magis trade they invariably do 'it over somebody else's shoulders. The Post in larruping Josephus on this occasion is only true to form. This loyalty to the Washington tradition is particularly noticeable in the cast of the Post. It has no reason for partiality to President Wilson. On the contrary, were it 'capable of small resentments, it might even hold the President in especial dts esteem. It might reciprocate the disesteem which the President has for the Post, which, by Presidential order, is rigorously excluded from all access to the White House. So, while we admit that the Post is in- a way magnanimous in making the Secretary of the Navy suffer vicariously for the sins of his Mas ter, we none the less- feel that an injustice is done to Mr. Daniels. When he threatened Great Britain with a bigger navy than her own unless she obeyed the Fourteen Commandments with respect to in-; ternational disarmament and the j precious League of Nations reverie, I he was only doing as he was told. He said distinctly that he demand ed the big navy as the result of con versions he had had with the Pres ident before the latter left his post/ of duty to go on his foreign travels, t The President, Mr. Daniels said, , was in full accdrd with the btg navy Idea, or, shall we say,' threat.' And if that assertion were not suffi cient evidence of Mr. Daniels' in dividual nonresponsibility for the bigger-navv-than-yours menace to Great Britain, we have the further authority of a wireless telegram which the President permitted to be sent from the George Washington while en route to France. Thqt , telegram is. as follows: "It is said that President Wilson holds that all the powers must make sacrifices if they sincerely desire a just peace. The nations must fol low the policy of 'giving in,' in the interests of such a peace. Should the present world policy of jcompetl tive armaments be continued, the United States could do no more than hold its share.' , , Now this in itself o'ught to be con clusive as exonerating Josephus. It contains the germs of the threat which Josephus. obeying orders in his own way, translated into terms, cruder perhaps, but much franker. In fact Josephus, when he appeared before the House Naval Affairs Com mittee, carried his frankness to a point all but pathetic in its alert ness. In the course of his remarks he almost reached the limit of touching simplicity when he made this statement: "It is the most powerful argu ment in the hands of the President towards securing a limitation of armaments to permit-him to go to the Peace Conference with the as surance that the United States is prepared to build a navy bigger than any in the world unless the nations agree to limit naval arma ments." A shade of doubt as to the dip lomatic tactfulness of this observa tion seems to have crossed Josephus' mind after he had thought it over a little. At airevents. he requested that it be excluded from the printed record. But after all It did not much matter. It authoritatively "spilled the beans," to be suret but they had been spilled anyway so far as the world at large was considered. The bigger navy threat was in itself so raw and crude a bluff that it im posed upon nobody. Naturally it i caused some anger in Great Britain | on the score of its preposterous of fensiveness, coming, as it did, just when England and la>ndon was giv ing President Wilson a reception that both in its elaborate formali ties and spontaneous popular warmth surpassed any similar dem onstration over a foreign visitor ever known before. But why blnme Joscphus for it? If, President Wilson -chooses to en-, trust matters requiring delicate diplomatic handling to a rough-and ready old tar like Josephus, let the President take the blame when tlje old salt makes a hush-of It. as he naturally would. Josephus was simply obeying the orders of his su perior officer. He obeyed them literally and according- to his dead lights. He even put the . required. - "f; Vr ~' ,; ' ■ ssfci / •••> •• ';. -sfc 'mdti Presidential string on the demand for the biggest navy in the world. He attached the proviso that the President could at any time arrest the letting of additional navy con tracts if armaments were limited by the Peace Conference. This serv ed two purposes. It put additional strength into the disarmament club the President could swing at tlje Conference, and, above all, it prac tically contirmed and reaffirmed the broad general principle, so long tacitly accepted at Washington, that all government authority, legisla tive as well as executive, is and of right ought to be safely in the hands of the President. Wo can not stand silent while the fine record Secretary Daniels made during the war is smirched, as it has been smirched, by attacks grow ing out of this really harmless, even if intricately asinine, bluff about the big navy. With a patriotism and self knowledge of the highest degree commendable, Secretary Daniels en tirely effaced himself during the war. He let those who knew their business do the work. He was con tented With the mere absorption of the glory. And glory there was and to spare. The record of our navy during the war is up to.the highest standards and traditions of that splendid branch of our armed serv ice. And during all that trying time Josephus Daniels was secretary of the navy, winning the everlasting gratitude and the deserved applause of his countrymen by scrupulously refraining from having anything to do with the control of the navy's affairs. And now he is being assailed be cause he again effaced himself and obeyed literally the orders of his superior officers! The Unlucky Johns Of all names John has the repu tation of being the most unhappy with royalty. We remember that when John Stewart ascended the throne of Scotland he changed his name to Robert, but even this did not avert the calamitties that over whelmed him. Of the Popes named John only the nonentities escaped disaster. The record of John, the English king, we all know. John I. or France reigned only a few days, and John 11., having lost the battle of Poitiers, died a captive in , London. And thus through the past centuries of history we see the mel ancholy processions of Johns dogged by disaster and misfortune, in Con stantinople, in Sweden, in Russia and in Bohemia. The two excep tions in the tragic gallery are John of Portugal and John Sobieski.— Front the London Daily Chronicle. Sounds hike Hotel Graft What may happen in this country is suggested by the news that Porto Rico is consuming 50 per cent more coffee toddy than she did before the island "went dry," so that prices have gone up and the restaurants are charging 10 cents a cup—right where the coffee comes from. The Distinguishing Mark Henry Wallner of White Oak was In this community last week. He didn't look natural at this season of the year without a skunk hide tied to his saddle. —From the Boone County Headlight. The Colored Troops Facing the State House in Boston a gray stone tablet stands. Splendidly graven and chiselled, the Work of Saint-Gaudens" hands, To Shaw and his men of color who 'fought for the white men's lands. Studding the slopes of Caney are graves of the men that drew Unhindered the breath of freemen, who fought to make freedom !true For men of the Isle of Cuba, when . (the Fighting Tenth charged , through. Sleeping the sleep of the fallen, ' > buried beyond the sea, Silently holding the ground they ■ won, sharing the victory. Are ( sons of tho sons of freemen ' . who died lor a world made free. Marching in stalwart masses with all ,of the veterans' pride. Battle-scarred banners above them. , the men of the Fifteenth stride To take the people's welcome to the trusted, true and tried. O. C. A. CHILD, An the New York World. * FEBRUARY 20, 1919. •' LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [ A Lord's Day, or No Lord's Day, Which? To llie Editor of the Telegraph: Whenever you begin to tinker with a good thing by trying to make it ] meaningless, you get on dangerous ground. This is what the bill in troduced into our State Senate, pur ports to do by repealing what is Known as our "blue laws" having reference to our Lord's day. The object is to secularize this sacred day, and is wrong, because Ood says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Ood means this or he would not have said so. Rut now we are to have legislative en actments that will give us Sunday shows and similar amusements di rectly in conflict with what Ood has said. The bill in question so severely en roches in the sac redness of Ood's holy day that it is difficult to see how it does not put away alto gether this sacred day. Mo people can afford to trifle with, or violate any of Ood's commandments. To do so, is to do it at ones peril. The Sabbath is the Lord's day, He made it for Himself. He says so, and di rects how we shall keep it. Only acts of necessity und mercy may be done on this day. If any one time could be more un befitting than agother, to show our ingratitude and to secularize the Lord's day, that time is now. In the face of all that the Lord has done to show His favor on behalf of jus | tico and righteousness, we are, by legislative enactment, to show our ingratitude for what he has done for Us, by setting uside his command ments. In none of the wars of the olden time was the hand of God more signally manifest than in the recent war. "With the help of God and a few marines," see how the tide cf battle was turned! Victor Hugo, in his famous description of "The Battle of Waterloo, says that Napoleon did not succeed "because of God." Just why the German Übians that seemed about to annihi late the English army at Mons were suddenly turned back, has never been explained. From a military or material standpoint there can be no explanation of it. God was in it— and so God continues in human af fairs now, und cannot be eliminated with impunity. Woe' to the people who will strive to do so! The na tion that forgets God shall perish. The path of history is lined with such instances. We have stringent laws protecting our game and fish and see to it that they are enforced. But now we are to have legislation that will abolish the protection of the Lord's day and make it an open day for shows and amusements, und thus put away with the divine idea of a Imrd's day. To thus trifle with the ascrcd things of God is to invite self-destruction. The nations that so recently were at war with each other, were not deficient on the material side for prosperity. What then was the mat ter? What then was the matter and what is the mattter now with the world, is nothing more nor less than the neglect of God. This is why we have wars and rumors of war. And now we are to have legislation that is to take us still farther away from God, in the way we have been go inp—an age besotted with material ism cannot be trusted to give right values to what is sacred and divine. We must keep near to God if we hope to continue safe and strong. There are many indications of the coming of a better day of moral and Christian living, and now let there he no signs of giving offense by unwise and unpatriotic legislation. The rich blessings of the keeping of the Lord's day as divinely direct ed. cannot be overestimated. And what will it profit a man though he gain the whole wor'd and he lose h's own soul. To encroach upon the •Lord's day is a most serious and fatal procedure. We cannot believe that our legislators will sanction such a course. Yours trulv. H. C. HOLLO WAY. t>. D. 1 7 Lord Hearelh the Poor When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will 'hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. —Isaiah xii. 17. Keep the Girls There There is never enough labor for the farms, no matter"what the un employment problem may be else where. Why not make farm life at tractive to returned fighting men?- From the Chicago News. ~.J& Btttttttg (Mfal Although the average Harrlsbur has not been aware of It the ope tlon of the city's sanitary dam Conoy street has been an object interest to people In half a do !? s ."? f Ule Btate the last few ye and this winter members of legislature and .visitors who hi been here on the numerous hight and other projects which hold att tion on Capitol Hill these days h been observing the conditions. W1 the Harrisburg scheme was broad here were many who did not th it safe and the agitation down to over possible ice gorges is recall This cropped out in the Leglslati when the enabling bills were go through. Just what this city ot to George E. Alter, then the speali in getting the bills passed has ne been written. But that is anot matter. The people from other pa of the state have been interes to see whether the ice goes over dam or gorges and how it beha in high water. Quite a few hi walked down to see the dam and record of its performance as k by city officials has been scann A couple of men who have b< following up the project say that a result of the Harrisburg d standing up so well in a hard win like last year's season and its It of interference with high water number of similar constructions i be erected for sanitary purpot Some may be on the branches the Susquehanna. • • • The changed conditions in Hart burg industries are commencing be reflected in the decrease in trol travel in the morning and even "rush" periods. Of course, there the same old haste to get cars 1 the number of men and worn travelling to and from work is smi er than it has been for months. T is especially true of the cars go to Steelton and there is no si a complaint about crowded cars last summer. • * • According to men who observe river conditions there is considers coal being brought down by waters now. There have b a few high periods, but the ri has been running very full, cc pared to its usual winter height. ' result of this condition will b lot of coal to "mine" this yeai • • It is not often that a bill p sented by a city member g consideration from legislators fr rural counties but some taking up one introduced by Kep sentative John R. K. Scott, of Pi adelphia, to provide highway con tions that will prevent damage horses. Scott is owner of farms n Philadelphia and his bill is ba upon his own observations and periences as well as complaints neighbors. The bill provides t "no highway shall be built or c structed of such materials as to p vent or interfere with the safe thereof by horses unless where highway is of sufficient width a i or other road of some rough ma rials suitable for horse travel is c structed at the side of the 1 proved portion of the highway." "Horse's feet are being ruil and it will not be many years bef we will have a lower grade of hori if we have any for working p poses, unless we act in this matti said Mr. Scott in discussing the 1 "Why, some of the alleged 'shou ers' on roads are as dangerous horses as the smooth surfaces wh are often covered with oil and which a horse can not stand, mi less travel. There are roads ab Philadelphia which are so smo that when they get wet a horse < not use them and when oil falls them it makes matters worse. Li care seems to be taken of stretches beside the roads which planned for horse travel. I th this bill will appeal to every nr who owns a horse or is interes in taking care of the animals." • • One of the surprising facts ab the destructive fire which occur at the I.alance and Grosjean plate mills the other evening v that so few people knew it. Mi surprise was manifested the folic ing day when it was learned t SIO,OOO damage had been done one of the important industries the city and that the Are had bi right about 6 o'clock in the eveni "Guess people hay® quit chas the fire engines to every fire i are leaving the jobs to us," rema ed the driver of one of the trucks. "I've known times wl an alarm, no matter what weather, could have brought th all out when it was in a mill." • • If the movement to take the p tection off red squirrels gets throi the next Legislature there will some sport for young men a trouble for the first cousins of ' rat, as some people claim, n summer. The red squirrels hi been a pest in a number of orcha near here. "People say they < off the pears and apples Just hear the fruit drop," said Dr. Jos Kalbfus, State Game Commiss secretary, "but I guess that's wro They're really after the seeds t they are mighty destructive." I squirrels have been numerous n this city ever since the place \ settled and furnish all the exei ment anyono could wish in hunti • • It is very gratifying to note tl it was the transport Harrisburg t: brought back front France the fi of the colored soldiers from Pei sylvania. The colored fighters c ered themselves with glory and sons of Ham from this State uph the reputation of their fathers t uncles in the Santiago campaign, kind of like to read about t! transport Harrisburg. too. Mai it will bring home some more our Keystone regiments. • * 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Thomas Cunningham, clerk the Philadelphia courts, who t here yesterday, is one of the ' figures in Pennsylvania politics. —Attorney Thomas W. Patten who appeared here recently in telephone case, is to be toaatmu at the southwestern Pennsylve bankers' dinner at Pittsburgh morrow. —N. S. Grubbs. Allegheny cou farm agent, say that Allegheny t have a big corn crop next sumne —General C. B. Dougherty, y has been ifl. is" improving and rega ing his strength. —Senator Owen B. Jenkins e brated his birthday yesterday Philadelphia. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg shoes are be ing worn in Cuba? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —General Zachary Taylor vjat Harrisburg right jfter the Meixli war*and spoke at the Capitol • , '• , ' ' > .. 7
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