14 / HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH * '/-NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 „ Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE >. President and Editor-in-Chief EH S-Th. )YSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Matiaging Editor La* R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board r- r J£P.~ McCULLOUGH, £ >BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. - f • • Members of the Associated Press—The ■- Associated Press is exclusively en week; by mail, 43.00 a year in advance. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1011) •>- Ue stands strongest who kneels weakest; * Ue stands longest who kneels low est ; Hint knees make strong hacks—and 2 strong bucks arc needed to-day. —AXON. AN OUTLAW STRIKE J -p EADERS of the soft coal I . miners have put themselves bc yond the pale. Z In defying President Wilson they ! r~ have defied the people of the whole country, whose spokesman the Presi dent is. They are striking for hours* -and **" wages that, if granted, would add ■ heavily to the cost of everything C* every American wears, eats or uses— T for the cost of living depends large -2 ly on the price of coal. They want a six-hour day and a 22. five day week, and sixty per cent. 222 wore wages than they now get for ■— an eight-hour day and a six-day .... week, and their leaders have the temerity to tell us that the result ing reduced production and the in - creased cost will not be reflected in prices to the public. This soft coal strike is headed for disaster before it begins—for it does not have back of it that public support and sympathy, without " which no strike ever will succeed. President Wilson has told the mine chiefs that he means to oper ate the mines, strike or no strike, and the country will stand by him *- -in that resolution. The American people do not mean 22 .'.t0 see their mills closed, their rall - roads stopped and themselves and ~ their families freeze and starve be 2. cause a group of labor leaders insist *; ■ upon unreasonable, demands. They -■ will stand back of the President and Ma Cabinet as firmly In this crisis as 2' th ey did during the war with Ger - many. ~ These coal miners are not striking against their employers alone—-they are striking against the whole American people, who will know how ; to deal with the situation. JT "Kaiser's home unlucky for men," soys a news dispatch. Unlucky for i* one, at least. FIGHTING THE PLAGUE j* TrrHEN Uncle Sam found it W Becessai "y to organize a draft -2* ing system for the mobiliza- Won of the manpower of'the United States in the Great War he pro -- vlded at one and the same time a t tremendous argument for the antl tuberculosis movement which is now w. country-wide through the Red * Cross Seal campaign and other ■m B-Seacies. It was developed as a re '■ suit of the draft that over one-third - of the men examined for military 22 purposes were found unavailable on • account of physical defects. Physi • cal standards were lowered, accord- Z. ing to a military medical officer of Z.. prominence, and thousands of in- Competents had to be segregated at £• each divisional camp. The same of k- ficer declared that the creation and £' fostering of public sentiment, the F shaping of legislation and the cor- V rection of defects and deficiencies C within health organizations will do T much to remedy the conditions £. which threaten the health of the r Country. It has been a fortunate thing for C the United States that high class E medical men have been in intimate touch with the developments that $• followed the organization of our £, armies. Several thousand men in E, Pennsylvania alone were rejected because they were found on exam lnation to be tubercular, although L they had not previously suspected J* that the White Plague had gripped I them. Presently the Red Cross seal cam- EL. paign will be inaugurated not only CI ln this city and county, but through jw •' out Pennsylvania, and when the pur poses of this great mbvement are fully understood by the people, there, of their enthusiastic THURSDAY EVENING, atRMSBURG uMSfo TEracraUPH OCTOBER 30, 1919. support of the movement for the suppression of the most dangerous malady that now threatens the pop ulation of the State and the country. Right here in HUrrisburg the inves tigation of those who are awake to the importance of wiping out tu berculosis shows that the people must be aroused to the danger which threatens so long as the disease is not eradicated. Great for ward steps have been taken by Colonel Edward S. Martin and the Department of Health in the sup pression of tuberculosis in every corner of the State, but much is yet to be done and the responsibility rests upon every community to co operate with the health officials of the State in overcoming the worst plague that at- present afflicts the Nation. Through the sale of Red Cross seals the people not only support financially the constructive work which is involved, in the anti tuberculosis campaign; they do more—they give encouragement and hope to the afflicted people and in spiration to those who are battliug against an insidious disease that has brought sorrow to so many homes and that imperils rich and poor alike. By opening tlie saloons with the coming of peace It may be the Presi dent's idea to have us become peace ful on the instalment plan. A REAL GOVERNOR GOVERNOR SPROUL'S SPEECH at North Adams, Mass., Tues day evening marks him not only as a good Governor, but as a great and courageous leader; a man who pluces national welfare above politics and who thinks straight and hits hard. The Governor is as staunch a Re publican as there is in all America, but he is big enough to acknowl edge right and to support it where ever he finds it. A lesser man might have hesitated to say what he did concerning President Wilson's ad mirable stand in the soft coul situ ation and he might very easily have "pussyfooted" with respect to the present labor disturbances. But he spoke out fearlessly. There is cour age, conviction and determination in every line of what he said con cerning his nonpartisan attitude in the bituminous crisis: I stood by the Democratic President of the United Stales in a national emergency and 1 am standing by him now in another cne which seems as threatening as the menace across the seas a year ago. 1 have telegraphed him thut the government of Pennsyl vania will co-operate with him in any plan that he may have to meet the emergency growing out of the threatened" coal strike, which will bring distress and de struction, and death even, to in nocent people throughout the country. And I am standing by the two members of his cabinet, both Pennsylvanians, too, who are playing a big part in helping to solve the troubles of the hour— William B, Wilson, who was him self a Pennsylvania coal miner and a union leader, and who ii. now the Secretary of Labor, and A. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General, who was my roommate in Swartlimore College. It required a big, broad Republi can, in these days of closely drawn party lines, to speak like that. Would that there were more Sprouls. And what the Governor said in his address about ninety-five per cent, of the people of the United States being true to the flag and our democratic institutions is cor rect. "Reds" and radicals in the labor unions mean to upset them if they can. They thrive on dis order. They mold strikes to their own uses. They care nothing for the rights of labor. All they want is revolution revolution that would take over every bit of property in the United States, the homes of thrifty workmen included; steal the farms, ruin the factories and bring about just such another reign of terror as is coming to an end in Russia. All that the Governor said in this respect is true, but it has not been customary to hear public men so outspoken as he. Too often they have their eyes on political preferment or advantage rather than upon public welfare. The people of Pennsylvania may .congratulate themselves that in this time of stress they have a man in the Governor's chair able to see things as they are without bias, to correctly analyze the needs of the hour, and who has the courage to speak and act as the oc casion demands. BY "SIDE-DOOll PULLMAN" THE desperate straits in which the Russian Bolshevists find themselves is illustrated by announcement that when his staff was captured "Trotzky escaped by hanging to a passing .freight train." What a picture! The erstwhile dictator of some hundreds of mil lions of people saving his precious skin by nimbly "hopping a freight" and getting away from the scene of his defeat by "side-door pullman." Slowly, but surely, the Russian people are coming into their own. They have had enough of Trotzky and their* ilk. Bolshevists have made good none of their full- prom ises. They have ruined the country, starved the people, ravaged the women and now they are at the end of their string. The duy is coming when there will be no passing freight train to save Trotzky. By voting the Republican ticket this Fall you not only help put good men in office, but you give DeiJbcratlc presidential hopes a body blow. With feed of all kinds going down in price, will somebody please explain why eggs continue to go up? If Milton and Wilkes-Barre can or ganize housing corporations, why so can Harrisburg. "Which type for mayor?" Why a I man of Alderman Hoverter's type, of course. politico Ck fnOUiJ&KMua By the Ex-Committecman Democratic State ringmasters have determined not to get tangled up with the Democratic factional war that has broken out in Cambria county over the management of the county machine and are commenc ing to express some alarm lest the tongs decide to begin hostilities in Philadelphia, Allegheny, Luzerne and other counties /where efforts have been made to softpedal the rival leaders. Reports of national delegate seats and the honorary places as alternates having been exhibited and hinted as possible or naments of the Christmas tree have been going about the State, but if indications are correct it will take something more substantial than such party blue ribbons to win recalcitrants to quiet in the year when the ringmasters want to have a united delegation for A. Mitchell Palmer for president. The Cambria county situation is one where jarring ambitions and differences over party procedure have given the great coal county two Democratic county chairmen. The Johnstown Democrat is thun dering against men who oppose the Bailey program and the Tribune is having all kinds of fun with the contending Democrats. In Lackawanna county the Scran ton Republican is having consider able fun with Democratic efforts to patch up troubles in advance of the presidential year and is shooting the Democratic county propaganda full of holes. —Republican campaign activities have become marked in Lcbunon, Cumberland, Y'ork, Schuylkill and other counties in this section, while the Republican organizations in the Cumberland and Juniata Valley counties are busy in efforts to make their county and local tickets as victorious as were their legislative tickets in most of the districts last year. The dent put into the Demo cratic machine last fall when tlie Republicans swept the 12th, 17th, 18th and 20th districts, where the Democrats had been claiming some footholds has not been forgotten and the Republican chairmen are busy as can be. —Speaking of the Schuylkill county Republican ticket the Potts ville Republican says: "Never has any party presented to the citizens a ticket which could command greater approval from all classes than is the case with the Republi can nominees this year. All arc men thoroughly qualified for the positions to which they aspire, men who represent the best thought of the county and who will be a credit to the county us officials of It. There is little doubt of their election but it requires the active support of those who endorse this ticket In order that they shall be elected. On the nonpartisan ticket there is no opposition to Judge Wilhelm, who will succeed himself as judge of the orphans' court." —Lebanon's Republicans have gotten down to business, and are holding a series ol' meeting in the county, following up the big meet ing held the other evening with Luther Harpel chairmun. The News says of the meeting: "That the recent Republican primary elec tion—one of the most hotly con tested in the city and county in many years—left no scars, and that the partisans are now united for a march in solid phalanx to the polls for a solid victory on Tuesday next, for the victorious nominees, was indicated in a most unmistakable manner, at the Court House, on Monday evening." —Charging that the certificate of nomination of Rinaldo Capellini on the Citizens ticket for commission er of Plains township, Luzerne county, from the first district was 4 not filed in time, Paul Cindaco, the rival candidate who has the Repub lican and Democratic nominations, presented a petition to the court yesterday asking that the nomina tion petition be dismissed and that the county commissioners be re strained from printing Cupellini's name on the ballot. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, Republican Mayoralty can didate in Philadelphia, has ex pressed the opinion thut the omis sion of the title from one of the sections of the civil service article of the new charter bill will not change the purpose of the bill— keeping policemen and firemen out of politics. —Chester City Republicans are confident of a big majority next week for city and county tickets. "Uncle J.oe" Cannon will be a speaker at Saturday's rally along with the Governor and Attorney Gen eral William I. Shaffer. —Progress of the campaign in Philadelphia is being told in an en tertaining way by the newspapers. The Evening Bulletin says that Congressman Moore is urging his friends to "put more pep" into the work and the Public Ledger says that Moore men fear some Vare tricks. The Inquirer, on the other hand, says that all factions and the independents are for Moore and that it is only a question of getting out the vote. The Press remarks that the campaign has been drag ging and that Mr. Moore will have to speed up his people. The Eve ning Ledger in a first page sum-up of the situation says: "Vote the straight Republican ticket next Tuesday, election day!" This will be the fighting slogan of the Moore United Republican campaign com mittee from now until tlie polls close Tuesday night. To this end, Independents and Organization men were called on yesterday by Con gressman Moore, Republican nomi nee for Mayor, and by Senator Vare to support the full Republican ticket. Both called for more ac tivity and a big vote. Tomorrow it is planned to send out the appeal to Independent voters to support the Republican ticket." —ln Schuylkill and Carbon coun ties it looks, from accounts printed, as though the Republicans had patched up their troubles and were united. In Columbia the drive be ing made by A. W. Duy and his friends to put over A. H. Gennerla for register and recorder is being closely watched for it may break a Democratic stronghold. Gennena has been informed that he has been dropped from the Postal Civil Ser vice list because he entered the fight. This move is attributed to local Democratic bosses. Allen town is having a battle royal over mayor and councilmen, with good chances for a Republican mayor. Open claims are being made that John K. Stouffer, Republican can didate for mayor of Reading, will be elected and newspapers are dis counting the usual assertion that the Socialists will get the city "if they don't watch out." Republican victories in Lancaster, Montgomery, Northumberland and Chester where some contests are on are made by county newspapers, which refer to some antics by Democrats, especial ly old McCormick faction men who do not know ; where to go. Phila k IT HAPPENS IN THE BEST-REGVLATED FAMILIES ... .... .... .... ByBRIGGS _ C I KKJOVAJ vJHM ) Z' " P\ that look hoy. /, 3 Got .J. f\\A)MKT A /TT7 ft A faraway I - (r (MmM STIMULANT? J | RECORD SJEAft \ | —ll| II I I jp§||l (# .\'7" delphia newspapers say that the McClures #ro going to support the regular Republican ticket in Ches ter City and Delaware county. —The Scranton Republican says about the campaign for judge in Lackawanna: "County Chairman Zimmerman deserves to be congratu lated for the frankness with which he states the attitude of the county i committee on the question of the judgeship. Mr. Zimmerman is hon est enough to go before the voters of Lackawanna county and tell them ' the truth about the judgeship tight. , He says it is a recognized fact that 1 District Attorney George W. Maxey is a Republican and that Judge James J. O'Neill is a Democrat, so that the endorsement of Mr. Maxey . by the committee was only logical in view of the situation'." May Drop Mouriey Case [From the San Francisco Bulletin.] Indictments pending against Thomas J. Mooney, Mrs. Rena Mooney and Warren K. Billings in connection with the Preparedness Day bomb outrage will be stricken from the calendar in Superior Judge Ward's court unless the cases are ready for trial by the district at torney's office December 1. This startling declaration, which fell like a bombshell in District At torney Fickert's political camp, was made the other day by Judge Ward in reply to a request for a further continuance of the so-called "bomb cases." The ultimatum of the court swept aside the plea of Alexander O'Grady, assistant district attorney, that the indictments. Which have been held over the heads of the defendants for the last two years, be continued for 60 days. Maxwell McNutt, appear ing for the defendants, opposed the motion on the ground that there was nothing to indicate that the prose cution ever intended to try the cases. McNutt ended his argument by in voking the 60-day rule. "It is my Intention to hear all cases pending in my department as soon as possible," said Judge Ward. "The cases of Mooney, his wife and Billings are the same as any other to me. There is no reason why they should be kept on the calendar by continuous postponements." Judge Ward denied additional postponement and instructed the prosecution that the cases would be dropped on December 1 if the dis trict attorney did not bring them to trial. New Watch on the Rhine From Andernach, Germany, to | Little Rock, Ark., is a long leap, but that is the jump made by The Watch on the Rhine, an eight-page weekly newspaper that the men of the Third U. S. Division edited, printed and supplied regularly to 30,000 readers during the six months previous to the departure of the division from Germany in August. The publication, besides recording i matters of interest regarding the troops still with the Third Division, I which is located near Little Rock at I Camp Pike, aims specially to keep | fresh the memories of the days with the A. E. F. and to echo the spirit of all those who have at any time been members of the division. The new office of The Watch on the Rhine, which is in Room 306, Board of Commerce Building, Little Rock, was opened October 18, and the first issue of the paper ut its new location will appear November 1. The paper will be published twice each month at the yearly subscrip tion rate of $1.50. The Season of Crispy Things This is the season of crispy Uiings, Leaves and bacon and wind that stings: Doughnuts, pancakes, fried apples— there Is a wondrous blend in the frosty air— Sniff it, Whiff it, A "message" it brings: "Whoopee! 'Tis the Season of Crispy Things." This is the season of rustle, too— The leaves set the pace for me and you; The wind picks up and rustles along, But never forgets to hum its song: "Rustle, Hustle, It's up to you, For this is the Season of Rustle, too." —Lee Shippey. Wickedness Burneth as a Fire Wickedness burneth as a fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.—lsuiuh IX, A*. Woman Candidate Seeks Votes on Bowery Oiic-Tlitnl of tlie Coses in New York Municipal Courts Involve Her Sex, Miss Bertha Rcmbaugh Says in Appealing For Her Election as Judge. THE sightseers who take a bus on Broadway and go down into Chinatown and the Bowery within the next few days will see a curious sight. It will not be a peculiar Chinese parade, dance or new chop suey joint. It will be right out on the street where a I young woman—an American—is making an appeal for votes. The woman in the motor car gesticulat ing freely will be Miss Bertha Rem baugh. Republican candidate for municipal court judge in the First District of Manhattan. The campaign started last week without any hullabaloo of any sort. Not even the town crier was there to notify the neighbors that a poli tical meeting was being held on the corner. Miss Rembaugh pulled up in her little runabout and in a calm and judicial manner she opened her campaign. Appeals to the Women. As she campaigns in Greenwich Village, Washington Square, the Bowery, Chinatown and Bowling Green, she has one strong appeal. It is to the women. She doesn't go into the political side of the various issues at all. "A judge of the municipal court has jurisdiction over controversies about furniture on the installment plan," Miss Rembaugh says. The shawl covered women edge a little closer. "These judges have jurisdic tion over rent and 'dispossess' cases. There is scarcely a woman in New York City who can be sure West Is East's Rival [Mrs. A. Burnett-Smith, "As Others See Her," Houghton Mifflin Co.] If healthy rivalry is to be accepted as a token of virility, ambition and ; progress, America is easily the most virile, ambitious and progressive country in the world. National pride is indeed sometimes in danger of being eclipsed by pride of state, city or community. It is a very fierce and jealous emotion which brooks no question. Beyond doubt it makes for efficiency. The strongest and fiercest rivalry ' is that between East and West. The . East, secure in her traditions, her older culture, her established forms, : has but a tolerant forbearance for ; the noisier, more hustling West, not yet socially or. intellectually out of her swaddling clothes. The West, ! on the other hand, has her own . I strong contempt for the airs the ; I East gives herself. The Middle West stands out like a ! clear cut cameo in my gallery of re ' | membrance. In a sense it interested 1 me perhaps more than any other ! part of the country. It is individual and apart in a quite strong, con -1 scious way, not loud mouthed or as sertive, but simply fully aware of its 1 power and its destiny. | From various remarks and criti | cisms heard in the East I seemed to , sense an uneasiness regarding the growing prestige of the Middle [ West. It is creating rapidly a : standard of life which is going to matter, and which will ultimately influence the whole life of the Na tion. One felt the pulse of material power in the great, vivid, progress ive cities and the steady growth of ,a finer standard in quieter places, : even out to the foothills of the Rockies. Oh, Forget It, Oh, Forget It! [From Kansas City Times] I remember —I remember in the good old days gone by, When the frost was on the punkin, it was time for punkin pie. Some used rare spices, cinnamon and cloves and nutmegs, too, And made a thick cream custard where eggs and butter flew. And baked it in a crisp, "short" crust to lovely golden brown. Then piled it high with sweet whipped ere We can't go on with It, but Mrs. , W. E. Ewing, of the Odessa Ledger, wrote seven stanzas like that. If there's any pie like that in the world, we'd like to be shown. Medal Awaits Inventor [From the Arkansas Gazette] t Another great life saving achieve > ment would be the invention of a i motor car that could butt a railroad engine from the track. that she will not quarrel with her landlord over the rent question. Sometimes women are called in to testify on lease cases—anyway the women are interested in these cases. The four walls of the little space she calls home are important to her. Why should she not be glad to trust the jurisdiction in such cases to a woman judge? Is a Bankruptcy Expert. "Would it seem reasonable to have a jury of women, however highly educated, preside over courts in which the cases were high finance and international law? No. In the same way the best men judges might not be able to give to these questions concerning the home the same interest and comprehension that a woman can give. Shouldn't one of the twenty-six judges be a woman?" Miss Rembaugh is a hard work er. But she will need every bit of work she can put into the campaign to swing the election in a district that is commonly classed as Demo cratic. Three candidates from each party are in the race. The three receiving the highest vote, regard less of party, will be elected. Women of all parties are supporting Miss Rembaugh, as they feel that there should be at least one woman judge, since one-third of the muni cipal court cases involve women. By practicing law in New York for fifteen years Miss Rembaugh has become known in all the courts. She is considered a bankruptcy ex pert. "Chadband" Found One of the most interesting semi literary hobbies is the search after the origin of "Dickens names." It is specially interesting, no doubt, be cause nobody' can prove to demon stration that his particular "solu tion" is the correct one, and, as a consequence, the long list of po tential discoveries is seldom re duced, much less exhausted. One of the latest "strikes" is a possible origin for the old favorite, "Chad band." A recent writer tells how, a few years ago, in one of the small hamlets between Sutton and Epsom, there stood a small tailor's shop bearing in large letters the name "Chadband." And he goes on to wonder whether Dickens, "going down by road to Dorking noticed the name, and kept it for future use," for on that route he would have passed the very door of the shop. The writer seems to think it high ly likely; whilst, in proor that Dick ens actually made the journey, was it not in the town of Dorking that there stood the Marquis of Granby? And was it not the hostess of the Marquis of Granby who ultimately became Mrs. Weller?—Christian Science Monitor. The World's Smallest Violin [From the Philadelphia Record] Perfect in every detail, and so small it will lie within a space cov ered by two half crowns laid side by side, London now boasts of having the smallest fiddle in the world. It was made by the well known violin ist, B. Vandcrmeulen, and is ex quisitely constructed as to scale. The exact measurements are: Violin body, 1 11-16 inches: violin, over all, 2 5-8 inches; bow, 3 9-16 inches. To Have and Not to Hold [William W. Ellsworth, "A Golden Age of Authors, Houghton-Mif flin Co.] An employe of the Century Com pany was behind the counter one day when a roughly dressed man entered and asked if any stories were wanted. The stranger had the appearance of having just come off an emigrant ship. Anything he cared to leave would be handed to the editors, the clerk told him. The man turned and walked out; the Century Company had lost Robert Louis Stevenson. Way of the Substitute [From the Albany Journal.] The "substitute for the saloon" seems to have gone the way of that cheaper substitute for gasoline which was announced u few years ago. Out Along the Pike The wife of an Atchison plumber is in are uncomfortable predicament. She has a mania for imitating movie actresses, dressing like Mary Pick ford, when Pickford films are shown and like Bessie Barriscale when Bessie is on the screen. And now Annette Kellerman has been billed for Atchison. William Allen White: "The only gen-uine movement in American politics seems to come from those blithe and irresponsible souls who would let the March Hare run against the Mad Hatter and turn the platforms over to the Carpenter and the Walrus." The Baxter Citizen views with alarm the shortage of school teach ers for the reason it' will affect next season's crop of book agents. In spite of the world's advance ment no one yet has been able to achieve the success of the late Mr. Homer as a local and long distande liar, in the opinion of Harve Par sons. Lawrence housekeepers who or dered groceries from the Govern ment are beginning to rue their bargains. They fear by the time their orders are delivered retail prices at home will be far below what they paid the Government. Thieves entered a church at Smith Center last Sunday night while the minister preached on "The Sins of Omission" and stole hats of several men in the congre gation. The Wichita Eagle suggests the pastor use "The Sins of Com mission" for his text next Sunday. Carl Brown wants to meet one of those old-fashioned men who tried to make friends by buying a case of beer. A Mankato youth went to the county clerk to get a marriage license, relates the Advocate. "What's the lady's name?" asked the clerk. "P just don't remember" returned the prospective bride groom, "just make it out 'to whom it may concern.' " Ambergris a Perffume Ambergris, which forms a basis for nearly all the best quality per fumes and scents, is found in an un attractive looking mass floating on the sea or lodged upon the shore. It is not known how such an unlikely substance suggested Itself as a per fume, but it has been in use for centuries. Its origin, however, has only been discovered comparatively recently. It is a morbid secretion of the liver of a sick sperm whale, and ashen colored and waxy in appear ance. Although unpleasant to sight and touch, it gives off a fragrant, musky- odor when warmed, even in its raw and unprepared state. In this crude form it is subjected to chemical action to extract the active principle, called amberine, from which the perfume is actually de rived. This peculiar substance is also used as a remedy for catarrh and nervous diseases, and is very valu able, the largest piece on record, weighing 130 pounds, being sold for $2,600.—Detroit News. Army Blanket Top Coat Now If it is necessary to go back to the Indian custom of blanket wear ing to beat the tailor's bills the American man is going to wear blankets. In the East many are wearing blankets now. Prevailing colors in blankets are blue and khaki, because those are the colors Uncle Sam used in army blankets. The style is a la overcoat. One thrifty Brooklyn woman started the idea when she paid $6 for an army blanket and converted it injo an overcoat for her husband. She had enough material left for a jacket for her little girl. Quartermaster officers say the fame of the blanket overcoat Is spreading. They urge the tailors to get into the new idea by advising the purchase of these blankets for coats. The blankets have wide stripes at either end, but a way has been de vised to work these stripes into the pattern. Possibly the overcoat and the stripe will set a Fifth Avenue fashion before the winter is over. The Gift of God Every man should eat and drink, and "enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.—Ecclesiastes, lii, IS. luwttng ffiljat Whether Its because of the ap proach of the end of October when festiveness often takes a mischiev ous turn and steps and Kates have been known to walk away, the fact remains that electric light globes nave been leading a precarious ex istence around Harrisburg and if the plans of some men employed by the company owning them mater ialize there will be some summary 'il! 5118 ' n aldermanic courts. The globes are great round affairs and afford a tempting target to many a ,Y: ... w hile people connected with public utilities are accustom ed to certain percentages of loss due to juvenile behaviour the num ber of broken lamps is becoming a nuisance. There are two or three sections in Harrisburg where the globes have a hard time resisting sling shot projectiles, stones and other things and a few intersections have become so menaced by the ar tillery practice of boys that they are being watched. In the First Ward there have been lamps at some cor ners broken half a dozen times in a summer and in the Tenth Ward, especially between the Susquehanna and the "Ridge" the life of a globe is brief, troubled and catastrophic The hill has one section where globes are broken as often as the commandments arid another section where well administered punish ment has caused the globes to be as respected as an unchained bull dog. Now that "tic-tac" is at hand the globes are regretting that they are not made with armor and the men in charge of maintenance are wishing for winter winds when boys have to stay indoors. Potato growers in Pennsylvania are overlooking real money and in dulging in practices that are "un economic and unnecessary" accord ing to Guy C. Smith, the new chief of the State Bureau of Markets, who has been visiting the Berks-Scliuyl kill-Lehigh-Luzcrne potato field. "It is our job to put the growers into closer touch with the markets and to get more of our own pota toes sold here instead of shipping them out and then importing," says he. Pennsylvania's crop of po tatoes this year is turning out bet ter than expected and will be money in the pockets o{ the grow ers if they study their markets ahd do not sell haphazard. Mr. Smith says that indications are favorable to a crop of something close to 25,- 000,000 bushels, which will top that of last year which he estimates brought in something like $37,000,- 000 and he went to the fields where the greater part is grown and studied local conditions, selling methods, shipping points and the markets. He thinks that they need a change. Mr. Smith made his trip accompanied by J. C. Gilbert, who will work out the marketing report service and he will have the assist ance of P. R. Taylor, former man ager of the Farmers' Produce Ex change at Providence, R. 1., a son of Dr. William Taylor, of the United States Bureau of Plant Industry. Mr. Taylor is an expert on Pennsyl vania conditions as he has made studies here for California and other fruit and vegetable growers, organizations. The idea will be to establish a marketing report ser vice centering here and reaching the producing regions as quick as mails and wires can do it. The Philadelphia Evening Bulle tin in printing some interesting anecdotes relative to the visit of the royal Belgians to Pennsylvania, re marks upon the fact that many folks through whose State the party travelled got the idea that the king was only interested in steel mills and the queen in hospitals. This is where Harrisburg comes in and the Bulletin says that "State offi cials were surprised when they learned that the program did not include a visit to the Capitol. When the Governor's secretary protested he was asked: "Do you want the King to see what you want to show him or do you want him to see what he wants to see?" "I'll find out," was the secretary's prompt rejoinder, and, going to the' King he inquired if he did not desire to visit the Capitol rather than the pipe bending works that was on the pro gram. "I would not think of visit ing the Capitol without making an official call on the Governor," was Albert's reply. That the Stata offi cials and the King had decided wisely was shown by the interest the royal visitors took in Harris burg's magnificent building. "It is the finest public building I f have ever visited," was the King's com ment after having seen the grand staircase and having been led through the halls of the House and Senate to the Governor's office. One of the objects, too, that caught the Queen's attention was Viol6t Oak lay's mural decorations in the House of Representatives, a room she was loath to leave, so enraptur ed was she with its architectural and artistic adornment. But if precedent hadn't been broken the King might have had to. be content ed with judging Harrisburg by its machine shops." • * * Men who had not seen each other since the Keystone Division dis banded, got together in the House caucus room at the Capitol yester day for discussion of the new Na tional Guard. It was one of the most notable gatherings of experi enced military men held in the State in a long time. Virtually every fighting unit of the Keystone Division was represented and the men of the Lorraine Cross and Blue Ridge Divisions will be invit ed to join with them as well as men in the regular army and the men of the Reserve Militia. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE j —J. D. Callery, prominent in street railway affairs in Pittsburgh, had charge of work for the Catholic fund drive in that city. —General W. G. Price says that the new Keystone troops are going to be among the first Guardsmen organized. —Col. M. L. Case, nominee for mayor of Lebanon, is directing his own campaign. —John K. Stauffer, who may be the next mayor of Reading, used to be a Washington newspaperman. —George W. Kirchway, New York prison authority, may take part in the Eastern Penitentiary probe. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore is arranging the program for the Atlantic Waterways convention next month and plans to attend soon after he is elected mayor of Phila delphia. I tO YOU KMOV j —That Harrisburg used to build churches by lotteries? HISTORIC HARRISBURG j —Third and Chestnut Streets has been a church property ever since harrisburg started.