12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH UkNEWSPAPER i FOR THE HOME J Founded 'lB3l Published evenings except Sunday by THE . TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare ' E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief fTr. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHEN'ER, Circulation Manager- Excretive Board 'J.IP.'MCCULLOUGH, * 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 1 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. [All rights of republication of special herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn- Associa- Avenue Building! office'. Story. Brooks & i Chicago,' m! lding Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Fa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a "BBFI'*" year in advance. MONDAY, OCTOBER IS, I19 Higher than fear and stronger than fate Arc love and faith that patiently tcait. —ANON. TELL IT TO SMITH" THE housewives of Harrisburg have been asked to tell the State Bureau of Markets what's the matter with the markets of Harrisburg. For months and months there have been complaints about the high cost of food in Har- Tisburg, markets as well as stores, and unkind things have been said about farmers, green grocers, mer chants and everyone who has the handling of foodstuffs. And now here is the State sending out a blank with a series of questions asking •what's wrong and the specific causes of complaint. The people of Harrisburg have not been answering these questions. And because they do not, the State Bureau of Markets chief. C. Smith, says that he cannot get at the bottom of the trouble here. Mr. Smith is a man of wide experience in marketing and that is why he is going to the women who carry the baskets and pay for the chickens and the potatoes and the apples to find out the conditions. If the ques tions mailed to almost every woman who markets in Harrisburg are tin swered. something of value will be accomplished here, at least we will be able to find out just what is the real situation. Ladies, please tell it to Smith. "INSTITUTE WEEK" ( {"TNSTITUTE WEEK" in Dau- I phin county comes a week or so earlier than usual this year but not too early for the school boys and girls or for the 450 school teachers who will attend. "Institute week," as dear old "Uncle Henry" Houck used to say, "is a six-day picnic" both for pupils and school ma'ams. Youngsters may "love their teachers," according to the old song, but the woods and fields In October hold more joys than the schoolroom; and teachers may be fond of their work, but a week in the city, with its shopping, its movies, its theater parties, its op portunities for social enjoyment and —whisper it gently a mild flirt ation, or two has its attractions, too. We have often wondered, in the light of long experience with the marriage license records, how many romances have started during in stitute week that have led to the altar. At all events, the teachers are happy to be with us again, and we are happy to have them. They are fine folks good natured. good looking and devoted to their duties. They deserve the good time all Har risburg hopes they will have. THAT MEMORIAL GROVE CITY COMMISSIONER GROSS has done a fine tiling in setting aside a large number of white pine trees with which to or- ite a memorial grove in Reservoir Park, as a living testimonial to the city's respect for the soldiers, sailors and marines who gave their lives in the war. By care and replacements it will be possible to preserve such a grove for all time. The dedicatory exercises on Arbor Day should bo a oaremonlal to which the people of the whole city lie invited and whitfii should lie attended by school children especially. Arbor Day has not been properl.e observed in Harrisburg for many years. Theie was a time when it was marked by elaborate programs and the planting of trees. .Most of the trees that now decorate the school grounds of the city and scores of those in Reservoir Park were planted by school boys and girls, with appropriate exercises. City Commissioner Gross having set the example, there should be a general campaign of tnpe-planting in Harrisburg this year. Persons de i miiiiiiiiii ii iAn MONDAY EVENING, I siring information should get into touch with the City Forester through the Park Department. • ATTERBURY HONORED KING ALBERT, of Belgium, has recognized in Brigadier Gen eral W. W. Atterbury, Wee president of the Pennsylvania Rail road company, one of the Ufg men whose services with the, overseas forces aided much in the. winning of the war. Mr. Atterbury has Just had be stowed upon hint 'the honor of Com mander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium,, with a certified copy of | the royal decree conferring it. I ranee also conferred distinguished I honors upon him and King George. Kngland, likewise bestowed an additional decora/ion. It is a fine , tribute to the American railroad inen, from the hightest to the lowest in the service, that through these honors conferred upon one of their number the important governments abroad have recognized the great work done by the unselfish leaders of transportation in this country, and the railroad forces. It is comforting to realize that quite soon the great pail road systems will be turned bnq£ to their owners who will restore the efficiency that was so sadly disrupted through Government operation. We may hope that with the end of this year will come alteo the end of cxperi tnentalion, In railroading so disas trous to 4he business interests of the Fnited j States. NEEDED SI'PPORT f U ARRISBFKG is now taking ac | J count of stock of its worthy ■' institutions, with a view to giving them proper support either through a federation of ail activi ties or in some other way. During the period of the war some of the local Institutions failed of the usual public support and the rising cost incident to the big struggle gave the officials of the various institutions so affected much trouble on the score of proper maintenance. Now that the war is over and we are returning to more or less nor mal conditions, it is obvious that these, worthy association which have been doing so much good work in a quiet way should have the consid eration which their earnest welfare activities merits. Naturally, there is some opposition to any unnecessary drive, so-called, for financial sup port, but in a way we have educated ourselves to expect personal appeals and it may be just as well for the community that the individual he posted regarding the needs of the particular institution seeking sup port through the personal touch. In any event. Harrisburg is going to stand by the organizations which have stood by the community knd the testing period of the war has not been without its advantage so far as these particular activities are concerned. NOT FAR KXOFCiH Wllll.K the agreement with the two big railroad systems in Pennsylvania to install uni form warning signs at grade cross ings, so that when people see them they will know that it is a danger ous place, whether in Chester or Erie counties, js a good safety move, it does not go far enough. Thirty years ago the late Chief Justice Paxson gave the Heading system its famous grade crossing warning, "Stop, look and listen," and it has been put on signs of a unifoi'm de sign. The Pennsylvania railroad has been installing warning devices, mechanical and just plain , seen hie. if there is such a word, for more than a quarter of a century, Other railroads have as a good business precaution been providing s gns which must warn anybody. The "figures regarding accidents sent to the Commission and on tile, if tlie commissioners \gh<> have been so active in the uniform sign-board move take the trouble to scan them, show that a considerable percentage of fatalities has occmred at grade ctossings not only provided with signs, hut safety gates and that dozens of people have been killed because they not only disregarded signs but crawled under safety gates anil even disregarded watchmen. What the Commission has to do is to consider the human equation. It ( is all right to put up uniform signs, but it is better to establish a policyj of listing lead spots, just as High- ■ way Commissioner l.ewis S. Sadler has done on the State's main high- ! ways, and abolishing so many euch , ytjur. The Commission has been is- j suing orders abolishing crossings. | but thus far it has not announced j any policy that seems to have con- I tinuity. From editorials in various newspapers the plan of getting uni- j form signs is not regarded as a sat-j isfactory solution of the grade cross- • iug danger. As several Philadel- i phia newspapers say, what is wanted 1 is abolition of tile points of peril. PF.IU'KTFAI, MOTION EIiMCND MII.KS says he has ] Invented perpetual motion and all that is necessary lo develop the Idea is a million dollars. With all due respect far Mr. Miles l and Ills discovery, we \iolute no j confidence when we assert that j many, yea very many of us, feel I that we, too, would be able to make things go for quite a long, long time 011 a million dollars. We admit that with a million dol lars in our pocket perpetual motion would have little., interest for us. What we would like to have is an invention that would make our weekly pay envelope look to the butcher, the baker and certain other gentlemen Jike a million dollars. Thai's our idea at solving alt our troubles. f tilth* IK LKKoyteaiiia, , By the Ex -Committeeman i Now that the official count of the ■ votes at the primary held in Penn ] syivania almost a month ago has ! been completed and even Pliiladel i Phia has sent in its certified totals j the campaign has been formally | opened for the county, municipal and Judicial elections of November, Which will be the prelude to some interesting politics in advance of the national and State elections of 1920. Numerous meetings will be held and some Democratic maneu j lo get into position for the ; Presidential delegate election will be worth watching. . The Philadelphia mayoralty con | test, which will have a most im portant bearing upon harmony in the State next year, seeips to have been smoothed out. although there will he a strenuous fight between j the A ares and the independents and their allies to get control of COIIII | cil Congressman J. Hampton Moore, the successful nominee, and j Congressman IV. S. Yare. the chief , backer of his rival at the primary, ; shook hands and went out for a sail together Saturday. Philadelphia newspapers op'in- that it means i that the congressman will have the support of the Vnres. whose men will not repeat their performance iof the early campaign. Moore's declaration of the other day that ' he regards himself as the titular head of the Republican party in Philadelili'a has been viewed with mixed feelings, wh'le his refusal to let the Republican city committee, controlled by the Yares. run his j campaign is commended by many ! observers as good politics. 1 —ln a review of the situation ; written for the Philadelphia Press, j Odell Hauser says: "Congressman Moore has the wlilphand of the i situation, of course. As prospective Mayor he eiMi command support i from ward lenders who worked | against him at the primaries. They would not care to face fiur years I of his 'neumheney of the office of ! Mayor while they languished in his disfavor. Therefore, it is obviously ! their interest to "turn in" for ■ Moore, as most of them have done. Gil the other hand, it is idle to as sert that the Yare leadership has ; been completely destroyed, as some jof the anti-Yare men say. In the ■ first place, they control three wards |n their own right. Then they have ; in present and in prospect all the county offices but District Attorney, i Sheriff and Quarter Sessions Clerk | In a general way, these offices are outside the law as fur as influence i from the Mayor's office, the charter j and Council is concerned. Most of them could he maintained as an'i edrMnistrat on outposts with im punity. It is obvious therefore tlu ' while thp Yares have something to gain by an arnrstipp with the Moore i forces, tlio latter have also some ' thing to gain. That state of affair: | seems for the present at least to ; have cemented bonds between the ; discordant elements. Thcv severaliv land Jo'ntly annouce that they intend to "support the whole Republican • ticket." i —The campaign in Allegheny county lias quieted down, having I been settled at the primaries and in j this county as in l.uzerne, West j moreland, I.avkawanna and others j which used to lie Democratic the question of most interest is who shall be the Democratic county j commissioner. —The Chester Times gives prom inence to the recent meeting of the Delaware county Republican com mittee at Media at which the candi dal! s on the county ticket were all j endorsed and Senator l:. J. Baldwin. ■II, J. Maekliver, t'aptain Isaac K. Johnson and others spoke. It says: "Harmony prevailed at last night's ' meeting of the Delaware County Republican executive Committee held in Hie Court House and at tended by sixty county committee men from tile Ist voting districts !in the county. County Chairman William C. Alexander, presided. Successful nominees, and those who lost the nomination in the recent primary ■ election addressed the ! meeting pledging their support to those noin'nated." —The Wilkes-Barre Record rises witli this observation upon these latter day developments: "The first women's Republican club in Penn sylvania has asked for a charter. Jt will lie interesting to know what the candidates will provide for the meetings in place of the customary keg of beer and box of cigars. Proh j ably a jug of tea and a box of eand> —Governor William C". Sprotil, who startled the State Department of Forestry about a week ago l>y standing behind movements for the establishment of a budget system and various administrative changes has caused fresh perturbation by urging that tiie work of some of the State bodies be speeded up. in quiries have been made in the last few as to the number of cases pending before the Public Service Commission and as to why nothing had been done in some cases long pending. Incidentally, intimations have gone out that more of the commissioners should remain here and work. The State Compensation Board and the Board of Pardons are further advanced with their cases than for many months, but the Commission's rec ord is sa : d not to satisfy the Gov ernor. Practically all of the work of the Comm ssion in deciding cases has been done by two men lately and they have not much in the newspapers. iterks county Republicans opened their campaign Saturday at a booster meeting in Reading at which County Chairman Thomas C. Seidle was the chief speaker. The attendance was larger than known at similar Republican meetings in u long while and gave Reading Demo crats food for thought. Altoona people say that the t.nbor ticket in that city has a de cided Socialist cast and some of the newspapers are urging the election of the Cotincilinen who are on the Republican and Democratic tickets. ■ —l.nnrnster county polit'cs is go ing to lie disturbed this year. There are some independent movements under tray, but some of the inde pendents are charging that men who claimed to be independent nre showing s'gns of not being inde pendent. . Incidentally, some of the men counted upon to contribute have been rather inclined to look out of the window. I.aunchimr of u fusion pa'tv movement in Schuylkill between the Democrats and independent Re publicans did not apparently worry the regular Republicans, who pre dict that the new alliance would be very unpopular and would lack cohesion, says a Pottsviile dispatch. This prediction was hardly made before it was verified, when two of the candidates put up by the Demo crats and fusionists refused to ac cept the nominations tendered thenp BCRRIBBURO TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGGS _# . . . . . | 111 THE NEED OF THE HOUR t.y KOGKR \\ . BAPSO.N THE need of the hour is not more •; legislation. The need of the hour is more religion. More religion is needed everywhere, from the halls of Congress at Washington, to the factories, mines, fields and .'•bests. It is one thing to talk about plans and policies, but a plan and policy without a religious motive is like a watch without a spring, or a body without the breath of life. The trouble to-day is that we are trying to hatch chickens front sterile eggs. We may have the fin est incubator in the world and op-, erate it according to the most ap proved regulations; moreover, the eggs may appear perfect specimens, but unless they have the germ of' life in them, all of our efforts are of no avail. t'ongress is playing politics o\et the League of Nations while the world is attame. There .ire honest differences of opinion among both Republicans and Democrats as to the League of Nations. When it; conies to talking, however, these senators are uctnuted by their love for or their hate against the Presi dent. It is selfish ambition and the. love of personal reward and revenge which is at the bottom of most, of the speeches. The future of man-' kind and the need of starving mil lions are forgotten. Those who like ; iiie President line up foi* the League | of Nations, those who do not like him line up against it. Moreover, this is not a criticism of the Republicans, for if a Repub lican were President at the present | time, and every word in the Peace j Treutv remained the same, we ' would find the Republicans enthusi-i astic for its ratification and the j Democrats bitterly opposed there-j to. Consider the proposed railroad | legislation. The railroads bear a ! ' closer relation to the prosperity of ; the Nation than any other material j thing. The railroads greatly need i to-day more money for maintenance. , extensions and general development, i Is Congress doing anything construe-1 : live to help the railroads? IN°- j ! Nobody is discussing doing anything , for the railroads. The fight is over | ! who shall have the railroads which j .are already constructed, i The same unsound principle ap plies to all this pioposed legislation; i about the Cost of Living. Neither j political party comes forward with any constructive plan to increase' production. Both parties are simply j [fighting over a division of what is i already produced. The Republicans! ! are devoting their energy to devis • ing schemes to help those that have, so that they may hold on to what they have acquired. The Democrats | are devising schemes of legally get- | ting -away from the other fellow ! what he already has. It is a good [ thing for the country that we have! both parties, for if either one had 1 ; iis own way to .the fullest extent, the j Nation would go to smash. I do, j ! however, wish that both parties (would temporally quit squabbling! ] over what has already been pro- j I duced, and give their attention to j [ increasing production. Why, if we ; would get busy and double prodttc ' tion. we could nearly cut in halves i 'the Cost of Living. It is more re- j iligion that Congress needs. ! Take the labor situation. I beg I 'the pardon of el'ents for talking pi j | much about labor conditions. I ; j would not do so except that I am ' i convinced it will be the labor situa- j ! tion which will bring to an end our I j present period 03 prosperity, and 'throw the Nation ultimately into chaos. The 1 solving of the Lahor situation is wholly a question of re ligion. The wage worker will never be satisfied with higher wages and shorter hours, any Vnore than you and I are satisfied with more profits and a bigger house. Things never tdld satisfy anyone and never will. Satisfaction and contentment are matters of religion. Communities and industries, where right motives are paramount, have no serious la bor problems. When both employer and wage worker honestly believe that we are here in this world to serve others, the labor problem will be solved, but not until then. We employers should learn to give up, and labor should wake up. However, neither of us will do it except as we are actuated by religious motives. Both groups are largely actuated by self ish motives at the present time. Moreover, this is tremendously short-sighted selfishness. During the scramble over a division of what is already produced, we overlook the great importance of increasing production, thereby cutting down the tree to get the cherries. We all need a new outlook of life, a new political policy and a new social policy. The old politics founded upon fear and striving only for protection has fulfilled its use fulness. We need 'a new politics based upon faith and striving for production. ! Meanwhile, what is happening to our churches? They are going to seed. They are already deserted by the working classes, and are being deserted by the children of the em ploying classes. Great capital in vestments in land and buildings are being utilized only a'few hours a week. The ministers are being paid starvation wages, and the whole church industry lacks pep and im agination. And yet. the church is the only organization in existence for generating right motives in man. Schools develop intellect, theaters and novels foster passion, but the church is the sole organization which develops those good motives of love, sympathy, hope and inspira tion, upon which the industrial sal vation of the world depends. _ A 'l men are human, whether Fnited States senators or humble workmen. We are actuated not by our intellects, but by our emotions. We are guided by love or bv hate, by sympathy or by jealousy, by hope or by fear. The political and labor agitators, the partisan newspapers, the every-day movie, and the other agencies which develop hate, jeal ousy and fear, are running rampant to-day. The one great organization which has the machinery and op i portunity to develop the construc | tive motives of love, sympathy and ; hope, is asleep. Yet there still ex ! ists energy enough in the churches to enable them to fight one another. Preachers, like politicians, are not t so much interested in increasing the | output of religion as they are in the 1 division of the religion already pro i duced. I am not appealing for one com bined denomination. I recognize that Catholicism has features which 1 will arouse the emotions in masses of people who could never be reached by the methods of Pro testantism. I realize that Protestant ism has features which will arouse the emotions of many who never could 1* reached by the teachings of Catholicism. The same is true of Judaism, Mohammedanism and ev ery other "ism." Until the time comes when wf all like best one particular color and one particular food, there still will be an oppor ttrn it y for the Congregational Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Baptist Church, and the various other forms of churches. My one plea is that every State House and factory and church have for its motto, "Live and let live." Then let them all use their energy for in creasing production instead of con suming it in fighting over what is already produced. When Jesus told His disciples to "give to him that asketh of thee" He did not mean that they should die of starvation. He simply tried to emphasize the great fundamental truth that life consists not in hoard i ing or living on what is hoarded; : but life consists in working and us ing what one produces. It was j Jesus" method of calling the world's I attention, to the fact that fhe things i which exist are temporary, and at best would keep the world alive only a few months. He wished to im press upon us that our future de pends not upon hoarding what we have, but rather on producing more. He wished to direct mankind's at tention toward faith and away from fear; toward production and away from protection. Politics and in dustries need to get Jesus' point of view, which is both economically and psychologically sound. Labor troubles would soon cease, and the Cost of Living would be cut in halves. Once more I say, the need of the hour is religion. Slop Waiting For 'Low Prices' [From the Philadelphia Bulletin] Dr. Finegan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, takes the ground emphatically, that where ever school buildings are needed they should not be delayed on ac count of prevailing prices, inasmuch as there is no sign of an early and marked change in them. Prompt and Unshrinking applica tion of the same principle is in or der on all important and needed public wdrk or works. *We must act on it in Philadelphia betterments that have been already too long delayed in the hope that something will turn up in the low ering of prices. Whatever the prices, there is neither good judgment nor economy in the long run in putting off in definitely the improvements which are actually and sorely needed to day- in highways, in transit, in schools and in the water supply. Sheep Raising ; [From Philadelphia Public Ledger] Uncertainty in sheep-raising has been mighty costly to the people of the State. The farmers cannot be blamed for manifesting apathy towards the appeals of agricultural associations and experts to devote more attention to this business when there is so much risk. A Hock of sheep rna'y be killed in a single night by a couple of dogs and the farmer has all his pains for nothing, except for the small compensation he may receive if the local consta bles are attentive to their duty. The Tioga county lawyer does a public service in calling attention to the in adequacy of the law,vAnd it is to be hoped that the Legislature will take advantage of the first opportunity to make it strict enough to achieve the purpose intended. DID YOU KNOW THAT: By MAJOR FRANK O. MAHIN Of tile Army Recruiting Station The problems of feeding and clothing the Army were difficult be i cause of the immense quantities in volved rather than because of the difficulty of manufacturing the ar ticles needed. Requirements for some kinds of clothing for the Army were more than twice as great as the pre-war total American, production of the same articles. To secure the articles needed for the Army the government had to commandeer all the wool and some other staple articles in the United States and control production through all Its-stages. The distribution of supplies in the expeditionary forces required the creation of an organization called the Services of Supply, to which one-fourth of all the troops who went overseas were assigned. American Kngineers built in France 83 new ship berths, 1,000 miles of standard-gauge track, and 538 miles of narrow-gauge track. The Signal Corps strung in F"rance 100,000 miles of telephone and telegraph wire. Prior to the armistice 40,000 trucks were shipped to the Forces in France. Construction projects in the Uni ted States cost twice as much as the Panama Canal, and construction overseas was on nearly as large a scale. The Army In France always had ] enough food and clothing. OCTOBER 13, 1919. Thc'Grcide Crossing Menace. I [From the Scranton Republican] Disturbed by the number of [Shocking accidents which have re cently occurred In the country and particularly .close to the Quaker City, a Philadelphia Business Men's Association has decided to carry to the authorities at Washington the subject of a comprehensive program for the elimination of grade cross ings. It is said that the death toll of grade crossing accidents has multi plied greatly since the number of automobiles in use has increased ev erywhere, so that the task of elim inating highway death traps Is one of the most important of all in con nection with the conservation of life. More Americans are killed in a few years at grade crossings than fell with General Pershing's forces in France. Lives are precious and must not be needlessly sacrificed. Recently, it is said, all railroads have given consideration to the elimination of crossings at grade and in some states consistent programs are be ing followed with the same pur pose in view. The work is not pro gressing fast enough to afford pres ent relief and it is believed that something more should be done and quickly: [Trom the Philadelphia Press! The Public Service Commission's statement that there are more than nine thousand unprotected grade crossings in Pennsylvania reveals a state of affairs highly menacing to public safety and all the more ap palling because i\o immediate reme dy is in sight. The Commission's plan to place warning signs at the unprotected crossings can hardly be called a remedy, since experience has proved how ineffectual mere signs are to prevent accidents. Safety gates are more effectual, though only 740 crossings are thus protected, and the public is entitled to expect that they be installed at every danger point where the traf fic is normally heavy. From the economic standpoint alone, the cost of providing and maintaining such gates is scarcely to be balanced against the value of life annually lost at unprotected crossings. The ideal plan, of course, would be the complete abolition of grade crossings. And while, in view of the number of such crossings in Pennsylvania, tliq cost of simultane ously abolishing them would be pro hibitive, abolished they must be sooner or later. It is manifestly the duty of the Public Service Commis sion to use its utmost power to bring about prompt co-operation between the State, the railroads and the local authorities in the progressive pro gram of abolition, starting with the most dangerous and, meantime, in stalling the best known safety dev ices at those crossings which cannot soon be abolished. LA BRABANCONNE [The following fairly literal trans lation of the Belgian national an them was made for the Boston Transcript by Dr. Willis Fletcher Johnson.] The' years of weary bondage all are ended. And our Belgium now breathes freedom's air; By her valor triumphantly defended Her proud name, her rights her banner fair. And with hand every foeman brav ing, . Her people shall raise for all to The good old banner proudly wav ing. For King, for Daw, for Liberty! The good old banner proudly wav ing. For King, for Law, for Liberty! For King, for Law, for Liberty! For King, for Law, for Liberty! Beloved Belgium, the Fatherland that bore us, Unto thee hearts and hand now we give; tAnd we swear by the heaven that arches o'er us. We would die that thou, our land, should live. Thou shalt live, thou shalt live in glory. Through thy children's unconqucr ed unity; And waiting ages tell thy story, For King, for Law, for Liberty! And waiting ages tell thy story, For King, for Law, for Liberty! For King, for Law, for Liberty! For King, for Law, for Liberty! All the Truth or Nothing [From the Pennsylvania Farmer! There is nothing that does more to establish and maintain a false idea in the minds of city consumers concerning farm returns than the reports issued by the National De partment of Agriculture. From the last one. the city press features in big head links the information that "Farm Output Value Jumps 120 Per Cent." And in the past, the Department persists in comparing the prices of farm products with those received in 1914 without a word concerning the comparative cost of production. Who ever saw a financial statement issued by a bank, railroad company, or a manu facturing concern in which nothing was given but an estimate of the gross receipts? Besides being of no value such statements do a positive injury to the business of farming by the creation of a false impression in the public mind. One favorite pastime with the Department is showing the comparative purchas ing power of an acre of crops now with that of 1914, or earlier. The real farmer laughs at such figures. There are two things the Depart ment should stop doing; putting out long-range forecasts of yields, and publishing the estimated gross value of farm products. What the public should have is, "The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." Getting Back to Nature [From the Philadelphia Bulletin.! The "moon-farmers" up-State may yet have their vindication. The De partment of Agriculture, at Wash ington, is now perfecting the science of "phenology," or the science of phenomena, or natural signs, for the guidance of crop-planting and har vesting. Hereafter the agricultural calendar is not to be one of fixed dates, but rather a movable schedule dependent on nature's own perfor mance. Wheat will be planted when the tall golden rod is in full glory, and beans when the blackberry is in bloom. The scientific experts are coming back to accept the tuteage of the men who learned the profes sion of farming in Nature's school, and tested and knew her signs by long experience. The Lord Forgiveth Sins [I John i, 9 and 10] If we confess our sins. He faith ful and just to forgive us our sins, and so to cleanse us from all un righteousness. If we say that we ihave not sinned, we make Him a liar, 'and His word is not in us. Sarorouj (Eljat j I'eople In this community haw ih? m fu Ver^. well awu,e 01 f<i which ■ ®"' ott -Eisher company. . . b 1,1 a decade has become one v.v„",i^ POrt f nt 'ndustrles of Penn bv h?. 8 cap ' tal ' does "Ot do things by halves and the assembling 10. fore. 7| UI V". ler convo,l tioii of a sales o M.u 18 ■ catter e d "'mil Home ind n Urne \ to Tokio inked rv h ", hemisphere is still talked übout. And now it is an- Lo U make Vh at the . com Pany intern," become si a , b ' atheri " K ' which he, inriunl all i° i' n local husiness, a hM hi affa,r - "1 a way Hurrisbur,- if salesV partic 'P a "t meetinc* ?n "° f vnrlous b i '- bors ," H at years ' but for nun, ~ has ente 'irise Klliotl-Kiaher li7rHoh honors in the maklngST Yeiri industrial capital. SteeUon B ° * larrlsbur K engines and SteeKon rails and Middletown pipe f ~io Il r!! P , countv before (he eyes of people in many a clime, but now Peoni llarnsbur B hook typewriters, mnehi i® about seeing these machines in government otliccs • K f/ Pt un,i England and si„ei , Urazi 'i"n and Japanese ire m , WO 7 ' K 0,1 o, her Harrisburg products in their home towns and tins plan for annual meetings moans hat what is made her^'is going to be pushed more than ever in Occi dent and Orient, Antipodes and An tilltes. If Harrisburg could have more such gatherings of men inter ested in selling what it makes it would be a mighty good thing for the city. • • Just in this connection reference 2J ay , be , "' ade to the' way that the isher companv has perpetu" n ted the inemories of that July con \ention, which many people on the outside by the parade of the "pink goats ' as the jocular organization of the salesmen was termed. That was some eventide parade with its out landish costumes, banners giving habitat of salesmen in a score of lands and more, its daylight fire works and flashlighting photogra pliers, bands and general good cheer. Harrisburg turned out to see it and talked about it for a week. Rut that parade, as intimated before, was the least impressive of the convention and what those in the inside saw was a force with a spirit that was not afraid to tackle any trade prob lem and which was intent on boost ing a Harrisburg product in spite of all the tariffs in creation. The company has issued a twelve page paper, giving a historical and pic torial description of that conven tion. This paper will tell the story of what was done in Harrisburg to boost a Harrisburg product around the globe. It's a company proposi tion, but it is also a Harrisburg proposition of the largest kind President P. D. Wagoner greets the force on the first page and that dynamic salesmnnager, G. W. Spahr, also says a few things to his far flung array of salesmen. There are also some "inspirational paragraphs" with thumbnail photographs, but there are also some yards of pic tures of Harrisburg and "EF" folks in Harrisburg. There is lots of El liott-Fisher to it, to be sure, but there is a lot of Harrisburg, pictures of the factory, Market Square, the Penn-Harris, bridges, stations, churches, homes and things in Har risburg which the jocose editor of the "Kecord" calls his "movies." Naturally, there are many individual portraits, camera and pen and ink. which only those on the force can appreciate in - some instances, but they all have a Harrisburg end and as the "Record" is going around the world the rest of us eun take note. The stories printed in the Harris burg newspapers at the time of the convention mnke up quite a feature of the publication and the efforts of Harrisburg reporters will be read in the land of the Boers, (lie Tycoon and the Pharaoh. * * * Harry K. Casey, the Held secre tary of the State Chamber of Com merce, was- in the war and served overseas at one of the debarkation points. Mr. Casey is a former news paper man and of considerable ex ecutive ability. From what his friends say he found much com pany in the unit he was in. There were managers of steamship lines, heads of big business establish ments. bankers, technical experts and others nil of expertness In some line or other. Practically nil of them went out for love of country and each was eager to give his tal ents. Did any one of them get a commission? They did not. One man who had wide transportation experience was asked when exam ined for a commission whether he could not say, as a matter of fact, that he could serve Uncle Sam just as well as a sergeant as a captain. Being red-blooded he said he could. And he did. • • From what one sees in the gar dens and also the fences and walls of Harrisburg homes a good many people in this city seem to have gone in for dahlias. They are of every size and hue and it would not be a bad idea to have in October a dahlia show such as we have in the rose show in June and assemble the fin est of the autumn flower. Indeed, there are displays made in some gardens which are a show in them selves and a dahlia show could be made as much of a community af fair as the rose show because every one appears to have them. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Freeland Kendrick marshaled the big fraternal jubilee parade in Philadelphia Saturday. Frank B. McClain believes that concessions are going to be granted to Philadelphia tenants in the near future as the result of State activi ties. „ ~ Hampton L. Carson, former At torney General, was among the speakers at the Bucks county farm school exercises yesterday. —John Wanamaker turned the earth for the new building of Beth any church in Philadelphia yester daH C onsressman T. S. Butler was the speaker at Eddystone's welcome home to its soldiers. —Congressman E. J. Jones, of the McKean district, Is a native of Sha- Rear Admiral W. S. Benson was guest of honor of Pittsburgh Knights of Columbus yesterday. ) DO YOU KNOW *1 That Harrisburg made steel for machine gun mounts during the war? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —John Harris' residence was used for hotel and girls' school In its almost 175 years of existence.
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