14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI üblished evenings except Sunday by ;HE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. : elegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief l'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager CUS. M.: -EINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGIf, BOYD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. .'fembers 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. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern office. Story, Brook. > & Building, Western office', Gas' Building' 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 year in advance. Oive us, O Lord, so large a view of Thy masterful and holy love that we may willingly renounce all evil deeds, desires and words, laying down life for Thee in daily patience and con tinual service. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1919 FOR A DEEPER RIVER THANKS to Major William B. Gray, tho Harrisburg Rotary Club and Congressman Kreider, the first steps for the canalization of tho Susquehanna river have been taken by Congress looking toward a survey of the stream. Not content with this first victory, Eli N. Her shey, president of the Rotary Club, is about to call a meeting of a spe cial committee of representative citizens from points along the Sus quehanna valley to get earnestly behind the movement, so that Con gress and the Legislature may un derstand that there is real public sentiment back of il. It may be possible to link up in Mime way the power plant plan of Secretary Lane, which includes a station at Harrisburg, with the Susquehanna navigation scheme. As Chairman Zentmycr, of the State Water Supply Commission, said in an address at a Columbia deeper river rally recently, the power dams in the river will be of great assist ance in tho canalizing of the stream. They make the water deep for long stretches that can be made travers able for steamers by a system of locks. The more dams, the more cheaply the river can be made navi gable. At all events, there is big work ahead if the movement is to be successful and those back of it must be prepared to put their effort into it for a period of years if they are to win the fruits of their labors. The many friends of former Gov ernor William A. Stone in Harris burg will mourn with him the loss of his son. Captain Stone, the result of an aeroplane accident in France. The young man received his early education in tho schools of Harris burg and was well known here. To have lost a dear one in battle would have been sad enough, but to be called upon for the sacrlfie after tho war has ended and when the day of home coming was so near is a terrible blow indeed. VERY INCONSIDERATE GEORGE YVASHINGTON WAS A great man: no doubt of that. But at the same time he was inconsiderate. Any school boy will tell you, and prove it. For example, If he was the friend of all honest, patriotic young Americans, why was he so careless as to permit his birth day anniversary ever to fall on a Saturday? A CITIZEN OF PARIS PRESIDENT WfLSON is to re turn to Paris as quickly as af fairs at the capital permit. It begins to look as though he has taken the French government, which made him a citizen of Paris, at its word. It is denied, however, that he has determined to set up a voting residence there. GOOD WORK CITY SOLICITOR JOHN E. FOX is deserving or public com mendation for the businesslike manner in which he is closing the long drawn out Haidscrabble pur chase litigation. Ho is proceeding along practical lines lo end the legal controversies, which, after all, were more apparent than real, and in closing up the whole Incident. He has done a good stroke of work for the city. The development of this section in conformity with the general scheme of river front treatment should be ii, included in the next program of i public work. The project has been hanging lire for a long time and to push it through to completion at a FRIDAY EVENING, blajrrisburg telegraph: FEBRUARY 21, 1919. time when all manner of public work should be undertaken to meet possible unemployment would ac complish a two-fold purpose. Says Dr. Dillon: "It is unfortunate that the brotherhood of nations should be conceived in secrecy and shielded by censorship maintained by force.' Sounds more like an autocracy than a brotherhood. A REAL CAPITAL CITY GOVERNOR SPROUL means to make Harrisburg the Capital City of Pennsylvania in fact as well as In name, j In his speech before the Chamber! of Commerce and the members the Legislature at the Penn-Harrisj Tuesday evening he said he means j to concentrate In Harrisburg all of the State offices now scattered broad cast throughout the Commonwealth. His suggestion should, and no doubt does, extend to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which tribunal of last resort should sit permanently in Harrisburg. Chief Justice Brown and the other members of the court have expressed themselves as favor able to a change from the present peripatetic character of this august body to regular sittings here in the spacious and well-equipped quarters provided. The old objection of no adequate hotel accommodations no longer stands. The people of the State have a right to expect their officials to have their headquarters In the capitol and the Governor again has sensed public opinion in his determination to con centrate the scattered State offices here where they belong. But as Mr. Sproul said, the re sponsibility of providing the new comers with suitable houses rests not with the State, but with the city. He places our housing problem in a new light, or, rather, he casts new light upon it. Most people have long since realized that there are few ifj any good houses at cheap rentals to be had here and that many of our smaller houses are run down and not fit for human habitation. But it required the Governor's address to bring us to a clear understanding of the serious lack of houses of the more expensive sort.- - Now that we realize the extent of the need, we must undertake to rem edy it. We cannot afford, from any point of view, to let this chance for a very material and desirable in crease in population slip away. We must prepare to take the Governor at his word. He will bring the peo ple to our doors and we must find homes for them: MUST is the word. Just how this shall be done is a question not only for those who are interested in solving the house short age, but for the public-minded finan ciers as well. The public will be deeply grateful to* the man who of fers a businesslike solution to this problem. Of course, any additional housing of the right kind will have a bene ficial bearing on the whole situation. There is much good sense in the proposal of the Housing Committee of the Chamber of Commerce to go to Philadelphia for an inspection of the great developments there. The committee should take with them a number of the practical builders and contractors of the city as their guests in order that they may have the benefit of the best that Philadelphia builders recently have incorporated in their operations. Every scrap of information that we can gather; every bit of knowledge we can ac cumulate as to what has been done elsewhere to meet similar conditions we ought to have. Our problem I here has developed into one that can | not wait. The Governor's decision I to bring more people to Harrisburg j gives the situation a new and some what unexpected angle, demanding that quick and perhaps unusual methods be devised to meet it. "U. S. cancels trade ban on old Ger-, rran colonies," says a news dispatch. But not on old Germany, we are happy to say. "Baker answers Ansell charges," but he skipped over some of them rather lightly. It's a little early, but we hope this is the onion snow. Another reason for being good is that we suspect hades is full of Ger mans. ToUUctCn, fe-KKt^lcaiua, By the Elx-Commlttecmaa Notwithstanding some statements that have been made pretty widely William C. Sproul is not committed to tho repeal of the non-partisan election laty of second class cities. The Governor'has said that he re gards the non-partisan law as worthy to be repealed as far as election of judges is concerned, but he is not yet on record on the sub ject of the non-partisan feature for seoond or third class cities. Some of the legislative leaders have given the impression that the Governor is behind the repealer of the second class city feature of the act of 1913. From an authorita tive source it is learned that the Governor is not. Neither has he given any assurances regarding the third class city non-partisan law. The Governor is familiar with the way the law has operated in Pitts burgh and Scranton and knows from his residence in Chester how it has worked in the third class cities. It is also said that the Governor has not given his approval to the rumored changes of council sys tem for tl\e second class cities. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times is taking a pronounced stand on the second class city legislation. It says editorially: "Reports from Harris burg of political activities directed against the councilmanic system of cities of the second class should be sufficient warning to Pittsburghers to be vigilant in protection of their interests. No scheme to deprive this city of the benefits it has derived from the small council can suc ceed against the protests of its citi zens. There is reason to believe that the would-be manipulators of the Legislature would find them selves frustrated by Governor Sproul were they to carry their plan through House and Senate, which they arc not likely to do. The Governor lias virtually gone on rec ord against any change, since he said in this city only ten days ago that, "all I have heard is that your present system has been very satis factory compared with the old sys tem." He correctly gauged public sentiment, here but it is evident that certain selfish political interests have faith that they can convince him to the contrary. They count on silence by' the people to give an appearance of acquiescence in their plan and help them to success. Public duty is plain, therefore. Citizens, be on your guard. Make known your opposition to the scheme. That will kill it." —Governor William C. Sproul and Attorney General William I. Schaf fer, who are in Chester for the week end, will not return to Harris burg until Tuesday evening as they will stay in their home city to "vote for JJick" as the Governor put it in referring to the special election for senator to fill the place he oc cupied for a quarter of a century and for which Ex-Speaker Richard J. Baldwin is the Republican nom inee. While away from this city they will determine upon the bond issue enabling legislation. —Governor Sproul will not act on the Allegheny county two judge "bill this week. However, that has not prevented friends of a number of men from getting very busy in be half of appointment booms. The name of Ex-Senator Charles H. Kline, of Pittsburgh, continues to be much mentioned in connection with one of the places. —The Delaware county election will be held at the same time as the Dauphiji cdunty election, the first time such a situation has ever arisen in the State. The election of Frank A. Smith in Dauphin is as assured as that of Baldwin in Philadelphia. —The new senators will be sworn in March 3. —Members of tho Legislature who remained in Harrisburg over the week end were trying to climb out from under a flood of new bills a couple-, of truck loads having reached the Capitol last night and being distributed today. The House has almost 600 bills in hand. —The resolution to ratify the Prohibition amendment, the big feature of the early part of the session, will be out of the way in a week. The Senate has placed it on the second reading calendar and at least 31 votes for it, a safe majority, are predicted for final pasaage on Tuesday. It will go through second reading Monday night. Then the regulatory legis lation, which promises to be most interesting, will stai"t. —lt is up to the Governor to de cide in the next week or so just what to do about the constitutional changes. The bills for a commis sion to consider revision have been drawn, but will be disposed of by the Governor and his legal advisor in conference before long. The main question is when to have the election on whether to revise the constitution and to hold the election. If it is to be done in the Sproul term the ways must be provided this session. —The Philadelphia city charter bill, which will give the views of the revisionists and likely be antag onized by the Vares, will come in Monday or Tuesday. The second class city legislation will also come to the surface then and a commun ity of interest in the hope of abolish ing the .non-partisan feature for such municipalities and of secur ing councilmanic changes may be sought. Advocates tot throwing the non-partisan election out of the third class <lty act will get busy about the same time. —The Pittsburgh Post is against any more judges, especially for Alle gheny. It says: The passage by the Legislature of the bill providing for two more common pleas judge ships here and the putting through in the House of the measure giv ing tho appointive school boards of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia power to increase the tax levy give the citizens a subject for thought. No matter how necessary more judges may be, it remains that there was no public discussion here in the matter or any effort made to con vince the people of the necessity before acting." —Election law changes are.getting attention from the Philadelphia Press these days. Concerning a re cent bill it says: "The bill intro duced at Harrisburg to permit any party square and also mark it for a single candidate of another party designation is a very desirable amendment to the election laws. Its need has dieen frequently discussed and the only objections raised to it were those of professional politi cians, whose interest lies in secur ing party "regularity" and the elec tion of the "whole ticket" bv mak ing cutting as hard as possible." Sang by. the A. E. F. On the other side of Paris, In the sweet Pontenazan. There is Brest for tho weary, There is Brest for you. From the New York Tribune. DAYS OF REAL SPORT DECREASING PRICES (Carl Snyder in New York Tribune.) | It is not always the universally i expected that happens. There was a universal expectation that the | coming of peace would bring a i drastic decline in war prices. That j expectation still subsists. I wish i to suggest that posibly a very large j part of this expected decline has I already taken place, and this fact j may have a large bearing on the j course of prices in the next year. Let us take a few instances: From the peak of the war price j wheat is now down from about $3.25 | to $2.26, or about 30 per cent. Cotton is down from 37 cents to ! 25 cents, or about 33 per cent. j Copper has fallen from a high j price of 36 cents to 18 cents, or 50 per cent. Corn is down from about $2.25 i to $1.25, or 45 per cent. Pig iron has fallen from a peak of $57 tD around $37, or more than one-third. Steeil billets reached a peak of: $lOO. They are now $47.50, a de cline of over half. Spelter was 16 cents a pound. It Is now 7 cents. Carbolic acid was as high as 60 cents, tl is now 12 cents, a decline of 80 per cent. Butter was 70 cents wholesale. It j is now around 52 cents. Eggs rose to 72 cents. They are now 45 cents. Here are ten basic commodities in i which the average decline from the i high price of the war is more than I 40 per cent. The rise of ail com moditiea during the war, on Dun's and Bradstreet's indices, was only about 90 per cent, and it will be seen that in a great many commodi ties a large part of the war-time gain has already been lost. Is There Cause For Fear ? (From the New York Times.) To what extent, if any, this c 01 1"* try is endangered by the BolsheUki or their brothers in the I. W. YV. that is a question which many are asking, in these days, and very rarely do the inquirers seem to see or feel that they arc seeking info - mation about anybody except tho avowed members of such organiza tions, their admirers and sympa thizers. Yet all three taken to gether are not very numerous, e\en according to their own cstimates and the anxiety revealed j" the large amount of talk about them now going on is really based, not on ap prehension of what these *ewhalf mad. half-criminal folk can o will do 6f themselves in the United States, but on what ,is assumed to be the probability that they bring something like a majority of Americans around to their own way of thinking and doing. Now that assumption ought to be deeply humiliating to any American worthy of the name who makes it. For if there is such a probability, or even such a possibility, the fact more than hints that in all the years during which we have been u. nation something we have done or left undone is vastly to our dis credit We are the product of our institutions and our schools, and if any considerable number of us can be convinced by Bolshevist argu ment, see beauty in Bolshevist ideals, and can share the Bol shevist preference for class tyranny over a democratic equality of rights and opportunity, then—well, then we are much to be pitied and even more to be scorned. For Bolshevist arguments are ab surd Bolshevist ideals are despic able' and the Bolshevist preference is quite as much without attraction for the workingman who reasons as for the millionaire capitalist. Meeting With the Farmers The gathering with the farmers in Wilkes-Barre next Wednesday prom ises to surpass in attendance and interest similar gatherings held last year. The Chamber of Commerce under whose auspices the meeting is to be held, hit upon a novel plan of cooperation when it tnauguarated the movement to bring the tiller of the soil and the consumer closer together, that they might discuss the problems that mutually concern them. It has attracted much at tention elsewhere. It is strange that the plun had not heretofore been developed. Business men of various branches find It to their advantage to meet together and co-operate along certain lines. *Why not the farmers and Ihe people with whom they do business every day in the year It is to the Interest of the farmer ito improve his market It is lo the interest of the people who depend upon him for food to help him to get the best out of his farm, which loads to financial assistance to good toads, lo better transportation facilities. Wilkes- Barre Record. "Safety First" in Railroading New Facts About Coloring of Glass Show Engine Drivers May Not Be to Blame For Misunder standing Signals ENGINE drivers • and subway motonnen who fail to distin guish the hues of colored lights may not always be growing color blind, as their errors may be due sometimes to faults in the material used to tint lenses,* according to H. E. Howe, of the American Chemi cal Society. Recent investigations and tests show that not only the eyes of the man must be perfect in their color perception, but that the utmost care must be taken by the chemist in ad vising the kind of material for color ing glass. Red as a danger signal and green for a clcur track arc firmly establish ed in railroading. What would hap pen if the same signal appeared sometimes red and sometimes green to the man in the cab? But for the safeguards of chemistry this might occur frequently and, in fact, it has happened enough lately to cause rail road executives and manufacturers i he unusually careful about the composition and coloring of the lenses of the lanterns employed in signaling. An engine driver who had been running on a certain railroad for years was suspected of failing vision, and was sent to the office of the traffic superintendent to examine and identify a mixed skein of colored yarns. He was deeply offended that anyone should ask him to undergo such a test. "I am not an old woman!" lie ex claimed. "Meet me in the yards to night and I will pick out'the lights for you, all right." Three lights were placed on an engine and ihe veteran of the lever was asked their color. HINTS FROM DICKENS For the unique in advertising the columns of the London Times are almost unrivaled. What pictures are conjured up by the following ad: It is hoped that the irate colonel who, metaphorically ' speaking, sat on an unoffend ing subsaltern in a Wqst End tube train a day or two ago, lias now discovered his mistake and made peace with the third party. And what possibilities for a pres ent day Dickens are contained in this: Bank of England note receiv ed. We thank unknown friend whose gift relieves much anx iety. In lighter vain, but of serious pur pose is the following: Notice—if the pet goat left with me October last by Mrs. H. L. is not claimed within seven days, it will be sold to defray expenses. And here is something that E. Phillips Oppenheim ought to look into: Will the officer whose cham pagne glass was overturned at Cafe Royal Wednesday evening, January 22. communicate at Savoy Hotel with gentleman whose card he has. LABOR NOTES The Winnipeg (Can.,) Motor Trades Association has gone on re cord as being strongly in favor of the re-employment by the automo bile firms of all former employes wlio have served in the Canadian overseas forces. A decision of the War Labor Board gives to employes of the Gem Metal Products Corporation of Brooklyn, N. Y„ a wage increase of $5 a week, a closed shop and a 4S-hour week. Tho closing of German factorties, either by lack of materials or mar kets for Iheir finished products, will, it is claimed, force thousands of 1 men into idleness and probably lead to Bolshevism. The Alberta (Can.,) Federation of Labor has passed a resolution demanding the release of Thomas Shannon, a miner of Diamond City, who was convicted of having in his possession a copy of a bunned sedi tious publication. Thirty-three lodges of the Broth erhood of Railway Clerks, represent ing the Southwestern section, met recently in Waco Texas, and formed an organization to he known as the Southwestern Federation of Railway Clerks. "They're red," he answered. The locomotive was moved further away and the driver again identi fied the lights as red. When the distance was further increased, he said: "two red witli a green between them." The test was repeated witli the j same perplexing result. This was the situation. The man was growing weak in color percep tion, especially as far as led was concerned. It was not all his fault j for it has been found that there arc I differences in the red glass discs of I the lunterns, as revealed lately by analysis. Glass transmits Ihosc wave lengths which it cannot absorb*. In this instance, tiie center red glass I had permitted greeti to pass with the red and while all eyes would not have perceived it, others with pe culiar characterisitics would Have' done so. The red discs employed were made of copper ruby glass. Glass that is unquestionably red owes I its true transmission of- red rays to! the presence of a waste material, a' by-product of copper refining, for I which chemistry had been seeking! a use —selenium. ' If 'selenium ruby | glass he compared with other ruby glass tiy means of a spectroscope, it is seen that those colors beyond llio red, and toward the blue end of the spectnum fail to pass it. wlii'e various wave lengths slip throughl other less relinblc vitreous material. | This test has become standardized i and a speotroscope permits only glass of the proper qualities to get into the railway signals. If a man sees red now. and now j green, as to his responsibility. So j tlie chemist does his part in the rail-] road cumpuign for "SAFETY l FIRST." INFLUENZA GERM FOUND (From the Buffalo Courier) British official reports of the armyj medical service announce that the] germ or virus of the influenza has been "isolated" by in the army's laboratories. This news, which may be accepted us true, since the British officials are far from given to exploiting uncer tainties, is one of the most important items which have come over the wires since the ending of the war. Notwithstanding all the publicity which lias been given lo the war's losses, it is a fact that, since the latest world epidemic appeared in Spain, the influenza has killed more people of the globe than were killed in battle. While the world is seeking to end wars it may well devote all possible energies of its medical science to end, or at least check, the ravages of this latest "plague" of the nations and peoples. After (hey had killed unnumbered millions, smallpox, the cholera, yel | low fever and the bubonic plague have been largely conquered by med ical and sanilnry science. Tubercu- I losis is slowly being defeated. ! Now, as a first slep, the germ of the influenza is located, it may be i expected that sooner or later' the | means of combating or destroying it ] will be worked out. How It Happened ! Here is a report from the Civil War archives concerning the cap- I turtng of a rebel battalion by a bat | talion of Union troops, in which the major, detailing the engugcnient, j wrote as follows: 1 "Our left was trying to move ! around the rebel right, but the rebel right was also moving around our left. When tho left of the rebel right moved around the right of our left, w.hut was left of the rebel right was right where our right had just left. So when the rebel right's left was left right where our right had left, our right was left right left of Iheir right, and that's how it hap pened."—From the Los Angeles Times. Government Ownersliip The.little burg into which Mar guerite Clark falls from "Out of a dear Sky" is or wus, supposed to be in Tennessee. Yet. in spite of thip, I observe on the tender of the engine shown the Initials of the New York, New Haven & Hartford (N. Y., N. H. & H.) Railway. Has gov ernment control of railroads reached such a stage that New England trains are required to travel 'way 'way down tlieah? —From Photo i play Magazine. "THE INDIAN BRAVES" By the forest of silver birches. Quickened to Springtime's thrill They folded their tribal blankets On a morning gray and still, When from far came the sound of bugles'. Calling the nation to war. On the shores of the sapphire waters, Glad in the Springtime's thaw, Flames of columbine beckoned them — Red as the camptlre's heart; But they answer the throbbing ward rum, And swiftly the Braves depart. • * m They come now again to their for ests. Shining lances at rest; Their ranks are sorely broken— Ah! but they fought with the best! By the whispering waters their ; maidens Toiled the moons away; They dreamed, as the great guns' thunder Shook the Gates of Day, Of their Heroes with laurels return ing And Glory's Flag unfurled, But dreamed not that so,.ic would be sleeping In crimson fields of the world. Down the old trail sing the larches— Down the old trail sing the laches— Wild andweird their songs— ! Sweet to the battle-chiefs sounding, j Here their souls belong. Shall the leaves of their shining laurels Wither upon their brow. Or in Halls of the Nation blossom. Token of Freedom's Vow? —Antoinette Edmuridson. STORIES IN PAINT [Front the New York Post] Besides armor and hand grenades, war has revived historical painting. What Willi Augustus John's "Pageant of War," lust fall's Allied War Salon, and the coming of the official British war paintings, it is clear that, for bet ter or for worse, the "story telling picture" is with us anew. Critics shudder, of course. Buskin said that people worshipped Landseer not be cause they admired art, but be cause they admired dogs. Story telling in paint imposes limi tations. Your composition is ready made and your color scheme pre arranged. You ure, so to speak, an illustrator. You must follow the text. Ami you never quite escape suspicion thai literature, not paint ing, is the best medium of narrative. James Whitecomb Riley beats you at sentimentalizing. Milton beats you |at glorious scene building. When it I comes to reciting history, you com pete unequally with Macuulay or Parkntan. Was it altogether a happy thing to banish the story telling picture out right? You could prowl through a gallery of contemporary art with out finding a trace of the once num erous Bible chapters on canvas, hist ory lessons on canvas, or mythologi cal whoppers on canvas. Instead you would have "effects" of sunlight of colors, of aerial per spcciive. You noted a number, and running it down in your catalogue, came upon "Arrangement In Mauve," or "Girl seated."or "But Yet a Tree." This ran counter to the childish desire which persists in many grown ups that a picture shall he "about" something. The artists you talked with scented rich in ideas; why were there no ideas in tlicir pictures? It would he rash to urge American painters to go in for the "literary" picture. The critics are notoriously wary. The moment you exhibit a story telling picture they suspect trickery, an attempt to cover up artistic inferiority. True, you may ce'ebrato the exploits of Pocahontas in lunettes for a hotel of that name, or paint the career of Francis E. Willard for the Illinois state capitol. The same pictures in an exhibition will bring down upon you whole squads of critical detectives. But an occasional story telling Picture might add a note of vivacity to the somewhat neutral tinted ex perience of gallery going, and in a sense different front the usual one be educational. Those tiny French urchins you see at the Louvre are having a good time not because they appreciate art, but because they appreciate stories. Tn that way they conic to love pictures, and by and by love them for fhelr aesthetic qualities as well as for their entertaining qualities. "No News lo Speak Of" Well, it has been long since I writ to you. Fact is. I don't know how long it has been. We don't have much news here of late. Since they quit sending us any booze we have not had a tight, foot race or a wedding.—From the Heber Springs Headlight. lEbptttttg QHjat More people are today looking up income tax matters than ever known before in the history of Harrisburg. For the tirst time quite a few have realized that even if they do not have to pay taxes they must make reports and they are stirring around looking up advice and ask ing more questions than they expect ed to be thrust at them in a long time. Owing to the industrial act ivity there was much money earned in Harrisburg the last year and quite a few persons who made good wages have been surprised to learn that they are now in the class whicn used to be styled plutocratic and that that they must help pay for the war. while the man and woman who had the distinction of having paid taxes on incomes have found that they must pay proportionately more. Sev eral men who were engaged on mil- I nitions and on railroad work have discovered that they are going to be , income taxpayers and the men in banks and in various offices have been busier answering questions from customers than they were in re ceiving deposits last summer when the war was waging and the produc tion of shells and other things in Harrisburg was humming along at top speed. The chances are that for the next three weeks there will be more doing in the line of question ing and answering on incomes than ever dreamed of by people who had not considered that they were liable to Uncle Sam for taxes. A story heard last year about a man employed on one of the rail roads came up yesterday in a new form and it relates to the income tax. There was a man who had made money and who owned a car. He had some money in the bank and one evening lie figured up what he had made and what the car had cost him. "I found out not only that I had been going some, but that Uncle Sam is chasing me. I am going to see a banker," said he. The removal of the poles from Walnut street will take away from the heart of the city an eyesore that has been one of the marring fea tures of the city. It is only fair to say, however, that the obstructions would have come down a year ago had not the war come along to make prices high and labor scarce. The poles are fast disappearing from the principal thoroughfares of the citj and all of the public service com panies have been co-operating to that end in a harmonious manner. There is a report current now that ver> soon the telegraph and telephone companies will get rid of all over head wires between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, running through this city, but it is likely nothins will be done along this line so lons as the companies are under Federal control. Already plans are being made to canvass for the next loan—the Vic tory Loan. "It is common talk that the hanks are going to take this loan," said one of the men who has been a leader in putting other is sues across in Harrisburg. "There is nothing to it. The banks will take the Treasury Ceryficates. Nobody denies this. The spirit shown by th banks since the signing of the arms tice has been splendid. We sill have come to see that the American bank er is a quiet, unassuming supporter of the government. Ts it reasonable to suppose that the public, of which he is a part, will not be called upon to do its part? Distribution is just as essential now as ever. A nice financial situation would arise if the banks were forced to absorb five billion or so of the new issue to have and to hold. I believe the readjust ment will soon be over. Business must be carried on and precious little business can find air to breathe in an atmosphere of clogged banks, Every business man who buys bonds lightens the burden, relieves the ban'.* trd ushers himself and all his fellows !ud> ♦he realm of prosperity • * • "There is moce interest than you can imagine in the deeper Susque hanna river project," said Ell N. Hershey, of the notary Club today. j"I finel it all along the stream. Every | community has its boosters. I be \ lieve we shall have a big gathering on March 3 when the newly appoint lod committee gathers here for its i first session. 1 discover that a mil lion dollars does not look like such a big sum to business men as it did before the war. Congress also is in a more liberal frame of mind." Congressman Kreider, who was kept away from the previous meeting held here to boost the river project, will attend the next meeting, as will representatives of Columbia, Sunbury, Williamsport, Lancaster, York and many other communities interested. The open season for students ot civil government is at hand. ' Stu dents from a number of the high schools in this section have beer coining to the legislative halls to hear the debates. The Senate thus far has furnished most of the en tertainment for the students. But there is something in store. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Judge C. I. Landis, of Lancas ter county, is an authority on the history of that county. —Judge Isaac Johnson, of Dela ware, is to be elected head of th State Board of Public Charities, next month. —Judge R. B. McCormick, ot Clinton, has been holding special sessions in Philadelphia. —Judge Gustave A. Endlich, ot Berks,, endorsed by the bar of hi! county for re-election, has sat on the bench almost a quarter of a cen | tury. —Judge S. F. Channel, of Tioga county, is an active officer in th Red Cross of the State. —Judge John G. Harman, of Col. umbia county, used to be Demo cratic floor leader in the House. —Judge J. N. Langham, of In diana county, is an authority or state tax cases, having formerly been in the auditor general's office, —Judge A. T. Searle, of Wayne, used to be assistant to Judge Me- Carrell when United States attorney, | DO YOU KNOW ] —That Harrisburg lias been a seat of courts for 134 years this summer? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first court was held in a log tavern near Front and Wash ington streets. Deep Sea Milking The whale is said to yield a bar-i rel of milk at a milking. But what happens to the milker if she geW careless with her tail?— From ! Detroit Free Press.
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