12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 18S1 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor AR. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager , Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, V. R. OYSTER. orrs. 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 fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. ▲ll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. tMeunber American Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Assoc ia- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Building, Gas Building I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa„ as second class matter. "ygfr-v By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, lt Do not look for wrong or evil—- , You will find them if you do; As you measure for your neighbor, He will measure back to you. —Alice Carey. FISHERMAN AND GENIE THE present situation at Wash ington reminds one of the Arabian Night's story of "The Fisherman and the Genie," which, as j you will recall, runs something like ; this: A fisherman, casting his net | into the sea, drew forth a copper j casket instead of the fish he sought, j Eagerly opening it, hoping to find | something of value, he was amazed | to see issue therefrom a great black cloud that enveloped the skies in , smoke, in the midst of which ap peared a giant genie, who announced | that he had sworn to kill the person j who should set him free. The fish-1 erman persuaded the genie to go back into the box, whereupon he slapped shut the lid and cast the ungrateful genie back into the deep. The President and his Democratic. Congress opened the genie's casket when they took over the railroads of the country and put business under a ban, the effects of which only a few favored lines were able to escape. Now the skies are full ot black clouds, the genie is threatening and what the people would like to know is how are the President and Congress going to get the genie back into the bottle, or that being impossible to induce the genie to be a good, reasonable fel low, capable of listening to logic and possessing some regard for the welfare of others? Indeed, we would much prefer the latter arrangement, If that can be brought about. The President has a "cure-all" for every ill. Let him try his hand at this. Bully for the Kiwanls Club! It has lined up behind the Children's Indus trial Home, just as a lot of live wires might have been expected to do. Har risburg is blessed in a number of or ganizations of this sort which are contributing so largely to its pros perity and good-fellowship. LET US PAUSE BEFORE we rush headlong into public ownership of railroads —which is only a step toward the taking over of many lines of utilities it might be well to look back for a moment over some of our experiments along this' line in the past. Patrick Henry once said that he had but one lamp by which his feet were guided and that was the lump ot' experience, and the saying holds good to-day. We need look no farther than our own city or State for example. This idea of bringing about the millennium by public own ership of public utilities is by no means new. It was tried out when Pennsylvania built the great canal system of the State and the Portage railroad. And it didn't work. Not only that, but the State became al most bankrupt, panic ensued and thousands of people lost every pt>nny they had saved. It is a common saying that the "canals were grabbed by the rail roads." Such is not the case, as the records of the Department of In ternal Affairs will show. The canals, owned by the public, and the State railroad, too, went steadily from bad to worse. They were a failuro, so far us earning capacity is con cerned, long before the railroads came to compete, Indeed, they were In such bad state that the Pennsyl vania Railroad politely declined the State's offer to sell the system to the railroad company and purchased the canals only after long years of effort on the State's part to dis pose or its bad barguln, So rejoiced were the people to get rid of them that they celebratod and the legislature passed a vote of thanks to the company for relieving the State of "an Intolerable burden." The same thing occurred In a doncn other States. Albert W At wood, in an article In a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post, an THURSDAY EVENING. "Our Forgotten Socialism," has this "to say concerning Pennsylvania's part in the nation's public ownership spree: Pennsylvania planned a com plete vertebrate system of track and water courses, and unlike most of the other states actually built it. Men even said that by digging seventy-five miles more of canals Philadelphia would soon be connected directly with the Pacific Ocean. Only a few years later, how ever, Pennsylvania tried in vain to sell to private interests two million dollars of stocks in banks, turnpikes, bridges, canals and railroads. Finally its canals were sold out to private interests after they had got deeply In debt. In deed before many decades had passed, half of the nearly five ' thousand miles of canals in the country, built mostly by the states at a cost of possibly two hundred millions, had been aban doned, and most of the rest had become unprofitable because of railroad competition. But the states fared only a little better with their railroads. After a time Pennsylvania sold out her railroad interests to private com panies at what is said to be only one-sixth of their cost, and on | easy terms at that. j Times may have changed since | then, but' public ownership has not. I We are losing hundreds of millions ! of dollars in Federal control of rall ! roads. Who is going to assume j this burden if the roads are taken over permanently? The taxpayers? We think the people will have some thing to say about that. And then there is the $20,000,000,000 debt to he assumed. Can we stand such an addition to our credit at a time when war debts are weighing on the taxpayers? And if we <l°. | what are the benefits which the peo | pie _1 and by this we mean all the J people are to receive? And what : do the railroadmen themselves hope | to gain by making the railroads a football for partisan politics? These are fair and sober questions. They, and our own disastrous his tory as it relates to public owner ship should have careful study he fore we take the plunge. Upon the return of the telephone properties to their owners by the I nitfd States Government last Friday one of the big wire-speaking systems j let it be known that while the prop- , erty had been properly maintained it was not the same property which the Government had token over a year ago. But in a statement to the stock holders the management explains that the fault was not of Federal con trol, but was due to causes growing out of the war. It is plainly evident, however, that the experiment of Gov ernment ownership has not demon strated its virtue as a panacea for all i the ills of the public utilities in this] country. GIVE THEM A CHANCE WHILE the Knights of Colum bus performed an important service during the war, it is | preparing to do a still greater ser- i vice in peace. At the Buffalo con- i vention special attention is being given to the unrest of the countrv | and especially to the imported 1 deviltry under the name of 80l- ' shevlsm. One of the leaders of the j K. of C. In his annual report de clared that the organization would ! fight the menace from overseas to | the bitter end by every means in j its power and that the chief weapon j in the new warfare would be educa- i tion. He favored the operation of r supplementary night schools in ev ery city and town where there is a K. of C. council. "We shall fight to the uttermost of our strength," declared this courageous and clear vlsioned official, "the forces of ex treme radicalism and the crazy dpc trines of false foreign philosophers who seek to spread their perniciouo propaganda on our free soil." With the Knights of Columbus and other great organizations of men who recognize the danger of the devil of unrest and discontent standing as a bulwark against this peril, the people of this country aie justified in believing that terrorism and the bloodthirsty hordes of men and women out of sympathy with our Institutions will he suppressed. It seems incredible that with the starvation of their victims in Rus sia and elsewhere in Europe, the outraging of women, the nationaliz ing of innocent girls and destruction of property and the homes of thrifty worktngmen, the apostles of anarchy and radicalism should have an/ fol- ! lowers in this free and enlightened | country, where liberty and oppoi-| tunity have attracted the oppressed I of the world and given them new j hope and inspiration. I While many aliens are now re turning whence they came to dis cover what became of their families and friends during the war period, it is believed that these and thou sands more will come back to America with a determination lo make this land their permanent home. But it is due these and thou sands more who are looking toward America that our system of educa tion shall be so changed as to throw the light where it is needed and give these aliens who want to be come decent American citizens a reasonable chance. An army engineer says the impend ing survey of the Susquehanna River looking to making the stream naviga ble will depend somewhat on the showing that shall be made with re spect to possible traffic and the amount of freight which will he transported by water. Those who have made a study of the problem believe that the millions of tons of coal and agricultural products and lumber and manufactured goods-will ccnstitute an imposing and forceful avgument In favor of converting the Susquehanna Into a navigable stream The Ponn-Harris Hotel will blos som forth next. Spring as the Tele graph and other big buildings with window boxes filled wtlh flowers. Every year sees an increase In the , number of homes and business places thus decorated. Ik | By the Kx-Dommittccman To-day marks the close of the 1 period for tiling nominating peti jtions for judicial primaries at the office of the Secretary of the Com monwealth and indications are that I there will be more tiled this year : than generally known. Few of the i judges seeking re-election will be i unopposed. This year Pennsylvania will elect one superior court judge, eighteen common pleas judges, Philadelphia and Allegheny having the most; live orphans' court judges, one county court judge in Allegheny, two mu nicipal court judges in Philadelphia and fourteen associate judges. The latter will be elected in thirteen counties, Huntingdon having two to elect. When the judicial papers are all filed political interest will largely center in the tiling of papers for county and municipal nominations with County Commissioners which must be tiled under a recently ap proved act before nightfall of Au gust 19. Superior Court Judge William L. Keller, of Lancaster, appointed last winter, has filed papers to be a candidate for election to the full term of ten years. - —Some very interesting situations have been created by the judicial contests. In Philadelphia and Alle gheny all of the sitting judges, who aspire to election and among whom are almost ten appointees, are op posed. Patrick P. Conway, of Phil adelphia, has established an unusual I record in tiling petitions to run for both orphans' and common pleas i court places. This is probably the . tirst time such a thing has occurred. -—Some of tile best known judges of the State, men like Judge John Garman, of Luzerne; Mac Henry Wilhelm, of Schuylkill, and J. N. Keller, of Perry-Juniata, face tights, while Judges G. A. Endlich and ,G. W. Wagner, of Berks, and C. I. Landis, of Lancaster, will not be op posed. at least from indications. —Somerset county is to the front again with a tight which must de light the shades of those old-time political warriors, "The Frosty Sons of Thunder." Ex-Banking Commis sioner John A. Berkey, Norman T. Boose, Charles F. Uhl, Jr., Demo cratic leader, and E. O. Kooser, son of Judge F. J. Kooser, named to fill a vacancy, are candidates. The sit ting judge, who was called from re tirement to till the place last winter, will not be a candidate. —Representative C. M. Palmer, of Schuylkill, has been picked by Schuylkill leaders to run for District Attorney on the Republican ticket, being preferred over four other men. —The Connellsville Courier says that William L. Wood, member of the House in 1905 and 1907, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for county treasurer in Fayette. He is one of the big stock raisers of the county of Crow, Kep hart and Coke. —Among petitions filed late yes terday were three which mean bat tles at the primary. They were for the following: John Rebman, Jr., Pittsburgh, for Allegheny county orphans' court, and M. A. Kilker, Girardsville, for Schuylkill orphans' court. J. Frank Keller, Selinsgrove, Hied to be a candidate for associate Judge in Snyder county. —The battle against Senator Max Leslie and Mayor E. V. Babcock in Allegheny county has been opened, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times print ing a list of men who will be sup ported against the Leslie ticket. This battle will attract State-wide attention and if the Philadelphia mayoralty contest is averted it will be the big contest of the State. On the anti-Leslie slate are several men whoffoughtt t in France. That the tight is going to be vigorous is indi cated by this statement in the Ga zette-Times; "The campaign to bring to an end the political domi nation of Allegheny county by Max Leslie is about to be opened and will be vigorously waged in the Septem ber primaries. A complete anti- Leslie Republican ticket of candi dates for the principal county offices to be tilled this fall is now in the field. Behind these men are thou sands of good citizens ready to bat tle for the eradication of Leslie ism. Joining in the movement for the election of good men to fill the county offices and the wiping out of the Leslie machine are citizens from ] all walks of life in Allegheny county." —Pottsville newspapers say. "Cap tain John E. Schlottman, who left here as N lteutenant of Company D, 103 d Engineers, but was later made captain of Company E, of Philadel phia, has been selected as the Re publican party nominee, for county controller. Major G. O. Santee, of Cressona, who left here as a surgeon, but returned as a major attached to the 317 th Infantry of the 80th, or Blue Ridge Division, is slated for coroner. Joseph Davenport, otf j pottsville, has been listed to succeed W. S. Leib as county commissioner, ! the other Republican nominee to I be County Treasurer W. A. Adam son. —According to reports from Phil- ! ndelphia to-day the Vare faction | has virtually conceded the fact that Congressman J. Hampton Moore I will be the Mayoralty candidate of ] the Independents and Penrose I forces. "This general attitude as ex- | pressed among the rank and file of ! the men who llourish under the banner of the Republican City Com- | mitteo is perhaps one of the strong- | est indications that the stage is set | for the Committee of One Hundred ] to declare for Congressman Moore | and throw down the gauntlet for a ! fight-to-the-finish at the September : primaries on a straight anti-con tractor boss issue," says the Phila- ' delphta Press. Harmony was as remote from I the situation yesterday as it has ! ever been. The interview granted by David H. Lane, dean of the Vare organization, in which he named four possibilities for the Mayoralty and ignored Congressman Moore is j taken as the strongest kind of an indication that the Republican City j Committee is serving notice upon the Congressman that he can expect the stiffest kind of opposition if lie j accepts the Committee of One Hun dred's nomination. On the Independent side it was learned that Congressman Moore, at present at Island Heights, N. J., is drawing up a platform which he will submit to the Committee o l ' One Hundred and that the commit tee will have to accept the platform if they want him as theman who 13 to lead the anticontractor rule tight. "The repeated interjection of the name of former Governor Edwin 3. .Stuart as a Mayoralty possibility in Philadelphia is regarded as signifi cant in political circles. He "was first spoken of by Senator Vare and then two days ago by Mr. Lane, - ' says the Press. "Those deep in political machinations saw in the Stuart boom a move on the Mayor alty checkerboard, with the all powerful name of the former Gov- HA_RIUKBi;nG IAHAI TELECITAPH WONDER WHAT A MAN THINKS ABOUT WHILE BEING INTRODUCED BY TOASTMASTER By BRIGGS - - - / . Wt-LU HE'S GOT To " TrV X ° '•=> LET Ml- TH.mK OYER MC AT LAST - I MOST AS TIL "F PRA7<L= ARE OV-_TM£ FACT WHAT I'M TO £AY AP PEA,R AS MUCH AT MERIT ALL MIS PR AST THAT MR 10AST.VAAS}£R t THAT STORV FA5 r as i CANI-' "BUT lAM Powerless is. ALLODWG T© M c . ABOUT THE COLORED To STOP HiM\ T H £t AR£ All LooKi/uG BOY That JuST Got AT ivAe BACK I-ROM FRANCE • • / * AH- HE. REFERS To ~ Gee HE certainlt WCLL HCS FINISHED '. My JUDICIAL MIHD - I s G'VINIG ME- A LOT AT LA ST- , M MIGHTY MR TOAI>T MATpo" D4UST APPEAR A OiT OF_ PRAiSE- HE IS A GLAD To BE CALLED ON. more Stern and vi-RT Smart Talker J should love To have <■ DIGNIPIED - ONE HAS A NIT) KrNowS WHAT HBS A GOOD ■REPUTATION AS ? To Be, MORE OR. LESS lALKIN6 A©OUI TOO A(VI afterDINNER Speaker ( A PROMINENT PERSON - A GULP OF WATER ) SoomTTs" H,t ® "* C I M6M LIKE THIS GO.N6 Ow-- GEE t*P>* i WISH THE WIFE COULD MOW ernor dangled before Congressman Moore's eyes as a possible oppo nent." Another name, in addition to those of Judge John M. Patterson and Receiver of Taxes W. Freeland Kendrick, was mentioned by Mr. Lane, but whatever serious impor tance may have been attached to it faded yesterday when the individ ual. City Solicitor John P. Connelly, declared positively that he would not be a candidate. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR j THE FARMER DEFENDED To the Editor of the Telegraph : In the agitation to reduce the high cost of living, certain factors have been overlooked. Abnormal condi tions have boosted the price of shoes, wearing apparel, groceries, and in brief, every necessity and luxury of life. The end is not yet. Announce ment is again made that footwear and clothing are due for another increase. Shoes that were formerly $2 have doubled and sometimes tripled in price; men's suits which were once in the $l5 class are now $2 5 and $3O. The same proportion obtains in higher priced goods of that variety and also with respect to groceries. It matters not what one desires to purchase, a propor tional increase of twice or thrice the pre-war cost must be paid. These conditions have aroused a protest. The justness of a sane and properly directed protest is not the issue of the present article. My purpose is to show that "in their ef forts to obtain what may be deemed a more equitable adjustment of prices, certain well meaning but mistaken people are inflicting a serious injustice upop the hardest worked and least appreciated work ers in the Nation. I refer to the attacks on the farmer. One would infer from the so-called arguments of those who criticise the soil tillers that the farmers are responsible for all the ills that have- followed in the wake of the kaiser's attempt to bestride the world like a Colossus. The criticism is unfair because it does not take into consideration the economic conditions under which the farmer must labor. If any class of workers has been hit harder than another by the high cost of living, that class is the agriculturist.' Here is a brief resume of some of the things with which he must contend. Farmers work from daylight to dark. The whole family must turn to the toil. When many others have ended the day's work, and are en joying themselves at the movies or are automobile riding, the farmer, with his wife and children, are still at their labors. The farmer must invest in new implements. The price of a plow a few years ago was $8 to $l2. Now the price is $lB to $2O. Harrows which formerly cost $lO now cost $3O. The farmer must pay $250 for a horse which he could formerly buy for $lOO. He must pay $lOO to $l5O for cows which for merly cost $25 to $5O. Mill feed, which formerly cost $l2 to $l5 a ton, now costs the farmer $6O to $7O a ton. When the farmer goes to the mill to buy he must pay what ever the miller asks. When he goes to the mill to sell, the miller again fixes the price and the farmer must take whatever he offers. The soil must be treated or crops will not grow. Fertilizer formerly cost $l6 to $2O per ton; now it costs $4O to $6O per ton. Seeds have run the [ s-ale. For instance, spinach seed j has raised from 20c per pound to $2 per pound. But the price of spinach at the market has .only I increased from 10c a half peck to 20c. In other words, the farmer I must pay ten times as much for his seed, but the price he gets for the product is only twice as much as formerly. Beans, which were for | merly $4. a bushel, are now $lB. | Other seeds are in proportion. These instances are only a few in com | parison with the total number of increases. After all the work of preparing the ground: tafter all the investment in fertilizer, seels, labor, implements, along come unfavorable weather conditions, and the farmer finds I that at the end of the year he has little or nothing for his time and investment. A comparison of figures will show that for the time, •abor, skill and money invested, the farmer receives a poor return. When farmers go to the clothing, shoe, and grocery stores, they must pay the high prices. They must pay more for every single item than cen ters into farming. How, then, can they be expected to sell their goods at the same price as they did* before the abnormal conditions sent the cost of goods up In every other line? What the farmer asks for is a fair deal. D. MADER. OXE SOLUTION To the Editor of the Telegraph: I noticed In your paper that you (have stated that there is a $5O to a $lOO dollar line or 30 days for THINKING AMONG THE GUNS A Clergyman's Conversion to Universal Military Training By The Rev. Thomas Travis, Ph. D. The man who carried the first American- Flag under fire in Flanders X umber 1 i There are literally scores of de partments in a modern army where each department needs men ass thoroughly trained as are skilled mechanics— at least that much. To believe that all these will spring into a co-ordinated, equipped and efficient army inside of a month, when need arises, is as foolish as to believe that a burtiper crop of po tatoes will spring up without plant ing and get themselves harvested. The French priesthood has scored largely during this war; the Allied clergy have lost. Why? Because we have been stopgaps for the most part while they were trained men. able to go where the boys went and do what *be boys did. They had a military education many ot' them. None of us had. The French, hav ing a military education not only went with the bcjys, but had the foundation for an intelligent grip and understanding of the whole war. We, even those of us who went, had to go as untrained and unskilled men, as ignorant of military affairs as a moss-covered backwoodsman: we could not give even an intelligent leadership. Also, for the most part, we gloried in our ignorance. We "hemmed" and "hawed" in the days when opin ions were being.moulded. We dodg ed afid douhted when w.e should have been clear-sighted leaders and why? Not because we were less brave and less red-blooded than our French neighbors, but because wo were so hopelessly ignorant of mili tary matters that a mere hint mads no impression, we had to be kicked in the face with a plain fact befoio we recognized it. And so, some of us have had to stand in blind, help less rage, not able even to poke the business end of a machine gun where it would do some good, nay, not even seeing the necessity for getting a machine gun. How bitter ly some of us have repented, God only knows. But we had to stand aside out of it. locked up indoors on board ship while our boys defended us, washing pots and pans, apd serv ing back of the lines while our boys, any one that buys in market or stops farmers before they get to market and buys for wholesale. Now if you will print this in your paper I'll tell you that that is not what makes prices high at all and what the people buy for wholesale in market the farmers sell for one price to retailers and to wholesalers for another. I know some farmers who have just so much for wholesale and so much for retailing, so that will not put the prices down any and it seems it is always the little dealer has to fight or pay a fine. Why don't the 1 Mayor, etc., get after the big guns? Swift for one. Yes, Swift, he or some one froYn Swift's go all around the farms in autos and buy up all the eggs they can get and pay an enormous amount for them, which means that next winter eggs will be from 75 cents to $1 a dozen for no reason at all. Why, I can show you where one farmer asked me why should I bring eggs to market when I can get a bigger price from Swift, and gets them from my farm, and here I have to haul them in here. I don't care if you don't buy any. Another one says: "Why, why should I sell to you for 51 cents a dozen when I can unload to Swift for that and all I have to do is just to go down two blocks or so. I'd be foolish." And just the same with hucksters who go around the country and buy up all they can get and sell for twice as much. The farmer has no reason to charge much, and the good God paged some of them up already, but I guess that is not enough. And so you see you always go after the little fellow when it is the big fellow that is the cause of it. And like the fellow says, if you kill one you get hung, but if you kill thousands you ride around in a Packard auto. . DAILY READER. On Ilis Way the the Dallas News.] Another strike was on, and walk ing home was "the only way." When Joynson arrived at his su burb in the far north in the small hours of the morning, he sent a wire to the office: "Will not be at the office to-day. Am not home yesterday yet." that wo ought to have shepherded under fire, went and died for us the shepherd. Big,, ablebodied, scholarly men, patriotic and loyal as any, yet, God forgive us, so ignorant ot military education that we couldn't even matriculate for an awkward squad or see the need of getting our Nation even as far as the awkward squad stage. Talking about the machine gun, we who were there that day, resting where the shells burst about us, had the chance of seeing a machine gun position—one that stands out among thousands. For among the bat bed wire that nested it. in the reeking mud that fronted it, was a sugges tive heap of bright young bodies shot to pieces, red pulp and carrion where once were brave men full of life. The officers pointed out just why so many of them were there. They had charged on a wire trap, much of military mat ters, had bunched Just right as the wire retarder them for that machine gun fire, and they lacked both shells and trained gunners to help them out of the difficulty. People back home didn't know enough of mili tary matters to even visualize such a possibility happened. And the men who had learned in one flashing instant of flame and blood were gone where they couldn't tell folks back home some very interest ing things about military knowledge. A heap of dead boys lying in shreds of barbed wire and oozing pools of clay mud. That's one side of it. The other picture that came to my mind was one in my own state back in good old U. S. A. it was a picture of a big, hulking lad watching some officers pull apart and puir together a machine gun. He saw it pull ed apart and put together just once—just onc.e* Eager to learn, he came alone later to do It again and was interrupted by a breathless officer. "Do you know anything about that gun?" "Yes." "Well, for God's sqke teach these rookies—we have more than we can possibly handle," and he rushed out. (To Be Coutimieil) Keystone National Guard [From the Philadelphia Press.] The Keystone National Guard will perpetuate the historic glories of the 28th Division. On the tunics of the officers and enlisted men will appear the famous red keystone, which all will be proud to wear. It is the insignia of heroic deeds which have been -written large in the history of the world war. The War Department has taken account of popular sentiment in Pennsylvania in deciding not to designate a division of the regular army as the 2 Bth, or by the name I "Keystone." Officers who had ser ved with the American Expedition ary Force were unanimous in re garding the name and the Insignia ! as peculiarly appropriate only to the i Pennsylvania troops. The men who I fought so bravely, the regiments I which suffered such terrific losses ! were members of the National j Guard of Pennsylvania before thoy were incorporated into the Nation al Army. The National Guard units are now reinstated, though the individuals who served in them before the war are no longer held by duty to their membership. Beyond a doubt most of the survivors will be strongly averse to severing the ties that have bound them to their companions in trench and field. These will furnish a numerous body of veterans for the reorganized National Guard of Pennsylvania. Changing Times in Missouri [From the Armstrong Herald.] The old hitch rack that has done duty for farmers' horses for the past forty years just east of the cor ner drug store V-as moved away last Friday by order of the Council. It will be seen there no more forever. This old rack was the favorite place for the farmers to hitch their riding horses and teams when they came to town, especially in the days of long ago when nothing was thought of buying or selling booze and almost every farmer left his horse tied there while he took a quiet nip. Reoealeth Secrets There is a God in heaven that re vealoth secrets, and maketh known what shall be in the latter days.— I Daniel ii, SJB. AUGUST 7, 1919. May Reduce Divorces [Prom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] There are too many divorces. There are many who believe that any considerable number of di vorces is too much, though some think there should be a good many divorces, and some few even pro claim that there should be more divorces than there are. Nineteen hundred and forty-one divorce decrees were granted by four St. Louis judges in the court year ended July 1. The judges who gianted most of them—Judges Karl Kimmel, Benjamin J. Klene and Vic tor H. Paikenhainer believe the number was too large, and they gave their opinions, in reply to in quiries, as to the means which might lessen the number of divorce de crees, which is belipved to be the largest ever granted here in a court year. Judge Kimmel, in the year, granted 655 decrees. Judge Klene granted 563. Both believe that the number of divorce suits, and hence the number of divorces granted, will become fewer from now on, because of prohibition. Judge "Paikenhainer says he has formed no cqnclusion as to this matter, but will watch the future figures with interest. Judge Kimmel said: "I am just as certain now as I would be if next year's figures were before me, that prohibition is going to make a difference in the work of the divorce courts. The part taken by liquor in many divorce cases is too plain for anyone to over look. I have taken occasion, in a good many cases, to lean over the bench, and point my finger at a man, and say, 'You could get along with your wife all right if you would cut out the highballs.' "Some of them paid no attention to me, but they will have to "pay at tention to the law, and some who thought they couldn't live well rounded lives without a highball every few hours will find out other wise, and wonder why they didn't get rid of the drink on their own account a long while before. I know." Judge Klene said: "Women are frequent sufferers from ill treatment, du e to the exces sive use of liquor by men. It would I certainly seem that, with the sale of liquor forbidden by law, the number of divorce suits brought by women j should decrease greatly. This ef fect should appear within the com ing year. "It is not natural for most men to be cruel or harsh with their wives. I The ill treatment usually comes when the husband is 'tanked up.' " Dog Comes Into His Own [Front Christian Science Monitor.] And now, during the past four years, the dog has given such a proof of his faithfulness to the best traditions of the dog race that all ! over the world his praises are being sounded. The story of the war-dog and hifl doings is gradually being pieced together. From the very beginning of the war, as one writer has expressed it, dogs "had a paw in it." When the Germans invaded Belgium the harness dogs, which up to that time had been used for haul ing milk, vegetables, and other produce, began to assist the refugees in getting their childre nand house hold goods out of the invaded coun try. Later they hauled light artil lery, and carts laden with blankets, j bread, hay, and scores of other things for the comfort of the sol diers and their horses. Dogs did sentry duty in the trenches, patrolled No-Man's Land, carried dispatches through barbed wire entanglements, I amid a hail of bullets, and above all added to the laurels of their an cestors through the ages by seeking out and helping the wounded every where, on the far-flung battlefields of Europe and beyond. Government Wheat Restric tions [From the New York Tribune.] The Government is accused of keeping the cost of living unduly high by maintaining control of wheat, the theory being that if it were to remove all restrictions the price would drop. Recently all re strictions on trading in wheat futures on the Winnipeg exchange were removed. Instead of declin ing, prices promptly advanced 20 cents a bushel. Yesterday the re strictions were put on again, with Jhe apparent object of preventing a further advance in the cost of liv ing. Old Fashioned Judge Dentz [From the Arkansas Thomas Cat.] Judge Peter Bentz is an old-fash ioned farmer who carries his buggy whip from store to store. r~" it fomng (El)at I In line with the plains to make Harrisburg a demonstration city, so to speak, for sanitation and market ing, it is possible that Harrisburg may also get a model barracks for the State Police. The plans for this improvement, for which $75,000 was appropriated by the recent Legisla ture, are being revised so that they will meet modern conditions and the idea is to erect the building on the tract just east of the State Arsenal and along the city parkway. * One of the details of the plan is to make a very handsome building with location between the parkway and the run which meanders along the State Arsenal and the State hospital properties. The barracks will house a whole troop and provi sion will be made for stables and also for a training ground. It will give Harrisburg a garrison, if such a term can be applied to State Po licemen, most of whom are required to be out patrolling the country side. When one comes to think about it the State has immense property holdings, but the fact i>- that from Herr street clear nortu to a point well above Maclay theie are large State properties. The lo cation of the new troop, however, does not mean that the men wijl be held here. They will be scat tered through sub stations all over southern central Pennsylvania and be on constant patrol duty through agricultural districts. ♦ • Thanks were extended to-day to the people of Pennsylvania who gave books and the various public' libraries throughout Pennsylvania for assistance in handling books for the soldiers, sailors and marines during the war by Robert P. Bliss, of the State Library, the represen tative of the American Library As sociation for this work. Mr. Bliss stated that Pennsylvania had re sponded handsomely to the call for books and had contributed a good share of the 5,000,000 books which had been bought or donated for the soldiers. Half of this number of books were sent to the soldiers in Europe, about one million of them being bought. There are now thirty five large libraries at various army camps, 237 at hospitals for the army and navy and Red Cross hospitals, 1206 on ships of the navy or the Shipping board and 098 branches scattered everywhere American sol diers are stationed, including this country, the colonies, European sta tions, barracks, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus huts and even in Archangel and Siberia. When the men are brought home many of the books now in Europe will b given to American colleges and schools on the other side of the ocean. ♦ • Plans that will give the fcity of Harrisburg one of the best systems of school libraries in the State are being worked out by Miss Alice R. Eaton, librarian of the Harrisburg Public Library, who has been giving much time and thought to ways to reach the children of the numerous schools scattered all over the city. The problem is not an easy one be cause there are youngsters of all nationalities and the funds of the library are limited. However, the best is being, made of the situation and the number of school libraries will be increased and the children reached will be enlarged apprecia bly. These school libraries were es tablished over five years ago and have grown from three to a dozen. It is astonishing how many books are circulated and what excellen'. care the children under the guid ance of their teachers, take of the books loaned by the library. While the way the very youthful pupils remember and talk of what they have read is one of those ever in teresting childhood. If there is any one line of busi ness that is being pushed and which •is attracting much attention from store keeper it is the so-called "soft" drink line. Scores of con cerns have gone into the business of manufacturing these drinks and many of them are delicious concoc tions. so good and refreshing that people must wonder why the mak ers did not take up that avenue of manufacturing before. The auto mobiles of the men getting the busi ness started are to be seen on the roads of the Lykens valley, out ii: the Hanovers and down in Conewago while they are all over Cumberland and Perry counties. Signs announc ing new drinks that only need ice to make them "right" and which are free from "kick" and headache are popping up on every store and on many a barn. • Dauphin county court procedure for the return to license holders of amounts of money paid by hem and covering periods when they had to be closed by army orders is being followed in various counties of the State. The action is taken under a new law which permits such re turn upon proper statements made in court. It seems that there were a dozen counties where the condi tions which prevailed at Middle town occurred. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge John M. Garman, of Lu zerne county, who is a candidate for re-election, used to live in this county. — r Guy W. Smith, the new chief? of the Bureau of Markets, has traveled through a score of states studying marketing conditions. —B. F. Davis, the foiincr Lancas ter revenue collector, has returned to the practice of law. —James M. Barnett, candidate for judge in the Perry-Juniata dis trict, was supervisor of the census in this district somo years ago. | DO YOU KNOW ~ —Harrisburg rolled steel is used for making motor truck parts? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The district about Royal Ter race used to be a great place for outdoor celebrations a century ago. Buys One of British Isles [From the Youth's Companion.] No doubt there is a tendency in England to reduce the size of hold ings of the great landed proprietors, but evidently not all of the land is yet cut up into 10-acre lots. Lord Leverhulme has recently bought Lewis Island, off the west coast of Scotland. Next to Groat Britian and Ireland it is the largest of the British Isles. It contains 770 square miles and has a population of thirty thousand. The new owner is am bitious to make the island the cen ter of the British fishing business and believes that it can sustain a population of three hundred thou sand.*.
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