10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME r- aided 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELUGIIAPII PRINTING CO. Telefraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Bonrd J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to k It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. AH rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. /Member American Newspaper Pub- I Assoc^a- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Avenue Building. Western office'. Story. Brooks & Gas Builtfing Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week ; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY. SEITEMBKR 0. 1911) Verily I say tin lo you. Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no tcise enter therein. — Matt. 10:15. AN INDUSTRY'S START THIS particular period of the twentieth century is rich in centennial anniversaries, es pecially in Pennsylvania and in our own part of the State, because it was just about 200 years ago that the beneficent effects of Penn's form of government were commenc ing to be realized and 100 years ago that we were striking our stride in the Union as a manufac turing and transportation Cont jjionwealth. Some of the anniver saries have been commemorated fittingly; some have been forgotten. Just now we are joining homecom ing greetings to soldiers with the noting of centennials of organiza tion of governmental divisions, founding of towns or some other in teresting event. We arc about to celebrate the Constitutional anniver sary in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other places. This is all very good, but next year, by common consent of his torians, is the 200th anniversary of the commencement of Pennsyl vania's premier industry, the busi ness that has brought this State World-wide eminence and untold Wealth. From all account, it was in 1720 that Thomas Rutter. with as sistance of some of the Society of Friends and men of wealth in Eng land, established the first blast furnace near Boyertown. It was called Colebrookdale and from 1720 on down through a century and a half, it made iron and supplied cannon and shot for the American armies in two wars. It was the parent of other furnaces and the place whence numerous forges in the vicinity of Philadelphia drew their iron. Thomas Rutter, his name un known to many men active in iron and steel, and Colebroolcdale fur nace, the pioneer establishment of a mighty industry that has just won a world war, deserve some com memoration in Pennsylvania next year. Most thoughtful and patriotic Amer icans deplore the superheated dis cussion of the Peace Treaty and the Covenant of Nations. But most of all they regret the President's ten dency to call names and denounce rancorously all who happen to differ with him on public questions. Char acterizing statesmen of ability as 'pygmj-minded men," as "contempti ble quitters." and so on. simply em phasizes the President's intolerance and his utter failure to recognize the right of every United States Senator to express his own vi'ews and inter pret the Versailles documents accord ing to his own light and conscience. This is no one-man government—not yet. SOMETHING HAS GONE SOMETHING has gone from the earth that was here only a week ago something intangible but very real, nevertheless; some thing we scarcely thought about, but something now that it is gone, we look for in vain and sigh be cause it is not. Summer has de parted. The skies are as blue as they were in mid-August, the sun is as bright and the fields are as green. But there is a new tang in the morning air and a haze hangs over the fields toward evening thut speaks of approaching autumn. Something has gone, but something new is here, and we turn from our •pleasure-seeking and vacationing in far places to face with zest li>e work from which we shrank when the spell of summer was full upon and the lure of the open was not to be denied. Now conies the season of prepar ing for the long, cold winter. There ia the home to lie made tight against •lie freoz ng blasts Ihe coal liinr to .■t'tpd, Ui - vvocd pilaa to replenish. i.ppiibH cf food' to be stored a,uy (if one be wise and thrifty) TUESDAY EVENING, and the hearth-stone to be swept for many a cozy winter evening of fun and frolic or silent musing. Oh, summer has her joys, no doubt, but autumn is delightful and winter is not without its charms, and variety is the spice of life. It's "off with the old love and on with the new," and "goodbye summer" and "hail Sep tember." Counties are joining with the State in authorizing loans for permanent highways and Dauphin county must not lag at any stage of this great road-hullding era. Only this week farmers of the Lower End considered the joining of two parallel State high ways by a county or township road. Cc-operation of this sort indicates the changing attitude of the farming community and means ultimately a line system of modern highways for Pennsylvania. It will also mean, in the last analysis, better farms, a larger return for the industry and a more prosperous people generally through a better understanding of mutual inter ests by residents of the cities and towns and those of the rural sections. HOMES FOR THE PEOPLE THE American Woolen Company, a big corporation with ample capital to support its under- I taking, has started out to make life I more attractive for its employes by | assisting them to own their own j homes and some of the features of | the method whereby this is to be I accomplished are worth the study j of any industrial community facing I a shortage of houses, j These are plans. Under Plan No. | 1 any worker of the group life in surance list of the company can buy one of the company's new houses to ' be built on the company's land near the mills. The land will be sold at a low ligure and the houses to be constructed will be built on as low a basis as is possible. The terms to the purchaser will be as follows: A house selling for about $4,000 will be sold for $2OO down and a monthly payment equal to the rental value of such a house, say $25 per month. In three months the worker would have paid $75. From that amount would be deducted the in terest on the mortgage ($3,800 for three months at 4% per cent, equals $42.75) plus the taxes and insurance for three months, equalling about $lB. The balance of the monthly payment would apply to reduce the mortgage. If any worker leaves the American Woolen Company, or is discharged for any reason, the Homestead As sociation, Inc., will take over the house and return the initial payment with interest at 4V per cent, from time payment was made, if the worker so desires, or he can retain his house just as though he were an American Woolen Company worker until he has paid up his mortgage to that point where he could transfer it to a bank and thus continue to live in his house. Under Plan 2 a worker who wants to build his home may apply to the Homestead Association, Inc., for a building loan up to 75 per cent, of the total cost of his lot and the house he plans to build. The only limita tion on his selection of a lot is that it be convenient to the mills, so that if he ever gave up the property it would be suitable for another worker. In this case he would have his own plans prepared and hire his own builder. The Home stead Association, Inc., will loan money only on single houses. A fixed payment on the loan would be made monthly, which would cover interest on the mortgage at 414 per cent., and the remainder of the monthly payment would go to ward paying off the mortgage. Every month the mortgage is re duced by an increasing amount. Every three months interest charges will be reduced to cover the amount remaining to be paid on the mort gage. That part applying toward the mortgage will increase until the last payment, all of which will go toward the mortgage. These pay ments are the minimum which can be made. Any additional payment which the worker cares to make will be credited toward reducing his mortgage, saving him interest on ' that amount. If the worker leaves, or is dis charged for any reason, the associa tion will continue to carry the mort gage until sufficient payment has been made to make the loan accept able to a bank. Plan 3—lf a worker wishes to buy a single house in which he will live the Homestead Association. Inc., will take a mortgage at 4 per cent, interest on the property up to 75 per cent, of the appraised val uation of the house and land. The only limitation on his selec tion of a lot is that it be convenient to the mills, so that if he ever gave up the property it would be suit able for another worker. Payment on this mortgage will be made monthly by the same payment plan as used In the building loans, just explained. It the worker leaves the Ameri can Woolen Company, or is dis charged for any reason, the Home stead Association, Inc., will continue to carry the mortgage until suffi cient payment has been made to make the loan acceptable to a bank- With the practical co-operation of the forming and educational forces of the State, through the departments on Capitol Hill, it is certain that many of the problems now engaging the at tention of Dr. Finegan, superinten dent of Public Instruction, and Secre tary Itusmussen, of the Department of Agriculture, will be solved in a satis factory manner. Governor Sproul is intensely interested In the work of these two Important departments of the State government and is in close touch with the policies which are be ing developed by their respective heads. Several hundred tons of cheap Gei mnn toys held in warehouses at Ant werp and Rotterdam during the war have urr!ved ut the port of Philadel phia Joyous news fof those who arc digging deep to pay war bills* of the Huns' making. IK By the Ex-Committeeman Importance of the various con tests being waged for purely mu nicipal or county honors in the primary campaign not only to the State, but the National campaign next year is commencing to be realized, and there is as much in terest being manifested in the Philadelphia mayoralty contest in Williamsport, as there is in the Allegheny county struggle in Du- Bois. People who have generally regarded the political outbreaks in the two big counties as the Key stone Slate's hardy annuals are noting every day's developments and speculating on what it may mean a year from now. Washington and New York people are observing the movements and in Chicago, the out come of the Quaker City battle is being awaited with an eye on 1920. Similarly, there are other con tests with a slant on State affairs just like our primary in Dauphin and the judicial struggles in Cam bria, Washington, Westmoreland and other counties and the Scran ton school board, the Altoona- city manager mayoralty issue, and the Reading municipal affairs. —The Philadelphia Press in an interesting review of a couple of contests points out this State wide significance. It says in an article by Odell Hauser, its legislative repre sentative: "The coining Presidentnl campaign will be momentous enough, goodness knows, but it will have an added significance in Penn sylvania on account of the Penrose candidacy. That is why it is worth while paying particular attention to these county contests. At the pres ent moment they are more than mere local squabbles." —The Press comments on Gov ernor Sprout's activity against the McClure ring, in the city of Chester, and says there was a big registra tion. —With politicians explaining, and newspapers {rredicting on the nmazing size of the Philadelphia registration, which broke all rec ords and many a man's reputation as a prophet, the State is now watching the result of Pittsburgh's second day of registration, and some charges and Counter charges are be ing heard about it. The registration on the first day was 45,000, it is estimated. The Gazette-Times says: "In 1915 the first day's regis tration was 32,478 and in 1917, 32.- 414. The total for 1915 was 84,- 389 and that for 1917, 85.352. In each year there were county and city elections, as there are the pres ent year. The number of voters in terested on these occasions nearly always exceeds the number of those who wish to participate in a Presi dential election." —The Scranton Times says of the registration in that city: "On Thurs day, the Republicans registered 5,- 360. and the Democrats, 2,156. Scattered registrations. Thursday, include 36 prohibitionists, 28 Social ists and 43 non-committals. Thurs day's registration totaled 7.623, as against 7,869 in 1917. —The Lackawanna county seat is a center of interest because two women are running for school di rector. Scranton had two women school directors, and one died, and one resigned. Men and women are speaking on corners in the interest of the candidacy of Mrs. Thomas Murphy and Mrs. Edwin Gearhart. Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Gearhart will also speak from automobiles. One other woman, Mrs. A. E. Cor nell. is also a candidate. —One of the side lights of the Allegheny campaign, is the battle for the Republican county trea surer nomination, between Ex- Mayor J. E. Armstrong and Captain John H. Shenkel. Shenkel is the soldier honored by the Belgian gov ernment for extreme bravery on the battlefield, and is very popular. For clerk of courts, John Douglass is in the transfer and hauling business, and during the late street car strike became endeared to the people by carrying workingmen and women to and from their work without charge, while profiteers mulctied the public a dollar a day for the same service. —Prohibitionists of Delaware county are satisfied with the new law governing the sale of intoxi cants. but have decided to continue the party organization for a time, at least. At a conference held in Chester, Daniel G. Hendricks pre sided, and candidates for city and county offices were indorsed. —C. H. Galloway, who resigned from the United States Civil Serv ice Commission with a blast at Postmaster General Burleson's pol itical machinations the very same day that Pennsylvania postmasters' commended Mr. Burleson, is well known here. He says he means to keep up the fight. —F. 1,. Truth is the name of a candidate for sheriff of Beaver county, where by the way, Judge G. A. Baldwin decided that a woman could not be a candidate for the office or clerk cf the courts. —Herman F. Reich, a returned soldier, living at Sunbury, has been appointed deputy clerk of the United States Courts of the middle district. He will serve at Sunbury and this city. —F. R. Hendershot, candidate for renomination as county con troller of Buzerne, says in his ad vertisements that he has handled $14,000,000, boosted coal land val uations. and saved money and never audited any man's religion, politics or color. —Coroner O. M. Kinner, of Wyoming, is on all tickets for the primary and has no opposition on any of them. —Behlgh county people say that because of the Democratic row in that county, there Is a chance of Senator H. W. Schantz becoming the sole nominee for the new judge ship in that county. —Hazleton people are consider ing a $500,000 bond issue for im provements and may send commit tees to look over some of those made in other cities. —Here is where peaches get into politics. Tt seems that at Wash ington. There has been eonsider i able rivalry between members of Congress, as to whose state pro duces the best peaches. Bast week Congressman Rowers of West Vir ginia. and Congressman Dayton of Delaware had the Republican cloak room all their own way. However, Congressman B. K. Focht received two large baskets of peaches from the Buffalo Valley fruit farm, in Union county, which were voted the blue ribbon by the many congress men, who quickly disposed of them. A nuantttv of peaches from the farm of Chief Clerk M. K. Bergner of Chamhersburg, failed to arrive in 'lme 'o enter the contqst. Jn fact two baskets were stolen in transit, and one arrived after be ing on the road four days. HJLBJR.TBBTTRQ TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT THE SPHINX THINKS ABOUT By BRIGGS I DOST KNOW WHAT I'VE BEERS HANGING ~ I'D LIKE. To TAKE THGY HAD A BtG THERE IS ABOLJT AROUND HERE FOR WALLOP AT THOSE OVE.R IT MJHFEAJ THAT'S SO DARSEO . FTRW CENTURIES .SIMPS THAT CARVGD T H EY FLNLSHED ME. FASCIA ATI NG ITH THOSE SILL.Y THEY SURE PID | UE SEEN A LOT OF Z M FECL=T BUT PYRAMIDS AMD I HAMDLE ME ROUSH FURKY PEOPLE TOO - A SECRET BUT HAVEN'T BEEN THEV TRIED TO SEE , J) O N'T HAVE TO | HAVEN'T - TVPPEP OFF TO ANY- HOW HOMTLT THEY MOVE FROM HERS THING YET COULD HARE ME EITHER GC'.R .< "^AJGE^ THIS \S REALLY A -MY FACE IS A - ,-R JXDN'T TIWPROVE .... SAY , T DIDN'T COMFORTABLE SIGHT- IT KEEPS MY LOOKS ANY EITHER POSITION AT THAT OFF. FT IT \JMOULD V= WAS JUST S>OO YEARS 2EEM TSAR,RLE ,R I^ E R G M UP. MY BEEPER. PELL OFF :< ~,: S ■ ! No Wonder Germany Qnit By MAJOR FRANK C. MARIN Of the Army Recruiting Station Our American patrols that made i life unhappy for the Boche used to have some highly exciting times in No Man's Band. One trouble they ! had which the French and Germans never had. was getting shelled by i our own artillery. When the French j sent a patrol out into No Man's j Land they started their preparations ; several days in advance and before ! the patrol went out all units nearby j were notified the exact time the pa- j trol was going out, just where it ; was going, and the exact time it was | coming back. Also they would be | careful to send out only one patrol ! in the same general area for fear j that if they had two out, they might I meet and fight each other. Further- j more, the artillery were given all the i data about the patrol and they 1 would carefully abstain from firing ! into the area in which the patrol | was working. Now that works ] beautifully where patroling isn't, very active and in such sectors the | Boche dominated No Man's Land. In our sectors we couldn't tolerate any Boche domination of No Man's so instead of occasonally hav ing one patrol out in a whole bat talion area the way the French did we would have from ten to twenty | patrols out every night. Now you \ would think those patrols, who ; often met in the dark, would get to I lighting each other, but if such aj thing ever happened it wasn't in our part of the front and I never heard of it. The reason was that we had ' prearranged signals for use when [ one patrol met another. For in- | stance one patrol would hear some i one approaching. At once everyone was perfectly still while the patrol | leader would tap twice with his knuckles on the stock of his rifle, j You would be surprised how far that | is audible when every sense is highly strung. At once would come two j answering taps, a pause and the I more taps, and the patrols would 1 approach and confer. Every two or j three days we changed our signals j and the method worked to perfec- ] tion. But once in a while something ; would go wrong and the patrols j would have a sweet and lovely time, j 1 shall never forget one wild night j up in the Vosges. That day we had j received a new schedule of rocket : signals for the coming week and it | seems the Boche had changed theirs j the same day. Extraordinary as it ; might seem the Boche rocket signal j calling for an artillery barrage was ; the same ns our signal for artillery j counter-preparation flee —red rocket j of one red star —and their signal ! for artillery counter-preparation was ] the same as our artillery barrage— j a green caterpillar rocket. We were j pulling off a small raid without ar tillery when the Boche shot up a j red rocket. At once a heavy Boche j barrage came down and a few sec- I onds later our own counter-prepara- ! tion fire caine down with our raiding i party between the two zones of fire, j By the way, counter-preparation is ! a zone of fire laid down say 500 j yards back in the enemy trenches; j at the end of a few seconds it jumps i 25 yards towards our own trenches, | ♦hen it jumps again and again until j it reaches the enemy front line I trench when it starts back again in j the same way. As our fire ap- j proachcd the Yank patrol they beat I It towards our own trenches, and of I course ran into the Boche barr&ge. I About that time the Boche got good and scared and sent up a green ! caterpillar rqc.ket bringing down : our barrage and their own counter preparation. Maybe you think all | hell didn't bust loose then! Every machine gun, trench mortar, auto- I matie rifle and everything else that j would shoot cut loose on both sides. | And there was that raiding party running wildly towards our trenches | followed by our counter-preparation | until they ran into the Boche lire I which chased them back again as 1 our fire receded. Now mind you, the j ground was well sprinkled with . trenches and barb wire entangle- ' inents but our men never realized j the obstacles were there till things finally quieted down. Their whole] object in life at that time was mak ing the utmost speed first one way and then the other in order to avoid I the mass of bursting shells. They ] never even realized that scores of I machine guns were spitting six hun- j dred bullets each per minute In I their direction. When they finally I • rot back in our trenches the cloth- | ing of most of the men consisted of the waist bands of their trousers j and the collars of their coats; the i rest of their clothing was left on ! jthe birb wire, but except for an 1 I awful mess of scratches not a man j | was hurt. Incidentally both sides j ' changed their rocket signals again | America the Dominant Nation Through Fortunes of War Grout Britain Surrenders First Place [Mark Sullivan in Colliers Weekly.] GREAT BRITA IX, as respects i glory, as respects the moral elevation that comes from | | sacrifice in a fine cause, is right now I iat the peak of her history; and one ! ! shrinks from admitting that the I • very sacrifices which brought the j | glory brought also economic changes j which will cause her to lose her I position as the dominant nation of i the world. But that is so; and to ' fail to see it or say it, is merely | indulging in sentiment and tact at I the expense of an important historic | fact. r The line of dominant nations is j like the line of prize light cham- I pions; they rise, they seize the place, I they enjoy the prestige for a period, | and then a new champion comes. | Within the last six centuries Port- I ugal had the position, and Spain ! took it away; Spain held it for more | than two centuries, during which i she discovered and colonized most of America; tjien Spain lost it to Holland, and Holland in turn lost it to Great Britain. Now Great Bri tain is in process of losing it to the United States, j The singular fact, however, is that The Underpaid Professor ![From the Review] He is being cramped and humili ated on all sides, is conscious thvt !he is becoming quasi-miserly through over attention to pennies— in fact, is himself living a petty j and sordid life, and, what is much I worse, sees those he most cares I for, and for whom he is responsible i involved in the same destiny. He willingly took on the vow of pov | erty for himself, perhaps, but not | for them. He would go into plumb i ing if he knew enough. He is in ! the clutch of an out-and-out exas perating experience, one that is dc j structive both of his dignity and his | self-respect. i Whether, under this harrow, lie \ reveals Bolshevoid tendencies or j not, a man in such a mood ought | not to bp teaching our sons, lie jis bound to be wearied and du | traught, if not bitter and cynical. | It takes enthusiasm and fervor to I fire the heart of youth. There is j call for the clear and equable mind, j sufficiently at rest as respects its i own concerns to be able to spare I that force upon which his charges j ought to have the right to draw, i As things now go, the best men will j keep out of teaching, and presently j the inferior ones, less robust and resistant of nonsense, may actually j fall, as some have already fallen, j into the status of suggestible mal | contents. The heads of most pro : fessors are not yet weak enough I for Bolshevism; but certain joui ! nals that dish up brain softening j compounds, full of insinuation and | suggestion, are far too popular ] among them. To such influences | they are becoming ever more "open j minded." This is dangerous. Tf the j cure of Russian Bolshevism is more | food, the prophylaxis of professional j Bolshevism is more salary. All Mast Help [From the Arkansas Gazette.] | Attorney General Palmer, who is I leading the light for the Government i against the high cost of living, says [ results nlready are beginning to I show. But he added the following, | which all of us should keep in mind; j "We want to make clear, how i ever, that nothing we can do can i change the immutable economic | laws on which prices depend. If we can Increase the supply by ! greater production and lessen de | mand by greater saving on the part 'of the people, then the cost of liv ! ing should come down." Until all of us realize that the 'high cost of living cannot be brought jdown unless each of us does his part there will be no real or permanent results from the Government's fight, lit will help, of course, to stop | profiteering and to force on the mar | ket goods hoarded hy profiteers, but jto solve the problem permanently I we must increase production. I We should fix in our minds this i fact —the Government cannot by the j mere passage of laws bring about a | situation that will Insure for each iof us increased income and de l creased outgo. The big part In solv ' ing the high cost of living must be j done by the individual through j thrift, common sense and unseltlsh | r.css. , this present passing of dominance is not a case of an old champion losing the belt in a final light against a younger challenger. All the other historic cases of the pass ing of dominance have been marked by a great war between the two rivals. But in the process by which Great Britain is losing her domi nance, she and the nation that is taking the prize from her were not rivals, but partners. We did not fight Great Britain for it; Germany and fate thrust it upon us. That is a fact that should make us modest as it is possible to be and consider ate in the exercise of our new su premacy. Germany started to seize Great Britain's place in the sun by force of arms; she failed to get it for herslf, but she did deprive Great Britain of it. Ry virtue of the economic changes wrought by the vtar, dominance comes to America. And when the London Statist says that the United States will be the first of exisiting nations "within the present century," that is merely a way of stating it softly. The fact is that America is the greatest of ex isting Nations to-day. Good Will Dividends [From Louisville Courier-Journal.] The financial distress of city rail way companies has provoked dis cussion of increase of fare as a matter of Justice to the corpora tions and discussion of decreases of fare as a practical means of in creasing revenue. While the dis cussion has gone forward in many cities the experience of Philadel phia with the conventional 5-cent fare has been satisfactory from the point of view of the transportation company and that of the public. The Public Ledger, of Philadel phia, says: "The nickel standard fare still prevails here, and President Mitten gives the assurance that the main tenance of this standard is the ideal for which he is striving and will continue to strive. He does not need to be told that there Is a deep seated tradition in America in favor of the 5-cent unit and that a de parture from that unit fare is in variably accompanied by a falling off in the number of the profitable short distance riders and, as a rule, by a reduction in revenue." It has been said that the dividend payers stand in the aisles on street cars. It is true that empty seats pay no part of operating expenses. The fact that during a period of increasing costs of 'various kinds the Philadelphia company volun tarily adopted the War Labor Board level of wages, and the fact that under the present management a company which was poorly equip ped and not earning dividends has become well equipped and is paying dividends without increase of fare are facts which make the experience of Philadelphia interesting to all American cities whose city railways are in financial difficulties. The old rule of many stiles and small profits has been relied upon in the Quaker City with results which cannot fail to attract the attention of stock holders and passengers who are I concerned about the situation of i street railway companies in other cities. Intellectual Snobbery [A. A. Milne in the Outlook London] I used to know a man who car ried always with him a Russian novel in the original; not because he read Russian, but because a day m'.ght come when, as the result of some accident, the "pockets of the deceased" would be. exposed in tho public press. As he said, you never know; but the only accident whi'h happened to him was to be stranded for twelve hours one August at a wayside station in the Highlands, j After this he maintained that the Russians were overrated. A Problem in Natural History [From Blighty, London.] Two sailors at a dog show were gazing at a valuable Skye terrier, which hadi so much hair that it looked more like a woolen mat than a dog "Which end Is 'is 'end, Tom," asked one. "Blowcd if I know," was the re ply, "but, 'ere I'll stick a pin in hiu. I and you look which end barkel" SEPTEMBER 9, 1919. Trade Briefs There is a good market in Ecuador for matches. The Department of State an nounces that the consular agency at Townsville, Queensland, has been closed. It is reported that Japanese in terests are organizing a company with a capital of $10,000,000 for the lixation of atmospheric nitrogen un der certain American patents. A Portland cement factory, which is now being constructed in Singa pore, Straits Settlements, at a cost of•s 1,000,000 is to he equipped with machinery of American manufac ture. A flour mill with a daily capacity of 60,000 pounds recently began op erations at Kaireng in the province of Honan, China. The machinery, said to be of the latest American pattern, cost $50,000. Samples of Swedish spinning paper used in making paper textiles may be inspected at the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in Washington or its district and co operative offices. Refer to File No. 40495. A report received from Mazatlan, Mexico, says that owing to rains and ! the lack of sufficient labor for har vesting about one-fourth of the j garhanzo crop is lost, and that the : market price is but two cents a | kilo. A beginning in the use of trac |tors in Trinidad has been made by i one of the. large cocoanut planta | tions in the southern part of the is | land, where a large caterpillar trac tor is now hauling .ploughs and har rows, dispensing with the use of | oxen. | America's Call The heart of a nation, do you know what it is? The spirit of you and of me! Are we true to the highest, with a dream that ascends. With a hope that aspires, and a purpose that blends Accordant with God's equity? The strength of a nation, yea, buck ler and shield I In peace or when foe would assail, jls the homo that we're building; and the basis of all I Is the love that is pure in cottage or hall. The sword of morale cannot fail, i The worth of a nation, not the gold nor the grain The bounty of heaven bestows; No, the wealth is the giving of serv ice to men That the world may be brighter and better, and then to fullness its destiny grows. Oh, land that we cherish, you arc calling to us. My brothers, let's up and arise! Every man do his duty for Amer ica's sake! Stand strong till the dawn of the blessings shall break— Peace lighting forever the skies' —Frederick A. Earle, in the New York Times. Rough on the Wolves [From Kansas City Star] "Before the war we used to see a good many pictures of whiskered Rooshian gents razooing over the snow-clad plains in sledges drawn by three snorting horses hitched ahreust, and flinging children to the ravening, red-mouthed wolves that were pursuing 'em," musingly said Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. "Last night, while my chil dren were pulling hair and bump ing each other's heads on the floor, and wife was slapping 'em right and left, and X was cussing 'em in a gener'l way, and such as that, I sorter got to contemplating that if I was tearing acrost the prairie with my kids in a'wagon and the wolves raging around us, if I'd fling Ave or six of the children out amongst the varmints them wolves would sure get the surprise of their lives. I reckon In about two min utes the children would be feeling right at home and the wolves howl ing for help." Possession Life has Jcy for everyone Who has a mind to find it. The soul must see immediately. Nor stop, nor look behind it; A birght wing flashing in the sun Has power to lift up anyone. Life has Joy for any man Who lifts his hand to take it— Prism of the morning and The great sun that can make it; Rain upon a dusty leaf Can comfort even sullen grief. —Liouise Driscall in the Villager. Katonah, N. Y. JEmtinij (Eljat j Vacation days are rapidly com ing to an end in and about Har risburg and nowhere is it more no ticeable than at the Capitol. The 400 or 500 folks whose daily work centers in the big granite building have had their fling and barring those who arranged matters so that ,* their free time coincides with the primary election activity things arc getting back to the normal, nor mal meaning as they were a year ago before the gubernatorial elec tion, the influenza epidemic and the inauguration and the Legislature came along in turn. The way it is told that vacation days are nearly over, however, is not from the peo- •. pie in the building regularly, but by the stream of visitors. From a cou- J pie of thousand a week they have ' started to fall and although auto- * mobile tourists continue to come j and go in Harrisburg, the number • at the State House is not as great although that striking distribution of visitors throughout most of the ! counties of the State, noted a few weeks ago, continues, men from Wayne meeting men from Greene and Erie. A good many farmers are to be seen in the Capitol just now. They all come in their own automobiles and they tell of boun teous corn crops and of trouble with the apples and the peaches. In the throngs are quite a few of the "plain people" from Lancaster county, Mennonites and Dunkards and others of the various sects. Every now and then some party . gives the elevator men a jolt by asking if they will "mind it' if they go up, while more than one per son remarks with a sigh or a smile as the time comes to step out of a car that has "swushed" them up four or five stories that it was "the first time I ever rode in one of these." • * • The folks who come to the Capi tol for the lirst time can nearly always be "spotted." The first ex pressions are of surprise. The old. old impression that was scattered i * and smattered throughout Pennsyl vania in 1905 and 1906 that the u Capitol was made of putty or some- " thing that would melt if the winds and the rains ever got to it seems V to linger in the minds of a great many men and women. The stories of its architectural beauties, of its splendid proportions, its fine declar ations, its notable works of art, written by some of the famous writ ers of the land do not seem to have made near as much headway as the average man would imagine. The people who come here for the first view of the Capitol candidly admit that some one misrepresented or as one stalwart farmer from up in Centre county, who stood in the * rotunda's center and gasped up at the superb interior of the dome, expressed it "Some one's a liar. ' It. all goes to show that Samuel W. Pennypaeker knew what he was talking about when thirteen years ago he inaugurated the "penny-a mile" excursions to see the Capitol. "Seeing is believing" at the Capitol in more ways than one. There are lots of funny things up at the Capitol. There are people who come here thinking that there * are gold pieces sticking around and others who are so startled by the beauty that they did not know was here that they go about in awed V silence and walk as though on eggs. Nine of every ten men who visit f the hall of the House of Represen tatives sit in one of the seats of thp lawmakers and oftentimes they hunt up the seat of the man from their home district. Senator "Ed" Vare's seat is a matter of interest to many a Philadelphian, while most Elk countians want to go and sit where John Flynn watches the House. The curious effect produced hy the lightc and shadows in the rotunda that forms the "halo" about the Quay statue causes much com ment, while there is a general move ment toward the glass cases con taining the Civil war battle flags on the part of people who had rela- tives in that great struggle. Most people who visit the Executive De partment want to know if the Gov ernor is "in." And similarly a good many ask what the Abbey medal lions in the rotunda are "all about?" Perhaps the greatest entertain ment watching the visitors comes from observing the way they treat the tile pavement of the first floor. There is nothing more interesting, more distinctive than this product of old Moravian days, that has been • so much derided and condemned. It is one of the features of the Capitol. aA notable in its way as is that gem of interior arrangement ' and decoration—the supreme court chamber, isolated, simple, spacious and so suggestive of the dignity of the courts. When a party with chil dren comes along the first thing is a squeal of delight as a youngster spies on the tile pavement a butter fly or an oyster. Some one lets off a surprised giggle when the tele phone is seen in the south wing floor'with the o almost erased from "hello." More people spend time figuring out the designs on the tile floor than they do the theme of the Abbey paintings in the Senate or the relation of the great of Pennsylvania, to the history of the Commonwealth t in the allegorical painting in the ' hall of the Representatives. As matter of fact, the tiled flooring tells the story of Pennsylvania, shows industry, flora and fauna. And most Harrisburgers know very little about what there is in the Capitol, it may be said in passing on. j| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Bishop P. J. Hoban. of Scran ton, presided at the Valera ma-y< meeting in that city Sunday*. —Captain S. D. Foster, candidate for county commissioner in Alle gheny and well known here, is mak- ing daily speeches in that county. —Colonel Edward Martin, State Commissioner of Health, is one of • the golfers who golfs regularly, sel- • dorri missing an afternoon. —General Richard Coulter, who will command -one of the National Guard brigades, is making some vis its to places where units may be formed. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, says he likes cam paigns. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg is having more automobile visitors than ever known in its history? HISTORIC HARRISBURG "*■ —The first bank in Harrisburg was located on South Second street near Chestnut, .
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