12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. HKWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TBS. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STSINMETZ, Managing Bditor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Execntlve Board 3. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special i dispatches herein are also reserved. i Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Assocla- S9A Bureau of Circu i9B latlon and Penn sylvania Associa gg| W ated Dallies. 3S BRS Eastern office || Story, Brooks & fil Avenue Building. Western office' " Chicago, HI. S Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, PA, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a ;-- week; by mail, J3.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1919 Eothing is achieved icithout soli tude.—Lacordaire. PRESIDENT GOES WEST PRESIDENT WILSON has gone west to make a series of ad dresses on the importance of the League of Nations to the United States. If he is no more specific in his speeches than he has been in his public statements since re turning from abroad he will re turn to Washington with the people no wiser than they are at present concerning the President's views as to the effects of the league plan upon the nation. It is to be hoped he will speak freely and set his case fully before the people in or der that the league's opponents who follow him may have concrete facts and statements upon which to base their arguments, and the public be fully informed. But whether Mr. Wilson talks in metaphor or plain language, whether he deals with theories or practical applications of the league principles, the public is bound to get some new light on the treaty and its attendant proposals, and it is likely that a sharp division of opinion will follow, with the result that we shall shortly know more about the country's feeling with re spect to the treaty than we do now. But if the President wants to heip his own cause, he will have to say much more than he has yet said in defense of it. The American people are "from Missouri" and they want to be shown. A WINTER KIPONA THE idea of a Winter Kipona. advanced by the Rotary C]ub, sounds good indeed. Here, it would seem, is a plan which, prop erly worked out, ought to give to HaTisburg a most enjoyable mid st ason entertainment, at the same time arousing interest in the cele bration of 1920 and providing a fund that would go a long way toward financing the Labor Day celebration. A Winter Kipona, properly staged, would be well worth while as a community- effort, would be educa tional from a historical standpoint, would take into the show people from every wall: of life and thus become a very democratic influence. We have much talent in Harrisburg that never comes to fhe surface. We have hundreds of young men and women who ought to be given an opportunity to exercise their abili ties in community work. It would be an easy thing to make the Winter Kipona as popular and as enjoy able as the summer event. WILLIAM B. MEETCH WILLIAM B. MEETCH com bined some unusual elements in his personality and his passing Is sincerely regretted by those who knew him best. He was a student, a philosopher, \ keen business man, one of the most en thusiastic of the big game hunters of America. As school teacher, county official, lumber operator, sol dier and political leader, he com bined many different traits of char acter. No one who knew Mr. Meetch could doubt the quality of his cour age and while he had bitter political opponents, he never betrayed the slightest fear, but always treated with scorn suggestions of his friends that this or that course of action might involve personal loss, political prestige or physical encounter. His frequent encounters with the American grizzly, the Alaskan bear of enormous size and his thrilling and hazardous trips In the wilds of this country and Mexico c.alled for great physical endurance, and while always a slight man he was like tem pered steel In overcoming the perils and the strain of many a hazardous trail In the wilds of the Rocky Mountains and the hunting areas of ' Canada. He was not only a student of books and of history; ho was a reader of men and because he un derstood human nature he was more THURSDAY EVENING, HAnmsBTTRQ TELEGTtXPrr SEPTEMBER 4, 1919. than usually successful as a political leader. While he had retired from the political arena and was living the life of the open as much as possible, he was still interested in the doings of politicians and statesmen, fre quently analyzing in the most inter esting way the motives and purposes of those now in the limelight of political and official activity. During the recent war he gave most of his time to those things which concerned all patriotic citi zens and was greatly interested in the young men of Dauphin county who had bared their breasts to the German bullets and maintained the traditions of the American soldier on foreign fields. A brave man himself, he understood bravery in its best sense and those who in years that are gone have followed the trails with him and hunted the big game of the country will miss a good comrade. France has purchased at a bargain price of M 00.000.000 all the property of the American Expeditionary Force in that country. This purchase covers docks. wharves. railroads. ware houses. refrigeration plants, barracks, surplus clothing, motor equipment and munitions. France is entitled to any advantage in such a transaction and the American people will approve the sale without question. TUB SOCIALISTS MEET THE Socialist convention in Chicago very fittingly began with a free-for-all fight. That has been its history ever since it was organized in the United States. It has preached international peace and fought tooth and nail whenever the opportunity offered. Just now the party is meeting behind closed doors. That, in on© respect, is a good tiling, since So cialism has nothing to offer that may be feared except pernicious propaganda and would soon die without its own widely circulated half-truths. But, the Department of Justice, at least, ought to know what is hap pening in those secret s. ssions, and probably does. A political party that cannot hold its meetings in public has something to hidq, and we have no need for an influence of that sort in the United States. A VETERAN RETIRES WITH the retirement of William H. Henderson, veteran ticket agent at the Union Station, another of the men who did much to develop the Pennsylvania Rail road from a one-track, wood-burn ing road into the standard railroad of the world, leaves active service. No official order was ever necessary to induce Mr. Henderson or the men who worked with him to be kind and courteous to the patrons of tVe line, and they not only made friends for the company but for themselves. Mr. Henderson is a fine type of the old school railroadman and hun dreds of those who have been happy to call him friend will regret his retirement, while they join in Wish ing him a long enjoyment of ilie rest he has earned by more thai a half century of faithful service. FOOLISH TALK WHETHER or not the United States shall adopt the pro posed League of Nations plan is unquestionably an important question, but when Senator Hitch cock says its "rejection would bo suicidal to the country" he talks foolishness. The United States is going to con tinue right along doing business at the old stand, whether or not the treaty and the league are accepted or declined. We are the dominant nation of the world and we shall continue to be so long as we main tain our high ideals, work hard and exercise the common sense which has been our best trait. We are not going to commit suicide whatever we may do about the treaty; neither are we going to have any body argue us into accepting it by such idle chatter, and Senator Hitchcock ought to be wise enough to knoij' it. STANDS FOR KIPONA IF THE Kipona is to be a yearly event—and that is a foregone conclusion—we must have a greater seating capacity than even the "front steps" afford. It has been suggested that the city buy moveable stands to be erected along the river, at any given point, above the steps to accommodate the peo ple who desire to see the events on the river. Five or ten thousand more seats could be provided in this way. If the Harrisburg Navy owns the stands a small charge for re serve seats might be made in order to cover the cost of purchase. But, at all events, some means of accom modating the sightseers must be found. As the years roll by thou sands of people from other towns will come to Harrisburg for the big celebration and a way must be found to take care of them, not to mention our own homefolks who must be first considered. OUR ORPHAN SCHOOLS WE HAD begun to wonder what would become of the State's schools for soldier's orphans. Now we know. The children of Civil War veterans will not be out of them before the boys and girls of soldiers who served in the war with Germany begin to arrive. Scot land, one of the best of these schools, already has enrolled one pupil. Doubtless there is long usefulness ahead of these industrial schools which through a half century have turned out thousands upon thou sands of men and women who are the backbone of the Commonwealth to-day. It would have been a dis junct loss if the schools had been forced to close. . IK I^i.KK^Uaiua> By the Ex-Oommlttccnuu Prom all accounts the second day's registration in Philadelphia not only broke records, but in most of the third class cities, the number of voters turning out on the second day was larger than anticipated and marked by much display of Re publican strength. Nothing like the more than 98,000 men who put down their names Tuesday has ever been known in the State's metro polis on a second day. while in Reading, Erie, Wilkes-Barre, Al lentown and other third class cities the enrollment was also large with Republic's predominating. In fact, in some cities. Just as in Harrisburg, the registration of Republicans was almost as remarkable as the large number. To-day Pittsburgh, which is in a political turmoil second only to Philadelphia, is having its first registration day and there will also be a lively registration at Scranton. On Saturday, Philadelphia and the third class cities will have their final registration days, and a rush is looked for. The tremendous registration in the cities is believed to have its counterpart in the enrollment in boroughs and townships and to in dicate that this is going to be a strenuous year in Pennsylvania poli tics. even more so than that which ordinarily precedes a Presidential election. —The heavy second day's regis tration in Philadelphia has been hailed by both the Moore and Pat terson partisans as indicating vic tory, but the general impression is that it gives the Moore people more ground to stand on. The Philadel phia newspapers' generally take the view that the big registration is un favorable to the Vares, but the Sen ator and his chieftains are claiming that such calculations are erron eous. —Governor William "C. Sproul is back in Harrisburg. after an ab sence of over three weeks, during which he attended the Governors' conference at Salt Lake City, and visited Washington with a com mittee of State executives in Na tional problems. The Governor came here late last night from Dan ville, accompanied by Auditor Gen eral! Chaales A. Snyder, and will remain a day or so, attending to State affairs. The intimation is giv en, however, that he does not. in tend to make any changes in de partments until after the primary election, although men have tried to interest him in the primary con tests in the big counties have found that he continues to "sit on the fence." While here the Governor will occupy himself with State de partmental affairs. —Gifford Pinchot is due here to morrow for his second meeting as a member of the State Forest Com mission. and there is considerable interest in whether he will attempt to inaugurate some new policies. At his first meeting. Mr. Pinchot made a few suggestions and has occupied himself by making a pretty thorough study of the State forest system. It is probable that he will take a hand in the State policy of leases of tracts where the State owns valuable natural re sources and in the operation of the laws and the fire prevention service. —lt fell to the lot of a delega tion of Cambria countians to-day to learn that the State Highway De partment is not interested in county politics, but instead, much concern- Ed aho.ut road building. The Cam bria delegation consisted of County Commissioners T. Stanton Davis, E. W. Raumgardner and H. B. Heffiey. P. N. Shettig, C. R. Myers. B. W. Harding and J. L. Berkebile. and came to inquire why some bids had been rejected for construction be tween Cresson and Gallitzin. As sistant Commissioner George H. Biles stated that the bids were too high and that it had been decided to readvertise. The county com missioners are said to have inti mated that there was some politics in the matter. "This department is not at all interested in Cambria county politics." retorted Mr. Biles. "We are interested only in building roads and building them at the low est possible figure. For that reason we rejected bids for the work and they will stay rejected. Political expediences have no place In th'e work of this department." —George J. Brcnnan. who is the architect of the "Who's Who" col umn of the Philadelphia Inquirer, makes this comment: "William Flinn, erstwhile leader of the Bull Moose, is back again in the saddle in Allegheny county polities. He has assumed command of the op position to the Republican city and county organization leaders who have been co-operating with Sen ator Penrose and boasts that he named the candidates on the county ticket which his faction is support ing, and that he is going to put them "over." Flinn cannot forget the prominence he suddenly obtain ed in National politics when in the Roosevelt landslide, he found him self in control of the Republican State Convention at Harrisburg, when he had with him a majority of the Pennsylvania delegates to the Republican National Conven tion." —Arthur H. James and Joseph P. Lord are the candidates for the Re publican nomination for Luzerne's District Attorney. Though James claims he will win. which claim ap pears well supported by conditions, Lord, too, thinks he will be the vic tor. No Democrat filed papers against the present incumbent, Frank P. Slattery. Says the Wilkes- Barre Record: "There is a merry scramble for recorder of deeds. Republicans running include Dr. Samuel S. Hess, of Freeland; Rem mel IiP>ar, of Wilkes-Barre; and S. C. Hartman. of Plymouth. I. Charles Berger, of Hanover Town ship, who one-time was a Repub lican, then a Democrat and now a Republican once more, has filed for the two nominations. But Berger is not alone in this. All candidates for Recorder are on all ballots." —B. B. McGinnts, of Pittsburgh, assistant to the United States At torney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, has received notice of his appointment as special as sistant to the Attorney General. Mr. McGinnis for the last two years has handled all cases arising in this dis trict under the income tax laws. As special assistant to the Attorney General, he will assist in the same line of income tax cases in the United States Courts of Appeals. —Reading's mayoralty contest has attracted much attention be cause of its vigor. The Republicans claim the party spirit aroused is the best thing for them and that they will carry the city at the November election. OH, MAN! By BRIGCS yZ Ta xeA TJE A CAKP OP YEAST 1 BOTTLE no Teio position AND AX>D 1 AND UJETH OUT DaYS add A 80 0" 7 * a TeAiPoeM OF SUGAR \ £„ J? - * ONE EIGHTH MORE a sues OF ToRM.P- /TT \ THREE J(Z A AMD TURN IT 30- j \ A RAlS ,ro AND TWO kY£H ) Arvi OUNCE * IT EH about A 4-5" DEGREE //Yeh) AMD A halP CHeßßi£3yX>/ N V J I slant- Pur >T no J VJ—L ) LET IT .stand) v [~OH RUPERT) INILAT\ ! FOR three wjeeks / • 1 y OO "Bo'U a / NOU) Lets see- 1 i Two Days and __J (~ \ o ou pi_e of e&SS / / HCH>J 750 yvje. Go I j TV.cn TRY IT asome \ | e 9 .Y F \ . AT I THINK / a KICK"'?- OH- I 1 v / (X IT REQUIRED / * D,, cJv/ J \ H6H ? ) ~~J / II? ) IwATeR-BUT / \jS aY ~ •' V. J s results in the application of new rules to prevent the exploitation of women by greedy, ignorant or care less employers. The theory that women workers are commonly anxious to escape from the necessity of employment is not borne out by the experience of most employers. Thanks For Peace By Frances Marian Mitchell [The Presbyterian.J Most gracious Lord, we give Thee thanks For all that Thou hast done. We knelt to Thee in peace appeal, And vic'try has been won. It was Thy will, dear Lord, to still The Huns' dread cannonade; It was Thy will to break their ranks And blunt each gleaming blade. On Flanders fields our loved ones lie- Where blood-red poppies bloom — They like the Christ have paid the price To save the world from gloom; They like the Christ were crucified For hate and lust and greed. But * now hate's metal throats are still And all the world is freed. Most gracious Lord, we give Thee thanks, Through Thee our peace was won; 'Twas Thee, who at the battle's height. Smote with defeat the Hun. And by Thy grace on Flanders fields, Where blood-red poppies grow. We shall see lilies white and fair After the winter's snow. • But might not the people he drives to a point where they might organ ize and go on a strike? Soldiers in the American Civil War sometimes found themselves in a situation I where it became necessary for a j time to live on half rations. They | did it. They didn't mutiny, throw I down their guns and "go on a strike." | They remained in ranks and did , their duty as soldiers. While they were led less, on half what they had 1 | been allowed, but they didn't starve. , If the people should go on "a I | strike," if they should agree they ; would live on half rations for a season, the hoarders and profiteers! | would be bereft of profits, what they j • have hidden would suffer loss and j j they would come down from their ! lofty perch. The people have not come to that | | yet, although many of us are now j finding a whole ration on our tables, i we are not agreed upon an organ- j lzed strike. But we do demand laws : j with teeth in them concerning the j offending profiteers. If they will not j listen to reason, if they are blind to | humanity, teach them a lesson by | housing them behind bars in prison 1 cells. Finding the Normal Level [From the Lancaster Examiner.] America is "blessed" to-day with | a "fifty cent dollar." Back in 181)0, j under the leadership of the "boy ! orator" with the eternal grape juice |smile, over six million volVjrs wanted ! a titty cent dollar. This plan was | a great panacea for all the ills of i the world. To-day those same six j million voters can look about them and think about the millennium that | they almost created at that, time, I their millenium come true. | But even the fifty cent dollar of I to-day does not have all the evils j that would have attended it in 189 G. , For the change came more slowly land the people had greater oppor ' tunities to become accustomed to it. i But as it is to-day it works great land unfair hardships on many j classes of people. The persons witn ; fixed incomes, the salaried men and i women, and the thrifty people suf- I fer. The profiteers, gamblers and speculators win. Indeed the stand of the goldmen of twenty-three I years ago is vindicated. A fifty cent ! dollar is a curse, and the world is i striving blindly, wildly, vainly to get I back to the old basis. For business men the times are ' "good." But they arc not nor | mally good times. We are still go | ing on an exalted war basis. Every thing wage scales, taxation rates, i material and merchandise prices, ! operating costs, credit, tendency to | ward lavish expenditures, reckless ' ness all these factors are still high. They have not left the war I level, and so while business takes lon -new activity it finds war condi j lions still to be met conditions i which will ultimately mean a crash i somewhere. j We must abandon this level of I war prosperity not suddenly, but carefully, consistently, cautiously i and inte'ligently. We want good 5 times to continue. We do not want a panic, with a sudden crash, fol- I lowed by quick drops and slow rises. We want a gradual relinquishment jof the old war level, and an even more gradual finding of the new j peace level, the level of peace and i prosperity. This is bound to bo I somewhat above the Old one of 1914 "but it will be far below that which j exists to-day. It will be one on ] which business can thrive and the ! world find an equitable readjust , I ment. I| j Knox Indicts the Treaty [Philadelphia Press.] Senator Knox's speeches on the 1 Peace Treaty have 'been marked by signal ability and great logical force. ■ His first two speeches attacked the ! Covenant with the keen insight and clear analysis of a great lawyer. Yes terday's speech examines the treaty 1 from the standpoint of the states ( man and unfolds the difficulties that it creates and the entanglements which it involves in a way and with a completeness that has not been - done before. The thtck-and-thin supporters of the engagements which ; the United States undertakes in this ! treaty will find their zeal slacken and their affection for the treaty grow cool a 8 they read Senator , Knox's damaging examination of the treaty and the grave obligations that it imposes on the United States if it becomes a party to it. Seek Kruger's Treasure To recover more than $3,000,000 in gold, part of the fortune of the late Oom Paul Kruger, once Presi dent of the Transvaal, which is be lieved to be cemented in the hold of the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos Reef, off the coast of Zulu land, is one of the projects which may be revived as a result of im provement in the science of salvag ing sunken ships. The Dorothea is named among the list of wrecks of eight treasure ships located off the African coast which are regarded by one leading expert as most likely for salvage. It is be lieved that Kruger's fortune still lies |in the bottom of the Dorothea among the jagged rocks of Tenedos Reef. I The gold is reported to have been i shipped some time prior to 1904 by , Kruger, who was once credited with a fortune of $3,750,000. Some years i ago a syndicate was organized to at ! tempt its recovery and a Govern j ment steamer, the Alfred Noble, was 1 sent to do the work of salvage, but ! failed. | Now that the war is over, men i not content with lhe ordinary it | wards of peace time industry are , planning to renew the great adven j ture of seeking to salvage golu from : the wrecks of treasure ships long ; since lost. The science of salvag j ing sunken vessels has reached the I point where some experts believe ! the next few years will see much of j the fabled wealth of the ocean's bed i brought to the surface. Wrecks of | treasure ships lost more than 100 years ago are being located and preparations are being made to I bring ingots of precious metal to I the surface. Captain A. P. Gardinier, a salvage I expert, has located thirty-eight hulls jof sunken vessels off the coast of | South Africa and believes that one j quarter of them may be redeemed. . Eight of the ships selected as sus- I ceptible of salvage, with their loea jtion and value of contents, are given 'as follows: ; The Grosvenor, on the Pendoland Coast, $8,750,000; Ariston, Marcus | Bay, $4,000,000; Birkenhead, Birk enhead Reef. $3,900,000; Atlas. East j Coast, $3,500,000; Dorothea, Tene jdos Reef, $3,250,000; Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt Reef, $2,750,000; Aber- I orombie. Black Rock. $900,000, and Merestein. Jutton Island, $700,000. A second list of ships still luring the treasure hunters to the African Coast includes seven wrecked in 1802, among them being H. M. S. iCandos with $200,000 in gold coin land the troopship Addison with I SIOO,OOO. Others carried copper, a i bold full of ivory or silver' ing<#s. |Tcn other vessels lost between 173 7 [and 1893 have been definitely lo | cated a'ong the African sands,'with j the following wealth: Five thousand bars of silver and copper; thirty boxes of gold and sil ver; 3,700 bars of silver; 200 tons of copper; 4,500 bars of copper; 4,-! 500 bars of tin: 1,100 silver and copper bars; 1,250 bars of silver: 250 bars of tin, and another ship with still another big tin cargo. The Great, Gaunt Tragedy Instead of joining the Eeague of Nations, the United States, Knox contends, should carry out the spirit of the act of 1916, which authorized j the President to convene the na j tions of the world to establish a code jof international law, reduce arma [ ments, establish an international tribunal, "and go as far as possible in the direction of securing peace through justice, through a league to which all the world ar e parties to its formation. This would be a fitting, generous, and dignified exit from a | situation in which primarily we had I no direct concern." 1 The Pennsylvania Senator said there was danger the treaty might prove to be so harsh it would "kill the goose that lays the golden egg," by which he meant, he said, that Germany by all accounts would not be able to pay the bill tendered her, and the question would arise how far her conquerors could afford to go in enforcing the peace terms. He criticised President Wilson for what he termed withholding from the Senate information asked eon cerning the Peace Conference and other treaties now being completed. He argued that this secrecy appeared to indicate that there were things that must be concealed from the American people. What those things were he said he would like to know. Mr. Knox expressed gratification that the Senate debates had de veloped many facts regarding the treaty of which the public, which I had not read or digested the whole vast document, would otherwise have been kept in ignorance. "The people now may finally hope," he said, "to see the whole of the great, gaunt tragedy into which those whom they had charged with pro- Itecting them were about to betray them," lEwnittg (Eljat | One of the pleasant things about the Kipona is that everyone seems to have been delighted with it and that there are more ideas being ad vanced for the event next year than one would have imagined, which all goes to show that it struck a popu lar chord and that it is going* to be an affair of the early autumn to which all persons in Harrisburg land vicinity will look forward for I months to come. There have ! all sorts of suggestions made as to | next year's celebration, and every- I one of them deals with the Susque j hannn. There have been proposals I for more races, more swimming con tests and more parades on the water and even of a great community sin'* on the surface of the river. Tn< plan of presenting scenes from the early days of Harrisburg won great favor and thero have been some ideas for certain incidents in the life of the State Capital in its in fant days. In event that the "Story of Harrisburg" should be made a i part of next year's celebration the I suggestion has been advanced that I the floats should be paraded along the river front, say from Maclay street to the railroad bridges which, if the state of the water permitted, would enable more people to seo them in comfort. Another suggestion is that the boat racing of former years lie re vived and that racing boats be se cured. There is already much senti ment in that direction, and some people would like to see "sculls" which formed such a pleasant form of exercise and which attracted great attention for years, appear on tlio river again. There are abundant facilities, plenty of popular backing and all the support, anyone could wish for a revival or boating of every kind on the Susquehanna. There has been general endorse ment of two suggestions thrown out since the celebration. One is the Rotary club idea of organizing the pageant, the choruses and the navy into a great Kipona comic opera or farce comedy to be given in one of the theaters during the winter for the purpose of raising money with which to finance next year's carnival, and the other is for the purchase of portable grandstands to be erected along the river front between Walnut and South streets, in order that the spectacle may be witnessed by large numbers of peo ple from the best point of vantage. The Rotary Idea would be to work the pageant pictures into the plav. using the scenery already painted as a background and interesting large numbers of people not only in the production itself but in the Kipona celebration of next year. This could be made very easily a big yearly feature of the life of the community and would give oppor tunity for hundreds of persons to participate both winter and sum mer. • • • In these days of eagle-sized mos quitoes, which bump against you with the force of a slow-moving i freight train, strenuous efforts are necessary if you don't want to look like the receiving end of a ono , sided scrap. The other evening on the boardwalk of one of our sea side resorts the crowd was madly slapping and battling at the millions of pestiferous insects, while the odor of citroneila floated on the air with the persistance of mustard gas. , The approach of a young man down the boards was the occasion for everybody to stand still and take : a good look. And this is what they saw: the straw hat of the young fellow covered with close-mashed mosquito netting, which fell down ■ over his face and was closely buttoned in the neck so that no wily bug could crawl in there. And , while everyone gave him the laugh , as an odd looking spectacle, there wasn't a single scratcher who didn't , wish he had the nerve to adopt the I same tactics. • • • Girard, writing in the Philadel phia Press says: "Attorney General | Palmer now puts his official O. K. . upon the sentiment of that Jersey , farmer whom I recently quoted: "Thank God, no Act of Congress I can stop cider from becoming i hard." some four score years ago, . hard cider was a large factor in a . Presidential campaign. It may | stage a come back in next year's national election. In the rural sec | tions of Pennsylvania the hard cider I jag is no novelty, and it is a real jag, too. • • * "I happened to be in Harrisburg for your water festival, and your Kipona was one of the finest things of the kind I have ever seen," said a traveling man this week. "The setting was splendid and the tab leaux, the singing, the procession on the water and the fireworks all went off in style. It showed head work and hard work." • * * If any one wants to get an idea as to how the people of Harrisburg ! feel in regard to the daylight sav ing law all he needs to do is to ; attend one of the baseball games in the Twilight League series. Theso leagues were formed for after sup per baseball, the extra hour being the big factor. The crowds which gather at Fifth and Seneca and on Seventeenth street and at the small , er diamonds about the city are unan i intous in favor of ordinances for tho turning back of the clocks next April and not at all backward about saying so. \ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE II | | —Judgf. S. P. Emery was th® . j speaker at the home-coming ctAe bration for the New Castle soldiprs. —The Rev. Richard M. Fowl.;s, I McKeesport minister, just home from overseas service, has resigned to be come connected with the Inter- Church Federation. —Hiram B. Schoch, former Har risburg newspaperman, now of Pittsburgh, is home from Y. M. C. A. service in France. —John 'M. Phillips, Pittsburgh Game Commissioner, is making in spections of tracts for game pre serves. ) —Ex-Senator John M. Jamison, taking an active part in the judicial contest in Westmoreland. —Colonel Joseph H. Thompson,, commander of the 110 th, was speak er at the Washington county recep tion to the soldiers. I , t DO YOU KNOW ,i —That llarrisburg's output of canned goods is increasing and can be made a very profit able industry? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Early railroad shops wer cated near Vine street.