12 'HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH _ FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I ' Published eveningu except Sunday by " THE. TELEGRAPH PRIXTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqaare : a E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief SCr. OYSTER, Business Manager QtTS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor Lfc. R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J.I P." McCULLOUGH, ; > BOYD M. OGLESBY. F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. - Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Eastern office Avenue_ Building^ I Chicago, B J l! ld ' nß ' 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. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1919 Character must stand behind and back up everything—the sermon, the poem, the picture, the plait. —J. G. | HOLLASA HURRAH FOR NEW YORK! ONTINUANCE of the "Daylight I. Saving" plan In New York city next year, as unanimously de cided by the Board of Aldermen yes terday, will be received with delight by all Harrisburg and by the people of cities and towns in general throughout the United States. New York, the leading city of the country, having gone on record as * willing to change its time to meet the demands of its people for an ex tra hour of daylight during the sum mer months, all other smaller places will be encouraged to try the ex periment whether or not Congress shall re-enact the "Daylight Saving" law which It recently repealed over the protests of a majority of the people of the United States. Petitions now on file in the Har risburg Telegraph office embrace the names of thousands of people in Harrisburg and the towns surround ing. Practically every man and woman to whom the petitions were presented signed them and many persons came miles to the Tele graph office to procure blanks which they circulated with great success \ throughout the industries of this locality. Following the example of New j York and carrying out the wishes of & vast number of their constituents, ; Harrisburg City Council in due time may be expected to write on the , statute books of the city such legis lation as will give us the additional hour of delight we so much crave. Of course, every man, woman and child who wishes for fine bathing beaches and bath houses during the j ■* scorching heat of the summer will boost the proposed loan of $40,000 for I those purposes. We are so forgetful, that we often fail to do the very thing we want to do. but there will! be no excuse for any Harrisburger 'J, overlooking the particular loan in which the whole city is interested. As a result of the coming to Harrisburg this week of Warren H. Manning. th> famous landscape architect who nas done so much for the city, and nis appearance on two public occasions \ there will be more general informa- • tion on the subjects which are cov- ered by the proposed loans to be vot ed on at the November election. FORWARD! YT ▼ ITH the reorganization of the My Chamber of Commerce for the new year, that impor tant body will lose no time in out lining the work which will engage its attention during the next twelve months. It is a fortunate thir.g for Harrisburg that the public spirit of our people finds substantial expres — aion in an efficient association of U. those who have faith to the city and * are determined to develop its re sources and promote its welfare wherever possible. ~ During the last year the Chamber of Commerce achieved much of real benefit for all the people and its accomplishments form a worthy chapter in the history of the com munity. Throughout the whole war ... period its activities were at once HL' , patriotic and of real worth to the Government, the soldiers and all in terested in the development of its commercial, industrial and neigh borhood activities. No city in the "*-■ United States has a finer record of achievement than this beautiful Capital of a wonderful Common wealth. But no city can rest upon past ac complishments. It must go forward i"*- or backward; it is impossible to mark time without serious loss of prestige and actual dainuge to its material and spiritual forces. mZi The pace set by the retiring offl ?" rials is one which will require great energy and vision and public spirit on the part of their successors to maintain the admirable record of the year just closed. Fortunately again, THURSDAY EVENING, the board of dtrectora of the Cham ber of Commerce, as newly consti tuted, will have tho steady co-opera tion of those who have served so ac ceptably throughout the last few years. Harrisburg is being watched with interest and appreciation by many other municipalities and the way things are done here is frequently adopted as the guide for other com munities. A brilliant woman, re cently a visitor, covered this point in the enthusiastic remark: "I al ways like to come to Harrisburg for its civic demonstrations because the people know how to do things well." This is a reputation which we must always justify and the Chamber of Commerce, comprising some hun dreds of the most active and influ ential men of the city, will take up its work with cheerfulness and a full determination to co-operate with every other civic body in the pro motion of the best interests of Har risburg. , As a matter of information for our friends who may bo confused some what by the recent announcement that the Telegraph Printing Company had leased a large and modern build ing at State and Cameron streets for service of its general printing de partments. it should he said that the home of the Telegraph will continue in Federal Square, where also will be located the sales department of the general printing end of the business. TOO OPTIMISTIC THE TEI.EGRAPH does no t agree, much as it would like to do so, with Attorney General Palmer in his belief that lower prices are in the immediate future. Indeed, the indications are that prices for some commodities at least will go up before they start downward. As a well known business man of Har risburg put it the other day. "we are not buying goods alone now; we are buying goods, plus labor, plus freight rates," and us this is unques tionably true, it follows that wages are not likely to be reduced and that railroad freight rates must be greatly increased if the railroads are to survive. Prices of commodities in general are not apt to be affected greatly by the reported falling off of the European demand. To be sure, beef and pork have both shown downward tendencies re cently, but the benefit has not yet reached the consumer to any marked degree, and if freight tariffs go up. as doubtless they will do, the benefit of reduction at the sources will be absorbed to take care of increased railroad rates. We are not likely to get back to anything like pre-war levels for some years if conditions which fol lowed the Civil War can be made to serve as basis for comparison. To be sure, we are probably at the height of food and clothing costs to the consumer, if we have not al ready passed it, but there are so many other factors to be considered that Mr. Talmer's prediction of wholesale immediate reduction in living costs does not seem to be borne out by the facts in the case. With every meeting of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings at the Capitol the great work of im provement on the State property here is given fresh impetus. Governor Sproul with his associates on this important board are fully awake and every effort is being made to got actual construction started. INVITE THE VETERANS ALL service men should be in- j vited to attend the dedicatory 1 services on Arbor Day when j a grove of evergreens will be planted : in Reservoir Park as a living me morial to Harrisburg soldiers and sailors who died during the war, and j it should be the effort of Commis sioner Gross and those in charge of i the program to see to it that the ! wives, mothers and relatives in gen- | eral of the men to be honored are | special guests on that occasion. The Arbor Day exercises at Res- ! ervoir Park this year will be of such | character that the whole city should ' turn out to attend. The hour of the ! program should be fixed for a time j that would permit of the largest number being present without un necessary interference with every- ! day affairs. For example, it might be easily possible to arrange for the t presence of a great number of school j j boys and girls if the exercises can' be planned for a time that would | not conflict with their regular study I progsam. Dr. Downes. city superin- j tendent, always has been greatly in- } ! terested in the proper observance of l ' Arbor Day and no doubt would be j J happy to do his part were he asked | ! to co-operate. ; In addition, all civic societies and ! I clubs ought to be interested in the i movement. Hundreds of trees will 1 be planted during the coming Arbor Day ceremonies, but in no case will , there be opportunity for such a gen ; c ral observance of the day as Mr. | Gross has arranged for at Reser- ! voir Park. j Let us nope that the co-operation ' between the cities and towns and the ! rural communities will grow to the point where there will be no dividing line and where the people will work togethei for the welfare of all. We are learning to appreciate th" farmer I mure than ever before. He .as been la much misunderstood individual. Through the County Farm Bureau there is a better sentiment prevailing and the antagonism which existed is gradually subsiding under a more in telligent appreciation of what the farmer means to the comfort and happiness of all of us. Strangers who come to Harris burg in large numbers nowadays go away with a fir.e impression of the city and its natural attractions. With the completion of a wonderful Statu highway system this city will prove a great magnet for thousands of tourists who are o©!y waiting the time when they can come into Penn- sylvonla and for themselves Its unsurpassed beauty of landacape. water vlewa. mountatna and valleya. fztitUiU r Pi4ut44|Ctfa^ua By the Ex-Committeeman Just what is possible under Penn sylvania's nonpartisan judicial law and how a man may become a can didate, to say nothing of being ele vated to the bench without even be ing on the ballot, is well illustrated in a return from Huntingdon county received at the department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. It is unusually interesting because of the remark in a recent decision that should the fortunes of a primary so operate as to prevent a man being named on the ballot for the general election he could still be voted for by any of the electorate by means of stickers or the writing in of a name. Instances hat e been known in re cent years iq' Montour and Monroe counties where legislative candi dates who were candidates on party ballots were defeated by "sticker" candidates, but such instances have not been known at a general or pri mary judicial election. This makes the Huntingdon county situation all the more interesting. Huntingdon started out with some thing like 11 candidates for the two associate judgeships it is to till this year. It is the only county electing two such judges. 12 other counties elect one each. And as Huntingdon probably will be a separate judicial district before long, it may be the last iissociate judge election. The names of J. Wesley liiee and W. D. McCarthy were the only two names to be on the nonpartisan judicial primary ballot. E. M. Beers had been a candidate in a way, but his name was not on the ballot because he tiled no petition. But his friends got busy and wrote in or pasted in his name, with the result that he was high man and became a candidate when one of the men who had tiled a petition was defeated. Beers got 2.962 votes; Hice, 2,838, and Mc- Carthy, 1,986. —Officials of tlie State Department declared to-day that every county ex cept Allegheny hud started on the make-up of its official ballots and that the Allegheny nominations for judge would be certified just as soon as the Supreme C"ourt acted upon the Wasson appeal. There were no questions raised over the certifica tions in other counties. —The State conference of inspec tors of weights and measures has determined to get on the job at tho next session, of the Legislature. These inspectors have been named on a legislative committee: Charles P. Glover, Union; P. J. Casey, Jef ferson; R. H. Clark, Clinton;" H. J. Walker. Lebanon; R. B. Keck, Clar ion; Charles C. Townsend, Chester, and 1.. G. Schoening. Elk. -Ex-Congressman Woods N. Carr, of Uniontown, and Representative J. H. W. Simpson, of Allegheny county, look a good bit alike and talk somewhat alike. Yesterday they were at a meeting of the State Board of Pardons together. Mr. Carr had a case, and when he appeared to argue some one asked how Simpson got into it. "Oh. that's Simpson's double." remarked Chief Clerk S. C. Todd. —Philadelphia newspapers appear to hold different opinions as to Mayoralty Nominee Moore and the Philadelphia . city committee. The Public Ledger says that Mr. Moore "defied" the Vares, while the Eve ning Ledger says he "told them where to get off." The Democratic Record says that Mr. Moore told the committee he is going to be "boss." whi'e the Inquirer says that he in formed the committee that he did not intend to stand for any nonsense. The Evening Bulletin says that Sen ator E. V. Vare gave "defiance" and "that it means battle." The Press says that Moore and the ticket have been given the "committee O. K." and that while Mr. Moore has said that Murdoch Kendrick would run his campaign, Senator Vare insists that the city committee is the only Republican body that can legally do so. —The Evening Bulletin, in an edi torial. summing up, remarks: "The complete triumph of Moore at the polls is now altogether beyond the range of doubt. It is out of the question to organize hardly more than a shadow of a real combina tion against him. and Senator Vare's disclaimer of any purpose to oppose him, at least as concerns November, may lie accepted as final. But the candidate is not willing to put him self in any position whereby he may even seem to compromise or weaken the principles which he avowed in seeking and securing his nomination. Mr. Moore is going to conduct his own campaign through his own com mittee. and in that respect he is not only certain to be in accord with the majority of his party, but. before election day a majority of "Eleventh and Chestnut" itself will probably take care to be in accord with him." The Riddle *j [New York Times.J The whole world is striking from cops to the clock. And the gallant ship Progress has struck on a rock Nobody wants work, everybody wants pay, And •'Something for naught" is the text of the day. But the firct law of nature is work ing hard yet— "lf nothing you'll give, it's nothing you'll get!" "If things will not travel our own little way. We'll get mad and starve —we'll go home and won't play. If we can't be on top and pasture in clover, We'll get us a gun and turn the world over." iSo instead of each giving his best little bit. The whole of creation is bound to bt "it." By your leave I will offer this an cient solution. The basic commandent of man's evo lution. It's hackneyed and trite and long since forgot. However, methinks it would go to the spot. The Golden Rule. "Live and let others live— Not how much you can get, but how much you can give." If all these mad factions -would Join in a truce And (rive it a tryout—but, oh, what's the use? : BLANCHE F. GILE. Xo Reward For Evil Man Fret not thyself of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wick ed. For there sh*.!l be no reward to the evil man, the candle of the wicked shall be put out.—Proverbs 24:18-20. / R3UUBBURQ Qjyßk 'TECEGKXFH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS (PST- oh ©ILL-) boot 1 N > J \ J —.. r VMHAT^Ty k DO- { L 82-z-a- - f / V,W/rtAT Tb Dot? I <-05 M ? ( nothing ( Blue') /H^6ILU?I S A -\TTi-6 J \ A UTT.UC J \ *O/ \ (hooch ! (• hooch!/ \ / v wußej c Conference Problem [From the Philadelphia Press.] The result of the recess that has been taken by the Industrial Confer ence may mean much or little. If it is used for the purpose of bringing together the three sides of the na tional triangle—labor, capital and the public—it will be well spent. It is clear that there can be nothing tangible come out of this conference at Washington unless the three are in agreement. There is no power to enforce any decision that is made. It is only by voluntary action by the parties concerned that there can be policies adopted and principles of action formulated that will be some thing more than mere word and phrase. The Industrial Conference is try ing to solve a problem that touches everybody in the country. The pressing need is for a program that will be for the permanent good of all. not a temporary advantage to any one or to any part of our popu lation. The demands of the war took industry out of its usual channels. The necessity now is to get back to a stable basis, and this means some sacrifices on \he part of all. The conference is not dealing with affairs as they were before the war came to the world. Our factories have been speeded up in the making of things for destructive purposes dur ing the past five years, which indus trially added nothing to our re sources. The result has been not only the waste that went into the munitions, but an accumulated short age of the things actually needed by the country. , If this conference can solve its problem it will have performed a great task. The disease is an easy one to diagnose, but the remedy is exceedingly difficult. The crying need of the hour is for more produc tion and the stabilizing of industry so that there will be no unnecessary interference with the maintenance of the maximum of efficiency. The goal of this conference is the form ing of some plan which will yield substantial Justice to all. Tt was not called for the purpose of fur thering the'ends of capital or labor or the producer, and if it attempts any such action, the meeting will have been of no real benefit and have made no change in present condi tions So/nr Strike Figures [From the New York Evening Sun.l The tie-up of food supplies for New York by the striking longshoremen may be ended this evening. But be fore it can come to a close, another group of altruists takes hold of the situation. The expressmen have de cided on taking a holiday, so miik, fruit, fish and other perishable food stuffs are left rotting on the railway] platforms or in the cars. Meanwhile, curses, not quite so loud perhaps but very deep, con tinue to be launched against the tribe of hoarders and profiteers who are making living so dear to the poor workers—and strikers. New demands for indictments for selfish foes of the public are in order. Per haps the Department of Justice may i find the moment appropriate for a, I new seizure of" eggs and the like in , 'transit, on the ground that gain was sought by the dealer in whose hands I they happened to be. The World to-day prints some in teresting figures as to the strike sit i uation in this city. It says there iare 200,000 men voluntarily idle. In i eluding longshoremen and workers 'depending on them, deckhands, cap i tains, oilers, pilots and engineers of ! harbor craft, expressmen and de | pendents, laundrymen. compositors, i nressmen and feeders. We should I think $25 a week would not be an j I excessive estimate of the average pay, lof these people, for if some getj I lower wages many receive a great Ideal more. Well, 200.000 times $25 'is just $5,000,000 a week. Here we have the direct contribu tion of the strikers to. general pros perity, a loss of five millions in a I week in earnings, for even though on i the settlement they receive full strike I wages, the economic loss remains. I The incidental loss probably runs from equal to double the amount of the unearned pay. Ten to fifteen millions out of somebody's pocket I* the result of the present "demon strations." Presently, when general prosperity begins to lag, the radicsl expounders will blame Wall Street. S / 'Cause She's-Natty [From the Columbus Dispatch.] Why is it some folks Get so batty When someone mentions Cincinnati? Plenty of It There [From the Kansas City Star."] The only trade in which there is .any appreciable increased produc tion is that of burglary. • , , WATT ONCE DIVERTED FROM HIS STEAM ENGINE INVENTION Death of Business Tartncr Closed His Instrument Shop and V s Became a Surveyor, But Went Back to His Experiments I .a 01 ' —Scotclunan's Improvements Still Used in Modified Forf 4,1 the Macliinery of Today ALTHOUGH a Scotsman by birth, James Watt's life work is associated with Birming ham. It was there le achieved fame and prosperity ani is buried, and there his centenary recently was commemorated. Sear Birmingham, too, was Heathfiild Hall, the great inventor's home. If the Battle ol Waterloo was won on the play field/ of Eaton, the mod ern steam enfine was certainly cradled in the /tudy and by the do mestic fireside. For Watt was, like so many who have left deep marks on the worlds civilization, much more often to be found pouring over his books thn trying his strength on the play felds; and if out walk ing he seem/' often to have been thinking of instruments and the theories of gience, then called nat ural philos/phy. These sedentary habits may have been in part due to—and peihaps the cause ot- —his ill health, vhlch clung to him until middle life, but which did not pre vent his attaining the good ge of 83 years and seven months, death taking him August 19, 1819. It is reco-ded that his home life in boyhood wis comfortable, and cer tainly both lis father and grand father had leanings toward natural philosophy. It was in his father's workshop that he early acquired mechanical Jtill and knowledge. It was in Lond>n, where he went when 19 and spelt a year, that he was formally trdned in instrument mak ing, paying a premium of 3100 and living frug/lly on $2 a week. It is worthy of note that he made the journey t London on horseback and took twelve days on the way. To-day, largely because of his own great w<rk, the journey can be made in .'ewer hours and at a frac tion of tie cost and risk. On hlf return to Glasgow at 20 Watt setup as an instrument maker in Glasfow College. Here he be came fiendly with many scientific minds, imong whose names several —like Ihose of Adam Smith and Black-live to-day. He entered into partne'ship with John Craig in 1760, and ir 1764, at 28, he married his first wife. It was in the following year ffiat he made his invention of the separate condenser, the first of his p-eat steam engine improve men*. Not a Revelation Csntrary to popular belief, this was not a discovery of boyish idle ness nor yet the sudden flash of an unrbught revelation. Watt himself tells us that a friend, Robison, di rected hjs attention to the steam en gine in 1789, that he began its se rious study in 1761, and that in the winter of 1763-4 he was asked to repaif a model of Newcomen's at mosjheric pressure engine. With this he experimented, and was im preaied with its lack of economy. He saw that the condensation must tak place in a separate vessel con nected at the proper times with the cylinder, which latter must be kept hoi at all times. Like many another promising: In fast, the new steam engine seemed j likely to fade away and die, for j shortly afterwards Watt's partner j died and the business was given up. i Watt turned over a new leaf in his career. Indeed he opened a new book. From being an instrument a*d toymaker he became a sur veyor, making at least three impor tant canal surveys, and acting also as a consulting civil engineer. This period ended in 1773, and at the same time he lost his wife. However, he had neglected his steam engine theories altogether. He made models, including one of a surface condenser with tubes, now in South Kensington Museum, and : in 1768 made an engine for Roe-j bucfc, who acted as a financial part ner in these early struggles. In this year he seems to have first met his future partner, Boulton. and later to have corresponded closely With him, finally moving to Birmingham in 1774, and commencing his fa mous partnership with Boulton in 1776. , It is not possible here to describe in detail the successive improve ments effected by Watt. His first engine, like Newcomen's, was simply a beam pumping engine. Quite early he turned the water thus pumped onto a water wheel so as to obtain rotary power, and, indeed, his first engine at Boulton's works was so arranged. Forestalled by Pickaxd patenting the use of a crank in 1780, he inveA ed the *®-" mous "way round" of ihe sun-and planet motion, an ei£ ine ot tl }' s type having been rcj/° y(l d from the Manchester district only ten years ago. Other notab®. improvements were the double-^' n ß engine, the use of the early cutoff and result ant expansion '' the steam, the beautiful paralb* motion still in use on numerous /earn engines to-day, the pendulum governor and throttle valve for controlling speed and the use of pressure gauges. Watt wai not alone in the field. Others naorally sought to build on his work Trevithick, a Cornish mine eigineer, was perhaps the greatestof these. In 1801, the year followiig the expiration of Watt's patent, Trevithick built and ran a high tressure noncondensing steam carriage, but it came to an untimely end. The following year he built a secoad, and in 1803 its engine was built into a carriage for London streets. Early in 1804 we find Trevithick with a high pressure steam "locomotive," probably the first railway "engine" in the world, making trials on a colliery tramroad at Pen-y-darran, South Wales. Proiwned on High Pressure On these and subsequent attempts 1 Watt seems to have frowned, as much from dislike of high pressure steam as from jealousy. Trevithick, indeed, was the real pioneer of high steam pressures, and developed as high as 145 pounds a square inch. Boultor. and Watt, it may be re marked, sought to obtain an act of Parliament prohibiting its use. The early days of the steamship belong to Watt's days. In 1788 Mil ler and Symington built a small pleasure boat propelled by a steam engine on Dalswinton Loch, Scot land. In 1789 a larger boat was built and tried on the Forth and Clyde Canal, and it is recorded that a speed of seven miles an hour was attained. Watt was unsympathetic, and the matter languished until 1802, in which year Charlotte Dun das, built by Symington to the order of Lord Dundas, made a highly suc cessful trial on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Further development of steamboats on canals was stopped by fear of the destructive action of the wash on the canal banks. How ever, steam navigation had been demonstrated a practical thing, and from that time has never looked back. In 1805 Boulton and Watt supplied Fulton in America with an engine which was built lnt'o the Clermont, the first steamer in the New World. This historic vessel was probably also the first passenger steamship, and in 1807 commenced a regular service between New York and Albany, a river voyage only, it is true, but one of 150 miles, and no mean test of the reliability and gen eral efficiency of the engineering of those days. Very great progress has been made since Watt's day, but very lit tle has been byway of reversal of anything he did. The steam turbine, it is true, is a radical departure, but it can hardly be considered a re i versal of his work. The piston en l gine to-day has developed very | closely along the lines first marked down by Watt. The separate con denser is universal, and in nine cases out of ten it follows one of the forms made or described 'by Watt. Only the ejector condenser can be considered as quite new. Ex pansive working, another of Watt's great improvements, is always adopted, and the double acting en gine is so general that few engin eers have ever seen any other. Com pounding, which is almost universal to-day, seems to have been patent ed by Watt and by Hornblower j separately in 1781. The Lord Sent Water For thus saith the Lord, ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. And it came to pass in the morning, that, behold the country was filled with water. —II Kings ill, 17 and 20. Who? [From the New York Tribune! Since January 1 strikes and lock louts have cost workers 25 million [dollars in wages and employers 100 million dollars in production losses. Ouess who is going to pay for it. OCTOBER 16, 1919. [ DID YOU KNOW THAT: By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station When war was declared tho United States had sufficient light ar tillery to equip an army of 608,000 men, and shortly found Itself con fronted with the problem of prepar ing to equip 6,000,000 men. To meet the situation it was de cided in June, 1917, to allot our guns to training purposes and to equip our forces in France with artillery conforming to the French and Brit ish standard calibers. It was arranged that we should purchase from French and Brit ish, the artillery needed for our first division and ship them in return equivalent amounts of steel, copper, and other raw materials so that they could either manufacture guns for us in their own factories or give us guns out of their stocks and replace them by new ones made from our mate rials. Up to the end of April, 1919, the number of complete artillery units i produced in American plants was more than 3,000 or equal to all those purchased from the French and Brit ish during the war. The number of rounds of complete artillery ammunition produced in American plants was in excess of 20,- 000,000, as compared with 9,000,000 rounds secured from the French and British. In the first 20 months after the declaration of war by each country the British did better than we did in the production of light artillery and we excelled them in producing heavy artillery and both light and heavy ammunition. So far as the Allies were con cerned, the European war was in a large measure fought with Ameri can powder and high explosives. At the end of the war American production of smokeless powder was 45 per cent, greater than the French and British production combined. At the end of the war the Ameri can production of high explosives was 40 per cent, greater than Great Britain's and nearly double that of France. During the war America produced 10,000 tons of gas, much of which was sold to the French and British. Out of every hundred days that our combat divisions were in line in France they were supported by their own artillery for 75 days, by British artillery for 5 days, and by French for one and one-half days. Of the remaining eighteen and one-half days that they were in line without artil lery, eighteen days were in quiet sec tors, and only one-half of one day in each hundred was in active sec tors. In round numbers, we had in France 3,500 pieces or artillery, of which nearly 500 were made in America, and we used on the firing line 2,250 pieces, of which over 100 were made in America. Find Counterfeit W. S. S. (From the Indianapolis News) Counterfeit War Savings Stamps are in circulation, according to in formation received by Robert E. Springsteen, postmaster, from Thomas E. Halls, operative of the United States Secret Service of the Indiana district. A telegram re ceived by the postmaster warns him against the counterfeits: "Look out for counterfeit war savings stamps of the 1919 issue pasted on genuine certificates. The stamps are pho tographic productions of good blue color, but the fine lines behind the portrait are in solid colors. The perforations of the genuine stamps are photographed in the counter feit stamps." Mr. Springsteen says he can not see how any one hopes to gain by the counterfeits because the -war savings stamps are not transferable and the persons who wish to cash them must wait ten days, after no tice before the transaction can be made. Death of Saul Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled. And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchl-shua, the sons of Saul. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him. So Saul took a sword and fell upon it. So Saul died, and his three sons and all his house died together.—l Chronicles, x, 1 to 16. Worth It [From the Detroit News.] It cost Columbus 67,200 to find America. It is the opinion of the Big Five packers that it was worth it. Slutting (Eljat j "If th Koo< * ladies of Harrisburg would o * answer our questionnaire about t 5 niarkets of Harrisburg wo would e able to make some head way solving the market prob lems on ly 'n Harrisburg but ill othe c ' ties where they have situu tlor something like what you havo said Guy C. Smith, chief of • t j, State Bureau of Markets and t j original of "Tell it to Smith." j'. Smith is a student of markets id he is aiming not only to get the irmers to bring more produce to ihe towns, but to tind out what the buyers want and what is wrong and what is right. "When we, speak of the percentage of the food that peo ple buy at market or at a store or how much they get from farmers we do not want them to sit down and review their household accounts or go over their grocery bills, but we would like to have an approximate amount, just enough to guide us," said he. "That has been one of the matters about what I have been questioned. Just ask the house keepers to give us a general idea rnd we will try to apply it. Another thing that the people seem to have in their minds in asking us some questions is that we are after some body or other. Woll, that is the last thing we have in our heads. We want to get the producers and the buyers together, to eliminate mis understandings and lost motion. There is a big chance in this city. It has problems like others and I would like to make it a model in regard to market matters just as it is being made in so many other ways." The trouble appears to bo that the people in Harrisburg havo not been realizing just what Mr. Smith wants. There have been few answers given to the questionnaires and fewer inquiries as to what is wanted. People who are lovers of nature say that Harrisburg has enjoyed more .fine sunsets this autumn than usual "and that some of the rainy days have wound up in a blaze of glory. The sunset effects against the Blue Ridge have been most at tractive to persons who like colors because the shades and the changes have been rarely seen. As there is never a sunset exactly like another there are many treats for those who take a stroll along the river front in the late afternoons. * * Lieutenant Governor Edward E. Beidleman, who has quite a faculty for getting at the facts in a Board of Pardons case, rather disconcerted a young lawyer yesterday at the Oc tober session of the board. The man was trying to make it appear that some money had been lying around loose, insisting that it had been al lowed to go without any protection whatever. He then said that some Italians had left the money so. "Not if I understand it that way; Italians are too thrifty to allow money to lie around the way you say," remarked the Lieutenant Gov nor. Speaking of the State Board of Pardons, there was the greatest in terest taken in the McMeen case all over Capitol Hill and in this vicinity. The Juniata county man has been noted as the man who has served longest in prison and George Ross Hull, the Harrisburg lawyer whose presentation fcf the case attracted so much commendation yesterday among those who heard it, referred to it. He mentioned the fact that when McMeen went to prison the Secretary of the Commonwealth had not yet graduated from college, the Attorney General had not become a member of the bar and the Secretary of Internal Affairs was a boy. He drove home the length of the time served and what it meant in a life time, especially when there were ele ments of doubt. The State Capitol which has its own orchestra composed of men in the various departments and which rehearsed in rooms used by legisla tors at times now has dances. The attaches of the State Department of Health were last night given the privilege of having a dance all to themselves in the large office room of the department by permission of Col. Edward Martin, the Commis sioner of Health. It was the first time a dance has been given and the clerks and stenographers and bu reau officials and division chiefs seemed to enjoy it immensely. • * • Men connected with the State Game Commission and the zoology divisions of the Department of Agri culture and the State Museum had a chance to study blackbirds at close range last night, as flocks containing thousands descended on Capitol Park at sundown. The trees were literally filled with them and the chattering could be heard for a block. People crowded to see the swarms which clustered thick on the trees. It was the first time the park has ever been used as a roost ing place and steps to prevent the nuisance tvere being taken to-day. The last Legislature had passed a law advancing the blackbird season and the birds seemed to have found out where it was done and come around to protest. 1 • • The State of Pennsylvania has come close to getting a corner on grouse, ring-necked pheasants and quail. Thousands of birds have been bought up by the Commission to distribute to the various game pre serves and deliveries are being made at a rate which are exhausting stocks of birds owned for sale. Efforts are now being made to buy numerous deer during the winter. ( WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin, of Philadelphia, was among the vis itors to the Capitol yesterday. Ex-Representative D. B. Good win of Venango county, was here for the meeting of the State Board ° f —JOhn n "p. Stewart, Washington editor, has been named as headl of the Roosevelt Memorial committee for Washington county. —General L. T. W. Waller, the marine officer, has been made an honorary officer of the organizat.on of former British soldiers. Representative Joseph C. Mar cus, of Pittsburgh, was among the people here yesterday. X)r H H. Apple, re-appointed a member of the State College and University Council, is president of Franklin and Marshall College. DO YOU KNOW —/That Harrisburg automo bile sales have Jumped rapidly in the last year? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG 1 —ln old days there were twa , churches on Front street, -j ' ■> ■
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