12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a. newspaper for the home Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THX TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Igaare H. J. BTACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Butinoat Jfonager OtJS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GU& 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 dispatches herein are also reserved. J Member American Newspaper Pub gyß AasocU gSSk Bureau of Circu- IPS* lation and Penn- S3 t'd* D a ill A,SoCill " Eflß M Eastern office 111 kH Story, Brooks & fi£E rjg Finley, Fifth Sjßjt Sm Avenue Building, New York City; BjMg Western office, ■Hal Story, Brooks A Finley, People's Entered at the Poat Office in Harris burg, Pa* as second class matter. . CUTw _ By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall. 13.00 a s year In advance. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 19It) ) TFhof is %icrea in our esfimofion may be failure from God's standpoint.— J. Wilbur Chaprran. TWO TRUTHS FRANK STOCKDALE, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, said that "liberal buying" has had much to do with price raising. He might have gone a step further and said extravagant buying is the most seri ous evil of the present commercial situation, and not have stretched the truth. It is human nature to buy what one wants if he has the money in his pocket, hut unless there is some restraint —some exercise of thrift and common sense in the expendi ture of the weekly pay envelope— prices will remain high. We have indulged in an orgy of buying. Noth ing has been too high for us to pur chase. Silk shirts, fifteen dollar shoes and the like have found their way into households that ought not to have indulged in them. Either we must be content to go an easier pace, to demand more reasonably priced goods or less luxurious quali ties. or we shall continue to be com pelled to pay the price. And what Mr. Stockdale said con cerning the relation between mu nicipal progress and prosperity and the progress and prosperity of the retail store also is true. Harrisburg is a good town because it spends its money in its own stores and the stores are good because a great ma jority of our people buy at home. Added to our local trade is the vast volume of retail business that pours into Harrisburg from the country' roundabout Thus we keep our money circulating where it will do us most good. We ought to en courage our merchants in whate\ er way is possible. Their stores are the arteries through which flows the life-blood of the community. SPROUL'S TEMPERATURE GOVERNOR SPROUL'S direct statement yesterday made It quite clear that he is not being swept off his feet by the complimen tary references of friends through out the country to his special avail ability as a possible candidate for the Presidency. The Governor shows in his pungent comment that he has been sufficiently long on the earth to appraise with accuracy suggestions of this sort. He realizes how apt are the admirers and occasionally the kow-towers to play upon the na tional ambitions of one in the Gov ernor's position, but declares that his political temperature is normal and that he is not harboring any delusion regarding the future. As was suggested by the Telegraph the other day, Governor Sproul knows better than the average man that the best recommendation of an offi cial for future preferment is the discharge of present obligations with an eye single to the good of the people he serves and the wel fare of his constituency, be it large or email. For that reason he has expressed his honest desire to be a good Governor. He doesn't propose to be taken up into a high mountain and shown the lovely landscape in a political way to the extent of being diverted from his main purpose to serve the people of Pennsylvania by giving them a constructive and help ful administration of the affairs of this great Commonwealth. We confess strong admiration for the Governor's great good sense as exhibited in this recent statement. No one who knows him doubts his fitness for almost any office that might be tendered him by an ap preciative people, but it is comfoit ing to realize that he is keeping his feet planted squarely on the ground and thatHne buzzing of the ambi tious bees which so often destroy the usefulness of public officials is not giving him any concern what- Of course, there will be the usual effort to draw him into poiitlcal con troversies of one kind or another. It has been the history of the Gu- OUKSUA T C. V CNING, bernatorial office that the occupant of the chief place on Capitol Hill is too often enmeshed in disputes and personal conflicts with which he should have nothing whatever to do. The memory of the average citizen who knows anything about public affairs will readily recall the unfor tunate episodes of several predeces sors of Governor Sproul, whose ad ministrations were rendered of little effect in a constructive way through the intolerable political baiting of the Executive. | And that's why we are mighty |g!ad Governor Sproul has taken oc casion to swat the over-zealous or j scheming propaganda concerning j his availability for either the United | States Senate or the White House. | The Governor's record in his pres ent high office will not be hidden | under a bushel, and bis future may jbe left with confidence to the sev ■ eral millions of people in this State j who are watching with intelligent j appreciation the development of ! policies which were outlined when |he submitted his name for consid j eration a year ago. With his politi- I cal temperature, as he cleverly sug j gests, pormal and his vision of future I usefulness unobstructed by personal I ambition, the head of the State gov i ernment will not be turned by any t suggestions of future honors. I HONOR OUR SOLDIERS GREATER HARRISBURG win be on its toes for the welcome home demonstration in honor |of the returning and returned sol ■ diers, and sufficient time has now , elapsed since the Chamber of Com merce first considered the matter I some months ago to allow of the I return of most of our soldiers, and the time fixed for the celebration during the latter part of the present month will enable those who are still absent tp get back under the Government demobilization program. This city and its immediate environs sent into the war over 3,000 of its picked men. Some made the su preme sacrifice, others distinguished ' themselves in the fighting and still others manifested the highest spirit of patriotism in responding promptly j to the call of Uncle Sam. So it is that the whole community ; is ready to honor these men and demonstrate in a proper and appro- j priate way the admiration of the' people and their grateful recogni-1 tion of those who responded for the ! defense of great ideals and the! safety of the country. UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES WHEN the armistice was de-i clared most people thought ! the war was about over so [ far as interference with normal j activities was concerned. Within i the last few days, however, we have been given another unpleasant re minder of the uncomfortable situa tions created by government con- I trol and operation of the railroad 1 lines. Notwithstanding the fact that no ; great war buildings or roads are be- I ing constructed, as was the case I during the active period of hostili- i ties, the Federal bosses of the rail- j road systems have upset the great ! road-building campaign of Pennsyl- j vania by delaying deliveries of crushed stone so necessary to the i construction of modern highways. | Contractors all over the State are I demoralized as a result of this diffi- j culty. State Highway Commissioner j Sadler is naturally disappointed over the condition of affairs, inas- ' much as throughout the summer the construction work under the big State contracts was more or less in- j terfered with by unfavorable condi- I tions. And just when things began i to look brighter this unexpected j hardship comes along. It's going to be hard for the Wash- j ington authorities, in their bungling j of the railroad systems, to persuade j the people that it is necessary in a j time of peace to upset the activities of a great State in the building of : roads which are presumably being j encouraged by the national authori- j ties. But Pennsylvania is going to have ! its fine road systems just the same. ; Nothing is going to permanently in- ! terfere with the road program so j admirably worked out by the State ; Highway administration. Commis- j sioner Sadler has a lot of patriotism ' in his system, as well as a lot of efli- ! ciency. and we can leave him to de- ' velop some plan which will yet over come the unfortunate hindrance which has come through the Federal embargo. LEAGUE AMENDMENTS THE United States shall have no entangling alliances, its young men shall not be called out to j settle by force of arms every neigh- i borhood squabble that threatens the ! peace of Europe, we should have j the same number of voters in the j peace league as Great Britain, we j shall be left to decide what ques- J tions are within our own domestic i Jurisdiction, the Monroe Doctrine i we shall continue to regard as a matter for our own construction j and enforcement exclusively, we j shall be permitted to withdraw from , the league at will. Shantung shall be > given to China, to whom it belongs. | we shall be relieved from the neces- | sity of serving on commissions set tling questions in which we have no interest. These, in brief, are the reserva tions and amendments the Senate Foreign P.elations Committee would attach to the Peace Treaty. President W'lson will object to all of them. But the American peo ple will see in them merely an ef fort to preserve American rights and sovereignty. We hgve as much interest in the proposed world league as has* Great Britain. If Britain has six votes can anybody reasonably explain why we should have but one? And why should we not retire from the league at wilt? This is a country of ma jorities. If a majority of our peo ple vote any one way their will should be supreme, BO that if cir cumstances should arise making it in the opinion of a majority of the citizens of this country wise to leave the league their hands should not be tied. The peace and safety of the world lies in the peace and safety of the United States. The Peace Treaty must be made safe for the United States first. It is for that we went to war. Europe will accept what we insist upon. It can do nothing less, for without us the whole peace league fails. The Senate will have the support of the country in its ef fort to safeguard American inter ests. in. By the Ex-Committeeman Governor William C. Sproul is j just now the man of greatest inter est in all Pennsylvania to the men ■ who follow politics and when there is nothing else to talk about, many ■ remark what fine presidential tim ber he would make. There is never much gainsaying that proposition except by the Governor himself. The Governor reiterated yesterday that all he was interested in as far as office goes is to "make the best Governor I am capable of making for Pennsylvania." People who were in the western states immediately after the con i ference of the governors at Salt | Lake- City have brought some inter esting stories and newspaper clip pings. too, telling of the excellent impression made by the Pennsyl vania Governor at that notable gathering of governors. The news papers are filled with references to his remarks and his grasp of affairs, while his ideas have been pretty generally commended. But the best part Is that which does not get into the newspapers, but which gives the best index. It seems that the Gov ernor not only was accorded a com manding place in the deliberations Ind the various meetings by .his commonsense and initiative, but he appeared to win the good feeling of everyone with whom he came into contact by his unassuming ways, his j democracy, if that much employed j word can be used again. One man who had been out West said that the folks considered Governor Sproul a very "human" sort of man and that the fact that he did not have officials, aids de camp or any kind of retinue along afforded somewhat of a contrast to other men who have i gone on official trips from eastern states. It is pretty evident that Sproul talk will be much heard. However. the Governor when asked about his aspirations says that they are in Harrisburg and that not withstanding the surging of sugges tions that occurs in the close of a first year of a term his temperature continues normal. —Remarks by the Governor re cently that he did not see the con nection between some of the con tests now being waged in Pennsyl vania and the Penrose candidacy in 1930 appear to have rather definitely extinguished for the time being at least the foundation for the story that the Governor was thinkirfg of the United States Senate. This has been more or less of a "rainy day story," anyway. —While the Governor has been standing aloof from the Philadelphia and Allegheny primary fights he has been taking a hand in the Delaware county crusade to drive out the Mc- Clure crowd in his home county and is exercising a benevolent interest in the candidacies of various men he has appointed to judgeships in vari ous sections, although in the Lehigh and Washington orphans' caurt con tests has not been taking any hand. (L; Somerset county it is be lieved tßat administration influence is for Norman T. Boose, "dry" candi date. —ln Philadelphia, however, there have been some persistent reports that the Vare influence is to be thrown against Judge J. P. McCul len, the Governor's appointee, and in favor of P. P. Conway, generally classed as a partisan of David H. Lane. The Governor said yesterday that he intended to make some in quiries into the matter and reiter ated his remark that opposing to sit ting judges who have been found capable he could hardly regard as "friendly." —lt might be possible that the judicial contests in Philadelphia would develop a situation that would be interesting not only this year but next. —The Philadelphia special regis tration hearings are bringing out some interesting things, especially the fact that Senator Edwin H. Vare regards his South Broad street home as his legal residence, although the water and gas have not been turned on for some time and the Vare fam ily has not occupied it to any extent. —ln Pittsburgh the second day's registration seems to have been up to expectations and the Pittsburgh Gazette Times expresses satisfaction at the way the voters are lining up. The Pittsburgh Dispatch and Post print considerable news matter about the various meetings at which Senator Max G. Leslie is flayed. —Governor Sproul's newspaper is out in open suport of the candidates of the Republican League in Del aware county who are fighting what some of the newspapers call the "Mc- Clure ring" and refer to as tfhe liquor ticket from time to time. —The Wilkes-Barre Record has taken the field for the first time in a primary fight against a set of candidates for Republtcar nomina tions. It comes out for P. A. Meixell and George S. Renard for the nomi nations for county commissioners and assails the candidates backed by Thomas S. HefTernan. This activity on the part of the Record, which Is a double-column editorial, has cre ated much comment, as the Record also bitterly assails Mr. HefTernan. —For the first time since the old days of conventions, the Republican party in Columbia county will have a candidate for each partisan con test at the November lection. The Democrats have a bunch of candi dates for most of the nominations that the primary elections can offer, with the result that internal strife has developed almost as many fac tions in the Democratic ranks as there are candidates. The Republi cans believe they can elect A. H. Gennajre register and recorder be yond a doubt. —ln the nonpartisan fight for the Columbia associate Judgeship, Charles E. Welliver, now county commissioner, is endeavoring to un seat Judge M. Harry Rhodes, who hopes to succeed himself. Wilson A. Kramer, of Bloomsburg, and Dr T. C. Harter. of Bloomsburg, also are candidates for the office. —William J. Curriden, who has been making a hard fight for the nomination for register of wills on the Republican ticket, has .given mtRRDSBTTRG THLEGKXFH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE ... .... .... .... ByBRIGGS FRIGND PITZHU^H-l WIFE | WON T VoU GO r\ pa . H/V jnj -W > AMO P-MPty TH€ ITTKrVW PAN uNDei? , l'is H/VI-HW \L ice Bov Ta tva _tmTXa* - | XY/* tw~ notice that he has withdrawn from the race, leaving to Theodore F. Kreeger, backed for a third term by the McClure organization, and Lieu tenant Colonel Franklin P. Haller, backed by the new Republican i League of Delaware county. Mr. I Curriden says in his notice of wtih drawal that he feels certain that he ! cannot win. "But still consistent against third terms," says Curriden. "I ask you to vote for Lieutenant j Colonel Haller for register of wills of Delaware county." . ~ : No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station Some time ago I saw a very in- | teresting write up in a magazine, j The subject of this article was a gen- , eral damning of the American Army for its lack of democracy. It compared us most unfavorably, par- 1 ticularly with the French. The article was interesting, highly inter- ! esting as an exposition of the pro- ! found ignorance of its author of the subject he was treating. As a mat ter of fact, it was the democracy, the feeling of square treatment, the ; knowledge that officers and men j shared dangers, fatigues, hunger and thirst equally, that made our ! army the wonderful fighting ma- j chine it really was. Any man who i has served in a good outfit will tell 1 you his officers never ate until all 1 the men of the company had been j fed, that on a march in France his j officers never looked for a place to sleep until every man was fixed and ! settled. He will tell you his officers i led the attacks, wandered from dan ger point to danger point in the defense to encourage and inspire their men. And that these are not wild statements, look at the casualty lists with its 55 infantry officers killed per 1,000 to 42 enlisted men; one-third officers killed than men, proporunately. Now take the i army that is held up as a model of democracy, but without for one min- ' ute casting any aspersions on the wonderful efficiency or valor of the ; French army. Their officers ate first and got tbe best; they found , their own sleeping places and then ! looked out for their men, only on ; special occasions did they lead their men, into an attack, and on the de- i fensive the officer got into a place of fair security and there he stayed ■ directing the defense from that j point. I served with the Fjench and ! ({now whereof I speak. I shall I never forget being sent for by the French general commanding and se verely reprimanded for having ex- . posed myself. He told me "you have , been training for 15 years in order to reach your present state of effl- ; ciency and military knowledge. If you are killed who will take your j place? Is there a man available in your battalion with equal experi- ] ence and knowledge to your I place? There is not, and, therefore, 1 you are the most valuable man in your battalion and you must not ex- : pose yourself." Now I fully* admit ! the logic of those sentiments, bqt it ] isn't the American method, my j friend the author to the contrary. On several occasions the 14,000 in- ! fantry of a division lost 5,000 killed and wounded, but lost everyone of their twelve majors of infantry, 100 per cent casualties for the majors as compared with 35 per cent for all J other gracj.es. There is the American 1 method, it democratic or not,, but we all felt that the men, the dough- j boys, should realize that their major i was right with them, sharing their troubles in addition to his own re sponsibility for upwards of 1,000 men. Ask any doughboy who has been in an attack where the first German officers were captured and he will tell you they were in a nice deep dugout well to the rear while their men were up on the surface in front, fighting. Ask those who have helped to stop a Boche attack if they ever saw a Boche officer in the attack and they will tell you they never have, because the Boche offi cers do,not attack with their troops, but follow them at a safe and con venient distance. We believe that the fighting efficiency of an organi zation is directly dependent on its morale and that one of the most effective means of building up a high state of morale is to have the offi cers playing the game square and fair, taking Just what their men take and maybe a little bit more, just to prove they are not shirking. And that our method is right is proven beyond a question of doubt by the success we had in every bat tle in France, the success which tended so greatly to break up for once and all the resistance of the arrogant Hun. It was by leading not by driving our boys that we got that acme of military efficiency, prompt and willing obedience to or ders which Insured a smooth work ing, efficient army. DANGER TO AGE IN E Persons Past Forty Should Not Overexert Themselves, Doctor Says [From the Continental Bdition of the, London Mail] THE septuagenarians who have; wi itten accounts of cy- i cling feats are obviously men of i exceptionally sound constitution. It I would not do for every old man, or even for all in the fifties and sixties, to imitate them by riding sixty or seventy miles in a day. It is not easy to prescribe suit able exercise in any variety for men in later life. In the majority of people one or another vital organ has grown weak and there is always danger of putting too much pressure on blood vessels. But exercise is as necessary at this as at any time of life. Walking, of course, is the ideal form. There should be no haste, no effort that would cause breathless ness and so raise the blood pressure, and the walk should not be con tinued to the point of weariness. The best plan is to take three or four short walks in the day. Walking -without some object soon palls, and, therefore, a man should have other forms of exercise avail able. Up to a late age golf is safe and an excellent reason for walking. Croquet on a fine summer's after noon is admirable. Every middle aged man should have a garden to work in, but the more he avoids heavy digging the longer he will 'live. Pottering about in a green- Trade Briefs The foreign trade of China for the year 1918 was the highest on record, being $1,241,645,903, the in crease being $204,423,181. It is reported that a Swiss and a Swedish firm are each negotiat ing for the purchase of mining properties in the Ruhr district of Germany. Danish business enterprises, in planning trade extension, are look ing almost exclusively to the United States. American goods have been tried and found serviceable and not too expensive. There has recently been organ ized in Barcelona a corporation un der the title of "Feria de Barcelona, 8. A." with a capital of 500,000 pesetas ($100,000), for the purpose of holding annual sample fairs similar to those of Lyons, Bordeaux and Leipzig. The British Chamber of Com merce of Sao Paulo and Southern Brazil is organizing a series of ex hibitions of British manufactures, the Board of Trade Journal states. Each of the exhibitions will com prise one given industry and will be open for a period of three months. Deposits in Danish savings banks during the several years of the war have been as follows: In 1914, $229,- 944,000; in 1915, 241,307,000: in t 1916, $262,827,000; in 1917, $298,- 445,000; and in 1918, $366,259,000. This represents an increase of about 4 5 per cent during the past five years. A further development of the glove making industry which was j extended materially during the war, : s reported in Nottingham, England. ! A large firm of Nottingham hosiery ! manufacturers has recently acquired | the National Shell Factory for the purpose of manufacturing fabric gloves. Remarkable Tribute [From the. New York Sun.]' Oyster Bay is not the easiest place In the world to get to. Traveling by rail it is at the end of a devious ! branch line. By motor it is off the ] beaten path, far from the main : roads which lead to and from the I popular places of Long Island. I And yet we read that every Sun day Americans go, not by hundreds but by thousands, to Sagamore Hill i to see the place where a man has j lain in his grave since last January, I Thee was nothing in the way of a speech or a ceremony to attract the 4,000 pilgrims who went In the pitiless heat of last Sunday. Sometimes it has seemed as if Americans were a people careless of great memories; and then some thing without plan, something spontaneously rising from the depths, the real National heart, occurs and proves that the apparent forge'fulness is only a mask. In this case the something Is the processions up the distant hill of grateful men and women to whom Theodore Roosevelt was the ideal . Amer.cao. house, however, is not exercise, and it is by no means a healthy occu pation. More severe exercises than these can be undertaken by excep tional men who have continued to use their muscles throughout life. But there is undoubted danger when vio lent exercise is resumed in middle age after a period of sedentary life. The chief danger of overstrain after fifty-five is to the blood ves sels. Even a minute's quick walk ing will often do a man of this age serious injury. In nearly all violent exercise one holds the breath now and again, a matter of no impor tance in youth, but a groat danger in lpte life. The heart is another danger spot, and unless it is known to be sound any great strain should not be put on it after fifty. It is not the risk of sudden death or paralysis alone that confronts the man getting on in years who overstrains himself: lesser injury may be done which leaves him more or less ill for the day or even several days. The basal fact to consider is that every part of the body is less efficient and may be dangerous'y weak as age comes on. In some the need for a quiet, even life may not arise until sixty or later, but in the majority it is well to begin to be cautious when in the fiftieth year. Probably, indeed, men would live longer if they confined them selves to the gent'er forms of exer cise soon after forty, even when there is no sign of failing power. Who Knows? [Johnstown Tribune] j President Wilson forgot that Ger | many is not to be admitted to the j League of Nations for some years, I so that his peevish appeal not to be | compelled to go to Weimar, hat in | hand, begging for German consent - to changes, reservations, or amend ! ments, was all extraneous and based I on lack of knowledge of an item I of major importance in the Cove nant. President Wilson, in replying to | Senator Lodge, said that "trade with j Germany had not been resumed." I The official record shows thai, the State Department, on July 14, 1919, | authorized resumption of trade re lations with Germany and that I many shiploads of merchandise i have been cleared from American ports for German ports. The Presi | dent must have had knowledge of j this proclamation. Did he forget? These Incidents show how little the representative of our government i knows of some mighty important | matters, concerning which he was in conference. Can Senators, charged J with equal responsibility, be blamed for, hunting for information where It can be found? Does Col. House know? The Texas Colonel is abroad. He may be the one man "w]io knows." The President doesn't remember. Secre tary of State Lansing says he was told nothing. Members of the huge staff of experts report but little ex cept tales of their disagreements with the President. Who knows? Perhaps Col. House.—and he won't tell. . Inventor Vindicated [From the Boston Herald.] As long ago as when Charles J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, was Sec retary of the Navy the files of his office show that Carl Wheaton, of Waltham, arrived in Washington to submit plans for the use of gas iin warfare. He went before both the Army and the Navy. His pro posal to the Army was for the firing of gas shells, substantially as used in the late war. His proposal to the Navy involved the use of a sub marine and the boring of a hole in the bottom of a battleship for the injection of gas. The Army authorities, at that time, held, that it would be impos sible to pollute the atmosphere with enough gas to have any military effect. The Navy authorities con tended that it would be like putting salt on a bird's tail to get under a battleship and inject the gas. So Wheaton spent some months in Washington in useless efforts to at tract attention. Although he died several years ago, he lived long enough to see his idea applied in actual warfare. The story of his submissions comes to us from one of the officers of the Navy Department who sjjnpathized with his association at trie time iju rejecting the gas theoqfr SEPTEMBER 11, 1919. A Khaki Lesson [From Dawn.] When the brass knob turned, the old man at the desk didn't look up. The door was softly closed and there was silence but for the scratching of a pen. The comer was probably one in reply to the advertisement In the paper, and the man at the desk feared to look up. He needed help badly, otherwise he would not have been obliged to advertise for it, but since the time he had sent the office boy out with the message he had had a haunting fear that a man in uniform would answer the "ad." How could he face a man who had been at the front facing the worst of danger when he had played his hand for all it was worth and had been a stay-at-home under the in dustrial exemption clause? He dove into his desk file and fumbled the cards for fifteen or twenty minutes, then he went back to writing. Patiently the stranger waited in ralm silence for more than an hour. He hadn't shuffled his feet; he hadn't coughed; he hadn't even cleared his throat to call attention to the fact that he was there. Yet he had been absolutely Ignored for j more than an hour. The clock ticked on its ceaseless course. It was 11.30: two hours and a half had elapsed since the brass knob had turned. The man at the desk made up his mind. Without looking up at his visitor, he be'ted out the words: I "You're hired; how much do you want?" Then he wheeled around In his chair and faced his visitor directlv. "Oh," he exclaimed, "I thought you were a service man." HJ 1 am, 'i., came the re P'y- " w hy iin you hire me before you ever ® aW o.? le; befo **e you knew who I was ?" w3°" r ,£ atlence told J' our patience?" y ° U BUCh angciic "In the army. We waited days weeks months for orders to get us weeks month e e waltcfl flays, hick 0r orders to take us siJnori A 6 2 fter , the arni lstice was kfot d all ,he t'me it Just kept pounding patience into us. Un- WO.HH H GRE Bat,Bfled ttlat something for to a h Pe " When U oame time 11"'° happen. So, when I came U room, I knew that you would speak to me when the time whether "it 11 didn,t matter to me a month-" a Y ° r a Week or "Farm to Market" [From Scranton Republican.] The Harrisburg Telegraph is a firm believer in the motor truck transportation system which Gov ernor Sproul advocates so as to Promote the "Farm to Market" plan which it is hoped will remedy this country s faulty distribution sys tem and help reduce the cost of liv ing. The defective methods of dis tribution presented in this country have come in for a great deal of criticism and must be remedied. Sooner or later something will be done in this direction but the re form is delayed so long that the sub ject is exasperating to the people It is pointed out by the Telegraph that the farmer is frequently con demned for letting his goods perish rather than sell them at low prices but otten he has no remedy. Under the existing methods he cannot market them at a profit, and food stuffs greatly needed by the country are permitted to rot. Local business cannot always be handled for the farmers by the railroads, but a system of mdtor truck transportation can be arrang ed for them and carried on at a minimum of cost. It is to be hoped that 1 the application of modern methods to the question of seeing that the farmer Is able to market his crops will have the desired re sult. Lafayette at Barren Hill [From the Philadelphia Record,] In view of all the praise showered upon Lafayette on his birthday an niversary last Saturday it is pass ing strange that no one has ever thought it worth while to per petuate with an adequate memorial his military success ut Barren Hill. This is Just outside Philadelphia, and easily accessible, but no admirer of Lafayette or patriotic organization has ever paid suitable attention to it. 'The tide of the Revolution turned at Barren Hill," says a writer in & New York paper, but few travel ing through that somnolent humlet would ever dream of Its historic Im portance. luinttng dljal Those who have been permitted to glance over the pocket dlates of the late William B. Meetch whfch contain notes and comments of |is many big game hunts agree tl&t there has not been printed In a(y magazine of the outdoors anything more informative or which more graphic the adventures of big game hunter. The extracts fro* these diaries which appeared in thy Telegraph a day or two ago relate! to his remarkable experiences s-j Alaska and with the great Alaskatt bear. Other entries have to do with moose and deer hunting, the chatf"! of the grizzly and his camping t. periences in the wide areas of Vu. North American continent. Mr.! Meetch was an unusual hunter in that he was a close observer of many things which the ordinary huntsman would never see. He re peats, for instance, conversations with famous guides and describes with remarkable accuracy the topogJ raphy of the country over whlsh he hunted. He manifestly gar> thought constantly to the habits of the game and to the possibilities of accident ih certain contingencies. At the age of three score and ten there was no abatement of his h terest as a sportsman. The diares cover a period of fifteen or twerty years and there is enough intereit ing material to make a book. • • While the Alaskan and grizzy bear hunts were thrilling, as -we gather from the Meetch diaries, hs encounters with the enormois moose were not less Interesting. Difficult shots are described and the labor of getting the enormous carcasses to camp involved great endurance and persistence. Those who knew Mr. Meetch will not be surprised that he was so successful in his big game hunts. He worked out definite theories in approaching the game and the results usually Justified his plans for pitching camp and after the denizens of the forest. Not the least interesting pages in those diaries are the veni son lists containing the names of friends whom he desired to favor with the choice cuts of the deer which he had slain. One entrv I ." 1904 covers his range in the Yellowstone Park and the Jack son Hole country in Wyoming at the head of Green river. Otler notes ape of various hunting trrps covering the Canadian, the Rocty Mountains and the Alaskan and Mexican hunting regions. I n theso travels, Mr. Meetch found many traces of the aborigines and nu merous deposits of Indian pottery and evidences of the prehistorio period. • • • The State of Pennsylvania is g<- ing to increase the number of its gold fish. It now has a miscellaneoii number of trout, salmon, beav. er, deer, ducks, quail, horned ami neat cattle and various other fama as well as a park fairly well filed with specimens of flora of Penn's old domain. lately it has been plahng gold fish in its fountains at the State House and they have proved such a popular attraction that tfero was a demand for more. The Ctni t°l Policemen detailed at the frint of the State House have some Jot ?o keep the fish safe from maraud ng hands, but presence of the shining sidi n n r h e g , reat basins at either side of the plaza has gone beyoid the experimental stage and it is F?.A. Jf 16 of Commissioner f Fisheries Nathan R. Buller to gsti a new lot and provide fresh enter tainment. Superintendent of P L h- F T G I OU " d . 8 and Buildings Thomas E. Templeton says that gold fish cat mosquito larvae, too. • * * ln^ a . P ii t0 ! sc l u i r rels have gotten ov. r into the trees along the Conodoguij et. Just exactly how the officially registered residents of the qtJti park have gotten to that section is Them nW "' bUt " len Wh ° have sp n them scampering about under the trees, declare that they are 11, fto l l nn il y h emigrants from the Cap itol park because they are tame and give evidence °n their embonpoint Y subsisted on the boun teous fare of the .State plus the <\o efbL 0 " 3 1 f T ' S " Hargest add * Y the P ark w ith pock ets filled with nuts. The squirrels ba Yf. became great favorites with picnickers and fishermen along the creek, and have the same desire for f'° ae that characte.- thtnk ch squirrels when they think there is anything to eat around. But the problem of how they got to the creek is an interest ing one, especially in view of thu seven-cent trolley fare that i B now officially sanctioned for that ride. It is rather a gratifying thing to' note that Harrisburg is away up in the van of progressive municipal!-; ties, but there are not many folks in Harrisburg who know that to-dav Harrisburg stands at the head of! the cities of its class in number and! value of enterprises, going on in tho way of building. This fact was brought out yesterday during tho conversation of the representative of a big business concern which keeps tabs on construction of a'J kinds. Without counting in thai new Memorial bridge or the Capitd office building or any State entet-l prises, Harrisburg has more build-j ing construction on now, than aiv city of its class, said this authority, j | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ll ' —■ —Gifford Pinchot will give a r the gentlest sense of touch with tf.e air brake of any in the world. A Ireak In two is almost unheard of, at.d there Is very little damage to fi-v* in shunting on Chinese railway*. - 11 I 11