8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Snndsy by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Bnlldlar. Federal Sgaare EL J. STACK POLB President and Editor-in-Chief R- OYSTER, Business Manager GITS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor JL. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Execative Board 4, P. McCULLOUGH. BO YD M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER, GC& M. STEIXMETZ. 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 f>aper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' k Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern o e. Avenue Building, Story. Brook s^°& i Chicago. ®i U i Udlnsr ' Sintered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. BY carrier, ten cents a svfaan- week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1919. Hay 1 reach That purest heaven; he to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor; feed pure love; Beget the smiles that have io cruelty— Be the sweet presence of a good dif fused, And in diffusion ever more intense. —Anon. CITY' IMPROVEMENTS CITY COMMISSIONER LYNCH, as head of the Department of Streets and Public Improve-1 ments, has just issued an interest- 1 ing little pamphlet showing the 1 highways and ward lines of the city. This booklet will serve a useful pur pose in giving important informa tion regarding the highways, their names and locations. City Engineer Cowden is respon sible for the compilation, and one of the conspicuous features is the \ ward and precinct map arrange ment. Harrisburg people cannot know too much about their own city, and | when tho Telegraph suggested a | year or two ago a series of autorao-1 bile tours for the purpose of learn ing what had been going on in the city for a period of years, it did so for the purpose of awakening our people to a realisation of the pro gressive development of the com munity in which we are all inter ested. During the war many improve ment projects were sidetracked owing to the high cost of materials and labor, but now that we are resuming the normal in our munici pal life, it is reasonable to expect that there will be much activity in the completion of the improvemeent undertakings which have been so long under consideration. City So licitor Fox is losing no time in bringing to a focus the final pro ceedings in the Hardscrahble mat ter and the City Council has taken final action In the various ordi nances affecting the city's co-opera tion with the Commonwealth in the development of the Capitol Park area. Altogether, there is a spirit of co-operation among officials and citizens generally in developing the important phases of our city's essen- Hal growth. While we are passing t through a period of readjustment as a result of the war, there is, not withstanding, a general appreciation of the local conditions which Justify the undertaking of the projects neld in suspension during hostilities, nils public work means employ ment for hundreds of men, and from this standpoint must be re garded as of vital importance to the welfare of the community. Employment means contentment, and every effort must be made to provide work for those who hon- BStly desire to keep busy. It is not too early to inquire as to the revival of the Harrlsbtrrg Navy Ibis year. While the war was on the Kipona and other river sports were postponed, but with the coming of Mace we have no doubt the organiza tion responsible for the carnival will get busy. THE GOLF COURSE IF ANOTHER site for the landing of the "Victory Loan dirigible airship can be fonnd, which would seem easily possible, the Res irvolr park golf links should not be need. No doubt the committee entered Into the arrangements thoughtless tt the care and expense that have seen lavished on the Reservoir links to bring them up to their present . i .. _ . J MONDAY EVENING. high standard. If the airship lands on them, with the crowds that will flock to see the arrival, that part of the course will be ruined for the year, for the grass planting is not yet in shape to stand trampling and the rain-soaked turf would be crushed into thousands of holes. These links belong to the public. Xo charge is made for them. They are kept up at public expense and the money spent upon them should not be thrown away. It will not do to offer to repair damage, for dam age done a grass lawn at this sea son cannot be repaired short of next spring. OUT BY JUNE AMERICAN troops in the Arch angel district are in no great danger and are expected to be out of Russia in June, according to the statements of "War Depart ment officials. They ought never to have gone into Russia as they did. What was needed at the time was strong inter vention with thousands of troops to back up demands of America for a free representative government in Russia or no intervention whatso ever. The few hundred men we have thrown into the Archangel district have been battling constantly against terrible odds. They not only have made no impression upon the great masses of Bolsheviki in their path, but their inability to make headway against superior armies have irre parably injured the prestige of America in Bolshevik circles. TOO EARLY Enthusiastic business men at the N. W. Ayer dinner in Philadelphia, Friday night, hailed William Howard Taft as the next occupant of the White House. They were premature. It is not now apparent who will be the candidate of the Repub lican party for the presidency next year. It is too early now to venture a guess as to the result of the national convention. But it is true that Taft has been growing in the public estimation ever since he was defeated in the three-cornered fight in 1912. He is a bigger man to-day in every way than when he was President. Perhaps his friends may decide to push him forward next time. Cer tainly, they would be justified if the peace league is to be an issue, for Mr. Taft was the originator of the idea and he preached it long before President Wilson had begun to think of such an organization. And it will be generally agreed, at least among Republicans, that Mr. Taft's ideas on the subject are much more lucid and practical than those of the, President. It might be pointed out that Taft's defeat would be an indication of weakness, but Grover Cleveland was beaten in a much less strenuous fight than the three-cornered contest which resulted in the first election of President Wilson and was after ward a successful candidate for the office and made a wonderful record himself as a wise and far-seeing statesman. Stranger things have happened than the re-election of Taft, but the time is scarcely ripe for seriously discussing candidates. | SENSIBLE VETOES Governor william c. SPROUL is to be commended for establishing two lines of veto activity divorce laws and measures tending to increase finan cial burdens on counties. He has shown tendencies to be vigorous in his use of the veto power and his comments are interesting. Some years ago the State passed back to the counties the cost of primary elections and the trend of legislation for a long time has been to add to expenses of administration of county affairs. It is now planned to return half of the personal prop erty tax to the State, giving to the counties, which enjoy it all at pres ent, the benefit of the State system of stiffening up returns of owner ship, which worked well when ad ministered by the Auditors General of recent years. Other bills are pending which would call for rigid attention to details of county ex penditures. The Governor is right when he submits that the cost of elections, for instance, should not be put up and that service on election boards should be a matter of patri otic duty instead of a chance to get money out of a county treasury'. There is no field wherein lawyers who specialize in divorce have been busier irf recent years than in the Legislature. Every session bills to provide for particular cases have appeared and while some have been meritorious there have been many, particularly in the last half dozen years, which should never, have reached the Governor. In the dozen or so bills vetoed this year, two have been efforts to complicate the di vorce laws still further. MAKE WHEELS GO ROUND WITHOUT discussing the cause or causes of the failure of the Peace Conference to come to a conclusion in Paris, It Is obvious that until a satisfactory settlement shall have been reached there will be more or less unrest and uncertainty here In America. Most Americans feel that peace should have been declared long ago and because no agreement has been reached there is an Indefinable un rest which extends to the individual and prevents the resumption of normal activities. In short, the Paris conference Is the main spring of the world at the present time and until the machin ery is properly adjusted the wheels of Industry and commerce and indi vidual activity in every direction I will not go roun#- in. TiKKCulcanui By the Bx-Conuuittecmaii | People who follow politics are' | awaiting with considerable interest | j the effect of Governor Sproul's an nouncement that after study of the anthracite situation he is convinced that if miners' wages are to be maintained and the trade prevented from demoralization the advance in j prices is justified, but at the same time railroad rates must be revised and put back under State control | and something done to get local dealers to realize their duty to the public. The Governor's decision seems to have been a shock to many people and to the coal companies as well. The sharp criticism of ! Feneral railroad rates met with gen-1 eral approval as did the demand for local distributors, coal dealers and those who handle the part of the business coming into direct contact with the consumer to revise their charges. The Philadelphia Inquirer gives [ space to warm commendation of the 1 Governor from Thomas Kennedy, | president of the United Mine Work- i ers of the Seventh District at Hazle ton. "The statement of Governor ; Sproul," he said, "shows a broad and intelligent understanding of the i anthracite situation. I am more than pleased when he says that we are all anxious that the present | wage scale in the anthracite be, maintained. That, coming from the Chief Executive of the State, will, in my opinion, silence those who had j hoped to reduce wages and will do , much to stabilize the anthracite in- ] dustry." —The North American in its fi nancial page says that the increase will affect seventy per cent of op erations and indicates that there will be activity in production, while It gives spape to a statement from Pottsville which says that "constant increases in prices is a menace" to the industry. The Anthrncite Con sumers' League, a Schuylkill con cern, criticises the Governor's find ing. The Philadelphia Press prints ail editorial calling for defeat of the North bill taxing all coal as some thing which would injure the con sumer. The North bill is not being taken seriously just now. —The action of Westmoreland county judges in making that county "dry" was much discussed among legislators and "wets" made little effort to conceal their disgust. The "drys" were correspondingly jubil ant. This week will be an important one in regard to liquor legislation in the House and a few more jabs like that at Greensburg will add to the dismay of the "wets." —lt was an odd coincidence that E. B. Hardenbergh and P. Gray Meek, rivals for election as Auditor General more than fifteen years ago and colleagues in the State Senate, should die within a month or so of each other. The Wayne county auditor general was a close person al friend of the Senator from Belle fonte and while he was no match for Senator Meek when he started to say things about the Republican party he used to lose no opportunity to point out to Meek where he could have made them sharper. —Opinions appear to differ whether there will be much inter ference with the legislative program because of the absence of the Gov ernor. At the Capitol plans have been made to advance legislation and send it to the Governor in bales the day before he gets home. Be lief the close of the session on May 15 has not been abandoned by some well posted men in the general assembly. The Philadelphia Press looks for the next month to be one of the most active and interesting in legislation as it relates to State politics. —Attorney General William I. SchalTer is to speak as representa tive of the Governor at the Reading functions on Wednesday. Mr. Schaffer has been much compli mented throughout the State for his activity in attacking Government post-Bellum control of intra-State business and his prompt demand that telephone and telegraph rates be charged as authorized by the Public Service Commission. —Death of Judge W. W. Carr, a Democrat, has made the Philadel phia Record and various Democrats eager to establish a precedent that the successor of a Democratic judge should be a Democrat. The Gover nor will have to appoint and he will be kept dodging Democratic applicants and their friends. Just why a party whose representation in a general assemblv of 257 has shrunk to 29. should be heard from is hard for some legislators to un derstand, especially in view of the federal service in this State. -—The Philadelphia Press savs that if Judge Eugene C. Bonniwe'll, whom it mentions as a possible ap pointee. should be named It would be a slap at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, which is probably why some Democrats of Record leanings would like to see him hon ored. There is also talk of City Chairman Edgar W. Lank, Joseph P. McCullen, one of the ablest law yers in Philadelphia, and Frank B. Bracken. LABOR NOTES Thirty trades are represented In our shipbuilding plants. Berlin, Germany, has 1,000,000 mu nition workers. Toronto, Canada, telephone girls secured a sll weekly minimum wage. Some London, England taxi drivers were earning $45 a week. An American federation of manu facturers is being planned. Cleveland is said to be short 12,000 men for war work. Barbers at Lardar, Ontario, have received an increase in pay. Cranberry pickers in Massachusetts are earning sls a day. Toronto, Canada, ship carpenters are 100 per cent, organized. Northampton, Mass., finds the com munity market plan a money saver. When the war began the Krupp Gun Works were the largest of their kind in the world, employing96,ooo people. Over 400 printers are idle in Dub lin, Ireland, in consequence of a lock out in the book and job printing houses. Miners from the Pennsylvania an thracite fields are to be used to re i open the coal mines in the lens, France, district. H-VRRISBDRG 9SSMIB TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND .... BY BRICGS Where the American Sawed-off Shotgun Stopt the Hun (From the Literary Digest.) THE sawed-off repeating shotgun, loaded with buckshot, which was pictured and described in our pages a few weeks ago, appeared in the critical fighting around Chateau-Thierry, and more than won its right to be considered a real American addition to the horrors of war—at least from the German standpoint. The gun worked to such good effect that, to quote Cap tain J. H. Hoskins, who used one, "the Kaiser would have won him self a war on June 6 had he only pressed his advantage, and had it not been for those shotguns." Cap tain Hoskins was in commartd of a company of engineers ,n those ter rific days; but. Nad as the Ameri cans needed engineers, they needed combat troops worse, so the rap-, tain's company was thrown in to assist the marines. By the time I the company, reduced from 246 men to 72, was ordered to fall back to a trench where the shotguns awaited them, the Germans seemed to be having things much their own way: in that section of the battlefront. : In a recent issue of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, Captain Hoskins tells the story of the turn of the: battle: "On June C, though we were en- j gineers, we got orders to go into the! fighting in support of the marines in Belleau Woods as combat troops. | We hiked twenty-seven miles in nine ( hours without stopping to eat. We j got into the scrap between two regi- j ments of marines and fought! against overwhelming odds, our op-1 ponents being the Prussian Guards.: The 256 men in our company had J been reduced to seventy-two and And the Cat Came Back [From an Army Report.] Statement of Sophie GuiUame —I had a beautiful cat which I loved very much. It was very beautiful. I needed it. It was filled with mice and rats. Besides that he was my companion. >, I loved him very much, because he was very beautiful. An American soldier said in that house Theveny that they had eaten a cat on Christmas day. I had not seen him for fifteen days. He never stayed out more than a week before. I, therefore ask for an indemnity of Fes 20.00 for my cat. It was a beau tiful beast. „ (Signed) SOPHIE GILLAME, Place du Marche. From: C. 0., 29th Military Police Company. To: Commanding General, 29th Division. Subject: Alleged eating of cat. I. January 7, 1919, Mme Guil lame reported that American sol diers had killed and eaten her cat for their Christmas dinner. 11. Upon investigation the follow ing facts were ascertained: (a) Cat missing January 7. (b) Statement of Mme. Guillame attached. (c) Statement of Mme. Lucy Theveny and her mother that Mme. Guillame was "queer" and that they advised paving n'o attention to her. (d) Gendarme officially reported this morning, (January 14, 1919) that the cat came back. 111. In view of above, case has been closed. (Signed) CAPTAIN, Military Police Com pany. Man Formerly in Our Town There was a man in our town. And he was wondrous wise. He jumped into a "Covenant," And scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw his eyes were out With all his might and main. He jumped into drastic modifica tions and changes in his pro posed league of Nations, im pelled thereto by the indignant protests of the Senate, and American public, And scratched them in again. With apologies to Mother Goose, (feorge W. Hills, in the New York I Sua ammunition was nearly exhausted when orders came to fall back to the first line of trenches nearby. When we rolled into these we fought with those automatic shot guns stacked up in bunches of eight, with extra ones lying on the first parapet in the rear wall of the trenches and plenty of she'ls handy. Each gun had a shell in the cham ber and five in the magazine. Each shell was loaded with twelve big buckshot and twenty-eight grains of ixillistite powder. It neaily kicked us down every time we fired, but we didn't mind that when we saw the execution done to the Germans. The way those squirt ei-hunting Amer icans used the weapons was thor oughly effective. Our colonel had ordered that no one should fire un til he gave the command, and it looked to me that he waited until they were almost on top of us. But when the word came tnosa guns opened up in earnest. The Germans were advancing very confidently, for they knew we were in desperate straits. That shotgun volley was new to them. They were advancing well bunched, and every time a gun fired three or four Grmar.s would go down. The m. re the urprise gripped them, the closer iliev would huddle, and the deadlier was the fire. When thev could stand it no longer they began to fall back, bunched in closer than ever, with corresponding destruction from the guns. Not a German reached our lines after we began using these si.o:tuns, and I'll to'l the world that on Juno 6 the Kaiser bad won him self a war ha.l he only pressed the advantage and had it not been for those shotguns." Enemies of Peace How can we expect peace— Whep there are men and women in the world and they fall in love? When motor car tires are made of rubber and there is glass in the road ? When telephone operators refuse to talk English? When it costs $2 to put on the old nosebag in a decent restaurant? When Congress insists upon send ing out garden seeds that will not come up? When strike-on-the-box matches refuse to strike? When the kids leave tin trains of cars for the old man to stumble over? When the women are all trying to win 10-cent bridge prizes? When the butcher weighs his hand in with the steak? When married couples will insist upon picking the wallpaper to gether? When everybody has relatives? —From the Pittsburgh Post. KITCHENER'S LAST DAYS Several pages of "The Grand Fleet 1914-16" (Doran), by Admiral Vis count Jellicoe, are occupied with an account of Lord Kitchener's clos ing hours on the Iron Duke. The question has sometimes been asked, "Could not Viscount Jellicoe have advised the Hampshire to wait till the weather improved?" The Ad miral tells us that Lord Kitchener would never have consented to de lay. "He impressed me strongly with the Idea that he was working to a time-table, and that he felt that he had not a day to lose. He men tioned three weeks as the limit of his absence, and I expressed aston ishment at the program which he had planned to carry out during that period. He was most anxious not to lose a moment on the sea trip, and asked me more than once what I thought was the shortest time In which the passage could be made." It was on June 5, 1916, that Kitchener reached Scapa enroute to Archangel. He confessed at lunch eon that the strain of the last two years had been very great, and he felt that he could not have gone on without this break, which he heart ily welcomed. He was impatient tp be gone, and bis heart was already In Russia. ' | EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ It is hard *o tell whethei a Ger ! man government has been set up or | framed up.—Brooklyn Eagle. Too many bathtubs, safety razors \ and cukes of soup in this country to ! Make possible a big crop of red an | archv. —L'tica Observer. Former Kaiser Bill wants to go to a warmer climate. For once we feel i like accomodating him. —Wash- ,l ingtou Pest. What we need is a law that will ' make an unjust strike impossible and a ;uot strike unnecessary.— ; Greenville <S. C.) Piedmont. Considerable astuteness was i shown by James Monroe in limiting his much-discust doctrine strictly to one point.—Washington Star. The government claims that it has | decreased train-robbery; there bo : those who insist that every train ride is a robbery now.—Venango : Herald I A CHECK TO BCRLESON ; [From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] j Judge Kunkel, in his opinion de : nying the right of the Postmaster '] General to change telephone rates 1 i in Pennsylvania without the approv j al of the State Public Service Com ! mission, discriminates sharply be 'jtween the Government's general j war powers and the authority which |it arbitrarily claims in the present i instance. In the end we probably j shall have a judicial decision defin | ing as right or wrong the high i handed proceeding of the Govern ' ment in seizing the telegraph and j telephone companies as and when .lit did. For the present Judge Kun kel contents himself, however, with deciding in effect that there being no emergency the Federal Govern ment has no power to set aside State j authorities. That is sensible, at 1 least. And it brings into relief the .effects of President Wilson's action entirely apart from the motives I which may have promoted it. They i do not commend themselves to the general public. ! To win the war the people were { willing that the Government resort jto any expedient. But they object decidedly to the war emergency be ing used as a cloak for setting up conditions of State socialism to the public detriment and in violation of private rights. As in the case of the railroads, so with the wire com munication companies; seizure by the Government was followed by a course the procedure the end of which would have been inevitable public ownership. More than that, the course followed tended to de stroy the power of the States over what is distinctly their own con cerns. The restraining action of Judge Kunkel in Pennsylvania and of Judges in other States puts it spuarely up to the Federal admin istration to prove its right to sub stitute centralization of control for the rights of the States to exercise authority in purely State affairs. These cases should be pushed to conclusion as rapidly as possible. Tt will be a poor reward for sacrifices made In the war if the people shall find they have lost rights of which they should not be deprived. If it is possible to destroy State rights as the Postmaster General nnd some others seek to do, the sooner the fact is known the better, for then the sooner the people can take steps for their protection. IN APRIL A morning of gold and green And a path to the top of the hill Music and scent and sheen. Color and flame and thrill. Sap In the veins of the tree. Twitter and bud and birth, Hope in the heart of the bee. And Love in the whole of the earth, Sleep In the eyes of the sky, And a hush In the hearts of the stream: Slumberous fields that lie Burdened with beauty and dream. Silence and shadowy light. And a graceful crescent curled; Peace on the lips of the night, And God in the width of the world. —Perrln Holmes Lowrey in Con temporary. Versa *~" APRIL 7, 1919. "Then Like U Out West" l Bailey Millard, onetime editor of a New York magazine, now on the stuff of the San Francisco Bulletin, reveals some of the secrets of the trade in the following.] The New York magazine editor al ways carries in his mind ihe picture of a Western reader. At u gathering of editors about the evening board, 1 always would lieur soma of them say: "Well, 1 am running such or such a series because thai s the kind of stuff they like out west." It was a regular saying among lhe manu script readers in our office: "They like it out west." By out West they meant the Mid dle West, for even Pittsburgh was west to them. It used to make mo smile, for I was from a long way farther west than the region they had in mind. But I had lived in the Middle West, I too, and this ready sizing up of the | literary requirements of the readers | residing in the neighborhood of the | Great Lakes or the Mississippi River | always seemed a hit of editorial | cock soreness that was as inapt as | it was amusing. A certain widely known novelist I wrote a very long and very prurient j serial story. The manuscript was ! sent in for my consideration. I [did not read it. In fact, I never ; read it until after its publication, jßy my direction tlie manuscript of the novel was read by three readers, | or.e of (hem a lady. All these read- I crs declared that it was so salacious ;us to he absolutely unprintable. The j two men were very outspoken in their denunciation of the story, and i the lady blushed a deep red when [ she handed In her report. All agreed | that the reading public would not stand for the story. So, without reading it myself, 1 had the manii- I script returned to the author. That was in 1905. | Would you believe it?—the story was published in 1916—eleven j afterward —by the proprietor of our magazine on the recommendation of my successor, and the public not only stood for it, but ate it up and wanted more. But they could get no more from that particular author, for he was dead.. Now what had happened to make this story more acceptable to the magazine reading public In 1916 than in 1905? It was very simple, j Any oldtinie editor will tell you i that the gradual decadence of taste lon the part of the great mass of magazine renders, due to the gradual I feeding into them of rotten sex Islories, has not only made readers j less easily shocked, but also actually eager to embrace these fleshpots. J What slia'l T say of this literature and the prevailing demand for and consumption of it? What shall any jone say? One word covers it all — it is a debauch. I The New York magazine editors | are responsible for this condition. But if you were to ask one of them : to-day why he befouls his pages with J Ihe prurient stuff he would say with a knowing smite. "Oh, they like it out West!" INSISTS ON NIGHTS [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Judge ICunkel's decision that the United States has no right to decide on inter-State telephone rates is in line with that of a Kansas court, which is now in the Supreme Court of (he United States and is to be argued in October. Until then tho decisions in the various States will be respected. It is presumed that the same would apply to railway and telegraph rates, and it is likely that the Supreme Court will hand down a "leading decision," unless by that time the matter has settled itself, which is not likely. Judge Kunkel is careful in his de cision to draw a sharp line between the Presidential "war powers" and those which have "no relation to war." It can hardy be claimed that at present the local telephone charges have any relation to the mil itary situation and it is even hard to believe that seizing the lines in the first place was of any value to anyone. It seems to have been sole ly the idea of Mr. Burleson, who did not act until the war was practlcilly over, and it is believed that his sole idea was simply to start a movement in favor of national ownership and operation. It is certain that there is little sentiment in favor of this idea at present and there is no reason in the world why the lines should not be returned at once. Pennsylvania has a jealous regard for its justly reserved rights. It is hard to understand why the admin istration .should care to interfere In domestic matters which really do not concern it in the least. We have a commission erected for the very pur pose of maintaining just rates for all public utilities, and until its de cisions are shown to be unjust, we shall abide by them. It is curious that the political party which has always claimed as its chief stock in trade the restriction of nationalism has now. officially, at least, become nothing less than a Prussianizing Party which recognizes no red lines whatever on the map. The Shadow at the Door [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Ah, distinctly we remember the eleventh of November, When each separate army mem ber fired Its last shot of the war. Eagerly wo scanned the morrow: prayerfully we sought to bor row Hone that all the load of sorrow that humanity then bore Would be lifted: that the Confer ence to meet and talk it o'er Would end war forevermore. But that' Conference, not flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting In the classic shades of Paris, where it talks—then .talks some more; And its talk has the seeming of most visionary scheming. While the world wakes from its dreaming: finds a shadow at its door. And it fears that war's dread shad ow that grows blacker at Its door Will be lifted nevermore. —HOWABD MARKLE HOKE. Meat Prices "Why has not the price of meat decreased since the signing of the armistice?" asks Mr. Consumer and his wife. "Because livestock costs more," is the answer of Armour and Com pany. Cattle for the month of February cost the meat packing company $12.40 a hundred. This was 23.38 per cent higher than for the same month a year ago and 72.70 per cent higher than in February, 1914. Hogs during February averaged $17.18, an increase of 4.14 per cent over the corresponding month a year ago and an advance of 102.36 per cent over the figures for 1914. Sheep were only .78 per cent high, er than in February 1918, but the percentage of increase for the five year period was 130.75. Etontng (Wjat Analysis of reports received at the State Department of Agriculture from various sections of Pennsyl vania, following the low temperature of several days ago, fall to show any serious damage done by frost or cold. Reports of harm to fruit trees in several sections of apple and peach raising counties were found to have been much exaggerated when inves tigated. Practically all of the dam age was done to trees in low lying places which did not contain many trees. J. A. Sanders, the State's zoologist, who followed up many of the reports, said that the fact that buds were not far advanced and that no cold rain came with the drop in temperature, prevented harm. Men in charge of a number of large or chards in the southern counties, re ported no damage done and in the northern counties trees were not far enough advanced for any injury. The Slale has opened its work in the lower anthracite field for the eradication of the potato wart dis ease and Federal experts will work with the Slate men. Mr. Sanders has taken personal charge of this work and by the aid of a strict quarantine, it is believed that the danger can be checked. At the same time steps are betng taken to guard the State against importation of motli posts by strict inspection of nursery stock at both ends of the State. This is being carried on with co-operation from other States. State officials have every hope of being able to secure the designation of the new Pennsylvania National Guard as the 28th Division, the number it bore in the war. It Is expected that the National Guard will occupy tho same position in the line of defense as they did un der the national defense act passed before the war and as the Keystone organizations will constitute a divi sion, official steps will be made to obtain the historic number. The frame work for rc-organizatlon of the Guard has been worked out and in a few months after return of the men from France, the first steps will be taken. • • ♦ It's odd the way people forget they own valuable things when the emer gency, or novelty, has passed. The other day, in looking up the prop erty of one of the organizations formed in the city during the war. there were discovered in lockers clothing and equipment worth many dollars, which had been forgotten by the men who used it. All of it was serviceable and could be adapted to any use, but once tho occasion for active purposes was passed, the men who had spent good money for it, forgot all about it. In this case hats, shirts, shoes and other property was found overlooked and stowed away for moths to attack. And with de mands for clothing for Belgians be ing made every day in the newspa pers and by the Red Cross. • • • Just exactly why people will throw glass into a street or a roadway is hard to understand, but when they chuck tumblers, vials and other things of like nature into a paved roadway it becomes a subject for inquiry. Yet this happens every day, according to the street sweepers, who say that notwithstanding dan ger which may come to automobile tires, they are constantly finding glass where It has been thought lessly thrown. On some of the prin cipal residential streets, those most traveled by automobiles, scarcely a day goes by without glass being picked up. One sweeper found parts of three bottles in a block and an other what looked like the wreck of a thermos or similar bottle. An other told of finding a pile of tacks, evidently the remnants of a box wheh had fallen out of a pocket, torn apart to see what it contained and then dropped in bulk. This same man told of finding a wire puzzle with five points sticking in an automobile tire. • • The war may be well over, but the work of the State draft head quarters goes right on and every week there are inquiries from peo ple wanting information about men drafted. Some of these inquiries in dicate that nothing has been heard of men since they left with their contingents and draft headquarters is supposed to have some supernatur al means of keeping track of the soldiers. Unfortunately, the records here end with the camp destination and inquiries have to be sent on to the army authorities, who are over whelmed with such inquiries. • • • The second anniversary of the en trance of the United States into the war passed without notice in the city on Saturday and if anything, it was much like the day when the country officially opened hos tilities. On that day there was a buckling of belts and prepar ation of mind for a hard fight. Sat urday people, when reminded of the anniversary, said that Uncle Sam had a big problem at home and that he should get his fighters home to help readjust things. Even at the Capitol and the Federal offices no reference was made to the day. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Adjutant General Frank P. Beary, who is in Washington to dis cuss the return of the Keystone men, is celebrating a quarter of a century of connection with militia affairs. —Dr. Newell Dwight Hilles, well known here as a lecturer, aroused ire of Philadelphia school teachers at a meeting by a criticism of the president. —H. C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker, is head of the loan com mittee for Allegheny county. —Councilman Eugene Tropp, of Scranton, well known to many here, is seriously ill. —Herbert A. Gibbons, Philadel phia newspaperman, has slarted a movement to rebuild the home of John Calvin, leveled by combard ment of Noyon. —Major Norman F. Brown. Pitts burgh officer home from France, says that Americans along the Rhine want to be returned. DO YOU KNOW ~ —That Harrisburg men have been helping in the Improvement or French highways? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Early roads into Harrisburg followed Indian trails very closely. "Nobody Home" "Why didn't you send your man to mend my electric doorbell, as you promised?" "He did go, madam; but as he rang three times and got no answer he concluded that there was nobody home.' —Boston Transcript
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